Over the last year we've made the Clang Static Analyzer faster and improved its C++ support. In this talk, we will describe how we have sped up the analyzer by changing the order in which it explores programs to bias it towards covering code that hasn't been explored yet. In contrast with the previous exploration strategy, which was based on depth-first search, this coverage-guided approach gives shorter, more understandable bug reports and can find up to 20% more bugs on typical code bases. We will also explain how we've reduced C++ false positives by providing infrastructure in Clang's control-flow graph to help the analyzer understand the myriad of ways in which C++ objects can be constructed, destructed, and have their lifetime extended. This infrastructure will also make it easier for the analyzer to support C++ as the language continues to evolve.


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Musicals' feast for visitors
THE Eisteddfod's hard working team of volunteers are to be commended on their efforts in ensuring the festival's two evening musicals are of the highest possible standard.
Already capacity audiences have enjoyed first class presentations of Llwch yn Ein Llygaid (Dust in Our Eyes) at Holyhead High School on Saturday and Monday evenings.
Last night pupils from the island's primary schools presented their own musical, Joseff, Aled Lloyd Davies' Welsh adaptation of the fantastically popular Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
This musical will also be presented tonight in the Eisteddfod's main pavilion.
More than 140 pupils from Anglesey's primary schools take part, under the direction of Iola Ynyr of Cwmni'r Fran Wen. The show's musical director is Andrew Angel, headteacher of Pentraeth primary school.
The Eisteddfod's officials had good reason to be pleased with Monday's opening attendance of 19,221, but let's not lose sight of the fact that attendance in Margam last year on Bank Holiday Monday was 23,373.
But the officials maintain the Anglesey figure was well up to expectations, bearing in mind the scattered population. Yesterday's attendance reached 22,950, compared to 21,889 in Margam.
Many people have noticed the admission charge this year has gone up to £9 from last year's £8, and only £6.50 in Bro Conwy in 2000. Asked how they could justify such an increase officials maintained the new charge is extremely reasonable when compared to other events.
IN case some people are concerned that ice cream all the way from the Yorkshire Dales is on sale in the vans scattered around the Maes, the simple answer is that it is manufactured by the Loseley Company based in Cwmbran. Yes, Yorkshire ice cream made in Wales, so it seems!
Walking around the Maes yesterday it was quite clear this is the perfect site for a National Eisteddfod, and the traffic arrangements too are to be commended.
The fact that it is such an open Maes enables groups to sit around and enjoy themselves. The family spirit is very much in evidence everywhere.
MEMBERS of the NSPCC Young People's Advisory Group are talking to the youth of Wales about issues that matter to them during this week's Eisteddfod.
Opinion boards and a questionnaire will help the group to gather valuable information about what worries children and young people and who they turn to for help.
The group, aged between eight and 18, help shape the Cam Nesaf Project for young people on Anglesey. The questionnaire has been created especially for the Urdd Eisteddfod.

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The first type rental cabin is one that sleeps 5, which features 1-bedroom completely furnished with comfortable log furniture and two full baths. Featured in this type of cabin is a pool table and a log twin bed that overlooks the great room below. The nice room has a wood burning fireplace and two adults can sleep comfortably in a log couch that can be made into a queen size futon. There is a master bedroom that features a beautiful king size log bed. You have a spectacular view from the decks both in front and back. Aside from the fireplace, this kind of cabin offers other amenities like jacuzzi hot tub, satellite, video player, a kitchen that is fully furnished, icemaker, blender, linens and towels.
A cabin that sleeps 10 is the next kind of cabin rental between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge areas, that offers a 3-level 3-bedroom log cabin home. This type of cabin is fully equipped with a fireplace, cable television, game room, washer/dryer, hot tub, and a kitchen. Other amenities are a central heat and air with ceiling fans in each room, the deck has both charcoal and gas grills, and the porch has swings that you can enjoy. The third choice for a cabin rental in Gatlinburg is the cabin that sleeps 8, and it contains log beds, quilts, and beautiful decor with original arts. This cabin features a bedroom with queen sized log bed, television, stereo and players too. There is a loft in this cabin with a sleeping bed featuring a double bed. This cabin has a covered deck featuring a hot tub for 5, an outdoor stereo speakers, and charcoal grill that you will enjoy while being in the outdoor.


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The slump in growth and corporate profits is prompting more challenges to the status quo, writes Carl Delfeld of Chartwell ETF Global Report.
Japan's stock market is at 26-year lows and recent economic reports continue to inspire gloom.
Sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers has improved since the first three months of the year, the Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan survey showed, but continued widespread pessimism and plans to slash investment underscore the fragility of any recovery.
It seems obvious to me that Japan's elected leaders (current Japan Prime Minister Taro Aso has an approval rating is only 19%) have learned nothing from that country's so-called "Lost Decade"—a slowdown that's actually lasted the better part of two decades.
Since March, shares and Japan ETFs have had a rebound similar to that experienced by many global markets. But this has done little to silence the critics who ask why the return on equity has been so low for so long.
Some foreign investors in Japanese companies are also getting into the act. The Tennessee-based fund manager Southeastern Asset Management owns approximately 17% of Nipponkoa Insurance (Tokyo: 8754; OTC: NPPKF.PK) and wants some answers as to why the company's shares have plummeted 19%, when the benchmark Topix Insurance Index has dropped only 6% in a comparable time period. During the last two years Southeastern has attempted to oust Nipponkoa Insurance Co. President Makoto Hyodo for poor management.
Likewise, Brandes Investment Partners LP sought a shareholder vote that would have forced Kyoto-based electronics manufacturer Rohm (Tokyo: 6963) to buy back $157 million worth of company stock. Brandes, which owns about 6% of Rohm, felt that the $3.24 billion (311 billion yen) worth of cash and securities Rohm held was excessive.
Shareholders sided with Rohm, and with Nipponkoa, in separate company meetings, and voted down the proposals of the two US investors.
Younger Japanese are also uncharacteristically raising their voices as their economic future seems bleak and [is] getting worse. Unemployment was 9.6% in April for Japanese aged 15 to 24, compared with 5% unemployment over all.
And benefits to Japanese workers have been cut back sharply, especially for new entrants into the Japanese economy who often are most vulnerable as "temporary" workers. In the first quarter, Japan's economy shrank a devastating 14.2% on an annual basis, as exports slumped because of the global economic slowdown.
When companies like Canon (NYSE: CAJ) and Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) started to fire temporary factory workers late last year, a handful of the workers lashed out publicly, confronting managers at factory gates, often in front of TV cameras. The public has some sympathy with the protesters, and the rallies get heavy coverage in local media, but this is a far cry from any movement that will make a difference at the polls this October.


How do you make the most ridiculous event of the year even more ridiculous? Add Jedward.
Ok so everyone knows that the Eurovision is a joke and is only really worth turning in for to listen to Terry Wogan's deadpan take on the ridiculous Norwegian rap act, but it seems like this year the British Isles are trying to take it a bit more seriously. Or more ridiculously. I guess it just depends how you look at it really.
That's right, after coming last in both 2010 and 2009 and scoring 'nil points' in 2003 with Jemini's awful entry Cry Baby (see above for a live performance at the Euros 2003 that is definitely in tune), the UK has decided enough is enough and have twisted the arm of mid noughties hottest boy band EVER (until One Direction/JLS/whoever) BLUE to step up to the plate and bring us back the crown that we have blithely ignored since Katrina and the Waves nabbed it for us back in 1997.
Understandably elated to be involved with such an occasion, one of the guys from Blue said: "I've always wanted to represent my country, so this is a truly exciting experience for Blue.' So essentially he's always wanted to be involved in the Eurovision song contest as I don't think there's another competition that you can enter internationally for singing, unless this guy has some other notable talent he can use to compete internationally?
WELL, actually a quick Google search tells me that Simon Webbe was actually a pretty decent football player but he had to quit after a career ending injury, although he did manage to play as a striker on Sky One's The Match (where celebrities faced ex footballers in a football match – a rather podgy Ally McCoist got the winner in a tight game and celebrated like Scotland had actually qualified for an international competition). I guess in terms of international competition the Eurovision is comparable to the World Cup so it looks like Simon's dreams have come true!
This comment leads to a couple of questions – Will their reputation really be in tatters if they don't win the Eurovision? Would Lewis Hamilton be the favourite to win a go-kart race? How can one news article compare the Eurovision with F1 and International Football? More importantly the answer to Glatman's question is fairly obvious and everyone knows it: because Blue are winners, whilst you Daniel Glatman are starting a record label with Guy Ritchie to put out the house band that plays at his pub.
There are also those who are outraged that Blue have bee picked to represent the country in the competition without the aid of a public vote. This is the first time in the competition's 56 years that this has been the case, but in fairness coming last two years in a row is probably a good enough reason for the people in charge to decide that the public don't know what they're doing. And what would even be the point of letting the public decide? Would anyone really stand a chance coming up against Blue? Hopefully this outrage will turn into joy and perhaps a street party following Blue's inevitable triumph in the competition. We can but hope.
Not to be outdone though, Ireland are looking at getting in everyone favourite comedy brothers Jedward in to represent them in the competition. This is shaping up to be the biggest Eurovision yet! Unfortunately Ireland weren't able to rig the vote like the UK, and Jedward will still have to compete with a couple of other people like Don Mescall and the Vard sisters (who?) before they are officially involved. It seems all too inevitable that these clowns will be turning up though as I don't think anyone epitomises the stupidity of Eurovision more than them. Can't wait for the showdown.
The Eurovision song contest takes place on May 14th, only Graham Norton is presenting it now and not Terry Wogan, which is disappointing for everyone involved. Except maybe Jedward.


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REGULATORY AUTHORITIES (LEVEL OF CHARGES) BILL: Second Reading.
CRIMINAL RECORDS (PUBLIC ACCESS) BILL: Second Reading.
ST GEORGE'S DAY AND ST DAVID'S DAY BILL: Second Reading.
CONSUMER PROTECTION (PRIVATE CAR PARKS) BILL: Second Reading.
SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN BILL: Second Reading.
SALE OF TICKETS (SPORTING AND CULTURAL EVENTS) BILL: Adjourned debate on Second Reading [21 January].
RE-EXPORT CONTROLS BILL [LORDS]: Second Reading.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL: Second Reading.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT OMBUDSMAN (AMENDMENT) BILL: Adjourned debate on Second Reading [18 March].
MEDICAL INSURANCE (PENSIONER TAX RELIEF) BILL: Second Reading.
PARLIAMENTARY STANDARDS (AMENDMENT) BILL: Second Reading.
BUILDING REGULATIONS (REVIEW) BILL [LORDS]: Second Reading.
Proposed subject: Credit rating agencies (Mr Chuka Umunna).
Astronomy and Particle Physics (Fourth Report).
Minister for the Cabinet Office: Publication of The State of the Estate in 2010.
Minister for the Cabinet Office: Updated departmental business plans.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Performing wild animals in circuses.
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Government Wine Cellar review.
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Libya: Visit of the National Transitional Council.
Secretary of State for Transport: Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011.


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Cynthia M. Allen: Neither side is telling you the full story about the immigration mess at the border
Cynthia M. Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Jul 11, 2019
Published in Op Eds
It's hard to get an accurate and honest picture of what's happening on our nation's southern border and why, especially during what already is proving to be a long and mendacious election season.
If you're hearing and repeating the words of President Donald Trump and his surrogates, you're likely to believe the border is being flooded by criminals and terrorists disguised as terrified, malnourished children, eager to exploit a long-failed immigration system.
If you're listening to and parroting only the stump speeches and softball interview responses from Democratic candidates like Julian Castro, Beto O'Rourke and, frankly, almost any member of the progressive left (which is basically every candidate seeking the White House right now), you're apt to think instead that the criminals are the uniformed border agents (who stand accused of ripping nursing babes from their mothers' arms and forcing women to drink from toilets). Not to mention anyone brazen enough to defend them or suggest that maybe our border shouldn't be a sieve.
Niether of these views is true, and the reality is far more complicated. For instance, Customs and Border Protection facilities were not designed with the current influx of migrants in mind (why would they be?). Federal funding delays are largely responsible for the poor conditions and dearth of supplies in detention facilities. Seemingly legitimate fears of child exploitation by adults posing as parents makes family separation in specific cases a less sinister approach to detention.
And decades of insufficient law enforcement by both Democrats and Republican administrations has contributed -- at least in some measure -- to the steady stream of migrants breaking U.S. immigration laws without consequence.
Then there's the matter of why so many migrants are coming here in the first place. Some would argue it's to take advantage of our welfare state or our broken immigration system or to engage in criminal enterprises such as drug and sex trafficking. There's evidence that some of this is true, but not on the scale that many want to believe.
There are others who insist that every migrant -- most of whom are told by smugglers to seek out a border agent and claim asylum -- is fleeing persecution and therefore entitled to protections and benefits reserved, by law, for a relative few.
It's more likely than not that the people fleeing the so-called Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are legitimately attempting to escape violence and fear. But that violence and fear is not the consequence of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion, and it does not come at the hands of their governments, but of their fellow countrymen who carry out their criminal activities with impunity.
Sympathy and prayer for these victims as well as humane treatment of migrants in U.S. custody is required; disregard of our laws and sovereign borders is not.
Yet everybody with a podium seems hellbent on finger-pointing yet unwilling to engage in the kind of self-reflection that real leadership demands.
Everybody with a podium in the U.S., anyway.
El Salvador's new president, Nayib Bukele, offered an honest reflection on the border crisis -- perhaps because his election is already won. Responding to the tragic drowning deaths of Oscar Alberto Ramirez and his daughter Valeria, who died while attempting to ford the Rio Grande, Bukele admitted what few in his position are willing to concede: "It is our fault.
"People don't flee their homes because they want to," Bukele told reporters in San Salvador. "People flee their homes because they feel they have to. ... If people have an opportunity of a decent job, a decent education, a decent health-care system and security, I know forced migration will be reduced to zero."
That kind of probity about the border crisis could go far in helping policymakers to develop solutions. But we're unlikely to hear any coming from our politicians unless we are willing to have an honest conversation about it. Can we do that?
Cynthia M. Allen is a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Readers may send her email at cmallen@star-telegram.com.
(c)2019 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Op Eds / July 18, 2019
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Editorial: Trump's racist tweets designed to divide the nation
President Trump's racist tweets and comments this week show how low he plans to go and how deeply he intends to divide the nation in order to try to win re-election in 2020.
"Go back to where you came from" is a bigoted ...Read More
Commentary: Congress needs to retake its power to declare war
Here are two facts Americans should be aware of: There will be men and women deploying to Afghanistan for the first time this September who were born after Sept. 11, 2001; the authorization for that war was signed so long ...Read More
Editorial: Denying Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelans doesn't make any sense
Nicolas Maduro, the authoritarian shoved aside by an interim leader in Venezuela, nevertheless maintains his grip on power. Humanitarian aid still is stuck at the Colombian border, while Venezuelans starve and are ...Read More
Virginia Heffernan: The Democrats' 'squad,' infighting and extremism may save the nation
When 65,853,514 of us cast our ballots for Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016, we were voting for the relative peace, opportunity and pluralism of Barack Obama's America. The majority of voters that day at the polls hoped...Read More
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Institute for Corean-American Studies
Mike Honda
California State Assemblyman
Biographic Sketch
Mike Honda was born in California and has lived in Santa Clara County for over 40 years. His family returned to San Jose in 1953 after being interned during World War II.
While in college, Mike interrupted his studies to answer President Kennedy's call for service in the newly created Peace Corps. After serving for two years in El Salvador, Mike returned to San Jose State University and earned a B.S. in Biology, a B.A. in Spanish, and an M.A. in Education.
Mike is committed to strengthening families and communities. Through his impassioned work as a teacher, Vice-Principal, Principal, and Administrator, Mike enriched the education of the disadvantaged and established programs for high achievers.
Mike served on the San Jose Unified School Board from 1981 until 1990. In 1990, Mike was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and was re-elected in 1994.
As Supervisor, Mike instituted welfare reforms which saved taxpayers $2.5 million annually. Mike spearheaded the effort to fast-track the funding and construction of the Lexington Overpass on Highway 17, and fought for safety improvements along Highway 152. Additionally, Mike championed environmental issues. He established the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority and protected hillsides from development.
In 1996, Mike Honda was elected to the State Assembly; he was re-elected in 1998. Mike Honda represents San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley, and unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County.
Mike Honda is Chair of the Public Safety Committee, and is a member of the Education Committee, Revenue and Taxation Committee, and the Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security (PERSS) Committee.
Mike's legislative priorities in the Assembly are in the areas of education, highway safety, domestic violence prevention, and economic development.
Mike is married to Jeanne, who teaches at Baldwin Elementary School in San Jose. They have two children, Mark and Michelle.
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HARD CRACKERS
Chronicles of Everyday Life
Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock
BY JAMES MURRAY
The Black Lives Matter movement has caused great fear and loathing among white people across the country. Police administrators have referred to them as terrorists and claimed to be "at war" with BLM members or those inspired by the movement. Right wing websites running the gamut from conservative (Free Republic) to libertarian (Zerohedge) to "alt-right" (Breitbart) keep the flames of white terror fanned, running daily updates of supposed BLM plots and sedition.
Examined critically, BLM is not much of a radical movement. Beradi and others have noted the vast gulf between "Black Power," and "Black Lives Matter." Some BLM groups have hosted ice cream socials for police officers and sought to find "Common ground," with law-enforcement personnel. "Black Lives Matter," is seemingly more of a desperate plea than a radical ideology. Even if the unthinkable happened—and black lives began to matter to agents of the state, would it much matter? European police agencies maintain a social control structure as stable, or more so than what exists in the American state, and they do so while shooting very few people. There is no reason white supremacy could not exist in a society where black lives matter. If, in fact they did, the situation might even be more stable than it is today.
Far from the cities, another protest movement has sprung to life on the Great Plains. On the Standing Rock Indian reservation people have gathered from across the continent to "sit in" and protest the building of a pipeline through tribal lands. Again, examined critically, the StandingRock situation is not very radical. These are not protests against industrial society, or even against corporatism or fossil fuel extraction. It is about the supposed "Sovereignty" of native peoples and their opposition to a pipeline running through their property.
Far from the reaction BLM has created, Standing Rock has received acclaim and support from the same right-wing websites mentioned above. Why? In the right-wing imagination Standing Rock represents "anti-government activism." And the sovereignty argument is attractive to them. If natives can claim such sovereignty, the right wing fantasizes, could ranchers in Utah and libertarians in Idaho someday claim the same rights? And of course right-wing support of American Indians has some antecedents – Forrest Carter's novel and screenplay, "The Outlaw Josey Wales," ends with former Confederates and Comanche Indians making an eternal truce to resist the federal government and encroaching civilization. On a more traditionally fascist note, Hitler's favorite novelist was the bestselling German author Karl May, who turned out many wild west adventures, often featuring Europeans who "Go native," and fight cowboys and others with their new Indian friends.
Other than wild fantasy though, I think there is another reason the right wing can accept Standing Rock and simultaneously recoil in terror at BLM. Radical, liberal or moderate, any expression of black urgency frightens white America. Extremism is not required. If black strength has entertainment value in movies or sports, it is acceptable and can be celebrated. Within limits that is: the artistry of jazz and blues were never seriously oppressed but the amplified sound of alienated play—Hip Hop—has been under the gun since its invention. Parental guidance stickers were inventedfor Hip Hop, and then anti-sampling laws. Now rappers are being prosecuted for their rhymes across the country.
Baudrillard wrote, "The more hegemonic the system, the more the imagination is struck is by the smallest of its reversals. The challenge, even infinitesimal, is the image of chain failure." BLM represents this infinitesimal challenge. It strikes the imagination of black people and their sympathizers. It touches the (barely) subconscious fear of the white masses. This illustrates the subversive effect(s) of even mild black protest. It (psychologically) punches above its weight class. This is the key that can turn the lock. Throughout American history when the black masses move, a substantial minority of every other oppressed group follows. It is easy to conjecture when a real, radical black movement launches onto the screens of America, the reaction will be irrational, extreme and vicious. Those who think, theorize and plot this next stage of the movement should be prepared for the backlash. And think, theorize and plot anyway.
James Murray is a member of the editorial board of Hard Crackers. He lives in Tulsa, OK.
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Extraction of the crown pillar separating the open pit from the underground mining was to be conducted as a part of the transition from open pit to underground mining at the Kittilä mine. Itasca carried out a study of crown pillar mining on the stability of the open pit and underground infrastructure.
Mechanical testing of a model baked anode material with PFC
Discrete modelling of lime kilns
Proppant in Fluid Filled Joints
Using Python in Itasca Software
Python and Pore Pressure Initialization
Depressurising an Underground Ore Body at the McArthur River Mine in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada
Numerical Models as Important Component of EGS Design and Operation
Etienne Lavoine
Junior Research Engineer
Dr. Lavoine is a young doctor whose expertise is on numerical modeling in geosciences, with a special emphasize on fractured media. He is a graduate engineer in numerical geology and has a PhD in earth sciences from the University of Rennes, France. He has mainly worked on fracture network stochastic and genetic generation methods, and the characterization of their hydraulic and geomechanical properties.
El Teniente Fragmentation Study
Fragmentation is an important aspect of all block caving operations. The primary fragmentation can be difficult to assess, in particular in complex geological environments, and for rock masses subjected to varying stress as is normally the case in block caving.
Itasca's Role
Itasca conducted an extensive analysis of new fracturing (orientation, persistence and spacing) due to stressrelated damage as the rock mass follows the prescribed stress path. Work was carried out both on and off site and also included training courses on the use of PFC and SRM (Synthetic Rock Mass).
Primary fragmentation was successfully predicted for a particular area in the El Teniente Mine. Technology transfer in the form of training on PFC and SRM was also conducted, with good results.
Project Image(s)
Stockwork rock mass from El Teniente, and fracture network model representing the stockwork (Brzovic and Herrera, 2011).
Brzovic, A., and S. Herrera. (2011) "Assessing Geological Vein Size And Intensity Using Discrete Fracture Network Modelling At the El Teniente Mine, Chile.," in ARMA-11-252. ARMA: American Rock Mechanics Association.
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Codelco, El Teniente Mine


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Late score by Perez gives Mounties win over Santiago Canyon
Santiago Canyon
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1st - 14:00 - Andrew Resendiz (Santiago Canyon)
1st - 33:00 - Jason Garcia (Mt. SAC)
2nd - 74:00 - Uly Perez (Mt. SAC)
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A: 2 Players (#8, #19) - 1
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(Orange, CA) Mt. SAC (3-1) got back on the winning track with a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over host Santiago Canyon (0-1-1) on Monday.
Trailing 1-0 through 32 minutes, Jason Garcia put the Mounties on the board on an assist from Eddie Cabrera in the 33rd minute. Uly Perez put the ball in the net on an assist from Gabriel Arredondo in the 74th minute on what proved to be the decisive score.
Ryan Molina (one goal allowed, two saves) and Jacob Cardenas (two saves) split time in goal for Mt. SAC, playing 45 minutes each.
The Mounties will host Oxnard (2-1) in a non-conference contest on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m.
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Why Stay Catholic?
Buried in the Atlantic's archives is this interview with Garry Wills, author of Why I Am Catholic:
It's our concrete experience of the local church that's especially meaningful to us. There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church. But to a born Catholic, Catholicism means their parish, their priest, their fellow worshippers. It's all very concrete. Papal directives usually seem kind of abstract and unimportant compared to that lived experience. [...]
Catholics are living the faith of their shared commitment to the mystical body. Bringing the hierarchy into line with that is just a secondary step. And it's bound to occur. I'm unhappy with the hierarchy, which is not the Church. It's part of the Churchan important part, but it's not the Church. People say the Church is out of touch. Well, it's not out of touch! The Church is the people of God. It's the hierarchy that's out of touch with the people of God, and they've got to get back in touch. But that's their problem.


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American Marriage Ministries holds mass ordination in Knoxville in response to new law
Ryan Wilusz
Seattle-based American Marriage Ministries stopped in Knoxville on Wednesday during its trek across Tennessee to ordain people in person after the state passed a law barring online-ordained ministers from performing weddings.
Some people who attended the event at Blue Slip Winery and Bistro were ordained Wednesday for the first time. But the majority were those who had already been ordained online and needed to update their ordination in person to legally officiate weddings they have scheduled.
"We ended up getting hundreds of calls from ministers who were just freaking out," said Lewis King, executive director of AMM. "We had to come. ... If a couple is standing up there getting married, they want to be pretty sure — well, they want to be absolutely sure — that their wedding is valid."
King said 210 people had been ordained by 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday and others were still waiting in line.
AMM held similar events in Clarksville, Jackson, Memphis and Chattanooga over the past week. They plan to hold more events Thursday and Friday in Nashville.
"You've got all sorts of different minority couples that are negatively impacted by this law," King said. "We all know weddings are an important spiritual ceremony, and these couples deserve ministers that share their values and beliefs."
LGBTQ, rural, non-English speaking and low-income couples already have restrictions for who is able or willing to officiate their weddings, King said.
There are also people, like King, who are spiritual but not religious and want friends or family members to do the honors.
From planning weddings to officiating them
Lindsay Barrows Ruggieri plans wedding ceremonies throughout East Tennessee. Soon, she'll have to officiate them, too.
It's nothing she hasn't done before. There have been officiants who got stuck in traffic or just plain forgot, and she's had to use her online ordination as a backup.
But the new law has left some of her clients in limbo, looking at her as an option now that their ministers could no longer be qualified.
Ruggieri attended Wednesday's event and got ordained in person, which might come in handy this November when one her clients has two weddings the same day.
The first will be spiritual, led by a family member in front of attendees. The second will be in the privacy of a bridal suite with someone who is legally ordained.
This specific couple does not want two officials in their wedding photos. But Ruggieri is prepared to handle the legal portion of her clients' weddings while standing alongside another minister handling the majority of the ceremony.
Ruggieri said this new law could keep people from planning destination weddings in the Smokies. It also affects her LGBTQ clients, perhaps, more than others.
"It's heartbreaking to have some people so excited to get married to be turned away from certain vendors who won't accept their marriage," she said. "How many times is it OK to hear people say 'I won't marry you' before you give up?"
'It's not the government's business'
Wednesday's event was fairly simple. People walked through the winery's doors, picked up an application and filled it out within minutes.
The applications were similar to the online versions AMM provides. Some language was changed to make it Tennessee-specific and to show the ordination happened in person.
Everyone was given an affidavit to prove the ordination took place.
"We're galvanizing resistance to this law," King said. "We'd like to think that we're helping people understand what they can do to push back against this law and make sure that freedom of religion is returned to the state of Tennessee. Because right now, that's not the case."
Another Seattle-based group, Universal Life Church Ministries, is suing Tennessee over the law, which was supposed to go into effect July 1.
A judge has scheduled a July 3 hearing in Nashville on a restraining order requested by ULCM attorneys. That means the law won't take effect on July 1, pending the judge's decision.
Kind said AMM is interested in joining the lawsuit.
"We're looking at our possibilities right now," he said. "We 100% support this lawsuit, and we'd love nothing more than to see this entire thing thrown in the rubbish bin."
King said weddings are difficult to officiate. Ministers must meet the wants and needs of a couple putting their trust in them. Being ordained, he said, should be the easy part.
"It's the same reason we do everything online now," he said. "Folks might say, 'Well, doesn't that sort of devalue ordination?' Well, first off, it's not about devaluing or not devaluing. It's a personal religious decision. It's not the government's business."


EVANSTON, Ill. -- Cory Clark would glance to the corner at times during his rookie season as a college wrestler hoping Terry Brands would appear.
Cory Clark would glance to the corner at times during his rookie season as a college wrestler hoping Terry Brands would appear.
Those were instances when exhaustion was setting in and Clark figured Iowa's associate head coach could say something to give him a boost.
Fatigue was less of a problem Tuesday than the general stinginess of Illinois sophomore Zane Richards. But Iowa's 133-pound sophomore trusted the advice coming from the coach in his corner.
"I'm not about going out there and feeling people out, but it kind of happened and Terry kept barking at me from the corner: 'Get to him, it's there,'" Clark said. "Every time I went out of bounds he'd tell me and it kind of clicked."
Clark's best shot of the night produced the winning takedown midway through the third period. It also underlined his trust in Brands.
"I've had days where I've felt like I've had nothing left to give and Terry pointing at his temple saying 'It's all in here' can stand you up and make you do more," Clark said. "It's crazy how much of an impact him and (Iowa coach) Tom (Brands) have had on me. I thank them and I'm blessed to be with them."
Brandon Wright turned to the Iowa corner Monday night and flexed after posting his first career win against a Hawkeye.
It was a bold and demonstrative move by the Grand View senior in the face of the two coaches sitting in the Iowa chairs – Olympic gold medalist Tom Brands and his twin brother, Terry, a two-time World champ.
Wright knows who he was dealing with. He wants the Hawkeyes to know who they're up against too.
"We want to dual Iowa," he said. "We want to dual Iowa State. We want to dual UNI. We want to dual those teams as much as possible. That was a statement to put us on the schedule and give our guys a shot. Everyone knows Grand View is up and coming and we're a small-division program, but Iowa wrestling is Iowa wrestling and I know that's the mecca of wrestling.
"It was good to be a small-division guy and pin a Hawkeye. It was just a little flex at Brands to let them know we can compete with you guys. We're not some small school guys that you're going to stomp on."
Wright proved at the Midlands Championships that he's no pushover, either. The NAIA champion placed seventh at 141 pounds, showing he can hang with some of college wrestling's top competitors at the weight.
He posted victories against four Division-I wrestlers, including seventh-ranked Todd Preston of Harvard and Iowa's Topher Carton, which sparked the emotional outburst.
"As long as (the Brands brothers) don't come into my corner, I'm OK with it," Grand View coach Nick Mitchell joked. "I want him to be loose out there. I want him having fun. He doesn't mean it like he's calling anybody out. He's just excited. That's how he is."
The haziness that lingered over Iowa's wrestling lineup through the first two months of the season might hang around a little bit longer.
Tom Brands wouldn't tip his hand Tuesday about the two weights at the center of discussion, except to say the Hawkeyes will take 149-pounders Brody Grothus and Brandon Sorensen and 197-pounder Nathan Burak on their weekend road trip to Rutgers and Ohio State.
Grothus medical forfeited to sixth place Tuesday after dropping a 3-2 tiebreaker decision to defending NCAA champion Jason Tsirtsis of Northwestern in the semifinals. Sorensen lost by the same score to Edinboro All-American David Habat in the semifinals before wrestling back to place third.
Burak, who has been dealing with a knee issue, won the title at 197, scoring a last-second takedown to claim a 4-3 victory against Wisconsin's Timmy McCall. The junior All-American wrestled unattached and still has the option to redshirt this season.
"Everybody wants to know, but you're not going to know," Brands said. "You'll know when I know. There are things that go on inside that knee. I'm not God. I pray every night for it, but I can't see in there. … We're going to be patient with this thing.
"Forty-nine, they didn't meet and Grothus medical forfeited down to sixth. We'll see. Let's open things up a little bit."


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The five-eighth was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2016 before making a stunning recovery to play less than 12 months later for the Canberra outfit.
Lealiifano has served as co-captain alongside both Stephen Moore and more recently Sam Carter and enjoyed playing stints in Ireland and Japan since his return from illness.
Wallabies backrower David Pocock has been named vice-captain, with Carter heading to Ireland's Ulster at the end of the year.
Super Rugby: Samu Kerevi has been installed as the new Reds captain replacing Scott Higginbotham.
At 31, Lealiifano still has time to build on his 19 Wallabies caps but says his energy is going towards breaking the club's 14 year title drought.
"I'm very fortunate to have the experience of these guys around me and I also love seeing the future leaders growing in this space," he said.
"This season promises to be an entertaining one with the side committed to playing a fast, attacking brand of rugby.
Coach Dan McKellar said the new leadership arrangement wouldn't change much in terms of his playmaker's role.
"Christian is our natural leader and has been for a number of years now," he said.
The Brumbies' season begins against the Rebels at home on February 15, but not before a final preseason trial on February 7 against the Waratahs in Goulburn.


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Orbán and Farage Likely Will Not Join Salvini-Led Nationalist-Populist EU Supergroup
June 7, 2019 Winter Watch Around the Web, International News, Politics 0
By Arthur Lyons | 5 June 2019
VOICE OF EUROPE — Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Britain's Nigel Farage have both distanced themselves and their parties – Fidesz and the Brexit Party, respectively – from potentially joining the national populist supergroup in the European Parliament led by Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini.
During a press conference earlier this week, Prime Minister Orbán's chief of staff Gergely Gulyás expressed that – despite having been suspended from the group in March – Fidesz's party leadership wished to remain a member of the center-right European People's Party (EPP), the European Union's largest voting block which includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
"We respect the Italian deputy prime minister and the Italian government and the result, which made the Northern League Italy's strongest party after the European Parliament election," Gulyas asserted, but added: "Nonetheless, I see not much chance for a co-operation on a party level or in a joint parliamentary group." […]
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A new crossroads at 14?
Ahead of a speech on the subject I am making tonight (I will do anything to avoid celebrating my birthday), a few thoughts about the implicit direction of Coalition schools policy….
One of the less heralded parts of the Autumn Statement was the announcement by the Chancellor that the Government will now be supporting the creation of at least 25 University Technical Colleges. These colleges (only one is so far up and running) offer an education which is broad and demanding (40 week year, seven hour days for example) with an overall emphasis on technical skills.
It is interesting to put this announcement together with the thrust of Government policy on the academic curriculum and examinations. Promoting the eBac along with reducing modularity and retakes is part of an explicit policy of raising the academic bar. Unless the Government can achieve an unprecedented improvement in attainment, this suggests an abandonment of the goal of every child reaching the headline grade for academic attainment.
Together these policies can be seen to be inching the English system towards a more explicit selection/choice at fourteen.
As a self-styled educational progressive, it might be assumed that I would oppose such a drift. In fact I have no problem with the principle; it is the practice which concerns me.
If only a minority (say 35-40%) of school pupils pursue a primarily academic route (aiming towards degrees in top universities) perhaps the rest could be liberated from the often joyless 'teaching to the test' that is involved in schools trying to raise their headline figure for '5 A-Cs including English and Maths'. A strong technical route ranging in ability from those aspiring to STEM subject degrees in HE to those aiming for good vocational qualifications and skilled apprenticeships could make technical education more accessible and higher status.
But notwithstanding the massive organisational issues involved in clearer post 14 routes, it isn't hard to identify the dangers. If from the start the academic route is seen as the best, then it will be even more fully colonised by the middle class than is good schooling already (see today's excellent RSA report on satisfactory schools for further evidence of school disadvantage heaping on social disadvantage). Indeed this will mean post 14 selection would actually be post 11 selection as schools marketed themselves as guaranteeing pupils the higher route.
Even if the technical route could grow in size status and popularity it still leaves the question of those who are neither suited to academic nor advanced technical education. It could be that there are only two strands post 14 (many parts of Germany are now merging the technical and vocational streams of their much vaunted tripartite system) but the danger here is that the idea of 'technical' education becomes devalued. Partly because it is not yet explicit about the post 14 choice the Government has not yet even begun to address this issue.
Every pupil to get the core knowledge they need and beyond this for curricula and examinations to be fit for purpose and stretching.
An education which attends to the fuller development of young people as confident, rounded 21st century citizens.
A system which is committed to exploring, finding and developing the educational enthusiasm of every child.
A system which as far as possible offers personalised education with flexibility for children to move onto different routes in line with developing preferences and aptitudes.
It might be possible for a system with three more differentiated routes post 14 to deliver this. But only if policy is from the outset committed to promoting genuine meritocracy (meaning extra support for the disadvantaged which goes beyond the pupil premium), parity of esteem between different routes and a robust and compelling account of the offer for the third leg of the tripartite division.
The Coalition has many policies and ideas about schooling and the system is changing fast around us. But beyond the usual platitudes, ministers are very cloudy about its final destination. This is partly deliberate in that it is by definition hard to predict the future when the key institutions (schools) are more diverse and autonomous. But an idea as radical and far reaching as more differentiated post 14 routes needs to be explored in a broader context. For unless it is accompanied by other shifts in policy, public assumptions and expectations, it could simply reinforce educational inequality and exclusion.


The Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) Open House was bustling with various activities, but the NYP Groove! 2018 Finals was definitely the highlight that stole the show on 6 January 2018. It was an intense battle to the finish as a total of 15 talented dance crews from the Secondary School and ITE categories tore up the stage with their fiercest choreographies.
Drawing a massive crowd of cheering spectators, the atmosphere was explosive as all eyes were on the finalists to see which team would eventually emerge victorious as the overall champions. Dressed to impress in their streetwear finest and rocking killer makeup, each team brought plenty of swag to the stage – jaw-dropping formations, foot-stomping moves, epic hair whips and all. A couple of teams even went the extra mile of incorporating special props into their choreography, but we gotta give kudos to ITE category finalist K-East for cleverly plugging NYP midway through the routine. Way to leave an impression!
While each group was amazing in their own right, it was NAEKADIZE and K-East who ultimately came out tops for the Secondary School Category and ITE Category respectively. Huge congratulations to all the winners of NYP Groove! 2018!
We can't wait for NYP Groove! 2019 already!


At Librato we rely on Amazon EBS as part of our Silverline infrastructure. Accordingly, we periodically snapshot our EBS volumes in case of data loss. I wanted to find a script that would cleanup our sprawl of snapshots that accumulated over time.
A quick search found a number of PHP solutions, but we have stuck with mostly BASH and Ruby for infrastructure scripting so far so we didn't want another dependency. Anyways, I stumbled across this Ruby script over at ElastDream which did most of what I was looking for. However, I wanted to be able to specify a minimum number of snapshots to keep, regardless of time, so that you can't accidentally delete all snapshots for a particular volume.


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Local businesses help make over wheelchair-accessible bus for family
Posted 6:13 am, June 17, 2019, by Kelly Roliard
MOORE, Okla. - Decked out and ready to roll.
A wheelchair-accessible bus donated to a deserving family by Bethany Public Schools and The Bethany Children's Rehabilitation Hospital got a facelift.
The Merideth family adopts and fosters children that are terminally ill or have special needs.
"They're so happy," said Misty Merideth. "They are so happy."
A new set of wheels for a well-deserving family.
"They love to get out of and go and this just makes it so much more comfortable and easier," said Merideth.
Merideth and her wife are in the middle of adopting their ninth child out of foster care.
Two have passed away, but many of them are in wheelchairs, which make it difficult to get around.
"It's going to make it where we can take the kids on so many adventures now and not have to stress or hurt ourselves and unloading the kids in all of the wheelchairs," said Merideth.
After receiving the bus and News 4 first shared their story in January, many were inspired by Merideth.
Local companies stepped up and renovated the bus, free of charge.
"We've had new tires, new brakes, new shocks, new alignment," said Merideth. "We've had a TV/DVD player put in. We've had a stereo, camera, speakers, kind of a little bit of everything."
The superhero-themed bus is decked out.
Each child even has their name written inside along the wall.
"I feel privileged actually," said Merideth. "It really touched my heart to see how many people come in and donated their time and service to make this bus ready for the kids."
Now, as they're packing up and getting ready for their first-ever family trip together, they're remembering everyone that made it possible.
"Thank you," said Merideth. "They have no clue what it means to us. I mean, no clue."
They hope their story also encourages others not to forget about the children in need of a family.
"We would like to encourage others to get out there and adopt or foster a special needs kid," said Merideth. "These kids are so worth it."
Merideth says their first summer trip will be to San Antonio or Branson.
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Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador will be beatified in San Salvador "certainly within the year and not later, but possibly within a few months," said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator, or chief promoter of the archbishop's sainthood cause. Speaking to reporters on Feb. 4, the day after Pope Francis formally recognized that the slain Salvadoran archbishop was killed "in hatred of the faith"—and not for purely political reasons—Archbishop Paglia said the two decades it took to obtain the decree were the result of "misunderstandings and preconceptions." During Archbishop Romero's time as archbishop of San Salvador—from 1977 to 1980—"kilos of letters against him arrived in Rome. The accusations were simple: He's political; he's a follower of liberation theology." To the accusations that he supported liberation theology, according to Archbishop Paglia, Archbishop Romero responded: "Yes, certainly. But there are two theologies of liberation: one sees liberation only as material liberation; the other is that of Paul VI. I'm with Paul VI" in seeking the material and spiritual liberation of all people, including from the sins of injustice and oppression.
Who could be against the material and spiritual liberation of all people including liberation from the sins of injustice and oppression if that really is the definition of liberation theology? However what does that mean in the concrete? The devil is in the details.
This article also appeared in print, under the headline "Romero Beatification," in the February 23, 2015 issue.


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Opinion | International
December 10, 2019 - 01:30 PM EST
The mullahs seek to control uncontrolled chaos
By James G. Zumwalt, opinion contributor
Much of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East today shares a common thread: Iran. The chaos we see stems from two sources - aggression mandated by Iran's mullahs and the fallout therefrom. And, while difficult for us to grasp, there may well be a certain method to the mullahs' madness in creating this chaos - although doubtfully it is not playing out as they intended.
Before addressing the method, let us examine the chaos.
For two years now, protests and strikes have been occurring in Iran with regularity, further wreaking havoc upon an economy that, under the pressure of U.S. sanctions, has been spiraling downward. These sanctions have dropped Iran to the bottom of OPEC's list of crude producers. The result has been the worst unrest the country has suffered in 40 years as protests have spread to 132 cities.
While domestic security forces remain too strong for protesters to overcome, it is clear from the continuing social unrest the public has reached a breaking point in its tolerance of a theocracy now viewed as the enemy of the people.
Iranians struggle for survival because of an economy on life support (in spite of President Barack Obama having released billions of dollars to the Iranian government), venting their anger at the mullahs who have been stripping the country of its wealth to fund their own or to fund terrorist organizations outside the country, such as Hezbollah's Shiites, to do their bidding for them. Adding insult to injury, the mullahs have ignored their own people by also crossing sectarian lines to fund the Sunni terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.
Just like previous domestic protests, the mullahs have no hesitation about pulling out all the stops to quell it. Brutality, torture, mass killings are among options being used to preserve their power. In 1988, an estimated 30,000 political prisoners suffered extra-judicial executions. More than 1,000 have been shot and killed in the current protests.
Like apples rotting from within, so too is the Iranian government's control. But as domestic protests challenge that control at its core, other challenges to the mullahs' control are mounting outside the Islamic Republic.
During the mullahs' 40-year reign, they have sought to create a regional "caliphate." While they felt Syria, at least until the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad began, was firmly in it, they also believed Iraq and Lebanon were, too.
But now, the Iraqis have come to resent Iran's long reach into their country's affairs - a reach that expanded with the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops. For Shia-majority Iran, it was the mullahs' natural expectation to pull Shia-majority Iraq into their caliphate fold.
Iran's expansion into Lebanon - a once Christian-majority and now Muslim-majority country - came into the caliphate fold largely through the efforts of Hezbollah, founded and subsequently funded by Iran. While the U.S. briefly played a role in trying to play peacemaker in Lebanon, the 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks bombing, ordered by Tehran, that killed 241 Americans, caused the U.S. to withdraw from the country in 1984.
Thus, U.S. withdrawals from both countries created a vacuum that Iran immediately sought to fill as part of its master plan.
However, all is not well within the caliphate today. Just like the mullahs have made life miserable for their own people, they have done the same for the Lebanese and Iraqis.
In Iraq, anti-Iran protests have erupted, resulting in the burning of its consulate in Najaf. In Lebanon, protests have broken out over the ruling elite's economic corruption.
Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir recently said of Tehran's efforts to re-assert its control, "Iran is on a rampage." No longer able to lavish money upon its key players at home or terrorist proxies abroad, Jubeir explains U.S. sanctions are impacting on practically every sector of Tehran's economy. While the bad news is the "good guys" - the Iranian people - have suffered the financial squeeze, the good news is so, too, have the "bad guys."
To understand how Middle East chaos originally was part of the mullahs' master plan, we need to look back at their belief in the return of "the Mahdi" or "12th Imam."
According to Islamic belief, the Mahdi disappeared at a young age in the 9th century, rising into a state of occultation, where he remains until a "triggering event" causes his return to Earth to subjugate the world to Islam. That triggering event is world chaos.
While Sunnis believe in the Mahdi as well, there is a distinction: They believe such chaos must evolve independently of man's interference; the mullahs, however, believe man can be a catalyst in creating it.
While the mullahs sought to create an "organized" chaos that they controlled, what they are facing is uncontrolled chaos as they learn about the law of unintended consequences.
We should be worried about how Iran fares in trying to bring its own order to this chaos. Despite a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated by Obama in 2015, supposedly delaying Tehran's path to developing nuclear arms for at least 10 years, we are now learning the "break out" time by which it could have a nuclear weapon is merely months away. Additionally, its ever-improving missile capability is extending its striking distance. And it is just such a nuclear strike capability that is more in line with the controlled chaos of the mullahs' original master plan.
Doubters need only look to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim during his tenure (2005-2013). Confident Tehran would have a nuclear weapon while in office, he informed other Arab leaders Mahdi would be returning soon, commissioning a film to explain the chaos to come. (Earlier, as mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad even had its streets widened to accommodate welcoming crowds for Mahdi's return.) Only the setback caused to Iran's nuclear program by the introduction of the U.S.-Israeli malware "Stuxnet" denied Ahmadinejad his dream of nukes ushering in Mahdi.
While some of us may take comfort believing Iran would never use a nuclear weapon against us, knowing the impact of a U.S. counter-strike, we should not. The late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei disregarded it long ago, proclaiming 20 years ago this month: "We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. ... Patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world."
The mullahs' master plan should leave us with little doubt as to what Iran's intentions are once it is nuclear-armed.
James G. Zumwalt is a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who served in the Vietnam War, the U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He heads a security consulting firm named after his father, Adm. Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc.
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Rhodococcus sp. RHA1 gehört zu den Actinobakterien. Es handelt sich dabei um aerobe, grampositive säurefeste Stäbchen. Mit ca. 9,7 Mio. Basenpaaren, angeordnet in einem linearen Chromosom und drei linearen Plasmiden, gilt das Genom als eines der größten Bakteriengenome überhaupt. Das Genom ist seit Oktober 2006 vollständig sequenziert.

Der Bakterienstamm wurde als  Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 der Art Rhodococcus jostii zugeordnet, weiter wird er unter den Namen Rhodococcus sp. (strain RHA1) und Rhodococcus jostii strain RHA1 geführt. Die Bezeichnung strain stammt aus dem Englischen und bedeutet Bakterienstamm.

Als Vertreter der Ordnung Actinomycetales in der Abteilung Actinobacteria gehört Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 zu den Bakterien mit hohem GC-Gehalt, also einem hohen Anteil der Nukleinbasen Guanin und Cytosin in der Bakterien-DNA. Die genetische Untersuchung hat einen GC-Gehalt von 67 Mol-Prozent ergeben. Das Genom des Bakterienchromosoms weist eine Größe von 7805 Kilobasenpaaren (kb) auf. Der untersuchte Stamm verfügt zusätzlich noch über drei Plasmide, deren Größe mit 1123 kb, 443 kb bzw. 332 kb zwar deutlich geringer ausfällt im Vergleich zum Bakterienchromosom, die aber für Plasmide eine bemerkenswerte Größe aufweisen.

Der Organismus ist in der Lage, polychlorierte Biphenyle (PCB) umzuwandeln und kann so auf kontaminierten Böden leben. Auf einem Lindankontaminierten Boden ist Rhodococcus sp. RHA1 auch extrahiert worden.

Eine industrielle Nutzung von Rhodococcus erfolgt über die Herstellung von bioaktiven Steroiden, Acrylamid und Acrylsäure (Banerjee, A. & Sharma, R. 2002). Durch ihre schnelle Wachstumsrate eignen sich Rhodococci auch hervorragend, um als experimentelles System für Streptomyces oder pathogene Verwandte wie Mycobacterium tuberculosis zu dienen (Gurtler, V. & Mayall, B.C. 2004).

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App for the homeless aims to curb addiction, incarceration
Feb 21, 2018 | STATESCOOP
A team of Oklahoma researchers is turning to technology to help keep homeless people out of jail.
The Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center (OTRC) will be using a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute of Health to develop and study the results of a mobile app, known as Link2Care, that would allow for homeless adults to access community resources like case managers, substance abuse and mental health counseling, and other crisis management services with the tap of a smartphone.
"The aim of the Link2Care app is to increase the use of already available case management services, and thereby, help homeless adults to reduce alcohol use, drug use, psychological distress, and ultimately reduce homeless nights and re-arrest," lead investigator Dr. Michael Businelle said in a statement.
Businelle is director of the Mobile Health Shared Resource (mHealth) at OTRC, a division of the Stephenson Cancer Center, a cancer treatment facility based in Oklahoma City. His office conducted a study of six homeless shelters in Oklahoma City and found that 75 percent of people surveyed said they had a cellphone.
"People's phones are within arm's reach for 90 percent of waking hours," Businelle told StateScoop. "So, it's a really good way to intervene to help people change health behaviors. … The use of technology to reduce barriers to service utilization among at-risk and hard-to-reach populations has great potential for intervention science."
Businelle told StateScoop that there's a "revolving door" problem with homeless populations and the justice system that often results in unnecessary maximum stays for what often amounts to petty crimes. This process, he said, ultimately costs taxpayers money and fails to provide adequate rehabilitative care for homeless people.
Businelle will work with researchers from the University of Texas School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and University of Kentucky for the five-year study, which will will enroll 432 participants from a Dallas-based Homeless Recovery Program. The participants will be divided into three groups — those who see the normal standard of care, those provided with a cellular phone sans the full Link2Care app, and those provided with a cellular phone with the Link2Care app.
He says he hopes that a daily survey participants take that monitors things like alcohol and drug use will let researchers know if the app or phone is succeeding in helping homeless populations stay safe. The app will also attempt to "pinpoint variables" predictive of substance use, psychological stress and recurring homelessness or arrest.
The $3.3 million dollar project is funded through an National Institute of Health grant and the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, a public trust created by the state to manage funds gathered from settlements or lawsuits against tobacco companies.
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The council found that the unemployment rate for ex-offenders in Washington, D.C., is as high as 46 percent. According to the report, 8,000 individuals were released from prison or jail into the District last year, and it is anticipated that about 4,000 of these individuals will re-offend, finding themselves back behind bars in the next three years.
Mayor Vincent C. Gray and officials from the D.C. Department of Employment Services (DOES) have launched the second phase of the One City • One Hire campaign, which was announced in September, and designed to encourage businesses in the Washington metropolitan area to hire qualified, unemployed District residents.
The Linwood Center, in Ellicott City, received $50,000 from the Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundation to fund its supported employment program for adults with autism.
Linwood provides education, employment and residential services for children and adults with autism and related developmental disabilities.
One day after the Council for Court Excellence (CCE) held a press conference to share the findings of a major Ex-Offender study with the public, D.C. Councilmember Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) chaired a hearing focused on ex-offenders, their needs, the programs available and the countless difficulties they face once released from jail.
The Council hearing, held on Friday, Nov. 18, was the first in 10 years. For several hours, lawmakers heard testimony from 139 individuals and representatives from non-profits, governmental organizations, the private sector and city officials.
While much of the country struggles with job creation, D.C. is in the unique position of having more jobs than residents. So why are some D.C. neighborhoods facing Depression-era unemployment rates? DCentric examines how D.C.'s healthy economy has left out so many Washingtonians and what some are doing to close the unemployment gap.
Timely new research demonstrates the positive "return on investment" to employers who support skills and workforce readiness training for their new employees.
AUGUSTA, Maine — Under the short-term spending measure passed in October, Congress cut federal funds for special education, disadvantaged youth programs, teacher improvement programs and career and technical education. Maine Education Commissioner Steve Bowen said the cuts total nearly $1.5 million in Maine and have already taken effect.
Today, Capital Area Asset Builders (CAAB) and Citi Community Development formally announced the new Jobs & Entrepreneurship Stimulus Account (JESA) program, an accelerated Individual Development Account (IDA) savings program for individuals who agree to save $500 towards their small business or job training costs.


It is 503 miles from Mynyddcerrig to Paris, but in many ways, in fact in most ways, the two places are not just worlds apart, they are more like galaxies apart.
One man who has spent a large part of the last ten years making that inter galactic journey is top referee Nigel Owens.
He is a familiar figure in the city of lights, indeed the song "I love Paris in the springtime, I love Paris in the fall" could have been written for him, as refereering appointments to six nations matches, autumn internationals and European cup games in France' capital city have been plentiful.
Last Saturday at the Stade de France he became the most capped referee in 6 Nations history , when he refereed his 18th tournament match.
After a final blast of "Mor fawr wyt ti" in the solitary final minutes in the changing room, Nigel ran out in the Parisian drizzle to referee a pulsating and brutal match.
For those of you who don't speak the language of heaven those Welsh words translate to how great thou art, a hymn that has been a huge comfort to many welsh families in tough times.
This week my father passed away and one of the great comforts I received were messages of condolence from Nigel, which speaks volumes for the man.
When you add his 21 matches as an assistant referee, and his three as TMO, it makes the achievement even more impressive.
In a murky floodlit corner of Saint-Denis with 82.38 on the clock and France within touching distance of a shock win over Ireland, Johnny Sexton, after 41 phases of play, swung his right foot into as sweetly struck a dropped goal as you could wish for to win the match for the men in green.
Two blasts on the whistle followed almost simultaneously one to award the score the other to signal the end of the game.
503 miles away, the locals reached for the remote, or headed to the bar for another pint, safe in the knowledge that "their boy" had done his work without fear or favour as always.
The 2018 Six Nations has started and tomorrow it will be time for another inter galactic journey north westwards.


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Download OSM 22 23 Soccer Game android on PC
Create a http://emulatorgames.online/games/soccer/ free account to receive new coupons for your favorites apps every week. Take full control of the storyline and embark on an adventure such as you've never experienced before. Kick the football to shoot the target, and you can get scores.
If you leave the game or are removed from it , you will lose the game irrespective of the score. Choose a disc formation before starting the match, or a default formation will be auto-selected. Build your very own soccer empire from having a powerful team to a state-of-the-art facility. This game is easy to start but it is too difficult to be a master of Score! It has awesome controls with hands, shoots the ball with finger and drag the keeper for a great save.
That means you'll need to set your lineup manually, though there are a couple things that might make it easier for you to choose your starters or make the necessary changes. A criticism of the previous version was that the game was too unforgiving and so suppressed fluid attacking football. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 was issued with more tricks and an overall more attacking mentality, but whether it does make it easier to take on defenders and get forward is debatable.
In order to shine a light on these underappreciated classics, we've compiled the best PC games for football fans.
They were even invited to participate in the Copa América that same year, where they picked up one point from three matches, losing narrowly to Colombia and Argentina.
It served as a showcase for the console's impressive motion sensing capabilities, with each of its sports asking you to perform a unique movement to control the action.
Some are pretty easy to do, whilst others are more focused on long-term improvement.
Soccer is a very demanding high performance sport, however to play the best online football games and be the best you don't need to be in shape. Play against the machine, against your friends or practice throwing penalties or direct fouls. Football, Tactics & Glory couldn't have a better name. You'll first build a club before taking part in tactical, turn-based matches that involve strategizing and thinking ahead instead of fast reflexes or button presses.
Fine detailing, attention to detail with low performance cannot but please. In the game, you are waiting for three scenarios for the development of the plot, which will unfold depending on the environment – a football stadium, parking or a city. Collecting coins, you can open 4 new characters, change them and improve. In total, in the game, you are waiting for more than 120 unique levels in 40 of which you have the opportunity to win cups and special awards.
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As in other titles in its category,Extreme Football offers us the possibility of unlocking players, each with their own techniques and abilities. In the same way as in FIFA and PES, Dream League Soccer encourages us tocreate our team and achieve success by signing the best stars and winning every game. It will even be possible tocreate your own stadiumin which to delight the public with the game of the galacticos that make up our team, all of them with official FIFPro licenses.
Keep in mind that one friendly costs four Boss Coins to schedule, so if you think of things that way, there is a limit to the number of friendlies you can schedule. Additionally, you should go to the Specialists screen to manually choose your penalty taker, free kicker, corner kicker, and team captain. Once again, there is no auto-select option here, but generally, you want someone with a high Att rating for the first three set pieces we mentioned, and someone with experience for your Team Captain. According to NetEase Games, they stated his comments "hurt the feelings of Chinese fans and violated the sport's spirit of love and peace. We do not understand, accept or forgive this.".


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Sabriel by Garth Nix is an entertaining fantasy novel for young people with a strong female protagonist. Young Sabriel is forced to battle the lord of the undead and his minion in order to find her father, save the kingdom, and win the heart of the young man of her dreams.
Sabriel is set in a fantasy world that has strong elements of contemporary English life. Sabriel is a young woman studying at a magic boarding school when she learns that her father, a famous necromancer, with the title "Mage Abhorsen", has disappears. Because she has been given his sword and magical bells, Sabriel realizes that her father must have crossed into the watery world of the dead. In order to save him, Sabriel must find his body within one cycle of the moon and cast a saving spell on his body. So it is Sabriel sets out on a journey to the Old Kingdom. The Old Kingdom is a magical world filled with free magic wielders – some good and some very evil – called "charter mages", undead zombies known as "hands", and spirit trackers known as "mordicants". At her father's house in the Old Kingdom, Sabriel is warned that her father's enemy, an evil necromancer named "Kerrigor" is responsible for her father's disappearance. Kerrigor is bent on controlling the world and has been systematically destroying the charter markers that keep good and evil in balance. Also at her father's house she is introduced to her traveling companion a magical talking cat named "Mogget". Mogget is a free magic creature imprisoned in the body of a cat and thus is the unwilling servant to the Abhorsens. He will be quite instrumental for her journey, but she is warned to never remove his collar. As her journey progresses, she also encounters the handsome Touchstone, a mysterious young "Charter Mage" who is very silent about his past. As the trio move deeper into the Old Kingdom they meet a variety of powerful creatures including a host of the undead, the evil servants of Kerrigor and the Clayr, a mysterious clan of beautiful women with psychic sight but with no sense of time. The novel concludes with a major battle between good and evil, the living and the dead.
Sabriel is a complex fantasy novel. Like many fantasy works, it is filled with magical elements (in this case magical swords, bells, and charter marks). The reader is asked to suspend believe and wander through a world filled with the undead as well as a world with fishing villages, army sergeants, and slow moving jeeps.
Sabriel is also significant in the growing field of female fantasy heroines. She is strong, yet she has fragile moments. She is a tomboy yet is well aware of what a nice gown can do for catching a young man's fancy. She worries about being wise enough to best the chief undead but also whether she should kiss the young man of her dreams. Like Harry Potter the work blends the elements of a coming-of-age story with humorous moments.
Sabriel is a tightly knit story. It is well crafted with well developed characters. I must admit as well developed as Sabriel and Touchstone are I find the secondary characters much more endearing. I loved the characters of Moggett, Colonel Hoaries and the Clayr twins. Moggett is all cat. He is irascibly smug and switches between being a friend or a foe as the mood suits him. The Clayr are not the usual fodder for fantasy novels. They are the epitome of drop dead gorgeous, some what flaky "valley girls". It is easy to picture them flipping their long shiny blond hair with a casually expressed "whatever." Lastly, the colonel is the stereotypical British officer ala Monty Python. He is thoroughly serious even against outrageous odds and yet warmly paternal.
Garth Nix was born and raised in Canberra, Australia. He earned a writing degree from the University of Canberra. He served in the Australian Army Reserve in the Assault Pioneer platoon for four years. He has worked as a book publicist, a publisher's sales representative, and editor. He is now a full-time author. Ragwitch (1988) was his first book. Ragwitch (1995) was voted among the Notable Books of 1991 by the Children's Book Council of Australia and Sabriel was the winner for the 'Best Fantasy Novel' of the 1995 Aurealis Awards. He is also the author of Shade's Children (1997); Keys to the Kingdom: Mister Monday (2003); and the five books of the Seventh Tower series: The Fall (2000), Castle (2000), Aenir (2000), Above The Veil (2001), Dark Revelation (2001), and The Violet Keystone (2001). Sabriel (1994) is the first book of a trilogy 'The Old Kingdom' trilogy. The second book is Lirael (2002) and the third is Abhorsen (2003). (The Listening Library audiobook of Lirael is currently available and Abhorsen will be available in April 2003.) Nix currently lives in Sydney.
Sabriel by Garth Nix is an engrossing coming-of-age tale setting against the backdrop of magic and the undead. This excellent novel is also brilliantly narrated. Nix and Curry are a winning combination! This book is rated "Ages 12-up". Note: Some young children may have difficulties with some of the graphic images of the undead. I highly recommend it. Chilling!


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Westerplatte è una penisola situata alla foce della cosiddetta "Vistola Morta" (Martwa Wisła in polacco). Tra il 1926 e il 1939 è stata la sede di una fortezza polacca, la cui strenua difesa, durante i primi giorni della seconda guerra mondiale ha rappresentato uno dei cardini della resistenza polacca all'invasione delle truppe tedesche. I combattimenti, durati dal 1 al 7 settembre 1939, sono noti come battaglia della Westerplatte.

Storia
Nel maggio 1734 un corpo di spedizione francese di 2500 uomini sbarcò sulla penisola ai comandi del conte Ludovico de Plélo, con l'intenzione di rompere l'assedio russo a Danzica (Gdańsk).

Nel 1924 la Lega delle Nazioni ha consegnato alla Polonia la sovranità sulla penisola, concessione confermata nel 1925 con un atto in cui Westerplatte viene consegnata alla Polonia in perpetuo. Il 7 dicembre 1925 la Lega delle Nazioni permette alla Polonia di far stazionare un contingente militare sulla penisola, e già il 18 gennaio 1926, alle ore 14.00 la nave ORP Mewa sbarcò il primo contingente di truppe.

Fra il 1926 e il 1939 è stata attiva sulla penisola una fortezza dell'esercito polacco, adibita a deposito di munizioni.

Il 25 agosto 1939 si avvicina a Westerplatte la corazzata della kriegsmarine Schleswig-Holstein, ufficialmente in visita di cortesia alla città di Danzica. La mattina del 1º settembre 1939, alle ore 04:48 la nave apre il fuoco sulla città e sulla fortezza di Westerplatte, dando così inizio alla seconda guerra mondiale.

Dal 1966 è presente sulla penisola un monumento ai caduti in difesa della costa, alto 25 metri e situato su una collina artificiale di 20 metri.

Il 12 giugno 1987 si è tenuto a Westerplatte un incontro fra papa Giovanni Paolo II, 38 sopravvissuti della battaglia e la gioventù polacca.

Nel 2009, a settanta anni da quella data, la zecca di stato polacca ha coniato una moneta da 2 zloty a ricordo del tragico evento.

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Penisole della Polonia