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Pantofola d'Oro : football with an Italian touch
Launched in Italy, Pantofola d'Oro is deeply rooted in tradition. Created by Emidio Lazzarini, the son of a shoemarker, the brand combines traditional expertise with quality and style. In the '50s, the brand was chosen by John Charles, a legendary player for Juventus of Turin. This collaboration gave the brand a great reputation in the industry. Today, the brand is still largely connected to football and builds upon the assets that have made it a success: great manufacturing, very high-quality materials, and sport-chic designs.
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Italy in all its splendour
Ancestral expertise and sports: that's the dynamic duo that reins in the heart of Pantofola d'oro ! Originally, Emidio Lazzarini, the grandson of a shoemaker, took over the family businessin the 1950s and launched into football shoes. A golden age when big names in sports chose this brand for their sports. And a legend was born...
From football fields to the streets
Today the brand is popular with a new generation of athletes, but also urban fashion. They have an entire range of low sneakers and hi tops, availble in a range of colours. Most of them have the details that represents the soul and success of the Italian brand : It's country of origin with an inscription or a flag and the logo : three stars.
For women and kids too!
If men are the focus of their collection, there is also something for kids and urban women with super trendy shoes. Their kids trainers have laces or velcro and show the spirit of Pantofola d'oro, as much in fashion as in the manufacturing of their designs.


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House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools
By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | March 7, 2010
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Our post about H.R. 4247, the Keeping All Students Safe Act–which bans excessive use of physical restraints, solitary confinement, and other abusive treatment in the nation's schools–brought in a lot of comments, both on this site and on others sites that picked up the story.
Several readers asked what reasons those 153 members of Congress (145 Republicans and 8 Democrats) could possibly have given for voting against H.R. 4247. One suggested that our post lacked journalistic integrity because we didn't give the bill's opponents a chance to speak for themselves.
In response we are supplying this video, with clips compiled by Media Matters, of members of Congress speaking about the bill on the House floor. The first speaker is the bill's Republican co-sponsor, Cathy McMorris Rodgers. The others are various Republican opponents.
Most of the objections to the H.R. 4247 refer in one way or another to states' rights, and to the "dangerous" precedent the bill could set for a federal takeover of schools. "It's one thing after another after another after another," says Iowa's Steve King, "and pretty soon its a national curriculum with federal mandates, and imposing cultural impositions [sic] at the school level in every accredited district in the country." Texas's Louie Gohmert says the bill sends a message that states and local school boards are "a bunch of morons" because they "can't figure out that sitting on a precious little child and killing 'em is inappropriate."
Unfortunately, nearly half of the states in the union (23) have no laws against the use of restraints and seclusion on schoolchildren, and several others (7) have weak or spotty laws. A detailed breakdown is provided in a chart created by attorney Jessica Butler, accompanying her article on the subject on Wrightslaw.
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By the way, on the day after H.R. 4247 came to a vote, the House voted on a resolution supporting the federally funded National School Lunch Program, which provides free or subsidized lunches to more than 30 million schoolchildren. The resolution passed easily–but 13 Republicans voted against it.
Update, March 8: The Crime Report has a link to a survey just released by the U.S. Department of Education, which provides details on policies regarding restraint and seclusion in schools in all 50 states. In some states, students are well protected by law from these abusive practices; in others, they are not protected at all. This goes to show why federal legislation is needed to protect students' basic civil and human rights.
A reader sent in a link to a press release from a group called American Principles in Action, which is already calling on the Senate "to reject federal meddling in private education" by opposing the Keeping All Students Safe Act." Those senators might want to recall that in many states, it took federal "meddling" to end the legalized racial segregation of schools both public and private.
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Allen Stevens on March 7, 2010
There are NO excuses, none what so ever for the republinuts to act like this. All they are doing is trying to block ANYTHING they can because of purely partisan reasons. These 153 or so reps, NEED to be replaced by people that have fresh NEW ideas, THAT WORK, not some old tried and failed GOP ideas. The GOP in my opinion are anti-American, I mean what idi0t would vote against a law to help PROTECT children?? ALL of the reps dems and repubs that did not support this legislation NEEDS to be removed from office. Come on people take action against these IDIOTS!!!!!!!!
mike tikkanen on March 7, 2010
The vast majority of the children we will be tying up & confining come from very troubled homes. Or, as former MN Supreme court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz has stated, about 90% of the youth in juvenile justice have come through child protection services.
Before a child can become removed from a home through child protection services, they have lived for a long time in an abusive or neglectful home and have been tortured as defined by the World Health Organization.
It's not the happy children that we will be restraining – it's the three million children that are reported to child protection in America each year.
In my experience as a guardian ad-Litem, the WHO's definition of torture fits the life experience of a child that has been removed from an abusive home; "extended exposure to violence and deprivation" has been their life. The U.S. has no other child protection policy than the IMMINENT HARM DOCTRINE.
The link between an abused child's past tortured life and future troubled life is clear to most of us that have lived with or worked with these damaged children long enough. It causes me great pain to see my guardian ad-Litem kids handled like mad animals (tasered, confined, beat up by under-trained staff in under-resourced detention centers).
http://www.invisiblechildren.org
joshlyn on March 7, 2010
Yes are govment mite be a bit rong ok a lot rong in a lot of things but if a school is doing this to are kids thare fare more rong then the feds at least no mater how rong are goverment is they still can say no to solitary in schools thank god any school that would do such a thing needs the govement to to hold them at bay from doing more hard till we the peepal can get thare to shut them doun
stop all abuse on March 9, 2010
The objective of this bill is to place a branded, behavioral treatment program – PBS, which is a form of ABA, into federal law by mandating its use into the school system.
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Krick Jiggkley on March 10, 2010
Calm down every one… they are right. the federal governement has no place writing feel good laws that are intended to do nothing more than expand it's power.
joshlyn on March 16, 2010
thare is no reason to say no to such a bill i sendt this artical to my old school that use theys things as i love law lol yes i do bet they dont lol more like i allways told them i get them to end thare ways and gess what the oakhill just met the loging man woot lol

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Q: ESP32-S2 TFT Feather - analog to digital in Arduino I have a gas sensor that I am trying to read. I have connected the sensor to the analog input of ESP-S2 TFT Feather. When I change the analog to digital and read the measured voltage, the measured voltage is very very high. I figured out the resolution of this board is 13 bit. But, the measured voltage is still very high.
 int analogInPin = A2;
 void readco() {
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 sensorValue = 0;
 const int res = 8191; //resolution = 13-bit and 2^13 - 1 = 8191

  sensorValue = analogRead(analogInPin) + sensorValue;
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A: From the ESP32-S2 docs found here,

Resolution of ESP32-S2 ADC raw results under Single Read mode is 12-bit

Are you sure your resolution is 13 bit?
Also, you seem to be adding sensorValue to itself every time. You initialise it to 0 every time so it should not matter but I would remove that.
This code should work:
int 12_bit_resolution = 4095; // 2^12 4096 - 1
input_voltage = analogRead(analogInPin) * (3.3 / 12_bit_resolution);

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UAH, Huntsville Hospital celebrate 31 years of Let's Pretend Hospital
MAR 16, 2016 | Joyce Anderson-Maples
Members of the Let's Pretend Hospital Student Management Team (green T-shirts) pictured with College of Nursing faculty Melissa Lonnergan (Clinical Assistant Professor), and Christy Bacon (Clinical Instructor).
In the last three years nearly 8,000 area first graders have been "admitted" to Let's Pretend Hospital. The simulated hospital has been a joint venture between The University of Alabama in Huntsville's (UAH) College of Nursing and Huntsville Hospital for 31 years. Let's Pretend Hospital (LPH) is a program designed for first graders to help reduce the fear and anxiety they may experience if admitted to the hospital or visit the emergency room.
This year, LPH will "admit" nearly 3,000 first graders from area public, homeschool and private schools from Monday, March 28 to Friday, April 1, from 8:30 a.m., to 2 p.m., in the UAH College of Nursing's Learning and Technology Resource Center (located on the third floor). "Super Heroes" is the 2016 LPH theme.
"Let's Pretend Hospital is one example of the strong partnership between Huntsville Hospital and the UAH College of Nursing. It is a win win endeavor for both institutions and the community. Our nursing students very much look forward to this event each year and are able to demonstrate the college's core values of integrity, inspiration, caring, excellence, and wellness when working with this pediatric population during the event," said Dr. Marsha Howell Adams, Dean of the College of Nursing.
Since 2014, UAH nursing faculty members Christy Bacon (Clinical Instructor), and Melissa Lonnergan (Clinical Assistant Professor), have been charged with the responsibility of coordinating the highly popular community health program.
Bacon and Lonnergan extend most, if not all compliments to UAH junior and senior nursing students for successfully running the well-oiled machine that has been Let's Pretend Hospital (LPH) for more than three decades.
The week after LPH ends, the UAH College of Nursing faculty and students start planning for the next year with event evaluations. "Our evaluation chair creates a detailed evaluation of the operations during the week-long project. We use the assessment to see how we can improve LPH in the future," said Bacon. "But the real work begins for us at the start of the spring semester. In order to create the 'Let's Pretend Hospital' model, we need a management team of students to oversee the project. These roles include CEO, security, art, staffing, entertainment, evaluation, photography, and human resources. Our budget varies from year to year, but we generally need approximately $5,000 in supplies to run LPH and approximately 45 students per day," Lonnergan added.
The simulated hospital allows UAH nursing students the opportunity for hands-on-interaction with "sick" first-graders. Additionally, nursing students apply developmental theory in teaching children about nursing and health care. Youngsters visit the pretend emergency room, X-ray/laboratory, operating room, patient's room/Miss Molly, play area, and safety room.
The process for selecting the student LPH management team begins during the first week of class, when Lonnergan and Bacon distribute applications to students in the community health course. Students are asked for role preference during LPH, at this time they can also apply for the management team.
"It is important that our students are not only strong academically but have strong interpersonal skills," said Bacon. "It is surprising how much experience our students have with leadership and management. We have students who have served as platoon leaders in the military, overseen operations at an orphanage in Central America that housed 600 children, and worked with youths in the Boys and Girls Club. Many have remained active with various children's camps and worked as leaders here at UAH helping fellow students." Educational benefits are gained by both UAH nursing students and area first graders according to UAH faculty members Bacon and Lonnergan. "All of our students get to utilize critical thinking skills when working at LPH. They learn important customer service skills when working with first graders, parents, and teachers. They learn how to work as a team and operate as a group," said Lonnergan.
The simulated hospital experience serves as an invaluable teaching tool where students have the opportunity to make critical decisions regarding quality of care and safety, and the importance of therapeutic communication skills. "In the clinical setting, it can be difficult to expose all of your students to the skills and patient care you would like them to encounter every time they are in clinical," noted Lonnergan. "However, the simulated environment allows us to choose the patient that the student will be caring for."
Beyond the clinical aspects of nursing, UAH nursing students act as guides making sure first graders get off the bus safely and escort them inside the building to await their "hospital" visit. Each room has a senior nursing student who works as room manager to ensure quality is maintained in the delivery of information to the children. The command desk inside the main hall of the simulated hospital is staffed with the management team. "These nursing students operate as the central station to deal with any issues that may arise with the visiting first graders. The management team also runs a debriefing session at the end of each day. This is where students discuss with their peers any problems that have occurred during LPH and recognize individuals and situations that went well," said Bacon.
"What we as educators and future nurses have learned is that we can make the hospital less scary for children," said Bacon. "We have gotten letters of thanks from many parents whose children have attended LPH and then had to be in the hospital. They tell us that their child was not afraid because they had been to "Let's Pretend Hospital" and they knew what to expect."
Meet the UAH College of Nursing Let's Pretend Hospital 2016 Student Management Team
• Gabriel "Gabby" Bensel, CEO - Senior, graduating in May, a native of Shawnee, KS. A (1LT), Medical Service Officer in the US Army Reserves. Duties as CEO prior to the LPH event include supervising the management staff, writing a formal invitation to the President of the University and Provost, and giving an informative presentation to classes volunteering. During LPH will be the faculty liaison, giving morning speeches, and de-briefing staff at the end of the day.
• Emily Cornelison, Art Chair - Senior from Ardmore, TN. Worked in an orphanage in Central America in a medical position ensuring the basic needs of children. Will do mission work after graduation. As LPH Art chair offer ideas for decorations, create order list, and then create the decorations with members of the management team. LPH theme this year is "Super Heroes," will incorporate in all decorations and "hospital" rooms.
• Emily Wright, Security - Senior from Florence, AL. Ultimate goal is to move overseas and work in the medical field in a third world country. As LPH security co-chair, work with chief of campus police to ensure the safety and security of all of the guests, volunteers, and students. Managing the logistics of the event behind the scenes by making sure groups are on time, rotations run smoothly, visitors know where to go, and all student volunteers understand and execute their duties.
• Kayla Luechtefeld, Security - Senior from Huntsville. Attended LPH in first grade and left that day knowing nursing would be a career goal. As a member of the LPH Security team, duties include managing the safety of everyone involved with LPH. Work as a team to maintain safety in high traffic areas such as the parking lots and the stairways of the nursing building. Top concern is for first grade visitors stay safe and have fun.
• Miesha Morris, Staffing - Senior from Tuscumbia, AL. Chose nursing because it is a passion, that changes lives and helps others. Role as LPH Staffing Co-Chair is to assign every volunteer and student working the event to a task. To make sure we have enough people to go through each day efficiently and smoothly.
• Rachel Gilbert, Staffing - Senior from Madison, AL. Decided on a nursing career after working as a volunteer at Huntsville Hospital, also attended LPH as a first grader. As a LPH Staffing Co-Chair, responsible for utilizing management skills to create a staffing plan for the entire week of event.
• Stephanie Simpson, Entertainment - Senior from Guntersville, AL. Dreamed of being a nurse with a challenging career. Role in LPH as Entertainment chair is to create all age appropriate costumes worn by the nursing students, and age appropriate games to entertain the children while outside teaching rooms. Communicate effectively with LPH CEO and faculty in charge. Excited to be working with the children in LPH.
• Erica Smith, Entertainment - Senior from Florence, AL. Wanted to be nurse after observing ill family members being cared for by nurses, who comforted them the most during their hospital stays. Learning lesson: nurses heal people. As part of the entertainment team for LPH, responsibilities include creating costumes, developing games for children, also working together with the CEO and faculty members in charge to create a fun week for the kids.
• Comfort Emelike, Evaluation Chair - Senior graduating in May, from Virginia Beach, VA. Decided to attend UAH's nursing program because of a passion for helping people, and making a change in others lives. LPH responsibilities include collecting data from the children and staff and evaluating the program for its effectiveness. Additional duties include reporting data that has been collected and analyzed to the appropriate Huntsville Hospital staff.
• Chase Putnam, Human Resources - A senior from Scottsboro, AL. Choice to attend UAH was an easy. The university has a solid reputation that holds high regard. The decision to pursue a degree in nursing stems directly from long-lived desire to help people. It is HR's duty to provide a sense of accountability and recognition for our exceptional LPH team members. Staff prizes awarded daily, as well as creative ways for hard workers of LPH to be nominated for their performance.
• Brianna Frederickson, Human Resources - A senior student, from Lynchburg, VA. Goal is to become a pediatric nurse practitioner and work with children who have type one diabetes. As a LPH human resource manager duties include motivating and encouraging student workers and management team. Creating prizes and awards each day for student workers. Also responsible for facilitating communication between the management team and the student workers.
• Kaitlyn Boyett, Photography - A senior student graduating in May. Decided to attend UAH because it has one of the top nursing programs in the state. Both parents were medics in the Army. As LPH Photographer, duties include capturing insightful moments of first graders being introduced to the hospital setting. Maintains photographic diary of the event and share pictures with UAH Office of Marketing and Communication for publicity.
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Christy Bacon
christy.bacon@uah.edu
Melissa Lonnergan
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A few days ago, 10 tourists encountered black guides when they were traveling to Thailand, as the tour guides were dissatisfied with the number of tourists shopping. As a result of the conflict, tourists were forced to return to the country in advance. In response to this, the National Tourism Administration of Thailand stated that it has arrested three persons involved, including tour guides, and that the returning tourists have returned the tour fare from the travel agency.
See how the tour guide threatens visitors
Guided by tour guides that shopping is less
Threat on board the vehicle
Days ago The videos on Thailand's coaches are circulating on the Internet. The tour guides are dissatisfied with the number of tourists shopping. They say in an arrogant manner that they should let tourists get off the train and say they are not afraid of any complaints.
The tour guide threatened passengers in the car
The reporter telephoned Ms. Ma who participated in the tour. She recalled that she had participated in a 7-day, 5-night tour of Thailand from the Chengdu newspaper group at the beginning of May and the price was RMB 2,280 per person.
"Although I have not done a Raiders, but I first explained that we reported is not a low-cost group." Ma said that the 2280 yuan per person spent is only the tour, including accommodation, She calculated the return ticket, and the night flight back and forth was relatively cheap. "We spend money on local tickets and other expenses."
"Or you call back to the country." The tour guide said, "In a word, until you make it."
Ms. Ma said that the tour guide felt that spending less at the shopping mall caused the visitor to become angry and forced. Everyone consumes. And the tour guide said that Thailand is not safe and the words threatened, so everyone decided to hurry back home.
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On May 12, PCG Travel passed Guan Wei stated that it is necessary to firmly pursue the legal responsibility of the unscrupulous tour guide and apologize for the damage caused to the customer.
Piracy Apologize
May 14 On the morning of the morning, Xiao Ke, a customer service manager of Yingke Travel, told reporters that after knowing that tourists encountering a tour guide in Dungun had caused tourists to flee domestic incidents, Yingke Tourism Headquarters set up a special working group to fully intervene in the investigation of the incident. After the remedial work, on May 11th, under the supervision of Chengdu Qingyang District Tourism Bureau, it reached a settlement with the tourists and signed a written agreement. The tourists expressed great satisfaction with the handling results of Yingke Tourism; local police in Thailand have already considered the incident. The involved tour guides arrested and investigated the closure of the travel agency.
The current leader of the incident was an employee of Yingke Travel Chengdu Branch, and the tour guide hired a local tour guide for the ground contact agency in Thailand. For the stores and branch companies that have problems, the headquarters has organized a special team to conduct investigations and handling. The processing results have not yet been announced.
After returning to China, due to the media's concern, travel agencies sent personnel from Beijing headquarters to deal with the problem." Ms. Ma said that after consulting, Yingke Travel returned all the expenses of the delegation to Ms. Ma and her husband. Send a honeymoon tour. "I'm satisfied with the results and thank the media."
Thailand's National Tourism Administration arrests three parties
>Black tour guides working for undocumented posts
Thailand National Tourism Administration official micro-published about 10 Chinese tourists experiencing intimidation during the tour in Tibataya, forced shopping unbearably, late at night The latest progress in the "Great Escape" incident: Chinese tour guides in the evening of May 11 were arrested in Pattaya by the police.
The National Tourism Administration of Thailand Shows the Investigation and Handling of Black Tour Guide Events
After this incident occurred on May 7, Thailand's black tour guides scolded tourists The video that forced the purchase of latex pillows was widely publicized on the Internet to attract a large number of netizens, and the video playback volume reached 3 million times, gradually causing certain negative impact on the Thai tourism image. After learning of this situation, it has urgently contacted the Thai Tourism Police Bureau to deal with it seriously and gave it to Chinese tourists.
On the evening of May 11th, Deputy Chief of the Thai Tourism Police Department, Deputy Prime Minister Surakit Police, led the team, jointly with the Pattaya Tourism Police and the Immigration Bureau police, to work on the network and will be involved in Pattaya. 21-year-old male black tour guide Li Hai arrested. Li Hai confessed in the police station that he had intimidated tourists in video consumption and caused tourists to return late at night.
According to it: During the incident, 10 Chinese tourists took latex pillows from a latex center in Pattaya to collect kickbacks. As a result of the small number of purchasers, they did not make any money. Visitors led tourists to collectively decamp to return to Bangkok.
A survey conducted by tourism police officers found that the Chinese man worked for Thailand's TYT travel agency and did not have a tour guide. It was a foreign black tour guide who was illegally engaged in tourism work in Thailand. The incident has caused a certain loss to Thailand's tourism industry. The police arrested Li Hai for "illegally engaging in illegal trades in the tour guide industry without permission." They also arrested two Thai officials of TYT Travel Services. The next step is Thai police. They will be severely punished under Thai law.
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Edward James Egan, of East Dulwich, London was born on 2nd November 1920.
He was awarded Aero Certificate 16612 at the London Transport Flying Club on 26th November 1938, his occupation was recorded as 'Mechanic'.
Egan joined the RAFVR about January 1939 as an Airman u/t Pilot. Called up on September 1st 1939 he completed his training and arrived at 5 OTU, Aston Down on June 10th 1940.
After he converted to Blenheims, Egan was posted to 600 Squadron on the 24th. He moved to 615 Squadron at Prestwick on August 27th and then to 501 Squadron at Kenley on September 3rd.
Egan claimed a Me109 destroyed on the 15th. He was killed on the 7th, shot down in flames in a surprise attack by a Me109 over Ashford. His Hurricane, P3820, crashed in Daniels Wood, Tuesnoad Farm, Bethersden.
Egan was reported 'Missing'.
His name is on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 14. He was 19 years old.
The crash-site was excavated on September 11th 1976. The pilot's remains could not be identified and he was buried as 'an unknown airman' in Brookwood Military Cemetery, with full military honours. (Images and writing from http://bbm.org.uk)
When the site was investigated again in November 1978, evidence was found to prove positively that it was Egan's aircraft The grave marker at Brookwood was changed to include his name.


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A WOMAN with a 34G bra size has shared her two important tips to abide by when using boob tape to get the best results.
Content creator Vanessa has shown that boob tape does in fact work, all while using some comedic flair in a social media video.
A busty woman has shown how she uses boob tape to get the perfect liftCredit: TikTok
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She then dove into comparisons to show the stark difference between the right side of her chest, which had boob tape on it, and the left side which was untouched.
"She looks fake, and she's looking down to earth," she pointed at each side of her chest.
"She just woke up, and she's about to go to bed."
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Christopher J. "Hogen" Wade, age 55, of Stoughton, formerly of Canton passed away in an accident November 25th. Born in Boston, he was raised in Canton and graduated from Canton High School Class of 1983. He worked as a landscaper for By the Yard Landscaping in Sharon. Chris was an avid golfer and played street hockey on the state champion K-Raiders team from Canton. He had many friends and always took the time to reach out and check in with them. Memories of these conversations will be cherished by all. Chris had a gift for making people smile and laugh. He was without peer when it came to trivia, particularly sports trivia and friends and family knew not to call him during Jeopardy.
Beloved son of the late Mary P. (Mumford) Wade. Devoted Brother of Eric W. Wade of Stoughton, Richard V. Wade of Westwood, and Robert L. Wade of Canton. Loving uncle of Alex, Kelly, Robert, Thomas, Patrick, Ryan, Maggie and Billy. Brother-in-law of Ashlyn Wade, Patricia Wade, Lori Arsenault, and Bridget Wade. He leaves behind many cherished friends. Visiting hours at the Dockray & Thomas Funeral Home 455 Washington St. Canton Tuesday, December 1, 4-7 pm. Funeral Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church, Canton, Wednesday, December 2, at 10 AM. Burial St. Mary's Cemetery, Canton. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Christopher's memory to My Brother's Keeper at www.mybrotherskeeper.org or to My Brother's Keeper P.O. Box 338 Easton, MA 02356.


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Devaswom Minister Kadakampalli Surendran informed the Director General of Police that the temple was not a place for activism, and that it would be irresponsible for the police team to take the women further.
24-year-old Kavitha Jakkala, a Hyderabad based news anchor, became the first woman between the ages of 10 and 50 to reach near the sanctum sanctorum of Kerala's Sabarimala temple. Another woman, identified as Rehana Fathima from Ernakulam, also joined Kavitha and her three-member crew. Though these two women, accompanied by Inspector General of Police S Sreejith and around 80 police personnel, had almost reached the sanctum sanctorum, the government made it clear that it was not right to hurt the sentiments of devotees and insisted that the women should not be allowed to enter, as they are activists and not devotees.
Devaswom Minister Kadakampalli Surendran informed the Director General of Police that the temple was not a place for activism and that it would be irresponsible for the police team to take the women further. "Two activists have reached near the temple, it is not possible for us to identify each person. The government's interest is to protect the interests of the devotees. Sabarimala is not a place for you to prove the power of your activism. I plead to all activists to not misuse the judgment like this. If true devotees come, the government is committed to taking them to the sannidhanam. The government is not responsible for providing security to activists," he said.
A group of devotees had staunchly protested against the women entering the temple. Though IG Sreejith, who had accompanied the two women, spoke to the crowd twice, he could not convince them to disperse.
"We must enact the SC's judgement. Just like you are protesting for your rights, these women have come feeling they have rights and must exercise their rights. we are compelled to protect them as it is our job. I will consult with the government about whether this should go any further and come back and speak to you all. Until then please do not engage in any violence or violent protests here," he had said.
The government seems to have arrived at the decision keeping in mind two factors: The protests by devotees at the sannidhanam; and the fact that Rehana had made a controversial post a few days ago on social media which had created much anger.
Kavitha and Rehna were surrounded by 80 policemen on their trek up to the temple. Inspector General Sreejith had promised them full police protection.
Kavitha, was clad in military fatigues and a helmet to protect herself from the crowd, that also had Hindutva activists, which has been staging violent protests for the past two days. She was accompanied by three other crew members from Mojo, including reporter Balakrishna and cameraperson Narasimha.
Rehana was seen in black attire and carrying an irumudikettu, or a two-layered parcel that all Ayyappa devotees carry mandatorily as offering to the deity.
There was a one-man protest against Kavitha and the police force by a devotee who was on his way down after offering his prayers who hurled a stone at them. The police were quick to shield the trekkers and avert any injuries to the women.
However, when the group reached the 'nadapandal' or the outer corridor entrance to the temple, a large crowd gathered there, many sitting and lying down on the ground. IG Sreejith then asked them to disperse making it clear that the police were there to implement the Supreme Court's orders.
"We are just here to do our job. We must enact and actualise the SC's judgement. We, too, are Ayyappa devotees," he said, and the people gathered there started clapping, "but we have to carry out the SC's ruling. Please try to understand our standpoint," he told the devotees who chanted 'swami sharanam'.
On Wednesday, NYT journalist Suhasini Raj had reached within a few kilometres of the sanctum sanctorum of the Sabarimala temple but was, however, forced to turn around after an angry mob pushed her back and hurled abuses at her.
The police reportedly did offer to accompany Suhasini to Sannidhanam but Suhasini decided not to pursue the matter.


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NOAA has released its records for land and sea surface temperatures worldwide for April, 2014.
Surprise! 2014 tied 2010 for the warmest average land and sea surface temperature on record.
All right, that's not much of a surprise, though NASA, using slightly different accounting methods, had previously announced that April was only the second warmest on record.
Regardless of whether April, 2014 was #1 or #2, the distribution of temperatures was quite a surprise, both on land and sea.
The average land temperature in April was 48.93 degrees Fahrenheit, 2.43 degrees above the 20th century average, and third highest on record.
Residents of the north-central United States and Canada know it was a very cold winter and spring. Because of the contribution of this area to the totals, North America actually experienced an average April, temperature-wise.
The land temperature record for April was highlighted by an amazingly warm month in Siberia. Temperatures in Irkutsk, Russia rose to more than 20 degrees above normal on half of the days; This warmth more than compensated for the cold in the eastern United States and Canada.
Elsewhere, a swath of below normal temperatures was centered in Kazakhstan, sandwiched between the Siberian heat wave and generally warmer than normal temperatures in all of Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa. Australia, South America, Central America, and the southern parts of North America were also above normal.
The oceans averaged 61.98 degrees Fahrenheit in April, 0.99 degrees above normal, and also third highest on record. The warmest ocean water compared to normal was in the Gulf of Alaska. This anomaly, which has persisted since fall, was at least partly responsible for the weather pattern over the United States this winter, as a high pressure omega block built over the warm water and forced cold air southward over the continental US.
The expected El Niño, which NOAA now estimates has an 80% chance to form by fall, is not yet in evidence in April, though equatorial Pacific waters have warmed from last year's La Niña to be near the normals.
January through April of 2014 was the sixth warmest for that period for land and sea temperatures. The very cold winter in Canada and the US had a significant impact, and the Siberian warmth was not as extreme earlier in the winter. La Niña, though fading through the period, had some effect on ocean temperatures.
Precipitation on a monthly basis is affected by unusual events such as training thunderstorms or tropical systems. April, 2014 shows above-normal precipitation in the eastern United States, primarily due to the effect of severe weather outbreak Aardvark near the end of the month.
The above-normal rain in the area of the former Yugoslavia set the stage for disastrous flooding in May in Serbia and Bosnia, when more rain fell on saturated ground. The drought in the southwestern United States continued.
With no let-up in the dry conditions in sight, much of the western United States is in critical drought condition. El Niño normally produces rain in the southwest part of the country; the expected El Niño couldn't come soon enough for the parched states.
Southern Asia continued to experience dry weather which is threatening the tea production in Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Tea lovers prepare to pay higher prices.
The planet has obviously warmed significantly in the last hundred years, and there isn't any other reasonable scientific explanation than that the warming is a result of increasing human-produced carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. More worrisome is the number and extent of extreme events. The off-the-charts anomalies in Siberian air and Gulf of Alaska water temperatures may be a warning of things to come.


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If you read any article on web performance they will almost undoubtedly mention expire-headers. They effectively tell the browser not to bother asking the server if an asset (e.g. an image or stylesheet) has changed until the expiration time. Ideally they should be set for many years in the future so that client browsers aren't spending tons of time waiting for 304 Not Modified responses. The problem with expires headers is that when the file changes you need some way to signal the browser to fetch the updated file. The general trick is to change something in the URL which makes the browser think it is a new file and hence fetch it from the server. This is often called a cache-buster. That is why when you pop open Firebug you will often see files named puppies_3123141.png or styles.css?12345678.
The first possibility is to take the approach used by Ruby on Rails which is to use the modified time of the file. While this satisfies property 3, it does not work for 1 or 2. It breaks property 1 because appending an empty string to a file causes it modified time to update without the actual contents of the file changing. Property 2 is a much larger issue which many people have to face. Static assets are generally served from multiple machines, that means the modified time needs to be consistent across all of them. This is very difficult to achieve, particularly when the files are under version control. While modified time isn't a great solution, it does bring us to another possibility, version control ids.
One of the great things about version control systems is that in order to give you a reference to a particular commit, unique ids have to be generated for each one. Given that is the case, we can simply use the current commit id (or hash for you git'ers) as the cache buster. We are currently on commit X, I update a file and commit it, we are now on commit Y. Since all machines will be updating their files from version control, everyone should be on the same commit id. In terms of speed, its not necessarily the fastest (especially if you are using SVN) but it only needs to retrieved once since it is the same for all files. The problem with commit ids is that it violates property 1. When a single file changes in the repo, every files' id changes. That means that every time you deploy new code for your webapp, each client is going to fetch all the files again, even if all you changed was a README. Getting better, but still leaving something to be desired.
The last possibility I am going to talk about is an oldie but goodie, the MD5 hash. The cache buster of an asset is simply the MD5 hash of the asset itself. It satisfies property 1, and as an added bonus if the file is ever changed and then rolled back the MD5 hash will roll back with it (git reset anyone?). Property 2 is no problem, the contents of the file is the same across the different machines, hence so is the MD5. The only thing left is property 3, speed. Clearly computing the MD5 is going to be more time consuming than fetching modified time. However, just about every language has a standard hash library written in C for computing MD5's and its pretty darn fast. The only place I could see this being an issue is if you have very large files or a extremely large number of them. Even still, you can just write a deploy script that precomputes all the hashes beforehand.
Overall, using MD5s as a cache buster give you all of the nice properties you could want in a cache buster with very little drawback. I went ahead and wrote a monkey patch for Rails that changes the asset id method to use MD5's, the source code is available here (http://pastie.org/1164279). Enjoy busting caches.


Quite some time back I posted a recipe for Gram's ham loaf, and here we have another. I still contend the ham loaf is a midwestern/eastern thing, as I have never in my life (except for in Ohio) seen or heard of ham loaf. If you have left over ham from your holiday dinners and received a meat grinder for Christmas (you too?) you could give this a spin for a Thursday night sometime. Scalloped potatoes and greens on the side, yummmmm!
That is interesting that you have never had ham loaf. Where were you when I made it? Maybe it was when you were at college, so therefore you didn't have it. Then again, I have a recipe for a Ham and Cheese Casserole that you would find in my original cookbook. It came from Helen next door to us. It is yummy! and uses ground ham. If you have a Cuisinart you would pulse the ham in smallish batches with the sharp blade just until it is the right consistency. But an old fashioned meat grinder does it best. I still have mine (Gram's).
I do remember ham & cheese casserole – that was yummy!
So where's the Ham and Cheese Casserole recipe? Sounds yummy and I'd love a great recipe.


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Q: VSS error 12293 after system disk clone (Win2003) After cloning a windows 2003 installation from a single drive onto two mirrored drives using Acronis Disk Director, VSS no longer works, filing events 12293 and 7001 when trying to use backup tools, and additionally giving error 0x8004230f when accessing the Shadow copy tab of disk properties.
I've google-researched this quite throughly, and found a suggested fix[1]: replacing the MBR signature of the disk. This would cause windows to invalidate old shadow copy information, which supposedly would make it all work again. However, I am a bit nervous over this... Is there a possiblity of messing this up somehow, because of the mbr originating from a single disk install, and now residing on a raid mirror?
Has anyone here had this problem and solved it? This method or another?
[1] http://kb.backupassist.com/articles.php?aid=2971 (under header Resolution 2)

A: newsid on a 64bit windows 2003 also destroys vss config.
can be fixed -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940184/en-us

A: For reference, I did eventually go through and change the signature as suggested. Had to reboot twice, but other than that it worked as expected.


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With Leading Role, Faculty Cast As Action Star
As the rest of us spend holiday break catching up with friends or family, curled up with a book or binging TV shows, Matt Schmidli, MFA, assistant professor of theater, will be roaming an apocalyptic wasteland.
Filming began last weekend on the pilot episode of Black Zone, a TV show filmed in Kansas City in which Schmidli plays the lead role. Schmidli has years of experience as a working actor and said everything about this project — its SAG-AFTRA designation, the commitment of the writer/director to film in Kansas City, and the scale of the production — make it a rare one locally. But Schmidli said he thinks KC's performing arts community is ready for their close-up.
"It's kind of crazy, because these kinds of things just never happen out here," he said. "I'm really proud to be a working actor in this area and I do think we have something to prove."
The plot goes like this: some event occurs within the "Black Zone," affecting everyone within it. Schmidli's character is given extraordinary abilities as a result, which makes him the target of a secret government agency. Schmidli said the rich characters and dialogue were what initially stood out to him, but being at the center of an action-oriented production definitely has its own appeal, even with the strict diet and fitness regimen that comes with it.
"It's going to take hours outside of filming to prepare for the fight scenes," he said. "But I'm living out this childhood dream of being an action star."
Heading toward the end of the semester, Schmidli said he's trying to keep everything in balance. But he's looking forward to what the future of Black Zone might bring, including the opportunities that it could provide his students.
"My students are flipping out," he said. "I've never shot anything of this magnitude and I'm learning a lot myself, which is great. But I'm also trying to get students involved to the best of my ability."
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A Territory, but not a State
The Territorialists' Visions for a Jewish Future after the Shoah (1943–1960)
Laura Almagor
Palestine, Israel, territorialists, Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation, settlement, Diaspora, Yiddishism, anti-statism, idealism
The Jewish Territorialists, represented as of 1934 by the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation, searched for places of settlement for Jews outside Palestine/Israel. I here argue that Territorialist ideology demonstrated both continuity and change in the post-1945 years, and continued to focus on an investment in Diaspora life, Yiddishism, anti-statism, colonial and postcolonial attitudes, and Socialist Revolutionary idealism. This article thus challenges the notion that the Shoah spelled the end of non-Zionist Jewish political activities, by demonstrating the ways in which the Freelanders, headed by the enigmatic Isaac N. Steinberg (1888–1957), imagined an alternative Jewish cultural and political future after the Shoah. By mapping the Territorialist movement's continued endeavours after 1945, this study also adds to our broader understanding of the rich spectrum of post-Shoah Jewish political ideologies.
Almagor, Laura. 2019. "A Territory, But Not a State: The Territorialists' Visions for a Jewish Future After the Shoah (1943–1960)". S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 4 (1):93-108. https://simon.vwi.ac.at/index.php/simon/article/view/92.
Laura Almagor, Story for J. , S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.: Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): S:I.M.O.N. SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.


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Q: android garbage collector lingo Trying to find some information on the GC. In my log i see these entrie often:
08-19 22:35:27.513: DEBUG/dalvikvm(1981): GC_EXPLICIT freed 93 objects / 3160 bytes in 999ms
08-19 22:35:28.256: DEBUG/dalvikvm(2331): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 15082 objects / 523496 bytes in 47ms

whats the difference between the 2?

A: When you call System.gc(), a GC_EXPLICIT garbage collection will happen some time in the future. Malloc is a C term and function for allocating memory. A GC for malloced memory will be the system cleaning up your dead java variables because they are no longer in use. (This is done automatically as needed).


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Category Archives for iOS
iPhone prototype
Apple's purported 2005 iPhone prototype
The interest in Apple's reported iPhone prototype is understandable, folks hope to gain new insights into how Apple conceives of, designs and builds their products. My impression is that this system was a development system used to run and test early versions of the software, and indeed shows Apple's thinking re: what became the iPhone platform definition.
Before, after and while at Microsoft I've worked on products that have bootstrapped on development systems that approximated the production units as much as possible, at times years before it's intended launch. You select the processor/architecture family, memory footprint, I/O and make this prototype hardware platform definition as close to the silicon vendors projected availability of their new chip families in the supply chain at your release target date. You then design and build your OS software, drivers and any other hardware abstraction layers to target the core characteristics of the chip families selected. The more chip savvy of you will note this is why new processor features are often not exploited by the OS at initial release. So, indeed this system shows Apples selection of processor architecture and family, however, the screen used may have been a matter of convenience. It may not have been intended to be used at it's full physical extent but probably was bounded by the target screen sizes Apple was testing. Also given the way the prototype is mounted on the stand it appears this setup was used to test input gestures as well.
So, how does this apply to the rest of the industry? Well, the good news is with off the shelf systems like Raspberry Pi readily available for intial prototyping, it's an easy, low cost way for startups to prototype their ideas like Apple did using this custom engineered device. We're seeing an explosion of new devices (not just smartphones) and new categories of devices being created daily for consumers and business. Many acquaintances and former colleagues of mine are now at start ups building devices who's UI appears on a mobile device, the app is part of the overall solution and experience they're building.
At BlackBerry we're fortunate to have the experience of the QNX team who've worked on countless embedded implementations of their software. Together, we're working to make the power of BlackBerry 10 and QNX available to build these new "solution devices" using the tools and platform we've shipped in BlackBerry 10.
March 12, 2013 by bobtaniguchi	Categories: Apple, iOS	| Tags: Apple, development, hardware, iOS, prototype, Raspberry Pi, system | Leave a comment


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What President Buhari and Osinbajo will never do?
Posted By: Ankur
Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigerians will never find him and President Muhammadu Buhari deceiving Nigerians. According to Osinbajo, the Buhari administration was concerned about the plight of ordinary Nigerians and would continue to carry out programmes that would improve their lives. Osinbajo said this on Monday when he appeared on Brekete Family, Reality Radio Talk Magazine programme on Human Rights Radio, Abuja, where he was featured. Osinbajo's speech was forwarded by a Senior Special Assistant to the President, (Office of the Vice President) Laolu Akande.
He said, "The focus of our government is on how things can be better for the common man. "We are not in the business of trying to deceive Nigerians. You can accuse myself and the President of anything, but you will never find us deceiving Nigerians." While making references to the Buhari administration's National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP), the VP noted that the administration is able to do so much more with less resources.
This he said was possible because, "The President has ensured that nobody steals money from the treasury. The major problem Nigeria had before now was the fact that people stole from the nation's coffers. Once the country is able to stop corruption, it would be better. "The first thing we did was tackle unemployment by employing young men and women through the N-Power job scheme, which has so far employed 500,000 young graduates.
"Every state has N-Power, noting that there are plans to employ more because of the number of graduates. This is a social safety net for young unemployed Nigerian graduates. "So far, we have given about 400,000 MarketMoni loans, but the target is to give 1 million loans to artisans and traders, while TraderMoni loans is a N10,000 interest-free loans to petty traders, of which 2 million are expected to be reached in the first phase."
He also highlighted the Federal Government's Energizing Economies Initiative, which provides clean, affordable, and constant power to economic clusters such as big markets and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across Nigeria. "Last week Friday, the Vice President commissioned the Sura market Independent Power Project in Sura shopping complex in Lagos State; a 1.5MW independent mini-grid power supply system to provide clean and affordable electricity to over 1,000 shops in the market.
"The Buhari administration's Energizing Economies Initiative, which is being implemented by Rural Electrification Agency (REA), is designed to provide clean, stable and affordable electricity to Nigerians in these economic clusters. So far, thousand of shops in Sabon Gari in Kano State, Ariaria market in Aba, Isinkan market in Akure, Ondo State, Edaiken market in Benin, Edo State, and Sura market, Lagos, have been provided solar power through the initiative.
"Power is a major problem in Nigeria and our efforts is to solve this through alternative energy such as solar power. We are not relying on the national grid alone. We are also encouraging the private sector to provide power. "The new strategy of the government is to put power in different places so as to make life easy for Nigerians without relying on the national grid. We are still working on the national grid. This country is very big, that's why we have to decentralize," Prof. Osinbajo said.
Speaking further on the benefits of the N-SIP, the Vice President assured Nigerians that the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme was authentic and was a major part of the administration's plan to improve lives of Nigerians. "Currently, it feeds daily over 9 million schoolchildren in public primary schools in 26 states. Also, the products are sourced from local farmers, which improve local economy," he said.
Prof. Osinbajo further stated the administration's commitment to developing the Niger Delta region and how its engagement has helped to maintain peace and stability in the region, which has also improved oil production and the country's revenue.


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package com.bigcommerce.catalog.models;

import java.util.List;

public class ShipmentCreationRequest {

	private final Shipment request;

	public static TrackingNumberStep newBuilder() {
		return new Steps();
	}

	public static interface TrackingNumberStep {
		CommentsStep withTrackingNumber(final String trackingNumber);
	}

	public static interface CommentsStep {
		OrderAddressIdStep withComments(final String comments);
	}

	public static interface OrderAddressIdStep {
		ShippingProviderStep withOrderAddressId(final Integer orderAddressId);
	}

	public static interface ShippingProviderStep {
		TrackingCarrierStep withShippingProvider(final String shippingProvider);
	}

	public static interface TrackingCarrierStep {
		ShipmentLineItemsStep withTrackingCarrier(final String trackingCarrier);
	}

	public static interface ShipmentLineItemsStep {
		BuildStep withShipmentLineItems(final List<ShipmentLineItem> shipmentLineItems);
	}

	private ShipmentCreationRequest(final Shipment shipment) {
		this.request = shipment;
	}

	public static interface BuildStep {
		ShipmentCreationRequest build();
	}

	public Shipment getRequest() {
		return request;
	}

	private static class Steps implements TrackingNumberStep, CommentsStep, OrderAddressIdStep, ShippingProviderStep,
			ShipmentLineItemsStep, TrackingCarrierStep, BuildStep {

		private final Shipment request = new Shipment();

		@Override
		public ShipmentCreationRequest build() {
			return new ShipmentCreationRequest(request);
		}

		@Override
		public BuildStep withShipmentLineItems(List<ShipmentLineItem> shipmentLineItems) {
			request.setItems(shipmentLineItems);
			return this;
		}

		@Override
		public TrackingCarrierStep withShippingProvider(String shippingProvider) {
			request.setShippingProvider(shippingProvider);
			return this;
		}

		@Override
		public ShippingProviderStep withOrderAddressId(Integer orderAddressId) {
			request.setOrderAddressId(orderAddressId);
			return this;
		}

		@Override
		public OrderAddressIdStep withComments(String comments) {
			request.setComments(comments);
			return this;
		}

		@Override
		public CommentsStep withTrackingNumber(String trackingNumber) {
			request.setTrackingNumber(trackingNumber);
			return this;
		}

		@Override
		public ShipmentLineItemsStep withTrackingCarrier(String trackingCarrier) {
			request.setTrackingCarrier(trackingCarrier);
			return this;
		}

	}

}


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Ruth: Kindness that Leads to Kingship, By Rabbi Yosef Blau
May 15, 2018 / theyulamdan
The description in the Torah of the holiday of Shavuot focuses on the seven week counting from Pesach but reveals little about the intrinsic nature of the day. Our sages concluded that it
commemorates the date that the Torah was given on Sinai to the Jewish people. From this perspective the appropriateness of reading Megillat Rut, the story of a single Moabite convert, who becomes the great grandmother of king David, is not clear. Some relate this reading to the agricultural aspect of Shavuot which connects to an important part of the Ruth narrative. There is a way to see the vast contrast between the revelation on Sinai and Ruth's individual choice as a reason to connect the two.
On the Seder night in the recital of Dayenu we say that if Hashem had brought us to Mount Sinai and had not given us the Torah it would have been sufficient. The divine revelation even if it hadn't resulted in the giving of the Torah had enormous religious impact. It created an eternal bond between Hashem and the Jewish people, the nation He had taken out of slavery in Egypt. It is a singular event that led to the entire people as one accepting the commandments. The description of the revelation on Sinai is vivid and detailed; the experience is so powerful that, overcome with dread, the Israelites are afraid to go up the mountain.
The story of Ruth is terse and offers little information about the major personalities. At a critical juncture both of Naomi's daughters-in-law accompany her as she leaves Moab to return to Bethlehem. Ruth and Orpah make opposite choices which change their destinies and the verse doesn't clarify why. We are told nothing beyond names about Naomi's sons and their marriage to two non-Jews. There is even a character who makes a significant decision who is anonymous, called only "ploni almoni."
Instead of a story about a people elevating itself from the rest of humankind, Megilat Rut is the account of one woman joining the Jewish people. Ruth commits herself to her mother-in-law, first joining her people and then her faith, Her life when they arrive in Bethlehem shows devotion and kindness but there is no mention of performing the commandments. It is all about Ruth's character, which so impresses Boaz. Her non-Jewish background, from a nation that historically was an enemy of the the Jewish people, does not prevent her from converting. She undoubtedly saw something special in her mother-in -law's home but the Megillah does not indicate what it might have been. There is no Divine revelation in the story but Boaz, the leader of the Jews, according to the Midrash, recognizes that Ruth's character is extraordinary.
The Megilla concludes with the lineage of David. On one level the conclusion of the story implies that the future king of Israel must inherit key character traits of compassion and devotion. Another message is that if he is focused on his royal lineage he will never properly relate to his people. The Talmud stresses the importance of the king having a problematic past,
At the same time that we commemorate our ancestors standing at Sinai, we also recall that the tablets brought down by Moshe were destined to be broken. All the power of the revelation experience lasted barely forty days before the Jews worshiped a golden calf. Clearly there is a necessary additional dimension to religious life. If accepting the Torah doesn't lead to a transformation of character it won't ultimately succeed. By accentuating the example of an outsider who doesn't share the history but somehow intuited what kind of person
the Torah wants us to be, our sages provide the necessary supplement to the story of revelation. Ruth not only can become part of the Jewish people but without her contribution there can't be a king David. Without a king David there can be no descendants and there is no Messiah. The ultimate redemption of the Jewish people somehow needs the contribution of a Moabite woman devoted to her mother-in-law who was bereft of her husband and sons in a foreign land. The world was created through chesed (loving kindness) and only through will it ultimately be redeemed.
Rabbi Yosef Blau
← What Does Shavuot Really Celebrate: On Preparing for Kabbalat Ha-Torah, by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
Shavuot: A Match Made in Heaven, By Rabbi Yaakov Glasman →


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WNT Ventures are pleased to announce the inaugural winner of the WNT Ventures prize of $20,000 in the University of Canterbury's Tech Jumpstart competition.
We wish to extend our sincere congratulations to Dr Aaron Marshall from the college of Chemical and Process Engineering for the project on "Rapid Electrochemical sensing of the chemical oxygen demand in wastewater". Dr Marshalls project shows excellent potential for commercialisation alongside the other winners from the 2016 competition.
Dr Marshall's idea developed largely from PhD projects which had been looking at electrochemical wastewater treatment. The current traditional method of testing chemical oxygen demand in wastewater involves a process that generates a lot of toxic waste and is both slow as well as labour intensive. Dr Marshall has developed a new sensor technology which will be rapid, simple and potentially more accurate than the traditional method. It will generate almost no harmful waste and use only minuscule amounts of chemical components.
The Tech Jumpstart competition is an annual event giving University of Canterbury staff a chance to transform their innovative ideas into reality with three $20,000 prizes to help with technology development and commercialisation support. As a Callaghan Innovation Technology Incubator, WNT Ventures saw the opportunity to be part of this event as complimentary to our goal of accelerating innovation and building global companies.
WNT Ventures CEO Carl Jones and BDM Amanda Gilbertson sat on the judging panel for the Tech Jumpstart Competition and were impressed by the calibre of the entries coming out of University of Canterbury including those not on the final shortlist.
WNT is excited about this developing relationship with University of Canterbury and we would like to congratulate all the participants in the competition alongside the winning technologies. We look forward to our continued involvement with this programme.


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Home Sport Cricket
Dinesh Karthik confident of KKR qualification for IPL Play-offs
The two-time former champions did not have a great run in the first phase of IPL 2021 as they could manage just wins from seven matches.
Published: 07th September 2021 08:30 PM | Last Updated: 07th September 2021 08:30 PM | A+A A-
Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Dinesh Karthik (Photo | PTI)
ABU DHABI: It will be a herculean task for them but Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Dinesh Karthik is confident that his side can win six out of their remaining seven matches and qualify for the IPL playoffs.
They are languishing at the bottom half of the table as the IPL is set to resume in the UAE in a few days from now.
"We want to win six out of seven matches (to qualify). It's as simple as that. As a team that's what we'll be looking to do. Take one game at a time but try and win six out of seven matches," Karthik told KKR website.
The Eoin Morgan-led side will resume their IPL 2021 campaign against Royal Challengers Bangalore on September 20.
The 2020 edition of IPL saw KKR lose out on a last-four berth owing to a not-so-healthy Net Run Rate.
"Last year when we were in UAE, we missed it (qualifying for playoffs) by a whisker. We won as many matches as the last team had won but still just missed it by a whisker. Two years on the trot, we have been fifth on the table. That's something that still gnaws at me," Karthik said.
Karthik, who is back with KKR after a successful stint as a commentator in the UK, insisted that the team would focus on the positives and cotinue to play aggressive cricket.
"KKR is known to play very positive and aggressive cricket. I want that to come through in the second half. I still think the team spirit is good. We're positive and we've a coach who's always infusing positivity into us," he said.
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It is easy to take some gifts home from Dali, as you can buy some vases and lanterns made from marbles, the tie-dyed cloth, tea, dairy fan and some local specialties from the old town.
Green plums are carved with elaborate patterns, in the shape of chrysanthemum. It tastes sweet, sour, and refreshing after being soaked with brown sugar and honey in a clay pot.
Tie-die cloth in Dali is popular, and it is also made into dresses, bags and wall hangings. Designs on the cloth include small circles and lines, with bright colors including red, yellow, blue, and green.
The tie-dye enjoys a history of more than 20o years in Dali. A clothing made of tie-dye cotton looks great, but the procedure is complicate. The knitted textiles are dyed in a dye vat. The stitches are taken out after the spin-drying. The materials for dyeing are particularly chosen and used to be refined from isatis indigotica fort, a plant. The dyestuff was edible before, however, some chemical pigments have been added into the dye vat with the handiwork changing today. The local villagers have few lands, thus, making tie-dye cloth has become one of their main incomes. Most tie-dyed products are sold on the market of Dali.
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Q: Beanstalkd support for multiple servers and load balancing I am using beanstalkd in  a Laravel project to handle jobs on a queue. Beanstalkd is running locally. What I want to do is add one or more remote servers to handle some jobs when the queue gets bigger. I know that with Laravel I can send a job to a specific remote connection but in this way I don't know the load in each server prior to sending the job.
I was wondering if beanstalkd supports load balancing between servers and error handling when a remote job fails for example.
Thank you

A: Beanstalkd does't have features for load balancing.
You could setup a HAProxy on your balancer and signup multiple servers with beanstalkd installed. Then when you send jobs from Laravel code you send to the HAProxy, and HAProxy decides on which sub-server puts the job, as it knows the loading and if there is an incident with a sub system.
In the code you just need to change the IP.
In your infrastructure you need to have balancer (HAProxy) that is setup with a pool of Beanstalkd servers.
We usually have 2 machines, and they are configured like this:
- Machine 1: HAProxy, Apache, MySQL, Laravel, Beanstalkd
- Machine 2: MySQL, Laravel, Beanstalkd