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Ray Kennedy
By compo,
November 30, 2021 in General Football Chat
Passed away at the relatively young age of seventy a first class player with the gunners and liverpool centre forward who blossomed as a type of left half ,great player.
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He came to Liverpool as a striker and was initially a bit disappointing in that role, especially when compared with John Toshack. Bob Paisley turned him into one of the best midfielders in Europe and, according to Paisley, was the player who attracted most interest from continental clubs. I saw most of his games at Anfield and, once he had settled in, I don't think I saw him have a bad game. He was a lot more consistent than the more glamourous players, Dalglish and Souness, and was highly influential in the success that Liverpool had during his time at the club.
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Sad news and was a great player.
John Sillett, former manager of Coventry City, also died today making it a very sad day for football. What he did for Coventry in the 1987 FA Cup was amazing and I am sure he will never be forgotten by the club's fans.
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Graeme Souness: I looked at Ray Kennedy and knew everything would be alright – he should be considered a great of the English game
Liverpool legend pays tribute to his former team-mate and expresses sadness that the game didn't do more to help him when he fought Parkinson's in his later life
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Tuesday November 30 2021, 7.00pm, The Times
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Ray Kennedy was one of the most underrated players I played with, a man that you looked at in the dressing room before a big game and instinctively knew you would be all right. The European Cup semi-final of 1981 is a great example — nobody gave us a prayer away to Bayern Munich in their stadium until Razor put us in front inside the final ten minutes.
He was always a man for the big occasion. I remember watching him when I was still an apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur, scoring the winning goal against us at White Hart Lane to clinch the title for Arsenal in the last league game of the 1970-71 season when they went on to do the Double. I remember clearly thinking then, "I want to be him, a young player in the first team, winning things." Ray loved his clothes and was always immaculate, a big, handsome man with that sallow skin he had.
He was a striker then and Bill Shankly's final signing for Liverpool in 1974, for a club record £200,000. It was a stroke of genius by Bob Paisley later to convert him into a goalscoring midfielder.
I was the poor relation when it came to scoring beside Ray, Terry McDermott and Jimmy Case in that midfield, which was definitely the best in terms of goals that I played in at Liverpool. I was the odd man out by not getting into double figures. We had Jimmy on one side, Terry scoring close to 20 goals and Razor getting about 15. It wasn't just about Kenny Dalglish and Dave Johnson up front.
They also all did the hard yards the other way to support the defence. When we won the title in my first full season at the club we conceded just 16 goals in 42 league games and only four of them at Anfield.
Ray wasn't brilliant at anything, but he was very good at everything. He never gave the ball away, was a threat on the far post, and he had a silky touch and intelligence.
People don't regard him as one, but we have to talk about him as a great of the English game. After all these years, I still can't tell you if he was naturally right or left-footed because he was so good with both.
Ray made bad balls into good balls. If your head was down and you dropped it somewhere into the area of the far post on the left-hand side, he'd make your dodgy pass look like a really good one because of his anticipation, his timing, his power, his bravery and his determination to go and make that ball look good. When you talk about people scoring goals on the far post, he epitomised that because of his physique and football brain.
Ray and Jimmy were incredibly close, through thick and thin. Ray was the senior member of that partnership and Jimmy was his partner in crime. Ray had been around the block and Jimmy was his apprentice, but he loved Ray and learned quickly from a good teacher. Ray had a dry sense of humour and nobody was keen to take him on in the banter stakes. It wasn't just that he could cut you dead with a one-liner, he also had a serious, forbidding side to him and people were wary of that because he was a big powerful man with a real physical presence about him.
I'd have loved to have him in my teams when I later became a manager. When I went to Newcastle United, I saw more of him and it saddened me to see how Parkinson's had robbed him of his quality of life.
The PFA should have done much more for him than it did because it made him a shadow of the man I played with.
My great sadness is that he lost half his life to that awful condition — after having achieved so much before it affected him.
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He and his brother Peter played over 360 games for Chelsea between them and both won a first division winners medal in 1954. Sadly missed the both.


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By Aby Rivas
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Former NBA point guard and Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas had one of the most promising careers in the league, but as quickly as he rose to fame, he met his downfall.
Gilbert Arenas' NBA career started as the perfect story of the underdog becoming the superstar. He went from a second-round pick with little to no expectations from experts, to Most Improved Player and free agent within two years.
Gilbert Arenas sits on the bench during the NBA game against the Phoenix Suns at US Airways Center on December 19, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona. | Photo: GettyImages
Arenas was an entertainer on the court, always giving the fans something to look forward to if he had the ball in his power. He thrived in doing last-minute shots and could make a crowd go crazy with some of his best plays.
However, Arenas took some questionable choices that put his reputation on the line. That, mixed with an MCL injury, eventually led to the end of his basketball career.
GILBERT ARENAS' RISE TO STARDOM
Arenas enrolled at the University of Arizona in 1999 and entered the NBA draft in 2001, forfeiting his last two years of college to kickstart his professional career.
In 2018, Arenas was involved in another scandal when a woman accused him of threatening her with releasing an adult video.
Although Arenas had been considered by some teams on the draft's first round, he ended up being picked as the 31st overall pick by the Golden State Warriors in the second round.
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The point guard famously chose number 0 for his jersey to represent the number of minutes that experts predicted he would play in the league. He proved them wrong.
Arenas' ascension to the top of the league was fast-paced. During the 2003-2003 season, he won the NBA Most Improved Player Award a became the MVP of the Rookie-Sophomore game during the NBA All-Star Weekend.
By the following season, Arenas had become a free agent and signed a contract with the Washington Wizards.
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In 2005, he led the team to their first playoff in six years and was selected to his first of three NBA All-Star Games. The following year, Arenas set the Wizards' record for most points scored by a single player in a game with 60 points in a game against the Lakers.
Arenas' performance only kept improving through the season, but in 2007, he tore his medial collateral ligament after Charlotte Bobcats' player Gerald Wallace accidentally fell on his (Arena's) knee.
Arenas had to sit out the rest of the season when it was clear he wasn't fully recovered even after going under surgery.
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In July 2008, Arenas signed a new six-year contract with the Wizards. He started the 2009-2010 season with a reignited spark, but in December 2009, his career came to a halt after an incident with a firearm.
GILBERT ARENAS' GUN SCANDAL
Arenas admitted to having brought four unloaded guns to his locker room at the Verizon Arena–now the Capital One Arena–in Washington D.C, effectively breaking the NBA's rules against firearms, and violating Washington D.C's laws by carrying a gun without a license.
It was later reported that Arenas wasn't the only one with a gun. His teammate Javaris Crittenton also had his own, and the presence of firearms esteemed from a gambling confrontation the two players had a day earlier.
Arenas was eventually suspended without pay, a decision that then-NBA commissioner David Stern made after watching how Arenas made fun of such a serious issue on the court and social media.
Arenas apologized for his behavior, and after the NBA concluded its investigation, he was back on the game for the 2010–11 season.
During that season, Arenas was traded to the Orlando Magic, but he was waived from his contract and went on to sign with the Memphis Grizzlies for one season.
He played one last season with the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association in 2012 before officially retiring from basketball.
MORE OF GILBERT ARENAS' SCANDALS
Although his basketball career didn't go how many thought it would—with him entering the Hall of Fame—Arenas has managed to stay relevant for other types of highlights, not necessarily positive.
For example, in 2013 alone, Arenas was arrested for having a truck filled with boxes containing illegal fireworks. He also admitted he regularly ran red lights and avoided tickets by using his dealer's plaques.
In 2018, Arenas was involved in another scandal when a woman accused him of threatening her with releasing an adult video of the two of them. Arenas claimed the allegations were false and fired back with a lawsuit for defamation.
The pair ended up agreeing on a settlement out of court, with the woman paying Arenas an undisclosed amount.
Last year, Arenas' former teammate Nick Young recalled during his podcast "Certified Buckets" one time Arenas shoot him with a BB gun.
According to Young, he and some other teammates appeared uninvited at Arenas' house one night with paintball guns in tow. Arenas was sleeping, so they woke him up by shooting him.
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The next day, fearing Arenas' retaliation, Young brought a BB gun to the Wizards' locker, a decision that he regarded as dumb looking back.
That same day, the league had a gun safety meeting, so it was even more ironic when Arenas took the BB gun and shot Young with it.
Young laughed at the incident, recalling it as a memory of their troublemaker days in the Washington Wizards' league.
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Arenas and Govan have been at odds since their split. They went through a very public child support legal battle, and Govan is always accusing Arenas of not being a hands-on father.
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1635: The Eastern Front — Snippet 25
Posted on July 9, 2010 by Drak Bibliophile
The real heat — the real fury, calling things by their right name — was centered on the other major issue before the nation.
Who was to be considered a citizen of the USE in the first place?
Again, there were basically four positions:
The citizenship program of Mike Stearns and his Fourth of July Party was simple. They lifted it word-for-word, in fact, from the constitution of the United States in the universe they'd left behind, as modified by what the up-timers called the Fourteenth Amendment:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Substitute "Province" for "State" and there you had, in two sentences, the position of the Fourth of July Party. Which, needless to say, was vociferously and belligerently supported by the Committees of Correspondence.
The opposing positions fell into three camps.
The far opposite position, as with the matter of an established church, was subscribed to by few people — in this case, intellectuals rather than reactionaries. These were people so addicted to regularity and precision that they insisted that whatever criteria for citizenship were decided upon needed to be applied to all provinces uniformly.
Most members of the Crown Loyalist Party considered that completely impractical. The variations in local and regional custom when it came to citizenship were simply too great. Trying to come up with any standard criteria applied across the board nationally would tie up the parliament for years.
Instead, as with the established church, most Crown Loyalists felt that each province needed to establish its own criteria for citizenship. Some of them even pointed out that that had been the stance originally taken by the United States the up-timers came from.
(To which Mike Stearns responded bluntly and crudely: "Yup, we sure did, which goes to prove Americans can fuck up like the best of 'em. As a result of which, we saddled ourselves with slavery, property qualifications to vote — you name the stupid limitation on citizenship, we did it — and it took Andy Jackson and a civil war to get rid of all that crap.")
Within that broad camp, a division existed. The moderate wing of the Crown Loyalists, with Hesse-Kassel again in the lead, advocated that citizenship criteria should be established by the provincial governments.
That was simple enough, they argued. In private, Stearns had told them that if his back was to the wall, he'd accept that compromise also.
But most of the Crown Loyalists thought that policy would be disastrous, and for two reasons.
First, they pointed out — correctly enough — that Hesse-Kassel's position amounted to locking the barn after the horse got out. There being as yet no established constitution for the USE, the recent election that had produced the existing provincial governments had willy-nilly been held under the terms dictated by the prime minister in power, Mike Stearns. He had simply decreed that all adult permanent residents were citizens and thus could vote.
To be sure, in many of the provinces still dominated by traditional elites there had been plenty of voter intimidation and vote fraud. Still, from the viewpoint of most Crown Loyalists, the result was hopelessly tainted. Allowing the provincial governments elected under Stearns' dictatorial fiat to turn around and decide citizenship was preposterous. As one prominent Crown Loyalist put it, "You might as well allow a band of robbers to vote on whether their loot is legal."
Abstractly, their position held quite a bit of merit. But Wilhelm V and Amalie Elizabeth thought that was pure folly. In the real world, sensible people — for sure, sensible rulers — had to accept that certain realities, no matter how unpleasant, were too well-established to try to overturn.
Unfortunately, their practical and moderate position was not shared by most of their party. The majority of Crown Loyalists insisted that the decision on who was and who wasn't a citizen had to be made in each province by that province's traditional and established authorities, not the newly-elected, bastard legislatures.
Looked at from one angle, this stance was more than a bit absurd. After all, the Crown Loyalists held state power in the USE because they'd won a majority of the seats in the existing parliament, be that parliament never so distorted and basely-born.
But that was only true nationally. The majority of the Crown Loyalists were adamant that "proper" citizenship criteria had to be established in every province as well. Left to their own devices, Magdeburg province and the State of Thuringia-Franconia would implement the Fourth of July Party's definition of citizenship. That would give those two very prominent provinces — the SoTF was already the USE's most populous province — even more sway in national affairs. That would be inevitable, since the voter rolls of most other provinces would drop drastically after the provincial elites re-established traditional citizenship criteria.
Without realizing it, the down-time Crown Loyalists were being sucked into the same quicksand that had trapped the slave-owners in the early up-time United States. The free states — or full-citizenship provinces, in the case of the USE — would inevitably wind up with more voters than the slave states. Or, in this case, more voters than those provinces which sharply limited citizenship.
Amalie Elizabeth and her husband were far more familiar with up-time history than most Crown Loyalists. The Landgrave had once suggested at a national gathering of Crown Loyalist leaders, quite sarcastically, that perhaps the Crown Loyalists should demand that all non-citizens in limited-citizenship provinces should be considered 3/5 of a person for the purpose of determining the size of the electorate.
The reference had passed right over the heads of most people present, of course. But it didn't matter. The proposal that was actually adopted by that gathering and then accepted by most Crown Loyalists went beyond Hesse-Kassel's satire: They argued that all non-citizens in a limited-citizenship province should be counted as citizens for the purpose of determining the electoral strength of that province.
That position, needless to say, infuriated the CoCs and the members of the Fourth of July Party. As one wag put it, "Why not simplify things and have just one citizen in every province who exercises all of the votes of the rest of the people who live in the province? What a novel idea! Maybe we could call it 'tyranny.'"
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Doug Lampert says:
Discworld in 2000 had long since made the joke about Anke-Morpork being governed under the system of One Man, One Vote. And the Patrician was the man and he had the vote.
In the USA of course qualifications for citizenship or franchise in a state do NOT effect the census numbers or represention of that state. States get congress critters based on the total number of people, including illegal alliens (noncitizens), legal resident alliens (noncitizens), and fellons who aren't allowed to vote (depends on the state). That does give the Crown Royalists a leg to stand on in terms of uptime precedent.
If additionally each province's military and tax obligations are tied to population then they have a not unreasonable claim except for the part where the actual current government doesn't get to make the determination.
Jeff Ehlers says:
So, in effect, if they go with that proposal, they guarantee that anyone who is free to leave their sandboxes (provinces) will do so, and in droves. Only the people who already have the prerogatives of citizenship would be willing to live there, and as a result, Magdeburg and SoTF will ultimately become far stronger than they will. Hopefully, the example of those two states plus Mike Stearns's knowledge of history will result in the others accepting it sometime down the road after they get their noses rubbed in it hard enough – after all, there's no "King Cotton" to make that idiotic policy even marginally profitable.
frederic says:
So the CL want to disenfranchise (sp?) all CoC supporters and fellow travellers and force them to adhere to a Church. Even in provinces where they are the clear majority and wield political and military power?
That seems….. just a little bit unwise.
Amusing thought. if, as a compromise, the CoC stronghold provinces HAVE to chose an established Church for the Province, what can they choose as a big 'FUCK YOU' sign to the establishment? Church of the All Mighty Dollar? Church of Saint Marx and Lenin? Satanism? Wicca? Scientology?
What if they take a page from the french revolution? Cult of the Suprem Being? Cult of Reason?
Willem Meijer says:
If you can read German the wikipedia-page on Scheizer Bürgerrecht is quite interesting. You still are a Swiss citizen only if you are the citizen of a Canton and a town/village. Federal law only sets the minimum standard, Canton and Gemeinde may have additional rules. One town demands 2 years residency, another 21. Being citizen of a village is important because the place you are a citizen of is liable for your upkeep if you become indigent.
In the 17th century the Dutch Republic knew a similar system. You were citizen of a town first and foremost. A Jew could become Poorter in Amsterdam (after meeting some rules on residency and employment) by swearing an oath and paying a fee, just as anyone else. other towns banned Jews from residency alltogether. If you read 17th century Dutch legal texts they are more concerned with residents/residency (ingheseetenen) and subjects (ondersaten) than with citizenship (poorterschap) because local and Provincial gouvernment was run by local oligarchies, not elected bodies. Being a citizen had other uses: you might join a guild (if you were no Jew), you might be forced to join the local milittia, or your children might end up in a better orphanage than the one for non-citizens.
I think I made some comment on the previous snippet that Gustav was going to be very upset to find that in the middle of a war, civil war has broken out inside the nations.
Nico de Lange says:
Doug, as far as I know, illegal aliens are NOT counted during census time in the US, so how can their numbers be included in the calculations for HoR representation?
Of course, I'm an outsider, so I might be very mistaken – but I've been following the immigration debate (amongst others), since I'm planning to emigrate to the States as soon as I graduate, and the impression I get is that illegals are not counted for any official purposes.
But, getting back to the story, it seems to me that the Crown Loyalist party is setting themselves up for something similar to what happened to the Democrats after the Civil War in the States – out of power, out of influence for decades to come. I know we've been getting hints of a coming civil war in the USE for a while now, precisely because of the citizenship issue, and I know that there's been plenty of times in our own timeline when elite's proved themselves lacking in even the most basic intelligence, but it's still something I can't quite understand.
Summercat says:
@8 –
A civil war with the 'Far Left' snagging the 'Middle', and the Emperor probably siding with Stearns after he 'proves' himself on the battlefield.
Crown Loyalists get smacked, broken, and the FoJP takes over again.
Flashpoint will likely be the Pommeranian representatives.
I suspect all this internal trouble will rise to a nice boil and will be quickly quashed when either the Poles/and more likely the Ottoman Empire tries to rewrite history. My bet is that the Poles get somewhat involved but see the light when the Ottoman's kick off their offensive. Nothing like a large external threat to focus your attention on what's important.
This seem to have a lot of parallels to the Roman Social Wars. The Socii (friends and allies of Rome, but technically "independent" cities in the Italian penninsula) were denied representation in the Roman reprentative assemblies. Roman citizens that lived in the Socii cities could vote, but natives of the cities could not, even though they paid Roman taxes and were subject to Roman law. Eventually things went boom. This was the round of wars preceding the Roman Civil War. Believe this was where Sulla and Pompey Magnus's daddy made their military bones.
@7, Most illegals don't fill out a form. But they're supposed to and if they do they are most definitely counted.
Ten years ago there was some controvery when some Democrats suggested ESTIMATING the number of illegals in each jurisdiction and adding them to the census numbers without bothering to actually count them.
@8: It isn't so much that elites lack the most basic of intelligence, it's that they fall into the mental trap of only thinking about a matter based on how it affects them, rather than the multitudes of less-fortunate people who actually comprise the majority of any country. Basically, their innate bias puts shackles and blinders on their intelligence, which ultimately leaves them open to being taken down by individuals who aren't hobbling themselves in that manner.
After all, most of the Crown Loyalists are down-time nobility, and they don't have the habits of thought which lead to thinking of all people as basically, fundamentally equal. Even people with those habits of thoughts can still fall prey to only considering how an issue affects them and not how it affects others, so how much more easily can a group of people not accustomed to thinking that way fall prey to the same thing?
@13 "It isn't so much that elites lack the most basic of intelligence, it's that they fall into the mental trap of only thinking about a matter based on how it affects them, rather than the multitudes of less-fortunate people who actually comprise the majority of any country."
One could say that about most of the men who led the American Colonies into revolution. There were those who were greatly principled and were influenced by the writings of political philosophers like Voltaire and Rousseau, but many of them were only concerned about how British policies affected them or their patrons–both most likely. That is why the slavery issue was allowed to be swept under the rug at the Constitutional Convention.
I am surprised that the 4th of July Party did not remember to make sure that the wording in the 19th Amendment was made part of their voting rights platform. Where the heck was Becky?
In Amsterdam, if I recall.
The population v citizenship standard for legislative districts is actually quite common, as are differential franchises in federations. And can we reasonably assume that GA is an impassioned supporter of universal suffrage?
Contemporary Sweden had a fairly powerful parliament and GA was instrumental in making it that way, but the franchise for the Fourth Estate still required you to own land. GA tends to get written in this series as an absolute monarch in Sweden, although that was actually not the case, and as unfamiliar with constitutions and legislatures although that is equally untrue. A new king had to issue a charter that described his relations with the rest of the state and promised no new laws or taxes without consent. GA was an active legislator and his Articles of War are one of the sources of modern international humanitarian law.
I know the founding USE document, whatever it was called and however it was issued, was written in a hurry, but it seems a bit unlikely no-one thought to define the franchise. If, as seems most likely, there was some kind of 'union treaty' between the states it would be interesting to know how it is amended. It is also possible it's just a Swedish-style charter issued by GA.
Terranovan says:
@3,4 frederic: They could make it Judaism (as the state church).
@17 Since they have access to uptime history they will know all about the splits/schisms/etc in Judaism that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. So will Orthodox, Conservative or Reform Judaism be the official religion? And if Orthodox, will it be the Sephardic or Ashkenazy flavor? And if not, will the services be all in Hebrew or will they be in Hebrew and in the vernacular or maybe even in Yiddish or Ladino? Or…
I doubt you'll see an out an out civil war. My reasoning is that no matter how stupid the majority of Crown Loyalists this is all happening just months after the Dreeson affair when the CoC's virtually destroyed the Witch hunters and radical anti semites. Do you really think Wilhelm Wetting will bring on civil war when the Swedish army isnt around to defend them.
Drak Bibliophile says:
Jason, the problem is that Wilhelm may not be 'in control' of the situation. He wouldn't start the civil war, he just can't do anything to stop it.
@18 robert: I was just joining in frederic's joke. But, to answer your questions:
1: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform? Those splits/schisms/etc occurred, as you've noted, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. So, the only representatives anyone but the Orthodox will have are uptimers, putting them in a solid minority – so, Orthodox (or, for an extra-large F-YOU sign to the Crown Loyalists, ALL of them).
2: If Orthodox, Sephardic or Ashkenazi? Why not both?
3: Hebrew, vernacular, Yiddish, or Ladino? Again, why not all of them?
Robert Krawitz says:
The only Jew in the series who's really opposed to what we'd call Orthodox Judaism is Morris Roth — Judith, as I recall from RoF1, scolded him for that. And he's in Prague, anyway. That other young guy who went with them was studying to become a Reform rabbi, all right, but he didn't seem to have any objection at all to Orthodox observance.
I imagine Becky would stomp really, really hard on any Ashkenazic/Sephardic schisms — and she'd go out of her way not to favor one side. Morris Roth would also have a lot of interest in not allowing that, either, and the fact that the Jews of Prague seem to consider him to be Sephardic ("Don Morris") doesn't seem to alienate them from him. I also don't think that that would be too difficult to accomplish. There aren't any doctrinal disagreements and only minor differences in ritual observance that are considered differences in tradition that are not backed by law. Both groups are also very well aware of anti-Semitism, and word about the Holocaust will spread quickly. So they'll have every reason to stand united and relatively little reason to invent disputes.
Finally, Jews tend not to proselytize, Orthodox least of all (some Reform rabbis will attempt to persuade a non-Jewish spouse to convert; Orthodox rabbis will vigorously discourage intermarriage in the first place). I think I've read some place that an Orthodox rabbi will make three separate, sincere attempts to discourage a non-Jew from converting, to ensure that the person is really committed to Judaism. There are six laws of Moses that non-Jews are expected to observe; the only one I can think of that might be controversial is one requiring monotheism.
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I was also joking. As a state religion that requires circumcision-IN THE 17TH CENTURY-OUCHY-Judaism would not attract too many converts, even if it were made easier in other respects. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Being Jewish is not for sissies.
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Saving drummers across the country from the tyranny of the click track, computer engineer Andrew Robertson is liberating bands to drive the tempo of their live performances.
Andrew Robertson
Engineer Andrew Robertson is saving drummers across the country from the tyranny of the click track by liberating bands to drive the tempo of their live performances.
Andrew Robertson is a Computer Engineer working at Queen Mary, University of London on music signal processing. He's engineered a software package that allows bands to liberate themselves from the tyranny of a click track in live performances, setting them free to drive the tempo of their music to the response of the crowd and still keep their layered backing tracks in time with the beat.
'Born to Engineer – Andrew Robertson' is the fourth film in the series Duck Rabbit produced for the ERA Foundation as part of a campaign to attract young people into engineering education and careers.
Published November 2014
Produced by duckrabbit


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Q: Reverse the values of a list of variables I have a df in which around 50 variables have with character values ranging from 1,2,3,4
var
1
2
3
4

How can I "bulk" change the values reversing them such that I get:
var
4
3
2
1

So 4 becomes 1, 3 becomes 2, etc... Kind of like applying the formula (var = 5-value) for each variable but for character values.
This as mentioned for a long list of variables (~50).

A: You can try :
library(dplyr)
df %>% mutate(across(var1:var50, ~5 - as.numeric(.)))

OR in base R :
cols <- paste0('var', 1:50)
df[cols] <- lapply(df[cols], function(x) 5 - as.numeric(x))

A: If you're just subtracting the data.frame from a value, as you indicate in your example, you should be able to just do this:
df[] <- 5 - data.matrix(df)

Here's an example:
df <- data.frame(var1 = as.character(c(1, 2, 3, 4)),
                 var2 = as.character(c(10, 20, 30, 40)),
                 stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
df[] <- 5 - data.matrix(df)
str(df)
#  'data.frame':   4 obs. of  2 variables:
#  $ var1: num  4 3 2 1
#  $ var2: num  -5 -15 -25 -35

If you're just reversing the row order, then something like this should work:
df[nrow(df):1, ]
#   var1 var2
# 4    4   40
# 3    3   30
# 2    2   20
# 1    1   10

A: You can use tidyverse's mutate_at() or mutate_all().

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<html>
<head>
	<title>AG JS Library Unit Tests - ag.core.RangeReducer</title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>

<script src="../goog/base.js"></script>
<script src="../deps.js"></script>
<script>
goog.require('goog.testing.jsunit');
goog.require('goog.math.Coordinate');
goog.require('goog.math.Size');
goog.require('goog.object');
goog.require('ag.core.ClosedIntRange');
goog.require('ag.core.RangeReducer');
</script>
<body>
<script>
var object = goog.object;

var ClosedIntRange = ag.core.ClosedIntRange;
var RangeReducer = ag.core.RangeReducer;

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function test_reduce() {
	var x = RangeReducer.getInstance();

	var testRows = [
		// Empty input
		{input: [], expect: []},

		// Single range
		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(0, 1)],
		 expect: [0, 1]},

		// Two non-overlapping ranges
		// X _ O
		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(0), new ClosedIntRange(2)],
		 expect: [0, 2]},

		// Two ranges just touching
		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(0, 1), new ClosedIntRange(2, 3)],
		 expect: [0, 1, 2, 3]},

		// Two ranges exactly overlapping
		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(), new ClosedIntRange()],
		 expect: [0]},

		// Two partially overlapping ranges
		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(0, 1), new ClosedIntRange(1, 2)],
		 expect: [0, 1, 2]},

		// One range completely encompassing other range
		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(0, 5), new ClosedIntRange(2, 4)],
		 expect: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]},

		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(2, 3), new ClosedIntRange(0, 4)],
		 expect: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]},

		// Three overlapping ranges
		{input: [new ClosedIntRange(0, 2), new ClosedIntRange(3, 0), new ClosedIntRange(0, -1)],
		 expect: [-1, 0, 1, 2, 3]}
	];

	for (var i=0; i<testRows.length; i++) {
		var testRow = testRows[i];
		var input = testRow.input;
		var expect = testRow.expect;

		var result = x.reduce(input);
		var resultCoverage = ClosedIntRange.coverage(result);
		assertEquals(object.getKeys(resultCoverage).length, expect.length);
		for (var j=0; j<expect.length; j++) {
			var key = expect[j];
			assertTrue(object.containsKey(resultCoverage, key));
			assertEquals(resultCoverage[key], 1);
		}
	}
};

</script>
</body>
</html>

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In honor of the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, my book club chose A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton as one of our selections.
This well-written recounting of the final year of war for the Army of the Potomac was mesmerizing. The research was based on journals, letters, diaries, and other documents so that much of the story is from the perspective of the soldiers involved in the struggle. You were immediately drawn into the conflict and the conditions that the soldiers had to endure, the constant marching, hunger, and lack of sleep. I felt that I could taste the dust that was kicked up by thousands of marching feet, enjoyed the camaraderie of the troops, and shared in their longing for victory. Not being one who normally reads military history, I found that I couldn't put it down and could not help but be moved by the raw courage of these men.
Stillness at Appomattox won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction. It is the final volume of Catton's The Army of the Potomac trilogy, but can be read on its own. It can be found on the third floor in the Drexel Library at E470.2.C36S.


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The beginning of the digital age ushered in an ease of communication unmatched by any other era in history. Though this is definitely something for modern society to be proud of, it does have some odd and sometimes, controversial repercussions. Among these are rising divorce rates, increase in child obesity and off-kilter "dating" sites that offer snuggle for pay. Trend Hunter's CEO and innovation keynote speaker Jeremy Gutsche discussed these statistics at length with CTV News today.
According to the Globe and Mail, the cause of increase in divorce rates is not what should be emphasized; the more intriguing back story here is the age of participants in said splits. Ohio's Bowling Green State University was compelled to look into the age of divorcees after Al and Tipper Gore shocked the nation with their divorce in 2010. The study yielded shocking results, considering common conceptions were that boomers stay together. It found that "More than 600,000 people aged 50 and older got divorced in 2009 in the U.S," identifying shifting gender roles as a factor.
Another potential factor in the rise of divorce rates among boomers could be new-found ease in finding alternative mates as more and more niche dating sites come to light. Among these oddball matchmaking sites is Snuggery, a site based solely on allowing singles to find a cuddle mate. According to the Globe and Mail, founder and 'Sole Snuggler' Jacqueline Samuel started the Snuggery because "[Snuggling] just makes you feel good." Could this be the beginning of a new, more wholesome approach to romance? Or will snuggling serve as a gateway to a more sinister form of connection?
Though the Internet is the main focus of the dating world now, it seems television still has a heavy hand in the mental and physical health of society -- particularly, children. Television and other similar forms of passive entertainment are the cause for an increase in child obesity. The Globe and Mail reports that a Canadian Study has found a strong connection between hours of television watched and inches to a child's waistline. The study finds that "By the time children in the study were 4.5 years old, their waist size increased by about half a millimetre for every additional hour of TV they were watching compared with when they were 2.5."
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Keeping up with Austin Davis
Kristopher Lodes Daily Telegram Sports Writer @LenaweeLodes
Onsted grad reflects on redshirt season with Michigan basketball team
Michigan men's basketball coach John Beilein says he's, 'no Kardashians', his teammates call him Big Country and sometimes he went by Caleb Swanigan during practice.
While many Wolverines might not know who Austin Davis actually is yet, Lenawee County knows what he can do, and he hopes after redshirting his freshman year, the rest of the Big Ten will know his actual name soon.
"I'm looking forward to having a great year," Davis said. "I'm going to continue to work hard and be ready for whatever is asked for me."
Standing at 6-feet-10-inches and weighing 240 pounds, Davis wasn't used to sitting during a game, let alone an entire season.
But that's what he had to this year, as Beilein and staff felt it was best to let the three-time Lenawee County Player of the Year from Onsted watch and grow as a player before he hits the floor for the 2017-18 season.
"It was definitely something to get used to," Davis said. "It was hard seeing all of teammates going out and playing. But I was happy for them, and I kind of enjoyed seeing the whole process. I also recognize that it was a great year."
It wasn't until halfway through the season when Beilein really saw what Davis could do.
At a press conference in late February, Beilein said he regretted giving Davis a redshirt.
"I wish I knew what I know now," Beilein told reporters. "But in middle January, it all started slowing down. Guys just throw him the ball, and he puts it in.
"There's no drama. There's no Kardashians."
Simply put, Davis goes about his business and does whatever is asked of him on the floor. He might not be a Kardashian, but he is famous for what he did at Onsted.
"A lot of the guys call me Big Country coming from Onsted," Davis said.
His job during the season as a redshirt was to get the guys who would be on the floor during games a good look on the scout team.
After a mediocre first half of the season, the Wolverines went on run from early February that lasted through the Big Ten Tournament, where they won the title and eventually advanced into the Sweet 16.
During the run, Michigan did something many Big Ten teams couldn't. The Wolverines went 2-0 against Big Ten regular season champion Purdue and held the Player of the Year Caleb Swanigan in check.
Averaging 18.5 points per game, 12.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists on the season. Swanigan stands at 6-feet-9-inches at weighs 249 pounds and can shoot from anywhere on the floor.
"I played him on scout team quite a bit," Davis said. "I'm sure it helped a little bit."
The Wolverines beat Purdue 82-70 in the regular season and 74-70 in the Big Ten quarterfinals. In the games, Swanigan averaged 15.5 points (three below average), nine rebounds (3.5 below average) and 2.5 assists (0.6 below average).
During his time on the scout team, Davis learned a lot, as he was tested on a daily basis.
He spent every day going up against 6-foot-11-inch Mo Wagner, as well as fellow bigs Mark Donnal and D.J. Wilson. He also learned a lot about being a leader by observing Derrick Walton Jr. and Zak Irvin.
"Every day at practice going against (Wagner and Donnal) taught me a lot," Davis said. "To play against Mo with how versatile he is and having to guard him, you never know what he's going to do. I was able to get a better feel of how we play here. Also Zak and Derrick were great leaders."
A lot was said about Walton's leadership going into the Big Ten Tournament following the highly publicized plane accident the Wolverines went through in Ypsilanti, as they were on their way to Washington, D.C.
Davis' experience on the plane was a bit subdued.
"It's hard to put into words," Davis said. "For me, I didn't know what has happening until it was pretty well over. It all happened so fast. It was a crazy incident and one I will never forget."
Davis also won't forget the run that followed.
Michigan, as the No. 8 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, went on to win the Big Ten title and an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament.
In the tournament, the Wolverines advanced to the Sweet 16 with wins against Oklahoma State and Louisville, before getting edged out by Oregon, which went to the Final Four.
"It was a really great experience," Davis said. "Especially for me to see our older guys conduct themselves throughout the whole thing with what they put emphasis on. It was a great learning experience."


1995-07-15 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento -- As protesters in wheelchairs circled his office to denounce proposed state budget cuts, Governor Wilson yesterday retreated from a plan to cut welfare by 25 percent and proposed a new plan tying benefit reductions to housing costs.
In Wilson's latest plan, about three-quarters of welfare recipients, including those in San Francisco and Alameda, would face reductions of not more than 15 percent, while those in higher-rent suburban counties face cuts of 12 percent or less.
Wilson's proposal -- which would save the state as much as $773 million -- applies to the 2.9 million single parents and children in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program and 1 million aged, blind and disabled Californians who receive Supplemental Security Income payments.
To the disabled SSI recipients stationed for the second time this week outside Wilson's office, the plan was still unacceptable.
"These politicians should leave SSI and welfare alone," said Pat Burman of Chico. "All they are going to do by cutting is hurt kids on welfare and the disabled people."
"Where's Pete? We want Pete!" the demonstrators chanted. He was inside, and declined to meet with them. Instead, he dispatched an aide to do the job.
Protest leader Rocky Burks of Chico and legislative employee Donald Wilson got into a scuffle. Burks was jailed after he refused to accept a citation, police said.
As the state entered the second week of the new fiscal year without a budget, the Legislature planned to meet today and next week even though their month-long summer recess had been scheduled to begin yesterday.
With health and welfare accounting for about 27 percent of state spending, AFDC and SSI are central budget issues, and lawmakers of both parties agree with Wilson that more cuts are inevitable.
"The budget doesn't balance without some constraint in the health and welfare area," said Senate President Pro Tem Bill Lockyer, D-Hayward.
The new welfare plan is a significant shift in position for the Republican governor, who had originally proposed an immediate 10 percent cut in benefits for AFDC recipients and another 15 percent after six months of receiving benefits, and an 8 percent reduction for people receiving SSI.
As described by administration officials and legislators, Wilson's new proposal -- patterned after a Democratic proposal offered earlier -- would divide the state into three regions defined by the cost of housing.
Welfare recipients in Marin, Orange, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Ventura -- the counties with the highest cost of living -- would receive no reduction.
In Alameda, San Francisco and suburban counties around the state, checks would be cut 3.1 percent, to $588. Seventy- four percent of the state's AFDC recipients would fall into this category.
In rural areas, grants would be cut by 6 percent. The check for a parent with two children would drop to $570.
Beyond the regional cuts, Wilson wants across-the-board cuts from 1 percent to 12 percent, with the final figure to be negotiated by Wilson and legislative leaders.
Thus, the deepest possible cut would be 18 percent, in the rural areas, where only about 10 percent of the AFDC recipients live.
A similar regional plan would also apply to SSI recipients, but Wilson has not proposed an across-the-board cut greater than 8 percent.


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President Buhari signed extradition treaty that states that Diezani,7 ex-governors, others to lose Dubai assets
President Buhari has signed an extradition treaty with the United Arab Emirates yesterday August 24th, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, seven former governors and 14 other corrupt government officials and businessmen,
are reportedly going to lose their assets and investment hidden in Dubai, the UAE capital.
The Nation reports that all the 22 former political leaders and businessmen are being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Under investigation are seven former governors, seven ex-ministers, four businessmen, a former PDP chieftain, a former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, a former presidential assistant indicted in the $2.1billion arms deals and a former First Lady who allegedly used fronts to acquire properties illegally in Dubai.
Two of the assets have been traced to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who was implicated by the United States Department of Justice as a beneficiary of a $1.5billion laundered cash. Also under investigation are about five luxury properties allegedly linked with a former chairman of the defunct Oceanic Bank.
After a state visit to the UAE by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 19th last year, the Federal Government signed six agreements with the Emirates. Some aspects of the understanding border on Judicial Agreements on Extradition, Transfer of Sentenced Persons, Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters, and Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters (the recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth).
A government source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "With the signing of the agreements, a major hurdle has been cleared and this will enable us to proceed with the application for the seizure of the assets of more than 22 highly-placed Nigerians who have been under probe for alleged money laundering.
Before the pact, the UAE law mandates any foreign anti-graft agency to seek the consent of the owner of any property being verified before you can have access to same. But now, the anti-graft agencies in Nigeria can send a list of suspected assets to the UAE authorities through the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mutual Legal Assistance will be invoked. Our task is made easier because the Land Registry System is digitalised in a manner that it will not take five minutes to obtain information on anyone suspected of money laundering. The onus is on us to present sufficient facts on why some of these assets should be seized. We will show evidence of corrupt practices, the laundering of public funds and the purchase of the suspected assets with looted funds."
Responding to a question, the source added: "The EFCC has secured Mareva Injunction to freeze some foreign accounts and seize some assets linked with some of these highly placed Nigerians in some jurisdictions."
Some of the off-shore financial institutions, where accounts are frozen, include BNP Paribas (Switzerland), LGT Bank (Switzerland), Standard Chartered Bank (London),Barclays Bank (London), Standard Energy (Voduz, Switzerland), HSBC (London), Corner Bank (Lugano, Switzerland) and Deutsche Bank (Geneva).
According to the source, "with the indictment of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, by the US Department of Justice and her two alleged business associates, seizing their assets will be easier".
Besides, the conviction of a former Oceanic Bank official by a court in Nigeria was enough to seize any assets linked to her.
"We are set to go with the seizure of eight apartments. But out of the eight identified, two apartments linked with Diezani are marked as J5 Emirates Hills (30million Dirham) and E146 Emirates Hills valued at 44million Dirham," the source said.
The former governors, include one from the Southsouth, two from Northcentral, two from the Northeast, one from the Northwest, and one from the Southwest.
"We also have the case of a former-governor who failed in his bid to transfer about $517million loot to Dominican Republic from the UAE. We will want to seize the cash," the official said.
Sections 7 of 28 and 34 of the EFCC (Establishment Act) 2004 and Section 13(1) of the Federal High Court Act, 2004 mandate the agency to seize suspicious assets.
Section 7 says: "The commission has power to (a) cause any investigations to be conducted as to whether any person, corporate body or organisation has committed any offence under this Act or other law relating to economic and financial crimes.
"(b) Cause investigations to be conducted into the properties of any person if it appears to the commission that the person's lifestyle and extent of the properties are not justified by his source of income."
Sections 28 and 34 of the EFCC (Establishment Act) 2004 and Section 13(1) of the Federal High Court Act, 2004 empower the anti-graft agency to invoke Interim Assets Forfeiture Clause.
"Section 28 of the EFCC Act reads: 'Where a person is arrested for an offence under this Act, the Commission shall immediately trace and attach all the assets and properties of the person acquired as a result of such economic or financial crime and shall thereafter cause to be obtained an interim attachment order from the Court.'
Section 13 of the Federal High Court Act reads in part: "The Court may grant an injunction or appoint a receiver by an interlocutory order in all cases in which it appears to the Court to be just or convenient so to do.
(2) Any such order may be made either unconditionally or on such terms and conditions as the Court thinks just."
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign and Domestic Debts, Senator Shehu Sani had previously disclosed that over $200 billion had been hidden in UAE.
"Over $200 billion is stashed away from Nigeria to Dubai alone. This may be the monies stolen since in the past 20 years. I am not talking about estates and bonds and other securities bought with Nigeria stolen money."
The anti-money laundering policy of UAE Central Bank reads:
"Any person who commits, or attempts to commit, a Money Laundering offence shall be punished by imprisonment of up to 10 years and or a fine of between AED 100,000 and AED 500,000. In cases of multiple perpetrators, the Court subject to its discretion, may exempt a perpetrator from the imprisonment penalty if he takes the initiative and reports the crime to the competent authorities prior to the knowledge of such authorities and if his actions lead to the arrest of the other perpetrators or seizure of the laundered money. Any establishment that commits an offence of money laundering, financing of terrorism or financing of any unlawful organizations, shall be punished by a fine of AED 300,000 and AED 1,000,000. Failure to report a suspicious transaction shall be punishable by imprisonment and /or a fine of between AED 50,000 and AED 300,000. Tipping off a person being investigated regarding a suspicious transaction shall be punishable by imprisonment of up to one year and/ or a fine of between AED10,000 and AED 100,000. Violation of the requirements of Airport Declarations shall be punishable by imprisonment and or a fine."


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ANNOUNCEMENT 30 Oct 2019
Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts – Pre-Launch Trailer
CI Games have released a new pre-launch trailer for long range lead delivery game Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts. Check out the press release below for more info.
DotHack GU Last Recode Launch Trailer
The remaster of .hack//G.U. Last Recode is only a few days away and we've got a sweet launch trailer for you. .hack/G.U. Was originally a trilogy of games on the PlayStation 2 where you play as Haseo as he explores a faux-MMO called The World. Oh, and your best friend is in a coma after…
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Aww, it's all mushy and sweet! The new trailer, An Open Letter, is meant to reflect the themes of friendship that Life Is Strange is all about. It doesn't really have much to do with the game though and all these supposedly different people are all reading from the exact same piece of paper in…
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Another classic JRPG franchise rises from the ashes of early console exclusivity with the exciting announcement from Bandai Namco and CyberConnect2's return of the .hack//G.U. series with Last Recode. This fantastic RPG trilogy, which found a home on the PlayStation 2 way back in 2006, is being dusted off and ported over to our beloved PC platform. Not…


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Krudas
Krudas explores the lives and work of a Cuban lesbian couple who are hip hop singers and performers. The duo Krudas addresses issues such as women's liberation, lesbian rights, female solidarity and racism. Their work is...
Krudas explores the lives and work of a Cuban lesbian couple who are hip hop singers and performers. The duo Krudas addresses issues such as women's liberation, lesbian rights, female solidarity and racism. Their work is deeply engaged with feminism and strong ties to their African roots.
Their songs represent an effort to upset semantics and syntax. Krudas conceive language itself as the root of female exclusion and thus summons men to engage in dialogue refusing to engage in any hierarchical structures. Krudas emphasize the use of the first person - one will hear the repetition of the first person "yo" (I) often followed by their own names to further personalize their discourse. Krudas' first person extends beyond mere autobiographical narrative; their "I" is an attempt to formulate a double subjectivity, what philosopher Luce Irigaray calls "I-she" ("Je-elle") and "I-he" ("Je-"lui"). In addition to leading the hip hop duo and the street performance group Tropazancos, Krudas have also organized a network of female hip hop artists, Omega, to unite women in the hip hop and alternative music scenes. Omega's goal is to join forces in order to generate larger projects, including all-female collective performances, recordings, and workshops. This short documentary provides fodder for examinations on feminism, linguistics, gender studies, queer studies, and studies of the African Diaspora.
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Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women
Home > Books > Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women
Authors: Charles Fishman, Smittah Sahay
Genres: Poetry, Women's rights
Tags: Poetry, Women's Studies
Publisher: Kasva Press
Format: Paperback / Hardcover
VEILS, HALOS & SHACKLES, the first-ever anthology of international poetry specifically addressing the oppression and empowerment of women, includes over 250 poems by poets from dozens of countries – from Brazil to Bangladesh, from New Zealand to Nigeria – many of them among the world's most accomplished living poets.
In addition to extraordinary poems, VEILS, HALOS & SHACKLES includes testimony by the poets explaining what moved them to address this subject in their work. This volume is an important and timely contribution to the cause of women's empowerment and freedom, speaking to a global audience and giving a voice to the millions whose outcries have been silenced.
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"Every poet holds a candle; every poem speaks up against injustice. This book is a protest march."
— Smita Sahay, Associate Editor
All over the world, girls and women are victims of violence, oppression, and discrimination. No country, no community, no religious or ethnic group is immune. Too often, women's voices are stifled, ignored, or trivialized — and as a result, other victims of abuse feel alone and unsupported.
A Unique and Important Anthology
As part of the global effort to combat gender-based victimization, Kasva Press is proud to publish Veils, Halos & Shackles, the first-ever anthology of international poetry specifically addressing the oppression and empowerment of women. Veils, Halos & Shackles includes 249 poems by poets from dozens of countries — from Brazil to Bangladesh, from New Zealand to Nigeria. Many of the contributors are among the world's most accomplished living poets.
These diverse, impeccably crafted poems tell us that Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, the US, the UK, and other countries are not so dissimilar where the oppression of women is concerned. Many of the contributors to Veils, Halos & Shackles are survivors of rape and other crimes that affect women and girls every day; others are grandmothers, mothers, daughters, friends, and teachers of victims and survivors. Still others write out of empathy and concern, having been moved deeply by the fate of human beings who just happen to be female.
Words can kill…. But words can also heal.
The December 2012 rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey in Delhi moved thousands of people to pour into the streets in protest. Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women was conceived in response to that vicious gang-rape and to the unprecedented public activism for women's safety that followed it. Editors Charles Adès Fishman and Smita Satay, distinguished poets in their own right, spent three years seeking out the finest poems and testimony to include in this unique anthology.
In editing Veils, Halos & Shackles, our focus has been on finding poems that tell the truth about the violence & oppression women are subjected to in our time — poems that move individuals & that may even have the power to affect governments — poems that ask us to protect & nurture women through intelligent laws & the transformation of cultures.
— Charles Adès Fishman & Smita Sahay
In addition to extraordinary poems, Veils, Halos & Shackles includes testimony by the poets explaining what moved them to address this subject in their work. We at Kasva Press believe that this volume will be an essential and timely contribution to the cause of women's empowerment and freedom, speaking to a global audience and giving a voice to the millions whose outcries have been silenced.
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B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta
Real Brothas
Compton & Watts
23 January 1975 (age 45)
Compton, Los Angeles County, California, United States
B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta are two brothers from Compton that are most famous for working with pioneering Gangsta Rap performer Eazy-E during the early 1990'S before his death. B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta were affiliated with the Crips during the 1980'S and 90's. They had to help care for their brothers and sisters during their childhood due to the fact that their father was not present in their lives. They resorted to drug-dealing and crime to get them through life and while Dresta was in a Juvenile Detention Center in the late 80'S he gained an interest in Rap… read more
B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta are two brothers from Compton that are most famous for working with pioneering Gangsta Rap performer Eazy-E during the early 1990'S before his death. B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta were affiliated with the Crips during the 1980'S and 90's. They had to h… read more
B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta are two brothers from Compton that are most famous for working with pioneering Gangsta Rap performer Eazy-E during the early 1990'S before his death. B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta were affiliated with the Crips during the 1980'S and 90's. They had to help care for their brothers and sisters during their childhood due to th… read more
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Q: List of all physical drives How to get list of all physical drives in UWP (Windows 10) App? I'm try to use Windows.Storage.KnownFolders, but this way I can get only folders from Library.

A: In UWP you cannot list all the files/drives just like that (with official API) - this is by design, probably for security reasons. Windows Store apps work are isolated and the access is only granted to limited resources/locations. In this case you are freely able to access virtual locations like MusicLibray, PicturesLibrary and so on. The list of access permisions you will find at MSDN.
If you want to access a file/folder from out of above scope, the user will have to grand the access to it for your app. For this purpose you can use pickers.

A: I know you asked this question a long time ago, but I created a question (Get Internal Drives Using Windows.Storage Namespace in UWP) to provide my method for getting internal drives and encourage feedback/discussion on a better alternative.
I had exactly the same problem to solve and everything else I can find online doesn't fit with what I'm trying to do. So, with the broadFileSystemAccess attribute added to the manifest file and File System access switched on for the app in Privacy Settings, it is possible to call StorageFolder.GetFolderFromPathAsync for a drive letter and it will return an instance of StorageFolder if the drive exists.
Sadly there isn't a method to list the drives, so I wrote something to cycle through all the letters of the alphabet and call GetFolderFromPathAsync to see if a drive handle is returned.
The method I created to obtain the list of drives is as follows:
public List<StorageFolder> GetInternalDrives()
{
    string driveLetters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
    int driveLettersLen = driveLetters.Length;
    string removableDriveLetters = "";
    string driveLetter;

    List<StorageFolder> drives = new List<StorageFolder>();
    StorageFolder removableDevices = KnownFolders.RemovableDevices;
    IReadOnlyList<StorageFolder> folders = Task.Run<IReadOnlyList<StorageFolder>>(async () => await removableDevices.GetFoldersAsync()).Result;

    foreach (StorageFolder removableDevice in folders)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(removableDevice.Path)) continue;
        driveLetter = removableDevice.Path.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper();
        if (driveLetters.IndexOf(driveLetter) > -1) removableDriveLetters += driveLetter;
    }

    for (int curDrive = 0; curDrive < driveLettersLen; curDrive++)
    {
        driveLetter = driveLetters.Substring(curDrive, 1);
        if (removableDriveLetters.IndexOf(driveLetter) > -1) continue;

        try
        {
            StorageFolder drive = Task.Run<StorageFolder>(async () => await StorageFolder.GetFolderFromPathAsync(driveLetter + ":")).Result;
            drives.Add(drive);
        }
        catch (System.AggregateException) { }

    }

    return drives;
}

And here is the calling code:
List<StorageFolder> drives = GetInternalDrives();
panScanParams.Children.Clear();
foreach (StorageFolder drive in drives)
{
    CheckBox cb = new CheckBox();
    cb.Content = drive.DisplayName;
    cb.IsChecked = true;
    panScanParams.Children.Add(cb);
}

Whilst the code works, it's not good practice to call methods with bad parameters and handle the exception. But with a lack of suitable alternative, I don't know what other choice there is.


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Q: Twitter plugin to display tweets from a specific user Twitter have retired their API v1 a few days ago.
So, does anybody know about any plugin which would allow you to display tweets from a specific user, and of course support Twitter API v1.1?

A: This should do what you need.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/


Driving tends to be a relatively routine experience, and if you are anything like me, unless you were recently pulled over, you probably weren't aware of some of the lesser-known rules controlling South Carolina's roadways. Sadly however, saying "I forgot" or "I didn't know" is not going to be a good enough excuse to get you out of a ticket if you ever get stopped, so here is a refresher course since getting your license.
Passing is prohibited in highway work zones.
SC Code Ann § 56-5-1895 states that "No vehicle may be driven so as to overtake and pass another vehicle in a highway work zone where road maintenance or construction work is underway and passing would be hazardous to the highway worker." Law.justia.comWe have all made fun of the six guys holding up shovels while one guy works in the ditch. But think about whether you would like to work with your back to traffic traveling at 70 MPH while trying to perform your job. While this statute may seem like just more government bureaucracy, highway workers already operate under extremely dangerous conditions, so this law makes perfect sense. Changing lanes and the relative speeds of vehicles are often the cause of accidents, and highway workers focusing on their job are especially vulnerable as unprotected pedestrians. Nevertheless, passing in work zones occurs routinely. Next time you get the urge to pass, think about the guy in the ditch working to keep our roads safe, and keep in mind that tickets in work zones often come with hefty fines. Let 'em work…let 'em live.
It is illegal to cruise in the left lane.
SC Code SECTION 56-5-1810 states that "Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane…" www.scstatehouse.govCome on people! Nobody is trying to hit you with a fine for driving the speed limit, but trust me, if you are driving slowly in the left lane, some drivers may consider hitting you with the "bird." I realize that you may want to right the wrongs of this world and keep everybody a safe speed, but camping out in the fast lane with your Coexist sticker may not be your best means of protest. The left lane is intended to be used only for passing or turning left. If this rule is followed correctly, traffic flow will increase drastically and the only birds you will see flying will be in the air.
A quality joke on a bumper sticker is always appreciated, but taking it to far could land you a ticket. While rarely enforced, bumper stickers displaying obscene images, private parts or profanity are subject to a ticket. Besides, nobody wants to see that. Think of the kids will you? The enforcement of this law is purely up to the officer's discretion, so just hope that the officer behind you has a good sense of humor. It is always safe to assume that the officer will not be amused, so keep your "special" memes to your texts and emails. Otherwise you may end up paying for more than that broken tail light.
I know what you are thinking – if law enforcement has already stopped somebody on the side of the road, you get a free pass to inch the speedometer up a few ticks. However, if you want to avoid a big surcharge on your speeding ticket, you may want to rethink your situation. Anytime any sort of emergency vehicle is pulled over on the side of the road with their lights on, drivers are required to move to the far lane if possible, and if not possible, to slow down to a reasonable speed. When stopped on the side of the road, first responders are often dangerously close to moving traffic. For some reason inattentive drivers tend to be led to blue-lights like a moth to a flame. This law serves to protect the people who are fighting to protect us, so slow your roll and give them a little room to breathe. Besides, you may avoid making the evening news as the guy who drives into the back of the trooper's car.


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Locational Advantage : Benzz Park Tulip is located in the heart of the city.
Benzz Park Tulip is a luxurious hotel and a perfect place to reside on a vacation as well as on a business trip. Here the guests get high standard of services and amenities that make their stay an experience of the lifetime. The unmatchable facilities, flawless services, personal attention, marvelous accommodation, multiple dining options and splendid ambience distinguish this hotel from others. In short, the Benzz Park Tulip caters to the need of all types of guests and has emerged as one of the best hotels of the city.
The hotel provides magnificent accommodation in 64 well-appointed rooms, categorized into Superior Room and Suite. Each room is elegantly decorated and is crafted with fine materials and fabrics.
Ferrari: A coffee shop where coffee, beverages and snacks are served.
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Courier, All Major Credit Cards Accepted, Doctor on Call, 24 hrs H/C running water, Money Changer, Newspaper, Free Room Service, TV, Telephone, Safe Deposit Box, Internet Facility, Laundry, Travel Desk Service, Convention Centre, Parking, Bar, Multi-cuisine Restaurant, Car Rental, Secretarial Assistance, Reception, Business Centre, Fridge in all rooms, Coffee Parlour, Basket Ball.


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1.1/ Approximately Year -35
1.2/ Approximately Year -25 to -22
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1.4/ Year 0
While the Combine tries to be as authentic of a Star Wars experience as we can possibly make it, it is also necessary to allow the players of the simulation to develop their own galaxy and politics, separate from the continuity of the movies and books, but still linked to it. The timeline project recounts the events of our galaxy - the Star Wars Combine galaxy - and tells how and where we diverge from the events of the canon Star Wars galaxy.
The characters we know so well from the books and movies never existed - this time it is up to you to become the heroes... and the villains!
During the last decades of the Galactic Republic, the galaxy was in turmoil. Petty conflicts between member worlds and wide-spread corruption in the Senate and the government's bureaucracy led to events that would change the course of the galaxy forever.
Taking advantage of the economic instability in the rim regions of the galaxy, the Sith approached the disgruntled Trade Federation, urging them to demonstrate against the Galactic Republic's trade restrictions with a show of brute force. The Sith, using subtle force persuasion on the weak minded Neimodian Viceroy, convinced them that an assault on the planet of Averam in the Seswenna sector would send the right message back to Republic politicians on Coruscant.
As news of the Trade Federation's aggression reached the capital planet of the Galactic Republic, the Senate was thrown in to disarray. Multiple senators called for the resignation of the reigning Supreme Chancellor who had signed and enforced the trade restrictions. Drayson, the young and charming senator of Averam, personally led the call for new elections.
As elections proceeded, the ongoing situation on Averam caused many of the senators to sympathise with Drayson and vote in his favour, beating such popular candidates as Zee Wolf of Alderaan and Mon Akira of Mon Calamari. He emerged as a clear victor, vowing to ensure the stability of the Galactic Republic and promises of a democracy free of corruption.
Drayson was, in truth, a talented politician who had become a puppet for the Dark Side from early on in his political career. Two of his most trusted advisors were Vodo Bonias, a former Republic military attach� to Averam, and Suntzu, a senator representing "the Ten" and Kuat in interstellar matters. The two had carefully shaped him over the years to make him do their bidding. While headstrong, he was not immune to the subtle influences of the Dark Side.
Using the military might of Kuat and Rendili, Averam was liberated quickly and the Trade Federation went in to retreat, though little was done to prosecute its leadership. As years went by, Drayson carefully extended and strengthened the influence and power of his office with the backing of the very same corrupt types he had originally vowed to vanquish.
Drayson's term as Supreme Chancellor brought much prosperity to the core worlds of the galaxy and his popularity among the elite of the galaxy ensured that any questioning of his policies regarding the situation in the outer rim and the handling of the Trade Federation after the occupation was considered taboo. He appointed his most trusted advisors to key positions, ensuring his absolute control of the Galactic Republic's top workings.
It soon became clear that the Trade Federation, once again influenced by the Sith, had sought the assistance of many economical powers such as the Commerce Guild, Corporate Alliance and Black Sun in an effort to create a new government superpower independent of the Galactic Republic. The Confederacy of Independent systems was formed in the Glythe sector, in close proximity to the galactic core.
Jedi Master Bodo Baas was dispatched to the outer rim to investigate rumours of industrial activity and traffic to systems which were not on the galactic charts. He stumbled upon Kamino, a aquatic world which population excelled at the art of cloning. The Kaminoans informed Baas that the Jedi Council, acting on behalf of the Senate, had ordered a clone army to be created for the Galactic Republic some ten years earlier. Upon conferring with the Jedi Council on Coruscant, Baas found nothing that would indicate that the Senate had ordered such an army, nor that anyone on the council had relayed such an order.
The Confederacy of Independent Systems began an all-out war with the Galactic Republic, starting with attacks in the Sumitra and Centrality sectors. The chaos that ensued, and the appearance of the mysterious but convenient clone army, led to the creation of a centralised and uniform Republic military, followed by the Senate granting emergency powers to the Supreme Chancellor.
While curious about the clone army's origin, the Jedi had little time to investigate as the responsibility of leading the war was thrust upon them. The clone wars began to spread to all corners of the galaxy, with more and more starsystems joining the conflict daily. During this time, the Republic's military annexed many of the fleets and armies belonging to its member worlds, in order to more effectively fight the new enemy.
Suntzu was appointed as commander of the Republic's outer rim defence forces while Vodo Bonias remained on Coruscant, acting as Supreme Chancellor Drayson's chief military advisor. Meanwhile the war saw the rise of many prominent figures in the ranks of the Republic military. Piett, Lodge and Simms were just a few of the officers who served with remarkable distinction and were hailed as heroes of the Republic while being eased in to Drayon's inner circle.
The war had terrible consequences and the ranks of the Jedi Order were slowly but steadily thinned down. The Grand Master of the Jedi Order, Relm, urged Drayson to give diplomacy another try, but the Supreme Chancellor remained defiant as he was unwilling to bow down to the Confederacy's aggression.
After three years of horrid conflict, the Confederacy, in a seemingly rash move, attacked the Republic's capital world Coruscant with a fleet under the direct command of several of its most prominent leaders. As the battle ensued, several Jedi were able to board the flagship of the Confederacy and capture many of its leadership figures.
While the war raged on in the galaxy, the Confederacy leaders were put on trial on Coruscant. While they had been in the Viceroy's inner circle, they had little knowledge of who the true leader of the Confederacy was, other than that he was a prominent force user. This led to speculation, by Drayson controlled media, that the Jedi Order was behind the entire conflict in order to bring an organised military under their direct control.
The captured Confederate leadership was conveniently murdered in their cells by a lightsaber shortly after, further feeding the rumours about the Jedi's involvement in the causes of the conflict. Several Jedi Knights were pointed out as the ones who had ordered the clone army and also influenced the Trade Federation's Viceroy. As the Jedi trio met with Drayson to discuss the accusations, they were attacked by the Sith in the Supreme Chancellor's office.
The final stage of the Sith's plan was now in motion. Drayson, sporting several lightsaber cuts on his cheek and arms as well as some deformation on his right arm from force lightning, addressed the Senate, informing them of the Jedi betrayal. Throughout the galaxy, the Republic military began to murder their Jedi generals, though many were able to elude the clone troops. Drayson announced the formation of the first Galactic Empire to thunderous applause from the senators. Meanwhile such senators as Zee Wolf, Mon Akira and Syrous looked on with concern before aiding the escape of Masters Relm and Bodo Baas from Coruscant. As their goal had been achieved, Vodo Bonias met with the Confederacy's leadership on Vinsoth. Once the Confederate military had deactivated, the Sith Lord wiped out its leadership, effectively ending the conflict.
The transition from Republic to Empire went smoothly as much power already rested with its leader, Drayson. He sought to eradicate all Jedi throughout the galaxy and also established a mighty military. Though there was a growing fear among those who still believed in such ideals and democracy that the Senate would eventually be dissolved. This gave rise to the creation of the Rebel Alliance, led in secret by senator Zee Wolf and Mon Akria and the remaining Jedi which were in hiding.
Eventually the Sith were confident that they had been hidden long enough and decided to dispose of Drayson who had been an effective puppet, but now rather useless. While Drayson escaped the attempt on his life, Vodo Bonias, with the help of the head of the Imperial Army, Balsaraph, named Suntzu to Emperor of the Galactic Empire following a brief skirmish between ships loyal to the two authority figures.
As the Senate was dissolved by the new despot supported by the Sith, many former senators fled the core worlds, fearing persecution at the hands of the tyrannical government. The establishment of new regional Moffs had made the Senate obsolete. Many of the former senators flocked together in the outer rim, making their formerly underground resistance a full scale rebellion with an organised military.
The reign of Emperor Suntzu lasted for less than two months and was a design created by the Dark Lord Vodo Bonias to strengthen his own coming ascension to the throne and to allow the Sith to set up a shadow organization within the ranks of the Galactic Empire, including Officers like Spytek and Simms.
Little more then one month after that Suntzu was named Emperor Vodo Bonias removed Suntzu from the throne of the Galactic Empire and claimed it for himself. Balsaraph, who willingly had helped Bonias to overthrow Drayson and place Suntzu on the throne felt betrayed and embarked for the rims. Several months later Balsaraphr met up with the former emperor Drayson. The two exiles merged their forces and formed the Order of Darkness (OOD) as a tool to take back the throne. But the imperial war machine supported by the sith easily destroyed their opponents making it an futile attempt. The following years remained somewhat calm as the Imperial Military strengthened their hold of the core systems and expanded outwards, incorporating more and more system into the Empire. But in the outer rims rumors could be heard about the organization known as the Rebel Alliance and no one could say what the future would hold for the galaxy. Order and stability, peace and democracy, only one thing was certain war was once again coming to the galaxy.
The Galactic Empire officially acknowledges the existence of the Rebel Alliance, following a Rebel declaration of war.
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