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Is Mother Teresa really a Saint?
October 26, 2021 September 4, 2016 by Dave
Today, in fact 40 minutes ago as I write this, the Pope conducted some official Catholic PR by declaring the culturally popular icon, Mother Teresa, is now a Saint. He announced …
"After due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and having sought the counsel of many of our brother bishops, we declare and define Blessed Teresa of Calcutta to be a saint and we enrol her among the saints, decreeing that she is to be venerated as such by the whole Church."
Mother Teresa Myths
I've written quite a bit about her over the years and am quite critical. This is because much of what is believed about her life and works is not actually factual at all. There is a popular cultural myth that she was a lady who devoted her entire life to helping poor people. It is of course true that she founded the Missionaries of Charity, but there are aspects to her work that are truly quite disturbing, so I'll pluck out some details from my previous writing on this topic that illustrate this …
1) Not a Friend of the Poor
She was not at all a friend of the poor, but was instead a friend of poverty. That might appear to be a subtle distinction, but it is a rather important one. She believed that poverty was a gift from god and should be accepted and welcomed. The outcome of such thinking was that she was opposed to the one thing that is known to cure poverty, allowing woman control over their reproductive cycle. In other words, woman should be breeding machines and have as many babies as possible.
2) Her friends included the corrupt rich
Those with whom she was friends included the corrupt rich such as the Duvalier family in Haiti. She travelled all the way there to personally meet with them so that she could be given money. Note that this was not theirs to give, but had been stolen by this corrupt family from the poor of Haiti. In return she gave a public speech in which she praised the regime of this family of dictators.
She also accepted 1.4 million dollars of stolen money from Charles Keeting, founder of Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. In return she gave him public support and testimony at his trial saying what a great man he was. The District Attorney wrote to her and explained that the money had never belonged to him and that she should not keep it (she never replied).
The source for the above was the well-researched book by Journalist and author Christopher Hitchins, "The Missionary Position". It exposed her as a religious fanatic with no real interest in actually helping the poor. Because he visited her clinic in Calcutta and also personally interviewed her, he was in the unique position of having direct knowledge of what was really going on and gained a deep understanding of what she truly believed.
Mr Hitchens was not a lone voice, many other sources raised similar concerns. Colette Livermore, an ex nun from Mother Teresa's order, writes quite critically about it within her book "Hope Endures: Leaving Mother Teresa, Losing Faith, and Searching for Meaning".
As for the actual care on offer by her clinics, that has been heavily criticized by both the Lancet and also the British Medical Journal. Deploying staff who are not permitted to have any medical training, yet are still expected to care for the ill and dying does not yield a viable health-care solution …
Robin Fox, the editor of the Lancet, wrote in 1994 about the "haphazard" approach to care by nuns and volunteers, and the lack of medically trained personnel in the order's homes.
These are not lone isolated voices, not are they the only ones, many others are quite rightly deploying fact-based criticism …
Aroup Chatterjee, a doctor, grew up in Kolkata and now works in the UK. He is one of Mother Teresa's most vocal critics. "Many rogues have become Catholic saints," he said. "What bothers me is that the world makes such a song and dance about a superstitious, black magic ceremony."
He added: "It's obvious that people are duped, they have a herd mentality. But the media has a responsibility not to collude with it."
He has described Mother Teresa as "a medieval creature of darkness" and a "bogus and fantastic figure" who went unchallenged by the world's media.
According to his 2003 book, Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict, based on the testimonies of scores of people who worked with the Missionaries of Charity, the medical care given to sick and dying people was negligible. Syringes were reused without sterilisation, pain relief was non-existent or inadequate, and conditions were unhygienic. Meanwhile, Mother Teresa spent much of her time travelling around the world in a private plane to meet political leaders.
… and also Susan Shields …
Susan Shields, a former worker with the Missionaries of Charity, who claimed that vast sums of money accrued in bank accounts but very little was spent on medical expertise or making the lives of the sick and dying more comfortable.
After Hitchins, other Journalists also investigated and came to similar conclusions …
The investigative journalist Donal Macintyre spent a week working undercover in a Missionaries of Charity home for disabled children in Kolkata in 2005. In an article in the New Statesman, he described pitiful scenes. "For the most part, the care the children received was inept, unprofessional and, in some cases, rough and dangerous."
The assertion that she was a good person, a Saint, and did great things simply does not survive a review of the available evidence, and none of these facts have every been disputed.
She did not actually believe in God
A rather astonishing and not very well-known fact is that over the years she lost her belief in God.
Her public position was one in which to claimed to retain an unquestioned faith, yet that was a complete lie, because behind that facade she hid the fact that she no longer believed.
CBS reports …
In a new book that compiles letters she wrote to friends, superiors and confessors, her doubts are obvious.
Shortly after beginning work in Calcutta's slums, the spirit left Mother Teresa.
"Where is my faith?" she wrote. "Even deep down… there is nothing but emptiness and darkness… If there be God — please forgive me."
Eight years later, she was still looking to reclaim her lost faith.
"Such deep longing for God… Repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal," she said.
As her fame increased, her faith refused to return. Her smile, she said, was a mask.
"What do I labor for?" she asked in one letter. "If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true."
According to her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped praying. It reveals her to be a human who had earlier on in her life charted a course of religious devotion, but then later changed her mind. She was however trapped and so she needed to maintain the facade because she had nothing else.
How do you become a Catholic Saint?
To get the Official "Saint" status within Catholicism, there needs proof of at least two medical miracles, and she has that.
The issue here is that what we are talking about is Catholic "Proof" and that is something that is not of the same calibre as say legal proof or scientific proof.
Back last year, I was writing and pointing out that her "miracles" are highly dubious …
Back in 2003 (via the BBC again) …
The Pope judged that the curing of an Indian woman suffering from an abdominal tumour was the result of the supernatural intervention of Mother Teresa.
…He approved the October finding from a Vatican commission that the healing of a Bengali tribal woman, Monica Besra, was a miracle.
It is claimed that a locket with Mother Teresa's photo on it cured the woman of a stomach tumour in Calcutta in 1998.
The problem with this "Miracle" is that it is not one at all, and what we actually have here is a Non sequitur. The problem is that you simply cannot claim that the Mother Teresa locket was the cure, and that the medical treatment she received at the same time played no part at all, and so this claim is quite frankly absurd because it completely ignores the medical care she received. This is not simply my own opinion, Prabir Ghosh, general secretary of the Indian Rationalist and Scientific Thinking Association, took this exact stance, and he was not alone, her doctors agreed with him …
Mr Ghosh described the claim as bogus and typical of the process of cult building in all religious orders.
He says Mother Teresa could be considered for sainthood for her services to the poor, adding that it was an insult to her legacy to bestow her sainthood on false claims of miracles.
Mr Ghosh says several doctors have reported to the West Bengal government that Ms Besra continued to receive treatment long after Mother Teresa died.
He said Ms Besra was admitted to hospital with chronic headaches and severe abdominal pain at least a year after Mother Teresa's death.
The doctors say that if the story of the miracle gets what they describe as undue publicity, illiterate and poor villagers may stop taking medical treatment for their maladies and seek miracle cures.
Mr Ghosh says his association, which seeks to promote rational and scientific thinking in India, would expect the West Bengal Government to take legal action against the Missionaries of Charity.
… in other words, her own doctors did not think this was a "miracle", so where exactly is the "proof" here?
This I suspect is what might be best described as religious "proof" and not scientific proof at all. If you were to take a scientific approach then you do need to justify why your conclusion is the best answer, utilise objective data and not subjective opinion to back it up, and not ignore the far more obvious reasonable conclusion.
People believe what they want to believe and what they need to believe, not because that is what the facts reveal, but often despite the facts.
In the case of Mother Teresa the facts clearly reveal a reality that very much conflicts with the prevailing cultural mythology, and yet such facts have been ignored and will no doubt continue to be ignored. She has not been canonised, instead a myth about who she was has been canonised and promoted, on the basis of miracles that are not really miracles at all. It is like this because it meets a deeply felt emotional need that many have, and not because any of it is actually true.
We need not doubt the sincerity of those that embrace such mythology as truth, because it is an understandable reaction to recent Church history. Catholicism badly needs such ideal humans to help them forget the revelations of case after case after case of abuse and cover-up, and so this myth of goodness is elevated to help fill the vacuum and sooth the considerable degree of anguish that those revelations of deeply rooted darkness caused.
Nobody is about to permit any facts to get in the way. This is because deeply felt emotions will always trump the facts, they always have. The fact that is it like this is the only true miracle going on here.
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The lyrics of "O Come O Come Emmanuel" date back between the 8th & 12th century. At that time they would read a Psalm then sing or chant a short line beginning with the letter O. This was called "The O Antiphons." One of those lines were, "O Come O Come Emmanuel." Emmanuel means—God with us.
Have you ever prayed, "God, be with me?" Be with me as I travel. Be with me as I take this test. What does it mean for God to be with us?
Isaiah prophesied the birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) around 740 years before it took place. God becoming a man is what sent shepherds into the fields rejoicing. It is what caused wise men to fall to their knees in worship. Why? Because it revealed that God was not a distant uninvolved Creator. God was not just watching over us—He is WITH us. Not only is God with you, He was with you years before you ever knew it.
The phrase, "God with us" reveals that God is a relational God.
Psalm 46:1 (NLT) God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.
The problem is, it can be hard to believe. We don't always feel God's presence. Often we're ashamed of what we've done. But God is Emmanuel.
1) God is with you.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles.
The all knowing, all powerful, every present God is with you and wants to help you. The more we turn to Him, the more He can help.
2) God was with you.
Genesis 39:21 (NKJV) But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor.
God was working behind the scenes, kept promoting Joseph, and ultimately used him to assure Israel's safety. At times it was hard to see Him in the moment, but it was easy for Joseph to see looking back.
Genesis 50:20 (NIV) You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
3) God will be with you.
Romans 8:35, 37-39 (NIV) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword . . . . No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
Nothing can separate you—nothing! God will never leave you or forsake you. You will never be alone!
God is with you, the real question is are you with God?


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Structural and biophysical coupling of heparin and activin binding to follistatin isoform functions
Thomas F. Lerch, Shunichi Shimasaki, Teresa K. Woodruff, Theodore S. Jardetzky*
Follistatin (FS) regulates transforming growth factor-β superfamily ligands and is necessary for normal embryonic and ovarian follicle development. Follistatin is expressed as two splice variants (FS288 and FS315). Previous studies indicated differences in heparin binding between FS288 and FS315, potentially influencing the physiological functions and locations of these isoforms. We have determined the structure of the FS315-activin A complex and quantitatively compared heparin binding by the two isoforms. The FS315 complex structure shows that both isoforms inhibit activin similarly, but FS315 exhibits movements within follistatin domain 3 (FSD3) apparently linked to binding of the C-terminal extension. Surprisingly, the binding affinities of FS288 and FS315 for heparin are similar at lower ionic strengths with FS315 binding decreasing more sharply as a function of salt concentration. When bound to activin, FS315 binds heparin similarly to the FS288 isoform, consistent with the structure of the complex, in which the acidic residues of the C-terminal extension cannot interact with the heparin-binding site. Activin-induced binding of heparin is unique to the FS315 isoform and may stimulate clearance of FS315 complexes.
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Lerch, T. F., Shimasaki, S., Woodruff, T. K., & Jardetzky, T. S. (2007). Structural and biophysical coupling of heparin and activin binding to follistatin isoform functions. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(21), 15930-15939. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M700737200
Lerch, Thomas F. ; Shimasaki, Shunichi ; Woodruff, Teresa K. et al. / Structural and biophysical coupling of heparin and activin binding to follistatin isoform functions. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2007 ; Vol. 282, No. 21. pp. 15930-15939.
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Stone Eden
Historical Dates: 1840-present
Threat Level: Low
Location: Sands Rd
Sited near the skirmish at Katy's Hollow, rumor has it that a Civil War bullet passed through the kitchen window of this circa 1840 farm, creating a dent in a skillet hanging there. Currently a sheep farm.
Stone Eden Farm was first deeded in 1765 to the Hatcher family. At the time, a small stone house was built, which consisted of one downstairs room with a loft upstairs. That is now the center section of the house. Circa 1820, the first addition, also of stone, was added to the house. This is the current day living room, two side rooms, and the upstairs to this section. The style of this section of the home represents early American vernacular architecture. Typical to the period, one can observe front and back doors directly opposite one another and the two side rooms, seen in many homes built in Loudoun around this time.
The farm remained in the Hatcher family from 1765 until the Browns purchased the farm in the mid-1930s. It was the Browns who named the land formerly known as Hatchers' heirs land to Stone Eden Farm. The Browns were dairy farmers, and three generations of Browns raised dairy cattle and crops until the family patriarch, Sam Brown, passed away in the late 1990s. Due to the encroaching development coming from western Loudoun, the Browns decided to subdivide the property and relocate. In 1999, the Cochran family bought what remained of Stone Eden Farm. Allen Cochran, of Cochran's Stone Masonry (located in the olde Janney's Store Building) is both resident and creator of the log portion of the home. A smaller log portion/summer kitchen had once existed in a similar spot. Mr. Cochran purchased a log cabin, dismantled it, and reassembled it as the addition. He and his crew built the mammoth stone wall at the north end of the log portion, and the family moved in in 2013. It is still a work in progress, as you will see some retaining wall beginnings; also, some continued restoration and addition of a powder room to the 1765 portion will take place in the near future.
Historically, the home stood through the American Revolution and the War of Northern Aggression. During the burning raid that began in late November of 1864, the barn, which stood directly in front of the current barn, was destroyed. A new barn was built in 1869 and is the barn you see today. The Battle of Katy's Hollow took place near Stone Eden. It was Mosby's last skirmish of the war in Loudoun, taking place in March 1865. A local story has been passed down that a bullet entered the home and became lodged in a cast iron frying pan.
Allen, Nancy, and their daughters, Emily and Montana, reside at Stone Eden Farm. They have continued with the agricultural tradition of the farm raising sheep and a small hen laying flock.
Nancy C. Griffith-Cochran
Stone Eden Farm
Hamilton, VA 20158
Located on Sands Rd, between the village of Lincoln and the town of Hamilton.


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A: You are allowed to take a camera up at your own discretion, and should take into consideration the height and water risks. Disposable cameras are best. We also offer a digital photo package as another option to capture your good times.
Q: What photo package do we offer?
A: The digital photo package includes 30 photos of your adventure. The crew uses a high quality digital camera to document your entire flight and at the end of the trip you get the memory card to help with bragging rights.
Q: Do we need to make reservations?
A: Yes, because of parasailing's popularity and the limited space we encourage reservations. There have been times when guests have shown up without a reservation only to have to wait for a couple of hours until there was a space open for them. HOWEVER, if there is room on the boat walk-up guests are welcome.
Q: What are our options as far as making reservations?
1) Online reservations are available by going to the reservation tab on our website. 2) Phone reservations are available 24/7. Call anytime. 3) Walk up reservations at any of our ticket offices.
A: Parasailing Gift Certificates are a great unique idea for special occasions. If you would like to give someone special the gift of parasailing, just let us know. We can get the gift certificates ready for pick-up or mail them out for you at no additional charge. Gift certificates don't expire and are valid at all of our California locations.
Q: Are there group discounts?
A: Groups of 6 or more get a discount. Call us for more information.
Q: What are your cancellation and refund policies?
A: Please cancel one day prior to your reservation for a full refund. Gift Certificates & Retail: We do not refund gift certificates or retail purchases. However, gift certificates are good until they are used.
Q: What if it rains or is extremely windy?
A: A little sprinkle and we stay out. High gusty winds also make parasailing difficult. The captain then decides if we are going on stand-by or if we close down for the day. If you weren't able to fly then you can either be refunded or rescheduled for a day when we think the sun will come out to play again. If you are unsure about the weather conditions, please give us a call the day of your flight.
Q: What part of our vacation should we plan parasailing for?
A: We encourage you to plan for parasailing during the first part of your vacation. That way, if the weather does not cooperate you will have other opportunities to fly.
Q: Why book online versus by phone?
A: As an online customer you have the freedom to book ahead of everyone else. Your credit card will NOT be charged prior to your flight for online reservations.
A: We accept Cash, Debit Cards, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, or American Express.
Q: What are the days and times the boats depart?
A: Boats depart every 1 hour beginning at 9 am. Our online reservation system shows availability for each day.
IMPORTANT: Keep in mind that parasailing and any other outdoor activity is best planned for the first part of the day since the chances of winds increase throughout the afternoon.
Q: Is it customary to tip the crew?
A: Just like others in the service industry, the crew works very hard to make sure all your needs aboard the boat are taken care of.


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Members' Layouts
In addition to the Society's own layouts, a number of our members have built their own layouts that are portable enough to be taken to exhibitions.
Gorpeton Blymee
by Gordon Edgar and Peter Wilson.
An 00 scale Great Western layout set in the late-1940s
Gorpeton is a first attempt a building a layout, put together by one latent enthusiast and one Johnny-cum-Lately. Begun as a 7ft by 1ft 3in layout, it is currently approximately 17ft by 3ft. In brief, it is over-time, over-budget, over-complex and over-grassed!
There are a few unusual features of this layout. Its irregular shape spring from a desire to have a more organic, flowing model, than that which is normally seen on the exhibition circuit. Unfortunately, it means that every one of the base boards is a different size and shape, and has resulted in the creation of an interesting transportation cradle.
Secondly, there is no backscene. A strong emphasis has been placed on embankments, trees, and half-relief buildings to hide the lack of a sky-board. The down-side is that we keep our 4mm scale roofing contractors busy owing to the fact that it is easy for operators to demolish the chimney stacks on the buildings.
Gorpeton represents a fictitious GWR branch line in the late 1940s to early 1950s period. Originally intended as a through line, it finished up as a somewhat inadequate branch terminus, but with a useful, busy goods yard.
The railway line was given a new lease of life in the early 1930s with the rapid expansion of the Wilgar & Edson Company. Their contracts are now exclusively with the Ministry of Defence. All the work is hush-hush, and so secret that even we (its creators) have no idea what they make. However, good use is made of their factory sidings.
The recently established British Railways Board have plans to re-develop the station, and re-position it on the other side of the factory, where it will be closer to the town centre.
Contact us for details on how to book the Gorpeton Blymee layout for your exhibition.
Gretton & Wenlock Railway
Owned by the Colehill Locomotives And Narrow Gauge Enthusiasts Railway Society (C.L.A.N.G.E.R.S.)
A 0-16.5 narrow gauge freelanced layout by the creators of the Tarrant Valley Raiway.
The group of WRS members that built Tarrant Valley Railway, decided to move up to 0-scale for their next project. Having bought an 0-16.5 layout second hand, they proceded to convert it to better suit their needs by extendending it to a 20′ × 6′ L-shape.
The period the model represents is the late 1940s, up to the line's closure in 1951. Stock consists entirely of kit built models. The original layout had a canal modelled on it so we kept that feature and then set about designing the trackwork which included a bridge over the canal, The timber merchant's yard was added as a point of interest and to give a purpose to a "siding to nowhere" that ran in front of the original fiddleyard. All the baseboards are 4′ x 2′ and all but two are built differently to take account of the scenery constructed on them.
All buildings have been scratchbuilt. The roof of the large warehouse which hides the corner join is removable as the two walls are on separate boards. The sack hoist works on a timed interval basis. A grounded coach body (Peco) acts as a parcels office and there are working lights in the yard and station. The boiler house at the timber merchants is detailed with two boilers while the cutting shed contains a saw bench with rotating saw based on a product made by Stenner & Gunn of Tiverton.
Locomotives and rolling stock are all kit built models, including 4 Peco Glyn Valley Tramway 0-4-2T tram locos running on 0-6-0 chassis , plus 2 sets of four 4 wheel coaches and a rake of 10 1 ton slate wagons about 20 4 ton open wagons. Four sets of twin bolster wagons are used, two work with the gravity slate train (using a Tenshodo "spud" motor to provide the "gravity") and the other two work to/from the timber merchants, carrying logs in and sawn timber out. Five bogie coaches have been scratchbuilt using etched brass and Bachmann Collett coach bogies in a shortened Vale of Rheidol style. Four resin Smallbrook Studios steam locos and one diesel shunter have been built on r-t-r Hornby chassis. One of the steam locos, an "Echo" kit, has been enlarged and modified to run on an old Lima class 08 chassis, complete with outside cylinders and valve gear. The loco now resembles "Dennis" of Snailbeach District Railways fame. There are always opportunities for interlopers from other railways to make an appearance!
Peco Code 100 0-16.5 track has been used with a mixture of standard and scratchbuilt pointwork. Woodlands Scenic scatter materials and clump foliage has been used for the greenery and the trees are made from dead stems of heather, cut to shape and glued together to create the desired shapes.
Gretton Station and Canal, with associated warehouses, is modelled here on this imaginary 2′ 3″ narrow gauge railway. The railway initially opened in 1892 for freight traffic only (mostly coal and slates). Four tram engines formed the initial motive power, along with nearly 30 wagons. A passenger service was introduced in 1899, when new coaching stock was delivered. At this time the wagon and steam locomotive fleet were also both expanded. The railway connected with the GWR at both ends of the line where there were exchange sidings. The main offices. workshops, engine and carriage sheds were situated in Church Stretton alongside the GWR station. Passenger services began in 1899 which required an additional engine shed/workshop at the Gretton end of the line. The Shropshire Union Canal had a branch alongside the railway and traffic to the warehouses and timber merchants was a welcome source of revenue for the Gretton and Wenlock.
Locomotives were purchased from a variety of manufacturers including Beyer Peacock, Peckett and Bagnall with some surplus World War I equipment also coming to the line. Rolling stock came from both the Midland and the Birmingham RC&W Companies amongst others.
The layout depicts Gretton station and its environs towards the end of the railway's existence – from the end of World War II until the closure of the line in September, 1951.
From Church Stretton, the line ran parallel with a Roman Road and passes the small halt of All Stretton—opened in 1899—just over a mile north of the terminus. The line was forced to climb and head north first to enable it to gain height to go around the northern side of Caer Caradoc Hill turning almost a full 180° in the process. This hill peaks at 1,506 ft (498 m) above sea level. The line then descends as it swung from heading south-east to head north-east to pass over the canal and into Gretton station. Gretton Tunnel then followed, before a steady gentle climb leads up to Hughley station, a further four miles distant, where a loop with an island platform and two sidings existed. The line then continued on up to the eastern terminus and exchange sidings at Much Wenlock, 13 miles from Church Stretton.
GRETTON AND WENLOCK RAILWAY – a small selection of images from "along the line".
Contact us for details on how to book the Gretton & Wenlock Railway layout for your exhibition.


the club objectives have always been to cater for all land Rover owners giving support not only to them but providing for all interests within the realms of Land Rover ownership. To provide a social side that gets all the family involved from the youngest to the most senior of members.
The History of the "South Coast Land Rover Owners Club" In 2003/2004 the "South Coast Land Rover Owners Club" was formed, rising out of the ashes of a local section of a national one type Land Rover club.	It was at a meeting to decide which way we should go that the immortal words were spoken I believe by member Nick Main that we should go it alone and form our own club.
Over the past years the club has gone from strength to strength with the club not only joining G.L.A.S.S. to help with conserving out rights of way but also joining the A.L.R.C. (formerly the A.R.C.).
The club when formed was to cater for ALL Land Rover owners with this still being a main objective of the club.	Along with this objective to cater for all land Rover owners the need to satisfy all the family member, from the very beginning the ladies of all ages were given the name of the "Roverettes" with their own clothing and their own motto "Have wine will travel", membership by the ladies is of course voluntary but give them retail facilities and a few glasses of wine most of the ladies are happy to let the men alone to their Land Rovers.
A new item for members is for the children to have their own section with its own membership card designed by one of the juniors (well done Aiden) and at all the events we attend they are normally found a job(under supervision) to make them feel part of the club.
The club not only attends shows throughout the county but Land Rover events at Gaydon, London to Brighton run, U.K. Rhino Charge and the Land Rover Monthly show.	At some of the county shows the club organises and run a Off Road course taking the members of the general public around with two local hospices benefitting from the proceeds.
Charities to benefit from the club include "Breast Cancer" and our main charity "The Sussex Air Ambulance" which has benefitted over the years to nearly £3,000.00 , this monies is raised by collecting tins at events and the clubs road run "Coast into the Country" which starts at the historic Shoreham Airport and finish at a place of interest within Sussex, this airport is also where the club assists in the smooth running of the yearly airshow organised by the "Royal Air Forces Association".
The club is not all about working for charity with regular green lane outings, visits to pay and play sites, weekends away camping, regular monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month at the "Mile Oak" public house in Portslade and most importantly helping each other to maintain our vehicles.
The club and it committee is always looking at ways to not only provide something new for the membership but what it can do for others especially looking at the way others look at not just us but all Land Rover owners.
With membership coming from all walks of life these members bring many different skills which they may be only to pleased to pass on to the other members and at times non Land Rover owners.


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My two year old granddaughter was helping my wife empty the dishwasher. Eager to help she caught hold of as many items as possible and stretched up to the kitchen surface to push them on until they were out of reach. Having achieved her goal she gladly took the next instruction literally when my wife asked her to put a plate into the dishwasher. She caught hold of the plate and threw it into the dishwasher and proceeded to close the door on it.
for instructions, and having heard we rush forward and implement the instruction in our eagerness to just get on with it. We adopt the attitude that's it lets go now we have the answer, this is it. If we were to stay a little longer and give God time and have a two way conversation we would get the full detail of how to proceed in the correct way. This way we will see the complete and full expedition of what God wants us to do. Maybe then there will be less frustration and blaming of God for getting it wrong.
Let's load our dishwashers correctly and be fulfilled in a clean and effective process!


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SirCam worm still spreading documents
Even as most companies now prevent their networks from spreading the bug, individual computer users continue to send out infected files.
Jan. 11, 2002 5:59 p.m. PT
Like a summer cold that just won't go away, the SirCam e-mail worm lingers on, sending out the contents of infected hard drives for all the world to see.
Even as most companies have prevented their networks from spreading the bug, individual computer users continue to send out infected files day after day, with the worm piggybacking on documents ranging from confidential to comical: recipes, shopping lists and lots and lots of resumes. The result is that SirCam is still spreading two weeks after it first cropped up.
"I think this is going into a slow-growth mode, similar to Hybris," said David Perry, global director of education for antivirus software maker Trend Micro. The Hybris worm, which first showed up late last year, has continued to spread, in part because it sends out e-mail slower than the Love Letter or Melissa bugs, which shut down entire corporate e-mail systems.
Reuters reported that a Ukrainian Web site said Thursday it had received secret documents from the administration of President Leonid Kuchma, including an itinerary showing his whereabouts during the country's upcoming independence celebration.
Arthur Baker of North Yorks, Britain, said his computer was rendered unusable after he got hit by the worm on Sunday. Finally, on Thursday, he was able to recover his system by restarting in clean mode, clearing the computer's register file and running an antivirus program.
"My address book was raided, as well as other areas of my computer, and a file on my mother's property...was sent out around the world," Baker said in an e-mail interview. "I had reports of it arriving in Australia, Canada, Scotland..."
Baker even heard from someone at NASA that the agency had received the file, most likely the result of a Space Shuttle page Baker had bookmarked.
According to the VirusEye bug-tracking service run by British e-mail screening service MessageLabs, SirCam has been the most active virus in the last 24 hours, with 7,165 reports, compared with 599 incidents of the Magistr bug. A strain of Hybris ranked third, with 277 incidents reported.
The SirCam worm spreads by e-mailing copies of itself to everyone in the infected computer's Windows address book. It also sends itself to any e-mail addresses contained in the Web browser's cache files, which store recently viewed pages.
An added twist with SirCam is that it sends a randomly chosen file from the infected computer's hard drive, potentially sending confidential business data or embarrassing personal information along with itself. The e-mail subject line matches the name of the file being sent.
The main threats posed by the worm are security breaches from sending possibly confidential documents and the inconvenience of sorting through the torrents of e-mail the worm generates. But SirCam can also perform several destructive acts based on a combination of arcane PC settings and chance. If the infected PC uses the European date format (day/month/year), for example, there is a 1-in-20 chance that the worm will delete all files and folders on the hard drive on Oct. 16.
The worm is also "network aware," Symantec reported, meaning it will search for network resources and attempt to propagate itself to attached systems, making SirCam a particularly strong pest on any corporate systems it infects.
Michael R. Trent, a Web designer and computer science student at Eastern Kentucky University, said a SirCam infection caused cascading problems for him. Antivirus software deleted the bug, he said, "but with the deletion went every ".exe" (executable program) file on our computer," he said in an e-mail interview. "It destroyed our hard drive and also transferred itself to our backup disc that we burn on CD."
Perry said that SirCam, like most bugs, is unlikely to completely disappear.
"Contrary to public opinion, they don't go away because we discover detection for them," he said.
SirCam doesn't appear to be doing much damage to large companies, which are getting tens of thousands of copies of the worm but have been largely successful in preventing infection.
Nonetheless, because the worm mails itself to e-mail addresses found on stored Web pages, many media organizations are among those still battered with the bug. That's one reason Perry thinks it is still getting attention.
"Reporters are being hit repeatedly," Perry said.
Another problem is that infected e-mails often are coming from people unknown to the recipient. As a result, the sender isn't told he is sending out the bug, and the infections continue. Plus, many of those being hit are people on home PCs who don't have updated antivirus software to cure their infection. Even those who have antivirus software often disable it, Perry said.
"They think it slows down their system, and they are right," Perry said. One option he hinted at would be to place antivirus protection directly into the cable modem and DSL routers used for high-speed Internet access.
CNET News.com's David Becker contributed to this report.


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'SNL' made its audience paid cast members to beat this weird coronavirus loophole
By Shawn Cooke
Whether or not it's suited for our current moment, Saturday Night Live returned over the weekend to an extremely chaotic news environment. Megan Thee Stallion's performances were galvanizing, Jim Carrey's Joe Biden debuted in a debate sketch that seemed to exist in a separate reality, and, despite the ongoing pandemic, there was a live studio audience present to bear witness. But in order to comply with coronavirus guidelines, audience members were considered paid employees rather than free ticket holders.
According to a new report from the New York Times, the spaced-out, masked studio audience took home a paycheck so the show could adhere to New York state COVID guidelines. Although it's unclear how many audience members were effectively paid as cast members, the Times confirmed with the state's health department that SNL took advantage of this odd loophole to comply with pandemic regulations. The report cites one audience member who, along with his seven friends, was surprised to be handed a check for $150 from Universal Television before he left the studio.
In a year that's spawned some remarkably unusual studio audience workarounds — yes, I'm thinking of the large heads on screens jamming to a new Vin Diesel song on The Kelly Clarkson Show — SNL's undying commitment to a live audience ranks among the strangest. While you'd probably have to pay me more than $150 to get through an entire episode of current-run SNL, it's effectively a form of hazard pay for those willing to chance it.
State guidelines currently provide that shows aren't permitted to host live audiences unless they consist of paid workers, cast, and crew. The Times dug up a now-defunct registration page on the casting website 1iota, which put out a call for SNL audience member bubbles between seven and nine people:
All guests would be required to take a nasal antigen test upon arrival, with results available before the start of the show. They would be required to wear a face covering at all times in the building and would be asked a series of questions about their potential coronavirus exposure. And they would have to get their temperature checked at arrival; anyone with a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher would be asked to leave (along with everyone else in that person's group).
A state health department spokesman told the Times that there's "no evidence of noncompliance" in SNL's practices. As we're seeing from the still-unfolding White House outbreak, negative tests and no symptoms can still result in spreading the virus, but the show seems prepared to make any possible adjustment to avoid using a laugh track.
Snapchat has been dishing out millions to lure creators from TikTok
By Kara Weisenstein
Will publishers ever stop whitewashing BIPOC lives?
Andrew Yang wants to be New York's next mayor, pledges more TikTok Hype Houses


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The Horshack Redemption #29: There's Nothing Out There (1991)
Gilligan and the Professor count down their top three best and worst vampire movies of all time, then head into the 1991 horror film "There's Nothing Out There". As always there's plenty of discussion about the gratuitous nudity, the film's "drinking game" and the usual bounty of pop culture connections. Enjoy!
Screen Shot Gallery
The amazing opening scene in a video store. A great look at a ton of old horror VHS tapes.
If you went to high school in the 80s, this classroom will look very familiar. Yeah, I know the film is from '91, but it took three years to receive a theatrical release; so, this is really a look at 1988.
The cool cocky "teenager" and his hot popular girlfriend. Every slasher film has 'em.
Poor Nick (left) has the most annoying friend on the planet, Mike (right)
The soon to be dead Janet and Dave with annoying Mike.
Doreen and Jim decide to skinny dip. Never a wise move in a horror movie.
Mike and Stacy are all that's left; the rest are well on their way to either being alien food.
Mike, Stacy and Nick come up with an ingenious plan.... and somehow it involves lots of light bulbs.
Labels: Horshack Redemption
Man, I love "There's Nothing Out There". It's such a great, underrated film and watching it, you have to wonder if the makers of "Scream" (yes, you Wes Craven) watched it and 'borrowed' a few ideas.
Great review guys, another classic!
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Q: Visualizing the results of Granger causality test I have tested for Granger causality in my data and have the $p$-value related information such as,

$Granger Granger causality H0: general do not Granger-cause special
data:  VAR object sims.2 F-Test = 3.2493, df1 = 2, df2 = 22, p-value =
0.04802

Is there any way I can visually depict the causality occurring between the two variables? Or anything hinting towards the presence of causality would be appreciated as well.

A: If you are interested in a Yes/No answer (which is often the reason why people do hypothesis testing), there is not much to visualize. If, on the other hand, you are interested in the effect size and its lag structure, you can look at impulse-response functions and see what effect a shock to $X$ has on $Y$ over several periods.

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Palmer and perfection as season calls
Updated: 11:25 p.m.
Tab Perry hangs on after taking the hit from Colts defensive back Dexter Reid. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
INDIANAPOLIS - Welcome to the real Mock Game.
The Colts didn't start any of their depth-chart regulars on offense or defense here in Friday night's preseason finale at the RCA Dome and the Bengals finished off their first ever unbeaten and untied preseason with a 20-3 victory.
In wrapping up their best warmup act since the 1971 team went 5-0-1 before going 4-10, the Bengals tuned up with a gaudy 131-54 scoring margin, a healthy turnover rate of plus-9, and 10 touchdown passes to none intercepted.
"Those numbers don't mean anything; they don't mean a thing. It doesn't mean a thing," said head coach Marvin Lewis. "It's all done. Everyone starts fresh."
Carson Palmer eased back into his flawless form of Monday night and took just nine snaps to show he's sharp enough for next week's regular-season opener in Kansas City. He knifed a 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chris Henry through three defenders with 6:11 to go in the first quarter and left with a 147.9 passer rating on top of Monday's 136.9 rating.
That means Palmer's reconstructed knee numbers read four touchdown passes to four different receivers and a field goal in six drives and 43 snaps. Lewis pulled the first offense after the seven-play touchdown drive that featured Palmer's 31-yard fling down the sideline to Chad Johnson.
"It just kind of gives you a little extra pep in your step," Palmer said. "But whether you're 0-4 or 4-0 in the preseason it doesn't matter at the end of the year."
Left tackle Levi Jones committed two false starts in the touchdown drive, but big in the drive was running back Rudi Johnson. He carried twice for 40 yards and finished his night with 45 yards on three carries for 15 more yards than he had the entire preseason before Friday night.
His 26-yarder came through a monster truck hole courtesy of Jones and Co. on the left side, and he added insult to injury when he ran over defensive backs Marlin Jackson and Matt Giordano for an extra five yards.
The only halftime concern appeared to be wide receiver Tab Perry's bruised chest that knocked him out of the rest of the game.
But Lewis said Perry was OK and he expects the four starters who missed the game - wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh, defensive tackle Sam Adams, cornerback Deltha O'Neal and linebacker David Pollack - to be ready for the opener.
"We got accomplished what we set out to do," said Lewis at the half. "We got some snaps in for the first units, they did pretty well, and we got them out.
"We had some good offensive rhythm going, but we had some procedure penalties. You know what I feel about them."
Friday also marked the first hookup this season of the Pro Bowl combination of Palmer and Chad Johnson and it had mixed results. Palmer hit Johnson over the middle on a 22-yarder on Cincinnati's first drive, but he fumbled when cornerback Kelvin Hayden reached in and poked the ball away.
On the second drive, Johnson dropped another pass over the middle before Palmer airmailed him a beauty down the sideline and Johnson contorted his body to stay in bounds.
Palmer took note that Johnson didn't have a catch Monday night, but the Bengals wide receiver left Indy with three for 59 yards.
"It seems like you've lost a lot when you don't get Chad the ball," said Palmer, who can't remember Johnson fumbling in a game. "He's our go-to guy. He will be this whole year. Getting him the ball gives us a good chance to get our rythym and timing back and when you don't get him the ball, then T.J. makes plays and Chris Henry makes plays and other guys step up and play. That's what you want early on because we know there are going to be games where people are really going to key on Chad and try to take him away and we're going to lean on T.J. and we're going to lean on Kelley Washington, we're going to lean on Chris Henry, so it's good to see those guys make plays when we're having a tough time getting Chad the ball."
Palmer finished a crisp four-of-six for 73 yards, but it didn't compute to half the drama of Monday night, and no one came close enough to breathe on him. And he said he wasn't perfect, taking the blame for the false start because he said he has to make himself clearer on his calls. He said he missed a few throws, but the only blatant misfire was a high incompletion to Henry over the middle.
Henry started because Houshmandzadeh sat out the game with a bruised heel and responded with his second touchdown of the preseason.
The other significant development on offense came when running back Quincy Wilson pretty much locked up a spot on the final 53 by ripping off 128 yards on 19 carries. He rolled off the right side and then cut back to the left and outside for a 49-yard run that set up Shayne Graham's 23-yard field goal with 12:21 left in the game and gave the Bengals a 20-3 lead.
But that spot for Wilson is probably going to be open only if running back Chris Perry (ankle) goes on the physically unable to perform list (PUP) in Saturday's final cutdown and misses the first six weeks of the season. Deciding to keep Perry active or inactive is just one of the decisions the club has to make by 4 p.m. Saturday.
Veteran running back Kenny Watson is expected to make the team, but he has been nursing a variety of ailments this preseason and played sparingly Friday and didn't seem to play from scrimmage.
The bid of rookie running back DeDe Dorsey, who came into the game as the club's leading rusher (90 yards on 12 carries), may have hit a snag when he sat out Friday after suffering an injury Monday against the Packers.
So Wilson, who had all of 20 carries for 97 yards last preseason, knew he was going to play. A lot. He also caught two balls for seven yards.
"It's about getting into a rythym. It's hard in preseason," Wilson said. "Usually you get three or four snaps, then you're out. Today I was doing everything, third down. Once you get into a rhythm and get comfortable, you start to get some nice movement.
"I don't know," Wilson said of his bid. "I was out there on third down. I thought I did some things blocking. I thought I did some things receiving. I did some things running. It's going to be a tough decision."
Here's a practice squad alert. Rookie fullback Naufahu Tahi, a free agent out of Brigham Young, moved to tailback for the first time as a pro in the final moments because of the depleted field and banged out 54 yards on 11 carries.
Wilson scored on a one-yard run with 11:01 left in the half to give the Bengals the 14-0 lead, capping a 13-play drive that ate nearly eight minutes in a game the Bengals backups bludgeoned the Indy reserves with 249 yards on 40 runs that averaged 6.2 Wilson cranked out an 11-yard run, but he finished the half with just 30 yards on 10 carries before limbering up in the second half.
One of his runs was a reel out of his ESPN classic back in college at West Virginia against Miami when he just wouldn't go down. On a 16-yard run Friday night, he broke a tackle at the line, then in the middle of the field, then in the secondary.
It was also a short night for the first defense, which clocked out after cornerback Tory James generated the team's 10th turnover and sixth interception of the preseason. A total of 37 of the Bengals' NFL-leading 131 points came off turnovers.
In the second half, backup cornerback Greg Brooks came up with Pick No. 7 in almost the exact same place as James' when he pulled it in before stepping out of bounds on the back line of the end zone.
The Bengals held the Colts to 24 yards rushing in the first half with linebacker Landon Johnson racking up four tackles and end Robert Geathers coming up with another sack to give him 2.5 on the preseason.
The Bengals got a good effort from a mix-and-match unit that stopped Indy on the Bengals 4 and forced Shane Andrus' 22-yard field goal with 1:27 left in the third quarter that made it 17-3. (The Colts didn't even play their kicker, Adam Vinatieri, fighting an injury.)
On first down from the 2, rookies Eric Henderson (who also had a sack) and John Busing came from end and safety to swarm fullback Jonathan Wells for a two-yard loss. With rookie safety Ethan Kilmer working at cornerback, King tried the other side and Brooks, and then had to throw it out bounds on second down. Then on third down King fired it incomplete through the middle, where linebackers Marcus Wilkins and A.J. Nicholson were dropped into coverage. Also working in that drive was middle linebacker Odell Thurman, who goes on the suspended list in Saturday's final cutdown for violation of the NFL's substance abuse policy.
Not playing for the Bengals defense was Adams, but it's believed he sat out not because of an injury but because of the four-day turnaround between games.
Rookie Domata Peko started in Adams's spot and had a tackle.
Rookie linebacker Rashad Jeanty, a three-year CFL product, looked ready to lock up a roster spot with his third start of the preseason in place of Pollack (hamstring), and he responded with two tackles in the first quarter.
First-round pick Johnathan Joseph got his second straight start at left cornerback in place of O'Neal (knee). Wide receiver Antonio Chatman (groin) sat down for the third time this preseason and rookie receiver Bennie Brazell (knee) sat out, as did rookie defensive tackle Marcus Lewis (foot) and cornerback Patrick Body (undetermined). Also shelved: Rookie linebacker Ahmad Brooks (undetermined).
PREGAME NOTES: Running back Chris Perry (ankle), defensive lineman Jonathan Fanene (hamstring) and left tackle Adam Kieft (knee) remain headed on the PUP track.
The trio has yet to practice this preseason, making them prime candidates for the physically unable to perform list (PUP) in Saturday's final cutdown, meaning they can't practice or play for the first six weeks of the season.
The captains for Friday: linebacker Landon Johnson, fullback Jeremi Johnson, left guard Eric Steinbach, safety Dexter Jackson, and tight end Tony Stewart.


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Guarding the Guardians: Legislative Self-Policing and Electoral Corruption in Victorian Britain
Andrew C. Eggers, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, andrew.eggers@nuffield.ox.ac.uk Arthur Spirling, Department of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, USA, aspirling@gov.harvard.edu
Andrew C. Eggers and Arthur Spirling (2014), "Guarding the Guardians: Legislative Self-Policing and Electoral Corruption in Victorian Britain", Quarterly Journal of Political Science: Vol. 9: No. 3, pp 337-370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/100.00013098
© 2014 A. C. Eggers and A. Spirling
Law and Economics: Models of Litigation, Elections: Electoral institutions, Political corruption, Political history
2. Adjudicating Election Petitions in Victorian Britain
3. Adjudicatory Error and the Prevalence of Electoral Corruption
4. Partisanship and Adjudicatory Error
5. Did Judicialization Deter Corruption?
Appendix A.1: Analysis of Model
Appendix A.2: Alternative assumptions about costs
Appendix B: Balance tests
We offer an institutional explanation for the dramatic decline in corrupt practices that characterizes British political development in the mass suffrage era. Parliamentary candidates who faced corruption charges were judged by tribunals of sitting MPs until 1868, when this responsibility was passed to the courts. We draw on theory and empirical evidence to demonstrate that delegating responsibility over corruption trials to judges was an important institutional step in cleaning up elections. By focusing on an institutional explanation for Victorian electoral corruption (and its demise), we provide an account that complements the existing literature while offering clearer implications for contemporary policy debates.


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November 08, 2018 Birth Chart and Zodiac
An observer located in New York City on Thursday November 08, 2018, would see:
The moon, being 5% full, rising at 07:19 am and setting at 06:27 pm. The previous full moon was on Oct 24, 2018 while the next full moon would come on Nov 23, 2018.
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Venus would rise at 04:57 am and set at 03:30 pm. 6% of Venus would be illuminated by the Sun. Venus distance from the Sun would be 0.72 astronomical units (AU) and its distance from the Earth 0.30 astronomical units (AU). The angular distance in the sky between Venus and the Sun would be -21° 26' 53.9".
Mars would look like 85% full, orbiting the Sun at a distance of 1.40 AU and be at 0.85 AU from Earth. The planet would be seen rising at 01:25 pm and setting at 11:48 pm. The angular separation of the Sun and the planet, with Earth as the reference point, would be 99° 11' 36.6". The brightness of Mars, that is its magnitude, would be -0.43.
Jupiter's distance from the Sun would be 5.36 AU and 6.33 AU from Planet Earth. Jupiter rising and setting times would be 07:41 am and 05:24 pm respectively. Jupiter would appear with a 99% illuminated fraction of its surface and a magnitude (brightness of the star) of -1.58. Its angular separation between the Sun would be 12° 51' 44.0".
Saturn would rise at 10:26 am and set at 07:42 pm, appearing 99% full. The angular separation of Saturn from the Sun, as seen by the observer, would be 48° 09' 26.7", its magnitude 0.56. Saturn would orbit the Sun at a distance of 10.06 astronomical units (AU) and would be located at a distance of 10.70 astronomical units (AU) from Earth.
Uranus would appear 99 full, its brightness being 5.69. It would be seen rising at 03:50 pm and setting at 05:14 am. Uranus would be 19.87 AU far from the Sun and 18.92 AU far from Planet Earth (average distance). The observer, looking up into the sky, would see Uranus with a 162° 55' 18.5" angle of separation from the Sun.
Pluto would be seen as 99% full and would have an elongation of 61° 32' 27.4". It would orbit the Sun at an average distance of 33.68 astronomical units (AU) and be located at an average distance of 34.14 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. The observer would see Pluto rising at 11:21 am and setting at 08:43 pm, its magnitude (brightness of the star) being 14.35.
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Q: Python: Combining unique values in list of dicts where keys are the same? I'm not sure if I am asking the question in the right way, but this is my issue:
I have a list of dicts in the following format:
[
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'b'},
{'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'c'},
{'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'd'},
...
]

I want my final result to look like this:
[
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'b']},
{'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'c']},
{'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'd']},
]

In essence, combining/deduplicating the unique fields in IndexUsed and reducing them to only one dict per user
I have looked into using reducers, dict comprehension, and searched on StackOverflow but I have some trouble finding use cases using strings. The majority of examples I have found are using integers to combine them into a final int/float, but here I rather want to combine it into a single final string. Could you help me understand how to approach this problem?

A: from collections import defaultdict

data = [{'IndexUsed': 'a', 'user': 'joe'},
 {'IndexUsed': 'a', 'user': 'joe'},
 {'IndexUsed': 'a', 'user': 'joe'},
 {'IndexUsed': 'b', 'user': 'joe'},
 {'IndexUsed': 'a', 'user': 'admin'},
 {'IndexUsed': 'c', 'user': 'admin'},
 {'IndexUsed': 'a', 'user': 'hugo'},
 {'IndexUsed': 'd', 'user': 'hugo'}]

indexes_used = defaultdict(set)
for d in data:
    indexes_used[d['user']].add(d['IndexUsed'])

result = []
for k, v in indexes_used.items():
    result.append({'user': k, 'IndexUsed': sorted(list(v))})

print(*result)

Outputs:
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'b']} {'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'c']} {'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'd']}

Note: for the unaware, defaultdict uses the passed function (set in this case) as a factory to create the new missing key corresponding value. So every single key of indexes_used is set to a set filled with the used indexes. Using a set also ignores duplicates. In the end the set is converted to a sorted list, while creating the required key IndexUsed.

A: If the dictionaries are guaranteed to be grouped together by name, then you could use itertools.groupby to process each group of dictionaries separately:
from itertools import groupby
from operator import itemgetter

data = [
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'b'},
    {'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'c'},
    {'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'd'},
]

merged_data = [{"user": key, "IndexUsed": list({i: None for i in map(itemgetter("IndexUsed"), group)})} for key, group in groupby(data, key=itemgetter("user"))]
for d in merged_data:
    print(d)

Output:
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'b']}
{'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'c']}
{'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': ['a', 'd']}
>>>

This was just the first thing I came up with, but I don't like it for several reasons. First, like I said, it assumes that the original dictionaries are grouped together by the key user. In addition, long list-comprehensions are not readable and should be avoided. The way in which the merged IndexUsed list is generated is by creating a temporary dictionary which maps unique entries to None (ew, gross - a dictionary is used rather than a set, because sets don't preserve insertion order). It also assumes you're using a certain version of Python 3.x+, where dictionaries are guaranteed to preserve insertion order (you could be more explicit by using collections.OrderedDict, but that's one more import). Finally, you shouldn't have to hardcode the "user" and "IndexUsed" key-literals. Someone please suggest a better answer.

A: One way to approach this requirement without making use of any libs if you are interested:
arr = [
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'b'},
{'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'c'},
{'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
{'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'd'},
]

global_dict = {}

for d in arr:

     if(False if d["user"] in global_dict else True):

            global_dict[d["user"]] = [d["IndexUsed"]]
     else:
            global_dict[d["user"]].append(d["IndexUsed"])
            global_dict[d["user"]] = list(set(global_dict[d["user"]]))

print(global_dict)

# Now we get a dict of dicts with key as user and value as an array of distinct IndexUsed values:
# {
#  'joe': ['b', 'a'],
#  'admin': ['c', 'a'],
#  'hugo': ['d', 'a']
# }

final_list = []

for k,v in global_dict.items():
    final_list.append({"user":k,"IndexUsed":v})

print(final_list)

#Desired Output
# [
#  {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': ['b', 'a']},
#  {'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': ['c', 'a']},
#  {'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': ['d', 'a']}
# ]

However, if you are a fan of short-liners...
let me minimize @progmatico's awesome defaultdict approach to just these three lines.
from collections import defaultdict

indexes_used = defaultdict(set)
[indexes_used[d['user']].add(d['IndexUsed']) for d in data] # for the side effect
print([{'user': k, 'IndexUsed': sorted(list(v))} for k, v in indexes_used.items()])

And it's still readable.

A: without any external lib:
l = [
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'joe', 'IndexUsed': 'b'},
    {'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'admin', 'IndexUsed': 'c'},
    {'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'a'},
    {'user': 'hugo', 'IndexUsed': 'd'}
]

def combinator(l):
    d = {}

    for item in l:
        if(d.get(item['user']) == None):
            d[item['user']] = {item['IndexUsed']}
            pass
        d[item['user']].add(item['IndexUsed'])

    return [{'user': key, 'IndexUsed': sorted(value)} for key, value in d.items()]

print(combinator(l))


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Q: CMD does not append WSL output In cmd.exe, I try to append WSL2 output to some file, like this:
C:\somepath>echo Some contents> somefile

C:\somepath>bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "echo APPEND">> somefile
Processing fstab with mount -a failed.

C:\somepath>type somefile
APPEND
ntents

C:\somepath>

As you can see, somehow the output is not appended to the file but overwrites the start of the file. I cannot imagine this is by design somehow.
It only happens with WSL or Bash, not with regular commands of course. But I would expect cmd to be responsible for writing to the correct place. What is so special about WSL output?
The "Processing fstab with mount -a failed." is a line I see with every WSL invocation. I don't think it's related...?

A: The boundaries between Windows and WSL/Linux are not well-defined,
so sometimes there would be strange side-effects.
In your case, probably bash didn't know that somefile had some data
already in it, so it just overwrote the beginning of the file's contents.
You could formulate the command differently, so as to avoid crossing too
many boundaries :
bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "echo APPEND >> somefile"


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Chile's Mapuche Natives get less earthquake disaster aid.
Chile's Natives get less earthquake disaster aid.
By Carol Berry, Today correspondent.
DENVER – Imagine a region 100 miles across – ocean on one side, mountains on the other – squeezed between a tsunami and an earthquake, and pretty much off the world's radar.
In some ways, that's the plight of parts of indigenous Chile, where devastation from the recent disasters has left Mapuche Indian communities, including coastal villages, outside the aid streaming into the country from other nations.
It's because at present some rural villages on Chile's central west coast and inland have been left out of the government's official declaration of a disaster area, which has centered on Concepción and its environs and, further north, Santiago, said a Mapuche teacher now living in Denver.
The disaster's aftermath has been aggravated by building codes weakened in the 1970s after former dictator Augusto Pinochet took office, creating a situation in which older buildings withstood the recent earthquake better than newer, flimsier ones, Jose A. Mariman, an affiliate professor of Spanish at Metropolitan State College of Denver, said.
Mariman has accounted for his Mapuche relatives, some of whom live in Temuco, 200 to 250 miles from the Feb. 27 earthquake's epicenter, and others who live in Santiago. A son of his, an anthropologist from the University of Massachusetts, was in the earthquake area but was unharmed.
Still, communication lines go down periodically and he has friends who have remained out of contact.
Mainly, he is upset that the Mapuche, among the country's poorest citizens, have been short-changed on the aid afforded to non-Native Chile, despite the fact that they are Chile's principal indigenous minority, numbering about one million.
Official reports indicate that in some coastal towns and villages near Concepción at least 50 percent of homes were destroyed, while the chaotic, post-earthquake circumstances in rural Mapuche communities "seem to have been forgotten," he said.
In one coastal village, Tirua – described by Mariman as the only town in Chile with an indigenous (Mapuche) mayor – a fishing vessel was stranded in the street and houses had collapsed into piles of lumber while residents sought drinkable water, food and fuel.
The segregation of the Mapuche from mainstream assistance is not surprising, given their place in Chilean society, and "It's a lot like the American Indians here," said Mariman, 50, who is a U.S. citizen with a wife and two children in Denver.
He described government policies in Chile that divested Mapuche of their land and put them in reservation-like areas where geographic isolation was combined with economic and social isolation. Many later went to the city – often Santiago – to perform low-wage work, and some, like many of his family members, have returned to Temuco and similar places of origin to resume a former lifestyle.
Some members of the Mapuche and other indigenous groups anticipated disaster, and "when they felt the earth shake, they began running to the hills. Now people are doing a lot of religious ceremonies," Mariman said, explaining that some shamans had been preparing for the event after the world-record Chilean earthquake of 1960 centered not far from Temuco.


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Republican Veteran Who Was Mocked By Saturday Night Live Wins Election In Texas
Dan Crenshaw, the wounded war veteran who was mocked by Saturday Night Live last weekend, has won his election.
Now that's justice.
The Daily Signal reports:
Dan Crenshaw, Whose War Wounds 'SNL' Mocked, Gains House Seat
Three nights after being the target of a crude joke on "Saturday Night Live," former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw was headed to victory Tuesday night in his bid for a seat in the House of Representatives from Texas.
With 87 percent of precincts reporting, Crenshaw led Democrat Todd Litton by 53 percent to 45 percent. He was poised to succeed fellow Republican Ted Poe, who is retiring after seven terms representing Texas' 2nd Congressional District.
The native Houstonian came to wider public attention three nights earlier on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," when cast member Pete Davidson poked fun at Crenshaw's loss of an eye when a roadside bomb exploded while he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2012.
During the live show's "Weekend Update" skit, Davidson joked as a photo of Crenshaw wearing his eyepatch appeared on screen: "You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hit man in a porno movie."
His supporters seem pretty happy:
Dan Crenshaw makes victory speech after winning seat in Texas Congressional District 2. pic.twitter.com/ESKKSloPka
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