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Arkansas Scores a First in Rivals Recruiting Era with Latest Standout Commitment
Brad Spence is the third linebacker in Arkansas' 2023 recruiting class. (photo credit: Twitter/@BradSpence_)
The good times continue to roll on the recruiting trail for Arkansas football, as the Razorbacks have landed yet another one of their top targets.
Brad Spence, a high three-star linebacker from Texas, announced his pledge to Arkansas on Tuesday, picking the Hogs over Texas and California. He is the Razorbacks' 22nd commitment in the 2023 class.
A talented athlete out of Klein Forest High School in Houston, Spence had a slew of offers, which he narrowed down to a top 10 list that also included Utah, Mississippi State, Arizona State, Missouri, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Duke.
Living not too far away from Austin, he was able to take multiple unofficial visits to check out the Longhorns this spring before taking official visits to Arkansas and Cal on back-to-back weekends in June. He was in Fayetteville the weekend of June 10-12.
Listed at 6-foot-3, 220 pounds, Spence is a two-time first-team all-district performer for the Eagles, who compete in Texas' largest classification. That includes a stellar junior season in which he racked up 72 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, 6 pass breakups and 7 quarterback hurries.
"You're going to be getting a guy that just dominates in run stopping and rushing the passer," HawgBeat's Alex Trader said in a video reacting to Spence's commitment. "He really is an aggressive player. He's going to go after it. He knows where he needs to be to fill those holes as well as being able to get to the quarterback very, very quickly."
Although Spence previously said he'd be fine with being a stand-up defensive end or an outside linebacker in college, Spence is being recruited by the Razorbacks for the latter, with linebackers coach Michael Scherer serving as his primary recruiter.
Despite all of his success on the field, Spence was a relatively late bloomer on the recruiting trail. In fact, Arkansas didn't even offer him until Feb. 17 — after which he'd received well over half of his 32 total offers.
That was after a strong showing at the National Combine in San Antonio in January, during which he also caught the attention of Rivals' recruiting analyst Cole Patterson.
"Spence more than held his own against top offensive linemen and consistently stood out in the Alamodome," Patterson wrote after the prestigious event, which annually showcases some of the country's top underclassmen. "His quickness off the edge and ability to win one-on-one situations caused him to have one of the better days from any defender."
Brad Spence again impressed Patterson a couple of months later at an Under Armour camp in Dallas. There, the analyst specifically commented on Spence's "long arms" and "great frame to grow into."
#Texas targets Brad Spence vs. Connor Stroh pic.twitter.com/n5M1iWVLES
— Cole Patterson (@RivalsCole) March 13, 2022
Those impressive performances on the camp circuit helped Spence evolve into a legit high three-star prospect on most services. Rivals gave him a 5.7 rating, which is just below the 5.8 four-star status, and ranked him the No. 30 overall outside linebacker in the country.
On3 and 247Sports each consider him an edge rusher, giving him an 88 and 85 three-star grade, respectively. The On3 Consensus — which weights all of the services equally — ranks him as the 54th best edge rusher in the class.
The Razorbacks' 22 commitments in 2023 are tied with Baylor for the third-most among Power Five programs, trailing only Duke (25) and Texas Tech (23). The group has doubled in size over the last three-plus weeks, with 11 players jumping on board since June 19.
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Arkansas Football Becoming Attractive Spot for Linebackers
Arkansas used a three-man rotation for its two linebacker spots last season, with Grant Morgan, Hayden Henry and Bumper Pool playing more than 93 percent of the total snaps at the position.
Each of them made 100-plus tackles and gave the Razorbacks their best overall group of linebackers in decades — even though a couple of them weren't particularly heralded prior to arriving in Fayetteville.
Originally a walk-on from Greenwood, Morgan was a second-team All-American in 2020 and the Burlsworth Trophy winner last season. Sandwiched between his four-star brothers, Henry was a two-star blueshirt recruit before becoming a starter as a super senior. Then there was Pool, a former four-star prospect who earned second-team All-SEC honors last year.
During the offseason, Arkansas landed former five-star recruit Drew Sanders as a transfer from Alabama. He told reporters that one reason he picked the Razorbacks was the productivity of their linebackers.
It seems like high school recruits are taking notice, too. Arkansas now has three linebackers committed for 2023 and each of them are solid prospects.
Before Spence, the Razorbacks landed four-star outside linebacker Carson Dean from Texas and high three-star inside linebacker Alex Sanford from Mississippi. Much like Spence, both of them had multiple other SEC offers and each member of the trio has at least a 5.7 rating on Rivals.
Since Rivals went to that rating system in 2004, it's the first time Arkansas has ever landed three linebackers of that caliber in the same class. In fact, the only other time it signed more than one with a rating of 5.7 or better was 2012, when it inked Otha Peters (5.8) and A.J. Turner (5.7).
It's still early, but Scherer – despite being a first-time position coach – and defensive coordinator Barry Odom appear to be making Arkansas a destination for linebackers, similar to how it's been for running backs and offensive linemen in recent years. That's an impressive development considering how difficult it's been for the Razorbacks to build quality depth at the position.
With three guys already on board for this class, Scherer and the Razorbacks can also shift their focus to 2024. They've already hosted several of the top linebackers in that class and can now really zero in on them.
"A massive, massive pickup for linebackers coach Michael Scherer and for the rest of the defense, as well," Trader said. "Because it does likely shore up this linebacker room and provide Scherer with a chance to move on to a 2024 class that Arkansas looks to be really pushing and have a chance to get some positive momentum early."
See Brad Spence in action here:
Family Affair for Brad Spence
Similar to fellow 2023 commit TJ Metcalf, whose younger brother — 2024 athlete Tevis Metcalf — is being recruited by Arkansas, Spence also has a sibling the Razorbacks hope eventually joins him in Fayetteville.
Already listed at 6-foot-3, 210 pounds as a rising sophomore, Trent Spence is another edge rusher/outside linebacker prospect in the Class of 2025. Arkansas gave him his first scholarship offer during his older brother's official visit and Cal followed suit the next weekend.
Even though he's still pretty young, it's probably a safe bet that the offer will prove to be a good one for the Razorbacks.
Not only is his older brother a highly recruited prospect, but their father, Armand Spence, was a linebacker at Oklahoma in the late-1990s. Like his two sons, Armand Spence was listed as a defensive lineman/linebacker coming out of Christian Brothers in St. Louis in the 1997 class.
Updated Arkansas Recruiting Ranking for 2023
Rivals: No. 6 overall / No. 2 in SEC
247Sports: No. 7 / No. 2
247Sports Composite: No. 10 / No. 4
On3 Consensus: No. 15 / No. 5
The Razorbacks currently have a top-10 class, but where will they end up in the recruiting rankings? Experts weigh in…
Otis Kirk Predicts Where 2023 Arkansas Recruiting Class Will Finish in National Rankings
Arkansas Recruiting Class of 2023
TE Shamar Easter — Ashdown (Ark.)
TE Jaden Hamm — Eudora (Kan.)
OL Joey Su'a — Bentonville (Ark.)
CB Dallas Young — Gardendale (Ala.)
DE Kaleb James — Mansfield (Texas)
TE Luke Hasz — Bixby (Okla.)
DE Quincy Rhodes — North Little Rock (Ark.)
LB Carson Dean — Carrollton (Texas) Hebron
OL Luke Brown — Paris (Tenn.) Henry County
QB Malachi Singleton — Kennesaw (Ga.) North Cobb
RB Isaiah Augustave — Naples (Fla.)
S Christian Ford — McKinney (Texas)
DT Ian Geffrard — Mableton (Ga.) Whitefield Academy
CB RJ Johnson — McDonough (Ga.) Eagle's Landing Christian
LB Alex Sanford — Oxford (Miss.)
DT Stephen Johnson — Fayetteville (Ga.) Whitewater
S TJ Metcalf — Pinson (Ala.) Valley
ATH Dylan Hasz — Bixby (Okla.)
OL Paris Patterson — East St. Louis (Ill.)
ATH Micah Tease — Tulsa (Okla.) Booker T. Washington
CB Jaylon Braxton — Frisco (Texas) Lone Star
LB Brad Spence — Houston (Texas) Klein Forest
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What's the Appeal of Mishima Yukio? – Everything is Oll Korrect!
It's a fair question, and one that I could have dodged by saying I just like his novels. I certainly do love his novels, but that isn't what first attracted me to his work. Rather, my first exposure to him came in my days as a college-age delinquent. He was one of a handful of authors in the university library's small section for Japanese language and literature, and since I didn't have a lot of time I grabbed the shortest book there, Sun and Steel.
How many lazy men's truths have been admitted in the name of imagination! How often has the term imagination been used to prettify the unhealthy tendency of the soul to soar off in a boundless quest after truth, leaving the body where it always was! … And when this type of arrogance of the imagination links together the artist's act of expression and its accomplices, there comes into existence a kind of fictional "thing" – the work of art — and it is this interference from a large number of such "things" that has steadily perverted and altered reality. As a result, men end up by coming into contact only with shadows and lose the courage to make themselves at home with the tribulations of their own flesh.
Here we move a little closer to answering my friend's question. Reading Mishima, I sensed that his obsession with death was not a nihilistic fixation or a fetish. Rather, perhaps a noble death is something of an aesthetic concern? Mishima grew up during the Pacific War, and was surrounded by men going off to die heroically. Going back to Sun and Steel, he relates his observations after reading letters written by kamikaze pilots at a museum exhibit. The letters were full of clichés about duty and honour and destroying the enemy, all the equivalents of "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," and yet "ready-made though they might have been, they were special words, set at a height loftier than any commonplace action could ever attain… They were not simply beautiful phrases, but a constant summons to superhuman behaviour." He goes on to refer to a classical model of heroism, which is a physical ideal that also rests on these "ready-made" concepts.
Such phrases about duty or honour or strength are "lost to us nowadays." Mishima wanted a heroic death, but how does one attain this in peacetime, and especially in an age of decadence?
This, at least, is what I got out of Sun and Steel, a means of revolt against the modern world. Life in liberal modernity is soft, easy; there is nothing heroic in working a dull office job, growing fat, and living for oneself within an atomised "nation" with no sense of the transcendent. One way out is to grow hard, live a more ascetic lifestyle, work muscles one doesn't need. Ideally, ones church should provide some sense of the transcendent, but modern Christians are more concerned with tolerance than truth, and I sensed that my childhood heroes, men like Alfred the Great or Richard Lionheart, in some important way had more in common with this Japanese pagan than they did with the diocesan bishop.
I had never cared much for my body; I spent hardly any time playing sports as a boy and disliked working out. Why would I care about such things? It seemed pointless, but suddenly Mishima gave me a reason to care about them.
So, what should we make of his suicide? Why does it seem heroic, rather than a sin of despair or the act of a madman? In part there's a cultural difference – seppuku could serve as a final, desperate admonition from a samurai to his lord, and this was likely Mishima's intention – a desperate urging to restore Japan's traditional, martial virtues and restore imperial authority.
That gives a context to Mishima's suicide that allows me to understand it to some extent, but one can understand an action without admiring it. Why would I not simply consider this a noble-minded but grotesque and ultimately fruitless attempt at glory? I came upon an answer when I remembered that in the Divine Comedy, Dante placed Cato at the gates of Purgatory. At first, this seems extremely odd – Cato had fought for the same cause that had landed Brutus and Cassius in the deepest level of Hell with Satan and Judas Iscariot. Furthermore, he'd committed suicide, and Dante had earlier passed through a circle of Hell just for that very sin.
The key, I believe, is that Cato killed himself to emphasise the importance of law and liberty, to demonstrate that it is better to die free than live as a slave. In other words, Cato killed himself not out of despair, but out of zeal for the good of rule of law, and though he expressed this zeal in decidedly pagan fashion, Dante could see the virtue and moral reasoning, however imperfect, at work.
So with Mishima. While it's popular to engage in amateur psychoanalysis when discussing Mishima's life and death, I think his stated reasoning was genuine, and that's what resonates with me. Like Cato, his action was flawed, but he was right to protest strongly against the decadence of liberal modernity, and to urge a renewed devotion to the emperor.
One may object that this approach tends toward a moral relativism, that it follows from this that an action is good as long as one's intentions are good. However, I'll emphasise that I make no defense of suicide in itself, and again, I do believe that it is inherently evil. We must, however, take some account of circumstances in judging such things; while it ought to be strongly discouraged everywhere, Japan does have an unfortunate tradition of viewing suicide honourably.
Besides, if it's good enough an explanation for Dante, it's good enough for me.


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Words matter. When it comes to talking about the ecological and climate predicaments we already live with or see coming down the tracks — and sharing ideas about how we should respond to these urgent priorities and their ramifications — our different interpretations of those words can entangle us in disagreement, confusion and competing visions. They can also enrich our conversations and lead us to reappraise some of our ideas and choices.
A diversity of meanings
What do we mean by 'environment' or 'climate'? What do we imagine 'change' involves: whether those changes that some people and places are already experiencing, those that others are fearing or maybe feel indifferent to, or the changes we want to make in order to tackle the problems? Is it a 'climate crisis', a 'climate emergency' or a 'climate breakdown', an 'extinction catastrophe' or some other verbal shorthand for what we're living through? The diversity of ideas, and of our language and other ways of expressing the times we're in, is at the core of ClimateCultures. A diversity of imaginings of where and how we are and what might be.
The idea of 'keywords' is one way into exploring the varied but shared landscape of our changing natural and social worlds and climate.
We are delighted to be part of a short interdisciplinary project created by the University of Bristol, whose Centre for Environmental Humanities is one of a growing network of such academic centres that bring fresh literary, artistic and historical perspectives to the issues from beyond (but informed by) the expanding natural and physical and social sciences of the 'environment'. This Environmental Keywords project — which has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council — is led by Dr Paul Merchant, Co-Director of the Centre and Senior Lecturer in Latin American Film and Visual Culture in the School of Modern Languages.
The project focuses on three keywords, three half-day workshops in Bristol to explore these words, and online content here at ClimateCultures.
Keywords, local workshops
The local workshops were facilitated by Anna Haydock-Wilson, who organises arts activities and events within diverse communities that bring people together to explore social and environmental realities, enjoy creative processes and help to amplify under-represented voices. These small, friendly events offered a space for conversations between researchers from different departments and disciplines across the University of Bristol, representatives of local community groups, and creative practitioners — for example members of ClimateCultures and Bristol Climate Writers.
'Justice' — Wednesday 16th February 2022
'Resilience' — Wednesday 9th March 2022
'Transitions' – Thursday 24th March 2022
Anna made this short Environmental Keywords film with Paul and fellow workshop participants:
Each word, selected because of its resonance with so many of our social and environmental priorities, has been a contested and critical focus for local, national and global attention — not least the COP26 global climate change conference in Glasgow in November 2021. Together, these three words — and so many more — inform agendas for action. But whose agenda and what action? There are at least as many answers to those questions as there are meanings of the words themselves.
Photograph: Anna Haydock-Wilson © 2022
All three events began with a 'Walk and Talk' in a different local area of Bristol, where participants met, explored ideas of justice, resilience and transitions and made personal notes about what these mean in an environmental context. Everyone then gathered back at the venue to share their perspectives, and take part in role-playing and mapping activities to help bring these views together.
After the first workshop, on 'Justice' at the Easton Community Centre in Bristol, project leader Paul Merchant said:
I was really happy with how this first workshop went. I thought that our walk and activities revealed unexpected common points of view across disciplinary and professional differences, and I'm looking forward to building on our ideas for an environmentally fairer Bristol in the next session. Given today's events with Storm Eunice, 'Resilience' seems a timely theme!
— Dr Paul Merchant, Co-Director of the Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol
Towards an 'Undisciplined Glossary'
On these pages, ClimateCultures will be following up on some of the ideas from the workshops, with editor Mark Goldthorpe speaking one-to-one with the participants to help with this. He explains: "With this project, as well as the workshops, we're seeing if we can develop the beginnings of what we're calling an 'Undisciplined Glossary' for these keywords.
"The idea of a 'glossary' is intended to be a 'proof of concept': proposing the idea that our different creative practices as well as our many academic disciplines and lived experiences can together offer a range or spectrum of interpretations of the words we all use a lot but often use in different ways and contexts. The idea of this glossary is not to seek to narrow down our descriptions towards something singular but to keep them open, while giving us a space where we're not just talking past each other when we use our own versions of these words. So this glossary might be 'undisciplined' as well as interdisciplinary, in the sense that it wouldn't aim to convince everyone of its meanings and strive for a final consensus. Not only is this too small a project for that grand aim, but that desire to come to a quick agreement — although understandable in the face of urgent issues — risks closing down the conversation just when we need to hold it open and invite in different voices and views. Disciplines have great strength and value in how we build and expand our knowledge and how we communicate that, so it's clear that every discipline will arrive at its own definitions and ways of speaking to itself and others. As such, 'undisciplining' something like a glossary hopefully is not seen as being 'anti-disciplines' but as a way of holding open the borders and the in-between spaces so that we can explore the possibilities of the interstices. Gaps from which more understanding can emerge."
So look out for new content on our blog and in our new Keywords section as this work takes shape over the next few weeks and beyond. Mark is contacting the first set of workshop participants now and will be sharing insights, ideas and prompts for discussion here very soon — with an invitation for other artists, curators and researchers to join in the conversation.
Environmental Keywords on the ClimateCultures blog
Walking With the Word 'Justice'
ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe reflects on some of the participants' insights from a workshop exploring the word 'Justice'. This was the first in the short Environmental Keywords series from the University of Bristol during February and March 2022.
Permeability: On Green Frogs, Imagination & Reparations
Responding to our first Environmental Keywords post on 'Justice', writer Brit Griffin shares a reflection on permeability — in the natural membranes of the living world, in our binary concepts and in our imaginations — as a reaching towards the more-than-human.
Growing With the Word 'Resilience'
ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe reflects on some of the participants' encounters and experiences at a workshop exploring the word 'Resilience', the second in the short Environmental Keywords series from the University of Bristol during February and March 2022.
A Nature More Resilient
Responding to our Environmental Keywords post on 'Resilience', psychotherapist Susan Holliday uses a story from her book Hidden Wonders of the Human Heart to seek a more resilient nature, finding signs that collective stresses need not overwhelm us.
Moving With the Word 'Transitions'
ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe shares participants' reflections from a workshop exploring the word 'Transitions' – the final Environmental Keywords discussion from the University of Bristol – and the sense that we need better words to capture our imaginations.
The End of the World? Let's Be Honest
Writer Philip Webb Gregg embraces our Environmental Keywords theme on Transitions with an urgent call to abandon our language of endings for one of beginnings, where we embrace the deepest change: a radical transition to more honest stories.
Taking the Conversation Forward — Creative Responses
In these pages, you can explore more from our contributors on all three keywords with extracts from creative pieces, links to books, papers and other resources, and quotes — examples that perhaps suggest paths towards possible definitions. In these three pages — which are receiving new content as the project continues — you will find more than 30 creative contributions from a selection of the diverse ClimateCultures membership:
Nadine Andrews, Iain Biggs, Chantal Bilodeau, Julian Bishop, Helen Cann, Rajat Chaudhuri, Paul Feather, Brit Griffin, Stanley Grill, Mick Haining, Hayley Harrison, Alan J Hesse, Susan Holliday, Bill Jackson, Jacqui Jones, Neil Kitching, Ivilina Kouneva, Jennifer Leach, Rosalind Lowry, Bill McGuire, Indigo Moon, Helen Moore, Genevieve Rudd, David Thorpe & Yky.
All ClimateCultures members and other visitors to our site are invited to offer their own insights and responses, ideas and examples. Do let us have your thoughts, questions suggestions and examples via the Leave a Reply box on the posts or via our Contact page.
The ClimateCultures Archive
2023 Members' Posts

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[Iran / November 29, 2016]
(For more context, consider first reading the entry from Mashhad.)
Tehran is not my kind of city, and for most Iranians I talked to who weren't from there, it's more a necessity than a pleasure of life for them. This city/metropolitan area of 9/16 million is one of the larger ones in the world, comparable to New York (8/20 million) and feeling a whole lot like it in terms of sheer population. An expansive metro runs all over the city, completely packed at all hours of the day, making getting around town feel a whole lot more like going to work. It's worse on the roads too, as traffic has made Tehran one of the most air-polluted cities in the world; the days before our arrival (which thankfully coincided with rain to clear it up), the air was so polluted that schools were closed and depending on who you ask, between 400 and 1000 people actually died of pollution-related causes. That's absolutely crazy. There are actually some plans to move the capital of Iran to another city in the future because of this.
(Speaking of New York, in my Tehran hostel, I randomly met someone who turned out to be a friend of a friend. I didn't know him before, and they're coworkers in New York. What can I say other than to repeat myself… it's a small world. This isn't the first time I've had such weird run ins.)
For me, visiting Tehran wasn't really necessary (though it was for Tom and his visa extension, and I tagged along), but an intriguing little add-on for the sake of its importance to Iran.
Tehran, as the capital and representative of the country's government in news media, is always talked about in an antagonistic manner, hardline and conservative, strict particularly on women. But as I was expecting (albeit a little too early, in conservative Mashhad), many young people themselves flout this narrative. Plenty of women walk around in body-hugging coats and jeans rather than tent-like chadors, wearing makeup to the extreme, pulling their hijabs loose scarves lightly draped over their heads as far back as possible to the point where they practically aren't wearing them. Even stranger still, as we also saw in other cities, lots of women (and even men) sport a curious-looking bandage on their noses, a sign they've either had or want to pretend they've had plastic surgery.
There's a more varied and upscale restaurant and cafe scene here, too, with more choice beyond typical Iranian food — though we did choose Iranian food, since it seemed done better here than elsewhere. And in the cafes in particular, we could see further "moral defiance": women openly smoking and singing in public. Gasp! I'm genuinely impressed.
But of course, this is still Iran. The government still portrays the country the way it wants to.
The past regimes portrayed their might with wealth. We paid a visit to the National Treasury of Jewellery, located inside a bank vault. (Sadly, no cameras or phones allowed.) Easily the most extravagant collection of anything I've ever seen, and likely one of the most extraordinary collections of jewellery in the world, every item inside was covered in expensive stuff. Brooches, necklaces, outfits, crowns, candlesticks, boxes, dishes, ladles (probably pretty impractical), hookah pipes, swords, beds, thrones, an umbrella (I can't imagine that ever being durable enough to be worthy of supporting so many expensive things), even a globe — all slathered in gold and dotted with precious stones of all colours and diamonds. So many stones and diamonds, in fact, that there were just piles of them leftover as an afterthought in some of the display cases. And some of the wearable things were so overloaded to the point of not really being pretty or elegant at all, just a way to flash wealth. With such a vast array of wearable items though, picking outfits each day must have taken quite some time! And I have to wonder, some of those things were probably laboured on for ages only to be used once, then forgotten…
The current regime, on the other hand, chooses to portray itself as fighters for justice.
It seems that in their eyes, the Iranian Islamic Revolution hasn't ended. I've already touched on this stuff in the Mashhad entry, but in addition to all that, all over the country and especially in Tehran, pictures of martyrs still adorn walls and billboards, and banners on street lamps continue to push for the fight against so-called American imperialism.
The centre of all of this is in the former American Embassy, closed since 1979. The exterior is an unsubtle hint of what it is now: the outer wall is covered in anti-American graffiti commissioned by the Iranian government, and the courtyard now a temporary exhibit for the third annual Down With America poster contest, proudly linked to "Hezbollah Cyber" if you look on the website, which was QR-code linked on every poster displayed. You gotta admit, some of those entries are pretty cute and clever. And while they rightfully point out the double-standards of America (and just plain overdo it at other times), it doesn't take much more than a second to realise that this is a pot-kettle-black situation.
The embassy building itself has long been closed to the public — until just a mere month and a half ago, that is! It's now turned into a free museum, and a friendly but serious old man guided us through. Taking us to the top floor of the building, he took us through rooms that were clearly used for spying purposes: a glass room lined with tin foil, metres-thick doors only openable based on the weight of the person, a place for secret intel to be transmitted anonymously, telephone eavesdropping equipment, blueprints of the shah's palace (bearing in mind that the Americans had propped up this shah as a puppet, against the previous democratically-elected government). There are even classified documents shredded during the hostage crisis that the Iranian students who took over the embassy managed to painstakingly reassemble: they're still classified in the US. Clearly, this was not some innocuous embassy, and the evidence is damning.
Our guide explained everything in the gravest manner possible. According to him, everything America does is for one of two reasons: money or Israel. (He really, really kept hammering on that point, attempting to link every significant event or grievance to one of the two reasons. Bit of a stretch sometimes, especially when he started spouting off some really weird, random conspiracy theories I had never heard of.) We passed through a hallway full of posters depicting how "this is what democracy in America looks like": bombings and bloody victims in the Middle East, injustices against black people, the impunity of shooting down an Iranian passenger plane over Iranian airspace (and the awarding of a medal to the navy captain who ordered the strike). This… is all true.
Continuing, our guide called the embassy storming a wholly necessary event to root out spying. And in the benevolence of the hostage-takers, all embassy staff who were women or black were eventually released (and as a condition, used in a propaganda video against the American government, praising the Islamic Revolution). We passed through another hallway of posters praising Iran's achievements, in scientific and technological endeavours, along with the freedom of its people. Outside were also the remains of a downed American helicopter and some more spying equipment found after the embassy takeover.
Iran has now not had any relationship at all with the United States since 1979. In the meantime, Iran's version of human rights and democracy (underneath the absolute power of the Supreme Leader/ayatollah) has involved highly restricted freedom of speech, arresting protestors, extensive use of torture, restriction of movement for men who haven't completed military service or paid the fine for not doing so, and denying equal rights to women (can't attend sporting matches "since men are wearing shorts", can't perform in public if there are men present, can't break the dress code, list goes on), to name a few examples. And of course, the act of storming a foreign embassy and taking hostages (and state support for it) is hardly a moral thing, even despite the circumstances.
It's not helping when America keeps giving Iran "moral ammunition", so to speak, to cover up for their own problems, but at this same time, it's now approaching 40 years and it's hard to see this demonisation and focusing on past grudges holding much weight with the younger generation.
It doesn't. Through the many conversations I've had with Iranians, whether people on buses or in stations or in restaurants or offering me a cup of tea, they're frustrated. Sure, while most seemed to love America yet some of them aren't fans of America in the slightest, regardless of their opinion, many expressed to me a desire to move to America (better upward mobility, better passport), and expressed extreme pessimism about the state of their country. They acknowledge that their government has made them safe from terrorism, but are frustrated by the theocracy. One man I met went on to curse (in English) the still-flying Muharram flags and a woman in a chador, after she had passed us by. Even to me, that was a little over the top. About the spying that led to the hostage crisis, he said, "Who cares? Everyone spies on everyone."
It can't all be that bad. At the same time, I met other Iranians who had moved back from abroad back to Iran. They simply enjoy the lifestyle here. Even those who told me they wished to gain American citizenship also mentioned the possibility of coming back to Iran after. I may not be a fan of Tehran due to its massive crowds, but it does have its charms, as does the rest of the country. Much of the youth in cities are highly educated and worldly in their outlook, with a creative class that has led to some impressive architecture and open spaces. (I mean, there are Iranian hipsters. That says a lot.) Things are cheaper, food is great, social life buzzes in cafes and teahouses and streets and bazaars, entertainment abounds if you look in the right places, nature ranging from the sea to snowy mountains to deserts to lush hills are all in close range. If you're willing to put up with a fair few inconveniences and an intrusive government, there can be an appealing quality of life.
But that can't survive if all of the youth want to leave and do so, and if Iran further isolates itself. Other countries isolating it doesn't help either: look at Canada, for example. Our government chose to completely break off relations with Iran all of a sudden in 2012, closing the embassy and kicking out the Iranian one from Ottawa. Not that relations were ever good in the first place: for one, Canada played a significant role in the 1979 hostage crisis, rescuing six escaped embassy staff in a complicated ruse involving a fake film, real Canadian passports, and major risk to the Canadians who harboured the Americans. (You may recognise this as the plot of the film Argo, which apparently took a lot of creative license and understated Canadian involvement, to much criticism. I can't say for sure, I haven't watched it yet!) And Iran also tortured an Iranian-Canadian female journalist, Zahra Kazemi, to death in 2003 and never took responsibility. But why break things off in 2012, to the benefit of no one (and detriment to Iranians looking to Canada) especially as such a bit-player in global affairs, when nothing happened? Who knows.
Our current government is now trying to restart relations. There's a long road ahead, and Canada still has many qualms about Iran that won't be settled even if fences are mended. On the other hand, much of the Iranian people want change. They'll get there someday, I hope. Perhaps in the meantime, we can strive to be an example of that change, engaging with those with a hope to take part, and keep the door open.
For a more in-depth look inside the former US embassy of Iran, check these pages out.
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import sqlalchemy as SA
import time
import tornado.web

import core.db as db
from core.mail import MailQueue
from core.requesthandler import RequestHandler
import core.util
from core.xmppclient import XMPPQueue

class RemoveRequestServlet(RequestHandler):

    @tornado.web.asynchronous
    def post(self):
        if not self.current_user:
            return self.send_error(403)
        self.pushid = core.util.get_int_arg(self.request, 'push')
        self.requestid = self.request.arguments.get('request', [])
        select_query = db.push_requests.select().where(
            db.push_requests.c.id.in_(self.requestid)
        )
        update_query = db.push_requests.update().where(SA.and_(
            db.push_requests.c.id.in_(self.requestid),
            SA.exists([1], SA.and_(
                db.push_pushcontents.c.push == self.pushid,
                db.push_pushcontents.c.request == db.push_requests.c.id,
            )),
        )).values({'state':'requested'})
        delete_query = db.push_pushcontents.delete(SA.and_(
            db.push_pushcontents.c.push == self.pushid,
            db.push_pushcontents.c.request.in_(self.requestid),
        ))
        db.execute_transaction_cb([select_query, update_query, delete_query], self.on_db_complete)

    # allow both GET and POST
    get = post

    def on_db_complete(self, success, db_results):
        self.check_db_results(success, db_results)

        reqs, _, _ = db_results
        removal_dicts = []
        for req in reqs:
            msg = (
                """

                    %(pushmaster)s has removed your request from a push:

                    %(user)s - %(title)s

                    %(repo)s/%(branch)s

                    Regards,

                    PushManager

"""
                ) % core.util.EscapedDict({
                    'pushmaster': self.current_user,
                    'user': req['user'],
                    'title': req['title'],
                    'repo': req['repo'],
                    'branch': req['branch'],
                })
            subject = "[push] %s - %s" % (req['user'], req['title'])
            MailQueue.enqueue_user_email([req['user']], msg, subject)
            msg = '%(pushmaster)s has removed your request "%(title)s" from a push' % {
                    'pushmaster': self.current_user,
                    'title': req['title'],
                    'pushid': self.pushid,
                }
            XMPPQueue.enqueue_user_xmpp([req['user']], msg)
            removal_dicts.append({
                'request': req['id'],
                'push': self.pushid,
                'reason': 'removal after %s' % req['state'],
                'pushmaster': self._current_user,
                'timestamp': int(time.time()),
            })

        removal_queries = [db.push_removals.insert(removal) for removal in removal_dicts]
        db.execute_transaction_cb(removal_queries, self.on_db_insert_complete)

    def on_db_insert_complete(self, success, db_results):
        if not success:
            self.send_error(500)
        self.finish()


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Alameda D. Edwards
Published 3:45 pm Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Alameda Driver Gorham Leggett Edwards, age 92, slipped away peacefully at her home on the first day of this New Year following a brief illness. She was a resident of Washington, NC. Due to dangers of the pandemic, services will be restricted to a private graveside service for family members at Oakdale Cemetery. Reggie Braziel, of Old Ford Church of Christ, will officiate. The family will hold an open memorial service at a later date.
Daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, Mrs. Edwards was born on April 13, 1928, in Beaufort County, NC. She was the cherished daughter of Stewart Marvin Leggett and Lillian Pearl Hodges Leggett. She graduated from Washington High School and attended East Carolina Teacher's College. She caught the eye of returning veteran Lieutenant Joseph Oswald Edwards, Jr., and they were married on October 28, 1947. He preceded her in death in 1984. She dedicated her life to her family and community as a homemaker and caregiver and was a life-long member of Old Ford Church of Christ even though she lived for many years in Michigan where she raised her family.
Survivors include her children Sharon Wade (Felix) of Ohio, Shannon Edwards (Peter Giller) of Queensland, Australia, and Joseph Edwards III (Marcia) of Illinois; four granddaughters, Lauren Wade (Frank Kaminski), Lindsay Wade, Joanne Clark, and Marie Hopper (Zane), and five great-grandchildren, Madison Clark, Christopher and Clara Cox, and Azara and Alma Hopper. She also leaves two beloved nieces, Linda Twaddell of Washington, NC, and Lou Thompson of Oklahoma. In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by her brother, Marvin Hodges Leggett.
If you wish to honor her memory, please consider a contribution to the Old Ford Church of Christ, Vidant Home Health and Hospice, an animal shelter of your choice, or the National Audubon Society, in lieu of flowers.
Online condolences may be offered to the family by visiting www.paulfuneralhome.com
Paul Funeral Home & Crematory is honored to serve the Edwards family.
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Pope Francis to visit Ireland in 2018
Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny (AP)
Pope Francis will visit Ireland in 2018, the Irish prime minister has confirmed.
Pope Francis met Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Vatican on Monday, with the Irish prime minister tweeting after the meeting that the Pope will visit Dublin for the World Meeting of Families.
Pope Francis has been an important voice for the young, the poor & disadvantaged – glad he will visit Ireland in 2018 pic.twitter.com/vSn16otMAA
— Enda Kenny (@EndaKennyTD) November 28, 2016
Kenny had travelled to the Vatican to formally give his support to the proposed papal visit. The Irish Bishops' Conference had previously extended the invitation to the Pontiff.
Meanwhile, some Irish government officials have said the timing of the papal visit could be "inappropriate" because it may coincide with a referendum on abortion law.
The Transport, Tourism and Sport Minister Shane Ross told The Times: "I think it would probably be inappropriate for [Pope Francis] to come at exactly the same time as the referendum. I do not see that happening, I think it would be a bit of a faux pas."
The Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution was introduced in 1983. Effectively, the amendment bans abortion.
The amendment states: "The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."
A 67 per cent majority passed the amendment in a referendum. Four subsequent referendums about abortion have upheld the unborn child's right to life.
In the run-up to the 2016 election, major parties committed to holding another referendum to repeal the amendment. A date for the latest referendum is not yet set.
After the meeting, Kenny presented the Pope with a print by artist Harry Clarke, while Pope Francis gave the taoiseach with an etching of St Peter's Basilica.
abortion law
Archbishop criticises proposed changes to Northern Ireland's abortion law
Archbishop Eamon Martin says says Church will put forward 'a robust defence of the right to life'
Pope Francis to visit Mexico in February, says cardinal
Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera has reportedly confirmed that the Pontiff will begin his visit to the country on February 12
Ireland to hold abortion vote weeks before papal visit
Leo Varadkar told MPs the government has agreed an 'indicative timeline'


Taken using a hand-held Olympus OM-D EM-5 fitted with an Olympus Zuiko 14-42mm M Zuiko 14-42mm EZ 1:3.5-5.6 lens set to 26mm, Manual mode, Daylight WB, ISO200, f/9.0, 1/250 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Olympus RAW/ORG source file: set final image size to be 8000px wide, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover highlight detail and a little of the shadow detail, decrease Lightness and slightly increase Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, set white balance to Daylight (5300K) sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Here is another vintage camera image from the stash. This is a composite showing the top view of a 1965 Minolta Autocord CDS and in the viewfinder area is an image of the front view of the same camera, much like if it were taking an image of a similar camera. This is a 120 roll film twin lense reflex/TLR camera. The bottom lense is for placing an image on the film, and the matching top lense focuses on the ground glass (after being bent 90 degrees by a mirror – hence reflex and also why images in the viewfinder are reversed left-to-right). This model allows you to meter the scene using a built-in CDS light meter. These cameras were beautifully made and using them leads to a somewhat different perspective on your subject, particularly when shooting people as in street photography. For some examples of this style of photography, check out some of the work by Vivian Maier ( www.vivianmaier.com/ ). It should be noted that she use a Rolleiflex which is a similar body type. And, yes it is fully operational.
Taken in ambient room light from a mix of overhead LED and fluorescent lighting. Two images were captured, one of the top view of the camera and the other of a front view. The images were composited to show the front view image in the location of the ground-glass viewing area in the top view.
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with an AF Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8D lense, ISO100, daylight WB, Aperture priority mode, f/10.0, 3 sec with an EV-0.67 exposure bias (because of the black background and body), and this was repeated for the front view. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: resize top view image to produce a result 9000px wide, enable shadows/highlights and recover highlight detail and a bit of shadow detail, sharpen (edges only), save. Repeat the process for the front view image. PP in free Open Source GIMP: copy the image of the top view to 2 layers, top layer for background darkening and bottom layer for camera adjustment, add a black/transparent layer mask to the top/background layer and using white paint and a soft-edged brush, paint in the background after which I added a new black layer and placed it behind the main layer, I then did some minor tone curve adjustment to the top view layer, I then panted in the mask area corresponding to the ground glass viewing screen using a white paint brush to make it transparent. I took the front view image and scaled it to fit into the area corresponding to the ground glass viewing screen in the top view, copied the result to a new layer in the top view image and positioned the front view below the top view layer so the front view appears in the ground glass area, I flipped the front view left-to-right (so it would look as it would if the camera were showing it, created a new working layer from the visible result, did some fine tuning of overall contrast and brightness, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Taken in ambient room light from a mix of overhead LED and fluorescent lighting. Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro 1:1 (272E) lense, ISO100, daylight WB, Aperture priority mode, f/10.0, 2 sec with an EV-0.67 exposure bias (because of the black background and body). PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: Convert to black-and-white using the channel mixer and decrease the green channel to darken the image, enable shadows/highlights and significantly recover highlight detail and a bit of shadow detail, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: fine tune the overall tonal representation using the tone curve tool, clone out some dirt spots, sharpen, sharpen, save, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Taken using a hand-held Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone, full auto, ISO40, f.2.2, 1/140 sec. PP in free Open Source GIMP from Samsung SOOC jpeg file: crop a bit of the right side of the frame to get a more symmetrical layout, scale image to 6000px wide, use the tone curve tool to darken the bottom 1/3 of the tonal range then pin the upper end of the curve to hold it at default while pulling up/brightening the middle portion between the two ranges just adjusted, duplicate the image to a new top layer and on that new layer add a black/transparent layer mask, paint in the bottom left corner using white paint and a large soft-edged brush to mask the brighter part of the lower left part of the frame, then use the brightness-contrast tool to both darken and boost contrast of the bottom left corner to get a more uniform tonality across the frame, create new working layer from visible result, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 px wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Taken using a hand-held Olympus OM-D EM-5 fitted with an Olympus Zuiko 14-42mm M Zuiko 14-14mm EZ 1:3.5-5.6 lens set to 14mm, Intelligent Auto mode, Auto WB, ISO200, f/8.0, 1/320 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Olympus RAW/ORF source file: set final image width to be 8000px, apply horizontal perspective correction, apply pincushion distortion correction, level image, increase contrast and Chromaticity in LAB mode, enable Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool and rotate it to cover the sidewalk and steps of the building and then darken the lower part of the image to better match the tonal range of the rest of the image, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover highlight detail as well as some shadow detail, perform some white balance adjustment by using an eyedropper sample of the door/white as a reference, boost vibrance, apply a bit of noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the levels tool auto adjustment to get a good base tonality, contrast and colour balance, duplicate the image to a new layer for sidewalk adjustment, add a black/transparent layer mask and then use white paint to paint in the sidewalk as well as the lighter patches of the steps on the mask, use the hue-saturation-brightness tool to decrease the red channel saturation of the sidewalk area, copy the base image to a new layer for use as blacks adjustment and then duplicate it again for creation of a blacks mask, use the threshold tool to isolate the blacks and then invert it so black areas come out as white, add a black/transparent layer mask to the blacks adjustment layer and copy the mask to the mask, adjust the contrast and brightness of the blacks layer to get a good tonal range in the blacks, use the dodge-burn tool in dodge and highlights mode and a large soft brush to dodge/brighten the chalk markings below the right side windows, create new working layer from visible result, sharpen, save, scale the image to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
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<?php

namespace Augwa\QuickBooks\Model;

/**
 * Product: ALL
 * Account based expense detail for a transaction line.
 *
 * Class AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
 * @package Augwa\QuickBooks\Model
 */
class AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
    extends Model
{

    /**
     * @var ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    private $AccountRef;

    /**
     * @var string
     * @see BillableStatusEnum
     */
    private $BillableStatus;

    /**
     * @var ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    private $ClassRef;

    /**
     * @var ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    private $CustomerRef;

    /**
     * @var IntuitAnyTypeModel
     */
    private $ExpenseDetailLineDetailEx;

    /**
     * @var MarkupInfoModel
     */
    private $MarkupInfo;

    /**
     * @var float
     */
    private $TaxAmount;

    /**
     * @var ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    private $TaxCodeRef;

    /**
     * @var float
     */
    private $TaxInclusiveAmt;

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Reference to the Expense account associated with the
     * service/non-sellable-item billing.
     *
     * @return ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    public function getAccountRef()
    {
        return $this->AccountRef;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Reference to the Expense account associated with the
     * service/non-sellable-item billing.
     *
     * @param ReferenceTypeModel $AccountRef
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setAccountRef(
        $AccountRef
    )
    {
        $this->AccountRef = $AccountRef;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * The billable status of the expense.
     *
     * @return string
     *
     * @see BillableStatusEnum
     */
    public function getBillableStatus()
    {
        return $this->BillableStatus;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * The billable status of the expense.
     *
     * @param string $BillableStatus
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     *
     * @see BillableStatusEnum
     */
    public function setBillableStatus(
        $BillableStatus
    )
    {
        $this->BillableStatus = $BillableStatus;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Reference to the Class associated with the expense.
     *
     * @return ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    public function getClassRef()
    {
        return $this->ClassRef;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Reference to the Class associated with the expense.
     *
     * @param ReferenceTypeModel $ClassRef
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setClassRef(
        $ClassRef
    )
    {
        $this->ClassRef = $ClassRef;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Reference to the Customer associated with the expense.
     *
     * @return ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    public function getCustomerRef()
    {
        return $this->CustomerRef;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Reference to the Customer associated with the expense.
     *
     * @param ReferenceTypeModel $CustomerRef
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setCustomerRef(
        $CustomerRef
    )
    {
        $this->CustomerRef = $CustomerRef;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Internal use only: extension place holder for ExpenseDetail
     *
     * @return IntuitAnyTypeModel
     */
    public function getExpenseDetailLineDetailEx()
    {
        return $this->ExpenseDetailLineDetailEx;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Internal use only: extension place holder for ExpenseDetail
     *
     * @param IntuitAnyTypeModel $ExpenseDetailLineDetailEx
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setExpenseDetailLineDetailEx(
        $ExpenseDetailLineDetailEx
    )
    {
        $this->ExpenseDetailLineDetailEx = $ExpenseDetailLineDetailEx;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Markup information for the expense.
     *
     * @return MarkupInfoModel
     */
    public function getMarkupInfo()
    {
        return $this->MarkupInfo;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Markup information for the expense.
     *
     * @param MarkupInfoModel $MarkupInfo
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setMarkupInfo(
        $MarkupInfo
    )
    {
        $this->MarkupInfo = $MarkupInfo;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Sales tax associated with the expense.
     *
     * @return float
     */
    public function getTaxAmount()
    {
        return $this->TaxAmount;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Sales tax associated with the expense.
     *
     * @param float $TaxAmount
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setTaxAmount(
        $TaxAmount
    )
    {
        $this->TaxAmount = $TaxAmount;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Sales tax code associated with the sales tax for the expense.
     *
     * @return ReferenceTypeModel
     */
    public function getTaxCodeRef()
    {
        return $this->TaxCodeRef;
    }

    /**
     * Product: ALL
     * Sales tax code associated with the sales tax for the expense.
     *
     * @param ReferenceTypeModel $TaxCodeRef
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setTaxCodeRef(
        $TaxCodeRef
    )
    {
        $this->TaxCodeRef = $TaxCodeRef;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Product: QBO
     * Indicates the total amount of line item including tax.
     *
     * @return float
     */
    public function getTaxInclusiveAmt()
    {
        return $this->TaxInclusiveAmt;
    }

    /**
     * Product: QBO
     * Indicates the total amount of line item including tax.
     *
     * @param float $TaxInclusiveAmt
     *
     * @return AccountBasedExpenseLineDetailModel
     */
    public function setTaxInclusiveAmt(
        $TaxInclusiveAmt
    )
    {
        $this->TaxInclusiveAmt = $TaxInclusiveAmt;
        return $this;
    }

}


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Q: cannot set height and width of a resource shape in styles I recently made my first custom shape and it turned out really good accept one thing. i can't seem to set the height and with of the drawable resource in a style resource.
I do not specify a height or width in på shape because i want to use this shape in different sizes. So i set height and width in my styles.xml file. But the final result is what looks like the shape using wrap_content as both height and width which i do not want.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
SHAPE - list_item.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle" >

        <solid
            android:color="@color/list_item_background"
        />

    </shape>
</item>
<item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle" >

        <gradient
            android:angle="270"
            android:startColor="@color/list_item_gradient_white"
            android:endColor="@color/list_item_gradient_black"
            android:type="linear"
        />

        <stroke
            android:color="@color/list_item_stroke"
            android:width="1px"
        />

    </shape>
</item>

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SOS Print + Media have a wide range of digital printers and are able to provide technology solutions for big and small publishers.
Whether you need 25 or 1,500 books printed, we have the best and most cost effective printing engine. Text pages can be printed on cut sheet toner printers to high volume inkjet printers. Covers can be printed on toner printers or a high quality Indigo press. Lamination can be gloss or matt, there are two book binding lines including a PUR binder.
Short Run Books – books that are only needed in low quantities because either their popularity is lessening or they are new and demand is building up. The former may be backlist titles that are still in demand and ordered at book stores or on online sites. Before digital print enabled the production of low quantities, these books were often "out of print" and unavailable. They used to be imported from overseas and order fulfillment could take six weeks. With digital production, no book needs to be out of print.
Short run books are also suitable for new titles and enable you to get a book printed in small quantities and with a small capital investment.
Short run books are printed in quantities of 25 and up, on cream book stock with a celloglazed colour cover.
Reading Copies (aka Advance Proofs, Readers Proofs or Bound Uncorrected Proofs) – books used for the marketing of books that are coming up for release. Often printed on normal copier paper (bond), bound with a colour or black only cover.
Books Of One On Demand (POD) – these books are truly printed on demand, produced after they have been ordered. This run of one is printed on book paper and the colour cover is celloglazed, they look and feel just like a traditional (normal) book. This method is only feasible when a large number of different titles are re-printed, orders are submitted daily (or weekly) and all artwork files are stored and maintained at SOS. It is not suitable if you only have one or a few titles and want to get a book printed every now and then.
Covers printed digitally in full colour on 250 gsm matt art (FSC accredited) and matt or gloss celloglazed.
Books are perfect bound, packed into boxes or envelopes, and labelled ready for despatch.
Turnaround time is usually 24 hours from order (within a print on demand agreement).
Books are packed in single quantities.
There is an FAQ for self publishers here.


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Have you been on City Sightseeing's Cape Point Explorer, or Cape Town or Joburg red bus tours, and loved every minute of it? Show your appreciation by voting for us in the 2017 Lilizela Tourism Awards!
The Lilizela Awards promote South Africa's tourism industry, introducing consumers to the country's various visitor experiences and top tour guides, and celebrating the best the South Africa has to offer.
We are very excited to have entered our Cape Town and Joburg red bus tours, as well as our Cape Point Explorer tour to the competition. Finalists are chosen for offering an excellent, innovative tourism experience, and consistency in delivery and quality. If you've had a memorable experience with the red bus, please be sure to have a look at our nominations below and support us with your vote.
Voting closes on 18 June 2017.
Cape Point Explorer offers a fully guided day trip to Cape Point in a luxury air-conditioned coach. Visitors spend the day exploring this spectacular nature reserve, part of the Cape Floral Kingdom World Heritage Site, with a stop en route at Boulders Beach to visit the African penguins. A true once-in-a-lifetime experience!
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City Sightseeing Cape Town is the best way to see top attractions around the Mother City. Sightseers can choose from four tours: the City Tour to Table Mountain, and the Mini Peninsula Tour, the Downtown Tour and the Wine Tour. These tours cover the whole of the Cape Peninsula, and offer an easy way to get to some of the most scenic destinations and attractions in Cape Town.
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City Sightseeing Joburg runs exciting tours through the Johannesburg CBD and surrounding leafy suburbs, as well as Soweto. The tours offer locals and tourists the explore to explore this vibrant city. They can visit the many attractions on offer and sample the sights, sounds, colours, cultures and rich heritage that are all synonymous with Jozi.
Discover Johannesburg in an informative, safe, convenient and fun way with the City Sightseeing bus – it takes you directly to the Johannesburg Zoo, the Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill and the Carlton Centre, among other places.
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For other people named Ian Kennedy, see Ian Kennedy (disambiguation).
Ian Patrick Kennedy (born December 19, 1984) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres.
Kennedy attended the University of Southern California (USC) where he played college baseball for the Trojans. He made his MLB debut with the Yankees in 2007, and was traded to the Diamondbacks after the 2009 season. Kennedy played for Arizona through 2013, when he was traded to the Padres. As of 2016, he plays for the Kansas City Royals.
Kennedy attended La Quinta High School in Westminster, California. In his junior year, he was named CIF Division IV co-most valuable player, and earned the Orange County Register and Garden Grove League most valuable player honors, when he recorded 13 wins and led the county with a 0.38 ERA (five earned runs in 90 2⁄3 innings) and strikeouts (168) while batting .373 with seven home runs and 31 RBI. In his senior year, he earned All-CIF Division IV honors.
Kennedy went on to play college baseball for University of Southern California. In Kennedy's first year at USC, he went 7–2 in 16 games, with a 2.91 earned run average (ERA) and one save. He pitched 92 2⁄3 innings, struck out 120, and walked 31. He also gave up 86 hits and allowed 34 runs, 30 of which were earned runs.
In his sophomore year, he went 12–3 in 18 games, with a 2.54 ERA and one complete game. He pitched 117 innings, struck out 158 (fourth-best in team history), and walked 38. He also gave up 171 hits, and had 33 earned runs out of 40 runs allowed.
As a junior at USC he pitched in 16 games, 15 of them starts. He went 5–7 with 102 strikeouts and posted a 3.90 ERA. He pitched 101 2⁄3 innings, walked 38, and gave up 44 earned runs. Entering his senior year, Kennedy was 24–12 in 50 games, pitching 311 1⁄3 innings. He had a strikeout total of 380, an ERA of 3.12, and had walked a total of 107 batters.
In 2005 Kennedy made the USC single-season strikeout list, striking out 158 batters, fourth on the list, behind Mark Prior, Seth Etherton, and Walt Peterson. Kennedy has a 12.15 strikeouts per nine innings ratio, which is fifth best in his school's history. He was also selected for the U.S. National Team twice. Kennedy was named a first-team All-American after both his freshman and sophomore years, and was also named to the Preseason All-American first team in 2006 and the USA's Junior National Team in 2002. In 2005, he became the eighth pitcher in USC history to be named the Pac-10 Conference "Pitcher of the Year."
Kennedy was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round (21st overall) of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft, earning a $2.25 million signing bonus. "I would like to go out and play", he said, "start my professional career. The earlier the better. I imagine it's not going to be very long before I start. At least that's what I'm hoping. If it does take a while, I'm ready for that – but I want to go out and play." He consistently throws his fastball around 91–92 mph, he is known for his pitching finesse to retire hitters.
Kennedy was previously drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 14th round (425th overall) of the 2003 Major League Baseball draft, but he didn't sign with them. He joins Randy Johnson, Mark Prior, Tom Seaver, and Barry Zito on the list of pitchers drafted out of USC.
Kennedy pitched 2.2 innings for the Staten Island Yankees of the New York–Penn League, a short-season class A league, in 2006. In 2007, he began the season with the A Tampa Yankees of the Florida State League, posting a 6–1 record with a 1.29 ERA in 63 innings, while striking out 72 and only walking 22. He was promoted to the AA Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League, where he posted a 5–1 record with a 2.59 ERA in 48.2 innings, while striking out 57 and only walking 17.
On July 24, 2007, Kennedy was promoted to the AAA Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees. He posted a 1–1 record there with a 2.08 ERA in six starts, striking out 34 and walking just 11 in 34.2 innings.
"I didn't want to be shellshocked. I wanted to act like I belong here. It's a dream come true. You see the stadium on TV and you wish and hope you'll be out there like those guys."
On November 28, 2007 Kennedy was named the 26th best prospect by Minor League Baseball's official website.
Despite having been replaced by Kennedy in the rotation in 2007, Mussina became a mentor for Kennedy and other young pitchers on the Yankee roster even requesting that Kennedy and Phil Hughes receive lockers next to his during 2008 spring training.
On May 4, 2008 Kennedy was demoted to AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after a poor start to the 2008 season. Ian dominated in his first start back with AAA Scranton/Wilkes Barre, tossing 7.1 innings of 1-hit ball while striking out eight.
On May 28, 2008, after enduring a strained right lat muscle, and being diagnosed with bursitis behind the scapular, Kennedy was placed on the DL, expected to miss at least 15 days. He returned to the AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees, struggling in his first few starts before going on a three-game tear. From July 19 to 29, Kennedy pitched 20 innings, allowing 7 hits which yielded 3 runs, while collecting 14 Ks, and walking only 4. On July 24, Kennedy had another no-hitter broken up, after pitching a dominant 6 2⁄3 innings.
Kennedy made his return to the major leagues on August 8, starting in place of an injured Joba Chamberlain. After a poor outing against the Angels, in which he surrendered 5 runs in 2 innings, Kennedy was optioned in favour of Billy Traber on August 10.
Kennedy was diagnosed with an aneurysm under his right armpit and underwent surgery May 12, 2009, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York under the care of Dr. George Todd, the same doctor who performed David Cone's procedure on an aneurysm in 1996.
On September 19, Ian Kennedy was called up from the minors. On September 23, Kennedy made an appearance against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He hit one batter and walked two others, but allowed no hits while pitching a scoreless 8th inning.
Kennedy was not on the post-season roster for the Yankees during their run towards winning the 2009 World Series.
In December 2009, Ian Kennedy went to the Diamondbacks in a three-way trade with the Detroit Tigers and the Yankees, in which Detroit received Austin Jackson and Phil Coke from the Yankees and Max Scherzer and Daniel Schlereth from the Diamondbacks, the Yankees received Curtis Granderson from the Tigers, and the Diamondbacks also received Edwin Jackson from the Tigers.
In Kennedy's first appearance for Arizona, he pitched two scoreless innings in a rain-shortened game. He got his first win as a Diamondback on April 29, going 8 innings, while allowing 6 hits which led to 4 runs and striking out 6. On August 26, Kennedy struck out a career-high 12 batters, while allowing only 1 hit and 2 walks in 7 innings against the San Diego Padres. Despite posting an ERA of 3.80 and pitching in 194 innings, his record stood at 9-10 in 32 starts.
Kennedy was named the Diamondbacks' 2011 Opening Day starting pitcher.  Kennedy would lead the Diamondbacks from last to first place with a break out season that had him win 21 games for the first time in his career and the first in the National League to do so that year. His season .840 win-loss percentage was the best ever for a Diamondbacks pitcher, and he placed fourth in the balloting for the Cy Young Award.
During the 2011 NLDS, Ian Kennedy started Game 1 but lost that game. The Diamondbacks eventually lost the division series to the Milwaukee Brewers in 5 games.
Kennedy was not as stellar in 2012 as he was in 2011, with a record of 15–12 with a 4.02 ERA.
On June 11, 2013, Kennedy was ejected from a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers after hitting both Yasiel Puig in the nose and Zack Greinke in the shoulder with pitches, the second of which ignited a bench-clearing brawl. He was suspended 10 games by MLB for the incident, the first pitcher to get that type of suspension in eight years. He began the 2013 season 3-8 with a 5.23 ERA in 21 starts with the Diamondbacks.
On July 31, 2013, Kennedy was traded to the San Diego Padres for Joe Thatcher, Matt Stites, and a compensatory draft pick. Kennedy was immediately added to the Padres rotation. He started 10 games for the Padres, going 4-2 with a 4.24 ERA and 55 strike-outs in 57 1⁄3 innings.
In the 2014 season, Kennedy reached 200 strikeouts for the first time in his career, becoming the fourth Padres pitcher to reach that mark and first since Jake Peavy did it in 2007.
On January 29, 2016, Kennedy signed a 5-year, $70 million contract with the Kansas City Royals.
Kennedy throws two fastballs (four-seam, two-seam) sitting 91-92 mph (tops out at 95-96 mph), a high-70s knuckle-curve, a mid-80s cutter, and an above-average Vulcan changeup, which is his best pitch.
After the two were wed, the couple walked up the aisle to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame".
Kennedy and his wife, Allison, have four daughters: Nora (born in May 2011), Renee (born in June 2012), Lydia (born in February 2014), and Evelyn (born in July 2015).
He is 6' 0" tall and weighs 190 pounds.
↑ "Royals' Ian Kennedy on watching playoffs on TV: 'It fuels that fire'" Kansas City Star. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
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↑ "Ian Kennedy's shaping up as Yanks' mini-Mike Mussina". Daily News. New York. August 30, 2007.
↑ "Vote for Ian Kennedy as potential heir to Greg Maddux's cerebral legacy". Daily News. New York. March 11, 2008.
↑ "Southern California's Ian Kennedy". Baseball America. January 20, 2006. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ Kepner, Tyler (August 30, 2007). "In Kennedy, Yankees See Familiar Approach". The New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
↑ Battista, Judy (September 2, 2007). "Kennedy's Debut a Success for Yankees". The New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
↑ "Minor League Baseball: News: Top Prospects". Retrieved November 28, 2007.
↑ Archived March 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Anthony DiComo (August 10, 2008). "Yanks option Kennedy, recall Traber". MLB.com. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ Anthony DiComo (December 30, 2010). "Kennedy hit hard as Yankees fall". MLB.com. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ "New York Yankees' Oam Kennedy on schedule to pitch this season". Sports.espn.go.com. July 24, 2009. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ Bryan Hoch (September 23, 2009). "Yanks turn tables on Halos, take seriesws". Newyork.yankees.mlb.com. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ Brown, Tim (December 8, 2009). "Granderson goes to Yankees in three-team deal". Sports.yahoo.com. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ "Ian Kennedy named D-backs' Opening Day starter". Arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ "Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Arizona Diamondbacks – Recap – September 19, 2011". Sports.espn.go.com. September 19, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
↑ "Arizona Diamondbacks Top 10 Pitching Leaders". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
↑ "Benches clear twice, six ejected in LA". mlb.com. June 12, 2013.
↑ "MLB suspends Diamondbacks' Ian Kennedy 10 games, others receive punishment". arizonasports.com. June 14, 2013.
↑ Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY Sports (July 31, 2013). "Diamondbacks deal Ian Kennedy to Padres". Usatoday.com. Retrieved August 1, 2013. The Kansas City Royals have made a move to bolster their starting rotation, reportedly signing Ian Kennedy to a five-year, $70 million contract.
↑ "Royals sign Ian Kennedy". Retrieved January 29, 2016.
↑ "Player Card: Ian Kennedy". Brooks Baseball. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
↑ "FanGraphs Ian Kennedy Pitch FX". Fangraphs.com. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
↑ "Ian Kennedy pitches Yanks past Tampa". Daily News. New York. September 2, 2007.
1 2 "Yankees rookie pitcher Ian Kennedy marries USC basketball player". ESPN. October 6, 2007. Retrieved March 7, 2008.
↑ "Kennedy embraces being dad for second time". mlb.com. June 15, 2012.
↑ "The Phil Hughes Weblog". Philhughes.wordpress.com. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
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