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Cherie Priest's Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Cherie Priest is a first time novelist. However, she writes with ease and a deceptive power, like the flow of the Tennessee River through her home city of Chattanooga. Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a Southern Gothic with a hint of hard boiled mystery: there's grit in the magnolia honey and in the heroine as well.
Southern Gothic at its best — and this book is right up there — is not just horror stories. It is a reflection of oral history and family legends, the kind of story a child learns while playing around the feet of aunties and grannies at the stove: sometimes warmly familiar, but sometimes dark and full of dubious spirits. Though I'm a native Californian, I heard stories like this from my own mother, on rainy afternoons in a kitchen redolent of fresh bread and the starch-water she sprinkled on the ironing. . . . These tales are largely women's stories. They are universal, but in Southern Gothic they find an irresistible modern voice. It's the choral voice of all the ladies who ever wrapped the family history in myth and innuendo, and spoon-fed it to their daughters.
Priest is a new voice in this chorus and she sings a remarkable debut solo in Four and Twenty Blackbirds. This is a splendidly entertaining, idiosyncratic book.
The story is set in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where its heroine, Eden Moore, grows up seeing ghosts. This doesn't strike either Eden or her family as especially odd — lots of ghosts to see in the South, and lots of wondering kids' eyes to see them — but in the genteel neighborhood where Eden lives, it's not something mentioned in public. That doesn't bother Eden, either; little girls catch on fast to the things that shouldn't be discussed outside the home. Her wry child's voice describing the balancing act required to hide her visions from school and summer camp is hilarious, though.
Eden grows up as the adopted daughter of her mother's elder sister. There's no secret there: Eden's mother died in childbirth, and so her Aunt Lulu took her in. No one has ever tried to hide this from Eden. What they have hidden is an entire reef of family secrets and insanities that mature with Eden, and finally threaten to tear her life to bits in her twenties. And that is the meat of the story, as Eden tries to deal with the mysteries that have permeated her family's activities for 165 years. If she fails, both her own life and her beloved Aunt Lulu's will be forfeit.
The Moore family (mostly white, but technically black) has evolved in tandem with the Dufresne family (mostly and technically white), in the kind of bi-racial symbiosis only found in the South. Eden's introduction to the other branch of her family comes when she is eleven, and her religious maniac cousin and/or brother Malachi tries to murder her. Malachi believes Eden is the reincarnation of their mutual ancestor Avery, who was a DuFresne slave and a necromancer. He may also have been their great-great grandfather and/or uncle. The confusion over the exact family relationships is of a piece with their entire history, as Eden eventually discovers — fathers married entire sets of sisters, or fathered children in both lines of the entwined family. And hardly anyone has had the good grace to actually die . . . until Eden's generation, where the daughters of Avery are suddenly dropping like ripe fruit into a swamp.
Eden's desperate quest to find out why, and prevent it, leads her through a haunted sanitarium (where she turns out to have been born); the ancient mansion and graveyard of her Defresne relations; and a myriad coffee houses, modest motels and cheap restaurants (Eden never met an IHOP she didn't like). It reaches its climax, though, in the crowded, haunted environs of St. Augustine, Florida. That city has housed the oldest settlements of both Europeans and Africans in the New World; and in Eden's South, they live disturbingly on.
This really is a grand little ghost story, and rises above the morass of the genre by virtue of Priest's beautiful prose and dialogue. Eden is a sharp-tongued, thoroughly modern young lady. Her ruminations on the practical problems of seeing ghosts, hiding boot knives or choosing bustiers all have a marvelous dry humor. The atmosphere is appropriately dark and steamy, but it is free of the enervating languor sometimes found in Southern Gothic; Eden is a lively protagonist, and the real life of the countryside is lovingly invoked. For the reader, as for Eden in her desperate family research, the past is dreadfully alive.
The weight of women's stories, through the aunts and sad sister ghosts, falls very gently over the reader at first. As the book progresses, it weighs more and more heavily, like an antique shawl freighted with stones. For all its Gothic trappings, I didn't find the story to be frightening — except in that very special way that all families are frightening: and in that area, it is terrifying indeed.
(Tor, 2005)
About Kathleen Bartholomew
Born in the middle of the last century, Kathleen Bartholomew has no clear idea of how she got into the current one, except that she has apparently failed to die.
She is an over-educated product of 12 years of Catholic school, and still pursues the researches in history, herbology, archeology and palaentology that began under the aegis of the nuns during a recent interregnum in religious glaciation. An obsessive reader from the age of 9, she joined Green Man Review to meet the free books.
For the last 30 years, Kathleen has also hosted alternated personalities Kate Bombey (Elizabethan) and Ariadne Bombay (Victorian). Mother Bombey runs the Green Man Inn at the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire at various locations in California; Mrs. Bombay presides over the Green Man Public House at the Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco. This has enabled Kathleen to mix 300 years' worth of diverse cocktails and given her permanent temporal dislocation syndrome.
She lives in genteel poverty in Pismo Beach, California, with thousands of books,and Harry, a parrot who thinks he's a space pirate.


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Kim Kardashian Robbed at Gunpoint
Nora Cooper, Writer
On October third, in Paris, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint by two masked men dressed as police officers. She was staying at a luxury private mansion that can be rented out when the robbery occurred.
The French Interior Ministry reported on how five men were able gain access to Kardashian West's room. They threatened the concierge at the mansion with a weapon, handcuffed him and forces him to open the apartment. There were no bodyguards at the mansion at the time of the robbery. They were with Kim's sisters, Kourtney and Kendall at a nightclub.
Two of the men managed to enter the room, and a gun was held to her head. She was tied up and forced into a bathtub as they stole two cell phones and millions of dollars in jewelry.
Her husband, rapper Kanye West, abruptly left his set early at the Meadows Festival in New York Sunday night after telling the audience there had been a "family emergency."
Luckily, no one was hurt during the incident and no weapons were fired. Kardashian West's children, North and Saint West were in New York at the time.
Kim K

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COVID-19 will force a major rethink of tax systems
As debt levels rise, governments should take a long-term view on how to balance sustainability, equity and certainty.
By Dr. Jonathan Gillham, Chief Economist, Director, PwC UK, and Carol Stubbings, Global Tax and Legal Services Leader, Partner, PwC UK
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, many economies were in a difficult situation. Labour markets across much of the developed world still had not fully recovered from the financial crisis of 2008–09, after which real-terms wage growth remained weak and millions were obliged to take low-paid, low-skill service-sector jobs to support household incomes. Many of these same people were working in the sectors worst affected by the pandemic: retail, hospitality, travel, leisure and the office supply chain—cleaners, security guards and takeaway food.
The reduced levels of business activity and low wages had already eroded the tax base. Cue COVID-19. The crisis has only exacerbated the problems in many countries' tax systems. Governments in the developed world have been forced to provide huge ad hoc support for their economies, including funding highly disruptive lockdowns. Budget deficits have ballooned, and millions of jobs are being shed, leading to a much less sustainable fiscal position.
This is both a developed- and developing- world problem, but in many respects the developing world has been hit harder. More households lack the financial cushion to weather the COVID-19 storm, and few developing-world governments have the resources to subsidise household incomes and corporate payrolls to the extent that has happened in the wealthier nations. There is a risk in the future that the tax base in developing countries could be significantly eroded if large numbers of workers migrate into the already considerable informal economy in search of income. The outlook over the next six to 12 months is therefore worrying, despite the encouraging news of vaccines.
Governments will face stark choices in the future about how to pay back the rising debts forced on them by COVID-19. Deciding how to balance incentivising growth with raising revenues could reshape national and international tax systems and force a rethink of a model that has barely changed for decades. The Total Tax and Contribution Rate, the total taxes borne by a company as a percentage of its commercial profit, as measured by the World Bank and PwC's Paying Taxes study, has stayed between 41% and 45% for nearly a decade. During that time, labour taxes have consistently accounted for around 40% of the Total Tax and Contribution Rate.
Plan for the future
As countries have focused on the immediate challenges of responding to COVID-19, longer-term economic planning has largely ceased. Even the value of medium-term forecasting is in question. This is understandable, given the unprecedented situation facing finance ministries around the world, but it has important knock-on effects. Suspension of economic planning effectively stalls many potential fiscal reforms that could improve longer-term sustainability and therefore prevents much of the investment in technology and people that is needed to achieve those reforms.
The pressures on governments to protect their revenue base may force them to delay tough choices over tax reforms that, although desirable in the longer term, could reduce revenues in the shorter term. Eventually, however, they will need to find a balance between the sustainability, equity and certainty of their tax systems. Though many of the issues can be tackled at a national level, some, such as the taxation of digital activity, have an international component, and as we've argued before, resolving these will require a degree of compromise and collaboration.
Building back better
Mass job loss and shifting demographics affect the sustainability of the system, while the gap between the wealthy and the low-paid fuels calls for greater equity. Postwar prosperity and the rise of globalisation in the 1990s saw more people lifted out of poverty than ever before. COVID-19, however, has stalled that progress, with projections that 150m people will fall back into poverty in 2021. But even before the pandemic, we saw the decoupling of economic progress with the gap between rich and poor rising exponentially. Ensuring an 'inclusive recovery' is widely considered vital to addressing these inequalities that have, for example, seen low-income families face increased hardship while better-off households used the opportunity of lockdowns to cut back their consumption and reduce debt.
Part of the solution to this wealth gap—credited by some with fuelling the rise of populist politicians around the world—could be incentives to train and reskill workers who have been forced out of badly affected sectors of the economy. Initiatives of this sort might be complemented with measures to make up for lost domestic spending - for example, by office workers on transport, food and leisure. There have even been suggestions of a tax surcharge on people working from home to replace spending of these sorts. Equally, taxes on digital services or on online retail are being introduced and considered in order to capture a proportion of rising online spending.
However, any changes designed to address issues of sustainability or equity, especially if rapid or radical, will undermine the certainty that individuals and companies require if they are to save and invest with confidence. Rather, the challenge for governments will be to reform their tax systems in ways that help to provide certainty during extremely uncertain times and encourage companies to commit capital to investment projects.
What to tax?
If unemployment rises and the income tax base shrinks, governments may well be tempted to shift the burden of taxation towards consumption and corporate profits. There are drawbacks to this strategy, however, since taxing corporate profits is less economically efficient and potentially more damaging than taxing incomes, because it acts as a disincentive to investment, which is in short supply. But if corporate tax increases are matched with increased incentives to invest in R&D and training, for instance, then they are less likely to have a negative impact on investment.
There are also issues to confront with consumption taxes. Unless these are carefully designed, they tend to be regressive. Poorer households spend a larger proportion of their income on consumption than well-off households and so are more heavily exposed to consumption taxes. To address this problem, governments will need to consider ways to target their measures carefully, increasing taxes on products and services that wealthier households are more likely to purchase.
Taxes on wealth and capital gains are another option that has been put forward to address issues of wealth inequality and the need to create greater equity in tax systems. Any increase in capital gains taxes will inevitably involve imposing a greater burden on the people putting capital at risk during an economic crisis. This may prove a difficult position for governments, which need to encourage entrepreneurs and people taking investment risks.
It is also important to recognise inherent difficulties in taxing certain sorts of wealth, especially where it is held in the form of equity stakes in successful companies. Using the tax system to interfere with the well-established models of corporate ownership and control could discourage entrepreneurialism and risk-taking in areas that can benefit the wider economy greatly.
Governments face extremely difficult choices in how to rebalance tax systems and put them on a more sustainable and equitable footing. Much of the work of addressing budget deficits following the financial crisis was accomplished through spending cuts. This time, the scope for cuts is more limited. Instead, tax reform must take centre stage.
An upskilled workforce will help build a stronger tax base
Investing in upskilling makes sense in a post-covid highly indebted world because the more qualified people there are filling the skills gap that exist in the...
Taxing times require a new era of compromise
Tax reform may well be top of government agendas to help cope with COVID-19 spending, but every move could require trade-offs.
Carol Stubbings
Global Tax and Legal Services Leader, Partner, PwC United Kingdom


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Q: Bitbucket-pipelines to circleCI translation How can I proceed to build different things depending on the branch on circleCI?
Could you help me to translate this bitbucket-pipelines.yml to circleCI.yml?
   image: atlassian/default-image:2

   pipelines:
      default:
        - step:
      script:
        - ant -buildfile build/build.xml banner
   branches:
      master:
       - step:
           script:
               - Deploy to PRO

      develop:
       - step:
           script:
              - echo "Deploy to sandbox"

A: This guide explains configuring branch based workflows in CircleCI.
Essentially you define branch filters for each job to determine whether they should run.
This can be combined with reusable jobs to avoid repetition for common sandbox/prod tasks.
version: 2.1

workflows:
  build-deploy:
    jobs:
      - say_hello:
          to_whom: sandbox
      - say_hello:
          to_whom: prod
          filters:
            branches:
              only: master

jobs:
  say_hello:
    parameters:
      to_whom:
        type: string
    docker:
      - image: circleci/node:10
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run: ant -buildfile build/build.xml banner
      - run: echo "hello <<parameters.to_whom>>"

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Justia Lawyer Directory Gov & Administrative Law California Berkeley Attorneys
Berkeley Government & Administrative Lawyers
Compare 294 top rated California attorneys serving Berkeley.
Administrative Law Election Law Government Contracts Government Finance Legislative & Government Affairs
Robert F. Hahn
Berkeley, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
(510) 665-1800 2550 Ninth Street
Daniel Rossi
(510) 238-6510 807 Shattuck Ave
University of California, Berkeley School of Law and University of California, Berkeley School of Law
S. Vollmer
Berkeley, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 6 years of experience
(415) 519-4976 1624 Capistrano Ave
Stephanie Chiyoka Lai
(510) 540-3884 700 Heinz Ave Ste 300
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Terry Lynn Pastika
(510) 847-4119 1563 Solano Ave # 402
Creighton University School of Law and Creighton Univ School of Law
George W. Wolff Esq.
San Francisco, CA Gov & Administrative Law Attorney with 50 years of experience
(415) 788-1881 50 California St
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfAdministrative, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Construction
University of California Hastings College of the Law and Northwestern University School of Law
At the Wolf Law Office, we offer over 25 years of experience handling a wide range of construction contracts and claims for clients throughout the Bay Area and Northern California.
Our principal attorney, George W. Wolff, worked in the construction industry before attending law school, acted as an arbitrator, advocate, and trial attorney on private and public construction jobs and brings a comprehensive understanding of the practical and legal issues related to construction contracts and disputes to our clients, helping you avoid or resolve disputes as quickly and efficiently as possible.
In our years of experience, we have built a comprehensive network...
Lucy Stearns McAllister
San Francisco, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 35 years of experience
(877) 280-9944 201 Spear Street, Suite 1100
Administrative, Criminal, DUI and Domestic Violence
The Law Offices of Lucy S. McAllister is a California-based administrative law, licensing law and criminal law practice providing legal services for clients in California. Attorney McAllister has successfully won over 250 Superior Court trials as a Defense Attorney.With 30+ years experience as a civil and criminal attorney.
She specializes in the following areas of law:
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Kerry Shapiro
(415) 984-9612 2 Embarcadero Center
Administrative, Business, Energy and Environmental
I am an accomplished California attorney, representing clients with Government, Environmental, Natural Resources and Land Use matters. I have over 30 years of experience with a broad array of federal, state and local issues. I bring knowledgeable and skilled advocacy to effectively and efficiently meet your legal needs. A recipient of CalCIMA's Spirit of the Industry Award, I am also listed among The Best Lawyers in America and Northern California Super Lawyers.
Adam Glen Slote
(415) 393-8001 1 Embarcadero Center, Suite 400
ADAM G. SLOTE practices in the areas of administrative law (professional licensing), litigation and business law. He has been in practice since 1988. Adam opened his own practice in 1992 with the goal of utilizing technology to provide high-quality legal services efficiently and cost-effectively. LICENSE LAW (ADMINISTRATIVE LAW) - Adam has defended professionals and businesses in administrative law/licensing law cases since 1991. His licensing practice is state wide. He has extensive experience in hearings before the California Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) as well as experience filing Appeals/Writs of Administrative Mandamus (Mandate) to the Superior Court of California and to...
Kathleen Lois Morgan
(415) 994-1342 100 Pine Street, Ste. 1250
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfAdministrative, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
UC Hastings COL
Michael Geller
Lafayette, CA Gov & Administrative Law Attorney with 2 years of experience
(415) 840-0570 3515 Mt Diablo Blvd, Suite 4
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfAdministrative, DUI, Domestic Violence and Personal Injury
Santa Clara University School of Law and University of Southern California
Michael Geller grew up in San Francisco, CA. He attended the University of Southern California for his undergraduate studies, the City University of New York for his medical training, and Santa Clara University School of Law for his legal education. Michael started his legal career as an intern at the Solano County District Attorney's Office. He was later trained by a nationally renowned Personal Injury attorney and mentored by a Certified Family Law Specialist. He then opened The Geller Firm to help with Criminal Defense, Personal Injury, and Family Law. He concentrates his work on car accidents, DUI defense, and domestic...
John Unruh
(415) 335-6417 100 Pine Street, Suite 1250
Administrative and Insurance Claims
Daniel Bakondi
(415) 450-0424 870 Market Street, Suite 1157
Free ConsultationAdministrative, Business, Energy and Stockbroker Fraud
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
Securities fraud attorney, finra arbitration services, investment fraud, stock broker fraud, and other securities attorney services. Contact me to discuss your case.
Laura Nicolle Cowger
Oakland, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 17 years of experience
(415) 314-0330 1980 Mountain Blvd
Administrative, Business and IP
UCLA School of Law
Deborah Carol England
(415) 434-8666 3 Embarcadero Ctr.
Administrative, Appeals, Civil Rights and Consumer
Seattle University School of Law and Seattle University School of Law
Jennille A. Smith
Oakland, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer
(800) 306-6761 1300 Clay St., Ste. 600
Bonnie Chen
(510) 622-2100 1515 Clay St
Administrative, Business and Employment
Heidi Machen
(415) 626-1140 345 Franklin Street, Ste. 204
Free ConsultationAdministrative and Employment
Heidi Machen has been an attorney since 1996 when she graduated from University of California Hastings College of the Law and passed the California Bar Exam. Prior to hanging her shingle as a sole practitioner in 2008, representing clients in matters of employment and regulatory law, Ms. Machen served in various policy and executive positions in local and Bay Area government.
Among her extracurricular activities, she is an avid cyclist, a Vegan cook, an amateur oil painter, has been known to contribute to theatrical productions on or off stage, and to participate in Democratic party doings. She...
Jeffrey Scott Hall
Pleasant Hill, CA Gov & Administrative Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
(925) 230-9002 3478 Buskirk Avenue, Suite 1000
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfAdministrative, Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
John F Kennedy Univ School of Law
Local Estate Elder Law Planning Attorney
Long term Pleasant Hill resident, Jeffrey Hall, didn't follow the traditional path to the practice of law. Indeed, attorney Hall grew up in central Los Angeles, and in a time when there was no expectation that he would attend college; and law school was simply not an option. However, after completing his bachelor's degree in Economics from Saint Mary's College, he volunteered with the Air Force in 1981 and served for 9 years, both reserve and active. Upon returning to California, he and his wife made Pleasant Hill their home and have...
Mr Anthony Lowenstein
San Rafael, CA Gov & Administrative Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
(415) 272-1292 4040 Civic Center Dr.
Free ConsultationAdministrative, Criminal, DUI and Domestic Violence
Stanford University and Osgoode Hall Law School
Criminal Defense Attorney - Law Offices of ANTHONY LOWENSTEIN, Esq., a criminal defense lawyer serving the Bay Area in Marin, San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Solano, Sonoma, Napa & Contra Costa counties. AFFORDABLE, EXCELLENT LEGAL DEFENSE CALL: 415-272-1292 -or- E-mail: Anthony@LowensteinLaw.com - Criminal Cases, including: DUI / DWI & Traffic, Drugs, Firearms, Domestic violence, & Sex offenses. - White Collar crimes - Fraud, Embezzlement, Credit Card & Identity Theft charges - Business Contracts: Financial Transactions and...
Stephanie Leanne Wargo
(415) 241-7711 25 Van Ness Ave., Suite 700
I bring 18 years of litigation experience to the Department of Police Accountability. For the last four years, I have practiced plaintiff's personal injury law and criminal defense in private practice. I served as a deputy public defender in the San Francisco Public Defender's Office from 2002 until 2014. As a deputy public defender, I helped to defend thousands of people who could not otherwise afford an attorney, and was trained to lofty standards of excellence in criminal defense.
I am a proud graduate of the University of California Los Angeles School of Law in 2001, with the distinction of...
E. Michael Linscheid
(415) 782-6002 345 Franklin St
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfSan Francisco, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Administrative, Appeals, Criminal and Domestic Violence
University of San Francisco, School of Law
Anna-Marie Booth Esq.
(415) 346-7810 P.O. BOX 475455
Emory University School of Law
Kristin Kathleen Kerr
455 Golden Gate Ave
Administrative, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Construction
David Michael Fried
Tiburon, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 34 years of experience
(415) 370-0929 6 Beach Rd., #1115
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
Angela Maria Belgrove
(415) 437-8156 90 7th St
New York Univ School of Law
Kirk Lee Dobbins
(510) 271-6425 1 Kaiser Plaza
FL 19-L
Administrative, Business, Communications and Health Care
University of Houston Law Center and University of Houston Law Center
Jill Ellen Habig
Piedmont, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 13 years of experience
(510) 289-7824 4096 Piedmont Ave
Piedmont, CA 94611
Yale Law School
James W. Govert
Piedmont, CA Gov & Administrative Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
(510) 350-7538 425 Scenic Ave
Administrative, Energy and Real Estate
University of California at Berkeley Law School
Bonnie Clare Maly
(510) 302-0713 2100 Franklin St
Rhys Cameron Boyd-Farrell
Oakland, CA Gov & Administrative Law Attorney with 15 years of experience
(510) 433-9100 111 Grand Ave
STE 11-100
University of San Francisco School of Law
Debra Sue Margolis
Orinda, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 39 years of experience
(925) 997-9149 21c Orinda Way
Administrative, Municipal and Real Estate
University of California, Davis, School of Law and UC Davis School of Law King Hall
Michael Anthony Guina
Emeryville, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
(510) 596-4380 1333 Park Ave
Andrea Shirani Visveshwara
Will Thomas DeVries
SF, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
(202) 663-6676 345 Spear St
Administrative and Communications
Clothilde Hewlett
San Francisco, CA Gov & Administrative Law Lawyer
(415) 882-8026 55 2nd Street
Administrative and International
Berkeley School of Law
Lenard Garson Weiss
Administrative, Antitrust, Appeals and Health Care
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
David Jay Brezner
(415) 442-1174 Market Street
Alvin T Levitt
SF, CA Gov & Administrative Law Attorney with 62 years of experience
30FL
Christy Vanessa La Pierre
(415) 882-8001 55 2nd St
Administrative, Appeals, Business and IP
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package com.wingjay.jayandroid.autolifecycle;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import com.wingjay.jayandroid.BaseActivity;
import com.wingjay.jayandroid.BaseFragment;
import rx.Observable;
import rx.Observable.OnSubscribe;
import rx.Subscriber;
import rx.functions.Func0;

/**
 * AutoLifecycle
 *
 * @author wingjay
 * @date 2017/10/22
 */
public class AutoLifecycle {

    private static AutoLifecycle instance;
    private AutoLifecycle() {}
    public synchronized static AutoLifecycle getInstance() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new AutoLifecycle();
        }

        return instance;
    }

    public void init(@NonNull final Object object, @NonNull ILifecycleProvider lifecycleProvider) {
        Class clazz = object.getClass();
        Method[] methods = clazz.getDeclaredMethods();
        for (final Method m : methods) {
            AutoLifecycleEvent event = m.getAnnotation(AutoLifecycleEvent.class);
            if (event == null) {
                continue;
            }
            m.setAccessible(true);
            OnSubscribe<Object> executable = new OnSubscribe<Object>() {
                @Override
                public void call(Subscriber<? super Object> subscriber) {
                    try {
                        m.invoke(object);
                    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            };

            if (event.common() != CommonLifecycle.NULL) {
                registerCommonLifecycle(lifecycleProvider, executable, event.common());
            } else {
                registerFunctionOnLifecycle(lifecycleProvider,
                    executable,
                    event.activity(),
                    event.fragment(),
                    event.dialog());
            }
        }
    }

    private void registerCommonLifecycle(@NonNull ILifecycleProvider lifecycleProvider,
                                         @NonNull final OnSubscribe<Object> executable,
                                         @NonNull CommonLifecycle commonLifecycle) {
        switch (commonLifecycle) {
            case CREATE: {
                registerFunctionOnLifecycle(lifecycleProvider, executable,
                    ActivityLifecycle.CREATE, FragmentLifecycle.CREATE, DialogFragmentLifecycle.CREATE);
                break;
            }
            case START: {
                registerFunctionOnLifecycle(lifecycleProvider, executable,
                    ActivityLifecycle.START, FragmentLifecycle.START, DialogFragmentLifecycle.START);
                break;
            }
            case RESUME: {
                registerFunctionOnLifecycle(lifecycleProvider, executable,
                    ActivityLifecycle.RESUME, FragmentLifecycle.RESUME, DialogFragmentLifecycle.RESUME);
                break;
            }
            case PAUSE: {
                registerFunctionOnLifecycle(lifecycleProvider, executable,
                    ActivityLifecycle.PAUSE, FragmentLifecycle.PAUSE, DialogFragmentLifecycle.PAUSE);
                break;
            }
            case STOP: {
                registerFunctionOnLifecycle(lifecycleProvider, executable,
                    ActivityLifecycle.STOP, FragmentLifecycle.STOP, DialogFragmentLifecycle.STOP);
                break;
            }
            case DESTROY: {
                registerFunctionOnLifecycle(lifecycleProvider, executable,
                    ActivityLifecycle.DESTROY, FragmentLifecycle.DESTROY, DialogFragmentLifecycle.DESTROY);
                break;
            }
            default: break;
        }
    }

    private void registerFunctionOnLifecycle(@NonNull ILifecycleProvider lifecycleProvider,
                                             @NonNull final OnSubscribe<Object> executable,
                                             ActivityLifecycle activityLifecycle,
                                             FragmentLifecycle fragmentLifecycle,
                                             DialogFragmentLifecycle dialogFragmentLifecycle) {
        Observable wrapper = Observable.defer(new Func0<Observable<Object>>() {
            @Override
            public Observable<Object> call() {
                return Observable.create(executable);
            }
        });

        if (lifecycleProvider instanceof BaseActivity
            && activityLifecycle != ActivityLifecycle.NULL) {
            lifecycleProvider.executeWhen(wrapper, activityLifecycle);
        } else if (lifecycleProvider instanceof BaseFragment
            && fragmentLifecycle != FragmentLifecycle.NULL) {
            lifecycleProvider.executeWhen(wrapper, fragmentLifecycle);
        }
        //else if (lifecycleProvider instanceof UIDialogFragmentSystem
        //    && dialogFragmentLifecycle != DialogFragmentLifecycle.NULL) {
        //    lifecycleProvider.executeWhen(wrapper, dialogFragmentLifecycle);
        //}
    }
}

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Q: Add sound effects to audio and save it in Android I am using the ringdroid library to make a simple app that creates ringtones. I would like to add some functions: add fade in/out effects to current audio, and save it with new effects.
I have no idea how to do it, could you please help me?


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Ticket Table Pricing
History-Awards
Scholar-Athlete Awards
The Touchdown Club is the Houston chapter of the NFF. Founded in 1947 with leadership from General Douglas MacArthur, legendary Army coach Earl "Red" Blaik and immortal journalist Grantland Rice, the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame -- a non-profit educational organization -- runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people.
For more information, please visit www.footballfoundation.org.
What is the TD Club?
Bum Phillips Tribute
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Sikorsky Aircraft announced Friday that it has delivered six CH-148 Cyclone helicopters to the Canadian government during an acceptance celebration.
The six helicopters represent the first of 28 Cyclone aircraft that Sikorsky will deliver to the Canadian Armed Forces to perform a full range of anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, search and rescue, and utility missions in various environments.
Sikorsky will introduce increased capabilities that will be phased in while the Royal Canadian Air Force determines operational strategy and more personnel are trained to fly and maintain the aircraft.
More than 40 military personnel have completed initial training already. Completion of all deliveries and capability upgrades will enable replacement of the venerable Sea King fleet, also provided by Sikorsky, beginning in 2018.
William Gostic, Vice President of the CH-148 Maritime Helicopter Program (MHP) said the event is "a major milestone for the Canadian Armed Forces, our industry partners, Sikorsky and all of our employees committed to this unique and highly sophisticated aircraft."
The acceptance celebration was joined by Canada's Defense Minister Jason Kenney, Public Works and Government Services Minister Diane Finley, Justice Minister Peter MacKay and Regional Ministers.
Peter MacKay, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada said, "this government is once again showing its support for our forces by providing them with the lifesaving equipment they need to do their challenging job protecting Canadians."
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Anderson Alves da Silva
Brazilian footballer
(1983-01-10) 10 January 1983 (age 37)
Flamengo 6 (0)
→ Caxias (loan) 34 (2)
→ União de Leiria (loan) 2 (0)
→ CD Fátima (loan) 27 (2)
Adap Galo 10 (0)
Rio Branco 12 (1)
Criciuma 45 (5)
→ Gold Coast United (loan) 27 (0)
Gold Coast United 22 (0)
Enosis Neon Paralimni 18 (1)
Brazil U-17 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:47, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:30, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Anderson Alves da Silva or simply Anderson (born 10 January 1983) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Enosis Neon Paralimni in the Cypriot First Division.
Club career[edit]
On 22 June 2009 it was announced that he would be signed by Gold Coast United as a short-term injury replacement for fellow Brazilian Jefferson.[1] At the conclusion of the 2009–10 season Miron Bleiberg offered him a 1-year contract which he accepted.[2] He was released by the club at the end of the 2010-11 A-League season.[3]
He is the older brother of Robson who also plays for Cypriot club Ayia Napa.[4]
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^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 February 2011. Retrieved 2009-09-20. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "GCU's No Confidence In A-League". Australian FourFourTwo. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
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The Infallibility of the Papal Magisterium as Presented in the Pastoral Letters of the Bishops of the United States after Vatican I
Paul K. Hennessy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2014, pp. 7-28
Much of the confusion about the proper interpretation of the carefully formulated definition of Pastor Aeternus on the infallibility of the papal magisterium stems from improper presentations, even immediately after the Council. Only Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore took the time to nuance his presentation. The sympathy evoked worldwide among Catholics for the loss of the Papal States and the freedom of the Roman Pontiff also added to the confusion. The texts of the letters and statements of the bishops are important objects of study for anyone wishing to trace the course of "papal infallibility."
Lion as Slain Lamb: On Reading Revelation Recursively
Patricia M. McDonald
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2014, pp. 29-47
Because of their communities' experiences and tendencies, New Testament writers such as Paul and Mark stress the death and resurrection of Jesus as the source and model of the Christian life. In the Book of Revelation, John's version of this is that the lion of the tribe of Judah indeed "conquers" but does so as the Lamb who was slain; the Christian witnessing that leads to the victory of Christ's followers may also entail their death. Yet the seer associates the Lamb imagery with that of ancient near eastern and classical versions of the conquest myth. Does John risk subverting his own purposes? The paper examines his presentation of the Lamb and suggests that he does indeed run such a risk, at least for the inattentive reader, but this does not justify neglect of such a creative and imaginative soteriology in which evil is overcome by the word of God.
Can Character Ethics Have Moral Rules and Principles? Christian Doctrine and Comprehensive Moral Theory
David W. Haddorff
This paper investigates how character ethicists use rules and principles in their virtue-centered and narrative-dependent theories, and how such limited use fails to appreciate the performative content of Christian doctrine. If they are correct in insisting that Christian ethics begin with the practical import of theological convictions, then they not only limit the description of such beliefs but also the performance of such beliefs. A more "comprehensive ethic" that includes rules, principles, practices, and virtues, when one begins with the performance of doctrine not scriptural narratives. Such an argument unfolds through three states of the article: (a) it describes how character ethics uses rules, norms, and principles in its own moral theory; (b) it further evaluates this theory based on its own procedural starting point; and (3) it constructs how rules and principles can emerge from such a methodological starting point.
The Coherence of Catholic Social Thought: Toward a Theology of Involvement
Richard C. Bayer
Although recent attempts to state the coherence or integrating idea within Catholic Social Thought have contributed much to our understanding of the tradition, the attempts have been based on improper methodological presuppositions. For this reason the authors offering these theories have been unable to justify their selection and emphasis on certain documents; they have not fully considered the challenge to their theories by development in the integrating idea taken as most essential; and they have not been methodologically clear about the role which their own vision plays in the historical retrieval. Recognition of such problems in historical analysis, and the path toward dealing with them today in an historically conscious way, is found in the work of Ernst Troeltsch.
Historicism, Truth Claims, and the Teaching of Ethics
Terrence Reynolds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2014, pp. 86-102
This article analyzes the impact of postmodernism on the meaning, truth, and justification of claims in contemporary theology and ethics. It argues that historicist premises do not lead inexorably from a naïve objectivism in ethics to ethical relativism, as Sheila Greeve Davaney and Richard Rorty suggest. Instead, as the work of Carol Christ and Jeffrey Stout has argued, theologians and ethicists are justified in making indirect, web-of-belief related claims to ontological truth. Christ's theological realism and Stout's modest pragmatism both appear able to support meaningful discussions of truth, while avoiding the related dangers of relativism, skepticism, and nihilism. Paying careful attention to these methodological issues in a course on Religious Ethics and Moral Issues has proved very effective in overcoming student acquiescence to a relativist perspective, and in enabling them to propose and defend their own moral views with greater confidence.
Editorial Essays
A University that Evangelizes? Ex corde ecclesiae Six Years Afterwards
James L. Heft, Leo J. O'Donovan
After years of consultation, on August 15, 1990, Pope John Paul II published an Apostolic Constitution, Ex corde ecclesiae. Familiar as the document is to many readers, especially in Catholic higher education, in the sixth anniversary year of its appearance it continues to merit careful review. The document is divided into two parts, with the first section describing the identity and mission of a Catholic university and its mission of service while the second proposes seven General Norms for implementation. In early 1991, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops established a committee of seven bishops and eleven consultants, eight of whom were college or university presidents, to oversee the implementation of the Constitution. Later, in August 1994, a Project Director, the Reverend Terrence Toland, S.J., was appointed.
Some Reflections on C.T.S. Beginnings
Gerard S. Sloyan
The College Theology Society had a difficult period of gestation but its birth was relatively easy. A few reminiscences may be in order, even though nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Some current members of the Society were present at a twenty-fifth anniversary meeting at Trinity College, Washington, the site of the first meeting, where some of what follows came to light.
Found in God: In Memory of John Carmody
Leo J. O'Donovan
"Seeking God in all things," was one way Ignatius of Loyola described his pilgrim journey in this world—looking, longing, reaching always further for the "dearest freshness, deep down things" that he would call his Lord, his Majesty, his God. And for many years, even more insecure and inexperienced, in need of certitudes and formulas as I was, I heard the phrase, perhaps first in Hugo Rahner's luminous little book on The Spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola, as "finding God in all things."
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Christian Feminist Theology: A Constructive Interpretation. Author's Response
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Remarks on From the Heart of the American Church
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Spirituality in America: Selected Sources*
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Searching the Scriptures. Vol. 1: A Feminist Introduction. Edited by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. New York: Crossroad, 1993. xiii + 397 pages. $24.95.
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Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community. By Howard Clark Kee. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. vii + 280 pages. $32.50.
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Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads. By Gil Baillie. New York: Crossroad, 1995. xvii + 293 pages. $24.95.
Introduction to the History of Christianity. Edited by Tim Dowley. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995. 688 pages. $42.00.
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ONLINE CATALOGUE > RECENTLY PUBLISHED > CLASH
By Ellen Wilkinson
Clash is set against the backdrop of the 1926 general strike. It describes political and personal issues as Joan Craig, an activist in the trade union movement and Labour Party, lives through the excitement of mass protest and individual turmoil in her relations with two men friends. It draws on experience: the author toured the UK and spoke at a series of public meetings. Clash was first published in 1929.
"There are two distinct conflicts in this very clever and successful first novel. There is, to begin with, political warfare. Joan Craig, the attractive daughter of a Northern factory operative, becomes a Trade Union organizer, and Miss Wilkinson, in describing her heroine's experiences, takes us behind the scenes and shows us the General Strike of 1926 as she herself probably saw it. Then there is the rivalry between Joan's two suitors…"
About the author: Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947) was a key figure in the socialist and feminist movement. She was born in Manchester and became the first woman on the city council, she supported women's suffrage, became Labour MP for Jarrow and helped lead the Jarrow Crusade. She was the first female Minister of Education, in the 1945 government.
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From Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Literature Prize lecture in 1970:
The spirit of Munich has by no means retreated into the past; it was not merely a brief episode. I even venture to say that the spirit of Munich prevails in the 20th century. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles. The spirit of Munich is a sickness of the will of successful people, it is the daily condition of those who have given themselves up to the thirst after prosperity at any price, to material well-being as the chief goal of earthly existence. Such people -- and there are many in today's world -- elect passivity and retreat, just so as their accustomed life might drag on a bit longer, just so as not to step over the threshold of hardship today -- and tomorrow, you'll see, it will all be all right. (But it will never be all right! The price of cowardice will only be evil; we shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.)


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Community survivor Alison Brie says "Don't hold your breath" for a GLOW movie
William Hughes
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After having emerged, somehow largely unscathed, from the various bouts of "What the fuck is Yahoo! Screen?" madness that bedeviled Community across its six seasons (but no movie), Alison Brie now suddenly finds herself in a very similar situation with her Netflix dramedy GLOW. The wrestling series already had the rug pulled out from under it earlier this year, when the COVID-19 pandemic drove Netflix to do a takesie-backsies on what was supposed to be the show's fourth and final season, canceling its already-issued renewal order. Now Brie has to deal with well-meaning friends and co-workers like Marc Maron attempting to beat the drum for the fabled GLOW movie, and you can already tell how tired she is of this particular waiting game.
"What I'm saying," Brie elaborated in an upcoming interview with The Playlist's The Fourth Wall podcast, "Is don't hold your breath because if it does happen, it might take a minute." Brie went on to make it clear that she has total faith in series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch to bring the story of the Glorious Ladies home; it's more that she's just been on this particular GLOWdeo before, and knows how hard a movie like this can be to get off the ground. "I'm a little pessimistic about it actually happening just in light of everything that's gone on this year," Brie added, "And how difficult it is to get anything back into production with COVID. And I'm also part of the Community cast, who's been trying to get a movie going for six years."
Maron began floating the idea of a GLOW finale movie pretty much the second the show's un-renewal was announced. So far, there's been no official movement, either from Netflix, or Flahive and Mensch, toward actually bringing the idea to fruition. For Brie's part, she said she'd love to see it happen, but that, also, "We're lucky that we got to make three, to me, perfect seasons of a show. I love it so much and it will live on Netflix forever."


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The English word diploma can be divided in several ways: dip.lo.ma vs. di.plo.ma. However, the only division that is in conformity with the maximal onset principle is di.plo.ma.
Kahn, Daniel (1976) Syllable-based generalizations in English phonology. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.
Selkirk, E.O. 1981. English Compounding and the Theory of Word-structure, in: M. Moortgat, H. Van der Hulst & T. Hoestra (eds.) The Scope of Lexical Rules, Foris, Dordrecht.
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Half of transgender and non-binary people hide their identity at work in fear of discrimination – here's how you can help
Ilaria Boncori, University of Essex and Saoirse O'Shea, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Transgender and non-binary people are often pressured to hide their gender identity at work.
Graffiti commemorating Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco who was shot dead in an apparent assassination. Emanoelle Lima/photo by Catherine McNamara
How LGBTQ people are resisting Bolsonaro's Brazil through art
Catherine McNamara, University of Portsmouth
Violence against LGBTQ people in Brazil is at an all-time high, but artists refuse to be intimidated.
How have trans people who play sport reacted to the debate about trans athletes? llewellynchin/Shutterstock
Hostility to elite trans athletes is having a negative impact on participation in everyday sport
Abby Barras, University of Brighton
What experiences do trans people have of recreational sport?
A transgender pride flag at a protest against white supremacy and discrimination after the events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Michael Moloney/Shutterstock
Elite sport is becoming a platform to target the trans community
Ryan Storr, Western Sydney University
High-profile athletes have been speaking out against the eligibility of transgender women in elite female sporting competitions.
Just as gaining the right to vote did not end the women's rights movement, so, too, will marriage equality not end the LGBTI+ rights movement. George Groves/Midsumma
Marriage equality was momentous, but there is still much to do to progress LGBTI+ rights in Australia
Liam Elphick, University of Western Australia
Marriage equality was an important step for LGBTI+ rights in Australia, but there are many other areas in which LGBTI+ people in Australia still face discrimination.
There are many genes involved in shaping not just our biological sex, but also our gender identity. Limor Zellermayer/Unsplash
How genes and evolution shape gender – and transgender – identity
Jenny Graves, La Trobe University
It's not about trauma or how you were raised: evidence now points to a biological basis for transgender, and to the action of particular genes in that determination.
A demonstrator holds a sign against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance. AP Photo/Pat Sullivan
Denying transgender identity has serious impact on mental health
Bethany Grace Howe, University of Oregon
A survey done of transgender people right after they read a story on the government's move to deny transgender identity shows the emotional impact that denying that identity can have.
Tumblr's new rules will likely shut much of the LGBTQ youth activity. Here a chaptered LGBTQ youth themed comic on Tumblr. Akshay Varaham
Stefanie Duguay, Concordia University
LGBTQ youth use Tumblr more frequently than others. The platform has provided a safe space for youth to explore sexual identities and find crucial support. A new regulating policy may change all that.
Transgender employees still struggle in the workplace. Virginia Murray/flickr
Transgender Americans still face workplace discrimination despite some progress and support of companies like Apple
George B. Cunningham, Texas A&M University
While US companies have made significant strides in creating workplaces that are more inclusive of transexual individuals, discrimination and employment penalties remain.
Magnus Hirschfeld, on the right, sits with his partner, Tao Li, at the fourth conference of the World League for Sexual Reform in 1932. Wellcome Images
The early 20th-century German trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of his time
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa
Physician Magnus Hirschfeld advocated for those he called 'sexual intermediaries.' His activism began before World War I – and ended only when the Nazis came to power.
A sign denouncing transphobia is held up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court at a protest in June 2016. (Shutterstock)
Trump's efforts to redefine gender and sex
L.F. Carver, Queen's University, Ontario
Donald Trump is seeking to amend laws that prevent discrimination against Americans based on their sex. It's all just another attempt to fire up the Republican base for the mid-term elections.
Tasmania's lower house will consider a bill to remove sex from birth certificates, which would be a first for an Australian state or territory. Shutterstock
Explainer: why removing sex from birth certificates matters to gender diverse people
Fiona Kelly, La Trobe University and Hannah Robert, La Trobe University
Having a gender identity that does not match one's sex on a birth certificate can cause confusion and embarrassment and potentially lead to discrimination.
'No labels: Portrait of a Child' by Sharon McCutcheon. U.S. President Trump has considered launching an attack on transgender rights. We must fight against this discrimination but it is time to let go of the idea of a genderless world. Sharon McCutcheon / Unsplash
Fight for trans rights but let go of the 'no gender' utopia
Sky Gilbert, University of Guelph
Now that the U.S. government is threatening to define sex as either male or female, we need to fight more than ever for trans rights. But let's give up the utopian ideal of a label-free future.
A significant number of transgender and non-binary people report discrimination when seeking medical and social services. Elvira Koneva/shutterstock.com
Transgender and non-binary people face health care discrimination every day in the US
Shanna K. Kattari, University of Michigan
Outed. Denied care. Openly harassed. These are just a few of the experiences reported by American transgender and non-binary individuals when seeking medical care or social services.
A redress scheme for LGBT service members could be modelled after the process set up for those who had experienced abuse in the ADF. Shutterstock
Why a national apology and redress for discharged LGBT service members matters
Noah Riseman, Australian Catholic University
State governments have apologised for past laws discriminating against LGBT people. LGBT service members deserve the same from the ADF, as well as a path toward redress.
Why self-identification should not legally make you a woman
Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex
Women only spaces are legally allowed to exist for a reason.
Innovative queer pop-ups challenge arguments about the death and demise of queer spaces in the city. Here an image from 2069 Sci-fi Kiki Vogue Ball of the Future presented in collaboration with Ricecake, Vancouver. John Bello/Facebook
Queer pop-ups take us beyond the gaybourhood
Ryan Stillwagon, University of British Columbia; Adriana Brodyn, University of British Columbia; Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia, and D. Kyle Sutherland, University of British Columbia
Rapacious gentrification in Vancouver is part of the story and struggle for queer residents but queer pop-ups offer some respite.
The term 'cisgender' entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015. Shutterstock.com
Explainer: what does it mean to be 'cisgender'?
Joanna McIntyre, University of the Sunshine Coast
The prefix 'cis', meaning 'on this side of' is commonly used in chemistry and geography. More recently, it has become a way of referring to a person's gender identity.
A 'Please Have Photo ID Ready' sign displayed at an early-voting polling location. AP Photo/Danny Johnston
Barriers for transgender voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections
Timothy R. Bussey, Kenyon College
Transgender voting rights could be undermined in two broad ways during the 2018 midterm elections.
Wes Mountain/The Conversation
Gender diversity is more accepted in society, but using the pronoun 'they' still divides
Son Vivienne, RMIT University
Allowing for more gender options in the public sphere isn't political correctness gone awry. It's just a small shift in the evolution of how we understand, categorise and define gender.
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HomeGanduje Speaks on Fake Professorial Appointment, Demands Apology From American University
Ganduje Speaks on Fake Professorial Appointment, Demands Apology From American University
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State
The Kano State Government on Sunday demanded an unequivocal apology from the management of East Carolina University over a controversial appointment offered Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje into the position of Senior Mentoring Scholar and Visiting Full Professor of e-governance and International Affairs in the university on November 30, 2020.
A statement by the Secretary to the Kano State Government, SSG, Usman Alhaji also called for a disciplinary action against the faculty member who stirred up the controversy that embarrassed the governor.
Mr Alhaji said that while the governor or any of official of his government has no any reason to doubt the veracity of the letter sent by one of its faculty members, and allegedly communicated using the university's instrument of office, it equally did not at any time solicit for such appointment.
"We are deeply saddened by the uproar stirred up by this controversial appointment that attempted to embarrass the person of the governor and the good people of Kano state," the statement added.
Mr Alhaji pointed out that Mr Ganduje obtained a National Certificate in Education (NCE) 1972, a Bachelor's Degree in Science Education from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, 1975; two Master's Degrees in Applied Educational Psychology from Bayero University, Kano (BUK) 1979; and Public Administration also from ABU 1985, as well as a Ph.D. which he obtained nearly three decades ago from the University of Ibadan in South West Nigeria.
The SSG said given the foregoing background, the governor would be the last person on earth to have either solicit or accept fraudulent appointment into academic position in any university or institution of higher learning within and outside Nigeria.
While wishing the university the best of luck, the statement expressed deep shock over the content of the letter from the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University, admitting an error in conveying the message notifying the appointment.


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SAG Awards (TV) 2011: Complete List of Nominations
The 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be presented on Jan. 29, 2012 from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and air live on TBS and TNT. (See film nominees here)
BEST DRAMA ENSEMBLE
"Boardwalk Empire"
"Breaking Bad"
"Dexter"
"Game of Thrones"
BEST DRAMA ACTOR
Patrick J. Adams, "Suits"
Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
Kyle Chandler, "Friday Night Lights"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"
BEST DRAMA ACTRESS
Kathy Bates, "Harry's Law"
Glenn Close, "Damages"
Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story"
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"
BEST COMEDY ENSEMBLE
"30 Rock"
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Glee"
"Modern Family"
"The Office"
BEST COMEDY ACTOR
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"
Steve Carell, "The Office"
Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men"
Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"
BEST COMEDY ACTRESS
Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"
Betty White, "Hot in Cleveland"
BEST MOVIE/MINI ACTOR
Laurence Fishburne, "Thurgood"
Paul Giamatti, "Too Big to Fail"
Greg Kinnear, "The Kennedys"
Guy Pierce, "Mildred Pierce"
James Woods, "Too Big to Fail"
BEST MOVIE/MINI ACTRESS
Diane Lane, "Cinema Verite"
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"
Emily Watson, "Appropriate Adult"
Betty White, "The Lost Valentine"
Kate Winslet, "Mildred Pierce"


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2020: The Year that Wasn't
Election 2020: A New Legacy?
U.S. Election 2020 and the Orange Buffoon
Rest in Power and Light ….
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2020 – the year that wasn't
When the year began, I really felt like something was off. It didn't feel like the possibilities were there for the year I had envisioned. And then,
Kobi and Gigi and friends died. So many of us cried. I grew up watching you Mamba – you and Shaq and all that drama! Felt like I lost a friend. Again. The corona virus came calling, but China was stalling. The WHO announced early, but people hardly any paid attention. Australia was on fire. The country burned, people died, so did koalas. And that was only the beginning.
Megs and Harry left "the firm" for private life. The Brits skewered them and created strife. Now, they're in America, and can say what they like. They tried to impeach Trump but he was acquitted. (Sigh) But Parasite won the Oscars and ram-don took over social media. An asshole was convicted of rape and sexual assault – finally he was found at fault.
By spring, the virus grew and grew. The whole world stood still; Mother nature began to repair herself, because we let her be. The world was quiet; empty streets the hallmark of the weeks.
The economy tanked and wall street sank. This was an incredible time. Black Lives Matter Protests happened everywhere. I was in awe of how many people came out to march, peacefully, quietly, in strength and resolute determination of finding justice.
The Canada-US border was closed for the first time in eons. Trump declared an emergency (the only smart thing he's done) People were hoarding toilet paper, kitchen towels and yeast. The preppers were saying "See? We told you!"
Zoom took off. And crashed. And took off again and crashed again…laptops sold out and online learning became "a thing." Some Governments began spending, others were in Denial. Climate change is a hoax some said. So was the Wuhan virus. Wimbledon was cancelled, so were many sports. That left many of us feeling out of sorts. They cancelled the Olympics too. Alas, no world records and tricks.
Humanity witnessed the masses of seniors dying; yet the best of us stepped up at 7:00pm every night to cheer on and thank frontline and essential workers for their sacrifices.
Late spring saw cases of the Corona Virus rise, and we marched again and protested for Black Lives. Because they Matter. We asked for justice for George Floyd and Breona Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. We reminded people to "say their names." We're still waiting for Justice.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participated in a BLM protest in Ottawa and Joe Biden won the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States. The numbers of people suffering from Corona Virus seemed to drop, right before they began to skyrocket and pop. Except in New Zealand. Beijing was back in lock down and the numbers were crazy.
For Boko Haram, this was a banner year. How many times are they going to get away with stealing children and turning them into child brides or soldiers and calling themselves religious?! This is non-sensical.
China and India had a fight. Then China went and passed a stupid law. There is a flaw to certain reasoning friends. I don't believe in countries to whom all loyalty is owed only to the state.
Meanwhile, in Canada, certain residents are living under boiled water advisories. In 2020. In a developed country. Where 20% of all freshwater resources exist. Yet, these Neskatanga residents can't catch a break. Twenty-five years and they can't use their taps. I mean what the what??
We watched the NBA in the Bubble. In the isolated, separated bubble. Some sports were cancelled, others reinstated in bubbles. Concerts, galas and more were postponed till 2021 or 2022. More to see, more to do. Kind of makes me feel like 2022 is full of possibilities…. New realities….
We saw royalty abdicate in other parts of the world, and a massive explosion ruin what was left of Beirut. In India, things got tense. And in Japan, politics were changing. Rearranging.
The fall brought with it the death of a giant – RBG. Rest in peace superwoman! And no justice for another. Say her name. Say her name. Say her name. More people contracting and dying of corona virus, more covidiots ruling their roosts and making it harder for the rest of us to see our families.
You idiots who think wearing a mask is an infringement of your constitutional rights, crack a book!! It is not. It protects others from the asymptomatic spreaders amongst you. You don't get to decide for the rest of us whose lives are valuable and whose are not.
The late fall brought war to Armenia and Azerbaijan while Poland was protesting. Early November brought a change in the US Political system. Historic voter turnout and the number of votes cast, clearly outlined the deeply divided American public. Yet, they elected the first BIPOC female vice president! And, the first US President who was elected with more than 80 million votes. (Not to mention the oldest US President.) But at least he's one of the good guys!
Please America, never again, ever, elect a buffoon or former actor for your president. They really don't work out well.
We've seen strange weather events and said goodbye to so many people. If this Pandemic has taught us anything, it's that life is precious and fleeting and fragile. So it pays to go the extra mile and wear a damned mask! For many, this is an easy task. Yet, for some of you, it's still too much to do.
We saw the Raptors in the Bubble. They came, they saw but didn't conquer. (Next time baby!)
I am hopeful for the coming year because this time, it feels different; not just because the vaccines are rolling out. I'm hopeful that by the end of the year, we may be able to travel for the holidays again and see each other and hug each other and make human contact again.
And maybe even in 2022, we'll stand by each other again in a crowded stadium watching our favourite artist(s) or athletes put on a great show. But to get there, we need to get through here. And here requires a mask and sanitizer and hand washing.
On that note, Happy New Year to all of you. Stay safe and blessed. Take good care of each other.


Descendants of Kuru. Devāpi abdicates the throne: assumed by Śāntanu: he is confirmed by the Brahmans: Bhīṣma his son by Gangā: his other sons. Birth of Dhritarāṣṭra, Pāṇḍu, and Vidura. The hundred sons of Dhritarāṣṭra. The five sons of Pāṇḍu: married to Draupadī: their posterity. Parīkṣit, the grandson of Arjuna, the reigning king.
PARĪKṢIT, the son of Kuru, had four sons, Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhīmasena.
one of his sons was Devatithi, and another was called Rikṣa; his son was Dilīp; his son was Pratīpa, who had three sons, Devāpi, Śāntanu, and Bāhlīka.
"Śāntanu is his name, because if he lays his hands upon an old man, he restores him to youth, and by him men obtain tranquillity (śānti)."
In the kingdom over which Śāntanu ruled there was no rain for twelve years.
Apprehensive that the country would become a desert, the king assembled the Brahmans, and asked them why no rain fell, and what fault he had committed.
They told him that he was as it were a younger brother married before an elder, for he was in the enjoyment of the earth, which was the right of his elder brother Devāpi. "
to which they replied, "Until the gods shall be displeased with Devāpi, by his declining from the path of righteousness, the kingdom is his, and to him therefore you should resign it."
When the minister of the king, Asmarisārin, heard this, he collected a number of ascetics who taught doctrines opposed to those of the Vedas, and sent them into the forest; where meeting with Devāpi, they perverted the understanding of the simple-minded prince, and led him to adopt heretical notions.
In the meantime, Śāntanu being much distressed to think that he had been guilty of the offence intimated by the Brahmans, sent them before him into the woods, and then proceeded thither himself, to restore the kingdom to his elder brother.
but he entered into discussion with them, and in various ways advanced arguments which had the defect of being contrary to the precepts of the Vedas.
"Come hither, Rājā; you need to give yourself no further trouble in this matter; the dearth is at an end: this man is fallen from his state, for he has uttered words of disrespect to the authority of the eternal, untreated Veda; and when the elder brother is degraded, there is no sin in the prior espousals of his junior."
Śāntanu thereupon returned to his capital, and administered the government as before; and his elder brother Devāpi being degraded from his caste by repeating doctrines contrary to the Vedas, Indra poured down abundant rain, which was followed by plentiful harvests.
The son of Bāhlīka was Somadatta, who had three sons, Bhūri, Bhūriśravas, and Śala.
The son of Śāntanu was the illustrious and learned Bhīṣma, who was born to him by the holy river-goddess, Gangā; and he had by his wife Satyavatī two sons, Chitrāngada and Vichitravīrya.
Chitrāngada, whilst yet a youth, was killed in a conflict with a Gandharva, also called Chitrāngada. Vichitravīrya married Ambā and Ambālikā, the daughters of the king of Kāśī; and indulging too freely in connubial rites, fell into a consumption, of which he died.
By command of Satyavatī, my son Kṛṣṇa-Dvaipāyana, ever obedient to his mother's wishes, begot upon the widows of his brother the princes Dhritarāṣṭra and Pāṇḍu, and upon a female servant, Vidura.
Dhritarāṣṭra had Duryodhana, Duhśāsana, and other sons, a hundred altogether.
and his wife Mādri had two sons, Nakula and Sahadeva, by the celestial sons of Aśvinī. These had each a son by Draupadī.
The son of Yudhisṭhīra was Prativindhya; of Bhīma, Śrutasoma; of Arjuna, Śrutakīrtti; of Nakula, Śatānīka; and of Sahadeva, Śrutakarman. The Pāṇḍavas had also other sons. By his wife Yaudheyī, Yudhisṭhīra had Devaka.
The son of Bhīma by Hiḍimbā was Ghaṭotkacha, and he had also Sarvatraga by his wife Kāśī.
The son of Sahadeva by Vijayā was Suhotra; and Niramitra was the son of Nakula by Kareṇumatī.
and, by his wife Subhadrā Abhimanyu, who even in extreme youth was renowned for his valour and his strength, and crushed the chariots of his foes in fight.
he was however restored to life by the clemency of that being whose feet receive the homage of all the demons and the gods, and who for his own pleasure had assumed a human shape (Kṛṣṇa).
This prince, Parīkṣit, now reigns over the whole world with undivided sway.


An 11-year-old girl who was given a 50% chance of survival after contracting "human strangles" has been slowly regaining her health with the help of her horses.
Anya Teuton spent two weeks in an isolation ward seriously ill with the strep C blood infection, which has also left her battling a series of debilitating after-effects.
The normally fit and active Northern Irish rider had recently returned from the Royal Dublin Horse Show when she woke up "screaming in pain" .
The illness is so rare, it took several trips before doctors acknowledged the seriousness of her condition. An increasingly desperate Victoria even phoned the family vet for help.
While it is steptococcus equi s. equi that causes the highly contagious strangles infection in horses, another subspecies, zooepidemicus, is capable of transferring to humans.
Although horses can suffer opportunistic infections of this strain, some just carry the bacteria harmlessly in their noses and throats, and it usually only affects animals or humans who have compromised immunity.
"Anya had a sore throat beforehand — the only guess we can make is that we were at Dublin and she maybe touched or fed a horses who was carrying it. It was shortly after that she became ill," Victoria said.
After aggressive treatment with intravenous antibiotics — and losing a stone in weight during the two "frightening" weeks — Anya pulled through. But once she returned home it became apparent that the illness had taken its toll.
She was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive and emotional problems as well as muscle pain and fatigue.
Any change in air temperature, loud noises or change in blood sugars would trigger attacks but there was a 12-week waiting list for her to receive any help.
"She didn't want to wait that long, so she took matters into her own hands," her mother said.
In her hospital bed, Anya's thoughts had been all about her horses and she had hatched a plan to be riding again by Christmas.
After talking to her GP, and reading research on horses and therapy, she decided to try and bring her target forward and get back in the saddle as soon as possible.
Anya also had the help of her best friend Zara Wood, who had decided the pair would take on the freestyle to music at the show.
Anya — who has a background in working hunters but had never ridden a dressage test before — took her Connemara Honey in the freestyle, but also elected to ride another pony, Starlight, in the prelim — which they won.
"She said 'I'll have to take Starlight too she'll feel left out.' It was cold with two ponies — I wasn't sure it was going to go well!" Victoria added. "Her memory and her nerves weren't wonderful after the illness and another thing that was affected was her hearing. The judges allowed me to use my instructor's earpiece to call the test.
While still off school — though she has now started having some hours back — Anya has been helping her mother break in five Connemara ponies. She has now also set her sights on her next goal, the Christmas showjumping event at the same venue on 30 December.


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Q: PHP Database output. Arrays In first case, i will get full array:

   <?php

   $servername = "localhost";
   $username = "root";
   $password = "";
   $dbname = "test.com";

   $conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

   if (!$conn) {
       die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
   }

   $sql = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE writer='$w_name' ";
   $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);

   if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {

       while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
            echo $row[header];
       }
   }
   mysqli_close($conn);

   ?>

In the second case, i will get just 1st value from array:

   <?php

   $servername = "localhost";
   $username = "root";
   $password = "";
   $dbname = "test.com";

   $conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

   if (!$conn) {
       die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
   }

   $sql = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE writer='$w_name' ";
   $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);

   if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {

       while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
            $q=$row[header];
       }
   }
   mysqli_close($conn);

   ?>

  <? echo $q ?>

What should I do, to make 2nd case work like 1st? I mean, how to put into $q, all values of array, not just the first.

A: You are not defining $q as an array at all.
$q=array();
...
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
   $q[]=$row['header'];
}
...

an example of output :
foreach($q as $header) {
   echo $header.'
';
}

A: You are overwriting $q . Try using $q[]=

A: change $q=$row[header]; line to $q[]=$row[header];
and then not echo $q; but print_r($q);

A: Try to change this into the while
$q = array();

if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {

       while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
            array_push($q, $row['header']); // i guess header is a column of the table
       }
}

and then you must have your array when print the $q variable, i mean do an print_r($q)
More info about array_push: http://php.net/manual/es/function.array-push.php
Hope this helps :)