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Sexy Series Debut
Genre: Contemporary Romance; Sports Romance
Series: Play Action, Book 1
Disclosure: An ARC of this book was provided to me by Brazen publisher Entangled Publishing via NetGalley.
This rating, review, and all included thoughts and comments are my own.
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When NFL quarterback and hometown hero Cade Reynolds returns to Harper Falls for the first time in sixteen years to do a favor for his old high school football coach, the town's welcome is...well...slightly underwhelming. No one even recognizes him. At least, no one but the stunningly sexy woman who is on her way out of the coffee shop when she sees him sitting at a table.
The heated recognition that flares in her eyes puts Cade's blood flow on a southward bound sex train. He should probably meet her first, however, before asking her to be his lusty conductor.
Angie Peterson couldn't imagine what her former high school crush was doing back in Harper Falls after all these years. She knows he's still rehabbing the shoulder injury that knocked him out of the game for almost two seasons, but all reports indicate he should be heading back to the sport soon. She should know, she's followed Cade's career as devotedly as she follows football. One is her life and her passion, the other, well, a different sort of passion. So the frank interest she sees in his eyes when she meets his gaze thrills her to her core.
Thankfully, he doesn't seem to remember her. That opens the door for all sorts of delightful recreation. After all, it's not like the illustrious Cade Reynolds is likely to be in town for long.
After a decadent night of unbridled passion, Angie returns to the real world and her job as math teacher and assistant football coach for the high school. Coming face-to-face with Cade at work so soon after relegating their fabulous night together to the past is a shock, but it's finding out exactly why Cade is back in town that really tilts Angie's world on its axis and threatens everything she's worked so hard to achieve.
He may be there to take a job that should rightfully be hers, but when it comes to football, Angie is a master at strategy, and this is a game she has every intention of winning. Even if it is against the only man she's ever truly wanted.
As a mostly cute and wickedly sexy little contemporary romance with heavy sports influences, Barbosa's series debut works nicely and even has a few nifty little unorthodox touches. I enjoyed both characters, even though Cade's character stayed fairly consistent with the wounded sports hero stereotype. He had enough charming traits that went against-type to keep him interesting. It was Angie's character, though, that really brought a breath of fresh air to the read for me.
I loved that she's not only an assistant coach, but she's brilliant with game strategy and play calling. That was a particularly nice touch in a sub-genre where the female protagonists are usually stuck working for a sports team's front office or as some sort of sports reporter.
Angie and Cade had excellent chemistry, too, and the level of competition between them set the evolution of their relationship on a very nice simmer as the story progressed. And it has to be said...Barbosa completely delivered on the page-burning, sizzling sex. It was fan-worthy and positively delicious.
The overall plot wasn't terribly complex, and the few threads of external conflict were fairly anemic in both depth and definition, with a resolution that I found lacking. Still, this isn't the sort of story that necessitates a tremendous amount of complexity to be entertaining. Some elements were pretty far from realistic, others could have been a little more believable with a little more foundation, but those are really pretty minor issues, all things considered.
I didn't like the end of the book, though. That was a problem. And I hate when a book ends an unsatisfying or disappointing note when so much else in the story works for me. Whenever that happens, my overall impression of the read takes a hit. Too much about this ending, though, felt more like a setup for the next book than a satisfying conclusion to this one and I just wasn't happy with it.
I was happy with much of the rest of it, though. It was sexy as hell, with solid characters in a contentious but fiery romance and a story that had just enough individuality to make it memorable. A steamy-hot way to spent a few fun reading hours. Speaking as a football lover, I'd say this one made it to the end zone, even if it missed the extra point.
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Set in the very near future HER tells the love story of a lonely writer and his operating system. A pastel coloured rumination on artificial intelligence and love by Spike Jonze (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION).
The future according to Spike Jonze (ADAPTATION, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) hopelessly recalls the present. In 2025 people are wearing pastel-coloured shirts and flannel pants pulled too high. People interact less and less with each other and more with their computers. Keyboards are redundant and computer games now take up the entire living room with their 3D holograms. Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a shy, moustached man who makes his living writing handwritten personal letters for other people. Lonely and heartbroken after his marriage breaks up, he is intrigued by a new, intelligent operating system (short OS) that promises him companionship. His personalised operating system is named "Samantha" and is designed to learn. She (the voice of Scarlett Johannson) is indeed charming, sexy and hyper-intelligent. Theo spends more and more time with Samantha and they fall in love. After the honeymoon period that includes daily audio sex, the pair becomes an official couple –they fight, they make-up, they go on double dates. Yet soon their differences become apparent. The melancholic Theo is still mourning the end of his marriage, and Samantha is in the process of finding herself and looks to experiment with everything possible. Jonze creates a completely believable world with its own rules, a world in which everything is different yet familiar, and one in which a having a relationship with an artificial voice doesn't just seem possible but makes total sense. HER is a unique film –clever science fiction, gentle satire, and a pastel-coloured elegy in search of a counterpart.
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Translation: Carla McDougall
Original title: Her
USA 2013, 126 min
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Love Stories
Director: Spike Jonze
Author: Spike Jonze
Distributor: WARNER
Cast: Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Joaquin Phoenix

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For a long time Mustang had been a forbidden land. But recently the Upper Mustang region has been opened for a limited number of trekkers. Lo -Manthang (Mustang) is located on the north of the main Himalayan chain, between the snow-capped mountains on the east and the west bordering Tibet. The climate and land in the region is dry and arid just like a desert. This is the route where you are likely to come across some very important historical sites such as the 800 year old cave and religious carvings which have been recently discovered.
A cultural King, who is very much loved by the Tibetan people from long time. Along the way you can see hundreds of old monasteries, shorten, old cave, old villages as well good view of annapurna and Dhaulagiri range includs many peaks. Inhabit by Tibetan people who are emigrate from Tibet nearly thousand years ago. In this region due to temperature and less rain even in monsoon season doesn't much sport to group more foods ,each year they only able to grow one item food like a barley, wide and potato are the major farming here, others necessary goods they supply from lower part of Nepal. Winters is very cold weather here because of heavy snowing everywhere in the region , most of the people use to go down to pokhara or Kathmandu, only few people use to live in villages for look after house and animal, but in spring everyone re-turn back to village for trade and farming, as well in monsoon is the good temperature for live in this region.
Mustang is famous for being an important salt trading post in the Trans Himalayan belt and is thus yak caravans and traders are a common sight here. This trek is unlike any other and is sure to give you a lifetime experience and many memories sights and scenes.
We drive out of the Kathmandu valley following the Prithvi highway, and descend to the scenic and tranquil town of Pokhara. En route we will have outstanding views of the Ganesh, Manaslu and Annapurna ranges of the Himalayas, along with river valleys, terraced fields and local villages.
The trail climbs gently through fields, and then becomes steeper to reach Nyi La (3840m). This pass is the southern boundary of Lo or Mustang itself. We descend to Tsarang, a large spread-out village inhabited entirely by Lobas. The huge five-story monastery fortress is perched on the edge of the Kali Gandaki gorge, to the East end of the village. The Gompa houses an excellent collection of statues and Thanks.
We climb gently above the valley to round a large chorten visible for miles around, then continue to the final ridge (3850m). Through a prayer flagged notch, a natural portal, lies the 'plain of inspiration' beneath our feet. Out in front of us, the red and grew monastery of Namgyal, summer residence of the kings of Mustang. In the centre, surrounded by a ring of rounded hills, each topped by a crumbling fort, stands the amazing walled city of Lo Manthang, the capital of the inner kingdom, and the seat of its great monastic tradition. The prosperity of the city comes mostly from the time of intense commerce with Tibet (salt and wool).
We now have two full days to explore the many monasteries, ancient halls and temples of the walled city and the areas around it. The centre of the city is dominated by the three major buildings: the Champa Lhakang, (housing an enormous painted seated Buddha, claimed to be dating back to the early 15th century); the Thugchen Gompa, with its wonderful frescoes; and the King's Palace, the most imposing building in the city, with its solid tapering walls sweeping up to a full four stories. You might even have the occasion to meet Jigme Dorje, the King. We also visit Chhoser Village where we can visit one of the old cave called Jhong Cave.
The cave itself bears a great historic importance. It is about 2500 years old. It has one entrance gate, which leads to several rooms. Once "HAJIGAVA" a Tibetan terrorist Gang attacked the village. The villagers escaped and hid themselves inside Jhong cave. The terrorist tried to enter the cave but were unable to do so, lastly they blocked the water supply. The villagers now thought of an idea. They washed their heads with mustard oil. Then the terrorist thought that the villagers had plenty of water with them. So they failed to capture the villagers and thus went empty handed. In this way, the cave provided shelter for the villagers.
For the first part of the return journey to Kagbeni, an alternative route crosses the Tsarang Khola farther westward. Our track meanders through this wide sparse pastureland. Then we reach a greener valley and descend past the isolated settlement of Lo Gekar to the welcome lush green of the trees around Ghar Gompa. Afterwards, we walk up to a small pass and continue over to the lovely green valley of Tramar, where the distinctive red-fluted cliffs return to contrast with the yellow hues of the north. Continuing down through the village fields we reach Ghami, a pretty whitewashed village with a small gompa and a nunnery.


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T ragic hero, Fallen Hero a definition
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ragic hero, Fallen Hero
A tragic hero is the main character in a tragedy. The modern use of the term usually involves the notion that such a hero makes an error in his actions that leads to his or her downfall. Usually, the hero's misfortune is not brought about "by vice and depravity but by some error of judgment." In Aristotle's Poetics it is imperative that the tragic hero be noble. Later tragedians deviated from this tradition: the more prone the tragic hero was to vice, the less noble and the less tragic the tragic hero happened to be.
Tragic heroes appear in the dramatic works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Achebe, Marston, Corneille, Racine, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Strindberg, and many other writers.
Common traits of Tragic or Fallen Heroes
The flaw is, most frequently Hubris.
The hero discovers that his downfall is a result of his own actions, not by things happening to him.
The hero sees and understands his doom, and that his fate was revealed by his own actions.
The hero's downfall is understood to arouse pity and fear that leads to an epiphany and a catharsis (for hero and audience). It is not necessary by the Aristotelian standard that the downfall or suffering be death/total ruin, as in the myth of Hercules, who ultimately ascends to Mount Olympus and immortality.
Since at least the time of William Shakespeare, however, the flaw of a tragic hero has generally been regarded to necessarily result in his death, or a fate worse than death. The Shakespearean tragic hero dies at some point in the story; one example is the eponymous protagonist of the play Macbeth.
Shakespeare's characters show that tragic heroes are neither fully good nor fully evil.
A tragic hero is often of noble birth, or rises to noble standing (King Arthur, Okonkwo, the main character in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart).
The hero learns something from his/her mistake.
The hero is faced with a serious decision.
The suffering of the hero is meaningful, because although the suffering is a result of the hero's own volition, it is not wholly deserved and may be cruelly disproportionate.
There may sometimes be supernatural involvement (in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Caesar is warned of his death via Calpurnia's vision and Brutus is warned of his impending death by the ghost of Caesar).
The archetypal hero of classical tragedies is, almost universally, male. Later tragedies (like Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra) introduced the female tragic hero. Portrayals of female tragic heroes are notable because they are rare.
Famous tragic heroes
Albus Dumbledore Othello
Satan from Paradise Lost
John Proctor
Doctor Faustus
Willy Loman
Okonkwo
James "Sawyer" Ford
Name: ___________________________ Date Due: June 12
"A man cannot become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall." Aristotle
Assignment: Write an essay that focuses on the following: Compare the character of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe OR John Proctor in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller to the character of Macbeth in the tragic play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Explain how the characters are tragic heroes and provide examples to support your answer. Why do you think the authors chose to make these characters the focus of their work? What positive qualities can we take away from the characters? What can we learn from their mistakes?
Learning Targets
I can explain theme in a text and analyze how literary devices contribute to a text's theme.
I can identify a tragic flaw in a tragic hero and analyze how it leads to his downfall.
I can write a well-developed essay that includes a thesis statement, clear topic sentences followed by specific evidence to support a claim, an analysis of the evidence, and commentary that demonstrates a thorough understanding of the thesis.
I can incorporate transitions to connect ideas, and use a variety of sentence structures avoiding fragments and run-on sentences, demonstrating mainstream English grammar, usage, and mechanics.
I can uses MLA format for in-text documentation and Works Cited.
Correctly identifies a tragic flaw for the characters chosen
Analyzes the tragic flaw and explains how it caused the characters' downfall
Explains a theme created by the tragic hero's life and death
Includes a clear thesis statement
Uses logical organizational pattern in the essay
Provides specific evidence (direct quotations) to support claims
Analyzes evidence
Explains how evidence supports claim
Includes transitions among paragraphs
Uses a variety of sentence structures
Demonstrates proper paragraph format (CLAIM/EVIDENCE/ANALYSIS/COMMENTARY)
Includes in-text documentation, MLA Header, and a Works Cited page
Uses mainstream conventional grammar, usage, and mechanics throughout the essay
Please note that although I am not providing a required number of paragraphs, or word count, this is considered a culminating essay for your Junior year, and should demonstrate your ability to write a well thought out, final paper.
Demonstrates Exceptional Effort
Demonstrates Effort
Demonstrates Little to No Effort
Correctly identifies the tragic flaw of the characters
Tragic flaw is thoroughly identified
Tragic flaw is identified
Tragic flaw is incorrectly identified, if at all
Analyzes the effect of the tragic flaw on the characters
Analysis of tragic flaw is thorough and insightful
The effect of the tragic flaw is analyzed effectively
Analysis of the tragic flaw is misguided or incomplete
Explanation of tragic flaw
Shows clear relationship between the flaw and the downfall of the character
Shows relationship between the tragic flaws and the characters's downfall
Tries but is unable to show relationship between the tragic flaw and the character's downfall
Identification and explanation of theme created by tragic heroes
Theme is clearly identified and thoroughly explained
Theme is identified and thoroughly explained
Theme is not identified and /or not sufficiently explained if at all
Clear and gives focus to the essay
Missing or unclear
Demonstrates a logical pattern of organization throughout the essay using transitions to connect ideas and following conventions of well-developed paragraph.
Demonstrates a pattern of organization throughout the essay- paragraphs are clear.
Demonstrates little to no organization-transitions missing, body paragraphs not well-developed.
Every body paragraph includes two or more quotations/details from the text that are intricately weaved into to the sentences.
Ever body paragraph includes evidence that is included logically in the body paragraph
Quotations /details missing or unclear.
Excellent variety of sentence structures.
Some variety of sentence structure, few if any fragments or run-ons.
Little sentence variety, includes fragments and run-ons.
All quotations/detail are correctly documented with in-text documentation & Works Cited
All quotations are documented - a few minor flaws in format
Some or all quotations are undocumented or MLA format is incorrect
Conventions/Mechanics
No distracting errors in grammar, usage & mechanics
A few minor errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics
Errors in mainstream grammar, usage, and mechanics are numerous and distracting
SCORE:_______________
STUDENT WRITING EXAMPLE:
"A man cannot become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall."-Aristotle, Poetics. Aristotle in this quote makes an excellent point that even to this day is used to define tragic heroes in modern movies and plays. And in the Shakespearian play, Othello, Othello is most certainly portrayed as a tragic hero according to Aristotle. However, some argue that Othello is in fact not a tragic hero, which is puzzling to me but it does have a valid point that can easily be found and explored.
In the opening of the play, Shakespeare gives us a "sneak peak" of Othello and what is to come regarding his personality and in conjunction helps the audience decide if Othello is a tragic hero. This is shown by a multitude of things, the biggest one being Othello's long speech beginning with "Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors". The speech truly highlights Othello's personality and also shows that he is very noble, which is a very important part of his character, and goes hand in hand with his tendency to meet things head on and his respectfulness. We also find out that Othello has a very high position in his environment, which is a trait that most tragic heroes have.
Another reason Othello would be considered a tragic hero is that he has a "Hamartia", or tragic flaw. Othello's tragic flaw is that he is naïve, which is the reason he is simply too trusting. This is shown by a few things, such as him referring to Iago as "Honest Iago" repeatedly, "the Moor is of a free and open nature", and "that thinks honest that would seem to be so". His trusting nature leads to his downfall, therefore his being naïve and as a result of, his trusting nature leads to his eventual death and loss of everything that mattered to him- his wife, position, and life. This character flaw is mostly of free will, which also points to him being a tragic hero.
Othello is not a perfect person like he seems to be. Aristotle states that the tragic hero should be relatable to normal people, and as the audience digs deeper, than can find Othello very relatable. Othello displays a lack of self-esteem mostly caused by his outsider status and his being a Moor. He also radiates extreme emotions of jealously, which in one's life one must deal with. Also he is old, which makes him feel that Desdemona might want someone younger, which plays a part in his jealously later on.
A third reason Othello might be considered a tragic hero is that his downfall was a result of his tragic flaw. He trusted Iago too much, and that led to him seeing his love of Desdemona through Iago's eyes instead of his own. This leads to him seeing Desdemona has a harlot of sorts and him imagining that she is cheating on him with Cassio. However, some may argue that it is not in fact his character flaw that causes his downfall, but it is his jealously that is his downfall. Now this is true in a sense, but the jealously is only caused by him being as naïve as he is. On a grander scale, it is clear that it was Othello being naïve that caused his downfall and not his jealously.
Othello's misfortune and death clearly is not deserved by Othello. Sadly in society greed and only caring for oneself has taken over and crushed any sense of openness and trustfulness that some might have of others. But there is still a small amount of people that are trusting, but they are susceptible to fates similar to Othello's as some people truly do not care about what happens to their fellow human beings, as long as they gain something from this (note, when saying this I am not implying Iago in the latter category, as he seemingly gained nothing from destroying Othello and others).
Othello's fall is not a pure loss. The final trait of a tragic hero, it is perhaps the most important. Human life should be valued and in any loss of life it can be deemed successful if, as a society, we can learn something from it and improve our future generation's lives because of it. Othello's death was one such case. We gain an increase in awareness and self-knowledge due to Othello's death. Right before he died, Othello said "one that lov'd not wisely but too well". This shows that Othello realizes what happened to him before he died, and along with his final speech, we can learn something from Othello's death.
In conclusion, Othello is absolutely a tragic hero. His tragic flaw is that he is naïve, which leads to his downfall and also makes his death not a pure loss. He is not perfect, which is an important part of a true tragic hero. Because he is a Moor, an outsider, and old, he lacks self-esteem that makes him relatable to a vast majority of society. Also he is very jealous, which also makes him relatable.
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Q: Can i set https.protocols in Tomcat catalina.properties? We are using Tomcat 7.0.41 with Java 1.7.x.  For PCI compliance reasons, I want to disable TLS 1.0.  So my question is can i set the below values in catalina.properties?
  https.protocols=TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
My concern is mainly for my web app that makes outbound service calls to an external vendor via https. In this case my webapp is a java client.
In addition, my webapp also serves pages to a browser and I plan to control that TLS within my server.xml

A: If you are talking about a service that makes calls out, then this doesn't really have anything to do with Tomcat. In Tomcat, you can simply configure sslEnabledProtocols on your <Connector> to restrict/enable arbitrary protocols.
For configuring available protocols for outgoing connections, it would be best if you could interact with the client library you are using (e.g. httpclient, etc.) to set the protocol, but if you want to do it at the JVM level, you will in fact want to set the jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms to include TLSv1 (for Java 8+) or https.protocols as you have in our question.
Tomcat does not allow you to set arbitrary system properties in catalina.properties. You'll have to set them elsewhere, such as in $CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.(sh|bat) or in whatever service-launching facility you use.

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package com.djm.smartreg.business;

import com.djm.smartreg.data.DBSetting;
import com.djm.smartreg.data.SRConnection;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
 * Business layer class for DBSetting.
 *
 * @author David Mordigal
 * @see com.djm.smartreg.data.DBSetting
 */
public class Setting extends DBSetting {

    /**
     * Returns an array of all Setting keys and their values for the specified
     * account. The returned data is in the form key=value.
     *
     * @param  c the connection
     * @param  acct the account ID
     * @return an array of settings, or an empty array if no matches were found
     * @throws SQLException if a database access error occurs
     */
    public static String[] getSettings(SRConnection c, long acct)
    throws SQLException {
        return DBSetting.getSettings(c, acct);
    }

    /**
     * Updates all Setting values for the specified account. The data for each
     * setting in the array should be in the form key=value.
     *
     * @param  c the connection
     * @param  settings the array of settings
     * @param  acct the account ID
     * @throws SQLException if a database access error occurs
     */
    public static void putSettings(SRConnection c, String[] settings, long acct)
    throws SQLException {
        DBSetting.putSettings(c, settings, acct);
    }
}

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A Farewell to the Coalition of Essential Schools
Celebrating the impact and influence of CES—with the people who knew it best.
By Peter Poutiatine
Courtesy of the Coalition of Essential Schools
The final Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum took place in December 2016, marking the end of a 33-year run for an organization that inspired thousands of teachers and hundreds of schools.
Ted Sizer, founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, in 1987
CES was founded in 1984 by Brown University professor Ted Sizer—who died in 2009—as an extension of the work he had done in writing his influential book Horace's Compromise. The book set many a reader on the road to teaching: "I devoured it in a night, and with the righteous indignation of a 17-year-old, decided that this was it. This was my life path," says Laura Thomas, director of the Center for School Renewal at Antioch University New England.
Sizer had traveled the country visiting hundreds of schools, observing classrooms, and talking to teachers in an attempt to understand what was and wasn't working in education. "At the end of it," says Nancy Sizer, Ted's widow and longtime collaborator, "one of his research funders said, 'Now I think it's time for you to get to work on trying to figure out ways to answer some of your own questions.'"
Ted's first inclination was to start a school that would apply the best practices he had identified. While founding CES as a network to help drive continued innovation, he and Nancy also started the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, in 1995. Sizer based the school on his list of Common Principles—nine values starting with "Learning to use one's mind well" (a 10th was added later). The principles were attributes that Ted believed distilled the essence of the nation's most successful school environments, including the ideas that, as The New York Times put it, "a school is an egalitarian community and that the student is a valued worker in that community, with the teacher in the role of mentor or coach."
"Ted didn't make them up," said George Wood, chairman of the CES board and superintendent of Federal Hocking Local Schools in Stewart, Ohio. "Ted just translated what teachers cared about into these 10 Common Principles. That is why they resonate."
The 10 Common Principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools
The Impact of CES
The work of the Coalition is deeply embedded in the work of progressive educators and schools across the U.S. and around the world. When I asked Nancy Sizer to name one thing most people don't know about CES, she responded immediately, "What they don't know about is how many of CES's ideas are in the heads of people who've never even heard of Ted Sizer."
"For me, the most important thing that the Coalition did was change the language," says Dennis Littky, co-director of the Met School in Providence, Rhode Island. The language of the Common Principles is now embedded in teacher training programs, says Judy Guild, head of school at Brimmer and May in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. "I could see a generation of new teachers coming forward that knew these principles, and were taught about them." Laura Thomas agrees: CES is "in the DNA of what teachers are doing if they call themselves progressives."
To the people who knew CES best, its impact has been profound: "I think everything I know about teaching and learning in school has come from working with people out of the CES tradition, including the teaching staff we have here [at Federal Hocking]," said Wood.
CES schools wove the Common Principles into their culture. The Coalition's greatest insight, Guild says, "is that each school is different, and that each one of these principles has to be applied to your own school setting. They were never intended to be a blueprint. They were intended to be a guiding mechanism for each school so they can stay unique and do what they need to do."
Wood likens this aspect of CES to the stamps on PCs that read Intel Inside. "And you don't even know what the hell Intel is, right? But trust me, there's so much going on in this country that should say, 'CES Inside.'"
The closing of CES was not wholly unexpected. As Jill Davidson, the managing director of CES, explains, the organization "was never built to last. That was never the point." Wood agrees: "It wasn't that you had to do 10 things beforehand and buy a program. That was the beauty. And probably the demise, too"—because there was never a clear revenue stream.
The end of an organization that sparked so much progressive thinking lands hard for many. "The real loss is that CES is a national organization," says Davidson. "I know for sure that a lot of our schools will really feel the loss of that."
Yet Davidson adds that those schools aren't going to change their work. The ideas that led Ted Sizer to start CES existed before he collected them, and they will continue to guide educators in the years to come.


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package org.reasm.z80.source;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

import org.reasm.commons.source.BlockDirective;
import org.reasm.z80.assembly.internal.Mnemonics;

/**
 * Defines the directives recognized as block delimiters by the parser. These directives are recognized in any context.
 * Therefore, a macro whose name matches one of these directives cannot be invoked.
 *
 * @author Francis Gagné
 */
public final class Z80BlockDirectives {

    /** The DEPHASE directive. */
    @Nonnull
    public static final BlockDirective DEPHASE;

    /** The DO directive. */
    @Nonnull
    public static final BlockDirective DO;

    /** The ELSE directive. */
    @Nonnull
    public static final BlockDirective ELSE;

    /** The ELSEIF directive. */
    @Nonnull
    public static final BlockDirective ELSEIF;

    /** The ENDIF directive. */
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    /** The ENDM directive. */
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    /** The ENDNS directive. */
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Gore: Fugitive from the truth
By Linda Bowles
Published March 14, 2000 at 1:00am
In his last debate with Bill Bradley, Al Gore revealed to all who
cared to listen why he is not fit to be president of the United States.
He declared that "the Constitution is a living and breathing document
... intended by our founders to be interpreted in the light of the
constantly evolving experience of the American people." Gore agreed with
Bradley that it was important to appoint Supreme Court justices who are
not "... locked into a rigid interpretation of the Constitution."
In his famous farewell address, George Washington, who presumably
knew something about what the founders intended, said this about the
integrity of the Constitution: "... the Constitution which at any time
exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole
people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. ... Toward the preservation of
your government ... it is requisite ... that you resist with care the
spirit of innovation upon its principles."
Translation: Don't tinker with the Constitution. If you don't like
what it says, change it -- legally. The founders specifically provided
for the amendment of the Constitution, should the people decide it is
necessary. They included the amendment provision for the precise purpose
of protecting the Constitution from mutilation at the hands of loophole
lawyering, judicial skullduggery and political opportunism.
For all practical purposes, Gore has advised voters that he will
appoint Supreme Court judges who are willing to override the
Constitution with their own ideology and innovations.
Gore and those who agree with him are about the seditious business of
transforming America from a nation governed by laws into one governed by
men. Unless they are stopped, it is only a matter of time until we can
say goodbye to our Constitution, the rights it guarantees, the freedoms
it gives to the people, and the protections it sets forth against
over-arching and intrusive government.
For his declaration, in effect, that the Constitution of the United
States has no intrinsic meaning, and that neither he nor the justices he
appoints are bound and limited by what it explicitly says and clearly
means, Gore has immediately disqualified himself for the high office he
seeks.
How could a man with these anarchistic views be expected to take a
vow to preserve and defend the Constitution? If his conscience did not
impede him from taking such a vow, how could he be trusted to honor it?
We are at a special time in our national history when it is important
to put behind us the infamy, the degeneracy and the dishonesty of what
has been described as the most corrupt administration America ever
suffered. There is a palpable desire among the people for leaders who
will restore decency and integrity to the White House.
Gore knows he is tainted by years of association with his mentor,
Bill Clinton. This accounts for his efforts to redefine who and what he
I have resisted the thought, but Al Gore's affected mannerisms and
posturing remind me of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who loved
to show off his physique in public. I keep expecting Gore to do
something to demonstrate his muscular manhood the way Mussolini did when
he strutted before the cameras, stripped off his shirt, and rubbed snow
on his hairy, bare chest.
Gore has spent time in the gym reshaping his body. He has redone his
hairdo, changed his wardrobe, and feigned animation to help convince us
he is not who he is. He is also denying his own past, and fantasizing
about his accomplishments to create a false identity for himself.
An editorial in the national weekly edition of the Washington Times
carried the headline, "Al Gore Just Can't Tell the Truth." It summarized
the vice president's history of deception. A few examples. Gore claimed:
that he invented the Internet; that he and Tipper were the models for
Erich Segal's novel "Love Story"; that as an investigative reporter, he
"got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail"; that he was a
co-sponsor of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill; that he
was always pro-choice on abortion; that he totally renounced his
connections to tobacco after the death of his sister from lung cancer;
that he did not know he was in the middle of a fund-raiser at the
California Buddhist Temple in 1996; that he did not know his
fund-raising phone calls from his government office were illegal; and
that he did not know anything about the millions of dollars illegally
funneled into the Democrat Party by agents of communist China.
All of these claims and boasts are documentably false, and some of
them are arguably delusional.
It is not difficult to recognize Gore for what he really is: a
physically disguised fugitive from the awful truth, carrying forged
Linda Bowles
WorldNetDaily contributor Linda Bowles is a nationally syndicated columnist. She and her husband, Warren, have one daughter, Michelle, and live on a ranch situated on the western slope of the California Sierras.
The man I love
No distinction between good, evil?
Deeply deluded intellectuals
Machiavellians at work
Unhealthy contamination?


1) This is West of Bathurst's 900th in-sequence comic.
2) The title of the book Marie is aggressively reading at Evil Marie is almost too small to read, but so that you won't automatically assume that it's one of the Harry Potter series (which doesn't really involve geeky wizards per se; Harry himself is more of a jock), I can tell you that there's a clue to the real identity of the book in the final panel. It's So You Want to Be a Wizard from Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, and it appears here because it's always been one of those books I return to when I am feeling extremely low and need everything to be right with the universe. The whole series is very much worth reading, and no, the books are not Harry Potter rip-offs unless Duane is, in fact, capable of travelling in time. The first volume was published in 1983, fourteen years before Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone saw the light of day.
3) The Canada Day header has now moved to the Miscellaneous page.
4) Re. the Write-a-Thon: Liz Argall, one of the write-a-thon organisers and participants, has mentioned me in her blog as someone who is doing crazy, crazy comic-related stuff to raise money for Clarion. The linked blog entry also details some of the other creative methods people are using to gain contributions. I am pleased that Liz has pointed out my donationmeter thingy. Rise, donationmeter thingy! Hit $200 and go ding!
5) I've managed to reduce my manuscript to 94, 922 words. This is quite a lot of words, of course, but it is fewer than the100,000 or so I had at one point. Now I need to do some more work on the synopsis. Stupid synopses. We hates them, precioussssssss.


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Q: Greensock Draggable Scroll (Drag n Flick) Why this code is not working??
I'm using BootStrap, AngularJS and GreenSock
In this example I'm using only GreenSock, but doesn't work too:
Example: JSFinddle
Draggable.create("#scroller", {type:"scroll", edgeResistance:0.5, throwProps:true});

A: This is my first StackOverflow answer :)
Looks like your JSFiddle wasn't accessing the proper TweenLight, Draggable, and CSSPlugin CDNs.
The way to fix it – update the CDNS you're using. On the left-hand side panel, under External Resources, remove the existing TweenLite.min.js, Draggable.min.js, and CSSPlugin.min.js.
Then add instead:
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/1.16.1/TweenLite.min.js
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/1.16.1/plugins/CSSPlugin.min.js
(See below for the third link. I can't post more than 2 links yet bc I don't have 10 reputation unfortunately.)
That should work! Hope this helped!


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IRS proposes regulations on disguised sales
IRS proposes regulations to remove unfavorable temporary rules on disguised sales
The IRS has proposed new regulations (REG-131186-17) that would affect how partnership liabilities are allocated for disguised sale purposes. The proposed regulations would remove changes to long-standing rules on recourse liabilities made in unfavorable temporary regulations issued in 2016 (T.D. 9788), returning taxpayers to the rules in effect prior to the issuance of the temporary regulations.
Although the new proposed rules would not be effective until finalized, the IRS is allowing taxpayers to rely on them retroactively in place of the temporary regulations. In effect, this means the changes to liability allocations in the temporary regulations are obsolete dating back to their original effective date (for transfers that occur on or after Jan. 3, 2017). Taxpayers with transfers made on or after Jan. 3, 2017, can now rely on the original rules under Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.707-5(a)(2). These rules allow taxpayers in certain circumstances to contribute property to a partnership and receive a leveraged distribution without triggering a taxable disguised sale as long as the debt is a recourse liability to the partner under Section 752.
The disguised sale rules under Section 707(a)(2)(B) generally provide that transfers of money or other property between a partner and partnership must be treated as a taxable disguised sale of property in certain circumstances. The presence of liabilities affects the disguised sale rules in two situations: (1) if the partnership assumes a so-called nonqualified liability of the partner, the amount of the liability in excess of the partner's share of that liability is treated as proceeds of a disguised sale, and (2) if, within 90 days, a partnership makes a debt-financed distribution to a partner that had transferred property to the partnership, the amount of the debt-financed distribution in excess of the partner's share of the liability incurred by the partnership is treated as proceeds of a disguised sale.
The longstanding rules under Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.707-5(a)(2) provided separate approaches for determining a partner's share of recourse and nonrecourse liabilities for the disguised sale rules. A partner's share of recourse liabilities was generally equal to the amount determined pursuant to the general liability allocation rules under Section 752. Because the disguised sale rules only treat a net decrease in a partner's share of partnership liabilities as disguised sale proceeds, partners that were allocated recourse liabilities under Section 752 were effectively shielded from the disguised sale rules.
The temporary regulations issued in 2016 (the "2016 regulations") adopted an approach that required partners to treat all partnership liabilities as nonrecourse liabilities for disguised sale purposes, i.e., solely in accordance with the partner's share of partnership profits. The 2016 regulations also contained rules dealing with "bottom-dollar payment obligations" in which a partner provides a guarantee of a certain amount of outstanding debt in an effort to increase the partner's basis in the partnership interest. These rules generally provided that bottom-dollar payment obligations are not respected as recourse liabilities under Section 752 and the regulations thereunder.
The newly issued proposed regulations now remove the liability allocation approach for disguised sales contained under the 2016 regulations and reinstate the previous liability allocation rules. However, the new proposed regulations do not affect the changes made to bottom-dollar payment obligations in the 2016 regulations. The change is not totally unexpected. The 2016 regulations were among eight regulations that the IRS identified as burdensome and subject to potential modification or removal in response to President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13789, which called for the review of all significant tax regulations issued after Jan. 1, 2016.
The new proposed regulations would apply to any transaction that occurs 30 days after the proposed regulations are finalized. However, the IRS and Treasury are permitting a partnership and its partners to apply all the rules in the proposed regulations in lieu of the 2016 regulations to any transaction with respect to which all transfers occur on or after Jan. 3, 2017. Thus, partnerships are not required to use the approach that was set forth in the 2016 regulations.
The removal of the unfavorable 2016 temporary regulations could have a significant impact on the disguised sale analysis for certain leveraged acquisitions and distributions, and in situations in which a partnership assumed a recourse liability of a partner. Given the ability to rely on the proposed regulations retroactively, taxpayers may want to consider whether applying the former regulations to determine a partner's share of liabilities provides a more favorable result with respect to a disguised sale of property. A different result under the disguised sale rules may entail corresponding changes in computations under other partnership tax provisions, such as Sections 704(b) and 704(c).
Principal, Washington National Tax Office, Grant Thornton LLP
Jose Carrasco
Senior Manager, Washington National Tax Office, Grant Thornton LLP
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There's a peculiar expansiveness to the modern Mexican novel--a blending of the mystical and the carnal, the dynamic shifts from the epic to the intimate--that can be translated into English. But the translation from page to stage is infinitely more treacherous.
The final test: After the theater has revived a book its audience may not know, will the show turn them on to the original? With two new adaptations of Mexican novels--Margarita Galban's of Mariano Azuela's "Los de Abajo" at BFA and Josephine Ramirez's of Rosario Castellanos' "Balun Canan: The Nine Guardians" at the Mark Taper Forum's literary cabaret at the Itchey Foot, the answer is very mixed. Both shows whet curiosity, but mainly to see how much of each novel was missed on stage.
"Los de Abajo" translates as "The Underdogs," the outgunned, outmaneuvered rebel campesinos of the 1910 revolution. Azuela wrote it in the dispirited aftermath of a war against the landowners that didn't fully succeed, but did change Mexico forever. Azuela's alter ego is Luis (Ruben Garfias, who also did the English translation), a radical who is forcibly drafted into the Federales, then escapes to join the revolution. He's an intellectual fond of lecturing to his working-class comrades, led by Demetrio (Tonyo Melendez), about the revolution's meaning.
A nice irony, which underscores Azuela's view of the revolution's rotten core. But Galban cannot decide whether to stage a dutiful tragedy about heroes, or a bitterly cynical drama of power and underdeveloped ideals. Using recurring corridos as a narrative chorus, she assembles clunky stage pictures meant to mimic Diego Rivera's murals. But at least in the English-speaking performances, her actors tend to feel lost in the pictures--and sound lost as well.
We also hear a corrido before "Balun Canan" begins. But unlike the bulging cast and production at BFA, things are trim and economic at the Itchey Foot. There are no pictures except for the actors' faces, accenting a moment in the text. And Castellanos, who was a strong, vivid poet, wraps her tale of the fall of the landed Arguello family in a blanket of luxuriant prose.
Again, the novelist's alter ego observes a collapsing world, but here, Vanessa Marquez as the girl-narrator becomes the bestirred voice of innocence, shocked at the misery of the rebelling Indians she learns to love. Slender and strong as a reed, Marquez's girl speaks with an authentic love and conviction that never opts for sentimentalizing.
Sal Lopez brings quietly comic moments to his Mario, the girl's doomed brother, but his fellow ensemble members seem less sure. Enrique Castillo, William Marquez and Lupe Ontiveros rarely put any shadings into the words: Their key tool here, their voices, just fail them. Adapter Ramirez hasn't really failed Castellanos, yet it could be a small injustice to trim the novel's involved plot to fit the literary cabaret's hourlong format. At least, we have this hour.
"Los de Abajo," Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, 421 N. Avenue 19, Lincoln Heights, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. (alternates weekly in Spanish and English). Ends Dec. 15. $6-$15; (213) 225-4044. Running time: 2 hours.
"Balun Canan: The Nine Guardians," Itchey Foot Ristorante, 801 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, Sundays, 6 p.m. Ends Oct. 27. $10; (213) 972-7392. Running time: 1 hour.


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Q: How to get the Class in constructor with typescript? I try to set, to empty string, every properties of my classes at instantiate time. But to get ALL the properties, I need to get the "Class" who is instantiate in the constructor. Any help would be much appreciate !
I work with typescript 3.1

*

*Any ideas how can I get the Class in the constructor ?

*Or how can I get a list of all the properties, including the none instantiates ones, only in using "this" and not the Class?

Here the function I'm using to get all properties of a Class.
      Export class Base {
        id: String;
        ...

         constructor() {
           getAllProperties(MyClass)
             // I would like to have MyClass to be dynamique
         }

      }

       function getAllProps(cls: new (...args: any[]) => any): any[] {
         // return a list of all Class properties.
       }

I also tried to use Reflect.metadata API but could not got any good results without the Class.

A: The parent constructor is called before the children constructor, therefore it won't work. You can create the function and call it after the super() function
// Parent
class A1 {
    constructor() {
    }

    protected init() {
        //Get properties here
        console.log(this);
    }
}

// Child
class A2 extends A1 {
    public a;
    public b;

    constructor() {
        super();

        this.a = 1;
        this.b = 2;
        //code here...

        this.init();
    }
}


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Q: LuaTeX error: LuaTeXbase-loader.sty I am trying to edit my old CV with modernCV in Linux. Some missing styles and classes are not installed automatically -- so I now must try to do this manually.
Since the popular package source ctan.org is not complete (such as luatexbase.sty), I had to add the missing files from this source. After I moved the collection with its folder to the texlive directory ...
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/luatexbase/luatexbase-loader.sty

... and updated the Latex database ...
sudo texhash

... I tried to create the PDF in Texmaker via method LuaLaTeX.
But then I got the fatal error, mentioned below:
! LuaTeX error ...ve/texmf-dist/tex/latex/luatexbase/luatexbase.loader.lua:53: attempt to index field 'loaders' (a nil value)

stack traceback:
...ve/texmf-dist/tex/latex/luatexbase/luatexbase.loader.lua:53: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'dofile'
[\directlua]:1: in main chunk.
l.89 dofile(path)}

The lua interpreter ran into a problem, so the
remainder of this lua chunk will be ignored.

EDIT: after installing texlive-full I got additional error messages (in red colour).
The first error (mentioned above) you can see on the bottom of appended screenshot:

A: The ctan link that you give does have the document sources for luatexbase (and legacy stub packages such as luatexbase-loader) You could install from there (just run tex on the .ins file to generate the packages) however this should not be needed, as luatexbase is in texlive you should have it installed already or can be installed via tlmgr or your linux package manager if you use a linux system distribution of texlive.
That said, the core of the old luatexbase package is built in to current releases of lualatex, so it is rather rare for you to need to explicitly load it at all.
The other site you link to has some versions of these files from 2011, luatex has changed a lot since then, and the old code in those files is unlikely to work on current releases of luatex.
luatexbase-loader.sty is in texlive, it should be installed as
/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luatexbase/luatexbase-loader.sty

however it does nothing but load luatexbase as all the functionality of the old sub-packages has been incorporated into luatexbase or latex itself. The entire file is
\ifx
  \ProvidesPackage\undefined\begingroup\def\ProvidesPackage
  #1#2[#3]{\endgroup\immediate\write-1{Package: #1 #3}}
\fi
\ProvidesPackage{luatexbase-loader}
[2015/10/04 v1.3
  luatexbase interface to LuaTeX (legacy subpackage)
]
\ifx\RequirePackage\undefined
  \input{luatexbase.sty}%
\else
  \RequirePackage{luatexbase}
\fi


My life with Depression, Anxiety, Fibromyalgia, Tension Headaches and the uninhibited quintessence of my being.
According to Wikipedia, a veritable wealth of reliability, "88% of those who set New Year resolutions fail." I stopped making Resolutions a long time ago, not because it's a bad idea to challenge yourself, but because I always seem to fail at them. This year, I'm trying something a little different – my solution to the Resolution – psychology and maybe a touch of reverse psychology.
First, let's review 2012 for those of you keeping track at home. It started well with eating better in an attempt to lose the weight I had previously lost and regained, I quit smoking (for a time), I fell in love, I learned first-hand about Baby Mama Drama, I got heat exhaustion at work, I got engaged to an old flame, I cut off my hair for Locks of Love, I got laid off from work and went on unemployment, my dog got fleas for over a month, I fell out of love. Unemployment got messed up for six weeks and I couldn't pay my rent and started to get evicted. The VA finally approved my disability for Fibromyalgia, but lowered one of my other ratings. I broke up with my fiancé, missed my Grandmother's wedding, got a job offer in Los Angeles, moved to Los Angeles and started a new job. Stress started to weasel its way back into my life again and led to severe Anxiety and Depression like I had not known in a long time, I stopped working and started to go to more doctors and get on more medications. I started a blog, I started a Twitter account, I started to wonder if my day-to-day had changed forever. I ended 2012 not wanting to be anywhere, not wanting to see anyone and not knowing what to do – about anything.
So here we are, January 2013, and I have decided that rather than make resolutions, I will state a few things that I don't want to do this year – some I truly hope not to happen, others I think that if I fail at them, it will be a good thing. Here goes: I'm not looking for a relationship, I don't want to torture myself trying to quit smoking, I don't want to keep feeling useless and afraid of myself, I don't want to get fatter, I don't want to be destitute and wonder when my next meal will be or where I will live. I won't go off my meds because I forget or think I am better without, I will try not to sweat the small stuff, and I'll try not to forget about consequences and what leads to them. I don't want to miss out on family gatherings, I will not rely on others for my well-being, I won't overwhelm myself with tasks and impossible goals and I won't forget that I am only human.
Aside from a scant number of references of theological beginnings of New Year Resolutions, Wikipedia cites a Wall Street Journal article, "Blame it on the Brain" by the controversial journalist/blogger Jonah Lehrer focused on "The Science Behind Failed Resolutions." It explains how the portion of the brain that controls willpower, the frontal cortex, "is also in charge of keeping us focused, handling short-term memory and solving abstract problems." An overload of tasks and subsequently a lack of willpower (giving into temptation) seems inevitable when you set multiple resolutions for yourself at once; you may believe you are trying to improve yourself but instead you are setting yourself up for failure. Pace yourself, research what it takes to form habits and plan how you will reward yourself. Give yourself enough time to attain the result you are looking for before moving onto the next goal.
In the past, I've started eating better, quit smoking, started exercising and maybe even threw in one or two other behaviors that were not my usual habit. That is why I have failed. Knowledge is power – and learning more about the brain and how it works, not to mention more about my specific disabilities, may give me the knowledge to harness my willpower – or at the very least, give me a better understanding of how to get my hands on some.
Thank you Anney! I have often found writing to be a great way to express myself and sometimes it even helps lighten the burden I feel – inside and out. Good luck to you and I look forward to your continued support!
I'm so happy!!! What a thrill and a half putting a check in the box of this life-long dream! 💜🏍 Thanks for being the best sales guy ever @from_the_river! Thanks @glendaleharley!!!
An Asian guy's journey into soul-searching with an added touch of romance.
I hope that by writing about my journey, you will feel more understood, and recognize that you are valuable, and you are not alone.
posting what I find interesting and funny..


the Martian artistic culture. And doing it all with out saying a word verbally!
Shoes are the foundation of the way we dress. But our creatures, fish etc. Are the foundations of our mammal life etc. Sculptured metaphors seem to be used constantly in Martian outside floor story dioramas!
More photos and info at appointed category !
Baseball batter and an Elephant as Sculptured Metaphors !
Thumbnail url at appointed category !
Posted in "Coming Out Objects"
In this case it seems like an animal is coming out of a place that is narrow and the animal is suffering because of it !
Posted in : "Gathering Creatures Into Containers"
Fingertips meaning: "holding something dear to them"!
In my opinion it would be the creatures that died on mars due to a calamity in extreme antiquity that ended most of the lives of creatures that lived on mars!
Posted in: "Processing Dead Creatures"


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Video Lottery Machines are much faster and more convenient for players, allowing everyone to get their lottery tickets faster than buying scratch-off or Powerball tickets from a store employee. In fact, a new 2011 study by the State Lottery Board showed that simply adding new video lottery machines might raise revenue for the State by more than 1 billion dollars per year! That increase would solve the major problems faced by the HOPE program and Pre-K educational expenses for all Georgia residents.
While some media outlets are blasting the proposed move, claiming it promotes gambling and represents a moral hazard, many more pragmatic people are starting to understand that a voluntary funding system like the Georgia Lottery can provide plenty of financial support for important programs without the despised use of tax hikes or other required forms of personal expense for societal interests. We will keep you up to date on this breaking news, and believe it is the start of a major trend that will soon take hold in many parts of the world. Governments are finally understanding that voluntary funding is better than required taxes, and that the lottery games people play can be a fast easy way to add some excitement to the lives of citizens who are mature enough to make their own decisions for themselves!


Here are a few postcards created for Ethan's last week of classes. They have a camping theme week. Talking about hiking and animals and fun stuff. Each day the kids write a postcard home for the parents. These may be a little to stylized but I had fun with them anyway... not cartoon like..I hope the kids like them....we shall see.


company will be showcasing at this year's InnoTrans show.
resenting at InnoTrans this year, Rhomberg is aiming to showcase its technical innovations. These include: • A new slab track system called IVES • System RhoTAS G5 for installation and adjustment of different slab track types. • A new structure for transitions between slab track and ballast track sections.
Two further areas stand out in particular – access control & safety, and accurate surveying equipment.
Ian Knowles, Rhomberg Rail UK general manager explained: "Rhomberg has vast experience of working with slab track, as you can see from our stand.
ZOKA is a centrally controlled system, which on a zone-by-zone basis allows the monitoring and control of access (personnel, plant and material) via wi-fi tagging, and advanced communication to and from workers located in the tunnel. Additionally the system allows the control and monitoring of environmental systems as well alarms and evacuation.
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Five Things to Do this Weekend
Celebrate Father's Day, summer solstice, Juneteenth and the opening of a new Judy Chicago exhibit.
Updated Oct. 29, 2021
By Maria Manuela
Above: Judy Chicago's Turn Over a New Leaf is among the works in Solstice: Create Art for Earth opening at Santa Fe's Turner Carroll Gallery. Image courtesy of Turner Carroll Gallery.
Attend the opening of Judy Chicago's Solstice exhibit.
Of course Judy Chicago is making a statement right now. With bright swaths of color and abstract iconology, the Belén artist, author, and activist has made a career of pushing for change, seeking equality, and promoting female voices, whether she's working with fireworks and smoke bombs, combining painting and needlework to honor birth, or meditating on death and extinction.
In April, Chicago teamed up with Jane Fonda, Fire Drill Fridays, Greenpeace, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Swoon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and London's Serpentine Galleries to launch #CreateArtForEarth. More than 8,000 artists submitted works to the campaign, which asks us to envision a better future. Then, Chicago and Santa Fe's Turner Carroll Gallery selected 50 pieces for Solstice: Create Art for Earth, which opens Friday at the gallery and runs through July 12.
"It's definitely a call-to-action exhibition in solidarity with everyone who is experiencing this common shift in reality," says Gallery Director Shastyn Blomquist.
Building on the solstice theme of new beginnings and Chicago's decades advocating for change and new artistic thinking, expect works evocative of the upheaval we have witnessed in 2020, including videos that delve into the worldwide suffering caused by COVID-19, and an interactive sculpture that asks attendees to bring recyclable plastics to add to the piece. Chicago and her husband, photographer Donald Woodman, along with Caledonia Curry (aka Swoon), who feminized the male-dominated world of street art, also are featured.
Attendees must wear a mask and reserve an entry time between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Groups of 12 or fewer will view the exhibit on a one-way path through the space, exiting through a side door. "We're excited about it, but everyone is a little nervous," says Blomquist. "We want to keep everyone healthy and safe."
Reserve your time for Solstice, or view an expanded version of the exhibit online through August 12.
Above: Pueblo Harvest at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center re-opens this weekend with a menu of favorites. Photograph by Joel Wigelsworth (IPCCMarketing).
Treat dad to lunch.
Your dad will probably think Pueblo Harvest at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center opened just for him this Father's Day weekend. And why not, when the Albuquerque restaurant is serving up Pueblo beans with freshly baked oven bread, a Frito pie with Native American–raised beef, and a Tewa taco on a crispy pillow of house-made fry bread covered in melty cheese. (We certainly won't tell!)
"We wanted to take it a little bit slowly," says Monique Fragua, vice president of commercial enterprises at the cultural center. "We wanted to make sure to do it right and have everything in place, ensuring we could execute safely. We've definitely missed our guests and the excitement at the center, that's been the hardest."
Open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for curbside pickup and patio dining, Pueblo Harvest has taken precautions to protect both guests and employees from COVID-19; employees are wearing masks and patio tables are set at least six feet apart. It's also offering special family-style meals on "a limited menu that represents who we are," Fragua says.
Try the small family-style meal that comes with enough stew for two to four people and half a loaf of oven bread, or a taco meal kit that comes with everything needed to assemble the pockets of deliciousness at home.
Catch the Festival Flamenco Alburquerque.
Every June, the Duke City fills with the beat of percussive footwork and the snap of castanets as flamenco dancers and musicians from around the world gather to perform in the Festival Flamenco Alburquerque. This year, the 33rd annual event happens virtually and wraps up this weekend with performances Friday and Saturday evening.
On Friday at 7 p.m., Noche de Cante celebrates the cante, or flamenco singing, with performers from different regions, each with its own vocal tradition, belting it out on the virtual stage. Hear from Luis Moneo, Tomasa La Macanita, and Gema Caballero in this hour-long lineup.
On Saturday, in a performance recorded exclusively for the festival, Noche de Tablao las Carboneras, Madrid, showcases some of the world's leading performers—dancing by Concha Jareño and José Maya, singing by Juañares y Juañarito, and guitar by Yerai Cortés. The events are ticketed, but the link to the performances remain active for 24 hours. ¡Olé!
Above: The Aztec West Ruins provide a perfect archeoastronomy site to view the summer solstice. Photograph by Darin In-on.
Celebrate the solstice from these ruins.
Greet the rising summer sun this Saturday morning at Aztec Ruins National Monument—from home. The ranger-led Facebook Live event honors the longest day of the year from the archeoastronomy site. "This highlights the deep connection that the Ancestral Pueblo people had with the heavens," says Emilee Helton, lead interpretive ranger.
Around 900 years ago, Puebloans constructed the ruins to align with the solstice. "Visitors will watch in the Great Kiva as the sun shines inside and fills a recessed space on the opposite wall," she says. "If the eastern skies are clear, our virtual visitors will be able to observe the alignment of the north wall of Aztec West with the sunrise position on the eastern horizon."
Beginning at 5:30 a.m., the event's peak moment happens at 5:53 a.m. But don't worry. If you want to sleep in, you can view the event on the ruins' Facebook page later in the day.
Celebrate Juneteenth.
Since 1865, Juneteenth has celebrated the end of slavery. This year, all of New Mexico is invited to a virtual version of the party. Traditionally held on June 19, it moves to this Saturday, from noon to 10 p.m., on Facebook Live, YouTube, and Albuquerque's GOV-TV channel. Devont'e Watson, a 25-year-old community organizer, pulled together the Statewide Virtual Juneteenth Celebration in order to combine art with activism and a healthy dose of inclusion.
"This holiday isn't just for African Americans," he says. "It's for the country. It's the day we decided to join with the right side of humanity."
The event includes performances by Rosalind Jones and the New Mexico Mass Choir, the Syndicate ABQ, Frederick & Company, Trey Vision, and many more. "Historically, art has always blended with activism," Watson says. "It was the soundtrack to the civil rights movement. We hope the whole family joins around and watches and learns. Juneteenth traditionally is a block party, and we want to bring that flavor to this event."


Here's a depressing statistic: Of the half-billion emails studied by FireEye for its January-June email report, only 32% were clean and made it into the inbox.
Another 58% were blocked by threat intelligence as abnormal, meaning that they came from managed block lists, compromised IPs and malicious domains. And 10% were blocked based on attachment detonation, URL inspection and impersonation detection.
That last 10% were the only emails that contained malware — the remainder did not. That doesn't mean they were legitimate. Of the malware-free emails, 81% were classified as phishing.
Impersonation emails, being more complicated to execute, were flat. Still, FireEye warns that these attacks are highly dangerous.
Malware-laden emails peaked in January, with June a close second. The lowest incidence was in April — the same month that malware-free volume spiked.
The reason is that those emails targeted accounting and human resources personnel. W2 fraud attacks can expose an employee's "name, address, and Social Security number, as well as their wage, salary, and amount of taxes withheld from their paycheck," FireEye continues.
The firm relies on antivirus and anti-spam engines, in-house developed algorithms, multi-vector virtual execution (MVX) engine and machine learning to block malicious messages.


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World - Southern separatists
Yemen govt rules out talks until separatists withdraw from Aden
The recent fighting in Aden has exposed divisions in a coalition fighting the Iran backed Huthi rebels / © AFP/File
Yemen's government on Wednesday ruled out talks with southern separatists until they withdraw from positions they seized last week in second city Aden.
The fighting saw forces that back the Southern Transitional Council (STC) take five barracks, the presidential palace and the prime minister's office.
The fighting sparked tensions within a Saudi-led coalition that backs the government against northern-based Huthi rebels.
A key member of the coalition, the United Arab Emirates, trained the force that led the Aden offensive.
Saudi Arabia has proposed peace talks in Riyadh, a call supported by the UAE.
Yemen's Washington embassy, quoting the foreign ministry, on Wednesday welcomed the Saudi initiative to address the "coup" in Aden.
But, it said in a tweet, separatists "must first commit to total withdrawal from areas forcibly seized by STC in past few days before start of any talks."
The STC has voiced willingness to take part in the talks, but has not given any sign that it is ready to withdraw, say security sources close to the movement.
South Yemen was an independent country until it merged with the north in 1990.
An armed secession bid four years later ended with its occupation by northern forces, provoking resentments that still persist.
The deadly fighting in Aden has further complicated Yemen's devastating conflict, which has killed tens of thousands of people and contributed what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 to prop up the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after the Huthis ousted it from the capital Sanaa.
But last week's clashes saw the UAE-trained Security Belt Force seize Aden -- the government's interim capital -- potentially further destabilising the country's south.
The fighting left 40 dead and 260 wounded, according to the UN.
Hadi himself has long been absent from Yemen, having fled to Riyadh as the Huthis advanced on Sanaa.
The Iran-backed rebels continue to control vast swathes of the country including the capital and areas close to the Saudi border.
Analysts say the tensions may weaken the coalition's military campaign against the Huthis.


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LAY OF THE LAND NEWSLETTER > Fall 2000
Pancho Barnes' Happy Bottom Flying Club
Ruins Evoke Legendary Era of Aviation in Antelope Valley
Aerial view of Pancho Barnes' compound, in 1950's. Edwards AFB photo
IN THE LATE FORTIES AND early fifties over the then isolated Muroc Dry Lake Bed - the largest natural flat space on earth - night-flying military and civilian pilots had a remarkable navigational beacon: the shimmering, iridescent blue-green glow of the swimming pool at Pancho Barnes' Happy Bottom Flying Club. An unmistakable and exquisite landmark on a lakebed with a curvature of less than 18 inches over a six mile distance, it was then the only pool in the Antelope Valley. Pilots landed on Pancho's adjacent private airstrip to partake of her generous hospitality at what was the watering hole of the most world-renowned flyers of the post war era. For regular patrons including aviation icons Chuck Yeager, A. Scott Crossfield, Jimmy Doolittle and H.H. "Hap" Arnold well as the engineers, designers, mechanics and military personnel who built and flew a remarkable array of airplanes (including the XP-80, ZX-1, F-104, X-15 and SR-71), Pancho's barroom was at the literal center of the supersonic age and served as the unofficial - and always congenial - debriefing room for the most elite test pilots in the world.
Pancho's remote 368 acre Rancho Oro Verde property was, at the height of its fame, reachable only by air or a brutal 20-mile dirt road from Lancaster. In spite of its isolation, the compound offered a swanky 20 room motel surrounding a remarkable 80' fountain in the shape of the Army Air Corps insignia, a well-stocked horse corral, a restaurant, airplane hangars, three landing strips, a dance hall (partially open-aired), gambling den and the world-famous bar where she hosted what she called "the fastest and bravest men on earth." Bordered by lush planting of cottonwoods, Chinese elms, poplars and bamboo, the Happy Bottom Flying Club was a verdant oasis in the desert and the site of a lifestyle as exuberant as its host.
Pancho Barnes is a legend in the aviation community, a daring pilot who stole the world's speed record for women from Amelia Earhart, in 1930. She continued her aviation career by barnstorming around the country as the star of Pancho Barnes' Mystery Circus of the Air and performed aerial stunts for Howard Hughes' epic motion picture, Hell's Angels. After depleting her fortune through a lavish lifestyle, she ended up settling at this remote ranch in the Mojave Desert.
Arriving on the scene soon after the Army Air Corps established its operations on the desert playa in 1933 (first as Muroc Army Air Field then later as Edwards Air Force Base), Pancho's Rancho Oro Verde was seamlessly transformed into the only recreational spot for the officers and young soldiers to drink, debrief and blow off steam. Leading into the war years and the huge military expansion at the base, she enlarged her spread and Oro Verde became the Fly-Inn Dude Ranch and then finally the Happy Bottom Flying Club - named by Jimmy Doolittle who, after a long ride on a new horse was asked by Pancho if he liked the animal. Doolittle responded, "oh yes, it gave me a happy bottom."
Today, little remains of what was once the raucous desert playground but the surviving ruins hint at the high style and grand opulence that was Pancho's trademark. In addition to the remarkable four-tiered cascading fountain (originally topped by a statue of a nude goddess) that graced the motel esplanade, the double-sided fireplace and door frames from the dining room and bar still stand as well as some outbuildings including the shell of the dairy barn which was used for illicit gambling. On the eastside of the ranch is the infamous wooden gate which Yeager struck on horseback - breaking two ribs - the night before he became the first man to break the sound barrier. North of what were the main buildings are the remains of a Ryan PT-19 aircraft which was 'borrowed' from Pancho's personal fleet of airplanes by two young locals and crashed short of the main runway. Most remarkably intact is the shell of the 30-foot wide, round swimming pool. After the first pool was destroyed in the 1952 Tehachapi earthquake, two grain silo construction contractors from the Midwest approached Pancho. They proposed using their silo molds to erect a new pool, and Pancho readily agreed.The silo casts, which consisted of massive, inter-connected quarter sections, were customized with special options demanded by Pancho including recessed underwater lighting and, most astonishingly, a gently sloping ramp that allowed Pancho and her horse, after particularly arduous rides, to cool off by walking directly into the pool.
Each September the site is open to the public for "Pancho Barnes Day." Sponsored by the Flight Test Historical Foundation at Edwards Air Force Base, this year's event featured among its special guests Eugene "Mac" McKendry, 81, a WWII pilot and Pancho's fourth and last husband. Although frail, his spirits were enlivened by once again visiting the ranch where he and Pancho hosted many notorious revelries, and he reminisced fondly about the infamous rodeo that opened with the entrance of one of the ranch hostesses as Lady Godiva clad only in a long blond wig and the airborne treasure hunts where pilots, given written clues, flew all over the lake bed searching for a buried jackpot of 200 silver dollars.
Mac remains resentful over the government's seizure of the Happy Bottom Flying Club in 1954 for the construction of a 27 mile long runway to accommodate a then-planned atomic-powered aircraft, but was quick to invoke Pancho's philosophical attitude about the loss of the legendary club: "Like she always said, 'Well, f*** it, we had more fun in a week than most of the weenies in the world have in a lifetime."
Field Report by Charles Barile
Information about visiting the remains of the Happy Bottom Flying Club for the annual "Pancho Barnes Day" can be obtained by writing the Flight Test Historical Foundation at P.O.Box 57, Edwards, California 93523 or by calling (661) 277-8051.
The pool, as it looks today, showing the gently sloping shallow end where Pancho would ride in on her horse to cool off after riding in the heat of the Mojave. Charles Barile photo


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Official opening of Lusikisiki Village Clinic
President Cyril Ramaphosa officially opening the Lusikisiki Village Clinic as part of the official launch of the district development model
Engagement with the Lusikisiki community
President Cyril Ramaphosa engaging with Lusikisiki community on gender-based violence and killing of people with albinism
President addressing the Lusikisiki community
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the community of Lusikisiki on gender-based violence and killing of people with albinism
Meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Land Reform
Deputy President David Mabuza chairing a meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Land Reform at the Union Buildings
Visit to the Sebokeng Regional Sewer Scheme
Deputy President David Mabuza visits the Sebokeng Regional Sewer Scheme in the Emfuleni Local Municipality, Gauteng
Selig Percy Amoils (1933 - )
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Selig Percy Amoils (1933 - ) Awarded for:
Excellence in the field of ophthalmology and for inspiring his colleagues in the field of science.
Profile of Selig Percy Amoils
Selig Percy Amoils, pioneering inventor and biomedical engineer, was born in Johannesburg in 1933, where he was raised and educated.
From an engineering background in his undergraduate studies, he went on to attend Medical School at the University of the Witwatersrand; specialist training at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto; Moorfields Hospital in London; and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary as a clinical fellow and research scientist, specialising in retinal diseases and surgery and glaucoma.
In private practice since 1969, Amoils has held hospital appointments at Baragwanath Hospital and Natalspruit Hospital on the East Rand where, as director of cryosurgical research, he extended a range of treatments, not only for the eye, but also in gynaecology, dentistry, dermatology, veterinary medicine and thoracic and heart surgery, among others.
Amoils first pioneered cryosurgery for cataracts and retinal detachments in 1962. This led to the Cryoprobe in 1965 that forever changed the method of cataract and retinal surgery.
For this invention, Amoils achieved world recognition and a Queen's Award. His Cryoprobe has been on display in the Kensington Museum in London next to the inventions of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, and Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone. Amoils says he got his idea for the Cryoprobe while doing some work in the Johannesburg Public Library.
Another well-known invention of his is the rotary epithelial scrubber. This is an adaptation of an ordinary electric toothbrush used in corrective laser surgery. It works in a circular motion, scrubbing away cells for a smoother surface for laser procedures. Before, a scalpel was used, resulting in an uneven surface.
Amoils's rotary epithelial scrubber has even been used on former President Nelson Mandela, whom Amoils has treated since 1994. He helped bring to the world's attention one of the consequences of Mandela's long imprisonment on Robben Island. Forced to smash limestone rocks for 20 years, Mandela's tear glands have been burned because of the alkaline nature of the limestone. This has left his eyes dry and prone to irritation. Amoils had to perform a difficult operation to remove a cataract from Mandela's eye because of this condition.
Amoils also developed the first diamond vitrectomy cutters in 1970, using hollow diamonds. A vitrectomy is performed when the vitreous, the gel-like substance that fills the centre of the eye, has to be removed or certain problems affect the back of the eye.
He introduced microscopic control of blade depth in Radial Keratotomy, the procedure for nearsightedness, which is essential for accuracy; invented the Ovalometer to control astigmatism after cataract surgery and corneal grafting, concerning the shape of the cornea; and designed cataract surgery aspiration devices for developing countries especially.
Amoils is a noted proponent of Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) to treat thin corneas and latent and frank keratoconus. PRK is a procedure in which the surface of the cornea is reshaped to treat nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism. Keratoconus relates to a protrusion of the centre of the cornea.
Amoils has also demonstrated the superiority of scanning PRK over broad beam PRK and pioneered the use of mitomycin - antibiotics used against bacteria and cancerous tumor cells, in the prevention and treatment of complications after PRK.
His study of the thinning of the cornea after other competing surgical procedures began in 1995 and he has made numerous international presentations of his challenging findings. He has published a textbook on cryosurgery and ophthalmology as well as scores of scientific papers.
Among his awards are 'One of the Four Outstanding Young Men' in South Africa in 1968; the Queens Award for Technological Innovation in London; and the Medal of Honour from the Academy of Applied Science in association with MIT and Harvard.
Selig Percy Amoils has proven himself an inventor extraordinaire, setting his country on the world map as well as holding his own with the very best in the scientific world throughout his glorious career.
Percy Amoils continues to develop new inventions for a wide range of applications, at the forefront of Africa's contributions to solving humanity's problems.
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