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'Why Death Penalty': 2012 Delhi Gang Rape Convict Brings Up Air Pollution In Review Plea
Akshita Jain
HuffPost India 10 December 2019
A demonstrator holds placards during a protest in New Delhi on December 29, 2012. (Photo: Adnan1 Abidi / Reuters)
One of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, Akshay Singh, moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday and sought review of its 2017 judgment handing down death penalty.
The apex court had, on 9 July, 2018, dismissed the review pleas filed by three other convicts in the case.
Singh, who had not filed the review plea earlier with other three convicts, has now moved the apex court with the petition, his lawyer AP Singh was quoted as saying by PTI.
In his petition, Singh argued that the air quality in Delhi NCR is "burst and like a gas chamber" and the water is "full of poison".
"Life is going short to short, then why death penalty?" he asked in his petition, according to NDTV.
The petition further said, according to News18, "Why death penalty when age is reducing. It is mentioned in our Ved, Purans and Upanishad that in the age of Satyug, people lived thousands of years. In Treta Yug, a man used to live for thousands of years...but now it is Kalyug. In this era, age of a human being is reduced much."
"It has now come to 50-60 years... this is almost a true analysis... when a person faces stark realities of life, then he is no better than a dead body," NDTV further quoted from the report.
(With PTI inputs)
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Dag Wirén Foundation
Dag Wirén – The Interpreter
Articles about Wirén
Dag Wirén's Piano Music
The Revolutionary Dag Wirén
Dag Wirén: Traditionalist, innovator – or innovator of tradition?
Books about Wirén
Works and recordings
List of works and discography
av Lars Berglund
In the rather crudely written history of Swedish contemporary classical music that was established after the Second World War, composers were sorted according to the decade in which they made their debut. A decade beginning with an even number meant that the composer was a radical one, an odd number more traditionalist. In this way, Dag Wirén fell into the category of the more traditionally minded pre-war composers, such as Lars-Erik Larsson, Erland von Koch and Gunnar de Frumerie.
As Per Olov Broman has shown in his excellent article "History-making, modernism and Dag Wirén" in the book Dag Wirén – a guide, such a categorisation is not without its problems. And Dag Wirén is one of those who least deserve to be labelled in such a crude way.
What, after all, is a traditional composer? Two of the greatest revolutionaries in the music world of the early 20th century, Arnold Schönberg and his pupil Anton Webern, were, at the same time, two of the most explicitly tradition-conscious musicians of their age. And yet, we can see how a devoted spokesman for the traditional side of Swedish art music, Jan Carlstedt never missed an opportunity to point out that traditionalist music could and should also be experimental and seek its own constant renewal. Perhaps all that we can say for certain is that only rarely are the composers themselves happy about having such labels stuck to them. Some even see them as a fatuous insult or at least a gross simplification of the seriously purposed and complex work to which they devote themselves.
It is probably time for us to consign this traditionalist/radical distinction to history, when, that is, it is used at all. In Sweden in the 1950s, when many of the ideas behind the latter stages of history-making were established, they were, however, very much common currency. Radical music was defined by certain specific, apparently rather conventional stylistic criteria: atonality and triad proscription, dodecaphonics and serialism, pointillism, the use of recording tape or electronically produced sound – and the avoidance of conventional work designations and genres: "Complex IV" was a radical title, "Violin Concerto no. 1" was not. It was in such a conceptual environment that Dag Wirén was labelled a traditionalist.
At the same time, we must remember that when Wirén returned to Sweden from his studies in Paris in 1933, and made his debut in Fylkingen with his Piano Trio, he was given reviews that were not so very far from P-B's famous slating of Rosenberg's first quartet ten years previously. The trio was described by Herman Glimstedt as an "opus cacophonus…in whose fermenting tonal brew those movements, amongst the many, upon which had been bestowed, with formal pretentions, the titles Fugetta and Alla passacaglia could hardly be identified". To conservative eyes, then, Wirén was a sinister modernist who came from the continent with foreign ideas in tow, ready to subvert all good musical customs.
In the great debate on music and music criticism that ensued in 1957 in connection with the premiere of Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Anabase, Wirén sided with the modernists: "Audiences must be trained," he declared in the survey published by Dagens Nyheter, and continued: "In my opinion, Swedish radio should never baulk at a good work simply because it's exclusive. Radical and relatively inaccessible music should be supported precisely out of respect for audiences."
Disregarding more superficial criteria of style and genre, Wirén was himself in many respects a typical modernist. Wirén's "concerted efforts to systematically and economically develop a thematic material to exploit it to the full must be seen as a consequence of a pronounced modernistic philosophy," writes Sten Dahlstedt in Dag Wirén – a guide (p. 63). It was precisely Wirén's predilection for strict economy, reduction, sparsity and clarity, as well as his express aversion to repetition in music, that led him to develop the "metamorphosis technique" that he had first started to cultivate in his third symphony (1944) and that he would later consider a vital ingredient of his compositional technique.
However, Wirén was also a modernist and an innovator for the very reason that he was always on the move. His pieces from the 1930s, like the Piano Trio (op 6), the Sinfonietta (op 7) or the Serenade (op 11) are considered today accessible and divertante works. To Herman Glimstedt's ears, the piano trio was a cacophony. And once the music critics and the broader concert-going public had caught up with these pieces and taken them to their hearts, Wirén was already off somewhere else on the more austere and narrow line that he followed above all with his fourth symphony (1952) and which he would go on to perfect right up to his final works in the early 1970s, such as the incredibly compact string quartet no. 5.
In this way, in both his career and his music, Wirén challenged all simplified attempts to write history. He is so much more than a pre-war composer because his career spanned many more decades than that, from his student years in the 1920s to his final compositions of the 1970s, and because many of his most interesting works were written in his later years. And he is so much more than simply "traditionalist" or "modernist" because there is a complexity, a density and a sense of innovation in his output that makes such labels seem banal. And as modern listeners, I think we can actually hear this: it is possible to listen to pieces from the 1930s, such as the piano trio or the serenade, as divertante and "easy listening" music; but it is still also possible to hear the modernistic provocation that actually already existed back then in Wirén's approach to harmony and melody. Similarly, we can listen to his fifth string quartet as the strict and sparse tonal structure that it comes across as in the score – but it is also music with an unusually fresh immediacy that can be enjoyed without any need for preliminary intellectual exercises.
Lars Berglund
The music of Dag Wirén goes to Spain 23 May, 2022
Piano competition in contemporary music for young pianists, 11–14 April 2019 18 November, 2018
US project including music by Dag Wirén 8 September, 2018
South Korean wins Dag Wirén price 12 December, 2017
Special Wirén price at international competition in Switzerland 12 October, 2016
The Dag Wirén Foundation
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In memory of Dag Wirén's contributions as a composer, the goals of the Dag Wirén Foundation are to
encourage performance of his works
support recording of his works
spread knowledge of his works in other ways.
The Foundation can also reward people who bring special attention to the music of Dag Wirén or who work meritoriously in his spirit. The Foundation has for example provided support for CD recordings and book publications.
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Preserving Ancient Sites, Improving Modern Lives
The Copan Maya Foundation is a non profit organization created to support educational, cultural, and environmental projects in Copan, Honduras and their immediate neighbors.
The Copan Maya Foundation was founded in January, 2000 and has IRS designated 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. Donations are fully tax-deductible. TIN: 77-0525430.
In 1998 Hurricane Mitch devastated the already fragile Honduran economy and environment. This disaster, combined with the limited government resources available to maintain and research Copan, motivated Honduran archaeologist Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle and his U.S. colleagues to form the Copan Maya Foundation.
Our international team of directors and advisors brings a wide range of expertise to address the unique challenges in preserving ancient Maya world heritage.
We collaborate with our sister organization in Honduras, the Copan Association, in a variety of archaeological, cultural, community and environmental projects. We also educate audiences worldwide about the Maya through printed materials, conferences, research and the Internet. The foundation offers a tax-deductible way to support Copan.
Learn more about the ancient Maya and ensure that this tremendous site will remain for the enjoyment of future generations.
(Elected August 2020)
Chairman and President: Ellen Bell
Chief Financial Officer: Loa Traxler
Secretary: Dorie Reents-Budet
Alison Stone
Eileen Agurcia
Catherine Bosher
Executive Committee Members:
Ellen Bell, Loa Traxler, Dorie Reents-Budet
Emeritus Directors:
John D. Negroponte, United States Deputy Secretary of State
Douglas M. Moreland, Senior Vice President, Development, Walt Disney Imagineering
Board of Advisors:
Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, Copan Association, Honduras
Karl Taube, University of California, Riverside, U.S.A
Whitney Hyder
Jose Herrero
Administrative Consultant:
Elizabeth Nutter-Valladares, Copan Maya Foundation Consultant


Today marks the last 'Wednesday for Parents' post of 2013! We hope to gradually build up a bank of resources for parents so if you find something that we should be telling others about, please let Ms Sexton know!
This week's post is all about fun websites for the days leading up to Christmas! (It's also quite a short one – mainly due to this – very excited to see you all tomorrow!) As always, all sites were checked when this post was published but St Peter's is not responsible for the content of external websites.
First one is the official NORAD Santa tracker. The Santa Tracker doesn't begin until Christmas Eve but in the meantime, you can explore the North Pole. Excellent site!
Google have also accessed Santa's map and have plans to track him on Christmas Eve. In the meantime, they have daily interactions and activities. This site is very child-friendly and definitely worth a look!
Finally, during all the chat with the students about Christmas over the last few weeks, it's become clear that, while they enjoy the presents and especially the excitement around Santa's visit, the highlight for Christmas is spending time with the people they love. All their retellings of the Christmas story have focused on the part about the family, and they are quite aware of the 'reason for the season'. With that in mind, the final thing I want to share with you today is an ad by Excentric. Maybe you've seen it before, but if not, it's definitely worth a look!
Merry Christmas everyone and we'll be back in the New Year with more 'Wednesday for Parents' posts!


Mykonos is probably per capita the world's biggest consumer of white paint. At the very least, there must be a large shipment of whitewash to the Cycladic Islands in Greece each month. While not all houses on Mykonos are painted in the traditional whiter-than-white, white walls have become the standard since the 1930s, and it's what tourists have come to expect.
It was in the 1930s in fact when the Cycladic Islands began to enjoy the gift of tourism. Before that time, they endured the scourge of occupation, pillaging and ransacking--which was not so nice. The Venetians, though, left a nice mark on Mykonos in the much-photographed Little Venice.
The old town of Mykonos is now a maze of trendy bars, pricey clothing shops and restaurants where dinner might cost you a month's rent. Mykonos is known for attracting guests who can afford to pour a 600-euro bottle of champagne over their heads.
We start to enter (read barge in) just to have a look around because we, it seems, are cretins born in a barn.
The greeter blocks our way. "Have you visited us in London or Paris?" She's in her twenties. Her tan is perfect. Her smile is Mykonos white. She smells like spring.
"Um, probably," I say, pulling my arrogant face. "I've been to so many exorbitantly expensive places. It's hard to keep them all straight." I turn to Egbert the Armadillo Roller's Assistant. "Didn't we go there with Carl and Peter last summer? You know, when we poured the 600-dollar champagne on our heads?" I swoosh my head and pick up the menu. Cocktails start at 6000 euros and a finger of your choice. "Can we have a look around? Ambience is very important to us . . . if we're going to eat here instead of buying a car."
"Do we know how the ambience is inside?" I counter.
"Do you need to? We do have locations in London and Paris."
She laughs hysterically because I am so funny. And adorable.
"So, if I understand correctly, we can't have a peek inside."
The funny thing about these trendy restaurants in the old town of Mykonos is that they don't even have a view of the sea. You're not going to watch the sun set here. You might as well be in a restaurant in London or Paris. Same with most of the trendy bars.
There is (at least) one restaurant where the food is reasonably priced and good, where you can watch the sun set. It's Joanna's Niko's Place a short walk down to the sea from the old town of Mykonos. The first evening we eat there, we don't have a reservation, so we can't sit outside to watch the sun set. We like the food so much, however, that we make reservations to eat there the following evening. And it is definitely worth it.
Most people who visit Mykonos stay in their snazzy hotel, broil themselves at the pool, and prowl around the old town at night. Not us. We rent a car and explore the island. Egbert the Armadillo Roller's Assistant and I go hiking. Mykonos is one of those Greek islands that has very few trees. If you go hiking, remember to bring a hat and sunscreen. You'll be in the sun. The hills are covered in prickly vegetation that smells warm and heady, like curry and spices. It's the fragrance of joy. I know that sounds sentimental, but the air on Mykonos makes me happy. I could walk here for days.
The west of Mykonos is not exactly the safest place to drive. Many small secondary roads are gravel at best, crumbling off the side of the mountain at worst. As we travel the roads we have the feeling that countless building projects have been abandoned. Maybe victims of the 2008 real estate collapse? Most sources, though, say that Mykonos was spared the worst of Greece's financial crisis. The tourists have never stopped coming to Mykonos--at least that's the PR Mykonos gets.
The tourists herd to Paradise Beach and Super Paradise Beach. I'm not sure what's so super about Super Paradise Beach. Both beaches look pretty much the same, as if they're run by the same people. You can eat lunch at one of the moderately priced restaurants or eat the slop the self-service restaurants serve up. It's fairly basic fare. You'll have a more interesting trip if you get off the beaten path, get out of your car and breathe in the spiced air.
But most tourists stay in Mykonos town where the air reeks of motorcycle exhaust and the houses are continually whitewashed. I couldn't help seeing this symbolically: that all the white is covering up the pain of a country in crisis.
PS: Have you entered the 2016 I Must Be Off! Travel Writing Competition? The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2016.
Christopher Allen is the author of Conversations with S. Teri O'Type (a Satire), an episodic adult cartoon about a man struggling with expectations. Allen's writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Juked, Eclectica Magazine's 20th-Anniversary Best of Speculative anthology, Indiana Review, Night Train, Quiddity, SmokeLong Quarterly: the Best of the First Ten Years anthology, Prime Number Magazine, [PANK] blog, Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, Bootsnall Travel, and lots of other good places. A finalist at Glimmer Train in 2011, Allen has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize twice.


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AMT Program Helps Break Down Barriers to Success
Grants Made Under Wheat Ridge Ministries
After 20 years at a Chicago-area bakery production plant, Ed Curra was laid off. The plant eventually closed, and he and his wife depended on his part-time earnings and savings to get by. Curra wasn't ready to retire and tried to position himself for jobs by studying for and receiving an electromechanical maintenance certification. But it wasn't enough. "Most of the jobs I'd been applying for, the companies said they wanted a journeyman," he says.
Through a connection at the Veterans Administration, Curra learned about the Advanced Manufacturing Training (AMT) program at Bethel New Life (Chicago, Ill.), a recent Wheat Ridge Ministries grantee. AMT is a comprehensive job training program that helps low-income individuals on Chicago's West Side improve their ability to compete for living-wage jobs and careers. Curra was accepted into the program and completed the requirements in July 2017.
Initiated in 2013, the AMT program is intense: participants meet for 22 weeks, three days a week for four hours each day. At completion, participants earn three Level 1 computer numerical control certifications.
For Ed, the process was worth it and the program was the perfect fit. "It's really hands on: there's attention paid to us that I've never really experienced in an education-type setting," he says. "We have a small group of six and they take us to the [training] site as a group, so we have a tight bond."
Roxanne Charles, Director of Workforce Development at Bethel New Life since 2015, has enhanced the program by developing a consistent training schedule and incorporating employer-based feedback for the type of content delivered. Charles has also added a one-week orientation.
"It was a challenge to get individuals engaged beyond the scheduled period of participation—we were at 70% completion." she says. "The orientation is structured to see if they can make the commitment we need them to make, and incorporates personality tests, stress indicators, work environment simulation, and technology aptitude tests." Two years after instituting the orientation, AMT has a 100% completion rate.
Curra is grateful for the people who have helped him. "Everyone at the training site is very supportive and the folks at Bethel New Life help with resumes, interviewing, and job placement," he says. "Everything that I need or questions I need answered, I can get in one place."
Charles notes that the Wheat Ridge grant has supported the implementation of virtual learning hubs for a continuous learning experience—even after program completion. It also supports transportation assistance to help participants get to the training site and later, hopefully, interview sites. "It sounds minor, but it's a major support system for individuals in the program who make a commitment without support from family or friends. It's made a tremendous difference," she says.
Curra now looks forward to the future. "This has given me a greater hope than I've had in a while," he says. "I'd want to thank anybody who's given to this program and thank them for this opportunity."
Through the support of Wheat Ridge donors, Bethel New Life's AMT program can focus on total life transformation and continue their holistic approach to address barriers individuals may encounter when trying to elevate their careers and lives.
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Q: Isobaric spin $T = 0$ and Pauli-exclusion principle I was reading  a Book of Nuclear Physics (Concepts of Nuclear Physics by Bernard L. Cohen), in which he discusses the concept of Isobaric spin T and defines it by saying

We see that only wave functions with even $l$, $S=0$ (Space symmetric, Spin anti-symmetric) or odd $l$, $S=1$ satisfy the Pauli exclusion principle. These states called $T=1$ states, where $T$ is isobaric spin. Other states of the two nucleons system, those with even $l$, $S=1$ or odd $l$ or $S=0$. We see that $T=1$ states are available to any of the three two-nucleon systems, proton-proton, proton-neutron, and neutron-neutron, whereas $T=0$ states are available only to the proton-neutron system because it does not consist of identical particles and hence need not satisfy the Pauli-exclusion principal.

(Book page No.39, last paragraph)
In the last line, Cohen writes that the proton-neutron system does not need to satisfy the Pauli-exclusion Principle. Can someone please justify this?

A: The proton and the neutron have the same value of isobaric spin, but different isobaric spin projections ($\pm \frac{1}{2}$). This is like an electron having spin-half, and then being either "spin-up" or "spin-down". As they have different quantum numbers, the proton and neutron can occupy the same state, that is, Pauli's principle does not forbid this. This would not be possible for a proton-proton, or a neutron-neuron, system though.

A: Pauli's Exclusion Principle only applies to identical fermions. It's the basic fundamental. What more do you want?

A: Protons and neutrons are 2 different particles. Pauli's principle applies only to identical particles. When the two particles form a whole, they become indistinguishable. Which reflects itself in their common wavefunction. This becomes anti-symmetric. There is not a separate part of this wavefunction that refers to their spin, which would be the case if both were, say, electrons.
See this article on Wikipedia.

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Kyrgyzstan is in the process of creating its first Open Government Partnership National Action Plan, one of the principal commitments of which is deepening the reform of the public procurement system. While the commitments are still to be finalized and approved, Kyrgyzstan is on the track of becoming yet another country to fully adopt e-procurement. This is a significant step not only for Kyrgyzstan, but the whole region of Central Asia.
The public procurement reform in Kyrgyzstan has been ongoing for several years, legislative changes were made and a new electronic public procurement portal was created - www.zakupki.gov.kg. However, despite progress, the reform has been hindered by deficiencies of the legislative framework as well as insufficient financial resources to fine-tune all of the procurement procedure modules available on the electronic portal.
The absence of these modules in a digital format does not allow procuring entities to fully implement the Law on Public Procurement, which creates a problem of enforcement. There is also an urgent need to integrate the electronic public procurement system with other information systems of government agencies.
Taking into account that Kyrgyzstan is actively introducing IT technologies into all business processes in the state administration, electronic public procurement is one of the essential directions in the field of digital transformation.
1.1. Introduction of changes and additions to the current legislation in the field of public procurement with a view to its harmonization with the requirements of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Treaty, the WTO Agreement on Public Procurement and other international standards.
2.1. Integration of the public procurement portal with databases of the State Tax Service, the Federation Council, and the Ministry of Justice.
2.2. Finalization of the module on public procurement planning.
2.3. Development of the registration and execution of procurement contracts module.
2.4. Development of a request card for the formation of non-standard reports.
2.5. Development of modules: two-stage tenders, procurement of projects of international organizations, framework agreement, procurement of consulting services.
2.6. Development of the Feedback Module and creation of the Call-Center.
2.7. Introduction of functionality for online filing of complaints from interested parties that are not participants in the tenders.
2.8. Improvement of general classifiers of procurement of goods, works and services.
2.9. Development and implementation of software tools for data processing in accordance with international standards for open data.
2.10. Improvement of the functioning of the web portal in Kyrgyz and English languages.
2.11. Development and implementation of a function for evaluating bids in real time (online assessment).
2.12. Development of the electronic catalog.
2.13. Development of modules for carrying out sectoral purchases.
2.14. Development of the subsystem of public procurement audit.
2.15. Introduction of electronic signatures.
2.16. Introduction of API (application programming interface) in the web portal of government procurement.
The main results of this reform will be the simplification of public procurement procedures, centralization of procurement processes, increasing levels of transparency of public procurement activities so they comply with the Open Contracting Partnership standards, additional savings on procurement procedures and increased efficiency of the public procurement system.
With the successful implementation of the reform and the proposed OGP national action plan, Kyrgyzstan will also become more compliant with the TPPR standards of transparency and efficiency in public procurement.


Hi there Wednesday! How did you sneak up on me so fast? Must have been that fun Monday I took off and went over to Holly's to see the strike offs and have lunch. So what about the view? It's unbelievable weather for January is all I can say. I can almost see where Bret works. He's got a spectacular view on his side of the bay as well.
The Sausalito Cottage strike offs are in, and they really look good. I thought I'd share a few pictures with you. It was towards the end of the day, so the lighting isn't perfect but I think you can see how lovely they've turned out. Holly and I kept rearranging the piles of fabric I couldn't stop looking at those text prints.
It's hard to see but there is a pearl on the background of these hydrangea prints. I can't believe how nice it turned out. There's pearl on other prints as well, like the tea cups.. it's subtle and adds such nice detail without overwhelming the design.
I love how there are so many great looks here, the hydrangeas, the tea cups, the wonderful roses, the texts and then all the supporting pieces you need. It's such a versatile grouping I think. There's something for everyone here.
And such beautiful colors, especially like the hydrangeas with both blue and pink on the white. I have 4 bushes under my windows in the front, 2 pink and 2 blue and they are well intertwined by mid season. Have a great day Pam.
Beautiful fabrics, Pam. and I LOVE Sausalito!
When is that line going to be in the fabric stores? Love it. I had a hydrangea growing in my yard and I was watering it every day. It's dry here. It was doing great then one morning I went out and all the flowers had been eaten - the next day all the leaves. Darn DEER!!!!!
I am needing some new gardening aprons and I can definitely see them in those fabrics!
Yay! Text Prints! They're all beautiful PKM. Holly does it again!
Beautiful fabric! Love every piece,especially the tea cups!
I cannot wait for these! They remind me of my great-grandmother's flower beds a long time ago. She was so proud of her hydrangeas. And I've finally started my blog! Please stop by if you get a chance... you'll see lots of PKM fabric! I'm at greydogwoodstudio.com.
Gorgeous! Love the hydrangeas, they are my favorite flower!
Oh dear! There's so many gorgeous purples! Wow, they are all beautiful!
Oh, my gosh, those are beautiful.
Pretty, pretty new fabrics & colors Pam!


We woke to an East wind which would really plague us all day. Again we were on the lookout for Tarpon. We did see some really big fish, but you couldn't really set up on them real good. We sat on a sandbar and watched the sun come up, all the while to the sound of tarpon crashing bait.
DaveR on Tarpon Patrol. If they announced that there were Tarpon on the moon, Dave would find a way to get there.
Tommy joins in on the patrol.
It was a very slow morning. I went back to my bowl area and sure enough the Tarpon showed back up. Unfortunately only three of them came by. I had a good shot at one, who was just cruising along the surface. I made the perfect cast with my DOA Baitbuster, it turned towards it, and then spooked. FAIL!!! So, I went on a sighting seeing paddle.
Day Three was a bust on Black Drum. My feeling is they are like Redfish, when the breeze picks up, they don't really tail all that much. Oh, we did see them. Tommy had a nice one tail right next to him, made the prefect cast and saw the take. The fish even took some drag, then nothing. Spit the hook. After that it was like they just weren't there.
Final word about the trip; we learned on very important lesson. Never let Dustin get out of your sight. Ever!!
It was great trip with even better company. I can't wait for the next one.


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Q: Will the grpc server class be created multiple times? offical demo here
// RouteGuideImpl provides an implementation of the RouteGuide service.
public class RouteGuideImpl : RouteGuide.RouteGuideBase
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My question is, will RouteGuideImpl be created once? or multiple times? Is it guaranteed to be singleton? I didn't find the answer from the docs.


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CHINA China tests first experimental superfast aircraft
China tests first experimental superfast aircraft
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China has successfully developed and tested a cutting-edge hypersonic aircraft that rides its own shock waves, according to the China Daily Monday.
The first flight-test of Starry Sky 2, a hypersonic experimental waverider vehicle, was successfully conducted at an unidentified testing field in northwestern China last Friday, the newspaper cited the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics as saying.
A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft that has a wedge-shaped fuselage designed to improve its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves generated by its own flight as a lifting force.
The hypersonic vehicle was first carried by a solid-propellant rocket and then separated as its own propulsion system took over. During the independent flight, the test craft maintained ultrafast speeds above Mach 5.5 for more than 400 seconds and reached 7,344 km/h, the newspaper said, quoting a statement from the academy.
In the flight-test, the Chinese waverider reached an altitude of 30 km and carried out large-angle maneuvers. The vehicle also tested a host of advanced technologies such as a domestically developed heat-balance thermal protection system.


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Gillsville és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Geòrgia. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 195 habitants.

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Segons el cens del 2000, Gillsville tenia 195 habitants, 79 habitatges, i 57 famílies. La densitat de població era de 66 habitants/km².

Dels 79 habitatges en un 30,4% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 67,1% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 5,1% dones solteres, i en un 26,6% no eren unitats familiars. En el 21,5% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 15,2% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,47 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,91.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 20% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 7,7% entre 18 i 24, un 27,2% entre 25 i 44, un 25,6% de 45 a 60 i un 19,5% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 42 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 90,2 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 51.500 $ i la renda mediana per família de 62.750 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 35.417 $ mentre que les dones 28.750 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 27.551 $. Cap de les famílies i el 3,7% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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A Lesson Learned from Physical Therapy and How It Applies to Coddling Kids
A funny thing happened on my way to stronger knees. I had just barely begun physical therapy to work the muscles around them when I realized that I'd been coddling myself for years. Because my aching joints and muscles had caused so much discomfort, I had, with just a few exceptions, become too sedentary. It wasn't a conscious decision on my part; I simply stopped moving as much, or in certain ways, to avoid any possible pain. I mean, who wouldn't?
It wasn't until the therapist began putting me through my paces (and I was riding a recumbent bike – when I thought I'd never peddle anything again!) that I realized the error of my ways. Instead of building up my muscles and my strength, I had allowed my poor muscles to begin to atrophy. That, of course, was exactly the wrong thing to do – because it made it even harder for me to move. And the more I coddled myself, the greater the problems.
Soon after that, I read The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. It's a brilliantly insightful book about the many ways in which we're overprotecting our children and rendering them unable to "navigate the bumpy road of life."
Early in the book, authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt discuss the increase in peanut allergies, which were rarely seen in American children until the mid-1990s. Prior to that, only about one in a thousand young children suffered from this allergy. But by 2008, those numbers had more than tripled.
The authors write that nobody understood why this was happening. But the obvious response to the perceived threat was to protect children "from peanuts, peanut products, and anything that had been in contact with nuts of any kind." And, just like my inclination to reduce and restrict my movement, that was exactly the wrong thing to do. Turns out if was "precisely because parents and teachers had started protecting children from exposure to peanuts back in the 1990s" that "peanut allergies were surging."
Wow. It's not as though I hadn't previously worried about the ways in which we overprotect children these days. I've written about how we're making a mess of human development – creating children who can't even stay upright in their seats – by sheltering them from such "dangers" as the outdoors and "risky play." I've written that excessive caution from adults is teaching children to fear everything. I've written about adult decisions – banning cartwheels, tag, and even such natural joys as running – that not only keep kids from getting the physical activity they require but also from taking risks.
But that fact about peanut allergies, combined with my own recent epiphany, cemented my conviction that we are committing a terrible injustice upon today's children.
Among other things, I too often hear from early childhood professionals that young children are exhausted after walking a block. If my muscles and cardiovascular system deteriorated after just a couple of years of coddling myself, what do we think is happening to the children's muscles and cardiovascular system when they are made to be sedentary during this critical phase of physical development? Do we really believe things will significantly improve simply because their bodies get bigger?
Do we believe that children raised in "bubbles" will grow up to become brave, resilient risk takers when they've had zero experience with taking risks? Or with even the most rudimentary problem solving? If they've been denied the opportunity to decide what to play and the rules of that play – or how to design their own creations when even Lego projects are now prepackaged and predetermined – how will they solve the many problems life will thrown at them, let alone such dilemmas as climate change and world hunger?
Do we believe that children protected from making mistakes will know how to handle mistakes when they occur later in life? Imagine the stress and misery involved when you aren't allowed to get anything wrong!
Muscles — whether they're of the body, the brain, or the spirit — must be exercised, or atrophy is the natural result.
I don't know what it will take to finally bring about change. But I'm grateful to Lukianoff and Haidt for tackling The Coddling of the American Mind. I highly recommend it. The more voices we can add to this discussion, the better it will be for our children.
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Facebook: Russia could be behind new fake pages
CNN's Drew Griffin reports.
Posted: Aug 1, 2018 9:27 AM
Updated: Aug 1, 2018 9:39 AM
Answer: This longtime host of "Jeopardy" is thinking about retiring. The REAL question: Who will replace Alex Trebek? Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.)
1. Tariffs
Trade tensions might be easing between the US and Europe -- but between the US and China? Oh, the trade war is definitely on. The Trump administration has upped the ante, with plans to raise already-planned tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods (fruit and vegetables, handbags, refrigerators, rain jackets, baseball gloves) from 10% to 25%. That comes on top of the 25% tariffs already imposed on Chinese goods worth $34 billion (to which China responded with tariffs on $34 billion in US goods). It's not clear how long this tariff tiff will go on, as talks between the two countries don't seem to be yielding much. A report by the US Chamber of Commerce finds that providing aid to all US sectors hurt by retaliatory tariffs (like the $12 billion in farm aid Trump promised last week) would cost $39 billion.
While we're all still talking about interference in the 2016 election, we just got our clearest evidence yet that some are trying to meddle in the 2018 midterms, too. Facebook took down dozens of pages aimed at interfering in this fall's elections. One such page -- "No Unite the Right 2" -- seemed to be organizing a counter-demonstration to an upcoming white supremacists event, while another seemed to amplify the "Abolish ICE" message pushed by liberals. The removed pages had more than 290,000 followers. Facebook says it doesn't know for sure who's behind the shadowy network of pages (spoiler alert: the Russians), but it's found evidence they might be connected to the Russian trolls who attacked the 2016 elections (told ya).
3. 3D guns
Looks like you won't be able to download plans today for that AR-15 after all. The gun rights group Defense Distributed blocked downloads of 3D-gun plans, which were supposed to be made available today, from its website. This comes after a federal judge temporarily blocked a settlement between the US government and the group that made it legal to post the plans online. The judge seemed to be swayed by the arguments of some states -- which sued to stop the downloads -- that posting the plans could help terrorists and criminals make such weapons. Both sides will be back in court on this on August 10.
4. Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Those violent anti-government protests in Nicaragua have spurred a wave of asylum-seekers to head to Costa Rica. Almost 8,000 asylum claims by Nicaraguans have been registered in Costa Rica since April, the UN's refugee agency says. And some 15,000 more have appointments for later registration. The UN says it will "strengthen" its presence along the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border but asks the international community to help, too. At least 300 have been killed in the Nicaraguan street protests, which began in the spring after the government announced changes to the social security system.
5. Health alert issued
Don't buy certain salads and wraps at some major grocery chains -- they might be contaminated with a parasite. The USDA put out a public health alert warning that some beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap products may be tainted by cyclospora, a parasite that can cause intestinal illness. Products affected by the recall were sold by stores including Kroger, Trader Joe's and Walgreens, with package dates from July 18 to 23. If it feels like you're seeing more and more recall alerts, it could be because some forms of foodborne illness may be on the rise.
HAPPENING LATER
Headed home
The probable remains of American service members killed during the Korean War -- and returned last week by North Korea -- will be flown today to Hawaii.
TODAY'S NUMBERS
$1,000,000,000,000
Apple is this close to a trillion-dollar market value, after its stock surged on a strong earnings report. If it gets there, Apple will be the first US company to cross the trillion-dollar mark.
That's the number of seats Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party appears to have won so far in the country's election, which would be enough for a majority in parliament.
BREAKFAST BROWSE
So many ways to say thanks
Handwritten signs. Free haircuts. Barbecue. Northern Californians, and a pair of celeb chefs, have found all kinds of ways to thank those fighting the Carr Fire.
After taking over the world, Beyonce's reportedly taking over the next issue of Vogue, with the first black cover photog in the magazine's 126-year history.
Swimming hero
Michael Phelps' swimming records were so extraordinary, it seemed only Superman could top them. Well, a 10-year-old kid named Clark Kent just did.
A grocery store employee became a hero to a teen with autism just by letting him help stock the shelves in a fridge.
Wrong way to celebrate Shark Week
It wasn't exactly a smash-and-grab, but the case of the grab-and-go theft of a shark from the San Antonio Aquarium has been solved.
"A man in this courtroom believed the law did not apply to him."
The first words, spoken by prosecutor Uzo Asonye, in the trial of ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. If you want to keep up with every wrinkle of the trial, bookmark this.
"I saw flames in the cabin ahead of me."
Passenger Anabel Estrada, describing what it was like inside an Aeromexico plane, carrying 103 people, that crashed in northern Mexico. Miraculously, everyone survived, although dozens were injured.
All you need is milk
Ever wanted to make your own Oreo cookies? (Go ahead, raise your hand.) A pastry chef shows you how. (Click to view.)
Facebook: Russia possibly behind fake profiles
The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake
Union fires officials linked to fake Black Lives Matter page
Facebook removes more pages, as FBI warns Russia still targeting American voters
Facebook takes down 652 pages after finding disinformation campaigns run from Iran and Russia
Scammers on Facebook page for mothers are requesting donated breastmilk, selling it on other pages
Facebook's Zuckerberg says sorry in full-page newspaper ads
Facebook takes down suspected Russian network of pages
Facebook removes another 800 pages and accounts ahead of midterms


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Verónica Falcón (nacida el 8 de agosto de 1966) es una actriz y coreógrafa mexicana.

Biografía
Falcón nació el 8 de agosto de 1966 en la Ciudad de México (México). Ignorando el estigma perpetuado por su familia, Falcón ingresó a la industria del entretenimiento y encontró el éxito durante tres décadas trabajando como actriz y coreógrafa en la Compañía Nacional de Ópera de México, en la televisión mexicana y en el cine mexicano. En 2014 fue nominada por PECIME—la Asociación de Periodistas Cinematográficos de México— al premio Diosas de Plata a la mejor actriz de reparto por su papel de La Diabla en la película Besos de Azúcar de 2013.

En 2016, a la edad de 50 años, tomó la decisión de arriesgarse a renunciar a una carrera establecida en México para avanzar en su carrera en los Estados Unidos, creyendo firmemente que se deberían aprovechar tales oportunidades. Se supone que es la primera actriz nacida en México en obtener un segundo papel principal en un drama televisivo estadounidense, gracias a su papel de Camila Vargas en 39 episodios de Queen of the South. En 2019, Falcón recibió el Premio Impacto a la Actuación Sobresaliente en una Serie de Televisión por su interpretación de Camila Vargas en Queen of the South en la 22.ª Gala anual de los Premios Impacto de la Coalición Nacional de Medios Hispanos.

En 2019 asumió el papel recurrente de Clara en ocho episodios de la serie de televisión de suspenso neo-noir de Steven Conrad Perpetual Grace, LTD junto a Ben Kingsley y Luis Guzmán. En 2020, interpretó a Marianne Sancar en la película Voyagers junto a Colin Farrell y Lily-Rose Depp. También comenzó a protagonizar la nueva versión de HBO de Perry Mason donde es el interés amoroso del investigador privado Perry Mason, interpretado por Matthew Rhys. Falcón también apareció en la película Jungle Cruise de Disney de 2021 con Dwayne Johnson y Emily Blunt.

En 2021 se unió al elenco de Ozark como Camila Elizondo, hermana del jefe del cartel Omar Navarro (interpretado por Felix Solis) durante 9 episodios de la temporada 4 junto a Jason Bateman y Laura Linney.

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Jerusalem Post Diaspora
CNN anchor: Jews carried out terror attacks, should they be barred from entering US?
Anchor asks Trump supporter the question in response to his recent controversial comments about banning Muslims.
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Published: DECEMBER 9, 2015 12:50
Updated: DECEMBER 9, 2015 14:00
In reported cases of Jewish terror attacks, should Jews be granted visas to the United States?
In reported cases of Jewish terror attacks, should all Jews be barred from obtaining visas in order to enter the United States?
This was a question posed by CNN's Ashleigh Banfield Tuesday morning during an interview with former Ronald Reagan White House administration official and current Donald Trump supporter, Jeffrey Lord, when asked if his preferred presidential candidate was not applying a double standard to Muslims.
"If you supplant the word 'Jews' for 'Muslims' in a lot of the rhetoric that we've had this morning, I think people would find it sort of cringe-worthy and reminiscent of a really ugly time in our history," Banfield said. "There have been Jewish terrorist attacks. Should we therefore ask no Jews to please apply for a visa?"
The CNN anchor then provided specifics examples: "From a period of 1980 to 1985 there were a reported 18 terror attacks committed in the United States by Jews, 15 of them committed by the Jewish Defense League," Banfield said. 'The head of the Jewish Defense league was in jail awaiting trial...accused of trying to bomb a mosque in Culver City, trying to bomb [US Congressman] Darrel Issa's office, an Arab-American."
"Are you really saying to me that there's an international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world?" Lord asked in response.
"There are no Jews coming to [the US] to destroy America," Lord added.
Earlier this week, Trump called for blocking Muslims, including would-be immigrants, students, tourists and other visitors, from entering the United States following last week's California shooting spree by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalized.
It was the most dramatic response by a presidential candidate following the San Bernardino, California, rampage, even as other Republicans have called for a suspension of President Barack Obama's plan to allow in some refugees from Syria.
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Arizona Coyotes pulled off the upset to defeat Vegas Golden Knights. Arizona Coyotes entered the game as the underdog, with a 31% chance to win before the game started.
From the outset, Arizona Coyotes refused to go away, chipping away at Vegas Golden Knights's lead until Arizona Coyotes took their first lead during the middle stretches of the game. Vegas Golden Knights did not go quietly, recapturing the lead for themselves, until Arizona Coyotes regained control for good toward the end of the game.