Polruan is a short ferry ride away from Fowey and offers fabulous walks, walking passed Lansallos to Polperro along the South West Coastal Path (SWC Path) walking route. If you want a walking route that is extremely simple to navigate and lets you just clear your mind and refresh your senses then this walk is perfect.
Walking shorts back on as I walk another section of the SWC Path with my The North Face windproof walking jacket on and warmer walking layers packed in to my rucksack just in case it got too rainy and cold and safely strapped up in my walking boots.
From leaving the ferry I turned right to climb the steep road up to join the SWC Path passing the school and on to the monument by Washing Rocks to look back at Fowey and St. Catherine's Castle before turning to see the pathway ahead. My heart full of joy at the stunning coastline I set off in earnest to walk across a common where a large group of ramblers passed me as I then entered the solitude of this walking route.
Now it was just a case of following the natural track of the SWC Path making sure that every step was savoured breathing in the clean crisp air and embracing the gusty sea breeze. So, on I walked until I reached Blackbottle Rock and then in to Lantic Bay passing Great Lantic Beach and Little Lantic beach climbing slightly up to Pencarrow Head where I then had a clear view of the walk ahead and with Polperro just tucked around the corner and out of sight for the time being.
From Watch House Cove and Palace Cove I then passed Sandheap Point to then pass Parson's Cove and then along Lansallos Cliff to Broad Cove and Shag Rock passing West Penslake Cove and Penslake Cove before being slightly disappointed that there was no East Penslake Cove as I then reached Blackybale Point. I then continued along the SWC Path to reach Colors Cove and then on to Nealand Point passing the Larrick out to sea before a good chunk of the walk then took me to The Bridges and Chapel Cliff along round and down in to Polperro.
Here I entered the village and had a good explore around all of the alleys to then head north and up along the main street to turn left at the main junction before the large car park and find the bus stop to take me through to Looe after a good 8 miles and 3 hours.


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He, who eats alone, dies alone
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About Eritrea - Art & Sport
Man is a social animal, says Aristotle. It means that man is created to congregate with his likes, during hunting or in great assemblies. But strangely enough, the philosophers who made similar statements in the past preferred to live alone, away from the society they tried to change. Far from the madding crowd.
Man or humankind is a gregarious animal. In this he is like the monkeys and the wolves. But there are people who live like the leopard. They hunt alone and hide their kill. They want to be left alone and eat the fruits of their labor away from the evil glances of men. They are suspicious of their own species and consider the world as an enemy bent on destroying them.
"He who eats alone, dies alone," says a Tigrigna proverb. If you don't try to share your food and your pleasure with your friends and relatives while still alive, don't expect people to come to your funeral when you are gone. Among the few that might come are certainly those who want to make sure you have breathed your last.
In the beginning when man used the cave for cover, everybody was for himself and nature provided for all. Gradually, the lucrative profession of hunting created ties between beastly tribes who did not take time to barter their kills.
The rudiments of business flourished to give place to intertribal and cross-border trade. This, in turn, contributed to social intercourse, intermarriage and the emergence of village-level social life.
During all this time, the culture of sharing kept the society intact. Neither war nor drought nor the ravages of natural cataclysm could destroy the social fabric that held the villages together.
Extended families played important roles in the production of mentally and physically healthy children. Psychiatry had to wait millennia to gain popularity.
Then along came capitalism with its institutionalized greed. Every man for himself and God for us all.
Those who couldn't make it were marginalized. If God couldn't help them then there certainly was something wrong with them. What was it that made them to be left behind in the race for riches and fame? What m a d e them solicit in the name of God the riches that men possess?
In an age when poverty was a curse, the poor families of the 19th century England and France had to send their children to slave in the monstrous industries that sprouted all over the countryside. With the meager salary they got at the end of a humiliating day, most turned to stealing, murder and prostitution. Prisons were constructed as a judicious response. When these became crowded, sailing ships took the scum of the Earth to overseas colonies, there to breed or to perish. Good riddance, sighed the capitalist smoking their pipes in their countryside mansions.
The colonies were, however, inhabited by people who liked to share. Unfortunately, they met people who considered sharing too primitive and even associated it with stealing.
In the traditional Eritrean culture, when a guest comes to your house you try to share everything you have with him. Hotels are European inventions. In the past, wayfarers in this country simply dropped by and spent a day or two with the unknown host. Unbidden guests were welcome not, as the Bard put it, when they left, but the moment they arrived.
Take our N'gdet, for example. That's the time to really appreciate the culture of sharing. You simply w a l k into an open door and take your seat. A lady comes and hands you a goblet and fills it with suwa. Another lady comes along with something to eat. You look around. All are strangers. Yes, strangers in paradise. Everybody is happy. The minstrel starts to sing. When the wine is in, the wit is out. And so everybody throws inhibition out the window and starts to dance.
In Eritrea, the culture of sharing includes the world of the spirit as well. The old maid who is a bit melancholic, sips her coffee alone in the dark corners of her tiny room, puts more cups of coffee than is necessary. The empty cups are meant for the good fairies.
Besides, it is in our custom to grace the place with leftovers after eating lunch or dinner. Again, extraterrestrial eyes are watching to partake of the food. But sometimes the 'hidden' eyes turn to be those of the starving children who have been waiting for the lion like father and breadwinner of the family to fill his belly first.
During the 30-year armed struggle, the Eritrean freedom fighters shared everything they had including their lives. When drought hit the country in the 1970s, the fighters preferred their starving civilian brothers before themselves and gave little they had to save the lives of those for whose sake they were fighting in the first place.
It is, however, sad to observe that the town dwellers are gradually subscribing to that capitalistic philosophy of everybody for himself and God for us all.
During the Derg time when city dwellers mostly from Asmara had to migrate to the countryside following heavy fighting compounded by atrocities committed by Derg killing squads in the towns, the villagers who received the new refugees from the town did not like them at first. They couldn't forget the fact that earlier on when they went to visit their relatives in the towns, the treatment they received smacked of capitalism with all its attendant individualism and self-interest. The culture of sharing was lost in the city dweller and now he wanted to find it in the country dweller. The result was misunderstanding and a lot of misgiving.
We town dwellers still find it difficult to share our food and our house with relatives or strangers (completely out of the question now). The problem is that whether we like it or not our economic life had been greatly changed due to the new style of living that we adopted as we joined the capitalist world.
It is something that we are unable to alter without jeopardizing our social and economic stand. About 70 years ago, Asmarinos used to share their food and life with friends and foes alike. Now, everything has changed. The same thing will also happen to the villages in the not too distant future.
The point is to try and preserve the good culture whatever the cost. It kept us intact in the past, and it will keep us united in the future.

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Q: Coordinate transformations I have two scalar functions of $x$ and $y$ that I can define:
$$f(x,y)=x^2+y^2\qquad
\text{and}\qquad
g(x,y)=x^2 + \sin^2(x) y^2.$$
Is it true that there is literally no coordinate change that will take one to the other?

A: FWIW, note that $$\mathrm{d}f\wedge\mathrm{d}g ~=~ h(x,y)\mathrm{d}x\wedge\mathrm{d}y,$$ where $$h(x,y)~:=~ 2y\{2x(\sin^2(x)-1)-y^2\sin(2x) \} ~=~ -4y\cos(x)\{x \cos(x)+y^2\sin(x) \}.$$ The pair $(f,g)$ are by definition functionally independent within the set $$\Omega~:=~\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2| h(x,y)\neq 0\}.$$ By the inverse function theorem the pair $(f,g)$ constitutes local coordinates in sufficiently small neighborhoods of $\Omega$.

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Q: How to initialize a static field as an object of the same class in Java? I have a simple nested class A. (In C I would use a struct.) I want to provide a default object A.DEFAULT of class A without having to call the constructor each time. So my idea was this:
class MyApplication {
   class A {
        int x;
        double y;
        public static final A DEFAULT = new A(0, 0.0);

        public A(int x, double y) {
            this.x = x;
            this.y = y;
        }
    }
    …

Obviously, this does not work, because the constructor cannot be called before the class has been loaded.
How to handle this?
How does e. g. java.awt.Color.RED handle this?

A: This has nothing to do with constructor calls, you've just made a couple of simple mistakes.
You haven't specified a type for DEFAULT:
public static final A DEFAULT

You cannot instantiate an A without an instance of MyApplication, as A is an inner class:
new MyApplication().new A(0, 0.0);

However you probably didn't intend to make A an inner class, so I would mark it as static. Without any extra context, it seems as if A has no relation to MyApplication so shouldn't depend on it.

Note: In Java 15 and below, static declarations weren't even allowed in inner classes (as pointed out by @Johannes Kuhn).

A: Apart from the obvious problem that you missed a type (A) on the definition of DEFAULT...
The problem isn't that "the class has [not] been loaded". The problem is that, in Java, every instance of an inner class implicitly has a reference to the instance of the outer class that created it. Since there is no instance of the outer class when initializing the static field, you get an error:
MyApplication.java:5: error: non-static variable this cannot be referenced from a static context
        public static final A DEFAULT = new A(0, 0.0);
                                        ^

And in all but the most recent Java versions, even declaring a static field inside a non-static inner class is illegal, no matter what value you give it:
MyApplication.java:5: error: Illegal static declaration in inner class MyApplication.A
        public static final A DEFAULT = new A(0, 0.0);
                              ^
  modifier 'static' is only allowed in constant variable declarations

The solution is to make the inner class not have a reference to the outer class, which you do by declaring A as static:
class MyApplication {
    static class A {
    ^^^^^^


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The internationally renowned Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, one of the world's top universities, has just established an 'overseas hub' in New York City, mere blocks away from Pace's NYC Campus. Their NYC center will facilitate faculty hiring, increase internship opportunities and jobs for students, expand networks between other universities and companies, and contribute in other ways.
The new center at Williams Street was inaugurated by Director of IIT Kanpur, Prof. Indraneel Manna and the Deans Prof. Prabhat Munshi and Prof. Manindra Aggarwal.
Seidenberg's Dean, Amar Gupta, and other senior representatives of Pace University had multiple meetings with the visiting delegation from IITK this week to discuss various avenues for close collaboration between the two universities. This will provide an additional avenue for students and faculty to exchange ideas and foster innovation in different aspects of computer science and information technology.


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Can America's Urban Food Deserts Bloom?
By Steven Gray / Chicago Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Inside the supermarket, uniformed workers are stacking pineapples into neat rows across from bundles of fresh mustard greens, tamarind pods and nopalitos — sliced cactus ears common in Mexican dishes. In much of the country, Farmers Best Market would not be an extraordinary sight. But here on 47th Street, a gritty stretch of Chicago's South Side flush with Golden Arches and purveyors of Colt 45 Malt Liquor, the store is an oasis. It's also raising an intriguing proposition: Can an inner-city supermarket profitably specialize in fresh produce and meats — and, ultimately, be a model solution to urban America's health crisis?
For years, major supermarket chains have been criticized for abandoning densely populated, largely black and Latino communities in cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis and Newark, N.J. — contributing to what many experts call food deserts. Many of these communities are, quite literally, starving for broader and healthier food options beyond the seemingly ubiquitous fast-food chains and corner stores selling barely a handful of fruits and vegetables — at relatively high prices. (Watch TIME's video "Urban Deserts: Fresh Food-Free.")
Simply put, people eat what is convenient and affordable — and if it's fat-heavy fast food, that's what they'll chow down on. The prevalence of obesity among American youth overall increased to 16.3% in 2006, from 5% in 1980, but some 28% of non-Hispanic black females between ages 12 and 19 are obese, as are about 20% of Mexican-American females (the statistic for non-Hispanic white females in the same age group is 14.5%). In congressional testimony earlier this year, a top official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified food deserts as a cause of these grim statistics.
Experts have declared roughly half of Detroit (pop. 916,000) a food desert and estimate that nearly 633,000 of Chicago's 3 million residents live in neighborhoods either lacking or far away from conventional supermarkets like Jewel, Pathmark and Winn-Dixie. The paucity of affordable, healthy food options in urban communities is ironic in a country with an abundance of food. "Everyone deserves to eat," says Mari Gallagher, president of the National Center for Public Research, a Chicago group that studies urban issues. The crisis, she adds, "really is a matter of life and death." (See pictures of what the world eats.)
Karriem Beyah, 47, is out to change all that with Farmers Best Market. He grew up on Chicago's South Side and worked in his godfather's neighborhood grocery store. So it isn't surprising that he embarked on a career chopping raw meat, loading food trucks and, eventually, managing a dairy distributor's operations. As he built his personal savings and a base of industry contacts, he noticed the growth of stores like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods in Chicago and its suburbs. "This should be on the South Side," he recalls thinking. But, he says, when he approached industry colleagues with the idea of opening such a store, they reacted by saying, "Who wants to go over there, in that negative element?"
Nevertheless, about four years ago, he began scoping out properties, just as research began to emerge identifying vast sections of Chicago — particularly its black neighborhoods — as a food desert. But the initial idea of opening a store in a black neighborhood was dashed. "I'd have to have a higher class of African Americans, that recognize the value of fruits and vegetables," he recalls thinking. Real estate was too expensive in neighborhoods like Bronzeville and Hyde Park, which boast high concentrations of black professionals. At the same time, he observed that many Latinos tend to have large families and buy fresh fruits and vegetables more frequently than blacks and the general population. So he settled on a vast, 35,000-sq.-ft. building that had been abandoned by a national supermarket chain about 15 years ago. It's in a largely Mexican-American neighborhood known as Back of the Yards. Just to the east lie Bronzeville and Hyde Park. (See 10 things to do in Chicago.)
The store, which opened last July, is airy and well lit. The produce section is stocked with fresh mustard greens, popular among blacks with roots in the Deep South. There's also elephant-ear-size fried pork skins, a Mexican-American favorite. The neighborhood has few bakeries, so Farmers Best sells cakes and loaves of bread. Produce, meat and dairy products account for roughly 62% of Farmers Best's sales. Slowly, it is attracting customers like Vera Johnson, a restaurant cashier who lives nearby.
One recent afternoon, Johnson, a 29-year-old African American, led her two daughters through the produce section. She tossed a pineapple and bags of apples into the shopping cart. "See, these are all real fresh," she says, pointing to a bag of blueberries. "You put these on little short cakes, with whipped cream," she continues, explaining the night's dessert, "and they love it." Johnson is now a Farmers Best regular and eschews nearby grocers that, she says, are often overcrowded and dirty and where "the oranges have brown spots."
Experts across the country are exploring a range of potential solutions to the urban health crisis, including creating neighborhood gardens and courting chains like Aldi, Family Dollar and even Wal-Mart to fill the void created by food deserts. But the supermarket industry suffers from especially tight profit margins and is thus particularly risk-averse, so supermarkets' entry into low-income neighborhoods has been slow. Furthermore, many low-end chains are hardly bastions of fresh, healthy produce and meat. (Read a story about Aldi, a grocer for the recession.)
So far, in 10 months of operation, Farmers Best has failed to turn a profit. Beyah attributes that partly to slowed consumer spending amid the recession, as well as a need to grow awareness about his venture. He is running ads on black radio stations, hoping to lure affluent blacks, who are likely to shop more frequently and not just at the top of the month, which is when customers who rely on government assistance to buy food receive their aid. Meanwhile, he regularly invites local students into the store. "We're trying to teach the children how to eat properly," he says. Despite such tactics, Beyah regards himself as a pure businessman, not an activist. He's also an optimist — and hopes to open at least five stores in the coming years. "I will survive," he declares.
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We came back to the segment and went to the Hotline to speak to Ian Henson representing the Orange Page from Mile High Report. Ryan wanted to get pick Ian Henson mind behind the Broncos offense-related storylines so far these OTAs. Henson shared his thoughts on the Depths and competition from the WR and RB. Whose staying and who's going before we get to the end training camp. Ryan asked Ian about recent signing Case Keenum. Henson thinks the getting Case was the smartest move the Denver could have done this off-season. The Broncos won't be in the situation as they were in last football season. The last question Ryan asked Ian from Mile High Report was about Matt Ryan. Is Matt Ryan a top ten quarterback and is worth the money?


I know what you're thinking – why would you visit Hong Kong and eat burgers? It's a city filled with delicious Chinese food and you're eating burgers?! While I'm generally a tourist who "eats locally"; after a week, even with all the tasty Chinese options, I start to crave something different. That's when I turned to Openrice (the Yelp and Zomato of Hong Kong) to see what international restaurants the locals are visiting. One of their top choice seems to be Burgeroom, which specializes in gourmet burgers.
The restaurant lies on a small street called Food Avenue, running parallel to Paterson, which is filled with restaurants – a safe bet if you're unable to get a table at the no reservations Burgeroom. As a fast-casual type eatery, you review the menu tableside then head to the cashier to order and pay, where they'll give you a number to place at the table.
If you love cheese, there's the mega cheese burger ($105), which tops a beef patty with 80g of fondue-style melted cheddar. Eat it quickly, as the cheese hardens fast. Additionally, it can get messy – you'd expect this from the molten cheese, but also because of poor layering skills: the kitchen places the lettuce and tomato on the bottom (traditionally placed on top of the patty), causing everything to slide around. The burger could also benefit from onions (to add a bit of crunchy texture) and the tomato should have the hard stem cut out. Toppings aside, at least the beef patty was juicy and the bun fluffy and soft.
The batter used to deep fry the soft-shell crab burger ($108) sorely needed more seasoning and was applied too thick, rendering the crab tasteless. Sure, there was tartar sauce on the bun, but this was way too sweet and tasted more like Miracle Whip than real tartar sauce. While the lettuce goes well with the crustacean, I'm not sure if the tomato was the best choice – again something like onion or pickles would have given the burger more texture. Thankfully, the soft-shell crab was not overdone, was relatively fresh, and a sizeable portion.
Perhaps the best part of the meal was the twister fries ($28) – hot from the fryer so it was immensely crispy. Moreover, the basket was generous and definitely large enough for sharing. If only the cheddar on the mega burger was still molten it'd be a great dip for the fries - believe me, I tried.
For a place that has won a lot of accolades, the awards are likely for the menu's opulence and wide range of toppings. After all, where else do you find burgers topped with a king prawn omelette, Hiroshima oyster, or scallop? There's even the option to add foie gras or double foie gras to any burger. The novelty ingredients are great, but Burgeroom needs to focus on the basics as well – making sure there's ingredients that complement the protein and everything's layered correctly. Perhaps that's a lesson: don't go to Hong Kong to eat burgers.


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Sports tournaments like Women's Cricket World Cup had a trickle down effect on tourism in England, according to a survey.
The survey, conducted by online accommodation booking website Hotels.com, said hotel searches for England by Indian travellers rose by 16 per cent during the Women's Cricket World Cup period during the months of June and July this year as compared to the same period in 2016, read a statement.
Similarly, hotel searches in London by Indian travellers saw an increase of 23 per cent for the duration of the Wimbledon tournament in 2017.
The data is based on searches made on Hotels.com India from June to July, 2017, compared to the exact same dates in 2016.


Meeptron the Bio-Destruction Bot looked out at the wasteland that once was Peoria and thought that his work had actually made it look nicer. Of course, he was programmed that way, so he couldn't really help it. He thought about that little Red Juggernaut he'd met on Robo-Leave that summer. Gloria.
Yes, sweet Gloria. She was the kind of destructive cybernetic entity that he could see himself settling down with, and perhaps starting a family Bio-Destruction Juggernauts of their own. Of course, they'd have to build the manufactory themselves, because his boss sure wouldn't help.
And he'd probably have to give up his dream of becoming lead dancer at the Voltron Mega-Kill Ballet. Meeptron sighed, powered up his plasma-death-beam array, and vaporized the puny humans which had survived his initial onslaught.
Alltop is not populated by puny humans either. Thanks to Alan Trotter for the pic. Originally published March, 2009, and now it's part of the Pirate Therapy and Other Cures collection.
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This is a two-day, one-night campout near the Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise on Mount Rainier. We snowshoe with backpacks about a quarter mile up the Dead Horse Creek Trail to the location we call our campsite. We dig snow caves into the snow slope and stay in them overnight. We will meet at the L at 8:00 on Saturday morning and return on Sunday in the mid afternoon.
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An all too common sight in my pantry. Patrick and Matthew have learned how to open the pantry door, and because they both seem to be hungry all the time, they are forever getting into the pantry making a mess. And then tracking food all over the house. I may have to get some sort of padlock!
For the summer, my 19 year old has moved back home and is staying in the guest room/school room. Well, it's a good thing we are not doing school right now. His room is pretty bad. Not to discourage anyone who is a mom of boys, but the messiness factor doesn't seem to improve with age.......at least not mine anyway. Hopefully it will when they get married. Please share any tips!
people and a lot of children make big messes. You can't have children around and have things clean, in order and in good repair for very long. While the words "disorder" or "mess" seem undesireable, within anything of beauty there remains an element of chaos (think nature). I'm learning (with difficulty) that when I look at a dirty kitchen or a messy garage, I'm looking at lives being lived, in all it's chaos with people I love."
Thanks for posting real life!!
Ha-ha...It does improve when they get married, because their virtuous wife keeps things tidy! I love the way your husband put it. We've said that around here many times over the years. Not that I never broke down and cried over continual the messes.
Oh how I can relate. My mom is here right now and is cleaning for me - such a lovely thing. I now have time to play that game and get school work organized. Enjoy all those blessings!!
Love this post! and that quote from your husband is just perfect, he says it just right. We have 3 kids now (one pre-teen) and the next time I'm about to flip my lid over a messy kitchen and random things through out the house, I am going to think about how they are living their lives and that this is chaos of love.:) Thank you for this post.
I was wondering (since you have a lot of experience) how you get your babies to sleep through the night. I think I read that you are not one to let them cry it out. I do not want to do that. Any tips? thanks!
Yeah, I don't believe in letting babies "cry it out", at least not little ones. By the time they are about 9 months old and if I know they are tired, full and not sick, then I will let them cry for 15 min or so and they usually fall asleep. I don't really push my kids to sleep through the night until they are weaned (around 15-18 months) and then it just seems to happen naturally. Maybe they cry one night for a bit, but usually that's all. I don't mind getting up once in the night to nurse them before that. Maybe I'm strange that way, but I love the quiet time with them and the preciousness of it. Most people are up once at night going to the bathroom anyway : ) I just nurse them for about 10 minutes, keeping everything dark and quiet, put them back in their bed and we all go back to sleep. If they are waking-up more then once a night by the time they are 4-5 months old, then I would make sure nothing is bothering them and that they are getting enough calories during the day. Hope this helps.......blessings!
Ha ha, your husband is right.
So I wish you good luck, keeping your head up in this 'mess'. You'll survive.
I do too, every school holiday, year in and year out.
I think the kids and my husband like the mess.
It seems not to bother them, it probably makes them feel more at home.
I have a black or white personality so learning to find peace in the mess of kids has been a challenge, but I'm learning. When I was first married and had a couple kids, I was able to have everything in it's place and my perfect little living space was wonderful. Then we had more kids, and more kids, and more kids...haha With each child came more mess and I was not able to keep up on house work, schooling them, and keeping myself sane. I often find myself scanning a room, taking a deep breath and reminding myself it doesn't have to get pick up this very moment. I know if there wasn't a mess around I would be sad as that would mean my kids are not living and enjoying life. I'll take the mess over unhappy kids or no kids at all. We are very blessed! Wonderful post!
I can SO relate to this post. It is SO true that the more kids you have, the more messes there are around the house. But the more blessings as well. And I also am beginning to look at these messes and cherish them because I can see the the beauty of life in them.
One thing that helps our family when we are on a regular schedule is having a time everyday for picking up. It gives me more peace too. I have every child clean their room at this time with each other, and then I assign them each an area of the house that they are in charge of picking up and putting back into order. I usually pair a little one with an older child to do this together. And then once a week, we do the really deep cleaning and try to touch it up during the week at this chore time. When this gets done daily, and I remain on a good schedule with this, it is really helpful!! And each area of the house remains in order. I also like to put this time in the later afternoon instead of the morning so that I do not have to worry about the kids making new messes during the day.
I agree with Elizabeth, "I'll take the mess over unhappy kids or no kids at all." Kids are certainly a blessing.


Turin is the first historical capital of Italy, which is still kept all the monumental and elegant style of Savoy imprinted for centuries. Here you meet the broad avenues, magnificent palaces and squares of a certain style and the river Po, crossing the city, which creates a romantic atmosphere that makes it look like a little Paris. Turin actually has the unique style that really need to explore with the calm, almost tasting it like a gourmet dessert Gianduiotto. Visiting the huge Square of Castello, you can admire the magnificent Royal Palace and the beautiful Palazzo Madama, with incomparable Baroque facade.
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package com.headstartech.scheelite.diagram.plantuml;

import com.headstartech.scheelite.StateMachineConfiguration;
import com.headstartech.scheelite.diagram.DefaultDiagramLabelProducer;
import com.headstartech.scheelite.diagram.DiagramLabelProducer;
import com.headstartech.scheelite.diagram.StateTreeTraverser;
import com.headstartech.scheelite.diagram.StateTreeVisitor;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

/**
 * Writes a PlantUML state diagram description given a {@linkplain com.headstartech.scheelite.StateMachineConfiguration}.
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public class PlantUMLStateDiagramWriter {

    public <T, U> void writeDiagram(StateMachineConfiguration<T, U> configuration, PrintWriter writer) {
        writeDiagram(configuration, writer, new DefaultDiagramLabelProducer());
    }

    public <T, U> void writeDiagram(StateMachineConfiguration<T, U> configuration, PrintWriter writer, DiagramLabelProducer labelProducer) {
        StateTreeTraverser<T, U> treeTraverser = new StateTreeTraverser<T, U>(configuration);
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List of MP elected during the Sammarinese election of 1926.

List
Members by right as Captain Regents

1. H.E. Gozi Giuliano fu Gemino

2. H.E. Morri Ruggero fu Luigi

Members elected

3. Angeli Gino fu Giuseppe

4. Balducci Ezio di Nullo

5. Balducci Giuseppe fu Ezio

6. Barbieri Argio di Pietro

7. Belloni Protogene di Gaetano

8. Belluzzi Giuliano fu Lodovico

9. Braschi Arrigo fu Guido

10. Burgagni Nelson fu Antonio

11. Busignani Aldo di Vincenzo

12. Ceccoli Gino di Marino

13. Fattori Francesco di Luigi

14. Fattori Marino fu Federico

15. Filippi Melchiorre fu Pietro

16. Foschi Turiddu di Romualdo

17. Franchini Tassini Pier Giovanni fu Cesare

18. Gattei Donato di Matteo

19. Gozi Federico di Marino

20. Gozi Gino fu Gemino

21. Gozi Girolamo fu Gemino

22. Gozi Manlio fu Gemino

23. Grossi Gelasio di Agostino

24. Lonfernini Marino fu Sante

25. Manzoni Borghesi Angelo fu Bartolomeo

26. Marcucci Marco di Giacomo

27. Marcucci Vincenzo fu Marino

28. Michetti Mario fu Raffaele

29. Morri Francesco fu Luigi

30. Morri Marino fu Luigi

31. Mularoni Filippo fu Secondo

32. Mularoni Francesco fu Primiano

33. Mularoni Giuseppe di Marino

34. Mularoni Luigi fu Secondo

35. Nicolini Antonio fu Roberto

36. Pasquali Francesco fu Filippo

37. Pasquali Valerio fu Filippo

38. Reffi Rufo fu Francesco

39. Rossi Marino fu Silvestro

40. Santolini Francesco di Gregorio

41. Suzzi Valli Domenico di Battista

42. Valentini Luigi di Davide

43. Valentini Sanzio di Filippo

44. Valli Domenico di Marino

45. Zani Lorenzo di Oreste

46. Fattori Onofrio fu Marino

47. Francini Alberto fu Pietro

48. Morri Moro fu Vincenzo

49. Morri Egisto fu Andrea

50. Balsimelli Carlo fu Marino

51. Reffi Eugenio di Leone

52. Michelotti Simone fu Marino

53. Della Balda Marino fu Antonio

54. Michelotti Virgilio fu Marino

55. Della Balda Filippo fu Antonio

56. Righi Giuseppe fu Michele

57. Arzilli Giuseppe di Aldo

58. Lanci Giuseppe fu Alberico

59. Terenzi Lazzaro fu Lorenzo

60. Ciavatta Giovanni fu Elia

Sources
 Republic of San Marino Web Site (Italian)

Politics of San Marino

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Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research
Home > Journals and Magazines > Journals > JAAER > Vol. 2 > No. 3 (1992)
Compliance and Enforcement: Aviation Safety in the Public Sector Part III: An Alternate Enforcement Program
Laurence E. Gesell Ph.D.Follow
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This is the final article of a three part series looking at sanctions imposed upon airmen for non-compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations. In Part I the Federal Aviation Administration's statutory authority and enforcement procedures were addressed. Part II looked at the current enforcement program and presented an overview of administrative and legal enforcement actions. Part III proposes an alternative, restitutive enforcement program which might provide for a more street level, less centralized form of justice.
https://doi.org/10.15394/jaaer.1992.1074
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Gesell, L. E., & Anderson, R. (1992). Compliance and Enforcement: Aviation Safety in the Public Sector Part III: An Alternate Enforcement Program. Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.15394/jaaer.1992.1074
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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Tension remains high among top Democrats
BY Michael Aron, Chief Political Correspondent | May 13, 2019, 5PM EST
742567425674256Tension remains high among top DemocratsThe most powerful Democrat in the state -- Phil Murphy -- is at odds with the number two and three Democrats -- George Norcross and Steve Sweeney.2019-05-13 10:13 amdisabled30288151871X4-6P3NvIAtrue
It's being called a civil war. The most powerful Democrat in the state — Phil Murphy — is at odds with the number two and three Democrats — George Norcross and Steve Sweeney.
At the State House Monday, NJTV News spoke to veteran Democratic lawmakers. Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald is part of the Norcross South Jersey operation. He says things aren't that hostile.
"Every day I wake up and I watch the news out of Washington. People, rightfully so, are frustrated that the Republican Senate will not stand up to a Republican president. Yet, when we stand up to a Democratic governor, for principles that we fought for for decades, we somehow are, we're in a civil war. I don't look at it that way. We're just taking our years of experience and fighting for what we believe in," Greenwald said.
John McKeon is from North Jersey and is perceived as a Murphy Democrat.
"I'm concerned to the extent that I think, from the big picture, as to what's happening in Washington, we as Democrats should all be speaking with one voice. That being said, I've been around for a long time now, and come July I know we'll have a budget. I think sooner than later, and in some form or the other, they're going to move on cannabis in a way that will be legal throughout the state of New Jersey. And how things will play out as it related to criticism of the EDA is going to play outside of the Legislature, truth be told. My colleagues from South Jersey are capable and intelligent individuals. They care a lot about their region of the state and they've been successful in bringing the resources they have down to Camden," McKeon said.
Assemblyman John Burzichelli, another key South Jersey player, says things will sort themselves out.
"It's very clear as he [Norcross] has been quoted as saying that he feels strongly, and I can tell you personally that his love of the city of Camden, it runs very deep. And for those of us that are nearby there, what's taking place there is different after 50 years of failed attempts and probably multiple billions of dollars poured in in state money. So we see a lot of progress there. Those that are critical of it maybe aren't looking close enough," Burzichelli said.
Assemblyman Tom Giblin is a former state Democratic chairman and current assemblyman who says the glass is half-full.
"There's no reason why this can't be worked out and I think it just needs some cool heads and maybe some diplomacy, a mediator if there's such a person out there that can bring both side together and work toward a solution that's good for New Jersey and the Democratic Party," Giblin said. "Perhaps a retired person, a guy like Jim Florio or Jim McGreevey, somebody of that caliber that has a lot of insight and been down the road before in other issues and disputes."
The Democrats are minimizing the seriousness of the breach, but Norcross is talking about running someone against Murphy in the next gubernatorial primary, and that's pretty serious.
Michael Aron
Chief Political Correspondent
Michael Aron has been an integral part of New Jersey public television and synonymous with Trenton political coverage for decades. Referred to by colleagues as the "Dean of the Statehouse Press Corps", he currently serves as NJTV News Chief Political Correspondent and host of two popular public affairs programs, On the Record with Michael Aron and Reporters Roundtable with Michael Aron. Read Full Bio
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Maliniec – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie lubelskim, w powiecie janowskim, w gminie Potok Wielki. Przez wieś przepływa niewielka rzeka Łukawica.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa tarnobrzeskiego. Według Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego (III 2011 r.) wieś liczyła 194 mieszkańców.

Historia
Wieś powstała w 1836 roku poprzez karczunek lasów należących do dóbr Potoczek. Reforma z 1864 roku uwłaszczyła tu 9 gospodarzy.
W latach sześćdziesiątych XIX wieku z rąk Wolskich Maliniec przeszedł
do Wybranowskich. Pod koniec wieku wieś zamieszkiwało 74, a według pierwszego powszechnego spisu Ludności z 1921 roku 137 mieszkańców. W okresie międzywojennym powstała szkoła powszechna.

Historyczne części wsi
Bania – część wsi, wzmiankowana w 1861 roku jako Majdan Nowy. Należała do dóbr Potoka (Wyszomirskich). W 1877 roku liczyła 3 domy i 14 mieszkańców, a według spisu z 1921 roku liczyła 6 domów i 36 mieszkańców.

Koszarka – część wsi, powstała na początku XX w. W 1921 roku był tu jeden dom zamieszkany przez 5 osób.

Siembida – część wsi, w 1783 roku na jej terenie znajdowały się "dwie budy". W 1877 roku
występowała jako część Świder licząc 3 domy. Obecnie jest to rybakówka.

Świdry – część wsi, około 1763 roku Józef Sołtyk założył tutaj osadę leśną, której ludność zobowiązano do pomocy w polowaniach i strzeżenia lasów. Była to osada efemeryczna. W 1783 roku być może istniała
tutaj maziarnia. Ponownie Świdry zaistniały w 1820 roku w dobrach
Potok Stany, będących własnością Pruszyńskich. W 1865 roku wieś liczyła 17 domów i 98 mieszkańców. Po uwłaszczeniu powstał folwark Świdry, który w 1877 roku należał do Szmula Rozenbauma i obejmował
tartak, smolarnię, hutę szkła oraz cegielnię.
Na początku XX wieku folwark należał do J. Kleniewskiego, a we wsi istniał posterunek straży granicznej. Rozwijano gospodarkę rybną.
W 1916 roku powstała szkoła powszechna. Podczas operacji Sturmwind I partyzantka radziecka stoczyła tutaj potyczkę z Niemcami. W 1944 roku folwark Świdry obejmujący 1061 ha (w tym 425 ha wód i 600 ha
lasu) uległ parcelacji. Ostatnim właścicielem był L. Bieńkowski.

Zobacz też
 Maliniec
 Stawy Wilczowskie (w pobliżu)

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Baranowski Z.:Rys historyczny miejscowości powiatu janowskiego, Stalowa Wola 2001, .
 Województwo lubelskie w 15 tomach Słownika geograficznego Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich 1880-1904, oprać. W. Sakławski, Lublin 1974, 50-51, 246, 299.
 Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, t. IV, Województwo lubelskie, Warszawa 1924, s. 38–39.
 Górny B.: Monografia powiatu janowskiego, Janów Lubelski 1934, s. 53.
 Lawera H., Bata A.: Gmina Potok Wielki. Historia i współczesność, Krosno 1999, s. 63–64.
 Gronczewski E.: Kalendarium walk Gwardii Ludowej i Armii Ludowej na Lubelszczyźnie (1942-1944), Lublin 1964, s. 98.
 Mikulec B.: Przemysł Lubelszczyzny w latach 1864–1914, Lublin 1989, s. 122–125.
 Miillerowa L.: Stan osadnictwa i stosunki własnościowe w powiecie urzędowskim w ostatnich latach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej, w: Z dziejów powiatu kraśnickiego, Lublin 1964, s. 183.
 Wojciechowski S., Szczygieł R., Sochacka A.: Osady zaginione i o zmienionych nazwach historycznego województwa lubelskiego, w: Dzieje Lubelszczyzny, t. IV, Warszawa 1986, s. 143.
 Komisarz do spraw włościańskich powiatu Janów, sygn.: 316; 425, 5, 7, 14; 432; 453; 456, 1, 15.
 Rząd Gubernialny Lubelski, Spisy, sygn.: 32; 143.

Potok Wielki (gmina)


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After Attacks, Belgium Charges 3 More With Participating In Terrorism
By Merrit Kennedy
Published March 28, 2016 at 5:05 AM PDT
Alastair Grant
A woman helps readjust the tributes in the Place de la Bourse, left for the victims of the recent bomb attacks in Brussels.
Belgian federal prosecutors said Monday they have charged three more people with participating in a terrorist group, following Tuesday's deadly attacks at Brussels' airport and a metro station.
NPR's Melissa Block tells our Newscast unit that the new charges come after a series of raids around Brussels.
The Associated Press reports that the three charged were from a group of four people detained in the raids on Sunday. The fourth person was released, and "those charged by the investigating magistrate were identified only as Yassine A, Mohamed B and Aboubaker O," according to the wire service.
Belgian police are still trying to identify a third suspect from the airport bombing and have released a 32-second video of CCTV footage over YouTube. An image previously released by the Belgian police shows the "man in the hat" walking at the airport with two suicide bombers, who have been identified as Ibrahim el-Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui.
Also Monday, Belgium's Crisis Center said the death toll from the Islamic State-claimed attacks has climbed to 35, after 4 people wounded in the attacks died in hospitals. Three attackers also died during the bombings, bring the total number of dead to 38. More than 300 people were injured.
As we reported, Belgian authorities on Saturday charged two other people in connection to the attacks, following raids on Thursday and Friday.
But Belgium's federal prosecutor said Monday that authorities have now released one of them, who is referred to as "Faysal C." The prosecutor said information that led to his arrest "could not be confirmed."
The prosecutor had previously said no weapons or explosives were found when authorities searched Faysal's house. And as we reported, "The other man, 'Aboubakar A,' has been charged with 'leading participation in activities of a terrorist group.' "
And Melissa reports that the Zaventem airport, which was damaged during the attacks, will test temporary infrastructure today. She adds: "Airport officials say they are preparing for a partial restart — but have not decided when partial service can resume."
News brussels attacks
Merrit Kennedy
Merrit Kennedy is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She covers a broad range of issues, from the latest developments out of the Middle East to science research news.
See stories by Merrit Kennedy
Brussels Unites In Grief As Search For Attacker — Or Attackers — Continues
Camila Domonoske
Police are still determining the number of suspects involved. Meanwhile, Salah Abdeslam, the suspect in the Paris attacks who was arrested last week, now says he is not fighting extradition to France.
Belgian Authorities Identify Third Suspected Bomber In Brussels Attacks
The man on the left in a widely circulated surveillance image is 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor's office.
Americans Were Among Those Killed In Brussels Attacks, Kerry Says
Speaking in Brussels Friday, Kerry said he was grieving with "the loved ones of those who have been very cruelly taken from us — including Americans." It's the first confirmation of American deaths.
2 Men Charged In Connection With Tuesday's Attacks In Brussels
A third man has been charged in connection with an alleged plot to launch a new attack in Paris. Meanwhile, a "march against fear" planned in Brussels on Sunday has been called off.


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Q: How to refine dataframe so the same output isn't printed each time using log? I have a python program which prints discrepancies in odds which have been scraped from various bookmakers. This is achieved by appending the odds to a pandas dataframe. I want to use a log which records the output of the dataframe, everytime I run the program so that the program does not print duplicate discrepancies in odds. The log would record the 'Horse' column of the dataframe. When the programs prints the dataframe, it would refer to the log to see if there are duplicate names in the 'Horse' column.
Here is an example of the output of the dataframe:
            Race             Horse      Bookmaker   Odds  AvgOdds
13     Mackay R1        Which Lily  SportsBetting   2.45     2.04
15     Mackay R1        Which Lily         Bet365   2.40     2.04
17     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter           Ubet   9.00     7.26
18     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter        BetEasy   8.50     7.26
19     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter           Neds   8.50     7.26
...          ...               ...            ...    ...      ...
1545  Mackay R10        Cold Power  SportsBetting   8.10     6.39
1547  Mackay R10        Cold Power         Bet365   8.00     6.39
1548  Mackay R10   All Star Rocket           Ubet   7.20     2.98
1560  Mackay R10           Dawlish      Sportsbet  14.00    11.65
1561  Mackay R10           Dawlish  SportsBetting  15.20    11.65

Here is the part of my code relating to dataframes:
cols1 = ['Race', 'Horse', 'Bookmaker', 'Odds']
df1 = pd.DataFrame(data=data, columns=cols1)
cols2 = ['Race', 'Horse', 'Bookmaker', 'AvgOdds']
df2 = pd.DataFrame(data=data, columns=cols2)
df3 = df2.groupby(by='Horse', sort=False).mean()
df3 = df3.reset_index()
df4 = round(df3,2)
dfmerge = pd.merge(df1,df4,on='Horse',how='inner')
dfmerge2 = dfmerge[dfmerge['Odds']>dfmerge['AvgOdds']*1.15]
dfmerge3 = dfmerge2['Horse']

A: I would recommend that you extend your initial data frame to include previously reported events, that gets updated with reporting.
Then as you add more rows, to the data set you can rerun the program without seeing previously reported data.
So given this data (note the extra column, which you will initially have to set to 'N'):
            Race             Horse      Bookmaker   Odds  Reported
13     Mackay R1        Which Lily  SportsBetting   2.45         N
15     Mackay R1        Which Lily         Bet365   2.40         N
17     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter           Ubet   9.00         N
18     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter        BetEasy   8.50         N
19     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter           Neds   8.50         N
...          ...               ...            ...    ...       ...
1545  Mackay R10        Cold Power  SportsBetting   8.10         N
1547  Mackay R10        Cold Power         Bet365   8.00         N
1548  Mackay R10   All Star Rocket           Ubet   7.20         N
1560  Mackay R10           Dawlish      Sportsbet  14.00         N
1561  Mackay R10           Dawlish  SportsBetting  27.20         N

And using this code:
# Previously...
base_data = pd.DataFrame(...)

# Refactored code from example given
cols_raw = ['Race', 'Horse', 'Bookmaker', 'Odds']
raw_data = base_data[cols_raw]

cols_mean = ['Race', 'Horse', 'Odds']
mean_data = (
    base_data[cols_mean]
    # I assume this was meant to be by race and horse...
    .groupby(by=['Race', 'Horse'], sort=False)
    .mean()
    .reset_index()
    .rename(columns={'Odds': 'AvgOdds'})
)
mean_data = round(mean_data)
report = pd.merge(raw_data, mean_data, on=['Race', 'Horse'], how='inner')
report = (
    report[report['Odds'] > report['AvgOdds'] * 1.15]
    ['Horse']
)

# Filter out any horses that have already been reported on:
pre_reported_horses = base_data[base_data['Reported'] == 'Y']['Horse'].unique()
report = report[~report['Horse'].isin(pre_reported_horses)]

# And then update the Reported column for next time you run the code
reported_horses = pre_reported_horses | set(report['Horse'].unique())
base_data.loc[base_data['Horse'].isin(reported_horses), 'Reported'] = 'Y'

New data can then be appended to the base data data frame with Reported set to 'N', and the report rerun without seeing repeated reports of exceptional odds.
And if for example the horse 'Dawlish' had been your reported, then your updated base_data data frame should now look like this:
            Race             Horse      Bookmaker   Odds  Reported
13     Mackay R1        Which Lily  SportsBetting   2.45         N
15     Mackay R1        Which Lily         Bet365   2.40         N
17     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter           Ubet   9.00         N
18     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter        BetEasy   8.50         N
19     Mackay R1  Molongle Drifter           Neds   8.50         N
...          ...               ...            ...    ...       ...
1545  Mackay R10        Cold Power  SportsBetting   8.10         N
1547  Mackay R10        Cold Power         Bet365   8.00         N
1548  Mackay R10   All Star Rocket           Ubet   7.20         N
1560  Mackay R10           Dawlish      Sportsbet  14.00         Y
1561  Mackay R10           Dawlish  SportsBetting  27.20         Y


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Viewpoints: Jail is broken. How the county is fixing it
Denny Barney
AZ I See It
County-run jails and probation are often the introduction to the criminal-justice system for many young people and adults
We're adopting strategies so that when prisoners do get out, they're less likely to commit new crimes and return
We have recruited top criminologists to develop and independently evaluate Smart Justice programs
In an era of partisan politics in which policymakers disagree about virtually everything, a widely diverse coalition has emerged around criminal justice reform.
Personalities and factions from both the right and left — the "tea party" and the ACLU, the Koch Brothers and George Soros, victims' rights advocates and prison reform activists — all agree that what we're doing now isn't working. And it's expensive, very expensive.
So, despite natural suspicions, they've started collaborating on better models.
Most of the advances so far have come from the states, governors and legislatures in Texas, New York, Ohio, Georgia and California. They have turned to enhanced risk assessment, alternatives to incarceration and evidence-based programs to achieve positive results.
While much has been written about federal and state prison policies, not much has been said about county-run jails and probation, which are often the introduction to the criminal justice system for many young people and adults.
With nearly 52 percent of our Maricopa County budget being spent on criminal justice and public safety, and more than 100,000 people — including some repeat offenders — cycling through our jails each year, we are implementing some of the same data-driven policies with encouraging outcomes. Scarce resources must be targeted to where they will be most effective.
Incarceration is exactly what some criminals deserve, and it has public support. Some offenders are just too dangerous to be released into society. But reliance on a one-size-fits-all approach has been unsuccessful. Incarceration can be overused and costly.
Research shows that a significant proportion of crime is committed by a relatively small group of persistent offenders. Estimates indicate as few as 5 percent of offenders can account for 40 percent of crimes. It makes sense to keep the most dangerous away from society for as long as possible.
But all of those sentenced to Maricopa County jails will get out within one year. Our opportunity is to adopt strategies so that when they do get out, they're less likely to commit new crimes and return.
That's why my colleagues and I on the Board of Supervisors have embraced our Smart Justice Initiative. Smart Justice brings together all the county criminal justice players — the Sheriff, County Attorney, Superior Courts, Correctional Health, Probation, Public Defender, County Manager's Office and other related departments — to focus on best practices and adopt evidenced-based policies and programs.
Five big reforms
We have recruited top criminologists to develop and independently evaluate Smart Justice programs. If a program works, we expand it. If it doesn't, we make a change, always going back to the data. Key policies and initiatives include:
-- Improved assessment of offender needs and recidivism risks. In December 2011, Maricopa County implemented the Recidivism Risk Score ("Proxy Score") to assess the risk level of individuals booked into jail. Other assessments are done at time of sentencing and while under supervision of the probation department. These risk assessments help us focus costly interventions and treatment on moderate and high-risk offenders.
-- Rigorous programming to address "criminogenic" factors (i.e., likelihood to commit crime). For real change to occur, destructive thinking patterns must be addressed. Thinking for a Change (T4C), a national 25-session program, is used within the jails and in adult probation.
-- Enhanced curriculum for MCSO's substance abuse program, ALPHA. Criminal behaviors often include drug abuse, and the more we can reduce chemical dependency, the better chance we have to reduce criminal behavior.
-- Rethinking our approach toward the mentally ill. Our jails house more individuals in need of behavioral health services than any other facility in Arizona. Some offenders might not be in jail if their needs were met. There are also criminals with mental illness. We have to be sophisticated enough to address the needs of both. We are collaborating with community partners to divert individuals from jail when appropriate and develop better transition planning so treatment initiated in jail continues once offenders are released.
-- Focusing on women in jail. The number of women incarcerated in Maricopa County (approximately 18 percent) resembles the national average. However, this number has remained stable while the number of males has decreased over the past decade.
The emotional and social cost of incarcerating mothers is extremely high, particularly for children. Especially when, according to the American Jail Association, women are much less of a public-safety risk than men. We need to do better.
Despite our strong partnerships, the challenge is immense. However, I'm proud that Maricopa County's Smart Justice is ahead of the curve on many issues. And we will continue to look for results that both save taxpayers money and increase the safety of our communities.
Denny Barney lives in Gilbert and represents District 1 on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.


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The truth about the porn industry
Gail Dines, the author of an explosive new book about the sex industry, on why pornography has never been a greater threat to our relationships
Anti-pornography campaigner Gail Dines Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
Julie Bindel
@bindelj
Fri 2 Jul 2010 02.30 EDT
The last time I saw Gail Dines speak, at a conference in Boston, she moved the audience to tears with her description of the problems caused by pornography, and provoked laughter with her sharp observations about pornographers themselves. Activists in the audience were newly inspired, and men at the event – many of whom had never viewed pornography as a problem before – queued up afterwards to pledge their support. The scene highlighted Dines's explosive charisma and the fact that, since the death of Andrea Dworkin, she has risen to that most difficult and interesting of public roles: the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
Dines is also a highly regarded academic and her new book, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, has just come out in the US, and is available online here. She wrote it primarily to educate people about what pornography today is really like, she says, and to banish any notion of it as benign titillation. "We are now bringing up a generation of boys on cruel, violent porn," she says, "and given what we know about how images affect people, this is going to have a profound influence on their sexuality, behaviour and attitudes towards women."
The book documents the recent history of porn, including the technological shifts that have made it accessible on mobile phones, videogames and laptops. According to Dines's research the prevalence of porn means that men are becoming desensitised to it, and are therefore seeking out ever harsher, more violent and degrading images. Even the porn industry is shocked by how much violence the fans want, she says; at the industry conferences that Dines attends, porn makers have increasingly been discussing the trend for more extreme practices. And the audience is getting younger. Market research conducted by internet providers found that the average age a boy first sees porn today is 11; a study from the University of Alberta found that one third of 13-year-old boys admitted viewing porn; and a survey published by Psychologies magazine in the UK last month found that a third of 14- to 16-year-olds had first seen sexual images online when they were 10 or younger – 81% of those polled looked at porn online at home, while 63% could easily access it on their mobile phones.
"I have found that the earlier men use porn," says Dines, "the more likely they are to have trouble developing close, intimate relationships with real women. Some of these men prefer porn to sex with an actual human being. They are bewildered, even angry, when real women don't want or enjoy porn sex."
Porn culture doesn't only affect men. It also changes "the way women and girls think about their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships," says Dines. "Every group that has fought for liberation understands that media images are part and parcel of the systematic dehumanisation of an oppressed group . . . The more porn images filter into mainstream culture, the more girls and women are stripped of full human status and reduced to sex objects. This has a terrible effect on girls' sexual identity because it robs them of their own sexual desire."
Images have now become so extreme that acts that were almost non-existent a decade ago have become commonplace. From studying thousands of porn films and images Dines found that the most popular acts depicted in internet porn include vaginal, oral and anal penetration by three or more men at the same time; double anal; double vaginal; a female gagging from having a penis thrust into her throat; and ejaculation in a woman's face, eyes and mouth.
"To think that so many men hate women to the degree that they can get aroused by such vile images is quite profound," says Dines. "Pornography is the perfect propaganda piece for patriarchy. In nothing else is their hatred of us quite as clear."
Born in Manchester, Dines moved to Israel in 1980, aged 22, and soon became involved in the women's movement. An event organised by the feminist consciousness-raising group Women against Pornography in Haifa – in which pornography was shown – changed her life forever. "I was astounded that men could either make such a thing or want to look at it," she says. From then on, she knew she had to campaign about the issue.
There were two images from Hustler magazine that she found especially shocking: a cartoon of a construction worker drilling a jackhammer into a woman's vagina, and one depicting a woman being fed through a meat grinder. "I was newly married and told my husband that night how appalled I was, which he fully understood," she says. "If he had said I was a prude I don't think I could have stayed with him."
The couple moved to the US in 1986, and Dines has taught at Wheelock College, Boston ever since, where she is professor of sociology and women's studies and chair of the American studies department. She is something of a lone voice in academia. Aside from what she says are "a handful" of colleagues across the US, most contemporary scholars are positive about pornography, and Dines thinks this is due to both a fear of being considered in alliance with the religious right and the view that pornography represents and champions sexual liberation.
"Many on the liberal left adopt a view that says pornographers are not businessmen but are simply there to unleash our sexuality from state-imposed constraints," she says. This view was reflected in the film The People vs Larry Flynt, where the billionaire pornographer of the film's title – the head of the Hustler empire – was portrayed as a man simply fighting for freedom of speech. Dines disputes these ideas. "Trust me," she says, "I have interviewed hundreds of pornographers and the only thing that gets them excited is profit."
As a result of her research, Dines believes that pornography is driving men to commit particular acts of violence towards women. "I am not saying that a man reads porn and goes out to rape," she says, "but what I do know is that porn gives permission to its consumers to treat women as they are treated in porn." In a recent study, 80% of men said that the one sex act they would most like to perform is to ejaculate on a woman's face; in 2007, a comment stream on the website Jezebel.com included a number of women who said that, on a first date, they had, to their surprise, experienced their sexual partner ejaculating on their faces without asking.
Sexual assault centres in US colleges have said that more women are reporting anal rape, which Dines attributes directly to the normalisation of such practices in pornography. "The more porn sexualises violence against women, the more it normalises and legitimises sexually abusive behaviour. Men learn about sex from porn, and in porn nothing is too painful or degrading for women." Dines also says that what she calls "childified porn" has significantly increased in popularity in recent years, with almost 14m internet searches for "teen sex" in 2006, an increase of more than 60% since 2004. There are legal sites that feature hardcore images of extremely young-looking women being penetrated by older men, with disclaimers stating all the models are 18 and over. Dines is clear that regular exposure to such material has an effect of breaking down the taboo about having sex with children.
She recently interviewed a number of men in prison who had committed rape against children. All were habitual users of child pornography. "What they said to me was they got bored with 'regular' porn and wanted something fresh. They were horrified at the idea of sex with a prepubescent child initially but within six months they had all raped a child."
What can we expect next from the industry? "Nobody knows, including pornographers," she says, "but they are all looking for something more extreme, more shocking." She recently interviewed a well-known pornographer, while his latest film played in the background. It contained a scene of a woman being anally penetrated while kneeling in a coffin.
In Dines's view, the best way to address the rise of internet pornography is to raise public awareness about its actual content, and name it as a public health issue by bringing together educators, health professionals, community activists, parents and anti-violence experts to create materials that educate the public. "Just as we had anti-smoking campaigns, we need an anti-porn campaign that alerts people to the individual and cultural harms it creates."
"Myths about those of us who hate pornography also need to be dispelled in order to gain more support from progressives," she says. "The assumption that if you are a woman who hates pornography you are against sex shows how successful the industry is at collapsing porn into sex." Would the critics of the employment practices and products at McDonald's be accused of being anti-eating, she asks pointedly.
The backlash against Dines and her work is well-documented. Various pro-porn activists post accusations about her on websites, suggesting she is motivated by money, hates sex, and victimises women to support her supposed anti-male ideology. Salon.com reported recently that the sex writer, Violet Blue, had launched a pro-porn campaign to counteract an anti-porn conference that Dines and colleagues held last month. Dines is regularly criticised by pornographers in the trade magazines and on porn websites and she tells me that her college receives letters after any public event at which she is speaking, attacking her views.
Does she ever feel depressed by all this? "It gets me down sometimes, of course. But I try to surround myself with good things – my students, colleagues, and my family." She says the blueprint for her aims is the eradication of slavery in the US, which was achieved despite the fact that every single institution was geared to uphold and perpetuate it. "What is at stake is the nature of the world that we live in," says Dines. "We have to wrestle it back."


Naruto is a super-duper awesome anime created by Masashi Kishimoto, but as all human beings are special and unique, so are their tastes and desires in various things. What I'm basically trying to say is that, yes, while Naruto is packed with all sorts of elements that awe-struck and overwhelm fans — there may be certain axles and gears that are missing. For instance, more communication (whether general or intimate) romance, and heart-throbbing development between Naruto & Hinata.
This is the realm of Naruhina (Hinata's Sensual Adventure) — spill all your cravings, desires, suggestions, and opinions here.
Needless to say, this is a community consisting of many individuals, so please conduct yourselves in a civilized and humane manner. Express courtesy and understanding toward your fellow otakus' personal interests and so forth. And, to prevent flaming, exercise a passive demeanor toward anything that holds no interest for you.
If it pisses you off, please try to turn a blind eye.


Satyricon, loosely based on the Roman homonymous book by Petronius, is a beautiful example of Roman novel. The surviving portions are an account of Encolpius and his lover misadventures.
The story is set in Nero Emperor Rome.
Satyricon is an important evidence for the reconstruction of the Roman everyday life.
Fellini's movie is a fantasy drama film deliberately fragmented and surreal.
Fellini added also the hermaphroditic priestess, who does not exist in the original manuscript.


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What it Takes to Be a Successful Leader: Part Two
We asked some of our leading female entrepreneurs to share advice on what it takes to reach their level of success for a four-part blog series! With experiences ranging from the tech sector to recruitment firms to social enterprises, they each share lessons learned from their unique entrepreneurial journeys that brought them to the top of their game.
Today, we asked our leaders: What do you wish you'd known before starting your entrepreneurial journey? Here's what they said.
Despite being successful and building a couple of companies, I still have a lot to learn. Every detail changes with the people, the reactions, the economy, the technology, the market, the competition, the product, etc. And each reaction is different based on the situation. I feel like I am learning every day.
With a no-holds-barred attitude, Zahra Al-Harazi helps people and organizations realize their potential for success, drawing on her experience as a pioneering woman in the business world with a unique approach to attitude, leadership, and success.
I wish I had been exposed to entrepreneurship earlier. Both of my parents worked for big companies, and growing up in the '90s, entrepreneurship wasn't as "cool" as it is today. Now, kids grow up with role models like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Spanx's Sara Blakely, but I'm not sure I even knew what an entrepreneur was until I graduated university.
It was only after going to work at a startup shortly after graduating that I was exposed to the startup world, and I immediately fell in love with it. I loved how passionate entrepreneurs were about solving a particular problem, and how they built these tight-knit, talented teams. Now that I've been exposed to entrepreneurship, I can never go back!
Named one of Marketing Magazine's "Top 30 Under 30", Erin Bury is a marketer, former technology journalist, and startup enthusiast who shares the ins-and-outs of entrepreneurship, marketing to millennials, creating a killer personal brand, and how to harness the latest digital trends.
I wish I had known to secure money when I needed it the least. I started my business, Creative Niche, just a couple of years after the dot-com crash in 2002, only to run into another even bigger crash six years later in 2008. When there's a global economic crisis, companies are laying off employees, not hiring them. And for a staffing and recruiting firm, that means we're directly affected.
When times are good and numbers are up, the banks are more than willing to give you a line of credit. However, it's the exact opposite when you're facing challenging periods. So, do yourself a favour and secure funds now just in case that rainy day comes.
Having successfully built two international businesses from the ground up, Mandy Gilbert speaks on entrepreneurship, leadership, culture, talent, and building a professional brand, all grounded by her own journey from a "one woman show" to founder of multi-million-dollar enterprises.
The one thing I wish I understood was that there are many ways to scale and I didn't have to do it all myself.
Most entrepreneurs become so because they have an original idea. And then as they build a company around that creative spark, they often think they need to keep being the source of every other creative spark.
But that focus on the originator of an idea as the leader neglects a fundamental truth about how innovation of any sort happens — ideas and sparks of creativity are important but so is the manifestation of that idea into reality, which never (e-v-e-r) happens alone. Yes, original ideas are born of you, from that place in the world where only you stand, your onlyness. But those nascent ideas are shaped, honed, and made manifest by many, those who share the purpose of that idea. Both parts really matter, but unfortunately, they are not celebrated equally because American culture, and business specifically, celebrates the leader as an individual hero, while collaborative leadership is undervalued.
Scale can happen in many ways though. We need to recognize that alternative leadership model, which is to have many start to own an idea as if it were their own so they can co-create that idea into reality.
Knowing this, I would have hired people not on how well they could do a particular role, but on how much they believed in the end goal.
Nilofer Merchant is a master at turning seemingly "wild" ideas into new realities, and showing the rest of us how we can, too. A bestselling author on innovation and collaboration, a TED mainstage speaker, and the recipient of the "Future Thinker Award" from Thinkers 50, Nilofer reveals new ways of connecting our ideas to the world, in an era when the potential to make a difference is wide-open.
I am kind of glad I didn't have a crystal ball. I think that would have taken some of the adrenaline rush out of the journey. So, I am glad I had to ask good questions and go on a steep learning curve. That's what made the journey fabulous. I think if there was one thing I wish I'd known, it would be to stay the course regardless of the challenges and find a way to go around or over any obstacle.
In her inspiring talks, Barb Stegemann shares her journey from launching her award-winning social enterprise, The 7 Virtues, out of her garage to becoming the first Canadian brand featured in Sephora's new "Clean at Sephora" space in both Canadian and US stores.
I wish I had known how long everything would take.
Nicole Verkindt is passionate about leveraging the talents of entrepreneurs. Speaking to the importance of disruptive thinking, women's roles in business, technology, and innovation, Nicole shows audiences how the real key to success is learning how to push past being told "no" over and over again.
Barb Stegemann
What it Takes to Be a Successful Leader: Part One
How 'Onlyness' Makes Us Powerful
Inside Our Boardroom: Erin Bury, Technology and Marketing Expert


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Elk of the Month - December 2016
Hank Hart
Membership: 2 Years
Position: Esteemed Leading Knight
Hometown: Iselin
Currently Lives: Colonia
Hank Hart was awarded Elk of the Month for his consistent service and kindness, as well as, being the driving force in a very successful Halloween Benefit Bash fundraiser. Hank was able to get his band, Southern Steel, to donate their talents to the lodge for a truly rockin' time!
A word from Hank...
"As far as being "Elk of the Month"; that really is a team achievement from all the folks who pulled together to make the Halloween Benefit Bash happen and turn out to be a successful fund raiser for the lodge. I had always wanted to try and get the band I'm sound man for, Southern Steel, here at the lodge for some type of fundraiser. Our lodge treasurer, Arthur D'Amaro, had come up to me one day and said, "I heard that you work with a pretty good band, ever think about doing something here at the lodge".
Being a member of our Board of Directors, I could see the upcoming costs the lodge was going to have to absorb for some repairs that would sorely be needed. It was around August I asked our one lead guitarist, Dave Sober, and his wife Debbie, our band manager, about donating the band's time in doing a show here. They were all for it; Dave is big on volunteerism, having been a volunteer fire fighter and also a retired Keyport police officer. Debbie also, being a military brat, was of the attitude, "what ever we can do to help".
There are so many at the lodge to thank: Flavio (he is one person that can go by one name only!) and I went to Restaurant Depot to get the food we needed. He did a phenomenal job in the kitchen with help from his wife Carol and also Diane Szymanik. Third Year Trustee Brian Gilmore donated all the meat that was needed to make to top off the rigatoni as a Bolognese dish. MC powerhouse Viki Weber, and her daughter Samantha Freeman, helped with the making of the poster and printed tickets for the event at no cost. Also from the MC, Ed and Kathy Eismont were huge in selling tickets for the event. Rich Khron worked tirelessly getting the china cleaned up. Wanda Tomaskovicz, our lodge's secretary and Judy Galambos, our Esteemed Leading Knight, (and a PER) worked the door for additional ticket sales as well as relief from Peggy Qualy, the lodge's Tiler, Jane Bobel and Karen Imperatrice (Inner Guard). Joe Gonder and Rich also helped serve food along with the aforementioned ladies who also cleaned up. Rob Snowfield, Esteemed Loyal Knight, and our ER, Anthony Girgenti, passed the posters on to other lodges and I did see members from South Amboy and Carteret attend.
Arthur also served as a volunteer bartender along with Mary Lynn Passero in the back bar; while Billy Houck and Dave Rickert manned the bar in the Colonial room. There truly was a sense of noble service by all and I sincerely apologize to others whose name I can't recollect at this moment who contributed to the overall achievement for the lodge. I was merely the focal point in this, but this lodge has many who care and share.
I'd be remiss of course, if I did not thank my band of brothers, Southern Steel. I've worked for close to three years as their sound man... prior to that working as a roadie and sitting in on drums from time to time. The generous donation the band made to our lodge was even a surprise to me. As Dave Sorber, our lead guitarist, told Anthony Girgenti, "It's what we do". We play around the area a lot, mostly southern Middlesex and Monmouth counties. We've been fortunate enough to have opened for The Outlaws at B. B. King's in NYC a few times, as well as, playing with them at a large festivals, known as, the "Freedom Fest" and also the annual "Rock, Ribs & Ridges" festival held in Sussex County. In addition to Dave Sober on lead guitar, Kevin Rose played the other lead, Gary Roberts brought his thunder on drums,Tom Tibaldi was on keyboards and guitar, Tommy Kelly is our amazing front man/vocalist and our regular bass player is Ray Jandura. Ray had to attend a relative's wedding and was ably covered by Matt D'Esposito, who plays in The Spider Daniels Band.
The week after the benefit we opened for The Outlaws at the Boonton Elks... which was a blast... they played through our sound system. My highlight of the evening is when The Outlaws had our lead guitarist Dave Sorber join them on stage for their encore of , "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and let Dave take the solo!
So, I hope that sums it up... I'm merely someone fortunate enough to work with, and be involved with, many people (whether through my membership in the Elks or with Southern Steel), who know how to give, who care and share... and ain't that what being an Elk is all about!!!"


Johannes' third release, Guitarra del Fuego, with all its fiery flair, is beautiful and surprisingly tender nonetheless. The occasional gypsy violin and passionate rhythm and percussion portray dream-like visions and fantasy-laden romantic themes, nicely offset by fast-paced flourishes blazing from Johannes' well-tempered guitar. While occasional melancholy and pathos tug the heartstrings of the listener, this music brims with life, joy and happiness.
This album is a featured album for June. A discount of $2 will be applied at check out.
Those who like their flamenco music without fancy flourishes and heavy ethnic influences will find a lot to enjoy with Guitarra del Fuego from Johannes Linstead. Dubbed "nouveau flamanco," the music has a sense of fluidity, never dispruptive or jagged, just smooth tropical melodies preformed in a very accessible, pleasing fashion. The tracks range from upbeat selections like "Mango," and energetically charged mariachi florr-filler, to slower, mood-enchancing pieces like "Illusion," whose bittersweet air seems perfect for a moonlight waltz. Easy on the ears and at a times appropiately stirring, Linstead's lastest has the right amount of elegance and emotion to give Ottmar Liebert serious competition.
The opening title track of this fine and varied pop flamenco collection would be brilliant if not for one thing — you could swear you were listening to an outtake from any recent album by rumba flamenco master Jesse Cook. That's a compliment in a way, because it's wild, energetic, and generally much more absorbing than the most popular of the new flamenco gods, Ottmar Liebert. All that said, Linstead tries some unique things that Cook rarely does. He plucks and swings over a sizzling horn section and the occasional trumpet shout on "Mango." His graceful guitar dances with Vasyl Popadoiouk's seductive violin and Linstead's own tasty piano harmonies on "A Mi Guitarra." And he goes a bit folksy in a duet with the wordless vocals of Alla Kadysh on "Suenos En Tus Ojos." The intro to "A Mi Muerte" is like a wild chops contest between guitar and violin; the song then settles into a gentle melancholy tenderness. The clear objective is no doubt to be inspired by the harmonic possibilities of these other instruments, and Linstead eventually carves his own niche in the genre by doing just that. He's also a beautiful balladeer, as the lush "Ilusion" bears out.
Fresh from two previous album successes with Sol Luna Tierra and Kiss the Earth, Johannes Linstead now has progressed to his third release. Guitarra del Fuego features flamenco/gypsy sounds with percussion back-up on several tracks. The album contains a number of faster-paced "nouveau flamenco" glory tracks and some beautifully tender, romantic pieces. Johannes is a celebrated and passionate player, expressing the joy of life in every track. Excellent album.
With a solid sales base going into his third outing, Linstead turns it up a notch to take a stand thank knocks off all comers to the flamenco crown. Bringing in a full crew to underscore his pyrotechnics, Linstead never fails to impress on this set loaded with depth and diversity that isn't on board just for the sake of it. A winning combination at every turn, this is a sure bet for guitar fans to love and spread the word about. Hot stuff.
Pack your bags and get ready for a trip to the sun-drenched Mediterranean. Guitarra del Fuego, Johannes Linstead's latest album, sounds like the soundtrack for a long, leisurely tour along the Côte d'Azur. With sales of his first two Real Music releases – Sol Luna Tierra and Kiss the Earth – having exceeded 100,000 units, Linstead clearly has struck a popular chord with his fresh brand of acoustic, contemporary flamenco stylings. Danceable rhythms and gorgeous melodies are woven on the delightful Guitarra del Fuego. Sensuous, sophisticated nouveau-flamenco guitar riffs flow like sangria, and Latin trumpet blows musical kisses sweeter than wine.
A stellar group of 12 musicians contributes to the fun. Linstead composed, arranged, recorded, and mixed all the music, and he plays guitar, piano, keyboards, shakers, palmas, and percussive effects. The other musicians add tons of percussion, guitars, bass, vocalizations, trumpet, and violin to this delightful music fest. Linstead's fully realized vision of lushly romantic nouveau-flamenco music is the happy result of the collaboration. Guitarra del Fuego is one of the loveliest musical experiences of the year.