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1 edition of More about Bulgakov and Mandelstam found in the catalog.
Published 1993 by GLAS in Moscow .
Cover title: Two literary giants : Bulgakov, Mandelstam
Other titles Two literary giants : Bulgakov, Mandelstam
Series Glas : new Russian writing -- 5, Glas (Moscow, Russia) -- 5
Contributions Mandelʹshtam, Osip, 1891-1938, Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasʹevich, 1891-1940
Pagination 191 p. ;
27 The Time Philosophy of Osip Mandelstam in Slavonic and East European Review, 48, No. (July, ), 28 Monas, 29 Hope Against Hope, 30 Monas, 31 The Complete Poetry of Osip Mandelstam, 32 Hope Against Hope, One can go into greater detail in describing the classicism of Mandelstam. This book ("Master and Margarita") is hands down the greatest Soviet fiction of the 20th century (by the way, Bulgakov fans - if you have not read the translation by Burgin and O'Connor, get a copy quick - it is the best translation with the best annotations, and it contains the chapters left out by Soviet censors; these chapters are also left out of many translations)/5. From Marjorie's exercise book: Lancaster Girls' Grammar School, Class 4J () October 17th: The dictionary definition of the word The Gospel According to w by Marjorie FARQUHARSON () Matthew's gospel treats Christ as king. Looking for books by Osip Mandelstam? See all books authored by Osip Mandelstam, including Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology, and The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, and more on
One of the most revealing episodes in J. A. E. Curtis's Mikhail Bulgakov, in the Reaktion Books Critical Lives series, itself concerns the writing of a "critical life". In –3, Bulgakov, a man devoted to the theatre, wrote a brief novelized biography of Molière. The book was commissioned for the hallowed Russian series Lives of. Published by Alma Classics These two handsome and distinctive paperbacks form part of a series showcasing the work of Russian Master Mikhail Bulgakov. Some of the stories in Notes on a Cuff appear in English for the first time, so this is a real treat for Bulgakovians. In addition, both books include valuable textual apparatus: [ ]. Mandelʹshtam, Nadezhda More about Bulgakov and Mandelstam (Book) Vospominanii︠a︡, proizvedenii︠a︡, perepiska by B. S Kuzin Spomini by Nadezhda Mandelʹshtam (Book) 57 editions published. The first complete and accurate English translation of Bulgakov's classic novel, accompanied by a substantial historical introductionWhite Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1.
Mikhail Bulgakov's Soviet fantasia novel was chosen by several readers as our fiction in translation for this month – and the hat agreed. Let's read! Published: 7 Jun Missing: Mandelstam. The Stalin Epigram - Our lives no longer feel ground under them. books & more) materials for teachers poetry near you The Stalin Epigram. Osip Mandelstam - Our lives no longer feel ground under them. At ten paces you can't hear our words. But whenever there's a snatch of talk it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer, the ten thick. It is in Russia and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable literary career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of Stalin's secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an enemy of the : Europa Editions, Incorporated. It depends on how much time and energy you have -if you're only going to read one thing, I will echo the others in suggesting Master and Margarita. It's Bulgakov's magnum opus, and a well-deserving classic of Russian literature. Despite its size a Missing: Mandelstam.
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Bulgakov and Mandelstam More about Bulgakov and Mandelstam book met and yet their lives had much in common.
Both men were born in the same year,and both More about Bulgakov and Mandelstam book ended prematurely, crushed by the cruel totalitarian system. Mandelstam died in a Siberian gulag in Decemberand Bulgakov 14 months later, in Marchfrom a terminal illness, probably brought on by unbearable stress and : Paperback.
Natasha Perova is the author of More about Bulgakov and Mandelstam ( avg More about Bulgakov and Mandelstam book, 7 ratings, 1 review, published ), Beyond the Looking-Glas ( /5.
Find more information Mikhail Bulgakov. To a secret friend / Mikhail Bulgakov ; From "The diaries of Elena Sergeyevna" ; Elena Sergeyevna ; Books by and about Bulgakov --Osip Mandelstam. Mandelstam on himself ; From "The fourth prose" ; Cold summer ; Excepts from memoirs / Evgeny Mandelstam ; Nadezhda Mandelstam ; Reminisciences of.
Buy More About Bulgakov and Mandelstam by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, etc. from Waterstones today. Click and Collect from your local Pages: Even more astounding is the fact that the author understood the realities of Soviet life in the 20s and 30s, "the spirit of time", all the I was impressed by the variety of sources Proffer had used.
How lucky for us that the book was written in the 80s when Bulgakov's wives and some acquaintances from his /5. Mikhail Bulgakov, a master of realism, used allegory in his science-fiction tales of mad professors and deadly rays to savage the Soviet regime.
Doris Lessing pays. Osip Mandelstam (–) was born and raised in St. Petersburg, where he attended the prestigious Tenishev School, before studying at the universities of St.
Petersburg and Heidelberg and at the stam first published his poems in Apollyon, an avant-garde magazine, inthen banded together with Anna Akhmatova and Nicholas Gumilev to form the Acmeist group, which /5(8).
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Russian: О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м, IPA: [ˈosʲɪp ɪˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ məndʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; 14 January [O.S. 2 January] – 27 December ) was a Russian and Soviet poet and essayist of Jewish origin. He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of : Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam, 14 January [O.S.
The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between and during Stalin's regime.
A censored version was published in Moscow magazine in –, after the writer's death. The manuscript was not published as a book untilin Paris. A samizdat version circulated that included Author: Mikhail Bulgakov. His first book was an almanac of feuilletons called Future Perspectives, written and published the same year.
In DecemberBulgakov moved to Vladikavkaz. He wrote and saw his first two plays, Self Defence and The Turbin Brothers, being produced for the city theater stage with great success.
Bulgakov in the ality: Russian, later Soviet. Through his surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov creates in this book - a new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society - an ingenious new twist to the 'Frankenstein' parable.
Nadezhda Mandelshtam could easily call Bulgakov's widow and ask her to receive the young Americans. Elena and Mikhail Bulgakov, s, Author: Alexandra Guzeva. Bulgakov, unlike the poet Osip Mandelstam, had never attacked Stalin directly, and was therefore permitted to live. Proffer is exhaustive in detailing Bulgakov's relations with many other literary.
Mikhail Bulgakov has books on Goodreads with ratings. Mikhail Bulgakov's most popular book is L'g: Mandelstam. Marietta Chudakova's biography of Bulgakov was first published in and remains the most authoritative and comprehensive study of the writer's life ever produced. It has received acclaim. Bulgakov may stand with Myakovsky, Mandelstam, Akmatova, Shostakovitch and Malevich as the greatest artistic minds to come from the Soviet Union.
The Heart of a Dog is a great book, perhaps not as multifaceted as Bulgakov's masterpiece, Master and 5/5(5). The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire, Mikhail Bulgakov $ - $ Mikhail and Margarita, winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, is "an atmospheric, gripping, authoritative and deeply suspenseful narrative that utterly transports the reader" (Margot Livesey).
"A book about authoritarian crackdown on speech and satire that is sadly timely."―Flavorwire/5(24). Biography Early life. Sergei Nicolaevich Bulgakov was born on 16 July to the family of an Orthodox priest (Nikolai Bulgakov) in the town of Livny, Oryol guberniya, in family provided Orthodox priests for six generations, beginning in the sixteenth century with his ancestor Bulgak, a Tatar.
Metropolitan Macarius Bulgakov (), one of the major Eastern Orthodox theologians Alma mater: Moscow University. A child of the Cold War, John has spent most of his adult life trying to reconcile the Cold War American view of Russians as a hostile enemy of the American way of life, with the intelligent, brilliant and beautiful writing of so many Russian language writers: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Mandelstam /5(8).
Bulgakov's desire was not necessarily pdf change the world, but to reveal it with all of its complexity and humor and horror. Perhaps more fundamentally, he wanted to transform its messiness into something lasting and beautiful, and in doing so, show : Julie Lekstrom Himes.The s background was very useful in understanding Bulgakov.
It's a great book, but written in relative secrecy and under great pressure. It is anti-Stalinist, obviously, but not quite Christian--more a conundrum than a coherent argument. The translation is an effective one/5(3).The author of The Master and Margarita, Ebook Bulgakov, is with his friend Osip Mandelstam in when the latter is arrested.
This novel projects Bulgakov's life from that point and his relationship with Margarita Nikoveyena, Mandelstam's lover and inspiration for Bulgakov's novel/5.
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Today we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day that will forever live in Infamy. This attack enraged a Nation and made the final push in our Nation's road to World War. Just as 9/11 enraged my generation to fight the war on terror, Pearl Harbor was the sucker punch that moved the Greatest Generation to fight the last of the Great Wars.
Yesterday, I had the privledge and honor to speak with a member of that generation, Hershel "Woody" Williams, who also happens to be living recipient of our Country's highest Military honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Woody joined the Marines in 1943, after being first denied due to height restrictions, and was shipped off to the Pacific theater, joining his fellow Marines and Sailors as they island-hopped their way to Japan.
By February 23rd, 1945, Corporal Williams found himself on Iwo Jima, fighting an entrenched enemy for a key piece of ocean-front property. What transpires during this day will earn Woody Williams the Medal of Honor.
Williams, distinguished himself when American tanks, trying to open a lane for infantry, encountered a network of reinforced concrete pillboxes, buried mines, and black volcanic sands. Williams went forward alone with his 70-pound (32 kg) flamethrower to attempt the reduction of devastating machine gun fire from the unyielding positions. Covered by only four riflemen, he fought for four hours under terrific enemy small-arms fire and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flame throwers. He returned to the front, frequently to the rear of hostile emplacements, to wipe out one position after another. At one point, a wisp of smoke alerted him to the air vent of a Japanese bunker, and he approached close enough to put the nozzle of his flamethrower through the hole, killing the occupants. On another occasion, he charged enemy riflemen who attempted to stop him with bayonets and destroyed them with a burst of flame from his weapon.
was not able to witness the event.
What an incredible, courageous story of self-less service, sacrifice and love for his fellow Marines. However, if you speak with Woody, his quiet humilty speaks volumes. He states that this honor is not for him, but for those who never came home, those who lost their lives on the black-sanded beaches and jungle interior during the battle for that island.
Woody is a prime example of why his generation has been called one of the greatest and his continued service to this Nation and our military community, even at the age of 88, is a testament to his love of Country and his fellow Americans. Woody sets a standard that we can only hope to acheive but an example we can all certainly follow.
As I headed out the door, Mr. Williams handed me a copy of a poem he had written to commemorate the upcoming anniversary of Pearl Harbor and I have listed it below. Take a moment out of your busy day to think of what this day means to the men and women of that dying generation, what it continue to mean to our military community and what it shares with our own, Day of Infamy - 9/11. Think of the unity this December tragedy developed and remember what united us on our more recent September Day. Finally, remember our military and our veterans as they continue to serve this great Nation.
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b. 1841 County Roscommon, Ireland. d. 22/01/1879 Isandlwana, South Africa.
William Griffiths (1841-1879) was born sometime in 1841 in Roscommon, County Roscommon, Ireland and enlisted with the 24th Regiment of Foot (later South Wales Borderers) and was posted to India early in his career.
Shortly before the 7th May 1867, at the island of Little Andaman, in the Bay of Bengal, a ship called the "Assam Valley" had anchored, and some of the crew went ashore. Shortly afterwards, news came that the crew had been set upon and murdered by some of the natives, as none of them had returned. In order to ascertain the crew's fate, a second steamer was sent from Rangoon and landed near the island on the 7th. Some of their crew was attacked by the natives and with a huge storm raging, a rescue mission was organised to try and reach them. With the soldiers in peril on shore, Dr Campbell Mellis Douglas and four fellow members of the 24th including William Griffiths, manned a gig and attempted to reach them.
Griffiths alongside his four comrades, was gazetted for the VC on 17th December 1867, and was invested with his medal in Rangoon on 16th April 1868 by Major-General A Faunce, the GOC Pegu. Following his VC investiture, Griffiths continued to serve in the 24th Regiment of Foot, and was eventually posted to fight in the Zulu Wars in South Africa. Griffiths was sadly killed during the Battle of Isandlhwana on 22nd January 1879 and was buried where he fell in a mass grave, which is now only marked by a pile of white stones known as a cairn. His medal is held by the South Wales Borderers Museum, Brecon.
William Griffiths VC is buried in an unmarked grave on the battlefield of Isandhlwana, South Africa.
William Griffiths' medal on display at the South Wales Borderers Museum, Brecon, Wales (May 2014).


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Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers Inside Gas Station Pumps
Wave of recent bank-card skimming incidents demonstrate how sophisticated the scam has become
Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices inside gas pumps -- in at least one case, even completely replacing the front panel of a pump -- in a recent wave of attacks that demonstrate a more sophisticated, insidious method of stealing money from unsuspecting victims filling up their gas tanks.
Some 180 gas stations in Utah, from Salt Lake City to Provo, were reportedly found with these skimming devices sitting inside the gas pumps. The scam was first discovered when a California bank's fraud department discovered that multiple bank card victims reporting problems had all used the same gas pump at a 7-Eleven store in Utah.
Card skimming has been on the rise during the past year, with most attackers rigging or replacing merchant card readers with their own sniffer devices or ATM machines. The devices typically include a scanner, transmitter, camera, and, most recently, Bluetooth- or wireless-enabled links that shoot the stolen data back to the bad guys.
A similar attack occurred with a rigged ATM machine last year in Las Vegas during the Defcon hacker show: Security researcher Chris Paget lost $200 to an ATM machine in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino that appeared to be operating normally, but failed to spit out cash. The U.S. Secret Service was investigating the incident, and it was unclear whether the machine was outfitted internally with a skimming device or had been tampered with for someone to grab the cash withdrawals at a later time.
Bruce Schneier, CTO for BT Counterpane and author of the Schneier on Security blog, says attackers in Europe are also moving skimming devices inside gas pumps as a way to avoid detection. He says the perpetrators could be insiders, but it's unclear. "The moral is that they are getting better and better at this," Schneier says.
Organized criminal gangs might be behind some of these attacks, he adds "Obviously, they are well-funded," Schneier says. [More....] [Comments...]


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Ault rider to hang up boots
LOVELAND — After a bull threw him into the dirt, Ault resident Matt Fetzer
would have to wash his clothes and put them through a spin cycle.
Fetzer, 30, announced before Saturday night's Bulls Gone Wild event at the Budweiser Event Center that he'd be hanging up his spurs after the competition. And although he'd ridden
thousands of bulls before, the last one he'll remember is a bull named Spin Cycle, his final combatant as a bull rider.
Although Spin Cycle won the battle, throwing Fetzer off in less than the 8 seconds necessary for a score, Fetzer will have years of riding to look back upon with a smile.
Fetzer's rodeo career began 11 years ago when he realized that motorcycle racing wasn't working for him.
"I used to race motorcycles, and one day, it dawned on me that it wasn't really my thing," Fetzer said. "I'd get scared of the big jumps. Then I started
riding, and it just came naturally to me."
Realizing how ironic it was to go from being scared of big motorcycle jumps to riding bulls, Fetzer added with a shrug, "Hey, I know, bulls should scare me, too, but I don't have time to be scared of them once I get on them. It all just happens so fast."
However much fun Fetzer was having riding bulls, he felt it was his time to retire, partly because of his two daughters, Leah, 2, and 9-month-old Amy. But he also decided to say goodbye because his body was still intact.
"I've accomplished 99 percent of what I wanted to as a rider, but you've got to know when to go out," Fetzer said. "I want to see my girls grow up, just spend more time with them. Plus, I figured that I'd be much happier calling it quits in one piece, not all bruised and battered. Leaving on my own terms is really important to me."
Fetzer, who placed second only by a point in the 2001 Cheyenne Frontier Days riding competition, will work with his father at Fetzer Trucking, a company that he and his father started five years ago.
But not even five minutes after his last ride, the 11-year veteran admitted he missed his sport.
"It's going to be hard," Fetzer said. "I'll sure as hell miss riding, but it's time to move."


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The Odyssey of a Prodigal Son
Posted on February 18, 2010 by Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel
I personally know of many prodigal sons and daughters of Lubavitch, people who left the famous Hasidic movement for a variety of reasons. Their stories are all too familiar to me. Some became disillusioned with its values and philosophy; others could no longer reconcile the contradictions of a modern vs. pre-modern lifestyle. In each of these personal narratives, it is always the individual who redefines his or her own identity.
For members of any closed society, it is typically the community that does the defining. To leave this kind of world within a world takes a virtual Kierkegaardian leap of faith– into the realm of the unknown, where one undergoes a new kind of genesis. Or perhaps to use a more platonic metaphor, leaving Lubavitch is a lot like the man who left his fellow prisoners in the cave, only to discover a different kind of reality (The Republic, Book 7). Yes, life is a series of miniature rebirths. Here is a story about one man's rebirth that I think many of you will find fascinating.
Shmarya (Scott) Rosenberg is the owner of the Failedmessiah website. Shmarya's spiritual journey is a remarkable one. He, like many of us, has taken the road less traveled. His story began when the late Lubavitcher Rebbe refused to get involved with the rescue of Ethiopian Jews. The Rebbe's refusal ultimately resulted in Shmarya's exodus from Lubavitch.
In a personal letter he received from the Rebbe to Shmarya, the Rebbe wrote that "spiritually" rescuing American Jews from assimilation was an urgent matter that took precedence over rescuing the "Jewish" community of Ethiopia. Rabbi Schneerson probably felt that saving American Jews was a matter of triage. However, most of the other great rabbis of that era like Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rav Joseph Baer Soloveitchik, supported the rescue efforts regardless of the practical Halachic doubts some of them had concerning the "Jewishness" of the Ethiopian Jews. Even as of today, Lubavitch still refuses to have any kind of outreach with Ethiopian Jews, despite the fact they underwent Orthodox conversions in Israel.
It is difficult to blame Shmarya for his animus against the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, but his alienation from the movement has led him to a renewed sense of personal and spiritual discovery. Shmarya has long since become a voice of Jewish conscience. He routinely holds the Orthodox world accountable for its countless misdeeds and foibles.
Much in the spirit of the French philosopher and writer Voltaire, Shmarya reveals the Monty Python-esque characteristics of nearly all the great Orthodox rabbis of our present generation, and most of these anecdotes are outrageous. After reading his blog, one gets the inescapable feeling that the age of Gedolim (authentic rabbinic scholars who embody the best qualities of Judaism) has become either of thing of the past, or is an endangered species.
In a century or two from now, future generations will find this material historically valuable; students will read Failedmessiah much like we now study the 17th century diaries of Samuel Pepys from London. Anyone interested, may want to read Shmarya's critique of Rabbi Shafran, who recently blamed the Haiti earthquake on Jewish cartoonists who dared to castigate Orthodox outreach programs. His stories on the "holy Kabbalists" usually depict them as con-artists, who prey (pun intended) upon the gullible public. For the most part, Shmarya exposes a ruthlessness that exists within the Lubavitcher organization itself which its supporters never see. Frankly, Chabad can gain great wisdom from his criticisms.
To his credit, the Failedmessiah has literally forced the entire Orthodox world to become more circumspect and responsible with its members' group behavior. Without his website, it is doubtful whether the yeshiva world would ever have taken ownership of the pedophilia cases that exist within their rank and file members and spiritual leadership. Really now, shouldn't the Orthodox members police their communities for everyone's sake?
Historically, such issues have always plagued Jewish traditional observant communities. Prior to the Internet and blogging, these scandals would have most certainly been swept under the rug, away from public scrutiny. However, thanks to Failedmessiah and other bloggers that he has inspired, a conspiracy of silence is no longer possible.
Sigmund Freud was one of the first modern secular Jewish thinkers to see the profound spiritual and ethical disconnect of the "religious" people of his era. He realized that it is far easier to worship God through mechanical ritual than it is to behave as an ethical human being. Freud subsequently viewed religion as a neurosis–and probably for good reason. When one observes the kind of shenanigans the Orthodox in Israel perpetuate daily in Israel, it is obvious that we do a pretty good job creating our own brand of anti-Semitism without the help of David Duke and his ilk. Shmarya Rosenberg provides an invaluable service for the Jewish community by forcing all of us to examine our shadow side.
Often called the "Charles Darwin of human consciousness," psychologist Carl Gustav Jung writes about the shadow archetype that exists in all cultures around the world. The shadow represents the part of the human personality that is anti-social, primitive that most of us choose to be unaware of in our lives. Jung laments that most of his patients haven't the slightest clue or suspicion of the war that is raging within their psyches. The vast majority of people understand nothing about this inner being, and prefer to remain in a state of unconsciousness until the shadow explodes into consciousness–often with a fury that is nothing less than frightening. Those few people who are aware of its power, choose never to reveal the darker natures they carry inside.
Jung notes: "Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected."[1]
Shmarya Rosenberg has done a magnificent job alerting the Orthodox Jewish world to a perverse or dysfunctional side of its personality that it would love to keep buried from all public view. Unfortunately, the prophetic task of critiquing should really be carried out by the Orthodox rabbinic community itself instead of Shmarya–but such men have refused to step up and be counted because they are afraid of being tarred and feathered by the zealots. Self-knowledge always comes with a personal price. Without paying tuition for the mistakes we have caused others and ourselves, we will never be able to grow and individuate into healthy human beings.
[1] Psychology and Religion, in CW 11: "Psychology and Religion: West and East," (Boston: 1938), 131.
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Yochanan Lavie says:
Beam me up, Shmarya (Scotty). There's no spiritual life on this planet.
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SMCC Kestrels waiting out sports pause
Niles Kruger Monroe News sports editor @NilesKruger
Karen O'Brien has not needed to babysit her players during the COVID-19 shutdown imposed by the state of Michigan. "They are pretty self-motivated," she said.
St. Mary Catholic Central's volleyball team won a state championship last year.
The Kestrels know what it takes to be champions.
So coach Karen O'Brien has not needed to babysit her players during the COVID-19 shutdown imposed by the state of Michigan.
"They are pretty self-motivated," O'Brien said. "I trust them."
The coach left the Kestrels with some simple instructions when the team last met.
"We gave them a workout to do," she said. "I think it was four days a week of conditioning and strength work. All of us have the same goal to get back to Battle Creek (for the state finals). If they truly want to do that, they will be doing that stuff (that the coaching staff laid out).
"Me calling or texting them or having Zoom meetings is not going to make them do it any more. We just gave them ideas and let them be."
The SMCC coaches loaned volleyballs to players who did not have one of their own.
"Volleyball is one of the hardest sports to do anything on your own," O'Brien said. "If you're a basketball player, you can go out and shoot baskets. I told them if the weather is nice to go serve against your garage door or hit against it, anything to keep their hands on the ball."
O'Brien also recommended getting their parents to help out with drills.
She doesn't know if any players are getting together for workouts.
"They're friends on court and off the court," she said. "It would not surprise me if some of them got together."
O'Brien has had minimal contact with her players since all high school sports in Michigan placed on pause on Nov. 15. Most of it has been more personal than volleyball related.
"I just text them once in a while to let them know I am thinking of them and hope we get in the gym soon," she said.
The Kestrels had hoped to return to practice Wednesday, but they received bad news Monday when the state of Michigan announced that the shutdown orders would be extended another 12 days.
The original plan was the resume practices this week and then have football and volleyball play state tournament games beginning on Dec. 15. But with the lockdown now extended to Dec. 20, those plans will be reevaluated by the Michigan High School Athletic Association.
MHSAA executive director Mark Uyl said the organization is still committed to finishing the fall season as soon as possible.
Before Monday's announcement, O'Brien had been hopeful that high school sports would not be included in any extended shutdown orders.
"I think it's 50-50," she said over the weekend. "It depends on if the MHSAA gave them enough information to prove that we can do this and it can be safe."
O'Brien believes a compelling case can be made that high school sports do not spread the virus.
"I heard Mark Uyl speak the other day and he said the goal is basically to finish (the fall sports season)," O'Brien said. "His belief is that athletics can be done safely."
Whenever play does restart, SMCC is scheduled to play Bronson in the Division 3 state quarterfinals at Whitmore Lake. The winner will advance to Battle Creek for the semifinals.
"I don't like surprises," O'Brien said. "Right now with Bronson we have three films on them. That's plenty. As soon as we get the OK, I'll look at it more."
If practice is approved to resume when the new shutdown orders expire on Dec. 20, the SMCC coaches have a plan in place.
"We will do a lot of drills and work on conditioning as we do those drills," O'Brien said. "We always try to do drills that help in their skills."
The Kestrels just want to get back on the court.
"If we have to play without fans, the girls are fine with that," O'Brien said. "They just want a chance to play. For their mental health, they need it."


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The Morpeth Music Society concert series continues next week.
Llyr Williams will perform at Morpeth Methodist Church on Thursday, April 14, at 7.30pm.
Llyr played for the society some years ago and the society was encouraged to invite him back.
He is a highly respected interpreter of Beethoven and is half way through a cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas at the Wigmore Hall, London.
Entrance is free for those aged 18 or under. Adult tickets priced at £14 can be purchased from Morpeth tourist information centre or society secretary Mrs Cunningham on 01670 513369 or on the night.


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Home FEATURE India Becomes Too Hot
India Becomes Too Hot
A view of parched land on a hot day in Chennai (Photo: IANS)
Scientists who studied India's 2015 heatwave that claimed 2,500 lives (over 1,700 in Andhra Pradesh alone) concluded that the region was likely to see intense heatwaves once in every 10 years, instead of once in every 100 years….reports Charu Bahri for Asian Lite News
The next year turned out to be India's hottest ever, since record-keeping began in 1901. And earlier in 2017, summer got off to an unprecedented intense start, as heatwaves in late March swept through nine states.
With 13 of India's 15 hottest years on record occurring since 2002, intense heat appears to be the new normal. US President Donald Trump dismisses global warming as a hoax, a money-making industry, and a concept created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive and has now pulled his country out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
But India simply cannot afford to ignore the new health and livelihood challenges global warming will present to "people who are no strangers to warm weather but who will now face more severe heatwaves intensified by climate change", as Dileep Mavalankar, 59, director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, India's first public health university in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, said.
If heatwaves are perceived as a disaster-like situation with the potential to kill thousands, heat deaths are preventable.
In 2014, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation pioneered South Asia's first Heat Action Plan, as IndiaSpend reported on May 31, 2017.
"Combining public education, extreme heat warnings and efforts to safeguard the most vulnerable populations is proving to be a good template for other cities and states to follow," said Mavalankar of the Heat Action Plan that his colleagues and the Natural Resources Defence Council are supporting. Excerpts from the interview:
A view of parched piece of land near Chembarambakkam Lake as days become hot in Chennai (Photo: IANS)
Q: How reliable are heatstroke mortality figures in the media, and why do these fluctuate so much from year to year?
A: Heatwave fatalities are not at all well documented in India. The fatality numbers that the civil administration releases to the media are well below the actual number of people who succumb to excessive heat. One reason for this is death recording in our country is far from perfect. People who have not been directly exposed to the sun but have been exposed to high ambient temperature can also suffer heatstroke.
In Ahmedabad, where we have studied the number and cause of fatalities in detail, we know that about 100 people die of all causes on any given day in summer. During the heatwave of 2010, the city's five municipal hospitals attributed 65 fatalities to heatstroke during the week. But we estimated that the heat caused 800 additional deaths in that week.
Q: The initiative of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which you are supporting and guiding, combines measures to prevent heatstroke and strengthen public-health responses to heatstroke victims. However, of what use is it to tell poor people to take shelter, when they may be living on the road with no resources to protect themselves?
A: We are aware that the urban poor are extremely vulnerable to heatstroke. In Ahmedabad, we proposed that municipal gardens be kept open between 11 am and 5 pm, a time when they usually remain closed to the public, with the idea that homeless people and working class people with jobs in their vicinity would find shade and a place to rest under trees. For the same reason, we requested the administration to keep the city's 45 night shelters open during the day.
A man riding a two-wheeler fitted with an umbrella to beat the scorching heat in Mathura (Photo: IANS)
Over 900 water facilities were also created. An initiative driven by the mayor was asking paint companies to donate white paint to coat the roof of poor people's houses. White-painted roofs reflect more sunlight, which helps keep interiors cool.
The municipality has not accepted some of our suggestions, such as our request to supply extra water during heatwaves. A lot of municipalities across India supply extra water during religious festivals, and we believe it is even more important to supply extra water at a time when people need it to protect their health.
We also proposed that the municipality should not issue major work contracts after April. Also, labour contractors should be asked to employ workers in split shifts, such as from 6 am to 11 am and from 5 pm to 8 pm. We were told this is impractical to implement.
Q: Densely populated areas are said to be generally hotter than rural areas. What temperature difference have you recorded between rural areas and urban areas?
A: In summer, we have found that Ahmedabad records temperatures that are usually 2-3 degrees Centigrade higher, even up to 4 degrees higher than the surrounding areas because of the urban heat island effect, a phenomenon whereby concrete buildings and traffic enclose the heat in a limited space. Rural areas around the city with more vegetation and water bodies see lower temperatures.
However, the majority of residents of urban areas spend less time outdoors and have more resources and utilities (such as water, cooling devices, hospitals) to rely on for their wellbeing. Heat fatalities can happen in both urban and rural areas. Recently, we have also started pilot testing a heat action plan for rural blocks of Rajasthan with the help of Unicef.
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Follow these quick tips to help keep your cutting tools sharp.
As the saying goes, sharp tools are safer tools. So here are a couple of hints for keeping your cutting tools sharp.
Use a Honing Guide. No, in truth, if you have a steady hand you don't have to have one. But a honing guide assures that the bevel on your chisel or plane iron is maintained at a constant angle to the stone – and saves you the time and trouble of worrying about the pitch with every stroke. Set it once, and hone to your heart's content.
Invest in a Natural Stone. The man-made stones are less expensive, but the natural stones have some significant advantages. Natural stone is better for honing a fine edge, because of the density of its stone and the fineness of the grit. (Ironically, man-made stones are actually harder, but I guess that's just one of life's little surprises.) Arkansas stones (that's right, abrasive stones mined in the home state of our forty-second president) are the favorite of many in the honing and sharpening crowd. An Arkansas or any other natural stone won't make you a honing expert, but it won't hurt either.
A Refresher Course in Sharpening. Position the chisel, plane iron, or other edge so that the bevel is flat to the stone. Use both hands to steady the chisel (even if it's mounted in a honing guide), and slide it backwards and forwards on the surface of the stone. Be careful to maintain the proper angle to the stone at all times. Vary the area you cover as you hone, perhaps even zigzagging slightly, in order to prevent uneven wear on the surface of the stone. Perform the whetting process first on a medium surface; then, repeat on a fine surface.
Making a Microbevel. The sharpest of chisels actually has two bevels, the second one cut at the tip of the blade at an angle about five degrees steeper than the first. Just a few strokes on the finest stone are required at a pitch just lightly steeper than the initial sharpening.
Flattening the Burr. The sharpening of the bevel (and the microbevel) will produce a burr, a tiny ridge that extends out from the tip at the back of the chisel. You can feel it with your thumb, stroking along the length of the back of the blade (be sure to stroke away from the handle).
To remove the burr, turn the chisel onto its back (bevel side up) and hold it flush to the surface of the fine stone. Rub the blade in a circular motion on the stone's surface; be careful to keep the chisel's back flat on the stone.


DOUGLAS PRESTON's new book The Lost City of the Monkey God (Grand Central) is the true story of contemporary scientists searching for an ancient city with a high-tech machine and finding so much more. The book, which has made several bestseller lists, is a hair-raising adventure of the first degree.
Preston moves easily between several literary worlds. For over 20 years, he and his writing partner, Lincoln Childs, have written over 20 novels, most of which feature the albino detective Aloysius Pendergast. (Gale Anne Hurd is executive producing the adaptation of the best-selling series for Spike TV). Preston is a journalist who writes for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and other magazines, and has penned other nonfiction books, notably Monster of Florence, which he co-wrote with Italian journalist Mario Spezi. That book spent four months on the New York Times list, and is currently under development as a film.
Then, there is the crucial work that Preston does on behalf of all working authors. He's a board member of the Authors Guild, which represents published authors on issues of copyright, fair contracts, and tax fairness. (It famously sued Google Books for violating copyright law by copying and distributing millions of books written by US authors.) In 2004, Preston and other authors formed the International Thriller Writers (ITW) to bring more attention to that genre and to lift the fortunes of debut and midlist authors. In 2014, when Amazon blocked the shipments of Hachette's books and financially squeezed 3,000 authors, Preston formed Authors United, which petitioned the Justice Department to investigate Amazon's monopolistic ways.
Preston, who splits his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Maine, talked about his new book with Kathleen Sharp, an award-winning journalist, author, and screenwriter.
KATHLEEN SHARP: You've written a rich narrative nonfiction tale about trying to discover a lost city. But what did you really find?
DOUGLAS PRESTON: We found something exceedingly rare, not just a lost city but an archaeological site that was untouched. Most major sites in Central America were "discovered" when indigenous people led archaeologists to them. Unfortunately, almost all of these sites had previously been looted. But in this case, the city was found in an aerial survey of an unexplored valley in the Mosquitia mountains of Honduras using a technology called lidar. When we explored the ruins in 2015, we were very likely the first human beings to enter the city since it was abandoned 500 years ago. The actual ruins cover about a mile square in total, consisting of 19 interconnected settlements strung along a river valley, featuring earthen pyramids, plazas, a Mesoamerican ball-game field, terracing, roads, irrigation systems, and great earthworks. This mysterious civilization arose along the Maya frontier but it was not itself Maya, even though it adopted many aspects of Mayan culture. It is one of the least-studied cultures in Central America, so unknown it does not even have a formal name. This discovery shed much light on this culture.
This tale is a marriage of 19th-century-like explorers and 21st-century technology. How did you find this story and balance the two threads?
I first heard about this search for this legendary lost city from scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who were working with a man, Steve Elkins, who was obsessed with the "lost city" legend. Elkins had hired them to examine satellite imagery of the earth taken from space, and they believed they had detected unnatural features in a remote, unexplored valley called Target One, or T1 for short. But the images were blurry and ambiguous.
Finally, in 2012, Elkins raised a million dollars and conducted an aerial survey of T1 and two other valleys, called T2 and T3, in the Mosquitia mountains with the powerful technology of lidar ("light detection and ranging").
I was in the plane as it mapped T1. As I wrote in my book: "We were flying above a primeval Eden, looking for a lost city using advanced technology to shoot billions of laser beams into a jungle that no human beings had entered for perhaps five hundred years: a twenty-first-century assault on an ancient mystery." It was this survey that found the city in T1 — and also found another city in T3. That latter city has not yet been explored.
Great narrative nonfiction takes a lot of time and money. And you've been following this story since 1997, when you wrote a small item for The New Yorker. Why did it take 20 years for this book to appear?
The story, like a fine wine, had to age. Even though the search had been going on for over a decade, the city wasn't definitively discovered until the lidar survey in 2012, and that discovery wasn't "ground-truthed" until the 2015 expedition. The excavation of the remarkable cache of sculptures took place in 2016 — and revealed the tragic and horrific fate of the city. I had to wait for the story to develop into a satisfying climax, which didn't happen until January 2016.
Financing the reporting, research and travel for this book must have been challenging. How did you accomplish that?
I accomplished it, as many nonfiction writers do, with magazine assignments. The 2012 aerial lidar expedition was very expensive to cover, but my research and reporting were financed by The New Yorker magazine, which published my initial story on the lidar discovery. The 2015 expedition was even more expensive, because it involved helicopter flights, but again my part in it was financed by National Geographic Magazine, as I was working for them on assignment. My 2016 trip to Honduras for the excavation of the artifacts was also covered by National Geographic. And finally, my very expensive treatment for disease was financed by the National Institutes of Health because I was enrolled in a special medical research study. Nonfiction writers are always looking for someone else to finance their research!
You've gotten some blowback from archeologists about the "discovery" of a site that scientists say they've been studying for years. Will you tell us about that please, and how you feel about it?
First, the assertion that this site was previously known is a false and irresponsible claim by an archaeologist who was upset at not being included in the project. The site, and indeed the valley, was entirely unknown to scientists and even to the indigenous people of the region. There is no record of it in any published or unpublished reports in archives in Honduras or elsewhere, and it is not on any list of Honduran archaeological sites maintained by the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia. We saw further proof in the fact that the animals in the valley had never seen people before, had no fear, and had never been hunted. Conservation International sent 14 biologists into the valley who were stunned by what they found, saying it was possibly the most pristine and untouched rain forest area they had ever seen, confirming it had not seen human entry in centuries. The valley is also an unprecedented hot zone of a deadly tropical disease (which we discovered to our great sorrow), perhaps one major reason why indigenous people never roamed or settled in it — they were smarter than us.
But the exploration of the ruins was conducted by highly qualified archaeologists from the United States, Honduras, and Mexico. In all, more than 20 PhDs have been involved in this project, including engineers, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, geologists, and biologists from places like Harvard, Caltech, and the National Autonomous University of Honduras. Some archaeologists also complained that the discovery was "sensationalized." My response to that is that the discovery is, indeed, sensational. My book, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story, was written in English for an educated and interested lay public, not for an academic readership.
I've spent some time in a Central American jail and, while reading your narrative, feared you'd get arrested ― or worse. Were you ever afraid?
Wow, that sounds like quite an experience! I had quite enough of being arrested, thank you, while researching and writing The Monster of Florence. Fortunately, while the rain forest held many dangers, being arrested was not one of them. Since the project was always a joint Honduran-American effort, with the personal support of two Honduran presidents and the military, we felt safe enough. While Honduras is a dangerous country, we were usually protected by Honduran TESON Special Forces soldiers.
You and your fiction writing partner, Lincoln Child, write a fine series of techno-thrillers based mostly on Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast. Is writing fiction a respite from reporting true stories? Is it easier or harder?
Fiction is a wonderful respite from nonfiction and vice versa. The two are complementary, and many of our fictional novels sprang out of my nonfiction work. For example, the article I wrote on cannibalism for The New Yorker became the novel Thunderhead; and the story I did for Smithsonian on the fabulous Oak Island Treasure in Nova Scotia became Riptide. I have no doubt that this new adventure of finding a lost city will become a novel soon.
After you returned home to Santa Fe, New Mexico, you fell ill from bug bites. What happened? And how you were eventually diagnosed?
I'll never forget sitting around the pool in Catacamas, Honduras, after we came out of the jungle, drinking frosty beers and congratulating ourselves that we had survived and no one had been bitten by a snake or gotten sick. It turned out our relief was premature. In about six weeks, many members of the expedition began falling ill. Medical researchers at the National Institutes of Health enrolled us in a special study — we were quite popular with the doctors — and we were diagnosed with an unusual form of mucosal leishmaniasis, a hideous, flesh-eating disease transmitted by the bites of sand flies. If not treated, the disease can result in your nose and lips sloughing off, leaving an open sore where you face used to be. (I would not advise readers to Google images of this disease.) About two thirds of the expedition fell ill — Hondurans, British, and Americans alike.
What did your family think? Your brother, author Richard Preston (Hot Zone); your wife; and three grown children must have been terrified. Has their reaction shaped your next project?
My brother knew all about the disease and was horrified and fascinated when I told him. Leish is not infectious so there were no worries about anyone else getting it, but, yes, my family was not exactly thrilled. But as a journalist, I've taken a lot of risks in my life, some far worse than this, so I think if leish is all that's going to happen to me I'm probably ahead of the game. And my wife is an amazing adventurer herself and so no explanations or apologies were necessary.
I understand that you're not completely cured. Has your life changed because of the Monkey God and how?
The treatment, which is quite unpleasant, is only a beat-back of the disease, not a cure. But I feel great and nothing has really changed. Honestly, a lot of people out there are dealing with far worse, like cancer. One of the great things about being a journalist is that if something bad happens to you, you can at least write about it. Writing is a kind of exorcism. And I got a best-selling book out of it — which was at least partial compensation.
Will I catch the flesh-eating virus from you when we meet this summer at ThrillerFest? Or do you plan to use this mysterious illness in other ways?
No worries if you keep 15 feet away from me. Just kidding! Leishmania is a single-celled animal, not a virus or bacterium, and as such the disease is complex and subtle. If you're going to get a disease, this is one of the most interesting. It is also, as my book points out, one of the oldest diseases on the planet, dating back at least a hundred million years. Paleontologists found a piece of amber with a sand fly trapped in it that had sucked the blood of a dinosaur; mingled among the blood cells were leishmania parasites. Even dinosaurs got leish! How cool is that?
Kathleen Sharp is the author of Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire, which AudioGo rereleased as an audio and ebook.


The above is a tweak of January workout plan (I did this with a combo of Greatist's "just do something") and also my New Year's Resolution. I am starting on this project of 30 days and one of the major guidelines is to make an appointment of at least 10 minutes of exercise everyday. With the above plan, I am mandated to do just the first 10 minutes, any extra minute is bonus.
7. Other accessories like sport bra, jeggings, leggings, sport wears.
9. Lastly me, myself and I.
C. Motivation: both from inside and outside. I need all the energy to do this seeing I bore easily.
4. A clear mind that I am expending just 10 minutes, getting the remaining minutes in my timetable done is a bonus for each day.
If you will like to join me on this challenge, just click a "reaction" below this post, I know you are in. You are not mandated to follow my exercise timetable, be creative but be sure you are doing something productive daily and be ready to share your progress.
You can follow me on twitter for daily updates.


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Q: joomla forbid direct access to components and modules I activated SEO friendly URLs. Basically URLs in my app looks like following:
http://x.com/en or http://x.com/en/gallery.
From my app there is no link, let's say, on com_users. But user still can open it with one of the following URLs: http://x.com/component/users or http://x.com/?option=com_banners.
I blocked first one with this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L]

How can I block the second (?option=com_users)?
I understand that this behavior could be default and expected for Joomla, but I just want to give you one example.
When I allowed access to all my pages for only registered users they still are able to access components. At the same time in Joomla administration there is no permission for read. Finally, users are getting template page or some data if it is public, for ex., articles from com_content. And question: how to raise 403 in this case or, at least, redirect to / ?
Update:
I need to block /users?view=registration, reset remind and profile. And I need to redirect any error to login page. Doesn't matter whether it is whole Joomla component or view, task etc.

A: I would go another way, and use rel=canonical for this.
This is a much easier/better way of doing things, as the tag will appear on all "Page Versions" and you don't need to set many case-specific rules or carry around a heave redirect file...
This is just one Plugin that will help your canoniczlization.
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/meta-data/11038?qh=YTo0OntpOjA7czo5OiJjYW5vbmljYWwiO2k6MTtzOjExOiInY2Fub25pY2FsJyI7aToyO3M6MTI6IidjYW5vbmljYWwnLiI7aTozO3M6NToiY2Fub24iO30%3D

A: I wrote my own plugin to handle all cases and redirect to login page (/login) in case of any inconvenience. By inconvenience I mean any direct access to any component in Joomla, or 403, or 404, but not 500. For now, my application works very well accepting only following URLs: /login, /home, /gallery, /gallery/album/any, and few others. Direct access is totally forbidden, though, user cannot use URL params (like ?option=com_users) or /component/ path.
This approach wouldn't work with SEO URLs turned off.
<?php // no direct access
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );

jimport( 'joomla.event.plugin' );

class  plgSystemComontrol extends JPlugin {

    function plgSystemComcontrol(& $subject, $config) {
        parent::__construct($subject, $config);
    }

    function onAfterRoute() {
        //  get plugin parameters
        $com_redirect_url = $this->params->def('com_redirect_url', 'index.php?option=com_user&view=login');
        $com_debug = $this->params->def('com_debug', '0');
        $com_message = $this->params->def('com_message', '');

        // get option, view, task ..
        $mainframe = JFactory::getApplication();
        $option = JRequest::getCmd('option');
        $view = JRequest::getCmd('view');
        $task = JRequest::getCmd('task');

        //  get current URL
        $uri = JFactory::getURI();
        $url = $uri->toString();
        $u_host = $uri->getHost();
        $u_path = $uri->getPath();
        $path = substr($url, strlen(JURI::root()));

        // get user permissions
        $groupsUserIsIn = JAccess::getGroupsByUser(JFactory::getUser()->id);
        $user_type = implode(" ",$groupsUserIsIn);
        $group_sum = array_sum($groupsUserIsIn);

        if ($com_debug == '1') {
            $mainframe->enqueueMessage('--------------------------------');
            $mainframe->enqueueMessage('$option = '.$option);
            $mainframe->enqueueMessage('$view = '.$view);
            $mainframe->enqueueMessage('$task = '.$task);
            $mainframe->enqueueMessage('$url = '.$url);
            $mainframe->enqueueMessage('$path = '.$path);
        }

        if (strpos($path, 'administrator') === 0) {
            return;
        }

        // set default redirect page
        $redirectPage = ($group_sum > 1) ? 'index.php' : 'index.php/login';
        $directAccess = strpos($path, 'component') !== false || strpos($path, 'option') !== false;

        // allow login page only
        if ($option == 'com_users') {
            if (($view == 'login' || empty($view) || $task == 'user.login' || $task == 'user.logout') && !$directAccess) { // $view == 'default'
                return;
            } else {
                $mainframe->redirect($redirectPage, $directAccess ? 'Direct access to components forbidden' : 'Login/logout is enabled only');
                //JError::raiseError(403, JText::_('Forbidden'));
                //return;
            }
        }

        // deny direct access to components
        if ($directAccess) {
            $mainframe->redirect($redirectPage, 'Direct access to components forbidden');
            //JError::raiseError(401, JText::_('/component/'));
        }

        // get usertype to see if logged-in
        // $user =& JFactory::getUser();
        // $user_type = $user->get('usertype');
        $groupsUserIsIn = JAccess::getGroupsByUser(JFactory::getUser()->id);
        $user_type = implode(" ",$groupsUserIsIn);
        $group_sum = array_sum($groupsUserIsIn);
        if ($group_sum > '1') {
            return ;
        }

        //if user logged-in, then return from function
        if (empty($option)) {
            return;
        }

        $mainframe->redirect( $com_redirect_url, $com_message );

        return;
    }
}
?>

I hope this will help to understand how to do some custom redirects and disable direct access to the components.

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Q: Solving an Integral equation with uncertainties, by using fsolve and uncertainties packages in Python I have some variables that are uncertain, these are
w_m = u.ufloat(0.1430, 0.0011)
z_rec = u.ufloat(1089.92, 0.25)
theta_srec = u.ufloat(0.0104110,  0.0000031)
r_srec = u.ufloat(144.43, 0.26)

and some constant values
c = 299792.458  # speed of light in [km/s]
N_eff = 3.046
w_r = 2.469 * 10**(-5) * (1 + (7/8)*(4/11)**(4/3) * N_eff)

My problem is I need to solve an integral defined by this functions
def D_zrec(z):
        return (c/100) / sqrt(w_m * (1+z)**3 + w_r * (1+z)**4 + (h**2 - w_m - w_r))

This function is evaluated for dz but it also contains an unknown h that we need to find, with corresponding uncertainty. So I need to write a code that finds h.
Here is my full code
    from numpy import sqrt, vectorize
from scipy.integrate import quad
import uncertainties as u
from uncertainties.umath import *
from scipy.optimize import fsolve

####  Important Parameters #####
c = 299792.458  # speed of light in [km/s]
N_eff = 3.046
w_r = 2.469 * 10**(-5) * (1 + (7/8)*(4/11)**(4/3) * N_eff)

w_m = u.ufloat(0.1430, 0.0011)
z_rec = u.ufloat(1089.92, 0.25)
theta_srec = u.ufloat(0.0104110,  0.0000031)
r_srec = u.ufloat(144.43, 0.26)

D_zrec_true = r_srec / theta_srec

@u.wrap
def D_zrec_finder(h, w_m, z_rec, D_zrec_true):
    def D_zrec(z):
        return (c/100) / sqrt(w_m * (1+z)**3 + w_r * (1+z)**4 + (h**2 - w_m - w_r))
    result, error = quad(D_zrec, 0, z_rec)
    return D_zrec_true - result

def h0_finder(w_m, z_rec, D_zrec_true):
    vfunc = vectorize(D_zrec_finder)
    sol = fsolve(vfunc, u.ufloat(0.6728, 0.01), args=(w_m, z_rec, D_zrec_true))[0]
    return sol

print(h0_finder(w_m, z_rec, D_zrec_true))

So to summarize I have an integral named as D_zrec that is a function of z, but also contains an unknown number h that we need to find by using fsolve.
I have found 3 sites that might be useful for the coder. Please look at them if you want to help
https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2013/03/07/Another-approach-to-error-propagation/
https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2013/07/10/Uncertainty-in-an-integral-equation/
https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2013/01/23/Solving-integral-equations-with-fsolve/
I have looked at them to write my code but no luck.
Thanks for the help


To begin with, it is necessary to define Human Papillomavirus infection in a medical context. It is exclusively a sexually transmitted infection, meaning the only way to gain is through having an intimate contact with the carrier. In most cases, women are believed to be the sufferers. It is no way to detect the health condition without conducting a specialized examination called an HPV test. It is free in most regions of the world. Many people live their life without having any idea they have HPV.
Once the corresponding virus penetrates the human organism, HPV takes place. In most situations, it happens because of the scar, wound, or another bleeding trauma. Even a tiny tear of the infected person can be the cause if it enters the organism of another individual. A skin-to-skin contact is the most popular way to obtain this infection. It is possible to get infected with a single kiss as well.


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EXCLUSIVE: Trump, Biden forgo FBI counterintelligence briefings
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The campaigns of President Trump and presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden have turned down offers for counterintelligence briefings on threats to the coming election, a senior U.S. intelligence official has told The Washington Times.
The briefings were offered in the past several weeks and rejected, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"You have the Trump campaign and the Biden campaign not agreeing on much, but one thing they did agree on is they don't want the FBI briefing them," the official said.
Such briefings in the past were carried out by the FBI, which is charge of domestic counterintelligence. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced earlier this month that it had shifted control of the campaign briefings from the FBI to the larger U.S. intelligence community.
Threat briefings on election security are now organized by Bill Evanina, an Obama administration holdover and director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, part of the ODNI.
"U.S. elections are the foundation of our nation's democracy," Mr. Evanina, who began his career as an FBI agent, said in an ODNI statement. "We are committed to supporting this administration's whole-of-government effort to secure the 2020 election."
Mr. Evanina has come under fire from critics who say that, as the senior U.S. counterintelligence official during the 2016 election, he took no action to counter Russian election interference.
A Biden campaign spokesman declined to comment on the decision not to accept a briefing.
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh would not say if the campaign turned down the security briefing. "We take security seriously and never comment on our precautions," he said.
The intelligence official suggested one reason for reluctance by the Biden campaign might be concerns those conducting the briefings could seek information about Mr. Biden's son Hunter and his business dealings in Ukraine when his father was vice president.
"They're nervous," the official said.
Hunter Biden has come under criticism for taking lucrative positions in Ukrainian and Chinese companies while his father was vice president, and a Senate panel last week voted to subpoena the Democratic public relations firm which worked for a Ukrainian company on whose board the younger Mr. Biden sat.
President Trump has urged a wider investigation of the Bidens' business dealings.
The intelligence official said the campaigns should accept the briefings.
"We need the campaigns to understand the threats — from China, from Russia, from Cuba, from all over," the official said.
"The fact that both the Trump and Biden campaigns have refused defensive counterintelligence (CI) briefings proposed by the DNI from the FBI is the latest indicator of the depth of distrust for today's highly politicized FBI," said Brad Johnson, a former CIA operations officer.
"This should serve as a warning to FBI director Christopher Wray, who has largely ignored the issue and not taken the decisive steps need to reestablish the credibility of the FBI," added Mr. Johnson, now head of the group Americans for Intelligence Reform.
In October, Republican Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Ron Johnson, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, wrote to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray seeking the bureau's plans on counterspy briefings for presidential candidates and senior campaign officials. The FBI in 2016 provided such briefings to then-candidate Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as to both running mates.
However, the FBI in 2016 chose not inform the Trump campaign that the Bureau was already investigating allegations of Russian collusion with the campaign.
An FBI inspector general report from December stated that then-FBI Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director Bill Priestap considered a security briefing for the campaign on the probe, but "ultimately decided that providing such briefings created the risk of compromising the secret counterintelligence investigation." Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok suggested in private texts that the FBI was using post-election with the Trump transition team gather intelligence for the Russian collusion probe.
The IG report said that there was no FBI policy on political campaign security briefings, and Mr. Grassley and Mr. Johnson said the FBI appeared to follow a different procedure for defensive security briefings by not notifying the Trump campaign of the Russian collusion probe.
"An essential part of that process is ensuring that all candidates for office are treated fairly and are fully and equally prepared to address any potential security and counterintelligence concerns," they wrote. The lack of uniform briefing policies "undermines that process by risking the appearance of bias or, at worst, causing actual prejudice to a candidate for office."
Copyright © 2021 The Washington Times, LLC.
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Lauren Jauregui Shows Off Versatility With Three New Solo Songs (WATCH)
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Only one night into her opening set on the Latin American leg of Halsey's Hopeless Fountain Kingdom tour, Lauren Jauregui is already delivering the goods.
The Fifth Harmony alum unveiled three new solo songs during the trek's Sao Paolo, Brazil stop on Wednesday night (June 6), running the gamut from rock tell-off "Toy" and pop ballad "Inside" to the scorching, soul-infused "No Expectations."
"GUYS IM SCREAMING OH MY GOD SEEING ALL OF YOUR REACTIONS TO THESE SONGS AND LITERALLY PEOPLE WERE ALREADY SINGING THEM BY THE END OF THEM I LOVE YOU SO MUCH," Jauregui later tweeted of the show, which marked her first-ever solo concert. "Obrigada São Paulo you have my heart forever!! First show ever DONE!!"
Jauregui has yet to reveal any official solo plans since Fifth Harmony's hiatus announcement in March, but has been routinely sharing updates about her work.
"Fun fact: I actually only started writing actual songs this year," she tweeted in May. "I had only written two songs in my life completely that I thought were [okay] and I was too scared of failure to try until my world shifted earlier this year. "The rest of the songs you'll hear I've actually written within the past [three] weeks/month. Literally in the studio every day just opening the floodgates of all the s--t I never let myself say."
Jauregui previously collaborated with Marian Hill for "Back to Me" in 2016 and Steve Aoki for "All Night" last year, but her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom performance marks the first taste of fully solo material.
Watch fan-filmed videos of the tracks below.
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import java.util.Scanner;
public class Palindrome
{
	public static void main(String Args[])
	{
		Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
		System.out.println("Enter the Number to be reversed");
		int number = sc.nextInt();
		int temp,reverse=0;
		temp = number;
		while(temp != 0)
		{
			reverse = reverse * 10;
			reverse = reverse + temp%10;
			temp = temp/10;
		}

		if (reverse == number)
		{
			System.out.println("The number entered is palindrome");
		}
		else
		{
			System.out.println("The number entered is not a palindrome");
		}
		sc.close();
	}
}

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HomeRight ColumnAl Gore's Daughter Arrested In Green Anti-Pipeline Protest, Multiple Charges
Al Gore's Daughter Arrested In Green Anti-Pipeline Protest, Multiple Charges
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/al-gores-daughter-arrested-in-green-protest-multiple-charges/
The daughter of former Vice President Al Gore and 22 other environmentalists were arrested Wednesday during a protest of a Boston pipeline.
Karenna Gore was apparently part of an environmentalist protest which attempted to block construction of a pipeline by lying in a trench. She faces charges of disturbing the peace, trespassing and resisting arrest, and is set to be called before a court Friday.
Karenna was part of the group "Resist the Pipeline", who have compared building the pipeline to a digging mass grave. Karenna has already scheduled an interview about her arrest with the far left new-site Democracy Now.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/al-gores-daughter-arrested-in-green-protest-multiple-charges/#ixzz4DA3fQzOe
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April 12th, German extreme metallers KETZER released their fourth full-length, Cloud Collider, via Metal Blade Records.
For another preview of Cloud Collider, the album's previous singles, "The Wind Brings Them Horses" and "No Stories Left" (featuring a special guest appearance by the legendary Proscriptor McGovern of Absu fame), can be still be heard at: metalblade.com/ketzer. At the same location you can order Cloud Collider.