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News: October 2009
Posted on October 1, 2009 by Webmaster
TWO TOURS IN OCTOBER
For anyone who missed the full month of Hammett walks in September, you've got a couple of chances to make it good this month. Two dames flying in from Switzerland asked for one and a book group asked for the other — and both gave Don enough advance notice to swing the old schedule their way. Anyone who wants to join in is welcome to show up, bearing a tenspot, for the usual four hours of hard-boiled sightseeing — same details as on the Tour Page. These walks are set for noon on Sunday October 11 and Sunday October 18 — if interested, honest, just show up. No reservations required, or taken.
FROM FAR AWAY AND ACROSS THE WEB
On the walk for September 13 a guy mentioned he'd hauled all the way down from Vancouver Island — but then a couple of other guys reported that they'd come from the city of Vancouver, pretty much matching his travels. And then a family chimed in that they were in the burg all the way from Toledo, Ohio — and then a couple said they flew in from Hawaii. Plus we had more of a Hammett web presence than ever before on a single tour. Mike Humbert, who hosts the Hammett site linked off the Tour Page, came out to stretch his legs after being run down by a car like Porky Grout up in Chico earlier this year (and Don is pretty sure the only reason his new tour book got covered in the Chico paper is because Mike did the maps for it and that gave the paper a chance to blurb one of their local boys). And that guy from Vancouver Island happens to host The Continental Op Page which is one of the first websites ever devoted to Hammett. The guy was in Hog Heaven, right in the middle of Op country, but now Don realizes that he doesn't think he ever caught the guy's name. . . .
Veteran Bay Area radio reporter Jan Sluizer recently taped a couple of minutes with Don for Westwood Radio One Network's nationally syndicated program "America in the Morning." You can catch the spot embedded in the entire show streaming on their websiteMp3 it here. (pick the Tuesday, September 22 one), or if you just want to listen to the spot solo, you can.
LITQUAKE
Remember how when Don tooled down to the Tucson Book Fair earlier this year to appear on a hardboiled literary panel and the programmers scheduled it against a talk by living legend Elmore Leonard? For the upcoming Litquake the readings Don is set for will be up against an appearance by James Ellroy. What the hell. Who plans out these things, anyway? Litquake runs from October 9-17, with Don popping up at 7p.m. Thursday October 15 for "Subterranean SF: Hardboiled Writing with an Edge" hosted by Peter Maravelis and also featuring Robert Mailer Anderson, Cara Black, David Corbett and Craig Clevenger. But here's the thing: to attend the Subterranean readings you're going to have to work for it. The location is secret. To sleuth out the site you have to go to the front desk in City Lights Bookstore and ask for an envelope, and follow directions. Super-secret and up against James Ellroy — guess that means more beer for the readers!
ADIOS, AMIGO
Don's longtime pal Ben Indick passed away on September 28, after making it to his eighty-sixth birthday on August 11. He had a good run of it, and was a regular co-conspirator in various books and projects Don did over the years, from litcrit about Stephen King to The Dark Barbarian and beyond. For a nice local angle, Ben's son writes under the name Michael Korie, and among other things did the book for the opera Harvey Milk. Don got to see that one during the Orpheum run some years ago, great seats courtesy the Indicks. Oh, and when Don began reviewing for Publishers Weekly late in 2000, he talked Ben into joining in on the fun — and though he started later and quit sooner, Ben totaled something like 350 reviews, completely blowing Don out of the water. As of this moment, Don has only gotten to review 119 and knows he'll never catch up.
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Atkins makes plans for Sweden's first high speed rail mainline
Sweden – Atkins has been appointed by the Swedish Transport Administration to develop plans for the country's first high speed rail mainline. The East Link project will include 30 tunnels ranging from 100m up to 6km, for a total length of 25km.
As a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, Atkins will provide a range of services over the next five years to plan and design the Linköping city section of the 160km East Link project, a 250km/h high speed line running from Järna just outside Stockholm to Linköping in southern Sweden.
Working in partnership with Ramboll, Atkins is delivering a railway plan, localisation investigation, environmental impact assessment, basic design and a basis for environmental testing to assist Trafikverket's application.
The cost of the project is EUR 5.14bn (USD 5.9bn) and it is expected to be fully operational in 2035.
The line is also the first of three proposed rail mainlines, which will connect to form a 440km high speed railway linking the major cities of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.
Anna Forslund, client director at Ramboll said: "Together with the Swedish Transport Administration and Atkins, we will find a good solution for how the railway will run through Linköping and ensure a good interaction with the city of Linköping's development plans. Integration with the surrounding environment is an important piece of the puzzle for this project. Together we will make railway history."

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Sabo Mohammed Nakudu CON (born 11 January 1960) is a senator representing Jigawa South West District, Jigawa State, Nigeria.  He is a member of the All Progressives Congress  (APC)
He was once a Member of the Governing Board, Federal University of Technology Minna.
He was also the Chairman Jigawa State Presidential Committee on Solid Mineral.
He served in the Federal House of Representative for two tenures (2007-2011) and (2011-2015).
He also serves as Senator Federal Republic of Nigeria between 2015-2019.
He was declared winner for Jigawa South West Senatorial District by The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Adamu Isge.
He announced that Sabo scored 224,543 votes to defeat his PDP opponent, Mustapha Sule Lamido, who scored 143,611 votes. Following the 2019 election, Sabo Nakudu was assigned the chairman senate committee on downstream (petroleum) resources. This later led to him chairing the Ad-hoc Committee on the longstanding PIB (Petroleum Industry Bill). The Senate on Thursday 1 July 2021 passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) after nearly a year of deliberation.  Having been revised on many occasions throughout the past thirteen years since it was first presented to the National Assembly in 2008, the PIB comprises a combination of 16 Nigerian petroleum laws that outline the governance framework that will attract investors into the country.

On Tuesday 11 October 2022, Nakudu was conferred with the National honour of the Commander of the Order of the Niger by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was for his devotion and commitment to public service and his achievements in the 9th Assembly of the Senate.

Awards and honours
 Awards of Excellence by Arewa Foundation for Peace, Conflict Resolution & Development. October 2015.
 COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE NIGER (CON)

References

1960 births
Living people
Members of the Senate (Nigeria) from Jigawa State
All Progressives Congress politicians

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Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: He has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality. But what lies beyond the veil is not epiphany, but chaos. Now Grant and his team are lost, living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds, barreling through the long-forgotten, ancient, and unimaginable dark realms. The only way is forward. The only question is how far are they willing to go, and how much can they endure, to get home again? Join writer RICK REMENDER and the superstar art team of MATTEO SCALERA & DEAN WHITE for this face-melting science fiction epic spanning the lifetimes of a cast of dimensional castaways lead by the man who caused it all.


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Q: Editing Magento sales e-mail payment block app\locale\en_US\template\email\sales\order_new.html is the file in question.
How would one go about editing {{var payment_html}} without affecting other sections of the site?
It seems like the section comes from: app\design\frontend\base\default\template\payment\info\default.phtml
Am I correct about this? But that file is used in other places on the site. Is that correct too?
I want to create a separate file, say default_email.phtml, style it separately, and have order_new.phtml include the new file instead.
I assume that I need to include my default_email.phtml file in layout\***.xml. Where would I do this?

A: The first thing I did was a search in the source code of Magento. Assuming the {{var payment_html}} is processed somewhere I searched on payment_html.
Several results are matching the search;
Mage_Sales_Model_Order
Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Creditmemo
Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Invoice
Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Shipment

So the information for that payment block has to be in there. I took Mage_Sales_Model_Order and checked the variable $paymentBlockHtml. This is pointed to further logic to fill the payment block by payment information. It's creating a block and it looks like this is not easy to extend/change/modify on the first look.
Yes, we can apply a template to the specific (payment) block type since there's a block created, but we can't easily check which block we want to load. Also the template is overruled in the construct of Mage_Payment_Block_Info
Let's check the other way.
Let's do something cool, why we don't add a block to the email which contains the correct information but more important where it's possible to make a switch to the correct case. Since template parser is used for parsing the variables and layout handles we could add the following on instead of the {{var payment_html}} block and retrieving that information in the block itself.
{{block type='core/template' template='email/templatename.phtml'}}

The above code is parsing the email/templatename.phtml into the email, which means that you could do anything in that template to show the correct data.
Before we can retrieve the payment data in this template we have to add the order argument with the order data. That's quite simple;
{{block type='core/template' order=$order template='email/templatename.phtml'}}

In the template we can do $this->getOrder()->getPayment() to retrieve the payment information, or $this->getOrder->getPayment()->toHtml() or process the data in another way.
Bonus;
Another solution is working with layout handles and set the correct template and type in the layout.xml, below an example for the order items in the same email. It's working the same as the block, but only with some settings in the layout xml.
{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}}

A: In /app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Order.php there is a method called "sendNewOrderEmail". This is what you need to affect. You will find code simmilar to the following:
$mailTemplate->setDesignConfig(array('area'=>'frontend', 'store'=>$this->getStoreId()))
                ->sendTransactional(
                    $template,
                    Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_IDENTITY, $this->getStoreId()),
                    $recipient['email'],
                    $recipient['name'],
                    array(
                        'order'         => $this,
                        'billing'       => $this->getBillingAddress(),
                        'payment_html'  => $paymentBlock->toHtml(),  //Just change this line
                    )
                );

You can see that this is where the "payment_html" data gets set. Just swap it out to what you want it to be.

A: I had the same issue. What I did to only change the email was add the following to the payment info class.
protected function _construct() {
     parent::_construct();
     $this->setTemplate('payment/info/{new template}.phtml');
}

Then create the template and the email will insert this template to the payment section if this payment method is used.
Hope that's helpful!

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That Was The (Media) Year That Was!
Over this past week we've been looking back at our program work during 2014 through our social media channels. However, the Friends 20th Anniversary Year also saw that work featuring strongly across both local and international media, putting the spotlight not only onto the significant positive impact of our work, but also onto many of the important child protection messages we wish to share with the world. Here follows some selected highlights from that coverage. In January 2014, The Guardian featured our call to end orphanage tourism in its pages and February saw the BBC feature the campaign as part of its Fake Britain TV show. February also saw features on 20 years of Friends in the two major English language newspapers in Cambodia – Cambodia Daily and Phnom Penh Post. March, and prime time Dutch TV highlighted the orphanage issue followed by a Reuters feature including our Thailand program in April. In May major Thai social media platform Coconuts featured our Bangkok program extensively and June saw Friends France team appearing on France 24 TV Channel discussing orphanage tourism. July, and Friends Suisse President Emmanuelle spoke up in Le Temps on the subject of pity charity, whilst in August Spanish media group EFE published a piece on harmful institutional care in Cambodia featuring our advocacy work. In September Al Jazeera talked to us about the challenges facing reform of Cambodia's orphanage system, and in October PATA members Wild Asia featured our ChildSafe campaigns in a major online interview. The Bangkok Post covered our social business approach in detail in November and in December we filmed an extensive piece with Channel News Asia on why donors should stop supporting harmful institutions, to be broadcast in January 2015. 2015 will also see the launch of our new international and local ChildSafe campaigns, so we anticipate another busy year on the media front for us – and thank you to all who continue to both read and share our media coverage, you are helping the world to wake up to the many challenges we face in supporting marginalized children across the globe!
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Our clients do it at least yearly. Some approach it bottom up; others do top down. Either way, if you want budget, you generally have to submit a plan.
What exactly is this plan? Whether you call it an integrated marketing communications plan (IMC), an engagement plan or simply a marketing plan, it's the formal document that justifies and guides the marketing investment. It also establishes the strategic rationale for recommended programs, campaigns and tactics that are expected to deliver against business objectives.
Over the years, we've seen some changes in IMC planning at the tactical level, but in Q4 of 2013 we saw signs of a larger strategic shift emerging. For some of our more progressive clients, content's role has been elevated from just one of many tactics to be viewed as the content/audience conversation that's the central, guiding principle behind integrated plan development.
An emerging perspective that I've worked most closely with is that a relevant and compelling brand/audience conversation is essential to strategy. It's critical to brand positioning as well as holistic, audience-centric engagement and experience. In addition, a carefully orchestrated, well-planned content marketing program can and should become the central organizing principle that guides integrated plan development and messaging across channels. Where do you think the future of integrated communications is headed?
Judy Begehr is SVP account planning at gyro Cincinnati.


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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 PAGE ~pir/t of JEFFERSON and FARMER'S ADVOCATE i~i,i~'~ ~iii~ Train FROM PAGE B1 land Railroad baggage car in downtown Harpers Ferry. The museum was moved to its current location off Bakerton Road beside the School House Ridge Battlefield in the mid- 1980s. About four acres of the Wallich family's one-acre prop- erty are dedicated to the museum and the Joy Line Railroad. With the help of friend8 and rel- atives, the Wallichs spent a year constructing a half-mile outdoor track for the railroad. The railroad ride offers passen- gers three loops around the track for $2, including going through a large red barn tunnel and over a small creek. Two George Wash- ingtons will also get you into the museum or three laps around a track in a Hedges handcar, but that ride is just for young chil- dren. The museum is located on top of a hill behind the railroad line. Wallich's wife, Donna, runs the museum and greets visitors. She said about 99, percent of the collection, which is around 1,000 pieces predates 1939. The oldest toy train is a No. 6 Lionel, which dates back to 1910. There are a couple modem trains such as Thomas the Tank engine and The Polar Express for the younger set to see. The collection also includes railroad tools, lanterns, calendars, signs and other assorted rail- road memorabilia. Donna Wal- lich learned about trains from her mother-in-law Kitty, who ran the museum until she passed away in 2005. "I think it's amazing for one man's collection," Donna Wal- lich said. "You don't see the old trains anymore." Sam and Donna Myers drove up from Berryville, Va. on Satur- day to attend opening day of the museum. Daughter Elizabeth, 8, and son, Henry, 6, took several rides aboard the hand cars nicknamed Kitty and Bob for Wallich's par- ents. Henry, dressed in a Thomas the Tank Engine T-shirt and conduc- tor hat, loves trains, his parents said. He has his own collection of Thomas engines. "I think we will be back," Don- na Myers said. The museum and railroad are open, weather permitting, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sun- days from April until October. There is no web site for the museum but people from all over have made the trek to the site. Wallich said many visitors are from the Washington/Baltimore ROBERT SNYDER are/t but has had tourists from England and Japan come as well. "It's like a big kid's train set," Sam Myers said. Wallich doesn't keep a count on how many visitors come a year but attendance usually de- pends on the weather. Donna Wallich said she enjoys meeting new people, especially children. She can always tell if a child likes trains or is really inter- ested in them by their reactions to the displays. "It's good to see how it was in times gone by," Donna Wallich said. Engineer Chris Wallich brings the 2,000-pound locomotive, No. 9 across the elevated wooden railroad trestle at the Harpers Ferry Toy Train Museum and Joy Line Railroad. Last weekend was the start of the,season for the Iongtime area attraction. Chris Wallich takes time out to rest in the train depot between runs of the No.9 Toy trains line the walls at the Harpers Ferry Toy Train Museum and Joy Lin# locomotive. Railroad. - Publi CHRISTINE MILER FORD Spirit Staff turing songs about hard times. Donalds, both of whom are blind, ture since the fall of 2003, "Side- who we are and make sure tMt we KEYSER- Music lovers across Other shows have focused on organiZe their music collection, tracks" also is he.ard on community get a copy of their latest work." West Wtrginians continue to count dogs, the Civil War, Abraham Lin- "We have thousands and thousands and Internet stations as far away as Having ties to West Virginia, on Ed McDonald's "Sidetracks," coin and songs about home to mark of CDs, so many that I'm honestly New York, Missouri, Ohio, Mary: however, isn't enough to land a a unique hourlong program that the Thanksgiving holiday,afraid to count them all," he said. land, V'trginia and elsewhere, musician on the program, Mc- spotlights contemporary acoustic "Some themes are just a given Braille labels are attached to In part because both McDonalds Donald said. "We don't play any- music rooted in the traditions of as I look through the calendar," the music CDs as soon as they hail from West Vhginia, references thing from a West Virginia artist folk, bluegrass and blues, said McDonald, who worked as arrive in the mail. "Karen writes to the Mountain State pop up regu- if it's not up to our standards," McDonald and his wife Kar- a radio announcer in St. Albans up a card for every song that has larly on "Sidetracks" as do songs he said. "Karen makes sure of en have put together the weekly near Charleston and in other cit- potential for our show," he said. from Hazel Dickens, Kathy Mat- that." program from their Keyser home ies in West Virginia before pur- "Then, as I listen to the CDs, I put tea, Tun and Molly O'Brien and Karen McDonald, the show's since 1998. It airs on West Virginia suing a master's degree in broad- the cards into different envelopes, other West Virginia musicians, music director and associate pro- Public Radio stations 'at 9 pan. on casting at Ohio University. He re- It might take a year or longer be- "I make no apologies about the ducer, for years worked as direc- Fridays. turned to his native Keyser in the fore I have enough song titles program being West Vu'ginia-cen- tor of the Farmington Youth Expe- Each "Sidetracks" show centers late 1980s. "Other times I'll fol- in an envelope to build a show tric," McDonald said. "When I rience cOmmunity choir. She also on a theme, with McDonald orga- low up on something that's on the around. When I need a theme, think that maybe that's not a good plays the piano and other instru- nizing programs around everything news or that strikes me as inter- " I'll look through my envelopes thing, I look at Garrison Keillor ments. from Mother's Day, Father's Day, esting." and see what looks full enough to and his focus on Minnesota. That Both McDonalds want to go on the anniversary of West Virginia's At any given time, McDonald is make a show out of." hasn't hurt him. 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Where Was The Other Guys Filmed?
Nishitha Dutta
Directed by Adam McKay, 'The Other Guys' is a buddy cop film that focuses on the tedious lives of NYPD detectives Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg), who find themselves glued to their desks, unlike their heroic colleagues. Although Gamble is happy with his job, Hoitz wants to tackle the real world. Shortly after, the tables turn when a big opportunity presents itself to both of them.
Packed with comedy and action, 'The Other Guys' is an entertaining journey that unfolds in the heart of New York. It received appreciation for its top-notch visual effects besides the impressive chemistry between the comedic lead duo. If you're curious to know if it was actually filmed in New York, we have updates for you!
The Other Guys Filming Locations
The 2010 action-comedy flick was primarily filmed in New York City, with only a few scenes actualizing in other parts of the state. The principal photography for 'The Other Guys' began on September 23, 2009, and concluded in a few months. Let's dive into the details!
'The Other Guys' was extensively filmed in New York City, mainly covering areas in downtown Manhattan. The scene where detectives Danson and Highsmith chase criminals take place at Madison Avenue between East 24th and 25th Street. Gamble and Hoitz get into a hilarious accident while driving a Prius in Chinatown at Division Street and Ludlow Street. The Plaza Hotel, located at 768 5th Avenue, is where businessman David Ershon holds a speech in the film.
The scene where the detectives encounter shady security guards was filmed at Grand Central Station at East 41st Street on Park Avenue. The filming of the following scene where the duo is on their way home took place at Park Avenue and East 34th Street. Shortly after, the lead characters meet at the Peter McManus Cafe at 152 7th Avenue and West 19th Street.
Other locations in Manhattan include the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, the exterior of a building at 9 Broadway, Park Avenue South and East 24th Street, Madison Square Garden, Canal Street, Orchard Street, and Bowling Green Park that lies at Broadway and Battery Place.
Besides the aforementioned attractions in Manhattan, a few areas in Brooklyn served as filming sites for the production. Nathan's Hot Dogs in Coney Island, a budding fast-food chain originating in the borough itself, also makes an appearance in the film. The team also visited Staten Island to film a few scenes. Clawson Street & Sterling Avenue, situated within the southernmost borough, also hosted the shooting of 'The Other Guys.'
Other Locations in New York
A few scenes were shot in Albany, the capital of New York. The city is brimming with attractions such as Downtown's Empire State Plaza and The Egg, a magnificent performing arts center. The Central Avenue in Hartsdale, which lies towards the north of New York City, served as another filming location.
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Adopt 2017 new chipset Amlogic S905W, comes with Quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU up to 2GHz and Mali-450 GPU. It is the most cost-effective chipset. So W95 is high-quality with low price. 4K H.265 enables you to feel the most high-definition video! It runs on the Android 7.1, which has good performance. You can connect to a world of content and entertainment at home. It is the best choice for you to have the smooth experience to watch the video or play games.
Made from ABS plastic, in color black, W95 is constructed with the classic square form factor with sharp edges on corners. It's quite small, measure 11 x 11 x 1.7 cm and weight: 178 grs. The perfect size if you want to hide the installation. Comes in regular box, made from cardboard, inside you can find the product, power adapter, HDMI cable, IR Control and user's manual.
W95 TvBox in addition to including the new SoC S905W from Amlogic has onboard 1Gb RAM / 8Gb of eMMc –, 2Gb RAM / 16Gb of eMMc storage memory and WiFi b/g/N with internal antenna. The connectivity level includes a pair of USB 2 ports, microSD card reader, HDMI 2.0 port, 10/100 network connector, SPDIF digital audio output and lastly an analog audio and video port.
W95 TV Box with Amlogic S905W as CPU.


A tab bar appears at the bottom of an app screen and provides the ability to quickly switch between different sections of an app. Tab bars are translucent, may have a background tint, maintain the same height in all screen orientations, and are hidden when a keyboard is displayed. A tab bar may contain any number of tabs, but the number of visible tabs varies based on the device size and orientation. If some tabs can't be displayed due to limited horizontal space, the final visible tab becomes a More tab, which reveals the additional tabs in a list on a separate screen.
Note: it is common practice to drop Navigation as the child of a TabBar and configure the Navigation Bar setting Hide Navigation Bar to true.
The icon can both be custom (with a user provided image) or selected from the list of system TabBar icons.
Note: without the TABBAR Item the title itself is automatically retrieved from the name of the current children Window.
Translucent Background, when set true the tab bar adds a translucent effect to its background image or tint color.
Bar Color, the tint color to apply to the bar.
TabBar contains a complete list of properties and methods that can be used to customize a TabBar object.


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Pete Seeger never abandoned the original vision of the Almanac Singers. With the war over and now back in civilian life, he dreamed of expanding the Almanacs' ideals into a national movement that would unify singers, performers, choral leaders and labor unions into a force for political and social change. Seeger's model was Great Britain's Workers Music Association, founded in 1939 by members of England's Communist Party.
Reaching out to New York's leftist folk, theatrical and literary communities, Seeger invited potential members to attend the December 31, 1945, organizational meeting of People's Songs. Committees were established to find office space, set up a corporation, establish a regular newsletter, secure financing and recruit new members.
Within a year's time the People's Songs concept spread to other major North American cities. In October 1947, the organization held its first national convention in Chicago. The organization set up a booking office for its members and encouraged aspiring singer-songwriters and established composers to send sheet music or demos of new topical songs for possible publication in the monthly bulletin.
Although some professional composers were among People's Songs' earliest supporters, the most enduring songs to emerge from the movement were penned by non-professionals like Vern Partlow, a Los Angeles journalist and union activist.
Born May 25, 1910, in Bloomington, Illinois, Verneil Partlow moved to California after working for newspapers and radio stations in Wisconsin and Chicago. Hired by the Los Angeles Daily News, he became an early supporter of the American Newspaper Guild, formed in 1933. In the mid-'40s forties he hosted a program covering labor issues for a Los Angeles station.
When Earl Robinson opened the first People's Songs office on the West Coast, Partlow became one of its earliest members. After interviewing scientists on the consequences of a nuclear war, he wrote Old Man Atom, a talking blues using a musical template Woody Guthrie adapted from the recordings of Chris Bouchillon. Laced with irony, the song circulated among other singer-songwriters after its appearance as Atomic Talking Blues in the January 1947 People's Songs Bulletin. Pete Seeger recorded it in 1948 for Irwin Silber and Brownie McGhee's Encore label.
Outside of activists within People's Songs, few people bought Seeger's record. One who did was Sam Hinton, curator of the Thomas Wayland Vaughan Aquarium Museum at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego.


Aging well seems like such a simple prospect: keep active, stay mentally alert, and maintain a social calendar that ties it all together.
The reality is much more complicated, of course.
Mental illness, physical limitations, and enforced lifestyle changes all come into play, confounding expectations and requiring adjustments to any long-term plans we have in place.
Against this backdrop, the notion of aging well becomes much more individual, subject to the unique health and emotional concerns of the person in question.
The New York Times focused on both sides of the aging coin earlier this month.
In its feature article Fraying at the Edges, the strains of living with Alzheimer's Disease are explored in distressing detail. While it makes an attempt to represent the positive aspects of mental impairment – finding renewed perspective, refocusing priorities, making the necessary plans for care support – the extreme lows of the process are presented for all to see.
At the other end of the spectrum, an opinion piece by Gerald Marzorati focuses on the positive aspects of expanding our skills as we age.
Better Aging Through Practice, Practice, Practice doesn't claim to be a cure-all, but it does promote the benefits of finding a new passion helping to limit the effects of advancing years. Without the pressure of performing at a high level or impressing peers, as is often the case in our younger years, the pure focus on enjoying a new activity holds special health benefits for seniors.
If the interest is physical, for example, the regular activity it promotes . The social and mental aspects flow naturally from that, as most sports or exercise involves others and the conversation alone helps to keep the mind working.
A new journey is as good as a new lease of life for some people, the writer holds, and the practice required can make the path of aging that little bit easier to manage. Fittingly, the wider journey of getting older is another area that has drawn media focus in recent months.
It isn't just the Times that has taken up the challenge of bringing the subject of aging to the mainstream media this year, either. In February, TIME magazine dedicated an entire issue to aging and longevity.
One of the most striking articles in the issue focused on how old people see dying, which we wrote about it subsequently. It explains why the value of the journey – a life well lived – provides a more practical view of death for some seniors.
All of these articles offer insight that some will find uncomfortable. Aging is not a topic that many people want to think about until it's their turn. Even then, the conversation can be awkward and shrouded in misconceptions. Setting it in the context of a longer journey helps to connect the dots, showing how much older people value their experiences in younger life and want to continue to make memories that keep them happy.
Finally, connecting the generations is exactly the objective of the AARP's #DisruptAging campaign. It aims to challenge preconceptions about different age groups and to show younger people that seniors are capable of much more than they imagine.
The video below exemplifies the campaign. Asking a simple question, "What is old?", to people in their twenties and thirties, the results are as entertaining for us as they are illuminating for the younger generations involved.
The 3 Ingredients to Successful Aging: Work, Diet, and Exercise.


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Q: Efficient code to load AVX vectors for 1D convolution kernel of length 8 An implementation of a 1D convolution operation will often need to load a vectors of data that sequentially step through a buffer of data offset by one element each iteration.
For example, consider a buffer of input data X[0], X[1], ..., X[n-1], where n is greater than twice the kernel length.  If the convolution length is three, and we can fit eight elements in each vector, we might first want a vector with X[0], X[1], ..., X[7], then the next with X[1], X[2], ..., X[8] and the last with X[2], X[3], ..., X[9].
Consider the case where the kernel length as well as the vector length is 8.  We must load eight vectors, that might look sequentially like this:
{  0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7  }
{  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8  }
{  2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  }
{  3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  }
{  4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  }
{  5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  }
{  6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13  }
{  7   8   9  10  11  12  13  14  }

By reducing this sequence vertically, we could produce a running mean or sum.  I.e., the sum of these vectors will have the sum of the first 8 elements in it's first position.
Consider that the order of the elements in the column does not matter.  Any permutation of the elements in each column will still produce the same result.  For a convolution, this permutation can be accounted for by altering the order of the constants used in the kernel.
Is there a faster way to load these vectors that takes advantage of this?  Consider as a baseline the simple sequence of unaligned loads:
// Any sort of sliding window function, i.e. running mean, running max, convolution, etc.
void sliding_window(const float* input, unsigned length)
{
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < length - 7; i += 8) {
        for (unsigned j = 0; i < 8; j++) {
            __m256 v = _mm256_loadu_ps(input[i + j]);
            // reduction operation on v (e.g. max or fmadd) goes here
        }
    }
    // handle tail here
}

A: First of all, you should note that if your convolution is separable, this is very often worth doing. Simple example:
res[i] = x[i]+x[i+1]+x[i+2]+x[i+3]+x[i+4]+x[i+5]+x[i+6]+x[i+7];

This can be done by convoluting with [1 1] * [1 0 1] * [1 0 0 0 1] in three steps, for example like so:
void sliding_window(float* output, const float* input, size_t length)
{
    // Nomenclature
    // aX input at i+X
    // bX convolution with [1 1] starting at i+X
    // cX convolution with [1 1] * [1 0 1] starting at i+X
    // dX convolution with [1 1] * [1 0 1] * [1 0 0 0 1] starting at i+X

    __m256 a0 = _mm256_load_ps(input), a8 = _mm256_load_ps(input + 8);
    __m256 b0 = _mm256_add_ps(a0, _mm256_loadu_ps(input+1)), b8 = _mm256_add_ps(a8, _mm256_loadu_ps(input+9));
    __m256 b4 = _mm256_permute2f128_ps(b0, b8, 1+16*2);
    __m256 b2 = _mm256_shuffle_ps(b0, b4, 2+3*4+0*16+1*64);
    __m256 c0 = _mm256_add_ps(b0, b2);

    for (unsigned i = 0; i < length - 25; i += 8) {
        // Convolute input with [1 1]
        __m256 a16 = _mm256_load_ps( input + i + 16);
        __m256 a17 = _mm256_loadu_ps(input + i + 17);
        __m256 b16 = _mm256_add_ps(a16, a17);

        // Convolute first convolution with [1 0 1]
        __m256 b12 = _mm256_permute2f128_ps(b8, b16, 1+16*2);
        __m256 b10 = _mm256_shuffle_ps(b8, b12, 2+3*4+0*16+1*64);
        __m256 c8 = _mm256_add_ps(b8, b10);

        // Convolute second convolution with [1 0 0 0 1]
        __m256 c4 = _mm256_permute2f128_ps(c0, c8, 1+16*2);
        __m256 d0 = _mm256_add_ps(c0, c4);

        // Store result
        _mm256_store_ps(output + i, d0);

        // rename registers for next iteration:
        b8 = b16;
        c0 = c8;
    }
    // handle tail here ...
}

You can of course replace addps by maxps. Godbolt-Demo: https://godbolt.org/z/W9K9o943o
Overall, this takes 1 aligned + 1 unaligned load, 3 shuffles, 3 additions and 1 store for 8 elements (actually only using AVX1). On Intel CPUs with only 1 shuffle per cycle this may actually just be slightly faster than a naïve 8-load, 7-addition implementation (I did not benchmark this). On Zen3 I'm not sure about the actual cost of loading unaligned data.
If you have a non-trivial kernel it is probably hard to determine if it is separable, though.

A: The best I've been able to come up with is this sequence:
{  0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7  }
{  1   2   3   8   5   6   7  12  }
{  2   3   8   9   6   7  12  13  }
{  3   8   9  10   7  12  13  14  }
{  4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  }
{  5   6   7   4   9  10  11   8  }
{  6   7   4   5  10  11   8   9  }
{  7   4   5   6  11   8   9  10  }

Each column contains the necessary elements.  The first column contains 0 - 7, the next 1 - 8, then 2 - 9, etc.
This can be produced with the following sequence of operations:
void sliding_window(const float* input, unsigned length)
{
    __m256 a = _mm256_load_ps(input);
    for (unsigned i = 8; i < length - 7; i += 8) {
        __m256 b = _mm256_load_ps(input + i);

        __m256i ai = _mm256_castps_si256(a);  // not part of sequence
        __m256i bi = _mm256_castps_si256(b);  // just for code reduction

        // a is the first vector, these are remaining 7
        __m256 j1 = _mm256_castsi256_ps(_mm256_alignr_epi8(bi, ai, 4));
        // Reduction operation (add, fmadd, max, etc.) between a and j1 goes here
        __m256 j2 = _mm256_castsi256_ps(_mm256_alignr_epi8(bi, ai, 8));
        // Reduction with j2 goes here, and so on after each value
        __m256 j3 = _mm256_castsi256_ps(_mm256_alignr_epi8(bi, ai, 12));
        __m256 r0 = _mm256_permute2f128_ps(a, b, 0x21);
        a = b;  // Register with "b" isn't needed anymore
        __m256 r1 = _mm256_permute_ps(r0, 0x39);
        __m256 r2 = _mm256_permute_ps(r0, 0x4e);
        __m256 r3 = _mm256_permute_ps(r0, 0x93);
        // Final reduction with r3 to produce result
    }
    // handle tail here
}

On Zen3, I benchmark this as about 10% faster than the sequence of unaligned loads.


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is a JR West Geibi station located in Ōya, Saijō-chō, Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

Hibayama Station features one side platform. The Saijō River is located about 100m behind the station.

History
1987-04-01: Japan National Railways is privatized, and Hibayama Station becomes a JR West station

Around the station

Japan National Route 183
Hiroshima Prefectural Route 254 (Hibayama Kōen Route)

Connecting lines
All lines are JR West lines.
Geibi Line
Bingo-Ochiai Station — Hibayama Station — Bingo-Saijō Station

External links
 JR West

Geibi Line
Railway stations in Hiroshima Prefecture
Shōbara, Hiroshima


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LG Announces HECTO Laser TV Projector will Debut at CES 2013
LG announced a new 100-inch Laser TV System will Debut at CES. The Hecto system is capable of creating a 100-inch screen and features a projector screen with 1080p video from just 22-inches away. The projector also features Smart TV and Digital TV functionality, 3 HDMI ports, audio outs, a 10w speaker. Users will also get…
LG Touch 10 Monitor
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The Touch 10 is a touchscreen monitor which has been optimized for Windows 8, and allows all ten digits to be used on-screen, simultaneously. LG states that its finger-friendly monitor will be released with a 23-inch screen, but while the company is pushing the impressive touch capabilities of the Touch 10, it's being reserved…
Apple's new iMac
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Apple unveiled the new iMac, it will be available in 2 sizes: 27 inches, with a 2560 x 1440 screen, and 21.5 inches with a 1920 x 1080 screen. Both models have 178-degree viewing angles, Schiller said " as you might expect from a device like this, the iMac's display is the star of…


Bandai Namco has announced that the Switch version of Dark Souls: Remastered will be released on October 19th. The game has been postponed again, previously the publisher said that the game would be released in the summer for the Nintendo console.
The publisher mentions the publication date in a tweet . An amiibo will be available on the same date: Solar or Astora; that is a knight that occurs in Dark Souls. In April, Bandai Namco announced that the Switch version of the Dark Souls remaster was postponed until the summer , but that deadline is not met. The publisher does not issue a further explanation for this.
The game runs in a 1080p mode when played in the dock and in 720p resolution if the Switch is used separately as a handheld. The publisher promises a framerate of 30fps and the online mode is suitable for up to six players.
Dark Souls: Remastered appeared on May 25 as planned for the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One and PC. It is a graphically polished version of the game that first appeared in 2011. The remaster also contains the dlc that was released for the game.


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Analysts say the government's motivation to sell its crude oil is rather simple: to finance maintenance for the SPR.
Analysts say the U.S. Department of Energy may start to sell off some of its strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) this month, as it initiates a multi-year process to shrink the American stockpile of oil.
The U.S. Congress has authorized DOE to sell off $375.4 million worth of oil in its recent budget resolution, and the DOE said that such a sale could be held as early January 20.
The price of crude oiltoday was $52.34, down 3.06%.
The price of Brent oil at about 1:30 p.m. today was $55.40, down 2.98%.
The price of natural gas was also down today on intraday trading.
Crude oil settled at $52.03, up 0.13%. Brent oil settled at a two-week low of $54.94 a barrel, down 3.99%.
The reserves are located in salt caverns in Louisiana and Texas, which were established decades ago in the wake of the Arab Oil Embargo in 1973.
The SPR can hold more than 700 million barrels of oil at one time, and is the largest strategic stockpile in the world.
The SPR holds 90 days' worth of oil supplies, which could be released in the event of a global outage.
A release from the SPR has only happened a handful of times, including the Persian Gulf War in the 1990s, and Hurricane Katrina and the Arab Spring during the 21st century, experts noted.


I am the K-5 General/Vocal Music Teacher at Langston Hughes Elementary.
I began teaching in Lawrence Public Schools in 1990.
I started working at Langston Hughes in 2004.
I love teaching children to be tuneful, beatful and artful musicians.


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Android News / All News / OnePlus Doesn't Know How To Overclock Chips, CEO Says
OnePlus Doesn't Know How To Overclock Chips, CEO Says
OnePlus Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Pete Lau on Monday dismissed the idea that the Chinese phone maker is cheating benchmarks with the OnePlus 5, implying that the company's engineers don't have a lot of overclocking knowledge. "We don't even know how to overclock," Lau said in an interview with The Indian Express, asserting that the Shenzhen, Guangdong-based consumer electronics manufacturer is only looking to show "the full potential" of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 powering the OnePlus 5 when the phone detects it's running a benchmark. His comments on the matter are identical to those made by the firm's other Co-Founder Carl Pei who recently stated that the BBK Electronics-owned company believes consumers want to see the maximum performance that their devices are capable of when running benchmarks instead of regular usage scores.
Some skeptical industry watchers recently argued that the OnePlus 5's peak performance is irrelevant seeing how the device would quickly end up overheating if its system-on-chip (SoC) was always running at a maximum frequency like it does in benchmarks, and while Lau didn't directly acknowledge those claims, his latest interview saw him confirm that the handset's processor won't run at a maximum frequency if it gets too hot. The top executive of the Chinese original equipment manufacturer (OEM) also revealed a number of other details regarding the decision-making process that led to the OnePlus 5, stating that the company's profit margins are unlikely to improve with the release of its new handset despite the fact that both models are somewhat more expensive to the OnePkus 3T series. Everything from memory modules to retail packaging is more costly this year, Lau said, suggesting how that's the primary reason why the firm decided to increase the price of its new flagship series.
OnePlus's co-founder also dismissed criticism regarding the Apple iPhone 7 Plus-inspired design of the company's latest phone, saying how some individuals have been critical of this aspect of the OEM's products since the original OnePlus with a weak basis and to virtually no effect. Finally, the OnePlus 5 still ships with the same 5.5-inch Full HD display panel because the firm didn't believe that including a QHD screen would do a lot save for reducing its battery life, Lau said, while also revealing that the smartphone features a degree of water resistance that the company decided not to advertise.


By Carol S. Holzberg, Ph.D.
Adobe's Creative Suite 5 offers new tools for collaborative work in multimedia design, Web development, and video production. Optimized to run on multi-core processors with 64-bit-aware Macintosh, Windows 7, and Vista operating systems, the CS5 Master Collection consists of 17 applications.
QUALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS: The CS5 Master Collection supports 64-bit processors and tighter integration among the programs (e.g., enhanced drag-and-drop capability between CS5 applications and the ability to export InDesign content as HTML pages that open in Dreamweaver).
EASE OF USE: Adobe Device Central CS5 lets you test the content you create by simulating its operation on more than 100 devices. The latest Master Collection delivers improved control over the media you use and the content you create. Its Mini Bridge Media Manager (a subset of Adobe Bridge) is a customizable panel that allows you to see thumbnails of pictures and other assets without leaving Photoshop CS5 or InDesign CS5.
CREATIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY: A link to Adobe CS Live in the menu bar of several CS5 applications connects you to Adobe online services, where you can share with others the video sequences, page layouts, artboards, and image-comps content you create. CS Live consists of five services, including Adobe CS Review for online collaborative review, Adobe BrowserLab for preview, and test Web content in Internet browsers or in operating systems you may not have.
SUITABILITY FOR USE IN A SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT: Adobe's CS5 Master Collection is more than a casual collection of digital tools for graphic design, video editing, and Web development. Each application is an industry standard. Students who become familiar with the CS5's powerful features and resources as part of their regular course work have a better understanding of the technology tools used by realworld professionals.
Applications in Adobe's CS5 Master Collection are powerful and complex. Even if students work through Adobe's free year-long project-based curricula in visual design, digital design, and digital video, becoming comfortable with the tools will take time. Applications in the Master Collection are best reserved for high-school-aged students, teachers, staff, and administrators, and not elementary- school-aged students. Individual programs in the Master Collection, e.g., Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver, can be introduced to young students with great success.


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Anti-Brexit Protest Draws in Nearly 1 Million
An estimated one million people came out to protest in London on Saturday to show support for another Brexit referendum. The protests come after the European Union granted an extension for the Brexit deadline, which gives lawmakers this week to approve the Brexit deal and leave May 22. If the UK does not pass a […]
An estimated one million people came out to protest in London on Saturday to show support for another Brexit referendum.
The protests come after the European Union granted an extension for the Brexit deadline, which gives lawmakers this week to approve the Brexit deal and leave May 22.
If the UK does not pass a deal, they have until April 12 to decide what to do next.
Protests in London
Hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand a second Brexit referendum.
Video of today's anti-#Brexit #protest march in central #London, #UK today: #PeoplesVoteMarch #RevokeArticle50 pic.twitter.com/xUh0nZbf1K
— Alex Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) March 23, 2019
The protest, called "Put It To The People," was organized by the People's Vote campaign, which is made up of more than 100 grassroots groups that support a second Brexit vote.
Organizers for the protest estimated that a million people turned out, although there is no way to independently confirm the number.
WHAT DO WE WANT?
Huge crowd ready to go here at the #PeoplesVoteMarch – it's time to #PutItToThePeople pic.twitter.com/PACMzW0tFs
— Our Future, Our Choice (@OFOCBrexit) March 23, 2019
What is known for certain was that there was a wide variety of people who came out to show their support for a second vote.
British citizens from all over the country came to London to join the protest, and British MPs from all across the political spectrum also attended.
The protest was not limited to British citizens. People from other European Union (EU) countries flew in to join the protest, including from Italy and Ireland.
Brexit Deadline Extended
The protest comes after EU leaders and Prime Minister Theresa May agreed on Thursday to extend the Brexit deadline.
The original deadline for Britain to leave the EU was March 29, and now under the current extension the UK will leave on May 22 if Parliament passes May's Brexit deal.
That might seem like a simple extension, but there are a lot of different ways this can go. Now, the UK essentially has to decide between passing May's Brexit deal or opening a whole other can of worms.
Lawmakers essentially have this until the end of week to pass May's plan, if they wish to leave the EU on May 22.
However, May's Brexit deal is extremely unpopular with both liberals and conservatives, and it has been voted down by Parliament two separate times.
The first time was in January, when MP's voted against the deal by a 230 vote margin – the biggest defeat in Parliament's history.
The second time was earlier this month, when the plan was again defeated by a margin of 149 votes.
Alternatives to May's Brexit Deal
If May's Brexit deal does not get passed, MPs will have until April 12 to decide what they are going to do instead.
The UK has four different options if they choose not to pass May's plan.
The first option is to ask the EU for a longer extension. While this would give them more time to negotiate, including potentially negotiating a new deal, extending negotiations even more would require the UK to hold elections for the EU's European Parliament in May.
Electing new representatives for the UK to the EU's Parliament would not make much sense if the UK is planning to then leave the EU.
The second option is a no-deal Brexit, which basically means that Parliament would just accept the situation and move forward with Brexit.
However, earlier this month, Parliament debated and voted to reject a no-deal Brexit.
Anti Brexit demonstrators march in London today #brexit #article50 #protest #london #news pic.twitter.com/3viBf8IR9I
— Snapperjack Media (@Thesnapperjack) March 23, 2019
The third option is invoking Article 50, which would cancel Brexit. An online petition supporting this option went viral and got over 5 million, but Theresa May has ruled out invoking Article 50.
The final option is to hold another referendum altogether, which is the driving force for the protests on Saturday. Again, Parliament rejected an amendment for a second referendum during a series of votes earlier this month.
Parliament has strongly opposed these options, which makes it extremely difficult to see a path forward.
The deadline for Brexit is coming fast, and UK lawmakers have still not come up with a plan that even a majority of Parliament can get behind.
Parliament now has this week to decide if they are going to pass Theresa May's Brexit plan.
If the deal is voted down again, Parliament could hold a series of votes to see where MP's agree and disagree. That move could reveal if support for a second referendum has shifted at all given the recent changes to the Brexit negotiations.
While Parliament did vote against a second referendum in the past, there is support for it both among MP's and the British populous.
Back in February, the Labour Party announced that they officially supported a second referendum.
Labour Party leaders are also considering a plan by two of the party's members where MPs would vote for May's deal on the condition that it is then put to a public vote. That move would essentially allow the UK to vote on Brexit again without an official referendum.
While that might seem like a good potential option, it still relies on passing May's unpopular Brexit deal.
Recent polls in the UK suggest that if there were another referendum, Britain could vote to remain in the EU.
A snap poll last week found that nearly two-thirds of respondents support remaining in the EU over Brexiting with May's current deal.
If the options were remaining or leaving without a deal, remaining would still win.
Source: YouGob
Almost half of the poll's respondents said they would support another public vote.
Source: YouGov
See what others are saying: (CNN) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
Related Topics:BrexitConservative PartyEuropean UnionEuropean Union ParliamentFeaturedLabour PartyLondonParliamentProtestTheresa May
German Family That Owns Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread, & More Will Donate Millions After Learning of Nazi Past
Mozambique President Says Death Toll of Cyclone Could Pass 1,000
U.K. Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited to U.S.
The judgment overrules a lower court decision that blocked the WikiLeaks founder's extradition on the grounds that his mental health was not stable enough to weather harsh conditions in the American prison system if convicted.
New Developments in Assange Extradition Battle
A British court ruled Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act that could land him in prison for decades.
Prosecutors in the U.S. have accused Assange of conspiring with former army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010 to hack into a Department of Defense computer network and access thousands of military and diplomatic records on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The information obtained in the hack was later published by WikiLeaks in 2010 and 2011, a move U.S. authorities allege put lives in danger.
In addition to a charge of computer misuse, Assange has also been indicted on 17 espionage charges. Collectively, the charges carry a maximum prison sentence of 175 years.
The Friday decision from the High Court overturns a lower court ruling in January, which found that Assange's mental health was too fragile for the harsh environment he could face in the U.S. prison system if convicted.
Notably, the January ruling did not determine whether or not Assange was guilty. In fact, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser explicitly rejected the defense's arguments that the charges against him were politically motivated and that he should be protected under freedom of press.
However, she agreed that the defense had provided compelling evidence that Assange suffers from severe depression and that the conditions he could face in the U.S. prison system were "such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America."
The U.S. appealed the ruling, arguing that Assange's mental health should not be a barrier to extradition and that the psychiatrist who examined him had been biased.
In October, the Biden administration vowed that if Assange were to be convicted, he would not be placed in the highest-security U.S. prison or immediately sent to solitary confinement. Officials also said that the native Australian would be eligible to serve his sentence in his home country.
High Court Ruling
The High Court agreed with the administration's arguments in its ruling, arguing that the American's assurances regarding the conditions of Assange's potential incarceration were "sufficient."
"There is no reason why this court should not accept the assurances as meaning what they say," the ruling stated. "There is no basis for assuming that the USA has not given the assurances in good faith."
Assange's fiancé, Stella Moris, said in a statement that his legal team would appeal the decision to the British Supreme Court at the "earliest possible moment," referring to the judgment as a "grave miscarriage of justice."
The Supreme Court will now decide whether or not to hear the case based on if it believes the matter involves a point of law "of general public importance." That decision may take weeks or even months.
If the U.K. Supreme Court court objects to hearing Assange's appeal, he could ask the European Court of Human Rights to stay the extradition — a move that could set in motion another lengthy legal battle in the already drawn-out process.
Assange and his supporters claim he was acting as an investigative journalist when he published the classified military cables. They argue that the possibility of his extradition and prosecution represent serious threats to press freedoms in the U.S.
U.S. prosecutors dispute that Assange acted as a journalist, claiming that he encouraged illegal hacking for personal reasons.
See what others are saying: (The New York Times) (NPR) (The Washington Post)
Early Data Indicates Omicron is More Transmissible But Less Severe
The studies come as Pfizer and BioNTech claim that preliminary research shows a third shot of their COVID vaccine appears to provide sufficient protection against the new variant, but two doses alone may not.
More Information About Omicron
Several preliminary studies published in recent days appear to show that the new omicron COVID-19 variant may be more transmissible but less severe than previous strains.
One recent, un-peer-reviewed study by a Japanese scientist who advises the country's health ministry found that omicron is four times more transmissible in its initial stage than delta was.
Preliminary information in countries hit hard by omicron also indicates high transmissibility. In South Africa — where the variant was first detected and is already the dominant strain — new COVID cases have more than doubled over the last week.
Health officials in the U.K. said omicron cases are doubling every two or three days, and they expect the strain to become dominant in the country in a matter of weeks.
In a statement Wednesday, World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that while early data does seem to show high transmissibility, it also indicates that omicron causes more mild cases than delta.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevent Director Rochelle Walensky echoed that sentiment, telling reporters that of the 40 known omicron cases in the U.S. as of Wednesday, nearly all of them were mild. One person has been hospitalized so far and none have died.
Studies on Vaccine Efficacy
Other recent studies have shown that current COVID vaccines are effective at preventing severe illness and death in omicron patients, and boosters provide at least some added protection.
On Wednesday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that laboratory tests have shown a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine appears to provide sufficient protection against the omicron variant, though two doses may not.
According to the companies, researchers saw a 25-fold reduction in neutralizing antibodies for omicron compared to other strains of the virus for people who had just two Pfizer doses.
By contrast, samples from people one month after they had received a Pfizer booster presented neutralizing antibodies against omicron that were comparable to those seen against previous variants after two doses.
Still, Pfizer's chief executive also told reporters later in the day that omicron could increase the likelihood that people might need a fourth dose earlier than previously expected, which he had initially said was 12 months after the third shot.
Notably, the Pfizer research has not yet been peer-reviewed, and it remains unclear how omicron will operate outside a lab, but other studies have had similar findings.
See what others are saying: (The New York Times) (Bloomberg) (NBC News)
40 Camels Disqualified From Beauty Contest After Breeders Inject Their Faces With Botox
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The animals were barred from competing for $66 million in prizes at this year's King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Saudi Arabia.
Camels Booted From Beauty Contest
More than 40 camels were disqualified from a beauty contest in Saudi Arabia this week after judges found artificial enhancements in their faces, marking the biggest crackdown on contestants in the competition to date.
The animals were competing for $66 million in prizes at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, a month-long event that is estimated to include around 33,000 camels.
However, according to The Guardian, they were forced out of the contest when authorities found that breeders had "stretched out the lips and noses of the camels, used hormones to boost the animals' muscles, injected heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger, inflated body parts with rubber bands, and used fillers to relax their faces."
Those types of alterations are banned since judges look at the contestant's heads, necks, humps, posture, and other features when evaluating them.
An announcement from the state-linked Saudi Press Agency said officials used "specialized and advanced" technology to detect tampering.
"The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels," the SPA report added before warning that organizers would "impose strict penalties on manipulators."
While it's unclear what that actually entails, this isn't the first time people have tried to cheat in this way.
In 2018, 12 camels were similarly disqualified from the competition for injections in their noses, lips, and jaw.
See what others are saying: (Insider) (The Guardian) (ABC News)


All Christians need to Stay Grateful For God's Care. We adults can be additionally grateful for what God does for us and allows us to do.
5 he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. Balak said to him: "Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land and are living right across from me.
Do you ever witness people trying to coax other people into disobedience. I think most of us have seen that happen or been personally exposed to it. In out text the prophet is being coaxed to betray his upbringing and pronounce a curse on Israel. This King Balak must have thought loyalty could be thrown to the wind and a handsome bribe was worth more than standing for your people and country. It is sad that many people can be bought. I heard a man say, "everyone can be bought, you just have to know the right price." I hope that is not true. How much do you like flattery? The king gave Balaam some glowing complements. He gave all the credit to Balaam and none to His God. There may be times we will face similar attempts to get us to disobey. It will be good for us to remember opposition can take many forms.
the path with a drawn sword in His hand. Balaam knelt and bowed with his face to the ground. 32 The Angel of the LORD asked him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you, because what you are doing is evil in My sight.
35 Then the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but you are to say only what I tell you." So Balaam went with Balak's officials.
"all I will say about Balaams donkey is that he spoke, Assyrian or Hebraic." I went home and asked my 6 year old daughter if she thought a donkey could talk, she said rather matter of factually, "if God wanted him to he could." I liked her answer better than my professor's. We need to appreciate God's leading in our lives and know he can lead in very unusual ways. This example teaches us to acknowledge God leads in different ways.
The more we sense the leading of the Lord the easier it is to acknowledge His guidance. To his credit Balaam confessed his sin and expressed willingness to repent.
not act, or promise and not fulfill? 20 I have indeed received a command to bless; since He has blessed, I cannot change it. 21 He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and there is rejoicing over the King among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
seem to receive more things for which to give God praise. Have you ever thought about praising God because He is so faithful? As the text tells us He does not lie or change His mind. He is faithful and does just what He has promised. Did your children ever say to you when circumstance caused a change in plans, "but Dad you promised." God has never heard that because He has never had to break a promise. In addition we can praise God for the fabulous work He has done and will continue to do. I really like the words of verse 23b as it says, "It will now be said about Jacob and Israel; "What great things God has done!" No wonder the title urges us to Stay Grateful For God's Care. Amen? Amen!