PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Queens College volleyball team was slowed down on Saturday with a pair of setbacks to East Stroudsburg University and Holy Family University as part of the Holy Family Tri-Match. The Knights dropped both matches by identical 3-0 scores.
The Knights couldn't build much momentum in the first match, falling by set scores 25-18, 25-17, 25-22. Sophomore Lauren Kehoe led the team with nine kills, seven digs and two service aces, while senior Reggie Anthony totaled 15 digs.
A 9-0 run by the Warriors was the difference in the opening set. After Queens trailed by just one at 10-9 on a kill by sophomore Anita Sengara, East Stroudsburg tallied nine straight points to take a 19-9 lead with Sam Dunphy slamming three kills. That would be too much for the Knights to overcome, as the Warriors won 25-18.
The teams went back-and-forth again to start the second set, but once more, the Warriors put together another streak with a 5-0 run to take a 15-10 lead, forcing a Knights timeout. Back-to-back kills by freshman Briana Green brought Queens back within three at 15-12, and Anthony kept the difference at three with an ace, as the Knights brought it to 18-15. However, East Stroudsburg ended on a 7-2 run, including four straight points to end the set at 25-17.
Queens jumped on top in the third and final set, 6-3, after a kill by Green. The Knights remained on top, 8-6, after senior Kristen Moore earned a kill, but the Warriors then reeled for an 8-0 run to take a 14-8 lead. Queens fought back, unwilling to roll over, and tied the set at 17-17 after a 6-1 run. After the Warriors took a 21-18 lead, the Knights notched four straight points, capped by a Green kill, to take a 22-21 lead and force a Warrior timeout. However, out of the timeout, East Stroudsburg finished the game on a 4-0 run.
In the second match, the Tigers controlled the first set before the Knights battled closely in the second. Despite pushing Holy Family to the limit, Queens fell just short in the second set, 28-26, before dropping the third, 25-19. Moore posted a double-double with 21 assists and 10 digs, and junior Nicoletta DiCocco had a team-high seven kills.
Queens fell behind early in the opening set, as the Tigers leaped out to an 8-3 advantage. A kill by sophomore Cassidy Stewart brought the score to 9-6 before Holy Family gained control, 14-6. The Knights came back within four, but the Tigers concluded the set on a 9-3 run to take it, 25-15.
The Knights took a 4-1 lead early in the second set after a kill by Green before Holy Family took four straight points to take the lead. From there, it was a back-and-forth set, with Queens taking a 9-8 lead. Holy Family slipped out to a 17-13 lead, but Queens kept in it, notching four consecutive points to tie it at 17 all. A DiCocco kill later put the Knights ahead, 23-22, before a 3-1 run for Holy Family put the Tigers at set point. Stewart saved the set with a kill to tie it up at 25-25, but in the end Holy Family edged out a 28-26 win.
A 6-0 run early on in the third set by the Tigers put the Knights in a tough deficit at 7-3. Holy Family kept the pressure on with an 8-3 run, taking a 15-6 lead. When it looked over, Queens suddenly caught fire, going on a 9-1 run capped by a Kehoe kill, as the score was all of a sudden 16-15. However, that's as close as the Knights would come, as the Tigers ended it on a 9-4 run to seal the match.
Queens (1-2) will have nine days off before hosting Southern Connecticut State University on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m.


Education and Children Minister Graham Cregeen is seeking to change school catchment areas.
School catchment areas, car tax and smoking in cars with children will all be discussed in this month's sitting of Tynwald.
Education Minister Graham Cregeen wants to change some of the catchment areas for the Island's primary schools, including those in the west and Onchan.
Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer will seek approval to make changes to the price of road tax, having withdrawn similar proposals earlier this year.
On the question paper, Daphne Caine is asking for figures on those caught smoking in cars with under 16s, while orthodontic cover and the taxi inspector also feature.
The sitting gets underway from 10.30am.


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Last week, I made an effort to investigate some of the findings of a recent Scotia Capital report, which itself sought to dispel some of the alleged myths pervading the Canadian wireless market. Some of my conclusions were based on slightly older numbers, taken from a 2011 version of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Wireless Matrix. Since stats such as revenue and profits don't change that quickly over the course of a year, I felt it was okay to use those numbers.
I've since acquired more recent data, as of the third quarter of 2012, which paint a much more accurate and up-to-date picture. BofA's Global Wireless Matrix is something of a bible for the wireless industry, packed with thorough statistics on virtually every carrier in 50 developed and developing countries. The regular report is the most accurate measure and comparison of wireless carriers around the world, which is probably why the Canadian industry and its allies don't want the public to see it. The report details just how well they're doing and does much to prove that Canadians are indeed paying high prices.
It's no secret Canada has always been behind in overall cellphone penetration. The Matrix confirms that Canada is dead last among 21 developed countries, at 78 per cent. Only four countries in the entire Matrix have worse penetration: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nigeria.
However, the story that has been propagated by carriers and a few other studies, such as comScore, is that Canada is among the world leaders in smartphone adoption. That's clearly not the case according to the BofA numbers, with Canada's 37 per cent penetration actually ranking below the developed world's average of 38.9 per cent.
What those other numbers (and boasts) likely measure is the percentage of cellphone users who are actually smartphone users. Carriers here might be doing well in converting the first into the second, but the fact is, overall there just aren't that many Canadians using smartphones as there are in other countries.
One of the myths (#7) the Scotia Capital report aimed to disprove was that Canada wasn't really behind in wireless services. The report instead claimed Canada was ahead of the U.S. in smartphone penetration and had outpaced its growth over the past two years. The growth claim is correct, according to BofA's numbers, but the U.S. was slightly ahead at 39 per cent penetration, proving Scotia Capital incorrect.
The story here is clear. Canadian carriers lead the world in terms of monthly average revenue per user, at $60.79. That's 16 per cent higher than the United States ($51.61), 32 per cent higher than the developed world average ($43.79) and 76 per cent higher than Europe ($27.02). Moreover, as the graph on the right shows, Canada is only one of four countries seeing ARPU growing. Cellphone bills almost everywhere else are going down, which is probably what they should be doing given that wireless serviceis a technological product, and technology is subject to Moore's Law.
The Scotia Capital report claimed this high ARPU was the result of more people using smartphones in Canada, not high prices, but as the first chart above shows, that's not true. The chart below confirms it. At 38 per cent, Canada is in the middle of the pack in terms of how much of customers' bills are coming from data and below the developed world average of 42 per cent.
The above chart also shows that Canada is on the low side of churn, or how many customers defect to other carriers, which is indubitably the result of three-year contracts. The countries with the highest churn rates are typically those with the strictest contract and phone locking regulations (Belgium used to ban bundling phone sales with monthly service). They're also the ones that typically come in low on ARPU comparisons, which indicates a strong correlation between high monthly prices and low churn. In other words, when customers are able to switch providers easily, prices and ARPU tend to be lower.
With a margin of 45.9 per cent, Canadian carriers come in at the high end of the most profitable list. They're seven per cent more profitable than their American and European counterparts and five per cent more than the developed world.
Even more interesting is the fact that Canadian carriers had the third-highest year-over-year growth in margins (Spain is comparatively crushing it). Combined with ARPU growth, it's clear that business is good in Canada. Incumbent carriers may have experienced a temporary hiccup thanks to new entrants such as Wind and Mobilicity, but things are obviously getting back to normal.
One of the myths the Scotia Capital report tried to quash (#4) was that the new entrants have had no effect on the market. While they definitely did have an effect, the numbers suggest they've done all they're going to do. The report's conclusion that regulators should "declare victory on the policies they adopted five years ago" when the new entrants were spurred into the market through special rules is therefore not correct.
It's hard if not impossible to look at these key metrics and come to any conclusion other than Canadian wireless carriers are some of the most profitable around based on unmatched monthly revenues, which are coming directly out of consumers' pockets.
The issue, in brief, if you're not familiar with it: small internet providers lease the networks of big companies such as Bell and Telus to sell their own internet plans. But while the big companies like to set modest usage caps and charge extra for more, the smaller guys have been selling big buckets, if not unlimited. Bell asked our regulator, the CRTC, to allow it to implement those same caps on its smaller wholesale customers and, after much ado, the company got what it wanted. The small guys are therefore going to see their ability to offer unlimited usage buckets severely curtailed.
The CRTC did throw the small ISPs a bone yesterday – it gave them a 15% discount on whatever the big guys want to charge them for usage. By most accounts, that might be enough to keep some of the smaller ISPs in business, but it doesn't give them much room to differentiate their services or make any actual money.
I'd go a step further and suggest that by allowing this to happen, the CRTC has actually failed to do its job as enforcer of the Telecommunications Act and it has failed to follow the government's 2006 policy direction.
The policy direction was an unusual set of marching orders that had never been made before because the government and the regulator were supposed to operate within arm's length of one another. It happened because the industry minister at the time, Maxime Bernier, was a hard-core market purist and he wanted to de-fang the CRTC as much as possible.
Bernier, who I got to know through regular on- and off-the-record chats back in the day, believed there wasn't a competitive problem that can't be solved by simply having a free and open market. For the most part I agreed with him except – as I keep belaboring – we don't have openness in telecommunications services because we have foreign ownership restrictions that act as a major barrier to market entry. Bernier knew that and wanted to change it, but he was shuffled off into a different job before he could make such a move (and then there was that whole disgrace with the biker girlfriend scandal, but that's neither here nor there).
In any event, the government has stuck with Bernier's policy direction for more than four years now and the CRTC has referenced it in pretty much every decision it has made since. Indeed, yesterday's ruling concludes with a statement that usage-based billing is indeed consistent with that policy direction. I beg to differ.
In the first instance, by allowing Bell and Co. to dictate the business models of smaller competitors, the regulator is in effect interfering with market forces.
The Telecom Act is a long and convoluted piece of legalese, but if we break it down to that first all-important objective, the question inevitably arises: Exactly how is cutting down or limiting Canadians' internet usage safeguarding, enriching and strengthening the social and economic fabric of Canada?
We can argue ideologically till we're blue in the face about how to achieve all the other goals of the Telecom Act and the policy direction – i.e. that allowing all comers to access incumbent networks cheaply is the best way, or that shutting the small guys down so the big guys have investment certainty is the best way, etc. – but that just muddies the waters. The first goal is a good one and the most important since it pretty much covers everything else.
In that vein the one point I think everyone, except perhaps the network owners, can agree on is that using the internet more, not less, is the best way to achieve the Act's most important goal: the strengthening of the social and economic fabric of Canada. Ladies and gentlemen of the court, I therefore submit to you the CRTC's first objective and policy direction failure.
What about the Act's third objective? As the wise guys like to say: fuggedaboutit.
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada is only one of three member countries (out of 30) where unlimited internet service is practically impossible to find (see table 4G on the OECD's broadband portal – it's worth noting the numbers are from 2009, which means Canada is likely to look even worse now that we've got usage-based billing). Australia and New Zealand are the other two, and don't even get me started on those countries. Having lived in New Zealand and covered this issue there, we should actually consider ourselves lucky here in Canada. As for Australia, it's no surprise the government – at war with Telstra, its own version of Bell Canada – is spending billions on building its own internet access network.
The point is, unlimited or practically unlimited internet is commonplace in almost every other developed nation. Canada doesn't sound too internationally competitive in that light, now does it? That, my friends, is the CRTC's second epic failure.
There are many ways to interpret the Telecom Act and the policy direction, but the above two things are clear as mud: we're being prodded into using the internet less, which is out of whack with what's going on in other countries.
There are tens of thousands of Canadians who are fed up with this situation and their numbers are only going to grow as 2011 continues. Sooner or later, the government is going to have to sit up and take notice that the market, such as it is, is failing those Canadians badly.


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Naren asked me to come over for dinner.
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Serdar disagreed on that point.
Matthew won the Miss Tatoeba contest.
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Panacea took another swig from his flask.
Stuart is taller than me.


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Sword of the Stars
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Developer(s) Kerberos Productions
Publisher(s) Paradox Interactive
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Genre Turn based strategy, 4X
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer
Age rating(s) ESRB:E
PEGI:7+
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
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Sword of the Stars is a space 4X game developed by Kerberos Productions. In the game the player chooses one of four unique races to form an interstellar empire and conquer the galaxy. In order to win, the player must expand territory by colonizing new star systems, exploit the resources available to his colonies, design and build starships, and improve their empire's technology through research and strategy.
Sword of the Stars consists of turn based strategic gameplay highlighted by real time battles. Each of the four races has a unique method of strategic movement among other differentiators. Also the game provides a high amount of randomness from technology availability, to map features, to large scale independent threats. Sword of the Stars is fully multiplayer capable allowing players to leave and enter the game at-will. Finally a detailed ship design system and the simulation of combat using a physics based engine instead of probability calculation, provides a large variety in combat engagements.
Development[]
The game was developed by Kerberos Productions, which was formed by a group of former Barking Dog Studios employees who had earlier worked on the game Homeworld: Cataclysm, an expansion to Relic Entertainment's space real-time strategy game Homeworld.
A total of three expansions have been released in addition to numerous free patches and updates.
The first expansion, Born of Blood, was published on June 6, 2007, and introduced a new race, the Zuul, as well as new features, namely trading and commerce raiding and in the case of the Zuul, slave raiding. A bundle of the "gold" edition of the original game and this expansion pack, along with a bonus disc featuring, among other things, concept art, was released on May 28, 2008, under the title Sword of the Stars: Collectors Edition.
A second expansion, A Murder of Crows, was released on October 3, 2008. This expansion introduced a new, sixth race, the crow-like Morrigi, as well as some new technologies, the addition of civilians to planet populations, and new Dreadnought-sized orbital stations. Players were required to have either the first expansion or the bundle to install and play this expansion pack. Soon after Paradox Interactive took over publishing duties a new bundle was released on April 17, 2009 called Sword of the Stars: Ultimate Collection. This bundle featured the original game and the two expansions.
A third and final expansion pack was released on June 17, 2009, called Argos Naval Yard. This pack introduced new ship sections, technology, and weapons. In order to use this pack players were required to own both the original game and the previous two expansions. On May 6, 2010, the Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection was announced for digital download. This bundle features the original game (updated to version 1.8.0), all expansion packs, and some bonus material in the form of exclusive maps.
Reception[]
Upon release, reviews for Sword of the Stars were mixed, with an average rating on Metacritic of 68 points.
PCGamer gave the game a score of 89/100 summarizing it with "While Sword of the Stars doesn't possess the battlefield variety of the "Homeworld" games that inspired it, it remains an ambitious and engrossing strategy triumph."
Perhaps the most negative review was written by Tom Chick for 1UP.com, who gave the game a D+ grade and summarized it as " misguided attempt at a streamlined strategy game". His main criticisms focused on how little information the interface supplied to players and how difficult it was to navigate the game's main map screen and technology interface. Some controversy arose when the lead designer of Sword of the Stars, Martin Cirulis, discovered that Tom Chick had written the manual for Galactic Civilizations II and then accused Chick of having a vested interest in seeing Sword of the Stars fail. Tom Chick addressed this issue on his website, claiming that the "one-time" payment he had received for the manual did not represent a conflict of interest in reviewing a rival title in the same genre.
The game sold well enough to warrant the release of three expansion packs. Reviews of the first two of these expansions were generally more favorable than those of the original game, with reviewers pointing out that the development team did take some of the criticisms and suggestions on board to improve interface issues and various gameplay elements. The first expansion achieved a Metacritic rating of 79; the second expansion was rated 75. There are currently insufficient reviews available for the third expansion pack, Argos Naval Yard, to calculate a rating.

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Reading proficiency in the US is alarmingly low with a majority of adults reading at the fourth grade level. Learning to read begins in tandem with learning to talk, thus developmental support begins in infancy.
The Childhood Literacy Special Interest Group (CHL SIG) was developed in 2008 and aims to increase the visibility of the nurse practitioners' commitment to early childhood literacy and reading readiness. The SIG will promote multiple areas of child development, positive parental attitude and knowledge toward reading aloud, fine motor book handling skills and increased language development.
To promote literacy of children and adolescents which developmentally and culturally supports language acquisition, the love of reading and the ability to use written language.
Early childhood literacy programs, such as Reach Out and Read, have been well promoted in medical circles but lack an identified nurse practitioner component.
A Childhood Literacy Special Interest Group within NAPNAP will increase the visibility of NP commitment to multiple areas of child development such as attachment, positive parental attitude and knowledge toward reading aloud, fine motor book handling skills, increased language development and subjective evidence of love of reading.
We believe that literacy skills, which begin in infancy and cross the life span, are tied to one's future academic success, health and wellness, personal enrichment and optimal adult productivity.
To gather and disseminate evidence-based and academically accepted information about early interventions fundamental to development of literacy skills in infants, children and adolescents.
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To establish practice models promoting children's literacy, screening for language development and reading readiness.
To raise public awareness of childhood literacy and the necessity of comprehensive programs at the local, state and national levels.
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Predators sign Jack Dougherty to entry-level contract
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The Predators signed 2014 second-round draft pick Jack Dougherty to a three-year, entry-level contract Friday. The 19-year-old defenseman is expected to play for the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League next season.
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Three Cheers for Bishop McConnell
I was very pleased with the pastoral letter released by Bishop Dorsey McConnell yesterday. The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has been waiting a long time to learn the degree to which homosexuals would be integrated into the life of The Episcopal Church in Southwestern Pennsylvania. I don't understand why the delay was necessary, but the final outcome was surely worth the wait.
The Substance
What was released by the diocese yesterday was more than most people expected. The package consisted of the pastoral letter proper, guidelines for using the provisional liturgy for same-sex blessings, an assessment of the rite itself, and a report on the diocese's sexuality dialogue. The final item was signed by the co-chairs of the committee that ran the dialogues, Bishop McConnell and Dana Phillips.
As many readers no doubt know by now, the bishop will allow same-sex blessings to be performed in the Diocese of Pittsburgh:
Since this local character [of communities of faith] exists in variety of conviction, I find it reasonable that this variety should be allowed to express itself in local practice, by allowing the decision of whether or not to use this rite to be made by each pastor, in his or her own parish. This "local option" will allow each rector or priest-in-charge to minister pastorally according to his or her commitments and conscience, while putting none under constraint or duress.
The other major decision announced by the bishop concerns ordination:
As for the somewhat related matter of ordained ministry, I believe the principal determining factor in regard to my role as ordinary rests in my discernment, in concert with the Church, as to whether God is calling any given individual to Holy Orders. Therefore, I will not alter the non-discrimination policy begun under Bishop Price; an individual's being in a committed same-sex partnership will not, in and of itself, be a barrier either to ordination or call in this diocese.
The pastoral letter was followed by guidelines for how the provisional rite for same-sex blessings is to be used. I was particularly pleased by the bishop's commonsense approach to rule-making here. Rather than establishing elaborate procedures to be followed leading up to a blessing ceremony, he has chosen to take himself out of decision process and to trust his priests to behave responsibly. His list of rules ends with the following:
It shall be the responsibility of any pastor contemplating the use of this rite to assess the likely pastoral and liturgical implications, and to address them with the couple, the parish leadership, and the bishop well in advance of the prospective date of its use.
A priest would be a fool to do otherwise.
Bishop McConnell also released a critique titled "The Provisional Rite: An Assessment." Had his assessment prefaced his letter, one might have anticipated that he would prohibit use of the rite approved by the 2012 General Convention entirely. I suspect few who have studied the rite are totally happy with it, and the bishop's criticisms will help the church develop a more satisfying liturgy. That The Episcopal Church is also studying marriage encourages the hope that future ceremonies for both straight and gay couples will reflect a coherent and contemporary theological understanding of what is taking place.
The final piece released yesterday is "Summary Report: Conversations on Human Sexuality and Communion." The report is remarkably short of statistics, noting only that 124 people participated in the dialogue project, and, of those, only 92 were involved after the project graduated from the pilot stage. The report lists six "themes" emerging from the discussions, which, somewhat abridged are
The diocese needs to avoid making issues of human sexuality THE defining issue of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Education is needed across the diocese on Episcopal polity at the congregational, diocesan, and national levels.
No one should be marginalized due to their position on issues regarding human sexuality.
We need more time together.
What could happen?
The conversations need to continue.
What is particularly curious about this list is that none of the "themes" directly addresses the two questions that were supposed to be the subject of the dialogue, namely same-sex blessings and the ordination of partnered homosexuals. Moreover, lacking raw data, statistics, and demographic information, it is difficult to know what to make of the "themes." According to the report, "Responses were written on a flip chart, typed, and forwarded directly to Bishop McConnell for his review as part of his personal discernment on the issues." This raises the question whether a different person (or objective committee) would have identified a different set of "themes." Did the bishop find the messages he wanted to find?
Further Thoughts
Bishop McConnell's decisions were not unexpected. Given the recent history of the Pittsburgh diocese, they seemed quite necessary. There are already a number of gay priests in the diocese, and two parishes have just called gay priests. Failure to authorize the blessing of same-sex unions would have felt like a return to the reactionary days of the Bob Duncan episcopate. Instead, Pittsburgh has decisively joined the mainstream Episcopal Church. (The overwhelming majority of Episcopal dioceses are allowing the blessing of same-sex unions, and many that do not are the "usual suspects," such as Albany and Dallas.)
We can only hope that the bishop's pastoral letter does not invite defections from The Episcopal Church. In this diocese particularly, it would be easy for a parishioner to leave an Episcopal parish and to find a nearby "Anglican" parish that is comfortably homophobic. Doubtless, some will do so. I do not expect that any priests will walk, however, as they surely knew, when they chose to stay with The Episcopal Church, that this day would come.
I hope that Pittsburgh Episcopalians who are disappointed by Bishop McConnell's decisions will recognize that those decisions will have little effect on their lives. They can easily find an Episcopal church without gay clergy should that be necessary, and the blessing of someone else's relationship does not affect them or require their complicity. If they have been content to be in a church that blesses same-sex unions in other dioceses, why should such a ceremony in a church across town be of any concern? We will have to see how this works out in practice.
Finally, I'd like to say a few things about the sexuality dialogue. Was it successful? It's hard to tell. For one thing, it surely did not succeed if one takes its stated goal of involving 500 people seriously. To be sure, it offered to a small number of people a model of how controversial matters might be discussed. I am skeptical, however, of the report's assertion that "this type of dialogue is good and needs to continue." In fact, "this type of dialogue" is very resource intensive, and, by its intimate nature, exposes participants to a limited number of viewpoints. One has to wonder if larger groups involving more coherent presentations might be more useful in exposing large numbers of people to the diversity of views held in the diocese. Additionally, since the dialogues discouraged engaged discussion, they did not facilitate testing one's own views and being open to modifying them.
At some level, I suspect that most people found the dialogues interesting, perhaps even useful. One would have liked to have seen statistics from an evaluation instrument intended to gauge, with some objectivity, how people felt about the experience, however. Nevertheless, just as acceptance of homosexuals has increased with the increased visibility of homosexual people, encounters in the dialogues with people of differing views likely served to defuse, at least to some degree, irrational suspicion and hostility toward those holding opinions different from one's own.
The sexuality dialogue was supposed to "inform" the decisions of the bishop, but no one knows quite what that means. Was the bishop seeking guidance, trying to gauge the likely consequences of his decisions, or trying to lessen conflict within the diocese? Just as people had a right to question Clarence Thomas's candor when he denied having given Roe v. Wade any consideration, it is difficult to believe that Bishop McConnell has not long known what his decisions would be.
Once the sexuality dialogue was announced, the bishop was pretty much precluded from making his decisions public until the project had run its course, lest he destroy the illusion that the dialogue really mattered. Surely, most of the material that was released yesterday could have been written long before November 25; most of it could have been written before the sexuality dialogue project was concluded. The delay from October 15 to November 25 just seemed gratuitous and irritating.
Anyway, it's time to move forward.
Other Reports and Comments
Two Pittsburgh groups issued statements about Bishop McConnell's announcements. The first to appear was from Integrity Pittsburgh. Predictably, Integrity's statement expressed appreciation for the pastoral letter, but it is difficult not to see the statement as argumentative and mean-spirited. In part, it said
We've patiently waited for this first step, and we thank the bishop for it. We feel this is only the beginning of full inclusion of LBGTQA people into the life and ministry of the church.
It would have been more gracious to have been thankful now and to ask for other actions—What do these people want? They never say explicitly.—later.
The statement from Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh (PEP) was more positive in tone, ending with
PEP is optimistic that, with these decisions now in place, the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is equipped to move forward in love with vigor and intention.
It is curious that the stories I have seen about the pastoral letter mention same-sex unions but do not mention the acceptance of clergy in committed same-sex relationships. This is true of the stories from Episcopal News Service, The Living Church, AP, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Many in Pittsburgh consider both decisions important. Taking, as it usually does, every opportunity to criticize The Episcopal Church, The Living Church spent most of its story on the bishop's criticism of the blessing rite.
No doubt, other commentaries and news stories will be forthcoming. Perhaps they will be more comprehensive in scope.
Posted by Lionel Deimel at 2:04 PM
Jason Togyer November 26, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Lionel, with all due respect, you have been publicly hectoring Dorsey McConnell for months, mocking this process and criticizing everything about his deliberations, including the timing of his announcement.
And now Integrity is "argumentative and mean-spirited"?
To quote Jack Benny: "Well!"
Perhaps I'm too close to the situation, but this seems like a case when Luke 4:23 comes to mind! ;)
Lionel Deimel November 26, 2013 at 2:46 PM
My moral authority or lack thereof aside, I am not alone in having done a double take upon reading the Integrity Pittsburgh statement.
I'm sure you weren't alone.
Be that as it may, I am still reminded of Sophie Masloff's retort when Pete Flaherty accused her of running a negative campaign! "Argumentative and mean-spirited," indeed!
To point out that the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is still far behind the national church when dealing with LGBTQ Christians is a fact, not argumentative nor mean-spirited. Even conservatives would—proudly, I think—agree.
(And for the record, I speak only for myself.)
Jason, what more are you asking of the diocese or of the bishop? Can they realistically deliver?
I can't speak for any group.
I have personal feelings, of course; one of my feelings is that the diocese should be much franker in the language it uses, and much more direct, in handling these issues.
Why is there a need for an outside group, such as Integrity Pittsburgh? Other dioceses have a bishop's standing committee on LGBTQ issues. But we seem to still be treating these issues like they're radioactive.
There is a lot of hate directed by professed Christians toward LGBTQ people. On the national level, the Episcopal Church has done a good job at trying to be a positive force for education and outreach, but we, in Pittsburgh, are not doing nearly enough, in my opinion.
Personally, I am very impressed with the bishop, as a spiritual leader, a political leader and a communicator. I think positive comparisons could be drawn between his style and Barack Obama's style.
But, to continue that comparison, the U.S. Congress often fails to deliver for the president. Members of the President's own party don't advocate for his policies or implement them effectively.
We, in the pulpits and the pews, need to start delivering for this bishop, advocating for his policies and the Episcopal Church's policies, and pushing Pittsburgh back toward the mainstream. In my opinion.
For instance, I hear some clergy saying things such as, they will "tolerate" gay, bisexual and transgender people. My response has been, "tolerance" is not a synonym for "welcoming" or "loving" or "embracing."
"Tolerance" implies putting up with something that irritates you. I can "tolerate" a stone in my shoe, but I don't welcome or love it. LGBTQ people are God's creatures, not things to be "tolerated."
Until we get past "tolerance" and arrive at "welcoming" and "embracing," we will have a long way to go.
Lionel, perhaps you were looking at an earlier version of the P-G article, but the latest (online and dead tree) version has:
"Bishop McConnell also wrote that gay candidates for ministry who are in committed same-sex relationships would be eligible for ordination -- continuing a practice started by his immediate predecessor, interim Bishop Kenneth Price Jr.""
Bill, thanks for the update. I first read the Post-Gazette story last night.
Philip Wainwright November 26, 2013 at 4:56 PM
> a different person (or objective committee) would have identified
> a different set of "themes."
I don't think you mean to suggest that the committee was not objective, but just in case someone were to interpret your statement that way, I want to say (having been a member of it) that the committee was as objective as any committee consisting of people with deep commitments to mutually exclusive positions can be. The committee's role was to organise the dialogues, and once they began we were pretty much done, and never saw any of the individual comments made by people participating in the dialogues. The two co-chairs reviewed those and wrote the summary in the bishop's letter.
SometimesWise November 27, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Hello Mr. Deimel,
Right off the bat, as a disclaimer, I am a Pittsburgh Anglican by choice and conviction, and consider myself fairly conservative theologically and socially. Just so you know that our worldviews are quite different. I observe the doings of the Episcopal Diocese as I would observe someone razing my childhood home - with sadness, but knowing that it is no longer my home. I do however, know and love people who are members of the Episcopal Diocese, so there is some interest for me.
I do have a couple of questions about your post. It seems that you, like many of us, are not at all surprised by the Bishop's announcement, and wonder what took so long. I do wonder at your seeming disappointment - perhaps you were looking for more from him? Were you waiting for him to say, "This is good", rather than "This is allowed"?
My other question is about the future - how long do you think it will be before same-sex blessings/marriages are mandated by the Diocese or the national church, as opposed to "allowed"? As I recall, the same language was used for the ordination of women, and it was barely 20 years before a mandate was issued by the church that this MUST happen, as opposed to this MAY happen. I have no problem with women priests, by the way...
Thank you for your consideration and time, and I wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!
Jill Forrest.
Thank you for the polite inquiry.
Bishop McConnell did just what I wanted him to do. In fact, in that he did not lay down a fixed set of rules to follow leading up to a blessing, he went further than I had dared hope.
As for the provisional rite itself, I am little concerned with the details. I'm sure it will be improved over time, and Bishop McConnell will be part of the perfecting process.
Same-sex blessings/marriages will never be "mandated" by the church. No priest is now mandated to marry anyone. At some point, however, it may be mandated that no bishop can prohibit blessings/marriages in his or her diocese. The church never mandated that bishops ordain women, by the way, merely that there be a reasonable path to ordination for women in the diocese.
At some time in the relatively near future—I make no specific predictions—marriage of any two adults will be possible throughout the country. What the church does likely depends as much on the U.S. Supreme Court as it does on the General Convention.
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Come back tomorrow and read my Thanksgiving poem.
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import com.aliyun.oss.model.ObjectMetadata;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.b3log.latke.Keys;
import org.b3log.latke.logging.Level;
import org.b3log.latke.logging.Logger;
import org.b3log.latke.servlet.HTTPRequestContext;
import org.b3log.latke.servlet.HTTPRequestMethod;
import org.b3log.latke.servlet.annotation.RequestProcessing;
import org.b3log.latke.servlet.annotation.RequestProcessor;
import org.b3log.latke.servlet.renderer.JSONRenderer;
import org.b3log.solo.constants.MIMEType;
import org.b3log.solo.model.Option;
import org.b3log.solo.service.OptionQueryService;
import org.b3log.solo.util.*;
import org.b3log.solo.util.aliyun.AliyunOssUtills;
import org.b3log.solo.util.qiniu.QiNiuUtils;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.util.Date;

/**
 * @author fengjianxin
 * @version 2017/2/7
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@RequestProcessor
public class UploadConsole {

    private static final String PATH = "blog/image/";

    /**
     * Logger.
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     * Option query service.
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    public void login(final HTTPRequestContext context) {
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        context.setRenderer(renderer);
        final JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
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        try {
            if (ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request)) {
                Multipart multipart = MultipartRequestUtils.parseRequest(request);
                FileItem fileItem = multipart.getFiles().get(0);
                String suffix = MIMEType.getSuffix(fileItem.getContentType());
                if (StrUtils.isBlank(suffix)) {
                    jsonObject.put(Keys.STATUS_CODE, false);
                    jsonObject.put(Keys.MSG, "不允许的文件类型");
                    return;
                }
                // 上传路径
                String path = PATH + DateUtil.format(new Date(), "yyyyMMdd") + "/" + new Randoms().getPrimaryKey()
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                    AliyunOssUtills.putObject(path, fileItem.getInputStream(), meta);
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                    jsonObject.put(Keys.MSG, "success");
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                    jsonObject.put("fileName", fileItem.getName());
                    return;
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                    QiNiuUtils.uploadFile(IOUtils.toByteArray(fileItem.getInputStream()), path);
                    jsonObject.put(Keys.STATUS_CODE, true);
                    jsonObject.put(Keys.MSG, "success");
                    jsonObject.put("url", buildQiniuUrl(path));
                    jsonObject.put("fileName", fileItem.getName());
                    return;
                } else {
                    jsonObject.put(Keys.STATUS_CODE, false);
                    jsonObject.put(Keys.MSG, "上传失败,请配置七牛或阿里云密钥等信息");
                    return;
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            jsonObject.put(Keys.MSG, "上传失败:" + e.getMessage());
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    }

    private String buildAliyunUrl(String path) throws Exception {
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    private String buildQiniuUrl(String path) throws Exception {
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        return buildUrl(cdn, path);
    }

    private String buildUrl(String cdn, String path) {
        if (cdn.endsWith("/")) {
            return cdn + path;
        }
        return cdn + "/" + path;
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}

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Q: Get Chrome to open Google Cloud Storage links I would like to be able to open a tab in Chrome and enter something like gs://bucket-name/path/to/file and have it open the corresponding page in the GCP Web Console https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/bucket-name/path/to/file. I saw there are external protocol handlers in Chrome, but I don't want to open an external application. I just want it to open another page based on the URI. I also don't want to put up any of my own servers for this simple purpose. Perhaps a Chrome Extension that can do some simple JS on the URI after I enter it into the address bar?

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@shiv turned my attention on fact that this is question about automated link replacement under the hood in address bar when you write "gs://bucket-...". So such handler just collects address and modifies it and uses modified version to go further.
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Samuel Freeman Miller (April 5, 1816 – October 13, 1890) was an American lawyer and physician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1862 until his death in 1890.

Early life, education, and medical career
Born in Richmond, Kentucky, Miller was the son of yeoman farmer Frederick Miller and his wife Patsy. He earned a medical degree in 1838 from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. While practicing medicine for a decade in Barbourville, Kentucky, he studied the law on his own and was admitted to the bar in 1847. Favoring the  abolition of slavery, which was prevalent in Kentucky, he supported the Whigs in Kentucky.

Career

In 1850, Miller moved to Keokuk, Iowa, which was a state more amenable to his views on slavery, and he immediately freed his few slaves who had come with his family from Kentucky. Active in Iowa politics, he supported Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election. Lincoln nominated Miller to the Supreme Court on July 16, 1862. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate that same day, and was sworn into office on July 21.

His opinions strongly favored Lincoln's positions, and he upheld his wartime suspension of habeas corpus and trials by military commission. After the war, his narrow reading of the  Fourteenth Amendment—he wrote the opinion in the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases—limited the effectiveness of the amendment. Miller wrote the majority opinion in Bradwell v. Illinois, which held that the right to practice law was not constitutionally protected under the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

He later joined the majority opinions in United States v. Cruikshank and the Civil Rights Cases, holding that the amendment did not give the U.S. government the power to stop private—as opposed to state-sponsored—discrimination against blacks. In Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U.S. 651 (1884), however, Miller held that the federal government had broad authority to act to protect black voters from violence by the Ku Klux Klan and other private groups. Miller also supported the use of broad federal power under the Commerce Clause to override state regulations, as in Wabash v. Illinois.

Justice Miller wrote 616 opinions in his 28 years on the Court; Justice Field (whose 34 year SCOTUS tenure mostly overlapped Miller's) wrote 544 opinions; Chief Justice Marshall wrote 508 opinions in his 33 years on the Court, leading future Chief Justice William Rehnquist to describe him as "very likely the dominant figure" on the Court in his time. When Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase died in 1873, attorneys and law journals across the country lobbied for Miller to be appointed to succeed him, but President Ulysses Grant was determined to appoint an outsider; he ultimately chose  Morrison Waite.  In his tribute to Miller delivered in Portland, Oregon, on October 16, 1890, George Henry Williams stated his support of Miller in detailing his interactions with President Ulysses S. Grant about Chase's replacement.

After the 1876 presidential election between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden, Miller served on the electoral commission that awarded the disputed electoral votes to the Republican Hayes. In the 1880s, his name was floated as a Republican candidate for president.

In the winter of 1889 and spring of 1890, Justice Miller delivered a series of ten lectures on constitutional law at the National University School of Law in Washington, D.C.  They were published posthumously, along with two earlier lectures delivered in 1887.

Personal

Miller, a religious liberal, belonged to the Unitarian Church and served as President of the Unitarians' National Conference.  He died in Washington, D.C., while still a member of the Court.  Following his death in 1890, his funeral was held at Keokuk's First Unitarian Church; Miller had been one of the congregation's founders.  He is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Keokuk, Iowa.

Miller's first wife was Lucy Love Ballinger Miller (1827 – 1854) whom he married in 1842, and with whom he had three daughters.  In 1856, he married Eliza Winter Reeves (1827 – 1900), with whom he had a son and daughter.  The second of his five children, Patty Miller Stocking, as an adult wrote and published letters on European travel.

List of most notable opinions
 Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. 679 (1871)
 The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873)
 Murdock v. Memphis, 87 U.S. 20 Wall. 590 590 (1874)
 United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375 (1886)
 In re Neagle, 135 U.S. 1 (1890)
 In re Burrus, 136 U.S. 586 (1890)

See also
Justice Samuel Freeman Miller House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

Further reading
Ross, Michael A.(1997), "Hill Country Doctor: The Early Life and Career of Supreme Court Justice Samuel F. Miller in Kentucky, 1816-1849," The Filson History Quarterly, Vol. 71 (October): 430–446.

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1890 deaths
19th-century American judges
Physicians from Kentucky
American Unitarians
Iowa Republicans
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19th-century American politicians
People from Keokuk, Iowa
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People of Iowa in the American Civil War
Transylvania University alumni
United States federal judges appointed by Abraham Lincoln
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Prior to her feature-length directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," and well before the beginning of photography on the World War II epic, "Unbroken," Jolie Pitt wrote the screenplay for "By the Sea" as an exploration of grief and love.
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In the first 15 days after the Valley Fire swept through the southern area of Lake County and decimated communities like Cobb, Middletown, and Anderson Springs, #LakeCountyRising emerged as a way for individuals and businesses to respond and provide financial assistance to those affected by the fire.
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The Eyes Have It! is a gen multimedia anthology. There are eight issues and two special editions. The two special editions later became a series called Second Story Simons.
Some volumes have include a "!" at the end of the title, and others don't.
The Eyes Have It! 1 was published in 1988 and contains 99 pages.
The Eyes Have It! 2 contains 132 pages and while undated, was probably published in 1989. It contains no interior art.
The Eyes Have It! 3 was published in 1990 and is 103 pages long.
The Eyes Have It! 4 was published in May 1991 and is 163 pages long.
The Eyes Have It! 5 was published in May 1992 and contains 161 pages.
The Eyes Have It! 6 contains 102 pages and was published in May 1993. It has fiction from Professionals, Riptide, Simon and Simon/Professionals, Riptide, Simon and Simon/Professionals, Simon and Simon/Magnum PI, and Quantum Leap/Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
The Eyes Have It! 7 was published in May 1995 and is 197 pages long. Front cover is by BEKi; interior art is by BEKi and Susan Williams.
The Eyes Have It! 8 was published in May 1996 and has 113 pages.
Also poetry by Melissa Mastoris and Heidi M. based on The Three Musketeers; Remington Steele; Good Morning, Vietnam; Sandbaggers; and MacGyver.
The Eyes Have It! Simon and Simon Special 1 was published in May 1992 and contains 175 pages.
Life's Lesson by Valerie DeVries. Rick's kept after school for disrupting the class, but it's A.J. who really is being punished--after being harassed by older boys, A.J. quietly waits outside Rick's classroom, until an unwarranted attack on another student puts Rick and A.J. into motion. Brother protecting brother, no matter what the cost.
My Life by Char Wray. It takes a little magic and a very special friend to show Rick just what would have happened if he were never born. "It's A Wonderful Life," Simon style.
Another Simon Saturday by Kenda Buxton. A young Rick and A.J. look for something interesting to do on a rainy Saturday. In the end, Rick gets a little more than he bargained for.
Lifeline by Elaine Overby. "Routine surveillance--but something went wrong--they must have made us tailing them--the Power Wagon's tires were shot out, we flipped, and when the ruck finally stopped, I was still in it and A.J..."
The Grand Illusion by Anne Swank. Rick learns that six-year-old, secret boxes, and swords don't mix, and even a master illusionist like Rick occasionally needs help.
Repertory Company and House Plants by Regina Derov. A complete eight season guest player's list.
Plus, do you know what A.J.'s house looks like?
The Eyes Have It! Simon and Simon Special 2 was published in May 1993 contains 104 pages.
Search by Christine Jeffords. A missing scene from Rough Rider Rides Again.
A Simon Equation by Elaine Overby. Cecelia gets kidnapped, the man responsible doesn't intend to let her go. He wants the brothers to watch her die, in order to avenge his own mother's death.
Flowers Child by Mary Stano. A woman from Rick's days in Vietnam appears on his door asking for help. Are A.J.'s instincts right? Does she mean his brother harm?
Mysterious Woman by Anne Swank. Travel back in time with Rick, A.J., and Sherlock Holmes to solve the case of the Mysterious Woman.
New Kid On The Block by Ann Wigmore. Twilight Zone time for A.J. He finds a "little" Rick that needs taking care of, but no one else sees him. "Little Rick" is running away from home because he's getting a new baby at his house. A.J. sees things from a different point of view.
Rough Ride and Daby Crockett by Kenda Buxton. When the Simon family go camping there is always adventure and something always goes wrong where they have to call on the Park Ranger.
Simon and Simon and Brown by Jean Thrower. This is a sequel to "A Whiter Shade of Pale," published in Brothers in Arms #3. A.J. is recovering from the flu and wakes up in another time, with another Rick and a very different business.
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Q: Alternate way to read a file as json using python I have a file that contains information similar to the example shown below. I would like to know if there is a way to read this file using python and use it as json. I am aware of how to open it and process the text but is there another way?
Example:
key={{name='foo', etc..},{},{},{}}

A: If you want your content to be treated as json you need to have a valid json syntax:
{"key":[{"name": "foo"},{},{},{}]}

Then you can use json library to convert it to a dictionary:
>>> import json
>>> json.loads('{"key":[{"name": "foo"},{},{},{}]}')
{u'key': [{u'name': u'foo'}, {}, {}, {}]}

Additionally, if your file content cannot be changed to a correct json syntax, then you will need to develop a parser for your specific case.

A: After searching a few different languages I was able to determine that the data struct was a Lua container. I found a simple lua-python parser currently available here github.com/SirAnthony/slpp and I was able to parse(decode) the lua data structure. Below is an example of parsing a lua container with slpp.py I hope this helps anyone with a similar problem.
>>> from slpp import slpp as lua
>>> data = lua.decode('{ array = { 65, 23, 5 }, dict = { string = "value",    array = { 3, 6, 4}, mixed = { 43, 54.3, false, string = "value", 9 } } }')
>>> print data

{'array': [65, 23, 5], 'dict': {'mixed': {0: 43, 1: 54.33, 2: False, 4: 9, 'string': 'value'}, 'array': [3, 6, 4], 'string': 'value'}}


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Army draft expected in Ukraine to counter Russian 'responsibility'
Ukraine announced on Thursday that it will return to mandatory conscription in the coming months as its troops battle pro-Russian insurgents in the east. Ukraine's government decided last year to switch to a contract-based professional army, ending Soviet-style biannual drafts in the spring and fall for men between 18 and 25. The last call-up into the Ukrainian armed forces, which number 168,000 people as of early 2014, was in October 2013. In April, the military announced partial mobilisation for people with military experience ahead of its operation in the east, where pro-Russian insurgents had declared two regions independent of Kiev's authority.
I consider the actions that we've seen in the last week a continuation of what's been taking place for months now.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on pro-Russian rebels to provide a humanitarian corridor in east Ukraine for encircled Ukrainian government troops to leave the battlefield, the Kremlin said in a statement on Friday. In a Thursday afternoon press conference in Washington D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia is responsible for violence in Ukraine. He did not answer a reporter's question describing Russian involvement as an "invasion." A member of the president's political party, Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy, told Yahoo News on Thursday that it is past time to call the escalating conflict a "war" and to label Moscow's actions an "invasion." Earlier, NATO released satellite images that, the alliance said, showed Russian armoured columns operating inside Ukraine. Russia has denied invading its neighbour.
I call on the militia forces to open a humanitarian corridor for encircled Ukraine servicemen …
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Smart Speaker Stuff > Posts > Alexa > Free Audible Books on Alexa – June 2020
Free Audible Books on Alexa – June 2020
Every month, Alexa users can get three completely free audio books to listen to through Audible. If you have not enjoyed an audio book before, this is a great way to give it a try before you sign up for an Audible account. Or simply take advantage of the offer and listen to the free books each month!
No Audible account is required, you just have to say to Alexa:
Alexa, what's free from Audible?
Or, if you know the title
Alexa, play [book name] from Audible
When Alexa answers, you will be able to tell her which book you want to listen to first.
June's Free Audible Books
The Pickwick Papers
When Samuel Pickwick decides to establish and preside over a travelling society, he unknowingly brings together three of the oddest men in all of London: Tracy Tupman, the loveless self-professed ladies' man, Augustus Snodgrass, the poet who's never put pen to paper, and Nathaniel Winkle, the endlessly clumsy sportsman.
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The Pickwick Papers manages to both move and amuse the listener as the protagonists find themselves in a whole host of bizarre situations they had not bargained for.
When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London.
It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.
Desperate for affection and the sense of belonging that he has never known, Oliver unwittingly throws himself into a life of petty theft, which soon takes a violent turn with the introduction of one of Dickens' most terrifying characters, Bill Sikes.
Exposing the cruel and inhumane treatment of orphans in 19th-century England, Dickens created one of the most significant social novels of all time. With it, he condemned the establishment for neglecting homeless children and leaving them vulnerable to recruiters who would exploit and abuse them. Oliver Twist cemented Dickens' reputation as one of the most talented, influential and revolutionary of English authors.
'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.
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This following is a complete filmography of Indian actor and producer Dharmendra Deol. He was born on 8 December 1935, and made his debut in 1960 with film Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere at the age of 25. He has starred in more than 300 films.

1960–1969

Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere (1960) as Ashok
Shola Aur Shabnam (1961) as Bunnu
Boy Friend (1961) as Inspector Sunil Singh
Soorat Aur Seerat (1962)
Anpadh (1962) as Deepak M. Nath
Shaadi (1962) as Ramesh R. Malhotra
Bandini (1963) as  Dr. Devendra
Begaana (1963) as Prakash
Pooja Ke Phool (1964) as Balraj
Mera Qasoor Kya Hai (1964)
Haqeeqat (1964) as Captain Bahadur Singh
Ganga Ki Lahren (1964) as Ashok
Ayee Milan Ki Bela (1964) as Ranjit
Aap Ki Parchhaiyan (1964) as Chandramohan Chopra 'Channi'
Main Bhi Ladki Hoon (1964) as Ram
Purnima  (1965) as Prakash
Neela Aakash (1965) as Aakash
Kaajal (1965) ... Rajesh
Chand Aur Suraj (1965) as Surajprakash A. Malik / Suraj
Akashdeep (1965)
Phool Aur Patthar (1966) as Shakti Singh / Shaaka
Mohabbat Zindagi Hai (1966) as Amar
Mamta (1966) as Barrister Indraneel
Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya (1966) as Ashok
Devar (1966) as Shankar J. Rai / Bhola
Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966) as Jitendra 'Jiten' Gupta
Anupama (1966) as Ashok
Aaye Din Bahar Ke (1966) as Ravi
Paari (1966) as Ghanashyam Dhali
Majhli Didi (1967) as Bipinchandra 'Bipin'
Jab Yaad Kisi Ki Aati Hai (1967)
Ghar Ka Chirag (1967)
Dulhan Ek Raat Ki (1967) as Ashok
Chandan Ka Palna (1967) as Ajit
Shikar (1968) as Ajay Singh
Mere Hamdam Mere Dost (1968) as Sunil
Izzat (1968) as Shekhar / Dilip P. Singh (Double Role)
Baharon Ki Manzil (1968) as Dr. Rajesh Khanna
Baazi (1968) as D. S. P. Ajay
Ankhen (1968) as Sunil
Yakeen (1969) as Rajesh/Jackoss (Double Role)
Satyakam (1969) as Satyapriya 'Satya' Acharya
Pyar Hi Pyar (1969) as Vijay Pratap
Khamoshi (1969) as  Dev (Patient No. 24) (Guest appearance)
The Gold Medal (1969) as Acharya (Guest appearance)
Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke as Jaishankar 'Jai'
Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969) as Munish Mehra
Dharti Kahe Pukar Ke (1969) as Narrator

1970–1979

Man Ki Aankhen (1970) as Rajesh Agarwal
Tum Haseen Main Jawaan (1970) as Sunil
Sharafat (1970) as Rajesh
Mera Naam Joker (1970) as Mahendra Singh
Soldier Thakur Daler Singh (1970)
Kankan De Ole (1970) as Banta Singh, Punjabi language film
Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? (1970) as C. I. D. Inspector Anand
Jeevan Mrityu (1970) as Ashok Tandon / Vikram Singh
Ishq Par Zor Nahin (1970) as Ram
Jeevitha Samaram (1971) Malayalam film
Rakhwala (1971) as  Deepak
Naya Zamana (1971) as Anoop
Mera Gaon Mera Desh (1971) as Ajit
Guddi (1971) as Himself (Special appearance)
Seeta Aur Geeta (1972) as Raka
Samadhi (1972) as Lakhan Singh/Jaswant Singh/Ajay (Double role)
Raja Jani (1972) as Rajkumar Singh 'Raja'
Lalkar (1972) as Major Ram Kapoor
Do Chor (1972) as Tony
Anokha Milan (1972) as Ghanshyam "Ghana"
Loafer as Ranjit
Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973) as Shankar
Phagun (1973) as Gopal (Special appearance)
Keemat (1973) as Gopal
Kahani Kismat Ki (1973) as Ajit Sharma
Jugnu (1973) as Ashok Roy / Jugnu
Black Mail (1973) as Kailash Gupta
Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973) as Sameer Rai
Jwar Bhata (1973) as Balraj Prasad  'Billoo'
Resham Ki Dori (1974) as Ajit Singh
Patthar Aur Payal (1974) as Ranjit Singh
Pocketmaar (1974) as Shankar
Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam (1974)
Do Sher (1974) (Guest appearance)
Dost (1974) as Manav
International Crook (1974) as Shekhar
The Gold Medal (1974) (Guest appearance)
Kunwara Baap (1974) (Guest appearance)
Teri Meri Ik Jindri (1975) (Guest appearance)
Saazish (1975) as Jaideep 'Jai'
Pratiggya (1975) as Inspector Devendra Singh/Ajit D. Singh (Double Role)
Kahte Hain Mujhko Raja (1975) as Balram
Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka (1975) as Vishal
Dhoti Lota Aur Chowpatty (1975) (Guest appearance)
Chupke Chupke (1975) as Dr. Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan
Chaitali (1975)
Apne Dushman (1975) as Brijesh
Sholay (1975) as Veeru
Santo Banto (1976) (Guest appearance)
Chhoti Si Baat (1976) (Guest appearance)
Kahtey Hain Mujhko Raja (1976) (Guest appearance)
Charas (1976) as Suraj Kumar
Maa (1976) as Vijay
Tinku (1977) (Guest appearance)
Swami (1977) (Guest appearance)
Kinara (1977)…(Special appearance)
Aaina (1977) (Guest appearance)
Khel Khiladi Ka (1977) as Shaki Lutera/Raja Saab/ Ajit
Dream Girl (1977) as Anupam Verma
Do Chehere (1977) (Guest appearance)
Dharam Veer (1977) as Dharam Singh
Charandas (1977) (Guest appearance)
Chala Murari Hero Banne (1977)
Chacha Bhatija (1977) as  Shankar
Shalimar (1978) as S.S. Kumar
Phandebaaz (1978)
Dillagi (1978)
Azaad (1978) as Ashok
Dil Kaa Heera (1979)
Kartavya (1979)

1980–1989

Chunaoti (1980) as Shakti Singh (Special appearance)
Ram Balram (1980) as Ram
The Burning Train (1980) as Ashok Singh
Alibaba Aur 40 Chor (1980) as Alibaba
Insaaf Ka Tarazu (1980) as Soldier (Guest appearance)
Professor Pyarelal (1981) as Ram / Professor Pyarelal
Krodhi (1981) as Vikramjit Singh (Vicky) / Acharya Shradhanand
Katilon Ke Kaatil (1981) as Ajit / Badshah
Aas Paas (1981) as Arun Choudhury
Naseeb (1981) as Himself in a Song (Special appearance)
Teesri Aankh (1982) as Ashok
Samraat (1982) as Ram
Main Intequam Loonga (1982) as Kumar Agnihotri 'Bitto'
Ghazab (1982) as Ajay Singh 'Munna' / Vijay Singh (Double Role)
Do Dishayen (1982)
Baghavat (1982) as Amar Singh
Badle Ki Aag (1982) as Sher Singh 'Shera' / Jaggu
Rajput (1982) as Manu Pratap Singh
Ambri (1983) as Dharam Singh
Putt Jattan De (1983) as Chaudhary Dharam Singh (Punjabi film)
Razia Sultan (1983) as Yakut Jamaluddin
Naukar Biwi Ka (1983) as Deepak Kumar / Raja
Jaani Dost (1983) as Raju
Andhaa Kaanoon (1983) as Truck Driver (Guest appearance)
Qayamat (1983) as Shyam / Rajeshwar
Sunny (1984) as Indrajeet
Ranjhan Mera Yaar (1984) (Punjabi film)
Raaj Tilak (1984) as Zoravar Singh
Jeene Nahi Doonga (1984) as Roshan / Raka (Double role)
Jagir (1984) as Shankar
Dharam Aur Kanoon (1984) as Rahim Khan
Baazi (1984) as Inspector Ajay Sharma
Insaaf Kaun Karega (1984) as  Veeru
Jhutha Sach (1984)
Rajhan Mera Yaar (Punjabi Film) (1984)
Karishma Kudrat Kaa (1985) as Vijay / Karan (Double Role)
Ghulami (1985) as Ranjit Singh
Sitamgar (1985) as Sonu / Shankar
Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986) Sher Singh (Guest appearance)
Mohabbat Ki Kasam (1986) as Shop-Owner
Main Balwan (1986) as Inspector / D. C. P. Chaudhary
Sultanat (1986) as General Khalid
Mit Jayenge Mitane Wale (1987)
Watan Ke Rakhwale (1987) as Mahavir
Mera Karam Mera Dharam (1987) as Ajay Shankar Sharma
Mard Ki Zabaan (1987) as Laxman Chauhan
Insaaf Ki Pukar (1987) as Vijay Singh
Dadagiri (1987) as Dharma Dada
Aag Hi Aag (1987) as Bahadur Singh / Sher Singh
Superman (1987) as Superman's Dad (Guest appearance)
Insaniyat Ke Dushman (1987) as Inspector Shekhar Kapoor
Loha (1987) as Inspector Amar
Hukumat (1987) as Inspector Arjun Singh
Jaan Hatheli Pe (1987) as Soni
Zalzala (1988) as Inspector Shiv Kumar
Soorma Bhopali (1988) as Mahendra Singh / Dharmendra Himself (Double Role)
Sone Pe Suhaaga (1988) as Vikram / C. B. I. Officer Ashwini Kumar
Khatron Ke Khiladi (1988) as Balwant / Karamveer / Teesri Adalat
Mardon Wali Baat (1988) as Yadvinder Singh
Mahaveera (1988) as Ajay Verma
Paap Ko Jalaa Kar Raakh Kar Doonga (1988) as Shankar
Ganga Tere Desh Mein (1988) as Vijay Nath
Sachai Ki Taqat (1989) as Constable Ram Singh
Nafrat Ki Aandhi (1989) as Sonu
Hathyar (1989) as Khushal Khan
Kasam Suhaag Ki (1989)
Ilaaka (1989) as Inspector Dharam Verma (Special appearance)
Batwara (1989) as Sumer Singh
Elaan-E-Jung (1989)
Sikka (1989) as Vijay
Shehzaade (1989) as Subedhar Zorawar Singh / Inspector Shankar Shrivastav (Double role)

1990–1999

Veeru Dada (1990) as Veeru Dada
Vardi (1990) as Havaldar Bhagwan Singh (Special appearance)
Qurbani Jatt Di (1990)
Pyar Ka Karz (1990)
Naakabandi (1990) as Veer "Veera" Singh
Humse Na Takrana (1990)
Trinetra (1991) as Raja (Special appearance)
Mast Kalandar (1991)
Kohraam (1991) as Arjun
Farishtay (1991) as Veeru
Paap Ki Aandhi (1991) as Dharma / Mangal (Double Role)
Dushman Devta (1991) as Shiva
Khule-Aam (1992) as Shiva
Zulm Ki Hukumat (1992) as Pitamber Kohli
Waqt Ka Badshah (1992)
Tahalka (1992) as Ex-Major Dharam Singh
Virodhi (1992) as Inspector Shekhar
Humlaa (1992) as Bhawani
Kal Ki Awaz (1992)
Agnee Morcha (1993)
Aag Ka Toofan (1993) as Dharam Singh/ Arjun Singh Inspector (Double role)
Kundan (1993)
Kshatriya (1993) as Maharaj Prthivi Singh
Maha Shaktishaali (1994)
Juaari (1994) as Police Inspector Dharam Singh
Policewala Gunda (1995) as A.C.P. Ajit Singh
Maidan-E-Jung (1995) as Shankar
Aazmayish (1995) as Shankar Singh Rathod
Taaqat (1995) as Shakti Singh
Hum Sab Chor Hain (1995)
Fauji (1995)
Veer (1995) as Veeru Bhaiya / Veer (Double role)
Smuggler (1996)
Return of Jewel Thief (1996) as Police Commissioner Surya Dev Singh
Himmatvar (1996) as Sultan
Aatank (1996) as Jesu
Mafia (1996) as Fauji Ajit Singh
Loha (1997) as Shankar
Jeeo Shaan Se (1997) as Bramha / Vishnu / Mahesh (Triple Role)
Gundagardi (1997)
Agnee Morcha (1997)
Hamaara Faisla (1998)
Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya (1998) as Thakur Ajay Singh / Chacha
Zulm O Situm (1998) as SP Arun
 Sherkhan (1998)
Nyaydaata (1999) as DCP Ram
Munnibai (1999)
Lohpurush (1999)

2000–2009

Sultaan (2000) as Sultan Singh (Extended special appearance)
 The Revenge: Geeta Mera Naam (2000) as Baba Thakur
Meri Jung Ka Elaan (2000) as Ajit Singh
Kaali Ki Saugandh (2000) as Sultan Singh
 Jallad No. 1 (2000) as Shankar
 Bhai Thakur (film) (2000)
 Jagira (2001)
 Saugandh Geeta Ki (2001)
 Zakhmi Sherni (2001)
 Bhooka Sher (2001) as Ranbir Singh
Reshma aur Sultan (2002)
Border Kashmir (2002)
Shiva Ka Insaaf (2003) as Shiva
Kaise Kahoon Ke... Pyaar Hai (2003) as Dharam
Tada (2003) as Balraj Singh Rana
Sabse Badi Ganga Ki Saugandh (2004) (Guest appearance)
Hum Kaun Hai? (2004) as Virendra 'Viru' (Guest appearance)
Kis Kis Ki Kismat (2004) as Hasmukh Mehta
Life in a... Metro (2007) as Amol
Apne (2007) as Baldev Singh Chaudhary
Johnny Gaddaar (2007) as Sheshadri
Om Shanti Om (2007) as Himself in song Deewangi Deewangi
Har Pal (2009) as Baba

2010–2019

Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011) as Dharam Singh Dhillon
Tell Me O Kkhuda (2011) as Tony Costello
Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (2013) as Dharam Singh Dhillon
Dusman Ke Khoon Paani Ha (2014)
Singh Saab the Great (2013) as Cameo in song 'Daru Band Kal Se'
Double Di Trouble (2014) as Ajit / Manjit (Double role)
Second Hand Husband (2015) as Ajit Singh
Jora 10 Numbaria (2017) as Jagga Baba
Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se (2018) as Jaywant Parmar

2020–present

Television

References

External links

Indian filmographies
Male actor filmographies


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May 16, 2013 /0 Comments/in Global Issues/by Simon Lack
Financial markets are not totally devoid of entertainment value. Sometimes a spectacle unfolds that can rivet one's attention, rather like a movie in which the reckless driver who's been handling his car aggressively takes one risk too many, causing his shiny sports vehicle to careen off the road and into the valley below.
This must have been the expectation of the shorts who sold 44% of the outstanding shares in Tesla (TSLA); that the company was over-hyped, relied on unproven technology and was doomed to fail taking its Hollywood investors with it. So imagine the wide-eyed horror of the unwitting passengers on TSLA's current moon shot as they assess a company now worth over $10BN, trading at roughly 11 X trailing sales and 350 times trailing Gross Profit (there are no earnings). TSLA may be many things, but out of favor is not one of them.
As if a tripling of its price in six months isn't bad enough, the shorts also have to deal with a CEO with a sense of humor. For Elon Musk, evidently not one you'd want to join at a poker table, has shown his exquisite understanding of markets by committing to invest $100MM of his own cash in the upcoming secondary offering of shares just as the shorts are enduring their own particular tail event. How often do you see that?
So TSLA's price has moved beyond what must have been plausible for most short sellers, who like all shorts are further dealing with the consequences of a steadily growing position as it loses money. We have no position in TSLA and have no intention of taking one. But watching its stock price in recent days has been entertaining to say the least.
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Just offshore is the largest island off the Oregon coast, Bird Island (sometimes called Goat Island), which is a National Wildlife Sanctuary.
Oregon Parks link:Harris Beach No fee required for day use.
These shots were taken at low tide early in the morning.
This is the second time that I was treated to a bird feeding frenzy. The other was at the Gulf in Texas. The exhuberance of life is thrilling to watch (unless of course you're a fish).
Some of the creatures in one of the tidepools, including a creature similiar to a sea star. These guys are a lot more patient than the birds!


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Praise Mary Ella Simmons
Praise May Ella Simmons is a star kid with a huge following on social media. Currently enrolled in school, she is busy pursuing her studies. However, it is clear that she will soon be stepping into the working world. Here are some fun facts about her. Before we get into her personal life, let's take a look at her family. She grew up with three siblings and 11 half-siblings. Her father had affairs with nine women.
Born on 18 April 2005, Praise Mary Ella Simmons is the daughter of late hip hop artist DMX. She is one of 17 children left behind by DMX, and is the only daughter of the rapper's first wife, Tashera. Her father, Earl, was a doting father and is the rapper's son. Despite her fame, she continues to keep her family close to her heart.
As a child, she lived in Yonkers, New York. Her parents abandoned her when she was only nine years old and she never regained consciousness. She passed away at age 50 in April 2021. Her mother is a popular actress in the United States. Her brother, DMX, is also famous. She is a mother of four children with DMX. She also has two half-siblings.
Despite all her fame, Mary Ella has kept her private life private, focusing on her studies. Her mother posts pictures of her daughter on social media and she is now sixteen. She has 13 half-siblings and three biological siblings. She has become one of the most sought-after celebrities of the 21st century, and her family has been very supportive of her. She is a role model to many, and her mother's support and love has allowed her to achieve a great career.
She was born on April 18, 2005, to Earl and Tashera Simmons. Her father, DMX, is a famous rap artist. Her mother, Tashera, a former professional actress, is a former student of the same school as her father. She is currently attending school. At age 16, she is already a celebrity! She is studying psychology and studying at a New York college. She will study the subject of her choice.
She is the daughter of DMX, a rapper who died at the age of 40. Her father, Earl, is a renowned rap artist and he had fifteen children before he died. He had three biological siblings and three half-siblings. While he had several children with different women, he had no biological child with Tashera. This is why she's a celebrity kid.
Although she is a star kid, she has no professional interests. She has no rap career, but she is a devoted student. She has 13 half-siblings and three biological siblings. Her mother also has several online media pages. She's a star kid who's getting a lot of attention. She's a teen with many fans. She's still in school and pursuing a major of her choice.
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