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Waikato women run every day for 1000 days to support friend's breast cancer fight
Samantha Worthington, 1 NEWS Digital Producer
Caroline Steer and Steph Bond only met in person yesterday, but have both been running every single day for almost three years for the same reason - to outrun cancer.
Caroline Steer and Steph Bond have both run 1000 days straight for their friend Vanessa Oshima Source: 1 NEWS
Yesterday marked their 'comma' milestone - 1000 days of streak running for their mutual friend Vanessa Oshima, who is a breast cancer survivor. The effort started the day she found out her diagnosis.
A group of runners and walkers joined Caroline and Steph to celebrate the number, and to show support for Vanessa, as they ran around the Hamilton Lake for their 1000th day.
The outrun cancer movement didn't actually start in support of Vanessa. In fact, it was created by her, for Caroline. Both women have had breast cancer.
In September of 2012, Caroline herself was diagnosed, and Vanessa, who lives in Japan, promised to run 5km every day until she was "ned" - no evidence of disease.
Caroline, now in remission, says as soon as she found out Vanessa's diagnosis, there was no question of what she was going to do.
"When Vanessa got her diagnosis, she phoned me. It was within an hour of midnight. We chatted, I tried to comfort her, but at 11.30pm I said, 'Sorry, I have to run'. I made a promise," Caroline explained.
Both Vanessa and Caroline realised the running wasn't just about stress release, or health, or even each other. It was much bigger than that.
The two friends started Outrun Cancer, a charity to raise funds for a variety of different ways to encourage people to keep moving forward together, including 'Get Moving Boxes' a first step to building running routines into their recovery plans, and training programmes for rehabilitation.
"At the heart of our charity is the knowledge that activity is great medicine. Thirty minutes exercise a day has a better correlation to cancer prevention and treatment than other known treatments," Caroline said.
"Running is my fear. Vanessa has pushed me well outside of my comfort zone and taught me so much. Find a way, or find an excuse! See the rainbow not the rain."
In 2016, Vanessa became the first New Zealand woman to compete in all six of the world's major marathons - Tokyo, New York, Boston, Chicago, London and Berlin. She even went for a run the morning of her mastectomy surgery.
Steph met Vanessa in Japan when the NZ Cancer society put them in touch with each other. They both lived in Japan at the time and were running the London marathon for the organisation.
At this point Vanessa was already a streak runner, she had been running over 1000 days for Caroline.
Steph started running five kilometres every day as soon as she heard her diagnosis. She says Vanessa is a constant inspiration.
"If running 5km every day was going to help Vanessa in her fight with cancer, then giving half an hour of my time each day to support her was a no brainer," says Steph.
"Since Vanessa got diagnosed, and prior to Vanessa there have been many significant people in my life who have fought, are fighting or lost the fight to cancer and along with Vanessa's strength, that keeps me going, and will continue to keep me going each day."
As Vanessa lives in Japan, she couldn't be there for their run. Instead, she ran alongside them in Japan, as did their community of people in New Zealand, and around the world.
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In Theaters Now: Bangkok Dangerous & Everybody Wants to Be Italian
By Lauren Barbato on September 5, 2008
directed by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang
Bangkok Dangerous is further proof that Hollywood is seriously running out of ideas. In the Pang brothers' remake of their widely popular Thai drama about a deaf-mute hitman and his partner, Nicolas Cage steps up to play the role of the assassin (except he can hear and speak perfectly in this watered-down version) and hopefully rekindle his lukewarm career. Though Cage could use another box office hit, remakes of foreign films usually become lost in translation and unfortunately, Netflix-ing the original seems like the best idea with this one.
Everybody Wants to Be Italian
directed by Jason Todd Ipson
For his second feature film, writer-director James Todd Ipson pulls from past experiences to craft a warm-hearted comedy about mistaken ethnicity. This little indie starring up-and-coming actors Jay Jablonski and Cerina Vincent, as well as acting veteran Penny Marshall, doesn't have enough buzz to become a sleeper hit like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, though it will likely garner praise and support from Boston's North End (where the film is set) and Italian-Americans seeking an ego boost.


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Revelations | Robert Mason
This summer I had the pleasure of meeting British artist Robert Mason and discovering more about his life and practice from his studio on the Colne Estuary, ahead of his exhibition at the Colour Index Agency in London, organised by writer, editor and curator William Davie. The exhibition continues until 20th July 2019 by appointment.
"I've always worn a mask, all my life," Robert Mason explains as we stroll through his home in the small town of Wivenhoe on the Colne Estuary. "It's just sometimes that mask slips. Small things bring you back." Mason is an artist long associated with sorrow. The tragedy of losing his parents, sister and brother as a young child has somewhat defined his career, with critics all too ready to embrace the story as a familiar tale of tormented genius. But despite the macabre dealings of his past, Mason has emerged a beacon of optimism. Now in his early 70s, Mason is even mildly surprised to find himself at this point. "It was never meant to be this way," he teases gently.
Mason comes from a generation of artists that emerged at a time when the so-called "School of London" was at the height of its powers. Of all the London painters, Mason is perhaps most closely connected to Frank Auerbach. It was Auerbach who encouraged Mason to disregard the nature of fads and trends, to ignore the proclamation that painting was dead and follow his own path. Akin to these giants of Modern British Art, Mason has remained resolutely figurative in his practice, grounding his darkly evocative imagery in the poignant experience of what it means to be human.
Bones, masks, animal carcases and crouching figures are unavoidably connected to his early suffering, but at the heart of Mason's method is a need to feel something – be it the loss of family or the despair of grief or another sensation all together. For that reason, the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch also holds a particular grip. Munch's haunting painting of his own sister upon her death bed resonates only too clearly with Mason's anguish. Much like Hamlet, cowered over an open grave, Mason bought four skulls in the 1970s to represent each of his parents and siblings, painting a series of spectral images in their silhouettes. For Mason there must always be a searing emotional truth that draws the viewer in and holds them there.
Mason grew up in Yorkshire, immersed in the rolling hills that inspired Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and studied in Harrogate ( 1963-1965) before taking up a place at Hornsey College of Art in London (1965-1968). Mason originally trained as a sculptor and worked as an assistant to Hubert Dalwood, a member of the informal group of artists known as the 'Geometry of Fear' who rejected the rise of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism from across the Atlantic. At the height of the Swinging Sixties, and as the anti-Vietnam War protests raged, Mason travelled to The British School in Rome (1968-1970). For the first time, Mason worked from his own studio space, opening up a new world of possibilities and igniting a passion for Italian culture that remains with him some fifty years later. It was here, as he laid new paintings out for passers-by in the Piazza Navona, that he was discovered by Laura Crispolti of the Galleria Condotti and found his work suddenly exhibited alongside those of Giorgio de Chirico.
Mason roamed the ancient sites of Rome, looking with fascination at archaeologists digging amongst the ruins. It was in Rome that he met Anthony Blunt the Art Historian, later revealed as a Soviet spy, who would accompany a group of young artists to look at masterpieces by Caravaggio and Bernini in the city 's churches, both under the natural cascade of sunlight and by candlelight. This experience of the melodrama of Baroque art has had a significant influence on Mason's practice.
The notion of excavation has stayed with Mason, apparent in the way his brooding works gradually make themselves known and coalesce into the hints of bodies or edges of natural forms. Often using transferred images as his foundation, Mason engages in a layering process with paper and paint, building up luscious marks of acrylic which are then scrubbed away with his fingertips, flagellating the impasto to dismantle and remake the work many times over. In the midst of this process, there is a sense of peeling back the deposits of material, exposing the residue of memories and reflections of the surrounding world that lie hidden. Through the relentless physicality of his practice, and its need for both time and effort, Mason has been left with hardly any fingerprints at all. Indebted to Robert Rauschenberg's array of post-war collages, Mason's layered works are imbued with the essential suffering of human existence. Being an artist is hard after all, Mason reminds us, a struggle formed by experience.
Emerging from the gloom, Mason's works are filled with the same flare for drama as the European masters of old – speaking to the majesty of Michelangelo and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the agony of Dante's Inferno, the nightmarish apparitions of Henry Fuseli and the violence of Francisco de Goya. The restless changes of light and colour, like the flickering candles of Roman churches, bring his tattered forms into view. Within this purgatory, Mason's images sing of the grand allegories of life and death, through all the crescendos and diminuendos of a tragic opera. Veiling and unveiling, Mason's works seem to play the roles of a masquerade, like a performance of the Italian Commedia dell'arte.
From Italy, Mason travelled to America to teach at the University of Florida before returning to England in 1971, where he settled in Shoreditch – exchanging the antiquities of Rome for the detritus of the East End. Mason's work plunged back into the shadow of nostalgia, but embraced a greater sense of gesture and a more vivid palette. The birth of his own children prompted a series of poignant mother and child works in the late 1980s, filled with a new hope, whilst referencing the Baroque visions of the Pieta. Through the symphony of his oeuvre, Mason oscillates between the revelations of his interior world and the return to secrecy and concealment, as if treading carefully out into the light and retreating once again.
From his studio in East London, Mason made a series of still life works based on bird carcasses purchased from the local market, reminiscent of the palpable flesh of Chaïm Soutine's hanging meat paintings. Using these bodies for his artwork, Mason then plucked and roasted his subjects, consuming their remains in a full cycle of creative life. Mason recalls how he once joined the painter Michael Andrews on a stag shoot in Scotland, but the pitiable remains of the dead animal disgusted him. As Mason explains, he was just too close to death to take any pleasure in a first kill. Mason's series based upon the myth of Actaeon, transformed into a deer and torn apart by ravenous dogs, captures something of this gruesome experience.
Mason's work moves in cycles, often taking its starting point from an arrangement of objects like a memento mori, pulsating with the inescapable transience of life. These cabinets of curiosities pay homage to Joseph Cornell's assemblages, amassed from the antique shops and dime stores of Manhattan, and even Henry Moore's scattered collections of driftwood, shells and shards of bone. In one of his most recent series, Clear Point, Mason has turned to an array of encrusted oyster shells from the Essex coastline for inspiration, delving into their rich tactile surface and gleaming veneer.
Perhaps Mason's most important body of work to date is the Broadgate series (1989-1990), inspired by the Liverpool Street building development. Originally asked to create a single painting, Broadgate came to dominate an entire year of Mason's life, during which he produced one hundred and fifty pictures, and a group of elaborate triptychs of the construction. Fascinated by the renovation of the area, in a flurry of noise and destruction, Mason was also moved by the struggle of the workers – recalling his father's profession as a lorry driver. Delving into the labyrinth of dark tunnels, Mason's spectral images of the labourers, their bodies stooped and backs arched, were now based upon living people rather than the ghosts of his past. These images looked back almost inevitably to Henry Moore's accounts of the wartime shelters of London's underground. Far from simply a documentary enterprise, Mason uncovered the deeper resonances of architecture through the Broadgate series: its ability to overwhelm and subdue. Structures of buildings and the hunched forms of workers are treated in the same way – their outlines mottled and decayed, coarse and textured, as if to encapsulate the demolition and revival of life. In 2006 Mason also spent time in Indonesia; producing work based on the rapid urban development of Jakarta called the Grand Indonesia series. In contrast to Broadgate, however, Mason was this time an observer, removed from the labour, the dust and the dirt.
Dowsed in myriad mythological and literary references, the intimate format of Mason's work encourages the viewer to breathe deeply and plunge into a tremendous swell of emotion, compressed into the smallest of scales. Mason immerses the viewer in this space, an arena of shifting emotions that both nourishes and consumes. Stripped of all we know of Mason's personal mythology and resisting the urge to fetishize his tragic past, these works are not simply cathartic exercises. Their heady mix of renewal, violence and melancholia makes the breath catch in our throats, forcing us to feel something that perhaps we never thought possible.
June 21, 2019 October 24, 2019 Categories: Musings
Vija Celmins | Reaching for The Stars
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I came across this article doing a mini research on Bob Mason. It was lovely to read this article about Bob. He was an old friend of my parents, I luckily have a couple of pieces of his work, including a broadgate.


These Honey Chicken Kabobs from allrecipes.com sounded fairly easy to make and I was looking forward to trying our indoor grill for the first time. OK First mistake: cutting the onions and peppers a little larger than the meat. I ended up having to take the kabobs apart in order for the chicken and meat to actually touch the grill! Then, once everything was cooked I put the kabobs back together 🙂 Oh well, I learned for next time!
Overall- fairly easy recipe to make, very filling and goes great with mashed potatoes!


Distance from airport Adolfo Suárez?
Depending on time of day I would allow at least three hours. We drove to Madrid airport in early morning and encountered heavy traffic approaching Madrid since it was a workday. It took about 3 hours and 20 minutes more or less.
The Hotel and the town are well worth a visit. We were driving through so chose it as an overnight stop off to break a long car trip. It would probably be about 90 minutes to tow hour drive from Madrid.


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Development of a short version of the sense of coherence scale for population survey
Taisuke Togari1,
Yoshihiko Yamazaki2,
Kazuhiro Nakayama3,
Junichi Shimizu4
Department of Health Sociology, Division of Health Science & Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Department of Health Sociology, Division of Health Science, Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
St Luke's College of Nursing, Tokyo, Japan
Division of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Mr T Togari, Department of Health Sociology, Division of Health Science, Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; ttogari-tky{at}umin.ac.jp
A three-item sense of coherence (SOC) scale was developed, incorporating the definitions of the three subordinate concepts of SOC for use in population surveys. A cross-sectional internet survey was conducted in the latter part of July 2006. Cronbach's α was 0.84. The correlation coefficient of SOC-13 and the newly devised University of Tokyo Health Sociology version of the SOC Scale (SOC-3-UTHS) was 0.51. As regards correlation with a health index, SOC-3-UTHS had a significant association, although this association was somewhat weaker than that of SOC-13. Therefore, certain levels of convergent and concurrent validities of SOC-3-UTHS have been indicated.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2006.056697
Competing interests: None declared.
BASOC
Brief Assessment of Sense of Coherence
sense of coherence
2007 the BMJ Publishing Group
Carlos Alvarez-Dardet John R Ashton
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007; 61 841-841 Published Online First: 14 Sep 2007.


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BULLS at HEAT | NBA FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | December 20, 2022
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The Chicago Bulls defeated the Miami Heat, 113-103. Nikola Vucevic recorded 29 points (13-17 FG) and 12 rebounds for the Bulls, while DeMar DeRozan added 24 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in the victory. Bam Adebayo tallied 27 points (12-15 FG), 12 rebounds and 6 assists for the Heat. The Bulls improve to 12-18, while the Heat fall to 16-16.
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Dave Allen faces the biggest night of his career when he takes on former WBA World Champion Lucas Browne on a huge evening of Heavyweight action at The O2 in London on April 20, shown live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN in the US, that sees Finchley bad boy Derek Chisora return to the ring against Senad Gashi after his FOTY contender with Dillian Whyte in December.
'White Rhino' is in the form of his life after notching up successive stoppage wins over Nick Webb, Samir Nebo and Ariel Esteban Bracamonte in the second half of 2018. The Doncaster fans' favourite rich vein of form began with a "life-changing" fourth round knockout win against Webb at The O2 in July and he hopes to make it three KO's from three fights at the Greenwich venue next month.
Former World title challenger Chisora came sensationally close to beating Whyte in December. Going into the eleventh round of an exhilarating and brutal fight, Chisora was ahead on two of the judges' scorecards only to be caught by a devastating left hook.
Having recently teamed up with highly-respected trainer Dave Coldwell, Chisora is feeling refreshed, revitalised and ready to take on any challenges in 2019.
"Six weeks 'til I go back to WAR and boy I can't wait!" said Chisora. "On Saturday 20th April I will be stepping into the ring at The O2 with fire in my soul, I have a point to prove and mission to continue!
"Parker b*tched out, he must have taken too many laxatives and sh*t himself. He wasn't ready for the battle, he reckons he needed more time. Gashi has shown he is a true fighter, he is always ready to go to war when called. He showed this in December when he stepped in the ring with Takam on just one week's notice and gave him a real fight. I'm not stupid, I know with six weeks' notice in April Gashi will be a different animal.
"He is a wild horse, a loose cannon, he is coming to win but trust me, he won't hear the final bell. I'm ready, we've stepped things up a gear working hard with Dave Coldwell. April 20th WAR Chisora will be back in London to show the Heavyweight division exactly why retirement wasn't an option."
"I'm excited to be back at The O2 for this big Heavyweight double-header," said Eddie Hearn. "Dave Allen has become a cult hero over the last year but this time he is in deep against former WBA World Champion Lucas Browne. Browne, who lost to Dillian Whyte at the same venue just under a year ago, has bounced back with three wins since and is looking for a shot at one of the big boys. For Dave, this is a dream chance to catapult himself into the big time in a vibrant Heavyweight market.
David Haye of Hayemaker Promotions said: "On Saturday 20th April Hayemaker Promotions are excited to be back at The O2, the home of British Boxing. Once again working in partnership with Matchroom Boxing, we are looking forward to bringing fight fans an electric night of boxing with showreel knockout endings!


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Q: Seaborn boxplot horizontal line annotation I'm wanting to add a horizontal line i.e. a 'target' line to some plots: stripplots, boxplots, and violin plots, to show ideal values data (or ideally a range).
This R example (Add multiple horizontal lines in a boxplot) - the first image - is basically it (although i'd do some formatting to make presentable).
R abline() equivalent in Python doesn't help me (or I havent figured out how) as I'm using categorical data, so I just want to essentially define (e.g.) y=3 and plot this.
My code (below) works fine, I just don't know how to add a line.
fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=4,figsize=(20,20))

sns.violinplot(x="Wafer", y="Means", hue='Feature',
           data=Means[Means.Target == 1], ax=ax[0])
sns.violinplot(x="Wafer", y="Means", hue='Feature',
           data=Means[Means.Target == 3], ax=ax[1])
sns.boxplot(x="Feature", y="Means",
        data=Means, linewidth=0.8, ax=ax[2])
sns.stripplot(x="Feature", y="Means", hue='Wafer',
          data=Means, palette="plasma", jitter=0.1, size=5.5, ax=ax[3])

Any help greatly appreciated.

A: Let's say you wan't to plot a horizontal line at height y and from x1 to x2 where x1 and x2 are your actual x-data values. The following are just three out of possibly several ways you can do that:
First:
ax.hlines(y, x1, x2)

Second:
plt.plot([x1, x2], [y, y])

Third (x1 and x2 now in relative/fractional coordinates between 0 meaning far left and 1 meaning far right):
ax.axhline(y, x1, x2)

A: If you want to define a good or bad area I general find placing a patch behind the data to be easier for the user to interpret.
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4, 4))
ax.plot([1,2,3,4], [1,2,3,4], color='blue')  # simple example line

# define patch area
rect = patches.Rectangle(
    xy=(ax.get_xlim()[0], 2),  # lower left corner of box: beginning of x-axis range & y coord)
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For karate, these two training tools can in my view provide a very direct functional transfer effect. The rope is great for learning how to move and coordinate the legs, maintain efficiency when travelling and increase footwork skill. The Bulgarian Bag can be used in so many ways, but even the most fundamental exercises, such as the spins or snatches, challenge the whole kinetic power chain from the floor to the hands. In terms of power generation and koshi (core) development, gaining a deeper understanding of how to integrate the kinetic chain and maximise it's potential is key. In addition to all of this, these tools require you to perform accurately even when tired (another important skill) and always provide me with a tough, but enjoyable workout.
So here's the workout - if you happen to try it out then let me know what you think. I suppose you can substitute the equipment and alter the exercises to suit, but then it would be an entirely different workout...hey ho!
The workout is based on four Tabata intervals. These require you to work for 20 seconds at high intensity followed by 10 seconds rest (apart from the last interval, which doubles up the rounds). This is to be completed a total of 8 times for each Tabata interval. You'll need a stop watch, clock or ideally an interval timer set to guide you through a full workout. You can now even grab some dedicated Tabata training songs direct from iTunes or YouTube that fix both the timing and music problem all in one go!
Spend five minutes or so completing a quick mobility routine to warm up and get the juices flowing!
1st Tabata: Skipping Rope (single or double under's) - work on building speed as the interval progresses.
2nd Tabata: Bulgarian Bag Spins - a real core blaster! Alternate directions between rounds.
3rd Tabata: Full Burpees inc. push up - The ultimate exercise! Aim to complete as many reps as possible for a real challenge.
4th Tabata: Skipping Rope - This time work through alternate rest periods to complete four longer rounds of 50 seconds each with the remaining 10 second rest period in between. You can really mix up the footwork here to provide a final challenge at the end!
A quick warm down and stretch then you're done!
Like I said, nothing fancy but a great time efficient workout nonetheless - have fun!
That's very impressive. After one set (8 rounds) of Tabata at full intensity, I'm completely spent. There's no way I could do another set, let alone three more.


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From 17 May to 14 June, forces of the North Atlantic Alliance executed the Noble Jump 17 army drill in Cincu, Romania. The exercise was attended by 4000 soldiers and designed to test the readiness of the NATO Response Force (NRF). United Kingdom, United States, Romania, the Netherlands, Albania, Spain and Norway sent their troops.
The main goal of the exercise was to test rapid transport of units to their destination, which is supposed to take several hours, as well as the transportation of equipment within two to three days. The NRF was created as NATO's response to the Russian annexation of Crimea, and is currently serving as a reaction to Russian activities on the eastern border of the Alliance. In June, extensive exercises took place at the borders of Poland and Lithuania, and the new NATO multinational battlegroup began operating in Latvia. The Noble Jump exercise takes place every year, in 2016 it took place in Poland. Organizing military exercises in Central and Eastern Europe also helps uncover major logistics and transportation issues, which are the most critical to NATO's defence.


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5 cocktails named after celebrities
Did you know that there are cocktails named after celebrities? If you have time, you can prepare these cocktails at home by following the recipes.
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Cocktails named after celebrities
Have a look at these recipes named after celebrities, to make at home or maybe enjoy at your favorite bar by your favorite bartender!
The Charlie Chaplin
One of the most famous cocktails named after celebrities. This cocktail was created at the famous Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, at the time when the artist was very famous during the 1920s.
It is a sweet, citric and fruity cocktail, prepared from a mixture of sloe gin, lime and apricot brandy.
The Marilyn Monroe
The charming American actress, singer and model captivated many. Marilyn loved to enjoy a glass of champagne and logically the drink named after her had to include this ingredient. The Marilyn Monroe cocktail combines apple brandy and grenadine. We finish with two cherries and we are ready to honor the beautiful Marilyn Monroe.
The Bill Murray
The actor has a cocktail named after him because he once set foot in The Anchor bar in New York. The bartender then created something special for him by creating the Bill Murray, a cocktail with bourbon, lemon juice, elderflower liqueur, fresh watermelon and basil. A very refreshing cocktail indeed.
The Ginger Rogers
We know the actress for winning an academy award for best actress for her role in the romantic drama Kitty Foyle. Her drink combines gin, fresh yellow lemon juice, ginger-pepper syrup, and mint leaves.
David Bowie, The Goblin King
Who doesn't love David Bowie? The cocktail named after him is as experimental as the British singer, actor and songwriter was, although it's not the only cocktail, this one in particular is inspired by his role in the 1980s classic Labyrinth. The Goblin King is a cocktail made with black vodka and smooth vermouth.
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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Lexical dispersion and corpus design
Author(s): Jesse Egbert1, Brent Burch2, Douglas Biber3
Affiliations: 1 Northern Arizona University 2 Northern Arizona University 3 Northern Arizona University
Source: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Volume 25, Issue 1, Apr 2020, p. 89 - 115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.18010.egb
Version of Record published : 16 Apr 2020
Lexical dispersion is typically measured across arbitrary corpus parts of equal size. In this study, we apply DA – a new dispersion index designed for unequal-sized corpus parts – to the British National Corpus (BNC) in a series of cases studies to show that the dispersion of a word is strongly influenced by the corpus units or parts it is measured across. Our results show that dispersion should be measured and interpreted based on corpus units that are linguistically meaningful for a particular research goal. We conclude with recommendations to help researchers select meaningful corpus units for measuring and interpreting lexical dispersion.
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Q: Rundeck with Ansible - execute locally or dispatch to nodes? Looking for any considerations on how to run an Ansible playbook from Rundeck, where there are around 100 nodes, and I have Ansible configured to use 100 forks. It seems like there are two main choices, with both having some advantages:

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*Execute locally. Use either the Ansible playbook node step or workflow step. Target nodes using the --limit Ansible option. Creates a tidy Ansible log with all nodes grouped together under each step.

*Dispatch to nodes. Use the Ansible playbook node step. This allows easy filtering of the targeted nodes using Rundeck tags. Viewing execution in Rundeck should be tidy because the logs can be grouped by node, but the Ansible logs will be a bit of a mess with overlapping executions.

Is there anything else worth considering, such as a difference in performance? Any sort of best practice / more common implementation?
thanks,
chris

A: We use a mix of...

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*"Execute locally" (i.e. run playbooks via command/script module), and

*"Dispatch to Nodes" (i.e. anytime we use ansible-plugin for Rundeck).

I've found the output and organization of the ansible-plugin to be great, however there are some limitations we've run into and those were reverted to "Execute locally" option:

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*Anywhere we use serial: 1 parameter to perform rolling restarts of services. Because the ansible-plugin is basically using 1 thread per target host, and running each with --limit option, it's impossible to actually serialize Ansible plays.

*Anywhere the execution order matters. For example, we have a few playbooks where we need the first task to complete on a group of hosts before the second task starts on a different group of hosts. Similar to the above issue, this is impossible (as best I'm aware) while using the ansible-plugin.
We did find a workaround for the second issue, which was to assign each task an Ansible flag, and split the job into multiple Rundeck steps - then run the same playbook in each step but with different tags. Works, but a bit of a hassle.
Hope this helps!

A: I'll put this on the table first, I'm not a rundeck expert.
However, from context it sounds like you're trying to dispatch a play per node?
Let's look at an example

Given the below inventory file...
[all]
[all:children]
web
db

[web]
web01
web02
web03
[db]
db01
db02

And the below deploy.yml
- hosts: all
  forks: 5
  roles:
    - common
- hosts: web
  roles:
    - web
- hosts: db
  roles:
    - db

I can configure my infrastructure in a declariative manor, all through my deploy.yml - there is no other logic needed to understand what is being deployed where.

While it's possible that at some point, my forks will be restricted by the number of available threads, there is no additional logic needed to deploy entire stack.
Trying to chop up this playbook for parallelism and independent execution across many nodes is arguably misguided. You have to put logic for what is running where, and limits on who is executing what in order to really see efficiencies. That overhead just isn't worth it. Keep your logic in ansible, and follow the KISS method :).
PS - check out AWX. Has some benefits with node execution groups.


I notice copyFromLocal exists in commandlineparser.py but not in client.py. Is it not implemented yet?
Yes that shouldn't be there.. Put was commented out, but I forgot copyFromLocal. I'll submit a patch this week, because this is confusing.
So, this means that copyFromLocal/put is not implemented? Do we use 'hadoop fs -copyFromLocal' instead?
What is the timeline for this 'put'/'copyFromLocal' feature?
Sorry for the late reply, but we haven't prioritized this. Would be nice to have (just like full YARN support).
I want to use snakebite to replace a several slow steps in our deployment automation, unfortunately we use copyFromlocal a lot. So this is definitely a must have feature for a lot of people.
Thanks for an excellent and straightforward client -- just throwing in a makeshift vote for the ability to use put/copyFromLocal to speed up a few data ingress scripts.
Great work, keep it up. Would also like to see put/copyfromlocal in the future.
Still no word on this?
If communicating through protobuf makes it hard to implement features that require direct access to datanodes (such as the put and append operations), it would be wise to have a look at WebHDFS. Using WebHDFS in Snakebite, instead of Protobuf would make it trivial to implement copyFromLocal/put, and other file write operations.
I think it's a shame that such a promising project gets stuck on something that is really needed, like copyFromLocal.
@ravwojdyla and I have been discussing this and currently there doesn't seem to be much time to implement this, so it's very hard to give any ETA on this feature.
I don't think we want to add WebHDFS support, since that sort of defeats the purpose of snakebite and requires additional infrastructure.
I agree with @wouterdebie webhdfs wouldn't have the speed of snakebite. I'm working on implementing put in RPC at the moment, if anyone has any thoughts or progress they can share to accelerate it would be great to work together.
Where can I find the RPC documentation?
Has there been progress toward implementing put? I was going to take a crack at it for a project I'm working on, and was considering contributing it upstream, but don't want to duplicate effort if someone already has a handle on this.
I'm pretty sure it has not, maybe @ravwojdyla can confirm.
I have started working on this feature some time ago - can probably upload what I have right now (it's far from complete). That said if anyone feels like working on this problem please create issues you plan to work on, and if you need help - please ping me/us. Thanks!
@ravwojdyla I'd love to help, I started to do it but the problem that ended up blocking me was that I couldn't find documentation on what RPCs I should even call to do something like an append, and the ones I tried didn't return what they claimed in the auto-generated protobuf spec... I might be able to help with this effort if you could point me to good documentation about the protocol, but I was unable to find any in sufficient detail.
is there any ETA on when will copyFromLocal/put support would be present?
@ravwojdyla - is there a separate branch for that issue? Did you have a chance to push what you had already done? Thanks!
An alternative that is relatively snappy is to use httpfs, it is a service that provide an http interface to hdfs. We actually ended up writing our own REST API in groovy to access hdfs and the hbase shell (which has no API).
Because it was never implemented.
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I planned to implement a storage service for big files using snakebite because I really like its implementation. Sadly it didn't support saving file.
This was opened 3 years ago and still not implemented...wtf?
I am using snakebite from yesterday.
If this feature is truly critical to you, I'd suggest checking out hdfs3, it's BSD licensed and implements this capability. Also supports python 3.
libhdfs3 is so hard to config on MacOSX 😓 I use webhdfs write data.
going to help getting this implemented.
spare time or companies invest in getting software out there.
Is that really all there is to it? I suggested WebHDFS before, which is just a REST API, so it doesn't have anything to do with JVM startup times, but it does give you a much easier path to implementing features than the undocumented Protobuf interface.
I was told back then, that using WebHDFS "defeats the purpose of Snakebite", but now I don't see how, if the purpose is to circumvent the JVM startup times that using hdfs dfs incurs. WebHDFS eliminates the JVM overhead just as well as Protobuf does.
It seems that webhdfs is 4x slower.
Furthermore if we were using WebHDFS, theres no need to read Hadoop code and port it to python.
I will implement the feature!
Still not implemented yet ?


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Сент-Ла́ндри () или Сен-Ландри́ () — приход штата Луизиана, США. Официально образован в 1807 году. По состоянию на 2010 год, численность населения составляла 83 384 человека.

География
По данным Бюро переписи США, общая площадь прихода равняется 2 432,012 км2, из которых 2 393,162 км2 — суша, и 38,850 км2, или 1,600 %, — это водоемы.

Соседние округа

Население

По данным переписи населения 2000 года на территории прихода проживает 87 700 жителей в составе 32 328 домашних хозяйств и 23 211 семей. Плотность населения составляет 36,00 человек на км2. На территории прихода насчитывается 36 216 жилых строений, при плотности застройки около 15,00-ти строений на км2. Расовый состав населения: белые — 56,51 %, афроамериканцы — 42,13 %, коренные американцы (индейцы) — 0,14 %, азиаты — 0,20 %, гавайцы — 0,01 %, представители других рас — 0,31 %, представители двух или более рас — 0,70 %. Испаноязычные составляли 0,91 % населения независимо от расы.

В составе 36,10 % из общего числа домашних хозяйств проживают дети в возрасте до 18 лет, 49,30 % домашних хозяйств представляют собой супружеские пары, проживающие вместе, 17,90 % домашних хозяйств представляют собой одиноких женщин без супруга, 28,20 % домашних хозяйств не имеют отношения к семьям, 25,40 % домашних хозяйств состоят из одного человека, 11,40 % домашних хозяйств состоят из престарелых (65 лет и старше), проживающих в одиночестве. Средний размер домашнего хозяйства составляет 2,67 человека, и средний размер семьи 3,21 человека.

Возрастной состав прихода: 29,50 % — моложе 18 лет, 9,20 % — от 18 до 24, 26,50 % — от 25 до 44, 21,40 % — от 45 до 64, и 21,40 % — от 65 и старше. Средний возраст жителя прихода — 35 лет. На каждые 100 женщин приходится 91,60 мужчин. На каждые 100 женщин старше 18 лет приходится 86,80 мужчин.

Средний доход на домохозяйство прихода составлял 22 855 USD, на семью — 28 908 USD. Среднестатистический заработок мужчины был 29 458 USD против 18 473 USD для женщины. Доход на душу населения составлял 12 042 USD. Около 24,70 % семей и 29,30 % общего населения находились ниже черты бедности, в том числе — 37,70 % молодежи (тех, кому ещё не исполнилось 18 лет) и 27,50 % тех, кому было уже больше 65 лет.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Национальная ассоциация округов США

Приходы Луизианы

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MC Charmaine Davis hosts a late night show with Marcel Lucont, Matt Price, and Maureen Younger.
Come and test your comedy skills in front of a supportive crowd! First preference will be given to those who attend our Comedy Workshop on November 4th.
Join us as MC Charmaine Davis introduces comedians Dave Thompson, Matt Price and Maureen Younger. Prepare yourself as these 4 comedians take the stage and provide over two hours of good fun.
There's no curfew for this event. Join us for a memorable late night show with MC Geoff Whiting, Daliso Chaponda, Jason Patterson, and Ryan McDonnell.
Comedians Tamar Broadbent, Simon Feilder, Marcel Lucont and MC Geoff Whiting will provide a Sunday's worth of fun and laughter in this show.
MC Charmaine Davis will host professional comedians Nathan Caton, Gareth Berliner, and Carly Smallman. These comedians style and range will have you laughing no matter what type of comedy you prefer.
Join us as MC Charmaine Davis introduces comedians Christian Schulte-Loh, Mark Palmer, and Aideen McQueen. This dynamic group of comedians promises to keep you laughing as they discuss their views, share their experiences, and drop the occasional one-liner.
MC Geoff Whiting will set the stage for Zoe Lyons solo special - Zoe takes a sideways view of life, picking out the many absurdities and turning them into hilarious routines which she delivers with tremendous energy.
Think you have what it takes to become a comedian? Have you always wanted to learn more about comedy in its most authentic platform? Join us for our PRAHAha Comedy Workshop! Led by professional comedian Christian Schulte-Loh.
7 professional comedians take the stage for a 2 hour international special. All of the performers speak English as a second language and have a hilarious view that native speakers often are oblivious to.
This Open Mic will be conducted in English, overseen by professional comedian John Gordillo. Preference will be given to those who participated in the Comedy Workshop on Friday, November 9th!
The name of the show may or may not have anything to do with the actual performances... Regardless, this show promises to be a good time. MC Charmaine Davis will bring comedians John Gordillo, David Tsonos, and Naomi Hefter to stage and let them do what they do best - perform stand-up!
Late night performances by Mark Maier, Joseph Wilson, and Matthew Bayliss, with MC Geoff Whiting hosting. Get ready for political incorrectness, general tomfoolery, and all around good times with this late night special.
MC Geoff Whiting will present comedians Yianni, Tom Toal, and Becky Brunning as they take the stage and provide an hour and a half of laughs and good times.
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MC Charmaine Davis will set the stage for Yianni, Tom Toal, and Becky Brunning. This is the trio's second stand-up show together, but don't worry, it's completely new material and promises to keep you laughing.
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Marie Anna Hesensko-Homburská (13. října 1785 – 14. dubna 1846) byla německou šlechtičnou a v letech 1810 až 1840 první dámou Pruska.

Život
Marie Anna se narodila jako dcera Fridricha V. Hesensko-Homburského a Karolíny Hesensko-Darmstadtské, takže byla vnučkou Karolíny Falcko-Zweibrückenské, známé jako "Velká lankraběnka". Marie Anna patřila do protinapoleonské skupiny okolo královny Luisy a v roce 1806 podporovala válku proti Francii. Během francouzské okupace následovala královský dvůr v útěku. Po smrti královny Luisy v roce 1810 působila při oficiálních příležitostech jako první dáma. V březnu 1813 prohlásila slavnou "Výzvu královské princezny ženám pruského státu" a založila vlastenecké dámské sdružení "Vaterländischen Frauenverein". Dopisovala si s Heinrichem Friedrichem Karlem vom und zum Stein, Karlem Augustem von Hardenberg a bratry Humboldtovými, a byla známá básníka Friedricha de la Motte Fouqué. V roce 1822 se zamilovala do hraběte Antona Stolbersko-Wernigerodského, který se později stal pruským ministrem zahraničí. Působila ve vězeňské péči Berliner Gefängnisinsassen a založila sirotčinec v Pankow v Berlíně.

Manželství a potomci
V roce 1804 se provdala za svého bratrance Viléma Pruského, se kterým měla několik dětí:

 1. Amálie Frederika Luisa Karolína Vilemína Pruská (4. 7. 1805 Berlín – 23. 11. 1806 Gdaňsk)
 2. Irena Pruská (3. 11. 1806 Gdaňsk – 14. 11. 1806 tamtéž)
 3. syn (*/† 30. 8. 1809 Königsberg)
 4. Fridrich Tassilo Vilém Pruský (29. 10. 1811 Berlín – 9. 1. 1813 tamtéž)
 5. Jindřich Vilém Vojtěch Pruský (29. 10. 1811 Berlín – 6. 6. 1873 Karlovy Vary), admirál pruského námořnictva
 ⚭ 1850 Therese Elsslerová (5. 4. 1808 Vídeň – 19. 11. 1878 Merano), baletka, sestra Fanny Elsslerové
 6. Fridrich Vilém Tassilo Pruský (15. 11. 1813 – 9. 1.1814)
 7. Marie Alžběta Karolína Viktorie Pruská (18. 6. 1815 Berlín – 21. 3. 1885 Darmstadt)
 ⚭ 1836 Karel Hesenský (23. 4. 1809 Darmstadt – 20. 3. 1877 tamtéž)
 8. Fridrich Vilém Valdemar Pruský (2. 8. 1817 Berlín – 17. 2. 1849 Münster), generálmajor pruské armády, svobodný a bezdětný
 9. Marie Frederika Františka Hedvika Pruská (15. 10. 1825 Berlín – 17. 5. 1889 Hohenschwangau)
 ⚭ 1842 Maxmilián II. Bavorský (28. 11. 1811 Mnichov – 10. 3. 1864 tamtéž), bavorský král od roku 1848 až do své smrti

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Hello everyone, welcome. I am pleased to say that of late I have been finding time to work on the fiction that will eventually become a novel (and then more, hopefully) and whilst I am not prepared to talk about contents prior to release, something did occur to me that I wanted to share. Over my many years of learning the craft of writing I have watched writing help guides, read books and blogs and built a knowledge base with which to approach the craft. I have encountered many theories on what you should/should not do and how you should/should not start. I am going to be examining two perspectives on how to start. In this case, to plan or not to plan (and then I am going to put my spin on it).
I have written about planning in relation to roleplay games, as it is an area of interest to me and you can read that particular article HERE. In that post I talk about plotting what has gone on before, and then letting a game grow organically. This was referred to as being a Gardner Writer in a George RR Martin Interview I watched on Sky Atlantic, years ago (right before the first episode of Game of Thrones). The Gardner plants seeds, the before plot, and sees what flowers grow. The other type of writer referred to in that documentary was the architect, the writer who plans the entire house right down to the plumbing before starting building. When I started writing I was certainly closer to Architect than Gardner, though the problem with that was I spent so long working on background I never actually got started. I then encountered a statement, that I believe was from Stepen King (though I cannot recall the source so I won't swear it to you) that stated that planning to that (or similar extent) was the actions of a dullard. I was a bit put out by this, for about five minutes, then I remembered that just because something works for another doesn't mean it will work for you. And even successful people aren't right all the time.
So I carried on planning stuff and that is what I have been doing lately, using the Software Scrivener. I tend to keep a writing journal document in the main scrivener file where I write all my ideas down (which is part of my write every day doctrine which you can read about HERE) and then I use the Cork Board to create a folder where I affix notes of events according to the ideas written in my journal.
In the image, on the right is my ideas jornal, far left is the ring binder with all of the contents (including notecards for individual events) and left of the journal but right of the binder is one empty note card. That is the standard screen I work on. So far, this is only brainstorming and slightly more technologically sophisticated brainstorming at that. Brainstorm your ideas and then organise them. And, with scrivener, you can move the note cards around easily, so if you want to rearrange the order that is easy.
In the process of making note cards with a title describing an event in the timeline, I started adding paragraphs of information to describe what I wanted to happen, and what impact I was trying to achieve. And some would argue that this is over-planning. I am going to argue something that I have not encountered yet in my learning of the craft. This collection of detailed notes, in chronological order isn't a plan anymore. It constitutes the first draft.
I am imagining some people shaking their heads and saying things like "No. Just, no." at that thought. Go with me. First drafts rarely, if ever, resemble finished drafts. They are simply meant to be about getting ideas on the page in one form or another, arranged in the order you want them to appear. As a standard rule of thumb, you shouldn't edit as you write as the two processes us different parts of your brain, so the first draft won't be perfect prose anyway. What difference does it make if it is simply a couple of haphazard paragraphs per chapter describing what is going on.
I'm with you so far, so what?
If you are thinking so what, that is a fair question. I can suggest a couple of advantages to this method.
First is the psychological advantage. A first draft seems less daunting if it is not a 90000 word manuscript. And you don't have the same sort of pressure on you if you are simply adding ideas to the pot and arranging them. We get a bit panic-stricken when we look at an empty page thinking that it needs 90000 words to fill it. But if you can build your first draft a couple of hundred words, that don't need to be perfect, at a time then the fear is gone.
Second, once you have what you think is your complete first draft, it will be much quicker to read through multiple times to see if events need foreshadowing hints, or preceding events to set them up/add impact. Imagine reading through 300 pages and realising you need to add a chapter. Then reading them again and realising you need another… Now imagine it is 15 pages of notes instead.
Third, your second draft, which probably is when you really get down to it and start writing prose, has a road map now. You just need to read your first draft of a chapter, think of it as a synopsis and start writing what you think achieves the goals best.
And finally, once you have laboured through many drafts, you can use your initial notes (the ones that are still relevant) to make a sort of editorial checklist. You can write down all the things you were trying to achieve and as you, or even beta readers, read the manuscript you can check off what you managed to do and what is still missing.
What are your thoughts on this? Does it sound useful to you? Do you have any suggestions? I'd love to hear them!


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After Delayed Launch, Helicopter Service Departs Tonga For Samoa
Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i
Rescue, tourism flights would take too long to be certified in Tonga
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (Matangi Tonga, March 15, 2016) – A rescue and tourism helicopter service offered to Tonga by Rodger McCutcheon, a New Zealand pilot, has moved to Samoa after Tonga delayed the start of the service earlier this year.
In a statement, Mr McCutcheon said he was looking forward to being a valued member of the Samoan community.
"I am delighted to have made the decision to move the helicopter to Samoa from Tonga, where we were told we could not fly for at least three to four months because Tonga has higher aviation safety standards," he said.
Tonga's aviation has been criticized in the past concerning the MA-60 aircrafts from China used for domestic services, which were deemed as having low safety standards.
As a result, Tonga's Civil Aviation Act 2014 was enforced last year to be in line and in compliance with New Zealand's Civil Aviation Rules.
Samoa's Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Luesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi welcomed the new helicopter service which will provide medical evacuation and search and rescue operations.
"When it comes to private investments where lives will be saved than government must take decisive action," said Tuilaepa. "It is utter nonsense and ridiculous for any government to discard a service of this nature."
"You have the government's blessing and support. And I urge you to proceed with full speed," he told McCutcheon.
According to McCutcheon, two highly regarded Eurocopter AS350 helicopters, made by Airbus, will be used in Samoa and were chosen for safety, reliability, passenger comfort and versatility.
"It can perform rescue and medical emergency work, and also a very comfortable tourist and VIP transport helicopter with great views from any of the five passenger seats, it has 3.5 hours endurance," he said.
Samoa's Simple Solutions Aviation Consultant, David Tohi, said "The investor's safety record and quality of presentation and maintenance meets the very highest standards, and they are bringing this standard to Samoa in the hope of making a successful valuable contribution to Samoa's transport and tourism infrastructure."
How Samoa's Freedom Was Won
AMMUNITION STOLEN FROM PNG MILITARY BASE
TINIAN'S NORTH FIELD TURNS INTO TENT CITY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS


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by Matthew Maule
@matteo_maule
The Satanic Idolatry of Abortion
"Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That is why it uses the same holy words, 'This is my body,' with the blasphemously opposite meaning." – Peter Kreeft
The self-centered argument of "my body, my rights" in support of abortion comes to us directly from the original lie that deceived the human race and subjected us to sin and death – "ye shall be as gods." The assertion of the supremacy of self is its own form of idolatry and remains the ultimate cause of human war and the suffering seen in the slaughter of uncounted millions of innocents throughout human history. Planned Parenthood has not only sided with the great Enemy of the human race, but profits well from that treachery and forces the rest of us to be complicit in its government subsidized genocide. In joyfully leading the slaughter of millions of innocents, Planned Parenthood assists as the priesthood of the satanic religion of self-worship.
There was once a pharaoh of Egypt who, determined to preserve his power and status against any potential threat, commanded the murder of every male Jewish baby. These babies might have posed a threat to his independence and power; they had to be sacrificed on the altar of self. Years later, King Herod did the same to the innocents in Bethlehem in an effort to kill God himself.
When the people of God entered into the land of Canaan, they found a land defiled everywhere with the blood of innocents sacrificed to ward off drought and famine for the benefit of their parents. The Ammonite god Moloch – "the king" – worshiped by both the Canaanites and the Phoenicians was propitiated by the offering of a live baby onto the outstretched arms of a red-hot idol. Drums were used to drown out the infant's screams. The Moabite god Chemosh offered military victory in exchange for child sacrifice; this promised seduced even Solomon. The Canaanite god Baal offered both human and agricultural fertility in exchange for human sacrifice. Carthage preserved this institutionalized child sacrifice until it was destroyed by the Romans. The Qur'an notes that the pre-Islamic Arabians offered child sacrifice to idols, and archaeology shows us child sacrifice was also commonplace in the pre-European civilizations of the Americas.
The ancient Greeks and Romans, too cultured and well-educated to engage in child sacrifice, instead offered up unwanted babies on the altar of convenience. Illegitimate, deformed, or otherwise unwanted babies were left on the roadside to die. These babies were frequently rescued and raised by Rome's persecuted Christians.
With the rise of Christianity and Islam, child sacrifice and infanticide began to wane. Early Christian writings like the Didache and the Epistle of Barnabas as well as many of the early Fathers explicitly condemned infanticide. Christian emperors like Constantine and Valentinian passed laws against infanticide. The Qur'an also frequently condemns infanticide.
But the Enemy's false promise of "being as god" persisted. The rise of nominalism and the Enlightenment obsession with "the Rights of Man" worked together to put man on God's throne and create a moral system based on "Reason" alone. While the medieval and even the best ancient Greek philosophers understood Reason as a participation in the Divine order of the universe, Enlightenment thinkers soon reduced Reason to mere reasoning. Because the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked, this reasoning was certain to lead man astray.
In only the last century, the Nazi regime deliberately murdered about 1.5 million children (as well as millions of others) on the altar of ethnic and national purity. The children were Jewish, Romani, Polish, and Russian. Like the pagan Romans and Greeks, the Nazis also slaughtered the mentally and physically disabled. Resourceful, as well as inhuman, the Nazi's also sacrificed babies and children on the altar of scientific progress. Hundreds and thousands were subjected to barbaric and tortuous medical experiments by "doctors" such as the infamous Joseph Mengele who after the war fled to Argentina and worked as an abortionist, killing yet more babies. When the Japanese invaded China they brutally massacred thousands of children, specially targeting pregnant women.
But mankind's Enemy was not satisfied, nor had his deception lost its allure. In the early twentieth century Margaret Sanger, "racist eugenicist extraordinaire," began promoting widespread use of birth control and helped to found the International Committee on Planned Parenthood where she served as its first president. Sanger acknowledged the racist mission of her work, stating "we want to exterminate the Negro population." Today, organizations like Planned Parenthood help kill an average of 1,876 African American babies every day. Without abortion – African American women comprise only 13% of the population but have 36% of all abortions – there would be 16 million more African Americans alive today.
The Supreme Court furthered the Enemy's lie and the Enlightenment delusion when in 1965 in Griswold v. Connecticut it created a constitutionally-protected right to privacy. This right to privacy was extended in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision to include the right of a mother to kill her unborn child. Over 57 million babies have been killed since Roe, a number equivalent to 18% of the current U.S. population. Meanwhile, because of sex-selective abortions there are tens of millions of "missing" girls in India and China – missing because they were aborted or otherwise killed to facilitate their parents' desire for a son.
Despite the sordid nature of its history and the inherent repulsiveness of abortion itself, Planned Parenthood continues to receive more than $500 million of its $1.3 billion budget from federal and state governments – from American taxpayers. While Planned Parenthood may protest that that money does not go towards its abortion services, surely no one would be so silly as to believe that it could continue those services with nearly half its budget missing.
Not content with this public largess, however, Planned Parenthood has been selling the dismembered parts of its innocent victims for medical research. Using justification similar to the barbaric Nazi doctors who conducted medical experiments on their innocent victims, Planned Parenthood defended its sale of baby body parts for "scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, treatments and cures for serious diseases." Planned Parenthood's defense sounds eerily similar to Nazi doctor Julius Hallervorden's defense of his collection of brains taken from innocent Holocaust victims: "If you are going to kill all these people, at least take the brains out so that the material can be utilized." Like the Nazis, Planned Parenthood's defenders insist on dehumanizing their victims: "These are not 'baby parts.' Whether a woman has a miscarriage or an abortion, the tissue specimen is called 'products of conception….' Calling the tissue 'baby parts' is a calculated attempt to anthropomorphize an embryo or fetus."
The American abortion industry has sacrificed over 57 million people on the altars of racial purity, privacy, and convenience; it has done so with billions of dollars of governmental aid. The White House supports Planned Parenthood and parrots its talking points; the two current Democrat presidential candidates proudly support it as well. This blot on our civilizations is as dark as the race-based slavery that was enshrined in our nation's founding. For too long Americans have bought into the Enemy's lie and tried to live like gods. Instead of achieving divinity, we have debased ourselves and our civilization to the ancient depravities of child sacrifice and infanticide. God is the giver of life; in our idolatry we have not become like God but have rather returned ourselves to the dust.
Tagged with: abortion • Baal • Chemosh • Child Sacrifice • gendercide • Griswold v. Connecticut • infanticide • Margaret Sanger • Mengele • Moloch • Nazi • Planned Parenthood • Roe v. Wade
14 Responses to The Satanic Idolatry of Abortion
Jordan Sillars says:
Great article, Matthew.
Matthew Maule says:
Catherine Geever says:
Excellent command of the English language in making a vigorous exposure of the demonic CURSE on our nation, that abortion is. Very persuasive and well-done, Mr. Maule.
Pudentiana says:
Mr. Maule. You have truly put this in perspective. I only wish the American people could put aside their selfish and prejudiced claims of modernity to realize the ages long fight against inconvenient children who become useful articles to purchase our comforts and power.
Darrel Cox says:
Excellent, Mr. Maule!
Thanks Dr. Cox! How have you been>
Excellent article!!
Karl A. Hallstan says:
Wow! This sure is a lot of BS. Religion sure is brainwash.
Jan Pillsbury says:
This article was such a revelation to me. Starting from the very beginning explaining how child sacrifice began and how it slowly morphed into abortion shows clearly how evil continues to fool so many people. I wonder how the rampant satanic pedophilia we are learning about plays into all of this. I believe President Trump will help at least end the taxpayer funding of PP. Thank you for writing so clearly about this topic.
Glenda Clark says:
Amazing article! You have explained a very old process repeating itself in our day that I have just come to understand. The truth is ugly, but then it has the ability to bring freedom depending on what we do with it,
Andrea Patterson says:
The Devil is in the details: When this story went public did the women who had abortions at Planned Parenthood wonder why they were charged for the procedure?If baby body parts are so valuable (not the worthless fetus they've been told) shouldn't the mother be paid for her service rather than being charged?
Is all about the money they don't care who they kill in the process
Lance Paxman says:
Same ole little gods of old
Deceiving the people.
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Is Happiness the Enemy?
When Personal Offense Is Made Injustice – Part 3
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When arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance, one should form a defense and get their life in order. Otherwise, when doing the opposite, it's hard to live a happy and clean life. With this in mind, here are four steps to take when arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance.
Four Steps to Take
Get a bail bond: First and foremost, when arrested, it's important to get out of jail. Not only will a person not take care of his or her family, but they are likely to end up missing work and other obligations. When this happens, it's easy to lose a job or see grades in school drop. Luckily, with a well-trained and hardworking bondsman, one can get out of jail within a few hours, which will allow the arrested to defend his or her good name and reputation. Otherwise, when in jail, one will suffer greatly and end up making more problems in the future.
Find a decent lawyer: Next, when dealing with a controlled substance issue, one should deal with a good lawyer who can help them out. Think about it, if arrested for this crime, one can end up in prions for a long time. However, when hiring a decent and dedicated lawyer, one can fix their issues and move on with life. Remember, when charged with a drug crime, it's easy to end up behind bars, especially without a good lawyer. In fact, if one looks to the American prison system, they can see why this is the case as plenty of people are behind bars for drug crimes.
Clean up the act: Without a doubt, when dealing with an addiction issue, one should clean up their act. Otherwise, sadly, most people will end up back in court or worse. For this reason, when dealing with a controlled substance problem, it's wise to consider the long-term. Then, when doing so, one can in due time, fix their issue and get back on their feet. Remember, simply put, when dealing with a substance abuse problem, it's wise to head to rehab.
Clean up the record: Finally, with a bad record, one will struggle in a host of ways. Not only will one have a hard time getting an apartment, but people will often struggle to get a job as people will look at this. Fortunately, with a well-trained attorney, it's easy to remove the item from the record, which will allow a person to live a happy, healthy life.
With these four simple tips, it's easy to see why a person should clean up their act and talk to a professional. Without doing so, not only will the arrested suffer in jail, but he or she will struggle in the long-term if they don't come up with a plan. So, remember, when in trouble for possession of a controlled substance, it's wise to think about options and plan for the future. Then, when doing so, it's easy to avoid issues down the road.
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'The Human Element' makes the impacts of climate change feel real
A photographer documents how global warming is already affecting people's lives
6:00am, February 4, 2019
ON THE SCENE Photographer James Balog (shown here next to a California wildfire) documents how people's lives are being affected by climate change.
© 2018 Matthew Kennedy/Earth Vision Institute
Magazine issue: Vol. 195, No. 3, February 16, 2019, p. 28
Climate change, extreme weather events and debates over climate mitigation strategies dominated the news for much of the last year. Yet climate scientists continually wrestle with how best to talk about these issues: Should discussions of climate change appeal directly to people's emotions, whether fear or anger or even hope? Or are data-driven discussions the way to go?
There is no one answer, of course. But The Human Element, a documentary starring photographer James Balog, aims directly for the gut by putting a human face on the impacts. The movie, now streaming online, shows how human-caused climate change is intersecting with people's lives. For instance, we see flooded homes in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Irma in 2017. Global warming probably increased Irma's intense rainfall, researchers have found. We also see firefighters battling wildfires in the American West (the movie is almost entirely shot in the United States). "I felt a great sense of urgency to bear witness," Balog says in the film.
That collision of people and planet is something that Balog, also the subject of the 2012 documentary Chasing Ice, has been capturing in photographs for decades. In The Human Element, his work is framed through the four ancient elements: earth, air, fire and water.
People, Balog suggests, are a fifth element — a force of nature, too. People are driving climate change, and their lives are being altered by it.
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It is in showing the faces of those directly affected by our tampering with nature that the movie packs its most powerful punches. After capturing the desolation of a family standing in knee-deep water inside their home in Irma's aftermath, the film shows other water-related impacts, particularly the plight of the residents of Tangier Island in Virginia, which is being rapidly and inexorably swallowed by the rising waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
The air segment focuses on how humans are altering the atmosphere, specifically with such pollution as volatile organic compounds emitted by planes, cars, trucks and facilities that process oil and gas. One heart-wrenching scene takes Balog to a school in Denver that specializes in treating kids with asthma, a condition often triggered by pollution. The kids are trained to treat themselves during an asthma attack; many do so several times a day.
In the fire segment, Balog photographs firefighters as they wearily but valiantly tackle the 2016 Soberanes Fire near Big Sur, Calif. With a price tag of $260 million, the blaze is among the most expensive ever battled in the United States. In the film, geographer Tania Schoennagel of the University of Colorado Boulder notes that climate change, as well as the increasing encroachment of human communities into former wilderness (SN: 12/22/18 & 1/5/19, p. 8), is already transforming the wildfire season. Since the 1970s, she says, there has been a 1,000 percent increase in the frequency of megafires — fires burning at least 40,000 hectares — in parts of the western United States.
Finally, the earth segment brings Balog to the coal-mining country of Kentucky and Pennsylvania — where, he says, "what we've dug from the Earth and burned has changed the other 'elements.' " Balog, whose grandfather died while mining coal, paints a grim picture of how a fading industry with dwindling jobs has left former miners in dire straits. But the segment ends on a rare note of hope — and offers the film's only nod at climate mitigation efforts. Balog follows a pair of developers who are planning to build a massive solar energy farm on reclaimed coal-mining land in hopes of bringing new jobs to the impoverished area.
The Human Element also doesn't dwell for long on actual climate science, though the scientists who appear throughout provide helpful context for each of the movie's segments.
What the film does do, and does well, is tell a series of human stories, accompanied by Balog's haunting photos. The combination of stories and images is indeed an effective, powerful way to communicate the impacts of climate change.
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Q: Simple OpenLayers WFS
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How to add a simple WFS layer from GeoServer to OpenLayers map?

I'm trying to simply add a WFS layer in OpenLayers. But completely stuck! Could someone please take a look at my code and suggest what I'm doing wrong?
I have a fresh install of GeoServer on a Linux (Ubuntu) VM. I'm trying to connect to one of the default layers (medford:hospitals).
I'm fairly confident I have all the parameters correct. The layer previews fine in GeoServer. My webserver is on a seperate server to GeoServer so hopefully no proxy issues?
Starting to wonder if this is some weird server issue?
Anyhow - the code:
            //Add WFS Layer
        var wfs = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Medford Hospitals",
                {
                    strategies: [new OpenLayers.Strategy.Fixed()],
                    projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"),
                    protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS({
                        version: "1.1.0",
                        url: "http://squirrel.bis.local:8080/geoserver/wfs",
                        featurePrefix: 'medford', //geoserver worspace name
                        featureType: "medford:hospitals", //geoserver Layer Name
                        featureNS: "http://medford.opengeo.org", // Edit Workspace Namespace URI
                        geometryName: "the_geom" // field in Feature Type details with type "Geometry"
                    })
                }
        );
        map.addLayer(wfs);

Any help and advice gratefully accepted!
Thanks,
Steve


During the summer everything is in bloom. Bright, vibrant flowers line the parks, and many of the tastiest fruits and vegetables are in season. 'Tis the season for apricots, eggplant, corn, cucumbers, watermelon, bell peppers, tomatoes, cantaloupe, nectarines… and much more!
If you have a garden, now is an opportunity to grow fresh produce in your very own backyard. Pick your favorites and get creative with recipes. Even if you don't have a green thumb, it's good to acquaint yourself with what is currently in season, so you know what to look for at the grocery store. Shop from local sources, like Farmers Markets, if you can, to ensure you know where your nutrients are coming from.
Here is our favorite summer salad recipe, courtesy of Southern Living, using ingredients that are just ripe for the plucking.
A colorful salad using fresh, seasonal ingredients.


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Amazon Prime Video launches globally
Dec 14, 2016 – Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced that Amazon Prime Video is now available to customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Customers can watch on Android and iOS phones and tablets, Fire Tablets and LG and Samsung smart TVs.
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Télédiffusion d'Algérie to broadcast to whole of Middle East via DTH
Nov 7, 2013 – Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) and Télédiffusion d'Algérie (TDA) have announced the signature of a capacity agreement on the EUTELSAT 7 West A satellite. The contract opens access to TDA for homes equipped for DTH satellite reception.
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Orbit Showtime Network to switch-off 5 million TV pirates
Dec 7, 2010 – Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) is giving all of its subscribers new set-top boxes between now and December 19th when it will switch to a new 'unhackable' conditional access system.
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IPTV still in a nascent state in the Arab World
Feb 25, 2010 – According to the Arab Advisors Group, eight service providers in seven countries in the Arab World offered commercial IPTV services in January 2010, up from four service providers in three countries offering IPTV in August 2007.
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Last week I was stunned to receive a tweet from Lindsay Walsh of Standing Armed. She enthusiastically tweeted "@RandaSalloum Saw you looking stunning in the Feb issue of @FashionCanada!" My initial reaction, I will admit was "What tha fak!" and then quickly turned into "OH EM GEE!" when I clicked through the digital pages online. Finding myself in an issue of one of my favorite fashion magazines is a bit surreal and totes exciting! Thank you to the editors at Fashion Magazine and a big thank you to Peter Jensen for the photograph!
To look through the digital pages of Fashion Magazine click HERE.
If you read my blog you know that I'm currently doing an overhaul of my beauty routines and finding ones that fit me perfectly. I've noticed that I have my definite go-to essentials that I use on a daily basis but for different looks and feels. Here are a few from last week.
What are your beauty essentials? Share with me!
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Dedicated programmer for SMART POWER and SMART 1000 receivers.
Required for managing off-site access systems.
By buying this product you can collect up to 22 loyalty points. Your cart will total 22 loyalty points that can be converted into a voucher of £ 4.40.
Highly recommended for companies that want to manage access the carparks, garages, etc.
Includes Smart Power / Smart 1000 software.
Thanks to the easy-to-use software you can add multiple transmitter to multiple Smart receivers.