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Tamil Nadu sack Baba Indrajith as captain; Left-arm spinner Sai Kishore to take over
On a day when Tamil Nadu all but ended their hopes of making it to the quarterfinals of the Ranji Trophy, captain Baba Indrajith was relieved of his duties. In his place, left-arm spinner R Sai Kishore has been made captain while young left-handed batsman Pradosh Ranjan Paul will be his deputy for the remaining two league matches against Assam and Saurashtra.
Needing to win their fifth-round match against Maharashtra to keep their quarterfinals hopes alive, Tamil Nadu settled for a point in Pune as the hosts took home three points on the basis of first innings lead. And soon after the match, the selectors met in Chennai on Friday, where they decided to appoint Sai Kishore as the captain.
"Since we are already out of reckoning, we thought this is a good time to groom Sai with an eye on the future," Vasudeven S, who is the chairman of the senior state selection committee told The Indian Express. This is not the first time Tamil Nadu have changed captains for failing to get past the group stages of Ranji Trophy.
Indrajith himself has experienced it before in the 2018/19 season. And in a season where Tamil Nadu took the field without their international stars — R Ashwin and Dinesh Karthik – they were definitely not considered among the favourites to win the title. However, within the squad, there was overall support for Indrajith's captaincy as he constantly pressed for the game to move forward.
Despite bowling being the weak link, Tamil Nadu took 60 out of 60 wickets in the first three matches. And weather permitting, they may have ended up on the winning side against Hyderabad and Delhi. However, the subsequent matches against Mumbai and Maharashtra where Tamil Nadu lost out on first innings lead seems to have been the trigger point. It is understood that the selectors were overall not happy with the tactical aspects over a period of time and questions are also being raised over the decision not to send Washington Sundar up the order in the matches he played.
"Indrajith did well as a batter and there is no two ways about it. But we felt something was amiss with the captaincy because we lost out on the first innings lead. Since the qualification hopes are over, we thought of handing over the baton to a youngster with the future in mind," Vasudevan said.
The decision to go with Sai Kishore means the left-arm spinner is being seen as the one for the long run. Ever since he made his debut in the 2017/18 season, the tall, lanky 26-year-old has established as their first choice spinner and even went on a tour to Sri Lanka as reserves with the Indian team. Although he hasn't captained so far, Tamil Nadu want to see how he performs in these two games before taking a call about next season.
"We are looking to build a team for the future. We have not changed the squad because we felt we did considerably well in the batting. Bowling was the issue.. So we thought lets tweak a bit and see how it goes with the captain. There has to be a long term plan where in four-five years down the line, we will have a good team with youngsters in the mix with experience behind their belt," Vasudevan added.
It is also understood that the TNCA will take a call on head coach R Venkataramana's future at the end of the season. Although the team performed well in the white-ball tournaments, they have not won a game in the eight matches they have played since the beginning of the last season. There are talks to bring in a coach from the outside with a couple of names from Mumbai doing the rounds. But TNCA officials said the decision will be taken by the Cricket Advisory Committee.
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Dig this for a new-look primary school
A SPADE will be put into the ground on the last day of term to mark the beginning of a �2.2m improvement project at Hempnall Primary School. The present building at the south Norfolk school will be remodelled to provide a larger reception classroom, a library, staff room and better toilets.
A SPADE will be put into the ground on the last day of term today to mark the beginning of a �2.2m improvement project at Hempnall Primary School.
The present building at the south Norfolk school will be remodelled to provide a larger reception classroom, a library, staff room and better toilets.
A new building will also be built to offer four classrooms, a new hall, kitchen, main entrance, reception office, head teacher's office, sick bay, cloakroom space, storage and toilets.
The scheme is expected to be completed by autumn next year.
Head Miriam Leston, said: "I am absolutely delighted that work is finally getting under way. It will make a huge difference to all the children at Hempnall Primary School. We will have new classrooms, state-of-the-art ICT and a hall, which will give us much better facilities for PE."
Shelagh Hutson, Norfolk County Council cabinet member for children's services, said the money being invested in the school would transform the facilities for the benefit of both staff and pupils for years to come.
"The county council and Norfolk's schools are doing a huge amount of work to develop our children and young people's skills and raise their aspirations so that they have everything they need to go on and fulfil their ambitions throughout their life," she added.
She will join South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon, county councillor Alison Thomas and school representatives at the ground-breaking ceremony, which takes place at 10am.

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Obama Drifts Toward Syrian War
For several years now, President Barack Obama has resisted demands from neocons, Republicans and hawkish Democrats that he intervene militarily in Iran and Syria, but he also has failed to negotiate seriously with those two governments, thus making a drift toward war more likely.
President Barack Obama and King Abdullah II of Jordan make statements to the press prior to a bilateral meeting, in the Oval Office, April 26, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
In 2012, there appeared to be a chance for a breakthrough both in talks with Iran over its nuclear program and with Syria's Assad regime over a power-sharing arrangement with the country's disaffected Sunni majority. Some people involved in those initiatives thought that after the U.S. election, a victorious Obama would have the political space to make concessions as well as demands. Then, when nothing happened, some thought he was waiting to install a new national security team and didn't want to risk Senate obstruction of his nominations.
However, now it looks as if Obama simply has reverted to a more traditional (or default) foreign policy approach to the Middle East – shuttle diplomacy by Secretary of State John Kerry regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and provision of more military aid to "allies" through Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
So, 2013 could represent another lost opportunity, when the United States turned its back on creative strategies that could deliver peace and thus risked a drift toward war. Something similar occurred in 1989 when President George H.W. Bush rebuffed a proposal from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for a power-sharing arrangement to bring the brutal Afghan civil war to an end.
Instead of working with Gorbachev, Bush listened to deputy national security adviser Robert Gates and other hardliners who believed, incorrectly, that the CIA-backed Afghan mujahedeen would quickly overthrow Najibullah's communist regime in Kabul after the Soviets withdrew the last of their troops in February 1989.
Najibullah was far from an ideal negotiating partner, but his government was secular, had a workable bureaucracy and advanced the rights of women. The mujahedeen – though touted by U.S. propaganda as "freedom-fighters" – actually represented some of Afghanistan's most reactionary elements, pushing a medievalist version of Islam, engaging in gruesome treatment of captives, and demanding the cruel subjugation of women.
The triumphalist choice by Bush and Gates, insisting on a clear-cut victory by the Muj over the Soviet-backed Najibullah, proved disastrous in a variety of ways: first, the mujahedeen failed to win on the expected Bush-Gates timetable; second, their cause degenerated into mindless brutality; third, the chaos opened the door to the Taliban, which took power in 1996 (and then murdered Najibullah); and fourth, a pathway was cleared for al-Qaeda to use Afghanistan as a base for terrorism. [For details, see Robert Parry's America's Stolen Narrative.]
Obama's Dilemma
A similar dilemma confronts Obama in 2013, with the neocons and many other pundits hectoring him to intervene militarily to overthrow the secular regime of Bashar al-Assad, who generally represents Syrian minorities, including his own Alawite religion (an offshoot of Shiite Islam) and Christians from the Armenian diaspora.
Assad's principal opponents are from Syria's majority Sunni community which resents the favoritism toward the Alawites and other minorities. However, as the Sunni uprising gained strength over the past two years, radical Islamist groups emerged as the most effective fighters and now dominate rebel-controlled territory.
This radicalization of the Sunni uprising can be traced to the Islamist tendencies of its chief benefactors, especially Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist Sunni monarchy, which played a comparable role when it funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid, through Pakistan, to the most right-wing elements of the Afghan mujahedeen.
Today, the Saudis are supplying weapons to hard-line Syrian rebels, via Turkey and Jordan, with comparable results, spurring a fight-to-the-death between Assad's repressive secularists and the murderous Sunni fundamentalists. This reality was highlighted by the New York Times on Sunday, reporting the spread of Islamist rule across "liberated" sectors of Syria.
"Across Syria, rebel-held areas are dotted with Islamic courts staffed by lawyers and clerics, and by fighting brigades led by extremists," wrote Times correspondent Ben Hubbard. "Even the Supreme Military Council, the umbrella rebel organization whose formation the West had hoped would sideline radical groups, is stocked with commanders who want to infuse Islamic law into a future Syrian government.
"Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of."
With the black flags of Islamic extremism flying across rebel-held parts of Syria – and with no matching militancy among the anti-Assad secularists – the West can expect that the overthrow of Assad will lead to either the sort of violent chaos that enveloped Libya after the ouster and murder of Muammar Gaddafi or – perhaps worse – an Afghan-style outcome with Islamists allied with al-Qaeda in the heart of the Middle East.
Given those prospects, the best-of-the-bad solutions might be to work with the Russians and even the Iranians to negotiate a power-sharing coalition between Assad's group and the more moderate Sunni factions. That, however, might require concessions from Obama and other Western leaders who have demanded Assad's removal.
Obama faces intense opposition in Official Washington toward any concessions on Syria or Iran. The pundits – from Fox News to the neocon Washington Post to some hosts on liberal MSNBC – are clamoring for action. They complain that Obama should have intervened militarily much sooner and now – after reports that Syria may have used chemical weapons in a limited fashion – Obama has no choice but to take aggressive action.
Virtually no one will countenance a counter-narrative that Obama's big mistake was in not pressing for a negotiated solution two years ago. Back then, Washington's conventional wisdom was that the Syrian uprising had to be supported, that Assad had to go, and that any idea of compromise had to be rejected. As in 1989 with Afghanistan, triumphalism prevailed regarding Syria.
So, facing a difficult reelection in 2012, Obama finessed the Syrian issue. Yet, even after he won a second term, he has remained frozen in inaction. Now it looks as if he is simply dragging his feet as he is pushed and pulled toward another disastrous Mideast war.
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his new book, America's Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com).
(Originally posted at Consortium News)
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Reading the posts here. i feel that using Nokia3310 LCD pannel would be benefiacial to me. Ive not yet bought it. But I would like to know that will it work with ATMEGA16 via code vision avr? In the code wizard, thers an option of LCD for settings. Can I use that to interface with Nokia LCD? What shall I fill in the characters/line option? And how would I code it to display alphanumeric messages?
I cant find tutorial to this using CVAVR and ATMEGA, though i found 1 but it was using PIC.
I basicly need to display alphabets as well as numerals.
Other suggestions apart from Nokia3310 are also welcome.
@mohitkhanna3v_infinate: CodeVisionAVR does not have any built-in libraries for the Nokia3310 LCD. Infact the whole 'Nokia 3310 LCD' concept is a hack. You wont find any commercial compilers with built-in routines to read/write to a LCD which has been ripped off another commercial product. You would need to make your own routines, or pick up someone elses routines off the internet.
The CodeVisionAVR feature that you mentioned is for the HD44780-based Character-LCD's.
I suggest that you use the KS0108 based graphics LCD's. These are supported by the Procyon AVRlib (clickie) (http://www.mil.ufl.edu/~chrisarnold/components/microcontrollerBoard/AVR/avrlib/) Libraries.
Why dont you buy the readymade things and 'use' it??
I dont know what you searched, but my search for nokia3310 gave me 5,910,000 pages and avr 3310 brought out 596,000 pages on Google.
I see that you post queries of all kinds on every Forum here, without doing any basic work at all.
I suggest that you search our Forums with your queries, as all these queries are already covered sometime or other.
Like I said in an earlier post: don't look to be spoon-fed with things that you must do yourself.
And for heavens sake!! build SOMETHING first, instead of doing a "theoretical Research " for ready solutions from others.
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Volek utvecklade en teori om modal musik som omfattade en idé om polymodalitet och alterering av toner som han kallade flex, vilket resulterade i vad han kallade systemet med flexibla diatoniska skalor. Han omsatte denna teori på verk av Béla Bartók och Leoš Janáček.

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Q: How to center a group of css-positioned images, with margins on either side? a quick question that I have been struggling with.
I want to find a way to group all these images that I have positioned with css in these exact places (relative to each other) so that I can then center the group in the middle of the webpage? I also want the group to be static so if the webpage is enlarged they remain in the center and margins appear on either side.
I tried to put all the images inside a div but I wasn't able to get them in the correct positions other than the first one.
This is how the page is currently formatted
http://i.imgur.com/rkyLUAO.png
And this is an example of how I am trying to ammend the page to look like. The pink is to show the margins which appear either side of the centered group.
http://i.imgur.com/BW6Wozu.png
<!DOCTYPE html>

Is there a plausible way to do this? Many thanks

A: Yes, just add a wrapping
 and make it's position relative

// your images

.wrap {
  position: relative;
  background: white;
  width: 800px;
  height: 500px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

body {
  background: lightpink;
}

.wrap {
  position: relative;
  background: white;
  width: 800px;
  height: 500px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  overflow: auto; /* not required */
}

img.laptop {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 510px;
  top: 150px;
  width: 60px;
  z-index: 1
}
img.butterfly {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 840px;
  top: 290px;
  width: 40px;
  z-index: -2
}
img.rose {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 580px;
  top: 205px;
  width: 75px;
  z-index: -1
}
img.smiley1 {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 460px;
  top: 490px;
  z-index: -2
}
img.smiley2 {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 40px;
  top: 315px;
  z-index: -2
}
img.bouquet {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 940px;
  top: 440px;
  width: 60px;
  z-index: -4
}
img.corn {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 472px;
  top: 310px;
  width: 20px;
  transform: rotate(90deg);
  z-index: 1
}
img.sword {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 250px;
  top: 20px;
  width: 320px;
  z-index: -3
}
img.blush {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 1150px;
  top: 550px;
  z-index: -3
}
img.suicide {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 210px;
  top: 700px;
  z-index: -3
}
img.skull {
  position: absolute;
  background-image: none;
  left: 1300px;
  top: 275px;
  width: 25px;
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A: simple solution here:
take a look at the codepen ive made for you here: codepen.io/daplo/pen/qRyPEx

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So many Pyros… What can a Medic do?
"What? Surviving Scream Fortress? As a Medic? Surely that should be a piece of cake? It's just like any other map!" You're serious? It's nothing like any other map. It's an event based on one of the most deathmatch-y maps around, with more spam and confusion than you can shake a stick at. Throw in your normal Hightower threats like Mini-Sentries, and a whole new extra pit for Pyros, Scouts and explosive classes to launch you into, it's nigh impossible to get around as a Medic.
Let's be honest here. At the best of times, Hightower isn't a good place for a Medic. With its large, sweeping views and a lack of things to hide behind, Mini-sentries and Snipers lurk behind every corner and stand proudly on every high up point. So what on earth (or in hell) can we do on the same map, but with extra hazards?
This is one of the most important things for you to do. You're a Medic, yes, you're normally not supposed to fight, but this is a free-for-all. Get some spells and bloody use them. See an enemy within 10 ft of you? Use that spell. The best spells for Medics are invisibility, high-jump and teleport, all of which can be used to get out of nasty situations. High-jump also heals you a tiny bit. The Uber spell is alright, but you're not using it for the Uber, you're using it for the heal.
The aggressive spells are worth using too, even if you ARE a passive Medic like me. They can separate you from life and death and give you a slime chance to make a getaway.
This one's a must. Follow your team mates up the magical ghost path. Not only will they protect you (hopefully) but you'll save your patients from sneaky Snipers.
Pyros are both your best friend and your enemy!
Because of the nature of Helltower, with two pits to airblast people down and a whole separate area willed with lava to airblast more people into, Pyros are incredibly common. They're everywhere. And they are a force to be reckoned with. Treat all enemy Pyros as if they're going to airblast you right now, all the time. At the same time, it's good to stick with friendly Pyros, who will protect you from enemies and will hopefully put you out when you catch fire. As one of the spells sets you on fire, you'll be glad to see a friendly Pyro. While you're at it, learn to airstrafe. Because Soldiers, Scouts and Demomen will be trying to kill you too.
This one's also fairly obvious, but it needs to be said. Most of the health is in awkward places, either right out in the open, in front of giant pits you can be pushed into or next to bombs. The biggest health kit is in a shack with an entire wall missing. There are two medium kits, one on the tower near the two bomb lifts and one further down, next to a bottomless pit. There are two similar health kits by the cart starting points, secluded and protected by pumpkin bombs. There are small health kits scattered around in safer locations, but generally running for health isn't always safe. But that cart is a level 1 dispenser that will also refill your ammo. The cart also acts as a large, moving piece of cover, possibly more so now it's a mine cart that's easier to stand on.
The Stock Medi Gun is great, and the Vaccinator can be fairly useful, but the Quick Fix, with its Megaheal overheal and faster charge rate, not to mention the fact that it's unaffected by the 142.5% ubercharge rate cap, means that it works nicely in a spammy McSpamfest environment. Also, with the Megaheal, you're temporarily immune to being airblasted. I'll be honest here, this is just a tip. The Stock Medi Gun almost always works too.
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Q: Custom style for part of a Chakra-ui component I have a Chakra-ui radio button for which I would like to apply a custom style when it is disabled. in particular a disabled Chakra radio uses opacity: 0.4 on its label, whereas I want to set that to 1.
I have created a variant called readonly, but the styling in that variant is not being applied to the radio label.
      <Radio
        isDisabled={isRadioDisabled}
        value={Number(option.value)}
        variant={"readonly"}
      >
        {option.label}
      </Radio>

The custom style containing the variant:
{
  baseStyle: {},
  variants: {
    readonly: {
       opacity: 1
    },
  },
}

A: If you inspect the Chakra radio in the dev tools you'll see some class attributes that include a double underscore.

These are the parts. We can see that the radio is actually a multi-part component. The label you want to work with is actually a <span>, which is highlighted in the image. It has a class that ends with __label.
Also, you only want to change the opacity when the label is disabled. Using an underscore will allow you to access the disabled state.
Your variant's custom style looks like the following, with a part of 'label' noted:
{
  baseStyle: {},
  variants: {
    readonly: {
      parts: ["label"],
      label: {
        _disabled: {
          opacity: 1,
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It never ends (or some pun involving the prime of Mr Brodie (Clark)).
One of the main reasons why politics attracts the most anally retentive of obsessives, such as people who write interminable blogs for years on the subject, is simple: it never fucking ends. Well, it sort of doesn't: most sports at least have a close season, although in football this has since been replaced by endless transfer rumours, interrupted only by the World Cup or Euro Championships every other year; politics has the times when parliament is in recess, although in principle this barely affects things. Interspersed as it has become with contemporary history, an issue is never truly settled: if declaring the End of History is about as stupid as it gets (and I do mean in the real sense that Fukuyama decided that liberal democracy had triumphed, when if there's one thing that history should teach us, all empires eventually fall), then it's equally foolish to imagine that we can't for the umpteenth time go through the case for and against in Iraq (and sadly it's now those who were against who can't shut the fuck up about how right they were, which is sad when we were right).
This is most obvious in the debate about the European Union and especially now the Euro. The new orthodoxy is that the Eurozone was always doomed to fail, and perhaps it was. The problem is that outside of those with monomania about the organisation, who for the most part are the most crushing bores in the most crushing of subjects, few consistently said so. It also ignores how even if the PIGS do eventually have to leave the Eurozone, it could eventually make it stronger, and indeed, one of the solutions being proposed is for an even more integrated fiscal union, which is not by any means a good thing in the long term.
At least the potential collapse of the entire European economic system is a pressing issue that will genuinely affect us all. Far less important is the Leveson inquiry, which it seems will now last for potentially years to come. This could be the ultimate example of being careful in what you wish for: those of us who've banged on about phone hacking and press standards for years would have always loved a judge led inquiry into the former and a royal commission into the latter; what we've got is a hodge podge in which celebrities seem determined to grab the stage for themselves. It's not perhaps surprising that Hugh Grant would like something close to French-style privacy laws when he's knocking up 31-year-olds (named Ting Ting, no less), an affair first described as "fleeting". That those who want privacy often have a lot to be private about is usually a classic misnomer, but sometimes it's also painfully close to the truth.
And so it also is on the even less life threatening issue of who authorised what when at the Home Office and UK Border Agency. Over a week on, and despite the appearances of both Theresa May and now the wonderfully named Brodie Clark before the home affairs select committee no one is any the wiser over what happened, or indeed why this should be seen as such a horrific scandal, especially when we still don't know the whole story behind Dr Fox and Mr Werritty, an issue with far greater impact on national security. May authorised a more focused scheme that according to the Tories improved detection rates (Mandy Rice-Davies etc), but didn't supposedly give Clark the go ahead to go slightly further and relax measures more widely. Some of this relaxation, it should be noted, does seem to be asking for it: not checking the passports of those on private jets for instance, always notable for being completely in line with all domestic law.
Far less ignoble is making life a little less demanding on the staff and passengers who go through our airports, especially when we're still insisting they can't take liquids on the plane over a certain size, regardless of the chances of a plane dropping out of the sky due to Islamists with exploding Fanta bottles being around 0.01%. Equally risible is the notion that going through airports is one of the main transit points for illegal migrants or potential terrorists: the former tend to come in through stowing away on trucks rather than planes, while the latter tend to be homegrown rather than foreign. We won't ever know the number of criminals or terrorists who managed to evade detection due to the relaxation, but one suspects it numbers somewhere between 0 and 0.
Rather then than putting this whole tedious affair to bed as soon as possible, it looks as though it's going to drag on till January when the official inquiry reports. As Simon Hoggart at the end of his sketch suggests, the likely explanation for the whole thing is that the UKBA has recently received a new chief executive eager to please, who swiftly discoverd something that terrified the home secretary enough to sack the old broom civil servant out of fear for her job, not caring what it meant for him. Add in the continuing hysterical attitude towards immigration, so out of kilter with reality that even David "swamping" Blunkett fears the debate is turning xenophobic, and we've got another subject to chew the fat over for weeks at a time.
You can but hope that Keith Vaz, no stranger to scandal himself, gets his way and the papers which might just clear this mess up will be released sooner than later. Until then, and this may come across as slightly hypocritical from someone who himself has proved he can't stop yabbering about inanities, we ought to shut up about it. This must cease.
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By nargisbano on February 12, 2019 • ( 0 )
Accusing the Congress of betraying the nation by opposing government policies for the poor and farmers, interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said the people will never forgive it.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal speaks during the Budget Session of Parliament in New Delhi, Monday, Feb 11, 2019. (LSTV GRAB via PTI)
Source: The Indian Express
The interim budget 2019-20 was passed in the Lok Sabha Monday amidst sloganeering by the TDP MP's demanding special status for Andhra Pradesh and walk-out by the Congress, NCP and CPI-M.
Accusing the Congress of betraying the nation by opposing government policies for the poor and farmers, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said the people will never forgive it, PTI reported.
While replying to the debate on the interim budget, Goyal said the Modi government had taken a lot of initiatives in the past four-and-half years for the benefit of poor, farmers and middle class and the 2019-20 Interim Budget was a continuation of that.
Referring to the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi under which small farmers will be provided Rs 6,000 financial assistance every year, Goyal said that those living in palaces will never understand the importance of Rs 2,000 every four months and hence they "belittle" the scheme.
Goyal said that the Narendra Modi-led government has changed the working style followed by the Congress party. 'We are moving towards an honest system,' he said.
Meanwhile, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that he was 'grudgingly given only two minutes' to debate the 'longest interim budget speech in history.'
Tharoor said that his party would have welcomed the proposed tax exemption move, but it was coming from the government that is 'pulling cash out' of the middle class in every possible way.
He also said that the AIIMS promised in Kerala still remains unfulfilled and no money has been allocated with regards to the damage caused by Cyclone Okchi.
All India Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy questioned the central government over employment data. He alleged that the government is not releasing the data on unemployment because it is an all-time high.
Rajya Sabha remains unproductive
Earlier in the day, the Rajya Sabha proceedings were washed out for the sixth day in a row amid uproar by the opposition over various issues including special status for Andhra Pradesh. Only two bills were introduced before Congress and TDP MP's trooped into the Well, following which the Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House till 2 pm.
When the house met again, the disruptions continued forcing Deputy Chairman Harivansh to adjourn the house for the day. "It is unfortunate that members are not allowing the discussion to continue despite consensus in the business advisory committee," Harivansh said.
CAG report likely to be present tomorrow
The government is likely to table the CAG report on Rafale jet fighter deal tomorrow in Parliament, news agency PTI reported.
The fighter jet deal has generated a massive political controversy with the Congress party levelling allegations of corruption on the Modi-led government.
The Congress party Sunday had asked Comptroller and Auditor General of India Rajiv Mehrishi to "recuse" himself from auditing the deal, citing "conflict of interest" and "gross impropriety".
Addressing a press conference, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal had said that Mehrishi was the Finance Secretary at the time of the "unilateral announcement" on the purchase of 36 Rafale aircraft at a cost of Rs 58,000 crore in April 2015, and cancellation of the 126 aircraft MMRCA deal in June 2015.
Congress has accused Mehrishi of "attempting to help the government by giving it a clean chit certificate".
(Inputs from PTI, ENS)
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You cannot have watched BBC's News at Ten on Tuesday evening and not have felt both intrigued and a deep sense of compassion for poor Huw Edwards. Due to a technical fault, the BBC anchorman was left without any sound whatsoever and with nothing to do, while millions of viewers watched on as he huffed and puffed through nearly ten minutes of awkward silence.
Of course, it could be that those few minutes of silence were the best reflection on what's happening in our world at the moment. Just flicking through the newspaper or online news or watching the TV or listening to the radio will leave you breathless at the struggle, heartache, confusion and sadness that is found in every corner of our world. In an age of twenty-four-hour news, constant soundbites and online commentary, maybe it's OK to be quiet even for just a few seconds every once in a while. Maybe we could ask the BBC to start with a moment's silence before we dive into the world's affairs!
As a School Chaplain, in every event I lead – and even in meetings if I dare – I ask students and teachers to be still either at the beginning or end of the assembly or meeting. In our information age, we don't need more stuff, news, opinions; we need time to process, think, reflect and respond. And silence plays a huge part in that processing.
The great Sherlock Holmes saw the value of silence. He said of Dr Watson "You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion." But for many of us, noise is our constant companion, not silence. Even when we are alone, we fear silence and pop the radio or TV on to fill the room with sound.
Finding that still place does not happen by accident, it takes some practice. But maybe the BBC's technical error has revealed a fundamental longing in the modern heart. Those few minutes of silence seemed so strained, and yet they reveal just how used to the noise we have become.


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This post is part of my '5 Golden Rules of a Well Designed Website' series. You can read all five parts right now, in addition to some extra resources, by downloading my guide and workbook.
When a professional web designer begins a new project, the very first step is obtaining and understanding the client's brief. My own clients fill out a detailed questionnaire and we talk on Skype before the build commences to make sure I know exactly what they need their website to be saying about their business and what they want their customers to feel, find and most importantly do when they get there.
You, dear DIY-er, need a brief too. Get super clear on your ideal customer and more importantly, what they're most likely looking for when they arrive on your site. Is it a portfolio? Service and pricing information? Details of your location and opening hours? It could be a number things, but if you really think about it, there's probably only one or two specific things that 80% of your visitors have come looking for. Once you've worked that out: give it to them. Make sure that the information is easy to find right off the bat, either by placing it on your home page or making a link to it clearly available above the fold.
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Above the fold is a term originally stemming from when we got all of our information from a daily newspaper. Anything on the top half of the front cover was all that could be seen when the paper was on the news-stands or being hawked in the street. Nowadays, web designers use it to refer to anything that can be seen in a viewer's browser when they land on your page before scrolling down. I highly recommend having your navigation, logo, business name, an appealing image and perhaps a link to something special a visitor may have come for (Spring Sale! Sign-Up For The Course! Book Tickets Here) above the fold, but the 'power of the fold' is somewhat of a myth in today's world. Everyone scrolls. The key is to have your 'above the fold' looking a) attractive and appealing, b) recognisable and on-brand and c) clear and intuitive. It's your first impression. At time of this post going to press (see what I did there?), I'm planning a future blog post all about the importance and/or myth of 'the fold' – come back and check it out.
Though you're probably screaming internally that I'm telling you to make your site look like everyone else's, the truth is that making a user's visit to your site intuitive and pain-free is the name of the game. No one should ever have to go searching through pages, guessing which navigation link to press or using /shudder/ the search bar for basic information such as your new vegan café's address.
This is your time to stay inside the box.
You're unique and brilliant and so is your businesses, but switching up basic website design and layout conventions is not for you. A frustrated user does not become a customer. Period. Let them feel comfortable and at home on your site. Stick to what they know.
Squarespace helps in this regard because basic conventions are built in automatically such as having your navigation menu clearly displayed at the top of all pages and a logo that links back to your home page when clicked. <<< You might never have noticed you do this one, but admit it, you just instinctively know how to get home on any site – just click the logo!
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Autism with Love: Autism: Don't Force Me Into Your World Before You've Experienced Mine.
I am a strong believer in Early Intervention for children diagnosed with Autism and in fact any other condition that a child is diagnosed with that requires extra support.
Early Intervention doesn't have to mean thousands of pounds forked out by the NHS or the LA for access to specialist treatment. It doesn't necessarily mean that the child has to have XYZ therapy to be able to access life, as we know it. Although that would be fabulous wouldn't it!
Lets go back to basics here, because all these children really need is support and understanding from the people who are with them the most, parents, teachers, grandparents, peers and siblings.
Children who are forced to conform into a society that they do not understand are going to lead a very confused life. It will create greater problems and difficulties for those being made to conform to anyone's idea or normality. Suppressing a child's way of life is creating a monster. A Great big monster that one day simply will not be able to cope in a world that they were forced to live in.
Experiencing the things that the children take great pleasure in will enable you to form a trust bond with that child and in time, when the child knows that you understand they will begin to WANT to enter your "Normal" Tell me, please, instead of trying to make children sit still on their chairs, hands in their lap, looking alert and taking everything in, why can't you lay on the floor with them and roll cars backwards and forwards for 10 minutes?
Children need extra support in schools, the SEN budget has been crippled to such an extent that even the children with more severe needs, are being turned down for extra funding. Early intervention, early understanding and acceptance is vital. For if the child doesn't get these important things early on in their life and in the educational setting, behavior will spiral out of control, the child ends up being excluded for behavioral reasons and moved to schools with policies which completely defy the techniques that are necessary for our children.
Its quite simple really, we need to stop making these children suppress their natural instincts, their natural abilities and their outlook on the world. Their way isn't wrong, or bad, it's simply theirs. Who are we to take that away from them? Why should we force them into our world without fully experiencing theirs first?
I will have to agree that people are insensitive toward autism ,but we are seeing emergence of schools dedicated to special needs and autism.


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F.D.A. Considers Implant Device for Depression
By BENEDICT CAREY
By BENEDICT CAREY The Food and Drug Administration may soon approve a medical device that would be the first new treatment option for severely depressed patients in a generation, despite the misgivings of many experts who say there is little evidence that it works. The pacemaker-like device, called a vagus nerve stimulator, is surgically implanted in the upper chest, and its wires are threaded into the neck, where it stimulates a nerve leading to the brain. It has been approved since 1997 for the treatment of some epilepsy patients, and the drug agency has told the manufacturer that it is now "approvable" for severe depression that is resistant to other treatment.
But in the only rigorously controlled trial so far in depressed patients, the stimulator was no more effective than surgery in which it was implanted but not turned on.
While some patients show significantly improved moods after having the $15,000 device implanted, most do not, the study found. And once the device is implanted, it is hard to remove entirely; surgeons say the wire leads are usually left inside the neck.
Proponents say that many severely depressed patients do not respond to antidepressants or electroshock therapy and that those patients are desperate for any treatment to relieve their suffering.
"These people have no other options, so we need to consider anything that shows potential to help," said Dr. Harold A. Sackeim, chief of biological psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, who consults for Cyberonics Inc., the Houston company that makes the stimulator.
But Dr. Michael Thase, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh who consults for the company, said there was "simply not a good enough basis in evidence" for approval. While the device is promising, Dr. Thase said, "the shaky state of the evidence means we have to be very cautious with this and prepare for the possibility that the hoped-for benefit isn't there."
The drug agency has given mixed signals about the stimulator. In August 2004, it told Cyberonics in a letter that the treatment was not approvable, saying more information was needed. But in February, after the company provided more data, the agency changed that position, informing the company that the stimulator could now be approved. The company's stock price has fluctuated as investors try to anticipate the agency's decision, which the company is hopeful will come by the end of the month.
The Senate Finance Committee recently began looking into the F.D.A.'s potential reversal, but Cyberonics officials say they have been assured by the agency that this will have no bearing on its final decision.
In a conference call with reporters and analysts on Thursday, Robert Cummins, the company's chief executive, said no other treatment had been deemed approvable by the drug agency for stubbornly depressed patients. Clearly, he said, "the status quo for millions of Americans, their families, psychiatrists and payers is neither safe nor effective."
Still, some patient advocates and other experts are now questioning how the device has come so close to approval with such limited evidence for its effectiveness.
"I've never seen anything quite like this," said Dr. Peter Lurie, deputy director of health research at Public Citizen, a nonprofit group that is a frequent critic of the F.D.A. and the drug and medical-device industries. "What we could be setting ourselves up for is an epidemic of implantation of a device with no proven effectiveness."
Experts who were involved in the approval process say they were moved by the desperate prognosis for severe depression and by powerful testimonials.
At a critical meeting of an F.D.A. panel last June, six patients with chronic severe depression said they felt much better that the stimulator had been implanted, as part of an investigational study. At that meeting, the panel voted 5 to 2 to recommend that the device be approved.
One patient, Charles Donovan III of St. Louis, said the stimulator had saved his life. "I went from being a complete mental-health vegetable to someone who had the energy and confidence to do this book," Mr. Donovan said in an interview.
But the panel did not hear from patients who did not benefit from the stimulator, according to the transcripts. One of them, Katherine Coram, 57, of Silver Spring, Md., signed up for the trial after seeing a newspaper advertisement about it.
"Believe me, when you're depressed for long enough, you get to a stage where you're willing to try almost anything," Ms. Coram said in an interview.
In the study, doctors implanted the device in 235 severely depressed people. The stimulator sends timed pulses of electricity to the vagus nerve, which has wide connections throughout the brain.
Half of the patients then had their stimulators turned on. The investigators did not know which of their patients had their stimulators on.
After three months, researchers "unblinded" the study and compared levels of depression in the two groups based on standard measures of disease severity, the F.D.A. documents show. They found that 17 of the 111 patients who had implants turned on and completed the trial showed significant improvement. But 11 of 110 who had no stimulation and completed the trial also felt significantly better. The difference between the two groups was small enough to be attributable to chance.
Alan Totah, vice president of regulatory affairs for Cyberonics, said at the meeting, "The primary endpoint did not reach statistical significance." But Mr. Totah said "the results did show a positive trend in favor" of the stimulator.
Hoarseness was a common complaint. Many patients who have had a stimulator on also said that it put a quiver, rumble or other odd inflection in their voices.
"I certainly knew mine was on," Ms. Coram said. "I could feel it. You get this constricting pain in the back of the throat. I couldn't talk sometimes."
Ms. Coram said that she was slightly more functional at work after the surgery but that it did not last. Later, she said, after she took a doctor's advice and had the stimulator's pulse turned up higher, "my life fell apart."
"I was very anxious and agitated, much more so than before," she went on. "I felt suicidal for a while, worse than I had been in 8 to 10 years."
But several members of the panel that voted for approval said that given the alternatives for people like Mr. Donovan and others who did well, the insignificant difference between the two groups was cast in a different light.
"The feeling was that anything that gives these people hope is potentially worthwhile," the chairwoman, Dr. Kyra Becker, a neurologist at the University of Washington, said in an interview. "But the whole meeting was uncomfortable, and everyone wanted to see another trial done, no question about it."
Dr. Becker said that if she had voted her conscience, solely on the basis of the evidence, she would have voted not to approve.
A member who voted against approval, Dr. Richard Malone, a psychiatrist at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, said he was bewildered by the recommendation.
"I walked out of there thinking I was nuts," Dr. Malone said in an interview. "It was stunning, but then I find much of life is stunning."
The F.D.A. usually follows the recommendations of advisory panels.
Another reason some psychiatrists are intrigued by the device for depression is a finding in the evidence that some people with the implant might do better over time. In follow-up data, Cyberonics reported to the drug agency that about 30 percent of those in the study showed significant improvement on one measure of depression after six months or more.
"The effect appears to be sustained, which is very significant in these patients, who almost always relapse," Dr. Sackeim said.
But other experts say it is extremely difficult to interpret this long-term evidence. Many patients in the study were taking psychiatric medications, or had electroconvulsive therapy, both of which can improve mood. These and other factors are difficult to control for, despite the company's efforts to do so, they said.
Cyberonics says that the long-term evidence it has provided to the federal agency satisfies requirements for approval, and that senior agency officials have told the company as much.
The agency has a higher standard of proof for approving new drugs than it does for devices. Devices require a "reasonable assurance" that they are safe and effective and that potential benefit outweighs the risk.
F.D.A. officials said they could not comment on any product that was pending approval. But Dr. Donna-Bea Tillman, director of the agency's office of device evaluation, said "it is not the kiss of death" if a product's effectiveness is not supported by a well-controlled clinical trial.
"We consider safety and effectiveness in relation to the alternatives that patient population has, including whether they have any alternatives at all," Dr. Tillman said.
If a device is approved, the agency specifies precisely which patients should have access to it, she said. Whether to recommend it is then left to doctors' judgment.
And that is a prime concern among critics of the approval process, like Public Citizen and other groups concerned about patient protection. Once a product has been approved, the manufacturer can promote it aggressively, and some doctors may recommend it to any patient, whether severely or moderately depressed.
Some people may not wait for approval. Sue Wanemaker, 51, who lives near Denver, said she had a vagus stimulator implanted last April for her depression. Ms. Wanemaker, who also has epilepsy, said she had noticed little benefit, and added that when turned up high the stimulation made her feel suicidal.
She has since had the device turned down. "I'm going to hang in there," she said in a phone interview, "because why not, I've got it in now, and - there it goes!" With that, her voice trilled for a few moments
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Q: run a minishift with debug logging level How to run a minishift with debug logging level?
I tried
minishift logs --v 8 -f

but it doesn't work.
According to the https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2216951 (requires a RedHat developer account to view the full version) 8 log level should be what I need.
0 - Errors and warnings only
2 - Normal information
4 - Debugging-level information
6 - API-level debugging information (request / response)
8 - Body-level API debugging information

A: It should be run as
minishift start --show-libmachine-logs -v 5

where

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*--show-libmachine-logs will show libmachine logs

*-v n - shows n level deep logs

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In just the past few decades, medicine has dramatically changed and evolved. The more advanced modern medicine becomes, the better care patients receive. People are living longer, and diagnoses that were once a death sentence can now be easily cured. Science and technology have evolved medicine to incredible heights over the last few decades.
It wasn't until 1950 that molecular biology found its foothold due to DNA findings—something that would forever change cancer research. The next great feat in cancer research came in 1964, when researchers found the link between smoking and cancer. The discovery and many findings after this led to President Richard M. Nixon signing the National Cancer Act in 1971. Within the next two years, computed tomography (CT) revolutionized radiology, and Dr. Janet Rowley found chromosome abnormalities in those with cancer. By the 1990s, the death rates of cancer began to fall.
The leading cause of death in the United States today is the same as it was over fifty years ago: heart disease. Fortunately, the death rate of heart disease has dropped significantly thanks to the advancements in medicine. Instead of dying in their 50s or 60s, people are living longer even with heart disease. Patients are now aware of how high blood pressure, smoking, obesity, and cholesterol can affect their heart health. New technologies are also detecting heart attacks earlier on, and implantable cardiac defibrillators are significantly reducing sudden cardiac death in heart attack survivors.
The first vaccine was developed hundreds of years ago to create an immunity against smallpox. Since then, vaccines have revolutionized healthcare. By 1955 the first polio vaccine was licensed, which was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. In the 1960s the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first national measles eradication campaign which then decreased measles cases by more than 90% before the development vaccines. Today there are now vaccines to fight against human papillomavirus (HPV) to prevent cervical cancer and other vaccines to build immunity against life-threatening diseases.
Within the past fifty years, medical technology saw its first major advance in the 1960s when the first artificial heart and the balloon embolectomy catheter were developed. This allowed the first minimally invasive surgical procedures to be conducted. From there, medical technologies took off. Healthcare began to transform with new devices such as x-rays, CT scans, robotic surgeries, and other technological innovations. In recent years, technology has made patient care even more accessible. Patients can reach out to their doctor via video chat for any questions or concerns and can fill out prescriptions online through e-pharmacies.


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WizardWorld held a media welcome event before their comic con in Raleigh, NC, where Kevin Sorbo took the time for an interview with Legendarium Media.
Kevin Sorbo hanging out with Legendarium Media reporter A.D. Poole and event guest Micah Doubledee at the Wizard World Raleigh press event.
Legendarium: [We'll] start out with a simple question—
Kevin Sorbo: It's too much for me, man.
LM: How did you get started in acting?
KS: You know, I was eleven, actually. I used to watch a lot of old movies with my Mom. My Dad never really cared for them but I loved those old Cary Grant movies and Rock Hudson and whoever it may be, but I think I hit that age. . .I liked what they did, but it was really when I went to see a play, a Shakespeare play, "The Merchant of Venice," and as an eleven-year-old kid I probably didn't understand ninety-percent of what they were talking about, but I was mesmerized by the actors on stage. And I told my Mom that day driving home, I said, "Mom, [I'm going to] be an actor." And I got one of those "That's nice, dear" replies. . . Yeah, I kinda knew at a young age what I wanted to do, but I really didn't start going after it until I got into college and I started minoring in it and drama.
LM: Was there a favorite movie that inspired you to think, "Yes! This is what I want to do with my life?"
KS: I would probably say it. . .[was] "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." I was a big Paul Newman fan, a Robert Redford fan, but I love Paul Newman and I started watching all his movies through the '70s and all of his older movies I started getting into around junior and high school ages and stuff. . .I even got a letter from him which is in my office at home, it's pretty cool. . . .
LM: Now, I noticed that you actually directed a couple of episodes of Hercules. How did you handle both the acting and the directing at once?
KS: You know, what made it easy, was I waited until the third season of Hercules before I started doing that, and my crew was with me for the seven years we were down there so I was very comfortable with my crew. Jonner, our DP, was so good at just really letting me do what I wanted to do. I mean not knowing all the technical stuff that he's saying, but I would say "I want this, Johnny," or "OK, we're going to do this, this, and this, and I give you that." So it wasn't like I could go in and say, "I want the 32 lens and I want the light moved over." That's his job, anyway. I felt very comfortable doing it because I'm very good—I think I'm very good—at looking at scripts and breaking them down and looking at, in my mind, "where are we?" In books, whenever we read, we have a movie in our head. That's why when so often, when you see a movie that you've read the book first you go, "Oh, the book was so much better!" Because I don't care how big your special effects are, they still can't match what we see in our brain when we're reading. So, I think I'm good at looking at something and breaking it down and saying "this is what I want." I'm directing a movie later this year and we're starting to break down the script for that. It's a wonderful technique but acting is still, to me, my biggest passion.
LM: Did you enter Hollywood as a Christian or did that come later?
KS: I've been a Christian my whole life. Now, I think I had my ups and downs but never had ups and downs with my belief. In my 20s I did a lot of stuff I'm not happy I did. But the belief was always there, the faith was always there.
LM: You have spoken before about the Hollywood backlash [at your beliefs], but I was curious if anyone working with you in the secular realm of the industry was open to learning more about your beliefs?
KS: It happens, mostly happens on the faith-based movies I shot, you know, from "Soul Surfer" and "God's Not Dead," and "What If. . ." and. . . "Abel's Field"—I love it, it's a modern day Cain and Abel. . .and I got a western coming up this year, a modern-day western called "Gallows Road." We talked on those sets. I've been on the other sets but I don't really turn preacher for anybody, but if the subject comes up I don't back down from it, I mean, I'm a Christian, you know? It's weird that you're better off being a radical Muslim in Hollywood than being a Christian. I mean, it's weird. I mean, it's a strange statement coming from my mouth, but I look at it and go, "They defend that faith, and they defend what those guys are doing, even though they would kill any of them in a heartbeat!" It's weird to me. I can't put my mind around why we're coddling a religion that deals with so much hate, so much anger, towards anybody else that's not a Muslim. It's weird. Are all Muslims bad? Of course not all Muslims are bad. But there's quite a few of them out there. They estimate over three-hundred and fifty million of out them out there, over a billion plus that are radical Muslims. I don't know where they get that number, but that's kind of scary, to think. . .that have that we have that many people that are ready to kill us. It's a strange place.
LM: Now, do you have any advice for any Christians aspiring to work in the film industry?
KS: [Laugh] Well, you know, why there would be a backlash for one thing, I don't get it. There are people in Hollywood that would speak openly about it, that have whatever problems they have against people that are Christians or conservative, but there are many that wouldn't but behind closed doors you could make a very interesting documentary, I think. . . .Unfortunately [acting] is like a drug, I love acting, I love being on the set, I love it, I'm very comfortable with being who I am as Kevin Sorbo, it's fun to me to make-believe and make a living at this stupid industry that's so childish in so many ways, but at the same time, you look at movies like "God's Not Dead," you look at "What If. . ." [and] there's a lot of wonderful things that come out of movies like that because it can still deliver great messages through movie and television. Unfortunately, I think Hollywood takes a wrong turn, does a lot of agenda-pushing that I think is negative for the country and detrimental to the country, but they don't seem to care. But you know, I'd like to tell anybody out there, stick to your beliefs but if you want to be an actor, be an actor. It's a long, tough road, you're going to get a lot of rejections—whether you're a Christian or not, you'll get a lot of rejections—and you just got to give it a good push and give it a good try. I tell people all the time I'm a 13-year-old overnight success, so, I gotta keep pluggin' along.
LM: Was there a particular film or show that is your favorite that you worked on?
KS: I would say "What If. . ." [It] was the first faith-based movie I really did about five years ago. It was with Dallas Jenkins [who] is Jerry Jenkins' son, he directed it. I just signed on to do the next two "Left Behind" movies, they did it with Nick Cage last year, I'm doing the next two this year. I'm very excited for that.
LM: As Rayford [Steel]?
KS: How many books are there, I mean, I dunno, didn't they do, like, fifteen books? I don't know what the set-up is, to be honest with, but I know I lead in the next two books, so if that's who the character is, that's who it is. They're writing it now, so I know nothing at this point, I don't know what they're going to do, because, you know, they switch around books all the time and change things. But I'm looking forward to it, so, we'll see what happens.
LM: Alright, last question: Why don't you tell us more about the upcoming films that you have this coming year and the next year.
KS: I got a movie called "Caged" that I shot last year in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That one deals with human trafficking. . . .We had Bobby Jindal, the Governor do a couple scenes in there, that's one of his causes, so he came on as himself. Another movie called "The Secret Handshake," shot in Nashville, it's a family comedy written by Howie Klausner also directed by Howie. . .[Howie's] biggest [movie] was probably "Space Cowboys" with Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones. . . ."The Gallows Road" is coming out, and then—I shot, like, six movies last year—I'm starting a western soon. I'm getting scruffy, we'll start shooting in about two weeks. That's called "Steel Renegades." I've got a drama I'm shooting called "Car Pooling" with Dean Cain—we got Superman and Hercules together in one movie. He was in "God's Not Dead" with me, but we didn't do a scene together. And then I've got two "Left Behind" movies, and then then I've got one I'm going to be directing and there's one in the Philippines I might be shooting, too. So, I'm staying busy. And I just sold a series, a faith-based series, to NBC. We're writing the script, doesn't mean we're going to shoot, but we did sell it, it's a good sign. You look at "Highway to Heaven," "7th Heaven," "Touched by an Angel," which had eight-to-ten-year runs. Nothing on TV's been like that for years, so it's time we put on a faith-based television series.
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For a relatively small country, Belgium has a history of refusing to be overlooked in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. For the second consecutive year, a Belgian has made it to the final table. This year, Kenny Hallaert hopes to be the one to bring the bracelet home to Brussels.
Throughout his career, the 34-year-old has amassed 22 WSOP cashes and over $1.3 million in tournament earnings – putting him ahead of most of the pack in big-money experiences. Prior to his November Nine run, his biggest cash came when he placed sixth at the European Poker Tour Deauville in 2011 for $210,962. He is fifth on Belgium's all-time money list.
Hallaert stands fourth in chip count, not a bad standing for a man who does more poker management than actual live playing. Back in his home country, he runs the Belgian Poker Challenge (BPC), a two-stop tour that visits the Grand Casino de Namur and Spa. He is also the tournament director for the Unibet Open Copenhagen.
Not one to relax during his three-month break, Hallaert bested a field of 4,531 players just last week when "FCBSpacey," his online persona, bagged $63,891 in partypoker's $500,000 guaranteed Online Grand Prix.
"Biggest online score since a long time tonight," he tweeted after his win.
And he has no plan to slow down.
"I know some players personally who have made the November Nine, and I will seek their advice," he said of his strategy. "I might contact some poker players I consider very good to see if they could help improve my game and look to see if I have any leaks. I want to work hard on my game to ensure I am prepared as possible and make as few mistakes as possible. … Winning it would make me very happy, but won't be disappointed if I finish ninth," Hallaert said.
The final table begins on Oct. 30.
Featured photo credit: Kenny Hallaert, Twitter.


Long-standing complaints that the 2011 MacBook Pro suffered from a manufacturing fault resulting in GPU glitches and failures don't appear to be going away, as an online petition calling for Apple to fix or replace affected machines reaches more than 18,000 signatures.
An Apple Support Communities thread on the issue has now reached over 9,000 posts across more than 600 pages even as Apple has been removing entries, and a Google search for 2011 MacBook Pro GPU brings up autocomplete suggestions for searches totalling over three million hits.
Owners of machines suffering from the problem have also been tweeting with the hashtag #MBP2011, and there are a number of websites devoted to the issue. Owners are reporting Apple repair costs of between $300 and $700, with diagnoses often pointing to failure of either the soldering or thermal paste on the AMD Radeon HD 6750M.
Apple did offer a free video card replacement on some mid-2011 iMacs exhibiting similar symptoms, though the cards in the MacBook Pro are different, and such recalls are rare. The most recent was in August, when Apple offered free battery replacements for some iPhone 5 phones.
We've asked Apple for comment but expectations are low obviously. These things usually take some class action lawsuits to elicit a response from Apple.


DGF - Dilworth Glyndon Felton Shooting Guard Katlyn Brenna led all scorers with 25 points as the Rebels beat Lake Park-Audubon Raiders 75-49 in a game at DGF.
Brenna's points came on 8 field goals, 1 three pointer and 6 of 9 free throws during the game.
Maria Schauer added 9. Lake Park Audubon fell to 0-2 overall while Dilworth Glyndon Felton improved their record to 8-5.
Lake Park Audubon's next game is scheduled to be played at home on Monday Feb. 11 at 4:00pm versus Park Christian.


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This Crucifix is very special by his baroque and floral composition.
Notice the movement of the robe, the grace of His pose (S-shaped as the Byzantine style), the golden rays around His head composing the Aureole. On the flag above his head is written INRI the acronym of Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rex Iūdaeōrum (Jesus from Nazareth, king of the jews).
The wood still smells like Church's incense.
Remember: You don't have to be Christian to appreciate beauty.
Western crucifixes may show Christ dead or alive, the presence of the spear wound in his ribs traditionally indicating that he is dead. In either case, his face very often shows his suffering. In Orthodoxy, he has normally been shown as dead since around the end of the period of Byzantine Iconoclasm. Eastern crucifixes have Jesus' two feet nailed side by side, rather than crossed one above the other, as Western crucifixes have shown them since around the 13th century.
The crown of thorns is also generally absent in Eastern crucifixes, since the emphasis is not on Christ's suffering, but on his triumph over sin and death. The "S"-shaped position of Jesus' body on the cross is a Byzantine innovation of the late 10th century, though also found in the German Gero Cross of the same date. Probably more from Byzantine influence, it spread elsewhere in the West, especially to Italy, by the Romanesque period, though it was more usual in painting than sculpted crucifixes. It's in Italy that the emphasis was put on Jesus' suffering and realistic details, during a process of general humanization of Christ favored by the Franciscan order. During the 13th century, the suffering Italian model (Christus patiens) triumphed over the traditional Byzantine one (Christus gloriosus) anywhere in Europe also due to the works of artists such as Giunta Pisano and Cimabue. Since the Renaissance, the "S"-shape is much less pronounced. Eastern Christian blessing crosses will often have the Crucifixion depicted on one side, and the Resurrection on the other, illustrating the understanding of Orthodox theology that the Crucifixion and Resurrection are two intimately related aspects of the same act of salvation.


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package dcraft.bus;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;

import dcraft.hub.Hub;
import dcraft.lang.op.OperationResult;

// a possible enhancement is to always prefer a local hub if present
public class ServiceRouter {
	protected String name;

	protected final ConcurrentHashMap<String, HubRouter> hubs = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

    // used for round robin load balancing
	protected HubRouter localhub = null;
	protected final List<HubRouter> directhublist = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
	protected final List<HubRouter> tunnelhublist = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
	protected int next = 0;

	protected ReentrantLock lock = new ReentrantLock();

	public ServiceRouter(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public OperationResult sendMessage(Message msg) {
    	String to = msg.getFieldAsString("ToHub");

    	if ("*".equals(to))
    		to = null;

    	// repeat until one of the hubs accepts, it could be that one hub is disconnecting and returns
    	// "false" on the send!!
    	OperationResult or = null;

    	for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
	    	HubRouter hub = (to != null) ? this.hubs.get(to) : this.nextHub();

			if (hub != null) {
				or = hub.deliverMessage(msg);

				// if sent then jump out of loop
				if (!or.hasErrors() || Hub.instance.isStopping())
					break;
			}

			// wait for stuff to clear up (if connects/disconnects are in progress)
			try {
				Thread.sleep(1000);
			}
			catch (InterruptedException x) {
			}
    	}

		if (or == null) {
			or = new OperationResult();
			or.error(1, "No hub available");  	// TODO code
		}

		return or;
    }

	public boolean isAvailable() {
    	for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
	    	HubRouter hub = this.nextHub();

			if ((hub != null) && hub.isActive())
				return true;

			// wait for stuff to clear up (if connects/disconnects are in progress)
			try {
				Thread.sleep(1000);
			}
			catch (InterruptedException x) {
			}
    	}

		return false;
    }

	// there is room for improvement here - this approach assumes that direct/local connections a preferred
	// and that tunnel connections will never be more than 2 layers as in talking between 101 and 201
	// where 111 and 211 are tunnels for the two targets - anything more complex than this would require
	// a better algorithm
	// |---------|---------|------------|---------|---------|
	// | LAN 101 | DMZ 111 | [internet] | DMZ 211 | DMZ 201 |
	// |---------|---------|------------|---------|---------|
	public HubRouter nextHub() {
		this.lock.lock();

		try {
			// try local connections first
			if (this.localhub != null)
				return this.localhub;

			// try direct connections second
			int subcount = this.directhublist.size();

			// prefer a direct hub over a proxy hub
			if (subcount > 0) {
				if (this.next >= subcount)
					this.next = 0;

				HubRouter np = this.directhublist.get(this.next);

				//System.out.println("Choosing between: " + subcount + " hubs picked: " + np.getName());

				this.next++;
				return np;
			}

			// try tunnel connections third
			subcount = this.tunnelhublist.size();

			// prefer a direct hub over a proxy hub
			if (subcount > 0) {
				if (this.next >= subcount)
					this.next = 0;

				HubRouter np = this.tunnelhublist.get(this.next);

				//System.out.println("Choosing between: " + subcount + " hubs picked: " + np.getName());

				this.next++;
				return np;
			}

			return null;
		}
		finally {
			this.lock.unlock();
		}
	}

    public void index(HubRouter hub) {
		this.lock.lock();

		try {
			boolean relevant = hub.isActive() && hub.getServices().contains(this.name);
			boolean current = this.directhublist.contains(hub);

			if (relevant == current)
				return;

			if (relevant) {
				this.hubs.put(hub.getHubId(), hub);

				if (hub.isLocal())
					this.localhub = hub;
				else if (hub.isDirect())
					this.directhublist.add(hub);
				else if (hub.isTunneled())
					this.tunnelhublist.add(hub);
			}
			else {
				this.hubs.remove(hub.getHubId());

				if (hub.isLocal()) {
					this.localhub = null;
				}
				else {
					this.directhublist.remove(hub);
					this.tunnelhublist.remove(hub);
				}
			}
		}
		finally {
			this.lock.unlock();
		}
    }

    public void indexLocal() {
		this.lock.lock();

		try {
			HubRouter hub = Hub.instance.getBus().getLocalHub();

			this.hubs.put(hub.getHubId(), hub);
			this.localhub = hub;
		}
		finally {
			this.lock.unlock();
		}
    }

    public void remove(HubRouter hub) {
		this.lock.lock();

		try {
			this.hubs.remove(hub.getHubId());

			if (hub.isLocal()) {
				this.localhub = null;
			}
			else {
				this.directhublist.remove(hub);
				this.tunnelhublist.remove(hub);
			}
		}
		finally {
			this.lock.unlock();
		}
    }

    public Collection<HubRouter> hubList() {
    	return this.hubs.values();
    }
}

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The other nomination is that of Indian American of Sikh origin Snatam Kaur, in the 'Best New Age Album' category for her album Beloved.
Singer Falguni Shah, or Falu as she is popularly known.
Living her dream and making the entire country proud, Falguni Shah is one of the only two Indian-born nominees at the 61st Grammy Awards to be held on February 10, 2019. Falguni, or Falu as she is popularly known, is a New York-based singer and lyricist whose album Falu's Bazaar has been nominated in the Best Children's Music category. The other nomination is that of Indian American of Sikh origin Snatam Kaur, in the 'Best New Age Album' category for her album Beloved.
Even after she got married and moved to New York from Mumbai, Falu's passion for music didn't stop. However, while she was dedicated to her craft, Falu's journey was not all rosy.
"Not much was known about India or Indian music in the US, so yes, it was hard. But I can also say that there is a big appetite for diversity and certainly musicians from India have contributed a lot.
Falu has also had the opportunity to collaborate with the likes of American composer Philip Glass, Wyclef Jean, Ricky Martin, Blues Traveler and Yo Yo Ma. In fact, she even shared the stage with one of India's most reputed musicians, A.R. Rahman. "He is a beautiful human being and an extraordinary composer. A man of few words but he says so much through his music," Falu shares talking about the music maestro.
Meanwhile, Falu has already started working on her next project, which is inspired from Urdu poetry by Mirza Ghalib and other ghazal/Sufi masters. "This album will present the poetry in a way that speaks to a 21st century global audience," Falu concludes.


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Karen Katchur is an award winning suspense novelist with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and a master s degree in Education She lives in Eastern Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.
Suspense that squeezes the heart!Karen Katchur's second novel is superb! Excellent writing that kept me on the edge of the cliff throughout the story of tragedy and secrets. The secrets that separates Linnet and Myna are heart wrenching but were made while young in attempt to keep their family together as they watched their mother's decline into the dark reaches of depression.
Katchur excels at making setting a character and the B&B and the town of Mountain Springs was both creepy and insular. The relationship between the sisters is what really drives this character-driven mystery: what happened in their past to split them apart? There is a current and a past mystery and they're woven together seamlessly.
This book was just what I needed yesterday -- an easy, fast-paced, escape from the doldrums. The story line was detailed and fairly complex, but I could not give it more than 2 stars because the characters were wooden and the grammar errors were unacceptable and distracting: sentence fragments and misuse of commas, and also incorrect usage of "longtime" when what the context intended was "long time." If the author can't catch these things, where are the editors and proofreaders???
Really great read!! Set in the Eastern Pennsylvania mountains, it tells the story of Linnet and Myna, sisters who are alienated because of a family secret. The characters in this book are appealing and very relatable. This story could very well be written about any family in America, in any venue. That is what I think makes this suspenseful, page turner an excellent book!! I took this on vacation, and it was an extremely enjoyable beach read!!! 5+ stars for The Sisters of Blue Mountain!!
I got as far as the description of Pop, a 73-year old whose mind isn't what it used to be. As a nearly 70-year old, I reject gratuitous ageism wherever I see it. So this book goes back to the library tomorrow. And the author may want to explore facts and attitudes about people older than she is. Seventy-three is not elderly today.
I won this book from and I really enjoyed it. I loved the storylines and how it all tied in together. I think it was well written and an easy read. I do recommend it. This is the first book I read by this author and now I will read more of her stuff after reading this.