As a result of such progress, led by a number of national and international centers, the field of keyhole and endoscopic brain tumor surgery is an area for which more and more neurosurgeons, ENTs and neuro-ophthalmologists seek advanced training. Short, intense focused courses such as this one being offered by PNI and OSU allow surgeons to gain further "hands-on" exposure and expertise in the indications and use of these advanced techniques. These meetings ultimately help optimize outcomes and surgical safety for patients with the all types of brain tumors including meningiomas, glioblastomas, pituitary adenomas, schwannomas, craniopharyngiomas, chordomas and metastatic brain tumors.
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Who Is Ron DeSantis?
Ron DeSantis is, of course, the Republican nominee for Governor of Florida. He was also, until the day after he was nominated, an administrator of the Tea Party Facebook Group. Other Tea Party group administrators included Corey Stewart, the notorious white supremacist Republican candidate for US Senate from Virginia and Kelli Ward who was John McCain's Republican primary opponent two years ago. All three have been endorsed by Donald Trump at one point or another.
Facebook Tea Party group acknowledges Corey Stewart as one of its group administrators
The same day that Ron DeSantis made his famous monkey gaffe on Fox TV, DeSantis, Stewart and Ward's names disappeared from the administrator list, but as you can see, there is ample evidence of their leadership positions within the group.
It is worth looking at some of the Tea Party postings that happened while Ron DeSantis, Kelli Ward and Corey Stewart were group administrators. Here are some examples of the group's thoughts about the late Senator John McCain. You can click on most of these images and go straight to the place on the Tea Party Group Facebook page where you can find the original post and all the comments that Tea Party members have made on that post.
Ron DeSantis' Tea Party Facebook group proposed this tombstone for John McCain
RINO means Republican In Name Only
The Tea Party Facebook has some strong opinions about President Barack Obama and his family
This is one of the group's cartoons about Barack Obama
And this is the group's comment on the Obama family
and of course, the group has the fairy tale about President Obama's birthplace
The Tea Party Facebook group that Ron DeSantis administered has opinions about the kids who survived the shootings at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.
The group had some opinions about the massacre at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas HS
and they have opinions about David Hogg as well
In June of this year, somebody made a crank call to the Broward County Sheriff. They falsely reported that there was an active shooter at David Hogg's house. The danger here is that the police arrive at the scene expecting to find an armed bad guy. Nobody at the house expects police. It is extremely easy for innocent people to get hurt in such a situation. The Tea Party group on Facebook postulated that David Hogg called the SWAT team on himself in order to get attention.
Tea Party group opinion of a life threatening false alarm at David Hogg's house
Ron DeSantis, the Trump endorsed Republican nominee for Governor of Florida was until just a few days ago, an administrator of the Facebook group that published these posts and a whole lot more. I think Alan Ehrlich is correct to ask if Republicans know who they nominated. See Alan's post https://www.bluebroward.org/2018/08/30/do-republicans-have-any-idea-who-desantis-is/
Author Kevin McGrathPosted on September 1, 2018 September 1, 2018 Categories Campaign News, Trump
The dark passageway
We flew in here blind and I don't know if there is a pilot to get us out of this mess.
If we were inaugurating a normal right-wing Republican administration, our response would be obvious. We would congratulate the new President, cooperate on issues of agreement, push back where we disagreed, and build for a respectful and successful opposition in 4 or 8 years. This is what we do when the pendulum swings, as it always has, and Americans of different political positions put country above self.
Donald Trump is a skillful liar who has shown no regard for the Constitution or the Office of President except as a means of ego gratification and personal enrichment. He has proposed violating the Constitution by revoking citizenship for flag burners, using torture, violating treaties, and enabling politicians to sue newspapers for writing hit pieces. Trump favors eminent domain to seize private property for private use. Trump is using the Presidential transition to strengthen his personal business relationship with foreign governments.
Donald Trump skillfully gained votes by openly manipulating and lying on immigration, trade, jobs, and other subjects. Media calling out the torrent of unbelievable lies gave Trump more publicity, and some believed the lies. Trump voters may have seen Trump as the least bad candidate, others may have believed the hollow promise without a plan, to make America "Great Again," and others may have believed Trump's constant lies about his opponents and fake news by Macedonian youngsters and elsewhere. This is the reality of the election we just lost but is not the end of the story.
We cannot blame Trump for being Trump, we cannot blame Russian spies for doing what they did to expose Hillary's secrets, and we cannot blame voters who did the best they could. Those were the circumstances of the election along with decades of stagnating wages, the decline of American civics, and addiction to "reality" TV and dancing with "stars" like Donald Trump. We Democrats failed to deal with those and other early warning signs.
By late 2015, Democrats were aware of the decline in the rust belt, Russian hacking in the election, and Trump's stoking racist anger over a Black in the White House. A few Democrats sensed arrogance in the "inevitability" of Hillary's election, but this did not figure in the thinking of those who get paid to win elections.
By August 12, 2016, the specific counties where job loss was connected to support for Trump were spelled out in detail in a 3-page spread starting on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (online the day before). The same day the Washington Post rushed to press with a more nuanced view of the geography of Trumpism and job loss and other variables. Either way, Hillary's "firewall" was leaking like a sieve and this was public knowledge.
In the summer the end may already have come for Democrats by missing all the early warning signs, but October 7 was the day we fell off the cliff. That day we were emboldened by the Washington Post's release of the video of Donald Trump's 2005 lewd conversation about women. Party insiders were overconfident. Ten days later, Democratic strategist James Carville said the Trump campaign had "died" and "Democrats have a chance to win the whole enchilada," as part of an effort to shift funds to House and Senate candidates.
The same day Hillary's campaign manager Robby Mook said, "Donald Trump is becoming more unhinged by the day, and that is increasing prospects for Democrats further down the ballot." States to which campaign funds were redirected were ones with important Senate races, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Iowa, and New Hampshire, five of which Democrats lost. Clinton appeared on October 3 before a crowd of 2,600 in Akron, Ohio, a state she lost by 8.1%, and she appeared on November 2 before a crowd of 10,000+ in Phoenix, Arizona, a state she lost by 3.5%.
We screwed up then and we have an even bigger problem now. To see how we can fix something when we knew or should have known it was broken in the first place, and we did not fix it then, makes me skeptical of easy solutions.
Donald Trump may do some good. In an effort to create jobs, he could foster the repair of crumbling infrastructure. In an effort to reduce spending he could insist on higher participation by allies and reduce military empire building. When the new administration discovers that the job losses in the rust belt were due about 85% to automation and 15% to trade with China, they could modify their response. When they realize that more people have been leaving the U.S. for Mexico than the other way around, they may advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. When Trump voters realize in two years that there has been no effective progress in expanding jobs, the new administration may feel the pressure to steer a different course.
Normally when Trump or anyone does something good, common courtesy and trueness to our goals will be to applaud him when he does. But do not be manipulated by someone who grossly disrespects other human beings, does not respect or understand the Constitution, and is a chronic liar. There is a huge disconnect between what Donald Trump says one day and the next. Trump has shown repeatedly that he can change his mind on things. But this does not mean a change in position. When he softens a harsh posture such as on punishing women who have abortions, it should be no comfort. It may be a bargaining position or an attempt to distract us.
Do not listen only to Trump's total self-contradictions. Listen to the practical inconsistencies. He did not like the War in Iraq (after he did like it) and he did not like results in Libya. So you think he would reduce the threat of war?
No. Trump would undermine NATO, allow more countries to have nuclear weapons, tear up the Iran deal making it more likely that Iran would reach nuclear strike capability, and acquiesce to Russian territorial expansion. None of these are stabilizing actions in a world on edge. Donald Trump, a New Yorker with experience living in the modern age said he had no problem with transgendered people using whichever bathroom in Trump Tower. But he selected Mike Pence for Vice President and Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, neither of whom is a friend of equal rights. So it is right to be skeptical if there is anything good that will come from a Trump Presidency.
The best good to come from a Trump Presidency
The best thing to come from a Trump administration is that he could get locked into a stalemate with the extreme right in Congress. Don't count on it. There will be some showdowns, but the game of politics for most politicians is survival. Conservatives who think they can tame Trump are in for a bad surprise. Mr. Trump has been inclined to reward cowards and punish those who question his policy, in a surgically effective way, to amass political strength. As President he will have enormous power to use all the levers of the Executive with very little balance of powers.
The worst bad to come from a Trump Presidency
It took 52 days for the Democratically elected government of Germany to pass the Enabling Act of March 23, 1933, after the appointment as Chancellor of Adolph Hitler. The Enabling Act gave total and complete power of government to the Cabinet, in effect the Führer. We must be watchful of any efforts to reduce the power of Congress, including Trump's desire for term limits. Anything to weaken Congress or the Supreme Court is bad. There is also the troubling area of emergency Presidential power which is not defined in the Constitution but may be necessary for national security, whether or not it is ratified after-the-fact by Congress or the Supreme Court. It is not inconceivable that, if there was another 9/11 attack, the presumptive President-Elect would suspend Civil Liberties.
American Apartheid?
It may be a mistake to focus on Donald Trump. We may have an even bigger and longer term challenge. Due to the Electoral College system and gerrymandering, there has been a deep division in the nation which has given more voting rights, more welfare, and less tax responsibility to Red states.
The U.S. Constitution gives 3 Electoral College votes to 240,809 registered Wyoming voters and 55 votes to 19,411,771 California voters. Constitutional apportionment for President is thus based on the whole number of Wyoming persons and about one fifth of the number of California persons. A California voter gets 23% of the vote of a Wyoming voter.
To make it worse, as pointed out by the New York Times' Steven Johnson ("Why blue states are the real 'Tea Party,'" December 3, 2016, New York Times), most of the states that voted for Hillary, "are paying the highest proportion of the country's bills while ranking lowest in terms of voting power in the Electoral College."
For example, Blue state New Jersey generated $12,564 in Federal revenue for $9,279 benefits; Red state Alaska generated $6,697 in Federal revenue for $14,375 benefits. Who are the Welfare Queens? The Red states.
Donald Trump got 63 million votes, so barely 19% of America's 325 million people voted for him and 81% did not vote for him.
How 19% of a Democracy can rule the other 81% needs mathematical explanation. Many people who could have voted did not try to vote, others had been stripped of their constitutional rights due to past crimes which they had repaid, or they were wrongfully denied the right to vote because of flawed purges and draconian voter identification laws. Still others were children and alien residents. But that still means that 19% of Americans are ruling the other 81%, which, when broken out by region, shows the rulers pay less in taxes and get more in welfare in Red states.
In the darkest days of Apartheid in South African, the ratio of those who ruled to those were ruled was 20:80. That was unsustainable. The White Apartheid rulers realized the instability of such a small minority of people ruling such a large majority. Reforms were implemented but too late to stop the rising tide of civil disobedience. Apartheid took over four decades of determined work to abolish. But there was light at the end of the tunnel. Get ready for a long, dark passageway.
Author Philip BuseyPosted on December 16, 2016 December 19, 2016 Categories Opinion, TrumpTags clinton, hitler, reichstag, trump, us constitution
A Hillary Landslide The Only Cure For Trump's Call To Arms
This is the electoral map I want to see on November 8, a decisive verdict that puts the outcome beyond all doubt.
This is the best of the best case scenarios for Democratic victory that political statistician Nate Silver outlined in a recent blog post (although he still also sees scenarios for a Trump victory).
The map doesn't have to turn quite that blue for Hillary to win, but I'm starting to think it's nearly the minimum result we have to hope for in the face of Trump's appeal to "Second Amendment people" and his insistence that the only way he could not win is if the election is "rigged" against him. As cartoonish as this talk is, we can't laugh it off.
Trump's Second Amendment comment can be classified as a sort of terrorism, an invitation to any Trump enthusiast who believes "tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," with Hillary in the role of tyrant. All it takes is for one unstable person to hear that remark (retroactively labeled "sarcastic") the wrong way. While some observers have noted Trump was also insulting responsible gun owners, the fringe element does exist. It includes people like Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing. He cited fighting for the rights of gun owners as one of his motivations owned a T-shirt with that Jefferson "tree of liberty quote" and imagery of dripping blood.
Meanwhile, the "rigged election" talk makes a Trump loss almost as scary as a Trump victory, partly because of the incitement to political violence that has been building for months. One reason the Republican #NeverTrump movement failed to stop Trump's nomination is that people were terrified of the rioting that would result if his followers perceived the nomination had been stolen from him by party insiders. That day of reckoning may only have been delayed, not avoided.
The worst possible result might be a close result on November 8, something akin to the Florida recount disaster in 2000. Imagine the angry old white man reaction to having the Supreme Court hand the presidency to Hillary. I see gunfire and explosions. In fact, any result that comes down to close decisions in one or two states, any hint of voting irregularities (and there are always some) would have a scary aftermath.
No matter what the margin of victory, Trump is likely to claim he was robbed and happily whip his supporters into a dangerous frenzy. At this point, there are a whole lot of people (including the grown ups on the Republican side) wondering if he would rather lose and complain about it than win and have to do the hard work of being president. But theory of the accidental success, or Trump as the campaign equivalent of Springtime for Hitler (see below: "where did we go right?"), has been popular for most of the past year, and it didn't stop him from winning beyond all expectations and pundit predictions throughout the primaries. He could still win (or come scary close to winning), despite himself.
I'm sorry to be so depressing, but my only point is that no matter how good the polls look for Hillary today, we won't be able to relax until at least November 9. Let's all do our part to make sure it's not close, particularly not here in Florida.
Author David F. CarrPosted on August 13, 2016 August 13, 2016 Categories Trump1 Comment on A Hillary Landslide The Only Cure For Trump's Call To Arms
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Eva de Boer (Rotterdam, 1982) is een Nederlands televisiepresentator en redacteur. Daarnaast werkt zij als voice-over / stemacteur.

Leven en werk
Eva de Boer studeerde Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen en Film- en Televisiewetenschappen aan de Universiteit Utrecht.

Voor de Universiteit Utrecht werkte zij mee aan de documentaire Een vluchtige geschiedenis: Joodse migratieroutes naar Nederland gezien door de ogen van Sefardische en Asjkenazische afstammelingen ter ere van de Europese Dag van het Joods Cultureel Erfgoed. Bij de Nicolaas Pierson Foundation, het wetenschappelijk bureau van de Partij voor de Dieren, werkte zij mee aan en hield interviews voor de film Meat the Truth.

Voor Natuur & Milieu maakte zij de Klimaatgids I en II, met tips over energiebesparing. Hiervoor werkte zij samen met tientallen cartoonisten en striptekenaars uit Nederland en België. Ook was zij betrokken bij diverse campagnes en acties, waaronder de Nacht van de Nacht, de Klimaatquiz, Klimaatlessen voor kinderen en Zaagselvrij.

Als presentator / redacteur vergaarde en presenteerde zij tot eind 2015 het nieuws voor het KRO-NCRV–themakanaal / on-demand platform NPO Spirit: on-demand op npospirit.nl, op NPO 2 en op NPO Nieuws. Sinds 2017 is zij redacteur bij RTV Utrecht.

Eva de Boer is een dochter van journaliste en presentatrice Marga van Arnhem.

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Effectiveness of combination packages for HIV-1 prevention in sub-Saharan Africa depends on partnership network structure: a mathematical modelling study
Samuel M Jenness1,
Steven M Goodreau2,
Martina Morris3,
Susan Cassels4
1Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
3Departments of Statistics & Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
4Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Correspondence to Dr Samuel M Jenness, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; samuel.m.jenness{at}emory.edu
Objectives Combination packages for HIV prevention can leverage the effectiveness of biomedical and behavioural elements to lower disease incidence with realistic targets for individual and population risk reduction. We investigated how sexual network structures can maximise the effectiveness of a package targeting sexually active adults in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with intervention components for medical male circumcision (MMC) and sexual partnership concurrency (having >1 ongoing partner).
Methods Network-based mathematical models of HIV type 1 (HIV-1) transmission dynamics among heterosexual couples were used to explore how changes to MMC alone and in combination with changes to concurrency impacted endemic HIV-1 prevalence and incidence. Starting from a base model parameterised from empirical data from West Africa, we simulated the prevalence of circumcision from 10% to 90% and concurrency was modelled at four discrete levels corresponding to values observed across SSA.
Results MMC and concurrency could contribute to the empirical variation in HIV-1 disease prevalence across SSA. Small reductions in concurrency resulted in large declines in HIV-1 prevalence. Scaling up circumcision in low-concurrency settings yields a greater relative benefit, but the absolute number of infections averted depends on both the circumcision coverage and baseline incidence. Epidemic extinction with this package will require substantial scale-up of MMC in low-concurrency settings.
Conclusions Dynamic sexual network structure should be considered in the design and targeting of MMC within combination HIV-1 prevention packages. Realistic levels of coverage for these packages within southern Africa could lead to a reduction of incidence to the low levels observed in western Africa, and possibly, epidemic extinction.
MATHEMATICAL MODEL
SEXUAL NETWORKS
Handling editor Jackie A Cassell
Twitter Follow Samuel Jenness at @SamuelJenness
Contributors SMJ conceived the idea for the study, and led the analysis and writing of the manuscript. SMG, MM and SC contributed to the concept development and writing of the manuscript. All authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript for publication.
Funding This work was supported in part by NIH Research Grants NICHD R00 HD057533, NICHD R01 HD68395; an NIH Training Grant NICHD T32 HD007543; and a UW Center for AIDS Research grant (P30 AI027757). Computing support was provided by a NICHD research infrastructure grant (R24 HD042828) to the UW Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology.
Ethics approval The institutional review boards of the University of Washington and University of Ghana approved all procedures (#41401).
Data sharing statement Upon publication, the full software code base to run these models will be provided online at github.com.


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Mark Sanchez will fly back to Los Angeles on Monday to take his final test as a USC student before his graduation in two weeks.
If he does half as well on his final exam in Communications 322, Argumentation and Application as he did in his first test as a Jet, he could graduate with honors.
Sanchez had an impressive start in his Jets practice debut, looking decisive and showing a strong arm. It's only April and he was wearing shorts, but it's clear what the Jets fell in love with before the draft.
"Me being tough on myself, I want it right every time and it is not always that way, especially not on the first weekend," Sanchez said. "But it has been a very successful first day. It was a good experience."
The No. 5 pick in last weekend's draft showed the team his leadership skills before yesterday's rookie minicamp began. The players participating this weekend are a mix of tryouts, draft picks and undrafted free agents. They were all given a playbook on Thursday to study. Sanchez got the offensive players together Thursday night and they were able to install 18 plays.
"That's impressive," coach Rex Ryan said. "That's the kind of young man we brought in here."
Sanchez was not as sharp in the afternoon practice, throwing an interception and missing some receivers. But overall he had a strong outing.
Judging from Ryan's comments, it sounds like the starting quarterback job will be Sanchez's in September unless Kellen Clemens blows the coaching staff away. As the Ravens defensive coordinator last season, Ryan saw firsthand that a team can win with a rookie quarterback as Joe Flacco took Baltimore to the playoffs.
"Up until last year there was a stigma that you don't win with a rookie quarterback," Ryan said. "I think we proved that wrong [last] year. This past season obviously was proved incorrect. If your team is good enough, you can win with anybody."
Ryan said it was clear to him early last offseason that Flacco was the best quarterback on the Ravens and he would have started him immediately. The Ravens were going to start Troy Smith instead of Flacco until an illness sidelined Smith.
It is clear Ryan has no reservations about Sanchez's lack of experience. Before the draft, he described the competition between Clemens and Brett Ratliff as "1 and 1A," saying they were on equal ground. But he wouldn't say that about Sanchez vs. Clemens.
"I don't think I will go 1 and 1A there," Ryan said. "Let's just say we have two real good Football players. Let them compete and, again, I am a believer that it will be obvious who should be the quarterback."
Sanchez is doing his best to make it obvious he should be the guy. He said the biggest challenge for him right now is learning the Jets' playbook language. Late Thursday night he stood in front of the mirror in his hotel room practicing his play calls, he said.
"It is difficult when you first come in," Sanchez said. "It is a new system so you want to just try and speak the language as soon as possible. I am trying to get all of the terminology down."
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Are you totally pumped for the holiday weekend? Because I am! A nice four day weekend sounds wonderful! And we are going to spend it having one last hurrah at my family's lake house in North Georgia.
This lake house has been in our family since I was a wee little one. The memories we have there are so great and even though the house hasn't been used as much in recent years, it's sad to see it go. I actually got a little teary thinking about it the other day and am again as I write this.
It's one of those places that is in the middle of nowhere – no phone or internet. The "grocery store" is a gas station with a few staples (like bread and milk, not like you staple paper together with 🙂 ).
There was actually a crazy good lineup of candy right as you walked in the door to the gas station and my little brother and I would always get something. My candy of choice was either Fun Dip (always a lover of sugar) or a Charleston Chew.
1. The dock. When my dad bought the house, the dock was a tiny little thing – maybe 10 by 10 at the biggest. My dad has 5 brothers and I have 3 siblings and a number of cousins. We would all squish onto that thing. There is a picture of it somewhere and if I find it, I will post it on instagram. It's hilarious.
Shortly after buying the house, the guys got rid of that dock and began building a two story dock that never quite got finished until years later when my brother finally paid to have someone finish it. It was always fun to get a running start to jump off the top level prior to getting finished off with railings.
The hubs night jumping off the dock a couple summers ago.
You can't see a thing because it's so dark. Scary!
2. We have a family game that has been played countless times in countless places but there was no better time than playing it there with the whole crazy family. The crap talking never stopped and there were countless late nights.
3. My "island." There was this crazy little strip of sand in the middle of one part of the lake that I had to visit every time we were there. I called it my island. It was between 10 and 15 feet long at the most and only a few feet wide. There were a couple tiny trees and bushes and when the water was high those would be all you could see. I just loved playing on it.
4. The sunsets. Just beautiful. The best view on the lake. I will always remember my parents sitting on the edge of the dock eating cheese and crackers and watching the sun go down while my younger brother and I played in the water until the sun was all but gone.
And this sangria will make several appearances.
It has already made several appearances at our neighborhood pool and has quickly become a favorite of our friends. We also made it when we were at the beach at beginning of June.
I love how easy it is to throw together and once you buy the initial bottles of liquor, getting a cheap bottle of sweet red wine and some fruit is easy and inexpensive. The hubs thinks it's the most refreshing thing ever. It's nice and fruity without being too sweet.
The red wine you use doesn't seem to matter much, as long as it's a sweet red wine. I've gone to WalMart and gotten a $6 bottle and it's great! You could probably use a cabernet and add sugar, but I haven't tried it yet so I can't really advise.
Just a warning though – the alcohol in it is no joke. You don't even taste it, but you'll probaly feel it. A 99 proof banana liqueur will do that to you if you aren't careful. 😉 Of course you could use a lower proof banana liqueur if you prefer.
Learn how to make red wine sangria with this easy and delicious drink recipe!
1. Mix the red wine, ginger ale, rum and banana liqueur together in a large drink container.
2. Squeeze fruit wedges into red wine mixture and toss in the fruit wedges (leave out seeds).
3. Serve cold over ice. You can serve immediately or refrigerate for about 24 hours.
If you plan on refrigerating the sangria overnight, I highly recommend removing the fruit or waiting to add it. The sangria has a tendency to take on the rind flavor if left in too long.
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I could drink sangria everyday if my liver could handle it! Summers at the lake house sound so idyllic and perfect! What amazing memories for you to have.
Sounds like a yummy concoction. Thanks for sharing on Two Cup Tuesday. Pinned it!
I've been looking for a good sangria recipe for Labor Day weekend. This one looks fantastic. Great post and awesome photos!
Thanks Bill! You'll have to let me know what you think!
What is a clear rum.
Just a regular rum, like Bacardi.


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23 Trans People Killed in Florida Since 2015: Here's Where The Cases Stand
Christiana Lilly
lgbt	Florida	Transgender Day of Remembrance
As Transgender Awareness Week comes to a close, the week of celebration, recognition and advocacy ends with Transgender Day of Awareness on Nov. 20.
The solemn day is a time for the community to recognize the deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people — in recent years, murders of people in the community have escalated at an alarming rate. In their memory, we looked back at these murders in Florida since 2015 and tracked down the latest on each case.
Twelve of these 23 murders are still open.
The Human Rights Campaign keeps an up-to-date list of trans murders around the country. This is where we got most of the names for this story. HRC has tracked in a total of at least 47 deaths this year. In 2020, HRC tracked 44 for the year.
The most recent death was Angel Naira, a 36-year-old Black transgender woman who was found fatally shot at her home in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania on Nov. 11.
Often, news reports, police and even family and friends will misgender and dead-name transgender and gender non-conforming people. We will be using pronouns and names that the HRC shares in its reports.
Kristina Gomez Reinwald
Killed February 2015
Reinwald, also known as Kristina Grant Infiniti, was found dead in her home in Miami and police originally ruled the 46-year-old's death a suicide, according to the Miami New Times. However, after further investigation the Miami-Dade Police classified it as a homicide case. Friends believed that the suspect was her boyfriend; the investigation is still open.
India Clarke
Killed July 2015
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Clarke, 25, was found dead with bullet wounds to the back of her head and upper arm; according to the Tampa Bay Times. Assistant State Attorney Ronald Gale called the killing "execution-style" and said that there was evidence of a struggle. Keith Gaillard, then 18, was arrested for the murder and after five years in the court system, he was acquitted in 2020 as lawyers said there wasn't enough proof that he killed Clarke. A condom with his DNA was found in the back of her car, he had scratches on his neck after the incident, and friends said he carried the same type of weapon used to kill her.
Mercedes Successful
Killed May 2016
The 32-year-old was an active member of the LGBT community and known for her drag performances and makeup skills. Successful was found shot to death in a parking lot in Haines City, with her pockets turned inside out and text messages between her and a man regarding drugs and a possible sexual encounter, according to WFLA. A year later, two men were arrested for their involvement in the murder — Re'shaunte Jermaine Anglin, 18, was charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and tampering with evidence. Ray Leon Walker, 22, was charged with accessory after the fact and tampering with physical evidence. In 2019, Anglin was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Chayviss "Chay" Darice Reed
Killed April 27, 2017
Reed, 28, was shot and killed in the West Little River neighborhood of Miami. Surveillance footage from a neighbor's home captured Reed running across the street, six to seven gunshots going off, then she collapsed in the middle of the street, Local 10 reports. The investigation is still open.
Rhiannon Layendecker
Killed Dec. 16, 2017
The 51-year-old was shot to death by her wife, Jessica Winkler, who is also transgender, in their Englewood home after a dispute. Her body was found in the bed of the couple's pick-up truck and police found that Winkler was planning on burying her wife's body on their property, according to the HRC. She later called 911 and was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. Winkler pleaded guilty in 2019 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Celine Walker
Killed Feb. 4, 2018
Walker, 36, was found shot to death in a Jacksonville extended stay, according to News4Jax. Advocacy groups came forward demanding a change in how police handle murders of trans people, as she was originally misgendered and deadnamed. She also went by the name Erika. In September 2019, Sean Bernard Phoenix, 21, was arrested and charged with her murder. According to Metro Weekly, the two had a "previous relationship" and after the murder, he sold the weapon used. The Florida-Times Union reported that in October 2020, Phoenix pleaded guilty and was charged with 35 years in prison. Walker was the first of four trans women to be killed in Jacksonville in 2018.
Antash'a English
Killed June 1, 2018
English, 38, was found shot between two buildings and later died at a hospital in Jacksonville. Before she died, she was able to tell police that the person who shot her was wearing a gray hoodie, according to Action News Jax. A regular performer at Incahoots Nightclub for nearly a decade, friends planned a vigil in her honor. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office tells SFGN that her case is still an active, ongoing investigation.
Cathalina Christina James
Killed June 24, 2018
The South Carolina native, 24, was shot to death at a Jacksonville hotel, according to WLXT. Her mother told the media that her daughter loved traveling, which was why she was in Florida at the time. She also described Christina James as a bold personality who was always at the center of attention. Being the third trans woman killed in Jacksonville in a matter of months, LGBTQ Nation asked the question: does the city have a serial killer? The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office told SFGN that her case is still an active, ongoing investigation.
Sasha Garden
Killed July 19, 2018
Originally from Wisconsin, Garden, 27, was found dead in her Orlando apartment. According to Orlando Weekly, her home was a haven for sex workers, as she often handed out condoms, water bottles, and helped with HIV testing. She was also a sex worker and it was believed she may have been killed while she was working. The Orange County Sheriff's office tells SFGN that there have been no arrests made in the case, but that the investigation is still open.
Jessie Sumlar
The 30-year-old queer person and drag performer was found stabbed to death in their Jacksonville apartment; the gun was found in the doorway and their car and wallet were missing, according to First Coast News. A few days after the murder, their car was found burned. Police arrested Omar Lewis, thanks to tips and DNA evidence, and he was indicted with a first-degree murder charge by a grand jury in 2019, News4Jax reports.
Londonn Moore
Killed Sept. 15, 2018
The 20-year-old Port Charlotte resident was found dead in a remote area outside of North Port with multiple gunshot wounds; her car was found in another location the next day, The Advocate reports. In December 2018, Juan Jose Salazar-Diaz was arrested when his DNA was found in Moore's car; texts show the two knew each other prior to the shooting death. He was charged with second-degree murder, grand theft auto, and possession of a firearm by a felon. North Port Police told SFGN that he is still in Sarasota County Jail awaiting trial.
Ellie Marie Washtock
Killed Jan. 31, 2019
Washtock, who was gender-nonconforming, was shot and killed in St. Augustine; they were found dead by their teenage son. Beyond the case being a tragedy, the public was also wary of the case because Washtock was looking into the 2010 murder of Michelle O'Connell, a single mother in neighboring St. Johns County whose death was originally labeled a suicide. O'Connell's mother told the media that she believed Washtock was killed because of their investigation. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office told SFGN that there are no suspects and no arrests have been made, but the investigation is still open.
Kiki Fantroy
Fantroy, 21, was shot and killed in south Miami-Dade County after turning down a proposition for sex, according to NBC 6. Then, as Local 10 reports,17-year-old William Watson opened fire on the group Fantroy was walking with, then chased after her and shot her to death. He was arrested on another charge, then confessed to the murder. He was charged as an adult for second-degree murder.
Bee Love Slater
Killed Sept. 4, 2019
Slater, 23, was found burned "beyond recognition" in a car in Clewiston; her best friend told WINK News he believed that Slater was killed because of her gender identity. Although CBS News reported that the Hendry County Sheriff's Office had a person of interest, a year later, the outcome appeared vaguer with the FBI putting up a $5,000 reward for information on the case, an amount matched by the sheriff's office. WPTV reported that police have interviewed hundreds of people and executed 40 search warrants on the case; the investigation is still open.
Tony McDade
Killed May 27, 2020
The 38-year-old was shot and killed by Tallahassee police after he was accused of stabbing to death his girlfriend's son that same morning. Police say that McDade was armed and "made a move consistent with using the firearm against the officer." The police officer's name has not been released.
Bree Black
Killed July 3, 2020
Over the Fourth of July weekend, Black, 27, was shot and killed outside her Pompano Beach home. Even with the streets filled with people for the holidays, no witnesses have come forward with information on her killer. The case is still open and in October 2021, the reward money for information was upped to $10,000.
Clio Kalliope Addison
The 20-year-old, who was nonbinary, got into an altercation in North Miami with their partner, Bernard St. Pierre, which ended in Addison being shot and killed. Surveillance video showed that Addison slapped Pierre in the face, then punched him with brass knuckles that had a taser attached. St. Pierre then shot towards Addison. A few weeks later, prosecutors dropped the charges against St. Pierre, citing the "stand your ground" defense, NBC 6 reports.
Skylar Heath
Killed Nov. 4, 2020
Little is known about this case other than the 20-year-old was shot and killed in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, according to The Advocate. Miami-Dade Police are investigating Heath's death as a homicide and the case is still open.
Yunieski Carey Herrera
Killed Nov. 17, 2020
The 39-year-old beauty queen was stabbed to death by her husband, Ygor Arrudasouza, in Miami. He said that the two were arguing and he was under the influence of meth when he killed Herrera with a fork and knife in the middle of Transgender Awareness Week. Arrudasouza was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated battery. He is still in jail on an immigration hold.
Alexus Braxton
Braxton, who also went by the name Kimmy Icon, was found dead in her Miami bedroom in what police called a "violent and vicious attack." The Miami-Dade Police shared surveillance footage of a person of interest, who was wearing a black zip-up track sweater over a white shirt and black pants. No arrests have been made in the murder of the 45-year-old hairstylist; the case is still open.
Keri Washington
Killed May 1, 2021
A relative found the 49-year-old's body outside of their Clearwater and called 911, according to the Tampa Bay Times. A week later, Washington's long-time partner, Arthur Benjamin Jr., confessed to slamming her head against a light pole during an argument. He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Royal Poetical Starz
Killed Oct. 2, 2021
A resident of Pompano Beach, the 26-year-old was found gunned down inside of her Hummer in Miami Gardens — family says that she was shot in the face and then another 20 times in her body. Starz's body was returned to Omaha, Nebraska, to be buried close to her family. The singer earned her business degree from Florida Career College vocational school in July. The case is still open and police continue searching for her killer.
Jenny De Leon
The 25-year-old's body was found outside of a home in the Tampa neighborhood of Sulphur Springs. De Leon was an active member of her local PFLAG group, who said that she was an "enigmatic, bright soul." The Tampa Police Department has not shared her cause of death and the investigation is still open.
If you have information on any of the open cases above, contact your local or county police department. There are also anonymous tip lines, such as Crime Stoppers and Crimeline, in various communities.


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Q: Magento Error after transferring onto a different computer localhost after importing my magento project to a different localhost, i've received the following error:
There has been an error processing your request
Item (Mage_Core_Model_Store) with the same id "0" already exist

Trace:
#0 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\lib\Varien\Data\Collection\Db.php(576): Varien_Data_Collection->addItem(Object(Mage_Core_Model_Store))
#1 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Resource\Store\Collection.php(174): Varien_Data_Collection_Db->load(false, false)
#2 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\lib\Varien\Data\Collection.php(752): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Store_Collection->load()
#3 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\App.php(635): Varien_Data_Collection->count()
#4 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\App.php(477): Mage_Core_Model_App->_initStores()
#5 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\App.php(360): Mage_Core_Model_App->_initCurrentStore('', 'store')
#6 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\Mage.php(684): Mage_Core_Model_App->run(Array)
#7 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\index.php(83): Mage::run('', 'store')
#8 {main}

i am not sure how to fix it, any help is much appreciated
database:
im not sure what value i should change
core_store:
INSERT INTO `core_store` (`store_id`, `code`, `website_id`, `group_id`, `name`, `sort_order`, `is_active`) VALUES
(0, 'admin', 0, 0, 'Admin', 0, 1),
(1, 'default', 1, 1, 'English', 0, 1),
(2, 'french', 1, 1, 'French', 0, 1),
(3, 'german', 1, 1, 'German', 0, 1);

core_store_group:
INSERT INTO `core_store_group` (`group_id`, `website_id`, `name`, `root_category_id`, `default_store_id`) VALUES
(0, 0, 'Default', 0, 0),
(1, 1, 'Demand Fitness', 2, 1);

core_website:
INSERT INTO `core_website` (`website_id`, `code`, `name`, `sort_order`, `default_group_id`, `is_default`, `is_staging`, `master_login`, `master_password`, `visibility`) VALUES
(0, 'admin', 'Admin', 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL),
(1, 'base', 'Main Website', 0, 1, 1, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL);

A: Check core_store, core_website and core_store_group tables.
There is a possibility that in these tables Admin is created as 1 for id. It should be 0 in all cases.
If you correct them, the error will probably be gone.

A: To add a thing to @Arunendras answer:
To avoid this error make sure, that you export all data with primary keys. Then the explicit set keys 0 for customer group NOT_LOGGED_IN and admin store are set correctly.

A: CASE 1:
Check core_store, core_website and core_store_group tables.
SELECT * FROM core_store WHERE code='admin';
SELECT * FROM core_store_group WHERE name='Default';
SELECT * FROM core_website WHERE code='admin';

The admin value for these tables might have 1. They should be changed to 0.
UPDATE `core_store` SET store_id = 0 WHERE code='admin';
UPDATE `core_store_group` SET group_id = 0 WHERE name='Default';
UPDATE `core_website` SET website_id = 0 WHERE code='admin';

CASE 2:
In another case, you might have 0 for id but there can be multiple rows inserted with the same value.
Delete such duplicate rows from core_store, core_website and core_store_group tables and the issue will be solved.

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Where to Watch Parks and Recreation
If you're the type of person who can't see a pile of waffles and whipped cream topping without thinking about Leslie Knope, you're in luck! Parks and Recreation, the beloved sitcom about a mid-level government employee dealing with the craziness of her town, is available for on-demand streaming. Let's talk about where you can find it to immerse yourself in all of the kooky hilarity of Pawnee, Indiana.
Is Parks and Recreation on Peacock?
Yes, Parks and Recreation is available on Peacock, NBC's exclusive streaming service. It's currently the only place to watch the show for free.
The distribution of the seasons looks like this:
Seasons 1 - 2: Available on Peacock Free
Seasons 3 - 7: Available on Peacock Premium
Peacock Free and Peacock Premium have the same features, but the library is larger on Peacock Premium, which costs $4.99 per month. Additionally, both versions have ads. To remove the ads, you'll need to splurge for Peacock Premium Plus, which is $9.99 per month.
Peacock can be accessed through web, mobile, and various supported devices such as the Playstation 4 and the Amazon Fire Stick.
Is Parks and Recreation on Netflix?
No, Parks and Recreation is not available on Netflix. It used to be, but after NBC launched its own streaming service, it removed all NBC titles from other streaming sites. For this reason, it's unlikely to see Parks and Recreation ever return to Netflix.
Is Parks and Recreation on Hulu?
No, Parks and Recreation is not available on Hulu. It used to be, but just like with Netflix, it was removed once NBC created their own streaming service with exclusive access to NBC content.
Is Parks and Recreation on Amazon Prime?
Yes, Parks and Recreation is available on Amazon Prime. It isn't free, but you can purchase episodes in both SD and HD. Here's a breakdown of their prices:
Season one: $9.99 (SD), $12.99 (HD)
Season two: $17.99 (SD), $19.99 (HD)
Season three: $17.99 (SD), $19.99 (HD)
Season four: $17.99 (SD), $19.99 (HD)
Season five: $17.99 (SD), $19.99 (HD)
Season six: $17.99 (SD), $19.99 (HD)
Season seven: $17.99 (SD), $19.99 (HD)
You don't need to be an Amazon Prime member to watch Amazon Prime videos that you purchase.
Is Parks and Recreation on iTunes?
Yes, Parks and Recreation is available on iTunes. You can buy all seven seasons for $69.99.
Is Parks and Recreation on Vudu?
Yes, Parks and Recreation is available on Vudu. Episodes can be purchased in either SD or HD. Here are their prices:
Vudu also offers extra content such as gag reels for no additional charge.
These are just a few ways to watch Parks and Recreation. Whether you're streaming from an Apple TV or downloading everything to an iPhone or Android, you're only steps away from being able to watch Leslie Knope conquer Pawnee. Have fun!


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Stop Defending the Humanities
Whatever things the humanities do well, it is beginning to look as if promoting themselves is not among them. I say this after having read widely across the rapidly accumulating literature in defense ...
By Simon During
Whatever things the humanities do well, it is beginning to look as if promoting themselves is not among them. I say this after having read widely across the rapidly accumulating literature in defense of the humanities, to which this book loosely belongs. Strictly speaking, The Humanities and Public Life is a record of a seminar on the ethics of reading organized by Peter Brooks at Yale, but whose participants (all of them well-known and formidably accomplished scholars) often found themselves moving into exactly the "defense of the humanities" mode that enabled someone—I assume the publisher—to present the book under a slightly misleading but presumably marketable title.
It turns out that the humanities' defensive accounts of themselves have some rather curious features. In particular, they tend to pass quickly over what we tacitly know about them as a matter of fact, turning instead to the sermonic. And in insisting on the humanities' value for society and culture as a whole, these accounts routinely fail to confront their own interest in making this case.
What do we tacitly and neutrally know about the humanities? We know that they exist as a combination of different academic disciplines, which, at least in the US, are often housed in university departments and thereby bound to the university system's larger bureaucratic/professional structures.
We know that each discipline has its own history; its own mix of instrumental and noninstrumental purposes and functions; its own methods and topics; its own set of values; its own tolerance (or lack thereof) of positivist methods and knowledge.
It is important to remember what is obvious—that the humanities contain many disciplines—to forestall arguments that promote practices that belong just to one discipline as definitive of the whole. So that, for instance, neither close reading (as here argued for by Peter Brooks), nor ideology critique (as here argued for by Judith Butler in a subtle essay that asks us to ask "what is the value of our values," as if such exist), nor the deployment of paradigms of interpretation and meaning, nor even creative openness to the contingencies and surprises of encounters with others (as here invoked by Jonathan Lear) can be used to define and defend the humanities as they exist as a whole. Indeed the humanities are not the kind of thing that can be defended by reference to a single practice or even set of practices, a single value or set of values.
We know, further, that the humanities in their modern Western form were established quite recently—around the end of the 19th century. They are only very loosely connected to those older humanisms that appeared in the ancient, early modern, and Enlightenment eras. And we know that the modern humanities have taken different forms in different nations: it is a matter of some argument whether the academic humanities as they have developed in Anglophone nations have strict equivalents even in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, let alone in China or Japan.
We also know that the Western humanities expanded at the beginning of the second half of the 20th century under a regime we can call social capitalism. Especially after World War II, many states subsidized the humanities as they sought to make higher education available to a larger proportion of the population in an effort to increase social mobility. And we are becoming increasingly aware that this element of the social capitalist compact is fraying under neoliberalism, as a humanities education comes to be viewed just as a private rather than as a public good. One example: in 2010, in a sobering move few saw coming, the UK Tory government, in deregulating university fees, simply stopped funding undergraduate teaching in the arts, humanities, and social sciences while maintaining support for engineering, the sciences, technology, and math. Partly as a result, applications for the humanities fell by over 11 percent the following year, although in some disciplines the position has stabilized since.
the humanities are not the kind of thing that can be defended by reference to a single practice or even set of practices, a single value or set of values.
We also know that the humanities' borders, both internal and external, are loose. Internally, each discipline contains within itself not only subfields but a variety of schools or methods (theory, Marxism, ethnography, close reading …), some of which contest others and many of which are shared across disciplines. Externally, at least some humanities disciplines—history, say—fade more or less peaceably into the social sciences. But it is widely supposed, I think, that three or four disciplines—philosophy, history, literary studies, and maybe the classics—lie at the modern humanities' heart. And we know that, nonetheless, new disciplines or post-disciplines (which lack the institutional infrastructure of a full discipline) are continually being created, whether in response to new technologies or genres (TV studies, the digital humanities) or to new social, cultural, and political movements (gender studies, postcolonialism) or to new career opportunities (museum studies) or to new service relations with other disciplines (professional writing) or just to new demand (creative writing). So that, although, at least in the US, the humanities' share of the total undergraduate population has not significantly declined since the 1980s, it is likely that fewer students proportionally study the core humanities in their traditional modes than in social capitalism's heyday. It would appear that it is this (overdetermined) shrinkage of certain core humanities disciplines that has sparked the outbreak of sermonizing in defense of the humanities as a whole.
Furthermore, different disciplines have different relations to the world outside them, some being more parasitic on external forms than others. Thus, for instance, while philosophy generates itself more or less continuously out of ancient impulses, history interprets and uncovers the past by way of the archives as the past continually and self-recordingly flows into the present, and English depends on literature, past and present, usually as written at some distance from the academy, just as film studies, say, depends on film, commercially produced or otherwise.
These externalities matter, first, because the humanities as a concept can denote both the academic disciplines and their subject matter in the outside world where such exist. So, for instance, the often adduced argument that literature departments encourage empathy (here put by Elaine Scarry) gestures more toward literary texts themselves than to their academic study. Even if you buy Scarry's argument for empathy (as few in this collection do), it is literature that increases our capacity to engage and imagine otherness rather than studying it according to academic English's protocols, including close reading, which anyway, right or wrong, is in decline.
And, second, these externalities matter because the parasitic nature of many humanities disciplines means that they are unlikely to disappear so long as their objects persist. They are not under present existential threat. Further: their shrinkage, were it to accelerate, is likely to be less culturally significant than many of us believe. For instance, academic literary criticism could fade while literature itself (and its effects on the world) prospered.
The humanities join the wider world in other ways. They belong to an economy of prestige that helps prop up class and ethnic hierarchies. Forty or so years ago, Pierre Bourdieu presented a complex, evidence-based theory of how this economy then worked in France. His findings may now be partly out of date, but surveys since have routinely found that those who study the academic humanities disproportionately belong to the white upper-middle class, i.e., those with significant inherited cultural and economic capital. In this situation, those humanities disciplines that have emerged in relation to newer technologies and social movements tend to have less status, and to be taught in different kinds of institutions and through different methods and theories, than the core humanities, part of whose purpose remains to reproduce certain bourgeois sensibilities and cultural capital.
The humanities' rather complex use in maintaining class hierarchies may be one reason why, as we are now learning all too well, they are unpopular. Especially in the US the "liberal intellectual" is more than a stereotyped figure of fun: he (less often she) is the target of political resentments that help sustain conservative politics. This negative stereotyping takes wing, in part, from the sense that humanities academics and the students whom they send into the professions acquire their privilege too easily, exempt from the hard scrabble of working in small business, farming, factories, supermarkets, and so on. Worse still: liberal intellectuals and humanities academics use their privilege in their own interest to promote unworldly politics and tastes that undercut, or lie aslant, values and lifestyles that help sustain many of those with less privilege. Seen like this, the humanities' unpopularity is not irrational, even if from inside the neoliberal university any sense of our effete privilege may seem misguided. At any rate, scorn for the humanities cannot simply be discounted: it too demands understanding and empathy. Certainly it is one reason why the humanities are so vulnerable politically: outside their own spheres, they find it hard to make friends.
Where does it leave us in thinking about the humanities?
I would suggest that it leads us to picture the humanities as something like a form of life, or better, because vaguer still, as something like a world, an institutionalized world. A world that contains smaller worlds. A simultaneously beleaguered and privileged world whose members typically belong to other, somewhat ontologically similar worlds, too.
Those who join the humanities can find their own paths through them and the
rule-bound institutions they are based in.
The main reason to think in such terms is to avoid betraying what is central to the humanities: that they cannot be properly defined in terms of their parts, in terms, for instance, of their instrumentalities or avoidance of instrumentality; or of the dispositions they nurture; or of the interests they nourish and serve; or of the knowledge and techniques they produce; or of the professional/bureaucratic protocols they enact; or of the ethics perhaps still installed within them. They cannot be limited to their constitutive rules or methods or personae or models or "values." Those who join them can find their own paths through them and the rule-bound institutions they are based in, outside of essences and definitions, making their own connections and alliances, as in a world. And they don't share a single project, if indeed they have projects at all.
To help us better grasp this way of thinking (which I have loosely borrowed from Michael Oakeshott's Experience and Its Modes) it may be useful briefly to name other such worlds adjacent to the humanities. The world of theater. The world of music. The art world. In some ways better still, because less apparent: the world of sport. Like these other worlds, the humanities are not only or even primarily projective or instrumental (they are probably more instrumental than sports, though, even if they are economically less important). And for that reason, like these other worlds, the humanities seem to be simultaneously deeply embedded within, and peripheral to, society as a whole.
The key consequence of seeing the humanities as a world alongside other broadly similar worlds is that the limits of their defensibility becomes apparent, and sermonizing over them becomes harder. If people stopped watching and playing sports, how much would it matter? The question is unanswerable since we can't imagine a society continuous with ours but lacking sports, even though one such is, I suppose, possible. We do not have the means to adjudicate between that imaginary sportless society and our own actual sports-obsessed society. The same is true for the humanities. If the humanities were to disappear, new social and cultural configurations would then exist. Would this be a loss or gain? There is no way of telling, partly because we can't picture what a society and culture that follow from ours but lack the humanities would be like at the requisite level of detail, and partly because, even if we could imagine such a society, our judgment between a society with the humanities and one without them couldn't appeal to the standards like ours that are embedded in the humanities themselves. The humanities would be gone: that's it.
Of course, those of us in the humanities who love and breathe them, whose institutional (but not just institutional) lives are formed in relation to them, who would like more people to join them and so become more like us, to think and feel and talk like us, who may even find the "meaning of life" articulated from within them, find the prospect of their fading insupportable, heartrending, unimaginable. But that offers no substantive public reason to maintain them, just as it turned out in the end to be no reason to maintain all the more or less similar worlds that have disappeared over the centuries, before and after modernity: the worlds of the aristocratic honor code; the world of older humanisms and the "republic of letters"; the worlds of industrial working-class solidarity; the world of Scholasticism and the trivium; the worlds of old Anglican rural, parochial, and liturgical life, and so on.
But, as I say, the humanities are not now under existential threat, and so the last two paragraphs present merely a thought experiment. To repeat, their point is to put a brake on our sermonizing, on our confusion of self-interest and public interest, and on our various reductivisms, and to make us stop regarding ourselves as necessary to any future healthy society whatsoever. Applying these brakes may help us make our case for the humanities in more modest terms that are more narrowly directed to those who most matter in this context.
restricting access to the world of the humanities is a form of social injustice.
Those who matter most to the humanities fall, I think, into two classes. The most important is that relatively small group of 18-year-olds (disproportionately few from poorer families) who are inclined to study the humanities. Our immediate future rests primarily with them. And in regard to them, surely, we support the humanities best by teaching well whatever it is that we teach, and then by inviting them further into our world by presenting ourselves as its fit and welcoming members (not exemplars).
The second group who matter are the policymakers and politicians who control public research and education funding, and those who may influence them. This is tricky terrain. But one caution seems apposite. It is true that the humanities are socially instrumental in various and not unimportant ways, but pointing that out is, in the end, a vulnerable policy argument since the social uses the humanities do have could probably be achieved more cheaply by means that don't require the humanities as a whole. After all, most of what the humanities do has internal, not external, use value, where it has use value at all.
It is also true, for instance, that the humanities will remain vibrant and socially accepted to the degree that they continue to attract members from outside the white upper-middle classes, and that this requires state support. But that too is not an especially politically effective argument, partly because it is so tinged by self-interest.
The case needs to be more minimal: it needs to show that restricting access to the world of the humanities by those who wish to engage them (for whatever reason) but find it cripplingly difficult to afford them is a form of social injustice. It is discriminatory. And that is another argument that doesn't need a sermon. Otherwise put: the humanities may form a world more than they provide a social good, but that does not mean that access to them should be determined by money. After all, they constitute a world substantive enough for lack of access to it by those capable of seriously engaging it to be a form of deprivation. But if barriers to entry to the academic humanities are not to be primarily financial then they require state support.
Let me briefly return to The Humanities and Public Life. It brings together a set of excellent and at times brilliant essays, each of which, however, proposes its own linchpin for the humanities and none of which wholly avoids the sermonic mode. As I have said, I believe the humanities now would be well advised to use a different rhetoric, one more attuned to their actual institutional conditions. One moment in this collection where this something different appears is in those sections of his essay where, leaving theory and rousing rhetoric aside, Jonathan Lear reports on his meetings with Crow Indians after the publication of his Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. In that book Lear reported on the widespread belief among the Crow that, after being placed in reservations in the 19th century, "nothing happened" to their culture again. (Lear's book focused on a systemic loss not unlike that which some in the humanities now seem to anticipate for themselves.) But after his book appeared new understandings were reached between Lear and his Crow friends. Things did indeed happen again to both, and unexpected things too: Lear believes that a poetic and creative spark across divides was ignited, one capable of building new alliances. In recounting his social and intellectual adventure, then, he implicitly invites newcomers to follow his lead and become engaged in the humanities on their own terms. It is not an invitation put in terms that all of us will find attractive (it belongs to the America of romance, not of realism), but still, that kind of universalism is exactly what the world of humanities cannot offer, since they are just a world, and a manifold world, too.
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This is a new addition from the stables of Amazon and it is exquisitely tailored for flexibility and control. This device has a hands free speaker that can be activated and managed using your voice. A critical review of this smart device reveals the only outstanding feature; its built-in ZigBee hub functionality.
It can be connected to Alexa; Amazon's indefatigable voice assistant, to carry out tasks like making calls, surfing the web, streaming music, getting updates on news, sports, and the weather forecast, etc. This is, perhaps, that smart device you always longed for to actualize your dream of a smart home.
Amazon Echo Plus retains the conventional cylindrical look from prior models. The black, white, and silver colors are defined by the 235mm height, 84mm width, and it weighs 2.1 pounds. This smart speaker is regarded as a masterpiece by some, while other pundits feel there's a lot to be done.
This smart device has a metallic speaker grille with dotted designs spanning the halfway mark of the speaker. At the upper edge is an LED indicator which provides information on the volume levels or listening modes. It also helps you identify if there is any connectivity issue.
Tired of speaking to a machine? The Amazon Echo Plus has two buttons positioned at the top end of the device; one is for muting the mic and the other one is to activate "Alexa" without using voice command.
With a ZigBee smart home hub built in, you can connect smart-home devices, such as the Smart Philip Hue lights or a smart lock directly to the Echo Plus, without having to install a bridge or third-party smart home hub.
The Alexa app also allows you create a schedule for the lights to automatically turn on and off. This can also be done by giving Alexa a voice command.
With over 15,000 voice-activated functions referred to as "Skills", you can conveniently hold a conversation with this smart device. Alexa can play music from Amazon's owned music player app or through other third-party music stores like Spotify. You can also ask random questions and the device will attempt to provide a decent answer.
The Echo Plus comes with two new added functions. The Alexa app is now able to scan your contacts book to find email addresses associated with Amazon Echo devices that have enabled calls. This makes the process of contacting a friend or relative relatively easier (pun intended). All you have to do is give Alexa a voice command to make that call.
You can also create custom words or phrases for Alexa to trigger "routines" or schedule a number of assigned tasks to be carried out at once. For example, a "Good morning Alexa" command could be created which, when said, triggers Alexa to turn on the lights, give traffic updates, play a preselected song from your preferred music app, read newspaper headlines and control other smart home devices.
This is the main purpose of the smart device, right? It is a smart speaker with a 2.5-inch downward-firing woofer and 0.8-inch tweeter powered by Dolby, the sound it gives off is undoubtedly impressive.
The Amazon Echo Plus sounds a little sharper and produces sounds with more bass effects. When the volume is within the low to medium range, it produces crisp sounds, however, when the volume is increased, the sound quality suffers distortion.
The LED light ring at the top of the device gives a blue glow whenever Alexa is listening to your voice or processing a command and with its impressive array of seven inter-connected microphones, Alexa can hear you from anywhere in the room even when music is in play.


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The Carbohydrate Manifesto: Are Carbohydrates Good For You?
In the 1990s, fat was the black sheep of the nutrition family. Once the early 2000s rolled around, fat was given some slack (although not too much) and the blame for all things evil was put on carbohydrates. Everyone jumped on the low-carbohydrate diet bandwagon and began to see some weight loss results, but along with these results also came a lot of lasting misunderstandings. Well we're here to clear up those misconceptions and get down to the nitty gritty of what carbohydrates are and whether they should have a place in your diet.
What Exactly are Carbohydrates?
When people hear the word carbohydrates, they automatically have visions of bagels, muffins, and buttery toast dancing in their heads, but that's not the full story. While it's true that those foods contain a lot of carbohydrates, they're not the only ones. Carbohydrates are also found in healthier options like fruits, vegetables, and dairy products. The term "carbohydrate" can actually encompass everything from refined sugar to applesauce to carrots.
Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients that supply you with calories. On a chemical level, a carbohydrate is a unit of sugar. It can be a single sugar – called a monosaccharide; a double sugar – called a disaccharide; or a string of a bunch of sugars linked together – called a polysaccharide.
What Do Carbohydrates Do For You?
The major function of carbohydrates in the body is to provide you with energy. While it's true that you can get energy from the other macronutrients – protein and fat – your brain and your muscles prefer to run on the glucose they get from carbohydrates.
Should You Eat Carbohydrates?
The short answer to this is yes. Carbohydrates are not the enemy. It's the foods that seem to be the highest in carbohydrates that tend to contribute to weight gain; and that's why carbohydrates themselves get a bad rap. What you want to do is avoid foods that pack a huge carbohydrate load without offering much else in terms of nutrition – like the aforementioned bagels, crackers, cookies, muffins, toast, and croissants.
Good Carbs Versus Bad Carbs
We don't really like to assign foods into a "good carb" or "bad carb" category because a food is not just a carbohydrate. What you need to do is pay attention to the package you're getting. Is your food full of carbohydrates and sugar, but contains little vitamins and minerals? Skip it. Is your food full of carbohydrates, like fiber, but also packs a wallop in the nutrition department – offering essential vitamins, minerals, and enzymes (like an apple, for instance)? Enjoy.
Carbohydrate-Rich Foods to Eat:
Low-Fat Dairy Products
Whole grains, like oats and 100% whole wheat bread
Carbohydrate-Rich Foods to Avoid:
Sugar (soda)
Refined grains like white bread (bagels and muffins fall into this category), white rice, and white pasta
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Third-party pol LaRouche still second to none
David Kohn is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected] much everyone has a candidate to vote against tomorrow. The general reasons are widely known; Gore is a liar, Bush is an intellectual lightweight, Nader is a radical, Buchanan is a xenophobic isolationist. That's all fine. Our two-year-long election year has come down to its final 36 hours, and the cases for and against all sides pretty much have been made.
But there's one candidate running for president who I hope we can all agree not to vote for under any circumstances, and that is Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. LaRouche, according to his Web site, has run for president every four years since 1976. His lack of extensive publicity this year will keep him from getting many votes. This is a very good thing.
LaRouche's Web site is something of an amusing read. He calls Great Britain the "present world-capital of international terrorism." He accuses Queen Elizabeth II of being behind the political destabilization of Italy, the death of Princess Diana and the global drug trade. He writes dozens and dozens of pages about how the world financial system is on the verge of complete collapse, citing recent downswings in the market as proof of "the worst economic crash in three centuries."
His solution? Get rid of all your money so we can start an economic system based on something else. "It was only paper," he says.
As for a platform, he wants video games treated as controlled substances. He says youth violence is also caused by: a) J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the "Star Wars" movies, for "dehumanizing" the bad guys ("Do these creatures look human to you?" he asks.) and b) the replacement of the rule of law with "an arbitrary set of pseudo-scientific rules, like those of the popularized 'Star Trek' series," which galvanize the "prospective terrorist killer." Don't even talk to him about "Star Trek" video games.
I remember seeing some LaRouche supporters on campus a few weeks ago. They had a big poster on their car, the message of which was that both major candidates are essentially identical. To illustrate this, the poster depicted a rear view of Bush and Gore simultaneously lowering their pants and passing gas.
I was in a hurry as I rushed by, so I didn't get to talk to them. Probably a good thing, too; I can see myself grilling them for hours on end, just for the pure entertainment value. "You're supporting LaRouche? You realize that he blames every major historical event on a conspiracy? You don't? You knew that he blames military puppet-masters for creating violent video games, didn't you? Why haven't you read your own candidate's platform? What's the matter with you?"
Then, when I wanted to leave, I'd just turn to look at their car. "Oh, wait, what a cool picture! Wow! I never saw it that way. I'd better go encourage all my friends to vote for him. Bye."
I'm at a loss to figure out where his support is coming from. Most people making a statement vote for third-party candidates that people have heard of. I guess there are some voters who feel you're not really breaking from the status quo if you support a candidate who is sane.
So vote for whomever you've decided to vote for. Remember, it's not a wasted vote, and it's not a vote for mediocrity. It's really a vote against LaRouche.


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Paul Kennedy Ochieng was convicted of robbing a trader of his vehicle and goods valued at more than Sh1 million.
Ochieng has 14 days to lodge an appeal.
A police officer attached to Kirwara Police Station has been sentenced to death by a Kandara court after he was found guilty of violently robbing a trader of a vehicle and goods worth more than Sh1 million shillings.
Paul Kennedy Ochieng was charged that on February 13, 2017, jointly with others not before the court, with robbing Mr Kelvin Muriiria Nkiria of a vehicle valued at Sh600, 000 and goods (wines and spirits) worth Sh450, 000.
The court heard that the policeman had tricked the victim that the suspects needed to be supplied with wines and spirits but when the trader delivered the goods, they robbed him of his vehicle and the goods at gunpoint and threatened to kill him if he did not cooperate.
The policeman's superior officers complicated the matter for him after they disclosed to the court that the suspect had been associated himself directly or indirectly in crimes within the police jurisdiction where he served.
The court documents seen by the Nation showed that Ochieng' had been interdicted before over similar offences was in fact facing similar charges at the Maseno Law Courts.
But the 43-year-old officer told the court that he worked a diligent policeman and there was no way he could have committed the offense he was convicted of.
While delivering the judgment, Kandara Senior Resident Magistrate Manuela Kinyanjui sentenced the suspect to death and ordered the National Police Service to release his belongings to his wife.
"The law provides a mandatory sentence for the offense committed by the suspect and for this reason I do sentence the accused to death given that the evidence [brought] against him has convinced the court that he committed the offense," Mr Kinyanjui ruled.
The police officer, who comes from Mawengo village in Rachuonyo, Homa Bay County, has 14 days to lodge an appeal.


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The majority of adopted children who have the opportunity to meet their biological relatives experience the relief of filling the empty pages in their lives. They have the answers they always wanted and they can now move on.
These new relationships can become very important for them, adding a new dimension to their future, or, it may be that the experience of meeting their family proves to be something that they find they need to do just once, after which both sides mutually decide to go their own way.
The right to know our biological parents is a basic human right.


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Every day is "take me for a walk" day!! Happy trails and sniffing!!
Yes, it's definitely every day for a nice long walk!


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Soiled seat left in doctor's waiting room for a MONTH
Northern Health and Social Care Trust under fire again after GP called them about mess 'numerous times'
Lisa Smyth
The soiled chair wasn't dealt with, according to the GP
A faeces-stained chair was left for a month in a busy GP reception in a shocking health and safety failure, Belfast Live can reveal.
Cleaners employed by the troubled Northern Health and Social Care Trust failed to deal with the soiled furniture for four weeks.
Dr Allen McCullough, who works in the building, said he telephoned the Trust on numerous occasions to ask for the chair to be removed.
However, no action was taken.
He said: "That chair should never have been put there in the first place because it had a fabric covering which creates infection control issues but it seems to have been dumped there.
"I kept ringing domestic services but I was never able to speak to anyone who could help.
"I left messages but no one came back to me so after four weeks of trying domestic services and getting nowhere, I rang the Trust's complaint department.
"Once I did that the chair was collected within two hours.
"I told them I didn't want it back but it was returned anyway.
"They said it had been cleaned but you could still see the stain.
"At the end of the day, it was a fabric chair that had faeces on it and no matter how it has been cleaned, it should never have been brought back.
"It might seem like a small issue but these are the people who are running the health service and they can't even get this right."
It is the latest embarrassing failing by the Trust which has repeatedly come under fire for its management of Antrim Health Centre.
The building, which is owned by the Trust and leased to healthcare providers, has just undergone a face-lift after years of neglect.
Until recently, the sewers were emptied through a hose which was laid on carpet in the waiting area. Buckets hanging from the ceiling and lights to catch rainwater as a result of holes in the roof were also a common sight.
Despite the renovation work, Dr McCullough said the facility is not fit for purpose as many of the clinical areas are not wheelchair accessible. A spokeswoman from the Trust said according to records, a call was received at 12.30pm on January 8.
She said: "The chair was picked up by domestic services within two hours and was then deep-cleaned by an industrial cleaner using a recommended infection control substance, Difficil S, followed by a concentrated detergent which is also recommended for infection control purposes.
"The Trust acknowledges it is inappropriate to have a fabric chair in a health centre. Unfortunately, due to miscommunication the cleaned chair was returned to the health centre on February 2.
"As soon as the Trust was made aware of this the chair was again picked up and is no longer in the health centre."