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'We came, we saw, he died!' – How the 1st African-American US president used AFRICOM to take out Gaddafi
An extraordinary account of how and why the US and France spearheaded the war against Gaddafi
And if that wasn't enough to make your head spin, read this excerpt from a piece published last year in Pravda that analyzes the difference between Nelson Mandela and Muammar Gaddafi :
The lukewarm saint
When Nelson Mandela endured 27 years of isolation in prison, he paid the price of being the socialist revolutionary and the racial equality fighter that he was. His freedom was taken away by the South African Apartheid regime, a regime that was the result of the infiltration of South Africa by European colonial powers. How come the same colonial powers now consider him to be a hero and a saint? Did the Western elite have a massive change of mind, and thus all of the sudden embraced the exact same ideology that made them put Mandela behind bars a few decades ago?
We only have to take a look at the current situation of the Blacks in NATO-led Libya to understand that this was not quite the case. Libya, in 1951 officially the poorest country in the world, under Gaddafi attained the highest standard of living in Africa. The country's prosperity attracted many Black African immigrants, during the 2011 war on Libya by the mainstream media purposely misnamed as being "black sub-Saharan African mercenaries". Gaddafi provided them with work and education. Those immigrant workers, to whom Gaddafi was a hero, a father and a friend, now face the cruelest forms of racism by the Western-installed Libyan puppet regime. Just one telling example is a video in which Libyan "rebels" force Black immigrants to eat the green flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya.
Then why the 180 degrees change of attitude of the West towards Mandela after his release from prison?
Statistics show that still 65% of the Blacks in South Africa remain unemployed, while 90% of the Whites own 90% of South Africa's wealth. Over the last decades, Apartheid may have disappeared for the visual scene, fact is that Blacks remain poor while Whites remain rich.
Yet the West regards Mandela as the protector of the South African economy. According to a Financial Times journalist, Mandela's ANC "proved a reliable steward of sub-Sahara Africa's largest economy, embracing orthodox fiscal and monetary policies." Canadian The Globe and Mail recently added that Mandela did this "without alienating his radical followers or creating a dangerous factional struggle within his movement".
In other words, Mandela ran with the hare and hunted with the hounds… mainly economically – and nothing interested, interests and will interest the Western capitalist countries more than economics.
The lesson for us
At the beginning of a new year, let us allow ourselves to take a few moments to reflect on our destiny and on that of the post-Mandela and post-Gaddafi world we live in. We live in a time of transition on all fronts. More than ever we are faced with the choice of being guided by fear – especially by the fear of losing credibility with the public and being punished by "authorities" when we challenge the powers-that-be – or being guided by the freedom of thought. The latter will result in a higher level of understanding of both ourselves and the world around us, which is the main condition for a much needed (r)evolution and for the establishment of true democracy.
What the world needs now, are "Mad Dogs". Revolutionaries with a vision who dare to be unconventional and dare to be so all the way. It is time for us to become a Gaddafi rather than a Mandela. It is time to let the walls of fear around our thinking fall away. It is time to break free from the fear of not being liked, of no longer being accepted, of being looked upon differently, of being branded an outcast, a lunatic, a conspiracy theorist or anything bad when we raise our voices.
We need to dare to totally tear aside the veil of Apartheid that mights and media use to cover up what is really going on in the world. Only then real progress can be achieved.
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Richard Lefew says:
Makes me sick.
I concur. Watching Hillary gloat about killing him makes me want to puke. I can't even look at her anymore.
Gadaffi will be remembered very well by history. If you study his entire time in power in Libya, what he accomplished…it's truly incredible. He brought Libya out of abject poverty. it was the poorest country on earth, and that's not just a metaphor. It actually had the lowest income per person in the world. Prior to the western promoted, planned and executed regime change operation, which has since destroyed Libya…Libya had the highest living standards in Africa. Vast public programs.
What was done to Libya…and Gadaffi…it's the biggest crime to have ever been committed on the African continent.
I have NO syphaty nor am I will to bother to read or write about Libya, the people whom ruin their own land dont deserv anything.
Lett them rott, lett them slay eatch others in whatever name thay can utter I dont care.
They gott what they deserved.
Thanks for the comment, Mikael. But with all due respect, I think the point the video clip is trying to make is that Libya was invaded and destroyed under false pretenses because its leader was trying to unite Africa and develop it internally, independent of foreign capital – something those in power could not tolerate.
He sentenced himself and the way of life in Libya to death because he organized and was going to finance a truly gold backed and African based currency that would never have been affected by inflation and deflation and actually redeemable for real wealth. The gold it would have been backed by. That sent rage through all the fake jackals in the fiat currency owned governments so they used their disgusting display of might to feed their war machine the men, women and children of Libya.
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As a side comment on Hilary and Gaddafi
Gaddafi had been holed up in Sirte for several weeks/months. Bombing and ground assaults had got nowhere. There was a "rescue" force being assembled in Chad, under the leadership of a South African of great experience and their job was to escort Gaddafi out of the country to safety. No one doubted their ability to do so and they were planning only the final details.
The expected plan was to have Gaddafi and several other top members of his government "Star-burst" out of Sirte, under cover of darkness.
50 or 60 groups simultaneously leave the city by every available road and head via round about routes, over country where possible, using every evasion and escape technique, and individually make their way to bordering countries. Only Gaddafi (and group) would have the escort, with sophisticated defensive weapons including SAM (Manpads) and TOW missiles.
Inexplicably, Gaddafi and ALL his manpower formed a single convoy, and left, in daylight, notifying NATO of his intention!
Only if he had been given a guarantee of safe-conduct would he have done this. Only the Supreme commander of NATO forces could have given this assurance, Barak Obama. Only one person would have had the sufficient authority from the US president to give this assurance, the Secretary of State. By sheer coincidence Clinton arrived in Libya 2 days before and was transported to the Sirte vicinity, (a dangerous war zone) the day before the convoy left Sirte.
Trust Clinton, as far as you could throw the Capitol!
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The eminent historian Niall Ferguson has devastatingly skewered his (and my) field of study in a talk for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, subsequently published as "The Decline and Fall of History."
He starts with the empirical fact that undergraduates are running away from studying history: compared with 1971 (coincidentally, the year I got my A.B. degree), "the share of history and social sciences degrees has halved, from 18% in 1971 to 9%. And the decline seems likely to continue."
Niall Ferguson delivering ACTA's Merrill Award at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Oct. 28, 2016.
The losers in this structural shift are diplomatic and international history (which also has the oldest professors), legal and constitutional history, and intellectual history. Social and economic history have also declined. [Almost] all of these have fallen to less than half of their 1970 shares of the profession.
What is the place of emotion in history? The question itself holds multiple meanings, and in this course we consider two in particular: how to write the history of emotion(s), and how the historian's emotions affect the writing of history. Do historians benefit more from proximity to, or distance from, their historical subjects? Should historians of emotion suppress, or cultivate, their feelings of empathy? Does emotive writing inevitably fail the test of scholarly rigour and balance? We will explore some possible analytic frames for the history of emotion and debates over the subjectivity of history, and consider their application to case studies drawn from Australian history.
Ferguson reports the "not wholly surprising" fact that "Emotions in History" boasts a total enrollment of one student. Yale competes with its own offerings such as "Witchcraft and Society in Colonial America" and "History of the Supernatural."
Ferguson delicately asserts that he does "not wish to dismiss any of these subjects as being of no interest or value. They just seem to address less important questions than how the United States became an independent republic with a constitution based on the idea of limited government."
Not only does this new type of history take on minor concerns but it deals with them in miniature ways that amount to what a student dubs "heirloom antiquarianism" and Ferguson calls Microcosmographia Academica – focusing on topics like "the habits of New York restaurant-goers in the 1870s or the makeup of various Caribbean ethnic groups in areas of Brooklyn that made up the West Indian Day Parade in the 1960s" (real examples).
Finally, there's the politicizing, moralizing, and anachronistic insistence on judging "the past by the moral standards of the present—and indeed to efface its traces, in a kind of modern-day iconoclasm, when these are deemed offensive."
In all, as historians "neglect the defining events of modern world history in favor of topics that are either arcane or agitprop, sometimes both," students flee and the "United States of Amnesia" looms.
Dec. 10, 2018 update: "The Historical Profession Is Committing Slow-Motion Suicide" write Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin. Their analysis overlaps with Ferguson's except that they focus more on history's decreasing relevance to statecraft.
They start by noting that about 1/5th the number of students now study history in college compared to the late 1960s. Why is this?
The discipline mostly has itself to blame for its current woes. In recent decades, the academic historical profession has become steadily less accessible to students and the general public — and steadily less relevant to addressing critical matters of politics, diplomacy, and war and peace. It is not surprising that students are fleeing history, for the historical discipline has long been fleeing its twin responsibilities to interact with the outside world and engage some of the most fundamental issues confronting the United States.
Consider the first of these issues: the retreat of scholarly history from the public square. There was a time when academic historians actively engaged in shaping policy on the critical issues of the day, and when the top academic historians wrote for a larger public audience. Woodrow Wilson engaged the country's leading diplomatic historians to help him prepare for the Versailles Peace conference. Eminent scholars such as William Langer, Arthur Schlesinger, Ernest May, and Richard Pipes served in or consulted with government while retaining their academic positions during the Cold War. Schlesinger, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, and Richard Hofstadter wrote widely read books that drove public debate on issues such as political reform, populism, McCarthyism, and the broader American political tradition.
Yet as the historical discipline (like much of the American academy) became more professionalized, especially after World War II, it also became more specialized and inward-looking. Historical scholarship focused on increasingly arcane subjects; a fascination with innovative methodologies overtook an emphasis on clear, intelligible prose. Academic historians began writing largely for themselves.
academic historians simply are not focusing their efforts on some of the issues that matter most to the fate of the United States and the international system today. Instead of possessing deep historical knowledge that serves as the intellectual foundation for effective policy and informed debate, the nation risks worsening historical ignorance with all its attendant dangers. ... if the United States does not reinvest in the traditions that academic history departments have left behind, declining undergrad enrollments will be the least of the country's problems.


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Report: FOX Sports wants to hire Dallas Cowboys TE Jason Witten
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Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten will be playing in his 16th season in the NFL in 2018. At the age of 35 and with some injury issues in recent years, if he has a down year, it would not be shocking to see him retire. If he does, it sounds like he could have a job waiting for him.
Michael McCarthy of the Sporting News has reported that FOX is interested in bringing on Witten to be a Thursday Night Football analyst.
The 2018 season will be the first year for Thursday Night Football on FOX. The network will pay around $660 million a season to broadcast 11 games on Thursday night. That is a significant increase over the $45 million per game CBS and NBC paid last season.
Both CBS and NBC could have renewed their contracts. But they wanted a lower rights fee to compensate for declining viewer numbers. But with FOX willing to pay more, there was no reason for the NFL to grant their request.
If Witten were to take FOX up on their offer, he'd become the third former Dallas Cowboy in recent memory to take off his helmet and pick up a microphone. Tony Romo became part of the CBS team last season and Troy Aikman has been working games for FOX for years.
Of course, the question will be whether Witten wants to walk away from the game or not. Should the Cowboys make it to the Super Bowl, it wouldn't be surprising to see him walk away. Doing it after a win would be better, but at his age, just getting there may be enough.
But if he doesn't make the decision himself, the team could do it for him. At $6.5 million a season, he may be too expensive for a guy that only produced 560 yards and five touchdowns. If he doesn't play better in 2018, he could become a cap casualty in 2019.
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Randy Colosky, Sherié Franssen amplify bold ideas
Kenneth Baker
Nov. 13, 2010 Updated: Feb. 8, 2012 10:27 p.m.
1of3"Remnant of the Excavation Project" (2005) lathe-turned wood by Randy Colosky 81" x 77"unknown/ampersand int'l arts, s.f.Show MoreShow Less
2of3"Lovesick" (2010) oil on canvas by Sherie Franssen 81" x 77"ira schrank/dolby chadwick gallery, s.f.Show MoreShow Less
3of3"Simpsons in the XYZ Axis" (2010) galvanized steel wall sculpture by Randy Coloskyunknown/ampersand int'l arts, s.f.Show MoreShow Less
For range and spark of invention, I can hardly recall a San Francisco gallery debut to compare with that of Oaklander Randy Colosky at Ampersand.
Colosky identifies himself as a conceptual artist, but a vivid, exacting physicality distinguishes every piece in his show. Guest curator Tracy Wheeler must get some credit for the selection, which makes it look as if Colosky never repeats himself.
His pieces come as simple as "Of Man and Machine" (2010) - a nickel-plated bronze casting of a common pipe wrench - and as elaborate as "Remnant of the Excavation Project" (2005).
The plated bronze forms a sort of one-to-one monument to the pipe wrench, a tool almost as versatile as pliers. Casting a wrench froze in place the threaded ferrule that makes its jaws adjustable, minimizing its usefulness in the act of celebrating it. "Of Man and Machine" reminds me of Jasper Johns' full-scale casts of antique flashlights, which deprived them of all function except that of blunt instrument - and object of contemplation.
"Remnant of the Excavation Project" presents a grove of unique, totemic-looking vertical forms - each lathe-turned by Colosky - nestled in a corner. They bring to mind the bizarre chess-piece-like forms in some of Rene Magritte's paintings, sculptures by Tony Cragg and, more distantly, Constantin Brancusi, and the spindles of stair rails in Bay Area Victorians.
"Remnant" also has an elegiac undertone. Colosky salvaged the wood to make it from a street tree outside his residence fatally undermined by public works excavation.
Almost everything in Colosky's show has a similar quality of touching both worldly and intimate domains with equal ease and modesty.
In the "Simpsons in the XYZ Axis" (2010), Colosky has fanned scores of bladelike Simpson steel foundation straps - things he handles on his construction jobs - into a shimmering spiral that evokes the unwinding of time, the helical structure of DNA and the accumulative aesthetics of minimal and post-minimal sculpture. The work may even suggest an instrument of nearly forgotten function, such as the astrolabe. Yet it will amaze and please even viewers to whom none of these associations occur.
The unforced quality of Colosky's work sets it apart from much contemporary art produced on the West Coast. Perhaps assuming for so long that no audience for his output would exist freed him from the creative anxiety that leaves so much new art looking effortful to its detriment. In any case, count him a discovery.
Franssen at Dolby Chadwick: Southern Californian Sherié Franssen returns to Dolby Chadwick with new work that offers aesthetic experiences analogous to witnessing a dissection or surgery, minus the queasiness.
In titling her exhibition, Franssen borrows from a famous remark of Willem de Kooning: "Flesh was the reason oil paint was invented."
De Kooning seems to have meant both that oil colors answered painters' need to describe flesh as nothing had before and that our embodiment made the medium's invention inevitable. Franssen's work captures both implications.
She says that her recent pictures spring from memories of a film version of "Wuthering Heights." I wish she had kept that to herself because it may set viewers to probing her pictures for referential content that she deliberately dismantles.
In place of narrative threads, a canvas such as "Lovesick" (2010) details the process through which Franssen took an image stroke by stroke from descriptive beginnings to a fully alive state of dismemberment.
Viewers who remember painting more vividly than movies will find echoes of the palettes favored by other painters: Philip Guston in "Lovesick," de Kooning in "Dreamball," Goya in "Bumpy Night," Manet in "Heath."
But Franssen's manner guarantees that she cannot hide behind her sources. It leaves her decisions and creative reflexes harshly exposed. Only occasionally does it let her down, as in "Tingler" (2010), where the generative image feels uncomfortably close to reasserting itself.
Randy Colosky: Secret Handshake: Drawing, painting, collage, sculpture and video. Noon-5 p.m., Thurs.-Fri. and by appointment. Through Dec. 10. Ampersand International Arts, 1001 Tennessee St., S.F. (415) 285-0170. www.ampersandintlarts.com.
Sherié Franssen: Flesh Was the Reason: Paintings. Through Nov. 27. Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 210 Post St., S.F. (415) 956-3560. www.dolbychadwickgallery.com.
Kenneth Baker has been art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985. A native of the Boston area, he served as art critic for the Boston Phoenix between 1972 and 1985.
He has contributed on a freelance basis to art magazines internationally and was a contributing editor of Artforum from 1985 through 1992. He continues to review fiction and nonfiction books for The Chronicle, in addition to reporting on all aspects of the visual arts regionally and, on occasion, nationally and internationally.


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Phones » Neil Olshey, the general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers, was fired after reports of a toxic workplace surfaced, according to NPR
Neil Olshey, the general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers, was fired after reports of a toxic workplace surfaced, according to NPR
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One month ago, the Blazers announced that it had hired the O'Melveny & Myers law firm to look into complaints about the workplace environment at a practice facility — allegations that it said came from "non-player personnel." Employees described "a toxic, hostile work environment where staff members have been subjected to intimidation and profanity-laced tirades, among other bullying tactics," Yahoo! Sports reported. As news of the inquiry spread, a number of people spoke out against Olshey, including a former assistant coach who said he attempted to warn the Blazers not to put Olshey in the top job. Barry Hecker had worked with Olshey in the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.
Neil Olshey, the general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers, has been fired with immediate effect. Workers had accused Olshey of creating a hostile work environment, and he was under investigation. In a brief statement released on Friday, the Blazers stated Olshey had broken their code of conduct. "Out of respect for individuals who frankly participated in that sensitive investigation, we will not share or discuss it," the NBA franchise said of Olshey's wrongdoings. The NBA's new coaching hires have sparked unwelcome controversy in the progressive league. Two new NBA coaching hires have sparked unwelcome controversy in an otherwise progressive league.
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"One, I don't think he was qualified for the job," said Hecker, in an interview with The Oregonian's John Canzano. "Two, he has no idea how to treat people. He's an arrogant SOB. His ego gets in the way of everything and he's just a bad human being." Olshey, 56, was fired after starting his tenth season as the Blazers' general manager. In 2015, he was promoted to also serve as the president of basketball operations. In another interview, former Trail Blazers guard Dan Dickau told Canzano that Olshey had berated him for attempting to explore opportunities with the club's business operations unit. At the time, Dickau was a fledgling coach who had recently quit playing and hoped to work for the Blazers in player development or the team's front office.
"Two days later, Neil Olshey calls me on the phone out of the blue and just rips me a new one," Dickau said. "I mean, I don't know how many f-bombs were dropped in that phone call." The question he thought about after that phone call, Dickau said, was "What in the world is going on here?" Shortly after the investigation into Olshey was launched, Chris McGowan announced he was resigning as the Trail Blazers' president and CEO.
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No IPOs but follow-up funding hits decade high
London saw an absence of new issues (pic: Terry Murden)
London markets were starved of IPOs during the lockdown but follow-on funding in the first half of the year was at its highest for a decade.
Companies tapped investors for more than £21 billion over the first six months, representing the busiest first half since the end of the financial crisis in 2009.
Funds were raised via a range of placings, rights issues and other transactions, according to EY's market tracker IPO Eye.
It also noted that more than 40% of the capital amassed in European markets in Q2 2020 was raised in London. By a combined measure of global IPO and follow-on activity since January, London was ranked third behind the NYSE and Nasdaq together in first place, and Hong Kong in second.
Mike Timmins, EY Scotland IPO Leader, said: "London has again confirmed its status as a pre-eminent equity market globally, leading the way in Europe for the most follow-on capital raised in Q2 2020 (over 40%).
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"While IPO activity has been almost extinguished by COVID-19, in what is historically the busiest quarter of the year, the markets were focussed on supporting fundraising by existing issuers to shore-up finances to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
"This trend is mirrored in Scotland with many listed corporates considering asking shareholders to help fund uncertainty in the coming months. "
The main market saw just one IPO take place – Blackfinch Spring VCT – which raised some £3m in Q2 2020. The Shanghai listed China Pacific Insurance Group raised £1.44bn by listing GDRs (Global Depositary Receipt) in London – the second listing under the London Shanghai Stock Connect programme.
The Alternative Investment Market (AIM) did not register any IPO activity in the second quarter which marked its 25th anniversary.
Optimism returns in second half
Despite the headwinds, stock prices and valuations are recovering, reflecting improved investor sentiment and risk appetite, says the tracker.
The volatility index has also receded considerably from its high in March, approaching levels more receptive for companies to go public.
As a result, H1 deals that were shelved and pushed into 2021 are now being considered for potential H2 2020 listings, albeit it is likely that market activity will be again dominated by fundraising activity from existing issuers.
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We are sending along 2lbs of 1″, 3/4″, 1/2″ and 10mm wooden beads for more making this holiday season. These bags include bead *extras* from our original kitting of our wooden bead crafting workshop with maker Lynn Muir. We are also including cotton twine for more stringing and making!
Please note that this add-on kit is only available to those that have participated in our wooden bead crafting workshop. Purchasing this materials kit does not grant access to the original workshop video, this materials kit is an opportunity to grow and expand using the original workshop tools & techniques.


An article about "drones as a service": companies that offer to fly drones for various purposes on an as-needed basis.
Similar to the videos I produced over the past two years to celebrate 2013 recipient Leslie Lamport, and 2014 recipient Michael Stonebraker, this video describes highlights from the careers of two great cryptographers, creators of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method.
An interview with Mason Bretan and Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech, discussing how they (and others) have imbued musical "feeling" in robotic systems.
An article about recent developments in computer programs that mimic human conversation ("chatbots"), particularly the use of modern artificial intelligence techniques to improve their discourse.
An interview with Sarah Meiklejohn, lead author of a paper that describes how she and her colleagues unmasked some bitcoin owners, despite the common belief that bitcoin is anonymous.
I wrote and edited a tribute to Dr. Hennessy, based on raw video ably shot by Stanford University's media services department.
An article about use of digital resources and mobile devices to improve crops worldwide.
An article about the special position of the United States in internet privacy law, a topic under special scrutiny after the revelations of Edward Snowden.
Bart Thomee of Yahoo! introduces the Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100 Million (YFCC100M), a collection of images and videos released to aid researchers in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
An interview with Shashi Shekhar at the University of Minnesota, as he describes challenges and opportunities from computing relationships in the spaces of our real world.
Interviews with Carlos Guestrin and Eric Horvitz, who join Dafna Shahaf in a project to map and connect information much as a metro map visualizes a city subway. Shot in Seattle and Redmond, Washington.
Interview with Thomas Dietterich about fears — both real and imagined — as artificial intelligence gains capabilities. Shot in the forests of Eastern Oregon.
An article about apps that attempt to discern when their users exhibit signs of depression, mania, and other mental issues.
The Filter Bubble: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
An article reviewing whether search engines et al. isolate us from unusual ideas and beliefs through a "filter bubble".
An interview with ACM Fellow Daniel Reed about the division between exaflop supercomputing and exabyte data management — and how each field can inform the other. With lots of B-roll, thanks to staff and faculty throughout the University of Iowa.
Similar to the video I produced last year to celebrate 2013 recipient Leslie Lamport, this one describes highlights from the career of this venerable name in relational database science.
An interview with two French roboticists, with a demonstration of how a humanoid robot actualizes their research.
A researcher and a military expert at Adapx discuss how they speed up battlefield planning with "multi-modal input" that marries speech, sketch, and writing.
Adobe researcher Sylvain Paris explains how a new method of combining Gaussian and Laplacian pyramids results in image filters that can enhance details without distorting edges.
Article about vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, touching on vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) efforts, government involvement, and models that feature V2V technologies.
Videojournalism about a new method for comparing the processes called "finite-state machines" that underlie much of computer science.
Article about using power gathered from radio waves, heat, and motion to power small devices such as sensors and cell phones.
Videojournalism introducing a paper that outlines how both computers and members of natural communities (such as ants, birds, and cells) cooperate.
Videojournalism about how researchers are teaching computers to understand the processes that create human emotion, possibly leading to better decisions and human-computer interfaces.
Videojournalism about algorithms that help computers recognize objects within an image, and undestand the scene itself.
Videojournalism about a system at http://newsstand.umiacs.umd.edu/ that interprets newsfeeds, placing items on a map (among other things).
Videojournalism about a program at Caltech that collects seismic data through the cell phones of volunteers throughout the Los Angeles area. I did pretty much everything — shooting, editing, titles, narration, audio, intro music — with the help of an experienced primary cameraperson.
A celebration of the life work of Leslie Lamport, recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award. I did production, direction, editing, voiceover, and most of the shooting. Promoted in the article at http://cacm.acm.org/news/175166-general-agreement/fulltext , and presented at the awards banquet.
An article in the May 2014 issue of CACM about data storage for very long times, e.g. a million years.
A video to accompany this article in CACM. Wrote, produced, and presented.


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Have You Seen Me?: A Novel of Suspense
by White, Kate (Author)
The key to her missing memories could bring relief-or unlock her worst nightmares.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives early to work in her Manhattan office, only to find that she's forgotten her keycard and needs to have a colleague she's never met let her in. When her boss finally arrives, he seems surprised to see her-because she hasn't worked there in five years.
Ally knows her name, but little else, and it's only after several hours in an emergency room and multiple interviews with the hospital psychiatrist that she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she's now a freelance personal finance journalist; she's married to a lovely man named Hugh. But she still can't recall what happened to her during the previous two days. When she learns that she's experienced a dissociative fugue state, Ally tries to think of triggers and remembers that she'd been seeing a therapist about a traumatic event from her childhood, in which she came across evidence for a murder that was never solved.
Desperate to unearth answers, Ally focuses on figuring out where she spent the missing forty-eight hours. As ominous details of the two days pile up, so does the terrifying pressure: she must recover the time she lost before the time she has left runs out.
Featuring Kate White's signature twists and turns, Have You Seen Me? is a harrowing read that will keep readers guessing until its shocking ending. Little, Brown Spring/Summer 2020 Frontlist
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, April 2020
Product Dimensions: 8 L × 5.3 W × 0.9 H


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Q: Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 installation stuck applying KB2829760 The acquiring bar is full but the applying bar does not move from KB2829760. Oddly I checked Windows Log and found some messages saying this KB was successfully installed. If I try to cancel it also gets stuck with the message "Stopping the current session...".

I run Windows 10.
What can I do to move the installation process forward?

A: I found the solution. Disabling AVG antivirus did the trick.

A: I experienced the same issue with earlier versions.
Removing everything (VS) and installing again fixed the problem for me

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Did anyone else see this incredible japanese band at Mono in Glasgow on Thursday night? Or has anyone even heard of them?
First discovered them a couple of years ago when I heard them being played in One-Up. Wonderful mix of psychadelia, folk and hard rock.....with some free-form improvisation thrown in for good measure. Never thought I'd get to see them play the UK, but they were fantastic last night in Glasgow, a mind-blowing performance. They're also playing ATP this weekend down in Somerset.
Ghost playing on it.......its full of lovliness.
I like them a lot.....I played on the same bill as them a couple of times in the States, and have been onstage with Masaki Batoh (sp?) when we both accompanied Tom Rapp on a song. I also got Kurihara to sign my travel guitar. There's a VG DVD/CD colection of their stuff from 84-2004 called 'Metamorphosis'.
I also believe R.Borlax is a BIG fan of theirs!
I was there last night and was really impressed. I only got to hear of them a couple of months ago, so don't their work that well. I think they make more sense to me now and I shall be tracking down some more of their records. They didn't play a particularly long set but it was really tight and varied. A great place to see them as well.
Wonderful band. The new album "in stormy nights" is great. And i'd recommend most of their earlier work, but in particular their self titled debut, "second time around" and "lama rabi rabi" As has already been mentioned they're very varied, and often quite extreme. The acoustic element seems always to be at their heart though. I also love Masaki Batoh's vocals. I'm unsure if anyone else would agree but he helps the band achieve an endearing quality.
For christ sake. I was coincidently in Glasgow on thursday night and was not aware of this. I would have loved to have gone. Guh. I got to start keeping my eyes peeled more.
Yeah, in fairness it wasn't very well advertised. I only found out about it by chance, myself. I was buying tickets for another gig in Edinburgh and saw a listing for it. But apart from that bit of luck I'd not seen a single poster (or indeed any other type of promotion) until I got to Mono the other night.
I own "Hypnotic Underworld", "In Stormy Nights" and "Snuffbox Immanence", which are all great in their own individual way. Their other stuff seems quite tricky to get hold of, though I'll definately have to check out those Damon & Naomi and Boris collaborations.


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REVIEW 406: KASABA
July 7, 2016 (Kerala), July 15 (Delhi)
Nithin Renji Panicker
Mammooty, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Sampath Raj, Jagadish, Neha Saxena, Siddique, Maqbool Salmaan
If ever you are plagued by doubts about whether India is culturally one nation, watch our soaps or commercial cinema across languages.
Debutant director Nithin Renji Panicker's Mammootty-starrer Kasaba perfectly exemplifies the shared cinematic tastes of India's masses, beyond state borders and regional boundaries. It was released in Kerala on Eid and this week has come to theatres in Delhi, having already reportedly smashed the Kerala box-office.
The megastar of God's Own Country is the story's Circle Inspector Rajan Zachariah, an elderly brattish policeman with a trademark swagger who does not play by the rules. That is a polite way of saying he commits atrocities against members of the public. When a policeman dies in a mysterious incident in a town called Kalipuram on the Kerala-Karnataka border, Zachariah asks for a transfer there since two of his acquaintances were also killed in the incident.
In Kalipuram, he encounters the attractive brothel keeper Kamala (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar), her middle-aged lover Parameshwaran Nambiar (Sampath Raj) who is a politician, Kamala's sidekick Thankachan (Alancier Lay Lopez), the 'good prostitute' Susan (Neha Saxena) and Sub-Inspector Mukundan (Jagadish).
Most films in this genre – yes, this kind of cop drama is a genre unto itself – get around those tiny little thingies called ethics and human rights violations by portraying the protagonist as a golden-hearted, well-intentioned chap constrained by a corrupt system and compelled to go outside it to deliver justice to beleaguered common folk. Not so much here. Kasaba just cursorily refers to the systemic issues that hold back honest police officials. Besides, though Zachariah's desire to solve those murders purportedly drives the film, what truly drives it is his sickening misogyny couched in 'humour' and smart-alec dialoguebaazi.
That misogyny irretrievably mars this otherwise effective – though loud and not extraordinary – suspense thriller, the kind that India calls timepass fare. Over-the-top, stylised action flicks can be enjoyable if they get their tone right. Unfortunately, Panicker's work seems rooted in a conviction that you cannot entertain the janata without bottom-of-the barrel sexist one-liners.
It is all very cleverly handled though, with justifications pre-emptively built into the script. For instance, in one scene, a woman police officer – Zachariah's junior in age, but senior in the profession – unbuttons her uniform shirt (because, y'know how it is, a woman's body is her only weapon against a cheeky man) before she needlessly needles him. He strikes her down with his words, grabs her by the belt, and as he holds her crotch against his, makes a disgusting comment about how he could disrupt her bodily functions.
Note: A pointed effort is made here to mark her out as an outsider by having her speak in Hindi and mention her IPS cadre. This woman is clearly not a Malayali, her accent suggests she is a north Indian. Is that meant to be another point in Zachariah's favour?
Four centuries after Petruchio "tamed" Katherina in Shakespeare's England, men across Indian film industries are still taming those damned shrews. Y'know how it is.
This scene in Kasaba has been as carefully designed as those Malayalam teleserials in which husbands smack their wives after they have been built up over several episodes as scheming witches out to harm the docile women and hapless men of the family. This sort of scripting is calculated to give fans excuses such as, "She asked for it. She started it. C'mon, it's her fault."
Stupid feminists just do not get it. She asked for it. But of course.
Panicker has been quoted on NDTV responding to criticism from Kerala's activists and some reviewers in these words: "What you have seen in the movie happens all around you. Even worse things than this. Like the Nirbhaya case. The dialogues are nothing new and I have not made them up. We've heard these things. This is a commercial film and that's why the clichés."
Err… Yes, Mr Panicker, "these things" do happen all around us, but please do note the difference between portraying "these things" and glorifying them. Kasaba presents Zachariah's misogynistic dialogues and behaviour as the epitome of coolth. Since the young writer-director brings up the December 2012 Delhi gangrape in his nonchalant explanation, it is important to ask him whether he would make a biopic of those six rapist-murderers and project them as cool dudes, the good guys of that story who attacked a woman because she asked for it.
It does not help the situation that some of the criticism of Kasaba has not been well articulated. One reviewer, for instance, seems bothered by the fact that Parameshwaran Nambiar has two adoring wives. Another has issues with Zachariah's use of profanities and double entendre per se. This is where Panicker's misguided point about reality becomes relevant. Bigamy does exist in this country and many women do willingly play along with patriarchy. Nambiar is the villain of the piece and his two marriages are not shown in a positive light anywhere in the film. Likewise, a film may well revolve around a foul-mouthed negative character. The reason why Zachariah's troublesome dialogues and actions are objectionable is because they are comedified and glorified, and because they come from a man who is projected as a nice guy.
Kasaba's gender insensitivity is particularly problematic because jolly ol' Zachariah is played by one of the most respected star actors in the history of Indian cinema.
As it happens, even within its genre, this is an opportunity lost for the actor in Mammootty who is equally capable of bringing gravitas to serious roles and being hysterically funny. He does not walk, he struts about as Zachariah and is a hoot while doing so to the accompaniment of a signature tune that is amusing despite the decibel level. It is also nice to see his trimness at the age of 64 and his agility in the action scenes.
All the pizzazz in the world though is not enough compensation for the star's willingness to play a character whose positioning within Kasaba normalises a congenital contempt for women.
This choice he has made hurts even more because Kasaba comes to theatres just 10 months after Salim Ahamed's Pathemari for which Mammootty rightfully deserved the Best Actor National Award 2015 which went instead to Amitabh Bachchan for Piku. There was that stirring performance as the heart-wrenchingly dignified Pallickal Narayanan in an entertaining yet socially responsible film, and then there is this film that plumbs the depths of misogyny to play to the testosterone-laden gallery.
Mammootty's co-stars in Kasaba are a talented bunch. Varalaxmi Sarathkumar merits a mention for making her mark as Kamala despite the veil of hair covering too much of her face almost throughout. Sampath Raj as Nambiar is excellent.
In a scene towards the end of Kasaba, Zachariah tries to enter Kamala's brothel. "Where is your warrant?" she asks. "If you asked for a warrant from everyone coming here, your business would suffer," he replies mockingly. Can there be a more undisguised metaphorical re-affirmation of the widely held social notion that a sex worker has no right to turn a man away, that if a man forces himself on a sex worker it does not amount to rape?
In yet another instance of the Censor Board's confused ideology, Kasaba has been rated UA rather than A. UA stands for "Unrestricted Public Exhibition – but with a word of caution that parental discretion is required for children below 12 years". I guess the point being made is that it is okay to feed coarse expressions of misogyny to kids so long as their parents do not mind.
Rating (out of five): *
This review has also been published on Firstpost:
http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/kasaba-review-a-suspenseful-mammootty-starrer-marred-by-misogyny-2899532.html
Poster courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasaba_(2016_film)
Posted by Anna MM Vetticad at 1:19 PM
Labels: Anna MM Vetticad, Anna Vetticad, Indian cinema, Jagadish, Kasaba, Malayalam cinema, Mammooty, Maqbool Salmaan, Mollywood, Neha Saxena, Nidhin Renji Panicker, Sampath Raj, Siddique, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar
REVIEW 409: DISHOOM
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REVIEW 408: ANURAGA KARIKKIN VELLAM
REVIEW 407: MADAARI
REVIEW 405: GREAT GRAND MASTI
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REVIEW 403: SHORGUL


Sticky Rice 2 has now opened at Grand Central Market. The Thai comfort food stall has added a noodles shop directly behind its stall. Grand Central Market is now open later on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday nights to 9 p.m. Sticky Rice was doing brisk business on a Friday night.
There are a couple of daily specials and the main offerings include phat thai (pad thai), phat siew (pad see ew), hoy ka noodles, pineapple fried rice, shrimp fried rice, spicy fried rice, khao soi and phat kee mow (pad kee mow). You get a choice of chicken, pork, beef or vegetarian. All dishes are $10 with the exception of the shrimp fried rice which is $15. There's also dessert in the form of coconut custards served in bite-sized portions.
On my first visit, I got the phat siew with shrimp ($4 extra). It was great with tons of tender Chinese broccoli. I was also impressed how spicy the phat kee mow was. They may give you a side eye if you order extra hot sauce on the side. You don't need it!
I returned for soup noodles the following week and took my to-go noodles to a quiet corner of the market. Sticky Rice has a specialist who only works on the hoy ka (tom yum) noodles. The counter lady said this chef knew all the secrets of the hoy ka noodles and no one else makes 'em. The pork-dried shrimp broth was slightly tangy and I loved the slightly spicy kick it had. It was subtle so add your marinated chilis to this soup if you'd like. The noodles also come with 5 wonderfully bouncy fish balls. I would have liked a bit more noodles but I could also get a side of their delicious papaya salad next time to add to my lunch.
I can't wait to go back to try phat thai and one of their fried rice dishes.


We traded one walled city for another. Kotor is an ancient city in the heart of a lake network. To get to it we spent part of a day curving around the network of lakes. We spent 2 days in Kotor one of which on a tandem kayak exploring the lakes. Each lake is dotted with small islands and by kayak we were able to stop off on them.
After 2 relaxing day in Kotor we decided to stop by Sarajevo on the way back to Belgrade. Just like during our other legs of the trip we took our time driving. The highlight being getting lost on a back road and ending up in someones farm. We're stopped looking at google maps trying to find where we went wrong the owner walks over with a chain saw in hand. Using hand gestures we eventually get directions and our local say good bye with a big smile. We go up, around and through a sheep field eventually findings tucked away church we were hunting for. Shortly after our off roading trip we came upon an incredible monument commemorating a famous battle in WW2.
In Sarajevo we found a great hotel right in the heart of the city close to a well known rug market. We arrived at night, explored downtown, and had a local favorite for dinner. In the morning we headed right for the rug market. We got a personal tour around the entire space, hearing the background of each rug, and finally picking 3 to bring home. The most exciting was a 70 year old rug woven in a town we'd passed by on our drive.
The rest of our trip we poked around the city, explored a Bosnian mall, and then headed back to Belgrade to catch a flight home.


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EPA, Hawaii County Reach Agreement On Ka'u Cesspools
by Big Island Video News
on Jun 22, 2017 at 5:50 pm
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KA'U, Hawaii - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA requires the County of Hawaii to close large cesspools in Pahala and Na'alehu.
(BIVN) – The County of Hawaii is closing seven large capacity cesspools (LCCs) that serve the Pahala and Na'alehu communities in Ka'u, and will replace the cesspools with wastewater treatment systems approved by the Hawaii Department of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.
Large capacity cesspools serve multiple residential dwellings, or a commercial facility with the capacity to serve 20 or more people per day, EPA says, adding that cesspools collect and discharge waterborne pollutants like untreated raw sewage into the ground, where disease-causing pathogens can contaminate groundwater, streams and the ocean. LCCs were banned under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in April 2005, EPA says.
The EPA says the agreement with the County of Hawaii requires the closure of two LCCs serving the Pahala community, three LCCs serving the Na'alehu community, and two LCCs serving the Pahala Elderly Apartments. Combined, the seven cesspools serve about 280 households.
"EPA and the County of Hawaii are taking important steps to close these banned cesspools and replace them with modern wastewater treatment systems," said Alexis Strauss, EPA's Acting Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "These actions will protect Hawaii's drinking water and coastal resources, as we seek to modernize Big Island water infrastructure."
The County has developed closure and replacement plans for the cesspools, and the recently approved fiscal year 2017-18 CIP budget shows the projects have been given top priority. The county is setting aside $410,000 for the Pahala Elderly Apartments LCC, and is planning on spending $1,300,000 on the Pahala wastewater system and $1 million on the Na'alehu system, documents show.
The Department of Environmental Management was previously allotted $2,933,000 for the Pahala system. The County previously allotted $4,798,000 for the Na'alehu system project, and anticipates needing another $5,715,000 in FY 2018-19, according to CIP documents.
The EPA says construction of the new treatment and disposal facilities will be financed in part with federal grants and low-interest loans from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan program.
Newly-constructed secondary wastewater treatment facilities and updated collection systems will come online in 2021 for Pahala and in 2022 for Na'alehu, EPA reports. Cesspools serving the Pahala Elderly Apartments will be closed by September 2018 and replaced with septic systems.
Under the agreement, an additional 95 properties in the Pahala and Na'alehu communities not currently served by the LCCs will also be connected to the new county sewer systems, the federal agency reports.
The agreement also includes specific reporting requirements and allows for stipulated penalties should the county fail to meet agreed-upon deadlines, EPA says.
"Cesspools are used more widely in Hawaii than in any other state, despite the fact that 95 percent of all drinking water in Hawaii comes from groundwater sources. Since the federal LCC ban took effect in 2005, over 3,000 large capacity cesspools have been closed state-wide, many through voluntary compliance," the EPA says.
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Becker-Waggoner race hangs in limbo
Mary Clarkin
A mere vote separated State Rep. Steven Becker, Buhler and Hutchison businessman Paul Waggoner in the 104th House District Republican primary.
The unofficial tally: Waggoner, 2,014; Becker, 2013.
The fate of the election rests in sealed envelopes in the Reno County Courthouse Annex. There were approximately 62 to 65 provisional ballots cast in the 104th District, according to Reno County Deputy Election Officer Jenna Fager. The Reno County Commission, sitting as a board of canvassers, will meet at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, in the Courthouse Annex, 125 West 1st, and determine the eligibility of the questionable ballots.
Generally, most provisional ballots are deemed eligible and are opened and added to the count. There is a different reason for a red-flagged ballot. An example of a provisional ballot is one cast by a voter who has moved and casts his ballot at the wrong polling site. Canvassers do not see the actual ballot before they decide whether it can be counted.
Earlier Tuesday night, Waggoner held a 37-vote lead over Becker. The counting was considered finished, except for the provisional ballots which did not cause Waggoner concern.
"Well, we won it," Waggoner reacted. "We're happy to be in the lead and expect to go to Topeka in five months," he said. Waggoner said he would rather be 37 votes ahead than 37 votes down.
Becker declined at the time to comment because he said he didn't have enough information.
Contributing to the confusion was the absence of two voting precincts results. While observers waited for those results to arrive and be added, county staff said those precincts, in rural townships, were not in the 104th House District and would not affect the tally.
Later, however, county staff realized the advance voting results from two satellite walk-in sites, at Hutchinson Community College and at Westley Towers, had not been uploaded. When those votes from Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 were added, it turned a close race into a near-tie with a one-vote difference.
"Are you serious? Are you serious?" Waggoner asked when The News reached him around 11 p.m. with the new numbers and the one-ballot difference.
"Oh, this is fun. Wow. That is something," he said.
Becker could not be reached, but a spokesperson said he knew the race had taken a sudden turn.
Becker is a retired Reno County District Judge who won his first State House primary in 2012 by a 57-vote margin over Hutchinson Republican Ken Willard. In 2016 and again this year, Becker became a target of conservatives. In 2016, conservative Republican Lowell Peachey challenged Becker. This year, Peachey served as Waggoner's campaign treasurer and Waggoner took on Becker.
"This one I found to be more different," Becker said early Tuesday evening about the challenge from Waggoner, compared to Peachey and Willard.
When Waggoner began the campaign, Becker said, it seemed like everything was directed at Becker. "He personalized the issues," Becker said.
Becker credited Waggoner with campaigning hard.
"The moral of the story is that going door to door ultimately made all the difference," Waggoner said.
Generally, Waggoner said, he tried to go door-to-door from 9:30 am. to 12:30 p.m. Afternoons were spent on radio ads or mailers. In the evening, he might walk more neighborhoods, he said.
Waggoner did not accept political action committee dollars but he benefitted from money spent on his behalf by outside groups, including the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Prosperity-Kansas.
Waggoner is general manager of Waggoners Inc., a business that makes church pew cushions. He also ran Tuesday for Republican precinct committeeman and won with no opponent.


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package ch.giesserei.view.jperson;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import ch.giesserei.model.JuristischePerson;
import ch.giesserei.resource.AppRes;
import ch.giesserei.view.BaseEditForm;
import ch.giesserei.view.validator.AdresseValidator;
import ch.giesserei.view.validator.PlzValidator;

import com.vaadin.ui.Button;
import com.vaadin.ui.FormLayout;
import com.vaadin.ui.Layout;
import com.vaadin.ui.TextField;

/**
 * Definiert das Formular, mit dem eine juristische Person bearbeitet werden kann.
 *
 * @author Steffen Förster
 */
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class JuristischePersonEditForm extends BaseEditForm {

	private final JuristischePerson person;

	private TextField name;

	private TextField ansprechpartner;

	private TextField strasse;

	private TextField ort;

	private TextField plz;

	private FormLayout layout;

	private Button saveButton;

	/**
	 * Konstruktor.
	 *
	 * @param person Bean, welches bearbeitet werden soll
	 */
	public JuristischePersonEditForm(JuristischePerson person) {
		this.person = person;
		this.layout = new FormLayout();
		this.layout.setMargin(true);
		createFields(this.layout);
		fillForm();
		this.saveButton = new Button(AppRes.getString("btn.save"));
		this.layout.addComponent(this.saveButton);
		setCompositionRoot(this.layout);
	}

	public Button getBtnSave() {
		return this.saveButton;
	}

	public void fillBean() {
		this.person.setName(this.name.getValue());
		this.person.setAnsprechpartner(this.ansprechpartner.getValue());

		this.person.getAdresse().setStrasse(this.strasse.getValue());
		this.person.getAdresse().setOrt(this.ort.getValue());
		if (StringUtils.isBlank(this.plz.getValue())) {
			this.person.getAdresse().setPlz(0);
		}
		else {
			this.person.getAdresse().setPlz(Integer.parseInt(this.plz.getValue()));
		}
	}

	// ---------------------------------------------------------
    // private section
    // ---------------------------------------------------------

	private void createFields(Layout layout) {
		this.name = createTextField(layout, "jperson.lb.name", 50, "val.name.not.null", true);
		this.ansprechpartner = createTextField(layout, "jperson.lb.ansprechpartner", 50, "val.anprechpartner.not.null", true);

		this.strasse = createTextField(layout, "person.lb.strasse", 100, false);
		this.ort = createTextField(layout, "person.lb.ort", 100, false);

		this.plz = createTextField(layout, "person.lb.plz", 4, true);
		this.plz.addValidator(new PlzValidator());
		this.plz.addValidator(new AdresseValidator(this.strasse, this.ort, this.plz));
		layout.addComponent(this.plz);
	}

	private void fillForm() {
		fillField(this.name, this.person.getName());
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Every year, there are more than 40 million Americans who pack up their homes and move. That represents roughly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.
Some of the people who move only relocate a few minutes away from their former homes. But there are also others who move to an entirely new state that's located far from their former residences.
If you're thinking about moving out of state sometime soon, there are a series of steps that you should take first to make sure your move is a complete success. Check out the things you should do before making your move to a new state below.
Before you start finalizing your plans to move to a new state, it's a good idea to take a trip to that state to see what it's all about.
You might be under the impression that you can learn everything you need to know about a new state by doing research on the internet. But you can't truly get a feel for everything a state has to offer until you visit it.
The last thing you want to do is move to a new state that looks amazing on paper only to discover that you don't actually love living there. It'll leave you scrambling to figure out what to do next when you find yourself in that scenario.
Instead, go to the state ahead of time and spend at least a few days there. You can see whether or not it's right for you before you proceed with your moving plans.
While you're visiting a state that you're thinking about moving to, arrange to meet up with a local realtor to see what the real estate market in that state has to offer.
During a meeting with a realtor, they can tell you all about the different kinds of homes that you can find in the specific area in which you're looking to buy. They can talk about everything from the home styles you'll find to the prices you can expect to pay.
Experienced real estate agents can also speak with you about local school systems if you have kids, property tax rates in the state, and so much more. You can gather all the information you'll need to make an informed decision about moving out of state.
If you decide that you do, in fact, want to move to a new state, you're obviously going to want to find a home for you and your family before you do it.
You might be tempted to rush and start shopping for homes during your initial trip to the state. But it's usually best to go back home before you start looking around. You can check out home listings from your existing home before scheduling another trip back to the state to look at some of them in person.
Depending on which state you're going to be moving to, you might be able to afford a way bigger home than you live in now. But you might also find that homes in your new state are a lot pricier than the ones in your existing state, which could limit the types of properties you can buy.
Either way, it's important to find a home that will work well for you and your family. Rather than rushing into making a decision, take your time and choose the home that'll deliver the most bang for your buck.
Are you moving as a result of a work-related relocation? This can actually be one of the most stressful kinds of moves!
You'll have to worry about more than just finding a new home in your new state. You'll also have to worry about selling your old home and getting adjusted to working in a new place as quickly as you can.
Talk to your employer and see if they would be willing to pay for you to work with an employee relocation company. This company can help you move from one state to another without the usual hassles that come along with it.
See here for more information on how an employee relocation company can benefit you.
If you're moving from one part of your existing city to another, you can usually do it yourself. Or, if you have a lot to move, you can hire a local moving company to help.
It's usually not feasible to do all the moving yourself when you move to a new state, though. It's also not always possible to hire a local moving company to assist you since they might not serve the state you're moving to.
Find an interstate moving company that can get you and your family moved in a hurry. There are lots of moving companies that specialize in providing people with long-distance movers.
While long-distance movers can make moving out of state easier, make things easy on yourself by limiting the number of things you have to move.
Prior to packing all your belongings up, go through your existing home and throw out anything you don't want to move to your new home. This can include clothing, household items, furniture, electronics, and more.
When you purge your home, it'll make your move a whole lot more manageable. You won't have to pack up a bunch of stuff you don't need anymore and find space for it in your new home.
You don't necessarily need to have a new driver's license the minute you move to a new state. But if you can do it ahead of time, it doesn't hurt to get your hands on a driver's license in your new state. It'll make you feel like you're an official resident from the moment you move into your new home.
Moving out of state can be really difficult to do if you don't make the proper preparations ahead of time.
Make sure you scout out your new state and find the right home before you move there. Make sure you work with an employee relocation company and long-distance movers as well. It'll make the process simpler on you and allow you to enjoy making your move.
Read our blog for some tips on finding a professional housekeeper who can clean your new home for you before you move into it.


Parmesan crusted? Count us in.
Listen: If you're feeling deprived on your diet, you're probably not getting enough food and nutrients, which is why it's important to find healthier ways to enjoy your favorite meals. And who has a better approach to healthy eating than the Cooking Channel's Ellie Krieger? As a registered dietitian, she knows that flavor is just as important as nutrition when it comes to creating healthy recipes, and her brand new cookbook, Weeknight Wonders: Delicious, Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less, is no exception. Here's one of my faves from her book, make it this weekend and tell me what you think!
Coarsely grate the Parmesan cheese.
Put the chicken between sheets of plastic wrap and pound it out to an even thickness of about 1/2 inch. Rub the top side of the chicken pieces with half of the mustard, then sprinkle with half the cheese, pressing lightly so it adheres, and season with half the pepper. Flip the chicken pieces over and repeat on the other side.
Spray a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium-high heat. Add the chicken to the pan and cook, without moving it, until the cheese on the bottom forms a deep brown crust that releases fairly easily from the pan, 3-4 minutes. Flip and repeat on the other side, cooking until the chicken is cooked through, about three minutes more.


Prof. B.J. Campbell – Prof. B.J. Campbell was born in Cleveland, Tennessee and died Jan 24, 1926. When young he moved with his parents to Knoxville and later he taught in the city schools of Knoxville. He married Florence E. Smith in 1893 and moved to Harriman and became principal of the Harriman Colored School for about fifteen years. In 1914, Prof. Campbell and his wife moved to Rockwood, and he became the principal of the Rockwood Colored High School, and she became a teacher there. The Rockwood Colored High School later became Campbell High School (which was named after him) and was the only high school for all black students in Roane County.
His wife, Florence E. Smith (1872-1922) was the first black teacher in Harriman having come to Harriman in 1891. She was born in Canada and was convinced to come to Harriman from Maryland to teach by her father, John A. Smith, who came to Harriman in 1890 because he was a strong prohibitionist.
Originally written for the Roane County Newsletter to the Community, December 2018 and February 2016.


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Salvador Sanchez was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Sanchez's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Canoa" (1976), "El Apando" (1976) and "Bajo la Metralla" (1982). He also appeared in "La Vispera" (1982), the Willie Colon sports drama "The Last Fight" (1983) and the Albert Finney dramatic adaptation "Under the Volcano" (1984). He kept working in film throughout the eighties, starring in the comedy "Viaje al Paraiso" (1987) with Ernesto Gomez Cruz, "Dias Dificiles" (1987) and the drama "Va de Nuez" (1987) with Rafael Sánchez Navarro. He also appeared in "Frida: Naturaleza Vita" (1988). Recently, he continued to act in "Su Alteza Serenisima" (2001), the action movie "The Mexican" (2001) with Brad Pitt and the action film "Collateral Damage" (2002) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also appeared in "Herod's Law" (2003) with Damián Alcázar. Sanchez most recently worked on the Chris Hemsworth smash hit action picture "Thor" (2011).
El Infierno (2010)
Collateral Damage (2002)
Mexican, The (2001)
Su Alteza Serenisima (2001) Ezequiel Rivera
Herod's Law (1999) Pek
Latin Legends (1993)
Angel of Fire (1992) Rito
One Man's War (1991)
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Congratulations to our Upstream Learning 3-4 grade Battle of the Books team who completed February 8th in the Copper River School District competition and were named District Champions. What a fantastic learning experience for these girls and the families who gathered enjoyed the competition as well. The team is now preparing for state competition on March 3rd.


All across New York City, criminal justice advocates and organizers are celebrating one of the biggest victories in recent memory: the Mayor's announcement of a plan to close Rikers Island by 2027.
We are so proud to be a part of this victory through both our support for the #CloseRikers campaign as well as for the Independent Commission on Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, whose research and findings—including in the report "A More Just NYC"—led the Mayor to support their recommendation to close Rikers.
Through our cornerstone Invest in Youth initiative, we are focused on funding youth justice programs that create off-ramps as well as second-chance alternatives for youth involved in the criminal justice system. We are also committed to investing in advocacy and research that can drastically revamp the system.
We know that closing Rikers will have a tremendous impact on our borough—Brooklyn has the second largest population in Rikers, not to mention the families and communities also impacted.
In addition to providing funding to support the Independent Commission, we are proud to be seed funders of the #CloserRikers campaign through a multi-year Invest in Youth grant to JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA). Our support was critical to the campaign's success, serving as a "seal of approval" for JLUSA to leverage over $500,000 in additional institutional support.
This victory shows the power of advocacy and organizing to accomplish what many thought was impossible just a short time ago. So many of our Invest in Youth grantees have also added their voices to the #CloseRikers campaign, and we salute their role in this victory as well: Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, Brooklyn Defenders Services, Drive Change NYC, Make the Road New York, CASES, Center for Nu Leadership, Osborne Association, Teachers Unite, and Arab American Association of New York!
The journey to closing Rikers will be long, and will require continued investment in criminal justice reforms: ending cash bail, increasing alternatives to incarceration, tackling recidivism through workforce and leadership opportunities, promoting neighborhood-based alternatives to arrest, and raising the age of criminal prosecution in New York State—a battle which we're continuing to fight in Albany right now.
Our support for the closure of Rikers, and for investing in comprehensive youth justice programs, is stronger than ever. Thank you to all of our partners who made this victory possible—and we look forward to many more to come!
Breaking news! The Mayor has announced a plan to close Rikers Island. We're proud to be seed funders of the @justleadershipusa campaign to #CloseRikers. Congratulations to all on this hard fought VICTORY!
This victory shows the power of advocacy and organizing to accomplish what many thought was impossible just a short time ago.


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Die evangelische Dorfkirche Groß Schacksdorf ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Kirchengebäude in Groß Schacksdorf, einem Ortsteil der Gemeinde Groß Schacksdorf-Simmersdorf im Landkreis Spree-Neiße in Brandenburg.

Architektur und Baugeschichte
Die Groß Schacksdorfer Kirche wurde vermutlich in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, spätestens aber Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts errichtet. Es handelt sich um einen spätgotischen Feldsteinbau mit ⅝-Chorschluss. Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg wurde die Dorfkirche zerstört und zwischen 1719 und 1721 wiedererrichtet. Dabei wurde auch der quadratische Westturm aus Backstein ergänzt, dieser verfügt über eine Schweifhaube mit Laterne. An der Südseite der Kirche befindet sich eine zweigeschossige Patronatsloge etwa aus der Zeit um das Jahr 1740.

Die Dorfkirche verfügt über eine spitzbogige Südpforte im gotischen Stil, alle anderen Fenster und Eingänge wurden nachträglich barockisiert. Innen besitzt die Kirche eine verputzte Holztonne mit gratigen Putzrippen. Der Ostabschluss ist als halbes Klostergewölbe gebildet, die Schlusssteine sind mit Wappen bemalt, die Gemälde sind auf das Jahr 1723 datiert. Die Kirche verfügt über eine Nord- und eine Westempore.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde die beschädigte Dorfkirche ab 1953 saniert. Zwischen 1982 und 1989 erfolgte erneut eine Restaurierung des inzwischen wieder baufälligen Gebäudes.

Die Kirchengemeinde Groß Schacksdorf bildet mit den Kirchengemeinden Forst-Noßdorf und Groß Bademeusel den Pfarrsprengel Noßdorf. Dieser gehört dem Kirchenkreis Cottbus in der Evangelischen Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz an.

Ausstattung
Der größte Teil der originalen Ausstattung der Groß Schacksdorfer Dorfkirche wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört. Lediglich Teile des hölzernen Altaraufsatzes sind erhalten. Dieser stammt aus dem 18. Jahrhundert und ist mit Figuren des Auferstandenen und Engeln geschmückt. Der Kanzelkorb stammte etwa aus dem Jahr 1700 und verfügte über Kartuschen an der Brüstung.

Die heutige Ausstattung stammt zum größten Teil aus der im Jahr 1987 zugunsten des Tagebaus Jänschwalde abgebrochenen Dorfkirche Weißagk. Der Altaraufsatz verfügt über Weinlaubsäulen und Knorpelwerkwangen und stammt aus der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. In dem rekonstruierten, eingefügten Schrein befindet sich eine kleine Standfigur der Maria mit Kind aus dem Jahr 1470 oder 1480, diese wurde aus der Dorfkirche Grießen übernommen. Die hölzerne Kanzel stammt aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, das gusseiserne Taufbecken aus dem Jahr 1868.

Die verglaste Patronatsloge der Kirche ist erkerartig vorkragend, auf den Brüstungsfeldern sind mit Grisailletechnik biblische Szenen aufgemalt. In der Kirche befinden sich zudem ein mittelalterlicher Opferkasten mit Eisenbeschlägen sowie ein Epitaph für zwei im Jahr 1704 verstorbene Söhne der Familie von Mühlen. Außen an der Kirche gibt es sieben barocke Wappen- und Inschriftgrabsteine.

Orgel
Die Orgel wurde etwa 1775 durch den Orgelbauer Matthäus Claunigk erbaut und befand sich ebenfalls zunächst in der Dorfkirche in Weißagk. Sie ist eine der ältesten Orgeln der Lausitz. 1990 wurde die Orgel von der Firma Orgelbau Fahlenberg aus Eberswalde restauriert und anschließend nach Groß Schacksdorf gebracht. Die einmanualige Orgel verfügt über mechanische Schleifladen, sechs Register auf dem Manual und zwei Register auf dem Pedal.

Die Disposition:

 Koppeln: I/P

Gedenken
Rechts neben der Kirche befindet sich ein Denkmal für die Gefallenen Bewohner des Kirchspiels Groß Schacksdorf während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Anlage besteht neben dem Hauptdenkmal aus mehreren Betonkreuzen und einem künstlerisch gestalteten Metallbaum. Die Inschrift auf dem Denkmal lautet:

Darunter sind die Namen der Gefallenen aufgelistet.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Pfarrsprengel Noßdorf mit Kirchengemeinde Groß Schacksdorf auf der Seite des Kirchenkreises Cottbus

Einzelnachweise

Kirchengebäude im Landkreis Spree-Neiße
Baudenkmal in Groß Schacksdorf-Simmersdorf
Kirchengebäude des Evangelischen Kirchenkreises Cottbus
Saalkirche
Gotische Kirche
Barockisierte Kirche
Disposition einer Orgel
Erbaut im 14. oder 15. Jahrhundert
Groß Schacksdorf-Simmersdorf

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