Creative cutting mess on my dining room table. It looks like a mess but the fabrics are organized by color and/or location in a section in the quilt. The fussy cut pieces are in a separate stack.
Some of you must wonder about how a collection of fabrics become a finished quilt, especially if the quilt is improvisational and no pattern is used. Here are a progression of photos of my design wall (the fuzzy back of a picnic table cloth hanging over 2 closet doors). Most of the pictures were taken indoors without a flash. I took the last photo outside, flat on the front walk, so you could see the real colors in the quilt.
My post a week ago show the beginnings of this Viking quilt, based on Score #10 in Sherri Lynn Wood's Book, The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters.
While the construction of this quilt is done using Modern Improv guidelines, the fact that the Viking fabric was fussy cut and the quilt is going together like a storybook, makes it unusual in the Modern quilt genre.
Here's what has happened with the quilt so far this week.
The windsock on the left is new, and the pennant flags have been attached to the right upper part of the castle. Work begins on the top story of the castle. Also thinking about how to build out the meadow/wood section. The boats await the rest of the fleet.
Sections of sky, some of the castle turrets, a bit of castle wall have been sewn together. No changes in meadow/wood or ocean yet.
The sun and more sky has been added. The top story of the castle is complete. Work begins on the ground level of the castle. the castle lawn and walkway. The meadow, woods section is complete. The ships are at a stand still!
The castle is completely done the 3 sections of sky and castle have been sewn together. The lawn and walk are finished and have been attached to the meadow/woods. The meadow and woods are the widest section in the quilt. I need to add more sky to the right side of the quilt to make it the same width.
Still nothing happening at sea!
And finally, a rocky Scandinavian beach has been added and the Viking Fleet is about set sail!
What's left? Adding sky to the top section so it's the same width as the rest of the quilt.
This is really akin to a assembling a jig saw puzzle. Except the pieces are cut to order!


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Bureau of Public Affairs: Publications
Senior Officials' Biographies Listed Alphabetically by Last Name
Marie Harf
Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications
Term of Appointment: 06/01/2015 to present
On June 1, 2015, Marie Harf began a new role as Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to Secretary Kerry. In this position, Ms. Harf continues her work leading on the Iran negotiations communications strategy and other priorities. Marie Harf was the Deputy Spokesperson for the Department of State from July 2013 to May 2015, having also served as the Acting Spokesperson from March 27, 2015 to May 13, 2015.
Prior to joining the State Department, Ms. Harf served as a senior advisor to and press spokesperson for Chuck Hagel during his confirmation to be Secretary of Defense.
During the 2012 election, Ms. Harf was responsible for all national security and foreign policy issues on President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. In this role, Ms. Harf developed and implemented the campaign's national security policy and communications strategy, and she served as a press spokesperson on national security issues. Ms. Harf was also a member of President Obama's debate preparation team for the Town Hall and Foreign Policy debates.
Prior to joining President Obama's re-election campaign, Ms. Harf was the Central Intelligence Agency's Media Spokesperson. She crafted the CIA's media strategy on a wide range of sensitive national security and intelligence topics.
Ms. Harf began her federal government career in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, where she was an analyst on Middle East leadership issues. She produced finished intelligence products -- including items for the President's Daily Brief -- on top foreign policy priorities, providing insight and context while identifying risks and opportunities for the United States.
Ms. Harf received her Master's degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, where her thesis evaluated the prospects for continued regime stability in Saudi Arabia. She graduated with honors from Indiana University, earning a Bachelor's degree in Political Science with concentrations in Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies.

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The moment she turned 18, Laura Nunes joined the Marine Corps, looking for an intense challenge but also for any assurance that she would have a place to sleep and food to eat. By then, she was all too familiar with the basic need to survive. Before she became a Marine police officer and fought for her country in Iraq, Nunes fought for her life at home.
For years she endured abuse from her father, until the day he walked out forever. Just when she thought she had lived through the worst, her mother's mental illness turned their home upside down.
At 14, when Nunes should have been unwrapping Christmas gifts, she was instead locked in a bedroom by her mother. She endured the isolation for nearly a week, without food or water, until police broke into the house out of fear that she and her mother were both dead.
Rescued from starvation and her troubled mother, Nunes did not yet have relief. With no one in the family picture, she began a long journey of survival. She wouldn't have to make it alone.
Nunes is one of more than 2 million Americans who, as abused and neglected children, have had Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers stand up for them during foster care and through the judicial process.
The Seattle-based National CASA Association For Children is a nonprofit organization founded in 1977 by juvenile-court judge David Soukup, who at the time became concerned that no one in the courtroom had the single, vital job of providing a voice for abused and neglected children. After losing hours of sleep each night wondering if his life-changing court decisions were in a child's best interest, Soukup started recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for children in the courtroom.
"These children are looking to have a childhood and to be safe, and it feels good that we are able to do something about that," says Michael Piraino, National CASA's chief executive officer. "Out of all the things I have seen since the '70s regarding child advocacy, I have not felt anything as powerful as this is."
CASA volunteers don't just advocate on behalf of children to ensure that they don't get lost in the legal or social-services system, or find themselves in unsafe foster homes. They also spend countless hours engaging, listening to and encouraging the young person. Essentially, a CASA volunteer becomes the one constant person in a foster child's life. For Nunes, Sally Payne filled that role.
"Foster care is far from perfect, so you need something normal and consistent in your life," says Nunes, now 29. "Sally was that for me. It's hard to keep your self-esteem when you feel abandoned, abused, neglected and thrown around. So having Sally take me out and do normal things because she wanted to, such as walking in the park or dining out, saved me."
For Payne, making a difference in Nunes' life was her reward.
"Laura was a joy to be with," Payne says. "The thing I enjoyed most about being her advocate was that she appreciated me and other things so much. I love Laura, and we will be friends forever. CASA is a great organization, and being able to help a child and make a difference in his or her life makes you feel so good."
Volunteer Training. The National CASA Association has a network of 1,000 program offices with more than 70,000 volunteers. Together, they serve 65 percent of the 700,000 children who are placed in foster care each year.
To be a CASA volunteer, a background in law or social work isn't necessary. The CASA volunteers currently serving children are normal, everyday people who work full time, or are retired. Training is necessary and can be time-consuming, but one well-trained volunteer can keep a child from landing in a bad living situation that can leave lifelong scars.
Volunteers first participate in a 30-hour pre-service training course, usually conducted at the local CASA chapter's office and facilitated by program staff. After the initial training, 12 hours of continuing education is required yearly.
Unfortunately, in-person training can be a barrier to acquiring volunteers. The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation (CWF) recently awarded CASA a $49,000 grant for a flex-training project that will redesign its core training curriculum, allowing 15 hours of online training and 15 hours of in-person training. The intent is to make training more convenient for those who volunteer.
Since 1954, CWF has provided more than $11 million in grants to worthy nonprofit organizations. In the fall of 2010 alone, the foundation awarded $666,670 in grants to 21 different organizations - including CASA - dedicated to improving the lives of youth who have been dealt difficult circumstances.
With the help of CWF's grant, CASA's new online curriculum allows staff to see if prospective volunteers are completing the training. It will also include discussion boards for volunteers to interact and share their thoughts about videos they may have viewed relating to child advocacy.
"One cool thing about the redesign of our core curriculum is that it will be much more case-study based," says Brian Washburn, CASA's training manager.
An Army Ranger friend shared with Washburn his experience of how the military uses after-action reviews to help develop its talent.
"An after-action review is the idea of going through an experience, debriefing, and then asking three questions," Washburn says. "One, what happened? Two, what did we expect to happen? And three, what can we learn from the gap?"
Similar to an after-action review, CASA volunteers will first receive relevant information on such topics as domestic violence, substance abuse and how to write a court report. Once the volunteers gather for in-person training, they will review case studies, and discuss how to work on a case, debrief it and use the after-action format.
"Because some of the decisions that volunteers will make are life and death, we want to make sure volunteers are really prepared," Washburn says. "This grant has enabled us to change the training to be more focused on experiencing what it's like to be a volunteer before actually going out in the field."
In the field, volunteers are in contact with not only the child for whom they're advocating, but his or her foster parents, social workers, parents, teachers and others. Volunteers spend up to 10 hours a month on each case, and must commit to stay with a case until it's closed - perhaps a year or more. They also submit regular reports to the judge recommending what they believe is the best course of action for the child.
"My mom didn't attend every court appearance, due to her mental illness, but once Sally came into my life, she attended every one when she could have easily just submitted her report on me to the judge," Nunes said. "Sally would write a report on my progress, how I was feeling and how I felt about where I was living. She was the one person I could be so honest with because she wasn't being paid to be in my life."
The Legion's Support. The American Legion is an important part of CASA's family.
"What we do for these kids is recruit people who are not just compassionate but extremely honorable," Piraino says. "That is why I think our collaboration with Legionnaires is so inspiring. We are able to provide Legionnaires a really wonderful, meaningful opportunity that makes use of their skills and values that they hold through service and life experiences."
Many Legionnaires support CASA locally and nationally through donations. They volunteer as advocates for children in the courtroom, or as mentors to older youth aging out of foster care - a critical need, according to CASA.
Once children leave foster care - at about 18 or 19 - all aid ends for housing, health care and other needs because they are no longer part of the child-welfare system.
"Research has shown that within one, two or three years the rate of homelessness, teen pregnancy and incarceration skyrockets," Washburn says. "So we are working on a volunteer-training curriculum that's going to impact the outcomes for older youth."
The first part of the curriculum is an assessment tool to help volunteers focus on equipping youth with six necessities: education, employment, life skills, health needs, relationships and housing. The second part of the curriculum centers on goal-setting.
"Advocacy for older youth is transitioning, because it requires working with these older kids so they can self-direct what they want to do and what their plan for independent living looks like," says Carmela Welte, National CASA deputy CEO. "They need to know how to write checks, find a job, conduct interviews and learn independent skills. This type of advocacy could appeal to Legionnaires who already have the knowledge and understanding of independent living."
Other ways Legionnaires can and do support CASA are through partnerships and fundraising efforts. For example, the Department of Nevada joined forces with the Nevada CASA chapter more than a year ago, drawing awareness to both organizations in an alliance that "grows stronger every day," says Bill Fowler, executive director for Nevada's CASA Association.
Fowler has described CASA's mission to Nevada Legionnaires at several district Legion meetings, as well as at the department's annual convention. In response, the Department of Nevada is sponsoring the local CASA chapter's upcoming Harlem Ambassadors basketball-game fundraiser, and is sharing a booth with CASA at a rodeo in June, where veterans will hand out brochures on multiple Legion programs.
"I'm really proud of the Legion and what they are doing for CASA," Fowler says. "I know it's been great for our organization, and I'm always thinking of ways to promote the visibility of the Legion.
"And in terms of the kids, we are more than a warm body. Volunteering requires good life skills, some backbone and the willingness to be those eyes and ears for our abused and neglected children. The CASA experience is a challenging, meaningful one, and I can tell you that we make a big difference in the lives of our kids."
CASA Awareness. CASA's goal is to serve 100 percent of displaced children by 2020, starting with a drive to increase public awareness of the organization's existence and vision.
"We have done surveys that show over 90 percent of people out there who could become volunteers or donors to our organization are not aware of CASA," says Jim Clune, chief communications officer. "The reason why we raise awareness of CASA is because there's a huge need of volunteers for children who need someone to advocate for their safety and well-being, and we also need help building the infrastructure within the programs so the volunteers can be trained, supervised and used effectively."
An awareness campaign called Friends and Funds is currently under way. "A movement like the pink-ribbon breast-cancer campaign will put CASA at the top of mind for a large population that otherwise wouldn't be connected to us," says Kris Gonzales, CASA's manager of partnerships.
The campaign will give those unable to volunteer an opportunity to support CASA's cause by sending online fundraising invitations to friends and colleagues. These will center on both CASA's mission and vision, and the sender's financial goal to support the organization.
"It's all about creating movement at the grass-roots level," Gonzales said. "Just having folks in our family forward on an e-mail to friends is how we can really build awareness."
CASA also expects the campaign to draw attention to ethnic communities in desperate need of volunteers so children can be placed in homes that match the cultures they know.
"Diversity is more than brown faces," says Chanin Kelly-Rae, National CASA's senior director of inclusion and equity. "It also challenges impacting military families whose kids are being displaced. It's about unique experiences that each individual brings to the table, and their voices need to be heard."
In 2009, blacks represented 14 percent of the U.S. population of children. However, they made up 30 percent of the children living in foster care. "Minority children in foster care do not receive the same access to services (health care or counseling) as white children," Kelly-Rae says. "So we are doing everything we can to ensure children of color are getting access to the services they deserve."
Besides the Friends and Funds campaign, which publicizes this cause, CASA unites with outside organizations with track records of leadership and respect in minority communities, most often those with contacts at the state and local level.
"You don't have to look like the child you advocate for, but our expectation is that you have compassion, and that an individual bias does not get in the way of advocating for a kid," Kelly-Rae says.
Positive Outcomes. Being a CASA volunteer can be intimidating, especially when it can require regular visits to unsafe neighborhoods or meetings with people outside a volunteer's comfort zone. "But you benefit in terms of life experience, the incredible satisfaction you have with connecting with a young person at risk, and doing something to help resolve that young person's life in a positive way," says Clune, who has been an advocate for four different children.
"Sally was the one positive influence in my life," Nunes explains. "She always told me how important it was to get through school and not let how angry I was get to me. She wrote me letters during my two deployments to Iraq, and she was the one who took me into the bad neighborhoods and dingy hotels looking for my homeless mother because I was afraid something was going to happen to her, and I wouldn't be able to say goodbye. More importantly, it didn't matter if I was changing schools, foster homes or social workers, because Sally was always there. I love her so much."
Nunes never did get to say goodbye to her mother, who passed away days after she and Payne went searching for her. And to this day, her family portrait is empty, with no parents to turn to for support or shelter. But with guidance, compassion, and encouragement from CASA and Payne, Nunes has served her country as a Marine, is living independently, and is currently attending college in San Francisco, studying to be a psychologist.
"I want people to know that you don't have to be a foster parent to help a foster kid," she says. "Just giving a foster kid something to look forward to once a week for a few hours can keep their thirst for life going."
Cameran Erny is an assistant web editor for The American Legion.
Give: Tax-deductible donations can be made in a variety of ways, whether it's individual giving, workplace contributions and matching, corporate support, or stocks.
Volunteer: Besides advocating for a child, volunteers are needed to raise CASA awareness in the workplace and community, as well as to assist with fundraising and in-house needs.
Join: In lieu of volunteering, one can become a member of CASA with a gift of $45. Membership includes a one-year subscription to CASA's Connection magazine and Powerful Voice newsletter, the right to elect board members, and discounts on registration fees to the annual National CASA Conference.


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Engineering Solutions Turns Sweet 16
by Rachel Beachy | Mar 2, 2020 | Culture, News | 0 comments
By: Brian Koerner
Sixteen years ago, Twitter and Instagram didn't exist and Facebook was just getting started. The iPod Mini was the latest Apple gadget. The average price of a movie ticket was around $6 and a postage stamp was 37 cents.
What were you doing 16 years ago today?
I co-founded Engineering Solutions 16 years ago on March 1, 2004. I left a secure director position at Valley Engineering for the American dream: starting my own business. Over the past 16 years, we've done some amazing projects, everything from small beam designs to the Harrisonburg City Hall and Quirk Hotel.
I have a special place in my heart for our early projects as it really was the whole deal – from creating a phone book ad, setting up insurance, finding prospective clients, answering the phone, doing calculations, drafting up everything in AutoCAD, delivering printed drawings, creating the invoice, and collecting the money. Our work was done with one person on the civil engineering side and one person on the structural engineering side. We now have 10 structural engineers and three drafters, plus support staff. We've come a long way!
As I was reflecting on the pride of our early projects, Antioch Church came to mind as one of my favorites. This was a project performed with Lantz of Winchester in 2004. At that time, my livelihood depended on each project getting out the door on time and within budget. Some things are a lot different than they were 16 years ago, but some things will never change. Our livelihood still depends on on-time and on-budget delivery of projects. We continue to strive for excellent service for many years to come.


Happy New year everyone, 2009 have been a year busy swapping OP-AMP.
and to continue my training in the area of head-fi I will begin 2010 swapping Capacitors.
I have all read the how different capacitors sound in different setup, but I will never really know unless I listen to them, The experience was really an ear opener when I tried it years also with all the Plastic, paper and different magical capacitors. I never believe in electrolytic (results from reading to much), and have always avoided them with DC servo to remove the DC offset.
Swapping Capacitors could be tricky, Lead inductance will be an issue, At audio frequency a capacitors would act like an inductor, I would prefer to solder each cap direct onto the board, but heat will means that I have to run the cap for a while to let to reform, In the end I choose to socket my D10 for this purpose. The leads of the cap are kept to the minimum and temperature and condition of all caps are keep as constant as possible to reduce the forming effects of the electrolytic.
The line up of capacitors are as follows.
Not missing from the list with be the now extinct BlackGates NX Bi Polar.
I cannot get the exact size of 10mm*12.5 But would be included in the listening test as a reference. I got 6.3V 220uF NX and a normal 220uf 16v.
The list of capacitors would not be restricted to the above, will look for more (Time and wallet permitting).
Currently the caps are going forming/burn in process on a rotation basis, I plan to have at least 100hours burn in for each cap.
Capacitors rolling change the texture of the sound especially the timbre the harshness the body and sweetness of the vocal and instrument.
OP-AMP however changes the whole spectrum, the noise level, the amount of distortion, the overall presentation and most importantly the resolution of the sound. The layering.
For current D10 owner who have heard the D4, the differences in sound comes mainly from the Toshin UTSJ. By placing this Cap on the D10 it is very hard to differentiate the 2 different amplifiers. That is if they are using the same OP-AMPs. So if you like the sound of the D4 you could roll capacitor to make your D10 sound like it, more warm and texture.
Sound impression after 48 hours burn in for each capacitor.
My D10 Capacitor Rolling experience have been crazy!
In the First week, All the different listening session left me in confusion. The sound of the Capacitor before burn in could be different within the same song. One moment it is good and another all bad. Once instance clear and bring another instance muddy and warm. At 24 hours brun in for the cap it is still changing but at 48 hours things seem to settle in a bit, but changes are still happening.
ELNA Silmic — This is a very good all rounder, but the difference is very small compared to the newer 2, Simlic is warmer than silmic 2 but the overall air of confidence is missing compared to 2 and fro instrument silmic 2 is clearly better.
ELNA Cerafine — I have the most trouble auditing this Change change change in the first 24 hours. Cerafine have great potential get resolution and warmth at the same time but some grain in the sound. It is getting less grainy as it is burn in at 48 hours it has not settle yet. so let see later.
NichIcon KZ — Best for string instrument, the texture and air around guitar string never sounded so real on the D10 you could tell if the string are metal or nylon, Vocal is as good as the Silmic 2 and maybe a tat warmer.
Nichicon FineGold — It is a good all rounder but not in the league of cerifine, Silmic or KZ. Neutral and extended.
Nichicon ES Bipolar — The king of vocal, Super warm and super sweet. After 48 hours it less warm and less sweet, but still much more than the rest. Th best if you ONLY listen to acapalla and or vocal. It is so good that I forgot I am audition cap and just enjoyed the song. Instrument and bass however need to be improved.
Toshin UTSJ — Warm sounding, as QUSP noted the high are not as clear as the best but for vocal it is sweet and warm. bass is deep and strong as well. Even with a WIMA bypass the high did not open up enough.
Sanyo WG — Good for sub sonic monster otherwise not an audio capacitor.
Sanyo OSCON SP — Thin on vocal, bright and clear at the high end. Extended bass. Sounds disappointing.
Panasonic FC — It has an all rounded sound , but does not excel in any area. Vocal is there but a tat cold. High is there but not extended or sharp.
Nippon chemicon ASF — Vocal is tat warm and high bright and clear, bass is there but not extended.
Black gate 220uF 6.3V NX — Sound stage is small, Vocal is full body slightly warm. Instrument is distinct but not as hair raising as Silmic or the KZ. Vocal not as smooth as the Toshin. Lots of sibilance. Bass does not goes to the very low end, but when it hit it is hard and solid. But is is one very musical capacitor. Overall the presentation of the music is balance and very enjoyable. At 48 hours the sound start to get muddy.
Black gate normal 16V 220uf — This one is added for comparison it does not meet the rule as it is 10mm*20mm. The black gates excel very well in the highs but similar to NX it has sibilance. The bass for this one is deep and powerful, but voice is a not sweet or mellow.
Thanks for the round up, I've been looking for something this for a long time!
The Capacitors you mention are not electrolytic, It would be too large to fit into a small amplifier. My comparison limited to a size of 12.5*10mm. And I do not think there will be any di-electric capacitor that would fit in.


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Category Archives: Middle East
Middle East, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution
Egyptian Christians Fearing Terror Flee
Notice who is protesting??
Feb. 26, 2017 AP
ISMAILIA, Egypt—Egyptian Christians fearing attacks by Islamic State militants fled the volatile northern part of the Sinai Peninsula for a fourth day on Sunday, after a string of sectarian killings there sent hundreds packing and raised accusations the government is failing to protect the minority.
More than 100 families from the town of el-Arish and nearby have come to the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Cairo, since Friday, Nabil Shukrallah of the city's Evangelical Church said.
Families arrive scared and in need of supplies, which are being stockpiled at the church via donations from several parishes, he said. They are then transported to be housed in and around the city, in private homes and now also accommodation provided by the government.
"They're exhausted, with urgent needs for food and children's clothing," he said, as one father carried off a sick infant to be evacuated by ambulance. "They're terrified of the violence and brutality of the terrorists."
Northern Sinai has for years been the epicenter of an insurgency by Islamic militants, and the area's few Christians have slowly been trickling out. But departures rose in earnest after suspected militants gunned down a Christian plumber at home in front of his family on Thursday in el-Arish. It was the seventh such killing in recent weeks and stoked panic among Christians.
Egyptian Christians fearing attacks by Islamic State militants are fleeing the volatile northern part of the Sinai Peninsula for a fourth day.
Egyptian Christians fearing attacks by Islamic State militants are fleeing the volatile northern part of the Sinai Peninsula for a fourth day. PHOTO: FAYED EL-GEZIRY/ZUMA PRESS
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. But Egypt's Islamic State affiliate, which is based in north Sinai and which in December carried out a devastating suicide bombing against a Cairo church, vowed in a video earlier this week to step up attacks against Egypt's embattled Coptic Christian minority. It described them as "infidels" empowering the West against Muslims.
The Cairo church bombing and the recent killings point to a shift in Islamic State's tactics in Egypt, with the group now also attacking Christian targets that are less protected than military installations, in an attempt to isolate them and embarrass the government.
Before Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring uprising, some 5,000 Christians lived in northern Sinai, but the number has since dwindled to fewer than 1,000, priests and residents say. Egypt doesn't keep official statistics on the number of Christians in cities or across the country.
Many rights activists say the displacement is a clear sign the government has failed to provide a minimum of security for the embattled minority in the volatile region, where they have faced public threats before.
The government only agreed to put up the fleeing Christians in government housing in Ismailia after pressure on social media, which they underline as another disturbing sign.
Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Politically correct, Religion, The Left
Where's the Pope on Syria?
I really wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this probably ends that hope forever.
WSJ 12/27/2016
If you are like this columnist, you may have missed the recent prayer vigil in front of St. Peter's, which featured Pope Francis leading tens of thousands of the faithful in protest of the sickening Russian military strikes in Aleppo that have targeted hospitals, aid convoys and innocent civilians.
Surely there must have been such a vigil, right? And at least as prominent as the one in September 2013? Back then Pope Francis led a muchpublicized vigil aimed at dissuading President Obama from launching airstrikes on Syrian President Bashar Assad's military assets after the strongman had gassed more than a thousand people in the suburbs of Damascus, including hundreds of children.
Remember those heady days? The tweets from the Holy Father himself: "War never again! Never again war!" Or his letter to Vladimir Putin during the G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg, in which Pope Francis implored leaders there (read: Uncle Sam) "to lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution."
Not to mention Mr. Putin's own use of Pope Francis in an op-ed that appeared shortly after in the pages of the New York Times. There Mr. Putin put it this way: "The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria's borders."
So surely if the Holy Father was outraged in 2013 by what Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized would be an "unbelievably small strike," he must be even more indignant over the cynical way Mr. Putin has used the entree the pope helped give him in Syria to use Russian air power to launch his own deadly strikes.
But somehow there are no Pope Francis vigils over the war crimes committed by Mr. Putin's war planes.
Then again, we didn't see the vigil candles come out at St. Peter's when Mr. Putin invaded Crimea. Nor when Russian-backed separatists shot down a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine.
To the contrary, as Russian forces declare victory in Aleppo, the pope has been reduced to telling the world not to forget Aleppo and entreating Mr. Assad to play nice.
Now, at the time President Obama was proposing his military strike, even some hawks opposed it on the grounds it was only a gesture meant for show. This was a solid and reasonable objection.
But this was not the objection of Pope Francis. True, both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI had urged against American military action, the former with regard to Iraq and the latter with Libya.
But this pope's objections have been coupled with a softness toward Moscow hard to imagine coming from either of his two predecessors. And the argument that Mr. Putin's use of force is welcome because it is protecting the Christians of Aleppo—who feel safer under Assad than under ISIS—does not work for Pope Francis: He's insisted all along there are no military solutions, even as Mr. Putin has now imposed one.
"The Catechism of the Catholic Church" holds that the "use of arms must not produce evils and disorders greater than the evil to be eliminated."
A sound principle. But what about the evils produced when those who have the arms won't use them to protect those who have no defense? In short, there's a reason that when Thomas Aquinas discusses just war, he does so in his chapter on charity. To put it all in biblical terms, what would have been the obligation on the Good Samaritan if he had come across his victim as the man was being beaten rather than afterward?
Aleppo is not Pope Francis' fault. It is the fault of those who have willfully chosen atrocity to advance their larger goals, whether this be the ISIS forces who hope to impose their brand of extremism on Syria, or Mr. Assad, who has reduced Aleppo to rubble to eliminate any opposition to his brutal regime. Not to mention outsiders such as Mr. Putin and the Sunni supporters of ISIS who have enabled these evils.
At the time Pope Francis took his stand against U.S. intervention in Syria, an article in the National Catholic Register framed it this way: "The Pope has positioned himself as the foremost champion of finding peaceful solutions to the conflict, and Putin has demonstrated in recent days that he has the capability to deliver diplomatic alternatives to the punishing military strikes favored by Obama over Syria's chemical weapons."
Let's hope what has followed in Aleppo might occasion some papal modesty, and perhaps a more ecumenical outlook when it comes to regarding the use of force by global powers. For the essence of civilization is this: The strong protect the weak. When the use of force is taken off the table, the strong prey on the weak.
In September, the pope thundered that those bombing civilians in Aleppo will one day have to "account to God." Until then, the moral undermining of American intervention has guaranteed they will account to no one.
Israel, Middle East, Obama
Obama's Anti-Israel Tantrum
Totally despicable.
The decision by the United States to abstain from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel over its settlements on the West Bank is one of the most significant, defining moments of the Obama Presidency.
It defines this President's extraordinary ability to transform matters of public policy into personal pique at adversaries. And it defines the reality of the international left's implacable opposition to the Israeli state.
Earlier in the week, Egypt withdrew the Security Council resolution under pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. President-elect Donald Trump also intervened, speaking with Egypt's government and, via Twitter, urging Mr. Obama to block the resolution, as have past U.S. Administrations and Mr. Obama himself in 2011.
As was widely reported Friday after the U.N. vote, the White House decided to abstain— thereby allowing the pro-Palestinian resolution to pass—in retaliation against the intervention by Messrs. Netanyahu and Trump.
Mr. Obama's animus toward Prime Minister Netanyahu is well known. Apparently Mr. Obama took it as an affront that the Presidentelect would express an opinion about this week's U.N. resolution.
It is important, though, to see this U.S. abstention as more significant than merely Mr. Obama's petulance. What it reveals clearly is the Obama Administration's animus against the state of Israel itself. No longer needing Jewish votes, Mr. Obama was free, finally, to punish the Jewish state in a way no previous President has done. No effort to rescind the resolution, which calls the settlements a violation of "international law," will succeed because of Russia's and China's vetoes.
Instead, the resolution will live on as Barack Obama's cat's paw, offering support in every European capital, international institution and U.S. university campus to bully Israel with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer implored the Administration to veto the resolution, noting rightly that it represents nothing more than the "Zionism is racism" bias at the U.N. Let Senator Schumer note the true nature of his party's left wing.
House Speaker Paul Ryan called the Administration's action "shameful." Senator Lindsey Graham said he will form a bipartisan coalition to suspend or reduce U.S. financial support for the U.N. That should proceed.
For Donald Trump, meet your State Department. This is what State's permanent bureaucrats believe, this is what they want, and Barack Obama delivered it to them.
Tweets won't change this now-inbred hostility to America's oldest democratic ally in the Middle East. Mr. Obama's pique, however, has made it crystal clear to the new Administration where the lines in the sand are drawn.
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Where Are the Visas for the Afghans Who Helped American GIs?
If something pains me, this is high on the list.
By Juliana Goldrosen And Ari Hoffman
Qismat, a young Afghan who bravely served as an interpreter alongside American troops in the hills of Tora Bora, spent Veterans Day as a target of ISIS, in mortal danger due to his service to the U.S.
Also on Veterans Day, members of Congress honored the men and women who nobly served our country. What you may not hear in their speeches and news releases, however, is an acknowledgment that, unless Congress acts, it will abandon to their fate more than 10,000 Afghans who worked alongside these veterans, including Qismat.
The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program, traditionally a popular and bipartisan measure, provides a path for Afghans who worked as interpreters or in other critical positions for U.S. military forces and diplomats to seek refuge in the U.S. Because of their service to our country, these Afghans face extreme persecution and constant danger.
Until this year, Congress has reauthorized the SIV program with little controversy. Yet the current version of the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, the usual vehicle for SIV allocation, would authorize no additional visas. That means that once the remaining 2,500 visas are allocated, the 10,000-plus Afghans awaiting visas will be stranded.
Judging by some reports, a handful of legislators opposed an SIV provision in the Defense Authorization bill, stating that they had procedural objections or that they did not want to allocate visas while then-unused visas remained. Yet since these Afghans were screened before their employment on behalf of the U.S., and would undergo another rigorous, months long screening process before qualifying for a visa, there is no excuse, security or otherwise, for blocking this provision.
At the Stanford Law chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project, we are proud of our many veteran members and classmates, and we stand with them in their efforts to assist their former interpreters immigrate to the U.S. through the SIV program.
Stanford Law student Matt Ball is a former Army Ranger who served during 2010-11 in the Tora Bora region in Eastern Afghanistan, conducting counterinsurgency operations. His unit sustained a disproportionate number of casualties— and one of the wounded was the then-20-year-old Qismat, who served as the unit's interpreter and main conduit to the Afghan people.
Due to his service to the U.S., he has not been able to return to his hometown for more than six years—especially since ISIS members came looking for him last year. With Mr. Ball's help, Qismat applied for a visa through the SIV program in 2013, but his application is in limbo due to the program's extensive backlog.
Another law student, Joe Reed, is a former Marine infantry officer who deployed twice to Helmand province. On his first deployment in 2011, an Afghan interpreter nicknamed Rocky quickly became an integral part of the unit. Rocky lived in primitive conditions with the platoon, made possible all communication between the Marines and local Afghans, and often went on multiple combat patrols a day in proximity to improvised explosive devices and exposed to enemy fire. When Mr. Reed last heard from him, Rocky was still waiting for a visa.
Stanford Graduate School of Business student John Powell also deployed as a Marine infantry officer to Helmand province. His platoon's interpreter quickly turned into their most important asset. They worked on a grueling schedule, often patrolling five times a day. While Mr. Powell rotated his squads to spread the burden, his interpreter insisted on accompanying every patrol that left the compound.
When Mr. Powell's platoon went back home, the interpreter (who is not named here for safety reasons) stayed on to work for the next two follow-on Marine units. After the interpreter applied for an SIV, he and his family received death threats from a newly resurgent Taliban in the area. His visa application has been on hold for two years, and he and his family had to flee their home province to escape retribution. Mr. Powell keeps in touch with him, and his pleas for help have become more desperate in the past months.
We call on our leaders in Congress to reauthorize and increase the visa allocation for this critical program. On the line are the lives of Qismat and many other Afghan interpreters and their families.
Ms. Goldrosen and Mr. Hoffman are students at Stanford Law School and members of the Stanford chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project.


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Q: Correct way to free memory in C so I'm trying to understand the whole concept of memory management in C and I was given this code:
int main(int argc, int *argv[]) {
  item *x = NULL;
  x = (item *) malloc (sizeof(item));

  ...

  free_item(&x);
}

void free_item(item **x) {
  free(*x);
  *x = NULL;
}

where item is earlier defined structure. The point, where I get confused is free_item(&x); because when I write free_item(x); and change the function to:
void free_item(item *x) {
  free(x);
  x = NULL;
}

the code seems to work the same way as the previous one.
So, is there any difference? And if not, is there any reason, why would someone send an adress on a pointer of a structure to a function, which frees this structure?

A: Yes. First, I think there's a typo in your modified function. It should be:
void free_item(item *x) {
  free(x);
  x = NULL;
}

Now, for the differences. The free call will succeed, as all it expects is a "pointer-to-type" variable for data which is allocated dynamically on the heap.
The second part, x = NULL, will not work as expected. Remember, in C, when passing an argument to a function, we pass by value always, never by reference. You are being passed a copy of a variable, so x = NULL just sets a temporarily automatically allocated copy of x to NULL, not the actual variable passed as an argument.
The original function which you changed does both parts correctly.

A: *

*In the first case, to modify the content of pointer variable x, you need to pass on using a reference. That's why the &x and the double pointer is being used to free() the memeory which has been allocated from main(). This is correct.

*in second case, a function-local copy of x will be created and passed on to free_item() which will have no impact on the x present in main(). The x = NULL; will have the scope only inside free_item().

A: In your first example you are calling free_item with argument of type pointer to pointer to item (assuming item **x argument).
In second example point value (main::x) is copied to free_item::x (different scope) and that copied value is set to NULL (and value is discarded afterwards).
Add printf("%p\n", x); to the end of main() (after free_item).
With first example you will see NULL and with second x will still be set to address previously stored there.
In first example, lets say your pointer is on address 0x00400000 and it points to memory allocated at 0x00410000.
0x00400000 0x00410000 <- x is stored here
0x00400004 0x00400000 <- tmp described later; point to x
...
0x00410000 .......... <- x points here; start of item - returned by malloc

When you call item **tmp = &x you will see that it will contain the address 0x00400000 (and tmp itself would be stored on different memory address).
Then in free_item():
free(*tmp);     // The same as free(0x00410000)
*tmp = NULL;    // Modifies data at 0x00400000 = NULL

A: *

*x = (item *) malloc (sizeof(item)); is unnecessary. x = malloc(sizeof(item)); will suffice.

2.
void free_item(item *data){
  free(data);
}

Is the correct way to do it.

*Write idiomatic C code. There is no difference perse but its hard do debug and maintain.

I would write   free_item(x); rather than free_item(&x) and have free_item(item **x)

A: When you use free ,you pass the pointer ,not the value of the pointer.
So, if you use
 item *x

, you should use
free(x)

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Social inclusion is the process of improving the terms on which individuals and groups take part in society—improving the ability, opportunity, and dignity of those disadvantaged on the basis of their identity.
In every country, certain groups confront barriers that prevent them from fully participating in their nation's political, economic, and social life. These groups may be excluded not only through legal systems, land and labor markets, but also through attitudes, beliefs, or perceptions. Disadvantage is often based on social identity, which may be derived from gender, age, location, occupation, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship status, disability, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), among other factors.
Exclusion can rob individuals of dignity, security, and the opportunity to lead a better life.
There is a moral imperative to address social exclusion. Left unaddressed, the exclusion of disadvantaged groups can also be costly. And the costs—whether social, political, or economic—are likely to be substantial.
At the individual level, the loss of wages, lifetime earnings, poor education, and employment outcomes are the commonest measures of costs. Social exclusion is often solidified through discrimination, which can have physical and mental health costs.
At the national level, the economic cost of social exclusion can be captured by forgone gross domestic product (GDP) and human capital wealth. Exclusion or the perception of exclusion may cause certain groups to opt out of markets, services, and spaces, with costs to both individuals and the economy.
A recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) paper shows that the current gender gap in the labor force costs countries at the bottom half of gender inequality around 35 percent of GDP. A 2018 World Bank paper estimates that Africa alone lost $ 2.5 trillion in human capital due to gender inequality and 11.4% of total wealth in 2014. Another study found that exclusion of the ethnic minority Roma cost Romania 887 million euros in lost productivity.
Acknowledging this, the United Nations has committed to "leaving no one behind" in an effort to help countries promote inclusive growth and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Social inclusion is also an integral part of—and vital to—achieving the World Bank Group's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
The World Bank Group defines social inclusion as:
The process of improving the terms for individuals and groups to take part in society, and
The process of improving the ability, opportunity, and dignity of those disadvantaged on the basis of their identity to take part in society.
Including those who are most likely to be left behind is a complex global challenge, which affects developed and developing countries alike. But it can be planned and achieved.
The World Bank's work on social inclusion aims to broaden and deepen the knowledge of exclusion and its impact through research and actions. For the former, it means:
Defining the problem through tools that help assess the manner and extent to which projects and programs address social inclusion,
Conducting more sophisticated analyses,
Designing actions that improve social inclusion, and
Using better mechanisms to gauge when inclusion efforts are working and when they are not.
The Bank has also prioritized and committed to promoting social inclusion through a range of programs and actions:
The World Bank Group (WBG) Strategy aims to align all WBG public and private sector interventions to the twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, in a sustainable and inclusive manner.
The WBG is committed to citizen engagement, specifically in its treatment of inclusion, in its operations, which entails empowering citizens to participate in the development process and integrating citizen voice in development programs to help accelerate the achievement of results.
In 2018, the World Bank launched its first Disability Inclusion and Accountability Framework and announced ten WBG commitments to accelerate global action for disability-inclusive development. A Global Disability Advisor serves as a focal point for integrating disability inclusion into the World Bank's development projects through its analytical work, data, and good-practice policies.
The WBG has established a multi-sectoral task force to spearhead work on sexual orientation gender identity (SOGI) issues while increasing research on the economic impact of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons as well as other groups. Two years later, in November 2016, the Bank appointed a Global Advisor on SOGI—responsible for promoting LGBTI inclusion throughout the work of the World Bank.
In October 2016, the World Bank launched a Global Gender-Based Violence (GGBV) Task Force to strengthen the institution's response through its projects to issues involving sexual exploitation and abuse. For more information, view a fact sheet.
The Bank engages on issues of Indigenous Peoples through its operations, and works to deepen the understanding of Indigenous Peoples issues at the country and regional levels worldwide.
A new Gender Strategy aims to help countries and companies achieve gender equality as a pathway toward lasting poverty reduction and shared prosperity and security.
Community-Driven Development (CDD) approaches and actions are important elements of an effective poverty reduction and sustainable development strategy. The Bank has supported CDD across a range of low to middle-income—and conflict-affected—countries to support a variety of urgent needs.
In 2018, the World Bank developed Social Inclusion Assessment Tool (SIAT), a methodology to assess social inclusion in projects, programs, and policies. The WBG's Global Lead on Social Inclusion provides overarching technical leadership and guidance to advance these efforts.
Examples of the Bank's projects and analytical work on social inclusion include:
Analytical work
Inclusion Matters: The Foundation for Shared Prosperity is one of the most comprehensive reviews of social inclusion available. It provides a frame of reference for policymakers, academics, activists, and development partners to help understand and move toward social inclusion. The report suggests how policies and programs can be designed through the lens of three main domains in which individuals and groups want to be included: markets, services, and spaces.
Scaling the Heights: Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development in Himachal Pradesh looks at Himachal's achievements and the factors underlying the Indian state's success in fostering social inclusion and boosting shared prosperity. The report found empirical application of the main concepts illustrated in the Inclusion Matters report.
Indigenous Latin America in the Twenty-First Century is a report that shines new light on the situation of Indigenous Peoples across the region and concludes that despite important advances, indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by poverty and continue to face widespread economic and social exclusion.
Released in August 2018, the Afro-descendants in Latin America: Toward a Framework of Inclusion report is an important step toward better understanding the conditions in which Afro-descendants live to help foster social inclusion and improve their economic situation across Latin America.
Social Inclusion and Gender Platforms have been established by the World Bank as a consolidated approach toward social inclusion. Platforms in Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan provide strategic support to project teams on social inclusion and gender issues by sponsoring frontier technical and analytical work, promoting innovation and knowledge sharing, and mainstreaming through Bank operations. In-country partnerships are a significant part of the implementation strategy of these platforms.
As part of the Bank's analytical work on gender-based violence, the Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia report gathers available data and information on gender-based violence in the South Asia region.
Social Inclusion in Macro-Level Diagnostics reviews the extent to which the first 17 Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCDs) conducted by the World Bank addressed social inclusion. The paper develops and refines a methodology to assess social inclusion. It also frames social inclusion into the ongoing dialogue around the implementation of the SDGs.
Handbook on Improving Living Conditions for Roma provides program managers, national-level authorities, and local actors with strategic guidance and best practices from past experience working with Roma communities, one of the most marginalized ethnic minorities in Europe. The report offers global insights, experience, and ideas to broaden the range of interventions and actions considered by stakeholders, and also to inspire further innovations. Other reports on Roma inclusion include Breaking the Cycle of Roma Exclusion in the Western Balkans and Being Fair, Faring Better: Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma.
Tunisia: Breaking the Barriers to Youth Inclusion is the result of extensive research that combined quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform proposals for youth-specific policies and approaches in Tunisia. It has developed a comprehensive framework that highlights the importance of addressing the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions to find solutions for youth inclusion.
Social and economic inclusion of forcibly displaced population in Afghanistan. Around six million Afghans live as refugees in other countries. In the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of Afghans returning to their country of origin. To respond to the most recent wave of population movements, the World Bank has been working with the government of Afghanistan and a range of humanitarian agencies. These efforts have led to development of policies, programs and investments that complement initial relief efforts of humanitarian agencies with longer-term support for the refugees and internally displaced people in their new lives.
Burundi Emergency Demobilization and Transitional Reintegration Project. The project had a strong focus on social inclusion, particularly through supporting ex-combatants with mental or physical (e.g., surgeries, physiotherapy, prosthetics, etc.) disabilities and providing housing to those with severe disability. To facilitate social inclusion of ex-combatants, the project also included conflict mitigation activities.
Democratic Republic of Congo: Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Project. The World Bank committed $100 million to help prevent GBV in the DRC. The project aims to reach 795,000 direct beneficiaries over the course of four years and provide help to survivors of GBV, shifting social norms by promoting gender equality and behavioral change through strong partnerships with civil society organizations.
Nepal: Integrated Platform for Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response. The project has a focus on supporting capacity building activities that facilitate support to GBV victims, including those from indigenous groups and other vulnerable communities.
Nicaragua: Second Support to the Education Sector Project. It is a primary education project designed to address the needs of rural and indigenous communities. The project seeks to increase student retention rates in Nicaragua's primary education schools. It also aims to improve infrastructure and services for displaced people and build social capital to promote trust. The project has a longstanding commitment to incorporating social inclusion into development agenda.
Nigeria For Women Project. This is the first World Bank-assisted standalone gender operation in Nigeria to directly impact 324,000 women beneficiaries through investments in comprehensive skills training, the leverage of financial and technical resources, and support to policy dialogue on women's economic empowerment. It also aims to create and strengthen Women Affinity Groups to facilitate social networks and increase women's voice and participation in the economy.
Pakistan: Youth inclusion in the digital economy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. World Bank support to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of Pakistan's poorest provinces, has helped develop and roll out digital skills programs for youth, such as the Youth Employment Program, establish public co-working spaces for youth to promote access and training, and convene thousands of youth and industry experts at the Digital Youth Summits (DYS).
Panama: Indigenous Peoples Integral Development. This project aims to improve public services in indigenous territories, based on the Indigenous Peoples' own views and development priorities. It also seeks to strengthen the governance and coordination capacity between the government and the indigenous authorities while respecting the indigenous cultural identity and ways of life.
Philippines National CDD Project. The project tracks the inclusion of excluded groups in local planning and budgeting. The project aims to empower communities in targeted municipalities, ensure their participation in local governance, and help them develop their capacity to design, implement, and manage activities that reduce poverty.
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Maitreyi Bordia Das
Manager, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, World Bank
Social Inclusion: WikiStage & World Bank Group Lima Special Event | Webinars on social inclusion | Africa End Poverty Day 2017 | Foundations for Inclusive Higher Education [PDF in Spanish]
Social Inclusion in Africa | Citizen Engagement | Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)
Social Inclusion Assessment Tool (SiAT) | SiAT Presentation | Poverty and Social Exclusion in India | Inclusion Matters | Dignity centre-stage: four propositions | All in My Head? : The Play of Exclusion and Discrimination in the Labor Market | Social Inclusion in Macro-Level Diagnostics
Integrating LGBTI People into Global Development | What does it mean to be Afro-Peruvian? | Infographic of Indigenous Peoples in LAC | Strengthening the Partnership between the World Bank and the Latin America's | Including Persons with Disability into development: The Way Forward | Uganda: Social Inclusion with Middle-income Status in Sight
Blog series on social inclusion
All blog posts | What is the secret of success in social inclusion? An example from Himachal Pradesh | Three myths about social inclusion in water | Why the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and Afrodescentants matters | Evidence for better-informed decisions and more inclusive policies | A village far, far away: Do we really understand underlying causes of exclusion? | Video blog: How can the World Bank support LGBTI inclusion? | 3 Myths about Social Inclusion in Water | Understanding the nuanced social impact of Kakuma refugees on their Turkana hosts | Putting Ideas to Practice: One Stop in the Journey of "Inclusion Matters"
Social Inclusion: A Transgender Story
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ubasaninyenzi@worldbankgroup.org


NAPA, Calif. (November 18, 2018) – James Yeager, 36, was badly injured when his motorcycle was struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run collision at Holmes and Shetler avenues on Saturday, Nov. 17th.
Police recently located the suspect driver and identified her as Alexandra Benay Varellas, 21, of Napa.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the motorcyclist crashed into Varellas' vehicle when she made a U-turn in front of his bike about 10:28 a.m. He suffered a major foot injury and was taken to Queen of the Valley Medical Center where he underwent multiple surgeries to save his foot. He may still face the possibility of losing his foot.
Varellas failed to stop and assist the injured man. Witnesses manged to get a license plate number from her vehicle.
Later in January, Varellas allegedly struck bus driver Mary Jackson, 62, in a pedestrian accident as she jaywalked across Soscol Avenue. Once again, Varellas reportedly left the scene without stopping to help the victim, the Napa Valley Register said.


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Rail Connection to LAX Will Open By 2024 With Six Stops
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By Adrian Glick Kudler, December 5, 2014
[The Crenshaw Line station that will connect to the people mover]
The long-fuzzy plan to finally build a rail connection to LAX is starting to come into focus—we now have a construction schedule for the automatic people mover that will link Metro to the airport, and a decision on how many stops it'll have inside the airport (three, more on that in a minute). Officials from Los Angeles World Airports, which runs LAX, gave the Metro board an update on the project yesterday, and promised to be finished with the people mover by 2024, when Los Angeles is hoping to host the summer Olympics (the city's improved public transit is central to its bid, which was just submitted to the US Committee). They plan to start environmental studies at the beginning of 2015 and break ground in 2017 or 2018, with five to seven years for construction.
The people mover will connect to a recently-added Ninety-Sixth Street station on the under-construction Crenshaw Line, which is expected to open in 2019. From there it will travel east to a forthcoming rental car facility, and west to an also-forthcoming Intermodal Transportation Facility with parking, shuttle buses, and pick-up/drop-off areas, then to three stations inside LAX. The Source reports that one station will serve Terminals 1, 6, and 7; one for 5 and 6; and one for Tom Bradley International, 3, and 4. The project will also include new moving sidewalks to move passengers between the people mover and the terminals.
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Mr Loverman: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo (Autor)
Treat a loved one to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo...
'[ Mr Loverman is] Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn French
WINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 and FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION 2015
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.
His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?
Mr Loverman is a ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.
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ASSALAMO ALAIKUM... dear brother i have a question that often we hear people say jab ALLAH ka bulawa aye tab hi umrah naseeb hota hai.. can you please clarify it more that how much right is that? Is it correct to say like this and not bay adbi?
The fact is that the invitation from Allah swt has to come for His slave to perform the pilgrimage. Without that it is absolutely not possible. Having said that the invitation does not come by card etc.. One has to yet make duaa and intention and strive to make it happen. If Allah swt wills then He will accept your striving and make the pilgrimage possible. There is no bey adabi in saying what you stated.
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Wow ISNER - AGAIN ! WOOOOOOOOOOO !
Cilic must be seriously unhappy right now !
just sharing my own opinion, which i think converges neatly with spaceboy's servebot hate and your dislike of treesner.
Isner into the finals. Only his third.
watching isner made trump go "dayum, i gotta reconsider my ways"
Bautista Agut and now Isner making the last two Masters1000 finals of the year just highlights how embarrassing 2016 has been for the ATP. No disrespect to them both but just wow.
Stan is our number 3, has he won a single Masters this year? Has he even reached a Masters final?? How about Berdych? Raonic? Thiem?
Mostly nah but bloody John Isner can. Bloody hell.
Whoa ! - Well I'd never have gone for Isner over Cilic in that match.
Rumor is Raonic has called a press conference. Walkover to number 1?
Murray the new number 1.
Bautista Agut and now Isner making the last two Masters1000 finals just highlights how embarrassing this year has been for the ATP. No disrespect to them both but just wow.
Isner has made masters finals before. It didn't make 2012 or 2013 weak did it?
Wtf? How is it possible that Isner won a match without going to a tiebreak? Wow.
Sir John Isner does not come to the net the net comes to Sir John.
Give Sir John 2 championship points and and he will clinch it with one to spare.
I haven't seen Isner play this well in I don't know how long. I don't know what got into him. He really ran for a lot of balls and was stepping in and ripping returns.
The guy clearly wanted to take this match.
NOT TRUE - NEVER NEVER NEVER !
Congrats to Isner on a 3rd Masters final but what the hell happened Marin?
Damn, isner has had the rub of the green this tournament. Wouldn't be surprised if he won it, wouldn't begrudge him that either. Cilic didn't seem to have his head in it today. Must be tired after Basel.
4 years ago and both were in America where he always does well, usually bombs out everywhere else. This one tournament and Isner making the final doesn't make the entire field weak, it's a combination of many things. Although, Isner will make the final by defeating just one top 10 player and that's Marin Cilic at #10. Last year at Shanghai Tomic had to defeat then top 10 Ferrer + Gasquet who was 11th and that was just to reach the QF of a Masters.
This is the final we are talking about here! The level has dropped.
No.1 with a walkover to the final?
Don't be so harsh. Your favorite player was dominating era were everyone was making Master/Slam finals left and right. Isner is a great indoor on paper also with great results in the past.
Don't be so harsh. Your favorite player was dominating era were everyone was making Master/Slam finals left and right. Isner is a great indoor paper with great results in the past.
My favourite player? That's Tomic.. Not really sure what you're getting at there?
some seriously hot lines woman in this match.
When Isner's serving like he did during this match, he's a bloody tough hurdle to take for anyone out there... never saw this coming!
Last year Isner defeated Federer in Paris, the previous he pushed Djokovic. In his both Master finals he defeated Djokovic to reach them, he also defeated Federer on indoor clay in 2012. Last year he reached the SF in MIami with wins against Dimitrov, Raonic and Nishikori in a row. John is not a nobody and certanly is not that suprising that he reached the final here.
You're making my point for me! When he reached those Masters finals, he did so by defeating A+ opponents. Meanwhile in 2016 it reads more like an ATP250. Struff, Ferrer, Sock, Cilic. That's not a strong field to reach a Masters final.
My point is that this year has just been one laugh after another and the level of the entire tour has dropped so much.
If Wimby went back to the kind of court speeds it used to have in the 90s and early 00s then isner would have been a good shout for a title there. Ivanisevic fluked one, don't see why he wouldn't.
Ivanisevic "fluked" one after multiple other finals and semis.
Does isner have more than 1 slam QF?
I'm not whinging about the big 4. I'm complaining that top 10 players can't make these finals and yet bloody Bautista Agut and Isner can.
Where's top 10 Thiem making a Masters final? Nah he lost in his first match.
Stan? He's a multi slam champion and our world number 3, yet didn't make a Masters final all year! He should be winning these! Not losing to Struff!!
Top 10 Berdych? Nah he lost.
I read that list and apart from 2012, they were all great sounding top 10 SFists.
Well the Wimbledon grass back then did play to his advantage which was why he went deep in those tournaments plus he had a servebot rep like Karlovic and Isner do right now. No one ever thought he could win the whole damn thing though, even when he did it it came as a surprise. Rafter was a big favorite.
Open draws are part of the game. Wim13 Murray, Us10 Nadal, WIm0 Sampras. Cilic, Raonic, Murray, Isner on paper are only inferior compared to the 13/15 SF line up. Thiem is Thiem, he is finding his mojo and once he does he would be a great player. The 90's were full with clay court specialist in the WTF whom didn't stand a chance indoors, Kafelnikov didn't win a Master and he was number 1 with 2 SLams.
I am stunned but at the same time Isner played a much better match today than he did yesterday. Isner is just a poison to play against when he plays like this. While Cilic clearly could have played better, he looked comfortable in the rallies against Djokovic, today he could not play too many of those rallies with of course Isner trying to win points in one or two shots. Was rooting for Cilic but happy for Isner...alwayslikedhim!
Wow, what's got into Big Izzy all of a sudden? He's been crappish to average practically all year and then, all of a sudden, he comes alive and starts playing his best at a season-ending indoor Masters tournament and in Europe of all places!!!
This will be his 3rd Masters final and 1st for 3 years (following 2012 Indian Wells and 2013 Cincinnati) and, given the form he displayed today, probably his best chance to finally win one!
Disappointing for Cilic after yesterday's exploits against Novak but he's enjoyed probably his best season to date since 2014 and still has London to look forward to in a week's time.
Nostalgia, romanticism .... the angles Isner finds amaze me more than Ivo's. Technically I find his serve more impressive to watch even though Ivo's serve is slightly more effective it seems if we look at numbers. That is also because Isner has more bad days on serve, but yesterday he was almost unplayable. Actually Murray is the worst draw for him in the final, not because he is the new number 1 but because even peak Djokovic is a better match up for the american.
What a ridiculous serving display from John. You would struggle to find a Sampras match, where he served as well as this.
80% 1st serve, 86% 1st serve win. Sampras's best against a notable player would be 1996 Wimbledon 2R against Philippoussis - 75% 1st serve, 93% 1st serve win, that's better. But Isner's best 1st serve performance is still better - 2012 Olympics 3R vs Tipsarevic, 83% 1st serve, 91% 1st serve win. To add, Karlovic's best serving performance against someone good is 2008 Queen's 3R vs Gonzalez - 79% 1st serve, 92% 1st serve win, 90% 2nd serve win (!!). This is still only his 2nd best serving performance; 2007 Zagreb R1 against Jiri Vanek (6-3 6-2) may well be the greatest servebotting of all time: 30/38 1st serve, 28/30 1st serve win, 8/8 2nd serve win for 36/38 total serve points won, 20 of those 36 were aces. Although Vanek probably tanked that.
Another little thing is that Sampras had to rely more on the shot after the serve. Generally a volley, but maybe a forehand as well. Whereas Ivo and Isner could just bomb down at brilliant angles, more unreturnable serves.


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