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Republican Macco Decides Against Run For Wisconsin Governor
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state Rep. John Macco said Tuesday he will not run for governor next year, leaving former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch as the only high profile GOP candidate in the race.
Macco, 63, announced on Facebook Live that instead of running for governor next year, he will seek on more term in the Assembly. Macco is from the Green Bay area and has served in the Legislature since 2015.
Macco said the past year has been "very challenging" given the death of his father and his wife.
"My brother asked me, 'Do you have one more big fight left in you?' and I think the answer to that is no," Macco said in the video.
Macco said he told Kleefisch that he would work with her to defeat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. Macco called Kleefisch a "great alternative."
Former U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson, a former Marine, has said he will run for either governor or Senate, depending on what U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson does. Johnson has not said yet whether he will seek at third term.
Kleefisch served as lieutenant governor under former Gov. Scott Walker for either years. The Republican primary is Aug. 9.
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Official tracks from the 2nd Floor Samurais' Shogun Stories album. The project is a breath of fresh air in the midst of image-driven, substance-less music. Shogun Stories encourages the ascension to the 2nd Floor, provides socially conscious narratives, details how to combat enemy ninjas, while partying with debaucherously beautiful women. The album was released in mid-2017 and 2nd Floor Samurais embarked on a 2 month, 3 country promotional tour.
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2nd Floor Samurais unreleased and mixtape tracks. These songs were completed during the Shogun Stories creative process, so they naturally correlate to the vibe of the album.
The Program EP is an collaborative album with producer Cloud NI9E; it was released in 2013 from Musou Productions in Tokyo. Kuma displays his progression in bilingual rhyme science and covers a wide range of personal topics, ranging from recovery to mental health. The Program EP sold out in Japanese chain stores and the duo embarked on a 3 country promotional tour.
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Select tracks from Kensho Kuma's bilingual 2nd album, released in 2010 from We Nod Records in Tokyo. The lead-off single, Exact Science ver2.0, rightfully selected to be Kensho's first official music video, accurately showcases his top-tier bars in both languages, and his fluidity in using them interchangeably. Projekt Life Force also marks Kuma's first songs produced by longtime collaborator Japanese producer Cloud NI9E.
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Every storage device has a principal directory, known as the root directory. All other files and directories are stored within the root directory. Directories can be nested, meaning it is possible to store sub-directories, as well as files, within a directory. Nesting can take place to any depth.
A PC might have three folders in the root directory, one holding letters, a second the manuscript of a book and the third storing program. A few miscellaneous documents are also stored within the root directory, as shown in the diagram to the right.
Each file and folder must have a name which is unique at that level. It is not possible to have two files with the same name in the same folder, but we could have two files with the same name in different folders.
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No privacy in Cool Point Hotel
Arrested in hotel room for wearing Bersih t-shirts
Cameron Highlands police invaded the privacy of four people by arresting them for wearing Bersih t-shirts inside their hotel room.
KUALA LUMPUR: In a blatant invasion of privacy, the police arrested four people on holiday in Cameron Highlands by entering their hotel room at 1am on Sunday. The reason for the arrest: they were wearing Bersih t-shirts inside their hotel room.
Those arrested were Seputeh MP's Teresa Kok's aide Teh Hoong Keat, 25; Lan Suet Ling, 23; Chin Kah Wai, 25; and a mutual acquaintance who requested anonymity.
But the baffling part is that while they were held at the police station for three hours, no statements were taken, and their Bersih t-shirts were given back to them and told "to wear it as we please".
Teh told a press conference today that the police arrested him and the three others when they were in their room at Cool Point Hotel in Cameron Highlands.
Relating his ordeal, Teh, who was flanked by Lan and Chin said about 15 plainclothes policemen arrived and knocked on their hotel room at about 1am on Sunday after being tipped off by the hotel management that they were in possession of the Bersih T-shirts.
"They just entered the room when I opened the door. One officer identified himself as chief inspector Basar Safar and said we needed to follow him to the police station for being in possession of banned material," said Teh.
However, Teh said Basar refused to inform them whether they were under arrest.
"One female officer then took our MyKads to note our details but refused to return it. She told us they will only be returned if we followed them to the police station," added Teh.
Left with no choice, the four changed to a casual clothing and handed over their Bersih t-shirts to the police before following them.
However, Teh said the police merely left them to sit on a couch for about three hours before releasing them.
"At about 3am, another officer took our personal details again and told us that we can go back," said Teh.
Unhappy with the episode, Teh accused the police of being unjust for invading their private space.
OCPD must say sorry
Another aide, Chin, said he was baffled when the police released them without taking any statement despite being held at the police headquarters for more than three hours.
"They even returned our Bersih t-shirts and told us to wear it as we please," said Chin.
Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng, who was present at the press conference, accused the police of infringing and invading the private life of a citizen.
"The youths were wearing the shirts in their hotel room. If the police say they acted not according to law, then even tourists should be wary of Cameron Highlands as a tourist spot.
"The Brinchang police OCPD must apologise for this," said Lim. -- Malaysia-Today.net
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It was to be a weekend trip for a group of four youths to Cameron Highlands to enjoy nature in all its splendour.
The previous week had been hectic, what with the Bersih 2.0 rally and the numerous controversies that cropped up, so it would have been a well-deserved holiday for three aides to Seputeh MP and DAP national organising secretary Teresa Kok (right).
Little did they know that the Bersih 2.0 stigma would continue to trail them all the way to the idyllic hill resort town.
Teh Hoong Keat, Lan Suet Ling and Chin Kah Wai, along with a friend, had planned on a two- day, one-night stay in Cameron Highlands last Saturday to stretch their legs and possibly even go jungle trekking.
However, by the time the night was over, they had lost all desire to finish their holiday.
Teh said they adjourned to the girls' hotel room to hang out after dinner and visiting the night market, when a hotel employee knocked on their door about 12.45am.
"They asked us to change rooms because a family was staying next door and we may have been a bit noisy," he said.
"By that time, I think he saw us wearing Bersih T-shirts in the room. After we changed rooms, about 10 minutes later someone started knocking loudly on our door."
When they opened the door, at least 13 people who were waiting outside had barged into their room without identifying themselves, Teh (left) said.
"I asked them who they were, and one of them showed his ID, a chief inspector Basar Safar. He said the hotel management had called the police to tell them there was a group of people wearing Bersih T-shirts."
Teh said Basar had asked the group to follow the police back to Cameron Highlands district police headquarters, only giving the reason that it was a "public security issue".
'Nearly three hours wasted'
The group had initially argued against going to the police station, but had little choice as all their MyKads were being held by a female officer, who told them they would only get the documents back at the station, said Teh.
Lan (left) said they were also told to ride in the police car to the station, where they were then made to wait for two hours without any instructions after reaching there at 1am.
"They just made us wait at a side hall, where there were a few sofas. We waited and did nothing. We thought they wanted to take our statements, but they did nothing.
"By 3am, the same chief inspector came and told us we were free to go. We asked if we had anything to sign, and he said no and even returned our T-shirts to us. He told us, 'you pakailah sesuka hati kamu' (wear it however you wish)."
The ordeal however did not end there, as they had to wait at least another half-hour for the officers to send them back to the hotel, fighting back the chilly night air in just T-shirts and shorts, Lan added.
Teh said the police action was sheer injustice and an invasion of their privacy, stressing that nowhere in the law does it state that the Bersih 2.0 T-shirt is illegal.
Lan however pointed out that they chose to only wear the T-shirt in their hotel room as they acknowledge that this is still a sensitive matter.
DAP's Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng (right), who was acting as legal counsel for the trio, indicated that they will probably not take any legal action over the weekend fiasco.
"Since Malaysia is now a police state, suing the police would be a waste of time and money," he said at a press conference earlier.
An officer from the Cameron Highlands police headquarters today confirmed the case, but stressed that the quartet were not arrested.
The senior officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they did not infringe on the privacy of the four as Bersih has been declared an illegal organisation and wearing a Bersih T-shirt is not allowed.
"You cannot wear it outdoors or indoors, even as pajamas," the officer said, adding that they decided to release the four unconditionally as they were not involved in an illegal assembly.
Prior to this incident, police had arrested five Pakatan Rakyat leaders across the country last week for wearing Bersih T-shirts, including DAP's Bakri MP Er Teck Hwa.
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Q: Sorting a dictionary by it's nested dictionary values Here is my input data:
Mydict = {
'Red': {'Pesho': 1250000, 'Chicho': 101},
'Blue': {'Pesho': 10000, 'Gosho': 10000, 'Jecho': 260000},
'White': {'Bobo': 10, 'Bebo': 10, 'Bibo': 100, 'Bubo': 10}
}

I would like to sort the output first by the values of the nested dictionaries and then by their length. How to do that?
The output should look like this:
(Red) Pesho <-> 1250000
(Blue) Jecho <-> 260000
(Blue) Pesho <-> 10000
(Blue) Gosho <-> 10000
(Red) Chicho <-> 101
(White) Bibo <-> 100
(White) Bobo <-> 10
(White) Bebo <-> 10
(White) Bubo <-> 10

After digging a bit more, I came up with this:
sorted_Mydict = dict(sorted(Mydict.items(), key=lambda x: -len(x[1].values()))) #Making a new order by the count of the nested dictionarie values
pairs = [(color, name, power) for color, inner in sorted_Mydict.items() for name, power in inner.items()] #Then creating list of pairs, as suggested in the comments
[print(f"({color}) {name} <-> {power}") for color, name, power in sorted(pairs, key=lambda x: -x[2])] #Finally printing in the desired format, ordered by the int values

Thanks for the help to everyone!

A: This is not sorting, you're getting more values out than you're putting in. Also, you shouldn't use "dict" as the name for your dict, as it is a python method.
Here's a working answer though :)
myDict = {
'Red': {'Pesho': 1250000, 'Chicho': 101},
'Blue': {'Pesho': 10000, 'Gosho': 10000, 'Jecho': 260000},
'White': {'Bobo': 10, 'Bebo': 10, 'Bibo': 100, 'Bubo': 10}
}

def getValue(x):
    return -x["Value"] #minus to invert sort

myDictList=[]
for key1 in myDict.keys():
    for key2 in myDict[key1].keys():
        myDictList.append({"Color":key1,"Name":key2,"Value":myDict[key1][key2]})

myDictList.sort(key=getValue)
print(myDictList)

A: You first need to create the structure that a list of tuple of 3 elements color, name, value, then sort it with your criterias
values = {
    'Red': {'Pesho': 1250000, 'Chicho': 101},
    'Blue': {'Pesho': 10000, 'Gosho': 10000, 'Jecho': 260000},
    'White': {'Bobo': 10, 'Bebo': 10, 'Bibo': 100, 'Bubo': 10}
}

pairs = [(outer_key, inner_key, value) for outer_key, inner in values.items()
                                       for inner_key, value in inner.items()]

pairs.sort(key=lambda x: (-x[2], len(x[1])))
print(pairs[:3])  # [('Red', 'Pesho', 1250000), ('Blue', 'Jecho', 260000), ('Blue', 'Pesho', 10000)]

A: Combine the dictionary values into a list of tuples. Sort the list using an appropriate key function.  You can then format the printed output as you like.
myDict = {
'Red': {'Pesho': 1250000, 'Chicho': 101},
'Blue': {'Pesho': 10000, 'Gosho': 10000, 'Jecho': 260000},
'White': {'Bobo': 10, 'Bebo': 10, 'Bibo': 100, 'Bubo': 10}
}

r = [(C,K,n) for C,d in myDict.items() for K,n in d.items()]
r.sort(key=lambda ckn:ckn[-1], reverse=True)

for C,K,n in r: print(f"({C}) {K},<-> {n}")

(Red) Pesho,<-> 1250000
(Blue) Jecho,<-> 260000
(Blue) Pesho,<-> 10000
(Blue) Gosho,<-> 10000
(Red) Chicho,<-> 101
(White) Bibo,<-> 100
(White) Bobo,<-> 10
(White) Bebo,<-> 10
(White) Bubo,<-> 10

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After I completed my cruise on the Allure and finished my rather fantastic eastern Canadian road trip (it's not all about ships and the ocean). I headed back to Japan to tie up all the lose ends there. By Christmas, cruising was well behind me, with 2017 shaping up to be the year for resettling back in Australia.
The first priority in Japan was to pack up my home of eight years. I had a Japanese moving firm come over to provide some assistance with packing and shipping all my earthly possessions back to Australia; that is after selling, giving, and throwing away as much as I could, my life was now reduced to just 8 boxes 📦 . With the boxes now on the way to my brother's place in Sydney, I left my home in Sapporo for the final time and headed to Niseko. One more season of snow and ice, cooking a daily breakfast for a dozen or so guests, sipping whisky late into the night by the fire with many of the same guests, and shuttling them around the resort. One more season, and I would be back in Australia.
At some point towards the end of the season, my friend in Switzerland invited me to his wedding, which, inconveniently, was to be in Switzerland in July. How could I possibly get myself settled, start a new job back in Australia in May or June, and immediately ask for leave to go to Switzerland? If I was to do this, it would hamper establishing myself back in Australia. I put this trip on the back-burner.
In April, after many sad farewells, I headed to Sydney to start my new life back in Australia. However as Robert Burns wrote "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley" and that's exactly how my plans went; awry!!
These boxes, these 8 most important boxes, were not at my brothers house, after an email exchange with the moving company enquiring as to the whereabouts of my boxes, They assured me they were at the Sydney warehouse, relieved I called the warehouse, but with Burn's words still haunting my arrival back in Australia, the boxes were not there.
So another email exchange with the company I informed them that the boxes were not in Australia. They said that they would look into it and would contact me as soon as they had news. About two days later they called me with some "bad news" the boxes were still in Japan, they're in a warehouse in Tokyo.
I was actually quite relieved with this news. I had just scored 5½ months of free storage 😀 , and I hadn't had to bother my brother or anyone else in the family with storage or looking after the boxes. But then the other shoe dropped, the moving company informed me that the boxes were going to take three to four weeks before they arrived in Sydney.
What was I going to do for three to four weeks? I had no idea. I wasn't prepared to go searching for a home yet; quite frankly my life was on pause. What was I going to do while I waited? Go on a cruise? No that's a silly idea! But I logged in to the Royal Caribbean website just to see what was available, the Explorer of the Seas was leaving in a week on a trans-Pacific repositioning to Seattle, and it was going to take just over three weeks. A three week cruise, three to four weeks before the boxes arrived. Just like Romeo and Juliet, it was a star crossed event, it couldn't have been more perfect (I am just hoping the whole thing doesn't finish the same way).
Excited about this I went ahead and booked it. The interesting thing about the Royal Caribbean website, it defaults to double occupancy when you try to book anything. I flew past the number of guests page, and saw the total price was just over $4,500AUD. Then I noticed that it was for 2 passengers, so I went back and modified the booking to a single passenger. It was now over $9,500 🤯.
Explorer of the Seas about to unleash 2 years of insanity.
I couldn't believe it, two people was less that half the price of a single person. I called Royal Caribbean to confirm that this was the price and yes it was correct. Single was closer to $10k but for two people it was just over $4,500. I asked if I could book for two people, and was told no you can't you are travelling alone so you must book a single. This made no sense to me, so after I hung up, I went back online booked it for two, and paid half. I then went around my circle of friends to see if anybody was interested in a 3 week cruise leaving in a few days. But when you are in your 40's there aren't many people who can up and leave on such short notice (which I think is a terrible thing). The following weekend I was at Circular Quay and boarded the Explorer of the Seas. I honestly had no idea what this cruise would begin.
This was a fantastic cruise. We visited some of the South Pacific islands, (Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji). I spent many sea days in the Schooner Bar, playing trivia, and chatting with other guests, and in the evenings I visited the casino. The cruise director staff were a terrific bunch of guys and gals, all working hard to keep us entertained on this cruise with around 2 weeks of sea days.
This cruise was kind of the opposite of the Allure. It was less a party and more a journey and a bit of adventure. This was the kind of cruising I enjoyed. This was something I wanted to do more of. I visited the Next Cruise office onboard to see if there were any other epic journeys that Royal Caribbean offered. It turns out that RCI doesn't do a lot of these types of journeys. From America they are predominantly 1 week Caribbean cruises. Europe definitely has more interesting journeys, but those long epic cruises, trans Pacific and Atlantic cruises are brackets surrounding main itineraries. But there was hope. The Mariner of the Seas was scheduled to do a massive journey Singapore to Miami via the Suez. The day it went on sale (mid cruise on the Explorer) I booked it.
So now I had my cruise for 2018 booked. My life plan was get to Seattle, fly back to Sydney, and get myself squared away. But that curveball of a wedding in Switzerland had been pitched, and I had to decide if I was going or not. Hell you only live once, I have never been to a wedding in Switzerland, so I confirmed my attendance. Now I was going to Europe for a few weeks, I thought I may as well add a cruise to my journey.
(You can see how things quickly began to spiral out of control). So I booked 2 weeks Mediterranean cruise on the Navigator. So that was it, fly to Europe, do the cruise, go to the wedding, and fly home. But no, there was one other curveball pitched, a day before the cruise finished, a certificate landed on my bed from the casino. I had won (earned) a free cruise. There was a rather limited list of cruises to choose from, mostly 4 nighters in the Caribbean, which didn't really appeal to me. But there was one cruise that appealed to me, 1 week on the Explorer, west coast Seattle to San Francisco. That looked like the winner, but what clinched the deal, it was the final cruise of the American season, before heading back to Australia. So I claimed my free cruise and booked the crossing back to Australia.
Bookings for 2017 now stood as 2 weeks in the Med, 1 week West Coast, and 3 weeks back to Australia. Then I could settle down and get my life back on track. But first I needed to leave Europe, and get to America for those cruises. A problem that I found the best solution was more cruises. Serenade of the Seas was going to do a trans-Atlantic arriving in Boston 2 weeks prior to the West Coast cruise. Perfect. Could it be better? Yes, yes it could. It was doing a Norwegian Fjord cruise prior to the crossing, just a couple of weeks after the wedding. So the bookings continued to mount up.
In the end it was just easier to fill in gaps with cruises, so I continued to add to my future bookings.
2 weeks between Serenade and Explorer - Liberty is doing a 1 week cruise out of Galveston.
Getting to Singapore to join the Mariner, the Ovation was doing a 2 week cruise arriving same day as Mariner was due to leave.
Radiance was doing a circumnavigation of Australia‽ I have to do that!
The Voyager is in Australia‽ That's a ship I haven't been on.
Mariner is getting me to America, I need to get home, back on Explorer it is.
A couple of months between Mariner and Explorer, let's go crazy, Harmony, Grandeur, Majesty, Enchantment, and Adventure all booked. (August is a bit expensive, I'll take a month off).
and so on.. my plan for returning to Australia might have been a mess, but cruising was turning into something that I could easily find a place for, and there seemed to always be a gap and a chance to take another cruise.
And then it dawned on me, with all this cruising I would be close to Pinnacle, the top tier of the Crown and Anchor program, so I decided to make that an objective, a nice way to finalise my journey. Let's get to Pinnacle on my final cruise back home on the Explorer. It was then that whoever was the lovely staff member in the Next Cruise office pointed out, that I wouldn't get any of the benefits of being Pinnacle for that cruise. Doh! With this in mind, I added one more cruise to all my bookings. My life was now fully scheduled until November 2018, and I was now essentially a Royal Caribbean resident.
Over on Facebook Di asked some great questions.
Have you been upgraded often?
Never!!! I will be a happy cruiser when it happens (I have requested an upgrade once and a room change twice, today was the second time, I doubt I will be lucky).
Do you book a particular level, cabin or class?
This is actually quite complicated. As there are several factors involved in how I choose my room. Firstly, suites are almost always out! Too expensive, and for a solo sailer, poor bang for your buck on points. For example, and lets assume a Junior Suite is only 2x more than a balcony stateroom. 7 night cruise, $2,000 for the balcony, $4,000 for the suite. I get 14 Crown & Anchor points for a non suite, so each point cost me $143. For a suite I get 21 points, which is $191/point.
So the extra money for a suite is not worth it. Combined with the fact that it's just me, I don't need all that space.
Super Mario, Royal Caribbeans most dedicated cruiser, always books interior. After all he reasons, he is never in there, except to sleep and shower. I am not quite like Super Mario, and sometimes I just want to sit in a quite space, watching the ocean go by, so I do like a stateroom with a balcony. But then it comes down to price.
If an interior room is significantly cheaper than a balcony, I will book the interior. But if the balcony is only a few hundred dollars 💵 more, then I will book that.
Finally duration, on longer cruises, or ones that are particularly scenic (Norway, New Zealand, and I imagine Alaska) I will have higher preference for a balcony, but ultimately the dollars rule. I would rather cruise more and have an interior room, rather than a balcony and cruise less. There is no right answer on which class of room to choose, it is 💯 a persons preference balanced against budget. If I had a bottomless budget, it would be a balcony every time, but with budgetary constraints, interior it is.
What % of discounts do you receive as you climb up the levels to pinnacle?
I have no idea. I don't believe it is a % at all. Rather it is a numerical value per day. It only applies to balcony and above staterooms, so no C&A discount for the interior rooms! (this plays into the price difference, as I level up the difference gets less).
Ultimately it feels like I am only saving a few hundred dollars, and that's on longer cruises, at my current level. It is a good question and I will see if I can get the low down, so I can give a better answer.
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News Flash - Your reservation is almost meaningless.
If anything this year of cruising with Royal Caribbean has taught me, your reservation is almost meaningless .
From shows, to dining, excursions, your room, ports of call, to even the whole cruise. Royal Caribbean can and will cancel your reservation for what ever operational reason they have at their disposal. They don't do this out of vindictiveness or a desire to mess with their guests. I'm sure they would love to honour all reservations.
But things on board change. It could be weather related, infection control, lack of staffing, lack of supplies, or some other operational issue.
What happens when something is cancelled?
If you paid, your money will be fully refunded. (This is different to if you cancel, in that case they keep some of or all of the money 👋 💰. I'm not sure what the difference is 🤨, but there it is).
Sometime though the left and right hands don't know what they are doing so a visit to Guest Services may be required to get the refund.
In the case of cruises, RCI will offer some form of compensation (often a choice) that they deem somewhat appropriate. There is almost no arguing, discussion, emails, pleas, threats from lawyers or anything that will fix or change this. This is the situation. So deal with it.
I suggest a zen Buddhist approach. Leaf 🍃 on the river. You can get angry 😡, rant and rave, 🤯 and all you are doing is risking heart attack and at best getting apologies 🙏🏽.
I know it's infuriating. But there's a 99.99999% that the poor person you are talking to is not responsible. Walk away, breath, reassess and find the positives in the cancellation. Money saved, sunset can be seen now. Less solar damage to your skin, whatever it is. Just know that you will likely experience a cancellation, or 2, or a dozen with Royal Caribbean (Personally I'm at 4 various cancellations in 6 months, and I'm fairly concerned that I will have another whole cruise cancellation or 2 over the next 12 months).
Ultimately you will have 2 choices. Keep cruising with Royal and, when they are thrown, roll with the punches. Or quit Royal and find another cruise line. (Not that I know if they are any better or worse).


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57. Vanarinda Jātaka
"Whoso, O monkey-king."—This story was told by the Master, while at the Bamboo-grove, about Devadatta's going about to kill him. Being informed of Devadatta's murderous intent, the Master said, "This is not the first time, Brethren, that Devadatta has gone about seeking to kill me; he did just the same in bygone days, but failed to work his wicked will." And so saying, he told this story of the past.
Once on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta came to life again as a monkey. When full-grown, he was as big as a mare's foal and enormously strong. He lived alone on the banks of a river, in the middle of which was an island whereon grew mangoes and bread-fruits, and other fruit-trees. And in mid-stream, half-way between the island and the river-bank, a solitary rock rose out of the water. Being as strong as an elephant, the Bodhisatta used to leap from the bank on to this rock and thence on to the island. Here he would eat his fill of the fruits that grew on the island, returning at evening by the way he came. And such was his life from day to day.
Now there lived in those days in that river a crocodile and his mate; and she, being with young, was led by the sight of the Bodhisatta journeying to and fro to conceive a longing for the monkey's heart to eat. So she begged her lord to catch the monkey for her. Promising that she should have her fancy, the crocodile went off and took his stand on the rock, meaning to catch the monkey on his evening journey home.
After ranging about the island all day, the Bodhisatta looked out at evening towards the rock and wondered why the rock stood so high out of the water. For the story goes that the Bodhisatta always marked the exact height of the water in the river, and of the rock in the water. So, when he saw that, though the water stood at the same level, the rock seemed to stand higher out of the water, he suspected that a crocodile might be lurking there to catch him. And, in order to find out the facts of the case, he shouted, as though addressing the rock, "Hi! rock!" And, as no reply came back, he shouted three times, "Hi! rock!" And as the rock still kept silence, the monkey called out, "How comes it, friend rock, that you won't answer me to-day?"
"Oh!" thought the crocodile; "so the rock's in the habit of answering the monkey. I must answer for the rock to-day." Accordingly, he shouted, "Yes, monkey; what is it?" "Who are you?" said the Bodhisatta. "I'm a crocodile." "What are you sitting on that rock for? "To catch you and eat your heart." As there was no other way back, the only thing to be done was to outwit the crocodile. So the Bodhisatta cried out, "There's no help for it then but to give myself up to you. Open your mouth and catch me when I jump."
Now you must know that when crocodiles open their mouths, their eyes shut . So, when this crocodile unsuspiciously opened his mouth, his eyes shut. And there he waited with closed eyes and open jaws! Seeing this, the wily monkey made a jump on to the crocodile's head, and thence, with a spring like lightning, gained the bank. When the cleverness of this feat dawned on the crocodile, he said, "Monkey, he that in this world possesses the four virtues overcomes his foes. And you, methinks, possess all four." And, so saying, he repeated this stanza—
Whose, O monkey-king, like you, combines
Truth, foresight, fixed resolve, and fearlessness,
Shall see his routed foemen turn and flee.
And with this praise of the Bodhisatta, the crocodile betook himself to his own dwelling-place.
Said the Master, "This is not the first time then, Brethren, that Devadatta has gone about seeking to kill me; he did just the sane in bygone days too." And, having ended his lesson, the Master shewed the connexion and identified the Birth by saying, "Devadatta was the crocodile of those days, the brahmin-girl Cinca was the crocodile's wife, and I myself the Monkey-King."


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Leaflet on terrorism after 9-11 - Kolinko
Leaflet on terrorism, capitalism and war produced by German group Kolinko after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
After the terrorist act in New York politicians of all parties and countries have called us together to defend 'our democratic state' against the'uncivilised world'. We don't believe that any state, be it American, German, Iraqi or Afghan, can save us from terrorism. Because the state both needs terrorism and also acts in a terrorist way itself every day.
The state acts in the interests of those who profit from others poverty: companies that make us slave for them, share dealers speculating with profit and arms dealers who benefit from every war in the world.
In this way the'democratic state' does not shy away from massacring thousands of innocents (e.g. the Gulf war or Yugoslavia) either, or supporting war leaders in othercountries. E.g. the USA first supported the Iraq and the Taliban during thewar against Iran and the Soviet Union respectively, only to declare them nowas their main enemies. But it has to be worth it.
Terrorism is part of business. The attacks in the US are a result of a terrorist foreign policy on the part of the US (and not just in the Middle East), and also form part of the game of power and money. People like Bin Laden try to defend 'their region' against competitors (foreign arms and companies), so they can rule and exploit the people themselves. Therefore, they don't act any more barbaric, or less barbaric, than the western armies - or would you call NATO uranium missiles against Iraqi or Serbian people 'civilised'. The whole religious ('Holy War'), nationalistic or humanitarian(the 'Good' against 'Evil') hysteria just disguises the fact that people are dying in the interests of the respective leaders. This is what happened on the 11 of September in New York.
Arafat, the PLO leader, was called a 'terrorist' for decades. After he had enforced himself in 'his own region' he became accepted as a state representative. His former terrorist groups are now the state army, and can offer international companies (e.g. DaimlerChrysler) a cheap workforce on 'his territory'.
The birth and maintenance of every state is a bloody process. Every state needs an internal or external enemy to hold 'its' workers in check, despite social cuts and increasing exploitation. The terrorist act in the US came at the right time for the state representatives in the industrialised countries and especially for Bush. Since about a year ago , the economic crisis in Europe and the US has started kicking in heavily. In the US one million jobs have been lost in industry. Opel wants to reduce its production by 15 percent. The 'New Economy' is looking old (e.g. AOL want to dismiss 20% of its staff in Germany. At Hewlett Packard and other companies wage cuts are imminent). The share prices have dropped dramatically.
How can the politicians possibly explain that the future looks bleak, despite allthe drudgery for less money in the last few years, despite all the produced wealth and high technology around us? How do they want to prevent us fighting against social cuts and redundancies and enforcing our own needs against the needs of profit and share prices? After the attacks they can get on with their crisis measures as anti-terror measures and they count on our acceptance, due to our fear of a new war.
They explain:
* The economic crisis is not a result of the economic system, but of the insecurity due to terrorism. (E.g. on the 16 September, after the wage struggles in the aviation sector, the air-line 'Continental' wanted to sack 12,000 people and declared that measure as a result of the terror act).
* We all have to pull together, whether we are rich or poor, against the 'Islamic Barbarians'; anyone who fights against austerity measures or the increasing pressure from employers is acting on behalf of the terrorists.
* Stricter laws (e.g. banning demonstrations and immigration) more cop control (the German home secretary is demanding fingerprints on peoples ID cards) or the spending of billions of dollars on military mobilisation are necessary to confront the terrorists.
We have to pay the bill for their policies and their crisis:
* As victims of war, be it through NATO bombers, or hijacked Boeings.
* As unemployed, whose work can't be exploited profitably any more, be it hungry in Baghdad or bored in Birmingham.
* As workers that have to work their asses off for the survival of the companies, be it in Chicago or Kabul.
We shouldn't let ourselves be intimidated by terrorism or by state anti- terrorism measures!
Let us sabotage those instigators that are trying to lead us to war as 'civilised/ uncivilised' or 'believers/ disbelievers'!
Lets fight at the workplace, in the streets, for a better life, in which our needs rule. For a life that is not defined by the drudgery for a collapsing system, and that is not endangered by war, stock market or aeroplane crashes!
prols against the (war) machine
[prol-position@motkraft.net]
Kolinko


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A friend asks you if something will ever get done, and you reply, "when pigs fly."
If your friend has lived in an English-speaking culture for any length of time, they'll probably understand that this means "never."
The statement might make little sense if literally translated into another language.
Though their figurative meaning might differ from the literal, idioms have an important role to play in language and communication. They'll amplify your message in a way that draws your audience in and helps to awaken their senses.
Knowing idioms in other languages is the difference between mechanically parroting a series of words in a grammatically correct fashion, and beginning to "think" in that language.
Idioms can also be a clue to the customs and values of a foreign culture.
Besides, they're cool. The first time you use a foreign idiom, to the evident appreciation of a native speaker, is one of triumph.
"Seeing the reflection of a bow in a cup and thinking it's a snake"
"To walk around hot porridge"
"To have a pin in your ear"
"It costs me a rib from my body"
"To let a frog out of your mouth"
"It cost me my head's eyes"
"I only understand the train station"
"At the end of the world, turn left"
जंगल मेँ मोर नाचा किसने देखा?
"Peacock danced in the forest, who saw?"
"An owl says to a sparrow that they have a big head"
"To wear a cat on one's head"
"They sewed a hat to Peter who is not born yet"
"To pace around hot porridge like a cat"
"Water does not trickle out of his hand"
Słoń nastąpił ci na ucho?
"Did an elephant stomp on your ear?"
"To push something with your belly"
"A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often"
"It's too late to ring after the hail"
"If you don't seal a crack in the wall, you will have to rebuild the wall"
"There's no cow on the ice"
"One afternoon in your next reincarnation"
"A hungry dog will break through a bakery"
"Blind eyes what two eyes"
"The big ones often meet"
"He likes to be looked at like a long-hairy goat"


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Q: Excel 2013 VB to re-calculate data entry value on exit from cell? I have a spreadsheet, where I need to manually enter values from external sources.
For 3 of these cells, there is a decimal value:
ex:  66.78, 28.5, 0.5171
I would like to be able to enter the digits (without the decimal) and, on exiting the cell, have VB code do the appropriate division for each column (but without duplicating the division if later edited...).
That is: type in 6678, and as cursor moves to next cell, the VB divides it by 100.  Type in 285, the VB divides this one by 10.  Then the next one is divided by 10000.
Brute force solution is to enter the integers elsewhere, and have a division formula where I want the decimal values.  But, similar to code I have for one cell's text to turn UPPERCASE when leaving the cell, I expect there's a way to run a code fragment on a cell's numeric value - here's the uppercase code:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)

    If Not (Application.Intersect(Target, Range("$D11:$D$110")) _
      Is Nothing) Then
        With Target
            If Not .HasFormula Then
                Application.EnableEvents = False
                .Value = UCase(.Value)
                Application.EnableEvents = True
            End If
        End With
    End If
End Sub

To avoid duplication, if editing the original value, the ideal would be like:
"on_exit cell, if cell.value > 100, then X/100, else X" for the first one.
I'm hoping there's some minor tweak to the
.Value = UCase(.Value)

snippet that will do numeric calculation.  Any thoughts?


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From Oct 19th To Oct 25th, 2015
Antalya Open
Antalya Open From Oct 19th To Oct 25th, 2015
Format and Event Regulations
Tournament Notes
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour heading back to Turkey after 17 years
One of six new venues the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar, Antalya, Turkey will host the double-gender $150,000 FIVB Antalya Open, to be held October 20-25. It will mark the fourth men's competition in Turkey and first that a women's tournament will be held in this country.
A total of three previous FIVB World Tour events have been staged in Turkey.
In 1996, 1997 and 1998, Alanya, Turkey hosted men's stops on the FIVB World Tour prior to this year's event in Antalya.
Turkey has hosted a total of three men's FIVB World Tour events and Brazil leads the medal count with six medals and with one men's medal each are Argentina, Canada and Norway.
The 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar includes five FIVB Grand Slams, the new FIVB Swatch FIVB Major Series of three events, seven FIVB Opens and a special Swatch FIVB Season Final in the United States. A showcase event was the $1 million 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in the Netherlands (June 26-July 5).
Situated on a steep cliff over the Mediterranean, Antalya is a picturesque city surrounded by mountains. Developments in tourism, starting in the 1970s, have transformed the city into an international resort. With its airport and central location, Antalya is "the capital of Turkish tourism", a gateway for the Turkish Riviera and many historical sites. Furthermore with its palm-lined boulevards, its prize-winning marina, preserved historical neighborhood of Kaleiçi, and the modern developments along the coast, the city of Antalya is a major attraction in its own right. Antalya and its surroundings are a very important part of Turkish tourism.
The principal holiday resort of the Mediterranean is the beautiful region of Antalya with a majestic coastline of beaches and rocky coves where the towering Toros (Taurus) Mountains provide a magnificent view behind the city. The population of the city is 2.4 million. Antalya is an attractive city, at an altitude of only about 50 meters. The picturesque old quarter called Kaleiçi which has narrow, winding streets and charming wooden houses next to the city walls is one of the main attractions.
Since its founding in the 2nd century B.C. by Attalus ll, a king of Pergamon who named the city Attaleia after himself, it has had a continuous history. The Romans, Byzantines and Seljuks occupied the city before it came under Ottoman rule.
A total of 15 countries are hosting events this year as the 2015 FIVB World Tour has begun the Olympic qualification process with all FIVB World Tour events (except the FIVB World Tour Finals) in 2015 up until June 13, 2016 counting towards the Olympic Ranking in order to determine the 15 vacancies for each gender that will take part in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
The 2015 FIVB World Ranking system will again include FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam and Open events along with additional pre-approved events at the inter-continental, continental and national levels.
Implemented in 2013, the format of all the FIVB Beach Volleyball international tournaments – whether FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam or FIVB Beach Volleyball Open – are the same, featuring pool play followed by single elimination knockout rounds. While the FIVB World Championships had 48 teams, all other tournaments have 32 teams and begin with a qualification tournament in each gender to determine the final eight teams in the main draw fields.
Country quota playoffs are also held, as needed, to determine the final teams for qualification tournaments.
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The Henry III Fine Rolls Project
Fine Rolls
Fine of the Month
Book Publication
Document Contents
1. The Nature of the fine rolls
2. The Aims of the project
3. The Conception, structure and progress of the project
The fine rolls were the earliest surviving rolls compiled by the English royal chancery. Surviving in almost continuous sequence from 1199, they are preserved in The National Archives at Kew, one for each regnal year. For Henry III's reign (1216–1272), there are fifty-six rolls, written in Latin on parchment, with each roll being composed of separate membranes sewn together, the membranes measuring roughly 50 cm in length and 35 cm in width. Since Henry's regnal year began on 28 October, each roll runs from 28 October in one calendar year to 27 October in the next. Over the course of the reign the rolls expanded greatly in length, many having a dozen or more membranes and containing over 30,000 words. They are a vital resource for the history of England in the period between the establishment of Magna Carta early in Henry's reign and the parliamentary state which was emerging at its end.
A fine was essentially a promise of money to the king in return for a concession or favour, and the first purpose of the fine rolls was to record the money so offered. 1 They are essential for the study of royal patronage, the relations between the monarch and his subjects, and structures of families and their histories. Barons and knights gave money to succeed to their inheritances on the death of their immediate ancestors. Money was offered by magnates and ministers for the right to marry heiresses and widows, and, conversely, by widows to control the lands and marriages of their children, and to be allowed themselves to stay single or marry whom they wished. 2 The rolls are equally significant in other areas. They record the purchase of an ever growing number of writs, from wide sections of society, to initiate and prosecute law cases, and are thus central to the study of the early common law. They have numerous fines for permission to set up new markets and fairs, thus revealing the rapid commercialization of England. And, resonating from top to bottom of society, they throw light on the rising standard of living of the nobility, the changing structure of the gentry and the growing aspirations of peasant communities, for they contain fines from nobles to be allowed to construct private parks for hunting, from members of the gentry to be exempted from knighthood, and from peasant communities to secure protection from their lords. 3 During the course of the reign, the rolls came to include a large amount of new material unrelated to fines, including rates of debt repayment (by which the king could either punish or placate), and the seizure of lands into the king's hands in times of political crisis, so making the rolls are a key source for the 1258-1267 Montfortian period of reform and rebellion. The rolls have likewise information about taxation levied on towns and royal manors (hence their value for local historians) and also taxation levied on the Jews, taxation which destroyed their wealth and prepared the way for their expulsion from England in 1290. The changing nature of royal revenue revealed by the fine rolls is absolutely key to understanding the impact of Magna Carta and the development of the parliamentary state.
Until the advent of the Project, the value of the fine rolls to the historian was gravely impaired by the lack of any proper edition. Whereas the fine rolls of John's reign, together with all the other chancery rolls down to 1272, had been published, the fine rolls of Henry III were available only in two volumes of Latin excerpts which appeared in the 1830s: Excerpta e Rotulis Finium 1216-1272, ed. C. Roberts (London, Record Commission, 1835-6). These contain only 10% of the total material, selected exclusively for its genealogical interest, and have totally inadequate indexes.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and commenced in 2005, the Project aimed to transform this situation, bringing the fine rolls from the darkness in which they were accessible only to a few scholars to the light in which they are now intelligible and freely available to everyone. The Project has achieved this in the following ways:
i. TRANSLATIONS: The Project has made freely available to all on its website translations of the rolls for Henry's reign between 1216 and 1272. In these translations modern forms, where identifiable, have been given for all place names and toponymic surnames. The translations have also been collated with the Originalia rolls, the copies of the fine rolls sent to the Exchequer, since these often contain significant information not found on the fine rolls.
ii. INDEXES AND SEARCH FACILITY: Between 1216 and 1248 these translations have been linked to a full online people, places and subjects index. They have also been linked to a search facility which enables people, places and subjects to be searched for singly, or in combination, thus providing a gigantic saving in research time. Between 1248 and 1272 it is possible to use a web browser edit-find facility to search the rolls.
iii. IMAGES: For researchers wishing to see the full Latin and paleography of the original rolls, high quality images of all the rolls between 1216 and 1272 have been placed on the website. It is possible to move backwards and forwards between each of the membranes in which the rolls are divided and their translation.
iv. BOOK PUBLICATION: The translations of the rolls between 1216 and 1242, with their indexes, have been published in three volumes by Boydell and Brewer. A fourth volume for the rolls between 1242 and 1248 is still in production. If further funding allows the indexes and search facility to be advanced to 1272 (see ii above), that will also make possible the publication of the corresponding books, the two processes being interlinked. 4
v. IMPACT: THE FINE OF THE MONTH: The Project has placed great emphasis on addressing research questions and achieving a wide impact for its work. It has done this in a variety of ways, the most conspicuous being the Fine of the Month feature. Under this, for each month on the website between December 2005 and December 2012 a member of the Project team or outside historian, has commented on the interest and value of material in the rolls. An annual prize was awarded for the best Fine of the Month contributed by someone outside the team. The website also has a detailed historical introduction to both the fine rolls and the originalia rolls, which casts entirely new light on their form, development, function and importance. Throughout the life-time of the Project, members of the team have published papers about the historical and technical sides of their work, and have given talks about it to a wide variety of audiences. The Project held a final Conference in June 2011 about the importance of the rolls, the proceedings of which are being published.
The Project has been funded in two phases by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The first phase was from April 2005 to March 2008. The second was from April 2008 to December 2011. The project combines the History Department of King's College London, KCL's Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) (formerly the Centre for Computing in the Humanities), the History Department of Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) and The National Archives (TNA) where the rolls are kept. The project was conceived by Louise Wilkinson (CCCU). The Principal Investigator was David Carpenter (KCL). The Co-investigators were David Crook (TNA), Louise Wilkinson (CCCU), and Harold Short, Director of CCH, who headed the team doing the technical research. The research fellows were Paul Dryburgh and Beth Hartland. The technical team included Paul Spence, Paul Caton, Arianna Ciula, Tamara Lopez and José Miguel Vieria. The National Archives Team included Sean Cunningham, Adrian Jobson, Aidan Lawes and Jess Nelson. The Project was supported by two Advisory Groups: an International Advisory Group and a Knowledge Transfer Advisory Group.
The meaning of 'fine' and the nature of the fine rolls is discussed in more detail in Paul Dryburgh's Fine of the Month for June 2007. Back to context...
Cf. Michael Ray's Fine of the Month for December 2006, David Carpenter's Fine of the Month for March 2008, Susanna Annesley's Fine of the Month for July 2008 and Carl Steward's Fine of the Month for May 2009. Back to context...
See David Carpenter's Fines of the Month for December 2008 and March 2009 on Brampton and April 2009 on Rothley and the Online Gazeeter of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516. Back to context...
Cf. The Technical Introduction. Back to context...
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The most beautiful campus in india, IIT Guwahati. I have so much to say about this wonderful college, the people, the views, the lakes, yes i said lakes, there are 4 lakes inside the campus of our college. The majestic bhramputra river just outside the campus is so heavenly to look at. This is the place where knowledge and beauty walks hand in hand.
The college infrastructure is nice which includes, labs, classrooms. There may be sometime you will hate the food served in the canteen. But we all love to enjoy the annual function. I am proud to be a student of this college.
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The placement of the institute is outstanding and many students are grabbing higher packages even in the foreign companies.
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In the college fest, you will find various technical events showing that even students can do amazing projects and many famous stars are invited to fest.
Various societies in the institute are there to increase technical knowledge as well as to develop hobbies.
Course load is high but the campus is beautiful and college life is great.
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Graphisurus is een kevergeslacht uit de familie van de boktorren (Cerambycidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van het geslacht werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1837 door Kirby.

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Graphisurus omvat de volgende soorten:
 Graphisurus despectus (LeConte, 1850)
 Graphisurus eucharis (Bates, 1885)
 Graphisurus fasciatus (Degeer, 1775)
 Graphisurus triangulifer (Haldeman, 1847)
 Graphisurus vexillaris (Bates, 1872)

Boktorren

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The book chronicles Van Doren's visits to a number of presidential homes and features many illustrated letters Van Doren composed to McCullough. Thomas Fleming, author of The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation, said, "This is a book that transcends ordinary history on almost every page . . . I can't think of a better way to get to know those mysterious beings we call presidents."
Van Doren's artwork is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; The Wadsworth Atheneum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Princeton University Art Museum; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., among other institutions. Van Doren teaches at Yale University where he is also an Associate Fellow.
Van Doren is the subject of a monograph (Hudson Hills Press, 2007) that features his watercolors of Paris, Venice, Rome, and New York, which includes essays by Avis Berman, Samuel G. White and Richard Boyle. In 2009, the book An Artist in Rome was published (Kelly-Winterton Press) in collaboration with the noted poet John Tagliabue, and features Van Doren's paintings from when Van Doren was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Two catalogs have been published (The Renaissance Studios, New York) of Van Doren's paintings with essays by Mark D. Mitchell, Holcolmb Green Curator of American Art at Yale University; and Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. A recent publication, A Yale Sketchbook (Yale University, Lustman Fellowship Fund), includes Van Doren's paintings of the architecture of the campus and contains essays by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Paul Goldberger and former New York magazine critic Carter Wiseman.
Van Doren is a graduate of Columbia University and has published An Artist in Venice (Godine 2013), with commentary by Simon Winchester and Theodore Rabb; and essays in American Artist Magazine and The New York Times, among others. He has written and directed two documentaries about the arts which were broadcast on PBS and cable television: James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times, narrated by George Plimpton, which was awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; and Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of The New Yorker, narrated by Stanley Tucci.


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The International Space Station Will Be Visible Over the Hudson Valley Soon
Hopkins Published: February 18, 2022
NASA recently announced that the International Space Station will be decommissioned in 2031, as the largest human-made object to fly in space will come crashing down in the Pacific Ocean.. It will be an end of a long journey for the spacecraft that began all the way back in 1998, and went into full operation by November 2, 2000. But in the meantime, the flight continues and soon the I.S.S. will be once again be seen over the skies of the Hudson Valley.
AccuWeather says that the giant laboratory is currently 250 miles above the Earth, traveling at 17,500 mph. The craft can be seen from Earth as a solid white dot that moves through the sky without the flashing you'd see from a regular commercial plane. Whether you see the space station depends on orbit and the weather in your area.
NASA has a Spot the Space Station website, where you punch in your location and see the times when the craft will be visible. if you're in Poughkeepsie, you might want to be up extra ealry in the morning. The next time you'll see it above the Hudson Valley will be Saturday, February 19, at 5:40 AM. it will be visible for 4 minutes at maximum height of 44 degrees. If you can't see it Saturday, there will be other times over the coming week to witness the I.S.S.
Sunday at 5:40 AM, Monday at 4:08 and 5:41 AM, and Tuesday at 4:55 AM.
Visibility and height will slightly vary by location in the area, though not by much.
The space station, which is the length of a football field, is a collaboration between the United States, Canada, Russia Japan, and Europe. Wikipedia says that the station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics, and other fields.
Inside Amazon: A Detailed History of America's Biggest Online Retailer
Stacker compiled a list of key moments in Amazon's history and its current business from a variety of sources. Here's a look at the events that turned an online bookstore into a global conglomerate and a self-made entrepreneur into the world's second-richest man.
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Bill first became interested in whistleblower work after his involvement in the well-known "robo-signing" case. It opened his eyes to how he could help whistleblowers speak out against fraudulent and abusive practices, and often simultaneously help the general public – in this case, normal families struggling to stay in their homes. The landmark case involved Bill's team negotiating a $95 million settlement1 in 2012 with four of the nation's largest mortgage servicers – Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup – for allegedly failing to obtain the required mortgage assignments to transfer ownership of loans and pursuing faulty foreclosures by using defective or fraudulent documents. He credits the outcome of this case with allowing some of the victims to remain in their homes longer and protecting future homeowners from dishonest foreclosures. Results like these mean a lot to Bill.1
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National NAACP Foot Soldier in the Sand Award
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers President's Award
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating,5 2015
South Carolina Super Lawyers "Super Lawyers" list,5 2009-2010
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Taught 25+ CLEs
Wrote "Eyewitness Identification: 'I Noticed You Paused on Number Three'" article for The Champion magazine of National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers, 1996
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Jewish World Review Nov 10, 2011 / 13 Mar-Cheshvan, 5772
The Real Scandal
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The real scandal in the accusations against Herman Cain is the corruption of the law, the media and politics.
Let's start with the law. Some people may think the fact that the National Restaurant Association reportedly paid $45,000 to settle a claim made by one of its employees against Mr. Cain is incriminating.
Most of us are not going to part with 45 grand without some serious reason. But that is very different from the situation of an organization in the present legal climate.
The figure $45,000 struck a chord with me because, some years ago, my wife — who is an attorney — was fervently congratulated when her client had to pay "only" $45,000 in a jury award when the plaintiff was demanding a million dollars, in a case that was as frivolous a lawsuit as you could find.
The person who was suing was a drunk driver, whose car went out of control and slammed into a tree. After the sheriff's deputies arrested her, she sued them on dubious charges, and the sheriff's department was glad it had to pay "only" $45,000.
The department was painfully aware of the uncertainty about what ruinous costs a jury might impose on the deputies.
The real scandal goes far beyond the case of Herman Cain and his accusers. The real scandal is that the law allows people to impose heavy costs on others at little or no cost to themselves. That is a perfect setting for legalized extortion.
The fact that neither judges nor juries always stick to the letter of the law means that people who have zero basis for a lawsuit, under the law as written, can still create enough uncertainty to extract money from people who cannot afford the risk of going to trial.
As for a $45,000 settlement, that is what an organization would pay to settle a nuisance lawsuit — if they are lucky.
If we had a legal system where judges threw frivolous cases out of court, instead of letting them go to trial, that would put a damper on legalized extortion.
If those who bring charges that do not stand up in court had to pay the other party for their legal fees — and should have to pay for their time as well — these games could not go on.
It turns out that the women making televised charges against Herman Cain have past histories that do not inspire confidence, including in at least one case a history of making similar complaints against others.
Another woman who has come forward tells of Herman Cain asking her, at some conference, to see if she could locate some woman in the audience who had asked him a question, so that he could take her to dinner. This apparently struck her as suspicious.
This too reminded me of something I knew about personally. Many years ago, I was at a conference where a woman made some very insightful comments, and I took her to lunch to continue the discussion.
It so happens she was a nun. Contrary to cynics, there is more than one reason for a man to take a woman to lunch or dinner.
The same mainstream media whose responses to proven charges against Bill Clinton was, "Let's move on," is not about to move on from unproven charges against Herman Cain.
What role does race play in all this?
It is probably not racism, as such, that motivates these attacks on Herman Cain. The motivation is far more likely to be politics, but politics makes a prominent black conservative like Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain far more dangerous to the Democrats than an equally prominent white conservative.
The 90 percent black vote for Democrats is like money in the bank on election day. A prominent black conservative who offers an alternative view of the world is a serious danger politically, because if that alternative view has the net effect of reducing the black vote for Democrats just to 75 percent, the Democrats are in big trouble at election time.
In this political context, merely defeating a black conservative at the polls or at confirmation hearings is not enough. He must be destroyed as an influence in the future — and character assassination is the most obvious way to do it.