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Five years after moving to New York City, I find that I love being a Christian here.
There is only a little public support for religion here — holiday closings for Christmas and Good Friday, as well as the Jewish high holy days, the usual property tax breaks, and occasional media nods to religious leaders for comments.
Mostly, you have to do faith on your own here. Traffic doesn't pick up steam on Sunday morning. Police don't guide traffic into popular church parking lots. If you attend worship, you aren't following a crowd. I don't recall trendsters, scenesters or hipsters ever being quoted or photographed in a religious setting.
If you pray, you choose to do so. If you serve on a mission team out of faith conviction, you will find yourself working alongside people who are motivated by other convictions. You realize there is an impulse toward the good that has deeper roots than a particular religion.
I find my faith growing stronger here. One cause is the glorious diversity. A God of many names and accents surely has room for me. Another cause is seeing the need for God in a city where the ugly face of Mammon lurks everywhere. Another is getting beyond labels in a rainbow where little proceeds according to stereotype. Another is being liberated from strident extremists who demand that all faith resemble theirs.
I have also been blessed to find a faith community where the preaching is powerful and unapologetically so, where the usual inward-looking church battles simply get no traction, where the Gospel Choir grows larger because faith is magnetic.
Some churches have grand edifices, some don't. The key here is authenticity. I resonate with that. I have learned the hard way that pretense offers nothing.
I love walking through Central Park on Easter morning and seeing knots of Christians gathered on boulders and lakefronts, praising God, singing resurrection songs, without any regard to being seen.


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The LA Dodgers Win the NL Pennant in a Thrilling Game 7 Victory
The Dodgers had the best record of the 2020 season at 43-17 and were easily the best team in baseball. However, they found themselves down 2-0 to the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS and eventually down, 3-1. Only 13 times had a team come back from down 3-1 in MLB history, but the Dodgers were able to rally and win games 5 & 6 to force a game 7. Even though they were carrying momentum, the Dodgers had to face Ian Anderson, who they struggled against in game 2 and who had yet to give up a run in the postseason. The Braves jumped early to a 2-0 lead against pitchers Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin. C, Will Smith, knocked in a 2-run single to tie the game at 2 a few innings later, but the Braves scored again to take a 3-2 lead. Down 3-2, 2017 NLCS MVP, Enrique Hernandez, crushed a pinch-hit home run to tie the game at 3 in the 6th inning against Braves reliever, Chris Martin, and in the bottom of the 7th inning tied at 3, 2018 NLCS MVP Cody Bellinger crushed a towering home run also off of Martin into the right-field seats to take the 4-3 lead. The Dodgers held on to win 4-3 and return to the World Series for the 3rd time in 4 years.
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The MVP of the NLCS was SS, Corey Seager. Seager hit a record-setting 5 home runs and 11 RBIs, both of which are NLCS records. Another key player in the series was Mookie Betts, but more on the defensive side. He made 3 outstanding defensive plays all of which prevented the Braves from scoring runs that would've significantly changed the outcome of each game including this game when he robbed Freddie Freeman of a home run, which would have left the game tied at 4.
SEAGER SMOOTH.@coreyseager_5 is the NLCS MVP. pic.twitter.com/Ti5ynxNxYi
As for the Atlanta Braves, this series loss will haunt them for some time. What the biggest blow will be are the chances they had to score that they failed to do so. The biggest blunder was in the 3rd inning when they had runners of 2nd and 3rd with 0 outs and the runners were thrown out at home and 3rd for a double play to end the rally dead in its tracks at just 1 run. At the same time, they are at the beginning of their competitive window, and many of their young players like Christian Pache, Ian Anderson, Max Fried, and Bryse Wilson all shined during the series at different points. To make matters worse, not just for the Braves, but the city of Atlanta. Entering 2020, teams that went up 2-0 in the NLCS had a record of 28-3. That record is now 28-4. The Braves now have a 25-year world series drought, having last won in 1995.
The Dodgers will face the Rays in the World Series beginning Tuesday, October 20 at 8:09 pm EST.
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August 23 is both the International Slave Trade Remembrance Day, as declared in 1998 by UNESCO, and the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, as proclaimed by the European Parliament in 2008/2009.
August 23 stands for two historical events that happened centuries apart – the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, and the beginning of the slaves' uprising in Santo Domingo in 1791 (Haitian Revolution). The European and international remembrance agendas on that day thus provide an opportunity to address the complex and multidimensional nature of collective historical memory.
The concept of "collective memory" is a cornerstone of the House of European History. The museum is therefore bringing together scholars working on the history and public memory of both totalitarianism and colonialism within and outside Europe to debate:
How can distinct and even diverging memories interact productively, embracing a variety of experiences and perspectives on Europe's past?
How can public discussions on history and memory contribute to more equity, avoiding competition and helping to address tensions emerging from present political and social circumstances?
Join us for this new edition of our Debating History series, watch the debate live on the House of European History YouTube channel and take part in the Q&A session at the end of the discussion. Please register at this link.
Dr. Simina Badica, House of European History, Belgium
Simina Bădică is curator for the House of European History in Bruxelles. Between 2006 and 2017 she was curator, researcher and then Head of Ethnological Archives at the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest. Since 2015, she has been teaching museum studies at the National School for Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) in Bucharest.
She holds a PhD in History from Central European University, Budapest on curating Communism in post-war and post-communist museums. She has published articles on the memory and memorialisation of communism, the representation of communist regimes in museums and everyday life in 1980s Romania from an oral history perspective.
Dr. Ruramisai Charumbira, University of Bern, Switzerland
Ruramisai Charumbira is a poet-historian; the author of Imagining a Nation, articles in peer-reviewed journals, and chapters in peer-reviewed edited volumes, including a recent one in Women Warriors, National Heroes. She is Associate Senior Fellow at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBK), University of Bern; and founder of THoR-Taking the Humanities on the Road with colleagues at the WBK. Her long-overdue book on European immigrants, migrants, and colonial settlers becoming white people in Southern Africa will be out in 2021. Her new research is a return to themes that propelled her work two decades ago, human's ancestral memory of nature and vice versa.
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Michael Rothberg is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His latest book is The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019), published by Stanford University Press in their "Cultural Memory in the Present" series. Previous books include Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000), and, co-edited with Neil Levi, The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003). With Yasemin Yildiz, he is currently completing Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance for Fordham University Press.
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California still losing jobs, but recovery likely coming
By ADAM BEAMMarch 12, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this March 4, 2021, file photo, a sign reading "Welcome Back Now Open" is posted on the window of a Morton's Steakhouse restaurant as a man works inside during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco. California lost close to 70,000 jobs in January. But new numbers released Friday, March 12, 2021, by the state's Employment Development Department show the unemployment rate declined slightly to 9%. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lost close to 70,000 jobs in January as the coronavirus pandemic stretched into the new year, but the unemployment rate dropped slightly as more people stopped looking for work amid another round of state-imposed lockdowns.
Numbers released Friday by the Employment Development Department show the nation's most populous state lost 69,900 jobs in January. Coupled with revised numbers from December, the state lost 145,300 jobs over those two months, slowing the recovery.
California has regained about 39% of the more than 2.7 million jobs lost in March and April 2020 when the pandemic took hold.
But since January 2020, more than 768,000 people have stopped looking for work, a number likely driven by the demands of caring for children during virtual learning and people seeking advanced degrees as they wait for the economy to improve. This past January, 36,500 people left the workforce, contributing to the unemployment rate falling to 9% from 9.3% in December despite the state posting a net job loss.
The biggest losses were in the leisure and hospitality sector, which includes restaurants and hotels that have been hit hardest by public health orders restricting travel and dining. The sector lost 70,600 jobs in January, and it's down nearly 800,000 jobs since January 2020.
While California forced restaurants to halt indoor and outdoor dining in December, many restaurants kept their employees into January, until they couldn't any longer, said Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association.
"I think our workforce has been jerked around like no other workforce in the state," he said.
The job numbers released Friday are based on surveys conducted the week of Jan. 12, when the state was averaging more than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases per day and hospital intensive care units were at full capacity in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.
Now, California is averaging less than 4,000 new cases per day and hospitalizations have declined more than 84%. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration is loosening restrictions, saying theme parks like Disneyland can reopen and fans can attend Major League Baseball games at limited capacity starting April 1. Disneyland has said it likely won't reopen until late April.
Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous with more than 10 million residents, is set to ease restrictions soon that could allow limited indoor dining and movie theaters and gyms to reopen.
Meanwhile, more public school districts are announcing plans to get students back into classrooms, with the state having administered nearly 11 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
"The vaccines are the best economic stimulus, allowing restrictions to ease," said Sung Won Sohn, a professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University. "There is a tremendous amount of pent-up demand, combined with improving weather, will allow the economy to grow more rapidly."
But that recovery hasn't shown up yet in the numbers. Job postings in California, a sign of employers' willingness to hire, declined the first week of March after a sharp increase in February. Unemployment claims increased by more than 16,000 last week, to 105,861.
"I think indications to me are that the recovery will be gradual, just because businesses in California are not talking about really gearing up," said Michael Bernick, a former director of the Employment Development Department and an attorney with the Duane Morris law firm.
The wild card of California's recovery will be the impact of state and federal aid, Bernick said. The Legislature has approved $14.2 billion in state aid, including $600 payments to low- to moderate-income Californians, $2.075 billion in grants for small businesses and $6.6 billion for public schools to restart in-person learning.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.9 trillion federal relief package. The California Department of Finance says the state will get more than $150 billion, with nearly half going directly to people through $1,400 checks and expanded unemployment benefits.
The UCLA Anderson Forecast, a closely watched economic outlook, predicted Wednesday that California's unemployment rate would be 7.7% for the first quarter of 2021.
Director Jerry Nickelsburg said that while the leisure and hospitality sector will be slow to recover, he expects a quick rebound in the business, scientific and technical services sector, especially as demand increases for new technology to support remote work.
"We expect the California recovery to ultimately be, once again, faster than the U.S.," Nickelsburg said.
As the number of new COVID-19 infections decline, the state is relaxing rules in many counties that allow restaurants to resume indoor dining at 25% capacity. Condie of the California Restaurant Association said most restaurants can't break even until they have at least 50% capacity.
"It's just a matter of reducing the amount of money you're losing," he said. "They are still hemorrhaging. It's going to allow them to hang on a little longer."
This story has been corrected to say $2.075 billion is available for business grants, not $2.6 billion.


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The storyteller: Harisuman Bisht has also rewritten folk tales and legends of Kumaon. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
Author Harisuman Bisht tells why his novels have female protagonists that are strong in the face of adversity
"Women occupy a central space in my writing. Whenever I visualise a female character, the faces of my mother, sister and sister-in-law appear before my mind's eye. I have witnessed their struggle to survive in economic deprivation and gender oppression in a patriarchal society," says Harisuman Bisht, well-known Hindi novelist. "Though their lives were a saga of perpetual struggle, it was not pathetic. They struggled with dignity and courage. You will find similar traits in the portrayal of women in my novels." Bisht was recently honoured with the Shailesh Matiyani Smriti Chitra award. This award, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Rashtra Bhasha Prachar Samiti, was conferred on him for his novel "Aachhari Maachhari".
Born in a remote village in Kumaon, Uttarakhand, Bisht has authored a number of fictional works and most of them exude the flavour of hill life and the vitality of its hardy people. His widely read novels include "Aasman Jhuk Raha Hai", "Hona Pahar", "Basera" and "Aachhari Maachhari". His latest novel, "Basera", is written against the background of the macabre killing of children in Nithari. Because of its contemporary subject, the work was discussed in several seminars. Some of his novels have been translated into other Indian as well as a few foreign languages. His collected short stories — "Safed Daag", "Aag Aur Anya Kahaniyan", "Machhranga", "Bijuka" and "Mele Ki Maya" — are popular with Hindi readers, and various literary bodies have honoured him for his contribution to Hindi fiction.
His much admired novel, "Aachhari Maachhari", is set in two main regions — the Bhot region of high mountains and the fertile valleys of Kumaon. Both are dominated by men who have imposed a rigid moral code on the women. Aachhari is the daughter of a rich and proud shepherd from the Bhot region. When the mountain peaks are covered with snow, he comes down to the warm valleys for trade. Endowed with beauty and youth, Aachhari is seduced by a local landlord. Her father is shocked and furious when he becomes aware of her pregnancy. He feels devastated. To protect his honour, he abandons Aachhari in a dense forest, leaving behind a dozen sheep and a hunting dog.
Maachhari is another female protagonist who belongs to the professional nautch community. Shunned by upper castes, she is a mere source of entertainment to men. The novel pictures the upper-caste women belonging to prosperous landlord families who are subjected to exploitation by their men folk. This daughter of the high mountains, Maachhari, becomes the rallying point of these oppressed women and challenges the male-dominated feudal order.
"Aachhari Maachhari" has attracted the attention of amateur theatre groups formed by compatriots from Uttarakhand in Delhi. Parvatiya Lok Kala Manch presented it to a capacity hall at Pearey Lal auditorium last year. Well-known director Prem Matiyani has plans to write the stage version of this novel, which is likely to be staged by Parvatiya Kala Kendra.
"'Aachhari Maachhari' has already been translated into English with the title "Beyond Wrath and Tears" and it will be published soon." says Bisht.
A resident of Noida, he says that the main gate of D-5, the house infamous for the massacre of the children of Nithari, is 100 yards away from his residence. "It was the most terrible experience of my life, hearing the wailing women desperately searching for their lost children. Then there were violent protests against the owner of D-5 and the criminal neglect of the police for ignoring complaints of missing children. In that anguished state of mind I wrote 'Basera'." The novel is not a murder mystery. It confronts the reader with a terrible reality. It juxtaposes two worlds — the world of the super rich of Sector 32 and the world of people living across the sewer in the squalor of jhuggis.
With an M.A. in Hindi from Kumaon University and a PhD from Agra University, Bisht has also rewritten folk tales and legends of Kumaon. Recently, he completed the screenplay of "Rajula Malushahi", the immortal folk ballad of Kumaon, for a film to be produced by Bhuvan Chandra Joshi and Kaushal Pandey. "I don't treat this ballad as a historic account, as some historians want us to believe. It is one of the greatest love tales that has retained its freshness for the last 1,000 years. In this grand narrative, dream and realism, magic and human valour, romance, love and revenge are all woven into the music structure so complex and varied and life-affirming. Out of a dramatic conflict of various forces, what emerges is the woman protagonist with all her feminine charm, who is bold, wise and dignified."
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Must-Watch: 'I am Jonas' is the French Romantic Drama That Forces You to Feel
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Tyler Isaiah Bey is a writer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia. His emphasis on storytelling through his work guides him through his writing. His theatre background has given him a love for honest performance and a strong appreciation for art. Hollywood Insider's focus on education, philanthropy, and anti-drama is the perfect platform for Tyler who's unique and often intersectional perspective gives him a honed edge to the work he creates. He finds joy in discovering powerful crossroads of current events and media and infuses this cultural awareness into his writing. For it's these intersections that make art so powerful and writing such a pleasure for Tyler.
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As part of Hollywood Insider'sHidden Gems Series, we aim to bring forth and highlight movies that must be watched from across the one-inch barrier. International films that are brilliant hidden gems and masterpieces of cinema that are worth your time. Today, we highlight 'I am Jonas' which is available to watch on Netflix.
I am Jonas is a French indie film that navigates queerness and tragedy paralleled through two different points of Jonas' life. Directed by Christophe Charrier and starring Félix Maritaud, Nicolas Bauwens and Tommy-Lee Balk, I am Jonas made its premiere in 2018 and received a warm welcome in our growing collection of modern queer films. Like lots of french indie films,I am Jonascontorts the viewer's perception, in this case, of time, and in doing so expands our capacity for absorbing difficult themes.
By subverting the typical viewership experience, we can better understand who Jonas is, and the complexity of the weight he carries. Through intimate cigarette puffs in his youth, and droning motorcycle rides fleeing his trauma in his adulthood, I am Jonas erases time to color-in the nature of lingering loss.
Secrets and uncertainties sprinkle themselves throughout this film. But Jonas' sexuality is not one of these secrets, at least for the audience; his queerness is evident from the film's trailer. Even so, like many queer individuals, Jonas exists in the often complicated culture of modern queerness. The looming neon lights beckon Jonas to a blinding flurry of agony, as each flicker elicits the same atmosphere of which his adolescence took a devastating turn. Jonas' has an unhealthy relationship with nightclub culture.
The dramatic and forceful plight of his innocence has stunted his ability to form stable connections with people. As a result, he clings tightly onto people from his past and runs through his present relationships. As a viewer, it's hard to watch someone slip into the depths of a painful reality. Likely as a coping mechanism, Jonas often turns to violence.
10/10 would recommend this movie. I died a little after watching this movie, practically living vicariously through Nathan and Jonas… until it was ripped away from me. 😔 Anyhoo, watch I Am Jonas on Netflix. (Ps; it's french) pic.twitter.com/1sY6xu5XL7
— OYizA🦚 (@TheBitterLeaf) May 6, 2020
Félix Maritaud balances Jonas' tender essentiality, and his adopted fragile rage, which usually transmutes itself into intense aggression. By walking this line, Félix shows that Jonas' core, a kind and gentle spirit, is still present even at his worst moments. Even when Jonas is sticky with blood and stinging with scars, his delicateness still peers through.
Violence is in the film's atmosphere too, as the beginning of Jonas' coming of age is set at the death of Princess Diana. Every time a TV is turned on, the news reports violence and he has visions of violence at the beginning of the film. Like Jonas' scars, his tattoos fade the same, serving as more signs of a man slowly withering away, succumbing to pain and turmoil. I am Jonas can seem quite bleak, but since the film interweaves Jonas' past and present, the audience is peppered with moments of joyous intimacy and youthful sweetness.
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I am Jonas showcases the full scope of falling in love, zooming in on is naivete, following Jonas as he swoons head over heels for Nathan, the mysterious new kid in school. As Jonas runs to collect every piece of Nathan in both phases of his life, he finds himself paralleling his past, finding old connections like new-found treasures. These connections seem to be close to what he needs, or at least close to what he's looking for. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what Jonas is looking for, but it doesn't matter. The film, at its core, shows the audience how trauma contorts the idea of time, even challenging its existence in the face of immense turmoil.
An infinite loop: the best description of the game Tetris and it's music, which follows Jonas throughout both his past and present. It's song, Korobeiniki is reiterated a multitude of times in the film, emphasizing critical moments for Jonas', moments also observed in the meaning of the song. Originally a song written in pre-revolutionary Russia, the poem tells a story of a market haggle as a metaphor for a romantic relationship. And you can hear it in the melody, a song of highs and lows–a pursuit of love.
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The repetitive placement of this song in Jonas' past and present indicates how his life has been stagnant since he was a teenager. His pain put his life on pause, and he stopped developing. Like the motif of the game Tetris, Jonas has to piece together his memories and their meaning. This leaves him in an infinite loop of trauma, repeating past mistakes and running into figments of the past seeking healing.
Jonas said it himself: "I'm looking for something that doesn't exist." He's spent 18 years chasing lofty concepts, but none of them are real anymore. I am Jonas is a movie about fighting time, trying to move against its current and getting arrested in the process.
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But there is hope for Jonas, as there is hope for anyone who's come onto difficult times. Pain, trauma, and violence are too in our current atmosphere. In the final moments of the film, we see Jonas' arriving in a new place; it's new circumstances, relationships, and experiences that break the cycle of loss.
New adventure is what set's Jonas free from the infinite loop of suffering. Yes, Jonas is looking for something that doesn't exist, and somehow, he still finds it. The film is a message to anyone carrying an immense burden. It tells us if we suspend our false realities, especially our guiltiness, we can begin the process of letting go, and eventually healing.
Watch I am Jonas on Netflix and enjoy a masterpiece in queer cinema.
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Better late than never as they say. It's never been so true. First I should have written this review a long time ago. Then because Saint Dom took 30 years to release this album.
The band originally formed in 1983, featuring Simon Badminton who later formed Spook and the Ghouls, and disbanded in 1987 their only recording legacy being some demos.
In 2011 they reformed with Peter Turner (Sureshots, Johnny and the Roccos) on double bass and Mark Coppin (Sureshots, Sugarpuff Demons) on drums. In early 2016 they finally started to work on an album and two years later Holywell Dene was born.
And let me tell you, that was worth the wait! This is one of the very best neo-rockabilly album I've ever heard. Not "the best of 2017" or "one the best of the decade", no I repeat: one of the best I've ever heard! It can stand proudly near anything released by Restless, the Sharks or the Blue Cats.
The album kicks off with Get up and Get Out. Man! If I had to explain what is modern Rockabilly to someone who doesn't have a clue, I'd surely use this song and the Blue Cats'Man with a mission.
After such a strong opener you have to be good. And Saint Dom and the sinful are! The songs follow one after another always bringing something new. Some are very close to Psychobilly like Mr Saint or One Foot in the Grave. Others are more traditionnal like Cause I Do (with a riff similar to the Moonlighters' Broken Heart) or the title track with its powerful slap bass. It must be noted that the slap bass is particularly well recorded; You can hear both the slap and the bass and the sound is warm.
A bit of glam can be heard on Ghost Town (maybe it's the intro that makes me say that) and some boogie blues on Jenny Won't Play No More with guest harmonica player Scotswood Slim. Talking about guest, Steve Clark of the Neutronz can be heard adding a touch of Mark Harman influenced guitar on some tracks.
If at this point you didn't understand that you should order this record without delay, I guess one of us has a problem… No seriously, order it right now!
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Some pictures about H2O's Open House event!
On September 19th 2010; H2O Performance Paddles hosted their first ever open house. It was a fantastic day that allowed all of us here at H2O to share with our loved ones how we spend our day. After spending most of Thursday and Friday assembling our trade show booth from Our Door Retailer it was wonderful to see the excited and curious faces experience our H2O lifestyle first hand.
Scott, Shil, Roy and Rick enjoying some delicious BBQ!
Jim (blue shirt) talking to anyone that will listen!
Grayson Mongru - H2O's "sticker specialist"!


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Microsoft has announced that it will finally bring its flagship database to the Linux operating system. Here's why that's more than just a trivial option or check box feature.
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When IBM's Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov back in 1997, the world was agog over AI's potential. This week, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo system will face an even tougher test in a series of matches against a top-ranked master in the ancient game of Go. The tournament will in many ways be an ultimate challenge for the artificial-intelligence system following its victory last fall — roughly a decade earlier than anyone had expected — over European champion Fan Hui.
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More and more enterprise organizations are planning and deploying into cloud platforms. This trend is occurring despite organizations historical push-back on cloud services claiming that they are less secure than private on-premises data centers. Even though there is evidence to suggest that cloud application attacks are on the rise, there are best practice methods to secure cloud services.
More and more enterprise organizations are planning and deploying into cloud platforms. This trend is occurring despite organizations' historical push-back on cloud services claiming that they are less secure than private on-premises data centers. Even though there is evidence to suggest that cloud application attacks are on the rise, there are best practice methods to secure cloud services.
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With today's release of "Predict This!" — the rap video by yours truly (a former university professor trying to be a pop star) — I took the opportunity to ask a few questions of the music video's featured character, Dr. Data. Here is the video, followed by my interview with Dr. Data: You can also… The post Dr. Data's Music Video: The Predictive Analytics Rap appeared first on Predictive Analytics Times.
These days, disruption is the only thing you can count on and this one is fairly easy to see coming. Plan for it now.
Much is said about the costs of data breaches in terms of expense to the enterprise. But little is said and measured about the costs to individuals affected by those breaches. At least the FTC is keeping an eye on some of the costs to consumers. In its latest report released last week, the agency reports a 47 percent increase in identity theft complaints. As complaints continue to rise, a new corporate expense for data breaches is likely to rise too: costly regulations.
Trifacta, a market intelligence firm, found in a new research report that the wearables market will soon see a rapid uptick in emerging wearable categories including body sensors, smart clothing, wearable cameras, smart glasses, and an increasing diversity of niche devices. And with these new wearables comes an almost infinite amount of new data.
It's a well noted trend that consumer products lead enterprise product development and raise business user expectations. One need look no further than BYOD for a recent example. But now it appears to be ready to affect big data too. While big data products like IBM Watson are already focusing on natural language queries, it is consumer products like Amazon Echo and other voice services that are likely to fuel big demand for natural language data services.
Staying abreast of new and advancing technologies, particularly around the grueling work schedules common today, can be tough. That's why it's important to know where new online learning opportunities are so you can boost your skills regularly, at your own pace, and in whatever time you have available. On that note, I bring you news of the IEEE Computer Society's recently announced eLearning series covering the gamut of cutting edge topics from big data and IoT to cyberhuman security.
DataHaven, a nonprofit that collects and analyses data to help shape public policy and decision-making in Connecticut, recently completed a massive survey of residents in the state and neighboring New York communities. Now DataHaven has released city-level data from that survey. And Trend CT, a Connecticut News Project publication, built a tool to navigate it.
Organizations can set up a private connection between their local IT environment and instances of its communications software running on the AWS cloud.
EXCLUSIVE: Location-based marketing remains stuck in the past. Whether you're sending a coupon to a customer because GPS says they're near your store, switching up the creative on your app in-store thanks to smart beacons, or serving an in-app advertisement thanks to a Wi-Fi SSID, all the most often-quoted examples work the same way. They use a single point of location data to make a decision.
When CompTIA conducted an intensive examination of the IT employment market last year, it uncovered demand for jobs whose titles would have been meaningless only a year or two ago: augmented reality designer, Internet of things architect, container developers. That's no surprise, given that the IT job market is in constant flux, with new technologies emerging so quickly that hiring managers struggle to define those positions — let alone give them a title. IBM, for example, has a director of blockchains, and Ford Motor is among many companies looking for GPU cluster engineers.
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Financial risk mitigation requires the integration of high quality risk data, which is often held in multiple locations. Big data storage solutions and powerful analytical tools can make financial risk mitigation a breeze.
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The cost differential between hard disk and solid state drives is narrower than ever.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported a decline in revenue for its first stand-alone quarter. Declines hit all segments except for networking which was boosted by last year's acquisition of Aruba Networks. HPE also provided a progress report on planned job cuts.
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The first official release of R, R version 1.0.0 was released on February 29, 2000. The anniversary was marked on Twitter by Thomas Lumley, a member of R Core Group: 20 leading statisicians and computer scientists (and 4 alums) from around the world without whom the R Project would not exist. That makes it 16 years — sixteen! — that the R language has faithfully served statisticians, bioinformaticians, quantiative analysts, data scientists and others solving problems with data. But in fact, the R project is even more venerable than that.
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• No matter how vacant the bus is, one can still find commuters cramping up the entrance.
• Exit: What does that mean?
• A polite request to move further up the aisle and you will be met with eyeballs which even Shoaib Akhtar would vie for.
• The virtual stampede that takes place the moment a seat is made available.
• And if you are the lucky one to get that seat, you will be made to feel that you have superseded a senior for a promotion.
• The stubbornness that accompanies in occupying seats meant for women and an equally unrelenting attitude to make way for them, even if it is not meant for them.
• The ever rude conductors – wonder what makes them rude? Is it the duty hours, or is it the meager salaries that they draw?
• The drivers who so often stop at all places other than the bus stops.
• And yes how could I forget this – The ever so redolent commuters: blame it on the Indian climate or on the daylight bewadas.
A few netizens may argue over some of the points, which even I must confess is different from one city to another, for eg, the ever helpful Kolkatan commuters, or the ever so strict Chandigarh Administration buses. Well these are just one of those things that no one can explain. But it surely is flash in the pan if we as Indians are serious about Atithi Devo Bhava!


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Hasan Karim Akbar - US Military Death Row
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Army Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar was convicted in May 2005, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, of killing two officers and wounding 14 fellow soldiers in a fragging incident on March 23, 2003 at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.
Appeal for soldier convicted in '03 grenade attack
BY BRETT BARROUQUERE
LOUISVILLE, KY. — A military appeal hearing was set Thursday for a U.S. soldier sentenced to death for killing two fellow service members and wounding 14 others in a grenade attack in Kuwait nearly 10 years ago.
The hearing for 43-year-old Army Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar is scheduled for Nov. 18 in Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said on its website. Akbar was sentenced to death in 2005 by a military jury.
He was convicted of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in connection with an attack on the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait during the early days of the Iraq war. Prosecutors say he threw four hand grenades into tents as members of his division slept, then fired his rifle at soldiers in the ensuing chaos on March 23, 2003.
Air Force Maj. Gregory L. Stone was killed by a grenade. Army Capt. Christopher S. Seifert was fatally shot in the back. Fourteen soldiers were wounded, mostly from grenade shrapnel.
His appeal challenges the trial counsel's. Maj. Jacob Bashore, one of Akbar's military defense attorneys, said in a brief that the attorneys who defended Akbar during his trial should not have shown Akbar's diary to the jury. The diary, which contained details of a conversion to radical Islam and expressed anti-government views, hurt Akbar's case, Bashore said.
In one diary entry dated Feb. 23, 2002, Akbar wrote that he believed staying in the Army would eventually lead him to prison.
"I had a premonition that if I re-enlisted I would find myself in jail. That is probably true because I already want to kill several of them," Akbar wrote of his fellow soldiers.
Trial lawyers also failed to comprehensively investigate Akbar's background and didn't turn up allegations that Akbar and his siblings were physically and sexually abused as children, Bashore wrote.
"Thirty-eight minutes. Barely a moment to explain thirty-one years of Sgt. Akbar's life or its value," Bashore wrote. "However, that is how long the defense sentencing lasted in this capital case."
Bashore said Akbar joined the Army in 1998 after failing to find other work and struggled with memories of prior physical and sexual abuse and mental issues while serving.
"When faced with the stress of war and fighting other Muslims, he broke psychologically before committing violence upon his fellow soldiers," Bashore wrote.
At trial, Akbar's military defense attorneys contended that Akbar had psychiatric problems, including paranoia, irrational behavior, insomnia, and other sleep disorders.
Prosecutors say Akbar's defense attorneys acted in his best interest to try and prevent a death sentence from being issued in one of the "most egregious offenses in modern military history." The defense attorneys focused on the most viable arguments and witnesses, Maj. Kenneth Borgnino wrote.
"Every witness examined, every exhibit admitted, and every argument made during the court martial (not merely during the sentencing case), was focused on one fact: appellant was mentally ill," Borgnino wrote.
Akbar was based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, a sprawling military post on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, and assigned to the 326th Engineer Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division. He's being held in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Akbar is one of five former soldiers under a sentence of death and the only one convicted for a crime stemming from the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Akbar was the first soldier since the Vietnam War to be convicted for "fragging" fellow soldiers overseas during wartime.
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"I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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"There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
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"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence"
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Military court weighing fate of condemned soldier
A former U.S. soldier sentenced to death for killing two fellow soldiers and injuring 14 others in an attack in Kuwait is pinning his hopes of staying alive on an argument jurors should have never seen his diary.
Attorneys for 43-year-old Hasan K. Akbar argued on Tuesday that the one-time sergeant's writings, which include details of how he converted to radical Islam, were so inflammatory, that without the proper context, jurors were most likely to focus on the most damaging parts while considering whether to impose a death sentence.
"They didn't present the information in any meaningful way," said Lt. Col. John Potter, a military lawyer arguing the case for Akbar before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington.
Akbar was with the 326th Engineer Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, when he was sentenced to death in 2005. He killed Army Capt. Christopher S. Seifert and Air Force Maj. Gregory L. Stone in Kuwait two years earlier during the early days of the Iraq war.
Prosecutors say he threw four hand grenades into tents as members of his division slept, then fired his rifle at soldiers in the ensuing chaos on March 23, 2003. A military jury at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, convicted Akbar and handed down the sentence. The military has not carried out an execution since 1961. Akbar is one of five ex-soldiers facing a death sentence, the only one for actions in the Iraq war.
Potter told the judges the defense failed to prepare witnesses and errantly let jurors see Akbar's diary, which contained multiple anti-American passages.
Potter said allowing the jury to read the diary "eviscerated the defense in any meaningful way."
"We think the diary, there's no tactical reason to submit the diary," Potter said.
In one entry dated Feb. 23, 2002, Akbar wrote that he believed staying in the Army would eventually lead him to prison.
The judges hearing the case focused on how the diary fit into the rest of the defense strategy, asking whether attorneys did anything to put the passages in the context of Akbar's pre-military life or any mental issues he may have had.
Potter noted that the defense put on 38 minutes of mitigation evidence and argument and didn't present any testimony from his family to humanize him. Instead, the lawyers failed by letting jurors pick through the diary and focus on the passages that left their client in the worst possible light.
Prosecutors said Akbar's defense attorneys acted in his best interest to try and prevent a death sentence from being issued in one of the "most egregious offenses in modern military history." The defense attorneys focused on the most viable arguments and witnesses, Maj. Kenneth Borgnino said.
Prosecutors noted that much of Akbar's family likely wouldn't have made a good impression on the witness stand.
The judges did not indicate when a ruling would be issued.
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Military court upholds death sentence in 2003 'fragging' case
The nation's highest military court has affirmed the conviction and death sentence for a University of California, Davis, graduate who admitted killing two fellow U.S. soldiers at the start of the Iraq War.
In a closely split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces rejected claims by Los Angeles native Hasan K. Akbar that his original defense team was ineffective. Akbar argued at trial that he was mentally ill when he killed two and wounded 14 in the March 2003 attack in Kuwait.
"We conclude that if there ever was a case where a military court-martial panel would impose the death penalty, this was it," Judge Kevin A. Ohlson wrote.
The court's 3-2 decision leaves Akbar one of six military men to be facing execution at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth, Kan. Though he had launched a wide-ranging challenge to his conviction and sentence, a big part of the case decided Wednesday dealt with his claim of ineffective counsel.
"With the benefit of appellate hindsight, we could dissect every move of these trial defense counsel and then impose our own views on how they could have handled certain matters differently and, perhaps, better," Ohlson noted. "However, that is not the standard of review we are obligated to apply."
Ohlson, a former Army paratrooper and federal prosecutor appointed to the court by President Barack Obama, observed that Akbar was "represented by two experienced military attorneys who devoted more than two years to preparing and presenting the defense in this case."
The two dissenting judges countered that Akbar's trial defense attorneys fell short, with specific mistakes that included providing Akbar's 313-page diary to the court-martial panel.
"These pages included a running diatribe against Caucasians and the United States dating back twelve years, and included repeated references to (his) desire to kill American soldiers 'for Allah' and for 'jihad," Judge James E. Baker noted.
Baker, who has since retired, explained that "the defense intended the diary to reflect (Akbar's) descent into mental illness," but that it was "offered without adequate explanation, expert or otherwise."
More broadly, Baker observed that the defense team had a hard time in making the case for Akbar because "the armed forces have no guidelines regarding the qualifications, training, or performance required of capital defense counsel."
Born Mark Fidel Kools, the son of a felon and the product of broken home, Akbar was from a young age "indoctrinated in the Nation of Islam's militant teachings," defense attorneys recounted in a brief.
Nonetheless a top student in high school, Akbar graduated in 1997 from UC-Davis with dual degrees in aeronautical and mechanical engineering. Akbar took nine years to complete college, subsequently enlisting in the Army in 1998.
He was a sergeant assigned to the 326th Engineer Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division when his unit deployed to Kuwait. Early on the morning of March 23, 2003, as the U.S. invasion of Iraq was unfolding, Akbar threw incendiary and fragmentation grenades and fired his M-4 rifle in his solo assault on officers sleeping in several tents.
Army Capt. Christopher S. Seifert, a Pennsylvania native and intelligence officer, and Air Force Maj. Gregory L. Stone, a Boise resident and member of the Idaho Air National Guard, died in the attack.
Stone, the appeals court noted, "was killed from eighty-three shrapnel wounds."
The Army's subsequent investigation found evidence that Akbar had previously contemplated attacking his fellow soldiers.
"As soon as I am in Iraq, I am going to try and kill as many of them as possible," Akbar wrote in a Feb. 4, 2003, diary entry, made public at his court-martial held at Fort Bragg, N.C.
The court-martial panel required only 2 1/2 hours to convict Akbar, a decision later upheld by the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. Akbar's attorneys subsequently challenged the conviction and death sentence in a massive 328-page brief submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, a panel of civilians based in Washington.
"Against all odds," Army Capt. Aaron R. Inkenbrandt and Akbar's other appellate attorneys wrote, "Akbar seemed fated for success, until mental illness weakened the resolve that for so long repressed years of deprivation."
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Soldier sentenced to die for 2003 murders pins hopes on Supreme Court
California native Hasan K. Akbar joined fellow convicted killer Dwight J. Loving on the military's death row 11 years and several legal curves ago.
Now, aided by some prominent allies, Akbar wants the Supreme Court to reverse his death sentence by revisiting its own decades-old decision in a case brought by Loving. It's a capital punishment challenge that gives justices a rare opportunity to march into matters of military law.
It's also a challenge that illuminates the hard, close quarters of the military's Leavenworth, Kansas-based death row, where Akbar and Loving account for one-third of the doomed inmate population.
Akbar's appeal, moreover, reaches the Supreme Court just as Justice Stephen Breyer is making clear his own readiness to revisit the underlying question of whether capital punishment is constitutionally permissible.
"Not only is (Akbar) offering a substantial constitutional challenge to a death sentence, but his challenge, if affirmed, would invalidate the entire scheme by which the military justice system currently imposes capital punishment," attorneys for the National Institute of Military Justice wrote in a brief filed in support of Akbar's case.
In 1996, when the Supreme Court decided Loving's case, Akbar was studying engineering at the University of California, Davis. The Los Angeles native, born Mark Fidel Kools, had struggled through college but was within a year of completing the academically rigorous double-degree program.
Akbar's father had served time in prison, as had Loving's father, whom a defense lawyer described as "an alcoholic, with a rap sheet four pages long." Akbar's father, though, converted to Islam while incarcerated and Akbar excelled in high school, while Loving dropped out.
Convicted of murdering two men while stationed in 1988 at Fort Hood in Texas, Loving began appeals that, against the odds, reached the Supreme Court in 1996. Few soldiers get that far. In the last five terms, the high court has decided 385 cases. None came via the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the summit of the military justice system.
In what amounted to a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court upheld Loving's death sentence. The justices reasoned that the president, as commander in chief, could set the aggravating factors that might justify a death sentence.
Akbar's case, some think, gives the court a strong reason to revisit the issue.
"If the court was ever going to pay any attention to the military justice system, this would seem to be a compelling case in which to do so," Stephen Vladeck, a professor at American University's Washington College of Law who co-wrote a brief supporting Akbar, said Wednesday.
Several factors were subsequently considered in Akbar's sentencing, after he was convicted of killing two soldiers and wounding 14 in a March 23, 2003, attack at a U.S. Army staging base in Kuwait.
"This case involved many aggravating circumstances, including (Akbar's) murder of two military officers, his use of grenades, the extensive injuries to some officers and the impact of the attack on the unit as it prepared for battle," the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces concluded last year.
But in the 20 years since the Supreme Court rejected Loving's challenge to his sentence, some law has also changed. The question pushed by Akbar's attorneys and allies is whether this change undermines the 1996 Loving decision and thereby earns Akbar another chance.
In particular, the Supreme Court, in a landmark 2000 decision called Apprendi v. New Jersey, concluded that facts that enhance a punishment must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. A follow-up 2002 decision added that this standard applied to aggravating factors used in imposing the death penalty.
"This revolution in the court's understanding of aggravating factors has swept away Loving's foundations," Akbar's attorneys wrote in their Supreme Court petition, adding that "the fundamental nature" of aggravating factors has changed.
Citing these Supreme Court cases, the defense attorneys argue that Congress must determine the elements that make for a military capital offense, because it is Congress that's responsible for writing the law that the president executes.
Potentially boosting the odds that the Supreme Court will take Akbar's case, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Institute of Military Justice, and the Air Force and Navy-Marine Corps appellate defense divisions all filed briefs on his behalf.
The government's response, which is due next Wednesday, will rely at least in part on the military court's 3-2 decision rejecting Akbar's challenge and concluding that any legal error was "harmless."
"We will continue to adhere to the holding in Loving unless the Supreme Court decides at some point in the future that there is a basis to overrule that precedent," Judge Kevin A. Ohlson wrote.
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to military death penalty
The Supreme Court won�t hear a challenge to the death penalty for members of the military.
The justices on Monday rejected an appeal from the former soldier who was sentenced to death for killing two fellow soldiers and injuring 14 others in an attack in Kuwait in 2003.
The appeal from Hasan Akbar focused on whether the way in which the armed forces impose a death sentence complies with recent Supreme Court rulings.
Akbar is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was convicted of killing Army Capt. Christopher S. Seifert and Air Force Maj. Gregory L. Stone in Kuwait during the early days of the Iraq war.
The military hasn�t carried out an execution since 1961.
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I've been making my own vegetable stock forever especially in the colder months and this year being colder for longer I've made a small batch this weekend. It's so simple to do and it's a great way to use up excess vegetables. Carrots, celery and onion make up the base of my stock and from there I add different vegetables depending on what's usually in the fridge, parsnips, leeks and sometimes cabbage, swede and mushrooms have made their way into the pot.
I use parsley, bay and black peppercorns but also have used thyme, garlic and other herbs, there really is no set menu for making your own recipe vegetable stock. The stock I'm making here is perfect for tiny tastebuds too, mine doesn't like garlic very much yet so will leave it out of this batch.
Put all the vegetables into a pan, I'm using my trusty old (and it is very old but still so good) Le Creuset pan and add 2 litres of water. Depending on the size of your pan you can add more or less water, more will, of course, produce a more lighter flavoured stock and with less the stock will have a more concentrated infusion. 2 litres fills my pot nicely and produces a delicious, well-flavoured stock.
Simmer for 1-2 hours, I know this seems a bit vague but an hour is fine but if I have the time I do like to give it a bit more simmering time. Stir occasionally to further blend the flavours.
For extra depth of flavour you can also fry the vegetables gently first in a little oil before adding the water. For soups though I prefer a simple, fresh and light stock.
Take off the heat and strain through a sieve and leave to cool. The stock liquid can now be used as the base for soups or to make rissoto, quinoa, etc.
Once cooled the stock can be frozen, mine is used up pretty quickly as I make a lot of soups which are fabulous for the 5:2 diet which I am still doing every week, it has become a habit now, part of my week and having low-calorie, highly nutritious soups to keep my appetite satiated has been amazingly helpful.
The cooked vegetables can also be blended down and included in many recipes. The vegetables will still contain plenty of fibre and a huge shame to waste. I use them in soups for the tiddler, blended down or added to casseroles. We also make veggie burgers, mixing the mashed vegetables with breadcrumbs and egg, seasonings and sometimes cheese. So many uses for extra veg!
This entry was posted in 5:2, bay leaf, black peppercorns, carrots, celery, diet, Health, healthy, homemade, onion, parsley, soup, vegetable stock, vegetables on April 2, 2013 by nutritious8708deliciousnesswellness.


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import org.bukkit.entity.Entity;

public class Countable {
	public Countable(Entity e) {
		Name = e.getName();
		Pos = e.getLocation();
		HasAi = Reflection.getAiEnabled(e);
	}
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		Name = b.getState().getType().name();
		Pos = b.getLocation();
		HasAi = true;
	}

	public String Name;
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Q: Python Selenium Webdriver - Javascript .click() integration in python script I'm struggling to a run Javascript code inside my python selenium script.
The way javascript ".click()" is far more efficient than selenium.
I need to convert this javascript into python, and i'm not familiar with JS :
const MyVariable= $(".modal-test").prev();
     } else {
        await MyVariable.each(function (i, el) {
           r = Math.random();
           if (i >= 20 && r > 0.2) {
              $(el).click();
           }

Someone could help me ??
Thanks !
EDIT :
Thank you PDHide for your answer ! i'm trying to adapt your advices to my script but no luck for the moment.
Here's a piece of my code :
            try:
                modal = "modal-vote__greeting"
                element = WebDriverWait(driver, 3).until(
                    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, (modal)))
                )
                element.click()
                print("<", end='\r')
                driver.execute_script("""
                    const picForVote = $(".modal-vote__photo__voted").prev();
                        if (picForVote.length === 0) {
                            $('div[ng-click="$ctrl.submit()"]').click();
                            await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 4000));
                            $('div[ng-click="$ctrl.close()"]').click();
                            await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 4000));
                            continue;

                        } else {
                            await picForVote.each(function (i, el) {
                            r = Math.random();
                            if (i >= 20 && r > 0.2) {
                                $(el).click();
                            }
                            });
                            await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 4000));
                            $('div[ng-click="$ctrl.submit()"]').click();
                            await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 4000));
                            $('div[ng-click="$ctrl.close()"]').click();
                            await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 4000));
                        }""")

A: you can execute script in selenium as :
driver.execute_script("""

 const MyVariable= $(".modal-test").prev();

 } else {
    await MyVariable.each(function (i, el) {
       r = Math.random();
       if (i >= 20 && r > 0.2) {
          $(el).click();
       }""")

if you get $ not defined error then use:
driver.execute_script("""var jquery_script = document.createElement('script');
jquery_script.src = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jquery_script);

     const MyVariable= $(".modal-test").prev();

     } else {
        await MyVariable.each(function (i, el) {
           r = Math.random();
           if (i >= 20 && r > 0.2) {
              $(el).click();
           }""")

here we are enabling jquery by adding a script tag

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বাড়ি Bangladesh Bangladesh urges Vietnam to influence Myanmar on Rohingya repatriation
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Bangladesh urges Vietnam to influence Myanmar on Rohingya repatriation
Bangladesh has urged Vietnam to exert their friendly influence on Myanmar to take their forcefully displaced Rohingyas back on an expeditious basis.
The urge was made during a telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and his Vietnamese counterpart Bùi Thanh Son on Wednesday afternoon.
During the conversation, Momen called upon Vietnam and Asean to play a more proactive role in bringing a sustainable solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis by helping in a speedy, safe and dignified repatriation of the forcibly displaced people back to their motherland Myanmar.
The foreign minister voiced concerns about the growing susceptibility of the displaced Myanmar citizens in Bangladesh to radicalism, extremism, trans-border crimes, human trafficking, drug smuggling, etc, which have serious security implications for the entire region.
Momen apprised his Vietnamese counterpart of the plights of the displaced Rohingya people. Expressing his satisfaction at the excellent bilateral relations between the two countries, he hoped that the two countries would celebrate the 50th year of the establishment of diplomatic relations next year with fervour, in a befitting manner.
Lauding the growing trend of bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Vietnam, he urged Hanoi to further increase their imports from Bangladesh in order to reduce the trade gap.
Mentioning the 100 economic zones and the high-tech parks, the foreign minister encouraged Vietnamese investors and business community to invest in Bangladesh by availing of very attractive and liberal investment packages offered.
He also suggested regular exchange of more technical expertise in order to further boost trade, commerce and investment.
Highlighting the growing people-to-people contacts, Momen noted with satisfaction that a large number of Bangladeshi tourists are now visiting Vietnam and encouraged more Vietnamese tourists to visit Bangladesh, which is endowed with excellent tourism attractions including important locations of ancient Buddhist heritage and civilizations.
Dr Momen sought Vietnam's support in favour of Bangladesh's candidacy as a sectoral dialogue partner of the Asean.
While appreciating the role of Bangladesh in sheltering the displaced Rohingya people, the Vietnamese foreign minister assured Dr Momen of their sincere efforts within the Asean framework for an early solution to the crisis.
He also suggested activating a joint trade commission and other trade mechanisms for further enhancing trade and commerce between the two countries.
Stating about many scopes for mutual cooperation and engagements, the two foreign ministers vowed to work towards further cementing and strengthening bilateral relations in the coming days.
Both leaders agreed to work in close collaboration in the regional and multilateral forums by extending mutual support in various election processes.
পূর্ববর্তী নিবন্ধThree suspected robbers lynched in Narayanganj
পরবর্তী নিবন্ধHe featured as a Baul in a music video. RAB arrests him as a 'terrifying serial killer'


The dog days of summer are upon us, raising the issue: Are there cat days?
Most people think the term "dog days" was coined to describe dogs lazing around trying to stay cool during the peak of summer's heat. However, the term originated with ancient Romans, who called them "canicula res dies," the dog days. They blamed the hot weather on the Dog Star Sirius, the brightest star in the sky from July 24 through Aug. 24. To appease the wrath of Sirius, Romans sacrificed a brown dog at the start of the hot season. Early Egyptians regarded Sirius as a "watchdog" that appeared before the Nile's annual flooding. Dog days were thought to be an evil time of sultry weather that drove people to do things they would later regret, such as setting the AC to run full blast, thus driving the electric bill sky high.
How did dogs, cats and people survive prior to air conditioning? A heat wave advisory was issued by the National Weather Service for the central United States during the second week of July, when Wichita, Kan., hit a scorching 111 degrees Fahrenheit. As temps soar into triple digits, Beaches residents can sip sweet iced tea and be happy Northeast Florida won't reach the hottest level ever recorded in the Western hemisphere; the mercury climbed to 134 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, Calif., on July 10, 1913. Florida's top temp was 109 degrees Fahrenheit on June 29, 1931.
Sharon Oxford, newly elected regent of the Ponte Vedra Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, enjoyed a cool trip to the nation's capital during July Fourth week. She was one of about 3,500 members attending the service organization's 120th Continental Congress. The society, formed in 1890, has headquarters that occupy an entire city block in Washington, D.C. Members from around the world gathered there for the annual convention to report on the year's work, honor award recipients, plan future initiatives and connect with old friends.
"Each night a band from the Army, Air Force or Marines played as we walked to our seats," Oxford said. "It got more challenging as the week continued, because as we got to know each other there was a lot of waving and new hellos. It was awesome."
Opening night ceremonies observed the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Convention highlights were national defense night dedicated to the military and recognition of outstanding volunteers for veterans, as well as an awards night for community service leaders, exceptional high school scholars and people who made extraordinary contributions to their communities. Attendees took part in seminars to promote historic preservation, education and patriotism in their hometowns.
As a Congress delegate, Oxford attended the president general's reception, the Units Overseas Committee luncheon and the national defense luncheon. She met Adm. Deborah Loewer, former director of the White House situation room, who was the featured speaker on national defense night. A rapt audience listened to her gripping story of the unfolding of information as it came to President George W. Bush on the morning of the terrorist attacks. Loewer said the first news of the World Trade Center attack came from TV news. She recalled the events, citing the bravery of situation room staff, who remained at their posts as all others evacuated.
"The convention was a true motivational event for patriotism," said Oxford, who also performed with the All-American DAR chorus and walked in the July Fourth parade. "It was hard to sing without tearing up," she said. "The songs were so patriotic. I really enjoyed being with DARs from all over the world."
The Ponte Vedra chapter meets the first Tuesday of the month from October to May at Marsh Landing Country Club. Membership is open to anyone who can prove direct linkage to a Revolutionary War soldier.
Looking ahead to another exciting year in local sports, the Oceanside Rotary Club of Jacksonville invited Matt Kilcullen, University of North Florida assistant athletic director of development, to speak about the young UNF basketball team returning to play. Kilcullen worked for 31 seasons as a collegiate basketball coach, including 10 years as UNF's head men's basketball coach. He talked about the growth and development of the players, and encouraged the Rotarians to come and enjoy UNF's many sporting events. Oceanside Rotary, founded in 1988, has about 60 members. The club meets every Tuesday morning at Selva Marina Country Club, Atlantic Beach. For information about Oceanside's activities, go to www.oceanside rotary.com. To join, email Jackie Smith at Jackie.smith @mail.house.gov.
Award-winning portraitist Ann Manry Kenyon took paintings of her children and grandchildren down from the walls of her Mandarin home and brought them to The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach for a special exhibit that included her artwork and the art of family members Rita Nordin Kenyon, Dawn Kenyon Sims, Mary Sims, Andrew Kenyon and Ann's student Laura Chester. On July 15, they joined Ann at the center for a private reception for friends, family and Ann fans. Ann is a lifelong Florida resident, whose work has been featured in American Artist magazine, American Artist Landscape Magazine and International Artist Magazine. She teaches art and conducts workshops throughout the country.
Folks familiar with the center have seen Ann Kenyon's portrait of center founder Rhoda McKean displayed inside the front entrance. Over the years Ann has painted many prominent personalities, executives, government officials, sports figures and religious leaders, including Gov. Jeb Bush's wife, Columba, and golfers Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. She has been drawing and painting since childhood.
"I used to draw my baby sitters," Ann said. "I met one when she was in her 90s and she said she still has her portrait."
The show also included portraits of people and animals, abstracts and landscapes by her artistic family members. They gravitated to art, each in their own way, Ann said.
Follow the lead of your favorite pet dog or cat by wiling away the hottest hours of the day dreaming of your next meal. While you're at it, conjure up a beach picnic and send a recipe for your favorite original summertime signature dish or dessert to Casa Marina Hotel & Restaurant in Jacksonville Beach for a chance to win a two-night beach getaway for two. The prize includes Sunday brunch and tapas and martinis in the penthouse lounge. Monday, Aug. 1 is the deadline. Entries should list recipe name, ingredients, preparation instructions and a story about the dish not to exceed 100 words, as well as your name, address, phone number and email. Judging will be done by chef Aaron Webb, his culinary team and the hotel general manager. Submit the recipe to Leigh Cort Publicity at leighcort@bellsouth.net.
If it's too hot to cook, and ribs tickle your culinary fancy, then hurry over to the nearest Woody's Bar-B-Q by 11:30 a.m. today to sign up for Woody's annual spare rib eating contest. Percy the Pig will cheer on contestants, who will have 10 minutes to chow down on as many ribs as possible to win the grand prize, a $100 Q card. The contest runs from noon to 2 p.m. Woody's at the Beach is at 221-1 Solana Road, Ponte Vedra Beach.
Cats could care less if they have a season named "cat days." For example, the Rooney Bin's independent feline Two Toes Chatty Cat only acknowledges his name when he feels like it. As they say, "dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." Elitist cat attitudes can be traced to ancient Egyptians, who associated cats with goddesses Isis and Bast; no doubt that is the source of the ancient proverb: "Dogs believe they are human; cats know they are divine." In other words, let sleeping dogs lie, because every day is a cat day.