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White House, Doug Emhoff host summit against antisemitism, warning that the hatred is 'the death knell of democracy'
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff at a roundtable discussion with Jewish leaders about the rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States on Wednesday. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
WASHINGTON — The White House convened top administration officials and Jewish leaders on Wednesday for a summit on antisemitism, which has spiked sharply in recent years — and has become a national crisis in recent months.
Antisemitic violence, like the 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, has been on the rise. Rapper Kanye West has been at the center of a weeks-long controversy engendered by his antisemitic screeds and threats; despite this, he was recently hosted at Mar-a-Lago by former President Donald Trump. And online hate speech continues to proliferate, creating a tense environment for many American Jews and other communities.
"I'm in pain right now. Our community is in pain," said second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, who presided over the meeting. "It hurts me to see what we're going through right now. We cannot normalize this. There's no both-sides-ism on this one. All of us should just be against antisemitism."
Emhoff, center, presides over the discussion about antisemitism in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
Emhoff is the first Jewish spouse to have been part of a successful presidential ticket. Many of President Biden's top advisers are also Jewish — as antisemitic conspiracy theorists have unfailingly noted. The coronavirus pandemic, and the economic devastation it caused, appear to have supercharged animosity against Jews, which had been rising since 2015; the bigotry has been further boosted by other factors like the rise of online extremism.
"For too long, too many people have failed to take antisemitism seriously," said Deborah Lipstadt, the famed Holocaust scholar now serving as a special State Department envoy to combat antisemitism.
"People are no longer saying the quiet parts out loud," Emhoff said. "They are literally screaming them."
Recent months have seen several high-profile outbursts of antisemitism, most notably from the performer and designer West, now known as Ye, who has engaged in several prolonged and vitriolic tirades, most recently on the Infowars program hosted by far-right media personality Alex Jones. West used the three-hour interview to heap praise on Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Last month West and prominent Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes were invited to a pre-Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Trump at his South Florida golf club and resort. Despite the ensuing outrage, the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner has never condemned the hateful views West and Fuentes have labored to popularize.
Nick Fuentes during an interview with Agence France-Presse in Boston in 2016. (William Edwards/AFP via Getty Images)
Also in attendance Wednesday was former Ambassador Susan Rice, who heads the Domestic Policy Council. She recounted growing up in Shepherd Park, a District of Columbia neighborhood that was home to large Jewish and African American populations. The fraying of bonds between Jewish and Black communities has only contributed to the pervasive feeling that old animosities are becoming prominent again, helped along by the universality of social media and fostered by deepening social isolation and political polarization.
Joining administration figures were leaders of various Jewish groups and denominations, many of whom have had to implement security measures that would have once been unthinkable in the United States. Last month synagogues in both New York and New Jersey faced threats of attack. Just hours before the White House summit began, a man was arrested in the New York City borough of Staten Island for allegedly shooting a BB gun at a father and son outside a kosher market.
Lipstadt warned that antisemitism almost always portends a broader societal shift toward intolerance and authoritarianism. "Antisemites don't stop with hating Jews. Antisemitism is the tip of the iceberg of hate and prejudice. Antisemitism is the death knell of democracy."
Deborah Lipstadt, special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, speaks during the roundtable discussion. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
Still, it is not clear just what the Biden administration — or any government entity, for that matter — can do to combat the proliferation of antisemitism and other forms of hatred. The White House recently launched an effort to provide security funds for houses of worship, and intelligence agencies now monitor domestic extremism with a newfound urgency. Even so, antisemitic and racist tropes proliferate freely on the internet and are sometimes amplified by political leaders like Trump.
Emhoff vowed to continue working on the issue. "For me, this is not the end," he said at Wednesday's summit. "This is just the beginning of this conversation. And as long as I have this microphone, I am going to speak out against hate, bigotry and lies."
Doug Emhoff emerges as the face of Biden's fight against antisemitism
Doug Emhoff, second gentleman, to convene antisemitism roundtable at the White House this week
Doug Emhoff hosts a roundtable on antisemitism at the White House : NPR
'An epidemic of hate': Emhoff hosts White House roundtable amid rising antisemitism


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We heard overnight that the likelihood of an Australian interest rate cut is diminished by the Reserve Bank of Australia's confidence that the consumer sector will rebound. It is not a view shared by all analysts and commentators but the Australian Dollar strengthened marginally on the news. We will get wages data from Australia overnight tonight. The RBA will clearly be hoping for an improvement in last month's 0.6% rise in the wages index. I am less confident of that.
We will get inflation data from the UK and US today. Neither dataset is likely to produce any noticeable inflation so, if the data's as forecast, the Pound and the US Dollar will most likely remain fairly sanguine. However, against the Euro, both are looking very strong. The Euro-US Dollar rate has fallen to $1.06 and seems set to move further south. The Sterling - Euro rate is testing resistance at €1.42 and could make another cent of gain without breaking any major resistance lines on traders' charts.
The US Dollar strength mentioned above is also dragging the Canadian Dollar along with it. The loonie made gains yesterday in spite of a fall in manufacturing shipments. The 1.5% fall was well below forecasts and substantially worse than last month's decline. The fall in demand for raw materials and energy products and the fall in the value of those commodities are very evident in this data. The Canadian dollar, left to its own devices, would be weaker but the strength of the currency of Canada's main export market is masking that weakness. We will hear the Bank of Canada's review this afternoon. Perhaps they can shed some light on the likely path of the Canadian Dollar.
The rest of today will produce some tier 2 data but nothing that is likely to be market moving. Perhaps the G20 leaders can talk about ISIL, Paris and Syria without having to worry about economics. Because we all know that is the real challenge.
I'll leave you with a story you may have seen online but which I thought was rather sweet. A picture is circulating across the interweb showing an elderly man helping a young guy with his tie. Apparently, the young man was struggling to work out how to tie it and was suited and booted for an interview or an important meeting. An elderly couple were nearby and the wife noticed his dilemma and asked whether he knew how to do it. The chap said he didn't and the woman ushered her husband across to show him how. Isn't it funny how such an ordinary act can capture peoples' sense of community? Random acts of kindness are like that; infectious.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. We were happy though.
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This IS what we can expect more of in the future, as long as America remains under the thumb of an "Imperial Potus" and HIS Administration, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., who IS quite obviously lecturing America and the World, with Pro Islam Sympathies, and Pro Muslim Sympathies, while promoting Anti American Values, and Anti Christian Values, , thru HIS OWN DOCUMENTED Actions, Deeds, and Words such as: "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.", "Islam has always been part of America", "The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam", "The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer", "The Islamic State ISIS is not Islamic", and MORE..


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New Support For Striking Casino Workers
May 18, 2018 by Sophie Lise
Casino workers throughout Canada have been striking over the past two weeks, and on-going talks with various casinos to address the issues are still underway.
Members of the local union shut down Chatham Street East, in front of Caesars Windsor, a casino based in Ontario. Although contract talks were organised, they broke down last week as the strikes intensified.
James Steward, the president for Unifor Local 444 spoke on behalf of the 500 people that filled the street. He told reporters that it was time for the casino to start negotiations once again.
"It's the members that provide the profits, it's the members that win the awards for making the casino great and ultimately without us, the casino is dead in the water," Steward has said.
National president of Unifor, Jerry Dias, was alongside strikers at the rally in Windsor. He has stated that he believes that casinos need to be more supportive of their staff, as these corporations make large sums of money.
"This is about establishing a framework of what is fair because we can't have a situation where we have minimum wage workers and slightly above working in an industry that is making millions of dollars a year," Dias stated. "For one whole industry, it just reeks of discrimination so we are pushing today."
As of yet, it's not clear when exactly talks between the casino and the workers are set to resume. Part of the rallies were sparked due to the leave that workers were getting as compared to what they should receive by law.
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Neopost turns its sights to America | Post&Parcel
Neopost has acquired Parcel Pending, an American parcel locker specialist for more than USD 100 million.
Neopost has made a strategic review of its portfolio of different business activities and, as part of its "Back to Growth" strategic plan, has decided to invest strongly in the fast growing Parcel Locker business, with a focus in the United States. Indeed, parcel lockers are one of the most efficient solutions to solve the issue of the last mile delivery in urban areas.
Parcel Pending, founded by CEO Lori Torres in 2013, is the leading package solution provider for residential, commercial, retail and universities across the United States and Canada.
Parcel Pending employs more than 150 people and has thousands of customers across North America. Revenue in 2018 exceeded USD 30 million.
Lori Torres will remain CEO of Parcel Pending and will lead the Neopost locker initiative in the U.S. As part of the acquisition, Parcel Pending will continue to have their office in Irvine, California.
Neopost CEO, Geoffrey Godet, commented: "Parcel lockers is one of the four selected solutions we want to grow in the future. For Neopost, the acquisition of Parcel Pending is a major step forward in entering the very promising American parcel locker market. We are delighted to welcome Parcel Pending's passionate team within Neopost. The combination of Neopost and Parcel Pending's recognised technologies and know-how will enable us to provide state-of-the-art solutions and expand fast in the U.S. market."
Parcel Pending CEO, Lori Torres, added: "We are excited to join the Neopost Family and leverage their fantastic team and expertise. Neopost was the perfect fit for Parcel Pending, as like us, they are committed to providing world class customer service and innovation to our customers."


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Q: Number with more than 6 decimals is converted into exponential form Let me keep it simple
Input:
{
  "latitude": 0.0000000,
  "longitude": 0.00000000
}

dw code:
output application/json
---
{
  location: {
    "lat": payload.latitude,
    "long": payload.longitude
  }
}

expected result:
{
  location: {
    "lat": 0.00000000,
    "long": 0.00000000
  }
}

actual result :
{
  location: {
    "lat": 0E-8,
    "long": 0E-8
  }
}

Also,
The code works fine for input other than 0.00000000. I observed that it converts the number to exponential if decimals are greater than 6 digits and all the digits are 0.

A: The problem is really that you seem to be requiring that JSON numbers to have a specific format. JSON doesn't define format for numbers. Also take into account that some things are left open to the implementation, like precision and limits for representing numbers. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7159#page-6 or https://www.json.org/json-en.html for some specs.
My understanding is that for any reasonable JSON implementation to be interoperable then 0.00000000 and 0E-8 should be accepted equally but you should not expect to be able to select one format over another. I'm not sure why it doesn't output just 0. It should be accepted as the same value too.

A: payload.latitude as String {"format":"0.0000000"} and you could output it as application/java
Updating with the json object
%dw 2.0
output application/json
---
  location: {
    "lat": payload.latitude as String {"format":"0.0000000"},
    "long": payload.longitude as String {"format":"0.0000000"}
  }

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Florent Manaudou (Villeurbanne, 12 de novembro de 1990) é um nadador francês que sagrou-se campeão olímpico nos Jogos de Londres 2012, na prova dos 50 metros livre. É filho de pai francês e mãe holandesa, sendo o irmão mais novo da também nadadora Laure Manaudou.

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Ele começou a nadar sob a supervisão de seu irmão mais velho, Nicholas Manaudou, e mais tarde se juntou ao clube de natação de Marselha, França. Ele foi o campeão júnior no estilo 50 metros livre em uma competição francesa em 2007. Em 2009, ingressou no exército francês estando em um regimento de artilharia.

Ele e sua irmã Laure são os primeiros irmão e irmã a ganhar medalhas de ouro olímpicas. Além de natação, ele é conhecido pelo seu piercing na língua e tatuagem tribal.

Jogos Olímpicos de 2012
Nos Jogos Olímpicos de 2012 em Londres, Manaudou conquistou a medalha de ouro nos 50 metros nado livre, tornando-se o primeiro francês a realizar a façanha no evento. Saltando da raia 7, Manaudou teve o mais rápido tempo de reação ao cair na água e cravou o tempo de 21,34 segundos, derrotou o favorito César Cielo que terminou a prova em terceiro lugar e o americano Cullen Jones que ficou com na segunda colocação.

A vitória de Manaudou foi inesperada e tratada como uma "façanha" pelos jornais franceses, devido ao pouco número de conquistas em sua carreira, surpreendendo aos presentes que acompanhavam a prova no Centro Aquático de Londres, uma vez que, até então, era conhecido apenas por ser o irmão de uma medalhista olímpica. O nadador francês revela ao jornal L'Equipe que também está muito surpresa pela resulta e que antes da prova não estava confiante em si.

Após a conquista Manaudou citou Cielo, comparando-se ao nadador brasileiro que também, aos 21 anos, foi campeão olímpico nessa prova nos Jogos Olímpicos de Pequim em 2008 e que, tal como ele, não era o favorito.

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MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityStormy Cabinet Meeting Erupts Over Glick Shooting
Stormy Cabinet Meeting Erupts Over Glick Shooting
MKs rip into Internal Security Minister, Police Commissioner for Glick shooting, violence in J'lem, and incitement in stormy hearing.
Hezki Baruch and Tova Dvorin, 02/11/14 14:11
Internal Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovi
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The weekly Cabinet meeting dissolved into a stormy debate on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem on Sunday, as ministers hotly argued over the proper course of action to take before - and after - the attempted murder of Temple Mount rights activist Yehuda Glick.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) reportedly left the room at the start of the debate, which erupted after Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett began firing serious allegations at Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) over the shooting and the issues behind it.
Among other things, Bennett asked Aharonovich why there were no indictments filed against Arabs who have assaulted Jews who had come to the Temple Mount in recent months - on the background of Arab rioting in Jerusalem in general, which has skyrocketed to the point that more than 5,000 arrests are being made per month.
Bennett also raised serious questions on the nature of Israel's incitement laws and their enforcement, noting that "if it was a Peace Now activist [who was shot] the police would be stepping on my toes right now."
In addition, the Jewish Home Chairman noted that no fewer than five death threats were lobbed against Glick before the shooting - and that not only did police ignore the threats, but that one senior police officer once called Glick "the most dangerous man in Israel" - inspiring incitement himself.
Additional accusations were lobbed at the security establishment hours later Sunday, during a related meeting in the Knesset Interior Committee on Glick, which was held, inter alia, with several MKs, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, and Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino.
Committee Chairman MK Miri Regev (Likud) noted that the "writing was on the wall" in Glick's case, and chastised Danino for not taking action sooner to quell the ongoing violence in Jerusalem.
Danino, as usual, attempted to downplay his role in events, stressing that "all leaders have a responsibility - to Jews and Arabs alike - to keep security."
Things slowly began to devolve, however, after MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) then accused Danino of falsifying police reports, noting that "anyone who says that rock-throwing in Silwan has declined recently is disconnected from reality," after multiple security incidents erupted over the weekend.
Danino responded by saying that "anyone who does not say there is a decline in rioting and rock-throwing is disconnected from reality," and by emphasizing that, unlike in the past, the Israel police is now working to ensure that Jews can ascend to the Temple Mount safely.
Both Aharonovich and Danino have become focal points for criticism over what many perceive as an inadequate response to the constant cycle of violence in Jerusalem - prompting much drama around goings-on in the police and the government over how the attacks have been handled.
Frustration with both security leaders has climaxed, as Glick's shooting is the latest in a series of major attacks that were played down by the Israel Police and Internal Security Ministry, including the murder of 27-year-old construction worker Netanel Arami hy"d last month and 19-year-old Shelly Dadon hy"d earlier this year.
The frustration also stems from the revelation that in June senior police officials reportedly decided to ignore a Moked 100 hotline call from abducted teens Naftali Frankel (16), Eyal Yifrah (19), and Gilad Sha'ar (16), hy"d, after they reported their own abduction. The teens were murdered shortly after the call.
Tags:Temple Mount, Yehuda Glick, Yitzhak Aharonovich, Yohanan Danino, Naftali Bennett, Moti Yogev, silent intifada


I just came across the decision 27 W (pat) 554/10 in an appeal against the refusal of a trademark registration. The trademark contained the abbreviation RCQT and parts of a sign of military origin and was refused as offending the public order and morality (§ 8 II Nr. 5 of the German Trademark Act).
Apparently, the letters RCQT stand in some obscure rightist circles for "reconquista" and are used in anti-islamic contexts. However, it is clear that rest the general public will not find anything offending in these four letters and the preception of the latter is what usually counts in the trademark procedure.
Whilst fully approving the decision to refuse the registration, the reasons therefore are fairly interesting to read. The pertinent case-law says that the trademark registration should be refused if the trademark is suitable for offending the sense of morality of a considerable part of the public. The senate argues that the public perception does not depend on the perception of the majority in a calculatory sense. Rather, the act of registering the trademark would increase the fraction of the public feeling disturbed by the trademark.
This reasoning appears to be fairly skewed to me because we all have learned that the public preception is a question of fact which may be proven by polls and the like for the actual registration date and/or the past. When the office is trying to predict how the public perception will develop and reject the application based on this prediction, it leaves the principle of objectivity, which is at the basis of good governance.


Portland Auto Show entertains their customers with… Bikes!
Custom-built bike ramps at the Portland Auto Show.
When the biking-est city in America hosts a big auto show, it should come as no surprise that bikes find their way into the mix. Such is the case with the Portland Auto Show, the big motoring to-do happening now through Sunday at the Oregon Convention Center — a location bordered by a streetcar line, a light rail line, and bike paths.
Amid the bevy of attractions at this year's show that includes a rock-climbing wall, celebrity appearances, and a "kid zone"; Portland's indoor bike park The Lumberyard has set up shop. Or in their words, they've "invaded" the auto show.
The Lumberyard has erected several ramps and jumps and invited pro riders to come in and infiltrate this bastion of car culture.
Pros like Paddy Gross, Levi Weert, Jamie Goldman, Ben Hucke and Steven Bafus will be doing regular demos through the weekend and there's even a little skills course where kids can test their bike handling.
Auto Shows are still a thing? Huh.
Yup. There is an entire reality and value system outside of the Bike Portland fishbowl.
Otherwise known as the me-first no thoughts to consequences 1950's teen dream that has helped bury our economy, cover our cities in exhaust, deplete our environmental resources, kill and maim tens of thousands and create a lifestyle based around sloth and consumption that has become the status quo for millions of our fellow citizens.
Automakers posted a solid 9% sales gain in December, an exclamation point that sealed 2015 as the biggest sales year ever for the industry, they reported Tuesday.
If facts around here matter they often don't seem to matter much but, 17.46 million new vehicle sales an all time record. Somebody said fishbowl, how about echo chamber.
I don't get the car hate around here either. How do you hate a thing? I'll hate bad drivers; but cars are things, you can't rationally hate a thing.
Besides every century ride, swim meet, track meet, fishing trip, little league game, ski trip, everything fun I ever did I did happened after a automobile trip. The society we have built benefits greatly from the automobile, I know I have.
People know its almost over so they go for one last binge, hornswoggled by the low gas prices.
Rrriiiggghhhttt. It's almost over… Has anyone informed the rest of the world? The auto or petroleum industries? Or are you speaking of a broader "the earth is 4.5 billion years old and oil will only be used for another 100" kind of time line?
Hoodwinked and bamboozled by those flimflam men, I tell ya! I've half a mind to give them the what for!
You know, I think cars have done great things for America; we actually comprise a substantially vast area.
That doesn't mean I think the suburban lifestyle is good for people. Being unable to go anywhere in your day-to-day life except via car is awful.
It's simplistic to think that people around here hate cars, the thing. That's not it at all. The criticism is directed towards a culture unwilling or unable to arrange their lives so that a trip to the grocery store wouldn't involve 20 minutes behind the wheel.
I live in the burbs, and unlike other cities Portland suburbs are actually fairly compact. More spread out than downtown, but fairly easy to get to the grocery, library, etc by bike, although on the Westside there are a fair number of gaps in the bike network.
In all of the suburban places I've lived, my neighbors have shopped at whatever grocery store is within a stone's throw (unless it's for toilet paper – for that they drive to Costco on weekends). Because it's been so close, they've gotten in the habit of driving over more frequently because they don't plan meals and stock up. The fact that it's so close – even where I live now in Cali where the weather is so often beautiful – has rarely been a deterrent to driving. Same goes for fast-food places. I won a bet with my next-door neighbor when I first moved here that I could walk over and through the front door of the Safeway faster than she could drive over and park.
People value time and convenience over just about anything else, and biking is perceived as preserving neither.
But if they value time and convenience over everything else, why are they still driving everywhere, even to those locations that can be more quickly accessed by walking and cycling?
I think many people are simply physically lazy, and horribly unhealthy as a result, and almost all people are creatures of habit. Once people lock in on driving as the only way they go any place, the facts no longer play a role.
I think the percent of the population in the situation you describe, is small. Even in the city's older close in neighborhoods, most people live further than ten minutes away by foot, from work, shopping, school and recreation. Biking and walking can be a great means of travel, in ideal conditions. Outside of such conditions, when it's dark, cold, wet, late, heavy with traffic, motor vehicles can be a mighty nice way to travel.
Additionally so when there's a number of family members and friends to transport. Seriously…is a family member going to transport them with a bakfiets cargo bike, towing a couple trail-a-bikes? Not to overllook that some extraordinary people in Portland have actually done so, but no…people are going to find the opportunity to have a motor vehicle for such travel, to be very attractive.
Communities today could benefit from more extensive development of infrastructure for practical walking and biking, than most actually get. What they get instead, is recreational infrastructure for those modes of travel. Today, a small group, including myself, rode through one such community southeast of the intersection of Barnes and Cornell roads. Very homey places to live, and beautiful concrete paved MUP's, most, much more than a half mile from services and amenities on Cornell or Barnes. What percent of people living there can find walking and biking to be a practical way to go get groceries, pick up the kids, etc? Most people in this neighborhood, and it's a big one…are going to have some sort of car to meet their practical travel needs. Many of he kind of motor vehicles on display at this auto show, can fit that bill wonderfully.
It's because people confuse travel speed with travel time. Even if you drive the speed limit, here in Portland with congestion and traffic lights most 35 mph streets equates to roughly a 20mph non-stop travel time.
For example, a frequent destination of mine is 3.7 miles from my house, it takes between 12-15 minutes to get there by car, which equates to an actual travel speed of roughly 15- 18 mph, despite the fact that 1/3 of the trip is a posted 30mph and the other 2/3s of the trip are 25 mph.
Google Maps directions spell it out quite clearly with travel times and distance calculations. The difference in travel time between 35 mph and 25 mph is very slight, and nearly non-existent at peak times.
I can leisurely ride my bicycle to this same destination in less than 20 minutes (I tend to wander a little on the bicycle), home a little longer since it's uphill. I could easily match the car time if I got a faster bicycle (I ride old gas pipe three speeds) and I had the inclination to pedal hard.
There certainly is a class of trips where biking is the fastest mode. They tend to be shorter, a couple of miles or less, and/or involve destinations where parking is laborious, such as downtown or Hawthorne or NW 21st.
There are few trips where transit is fastest, but, though slower, many may have compensating factors, such as going to the airport or a morning commute to work.
Overall, I think transit trends to be the most expensive (at least until bike share arrives) if you already have a car, again with a few exceptions. And this, I think, is a pity.
That strikes me as a rather defensive and dependent view of the world. Surely you're not saying you can't imagine us having any fun once the cars dry up and blow away?
If I held that view I certainly would want to try to begin weaning myself off the car to soften the inevitable blow to my future fun prospects.
How do i get me and my kids to the coast?
How do i get me and my kids to camping near Crater Lake?
I am so curious to know how you think people will travel after you get your way and ban private car ownership.
I think he expects you to not do those things, and like it.
"How do i get me and my kids to the coast?
I take the public buses to the Coast with my family already. No need to wait.
As for Crater Lake, I haven't been. I suspect if I decided to go there I'd take Amtrak to Chemult and bike from there. But I haven't looked into it closely. There may be easier ways to do that.
If you don't have a car you figure it out. But if you still have a car there's really no incentive to discover all the alternatives, and you learn very little.
I've learned it is faster and more convenient to do in a car.
Oh. OK. I guess that settles it.
The families that I meet who ride their bikes to the coast and to Crater Lake all seem to be having a lot more fun than the ones that drove there. Perhaps looks are deceiving, but the kids on tandems and triples sure have bigger smiles and more laughter.
Then again, these trips are really big deals for the families that do them. They plan extensively, sometimes for months. That's a lot different than deciding on Thursday that everyone should pile into the car on Saturday morning and the expectations of the active families may become self-fulfilling.
You've ridden your bike to Crater Lake?
I did the Crater lake Century last year…I did not see any families riding their bikes there. Nor any other time I have been there.
Perhaps they found a destination closer to home that suited their fancy.
Have no fear, our fun is safe – we will all be dead and gone long before cars dry up and blow away.
actually man, your comments usually come off as "I do it this way, therefore your should too because I know what is right for you".
I have no idea what is right for you, but I have an idea what we as a society will be able to afford and not afford very soon, and I think we would do well to prepare for those eventualities.
I assume that the bicycle (the subject which brings us all together here) has the potential to play a significant role should we opt to become more resilient. And the car, though familiar and massively subsidized, and apparently convenient, is the opposite, as some of these comments evidence.
Just like all bike shows NAHBS, OHBS, Interbike, etc. etc. – because the bike manufacturers are getting so desperate for sales.
Hey–linking a consumer bike show like NAHBS with a car show could be a GREAT idea. Americans like any kind of cool wheels–and many bike people are also car people; TI Cycles' Dave Levy is a high performance driving teacher, for instance. A framebuilder in Montana named Dave Kirk drives a Lotus Seven part of the time–I think the crossover potential is huge.
Cool! Maybe we can bring back the AMC Pacer and the Pontiac Aztec, too!
The Aztek was "designed" by a committee based on focus group surveys. Basically they took a pretty nice station wagon and made a minivan out of it, but not very well.
Will it come with coke in the glove box?
With the three bucks off coupon from the O, it costs nine bucks to go to the show. Is it worth it? My dad loves going, or I might not, but I'd say it's definitely a great way to see some amazing technology and design in new vehicles.
Saw the action at The Lumberyard's area. The kids were great at riding the half pipes there…graceful, clean flips and landings. While we were there, nothing crazy wild, but very entertaining. Lumberyard's staff was great too, very friendly. Talked with a young lady that hosts parties at the center. Another mentioned the addition of a pizza, bar thing happening there now. Excursions in the works, to nearby areas for mountain biking. They gave away great stuff too,or at least stuff I like…Clif Bars.
Why were they there at the auto show? Many people that like cars are members of families with kids…and most kids like to bike at least some. For people in Portland, to be able to load your kids up into your big, new pickup or SUV, and take them to an indoor place where they can have fun trying out this kind of reasonably safe, energetic riding, despite Oregon's often wet gloomy weather, is something.
They were there last year and it was great! One of the pros had his Bugatti in the specialized section with the antique fire engine, cop cars, and Airstreams. Absolutely a great show!
Haughty noses need not attend.
Took my son last year and he loved it. It was cool getting to check out classic cars and new innovations close up, as well as some shredders on the ramps.
One of the greatest experiences I have had in life was walking up to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. And likes the millions of people who visit each year, I got there by car. There's also a back packing trip in the Olympics, weekend camping and mountain biking by Mt Hood, going to the coast for breakfast, family vacations as a kid, road trips in college, and so on. I don't drive as much anymore. But I like having the option.
The world becomes a very small place without cars. And the only people capable of seeing all these things and having these great experiences if cars go away will be the rich.
The one major thing bikes and cars have in common is mobility. As kids bikes gave us the ability to venture further from home. Cars increased that range enormously. Cars give mobility to people who are mobility impaired like the elderly and disabled. People have more job options.
There's a massive demand for mobility around the world. The people who meet that demand in the future, and solve the energy problems, will become very rich. That's a huge incentive for solving these problems.
Cars are like religion; they do more good than bad. And won't go away. And that's good.
…He has lost faith in the political power of the feet and of the tongue. As a result, what he wants is not more liberty as a citizen but better service as a client. He does not insist on his freedom to move and to speak to people but on his claim to be shipped and to be informed by media. He wants a better product rather than freedom from servitude to it. It is vital that he come to see that the acceleration he demands is self-defeating, and that it must result in a further decline of equity, leisure, and autonomy.
Inevitably modern technology has polarized society. It has polluted the environment. It has disabled very simple native abilities and made people dependent on objects… Like an automobile which makes the world inaccessible, when actually in Latin "automobile" means "using your feet to get somewhere." The automobile makes it unthinkable. I was recently told, "You're a liar!" when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.
And yet I can enjoy using an automobile for transportation and still not be a slave to it. Life is not binary.
I would agree with that, but some folks here in this comment thread leave the impression that the services their automobiles provide will only be jettisoned the way Charleton Hesston relinquishes his firearms.
No, that is simply how you are perceiving them. Ironic statement from you, however…since you do tend to get pedantic and one-sided with regards to bicycles vs cars.
Someday the arthritis in my wrist may force me to have it fused in place. That doesn't mean I'm going to have the surgery now while it's causing me no pain.
Funny thing is that many kids today (here in Portland, at least) don't really want to learn to drive. Speaking anecdotally, but something may have shifted in at least some segments of our society.
Climate change is quickly changing the moral debate on cars vs bikes. Choosing to drive is no longer a benign personal choice but a choice that affects the future of the planet, ourselves and our descendents. Defending your use of a car because it is convenient or fun is no longer good enough. If we are to leave the majority of the remaining carbon in the ground then we must all come together on how we can quickly eliminate the private automobile from the planet. Despite what many people think, the embeded fossil fuels in a modern electric car prevent it from being a realistic solution. Bikes are truly the future for us all.
Your individual choices mean nothing on the global scale. I do not believe a low-energy future is going to happen; instead we need to focus on more sustainable forms of energy generation.
By the same logic no one should vote because each individual vote is irrelevant. Social change is real, society is composed of individuals, and their choices.
That's true. Nonetheless, I do vote (and do what I can to keep my emissions low).
Ah, but you are implicitly suggesting that individual behaviors (that are well understood and time-tested) won't scale up as well as engineering and material inventions (that are still for the most part either (energetically and materially never mind economically) expensive or merely imagined) will trickle down. This is a familiar claim but one that reveals all sorts of built in assumptions that privilege technical progress over social change that are all debatable.
No, I am asserting that your contribution to climate change is infinitesimal on the global scale. Even if you reduce your impact to zero, it won't help.
The cumulative impact of 1,000,000 people might budge the needle (or it might not), but your share will not.
The only way to "scale up" individual actions is by political action, in which case it isn't really individual action anymore.
The point isn't whether 1 behavior or 1 solar panel will make the difference at the global scale. Neither will. Your and my preferred strategies both require a scaling up for them to have any meaning at that scale.
But you were–and I stand by my earlier statement–implicitly saying that big, whiz-bang technologies will trickle down and make that difference while little individual actions won't catch on (scale up) and make a comparable difference.
Individual actions, absent a larger political framework, have very little potential to impact global climate. My view is that large-scale technological change has a much greater potential.
So yes, your summary of my thinking is more-or-less accurate.
Right. Your theory of social change appears to be that it needs help from above.
My theory is that what you call a political framework almost invariably trails the changes that come from below. They can and do serve a valuable purpose, but they are not what is driving the kind of historic change we've experienced or the kind of change we're likely to see soon w/r/t climate change and our energy future.
I think getting society to transform itself in some very fundamental ways over a relatively short period of time will require help from above, yes.
What is required totally dwarfs other bottom-up social revolutions (smoking, gay rights, etc.), the effects of which are hardly universal (or even widespread on a global basis).
Absent technological change, social action alone cannot be sufficient. The numbers just don't scale.


Tohpati is a traditional village in Bali that has distinctive characteristics. Entering this area, as far as eyes loo various types of signposts that read that they provide various kinds of cloth with sheets or other clothes or crafts.
The center of this batik in has a fairly complete collection and the plus point is that they even have several people who work directly demonstrating how they make batik. So, not only in Jogja, we can see how people make a batik.
There are fabrics with prime quality up to standard quality. There are clothes, nightgowns, or batik dress dresses that are commonly used as holiday clothes. A slightly official shirt is also available for men who like batik.
The collection is complete with batik writing, bags, fans and various other items. Its price is indeed expensive but if you want to buy something remember to ask for a discount. The items available here are of average good quality and reasonable if the price is rather expensive.
Tohpati village is located about 10 minutes from the center of Denpasar is famous among tourists as the center of batik crafts in Bali.


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Keith Thomson joins us this month to talk about blogging, writing, and becoming a published author for the first time.
BOOK CULT (n.): An online community obsessed with books, blogs, and the people who make them.
This is far and away the most popular question I get, mostly through back channels, as if the subject matter were a narcotic: How do I score an agent? Three other questions I get plenty: 1. Can you, Keith, score me an agent? 2. Do I really need an agent? 3. Aren't all agents the spawn of Satan? I'll try to answer these today.
Late last century, when I wrote my first screenplay, an actor friend introduced me to a literary agent at his agency. The guy was the portrait of slick, and anything he said—based on the way he said it, his body language, tone, and eye contact (or lack thereof) made you assume he was lying. If you were at a restaurant and he asked you to pass the salt, you'd think, "This man wants the pepper." Mr. Slick proved the exception. The seven I subsequently met were bright, highly-educated, well-spoken, enjoyed the chess game that is the bureaucracy and politics of the entertainment, and were good players. Certainly there is a faction in the entertainment business comprised, literally, of gangsters, and Mr. Slick might be the one to represent should you aspire to be doing business there.
Why do you need an agent? Your screenplay will be messengered to thirty producers, your manuscript to upwards of ten editors. And the people will read it, quickly, motivated as much by your agent's recommendation by the fear that their competitor will beat them to it. Screenplay deals within 24 hours are common. If you can line up dozens of buyers and have them reading your manuscript instantly, then construct elaborate deals, then sell the film rights, then fight your own battles when problems arise, you do not need an agent.
What's the secret to getting one? Simple: Have something to sell. As it happens, historically, pirates had agents. They'd anchor their booty-laden brigs in Carolina or Florida and the agents would come aboard, take inventory, and say something like, "Okay Captain, I can sell the gold but not the silk—it's out this year—or the stale breadfruit." If you have a marketable commodity, you're in business. Agents who are friends or colleagues of people you already know are easiest to reach. Good places to get noticed: film festivals and websites like atomfilms.com, and magazines and sites like Zoetrope that run short stories. Also there are lists of agents looking for new clients, on the Writers Guild of America website for instance. Finally, if you buy 350 copies of my book, an agent will be calling you.
I'd worked for five or six years as a screenwriter before deciding to write a book. Knowing I didn't know enough, I enrolled in Stanford University's Continuing Studies Fiction Program in the Fall of 2002. The first semester was great. In December I came down with a 103-degree fever. Not all that bad though. But after six days I still had it. So I went to the MD for a WTF. Turned out I'd contracted hepatitis A. How? Bad burrito. The result?
"You'll have to spend six to eight weeks in bed," said the doctor.
Two of my favorite things in life are sleeping in and reading. How often do you get to spend two solid months doing nothing but? I was delighted. My family and both of my friends took it as delirium. The only significant downside was I could keep only toast down for the first month or so, and suffered haunting, recurring dreams of cheeseburgers. Also, I wouldn't be able to return to Stanford.
I wanted to continue with the pirate story I'd begun though. While in bed, I read about 50 maritime books, mostly non-fiction. Ships are complicated, and I didn't know my elbow from my poop deck. Several chapters of my novel Pirates of Pensacola involve a pitched cannon battle between a superyacht and a clipper sailed by a bunch of pirates who hide in plain sight in the Caribbean posing as a "troope o' pyrat reenactors." To write it properly, I needed to know how a clipper is rigged and sailed, and about most every part, because about most every part is blown sky-high at some point. If I didn't have that time in bed, I don't know when I could possibly have done all the research.
Would I recommend hep A to all aspiring novelists? Absolutely. Just follow doctors' orders very closely or you could wind up getting published by Davy Jones.
At the same time St. Martin's Press bought my manuscript (December of 2003), I'd been developing a sit-com for MTV based on a series of short animated cartoons I'd made for atomfilms.com called "Annibelle Scoops." It was about the life of a pop starlet and her mother/manager compared to whom Lady MacBeth is a slacker. For a change Fortune seemed to be smiling upon me, I have to say. I must have made the mistake of saying so out loud, because, just like that, Fortune did an about-face. As noted in the previous entry, reality soon set in with the novel. Reality also ended the MTV show. Literally. MTV decided to go with reality shows. That precluded my show (a euphemism for: it was dead).
It did not, however, preclude a show about the life of an actual celebrity. A then-novel way of spurring interest in the concept: a blog. Very quickly, the blog chronicling the stranger-than-fiction life and times of the "Rance"—a pseudonym for an actor whose identity would always remain a mystery—had hundreds of thousands of hits per day. So things were looking good. Or so I thought, and, yeah, made the mistake of saying aloud. Almost immediately the HBO show "Entourage" debuted and did well enough to end the Rance project.
In the process though I'd gotten an idea how I might use blogging to garner an audience for my pirate novel: a maritime-themed blogged. I'd also discovered I loved blogging. The result was Gus Openshaw?s Whale-Killing Journal the chronicle of an Oakland cat food cannery worker's vendetta against the sperm whale who ate his wife, young son and arm.
Above: a scrimshaw from Gus Openshaw?s Whale-Killing Journal by the harpooner, Flarq.
I want to take the first sentence of this blog to express a boatload of gratitude to the folks at Tripod for asking me to be Book Cult's first author. My aim is to share my experiences as a rookie novelist with you, fellow Book Cult members, answer any questions you have, and, hopefully, get a decent percentage of those answers correct. So let's get under weigh.
D-Day, landing at Normandy, unsure whether you'll live or die: that's more suspenseful than the wait once your agent has sent your manuscript to publishers. With a good literary agent, whose recommendation can have editors reading within hours of receiving it, you'll know whether you are an about-to-be-published novelist or not within two weeks. Two weeks that will seem like five years. If you have a crappy agent, take consolation that the process will be more months long, offering you hope relatively ad infinitum. I have a good agent. Nothing I've experienced was as suspenseful as the days following his sending out my manuscript to potential publishers. Not College Admission/Rejection Letter Day. As much as going to Yale meant to me, I figured that if I didn't get it (and I didn't), one of the other places I'd applied would have me. Others in the Big Suspense category: Awaiting the gender of a child? No. Either way you'll be happy. Awaiting the birth of a child? Maybe. It's been argued though that odds are much, much greater Labor & Delivery will go okay than that a novel will sell. Other Big Suspense suggestions, anyone?
In any case, I spent two solid years writing Pirates of Pensacola. Authors routinely devote half a dozen years. You hope yours will sell of course. You dream of nothing else. But if it doesn't, not only will you feel devastated and ruined and judged as crap by an expert panel, you'll have to face your friends—and worse, your enemies, and even the best answer to "How's the writing going?" will still eat at chunks of your guts each time you give it. Also you'll have to put up with your father telling you he "told you you should have gone to law school." And, perhaps worst of all: your creditors.
Day 1: No sweat. You feel good actually. All 350 pages of your ms (publishing lingo, which you're hearing now, and think is cool, for "manuscript") have been xeroxed, boxed, and messengered out! After two long years sitting and drawing blood from a stone, a large, powerful agency is sending your ms to a bunch of great publishing houses.
Day 2: No word. You know that sometimes editors will read a hot property that night. Ergo yours is not a hot property. You're a loser.
Day 3: Still no word. You resist impulse to be like every other client and bug your agent for word as to whether there might be word of potential word.
Day 4-5: Still zip. See day 3, multiply by five and subtract two years from your life due to anxiety. Get prescription for anxiety medicine, triple whatever amount doctor prescribes (unless doctor has had a manuscript up for option, then just double it).
Day 6-7: Weekend, so no word expected. But still, part of you hopes some editor reading it will love it and not be able to contain herself 'til Monday. So you're discouraged the phone hasn't rung. Then you realize it was ridiculous to have expected smart, literate, busy, busy publishing people who are deluged with books and proposals to be reading your stack of paper at all, let alone on a weekend. You go online for applications for law schools and to investigate loans. Make note to google Peace Corps.
Day 9: Agent calls and tells you to go at once to your church or spiritual equivalent and light candles or whatever you can light that a particular editor who liked it's boss now likes it. You know 4 in 5 who have read it have not liked it, so odds that this new guy will prompt you to consider. Also, given that it's your ms, the Fates, those bastards, will somehow ensure the guy has heartburn while trying to read it and/or his sixteen year-old son will total his car.
Day 10: You awake (somehow you finally got to sleep) to e-mail from agent that you have a publishing deal. You suspect it's a practical joke. You call your agent and delight in hearing even the most mundane detail, like the floor number the editor works on.
Day 11-14: You notice yourself humming hallelujah a lot. And the feeling of hot chocolate warming you on a cold day? It's 24/7.
Day 15: You get advance word of some of the edits the publisher wants. You realize the Fates were behind the whole deal from word one.
So it went, pretty much, for me. Except on Day 15, things got much worse.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Keith Thomson, 39, grew up in Connecticut and now resides California where he has been making a living as a screenwriter for eight years.
The above scrimshaw is not a picture of Keith Thomson but the pirate William Thompson, a major influence in the writing of Pirates of Pensacola for reasons Thomson may or may not reveal in a future post.


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Facebook just rolled out the ability to upload 360 panorama images. 360 Cameras like the Theta S are great, but I love creating images from scratch in Photoshop and Cinema4D as well. To create 360 Images this way, we'll need to tweak some Metadata tags in order for Facebook to recognize the image as a 360° panorama.
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De Appalachen (Engels: Appalachian Mountains) zijn een middelgebergte in het oosten van Noord-Amerika met afgeronde topzones. Het gebergte is Caledonisch (400 miljoen jaar oud) van oorsprong en bevat vele steenkoolvelden.

De Appalachian Trail is een lange-afstands-wandelpad dat zich over bijna de volle lengte van de Appalachen uitstrekt.

Geschiedenis
De Appalachen hebben geruime tijd als een soort barrière gefungeerd tussen de eerste kolonisten in het oosten en hun achterland. Vooral de verbindingen hebben de nodige problemen opgeleverd omdat meteen achter de vier havensteden de ketens zich verheffen - weliswaar niet zo hoog, maar niettemin destijds een lastige hindernis. De oorspronkelijke ossenwagens voldeden hiervoor niet en men probeerde het met kanalen en spoorwegen. De kortste spoorwegverbindingen (zoals de Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) met het midden en westen kregen Baltimore en Philadelphia, nadat de inwoners van deze laatsten eerst een - mislukte - poging hadden ondernomen een kanaal óver het gebergte aan te leggen, compleet met sluizen en hijstoestellen. New York slaagde er wel in een goede waterverbinding (de Hudson) aan te leggen.

Geomorfologie
De Appalachen liggen voornamelijk in de Verenigde Staten vanaf het midden van Alabama maar strekken zich uit tot in Newfoundland, Canada en bestaan uit een aantal parallel lopende ketens met verschillende namen. Enkele toppen overschrijden de 2000 metergrens (Mt. Mitchell - 2037 meter; Great Smoky Mts - 2030 meter). De bergketens lopen voornamelijk volgens twee evenwijdige lijnen die een breed lengtedal insluiten, de Great Appalachian Valley. De geologische samenstelling van het gebergte bestaat uit paleozoïsche zandsteen, leisteen en kalk met aan de randen afzettingen van de Krijtzee eroverheen. Het stelsel is namelijk al afgezet in het Perm. Gedurende de glaciale perioden was de noordelijke massa met landijs overdekt waarvan de vele rivieren en meren restanten zijn. Zij wateren af langs de lengtedalen.

Appalachisch reliëf
De Appalachen zijn de type-locatie voor een bepaald soort reliëf in de structurele geologie en de geomorfologie: het gaat er om een relatief oude plooiing, waarbij de geplooide lagen overspoeld werden door de zee, afgevlakt werden en bedekt werden met nieuwe sedimentlagen. Na opheffing vormden zich een nieuw rivierpatroon op de jonge sedimenten die door erosie na lange tijd de oude, afgevlakte, geplooide lagen blootlegden (een epigenetische rivier). De heuvels in het Appalachisch reliëf worden voornamelijk gevormd door de hardste lagen en de valleien zullen eerder overeenkomen met de zachtere lagen. Net als bij een Jurassisch reliëf komen er cluses voor. Het verschil met een Jurassisch reliëf bestaat erin dat er daar de plooiing heel recent plaatsvond en gebeurde terwijl de rivier al bestond ('antecedente rivier') en deze de gesteenten kan eroderen (indien de erosiekracht van de rivier sterk genoeg is).

Appalachia
De regio rondom het gebergte wordt Appalachia genoemd. De cultuurgeschiedenis van de regio is het onderwerp van het openluchtmuseum Museum of Appalachia.

Gebergte in de Verenigde Staten
Gebergte in Canada
Geografie van Alabama
Geografie van Connecticut
Geografie van Georgia
Geografie van Kentucky
Geografie van Maine
Geografie van Maryland
Geografie van Massachusetts
Gebergte in Newfoundland en Labrador
Geografie van New Hampshire
Geografie van New York (staat)
Geografie van North Carolina
Geografie van Ohio
Geografie van Pennsylvania
Geografie van South Carolina
Geografie van Tennessee
Geografie van Vermont
Geografie van Virginia
Geografie van West Virginia


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I-684 north to I-84 to I-91 north. Proceed as above.
Mass. Pike east to Exit 3. Follow Route 10 north to Easthampton. Follow the signs to the school.
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Since 1982 either David Hudson or Ethan Shapiro has been the head coach of the Academy's wrestling team. Possessing the same wrestling philosophy, their teams have won 11 Class A Championships and 8 New England Championships.


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All Articles > Radio Voices
Radio Voices
Published in March/April 2014 by Humanities
Over the shriek of whistles, the drone of plane engines, and the crackle of a shortwave military radio, Jack Shelley, reporting from the Forest of Ardennes, described the Battle of the Bulge to Americans in the Midwest tuned into WHO Radio.
The battle had begun on December 16, 1944, pitting the ground with foxholes and shattering the snow-laden pines. "There is almost insupportable shock at the sight of red against that white snow," Shelley said in conclusion of his nine-minute report. "Because there's only one way how that red stain got there."
World War II, unlike its predecessor, was broadcast via radio, says historian Jeff Stein, who created and produced the documentary From the Battlefront to the Homefront with funding from Humanities Iowa. It received top awards for public affairs and for an in-depth series from the Iowa Broadcast News Association. The documentary—in both audio and video formats—follows a half-century of Iowa broadcasters who brought news of area soldiers back to their loved ones.
"To hear Jack Shelley or Herb Plambeck do a report and say, 'I saw John Smith from Audubon, Iowa, in my travels today'—that was so important to the families and friends back home, to know their loved one was still alive," Stein says.
While the national networks covered the war, WHO covered the Midwestern soldiers who fought it. Whenever Shelley encountered soldiers in the field, he yelled, "Anybody here from Iowa?" in hopes of sending their stories back home.
War coverage was limited to the national networks until 1944, when the military lifted its ban on civilian correspondents from individual radio stations. Even then, certain restrictions still applied—each station was permitted only one reporter, who was allowed to stay for only three months, two of which had to be spent in England.
"You'd better send me," Shelley, WHO's news director at the time, recalled telling station owner Joe Maland. "Because I want to go, and if you don't send me I might think of quitting."
In mid-November 1944, Shelley shipped out with the U.S. First Army, traveling with it until mid-February, when U.S. officials realized the Iowan had far exceeded his time restriction and sent him back to the states.
WHO responded by sending Herb Plambeck, a farm reporter who had been rejected for military service seven times before he joined the Iowa National Guard. In 1943, before Plambeck completed training, the military sent him to England to cover the war's impact on agriculture. There, he skirted around the ban on correspondents from local stations and covered the U.S. Air Force for WHO.
When Plambeck landed in Paris two years after that first stint, he found Shelley's steel combat helmet waiting for him. Wearing the same helmet that protected his predecessor during the Battle of Bulge, Plambeck crossed the Rhine with Patton's Third Army, got lost in enemy territory, and became one of the few reporters to witness the liberation of Dachau. A week after Germany's unconditional surrender, he even joined a group of friends in an unauthorized raid of Hitler's mountain fortress, the Eagle's Nest.
Plambeck brought a cup and saucer back to Iowa just as Shelley left Iowa again, this time for the Pacific.
Based in Guam, Shelley observed Japan's formal surrender on the USS Missouri and interviewed the crews of the Enola Gay and Bockscar shortly after they returned from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing missions.
Even on the island of Tinian, he found a local connection for WHO's audience—Col. Paul Tibbits, pilot of theEnola Gay, had attended high school in Des Moines, and the B-29 bombers used in the raids had been built in nearby Omaha, Nebraska.
During their coverage of World War II, Shelley and Plambeck mentioned the names of nearly 960 Midwestern servicemen.
"It had more satisfaction to me, and the people back home, than any other kind of reporting you could do," Shelley said. And it made a difference to the troops as well.
Using cumbersome wire recorders, Shelley broadcast the voices of a dozen Iowa soldiers wishing their loved ones a Merry Christmas a day before the Battle of the Bulge began. Just after V-E Day, Plambeck sent home the voices of thirty-six Iowa troops wishing their mothers a happy Mother's Day, "on the magic wings of radio."


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Q: How do i get result of a statement after EXECUTE statement in mySQL? I have a table and i am reading n% of records from it. For that i have prepared a query:
SET @rows := (SELECT COUNT(*)*0.5 FROM trending);
PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM trending ORDER BY Count LIMIT ?';
EXECUTE  STMT USING @rows;

The output I get is:
SET @rows := (SELECT COUNT(*)*0.5 FROM trending);# MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows). PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM trending ORDER BY Count LIMIT ?';# MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows). EXECUTE STMT USING @rows;# Rows: 8

How can i fetch the records from the table?

A: SET @rows := (SELECT COUNT(*)*0.5 FROM trending);
PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM trending order by somecolumn LIMIT ?';
EXECUTE  STMT USING @rows;

works fine on my system. odd number of rows gets you a round-up
Edit:
create table thing2
(   id int auto_increment primary key,
    theWhat varchar(40) not null,
    `count` int not null
);

Insert 5 rows:
insert thing2(theWhat,`count`) values ('anchovies',6),('tomato',1),('cat',99),('mouse',8),('spoon',70);

SET @rows := (SELECT COUNT(*)*0.5 FROM thing2);
PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM thing2 LIMIT ?';
EXECUTE  STMT USING @rows;

count might need to be in backticks (not on my system), if that is actually a column and you are doing
 the following :

SET @rows := (SELECT COUNT(*)*0.5 FROM thing2);
PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM thing2 order by `count` LIMIT ?';
EXECUTE  STMT USING @rows;
+----+-----------+-------+
| id | theWhat   | count |
+----+-----------+-------+
|  2 | tomato    |     1 |
|  1 | anchovies |     6 |
|  4 | mouse     |     8 |
+----+-----------+-------+

SET @rows := (SELECT COUNT(*)*0.5 FROM thing2);
PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM thing2 order by theWhat LIMIT ?';
EXECUTE  STMT USING @rows;
+----+-----------+-------+
| id | theWhat   | count |
+----+-----------+-------+
|  1 | anchovies |     6 |
|  3 | cat       |    99 |
|  4 | mouse     |     8 |
+----+-----------+-------+

Revision1 (PHP shown)
This revision is due to the op mentioning PHP. So this shows a multi-query, using the result set given from a particular line of that query. Shows the use of an @ variable that clearly retains its value. And a heredoc variable $theSql being set for the multi-query itself.
<?php
    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    //mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ALL);
    mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
    ini_set('display_errors', 1);

    try {
        $mysqli= new mysqli('localhost', 'dbusername', 'thePassword', 'theDbname'); // tweak accordingly
        if ($mysqli->connect_error) {
            die('Connect Error (' . $mysqli->connect_errno . ') '
                . $mysqli->connect_error);
        }
        echo "I am connected and feel happy.
";

        // Note the 3rd statment below (the EXECUTE) and the code below it that cares about output for the 3rd one only

$theSql = <<<SQL
    SET @rows := (SELECT COUNT(*)*0.5 FROM thing2);
    PREPARE stmt123 FROM 'SELECT * FROM thing2 LIMIT ?';
    EXECUTE stmt123 USING @rows;
    DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt123;
SQL;
        $shouldDebug=false; // change to true to see more debug info (such as the skipped multi-query results)
        $theCounter=0;
        $weCareAbout=3; // the 3rd line of the command: "EXECUTE stmt123 USING @rows; "
        if ($mysqli->multi_query($theSql)) {
            do { // Note this loop poached from http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.multi-query.php
                if ($shouldDebug) echo "1a.
";
                $theCounter++;
                // store first result set
                if ($result = $mysqli->store_result()) {
                    if ($shouldDebug)  echo "1b.
";
                    if ($theCounter==$weCareAbout) {
                        while ($row = $result->fetch_row()) {
                            echo $row[0]." ".$row[1]." ".$row[2]."
";
                        }
                    }
                    if ($shouldDebug)  echo "1c.
";
                    $result->free();
                    if ($shouldDebug)  echo "1d.
";
                }
                // print divider
                if ($mysqli->more_results() && $shouldDebug) {
                    printf("-----------------\n");
                }
                if ($shouldDebug) "1e.
";
            } while ($mysqli->next_result() && $mysqli->more_results());
            // above line to avoid error: Strict Standards: mysqli::next_result(): There is no next result set. ...
            // ...Please, call mysqli_more_results()/mysqli::more_results() to check whether to call ...
            //
            // the Manual page is not exactly clear on this. In fact, faulty.
            // http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.multi-query.php
        }

        $mysqli->close();   // just showing it, what the heck
    } catch (mysqli_sql_exception $e) {
        throw $e;
    }
?>

Browser output:
I am connected and feel happy.
1 anchovies 6
2 tomato 1
3 cat 99

The long and short of that above do/while is that we are in that loop 4 times based on the query passed.
Please see the Manual Page mysqli.multi-query and mysqli.store-result.


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Wilhelm Simetsreiter (München,  1915. március 16.  –  München,  2001. július 17.) német labdarúgó.

Pályafutása
Wilhelm Simetsreiter  balszélsőként teljes pályafutását az FC Bayern München mezében játszotta le. Karrierje 1934-ben kezdődött és 1947-ben ért véget. A klub történelmében a leggyorsabb játékosok között tartják számon.

A német válogatottban 1935 és 1937 között nyolc alkalommal lépett pályára, és nyolc gólt szerzett. Részt vett az 1936-os berlini olimpián. 1936. augusztus 4-én mesterhármas ért el a Luxemburg ellen 9-0-ra megnyert mérkőzésen, így ő lett az egyik legfiatalabb játékos aki a Nationalelf mezében mesterhármast ért el.

Jegyzetek

1915-ben született személyek
2001-ben elhunyt személyek
Német labdarúgók
Labdarúgócsatárok
Német olimpikonok
Az 1936. évi nyári olimpiai játékok labdarúgói
A Bayern München labdarúgói


But the other night, I caught an old episode of a show I've always been fan of "Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares"
Some of the 'turn arounds' they make on this show are crazy.
they just lack the knowledge, belief and direction.
and they've never really had the accountability they need to really make a change.
But just to let you know why if you live in Ely I highly recommend it's us.
after all you want to make sure you are going to get what you pay for right?


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News Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 Concept Unveiled
Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 Concept Unveiled
Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 Concept
Husqvarna Motorcycles has recently announced its long awaited return to the street segment with the production of two new motorcycles in its daring new Vitpilen family – the 701 Enduro and 701 Supermoto. But Husky took its street line one step further with the launch of the Vitpilen 701 Concept.
Husqvarna says it's continuing with its tradition of bringing honest, innovate motorcycles that provide the best possible experience for its riders. With that in mind, Husqvarna is proud to announce the Vitpilen 701 Concept Model.
Unveiled last month at the 73rd EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show, the Vitpilen 701 Concept is more than a stylish concept bike; it is the next in Husqvarna's progressive vision of motorcycling in the 21st century. Each component was painstakingly considered before becoming integrated with one of the most visually stunning concepts on display.
The Vitpilen 701 has reinvigorated the series, creating an experience that is raw, primal, exhilarating in appearance and feel with the all new, modern large displacement single cylinder motorcycle.
This year Husqvarna will be celebrating 112 years of heritage, developing motorcycles for both off-road and street divisions. The KTM-owned brand is eager to bring some fresh inspiration to the street with the Vitpilen model range.
The 701 Enduro and 701 Supermoto models have already been welcomed with open arms by motorcycle fans. Now Husqvarna hopes to fulfill its promise to the consumer market by continuing to expand into the street markets.
To date, the Husqvarna Vitpilen 401 has been applauded to for its unique design qualities and will be available in your local showrooms in the spring of 2017. Drawing from Husqvarna's rich past with the Silverpilen line of the early 50s, the team has combined those classic aesthetics with modern technology and premium components that the discerning rider has come to expect in a new production bike.
Also found in the Vitpilen family will be the Vitpilen 125, a minimalist styled, single-cylinder engine powered machine that stays true to its familiar roots found in its bigger brother.
Husqvarna says it is determined to remain faithful to the companies vision, providing honest, state-of-the-art motorcycles that will surely bolster the brand's position in the street bike market.
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Denzal Park and Dave Winnel explore new heights in "The Great Valley"
Three Australians walk into a bar… Wait, that's not how this goes. In this case, three Australians walk into a studio and one massive track walks out. The DJ/producer duo Denzal Park and producer Dave Winnel, in collaboration with Diffused Music, have just released their track "The Great Valley" and it is truly 'great' indeed. As the two musical acts have been climbing the ladder rungs to reach new levels of success in their homeland, both of their styles have grown and developed into something to take note of, and their music has been crossing into international territory. This original track puts a twist on progressive-house with their chill melodies intermittently interrupted by high energy synth triplets. The rise and fall of each segment will pull you into a massive state of exhilaration on the club floor. This track is nothing to make jokes about, so get ready to dance and push play below.


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Court Locator
Annual Strategic Agenda Updates
Justicia para el Futuro: Planificar Para Lograr la Excelencia
Home / AZ Courts / Justice Courts
Each county has justice courts that are presided over by a justice of the peace, who is elected for a four year term. These include civil lawsuits where the amount in dispute is $10,000 or less, landlord and tenant controversies, small claims cases and the full range of civil and criminal traffic offenses, including DUIs. Justices of the peace also resolve other types of misdemeanor allegations (e.g. shoplifting, writing bad checks, violating restraining orders) and, like other trial judges, also handle requests for orders of protection and injunctions against harassment.
The number of justice courts in a county depends on its population. For example, there are 26 justice courts in Maricopa County.
Civil Jurisdiction
Justice courts hear lawsuits when the amount in dispute is $10,000 or less, including:
Eviction Actions and Landlord & Tenant Disputes
Collection Cases
Consumer Complaints Against Businesses
Negligence Actions, (e.g. Motor Vehicle Accidents)
Breach of Contract Cases
Justice courts also hear small claims cases. In those cases, the amount in dispute is $3,500 or less. Small claims cases are much more informal than a regular courtroom proceeding and usually do not involve attorneys. There is no appeal from a small claims decision.
Criminal Jurisdiction
Some justices of the peace conduct preliminary hearings on felonies. All justice courts hear every type of crime that is a misdemeanor under state law, including:
DUI (Including Extreme DUI)
Violations of Orders of Protection or Injunctions Against Harassment
Justices of the peace also hear every type of civil and criminal traffic violation.
Court Personnel
Most justice of the peace precincts have an elected constable. The constable's duties are to execute, serve and return all processes and legal documents as directed by the court. Some statutes relating to sheriffs also govern the powers, duties and liabilities of constables.
The justice of the peace usually has one or more court clerks to provide clerical assistance and maintain court records. Additionally, justice courts in some busy urban precincts have a court administrator.
Justice of the Peace Qualifications
The requirements to be a justice of the peace are that you be a registered voter in Arizona, reside in the justice court precinct and understand the English language. While some justices of the peace are attorneys, there is no requirement that a justice court judge be an attorney.


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It's better down where it's wetter -- a Disney license dominates a decent video pinball title.
When Nintendo was showing off The Little Mermaid II: Pinball Frenzy for the Game Boy Color months ago, the company made sure I knew that this was a whole new engine -- and not one "borrowed" from an existing Nintendo pinball game (read Pokémon Pinball-slash-Kirby's Pinball Land). It's not difficult to make that assumption on first looks, but after playing the game it's obvious that the game is its own design. The pinball engine offered in The Little Mermaid II: Pinball Frenzy is a decent one, but in terms of interest I think that the past Nintendo games have the upper hand.
This licensed release for the Game Boy Color was made to coincide with the direct-to-video release of The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, the sequel to the animated classic released in 1989. The game has two distinct pinball tables, the first one based on the original, and the second table featuring a design from the videotape/DVD sequel. Each of the tables in the game have at least one ramp, plenty of curves and bumpers, several dropshots, a bunch of targets, a couple kickback saves, and multiple (snicker-snicker) flippers. There's plenty of stuff (i.e. bonus points, timer skillshots) to uncover depending on the combinations you perform hitting the ol' silver ball around the field, and it's your task to figure out what aimed shot will do what. This is modern pinball, after all -- it's not about simply keeping the ball alive as long as possible anymore.
To keep the action flowing without repetitiveness, the designers created sixteen mini pinball games that must be unlocked to access -- and this is one of the tricks to the game. Each of these mini-games is based on a scene from either movie -- Kiss the Girl, for example, challenges you to hit six fish circling the boat with the Prince and Ariel...get the fish to flow water like a fountain, and you've won. In another, you have to sadistically knock tiny sailors off a sinking boat and then "rescue" them by hitting the silver ball at them. The designers did a good job capturing scenes from the film -- at least the first one. I've never seen the sequel, so I can only guess.
The main pinball boards are decently designed, but even with all the things going on, they both seem a bit drab. In its favor, the game does feature multiball action -- something that Pokémon Pinball didn't have. You can have as many as three balls going around the field at once, which gives the game a very maniacal feel to it. Since the game is more tailored for kids, there are plenty of kickback saves and returned balls, which unfortunately reduces the challenge a bit. That, plus the pinball physics are a little on the floaty side -- you can up the speed of the ball at the beginning of the game, but even then it feels like the table isn't slanted harsh enough. Whenever you hit the ball, it feels more like a push.
Little Mermaid is a decent pinball game, but it's not the best. I prefer Kirby's Pinball Land over Pok¿mon Pinball, and Pok¿mon Pinball over this one. The added extras are a definite plus -- whenever you uncover a mini-board, you can access it at any time from the main menu. You can even print out little pictures on the Game Boy Printer -- if you've got one, that is. But my main gripe is with the ball-action -- it's just not as quick as the previous pinball incarnations. Still, for the market it's tailored to, Little Mermaid is a great title for the girl gamer -- for video pinball wizards, it's a nice diversion.


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import Vue from 'vue'
import Router from 'vue-router'

// 注册
Vue.use(Router)

// const Recommend = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/recommend/recommend').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }
// const Recommend = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "recommend" */ 'components/recommend/recommend')

// const Singer = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/singer/singer').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }

// const Rank = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/rank/rank').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }

// const Search = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/search/search').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }

// const SingerDetail = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/singer-detail/singer-detail').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }

// const Disc = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/disc/disc').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }

// const TopList = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/top-list/top-list').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }

// const UserCenter = (resolve) => {
//   import('components/user-center/user-center').then((module) => {
//     resolve(module)
//   })
// }

const Recommend = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/recommend/recommend')), 'recommend')
const Singer = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/singer/singer')), 'singer')
const Rank = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/rank/rank')), 'rank')
const Search = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/search/search')), 'search')
const SingerDetail = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/singer-detail/singer-detail')), 'singer-detail')
const Disc = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/disc/disc')), 'disc')
const TopList = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/top-list/top-list')), 'top-list')
const UserCenter = r => require.ensure([], () => r(require('components/user-center/user-center')), 'user-center')

export default new Router({
  mode: 'history',
  routes: [
    {
      // 推荐页
      path: '/recommend',
      component: Recommend,
      children: [
        {
          // 推荐歌单详情页
          path: ':id',
          component: Disc
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      // 歌手列表页
      path: '/singer',
      component: Singer,
      // 子路由
      children: [
        {
          // 歌手详情页
          path: ':id',
          component: SingerDetail
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      // 歌单排行页
      path: '/rank',
      component: Rank,
      children: [
        {
          // 排行榜歌单详情页
          path: ':id',
          component: TopList
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      // 搜索页
      path: '/search',
      component: Search,
      children: [
        {
          // 歌手详情页
          path: ':id',
          component: SingerDetail
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      // 个人中心
      path: '/user',
      component: UserCenter
    },
    {
      path: '*',
      redirect: '/recommend'
    }
  ]
})


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package org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.maven.enforcer.rule.api.EnforcerRule;
import org.apache.maven.enforcer.rule.api.EnforcerRuleException;
import org.apache.maven.enforcer.rule.api.EnforcerRuleHelper;

/**
 * Contains the common code to compare an array of files against a requirement.
 *
 * @author Brian Fox
 */
public abstract class AbstractRequireFiles
    extends AbstractStandardEnforcerRule
{

    /** Array of files to check. */
    private File[] files;

    /** if null file handles should be allowed. If they are allowed, it means treat it as a success. */
    private boolean allowNulls = false;

    // check the file for the specific condition
    /**
     * Check one file.
     *
     * @param file the file
     * @return true if successful
     */
    abstract boolean checkFile( File file );

    // return standard error message
    /**
     * Gets the error msg.
     *
     * @return the error msg
     */
    abstract String getErrorMsg();

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     *
     * @see org.apache.maven.enforcer.rule.api.EnforcerRule#execute(org.apache.maven.enforcer.rule.api.EnforcerRuleHelper)
     */
    public void execute( EnforcerRuleHelper helper )
        throws EnforcerRuleException
    {

        if ( !allowNulls && files.length == 0 )
        {
            throw new EnforcerRuleException( "The file list is empty and Null files are disabled." );
        }

        List<File> failures = new ArrayList<File>();
        for ( File file : files )
        {
            if ( !allowNulls && file == null )
            {
                failures.add( file );
            }
            else if ( !checkFile( file ) )
            {
                failures.add( file );
            }
        }

        // if anything was found, log it with the optional message.
        if ( !failures.isEmpty() )
        {
            String message = getMessage();

            StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
            if ( message != null )
            {
                buf.append( message + "\n" );
            }
            buf.append( getErrorMsg() );

            for ( File file : failures )
            {
                if ( file != null )
                {
                    buf.append( file.getAbsolutePath() + "\n" );
                }
                else
                {
                    buf.append( "(an empty filename was given and allowNulls is false)\n" );
                }
            }

            throw new EnforcerRuleException( buf.toString() );
        }
    }

    /**
     * If your rule is cacheable, you must return a unique id when parameters or conditions change that would cause the
     * result to be different. Multiple cached results are stored based on their id. The easiest way to do this is to
     * return a hash computed from the values of your parameters. If your rule is not cacheable, then the result here is
     * not important, you may return anything.
     *
     * @return the cache id
     */
    public String getCacheId()
    {
        return Integer.toString( hashCode( files ) );
    }

    /**
     * Calculates a hash code for the specified array as Arrays.hashCode() would do. Unfortunately, the
     * mentioned method is only available for Java 1.5 and later.
     *
     * @param items The array for which to compute the hash code, may be null.
     * @return The hash code for the array.
     */
    private static int hashCode( Object[] items )
    {
        int hash = 0;
        if ( items != null )
        {
            hash = 1;
            for ( int i = 0; i < items.length; i++ )
            {
                Object item = items[i];
                hash = 31 * hash + ( item == null ? 0 : item.hashCode() );
            }
        }
        return hash;
    }

    /**
     * This tells the system if the results are cacheable at all. Keep in mind that during forked builds and other
     * things, a given rule may be executed more than once for the same project. This means that even things that change
     * from project to project may still be cacheable in certain instances.
     *
     * @return true if rule is cacheable
     */
    public boolean isCacheable()
    {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * If the rule is cacheable and the same id is found in the cache, the stored results are passed to this method to
     * allow double checking of the results. Most of the time this can be done by generating unique ids, but sometimes
     * the results of objects returned by the helper need to be queried. You may for example, store certain objects in
     * your rule and then query them later.
     *
     * @param cachedRule the cached rule
     * @return true if the stored results are valid for the same id.
     */
    public boolean isResultValid( EnforcerRule cachedRule )
    {
        return true;
    }

    public File[] getFiles()
    {
        return files;
    }

    public void setFiles( File[] files )
    {
        this.files = files;
    }

    public boolean isAllowNulls()
    {
        return allowNulls;
    }

    public void setAllowNulls( boolean allowNulls )
    {
        this.allowNulls = allowNulls;
    }
}


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Haslam announces he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2020
Former Governor Bill Haslam announced he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2020. (WVLT)
Posted: Thu 8:15 AM, Jul 11, 2019 |
Updated: Thu 8:30 AM, Jul 11, 2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has told The Tennessean that he won't run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander.
When Alexander announced in December that he would not seek reelection in 2020, Haslam said he would give "serious consideration" to making a Senate bid.
The popular two-term Republican governor had previously declined to run for the seat that Republican Sen. Bob Corker vacated in January.
In a letter to the newspaper, Haslam wrote, "While I think serving in the United States Senate would be a great privilege and responsibility, I have come to the conclusion that it is not my calling for the next period of my life."
Lamar Alexander released a statement on the matter saying, "Bill Haslam would be a terrific United States senator, but he has served Tennessee well and unselfishly for 15 years as governor and as mayor of Knoxville, and I can completely understand his desire to take a different direction with his life."


Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person, regardless of age, may not use a wireless telephone in a school speed zone or a construction or maintenance speed zone, except for a person engaged in a highway construction or maintenance project for which a construction or maintenance speed zone has been established when the person is using a wireless telephone in furtherance of that project.
other emergency services agency or entity.


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De gelijkenis van de lege kruik is een parabel die volgens het apocriefe evangelie van Thomas logion 97 door Jezus verteld werd.

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Jezus zei: "Het Koninkrijk van de Vader is vergelijkbaar met een vrouw die een kruik droeg, gevuld met meel. Terwijl ze over de weg liep, ver van huis, brak het oor van de kruik. Het meel viel achter haar op de weg. Ze merkte het niet. Maar toen ze haar huis bereikte en de kruik neerzette, ontdekte ze dat deze leeg was".

Interpretatie
Van deze gelijkenis van Jezus zijn verschillende interpretaties. Sommigen denken dat het een waarschuwing is om het koninkrijk van God, dat volgens Thomas logion 3 "in jullie en buiten jullie" is, niet te laten ontglippen zoals het verloren meel. Het zou ook een waarschuwing kunnen zijn niet te veel zelfvertrouwen te hebben. Weer anderen zien in de lege kruik eeen afbeelding van een leeg leven: 'mensen leven hun leven in de wereld ... dragen kruiken waarvan zij denken dat die vol zijn, maar ontdekken tenslotte, zelfs na veel activiteiten, dat ze leeg zijn'. Weer een andere interpretatie is dat de gelijkenis gaat over hoe onmerkbaar het koninkrijk van God komt.

Zie ook
 Gelijkenissen van Jezus

lege kruik


Plants that bloom in winter need more nutrients than those which are inside this hibernation period. After watering, we need to stick to some principles. Specifically, they shouldn't be watered with cold water directly from the tap, so since this might mean"death" for the plant. The best means is to fill out the feeder last night. This waythe chlorine will vanish, which in the water and the lava molecules will probably settle on the base of the filler. At precisely the same time, we have to guarantee that the roots of the plants aren't moist. So we need to appear at what is going on in pots for half an hour . Particularly, we must drain the pads when there is water left inside them. We must also not forget to increase the water the appropriate dose of liquid fertilizer.


Though I have a lovely view of the lake from my corner office (woohoo!) I would so much rather work from home. But rather than plant my bum on my couch every day and make a permanent dent, I think I would build a backyard studio/office. How great would one of these be?
It was hard choosing only a few from the many I found online!
At least we know it will be warm soon so we be in our backyard, even if we don't have a cute little studio!


Join us on Friday, August 17 between 9 am – 4 pm for our Open House at Stepping Stones' new project, Next Chapter Recovery Bookstore and Prescott Advocacy Center, at 1670 Willow Creek Road, Suite A in Prescott (at the intersection of Willow Creek and Rosser).
Next Chapter Recovery Bookstore and Advocacy Center is a new space to provide Stepping Stones advocacy services for those who need to talk to an advocate, but may not need safe shelter or have the ability to get to Prescott Valley. Services available at this location include safety planning, lethality assessments, debriefing, educational support groups, and other face-to-face advocacy services. Advocacy services are available by appointment only through the 24/7/365 Helpline 928.445.4673.
Additionally, this new location features a 12-Step Recovery and support group bookstore with AA, NA, Al-Anon and other support group books, medallions, cards, and inspirational gifts.
For advocacy services in Prescott, Prescott Valley, or throughout the West Yavapai County area, please call our 24/7 Helpline to schedule an appointment: 928.445.4673.
Special THANK YOU to United Way of Yavapai County for their generous grant to help make this advocacy services location possible!