Cuban MLB players who fled the island hope no one else has to. Will Trump and Rubio play ball?
Like many before him, Rays outfielder Guillermo Heredia made the dangerous trek from Cuba to MLB. A deal to stop that could run into Trump's hardline approach to the communist island. Months after the pact was reached, there's no clarity.
Just shy of his 24th birthday in January 2015, Guillermo Heredia Jr. stepped onto a boat with dreams of playing baseball in America.
Heredia knew the risks he was taking. Three months earlier, eleven people had starved to death when their homemade vessel stalled in the treacherous Caribbean waters. Those who made it survived on rainwater, rationed out with syringes.
But Cuba's star outfielder could not turn back. His hometown club in Matanzas already suspended him on the suspicion he was defecting. The decision to leave was his, but drifting in the open waters, he no longer felt in control. He thought he may never see his dad and mom and sister again.
Just 130 miles separate Cuba and Mexico — smaller than the width of the Florida peninsula — yet the journey lasted nearly two days and his angst grew palpable.
"The smell of fear," Heredia described it.
Over the past three decades, dozens of Cuban baseball players have made the dangerous escape to play in the United States. If Major League Baseball gets its way, Heredia, now with the Tampa Bay Rays, will be one of the last to risk his life to play here.
An historic three-year pact between Major League Baseball and Cuba announced in December could mean a faster and safer flow of Cuban stars to the big leagues. Current players especially have celebrated it as a humanitarian victory for the next generation.
But the agreement's future is already uncertain. It has become a political football in Washington, where President Donald Trump has ushered in a new era of hostility toward Cuba and its communist leadership.
Three months in and a week before the new baseball season, there's little clarity. Neither Major League Baseball nor the Trump administration would provide a straight answer on whether the three-year deal is currently in effect.
Leading the charge to block it is U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a growing influence in the White House on Latin America policy and an opponent to any normalization of relations with Cuba as long as a Castro is in power.
Cuban baseball players began migrating to the United States more frequently in the mid-1990s.
Because of the Cold War-era trade embargo on Cuba, players had to establish residency in another country before a major league team could sign them. And because Cuban authorities guarded the coast against defections, leaving the island was often a harrowing journey.
Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez ended up stranded on an island in Bahamian waters until the U.S. Coast Guard eventually found him. White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu ate his fake passport to evade Haitian authorities. Former Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez rescued his mother from drowning while crossing the Strait of Florida as a 15-year-old. Blue Jays slugger Kendrys Morales was repeatedly arrested until successfully defecting by raft on his eighth try.
They come for a chance to compete against the best in the world and for a life-changing payday. Players in Cuba reportedly make about $20 a month.
Major League Baseball, team owners, politicians and even fans turned a blind eye to their hardship for years.
But attitudes changed in 2014 when Los Angeles Magazine published a bombshell expose on Dodgers outfielder and Cuban superstar Yasiel Puig. A national audience was introduced to another element of the escape: the smugglers who trafficked these players and extorted them for huge sums of cash.
Two years later, a landmark conviction of two smugglers by a south Florida jury further exposed a lucrative world. One of the defendants pocketed $13.6 million helping two players leave the island, prosecutors said.
Under this cloud, Major League Baseball initiated negotiations with the Cuban government.
In the agreement reached last year, major league teams can sign Cuban players 25 and older and some younger players. In return, the teams must pay Cuba's professional league, the Cuban Baseball Federation, a "release fee" equal to 15 to 20 percent of a major league contract. The players would report to the teams on work visas.
The pact expires in October 2021, but both sides can agree to an extension.
Cuba hardliners like Rubio especially object to paying the Cuban Baseball Federation for its players. Like everything else in Cuba, the baseball league is state-owned, and a portion of these multi-million dollar contracts will end up in the hands of an oppressive government, Rubio has argued. Rubio, the son of Cuban parents who emigrated before Fidel Castro took power, has consistently sided with south Florida exiles against any new business with the island.
Rubio's office wouldn't make the senator available for comment. Nor would it say if the Florida Republican had an alternative proposal to prevent the dangerous trafficking of players.
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Major League Baseball declined to respond to Rubio's concerns. The league has compared its deal to those it has with Japan and South Korea.
But the baseball agreement is political, said Ralph Fernandez, a Tampa lawyer and leader in Florida's exile community. Sports and politics often intersect, like the Olympics at the height of the U.S.-Soviet struggle and the recent protests by black athletes against the criminal justice system.
Fernandez, who has advised and mentored Cuban ballplayers, wishes Major League Baseball had demanded protection for players who speak out against their government. If Cuba retaliates against a player's family, the deal should be off.
The deal between Major League Baseball and Cuba was announced to much fanfare.
But with the agreement's fate now in the hands of the Trump administration, the commissioner's office is treading cautiously.
Neither Major League Baseball or the players' union would talk about the deal. Teams, too, are reticent to speak.
Asked if the deal was in effect, Major League Baseball spokesman Pat Courtney responded that the U.S. Treasury in 2016 issued the league a license "that permits us to move forward with the agreement." He didn't, however, say if they have.
State Department spokeswoman Marlo Cross-Durrant said the agreement is under review and there is no timeline for a decision.
The administration "will continue to take actions to support the human rights of the Cuban people and restrict the Cuban regime's ability to benefit disproportionately from U.S. business at the expense of the Cuban people," Cross-Durrant said.
Soon after taking office, Trump reinstated some travel and trade restrictions eased by President Barack Obama, who famously attended a baseball game in Cuba alongside Raúl Castro. Recently, he opened the door for U.S. nationals to sue companies operating on land seized by the Cuban government after the revolution. And he has been encouraged to block the deal by Rubio and others, including Elliot Abrams, a neoconservative who has advised Republican presidents on Latin America policy since Ronald Reagan.
Meanwhile, Cuba appears to be moving forward as planned. The Cuban Baseball Federation on March 31 will present Manfred with 10 to 15 players eligible for Major League Baseball contracts, said Ismael Sene, a Cuba baseball historian who hosts a weekly television program there. There are a handful of pitchers, a first baseman, a shortstop and a catcher playing in Japan who want to try the major leagues, he said.
Speaking from his Havana home, Sene said the agreement is welcomed by everyday Cubans, who enjoy cheering on their local players against elite competition. But at the mention of Rubio, Sene grew so exasperated, his pneumonia flared up and he could not catch his breath long enough to continue the interview.
There are other motivations for Cuba and Major League Baseball beyond the plight of the players.
Blocked from scouting on the island, signing a Cuban player to a big league contract has been a leap of faith for teams, with a huge price tag if they swing and miss. Improved relations could mean better opportunities for early evaluation of players, said Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins.
The mass exodus of players to foreign leagues, poor economic conditions and the popularity of soccer have lead to a "staggering" decline in the quality of baseball in Cuba, said Kit Krieger, a long-time observer of Cuban baseball who leads expeditions to the island to watch games and tour landmarks.
The agreement between Major League Baseball and Cuba would allow players to return unpunished and perhaps rejoin the national team and even play for local clubs during the offseason. Players are anxious to take advantage of that, Morales of the Blue Jays said through a translator.
Times senior news researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. Contact Steve Contorno at [email protected]. Follow @scontorno.


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The storm is expected to drop 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters) of snow in the St. Louis metropolitan area into eastern Illinois between Friday and early Sunday.
Large sections of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana are under winter weather advisories, and hazardous travel conditions are expected through most of the weekend.
Sally Johnson, a meteorologist in St. Louis, says the storm has the potential to drop the most snow in five or six years. Missouri received 10.8 inches (27 centimeters) on Jan. 5-6, 2014, and 12.4 inches (31.5 centimeters) on March 23-24, 2013.
The University of Missouri's flagship campus in Missouri and St. Louis University shutdown Friday afternoon, along with numerous public schools. Johnson said the heaviest amounts are expected along the Interstate 70 corridor from Columbia to St. Louis.
St. Louis Lambert International Airport spokesman Jeff Lea says airlines are canceling dozens of flights through Saturday morning. Jefferson City officials also announced plans to close city offices early.
In Illinois, the weather service snow would begin in southwestern Illinois and spread northeast throughout the evening, reaching the Chicago area by Saturday morning. Snow totals are to taper to the northeast with parts of southwestern Illinois forecast to receive up to 9 inches (23 centimeters). The Chicago area is expected to get between 1 and 4 inches (2.5 to 10 centimeters) and much of central Illinois was expected to receive 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters).
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In 1974, Givenchy declared that men were Gentlemen. It was the launch of its fragrance Givenchy Gentleman. With this Fragrance, Givenchy settled the modern man, as elegant as charismatic. It was also one of the first times a luxury brand would dare to add a bit of humour on its advertising.
The fragrance itself, it was a beautiful rich woody fragrance with notes of Vetiver and Patchouli. It is one of the most elegant fragrances for men and one of the best Patchouli too.
39 years later, the Gentleman is back with a new fragrance called Gentlemen Only. In this new opus, we see our gentleman again offering his umbrella to a very beautiful lady but the context is a little different.
What is interesting is that we see who is the man. In the 1987 advertising we only see a woman and the man's arm. This time, it is the opposite ! It is like we found the lost piece of the puzzle. Check for yourself!
Here is the TV ad with Australian actor Simon Baker (The Mentalist, Judas Kiss, The Devil wears Prada).
In terms of fragrance, it is a good interpretation of the original. At the same time, with such an amazing base, Givenchy could only do something nice. The woody base is kept, though cleaned up for more modernity and youth. Green Mandarin and Pink Pepper, open the fragrance in a bright vibrant way, leading to a contemporary vision of men. This new intro keeps him a little away from the original and probably more into the market. The risk might be to be linked to other masculine fragrances with a kind of same start. Nevertheless, the base notes are just nicely orchestrated.
The flacon remained the same from the original Gentleman, only the top part was changed. The bright metal cap was replaced by a dark mate one. The colour is also quite good. A soft grey-lavender that unites good taste, timeless elegance and modernity.
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Stephen Longstreet has been charged with a task: find out who's been borrowing his Uncle Anthony's greatest invention, a time machine, without permission. He never expects the miscreant to be a lovely, red-haired woman, or that in apprehending her one dark night he'll fall into the contraption and travel through time with her. But once he's met Bridgetta Maguire and discovered her powerful mission, his heart refuses to let him turn away.
Bridgetta isn't sure how or why the time machine she stumbled upon in a yard in Warsaw, Poland works. She just knows that in a desperate moment she flipped the dials and whipped through time to the workshop where she met Stephen. She can't let Stephen, or her attraction to him, deter her from using the time machine again. Precious young lives are at stake, and to the mothers of Warsaw, Bridgetta represents the sole hope of saving their children.
Fleeing the Nazis, with Stephen badly injured and the time machine damaged, Stephen, Bridgetta and their charges are flung back and forward through time. Is there a way to repair the time machine and win a future together, even though they were born so many years apart?


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On the phone with my father, talking about movies. He was eighty-two at the time, sharp witted, if forgetful and nonlinear. He'd just seen a movie on Netflix that had deeply touched him, though he couldn't remember the name of it. "Foreign," he stammered. "Japanese" came with a cough.
"Departures," I returned without delay, for my father was the only person I knew who reached for the morbidly obscure like me. The movie won an Oscar for best foreign film in 2009, the year I'd gone to see it at the IFC, and until now, three years later, I'd not run into one other person who'd seen it.
I should have known it would be him.
The movie is about a young man, Daigo, who, accepting the limits of his talent as a concert cellist, moves back to his hometown with his wife. Aimless, desperate, he stumbles into an apprenticeship for a nakanshi. An undertaker of sorts, nakanshi prepare the bodies of recently deceased for burial. In rural parts of Japan this is considered a ritual, the body bathed, dressed, and positioned in an intimate, moving ceremony before family members in their home. This, their time to grieve, accept, and say goodbye.
In the movie, which manages to be both sublime and hilarious, Daigo finds not only his true calling, but also a father figure in the nakanshi master, a theme my dad had by now honed in on with me on the phone, no surprise. At the end of the movie, Daigo's real father, who'd been absent for most of his life, calls and tells him that he's dying and would like to see him. There is a long silence, before Daigo agrees.
"Did you know I had the chance to see my father before he died?" my father said, and there was an interminable pause. "No, Dad, you didn't."
"I was forty-eight, in the midst of my divorce, and one day I get a call from my aunt."
You have an aunt?
"She tells me my father's got cancer, and that he would like to see me."
I was a bit dumbfounded. As my father had cryptically told it, his father left him when he was a boy, and he'd not seen or heard from him since.
"I didn't go," he said, regret in his voice.
"I understand, Dad." It was just something to say, for I'm not sure I did, would, or could ever understand the depth of my father's loss. Standing at the window, I looked out onto the lights of the city in which I lived now, the city far and opposite the sandy beaches of my childhood, where my father still lived, and a loneliness swept through me. "Well," I said into the silence, in a tone that said it was time to wrap things up.
"Hey!" he said, as if a light bulb had just gone on.
I closed my eyes.
"Did I tell you about that other movie I saw?"
I opened them.
But he couldn't remember the name of that other movie, so I said, "Crazy Heart."
He said, "How did you know?"
"I just did."
I always did, often before he did.
He goes on to describe the scene in which Jeff Bridges' character, Bad Blake, calls his son and apologizes for being a sorry ass of a father, for not being around much. Then my dad pauses to address me again, "Did I ever tell you that my father called me once?"
Silence on my end, for I'd often asked my father if his father had tried to contact him, for any small tidbit or anecdote from his childhood for that matter, but all I ever got back was a blank and distant stare, and now, as he went on to explain that long lost call, and why nothing ever came of it, I stood wondering what movie we might turn to next, and if we might not, in fact, get to the bottom of things in just this way.


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Aron H. Lichtman, Ph.D.
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Dr. Lichtman earned his Ph.D. at Dartmouth College in 1989, conducted a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of the late Dr. Billy R. Martin in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology from 1989-1993, and then joined the faculty at VCU where he rose to the level of Professor. He assumed the role of Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in 2015 in the School of Pharmacy. Dr. Lichtman possesses over 25 years of experience as a behavioral pharmacologist investigating the pharmacological effects of cannabinoids and elucidating the physiological function of the endogenous cannabinoid system using a wide range laboratory animal models of pain and inflammation, drug abuse, and learning and memory. Key scientific contributions include elucidating the consequences of inhibiting and genetically deleting endocannabinoid regulating enzymes, including fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL), and diacylglycerol lipase (DAGL). Additionally, the Lichtman laboratory has elucidated the neural substrates of CB1 receptor mediated antinociception and memory impairment. Dr. Lichtman laboratory has been continuously funded for over 20 years on numerous NIH-funded grants (e.g., R01, R21, P01, P30, and P50 awards). He has mentored over 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom were supported by F31, F32, and T32 grants. Finally, Dr. Lichtman has collaborated with other scientists at VCU, as well as throughout the United States and international community.
B.A., Psychology (Rutgers College, 1984)
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology (Dartmouth College, 1989)
(2009 - Present) Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, VCU
(2015 - Present) Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, School of Pharmacy, VCU
Understanding the physiological function of the endocannabinoid system
Elucidating the mechanisms of action underlying the pharmacological effects of THC and other cannabinoids
Investigating medicinal uses of cannabinoids
Determining the impact of the drugs of abuse via the inhalation route of administration


The Open Knowledge Foundation has been working for some time on promoting knowledge 'which anyone is free to use, re-use and redistribute without legal, social or technological restriction'. (The comprehensive definition of Open Knowledge is also interesting as it makes explicit reference to 'government and other administrative information'.
As part of their work, OKF have developed a tool to package up information resources in a model which will be familiar to anyone working with open source packages and languages such as Perl. This tool, the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, now includes packages for some of the information that has been released as part of the Task Force's work.
As more data is released into the public domain, signposting it in smart ways will become increasingly important. Getting to the right data and being offered clear information about its technical and legal characteristics is a critical part of a sound access layer. While these are still early days for CKAN this does look like a promising approach.


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Nasce in un'umile famiglia. Il padre che fabbricava carri muore prematuramente lasciando alla vedova la cura dei cinque figli.
Mauro essendo il maggiore dovette collaborare al bilancio familiare abbinando agli studi il lavoro da artigiano, grazie al quale conobbe ben presto il valore sociale e formativo del lavoro.

Nel 1913 conclude gli studi magistrali diventando un maestro di scuola elementare.

Successivamente, anche grazie alla conoscenza personale di altri pedagogisti italiani del suo tempo come Giuseppe Lombardo Radice e Giovanni Modugno si dedicò alla diffusione dell'educazione e dell'istruzione nei confronti dei più giovani in tutto il Sud-Italia.

Conosce Radice attraverso la sua opera "Lezioni di didattica. Ricordi di esperienza magistrale" e rimane affascinato dal suo modo di conciliare i valori spirituali con l'insegnamento. Nasce fra i due un rapporto di reciproca stima che dura fino alla morte del pedagogista Catanese. in un primo tempo ne abbraccia l'idealismo che poi supera in favore di un'attenzione al momento situazionale dell'educazione.

Dal 1933 stringe un'amicizia col pedagogista bitontino Giovanni Modugno. Quest'ultimo diventa un "maestro" per Mauro Carella: i due condividono la profonda fede cristiana, fede che contraddistingue il loro operato professionale. Modugno apprezza il modo di insegnare del maestro canosino, improntato da una stretta vicinanza agli alunni e alle loro famiglie. Carella permette la piena espressione della spontaneità dei ragazzi, ma Giovanni Modugno lo mette all'allerta sul fato che ciò potrebbe pregiudicarne la disciplina.

Lo stile d'insegnamento di Mauro Carella
Il suo modo d'insegnare fu particolarmente innovativo per i suoi tempi e si basò sulla lettura e sui valori dell'arte e della religione.

Riconobbe l'importanza del valore educativo della scuola ma promosse anche il coinvolgimento della comunità nello sviluppo dei giovani. Iniziò la sua opera educativa proprio da Canosa di Puglia (dove fonda una biblioteca). Conoscendo molto bene la realtà del suo territorio, caratterizzata da un'estrema povertà e da una ignoranza diffusa, si prodigò in prima persona nell'aiutare i propri alunni e le loro famiglie. Si occupò non solo del rendimento scolastico dei bambini ma anche del loro comportamento e della loro igiene, cercando di acquisire la loro fiducia. L'alunno viene lasciato libero di esprimere la propria spontaneità, di costruire la propria personalità e di rielaborare le conoscenze apprese (come è testimoniato da numerosi saggi). I compiti assegnati riguardavano la poesia, la notazione di stati d'animo o la descrizione della natura.

La sua azione era ispirata dai valori del Cristianesimo. Scrisse diverse agiografie destinate ai bambini con uno stile di scrittura molto semplice. Molto era richiesto sulla lettura; ma non tanto dei testi scolastici, quanto di scritti che riguardano l'uomo, la vita e la religione. Alcune letture erano costituite dalle riduzioni dell'Iliade, dell'Eneide, della Divina Commedia, de I promessi sposi e di Cuore. Carella era convinto di poter raggiungere ed alimentare, attraverso la lettura, l'animo dei fanciulli. Essa era il mezzo capace di raggiungere l'educazione integrale della personalità del lettore e non solo uno strumento per l'educazione linguistica.

Opere
Il lavoro come problema educativo, Tip. Casa del Sacro Cuore, Sant'Agata di Puglia, 1940
Comunione d'anime, Tip. Casa del Sacro Cuore, Sant'Agata di Puglia, 1952
La lettura come formazione della personalità infantile, Tip. Casa del Sacro Cuore, Sant'Agata di Puglia, 1956
Anime che si aprono alla vita, Tip. Casa del Sacro Cuore, Sant'Agata di Puglia, 1958
Le mie ricchezze - testimonianze della mia opera di educatore, Tip. Casa del Sacro Cuore, Sant'Agata di Puglia, 1966
Bisbigli d'anime, Ed. La Scuola, Brescia, 1950

Bibliografia
Giuseppe Lombardo Radice, Pedagogia di apostoli e di operai (Mauro da Canosa e i suoi fanciulli), Laterza, Bari, 1935
Vittoriano Caporale, Mauro Carella. Un maestro di altri tempi, Ed. Cacucci, Bari, 2003, ISBN 88-8422-252-4

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On The Road - Atlanta
After getting home from the St. Pete concert, and after about an hour of being too wired to go to sleep but too tired to do anything but eat pizza and lay on my bed chugging water, I CRASHED. But, there wasn't too much time to sleep...before I knew it, Sarah's alarm was going off and we somehow woke up to drive to Atlanta to do the whole crazy thing over again. I felt...well honestly really bad that morning. I was coming off of a week of Hurricane Irma evacuation (aka barely any sleep and lots of stress and anxiety), a weekend of travelling to Kentucky, playing four live gigs in three days, a day of camping in line, and over two hours of jumping and screaming in the sweltering front row. BUT, I've done a lot of things whilst under the weather, both with and without a voice. As a performer with a notoriously weak immune system, you just learn how to rally. God bless Sarah for being patient with me while I was being the most annoying...okay here we go! Thoughts from Atlanta!
And in the moment, when the dust is spun
You'll have time for contemplation underneath the desert sun…
The entire Hanson catalogue of music ALMOST takes you all the way from St. Pete to Atlanta and back again. We didn't go in chronological order, and we even listened to Snowed In and some of the very deepest cuts, but we almost made it all the way home before switching over my second favorite musical trio - The Lonely Island.
It is possible to be just as excited for your best friend's meet and greet as you would be for your own. Sarah got a meet and greet for Atlanta and at first, I'm not going to lie, I was pretty jealous. BUT, I was mostly excited for her. And when we got to the venue and had to be split up (a travesty), I found myself bragging to the people around me that she was about to meet the guys and peeking into the window to watch when she went in (WHAT?! That's not weird!! #codependent). I couldn't figure out why I was nervous!! Even after I went into the venue, I was shaking with excitement FOR HER, and seeing her huge smile was just as good as having the experience myself!
The line in Atlanta was the polar opposite of St. Pete. Both line experiences were awesome for different reasons, but they were vastly different. In St. Pete, we got there hours before the sun rose and watched as the line continued to grow throughout the day. We were asked by countless people who we were waiting for, and our answer caused some pretty bewildered faces. By 5pm the line was blocks long. In Atlanta, I lined up 5:30pm and was not far from the door. I was surrounded by people who were clearly more casual fans, and some people who admitted to not knowing that Hanson was even still playing music until they caught wind of this tour. But I will say that everyone around me was in awesome spirits, and genuinely excited for the show, which made me really happy. There was even a woman who kept talking about how the only band she would see more than once was the Backstreet Boys and I was like girl, I get you. I understand you.
Getting front row in St. Pete was an EVENT. Getting front row in Atlanta was literally me walking up to the barricade and meeting Sarah right in the middle with literally no resistance. So...that was cool.
Again, nothing will beat those first five songs and the epic transitions woven in between them. Utterly obsessed forever.
Highlights of the night:
Great Divide was pretty epic. As we all know, The Walk isn't my favorite album and it's rarely one I just listen to when I want to listen to Hanson. But hearing this passionate, intense song live was awesome.
Go was once again a highlight for me. Zac is just...so...amazing live and like...yeah. This kind of felt like Zac's show to me. He was so on point and really just leaving it all out there on the stage for us (I think he was just really excited for his new 26").
I think I blacked out during Juliet in St. Pete (it was just a lot okay? I was overwhelmed), but it was definitely a high point for me in Atlanta.
Strong Enough to Break made me cry very hard...AGAIN.
Penny, always. My love for this song has taken on a life of it's own, but I always feel a smile from someone during it, and here's why.
With You In Your Dreams used to make me emotional when I was much younger, but I've been pretty desensitized to it. I've heard it so many times. This night, however, I got pretty choked up! This is a very messed up thought process so, bear with me, but right before they started singing Ike said that the song was going out to anyone who had lost someone special to them...cool, that's a normal sentiment. But I'm me, I have a whole host of dead dad issues, and I love to make everything dramatic and sappy. So for some crazy reason, I started thinking about their kids (all gazillion of them), and how when these three men die, their kids are going to have this song. This song is one of many that, to me, are about my Dad. They are going to have their actual dads saying "I'll be with you in your dreams," and that is such an amazing gift. Why do I do this to myself?! Why is this what my brain does?! So anyway I cried for the SECOND time that night. Typical.
I Was Born is just so stunning live. I mean...listen. It took me a while to warm up to the song. When we first heard bits of it, I was pretty much ready to run a campaign to get "Feeling Alive" to be the 25th Anniversary song instead of the song we got. But at the end of the day, and with Taylor's speech before the song, and hearing everyone scream "BEFORE"...it's a really special moment of the night.
There's something to be said for having an audience comprised of casual or returning fans. And that is that everyone is like...SUPER excited to hear MmmBop. So yeah, MmmBop was pretty cool.
Three words. IN. THE. CITY.
They played I Don't Want To Go Home for the final encore and it really is the BEST last song. I don't think I'll ever get sick of this new fan anthem. We don't want to go hooooome! Ever!!!!!
This crowd was one of the loudest I've ever heard!! It was the first time since seeing BSB (again, with the BSB!!!) Millenium tour in 1999 that I had to cover my ears because the sound of the screams was rattling my skull.
Even though I told myself I would take it easy and not scream, of course I didn't do those things because I have no self control at concerts!! None!!! So I could tell my voice was toast as soon as the lights came back up. But that was okay...worth it. I decided I still wanted to stagedoor, even if it was just to squeak out a few words and snap a picture.
The bus line was LONG, but we had plenty of entertainment because there were lots of people who used the concert as an opportunity to...well...drink a lot! Living their best lives, honestly.
Concert stagedooring is different than Broadway stagedooring. And listen, that's a thing that I KNOW but it still shocks me every time. Maybe because I have spent so many hours of my life loitering on 49th street outside of the Eugene O'Neill theatre so that is my normal, but I never seem to remember how long it takes after concerts. Sarah and I waited patiently (props to her because I literally wasn't speaking because I'm a FREAK who FREAKS OUT when I start losing my voice) and Zac came out and was incredibly nice and gracious. He made time for the every single person in the very long line.
Even when you can only squeak out a greeting and ask for a selfie, meeting your biggest songwriting influence is the coolest thing in the world. I didn't have time or energy or the voice to really get into any shop talk with him (I'll have more chances later), but I was very grateful to meet Zac and have a silly moment with him. That boy is literally why I am the kind of lyricist I am today, so I was just a tiny bit star struck. After waiting a little longer for the other guys, I decided I was too tired and too hungry and just a tiny bit too cranky to wait any longer. Sarah and I waved goodbye to our concert buddies and headed back to the hotel.
Even though I was too hungry to even stomach the fast food we got on the way back to the hotel, and even though the next day I would have no voice at all, and even though I would cry because I was so tired and frustrated at my body shutting down, I fell asleep indescribably happy that night. There really is nothing like Hanson shows, and experiencing them with your best friend is...kind of the best. It was such an honor to be by Sarah's side for her first Hanson concert, and to watch her watch them. Not a day goes by that I don't thank the powers at be for putting me in a show I didn't even audition for that she happened to be in, so that almost two years later we could be squeezing each other's hands when the boys sang "hold on to the ones who really care, in the end they'll be the only one's there." Thanks for being my front row buddy, weirdo! Okay before this gets too sappy, I'm gonna wrap it up.
See you in Anaheim, boys!!
Peace, Love, and no goats just normal stuff,
Labels: 2017, Atlanta, Hanson, hanson 25, MOE, MOE tour, On the road, review, tour review, tour stories
Holly October 5, 2017 at 8:29 AM
I really liked this perspective on "With You In Your Dreams." I never thought about it that way before and it's still a little sad, but you're right and I like the idea that it might be comforting to them one day.
The Glory of the Spring
How a gym class helped my recovery...
On The Road - St. Pete


Selçuklu Holding's HR management undertakes the mission of increasing the quality of business life and raising the labor force's productivity in order to contribute to the organizational effectiveness. It also maintains its activities in training and development of human resources within a strategic management concept through a proactive approach.
Training activities aim at making positive changes in our employees' judgments, rational decision-making, behavior and attitudes, habits and understanding in order to ensure they fulfill current and future duties within the Holding and its subsidiaries more effectively.
The training process begins with an orientation program to facilitate the adaptation of newly hired employees to their work, the company and its organizational culture and values. The purpose is to ensure that newly hired employees put faith in Selçuklu Holding and acquire the motivation to work. The learning process continues with improvement activities that lead to outstanding performance and success.
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Q: Listing latest modified sub-directories So I'm trying to get the sub directory that was modified last.
IE.
1727 has 8 backups but I want my script I'm writing to only grep the contents of the latest backup directory. Every backup that gets run, gets a new subdirectory under the corresponding parent directory.
[root@localhost backups]# find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -not -empty -type d | grep -v logs
./1014/backup_1083219
./1014/backup_1082586
./1014/backup_1081955
./1014/backup_1081334
./1014/backup_1089443
./1014/backup_1080711
./1014/backup_1090690
./1014/backup_1091313
./1014/backup_1090062
./350/backup_1043735
./350/backup_1087678
./350/backup_1088301
./350/backup_1090170
./350/backup_222862
./350/backup_1059530
./350/backup_1088925
./350/backup_1091416
./350/backup_1089549
./350/backup_1090793
./1854/backup_1091300
./460/backup_1089536
./460/backup_1090781
./460/backup_1090159
./460/backup_1086423
./460/backup_1087045

I know I can append a | ls -td -- */ but that still doesn't help me with providing a list of the directories with only the latest sub directory
Ideally I'd want something like the following as the output (assuming the subfolders are all the latest modified ones)
./1727/backup_1059492
./1113/backup_862734
./881/backup_1088974
./1014/backup_1089443
./350/backup_1059530
./1854/backup_1091300
./460/backup_1086423

The more I think about this, I think I might need a while loop to work through all the directories and subdirectories but I'm not sure.

A: In zsh, you could do:
for d (<->(NF)) print -rC1 -- $d/backup_<->(N/om[1])

For the newest¹ backup_xxx subdir of each yyy dir.
Or:
for d (<->(NF)) print -rC1 -- $d/backup_<->(N/n[-1])

For the one with the highest number.

*

*<-> matches any sequence of ASCII decimal digits.

*(NF), (N/n[-1])... specify glob qualifiers

*/ selects files of type directory

*F selects Full directories (like / but excludes empty directories).

*n turns on numericglobsort for that glob, for numeric ordering when filenames contain sequences of decimal digits.

*om orders by modification time (from newest to oldest like ls -t).

*[1] selects the first, [-1] the last.

*print -rC1 -- prints raw on 1 Column.

Another approach could be to list those files from newest to oldest one per line and use awk to select the first of each top directory. That's OK here as long as we restrict the file list to files with such tamed name:
print -rC1 -- <->/backup_<->(N/om) | awk -F/ '!seen[$1]++'

(or nOn instead of om for highest <number> among backup_<number> subdirectories).
There's a difference with the previous solution in that it will follow the symlinks in the current directory, as if you had used <->(N-F) instead of <->(NF) in the previous approach.
With GNU find, it could also be done with:
LC_ALL=C find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -regextype posix-extended \
  -regex './[0-9]+/backup_[0-9]+' -type d -printf '%T@/%P\n' |
  sort -rn |
  awk -F/ '!seen[$2]++ {print $2"/"$3"}'

Or for highest <number> among backup_<number> subdirectories:
LC_ALL=C find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -regextype posix-extended \
  -regex './[0-9]+/backup_[0-9]+' -type d -printf '%P\n' |
  sort -t_ -k2rn |
  awk -F/ '!seen[$2]++'

To get those directories as one list so you can pass it to one grep invocation for instance:
(){ dirs=( $^@/backup_<->(N/om[1]) ) } <->(NF)
(( $#dirs )) && grep -re pattern -- $dirs

Or since the directory names are very tame here and don't contain any of the characters special to xargs, pick any of the solutions above and pipe to xargs -r grep -re pattern -- (-r being a GNU extension, both for xargs and grep though with unrelated meanings).
With untamed directory names, you'd use NUL-delimited records (add the -N option to print or -v ORS='\0' to gawk) and add the -0 option to xargs.

¹ Bearing in mind that the modification time of a directory is updated any time an entry is added / removed / renamed in it, not when data in any file within is modified, so it may not be what you actually want.

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Het Borstkruis van de Stichting Vriendenkring van oud-Natzweilers is een onderscheiding van de Vriendenkring van oud-Natzweilers. De meeste van deze particuliere onderscheidingen mogen niet op militaire uniformen worden gedragen maar voor dit kruis is een uitzondering gemaakt. Op 1 september 1976 verleende het ministerie van Defensie toestemming aan diegenen die in de jaren 1940-1945 in het concentratiekamp Natzweiler gevangen hebben gezeten om het Herdenkingskruis op hun militaire uniform te dragen. Het herdenkingskruis is daardoor een officieel erkende onderscheiding geworden.
Het eerste Herdenkingskruis werd op 16 oktober 1976 door de chef van het militair huis der Koningin, de vice-admiraal E. Roest uitgereikt. Er zijn 109 verleningen van het Herdenkingskruis bekend.

Het kruis wordt ook wel "Nacht-und-Nebel-Herdenkingskruis van de Stichting Vriendenkring van oud-Natzweilers 1940-1945" , "Nacht-und-Nebel-Herdenkingskruis 1940-1945" en "NN-Herdenkingskruis" genoemd. De omstandigheden in dit kamp, aangelegd om een granietgroeve van dwangarbeiders te voorzien waren onmenselijk en er vielen duizenden doden.

Concentratiekamp Natzweiler in de Elzas was een van de beruchtste concentratiekampen van het Derde Rijk.

Het kruis werd door de veteranen bedacht om de Nederlanders die tijdens de Duitse bezetting van 1940 tot 1945 als "Nacht und Nebel" gevangene in het concentratiekamp Natzweiler hebben verbleven te decoreren.
Een van de wijzen waarop de SS de bevolking van West-Europa terroriseerde was het in 1942 gestarte programma "Nacht und Nebel". Men nam burgers gevangen die vervolgens spoorloos in het uitgebreide stelsel van gevangenissen en kampen verdwenen. Men liet de buitenwereld bewust in het ongewisse over hun lot. De meeste van de Nederlandse slachtoffers van deze actie kwamen in Natzweiler terecht. In 1942 was ook het concentratiekamp Groß-Rosen aangewezen als Nacht und Nebel kamp. Ook daar zijn enige tientallen Nederlandse politieke gevangenen, voornamelijk communisten, om het leven gekomen

Het versiersel
Het borstkruis is een verzilverd en gepatineerd bronzen balkenkruis. De uiteinden van de vier armen zijn ingekeept. Op de horizontale armen van het kruis zijn de jaartallen "1940 en 1945" afgebeeld. In het midden van het kruis bevindt zich een rond, door prikkeldraad omgeven zilveren medaillon met tweemaal een rode geëmailleerde "N".
De keerzijde van het kruis is vlak en van een ophangmechanisme in de vorm van een speld voorzien. Op de keerzijde van de kruisen is een nummer ingeslagen. Dit nummer komt overeen met het nummer op de bijbehorende oorkonde. Het ontwerp is van de bekende ontwerper van militaire onderscheidingen en uniformen Frans Smits.

De onderscheiding werd ingesteld en uitgereikt op een moment dat er onder de weggevoerden van de Nacht-und-Nebel actie vrijwel geen militairen in actieve dienst meer konden zijn maar eervol ontslagen officieren mogen hun uniform ook na hun pensionering blijven dragen. Met het oog op dit privilege is er ook een baton vervaardigd. Dit baton is lichtblauw en op de stof is een klein zilveren kruisje bevestigd. In de officiële richtlijnen voor Nederlandse uniformen komt dit baton niet voor. Men draagt het borstkruis zèlf op de linkerborst en dan is het niet gebruikelijk om ook een baton te dragen.

Rond 2005 werd ook een zilverkleurige medaille met aan de voorzijde een afbeelding van het Borstkruis van de Stichting Vriendenkring van oud-Natzweilers geslagen. Deze draagmedaille wordt aan een lichtblauwe lint op de linkerborst gedragen. De medaille heeft geen erkenning van het ministerie van Defensie gekregen.

Namenlijst
Van de 109 ontvangers hebben de volgende personen een eigen artikel:
 Pim Boellaard
 Bib van Lanschot
 Daniël Quirin Mulock Houwer
 Pim Reijntjes
 Hans Teengs Gerritsen

Literatuur
Bert Keers, "Het Nacht und Nebel Herdenkingskruis", in "Decorare" 19
Jacques Bartels en Bas Kist, "Véél Veren - Frans Smits, militair stylist", 1999

Onderscheiding in Nederland


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McConnell open to Feinstein joining Republican caucus
A Kentucky-based political operative with longtime ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tells The Chronicle that McConnell is "very open to the idea" of California Senator Diane Feinstein joining the Republican caucus "particularly in an evenly divided chamber".
Feinstein has been the target of left-wing criticism over her collegial handling of the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in her role as ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. The episode prompted Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to publicly admonish her for not more aggressively undermining Barrett's nomination — essentially threatening to dethrone her from the chairmanship of that committee if the Democrats retake the Senate.
At 87 years old, and with four more years in her current term, Feinstein is unlikely to retain the Democratic Party's nomination in 2024. But California Republicans — who nominated a Democrat to run on the party's line for United States Senate in the last election cycle — would "eagerly welcome" Feinstein ("with her 28 years of seniority") on its ballot line.
The centrist Democrat and former Mayor of San Francisco is finding that her bipartisan style and collegial way of approaching Senate business put her increasingly out of step with the left flank of the party.
McConnell has already reached out to a handful of influential California Republicans to gauge their feedback. Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Peter Thiel are "ecstatically supportive" of extending a formal and public invitation to Feinstein — "presuming key GOP staff additions at her field offices".
The Senate is very evenly divided, and depending on the outcome of the election, control of the chamber could hinge on Feinstein's single vote.
If the GOP only holds 49 seats and Feinstein is willing to swing control of the chamber to the Republicans, she would have the leverage to demand whatever she would like in such an arrangement — perhaps the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee or a power sharing arrangement with McConnell that makes her the "defacto co-Leader" of the majority.
For a Republican Party that is looking for a way to be more relevant in California's statewide elections, the situation could be a godsend.
"Having the powers of incumbency, including a state organization and all of the staff, donor, and constituent services infrastructure that brings to the table, is no small advantage," the political operative explains. "It will also allow Republicans to select Feinstein's eventual Republican successor, presumably in 2030, and to situate her at Feinstein's apprentice in the office."
Feinstein's embrace of Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham at the conclusion of Senate confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett infuriated left wing members of the Democrat caucus.
Tribal leaders ask Pelosi to step aside ahead of midterms
(December 28, 2021) — Clint Halftown, the federally recognized leader of the Cayuga Nation of New York, has privately asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi to step aside from the Speakership post as soon as possible but certainly prior to next spring's
As Sweet's bid for federal bench fails, some look to Judge Montour
Donald Trump is unlikely to nominate Kathleen Sweet to fill the federal court vacancy here, left by Judge William Skretny, who has moved on to senior status on March 8, 2015. Skretny was appointed to the bench in 1990 by
Schumer presses Bureau of Indian Affairs to restore aid for Native American students in six WNY school districts
Schumer Urges BIA To Do Its Job And Sign Off On Vital Funding For WNY Districts U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today urged the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to immediately sign off on the Indian Lands Source Check forms


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5 Famous Fictional Characters' Names In Other Languages
Something about "Käsna-Kalle Kantpüks" just has a nice ring to it.
You might assume that your favorite characters from your go-to TV shows, books and movies go by the same names wherever they're found across the world. How could Dumbledore ever not be "Dumbledore"? Does Donald Duck keep his name in Italy, Finland and Bulgaria? Translating pop culture content from one language to another is often not very straightforward. It involves tweaking all sorts of elements to fit new cultural and linguistic contexts, often with some silly results. Check out these famous fictional characters' names in other languages.
Everyone's favorite half-moon-spectacled headmaster from the Harry Potter series has been getting a lot of attention lately for his role in the most recent Fantastic Beasts movie. He's Albus Dumbledore in the original linguistic renditions of the books and movies, but his name's not the same in most of the non-English world:
Dutch: Albus Perkamentus (in Dutch, perkament means "parchment")
Italian: Albus Silente ("Silent")
Afrikaans: Albus Dompeldorius
Japanese: アルバス・ダンブルドア Arubasu Danburudoa (the "nipponized" garaigo form of his English name)
Czech: Albus Brumbál (this one stays true to the "bumblebee" that inspired the name "Dumbledore")
He can be ill-tempered and fussy, but you can't help but love that famous Disney duck. The way he waddles, his quintessential sailor get-up and his famed alaryngeal vocalization all make him instantly recognizable across the planet. English speakers call him Donald Duck, but that's not necessarily the case in other parts of the world. Here are his names in other languages:
Danish: Anders And
Finnish: Aku Ankka
Italian: (Paolino) Paperino
Spanish: El Pato Donald
Bulgarian: Patoka Donald
Lithuanian: Antulis Donaldas
The beloved Japanese Pokémon series has caught on like wildfire since its inception, spurring translations into dozens of languages worldwide. You might not have known that the name for Pikachu across most languages is just that—"Pikachu" (or some transliteration of it). That's not very interesting. Instead, enjoy the names for his adorable shelled water-type Pokémon pal Squirtle (who, one can argue, is cuter anyway):
German: Schiggy (it comes from Schildkröte, or "turtle")
French: Carapuce (a portmanteau of carapace, "shell," and puce, "cute")
Japanese: ゼニガメ Zenigame (his original name before it was localized to English)
Korean: 꼬부기 Kkobugi (from 꼬마 kkoma, "kid," and 거북이 geobugi, "turtle")
Spanish: Squirtle (Spanish phonetics would give it the pronunciation skeert-lay)
The undersea, patty-flipping, pineapple-dwelling titular character of the show Spongebob Squarepants is basically an international phenomenon. The show has been dubbed and translated into more than two dozen languages, and it's served as the muse for countless memes across the weird and wacky internet. Here's Spongebob's full name in languages across the world:
Estonian: Käsna-Kalle Kantpüks
Albanian: Bob Sfungjeri Pantallona-katrori
Danish: SvampeBob Firkant
Spanish: Bob Esponja Pantalones Cuadrados
Turkish: SüngerBob KarePantolon
Before she was a Disney princess, she was the ash-covered, down-on-her-luck girl next door out of 17th-century French literature. She made her way into the 1812 collection of folk tales compiled by the Brothers Grimm, and her rags-to-riches redemption tale has become the ultimate glow-up story for generations. Though today she mostly goes by her English name around the world, here's what Cinderella has been called in different languages:
German: Aschenputtel (aschen, "ashes," + puttel, an old Hessian word for "dirty girl")
Spanish: Cenicienta
French: Cendrillon (her original name in Charles Perrault's 1697 work Histoire ou contes du temp passé)
Italian: Cenerentola
Swedish: Askungen
Learn a new language today.
David Doochin
David is a content producer for Babbel USA, where he writes for Babbel Magazine and oversees Babbel's presence on Quora. He's a native of Nashville and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied linguistics and history. Before Babbel he worked at Quizlet and Atlas Obscura. A geek for grammar and an editorial enthusiast, he speaks Spanish (and dabbles in German, Dutch, Afrikaans and Italian). When he's not curating his Instagram meme collection, you can find him spending too much money on food and exploring new cities around the world.
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After Your Hair Sheds Or Falls Out, How Lengthy Does It Take It To Start
The "mod" motion of the Sixties was not only a trend or a sort of music, but a way of life. As talked about Gothic clothing uses dark shades instead of extravagant colours to go along with the dark temper. As this happened, city fashion turned more broadly recognised and noted by manufacturers outdoors of the sportswear industry. After its mid 1960s heyday, mod clothing types were revived a number of times, most notably in Britain within the late Nineteen Seventies and within the United States within the early Eighties.
Considered an city type, the mods typically fought towards the rockers, a rougher youth-centric group with roots in rural areas of Britain, known for wearing leather and riding bikes relatively than colourful Italian scooters. You see ladies; men don't want you sporting the latest clothes ramped in the vogue runway.
The fashion industry now features formal clothing not just for grown-ups however for boys as well. The age of the wearer is essential as it would decide what sort of colors and designs are fit for them. The mod style was embraced by young men and women who needed a youth-centric model rather than the "boring" kinds worn by their mother and father.
Or perhaps sporting a "come hither", little black costume to an out of doors family cookout as opposed to a cute summer season gown and flirty strappy sandals with all the trimmings, could be sending the unsuitable message about who you are. The ladies style equipment of at this time accommodate nearly every look and offers clothing its own voice.
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Do you dare to go leopard? Many people began contemplating disgrace to be the only reason behind clothing, but as time flew by individuals read an increasing number of hence provided quite a lot of other theories. If the wearer is older, then experimentation on the model, sample and coloration could be made.
For ladies, the corset became widespread during this time interval. Female marriage ceremony company have extra leeway in what they put on, which makes it extra fun to dress, but additionally more confusing. The model produces men's, girls's and kids's garments and every season introduces greater than 2000 models of personalized denims for the brand new collection, following the latest developments of the world style.
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Throughout the Renaissance period, the rich and extra affluent members of a city, city, or area often wore elaborate and highly-embellished clothing that was hand crafted from quite a lot of wealthy and expensive fabrics and finishes. Also take into account the color, becoming and style of the apparel you intend to purchase on your teenager as it could be too stiff or uncomfortable for the wearer. A take a look at classic clothing ads in a vogue school library reveals that carrying new clothes on Easter was one thing every wholesome, All-American household was expected to do.
What Did Males Wear In The 1920s?
Brunch weddings have turn out to be more and more in style lately. A clothing allowance permits them to choose the type of clothing they want, whether it's pantyhose, socks, footwear, suits, or dress shirts. Later in the decade, some started to look to a more refined look, with double-breasted suits and costume footwear now changing into part of the required clothing.
Colin's represents a whole production cycle, together with draft designing of denims fashions, construction, curve gradation, stitching of garments items, packing and delivery of ready goods to the purchasers. To create its Fixer Jeans impressed by work put on pants dating again to the 1940's, the manufacturer makes use of 12 oz of proper-hand twill selvedge denim from KURO, Japan.
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There was pandemonium in the Sokoto State House of Assembly Tuesday when  10 members of the assembly from the All Progressives Congress (APC) attempted to impeach the Speaker, Alhaji Salihu Maidaji.
Trouble started  when the Speaker arrived the chamber and ordered the House Leader to commence the proceedings.
Thus, in a counter move,  the Deputy Assembly Leader, Hon. Ibrahim Kabiru Kware, representing Kware constituency,  led other aggrieved lawmakers by chanting "barawo barawo" in Hausa language meaning a "thief".
However, this caused serious commotion as members engaged the Speaker in free for all fight which caused the assembly mace to be broken.
The Speaker was immediately whisked away by security operatives as he escaped with the broken mace.
Addressing journalists shortly after the fracas, the spokesman of the  aggrieved l0 lawmakers, Hon. Sani Yakubu, representing Gudu constituency, accused the Speaker of being a stooge of the executive.
He also accused the Speaker of misappropriation of the funds allotted to the assembly and diverting it for his personal use.
Yakubu lamented that the assembly had so far approved loan of over N100 billion for the state government, which according to him may plunge the state into massive debt that it would not be able to pay for a very long time.
"The Speaker has been spending money recklessly without the approval of the assembly. We have so far approved over N100 billion loan to the state government and from now to next year,  if nothing is done, Sokoto will not be able to pay salary by next year.
"He has made himself a stooge of the executive arm of government and equally put Sokoto in financial mess because by the time they start servicing the loan, the government may not be able to pay salary of its workers.
"I have been in the assembly since 2007 and I have never seen a corrupt leader like the present speaker. He is the most corrupt Speaker we have seen.
Yakubu disclosed that the 10 members had already concluded plans to impeach the Speaker in the next sitting.
Responding, the Speaker of the assembly, Alhaji Salihu Maidaji, described the allegation as false, saying there was no iota of truth in it.
He also denied the allegation that the money allotted to the assembly was used for the purchase of houses in Abuja.
The Speaker, who spoke through the House Leader, Bello Garba Yabo, said it was normal for the assembly to approve loan for the executive to execute projects for the benefit of the people of the state.
"I don't think there is any thing unusual about the House approving loan for the executive to carry out projects for the people.
"Let them confirm if the loan received was not used in executing specific projects. So, this is not an issue that we can respond to," he averred.
Meanwhile, 21 members of the assembly sympathetic to the speaker had passed no-vote-of-confidence on the Deputy House Leader Hon. Kabiru Ibrahim Kware representing Kware constituency.
They also replaced him with Hon.Ibrahim Arzika Sarki representing Sokoto North 11 constituency as the new Deputy Assembly Leader.
All the 30 members of the assembly belong to the APC.


It's a little strange how even though these books each have their unfortunate event they are really enjoyable, each page spent in anticipation of Violets inventions, Klaus' knowledge and sunny's Bites. this is the third in the series and although Aunt Josephine is no uncle Monty, you really can see that the orphans could've been happy with her, even though her house is a death trap.
i want to read it!!!!!
Phenomenal, emotional and great plot. A book which should be loved by all, young or old!
Oh My Goodness! This is probably my Favourite Book out of all of them. I love how Lemony makes the characters personality and that leads to the problem. Genius!
i loved this book it great so read it !
The third of the series. The worst so far, The Baudelaire orphans find that now Uncle Monty is dead, They have to be taken to live with their Aunt Josephine. Aunt Josephine is afraind of living on top of the hill, where she lives and ends up dead in the river with her body in the sea with leaches, deadly leaches. Once that I started reading it, I didn't stop for two days which is very unlike me and read it in those two days. This was the best book that I have read so far. So go out and buy this book from Scholastic, A great book.
i luv lemony snickets series of unfortunate events! i have just read the 3rd one and I love it!!!


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\section{Methods}
\label{sec:method}

We analyse public LVK data from the second half of the third observing run (O3b)~\citep{LIGOScientific:2021djp,LIGOScientific:2019lzm},
which ran from November 1, 2019 until March 27, 2020. The signal GW200129 was observed on January 29, 2020, and enters the
detector sensitivity band at 20\,Hz approximately 0.65s before merger. During that time the binary completes roughly nine orbits.
GW200129 was reported by the LVK with SNRs in each of the three operational detectors of 21.2\, in Livingston,
14.6\, in Hanford and 6.3\, in Virgo. The total network SNR is 26.5.

We determine the properties of the signal source by comparing the data against theoretical predictions from general relativity.
We calculated predicted signals using the most accurate theoretical waveform model available for configurations consistent
with this signal, {\tt NRSur7dq4}~\citep{Varma:2019csw}: when we analyse the data starting at 20\,Hz, the model is appropriate for sources
at a redshift of 0.2 with total binary masses above 56.7\,$M_\odot$ and where the primary
black hole is no more than four times more massive than the secondary. We find
that the binary's mass is above 58\,$M_\odot$ with 99\% confidence, and the mass ratio is less than 1:3 with 99\% confidence.

We perform our analysis using the Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) code {\tt LALInference}~\citep{Veitch:2014wba}
that has been used in LVK analyses since
the first GW detection in 2015~\citep{LIGOScientific:2016vlm}, and has been rigorously tested and refined since that time.
We used the same sampler settings, power spectral densities, and calibration envelopes as those used in LVK GWTC-3 analyses,
except for a cut in the prior parameter space to accommodate the {\tt NRSur7dq4} model, i.e., limiting the mass ratio to be less than 1:4
and the total mass to be above $68\,M_\odot$ in the detector frame, which corresponds to $56.7\,M_{\odot}$ at redshift 0.2.

Our analysis is restricted to the $\ell \leq 3$ multipoles of the signal. The signal power in the $\ell > 3$ multipoles has
an SNR of less than 1.0, and does not significantly change the results. There is also some power lost in the $(3,\pm3)$ multipoles
between 20\,Hz and 30\,Hz for the lowest-mass configurations that are sampled, due to these multipoles starting at a frequency $3/2$
times higher than dominant the $(2,\pm2)$ multipoles. We have also verified that this missing power is negligible and also does
not affect the results. Finally, we performed analyses on both the raw public detector data and the public data that had undergone glitch
removal. The ``de-glitched'' data were used in the official LVK results, and we do the same here. The raw data gave very similar results,
with slightly increased support for precession.

We find that the signal power due to precession has an SNR of $\rho_p = \ensuremath{4_{-3}^{+2}}$. If precession effects were due to noise, we expect
$\rho_p$ to be no higher than around 2 \citep{Green:2020ptm}.
The $\rho_p$ estimate of power in precession makes use of an approximate
two-harmonic decomposition of the signal~\citep{Fairhurst:2019vut}, which becomes less applicable for high-mass signals;
however, in these cases it is most likely an \emph{underestimate} of the total power due to precession.
We also find, following Ref.~\citep{Hoy:2021dqg}, that there is only a 1 in 25,000 chance that noise alone would produce the inferred
precession SNR that we measure.

Despite the clear measurement of a high in-plane primary spin in Tab.~\ref{tab:parameters} and Fig.~\ref{fig:a1}, we now quantify our
statistical confidence that GW200129 was produced by a precessing binary. We compare the marginal likelihood from our
parameter-estimation analysis with that from a second analysis, which restricts the in-plane spin components to be zero, i.e.,
a non-precessing binary. We calculate that the precessing-binary hypothesis is favoured over the non-precessing hypothesis
by a factor of 30:1, or a $\log_e$ Bayes factor of 3.4 ($\log_{10}$ Bayes factor of 1.5).
This Bayes factor is consis- tent with the output from independent nested samplers~\cite{Veitch:2014wba,Smith:2019ucc, Speagle:2019ivv}.

We estimate the time evolution of the precession frequency, and the opening angle between the orbital and total angular momenta
(i.e., the inclination of the orbital plane), from a subset of theoretical waveforms within the 90\% credible region of our parameter-estimation
results. It is possible to estimate these dynamical properties from the multipole structure of the waveforms~\citep{Schmidt:2010it}. The
precession frequency and opening angle calculated from the signal are not identical to those in the binary dynamics, but the
differences are smaller than the overall uncertainty in our measurements. The signal-based precession frequency as measured from
the theoretical model also contains oscillations that we know are not present in the orbital dynamics, and we filter those out of the results shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:omega}.

There are three potential sources of error in our results. (1) uncertainties in the waveform model have biassed the results,
(2) the parameter-estimation code has settled on the wrong source-parameter values, (3) the results are due to noise artifacts.
We now discuss each of these in detail.

(1) Waveform model uncertainties.
The waveform model was tuned to numerical-relativity simulations between mass ratios of 1:1 and 1:4, and black-hole spins
up to 0.8, and is well extrapolated up to extreme spins~\citep{Varma:2019csw, Islam:2020reh}.
All tests reported in the literature, and our own, suggest that the extrapolation to extreme spins is well-behaved, i.e., the
properties of the waveforms (changes in phasing, amplitude and precession angles) extend smoothly from zero spin to extreme spin.

The usual measure of the accuracy of a model waveform is the mismatch between the model and a fiducial ``true'' waveform.
The mismatch between two waveforms is calculated from a noise-weighted inner product
between the normalised waveforms; the mismatch is the deviation of this quantity from unity, and a value of 0 indicates that the waveforms
agree perfectly (up to an overall amplitude rescaling), and a value of 1 that they are completely orthogonal. The mismatch also allows
us to estimate the SNR at which two signals would be distinguishable~\citep{Baird:2012cu}. If the mismatch between two signals is
$\mathcal{M}$, then they will be distinguishable at,

\begin{equation}
\mathcal{M} \leq \frac{\chi_k^2(1-p)}{2\rho^2},
\end{equation}

where $\chi_k^2$ is calculated from the cumulative distribution function of the $\chi^2$ distribution with $k$
degrees of freedom at probability $p$. A binary black hole system undergoing non-eccentric inspiral has eight physical parameters
(the two masses, and the components of each spin vector); with eight degrees of freedom, two waveforms will be distinguishably
at 90\% confidence if their mismatch satisfies $\mathcal{M} \leq 6.68/\rho^2$. Given that we do not measure most of the spin
components, we might instead consider four degrees of freedom (e.g., the two masses, and the in-plane and aligned spin contributions),
which provides a stronger mismatch criteria of $\mathcal{M} \leq 3.89/\rho^2$.
For an SNR of 27, we will be able to distinguish signals with a mismatch above $9.2 \times 10^{-3}$ if we assume eight degrees of
freedom. If we apply the more stringent criteria of four degrees of freedom, the mismatch must be above $5.3 \times 10^{-3}$.

Within the model's calibration parameter space, the mismatch error between the model and fully general relativistic numerical relativity
simulations was less than $4 \times 10^{-3}$ for 95\% of configurations considered in Ref.~\citep{Varma:2019csw}. This is well within
both criteria proposed above, and indicates that the model is well within the accuracy requirements to measure GW200129.

We explicitly test these accuracy statements for signals in the region of parameter space of GW200129, for  {\tt NRSur7dq4} and for
the two alternative theoretical models that were used in the LVK analysis.
These were selected because the total mass and mass-ratio limitations of the {\tt NRSur7dq4}
model mean that it cannot be used to measure the properties of binaries with low total mass. Since most of the LVK detections to date were
indeed at masses below the model's low-mass limit, the LVK analysis of the
O3b data made use of two other independent models, {\tt PhenomXPHM}~\citep{Pratten:2020fqn,Garcia-Quiros:2020qpx,Pratten:2020ceb}
and {\tt SEOBNRv4PHM}~\citep{Ossokine:2020kjp}. Both models are on average less accurate than
{\tt NRSur7dq4} over its calibration region, but have the advantage of being applicable at both higher mass ratios, and lower masses, and
their accuracy is sufficient at the SNRs and configurations (in particular, low spins) of most LVK observations. However, they may not meet
the accuracy requirements of the high-SNR high-spin merger GW200129. Fig.~\ref{fig:mismatches} shows mismatches for the three different
models against
a set of publicly available numerical-relativity waveforms~\citep{SXS:catalog}. All five simulations are at mass-ratio 1:2, and have
different magnitudes of in-plane spin on the larger black hole.
The simluations used are SXS:BBH:1128, SXS:BBH:1096, SXS:BBH:0800, SXS:BBH:1097, SXS:BBH:1215, listed in order of
increasing in-plane spin.
The mismatches are calculated at a binary inclination of $\pi/6$ (close to that recovered for
GW200129), a total mass of 73\,$M_\odot$ (the maximum likelihood total mass in the detector frame), and are optimised over the template
phase, polarization and in-plane spin direction, while SNR-weighted averaging over signal polarization and phase. (More details on the
mismatch calculation that we use are given in Ref.~\citep{Hamilton:2021pkf}.)
The figure also shows the mismatch accuracy threshold for a signal with SNR 27 with eight and four degrees of freedom. We see
that {\tt NRSur7dq4} meets the eight-degrees-of-freedom requirement for high spins, and indeed is the only model that also meets
the requirement with four degrees of freedom. For the simulation with the highest in-plane spin of $a_{1\perp}/m_1 = 0.85$,
SXS:BBH:1215, we find a mismatch of $2.23\times10^{-3}$, corrsponding to a distinguisable SNR of $\sim$42 (with four degrees of freedom).
We note that this configuration is \emph{outside} the calibration region of the model, since $a_1/m_1 > 0.8$.

In Fig.~\ref{fig:mismatches2} we show an alternative mismatch-accuracy check. Here we assume that the {\tt NRSur7dq4} model
accurately represents binary signals, and calculate the mismatch against that model evaluated at the parameters that yield the maximum
likelihood in our parameter-estimation analysis, and instances of the {\tt PhenomXPHM} and {\tt SEOBNRv4PHM} models evaluated
at the same parameters, and optimised as in Fig.~\ref{fig:mismatches}. We also calculate mismatches for model evaluations with
the same parameters, but with a range of values of the primary spin magnitude $a_1/m_1$. We see again that both models do not
meet the indistinguishability requirement when the spins are high. We also see that the high-spin mismatches are better for the
{\tt PhenomXPHM} model, which is consistent with that model recovering signs of precession in GW200129, while
{\tt SEOBNRv4PHM} does not. Note, however, that systematics errors are likely still a problem for {\tt PhenomXPHM}, as
discussed in Ref.~\citep{Biscoveanu:2021nvg}.

A final source of systematic uncertainty is that we assume non-eccentric inspiral. As an example of how this can affect a measurement,
the earlier GW observation GW190521 also appears to have a large in-plane spin when analysed with a non-eccentric-binary
model~\cite{LIGOScientific:2020ufj}, but the apparent precession signature may be due to orbital
eccentricity~\citep{Romero-Shaw:2020thy,Gayathri:2020coq} or even a head-on collision~\citep{CalderonBustillo:2020odh}.
The key difference with GW200129 is that the binary has lower mass, and so more GW cycles are detectable, and over this number of cycles
it should be possible to distinguish eccentricity from precession; GW200129 undergoes roughly half of a precession cycle in the detectors'
sensitivity bands, while eccentricity
appears at the orbital timescale. It would nonetheless be interesting to see an analysis that includes eccentricity.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{mismatches}
  \caption{
  \label{fig:mismatches}
Mismatches between three waveform models, and five waveforms from numerical-relativity simulations. The simulations were of binaries
with mass-ratio 1:2, and varying values of the in-plane spin magnitude on the primary black hole, $a_{1\perp}/m_1$, which is what drives precession.
The dotted line shows the accuracy threshold assuming eight degrees of freedom, and the dashed-dotted line the threshold assuming only
four degrees of freedom (see text for discussion). Only the {\tt NRSur7dq4} is well within the accuracy thresholds for GW200129.
  }
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{mismatches-appx-vs-maxL-surrogate}
  \caption{
  \label{fig:mismatches2}
Mismatches between theoretical signals (calculated using the {\tt NRSur7dq4} model) against the {\tt PhenomXPHM} and
{\tt SEOBNRv4PHM} models. The model parameters are those recovered from our analysis of GW200129, but with a
range of values of the primary spin magnitude $a_1/m_1$. We see that neither model meets the accuracy thresholds for GW200129 at high
spins, but the better agreement of {\tt PhenomXPHM} is consistent with it recovering results closer to those reported in this work.
  }
\end{center}
\end{figure}

(2) Parameter-estimation uncertainties.
The results have several features that at first sight raise concerns.
In preliminary parameter-estimation runs the one-dimensional posterior distribution functions for the masses were bi-modal, which is
often a sign of a noise artefact, or that the MCMC method has not converged, or some other issue. However, we found that the results
became much cleaner when the sampler was run for longer, and the final production run produced \ensuremath{1.93 \times 10^5} \, samples.
(By comparison with standard GW applications of the {\tt LALinference} sampler, we would normally consider $\sim$$10^4$ samples
to be sufficient.) In the final results, the probability distribution for the binary's mass ratio has a tail that
extends to equal masses. However, our astrophysical priors have a preference for equal masses, and so this result is not surprising,
and, despite this prior preference, over 80\% of the samples are at mass ratios above 1:1.35.

Another concern is the apparent ``railing'' of the spin measurement against extremal spin;
this can also be a sign of noise issues. There have also been studies that suggest that the astrophysical prior and observational biases
will pull the spin-magnitude measurement down to lower values, even if the source contains a highly spinning black
hole~\cite{Chatziioannou:2018wqx}. However, in those studies the large spin was aligned with the orbital angular momentum, and the
prior on the aligned-spin components has a strong preference for low spin. In our case, the priors on the spin magnitudes are flat.

Finally, we find that if we restrict the analysis to the Livingston and Virgo detectors, then a similar precessing configuration is
recovered, but if we restrict to Hanford and Virgo, we recover a configuration closer to equal-mass, and with minimal precession.
This suggests that the data in the Livingston and Hanford detectors may not be consistent.

To investigate these effects, we checked whether we would find similar results if the precessing-binary signal matching our preferred
parameters were observed in a detector network with zero noise.
We performed a parameter-estimation run on an idealised example of a theoretical signal from a binary with our
best-estimate parameters (those with the maximum likelihood in our main parameter-estimation results), as it would be observed in
a network of detectors with the same frequency-dependent sensitivity, but no noise. For this exercise we compared with an analysis
on raw data, and starting at 30\,Hz. We recovered parameters
consistent with our measurements in real data: the spin-magnitude again ``rails'' against extreme spins and the mass-ratio measurement
has a tail that extends towards equal-mass systems. In addition, we again find that precession is identified in the
 Livingston and Virgo detectors, but \emph{not} when repeated with only the Hanford and Virgo detectors.
 This can be explained by the lower SNR in the Hanford detector: the precession SNR
will be only $\sim$2.4 in that detector, and so difficult to distinguish from noise.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{injection_vs_data.pdf}
  \caption{
  \label{fig:injection}
One-dimensional posterior distributions for the primary black hole's spin, $a_{1}/m_1$, and the binary's mass ratio,
$q = m_2/m_1 \leq 1$, from a parameter-estimation analysis of GW200129 in raw detector data starting at 30\,Hz, and an idealised
zero-noise injection. The main
results for the three-detector network (left) are broadly consistent between the real data and the injection. We also find in both the
real data and the injection that analysis of a Hanford-Virgo-only analysis (middle) prefers equal-mass binaries and much weaker
evidence for precession, while a Livingston-Virgo-only analysis (right) identifies an unequal-mass precessing binary; this can be
explained by the lower SNR in Hanford (14.6, vs 21.2\, in Livingston), which reduces the measurability of precession.
  }
\end{center}
\end{figure}

(3) Noise effects. The LVK analysis noted some noise artifacts near the time of the observation, but mitigation procedures were applied to the
data, and these de-glitched data were used for the LVK analysis. We have analysed both the raw and de-glitched data, and find broadly
consistent results. However, the support for precession is slightly \emph{higher} in the raw data, and an interesting topic for future work
would be to quantify more precisely the effect of the de-glitching procedures on the precession measurement.
As a final consistency check, we also perform injections of the preferred waveform into data within 2\,s of GW200129, and recovery of these
signals also gives consistent results.

{\bf Data Availability.} The posterior samples from the analyses performed in this work are available on Zenodo at
\href{https://zenodo.org/record/6672460}{https://zenodo.org/record/6672460}. Public documentation is available at
\href{https://data.cardiffgravity.org/GW200129-precession/}{https://data.cardiffgravity.org/GW200129-precession/}.

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EX versions provide fully automatic humidity control.
Eggs are held in removable trays allowing the user to configure their egg incubator to their needs by adjusting the universal egg trays supplied as standard. These suit egg sizes from quail to goose (see capacity table).
The convenient control panel allows the user to adjust the temperature, Humidity (EX versions only) humidity/ventilation and turning easily. Temperature and humidity levels are shown on a calibrated digital display on the front of the panel. The fully automatic turning can be switched off from the control panel while the eggs are being accessed or the egg incubator cleaned.
Eggs are held in removable trays. As standard the incubators are supplied with universal egg trays with adjustable dividers allowing the user to efficiently fit a wide range of egg sizes from quail to goose, although at a cost of maximum capacity. For maximum capacity optional species specific egg trays are required (see capacity table).
Humidity is a crucial factor in the success (or otherwise) of eggs and the EX versions of the OvaEasy 190 and 380 Advance incubators put accurate control of humidity in the hands of the user.
The standard OvaEasy 190 and 380 Advance egg incubators provide a continuous readout of incubation humidity but requires the user to alter humidity to achieve the ideal average level.
The EX version with the Humidity Pump effectively maintains the humidity level precisely at the level the user sets irrespective of changes in room humidity and so overcomes problems that can commonly lead to eggs failing to hatch – especially in the latest stages of incubation.
The Humidity Pump includes an external water reservoir eliminating the chances of water in the incubator harbouring bacteria.
The Humidity Pump module is designed to work seamlessly with the OvaEasy Advance egg incubators and can be purchased later as an upgrade from Advance to Advance EX status.
200 Watts max, 100 Watts typical average.
230V 50Hz or 115V 60Hz as specified.
In order that we continue our policy of innovation and improvement we reserve the right to alter the specification without notice.