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Khula-Seeking Women Have To Return Haq Mehr
Khula-Seeking Women Have To Return Haq Mehr The Federal Shariat Court in its ruling has directed the Muslim women who seek Khula (divorce) from their husbands to return Haq Mehr they have received from their spouses at the time of their union. Khula is a legal procedure in Islamic law that allows a woman to seek a divorce from her husband. In a khula, the woman returns the haq mehr (dowry) that was given to her at the time of the marriage in exchange for the divorce. The haq mehr is considered to be the wife's personal property and is not considered to be part of the marital assets. In some cases, the haq mehr may be returned in full to the husband, while in others it may be split between the husband and wife. The specific details of how the haq mehr is returned can vary depending on the laws of the country in which the divorce is taking place. In the United Arab Emirates, it is governed by the Federal Law No. 28 of 2005 Concerning Personal Status, which states that the wife must return the haq mehr or any part of it if it was agreed upon and she is asked to do so in the khula process. It is important to note that the laws and customs surrounding khula and haq mehr can vary widely across different countries and regions. It is always best to consult with a legal professional familiar with the laws in your specific location to fully understand the process and your rights. The verdict released on Saturday was announced by FSC Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Kanzai, Justice Dr Syed Muhammad Anwar, and Justice Khadim Hussain M Sheikh on Feb 17, 2022. Haq Mehr is an obligatory payment in the form of cash or other valuables which a man makes directly to his wife at the time of their wedding. In its ruling, the Shariah Court while declaring the 2015 amendments namely Section X and Sub Sections V and VI to the 1964 Family Law null and void has directed the women to give back Haq Mehr to their husbands from whom they want a divorce on the basis of Khula. The Islamic court has further stated if a man leaves his wife, he is supposed to pay her Haq Mehr. Before the introduction of the 2015 Amended Section X, Sub Sections V, VI, a woman used to return 25% of Mehr Muajjal and under Sec VI she would leave 50% of Ghair Muajjal Mehr to her husband. But now the FSC has ruled that a Khula-seeking woman should forego all of her Haq Mehr. And this rule will become applicable from May 1, 2022, it said. A Mehr which is paid immediately by the husband to his wife is called Muajjal and Mehr which is postponed is called Ghair Muajjal. The court gave this verdict after hearing petitions filed by four men who were nagged by their ex-wives who had got Khula and were obtaining degrees against them in order to get Haq Mehr. The FSC elaborated that all cases which will land in civil family courts after May 1, 2022, this ruling will be applied on them. Read More articles
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Corynebacterium propinquum as the first cause of infective endocarditis in childhood.
Yu Kawasaki, Kousaku Matsubara, Haruko Ishihara, Hiroyuki Nigami, Aya Iwata, Koji Kawaguchi, Takashi Fukaya, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Ken Kikuchi
Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy : Official Journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy 2014 May
We here present a 7-year-old girl with ventricular septum defect and ventriculoatrial communication, who developed infective endocarditis (IE) due to Corynebacterium propinquum in the tricuspid valve. The patient was admitted because of an 8-day history of fever. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed non-pedunculated vegetation on the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve. Gram-positive coryneform bacteria grew from three consecutive sets of blood cultures taken on admission. C. propinquum was confirmed by 3 microbiological approaches; (i) biochemical testing using API Coryne panels, (ii) a sequence-based method using the 16S rRNA gene and partial rpoB sequencing, and (iii) matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. The isolates were susceptible to a wide variety of β-lactams and vancomycin. The patient was successfully treated with antimicrobial agents without surgical intervention. There have only been available of clinical details of two adult cases of invasive C. propinquum infections; one of which was presented as IE, and the other was pleuritis in a patient with lung cancer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to describe C. propinquum as a cause of IE as well as that of invasive infections in a pediatric population. Multiple methods that reliably differentiated related species helped us to establish this rare organism. Our report expanded the clinical spectrum of C. propinquum infections.


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Q: "openssl s_client -connect" exit after handshake I am trying to test a SSL server and want to check whether a particular cipher is supported by the SSL server or not.
For that I am using following command = openssl s_client -connect google.com:443  -cipher RC4-SHA and invoking it from Java program as below and works pretty well, except for the fact that my Java program never exits because the openssl process started is still ON.
        Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("openssl s_client -connect google.com:443");
        System.out.println("Waiting for process to terminate ...");
        process.waitFor();

        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
        String line = "";
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        System.out.println("Exiting ...");

I see there is something like openssl s_client -connect google.com:443  -verify 0 but this is error return code and doesn't fetch the information I am looking for, however it do stops the openssl process.
Is there any way to exit the openssl connect once client-server handshake is completed?

A: Turns out that there's a problem with some native openssl client binaries on windows, which means that you end up with a non-terminating s_client, even if you close the standard input. Workrounds are terminating if you receive a known line from the output, or making a copy of the needed binaries from a cygwin installation to get the cygwin version of openssl to run without issue.
Note that the previous paragraph is for the Windows problem, the later paragraphs are perfectly usable for Linux/OSX.
Just before process.waitFor() we invoke process.getOutputStream().close() and it closes the input stream for openssl s_client; which triggers it's automatic termination logic. We close stderr as well, for good measure. The other thing is moving the output reading before the wait for process termination, in case the buffer gets filled at the OS level.
import java.io.*;

public class props {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("openssl s_client -connect google.com:443");
        process.getOutputStream().close();
        process.getErrorStream().close();

        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
        String line = "";
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        System.out.println("Waiting for process to terminate ...");
        process.waitFor();
        System.out.println("Exiting ...");
    }
};

This is based on the statement under CONNECTED COMMANDS in the s_client man page, which states:

When used interactively (which means neither -quiet
         nor -ign_eof have been given), the session will be renegotiated if the line begins with an R, and if the line begins with a Q or if end of file is reached, the connection will be closed down.

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Howe, Daniel Walker, Making the American Self
Harvard U. Press, 1997
(Read around July or August, 1997; reread November 1997)
In the Early American Republic, about all that happened was the building of a nation, its institutions, its culture, its forms of education, its patterns of religious expression, its technology, and a great deal of self creation by individuals. We had a couple of wars, but not ones that we can readily construe as noble or glorious.
Obviously a pretty boring era, unless you are drawn to instutution-building and all that. But, irony aside, my opinion is that we are is in desperate need of institution-building on a global scale, and that we will either become some kind of coherent world entity (or "self" you might say), or else awake some day to find that a major city has been blown up by the ultimate truck bomb, or has been dusted with anthrax, or some other sort of "poor man's" atom bomb.
Yet institution-building and societal evolution are boring to most people -- to sell history we need a war, or some other conflict between really good good-guys and really bad bad-guys. Actually what really sells is any story about an *individual* facing really unbelievable odds, or some really creepy, awful, scary situation: a maverick cop, or beautiful computer hacker being hunted down by institutions gone wrong (as they always do), or on the *really* awful, creepy, end of things, anything involving serial killers who skin their victims.
This attraction to that kind of story probably makes good sense in the kinds of environments in which human beings evolved. To know what to do if a leopard starts to jump on you, you must rehearse it in your mind, in listening to stories, in dreams, etc., 'til you know what to do in a flash. In such a state of society, it is a good thing to be powerfully drawn to someone telling a story of how he got away from a lion, or escaped from rival tribesmen who would have cut out and roasted his heart.
But in the modern world, the ability to handle sudden violence is virtually irrelevant. If we get into one of those situations, we will probably not be able to think or act fast enough. The lions have automatic rifles. We need to create - to build societal structures that will head off those events. The ability to react is highly overrated today.
This somewhat explains why I find early 19th century American history exciting, and military history usually boring (some exceptions that prove the rule: Eric Larrabee: _Commander in Chief_; Tuchman: _Stilwell and the American Experience in China_; the movie _Twelve O'Clock High_; all about the nature of building a "fighting machine").
It was a pleasant surprise to find Daniel Walker Howe's _Making the American Self_ when I went to the library for The Unitarian Conscience, which I always meant to read, and The Political Culture of the American Whigs, which Richard John called one of the 10 most important books for graduate students to read -- or at least that was the vote of the SHEAR-97 all night poker club. I read it a second time when it was about to be reviewed, so as to participate in the lively discussion that the review was bound to kick off.
In my view, it is about the *essence* of the history of the Early Republic -- what makes it exciting and *important* for the modern world - its being a time of deep questions about the extent to which individuals and/or nations, could govern -- or "make" themselves -- and of the nation, and of individuals struggling to learn how to "make" and govern themselves. So I wonder how to account for the silence on the list when this book was reviewed.
What can we learn from the way in which certain early Americans dealt with self-construction, and by analogy, nation building?
Besides looking at self-made men making themselves, Howe examines how the concept was applied to society. He speaks of "Publius" -- a collective pseudonym used by the writers of the Federalist Papers -- envisioning the properly formed nation as analogous to the man whose faculties were well balanced, with dangerous passions kept from running amok. And all of the individuals on whom Howe throws his "spotlight" are either to some extent actors on a stage, consciously creating an edifying spectacle, or else in some other way trying to spread the benefits of (their own interpretation of) faculty psychology to others. I.e. they are trying, with their lives, to instruct society.
What was faculty psychology? It begins by postulating a division of the mind into a set of "faculties", or powers, along the following lines:
* Moral faculties, or virtue,
* Prudence, or self-interest, or preferably (to some at least) "enlightened self-interest"
* Passions, appetites, ... the "animal" side of our nature.
The Classical Republican (or civic virtue)-vs-Liberal axis of political thought are characterized by different notions of how best to "use" the faculties. The republicans' main theme was to somehow make virtue rule the roost in both the individual soul, and in the community or nation. As for liberals, the optimistic ones thought prudence could support, and do much of the work of, virtue; the most pessimistic ones thought virtue was a myth, so we have to arrange for prudence to do the job somehow.
Other targets of Howe's "spotlight":
Benjamin Franklin thought the main thing was to educate people as to their true self-interest. He was, perhaps, "optimistic through an act of will". "Honesty is the best policy" is just the sort of thing he would say.
Jonathan Edwards looked for God's grace to implant in the soul a new aesthetic sense drawing one to benevolence.
Thomas Jefferson, rationalist though he was, put stock in an inherent "moral sense"; worried that some kinds of education could pervert it, and promoted an educational system that would uplift generally, as well as serve as a great sifting machine to empower the most talented fraction of the population.
For both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, it was an important lesson, for themselves and for others, that even one from their background could achieve greatness. For Lincoln, this *needed* to be true, and government *needed* to facilitate its being true.
Dorothea Dix, in her approach to mental illness, put great stress on harmonizing the conflicting elements of the self, and, in a classical "faculty psychology" approach, settling the more rational elements into a dominant position.
Horace Bushnell saw both Calvinist and neo-Calvinist notions of conversion as playing to dangerous passions, and promoted a system of nurture such that a child would grow up thinking he had never not been a Christian.
Margaret Fuller "ransacked history, literature, and classical mythology for positive feminine images, not only for pedagogical purposes but also to apply to her own life."(p213), and crafted her own life to be an example of what "woman in the 19th century" could be.
Thoreau believed, and tried to live, the idea that "the new age would be a time when every human being had a fully developed conscience, and no coercive state would be needed."(p247). He seemed to believe that the way to "fully develop" conscience was to follow it, whatever it said.
What I can grasp about the business of self construction and self government, if I grasp anything about it, is an aspect not much discussed by Prof. Howe, and it may seem at odds with the very "rational" approaches pursued by his subjects.
One reason I care about this book is that I've been working on being a self-RE-made man for some time now -- the old mid-life crisis -- computer scientist decides to become a historian syndrome. Well, that covers the last three years, but this striving for self-reconstruction has been going on in some form for almost 15 years.
Every now and then, someone has an exhilarating moment in which they suddenly start doing what they always thought needed to be done, and the sense of inadequacy drops away; they virtually become some promise that they make, as when John Brown, in response to the killing of Lovejoy, said "I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery." Often people who seemed incompetent all their lives become movers of mountains. Many of the conversion experiences, so common in the early American republic, and many of the temperance pledges made on the spot represented, I believe, a real, sudden, realignment of who the person is.
Such transforming speech acts are not only familiar, but expected in the lives of powerful individuals -- so much so that helpful biographers may supply them without adequate evidence. Lincoln's saying to himself, "Someday I will hit that thing and hit it hard" is a likely example.
I had such a moment once, in which I stood up and declared that I would organize a certain kind of program for "youth at risk" in Newark NJ. With no experience of ever directing anyone to do anything, I ran a volunteer group which included some of the biggest prima donnas I have known, as we raised a couple of hundred thousand dollars, enrolled partner organizations from among the Newark social work community, and raising a large volunteer force - mostly people with good jobs - who would use their vacations to spend ten consecutive days chaperoning and waiting on 80 very troubled and sometimes violent teenagers, in some borrowed or rented girl scout or church camp. And I had horrible strains on my marriage and neglected my job to a crucial extent.
I also have observed many other such moments in others (that youth program, for example, produced many startling realignments and redefinitions of the selves of the participants, very often with lasting effect). In such moments of self creation, there is, in fact, an absence of self, the way one often thinks of self, as this balky thing with a number of parts, which we struggle to "control". Rather, there is a sense of being one with some declared principle or promise, or of some projected future.
Individuals who are "living a declaration" can be troublesome, or worse when they are not ending slavery (or even when they are). They are apt to have lopsided personalities, and to have very unexpected characteristics for the leadership roles they often assume. And they are apt to be lost when the situation for which they refashioned themselves goes away.
Why Do "Transforming Moments" Occur?
Perhaps the following will help answer the question.
In the study of self-organizing systems -- part of what Heinz Pagels calls the "science of complexity", a bi-stable system is one with two possible states, that tends to stay in whichever state it happens to be in, like a coin, which is either "heads" or "tails". If the system is not in a certain desired state, it may be very difficult to get it there, but *maintaining* it in the desired state is easy.
I suspect that the quality of leadership; taking responsibility; creativity, and the quality of "playing ones role" (looking for leadership from without, being passive, being a follower) are "two sides of the coin" of our bi-stable natures. There is a quality about this dichotomy that is akin to turning a switch on or off.
While there are many aspects of leadership that can (or must) be shaped by talent and/or long experience, I suspect the audacity to jump up and start leading, often appears out of nowhere, as if one had accidentally bumped into a hidden switch.
The book Listening to Prozac cites a study done with apes (monkeys?) which may have put a finger on the biological mechanism controlling the division of labor between leaders and followers.
By increasing the level of serotonin in the blood, the researchers were able to "make a leader", i.e. turn a nonassertive male into an "alpha" male. By decreasing serotonin, they could make an "alpha" male become docile.
What happens if there is no researcher around to manipulate serotonin levels in the blood? One possibility, which I think was hinted at by the study, is that inevitable differences between individuals just get accentuated. An individual finds himself to be faster, stronger, and/or able to out-think others around him, and gains "confidence", or a tendency to think independently and give direction to others, while others, finding themselves more than matched by this individual, become less apt to act independently, and more likely to look for direction.
It is suggested that the stabilization of these roles is largely achieved by a differentiation in serotonin level -- at least it is true that without any artificial manipulation, the dominant males have a significantly higher level of this chemical neurotransmitter, which is perhaps triggered by the sense that one seems more and more to be the "natural" leader of the group, beginning a self-reinforcing cycle. The raised serotonin level makes them fit the role of leader more, and experiences of leading and being followed again feed into the self-reinforcing cycle.
What evolutionary role would it serve for the vast majority of the population to "switch off" most of what they have of creativity, leadership, tendency to act independently? Why throw away mind power? Because in the preliterate situation in which we evolved, there were not so many courses of action, and it not so important to apply all possible "thinking power" to a situation -- more important that some reasonably thought out course of action be chosen and acted upon -- with unity. That applies to tactics of group action. What about the value , so apparent today, of innovation? Without writing, the collective memory was severely limited, and could utilize only a small amount of creative thought. What worked was for the community to settle on a few bits of knowledge to be handed down as precious relics: how to make a blowgun; how to find, prepare, and eat, certain foodstuffs, and what things never to eat. But the set of ideas to be passed from one generation to another had to be carefully pruned so as to remain manageable.
Human beings have speech, unlike monkeys, and are, for one thing, unique in their ability to change to meet new situations. It may be that, if there is a "switch" that turns on an aspect of leadership or creativity, then one means of access to it, for human beings, is through certain speech acts, that, in addition, might convincingly transform the speaker into the virtual personification of some ideal, or some projected future.
Self Creation, Self Government, Paradox, and "Will"
How does anyone "make" him or herself? The idea is paradoxical, as is expressed in the phrase "picking oneself up by ones bootstraps", or the Escher print of two hands, each drawing the other.
"Governing" oneself is also paradoxical. People commonly say thing like "I had to make myself get up this morning" -- it is kind of like Cleavon Little in the movie Blazing Saddles pointing a gun at his own head and saying "Don't anybody move, or the nigger gets it". The idea of "governing" as an application of force just doesn't fit "self government" -- at least not on the individual level; maybe ultimately not even on the collective level. Yet we have trouble picturing it any other way, so we apply it even at the individual level, and talk glibly of "making ourselves" do this or that.
As paradoxical as the idea of "governing myself" is, it is perilous to not grapple with it.
What is "the Will" or "Will-power"?
There is a strong tendency in our culture, or perhaps in human nature, to take for granted our will, or intention. What is it? Can it even be thought of as an IT? It seems to me that "it" is the core of ones being -- the very "thing" that defies our paradigm of acting in a world of manipulable objects.
Far easier to think about "capabilities". I have a certain IQ; I can type at so many words per minute. I can run a mile in so many minutes. This is a comfortable way to think about "self".
Then we have our feelings, often thought of as something like magnetic attraction -- our attractions, appetites, ... These we also tend to focus on, after a quick glance at the will, and quickly looking away: "I intended to, but I just didn't feel like it, or I didn't feel 'up to it' (here we get a hint of feeling treated as quasi-capability).
When we don't do what we said we would do, we must make an excuse, or else astonish people with what seems to be our arrogance: "I just didn't do it. It's as simple as that." Rather, we must say "I wasn't feeling too well this morning" or "I tried, but there were so many other things to do", or "I got caught in traffic".
We try to make will into a power, which it isn't at all; "he had a lot of will-power". It isn't a "power" at all, but a matter of what we say we will do and the extent to which we stick to what we say we will do. Capabilities are about what we can do, but will is about what we do do or will do, or just plain do. I believe we cast that into a sort of "ability" or "power" out of habit, and because we don't have the conceptual tools to think of it any other way.
All the excuse making (traffic, not feeling "up to it"), which we do largely out of "modesty" puts a great deal of attention on what is outside of our control; on what we are or are not capable of. So we often think about the traffic, and the fact that it moved slower than we hoped it would, and not the fact that we didn't allow enough time for the worst traffic in our experience on that route.
[I claim] There is a core of our being which we cannot back up and look at as a thing. I suspect this might be philosophically "provable" in a way that would stand up to modern scrutiny (not like most, or all, proofs of the existence of God, for example).
A motive is not a power in my view; rather, a power is the mechanism that allows a motive to express itself.
Motives are generally taken to include conscience (a virtuous motive), desire or appetites (a highly suspect motive), and will (often viewed as diabolical when not subordinated to God, or on the other hand, viewed in the most glowing terms by the Nietzchian temperament, or those who have experienced the ecstatic feeling of "pure will").
If you think this essay is dangling in mid air at this point, I agree, but I've come back to this essay again and again over a few months, and wish to see if anyone else is interested, and whether anyone else can help me to think about these things, and particularly how they touch upon the history of the early American republic.
One thing I like about Prof. Howe's approach is that, better than most people, he knows what he knows, and knows what he doesn't know, and sticks to what he knows. While maintaining this discipline, however, moving in a well grounded way from one thing that he knows, to another, to another ..., he remembers that he is trying to shed light on something huge, that he may not be able to reach, at least this time around. The result may be something like a Stephen Jay Gould essay in Natural History, with something of the character of a scenic drive, where I always learn something, though it is only about some creature I never new existed and will never see, and at the same time have seen light shed on that grand abstraction, evolution. A very good model for a historian, natural or otherwise, to my thinking.


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Jesús María de Valle de la Peña (Saltillo, Coahuila, 6 de julio de 1853 - ibídem, 3 de enero de 1938) fue un abogado y político mexicano que fue gobernador de Coahuila en tres ocasiones.

Biografía
Fue hijo de Francisco de Valle y de María de los Ángeles de la Peña Rodríguez (abuelos maternos José Ignacio Pablo de la Peña Fuentes y María de la Trinidad Rodríguez Dávila). Fue alumno del Ateneo Fuente, donde se tituló de abogado.

Fue síndico del ayuntamiento de Saltillo en 1877. En el distrito de Viesca ocupó el cargo de juez de letras, posteriormente lo fue del ramo civil y penal de Saltillo, fiscal del Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Estado y magistrado del mismo. Fue gobernador interino de Coahuila (1888, 1890-1891), así como gobernador constitucional en 1909 hasta el 28 de mayo de 1911. Su gubernatura se vio interrumpida por la Revolución Mexicana, sucediéndlo por unas horas Óscar E. Garza, quien dejó el lugar a Venustiano Carranza, designado por el Congreso. Murió en Saltillo] el 3 de enero de 1938.

Fue padre del 8 hijos, del general revolucionario Francisco de Valle Arizpe y del escritor Artemio de Valle Arizpe. Celia de Valle Arizpe. Y 5 hijos más: Jesús de Valle Arizpe, Armodio de Valle Arizpe, Consuela de Valle Arizpe, Refugio de Valle Arizpe y Ángeles de Valle Arizpe.

Bibliografía

Nacidos en Saltillo
Fallecidos en Saltillo
Abogados de Coahuila
Gobernadores de Coahuila
Políticos de Coahuila
Porfiriato

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Q: A question on the Bousso-Polchinski paper In this famous paper by Bousso and Polchinski,
Quantization of Four-form Fluxes and Dynamical Neutralization of the Cosmological Constant
an example in M-theory compactification is given in section 2.2, page 7.
Since I am new to string theory, I wonder how exactly (2.16)
$$   S= V_72\pi M_{11}^9\int d^4x \sqrt{-g_4}\left(R - {1 \over 2 \cdot 4!} F_4^2\right) + S_{branes}$$
is obtained from (2.12)
$$ S= 2\pi M_{11}^9\int d^{11}x\sqrt{-g_{11}}\left(R-{1 \over 2 \cdot 4!} F_4^2 \right) +S_{{branes}}$$
Is there any assumption made which is not stated in the paper?
Especially, why "eleven dimensional $\bf F_4$ is directly reduced to a four dimensional $\bf F_4$"
Since I am new to string theory, I really want to have a thorough understanding of this work. Detailed explanation is very much appreciated!! Thank you very much!


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MLS transfer news and rumors
Transfer news and rumors
Los Angeles Football Club
LAFC sign midfielder Danny Crisostomo
USL prospect provides depth for MLS side.
By Alicia Rodriguez Aug 6, 2021, 7:02am PDT
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LAFC announced on Wednesday they have signed midfielder Danny Crisostomo from Las Vegas Lights FC. The 24-year-old is signed for one year with options through the 2024 season.
Crisostomo is in his third season as a professional, previously all played at USL Championship level. Starting out at Orange County SC in 2019 out of UC Irvine, Crisostomo played two years there, making 50 appearances. This season, he signed with Las Vegas, LAFC's reserve team, and played 15 games so far this season for Steve Cherundolo's squad.
The Chino native is a defensive-minded midfielder and has mostly played in that position in the USL Championship level, but seems to have the ability to bring a little in attack at times, too.
Behind Danny Crisostomo's journey from unknown trialist to Orange County SC starter
I would definitely expect Crisostomo to be depth for LAFC's midfield, and he may go back on loan to Las Vegas this season, but he's a hard-working player who's paid his dues at a lower league and is a Southern California native looking for a chance. Having covered his career so far, this is a nice move and I wouldn't be surprised if he takes the step up if given a chance.


"Many of the largest U.S. sellers of organic eggs boast that their hens are vegetarian, and for an increasingly food-curious public, this may be great advertising.
"Egg producers are increasingly advertising their chickens as 'vegetarian' thanks to a diet free of animal byproducts. Here's why that isn't a good thing. I'm going to get right to the point for those that would prefer not to peck around the issue: chickens are not vegetarians. It is not a natural diet at all for them, and it's also potentially harmful to their well-being.
"One of the most outrageous food labeling tricks today? The scam of labeling free range chicken and eggs – organic or not – as "vegetarian fed" like this is somehow a good thing that is desirable for the consumer as well as the chicken.
"One of the points I always try to convey when I host farm tours at Polyface Farm is that chickens are omnivores. Visitors have no problem with the fact that pastured poultry eat lots of green grass, herbs and clover, but cringe at the notion that these beautiful, healthy birds also supplement their diet with plenty of animal foods as well. In the green season, the birds eat lots of grasshoppers and fly larvae (out of the cow pies).
But what happens when the chickens go indoors for the winter, and insect life is all but nonexistent except for the occasional pill bug and spider in the deep bedding material? Traditionally this is when farm flocks were supplemented with vermin, cut open for easier access to the internal organs. Chickens gladly and voraciously tear at the flesh and guts of a freshly shot groundhog, opossum or raccoon. Chickens have a featherless face for a reason—it is easier to keep clean after indulging in flesh. We see the same physiology in wild avian scavengers like vultures.
Large-scale organic and free-range egg producers love to advertise the "vegetarian-fed" status of their birds. Certainly, a vegetarian-fed chicken does not have access to insects or it would lose the privilege of this label. We can also assume that no access to insects means no access to pasture, little to no access to the outdoors, or, worst of all, continuous confinement.
The best quality eggs are from chickens that have sunlight and access to roam outside, eating bugs and pasture. A happy chicken is a healthy chicken, and a healthy chicken produces healthy eggs for us to eat. A good label to read on egg cartons is the phrase "Pasture Raised". This usually ensures that the chicken is eating grass and bugs on the pasture. A great added bonus is to see that the farms are not feeding their chickens corn or soy. The farmers usually promote this on the egg cartons saying corn free and/or soy free. The best way to know the quality of the eggs you are eating is to talk to the farmer whose eggs you are buying. Call the distributor of the eggs you buy from the store. Talk to the store personnel. Read the packaging. The East End Food Co-op displays the quality of the eggs they sell, allowing me to know what the animals are being fed, how they are being raised and what farm they come from so I can contact the farmer(s) directly for more information if I need or want it. Farmer's markets are another good place to ask questions to find quality animal products.
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Edward Ernest Pepper (Birmingham, West Midlands, 2 de novembre de 1879 – Worcester, Worcestershire, 1960) va ser un gimnasta artístic anglès que va competir a començament del .

El 1912 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics d'Estocolm, on va guanyar la medalla de bronze en el concurs complet per equips del programa de gimnàstica.

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I'm a design leader working hard to improve peoples' lives, from bettering individual experiences to promoting collective actions that benefit society.
I've spent the last few years applying design to hard, systemic challenges at a global scale, such as civic engagement, financial inclusion and philanthropy. I've played many critical roles in product development: sole designer instrumental in bringing 0-to-1 projects to life; design lead shaping product vision and guiding strategy; team leader empowering designers and building culture.
I get excited by the delight of daily experiences, selecting just the right cup for my coffee and plating food artfully, not for the camera, but for the moment. I'm concerned about the intricate problems I see our communities face. Right now I'm diving deep into understanding the facets of the homelessness issue in the Bay Area and I'm optimistic that design can help to address it.


In Joshua Harmon's new play, Significant Other, Jordan Berman would love to be in love, but until he meets Mr. Right, he wards off lonely nights with his trio of close-knit girlfriends. But as singles' nights turn into bachelorette parties, Jordan finds that supporting the ones you love can be just as impossible as finding love itself. The play takes an often funny and alternately heartbreaking look at what it's like to be single when all of your close friends are marrying themselves off (and even worse than that - sometimes having destination weddings that you attend, even though it destroys your budget).
The Roundabout Theatre Company production of Significant Other, directed by Trip Cullman, has been in previews for a few weeks and officially opens at The Laura Pels Theatre in New York City this coming Thursday night.
Roundabout Theatre Company's relationship with Joshua Harmon began when his play Bad Jews was selected for the inaugural Roundabout Underground Reading Series for Emerging Playwrights in February 2012. The play then premiered at Roundabout Underground's Black Box in Fall 2012, in a sold-out extended run and then moved upstairs to the 420-seat Laura Pels Theatre - where Significant Other is performed now.
We spoke with Joshua Harmon and Trip Cullman recently about Roundabout, the play, and working together.
Trip Cullman is also directing Unknown Soldier - a new musical by Daniel Goldstein and Michael Friedman at The Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer (and this is the article about his apartment, referenced in the interview: Off Broadway Director Trip Cullman's NoHo Loft).
On the Twentieth Century is a luxurious madcap musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman - The Roundabout Theatre Company production of which is currently running at The American Airlines Theatre in New York City starring Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Gallagher, Mark Lin Baker, Michael McGrath, Mary Louise Wilson, and our guest, Andy Karl. The new Broadway cast recording was released this week on P.S. Classics.
Actor Michael Zegen In "Bad Jews"
The Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground program gives productions to emerging playwrights. Last year, they had a hit with Bad Jews - a play by Joshua Harmon, directed by Daniel Aukin.
The show did so well in their 62-seat Black Box Theatre, in fact, that they brought it back to run in the Laura Pels Theatre (their bigger-small space) as part of their season this year - where it continues to earn excellent reviews and enthusiastic response from audiences.
In the play a young Jewish woman, Diana (played by Tracee Chimo, she prefers to be called by her Hebrew name, Daphna) fights with her cousin, Liam, to get a religious relic left behind by their recently deceased grandfather - who had kept it safe during his years in a concentration camp by holding it beneath his tongue. Liam's brother (Jonah, played by Philip Ettinger) and girlfriend (Melody, played by Molly Ranson) observe and reluctantly weigh-in as Daphna and Liam argue and insult-sling as only family can.
Michael Zegen plays Liam in Bad Jews. Zegen attended Skidmore College and his other Off-Broadway credits include Liz Meriwether's Oliver Parker! and Greg Moss' punkplay. On television he's been featured in recurring roles on The Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, How to Make It in America, Rescue Me, and he'll appear in the upcoming season of the HBO hit, Girls. His film credits include Adventureland, Taking Woodstock, and Frances Ha.
Following the death of her husband, Rose locks herself in her bedroom for the better part of a year, leaving her daughter Emma to care for her through the closed door. When the church sends a pastor to help coax Rose out of her room, he soon finds that Rose is not the only one using barriers to hide her true feelings.
This is the plot of Too Much, Too Much, Too Many - a new play by Meghan Kennedy that is currently being produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground - a program that showcases new plays that will either allow an experienced director to go back to their creative roots or give a debut production to an emerging writer or director.
Too Much, Too Much, Too Many is directed by Sheryl Kaller, the Tony nominated director of the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts. She has directed at many theaters including Primary Stages, Williamstown Theater Festival, and New York Stage and Film. She has directed and developed new plays and musicals with writers including Christopher Durang, David Henry Hwang, Nick Blaemire, Billy Porter, Alan Menken, and many others.
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The FDA has officially authorized the marketing of a direct-to-customer 23andMe test that reveals potential genetic variants associated with the capacity to metabolize certain medications. This is the first at-home test of its kind to receive FDA approval.
According to the regulators, the Personal Genome Service Pharmacogenetic Reports test will empower educated discussions between doctors and their patients. The test inspects 33 potential variants for multiple genes but is not able to conclude whether or not a patient should receive a certain medication.
The test follows the usual direct-to-customer screening protocol and utilizes saliva as a testing sample.
The FDA implemented 8 special controls to make sure patients understand the instruction and limitations of the pharmacogenetic test, including a warning label designed to discourage patients from changing or stopping medication consumption based on the test results.
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This route uses lanes, footpaths and bridleways north-west of Gillamoor. Roadside parking is available near to the Royal Oak Inn in the village. We first pass through the village of Fadmoor and then continue westward to enter the sparsely populated and lesser-known of the North York Moors Dales, Sleightholmedale. The walk completely circles Boonhill Common and a private road serves Penny Holme, which is also a public footpath. Just before Penny Home we leave the road and climb up to Stonely Woods. We then use public footpaths and bridleways to get back to Gillamoor. As you walk down Sleightholmedale, Aldergate Bank and Potato Nab is a prominent feature on your left. This is a 1,000-feet-high landmark which can be seen many miles away in the Vale of Pickering. The walk down this dale leaves a rambler wanting to return and explore the many rights of way which a walker can use to get from Sleightholmedale into Bilsdale.


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Бура́нівський сільський округ (, ) — адміністративна одиниця у складі Курчумського району Східноказахстанської області Казахстану. Адміністративний центр — село Буран.

Населення — 2901 особа (2009; 4067 в 1999, 4889 у 1989).

Станом на 1989 рік існувала Буранівська сільська рада (села Ардинка, Буран, Жанааул, Казахстан, Приіртиш'є) колишнього Маркакольського району.

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Mingus Awareness Project
ALS Benefit Concert
Sun, Feb 5 @ 7:30pm
$30 general admission, $20 students
Bassist/composer Charles Mingus, one of the titans of jazz, died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) on January 5, 1979. At the time, there was no cure for ALS. Today, forty years later, there is still no cure.
The Mingus Awareness Project is a series of concerts that benefits organizations that provide support for individuals who have ALS as well as their families. More than a dozen Mingus Awareness Project concerts have happened in Chicago, Illinois and Richmond, Virginia.
Beyond supporting those stricken with ALS, MAP concerts also provide opportunities for audiences and performers to celebrate the music of Charles Mingus, music composed by artists who worked with Mingus, as well as music by composers who perform during MAP concerts.
Since 2007, drummer/composer Brian Jones has been presenting Mingus Awareness Project concerts in Richmond.
The 2023 performance will feature Adam Hopkins' Schoolwork, Michael Hawkins and the Brotherhood, and The Doug Richards Orchestra.
We invite you to join us in support for the Mingus Awareness Project by donating to the ALS Association! More information on the fundraiser and the Association can be found here:
http://web.alsa.org/site/TR/3rdParty/DCMDVA?team_id=380623&pg=team&fr_id=13897
*All proceeds from this concert will be donated to the ALS Association.*
Michael Hawkins and the Brotherhood
Growing up in Alexandria Virginia, Michael Hawkins became influenced by the vibrant music scene. Local musicians would play at his neighborhoods recreation centers and parks on a regular basis it was during this time where Michael developed a love for the bass guitar. Later, Michael joined his school band where he learned to play the trumpet. After switching to Trombone, he finally settled on the bass guitar at the age of fourteen.
At fifteen he began to work professionally, and by sixteen he was leading his own band which performed regularly in the Washington D.C area. Michael completed his high school education as a much lauded and honored musician, and after a number of years working professionally, he received a scholarship to attend Virginia State University to study music in which Michael graduated in 1997. In 1998, Michael moved to New York where he attended Queens College, graduating in 2000 with a Masters degree in Jazz Studies.
During his time in New York, Michael worked with Jazz legends like saxophonists Jimmy Heath, Eric Alexander, Gary Bartz, Donald Harrison and ; pianists Bruce Barth, Eric Reed, Mulgrew Miller, Cyrus Chestnut, John Hicks; vocalists Vanessa Rubin, Leon Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Carla Cook; vibraharpist Stefon Harris; guitarist Mark Whitfield, Mark Elf and Russell Malone; Drummers Carl Allen, Ralph Peterson, Cindy Blackmon and the Trombone and Seashells of Steve Turre. Michael has also shared the stage with the legendary R&B groups like the "The Main Ingredient". In the world of Gospel Music Michael has shared his talents with the legendary artists Twinkie Clark and Melvin Crispell. The distinctive sound of Michael's bass can be heard on Cyrus Chestnut's Warner Jazz, 2003 release, "You Are My Sunshine" and is featured on T. A. Dorsey's, "Precious Lord".
photo by Peter McElhinney
Doug Richards Orchestra
Composer/Arranger Doug Richards is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Music, Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1997 he received the University's Outstanding Teaching Award. His former students have performed and recorded with many of the world's leading jazz organizations including the Count Basie Orchestra, the Ray Charles Orchestra, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, as well as with groups led by such major figures as Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Dave Douglas and many others. Richards joined the VCU faculty in 1979, founding its Jazz Studies program in 1980. He was also the founder and musical director of the Great American Music Ensemble, one of the leading professional repertory jazz orchestras in the nation. GAME performed at the Smithsonian Institution Jazz Festival, the International Duke Ellington Society Annual Convention, the National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting Concert, the International Association for Jazz Education Conference, and on NPR and PBS. Between 1990 and 1997, GAME presented an annual concert series at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, where it consistently performed to large, enthusiastic audiences and strong critical praise.
School Work is the new project of bassist and Richmond transplant Adam Hopkins. The band is devoted to performing the music of the great avant-garde jazz composers of the 50s, 60s, and 70s: Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Andrew Hill, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard, late Coltrane, and more.
Adam Hopkins is a bassist and composer born and raised in Baltimore MD, relocated to Brooklyn NY in 2011, and moved to Richmond in early 2019. He has extensive experience performing jazz and improvised music and has played with professional orchestras in Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the DC metro area. His debut album CRICKETS has received international acclaim from a variety of sources, most notably ranking as the #2 Debut Album in the 2018 NPR Jazz Critics Poll. Adam was also named the #2 Newcomer Musician for 2018 in the International Critics Poll organized by El Intruso. Crickets was the first release on Hopkins' Out Of Your Head Records, an artist-run record label dedicated to creative music and visual art in limited runs. He has toured as a member of John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet, been a side person with Henry Threadgill, and has recorded and/or performed regularly with Webber/Morris Big Band, Tomeka Reid, Kate Gentile Mannequins, Scott Clark's Dawn & Dusk, Anna Webber's Rectangles, Christopher Hoffman Trio, Ideal Bread, among others. Adam has studied double bass with many great performers and teachers of the instrument, including Michael Formanek, Jeffrey Weisner, Jack Budrow, Rodney Whitaker, and Sam Cross and additional studies with Drew Gress and Gary Thomas.


Replacment chassis for F units makes it easy to add sound and DCC to new or older units. Each includes a high quality digital decoder with motor control and a digital sound module on one circuit board. The sound is adjusted to the running mode: when the loco starts moving, you hear the primemover rev up and when it stops, you hear the engine slow down and braking sounds. All units come with a preprogrammed #72428 LokSound V.3.5, featuring the 16-cylinder_ EMD 567 prime mover, dynamic brakes, and a single chime air horn._ Can be used on DC layouts with a Precision Craft DCMaster #1001 Analog Control Module (sold separately) for pushbutton sound activation of bell and horn, volume control and programming. Sound units start at a slightly high voltage when operated on DC systems.


Sometimes it can be difficult to engage very young children in the act of reading stories. To cater to their often-distracted attention spans, the books need to be brightly coloured, provide stimulating or interactive content, and be relatively short in length.
Usborne Publishing, a company who specialises in books for children of all ages, have been aware of this for quite some time, and, together with Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells, released a series of award-winning touchy-feely books that have been around for over fourteen years.
These board books are simple in their design, yet they are perfect for children aged six months and up. Each book features brightly coloured pictures, with a textured patch somewhere on the page. These textures range from fluffy to rough to shiny, and are the perfect size for little fingers. Intended to help develop sensory and language awareness, the books follow a general pattern, with simple, repetitive text and the aforementioned different patches of texture. The child is encouraged to touch each page as you read the text aloud, thus providing a link between the words they are hearing and the textures they are feeling.
So far, there have been over 40 titles published in the That's Not My… series, including some that follow a distinct Christmas theme. That's Not My Santa…, That's Not My Elf…, That's Not My Reindeer… and That's Not My Snowman… allow young children to interact with the characters and determine exactly why that character is not his or hers. For example, Santa's boots are too squashy, the elf's hat is too soft, the reindeer's ears are too velvety and the snowman's buttons are too bumpy. Each page has a different reason (and texture), until the very last one, when the child's character is finally revealed.
With the release of these Christmas-themed titles, younger children are given the opportunity to learn some of the words associated with the season. And if these particular titles don't tickle your fancy, or you want to extend your collection further, there are plenty of other characters in the series (like dinosaurs, fairies, etc) that may pique your interest instead.
Do You Think That Profanities On Covers Sell Books?