3 Easy Mother's Day Gifts!
I am a planner by nature. I am also a procrastinator. In other words, I start thinking about things waaaaay in advance, but then I wait until the last minute to actually get it done. It's an interesting dichotomy! Is anyone else like this? Anyone? Bueller?
It's never too early to plan ahead for how you want to handle upcoming holidays in the classroom... like Mother's Day! It's important to be sensitive to your children's needs. Not every child will have a mother in his or her life, but I sincerely believe that every child has at least one caring adult female that has made an impact. I always treat Mother's Day as a time to focus on the great women in our lives that make us feel loved and cherished, no matter what their "official" title is. Here are THREE of my favorite gifts to make with my students to celebrate their mothers... plus a FREEBIE!
I mean, what mom wouldn't love a T-Rex trying to eat a Triceratops on her flower pot?!
This card is great to give in addition to any of the gifts that you might have the students make for their mothers. The most important tip for this card is the the thumb and pointer finger MUST overlap the fold so that the pieces will stay together after cutting out the hand. You can read a more detailed description of how to create this card here.
This is one of my students' favorite crafts to make for Mother's Day... paper flower bouquets! There are a lot of really great ideas out there for how to make bouquets out of paper, but this is my favorite. It is really easy and makes beautiful flowers. All you need is construction paper, pipe cleaners, scissors, a hand-held hole puncher, and glue.
I usually make a template of hearts and copy it on bright card stock, but you could also have the students draw their own hearts. I also cut out circles for the center of the flower. Students glue four heart tips to the center circle, then let it dry. Afterwards, they can use my hole puncher to punch a hole in the center of the circle. Lastly, they will push the pipe cleaner through the center, then twist it into a little ball on either side of the flower to hold it in place. They can also add extra little embellishments with other pipe cleaners. You can even have them make little "vases" out of old toilet paper rolls if you so choose. Aren't these CUTE?!
I usually like to have my students accompany their gifts with something thoughtful they have written to their mothers. This mini book will be perfect for intermediate students. It features an all blackline design for easy photocopying. Students will only need to fold twice to create their mini book. I like to have my students also create an original cover that they make out of construction paper. To download this FREEBIE, click on the picture below! Enjoy!
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Great ideas! I think I will use your card idea this year. I have a card that I usually use, but this will be more personal and a true keepsake! Thanks for sharing!


* When the quiz is all finished - most of us will start 'sharing' with each other. This will start when the St Louis Top Ten are announced and have to meet on the platform to make plans. While they meet - the rest of us eat!! :D But... yes, we will save them some.
* Bradley Church is happy to let us stay and do this. We will need to make sure we put everything back in order after we're finished though - so plan to stay and help with that as much as needed.
* We'll ask those coaches who do NOT have anyone qualify for St Louis to take a lead role in managing the distribution. Oh... we'll also need some paper plates, plastic forks, etc (volunteers?). Oh - and whipped cream!
* As I said - not a fund-raiser. HOWEVER - if Bradley Church wishes to provide some hot drinks (coffee, tea, hot chocolate, hot apple cider) to go along with the desserts, at a modest price - that would be great!
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Wanted to make sure everyone knew that the quiz for November 13th has been moved from Manteno to Bradley church of the Nazarene. The address is 195 N Douglas, Bradley, IL. As far as I know at this moment (since this is a last minute change) they won't be providing lunch. If that changes, I'll send out an email.
I know some of you stuck around and enjoyed the beautiful weather playing a little football. Today was a great day for quizzing! I'm so proud of everyone on our district. I hope all of you are enjoying John--its a great book to get to know Jesus. My prayer for all of you is that beyond all the ribbons and the competition that each of you (quizzer, coach, volunteer) get to know our savior better.
Thanks for being a part of this amazing ministry!
IN OTHER IMPORTANT NEWS: Bonnie has agreed to do a memory challenge for the November Quiz! If you are a quizzer who has NOT placed in the top 10 at the last 2 quizzes--this challenge is for you: MEMORIZE JOHN 7:14-24. See if you can beat Bonnie! Fabulous prizes!
I was really excited to see such an increased level of competition around the district. I was also superencouraged that over a third of you tried to jump on a memory verse. Also, a big thanks to Angie for applying God's word to our everyday lives. Don't forget, we're looking for other quizzers to do just that. If you're interested, please message or email Sara with the month you would like to do the devotion.
We're giving away a registration to the Michigan Invitational at theOctober Quiz. We want you to know that quizzing isn't always about who can memorize the most or jump the fastest. A lot of times, its about long van rides,overnight trips, practicing verses, or having something you studied pop into your head just when you need it.
Head to the forum--Under the JUST FOR FUN category--look for the WHO WANTS TO WIN topic and share a story about how quizzing has impacted your life in a positive way. You can talk about what you've studied, learned, or a significant person who has made a difference in your life through Bible quizzing. ANYONE (coach or quizzer) who shares a story here will be entered into the drawing to win a registration to Michigan. Feel free to share more than one story, or talk about each other's stories. Gods word is living and active and we want to hear how that is true in your life.


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  def apply(choice: collcetion.ChoiceSet): ChoiceImageCombo = {
    new ChoiceImageCombo(choice.set.mapValues(ChoiceImage(_)))
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class ChoiceImageCombo(override val choice: Map[String, ChoiceImage]) extends ChoiceCombo[ChoiceImage](choice)

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object ChoicesImageCombo {
  def apply(choices: Seq[collcetion.ChoiceSet]): ChoicesImageCombo = {
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Can anyone recommend a campground within a hour of the Seattle Cruise ship port? Thanks in advance.
Dash Point State Park is an option. It is south of Seattle and probably within the hour parameter unless there is bad traffic, which is normal. There are a couple right next to each other in South Everett - Maple Grove RV park and Resort and Lakeside RV Park. Either are ok and about an hour. The advantage of these is that the cruise ship port is on the north side of downtown, so you would miss some of the downtown traffic.
We love Tolt-MacDonald campground near Carnation. Its a beautiful setting near the river with lots of hiking options. Drive is less than an hour without traffic. With traffic could be a lot more.
Tall Chief Campground in Fall City is about an hour or less away. Not sure if you have to belong to RPI or any other club though. Phone 425-222-0778.
Check this out, hot off the press!
Roy I don't know what your plans are. Picking up or dropping off but I'm going to suggest parking at the Tulalip Casino off of I-5 at exit 202.
You can stay up to 3 days for free and Marysville is about 1 hour north of Seattle.
I can't see any issues with disconnecting, driving to the port and returning on the same day, then sleeping overnight on your return to base.
Pay a little back by having a nice buffet meal in the Eagles Nest Restaurant for dinner.
RV parking is patrolled and are spacious with many pull thrus. No hookups but gens are ok if used in a neighborly way.
There is a better option than any of the previously mentioned RV parks and it is way closer as the crow flies. These options make it easy to leave the RV behind while you are on a Cruise. There is a ferry from downtown Seattle to Bainbridge Island. On the island is nice very nice RV park with hookups. Just off the island are 3 more nice RV parks with hookup options. The ferry ride itself is very beautiful and popular with tourist for that reason. One of the big cruise ship terminals is a few blocks from the ferry. The pier 90 terminal in Magnolia would require a short taxi ride as it is further away to the NW. So if you wanted to you could leave your tow vehicle with the trailer instead of paying parking fees on it at the cruise ship terminal.
For all of you who recommend RV parks to people wanting to visit Seattle, these four RV parks are actually physically the closest ones to downtown Seattle and it avoids all that horrendous traffic on I-5, I-90 and I-405.
Of course all of these RV parks also have Taxi and Uber or Lyft service available for transportation to the ferry. There are always taxis waiting for passengers at the ferry terminals. The Seattle ferry terminal is of course linked to public transportation to pretty much everywhere in the Seattle Metro area. Plus there are bike rentals in Seattle and bikes sitting ready to rent right at the ferry terminal. Some of them are even electric bikes which helps with the hills. We have three companies for that Spin, OFO and Lime Bike (the one with electric bike option). It is a $1.00 per half hour ride. You need to use an app but the apps are free.
These options avoid having to take an RV into downtown Seattle as you can drive up the other side of Puget Sound using highway 3 as the primary road to get to the RV parks. (Or of course you can take the FGRV on the ferry from Seattle to get there).
Traffic is always bad in Seattle, 24/7. Good Luck.
depending on which way you are coming, we like Kayak point in Snohomish county. It's about 20 minutes west of I5 near Marysville.
There's a fun place in Bellevue, easy access off I90 and quick to DT SEattle. Lots of people camp there for Seattle events. It is called Vasa Park. Not really scenic and the spots are small, but its on Lake Sammamish and a safe place to leave your camper.
If you go East, we like Denny Creek. The creek is nice, some road noise. Fun little hikes.
yes- traffic towards Tacoma is bad- also going North , I90 Eastbound not as bad. you can type into google maps the time of day you want to travel and they give you expected travel times for the route you choose.


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Simple REST API that might be used to perform dictionary based translation.

Server supports FreeDict TEI file format.
FreeDict TEI dictionary files are not distributed with this project.

You can learn more about the format from this site: http://freedict.org/en/

You can create your own TEI dictionary file or download a needed one from here: https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries

## Make
 > make

### Start server:
 > translate-api [lang from] [lang to] [mode] [path to your dictionary file]
- *mode* Switches translation mode. There are two possible modes: default and prose.

### Example start server:
> ./translate-api nl en prose ~/Desktop/my-nl-to-en.tei

## Translation

### Request parameters:
- *text*    Text to translate
- *from*    Language of the original text
- *to*      Language of result text
- *maxAlt* Some words might have alternative translations. Specify this param to include certain number of
            words alternative translations into a result text.

### Request example:
> http://localhost:9000/translate?text=%22Goedemorgen%20iedereen%22&from=NL&to=EN&max-alt=2

## Inspection

Debugging endpoint to check what will be the result for particular word or phrase including closest match and distance.

### Request parameters:
- *lang-from* Language of original text
- *lang-to* Language of result text
- *text* Text to inspect

### Request example:
> http://localhost:9000/inspect?text=balsturig&lang-from=NL&lang-to=EN


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Q: Should a server call services on behalf of the user? This is a general software architecture related question. This question is not related to a specifc programming language or service.
The question is: "Should a server do things on behalf of the user without user interaction by providing the users credentials (e.g. token or certificate)?"
The following diagram shows one option where the token/certificate will be persisted by the web API. Because doing the actual process, Service A will be called from a server. This server will ask for the credentials to create a user context and call Service A in on behalf of the user.

Edit (adding the result of our research):
The problem with this approach is that persisting tokens or any kind of credentials outside of the user directory is a risk. Tokens or certificates can be used to create a user context -- not only by the server, but also by others.
Instead, another option is to explicitly grant permission to the principal that is running on the server to access Service A with its own credentials. The request might include a token from Service A to let Service A know it does thing on behalf of the user. In this case, no credentials (like tokens or certificates) must be persisted. The risk of "losing" these kind of credentials does not exist.
Edit (adding SAS Token example):
The last option looks like this:

The Web App requests something like a SAS (Shared Access Signature) Token. This token is bound to the principal. Only the principal can use the SAS Token. Instead of persisting the users token, a SAS token is persisted.
The last option is the favorite solution, since this does not include persistance of user credentials or things that can be used to create an user context.
Edit (updating diagrams, including Service Bus)

A: In most of my designs, the client-facing unit accepts, validates and stores the user's credentials.  It then creates one or more other credentials which are used only internally, but which can be associated (in log outputs) with the client and maybe with a request.  The back-end services use the credentials to identify the other back-end server(s) that presented the requests which came to them, and to ensure that they are authentic and untampered-with.  They do not know nor do they care about "clients" except to maybe know who he is.
The exchanges relative to a particular client session use internally-generated credentials that validate and encrypt the communications until that client session ends.  Then they are discarded and never used again.  So, "Eve," our erstwhile eavesdropper who has managed to add a wire to our network, never gets to accumulate a large volume of material that was encrypted with the same key.  And, even though she may have stolen the credential presented by the client, that doesn't help her intercept and decode the back-end communications.

A: TLDR add the token to the Task rather than storing it separately.
Conceptually the webserver has the token in both senarios, all you are doing is extending how long it 'remembers' it for.
The whole point of these signed tokens is that you can pass them around.
The expiry date on them is supposed to prevent someone keeping them forever and using without permission. This limits the security risk from a leak to a couole of minutes.
If your process includes a significant delay this expirey will force you to go back to the user. But if not you are using the token as designed.

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How could someone so right be so WRONG? (spoiler alert if you DVR'd Bachelorette)
Wow. I never read RealitySteve.com because I really like to watch all "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" episodes in a state of blissful, full-on ignorance. Plus, I get a kick out of live-tweeting all my little sarcastic comments and feeling like I'm part of a little community of that loves to bash this whole concept of made-for-TV love while secretly wishing this was happening to me. Oh well.
Of course, there are always those who try to spoil my fun. I'm like, come on! I had to give up Santa Claus way back in second grade because of some jerky little kid, so can't I at least have THIS??? And yes, I did have a couple of people post that Brooks was going to come out as Dez's final choice — people who are now BLOCKED, by the way. Yeah…I blocked their asses. (The preceding comment complete with the vulgar term is compliments of Katie Couric, aka "Potty Mouth.")
But here's the thing…I was so bored by Dez and her crop of men that I stopped watching and tweeting a month ago. So while I sorta kinda knew that Brooks was supposed to be the winner, eh. It wasn't really ruining anything for me because the Bachelorette producers took care of that during casting.
But here were were at the finale and Reality Steve came on our show and got me all pumped up about watching the last episode. And he said — without revealing Dez's final choice — beyond a shadow of a doubt, Brooks was coming back to the show. And! He said — again, beyond a shadow of a doubt — that he was confident he got her last choice correct.
Now, I didn't ask, but we all knew he was talking about Brooks, right?
So I'm watching The Bachelorette and there's no Brooks. She kicks off Drew and she's left with just Chris, but still, no Brooks. Dez talks herself out of being in love with Brooks and decides, eh! Chris is still here and he's always been here so I'll just love the one I'm with. Still, no Brooks. We get to the final rose ceremony. So this is it! We're all just waiting for Brooks!!! And then? Chris started to propose and Dez stopped him. Now?? Does this mean Brooks is coming now? Um…no. Brooks never came. Dez proclaimed her love for Chris and they got engaged and cut to the live after show. Ah, there's Brooks.
So RealitySteve.com crashed and I was left no choice but to ask my fellow tweeters if Reality Steve got it right. NO! He got it wrong! He not only thought Brooks would return but that Dez would make him her final choice!
So what went wrong?? Did the producers finally fool Steve? Or! — as one conspiracy theorist posed — did Steve willingly provide misinformation to avoid litigation. Yeah….remember that ugly lawsuit The Bachelor filed against him? Was the public humiliation of getting it completely wrong part of the out-of-court settlement?
Oh, yes. You better believe I'm going to ask him about THAT when we talk to Reality Steve on Tuesday.

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To find hotels near Vryheid airport, paste in search form the name of the city of (Vryheid), then select the dates of Check In and Check Out, select the number of guests and click Search.
VYD airport Vryheid transcript or VYD which airport?
The name of the airport: Vryheid. The airport is located in the country: South Africa. The city location of the airport in Vryheid. IATA airport code Vryheid: VYD. The IATA airport code is a 3 letter unique identifier, assigned airports world International air transport Association (IATA). ICAO airport code Vryheid: FAVY. The ICAO airport code is a 4 letter unique identifier that is assigned to the airports by the International civil aviation organization (ICAO).
The geographic coordinates of the airport Vryheid.
The latitude at which the airport is located: -27.783000000000, the longitude of airport: 30.800000000000. Geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude define the position of the airport on the earth's surface. To fully define the position of the airport in three-dimensional space, we should also know the third coordinate is the height. The height of the airport above sea level is 1158 meters. The airport is located in the time zone: -2.0 GMT. The airline always indicates local time of departure and arrival airport according to the time zones.


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The Canon AV-1 is a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera with an FD lens mount, introduced by Canon Inc. in 1979.
The AV-1 was very similar to the 1976 AE-1 but provided aperture priority autoexposure rather than the AE-1's shutter speed priority AE. The camera is not capable of fully manual exposure. Canon's international distributors, particularly in the United States, had clamored for such a camera because competing brands offered mostly aperture-priority cameras and some preferred it. The AV in the name referred to the type of autoexposure; Av (Aperture Value) is a common abbreviation for aperture priority.
When this camera appeared, a new range of FD lenses was introduced, with instant mounting/unmounting of the lens. This was called the New FD mount and did away with the older type of mounting ring which was fitted on to the rear of the lens and was awkward to use and needed two hands, to a newer, easier system whereby the user lined up the red dot on the lens, with the red dot on the camera and simply turned the whole lens clockwise until it clicked into place.
^ a b c Canon Inc. "AV-1". Canon Camera Museum. Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2008.
^ Canon Inc. "Canon AV-1 Instructions" (PDF). Canon FD Documentation Project.
Canon AV-1 manual. Retrieved December 27, 2015.


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Metapack named as a top 20 best-performing UK technology company
London, 3rd March 2015, UK – The Metapack Group, the leading provider of eCommerce technology for retailers' delivery services, has been unveiled as one of the top 50 best-performing technology companies in the UK at the inaugural Megabuyte50 awards last night, taking 20th place.
The awards aim to identify the best-performing UK-based, privately owned mid-market technology companies. Megabuyte is the technology sector's leading provider of corporate and financial intelligence on 1,500 public and private companies across Europe.
The announcement confirms Metapack's excellence in financial performance, with more than 50 percent annual growth for the past five consecutive years. In a statement from Megabuyte, Metapack was described as benefiting from general growth in the eCommerce market alongside a strong response to other new market drivers. These include customer expectations for a higher level of customer service and an increased variety of industry options; factors which have driven Metapack to deliver this top-quartile growth.
Metapack's CEO and founder Patrick Wall commented: "This award is a great testament to our team's commitment to driving growth in the retail industry. We're very pleased to be recognised alongside some of the UK's most prominent technology companies in this listing and we're looking forward to continued growth in the future."
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Sradicando il passato: Un'analisi del romanzo vita di Melania Mazzucco
Mirasola, Gabrielle Josephine (Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis examines the book, Vita by Melania Mazzucco, published in 2003, which follows the story of two Italian immigrants in the United States in the early years of the 20th century. The following analysis views Vita ...
Dalla Route 66 ai Treni del Sole: le Migrazioni Interne in The Grapes Of Wrath e Rocco e I suoi fratelli
Romano, Nicoletta (Georgetown University, 2018)
As cultural depictions of internal migrations in their respective countries, The Grapes of Wrath and Rocco e i suoi fratelli illustrate a parallel trajectory despite two opposing and divergent historical contexts, i.e. the ...
Donna Ferrante's Library: Resonance of the Classics in the Neapolitan Novels
Barchiesi, Costanza (Georgetown University, 2018)
I weigh the Classical resonance in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, focusing primarily on the Roman concept of Genius. I adopt the theory on intertextuality and allusion, also pondering on issues raised by gender studies.
Salvare la nazione: La coscienza femminile della Seconda guerra mondiale
Brewer, Jordan Lin (Georgetown University, 2021)
After the end of World War II in Italy, historians largely ignored the role of the Italian woman in the Resistance movement. Given the lack of analysis on the participation of Italian female civilians and partigiane, the ...
Identità ebraica e femminile nella letteratura italiana contemporanea
Sanchez, Nikole Marie (Georgetown University, 2020)
This study aims to analyze the representation of gender and identity in Italian Jewish female narrative of the postwar world. Through an analysis of select works by Clara Sereni and Helena Janeczek it is possible to trace ...
Cara Italia:l'espressione dell'identità multiculturale nella musica rap e trap italiana
Grasso, Rachel Ann (Georgetown University, 2020)
In the past fifteen years, the Italian rap and trap music scene has experienced significant changes due to the entrance of artists who have foreign heritage. Called "second-generation rappers and trappers," these musicians ...
Corpo, Spazio, Memoria: Il Mito del Ritorno da Levi a Scego
Aguilar, Zachary Penati (Georgetown University, 2020)
In a multicultural world where group and individual identities are becoming ever more plural and diverse, "home" can no longer be simply defined. While much research has focused on the struggles of immigrant and second-generation ...
Napoli tradotta: Sulla variazione linguistica e la sua traduzione in "Magari domani resto" di Lorenzo Marone
Minott, Mikaila (Georgetown University, 2020)
In contemporary Italy, various language varieties are spoken on the peninsula, ranging from standard Italian to regional dialects like Neapolitan. The percentage of people that speak each variety ranges from region to ...
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Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Build the Struggle for Nuclear Disarmament!
by Naomi Nakamura |
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Sixty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing 140,000 Japanese from the blast, heat and radiation. Three days later, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 75,000. Thousands more suffered, and many died, from the long-term effects of the heat and radiation from the bombings that also caused scarring, cancer and birth defects.
While the U.S. government claims that the atomic bombs were necessary to end the war, in fact Japan was already seeking to surrender. A month before the bombs were dropped, General MacArthur, supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific, heard that Japan was seeking to negotiate a surrender. He then told his staff to hold work on the invasion of Japan to focus on the occupation.
The reality is that the U.S. government decided to drop the atomic bombs as an opening shot of the Cold War. The bombs were to send a message to the Soviet Union that the United States had a new weapon of terror in its effort to replace the old colonial powers of Europe and Japan with an American empire. This sparked an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, leading to the more powerful hydrogen bombs, intercontinental bombers and missiles and submarine launched missiles.
Worldwide protests and calls for nuclear disarmament led to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT). Nuclear powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Britain and China pledged to reduce their nuclear stockpiles, while over 100 other countries promised not to develop nuclear weapons.
While the mainstream media in the United States raises a big fuss about the possible development of nuclear weapons in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea [ North Korea] and Iran, it ignores the development of atomic bombs by U.S. allies Israel and Pakistan. Even less is said about the huge U.S. stockpile of over 6000 atomic weapons, almost as much as the rest of the world combined.
Given the military might of the United States, and its willingness to exercise that strength, it is not surprising that small countries, like Democratic Korea, find the development of nuclear weapons crucial to their national defense.
The Bush administration is working hard to undermine the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty even though the U.S. signed and ratified the treaty in 1970. Rather than reducing the number of atomic weapons that the United States has, Bush wants to develop new atomic weapons that are designed to be used against non-nuclear enemies. While the U.S. is supposed to restrict the export of nuclear technology, Bush just signed an agreement with India, a new U.S. ally in the 'war on terror,' to provide India with U.S. nuclear technology despite India's development of atomic weapons. No wonder the recent NNPT conference deadlocked after non-nuclear countries faced off with the United States over its government's refusal to live up to its commitment to disarm.
The 1960s and 1980s saw the development of grassroots movements for nuclear disarmament. Such a movement, that would target the United States, is badly needed today. We need to demand that the U.S. government promise to never be the first to use nuclear weapons, to cut off military and nuclear aid to new nations who develop atomic weapons such as Israel, Pakistan and India, to withdraw all U.S. atomic weapons from other countries and to cut its own nuclear stockpile. These acts would start a path for the other nuclear powers to begin their own disarmament, with the goal of the total abolition of all nuclear weapons.


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When My Name Was Keoko
Author(s): Linda Sue Park
When her name was Keoko, Japan owned Korea, and Japanese soldiers ordered people around, telling them what they could do or say, even what sort of flowers they could grow. When her name was Keoko, World War II came to Korea, and her friends and relatives had to work and fight for Japan. When her name was Keoko, she never forgot her name was actually Kim Sun-hee. And no matter what she was called, she was Korean. Not Japanese. Inspired by the true-life events, this amazing story reveals what happens when your culture, country and identity are threatened.
"This powerful and riveting tale of one close-knit, proud Korean family movingly addresses life-and-death issues of courage and collaboration, injustice, and death-defying determination in the face of totalitarian oppression." "Kirkus Reviews" with Pointers "A brother and sister alternate as narrators in Newbery Medalist Park's (A Single Shard) well-contructed novel, which takes place from 1940-1945 in Japanese-occupied Korea. . . .Through the use of shifting narrators, Park subtly points up the differences between male and female roles in Korean society; and the father's process of choosing the family's Japanese name speaks volumes about his strength and intelligence. . . . Readers will come away with an appreciation of this period of history and likely a greater interest in learning more about it." --"Publishers Weekly," Starred "Park is a masterful prose stylist, and her characters are developed beautifully. She excels at making traditional Korean culture acc
Linda Sue Park is the author of A Single Shard, which was awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal by the American Library Association in 2002.
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Xbox One X/S Users Shut Out From Kinect as Microsoft Stops Adapter Production
The adapter needed to connect Kinect to the Xbox One X and S is no longer available, making it impossible for users to use the motion sensor unless they already have the adapter.
January 3, 2018 1:26 pm CET
Standalone Kinect unit for Xbox One.
Back in October, Microsoft announced it was stopping manufacturing of the Kinect motion sensor. The decision effectively killed off the Xbox companion piece that the company had once pinned many hopes. Now the peripheral has received another nail in its coffin as Microsoft has stopped selling the Kinect Adapter.
The adapter connected the sensor to newer Xbox One models. When Microsoft's 8th generation console launched in 2013, it arrived with the Kinect in the box. That was an error from so many angles and Microsoft acted to remove the sensor from the bundle.
Kinect's popularity waned enough that by time the Xbox One S launched in 2016, an adapter was needed to even make the sensor work. The same is true of the Xbox One X, which launched in November.
Microsoft's latest decision means it is impossible for Xbox One S and Xbox One X owners to use Kinect if they don't already have the adapter. Of course, it makes sense that Microsoft will discontinue the adapter for the product it already no longer makes.
However, there are certainly people out there still upgrading from the original Xbox One to newer models. From now on, it will impossible for them to bring Kinect along for the ride if they don't have and adapter already.
It is also worth noting the adapter is also needed to connect Kinect to Windows 10 PCs. So, again, new PC owners will be out of luck in the future. We could make some joke about no-one using Kinect, so the importance of this decision being moot. However, there are probably those who embraced the usefulness of the motion sensor and still want to use it.
Goodbye Kinect
You may think you can just pick up an adapter that has already shipped to a retailer. Well, it seems Microsoft has been winding down inventory for some time as the peripheral is out of stock in most places. There is still a second hand market, but people are charging up to $300 for the adapter. No thanks.
Kinect was launched in 2010 for the Xbox 360 as an optional extra. When Microsoft introduced the Xbox One, the company bundled the Kinect in with the console and tried to completely integrate it into the experience.
As well as adding $100 to the price, gamers did not like being tied to sensors and rejected it. The decision was one of many that irked gamers during the Xbox One launch, which ended in disaster. Microsoft solved all of those problems and got back on track, including removing Kinect as part of the package.
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Twitter's former brand advertising head joins Pinterest to help it monetize
Ken Yeung@thekenyeung	 August 17, 2015 7:00 AM
Pinterest isn't showing any signs of slowing down on efforts to monetize its platform. The interest-based social network has hired Nipoon Malhotra to join the company as a product manager. Previously he was head of Twitter's brand advertising product team.
During his tenure at Pinterest, Malhotra will be working on the platform's ad technology, which includes offerings like billing and targeting, as well as new formats such as Buyable Pins, Cinematic Pins, and App Pins. He'll be reporting to Pinterest's head of product and monetization, Jonathan Shottan.
"With unique insight into consumer intent, a highly engaged audience and a rich, visual experience, Pinterest is one of the most compelling emerging ad platforms today," said Malhotra in a prepared statement. "I am excited to join the team that is realizing Pinterest's potential as a major player in the ads space. In addition, Pinterest's collaborative, yet ambitious, culture stood out for me."
For nearly three years, Malhotra had been leading the Twitter team responsible for helping advertisers leverage the social network's technology for products across targeting, formats, insights, and syndication. He also spent a considerable amount of time as a program manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows Live OneCare and Bing.
Bringing someone experienced like Malhotra onboard is a signal that the social network wants to really kick up the pace in terms of how it monetizes its platform. It's also the second hiring announcement the company has made in just a few weeks. At the end of July, Pinterest added former Apple designer Susan Kare to its team; in June, former Facebook engineer Scott Goodson was named the new head of core experience; and in March, Pinterest hired a new M&A executive, former Greycroft Partners principal Kamran Ansari.


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Women in the Middle Ages
The lives of women in the Middle Ages were determined by the Church and the aristocracy. The medieval Church provided people with the 'big picture' of the meaning of life and one's place in it; the aristocracy ensured that everyone stayed in their respective places through the feudal system of government which divided society into three classes: clergy, nobility, and serfs.
Women's place in the clergy was restricted to the nunnery. Noble women's positions were dictated by how much land they brought to marriage because land equaled power; therefore the quality of life and opportunities for autonomy could vary significantly among the upper class. Women of the lowest class actually had more freedom of expression than the other two because life was uniformly difficult for the serfs – male or female – and women worked alongside men in the fields and in the medieval guilds as equals or near-equals.
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Women's rights and opportunities in the Middle Ages were not uniform, however, even though those of the lower class had the least amount of variation. Scholars divide the Middle Ages into three periods:
Early Middle Ages – 476-1000 CE
High Middle Ages – 1000-1300 CE
Late Middle Ages – 1300-1500 CE
The rights of women from the earliest era through the last grew significantly owing largely to two distinct factors: the increasing popularity of the Cult of the Virgin Mary and the development of the concepts of courtly love and chivalry. Women's rights would reach their apex in the Late Middle Ages at which time more restrictions were implemented by the patriarchal system primarily because women's social positions threatened the status quo.
Changing Attitudes Toward Women
The Cult of the Virgin Mary was not new to the Middle Ages. Mary had been declared the Mother of God by the Church in 431 CE at the Third Ecumenical Council. Mary's high standing, however, did little to elevate women's status in society. The Church both demonized and elevated women through the dichotomy of the biblical tale of Eve – who caused humanity's fall from grace in the Garden of Eden – and that of the Virgin Mary whose son was believed to have redeemed that fall. Women were simultaneously considered the source of all the ills of the world and the means of that world's redemption through the birth of Jesus Christ.
The view of women as either evil temptresses or virginal goddesses left no middle ground for a reasoned perception.
Accordingly, women were at once denied the same social status as men while legally being recognized as a man's partner, helpmate and, under certain conditions, even his equal. The view of women as either evil temptresses or virginal goddesses left no middle ground for a reasoned perception of woman-as-individual. In the Early Middle Ages, the woman-as-temptress model prevailed as clergy emphasized Eve's role in the fall of man. From the 12th century CE during the High Middle Ages onwards to the end, the Cult of Mary was more popular and so the perception of women improved.
Even so, women were still collectively demonized even at the height of the cult's popularity for failing to mirror the Virgin Mary's perfection. Women were certainly seen in a better light than they had been previously but this did not mean the clergy, aristocracy, or males in general were interested in seeing them elevated above their supposed God-given place as made clear in the Bible in such passages as I Corinthians 11:3 where it states that man is the head of the woman or I Timothy 2:11-15 which makes clear that women are subordinate to men and Eve was the first sinner. Women were therefore always linked to Eve while, at the same time, they were elevated by association with Mary. Scholar Eileen Power comments:
In considering the characteristic medieval ideas about woman, it is important to know not only what the ideas themselves were but also what were the sources from which they spring. The expressed opinion of any age depends on the persons and the classes who happen to articulate it; and for this reason alone it often represents the views of a small but vocal minority. In the early Middle Ages, what passed for contemporary opinion came from two sources – the Church and the aristocracy. (9)
Power goes on to point out that these two sources – the one celibate and the other regarding women as an 'ornamental asset' – were the least qualified to write on women. In spite of the 'official' view of women as second-class citizens found in these sources – especially sermons and other ecclesiastical works – household records, legal documents, guild records, and other documents show that women throughout most of the Middle Ages made a living in the same trades as men, frequently took over a business following their husband's death, and were valued merchants, artists, and artisans.
Throughout the Middle Ages, lower-class women were bakers, brewers, milkmaids, barmaids, artisans, weavers and, primarily, tenant farmers who worked alongside their husbands and children in the fields. The feudal system dictated that the land belonged to the lord, who rented it to his tenants – the serfs – who were bound to that land. The lord controlled every aspect of the serf's life and this extended to a man's wife and daughters.
The lord decided who a girl would marry, not the girl's father, because the daughter of a serf was essentially property of the lord just as her father and mother were. Once the girl was married, her husband controlled her interests and was responsible for her behavior and, for this reason, women are not mentioned as often as men in legal matters in the Early Middle Ages. The woman's husband would be sued if a woman transgressed, not the woman herself. The woman's job was to take care of the home, help her husband at his work, and produce children. Power writes, "the great majority of women lived and died wholly unrecorded as they labored in the field, the farm, and the home" (Loyn, 346).
Medieval Tenant Farmers
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The hierarchy of medieval society was rigidly maintained, and one very rarely rose above the station one was born into. There was no middle class and the only hope for a woman to better her situation, without marrying, was to enter a nunnery. It is possible, as some scholars have suggested, that there were women who chose this route in hopes of education, but if so they were largely disappointed.
Priests, for the most part, saw no benefit in literate nuns. Even Ende (10th century CE), the famous female manuscript illuminator from Spain, was most likely illiterate. Nuns learned their prayers and devotions by memory, not from books, although it is thought that many young women of means learned to read from the popular devotional work known as the Book of Hours.
Legal & Economic Status
An emphasis on trade during the High Middle Ages provided greater opportunity for women. During this period, in Spain and France initially, the middle class began to emerge as merchants amassed enough wealth to be able to influence political matters. The medieval guild had a great deal to do with the emergence of the middle class and also was responsible for increased rights and responsibilities for women.
Higher-class women had more mobility but were still expected to remain in their socially accepted niche.
Women of the new bourgeoisie could work with their husbands and fathers in a given trade and frequently succeeded the male as head of the business upon his death. Woman-as-cheap-labor was a concept already well-established through the feudal system and was perpetuated by the guild system because women were legal non-entities and so could be paid less than a man. At the same time, many women during this period appear in legal documents as having been fined for various trespasses instead of their husbands, a significant departure from the precedent of the Early Middle Ages.
The lowest class of the serfs and the upper-class noble women continued to live more or less as women had before them and both were tied to the land in one way or another. Power writes:
Among the nobility, marriage was a critical factor in the transmission of land and fiefs and was arranged by families with great care, often with little consideration for the preferences of the parties involved, one or both of whom might be children. Only in periods and places where women had personal rights over land did they exercise much independence. (Loyn, 346)
Higher-class women had more mobility but were still expected to remain in their socially accepted niche and perform the duties associated with that position. Exceptions to this rule in the Early Middle Ages are notable because they were so rare: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (r. 911-918 CE) who led Mercia's resistance against Viking raids and ruled her kingdom after her husband's death or the theologian St. Hilda of Whitby (c. 614-680 CE) who founded the famous monastery of Whitby in Northumbria. Other famous women of this time were Clotilde (475-545 CE), wife of Clovis, king of the Franks who converted her husband to Christianity; Theodora (497-548 CE), wife of the emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire who was equal to her husband in influence, and Brunhilda of Austrasia (r. 567-613 CE) who ruled her country as sole monarch.
Depiction & Involvement in Art
By the time of the High Middle Ages, when the Cult of the Virgin Mary was increasing in popularity, more noble women were exercising power and some to such an extent as to significantly change their culture's perception of women. Two of the most powerful women of this era were Eleanor of Aquitaine (l. c. 1122-1204 CE) and her daughter Marie de Champagne (l. 1145-1198 CE). Eleanor was one of the most powerful political figures – male or female – in the Middle Ages as a whole. She was the wife of Louis VII of France (r. 1137-1180 CE) from 1137 CE until the marriage's annulment in 1152 CE when she married Henry II of England (r. 1154-1189 CE). Eleanor took part in the Second Crusade along with her ladies-in-waiting, managed her own estates and finances, and was an important patron of the arts, especially of romantic literature.
Scholars continue to debate Eleanor's role in the development of the concept of courtly love and the chivalric code, but there is no doubt that many of the major French authors of the best-known works on this subject (such a Wace, Andreas Cappelanus, Bernart de Ventadorn) enjoyed her patronage. Her daughter Marie is said to have either helped her mother develop these concepts at Poitiers or was inspired by her mother's earlier efforts to establish the so-called 'courts of love' at her estate in southern France.
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The courts of love were allegedly convened to discuss matters relating to romantic love and relationships between men and women. Among the topics discussed and debated was whether romantic love could exist in marriage (it was decided it could not) and which was worse: to lose a lover to death or infidelity (infidelity was considered worse because the lover took not only the future but also the memories of the past). Marie was the patroness of one of the greatest writers of the Middle Ages, Chretien de Troyes, whose Arthurian Romances popularized the concept of courtly love and chivalry.
Previously, a woman was the possession of a man and his inferior; the romantic poetry of the 12th century reversed this paradigm by encouraging the elevation of women who were to be protected and served by a refined and sophisticated gentleman – the chivalric knight. These works had a dramatic effect upon the aristocracy of medieval Europe as scholar Norman Cantor observes:
By making feminine qualities heroic, the romantic poets enhanced the dignity of woman and made her a being with distinctive and valuable qualities. (348)
Eleanor and Marie were both associated with the medieval religious heresy of Catharism which revered a goddess of wisdom (Sophia) and departed from orthodox Catholicism on a number of significant points. It has therefore been suggested that the romantic poetry of courtly love was actually created as a kind of "scripture" for adherents of the sect who would otherwise have been persecuted by the Church. The great lady who appears in the poems under various names is Sophia and the devoted knight who serves her is the Cathar. This claim, while supported by considerable evidence, is still challenged by many modern-day scholars and far from universally accepted.
Whether the poems were religious allegories or simple entertainment, they combined with the economic and social climate of the High Middle Ages to endow upper-class and middle-class women with greater respect and more equality. Women had always had the responsibility of taking over their husband's financial affairs after his death or when he was called away to transact some business or go to war but this practice becomes more prevalent during the High Middle Ages.
Women's lives in the Late Middle Ages continued along the lines of this same paradigm with, once again, the upper and lower classes remaining fairly steady and the middle class experiencing the most dramatic changes. Even so, the new model of women as individuals of value gained increasing momentum, which resulted in more upper-class women expressing themselves in literary and religious works.
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The most dramatic departure from the old paradigm is exemplified in the great French-Italian author Christine de Pizan (also known as Christine de Pisan, l. 1364-1430 CE). Born in Venice, Pizan moved to Paris when her scholarly father was appointed astrologer at the court of Charles V (1364-1380 CE). According to Pizan's own works, her father encouraged her literary interests while her mother felt she should restrict herself to 'women's work' such as learning to spin and weave cloth. Left with no means of supporting her family after both her father and husband died, Pizan turned to writing, becoming the first female professional writer in European history.
This paradigm extended to the church, which had denied women access to education, through the lives and works of such notable authors as Julian of Norwich (l. 1342-1416 CE), Catherine of Sienna (1347-1380 CE), and St. Therese d'Avila (l.1515-1582 CE), among others.
Role in Society
While women in abbeys, nunneries, and at court in the Late Middle Ages were finding new freedom in expression and greater acceptance among men, women of the bourgeoisie were facing renewed restrictions. Women in guilds in the Late Middle Ages found less and less work as guilds began to deny them membership and male co-workers made their lives more difficult. Women were still paid less than men and so it was more profitable overall for a shop to hire a female rather than a male. As this practice became more common, men were threatened by loss of work and retaliated; guilds increasingly were restricted to men.
It is unclear whether more women entered nunneries during this period but it is known that nuns were illuminating manuscripts as early as the 10th century CE, there were female scribes by at least 1274 CE, and more women seem to have been involved in book production in the 14th century CE than before. Female religious orders seem to have remained stable, but a new order, the Beguines, started in the 13th century CE in France, quickly gained a significant number of adherents.
Beguinage
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The Beguines were all devoted women who lived lives of poverty, good works, and charity but were not nuns and could leave the group whenever they chose to. These women took care of each other and the surrounding community through the manufacture of goods and by providing services and so were able to get around the new strictures of the guilds and live life according to their own values without having to marry or join a religious order.
Married women of the middle-class in the High Middle Ages routinely took care of their husband's business accounts and took over after his death. Noble women, likewise, were expected to manage their husband's estate and vassals when he was called away on business or to war.
Women in medieval times were not the passive victims of the religious and political patriarchy, no matter how often that claim is repeated. Women frequently found ways around the obstacles placed in their path or forged new paths when a challenge proved too great. They took over their husband's businesses and ran them successfully, continued to work in guilds, or even formed their own guilds as the textile guilds of Italy attest.
The Church, while upholding and encouraging the understanding that women were of less value than men, made some important concessions in recognizing the value of women like the authors mentioned above and, equally important, ruling that women were individuals of value and not just a man's possession. In Denmark, in the 12th century CE, the church ruled that rape was a crime against a woman and not – as had previously been held – a crime only against her father or husband. Even so, women's success and advances in the Late Middle Ages could not overturn the status quo supported by the patriarchy of the Church and aristocracy. Further restrictions were placed on women even as society entered the more enlightened era of the Renaissance.
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"I'd like Netanyahu to be thrown out. He's a crook," Benny Morris said last week. (Wikimedia-Aude CC BY-SA 3.0)
In Bay Area, candid Israeli historian Benny Morris sounds off on genocide and politics
By Gabe Stutman | February 24, 2020
The prolific and often controversial Israeli historian Benny Morris doesn't write to please his audience. "I don't care about hasbara," he told J., using the Hebrew word for public-relations efforts to portray Israel in a positive light to the rest of the world. "People who want to defend this or that cause, they work in foreign ministries, they work in other places. I work on history."
Morris, who has written or edited a dozen books, is considered one of Israel's preeminent historians. His 2008 tome "1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War" earned him the National Jewish Book Award in history. Considered a revisionist, he is one of three so-called "New Historians" who emerged in the 1980s and became known for challenging accepted narratives about Israel's founding.
In the 1980s, Morris used state archives and newly declassified materials to write "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem," which took aim at the falsehoods underlying both traditional Israeli and mainstream Arab versions of the 1948 war.
The documents he reviewed showed the 700,000 or so Arabs who had fled their homes during what they refer to as the "nakba," or the catastrophe, "had not done so, by and large, on orders from" Palestinian or Arab leaders, or autonomously, as many Israelis were led to believe. Nor were they systematically expelled as part of a "master plan," as many Palestinians were taught, he summarized in a piece for the Guardian in 2012.
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, said the book "revolutionized Israeli historiography, and to a great extent, a nation's understanding of its own birth."
In the wake of the failed Camp David and Oslo Accord, and following the brutality of the second intifada, Morris has grown pessimistic about the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and his views have taken a rightward turn. Citing the belief that Palestinians will never support a two-state solution, he has called himself a "Cosmic Pessimist."
J. spoke with Morris ahead of his upcoming book tour to the Bay Area. His latest book, his first on a subject other than Israel, Palestine or Zionism, is titled "The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities." Co-authored with Dror Ze'evi, it tells the history of atrocities, including the Armenian genocide, by the Ottoman regime from 1894 to 1924.
J.: A lot of American Jews are concerned about a rise in anti-Israel sentiment, whether it's on campuses or among the educated classes in general. Young people feel more comfortable criticizing Israel, and there are Congress members who criticize Israel more sharply than we've seen in earlier decades. Do you think this poses a significant threat to Israel, or is it overblown?
Benny Morris: Well, there's no way of assessing that — we'll know that down the years. But at the moment, there seems to be a wind of change among young people and in the Democratic Party. Whether it's going to change the Democratic Party's position on Israel, its traditional position which has always been very supportive, I don't know. As I say, we can't yet know.
It also depends on this election. Whether the radicals like [Bernie] Sanders become the candidate and lose, or whether they win. This will also affect the stance on Israel.
Sanders is Jewish and spent time on a kibbutz. He has some supporters, including members of Congress, who oppose Israel, and yet he toes the line. He doesn't take positions that are anti-Israel. He's for a two-state solution, rather than a one-state solution, as some on the far left (and far right) support. What do you make of Sanders? Does he pose a danger?
I wouldn't use the word "danger." I think he's more critical than many people in the Democratic Party have been. He probably is pro-Israeli in the basic sense, that he supports the existence of the State of Israel. There are people in the [Democratic] party now, Muslims, who oppose Israel's existence. I don't think he's there. But he does represent the radical position in the party. Not in relation to Israel but in general, about health care, education and so on. And he calls himself a socialist, which is unusual in American politics.
In a 2012 column for the Daily Beast, you wrote that it's "perfectly natural" for Palestinians to commemorate the Nakba Day, "on which they remember the disaster that befell them in 1948." (Even as you opposed the day they have chosen to commemorate it.) Considering your understanding of the Palestinian experience as a historian, what do you make of the BDS movement?
I have a feeling about its origin among Palestinians. I think there's a man called Omar Barghouti who actually thought it all up. And he opposes Israel's existence. It's not just a matter of Israeli policies, but of Israel's very being.
It seems to me a lot of people who support [boycott, divestment and sanctions] are of this mind; they think that Israel shouldn't exist. There may be others who go along with BDS, who support BDS, and think maybe it's a way of changing Israeli policies which they don't like. But not of eliminating Israel.
You probably have both in the BDS movement — some who think they can affect Israeli policy and change it toward the Palestinians, but not destroy Israel. And there are others who see it as a means of hurting Israel so that eventually it becomes like South Africa — a pariah state which will eventually be eliminated.
Recently you have become a supporter of the Netanyahu administration, on some level.
No, I would never agree to that. I don't support the Netanyahu administration. I'd like [Benjamin] Netanyahu to be thrown out. He should have been thrown out a long time ago. He's a crook. But I have agreed with Netanyahu about his view on Iran. And I think he's right about Palestinians, in the sense that they are not a partner for peace. They are not interested in peace. They basically want … the Palestinian political nation basically wants Israel to vanish. On this I agree with him.
You have been critical of Netanyahu's partnership with President Donald Trump, whom you've called a "scoundrel" and a "fool."'
Yes. Trump is an awful person. He shouldn't be a president. It's embarrassing for Americans to have a president like that. He's erratic, nobody can depend on him. I don't think Israel should depend on him. And in this sense, the alliance between Trump and Netanyahu is ultimately bad for Israel.
Did you support his strike against Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader?
Yeah, sure, no problem killing Soleimani. Soleimani was a killer, a man who organized killings, and a soldier in a war. And soldiers in a war are open to being killed. That's what war is about.
What is your view on the Iran nuclear deal?
I think the Americans should have held out. The Americans had all the cards. The Iranians were better negotiators and the Americans should have held out for a much better deal.
But the deal was signed. It was a mistake, but it helped, maybe, slow down the Iranian nuclear project. I fear that withdrawing from the deal may lead to a quickening of the Iranian nuclear project, which will again confront Israel with a choice: either attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities, or the Americans attacking the nuclear facilities, or just allowing the Iranians to develop a nuclear weapon, as America has allowed North Korea to do. Once they have nuclear weapons, just like North Korea, they will become invulnerable. That's the problem. And then they will do what they like in the Middle East.
With the Trump peace plan, it seemed like the administration was trying to strong-arm the Palestinians in some way. What did you make of the proposal?
Well, the Palestinians can't agree to it. Look, I don't think the Palestinian leadership, and Palestinians, basically, in their hearts, I don't think they want to share Palestine with the Jews. That's the basic thing. So it doesn't really matter what plan they're offered. Trump's plan, Clinton's plan in 2000. They say no. They don't want to divide the country with the Jews. This is the basic thing.
If you don't accept what I'm saying, and believe that they are willing to reach some sort of two-state deal, then this is a two-state deal they can't accept, because it doesn't really offer them a state. So even at minimum, what he's offering is a long shot. But as I say, it doesn't really matter that much because I don't think they'll agree to a two-state solution of any sort.
"Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924" Lecture by Benny Morris 2:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at San Jose State University Student Union, Room 3A, 211 S. 9th St., S.J.
"A New Look at 1948" with Benny Morris, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 28 with Shabbat service at Congregation Shir Hadash, Los Gatos. Morris also spoke about his book on Feb. 20 at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, in a talk co-sponsored by JCRC.
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Thank you to everyone that joined us at our 1st annual Beer Dinner on June 16th, 2017! We had a great time sharing this event with all of our guests. Please enjoy some words about the event from Sarah Markiewicz, Duo Public Relations for Alderbrook Resort & Spa.
"To start the meal off, Chef Joshua Delgado shared about his inspiration behind the menu. The menu was heavily inspired by "staples" that we so often eat, especially as kids. Being Father's Day weekend, Chef Josh decided to highlight some of the fun foods that we ate as children with our dads – but in an escalated way. Pulling inspiration from simple staple dishes like eggs and bacon, peanut butter and jelly, or hot dog with fries, Chef Josh was able to take guests on a journey through their taste buds back to that carefree time in our lives. Chef Josh did a great job in preparing the menu and all of the dishes were beautifully served with the escalated taste, presentation and array of ingredients in them.
Enjoy photos of the event below!


We examine the strain rate dependent, large plastic deformation in isotropic semi-crystalline polypropylene at room temperature. Constant strain rate uniaxial compression tests on cylindrical polypropylene specimens show very little true strain softening under quasi-static conditions. At high strain rates very large amounts (38 percent) of apparent strain softening accompanied by temperature rises are recorded. We examine the capability of a recently proposed constitutive model of plastic deformation in semi-crystalline polymers to predict this behavior. We neglect the contribution of the amorphous phase to the plastic deformation response and include the effects of adiabatic heating at high strain rates. Attention is focused on the ability to predict rate dependent yielding, strain softening, strain hardening, and adiabatic temperature rises with this approach. Comparison of simulations and experimental results show good agreement and provide insight into the merits of using a polycrystalline modeling assumption versus incorporating the amorphous contribution. Discrepancies between experiments and model predictions are explained in terms of expectations associated with neglecting the amorphous deformation.
Arruda EM, Ahzi SS, Li YY, Ganesan AA. Rate Dependent Deformation of Semi-Crystalline Polypropylene Near Room Temperature. ASME. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 1997;119(3):216-222. doi:10.1115/1.2812247.


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package scalaSci.math.io.littleendian;

import java.io.DataInput;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileDescriptor;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;

/**
 * This class was designed on the base of Roedy Green LEDataInputStream
 * <p>
 * Thanks to Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products mailto:roedy@mindprod.com
 * http://mindprod.com
 *
 * @author Yann RICHET
 */

public class LERandomAccessFile implements DataInput, DataOutput {
    /**
     * constructors
     */
    public LERandomAccessFile(String f, String rw) throws IOException {
        r = new RandomAccessFile(f, rw);
        w = new byte[8];
    }

    public LERandomAccessFile(File f, String rw) throws IOException {
        r = new RandomAccessFile(f, rw);
        w = new byte[8];
    }

    // L I T T L E E N D I A N R E A D E R S
    // Little endian methods for multi-byte numeric types.
    // Big-endian do fine for single-byte types and strings.

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.readShort except little endian.
     */
    public final short readShort() throws IOException {
        r.readFully(w, 0, 2);
        return (short) ((w[1] & 0xff) << 8 | (w[0] & 0xff));
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.readUnsignedShort except little endian. Note,
     * returns int even though it reads a short.
     */
    public final int readUnsignedShort() throws IOException {
        r.readFully(w, 0, 2);
        return ((w[1] & 0xff) << 8 | (w[0] & 0xff));
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.readChar except little endian.
     */
    public final char readChar() throws IOException {
        r.readFully(w, 0, 2);
        return (char) ((w[1] & 0xff) << 8 | (w[0] & 0xff));
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.readInt except little endian.
     */
    public final int readInt() throws IOException {
        r.readFully(w, 0, 4);
        return (w[3]) << 24 | (w[2] & 0xff) << 16 | (w[1] & 0xff) << 8
                | (w[0] & 0xff);
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.readLong except little endian.
     */
    public final long readLong() throws IOException {
        r.readFully(w, 0, 8);
        return (long) (w[7]) << 56 | /*
                                         * long cast necessary or shift done
                                         * modulo 32
                                         */
                (long) (w[6] & 0xff) << 48 | (long) (w[5] & 0xff) << 40
                | (long) (w[4] & 0xff) << 32 | (long) (w[3] & 0xff) << 24
                | (long) (w[2] & 0xff) << 16 | (long) (w[1] & 0xff) << 8
                | (long) (w[0] & 0xff);
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.readFloat except little endian.
     */
    public final float readFloat() throws IOException {
        return Float.intBitsToFloat(readInt());
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.readDouble except little endian.
     */
    public final double readDouble() throws IOException {
        return Double.longBitsToDouble(readLong());
    }

    // L I T T L E E N D I A N W R I T E R S
    // Little endian methods for multi-byte numeric types.
    // Big-endian do fine for single-byte types and strings.

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.writeShort. also acts as a writeUnsignedShort
     */
    public final void writeShort(int v) throws IOException {
        w[0] = (byte) v;
        w[1] = (byte) (v >> 8);
        r.write(w, 0, 2);
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.writeChar. Note the parm is an int even though this
     * as a writeChar
     */
    public final void writeChar(int v) throws IOException {
        // same code as writeShort
        w[0] = (byte) v;
        w[1] = (byte) (v >> 8);
        r.write(w, 0, 2);
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.writeInt.
     */
    public final void writeInt(int v) throws IOException {
        w[0] = (byte) v;
        w[1] = (byte) (v >> 8);
        w[2] = (byte) (v >> 16);
        w[3] = (byte) (v >> 24);
        r.write(w, 0, 4);
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.writeLong.
     */
    public final void writeLong(long v) throws IOException {
        w[0] = (byte) v;
        w[1] = (byte) (v >> 8);
        w[2] = (byte) (v >> 16);
        w[3] = (byte) (v >> 24);
        w[4] = (byte) (v >> 32);
        w[5] = (byte) (v >> 40);
        w[6] = (byte) (v >> 48);
        w[7] = (byte) (v >> 56);
        r.write(w, 0, 8);
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.writeFloat.
     */
    public final void writeFloat(float v) throws IOException {
        writeInt(Float.floatToIntBits(v));
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.writeDouble.
     */
    public final void writeDouble(double v) throws IOException {
        writeLong(Double.doubleToLongBits(v));
    }

    /**
     * like RandomAcessFile.writeChars, has to flip each char.
     */
    public final void writeChars(String s) throws IOException {
        int len = s.length();
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            writeChar(s.charAt(i));
        }
    } // end writeChars

    // p u r e l y w r a p p e r m e t h o d s

    public final FileDescriptor getFD() throws IOException {
        return r.getFD();
    }

    public final long getFilePointer() throws IOException {
        return r.getFilePointer();
    }

    public final long length() throws IOException {
        return r.length();
    }

    public final int read(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
        return r.read(b, off, len);
    }

    public final int read(byte b[]) throws IOException {
        return r.read(b);
    }

    public final int read() throws IOException {
        return r.read();
    }

    public final void readFully(byte b[]) throws IOException {
        r.readFully(b, 0, b.length);
    }

    public final void readFully(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
        r.readFully(b, off, len);
    }

    public final int skipBytes(int n) throws IOException {
        return r.skipBytes(n);
    }

    /* OK, reads only only 1 byte */
    public final boolean readBoolean() throws IOException {
        return r.readBoolean();
    }

    public final byte readByte() throws IOException {
        return r.readByte();
    }

    // note: returns an int, even though says Byte.
    public final int readUnsignedByte() throws IOException {
        return r.readUnsignedByte();
    }

    public final String readLine() throws IOException {
        return r.readLine();
    }

    public final String readUTF() throws IOException {
        return r.readUTF();
    }

    public final void seek(long pos) throws IOException {
        r.seek(pos);
    }

    /* Only writes one byte even though says int */
    public final synchronized void write(int b) throws IOException {
        r.write(b);
    }

    public final synchronized void write(byte b[], int off, int len)
            throws IOException {
        r.write(b, off, len);
    }

    public final void writeBoolean(boolean v) throws IOException {
        r.writeBoolean(v);
    }

    public final void writeByte(int v) throws IOException {
        r.writeByte(v);
    }

    public final void writeBytes(String s) throws IOException {
        r.writeBytes(s);
    }

    public final void writeUTF(String str) throws IOException {
        r.writeUTF(str);
    }

    public final void write(byte b[]) throws IOException {
        r.write(b, 0, b.length);
    }

    public final void close() throws IOException {
        r.close();
    }

    // i n s t a n c e v a r i a b l e s

    protected RandomAccessFile r;

    byte w[]; // work array for buffering input/output

} // end class LERandomAccessFile


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BLACK MIDI UK
London-based mathy noiseniks are heralded as one of best new bands out of the UK
If you do a web search for Black Midi you'll stumble over examples of the bonkers genre of the same name: MIDI files consisting of thousands of notes.
The band Black Midi is something else entirely.
Who are they, then?
Here's what we know: Black Midi is a London four-piece consisting of four teenagers: Geordie, Morgan, Matt and Cameron. And they are somewhat secretive about their music. Until recently, it was practically impossible to hear anything from these lads. Not a single song, not even on Soundcloud. As of now: one studio recording is available. A Christmas song.
Still, Black Midi are generating lots of buzz at the moment. They are touted as one of the hottest new underground bands in the UK. Shame are fans. So are we!
When we saw the band live we saw a taut, frenetic, inventive rock band that, if not defied then intersected genres (post-punk, math, noise) to sculpt a style that is incomparable to most bands (one Twitter user tried though). It's centred around a semi-screeched vocal, intricate guitars and a drummer whose stick-slapping has to be seen to be believed (he won a 'young drummer of the year' award when he was just 15).
Black Midi played a one-off session for NTS Radio, check it out below.
First and foremost, Black Midi are a live band, their gigs are almost tight-lipped set-ups, but that's about to change. Black Midi are ready for more – and you should definitely catch these sensational teens when they make their debut at Roskilde Festival. Take our word for it, they will make a fan out of you!


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CAMDEN – A publishing system that combines Web site and newspaper created by VillageSoup has been sold to Current Publishing of Scarborough.
The sale of the licensed media services publishing system is the first for VillageSoup, the Camden-based company launched in 1998.
VillageSoup began as an online "community," with a Web site that featured news stories, advertising, bulletin boards and local municipal information. The sites were focused on Camden, Rockland and Belfast and allowed for interaction between advertiser and customer and between reporter and reader.
The company began in part as a model for the mix of technology and concept that its founder and owner, Richard Anderson, hoped would be purchased by other "communities," such as geographic regions, universities, companies and other groups with common denominators of some sort.
VillageSoup grew into a chain of Web sites as it waited for its model to begin to sell.
A year ago, the concept morphed, with VillageSoup launching its VillageSoup Times weekly newspaper in Knox County, and then, late last year, starting another weekly paper, the VillageSoup Citizen, in Waldo County.
Publisher Derek Anderson said the system sold to Current links the interactive Web site model with the more traditional newspaper product. Current Publishing publishes the American Journal, The Current, The Lakes Region Suburban Weekly, The Reporter, and The Sacopee Valley Citizen.


The main talking point on the DENSO stand at Automechanika Frankfurt was the launch of DENSO's e-Videns platform in Europe.
DENSO led a high-octane presentation at Automechanika Frankfurt, as the launch of its innovative e-Videns tool in Europe, celebrity guests, and a fully interactive stand in Europe impressed show-goers.
The leading Aftermarket supplier led a packed program across the five-day event, as the industry gathered for the world's largest trade fair, which sees over 100,000 visitors from across the world bi-annually.
The main talking point was the launch of DENSO's e-Videns platform in Europe.
Recently rolled-out in the UK, e-Videns is a unique and proactive vehicle inspection tool that increases workshop efficiency and transparency.
The tool includes a live engine health check, unique to DENSO Aftermarket, comparing live data from a running engine with reference data stored in the cloud to highlighting abnormalities. The tool was on show next to a car display on the main stage.
DENSO also had an array of interactive digital content for show-goers to view at its stand, including a screen featuring a 3D car and a 'world first' timeline displaying leading DENSO innovations such as the QR code and its Common Rail System.
A fully interactive RFID screen was also on display, giving customers the chance to explore DENSO's range of compressors, lambda sensors, rotating parts and spark plugs up close.
DENSO's experienced Aftermarket European sales team, product specialists and technical experts were on hand throughout the event to guide visitors through DENSO's Aftermarket catalogue and to explain the workings of DENSO's latest innovations.
On the final day DENSO treated show-goers to a pair of celebrity guests.
Mike Conway, a DENSO-sponsored Toyota GAZOO racing driver who was a member of the winning Le Mans 24 hours team, was present at the booth and on-hand to talk about his extensive experiences as a professional driver, as well as treating visitors to a set of signing sessions.
Renowned TV mechanic Edd China, creator of the 'fastest mobile bed', the 'fastest toilet' and the 'fastest garden shed', was also present at the booth to talk to show-goers.
To read more about DENSO's innovative health check tool, select 'more details' below.


By 2020 a quarter of the group from which the Army recruits will be members of ethnic minorities, necessitating a revolution in the recruitment process, the man heading reform of the Army has said.
Major-General Carter's proposed reforms — called Army 2020 — are expected to be unveiled later this week. They will include reform of army structures and the disbanding or amalgamation of some regiments and battalions.
His assessment presents a stark challenge to the Army, particularly in its poor relations with Britain's Muslim community, which makes up about a third of ethnic minorities in the country and an estimated 4.6 per cent of the total British population but only 0.3 per cent of the armed forces.
Military sources said that the reforms sought to reposition the Army as a "force for social cohesion". However, British Muslim community leaders spoken to by The Times said that the legacy of the Iraq and Afghan wars had left lasting suspicion.
Usama Hasan, from the counter-fundamentalist Quilliam Foundation think-tank, said that anti-British Army feeling was deep-rooted, as was a lingering perception that the Army was institutionally rascist. "A practical objection is that if you join the Army you are going to fight against Muslims," he said. Mr Hasan said that he was forced to leave his local mosque after he decided to broadcast a message of support for British forces in Helmand.
Professor Mike Clarke, Director of RUSI, said the Army would have to recast itself as a non-discriminating force able to offer social mobility and education.The MoD assesses that 10,010 people in the Army, about 9 per cent, are from ethnic minorities, but this includes soldiers from Commonwealth countries.
There was a similar story recently about the German army trying to recruit more Turks. The German defence minister, Thomas de Maizière, travelled to Turkey about 10 days ago. Accompanying him were two Turks with German passports who have successfully infiltrated the German military and risen to senior officer positions. The mission's goal was to persuade the Turkish government to waive the Turkish military service requirement for Turks who hold dual Turkish/German nationality and opt to do German military service.
The officers with him assured everyone that halal food was provided for Muslims in the German military and Muslim burial in case of death.
Although the German military keeps no official record of the proportion of its serving soldiers who are of immigrant origin, inquiries judge this to be around 26%! This compares to 27% in the population as a whole in this age class, so there is almost no underrepresentation whatsoever. Despite this, the German government is making major efforts to Turkify its army a bit more. A catastrophic mistake.
Even mainstream figures who are not IslamAware should be able to recognise the folly of islamifying our military formations. There have been many instances of Muslim soldiers in western armies attacking their own comrades. The French military has already gone down this path and paid the price for it with a Muslim mutiny during wartime on the aircraft carrier Foch, as well as many other problems.
Damn it! I enjoy watching the military parades because at least I can pretend for a few seconds looking over the sea of white faces that we have not in fact been invaded by hordes of third worlders. Well I guess that is coming to an end.
You see the same thing in Sweden.
The military has gone out they want a multicultural army.
Swedish Police forces has also been recruiting third world savages, they even had to dumb down the tests to get these third world savages into the Police forces, that's how bad the situation is in Europe with the multicult-religion brainwashed goats running the show.
I smell Saudi money behind all this.
So we are actually planning to set up "Fort Hood" massacres.
Thankfully, as long as we are involved in wars with Muslims, or in Muslim countries, no self-respecting Muslim will join the armed forces.
"So we are actually planning to set up "Fort Hood" massacres."
"Thankfully, as long as we are involved in wars with Muslims, or in Muslim countries, no self-respecting Muslim will join the armed forces."
This souldn't be hard. They're asking for it.
Western Europe is gone. It deservers to be destroyed by Islam. Cowardly peoples deserve to succume to foriengers and that is the rule of nature. Inferior people do not deserve to biologically exist.
Eastern Europe will rise like a pheonix from the ashes and crush the westerners and middle east. In America we have our plot too, to oust the liberals and leftist heathens and emplace a Christian Democracy and mandatory worship of the christian faith. All other religions will adhere to Christ the savior and if they refuse they shall be deported or turned into slaves. For the power and the kingdom! Forever and ever!
LOL my word the west is weak. I sense the stupidity and naïve nature of the west and it is their downfall. The Islamic world will make a great opportunity of this to change the demographics..... and then use their training to get rid of us...good work Europe! Brilliant idea.


For most of the rules shown, there ultimately turn out to be quite easy characterizations of what strings can be produced.
• (a) At step t, the only new string produced is the one containing t black elements.
• (b) All strings of length n containing exactly one black cell are produced—after at most 2n-1 steps.
• (c) All strings containing even-length runs of white cells are produced.
• (d) The set of strings produced is complicated. The last length 4 string produced is , after 16 steps; the last length 6 one is , after 26 steps.
• (e) All strings that begin with a black element are produced.
• (f) All strings that end with a white element but contain at least one black element, or consist of all white elements ending with black, are produced. Strings of length n take n steps to produce.
• (g) The same strings as in (f) are produced, but now a string of length n with m black elements takes n+m-1 steps.
• (h) All strings appear in which the first run of black elements is of length 1; a string of length n with m black elements appears after n+m-1 steps.
• (i) All strings containing an odd number of black elements are produced; a string of length n with m black cells occurs at step n+m-1.
• (j) All strings that end with a black element are produced.
• (k) Above length 1, the strings produced are exactly those starting with a white element. Those of length n appear after at most 3n-3 steps.
• (l) The same strings as in (k) are produced, taking now at most 2n+1 steps.
• (m) All strings beginning with a black element are produced, after at most 3n+1 steps.
• (n) The set of strings produced is complicated, and seems to include many but not all that do not end with .
• (o) All strings that do not end in are produced.
• (p) All strings are produced, except ones in which every element after the first is white. takes 14 steps.
• (q) All strings are produced, with a string of length n with m white elements taking n + 2m steps.


Despite the checking, rechecking, caution, we will get things wrong. When we do, we will issue a clarification/correction as soon as possible. And those who are so inclined will use it as a stick to beat us with. So it goes.
Also, our inevitable bias is going to be towards things that have happened in (rich) English speaking countries. And, even worse, to things done and said by white men. We have a proportion of (non-tokenistic!) other 'events,' but we are always keen to hear more suggestions. Please email us at allouryesterdays2015@gmail.com with suggestions.


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