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Men We Reaped
Author : Jesmyn Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
Download Men We Reaped PDF Format Full Free by Jesmyn Ward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet TubmanIn five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue high education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.
Adaptation in Young Adult Novels
Author : Dana E. Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Download Adaptation in Young Adult Novels PDF Format Full Free by Dana E. Lawrence and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change? The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity.
Author : James A. McGowan
Download Harriet Tubman PDF Format Full Free by James A. McGowan and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise biography of Harriet Tubman, the African American abolitionist, explores her various roles as an Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, and women's rights advocate. * Maps and detailed descriptions of the major Underground Railroad routes Tubman used in guiding fugitives to freedom * 24 primary source excerpts from newspapers, contemporary correspondence, and Tubman's military records * 13 photographs
Navigate Your Stars
Publisher : Scribner
Download Navigate Your Stars PDF Format Full Free by Jesmyn Ward and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the power of perseverance from the beloved, New York Times bestselling, and two-time National Book Award–winning Jesmyn Ward. For Tulane University's 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring speech about the value of hard work and the importance of respect for oneself and others. Speaking about the challenges she and her family overcame, Ward inspired everyone in the audience with her meditation on tenacity in the face of hardship. Ward's moving words will inspire readers as they prepare for the next chapter in their lives, whether, like Ward, they are the first in their families to graduate from college or are preceded by generations, or whether they are embarking on a different kind of journey later in life. Beautifully illustrated in full color by Gina Triplett, this gorgeous and profound book will charm a generation of students—and their parents. Ward's inimitable voice shines through as she shares her experience as a Southern black woman and addresses the themes of grit, adversity, and the importance of family bonds. Navigate Your Stars is a perfect gift for anyone in need of inspiration from the author of Salvage the Bones, Men We Reaped, and Sing, Unburied, Sing.
Where the Line Bleeds
Download Where the Line Bleeds PDF Format Full Free by Jesmyn Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict—"a lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African American reality that are rarely depicted" (The Boston Globe). Where the Line Bleeds is Jesmyn Ward's gorgeous first novel and the first of three novels set in Bois Sauvage—followed by Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing—comprising a loose trilogy about small town sourthern family life. Described as "starkly beautiful" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), "fearless" (Essence), and "emotionally honest" (The Dallas Morning News), it was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in rural Bois Sauvage, on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. They've just finished high school and need to find jobs, but after Katrina, it's not easy. Joshua gets work on the docks, but Christophe's not so lucky and starts to sell drugs. Christophe's downward spiral is accelerated first by crack, then by the reappearance of the twins' parents: Cille, who left for a better job, and Sandman, a dangerous addict. Sandman taunts Christophe, eventually provoking a shocking confrontation that will ultimately damn or save both twins. Where the Line Bleeds takes place over the course of a single, life-changing summer. It is a delicate and closely observed portrait of fraternal love and strife, of the relentless grind of poverty, of the toll of addiction on a family, and of the bonds that can sustain or torment us. Bois Sauvage, based on Ward's own hometown, is a character in its own right, as stiflingly hot and as rich with history as it is bereft of opportunity. Ward's "lushly descriptive prose…and her prodigious talent and fearless portrayal of a world too often overlooked" (Essence) make this novel an essential addition to her incredible body of work.
Salvage the Bones
Download Salvage the Bones PDF Format Full Free by Jesmyn Ward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.
The Journal of the Society of Estate Clerks of Works
Author : Society of Estate Clerks of Works, London
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The Fire This Time
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Download The Fire This Time PDF Format Full Free by Jesmyn Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers and thinkers to speak on race. From Claudia Rankine to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Kiese Laymon to Carol Anderson, these voices shine a light on the darkest corners of American history, wrestle with the struggles the country faces today and imagine a better future. Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, The Fire This Time considers the black experience in modern America. Significant progress has been made in the fifty years since Baldwin's essays were published, but America is a long distance away from a post-racial society – a truth that must be confronted if the country is to continue to work towards change. Baldwin's 'fire next time' is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about. Sage, urgent and impassioned, this is an essential collection edited by one of America's greatest writers.
Black Fighting Men in U.S. History
Author : Edward Wakin
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
Download Black Fighting Men in U.S. History PDF Format Full Free by Edward Wakin and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the role of the black soldier in American history from Boston in 1770 to Vietnam in 1970.
Download Sing, Unburied, Sing PDF Format Full Free by Jesmyn Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present"--
Forward for Freedom
Author : Gossie Harold Hudson
ISBN 10 : PSU:000057951515
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set
Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Download The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set PDF Format Full Free by Bonnie G. Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history.The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes.The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.
Follow the Wind
Author : Jack Cassidy
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Author : United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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General Sir Henry Drury Harness, K. C. B., Colonel Commandant Royal Engineers
Author : Thomas Bernard Collinson
ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433082368733
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Proceedings of the ... Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Wisconsin and Other States
Author : Association of Wisconsin County Hospitals
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Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
Random Passage (Random Passage, #1)
Keeping Her (Losing It, #1.5)
The Dress Lodger
Whales and Tales
A Memory Worth Dying for
The Invaders (Brotherband Chronicles, #2)
Enigma Otiliei
Shadow and Bone: Chapters 1-5
Rich Man, Poor Man
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Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)
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Agents of Light and Darkness (Nightside, #2)
The Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why?
Agnes and the Hitman
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"Acronis has turned its focus on the SMB sector in the New Zealand market."
Armed with a new partner program and a sharpened cloud focus, Acronis is threatening to be the vendor on every reseller's lips across New Zealand in 2016.
Emerging from the shadows is a data protection player aiming to cement its channel standing with a blend of programs and portfolios, designed to help Kiwi partners hone in on the burgeoning cloud market.
"Acronis has completely redesigned its channel partner program and we've rolled this program out to distributors and cloud resellers, as well as local service providers," says Steve Goh, Vice President of Sales for Asia-Pacific, Acronis.
Speaking exclusively to Reseller News, Goh says the Acronis Partner Program for Cloud forms an extension of the Acronis Global Partner Program, uniquely designed to accelerate cloud data protection services revenue with a subscription model for service providers, distributors, and cloud resellers.
"The program features simplified partner on-boarding, free web-based sales tools and enablement programs, technical training, marketing programs, and demand generation support, as well as co-op and market development fund programs," Goh explains.
In short, Goh says the program provides solutions, resources and incentives to help Acronis partners profit from the huge market growth predicted for cloud data protection services, which include backup, disaster recovery and file sync and share.
According to IDC, the data protection and disaster recovery software market will grow to US$8.1 billion by 2019.
"Our new partner program and on-boarding process have really simplified things for the channel," Goh adds.
In New Zealand, Goh believes the channel opportunity lies within the small and medium-sized business space, which covers 97 percent of the market.
As a result, Goh is eyeing up as many as 459,300 businesses across the country, which include zero (no employees), micro (1-5 employees) and small (6-19 employees) enterprises.
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"Acronis has turned its focus on the SMB sector in the New Zealand market, so this is an area where we are seeing traction and a lot of growth," Goh adds.
Going forward, Goh says Acronis - which recently lost its General Manager of Australia and New Zealand, Lincoln Goldsmith, to Cisco Meraki - is honing in on the SMB market within all the industry verticals that smaller businesses thrive in.
"At the big end of town, data protection services have been big business for a while," he observes.
"Among SMBs, however, it is becoming more important as information security awareness grows.
From a business perspective, Goh believes data is more important now than at any other time in history, and it will only continue to become increasingly essential to businesses of all sizes.
As such, the protection of that data will become paramount to businesses of all sizes.


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As it scours the globe for dependable oil supplies and natural resources, no region is potentially more lucrative, or problematic, than China's own backyard in Central Asia, and further west to Iran. It is attractive because of abundant and easily transportable oil and gas, problematic because of rising Islamic militancy and security concerns in the region.
China's interests in Central Asia go beyond oil and gas: it seeks secure borders and stability in a region where conflicts could spread close to its own Central Asian predominantly Muslim Xinjiang region in the far northwest. Known as the pivot of Asia, Xinjiang has its own separatist and autonomy movements (not all of them violent) that China labels "terrorist." Beijing wants neighboring countries (in return for major investments and trade, though not so crudely put) to suppress Uyghur and Islamic nationalism lest they fuel discontent in Xinjiang. The resource-rich region is also the starting point of a pipeline to Shanghai and China's booming east coast, so stability in Xinjiang is crucial.
To show restive Uyghurs and other Central Asians – that China means business when it comes to crushing violent separatism, China and Pakistan conducted three days of live-fire military exercises last August in Xinjiang – code-named "Friendship 2004" – a friendly message lost on no one.
But China also flexes the velvet glove to achieve the stability necessary to do business with Central Asian states and to acquire a dependable flow of oil. Trade is increasing and China is making infrastructure investments and – music to the ears of Central Asian dictators – it doesn't lecture about democracy and pluralism. In Central Asia, China competes head-to-head with the US and India, which are also seeking oil and strategic partnerships. Therefore, for China, diminishing US influence in the region is a major objective, as it is of its new partner Moscow.
The Central Asian countries, grouped in the Sino-Russian-dominated Shanghai Cooperation Organization are China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Xinjiang itself is bordered by Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Russia. To the far west in Eurasia lies Iran, a major energy target where China signed a mammoth liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) deal that alarmed the US and others trying to isolate Tehran.
The jewel in the crown so far has been China's deal announced on August 24 in which state-owned China National Petroleum Corp, China's largest energy company, agreed to buy Canada's PetroKazakhstan Inc for US$4.18 billion in China's largest foreign takeover. The company produces 150,000 barrels of oil a day in Kazakhstan. It has strong assets, top-quality fields, a relatively new refinery, plus 13 older ones; it produces high-quality light, sweet crude; and it is close to China's border. Some analysts, however, say production probably has peaked and some fields are depleted.
The deal, if it goes through, is expected to consolidate China's economic presence in the energy-rich and geopolitically important region. The price for PetroKazakhstan is high, but it would reinforce the already substantial Chinese operations there, including a giant pipeline pumping crude to China from the oil and gas-rich former Soviet state.
Although China has been known to overpay for foreign assets, these acquisitions in Central Asia function as platforms for China's foreign policy objectives. China, too, is stepping up conventional trade with all Central Asian nations, setting up trade offices in those countries and transforming itself from a network of small-time merchants traveling across porous borders to a major supplier of consumer goods, electronics and appliances, with fixed outlets in the region.
Not all Central Asian countries are thrilled by China's rising influence, though most are willing to use it carefully. "We believe in Kazakhstan that there is no alternative to having a good, cooperative relationship with this country," Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Toikayev told The Washington Times on August 23. "We don't have the choice of selecting our neighbors … Our credo is to maintain the balances of interests" of the big powers.
Beyond Central Asia, China has moved into Iran in Eurasia and signed a mega gas deal worth US$100 billion, likely to increase by another US$50-US$100 billion, raising the total to around US$200 billion. Under the deal, Iran will export about 10 million tons of Iranian liquefied natural gas for 25 years, while allowing China's state petroleum company to undertake exploration and drilling, invest in petrochemical and gas industries, pipeline services, and other activities.
Investment in hydroelectric projects in Tajikistan and Kyrgystan with more plans being discussed.
At the SCO summit in July, China pledged to commit US$4 billion to the Central Asian countries. It said it would pay the full cost of about US$1.5 billion to build a highway from China to Central Asia via Kyrgystan.
Establishment of trade missions in every Central Asian country, invested in local undertakings donated to aid projects and given new impetus to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which groups the countries.


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Twitter: Oops! Did We Accidentally Verify a White Nationalist? Our System Is Broken. We'll Fix It—'Soon'
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@TheMadDimension via Twitter screenshot
Updated Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, 3:13 p.m. EST: Both Twitter Support and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have responded to the controversy surrounding Jason Kessler's account being verified by Twitter.
On Thursday, the official Twitter Support account responded with the following: "Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance. We recognize that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it. We have paused all general verifications while we work and will report back soon."
First of all, Anil Dash already said that Wednesday night. It looks as if all Twitter did was take Dash's tweet, reword it and send it out to make it look as if the platform has had some deep and profound epiphany. It hasn't.
"Also verification is still deliberately being used to conflate 'this person is who they say they are' with 'this person has higher status,'" Dash wrote.
And that is the key. Twitter has used the verification system as described purposely. There's a reason people—folks with legitimate reasons to be verified—have to go through hell and high water to get that blue check mark. Twitter has wielded verification like a weapon and held it over people's heads as something they should aspire to or go to great lengths to achieve. This has been purposeful and intentional, and everyone knows it.
So when Twitter then tries to come back and act as if it is just realizing this is a problem, it is disingenuous at best, and a purposeful deflection from the real issue at worst.
The fact remains that, verified or not, Jason Kessler should not have an account at all, considering the Confederate-flag (hate symbol) imagery in his header, but I'll come back to that.
Jack Dorsey added on to the Twitter Support tweet and said, "We should've communicated faster on this (yesterday): our agents have been following our verification policy correctly, but we realized some time ago the system is broken and needs to be reconsidered. And we failed by not doing anything about it. Working now to fix faster."
OK, Jack.
Yes, the verification system is "broken." And yes, it needs to be fixed, but there is a greater issue here.
You promised us weeks ago that the platform was going to take a more aggressive stance against hate.
This is not just about Jason Kessler being verified. This is about Jason Kessler having an account that is clearly violating the rules that you claimed were going to be enforced more strictly, and about that account going through a verification process that actually puts human eyes at your company on his account—and those human eyes saying, "Yes, let's elevate his platform with this blue checkmark."
Your company admittedly created this verification pecking order, and your company has done everything to keep it in place.
It does not go unnoticed that your responses Thursday come after many, many people retweeted my post and my tweet thread and added you to the thread to draw your attention to it.
You were able to easily ignore the pieces written by other outlets, but you could not ignore mine because it got a lot of traction on social media, and your hand was forced.
So you come out with this fake-ass "mea culpa," and we are all supposed to applaud your supposed epiphany, but here's the thing: You guys say this about everything you get called out on. You said it on Oct. 13 when you got called out on the harassment-and-abuse issue. Your promised big changes.
Nothing has changed. It's business as usual on Twitter.
Twitter Has a Serious Harassment and Abuse Problem but Doesn't Seem to Want to Cure It
Every single day on Twitter, I encounter abuse and harassment in some form or another. I'm targeted
You guys pussyfoot around every single issue that is brought to your attention, pretend to be contrite, then ultimately do nothing. This is the Twitter way.
The other day, I called your attention to someone who was harassing me on Twitter. I blocked the original account from which the person tweeted to me, and the person used a second account to continue the harassment. This is something I brought up in the post I wrote about the harassment problem.
I openly asked for your help, and you ignored that call to duty.
You couldn't ignore this one, though.
And you won't be able to ignore any further callouts because this is real.
You have created a monster, and it is time for you to either tame the beast or slay it altogether.
Your move, my guy.
I've decided it's going to be my personal and public crusade to air out Twitter every time it does something that runs counter to what it claims to be about. The platform's made a big deal recently about how much stricter it's going to be about enforcing its rules of terms of service, and we've all seen Twitter do everything but that. This latest example is no exception.
One of the "new" rules Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey outlined in his Oct. 13 tweet thread was a more aggressive stance against "hate symbols" and "violent groups." How is it, then, that Twitter verified the account of the white nationalist who organized the rally in Charlottesville, Va.—especially when said white nationalist has as his header photo the No. 1 image associated with white racism and hate: the Confederate flag?
Jason Kessler tweets under the handle @TheMadDimension. His bio says he is a freelance writer who has written for GotNews, Daily Caller and VDARE. He also identifies himself as the organizer of the Unite the Right rally, aka the Charlottesville riot that ended with the death of Heather Heyer, a counterprotester who was killed when one of Kessler's many followers plowed a vehicle into a crowd of people who had beliefs that differed from his own.
Kessler bragged on Twitter on Tuesday that his account had "finally" been verified, which indicates that he applied for the privilege, and someone at Twitter reviewed his account and his credentials and determined that, yes, he should be given the credibility of a blue check mark by his name.
"Looks like I FINALLY got verified by Twitter," Kessler wrote. "I must be the only working class white advocate with that distinction."
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists Kessler as an "extremist" with a white nationalist ideology; he is included on the SPLC Hatewatch website.
According to SPLC, Kessler attempted to unseat Charlottesville's only black city councilman—Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy—and served as a bridge between a Virginia gubernatorial candidate and the "alt-right." He is described as "relying on the familiar tropes of 'white genocide' and 'demographic displacement.'"
Here is an especially interesting tidbit from SPLC's dossier on Kessler:
Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler's ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.
At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville's status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler's apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman's presence and reminders of their past association.
Kessler claims that he was radicalized after public relations exec Justine Sacco was fired for making an extremely tasteless and racist joke about AIDS in Africa in late 2013. (Sidenote: Remember the #HasJustineLandedYet hashtag? Good. Fucking. Times. That was really the golden age of Twitter, I swear.)
Kessler said of the Sacco incident, " ... so it was a little racist joke, nothing that big of a deal, she didn't have that many followers, she probably didn't think anybody was going to see it."
In December 2016, Kessler wrote a post titled, "The End of Identity Politics: To Ensure Peace, Prepare for War," in which he said:
But make no mistake, the age of innocence is over for whites politically. We are becoming a displaced minority in our own country thanks to Democrat policies. They tax the hell out of middle class families who might want to have more children while paying for welfare queens to have 5 or 6 babies they can't support. They provide sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants who flood in from south of the border and import Islamists from the most dangerous countries on Earth. The time for supplication is over. We need to fight back!
Twitter just validated everything this man has to say by giving him that blue check mark after his name.
But Twitter is taking a more aggressive stance against hate and violence, right?
Twitter is directly enabling white supremacy and white nationalist ideology.
Twitter is full of shit.

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US - Akita Drilling Ltd. of Canada definitively agreed to merge with Xtreme Drilling Corp., a Houston-based provider of onshore drilling and coiled tubing services, for a total USD 147.723 mil, in a stock swap reverse takeover transaction, via scheme of arrangement. Akita offered USD 0.456 in cash per share and 0.29 class A non-voting common share per Xtreme share.
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Korea at 60 [Korean translation available]
Gavan McCormack
The Republic of Korea has turned 60. Birthdays are a time for looking back over the past as well as for planning the future. The sad truth, however, is that the Republic that was born in 1948 was only the first of six, and that its record contains little to celebrate and much to lament. It is unlikely that many Koreans today remember it with pride or pleasure.
In the first place, this Republic was uniquely a United Nations (which at that time meant essentially a US) creation. Koreans played a minimal role. The United States entrusted the Korean problem to the UN in 1947 and saw to the establishment of UNTCOK (UN Temporary Commission on Korea) as a body nominally to oversee the creation of a unified, independent Korea, but then pressed for separate elections in its southern controlled zone. Three key members of the committee - Canada, Australia, and India (its chair) - resisted. To conduct elections in half a country was not their mission, and there could be no democratic elections under the then prevailing conditions of police state terror.1) When the Commission voted on 11 March 1948 to observe elections "provided they were held in a free atmosphere," Canada and Australia both voted against, because there plainly was no "free atmosphere," and they deplored what they saw as a step towards entrenching the division of the country But the vote was carried in the Commission because its chair, the Indian diplomat KPS Menon, did a bizarre volte-face. He switched his vote because his love for a Korean woman (the poet Marian Mo or Mo Yun-suk) prevailed over his better judgment. It was, he wrote in his Memoirs, "the only occasion in my service when I allowed my heart to prevail over my head."2) Rarely did greater consequence follow from personal indiscretion.
In the short term, separate elections led to the uprising in Cheju where tens of thousands of people were killed (in one of the great atrocities of 20th century Asia) and in the longer term to the establishment of separate Korean regimes under conditions that that set the scene for war two years later. In December, a UN resolution conferred legitimacy on the Rhee government as "the only legal government in Korea." Australia proposed this resolution, thus abandoning its pursuit of autonomous middle power principle and adopting instead the principle of "Follow the United States," (what in Korean might be known as sadae) which it was to follow thereafter for much of the remainder of the 20th century.3)
Two years after founding the Republic, the UN itself took the unprecedented step of going to war to defend it and now, nearly six decades after that war ended, horrendous details of what that defense entailed continue to come to light.
As the Korean People's Army advanced south the Rhee regime took steps to clear its prisons of possible Northern collaborators and to track down and kill as many as it could of those opponents who were not already in prison. The heart of the Korean darkness was Daejeon.
On July 9, two Australian army officers, liaising between the UN and South Korean forces, were on the road from Taejon to Konju when they saw a convoy of trucks loaded with prisoners going south. One of them, Colonel Stewart Peach, recalled in a 1982 interview with this author: "Before my very eyes I saw at least two or three killed, their heads broken like eggs with the butts of rifles."4) Later, in Konju, he was told that prisoners were being shot. A contemporary photograph in the London Picture Post shows a truckload of such prisoners, described as "South Korean suspected traitors," on the banks of the Kum River "on their way to execution," adding that the matter was under investigation by the UN.5) Days later, on 13 July, the North Korean forces crossed the Kum River, and on 20 July captured Daejeon. With them came the British journalist (correspondent for the communist Daily Worker) Alan Winnington. Winnington saw mass graves at a village called "Rangwul" near Daejeon, and from discussions with villagers, he too concluded that a major massacre had occurred, with approximately 7,000 prisoners from the jails of Daejeon and nearby summarily executed and buried in mass graves dug by locally press-ganged peasants.6) Around the same time that Winnington's report was published in London, the North Korean Choson Inminbo reported the massacre, giving the figure of 7,000 victims.7) The US military attache also reported it to Washington, making clear that South Korean forces were responsible and that the orders to execute the prisoners had come from "the highest authority" (which could only mean President Syngman Rhee).
No investigation was conducted. Instead, somebody (presumably in Washington) decided to turn this into a Northern massacre, the characteristic, single atrocity of the entire war, one worthy (as the US Army described it) "of being recorded in the annals of history along with the Rape of Nanking, the Warsaw Ghetto."8) As that version of events was published around the world in October 1953,9) the Daejeon Massacre became the centrepiece of the case that North Korea was exceptionally brutal, an impression that remains alive today and accounts in part for the designation "Axis of Evil."
It was 1992, more than 40 years after the events occurred, before the South Korean monthly Mal began to tell the true story,10) and it took another 16 years before the South Korean government's semi-official Truth and Reconciliation Commission (established in 2005) began to publish its findings. According to the TRC, during the first months of the Korean War, Year Three of the Republic, at least 100,000 citizens were slaughtered by forces set up and controlled by that very republic.11) Daejeon was only the worst of a litany of horrors. Mass murder took place the length and breadth of the country, countless bodies being dumped in shallow graves or abandoned mines or into the sea. The TRC is also investigating hundreds of cases in which the US military is directly accused of indiscriminate bombing, strafing, or napalming of "people in white" (ie, Korean civilians) mostly from the air.
Revelations about these horrors have flowed steadily during 2008. Yet they have met little response: no comment from senior political leaders of the Republic itself, or the United States, or the United Nations, nor (so far as I am aware) has there been a single newspaper editorial or significant "opinion" essay in Korea itself. Coverage outside Korea has been patchy. The story as painstakingly told by Associated Press has been carried by some US newspapers and by the BBC, but rarely with a focus on the American and UN responsibility.12) While we unequivocally denounce atrocities in Serbia or in Darfur, and human rights denials in Tibet or in Georgia, or for that matter North Korea, those for which we ourselves bear responsibility seem too painful to contemplate.
Two grim reflections therefore cast their pall over the birthday celebrations: first, that the South Korean state was a US creation, imposed on the United Nations and on the Korean people, whose raison d'etre was neither nationalism nor democracy but simply anti-communism, and, second, that the first president of the republic was guilty of war crimes far exceeding those of which the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karazic is accused today. That responsibility is shared by General Macarthur, President Truman, UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie, and by the governments and citizens of all those countries that knew, or should have known, but turned a blind eye to the way the war of 1950-53 was fought in our names.
Gavan McCormack is a coordinator of Japan Focus and author of Client State: Japan in the American Embrace (New York, Verso, 2007, with Japanese, Chinese and Korean editions in press). He wrote this article for the Korean vernacular newspaper, Kyunghyang sinmun. Posted at Kyunghyang sinmun and at Japan Focus on September 2, 2008.
[1] The Australian delegate on UNTCOK referred to the torture and murder of political opponents as "accepted and commonplace." See my Cold War Hot War: An Australian Perspective on the Korean War, Sydney,, Hale and Iremonger, 1983, resumed in subsequent books, including Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe, New York, Nation Books, 2004 (Korean edition from Icarus Media, Seoul, 2007).
[2] K.P.S. Menon, Many Worlds Revisited: An Autobiography, Bombay 1981, p. 259. Menon's waxed poetic and nostalgic in his memoirs, describing the accord he felt with Mo on "such elemental things as the sun and moon and stars, love and grief and joy." Mo pinned all her hopes on him and wrote poems to him as "saviour of Korea." He did not disappoint her.
[3] J.W. Burton, The Alternative, Sydney, 1954, p. 90. (Burton, Secretary of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs between 1947 and June 1950, was the first to describe Australia's foreign policy shift in these terms.)
[4] Interview with this author, Sydney, 14 August 1982.
[5] Stephen Simmons (journalist) and Haywood Magee (photographer), "War in Korea," Picture Post, vo.l 48, No. 5, July 1950, p. 17. (The caption describes the incident as a matter "which has been investigated by a United Nations observer.")
[6] Alan Winnington, "U.S. Belsen in Korea," The Daily Worker, 9 August 1950. (The British government gave serious consideration to trying Winnington for treason over this report.)
[7] Park Myung-lim, [Pak Myŏng-nim], Han'guk 1950: Chŏnjaeng-gwa P'yŏnghwa (Korea 1950: War and Peace), Seoul, Nanam, 2002, p. 324 (According to Park, these orders were issued "at the highest levels" and were not limited by geographical area.).
[8] "Korean Historical Report," War Crimes Division, Judge Advocate Section, Korean Communications Zone, APO 234, Cumulative to 30 June 1953, Copy in Australian Archives, Victorian division, MP 729/8, Department of the Army, Classified Correspondence Files, 1945-1957, File 66/431/25.
[9] See, for example, Daily Telegraph(Sydney), 30 October 1953.
[10] No Ka-Won, "Taejon hyongmuso sachon sanbaek myong haksal sakon" (The massacre of 4,300 men from the Taejon prison), Mal, February 1992, pp. 122-31.
[11] Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea, "Alleged communists massacred under the eyes of American soldiers," Seoul, 16 June 2008, (with photographs released on 5 May 2008 by US National Archives and records Administration).
The Associated Press has made great efforts to investigate and publish this story. See especially Charles Hanley, "Fear, secrecy kept 1950 Korea mass killings hidden," May 18, 2008, and Charles J Hanley and Jae-Soon Chang, "Impact: Thousands killed by US's Korean ally" Associated Press, 18 May 2008. See also the remarkable "Inter active" file, with its video testimony of one of those involved in the mass killings.
Gregory Henderson, then employed in the US embassy in Seoul and later prominent historian and author of a classic study of Korean politics (Korea: the Politics of the Vortex, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard UP, 1968, p. 167) also put the figure of "probably over 100,000" on those summarily executed at this time.
[12] Despite Australia's involvement in the events surrounding the establishment of the Republic and in the War itself, the findings of the Commission are yet (as of late August 2008) to be reported there.


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package com.pkware.truth.android.graphics;

import android.graphics.Picture;

import com.google.common.truth.FailureMetadata;
import com.google.common.truth.Subject;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * Propositions for {@link Picture} subjects.
 */
public class PictureSubject extends Subject {

  @Nullable
  private final Picture actual;

  public PictureSubject(@Nonnull FailureMetadata failureMetadata, @Nullable Picture actual) {
    super(failureMetadata, actual);
    this.actual = actual;
  }

  public void hasHeight(int height) {
    check("getHeight()").that(actual.getHeight()).isEqualTo(height);
  }

  public void hasWidth(int width) {
    check("getWidth()").that(actual.getWidth()).isEqualTo(width);
  }
}

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Former President Barack Obama tried to give Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a "wake-up call" over the scourge of fake news, according to the Washington Post, which cited people who were briefed on the conversation.
At a meeting of world leaders in Lima, Peru, Obama warned the 33-year-old executive — less than two week after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election — the issue would only become more severe if Facebook and the government didn't work to weed out fake news. Zuckerberg acknowledged the seriousness of it, but told Obama the problem wasn't widespread, and there was "no easy remedy," according to WaPo sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Only days before, Zuckerberg had said it was a "pretty crazy idea" to think Russia-linked phony news stories helped get Trump elected.
Also Read: Did Mark Zuckerberg Successfully 'Diffuse the Potential Explosion' Around Facebook's Ad Biz?
Flash forward nearly a year later, and Facebook and its chief executive have changed their tune. Zuckerberg said last week the social network is working with Congress, sharing 3,000 political ads purchased by Russian agents.
Facebook disclosed earlier this month more than $100,000 worth of ads had been purchased by Pro-Kremlin accounts before and after the 2016 election. Rather than support specific candidates, the ads would generally touch on hot-button political issues, like gun control, immigration and race.
Facebook stumbled into a hacking group connected to the GRU — Russia's military intelligence arm — that was using fake Facebook accounts to share stolen information as early as June 2016, WaPo also reported Sunday, citing a person familiar with the matter. "Fancy Bear," the hacking group behind the accounts, created one account to post raided emails from the Democratic National Committee. Facebook alerted the FBI to the activity, but noted many of the other fake news accounts weren't tied to foreign governments, but were strictly set up for financial gain.


The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread. For whom, then, are prefaces written ? When an author publishes a book 'out of his own head,' he writes the preface for his own pleasure. After reading over his book in print — to make sure that all the 'u's' are not printed as 'n's,' and all the 'n's' as 'u's' in the proper names — then the author says, mildly, in his preface, what he thinks about his own book, and what he means it to prove — if he means it to prove anything — and why it is not a better book than it is. But, perhaps, nobody reads prefaces except other authors; and critics, who hope that they will find enough. in the preface to enable them to do without reading any of the book.
This appears to be the philosophy of prefaces in general, and perhaps authors might be more daring and candid than they are with advantage, and write regular criticisms of their own books in their prefaces, for nobody can be so good a critic of himself as the author — if he has a sense of humour. If he has not, the less he says in his preface the better.


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The Probably Not Impending Execution of Ralph Bird...
The Probably Not Impending Execution of Ralph Birdsong
Ralph Birdsong sits on death row awaiting execution by the people of Pennsylvania. His execution is currently scheduled for 17 January. Though it is likely his execution will be stayed, I will nonetheless review his case in this post. I offer the following summary from the adverse appeal in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Ralph Birdsong. To improve the readability, I have excluded the legal references and I have changed most instances of Appellant to Birdsong.
Appellant, Ralph Birdsong, was convicted of two counts of first degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, six counts of aggravated assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, rape, and criminal conspiracy on October 27, 1989, following a consolidated bench trial before the Honorable Juanita Kidd Stout. A separate penalty hearing was held, and the trial court found two aggravating circumstances: that Birdsong "ha[d] a significant history of felony convictions involving the use or threat of violence to the person" and that Birdsong "ha[d] been convicted of another murder, committed . . . at the time of the offense at issue." No mitigating circumstances were found, and ... the trial judge sentenced Birdsong to death for the first degree murder conviction. In addition, the trial judge sentenced Birdsong to a consecutive term of fifty-two and one-half (52½) to one hundred five (105) years of imprisonment for the other convictions stemming from the incident which occurred on July 17, 1988. Thereafter, the trial court heard and denied Birdsong's post-trial motions.
Birdsong does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence; however, we have independently reviewed the record to determine the sufficiency of the evidence supporting Birdsong's conviction consistent with our obligation in a case in which the death penalty has been imposed. ... The test for determining the sufficiency of the evidence is whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner and drawing all proper inferences favorable to the Commonwealth, the trier of fact could reasonably have determined all elements of the crime to have been established beyond a reasonable doubt.
On July 17, 1988, Birdsong and his brother, Anthony Birdsong, went to a residence located at 5723 North 17th Street. Birdsong entered the residence while Anthony remained outside. The Commonwealth presented the testimony of several eyewitnesses who saw Birdsong commit the crimes on the day in question.
Gregory Johnson, who lived at 5723 North 17th Street, testified that he was seated at the dining room table ingesting crack cocaine in the early morning hours of July 17, 1988. Hassan Holmes and Kim Glenn were also present. The doorbell rang, and Holmes arose and observed through a window that Birdsong, also known as "Hakeem," was at the front door. At that point, Johnson arose from the table to admit Birdsong, whom he had known for ten years. Birdsong then entered the house, walked by Johnson, turned around, and shot Johnson in the back of the head with a shotgun. Although the impact of the shotgun blast caused Johnson to fall to the floor, he was nevertheless able to get up and run out of the house.
Hassan Holmes corroborated the testimony of Johnson by identifying Birdsong as the person who rang the doorbell on July 17, 1988. Holmes assumed that Birdsong wished to purchase drugs from Johnson, who was a dealer. After seeing Johnson shot, Holmes attempted to flee to the basement, but Birdsong intercepted him and shot him in the shoulder. Holmes then heard James Bagwell, who was sleeping on the living room couch, get off the couch and attempt to flee to the basement. However, Birdsong intercepted Bagwell and fatally wounded him as he ran down the stairs. Shortly thereafter, Holmes managed to flee from the house.
Additionally, Andre Kinard testified that he saw Birdsong shoot Bagwell in the head as Bagwell was running down the basement stairs attempting to flee. Kinard then tried to flee, but Birdsong shot him as well.
Kim Glenn also testified that Birdsong, whom she had known for one and one-half years, rang the doorbell that morning. Glenn was able to identify Birdsong because she had sold drugs for him in the past. Glenn hid under the dining room table as Birdsong proceeded to shoot Johnson, Holmes, and Bagwell. When Birdsong went upstairs, Glenn hid under a mattress in the front of the house. From there she heard a second man enter the house and warn Birdsong about the police.
The Commonwealth presented the testimony of Monroe Clark, who testified that he was in the second floor bedroom with Gloria Pannell when Birdsong kicked in the bedroom door. Birdsong fired shots, but missed Clark. Birdsong's shots hit Pannell. After leaving the room for a brief instant, Birdsong reentered the room and fatally shot Pannell while standing over her as Clark hid in the bedroom closet.
Fifteen-year old Quinzell Pannell testified that he, his brother Albert, and his sister Yiana were in another bedroom when Birdsong entered and struck them repeatedly with the butt of his gun. After beating the children, Birdsong then directed them into another bedroom. On the way, Birdsong struck Quinzell in the back of the head causing Quinzell to fall to the floor. Next, Birdsong took Albert out of the room and shot him. Birdsong then returned, stated "I am going to rape you, bitch," and took Yiana out of the room.
Yiana corroborated the testimony of Quinzell. She also testified that Birdsong forced her out of the house and across the street to a park where he proceeded to rape and sodomize her. By stipulation, the results of the rape kit taken at the hospital were admitted, showing the presence of sperm in Yiana's vagina and rectum.
Albert Jones testified that Birdsong, whom he had known for sixteen years, showed up at Jones' apartment in the early morning hours of July 17, 1988, with blood on his hands and the back of his legs. Birdsong then requested a ride to pick up his car and Jones assented. When the two arrived at the driveway where Birdsong's truck was located, they were stopped by Detective Thomas Augustine.
Detective Augustine testified that when he stopped Jones, the passenger in Jones' car, who was later identified as Birdsong, looked very nervous. Detective Augustine noticed a jacket under the passenger seat, picked it up, and felt a magazine from a gun. When Detective Augustine asked whose jacket it was, Birdsong admitted it was his, but fled the scene when Detective Augustine indicated that he would like the two men to come with him. Through continued questioning of the driver, Detective Augustine adduced that the passenger was Birdsong. Additionally, upon further investigation, the detective discerned that the jacket contained an empty magazine from a .45 caliber handgun.
Birdsong disappeared from Philadelphia and was subsequently arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on November 14, 1988.
The parties stipulated that the jacket recovered from Jones' automobile was stained with human blood. It was further stipulated that Gloria Pannell and James Bagwell died of multiple gunshot wounds. Finally, it was stipulated that Albert Pannell suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head which rendered him permanently disabled and confined to a wheelchair.
Clearly, the evidence introduced at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner and drawing all proper inferences favorable to the Commonwealth, was sufficient for the trier of fact to reasonably have determined all elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
I find no one, not even Ralph Birdsong, claiming that he is factually innocent of the crimes. While I vehemently oppose the execution of someone who might reasonably be factually innocent of the crime for which they are to die, I neither oppose nor support executions in which the person clearly committed the crime. In the case of Ralph Birdsong, I therefore stand mute with respect the propriety of his execution.
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Q: How to set the right type for PayloadAction? I'm trying to set the type for PayloadAction<LoginError> as the payload for when I get an error from logging in is:
{
    message: string,
    status: number,
}

In my code, I defined a type for that payload as LoginError, and added it as the type for login.rejected
type LoginResponse = {
    data: UserLogin
}

type LoginError = {
    status: number;
    message: string;
}

export interface AuthInterface {
    loading: boolean;
    userToken: boolean | null;
    error: LoginError | null;
    success: boolean;
}

export interface AuthState {
    auth: AuthInterface;
}

const initialState: AuthState = {
    auth: {
        loading: false,
        userToken: null,
        error: null,
        success: false,
    }
}

export const login = createAsyncThunk(
    "auth/login",
    async (loginData: LoginData, thunkAPI: any) => {
        try {
            const { email, password } = loginData;
            //config, data, headers, request, status, statusText
            //{ data: resData, headers: resHeaders }
            const { data: resData, headers: resHeaders } = await serveraxios.post<LoginResponse>(
                "/login",
                {
                    email: email,
                    password: password,
                },
                {
                    withCredentials: true
                }
            );
            console.log(resData);
            console.log(resHeaders);
            return resData;
        }
        catch (error: any) {
            console.log(error);
            console.log(thunkAPI.rejectWithValue(error.message));
            return thunkAPI.rejectWithValue({
                status: error.response.data.status,
                message: error.response.data.message,
            });
        }
    }
)

export const logout = createAsyncThunk(
    "auth/logout",
    async() => {
        const res = await serveraxios.post(
            "logout",
            undefined,
            {
                withCredentials: true
            }
        );
        console.log(res);
    }
)

export const authSlice = createSlice({
    name: "auth",
    initialState,
    reducers: {},
    extraReducers: (builder) => {
        builder
        .addCase(login.fulfilled, (state, action: PayloadAction<UserLogin>) => {
            console.log(action.payload);
            state.auth.loading = false;
            state.auth.success = true;
        })
        .addCase(login.rejected, (state, action: PayloadAction<LoginError>) => {
            console.log(action.payload);
            state.auth.loading = false;
            state.auth.success = false;
            state.auth.error = action.payload;
        })

    }
});

export const selectAuth = (state: RootState) => state.auth.auth;
export default authSlice.reducer;

However, i get the following error:
No overload matches this call.
  Overload 1 of 2, '(actionCreator: AsyncThunkRejectedActionCreator<LoginData, AsyncThunkConfig>, reducer: CaseReducer<AuthState, PayloadAction<...>>): ActionReducerMapBuilder<...>', gave the following error.
    Argument of type '(state: WritableDraft<AuthState>, action: { payload: LoginError; type: string; }) => void' is not assignable to parameter of type 'CaseReducer<AuthState, PayloadAction<unknown, string, { arg: LoginData; requestId: string; requestStatus: "rejected"; aborted: boolean; condition: boolean; } & ({ rejectedWithValue: true; } | ({ ...; } & {})), SerializedError>>'.
      Types of parameters 'action' and 'action' are incompatible.
        Type 'PayloadAction<unknown, string, { arg: LoginData; requestId: string; requestStatus: "rejected"; aborted: boolean; condition: boolean; } & ({ rejectedWithValue: true; } | ({ rejectedWithValue: false; } & {})), SerializedError>' is not assignable to type '{ payload: LoginError; type: string; }'.
          Types of property 'payload' are incompatible.
            Type 'unknown' is not assignable to type 'LoginError'.
  Overload 2 of 2, '(type: string, reducer: CaseReducer<AuthState, { payload: LoginError; type: string; }>): ActionReducerMapBuilder<AuthState>', gave the following error.
    Argument of type 'AsyncThunkRejectedActionCreator<LoginData, AsyncThunkConfig>' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string'.ts(2769)

However when I assign the type to PayloadAction as any as in: PayloadAction<any> I dont get any error.
Could someone explain to me how to set the correct type for my PayloadAction?

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Aeschylus / edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein.
Aeschylus / edited and translated by David R. Slavitt.
Aeschylus / with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth.
Aeschylus [electronic resource] / edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein.


"Atari has announced that Nightdive Studios will revamp the classic Atari-owned adventure-horror PC title Blood. Originally developed by Monolith Productions and released in 1997, Blood remains a fan-favorite and will receive enhancements to improve the action-packed, horrifying game experience. The team working on the game at Nightdive Studios includes lead engine developer Samuel "Kaiser" Villarreal, whose previous work includes The Original Strife, Turok, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil and, most recently, Forsaken Remastered. Additionally, developers Edward Richardson, James Haley, and producer Daniel Grayshon will be working on the project. "
Also a couple of links!
Re: ATARI ANNOUNCES BLOOD REMASTERED!
So it's basically Blood on a wider screen with networking.
I hope they don't cut out the reverb on the audio.
Well I'm guessing that because Atari is involved that the source code is available for Nightdive?
If that is the case I'm hopeful this wont be something half-assed.
I'm all for someone trying to remaster the old game.
My no nothing speculation would be to look at Kaiser's involvement, as it was his kex engine wrapper that provuded a work around for Doom64's proprietary situation. Blood's legendary source code issue could be dodged with a similar setup.
Holy crap. This is gonna be awesome. Kaiser has done great with both Turok, Forsaken, and now this. I may have to make my own overhaul mod for this.
This is it guys. I can see Blood getting a well deserved sequel if this goes well.
I have decidedly mixed feelings about Nightdive. While it is obviously great that they are a Linux and DRM free friendly developer, I find the performance overhead on The Original Strife: Veteran Edition to be completely unreasonable for a remaster of a game from 1996, with it not even running on my brother's laptop and making my GPU fan sound like a jet engine taking off. They have also dragged their feet or simply muddied the waters on a number of things in the past. I have yet to try either Turok of Forsaken though, and them having Ryan "icculus" Gordon on board now does give me a bit more confidence.
The way they have handled PowerSlave EX also makes me a bit worried about M210 and the future of BloodGDX.
I think it's in the best hands available right now. I wouldn't trust anybody else with it when it comes to bringing back an old classic game with updated support for modern hardware. They did very well with their last releases so I think they've got it figured out more so now then ever before. Let's just hope and pray it does well and people start paying attention to Caleb again.
No original source code is used, and Atari only holds limited distribution rights to the game apparently.
Yeah, i liked a lot the ports of Turok 1 & 2 remastered by NDS, same with Strife, new options for graphics are very cool and you can still go back on original options.
LIke i said in the bloodlines forum, it's a door opened, opportunity to show how Blood is good.
Maybe nothing will happen later, maybe i dream too much but well, who knows what can happen.
I agree 100%. We need all the help we can get. And I think ND is perfect to make this port. Plus I love the engine they use to make these games happen. Easy to mod.


Spare parts and accessories for the Dyson DC26 range of cylinder vacuum cleaners.
These are the very, very small Dyson cylinder machines. The "multifloor" model has a blue cyclone and the DC26i has an amber cyclone. Both variants are essentially the same machine.
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Google started to show a virtual keyboard next to the search box if you use Google search's interface in a non-Latin language like Arabic, Russian or Greek.
"Our virtual keyboard allows you to enter the precise search terms you want, regardless of the language keys on your physical keyboard. It can be helpful for people who use one of the many non-Latin script-based languages that require special characters," explains Google.
The nice thing about Google's virtual keyboard is that, after clicking on the keyboard icon next to the search box, you can use the keys from the virtual keyboard or you can use your keyboard. "The corresponding key on the virtual keyboard will be typed in the search box rather than the character shown on your physical keyboard."
An incomplete list of Google domains that show the virtual keyboard: Google Greece, Google Finland, Google Sweden, Google Iceland, Google Poland, Google Russia, Google Ukraine, Google Saudi Arabia, Google Thailand, Google Mongolia, Google India and others.
Google has a lot of useful services for non-Latin languages: Google Transliteration, Google Transliteration IME, Google Pinyin IME, a tool for adding missing diacritics to Arabic text, Google Translate.
I'm not convinced of the usefulness of a virtual keyboard for the native sites. I mean, if I visit Google Greece I am, most probably, Greek and I have the Greek layout installed so I can easily switch to type. On the other hand if I'm a native English speaker, chances are that I don't have a French layout installed in my machine and if I want to do a search on a french word/term I would definitely appreciate a virtual keyboard that will let me input the accent characters.
French version of Google do not bother of accent characters.
Is this available for tamil???
Themis is very right. For example I use Polish windows Vista but I have to search for Russian names often. For Christ sake I do not need any Polish virtual keyboard! I need the Russian one!
Is it possible to change keyboard mapping myself ?
I live in Canada and my default page is set to google.com, but I often search in Russian. At the same time I don't want to go to google.ru just to get Russian keyboard. Do you plan to add this function to the other domains?
I add this feature to my web search, http://keitor.com ... i do it fisrt.
Apparently you have to change the interface language to the language whose keyboard you want to use. I think you should be able to keep the same interface language and just change the language of the keyboard. Some of the earlier comments seem to agree with me.
The new interface is really disturbing. I want to be able to disable this 'feature'. As it turns out: you can't.
And I want the 'features' at the left (side bar) disabled. Same: you can't.
And I would like to have all the SPACE back in the SEARCH: when you type your search query you are limited - your text will 'disappear' at the rigth side when typing.
Bad, bad, really bad 'useful service'.
Please put back the interface * NOBODY COMPLAINED * about.
I (finally) found a way to get rid of the evil virtual keyboard icon, in Firefox at least: simply block the image with adblock.
Please give me an option to disable this virtual keyboard it blocks my view on my search query!!
@Anonymous said " Please give me an option to disable this virtual keyboard it BLOCKS my view on my SEARCH QUERY!!"
Wasn't the success of Google to have a CLEAN and UNCLUTTERED interface?
Wasn't the success of Google that you weren't PUSHED into a STRAIGHTJACKET?
Two weeks ago I was able to search on Google.
And create COMPLEX QUERIES > over the now default **BOUNDARY** of 60 characters.
It used to be normal - at least for me - to create COMPLEX QUERIES up to THE LIMIT (256? characters).
And one had an UNCLUTTERED VIEW over several LINES.
What is this Virtual Keyboard?
A ** GOOGLE 4 DUMBOS ** ?
Who only can type 2 or 3 words at a time?
Are we entering the SearchWalhalla of * RETARDS *?
I want the previous, UNCLUTTERED, ** EXTENDED ** MULTINELINE QUERY ** SEARCH BOX ** back.
I have TRIED this #@$^^!@@$%%^ 'interface' of Google now for a week.
It makes me f*ck*ng * CRAZY *.
I even started searching - for the first time in EIGHT YEARS - with * * ALTAVISTA * * again.
Is that what BRIN and PAGE want?
just wondering why there is no russian keyboard on my google search?
Hello. I have wrote traditional Mongolian script, but I can not see on Google chrome browser. There are many quadrates.
How I see true traditional Mongolian scripts.
Where did google's virtual keyboard go on the search page?
how can I turn it off? and how to turn off autocomplete?
If I have a latin character set physical keyboard, as I do, what do I need a virtual identical one for?
Useful for me would be to have a cirilic virtual one whenever I wanted to write изменить, пожалуйста.
Can I pin the virtual keyboard on permanently? It keeps disappearing when I copy and paste the translation into a Word document. Then I type another paragraph and lo and behold, all my special characters are now gibberish. Love the v. keyboard otherwise.


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Q: Check if mail is sent with TIdSmtpRelay and handle error if not I'm trying to send mail with the TIdSMTPRelay component of Indy and this is the procedure I use :
procedure tryRelayTask;
var
  relayMsg : TIdMessage;
  LRelayRecipients: TIdEMailAddressList;
  LRelay : TIdSmtpRelay;
  SSLHandler : TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL;
begin
  relayMsg := TIdMessage.Create;
  relayMsg.LoadFromFile(mailFileName);
  try
    LRelayRecipients := TIdEMailAddressList.Create(nil);
    try
      LRelayRecipients.Add.Address := recipientEmailAddress;
      LRelay := TIdSMTPRelay.Create(nil);
      try
        SSLHandler := TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL.Create;
        try
          SSLHandler.SSLOptions.KeyFile := myKeyFile;
          SSLHandler.SSLOptions.CertFile := myCertFile;
          SSLHandler.SSLOptions.RootCertFile := myRootCertFile;
          LRelay.IOHandler := SSLHandler;
          LRelay.SSLOptions.SSLSupport := SupportSSL;
          LRelay.DNSServer := myRelayDNSServer;
          LRelay.Send(relayMsg, LRelayRecipients) ;
          if Lrelay.StatusList.Items[0].Sent then begin
            // message is sent ok ?
          end
          else begin
            // message is not sent ok - handleError
            handleRelayError(LRelay.StatusList.Items[0].ExceptionMessage);
          end;
        finally
          SSLHandler.Free;
        end;
      finally
        LRelay.Free;
      end;
    finally
      LRelayRecipients.Free;
    end;
  finally
    relayMsg.Free;
  end;
end;

Sometimes the property Lrelay.StatusList.Items[0].Sent is False but the message is actually sent and therefore if I try to send it again I will end up sending it successfully N times instead of only 1. Can someone help me to send messages correctly with the TIdSMTPRealy component ?

A: The TIdSMTPRelayStatusItem.Sent property tells you whether the email was accepted by the SMTP server of the recipient specified in the TIdSMTPRelayStatusItem.EmailAddress property.  That does not tell you whether or not the email was actually delivered to the recipient itself.  The SMTP protocol does not provide that information to senders.  An SMTP server may accept an email for a recipient that it has to then forward/relay to another SMTP server in the background.  The only way to know if the email was delivered to the recipient is if the recipient itself sends an acknowledgement email back to the sender's mailbox.
If the TIdSMTPRelayStatusItem.Sent property is False, it means that an exception was raised during delivery to the recipient's SMTP server.  The Message of the exception is available in the TIdSMTPRelayStatusItem.ExceptionMessage property.  If the exception was raised due to an error message sent by the SMTP server, the TIdSMTPRelayStatusItem.ReplyCode and TIdSMTPRelayStatusItem.EnhancedCode properties are also populated.  Either way, you will also get an TIdSMTPRelay.OnDirectSMTPStatus event with its Action parameter set to dmWorkEndWithException instead of dmWorkEndOK.
So, the only way the email could have been delivered to a given recipient but its Sent value is False is if either:

*

*the SMTP server accepted the email but sent an error reply back to TIdSMPTRelay

*an uncaught exception was raised after delivery was successful but before a Sent=True status item could be created/populated.


This is the co-product from the reduction of iron ores to produce molten iron and molten slag.
Uncrushed - fill and embankments (particularly areas subject to severe loading such as mainline rail systems), working platforms on difficult sites pavements, where binding fines are produced by rolling to break the slag down to fill the voids.
Graded road base - on its own or blended with other slags and/or with other natural rocks and sands.
2. By passing the molten slag through high volume high pressure water sprays, a glassy, sand-Type (granulated) material Is formed, known as Granulated Blast Furnace SIag.The color of this product is very similar to normal beach sand.
The principal use is as Cement replacement (when ground), replacing 30-50% of Portland Cement in 'normal' concrete, but can replace up to 70% in specialist applications such as marine concrete.
Other uses include, glass making, trace elements in agriculture, concrete block manufacture, sporting field sub-base (for drainage), filtration medium, reinforced earth embankments, and mine backfilling and grit-blasting medium requiring fine etching.
Other uses Include, skid resistant asphalt aggregate, rail ballast asphaltic concrete aggregate, soil conditioner, hard stand areas and unconfined construction fill.
Blending with many other products such as granulated slag, fly ash and lime to form pavement material, skid resistant asphalt aggregate and unconfined construction fill.
Blast furnace slag products have been used successfully in virtually all phases of bridge construction. Projects such as the bridge pictured here can utilize blast furnace slag as a concrete aggregate.
Blast furnace slag has been utilized in concrete masonry for many years. The blast furnace slag can impart many desirable properties to the masonry units such as lighter weight and increased fire resistance.
According to studies as far back as 1927 by Penn State University, Ohio State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Auburn University, and Canadian research, Ag-Slag applications have been equivalent to limestone and dolomite in increasing crop yields at equal levels of fineness.
The physical and chemical properties of mineral wool insulation, also known as slag wool, are major factors in their utility as residential and commercial insulation, pipe and process insulation, insulation for ships, mobile homes, domestic cooking appliances, and a wide variety of other applications.
Steel slag has been utilized worldwide in waterway construction. Applications include use of slag for erosion control, mineral filter applications, bank reinforcement, and construction of dikes, reefs and sea walls.
Slag ballast for railroad applications is singled out for first preference over any other type of ballast. Its angularity improves binding action and keeps it from shifting; its durability means lower maintenance costs, and its ease of handling speeds work.


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Home News and events 2020 news July Shielded patients able to continue life-transforming treatment
Shielded patients able to continue life-transforming treatment
Posted on Tuesday 7 July 2020
Justin Ikpeamagheze
Hundreds of severe asthma patients have been able to take their life-changing drugs throughout the COVID-19 crisis thanks to quick-thinking hospital staff.
The severe asthma team at Guy's and St Thomas' led by Dr David Jackson worked rapidly so that patients on biological treatments, which are usually injected by staff in hospital, could administer the medicines themselves at home.
This group of patients were among those told to shield by the Government, so without this approach they would have had to stop taking the treatment or go against official guidance by coming into the hospital.
Justin Ikpeamagheze, 36, from Norbury in south-west London, has severe asthma and has been shielding throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. He has taken one of the biologic therapies for around two years, having previously suffered from a huge asthma attack which left him in an induced coma.
Justin, a teacher and actor, said: "I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 13 but I never took it that seriously and it didn't affect me much. Then in my late-20s my asthma started to get worse and aged 31 I had a major asthma attack which left me in an induced coma for nine days.
"When I woke up it was difficult for me to accept what had happened. My asthma was much worse than I realised. I'd never had an asthma attack before. You never know if it's going to happen to you.
"I'm very active so it never occurred to me that it would hit me one day. It took a long time to recover mentally and I started to become anxious and more wary of things. I felt like I was out of sync and needed to reboot – it was quite an ordeal."
Around two years ago he started taking one of the biologic treatments, benralizumab. Biologic therapies target a specific inflammatory cell of the immune system called the eosinophil that causes inflammation in the airways of people with asthma. They are more precise than steroids and do not affect the rest of the immune system, consequently causing far fewer side-effects.
Justin, who has injections of the drug every eight weeks, said: "The treatment has made a big difference to me. I can now do most things again as I could before my asthma attack. The drugs have allowed me to live a normal life, be active, have a full-time teaching job and continue my acting and directing career. I've built up my confidence and can do things I want to do now. I'm so much better now.
"I was worried about accessing my injections during lockdown. I called the clinic and they were really helpful. They sorted it all for me and arranged for my injections to be delivered on a two-monthly basis. They explained how to inject them and offered to send a nurse to do it but I was confident that I could do it, or that my girlfriend could.
"It was very reassuring to know I could still take them. The clinic followed up and made sure everything was ok with them, and they also provided shielding advice as I was concerned about returning to work. So far I've been able to work from home.
"I'm very grateful to the team, it really feels like they have my best interests at heart. They made what could have been a more stressful time a lot easier for me."
Gráinne d'Ancona, consultant pharmacist for the severe asthma team, said: "Biologic therapies have been transformational in the care of people with severe asthma. They reduce symptoms and the frequency of asthma attacks, and therefore minimise steroid tablet exposure and their resultant side-effects. Our patients rely on them and their inhalers.
"With that in mind, we were determined to get these important treatments to our patients safely while ensuring they felt supported at a very frightening time.
"In a two-week period we arranged for these injections to be delivered to more than 400 patients' homes. We made sure they knew how to administer them using virtual technology or in person at their homes, were happy to do so and were in contact with them regularly in case they had any concerns or just to check in and answer any questions.
"This transition to home administration would usually take more than six months to organise, so it really was a fantastic team effort and was very empowering for our patients.
"Having successfully implemented this change at Guy's and St Thomas', we are now supporting other centres with less resource to do something similar for their patients."


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Editorial: Join the Editorial Board
By Editorial Board | Sep 18, 2014
Over the past semester, the unsigned editorials featured on this page have discussed issues such as increased transparency in forced mental health withdrawals, defining a University marijuana policy and investigating gender pay discrepancy at Princeton. The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board, a group of 15 undergraduates, was collectively responsible for writing these pieces. The members of the Board are not the editors of the various sections of the 'Prince.' Instead, they constitute an independent group of undergraduate students who are charged with determining the position of the newspaper as a whole. Today, instead of taking a stance on an issue, we would like to explain the editorial process and invite interested freshmen, sophomores and juniors to apply to join the Board.
The Board is the independent body responsible for determining the position of the 'Prince' on a range of matters that affect Princeton, its campus community and our generation. We meet twice a week to discuss campus issues, solicit input from potential stakeholders and ultimately determine the stance the 'Prince' will take on the issue at hand. We work closely with other sections of the newspaper to gather information about editorial topics, but we deliberate behind closed doors and independently determine our own positions to preserve objectivity. The Board answers only to its chair, Jillian Wilkowski; the opinion editor, Sarah Schwartz; and the editor-in-chief, Marcelo Rochabrun.
While the Board strives for unanimity, editorial positions are determined by majority vote, and members take turns writing editorials. The majority opinion is signed collectively by the Editorial Board rather than the individuals who concurred with the position of the majority. The minority can also publish a dissent that will bear the names of the individuals dissenting, when they are particularly passionate about the issue. All majority opinions are the collective product of the Board and constitute an independent voice separate from other sections of the 'Prince.'
Crucial to our mission is the ability to incorporate a variety of diverse perspectives into the editorials we produce. Current Board members come from across the globe and represent a wide variety of majors, political philosophies, and academic and extracurricular interests. What unites us is an engagement in campus life, and a commitment to investigating and discussing issues pertaining to the University community. We are committed to bringing compelling arguments and perspectives to this page, criticizing and praising in equal measure. We try to recommend specific policies or actions for the University that, in our opinion, are best for the community as a whole.
For us, its members, the Board is one of the defining activities of our time at the University. From the (relative) comfort of our fourth-floor conference room, we engage in challenging, passionate and intellectually stimulating debates that lead us to examine and confront the full range of issues that affect our lives at Princeton. It is especially exciting when our suggestions make a lasting contribution to broader campus discussions about an issue, or when the University adopts them, such as the computer science department's decision to keep the pass/D/fail option available for COS 126: General Computer Science, and the Honor Committee's decision to modify its punishment for students who take extra time on tests.
Our aim is to inspire discussion and, ultimately, action. However, this is impossible without students with unique perspectives — independent thinkers who are eager to debate and willing to engage with issues important to Princeton. We value writing ability, creativity and strength of thought much more than journalistic experience. If you are interested in joining us, we encourage you to fill out ourapplicationby midnight on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Applicants will be interviewed shortly thereafter. We look forward to meeting you!
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Many young students of knowledge read variety of different books today, at times relating to Hadeeth (i.e. Qur'anic Interpretations) or Fiqh (i.e. Jurisprudence). They listen to many lectures and attend the circles of knowledge, but if they would stop for a moment and re-evaluate themselves they would realize that, although some of them attend these lectures for a whole year and some for two years, they never fully comprehended these lectures they were attending, or they would realize that the benefit was not productive as they anticipated.
This is because they did not acquire a strong knowledge based foundation before attending these lectures. This foundation would have allowed them to properly format, process and comprehend the information they were absorbing, and would have enabled them to pursue the correct path when seeking knowledge. Hence, the sole reason for this deficiency in their comprehension and understanding is the lack of a precise systematic knowledge based methodology when seeking knowledge.