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Canelo named the WBA Boxer of the Year
January 11, 2021 14:52 by Stabroek NewsDesk
SAUL Alvarez Canelo won the World Boxing Association (WBA) Best Boxer of the Year for his victory over Callum Smith to confirm himself as the top pound-for-pound fighter today.
Boxing had a year of many hurdles but managed to move on. The end of the year could not have been more perfect, with Canelo's reappearance on December 19th in a superb performance against the previously unbeaten reigning champion.
The Mexican had gone through several contractual problems that cast some doubt on his return to the ring, however, he stayed in the gym until they were resolved
. As soon as the situation was resolved, Canelo was ready to fight for the Super Middleweight belts against Smith, the best in the division until that moment, and defeated by a unanimous decision at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas .
Alvarez, 30, proved to be steady at 168 lbs, maintained an aggressive fight, worked well with his press motion and eliminated any chance of the Liverpool native.
Canelo now owns WBA and WBC titles. He could only fight once in 2020 but this was the most important end of the year. He has announced that his plan for 2021 is to have three fights and face the best in the division.
The public wants to see more of Canelo, who has proven to be the face of boxing. The WBA congratulates him on being the boxer of the year. (Fightnews)


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On June 22, 1941, Zhukov signed the Directive of Peoples Commissariat of Defence No. 3, which ordered an all-out counter offensive by Red Army forces. This manoeuvre failed and disorganized Red Army units were destroyed by the Wehrmacht. Later, Zhukov claimed that he was forced to sign the document by Joseph Stalin, despite the reservations that he raised.
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In 1946, seven rail carriages with furniture which he was taking to Russia from Germany were impounded. In 1948, his apartments and home in Moscow were searched, and many valuables looted from Germany were found.
"To the victor go the spoils..."
"Wars are won by a strong will for victory...."
Sabotage - Drops a Russian saboteur to sabotage enemy structures. Could probably be best classified as an "annoying special op", best at taking out enemy technology buildings or depots (since they have no machine gun defenses), or wounding enemy HQ's.
If your team has more than one saboteur special op (then you got a bad draw, lol), combine them, using teamwork, and do a "double" saboteur!
Supply Drop - Summons an aircraft to drop a Supply Depot, and setup a temporary zone of supply. Not too much strategy to this one, just keep in mind it will take awhile for the transport plane to get there. Supplies can be destroyed by enemy forces, so you will have to take measures to protect them. Using Zhukov, you should be able to afford to spend some EXP in the early game, so if it will help you or your allies, go ahead and order up some supplies.
Communist Purge - Kills off officers to improve overall attack value and morale for 30 seconds.. Possibly the worst special op in the game. It has been joked, "I wish I could use it on the enemy!" - but sorry folks this only works on you and your allies. Avoid this special op.
Considered to be one of the weakest generals for multiplayer, since he lacks a "decent" special op. But don't resign just yet... You can still play to the strengths of Russia.. If the terrain supports it, you might consider spamming snipers... If you don't win early try a hold out for the armor stage of the game, as Russian armor is first-rate!


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Also any other recommendations regarding trees that probably don't give much fruit but might provide various other benefits like medicinal benefits such as neem trees or are good at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen or filtering dust from air, or give good shade or are great to look at even. Trees that overall will benefit a Karachi home in any good way?


I started this post months ago, and never finished it. When my sweet friend Kristen at Ladybug's Teacher Files asked about homework organization on her Facebook page, I was *inspired* to finish it. :) I also thought it might be fun to find out how other bloggers organize and assign homework.
A couple of summers ago, I was hanging out with one of my favorite teacher peeps and saw her kiddos' homework journals. They were in kindergarten at the time, but I immediately thought, "This is genius!" She and I started talking and she said she loved it - they were easy to keep up with, the kids could look back on previous assignments to review skills, and it was also a great parent-teacher communication tool.
I talked it over with my teaching partner and we decided to try it in 3rd. Two years later, it's spread throughout our whole grade level and several other classrooms in our building as well. We love it!
One of the first out-of-pocket purchases I will make this summer is 25-30 composition notebooks. I wait until they go on sale at Office Depot/Office Max/Target/wherever for $0.25 each. It ends up being a $5-6 purchase - and well worth it for us to be able to start the first day with our homework journals.
Yes, you read that right. We give homework on the first day of school. I know. I'm such a meanie. But honestly, it fits right in with our lessons on Habit 3: Putting First Things First and it gives our students a chance to apply it right away.
We have our first "family group meeting" where we combine both homerooms for a big talk and go over our homework expectations, rewards for completing it all week long, and consequences for leaving it at home or bringing it back incomplete.
We assign homework Monday - Thursday, one language arts and one math assignment each night.
We have a set time each day where we both go over and give the kids time to glue in their homework or write down the night's assignment(s).
All homework turned in on time all week long = Homeworkopoly the following Monday. We use Kristen's game board! Since we don't assign Friday homework, this works out perfectly! The kids play as they come in for the day and it doesn't take up any of our instructional time.
If they don't turn in an assignment, they don't play. Period. This might seem a little harsh, but because we stick to this, we rarely have homework issues after the first six weeks.
When they are missing something (barring a family emergency), they take an extra copy of the assignment to lunch and complete it there. They don't have silent lunch, but when they have to make up an assignment, they don't do much talking on their own.
Homework on the first night of school!
We start the first week with one assignment each night, and it alternates between language arts and math. We've learned that growing our expectations for the kids instead of throwing everything at them all at once builds their confidence and willingness to get their homework done. This also ensures that (almost) everyone will be able to play Homeworkopoly after the first week - another big motivator.
The very first night, we ask them to write about their first day at school. It gives us a chance to see things from their perspective, get to know them a little bit, and it shows me where they are (relatively) with their writing abilities!
The second week of school, we add in 2 assignments per night (language arts + math). By the third week, they were doing language arts, math, and a reading log.
By December, I ditched the reading logs.
I know... they have to read... they need to read... but here's the thing I finally learned after 13 years of homework and teaching: Reading logs have the tendency to turn parents and children into liars. Not all of them, but a lot of them.
We found that when we were making copies, we could reduce everything to 85% and it fit fabulously in their journals. It we needed it full size, they just folded it in half and glued the bottom half to the page.
You can *almost* see at the top where K wrote "CHECK POCKET." We glued a manila envelope (the kind with a clasp to close it) on the back cover so that we had a place for notes from school, notes from us, spelling lists, permission slips, etc. It really worked out beautifully.
The kids also used their journals as a reference. We throw in review skills once or twice a week, and when the kids get "stuck" they can look back through old homework assignments to kickstart their brains. It's helpful to parents as well!
Now it's your turn! I would love to hear how YOU do it! :) Just grab the image at the top, put it in your post, and link up with your post (not your blog's home page) at the bottom!
I absolutely love this! I am going to do this! Thank you!
oh Abby!!! You have given me so much to think about! This is what I ❤ ❤ ❤ about blogging!! I really, really like how everything is in one place for your kids. I never would have thought of reducing the pages like that, they look like the perfect size. I love this, thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing your expertise Abby!
I love your "Homework Journal" idea! I am definitely going to start something similar this year. I also agree about the reading logs....it seems that those kids that love to read are going to read whether you assign it or not, and those that don't love to read are the ones that will fib or their parents will just sign anything. Thanks for sharing!!
Wow! This is an awesome idea. I just might have to use it :) Thank you so much for explaining in such great detail exactly how your homework journals work!!!
This post is amazing Abby! Your homework journals are SUCH a great idea! I did something like this before in math, but how cool is it that you include ALL subjects. It's such a great reference for kids to go back and review later on as well. Now you've REALLY got me thinking! Thanks so much for sharing!
This is BRILLIANT! I am team teaching for the first time this year, and I really think this is a great way to maintain consistency. Thanks!
I am Lovin this idea! Really considering moving to this for my 3rd graders this year as I normally give math & language arts homework as well. Seems so organized!
Do you correct the homework each evening?
Have you ever considered publishing your Homework topics for each night? I'd love to have those as a springboard to create my own, and I'd happily pay for them! Great idea!!!
Funny you should mention that! ;-) I'm thinking of working on monthly homework sets... Yes?
Sometimes we "sacrifice" a side... other nights we stick the paper into a pocket the kids create in their notebook. I'll see if I can't find a picture or two and write a post on that. Great question!!
Just a thought...while browsing Amazon.com, I noticed that Carson-Dellosa has updated its Math 4 Today series and added an ELA 4 Today. These would be perfect for your homework journal--two copies would last the entire week. One sheet in the notebook would hold the day's math, ELA, and Reading log. . .just a suggestion. I LOVE the homework notebook idea!


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This is the essence of Cradle to Cradle: waste need not to exist at all. By providing a framework of redesign of everything from carpets to corporate campuses, McDonough and Braungart make a revolutionary yet viable case for change and for remaking the way we make things.
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As I may have mentioned when we last met, I accepted an invitation earlier this year to become an associate of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and to help them with a multi-year initiative to strengthen the linkages between Internet governance and sustainable development.
As you can see at http://www.iisd.org, IISD was established in 1990 in response to the report of the Brundtland Commission. It conducts research, monitors negotiations, sponsors projects, and helps develop leadership among youth on major economic and environmental issues that are part of the overall sustainable development agenda. This agenda was initially set at the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development and updated at the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development.
IISD is a highly decentralized organization with offices, projects, associates, and partners in many countries. For this reason, it was an early adopter of e-mail and the web for communication and knowledge sharing, both internally and externally. This practical experience helped IISD understand the role Internet-based communications and knowledge networks potentially could play in furthering achievement of its objectives, and led IISD to become actively involved in the World Summit on the Information Society. This involvement in turn raised IISD's awareness of the critical role Internet governance institutions and processes play in shaping the Internet's potential to support sustainable development.
WSIS involvement also made IISD aware of the gulf that currently separates the community of stakeholders engaged in issues of Internet governance (the world of IG) from the community of stakeholders engaged in sustainable development (the world of SD). As David Souter demonstrated in "Whose Summit? Whose Information Society?" (available at http://www.apc.org/books/index.shtml), the development community was largely absent from WSIS, even though the summit's main purpose was to harness the power of ICTs to global development goals. In similar fashion, the Johannesburg Summit paid relatively little attention to the role of ICTs in development. As long as this gulf persists, it is unlikely that the governance processes of either community will fully reflect the needs, aspirations, knowledge or experience of the other, or effectively engage its members in matters that should be of common interest.
Against this background, IISD decided to launch an initiative aimed at strengthening the linkages between the IG and SD communities. As a first step toward this goal, IISD has commissioned a series of scoping studies that aim to present the viewpoints of the two communities on five key issues that are common to both – governance processes, economic barriers to development, capacity-building, access to local knowledge, and indicators for development.
By inviting comments on these studies from members of both communities, and by comparing and contrasting the different perspectives that emerge from the studies and comments, we hope to lay the foundations for a research and action agenda that will begin bringing the worlds of IG and SD closer together. We plan to publish the results of this exercise in conjunction with the second Internet Governance Forum, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro on November 12-15, 2007.
We will be inviting comments on the scoping studies, which are available at http://www.iisd.org/infosoc/gov/igsd/ , via an e-conference that will run from September 17-28. If you or your colleagues would like to participate in the e-conference, the following note describes how to get involved. If you would like to make other members of the Internet governance community aware of the e-conference, please feel free to create links on your web site or to mention it in your newsletter.
From September 17 to 28, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is hosting an e-conference to engage researchers, practitioners and policy analysts in an open discussion on the intersections between Internet governance and sustainable development. Your participation will help advance the debate.
Please visit the following url for full details, http://www.iisd.org/infosoc/gov/igsd/, or read on for a brief summary.
By commissioning a pair of exploratory papers on each of these topics, IISD aimed to expand the links between these two communities of researchers and practitioners who have spent over three decades working in relative isolation from one another, creating gaps in vocabulary and culture. Each of these papers defines the issue area; describes its relevant governance structures and processes; identifies the main issues currently being debated; articulates actual and potential links between ICTs/Internet governance and sustainable development; and proposes areas for further study.
The purpose of this e-conference is to give participants an opportunity to share their thoughts, comments, or questions regarding the content presented in these paper pairs. You are encouraged join this e-conference to engage other participant in a discussion of common positions, mutual challenges and differences, and how lessons from one side might inform progress on the other, in the context of each issue area.
Copies of the papers can be downloaded at http://www.iisd.org/infosoc/gov/igsd/, and an email containing links to the papers will be sent when you confirm your subscription.
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Q: Django running wrong view method I have to view files stored in mysite folder. one is named as views.py and other is named as request_view.py. In urls.py, I have used 'answer' method for views.py and 'display_meta' method for request_view.py.
(django version: 1.5 and python version: 2.7.3)
this is the url pattern:
url(r'^twitter/$', answer), url(r'request/$', display_meta)

when  I call http:/127.0.0.1:8000/request/, then also first view(i.e. /twitter/) is called!
any help?
one more thing. In my view.py, I have some unbounded code (i.e. the code which is neither present in a method or class). can this be the cause of the problem?
l = StdOutListener()
auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
stream = Stream(auth, l)
keyword = input('enter the keyword you want to search for?')
stream.filter(track = [keyword])

apart from this code, evry code is either in the class or method.
One thing that I noticed is that first the code of the view.py runs, then display_meta runs.
Thanks in advance.
SOLVED
The problem was with the import function that I was using. since my code was unbounded in one of the views, the import function always import that regardless of the url that I choose.
Suggestion
Always use the nomenclature mentioned in the this example. In many books it has been suggested that we should import the views, but it might cause an error if you have unbounded code like I had.

A: I don't know exactly why /twitter/ view is called, but I can see two things to change:

*

*You should use a string as the second parameter for url(), as you can see in this example [1]. You can use 'myapp.views.my_method' nomenclature.

*You forgot to start the request URL with ^ that indicates the start of the URL.

About the unbounded code, I don't know if that could be causing the problem. But I can't see why are you putting that code unbounded. I am not sure when that code would be executed, I guess the first time you call a view in that file and Django loads the file (I'm guessing, I don't know exactly), but I don't think that would be a good way to do that. Think when do you want to execute that code, put it in a method, and call it.
[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/http/urls/#example

A: HI hemant i am wondering why you have written request_view.py.
Please see the django docs.
what you can do is .
Create two function in your views.py like
def answer(request):

   do some stuffs.

   render_to_response(template.html)

and on the same page write another
def display_meta(request):

   # do your studd
   render_to_response(some.html)

YOU NEED NOT TO CREATE TWO SEPERATE VIEWS.PY
I dont know what this code does
l = StdOutListener()
auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
stream = Stream(auth, l)
keyword = input('enter the keyword you want to search for?')
stream.filter(track = [keyword])

But if you want to use StdOutListener  inside your function you can call in your view
like
def display_meta(request):
   stobject  = StdOutListener()  # use parameters if you have here
   # do your studd
   render_to_response(some.html)

A: Organizing views into a python package could solve this problem. So if you have a structure like this...
# views.py
def SomeView(request):
    return HttpResponse('SomeView')

# another_view.py
def AnotherView(request):
    return HttpResponse('AnotherView')

Your can reorganize these separate view files into a views package. That is...
# views
    # __init__.py
    from views import SomeView
    from another_view import AnotherView

    # views.py
    def SomeView(request):
        return HttpResponse('SomeView')

    # another_view.py
    def AnotherView(request):
        return HttpResponse('AnotherView')

And now, everything can be called in a django-standard way:
url(r'^url-to-some-view/$', 'views.SomeView'),
url(r'^url-to-another-view/$', 'views.AnotherView'),

UPDATED:
To make a 'python package'...

*

*Create a views directory at the same level as the view.py file [mkdir views]

*Create a __init.py__ file inside the views directory # this is what makes a directory a 'python package'

*Move views.py into the views directory.

*Move your request_view.py into the views directory.

*Edit the __init__.py file with the necessary import statements. In this case:
from views import answer
from request_view import display_meta

What this does is replace a file with a directory. By importing everything into the __init__.py file, this directory looks like a large file to your code, rather than another module.

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A succinct and very accessible summary of Eckhart's teachings was given in a paper by John Orme Mills OP at the Eckhart Society One Day Conference in London in 2002. We present this here with some minor edits.
And, years later, we find her repeating this very same advice to all sorts of groups of people – saying, for example, 'Don't try to understand Eckhart too much. Don't try to work it all out. Just read it.' Really, one could easily get the idea that the writings of Eckhart were just a collection of aphorisms!
'Help with method' – this, perhaps surprisingly, is what she found in Eckhart. And Ashley Young, the General Secretary of the Eckhart Society, writing about Ursula's Eckhart reader of 1988 entitled The Man from whom God hid Nothing, said that the book was above all 'about the usefulness of Eckhart.' (Fleming, 1995, p. xii).
Eckhart was certainly not a muddled thinker. He was an outstanding theologian at the period when scholasticism was at the peak of its prestige – in fact, when it was the dominant influence in Western European thought. And, whatever reservations many of us may have today about scholasticism, there is no doubt about the importance scholasticism gave to logical soundness in argument, to scrupulous analysis of theses, and to systematising. Eckhart knew how to organise his thoughts.
However, if what we are looking for is a guide to the spiritual life suitable for people who are not academics, obviously it will not be Eckhart's Latin works, which were predominantly written for academics, that we will turn to, but his German sermons. Generally speaking, sermons, as a genre, are not ideal for instructing people in spiritual development in a simple systematic way, unless they are being given to a regular audience. And Eckhart's sermons, however substantial, were always sermons, not lectures, and few were composed as a cycle – a series. The theology in Eckhart's German sermons has foundations as solid as the theology in his Latin works, but tracing ideas in Eckhart's German sermons usually involves jumping to and fro all over the place.
There are, though, a handful of exceptions to this general rule. And the first of Eckhart's cycle of four sermons on the eternal birth of the Word in the ground of the soul (a sermon-cycle very probably preached to his fellow Dominicans) sums up nearly all the most important aspects of Eckhart's teaching on spiritual maturity – teaching at the heart of what he has to say to us about ourselves (Sermons 1–4, Walshe, 2008). In this brief exploration of how Eckhart set out to help people to develop a deep spirituality I will focus mainly (though not entirely) on sermon 1. I will then turn briefly to sermon 9. The sermon numbers I use throughout are those of Walshe (2008).
One of Ursula's more provocative remarks was that human nature is such that, whatever we may seem to be doing or however far we may seem to be from the mark, we are really searching for God (Fleming, 1995). She was prompted to say this by Eckhart's assertion that when we go out of ourselves to find God or fetch God we are making a mistake: that, on the contrary, we do not find God outside ourselves and we should not conceive him except as in us – that our best chance of finding God is where we left him.
'What does it avail me that the birth is always happening, if it does not happen to me? That it should happen in me is what matters.' So said St Augustine [he didn't, actually!]. We shall therefore speak of this birth, of how it may take place in us and be consummated in the virtuous soul, whenever God the Father speaks His eternal word in the perfect soul.
'In the perfect soul', notice! He emphasises that an indispensable condition for this birth is that we should be living a very good Christian life. He distrusts rigid programmes for progressing in the spiritual life, saying that there is no single 'way' to God – contrary to what many pious people down the centuries have thought (McGinn, 2001, p. 58). What he does stress is that before anything else we must be utterly passive. Passivity, as we commonly understand the term, is the very contrary to all that is most admired in our present culture. In fact, Eckhart is not saying that we should be weak and negative and torpid (he was none of those things himself). The eternal birth takes place in the depths of the self, of the soul, beyond our senses, and he is saying that with God's help we should acquire the capacity to inwardly empty the mind of all sense experience, of all that takes us out of ourselves.
Incidentally, this should not be taken to mean that the withdrawal and passivity required for the birth necessarily has to involve 'rapture' or 'ecstasy'. As Bernard McGinn (2001, p. 59) says 'the dark way to God is given absolute priority'. It is of the very nature of the Divine Word to be hidden in its revelation and revealed in its hiddeness.
All the same, Eckhart does not consider that it is easy to acquire the state of passivity he describes. He says elsewhere that it is rare for anybody untrained to reach the stage at which they are proof against disturbance. This needs hard work, and demands especially two things. The first of these is physical seclusion; the second, an ability to throw out ideas wandering into the mind, so that one 'does not scatter oneself and get sold into multiplicity', as he rather nicely puts it. He stresses that to still the mind one must still the body too.
It was Eckhart's view that whenever the mind is firmly fixed on God the senses are obedient to the mind (Fleming, 1995, p. 17, quoting Evans, 1924, p. 31). In fact, in one of the talks he gave to novices and students when he was Prior of Erfurt he said: 'A man should accustom himself to having God present always in his disposition and his intention. Believe me, if you were constant in this way, no-one could come between you and the God who is present to you' (Walshe, 2008, Talks of Instruction 6).
How do We discern the Birth in Us?
It is in and through the deconstruction of self in detaching, letting go, relinquishing, unbecoming, that the birth of the Word in the soul takes place. Detaching and birthing are not successive stages in a mystical path but two sides of the same coin.
But how are we to know that the Divine Word has been born in us? Clearly it is not something that we know we have in the way we know we have the flu.
Well, we will know partly by the way we behave. Says Eckhart: 'The man who rests on nothing, who is attached to nothing, though heaven and earth should fall, will remain unmoved' (Fleming, 1995, quoting Evans, 1924, p. 115). And he also says: 'The more and more clearly God's image shows in us, the more evidently God is born in us' (Evans, p. 16 ?). But we know what has happened mainly from what we are aware has happened to us. In the words of Eckhart: 'You must know that God is born in us when the mind is stilled and sense troubles us no longer' (Fleming, 1995, p. 16). And 'All things become simply God to you, for in all things you notice only God' (Walshe, 2008, sermon 4).
Must We have a Leisurely Life?
However, a much more urgent question has to be answered: Is Eckhart in effect telling us that in this world we can only share God's life at a deep level by leading a retired and leisurely existence? In other words, that it is unlikely that the Divine Word will be born in us if a lot of our time is absorbed in a busy life in the world? To put it another away: was the mystical tradition of the nine centuries after St Augustine and, for that matter, the predominant mystical tradition of the seven most recent centuries, right in seeing the active life as something basically to be endured and to be escaped from whenever possible?
Talking to that group of young men in Erfurt when he was himself still quite a young man, Eckhart said: 'Whoever truly possesses God in the right way, possesses him in all places: on the street, in any company, as well as in a church or a remote place or in their cell… Grasping all things in a divine way and making of them something more than they are in themselves cannot be learned by taking flight, but rather we must learn to maintain an inner solitude regardless of where we are or who we are with'(Walshe, 2008, Talks of Instruction 6).
Talking to those young men on another occasion he took a step further. He said to them: 'Either a man must find God in works or abandon all works, but, since a man cannot in this life be without works, he must learn to possess God in all things' (Walshe, 2008, Talks of Instruction 7).
You should never pray for any transitory thing: but if you would pray for anything, you should pray for God's will alone and nothing else, and then you get everything. If you pray for anything else, you will get nothing. In God there is nothing but one, and one is indivisible. If you seek or expect anything more, that is not God but a fraction. You should seek nothing at all, neither knowledge nor understanding nor inwardness nor piety nor repose [yes, not even repose!] but only God's will. If you seek God's will alone, whatever flows from that or is revealed by that you may take as a gift from God without ever looking or considering whether it is by nature or grace or where it comes from or in what guise. And you need only lead an ordinary Christian life without considering doing anything special.
Bearing in mind the line of thinking in sermon 55, it is not surprising, really, that Eckhart comes to the conclusion that he does in his sermon 9. Sermon 9 is his famous and controversial sermon on Martha and Mary, which has for its heroine not the contemplative Mary who only wanted to sit at the feet of Jesus but the overworked Martha, whom St Luke tells us was 'distracted by her many tasks' [10:41]. Drawing not only on his highly personal reading of the story of Martha and Mary but on his past theologising and doubtless his own experience, he argues that it is possible for a spirituality substantially rooted in an active life to be of even greater value than the traditional life of the contemplative. This is completely contrary to the opinion of St Augustine, St Gregory and St Bernard. He abandons the long-prevailing conviction that there is an irreconcilable tension between the contemplative life and the active life. For the first time since Christianity's early days we have a spirituality of the active life – an achievement of enormous significance almost forgotten after Eckhart was brought for trial in Avignon. It is now clear that, in spite of his emphasis upon the importance of inwardness and of abandoning materiality, Eckhart's mysticism is (to quote Bernard McGinn's phrase) 'a mysticism of everyday life'.
Sermon 9 is unfortunately not easy to read because of the many digressions in it. It is Eckhart's basic thesis in it that both emptiness and activity are necessary in our lives: both the freedom of detachment and what he calls 'work and activity in time', which he says does not lessen eternal happiness and is even necessary to get to God. In fact, he believes that, in a life lived out in the world, in what he sees to be 'a new kind of action', in other words a spirituality rooted in activity rather than vision, a higher form of knowledge is possible than even the light of contemplative ecstasy – at least contemplative ecstasy of Mary's kind, which is unconnected with ordinary everyday life. Martha (as Eckhart discerns her) is sufficiently mature to be able to work undisturbed in the midst of the concerns and troubles of the world, and it is Eckhart's conviction that in a life like hers, much of it spent in the kitchen, a nobler kind of communion with God is possible than any except the highest unmediated vision. Here is his reply to the question: 'Can we only share God's life at a deep level by leading a retired and leisurely existence?' I think Ursula Fleming would have approved of it.
Evans, C. de B. (trans) (1924, 1931) Meister Eckhart Doctor Ecstaticus, 2 vols. London: Watkins.
Fleming, Ursula (1995) The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing. Leominster: Gracewing.
McGinn, Bernard (2001) The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing. New York: Crossroads Herder.
Walshe, Maurice O'C (trans) (2008) The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart.


After 3 slide sessions on the Dutch "hills". I headed off to Woodwings. One week of downhillskateboarding training. For me it was perfect and after this week I felt so much improvement. Woodwings got me downhill ready!
This is what you can expect when you go to Woodwings.
In the morning you go off to the platform to practice some dancing or sliding. After lunch you skate the Woodwings track. In the evening you can chill, skate the mini ramp or enjoy the nature around you. Some evenings there is already something planned, like a nice BBQ or a game.
This was perfect to get my basic downhill skills. Also for the younger kids. The organisation does a good job to keep it interesting for all ages.
If you need extra training, that's no problem at Woodwings. You can take extra lessons in downhill skateboarding and in freestyle dancing.
Here you see me skating the track together with Elena Vanhauwaert.
Dineke is from the Hague and studies media design and love downhill and dance.


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package graphql_test

import (
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	"github.com/sprucehealth/graphql"
	"github.com/sprucehealth/graphql/gqlerrors"
	"github.com/sprucehealth/graphql/testutil"
)

func TestValidate_NoUnusedFragments_AllFragmentNamesAreUsed(t *testing.T) {
	testutil.ExpectPassesRule(t, graphql.NoUnusedFragmentsRule, `
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        name
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    `)
}
func TestValidate_NoUnusedFragments_AllFragmentNamesAreUsedByMultipleOperations(t *testing.T) {
	testutil.ExpectPassesRule(t, graphql.NoUnusedFragmentsRule, `
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          ...HumanFields2
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        name
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      }
      fragment HumanFields2 on Human {
        name
      }
      fragment HumanFields3 on Human {
        name
      }
    `)
}
func TestValidate_NoUnusedFragments_ContainsUnknownFragments(t *testing.T) {
	testutil.ExpectFailsRule(t, graphql.NoUnusedFragmentsRule, `
      query Foo {
        human(id: 4) {
          ...HumanFields1
        }
      }
      query Bar {
        human(id: 4) {
          ...HumanFields2
        }
      }
      fragment HumanFields1 on Human {
        name
        ...HumanFields3
      }
      fragment HumanFields2 on Human {
        name
      }
      fragment HumanFields3 on Human {
        name
      }
      fragment Unused1 on Human {
        name
      }
      fragment Unused2 on Human {
        name
      }
    `, []gqlerrors.FormattedError{
		testutil.RuleError(`Fragment "Unused1" is never used.`, 22, 7),
		testutil.RuleError(`Fragment "Unused2" is never used.`, 25, 7),
	})
}
func TestValidate_NoUnusedFragments_ContainsUnknownFragmentsWithRefCycle(t *testing.T) {
	testutil.ExpectFailsRule(t, graphql.NoUnusedFragmentsRule, `
      query Foo {
        human(id: 4) {
          ...HumanFields1
        }
      }
      query Bar {
        human(id: 4) {
          ...HumanFields2
        }
      }
      fragment HumanFields1 on Human {
        name
        ...HumanFields3
      }
      fragment HumanFields2 on Human {
        name
      }
      fragment HumanFields3 on Human {
        name
      }
      fragment Unused1 on Human {
        name
        ...Unused2
      }
      fragment Unused2 on Human {
        name
        ...Unused1
      }
    `, []gqlerrors.FormattedError{
		testutil.RuleError(`Fragment "Unused1" is never used.`, 22, 7),
		testutil.RuleError(`Fragment "Unused2" is never used.`, 26, 7),
	})
}
func TestValidate_NoUnusedFragments_ContainsUnknownAndUndefFragments(t *testing.T) {
	testutil.ExpectFailsRule(t, graphql.NoUnusedFragmentsRule, `
      query Foo {
        human(id: 4) {
          ...bar
        }
      }
      fragment foo on Human {
        name
      }
    `, []gqlerrors.FormattedError{
		testutil.RuleError(`Fragment "foo" is never used.`, 7, 7),
	})
}


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"Curb" Memorializes South Asians Whose Lives Were Robbed by American Racism
Words by Jeevika Verma
Sunando Sen was an Indian immigrant living in America. In 2012, at 46, he fulfilled his dream of opening a print shop in Manhattan. Six months later, a woman pushed him off a subway platform and into the path of an oncoming train. In her own words, she "hated Hindus and Muslims" and had been "beating them up" ever since the September 11 attacks.
Divya Victor's poetry collection Curb, which came out earlier this year, integrates the atrocity of Sen's murder into a larger examination of violence against South Asians in America. The twin towers fell 20 years ago, but as Victor conveys through her poems, the history of South Asian vulnerability goes far beyond 9/11.
Curb is dedicated to Sen and three other men — Balbir Singh Sodhi, Navroze Mody, and Srinivas Kuchibhotla — all killed by white nationalists on American soil. The poet documents their tragic stories, among others, next to nuggets of her own personal history. Jumping from anecdote to reportage to multilingual archive, Curb lays out a lyrical framework for understanding how white supremacy "curbs" South Asian safety in America.
The book's title does not just represent restraint. It also points to "land" — a place where road meets sidewalk. It is a symbol of domesticity, but also of borders. Victor writes, "at the consulate, the line / for birth certificates is the line / for death certificates". Governmental scrutiny is at the foundation of anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. But eager parents look to America for a better world: "first there as a line // & then there was a story".
Bureaucracy claims narrator to that story. "This will form a good scar / this will be a ring of, ring of roses / a pocket full of passport poses," the poet writes in reference to a childrens' playtime rhyme from India. The "scar" is the "proof of identity" that America asks for again and again and again, made good only by the hope for opportunity. This is how the fear of getting caught holds the immigrant hostage, even when there's been no wrongdoing.
"What is the force that can lift a child into the air and throw her across the world?" The contingency of "proof" — the license to exist, to stay — creates borders for the immigrant even before she's born. Victor writes of her daughter's birth, "our shared border is a fist / unfurling; a red flag // her, a thing pink / found in the maraud." To be inflicted an identity based on "forms" and "laws" — to be claimed a trespasser — is the immigrant's first violent experience.
With visas, USCIS petitions, checked boxes — immigrant survival overtakes naivety. Then the story changes. The South Asian has to figure out how to be brown in American public spaces, a challenge made more profound in the post 9/11 world. First clamoring to prove belonging, now a perpetual suspect. In the poem "Last Petition," Victor writes:
"yes, I remember, we
parceled our family
into placeholders
that September
& huddled in the warmth of an archive
set on fire."
The immigrant is always rewriting her story. She is conscious of her body, and also the ground underneath. By listing geographic coordinates at the corners of some pages, Victor highlights the tragedy of this awareness. At the end of the book, she invites readers to look up the GPS coordinates on the internet, calling it a "kinesthetic and volitional act that leaves traces."
This insistence on "leaving a trace" is how Victor asks South Asians to reclaim their stories from America. Back in her dedication, the poet lists the four men she is writing for next to the place they were killed in. And on that very first page, she blames the United States "for the force of feeling and action that ended their lives." Sen, in New York. Sodhi, in Arizona. Mody, in New Jersey. Kuchibhotla, in Kansas. This is a powerful act of naming: the man and the place where he was murdered; the man and the place where he was made less than one.
"All my poems are manifests / for burials everywhere," Victor writes. Her poetic documentation of hate crimes, most of which go unreported to authorities, often due to fear of deportation, responds to years of South Asian identity in America being turned into a threat. Curb, layered with reminders of immigrant survival, memorializes the pure potential of a life — and its right to live outside of one singular tragedy.

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Gaze across Hamford Water and watch yachts enter and leave Titchmarsh Marina while in the background large vessels sail to and from the Port of Harwich.
The Naze is a public open space. The dense scrub of hawthorn, gorse and brambles provides cover for numerous animal species and acts as an important landfall for migrating birds, including the occasional rare vagrants.
The cliffs at Walton-on-the-Naze form one of the finest geological sites in Britain and for that reason are a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). At the base of the cliffs is London Clay which is 54 million years old and it is overlaid with a sandy deposit called Red Crag (2 Million years old).
John Weston Nature Reserve is located near the end of the Naze and can be reached along the public footpath that's stretches along the cliff tops from the Naze Tower. The reserve is owned by the Essex Wildlife Trust and is named after the late John Weston, a leading Essex naturalist. The nature reserve consists of bramble thickets, rough grassland and four ponds. Its nesting birds include lapwing, redshank, sedge and reed warblers. It is also an important stopping off point for migrants, for example the Firecrest. Being so close to the shore it also attracts shore loving insects including Emperor and Cream Spot Tiger Moths
Hamford Water and the Walton Backwaters is an area of tidal creeks, mudflats, islands, salt marshes and marsh grasslands. It can be viewed best by boat or from a public footpath which runs along much of the seawall. This area is recognised internationally and is designated as a National Nature Reserve.
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First drive: Honda Jazz
Date: 26 June 2020 | Author: Simon Harris
Honda's fourth-generation Jazz is now on sale, with hybrid power and a more rugged Crosstar variant.
Centre airbag between driver and passenger, plus driver's knee airbag, front, side and curtain airbags, autonomous emergency braking with collision warning, intelligent speed limiter, lane departure warning with lane-keeping assistance, traffic sign recognition, electronic parking brake, electronic climate control, 'magic seat', Bluetooth with DAB, 5in dashboard screen, automatic headlights with high-beam assistance.
Petrol hybrid: 109hp 1.5
Equipment grades:
SE, SR, EX, EX Crosstar
Some of you might remember the Honda Jazz Hybrid. It was a variant of the second-generation Jazz, and offered lower CO2 emissions through its mild hybrid system.
Mild hybrids were uncommon in those days. It was Honda's preferred method of electrification, and used an electric motor to assist the engine during acceleration, and never powered the car alone.
Its CO2 emissions of 99g/km made it appealing to fleets with CO2 emissions caps set at 100g/km, and Honda had a strong presence among public sector organisations.
While Honda's electrification strategy went on hold after that model, it's back in full swing with the CR-V Hybrid launched last year and now with the new Jazz Hybrid.
Unlike the Jazz from two generations ago, the new model is a full hybrid - meaning it doesn't have a plug, but can run on electric-only for short distances, with the battery charged by the engine - and this is the only power choice available.
The Jazz has a different look from its predecessor. The third-generation Jazz had some similarities to the Civic and CR-V at the front, while the latest one does its own thing, with a vertical leading edge to the bonnet, and headlight units that sweep back towards the windscreen pillars.
There is also a Crosstar version, with lower, dark plastic styling and raised ground clearance, to appeal to those in the market for a Ford Fiesta Active.
All versions of the Jazz to date have maximised interior space by locating the fuel tank under the front seats. The fourth generation is no exception, and as a result it continues with Honda's flexible 'magic seats' design in the rear, where the lower seat cushions can be flipped upwards to accommodate tall items, or the seat-backs folded forward to offer up to 1,205 litres of volume to roof height.
Other small cars have improved in terms of the volume available in recent years, although the Jazz still has an advantage, as well as the flexibility its more versatile seats offer.
There is a transformation in front, with a neat digital instrument display in front of the driver. Our EX test cars had the full 9in dashboard screen with Garmin navigation, although anyone choosing the entry-level SE will just have a 5in screen with audio display. The mid-grade SR comes with the larger 9in screen but no integrated navigation, although it is compatible with Apple Carplay and Android Auto (unlike the SE), so the driver's preferred smartphone map apps would appear on the display.
All versions get the full suite of safety features - refreshing on a small car - including a new centre airbag between the driver and front passenger, which will ultimately become mandatory.
Visibility is pretty good, with the A-pillar forked, leaving a decent-sized window between the door frame and windscreen. The Jazz also uses a greater proportion of high-strength steel in its structure than its predecessor.
The Jazz Hybrid uses a 1.5-litre petrol engine in conjunction with electric power, the latter stored in a lithium-ion battery. It uses a CVT automatic, which many automotive writers hate (due to the high initial revs when accelerating and the disconnect with the car's speed), unlike customers, who don't seem to mind that much.
Hyundai and Kia have adopted a dual-clutch transmission for their hybrids, to make the driving experience more engaging, but the Jazz's CVT follows the Toyota and Lexus hybrid philosophy.
You can cause histrionics under the bonnet by flooring the accelerator for a burst of speed, although with a deft touch from low speeds it's possible to leave the engine in its slumber until needed. The revs soon subside as the car picks up speed, and for the most part the Jazz is very refined.
It also has decent handling that belies the stereotypical age profile people believe the car has. Steering into corners is always neat and composed, and there is excellent body control.
The Crosstar version, with extra suspension travel because of its higher ground clearance, is perhaps a bit more supple, but even its taller stature doesn't have a great impact on its handling prowess.
We intended to compare costs with other small cars that use a full hybrid powertrain. Toyota is launching a new Yaris, while Renault has recently opened orders for the Clio E-Tech. Unfortunately, as those cars hadn't been fully appraised by our running costs analysts just yet, we can't really do a full comparison. However, the Clio is a quicker car than the Jazz, with 140hp, using a 1.6-litre engine and drawing from Renault's Formula One heritage, as the current racing cars use a 1.6-litre hybrid powertrain. The Clio's CO2 emissions of 98g/km are slightly better than the Jazz', but any tax advantage for drivers might be offset by higher pricing - the entry-level Clio E-Tech is priced from £19,595 on-the-road.
The new Yaris Hybrid has even lower CO2 emissions, from 86g/km in the preliminary information, but with 91hp doesn't quite have the performance of the Jazz. With a lower price point likely, this could be more appealing from a costs and tax perspective, unless a driver needs the extra space of the Jazz.
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CO2 (BIK band): 102g/km
BIK 20/40% a month: £77/£155
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8 Things You Didn't Know About Prince Charles and Princess Diana's Honeymoon
Juliana LaBiancaUpdated: Mar. 16, 2022
When most couples embark on their honeymoon, they're happy and in love—but Charles and Diana's honeymoon proved to be the exception.
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It took place aboard the royal yacht Britannia
After Prince Charles and Princess Diana's "wedding of the century" at St. Paul's Cathedral in July 1981, the royal pair set off for Gibraltar on Spain's south coast, where they boarded the Royal Yacht Britannia. The yacht cruised around the Mediterranean, including the Greek islands, for 14 days. The couple ended their getaway at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. It was a luxurious itinerary—but what really went down during those first few days of the couple's doomed marriage? Turns out, a lot more drama than you might think.
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Diana was still reeling over this engagement comment
While most people head out on their honeymoon with the impression that their partner is totally in love with them, Diana wasn't so sure. Her insecurity stemmed from an awkward interview at the time of her and Charles' engagement. "We had this ghastly interview the day we announced our engagement," she told her speech coach on a tape that was later used for the Channel 4 documentary Diana: In Her Own Words. "And this ridiculous [news] man said, 'Are you in love?' "I thought, what a thick question. So I said, 'Yes, of course, we are,' and Charles turned round and said, 'Whatever love means.' And that threw me completely. I thought, what a strange answer. It traumatized me." Here's what Diana really thought when she first met Prince Charles.
Charles called Camilla every chance he got
Although Charles' former flame Camilla Parker Bowles had already been married to her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, for eight years, Charles still found a way to call her from the Mediterranean. "The Prince simply had to be in constant contact with Camilla or he couldn't function properly," his valet Stephen Barry said in the book The Diana Chronicles. "If he went without his daily phone call, he would become tetchy and ill-tempered."
The pair didn't enjoy their first night together
"That first night was nothing special," Charles told a friend, according to Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles. "It was pleasant enough, of course. But she really was painfully naive." According to Brown, "Charles had enjoyed women who led him, mastered him, and mothered him. He was used to being served, not required to seduce." This is the surprising day Diana called the "worst in her life."
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Charles wore a gift from Camilla
As if calling Camilla wasn't bad enough, Charles also received a gift from her. "On our honeymoon, cufflinks arrive on his wrists," Diana said on the Channel 4 tapes. "Two C's entwined like the Chanel 'C'. Got it. One knew exactly. So I said 'Camilla gave you those didn't she?' He said 'Yes, so what's wrong? They're a present from a friend.' And boy, did we have a row. Jealousy, total jealousy. And it was such a good idea the two 'C's but it wasn't that clever."
The couple's incompatibility become extremely apparent
Prince Charles and Princess Diana's 12-year age gap had always been known, but never was it more apparent than aboard the Brittania. The 32-year-old prince envisioned spending his honeymoon sunning, swimming, reading, painting, and writing thank-you letters. "He'd taken along his watercolors, some canvases and a pile of books by the Afrikaner mystic and writer Laurens van der Post, which he'd hoped he and Diana might share and then discuss in the evenings," wrote Penny Junor in her book The Duchess. "Diana, however, was no great reader. She hated his wretched books and was offended that he might prefer to bury his head in one of them rather than sit and talk to her. She resented him sitting for hours at his easel, too, and they had many blazing rows. One day, when Charles was painting on the veranda deck of Britannia, he went off to look at something for half an hour. He came back to find she'd destroyed his painting and all his materials." Read the 10 conspiracy theories that still surround Diana's death.
Diana's bulimia spiraled out of control
Princess Diana had been struggling with bulimia for months by the time her honeymoon came around. "[During our engagement], my husband put his hand on my waistline and said: 'Oh, a bit chubby here, aren't we?' and that triggered off something in me," she told her biographer Andrew Morton. "And the Camilla thing. I was desperate, desperate. I remember the first time I made myself sick. I was so thrilled because I thought this was the release of tension." The disorder only got worse aboard the Britannia.
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Diana felt hopeless about the marriage by day two
While the world watched the prince and princess in awe, Diana began to feel despair. She told her biographer Andrew Morton that her "tremendous hope was slashed by day two." At one point, she wrote "I feel so small, so lonely, so out of my depth," according to Tina Brown's book. The couple announced their separation in 1992 and divorced in 1996. Next up, learn the 9 secrets about Princess Diana we only learned after her death.


All last month I meditated on one chapter of scripture: Romans 8 in the Message version. Some days I would read the whole passage, sometimes half, others only a few verses. I meditated and mulled over those words until they really became alive to me. So I thought I'd do a series about Romans 8 to share with all of you. It's rich with truth and light that will set you free.
Let's begin today with verses 1-2. Plenty to chew on there. I will break it down piece by piece.
What dilemma is this? Perhaps the very dilemma of fate? Chance? Or is it our ultimate fate as fallen human beings. A fate separated from our glorious maker. Perhaps even eternal separation, which would be the appropriate result of our sinful state. But with the arrival of Jesus, the slate is wiped clean. We are reconciled to our heavenly father. No longer pawns of fate—of Satan, the enemy of our soul—but beloved children. A royal priesthood, ambassadors of Christ to the dark world around us.
Those who enter into Christ's being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud.
I know I've lived too much of my life under a low-lying black cloud. Even as a believer. What about you? Do you ever feel oppressed, depressed? But that's not the plan. Christ has set us free from that. We no longer have to live under that darkness. But what is the condition? We must enter into Christ. The light of the world lives in us, shines through us. He is more than capable of dispelling that darkness. As we soak in His presence the darkness dissipates. As we speak His name and declare His word the darkness must flee.
At the cross Jesus conquered the enemy. Satan lost his power. Death was defeated. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us. And He's given us the keys to the kingdom. As His ambassadors, His children, He's given us the power. Yet too often we feel powerless, defeated, and broken down. We must put on the full armor of God that we might stand against the assaults of the enemy. We must fill ourselves with the word of God so that we can not only withstand any attack, but even be on the offensive for the kingdom of God.
And here's the best part. The Spirit of life in Christ blows in like a strong wind, clearing the air of that black cloud. Can you see it? Can you feel it blowing crisp and clean across your skin. Take a moment to close your eyes and picture this scene. Picture the black cloud in your life. Name it. Then watch the Spirit of life blow it away and clear the air. We are free from our original fate. Free of the brutal tyranny we were born under. Free from a life as slaves to sin and death. Free to serve Christ in all His liberty and grace in clean air under bright skies. Why don't you take a moment to dance in spin in that freedom. I know I will.
Thanks for joining me today for this foray through the first two verses of Romans 8. Come again in two weeks when I'll continue with this study. And please take a moment to share your thoughts, impressions, and experiences from these first two verses.
Oh yes, I need that refreshing wind of the Spirit. Thanks for this today, Dina!
I love that description too. A clean fresh breeze blowing away all the stagnant stuff. Thanks Dina!
Glad to hear you ladies were encouraged.
Dina, I love this! I especially love A new power is in operation. Great imagery. It gives me such an amazing peaceful feeling. It's very freeing.
Oh,those were the kind of clouds I was travelling under today.
But then I drove past a flock of pelicans. I've never seen a real pelican, so I backed up, shut my van off, and there on the open prairie without a building in sight, I taped, photographed, and gazed on the most amazing sight for 20 mins. Even missed supper because of it.


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Police revoke ART public assembly ban
Monday, 14 April 2014 07:53	Taipei Times
Following the demonstration outside its office on Friday, the Zhongzheng First Police Precinct yesterday said it resolved after a meeting that the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan (ART) would again be allowed to assemble on Jinan Road, as it has been doing for the past five years.
More than 1,000 people gathered outside the precinct office on Friday night to protest against Precinct Chief Fang Yang-ning (方仰寧) reneging on his pledge, made in the early hours of Friday morning, to not disperse protesters from the square outside the Legislative Yuan, the venue where the ART had organized talks during the occupation of Legislative Yuan and continued to do so after the Sunflower Movement's exit on Thursday.
The protesters, who assembled after a call on the Internet to "pass by" the precinct office on Friday evening, also demanded that the office retract its "unconstitutional order" on Wednesday that its approval of the ART's application to assemble on Jinan Road (one of the roads surrounding the Legislative Yuan) until Saturday be scrapped, saying the ART had violated the law several times and that "any of the organization's future requests to assemble will no longer be approved."
The protesters said the police had not only failed to make good on their promise, but also violated the law — by forcibly evicting the protesters — and the Constitution — by unilaterally denying a particular group its right to assemble.
The "passersby" demanding Fang to apologize and step down, has sparked disputes online even among those who support the Sunflower movement.
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei mayoral aspirants Sean Lien (連勝文) and Ting Shou-chung (丁守中) have all expressed support for Fang, with Hau saying that he would not accept Fang's resignation, which had been orally made at the protest site.
However, the precinct office yesterday issued a press release saying "since [the ART's] act of illegally occupying the plaza had ended, the group's assembly has now been [re-]sanctioned."
The office said that although the organization had been continually applying for and receiving approval to assemble on Jinan Road since February 2009, "it nevertheless had illegally led the crowd to break into the legislature's front plaza and tear down a plaque on March 18, obstructed police officers performing their duties on April 3 and again led the crowd to areas where assemblies and parades are not allowed [the presidential residence and the Executive Yuan] on April 6 and 7."
"In view of the group constantly harming the social order and damaging public interests, the office has decided [on Wednesday] to revoke the approval for its assembly from April 9 to 19 in accordance with the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法)," it said.
The office said that because the ART had reapplied for approval on Thursday and the police had "persuaded" the protesters to leave the legislature's front plaza on Friday, thereby "rendering the illegal act of plaza occupation non-existent," the group's application to assemble on Jinan Road had been approved again.
Source: Taipei Times - 2014/04/14
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators yesterday accused President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of trying to "de-Taiwanize" high school textbooks to "brainwash" students.
A textbook review committee is making final reviews of various textbook editions for the next school year that starts in September to make sure they follow a curriculum approved in 2009.


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• The Cream Puff includes 75+ miles of world-renowned, pristine singletrack on a 100-mile course on the Alpine Trail system, also known as the "crown jewel" mountain bike destination in Oakridge! This course includes the north Alpine loop featuring Elk Camp Shelter and the infamous Chrome Toilet, Tire Mountain and Cloverpatch trails.
• Amazing Aid Station Support – Well-stocked stations with energy drinks, gels and a veritable smorgasbord of your favorite race treats. As a bonus, Disciples of Dirt and "Master Chef Dungy" team up at our midway aid station with a delicious short order lunch - your choice of ingredients (whatever's on the menu – every year, it's a surprise…).
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This is a regular phpDocumentor annotation that is used to denote that associated structural elements are elements internal to the application or library. It has been misused by Extbase to tell if a command is internal and thus should not be exposed through help texts, user documentation etc.
TYPO3 does no longer support the use of the @internal annotation to influence the behaviour of the code.
Using @internal on methods of classes extending TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Mvc\Controller\CommandController will trigger a PHP E_USER_DEPRECATED error.
All installations that make use of Extbase commands whose methods are tagged with @internal.
Just remove the annotation from the affected controllers.


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Q: What are $previous, $owner, and $name? This is callParent method in ExtJS. What are $previous, $owner, and $name? Why is there a leading "$" sign?
    callParent: function(args) {
                var method;
            // This code is intentionally inlined for the least number of debugger stepping
            return (method = this.callParent.caller) && (method.$previous ||
                  ((method = method.$owner ? method : method.caller) &&
                        method.$owner.superclass.$class[method.$name])).apply(this, args || noArgs);
        }

A: It's internal detail the class system sets up so it can track methods. The $ are there so it's less likely to conflict with your own property names on the class.


These two kids simply can't agree on what's happening with the weather outside. Their raining vs. sprinkling debate gets a little tense, in a cute way.
Squeals of Delight: Tickling a Penguin!
This Bad Dog Is Not Allowed On the Bed!


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Kris Thompson Playwright
Rocktavia The Musical by Kris Thompson (Photo by Christine Weems Photography)
My words. Your Voice.
Important life truths unfold naturally, subtly, often along carefully woven threads of humor running through relatable stories told in a way that allows them to seep into the conscious and subconscious. For some it will foster thought, perhaps growth. For others it will simply entertain. I'm happiest when both are achieved.
Theatre is collaborative. The actors, directors, and crew bring just as much to the table as the playwright. And nothing would be possible without the audience. It's that relationship, with the audience, that all theatre artists seek to foster.
I first got the inkling to write a play while stage managing for a community theatre in Houston. I was a theatre mom taking my daughters back and forth to rehearsal. Naturally, because I was a breathing and seemingly responsible person, the theatre's artistic director asked me to stage manage a play, and then another, and yet another. Like it always goes for community theatre volunteers, I spent a massive amount of time ushering, building sets, stage managing, etc…
The daughters are now college graduates and that inkling turned into a full length play which was first produced in 2014. Numerous full length and short plays have followed, many successful, some still awaiting production, many in the works. All a sincere part of me.
– Kris Thompson (she/her)
I love this quote:
"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." – Arthur Miller
© 2023 Kris Thompson Playwright