The war in Yemen – and it's accompanying humanitarian catastrophe – has been going on a very long time now; and it shows no signs of abating any time soon.
I talked about the humanitarian side of it here recently.
And about the seeming apathy of Western media and politicians and the hypocrisy in terms of how the Biblical-scaled suffering in Yemen is broadly ignored while geo-politically-motivated coverage of other crises elsewhere are amplified. They really don't like us talking about Yemen – they would prefer we talked about Venezuela or Syria.
On the actual war side of it, which has often been nebulous and murky, it has become evident that – in addition to US and UK logistical support for Saudi Arabia's campaign – Israel is also more involved in the Yemen situation than most people realise.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that Israeli officers have been training foreign mercenaries in UAE-funded camps located in the Negev Desert. It specifically says these mercenaries are, among others, Columbians and Nepalese.
The purpose, explains the article, is to take part in the war in Yemen.
Haaretz also highlights Israel's unofficial partner role in the Saudi-led coalition's long campaign in Yemen, pointing out Israeli cyber companies, gun traders, terrorism/warfare instructors and also paid hitmen, all being involved in the situation in Yemen.
Now what's curious about this specifying of Columbian mercenaries is the very long article I wrote here recently on the Blackwater founder (and Trump insider) Erik Prince and his nefarious activities around the world ('Private Armies, the Prince of Peace & the New World Order Rabbit-Hole').
This item about Israeli-trained mercenaries now feels like an add-on to that piece. In that article, I quoted a New York Times piece from 2011 that reported Prince had specifically been shipping in Columbian mercenaries to the U.A.E.
Nothing I've been reading about the Israeli connections with the U.A.E in regard to Yemen has mentioned Prince; but I thought it was worth re-inserting that information here. In that other piece, I suggested supporting evidence that these mercenaries in the U.A.E may have played a role in Syria's conflict: now the evidence seems to be that they're playing a role in Yemen's conflict.
Certainly, as that whole article laid out, this huge, covert push for 'private armies' and the privatisation of war and foreign policy seems to be happening everywhere – Prince has been a key part of it for years, not only in Iraq, but such as helping China to set up Blackwater-style operations aimed (in my interpretation of current events) at ethnic cleansing in the Xinjiang region.
In addition to Prince/Blackwater, I've written here about Dyncorp too (the infamous mercenary firm and enormous conspiracy rabbit-hole): and, as it happens, both Dyncorp and Blackwater have already been exposed previously entering Yemen to fight for the Saudi-led coalition: this emerged after fighters from Blackwater were defeated by the Houthi rebels.
As previously noted, the CEO of Dyncorp (at least at the time I was writing it) was an Israeli/US citizen with ties to Trump; while Erik Prince is also tied to Trump.
This would tally perfectly with what I was predicting at the beginning of the Trump presidency: that, given the presence of Erik Prince in the mix, we were going to see a shift away from US military involvement in foreign lands and a shift towards a more "cut-throat" approach relying on mercenaries and hired thugs. This shift was already occuring, in fact, during the Obama presidency, where the approach to both Libya and Syria was centered on mercenaries and thugs, at least during the early stages.
It's not surprising then that Israel would be very much in the game too: Israel is simply engaging in the same game as several other countries, using mercenaries and covert warfare to avoid having these things look like part of their actual, official foreign policy.
The exposure of Israel's involvement (in training Columbian and Nepalese mercenaries) in fact went back to September: I missed that at the time, otherwise I would've mentioned in the piece on 'Private Armies' and Erik Prince, etc.
Haaretz's piece points out the official position that 'The Israeli Defense Ministry or Mossad may claim people who served in their ranks and are now private contractors of the UAE or South American states are not working in Israel's name, and as long as they don't break the laws of their host state there is no reason to put them on trial…' But the article also expresses doubt about this position and is highly questioning of Israeli actors' role in foreign military affairs.
Apparently the recruiter for the foreign fighters in the Negev was Mohammed Dahlan – a member of Fatah's central committee and 'head of intelligence' in Gaza, who was aparently ousted from Fatah in 2011 and taken in by the U.A.E, where he became close to the crown prince and worked as a liaison between the U.A.E and Israel.
Again, that timeline would mean Dahlan was placed in the U.A.E at pretty much the same time as Erik Prince was bringing in Columbian mercenaries to the U.A.E (again, see here): so it's probable this is all linked, though none of the media sources I'm seeing are making that connection.
As also mentioned here in the piece about Ukraine, Israel has also been reported to have been supplying weapons to the Neo-Nazi Azov Batallion: so its hands – unofficially or not – appear to be in a lot of places where armed conflict is ocurring.
But so are a bunch of other hands. You'd be hard pressed to find a conflict situation anywhere where the dynamics are as simple or straightforward as they're made to appear.
However, at least the UK and US support for the Saudi military campaign has been out in the open all along.
In the UK, the International Relations Select Committee, a cross-party Lords committee, just published its report on UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia (which, for the duration of the campaign in Yemen, has been comprehensive – and included cluster bombs), concluding that the British government was "on the wrong side of the law" and should suspend export licenses.
The report argues that no independent checks are being made to deternmine if weapons being sold by the UK are being used in breach of international law, saying 'given the volume and type of arms being exported to the Saudi-led coalition, we believe they are highly likely to be the cause of significant civilian casualties in Yemen, risking the contravention of international humanitarian law'.
Days ago, the US Congress in fact voted to suspend American arms sales to Saudi Arabia's campaign in Yemen: but it reported that the White House has suggested President Trump will veto that resolution.
Meanwhile, all of this investment and profit suggests the fighting in Yemen isn't ending any time soon: and the suffering of the population of that country isn't going to be diminishing. War is business.
And this thing could still be going on years from now.
"Why is DOD one of the last organizations around that still cuts its own checks? When an entire industry exists to run warehouses efficiently, why do we own and operate so many of our own? At bases around the world, why do we pick up our own garbage and mop our own floors, rather than contracting services out, as many businesses do? And surely we can outsource more computer systems support.
Thanks for another hugely thought-provoking piece.
Thanks, WoC. I wasn't aware of that Rumsfeld speech, so thanks for sharing. God, even saying 'Rumsfeld' makes it feel like the ancient past by now.
But his soul goes mouldering on… or something like that!!!
It really is sad what is being done to the poor people of Yemen. It is outrageous that much of the world just does not want to be bothered about it.
It seems very few countries are safe now from this scenario of foreign states waging wars by proxy.
As I understand it, it's one of the few issues that seems to be have united most Democrats and Republicans in Congress – in that they largely seem to want the assault in Yemen to be called to a halt. Whether it happens any time or soon or not is another matter.


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Automated Drug Screening of Dried Blood Spots Using Online LC–MS/MS Analysis
Jana Rykl, Vicente Luis Cebolla, Stefan Gaugler, Matthias Grill
The Column
Column, The Column-04-09-2019, Volume 15, Issue 4
A fully automated method for the effective drug screening of large populations based on dried blood spot (DBS) technology is presented. DBSs were prepared, scanned, then spiked with deuterated standards, and directly extracted, before they were transferred online to an analytical liquid chromatography (LC) column and then to the electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) system. The method was applied to DBS samples from two patients with back pain; codeine and oxycodone could be identified and quantified accurately below the level of misuse of 89.6 ng/mL and 39.6 ng/mL, respectively.
For forensic applications, the use of dried blood spot (DBS) technology, such as drug screening, is of major interest. The easy sample collection, small sample volumes, and the option to ship to a centralized laboratory are all benefits. This article shows the development of an automated DBS process, including card recognition, sample preparation and extraction, and online analysis by ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS/MS) for the simultaneous determination of a panel of psychoactive drugs in DBS.
Automated Extraction: Automated extractions were performed with a DBS‑MS 500 (Camag), an extraction system for mass spectrometry (MS). The extraction solvent (methanol and water mixture; 70:30 v/v) was connected to the extraction port. The wash solution (methanol, acetonitrile, 2-propanol, and water with 0.1% formic acid; 25:25:25:25, v/v/v/v) was joined to the rinsing bottle. The internal standard mix was connected to internal standard port 2. Internal standard port 4 and the wash port were also filled with methanol. Chronos software (Camag) was used for this method
The system was prepared by priming methanol through the internal standard port 4 (10 cycles) followed by two cycles through port 2. The extraction head was cleaned in an ultrasound bath at 40 °C for 10 min prior to analysis. The extraction solvent was primed for five cycles and the rinsing solvents were flushed for 1 min (this process is an automated system prime method). The DBS cards were photographed with the built-in camera in the extraction system before and after each run to check for the presence of a blood spot and to adjust the extraction head to the centre of each spot.
The software automatically recognized inadequate dried blood spots based on their roundness, diameter, and area. Inadequate DBSs were excluded from analysis. A 20-μL internal standard measure was sprayed in a homogenous layer onto each spot. After a 20 s drying time, the samples were extracted with a volume of 20 μL and a 200 μL/min flow rate. To complete the automated DBS extraction cycle, the system was rinsed for 20 s.
Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry: Chromatography was performed with a Nexera X2 UHPLC system (Shimadzu) connected to a LCMS-8060 tandem mass spectrometer (Shimadzu). Analytes were separated on a 2.3 × 50 mm, 5-μm C18 Shim-pack GIST analytical column (Shimadzu).
Mobile phase A consisted of water with 10‑mM ammonia formate, and mobile phase B of methanol with 10 mM ammonia formate. The following stepwise gradient was applied: 5–95%
(0.0–6.0 min), 95% (6.0–8.0 min), and 5% (8.1–10.0 min). The flow rate was set to 1.0 mL/min at 40 °C.
At least five multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) transitions were recorded for each analytical compound. The most abundant three mass transitions were used for quantitation. The preset MRM transition from the forensic and toxicology LC–MS/MS method package of Shimadzu were confirmed using standard solutions (1 μg/mL) and were used afterwards for the
LC–MS/MS method development.
Sample Preparation: The deuterated drugs were dissolved in methanol to prepare 100‑μg/mL standard solutions. A mix was then prepared by two dilution steps to generate a final concentration of 100 ng/mL for all deuterated standards. This solution was used as an internal standard mix on the extraction system, and each sample was sprayed with 20 μL in "fast" mode.
A calibration was set up with four levels: level 1 was 10-fold below the cut-off, level 2 was the cut-off concentration, level 3 was fivefold, and level 4 was 10-fold the cut-off concentration. To prepare the calibration levels, the stock solution of the standards was prepared in methanol and gently mixed with the donor blood in four different concentrations. Aliquots of 15 μL were spotted onto DBS cards (Camag) and dried at room temperature for at least 2 h. The cards were subsequently stored at 4 °C in sealed plastic bags containing desiccants. Stock solutions were stable for two weeks.
Correlation and Precision: The calibration levels were measured sevenfold to determine the method robustness and validity. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of the internal standards, which were applied by spraying, were below 10% for all target compounds by comparing the data through all four levels (Table 1).
The correlation and intra-day variations of all target compounds are listed in Table 2. The target to internal standard ratio was used to compare the results and to develop the calibration line. In Figure 1, codeine and oxycodone are displayed because those compounds were measured in the patient samples using the developed method (see section: Patient Samples).
The intra-day variations as well as the coefficients of determination (R2) of the four calibration standards are summarized in Table 2. Fentanyl, LSD, morphine, and MDMA can be quantified at their cut-off level, however, level 1 represents the limit of detection with a signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio of 10.3 for fentanyl, 8.0 for LSD, 9.0 for morphine, and 3.3 for MDMA, and are therefore not represented in Table 2.
Excellent correlation was obtained for all target compounds in the panel (Table 2). All points of the calibration functions were sufficiently precise with RSDs below 15%.
Patient Samples: To check the feasibility of the method and the applicability in a real setting, two anonymized DBS samples were acquired from healthy donors using medication for back pain. The samples were drawn by the patients themselves according to an introduction sheet. They were provided with a DBS card, a 1.8-mm lancet, an alcohol prep pad, and packaging material with desiccant.
The returned samples were analyzed using the developed DBS-UHPLC–MS/MS method. A 89.6 ng/mL measure of codeine was detected in sample 1 and 39.6 ng/mL of oxycodone in sample 2. The MRM data quality was sufficient enough to be used for screening against a spectral library to confirm the identity of the quantified compounds. The software displayed the chromatographic peak, the calculated concentration according to the calibration function, and the results from the library search (Figure 2).
Both patient samples contained a drug concentration below the cut-off level of abuse (89.6 ng/mL codeine, cut-off 300 ng/mL, and 39.6 ng/mL oxycodone, cut-off 100 ng/mL), which demonstrates a good therapeutic dosage. In addition, a morphine signal was detectable in the patient taking codeine; typically, approximately 10% of the codeine is metabolized via CYP2D6 to morphine.
The full automation of the analysis workflow is important to exclude error sources. Each process was monitored and documented automatically and large batches of samples were measured overnight without any human interaction. Each dried blood spot card was prepared and handled the same way in a standardized process. Analytes are less stable in solution, and this method minimized the time period where those remained in solution. Using this method, the analysis of one sample took 10 min.
A new workflow for drug screening in large populations was introduced for a panel of 12 drugs of abuse from a wide variety of structural categories. The analysis process is fully automated by using DBS-UHPLC–MS/MS. The feasibility for such an approach was shown and the method was successfully applied to real cases to demonstrate the potential. The panel was chosen with a variety of different illicit and legal drugs from different substance classes to cover a broad field of substances. Highly active drugs, such as LSD and fentanyl, which appear in very small blood concentrations, were included in the panel and quantified at their cut-off concentration. The process from sampling to generating the report was linked with a barcode system to enable forensic applications. Each process step was well documented and all analysis steps followed good laboratory practice (GLP). The method can be easily extended and validated according to individual laboratory guidelines.
Stefan Gaugler is a diagnostic specialist in the field of dried blood spot analysis. He has been working in the field of DBS for 5 years and is currently in the final stage of his Ph.D. at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He coordinates all of the worldwide scientific DBS projects for Camag, travelling extensively to develop and transfer new methods in this field.
Jana Rykl is an application chemist for HPLC and mass spectrometry, with deep knowledge in protein, peptide, and small molecules identification and quantitation. She provides technical support for analytical instruments and data evaluation software for Shimadzu customers in Switzerland.
Matthias Grill is an organic chemist at Lipomed in Arlesheim, Switzerland, and specializes in the synthesis of small- to medium-sized molecules.
Vicente Cebolla is a researcher from ICB‑CSIC in Zaragoza, Spain, with long‑term experience in analytical chemistry of complex samples. His research focuses on separation of lipid mixtures (biodiesel, sphingolipids in human plasma, and phospholipids in bacteria) by high-performance thin‑layer chromatography, using gradient elution with AMD 2 (automated multiple development), and structure elucidation by coupling HPTLC with tandem MS and HRMS.
E-mail:shimadzu@shimadzu.eu
Website:www.shimadzu.eu

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Bears fan can't change name to Peyton Manning
35mAdam Teicher
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Judge won't allow Bears fan to change name
DECATUR, Ill. -- Chicago Bears fan Scott Wiese is no Peyton Manning after all.
Macon County Judge Katherine McCarthy ruled this week that Wiese can't legally call himself Peyton Manning because it would be too confusing and might infringe on the privacy of the Indianapolis Colts quarterback.
That's fine by Wiese.
The 26-year-old was only trying to change his name to make good on a bet he lost when the Colts beat the Bears in the Super Bowl.
"I had told the judge that I was not doing this because I wanted to change my name, but I was doing it because I was honoring a bet," Wiese told the Decatur Herald & Review after Monday's ruling. "I think she understood that."
A few days before the February game, Wiese signed a pledge in front of a bar full of people that if the Bears lost, he would change his name to match the Colts player who led Indy to victory.
Manning had a big hand in the Colts' 29-17 victory.
Wiese's parents, Debbie and Steve Wiese, were pleased by the judge's decision.
"Wiese is our family name, and we're proud of it," Debbie Wiese told the Decatur newspaper. "I also didn't want to go through the rest of my life calling my son 'Peyton Manning.'"


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Lokve pri Dobrniču () is a small settlement immediately east of Dobrnič in the Municipality of Trebnje in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. The Municipality of Trebnje is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

Name
The name of the settlement was changed from Lokve to Lokve pri Dobrniču in 1955.

References

External links
Lokve pri Dobrniču at Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Trebnje

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Mejovo (en rus: Межово) és un poble del territori de Krasnoiarsk, a Rússia, segons el cens del 2017 tenia 614 habitants. Pertany al districte municipal d'Aguínskoie.

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Pobles del territori de Krasnoiarsk


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Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective Drugs
Overview of attention for article published in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, January 2021
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The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, January 2021
10.1111/jlme.12068
Donald W. Light, Joel Lexchin, Jonathan J. Darrow
Over the past 35 years, patients have suffered from a largely hidden epidemic of side effects from drugs that usually have few offsetting benefits. The pharmaceutical industry has corrupted the practice of medicine through its influence over what drugs are developed, how they are tested, and how medical knowledge is created. Since 1906, heavy commercial influence has compromised congressional legislation to protect the public from unsafe drugs. The authorization of user fees in 1992 has turned drug companies into the FDA's prime clients, deepening the regulatory and cultural capture of the agency. Industry has demanded shorter average review times and, with less time to thoroughly review evidence, increased hospitalizations and deaths have resulted. Meeting the needs of the drug companies has taken priority over meeting the needs of patients. Unless this corruption of regulatory intent is reversed, the situation will continue to deteriorate. We offer practical suggestions including: separating the funding of clinical trials from their conduct, analysis, and publication; independent FDA leadership; full public funding for all FDA activities; measures to discourage R&D on drugs with few, if any, new clinical benefits; and the creation of a National Drug Safety Board.
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Kevin Conroy, Beloved Batman Voice Actor, Dies At 66
November 11, 2022 mangesh Andrea Romano, Batman, Batman franchise media, Batman in other media, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: The Killing Joke, Becoming Batman, Bruce Wayne, Creative works, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Culture, DC animated universe, dc comics, Dick Grayson, Emmy Award, English-language films, entertainment, Human Interest, J. Bone, Kevin Conroy, Kevin ConroyOn, Kotaku, Mark Hamill, rocksteady s, Toonami, Warner Bros
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Gotham Knights Sounds Like A Big Disappointment
October 20, 2022 mangesh Action-adventure games, Arkham Knight, Batgirl, Batman, Batman: Arkham, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: The Telltale Series, Bruce Wayne, Creative works, Films, Gotham City, John Linneman, Kotaku, Nightwing, Nvidia, Robin, rocksteady s, RPG, Single-player video games, video games, Video gaming, Warner Bros, Windows games
Image: Warner Bros. Reviews for Warner Bros. first Batman game since 2015's Arkham Knight dropped today, and they are not
Gotham Knights' Biggest Spoiler May Have Leaked And WB Is Fighting Back
October 10, 2022 mangesh Batgirl, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Comics, Damian Wayne, Darkseid, Dick Grayson, Fiction, Fictional characters, Fictional detectives, Fleur Marty, Gotham City, Gotham Knights, Jason Todd, Kotaku, Patrick Redding, Robin, Stephanie Brown, Talia al Ghul, Tim Drake, Warner Bros
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Q: Simple yet maintainable code re-use Let's say I have a tiny (3-4 lines) function that I tend to use a lot.
Since it's so small, it's easy to copy-paste it into every source file that needs it, but copy-paste is not a maintainable form of code re-use.
Instead, I'd like to put this function in its own file, and somehow import it from other source files as needed.
I have found only two ways to do this so far:

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*create an R package for my function, install it in my R library, and have client code run, e.g. library(myfunction);

*have client code execute source("path/to/my/function.R").

(The first option strikes me as very heavy-handed for the simple use-case I have in mind.  At the moment, I don't intend to submit this function to CRAN, or even to share it with anyone else.  All I want to do is use it from my throwaway R scripts.)
Is there some other way to do this?

In Python, for example, I can put the tiny function in some file:
# hello.py

def hello():
    print "hello, world"

...and put this file in a directory in my PYTHONPATH variable.  Then, to use the function in any script some_script.py, all I need to do is
# some_script.py

import hello

hello.hello()
# hello, world

I'm basically looking for the closest equivalent to this in R.

A: You can add it to your ~/.Rprofile and just define it there.
Plus:  One location, always sourced, can even control via if (interactive()) etc pp. Less work than a package.
Minus: Global visibility.

A: I think you may be pleasantly surprised at how simple it can be to make a package for your own personal use.  Keep in mind that you can build and install a package without it even remotely satisfying CRAN's requirements.
Just out of curiosity, I built a package that is operational on my machine and did it in less than five minutes.  It has exactly one function.
Here's what I did.
In R I ran
package.skeleton(name = "OneFunc", path = [package_path])

Next, I created a .R file in the [package_path]/R and put in my function definition.  To be explicit, here is exactly what is contained in my file.
my_useful_function <- function(x){
  x^2
}

I then went back to R and ran
devtools::install_local([package_path])
library(OneFunc)
my_useful_function(3)

which returned the value 9.
So, you can make a quick a dirty package that makes it very easy to load one (or several) functions without doing all the work of building a CRAN-suitable package.
Advantages:

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*Clarity- you don't have the disadvantage of Dirk's answer because you still have to write library(OneFunc) in your code. So at least there's some indication that you've done something.

*It's barely more work that source, and you don't have to recall the directory every single time (only when you reinstall the package)

*It will easily extend into loading more than just the one function.  All you need to do to add another function to OneFunc is drop the file in the R subdirectory and reinstall the package.

Disadvantages:

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*No documentation.  And worse, because you loaded a package through library it will look to others like there should be documentation.  Honestly, I'd prefer this to a function showing up out of nowhere because it is in your /.Rprofile, but that's a matter of preference.

But seriously, it took me three times as long to write up this response as it did to make that bare bones package.  I think you would find it worth your while.

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Most often than not, when one speaks of travel - art galleries and museums are disregarded to make way for more "fun" destinations such as beaches, resorts and parks.
When I am overseas or visiting a new place, I make sure to include museums and galleries if they have in the itinerary because it is through these confined yet rich destinations that I can understand their culture and history.
The last time I visited the National Musuem in Manila was during a field trip in elementary school about 17 years ago. So when I heard an announcement that the National Museum started doing renovations, I psyched myself to pay a visit again. On October 14, 2012 I went back in time for Museums and Galleries Month. This time entrance to the Museum was FREE.
The National Art Gallery of the National Museum is located at the Old Congress Building. It was designed by Ralph Harrington Doanne and Antonio Toledo in 1918 which was originally intended as a National Library of the Philippines.
Through the years it was decided to be used by the Congress. During the leadership of Claro M. Recto, the 1934 Constitutional Convention was held here. Philippinie Presidents were sworn in here too; Manuel L. Quezon in 1935, Jose P. Laurel in 1943 and Manuel Roxas in 1946.
The Old Cogress Building is not only important to my family not only because we are Filipinos but because my grandfather worked here as a lawyer until Congress was abolished in 1972 when Martial Law was declared.
Let me take you on a tour of the National Art Gallery starting with the main entrance. Almost all gallery doors at the Museum are inscribed with initials NM meaning National Museum. These were designed by the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture, National Artist Napolen V. Abueva.
This is the grand lobby of the National Museum. Notice the detailed cornices, large columns and chandeliers designed by Impy Pilapil that greet visitors in a colonial era setting. Such a fitting prelude to a hall across where Bulwagang Luna at Hidalgo is located.
Rizal who was friends with Luna and Hildalgo was inspired by the painting which led him to write his own 'Spoliarium' - that book would be called "Noli Me Tangere"
Just beside the entrance of Bulwagang Luna at Hidalgo are sculptures of National Artist Napoleon Abueva.
Gallery 1 is the Luis I. Ablaza Hall which contains colonial Philippine religious art of the 17th to the 19th centuries, prominent among which is a retablo from the Church of San Nicolas De Tolentino in Dimiao, Bohol - a National Cultural Treasure - together with a selection of carved religious images (santos), reliefs and paintings.
Gallery II is the Friends for Cultural Concern of the Philippines or FCCP Hall which contains the earliest Philippine paintings depicting a historical political event, The Basi Revolt series by Esteban Villanueva of Vigan (on indefinite loan from the Ilocos Sur Historical and Cultural Foundation). Painted in 1821, fourteen paintings, together declared as a National Cultural Treasure, depict in naive and vivid style the famous 1807 uprising in Ilocos against colonial rule that culminated in a bloody defeat at the Bantaoay River in San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur.
Gallery III is the Philippine art of the academic and romantic period, specifically the last three decades of the 19th century featuring especifically the Museum's considerable holdings of the work of Juan Luna and key contemporaries.
Gallery IV is the Fundacion Santiago Hall which contains the works of 19th century Filipino sculptors notably Isabelo Tampinco y Lacandola as well as his contemporaries and artistic successors whose works are distinguished by a strong academic and neo-classical style including Isabelo's sons Angel and Vidal, Graciano Nepomuceno, Anastacio Caedo, Florentino Caedo and Guillermo Tolentino.
Gallery V is the Dr. Jose Rizal Gallery. It contains works by the polymath and National Hero including four original sculptures and one fine drawing, view of Gendarmenmarkt from his 1886 sojourn in Berlin.
Gallery VI contains the work of late contemporaries and artistic successors of the generation of Luna and Hidalgo who were active in the late Spanish colonial period and on into American occupation and before the Second World War, including Fabian dela Rosa, Jorge Pineda, Irineo Miranda, Fernando Amorsolo, Pablo Amorsolo and numerous other artists who shaped Philippine art before and contemporaneous to the advent of Modernism in the country.
Portrait of a Lady (unfinished) by Fernando Amorsolo. Undated.
Galleries VII and VIII are under construction.
Gallery IX contains the work of great Philippine modernists featuring important works by Victorio Edades, Diosdado Lorenzo, Vicente Manansala, Carlos V. Francisco, Hernando R. Ocampo, Cesar Legaspi, Ang Kiukok and various other artists who were instrumental in setting bold directions for Philippine art from the 1930's into the decades of the post-war period.
Gallery X is the Museum Foundation Hall which is dedicated to the Progress of Medicine in the Philippines, a set of four large paintings by Carlos V. Francisco specially comissioned for the entrance hall of Philippine General Hospital in 1953. Declared a National Cultural Treasure, these important works were placed on indefinite loan to the National Museum by the University of the Philippines to secure their preservation for future generations.
Located at the third floor of the Museum are more galleries showcasing Philippine Textiles and Philippine Botany.
Located at the third level is the newly renovated session hall of the Old Congress Building. If only walls could talk, this room is a living witness to glorious past. A time when the Senate is an august body filled with intellectuals.
My overall experience at the National Museum was very satisfied. I am very much grateful to the management of the National Museum for working hard in maintaining the whole complex along with its numerous artifacts and works of art. All galleries were well thought of, highly maintained with its aircondition system and efficient lighting. The restrooms were clean too.
Although the Museum is still a work in progress, there are still some areas for improvement which I would like to suggest if I may say so.
1. Audio tours when the Museum is done with its renovations as this will increase efficiency in the sharing of knowledge to visitors. To those who are not familiar with audio tours, these are sets of recorded (tape) given to visitors in which they can press 'play' or 'pause' as they tour around the Museum.
2. Invite volunter guides to the Museum. I went there on a Sunday afternoon when there was a stream of visitors coming in, mostly families with children. It would be nice to have volunteer guides who are willing to share knowledge and speak about the Museum.
3. Convert the courtyard into an al fresco dining destination or coffee shop. I spent almost 5 hours going around and was hoping I could buy some snacks or drinks within the Museum but there was none available. Maybe you could consider inviting a Filipino specialty restaurant to operate there. It would be income generating too for the Museum.
4. Since this is called National Art Gallery, would you also be showcasing other forms of art by renowned Filipino talents in Litretaure, Music, Dance, Film and Architecture? I am not quite sure if they are represented at the Museum of the Filipino People. That I had to go back because I ran out of time last time I visited.
5. Since most of the visitors are children who are on their field trips, please try to make some of the galleries appear more interactive by introducing ways that would encourage children to touch, smell or hear objects.
6. Souvenir Shop. It would be wonderful to take home something from the Museum. It could be postcards, books, pens or any Filipino made merchandise.
Next stop, National Museum of the Filipino People.


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Timber structure nearly 300 years old
If you've driven the I-90 corridor between Billings and Bozeman over the last year, you've likely noticed a stunning timber barn structure just east of Big Timber and thought, 'What in the world is the Greycliff Mill?' Well, it's a dream Matthew Brandstadt has finally turned into reality.
By: Casey Conlon
GREYCLIFF — "There's nothing like discovering a jewel in the making - finding a building that's not in so great of shape, and then beginning to dream and imagine what that could be turned back into."
Matthew Brandstadt, born on the Western slope of Colorado, knew pretty early in life exactly what he wanted to do.
"I liked the idea of learning a trade," he said. "Shortly after graduating high school, I went right into the restoration company that I've been with for nearly 20 years."
That company is Heritage Restorations. If you've ever watched HGTV, you've likely heard of them - they are Chip and Joanna Gaines' personal builder - and Brandstadt is now one of their partners. He's the reason they have a headquarters in Sweet Grass County.
"After having traveled the U.S. and the World, I have to say that Big Timber is my favorite place in the world to be," Brandstadt said. "It very much has been able to hold on to the traditional American feel, and it's a very special place with a lot of great people."
The company's mission is simple: scour the continent for historic timber frame barns that they can return to past glory.
"We have sorted through 25,000-30,000 barns, and we have purchased around 450 frames."
Most of the frames are turned into client homes and event centers, but Brandstadt had something different in mind on a piece of property he and his family had bought in tiny Greycliff.
"We had been looking for a timber frame that could potentially be turned into a historic gristmill," Brandstadt said. "So we found this timber frame in upstate New York in a small town called Cobleskill, and found out that it was pre-Revolutionary war. We know it was built between 1740-60. And we thought, 'How can you pass this building up?'"
The nearly 300-year-old traditional dutch barn was disassembled and trucked over 2,000 miles to the Big Timber facility, but that was just part of Brandstadt's vision.
"As far as we know, it's all original to the mill," said Elisha Sherman. "There's markings on the wood that indicate it was built in 1874."
Sherman is the man in charge of Montana's newest flour mill - both the business' general manager and the miller.
"I studied quite a bit, but one of my first jobs was working at a gristmill similar to this," Sherman said with a smile after being asked if that was the resumé line that got him the job.
Born in Texas, Sherman found his passion early on as well - cooking. Five years ago, a friend opened a bakery in Big Timber and convinced Sherman to move north. And just as he was getting ready to leave for his next adventure, Brandstadt made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
"It was exciting," Sherman said. "I love working with the older equipment, and there's a lot of craft to it I think."
The two worked together for 18 months before finally opening the doors in May. Most are surprised to learn the Greycliff Mill is for all intents and purposes the world's coolest coffee shop.
"Bagel sandwiches, pastries, getting the espresso dialed in, and then greeting guests as they come in," Sherman said of a typical day. "A common expression is, 'Oh wow!' when they walk through the door. It's an impressive building from the road, but coming in, there's a lot of character in here and I think people are pleasantly surprised."
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Guests enjoy a farm-to-table dinner inside the Greycliff Mill on July 17, 2021.
And yet, there's still more than meets the eye.
"Part of the vision of the mill was also to serve a really classic, nice dinner," Brandstadt said.
"That's really been one of my passions since I started this," Sherman said, "finding something you can grow within a few miles, and then saying, 'What can I produce that would be a really gourmet meal?'"
"The No. 1 factor that we're considering in everything right now is how to make the journey as short as possible from the field to the plate," Brandstadt added.
July 17 marked Greycliff Mill's third dinner offering since opening in May. Sherman created an Italian menu this time, with more than half the items sourced locally.
"We've grown all the wheat that we're serving out of here. We have a local making the bagels. We have a local making all the ice cream for the shakes," Brandstadt said, "so while we're not 100% there, we see it to be very much within reach within a year where we could be producing 90%."
Brandstadt has big aspirations for the property. He talks about cider pressings; there's an apiary on site about ready to produce honey; there are even plans for three AirBnB's - all designed to make the Greycliff Mill an experience unlike any other.
"That is what we wanted to create - a destination for people to come to enjoy an evening or a day," Sherman said.
"The building we've been able to construct has exceeded my expectations," Brandstadt added. "After finding the 1874 mill in South Carolina and then coming into the general ambience of the frame, if I may say in my humble opinion, it's quite spectacular."
You can find the Greycliff Mill just east of Big Timber, easily visible from I-90. To learn more - including how to make reservations for next Saturday's Farm to Table dinner, visit their website.


Stoo Gill, dotMailer product manager, is back with some more practical working examples to power your marketing strategies. This time we're looking to help retailers using the dotMailer platform get the most out of all that awesome data they can pull through the Magento platform.
Specifically, we are asked for examples of some of the more popular and effective marketing automation programs, that dotMailer clients are setting up using the 'drag & drop' builder combined with the Magento integration.
We've pulled together some great examples of programs that use the key customer data points that our platform is able to synchronise with your Magento account, giving users a full range of RFM-based segmentations.
As we often say in our webinars and seminars, it's best to start small and scale quickly.
The purchase field LAST_ORDER_DATE can really open up a lot of different decisions for your automation program to take.
The next program that we can look at is a 'Birthday' program. This one sends out an email 7 days before the user's birthday, and another one on their actual birthday. There are three different campaigns that could be sent, and a total of four different user experiences that could result from this.
We would recommend having at least three different pieces of content to plug into this program, based on the value of the customer. A customer with a wishlist is obviously someone that has an ever-green affinity for your brand, and a high value that you might wish to nurture with an equally high-value discount. Those without, you might think to send then a voucher that would encourage wishlist creation.
Chances are that you won't want to stop just on their birthday, you might go on to create follow-up emails along the lines of "Did you get everything you wanted for your birthday? If not…"; but that shouldn't stop you from building a simple 1- or 2- step program today and adding to it at a later date.
In a program like this, a retailer might look to send different content depending on how much a customer has spent across all their purchases. Towards the end of the post-purchase process the retailer would look to see if the customer has made any further purchases since. If not, they can send a final post-purchase email before enrolling the customer into the other email marketing activity and potentially a win-back program.
As you grow your email program you could consider different post-purchase paths depending on the kind of categories of products your customers are buying. Once you've got a basic post-purchase program running, fine-tuning it for things like replenishment programs may be your next step.
While a retailer might branch on TOTAL_SPEND, you could theoretically branch programs on many different comparisons. One common way to increase customer spend is to incentivise by offering free shipping. So perhaps branch your program based on AVERAGE_ORDER_VALUE and send offers directly to your lower spending customers.
Our last example is straight out of the books of retail CRM. This image of a Lead Nurturing program shows a beast of a program. It shows how you can link in surveys and data capture with the program builder; it sends two welcome messages and then starts branching as your contacts provide you (or don't provide you) with valuable data.
The third message has different content depending on if a user has completed a survey. After that there are follow-up messages depending on which data capture opportunities contacts did or did not complete. Towards the end of the program we've worked in custom content depending on what segment contacts are identified as belonging to, by using data from our Customer Insight Module to see if contacts are identified as Luxury Purchasers, Bargain Hunters or Impulse Buyers.
This program has a huge number of possible customer journeys. But how did we plan and build these out?
In simple terms, we devised generic 'buying personas' in order to try and predict possible user experience paths and discern what the most likely outcome would be from a certain pathway of email marketing. This sounds resource intensive – and it is. However, automated programs such as these are invaluable, and can be built up over time. The amount of work on active segmentation and database management are substantially reduced.
If you'd like more inspiration towards building your own marketing automation program, check out our Marketing Automation whitepaper, or get in touch with us via your account manager. You can also tweet us @dotmailer for ideas. If you've a 'killer' program branch that you'd love to share, we'd love to hear from you.


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Yala locals to complain to higher authorities over Betong Airport wall
Yala residents are still fuming that Betong Airport has not yet solved the problem of its new wall blocking access to locals who need to head to their fruit and rubber tree plantations.
The airport meanwhile says it has paid out initial compensation and working to tackle the problem.
On July 25, the residents gathered at the airport's entrance to protest against the two-metre-tall wall.
The protesters said that besides the inconvenience the wall caused to their free movement, the construction has led to their plantations being flooded, severely affecting their livelihoods. So they decided to file a complaint with the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand.
They also contacted Duangporn Suvanmanee, a director of Narathiwat Airport who is acting director of Betong Airport, but claim they got no response.
However, Duangporn reportedly said the airport was seeking a resolution to the problem and initially paid compensation to those affected.
Regarding the flooding, the airport is constructing a sewer system to drain water and will allow a 50cm-wide access to the plantations.
Now the locals plan to lodge a complaint with higher authorities on September 1 to find a way to open access fully so that they are able to freely go to their fruit and rubber plantations.
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Mycoplasma bovis – update:
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) continues to build the picture of where the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis is present, to contain it and eradicate if possible.
Response Incident Controller Eve Pleydell says good progress has been made over the weekend.
"Our laboratory teams were working at the weekend to continue testing the thousands of milk and blood samples from Van Leeuwen Dairy Group (VLDG) farms and neighbouring properties. To date 2,610 samples have been received. . .
Singer really is a country woman – Sally Rae:
Fanny Lumsden finds it "hilarious" that it is rare for a country singer to actually be from the country.
Unlike many of her counterparts, Ms Lumsden (30) is a true country girl, brought up on a sheep and cropping farm in western New South Wales.
Born Edwina Margaret Lumsden – she got the nickname Fanny at university and it stuck – she enjoyed a typical rural upbringing: riding horses and helping on the farm after school and during school holidays. . .
Continuing strong performance delivers greater returns for farmers :
Ravensdown is paying a total annual rebate of $45 per tonne after a third year of strong results.
The 10% increase in rebate on purchased products compared to last year was due to continued balance sheet strength, growing market share and a profit before tax and rebate of $51 million from continuing operations.
"All-year value is important to farmers, so I'm delighted we were able to deliver this rebate as well as having led major price reductions throughout the year," said Ravensdown Chairman John Henderson. . .
The great food disruption: part 2 – Rosie Bosworth:
Milk without the cow, meatless burgers that bleed, chicken and shrimp made from plant matter, and now foie gras without a force-fed goose in sight. A new food revolution enabled by science and biotech is brewing and, if it succeeds, animals will have little to do with the future of food. For some, that future looks rosy, but, as Dr. Rosie Bosworth writes in part two of a series, the implications for New Zealand's agricultural sector could be less than palatable.
So what's driving these bounteous sums of venture capital and the world's most talented scientists and entrepreneurs into the field of cellular agriculture and synbio? One might think that nabbing a slice of the multi-trillion dollar food pie would be the primary motivation. That's certainly part of it. But it's not all of it. By using synbio these startups are hoping to transform conventional agriculture's woefully flawed business model. And there's nothing startups like more than inefficient legacy systems (and audacious goals).
Where's Welly? – Sally Rae:
Last month, Welly the gumboot was dispatched from Bluff to travel the length of the country as part of an initiative by Mosgiel-based technology company TracMap.
The catch was that only social media platform Twitter could be used to secure rides to move Welly up the country and TracMap developed an app so anyone interested in Welly's adventure could track its progress.
The gumboot arrived at Cape Reinga to be reunited with its "solemate" only to find that Galosh had headed to a "wellness retreat" in Samoa, with Ian Handcock from Fit4Farming. . .
And that students is all the use for baling twine.
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Why should you vote for National? #1
A couple of weeks ago Andrei challenged me to write about why people should vote for National.
When people ask me that I usually start by saying that they need to start by looking at the party's values and see how closely they align with their own.
National's values are:
* Loyalty to our country, its democratic principles, and our Sovereign as Head of State
* National and personal security
* Equal citizenship and equal opportunity
* Individual freedom and choice
* Personal Responsibility
* Competitive enterprise and reward for achievement
* Limited government
* Strong families and caring communities
* Sustainable development of our environment
If all, or at least most, of these align with yours, that's the first good reason to vote for National.
The second reason is economic management.
National is a party that understands the need to balance the books while respecting that it uses taxpayers' money to do so.
Just as individuals, families, businesses and other organisations have to have their finances in order to comfortably cover necessities, have enough to cope with unexpected eventualities and afford some extras, so must governments. A strong economy is the only way to sustainably afford the first world services and infrastructure we need and expect.
When National took office in 2008 it inherited forecasts for a decade of deficits.
Successive National-led governments, thanks in no small part to then Finance Minister, now Prime Minister Bill English, managed to return to surplus in less than 10 years.
They did that in spite of the global financial crisis, earthquakes and other natural disasters, and they protected the most vulnerable and continued to increase spending on health and education while doing it.
They did it by looking not just at the quantity of the spend but the quality, cutting waste, reducing costs and charging government departments with providing greater value for taxpayers' money.
Once surpluses were assured, they put more into health, education and welfare and introduced tax cuts which allowed people to keep a bit more of their own money.
National has proved you can trust it to provide sound economic management and that it is prepared to spend for long term benefit even if it costs more in the short-term.
Nowhere is this more evident than in welfare.
National took an actuarial approach to benefits, worked out what was driving the projected long-term increase in benefit dependency and the social and financial costs associated with that.
It then put money into helping those most in need to get work-ready and into jobs. The success of this is evident in the drop in number of people on benefits, especially younger sole parents.
The latest Household Labour Force Survey, independently produced by Statistics New Zealand, shows the unemployment rate is now at 4.8 per cent, the lowest level since December 2008.
It's easy to underestimate just how significant this is. When National took office in 2008, at the height of the crisis, unemployment was spiking and projected to keep growing. Businesses were closing, people were losing their houses, and government debt was blowing out and on track to reach unsustainable levels.
All of this was despite fair economic conditions during the 2000s giving the previous Labour Government ample opportunity to prepare for a rainy day.
National made stabilising the economy a priority, which included some tough decisions. We developed a clear and consistent economic plan to get the country back on its feet, which included taking on debt to provide support to those at the hardest edge of the crisis.
We lowered taxes to help stimulate business growth. We began a huge programme of infrastructure development to catch up with years of neglect by Labour.
And we made significant reforms to our welfare system to help beneficiaries get back into work more quickly, and stay in work, so this latest economic shock didn't cause another generation to fall into long-term, welfare dependency.
National has stuck with this plan, backing our businesses to grow so they can hire more people and lift incomes. The number of people unemployed has dropped by 3,000 this quarter alone, and we've helped you create over 181,000 new jobs in past two years.
Particularly pleasing is the reduction in the number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs). The rate fell to 11.1 per cent, down from 12.7 per cent in the previous quarter. The number of women who are NEET is at the lowest level on record.
All of these things are the positive results you get from National's strong, consistent economic plan. And it's just the beginning – there's a lot more we're going to do. . .
This year's Budget and policy already announced show that National will continue to do what has been proven to work and, as surpluses allow, do more of it.
National can be trusted with public money, to keep a leash on spending, measure success by what it achieves rather than how much it spends, and allow people to keep more of what they earn.
No combination of opposition parties could be trusted to do that.
Post #2 and more will follow.
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Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who was born on this day in 1896.
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August 8 in history
1220 Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1503 King James IV of Scotland married Margaret Tudor.
1509 The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya was crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1576 The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory was laid on Hven.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The naval engagement ended, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1647 Battle of Dungans Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeated Irish forces.
1709 Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrated the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal.
1786 Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and DrMichel-Gabriel Paccard.
1793 The insurrection of Lyon.
1794 Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver led an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1870 The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph.
1879 Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was born (d. 1950).
1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer, was born (d. 1977).
1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic, was born (d. 1953).
1908 Wilbur Wright made his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans.
1909 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand, was born (d. 1977).
1910 The US Army installed the first tricycle landing gear on the Army'sWright Flyer.
1911 The millionth patent was filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1915 The Wellington Battallion captured Chunuk Bair.
1918 Battle of Amiens began a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1929 Ronald Biggs, British Great Train robber, was born (d. 2013).
1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world flight.
1931 – Roger Penrose, English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher was born.
1932 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia
1937 Dustin Hoffman, American actor, was born.
1940 The "Aufbau Ost" directive was signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1942 In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs (Operation Pastorius) were executed.
1942 The Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, leading to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India.
1945 The Soviet Union declared war on Japan and began the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.
1946 First flight of the Convair B-36.
1947 Pakistan's National Flag was approved.
1949 Bhutan became independent.
1950 Ken Kutaragi, Founder of PlayStation, was born.
1961 The Edge, (Favid Evans) Irish guitarist (U2), was born.
1963 Great Train Robbery: a gang of 15 train robbers stole 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1973 – Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president, waskidnapped.
1974 Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his resignation, effective the next day.
1980 The Central Hotel Fire, Bundoran , Ireland.
1988 The "8888 Uprising" in Burma.
1989 STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia took off on a secret five-day military mission.
1990 Iraq occupied Kuwait and the state was annexed to Iraq.
1991 The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapsed.
1991 John McCarthy, British journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, was released.
2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
2007 An EF2 tornado touched down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2010 – A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, killed more than 1,400 people.
2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta killed at least 31 people.
2015 – Eight people were killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
2016 – Terrorists attacked a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
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Q: How to stop notification's service on Android Oreo Our app has some services and intent-services that starts running when the user starts the app. These components needs to be started to continue the process running even if the user minimize the app.
On Android Oreo our app started crashing due the missing initialization of these services using startForegroundService(:intent) and startForeground(:id, :notification). We've fixed it attaching these notifications as requerested but we discovered a strange behaviour. These notifications appear even if the app is in foreground, since it doesn't make sense because our services are really short-running almost all the time, but it needs to be guaranteed to run 100% of the time. That's why the process runs on a service and not in the activity's context. I would like to show these notifications only when the user minimize the app and the service is up.
Is there any way to do it?

I can't change this message, very annoying!
Here is some code used to create the channel:
const val SERVICE_CHANNEL_ID = "com.myFunnyApp.notifications"
//.....
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {

  val notificationService = context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE)
  (notificationService as? NotificationManager)?.let { notificationManager ->

    if (notificationManager.getNotificationChannel(SERVICE_CHANNEL_ID) == null) {
      val channel = NotificationChannel(
          SERVICE_CHANNEL_ID,
          context.resources.getString(R.string.test),
          NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_MIN)
      channel.lockscreenVisibility = Notification.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC
      notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(channel)
      return
    }

  }

}

On the service, the code runs:
val notification = Notification.Builder(context, SERVICE_CHANNEL_ID)
        .setSubText("subText") //Not working
        .setContentText("contentText") //Not working
        .setSettingsText("settingsText") //Not working
        .setContentTitle("title") //Not working
        .build()
startForeground(1, notification)

Currently I am testing on the emulator, I don't have any Android Oreo device.
Thanks!
EDIT 1: The text only changes if you set the small icon.

A: In Android 8.0(Android Oreo) and onwards, we have to bring the service to the foreground before we trigger a Notification.
After which once you have triggered your Notification - you will have to stop the service running in the Foreground for which execute the following code after -
val notification = Notification.Builder(context, SERVICE_CHANNEL_ID)
        .setSubText("subText") //Not working
        .setContentText("contentText") //Not working
        .setSettingsText("settingsText") //Not working
        .setContentTitle("title") //Not working
        .build()
startForeground(1, notification)

stopForeground(true);
stopSelf();


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Improper Testimony by Expert Witness Did Not Require New Trial in Florida Negligence Case
Written on Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 by T.C. Kelly
Filed under: Expert Opinions, ExpertWitness, Working with Experts
Beverly Bowers sued Andrew Tillman for negligence. Tillman was driving a truck in Florida that collided with Bowers' vehicle. Bowers contended that Tillman's negligence caused painful injuries to her neck and back, including migraine headaches. The defense argued that those symptoms were caused by a preexisting condition.
At her initial trial, the lawyers for both sides engaged in gladiatorial behavior. They were rude to each other, sometimes in the presence of the jury. After five days of trial, the trial judge had enough and granted a mistrial.
The unprofessional conduct continued in the second trial. At the end of the trial, the jury awarded Bowers $58,248 for her past medical expenses and $27,300 in lost wages. The jury determined that her injuries were not permanent and awarded her nothing for future medical care or loss of earning capacity. Remarkably, the jury made no award for pain and suffering.
Bowers moved the trial court for a new trial. She based her motion in part on improper comments made by an expert witness for the defense. The judge denied the motion and Bowers appealed.
Defense Expert's Comments
Dr. Robert Kowalski testified as an expert for the defense. Prior to trial, Bowers asked the court to exclude any testimony referring to matters outside the record. The court granted that motion. In particular, the court precluded any reference to the content of medical records that Dr. Kowalski had not seen.
The defense had complained that Bowers did not produce her chiropractic records. The court ruled that the defense could not speculate that the records would "show x, y, or z about the Plaintiff" or to argue "we just don't know because the Plaintiff did not give them to us."
Notwithstanding that order, Dr. Kowalski testified on direct examination that he believed certain records of Bowers' chiropractic treatment would support his opinion that her injuries were caused by a preexisting condition. The records were not in evidence and Dr. Kowalski's suspicions about their content were therefore unsupported.
Dr. Kowalski's testimony was a blatant violation of the order limiting his testimony. Whether Dr. Kowalski was aware of that order was unclear to the appellate court, but ignorance is no defense. The insurance defense lawyer had a duty to instruct Dr. Kowalski to follow the court's order. Whether the fault lay with the lawyer or the expert witness has no bearing on whether the improper testimony deprived Bowers of a fair trial.
Bowers objected to the testimony. The court sustained the objection and instructed the jury to disregard the comments. The court denied a motion for a mistrial.
Hidden Medical Record
Bowers originally claimed that certain abdominal symptoms were caused by the accident. She withdrew that claim well before trial. The court entered an order prohibiting reference to her abdominal issues.
Tillman's attorney assembled a 140-page exhibit that purported to include medical and billing records related to Bower's injury claims. In the middle of that exhibit, the attorney buried a single page from a urology record that related to the abdominal treatment. Bowers' attorney did not notice that the page was included in the lengthy exhibit.
During his closing argument, the defense attorney placed the urology record on a screen for the jury to view. The attorney directed the jury's attention to a urologist's comment that Bowers' attorney had referred Bowers to a chiropractor. After Bowers objected, the defense lawyer continued to display the exhibit to the jury until the court ordered him to shut off the display.
No other evidence at trial suggested that Bowers saw a chiropractor at the suggestion of her attorney. The court determined that defense counsel deliberately smuggled an improper exhibit into the compilation of medical records so that he could present otherwise inadmissible evidence to the jury during his closing argument. The court ordered the urology record to be removed from the exhibit, ordered defense counsel not to comment upon it further, and instructed the jury to disregard it.
Appellate Decision
As the appellate court recognized, Dr. Kowalski's testimony about the presumed content of the chiropractic records bolstered his opinion about a preexisting condition. It was clearly improper to violate an order that was entered to protect Bowers from improper speculation about the content of records that Dr. Kowalski had never seen.
The improper testimony was compounded by defense counsel's reference to a urology record that he buried in the middle of a compilation of medical records. The appellate court condemned counsel's "gotcha" tactic and observed that lawyers, as officers of the court, have a special duty "to avoid conduct that undermines the integrity of the adjudicative process." Defense counsel fell well short of fulfilling that duty.
In her motion for a new trial, Bowers argued that the trial court should take notice of other cases in which defense counsel had engaged in improper trial tactics that prompted a new trial. The trial judge decided that the bar association, rather than the court, should determine whether counsel had engaged in a pattern of misconduct. The appellate court held that the trial court did not err by basing its decision on the case before it rather than other cases in which defense counsel participated.
The ultimate question before the appellate court was whether the expert's improper testimony, combined with the improper closing argument, deprived Bowers of a fair trial. The jury's failure to award her any compensation for pain and suffering is strong evidence that the jury believed Bowers was unworthy of compensation. The improper expert testimony and closing argument would be a reasonable explanation of the jury's conclusion.
The appellate court, however, decided that the trial judge was in the best position to decide whether the improper conduct probably had an impact on the jury. That's true, but it is likely true that the trial judge didn't want to preside over another contentious trial involving the same lawyers. The appellate court did not evaluate the trial court's reasoning. It also failed to offer any alternative explanation for the jury's failure to award damages for pain and suffering after awarding substantial compensation for medical expenses and lost wages. Whether the appellate court reached the correct result is difficult to determine when the appellate court defers to a decision that it fails to analyze.
A lawyer might be tempted to learn from the Bowers decision that introducing inadmissible testimony through an expert witness is the path to victory. A better lesson to learn is that lawyers jeopardize their reputations by engaging in sharp practices.
It isn't clear whether the expert knew about the order limiting his testimony. It therefore isn't clear whether the expert knowingly did anything wrong. It is nevertheless a lawyer's duty to acquaint a testifying expert with limitations that a court has imposed on the expert's testimony. A lawyer's failure to do so places a favorable verdict at risk. While the improper expert testimony did not lead to a new trial in Bowers' case, lawyers should never assume that eliciting improper testimony from an expert witness will have no consequences.
About T.C. Kelly
Prior to his retirement, T.C. Kelly handled litigation and appeals in state and federal courts across the Midwest. He focused his practice on criminal defense, personal injury, and employment law. He now writes about legal issues for a variety of publications.
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Otto Scheel (* 7. März 1876 in Tondern, Nordschleswig; † 13. November 1954 in Kiel) war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe, Landeshistoriker und Hochschullehrer.

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Ab dem Sommersemester 1895 studierte Scheel an der Friedrichs-Universität Halle evangelische Theologie. 1897 wechselte er an die Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU). Er wurde Mitglied des Vereins Deutscher Studenten Kiel. Er legte die beiden Kirchlichen Examen ab und wurde 1900 zum Lic. theol. promoviert.

1901 – im Alter von 25 Jahren – habilitierte er sich für Systematische Theologie. 1906 wurde er als a.o. Professor für Kirchengeschichte an die Universität Tübingen berufen. Hier wurde er 1913 Ehrenphilister des Tübinger Wingolf.

Zum 1. April 1924 übernahm er den neu geschaffenen Lehrstuhl für Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesgeschichte, Reformationsgeschichte und nordische Geschichte in Kiel. Von 1925 bis 1927 war er Vorsitzender des Verbandes Deutscher Hochschulen. Vom 5. März bis zum 27. April 1933 war Otto Scheel Rektor der CAU. 1945 wurde er emeritiert. Er amtierte von 1931 bis 1946 als Vorsitzender des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte.

Scheel hatte während des Ersten Weltkriegs zeitweise als Lazarettpfarrer und in der Abteilung III b gearbeitet. Zugleich veröffentlichte er eine Biographie Martin Luthers, mit der er seinen Ruf als einer der führenden Kirchenhistoriker untermauerte. Scheel engagierte sich im liberalen Verbandsprotestantismus und war in der Weimarer Republik Mitglied der Deutschen Volkspartei. In Kiel betrieb er "Landesgeschichte als politische Geschichte". Nach ihrem Wahlsieg bei der Reichstagswahl März 1933 trat er im Mai 1933 der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei bei. Er verfasste zunehmend populärwissenschaftliche Schriften mit völkischer Rhetorik. Seine dezidiert antiwestliche Lutherdeutung stellte er vorbehaltlos in den Dienst der nationalsozialistischen Geschichtspolitik. Auch wissenschaftspolitisch engagiert, übernahm er 1938 das Kieler Institut für Volks- und Landesforschung und das Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Institut in Kopenhagen (1941–1943).

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Die Anschauung Augustins ueber Christi Person und Werk. Unter Berücksichtigung ihrer verschiedenen Entwicklungsstufen und ihrer dogmengeschichtlichen Stellung, Mohr, Tübingen 1901.
 Die dogmatische Behandlung der Tauflehre in der modernen positiven Theologie, Mohr, Tübingen 1906.
 Die Kirche im Urchristentum. Mit Durchblicken auf die Gegenwart, Mohr, Tübingen 1912.
 Dänemark und wir, Kloeres, Tübingen 1915.
 Martin Luther. Vom Katholizismus zur Reformation. 2 Bände, Mohr, Tübingen 1916/1917 (Neuauflage 1921/1930).
 Eine Reise zur Abstimmung in der ersten Zone Nordschleswigs, Mohr, Tübingen 1920.
 Der junge Dahlmann, Hirt, Breslau 1926 (= Veröffentlichungen der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Universitätsgesellschaft, Band 4).
 mit Michael Doeberl, Wilhelm Schlink, Hans Sperl, Eduard Spranger, Hans Bitter und Paul Frank (Hrsg.): Das akademische Deutschland. 4 Bände, 1 Registerband von Alfred Bienengräber. C. A. Weller Verlag, Berlin 1931.
 Evangelium Kirche und Volk bei Luther, Heinsius, Leipzig 1934 (= Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte, Band 156).
 Bismarcks Wille zu Deutschland in den Friedensschlüssen 1866, Hirt, Breslau 1934 (= Veröffentlichungen der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Universitätsgesellschaft, Band 44).
 Die Frühgeschichte bis 1100, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1936 (= Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins, Band 2,1).
 Die Wikinger. Aufbruch des Nordens, Hohenstaufen-Verlag, Stuttgart 1938.
 Das Gefecht von Oeversee, Verlag Heimat und Erbe, Flensburg 1939 (= Schriftenreihe zur Volkstumsarbeit, Heft 8, hrsg. v. Schleswig-Holsteiner-Bund).
 Aufstieg und Niedergang der englischen See- und Weltmacht, Verlag Heimat und Erbe, Flensburg 1940.
 Dannewerk und Düppel auf politischem und strategischem Hintergrund, Verlag Heimat und Erbe, Flensburg 1940.

Literatur
 Rudolf Bülck (Hrsg.): Festgabe, Professor D. Dr. Otto Scheel zum 75. Geburtstage am 7. März 1951 dargebracht, Hansen, Preetz 1950 (mit Bibliographie).
 Harald Thurau (Hrsg.): Festschrift für Otto Scheel. Beiträge zur deutschen und nordischen Geschichte. [Zum 75. Geburtstag], Ibbeken, Schleswig 1952.
 Alexander Scharff: Prof. D. Dr. Otto Scheel. In: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Schleswig-Holsteinische Geschichte, Bd. 80, 1956, S. 10–16 (Digitalisat).
 Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg: Nord-Locarno. Anton Schifferers und Otto Scheels "nordische Reise" im Oktober 1927. In: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Schleswig-Holsteinische Geschichte, Bd. 96, 1971, S. 309–339 (online).
 Michael Grüttner: Biographisches Lexikon zur nationalsozialistischen Wissenschaftspolitik (= Studien zur Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte. Bd. 6). Synchron, Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, Heidelberg 2004, S. 146.
 Karl-Heinz Fix: Otto Scheel (1876–1954). Der vergessene zweite bzw. erste Vorsitzende (1918–1946). In: Luise Schorn-Schütte (Hrsg.): 125 Jahre Verein für Reformationsgeschichte (= Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte. Bd. 200). Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-05764-4, S. 60–99.
 Oliver Auge, Martin Göllnitz: Landesgeschichtliche Zeitschriften und universitäre Landesgeschichte: Das Beispiel Schleswig-Holstein (1924–2008). In: Thomas Küster (Hrsg.): Medien des begrenzten Raumes. Landes- und regionalgeschichtliche Zeitschriften im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (= Forschungen zur Regionalgeschichte. Bd. 73). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2013, ISBN 3-506-77730-0, S. 69–125.
 Carsten Mish: Otto Scheel (1876–1954). Eine biographische Studie zu Lutherforschung, Landeshistoriographie und deutsch-dänischen Beziehungen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-55776-1.

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Landeshistoriker
Evangelischer Theologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Hochschullehrer (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Rektor (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Person (deutsche Besetzung Dänemarks 1940–1945)
Militärpfarrer
Korporierter im VVDSt
Korporierter im Wingolf
DVP-Mitglied
NSDAP-Mitglied
Person (Nordschleswig)
Kirchenhistoriker (Theologe)
Deutscher
Geboren 1876
Gestorben 1954
Mann