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Reason Mailafia will not honour police invitation – Legal Team
Speaking on Monday,the Legal team of Dr. Obadiah Mailafia has said reason why the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr. Mailafia would not honour the fresh invitation extended to him by the Nigeria Police Force through the office of the Deputy Inspector-General Force Criminal Investigation Department.
Dr. Mailafia was invited to appear today (Monday) in Abuja for an interview but he didn't honour the invitation as his legal team said such invitation is strange and alien to Nigeria's extant laws and procedures.
The journalists in Jos on Monday said on behalf of the legal defence team, Yakubu Bawa said the said invitation which came as a photocopy is being challenged in the court and all relevant parties have been served.
According to Bawa, "Dr. Obadiah Mailafia granted an interview for a local FM radio station in Lagos on the 9th day of August, 2020 on issues related to internal security of Nigeria.
His interview focused on the incessant killings and ethnic cleansing in his homeland of Southern Kaduna and nation- wide insecurity.
"Consequent upon the said interview, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) Plateau State Command on the directive of the DSS Headquarters, Abuja invited Dr. Obadiah Mailafia through his employer, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru to appear before the Command on the 12th August, 2020 at 1200hrs for interview, investigation and interrogation.
"Dr. Obadiah Mailafia honoured the said invitation, on the 12th day of August, 2020.
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I accompanied him to the DSS office in Jos. On that very day he was interrogated, profiled and his statement was recorded. The crux of the invitation was for him to make retraction of the comments he made during the interview at same time to apologize. I personally objected to the said instruction issued him by the DSS officials.
"However, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia was cajoled and coerced by the DSS to address the media of his interface and interaction with them. According to the DSS officials it was an order from the Headquarters for him to do so.
" Speaking further, he added, "Eventually Dr. Obadiah Mailafia addressed the media on his invitation and interaction with the DSS officials. After the media address, I was instructed being his counsel to provide a surety for him to be released on bail.
I provided the surety, after fulfilling the bail conditions Dr. Obadiah Mailafia was allowed to go home that very day after 6hours of interview."In the same vein, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia was re-invited to appear before the DSS Plateau State Command on the 17th August, 2020. The Surety and I accompanied Dr. Obadiah Mailafia to the DSS office, Jos Plateau State Command that day.
Similarly, he had another interaction with the Director of the Command for about forty(40)minutes after which he was allowed to go home.
"It is sad to note and to our greatest shock and consternation on the 21st August, 2020 another letter of invitation was served on Dr. Obadiah Mailafia at his residence by the Nigeria Police Force through the office of the Deputy Inspector-General Force Criminal investigation Department, Abuja requesting him to appear on Monday 24th August, 2020 for interview.
"In the light of the above, as his legal defence team, we approached the High Court of Justice Plateau State and filed an action for the enforcement of his fundamental rights to personal liberty and fair hearing at same time challenging the said invitation served on him by the office of the DIG Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja.
"We are praying the Honourable Court to declare the said invitation letter as unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, ultra vires with no legal effect whatsoever. We are equally seeking the Court to restrain the Nigeria Police Force from inviting or requesting him to appear before the DIG Force Investigation Department Police Headquarters, Abuja since the DSS had assumed investigation in the case and the investigation is ongoing.
The case is now fixed for hearing on the 11th September, 2020."
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My friend Hugh Behm-Steinberg, author of the outstanding poetry collection The Opposite of Work, tagged me in an online game, so now I must write a brief comment on the poet Paul Celan, and refer interested readers to a representative poem. I decided to take the opportunity to do an original translation of Celan's difficult poem "Todtnauberg," which is presented below.
This autobiographical work refers to the poet's visit to the cabin retreat owned by the great philosopher Martin Heidegger. Now, Paul Celan was a Romanian Jew whose parents were killed in an internment camp during World War II. Heidegger, on the other hand, was an outspoken advocate of the Nazi party, who wrote in the early 40s about Germany's "special destiny" and urged his students to think in service of the Nazi state.
After the war, Heidegger said nothing in public about his involvement with the Nazis for the rest of his career, with the exception of giving a long interview with the premier German news magazine Der Spiegel in 1966, which he gave on the condition that it be published posthumously.
The truth is, it is not at all clear how to take Heidegger's silence, and this has posed a serious problem for many important Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals, including not only Paul Celan, but the noted psychologist Viktor Frankl as well, who is best remembered for his account of his own interment at Auschwitz in the book Man's Search for Meaning.
Celan was impressed by Heidegger's philosophy, which, like Celan's poetry, is deeply concerned with history, knowledge, anxiety, death, and the darkness which surrounds the ground of our being. It is by virtue of his fluency with these very themes that Celan was uniquely able to express in the ineffable horror of the Holocaust in much of his work.
This poem describes his one personal encounter with Heidegger, who invited Celan to visit his forest retreat, and to sign his famous guest book. Celan, a student of botany, sets the scene for us by identifying two herbaceous flowering plants they saw on their walk, arnica and eyebright.
Like its subject, the poem speaks in evocative fragments that defy attempts to synthesize them into a unified image. Vivid impressions flash from out of the darkness, and end with a sense of … what? Disjunction? Futility? Defiance? It is difficult to formulate a clear response, and I get the sense that no particular meaning was intended. Perhaps, as with Heidegger's silence, he believed there was nothing to say.
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The eloquence of your translation of this beautiful, dense-but-weightless poem leaves me, like Heidegger, silent (and breathless).
Thank you for translation, but where does the final verse come from? Versions I have seen always end on "moist, much." Can you clarify?
Thanks for pointing it out – I thought the book surely referred to the guest book he mentions above.
It remains a bit confusing. This website also gives an extra verse, clearly not the one you had either: https://withoutliftingafinger.blogspot.de/2011/06/paul-celans-todtnauberg.html?m=1. But I'm still quite sure it ends on "dampness/much". Just recalling exegeses of the poem too. By the way, a wonderful one is in Derrida's book On Forgiveness. Thanks again.
Now that I'm home I did confirm the final stanza I included is a separate poem. Well, I like that little one too.


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An investigation into the role of the CXCR7 Chemokine receptor in acute myocardial infarction and angiogenesis
Taferner, Staša; (2019) An investigation into the role of the CXCR7 Chemokine receptor in acute myocardial infarction and angiogenesis. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Introduction: SDF-1α is a chemoattractant cytokine that can deliver both acute and chronic cardioprotective benefits to the heart. Although CXCR4 has been viewed as a main receptor for SDF-1α, a secondary receptor, CXCR7, has emerged as an important mediator of SDF-1α signalling. Interestingly, endothelial CXCR7 has been found to promote regeneration and ameliorate fibrosis in various tissues and organs; however, its exact role in ischaemic disease has yet to be determined. Therefore, we sought to examine the expression and function of CXCR7 in cardiovascular tissues, focusing on its potential as a novel cardioprotective strategy. Methods: RNAscope in situ hybridization, western blotting and flow cytometry were used to investigate expression and function of CXCR7 on endothelial cell lines, isolated mouse endothelial cells, and in the whole mouse heart. We examined CXCR7 downstream signalling pathways in presence and absence of CXCR7 agonists TC14012 and VUF11207 fumarate, as well as the effects of the CXCR7 agonists on endothelial cell migration and acute ischaemia-reperfusion injury. Results: CXCR7 is expressed in the adult mouse heart and in the endothelial cell lines MCEC and HUVEC. Most CXCR7 protein in the endothelial cells was observed to be intracellular under basal conditions. In line with this expression profile, exposure to CXCR7 agonists failed to activate cardioprotective protein kinases ERK1/2 and PI3K/Akt. Moreover, VUF11207 did not ameliorate acute ischaemia-reperfusion injury, whereas the role of both CXCR7 agonists in migration and angiogenesis is less clear. Conclusions: CXCR7 is expressed in the mouse vascular endothelium, but its role in activating cardioprotective signalling pathways, as well as its overall contribution to cardioprotection is unclear. Activation of the CXCR7 receptor does not appear to be a viable acute cardioprotective strategy in mice.
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Archive for neal asher
Posted in Life..., Personal Finance, Uncategorized, writing with tags action, andy remic, book, books, brutal, characters, Clive Barker, crime, death, download, entertaining, epic, exciting, fantasy, fiction, finance, financial, financial independece, gaiman, garth ennis, get rich, horror, horror novel, james a moore, leon, magazine, money, morpheus tales, murder, neal asher, novel, novels, pages, Personal Finance, plot, read, reading, review, reviewed, reviewer, reviews, richard kadrey, rowling, series, SF, Stephen King, story, the matrix, the soldier, the transporter, think rich, thriller, write, writer, writers, writing on June 23, 2020 by stanleyriiks
What other writers have influenced you?
The usual suspects: King, Barker, Koontz, Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, no surprises there. But, these guys, for me are surpasses by:
Garth Ennis who writes the best comics, brutal, violent, fun. Preacheris my favourite of his.
Gary McMahon whose Dead Bad Thingsis one of the darkest, nastiest, and filthiest novels I've ever read. It's sublime. I read it years ago, and it's still one of my favourites.
Andy Remic creates the best fantasy worlds, and inhabits them with amazing characters. And then he kills and tortures them. The blend of horror and fantasy is pure genius. He's the only writer ever to make me physically wince while reading.
Neal Asher creates worlds I want to visit (Spatterjay), and A.I. I want to meet. SF at its best, complex plotting and great story-telling.
James A. Moore is another fantasy/horror writer who really punches you in the face with his novels. You don't so much read them as experience them.
The only other author who deserves a special mention is Richard Kadrey and his Sandman Slim books. This series is a serious blast of adrenaline, full-octane, furiousness.
In terms of non-fiction it's less about the writers and more about the topics, biographies on Ian Fleming, Warren Buffett, Hitler, Jenna Jameson. I read quite a range! I'm interested in how people work, and I like to know how companies and businesses work, like Apple, Amazon, WordPress.
What are your other influences?
I love films, I used to go to the cinema every week. I watch everything, romantic comedies, horror films and everything in between. Recently I've gotten bored with modern films that are just too long. I find myself bored halfway through a two-and-a-half-hour film, so we've started watching classics from the 90s and 2000s, like The Matrix,The Transporter, Leon.
I enjoy manga and anima, and US comic books. Particularly the darker ones like Batman, Preacher, The Sandmanand Vertigo comics.
Do you have any rituals or routines when you write?
I used to have a candle that I would burn, but my desk is now filled with mortgage statements and searches, so that would be a fire hazard. I just sit and type on my iMac. For non-fiction I usually need to concentrate more, but I will come back to something and add bits and pieces, expand areas in a very organic way, because I have the structure laid down. For fiction I flow more easily into the story, so it's organic in a very different way.
If you could go back in time to when you started writing and give yourself one piece of advice what would it be?
Keep going. There have been times when I've given up, but it's a very cathartic experience, and creating is a beautiful thing. More people should do it, not necessarily for publishing, but just for the joy of creating something from nothing but their imagination.
Also, I believe that nearly everybody has an area of expertise, and they can share that knowledge.
What book are you reading now?
The Soldier by Neal Asher. I've read a few of his, the covers are amazing. They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but that's how I pick them usually, and Asher had never let me down.
What is your proudest moment as a writer?
Seeing the cover of Think Rich, Get Rich.
Are you disappointed with any of your work when you look back on it?
When I edit I'm disappointed by every other word. Editing is actually something I feel quite good at, but it makes me cringe when reading my work back. Like when you record your voice and then listen to it. It doesn't sound like that in your head. Words can't capture the perfect of your imagination.
I'm editing the first two books in a series of erotic novels for a friend (just a slight change of direction there!). At the moment I'm happy to consume words rather than writing them for a little while longer.
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THE TECHNICIAN By Neal Asher – Reviewed
Posted in Reviews, Uncategorized with tags action, alien races, beast, book, books, brutal, characters, climax, cover, cover art, crime, death, download, dragon, entertaining, epic, exciting, fiction, great novel, hooders, horror, insightful, intelligent, intricate plot, jon sullivan, magazine, masada, master of intelligent sf, modified human, morpheus tales, murder, neal asher, novel, novels, pages, passionate, plot, polity, polity education, proper sf, read, reading, review, reviewed, reviewer, reviews, riveting, scatterjay, series, SF, story, supplement, technology, the technician, theocracy, thriller, tombs, universe, war drones, world, write, writer, writers, writing on December 14, 2015 by stanleyriiks
This is the book that got me reading Asher's books. Jon Sullivan's cover of the titular beast is incredible, and his other covers for Asher's other books are pretty damn good too. Can you pick a book by its cover?
Although this book is set in Asher's familiar Polity world it is a stand-alone novel and can be read independently. But, if you have read some of his other novels this will inform the backstory of some familiar characters.
Masada is home to the hooders, a set of deadly creatures, the Theocracy (a strictly religious group who have enslaved some of the populous), the gaggleducks, and the Technician, a near mythical creature who not only attacks humans but turns their bodies into works of art.
When the Technician allows one of its victims to live, Jeremiah Tombs, a member of the Theocracy, it changes him in ways that even the advanced technology of the Polity cannot determine.
Twenty years later the Theocracy is no more, Tombs escapes his Polity captors and goes in search of the truth, a band of rebels called the Tidy Squad are out to kill him, and the Technicians is still out hunting…
Apart from that there are war drones, a dragon and his ancestors, a modified human studying the Technician, and alien races that have destroyed themselves to muddy the waters further.
There's a lot going on here, as there is with most of Asher's novels. His intricate plots draw you gradually deeper into his worlds. The characters are barely memorable, but it is the story, the plot and the incredibly well crafted world that really drive this novel.
Asher writes proper SF, intelligent, insightful, and passionate. The world he has created in this novel and the other Polity books (and the Scatteray series) are incredibly complex and detailed and yet don't overwhelm the intense and sometimes complicated plots. The story drives along swiftly, there are multiple layers, and everything comes together in a riveting but mildly disappointing climax. Can any ending really live up to the rest of the novel?
Asher is the master of intelligent SF. The Technician is a great novel to start your Polity education: jump straight in, the water is thrilling.
ORBUS By Neal Asher – Reviewed
Posted in Uncategorized with tags action, book, books, brutal, cargo ship, characters, dangerous, death, download, entertaining, epic, exciting, exciting sf adventure, fantasy, fiction, good, horror, human empire, leech-infested, leeches, magazine, morpheus tales, murder, neal asher, novel, novels, orbus, pages, planet, plot, polity, pradot, read, reading, remarkable and unique, review, reviewed, reviewer, reviews, sea, series, SF, sniper, spatterjay, story, third book, thriller, universe, war drone, write, writer, writers, writing on July 27, 2015 by stanleyriiks
This is the third book in the Spatterjay series, although this one doesn't take place on the galactic version of Australia (ie the most dangerous planet in the universe!). If you've read the other books in the series you will know that Orbus is one of the old captains, the rulers of Spatterjay, a virtually immortal group of Captains who sail the leech-infested seas. But after the events of the second book, Orbus is happy to head off-planet, and takes a cargo ship travelling to a place known as the Graveyard, a no-man's land between the Polity (human) empire and the Prador empire. And everything is going fine with this routine pick-up until a couple of war drones stow away on Orbus' cargo vessel, a rebel Prador attacks at the pick-up, a civil war starts in the Prador empire, and a mythological nightmare creature proves to be very much real and alive…
Asher write SF with a good amount of action, with some of the characters already set up in previous books he has a chance to let rip without having to explain who and what they are. His books always contain great details that make them seem more real, and Orbus is no exception.
The different setting makes this barely a Spatteray novel, but the characters are what connect it to the other books in the series. This one works well enough by itself, but there's a lot of history and backstory you would miss out on if you skipped the first two books.
The exciting SF adventure continues. The Spatterjay series is remarkable and unique. This slight change of direction for the series works well, bringing in a new environment, and further developing the interesting characters, particularly the war drone Sniper. I'll be coming back for more in the fourth book in the series. The story of Spatterjay rocks!
Morpheus Tales Supplement July – Coming Soon!
Posted in Morpheus Tales Magazine, Reviews with tags artist interview, author interview, book review magazine, books, characters, charles stross, china mieville, Chuck Wendig, comedy, download, elizabeth hand, emma newman, entertaining, entertainment, exciting, fantasy, fantasy magazine, fiction, film review magazine, free, free download, free magazine, horror, horror magazine], horror novel, interview, jack skillingstead, James Lovegrove, jeff noon, Juliet E. McKenna, karen distasio, literature, magazine, morpheus tales, neal asher, novel, novels, pages, paul kane, Personal Finance, Peter F. Hamilton, publisher interview, read, reading, review magazine, reviewed, reviews, richard thomas, seth patrick, sf magazine, Simon Marshall-Jones, Stephen King, story, supplement, theresa derwin, thriller, writers, writing on June 21, 2013 by stanleyriiks
Want to know what's coming up in the July issue of the Morpheus Tales Supplement? There might be a little bit more coming, and this is not the final order, but this will give you a good idea of what's coming!
Author and artist interviews, regular columns and loads of reviews! And it's all free!
Coming in July!
THE DEPARTURE By Neal Asher
ZERO POINT By Neal Asher
GREAT NORTH ROAD By Peter F. Hamilton
CREAKERS By Paul Kane
THE FICTIONAL MAN By Al Ewing
Interview with David Lear of Firestone Books
MISSPENT YOUTH By Peter F. Hamilton
RAILSEA By China Mieville
VURT and POLLEN By Jeff Noon
BETWEEN TWO THORNS By Emma Newman
REVIVER By Seth Patrick
THE SERENE INVASION By Eric Brown
THE BLOODLINE FEUD By Charles Stross
Juliet E. McKenna Interview
Duane Myers Interview
GENERATION LOSS By Elizabeth Hand
Ramblings of a Tattooed Head By Simon Marshall-Jones
GRIMM AND GRIMMER: VOLUME TWO Edited By Theresa Derwin
STARING INTO THE ABYSS By Richard Thomas
MONSTERS ANONYMOUS By Theresa Derwin
UNCLEAN SPIRITS By Chuck Wendig
Jack Skillingstead Interview
AGE OF SATAN by James Lovegrove
TELLING TALES OF HORROR
11/22/63 By Stephen King
BLACK RAIN By Joshua Caine
REC 3: GENESIS
Karen DiStasio Interview
THE VOYAGE OF THE SABLE KEECH By Neal Asher – Reviewed
Posted in Reviews, Uncategorized with tags book, books, burrow, characters, climax, fantasy, fiction, first novel, golum, hoopers, horror, leeches, morpheus tales, neal asher, novel, novels, old captains, planet, plot, read, reading, reification, review, reviewed, reviewer, reviews, sable keech, sail, sci fi, sea, series, SF, spatterjay, story, superman, thriller, undead, victim, victims, virus, water, writer, writers, writing on March 6, 2012 by stanleyriiks
This is the second book in the Spatterjay series, and sees us returning to the water-filled planet where the Hoopers or Old Captains (near indestructible, near immortal, super-strength men) run the planet, alongside the sentient sails they use for their ships. The waters of Spatterjay are filled with all manner of dangerous fauna, including virus-wielding leeches which burrow into their victims but pass on the virus which causing the superhuman strength and longevity.
It is ten years since the first book ended by riotous climax, and not a great deal has changed. Those familiar with the first novel will find this one remarkably similar, the same characters, the same style, the same snippets to let you know about the wildlife that inhabits the planet, virtually the same plot! The riotous finale where everything all comes together is lacking, as the various plots are this time individually wrapped-up, leaving the reader with an unsatisfactory bump in the excitement, rather than a mountain.
The Sable Keech is a massive ship aiming to re-run the epic journey of its name-sake as he ventured to the place where he was brought back to life using the virus. Bloc, the reification (a kind of technologically undead) in charge of the voyage, employs the old Captains to help out and a Golum sail (a crazy one intent on destroying death) to lead them. But there are also aliens and the deadly creatures of the deep intent on stopping them.
The first two hundred pages of the novel seem to go nowhere, feel like padding and could quiet easily be removed without any ill effect. The final hundred pages see almost a re-run of the climax of the first novel, but spread out so that there is little impact.
The ways in which this novel goes wrong are many: it is too similar to the first book, but fails where the first book succeeded. This isn't a rubbish book by any means. It's still pretty good, and only really falls down when compared with The Skinner, the first book in the series. Asher can write, the world of Spatterjay is epically explorable, and the old Captains are like cosmic super-pirates. But this doesn't have the danger or the anger of The Skinner, despite similar plotting, and we've already visited this world. For those who haven't read The Skinner you'll enjoy this a great deal more than fans familiar with the first book.
Let's hope Asher can redeem himself with the third book in the series.
THE SKINNER By Neal Asher – Reviewed
Posted in Reviews, Uncategorized with tags action, adolescent, adult, AI, alien, amount, army, asher, back-stoies, body chemistry, book, book review, books, builds nicely, cleverly put together, colonise, detail, dicover more, enough action, entertained, execute, fatal, fauna, fiction, great ideas, hive mind, hoop, horror, ideas, immortal, information, janer, jay hoop, later stages, leeches, massive, mission, monster, neal asher, novel, novels, old crew, overseer, pirates, planet, plot, police, polity, prador, problems, review, reviewed, reviews, sable keech, seas, secret, SF, skinner, solid story, spatterjay, story, strangers, surface, survivor, the skinner, twists and turns, universe, war, war drone, water filled, waves, writer on March 18, 2011 by stanleyriiks
Three strangers meet on the way to the planet's surface. That planet, which has little serviceable surface, is Spatterjay, a mostly water-filled world. And the seas of Spatterjay are filled with all manner of creatures all ready and willing to eat you and anything else that invades their watery home: including the strange leeches, whose bite, if not fatal, will change your body chemistry until you are immortal, or near as damnit.
One of the party of three is Sable Keech, several hundreds of years old, and finally returning to Spatterjay to complete his mission: to find the remaining survivors of Jay Hoop's crew and execute them. They were an ancient gang who sold cored-human slaves to the alien Prador's during the war. Despite the war now being over a Prador adult and adolescent have arrived on the planet in secret with one of Hoop's old crew, intent on causing problems.
Another of the three is Janer, part of a hive mind that may have secret plans to colonize the planet.
Throw into this mix semi-immortal pirates; a monster that skins people alive; the various fauna that occupies most of the planet and is intent on eating everything else; an AI overseer that acts as the planet's police and army; and a War Drone; and you get a massive amount of story, huge back-stories, and a huge amount of information that fortunately doesn't slow down the plot too much.
It takes a little while to get into the book because of the sheer volume of stuff you need to know, but it's so full of great ideas that you can't help but keep reading. The book builds nicely, we have enough action and enough ideas to not only keep you entertained but make you want to discover more. Fortunately Asher's produced not only more Spatterjay novels, but also Polity novels (based on the more organised part of the universe that only make a brief appearance here). Asher's universe is massively detailed and cleverly put together, and the novel is the same. What it lacks in pace to begin with is swiftly made up for in the later stages, and you can forgive this because of the amount of detail expounded.
Full of great ideas, with a good solid story and plenty of twists and turns, this first book of Spatterjay is the ideal entry into this virgin territory, and I have high hopes for the other books in the series, which I will most definitely be seeking out.


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package org.apache.maven.archiva.security;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import org.codehaus.plexus.redback.authentication.AuthenticationException;
import org.codehaus.plexus.redback.authentication.AuthenticationResult;
import org.codehaus.plexus.redback.authorization.AuthorizationException;
import org.codehaus.plexus.redback.authorization.UnauthorizedException;
import org.codehaus.plexus.redback.policy.AccountLockedException;
import org.codehaus.plexus.redback.policy.MustChangePasswordException;
import org.codehaus.plexus.redback.system.SecuritySession;

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public interface ServletAuthenticator
{
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     * @param request
     * @param result
     * @return
     * @throws AuthenticationException
     * @throws AccountLockedException
     * @throws MustChangePasswordException
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    public boolean isAuthenticated( HttpServletRequest request, AuthenticationResult result )
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    /**
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    /**
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    public boolean isAuthorized( String principal, String repoId, String permission )
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ISBNs, ISSNs and Legal Deposit
If you or your Institute publishes a book, journal or monograph series in print or online, you may want to consider the following:
getting an ISBN (for books and other one-off publications)
getting an ISSN for journals or series
legal deposit (a legal requirement on every publication in the UK & Ireland)
If you are publishing data online you many want to consider a Datacite DOI.
There is no legal requirement for a book to have an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) but it helps with cataloguing and if you wish to sell your book through major bookselling chains, or internet booksellers, they will require you to have an ISBN.
Some types of publication are not eligible for an ISBN. These include calendars, diaries, entertainment videos, documentaries on video or CD-ROM, computer games, computer application packages, and items which are available only to a restricted group of people, e.g. an educational course book only available to those registered as students on the course.
It is possible to obtain an ISBN before publication so that it can be printed on the back of the title-page and quoted in advertising literature. Getting an ISBN and giving details of the book to Nielsen Bookdata has the great advantage of securing an entry in the weekly publication, The Bookseller, which promotes sales.
How to apply for an ISBN
The Aberystwyth University Library has ISBNs which can be used for publications by departments and institutes within the University. Contact the Library Materials Acquisitions department (acqstaff@aber.acc.uk x2402) who will provide the ISBN.
If you want to self-publish outside the University, then you will need to get your own ISBNs. In the UK the ISBN Agency handles all applications for new ISBNS. Any Publisher publishing a qualifying product for general sale or distribution may apply on payment of a registration fee. In return the Agency provides 10 ISBNs. Larger allocations may also be purchased, but it is not possible to obtain a single ISBN. The standard service time is 10 working days from the time the Agency receives a correctly completed application. There is also a Fast-Track service, taking 3 working days, for which an additional charge is made.
Or contact CAA , a publishing company within AU who can offer each of the following services according to your needs: editing, design work, proofreading, translating, preparing pdfX files for press and discussing T&Cs with printers, allocating ISBNs, storage and distribution, including legal deposit libraries, and publicity and marketing.
How an ISBN is made up
Each publisher is allocated a number, preceded by a product code of either 978 or 979, and by 0- or 1- indicating the English language countries. After the publisher's number comes that of the individual book, and the fourth and final section of the number is a check digit for computer purposes.
Therefore an Aberystwyth University ISBN 978-0-9926940-0-5 indicates:
978- product code used for books
0- an English language publisher
9926940- Aberystwyth University
0- identifier for specific title
5 check digit
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an internationally accepted code which identifies the title of serial publications and is provided free of charge. In the UK the ISSN UK Centre at the British Library is responsible for assigning ISSNs to the serials published.
As with ISBNs it is possible to get an ISSN pre-publication.
Qualifying publications must be "continuing resource in any medium, issued in a succession of discrete parts [and having a common title], usually bearing numbering, that has no predetermined conclusion. Examples of serials include journals, magazines, electronic journals, ongoing directories, annual reports, newspapers, and monographic series."
The basic information required is:
Proposed title (working titles / project titles are not sufficient);
Frequency of publication;
Proposed start date (month / year);
Publisher's name and address.
The Centre will also need to receive a copy of the first issue on publication in order to validate their records. This copy will be passed through to the Legal Deposit Office and subsequent issues can be sent directly to them.
ISSN UK Centre
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Email: issn-uk@bl.uk
Publishers and distributors in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland have a legal obligation to send one copy of each of their publications to the Legal Deposit Office of the British Library within one month of publication under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 and the Copyright and Related Act, 2000. It is the responsibility of the publisher to send this, without being asked. Publishers should send one copy of their publication to:
Legal Deposit Office
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Email: legal-deposit-books@bl.uk
Email: legal-deposit-serials@bl.uk
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In addition the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 and the Irish Copyright Act 1963 entitle the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, and Trinity College Library, Dublin to a free copy on request. The request is usually made a few months after publication.
Copies may be sent (without necessarily waiting for a demand) to:
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Q: Firebase-Admin with Nuxt I am trying to consume a Firestore database with Nuxt. But the following code generates an error when compiling.
I leave several excerpts from the project I'm doing
In this file I have configured the database credentials path
README.md
$env:GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="D:\Educacion\Proyectos\Go\social\whatsapp-f91a0.json"

nuxt.config.js
plugins: [
    '@plugins/firebase.js'
  ],

Plugins
firebase.js
var admin = require("firebase-admin");

var serviceAccount = require("whatsapp-f91a0.json");

admin.initializeApp({
  credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),
  databaseURL: "https://whatsapp-f91a0.firebaseio.com"
});

const db = admin.database();

export {db}

index.vue
<script>
import db from 'firebase';

  db.collection('categorias').doc('aaa').get()
  .then(doc=>{
    if (!doc.exists){
      console.log('no existe')
    }
  })
  .catch(err=>{
    console.error('error', err);
    process.exit();
  });
</script>

Here I get an error when compiling
Error
 WARN  Compiled with 3 warnings                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

 WARN  in ./node_modules/hash-stream-validation/index.js                                                                           friendly-errors 17:54:45

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fast-crc32c' in 'D:\Educacion\Proyectos\Go\social\node_modules\hash-stream-validation'     friendly-errors 17:54:45
                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

 WARN  in ./node_modules/retry-request/index.js                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'request' in 'D:\Educacion\Proyectos\Go\social\node_modules\retry-request'                  friendly-errors 17:54:45
                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

 WARN  in ./node_modules/configstore/node_modules/write-file-atomic/index.js                                                       friendly-errors 17:54:45

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'worker_threads' in 'D:\Educacion\Proyectos\Go\social\node_modules\configstore\node_modules\write-file-atomic'
                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

 ERROR  Failed to compile with 20 errors                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

These dependencies were not found:                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45
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* child_process in ./node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js                                                 friendly-errors 17:54:45
* dns in ./node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/resolver-dns.js                                                                    friendly-errors 17:54:45

 WARN  in ./node_modules/configstore/node_modules/write-file-atomic/index.js                                                       friendly-errors 17:54:45

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'worker_threads' in 'D:\Educacion\Proyectos\Go\social\node_modules\configstore\node_modules\write-file-atomic'
                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

 ERROR  Failed to compile with 20 errors                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45

These dependencies were not found:                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45
                                                                                friendly-errors 17:54:45
* child_process in ./node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js                                                 friendly-errors 17:54:45
* dns in ./node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/resolver-dns.js                                                                    friendly-errors 17:54:45
* fs in ./node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/build/src/file.js, ./node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/tls-helpers.js and 8 others friendly-errors 17:54:45
* http2 in ./node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/server.js                                                                        friendly-errors 17:54:45
* net in ./node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/resolver-dns.js, ./node_modules/http-proxy-agent/dist/agent.js and 1 other         friendly-errors 17:54:45
* tls in ./node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/channel-credentials.js, ./node_modules/http-proxy-agent/dist/agent.js and 1 other  friendly-errors 17:54:46
* whatsapp-f91a0.json in ./plugins/firebase.js

Could someone help me please

A: Nuxt is a frontend framework with the goal of serve the content in a variety of ways (including server side).
Firebase-admin is a server side library. You could make it work with some tweaks here and there but it's not recommendable at all, starting from the fact that you could by mistake make your credentials public.
Use Firebase Javascript SDK optionally with Firebase-Nuxt in combination of a set of rules and auth claims, so you can work as admin.

A: One way to do this is to initialize the app two different times, one on the server and one on the client. On nuxt.config.js, make sure you do something like this
serverMiddleware : [
    {
      path : '/api',
      handler : '~/api/serversidefirebase.js'
    }
],
plugins: [
    {
      src : '~/plugins/clientsidefirebase.js',
      ssr : false
    },
]

Register your API in the serverMiddleware and for all client side plugins, specify ssr: false. tadaaa..


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Guest Column: Health care: It's personal — not politics
Steve Spriggs
"You need to get to Sacramento now. Your son was hit by a car on his bicycle. All I know is that he is alive, that he had emergency brain surgery and that he is in intensive care."
These are words that no parent can prepare for.
It turned out that a 16-year-old driver had run a red light at 50 miles per hour. That was back in 2010 when our son Matthew was 22.
Today Matt has two metal plates in his skull and suffers from symptoms of the traumatic brain injury. His lower leg was reconstructed using donor cadaver bone and multiple titanium rods and wires to hold it all together. Five disks in his lumbar spine are severely damaged, but doctors say he is too young to have the discs surgically fused.
Matt lives with constant pain and his future will require extensive medical care and additional surgery. To date, his injuries have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. I am fortunate to have employer-provided health insurance that covers my wife and son at a reasonable additional cost.
My son would have been dropped from my policy when he graduated from college, but the Affordable Care Act allowed him to stay on our policy until his 26th birthday. Without it, we would be bankrupt today. Matt turns 26 in April and will be dropped from my policy.
For decades the congressional Republicans have done nothing to restrict insurance companies from insuring only healthy people. The rest of us continue to pay dearly when hospital emergency rooms provide basic health care for everyone else.
Covered California provides my son with many insurance choices that exist nowhere else. As a father, I am relieved that my son now has a way to avoid becoming a burden upon society when I am gone.
The ACA may not be perfect, but it gives us hope that our son has a shot at a future with basic health care, less pain and fewer limitations. Yet there is a vocal group of petulant Republican congressmen doing everything in their power to delay, defund and ultimately destroy what they disparagingly call "Obamacare."
These reckless ideologues have shown that they are willing to bring down our government and to crash the world's financial systems in order to keep millions of American citizens uninsured. These self-described "Christian Conservatives" offer nothing constructive (or Christian) to address the problems that have been destroying families for decades.
These regressive efforts are not for the greater good. This obsessive desire to undermine and kill the Affordable Care Act is not rational and it is not patriotic. These extremist representatives are trying to harm my family in a very direct and personal way. It is just plain immoral.
My own congressman wanted to appear reasonable, so he recently labeled tea party Republicans as "lemmings." But contrary to his words, he voted in lockstep with his radical colleagues more than 40 times to prevent my son from having a healthy future. And he is fine with shutting down the government and threatening the world's fiscal stability to prevent my son from having health insurance. He says that he is doing this for our own good.
Rep. Devin Nunes, you are wrong. Your efforts to obstruct pending laws that you do not like may be understandable in a purely political sense. But your incessant attempts to undermine a legally enacted and court-tested statute that protects my son (and millions of others) from a life of pain and poverty are unforgivable. You provide no viable alternative and seem content to let our families suffer.
This is not political to us. This is personal. This is my son's future.


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Style / April 2017
The Advent of the Loafer
The history of the loafer and its many comfortable, timesaving permutations.
by Christian Barker
A classic penny loafer style by heritage shoemakers Crockett & Jones.
The original men's style minimalist, Beau Brummell may have freed us from frills, frippery and lace, however it was the advent of the loafer that liberated men from the tyranny of laces. Unlike Brummell — a monied man of leisure who took hours primping his 'fit each day — the modern gentleman has scant seconds to spare in his everyday sartorial preparations, and the loafer saves us valuable minutes to spend on more fruitful pursuits (bonding with our offspring, performing callisthenics, or checking lingerie models' Instagram Stories, perhaps). For this, we must be thankful. But to whom should we offer our gratitude, you ask? Read on, sir.
London shoemaker Wildsmith is credited with creating the first modern loafer in 1926 for client King George VI, in response to the stuttering regent's request for a bespoke casual shoe he could 'loaf' around his country houses in. A beefier ready-to-wear rendition suitable for outdoor use was soon put into production, and the style was quickly emulated by many more of Britain's gentlemen's shoemakers.
Across the sea in Norway, meanwhile, Nils Gregoriusson Tveranger, who'd studied shoemaking in the United States, developed a style jointly inspired by Native American footwear and a moccasin-like shoe traditionally worn by the hunters, fisherman and farmers of his fjord-side home in Aurland. The 'Aurland Moccasin' found favour throughout Europe in the 1930s, and visiting Americans brought the shoes home as souvenirs. Knowing a good thing when they saw it, Maine-based shoemaker GH Bass launched its version of Tveranger's shoe, named the Weejun in homage to its Norwegian origins, in 1934.
Championed by US men's style bibles Esquire and Apparel Arts, the loafer became popular with dapper young chaps on American college and prep school campuses, who took to inserting two pennies into the cut-outs on the shoes' saddle, either as a form of embellishment or to provide ready currency for an emergency phonebooth call. It was the college kids who first sported the loafers-sans-socks look that's a common fashion trick today, but was initially a matter of hurried dishevelment. "Guys who lived in the dorms wore them that way," according to menswear sage G. Bruce Boyer. "If they were late for their first class they would put on their loafers without putting on their socks first. Other guys would show up in their pyjamas."
Former Ivy Stylemeisters in the States carried on wearing loafers when they graduated and entered the corporate world, and the natty tasseled iteration popularised by Alden in the 1950s (and later perfected in the form of Anthony Cleverley's De Rede) was enthusiastically adopted by urbane sophisticates on the east and west coasts. But back in Britain and on the Continent, the loafer remained strictly a casual choice.
The introduction, by an exclusive Florentine leathergoods house named Gucci, of a loafer featuring 'snaffle' horse bit hardware across the saddle, proved a gamechanger. Aldo Gucci, the son of the firm's founder, who'd been tasked with spearheading the family business's expansion into the United States, had noticed the loafer's popularity in the US and was struck by the idea that a slick, sleek-lined, luxurious version, suited to being worn with both tailoring and casualwear, would pique Americans' interest. He wasn't wrong. From the moment Gucci's New York store doors opened in 1953, the Gucci horsebit loafer flew off the shelves.
Matthew Cookson
Camel Brown Passy Tassel Loafer
Black Piccadilly Leather Penny Loafers
Ocean Marphy Suede Loafers
Initially championed by chic celebrities and the jet set, by the 1970s, Gucci loafers were considered so formal-appropriate that patrician CIA chief George HW Bush wore them for meetings with President Ford at the White House. In the '80s, they became ubiquitous among pinstripe power-suited Wall Street masters of the universe and City of London yuppies. Thanks to Gucci (whose transformation from obscure Italian atelier to ubiquitous global luxury brand was utterly driven by the horsebit), the loafer's acceptance in dressed-up metropolitan settings was complete.
Possessing "the comfort of the moccasin while adding the fashion and elegance of a dressy shoe," wrote G. Bruce Boyer, the Gucci loafer "was the first shoe that bridged the gap between casual and business wear." At home "in corporate board rooms and country clubs alike," according to Boyer, "there is no question that this now legendary shoe deserves its reputation for having revolutionised casual footwear, which is the reason a Gucci slip-on is included in the costume collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum."
Like Aldo Gucci before him, in the late 1970s, a young third-generation shoemaker from Le Marche, Italy, named Diego Della Valle was inspired by America's laid-back style to create a luxurious driving moccasin. "In Italy people still tried to be elegant at the weekend: a suit, tie and white shirt, especially on Sunday. In America it was completely different. The weekend was like a religion there, and people tried to be very, very relaxed," Della Valle explained in a 2011 interview. "Sometimes it was not very good taste! But my idea was, why not make more relaxed shoes that are also elegant and chic?"
Naming his nascent company JP Tod's, with his pebble-soled 'gommino' driving shoe and perfectionist take on penny loafers (which far exceeded the American originals in the quality stakes), Della Valle gave his US customers a more stylish, handcrafted means of kicking back in ease — "Before, shoes were very stiff, without any comfort, and we tried to change that completely… to consider shoes like a pair of gloves… light, soft, comfortable, useful — something you can wear all day," he said. Simultaneously winning over the domestic market, Tod's taught Italians that it was possible to blend casual and formal, an approach to style they've now elevated to a fine art.
In addition to pennies and tassels, drivers and snaffles, the list of slip-on styles goes on: Belgian shoes and velvet slippers, patent opera pumps, kilties, elastic-sided, espadrilles, boat shoes… You'll find exquisitely handcrafted examples of many of these knot-dodging wonders (from Baudoin & Lange, Belsire, Carmina, Ludwig Reiter, Rubinacci, and Stefano Bemer) right here in The Rake's shop. Slip on in.
Blue Brenno Suede Penny Loafers
Tan Maxwell Hand-Painted Leather Penny Loafers
Burgundy Cordovan Leather Penny Loafers
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Rabbit Rabbit promotes some of the best loved acts in Edinburgh and around the UK – including Maria Bamford, Tony Law, Michael Che, Jessica Fostekew and David Cross (to name a few).
We are taking a handful of shows to Fringe this summer (a lovely mix of British, Canadian and American comics) and need a small but dedicated group of comedy fans to join our core street team.
Shifts will mainly be in the afternoon for 4-6 hours (we can offer shorter shifts if you're doubling with other work) with some work available in the evening for another couple of hours.
Pay is competitive plus venues passes (to get you into lots of shows!) and social events with the rest of the team and comedians to add some fun in between the rainy work.
Please email info@rabbitrabbitcomedy.com with your CV and why you'd be brilliant at selling our shows for us!


Because abortion is invasive (even using RU486 abortion pills), you should consider your future reproductive health. An STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) can be transferred through your cervix (which opens with any abortion) into your uterus. If this happens, it could cause PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease), which is painful and could possibly cause infertility.
At First Step's main center, we offer pregnant women low-cost testing and treatment for the two most common, treatable STDs (Chlamydia and Gonorrhea). On our mobile medical unit, we offer these same STD services for all women, whether or not you are pregnant.


Welcome and thank you for visiting the Grambling University Foundation, Inc. website. I hope that the information you find here will inspire you to join us in supporting the cause that is Grambling State University (GSU). The Grambling University Foundation has supported the university, its mission, and its students by carefully stewarding and prudently investing your gifts of support.
I appreciate the stellar efforts of the Grambling University Foundation and its Board of Directors. Their leadership and philanthropic support has been nothing short of amazing. Each year over a thousand alumni and friends, along with our corporate and foundation partners, provide significant support in so many ways to our great university through the Grambling University Foundation. Some gifts create endowments that provide scholarships through the earnings, while in other cases donations are given to annually fund specific scholarships, endowed professorships, and provide GAP funds for our students. This level of support is indicative of the strong loyalty, passion and commitment that so many alumni and friends have for GSU.
Grambling State University's legacy of making an excellent college education available to all must continue. Your interest in the mission of the Grambling University Foundation and your understanding of the need for private support will help in that effort.
We look forward to working in partnership with you as we continue this momentum to transform lives and improve our university.


May 16th marked the third anniversary of the day that "normal" was redefined for us. I blogged about that day HERE. Now I'm not totally sure why I didn't write this post on Friday, I think I got my dates mixed up.
I can still see so clearly in my mind about how that very first home visit, which consisted of a DISC (Diagnostic Inventory for Screening Children) assessment had gone. I had no idea what to expect of this visit and when I saw how low Sarah scored on the tests, I was devastated. We were told that she was anywhere from 8-18 months behind kids who were her age. It was quite the blow to hear from someone that our daughter wasn't developing typically.
The months and years that followed consisted of biweekly home visits from our Early Intervention Coordinator which were times full of play ideas, tips and encouragement. I think initially I was resistant to Wendy, possibly because I wanted to deny that anything was different with Sarah. As time went on, I found her to be someone who was an encourager, supporter and cheerleader for me. I was learning to be strong for Sarah and to fight for her. I am so thankful for the times Wendy, Sarah and I had together and I believe she was a vital part of our lives for that time. It was sad to say good bye to her when Sarah turned five.
This day marked the beginning of a whole new chapter of life for us. We would quickly learn words like cerebral palsy, severe microcephaly, severe global developmental delays, intervention, special needs and more. Although these words do not define who Sarah is and they are a part of of our lives, she didn't change that day, simply because a label was given.
Sarah continues to be a blessing to Doug, myself, our family and to just about anyone who meets and knows her. Our life took a detour that day. We are on a different journey than we may have thought we would have been and although it hasn't all been easy, we have conquered many mountains and milestones. We celebrate each victory with enthusiasm, no matter how small. The other day, Sarah picked me a dandelion bouquet for the first time and it was such a precious gift to me.
Today, I don't know where she is as far as her developmental stages are. She certainly acts and speaks considerably younger than she is but I have no tools to base that on. If I had to guess, I'd place her around 3.5-4 years old, depending on the skill. And today, that's okay. She is perfect in God's eyes and she is exactly how he wants her to be.
Your attitude makes such a difference for Sarah and your other children. They are blessed to have parents who look beyond the exterior into their young hearts. Thanks for posting this at DifferentDream.com's Tuesday link share.
Sarah is a little blessing! I remember being resistant to early intervention at first too, but our threrapists really taught me how to teach Bethany and I am very grateful for that!


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Documents in Babayin script declared Philippine heritage
Noel Tan	 August 28, 2014 No Comments
Two documents written in Babayin script have been declared cultural treasures in the Philippines.
1635 Deed of Sale, written in Babayin script. Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer 20140825
UST documents in ancient 'baybayin' script declared a National Cultural Treasure
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 25 August 2014
Owing to their outstanding cultural value, two 17th-century baybayin documents from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Archives were recently declared National Cultural Treasure (NCT) by the National Archives of the Philippines (NAP).
Baybayin is the ancient Filipino syllabary in use during the Spanish contact in the 16th century.
The declaration was made during the Second Baybayin Conference on Aug. 22 at National Museum of the Filipino People at Agrifina Circle in Manila. The conference was held in conjunction with the Buwan ng Wika (National Language Month) celebration.
"This is the first declaration made by the National Archives and the first paper document to be declared as NCT," said UST professor Regalado Trota Jose, director of the UST Archives and a former commissioner of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
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It Is Coming! The Ultimate Life Movie!
I was lucky enough to be able to attend a pre-screening of the new film The Ultimate Life last week. It will be released in theaters September 6, 2013. This is a movie I have been eagerly anticipating for…well, it feels like forever, but it is finally here and that is all that matters! It was well worth the wait. I loved, loved, loved this movie. It was visually stunning, the acting was wonderful and the story…well, I left the theater with a good feeling that carried over well into the next day. Here's the trailer…just to give you a peek.
Looks good, huh? The real deal is even better. This is both a prequel and a sequel to The Ultimate Gift. Huh? Right, it really is both. And it works, really, really well. The cool part is that The Ultimate Life is a stand alone film. No prior knowledge is necessary to fall in love with this one, I promise! However, I can't imagine anyone watching The Ultimate Life and then not wanting to go back to watch The Ultimate Gift. (That could just be me though…no? Good!) The film stars Peter Fonda, Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, and Ali Hillis just to name a few.
Chronologically, it takes places after the events of The Ultimate Gift. Jason Stevens, played by Logan Bartholomew, is fighting his greedy family to retain control of the Stevens Foundation that he earned from his grandfather, Red Stevens, in the first film. Jason's busy, doing good things, trying to help people with the gifts that his grandfather has bequeathed him. He's come a long way from the young man we met in the first film, but he's got a few things let to learn yet. I've always liked Jason. Not in spite of his flaws, but because of them, I think. More that as he becomes aware of those flaws, Jason's trying to work to overcome them. He's willing to learn, and become…better. The Ultimate Life shows him trying to bear the burden of his inheritance. He's focusing so hard on trying not to be the person he was before he learned the ultimate gift from Red, that he's missing out on some big stuff now.
Now, for anyone who has seen The Ultimate Gift you're probably out there thinking that no one can replace actor Drew Fuller as Jason. I was kind of worried about this too, I'm not going to pretend I wasn't. He did a great job with the role. Logan had quite a bit of skepticism to overcome, and it took him all of like three minutes on screen to do that. Really, you've got nothing to worry about. Mr. Bartholomew's portrayal of this character is spot on, no joke. His smile is infectious and he embodies the person we know Jason has become to perfection. After those first few minutes, he was just Jason and I didn't think about it again.
As the daily grind and the fight with his money grubbing family take over Jason's life, he does a great job of keeping the big picture in focus. The details….well, this is where the lawyer comes in to help. I know, I know. Not the typical role of an attorney in the movies, but Mr. Hamilton is not just a sharp attorney. He's also been a friend of Jason's grandfather since the beginning of Red's career as an oilman. Mr. Hamilton gives Jason Red's journal to read, in hopes that his grandfather's struggles will help Jason gain some…perspective maybe.
From http://www.theultimatelifemovie.com
Red kept a journal since he was 15. It was given to him by his teacher who told him that it wasn't "girly". Girls had diaries and boys had journals. Journals were different. In this leather bound book, he relates his journey. We get to see it through Red's own eyes.
Now, Red has always been a favorite of mine in these movies. It doesn't hurt that the Red that Jason knows is played by James Garner. I do so love James Garner…he's just awesome! I was a little nervous about the prequel portions, and the men who would be playing Red as a teenager and a younger man. I shouldn't have wasted my time. I had nothing to worry about. Austin James plays the teen aged Red Stevens, and he does a fantastic job. All that ambition and drive just pulse out of him, and it just encapsulates the character so well. I was even more impressed when I found out this was his first major role. The guy knocked it out of the park. Drew Waters took over the role of Red as an adult, and the transition was seamless. The Texas oil man still chasing his dream of becoming a billionaire was just as I'd pictured Red, and seeing how the family ended up…the way they ended up, was a bit heartbreaking. Just as watching young Red fall in love with his Hannah was breathtaking.
Then there's Gus. He's played by Brian Dennehey in The Ultimate Gift, and I couldn't wait to see what he would look like in The Ultimate Life. Seeing their friendship develop throughout this film was just awesome, because they have such a competitive relationship of friendly one-upmanship. And the young Gus, played by Jack DePew, has just the right mix of humor, snark, competitive drive and friendly attitude.
Surprise, surprise, there are books that go along with the movies. They're titled The Ultimate Gift, The Ultimate Life and The Ultimate Journey by Jim Stovall. Check out Jason Steven's limo driver in The Ultimate Life movie, because the author makes a cameo there. I recommend reading the books also, because…well, you already know how I feel about that. Just read Book Before Movie? Movie Before Book?.
The author is based in my home town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he has written more than 20 books, four of which have been made into movies now. Jim Stovall is also a motivational speaker and President of the Narrative Television Network as well. The Narrative Television Network makes movies and television accessible for the blind and visually impaired and their families. Even though it was originally designed for individuals who are visually impaired, a large percentage of people who tune into programming are like me. They don't have issues with their eyesight, but they enjoy the programming. Sometimes it is as simple as not being able to see the television from the kitchen. (If I were more motivated I would do something about that, but I don't have to. NTN tells me what's going on, and keeps me from moving furniture…and fish tanks.) He's even been an Olympic weightlifter too. Just please don't ask me which book is my favorite, because I'd have a really hard time answering.
Did I mention The Ultimate Life comes to theaters September 6th? Just in case I forgot, September 6th-8th is opening weekend. Go see it. There will be no regrets! You can get tickets here.
Hollywood comes to Rockingham County (or the other way around) (hispanicbusiness.com)
The Ultimate Life and GRAND Social No. 62 (grandmasbriefs.com)
Top 10 Inspirational Movies to Watch at Amazon and Youtube (asiatrainers.org)
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Captain Sir Tom Moore is given first ever veterans railcard
The new railcard could benefit 830,000 veterans of all ages who don't already qualify for discounted train tickets.
Wednesday 14 October 2020 05:56, UK
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Image: The card could benefit up to 830,000 veterans
Captain Sir Thomas Moore has been presented with the first ever veterans railcard.
Sir Tom, 100, was given his new railcard at home in Bedfordshire by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.
The new card, which is available to ex-servicemen and women of any age, is being rolled out as part of a wider government 'veterans strategy'.
It will offer a third off their fares and discounts for their travel companions - and could benefit up to 830,000 veterans who are not already eligible for any existing railcards, the Department for Transport said.
Image: Captain Sir Tom Moore, 100, was presented with the first ever veterans railcard
Sir Tom, who was knighted after his mission to walk 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday raised £33m for the NHS, said he felt honoured to be involved.
He said: "This is a wonderful occasion to accept the first veterans railcard.
"It is a rare opportunity to show thanks and gratitude to veterans and this railcard is a necessary recognition and investment in veterans, giving them the ability to re-connect and combat loneliness."
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The new strategy aims to support people who have served in the military with relationships, employment, health, finance and housing.
Mr Shapps said: "We have an eternal debt of honour to those who have served our country, and this railcard is part of marking our gratitude.
"For veterans looking to re-enter the world of work and connect with friends and family, it will cut the cost of travel to open up new opportunities."
Image: Sir Tom received a knighthood in July after he raised £33m for the NHS
He added: "I am also delighted to present Captain Sir Tom Moore with the very first railcard.
"Through his service and his inspirational fundraising, he has shown the selflessness and indomitable spirit of all those who have served."
The veterans railcard will launch on 5 November - costing £21 until 31 March 2021 - then £30 thereafter.


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Bulawayo and the entire Matebeleland region are currently experiencing serious fuel shortages, a Daily News article has reported. It is believed that Bulawayo last received petrol and diesel on Friday but, stocks are already running out due to high demand.
This can have an adverse impact on the Independence, Easter holidays, and the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).
Other regions across the country however still have some stocks of both petrol and diesel.
I have always said there is enough fuel in the country. What is not there is money … the foreign currency to acquire that fuel.
The scarcity of foreign currency has constrained the country's capacity to import fuel and other essential commodities such as medicines.


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Focus on Women's Rights
Tricia Bent-Goodley of Howard University's School of Social Work: "When it comes to teen pregnancy, we don't hear the reasons for the choice they made."
NASW is hosting conferences across the country with support from the United Nations Foundation to promote greater attention to the rights of women and girls on a global level.
In September, NASW's Human Rights and International Affairs Division joined the NASW D.C. Metro Chapter in hosting "Promoting Human Rights of Women and Girls Globally: The Intersection of Social Work and Family Planning Services" at the association's national office in Washington.
The event featured a discussion by Tricia Bent-Goodley, professor at Howard University School of Social Work.
She explained that on a global level, one-third of women suffer some form of abuse in their lifetime and one-quarter of women experience sexual violence in their lifetime.
In the U.S., she noted, 25 to 33 percent of women suffer from some form of physical or sexual violence in their lifetime and one-fifth of those do not tell anyone. Bent-Goodley described a clear link between sexual violence and poor reproductive health.
On an individual client level, Bent-Goodley urged attendees to listen closely to women's and girls' concerns without passing judgment. "When it comes to teen pregnancy, we don't hear the reasons for the choice they made," she said, noting that some young girls are shocked to learn that someone may sabotage their efforts for birth control.
Many young women learn about human reproduction from outside the family. For example, she said one girl told her that she learned about the subject from a music channel on cable television.
Luisa Lopez, director of human rights and international affairs at NASW, outlined the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and discussed the role of social work in international practice.
More than ever, the need is urgent to improve reproductive health care for women around the world, Lopez said.
"The leading cause of death for teenage girls in developing countries is pregnancy and childbirth" she said. "Each year, 1 million babies with young mothers and 70,000 girls die from childbirth-related complications."
Poor sexual and reproductive health accounts for one-third of the illnesses globally among women, she said. "A woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth every minute of every day."
Lopez noted that social workers can play a vital role in improving services for families, women and girls. "We all have a stake in this, both men and women," she said, urging attendees to connect with leaders and communities to help build and promote networks that advocate for better access to reproductive health.
The forum showcased two short videos on the MDGs, which focus on: cutting global poverty and hunger in half; universal primary education; gender equality; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other deadly diseases; ensuring environmental sustainability; and working toward a global partnership for development.
The MDGs were adopted by 189 world leaders as part of the Millennium Declaration signed in 2000. The leaders agreed to achieve the goals by 2015.
Finally, the group united to read the pledge of Stand Up, Take Action in support of the MDGs.
In addition to the forum in Washington, NASW and the United Nations Foundation supported three other symposiums that focused on maternal health care at NASW's Nebraska, Ohio and Rhode Island chapters.
Nebraska hosted the "Symposium on Maternal Health in Nebraska" in late September. The chapter led the way in convening a group of experts on maternal health issues in Nebraska, nationally and internationally.
The event featured Jean Amoura, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Her presentation was called "Reaching Our Goals in Maternal and Reproductive Health: Where Do We Go from Here?" The event featured panel discussions on six topics, from which the participants devised policy statements to be shared with the media and policymakers.
Terry Werner, executive director of the Nebraska Chapter, said the conference allowed the chapter a great opportunity to promote issues and concerns important to social workers in the state.
"We presented to policymakers media statements about our concerns," Werner said. "Many attendees were new to the issues and this event was an educational vehicle for them."
NASW's Rhode Island Chapter hosted the "Forum on Women's Health Issues: Diverse Perspectives and Challenges" in October.
Panelists at the event discussed women's health in various areas. Chapter Executive Director Rick Harris said 150 people attended the forum, including students from eight different colleges and two high school students.
"It was a huge event for us and we had great feedback," said Harris, who discussed issues affecting women on an international level, with a particular focus on female human trafficking. Another discussion topic was how state, federal and international health policies affect resources and may contribute to institutional discrimination.
At press time, the NASW Ohio Chapter was scheduled to host a forum in late October.


Prep: 1. Chop onions, garlic, bell pepper, mushrooms, cilantro and green onions. 2. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Make: 1. Set a large, deep skillet over high heat, add safflower oil and heat until pan is just starting to smoke. 2. Carefully add chicken to skillet, skin side down and cook over medium heat, until browned on both sides about 3-5 minutes per side. Cut chicken into pieces and transfer to a plate. 3. Add onion and mushrooms to pan, season with a pinch of salt and cook over medium high, stirring occasionally, until caramelized, 10 minutes. 4. Add garlic and tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. 5. Add bell pepper, thyme sprigs, bay leaf, paprika and chili flakes and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 2 minutes. 6. Pour stock and saffron threads into skillet and bring to a boil. 7. Stir in rice and a generous pinch of salt and return to a boil. 8. Nestle chicken in rice and cook over moderately low heat, without stirring, until rice is tender and chicken is cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes. 9. Discard the thyme sprigs and bay leaf. Season the dish with salt and pepper and serve with hot sauce. Top the dish with chopped cilantro, sliced scallions and cotija cheese.
Any kind of mushrooms work well in this. Also you can substitute plain white rice for the arborio, but you will miss out on the great, creamy texture that the arborio rice gives. If you can't find cotija cheese any mexican blend or queso fresco will also work.


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Home > Former Pakistan PM sentenced on charges relating to UK property
Former Pakistan PM sentenced on charges relating to UK property
Corruption campaigners call on UK law enforcement to investigate any further property in the UK owned by the Sharif family.
Following the sentencing in Pakistan of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on corruption charges related to four London properties, the UK must now investigate those assets and no longer provide a safe haven for Sharif and his family, says Transparency International UK.
If a UK investigation concludes that the properties have been bought with corrupt money, then the authorities should move to seize the assets. Transparency International also calls on UK law enforcement to investigate any further property in the UK owned by the Sharif family.
On 6 July 2018 Sharif was sentenced to ten years in prison for owning assets beyond his income, whilst his daughter received seven years for her role. In 2016 the Panama Papers exposed links between several members of the Sharif family and offshore companies that were allegedly used to purchase London property. The court ruling ordered the confiscation of these properties for the Government of Pakistan.
It has been reported that Nawaz Sharif is currently in London and has regularly been visiting the UK during the trial. The UK Government has consistently said it aims to crackdown on the laundering of corrupt funds through the UK, although recent media reports suggest that the authorities failed to properly assist Pakistani counterparts during this investigation.
Rachel Davies Teka, Head of Advocacy at Transparency International UK, said, "We are calling on the UK authorities to investigate the London-based assets identified in this conviction and ensure that Sharif and his family are no longer able to enjoy any luxury homes that are found to have been bought with the proceeds of corruption. Furthermore we believe the UK must look into any other potentially criminal UK based assets owned by the Sharif family."
"This will serve as an important test as to how serious the Government is on cracking down on the prevalence of corrupt money in our capital. The laundering of dirty money is not confined to Russian oligarchs and it is important that we target illicit assets wherever they originate from."
"The recent passing of legislation that will require British Overseas Territories to publicly reveal the true owners of companies is a key step towards preventing the purchase of UK property with suspicious wealth. The UK must now ensure it follows through on this legislation, so that we no longer need to rely on leaks like the Panama Papers to reveal cases such as this one."
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Poetry and Philosophy (completed)
DICTUM - Divide and Collect: Understanding Method in Plato
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DICTUM is a postdoc-project financed by the EU the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, a part of the EU framework programme for research and innovation.
DICTUM is a basic research project focused on the technical core of Plato's philosophy, that is, his conception of dialectic, the method that distinguishes philosophical inquiry from other kinds of inquiry. The project challenges the now prevailing understanding of this method as radically changing in the course of Plato's life and proposes that Plato's conception of dialectic is unified and intimately connected with his understanding of reasoning. To Plato, the abilities to see likenesses between things, on the one hand, and to differentiate them, on the other, are defining features of the human intellect. DICTUM sets out from the assumption that dialectical inquiry is a refined performance of these abilities, applied to matters that are crucial but often misunderstood and disputed—like the nature of justice or the role of beauty and knowledge in our lives.
Routes of inquiry in ancient thought: Platonic dialectic and its historical context
The idea that rational inquiry needs to be conducted methodically is central to the western philosophical and scientific traditions. This idea derives ultimately from ancient Greek concerns about the best manner in which reality may be uncovered, not least from the philosophical discussions concerning the nature of dialectical inquiry we find in Plato. These discussions have shaped, and continue to shape, large parts of our tradition. Plato's conception of dialectical inquiry did not develop in a vacuum, however, but formed part of a larger discussion concerning the nature of inquiry that we find in the poetical tradition, in texts of early thinkers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides, in the Hippocratic writings, in the historical works of Herodotus and Thucydides, and in early mathematical writings.
The purpose of the lecture series is to illuminate Plato's ideal of philosophical inquiry against the backdrop of the rich variety of methodical ideals on display in classical Greek writers. A further aim of the series is to generate discussion about the concept of methodical inquiry, in antiquity and beyond. The lectures do not presuppose knowledge of Greek and will be of interest to students and researchers working on ancient philosophy, philosophical method and the history of ideas. Each lecture will consist of a presentation of approx. 45 minutes and will be followed by a 30 minutes discussion. Each semester there will be one lecture that explores an aspect of Plato's conception of dialectic as well as one or more lectures focused on the broader background against which Plato developed his ideal of dialectical inquiry.
Each presentation is an independent lecture open to all interested listeners.
Rational Persuasion in Plato –What is the Difference between Dialetical and Rhetorical Argumentation?, November 16th 14.15-16, 2018, Christopher Roser (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Plato's methods in the Republic: myths and definitions, February 21st, 2019, Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia)
Defining Rhetoric dialectically - in Defence of Socratic Divisions, March, 2019, Kristian Larsen (University of Bergen)
More details will follow
Grounding Rhetoric in Dialectic: On collection and division in Plato's Phaedrus, September 21st, 2017, Kristian Larsen (University of Bergen)
What is the nature of dialectic in Plato? This presentation will approach the question by concentrating on the Phaedrus. It is commonly assumed that this dialogue introduces a new dialectic method – collection and division – characteristic of Plato's later thought. I will argue, in contrast, that Plato saw the procedures of collection and division as the foundation both for speaking and thinking in general and for Socratic inquiry. I will further argue that these procedures are not identical with dialectic metod as such, but are one method among several the dialectician may employ in philosophical inquiry. They are not meant to provide us with essential definitions of something, but to help us mark off controversial matters correctly from other matters that resemble them.
The Greek Concept of Method: The ethical and metaphysical origins of method in Hesiod, Parmenides and beyond, November 23rd 14.15-16 (Seminar room 1st floor, Sydnesplassen 12-13), Jakob Leth Fink (University of Gothenberg)
In this presentation I will focus on the terminology relevant for the discussion of method in ancient philosophical and scientific texts. Terms such as hodos, technê and methodos will be in focus. I will discuss samples from the pre-Socratics, the Hippocratic physicians and Plato and Aristotle in order to outline the Greek concept of method. In conclusion I will compare the results with the Cartesian concept of method to give some idea of the specific Greek contribution to the philosophical discussion of method.
Hypothetical method in Socrates' dialectical practice - December 7th, 13.15-15 (Room 208-209, Sydnesplassen 12-13), Hayden Ausland (The University of Montana)
For the past seven or eight decades, Socrates' dialectical method, as depicted in what are held Plato's early dialogues, has been identified with "the elenchus" (refutatio), from which various hypothetical methods found in some supposedly transitional or middle Platonic dialogues have been held importantly distinct. But Plato's Socrates can be seen to appeal argumentatively to hypotheses in dialogues of both these modern groupings, and in a way that reflects their use even in something as "late" as Plato's Parmenides. What is more, the terminology and manner with which hypotheses are discussed or employed throughout Plato's works not only have parallels in Xenophon's and Aristophanes' depictions of the same Socrates, but all three authors' uses can be seen to adapt more generalized technical applications of hypothesis. Suspending conventional assumptions about a Socratic-Platonic "development" yields a more adequate understanding of the beginnings of the hypothetical method as found in Classical philosophy.
Previous activities:
Conference: Platonic dialectic – inquiring into the nature of things
In recent decades a growing number of scholars have questioned the developmental approach to Plato that dominated scholarship in the 20th century. But this change has yet to prompt new approaches to Plato's conception of dialectic. The conference aims to promote such new approaches.
For full program, follow the link below:
http://www.uib.no/en/fof/113457/conference-platonic-dialectic-%E2%80%93-inquiring-nature-things
Updated: 02.09.2019 (First published: 22.06.2017)
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement.
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Associate Professor, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow
Jens.Larsen@uib.no
Hallvard Fossheim
Professor, Philosophy
Hallvard.Fossheim@uib.no
post@fof.uib.no+47 55 58 23 82 University of Bergen Postboks 7805, N-5020 BERGEN
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Vizmburk
Vízmburk About History
About the castle History
The beginnings of settlements in northeastern Bohemia date back to the time of princ Břetislav (1035-1055). During his reign a network of administrative fortified settlements was established in favourable locations, some of them brand new. Jaroměř was very likely one of the places, named after his uncle or son Jaromír. Not until the second half of the 13th century did the colonisation process moved to higher altitudes. In 1360s the town of Trutnov was founded. Around the same time the settlers from Silesia were reaching the area and the localities of Hostinné and Bolkov were established.
Vizmburk itself was founded by Tas or Peter of Skalice. This noble house with the stirrup in their coat of arms was known already in the 12th century, when their members held the burgrave office in Kladsko. The Vizmburk estate was a fairly large one with the economic centre in the town of Úpice. It included the villages of Bohuslavice, Rubínov, Suchovršice, Radeč, Studenec, Kyje, Brusnice, Maršov, Libňatov, Havlovice, Slatina, Boušín, Rtyně, Bohdašín, Batňovice, Zálesí, Svatoňovice, Petrovice, Sedloňov and Žaltmaň with a fort.
Tas of Skalice was an prominent figure in the family history. He belonged to the circle of faithfuls of king Václav II. and held several important offices in the Czech crown lands and in Poland. He was a violent man with a temper and it is believed he was murdered in 1304. His son Jaroš inherited all the fortunes and also some personal characteristics of his father. He was known to have oppressed the neighbouring settlements belonging to the Zderaz monastery. The complaints of the monks went as far as Rome. Therefore it is believed that Jaroš was forced to sell Vízmburk estate. In 1330 the the lords of Dubá owned the estate. Jiří of Dubá supported the Hussites movement which resulted in frequent raids of his estate by Silesian troops. The princes and burghers of Silesia and Lusatia eventually sealed the faith of the Vizmburk castle. Instead of arms they used the power of money. In 1447 the castle was bought up and intentionally demolished.
Ratibořice state castle
správa státního hradu Vizmburk
Ratibořice 1
E-mail: ratiborice@npu.cz


"Last night, I heard from a friend that Jarod passed away Thursday… I still can't believe it. He's the snowboarder I've worked the most with. We were shooting video in Salt Lake City only a few months ago and had big plans for next season. I met him in 2011 through a random new friend, Jonathan Park who was filming with him. We ended up shooting a lot and even more the next season. He was so much fun to ride and shoot with; always bringing a fun energy. In SLC, in February, one night, he came out to shoot with me, Libby and some new friends. We drove around for hours trying to find a spot to shoot (finding some that didn't work and getting shutdown at the last one). We thought he would explode if he wasn't strapping in soon. Here's the memorial page on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/jarodarnstenjohnson. I'm not really a man of words, so I'll let my photos do the talking. Hover on them to see the captions.
The complete photo tribute can be found here.