YANGON—The Yangon regional government has demanded that Eleven Media Group publish an apology in state-run newspapers for an "incorrect" story about the city's budget that prompted authorities to file a lawsuit. The move fails to fully comply with instructions issued by the President's Office last week that the city government should submit the dispute to the Press Council for mediation.
The Yangon government filed a suit against two editors and a reporter from Eleven Media Group earlier this month accusing them of incitement under Article 505 (b) of the Penal Code for allegedly publishing false information relating to the use of public funds. The three were arrested on Oct. 10 and detained at Yangon's Insein Prison.
City authorities' harsh treatment of the media organization attracted public criticism, as the story was primarily based on lawmakers' discussion in the regional parliament of the auditor general's report on the government budget. The lawmakers themselves insisted the story was accurate.
Responding to the public outcry, President U Win Myint last week ordered the Yangon government to follow the Media Law, which says the Myanmar Press Council should attempt to settle complaints against the press before they reach the courts. Following the order, the Yangon government submitted a complaint letter to the Press Council last week.
The Council on Friday urged the Yangon government to withdraw its lawsuit against the three journalists so that it could begin mediation. The council cannot legally intervene in cases that have already been brought before the court.
But on the evening of the same day, rather than drop the case, the city government asked the Press Council to require that Eleven Media publish an apology in government newspapers.
"Prior to publication, the contents of the apology must be approved by the Yangon government," the city government demanded in a letter signed by U Aung Kyaw Khiang, the director of the Yangon Government Office.
It was not immediately clear whether the Yangon government would agree to withdraw the case if the apology was forthcoming. U Aung Kyaw Khaing wasn't available for comment on Monday.
Press Council member U Myint Kyaw told The Irrawaddy on Monday that the council cannot begin any mediation—even at the government's request—until the court case is dropped.
"I think they are playing an unfair game. Trying to settle the case while keeping the journalists behind bars is sort of taking the upper hand," he said.
At noon on Monday, Eleven Media managing director U Thein Myint told The Irrawaddy he had yet to hear anything more about either the withdrawal of the case or the demand for an apology.
Speaking to the media after a meeting with the Press Council on Friday, he said the journalists would have the final say in the apology.
"It's up to them whether to apologize or not," he said.
Lawmaker U Nay Phone Latt said the government's demand contradicted the president's order to attempt to settle the case with the help of the Press Council.
"To do so, the case has to be dropped first. Now they are demanding an apology rather than withdrawing the case. It's not in line with the presidential directive," he said.
The lawsuit is not the first that the Yangon government has filed against Eleven Media.
In 2016, the company's CEO U Than Htut Aung and editor-in-Chief U Wai Phyo were sued for libel by Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein over an editorial accusing him of corruption. Eleven Media Group later issued an official apology and retracted the editorial that prompted the libel case.
The apology was printed in state-run newspapers in both Burmese and English.


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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – Uzbekistan's top prosecutor said Tuesday that 169 people were killed in last week's violence in the eastern town of Andijan (search), a figure far lower than that compiled by the opposition after violence that has threatened the stability of this former Soviet republic.
More deaths were reported Tuesday in Andijan, where government troops in full combat gear were deployed behind concrete barricades.
Prosecutor-General Rashid Kadyrov's estimate was far below the more than 500 cited earlier in the day by an opposition political party that has been polling alleged victims' relatives.
Kadyrov said 32 of those who died were government troops, and he indicated that the others were militants.
"Only terrorists were liquidated by government forces," he told a news conference with President Islam Karimov (search) at his side — a statement contradicting the accounts of witnesses to Friday's violence in the fourth-largest city in this U.S. ally in Central Asia.
Karimov had told a news conference Saturday that 10 soldiers and "many more" insurgents had been killed. He did not say anything about civilian deaths.
Earlier Tuesday, an Uzbek opposition leader said her party compiled a list of 745 people allegedly killed by government troops, the highest estimate so far, and that many were shot in the back of the head.
Nigara Khidoyatova (search), leader of the Free Peasants party, said 542 people were killed in Andijan and 203 people died in subsequent clashes in Pakhtabad (search), another city in the eastern Fergana Valley near the Kyrgyzstan (search) border. Khidoyatova said her party arrived at those figures by speaking to relatives of those killed, and the count was continuing.
"Soldiers were roaming the streets and shooting at innocent civilians," Khidoyatova told The Associated Press. "Many victims were shot in the back of the head."
Khidoyatova said party representatives talked to victims' relatives and attended funerals, including that of 18-year-old Sardor Khasanov, an Andijan resident who walked out to buy a loaf of bread and was shot in the back of the head.
"The count hasn't yet finished, and the death toll will rise," she said.
Last week's unrest was the worst since the former Soviet republic won independence in 1991. The violence puts the United States in a difficult position because it relies on Karimov's government for an air base in the country and anti-terrorism support.
The crackdown in Andijan came Friday after protesters stormed a prison, freed inmates and then seized local government offices. However, many of the demonstrators were citizens complaining about poverty and unemployment.
Karimov's government has blamed the violence on Islamic militants. However, an AP reporter and other journalists witnessed troops opening fire on the crowd at Andijan's central square.
"Relatives of the victims are in shock, and they can't understand why their close ones were killed," Khidoyatova told the AP. "Once the funerals are over, they aren't going to let it go unpunished and will take revenge. They are boiling with anger."
In Pakhtabad, virtually all the victims were women and children apparently trying to flee violence by heading toward Kyrgyzstan, Khidoyatova said.
"They were refugees trying to escape," she said.
Khidoyatova said she believed the unrest would spread to other cities in the impoverished, densely populated valley.
"It's the beginning of the end of Karimov's regime," she said.
Security remained tight in Andijan on Tuesday, with armored vehicles guarding approaches to official buildings and troops in full combat gear watching from behind concrete barricades. Men were digging fresh graves at neighborhood cemeteries under the watch of Uzbek security service agents.
Witnesses said an armored personnel carrier fired at a vehicle trying to leave the city, killing several passengers. The victims allegedly were businessmen connected to Akramia — a group of observant Islamic businessmen at the focus of the unrest.
In another Andijan neighborhood, about 20 troops in full gear, some wearing balaclava masks, came in an armored personnel carrier to arrest a criminal suspect, pointing sniper rifles around to prevent people from coming too close.
The Bush administration has said it is "deeply disturbed" by reports that Uzbek authorities fired on demonstrators. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday the United States was "still trying to understand" what happened in Andijan.
"The main preoccupations are now to encourage everybody to forgo any further violence, to help with the refugees that went into Kyrgyzstan out of Uzbekistan (search), and to try to deal with the consequences right now of this set of issues," she said.
The administration also has expressed concern that Muslim extremists had escaped from the prison and has urged Karimov's government to give the international Red Cross full access to the region.
Cemetery workers hastily buried 37 bodies in a mass grave in Andijan on Tuesday as residents mourned the dead.
The bodies were wrapped in traditional white shrouds before being placed in a common pit at a cemetery in the southern part of the city. Cemetery members refused to identify the bodies and the grave — dug at a distance other graves — was marked only by a small sign.
Karimov, viewed as one of the most authoritarian leaders still in control of a former Soviet republic, cut his political teeth under the old communist system which brooked no civil disobedience. Before the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, many regional leaders ordered military or police attacks against their own people when they massed in protest in places like Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.


Central Bankers; Friend or Foe?
When Janet Yellen tells us that the future path of interest rates is dependent upon data releases traders are entitled to take that as a policy statement.
When subsequent data is below trend or doesn't comply with expectations for that stage of the economic cycle, monetary policy should reflect that. On June 2nd, the U.S. non-farm payroll figures showed a rise of 138k against an average over the previous six months of 180k. U.S. Q1 GDP was 2.2% and wages growth 2.5%.
These are hardly stellar numbers and certainly not the data from an economy that warrants three rate hikes in six months.
The reason for the rate hikes is clear but misleading. The stock market is overheating.
In 1996, then Fed Chair, Alan Greenspan was accused of "killing" the stock market when he made a speech about the "irrational exuberance" of the '90's dot com bubble. It took another four years for the bubble to burst but that speech, "saying it like it is", is what we should be able to expect from Central Bankers and Politicians. Of course, Politicians have their own agenda so they can probably be excused.
Talking of Greenspan and his successor Ben Bernanke, they commanded the respect of the markets. When they spoke, we listened! Why? Because not only did they have their finger on the pulse, but they only spoke when they had something to say.
Bank of England falling foul of conspiracy theorists.
The MPC met this week and gave us what we expected; no change to either interest rates or the Asset Purchase Facility.
Inflation appears out of control and it is a measure of the respect (that word again) that BoE Governor Mark Carney commands that the market is prepared to take what he says at face value.
The recent votes to "stand pat" on interest rates have been 7-1 with only policy hawk Kristen Forbes standing for a change in monetary policy.
However, in a major shock (only joking) the vote this week was 5-3. Just enough to tantalize us into thinking that a rate hike is imminent and make us think that the MPC is concerned about rampant inflation but still meaning the status quo remains official policy.
Two new converts to the "it's a clever idea to increase consumers interest burden when they are suffering a fall in real wages" brigade were unveiled. Michael Saunders and Ian McCafferty are respected City economists with long careers in "the real world" behind them. Therefore, their opinion should be respected and accepted.
Instead we have conspiracy theorists spouting about how the MPC is nothing more than a cartel where every member does Carney's bidding and the 5-3 vote was a sop to show that inflation is a concern.
Well everyone is, of course, entitled to their opinion but the wider ranging question is credibility.
Draghi can put his feet up!
Mario Draghi the President of the European Central Bank has had probably the hardest job of all global Central Bankers, certainly in G7. He must juggle the varying demands of nineteen diverse economies each with their own fiscal and spending plans. Add to that the diversity of the recent performance of Northern versus Southern Eurozone members and it is a wonder Sr. Draghi has any hair left at all.
Draghi is clearly a considered individual, the late entry of the ECB into the "quantitative easing party" is testimony to that.
Anyway, hats off to Sr. Draghi! Even if it is a lot to do with issues he has no control over, the Eurozone seems to be emerging into the "sunlight" of political and economic stability only dreamed about in other countries.
Draghi's predecessors, Wim Duisenberg and Jean-Claude Trichet saw the job handed around like a political hot potato. There has been a clear intention among the members of the European Council to keep the job out of German hands. They have enough influence already and were probably party to an agreement that saw the ECB headquartered in Frankfurt; a symbolic, if not actually meaningful gesture.
Duisenberg was clearly a compromise candidate. He managed to "get the ball rolling" economically for the whole Eurozone experiment. The French interpretation of the agreement made with the installation of Wim Duisenberg was that he would resign after four years of his eight-year term, and would be replaced by Trichet. Duisenberg always strongly denied that such an agreement was made. A slightly inauspicious start to an institution that has now become one of, if not the, pre-eminent G7 Central Bank.
The role of Central Banks has changed as the world has become smaller. Their interactions in both domestic policy and global intervention was the only thing that saved the entire system from melting down in 2008. As traders, we do not have to agree with their decisions but we should be able to respect them.


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CD: A Different Kind of Strength
CD: Arabella's Eyes
CD: Come to the Water
CD: I Will Praise God as Long as I Live
CD: Songs for Children
CD: The Greatest Things
CD: What Will We Say to the Children?
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The Song of the Sea
David Edwards (1947-2019) and His Music
David in the recording studio.
David inherited his love for music from his parents, who hailed from Appalachian Southwest Virginia, where music flows throughout work, worship, fun … all of life. Following his two great loves, spirituality and music, David created songs with religious themes and songs that celebrate the sacredness of all life … a child's wonder and delight, people gathered in prayer and working together for the good of the world, the suffering of people and the earth that calls us to respond in love, justice, and compassion, the delicate grandeur of the creation, the longings of the heart. This is the scope of David's music.
In the early 1970s, while he was working at Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center as an orderly, fulfilling two years of alternative service as a Conscientious Objector to the military, David began writing songs. Writing and performing became a second vocation as David then entered seminary and afterwards began serving as a minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
In the years since then, David wrote folk songs, songs for children, hymns, spiritual songs, and settings of the Psalms and other scripture. Due in large part to his wife Kaye's influence, out of her ministry on behalf of children, David was increasingly interested in using music with, and writing music for, children. In the 1990s, David taught in an artist-in-the-schools program in Amherst County, Virginia. He worked in a rural elementary school, using U.S. folk songs to teach singing, geography, history, and many things about life.
From 2003 to 2016, David served as minister, and was a Covenant Member, of the Church of the Covenant, United Church of Christ / Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), in Lynchburg, Virginia. There, he was part of a small community of people committed to their own spiritual growth and to various ministries in the city and within the community itself.
David retired from professional ministry in January 2016, though he remained a Community Member of the Church of the Covenant. He lived with his wife Kaye in the village of Loretto, Kentucky, near the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse. David and Kaye were Co-Members of the Sisters of Loretto Community. In retirement, David continued to work in the area of music and worship, and writing.
David's Obituary
David Livingston Edwards was born in Roanoke, Virginia, on December 29, 1947 to Rubye and Barnard Edwards, both now deceased. He is survived by his wife, Kaye, two children, Shelley Edwards (Tim Ketter), and Kent Edwards, two grandchildren, Arabella Ketter and Christopher Custers; sisters, Carol Edwards and Sylvia Mill along with Sylvia's husband, children, and grandchildren.
David graduated from Lynchburg College, Virginia and from Lexington Theological Seminary, Lexington, Kentucky. He served churches in Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana. He and Kaye would have celebrated 50 years of marriage in December 2019.
A kinder, more peace-loving man would be hard to find. He adored his family. He loved fishing and singing (especially with children,) hiking the trails of the Blue Ridge Mountains, taking walks in the woods, and swimming in the ocean. He cherished quiet time alone, reading and studying scripture, exploring the sacred writings of other religions, writing and composing music, and sitting to reflect and think. In the evenings, he enjoyed drinking a Manhattan and listening to classical music.
Because of his deep commitment to the teaching of Jesus, he became a pacifist and a conscientious objector to all violence and war. During the time of the Vietnam War, he did two years of required alternative service to the draft by working as an orderly on the cardiac/surgical unit of Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Though David contributed in many ways to what is good in this world, he considered his work as a conscientious objector to be the most important contribution of his life.
The cancer that took his life on March 4, 2019 did not take his loving, gentle spirit. He lives in our hearts. He lives through his commitment to peace and justice for all. He lives through his music and his writing.
Two services of celebration for the life of David L. Edwards were held. The first was on Saturday, May 11, 2019, 1:30 pm at the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse Chapel. The second was on Saturday, July 27, 2019, 1:30 pm at The University of Lynchburg Chapel.
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Q: codeigniter transact add data into two table hi i have a problem about adding data into two tables, heres the situation, i want to add a student with his username and password in users table and his personal info like name and age into users_profiles,, heres my code:
function add_user($username,$password,$fname,$lname,$sex,$address,$city,$country,$role)
    {
        $this->db->trans_start();
    $user = array(
    'usrName'=>$username,
    'usrPassword'=>sha1($password),
    'roleID'=>$role
    );

    $this->db->insert('users', $user);

    $this->db->query('SELECT usrID FROM users WHERE usrName=$username');

    $usrID = $this->db->get(); //i know this is wrong thats why i need help

    $user_profile = array(
    'usrpFirstName'=>$fname,
    'usrpLastName'=>$lname,
    'usrpSex'=>$sex,
    'usrpAddress'=>$address,
    'usrpCity'=>$city,
    'usrpState'=>$country,
    'usrID'=>**$usrID** // this is the foreign key from users table
    );

    $this->db->insert('users_profiles', $user_profile);

    $this->db->trans_complete();
}

A: You do not need to use get() when you use the query() method. Instead store the result from the query() method and use result() or row() to access the data.
So your code should be something like:
$result = $this->db->query("SELECT usrID FROM users WHERE usrName=$username");

$row = $result->row();

$user_profile = array(
  'usrpFirstName'=>$fname,
  'usrpLastName'=>$lname,
  'usrpSex'=>$sex,
  'usrpAddress'=>$address,
  'usrpCity'=>$city,
  'usrpState'=>$country,
  'usrID'=>$row->usrID
);

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Your wedding dress was the star of your ceremony, but the food will be the star of your reception. Sure, everyone "ooh's" and "aah's" while you are dancing the 'first dance'. There will be tears during the speeches. But people wait for the "big wedding food reveal" of what's for dinner, and the success of the night will depend in large part on the quality of the meal.
Forget about deciding between the Manhattan or the Margarita. You can create your own drink for the reception – one that your guests won't be able to have again unless they are drink wizards and can figure out how to recreate the recipe. Don't worry: You don't have to be a drink wizard yourself to figure out what to serve. You can hire a catering company or bartender and create a signature drink for the event. You can give some feedback on flavours or what kind of liquor you want to be used, or you can give your mixologist free reign to make something great.
Be sure to include a sign or menu card that includes the name of the signature drink and tells guests what's in it.
The local food movement is growing, and it has made its way to the wedding reception. It is popular to serve a dinner made out of locally sourced meats, cheeses, fruits, and vegetables. It is also popular to serve dishes that are local specialities. Google nearby breweries and serve their ales.
Don't stop there. Tell the stories of your locally sourced food on the back of your menu and intrigue your guests.
Instead of serving a hamburger or sandwich the way you would expect, a new trend has guests getting meals that are "deconstructed." So instead of getting a hamburger on a bun, you might get a plate that has a bun, a piece of lettuce, a slice of tomato, a slice of onion, a slice of cheese, a beef patty, and another bun laid out in a line on a long plate.
Deconstructed plates like these are very popular in restaurants and at weddings. Work with your caterer to create fun wedding food that could be presented this way. #fancy!
Who says you have to serve dinner on a plate? Some really unique packaging has been used to present dinner. For example, hot chips served in paper cones, a cocktail served in flower pot, salads are served in martini glasses, and smoothies are served in test tubes. There are all kinds of fun ways you can present food to your guests, so be creative.
The different packaging also gives you the chance to stay on theme. You can choose dishware or packaging that better reflects the overall vibe.
Everyone loves a buffet, but not everyone loves all the items on the buffet. For example, you may have pasta on your buffet, but some guests may not like the marinara sauce you served with it or may be allergic to tomatoes. You can give guests the same buffet option with customization by setting up a pasta station.
Other individual wedding food station ideas for receptions include omelettes, crepes, sales, and ice cream sundaes. You'll spend a little more on the individual station because you'll have to pay for extra ingredients and extra manpower, but you'll make a big impression on your guests.
Brinner has long been a popular meal choice. The TV show "Scrubs" devoted a whole episode to it. Ron Swanson on "Parks and Recreation" is always singing the praises of breakfast foods, and a lot of people agree with him. There is such a variety of foods that you can please just about any palette with a breakfast buffet.
Breakfast is becoming a more popular option for wedding receptions, even if the wedding takes place at night. Consider adding individual omelette or pancake stations, as well, to make a greater impact. You can also serve speciality drinks like Mimosas and Bloody Marys. Added bonus: Breakfast foods are usually pretty cheap (lots of bread), so you might be able to save a little off your total budget by opting for a breakfast buffet.
The wedding cake is usually the only dessert at the reception, but that's all changing. Now, there can be a wedding cake and a second groom's cake or just a second cake for fun. Some couples get rid of the wedding cake altogether. No cake, instead we are seeing a towers of donuts, cupcakes, or even a platter of cheese! Yup. Cheese. Some do ice cream sundae bars, and some present a whole dessert buffet. But no cake for you.
Really, what we're seeing with today's wedding food trends and beyond is that there just aren't any hard and fast rules for what you must do. You can serve anything you want, and the trends are showing that to be true. The latest trends present some tasty and interesting options, but you can feel free to explore some different choices and to set a trend of your own. So long as you have delicious food and a good time, you and your guests are going to be happy.


Brief Synopsis – An investigative journalist is hired by a wealthy businessman in order to find a woman who disappeared from a small Swedish island over 40 years earlier.
My Take on it – This is a film that is based on the first book in a trilogy that became an overnight success when it came out.
This film takes a very interesting and engaging story and makes it enjoyable to watch largely due to the fact that it keeps going places that are completely unexpected.
Both Daniel Craig and Mara Rooney are great in the lead roles here and they help keep the story moving in very intriguing ways.
They do a great job here telling numerous storylines regarding different characters who each have deep and dark secrets.
They are able to weave together those various storylines in a way that manages to touch upon each one for just the right amount of time to keep things constantly moving forward.
Bottom Line – Very interesting and engaging story that goes places one wouldn't expect. Craig and Rooney are both great in their respective roles and keep things moving in intriguing ways. The storyline deals with numerous characters with deep and dark secrets and they expertly weave a tale that touches upon it all as they all move forward in the investigation. It's too bad that this film didn't do well enough in order to warrant making English language versions of the following two books which tell of the further adventures of the two main characters; guess I'll have to suffice with the Swedish versions. Recommended!
Genre Grandeur Worthy? – Comes really close. The book doesn't move smoothly enough IMHO and the film is enjoyable yet not perfect.
The first two books in the series were excellent. As were the 2 Swedish versions of the films. Book 3 – w/ Lisbeth in a hospital bed for most of the action – didn't work nearly as well. Nor did the film. I bought the first 2 films on DVD, skipped the 3rd. The American version with Craig/Mara was very good. And true – B.O. was not enough to go forward with trilogy (unnecessary IMO), but – Lisbeth has been recast (w/ Claire Foy from THE CROWN) and "The Girl in the Spiders Web" (from the novel completed after the author's death) is upcoming. The trailer looks really good.
First two are excellent. The third, as I said earlier – like the book – is a letdown.
This film was really good but it was such a close remake of the equally excellent Swedish version that it kind of seemed a bit pointless and maybe that was why it wasn't terribly successful.
I thought the same – and it might be the reason – partially – but on the flip side -a lot of people don't go to Swedish films with subtitles – And may never have seen any of the trio of films made from the novels. So for them – the American remake was the first.


I'd love to say that this life is beautiful, kind and forgiving, but that would be like saying oxycontin will erase your hurt. Pain can be numbed and managed, but hurt is only consoled by forgiveness and love, of others, as well as oneself. Many choose to conceal their hurt rather than drag it out into the blinding light of truth——we are only as sick as our secrets. Tell me yours and I'll tell you mine. Such a pact will seal our love. We can only get as close to one another as we are true to one another.It will always be the same for us——us against the world.
Life's not a journey, but rather a labyrinth. It's a series of false starts, cul-de-sacs and trap doors. Mr Frost had it right when he spoke of "A road less traveled". To be lost is part of being alive, as there is no map or compass, there is only well worn paths or those containing briars and weeds. Such a path is as Robert said, "the one that will make all the difference".
My demons come clothed as jealousy, anger, fear and dacite. I know them well, they've surprised me in the dark passages that lead me into dead ends..There is no right road, no one path, no absolute destination, there are as many north stars as there are pious prayers.
How come the people who need love the most are the ones who push it away. And, why is it, that the ones who need help the most are the ones who refuse it. I guess it's because we don't always get what we deserve. No—- we get what we get. And, as my daughter would to tell me at the tender age of five"Ya get what ya get, and ya don't throw a fit".
Who's blessed?– What's fair?– Where's safe?——Nobody knows———mercy is an ocean where we drown our faults, fears and doubts.
From our mothers womb we are pushed into this life screaming and crying. We are dependent on the care and kindness of absolute strangers. They hold us, love us, feed us, teach us and provide us shelter. And all to soon, we're pulled from this world in much the same way that we arrived, crying out for our mothers. In the midst of this ever revolving circle we are forever repurposing ourselves. We become many things. Careful what you value, for in the end these things become you.
At the core of my life there exists a terrible sadness. It has to do with my fixation on death. It seems such a cruel law of nature that we must abide by. God must be a prankster. To give us so much, and then so quickly take it all away. I miss all of those I've lost.
Somehow–someone–someway–please slow down this life, I've already given up to many irreplaceable things.
We are all so very courageous, but sometimes it feels as if it's us against the world.


Welcome to the eighth episode of the B & B (Bret & Brad) Connection. In this episode, my colleague Brad Schoenfeld and I discuss functional training.
In case you missed them, click HERE to listen to episode 1 (hypertrophy science), HERE to listen to episode 2 (HIT vs. HVT), HERE to listen to episode 3 (periodization), HERE to listen to episode 4 (variety in training), HERE to listed to episode 5 (good versus bad exercises), HERE to listen to episode 6 (tempo training), and HERE to listen to episode 7 (evidence-based fitness).
Click HERE to download the MP3, or watch the YouTube video below.
Do Single Joint Exercises Enhance Functional Fitness?
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This exquisite home features a brick exterior, hardwoods, ML master with sitting area & fireplace, separate shower & jetted tub, split vanity, 2nd bedroom on ML. Open plan with vaulted ceilings in great room, lots of windows for natural light, Formal DR, kitchen w/ island, granite countertops & gas cooktop, large bonus room, side entry gar, large deck w/maintenance free boards, fire pit, & huge walk-in attic. View virtual tour for 360 degree interactive tour with floor plan. Wonderful Cul de sac setting!
Amazing home located at end of Cul-de-sac which adjoins 8.9 +/- acres of common area. Very Private! Oversized, private screen porch w/ access to huge custom patio w/ fire pit and sitting wall. This home is for the practical. Large rooms, large closets, etc... Great room features custom-built cabinets barn doors. Enormous kitchen with tons of cabinets, granite, walk-in pantry. Amazing master suite with spacious walk-in closet and newly remodeled master bath. Incredible Bonus Room. Large secondary bedrooms.
Magnificent LAKEFRONT home situated in the heart of Summerfield/Oak Ridge area. Relaxation & upscale living at its finest! An oversized stunning screened porch, fenced yard, and full unfinished basement. An impressive interior boasts wood floors, stunning ceilings, 4 bedrooms w/ 3 full & 1 half bath, chef's kitchen, breakfast room overlooking gorgeous lake, tremendous moldings & elegant master suite. Popular NW schools, low county taxes!
Stunning home situated on an excellent lot in the distinguished Lennox Woods. Only steps from the community pool & tennis courts. Stamped concrete leads up to the handsome transitional appeal. Huge main-level master suite includes a sitting area, two closets, jetted tub & separate shower. Private office on main level. Chef's kitchen up-fitted with Viking range hood and a ton of counter & cabinet space. Second suite upstairs plus huge bonus room could be used as 5th BR. Private back yard includes firepit.
Beautiful Home On #2 fairway of Greensboro National Golf Course. 4 bedrooms with 6 to choose from. Hardwood floors through most of home. Granite counters in kitchen with pantry, Island, recessed lights. Sunroom looks over back yard and golf course.4 full baths. Large master suite with fireplace, screened porch, Large Master bath with granite, dual sink vanity huge walkin closet, tile shower. Master bedroom, bath, and dining room with beautifully molded inset and ceilings. 3 car garage. Bonus room.


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Q: Why do container allocators need to specify the type they're allocating? I don't like that I have to repeat the contained typename if I use a custom allocator for a container:
template<typename T, size_t MyAllocatorArgument>
struct MyAllocator : public std::allocator<T>
{
    // ... Usual allocator implementation
};

typedef std::vector<int, MyAllocator<int, 42>> int_container;
typedef std::vector<int, MyAllocator<long, 12>> int_container_wrong_allocator;

The second line is undefined behaviour according to the standard, though most implementations will rebind the allocator to the correct type.
My question is, given that it's a requirement for the container and allocator to be for the same type, why is there not some standard machinery in place to enforce this (or avoid it entirely) and remove the potential for user error?
For example, the standard could mandate that rebind does get used (to effectively make the allocator template parameter redundant), or a pattern like the below could be used so the user only mentions the contained typename once:
template<size_t MyAllocatorArgument>
struct MyAllocator
{
    // This would be something every allocator is required to expose.
    template<typename T>
    struct TypedAllocator : public std::allocator<T>
    {
        // This is where the normal implementation of the allocator would go.
        // allocate, deallocate etc.
    };
};

template<typename T, typename UntypedAllocator>
struct Container
{
    // All containers would do this to get the actual allocator type they would use.
    typedef typename UntypedAllocator::template TypedAllocator<T> TypedAllocator;

    Container() : m_allocator(TypedAllocator()) {}

    void useAllocator()
    {
        m_allocator.allocate();
        // ... or whatever else containers need to do with allocators.
    }

    TypedAllocator m_allocator;
};

void allocator_test()
{
    // Allocated type name isn't mentioned at point of use of container;
    // only once for the container. The container does all the work.
    Container<int, MyAllocator<42>> c1;
}

A: It's a good question, and your suggestion is one possible alternative to the standard scheme. Another would have been to use template template parameters:
template<typename T>
class AnAllocator
{ ... };

template<typename T, template <typename> class Alloc = std::allocator>
class Vector
{
  typedef Alloc<T> allocator_type;
  ...
};

Vector<int, AnAllocator> v;

The allocator interface was designed before template template parameters were part of the language, so that wasn't an option.
There are lots of things that would be done differently if the allocator API were to be designed today, unfortunately we're stuck with the one we have (and the continuing complexity caused by trying to extend it in semi-compatible ways).


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Democrats Blast Trump For Location Of RNC Speech
President Trump recently tweeted—as he is wont to do—that he is considering giving his Republican National Convention speech from the battlefield at Gettysburg National Military Park.
Commentators and Trump critics blasted the president—as they are wont to do—for the remark, claiming that if he did so it would be proof of his alleged support for the Confederacy.
The litany of fools included actor Rob Reiner who opined that if trump were to speak at Gettysburg, it would be to "celebrate" his "devotion to White Supremacy." (Amusingly, Reiner himself is proof of the fallacy of White Supremacy, though he is unaware of this fact.) CNN's Jeremy Diamond added that Trump speaking at Gettysburg "could be controversial" because "this is a president who has consistently positioned himself as a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals." Others have made similar statements.
Does no one know history anymore? Gettysburg was the site of the Union's most pivotal, if costly, victory. It turned the tide of the war permanently in the Union's favor. It was also the site of Lincoln's famous address lauding the sacrifices of those soldiers and calling for the healing of the nation's wounds. It is literally the last place on Earth one would go to "celebrate" devotion to White Supremacy or the Confederacy. In this Era of Insanity, this Age of Unreason, if Trump were to speak at Yorktown, he'd be labeled a British puppet.
But when politicians like Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speak to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and tells them to "raise hell" and "make people uncomfortable," no one on the left accuses them of being pro-Islamic Jihad or anti-American. When then President Obama told then Russia President Dmitry Medvedev, "This is my last election. After my election I'll have more flexibility" (to do what the Russians wanted him to do), the media gave him a pass. The Messiah couldn't be a tool of the Russkies, could he?
People on the left love to talk about conspiracy theories on the right, such as Q-Anon, etc. But Trump Derangement Syndrome is so advanced some people actually think when the president holds an event on August 8th, it is in tribute to Hitler. ("H" is the 8th letter of the alphabet.) One observer in the Twitter-verse recently thought Melania Trump had newly arranged the hedge's in The Rose Garden in a "K-K-K" pattern. These people are not well. But, of course, it is Trump's fault.
As it happens, Trump will give the speech from the White House, a development that also sent his critics into a fit of hysteria.
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...IAM est le septième album studio du groupe de rap français IAM sorti en .

Historique
Cet album arrive quelques mois seulement après la sortie d'Arts martiens, publié en . Le groupe annonce rapidement qu'il pourrait être le dernier d'IAM, en raison de difficultés rencontrées pour trouver un label :

Il ajoute que sur un album vendu au prix de 10 euros, le groupe ne touche que 60 centimes. De plus, la situation du groupe est délicate car les radios diffusant du rap, comme Skyrock, préfèrent proposer des artistes plus jeunes et adaptés à leurs auditeurs.

La plupart des titres ici présents sont des morceaux non retenus pour Arts martiens. Quelques titres comme Renaissance ont été enregistrés après.

Akhenaton décrit ce nouvel album comme .

Un coffret double-album est également sorti réunissant Arts martiens et ...IAM.

Singles
Le  single est "Si j'avais 20 ans", sorti fin . Akhenaton raconte à propos de cette chanson : .

Le second single est CQFD.

Imhotep explique que, pour cet album, le choix des singles se fait avant tout sur la possibilité du titre à être illustré par un clip.

Performances commerciales

 exemplaires ont été vendus lors de la première semaine d'exploitation. L'album entre au Top Albums France à la  et y reste pendant une semaine. Au , l'album s'est écoulée à près de  exemplaires.

Le second single CQFD entre au Top Singles France en  et atteint la en .

Liste des titres
Sources : iTunes

Crédits
IAM
 Akhenaton : auteur-compositeur-interprète
 Shurik'n : auteur-interprète
 DJ Kheops : scratchs, arrangements
 Imhotep : compositeur, arrangements

Autres
 Sébastien Damiani : compositeur, claviers, arrangements
 Faf Larage : compositeur
 Denis Thery : claviers
 Inaya : chants additionnels (Ouais c'est ça)
 Saïd : chœurs (C*A*S*H, Mister Gentil et Monsieur Nice), chant (Musik)
 Frédéric Simbolotti : guitare et guitare basse (C*A*S*H, A Nos Boots)

Liens externes

Notes et références

Album musical sorti en 2013
Album d'IAM
Album publié par Def Jam


Aside from our regular weekly services throughout the month, St. Peter and St. Paul's holds a number of other services throughout the year.
The Asian Fellowship meet every Sunday from 3:00 pm in the Parish centre for Prayer, worship and Teaching in Punjabi and English.
All adult ages are Welcome. Under 18 years of age must have parental consent and responsible adult supervision.
On special days within the Christian calendar we hold the appropriate services, for example our Patronal service for St. Peter and St. Paul saints day; Ash Wednesday; Maundy Thursday; Good Friday and Easter Sunday services.
During the lead up to Christmas Day we also have our annual Carols by Candlelight; Crib & first communion of Christmas; and Christmas Morning services.
St. Peter and St. Paul's also has the honour of holding the Mayor of Graveshams' Civic Service each January as well as special services for associations and our local Schools.


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Mission & Learning Outcomes
The Office of International Programs promotes global learning through the development and operation of intentional and immersive study abroad programs that emphasize experiential learning and challenge students to develop critical competencies for a diverse society. Students on our programs gain intercultural knowledge and competence, self-awareness, emotional maturity, and other skills transferable to their lives and careers beyond Rollins College.
Global Citizenship: The Office of International Programs provides students with opportunities to engage first-hand with peoples and places abroad. Through these encounters with similarity and difference, students build awareness of their own and other cultures, learn to empathize with other worldviews, and gain exposure to a diversity of thought and experience that positions them to contribute to an interconnected, global society. IP makes this possible by providing students with a wide variety of safe, high-quality programs that are continually assessed in order to maximize student learning.
Responsible Leadership: The Office of International Programs coordinates study abroad programs that emphasize the full cycle of experiential learning: through an intentional advising process, we aim to simultaneously challenge and support our students. As students reflect on their goals, and then manage differences and problems abroad in pursuit of those goals, they build emotional intelligence, gain self-awareness, and think beyond their own back yard. Ultimately, International Programs prepares students to be open-minded leaders with a global perspective.
Productive Careers: While navigating unfamiliar cultures and places, Rollins students abroad have ample opportunities to develop competencies that will serve them throughout their professional lives in an increasingly diverse workforce. Through mindful preparation and reflection; practical experiences like internships, research, and fieldwork; and multiple opportunities to build relationships and collaborate with others both on- and off-campus, students gain transferable skills valued by employers like adaptability, emotional maturity, and the ability to work successfully across differences.
Meaningful Lives: Through thoughtful program design, IP encourages students to engage in reflection on identity and values before, during, and after the global experience. By working mindfully with students, we help them develop a compassionate worldview and a sense of responsibility that extends beyond their own selves and communities. Impactful and engaging experiences abroad spark in our students a love of travel and a sense of curiosity and wonder that will contribute to lifelong learning.
International Programs has identified the following core learning outcomes which are applicable to all of our programs. These core learning outcomes are used to inform IP programming related to student learning; to inform program development and proposals; and to inform general IP assessment strategies.
Build self-awareness
Demonstrate emotional maturity
Intercultural Knowledge and Competence
Develop awareness of own and other cultures
Gain knowledge about culture(s)
Engage and empathize with multiple worldviews
Act with open-mindedness towards other cultures
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Queue Beanstalk Driver
======================
 [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/QueuePHP/Beanstalk/master.svg?style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/QueuePHP/Beanstalk)
 [![Author](https://img.shields.io/badge/author-@NoUseFreak-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://nousefreak.be)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](LICENSE)

This is the Beanstalk driver for the Queue package. It uses pheanstalk internally.

Installation
------------

Run this command to get the latest version from [packagist](packagist.org):

```bash
$ composer require queue/beanstalk-driver
```

Contributing
------------

> All code contributions - including those of people having commit access - must
> go through a pull request and approved by a core developer before being
> merged. This is to ensure proper review of all the code.
>
> Fork the project, create a feature branch, and send us a pull request.
>
> To ensure a consistent code base, you should make sure the code follows
> the [Coding Standards](http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/contributing/code/standards.html)
> which we borrowed from Symfony.
> Make sure to check out [php-cs-fixer](https://github.com/fabpot/PHP-CS-Fixer) as this will help you a lot.

If you would like to help, take a look at the [list of issues](http://github.com/NoUseFreak/Queue/issues).

Requirements
------------

PHP 5.5 or above

Author and contributors
-----------------------

Dries De Peuter - <dries@nousefreak.be> - <http://nousefreak.be>

See also the list of [contributors](https://github.com/NoUseFreak/Queue/contributors) who participated in this project.

License
-------

Cron is licensed under the MIT license.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian from the Jaffna district, Mr.S.Gajendran, said Thursday that the international community has accepted that the Liberation Tigers' military wing safeguards and protects the Tamil people. "Because of this," said the TNA MP, "the international community remained silent, watching the events that took place when the LTTE launched its military operation to retrieve the areas from its renegade commander ('Karuna')."
"President Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunge would not have appointed Mr. Douglas Devananda as Minister if she had a clear vision in finding a political solution to the Tamil national question. Tamil people consider Mr.Devananda as an enemy to their cause and liberation struggle," Mr. Gajendran said.
In the April 2 polls, Mr.Gajendran was elected in the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchchi ticket with more than one hundred thousand preference votes. Mr. Devananda of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) won a seat in the Jaffna district, obtaining only about 18 thousand preference votes, sources said.
Mr. Gajendran, a former president of the Jaffna University Students Union, told TamilNet that the TNA would extend its fullest co-operation to the LTTE in its liberation struggle. "Since the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) assumed power, President Ms Chandrika Kumaratunge has not contacted the Norwegian facilitators in regard to the resumption of peace talks," he said.


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4K or 60 FPS
Watch 30 minutes of Shadow of the Tomb Raider's two Xbox One X modes
Shadow of the Tomb Raider raises the bar.
Recently, Square Enix unveiled Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the conclusion to Lara Croft's origin story. In the game, Lara must master a deadly jungle, overcome terrifying tombs, and persevere through her darkest hour. According to the company, as she races to save the world from a Mayan apocalypse, Lara will ultimately be forged into the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.
An Italian outlet by the name of MondoXbox recently captured Shadow of the Tomb Raider footage in 4K 30 FPS and 1080p 60 FPS on Xbox One X. The team uploaded the gameplay to Dailymotion so that everyone would be able to enjoy it, especially if you're planning on getting the game on Microsoft's new console!
4K 30 FPS
The extended gameplay footage showcases 4K 30 FPS gameplay. You will probably have to select the "2160p60" option from the top right of the Dailymotion video to view it at this quality. The footage is 30 FPS despite the fact that it says "2160p60", as that is just what the recording device was capable of capturing.
Aside from exploring dank caves, the Xbox One X footage focuses on populated environments and how you can interact with the locals. Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider were very isolated adventures with not a lot of opportunities to immerse yourself in another culture. Luckily, Shadow of the Tomb Raider fixes that and gives players what they've been asking for since the reboot launched all those years ago.
1080p 60 FPS
This clip is much shorter than the 4K footage, but it gives you a taste of the "Performance Mode". Players can toggle this setting which renders the game at 1080p 60 FPS. Again, you'll have to select "2160p60" to view the video at the highest quality. Despite the fact that the recording device can capture at 2160p 60 FPS, the gameplay is still being rendered at 1080p 60 FPS. There's a noticeable drop in the resolution when the title runs at a higher frame rate.
This video focuses on exploration and how even claustrophobic city streets feel more alive. Even if you enter a small area housing tombs, you'll notice computer-controlled characters praying or going about their daily lives. This enhances the immersion because it makes the setting more believable.
While some gamers might be disappointed that Shadow of the Tomb Raider doesn't achieve 4K 60 FPS on Xbox One X, the fact that there is a 30 FPS or 60 FPS option is great. Giving gamers the choice of how they want to experience the title seems like the right approach to development.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is currently available for preorder at various retailers. The game should launch on Xbox One and other platforms on September 14, 2018, starting at $59.99.
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Women Have Founded Many Successful Companies
Women struggled for a long time to get the respect they deserve in the business world. Their perseverance has paid off in a big way. There are now many women who have decided to avoid working for other people and being passed over for promotions that were given to less qualified male employees. These women have started their own companies where they are the boss. They make the final decisions about who gets hired and fired. Some of the most exciting and successful companies started in the past 10 years have been founded by women. Here are some of the women who are responsible for creating some very profitable companies.
1. Melody McCloskey, founder of StyleSeat
There are many women who like to go to a salon or spa. Melody McCloskey used that knowledge as a basis for starting her own business. She started StyleSeat in 2011 in San Francisco and it has exploded in popularity since then. StyleSeat is a site that allows the owners of salons and spas to promote their businesses and show potential clients what they have to offer. Customers can leave reviews and book appointments. The company has raised nearly $40 million in funding from investors who like the concept and believe the site will continue to grow. The idea for the site came to Melody because of her own frustration trying to book appointments at salons. She knew that many other women had encountered the same problems. Therefore, she figured there would be a big demand for a site that made booking beauty appointments fast and easy.
2. Payal Kadakia, founder of ClassPass
Payal is another successful entrepreneur who was able to come up with a brilliant idea for a business based on her own experiences. ClassPass is a site that allows people to join classes that are held in gyms in various locations. She started the site in 2013. Payal discovered that there was not an easy way to sign up for the classes that she wanted to take at gyms when she was traveling in different cities. The idea for the company was a good one because other companies have been started to directly compete with ClassPass. The company now does business in nearly 40 cities in the United States. It has also had outstanding reviews written about it in many major national publications. This page can tell you all about one example, Mary Hayashi, and her successful career.
3. Danielle Morrill, founder of Mattermark
There are many venture capital companies that want to get in on the ground floor of lucrative startups. They can then make large profits when the money really starts to roll in. The trick is figuring out which startups to invest in and which ones to avoid. Investing in the wrong startup could mean the venture capital company will lose most or all of their investment. Danielle Morrill created Mattermark to allow potential investors to monitor the trends of new startups and determine which ones could be the most lucrative in the future. More than 40 investors have become involved with Mattermark. The company has taken off since it was founded in 2013. This is because investors always want to have as much info as possible before they commit their money. Mattermark helps them to limit their losses by avoiding bad investments.
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The exhibition is comprised of long prints made of images that seem sewn together. Each print features one subject, but is made of various shots from slightly differing viewpoints. The photographs are both instinctively striking and unsettling because there is no frame of reference; it is unnatural to see something as though you are in several places at once.
But each one, in its total effect, is like seeing a memory.
There is a forest, but it is a forest as you might remember seeing it as a child, through various glimpses of the infinite limbs reaching down, looming and endless, with a strange shade of sky stretched out like heavy fabric behind them. The general effect is entrancing and eerie, turning a common sight into something both bizarre and stunning.
These pieces also bring attention to the act of perceiving; they are, in essence, an elongated moment. They show seeing as it is, with several quick glances blurred over one another. There is no objective view of the scene, but a kind of movement with several splintered views.
"I definitely know what I'm looking for," she explains, "and I kind of see how it will look in my mind as I shoot it, but there's also a definite element of chance." The side of each frame is permanently blended into the next as she shoots, so the finished product is chosen out of the entire strip of film. There is no touching up or rearranging.
The photographs also serve to give each moment its full attention, focusing on both the intricate details of an object or place, and the overall fragmented result of observation. Each instant of perception has made its own mark in comparison with the last, as the movement of time shows itself in the progression of the images.
Observing the nuances of an object, or noticing it in several ways at once, reminds us what a profound effect perspective has on the perception of our surroundings. This exhibition, for its unusual beauty and its absolute fluency, is not to be missed.
Katrín Elvarsdóttir's exhibit "Memory" will be at Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art until 20th September.


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Every couple of months at least, some media-appointed literary expert is bemoaning the market that exists for really bad writing. I'm not talking about the merely workmanlike stodge of Trease or Jenkins, Geoffries both, but the literary junk food that gets the Guardianistas sniffing about the things some people will read, while looking around for a copy so they won't be left out of the loop on the latest love-to-hate trend. Seriously, just trying to read all of the acknowledged classics is a lifetime's work: if you're already wasting hours a day skimming through articles about Scandiwegian interior design tips and which charities are the most carbon-friendly, you really don't have the time to spare for retouched internet fan-fiction.
Still, I digress. I was thinking about the phenomenon of vastly grossing drivel a while ago and was sure that I could remember having read something very apposite about it in an article by Hilaire Belloc, he of the lyric elegy to mowing one's lawn with a scythe. Belloc knew a thing or two about publishing, as he'd been a jobbing writer and journalist for many years before he made his comments, but they proved very hard to find because he made them as an aside in a piece about sailing. I found this out after having checked the entire volume and finally in desperation decided that reading about yachting around South Devon in 1914 might take my mind off things.
This brings me to the real crux of this post. What I remembered as an article is really an extract from a much longer work, The Cruise of the Nona. It's a portmanteau of commentary, reminiscences and various tangential musings, structured and bound together by the itinerary of a sailing trip around Britain and Ireland, but just a few minutes skimming through it yielded up so much gorgeous prose that it seems unfair to choose only two examples. They're not the best, but one is the comment I had been trying to find and the other was read on the hundredth anniversary of the events it describes, so if they have pushed ahead of more deserving fellows there is at least reason behind it.
A man is no more meant to live by writing than he is meant to live by conversation, or by dressing, or by walking about and seeing the world. For there is no relation between the function of letters and the economic effect of letters; there is no relation between the goodness and the badness of the work, or the usefulness of the work, or the magnitude of the work, and the sums paid for the work. It would not be natural that there should be such a relation, and, in fact, there is none.
This truth is missed by people who say that good writing has no market. That is not the point. Good writing sometimes has a market, and very bad writing sometimes has a market. Useful writing sometimes has a market, and writing of no use whatsoever, even as recreation, sometimes has a market. Writing important truths sometimes has a market. Writing the most ridiculous errors and false judgements sometimes has a market. the point is that the market has nothing to do with the qualities attached to writing. It never had and it never will. There is no injustice about it, any more than there is an injustice in the survival of beauty or ugliness in human beings, or the early death of the beautiful or the ugly.
Only a couple of pages earlier, Belloc was reminiscing about an experience while sailing off Plymouth in 1914 that he describes as marking "…in a sort of visionary way, the unleashing of the Great War".
In this loneliness and content, as I sailed northward, I chanced to look, after an hour's steering or so, eastward again towards the open sea – and then it was that there passed me the vision I shall remember for ever, or for so long as the longest life may last.
Like ghosts, like things themselves made of mist, there passed between me and the newly risen sun, a procession of great forms, all in line, hastening eastward. It was the Fleet recalled.
The slight haze along the that distant water had thickened, perhaps, imperceptibly; or perhaps the great speed of the men-of-war buried them too quickly in the distance. But, from whatever cause, this marvel was of short duration. It was seen for a moment, and in a moment it was gone.
Then I knew that war would come, and my mind was changed. The bright air was the same around me and the heartening morning wind; the happy course of the Nona, making for a known port with all in her favour and something of youth in her and all round. What that war would bring, its magnitude, its character, was veiled from us all; but the advent of it, the mass of it coming, put a new face on everything I saw and felt and heard; on the steady breeze, on the little lapping of the salt sea-water, on the strong headlands of England.
The first of these passages could have been written at any time. Publish it today under another name and it would pass for topical commentary. The thing about my little Everyman Belloc collection, though, is that such commentary can appear so close to a passage that in the events it recalls, its style, imagery and vocabulary, is so very much of its time. A voice from out of the great shipwreck of the Victorian world offers a quiet glimpse of the massing forces that would break it, much as Hardy does in Channel Firing.
Another point of interest that occurred to me while I was skimming through the author's biography at the beginning of my book is that Belloc was an Oxford-educated Catholic writer with foreign antecedents and connections to Edgbaston. One figure from the next generation of writers, a descendent of German piano makers, would also come from Birmingham up to Oxford and make a name for himself, but that, of course, is a different story. Perhaps at some time I should analyse what it is that I find appealing in the works of twentieth-century Roman Catholics. Certainly I think that the literature departments backed the wrong horse creatively, if only in thinking of literature as some sort of competition, but these are thoughts for another day.
…I attend Chappel every year.
Thus speaks Tony's Chappel Beer Festival shirt, and it's a pun so terrible as to be worth sharing with the world. More of that later.
The Angel of the Dorks appeared unto me, saying: "Go thou unto the web that is world-wide, and proclaim unto the surfers, and to the spods, yea unto all thy fellow nerds, that a new thing has been brought forth in Cyberspace. For behold: I have spoken with she who sits at the head of Femen, and I have wrought of our words an article; and it is a thing of great majesty." And I looked, and I beheld me the Interview, and saw that it was good. Therefore I say unto thee: go thou forth unto the place that is called Global Comment, and there wilt thou see much of benefit; but look thou especially for the interview with Anna Gutsol, and stand amazed.
As I was saying, the Chappel Beer Festival is the stuff of legend in Essex, and annually draws huge crowds of ale lovers from all over the country. I've been going since the mid nineties, when I was invited to go by a good friend of mine who was at university with me, and I've only missed one or two of the fourteen intervening festivals. I was there for the tenth and the twentieth, and barring accidents I ought to be there for the thirtieth in seven years' time. This year was a light one, since I was only there for the final weekend, but I think I managed to cram enough into those two days to make the long drive worthwhile.
For once Friday lived up to its POETS acronym: for the first time in ages I managed to clear my schedule and get on the road by four. It's a six-hour drive including stops for sandwiches and Red Bull, and the less said about it the better. I managed to get about half way before I had to put the roof back up, and I was in the field at the back of the East Anglian Railway Museum by ten in the evening, absolutely dog tired, but ready for some beer and chat. I caught Mad Phil before he left, and was there for his story about the time he met Jimmy Page while they were queuing for a cup of tea in London. Gary – the man who first introduced me to Chappel – was there too, wearing a hat he found in his Land Rover when he bought it; and his greeting was as warm as ever. Actually I ran into him first, while waiting to be served at the Shunter's Arms. Tony and Nikki were there too, bearing a four-pint carry out that they'd co-purchased with Phil, and we all had a merry time of it until about half-past eleven, when the party broke up.
Gary and the Land Rover crowd had set up a laager (the only kind you'll find at Chappel) and spread a tarpaulin over it. They also had beer, guitars and some funny stories, which kept us occupied until gone two in the morning. We were even told off for being too noisy, which brought back happy memories of festivals past, when we were noisy youngsters instead of people old enough to know better. Thus passed the first evening.
There's no other way to say this: Saturday morning started far, far too early. After a fine breakfast down at the festival, we settled down to bask in the sunshine until we were all sober enough to drive (I'd forgotten to get out any cash for the second year in a row, and the nearest machine is five miles away). While we were sobering up, my camping buddies got out their guitars and managed to find some songs we all knew. It transpires that there aren't very many of those, and most of the morning was spent listening to Gary riffing on various chord progressions. It was like old times.
The family men disappeared at about noon, when I drove off in search of some cash. Suitably cashed up, I returned to the festival to find out who was around for the Saturday afternoon session. Tony was working on his Masters dissertation, but he took the afternoon off and he, Nikki and I started drinking. We continued to do that until ten, and this photograph was taken somewhere in the midst of that binge.
Cattle class is slow, but you get there in the end.
After much conversation with people too numerous to be enumerated, we called it a night at about ten, and I crawled into my sleeping bag to prepare for the mighty odyssey back to Devon.
Which is where you find me. I got back here at just after five, extremely tired and about ready for a kebab. I am, in fact, off to purchase just such a comestible as soon as I've finished writing about it. Another year of Chappel is over, and the next big event is Oxonmoot in two weeks' time. September is such a busy month.
It's often pointed out by journalists who have nothing better to do that far fewer people visit the cinema than was once the case. I'm reliably informed that Exmouth once boasted two picture houses, and irksomely the one which has closed and been demolished was nearer my home than the one we still have. Obviously the advent of the twenty-four-hour film channel, surround sound and wide-aspect plasma screens has raised up competition that the small theatre can ill afford, so clearly my entirely unqualified and uninformed thoughts on possible improvements are required to remedy the situation.
The most obvious problem with cinemas is the absence of comfortable seating. Films are best watched stretched full-length on a chaise longue or Ottoman, and the predilection of picture-house proprietors for hard collapsible seating is clearly not to be borne. I know that at least one person agrees with me, because it was a conversation over cigarettes with my neighbour that inspired this train of thought. The latest Harry Potter film, which is approximately the same length as the Ring Cycle, had, I discovered, revealed the deficiencies of the cinema's seating arrangements with numbing starkness. Ticket sales might improve with the addition of arm chairs and possibly some footstools.
Another thing that always makes a welcome addition to the cinematic experience is alcohol. A large gin and tonic, glass of Chablis or cask ale, particularly when followed by another, softens hard edges, smooths over deficiencies in the directing or script and encourages a general sense of well-being and benevolence. It also helps to erase the memory of the entrance fee, which is more than the cost of a second-hand frigate in some markets. There was a cinema in Whitstable that boasted a licensed bar, and I remember it being very popular with the undergraduate community. Ideally, said alcohol would be brought to one's chair by a white-aproned steward, but at a pinch I'd settle for well-stocked bar. Always provided, of course, that it was suitably rich in very old single malts.
Then there's the issue of film length. Back in 1959 they had the right idea when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made Ben Hur three and a half hours long. This supplies value for money even at today's inflated prices, so more films should be ridiculously long. Of course this might mean cutting down on those endearing advertisements for the local Indian restaurant that seem always to have been made in 1973; but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Armed with a comfortable chair and a glass of something fortifying, the civilised cinema-goer can face even the most ludicrously protracted celluloid dream with equanimity, if not pleasant anticipation.
Of course the simplest change that can be made concerns air conditioning. I've noticed on successive visits to the multiplex in Exeter that it's necessary to take an overcoat even in the middle of July. This is extremely silly, and I feel compelled to point out that sitting on a block of ice was good enough for our colonial forebears when facing the daunting rail journey from Calcutta to Benares. Naturally I hesitate to recommend that particular measure, but I know from experience that air conditioning units are fitted with temperature controls. Perhaps something a little nearer comfortable room temperature would be a good idea. Nice though it was to watch The Fellowship of the Ring outdoors at Glastonbury festival, I prefer to experience alfresco temperatures when actually outside.
This has gone on far longer than it deserves, so I shall end there. In fine, if my proposals are adopted I predict a 700% increase in box-office takings within the first year, with the possible total demise of the Shopping Channel within five. Some might take issue with the optimistic nature of this prediction, but it's no less realistic than those of a government contractor.
I've not been posting much recently, mainly because I was planning and then executing a trip over to Kiev. They were having something of a heat-wave there, which made a nice change from the occasional rain we've been having here in Devon, and I got to see some more of my friend and be there for her birthday, which was nice.
Kiev is an interesting place. Like most European cities it's felt the touch of uncaring twentieth-century architecture, but in the main it's quite beautiful: wooded hills overlooking the vast expanse of the Dniepr, many churches and cathedrals that vary from European gothic to minarets and rotundas reminiscent of the Middle-east, the legacy of a Greek conversion. One thing I particularly noticed about the ecclesiastical architecture was a preference for gilded roofs, which you never see in England. The streets are ill-maintained, but on the buses people pass money forward to the driver and change back to the passenger with utter unconcern, which is completely alien to the public transport system here. Everywhere there are the little trailers that dispense Kvas, painted in the Ukrainian national colours of blue and yellow. Another thing that you notice a lot is how much English there is around. Most signs are in Cyrillic text, and there are enough that by the time I left I could read them after a fashion, but on the walls are numerous messages in my language. Graffiti in England is in English, but in Kiev people express their hatred of Emo in the language and alphabet responsible for it and expect to be understood. Agreement with that was inevitable, but my favourite piece simply told me to smile.
Nice though it can be out there, though, the thing that came home to me most is just how much I belong here in Exmouth. It was raining when I arrived, from a leaden sky that threatened more, but that was like a much-loved quirk in a dear friend. It was so good to be back among familiar things and people, without the constant pressure of new sensations and ways. I think it's important to live in a place that feels that way, that fits like an old pair of slippers and makes you smile when you arrive, and there are only two places in the world that do that for me: Canterbury, where I was an undergraduate, and Exmouth, where I have my home and family. I like to see other countries and experience how other people do things, but in the end they just tell me what's right or wrong with my own home. I think I appreciate them and it far more for loving this tatty little seaside town, with its battered crazy-golf course, cheesy amusement arcade and two miles of sometimes overcrowded beach. I might prefer Kiev's swallows to our seagulls (quite a lot, as it happens), and their market to our Sunday jumble sale, but I wouldn't exchange them for the world.
So if you're thinking of going to Kiev, I say do it. It's a great place, and I'd like to go back one day. For now, though, I'm happy to be back at home and to be planning a drive with the owners' club tomorrow that will let me see more of it.
It would, after all, be difficult to read them afterwards. I don't normally get involved in memes, but there are some people to whom you just can't say 'no'.
Instructions: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you — the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Copy the instructions into your own note, and be sure to tag the person who tagged you.
Well, I got the list in less than fifteen minutes anyway. The descriptions took a bit longer, but I've kept them as brief as possible in keeping with the spirit of the thing. I promise that I really have read these.
Once read, never forgotten. Need I say more?
This book worms its way into your mind and gradually takes over. I first read it when I was ten, after the school realised that it was best to let me choose my own reading material, and it took me a day. For ten years I burst out laughing every time I thought of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz's poetry.
This is how popular military history should be done: painstakingly researched, impartial and readable. The stories from this one campaign alone beggar belief; and all those related here can be verified by at least two sources. The sheer work involved is staggering.
Quite simply the best First World War novel I have ever read. The hope, the comradeship, the horror and the waste. The numbers involved in the first day of the Somme are so huge that a book like this helps to bring it into perspective by keeping it on a human scale: one battalion from inception to destruction.
Aeroplanes and poetry are a winning combination for me. I've had this book for upwards of twenty years now, and it never fails to give me pleasure. It ranges from the comic to the elegiac and stops off at all points between.
Nigel Molesworth, self-styled Curse of St. Custard's, shares his mis-spelled views on school, parents, cricket, the future and the Flying Scotsman. It's more than fifty years since these were published, and although education has changed beyond recognition, there's something universal about the school experience that still resonates today.
This is how history should be written. Bede could run rings round most of today's historians, but in his day he was something very special. Memorable statements and incidents abound, including Gregory the Great's "not Angles but angels" line (a pun that works in both Latin and English).
Back in 2005, this was the most comprehensive Old English reader on the market. It contains selections from all of the major manuscript collections and complete texts of classics like The Dream of the Rood and The Seafarer. The comprehensive annotations make the translation seem easy, when in fact some passages and idioms can be all-but impenetrable without it. The author gave my essays good marks, so I'm returning the favour.
This is very dated now, but Ker was a very erudite man. His overview of Dark Age literature ironically calls into question that now deprecated term, since he shows the vibrant diversity and creative energy of the era. A very good guide to who was who in European literature over a thousand years ago.
E.H. Carr: What is History?
Thoughts on the nature, methods and purpose of history. Full of pithy quotations that make it look as though you've read a great many more books than this one.
This is a short book that you can read in a day, but the story of Thorby's journey from a slave market to become the owner of the corporation that tacitly assists it is unflaggingly compelling. The society of the Free Traders is particularly engaging.
Possibly the most depressing novel written in English. Hardy continues the theme of innocent country people destroyed by an unfair and uncaring society that marked Tess of the D'Urbervilles, as everything that Jude Fawley attempts turns to disaster. In my darker moments, I've felt a great deal of fellow feeling with the hapless protagonist, but how accurate is the portrayal? Professor Joseph Wright started out as a mill-hand and ended up editing the English Dialect Dictionary, and he was Jude's contemporary.
Simply hilarious, even through the smudged glass of a translation. A man's diary documents the slow collapse of his mind, with comic incidents.
The definitive story of alienation and society's unthinking persecution of those who fail to conform to its expectations. Camus wrote a monograph on Existentialism as a humanist philosophy, and this novel is informed by just that spirit.
It's been a busy weekend, so I have a lot of ground to cover in this post. Please excuse me if the pace seems a little break-neck.
The first piece of news is that another of my poems has been published by the ever-generous GlobalComment. It doesn't do one any harm to be friends with the editor, but it's still very kind of them to print this stuff. Rotten tomatoes can as usual be thrown at me here or there, whichever floats your boat.
The main business of the weekend was, however, saying a raucous farewell to a friend's ex-wife. This meant girding my loins for another interminable train journey up to London, where I was once more to be the guest of the Crimson Welshman. Like General Urquhart at Arnhem, we were beset by communications failure; but this was eventually overcome, allowing me to arrive a mere half an hour late. We were held up at Westbury for twenty minutes because some moron was trying to ride without a ticket, and got rowdy and abusive with the staff. I think I would have forgiven them for simply kicking the problem off the train while it was moving so that I could be on time; but instead they decided to be boring and wait for the police. Where's that Agincourt spirit when you need it?
Such irritations aside, Friday night went off without a hitch. We ate pasta, drank a very nice white Bordeaux and watched The Black Dahlia. The line "haute cuisine breeds degenerates" could have been the quote of the week, but it isn't. More about that later. I retired far later than was good for me, replete with wine and humour.
On Saturday morning I defied the usual weekend tube closures and made it to Liverpool Street station by 11.30. Our rendezvous point for the day's activities was the Hamilton Hall, a grandiose gin palace that was almost empty.
The Hamilton Hall, Liverpool Street. Sorry about the poor quality: the lighting was all wrong for my camera phone.
We rapidly established a general tone when I mentioned something I received in my e-mail last week.
A disgruntled biker makes a reluctant sale.
I commented: "There are more women who like motorbikes than there are good bikes; he got rid of the wrong one." Nicci replied with a simply immortal line: "There are some women who know the difference between a wedding ring and a choke-chain." That's the quote of the week right there. Nicci's a one-woman liberation movement: she will happily take a car to pieces in a bikini top, takes no nonsense from anyone and likes cider, but still knows how to make a set of curtains. It's good to know that my friend is in safe hands.
The beer at the Hamilton Hall was generally agreed to be rubbish, so we quickly moved on to another palatial temple to Bacchus: the Crosse Keys in Gracechurch Street. We spent a lot of time there, and I established my strategy for the day ahead by not drinking the same beer twice. This may have been slightly unwise, but they had so many pumps and so many pretty logos. I'm not made of stone.
We moved on to the Founders Arms near Tate Modern. There, in front of a view of St. Paul's across the river, I temporarily left off the bitter and switched to Staropramen. I contacted the Crimson Welshman, who had been watching the British Lions lose to South Africa. He would meet us in the Ship and Shovell, London's only two-part pub.
Stopping only to cast the engagement ring to Father Thames, we strolled beerily over to the Ship and Shovell. There I found my long-lost twin.
We adjourned to the upstairs lounge, where we annexed half of the room and proceeded to continue drinking more than was good for us. I switched from the continental lager back to Badger, mainly because I like badgers. I gave myself a taste of home by trying some Exmoor Gold as well. The company were on top form, with topics ranging from all things rugby to a rendition of Monty Python's Philosophers Song. I temporarily forgot the lyrics due to chemical synaptic decay, but recovered my composure in time to still the chorus of jeers.
After this, things get a little hazy. I know there were more pubs. I distinctly remember drinking an Austrian beer called Edelweiss, which prompted more singing. A brief discussion of the genius of Mel Brooks led inevitably to Springtime for Hitler, and I broke into the drinking song from The Student Prince, which follows Ovid in declaring wine and love to be allies.
Perhaps something a little more up to the moment will suggest the atmosphere of determined inebriation. So many beers in London, only one mouth.
We finished up in a pub somewhere, by which time I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on. We ordered some pies and built the condiments into a big tower. People always seem to do this when they're drunk, which might explain the Tower of Pisa. Another classic theory from the mind that brought you "Graduate study programmes are extended metaphors for The Lord of the Rings". After that we went our separate ways, tired but happy as the euphemism goes. Naturally back at Hotel Crimson we decided that the best way to start on the road to recovery was to pour some German wine down on top of that beer and watch Lethal Weapon. Brilliant plan. I passed out at midnight, and spent today feeling like death. It was worth it, though.
The last item on the agenda is the recent departure of Sceadufell to the garage to have a new stereo fitted, which leads me neatly to the subject of music. I can't remember most of what we heard on Saturday, so I'm going to list things that were playing on my computer while I was writing this. Shuffle play is the way of salvation.
I'm particularly pleased about Don't Damn Me coming up, because I've adopted it as a kind of personal anthem and it's so appropriate to the idea of blogging. Share and enjoy.


Cook penne al dente according to package directions, omitting salt and oil. Drain and set aside, reserving ½ cup of the pasta water.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add garlic and sauté for 1 minute, until fragrant. Add zucchini and cook until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
Reduce heat to low and then add the chicken, pasta, spinach, and basil to the skillet. Stir to combine. If pasta seems too dry, add some of the reserved pasta water. Top with pepper and Parmesan cheese.
Slice one fresh tomato and drizzle with 2 teaspoons white balsamic vinegar. Top with 1 tablespoon chopped, fresh basil.


White to play next in dia 1.
Try to think of at least 2 alternative approaches, each with several follow-up moves.
Dia 2 gives a bit of background about the position. I am White in this game from the insei league. My opponent has just played the triangle-marked contact move in the upper left, to prevent White's attack with A.
White would like very much to get to play first on the lower side, at B, to prevent Black from making a huge territory on the lower side. B also creates some possibility for White to isolate the 3 Black stones next to the lower right corner.
During the actual game I only considered the book follow-up moves for White in the upper-left: C and D. Visualising several of the normal continuations from each, nothing looked too promising for White. That is what I mean by "it is better not to know joseki": you get a lot of blind spots since your brain tends to ignore any non-standard move.
White 1 in dia 3 is one of the 2 standard variations that I considered, and this is what I played in the game. White lost the initiative, and Black got to play first in the lower right, at 8.
In dia 4 we see the other standard variation.
After Black 2, White usually connects with A or B.
There is actually a third possibility, which is to extend to White 1 in dia 5.
Dia 6 shows the standard follow-up. This is usually labeled as "for special occasions", which means that White sacrifices the stone in the corner to build a wall on the outside. Of course, it doesn't make any sense for White to give away even more territory in the corner, and build a wall next to his existing one.
Instead of of playing the standard White 1 in dia 6, though, White has to be creative. Last chance to test your creativity now - before I spoil it and show the answer in the next diagram.
One of the 3 official insei instructors, Tei Meiko 9 dan, showed me that White can play 1 in dia 7.
If you look at this move from a fighting perspective, it makes perfect sense: "extend from a cut", says a proverb.
It is very important to look at each position as a unique fight, not as a joseki. My mistake here was to regard the situation in the upper-left as a joseki, so I only considered the standard follow-ups that I knew about.
If Black descends with 1 in dia 8, White makes eye shape in the corner with 4 and 8 - a combination to remember. Black has to defend with 7 against White A, but then White can attack severely with B.
This position doesn't look good at all for Black - suddenly White's wall came to life, and Black has weak groups.
Black should actually extend with 1 in dia 9 - this is the locally correct move - but in this case it doesn't make much of a difference. Black is still floating in the middle of White's influence.
Go is way too complex to be reduced at some recipe. Each position is unique and deserves full attention.
Knowing joseki doesn't mean we should stop thinking: if we do stop thinking, it's better not to know joseki in the first place.


Labor intensive, but nutritious meal either by itself or as part of a complete dinner.
Mix up the bread dough portion (flour, water, oats, yeast & salt).
Allow to rise 1 hour.
Saute', in the olive oil, onions, garlic, mushrooms, red pepper.
Add cabbage at the end for just a few minutes of saute'.
Mix together cottage (or ricotta) cheese with the shredded Mozarella mix, and Parmesan.
Thaw and squeeze extra liquid from spinach and add to cheese mix.
Add vegetable saute to the cheese & spinach mix.
Place 1/2 cup of stuffing mixture into center of dough round, fold the round in half, sealing the edges with a bit of water, and crimping with a fork.
Pierce the top of the 'pocket' several times.
Bake @ 450*F for 15 minutes.
Great for quick lunches, or serve with a marinara sauce and a green salad for a complete dinner.
Sounds yummy Psycho! Didn't your brother say you don't cook???
Calzone with Sausage, Ham, Bacon, Cheeses, Pepperoni, OMG good. It would go good with that Pizza Dip. MMMMMMMM.
Damn, I haven't had a good calzone in quite awhile !


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Q: How to check the values of multiple variables at once? I need to check the value of all 3 variables(username, password, secret). If a value is NA then I need to execute a print statement or else some condition needs to be executed.
Example 1:

username = person1
password = pass1
secret   = NA

Example 2:

username = person1
password = pass1
secret   = secret1

Example
#value = Check all 3 variables for NA value
if value is NA:
   print("NA Block")
else:
    print("Value Block")
    #Calling some function

How to check the value of those variables all at once?

A: You could use the in operator to check whether a value is "NA". Like so:
if "NA" in (username, password, secret):
    print("NA Block")
else:
    print("Value Block")
    #Calling some function