Examples of fiscal irresponsibility on Capitol Hill are easy to find. For instance, even though the United States is currently spending more on its military than the combined budgets of the next seven highest spending countries, Congress recently increased military spending by 82 billion dollars. This brings the total the US spends on a futile effort to police and democratize the world to 716 billion dollars. The US House has also recently passed a farm bill that increases spending by more than 3 billion dollars over the next five years. This bill does not take a step toward ending subsidies to wealthy farmers and even continues providing farm subsidies to non-farmers! Pressure on Congress to increase spending on farm subsidies is likely to increase as farmers become collateral damage in President Trump's trade war.
One of the worst features, if not the worst, of the tax reform plan is increasing the inflation tax by authorizing the use of "chained CPI." Chained CPI hides inflation's effects by claiming that rising prices do not harm Americans as long as they can still afford low-cost substitute goods to replace products they can no longer afford due to the Federal Reserve's devaluation of the currency — as if people forced to buy hamburger instead of steak are not negatively impacted by inflation.
Increasing federal debt will also put pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low to prevent federal interest payments on the debt from skyrocketing. Eventually, the Fed's monetization of the debt will lead to hyperinflation and a rejection of the dollar's world reserve currency status. The question is when, not whether, the welfare-warfare state and the fiat currency system will end. Hopefully, those who know the truth will succeed in growing the liberty movement so we can convince Congress to gradually unwind the welfare-warfare state, restore a true free market in money, and stop trying to run the world, run the economy, and run our lives.


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Peel and cut up the potatoes and cook in a pan of salted boiling water for about 20 minutes or until tender. Drain in a sieve, allow the surface water to evaporate for a few minutes, then mash.
At the same time, arrange the mackerel fillets in a single layer in a lidded pan. Pour over the wine, dot with the butter and season. Bring to a simmer, cover and cook over a low heat for 7 minutes. Using a spatula, transfer the mackerel fillets to a plate, reserving the cooking juices in the pan. Leave the fish to rest for 10 minutes.
Add any juices from the resting fish to the cooking juices in the pan, return to the heat and boil until reduced to a few tbsp of buttery emulsion.
Flake the mackerel, discarding any skin and stray bones. Fold into the mashed potatoes, followed by the reduced cooking juices, spring onion or capers, lemon zest and Tabasco. Season to taste.
Divide the mixture into six and shape using your hands into large patties or balls. Beat the eggs in a shallow bowl and place the breadcrumbs in another. Dip the fish cakes first in the beaten egg and then in the breadcrumbs to coat them.
To cook, heat about 1cm oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat for a few minutes until hot but not smoking. Fry the fish cakes in batches for about 2-3 minutes on each side until golden and crisp. Serve immediately.
These are good with a salad of very finely sliced fennel, dressed with olive oil, lemon and a generous scattering of chopped flat-leaf parsley.


Jonathan showed he was too small for the office – Obasanjo makes shocking revelations. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan from his first days as President showed he was too small for the office, saying he, Obasanjo, acted more as an opponent of Jonathan than a supporter of Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential poll.
Obasanjo, who said Jonathan deceived him that he would not give Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke the petroleum portfolio in his cabinet was deceived into believing that he could use money to buy the 2015 presidential election.
Obasanjo in the book, Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria, written by former presidential spokesman, Segun Adeniyi, also revealed that Jonathan was gripped by the fear that Buhari, as president, would jail him or lead him to an early grave. In the 204-page book, former President Jonathan is himself quoted as saying he could not be held accountable for provocative remarks made by some of his supporters, even as former Senate President, David Mark, is also quoted in the book as alleging that he forewarned the former president about the alleged conspiracy against him in the north but to no avail.


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BOYS SOCCER: Torrington defeats Kennedy, improves to 4-1 (video)
Sep. 21, 2012 Updated: July 27, 2017 5:16 a.m.
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TORRINGTON - It's fun scoring goals and it's fun winning games and right now the Torrington High School boys soccer team is having a lot of fun.
Jairo Borja and Shane Bierfeldt both scored a pair of goals and the Red Raiders won for the fourth time in their first five games with a 5-1 victory over Kennedy on Friday night under the lights at Torrington High.
Torrington improved to 4-1 with the win and has won two straight since its lone loss, a 4-1 setback to St. Paul on Monday.
The loss to St. Paul is the only game this season in which Torrington has scored less than three goals and the improved finishing is a big reason why the Red Raiders are off to such a strong start. Last season Torrington was 2-3 after five games and had scored more than two goals just once.
"We are finishing this year," Torrington coach Mike Fritch said. "Mostly everybody is back from last year. Last year was the first year playing varsity for a lot of them, but this year we are ready and here to show we are back."
Torrington didn't waste much time showing Kennedy they were back as Borja and Bierfeldt had both scored before the game was seven minutes old.
Borja opened the scoring with a goal just under five minutes into the first half and Bierfeldt doubled the lead with a goal two minutes later.
Bierfeldt added his second of the game with 4:35 left in the first half and the Red Raiders took a 3-0 lead into the break.
Kennedy struck for its lone goal early in the second half when Joseph Frieitas scored to make it 3-1 with 36:46 to play.
But that would be all Kennedy could muster and Torrington regained control.
"We played a full game," Fritch said. "Monday night we played a good first half and a bad second half, Wednesday we played an awful first half and a great second half. Tonight we were able to put two halves together."
Borja netted his second goal as he got behind the Kennedy defense and finished with 18:29 to play and Amar Suljic put the finishing touches on the win with a tally with 6:28 to play.
"Jairo's a finisher, has been since he was a freshman," Fritch said. "We are very good when we play to each others feet, when we keep the ball on the ground. When we keep the ball on the ground we are going to be a good team."
Just like they were Friday night.

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Kavita: Love this outfit. It may be a tad simple but the cut, colour and finish complement PC's complexion to perfection!
Tamanna: Priyanka is gorgeous but her look is 'oh so boring'. Accessories, higher heels, or a clutch could have added some fun to this lovely pink colour.
Kavita: Gorgeous legs, a fantastic colour and stunning in every way, Bips gets adventurous and bright in this fab dress. We love everything about this look!
Tamanna: Drop dead gorgeous as always! Her dress and shoes go so perfectly, and I like how it's all elegant with no accessories. The coral is a great summer colour!
Kavita: What a disaster. We hate everything about this wannabe-hot red number with bizarre accessories!
Tamanna: A disaster on the red carpet. The shoes are ugly and so are the accessories. There is no style to the whole attire. Needs a stylist ASAP!
Kavita: Sophie looks a bit staid, though cuts quite a lovely figure in her black dress.
Tamanna: Sophie looks elegant in her black dress. Her lace shoes, minimal accessories and crystal clutch add a touch of glamour, and her perfect figure makes her look graceful on the red carpet.
Kavita: Rugged and stylish, Hrithik looks more delectable than ever in his white shirt and studded belt. We looove him!
Tamanna: Words fail to describe him. His twinkling green eyes and lean body make him the hottest star of Bollywood. He is so stylish. There is never enough to talk about Hrithik.
Kavita: Simple and predictable, Karan could have donned a trendier avatar but then again, we have no complaints!
Tamanna: He is playing it safe. He should have worn a coloured shirt, or maybe a white shirt with a different coloured stitch to give it a summer touch. But Karan has his own style and class and can definitely carry black.
Kavita: Sonakshi looks simple, understated and quite lovely in this monochrome outfit. Sometimes less really is more!
Tamanna: The ruffled blouse looks nice but I'm not too sure about her pants. Probably a pair of high peep toes would have done better. The silver bangles are so outdated!
Kavita: What is going on? This outfit is weird. Period.
Tamanna: The black and white combination is so boring! The zipper top and zip slit pants are a complete no-no. Coloured shoes and clutch would add a little oomph to the outfit.


The debacle this nation and the world saw last week in the special-called session of confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh was troubling on many levels, not least of which was the once-again uncovering of the deep anger of white men.
Those we saw last week were privileged – meaning, men of some financial worth – but the ever-reappearance of white male anger is puzzling to me. White men rule the world. What, then, are they so angry about?
They are members of the White Supremacy Club – a moniker I've given them – which includes not only racism but deeply virulent sexism as well. The Founding Fathers of this nation were all privileged white men who intended this country to be created by white people – or more specifically, by white men – for white people, with white men in control. They have taught their brand of sexism to men of all races in this country, but their racism is uniquely their own.
When these men do not get their way, they lose perspective and the ability to contain their anger. I imagine that they grow up being taught that they are better than anyone else and that they are entitled to more than anyone else. I would assume that they are taught that others do not have what they have because others are inferior to them. That being said, I am assuming that they are taught to not be concerned or to feel bad about how they may be perceived. This world is theirs and they are charged to keep it that way.
I make those stark assumptions because all parents teach their children that they have worth. African American parents teach their children that in spite of what the world – defined by white supremacist ideology – that they are just as worthy and intelligent and beautiful and capable as anyone else – meaning the white society which will tell them differently. It's not surprising that privileged white parents would teach their children to live into that privilege and to realize their unique value as white people – and specifically as white men.
Whenever we think we are "somebody," and someone else does not treat us in the manner to which we have grown accustomed, we tend to become a bit surly. We are insulted that the person in front of us "does not know who we are." People who are "somebody," and/or who believe they are "somebody" become used to being treated differently than the commoners, for lack of a better term. They expect others to know who they are and to treat them accordingly.
So…privileged white men have been having their way for a long time and they are worried, say some, that with all of the undesirables coming into the country, effectively "browning" America, their status as "privileged" is threatened. They are fighting back with everything they've got – from passing laws that make life miserable for black, brown and poor people, to working the suppress the vote for black, brown and poor people, to gerrymandering voting districts so that they can remain in power, to separating immigrant parents from their children and throwing those children in what only be called detention camps.
The administration is working to get federal judges on benches all over the country who will preserve the "white way of life," which is what "Make America Great Again" is really all about. As laws and policies have passed which have made the lives of black, brown and poor people easier, the privileged have become petulant and pissed off.
The white supremacist way of thinking has cooked their brains and foiled their capacity to feel compassion for anyone other than themselves and their interests. They are acting like spoiled children, pouting and having temper tantrums when the world dares to challenge them on things they want to do and which they think they are entitled to do.
When Judge Brett Kavanaugh lost his cool during the hearing on Thursday where he had to answer to charges of sexual impropriety brought by Dr. Christine Ford, I was disappointed but not surprised. It seemed that he had been well-coached by the pouter-in-chief, but his outburst to me seemed to be one of indignation, not that he was being asked certain questions, but that certain people felt they had the right to challenge and question him. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) seemed to fit that description as well. These were grown men, spoiled by a society which supports and practices white supremacy – and they were insulted that anyone had the gall to challenge them on how they chose to live their lives.
The South has been the bane of everything "socially just" concerning race since it lost the Civil War.; its position on the place of the woman hasn't been much better. Someone said that after the war ended, it would go on without a weapon being fired and we have seen that reality played out for years. The South has resented black people making gains – at, they believe, their expense. They have worked and are still working to make things "right" again. Their "good ol' boy" mentality has never been so challenged and they are fit to be tied. But they are determined to hold onto their power and their privilege. They will continue to pout …but also to plot how they can keep what they believe is their divine right to have – superior treatment and opportunity based on their race and their gender. They are determined to correct what they believe was a travesty of justice when the South lost the war. They are determined to retrieve the "Lost Cause" and put this country on what they believe is its intended course again.


Vans Park Series returns to Vancouver, Canada on July 13-14 to bring the world's best professional park terrain skateboarders back to the legendary Hastings Skatepark for yet another gravity-defying battle of park terrain competition. In only the second stop of the 2018 Pro Tour, the race to earn a spot in the World Championships continues as tour challengers seize the opportunity to better their rankings, while keeping close tabs on leading contenders such as Select Pros Pedro Barros, Ivan Federico, and Karl Berglind, who have finished with outstanding results in the series' history. With more drama expected, tour competitors are also slated to endure an onslaught of local hopefuls who will be granted the Wildcard opportunity, including past Canadian VPS competitors Riley Boland and Adam Hopkins.
Hastings Skatepark remains one of the most demanding skateboarding courses in the world, exceeding today's park terrain course criteria and holding court as one of the original park terrain concepts in North American history to date. Returning for the third year in a row, the elite pros of 2018 Vans Park Series Men's Pro Tour are eager to rule the Hastings Skatepark course once more, in anticipation of the unique potential of the course to produce fast, aggressive and colossal runs.
The 2018 Vans Park Series Pro Tour will be broadcast live in English for free on ETNlive.com,the ETN app, and vansparkseries.com. The final roster of Select Pros, Challengers and Wildcards for the 2018 VPS Pro Tour is now available online at www.vansparkseries.com.
ETN is a digital network created by skateboarders that provides members with a one-of-a-kind experience into the world of skateboarding through unique original shows and live events. As the official live broadcast partner of skateboarding's premiere contest series, SLS & Vans Park Series, the network continues to pioneer a growing platform for the world's best skateboarders, while shining a light on the unpredictable, raw, culture of skateboarding. Download the ETN app now or visit ETNlive.com for more information.
The 2018 Vans Park Series Pro Tour is the premier series for professional park terrain skateboarders consisting of four men's global qualifiers and three women's global qualifiers spanning five countries over six months and culminating with the official Vans Park Series World Championships. Showcasing an international roster of skateboarding's elite pros and a total series purse in excess of $700,000(USD), the Vans Park Series uniquely defines the park terrain format with its exclusive points system, judging guidelines and qualifying park terrain course criteria. Additional information and live webcast details will be available on the official Vans Park Series iOS app and online.


September the 28th is a beautiful day in Brussels. The sun is shining and people are having their lunch outdoors on the Esplanade of the European Parliament. Nothing out of the ordinary, except that it's unusually quiet given how many people there are around me as I walk up to the main entrance of the EP's Altiero Spinelli building.
September the 28th 2016 is a special day, indeed. Hundreds of deaf people and dozens of sign language interpreters from all over Europe and even Japan have gathered in Brussels for a truly unique event: a conference on "Multilingualism and equal rights in the EU: the role of sign languages". And the location could not be more fitting, as this conference takes place in the iconic and beautiful hemicycle of the European Parliament.
Having entered the plenary room, or hemicycle, I am stunned. There are over 600 people in this amazing room, almost 40 of them from outside the European Union.
Terry Reintke MEP: It is an absolutely breathtaking feeling to enter this room and to see so many sign language interpreters. I got goose pimples when I came in.
I am not stunned by the noise. Quite the contrary. The room is almost quiet, apart from the occasional outburst of laughter. Most of the communication is signed. It is certainly not the usual business of this debating chamber and truly a sight to behold. At first, I can't find a place to sit down. The parlamentarians' seats have been divided into blocks for the individual sign languages. In front of every block, there's a sign language interpreter, a second one right beside. They wear black or other dark colours to increase the contrast with their hands' skin tone. And they stand on little podiums. All in the interest of enhancing visibility and understanding by the audience.
Helga Stevens MEP: OK, we're going to start. I would like to say good afternoon, everyone. And of course, I would also like to welcome all of you to this historic conference.
This is Helga Stevens, welcoming the participants of the conference. Actually, the person you hear is her Flemish interpreter, because Helga Stevens uses Flemish sign language.
The sheer numbers are impressive, too: 1 huge room. 31 EU sign languages. 1 non-EU sign language (Japanese). 24 spoken EU languages (including Irish) *Liadh Ní Riada speaking Irish* 145 interpreters. And dozens of MEPs.
The one MEP behind this historic event is Helga Stevens, who we just heard giving her opening remarks. Stevens is a Belgian politician and an MEP for the New Flemish Alliance, which forms part of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the Parliament. Stevens' life so far is quite astonishing: She was born deaf in 1968. She first attended a school for the deaf before graduating from a mainstream school as one of the first Belgian pupils benefiting from inclusion education. During a stint in the United States, she got in touch with deaf advocates. Back in Belgium, she studied law, became a lawyer - and then studied law again on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Berkeley. In parallel to her legal career, she started working in advocacy for the deaf (notably with the European Union of the Deaf) and became actively involved in local and national politics. Helga Stevens has been one of the two signing members of the European Parliament since 2014, together with Hungarian MEP and co-organiser of this conference Adam Kosa.
Vicky Ford MEP: When Helga explained to me she was going to bring a conference of people with hearing disabilities to the European Parliament, I don't think anybody expected such an impressive turnout.
65 MEPs across all political groups sponsored over 430 visitors for them to be able to come to Brussels. And it was also members of the European Parliament who have supported the provision of international sign interpretation and speech-to-text for the live web stream of the event.
It is fitting that the European Parliament would host this conference - it has a long history of supporting the cause of the deaf.
Oliver Pouliot: My name is Oliver Pouliot, I'm one of MEP Stevens' regular interpreters. British, American, Hungarian and Flemish sign language - these are the sign languages of the members, as well as the leaders of European-level NGOs who come to the European Parliament on a regular basis. Today is obviously an exception, and many of you can be proud to represent your sign languages appearing in the EP for the very first time in such large numbers. The reality of the situation has been and still is that there is less support for sign languages compared to spoken languages. Deaf people are not linguistically disabled and therefore, their communication accessibility should not fall under that category [of reasonable accommodation]. Rather, it should fall under the policy of controlled full multilingualism, just as their spoken-language colleagues. Sign and spoken language teams are the future of interpreting in the European Parliament. After decades of resolutions, recognition and run-around, I think we are finally in a position to make some change. And who better to set the example than the European Parliament?
In June 1988, a resolution was approved unanimously falling on the member states to recognises their national sign languages. Back then, only 4 states had done so. As if to underline how little progress was being made, the EP passed another resolution: 10 years later, 1998, but with almost the same demands: recognise sign languages, professionalise sign language interpreting, encourage hearing people to learn sign language for more inclusion, to name just a few. And one of the MEPs was there for the whole time. His name is Richard Howitt.
Richard Howitt MEP: Thank you, Helga. I'm very proud to be here at this conference. Well don to you. As one of the longest-serving members of the Parliament, I was one of the co-signatories to the resolution in 1998 for the official recognition of sign language. And since then, 12 different European countries have done so. I'm deeply proud of that, and of our role in that campaign. Most recently Malta. But Bulgaria and Luxemburg, come on, do it, let's get all of you recognising sign language. In one month's time, I will finish in the EP, I will stand down and not be a member of the EP anymore. There won't be another session in this hemicycle. So this is the last time I will speak in this hemicycle. I just want to remind you: Before I was an MEP, the thing that made me want to be an MEP was that I ran a disability local project with European funding that got British deaf and Dutch deaf people together to learn about each other's sign language. That was the thing that got me into this chamber, and I'm very proud that today's event is one of the last things before I leave.
In 2010, the European Union officially ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. That UN convention was a follow-up to the "Decade of disabled persons" from 1981 to 1992. With the active involvement of representatives of the disability community, it was adopted by the General Assembly in 2006 and entered into force in 2008, when the 20th party had signed it. Currently, 166 countries and the European Union have signed the CRPD. That means that the EU institutions now legally HAVE to provide accessibility and equality for disabled citizens.
And that's the big objective: a full recognition of sign languages in every EU member state.
23 states have 1 national sign language, but 4 states have even two: Belgium has a Flemish and a French Belgian sign language. Spain has a Spanish and a Catalan variety. And Finland and Estonia accommodate their Swedish and Russian linguistic minorities respectively with their own sign language. And one member state, Luxemburg, shares its sign language with Germany.
And I could go on: For example, French and American sign language have quite a few commonalities. The story behind it is fascinating, so here it goes, real quick in a nutshell. In the late 1700s, the famous Royal Institute of the Deaf was founded in Paris. It exists to this day to teach young deaf people. One of the institute's teachers back in the day was Laurent Clerc. He was born hearing, but lost his hearing and sense of smell in a fire accident when he was one year old. He was taught at the institute and was such a good student that he was asked to stay on as a teacher. Meanwhile, in 1815, an American called Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet had come to London and then Paris to learn about teaching the deaf out of frustration that the deaf in America had no specialised teaching whatsoever. Gallaudet and Clerc really hit it off. They sailed back to America together in 1816 and used the 52-day voyage to learn from each other. Clerc taught Gallaudet French sign language, Gallaudet taught Clerc English. So despite his firm intention to soon return to his native France, Clerc never did. He and Gallaudet founded the first school for the deaf in Harford, Connecticut and brought deaf education to North America. They brought along a lot of French signs and shaped the development of ASL, American Sign Language.
To give another example from Europe, the Vlaamse Gebarentaal used in Flanders is closer to the Langue des Signes de Belgique Francophone than it is to the Dutch sign language across the border.
Yannis Vardakastanis: Linguistic diversity is a right that must be respected and upheld. The EP has adopted an implementation report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in July, prepared by Helga Stevens, that contains recommendations for the rights of the disabled. It is an opportunity for the EU to sign up to the UN efforts and to provide a legal framework for fighting against poverty, discrimination and human rights violations among people with disabilities. It is incumbent on the whole EU to implement the Parliament's recommendations. All those rights should be accessible to everyone unconditionally. Accessibility must become a reality for every European citizen. People with disabilities live in difficult times - times of austerity, discrimination and exclusion. The time has come for the EU to open up to people with disabilities, to say "yes", the EU is there for Europeans with disabilities and for everyone else. The EU must bring about a day where you and us, regardless of disabilities, are able to communicate with each other on equal footing. In conclusion: Nothing for us without us.
This has been episode 28 of LangFM, a podcast about languages and the people who live and work with them. More information about this episode and the back catalogue of earlier ones can be found online at http://www.langfm.audio.
Special thanks go to Lauren Harris for live-tweeting the conference and helping me with this episode.
If you enjoyed listening, you can subscribe in iTunes or any other podcast app. Or simply share it with someone who you think should know about it.
Thanks for listening and talk to you soon - on LangFM.
Helga Stevens: There are still people chatting, please stop them. But that's so typical of deaf culture. Maybe we should just turn the lights on and off?


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require 'tk'
require 'tk/button'
require 'tkextlib/blt/tile.rb'

module Tk::BLT
  module Tile
    class Button < Tk::Button
      TkCommandNames = ['::blt::tile::button'.freeze].freeze
    end
  end
end

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About OHR
HR and his deputies
Banja Luka Regional Office
Decisions of the High Representative
International Community in BiH
Peace Implementation Council
PIC Statements and Communiqués
Board of Principals
Freedom Of Access To Information Act For Bosnia and Herzegovina
Note: This Act was published in the "Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina", number 28/2000, dated 17 November 2000
—This is an unofficial translation, and represents the only English version endorsed by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the OHR—
Based on Article IV(4)(a) of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the session of the House of Representatives held on 18 October 2000 and in the session of the House of Peoples held on 23 October 2000, adopted the
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
ACCESS PROCEDURE
RESPONSIBILITIES OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
SECTION VI
THE OMBUDSMAN
SECTION VII
The purposes of this Act are:
to acknowledge that information in the control of public authorities is a valuable public resource and that public access to such information promotes greater transparency and accountability of those authorities, and is essential to the democratic process;
to establish that every person has a right to access this information to the greatest extent possible consistent with the public interest, and that public authorities have a corresponding obligation to disclose information; and
to enable every natural person to request the amendment of, and to comment on, his or her personal information in the control of a public authority.
This Act shall be interpreted so as to facilitate and promote the maximum and prompt disclosure of information in the control of public authorities at the lowest reasonable cost.
For the purpose of this Act:
"information" means any material which communicates facts, opinions, data or any other content, including any copy or portion thereof, regardless of physical form, characteristics, when it was created, or how it is classified.
2. "public authority" means any of the following in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
an executive authority;
a legislative authority;
a judicial authority;
a body appointed or established by law to carry out a public function;
any other administrative authority;
a body that is either owned or controlled by a public authority.
"control" means either possession of, or control of access to, information.
4. "personal information" means any information relating to a natural person who can be directly or indirectly identified by reference to factors such as but not limited to, an identification number or that person's physical, mental, economic, ethnic, religious, cultural, or social identity.
"competent authority" means a public authority that has control of the requested information and is the authority by whom or for whom the information was brought into existence. If the latter cannot be determined, the competent authority shall be the public authority whose function most closely relates to the requested information.
Every natural and legal person has the right to access information in the control of a public authority, and each public authority has a corresponding obligation to disclose such information. This right of access may only be subject to such formalities and restrictions as are prescribed by this Act.
Determination of an Exemption
Requested information shall be determined to be exempt from disclosure on a case-by-case basis and only if a competent authority:
claims an exemption under Articles 6, 7 or 8 for all or part of the information; and
determines, upon applying the public interest test provided for in Article 9, that disclosure is not justified in the public interest.
Exemptions for Functions of Public Authorities
A competent authority may claim an exemption where disclosure would reasonably be expected to cause substantial harm to the legitimate aim of the following in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
the foreign policy, defense and security interests, and the protection of public safety;
the monetary policy interests;
crime prevention and crime detection; and
the protection of the deliberative process of a public authority insofar as it involves the expressing of opinion, advice or recommendation by a public authority, employee thereof, or any person acting for or on behalf of a public authority, and does not involve factual, statistical, scientific, or technical information.
Exemption for Confidential Commercial Information
Where a competent authority reasonably determines that a request for access to information involves the confidential commercial interests of a third party, the competent authority shall forthwith notify the third party in writing of the specifics of the request. The notice shall inform the third party that the disclosure of the information is imminent unless the third party, within 15 days of receipt of the notice, responds in writing that it considers the information to be confidential and gives reasons as to why harm would result from disclosure. Upon receipt of such a response the competent authority shall claim an exemption.
Exemption for the Protection of Personal Privacy
A competent authority shall claim an exemption where it reasonably determines that the requested information involves the personal privacy interests of a third person.
Public Interest Test
A competent authority shall disclose the requested information, notwithstanding that it has claimed an exemption under Articles 6, 7 or 8, where to do so is justified in the public interest having regard to both any benefit and harm that may accrue from doing so.
In determining whether disclosure is justified in the public interest, a competent authority shall have regard to considerations such as but not limited to, any failure to comply with a legal obligation, the existence of any offence, miscarriage of justice, abuse of authority or neglect in the performance of an official duty, unauthorized use of public funds, or danger to the health or safety of an individual, the public or the environment.
If disclosure of the requested information for which a competent authority has claimed an exemption under Articles 7 or 8 is determined to be in the public interest, the competent authority shall notify the third party in writing that the information shall be disclosed upon the expiry of 15 days of receipt of the notice. The notice shall inform the third party of the availability of appeal, the specific body to whom the appeal should be addressed including the necessary contact information, and the deadline for and cost of filing an appeal. The notice shall also inform the third party of his or her right to apply to the Ombudsman and shall include the necessary contact information.
If part of the requested information is determined to be exempt, the competent authority shall sever that part and disclose the remainder of the information unless the severance has rendered it incomprehensible.
Submission of a Request
Requests for access to information may be submitted to the public authority the requester believes is the competent authority.
Requests for access to information shall:
be in writing in one of the official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
provide sufficient detail as to the nature and/or contents of the information sought so as to enable the public authority exercising a reasonable effort to identify the requested information; and
include the requester's name and address.
Requests for access to the requester's own personal information shall, in addition to satisfying the requirements provided for in subsection (2), only be made by the natural person to whom it relates, or by the requester's legal representative or someone authorized in writing by the requester to access the information. If the request is made by the person to whom it relates, he or she shall sign the request and produce legal photo-identification. If the request is made by the requester's legal representative or by someone authorized to access the information, that person shall sign the request, produce his or her legal photo-identification, proof of legal representation or authorization, and a copy of the requester's legal identification.
A public authority shall neither require nor ask for any reason or justification for the request.
Inability to Comply with a Request
Should a public authority be unable to comply with a request owing to the absence of formal requirements as provided for in Article 11(2) and (3), it shall, as soon as possible and no later than 8 days from receipt of the request, notify the requester in writing, where such notification is possible, that the request cannot be processed for that reason. This notice shall inform the requester of the availability of appeal, the specific body to whom the appeal should be addressed including the necessary contact information, and the deadline for and cost of filing an appeal. The notice shall also inform the requester of his or her right to apply to the Ombudsman, and shall include the necessary contact information.
For requests that fail to comply with Article 11(2)(b), the notice provided for in subsection (1) shall also include any specific clarification questions and a copy of the guide provided for in Article 20(a).
Notices provided for under this Article shall inform the requester that a reformulated request will be treated as a new request.
Determination of Competent Authority
Should the respondent authority not be the competent authority, it shall, as soon as possible and no later than 8 days from receipt of the request, transfer the request to the competent authority and notify the requester in writing thereof. Transfer need not be effected if, within the same time period, the requested information is determined to be in the control of the respondent authority and the competent authority, upon being notified of the specifics of the request, has no objections to the respondent authority processing the request. The respondent authority shall thus be deemed to be the competent authority and shall process the request in accordance with Article 14.
Should the competent authority not be locatable and the respondent authority have control of the requested information, the respondent authority shall be deemed to be the competent authority. Should the competent authority not be locatable and the respondent authority not have control of the requested information, the respondent authority shall, within the time period provided for in subsection (1), provide the requester with written notice that the request cannot be processed for this reason.
Procedure Upon Receipt of a Request by the Competent Authority
Upon receiving a request for access to information, the competent authority shall take all reasonable measures to collect the requested information and shall consider all facts and circumstances pertinent to the processing of the request.
If access to the information is granted, either in whole or in part, the competent authority shall notify the requester in writing thereof. This notice shall:
inform the requester that the information is available for access in person at the premises of the competent authority; and
b) inform the requester whether duplication is possible, the cost of the duplication, and that the duplication shall be provided to the requester upon payment. Where the duplication of the information is unusually complex or time-consuming, the duplication shall be provided to the requester at a time mutually acceptable to the requester and the competent authority; and/or
include duplication of the requested information where it can be supplied at no cost as provided for under Article 16.
If access to the information is denied, either in whole or in part, the competent authority shall notify the requester in writing thereof. This notice shall:
include the legal grounds for the exempt status of the information including the Articles of the Act being relied upon, and all material issues relevant to the decision including public interest factors taken into account; and
inform the requester of the availability of appeal, the specific body to whom the appeal should be addressed including the necessary contact information, and the deadline for and cost of filing an appeal. The notice shall also inform the requester of his or her right to apply to the Ombudsman, and shall include the necessary contact information.
4. Notices referred to in subsections (2) and (3) shall be sent out as soon as possible and no later than 15 days from receipt of the request. For requests that necessitate processing under Articles 7 and/or 9(3), this 15 day time period shall be correspondingly extended by the time limits provided for in those Articles. The requester shall immediately be notified in writing of all extensions including the reasons for the extensions.
Language of Access
Access to information shall be provided in one of the official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, where possible and reasonable to do so, in the original language if different than one of the official languages.
A competent authority shall not be obliged to translate the requested information from one of the official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina into another.
Duplication Costs
A public authority shall not levy fees or taxes for requests submitted or notices provided for under this Act. Fees may only be levied for duplication costs and only insofar as is provided for in a Decision of the Council of Ministers issued pursuant to this Act. For standard size photocopies, the first ten pages shall be free of charge.
Right to Amend and/or Comment on Personal Information
Every person has the right to ensure that his or her personal information in the control of a public authority is correct or, having regard to the purpose for which the information was collected or is to be used, is current, complete, relevant to the legitimate purpose for which it is held, or not otherwise misleading.
Upon obtaining access to his or her personal information, a requester may give effect to subsection (1) by submitting:
a request for amendment. The request for amendment may only be denied if the competent authority reasonably determines that the information to which the request relates satisfies the conditions in subsection (1). If the request is denied, the competent authority shall send the requester written notification thereof that complies with the requirements provided for in Article 14(3)(b); and/or
a commentary that shall be appended to the personal information. The commentary must be signed by the requester and must relate to the information to which it will be appended. The competent authority shall, as soon as possible and no later than 15 days from receipt of the commentary, notify the requester in writing that the commentary has been appended to the information.
Duty to Assist
A public authority shall take all necessary steps to assist any natural or legal person seeking to exercise any right under this Act.
Each public authority shall appoint an Information Officer who shall process requests made under this Act. The name and contact information of the Information Officer shall be submitted upon his or her appointment to the Ombudsman.
Requirement to Disseminate
Each public authority shall disseminate:
a guide sufficient to enable any person to access information controlled by that public authority including but not limited to, the contact information of the public authority and its Information Officer, essential elements of the request procedure together with a sample request letter, information regarding the categories of exemptions, access procedure, duplication costs, avenues of redress, and any applicable time limitations. The guide shall also refer to the indexed register as provided for in clause (b), as well as how that register may be accessed. The guide shall be submitted to the Ombudsman, every public and legal library in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Internet where practicable to do so, and shall be available upon request. This guide shall be free of charge;
an indexed register of the types of information in the control of the public authority, the form in which the information is available, as well as where that information may be accessed. This indexed register shall be made available in accordance with the dissemination requirements provided for in clause (a);
statistics, on a quarterly basis, concerning but not limited to, the number of requests received, the types of information requested, exemptions claimed, and any procedural or final decisions taken. These statistics shall be submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina and to the Ombudsman, and shall be available upon request;
a report at least once every year detailing the functions, policies, operations, organizational structure, and financial affairs of the public authority including but not limited to, their proposed budget and annual financial statement detailing actual prior year revenues and expenditures. This report shall be submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and shall be available upon request.
The Ombudsman for Bosnia and Herzegovina shall perform its functions in relation to this Act in accordance with its mandate and responsibilities as established under Article II paragraph 1 of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Annex 6 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and any subsequent legislation regulating its competence and responsibilities.
Activities of the Ombudsman
In performing its functions in relation to this Act, the Ombudsman for Bosnia and Herzegovina may inter alia consider:
creating and disseminating information such as guidelines and general recommendations concerning the administration and implementation of this Act;
including in its annual report a special section regarding its activities in relation to this Act; and
proposing instructions on the implementation of this Act to all competent ministries within Bosnia and Herzegovina, in coordination with the ombudsman institutions of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska.
Every requester has the right to file an administrative appeal against any decision made under this Act with the head of the public authority that issued the decision. In hearing such an appeal, the head of the public authority shall apply the common principles of administrative law as referred to in Article 26(1).
Nothing in this Act shall prejudice the rights of a natural or legal person to administrative appeal and judicial review.
Mutual Cooperation
Every public authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina has the duty to assist public authorities in the Entities whenever the application of their respective access to information legislation necessitates their cooperation.
Responsibility for Application of the Act
The Council of Ministers shall take all appropriate measures, including but not limited to the issuing of Decisions, to ensure the proper and effective implementation of this Act.
The Council of Ministers shall, within three months of the date of the entry into force of this Act, issue a Decision regulating duplication costs as provided for under Article 16, and shall enter into mutual agreements with the Governments of the Entities in order to give effect to Article 24.
Relationship with other Laws
For the purpose of this Act, the general common principles of administrative law contained in the laws on administration and the laws on administrative procedure of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the Republika Srpska shall apply insofar as the same subject matter is not otherwise regulated by this Act.
This Act shall not diminish a person's rights and obligations related to access to information as regulated under the laws on judicial procedure, including rules of evidence, under the laws relating to professional legal privileges, or under the laws on administrative taxes, including taxes for the obtaining of original documents but excluding taxes for the making of a request or the obtaining of a decision.
Any contravention of this Act may be subject to sanctions under the administrative laws, criminal laws, laws on minor offenses and under any other applicable legislation in force in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Legislation passed subsequent to this Act that is not specifically aimed at amending this Act shall in no way restrict the rights and obligations contained herein.
For the first three months from the date of the entry into force of this Act, a public authority may claim a 15 day extension of the time limits provided for in Articles 12 and 14(4). If such an extension is claimed, the public authority claiming the extension shall, within the original time limits provided for in those Articles, notify the requester and any interested parties in writing thereof.
Every public authority shall have three months from the date of the entry into force of this Act to give effect to Article 20(a) and (b).
This Act shall enter into force on the eighth day from the day of publication in the Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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"Considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way" I'm a Newcastle local cosplayer, with ambitions way past my skill level – which always pushes me to improve and learn more tricks of the trade. Foamsmithing and sewing are my strong suits but im always curious to try new materials. Cosplay is my favourite outlet of creativity, and I never feel more confident than when portraying my favourite characters.


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Top Democrat: Mueller Report Doesn't Matter, "We Know There Was Collusion"
The dissonance is strong with this one...
Top-ranking Democrat, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Jerry Nadler did the rounds of Sunday's political shows this morning but it wasn't until he reached the safety of CNN that he decided to unleash his 'facts' in response to the narrative-crushing conclusions reached by special counsel Robert Mueller.
"We know there was collusion," Nadler insisted several times during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" while shrugging off Mueller's apparent facts - "Why there's been no indictments, we don't know."
While the CNN host did attempt to push back, noting that none of Nadler's 'facts' had warranted an indictment, the Democrat would have none of it, reeling off a list of various events, from The Trump Tower meetings (which have been dismissed by fact patterns numerous times) and the way Trump "pressured the FBI to go easy, to stop investigating Flynn," and Trump firing Comey as evidence of the alleged "collusion."
"Well, there have been obstructions of justice, whether they are - clearly, whether they are criminal obstruction is another question," Nadler implored...
"But we have - the special prosecutor is limited in scope. His job was limited in scope and limited to crimes. What Congress has to do is look at a broader picture. We are in charge — we have the responsibility of protecting the rule of law, of looking at obstructions of justice, abuses of power, at corruption, in order to protect the rule of law so that our democratic institutions are not greatly damaged by this president."
Of course, Nadler is not alone. House Intelligence chair Adam Schiff said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday that even if the Mueller report does not recommend any new indictments — as has been reported — that does not necessarily rule out impeachment for President Trump.
STEPHANOPOULOS: "You told the San Francisco chronicle on Friday, if there's no bombshell, there's no impeachment. Does no new indictments qualify as no bombshell?
SCHIFF: "Not necessarily because again, George, as you pointed out, they can't indict the president. That's their policy. And therefore there could be overwhelming evidence on the obstruction issue. And I don't know if that's the case, but if there were overwhelming evidence of criminality on the president's part, then the Congress would need to consider that remedy if indictment is foreclosed."
Quite obviously, this is far from over in the minds of the Russia-gate-ist of Russia-gaters as their entire world construct dissolves around them.


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package com.youth.banner.itemdecoration;

import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.view.View;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Px;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;

import com.youth.banner.util.BannerUtils;

public class MarginDecoration extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration {
    private int mMarginPx;

    public MarginDecoration(@Px int margin) {
        mMarginPx = margin;
    }

    @Override
    public void getItemOffsets(@NonNull Rect outRect, @NonNull View view, @NonNull RecyclerView parent,
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}


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This Firefox extension takes a stab at solving a common Web problem: finding again that which had been found before. WebMynd adds two very useful functions to your browsing: site-by-site recording of where you've been, and integrating your history and Delicious bookmarks into specific Google searches.
The site-by-site recording creates a timeline view of your browsing and a photo browser-like display. Want the site you found Friday after lunch? Rewind using the Reel view. Looking for the site with the purple logo thing? The Grid view is good for your visual memory. Since you might not want a record of every single site you visit, WebMynd lets you add sites to a permanent "do not record" list and zap specific site records.
There's a small performance hit using WebMynd--on the order of 100-200 milliseconds for complex sites. WebMynd keeps your last 30 days worth of history. We were impressed with the way it merges a relevant list of sites you've visited into your Google searches. The developers plan to add Yahoo BOSS search results in the near future.
WebMynd is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension which creates a personal Internet archive where you can keep the things you have seen on the Internet and find them again using visual and full text search. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
"Save yourself hours of frustration and DON'T install."
Saved a .jpg of every page I visited for over a year. It took over 8 hours to delete the 9Gb it took up in only 3 folders. That doesn't include the time it took to figure out how to open the folders they were in without freezing the computer solid.
I never even used this program - had no idea what it was doing in the background!
i'm about to uninstall it!!!!
"Unistalled as soon as I read more about it."
Flashy. Pretty. Convenient. Looks like the i-phone-like interface that is becoming so popular. Works well to maintain an organized history of visited pages.
According to their own web site, my screen text is sent to their servers for "Indexing". Uninstalled as soon as I read that.
Major privacy concern in allowing someone else to receive every word of text in my browser, no matter what the use. So much so in fact, it greatly outweighs any advantage the program may offer. Offer one that exclusively maintains content on my machine and nowhere else and I might try it again.


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    response = ntp_client.request('pool.ntp.org')
    print(ctime(response.tx_time))

if __name__ == '__main__':
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You may want to produce seeds from your crop to continue a cannabis strain that you obtained. By breeding two plants together you can produce seeds. How easy is it to make seeds? Well it's extremely easy provided your plants are healthy and you have a stable growing environment. When your male plants pollen sacks burst, they will pollinate all of your female flowers. At the end of your flowering cycle, the buds will contain seeds.
Pollen which is needed to pollinate the females, can be collected and stored. Pollen lasts for about a month, but can last longer if kept in the freezer.
Assuming you are breeding to continue a custom strain, you should know that you will not completely replicate the plants genes again unless they are IBL (an Inbred Line.) You will generate seeds however, that contain most of the parents' genetic traits, but there will always be some variance in characteristics such as potency, taste, smell, color, and terpene profiles.
Take males to private area, away from females. Place newspaper under the males to catch pollen.
1a. (OPTIONAL) You can keep a male plant alive indefinitely by bending the top almost 90 degrees. This places the plant in shock, and delays growth.
2. Once you see pollen sacks, hold your mirror under the male and shake the branches gently to release pollen.
3. If you do not care about keeping your male plant alive, Then you can trim off all the seed sacks, place them on the mirror and gently crush them open.
4. Collect pollen with razor blade, and scoop it into the 35mm film canisters.
5. 2 weeks after female flowers appear you may pollinate. Wait until flowers are mature, but still showing white hairs.
6. Keep fans off. Grab a paper bag, pour some pollen in the bag. Shake it all up. Very carefully, wet the paper bag with a spray bottle, don't soak the bag, we just want it moist enough to hold the pollen.
7. Time to pollinate. Place the bag over a branch on a female plant. You may have to cut the bag sideways to not allow pollen to fall out. Shake the bag and branch at the same time. Let the pollen settle for about an hour or 2, then repeat the shake. Remove the bag after another 1-2 hours.
8. Within 2 weeks your female plant should show signs of seed production. 3-6 weeks after that, the ripe seeds will drop. One pollinated branch can make hundreds of seeds, so pollinate wisely.
9. The seeds should be dark brown, some will have black stripes. If they are white, then they are not viable and you may have harvested too early.
10. Store your seeds in black 35mm film cannisters. The seeds will last in excess of 2 years if you store them in a freezer.


The Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET) was established in 2005 under the Directorship of Professor Sir Peter Morris. The aim of the CET is to provide high quality, evidence-based information on all aspects of solid organ transplantation.
In addition to our high quality systematic reviews, we also maintain the Transplant Library of randomised controlled trials, selected systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines. The Transplant Library also includes expert commentaries, methodological quality ratings, clinical impact ratings and practice changing studies are highlighted. The Transplant Library has been formally endorsed by the Cochrane Collaboration and many leading transplantation societies around the world.
Through collaboration with the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) we are able to provide free help in the design and reporting of robust, high-quality randomised controlled trials and conducting good quality systematic reviews to ESOT members. CET also runs in collaboration with ESOT the annual Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course.
CET also produces the Transplant Trial Watch, a monthly overview of 10 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that were recently added to the Transplant Library. It includes a brief description of each RCT, assessment of the reporting of some methodological quality features and the main conclusions of the report written by the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET).
The Transplant Trial Watch App is available for free at both Apple and Android stores.


In charge of the Junior League event is Tamika Tutt with help from an event committee that includes Misty Lockhart, Nancy Ward, Rachel Richter, Tammie Bryant, Brandy Washington, Shunda Dixon, Kitty Baker and Lavon Hampshire.
Attendees at each event will have drastically different experiences — for kids, there are professional storytellers with fun tales to tell or playing Walk on the Wild Side for a chance to win fun prizes from Six Flags Over Texas. There's more action adventures in the Pumpkin Roll Maze, Snake in the Hole, Pond Hopping, Jolly Jack-o-Lanterns and Autumn Danglers games.
For adults, the vibe of the Junior League party will be a break from the mundane as they nosh on spectacular hors d'oeuvres, sip cocktails and shop an exciting silent auction before the concert.
Likewise, spokeswoman Kristi Payne said funds raised at the festival will also benefit children. "After Dark in the Park is not only a significant fundraiser for River Legacy Foundation's environmental education programs, but it has also become the fall festival that families turn to for a safe and fun seasonal event.
Kids can take a guided stroll along the Nature at Night Path and learn fun facts about nocturnal life in the park, and they can personally meet some of the animals in the Living Science Center at one of the Animal Encounters shows. Don't let the kiddos leave without getting a glow-in-the dark tattoo, a balloon animal or a family fall photograph. There's even a camping expo for the parents to enjoy.
Families won't have to worry about dinner because gourmet food trucks from Holy Frijole's and Samson's Gourmet Hot Dogs will roll in to serve hungry guests. Snack attacks for tasty festival fare will be satisfied with shaved ice treats, kettle corn, cotton candy and roasted nuts.
To ramp up the fun at the Hannah Kirby concert, guests are encouraged to dress in their favorite "Red Carpet Rock" outfits. You might see everything from vintage concert T-shirts to blingy dresses worn at the televised red carpet events that have become so popular in recent years. That's the beauty of interpreting the dress code for a fun event, right?
Kirby, who grew up in Sulphur Springs, will sing her newly released single, Power. She'll cover some of the rock anthems she belted out during the TV competition and likely will do some blues and soul numbers she says she loves.
"My new band is really coming together, and we're planning on having an epic time at Rock the Night Away," Kirby said.
Parking for both events is a snap. For After Dark in the Park, just pull into River Legacy and take a shuttle to the festival entrance. For Rock the Night Away, there's ample free parking around the Arlington Museum of Art at 201 W. Main St.
After Dark admission is $8 per person for ages 3 and up. A Family Fun Package is $45 and includes four admission tickets and 20 $1 activity and food coupons (a $52 value). Purchase online or contact Payne at 817-860-6752, ext. 107.
Rock the Night Away tickets are $75 and include the food, concert and two drink tickets. A cash bar will also be available. A $100 VIP tickets adds on the chance for the VIP Lounge experience and special VIP parking. Purchase at bit.ly/JLARock or call the Junior League office at 817-277-9481.
Go online for more information about both events. After Dark in the Park is at www.RiverLegacy.org and Rock the Night Away deets are at www.JLArlington.org.
In three short years, the Tablescapes luncheon hosted by the Women's Division of the Chamber of Commerce has become one of Mansfield's signature women's events. Set for Oct. 15 at the Walnut Creek Country Club, the event will again feature a buffet luncheon, networking opportunities and a roomful of elaborately decorated tables.
Tabletops will be embellished with original designs incorporating a wide variety of insanely creative themes. The designers are the sponsor of each decorated table — local businesses and stores, individuals or any organization that wants to participate. They can create whatever they want and make it as elaborate or as simple as time, resources and talent allows.
In charge of the event is Women's Division President Lynn Mutti with help from a stellar committee including Clarissa Bush of Oliver's Fine Foods, Susanne Englebert of Eterna Health Food and Joanie Fowler Pace of Golden Mechanical.
"This is our fourth annual Tablescapes event, which is our only fundraiser in order for the Women's Division of the Mansfield Area Chamber of Commerce to provide scholarships to high school seniors," said Mutti.
"The competition has morphed into a show of costumes as well. The table sponsors and attendees will often dress to fit their theme," Mutti said, adding that the event is a hit with both men and women.
Judges will choose winners in categories including Best Overall, Most Creative and Best Use of Theme. Guests will vote on which table receives the People's Choice award. Gift cards will be awarded to the winning tables.
The imaginative artists that create the table designs treat their creations as highly guarded secrets because they want attendees to be wowed and inspired when they enter the room.
Back again for a fourth year is Mansfield tourism manager Theresa Cohagen, whose signature tablescapes always feature an event or new venue coming to Mansfield. "This year is no different," she said. "My table will be a classy chic country table featuring the LOT, a new outside event venue coming to downtown Mansfield. The opening show will be a concert featuring Sawyer Brown." She's one to watch because despite having amazing tables the past three years, she hasn't taken home a prize yet.
After some urging, Mutti, who owns remodeling/design company Grace Homestead, revealed that she has been hired to design a tablescape for the event. Hopefully, we're not spoiling a surprise, but word is her design will be a Vintage Circus theme and Mayor David Cook — in full circus ringmaster regalia — will be among the guests at this table.
Individual tickets are $50. Table sponsorships are $150 (includes one admission) or $450 (includes eight admissions). The deadline to sponsor a table is Thursday. Tickets will remain on sale as long as seats are available.
Funds raised from ticket sales will provide six $1,000 scholarships to college-bound seniors from Mansfield schools. "Our Scholarship Committee reviews hundreds of essays that are submitted by the girls and chooses a winner from each campus," Mutti said.
Make arrangements by calling the chamber at 817-473-0507 or contact Mutti at lynn@lynnmutti.com.
Although there will still be plenty of tasty egg rolls for guests to eat Saturday at the Egg Roll Festival, a new contest will replace the longtime competition for the best Asian delicacy. Making its debut will be a spirited matchup to see who can create the best Asian traditional dessert.
The celebration of Asian-American heritage is hosted by the Tarrant County Asian-American Chamber of Commerce. Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams, along with other civic and community leaders, will attend the celebration and greet visitors.
A health fair will offer medical screenings, dental exams and health information along with flu shots. Lots of exhibits full of products will be fun for attendees to visit and meet the owners of local businesses.
The festival wouldn't be complete without the impressive dragon dance. And other cultural dance numbers are also on tap to keep festivalgoers entertained throughout the day.
The lucky judges in the signature contest have the enviable job of choosing the winners in the dessert competition, in which they will evaluate the entries on overall appearance, presentation, flavor, aroma, texture and originality. Generous cash prizes will awarded to the top three.
"The Egg Roll Festival is a day of celebration of Asian cultures, arts and food. It's a unique cultural event and a chance to experience a little bit of Asia deep in the heart of Texas," said Yen Nguyen, president of Tarrant County Asian-American Chamber of Commerce.
The venue for the family-friendly event is the Vietnamese Martyrs Church Hall, 801 E. Mayfield Road. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ample free parking is available.
Learn more at www.tcaacc.com or contact Liem Tran at 214-531-3839 or Yen Nguyen at 817-797-9144.


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I was born in Williamsport, PA, went to Geneva College. Got married to a Pittsburgh native and now consider Pittsburgh my home.
Describe your fantasy movement-focused vacation…cost is not an object…where do you go and what do you do? I would climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
What is your go-to weekday breakfast? Your weekend breakfast? Protein smoothie on weekdays, on weekends I eat eggs and toast.
What is your favorite thing to eat in Pittsburgh? Note: it does not need to be healthy. A hamburger from Brick N' Mortar in Heidelberg.
What is the most unusual and/or challenging movement activity you've done? Would you do it again? I taught Pound fit class for about 2 years… it was a drum stick fitness class that had a Pilates base to it. It was definitely different. My entire family did Pound with me on the deck during our beach vacation… from my 6-year-old cousin to 79-year-old Grandma. I no longer teach this class (simply not enough hours in the week for my schedule).. but yes I would definitely do this again!
What movement activity/event are you looking forward to in the next year? I hope to do a marathon on the indoor rower.
What is your favorite recovery or self-care practice? I try to stretch every morning, some mornings I hit snooze too many times, but most days I do, and it's a great way to start my day.
What is the one place visitors to Pittsburgh "must" see? The Heinz History Museum, that place is amazing.


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It's not Bayern Munich against Messi, but against Barcelona: Hansi Flick
13 August 2020, 9:42 pm ·1-min read
Bayern Munich manager Hansi Flick.
Lisbon [Portugal], Aug 14 (ANI): Bayern Munich manager Hansi Flick has said that Barcelona has an "enormous quality" and they are not just focusing on Lionel Messi.
"It's not Bayern Munich against Messi, but against Barcelona. Of course, we have thought about how we will play against him," Goal.com quoted Flick as saying.
"It is possible that we will play together to counter him as a team. We have to recognise the spaces, put him under pressure and try to win the one-on-one duels," he added.
Also, Flick stressed that Messi is not the only player from their side who stands out as he named other 'top' Barcelona players.
"We have the necessary respect for Barcelona because they have been the dominant team in recent years. Many coaches and clubs have been inspired by Barca. They're nice to watch, the way they play, the way they train, their enthusiasm," he said.
"Messi is not the only player who stands out. [Gerard] Pique, [Antoine] Griezmann, [Ivan] Rakitic and [Luis] Suarez are top players. [Marc-Andre] ter Stegen is a world-class goalkeeper. They have enormous quality and experience and we have to go against that as a team and bring our quality. We have a plan and hope that it works," Flick added.
Bayern Munich will take on Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-final on Saturday. (ANI)
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package pl.devthoughts.facebook.client.kafka;

import akka.actor.ActorSystem;
import akka.japi.function.Function;
import akka.kafka.ConsumerMessage;
import akka.kafka.ConsumerSettings;
import akka.kafka.Subscription;
import akka.kafka.Subscriptions;
import akka.kafka.javadsl.Consumer;
import akka.stream.ActorMaterializer;
import akka.stream.ActorMaterializerSettings;
import akka.stream.Materializer;
import akka.stream.Supervision;
import akka.stream.javadsl.Sink;

import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

import net.jodah.failsafe.Failsafe;
import net.jodah.failsafe.RetryPolicy;

import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.ByteArrayDeserializer;
import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer;

import pl.devthoughts.facebook.client.PostData;
import pl.devthoughts.facebook.client.fb.FacebookPublisher;

@Slf4j
public class KafkaConsumer {

    private final RetryPolicy retryPolicy =
        new RetryPolicy().withMaxRetries(3).retryOn(Exception.class);

    private final KafkaMessageParser mapper = new KafkaMessageParser();
    private final FacebookPublisher facebookPublisher;

    public KafkaConsumer(FacebookPublisher facebookPublisher) {
        this.facebookPublisher = facebookPublisher;
    }

    public void run() {
        final ActorSystem system = ActorSystem.create();
        final Materializer materializer = actorMaterializer(system);

        ConsumerSettings consumerSettings =
            ConsumerSettings.apply(system, new ByteArrayDeserializer(), new StringDeserializer());
        Subscription subscription =
            Subscriptions.topics(consumerSettings.getProperty("topic.issuePublished"));
        Sink loggingSink = Sink.foreach(obj -> log.info("Processed a message... {}", obj));

        Consumer
            .committableSource(consumerSettings, subscription)
            .map(msg -> {
                log.info("Received a message: {}", msg);
                ConsumerMessage.CommittableMessage committableMessage = (ConsumerMessage.CommittableMessage) msg;
                final PostData data = mapper.parse((String) committableMessage.record().value());
                final String postId = publishPost(data);
                committableMessage.committableOffset().commitJavadsl();
                return postId;
            })
            .runWith(loggingSink, materializer);
    }

    private Materializer actorMaterializer(ActorSystem system) {
        final ActorMaterializerSettings materializerSettings =
            ActorMaterializerSettings.apply(system).withSupervisionStrategy(decider());
        return ActorMaterializer.create(materializerSettings, system);
    }

    private Function<Throwable, Supervision.Directive> decider() {
        return exc -> {
            log.error("Error found", exc);
            return Supervision.resume();
        };
    }

    private String publishPost(PostData data) {
        return Failsafe
            .with(retryPolicy)
            .onFailedAttempt(ex -> log.error("Sending new post failed.", ex))
            .get(() -> facebookPublisher.publishPost(data));
    }

}


It's never too late to think about good Jazz. And, even thought it's months away, some good Jazz will be here again during the GRandJazzFest, August 17 and 18, downtown at Rosa Parks Circle.
Our news partner, WZZM TV13, announced that the free festival will be headlined by Chicago jazz guitar vocalist Nick Colionne.
Others scheduled to perform include Deon Yates, The Paul Keller at Sundown Quintet, Sheila Landis & Brazilian Love Affair, The Kinsey Report, Randy Marsh Organ Trio, Mind's Eye, Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra with Edye Evans Hyde, and Phil Denny.
I'm already drooling. Can't wait.
More information on GRandJazzFest can be found by clicking HERE!


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What are Japanese tea ceremony schools?
Schools of Japanese tea ceremony are not institutions in the way we envision a contemporary school as a high school or university. There are teachers, but they are not bound by a curriculum. Nor do students gather at a schoolhouse where teachers teach classes on various aspects of the tradition.
Individual teachers may have rented a ('class') room where they conduct their teachings, but the building is usually never owned or organized by the 'school' of tea the teacher belongs to, nor is the progression of his/her lessons prescribed by the curriculum of the school, or are students grouped in classes of advancement. Each pupil is treated individually, according to his/her stage of advancement and preference of learning. Pupils can, to an extent, choose their own point of learning, in which then the teacher will guide them.
The content of lessons
The content of the lessons and the way pupils are guided is however different for each school individually. And when I speak of a school, I in fact refer to a style. Japanese tea ceremony schools are as much a school, as the school of Rembrandt is a school of painting. Teachers guide students through certain protocols, but the final intention is to train students of tea ceremony in the aesthetics, philosophy and ways of conduct that are in accordance with the style of tea ceremony practiced in that specific school.
Schools of tea commonly don't have courses, nor is there a set term for learning. Repeated practice in that style is considered the only way to internalize the underlying principles and values of the style of tea being practiced. Training is considered a life-long endeavor, and although grades of advancement can be obtained, these are not considered as an acknowledgement of achievement, but rather as the permission to progress to the next stage of learning.
The purpose of learning tea ceremony
The purpose of training in the tea ceremony is not simply to become able to serve tea. Everyone can serve tea. It is more down to earth. The purpose of the service of tea is to serve tea to the guests that have gathered. Accordingly, the purpose of training in the art of tea is no other than self-cultivation. To become able to cypher oneself away for the purpose of serving others; put oneself aside in order to do something of value for other beings; learn to give without the intention to receive.
This learning is a day-to-day practice, for the knowledge and understanding is fleeting. Unlike riding a bicycle – which we remember how to do for the rest of our lives – this is a skill that requires continued attention and upkeep. It is a matter of awareness, focus and will, rather than a matter of knowledge. The above is one example of what the art of tea helps us do. Through continuous training in tea ceremony, we indirectly embody the inner emotions we wish to cultivate. Because through altering our actions, we can alter our emotions, and in effect change our habits and subconscious mind. For serving tea to become natural to us, we require continuous practice.
The benefit from training in a school of Japanese tea ceremony
The above is one example of what the art of tea helps us do. Through continuous training in tea ceremony, we indirectly embody the inner emotions we wish to cultivate. Because through altering our actions, we can alter our emotions, and in effect change our habits and subconscious mind. For serving tea to become natural to us, we require continuous practice.
A school of tea is the means for us to do so. It is a style in which to train, in order to internalize the very essence of existence within us. Tea is the tool through which we cultivate awareness about the universal values that oil the engine of human existence, and through which we imprint those essential habits within our preconscious mind for the sake of self-cultivation and a richer personal existence.
Styles, rather than schools.
All the 'schools' of Japanese tea ceremony teach with the same intention, and they aim for the same goal. The way that goal is reached differs from school to school. I often compare this to the various religions. Although religions are different in the way prayers are conducted, or protocol is prescribed, their intentions are the same. They aim for peace, and man to be good.
So do the various schools take different approaches to teaching, and are the protocols they instruct different from one-another. Nevertheless, the intention with which they conduct their teachings is the same. It is to teach and train their practitioners to serve tea with a pure and selfless heart. It is this superficial outer layer of conduct that differentiates styles and opposes them to each other.
Two main style groups of Japanese tea ceremony schools
Warrior tea [武家茶道; buke sadō] & Merchant tea [町衆茶; machishū-cha] are two groups of tea ceremony schools that derive their names from the social castes in which the styles originated.
Merchant tea
Merchant tea originates with Sen no Rikyū. The three main schools known today in this group are Ura senke [裏千家], Omote senke [表千家] and Mushanokōji senke [武者小路千家] also referred to as Kankyū-an (官休庵), founded by the three grandsons of Rikyū after his death.
Warrior tea
Warrior tea is the group that enlists all school of which the initial founder of the school belonged to the warrior class. Most of Rikyū's disciples were warriors or feudal lords. And they adapted the tradition to their own social requirements and preferences.
One of Rikyū's direct disciples was Furuta Oribe. His line of succession is formalised in the Oribe-ryū style. One of Oribe's disciples again was Kobori Enshū, whose aesthetically refined 'kirei-sabi' style is being passed down in the Enshū-ryu; and of which also exists a branch style called Kobori Enshū-ryu.
Other schools are the Sansai-ryū, founded by Hosokawa Sansai; Yabunouchi-ryū, originated by Yabunouchi Shōchi; or the Ueda Sōko-ryū initiated by Ueda Sōko.
Founding schools of tea
Most schools of Japanese tea ceremony as they are known today have their origin starting after Rikyū's death. The persons we call founders of a school, or the line of succession, usually didn't have any intention whatsoever to start a school or tradition. They practiced tea and learned from each other to improve their own styles.
Kobori Enshū was a disciple of Furuta Oribe, though if we look at the distinctions between the traditions of both, we see great differences in style and conduct. Enshū must have learned from Oribe, not in a way as we would learn from a teacher nowadays, to copy his style, but to gain hints from Oribe's approach to tea in order to improve his own style. It may be more accurate to refer to Oribe as Enshū's mentor, rather than a strict teacher, in the same way as we would call on a business mentor nowadays. Not to simply copy his business model, but to gain insights on how to improve our own approach to our own unique business.
Strict successors however emerged, and they carried the teachings from those masters on, codifying them, and transmitting them as absolute truths.
New schools emerged too in a later stadium when lineages had already formed. Those schools were intended to be passed on and transmitted, and the founder in fact founded the school with the sole intention for it to become a school of tea ceremony. One such example is Kawakami Fuhaku, the son of a military vassal who had studied and received full accreditation from the Omote Senke school. When he moved to Edo – present day Tokyo – he instructed students, first in the Omote Senke style, but later changed the name of his school to Edo Senke between 1750 and 1760. He thus founded a warrior style school of a merchant style lineage of tea, approximately one hundred years after Rikyū's death.
Nihon Sadō Gakkai
The Nihon Sadō Gakkai was founded in 1898 by a disciple of the 13th grandmaster of the Urasenke school. The founder, Tanaka Senshō, felt that contemporary tea ceremony was too overtaken by the notion of schools and styles, that we have forgotten the true essence of tea ceremony. He proclaimed that until the time of Rikyū, schools didn't yet exist, and that we should return to an approach to tea ceremony that was free from the notion of schools, styles or lineages. The school originated as a group of people who wished to freely study the differences of tea schools, and use this knowledge for the creation of fresh, new approaches.
Although the intentions of the institution were to study and research tea ceremony from a free and broad perspective, its final model however was taken after the example of other existing schools. The head of the school was in fact similar in rank and status as the grandmaster of another style, and the protocol thought in the school, whilst being a mixture of approaches from various schools, became the sole true way of conduct for the students at this institution.
New institution, old rules
Trying to get away from the contemporary boundaries that the notion of styles imposes on the praxis of tea, this institute in fact created another school in the same vision as the other pre-existing schools, instead of proposing a new approach to tea ceremony as a whole. The foremost reason for this is undoubtedly the fact that no other superior model of organization existed that could gather and maintain student incomes that well as the existing model of tea schools – and in fact that of religions too – could do to retain and receive continuous income from students.
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Mike 12 Mar 2020 Reply
How can one get involved with one of the schools of tea?
Tyas Sōsen 12 Mar 2020 Reply
The easiest thing is to find a teacher in one of the styles you like to become involved with.
Outside of Japan mot teachers however are affiliated with either Ura or Omote Senke, and teachers in other schools might be difficult to find.
Tyas Sōsen 27 Aug 2021 Reply
I have now also made it possible to take your first steps in the Enshu style of tea ceremony. My new 6 week online intensive course equips new students with all the tools and knowledge necessary to master their first basic service of tea, in full, from start to finish. And, this course can be studied from within the comfort of your own home.
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Marion Stokes, coproducer of TV show
Marion Marguerite Stokes, 83, a librarian and social justice advocate who was a coproducer of a 1960s Sunday morning TV talk show entitled Input, died of lung disease Friday, Dec. 14, at her home in Rittenhouse Square.
by By Vernon Clark, Inquirer Staff Writer
From 1967 to 1969, Mrs. Stokes and her future husband, John Stokes Jr., were co-producers, with David Van Meter, of Input, on which a panel would discuss key issues. The show aired on Channel 10.
Mrs. Stokes often appeared on the show with her future husband.
"The television show was something she was enormously proud of," said her son, Michael Metelits. "She felt that it had an impact on Philadelphia. It was rare for a black woman to be on television."
A 1968 article in the Bulletin described the show as "unusually forthright," tackling such issues as birth control, environmental pollution, student unrest, and racial divisions.
It said "conservatives, radicals, blacks, whites, Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and agnostics" appeared on the show - sounding off with such verve that it should be named "Output."
Mrs. Stokes was born on Nov. 25, 1929, in Germantown. She graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls.
After high school, Mrs. Stokes worked as a librarian for the Free Library of Philadelphia from the 1940s to the early 1960s.
She then went to work for Wellspring, a Christian social service organization, which developed the show, Metelits said.
She was married three times and was twice divorced. In 1960, she married Melvin Metelits, a teacher. She later married John Stokes Jr., her coproducer and a retired engineer. He died in 2007.
In the early 1960s, Mrs. Stokes was the Philadelphia chair for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a national organization opposed to the economic boycott of the communist country.
She was active in the effort to integrate Girard College. Mrs. Stokes also helped organize five buses from Philadelphia to the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, her son said.
"She had a keen sense of any injustice," Metelits said. "She was incredibly intelligent, with a sense of politics that was fierce."
In the 1980s and '90s, Mrs. Stokes was an early investor in information technology companies, her son said.
"She loved Macintosh computers and anything to do with Apple products. . . . She gave me my first one in 1985, and she would give them to people going off to college," Metelits said. "Technology was a passion of hers."
She also enjoyed watching cable news shows and collecting dollhouses, Metelits said.
He said that when Hurricane Katrina struck, one of her stepchildren was working as a reporter in New Orleans, so she sent a pallet of hand-crank radios there.
"She just bought it and shipped it down there so people could know what was going on," Metelits said.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Stokes is survived by two grandchildren and three step-grandchildren.
Visitation will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21, followed by a funeral at 11, at the Bringhurst Funeral Home, 225 Belmont Ave., Bala Cynwyd. Burial will follow at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
By Vernon Clark, Inquirer Staff Writer