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March 23, 2020 by Colltales
Curtain Raiser
Six Feet Apart, Not Under, Colltalers
The U.S. is far behind the coronavirus curve and, yes, the Trump administration is responsible for it. All headlines about COVID-19's stunning spread are related to these two truths. No large scale testing is scheduled; no extra medical supplies will be provided; Americans are sitting ducks. Discuss.
And yet, elected officials have profiteered from the crisis just as Big Pharma and healthcare insurers surely will too. Keep that in mind as a depression approaches; when social justice is restored in this country, they shall be all accountable. Will American compassion have its own day to shine too?
The U.S. woke up this morning in a virtual shutdown. With unemployment set to break records and fatalities from the disease unfortunately set to skyrocket, Americans are doing their best to stay safe and together. But most don't know whether they're infected, or if there's still time to be saved.
There's such a gargantuan vacuum at the top leadership of this country that even billionaires with the muscle to move markets and create a path to solutions are confused and unarticulated. The same about the legions of healthcare and customer service workers thrown in the trenches of this battle with little more than a thermometer – don't bother trying to get one; like face masks and rubbing alcohol, most retailers online or not don't have them.
We'll be back to that, but let's first note China, whose brutal tactics to control the virus have finally reversed the curve. It kicked out the NYTimes, Washington Post, and Wall Street journalists in response to U.S. restrictions to its state-run news outlets. Yeah, bash reporters; that'll teach them well.
On the other side of the spectrum, Cuba has stepped up to the plate and is offering medical and humanitarian help. Besides having developed a drug, Interferon alfa 2b, proven effective with dengue fever and HIV/AIDS, adopted by the Chinese medical
authorities to this coronavirus too, it's sending doctors to Italy to help out. It did the same during cholera and Ebola outbreaks but you wouldn't know about it by just following the American media.
It even allowed last week a 1,000-passenger-and-crew Britsh cruise ship to dock in Mariel, after charting what was dubbed the 'voyage of the damned.' Some 50 people suspected of being coronavirus-positive were among those it took care of and arranged for their flights home. To the deranged far-right, it's all propaganda, but its Samaritan efforts of the past decades go beyond that and equate to what was one of the U.S.'s main export: solidarity.
A major crisis such as the one the world faces now has also another side effect: other stuff happens but no one notices. Or rather, some pick the time to advance their interests. Take Vladimir Putin, for instance. Last Monday, Russia's Constitutional Court approved changes to allow him to remain in power till 2036, pending a referendum. As president or prime minister, he's been there since 1999, so his latest maneuver surprised absolutely no one.
Also, speaking of washing hands, the United Nations marked yesterday the International Water Day by reminding everyone to use it plenty to protect themselves. Unfortunately, some 20% of humans don't even have plumbing, others have to walk miles for a gallon, and in major cities such as Flint, MI, and Newark, NJ, drinking from the tap is not a good idea at all. That leaves us with all the extra water that's being melted from ancient glaciers.
Consider Greenland. In a stark development, its melted iced raised global sea levels by 2.2mm in just two months. That's faster than anyone had predicted, indicating that, well, science was right, climate deniers have been wrong, and no matter what, humanity still has an even bigger fish to fry.
But if there's a silver lining to the coronavirus worldwide pause is that it grounded economic activity, and its pollutants, to a halt and, guess what, air and waterways got immediately cleaner all over the world. That proves one remarkable thing: we can do it. We should take this worldwide idleness to apply a grand plan, say, a Green New Deal, and reboot the economy from a different, renewable starting point. Sadly, Congress is not with us in that.
Back to stuff that happens when no one is looking, here are some of the less honorable, downright ruthless things that the White House is setting up behind doors: a cut in food stamps for 700,000 Americans; a multibillion-dollar package for airlines – which spent their tax breaks on buying back stocks and let their business rot – and oil and gas fracking companies; and the immoral, pervasive rush to nominate the highest number of judges.
That's an unforgivable travesty, to load the bench with utterly party-biased federal judges who by stamping rulings favorable only to the executive will simply destroy the independence of the judiciary. It's been a well-planned tactic from the get-go by the Republican Party and it'll take years to be rebalanced even if a combative, argumentative, visionary Democrat defeats Trump in November. Can Joe Biden be that people's warrior on this issue?
Time will tell but the events of the last few days bode poorly to President Obama's VP. While his adversary Bernie Sanders was all over the country fighting to prevent yet another bailout to big business, Biden was all but missing. He was part of the single stimulus Congress was trying to pass and failed. For it would neither protect over 20% of the U.S. workforce nor guarantee free testing and treatment and offered only a paltry 15 days of leave.
Now comes word that he was 'preparing' (which probably means, learning his lines). Indeed, many think Joe's a nice chap, just as Trump rated a 10 his disastrous mishandling of the coronavirus crisis. We're not dismissing yet anyone willing to lead the country into another direction before it sinks for good, but it seems Trump has successfully downgraded all expectations for this election. Disillusioned Sanders supporters may stay at home again.
With rampant profiteering from the crisis by all sides at the top, the impossibility of having massive protests around the nation, and the imminent collapse of the entire hospital system due to an expected spike in demand, 'Spring Will (Indeed) Be a Little Late This Year.' Frank Loesser could never have imagined that his beloved Broadway, where The Fantasticks broke records, would be in the dark just before the new season. But here we are.
We'll miss it to save ourselves and be around for the next spring. Instead, we're actually calling people we'd talk to only online; we're cleaning and doing stuff around the house; cooking, reading, digging the garden, or just being silly with kids and pets. And thoroughly washing hands, of course.
Over 500,000 thousand will sleep in the streets tonight; countless will perish either from exposure or the virus; many more will get infected. But we'll survive and resist such an ungracious leader who hasn't offered a single word of comfort to Americans before and during this scourge. He's actually made it worst whenever he opened his mouth. But we'll find the strength. Yeah, it's Ok to call Mom again. Rest well, we will need you tomorrow. Cheers WC
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Colltales says:
So true. Here the good doctor got the Siberian treatment; just out of the headlines for now but maybe we should be afraid of a future when America would have its own Gulags. Thanks for your input and despite all, Cheers lol
michelinewalker says:
Dr Fauci says that President Trump has a very short attention span. He's right, but it's worse. All news is fake news. He is not in touch with reality and doesn't want to be. Be careful.


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Acting Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services: Trump Admin Ready to Deport 1 Million Illegal Aliens (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila July 7, 2019
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The Trump Administration is ready to deport approximately 1 million illegal aliens, according to the acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli.
ICE is preparing to deport illegal aliens with removal orders.
"They're ready to just perform their mission, which is to go and find and detain and then deport the proximity one million people who have final removal orders. They've been all the way through the due process and have final removal orders," Cuccinelli said during an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation." " Who among those will be targeted for this particular effort, or not, is really just information kept within ICE at this point."
"I'm just pointing out that the pool of those with final removal orders is enormous. And it's important to note, here we are talking about ICE doing its job as if it's special. And really this should be going on on a rolling basis for ICE and they've been interfered with effectively and held up by the politics of Washington," said Cuccinelli.
USCIS Acting Director @USCISCuccinelli on undocumented immigrants that face deportation. https://t.co/3i3pPtSC9f pic.twitter.com/Pn8g78lN8d
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 7, 2019
Last month President Trump announced that ICE will begin deporting approximately 1 million illegal aliens.
Shortly after the announcement, Trump walked back his threat and delayed the deportations after the location of the raids leaked to the media.
A record number of illegal aliens are flooding over the US border because of our dangerous asylum policies and Congress is doing nothing to stop them.
Even worse, every single Democrat presidential candidate in the last debate said they were in favor of giving illegal aliens free healthcare. It is way past time for massive deportations.

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Ex nº18 del mondo, in carriera ha vinto un torneo ATP in singolare, raggiungendo i quarti di finale agli US Open nel 2002.

Ottimo doppista, è stato nº1 del mondo in doppio nel giugno 2003, vincendo in tutto 52 titoli ATP tra cui 10 tornei del Grande Slam tra doppio e doppio misto. In quest'ultima specialità si è inoltre laureato campione olimpico vincendo la medaglia d'oro alle Olimpiadi di Londra nel 2012 in coppia con la connazionale Viktoryja Azaranka, battendo in finale la Gran Bretagna.

Carriera
Professionista dal 1996, Mirny è stato un regolarista in singolo fino al 2008, ma ha ottenuto i risultati migliori da doppista: a fronte di un solo titolo da singolarista ne vanta 48 nel doppio maschile, tra cui 4 Roland Garros (2005 e 2006 in coppia con Jonas Björkman e 2011-2012 con Daniel Nestor) e 2 US Open (2000 con Lleyton Hewitt, 2002 con Mahesh Bhupathi).
Nel suo palmarès figurano anche quattro titoli del Grande Slam nel doppio misto (in coppia con Serena Williams, Viktoryja Azaranka e Andrea Hlaváčková) e un oro al torneo dei Giochi della XXX Olimpiade di Londra nel 2012 insieme alla Azaranka.

Ha concluso ben nove stagioni nella top-10 mondiale tra le quali spicca il 2003 chiuso al primo posto. In Coppa Davis ha giocato ottantotto match con la squadra bielorussa vincendone cinquantasei e aiutando la sua nazione a raggiungere per la prima volta le semifinali nel 2004.

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Singolare

Vittorie (1)

Finali perse (3)

Doppio

Vittorie (52)

Finali perse (46)

Doppio misto

Vittorie (5)

Finali perse (4)

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Alfieri ai Giochi della XXX Olimpiade
Alfieri bielorussi ai Giochi olimpici estivi
Vincitori di medaglia d'oro olimpica per la Bielorussia

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Graužiai could refer to several Lithuanian villages:
Graužiai, Gudžiūnai, in Gudžiūnai Eldership of Kėdainiai District Municipality
 Graužiai, Josvainiai, in Josvainiai Eldership of Kėdainiai District Municipality
 Graužiai, Kunioniai, a smaller village nearby Kunioniai in Josvainiai Eldership of Kėdainiai District Municipality
 Graužiai, Širvintos, in Širvintos District Municipality.

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In Ulladu Narpadu he [the narrator of this story] found as 'the world is false' and 'what exists is only one.' These ideas puzzled the young man All that he had learned at the university rose up in his mind: the nature of the atom and the universe, the wonderful and great power that was stored in them; and the means employed by scientists to harness this power for everyday use.
He began to think about the book he was reading and the academic knowledge he had acquired: I am like a tiny atom in this vast universe. Why should God create me here? Where was I before I was born? Where will I be after I die, and why should I be here now? Is not everything that I see real? Am I not aware of the existence of things through my five senses?
The Maharshi laughed a little and then kept quiet for some time. A few minutes later he gave the following reply.
What is this thing that we call "mind"? Only thoughts.
But all thoughts expand from one and the same thought.
That one thought is the primary cause and basis of all other thoughts. It is the "I am the body" thought. Unless thought occurs first, the appearance of the many external objects, and the accompanying thought that they are different from oneself, will not occur. In deep sleep, where the 'I am the body' idea is absent, the world does appear.
Nor do other thoughts appear there. When one wakes up, it is the thought 'I am the body' that rises first. In this thought there are two components: one is the body and the other is 'I'.
The body is something that appears and disappears. It keeps changing all the time and its existence is dependent on outside materials such as food.
However, the characteristic of 'I' is directly opposed to this.
body does not exist all the time. Therefore, it cannot be real. The 'I', though, exists all the time in all the three states of waking, dream and sleep. It is therefore real, whereas the body is unreal. Furthermore, these two joined together cannot constitute a real entity. How can night and day, darkness and light, exist together? If light exists, there is no darkness; if there is darkness, there is no light.
In the same way, no entity comprising the body and 'I' exists. Therefore, the "I am the body" thought is itself false.
"...no entity comprising the body and 'I' exists. Therefore, the "I am the body" thought is itself false.


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Sam and Julie's Backpacker Honeymoon
Little England in Sri Lanka
Leaving the UK
London to Dubai
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Indonesia and Malaysia
Australia, New Zealand and Fiji
Places we've stayed
A view of Ella Gap
We left Kandy to head to Sri Lanka's highest town, Nuwara Eliya, or Little England as its known.
We could only get 3rd Class Reserved tickets and the owner of our homestay had panicked us a little, telling stories of the crowdedness and unsavoury characters we would encounter. People would be sat in our seats and we'd have to stand holding our bags for hours he said.
When we got to the station we almost bottled it and waited for a later train. After a bit of dithering we thought 'sod it let's get on, it'll be alright'. The worry was for nothing and the journey was great. Someone was sat in our seat, but of course she moved when we got there. Everyone had a seat and the carriage was comfortable, nothing like what we had be told. He must have been talking about 3rd Class Unreserved.
If you get hungry there are no cheese shops, bottles of red or fast food and Upper Crusts. Rather, you can buy all sorts of fruit, samosas and fried dhal from guys up and down the trains and through the side windows. You hear them coming as the train pulls in, shouting 'waddy waddy' (or something similar – my Sinhalese isn't the best).
Nuwara Eliya has two golf courses, Sri Lanka's only horse racing track and Victoria Park.
And it is freezing. Like proper cold. You can imagine what it was like in its heyday with a large expat colonial community. And it's fascinating to think that those whole travelled half-way across the world only wanted to replicate what they left behind.
But it's sad to say that a lot of the colonial grandeur has disappeared and we felt that in many ways the town has an essence of emptiness about it, almost like it has been deserted.
We only stayed here one night, the main reason being our 4:30am departure to Worlds End the next day. World's End is one of Sri Lanka's most popular attractions and is a near 900m vertical cliff situated in Horton Plains national park. On a clear day it gives amazing views over the south of the country including Udawalawe national park and even to the coast.
We prepared for the trip by reading this article.
This was a real highlight. It was truly spectacular and well worth the early start. We walked for 9km in the most beautiful landscape.
By 11am we were done and set off to the highest railway station in Sri Lanka to catch the train to Ella.
The train was late and they will only sell you tickets in the final few minutes before it arrives. A strange system presumably to do with the amount of seats left after tickets were sold at the previous station. These stations are only connected by phone and 100 year old signalling systems but seem to do an admirable job.
This was a very local train with only 3rd class unreserved seats. With a little apprehension we paid Rs45 each (about 22p) for the four hour journey. We jumped on board and found our seats (turns out we sat in the seat reserved for members of the clergy but nobody seemed to mind).
It's a cliche I know, but the journey was amazing with incredible views of huge valleys, mountain and tea plantations, and amazing people. We met a local school head teacher who gave us the lowdown of the area, his family, his school – the lot. Plus an old mental lady, we couldn't understand a word she was saying but was lovely – we think. Our fears of 3rd class unreserved were completely unfounded and we felt a little bit silly about our previous panic.
It was certainly better than the 7:29 to London Victoria anyhow.
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Why Does Illinois' Unemployment System Keep Failing So Many People? A Quest For Answers Continues
By Dorothy Tucker November 30, 2020 at 10:32 pm
Filed Under:Deloitte, Dorothy Tucker, IDES, Illinois Department Of Employment Security, Kristin Richards, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, unemployment, Unemployment Callback System
CHICAGO (CBS) — More than 65,000 new jobless claims were filed in Illinois the week of Nov. 16 – a whopping 40 percent jump from the week before.
The big question – will those out of work get help? All we know is that Illinois' unemployment system continues to Fail – with a capital F – the people out of work in Illinois.
CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker set out to get the answers taxpayers deserve from top managers at the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
"$6,184.22. $1,672.20," CJ Farrar read as he flipped through a pile of his bills. "It's approximately $20,000 total that I owe on the credit cards. And then medical bills are about $30,000 at this point."
Balances are ballooning for Farrar as he desperately battles to get unemployment benefits to feed his family.
"That's exactly what it was the whole time, just a huge fight to try and get my money that they owed me," said Farrar.
Tens of thousands of unemployed Illinoisans are struggling just like Farrar.
"I'm broke. I have $3 to my name," Darin Ortmann told CBS 2's Tara Molina in May. "I've broken down crying so many times just feeling helpless."
Dozens of people told CBS 2 how they're suffering under the strain – describing obstacles in their way like
"I'm so sad, I'm angry, and I need the money," Mayra Hernandez told CBS 2's Lauren Victory in June.
People trying to file for unemployment describe obstacles in their way like an overwhelmed website.
"I went to go certify my first time and I got an error message," said Farrar.
Others told us about a call center failing to keep up with demand.
"This money should be mine," Jackie Biederman told us in August. "But I can't even get through to somebody to find out where it is."
People also talk about glitches leading to dropped calls when a claimant has been waiting weeks or months to hear from an Illinois Department of Employment Security representative to help them with their particular problem.
"I heard a click looked down on my phone and I was disconnected," said Moika Long. "I was almost in tears."
Over the past eight months, CBS 2 has followed the rules and emailed IDES detailed questions. The reply? Usually, it has been a promise to get back to us "tomorrow," "in a couple of days," or "next week".
Too often, we never hear back. So we try to get answers in other ways.
For example, we tried through a public records request. The CBS 2 Investigators received internal reports giving us a behind the scenes look at what's going on with the new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) website and the extra agents hired to handle the cascade of calls. The $22 million systems are both implemented and managed by Deloitte.
Michele Evermore, an unemployment policy expert at the National Employment Law Project said, "I understand this is a new problem."
Still, she is critical.
"There are new people who have to be trained, getting people up and running is difficult, but with this much money committed to the effort it should be smoother," Evermore added.
The reports CBS 2 obtained raise other concerns.
The week of Nov. 13, the latest PUA weekly status report we have shows as many as 79,000 people didn't get paid because the system couldn't verify their identities.
The Call Center Operations Report shows there are fewer agents working each day now than in the summer – in the low 300s on Nov. 13 compared to the mid-400s in the middle of August.
But did that translate into longer wait times for claimants? That's another question we'd like to get answered.
And the woman we'd like to hear from is Acting IDES director Kristin Richards. Last week was the first time she'd ever attended a news conference since taking over in August. She took the opportunity to boast about progress.
"We're happy to say that in many cases claimants can hear from us in one to two weeks or less," Richards said last week.
But that's not what we're hearing from our viewers.
"Five and a half weeks later, they called back," one viewer, named Gary, told us at the end of October.
"I've been waiting for the supervisor to call me to move my claim ahead since at least August," said another viewer in mid-November.
This is all unacceptable, according to Evermore.
"This far into the pandemic, people should be able to get a call back after a couple of days after all of the resources committed to call centers," she said.
At one point in CBS 2's quest to get answers, Tucker dropped in on an Employment Security Advisory Board meeting.
Many top managers including Richards gave presentations. Their initials and voices showed, but no faces appeared on the Zoom.
Tucker asked: "An insider tells us that there are technical glitches causing these dropped calls, I'd like to know whether the agency is aware of this problem. If you are not, why not? If you are, what is the agency doing about it?
Again, there were no answers. But we know IDES is watching and listening. CBS 2 obtained an internal memo describing a "negative news cycle" and warning workers not to make "comments to the media."
After six months, waiting weeks for calls and speaking with six agents and specialists, Farrar finally got the $16,000 IDES owed him. It's hardly enough to put a dent in his debt.
"As soon as you start trying to pay some bills and pay back some stuff, you're at nothing," he said.
Viewers like Farrar want relief and answers. CBS 2 has been trying – asking more than a dozen times to sit down with Richards to discuss long wait times, filing issues, discontinued benefits, technical glitches. The list is long.
We know Richards has given interviews to other media outlets, but so far not to CBS 2.
So Tucker called Richards and several other senior IDES managers – including the Chief Legal Counsel, the Chief Financial Officer, the Deputy Director, and the Acting Director.
Tucker tried to ask about the length of time it's taking some people to get benefits and about the time it's taking for CBS 2 to get answers from IDES. She got a couple of voicemails and a couple of referrals to the IDES spokesperson.
Tucker eventually reached Acting Director Richards – who was polite, but still didn't answer any questions.
CBS 2 may be frustrated, but people like Laura Rice are exhausted.
"I am at the point where I've tapped into my 403(b). I've tapped into other resources," Rice said. "I'm tapped out."
Rice and others can't afford to give up – and neither will we.
And we have to keep pushing, because once again, when we finally heard from the spokesperson for IDES about this investigation, she didn't answer our most pressing questions.
Instead, her response was that she needed more time to collect the information.
And again, there has been nothing about an interview with Director Richards.
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CBS 2 is committing to Working For Chicago, connecting you every day with the information you or a loved one might need about the jobs market, and helping you remove roadblocks to getting back to work.
We'll keep uncovering information every day to help this community get back to work, until the job crisis passes. CBS 2 has several helpful items right here on our website, including a look at specific companies that are hiring, and information from the state about the best way to get through to file for unemployment benefits in the meantime.
Dorothy Tucker
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Advocates for ending gender-based violence, including Jenna Rose Sands (top left), took part in the annual Take Back the Night march in Victoria Park on Sept. 26. The focus of the evening addressed issues surrounding murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.
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Topics: Gender-based Violence	| Racism	| Take Back the Night
On Sept. 26, those opposing violence against women gathered in Victoria Park as part of the annual international Take Back the Night march.
The historical march originally began in the U.S. in the '70s, and now takes place in hundreds of cities across the world. In London Ont., Take Back the Night is organized by the Women's Events Committee (WEC). This year, the WEC focused on raising awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and Two-Spirited people.
The event occurred on the same day London's police chief responded to a London Free Press series examining a police sergeant's violence towards an intoxicated woman in 2016.
"Take Back the Night is always focused on eradicating gender-based violence and addressing systematic oppression and racism. We wanted to highlight the specific issues that plague Indigenous women, and the particular set of difficulties that Indigenous women encounter," Jenna Rose Sands, Indigenous artist and WEC member, told Interrobang as participants met in the park. "I think that's really important right now, especially in our city. We're finding out things about police officers, and the relationship between Indigenous people and police is problematic and difficult, and I think this is such a timely event."
The event featured drummers from the +Positive Voice program at Nokee Kwe, as well as Indigenous speakers such as Elyssa Rose from Athlosa Family Healing Services. In her speech, Rose noted that while 4 per cent of the female population in Canada is Indigenous, they make up 50 per cent of females who are trafficked.
By the time darkness fell, over 200 people had joined the crowd to drum, chant, and hold up signs advocating for an end to gender-based violence. The group marched through Downtown London on the perimeter of Victoria Park. A volunteer from the Amalgamated Transit Union drove a bus behind the marchers to accommodate those who could not walk along.
Male-identified attendees were welcomed at the rally and asked to assemble at the corner of Wellington Street and Queens Avenue to cheer on the female-identified marchers.
Once the march finished at the corner of Richmond Street and Central Avenue, participants paused to mingle, embrace, or continue to drum to catch the attention of passersby.
"Unfortunately, it's still important to have this event every year," WEC member Julie McDonald said. "Men are still perpetrating violence against women and gender minorities and we continue to gather in protest."
McDonald added that organizing Take Back the Night provided survivors of violence, and those affected by it, with a way to feel validated and heard.
"There really is a unique feeling to an event when you come together with women. It's a very empowering, emotional event," she said. "Some people come together to remember women that they've lost to violence that are no longer with us, so it's also a way to memorialize women and keep raising awareness about the issue, that it's not going away."
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Bèthvéser d'Armanhac (en francès Betbezer-d'Armagnac) és un municipi francès, situat al departament de les Landes i a la regió de la Nova Aquitània.

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It looks like you're calling cellForRowAtIndexPath: in your dealloc method of your view controller. Generally, calling anything from there is dangerous, but this particular issue is because setting a weak reference (the map view's delegate) to a deallocating object is not allowed. I would stop calling this method from your dealloc.
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I love this ferocity from Kimbra, who's usually been confined to quirky and enthusiastic song or heart-wrenching breakup ballads. The R&B/hip-hop mix, produced in part by Skrillex, in this song is great too and the beat hits heavier and heavier until the explosive outro. This and her first single "Everybody Knows" from her upcoming album Primal Heart have us so pumped to see what Kimbra has for us in the new year.


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Families Overjoyed as the U.S. House of Representatives passes the Sudden Unexpected Death Data Enhancement and Awareness Act (S.2746/H.R.669)
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 3, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — "After six years in Congress, I am overwhelmed with the bill's passage," said Laura Crandall, SUDC Foundation President and mother of Maria who died inexplicably at the age of 15 months. "This legislation marks the first time our federal government even recognizes the existence of sudden unexplained deaths of children after their first birthday. I am proud of our government today."
The Sudden Unexpected Death Data Enhancement and Awareness Act (S.2746/H.R.669) amends the Public Health Service Act to help enhance awareness about unexpected sudden death in early life. The legislation provides for consistent data collection related to stillbirths and sudden, unexpected deaths in both infants and children. By better understanding the causes of unexpected sudden death, we can do more to improve the health of all infants and children.
"It is difficult to put into words the intense emotion I feel with the passing of this critical bill. So many of us have joined together, motivated by our grief and the deep love for our children, to do what is right for others. To attempt to fix a broken system, so that the lives of other children can possibly be saved," says Stacy Nugent whose daughter Paige passed away at the age of 2.
According to the SUDC Foundation, every year, approximately 30,000 families in the U.S. are affected by Stillbirth, Sudden Unexpected Infant Death or Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC). SUDC is defined as the sudden death of a child greater than 1 year of age that remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the child's medical history (Krous 2005).
"Grieving families have been comforted today knowing that their voices have been heard!" explains Lorri Caffrey, SUDC Foundation Assistant Executive Director, whose daughter Jenna passed away at the age of 16 months. "Our country's leaders have joined in the fight to know why these tragedies occur and learn to ultimately prevent them. It is a great day in the hearts of so many who have been touched by Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood."
Passed by unanimous consent in the House, sponsored by Congressman Pallone (D-NJ) and Congressman King (R-NY) and passed by unanimous vote in the Senate, sponsored by Senator Brown (D-OH) and Senator Ayotte (R-NH), the bill now goes to the President's desk to be signed and become law.
Larry and Carrie Carroll, parents of Savannah, who died at the age of 2, states, "From the day that we discovered our 2-year-old daughter dead in her crib, we've been consumed by two burning questions: 'How did this happen to her?' and 'How can we make sure this never happens to another parent?' Today marks a significant step on the journey to find answers."
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Ok, now I set my EDITOR='vim' in /etc/bash.bashrc but packer still uses 'vi'... 'echo $EDITOR' pops up 'vim' as output but it's no use... I hate vi!
I am not sure.. Is this a bug I am seeing?
This is an issue and it has not been handled properly so far.
where would be the right place to throw feature requests at the developer of packer? The github page didn't seem to exist, so I'm posting here in the hope that packer is still in development and the maintainer is reading this.
I'm sure that I'm not the only AUR user who had this issue in the past and is suffering, so here it goes.
Most of the time AUR software is build against some library on the system that is part of the regular system and updates with the normal updates. Some of these librarys are not backwards compatible, which means you have to rebuild all your software against the new version of the library. I'm not aware of any mean to automate this progress with packer - is there any?
Packages in the AUR should be updated, so packer can detect a new version, build and install it.
For devel packages (-git etc.) you can use '--devel' switch.
Interesting idea, but I'd say it is difficult to implement in a non overkill way. Afaik, none of the existing helpers do it. Ideally, the maintainer of each PKGBUILD should increment the pkgrel number at every dependency soname bump, but I guess you can't coun't on that.
On a side note, looking at the gihub repo I'm not sure packer is still maintained. It might be a good time for an avid user to take over the development or fork it. Note that there are already a few existing forks, such as meric.
Is it just me, or... OH MY NECROBUMP!
Is it just me, or did packer drop the --auronly switch in favor of an inclusive --aur switch? How can I interact with aur packages only?
The --auronly switch seems to still be present in the code. Also, packer users might be interested in the better maintained apacman fork.
Thank you! Now I have to find out how the output of packer looked like ca. 2011, when appset was last updated. Your comment helped a lot.
I've been using packer for all system updates for a long time, although recently on AUR packages it occasionally loses the plot after building to tmp and can't find it to install. It's not a huge probelm,. I can find the built package and install with pacman -U, but it would be nice to see it fixed.
Hello, is there someone using packer (or its forks) who also has used pacaur? What are the differences between the two? Pacaur has cower as a dependency for searching and downloading AUR packages and itself is 1.5 - 2 times bigger in code size. Does packer have lesser functionality than pacaur?
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong when I get an error complaining that I'm not allowed to preserve environment.


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(JTA) — A school bus killed a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor as he was crossing a street in a Maryland suburb of Washington.
Elia Miranski was using a walker when the bus hit him in Silver Spring on Wednesday, the Silver Spring Patch news site reported. He died later that day in a hospital. The incident is under investigation.
The bus was returning students to Hammond Middle School in Howard County following a field trip to the White House, according to police. None of the 14 students or two chaperones on board were hurt, nor was the driver.
The school brought in crisis counselors for students and parents, the WBAL television channel reported.
Authorities said Miranski had safely crossed the southbound lanes of Columbia Pike and was attempting to cross the northbound lanes when he was struck, CBS reported.
Montgomery County police believe the first two lanes of northbound traffic crossed by Miranski were stopped on a red, left-turn arrow. The bus was traveling on a green signal when it struck the man. The driver was identified by CBS as Lori Jean Latimer, 52, of Elkridge.
Miranski, a Poland native, had escaped from German soldiers during the Holocaust, the Washington Post reported. He later fought in World War II in the Soviet military.
Last May, Miranski gave the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum an oral account of his escape. The recording is available on the museum's website.


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World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his death at his home in Cambridge.
Dr Hawking did that largely through his book "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes," published in 1988.
Scientifically, Dr Hawking will be best remembered for a discovery so strange that it might be expressed in the form of a Zen koan.
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Special Chinese envoy to visit India between March 18-21.
In the current springtime atmosphere between India and China, India will host a significant Chinese leader this weekend.
Song Tao, chief of the international relations department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will visit India between March 18-21.
Song Tao is certain to meet the leaders of CPM and other Left parties as well as Sonia and Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party.
India announces $100m line of credit for defence procurement by Mauritius.
President Ram Nath Kovind announced a new $100 million line of credit for defence procurement by Mauritius.
According to a statement by the Rashtrapati Bhavan, there will be a finance of $5 million and the new line of credit.
During French president, Emanuel Macron's visit last week, India and France signed an agreement under which both the nations would open their naval bases to warships.
In Madagascar too, where Kovind will visit next, India is also looking at a security agreement.
India-Russia bilateral summit likely to take place in Oct.
The India-Russia annual bilateral summit this year is likely to take place in October.
The event would be the "high point" of the celebrations marking 70 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations.
Ambassador of Russia to India Nikolay Rishatovich Kudashev also described the current ties between the two countries as "excellent".
And, the high point of the celebrations, would be the (India-Russia) bilateral summit, expected to take place here in India in October.
Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj to visit China in April for a key meeting
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to China next month to participate in the foreign ministers meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Swaraj's visit also comes in the backdrop of efforts being made by India and China to move forward after last year's military stand-off in Doklam.
According to officials, Swaraj is scheduled to travel to Japan on a bilateral visit from March 28, and will also undertake a trip to the US.
India, which had been an 'observer' in the Eurasian grouping since 2005, was made full member last year along with Pakistan.
Latest International Current Affairs March 14 Updates from around the globe.
Shahbaz Sharif elected PML-N chief.
Pakistan's ruling PML-N on Tuesday elected Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif as its president.
Nawaz Sharif was last month also barred from leading a political party following his disqualification by the Supreme Court.
Shahbaz was elected unopposed as no one filed nomination papers against him during the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's.
"Nawaz Sharif will be the political heir of Quaid-i-Azam (Jinnah) and we are lucky to have been blessed with a leader like Nawaz Sharif.
Bidya Devi Bhandari re-elected Nepal's president.
Bidya Devi Bhandari was on Tuesday re-elected the President of Nepal with an overwhelming majority.
She was the candidate of the ruling Left Alliance and was supported by two major Madhesi parties.
She defeated Kumari Laxmi Rai of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party, by securing a majority of more than two-thirds.
Iran asks Pakistan to join Chabahar project, backs Kashmir cause.
Iran has invited China and Pakistan to participate in the development of the strategic Chabahar port.
To extended support to the right of self-determination for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Foreign minister Javad Zarif, on a three-day visit to Islamabad, asked Pakistan to take a role in developing the port in the Gulf of Oman.
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrives in Kabul.
Mattis planned to meet with Gen. John Nicholson, the top American commander in Afghanistan.
Last week, senior US intelligence officials gave Congress a decided mix forecast for Afghanistan.
They said that while Afghan forces are getting better, the Taliban is likely to threaten Afghan stability in 2018.
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Apple Music hits 38 million paid subscribers.
Apple Inc's streaming music service now has 38 million paid subscribers, up from 36 million in February.
The Apple is locked in a race for subscribers with Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and others as streaming music becomes the dominant form.
Amazon Music Unlimited has 16 million paying subscribers, and Pandora Media Inc has 5.48 million total subscribers.
NHAI awards Rs 1,047 crore Dwarka Expressway package to L&T under Bharatmala.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded to L&T one of the five packages of Rs 7,500 crore Dwarka Expressway project.
The package to build an eight-lane expressway from Basai RoB to NH 8 – SPR intersection in Haryana will at a cost of Rs 1,047 crore.
The NHAI has issued Letter of Award – LOA for Package-4 of Dwarka Expressway from Basai RoB to NH-8.
AirAsia India adds the 17th jet to the fleet, to launch services to Imphal.
Budget carrier AirAsia India on Tuesday added one more A320 aircraft in the fleet, raising its size to 17.
It announced the launch of its services to Imphal from New Delhi as well as Delhi and Pune from Bengaluru from early next month.
The Tata Sons and Malaysian airliner's group AirAsia-invested AirAsia India is still short of three planes to qualify for launching international operations.
Apple acquires digital magazine Texture, takes on Flipboard, Google Newsstand.
Apple has acquired Texture, a digital magazine subscription service which gives users unlimited access to their favourite titles for a monthly fee for an undisclosed amount.
Called the "Netflix of magazines", Texture brings over 200 of the world's best magazines to life.
Texture costs $9.99 a month and offers access to magazines like The New Yorker, People, Time and GQ.
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Goalkeeper Gurpreet renews Bengaluru FC contract for five more years.
Bengaluru FC goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu has signed a new deal which will keep him with the Blues until May 2023.
The first-of-its-kind in the Blues' short history, Gurpreet is the third player to sign an extension this season.
Signed by Bengaluru from Norwegian club Stabaek the 26-year-old has been in top form throughout the season.
AS Roma defeat Shakhtar Donetsk to enter UEFA Champions League QF.
Roma overcame a poor first-half performance to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 on Tuesday and reach the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League.
It is the first time in 11 years that two Italian teams are in the quarterfinals, with the draw taking place Friday.
Shakhtar dominated possession early and Taison almost scored but his effort flew narrowly over the crossbar.
Manchester United lose 2-1 to Sevilla, knocked out of the Champions League.
Sevilla beat Manchester United 2-1 to go through to the quarter-final of the Champions League.
With the Premier League also practically out of reach, they can finally use all their resources to try and win the FA Cup again.
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The fear of flying often fades quickly with EFT. However, in this case by Charmaine Campbell (from Canada), a whole series of aspects showed up to complicate the process. Please pay attention to how she keeps testing to see if the result is complete. Very well done.
My client's job requires that he, "Richard", fly often and many of these flights are in small planes. Richard told me that he had great anxiety when waiting in the airport and when walking to the plane and his anxiety was getting worse over time. He was even worried that this would eventually affect his ability to continue in this job. He thought he had more anxiety when he had to fly in small planes than in larger jets. He did not think he was afraid of them crashing; he just had this anxiety rated at 8 on a scale of 0 to 10. He had flown to meet me for our session, and experienced the anxiety. He always sat in an aisle seat and would not look out the window.
If that stewardess was scared, I had every right to be terrified too … I thought we were all going to die … we survived but it sure was terrifying.
So I told him that the Universe does not like vacuums and asked if it would be ok to replace the emptiness with something positive instead. He thought that would be fine. So I asked him to tap for his subconscious mind filling that empty space with whatever positive emotion it thought would be best for him. I told him it did not matter if neither he nor I knew what that "something positive" was; his subconscious knew exactly what he needed. We did a couple rounds of tapping on this and he said he was feeling ok again, the emptiness was gone.
The last thing we did was to future pace the flight home that evening and, wouldn't you know it, he spiked up to a nine! He said it was even worse than before. That really surprised me. I brought in some NLP at this point. I talked with him about how holding on to negative emotions harms the body, and about the subconscious holding on to fear in the belief that it is protecting him but really it is awareness that protects him and I gave him some examples. Then off we went tapping again.
Even though it was gone and now I have this 9 anxiety again and my subconscious is trying to protect me, I am willing to allow my subconscious to release the fear now and protect me by keeping me healthy.
His intensity came down to a zero. At this point he went silent for a few seconds. He looked at me puzzled and said "Something just happened that is really strange, I just experienced a place where I was not thinking, not feeling, not anything, I was just, just…" I replied, "Existing?" He said "Yes! That's it, I was just… There". He seemed really peaceful at this point.
I was amazed at this and said to him, "Do you realize that there are mystics who meditate daily for 15 to 25 years just to get to that experience you just had?" He was surprised at this. I have never had a client speak of an experience like this before. It had been 90 minutes and I had to end the session to get to my "real job".
I got an email the next day from Richard thanking me and saying that he felt absolutely no anxiety on his flight home and even fell asleep right away and did not wake up until they were about 5 minutes away from landing; something he had never done before! I replied that, sometime, he might consider sitting by the window and enjoying the scenery!
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Applications to lead the March 6-April 14 40 Days for Life campaign are pouring in!
Just a quick note that the special early-bird application fee offer for leading a 40 Days for Life campaign ends at midnight tonight!
Apply to lead!
Worldwide, abortion ends the same number of human lives as all other causes of death…combined!
It's a genocide unsurpassed throughout history. It takes place where you live–and the appropriate response is prayer.
Click here to apply and help end abortion in your city with a coordinated 40-day campaign of prayer and fasting, community outreach, and peaceful vigil.
Recently on the 40 Days for Life Podcast, we examined abortion in the context of other genocides.
We evaluate claims that it's "offensive" to label abortion as genocide; analyze why genocide happens; and discuss what abortion and other mass atrocities have in common. Click here to listen to a serious but important conversation.
And then apply to be part of the solution to the abortion crisis in your community.
I'll be completely honest: leading a 40 Days for Life campaign is hard…but it's worth it!
When you take the plunge and bring this lifesaving program to your city this March 6 through April 14, you won't be on your own.
In addition to comprehensive training modules and a plethora of tools and templates, you'll have around-the-clock access to 40 Days for Life headquarters team members to coach, mentor, and encourage you along the way–including former Planned Parenthood manager Sue Thayer, who led a campaign herself before her former workplace closed!
One life saved, heart healed, or worker walking away from the abortion industry makes every sacrifice worth it. I can't wait to hear what God does for your community when you apply to lead a 40 Days for Life campaign this Lent!
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'Real Housewife' Sonja Morgan reveals 'sloppy' fling with Jack Nicholson
By Christine Burroni | New York Post
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Add Jack Nicholson to the list of Sonja Morgan's famous lovers — and vice versa.
"Who hasn't!" the reality star, 53, said on "Watch What Happens Live" when asked if she has dated the 79-year-old actor.
In a game dubbed, "Would Sonja Date Him," host Andy Cohen went through a list of famous older gentlemen and asked the notoriously flirty "Housewife" if she would ever get date them. When Nicholson's name came up, Morgan alluded that the two already have a romantic past.
SONJA MORGAN TOTALLY HAMMERED
"Have I?" she said coyly, alongside an intrigued Michael Rapaport, who also appeared on Wednesday night's show.
"Time out, Andy, don't let that go!" he said.
In an attempt to decipher Morgan's admission, Cohen asked, "Did you have more than one night with him?"
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"Would you stop going into the lovers and the hook-ups?" she asked, referencing her "RHONY" storyline of being a past "lover" of Luann de Lesseps' now-husband, Tom D'Agostino Jr.
"Nobody nails down Nicholson," she joked and finally summarized whatever went on between the pair as, "one big sloppy mess … whatever."
A request for comment from Nicholson's rep was not immediately returned.
This article originally appeared on Page Six.
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Burwell Battery Energy Storage System, UK
The Burwell Battery Energy Storage System is a 50,000kW energy storage project located in Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
The project was announced in 2017 and will be commissioned in 2022.
The Burwell Battery Energy Storage System is being developed by Aura Power Developments. The project is owned by EDF Renewables (100%), a subsidiary of Electricite de France.
The key applications of the project are power smoothing and grid support services.
EDF Renewables is the owner. Aura Power Developments is the developer.
The project main aim is to provide critical services to National Grid to ensure	smooth operation of	the UK's electricity network and facilitate the addition of intermittent generation from renewable sources.
This project is acquired by EDF Renewables UK from AGR.
Corcel plc has received both the planning permission and a grid connection for the Burwell energy project in England.
About Aura Power Developments
Aura Power Developments Ltd (Aura Power) is a provider of renewable energy solutions. The company develops, finances, builds and operates utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage projects. Its service offering include project management; engineering, procurement and construction; operation and maintenance of renewable power plants. The company's project portfolio includes Carlam Hill Solar Park, Fox Coulee Solar Park, Empress Solar Park and others. Aura Power develops and manages power projects in Canada, Portugal, Ireland and Italy. The company has operational presence in Canada, Portugal and Spain. It serves solar power and battery storage sectors. Aura Power is headquartered in Bristol, England, the UK.
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First, the appetizer, a horn section playing Gabrieli; making a solemn opening to the night. These four Canzonae pieces allowed us to appreciate the great quality of the sound in the theater as each instrument could be heard with an incredible clarity.The Main dish: the four seasons of Vivaldi with guest soloist Stephen Sitarski (the HPO's new concertmaster). I had the great pleasure to discover Stephen Sitarski a few weeks ago at the HPO (see previous review), and couldn't wait to reiterate the experience. This time, the master had a large playground to demonstrate his art, supported beautifully by the orchestra. And oh surprise! In the orchestra, a harpsichord: my dream instrument to play as a kid. And here we were, following the virtuosi strings for four seasons. La Primavera (Spring) and its happy and animated Danza Pastorale, L'Estate (Summer) with the stunning contrast between the delicate part of the soloist and the strong response of the orchestra, l'Autunno (Autumn) and the sounds of the hunters (precisely as the conductor described to us) and the magnifique Winter season that literally gave me the chills (how appropriate) during both the Allegro non molto and the Allegro movements. The famous Allegro non-molto afforded the best demonstration of the soloist's mastery and the final Allegro movement where, to me, all the violins were soloists. Impressive; amazing yet very approachable by non-specialist because just like the impressionism genre in painting, this music describes the real world: the cold, the leaves, the wind, and the birds.
Fromage and dessert: well may I admit that it was, maybe, my favorite part of the meal? After the intermission, "Oh Canada" was played by the orchestra accompanied by a singing audience as recognition for our veterans. Then, the Handel "Royal Fireworks" totally enchanted me. And pardon my French, but the Ouverture, Bourée and other Réjouissance made me feel like I was in the room of the king himself. The percussions were back for Handel and overall I found that these pieces fitted perfectly for the orchestra's configuration. During the four seasons, I secretly wished somebody would turn the volume up a notch, to feel more shrouded in the beauty of the sound. Throughout the Handel, it was just perfect.
Such a concert; and this type of music, simply makes one leave the theater with a more active brain and a fuller heart.
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What you will hear from this talk:
What is Pelvic Organ Prolapse and why is it so prevalent in Nepal?
How Australians for Women's Health operates surgical treatment camps in developing countries with volunteer medical teams from Australia and other countries
Update on Fundraising effort for the Women's hospital for Nepal
Founder & Director of the charity Australians for Women's Health
Specialist Gynaecologist Surgeon
Heartbreak in the Himalayas
Every day around the world, 1,000 women die as a result of pregnancy complications.
99% of these deaths occur in developing countries.
In Nepal, a woman dies in labour every 4 hours and a baby, every 15 minutes.
The large majority of these deaths are preventable.
Dr Ray Hodgson is a specialist gynaecologist. His medical practice is based in Port Macquarie on the NSW Mid North Coast and he also conducts regular surgical teaching sessions in other hospitals throughout Australia, New Zealand and South East.
Dr Hodgson's major interests within gynaecology are pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence and infertility.
In 2010 Dr Hodgson founded the International Aid Organisation, Australians for Women's Health. This volunteer organisation provides regular surgical treatment camps in developing countries for the management of severe forms of prolapse and incontinence and complications of pregnancy.
Dr Ray Hodgson has been travelling to Nepal for nearly a decade using his medical expertise to help women with the often socially stigmatising condition of uterine prolapse - affecting an estimated ten per cent of the country's population.
The organization is currently working to build a 35-bed hospital in Dolakha district in the eastern part of Nepal. The plan is to use the hospital to treat women and also to teach local doctors, nurses and midwives. Fundraising for the hospital has been very positive but more funds are still required and COVID has caused some challenges.
Dr Ray has written his experiences of working in Nepal into a book titled "Heartbreak in the Himalayas" with funds from the sale of the book going toward the construction of the hospital.
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Wooded Relief: A par 4 that requires you to shoot out of a wooded clearing. The hole plays slightly uphill, but if you can carry the trees on the right side, you can cut down on the yardage. However, you also tempt landing in thick rough. Mounding frames this hole from the trees out, with one green side bunker located on the right front. The green itself is sloped right to left and is two tiered, so it can produce tricky pin placements.


For as recently as late last year till date, Davido's 2017 hit single "Fall," has been doing huge numbers on US radio and streaming platforms across America. While this was happening, there was also a video of American rapper, Trevor Smith Jr. aka Busta Rhymes and his signed artiste; Prayah, spitting hot bars while the record was in play at a club in the US.
During this period as well, Busta Rhymes reached out to Davido if a possible remix of "Fall" would come appealing to the superstar. However, there wasn't a tangible response from the OBO as he only shared his excitement about the recognition and acceptance of the song which was the reason Busta Rhymes could deem it remix worthy anyway.
But fast-forward to the 19th of February, Busta Rhymes made an announcement on his Instagram page about the remix of "Fall." The veteran rapper revealed the remix will be dropping on the 20th of March, 2019 and it will feature Prayah as well.
Though Davido has not been seen to give his blessings yet, but we presume he must have as he recently shared the news few days ago that a remix is coming very soon.
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Dr. Pupo-Guillen completed a Bachelors of Arts at the University of Miami and later on obtained her Medical Doctorate degree from Universidad Tecnologica de Santiago in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Pupo-Guillen completed her psychiatric residency at Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. There she had the opportunity to train at the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest in the world, and secure her clinical experience in an extraordinary array of affiliated clinical institutions. Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas is consistently ranked among the top medical schools in the nation. Dr. Pupo-Guillen served as Chief Resident in psychiatry at the Veterans fairs Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
of Miami Health System/Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine has a research portfolio of clinical practices that treats over 50,000 patients per year and a medical education program which includes some of the nation's top leaders in psychiatry.
Dr. Pupo-Guillen held an academic position as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and served as Assistant Medical Director of Children and Youth Services at United Health Service Hospitals. Dr. Pupo-Guillen has conducted and published research on atypical antipsychotic use in adolescents with a spectrum of psychotic disorders.
Dr. Pupo-Guillen was the Chief Medical Officer for Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC). CPLC is a community development corporation established in 1967 who is committed to economic development, education, social services, and integrated healthcare. They are recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. CPLC operates out of Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico providing services in both rural and urban areas impacting more than 200,000 low income individuals annually. Services are provided to children, adolescent, and adults.


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WHAT IS THE NCC
STUDENT ALLIANCE
SPACE ISAC
Wargames, The Sequel?
If you're over 40, you probably remember Matthew Broderick playing a high schooler who hacked his way into the Defense Department's network and inadvertently brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. If you were terrified with the premise of WarGames, you weren't alone. Turns out, Ronald Regan saw it too, and promptly got the ball rolling on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), passed by Congress in 1986. The law effectively made "accessing a computer without authorization" AKA hacking, illegal. And thus began a debate that's been roiling amongst cybersecurity experts for more than 30 years.
To hack back or not to hack back, that is the question. While at first blush, it might seen obvious, (It's illegal after all, right?), the answer is just not that simple. Consider the story of legendary hacker Shawn Carpenter, who was called in when defense contractor Lockheed Martin's systems were compromised. It didn't take long for him to suspect that it was the Chinese behind the hack. But since hacking back was illegal, there was little Lockheed would allow Carpenter to do. In a story you could imagine on the big screen, Carpenter set up cyber honeypots on his own home computers where he lured the Chinese hackers and caught them in the act, uncovering a trove of documents that had been stolen, including highly sensitive plans for weapons, aircraft and more. Still, Carpenter was accused of crimes and had to fight for his innocence. (There's more to that story you can read here).
Lockheed-type situations have been duplicated dozens, if not hundreds of times, over the past few decades, with companies suffering millions of dollars in data loss with little they are able to (legally) do to stop it. But last year, cyber hack-back proponents found an ally in Representative Tom Graves (GA), who submitted a bill to the House that would allow some retribution currently prohibited by the CFAA. Opponents fear that this could make way for a Cyber Wild West, where vigilante justice could, as Regan feared, take World Powers to the brink of serious conflict.
A fascinating article about the history and implications of hack-backs appeared in the New Yorker this week.
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Q: Integrating custom Tensorflow ML model in React Native I created a simple ML model in Tensorflow and tried to integrate it with my React Native app to make predictions directly on the device.
I tried following this guide. Unfortunately the app crashes while building giving me the following errors:

My app has been created with React Native CLI, all the examples I found online used expo projects, the few I found don't work. Has anyone successfully integrated Tensorflow models with React Native apps or has any idea on how to fix these errors?
Thanks in advance!


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19 March 2015, Dubai, UAE BurJuman's annual International Millinery Exhibition is pulling out all the stops this year in time for the 20th edition of the Dubai World Cup. Featuring new and returning award-winning international milliners, the ultra-glamourous 14th edition of the popular exhibition opens and runs until 27 March, 2015, right up to race day which takes place on March 28, 2015.
Visitors can look forward to taking their pick from more than 500 glamorous designs from internationally-acclaimed milliners such as Philip Wright – milliner to celebrities and royalty, Master Milliner of Styria – Christine Rohr and Dubai-based British milliner Lucy Dantec-Hodges – well-known for her commissioned work for the classic movie Four Weddings and a Funeral. Also returning are popular Belgian milliner Christiane Edmondson, Australian Liza Georgia and Asim-Ita Kingsley from Nigeria.
Together with make-up advice sessions led by Natasha Ahmed – a Dubai-based blogger and certified make-up artist, women who wish to turn heads at the races can look forward to finding their winning head-to-toe look at BurJuman. Those interested can drop in for free make-up advice at any of the two sessions on Saturday, 21 March at 5pm and Tuesday, 24 March at 7:30pm. Striking race-wear ensembles will also be exhibited alongside the hats, for those looking to put together their complete outfit.


Get your show off the ground, and on the air!
Community TV has always been a home for grassroots, niche and multicultural content created by members of the community just like you.
Well, don't settle for just like you, when it can actually be you!
If you've got an idea for a show but don't know how to get it out of your head and onto the screen, or have always wanted to be a part of a TV production team but haven't been able to get your foot in the door - boy have we got something to show you.
The team at Channel 31 are hosting an information night for anyone interested in creating television content, and you're invited!
Including discussions around how to fund the creation of your program, finding crew members to help you film and edit your program and effectively marketing it to the world - If you've ever had an interest in community television (or just television in general), this is a night you won't want to miss.
If you're not in Melbourne but still want to join, we'll be streaming the event live to this Facebook group.
If you are in Melbourne, then why not come join us in person? More details are available here, although make sure to RSVP as soon as you can, because seats are limited and we don't want anyone to be disappointed.
Questions? Email the programming team at info@c31.org.au for more information.
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RIP Don Sutton
Posted on January 20, 2021 by Jason Turbow in The Baseball Codes
Don Sutton, who passed away yesterday at age 75, has a unique place in each of my three books. In Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic, he faced the A's as a member of the Dodgers. In They Bled Blue, he faced the Dodgers as a member of the Astros. And in The Baseball Codes, he appeared as a ball scuffer par excellence.
Sutton spent 16 of his 23 big league seasons with the Dodgers—his first 15 and his last one—and his time in LA came not only to define him as a pitcher, but to materially influence the players he left upon his departure, who would win the World Series the following season.
LA is where Sutton enjoyed the six-year stretch from 1972 to 1977 that opened the doors to the Hall of Fame to him. During those seasons, the right-hander made his only four All-Star teams and posted five top-5 Cy Young finishes (one third, one fourth and three fifths).
"If I had to pitch one guy in a game seven, it would be Don Sutton," Tommy Lasorda wrote in his autobiography, I Live for This. "I loved him. But sometimes I was one of the only ones."
Sure enough, Sutton was not known for cozy relationships with his teammates, a detail noteworthy in his 1978 clubhouse fistfight with Steve Garvey. He frequently extend a similar mindframe to his manager. Sutton was the rare star on those late-1970s Dodgers to not have played for Lasorda in the minor leagues, a detail that helps explain why the two were frequently at odds. After 11 years playing for the staid Walter Alston in Los Angeles, Sutton bristled when Lasorda was installed.
"With Walt, there wasn't a whole lot of rah-rah," the pitcher explained to the Los Angeles Times in 1981. "I wasn't mentally equipped to make the adjustment." (Sutton once told a reporter who was furiously scribbling to keep up with one of Lasorda's Great Dodger in the Sky monologues: "You know what you can do with those notes you're making? Shred 'em and put 'em around your shrubbery at home and watch it grow.")
From They Bled Blue:
When the Astros snatched Sutton up [in December 1980] with a four-year, $3.1 million offer, it was impossible for Lasorda not to take it personally. The right-hander had been an Alston man, publicly lobbying for coach Jeff Torborg to replace the storied manager in 1976, even when Lasorda was all but a lock for the position. "I just don't believe that I could play for a manager who's a headline grabber, who isn't honest," Sutton said at the time, later refusing to become "one of [Lasorda's] bobos." Things grew so heated that Lasorda challenged Sutton to settle their differences with fists. The pitcher declined. Their differences remained.
Sure enough, Sutton never garnered a single Cy Young vote in four years under Lasorda during his prime, though the two reached enough of a détente for Sutton to return to LA for his final season, in 1988.
More than that—during that—was a fascinating aspect of Sutton's success: an ability to scuff baseballs that lent his pitches the type of movement that few of his peers possessed. He was said to adhere a piece of sandpaper on a finger of his glove hand, which he would use to mar the ball to wondrous effect.
No less than Nolan Ryan confirmed as much after hitting a home run off of Sutton during the first week of the 1980 season. It was the first of Ryan's career, and he managed to get the ball returned to him … at which point, he said later, "that thing was all scuffed up."
Don Sutton gets down and ties his shoe, looks around to see if anyone is looking, and then scuffs the ball on the rubber when he gets up.
He got caught and ejected for doctoring the ball. (1977) pic.twitter.com/FTM7MW7b10
— Ben Porter (@Ben13Porter) May 11, 2020
When Sutton joined the Astros, a chorus of opinions held that Lasorda, who knew all of his secrets, would have him all but undressed on the mound. Sutton's pitch-perfect response was to question the source. What else would Lasorda say he wondered in the Los Angeles Times: "Those other years I lied?" (Lasorda never did have him checked.)
During the 1981 season, Sutton agreed to secretly film an instructional video for NBC-TV about how to cheat in baseball, wearing a ski mask to protect his identity, with the film reversed to make him look like a southpaw. (He ended up scrapping the project when a newspaper reporter and photographer showed up at the shoot.) "I keep telling you guys, I don't use sandpaper," he informed reporters before the season opener in Los Angeles. "Sandpaper gets wet and crumbles. [I use a] sanding wheel. I already checked to see if there was an outlet there on the mound, but they removed it." Once, when an umpire searched Sutton for abrasive surfaces, he instead found a note reading, "It's not here, but you're getting warm."
I recounted my favorite story about Sutton's scuffing in The Baseball Codes. It involves a game from 1987, in which Sutton, by that point pitching for the Angels, was carving up the Yankees:
George Steinbrenner was watching the game on television, and was shocked when the camera zoomed in to show close-ups of what appeared to be a small patch, or even a bandage, on the palm of Sutton's left hand. The WPIX broadcasters brought it up whenever the pitcher appeared to grind the ball into his palm between pitches. It was, they said, probably why Sutton's pitches possessed such extraordinary movement that day. He was in all likelihood scuffing the baseball.
Outraged, Steinbrenner called the visitors' dugout at Anaheim Stadium and lit into Yankees manager Lou Piniella. Was he aware, asked the owner, that Sutton was cheating? "Our television announcers are aware of it," yelled Steinbrenner. "I'm sure the Angels are aware of it. You're probably the only guy there who doesn't know it. Now, I want you to go out there and make the umpires check Don Sutton!"
"George," Piniella responded, "do you know who taught him how to cheat?"
Steinbrenner confessed that, in fact, he did not.
"The guy who taught Don Sutton everything he knows about cheating is the guy pitching for us tonight," Piniella said. "Do you want me to go out there and get Tommy John thrown out, too?"
Don Sutton pitched 23 seasons and won 324 games while striking out 3,574 batters, seventh all-time. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1998. He passed away less than two weeks after his former manager, Lasorda, in much less expected fashion, another Hall of Famer felled in a string that has seen too many pass too soon.
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Does body size and purse size really matter?
I guess it's a personal style decision. It's what floats your boat. Some people like huge bags; some like small. Personally, I have all sizes, but trend toward larger.
no...you shouldn't worry. if you see a bag, try it on and love it, then you know it's right for you.
me personally...it looks weird seeing a short skinny girl with a HUGE hobo or bag or whatever...like the bag is bigger than her...on the other hand, a tall, plus-sized woman would look weird with a pochette under her arm.
I think its personal preference. Now given, at 5'1, I wouldn't carry a Keepall 60 around with me as a purse but I tend to favor larger bags.
It is a matter of personal preference; when I got my Silverado I thought it was huge and almost regretted the purchase; then I got the Twiggy and thought the same thing. But, when I got the box I thought, Oh no, this is too small.
Besides being neurotic I have now developed a fondness for, shall we say, Mid-Size purses.
IMHO I think that the shape of the bag makes more of a difference. Like if you were very short & wide you wouldn't want to carry a big slouchy round bag, it would accent the fact that your round too (make you look fatter) If you are very tall and thin a tall skinny bag would accent that and make it more noticable. If you are very small on top and very big on bottom like a pear, you wouldn't want a bag of a simular shape to accent your figure flaws.
I'm 5"2" and I definitely have to be careful about bag size. I really love the new Coach vintage carryall, but when I tried it in the store it just didn't look right. Even the salesgirl thought it was too big for me. A lot of the big bags that I love I have to resist buying b/c I look silly.
I agree with some of you, in addition to personal preference, it also depends on the shape of the purse. Some big bags doesn't disporportion you but do the contrary. It also depends on how you carry it, I've seen small people (I am small too 5'1'') carrying their bags to their knees, I mean they have the strip at the longest, they hang from their shoulders all the way to their kneeds, that doesn't help I think.
I'm 5'3'' and I always think a bag is too small until I see it on me and it looks fine.
And I think when some bags are too big (especially structured ones) I look like I'm carrying around a piece of luggage versus a purse.
I'm 5'1" and religiously believe, THE BIGGER THE BAG, THE BETTER!
I agree with I love Coach. I am also 5'1" and I love big bags.
I think it's important to buy what you love. BUT you should also consider proportions, especially if the bag comes in different sizes. I'm 5'4" but not a skinny chick. So while a Speedy 25 looks cute on my friend who's 5'6" and a size 2, it looks a little off on me. The 30 looks a little big, but works much better for my frame.
I love big bags but definitely seeing the bag on you is different than just loving the bag cause there might be a great bag that you love but looks way weird on you cause of the shape or sise or whatever else.
i think a big bag on a small girl ok but a small bag on a big girl is most certainly NOT. i should know, i'm 5'6" and a size 16, you will never see me with a pouchette under my arm - it would only make me look wide and huge, and that's not what i'm going for, lol. the comparison of the bag to me would not be good. it's all about proportion, so i stay with medium or large bags.
i've seen girls a lot bigger than me with tiny LV or coach pouchettes underneath their arms, and it's just ugly. as with everything else, just buy what fits, y'all!


Did you know that 44% of people who drowned in 2014 had no intention of entering the water - they were just running or walking near it? (National Water Safety Forum) This puts runners and walkers the most at risk group of drowning in the UK.
Fire and rescue services throughout the UK will be taking part in a drowning prevention and water safety week from 25 April to 1 May. The campaign is coordinated by the Chief Fire Officers' Association and aims to highlight the everyday risk of being near water.
Check the forecast – avoid running near water is the weather is bad.
Make sure you have a fully charged mobile phone and know how to use it. Consider having an OS locate app for a smart phone – if there's an emergency they need to know where you are.
Look out for the #bewaterware on social media and share any advice and tips with friends and fellow runners.
If you are part of a running group and are interested in advice on staying safe near water please get in touch with CFOA at communications@CFOA.org.uk and they can put you in touch with your local service.


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Creating pathways to exceptional care
IU Health Arnett Hospital
Nearly 10 years ago, Meghan Glass was working two jobs, attending the surgery technician program at Ivy Tech Community College, and juggling the demands of everyday life. "Eventually I couldn't do it anymore," Glass said. "I put my dreams on hold."
One thousand miles south, Shelby Shedrow was also floundering professionally. After two years at Butler University in which she struggled to find her place, she took a job in guest relations at Walt Disney World. "When I was in Florida, I realized I wanted more—and I wanted to do something medical," Shedrow said. "But at the time, I didn't know what 'more' could mean for me."
Little did Glass and Shedrow know that their paths would soon cross at IU Health Arnett Hospital as members of the first Pathways into Healthcare cohort.
Shelby Shedrow and Meghan Glass, IU Health team members
As a service offered by the IU Health West Central Region Career Center, Pathways into Healthcare trains entry-level IU Health team members— such as those who work in environmental services and food preparation—to become certified medical assistants. During the 30-week program, 10 employees receive regular pay and benefits but spend half their on-the-job time training for their new profession. Additionally, the program covers the costs of courses, supplies and certifications.
Helping support this program are IU Health Foundation donors Gary and Shelly Henriott. In early 2022, the Henriotts connected in person with Glass and Shedrow and witnessed the power of their philanthropy up close and personal.
"When I saw this program, I was like 'I have to do this,'" Glass told the Henriotts. "I opened the email and saw 'congratulations' and I just cried at my desk. It's the best opportunity an organization could offer its employees."
"To find out that I was accepted?" Shedrow said. "It was like a new beginning."
Building a talent pipeline
Donors Shelly and Gary come from a long line of educators. "We share a passion for education and a responsibility to do what we can to help," Gary said. "I don't care if I have my name on anything. I'd rather have it here," he said, gesturing to Glass and Shedrow.
Shelly and Gary Henriott, IU Health Foundation supporters
Healthcare systems across the country face a shortage of qualified providers and educating qualified medical assistants can address deficiencies across departments. "You can literally go anywhere and learn everything as a medical assistant," Glass said. "I can step in wherever I'm needed, whether it's pediatrics or neurology."
"This program shows that IU Health is interested in investing in their team," Shelly added. "You're not just doing a job; you're part of a family. And as a family, you want to lift everyone up to the highest level possible."