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DIMMU BORGIR is by far the most successful band to ever emerge from the Norwegian black metal scene. Last year, they fired their keyboardist Mustis and bassist ICS Vortex and returned in 2010 with a new line up, a new unconventional image, and an absolutely enthralling album, "Abrahadabra," thus diverging from the traditional three-word album title formula ever since the 1996 release "Stormblåst." DIMMU BORGIR has pushed the envelope once again, departing even further from the established black metal template. This departure has sent all the self-proclaimed black metal purists – who have long ago written the band off for such unthinkable crimes as having a record deal and growing album sales – into an instant state of frenzy. However, DIMMU's loyal fanbase is expanding steadily regardless of those opinions. That is the natural sequence of things, when the band continuously raises the bar by producing high-quality records that bear distinctive and outstanding sound. To support the new album, DIMMU BORGIR embarked on the Darkness Reborn 2010 Tour, firing on all cylinders. We met the band's vocalist, Shagrath, to talk about this new era.
You have opened a new page in the band's history after ICS Vortex and Mustis were fired. Was this something that absolutely had to be done in order for the band to go through all of the recent innovations?
Based on the fact that there were a lot of changes through the last year in the band, and we are a band that always wants to take things into new directions anyway, we would have done that with those people or not. It's a decision we have been thinking about before for a long time. We were all about evolving into new directions. We're never afraid of trying out new stuff; wearing [white] is very different from the regular bands in the same genre. But we stick out anyway. We're not merely a black metal band; we're so much more than that. We take the freedom to express ourselves exactly the way we want to, without any other people's approval.
Nobody has made white look so evil before.
That's how we work [on] each record. We don't want to stagnate, repeat ourselves too much. We did one concept album for the previous record related to a certain story and a certain look and now we evolve, you know? Time changes. We do something new musically and visually and that's very important for us as musicians, to develop into new directions. Even though I respect bands who stick to the same thing no matter what, for us it's important to evolve.
How would you describe DIMMU BORGIR nowadays and what would be the message you want to deliver?
It's not like we try to preach to people. It's basically about the atmosphere we want to give, the certain type of feeling by listening to the music. It's almost like time-travel. People have different opinions on how to take things inwards, how they discover the music. For some people, a certain part in a song could be "oh this is very beautiful" while another person can say "oh this is really depressing." It's up to each one to decide how they want to perceive the music. But I would say the atmosphere is the main focus of the band.
Speaking of atmosphere: DIMMU BORGIR is not just about music, it's also about all those theatrics and visual images.
We originally come from the black metal genre and also the music we have grown up listening to – which is very much '80s heavy metal bands that had a very strong image – and that's how it should be, we think. I mean, the music itself stands on its own feet, but to give people something that kind of relates to the music is very important. And visual aspects always go hand-in-hand with the music. I grew up listening to bands like KISS and if I go to a concert and see a band, I want to see a show. If it's just about listening to the music, then I'll just stay at home and listen to the record. So yeah, the visual aspects are extremely important.
So was the new white image mostly your idea?
Yeah, it was my idea in the beginning, but it kind of developed into a certain direction. Based on the fact that we are Norwegians, we also wanted to capture some of the aspects of the so-called Nordic "caveman" type of look, to keep that within the music; I think it's important. So it's done in an extreme way. Nobody pays any attention to black anymore, because everybody wears the same shit: the same spikes, the same bullet belts, the same makeup. We've been around for over 17 years and it's always good to make changes. When I presented the ideas [to] the people, they were not [much] into it at first, so we had to make the first costumes and that was shown to everybody. Then they said "Yes! That's the way we're gonna do it". Maybe for the next album we're gonna do something completely different again, there are no limits.
One of the guest singers on "Abrahadabra" is Agnete Kjølsrud from a band called DJERV. Tell us more about this collaboration.
I'm a very big fan of her previous band, ANIMAL ALPHA. Agnete is also a good friend of mine, we met out in the city. I've been talking to her a lot and I also like her new band, DJERV. So I asked her if she wanted to become a part of one song on the album and she said yes, 'cause she is also a fan of DIMMU BORGIR. So she came to the studio, we nailed it in a couple of hours, it was done.
Would you collaborate with DJERV as a guest vocalist if they asked you, as it's not black metal?
No, I don't think so, probably not. I like their music, of course. But I get a lot of offers all the time to do guest things and just don't have the time to do that either. It's too much for me to handle. I have three bands, so it's a lot to do.
You took the new album's name from Aleister Crowley's work. What, in your opinion, makes his philosophy and his works so attractive to black metal bands?
It's a little bit misunderstood, in the fact that for me "Abrahadabra" represents maybe something different than to the other people in the band. We probably don't share the same opinion about the title. But for me this title represents the changes of the band. It is directly translated as "create as I speak." Aleister Crowley was a lot into reincarnation and rebirth, which is very much related to what we have gone through [over] the last year. Therefore it's not purely a concept album, but it deals with different types of subjects also regarding the strength and unity of DIMMU BORGIR. It's not like we're following Crowley specifically, but he has a lot of interesting things related to him. And Silenoz is probably the one who is more into the occult than I am.
It was announced in the news that Snowy Shaw from THERION joined Dimmu Borgir and then one day later he left the band. Did he just drop by to pick up some good ideas from you or what?
Don't trust the news [laughs]. A lot of people ask questions like that. We have never made an official statement that we have any new members in the band. We are three members in DIMMU BORGIR and the other people are just hired to do a job, which was also the case with him. We hired him to play bass on the record. That's it. There's no story behind anything, he's never been a member of DIMMU BORGIR, he was paid to play on the record. That's it, simple and easy. [If you just listen to people], that's how one feather becomes three chickens.
You used to write lyrics for DIMMU BORGIR in Norwegian in the past, and recently some of the old stuff you wrote was also used for OV HELL. Do you ever think about doing this with DIMMU BORGIR again?
We have such a big fanbase throughout the world, it's good to just stick to the English language so that more people [would be] able to understand what we preach about. But once in a while we throw in a Norwegian song; we might do this in the future also. Also the drama is very linked to the so-called Norwegian scene. It just felt natural to have English lyrics on the latest record.
With the whole idea and image of DIMMU BORGIR, you have probably been banned from some places. What would be the stupidest ban ever that you had to face?
We were denied access to Poland. We couldn't enter the country for a couple of years because there was some guy who killed somebody and he had a DIMMU poster on his wall. But recently we have been there again, so it's all fine.
Do you personally take care of the promotion, merchandise, and business side of the band, or is that just the label?
It's a combination. Most of the ideas come from me and Silenoz – we do a lot of the business side of the band. Business sucks, but it has to be done when you're a band on the level we are on right now. It's very important to do things correctly. So there is a lot of business involved, but we try to split it between us. And of course we have big management and a very good record company as well. So it's basically ideas from that type of circle.
What do you think is the state of the black metal scene worldwide these days? Apparently it's thriving in Norway, but it doesn't seem to be that successful outside of northern Europe.
Yeah, I still think it will survive because the genre is very independent. It's about expression; it's not about figures or numbers or business. It's more about feelings, so it will survive of course. I don't listen to many black metal bands from [around the world], so I can't really say. I mean, there are a few good bands here and there, but in general most black metal bands come from Norway, which represents quality and uniqueness. I don't know why it is like that, but we have the best black metal bands in the world.
These days a lot of people say that black metal is not so dark anymore, there's not as much Satanism and anger in it.
I don't agree with that at all. I think the genre has been much more acceptable among people and the magic is gone; from what happened in the early '90s with all the criminal acts and things that happened back at that time. Everything became world-known, so to say, and the magic is gone, but not within ourselves. I guess a lot of people don't take it seriously, but there are a lot of serious bands out there still.
You have probably heard a lot of black metal fans say that DIMMU BORGIR had sold out and became just another commercial band. What would be your answer to these people?
I would just say, "Fuck off!" They don't have any idea what they're speaking about. First of all, we are very hard-working people, we are very much dedicated to what we do, and you can see the result of that. All those whining bitches, who shout "oh fucking sellouts," all those bands who do that, for how long are they out [there]? One or two years and then they disappear, fade out. We've been in this business now for over 17 years and more. And nobody can come and tell me that we sold out or whatever. What's fucking wrong with selling records? That's based on the work you do. It's just a bunch of bullshit and I don't think they know what they're talking about. It just doesn't make any sense; there are so many stupid people out there.
Perhaps they are those people who still remember tape-trade and stuff…
Yeah, I used to be there myself. But if you just keep repeating, playing the same old shit all over again, what's the point? For us it's all about evolving into new territories and we've never been afraid of stretching our boundaries and doing new things. Nobody can tell us what to do.
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INDIANAPOLIS – There were no upsets in day two of the Big Ten Tournament, so the top eight teams are still alive heading into Friday's quarterfinals.
Eight seed Maryland and 5 seed Ohio State won in Thursday's early session, while 7 seed Rutgers beat Indiana for the third time this season and 6 seed Wisconsin held on by a point over Penn State in the evening games.
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by Emily Belz in Danbury, Conn.
When he was older, Beattie became a successful mining executive based in Danbury, Conn. He was at a high point in his career, having left Union Carbide and started his own thriving company, when everything changed. He and his wife were canoeing the Zambezi River in Africa and capsized.
Another boat quickly rescued his wife, but Beattie was stranded in the water. The others nearby saw a crocodile plow toward him—but it turned away at the last moment. Once on dry land, Beattie was certain that God had saved his life, and for a specific purpose.
Beattie thought about the teenagers he knew in Danbury, many of them lost and without fathers as he had been. He thought about the mentors who had brought him through school and brought him to Jesus. With a buy-in from local churches in Danbury, he and a few other men started a mentoring program for four teenagers in 1997.
The businessman already had metrics in mind: He would measure success in long-term relationships. Twenty years later, he and other mentors have achieved it. He refers to his first mentee from 20 years ago, Charneil Bush, as family. When the two first began meeting, Bush's mom was incarcerated and struggling with addiction, and the boy was having a difficult time. Bush ended up graduating high school and college and is now working on his master's degree.
"Mentoring was a solution we could get to very quickly," Beattie said, noting that Christian business executives like himself could have enormous influence through mentoring and still continue their day jobs. Those were long days, though. In the early years, he would host organization meetings in his company's boardroom at 6:30 in the morning.
The plan was to add five teenagers and five mentors a year if the program went well—and it did. That handful of mentoring relationships became Pathways Danbury Youth Ministries, a six-year program that now serves 50 middle-school and high-school boys and girls with one-on-one mentoring and tutoring.
The mentoring program spun off a Christian middle school for boys, which Beattie started with Cedric Rice, a former IBM executive who worked on the original NASA Space Shuttle in 1969. Rice, through his church, was an early mentor in Pathways and had become friends with Beattie.
Beattie and Rice's connection also represented the melding of two churches: the largely black New Hope Baptist in downtown and the suburban Walnut Hill Community, one of the largest evangelical churches in the area.
Rice became the principal of the school while also teaching math and science—a job he continues today at age 70. The school, where all the students are below the poverty line and many are in single-parent homes, has a 96 percent graduation rate.
Of the first 11 boys who started at Pathways Academy a decade ago, five had fathers in prison. All but one of the boys graduated high school, and all the graduates went on to college or technical programs.
The business executives spun off or "acquired" more ministries as families in their church circles had needs. Now they have eight partners, providing pediatric healthcare, counseling, addiction recovery, housing, and meals. That larger organization Beattie developed that oversees all these programs is Jericho Partnership.
Named for the Good Samaritan parable that takes place on the road to Jericho, Jericho today manages eight ministries, thousands of volunteers, and 26 local church partners. Thirteen of the church partners are in the city, and 13 are in the suburbs, and they cross racial and economic lines.
Partner churches give Jericho $5 per member and have a seat on the organization's advisory board. Local pastors help Jericho staffers know specific needs in the city and how to address the many cultures in a place where a third of the population is Latino.
Even with Jericho's up-front Christian identity and close alliance with local churches, its ministries have won the enthusiastic support of the longtime mayor of Danbury as well as the local public schools superintendent.
"Once they got momentum, they were a home run," said Danbury Public Schools Superintendent Sal Pascarella, about Pathways Academy.
THE BIG OLD WAREHOUSE that houses Jericho Partnership in Danbury was once a furniture showroom. It's renovated now, but its maze of rooms still feels like a showroom for the ministries at work there.
Walk into the lobby of the Jericho building and hang a left. Through the door is a waiting room for Samaritan Health Center, a pediatric clinic for the uninsured where a Spanish-speaking mom is cradling a baby. Toys and books are scattered around, along with newspapers in Spanish. In 2016, about 2,000 uninsured children received healthcare through the clinic.
Around the corner is Hopeline, a pregnancy resource center for women with unexpected pregnancies. The center performed 566 ultrasounds in 2016 and estimates that it saved about 300 unborn lives.
Through another door are counseling services. Upstairs is the adoption agency Bethany Christian Services. Open another door: Pathways Academy is the Christian middle school serving 39 boys this year, almost all of whom are black or Hispanic.
Beware of your emotions if you walk directly from the pediatric clinic to the middle school, past Christian doctors caring for babies and into a language arts classroom full of seventh-graders earnestly taking a spelling test. A sign in the classroom carries the school's tagline for the "men of honor" they are cultivating, spelled in the acrostic of "Christ": Courteous & Respectful, Hopeful & Confident, Resourceful & Goal-Oriented, Inspired & Close to God, Sexually Pure, and Trusting in the Lord.
When the bell rang in the middle school, each boy filed out of Lakeema Moore's language arts class and shook her hand. Down the hall, the head of the mentoring program, Horace Hough, was getting ready to take his high-school senior boys to the mall to buy suits for graduation.
Jericho hosts all of these ministries in its building rent-free, which is a big gift in an expensive city like Danbury. Downtown the organization also has a transitional home for homeless women and children, and a homeless shelter. Given the dizzying number of Jericho projects, the group posts its annual financial audits online for transparency.
Jericho's specialness comes from hosting all of these ministries under one roof. Girls at the Hopeline pregnancy center who might need support can walk down a hallway to the teen mom ministry YoungLives. The Pathways Academy boys can get immunizations at the pediatric clinic, and counseling. Boys from the school have started going to Young Life (also in the showroom warehouse), and boys from Young Life have enrolled in the school.
Jericho President Carrie Amos says all of this overlapping builds "covenant" relationships. Next to the Jericho building is a liquor store. A mother of three boys in the Jericho programs was living in an apartment above the store. A few years ago she overdosed and died. Jericho paid for her funeral and stuck with the boys. The third boy is about to graduate high school.
"We want to help them understand that they can do all things through Christ who strengthens them," said Rice, the math teacher and former Space Shuttle brainiac. He stood in the Pathways middle-school lobby between classes, wearing a letter jacket with a big "P" on it. Many of Jericho's leaders, like Rice and Amos, are people of color like the children they are serving.
After school many of the academy boys walked a few doors down to the tutoring program, which was gearing up with about 50 students. Portraits of Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and George Washington hung on the walls.
This tutoring program has classrooms dedicated to different subjects, with tutors specializing in particular subjects to help students with their work. The students rotate through the rooms depending on their work. When they finish, some play basketball on a dusty court out back with Kih and Robert Best. The Best brothers went through the program themselves when they were in middle school and high school, and now tutor.
Inside, Jada Ortiz, a senior in high school, stood in the bathroom doorway, wearing her graduation suit for the first time. She has been in the girls' mentoring program for six years, after her public school counselor first suggested it to her. The girls' program is named Naomi, for the Biblical character and mother-in-law who guides Ruth.
Jada wasn't sure about the skirt's fit and called for advice from Michelle Ross, who runs Naomi. Did the skirt need tailoring? Ross thought it looked good. The girls often scoff at the idea of suits, Ross said, but then when they put them on—"they're making duck lips," a selfie face. Jada plans to go to a local community college.
All the girls in the six-year Naomi mentoring program have gone on to colleges or technical schools. Ross' tagline is "Leading girls to Christ through relationships," which mirrors Jericho's central theme. This isn't theoretical; one of the Naomi mentees moved in with Ross when the girl's mom suddenly moved away from Danbury during her senior year of high school. The girl graduated—the first in her family to do so—and has stayed with Ross while she figures out next steps.
Ross is one of many leaders in the program following Beattie's model of long-term relationships. Beattie's first mentee from 20 years ago, Charneil Bush, related a story at a Jericho dinner in 2016. By many measures a Jericho success story, Bush had in the last year gotten laid off from his job. Three months passed without a new job, and he grew depressed and suicidal. In that moment Beattie was the first person he called.
"The impact of mentoring is always knowing what home looks like," said Bush, crying. His old mentor prayed with him over the phone and then asked what he could do to help.


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Design Coding is useful when a categorical data element must be re-expressed as one or more meaningful numeric data elements, creating a binary numeric field for each categorical data value. Design coding is offered in two forms, one known as dummy-coding and the other as contrast-coding.
In dummy-coding, a new column is produced for each listed value, with a value of 0 or 1 depending on whether that value is assumed by the original column. Alternately, given a list of values to contrast-code along with a reference value, a new column is produced for each listed value, with a value of 0 or 1 depending on whether that value is assumed by the original column, or a value of -1 if that original value is equal to the reference value.
When using dummy-coding, if a column assumes n values, new columns may be created for all n values, (or for only n-1 values, because the nth column will be perfectly correlated with the first n-1 columns). When using contrast-coding, only n-1 or fewer new columns may be created from a categorical column with n values.
Design Coding supports character, numeric and date type columns. If you enter date values, the keyword DATE must precede the date value, which should not be enclosed in single quotes.
The designstyle parameter can assume one of 2 different styles, dummycode or contrastcode.
In dummy-coding, a new column is produced for each listed value (see designvalues below), with a value of 0 or 1 depending on whether that value is assumed by the original column.
The examples in this section show how to use Design Code. These examples assume that the td_analyze function has been installed in a database named twm.
The following examples demonstrate the Design Code transformation.
This example shows how date literals can be used.
The following example demonstrates combined null replacement. Note that keycolumns must be included as a general parameter when null value replacement is performed. The letter U for Unknown is enclosed in two pair of single quotes.


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Constantine S:01 E:10
Posted on January 24, 2015 January 24, 2015 by Bubbawheat
Episode Title: Quid Pro Quo
"Quid Pro Quo" is a Latin phrase that means "this for that" which really gets to the heart of what Constantine is all about. There's often talk of how when it comes to magic in the world of this show, "there is always a price" and we get to see a lot more of that price in this episode. We also get to see a lot more of the backstory of Chas, why he is so loyal to Constantine, and how he is seemingly immortal. While there is several mentions of the rising darkness, this felt much more like a one-off episode that didn't really further any of the season-long plot lines, but it is a really great character piece that shows how far both Constantine and Chas have come over the past couple years. And it does so without getting into Newcastle any futher aside from one throwaway mention.
Chas is a character who I enjoyed well enough in the Keanu Reeves movie even though he was played by Shia Lebouf. He was basically comic relief, though he did get a couple moments to shine, and then he promptly died at the end. Here, he's played much more like an old and loyal friend, pretty much the only true friend that Constantine still has. Charles Halford does a nice job at making him likeable, but he also generally stays in the background unless he has to sacrifice himself for one reason or another. Here, we finally get to see a bit more behind his character as he comes home to spend the weekend with his young daughter from a broken relationship. But when he gets home, he finds her in a coma and eventually realizes that her soul has been taken from her along with dozens of others in the area. We also get to see the genesis of his survivability which was the result of a drunken protection spell that happened to be cast at an opportune time. It was a spell from the Arthurian legend which would protect a knight of the round table by absorbing the spirits of the lesser knights who had fallen. Here, Chas dies in a nightclub fire along with 47 other patrons whose souls he has absorbed. The surprising thing is when it's revealed that he still has 31 of those souls left, considering the course of the show I would have imagined he would have died well over those 16 times over the course of two years working with John.
This brings me to another thing I don't quite understand; how John continues to have so many "friends" and contacts throughout the country when nearly everyone who helps him in the course of the show ends up dying. Here, we get to see a medium who is now running an Army surplus store in New York. When trying to find the soul of Chas's daughter Geraldine, he ends up getting possessed by the mage behind it all and is burned to a crisp. Which brings me to the "quid pro quo"s of the episode, the first one is when they face the elder mage Felix Faust. He gets them to help him out by getting rid of a sleep demon who has been feeding on some of the souls' bodies which doesn't help him out very much. The banishment of the demon in return for Geraldine's soul. Of course, nothing is that simple and so Chas decides to take things into his own hands by offering the souls of those left within him for the soul of his daughter. There's also the burden of responsibility that Chas has over having his ability in exchange for those 47 people who died two years ago. Not to mention how Chas essentially has to sacrifice his family life in exchange for the services he performs with Constantine in order to help fight against the rising darkness. And on top of everything else, Zed gets to reveal a touch of her backstory, she gets to expand her abilities and pay the price associated with that, and also has several small moments throughout the episode to show her worth to the team. Overall, it was a great episode and one of my favorites so far this season especially since no one really close to Constantine had to die, aside from that random medium introduced only a few minutes before his demise.
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Shah Shahid says:
This was one of the better episodes, but as far as showing us the back story between Chas & Constantine, it still left a lot of questions. It seemed it was more of an 'origin' story for Chas and his 'immortality', than showing us their relationship, as they already seemed to be friends even at the beginning of the flashback. So Chas knew about Constantine's magic stuff, but just was never a part of it? And how Constantine essentially goads him into being his partner… I felt the whole thing was like a foregone conclusion than Chas actually having to struggle with the burden.
I did love how Chas handles Felix in the end and Constantine fully backs him up at the last minute, that is more when I felt like they were besties than any other scene. I liked the last scene with Zed before she doses off, which adds a great element to the next episode and Constantine's character.
Bubbawheat says:
Yeah, I agree that it's not exactly a lot of insight between Chas and John's relationship. But it was interesting to see how he is able to do what he does and that it is, in fact, finite. The last scene with Zed and John was fantastically simple and just completely perfect for the two of them.


The Stockton group of faculty, students and Holocaust survivors toured historic World War I, World War II and Holocaust sites in the Netherlands and France during spring break this year.
Galloway, NJ – Stockton faculty and students along with three Holocaust survivors witnessed the history of World War I and World War II in France and the Netherlands during the university's spring break this month. Undergraduate and graduate students joined the survivors as they reunited with family members of those who rescued them, visited their hiding locations and learned more of the personal details of each survivor's story.
Daniel Kochavi, one of the survivors, was a young boy living in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France. His mother put him into hiding in a Catholic boarding school for girls while she found a different place to hide herself. The young boy peered from the balcony of his fourth-floor apartment where he would watch over the happenings of the city during World War II.
During the study tour, Kochavi and the group of 42 Stockton faculty and students, including those who have been writing Kochavi's family biography, returned to his former apartment building in Paris, now an office building owned by the Association of Christians Against Torture (ACAT), a non-profit foundation that aids refugees.
As the group gathered in front of the apartment building, a man emerged from the front door, a bit startled to see the large group. He asked why they were there.
Kochavi, who still speaks French, and Michael Hayse, associate professor of History and lead author of Kochavi's collective biography, explained the survivor's story. The local man, Jean Étienne Linares of the ACAT organization, then invited Kochavi, Hayse and the group of nine students working on the memoir on a personal tour of the building.
Holocaust survivor Daniel Kochavi (left) waves from the balcony of the building where he lived during and after World War II. This spring was his first time back to the building, which is now the home of a non-profit foundation that aids refugees. His son, Jonathan, is pictured at right.
The remaining Stockton students stood below and watched as Holocaust survivor Daniel Kochavi and his son, Jonathan, waved from the fourth-story balcony above.
Sarah Albertson, a recent graduate of Stockton's Master of Arts in Holocaust & Genocide program who works in the HRC, transcribed audio testimony about Kochavi's mother for the memoir, which is expected to be complete later this year. She stepped out on to the balcony with the other memoir project workers and shared the special moment with the survivor.
"The students have written chapters for the Kochavi family biography, so that was really special to share with them," Hayse said.
"When [Kochavi] came back on the bus, he was a different person. He had closure," said Rosenthal.
The survivors are what make the study tour experience spectacular for both the students and the tour leaders, explained Hayse, whose own study abroad experience inspired his current involvement with Stockton's study tour program.
"Travel is important and these tours are very meaningful; it is something I want to share with my students," he said.
Rosenthal and Hayse have been leading tours together since 1999, and this year was the first time they took students to France. In recent years, the tours have occurred every other year, and they have always been joined by survivors.
The itinerary for each tour varies, and in many ways is determined by the survivors going on the trip.
Holocaust survivors Maud Dahme and Leo Ullman also accompanied this year's study tour, and shared with students their invaluable, firsthand stories of hiding in the Netherlands during World War II.
Dahme met the current owners of her grandparents' house in Amersfoort, where she lived during the war. She also found both her maternal and paternal family names at the Schouwburg Theatre, now a memorial, from where her family was deported.
Ullman reunited with the granddaughter and great grandchildren of the man responsible for forging documents that helped save his family members. Ullman and his parents were in hiding for 796 days. Ullman was hidden with locals, apart from his family, in Amsterdam because he was a young child and his parents were afraid that a child's laughter or crying would attract attention.
Students, tour leaders and survivors visited sites in both the Netherlands and France including the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam; the hidden village in Vierhouten, Gelderland; the Jewish cemetery in Elburg; the Utah and Omaha beaches of D-Day in Normandy; and the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
The tour walked the Second Line Trench at the Battle of the Somme in Beaumont-Hamel; stood inside a German bunker at the Caen Normandy Memorial Museum; and placed flags in front of graves at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.
Additional photos and captions can be found on the study tour Facebook page and blog.
Photos courtesy of Stockton University's Holocaust Study Tour 2017.


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Q: Cassandra query on timestamp column returns no values with Java's Instant type I'm trying to figure out how I can query cassandra on a minute interval on specific dates with java 8 api.
For example, imagine I have a groups table.
create table groups(
group_name text,
updated_on timestamp
primary key (group_name, updated_on)
);

I have the following records inside the table
group_name    updated_on
RealGroup     2017-01-01 04:30:00-0800
RealGroup     2017-01-01 04:30:15-0800
MockGroup     2017-02-05 04:30:00-0800

I'd like to execute a query to cassandra like the following.
select * from groups where group_name = 'RealGroup' and updated_on >= 2017 01-01 04:30:00-0800 AND <= 2017-01-01- 04:30:59-0800'

So essentially, I'd like to get data ON THE MINUTE interval.
I am using a GroupAccessor with the datastax api.
@Query("SELECT * FROM GROUPS WHERE GROUP_NAME = :groupName AND UPDATED_ON>= :startDate AND UPDATED_ON<= :endDate")
Result<Group> getResults(@Param("groupName") String groupName, @Param("startDate") Instant startDate, @Param("endDate") Instant endDate);

My question is, what would the client call look like?  Whats the correct way to send the request with java 8 api?
I'm using the following, but it's giving me odd results.
LocalDateTime startDate = LocalDateTime.of(2017, Month.JANUARY, 1, 4, 30);
LocalDateTime endDate = LocalDateTime.of(2017, Month.JANUARY, 1, 4, 31);
Instant start = startDate.toInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC);
Instant end = endDate.toInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC);

Result<Group> dateGroup = groupAccessor.getResults("RealGroup", start, end);

So in reality, this code above should return 2 rows.
RealGroup     2017-01-01 04:30:00-0800
RealGroup     2017-01-01 04:30:15-0800

but returns none.

A: You're clustering on a column of type timestamp. The timestamp type represents

a number of milliseconds since the standard base time known as the
  epoch: January 1 1970 at 00:00:00 GMT

When using CQLSH, you can use a integer value representing that number of milliseconds
INSERT INTO groups (group_name , updated_on ) VALUES ( 'MockGroup', 1485221928341);

or you can use

a string literal in any of the following ISO 8601 formats:
yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm
yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss
yyyy-mm-dd HH:mmZ
yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ssZ
yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm
yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mmZ
yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ss
yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ
yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.ffffffZ
yyyy-mm-dd
yyyy-mm-ddZ

where Z is the RFC-822 4-digit time zone, expressing the time zone's difference from UTC

In your example, you've specified
2017 01-01 04:30:00-0800

which contains a timezone that is 8 hours behind UTC. But when you made your request in Java code, you created an Instant that's meant to represent 4:30 local time from the UTC timezone (ie. 0 offset). That's what
Instant start = startDate.toInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC);

does. So you're 8 hours off what's actually in the database. Instead, create an Instant from a timezone that is 8 hours behind UTC at 4:30 local time.
Instant start = startDate.toInstant(ZoneOffset.ofHours(-8));
Instant end = endDate.toInstant(ZoneOffset.ofHours(-8));

This should get you back the two groups that you wanted.

Is there a way where I dont have to deal with zones?

Yes, use integer numbers (like my first example). It's just harder to reason about plain numbers than formatted strings.
Or, you can use Z at the end of your date string to indicate the Zulu time zone which has no offset UTC. For example,
INSERT INTO groups (group_name , updated_on ) VALUES ( 'MockGroup', '2017-02-05 04:31:00Z');

Obviously, from Java code, the Instant has no concept of timezone, it simply represents a timestamp, just like the type in Cassandra, so you can use it directly.

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The off season has began but it is always a great time to think about your 2019 Triathlon Season. Have you figured out what race you want to do? Have you figured out your season? Most people have but if you are getting ready for an Ironman race and you haven't signed up for one, chances are the a lot of the Ironman races in the US are full. Ironman AZ 2015 filled up on the spot in AZ and people online couldn't even get in.
What Ironman Should I Do?
Do you want to swim in the river, ocean or a lake?
Do you like flats, hills or mountains on the bike?
Do you want 2-3 loops on the run? Flat or hilly?
Do you want to train during the winter, spring, fall or summer?
Do you want to travel via flight or car?
1. Do you want to swim in the river, ocean or a lake?
You need to ask yourself, "How comfortable are you in the open water?" Did you grow up swimming in a nasty lake and the thought of ugly fish and sharks DON'T bother you? Pick an ocean swim. Did you grow up swimming in the community pool and the thought of swimming with ugly fish and sharks bother you? I would pick a river or a lake.
Ironman FL is one of my FAVORITE Ironman races BUT you are swimming in the ocean. Florida was canceled in 2014 due to high rip tides, so it wouldn't have been safe for anyone. Ironman Mont Tremblant and Boulder are in a lake. Are those swims wetsuit swims? (Most of the time, yes). Is the water too cold? Sometimes that can play a huge role on athletes, is the cold water. Let's look at Ironman Texas. You start off in a lake but then it narrows down to the river. Will you feel claustrophobic? Those are some of the thoughts that I have before I sign up for an Ironman.


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Political word tricks damage democracy
by Opinion Contributor January 14, 2022 January 14, 2022
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Barbara S. Held, Ph.D., is Barry N. Wish Professor of Psychology and Social Studies Emerita at Bowdoin College. A clinical psychologist, Held practiced therapy in Brunswick her first 15 years at Bowdoin.
On the anniversary of Jan. 6, I recalled a local car mechanic who said he believed I needed new tires. Upon asking why he believed that, he accused me of questioning his religious beliefs. I said I wasn't questioning his religious beliefs, just the basis for his belief about my tires. The manager stepped in.
When people say they believe (or think) something is the case, they're usually acknowledging lack of certainty, which I appreciate.
Religion aside, the distinction between believing a claim is true and knowing it is true has become lost in our socio-political world.
Plato called knowledge justified true belief. A belief that counts as knowledge must be true and reflect objective evidence of its truth. Former President Donald Trump may believe he won the election, but his belief is not true, given the objective evidence (even if Trump refuses to accept the evidence). Hence the "Big Lie" that led to the Jan. 6 Insurrection and that is reportedly believed by two-thirds of Republicans.
Many have used cagey language to get themselves off hooks of their own making. Consider Bill Clinton's explanation to the grand jury about how he wasn't lying when, regarding Monica Lewinsky, he insisted that "There's nothing going on between us … It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, who declared his candidacy for the Republican Pennsylvania U.S. Senate primary, defended himself in 2014 against charges of fraudulent claims about weight-loss pills before a Senate subcommittee, using wordplay that hinged on what Oz himself believed.
According to Politico, then Republican Nevada Sen. Dean Heller asked, "Do you believe there's a magic weight-loss cure?" And Oz responded, "If you're selling something because it's magical, no … If you're arguing that it's going to be magic because if you stop eating carbohydrates you're going to lose a lot of weight, that's a truthful statement." Hmmm. Politico concluded that "Oz's real product is: not weight-loss pills at all, but rather the promise of an alternative reality."
It hardly relieves that Oz now turns to political wizardry. He wrote a piece in the Washington Examiner saying, "We must confront those who want to change the very soul of America and reimagine it with their toxic ideology … I'm running for the Senate to empower you to control your destiny, to reinvigorate our great nation." Maybe he'll make America "great" like Trump — with demagoguery, plus his magic-making diet pills.
While we all have beliefs, some public figures have knowledge to back them up, whereas all too many don't. Those we can trust base their societally relevant beliefs on reliable evidence, admitting when they're unsure and explaining when scientific progress dictates a change in course: think Dr. Anthony Fauci on mask recommendations. By contrast, tricksters make unqualified claims — for instance, about the COVID-healing powers of hydroxychloroquine (which Trump repeatedly promoted) and the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines, again with objective evidence to the contrary.
The saying "consider the source" once meant heed those with a good track record of truth-telling. Now it means heed whomever you prefer to believe, even when their claims fly in the face of strong evidence, because they reinforce your pre-existing beliefs.
With our polarized political landscape, it's unlikely that raising Americans' awareness of the distinction between believing and knowing will get most who've fallen prey to tricksters back to reality. It won't end the pandemic. It won't stop the efforts of those determined to turn our democracy into an autocracy, as they now work their toxic "magic" at the local level too, including municipal governments. But this distinction between believing and knowing might help put America's body politic in a healthier place.
Although I'm no glass-is-half-full optimist, those one-third of Republicans who don't believe the "Big Lie" give me hope that knowledge will prevail in America. Though I make no guarantees of success, I suggest we keep asking my favorite question: "How do you and/or they know that's true?"
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Workshop on the social and economic impacts of migration in the countries of origin
On 12 and 13 April a workshop titled "Those Who Stay: how out-migration affects West African societies" will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Organized by the research group "Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast" headed by Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr, the workshop is dedicated to a little-researched topic: how years of emigration have affected the lives of the people in West Africa. The workshop will be held in English.
Migration: little research on the home countries
Public discourse about international migration is dominated by a concern about what negative effects this may have for Europe. Consequently, researchers have devoted extensive attention to topics like the current state of affairs and the possibility of integration, or the effects of migration on the welfare state, the political system, and civil society. "However, we know comparatively little about the social, economic, political, cultural, and demographic consequences of large-scale out-migration on migrants' countries of origin in the so-called Global South," explains Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr, head of the research group "Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. "Therefore, we have invited 22 specialists on West Africa to discuss migration-related research on countries like Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia."
Emigration of skilled workers and circulation of knowledge
It was long assumed that the effects of migration on African societies were primarily negative. For the migrants are often young adults in search of new opportunities in Europe and North America, but also other countries in Africa, young adults whose work power is assumed not to benefit their societies of origin in case of out-migration. "This is still an important observation," says Knörr. "But anthropological field research in West African countries has shown that the situation is actually more complex: there's more than just brain drain. On the contrary – we have learned that emigrants often give something back to their families and their country. Not just in the form of money, but also professional and political know-how." It would be false to assume that migration severs all ties between the people who leave and those who stay. For example, a study about doctors and medical personnel who emigrated from Ghana has shown that many of these professionals regularly return to Ghana for a time in order to assist in providing medical services.
Uncharted territory: migration within Africa
It is also not true that most Africans migrate to countries outside Africa. Knörr explains: "Migration within Africa far exceeds migration to Europe or North America. Not all refugees or migrants have the resources necessary to travel to the so-called Global North." Still, the fact remains: migration has left significant marks on most African countries. "Nearly every family has someone who has left or plans to leave," says Knörr. There is no doubt that such large-scale movement has a tremendous effect on all areas of life. However, this does not mean that the effects are only negative. "At the workshop we want to start by focusing on the empirical facts and analysing the social, cultural, and material exchanges that develop as a result of migration," says Knörr.
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the world's leading centres for research in socio-cultural anthropology. It was established in 1999 by Chris Hann and Günther Schlee, and moved to its permanent buildings at Advokatenweg 36 in Halle/Saale in 2001. Marie-Claire Foblets joined the Institute as Director of the department 'Law & Anthropology' in 2012.
Common to all research projects at the Max Planck Institute is the comparative analysis of social change; it is primarily in this domain that its researchers contribute to anthropological theory, though many programmes also have applied significance and political topicality. Fieldwork is an essential part of almost all projects. Some 175 researchers from over 30 countries currently work at the Institute. In addition, the Institute also hosts countless guest researchers who join in the scholarly discussions.
More information about the research group "Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)"
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr
E-mail: knoerr@eth.mpg.de
http://www.eth.mpg.de/knoerr
http://www.eth.mpg.de
Jacqueline Knörr
Head of Research Group +49 (0) 345 29 27 128 knoerr@...


The late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld will be remembered by some as much for his barbs as his outfits.
"I am very much down to Earth. Just not this earth."
"When I was four I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday."
"I have a sort of Alzheimer's for my own work, which I think is a very good thing. Today too many people remember what they did - just forget it all and start again."
"We created a product nobody needs, but people want. If you need an ugly old car, it can wait, but if you want a new fashion item, it cannot wait."
"I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long."
"Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."
"Whatever it is, good or bad, it influences fashion. You can see that in fashion quicker than in any other thing going on. Fashion is something that reflects our lives and times with the shortest release because, cars, design and architecture take years to realise."
"Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll be all finished."
"I have nothing to say. I'm actually trying to make sure that I won't be remembered."


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Multi-million pound funding from HEFCE for N8 food security research programme
News | Posted on Wednesday 25 March 2015
The University of York is to host a new multi-million pound N8 Research Partnership programme which is set to transform UK food security research.
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The programme was announced today by the Minister for Universities, Sciences and Cities, Greg Clark.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has awarded The N8 Research Partnership – a partnership of the eight research-intensive universities in the North (Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) – a grant of £7,999,254 through its Catalyst Fund to develop its Agri-Food Resilience programme. This will be matched equally by the N8 universities.
A multi-disciplinary initiative, the Agri-Food Resilience Programme will build on the N8's research strengths in science, engineering and the social sciences to address key global challenges in food security, including sustainable food production, resilient food supply chains, improved nutrition and consumer behaviours.
The University of York will host the N8 Agri-Food Resilience Programme on behalf of the N8 Research Partnership; this is particularly welcome for YESI as it strengthens our capacity to tackle a complex and urgent global challenge using multidisciplinary approaches.
Through the programme, the N8 aims to combine world-leading crop and livestock research - plus the facilities offered by six experimental farms across the N8 universities - with the partnership institutions' vast expertise in social sciences, including business and management, to create a single research initiative focused on ensuring the stability of national and global agri-food supply chains.
The N8, which harnesses the strengths of the greatest concentration of bioscientists engaged in agri-food research in the UK, will also work with farmers and other businesses to increase resilience and economic competitiveness, and develop new models and organisational capabilities for large scale, strategic research programmes.
Together, the N8 universities have an impressive track record in agri-food science, with more than 370 researchers working on projects in this area and a portfolio of £269 million of research funding over the last six years.
Professor Deborah Smith, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of York, said: "This exciting research programme addresses one of the major global challenges of our time – how to feed 9-10 billion people sustainably and equitably by the end of the century.
"Expertise within the N8 universities, working in partnership with others across the region, will drive this agenda forwards and work towards novel solutions with international impact. This award could not be more timely or more important."
Sir Alan Langlands, Chair of the N8 Board of Directors and Vice Chancellor of The University of Leeds, said: "Food security is one of the great challenges in our increasingly urbanised and globalised world; the need to ensure food production and distribution is resilient and sustainable is an urgent task faced by governments, industry and society. This is a task beyond any single research group or institution.
"This Catalyst funding from HEFCE means that the N8 can now implement an integrated, large scale multi-disciplinary research programme which will make a major, long-term impact in addressing the challenge of food security.
"The N8 Research Partnership has great strength, expertise and resources to make progress in this area and our work will play a key part in the Agri-Food Resilience Programme."
David Sweeney, Director of Research, Education and Knowledge Exchange at HEFCE, said: "This is an important collaborative project involving a strong partnership of universities with relevant and complementary expertise in research and knowledge exchange.
"Food security is a strategic priority for the nation. This investment will support higher education to deliver new translational research activity with business, and complements other agri-tech developments HEFCE is supporting."
Since 2007, The N8 Research Partnership has delivered ground breaking collaborative programmes in research, equipment sharing and industry engagement.
It brings companies together across supply chains to combine capability to produce innovative products and services and through initiatives such as the N8 Industry Innovation Programme, businesses can connect with 'unlikely partners' to create new, step-changing innovations.
About the N8 Research Partnership:
www.n8research.org.uk
The N8 Research Partnership is a partnership of the 8 research-intensive universities in the North of England – Durham University, Lancaster University, The University of Leeds, the University of Liverpool, the University of Manchester, Newcastle University, the University of Sheffield and the University of York.
The N8 Research Partnership aims to maximise the impact of this research base by identifying and co-ordinating powerful research teams and collaborations, creating teams with a critical mass of world-class academics and forming a network of virtual centres of innovation excellence.
Among the N8 Research Partnership's main research programmes are initiatives in:
The Impact of Arts and Humanities
The three broad criteria for the N8 Research Partnership research programmes are:
Demand for multi-disciplinary solutions from public and private sector research users
Combinations of multidisciplinary world-class capability across the N8 universities
Synergy - where working together can achieve a greater output than a single university effort
Through these programmes, the N8 Research Partnership has worked with over 200 new businesses, many of which are SMEs, generated over £41M of income and created 60 jobs since it was established in 2007.
About HEFCE's Catalyst Fund
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La Luna Entertainment Presents "Fright Flick" (Spoiler Free)
Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jon
When I was but a wee lad I was magnetically drawn to horror movies. My all-time favorite will always be A Nightmare on Elm Street. I loved Nancy Thompson. I also loved the other big franchises : Halloween, Friday the 13th, Critters (did you know Billy Zane was in that?). I also loved Sleep Away Camp (what a twist!), Evil Dead, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yea…I am kinda a horror movie nerd. This nerd is very, very happy that indie filmmaker Israel Luna's (Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives) latest is an homage to those films I love.
Fright Flick
Written and Directed by Israel Luna
Starring : Chad Allen, Daphne Khoury, Adam Kitchen, Richard D. Curtain, Todd Jenkins, and Charles Raker
If you are a fan of horror B-Movies, then you will love Fright Flick. The plot is simple; the cast of a B-Movie are mysteriously murdered. Whodunit? Was it the slimy director (Richard D. Curtain)? The angry producer (Todd Jenkins)? The jealous supporting actress (Daphne Khoury)?
This film is billed as a horror-comedy, so as expected most lines of dialogue serves to deliver jokes or to further the plot. It's somewhat stilted and choppy, but purposefully so. Still, there are some very funny moments like make-up artist Chase's (Charles Baker) monologue and starlet Ophelia's (Valerie Nelson) flubbed lines ("anusly and vaginally"). The characters are little more than props to be murdered in some beautifully brutal fashion. Let's be honest, this is why we love these sorts of films. Oh, and note to self : never lean over a gas station counter.
In horror films, the audience should root for the survival of the "last woman standing." One of the "twists" of this film is that her identity is hidden until later in the film. I found her identity to be surprising, but once her identity was uncovered I got behind her (no pun intended) 100 %. The identity of the killer may not be as surprising to those familiar with horror films, but the final fright was still very fun. You can help bring Fright Flick to Netflix by adding it to your queue.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKdgHITmKI[/youtube]
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