And this, kids, is why you never plagiarize: Army War College revoked Montana Sen. John Walsh's degree on Friday as a response to recent plagiarism allegations that greatly tarnished the Democrat's credibility. According to The New York Times, which first reported about the controversy in July, Walsh lifted words and ideas, without citations, from a number of authors in his 14-page thesis paper for his master's degree in strategic studies. The 53-year-old senator received the degree in 2007 with the completion of his thesis, titled "The Case for Democracy as a Long Term National Strategy."
According to The New York Times report from writer Jonathan Martin, Walsh took word-for-word material from papers from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He also tried passing off journal essays and text from academic books as his own.
At the time the plagiarism allegations broke, Walsh told reporters outside Capitol Hill that using the un-cited texts was mistake. "I didn't do anything intentional here," Walsh said in July.
Though I disagree with the findings made by the War College, I accept its decision with great humility and respect for the U.S. Military. I apologize to all Montanans for the plagiarism in my 2007 paper, and I am prepared to live with its consequences. I may not be a scholar but I am proud to have been a soldier who has served Montana and this great nation for 33 years in uniform.
Walsh, who assumed office in February 2014 to replace retiring Sen. Max Baucus, announced in August that he's not running for reelection in November. The decorated military veteran previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Montana between 2013 and 2014.
The Democratic Party had faith in both Walsh and his military background, and hoped that his national profile would help bolster the party's image among the military, its members and its veterans. With Walsh pulling out of the race in August, the Montana senator race was shaken up a bit. State Rep. Amanda Curtis was chosen as Walsh's replacement, but she's currently trailing by at least 20 points in the polls to her Republican challenger, according to Real Clear Politics.
As Montanans choose their next U.S. Senator over the next few weeks, I will continue proudly serving this state through the end of this term. I look forward to fighting for veterans and their families. I look forward to doing all we can for the small businesses that call our state home. I will keep fighting for the freedom of choice and equal pay for women, and for access to our public lands.


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The Power of Words, the Power of Shouting
by Ronn Torossian
In today's battle for hearts and minds, the journalist sets the terms of debate.
"A newspaper is a grand thing. There is no labor of higher worth than that of the journalist, whether he writes instructional articles or reports on a robbery that took place yesterday in the slums. Like the function of the blood circulating through the body, or like the function of commerce in the international market, so is the function of journalism in the realm of the spirit," wrote Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1932.
"Who were the first to teach us to always interfere in matters that are not ours, to judge people and nations, even though we were never chosen for the position of judge? The work of the publicist is a legacy from the Prophets of Israel."
"Our passion is to speak, to proclaim—'shouting' is what the same audience calls it, 'we have no need for words, give us actions.' One thing that audience forgets is that speech is also an action – perhaps the most authentic of all other actions. Cities have been destroyed, and more will fall, but what was shouted in the wilderness thousands of years ago is alive and still relevant. The world was created by the Word. The world will be mended by the Article."
Hezbollah Says Two Obstacles Remain for Lebanon Government
The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah said on Saturday that two obstacles remain before the formation of a...
And in thinking about the power of the almighty article, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, was recently reported as saying in an interview that the two main enemies of Israel are, "the New York Times and Haaretz."
What we learn through this quote is that, as Jabotinksy says, journalists can help us rise up, but the power of the word can also lay us low, this is made clear in a U.S. Department of State Report from 2005.
"The proliferation of media outlets (television, radio, print media and the internet) has vastly increased the opportunity for purveyors of anti-Semitic material to spread their propaganda unhindered."
"Anti-hate laws provide some protection, but freedom of expression safeguards in many western countries limited the preventive measures that governments could take. Satellite television programming easily shifts from one provider to another and Internet offerings cross international borders with few or no impediments."
"Critics of Israel frequently use anti-Semitic cartoons depicting anti-Jewish images and caricatures to attack the State of Israel and its policies, as well as Jewish communities and others who support Israel. These media attacks can lack any pretext of balance or even factual basis and focus on the demonization of Israel. The United States is frequently included as a target of such attacks, which often assert that U.S. foreign policy is made in Israel or that Jews control the media and financial markets in the United States and the rest of the world."
In other words, Israel and America are big Satan and little Satan.
This background information might help us understand why this survey didn't receive much media coverage. A survey of more than 28,000 people in 27 countries, asked respondents to rate 12 countries about whether they were a positive or negative influence upon the world. On average, 56 per cent of people in surveyed countries viewed Israel as having a negative influence, while 17 per cent said its influence was positive. Iran scored 54 per cent and 18 per cent, almost the same! Israel also stands out for having the largest number of countries viewing it negatively. Iran is regarded unfavorably in 21 countries, the United States and North Korea in 20.
So, if what the survey is true, then Israel and America are, indeed, big Satan and little Satan. Amazing in today's times. Truly baffling for me. And how did this happen?
"You can't brainwash people for four years that Israel is an illegitimate country and that Israelis are like the Nazis and that Israelis are monsters and expect that nothing will happen to Jews," said an adviser to Natan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish Agency, a few years ago.
Undoubtedly, repercussions worldwide for Jews and Israel emanate from this awful media coverage. Clearly, the media is in the business of shaping minds, and they are harming Jews worldwide with their bias.
Owning a US PR Agency, I work on the communication front lines and believe that the media contributes in major ways to Israel's problems in the world. Any supporter of the State of Israel should do their part to spread positive messages about Israel. Positive Public Relations for Israel can help mend many problems facing the only democratic ally of America in the Middle East.
In terms of history, let's all raise our voices for the good: I challenge you to find one positive story that speaks to the strength of the Israeli people, the wisdom of Jewish law or the amazing miracles that have allowed our people to survive for so many thousands of years. Send it out to your social networks, help stem the tide of hate with an act — typing is also an "action," in Jabotinsky's words — let us all harness our keyboards for good!
Ronn Torossian is CEO of 5WPR, a leading PR Agency.

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Fan Club Game Abyss Batman Begins
In this adaptation of the film of the same name, the origins of the Batman legend are explored. Playing as both Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego, Batman, you will need to hunt evil forces in familiar locations such as Arkham asylum, Gotham City, but also in the Himalaya. Using both stealth and brutal skills, you take on enemies in true beat-em-up style. Batman has a vast array of moves, from kicks and punches to more exotic special moves. Multiple enemies can be attacked at once, and there are tricks to break through enemies' defenses. Also, certain attacks can only be used as a finishing move when opponents are weakened. Next to the melee combat, Batman carries his Bat Utility Belt with a Batgrapple to reach higher areas, the Batarang and gadgets such as smoke and flash grenades, a lockpick, camera hacker and an optical wire to peek from behind corners.
Franchise: Batman
Developer: Eurocom
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube Microsoft Xbox Sony Playstation 2 Game Boy Advance PlayStation 2 GameCube Xbox
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Hellview Cemetery - St. Petersburg's largest charity haunted house.
Hellview Cemetery - St. Petersburg's legendary charity haunted house.
Hellview Cemetery was a FREE local haunted attraction stationed in St. Petersburg, Florida which formed in 1996. What started as a simple yard haunt had become a featured event that no Halloween in Saint Petersburg should have been without. The Haunted House in Tampa Bay that everyone was talking about. Sadly It has ceased operation at it's location and is seeking a new location for 2017.
Dr. Erazmus Hellion has spent 20 years of his life studying Hellview Cemetery and all of its assorted phenomena. He is convinced the evil contained within has grown too great. This year when the cemetery manifests in October he has a plan to destroy Hellview Cemetery and clear his family name once and for all. The key lies in his Temporal Door technology, he hopes to send volunteers into the past of Hellview. Perhaps just by them being there he can alter Hellview enough so that evolves into something far less dangerous. Will you be able to survive the legendary history of Hellview Cemetery?
No one knows how old Hellview Cemetery really is. Some say it existed even before the Seminole Indians were ever to set foot on the peninsula of what is now Saint Petersburg, Florida. The mound builders of the area gave it a wide berth as they said, "The dead are not quiet there."
The graves inside the cemetery date from centuries old to recent deaths of only a few years. This is odd as no records exist of anyone being actually buried there. Even stranger still is the fact the some of the graves date to before the European colonization of America.
The early natives of what would eventually become St. Petersburg avoided this area and noted that it was near a "Gateway to Shadow." They built several midden mounds in the area as a warning to any travelers of the evils the lie in wait here. Sadly early European settlers of the area assumed the mounds were some strange topographical feature of this tropical paradise since they were so different from the usual burial mounds they had found. This misconception is what led the settlers to name the area Hillview. It did not take long for people to innately start calling the area Hellview instead, due to the unnatural darkness and sense of foreboding surrounding the early settlements in the Tampa Bay area.
Theories abound as to the nature of Hellview Cemetery. Though few are brave enough to study it for long, most believe there is some sort of portal inside the graveyard that allows it to pull in evil forces to die in its immediate area. Some theorize that the graveyard itself is actually a gateway to another dimension that is trying to keep the evil forces trapped in its own walls. So many dark stories are associated with this area of St. Petersburg, some legend some fact. Several paranormal groups have investigated the cemetery and all have confirmed it's numerous hauntings.
All we know is that as October nears, the area around Old Northeast St. Petersburg gets darker. The streets seem to become more sinister as the summer heat finally begins to break. An unusually bitter chill wind mixes with the Gulf Breeze. Graves start popping up where simple yards used to grow. A strange pale light emanates from the area. Do you dare enter the mausoleum and see where it's path leads you this year?
Hellview reaches from beyond and grips St. Petersburg in terror.
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The question "What is the meaning of life?" preoccupied people, and especially philosophers, throughout the ages. This question encompasses several fundamental questions such as: What is our purpose and goal in this life? What is the reason we were created? What is our nature?
We humans (or at least some of us) have a psychological need to feel that what we're doing with our lives has significance, is important, that we are not just "passing time" until death arrives, and that our lives are worth living. It is important for us to figure out how we can find meaning and purpose in our lives. It is especially important for us in light of the problems of contemporary culture: the moral void of materialistic consumerism and nihilism, the anti-rational and pseudo-scientific attitude prevalent in some groups, and the dark extremism of fundamentalists.
A person is the only authority that can ultimately determine the meaning of his own life. Only a person, and not anyone else or any other source, determines whether he feels that what he is doing with his life is meaningful to him or not.
For example, society views being a physician as an esteemed profession, and views healing people as important and significant. But as far as the doctor is concerned, it is important that she herself would feel that practicing medicine is significant for her. Perhaps she studied to become a doctor only because her parents pressured her to do so, and she would actually prefer to follow a different profession?
Therefore it is extremely important that we dedicate time to ourselves, mark some time in our busy schedules to ask ourselves and find out: Who am I? What do I feel? What do I want? What are my preferences and values? Am I doing something only to please other people, because this is what is expected of me? Am I following the usual path that everyone in society follows? Or do I really listen to myself, examine and try different options, to find out the unique path that is specifically suited for me?
Because human life is finite, people may sometimes fall into the nihilistic attitude that "life has no meaning", saying "We're all going to die, so what's the point? Why bother?" But the finiteness of life does not entail that life has no meaning.
For example, people enjoy playing chess. But what's the point and purpose in this game? After all, at the end of the game, all the pieces are returned to the box, regardless of how they were moved throughout the game. Nonetheless, we did experience a game, we had an experience. Existence as a whole, viewed as encompassing both past and future, is different thanks to the game we played. The same is true for our own life experience, regardless of how long it lasts. What we do in our life influences the lives of others and the universe itself.
If any purpose we propose is countered by yet another question "But what is THAT good for? What's next?" then we reach an infinite regress. Its only resolution is the understanding that an experience has meaning in and of itself.
For some people, delving into philosophical questions will not make their feeling of meaninglessness disappear. A feeling of meaninglessness may indicate suffering from a state of depression (in contrast, a feeling of meaninglessness does not arise when one experiences genuine enjoyment and satisfaction). This depression could arise as a result of a great catastrophe, despair, a feeling of helplessness, or an internal regime of oppression where our patterns of thinking are very rigid and critical towards ourselves and negative towards life in general. In such a psychological state, everything feels pointless, and then the question arises in our mind: "What's the point of all this?", actually hinting that there is no point at all. This may lead us to an obsession with the philosophical question of the meaning of life, while what we really need is emotional and psychological healing.
The primary question to address is: "What is the purpose of life?". As explained above, there is no one single answer that holds true for everyone, as each person needs to explore this question by himself and find his own answers. Nevertheless, there are themes common to many people.
"Purpose" implies a goal to strive towards, a directionality of advancement and progress towards achieving the goal. Not any goal would suffice. For example, the acquisition of wealth has not proven to be a reliable source for satisfying the psychological need for a sense of meaning in life. Those whose driving force in life is the accumulation of material possessions usually end up feeling that life is meaningless. This is because physical materials satisfy only physical needs or low-level desires but cannot satisfy high-level psychological needs such as self-improvement, connection, and contribution. The same is true for entertainment and pleasures – they provide a fleeting enjoyment, but they cannot satisfy deeper needs.
There are several possible sources of meaning, as explained in the next post.


The truth about the world we live in is practically rubbed into our faces, and yet we completely ignore it. To a predictably tragic fault.
The fancy giant telescope that the Vatican uses to peer out into God's celestial heavens is named Lucifer. Noone bats an eye. We built the largest cruise ship in the world, and we brazenly name it the Titanic, after the mythological Titans, who were unexpectedly felled due to the arrogance of their perceived immortality, and upon naming it, we declared the great ship unsinkable. Yet, just like its namesake giants, it unexpectedly sank for nothing short of arrogance by the shipping company and its over-confident captain.
Locally, the MoneyStore built the great pyramid in West Sacramento as its headquarters for its financial empire, and named it, of all things, the Ziggurat, a biblical reference to the doomed Tower of Babel, which felled for its piety and irreverence to God, taking down the entire empire with it, scattering its peoples to the winds. Its poetic justice that the company collapsed for its fraudulent subprime loans and rigged insurance scams, reverberating into the epidemic housing crisis that ushered in the Great Depression of our times. With such a name for the building, it wasn't like they tried to hide what they were doing to us.
No matter when, no matter where, no matter what, the Ziggurat is always hidden in plain sight, if you refuse to look at it. We just love to tempt fate. Sometimes taunting it.


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Castle Drogo: Last castle to be built in England
HUsband & Wife team Terry & Juliet Brotheridge, reassembling the chandeliers at Castle Drogo, (Terry did the wiring at Castle Drogo 25 years ago!)
Chrissy Harris takes a look at the massive restoration project going on at the last castle to be built in England
Photography by Steven Haywood
Castle Drogo
Pictures By Steven Haywood - Castle Drogo, Devon - underneath the quarter of a million pound scaffold structure, that is reinstating 2,355 granite blocks on the roof, weighing a total of 680 tonnes.
High up on a hill above the Teign Gorge, surrounded by scaffolding and wrapped in hundreds of meters of white plastic flapping in the howling wind, Castle Drogo is a spectacular sight.
To say this iconic building is undergoing a renovation is an understatement: this is one of the most ambitious restoration projects ever undertaken in this country.
Drogo was created as a family home by wealthy local businessman Julius Drewe at the beginning of the 20th century to the designs of the famous British architect Edwin Lutyens. But then the rain came in. By the bucket load.
Now, the last castle ever to be built in England is being saved from certain ruin by a highly skilled team of people working on a five-year, £11 million project to make the building watertight.
It's a lot of work and a lot of cash to spend on what is, essentially, a big Edwardian-era house made to look like a castle. But there is something magical about this place that hits you on the approach and follows you deep inside its granite walls.
"Look, the stone even glitters in the light – it's just so beautiful," says Lucinda Heron from the National Trust. The organisation has owned the castle since 1974 and is leading the project to restore it.
"We are so excited about how it's all going and it's so much nicer now some of the boards on the windows have been taken down," says Lucinda. "We can finally see the light!"
She means this in every sense. The south wing of the castle has been completed and the third phase – making the north wing watertight – is in full swing.
Everyone here is hopeful that the project is on track to be completed in 2017.
But don't just take their word for it – come and see for yourself. The best part about this restoration is that Castle Drogo is still very much open for business, with visitors being granted access inside and even above the castle on a 20-metre high viewing platform. There are also stunning artistic displays, unveiled last month to showcase the history of one of Devon's most important landmarks.
"This is a unique opportunity for people," says Tim Cambourne, the (surprisingly calm) man in charge of leading this extraordinary project for the National Trust.
"We have to work in a slightly different way with visitors coming round but we are sharing what we are doing and that's important."
Tapestries at Castle Drogo
As anyone who has renovated a house knows, trying to work with a group of people gawping and getting in the way is a tough call.
Add to that the fact this is a castle of national importance and you wonder why they don't just close the doors get on with it.
"We want to show people what we're doing – it's absolutely the right decision," says Lucinda Heron, who is the Castle's house and collections manager. "You need that connection or else we all feel like we're sitting here, shut off in a big, white tent.
"It's more challenging for us to be open but this way people can see how we're getting on - and they come back to check on our progress."
It's paying off and Castle Drogo has attracted quite a fan club, outside the realms of the usual National Trust members. One visitor pops down once a month from Torquay because she loves looking at the scaffolding".
"Seeing people's reactions to all this hard work will make it worthwhile," says Lucinda. "We can only do this because of the public support we have. We couldn't attempt to do it otherwise.
Scaffolding at Dartmoor's Castle Drogo
"I feel like we are showing people the value of their membership and visitor fees, the money they spend in the shop and cafe. It's all helping to preserve this amazing space for the nation."
Learn more at nationaltrust.org
Next Month: Devon Life goes behind the scenes with the experts involved in the restoration work.
The story so far:
One of the main problems at the Lutyens-designed castle is that the large flat roof areas were leaking.
The trust erected one of the biggest scaffolding expanses in the UK, consisting of 24,700 poles, weighing 544 tonnes.
In order to lay the new waterproof system, 2,355 granite blocks weighing 680 tonnes are being removed and then reinstated. This involves moving and reassembling entire battlements and large sections of the castle walls.
Roof gullies are being redesigned to accommodate the heavy Dartmoor rainfall.
The cracked cement pointing is being removed and replaced with an improved lime based mortar.
In addition some 913 windows containing over 13,000 panes are being cleaned and the lead replaced to stop them leaking.
The southern half of the building has now been made watertight and work has begun on the north wing.
In preparation for this crucial next phase, the entire contents of Castle Drogo had to be moved from one end of the house to the other.
The precious collection and furnishings built up over the years by the Drewe family had been in storage in the north end of the building, protected from the caustic and very fine dust flying about.
A team of experts, led by Lucinda Heron, have spent the past few weeks moving everything from north to south in what must have been the most hair-raising of removal jobs.
Among other tasks, a magnificent 18th Century grandfather clock was returned to its specially built alcove, paintings, tapestries, chandeliers and lanterns re-hung and antique vases put back on shelves. Even a table football dating back to 1910 was put back in its place.
And then there was the dusting.
Dust is the enemy of this castle and must be kept at bay at all costs. It's a constant battle but unavoidable during such a mammoth restoration project where builders and stonemasons are having to work alongside conservationists and fine art experts.
"It is hard but we are able to deal with it in a positive way," says Lucinda. "The contractors have got a job to do and we need to support that but it's my job to make sure the house and collections are protected. There's a lot of learning on both sides but we all have a really good working relationship."
In March, new displays were unveiled to highlight stories from Drogo's past.
Three 'creative partners' worked together on the installations which reveal different stories about the Drewe family and castle.


So, End of Days proves that you don't need to remove all cards from under only one concept, which is a pretty big deal.
1. Can it be done without using either Superego or Id? I didn't get my unlock until I used Ego to move a card, and Id never left the deck. Other people have had Id in play, but never played Superego. So in my mind, card movement has to occur, and the answer to this question is "no". But if I'm wrong, this would be huge.
2. Can it be done with 10 or less cards? And if so, what is the minimum? A related question, do all 6 unique fragment types need to be under a concept? The current lowest number is 11 cards removed. If we're missing the guess because of card numbers, this would be good to know.
3. Can it be done in 6 rounds or less? At current, the earliest unlock happened in round 7. I'm not convinced that number of rounds is a part of the equation, but I could easily be wrong there. It was a part of Mainstay's unlock, after all.
In looking at my breakdown of my 4th unlock I realized that the last non-id concept DID actually get 2 different cards under it. I put a card under it, super ego moved it out, then I used the power on super ego to play another fragment and put it under the last non-id concept. So at the moment I believe 2 cards per concept is a factor.
In a game with void guard idealist at least 5 non-id concepts must come into play and have 2 cards put under them. Cards must go under a non-id concept with no cards under it before being put under a non-id concept with cards already under it. At some point at least one card must be moved with either the super ego or the id. A non-id concept may not be destroyed once it has come into play. Then all cards must be cleared out from under all concepts.
that seems FAR too complicated and detailed for an unlock. Looking at previous unlock conditions, we can see that even characters like Benchmark and Doctor Medico didn't have an unlock condition that detailed.
it could be in the right track but maybe not as finicky.
So uh... any chance at any new hints? This one's about been beaten to death with no solve in sight.
I'm still surprised Road Warrior Mainstay got figured out. "Wait 3 rounds" sounds simple, but it's far, far harder to deduce than anything with an immediate cause and unlock relationship.
My aim was just to get a bunch of Concepts out, put 2 Fragments under each, then move them all to Monster of Id and Bored Now it out of play. Did that with little to no complications. No unlock.
Hints from tonight's Handelabra stream! I'm going to bed, so someone else can crosspost to Steam!
None of the cards in the Idealist's deck are mentioned by name in the condition.
The first part needs something to be true for a certain period of time.
Nothing has to happen all at once.
The community, especially with the work of Nyxious on Discord, has discovered the official unlock condition for Void Guard Super Sentai Idealist.
First, 5 Concepts must be in play with at least 2 cards under each of them for at least 2 rounds. Then, in the same game, 5 Concepts must be in play and no Concept may have a card under it.
Hooray! I was starting to lose hope we'd ever see a solution to this one!
...It's very strange to see "here's a bunch of hints" followed immediately by "here's the answer!" XD Good work, just Writhe to go!
Funny, it's like the Mainstay unlock. People here proposed conditions that were pretty much right except that there was no mention of duration for cards under concepts. Much focus on maybe moving cards back and forth and no inkling that it was about time.


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Q: Nginx reverse proxy works only for landing page, any other links won't work I have a reverse proxy for /forums setup like so:
server {
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost;

        location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
        }
        location /forums {
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
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                proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:4567/;
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It works, kind of, when I try to go to localhost/forums I see the page, but all the static content 404's and if I try to click on a link, e.g. /login it takes me to localhost/login instead of localhost/forums/login, any idea how I can fix this?

A: You should add a slash character at the end of location /forums so as to get:
location /forums/ {
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According to the doc:

If a location is defined by a prefix string that ends with the slash
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  redirect with the code 301 will be returned to the requested URI with
  the slash appended.

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Scotland tightens up lock...	Scotland tightens up lockdown rules on booze, takeaways and click-and-collect
Scotland tightens up lockdown rules on booze, takeaways and click-and-collect
by Metro Reporter Published January 13, 2021 Published Jan 13, 2021
A BAN on drinking alcohol outdoors in public in areas of Scotland under lockdown and further restrictions on takeaways are among stricter Covid-19 rules announced by Nicola Sturgeon.
Reducing which shops can offer click-and-collect services, strengthening the law requiring staff to work from home and closing a loophole in the stay-at-home order are among other changes, all of which will come into effect on Saturday.
The first minister said the lockdown for mainland Scotland and some island areas, which began on January 5, appears to be having an effect.
But she warned against complacency as she announced 79 more deaths of confirmed coronavirus patients were registered in the past 24 hours along with 1,949 new cases.
She also said it is 'heart-breaking' that the death toll of people with confirmed or suspected coronavirus has now risen above 7,000.
Speaking in the Scottish Parliament at the start of first minister's questions today, Ms Sturgeon (pictured above) said drinking alcohol in public outdoors in all Level 4 areas of Scotland will be banned.
Scots will also be barred from entering hospitality businesses for takeaway services, meaning all sales of food or drink must take place outside the premises.
Click-and-collect services will be limited to retailers selling essentials, such as clothing, baby equipment and books.
For those allowed to continue collection services, Ms Sturgeon said 'staggered appointments' will be needed to end queuing, and people will no longer be allowed inside.
Statutory guidance will be introduced urging employers to support workers to remain at home 'wherever possible', the first minister announced.
Separately, guidance previously issued to only allow essential work to be undertaken inside people's homes will be placed into law.
Ms Sturgeon confirmed coronavirus regulations will change to forbid people from leaving home for an essential purpose and then doing something considered not to be essential after they have left the house.
While the list of essential reasons for leaving home will not change, she said: 'It does mean that if the police challenge you for being out of the house doing something that is not essential, it will not be a defence to say you initially left the house to do something that was essential.'
Ms Sturgeon urged Scots to adhere to the spirit, not just the letter, of the lockdown law, saying: 'Don't think in terms of the maximum interactions you can have without breaking the rules.
'Think instead about how you minimise your interactions to the bare essentials to remove as many opportunities as possible for the virus to spread.
'In everything you do, assume that the virus is there with you — that either you have it or any person you are in contact with has it — and act in a way that prevents it passing between you.
'All of this means staying at home except for genuinely essential purposes — including working from home whenever possible.
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Sant Martí Aulàs és una església barroca de Tremp (Pallars Jussà) protegida com a Bé Cultural d'Interès Local.

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Edifici d'una nau única coberta amb volta de canó de perfil semicircular, que s'incia en una imposta bisellada. La capçalera és recta, coberta de lloses i disposa d'un annex al costat nord que correspon a la sagristia. A la façana principal s'identifica una porta adovellada de mig punt, un òcul i una espadanya de dos ulls, conformats per arcs de mig punt de pedra tosca. L'aparell és irregular i de poca qualitat.

Història
Obra religiosa popular emmarcable tipològicament als segles .

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Patrimoni monumental de Tremp
Esglésies de Tremp
Esglésies barroques del Pallars Jussà

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Az 1982–1983-as magyar női kosárlabda-bajnokság a negyvenhatodik magyar női kosárlabda-bajnokság volt. Húsz csapat indult el, a csapatok két csoportban két kört játszottak, majd a csoportok 1-5. helyezettjei a felsőházban, a 6-10. helyezettek az alsóházban folytatták, ahol a másik csoportból jövőkkel újabb két kört játszottak, végül az 1-6. és a 15-20. helyezettek egymás közt még egy, a 7-10. és a 11-14. helyezettek egymás közt még két kört.

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Luca Brusati is a Fellow of the Government, Health and Not for Profit Division at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is Associate Professor of Management at Udine University.
At SDA Bocconi he has directed programs for senior executives in national and regional governments. He is Program Director of the course "From lobbying to advocacy: mobilizing communities to shape public policies".He conducted numerous research, training and consulting projects with the European Commission, the UN, WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNAIDS, the World Bank, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, GIZ, Kreditanstalt für Wiederauafbau, the Luxembourg Development Agency, the Global Business School Network and many others. His research activities focus on business-government relations and participation by citizens, firms and NGOs to decision-making by public sector organizations.
His current research addresses the applicability of Kingdon's "multiple streams framework" to the understanding of decision-making by Italian public sector organizations. He is the author of numerous books and articles. His work has been published, among others, in Public Management Review, the International Journal of Public Sector Management and Singapore Management Review.
Luca Brusati won numerous teaching and research awards, including the "Best Public Management Training Programme of the Year" award in 2008 and the "Internationalization and Innovation in Public Management Training" award in 2014 by SDA Bocconi. He also serves on the advisory board of medical schools and professional associations, in Italy and abroad. He is a member of the Italian Academy of Management (AIDEA) and served in the Board and the EU Advisory Committee of the European Health Management Association (EHMA); he is also a special adviser for sustainability reporting of the European Federation of Accountants and Auditors for SMEs (EFAA).
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Teaching domains Comparative Health Care Systems Public Affairs Management Stakeholder Engagement/Management Health Care Systems Reforms Service Design and Marketing
BRUSATI L., FUSO C., GARLATTI A. SMEs and Integrated Reporting: An Introduction in Development of Integrated Reporting in the SME Sector. Case Studies from European Countries Joanna Dyczkowska, Andrea Szirmai Madarasine, Adriana Tiron-Tudor (Eds),Springer International Publishing, 2021
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I farm TBD during an ANB so I don't have to leave act 1. I farm TBD during War Supplies because the dragon counts towards the required 20 boss kills. I know I'll probably end up XP farming Trials enough to get all 20, but I just like to complete the event "quest" as soon as possible.
Any other time I am farming wealth in general, I do it in Morgenheim.
Really? I had all 200 in the first 7 runs of TBD in Legendary difficulty (200% booster).
Yeah, try skipping the chests and see if you can get under 1 minute runs, the amount of gemstones you'll see from 40-50s Morgenheim runs (per 30 min booster) is pretty impressive.
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How quickly can you do runs? I'm working on a path where I basically only stop to kill at the chests along the direct route to the end, limiting stops to shorten run duration.
A correctly configured BH can run SoA in about 10 seconds, and it takes another 10 seconds for all of the gold to flow to your character. So about 20 seconds per run, or 90 runs per booster. 100+ runs if you skip the last trickle of gold pieces.
Is Morgenheim still better overall? I haven't really experimented with speed farming this level like SoA. I know people have debated skipping the chests, but it seems like these have been mostly mage players.
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i see that when you farm gems and gold you rush through the level as fast as you can. Does it only matters killing the boss? I thought i had to kill everything to get all the gold and speacially the gems they drop. Speacially because i have noticed on some levels like the broken Dragon, that some of my heroes when they Run it it does not start from the begining anymore. Maybe that is a good thing less terrain to cover. Why you do it that way?
Morgenheim's advantage is that it is made of three connected, medium sized rooms, which are tightly packed with gemstone and salvageable blue/green item dropping loot pinatas. The total distance traveled is short, allowing you to bypass the small chests (this is where most of the grey items come from). Killing the same amount of mobs with less travel and breaks means you can do it almost twice as fast. Doing this maximizes gemstone and loot drops, while still delivering very high amounts of gold. Getting a pattern down of rushing past mobs, and letting auto-attack burn multiple groups down quickly, increases speed. I only click about 10-12 times in one Morgenheim run on my EG Assault BH, 45-ish second runs.
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Maybe Darkhold Citatel could add as an additional spot of farming other than the great "Morgenheim"?
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No big changes, although you don't really need to use active skills. Scatter+Charged do all the work. Sometimes I Snipe the end boss as I run up. Make sure you've maxed out on movement speed. IM can be subbed out for your favorite Carnival Cape.
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Speacially because i have noticed on some levels like the broken Dragon, that some of my heroes when they Run it it does not start from the begining anymore. Maybe that is a good thing less terrain to cover.


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This TV ad takes the cake. Have you seen it? It is paid for by an organization that calls itself "Alliance for Life" (Ontario). It is a "provincial coordinating organization" of some 44 affiliates which, surprise surprise, includes seven Christian denominations, of which, another shocker, five are Catholic. Most interesting is an organization calling itself the "Population Research Institute", founded of course by a priest, Father Paul Marx. Its mission? "...to expose the myth of overpopulation, to expose human rights abuses committed in population control programs."
The Alliance, meanwhile, claims to present "a united voice for the dignity and worth of all human beings from conception/fertilization to natural death." I can personally attest to the kind of dignity in death to which they are referring. My brother writhed in agony for months from terminal cancer, and repeatedly indicated that he wanted to die. But his Christian fundamentalist doctor was too concerned with his dignity to assist him in executing his wishes, and so my brother was forced to suffer without the ability to swallow or control his bowels. This conduct is sanctioned by the Alliance for "Life" as "morally and ethically acceptable".
And of course, the Criminal Code, built on this kind of "morality", stands behind them. This is the cultural "heritage" which some Canadian anti-immigrationists are intent upon saving. They are the people who grasp at environmental reasons for limiting immigration, but then turn around and advocate more birth incentives for native-born Canadians, most of whom are self-described Christians. Their objective is an ancient one. "Grow the tribe and screw carrying capacity." So how does the Alliance for Life present its case on television?
The ad features children playing, when in a stroke, one in four of them vanish from the screen. This is to simulate the number of "children" or "babies" destroyed since the abortion law was struck down in 1988. That's right. After 20 years the Christian right still doesn't get it. They don't understand the difference between a baby and a foetus. Between a life and a potential life. I once bought a lottery ticket, and I discovered that there was a substantial difference between a ticket that had the potential of winning the jackpot and one that actually did. It only took one purchase for me to figure that out. But then my learning curve is rather shorter and higher than a Bible-thumper's I think.
But the Alliance for "Life" , or more aptly, the Alliance for the Increased Quantity of Life (rather than Quality of Life) is animated by different logic. They claim that since one-quarter of all pregnancies were terminated in Canada since the abortion law was passed, young Canadians are "missing" 3 million of their friends. Think of what a difference they would have made, they ask. Over to you Julian Simon. Another Sydney Crosby, or 100 cancer researchers, or 10,000 teachers perhaps. Forget the extra criminals, dead beats and real estate speculators. The more "life" we have the better. After all, "people" are our greatest resource.
Yeah sure. But each Canadian member of that "resource" emits, on average, 23 metric tonnes of green house gas (GHG), consumes 3 million tons of metals, minerals and fuel per year, and produces more than 150 pounds of waste annually as well. So what would those 3 million "missing" friends bring us? For starters, about 65% more GHG emissions than the tar sands produce, and about half the farmland that has been developed to accommodate the New Canadians that have arrived since the abortion law was enacted. And let us not forget the number of non-human species that would have been obliterated by the bulldozer to clear the way. Do you still miss those 3 million potential consumers now?
Each extra Canadian, whether he or she enters the country through the hospital or through the airport, diminishes the per capita share of non-renewable resources that existing Canadians enjoy. Even if the extra 3 million would have spurred more economic growth---a proposition refuted by two or three studies so far---that growth is still contingent on the supply of cheap fossil fuel and rapidly scarce minerals and metals upon which an industrial economy depends. More people does not mean a higher per capita GDP, and even if it did, the economic foundation upon which our inflated population rests is built on quicksand. The bigger we are, the harder we'll fall. Triple digit oil will kill our transportation system and our ability to grow, harvest, transport and refrigerate our food. If we continue to grow our economy and grow our population, many more of us will starve, freeze and die, along with the flora and fauna we take down with us.
What is really required is an advertisement showing the number of various species on a screen, and those that disappear with each increment of the human population. Christians are fond of justifying the Biblical mandate for humans to exercise dominion over all God's creatures by stressing our obligation to be wise stewards. That is a difficult task when the human population, to Catholic and evangelical cheerleading, has nearly tripled its size in my lifetime and is shrinking wildlife habitat relentlessly and mercilessly. Whether a primate's life begins at conception or not, there are now fewer primates in existence than there are human beings born in any given day. If each one of God's 214,000 miracles born each day is precious, what of the tens or hundreds of thousands of non human life forms that are murdered that day by our expansion? Yes, 100 species are lost each day. But many more life forms are killed than that each day. How many? Who knows? Each and every day we are breeding our life support system into the ground.
It is in this sense, then, that the Alliance for Life is the Alliance for Death.
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My father was a sensitive, private and intelligent man who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his early seventies when he was active, slim and healthy. He lost his personality, his mind and became a vegetable for 3 years in a nursing home. His death was slow and painful to watch as his internal organs disintegrated slowly. He would never had wanted this! I believe that people should be given a choice about ending their lives once they face terminal illnesses. It should be a basic human right. My parents had a close marriage and the stress on my mother was fatal. She was healthy at the start of my father's demise, but was diagnosed with terminal cancer just after his death, and died 10 months later. Pro-life sounds encouraging and positive, but as with human rights, there are always conflicts over whose rights are given priority of whose. As for abortion, every baby should be wanted, and with all the technology of contraceptives available, people still can't control their reproduction! I find it disturbing that there are groups who take the moral high-ground on abortion, but ignore the suffering of animals, the animals they probably sit down to eat having more sentience than the fetuses they want to save! Calves are denied their mothers' care and are raised in crates, undernourished, to be processes into veal. Sows are kept in metal crates for up to 4 months without any movement allowed, on concrete floors. Piglets are mutilated, with no pain relief required. Their screams are just ignored, and those doing it would have RSPCA cruelty charges on them if done to companion animals. Little kangaroo joeys can be yanked from their mothers' pouches to be battered to death, without rights or compassion. In a perfect world, with family planning, we would not need abortions. Let's get some balance into the importance of the human race -we need to value of human life, but not at all costs and at the exclusion of other intelligent species, and not if it causes excess suffering and can be avoided!
Sheila Newman
God and nature
Your posts are very enlightening and enlightened. I wonder if people who believe in God seek out others and try to unite as a group in churches/religions, then get used, just as people in political parties do, by those who assume power and then use the group by claiming to be spokesperson for the group. It makes you think that a secret ballot should be de rigeur in every group that has any public representation or wants to set in concrete its basic principles. It seems that every group attracts potential politicians and that the trick is to keep these people under control: Unions, political parties, conservation groups, churches, media networks, corporations ... Once you have given years of your life to a group, having chosen to associate with them because you think they are worthwhile, they become like your tribe. It is then very difficult for you to leave, if you find that the tribal spokesperson is not really singing the tune you joined to hear. Leaving means going out into the social wilderness and starting all over again, which is a big thing in our adult lives. So many people stick with their tribes and try to rationalise what their rogue leaders are saying, or to influence the politics, only to discover that the power bases have been rigged. By the way, although I don't believe in God, I have sometimes found that if I substituted 'God' for nature, it amounted to the same thing, but sounded more compelling in some circles. One can see why our scurvy politicians in Australia have started to publicly appoint high profile religious figures to taskforces and portfolios and to hobnob with popes and dead saints, as well as sportspeople. All such figureheads command a following. They also have predictable behaviour, which can be aligned with a variety of other interests. Sheila Newman, population sociologist
Nature and God
It's extraordinary that Sheila's last paragraph (above) referring to God and Nature appeared coincidentally today with the post (below) from Chris Harries in the online forum Tasmanian Times () and so I feel obliged to partially quote his words: " ... All this is summed up beautifully by Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian explorer / adventurer of Kon-Tiki fame who wrote: "Some people are happy inside the church, some are happier outside. "Those who prefer to stay outside should write Nature with a capital N. They should bless and venerate the Nature that composed mankind. "That would leave a thin wall between them and those who are inside and write God with a capital G. "If you knock, it can be heard on both sides. The disagreement is about the spelling of a word." Peter Bright Hobart Tasmania
Tigerquoll
Trust in Nature is more ethical than trust in religion
Trust in the rights and rules of Nature have a stronger moral base than beliefs in man-made religions. The nature-based beliefs of traditional peoples are premised on healthy respect for nature and all living things. Many ancient belief systems which evolved over eons sought a greater understanding of the natural world and humanity's place in it. It sought harmony and spiritual calm. Since humanity started dominating the natural world and extended understanding to control, humanity has lost a real and spiritual connection with the natural world. Humanity's world has become that designed and controlled by humanity which is artificial and unnatural – that is religion. This has lead to artificial and unnatural thinking and acts. In my view humanity in a human controlled and guided world separated from Nature is spiritually lost.
Religions which disrespect the rights of others to have differing views and faiths are themselves disrespectful, self-centred, greedy and immoral. Christianity has unjustly and selfishly displaced traditional faiths of local peoples. In so doing it has become a form of colonisation. It has caused wars. It has not apologised nor offered to redeem lands and lives taken. Christianity has possibly caused more harm than any other faith and so is an immoral, selfish and prejudiced faith. Christianity has been an excuse to usurp power and influence by one group of people over another, typically by force and killing.
Human religions are just different manifestations of a group of like minded people with a common cause seeking to imposed themselves and will and orthodoxy upon others. It presupposes that the dominating or invading faith has more rights and legitimacy than the invaded faith. But how is conquest by force ever a moral act?
The dogma of Anglicans or Catholics or Jews or Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims may argue in their own head that they each are respectively superior that the other, much like sports teams. The Hindu caste system is prejudiced on ethnicity. To extend such thinking to imposing will over others is invasive, unjust and immoral. It is a spiritual form of greed, superiority and control over others.
Practitioners of religion are continually being found to be morally corrupt - Catholic priests in Australia and Ireland seem to be the most immoral. The Muslim concept of 'fatwa' or 'holy war' should be an oxymoron.
In Australia, Christmas Day is entertainment for children, time off work for relaxation, time for family and friends, festivities, and to reflect on life. But Christmas has been exploited by the retail industry and bank credit cards. What religion openly challenges this immoral exploitation?
Religion is no more than one group of people seeking control and influence over others using fear and intimidation.
The Christian Bible was written by followers of the Christian faith to evangelise their message to supplant other world beliefs with their own, to increase membership and with that to acquire more power an influence.
Quoting from the Bible is no different from quoting a recipe book that claims only one way to cook. Christianity has become a form of colonisation. It has selfishly displaced traditional faiths of local peoples. It has caused wars. In so doing Christianity is an immoral selfish and prejudiced faith that has possibly caused more harm than any other faith.
Religions that discount other faiths are prejudiced and ignorant. Freedom of speech is a democratic right, so any religion that treats criticism of its interpretations as blasphemous is ignorant and immoral.
The Qur'an is the Muslim book of divine guidance and direction. It claims to exhort what is morally right and wrong. But how can any moral code accept quotes like:
"Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends." (Surah 5:51)
"Seek out your enemies relentlessly." (Surah 4:103-)
"Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God's religion shall reign supreme." (Surah 8:36-)
"Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]...until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued." (Surah 9:27-)
For any group to impose their wishes on another group is a form of intimidation and dominance with is illegitimate.
What Christian value on that day is held for the indigenous peoples of Australia that typically remain disenfranchised, without the turkey or what it stands for?
The Salvation Army is one of the few religious-based cause committed to tangible altruistic care for the needy at this time. But are they doing the work of what our governments should be doing - providing for the needy in our society?
Examine the history of traditional peoples and compare these with those dominated by religion and compare the moral record and judge which has more merit and a respectful guide for human understanding, spirituality, salvation, lore and behaviour.
Tiger Quoll
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God knows nothing of religion. Nothing. Reality is of God. Religion is of man. Man is the greatest cock-up artist of all time.
Religion is Man's bumbling response to God!
Religion is Man's bumbling response to God! It has often lead to abuse and the very outcomes that are condemned by Him. Human understanding and manipulation of the Creator means He has been politicized, commercialized and exploited beyond recognition. Religion is responsible for masking the very evil and desires of humans for their own selfish ends. The Crusades, colonialism and the Inquisition are some examples. Nature is an expression of Creation, flawed through Sin and Evil brought on by the human race through disobedience to God, by choice. Genesis contains the Creation myth to illustrate our Fall from grace and God's original purpose. Sin is traditionally minimized by the churches, or trivialised, but it impacts on the whole planet, and on every species. In the Garden of Eden no animals were eaten, nor did the animals kill each other. Man and animals ate plants. The Bible tells us that animals will once again live together peacefully when Christ returns. Death entered after the Creation was finished. And when God was finished he said his Creation was "very good" (Genesis 1:31). If Lions were ripping apart zebras, and animals were brutally killing each other at this time, then surely God would not have declared his Creation "very good". The flaw came due to Adam and Eve - ie humans! The slavery of animals, human to human cruelty and aggression, and the suffering and eating of meat and the cruelty of the food chain are the embodiment of Sin. Death, suffering and killing are the result. Unable to recognize or appreciate or differentiate between the Creator and that which He created, Nature, results in what many wind up doing - worshipping the material or natural universe because it is what they can see and experience with their senses. Atheism is the clay pot questioning the divine Potter to "prove" himself! Through this Curse of Sin and Death comes a Blessing. The opportunity to be united with a God who loves us. There is reconciliation with God for those who trust in His son Jesus - God embodied in human form. Don't trust religions - but the source of goodness is God. Still there is much that our mortal and carnal minds can't understand this side of life, until we meet our Maker.
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Q: Non-linear differential equation of first order with initial conditions I need help with the following differential equation. I do not know how I can calculate this.
$\alpha'(t) = \alpha_1^{3/2} - \alpha^{3/2}(t) \qquad \text{with} \qquad \alpha(0)=0$

A: If you do wish to solve this problem with Mathematica, the approach is as follows.
a[t] /. Flatten@DSolve[{a'[t] == a1^(3/2) - a[t]^(3/2)}, a[t], t]
(* InverseFunction[(2 Sqrt[3] ArcTan[(1 + (2 Sqrt[#1])/Sqrt[a1])/Sqrt[3]] +
    2 Log[Sqrt[a1] - Sqrt[#1]] - Log[a1 + Sqrt[a1] Sqrt[#1] + #1])/(3 Sqrt[a1]) &]
    [-t + C[1]] *)

Apply the boundary condition to obtain the constant of integration.
C[1] -> Simplify[%[[0, 1]][0]]
(* C[1] -> π/(3 Sqrt[3] Sqrt[a1]) *)

Addendum
The implicit solution derived by @Nasser also can be obtained by
%%[[0, 1]][a[t]] == First[%%] /. %
(* (2 Sqrt[3] ArcTan[(1 + (2 Sqrt[a[t]])/Sqrt[a1])/Sqrt[3]] +
    2 Log[Sqrt[a1] - Sqrt[a[t]]] - Log[a1 + Sqrt[a1] Sqrt[a[t]] + a[t]])/(3 Sqrt[a1])
    == π/(3 Sqrt[3] Sqrt[a1]) - t *)


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Q: bones_page_navi and pre_get_posts Action I'm using the bones wordpress theme, which has the following page navi function:
// Numeric Page Navi (built into the theme by default)
function bones_page_navi($before = '', $after = '', $myquery = null) {
    global $wp_query;
    $bignum = 999999999;

    $maxpages = $myquery ? $myquery->max_num_pages : $wp_query->max_num_pages;

    if ( $maxpages <= 1 )
        return;

    echo $before;
    echo '<nav class="pagination cf">';
    echo paginate_links( array(
        'base'         => str_replace( $bignum, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link($bignum) ) ),
        'format'       => '',
        'current'      => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
        'total'        => $maxpages,
        'prev_text'    => '<',
        'next_text'    => '>',
        'type'         => 'list',
        'end_size'     => 2,
        'mid_size'     => 1,
        'add_args'     => false
    ) );
    echo '</nav>';
    echo $after;
} /* end page navi */

I have the following action for setting the number of posts that show for the blog archives.  It's causing the page navi to return the wrong results sometimes.  Here's an example: http://goo.gl/x9Krjp
Here's the action function:
/* =Posts per page for blog
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
function my_post_queries( $query ) {

        // not an admin page and it is the main query
        if (!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query()){

            if( is_home() || is_archive() ){

                $first_page_total= 7; // total number of posts on first page
                $paginated_total = 8; // total number of posts on paginated pages
                $posts_to_skip = $paginated_total - $first_page_total;

                // pagination for custom page(s)
                if ( get_query_var('paged') ) { $paged = get_query_var('paged'); }
                elseif ( get_query_var('page') ) { $paged = get_query_var('page'); }
                else { $paged = 1; }

                // first page query args

                $query->set('posts_per_page', $first_page_total);

                if(is_paged()) {
                    // add paginated query args
                    $offset = (($paged - 1) * $paginated_total)- $posts_to_skip;
                    $query->set('offset', $offset);
                    $query->set('posts_per_page',  $paginated_total);
                }

            }
        }
    }

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_post_queries' );

If someone could point me in the right direction in terms of why that pagination won't work properly I'd appreciate the help.
Thanks!
J.


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