This morning we're commemorating the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. Fifty days after the resurrection, Christ kept his promise and the Holy Spirit was poured out on his church. The disciples were gathered together in Jerusalem, they heard a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and what appeared to be tongues of fire rested on each one of them. Then, Scripture says, "they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance" (Acts 2:4).
One might think that the Holy Spirit was not really active before Pentecost. However, we find plenty of evidence of his presence and activity even in the Old Testament. In fact, the second verse of the Bible, Genesis 1:2, tells us that "the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." He continues to be present on many of the pages of the Old Testament.
He was definitely working in the life of Samson. That's where we find ourselves this morning. Our text tells us that the Spirit of the LORD (Yahweh) rushed upon him and then he violently counter-attacked this lion. Now the temptation for the casual Bible reader would be to draw a straight line between Samson and us. We're always eager to apply what Scripture says directly to ourselves. So someone might be tempted to say that the point of this text is to teach us that when the Holy Spirit rushes upon you, you'll be able to conquer the lions that are attacking you. But that sort of reading of our text fails to do justice to the special office of Samson. It fails to look at the context of what was happening in the life of Samson and how that connects to the unfolding plan of God's redemption. Most significantly of all, it also fails to address the question of how this passage speaks to us of Jesus Christ and the gospel.
With this text, we're in the period of the judges, about the 11th century before Christ. Through Moses, God had led the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt. Through Joshua, God had given the people of Israel the land he promised them. So the people are now in the Promised Land. Their time started off in a good way. When Joshua was about to die, the people committed themselves to following the LORD. They vowed to live as faithful covenant people. Unfortunately, this commitment was short-lived. It didn't take long before things started going off the rails. Judges 2:11-15 says it all [read]. Four times in the book we find the refrain, "there was no king in Israel." Twice the author of Judges adds, "and everyone did what was right in his own eyes." The time was one of leaving the LORD behind, forsaking him, and then paying the price through the LORD's discipline. Yet the LORD never totally gave up on his people. He heard the cries of his people and then raised up judges who delivered them. One of those was Samson.
Judges 13 tells us about Samson's birth. His father's name was Manoah – we're not told his mother's name, but we are told that she was infertile, unable to have children. Then one day an angel from God appears to her and tells her that she will have a son. This son would be special – he would be a Nazirite. We read about what it means to be a Nazirite in Numbers 6. Normally, a Nazirite would voluntarily take a vow, separating himself for God. Normally, the Nazirite vow would only be for a limited time. It involved abstinence from alcohol, no cutting of the hair, and no contact with the dead. This baby would be under those provisions, but it would not be voluntary for him and it would be for life, from the womb to his death. You see, this was to be a very special and unique Nazirite. In fact, Judges 13:5 says that this baby was the one who "shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines." That's important, because we learn from 13:1 that Israel had been under the oppressive hand of the Philistines for 40 years. Baby Samson was therefore not only a gift for Manoah and his barren wife, but a gift and type of saviour for the people of Israel as a whole.
Nine months later, the baby was born and he was named Samson. The Bible doesn't give any clues as to the significance of that name, though it means something like "sunny boy." Of far more significance is what we read about him in verses 24 and 25 of chapter 13. He grew and Yahweh blessed him. Furthermore, the Spirit of Yahweh, the Holy Spirit began something in Samson at an early stage in his life, perhaps when he was in his teen years. What the Spirit began to do was something surprising. He was pushing Samson towards his office as a judge.
Chapter 14 explains how that started to happen. Samson lived near the border with the Philistines. It wasn't far from his home to the Philistine town of Timnah. Timnah had been allotted by God to the tribe of Dan, but the Israelites had been lax in conquering the land as they were supposed to. Samson goes down to this Philistine town and there he spots an attractive girl and he wants her for a wife. His parents are not impressed. They want him to marry someone from their own people, and not a Philistine girl. Did they say this because they cared so much about following the will of the LORD in such things? After all, God did forbid the Israelites from marrying unbelieving foreigners, just like today Christians are told not to marry unbelievers. Perhaps Manoah and his wife were thinking about that, but they don't say it. There's no indication that God factored into their reasoning. They seem to be thinking more along the horizontal (what will people think?), than along the vertical (what does God think?). They're still saying what's right, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
But Samson didn't care about what his parents thought. He told his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes." Now remember that line that summarizes the period of the judges: everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Samson is no different. This girl was right in his eyes and he was going to get her, no matter what his parents said and no matter what God said. Let's be clear: this was not right. Samson should not have done this. He should have pursued a godly and believing girl from among God's covenant people. Instead, he wants this attractive unbeliever from among the Philistines.
However, there's more going on here than first meets the eye. Verse 4 clues us in. The author of Judges tells us that all of this was from Yahweh. He was working behind the scenes to engineer the deliverance of his people. The Philistines were ruling over Israel, oppressing them. Samson was going to be God's man for saving his people and setting them free. He was going to work through this whole scenario with the Philistine girl to do it. His Holy Spirit was pushing Samson towards this work of deliverance.
Loved ones, this background reminds us that the LORD can even work through things that are sinful to deliver his people. The best and greatest illustration of that is found with what happened with Christ's suffering and death. On the day of Pentecost, Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and he explained it well to the crowds listening. In his Pentecost sermon, Peter said that the Jews were responsible for killing Jesus. It was a sinful thing for them to kill an innocent man, to murder the Son of God. Yet, Peter says, this was all in God's plan. Acts 2:23 tells us that it was "according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God." God was going to work through sinful people and their actions to deliver us from sin and its oppression. That's what he was doing with Samson too and in this he was pointing ahead to a greater deliverance, the one we have through Christ.
So Samson goes back to Timnah, this time with his mom and dad in tow. They're going to try and make the arrangements for their son to marry the Philistine girl. Along the way they travel through a vineyard for some reason. It seems like an unusual spot for a Nazirite. Nazirites were not only forbidden from drinking alcohol, they couldn't have any contact with anything related to grapes. But there he is, in a vineyard. His parents seem to be somewhere else, maybe ahead or behind him. He's all by himself walking among the grape vines.
All of a sudden, out of the blue, this young lion comes storming towards him. If it isn't obvious, this big cat is out for blood – it wants to make cat chow out of Samson. But the lion gets far more than it bargained for. It didn't know that the Holy Spirit of Yahweh would rush upon Samson and give him super-human strength to make a successful counter-attack. The lion didn't know that this lone man would suddenly be able to tear it limb from limb like it was a young goat.
The author of Judges is careful to tell us that this happened because the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon Samson. As a result, Samson had this unusual power to defend himself from this vicious wild animal. But what is the exact nature of this empowerment? What does it mean that the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon him?
To answer that, we should note that this is not the first time that the Holy Spirit has done this in the book of Judges. He came in a similar way to Othniel, Jephthah, and Gideon. Later on, in the book of 1 Samuel, he will also rush upon Saul. What do all these figures have in common? They all have a special office among God's people. They're all either judges or kings.
There's something else we need to note. This is about the work of the Holy Spirit in general. Sometimes you'll hear people wondering about whether the Holy Spirit was present and working in all believers in the Old Testament. To answer that, we should ask: did people have faith in the Old Testament? That's a good question to ask because if they did, then the Holy Spirit must have been present and working in people. After all, Ephesians 2:8 reminds us that faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit – and there's no indication in Scripture that this is something that changed with the coming of Christ. I mean, can you imagine that in the Old Testament people came to faith in their own power, but suddenly in the New Testament faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit? That wouldn't make any sense. So, if there was faith with people in the Old Testament, it must also have been a gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit must have created this faith. It should be pretty clear that people did have faith. There's no doubt that people believed in God and trusted his promises before the coming of Christ. This was because the Holy Spirit was working in them.
When it comes to Samson, we know for sure that he was a man of faith. Not only do we see him calling on God in faith in the book of Judges, but he's explicitly mentioned as a man of faith in the New Testament. Samson is mentioned in Hebrews 11:32-34, "And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions…were made strong out of weakness." Samson was a believer. He was weak – that's quite clear in this chapter and the ones following. But there can be no doubt that he believed in God and his promises. Scripture tells us that straight up.
So is our text telling us that Samson became a believer at this precise moment in the vineyard? Was this a sort of conversion experience? No, that's not what's in view here. That would be like saying that everyone at Pentecost became a believer when the Holy Spirit was poured out. The disciples were clearly believers before Pentecost. So Pentecost was not about becoming a believer. It was about the Spirit being poured out on God's people to equip them for the calling to bring the gospel to a lost world. Similarly, the Holy Spirit suddenly comes upon Samson here in our text to equip him for his calling to be a judge and deliverer. Just like with Othniel and Jepthah, and later Saul, the Holy Spirit is empowering Samson for a specific task for the redemption of God's people.
Prior to this, there's no indication that Samson had any super-human strength. We're not told whether as a little boy he was able to do incredible things that no one else could do. He would have known that he was a Nazirite, but apart from that, there's nothing to suggest that he knew of how he would deliver Israel from the Philistines. But now the Spirit of God rushes upon him and he becomes incredibly mighty. This happens in a way that's rather violent. The Spirit is forceful so that Samson very much realizes that he is now so mighty that even the king of the beasts can't touch him. With this strength he is being readied to begin saving the people of Israel from their oppressors.
In his office as a judge and deliverer, the imperfect Samson points us ahead to the perfect ultimate deliverer, Jesus Christ. Think of how Christ was prepared for his office and calling. In Matthew 3, after Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan, what happened? The Spirit of God descended upon him like a dove. Did the Holy Spirit dwell in Jesus before this? Of course he did. But this was the beginning of Jesus' ministry and the Holy Spirit fell upon him to push him on his way to begin carrying out the deliverance of God's people. Unlike with Samson, the Spirit did not need to rush upon Jesus in a violent way. He knew full well what was happening and what it meant. In his case, the Spirit could simply descend on him gently like a dove.
But now what was the first thing that Jesus did after his baptism and the Spirit's falling on him? He took on a roaring lion. One of the most powerful descriptions of Satan is found in 1 Peter 5:8. Peter says, "Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." Our Saviour Jesus Christ took on that lion. Revelation 5:5 tells us that Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the one who conquers. That roaring lion Satan has no power when confronted by the Spirit-empowered Lion of the tribe of Judah, Jesus. In Matthew 4, Jesus began defeating him, began his mission to release us from his power, just like Samson was beginning his mission to release the Israelites from the oppression of the Philistines in our text. Samson could only do that in a limited way, but our Saviour has done it in the most comprehensive and fulsome way imaginable. What he began in Matthew 4, he finished on the cross. On Golgotha, he tore that roaring lion to pieces for us.
Brothers and sisters, the same Holy Spirit who empowered Samson and who empowered our Saviour, is also given to the church today, to you and me. He doesn't empower us to deliver ourselves or others. That's not our calling. That was the calling of Samson and that pointed to the calling of Christ. Our calling is laid out in Lord's Day 12 of the Catechism. Lord's Day 12 summarizes what the Bible teaches about the three-fold office of Christ and our three-fold office. He was anointed with the Spirit to be Prophet, Priest and King. We share in that anointing. Part of that is that we as kings "fight with a free and good conscience against sin and the devil in this life." We are Christian warriors called to make war against sin and Satan. The Spirit who equipped Samson for his calling is the Spirit who equipped Christ for his, and will equip us for ours. He will give us the strength to be able to fight against our enemy, this roaring lion who wants us dead. Loved ones, let's keep on praying for his power and strength to help us in this. Let's keep on trusting that he will hear our prayers, live in us, and give us what we need so that we can and will fight.
The Holy Spirit certainly gave Samson what he needed. He empowered him so that the stage was set for the downfall of the Philistines. After killing that lion, Samson kept it to himself. It's not clear why, but it is clear how the LORD worked his deliverance through that too. No one but Samson knew about the dead lion. Verse 7 continues the story and we see Samson going to talk with the object of his affections, that Philistine girl. The author of Judges again tells us that she was right in his eyes. Not in the eyes of God, but in Samson's eyes. This is another reminder that Samson is not the ultimate deliverer, but a sinful man being used for God's purposes at this point in redemptive history.
A few days later, Samson came back to Timnah to take the woman for his wife. He wanders through the vineyard again, curious to see what became of the lion he killed. What he sees surprises him: inside the carcass is a beehive. That might sound surprising. You would think that a rotting carcass would more likely harbour flies than bees. But in that Middle Eastern climate it apparently often happens that carcasses become almost mummified, dessicated, completely dried out within 24 hours of death. They can skip decomposition altogether. If that happens, then no flies. If that happens, then bees can come along and definitely make a hive within. That's what seemed to happen in this case. There's a beehive and there's honey and Samson helps himself. In passing, we can note that there's a commentary here again on Samson's weakness. Now he's not only in a vineyard with the grapes, but he's handling a corpse, a definite no-no for a Nazirite. Nazirites were to have nothing to do with dead bodies, whether human or animal. Moreover, he takes some of this honey and brings it to his father and mother and he makes them unclean too, without them even knowing it. Samson might be a believer, but he's not a very strong one if you go by the fruits in his life.
Well, eventually he gets to the wedding. There Samson decided to have some fun and put a riddle to the Philistine guests. He challenged them to solve it. If they did, they would get thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes. If they didn't, he would get that. The riddle was related to the lion he had been empowered by the Spirit to kill. "Out of the eater came something to eat, out of the strong came something sweet." Sure enough, they figured out a way to solve the riddle. They blackmailed his wife with death threats and she got it out of him and passed it on. They brought the answer back to Samson, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" Their backhanded ways infuriated Samson and the Spirit rushed upon him again and he was empowered to get the garments he owed. He got them by attacking the town of Ashkelon and killing 30 Philistines all by himself. That was the beginning of a Philistine blood bath at the hands of Samson. Single-handedly, Samson began to take apart the Philistines, just like he took apart the lion that started it all. With the Spirit's power, Samson was able to begin lifting the Philistine yoke, even though he was a weak and sinful man. It wouldn't be until sometime later that the Philistine yoke would be completely lifted. That would happen through another lion-killer. Before David killed Goliath, he told Saul of how he would kill lions and bears single-handedly. He would kill Goliath too, and later, as king, he would decimate the Philistines, defeating them and subjugating them. But Samson was the one through whom God began all this.
Loved ones, God worked through Samson to save his people, even though they didn't deserve it. Because he loved his people and was bonded to them in the covenant of grace, he went after them and began to set them free. In the results of the Spirit's empowerment of Samson then, we see the grace of God for his people. This too foreshadows the grace of God in our deliverance through Christ. Though we are prone to wander, God in his love sent his Son to live a perfect life in our place and die on the cross as our substitute. Though we are more like Samson and his contemporaries than we might care to admit, we have a perfect Saviour in Jesus Christ who has set us free from all the oppression of sin. Moreover, in his grace, God has also poured out his Spirit on his church. Through that Spirit, we are empowered to begin living holy lives in preparation for our final deliverance.
Today on this Pentecost Sunday, we give thanks to God for the gift of his mighty Spirit. Without him, we would have no faith, no connection to Christ. Without the Spirit, we would have no strength to fight against sin. Without him, we would have no freedom, no life. Beloved, he has been poured out on us, so indeed, let's sing and exalt his name, "Come praise the Holy Spirit!" AMEN.
We praise your Name as our God who graciously delivers from oppression. We exalt in you as the One who saves from Satan and sin in Jesus Christ our Saviour. We lift up your Name as the One who gives us power to fight. O Holy Spirit, we especially praise you for what you did with Samson in our text. What an amazing thing: to tear apart a lion as if it was a young goat! And then you gave him power to kill 30 Philistines single-handedly. These things amaze us and lead us to stand in awe of your might. But we are even more amazed at what you did through our Saviour. You gave him the power to resist Satan in the wilderness and to conquer him at the cross. Then you came in power upon the church at Pentecost. We praise you, Holy Spirit, for being present with us in power so that we can hate sin and fight against it. Please equip us and strengthen us more and more to do this. We want to make war, but we need help. Please give us the help we so desperately need. We ask you to empower us for our calling so that we can live for the praise and glory of our God.


Up from Aristotelous square, in the center of the town, you will notice this white "art cafe", next to Ancient Agora. As far as I am concerned….
it's like my office, my living-room, my home. If your home is quiet, then it could be like your home too. I usually go there to drink a coffee after a lesson, or after work. As it is in the center of the city, I usually take a quick break there between my job and my lessons. Also, it is the best place for studying… It's quiet and sunny. During our exams, we often go there in order to combine coffee with friends and studying.
The music Container proposes is unique. Classic music, alternative music…You will not need "Shazam" as the music there is carefully selected and you can easily ask for details. Container is also an art coffee-bar, where many events take place. Sometimes, musicians bring their instruments and play. The most impressive however, is that Container hosts various painting exhibitions, or philosophical discussions.
Container is a controversial place. You love it, or you hate it. But, I think you must experience its particularities in order to judge it.


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HIV Criminalisation in the EU/EEA: a comparative 10 country report
In 2018-2019 the European HIV Legal Forum conducted a project on HIV-criminalization in 10 EU Member States (Austria, Czechia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and the United Kingdom). The project produced a comparative legal report based on legal survey launched in the 10 countries. One of the main findings of the project showed that regardless of scientific advance in understanding the risk of HIV infection, there is a gap between the scientific knowledge and the understanding of judges, prosecutors and police of the issue due to lack of trainings and national guidelines and media still plays an important but negative role in shaping the discussion around HIV-criminalisation thus sustaining and increasing the stigma against people living with HIV. The report also shows that HIV-criminalisation disproportionately affects key populations, women, people of colour, and the poor and homeless.
Molecular HIV Surveillance: A global review of human rights implications
Provides a detailed explanation of what MHS is and how it is used across the globe, including how the technology works, where it is being conducted, and by whom. The paper describes growing human rights concerns relating to the use of this technology and goes on to list a number of recommendations for the use of MHS which were gathered from an international literature review and from members of an Expert Advisory Group.
No HIV Transmission From Virally Suppressed Mothers During Breastfeeding in Rural Tanzania (2018)
Brief report from clinical practice in Tanzania which found no HIV transmission from mothers who were retained in care and had suppressed viral load whilst breastfeeding. They conclude: "Breastfeeding signifies a very low risk when mothers adhere to ART."
HIV, the Law and Human Rights in the African Human Rights System: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Rights-Based Responses
Report on the Study of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. The report presents the current state of the HIV epidemic in Africa through a human rights and gender lens by showing the populations and locations most affected by HIV and those underserved by the response to the epidemic. It also describes the global, regional and national norms and standards relating to HIV and health, as well as their interpretation and application by African regional mechanisms, United Nations (UN) bodies and national courts and institutions. It further provides a detailed analysis of the key human rights challenges affecting the response to HIV on the continent.
Understanding Criminal Prosecutions for Sexual Transmission of Infection
A report on charges of grievous bodily harm via sexual transmission of infection handled by the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales between 2008-2012, their management and outcomes.
Evaluation of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
Findings from an external evaluation of the impacts and legacy of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. It explores the fulfilment of the Commission's objectives, taking into account the perspectives and experiences of representatives from government, including law and policy makers, civil society including those most marginalised and affected by HIV, as well as United Nations agencies and other development partners.
Evidence for eliminating HIV-related stigma and discrimination – Guidance for countries to implement effective programmes to eliminate HIV-related stigma and discrimination in six settings
This report reviews the latest evidence on what works to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination through key programmes to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase access to justice in the six settings of focus for the Global Partnership, including Justice. It includes guidance and recommendations for national governments and key stakeholders to implement programmes to empower populations "being left behind"; remove laws criminalising drug use or possession for personal use, all aspects of sex work, sexual orientation, gender identity, and HIV exposure, non-disclosure and transmission and to routinely review existing laws, regulations and policies relating to HIV.
GNP+ and THT. Criminalisation of HIV transmission in Europe: A rapid scan (2005)
This paper, prepared by Moono Nyambe at GNP+, and managed by Julian Hows (GNP+) and Lisa Power (Terrence Higgins Trust) comprised a synthesis of input from several different sources, pubished in April 2005 as a draft document open to comments. The statements and information provided in this document are based on replies to a questionnaire and have not been independently confirmed. The views expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect the official position of UNAIDS which partly funded its production.
Respondents from 41 out of 45 countries provided information for the study. Of the respondents from the 41 countries that were able to provide information, it was reported that in at least 36 countries the actual or potential transmission of HIV can constitute a criminal offence. This supported anecdotal evidence that increasingly the law is seen as a tool for regulating conduct that can lead to HIV transmission. In 21 of these countries, it was reported that at least one person has been prosecuted.
Beyond Criminalization: A Feminist Questioning of Criminal Justice Interventions to Address Sexual and Reproductive Rights Violations
The report presents the findings of the desktop research lead by the global south feminist alliance RESURJ, (Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice), as part of the alliance's leadership work on the shortcomings and limitations of penal policies in addressing sexual and reproductive rights violations. The aim of the review and this analytical report is to strengthen RESURJ's evidence base on sexual and reproductive justice and to further engage with diverse feminists and groups to reimagine alternatives to criminalized approaches, alternatives that put human rights and justice at the center.

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Fuse Book Review: Losing it — Whining Against the Dying of the Light
"Losing It" explores growing old through an assemblage of tales and lessons drawn from works of the past—the Icelandic Sagas, the classics, the Bible, the Torah—to which the author adds a plenitude of his own dicta and pensées, slinging the whole contraption together on a webbing of extrapolation and free association.
Losing It by William Ian Miller. Yale University Press, 328 pages. $27.
By Katherine A. Powers
It may once have been true, as John Jay Chapman wrote, that "every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity." But he died in 1933, well before the so-called Baby-Boom generation arrived on the scene to broadcast interminably, in all possible ways and in every detail, its own fascinating concerns. Right now the big one is the unfortunate matter of getting old, a terrific affront to a generation who thought anyone over 30 was essentially dead. The nostrums, devices, routines, surgeries, and programs on aging—or rather on fending off its unpardonable effects—are without number, as are books on the subject. Here before me I have—to give it the full treatment, Losing It: In which an aging professor laments his shrinking brain, which he flatters himself formerly did him noble service: A plaint, tragic-comical, historical, vengeful, sometimes satirical and thankful in six parts, if his memory does yet serve. It is the work of William Ian Miller, a professor of law and author of a number of other books including the highly regarded Anatomy of Disgust (1997).
The "It" in question, according to Miller who likes nothing so much as refining a point, "refers mainly to mental faculties—memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus" and also to the other parts of the body that are decaying. "This 'it,'" he goes on, "whether mental or physical, is more general, and the process of losing it more drawn out, than when 'it' stands for a cell phone or virginity, each of which can be lost in mere seconds of thoughtlessness." Thus the book begins, and thus it continues with every idiom, concept, or passing thought squeezed of all possible by-products to wearying effect.
But to return to the Miller's ostensible subject: getting old. He explores that predicament through an assemblage of tales and lessons drawn from works of the past—the Icelandic Sagas, the classics, the Bible, the Torah—to which he adds a plenitude of his own dicta and pensées, slinging the whole contraption together on a webbing of extrapolation and free association. I may as well just say it: This is a really annoying book not only because it lacks coherence and is padded out with miscellaneous filler, objets trouvés, and by-the-ways, but also because it abounds in specious pronunciamentos, hairballs of "wisdom" that just aren't any good or even true: "All cultures," he informs us, "must have rituals of self-abnegation or, for instance, there would be no apology." True? False? N/A? Elsewhere he declares that a "truth about the chronic complaints of life's daily annoyances" is that the "particular annoyance you are complaining about generally goes away or ceases to matter, unless you are complaining about old age." Really? What of physical disability, mortal disease, poverty, persecution, and odious neighbors, just to mention five blights of humanity?
Miller begins the book by going over the brain's shrinkage and deterioration from the age of 30 on but also notes that the upside of possessing an aging, decomposing brain is, at least according to surveys, that older people are happier than younger people. Later, he offers a further explanation for this pleasant state of mind, which is that formerly plain or ugly people (who are in the majority, according to him) have a "special treat" in store for them in old age, in that they will feel "delight" in the gratifying fact that "the nice-looking people who treated them with contempt are now not differentiable from themselves in the eyes of the young." And here we have themes which run through the book like toxins: schadenfreude and resentment. Add to this his other preoccupations, complaining, humiliation, and revenge, and you are not looking at a bowl of cherries.
Author William Ian Miller writes about the upside of possessing an aging, decomposing brain.
Miller's interest in revenge is at least understandable as he is, apparently, an authority on the Icelandic Sagas where revenge is central and, to my mind, entirely satisfying. But he mines the concept—as he does everything—well beyond its capacity to produce meaning. "Not very differently from revenge cultures, we still feel we are owed when a loved one dies, or else someone else has it coming." I don't know who this "we" is but it doesn't include me or anyone I know. Still, to proceed with the lesson: "Welcome the market," Miller continues, "which answered the need rather nicely, doing the pious work of assuaging rage that might otherwise have been directed at God, or burned the old lady next door whom the shaman fingered as a witch. Life insurance provides compensation in lieu of revenge. Somewhat overstated," (he admits) "but not false for all that: life insurance is blood money." I don't know about the market, but if you buy that you'll buy anything.
I suppose the real goal of this book was to achieve a satisfactory word count to support its eminently saleable title, but the result has not been a happy one. To be sure, Miller brings a spirit of festive malice to the subject of getting old—when he can stay on the subject and forego dipping into "the ungauged reservoir" of his mind, as George Eliot said of Mr Casaubon. And I, personally, am all for showing the darkly comic side of getting old, but perhaps it is best represented in art. Certainly it has been realized magnificently in novels, among them Muriel Spark's Momento Mori, William Trevor's The Old Boys, Kingsley Amis's Ending Up, Evelyn Waugh's Basil Seal Rides Again, and Jane Gardam's Old Filth. That's what I'd read if I were looking for laugh about life's slippery slope to the grave.
Katherine A. Powers reviews books widely and has been a finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.
By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Losing It, non-fiction, Old Age, William Ian Miller
Shelley says
Hairballs of wisdom!
Aren't you being a little harsh? Sure, Miller is grouchy and self-obsessed, but he is damn funny about it. At least throw him a better bone than calling him an "apparent" expert on the Sagas — the number of blood feuds cognoscenti may be few in this world, but he certainly figures prominently among them.


The transportation industry is facing a workforce development crisis, the result of a combination of factors including the retirement of baby boomers and a lack of trained personnel in fields such as engineering, construction management, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The public sector will be particularly hard hit. It also faces the threat of attrition at senior levels as skilled workers move to the private sector.
These trends are forcing public transportation agencies and private industry to consider the role that succession planning, job recruitment and job retention play in their missions and training strategies. The nature of the workforce replacing soon-to-be retired workers is also changing. There will be more women, more Hispanics and more Asians seeking employment.
Most of the studies done to assess the impact of changing trends on the transportation workforce have focused on the national and state levels. Little, if any, research has been done on the training and workforce needs at the regional level, particularly in the case of the public sector where Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Councils of Government, and transit agencies may be engaged in both transportation planning and operations. Particularly, in California, the workforce capacity of MPOs will be challenged by the 2008 passage of Senate Bill (SB) 375.
This research attempts to identify the workforce needs of California's regional transportation planning agencies as well as regional transit agencies. Through online surveys and interviews with members of Councils of Governments, MPOs, and transit agencies, the project will consider issues as wide ranging as recruitment, funding, curriculum-related needs, the role of in-service training, and future workforce issues. Findings will contribute to our knowledge of how workforce development trends at the regional level differ from those at the state and federal level and how policy measures may impact the workforce needs of the transport sector.
This work builds upon USDOT/FHWA-funded research presently under way by the principal investigator. This work has involved the identification of model strategies for transportation workforce development, and the development and pilot testing of curricula that respond to gaps revealed in the analysis of current programs. The METRANS-funded project takes advantage of the knowledge base developed as part of this effort and focuses on the regional transportation agency where a lack of research is evident. Findings will be presented in a final report and be submitted for publication with relevant academic and industry journals.
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Q: How can one get notified /status if the Web API is done its long running job? I am using ASP.NET Core Web API I have an ASP.NET Core 6.0 Web API which does some integration work (time consuming process).
[HttpPost]
public async Task<ActionResult<PushOutput>> TimeConsumingApi(PushInput payload)
{
    PushOutput result = new PushOutput();

    // Some time consuming work
    await Task.Delay(50000);

    return Ok(result);
}

I think fire and forget is not good idea.
I want to get status if the process is still running or completed on client side.
How can I implement this kind(job) pattern. Is there any example , resource I can follow. Please share some idea or available resource.
I am new to .NET API's . Any help will be appreciated.

A: You can do that work synchronously, which is what you are showing. The "notification" is simply getting the OK response to your request. The problem with that is it will tie up a server thread and possibly lead to time outs.
A better way would be to refactor the code and conform to the Asynchronous Request-Reply pattern. In this pattern, the client will continually poll some location on the server until the work is completed.
In this pattern there are several different ways to start the work in the background. Some common ones include

*

*queueing data to be consumed by a BackgroundService

*sending a message to another service

*using a BackgroundWorker

*starting a Task (for simplicity this is the one I'll show)

First let's create a few types to convey status and a status response. I'll mock up your PushOutputs type as well.
public enum Status { Running, Finished, Error }

public record StatusResponse(Guid Guid, Status Status);

public class PushOutput
{
    public PushOutput(Guid guid)
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Next, let's build a controller. The controller will have 3 endpoints

*

*one for accepting the request to create/compute a result (for convenience
I'll use a local method executed as a background task)

*one for getting the completed result

*one for polling for the result when it is ready

I'm handwaving a bit on the implementation, not knowing if you're using a database, etc.
[ApiController]
[Route("[controller]")]
public class PushOutputsController : ControllerBase
{
    [HttpPost]
    public async Task<IActionResult> TimeConsumingApi(object payload)
    {
        var guid = Guid.NewGuid();
        SaveGuidAndStatusSomewhere(guid, Status.Running);

        Task.Run(DoWork).ContinueWith(Done);

        // tell the client to poll a temporary URL
        return Accepted("https://server.com/pushoutputs/status/{guid}");

        void DoWork()
        {
            // long running work using payload
        }

        void Done(Task task)
        {
            SaveGuidAndStatusSomewhere(guid, task.Exception is not null ? Status.Error : Status.Finished);
        }

        void SaveGuidAndStatusSomewhere(Guid correlationId, Status status)
        {
            // e.g. to a database table
        }
    }

    [HttpGet("status/{guid}")]
    public async Task<IActionResult> GetStatus(Guid guid)
    {
        var status = GetStatusFromSomewhere();

        Status GetStatusFromSomewhere()
        {
            // get status from somewhere (hard coded to Finished
            // here, but it would really be one of the 3 statuses
            return Status.Finished;
        }

        if (status == Status.Finished)
            // this will redirect to the Get() API
            return Redirect("https://server.com/pushoutputs/{guid}");

        // it's not ready yet, just let caller know to continue polling.
        // important to return the guid AND the status, so client knows
        // which one to poll for
        return Ok(new StatusResponse(guid, status));
    }

    [HttpGet("{guid}")]
    public async Task<IActionResult> GetPushoutput(Guid guid)
    {
        // hardcoded, in reality you'd hit a database or something
        var po = new PushOutput(guid);
        return Ok(po);
    }
}

The way this works is

*

*Client POSTs a request.

*Server starts a task and begins the work.

*Server sends a 202 Accepted with a temporary location client can poll.

*Client polls that location and gets 200 OK until the work is done.

*When work is done, server sets status to Finished.

*Client polls one final time and gets 302 Redirected to the finished result.

NOTE: I am using the generated GUID as the ID of the result as well. In reality you'd need some way to lookup the new ID of the new object using the
guid as a key.

Finally, if polling is not an option for you, SignalR would be a way to push the response instead of pulling. I'll leave that to you to explore.

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I am looking for some suggestions/guidance with setting up a pre-amplifier for electrode potentials (20mV to 100mV signal range, the band-width (BW) 10kHz to 100kHz). The excitation pair represents ac current excitation (10-20mA) and the measurements pair represents potential from remaining electrodes. The electrodes have high impedance (@1kHz) of 1 MOhm. The potential between electrode are connected to instrumentation amplifier (the gain should be between 10-100) and the output connected to RMS converter. The RMS output of each channels are connected to a DAC of dsPIC microcontroller.
For additional information, both the +IN and -IN will be multiplexed.
a) I don't know if there will be some kind of switching noise or cross-talk due to the multiplexer and if I should amplify the signals before I route them to the multiplexer to increase the SNR signal/reduce switching noise?
b) What would be the multiplexing frequency recommended for this application? How to calculate them?
Our ADG5204 is a newer part and is a good part with low charge injection and capacitance values. Also it is latch up proof so I would say go with this one. But note it has an Ron in the region of 160 typical. It sounds like low capacitance is a priority in your application and the amplifiers have a high input impedance.


Do you know how to keep your family safe at home?
We can see many dangers around our homes: hot taps; pans; cookers; water; stairs; cleaning products…and yes even LEGO but there is one home danger we can't see or even smell – Carbon Monoxide.
Gas Safety Week is an annual safety week to raise awareness of gas safety across the UK. It is co-ordinated by Gas Safe Register with support from the gas industry including retailers, manufacturers, consumer bodies and the public.
Every year in the UK, more than 200 people go to hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, and around 40 people die. Small children and the elderly are most at risk, so CORGI HomePlan is campaigning for every home to get a carbon monoxide detector, so that they can keep their family safe.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas and, as such, it is very difficult to detect and can easily be inhaled without you realising. Being exposed to high concentration levels can be fatal or cause several other long-term health problems such as brain damage.
The most common cause of a carbon monoxide leak is from incorrectly installed or poorly maintained household appliances – such as cookers, heaters and central heating boilers. A blocked flue or chimney can also cause carbon monoxide levels to rise to lethal concentrations in an enclosed space.
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At the bottom of the stairs, just outside the kitchen where the boiler is.
In the hallway, near the boiler but also central.
Think I'd put it in the hallway near the boiler too.
I'd put it in our entryway because it's near the kitchen. I would also consider a second one to go near the water heater upstairs.
The boiler is in the kitchen so it would go there, thankyou for giving away such a useful prize.


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Q: CloneDeep causing issues in scroller I have just dived into Angular, so some of the terminology may be a bit off.
But I am trying to obtain an object from my store$ which is basically an array of objects(search results) and modify it.
In order to avoid an 'object is not extensible error' I've used `cloneDeep from lodash.
However this gives me an unusual error where the scroll bar automatically scrolls to the bottom and activates infinite search. This keeps sending queries for newer results.
I've tried messing around with my scroll function which moves the scroller 0.7 to the top such that infinite scroll is not constantly activated when the scroller moves to the bottom.
However, I am clueless as to why cloneDeep is causing issues with the scroller. I am not even sure what I should be looking into.
//piping

this.resultSet$ = this.store$.pipe(
        select(SearchIndexQuery.getIndexResultSet, { id: <string>this.searchIndex, resultSetId: this.id }),
        map(resultSet => {
         finalResult = cloneDeep(resultSet);
          //do something to the resultSet
         finalResult.data = someFunc(finalResult.data)
        })
      );

//scroller
if (this.currentRows > this.NUM_SEARCH_ROWS && this.selectElement.panel) {
            const panel = this.selectElement.panel.nativeElement;
            panel.scrollTop = 0.7 * (panel.scrollHeight - panel.offsetHeight);
          }

without cloneDeep the search box behaves as expected (however I cannot modify the object otherwise)
with cloneDeep the scroller starts showing unexpected behavior


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Tyler Technologies and Amazon Web Services ink new collaboration deal
By Akshay Kedari Date: 2019-10-31
Tyler Technologies Inc., a major Texas-based public sector software firm, has reportedly announced that it has inked a new strategic collaboration deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an on-demand cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., for cloud hosting services.
The collaboration agreement would be bringing Tyler, USA's biggest software firm that is focused exclusively towards the public sector, together with AWS, one of the world's deepest and broadest platform.
The deal further consolidates the existing relationship between AWS and Tyler, primarily by leveraging AWS cloud to lay down the foundation for the future of the cloud-based services and capabilities for the public sector.
The deal would allow public sector Tyler clients to facilitate better experiences for citizens and enable the government to utilize data as an asset in the management, design as well as delivery of programs, all while the company continues to evolve and upgrade its applications in response to the public sector and government needs.
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Tyler, Lynn Moore stated that the company has witnessed a clear trend with local, state as well as federal government agencies towards the cloud, looking for benefits that are obtained by managing their respective applications inside a hosted environment.
Moore added that working alongside AWS would allow Tyler to direct its focus towards what it does best; implementing and developing efficient, effective applications for public sector, while also allowing AWS to deliver the capabilities and expertise of the most widely adopted cloud platform in the world to the company's clients.
The Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services, Teresa Carlson stated that the company's collaboration with Tyler further extends the relationship between the two organizations and encourages a greater level of engagement to deliver benefit to public sector customers. The company looks forward to working alongside Tyler to innovate and facilitate real customer impact.
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Mum who tried to crowdfund $8,000 Disney trip reopens page and defiantly claims I haven't hurt anyone'
THE WOMAN who set up a page to crowdfund a trip to Disney World has hit back at critics and has reposted her page after being savaged online.
Brittany Vonow
The SunMarch 17, 201711:34pm
Nikki Smith ... has come under fire for her GoFundMe page.Source:Supplied
A MUM who was forced to pull down a fundraiser asking for strangers to fund a family trip to Disney World appears to have stared down her critics, saying "I never meant to upset anyone".
Nikki Smith set up a crowd-funding page, asking for £5,000 ($8,000) to be able to get her daughters to the theme park, but was slammed online for using the site to raise the money.
The post on the GoFundMe site. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
But the mum from Bristol in the UK now appears to have relaunched her appeal, updating the original fundraising page and defending herself, saying: "I was prompted to put my page back up, I feel this to be the only way I can speak out.
"I am not a bad person."
Taking to the fresh appeal, she added: "I also am not asking people for their hard earned money, people have a choice."
Nikki Smith is asking for people to pay for her family's trip to Disney World.Source:Supplied
She said that she had never sold her story to the media and stood up for herself, saying: "Yes, I should have thought about it more before I opened it but it's too late now.
"I love my children and my job, I'm a carer and I haven't been able to get anymore hours at work, nights are not easy to come by, I do try."
She said she had been portrayed as an "awful person" but argued: "I was only thinking of my children and making them happy."
Before closing down the appeal, she had raised only £10 ($16) — with the renewed page now receiving £200 ($322) in donations.
The 33-year-old, who has previously blasted trolls for criticising her fundraiser, said: "I have never used go fund me before so I should have looked into it more.
"I thought this section of the website was for funding hopes, dreams and wishes, and I believed GoFundMe was a chance to raise money for anything."
She argued that she had seen a lot of other people raising money for causes including breast enhancements, cars and holidays.
In her passionate online defence, she wrote: "I never meant to upset anyone.
"I'm traumatised by the abuse and negativity I have received and only put this back up because a lot of people said I should. Online trolls are evil, I haven't hurt anyone and I was only trying to fulfil my children's dreams."
Nikki's crowd-funding campaign made international headlines.Source:Supplied
The dedicated mum had set up the page last month in an attempt to get her children to Disney World in the US, saying that the dream holiday was out of her reach financially.
In the original appeal, she said that she wanted to make her children's dreams come true and to show them how much she appreciated them.
She added that the family had lost two special people recently, with the loving mum wanting to give her daughters something to look forward to.
Many people have already donated to her appeal, with one woman writing: "I think the comments you have received are appalling and so hurtful.
"So many people are jealous and show so little understanding or care for others.
"My sisters are also single parents so I'm sure you are hard working and doing your best for your family and I know how much kids love Disney. I hope you do get to visit — if not Disneyworld then maybe Eurodisney (I've been there — its also a wonderful experience!)."
Another wrote: "Good luck. I truly hope you make it."
A third added: "Keep on believing in magic."
The refreshed GoFund appeal has now raised £200 ($322).
This article originally appeared on The Sun.
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Q: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly I have created a deployment project in visual studio 2010. I am linking MATLAB components and .NET components.
MY MATLAB is 64 bit and Visual Studio is also 64 bit but some references are 32 bit.
When I compile the deploayment project i get the following warning "Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly".
I tried everything and set my processor to 64 bit.
But still I get the warning.

A: This means that you reference assembly A ver. xxx in project 1 and assembly A ver. yyy in project 2.
The problem is that you may also reference project 2 from project 1 and so both A may get in conflict when the referenced assemblies are loaded at runtime.

A: I don't know if this still helps you or not!
I have just faced this problem with some modules provided by a third party company and I have started Googling on this problem now!
As many others have suggested it means some of your modules/dlls use ver.A of another core module and some others use ver.B. In my case all the modules look for MODULE_A_VER_X.(signature XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) and one looks for the exact same module with the exact same ver but with a different signature [e.g. MODULE_A_VER_X.(signature YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY)]
In your installer project right click on each 'Detected Dependency' and then on the properties window, click on 'Dependencies' Item. It shows you the core modules that a particular module depends on!
Doing so (for all of your dependencies), helps you to identify whats the missing/conflict core module(s) and puts you on the right track.
then you can contact MATLAB to ask them to provide you with the core module with correct version and signature. or you can try finding it yourself.
Then you can try adding that module to your installer project and see if it works or not!
(in my case the third party provider told me it will fix my issue but it did not! maybe for you it works!)
you can also try creating your installer using some packages other than VS installer such as WIX.


Today's review is on another bright eyeliner from Make Up For Ever. This range has been around for a while – geared more towards the professional makeup artists. However, in the last couple of years, more and more professional makeup is now being accessed by the general consumer for experimentation – whether for social media (Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) or for real life. It is an interesting trend. I'm keen to know how long it sustains.
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Packaging: The product comes packaged in a typical liquid liner packaging. The good thing is that the tube itself and the top of the cap are color coordinated with the shade of the product. This allows you to be able to reach for the one you want more easily. The tube is quite thin. You screw to open the cap to find that the product has a felt tip. The tip is quite sturdy enabling you to make clear, precise lines. As per the company, the thinness of the tube/cap is to mimic the feel of a brush in the hand. The whole thing comes packaged in a black cardboard box – as with any other MUFE product. Overall, the packaging is efficient and effective.
Texture: The texture is quite liquid. The company suggests you shake the product before using; this ensures the product dispenses out as a homogenous mixture. Else, the pigment does separate from the base. The product applies smoothly. The pigment does not skip or clump together. You get a nice even line. Also, the base does not feather into my fine lines. The product definitely has a good formula for the application. However, this shade too stings like crazy, if it enters the eye (even accidentally). Not slight discomfort, it really really hurts. You have no choice but to take it off, along with your makeup. Like the other shades from this range, this too, I use as an accent tone. I do not use it close to my waterline.
The product dries out fairly quickly and is pretty much budge-proof once it has set. It will not move the entire day nor will it lose its shimmer or the intensity of the shade. Yes, it is waterproof. Since this one does not have the shimmer particles, it will not flake off even if you rub your eyes. It just does not budge – quite like the Iridescent Fuchsia shade. Also, unlike the teal shade, this does not stain the skin either.
Pigmentation: The product has excellent pigmentation. The shade and shimmer create such a homogenous mix that the color really pops! You do not need to go over it twice to make the shade show up. A single swipe has the full intensity of the shade.
Longevity: Love the longevity of this one. As I mentioned earlier, it stays put the whole day. It will not fade, it will not feather. It just doesn't budge. It gives you full-day wear. You need an oil-based makeup remover to take it off at the end of the day. And it can tend to stain the skin ever so slightly.
In the EOTD, I have used it as an accent shade by creating a double flick with it. I know the application is choppy – please ignore that. I was doing trials. But, I did want you to see the product in action.
Would I Recommend Make Up For Ever Aqua Liner 5 Diamond Turquoise Blue?
This is quite a stunning shade. If you are looking for trying a new bold, bright look, this is worth a shot. However, if you want to play it safe, I would suggest skipping this liner.


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Lack of integrated infrastructure reduces rail efficiencies: Train in vain: how will commuters get to Williams Landing station?
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An image of the Williams Landing station.
Being built at a cost of $110 million, a new railway station at Williams Landing will help fill a deep need for better public transport in Melbourne's outer west when it opens in April. It is predicted that up to 1000 passengers will use the station each day in the morning peak, adding to the swelling commuter numbers on the crowded Werribee line.
But some of those would-be commuters are wondering just how they will get to the new station, even as they look forward to its opening.
Jammed local roads, infrequent and indirect bus services and a deficit of parking spaces mean reaching Williams Landing station will not be simple for the residents of Melbourne's burgeoning western suburbs…
No bus passes Williams Landing station but Public Transport Victoria says it plans to extend an existing route to the area once the station opens.
"The new Williams Landing station will feature a car park with approximately 500 spaces, cyclist facilities and a new bus interchange," says Public Transport Victoria spokeswoman Andrea Duckworth.
"PTV will review bus services in the Point Cook area as part of the network planning for the new Williams Landing station. Service details will be finalised closer to the completion of the new station…"
But Western Metropolitan Greens MP Colleen Hartland says unless bus services are improved, residents will inevitably drive and the car park will fail to meet demand.
"Unless there's a really frequent bus service, and I'm talking a 10-minute shuttle into the station, people are going to drive there," Ms Hartland says.
"It'll be exactly like when they opened South Morang station: the car park will fill up straight away and it won't necessarily be people at Williams Landing; it will be people from Point Cook who can't get to Hoppers Crossing or Laverton…"
Adam Carey, The Age, December 13, 2012
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/train-in-vain-how-will-commuters-get-to-williams-landing-station-20121213-2bbka.html#ixzz2EtmE7bkx
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I would like to queue up a set of simulations that would change the material on the ground for example then pipe those to a cluster to run without the GUI. Then I can load them individually in a GUI if needed. Is that possible with 2.5? If so, how? Is there an example?
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Congratulations to our students, Dennis and Susan who have recently tied the knot! This lovely couple began taking wedding dance lessons with Szewai in November of 2012. They were curious to learn about a variety of ballroom dances, so they started by learning the basic steps of Waltz, Foxtrot and Swing. And at the end, they decided to do the Foxtrot, a dance that they felt most comfortable with, to a classy yet fun song, "Grow Old with Me" by Jason Robert Brown.
Duet Dance Studio's students, Dennis and Susan, dancing at their wedding at JW Marriott in Chicago. Photo by Nakai Photography.
Working with Dennis and Susan was such a joy! They were so supportive and patient with each other throughout the whole learning process. Not only did they learn a beautiful first dance that matched their style but also they learned to connect through movement and a new skill that they can share together for the rest of their lives! Check out this video and let Dennis and Susan tell you about their experiences learning to dance together!
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The recent events that have taken place in our country with regard to racial unrest have left many shaken, angry and frustrated. The incident in Charlottesville, Virginia in particular, has caused our nation to once again look in the mirror and question how certain members of our society find it possible to support such vile rhetoric. Unfortunately history points to the fact that this is nothing new in our nation.
I recently visited the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. A 250-acre slave plantation from the 1800's that had 101 African slaves. It was purchased by John Cummings in 1998 and transformed into an incredible slave museum. When you arrive for the tour, you are given an ID badge bearing the name and bio of a slave who lived on the plantation. Essentially, I spiritually become that slave during the tour, feeling his or her daily struggle for survival. I was Peter Barber, an eight-yearold boy ironically born in Charlottesville, Virginia and purchased for $900 (confederate money). I worked 16 hours a day in the cane fields and lived with 22 family members with only one bed in our house. My mother had 14 children, 3 from my master's brother. My master wanted my mother to have a lot of children for the plantation. They took my daddy away one day and I never saw him again.
After experiencing the tour and becoming one with the spirit of Peter Barber — and seeing the brutal conditions under which he lived — it became even more apparent to me that the mission to obliterate hate is not only important when an incident is seen on CNN. It is an obligation and lifelong commitment to ensure that no form of white supremacy be remotely accepted or acknowledged. The basis of the Transatlantic Slave Trade was white supremacy. The basis for the succession of the confederate states was based on white supremacy and the preservation of slavery to further economic capitalism.
The Noble Brothers of MALIK Fraternity, Inc. unequivocally denounce white supremacy and everything associated with it. We call for an investigation — by the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and all appropriate law enforcement agencies — into the role of these organized Neo-Nazi groups in the death of the freedom fighter Heather Heyer. Furthermore, MALIK Fraternity, Inc., unequivocally supports the removal of all public confederate monuments and instead honor individuals like slave boy Peter Barber. We propose those alleged monuments be replaced with replicas of people who built this country under duress for hundreds of years. MALIK Fraternity, Inc. vigorously denounces the notion of President Donald Trump that there were some "good people" amongst the rampaging white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11th and 12th. There is an old Jamaican saying, "If you lie with dogs you shall rise with fleas". Those that marched with the white supremacists in fact are white supremacists and embrace that agenda. As citizens of this country, we demand that our representatives — both local and federal — hold the President accountable for failing to stabilize this nation.
MALIK Fraternity, Inc. calls on its members and good conscious human beings to embrace activism and social justice. If the righteous do not make themselves heard, they will be drowned out by the unrighteous.
RAS HUGH LAWRENCE JR.
NATIONAL PRESIDENT, MALIK FRATERNITY, INC


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Sacramento Metro Fire Captain paid $1.1 million over the past four years
By Robert Fellner on November 1, 2016
Today, Transparent California released 2015 public employee compensation data — complete with names, pay, and benefits — for over 100,000 special district workers statewide.
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (Metro Fire) captain Randall Wootton earned $1.1 million over the past four years — thanks to consistently receiving more overtime (OT) pay than any other Metro Fire employee.
2015 was Wootton's fourth year in a row as Metro Fire's highest OT-earner, having collected at least $108,000 in OT every year since 2012:
Base Pay
Other Pay
With benefits included, Wootton received $379,606 in total compensation last year, making him the 4th highest compensated Metro Fire employee.
The three highest compensated Metro Fire employees were:
Battalion chief Charles Jenkins Jr: $412,422
Fire captain Stephen Craig: $381,638
Battalion chief Randall Hein: $379,606
Transparent California research director Robert Fellner noted that overall OT spending declined 2 percent from the previous year, despite the astronomical payouts made to a select few employees.
"It was refreshing to see the chief acknowledge the problem of excessive overtime after last year's report was released, but this new data makes clear that there is still much work to be done."
Pay up 10% at SMUD
Sacramento's largest special district — the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) — spent over $273 million on employee compensation last year, 10 percent more than what was spent in 2014.
The three highest compensated SMUD workers were:
Chief executive officer and general manager Arlen Orchard: $491,380
Chief power supply and grid operations officer Paul Lau: $383,138
Chief financial officer Jamey Tracy: $383,078
Compensation is defined as total wages plus the employer cost of retirement and health benefits. Full-time, year-round employees are defined as those receiving a salary equal or greater to 90 percent of the "annual salary minimum" reported.
To explore the data further, please visit TransparentCalifornia.com
To schedule an interview with Transparent California, please contact Robert Fellner at 559-462-0122 or Robert@TransparentCalifornia.com.
Transparent California is California's largest and most comprehensive database of public sector compensation and is a project of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a nonpartisan, free-market think tank. Learn more at TransparentCalifornia.com.
Categories: 2016, Press Releases
Tagged as: metro fire, overtime, Sacramento
DWP supervisor, once again, boosts salary to nearly $400,000 with a $216,000 OT payout
BART janitor quadruples $57,000 salary to over $270,000 with OT, benefits


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Peter O'Toole, Exuberant From 'Lawrence' To His Last Role Actor Peter O'Toole had a larger-than-life movie career. The Hollywood legend was made famous in his title role in Lawrence of Arabia. He died Saturday at age 81.
Peter O'Toole, Exuberant From 'Lawrence' To His Last Role
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Actor Peter O'Toole performed on stage and on film in many leading roles, and began his acting career in the 1950s when he was serving in the navy. He died on Dec. 14 at the age of 81.
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Throughout his career, launched by Lawrence of Arabia, O'Toole was nominated for eight Oscars.
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O'Toole receives an honorary Oscar at the 75th Academy Awards, presented by actress Meryl Streep, in March 2003.
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In 1983, O'Toole starred as Professor Higgins with Canadian actress Margot Kidder as Eliza Doolittle in a U.S. television production of Pygmalion.
O'Toole started on the stage in London. In 1960, he starred as Petruchio, with Peggy Ashcroft as Katherine, in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, at the Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Lawrence of Arabia was filmed in the Jordanian desert in 1961. The role of T.E. Lawrence would make O'Toole famous.
Blond, blue-eyed and wearing blazing white robes in Lawrence Of Arabia, Peter O'Toole was handsome enough — many said beautiful enough — to carry off the scene in which director David Lean simultaneously made stars of both his title character and his leading man.
The scene: a wrecked train, blown up by Lawrence and surrounded by his Bedouin followers, one of whom has just smashed a news photographer's camera. O'Toole's Lawrence explains that the man thinks the camera will steal his soul. The photographer asks if he can take Lawrence's picture and tells him to "just walk."
So he walks, as the men around him chant his name — and then, responding to their cheers, he leaps atop the train wreck, striding down its length as the wind whips his robes. Silhouetted in the sun, he might as well be a god.
Peter O'Toole died Saturday. He was 81.
The part of T.E. Lawrence — which at one point could have been Marlon Brando's for the asking — earned O'Toole his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Within a few years he had two more nominations — both, oddly enough, for playing King Henry II, who battled Katharine Hepburn in Lion in Winter, and who thought he could outsmart Richard Burton in Becket.
O'Toole was always larger than life, whether playing dreamers and mad romantics on stage, where his classical training made him a matinee idol; or in public, where his drinking and carousing were legendary; or on screen, where he earned another Oscar nomination playing a hard-drinking matinee idol in My Favorite Year — one who liked to make an entrance, even if it meant swinging into a window from a building's roof, as he remembers doing in one of his films. When his handler cautions that that was a movie and this is real life, he pauses for a moment, then asks: "What is the difference?"
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That may have seemed a reasonable question to O'Toole, whose off-screen drinking buddies included many of the great actors of his generation: Burton, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris. He outlasted them, despite a medical history that had people counting him out in his 40s.
He once told an interviewer that his only exercise was "walking behind the coffins of my friends who took exercise." But he persevered. In the movie Venus, at age 75, he was charismatic as ever, playing a lusty old actor who realizes there are loose ends in his life he should tie up.
Saying goodbye to his ex-wife (played by Vanessa Redgrave), he notes with a laugh, "We won't live forever."
And after more or less clinching another Oscar nomination with that line, he did what he could to disprove it by making every remaining moment count. Twelve roles in the last seven years of his life — from animated food critic in Ratatouille, to Pope in The Tudors — exuberant every one.


The referendum result, David Runciman suggests, was won by those who feel excluded from modern, highly networked forms of economy and society. The tragedy, he argues, is that the elites on the losing side will be able – and likely – to respond not by re-engaging with national politics but by distancing themselves even further from it.
As many other people did, I thought the final outcome of the referendum on EU membership would be something like 52:48 – but I thought it would be the other way around, with Remain scraping home. So I anticipated that I would be writing about the intractable problem with referendums, especially when the result is close: they create a large group of disillusioned voters with no outlet for their sense of betrayal. In regular electoral politics the losers can wait for next time to try to overturn the result. That's how representative democracy is designed to work: it's turn and turn about. But with a referendum, especially one that's meant to 'settle' an issue, there is no next time. The losers either have to start agitating for another vote, which defeats the object of the exercise, or they nurse an open-ended grievance with the potential to destabilise regular electoral politics. That's what happened in Scotland. I still think that's likely to hold now. It's just that I didn't expect the losers would mean people like me.
In many ways, this is salutary. The howls of despair that have greeted this result from the elites on the losing side is a sign of how rare it is that they find their interests genuinely challenged by the democratic process. Up till now, representative democracy has protected them from having to face the reality of the world they have helped to create. I live in a high-tech university town – Cambridge – that voted overwhelmingly for Remain (74:26). It also voted Labour at the last general election. People here doubtless think they are familiar with the feeling of political defeat, having recently witnessed the election of a Conservative government. There were plenty of tears last May, especially from students, who felt that too much of the rest of the country had ignored their concerns. But compared to what has happened in this referendum, that grief was cosmetic. There is less crying this time: it's too serious for that.
The hard truth is that the outcome of the general election was never going to do much to threaten the overwhelming advantages enjoyed by towns like this one, as it hoovers up the rewards of the knowledge economy. But now the people whose sense of security and wellbeing has been shredded by that same economy have taken their chance to answer back. Many of them live just down the road, in places like Peterborough (61:39 for Leave). The gap between the winners and losers from the political economy of the 21st century has been laid bare. Electoral politics has long served to cover up this divide, allowing well-meaning people in Cambridge to believe they were standing up for the interests of people in Peterborough. It's difficult for anyone to believe that any more.
So the economic winners find themselves on the losing side, for what is effectively the first time in the modern political history of this country. This is clearly a very different situation from what might have happened if Remain had scraped a narrow win. Then, the doubly defeated would have had a double grievance: first excluded from the benefits of globalisation and the free movement of peoples, then denied redress by the democratic system. I suspect what would have followed in that case would have been a doubling down on populist politics, offering Ukip a chance to make massive gains at the next general election. Nigel Farage would have become the spokesman for the alienated 48%, who would feel they had little left to lose.
But the 48% who actually ended up on the losing side this time are alienated only from the political process; in economic terms they still have plenty to lose, and populism isn't going to hold much appeal. That means they have to find an alternative way out. One option for some of them is simply to bypass politics altogether. After all, the anti-political mood doesn't just hold for the angry and aggrieved at the bottom of the pile: it also holds for the super-privileged and super-mobile at the top. In its own particular way, Silicon Valley is as anti-political a place as the Rhondda Valley – it's just that the beneficiaries of the Silicon Valley worldview have the means to act on it.
This gets to the heart of the divisions that this referendum has opened up. What is it that most fundamentally separates the Remainers from the Brexiteers? Class is one way to cash it out: the relatively affluent voted to remain, the relatively disadvantaged voted to leave. So is age: young people were for In, older voters went for Out. There is a metropolitan/traditionalist divide, and an urban/rural one. It's London versus the regions; Scotland versus England and Wales. The list goes on. (However, strikingly and unusually, there was no gender divide at all: both men and women were 52:48 for leave.) Nonetheless, my sense is that underlying all of this is the basic gap that now exists between people who can imagine a viable future for themselves in a networked world, and those who cannot.
Cambridge is a networked town par excellence: socially, digitally, economically. University towns voted overwhelmingly to remain, often as outliers in regions that wanted to leave: Newcastle in the North East, Warwick in the West Midlands, Exeter in the South West, Norwich in East Anglia. By contrast, many parts of the UK appear to feel that the vital connections that drive the flow of money and power in the 21st century are increasingly passing them by. The EU is symptomatic of this sense of exclusion, but it is not the cause. Education plays a big part: those with the fewest qualifications were by far the likeliest to vote Leave; those still in higher education were by far the likeliest to vote to Remain.
But education too is symptomatic of what's truly at stake. The digital revolution has opened up the prospect of a future in which knowledge is the primary currency, connectivity the primary asset, and physical geography is at best a secondary concern. People who are rooted in particular places, who work in industries that produce physical goods, and whose essential social interactions do not happen online are the ones who wanted Out. They have glimpsed a future in which people like them are increasingly at the mercy of forces beyond their power to control. And they are right.
This includes the elderly. Some younger voters have complained that the older generation, who are going to be dead soon, shouldn't be allowed to set the terms for a world they won't inhabit. This is grotesque and unfair. Older people care about the future, including for their children and grandchildren, just as much (perhaps even more) than the younger generations do. It's simply that they don't like what they see.
The Financial Times, in a report the day after the referendum vote, quoted a Brexit voter in Wales saying: 'There's a proper people and a proper economy going on in this country that David Cameron doesn't know about.' For anyone in this position, the referendum appeared to offer the last line of defence, as a way of resurrecting the primacy of national politics and communal identity. But it looks like a losing battle. The problem is that virtual people and a virtual economy, built around network effects and tradable knowledge, can escape the bounds that national politics tries to set for them. Many on the losing side in this referendum possess the resources for navigating a networked world that those on the winning side tend to lack. And that's how the Remainers can, and will, bypass the result.
Before that happens, there will no doubt be attempts to overturn it. Too much is at stake for the losers in the short term for them not to try. I have no idea if these efforts will succeed, although I find it quite hard to stomach the spectacle of perennial winners struggling to endure their first proper taste of defeat. This referendum did show that real people – by which I don't mean 'ordinary' people, I mean actual flesh-and-blood human beings – still have the power to surprise faceless networks. The large sums lost in the financial markets by traders who thought their systems knew best is evidence of that. But this is unlikely to be the start of a sustained fightback by the people against the machines. Automation and digitisation are putting inexorable pressure on job creation, and at the same time enhancing the advantages enjoyed by educated elites. If people whose working lives are increasingly precarious and unrewarding attempt to use democratic politics to reassert their desire for something different, educated elites will seek to enhance the distance between their networks and democratic politics. The technology of the 21st century makes this possible. It also makes it likely.
That's the tragedy of this result. It represents a rejection of the power of technocratic elites, yet it has undermined one of the few institutions that operates on a scale that might regulate and limit the power of those elites. After all, who is standing up against Google apart from the EU? Democratic politics finds itself in a bind. No one has found a way to channel popular resentment against the privileges of the digital economy winners in a way that doesn't end up enhancing those privileges by widening the gap between technology and politics. Cambridge is suffering today because the EU referendum result will have a short-term negative impact on its material interests. But in the long run, Cambridge will be fine, because the interests that Cambridge now represents are not confined by physical space or local identity. It's Peterborough that will suffer.
David Runciman is professor of politics and a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
This article appears in edition 23.1 of Juncture, IPPR's quarterly journal of politics and ideas, published by Wiley.
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Trader Joe's lawsuit over Canadian store Pirate Joe's can proceed
Aug. 27, 2016 11:20 AM PT
A U.S. court has the authority to hear a trademark lawsuit by grocery chain Trader Joe's against a man who bought the company's products and resold them in Canada at Pirate Joe's, a store designed to mimic Trader Joe's, a federal appeals court said Friday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district court's decision to dismiss California-based Trader Joe's federal trademark claims.
The district court in Washington state had said it lacked authority to hear those claims because the defendant's reported trademark violations occurred in Canada and Trader Joe's had failed to clearly explain how they affected U.S. commerce.
The 9th Circuit said defendant Michael Hallatt's conduct could harm Trader Joe's reputation, decreasing the value of its American-held trademarks.
Circuit Judge Morgan Christen also pointed out that Hallatt bought the Trader Joe's goods he resold in Washington state.
Hallatt's attorney, Nathan Alexander, said in an email that he and Hallatt disagree with the ruling and are evaluating their options.
Hallatt disputed that his store looks like a Trader Joe's and said he has no intention of backing down.
"We're here to see it through, and that means doing this for the people who want this stuff," he said.
Trader Joe's does not have stores in Canada. The company sued Hallatt in 2013, alleging that he drove across the border to a Trader Joe's store in Washington state, bought the company's products and resold them at higher prices at his Vancouver store.
A Trader Joe's store refused to sell to Hallatt, but he put on disguises to avoid detection, shopped at other stores as far away as California and hired others to shop for him, the company said in its lawsuit. It estimated Hallatt had spent more than $350,000 on its products.
In court documents responding to the lawsuit, Hallatt said that his business was lawful and that he provided a service to Canadians who wanted Trader Joe's products but didn't want to go through the trouble of traveling to the U.S. to get them. Hallatt also said he never represented himself as an authorized reseller of Trader Joe's products or as an affiliate of Trader Joe's.
The 9th Circuit sent the case back to the district court for further proceedings.
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