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Q: Add link to another Action in AddModelError I have an error and I would like to add a link to it
ModelState.AddModelError(string.Empty, "You must have a confirmed email to log in.");

What I want to do is add a link to the SendEmailConfirmationMail action so I can resend it to them, in the event it was lost.
[HttpGet]
[AllowAnonymous]
public async Task<IActionResult> SendEmailConfirmationMail(string email, string returnUrl = null)
    {
  // Stuff removed
    }

What I have tried
ModelState.AddModelError(string.Empty,
                         $"You must have a confirmed email to log in. Click to resend conformation email  resend");

and
ModelState.AddModelError(string.Empty, $"Click me");

This doesnt work very well.

I am open to other ideas if I am doing this wrong.  I am still learning asp.net mvc.
From the view how its shown
 @if (error != null)
            {

                     : @Html.Raw(error)

            }

Update:
When i inspect the page.  It looks like the html is getting replaced.

<a href="/Account/SendEmailConfirmationMail?Email=lilaw@eg.dk">Click me</a>

A: If you are in control of the view which displays the error, it would be better to format the error in the view itself since it's representation logic.
Add the model error in controller:
ModelState.AddModelError("EmailNotConfirmedError", string.Empty); // You can specify the error message or ignore it

Check for this specific error in the view:

    @if (ViewData.ModelState.ContainsKey("EmailNotConfirmedError"))
    {
        You must have a confirmed email to log in. Click to resend conformation email @Html.ActionLink("resend", "SendEmailConfirmationMail", "Account")
    }

A: Your error is an Html encoded string, you need to use HttpUtility.HtmlDecode to decode it first
 : @Html.Raw(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(error))

A: Rather use @Url.Action() method to get the URL
You can use it like this:
@Url.Action("MethodName","ControllerName",new{param1 = param1value});

UPDATE
To get your URL use this code:
var url = Url.Action("Account","SendEmailConfirmationMail",new{Email=model.Email,returnUrl = returnUrl;

ModelState.AddModelError(string.Empty,
    $"You must have a confirmed email to log in. Click to resend conformation email {url})");

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AU graduate student workers filed to form a graduate student union, on Feb. 24, said Scott Patrick, a Ph.D candidate within the School of Public Affairs.
The group teamed up with SEIU Local 500, a union organization which represents students from colleges and universities across the D.C., Maryland and Virginia region, to file for the union. After a representative from SEIU Local 500 filed an online petition on Friday, five graduate school students delivered a letter to Provost Scott Bass, which initiated the first step in forming a union on campus.
The filing comes within seven months of the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that granted graduate student workers, namely those who are paid by their private school as teaching assistants or researchers, the power to negotiate with school administrators about their pay, better working conditions and other employment issues that crop up while pursuing an advanced degree.
Provost Scott Bass released a memo on March 1 announcing the filing to students and stating the University's respect for the possible union.
"While the University has concerns regarding the unionization of students and, by consequence, the bargaining over matters traditionally involving issues of academic discretion, the University also respects that, under the law, graduate students have the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining," Bass wrote in the memo.
Graduate student workers have been meeting on campus since September to discuss ways to have stricter guidelines between themselves and faculty. They want to advocate for fair pay, codified protection against unwanted behaviors from supervising professors and better benefits such as health care and summer housing plans for international students, Patrick said.
In order to form a graduate student union, working graduate students need to have at least 30 percent of their population sign union cards due to a rule set by American universities, Patrick said. However, union representatives guessed the amount of the exact number of graduate student workers that signed cards because the total number of student workers is unknown to the public, he said. Once they win an election to form a union on campus, the new union will receive a list of those who are eligible to join the AU graduate student union.
Patrick, who has a master's degree in government from AU, said that after the petition to form a union is filed, graduate student workers need to win an election within 30 days of filing to form a union. That means that the rest of the graduate student workers must vote for the creation of the union, and win by a simple majority of at least more than 50 percent of total graduate student workers.
Afterwards, the group will negotiate with the administration until an agreement for the issues they want to advocate for has been reached. From there, the new graduate student union members will sign a contract with the administration.
Patrick said a graduate student union will provide a stricter, uniform standard to hold professors accountable for what and how much they assign to graduate student workers.
Graduate teaching assistants are typically scheduled for 20 hours of work per week, Patrick said. However, if he needs to grade papers, he might work 40 hours without being compensated.
Depending on the supervising professor and department, some workers perform less time-consuming tasks than others. For instance, some only work 20 hours by sitting in class and taking attendance, while others perform research that is outside of the students' interests to support a professor's workload. Guidelines for stipends and hours worked are given to graduate students and professors, but there is no enforcement system in place to make sure only 20 hours of work is being performed.
AU graduate students are not only worried about being paid fairly, but are also contemplating their health care benefits - especially under the new White House administration. They don't receive benefits, so they must either choose between AU's health care package or find something on their own.
Cherie Saulter, a Ph.D candidate within the School of International Service, agreed.
Saulter said she signed the union card to make sure that all graduate student workers are protected from the typical workplace challenges that women often face alone.
International students often struggle more to finish their degrees compared to American students because of international student visa rules, Barbara dos Santos, a second-year Ph.D candidate from the School of Public Affairs, said. Since international students are ineligible to receive federal funding and cannot work outside of their school, they have to work extra hard to come up with tuition and summer housing options, dos Santos said.
"I just want to work with the administration so that I do not feel so stressed out about paying my rent during the summer," dos Santos said.
Correction appended: The original story incorrectly stated that SEIU Local 500 represents groups across the nation. It has been changed to say "across the D.C., Maryland and Virginia region."


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Keywords: Moral Majority x
Gay and Lesbian Studies (2)
Daniel K. Williams
in God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right
Religion, Religion and Society
The growth of the Sunbelt, along with evangelicals' rapidly rising socioeconomic status, gave evangelicals the financial resources and voting power to attract national political attention. When ... More
The growth of the Sunbelt, along with evangelicals' rapidly rising socioeconomic status, gave evangelicals the financial resources and voting power to attract national political attention. When televangelists and megachurch pastors began speaking out on political questions, they attracted the notice of New Right political activists such as Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie. Several evangelical political organizations, including the California-based Christian Voice, mobilized evangelical voters on behalf of conservative Republican candidates in 1980, but the most successful of these organizations was Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. Though Falwell's organization appealed to only a small segment of evangelicals, it attracted widespread media attention. Other evangelical leaders, such as Pat Robertson and James Robison, mobilized charismatic and Pentecostal Christians on behalf of politically conservative causes. Together these leaders created an interdenominational Religious Right that quickly established itself as a powerful interest group within the conservative Republican coalition.Less
The growth of the Sunbelt, along with evangelicals' rapidly rising socioeconomic status, gave evangelicals the financial resources and voting power to attract national political attention. When televangelists and megachurch pastors began speaking out on political questions, they attracted the notice of New Right political activists such as Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie. Several evangelical political organizations, including the California-based Christian Voice, mobilized evangelical voters on behalf of conservative Republican candidates in 1980, but the most successful of these organizations was Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. Though Falwell's organization appealed to only a small segment of evangelicals, it attracted widespread media attention. Other evangelical leaders, such as Pat Robertson and James Robison, mobilized charismatic and Pentecostal Christians on behalf of politically conservative causes. Together these leaders created an interdenominational Religious Right that quickly established itself as a powerful interest group within the conservative Republican coalition.
Keywords: Falwell, James Robison, Moral Majority, new right, Pat Robertson, religious right, televangelists, Viguerie, Weyrich
The Christian Right and Contemporary Politics: A Movement at the Crossroads
Mark J. Rozell
in Crisis of Conservatism?: The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, and American Politics After Bush
Political Science, American Politics
The contemporary Christian Right movement first mobilized into U.S. politics in the 1970s and has since moved through distinct phases of its political development. This chapter describes and analyzes ... More
The contemporary Christian Right movement first mobilized into U.S. politics in the 1970s and has since moved through distinct phases of its political development. This chapter describes and analyzes the major phases of the movement, from outsider status to the political mainstream. Once considered a fringe movement with little real chance at political success, the Christian Right seemed to explode on to the U.S. political scene in the 1980 election. By the late 1980s many analysts declared the movement a failure. Yet by the mid-1990s the Christian Right reemerged politically stronger than ever, but still disappointed by its lack of significant policy success at the federal level. Then during the George W. Bush era it seemed that the Christian Right had finally entered the political mainstream and was poised for real policy gains. The essay speculates about the possible transition of the Christian Right to a new phase in the Obama era—one in which the movement will have to adapt to a reconfiguring of U.S. politics along lines that make its traditional issue appeals increasingly challenging.Less
The Christian Right and Contemporary Politics : A Movement at the Crossroads
The contemporary Christian Right movement first mobilized into U.S. politics in the 1970s and has since moved through distinct phases of its political development. This chapter describes and analyzes the major phases of the movement, from outsider status to the political mainstream. Once considered a fringe movement with little real chance at political success, the Christian Right seemed to explode on to the U.S. political scene in the 1980 election. By the late 1980s many analysts declared the movement a failure. Yet by the mid-1990s the Christian Right reemerged politically stronger than ever, but still disappointed by its lack of significant policy success at the federal level. Then during the George W. Bush era it seemed that the Christian Right had finally entered the political mainstream and was poised for real policy gains. The essay speculates about the possible transition of the Christian Right to a new phase in the Obama era—one in which the movement will have to adapt to a reconfiguring of U.S. politics along lines that make its traditional issue appeals increasingly challenging.
Keywords: abortion, Christian Coalition, Christian Right, evangelicals, Moral Majority, religion, Republican Party, Roe v. Wade
A Moral Majority
Neil J. Young
in We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics
While the 1980s seemed a triumph for religious conservatism, deeper divisions and challenges lurked below the surface. Evangelicals and fundamentalists worked to patch up their differences, but the ... More
While the 1980s seemed a triumph for religious conservatism, deeper divisions and challenges lurked below the surface. Evangelicals and fundamentalists worked to patch up their differences, but the booming neo-charismatic movement continued to concern many conservative Protestants. Evangelicals and Catholics inched closer, drawn together by shared political and moral concerns and also evangelical admiration of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. But anti-Mormonism surged in evangelical circles over fears that the LDS Church grew by luring unsuspecting evangelicals into their fold. The God Makers, an error-laden pseudo-documentary about the LDS Church, became a runaway hit with evangelical audiences eager to understand the "Mormon cult." Touting the Moral Majority as an ecumenical group for anyone concerned about the nation's moral path, Jerry Falwell could not expand his organization beyond its fundamentalist Christian base.Less
While the 1980s seemed a triumph for religious conservatism, deeper divisions and challenges lurked below the surface. Evangelicals and fundamentalists worked to patch up their differences, but the booming neo-charismatic movement continued to concern many conservative Protestants. Evangelicals and Catholics inched closer, drawn together by shared political and moral concerns and also evangelical admiration of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. But anti-Mormonism surged in evangelical circles over fears that the LDS Church grew by luring unsuspecting evangelicals into their fold. The God Makers, an error-laden pseudo-documentary about the LDS Church, became a runaway hit with evangelical audiences eager to understand the "Mormon cult." Touting the Moral Majority as an ecumenical group for anyone concerned about the nation's moral path, Jerry Falwell could not expand his organization beyond its fundamentalist Christian base.
Keywords: fundamentalists, neo-charismatic movement, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, anti-Mormonism, The God Makers, the Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell
Religion and Symbolic Politics
Robert Wuthnow
in Christianity in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on the Challenges Ahead
Recent decades have produced a myriad of attempts by religious groups to influence public affairs. From the efforts of clergy in the 1960s to advance the cause of civil rights to the protests ... More
Recent decades have produced a myriad of attempts by religious groups to influence public affairs. From the efforts of clergy in the 1960s to advance the cause of civil rights to the protests organized by religious groups in the 1980s against abortion, the last part of the 20th century has given us ample opportunity to consider the ways in which religious convictions can make a difference in public life. The formal dismantling of Moral Majority marked a significant turning point. It brought an important chapter in the efforts of conservative Christians to influence American politics to a close. The religious Right is a particularly instructive case for considering how believers with firm convictions in the divine truth of their cause confront the pluralism inherent in American public life. The religious Right underwent changes that are themselves valuable lessons in the pragmatic norms of public policy. The chapter also provides a helpful case for considering how morality functions in the public arena. Above all, it represents a movement that was remarkably adept in the use of symbolism for political purposes.Less
Recent decades have produced a myriad of attempts by religious groups to influence public affairs. From the efforts of clergy in the 1960s to advance the cause of civil rights to the protests organized by religious groups in the 1980s against abortion, the last part of the 20th century has given us ample opportunity to consider the ways in which religious convictions can make a difference in public life. The formal dismantling of Moral Majority marked a significant turning point. It brought an important chapter in the efforts of conservative Christians to influence American politics to a close. The religious Right is a particularly instructive case for considering how believers with firm convictions in the divine truth of their cause confront the pluralism inherent in American public life. The religious Right underwent changes that are themselves valuable lessons in the pragmatic norms of public policy. The chapter also provides a helpful case for considering how morality functions in the public arena. Above all, it represents a movement that was remarkably adept in the use of symbolism for political purposes.
Keywords: Moral Majority, religious groups, public affairs, public life, politics, religious convictions, religious Right, morality, Christians, public policy
The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years
Steven P. Miller
Recent America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. From the Jesus chic of the Seventies to the satanism scare of the Eighties, the culture wars of the Nineties, and the faith-based vogue of the ... More
Recent America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. From the Jesus chic of the Seventies to the satanism scare of the Eighties, the culture wars of the Nineties, and the faith-based vogue of the early 2000s, born-again Christianity was seen and heard on many levels. This was a time of evangelical scares, born-again spectacles, and reconsiderations of the status of faith in politics and culture. The Age of Evangelicalism chronicles the place and meaning of born-again Christianity in the United States from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century. It pays special attention to the uses that a diverse array of Americans found for born-again faith—self-proclaimed evangelicals, to be sure, but also secular activists, scholars, journalists, artists, and politicians. The story features familiar actors, along with others not always associated with evangelical faith—Barack Obama, as well as Jimmy Carter; People for the American Way, as well as Moral Majority; and Bob Dylan, as well as Rick Warren. The history of recent evangelicalism is about more than evangelicals themselves. Born-again Christianity provided alternately a language, a medium, and a foil by which Americans came to terms with their times.Less
The Age of Evangelicalism : America's Born-Again Years
Recent America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. From the Jesus chic of the Seventies to the satanism scare of the Eighties, the culture wars of the Nineties, and the faith-based vogue of the early 2000s, born-again Christianity was seen and heard on many levels. This was a time of evangelical scares, born-again spectacles, and reconsiderations of the status of faith in politics and culture. The Age of Evangelicalism chronicles the place and meaning of born-again Christianity in the United States from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century. It pays special attention to the uses that a diverse array of Americans found for born-again faith—self-proclaimed evangelicals, to be sure, but also secular activists, scholars, journalists, artists, and politicians. The story features familiar actors, along with others not always associated with evangelical faith—Barack Obama, as well as Jimmy Carter; People for the American Way, as well as Moral Majority; and Bob Dylan, as well as Rick Warren. The history of recent evangelicalism is about more than evangelicals themselves. Born-again Christianity provided alternately a language, a medium, and a foil by which Americans came to terms with their times.
Keywords: evangelicalism, born-again, culture wars, satanism, faith-based, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Moral Majority, People for the American Way
"To Crush the Serpent": The Religious Right and the Moral Minority
Joseph Vogel
in James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era
10.5622/illinois/9780252041747.003.0005
History, African-American History
This chapter draws on Baldwin's final major essay, "To Crush the Serpent" (1987), to examine the rise of the religious Right and Baldwin's alternative vision of morality. In the 1980s, Baldwin ... More
This chapter draws on Baldwin's final major essay, "To Crush the Serpent" (1987), to examine the rise of the religious Right and Baldwin's alternative vision of morality. In the 1980s, Baldwin recognized, a major transformation had occurred in the sociopolitical functions of religion. His critique adapted accordingly, focusing on the ways in which religion (particularly evangelical Christianity) had morphed into a movement deeply enmeshed with mass media, conservative politics, and capitalism. The new movement was often characterized as the "Religious Right" or the "Moral Majority" and was central to both Reagan's political coalition as well as the broader culture wars. In "To Crush the Serpent" Baldwin narrows in on the definitions and uses of the sinner or transgressor in the context of Reagan-era obsessions with the body and sexuality.Less
"To Crush the Serpent" : The Religious Right and the Moral Minority
This chapter draws on Baldwin's final major essay, "To Crush the Serpent" (1987), to examine the rise of the religious Right and Baldwin's alternative vision of morality. In the 1980s, Baldwin recognized, a major transformation had occurred in the sociopolitical functions of religion. His critique adapted accordingly, focusing on the ways in which religion (particularly evangelical Christianity) had morphed into a movement deeply enmeshed with mass media, conservative politics, and capitalism. The new movement was often characterized as the "Religious Right" or the "Moral Majority" and was central to both Reagan's political coalition as well as the broader culture wars. In "To Crush the Serpent" Baldwin narrows in on the definitions and uses of the sinner or transgressor in the context of Reagan-era obsessions with the body and sexuality.
Keywords: James Baldwin, religious Right, Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell, Evangelical, 1980s, Ronald Reagan
Why the Prophetic Torch Wasn't Passed
John W. Compton
in The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors
This chapter examines the fate of liberal and moderate evangelicals from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. It argues that moderate evangelicals—an ascendant force in the 1970s—were marginalized ... More
This chapter examines the fate of liberal and moderate evangelicals from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. It argues that moderate evangelicals—an ascendant force in the 1970s—were marginalized less by the rise of so-called "values" issues than by economic anxieties and a broader white reaction against federal civil rights initiatives. That white evangelicals drifted to the political Right for essentially secular reasons—and often in the face of counterpressures from prominent evangelical leaders and institutions—provides further confirmation of religion's limited ability to shape political behavior in an age of religious autonomy. In short, it is the weakness of evangelical institutions, not their strength, that best explains why the term "conservative evangelical" has come to seem redundant.Less
This chapter examines the fate of liberal and moderate evangelicals from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. It argues that moderate evangelicals—an ascendant force in the 1970s—were marginalized less by the rise of so-called "values" issues than by economic anxieties and a broader white reaction against federal civil rights initiatives. That white evangelicals drifted to the political Right for essentially secular reasons—and often in the face of counterpressures from prominent evangelical leaders and institutions—provides further confirmation of religion's limited ability to shape political behavior in an age of religious autonomy. In short, it is the weakness of evangelical institutions, not their strength, that best explains why the term "conservative evangelical" has come to seem redundant.
Keywords: Carl Henry, Mark Hatfield, John B. Anderson, Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority, Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, Religious Right, Jimmy Carter, abortion
We Gather Together
The 1970s witnessed the explosive growth of conservative churches, culminating with 1976 being named "The Year of the Evangelical." Evangelicalism's vibrancy and visibility also exposed divisions ... More
The 1970s witnessed the explosive growth of conservative churches, culminating with 1976 being named "The Year of the Evangelical." Evangelicalism's vibrancy and visibility also exposed divisions within the movement as evangelicals wrestled over biblical inerrancy and worried about the burgeoning charismatic movement. The decade's social and political changes, especially regarding gender and sexuality, alarmed religious conservatives. Evangelicals decried the growth of "secular humanism" and began to join Catholics in fighting abortion. Mormons took the lead in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment, but they largely refrained from working with fellow conservatives and still avoided anti-abortion politics. By the end of the decade, Mormon, Catholic, and evangelical leaders were all urging greater political involvement from their followers in order to turn the nation back to a conservative path. Sensing a growing tide, Jerry Falwell organized the Moral Majority to rally religious conservatives behind Ronald Reagan's bid for the presidency.Less
The 1970s witnessed the explosive growth of conservative churches, culminating with 1976 being named "The Year of the Evangelical." Evangelicalism's vibrancy and visibility also exposed divisions within the movement as evangelicals wrestled over biblical inerrancy and worried about the burgeoning charismatic movement. The decade's social and political changes, especially regarding gender and sexuality, alarmed religious conservatives. Evangelicals decried the growth of "secular humanism" and began to join Catholics in fighting abortion. Mormons took the lead in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment, but they largely refrained from working with fellow conservatives and still avoided anti-abortion politics. By the end of the decade, Mormon, Catholic, and evangelical leaders were all urging greater political involvement from their followers in order to turn the nation back to a conservative path. Sensing a growing tide, Jerry Falwell organized the Moral Majority to rally religious conservatives behind Ronald Reagan's bid for the presidency.
Keywords: growth of conservative churches, The Year of the Evangelical, biblical inerrancy, charismatic movement, secular humanism, anti-abortion politics, Equal Rights Amendment, the Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell
Accessorizing the Cross
Lynn S. Neal
in Religion in Vogue: Christianity and Fashion in America
NYU Press
10.18574/nyu/9781479892709.003.0004
This chapter examines how Christianity's dominant symbol, the cross, emerged as one of the earliest and most popular instances of religion moving into fashion, in the form of cross jewelry. The ... More
This chapter examines how Christianity's dominant symbol, the cross, emerged as one of the earliest and most popular instances of religion moving into fashion, in the form of cross jewelry. The fashionability of cross jewelry is an important step in understanding how God got on a dress. The first part of the chapter highlights the genesis of the cross in modern fashion through the work of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. The chapter then analyzes how cross jewelry became a fashion trend in the late 1960s that reflected and shaped existing religious trends. Lastly, the chapter examines the culture wars controversy that accompanied the cross jewelry trend in the 1980s, with Madonna's popularity and the rise of the Moral Majority.Less
This chapter examines how Christianity's dominant symbol, the cross, emerged as one of the earliest and most popular instances of religion moving into fashion, in the form of cross jewelry. The fashionability of cross jewelry is an important step in understanding how God got on a dress. The first part of the chapter highlights the genesis of the cross in modern fashion through the work of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. The chapter then analyzes how cross jewelry became a fashion trend in the late 1960s that reflected and shaped existing religious trends. Lastly, the chapter examines the culture wars controversy that accompanied the cross jewelry trend in the 1980s, with Madonna's popularity and the rise of the Moral Majority.
Keywords: fashion, Christianity, cross, jewelry, Gabrielle Coco Chanel, Madonna, Moral Majority, culture wars
The Rise of the Christian Right in the South and Its Impact on National Politics
Charles S. Bullock, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell
in The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics
The rise of the largely Evangelical-led Christian Right movement profoundly altered the Southern political landscape and eventually the national one as well. The "Solid South," long a predominantly ... More
The rise of the largely Evangelical-led Christian Right movement profoundly altered the Southern political landscape and eventually the national one as well. The "Solid South," long a predominantly white Protestant and Democratic Party dominated region, has become largely Republican and anchored by white Protestants. As the South has become increasingly diverse and somewhat less distinctive, coalitions of minority groups, including religious minorities, are the backbone of the Democratic Party in the region. Since the 1980s, white Evangelicals have remained firmly committed to the GOP. What began in the South as a marginalized social movement focused on a narrow agenda eventually reconfigured the national party coalitions and played a major role on the election of Donald J. Trump as president.Less
Charles S. BullockSusan A. MacManusJeremy D. MayerMark J. Rozell
The rise of the largely Evangelical-led Christian Right movement profoundly altered the Southern political landscape and eventually the national one as well. The "Solid South," long a predominantly white Protestant and Democratic Party dominated region, has become largely Republican and anchored by white Protestants. As the South has become increasingly diverse and somewhat less distinctive, coalitions of minority groups, including religious minorities, are the backbone of the Democratic Party in the region. Since the 1980s, white Evangelicals have remained firmly committed to the GOP. What began in the South as a marginalized social movement focused on a narrow agenda eventually reconfigured the national party coalitions and played a major role on the election of Donald J. Trump as president.
Keywords: abortion, Christian Coalition, Christian Right, Evangelical, faith-based politics, family values, Fundamentalist, Moral Majority, pro-choice, pro-life
Don't Save Us from Our Sexuality
Allan Bérubé
in My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
University of North Carolina Press
10.5149/9780807877982_berube.6
Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This essay discusses the "Gay Plague," the AIDS epidemic that continues to take its deadly toll in the gay community. The mysterious disease exhausts doctors, baffles researchers, challenges public ... More
This essay discusses the "Gay Plague," the AIDS epidemic that continues to take its deadly toll in the gay community. The mysterious disease exhausts doctors, baffles researchers, challenges public health officials, divides the gay community, panics the public, and tantalizes the Moral Majority. It triggers everyone's anxieties about the nitty-gritty of gay sex. By 1984, AIDS was coming to dominate gay male life in the United States. The situation was particularly acute in San Francisco, which had the heaviest concentration of diagnosed cases of any city in the nation. AIDS exacerbated the tendency to demonize gay male sexuality, a situation complicated by the fact that the epidemic provoked some within the gay community to call for government regulation of sexual expression.Less
This essay discusses the "Gay Plague," the AIDS epidemic that continues to take its deadly toll in the gay community. The mysterious disease exhausts doctors, baffles researchers, challenges public health officials, divides the gay community, panics the public, and tantalizes the Moral Majority. It triggers everyone's anxieties about the nitty-gritty of gay sex. By 1984, AIDS was coming to dominate gay male life in the United States. The situation was particularly acute in San Francisco, which had the heaviest concentration of diagnosed cases of any city in the nation. AIDS exacerbated the tendency to demonize gay male sexuality, a situation complicated by the fact that the epidemic provoked some within the gay community to call for government regulation of sexual expression.
Keywords: Gay Plague, AIDS, gay community, Moral Majority, gay sex
Living Out
Andrew E. Stoner
in The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts
Shilts comes "out" to his parents and family. Graduating from the University of Oregon, journalism jobs remained elusive for Shilts. Shilts begins work as a freelance writer for The Advocate, later ... More
Shilts comes "out" to his parents and family. Graduating from the University of Oregon, journalism jobs remained elusive for Shilts. Shilts begins work as a freelance writer for The Advocate, later hired as a full-time correspondent and relocates from Oregon to San Francisco. Shilts's reporting covers some of the nation's earliest gay rights efforts via state legislatures and courts, employment discrimination, parental rights, youth suicide, alcoholism/drug abuse, and social issues confronting LGBT individuals. Early stories on communicable and sexually transmitted diseases among gay men. Shilts clashes with David Goodstein, The Advocate's publisher. Shilts meets his first lover, Daniel Yoder, while traveling the U.S. covering efforts to repeal non-discrimination laws in various cities, including Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" effort in Miami, Florida.Less
Shilts comes "out" to his parents and family. Graduating from the University of Oregon, journalism jobs remained elusive for Shilts. Shilts begins work as a freelance writer for The Advocate, later hired as a full-time correspondent and relocates from Oregon to San Francisco. Shilts's reporting covers some of the nation's earliest gay rights efforts via state legislatures and courts, employment discrimination, parental rights, youth suicide, alcoholism/drug abuse, and social issues confronting LGBT individuals. Early stories on communicable and sexually transmitted diseases among gay men. Shilts clashes with David Goodstein, The Advocate's publisher. Shilts meets his first lover, Daniel Yoder, while traveling the U.S. covering efforts to repeal non-discrimination laws in various cities, including Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" effort in Miami, Florida.
Keywords: coming out, The Advocate, Portland Oregon, freelance journalism, sodomy repeal, homosexual discrimination, Castro district, David Goodstein, Los Angeles Advocate, police harassment of gays, 1976 Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter, Willie Carter Spann, Lawrence v. Texas, Save Our Children, Anita Bryant, Orange Armageddon, gay youth, gay suicide, gay sex, sexually transmitted diseases, venereal disease, VD, AIDS, Hepatitis B, sexual promiscuity, Village Voice, gay bathhouses, Queen of Hearts Disco, Guerneville California, Miami-Dade County, evangelical Christians, Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority, Christopher Street magazine

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When I was in elementary school I had a cat's eye marble - clear with a blade of red like a fish fin twisting through the middle. I loved it. I don't know why. The joy of little things, I guess, or maybe there was hope in owning a part of the heaving world I could clutch still in my palm until it slipped with sweat. Sometimes I sucked it like a lemon drop. The glassy click against my molars was like the first scattering break of pool balls - a comparison that would come to me years later as an awkward teenager at a youth group meeting in a Methodist church gameroom. No one told me I would choke on the marble because no one was watching. I didn't choke, and was mildly disappointed that things like that didn't ever really happen. (Until they did.) I spit out the marble and dried it on my donation-bin jeans. Then I hid it in my sock drawer. It was only mine because no one knew I had it. I had nicked it from the grimy Danish cookie tin filled with my father's random life detritus - nails and screws, broken necklace chains, coins, lighters that sparked but didn't flame, a zippo from a dollar store, pocket knives, keys that opened nothing, the cellophane strips from the tops of Camel cigarette packs, all of it infused with a sharpness like spoiled metal. The smell of physical closeness with him. Cigarettes in a closed car baked with heat, metallic sweat. Like blood. That would occur to me, later - that the fin of red ribboned through clear glass was like a drop of blood the moment it touches water, before it has had a chance to diffuse. That first shocked moment when everything is still separate from itself, segmented second by second. But back then it was just a marble. Our blood was still inside of us, mostly. By the time that changed I had lost the marble. If I still had it now, I would alternate between carrying the totem of it with me, self-righteously, self-importantly, and forgetting it at home in a drawer, just like I do with the painful aftermath of coming from someone who chose to die the way he did.
My father wore jewelry. Part of it was growing up poor and needing excess - however pitiful, as it came from Oak Cliff head shops and dollar stores - that could be touched and weighed and proven. Part of it was bucking the Dallas ISD teacher dress code. Part of it was just his general flamboyance. He had that addict charm, that coke-speed-crystal-weed, three-beers-in, bar-chaos charm. He could get away with anything. All the way up through the end, in his constant feverish attempts to find himself and be that person, he wore necklaces, earrings, rings. The end went like this: after decades of suffering his soul died before his body, and for a while he stumbled forward against the dragging double weight of the living carrying the dead. So he took care of it with a gun in room 112 of the Mount Pleasant Comfort Inn, and then all that his death entailed, including a plastic evidence bag of his effects, was my responsibility. The effects went like this: watch, wallet, lighter, ring, earring, pocket change, bottom plate of dentures (top plate destroyed). When I looked at the inventory I saw also: gold necklace with lion-head charm. I remembered this necklace and was sure I hadn't seen it in the seconds before I shoved the bag under the passenger seat. I made myself take things out and look. It wasn't there. I called the coroner. Things get stolen from bodies, they told me. We're so sorry for your loss - these well-oiled words. I'm not angry. There are other things to be angry about that matter more, or maybe more to the point, nothing matters enough to be angry about. Certainly not that necklace. Certainly not a yellow metal lion-head charm, embarrassingly large, from a grubby, hope-desolate pawn shop on Jefferson Blvd. But what I'd like to ask the person who took it is this: How did you get the blood out? I wasn't able to. In the back bathroom at my mother's house, standing over her sink scrubbing with lavender hand soap and melting wads of toilet paper so nothing we owned would have to bear the indelible stain of him (anymore), I tried. The corrugated flint wheel of the lighter, the notches in the strap of the plastic gas station watch, the ridges edging the coins (not the teeth - those I destroyed with a hammer). I dug at him with my fingernails, the water so hot my skin flamed and numbed, breathing in the blood and lavender and sharp metal that reminded me of the Danish cookie tin but in reality came from gunpowder and the oil on the sawed-off shotgun he used. He clung so deep I couldn't get at him. I can imagine how he insinuated himself into the links of the chain, the carved angled of the lion's open mouth. That's what I want to ask: not how you brought yourself to reach around the neck of a body whose head was like that - we all do desperate things - but, how did you grind him out? How did you eradicate a past that so completely drenched and tarnished everything it touched and settle yourself with what remained? How did you fix it?
After, I had to make decisions about what to keep. There was so much left behind once the tide of him swept out. My father always said, why buy one gift that costs twenty dollars when you could buy twenty one-dollar gifts? So when he was mentally present enough to engage with a holiday, or when he felt he had something to make up to us (often), my mother and sister and I received dozens of dollar store purchases individually wrapped in Greensheet newspapers and brown packing tape. Stuffed animals, ceramic figurines, off-brand perfumes, cheap notepads with pens attached by an elastic loop, snowglobes, keychains, coin purses, picture frames, sickly sweet candles. These cheap, unwelcome efforts littered my childhood and adolescence. As a teenager, after the divorce, I shoved everything in cardboard boxes under my bed so I didn't have to look at it. Everything he gave me I added to the boxes, sometimes still sealed in a lumpy envelope addressed by his clumsy hand. After he died the boxes stayed there untouched, tops open like graves poised for exhumation. A year or so passed, and then one day, an object asserted itself. My cat had been diagnosed with feline Leukemia. On his last night, he scrabbled into the boxes and hid himself there. I lay on the floor listening for him. The depth of my vigilance was so extreme that the world around me fell away. I could hear his breathing, and his end-of-life comfort purring, and then, rising to the surface of my perception as though from a depth of water, the ticking of a clock my father had bought me years ago. Beating like a doll heart. This sudden assertion of a presence that had invisibly been there all along, like a ghost clearing its throat. A few days later I pulled out the boxes and dug around for the clock - the ugliest clock, some patriotic monstrosity with an eagle and a flag - evidence of my father's sense of humor. He knew I wasn't patriotic. He was always trying to elicit a laugh, watching me with hope and longing, but nothing was funny to me. Sometimes not laughing felt righteous. Sometimes it felt like kicking a dog. When I finally managed to cull down the boxes, I kept the clock and a few other things that were meant as joke gifts, like a bluebird statue randomly outfitted with two rapidly blinking red lights. I didn't know what was right to keep and what was right to get rid of - I never do. My memory of him is self-serving and cluttered with a thousand broken plastic things. Maybe it's good that he tried to make me laugh sometimes. Maybe it's good that I wouldn't give him the satisfaction. The truth of this, like all things, is prismatic and dependent on momentary state of mind, equally useful in skewering myself and in letting myself off the hook.
About the Author: Chelsea Laine Wells has been published in Flapperhouse, Paper Darts, PANK, Hobart, The Collapsar, Hippocampus, The Butter, Third Point Press, wigleaf, and Heavy Feather, among others, and won a 2015 Best of the Net award. She is managing and fiction editor of Hypertext Magazine and founding editor of Hypernova Lit. She and her teacher/writer husband live with their children and animals in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TX, where she teaches freshman English and creative writing at a public high school. You can read more of her work at www.chelsealainewells.com.


Jones, A.K.A. Experiment 314, is an illegal genetic experiment created by Jumba Jookiba. He is designed to make Jenny's (308) things work.
Experiment 314 was the 314th genetic experiment created by Jumba with Hämsterviel's funding. He was designed to make 308's things work.
314 and the other first 624 experiments were deactivated and smuggled to Earth by Jumba during his mission to capture Experiment 626.
At the unknown point, he was activated, captured, tamed and named Jones.
Jones is red and similar to Jenny (308).


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Monitoring is a reactive solution to solve performance issues.
Phantomjs is a simple repeatable way to test web page performance times amongst other things.
Make performance tests a part of your ci process….
Peregrine takes code and deploys to performance boxes and integrates with webpagetest to run perf tests.
Peregrin will likely be open sourced soon..


When beginning to learn all about desktop computers, you'll see there's a ton of information to consider. Fortunately, this article has compiled most of what you need to know. Put this information to use to find the right computer for you.
Measure where you plan to put your computer. Desktop computers come in all different sizes, depending on model and brand. Some have smaller profiles, where others may take up more vertical space. Know exactly what will fit into the space you want to put it.
Prior to making your computer purchase, examine various reviews on reputable tech sits. There are so many choices, but when you find a comparison article or "best of" editors review, it will make the research easier.
If you are considering a Mac but most of your programs are for a PC, you should think about purchasing Parallels for Mac. This will let you run a virtual PC on your Mac. This means you will have the ability to run any software that was made for a PC. You'll need to also purchase the PC operating system separately to go with it.
If you are an avid player of games online and would like to buy a desktop PC that will provide the greatest gaming experience, there are some things you should keep in mind. It has to have a high quality video card, 10GB of memory or more, and a display with a high resolution. You may also want a specialized keyboard and controller.
In order to do transfers of large video files, you will need a writable optical DVD drive. CDs tend not to hold much data, therefore they don't work for large files. You will likely require the space of a DVD drive. It costs a bit more, but the storage space is worth it.
Buying a new desktop computer is not as difficult as you might think. However, you must understand just what you're doing. This article has gotten you started, and always be on the lookout for new information.
A lot of people have desktop computers, but there is always something to learn, as the market changes so quickly. Do your research and implement shopping tips. The article that follows is chock full of useful information to help you make the right choices for your needs.
Do a boot check if your computer is slow. Run "ms config" from your start menu. This menu will show which programs are launched every time the computer boots. If there are programs you rarely use, click them so they do not begin when you boot your computer. That ought to make your system a bit faster.
Try to buy the desktop computer that you can afford with just the features that you need. Lots of folks make the mistake of looking for computers that are too expensive and too advanced for their needs. Think about necessary features so you can have the best value.
When you need to purchase a new desktop computer, make sure it's covered by a warranty before you actually purchase it. This is especially important if there are any software issues or if anything else would fail making the computer unusable. Usually, you return it to the store to get it repaired or you get a new one that the same model as the old one.
If you are considering a Mac but most of your programs are for a PC, you should think about purchasing Parallels for Mac. It lets you run Windows on a Mac. Then, you will be able to run all of your PC programs. Remember to purchase the correct operating system for the computer.
There is a lot to learn when it comes to desktop computers because of technology growth making it hard to keep up. Thankfully there are articles such as these that attempt to simplify this topic for you. Always do your research before buying such an expensive and important piece of equipment.
Are you in the market for a new computer? Have you checked computer stores and online, but you are not aware of what you should be looking for? If so, you are not the only one. Many people have the same feelings when it comes to computers. Keep reading to simplify the process with the following tips.
Try to find folks wanting to get rid of their desktops. With so many people transitioning to laptops and other devices, you can find some sweet deals on desktop computers. Typically, such a computer is going to be in fine shape, but it's still prudent to verify the functionality before you make an offer.
If your desktop runs slow, you might want to conduct a boot check. Click on Start, then Run and type and execute "ms config". This program lets you view the different programs that automatically start up when your computer does. Identify any software or apps that you don't use, and disable them from automatically starting at boot. Your computer is going to run a lot faster when you do this.
When you are looking at desktop computers, check out the add-ons that are included. Lots of these computers offer additional choices to purchase accessories. Only buy what you need. Also, make sure the add-ons aren't available elsewhere for much less. Normally, add-ons purchased from computer manufacturers cost more.
Look for an affordable desktop that has just what you need and nothing more. Do not buy a computer that you simply cannot afford. Choose the components and features carefully as you shop for your desktop and save money.
To be sure your desktop runs it best and that the fan is properly cooling its components, its crucial to clean the interior of your desktop one time each week. The case is easy to open, and you can use a compressed air can to spray dust. The computer will stay clean and the fan will work properly.
Don't fear. The above article has tips to help you find a desktop. You may even want to print a copy of this article to have on hand as you shop for your computer. If you're still in need of assistance, an employee can assist you finding the computer that best fits your needs.


A custom Google map that shows Gyms, Nests, Lures and Pokestops. Plus these types of chracters epic, uncommon, rare and ultra rare.
A custom Google map that shows places to visit and search for Pokemon near Groton, Ayer, Shirley, Pepperell, Dracut and Townsend.
A custom Google map that shows places to visit and search for Pokemon near Adams, North Adams, Lee and near by areas.
Stylish, portable and durable for on the go use. LED power indicator with dual USB output ports, to charge 2 devices at the same time.


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Priority ticketing for 3rd round tie
Supporters who purchase a ticket for our home matches against Lincoln City and Alfreton Town will be given 'second priority' to buy tickets against Liverpool in the Third Round of the FA Cup, should we overcome Lincoln in next week's replay.
The third round tie would be an all ticket affair, with allocated seating.
In the event of a win against the Imps next Wednesday, Season Ticket holders will be given first priority to buy tickets from Friday 14 December at 10am until Sunday 16 December (10am-3pm). Season ticket holders would be entitled to one ticket per season ticket card.
Supporters who purchase a ticket for both home matches against Lincoln next week and Alfreton on Boxing Day would be given second priority to buy tickets for the third round, from 10am on Monday 17 December through to 5pm on Wednesday 19 December.
Tickets for Lincoln City will go on general sale this Friday while fans can purchase Alfreton tickets from here on in.
Supporters should keep both match tickets for the above games and produce them at the ticket office to claim a Liverpool ticket. Any remaining tickets will then go on general sale from Thursday 20 December at 10am from the Stags' ticket office.
Prices for the third round would be announced on Thursday 13 December.
The Football Association have confirmed that the winners of Mansfield and Lincoln will play Liverpool on Sunday 06 January 2013 (4pm) and will be shown live on ESPN.


Think we know what happens when one tries to break someone's razor and razor blades business model.
Yeah except here, it's "uses anyone's blades".
Although if it provides more capabilities than the ReliON Prime but uses Prime strips, that would be awesome.
Higher-end ReliON meters use different strips – I'm 99% certain their capabilities are identical, but you pay more for the strips just to use the nicer meter.
But in this case you end up buying the Razors which is what the manufacturer wanted to happen anyways. I don't think they give a hoot if you make your own handle.
Razor Blades (not Razors)…. I meant to say Razor blades. It should be Handles and Razor model. Need an edit button.
Aside from the fact they all seem to have different pin outs. I'm curious as to why reading the it's not just a calibration issue with these strips. The strips themselves are fairly sinple devices, it equates to measuring their resistance and scaling it appropriately. I'm also curious to look up how easy it is to make the glucose oxidase required in accurate enough concentrations to be viable.
How easy or not it is to make is nearly irrelevant. One lawsuit – real or complete BS, it doesn't matter – and the legal fees will far exceed the hard costs of production.
This x1000. It's good and all that people are learning to design and build medical devices themselves but when used as an actual medical device then that makes it iffy. Who should shoulder the burden of making sure it not only works correctly but also starting/working with a respectable governing body to ensure safety and compliance?
Even using it as a warning device is a bit of an iffy situation because that implies that the device will not reasonably cause unnecessary burden on the healthcare system by giving false positive/negatives. Who ends up paying for those errors in time and money? Sure the individual that made it may be okay with paying for these errors if they were to ever occur but these errors also propagate to other individuals (healthcare workers) in terms of attention and time which could have been used on other patients.
It's just a slippery slope to assume homemade is better because it is cheaper without also considering everything else in the mix. Compare apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
I have an interest in this project as I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes 3 years ago. Until 6 months ago I had things mostly under control with careful diet management. However I am now taking medication. My dad had the same progression and ended up needing insulin injections. Since I am in the UK and we have proper health care, and I am retired with only my state pension, I get free prescriptions. If I have to start using insulin, which judging by my dad's experience could happen within the next 5 years, the testing machine, strips and insulin will all be free. However, I would be interested in kit which gave me access to the data in a more usable form.
So 2 questions, is the problem of certification a particularly US issue? We have national standards, and over the last 20 years most of the national standards in Europe have converged, So I believe that certification in one country, pretty much guarantees certification in the EU.
Secondly if such a machine is being designed by an actual user, then the incentive to get it right is a great deal stronger than for a commercial manufacturer. I would be more inclined to trust this open source kit because of that alone.
And just as an aside, there is precedent, at least here in Europe, for devices which use the same consumables. I have an older Phillips electric toothbrush. It uses the same fitting as a Bosch of the same vintage, so I can buy either manufacturers brush heads.
And then there are staples! Because there are standards for the staples, I can buy any manufacturers staples for my Stanley staple gun.
First of all, my condolences for you being diagnosed with Type 2 DM and worsening disease course.
In regards to certification, the company that I have worked for closely follows the IEC60601 standards with additional parallel certifications when required. Since IEC is more of a global thing then what we get certified should theoretically translate to other countries without any modification however that is not always the case depending on what kind of medical device as well as where it is going to be used (hospital/long term acute care, skilled nursing facility, nursing home, home, commercial, etc). There are certain things emphasized in the IEC that are more stringent and much government red tape and lag time that it is a headache to navigate through which is indeed a US issue though other countries may have similar things. Additionally, there are a couple of other standards that must be met in addition to the IEC again depending on type and usage of the device. Most places have any entire department dedicated to just making sure compliance standards are fulfilled correctly and to make sure the right testing/certification is carried out. It's a headache and I wish there was a way to make it much more streamlined as well as easier to access (have to pay to even get the standards).
In regards to trust. I wholeheartedly agree with you that if you were the one designing it then you would likely make it better than the commercial offerings – at the very least non-inferior when compared. Open-source would be an advantage as well as others can see what it is doing exactly and improve upon it. What makes it complicated is that where would the fault lie in the case of if something went wrong (nothing is foolproof only lower risk)*. Does it go to the person making it, the seller, the user? Who ensures that all copies made from a design gets updated in the case something is found to be wrong? It's easy enough to appoint blame if someone gets hurt by their own design but it gets a bit hard when it's not their own design and they get hurt.
As far as compatibility goes. Part of that is due to greed and another due to the laziness/insular design process. Unless a governing body with enforcement power demands that things be compatible (such as the USB port for charging phones via common external power supply by the European Commission initiative), device manufacturers will continue to create their own proprietary things. Not having standards to adhere to opens the window to customer lock-in and lightens the design process by doing whatever is convenient. In addition, there is no significant incentive to make it easy for the customer to retrieve information from their medical device as the majority of the target customer base either (1) does not care or (2) does not know enough/has interest in retrieving it and actually doing something with it. That being said, yes there are medical devices which do offer the capability to download data but it's kind of niche. For patient use that would be the OneTouch glucometer and for physician use that would be all insulin pumps as well as (my favorite area) implantable pacemakers, loop recorders, and defibrillators.
* By wrong/hurt it includes not only the instance of say device failure but includes things like false results which in turn leads to consequences resulting in either bodily harm or cost of time/money.
agreement between the third party test strip manufacturer and the meter manufacturer.
While I think this idea has a lot of promise, the regulatory hurdles are substantial.
sadly the big expense isn't the meters. Ive got two now that work. when one broke I was given another free.
Exactly. What is needed is a hacked strip. Something cheap to make that will give the same results as the "razor blade model" commercial ones.
I don't want any one to access my glucometer readouts. That is personal.
That is exactly why I have been writing this tool! Even some of the open-core or open-source projects related to glucose readings out there will rely on remote web apps that are insecure by nature, particularly when ran by inexperience users that only want to see their own data. The closed-source apps are trying harder and harder to have access to your readings, so that they can share them for research purposes, and not everybody is (or even should be) okay with that.
I'm afraid I don't have an answer for that need yet :( But part of the work I'm doing with documenting the protocols (https://github.com/Flameeyes/glucometer-protocols) should allow others to build generic apps. I know of at least one iOS (proprietary, closed-source) app that uses the protocol definition I reversed, and provided corrections and improvements on them.
Tidepool is a non profit that has done some excellent work getting data out of glucose monitors and into their open soure platform. They've even worked directly with several manufacturers.
Author of the software linked earlier here.
Tidepool, and another half-dozen projects that I have been pointed at in the past year and a half, is only open source where they care about it. In particular, almost all the projects I've been pointed at, with a few exceptions, have an open source web app to upload data to and analyze it, which does not really make much sense if all you want is generate a report to share with your doctor (my doctor here is very happy to receive the exported PDF from Abbott's app, but he wouldn't care to sign up for an account on either a centralised or one-per-patient app).
Also, while Tidepool (and others) have software to upload data to meters, their software is not open source at all. The keyword there usually is "directly with manufacturers". I had already a not-really-positive encounter with another similar project that decided to work with manufacturers to come to define an exchange format – Tidepool has a data model that may actually be more suitable, and actually open sourced, so that may be useful – but as usual once you decide to work with manufacturers, the last thing they want you to do is collaborate in the open (or they would be publishing their protocols themselves).
The Python tool started mostly as a personal need and proof of concept. I know at least one iOS (closed-source, proprietary and paid-for) app used the protocol documentation I produced (at https://github.com/Flameeyes/glucometer-protocols) to support more devices, and they even contributed corrections and further details.
I know of at least three other protocols that have been reversed and documented, partially or fully. I have asked at least one of them if they had interest in adding the documentation to that repository but I have been told by the author they didn't have time/interest. Another one didn't reply, and the last one I have not contacted yet.
I really want to separate the idea of being able to access the data from the having the data itself available, first of all. But I also don't have particular care to have a web app to store that data. Unless my doctor was to run his own instance of whichever open-source app, that's not really useful to me, I'd say.
I was contacted by members of Tidepool that pointed out I was incorrect in the openness of the source code from Tidepool, they have indeed released their uploader tool and the meters' access code.
All in all, i'll have to look deeper in Tidepool, so thank you Anders for pointing me at them!


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The Jesters
Contact Jugglers
The Jesters are beautifully costumed characters, who manipulate crystal balls that glide, float, dance and levitate surreally around their hands, arms and bodies.
They will mix and mingle with your guests, presenting their mesmeric crystal ball manipulation and for evening events they can also offer a meet and greet set as statuesque characters.
If you are looking for an act with a bit of a difference, look no further than The Jesters.
"A joy to work with you."
Calmer Karma Ltd
"The crystal ball man was amazing."
"A huge thank you for your incredible performance at our party."
Hannah - Private Party
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Magical Butterfly
Contact Juggler
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Glow Show
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Nickerson High School
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Taxpayer Cost Calculator
Historical Roadmap of Facility Plans
Superintendent Welcome
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NHS Alumni Association
Paul Allen's Profile
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Jeanne Stroh's Profile
Business & Human Resource
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Payroll (Aptafund)
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Dan has been a board member since 2015 and serves on the Negotiations Committee. He previously served on the board from 2007 to 2011. Dan farms west of Nickerson; he has been a farmer all his life. Dan is married to Cindy Schweizer, and they have three children. Their oldest child attends Hutchinson Community College, and their two younger children attend USD 309 school. In his spare time, Dan enjoys watching Panther athletics and watching his children compete.
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Valorie has been a board member since 2018. She is the Accounts Payable Associate for Reno County Clerks office, where she has worked since 2009. Valorie is married to David Garcia. They have 2 children; Tre' and Adan who attend Nickerson High School. Valorie is involved in Panther Pride. In her spare time she loves watching her very active boys with all of their sports, other activities, and being with family and friends.
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Mike Apfel has been a board member since 2015. He serves on the District Facilities and Strategic Planning Committees. He works at Showalter Farms, and has been there since 2010. Mike has one daughter who currently attends Nickerson High School. In Mike's spare time, he enjoys watching his daughter compete in sports.
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Brent has been a board member since 2018 and serves on the Board Negotiations Committee. He is a mechanic with Kansas Department of Transportation, where he has worked since 2000. Brent also farms south and west of Nickerson since 1998. Brent is married to Jodie Engelland. They have four children; Bryanna attends college in Colby, and Brooke, Brylee and Taylor all attend USD 309 schools. In Brent's spare time, he enjoys watching his children compete in athletics.
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Sets the time to wait when reading before raising an IO::Timeout.
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A stepper motor is controlled by sending a periodic pulse train to the inputs of the motor. Note that if this motor is controlled by a microcontroller, it is also necessary to use a driver chip as the current requirements of a stepper typically exceeds the output current capacity of microcontroller pins. In the example in this lecture we will consider a (widely and cheaply available) stepper called 28BYJ-48 with a ULN2003 based driver.
This causes directory contains a number of files which can be used to configure the GPIO pin. Notably the file direction (which can be used to set the pin as an input or output), and value, which can be used to either set the value of the pin, or read the current value of the pin.
// Open the value file and return a pointer to it.
// to the specified value. Uses the sysfs GPIO interface.
The advantage of using this interface is that it is rather portable. However, it is not very fast as all writes to the physical I/O pin has to pass through the kernel. However, if very low latency, or high throughput is required it may be necessary to use memory mapped I/O instead. This can be done by opening the special file /dev/mem and mapping it into the memory space of the current process with the system call mmap. The main drawback of this approach is that it requires the program to run with the privileges necessary to access /dev/mem (normally root). (Unrestricted access to the physical memory of the computer breaks all security models in all operating system.) Another drawback is that it is by necessity less portable as it requires detailed knowledge of the hardware the program is running on.
The problem with this version is that the calls to usleep() only guarantees that the program will sleep for at least this amount of time. However, the program does not take into account that the other parts of the main loop (i.e. the call to logtimestamp() and setiopin() may take up a certain amount of time as well). This means that it is hard to create a portable program that will always output data to the stepper with a fixed frequency. Finally, you should note a signal handler is installed so that we dump the data collected by logtimestamp() to a file when the program is interrupted by a ctrl-c.
// the Raspberry PI platform.
When running stepper1.c we will typically get fairly deterministic performance, as long as no other processes are running at the same time on the Linux system. However, as soon as another process is running, the wait between two calls to setiopin() will have considerable variability. The reason for this is that stepper1.c is running as a normal process with no special privileges.
fprintf(stderr,"WARNING: Failed to set stepper thread"
// Ensure the pages are actually allocated!
Note that in Linux it is typically not enough to merely allocate memory using malloc, it is also necessary to modify the pages we have allocated to ensure that Linux knows that we are actually going to use this memory. This feature is called "memory overcommit" and is included in Linux because many programs allocate memory which they are never going to use. As such it is wasteful to actually reserve this memory before it is actually used. However, in an embedded system or real-time system this behavior can be turned off or modified (see the overcommit accounting documentation in Linux for more information).
// Lock memory to ensure no swapping is done.
This ensures that all current and future memory allocations are guaranteed to be locked into memory and should never be swapped out to the swap area or otherwise made unavailable.
While the method described above will be sufficient for most use cases, it should be noted that Linux is not designed as a real-time operating system from the beginning. As such, Linux do not provide any guarantees about the actual performance of a real-time task. There are however various methods by which the performance of Linux can be made more deterministic. One of the most interesting methods is to use the PREEMPT_RT patch. Among other things, this reduces the latency of interrupt handlers by moving almost all of the work traditionally performed by interrupt handlers into kernel threads.
In many cases it is necessary to interact with a real-time thread from a lower priority thread. This is a dangerous situation which, if not done carefully, can lead to non-deterministic real-time performance. Consider for example the stepper control program, where it is desired that the user should be able to change the delay value (in order to change the speed of the stepper).
It is fairly obvious that the following piece of code will not work correctly as the call to scanf() will block the main thread until the user inputs a new delay vaule.
One solution to this is to use so-called non-blocking I/O. Another, more general solution is to move all user interface tasks to another thread which does not run with real-time priority.
// Note: Do not decrement step->sem here.
If the doexit flag is set,the thread should exit and if the getrpm flag is set, the stepper returns the current number of steps to the user interface task.
In essence, the user interface owns the shared data until it notifies the appropriate real-time thread of a change by using sem_post on the semaphore. After this point it may not modify the shared data until the real-time thread acknowledges the change via the rt_sem semaphore. This is a variant of the symmetric synchronization protocol discussed in Lecture 3 - Task synchronization.


MARIETTA – The commissioners gave an update on the Devola sewer project at their weekly meeting Thursday.
Commission President David White said by the first week of April, a request for qualifications will be published across multiple media outlets for design firms who are interested in working on the project. White said that with the help of the county engineer, two firms will be selected for the project.
"One will design the project…the other will oversee their work," he said.
White said the factors in determining their picks will be the ability of the firm to complete a suitable design and if the company has any history with the county. White said having prior knowledge of a firm's ability will take some of the guesswork out of the equation. One typical aspect of a project's planning that the commissioners are tasked to monitor–the price– won't be an issue in their decision.
"We can't even look at that," he said.
White said they are mandated to base their pick of the design firm on their knowledge and skill instead of the expense.
Commissioner Ron Feathers also said they are hoping to get an extension from the Ohio EPA on the completion of the plans in order to look into potential easements on private property for the project. Feathers said when the original plans were drawn up sometime between 2010 and 2012, they showed the majority of the new sewer lines running under the roads in front of the homes. White said if some of the lines could be moved behind homes instead of under the roads, potential savings from using fewer materials and rebuilding roads could save taxpayer money.
"But it's not up to the Ohio EPA, it's up to the residents of Devola," he said.
In 2012, the county was ordered to sewer an estimated 62 homes on Lawton Road by 2020, and the rest of Devola by 2025 by the Ohio EPA after excessive amounts of nitrates were found in wells in the Devola area.
The county failed to start the project which spurred litigation by the Ohio EPA. In December, the Washington County Common Pleas Court decided in the EPA's favor, forcing the commissioners to begin the sewering of Devola.
* Donnie Rader, IT director for the county, informed the commissioners that the purchase and installation of a back-up cooling system for the county's server room is on schedule. The server room is located in the annex of the Washington County Courthouse and connects all departments in the county to the internet.
The call to action for the project started in January when the condenser pump for the cooling system backed up. The clog caused the system to work inefficiently, heating the server room to unsafe levels for the equipment housed there.
"There are nine servers, (electronic information) storage and two core switches that deliver internet throughout the county," Rader said.
Once the pump was fixed, a coolant leak was found in the system's pipes. Rader said once the leak was fixed and the system refilled with coolant, the added pressure caused an older release valve to blow, flooding the server room with coolant.
The near destruction of approximately $250,000 in computer hardware prompted Rader to ask for funds for the back-up cooling system in February, which the commissioners unanimously approved.
"To spend $12,000 in order to protect a quarter million dollars in equipment is worth it," he said.
Rader said the project will be done by March 29.
* Dennis Sipe, chair of the Washington County Board of Elections, informed the commissioners there will be three vendors demonstrating their voting machines to the board of elections and residents of Washington County in April.
After the board's regular meeting at 9:30 a.m. on April 10, representatives from Clear Ballot, RBM/Unisys and ES and S will each have an hour to demonstrate the use of their voting machines and answer any questions about them.
A mandate was given to the board in 2017 from the Secretary of State saying new voting machines must be purchased by all counties. The state will pay up to $750,000 of the cost of the new machines after former Gov. John Kasich authorized the underwriting of the cost of the machines throughout the state in 2018. Previous reports have said the cost of the new voting machines could be as much as $1 million.
Sipe didn't give a timetable as to when they would pick one of the three choices as the county's new voting machines.
The meeting will be held at the Board of Elections headquarters at 204 Davis Ave. and is open to the public.
* Flite Freimann, director of Washington County Job and Family Services, proposed a slower timetable in getting the merging Children Services and JFS departments into one structure.
Freimann said his new proposal separates the move into three large phases.
The first involves moving adult services from Job and Family Services' current location on Gilman Avenue, and moving them into the upper floor of 204 Davis Ave. Freimann said this would entail an immediate move for the commissioners from Davis Avenue to the Gilman Avenue location.
The second phase would be finding a suitable location for the Board of Elections. Freimann said moving the location of the board wouldn't happen until after the 2020 presidential election.
The final phase of the proposal would be the actual moving of the Board of Elections and having the rest of his organization move into the lower level of 204 Davis Ave.
"I think this could work, but we obviously need more input from the Board of Elections," said White.
The commissioners said they would review the proposal before giving their decision.


This book! Gah! It begins as such a charming, sweet love story and BAM turns into much much more! The ride was fabulous and so different from anything else I've ever read. It was so unique and I was consumed with the story and characters. Cameron and Abbie had amazing chemistry and such great conversations- it was all so real. I was completely wrapped up in their journey and found this book to be absolutely enchanting. A must-read!


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Акаро́ (также Языковка) — село в Хунзахском районе Дагестана, расположено на территории Кизилюртовского района. Входит в Самилахский сельсовет.

География
Расположено на левом берегу реки Сулак.

Ближайшие населённые пункты: на севере — село Пятилетка, на северо-западе — село Акнада, на северо-востоке — сёла Кохтебе и Казиюрт, на юго-западе — сёла Нечаевка, Чонтаул и Костек, на юго-востоке — село Самилах.

История
Село образовано на месте русского хутора Языковка, названного в честь его основателя Языкова. Хутор был покинут в 1918 году после чеченского рейда по Хасавюртовскому округу. В 1929 году хутор Эзиков входил в состав Чонтаульского сельсовета Махачкалинского района. В населённом пункте проживало 106 человек, 85 % населения — чеченцы, кумыки — 15%. В 1944 году население хутора подверглось депортации. С этого времени хутор перестаёт существовать. В конце 1950-х годов земли бывшего хутора были переданы под зимние пастбища колхоза им. Сталина (позже Хизроева) Хунзахского района, а на хуторе расположилась центральная усадьба прикутанного хозяйства. В 1966 году хутор Языковка входил в состав Чонтаульского сельсовета Хасавюртовского района. Указом ПВС ДАССР от 23.02.1972 г. на землях закрепленных за колхозом им. Хизроева на территории Кизилюртовского района зарегистрирован новый населённый пункт Акаро. До сих пор в основном употребляется прежнее название села — Языковка.

Население
По данным Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года — моноэтничное аварское село.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Хунзахского района

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January 14, 2021 Juliane RoemhildUncategorized
A Happy New Year to all von Arnim readers! We hope you had a good start to the year. May it be filled with books and moments of happiness.
We are kicking off the new year with an interview with Gabrielle Carey, whose book Only Happiness Here – In Search of Elizabeth von Arnim was published late last year.
Gabrielle is an award-winning writer, biographer and essayist and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney for many years. She is the author of several books, including Moving among Strangers – Randolph Stow and My Family and the Australian classic Puberty Blues (together with Kathy Lette).
Gabrielle, you have written about your relationship with writers like James Joyce, Randolph Stow and Ivan Southall. However, Only Happiness is your first book focussing on a female writer. What do thinking and writing about another woman writer mean to you?
Actually, there is a story behind that. I think it was 2015 that the Guardian issued a kind of challenge to people to read only women or more women for that year. It was only then that I realised how many more men I read than women and started consciously balancing out my reading material. So the simple answer is that I hadn't written about a woman writer before because I was too busy being obsessed with mighty men.
The struggle to become a writer is so very different for a woman than it is for a man for all the obvious reasons but also for some not so obvious reasons. It was fascinating for me to realise that even for someone so prodigiously talented as Elizabeth – whose work actually managed to return a healthy income and who had the gift of humour and wit as well as a gift for happiness – still struggled to write amid all the other demands. She has also led me to other obscured or partly-forgotten women writers such as Rose Macauley, whose Towers of Trebizond is a comic masterpiece as well as being a deeply moving ode to the brevity of love and life.
In one way or another all of von Arnim's books are about women's (not always successful) pursuit of happiness. Which of von Arnim's novels have you found most fruitful when thinking about happiness?
Well, when I'm trying to convert people to Arnim, I usually recommend The Enchanted April. One of my very favourite lines is the one about how 'she had finally found her celestial legs'. But every one of her novels, I found, has some wry insight into how people discover or avoid happiness. (Because I do believe people often go out of their way to avoid happiness.) The other one I recommend is Elizabeth and her German Garden because I do find the moments of rapture really convincing. But even Fräulein Schmidt is good to consult about principles of happiness – despite the fact that her situation, apparently, is quite miserable. She has lost the love of her life, lost faith in love, has few friends, no entertainments and is horribly poor, with not much of a future ahead of her. And yet she still experiences moments of genuine joy.
For a bestselling writer, alarmingly few of von Arnim's novels have happy endings. What can we take away from her darker novels, such as Vera and The Pastor's Wife, when thinking about happiness?
On the most basic level we can take away the fact that it is a mistake to depend on a male partner and marriage to provide a lifelong source of happiness. But beyond that I think is a deep mistrust of romantic love. In her first novel proper, The Benefactress, (I tend not to count the first two as novels) she pretty much fails at writing convincing love scenes. In her diary she reflected on her attempts: 'Dislike love, loathe scenes.' I think there may be more to that than a funny, throwaway line. And perhaps she dislikes love because she recognises how much of romance is an invention and resents the way men and women both contribute to an imaginary 'forever' love – which over the years has become an article of faith despite real life so often contradicting that faith. Perhaps von Arnim is playing the role of the apostate. She is no longer a believer. The interesting thing for me is that she doesn't believe in love, but she does believe in happiness. (As women, of course, we have always been taught that one cannot exist without the other.)
Most of your books involve your family history or are based on personal experience. What is the attraction of life writing? And is there a connection between life writing and personal happiness?
I write about my own life and other people's lives simply because at heart I am a documentarian, and I have no imagination of the fictional variety. I also find real life fascinating. I don't feel the need for fantasy worlds. So I suppose the attraction is simply that it is something that I can do – my skills in other areas are limited. Perhaps life writing is a method of seeking out personal happiness. I don't know.
In Falling Out of Love with Ivan Southall you meditate on the writing process and your disillusionment when returning to Southall's young adult books as a mature writer. Has your perspective on von Arnim changed over the course of researching and writing your book?
I would say my perspective on von Arnim has enlarged over the course of researching and writing the book. It is clear that she also suffered a lot. (A number readers have responded to the book by saying 'But she wasn't very happy.' This came as a surprise to me – I never imagined that people would take the title literally.) The more I got to know her through her diaries and letters, the more admired her even though I'm quite aware that she could also be a prickly character. She was, for example, incredibly naturally generous – a quality that is rare – always sharing her material as well as her spiritual wealth. Her secret, I think, was understanding the importance of reserving enough of her naturally happy temperament for herself – of not sharing absolutely everything. In fact, I think she makes a strong connection between secrets and happiness. (This is why I will be particularly interested to read the forthcoming In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle.)
Do you have any further plans for von Arnim?
At this stage I don't although there is so much more to be said about her. If I were to get the opportunity to go to the Huntington Library where her archives are held, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to resist writing another instalment. We will see what Destiny has in store!
Thank you very much for the interview, Gabrielle.