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Anguilla Landfill On Fire Again; Arson Suspected
Community Center / Featured / News / Virgin Islands / June 30, 2019
Update: The Waste Management Authority said in a release today that the fire started at approximately 3:00 a.m. W.M.A. advised the public and all solid waste haulers that the St. Croix Transfer Station and Anguilla Landfill are closed and will not be accepting municipal solid waste until further notice.
W.M.A. said temporary closure is required to ensure safety and continued vigorous fire suppression activities.
It is recommended that residents with respiratory conditions shelter in place to minimize exposure to smoke as wind directions change. When necessary, seek an alternate location until suppression activities have concluded. The authority said it will continue to provide updates regarding changes that may affect public health, the environment and haulers utilizing the Landfill.
Original Story: ST. CROIX — The Anguilla Landfill on St. Croix was on fire again today as of 11:00 a.m., with first responders telling The Consortium that officials suspected arson as the cause, although they couldn't immediately say for sure.
The Sunday morning fire, at the landfill itself, comes approximately one week following a fire at the Waste Management Authority's Transfer Station at the Anguilla site.
Today's fire was much worse; thick, black plumes of smoke billowed and pushed to the west of St. Croix by strong winds. The fire, heaviest on a tall pile of waste, also included used oil and stretched well over 100 feet.
First responders on the scene said it was difficult to contain the blaze, and that the best outcome would be to let it run its course. A firefighter said even if first responders attempted to out the fire, equipment needed to help them achieve this goal were damaged by the fire.
While W.M.A. hasn't issued a release on the fire, it would be wise for residents with respiratory issues to stay indoors, especially if you're residing on the west side of the island.
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The Political Economy of Human Rights. Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. Volume II: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and The Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology. By Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman. South End Press. $
Earlier in this century, faced with the popular success of fascism, Antonio Gramsci posed the question: How does any ruling class hold the allegiance of those whom it rules? Gramsci's question has spawned a vast field of inquiry into ideological control or "hegemony," the ways people are induced to accept as legitimate, or at least inevitable, their own victimization.
Awareness of this problem, by no means limited to academic Marxists, has produced some white-hot books—"The Wretched of The Earth," "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," "Death at an Early Age," "Three Guineas," and now Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's two-volume "The Political Economy of Human Rights." Like that other critique of political economy, "Capital," the Chomsky-Herman work is both an anatomy of a system of domination, in this case America's relationship with the third world, and a dissection of tire ideology that masks it, the myth of American benevolence, or in its current version, the "human rights" crusade.
Two charts early in the book offer data about the relationship between human rights and American foreign policy. In 12 third world countries within the American orbit—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran (under the shah), the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, and Uruguay—American military and economic aid correlate positively with human rights violations. That is, a high level of human rights violations goes with a high level of American aid. Furthermore, where there have been significant changes in the human rights situation in these countries, American aid has varied correspondingly. Changes of government involving an in crease in democracy and popular participation have resulted in decreased American aid; changes of government involving increased authoritarianism and state terror have resulted in increased American aid. As the rest of the study demonstrates, the same relationship holds for Zaire, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Honduras, El Salvador, and so on throughout the Free World.
Why? What is the key to American foreign policy? Here is the dirty little secret: "The deterioration in the rights situation and the increase in U.S. aid and support each correlate, independently, with a third and crucial factor: namely, improvement of the investment climate. The climate for business operations improves as unions and popular organizations are destroyed, dissidents are tortured or eliminated, real wages are depressed, and the society as a whole is placed in the hands of a collection of thugs and gangsters who are willing to sell out to the foreigner for a share of the loot. And as the climate for business operations improves, the society is welcomed into the Free World and offered the specific kind of 'aid' that will further these favorable developments." Other features of a "favor able investment climate" cited by Chomsky and Herman include unregulated access to minerals and other resources and easy tax and profit-repatriation laws.
Thus, when a popular, moderate, nationalist government in Iran, in 1953, tried to assert a measure of control over the country's oil, limiting the hitherto complete control by foreign companies, the result was a coup d'etat organized by Allen Dulles, director of the CIA. In Guatemala in 1954, a similar government, popular, moderate, and nationalist, undertook similar modest reforms—distributing uncultivated land owned by American corporations to landless agricultural workers, and permitting labor union organizing. Again the result was a coup, organized, financed, and immediately recognized by the United States. Other examples are equally familiar: Nicaragua in 1926, Lebanon in 1958, Laos in 1958, Brazil in 1964, the Dominican Republic in 1965, Chile in 1973, Thailand in 1976, and, of course, Vietnam (beginning, however, in the late in the guise of reform movements, labor 1940s, not the early 1960s).
Besides overturning governments that resist control by American capital, there is our support for governments willing to enforce this control, like the 12 listed earlier. Since this control involves such things as conversion of agriculture to case crops for export, creation of a large work force of impoverished ex-peasants for foreign-owned plants and plantations, guaranteed low wages as an incentive for foreign investment, and extreme austerity in social welfare programs, there governments are generally unpopular. This means repression: that is, torture.
The recitation in "The Political Economy of Human Rights" of torture statistics and torture episodes is nauseating. Details may be left for conscientious readers. But a few figures are worth quoting. According to Amnesty International, 35 countries were practicing torture on an administrative (i.e., regular) basis in the mid-'70s. Of these, 26 ere within the American sphere of influence—recipients of military and economic aid and military and police training. Between 1946 and 1975, these countries received $36.5 billion in military aid and had over 150,000 military personnel trained by the U.S. The Latin American military, for example, are brought to the U.S. Army School of the Americas in the Canal Zone, where, as Chomsky and Herman note, they are offered instruction in sophisticated interrogation techniques and demonstration of state-of-the-art torture technology, and taught that they are the guardians of a beleaguered Western civilization, threatened by relentless Communist subversion in the guise of reform movements, labor organizing, and civil rights agitation. The resultant siege mentality has produced 18 military coups in Latin American since 1960 and what the authors c all the National Security State—fascism with no popular base, or "subfascism."
Having surveyed the gruesome reality, Chomsky and Herman turn to the myth, to the reporting and interpretation of American foreign policy in the media and academic scholarship. It is an amazing record, a kind of dunciad, an epic of incompetence, hypocrisy, and deceit. They cite simple non-reporting: of the 1968 bombing of Laos, the heaviest in history, of Sihanouk's White Paper, protesting American bombing in Cambodia in 1969. They cite neglect: When Kissinger appeared on television to summarize the Paris peace accords, no one bothered to point out that his summary was a travesty of the text. They cite flimflam: "Time" and "Newsweek" ran fake photographs of Khmer Rouge atrocities after it was revealed that they had been fabricated by Thai intelligence. And they cite moral obtuseness: When President Carter announced that there would be no reparations for Indochina because "the destruction was mutual," not a single editorial voice was raised in protest.
Chomsky and Herman record many more examples, equally dismaying, but the burden of their argument lies elsewhere. It is that the normal performance of scholarship and the media involves a systematic bias. Their formulation is provocative, even outrageous. They claim that, much as in totalitarian societies, our scholarship and media function largely as a propaganda system, although the mode of functioning is different. Under totalitarianism, the framework of discussion, the principles of the state religion, are explicitly promulgated. They are sacrosanct but transparent; outward dissent is illegal, but inner dissent, or mental reservation, is made easier by the blatancy of state propaganda. In the United States, the framework is unarticulated and unargued, but is nonetheless assumed by all in the mainstream—in fact, acceptance of this framework is what defines the mainstream. Dissent is legal but marginal; heretics are free to talk to each other, while among those without considerable free time and access to material outside the mainstream, the engineering of consent proceeds unhindered. The consensus is tacit but overwhelming.
The assumption of all "responsible" discourse about American foreign policy, the fundamental article of our state religion, is, in Chomsky and Herman's words, that "the United States is unique among the nations of past or present history in that its policies are governed by abstract moral principles such as the Wilsonian ideals of self-determination, human rights, economic welfare, and so on, not by the material interests of groups that actually have domestic power, as is the case in other societies." There is no shortage of critical analysis applied to the international behavior of other countries. It is obvious that the "groups that actually have domestic power" in the Soviet Union, or in Bismarckian Germany, set foreign policy in their own interest. But we are somehow different.
To be sure, there are voices within the mainstream that deplore this excessive idealism. These are the "realists," who argue that the limits of American power make our overriding concern for human rights and democratic values no longer affordable. Others wonder whether American moralism is a form of naiveté or condescension, an attempt to graft our traditions onto complex and alien cultures. But all agree that, properly or not, "abstract moral principles" have been the soul of American foreign policy.
Occasionally it is admitted that our noble efforts have sometimes gone astray. Thus, the fact that the U.S. bears primary responsibility for turning Latin America into a torture chamber and Indochina into a moonscape is referred to (when acknowledged at all) as "ironic" and a "tragic error," the unforeseen result of "blundering efforts to do good" (Anthony Lewis), or of "good impulses transmuted into bad policy"("The Washington Post"). Liberal critics boldly question the feasibility of this or that intervention or the prudence of supporting this or that dictator—but never the essential benevolence of American goals.
Upon this consensus Chomsky and Herman heap 800 pages of staggering documentation and ferocious scorn. Yet, their fury is controlled; there is never a suggestion of deliberate conspiracy. Again like "Capital," the book portrays a vast, marvelously efficient system without conscious central coordination. The market organizes ordinary greed, as the state religion organizes ordinary chauvinism: though the rules are rigged, the individual players, by and large, are honest.
An elegant theory, and it comes with a crucial experiment. The second volume of the study focuses on postwar Indochina, and especially on Western reporting about Indochina. Its thesis is that defense of the state religion requires proof that the American intervention, however destructive, was plausibly intended to prevent some thing worse—i.e., bloodbath and enslavement. Hence, evidence must be found, or if necessary invented, and counterevidence suppressed. And this, in part, explains the explosion of Western outrage over Cambodia's incomprehensible "auto-genocide."
It is difficult to imagine a more unpromising project than to give a rational account of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. To anyone dependent on the mass media for information (just about all of us), the picture is ghastly: a band of Marxist fanatics dedicated to a bizarre form of primitive communism, turning a gentle land into a gigantic prison camp, slaughtering and starving millions. This is the bloodbath our leaders forecast and our forces fought to prevent. Kissinger is ___dicated, the antiwar movement is discredited, liberal columnists repentant.
Chomsky and Herman devote a very long chapter to examining recent Cambodian history and its portrayal in Western media. It is full of surprises. Sidney Schanberg won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the fall and evacuation of Phnom Perth in April 1975. Yet Schanberg, like all other Westerners in the city, was largely confined to the French embassy compound. Only one non-Cambodian, Shane Tart, a New Zealander with a Cambodian wife, actually participated in the evacuation, and his account, published in "News from Kampuchea" (readership c. 500), sharply contradicts the general Western impression of a barbarous and vindictive forced march. Tart and a few other leftists tried to circulate his account, in vain.
Chomsky and Herman recall some infrequently remembered background to the evacuation: Three million people, mostly refugees, lived in Phnom Penh in April 1975, five times the prewar population. They were totally dependant on air-lifts of American rice, which were terminated on the day of occupation. Only a six-day store of rice was left in the city, after which mass starvation must have ensued. Cambodian agriculture had been destroyed by American bombing, so that Agency for International Development officials leaving Phnom Penh in April predicted that a million people would die of famine in the next year.
So much for the American legacy. What of life under the Khmer Rouge? The authors write that "there is no difficulty in documenting major atrocities." Most pundits ascribe these to "dogmatism" or some other form of Communist iniquity. But there are other possible reasons. Chomsky and Herman quote congressional testimony from a former Foreign Service officer in Phnom Penh: "What drove the Cambodians to kill? …To a large extent, I think, American actions are to blame. From 1969 to 1973, after all, we dropped more than 500,000 tons of bombs on the Cambodian countryside. Nearly half of this tonnage fell in 1973…In those few months we may have driven thousands of people out of their minds." This speculation seems plausible.
What about mass starvation—never mind whose responsibility it would have been? There is little demographic evidence, since Cambodia was largely closed to the outside world. Yet, apart from refugee testimony—often obtained under supervision arid filtered through officially selected translators, and by no means unanimous, as Western reporting suggests—there are some first-hand ac counts from Swedish and Japanese diplomats, Danish and American leftists, Yugoslav journalists, a Belgian sociologist, a French Khmer scholar, and others. The picture is obscure, but it seems that Cambodian agriculture made a surprising recovery, perhaps even reaching prewar levels by 1978, and that Cambodia weathered the disastrous 1978 floods better than any other country in the region. The out standing foreign correspondent, Richard Dudman of "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch," visited Cambodia in December 1978, on the eve of the Vietnamese invasion, and found it "flourishing and potentially prosperous." Hardly the picture generally presented in the Western media.
There are probably four main sources for the popular American perception of postwar Cambodia: "Murder in a Gentle Land" by John Barton and Anthony Paul, "Cambodia: Year Zero" by Francois Ponchaud, Jean Lacouture's review of Ponchaud in "The New York Review of Books," and Henry Kamm's reporting in "The New York Times." Chomsky and Herman discuss them all at length, with devastating results. Barton and Paul's book and Lacouture's review are shredded; Ponchaud's and Kamm's credibility are seriously damaged. The analysis is too intricate to reconstruct here, but is recommended to connoisseurs of polemic.
All this is somewhat disorienting. The documentation, as noted, is staggering. But the reasoning is something more, so austere and scrupulous that its effect is almost painful. One flinches at the mechanical annihilation of complacent assumptions and gratuitous inferences, the relentless production of jarring conclusions. In a final tour de force, Chomsky and Herman orchestrate a remarkable comparison between the Western responses to atrocities in Cambodia and East Timor.
It happens that history offers a kind of controlled experiment to test the book's argument. Consider two situations of repression and mass murder, similar in many significant respects, equally worthy of exposure and protest, with this difference: In one case, the atrocities are conducted by our ideological enemies, re mote from our influence, and cannot be mitigated by our denunciations; in the other, they are conducted by our clients, wholly dependent on our continuing military supplies, and therefore vulnerable to
any expression of displeasure by our government or public opinion. What is the response of a morally serious person? Naturally, to protest actions that we may possibly influence and for which we bear some responsibility, i.e., the latter case. But given the Chomsky-Herman hypothesis about the propaganda function of the media, what is the predicted out come? Exclusive concern with former case.
To explain: Indonesia is a typical subfascist client state, an "investors' paradise," according to "Le Monde." On December 7, 1975, the Indonesian army invaded the nearby island republic of East Timor. The day before, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger completed a state visit to Indonesia; asked to comment on the invasion, Kissinger said only, "The United States understands Indonesia's position on the question of Timor." In August 1975, the Australian ambassador to Indonesia cabled home: "We are dealing with a settled Indonesian policy to incorporate Timor, as even the Indonesian Foreign Minister admitted to me…The United States might have some influence on Indonesia at present as Indonesia really wants and needs US assistance in its military reequipment program…But the Ambassador [David Newsome] told me last night that he is under instructions from Kissinger personally not to involve himself in discussions of Timor with the Indonesians."
The invasion met with resistance from Fretilin, the Timorese Liberation Front. Indonesia responded with indiscriminate bombing, burning, and crop destruction. In 1977 the Indonesian foreign minister estimated Timorese deaths from the invasion at 50,000. Fretilin estimated 100,000. By early 1980 (the fighting continues to the present), refugees and Indonesian church officials put the figure as high as 200,000. Neither the United States nor any relief agency was allowed into East Timor until late 1979.
Cambodia and East Timor are in the same part of the world, about equally distant from the U.S. mainland. Though the standard media figure for victims of the Khmer Rouge is one-to-two million, or even "half the population," truly serious critics of the regime charge that it (rather than the American war, the Vietnamese invasion, the floods of 1978, and the famines that followed these three catastrophes) was directly responsible for 100,000 or more deaths. Note that the population of East Timor is about one- tenth as large as Cambodia's, so that the relative scale of the massacre is 10 times as great. Finally, consider that by the ad mission of the American and Indonesian governments the Indonesian army has throughout the fighting been more than 90 per cent equipped with weapons provided by the United States. A strong case, one would think, for intense and constant journalistic attention to East Timor.
The authors exhaustively review coverage of East Timor in the American press since 1975. There is next to none. What there is is so inadequate and misleading, and so nearly identical with public statements and congressional testimony by the State Department, that it is impossible to avoid the suspicion that one is the source of the other. Altogether absent, needless to say, are the thunderbolts of denunciation visited on the Khmer Rouge. Two holocausts—one visible, one in visible. The "Times's" editorial indignation can never again sound quite real.
Commenting in another essay on the contrast between the avalanche of Western moralizing about the plight of Communist Indochina and the silence from the same quarters about suffering that cannot be exploited for propaganda purposes, Chomsky writes: "To record this miserable display in the proper terms would require the talents of a Swift or an Orwell." This is too modest: Chomsky is our contemporary Orwell. And not even Swift could surpass the savage indignation of "The Political Economy of Human Rights."
Life imitates Art, or at least supplies some striking postscripts. The reception of this book has been something of a scandal. A year ago, in "The New York Times Book Review," Paul Robinson called Chomsky "arguably the most important intellectual alive." Shortly after that assessment appeared in America's newspaper of record, the first volume of "The Political Economy of Human Rights" was published; the second volume came out in November. To date, neither has been reviewed in a single major U.S. newspaper. Habent sua fata libelli. The fate of this work illustrates its argument.

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Stuart Callaghan (born 20 July 1976) is a Scottish former footballer who played for several Scottish league clubs, mostly in the lower divisions, after starting out in the top level as a youth player with Heart of Midlothian. He also played in Finland for Finnairin Palloilijat on loan, and in Northern Ireland for Linfield.

Career
At Hearts, his most notable achievement was taking part in the semi-final of the 1996–97 Scottish League Cup, winning a penalty for his side in a 3–1 win over Dundee at Easter Road. However, he was not selected in the squad for the final in an era where only three substitutes were allowed.

Finding opportunities limited at Tynecastle Park, Callaghan had a season with Linfield and won the 1999–2000 League and League Cup with the Blues, before returning to Scotland, initially with Clydebank but quickly switching to Hamilton Academical where he won the country's lowest senior division in his first campaign (the only season endured at that level by the Accies in their history) and was involved in the first matches at the club's new stadium.

He later had spells with semi-professional clubs Alloa Athletic, Brechin City and Berwick Rangers, playing regularly for each and winning a rare promotion to the First Division with Brechin, before moving to down to the Junior grade in his mid-30s.

After retiring from playing, he took on a role as a youth football coach.

Honours
Linfield
Irish League: 1999–2000
Irish League Cup: 1999–2000

Hamilton Academical
Scottish Third Division: 2000–01

Brechin City
Scottish Second Division: 2004–05

References

External links
 London Hearts Supporters' Club profile
 Veikkausliiga historical statistics profile

 Bankies Archive profile

1976 births
Living people
Footballers from North Lanarkshire
Association football midfielders
Scottish footballers
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
Clydebank F.C. (1965) players
Linfield F.C. players
NIFL Premiership players
Veikkausliiga players
FinnPa players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Alloa Athletic F.C. players
Brechin City F.C. players
Berwick Rangers F.C. players
Beith Juniors F.C. players
Scottish Premier League players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Junior Football Association players
Scottish expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Finland
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Finland

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Q: Need help writing a script that calculates a sum indexed by fractional integers (like 1.5,2.5,3.5...) Can someone show me how to write the following function in MATLAB
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f(N) = t^{-6(N^2-1)} \sum_{j=\frac{-(N-1)}{2}}^{\frac{N-1}{2}}t^{24j^2+12j} \frac{t^{8j+2}-t^{-(8j+2)}}{(t^2-t^{-2})}
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I've been trying for awhile and haven't come up with anything worth mentioning... i am BRAND NEW to programming and could really benefit from somebody showing me this I feel..
You'll notice that the sum goes from $-(n-1)/2)$ to $(n-1)/2$ where n is an integer.

A: Here is how I would do it. Use the running_sum quantity to compute the sum from -(n-1)/2 to (n-1)/2.
You can run the function using the following command: f = example(2,5) where t=2 and N=5.
function f = example(t,N)

    % compute the running sum
    running_sum = 0;
    for k = -(N-1)/2:(N-1)/2
        running_sum = running_sum + t^(24*k^2+12*k) * (t^(8*k+2)-t^(-(8*k+2)))/((t^2-t^(-2)));
    end

    % final value
    f = t^(-6*(N^2-1))*running_sum;

end

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Joseph's arm a weapon for Phillies
The catcher-turned first baseman has given the Phillies a defensive advantage few teams possess at the position.
Joseph's arm a weapon for Phillies The catcher-turned first baseman has given the Phillies a defensive advantage few teams possess at the position. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/2q0SyGW
Meghan Montemurro, The News Journal Published 10:54 a.m. ET April 25, 2017 | Updated 11:32 a.m. ET April 25, 2017
Tommy Joseph is tied with Houston's Yulieski Gurriel for the MLB lead in most double plays started by a first baseman with four, according to Elias Sports Bureau.(Photo: G Fiume, Getty Images)
There's a fearless element to Tommy Joseph's defense at first base.
The catcher-turned first baseman has given the Phillies a defensive advantage few teams possess at the position – a cannon arm that he's not afraid to unleash.
"I like to throw, so if I get the ball in my hands, I'm going to let it rip," Joseph said.
Joseph's strong arm has helped turned what was once an area of weakness into a cohesive part of a defensive unit that is one of the best in Major League Baseball. The Phillies' .989 fielding percentage is tied for fifth best in the majors.
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"First base defense, dating back to Little League, sometimes it's the least valuable defensive player that ends up at first base or corner outfield," general manager Matt Klentak said. "But when you have a player at those positions that can really defend well, it's a huge advantage for the club."
Joseph is tied with Houston's Yulieski Gurriel for the MLB lead in most double plays started by a first baseman with four, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
To put that in perspective: The four double plays Joseph's started in 16 games this season already are the most in a single season for the Phillies since 2013, when four players combined to start nine double plays at the position, led by Kevin Frandsen's three.
Since making his MLB debut May 13, 2016, Joseph has initiated seven double plays in 113 total games. That's as many as Ryan Howard started over 340 games from 2014-16.
"It's a weapon," bench coach Larry Bowa said of Joseph's arm. "It's helped everything. It's helped our whole defense.
"He's not afraid to throw," Bowa added. "In spring training, there was a play he threw the ball into the runner. That doesn't bother him. It's going to happen. When you come up throwing that's going to happen. To me, it's all about him wanting to do it, and he's been all in."
Joseph's ability to initiate double plays serves as a lifeline for Phillies pitchers, helping them get out of jams and reduce pitch counts. That can't be overlooked for a rotation that through the first three weeks of the season has struggled with pitch efficiency.
"It makes pitchers realize, hey, I am one pitch away from getting out of this no matter where this guy hits it," Joseph said. "That's the kind of comfort we want to bring to our pitching staff."
Joseph has even teamed up with third baseman Maikel Franco to turn a double play at second base because an infield shift against the Mets' Jay Bruce, resulting in a rare 3-5-1 twin killing.
Being in the right position to field balls that can be turned into double plays is also an important part of the equation. Part of that depends on how Bowa sets up the infielders from batter to batter. But it also requires constant communication with second baseman Cesar Hernandez so, for instance, Joseph knows how far to come off the bag when holding a runner
"Being more comfortable has allowed me to be more aggressive in that situation," Joseph said. "I have to make sure to know where the defense is, know where Cesar is. Cesar's been incredible so far this season, whistling at me, 'Hey, I'm moving this way, I'm moving that way' so we know where each other are."
And as he showed on an absolute bullet to catcher Cameron Rupp to keep the first inning scoreless April 19 against the Mets in New York, Joseph's arm is a plus on relay throws, too.
Since joining the front office, Klentak has emphasized team defense. Joseph is another piece of the puzzle.
"He's got a hose," Klentak said. "You can see it any time he has to make a throw anywhere: it's right on target, and it's firm."
The San Francisco Giants used a second-round pick to draft Joseph as a catcher out of high school in 2009. The Giants dealt him to Philadelphia for Hunter Pence in 2012.
But by 2015, a series of concussions forced Joseph out from behind the plate. First base, where he started 59 minor-league games, was Joseph's best option. Now, he works on his defense during batting practice every day, whether at home or on the road.
If he goes more than a couple days without Bowa hitting short hops to him at first base – which help with footwork and simulate catching off-target throws to first base – Joseph will track him down and tell him, "Lets' go."
"Earlier in the year he hadn't been hitting. Probably young guys take a shortcut over [on defense], he hasn't done that," Bowa said. "His work ethic is off the charts."
Joseph possesses good enough hands and powerful arm that while the Phillies employed a short bench for the past week, manager Pete Mackanin requested he take ground balls at third during BP. Mackanin planned to use Joseph as his emergency third baseman.
"I've been here eight years, and I've never seen so many 3-6-1 double plays," Mackanin said. "But because of his arm, we can make that play.
"It's huge to have a guy like that."
Asked when was the last time he was around a first baseman capable of turning as many 3-6-1 double plays as Joseph, Bowa paused.
"James Loney was pretty good at it [with Dodgers]," said Bowa, who was Los Angeles' third base coach from 2008-09. "It's been a while."
Contact Meghan Montemurro at mmontemurro@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter at @M_Montemurro.
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Phillies first baseman Tommy Joseph has already initiated four double plays this season. Here's how that compares to recent seasons:
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Lisa Hilmi has over 30 years of global health experience in over 20+ countries, employing both human rights and community-based participatory approaches to addressing health disparities for women, children and communities. As a nurse, researcher, and public health expert, Lisa has worked at multiple levels of global health, in policy, research, emergency relief and response, development, workforce development, health systems strengthening; from local to global levels. She has worked in development settings, led response to HIV/AIDS/STIs/GBV in refugee and conflict settings, and developed policy for outbreaks, disasters, and epidemics in multiple countries. She has led over $180 million of development, humanitarian and rehabilitation efforts. Clinically, Lisa has worked in pediatric hospital, community, academic, and crisis settings, and has held leadership positions in the UN, Sigma Theta Tau International, INGOs, and foundations.
Her research focuses on geographical health disparities for adolescents in urban settings. She has a strong history of partnership and coordination with UN, INGOs, CSOs, and other stakeholders. She sits on the WHO PMNCH Board, the Steering Committee of the Child Health Task Force, the Board of Directors at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation, as well as other review committees.
She holds an MPH from Columbia University, a BSN and completing her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, was a Jonas Nurse Scholar, is a Certified Pediatric Nurse, and holds a BA in Communications and Political Science from Villanova University.


Seda Monastery, or Larung Wuming Buddhist Institute locates in Seda County of Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, China. Seda or Sertar means "golden horse" in Tibetan language because people once found horse head shaped gold in the pasture nearby. And, legends said that King Gesar's horse once ran on the pasture, too. Thus, when you pass the bueatiful pastuer, you can still see many horses on it. Seda Monastery is about 20km from Seda County. So, you can take a car or bus to get there with very cheap fare. If you take a Sichuan Tibet overland tour, you can pass Seda Monastery and enjoy the religious theme tour.
When you arrive Seda Monastery, the numerous red roof houses will astonish you absolutely. There are over ten thousand of monks and nuns live and study here. They are from all over the world. The monastery implement very strict management policies towards male and female monks. So, if you go there, please follow the rules and respect the monks' customs. Also, if you are interested in listening to a Buddhist lecture, Seda Monastery provides you with the precious chance to have a public Buddhist class. Also, you should follow the monastery's rule and behave yourself well when having the class.
Standing on the top of mountains, you cannot miss the overall view of Seda Monastery. Especially at night, the starry lights from thousands of monks' houses will remind you of the peaceful life different from the noisy busy world. The devoutness of monks and nuns are so impressive because the living condition is poor with harsh natural environment. Moreover, they need to study very hard to pass the exams.
Another famous site is sky burial platform near Seda Monastery. You can see the solemn process only in far distance. For Tibetan people, the sky burial ritual is very important, so when you watch, please respect their customs and do not take photos without permission.
Jigme Phuntsok founded Seda Monastery in 1980. Jigme Phuntsok was a very influential Nyingmapa lama at that time. He focused on teaching Dzogchen (Great Perfection) and made great achievements. Initially, there were only 32 people when Seda Monastery was established in 1980. After that, the 10th Panchen agreed to set up a Buddhist Institute in Seda County and wrote to the local government for support.
In 1993, the Director of Chinese Buddhist Association wrote the name the monastery as "Seda Larung Wuming Buddhist Institute". In the same year, the World Journal called it "the largest Buddhist Institute" in the world.
Seda County is about 650km northwest from Chengdu. So, you can take the direct bus from Chadianzi Bus Terminal in Chengdu which takes around 13 hours. It departs at 6:20 am and you will get there at 8:00 pm. Or you can take the bus to Barkam or Kangding for one night stay and head to Seda County the next morning. In this way, you will feel less tired than one whole day bus trip. Moreover, there are many buses between Chengdu and Barkam or Kangding.
There are many choices for accommodation in Seda County. You can choose hotels or youth hostels. Many guests speak highly of accommodation in Seda County. They say there are free wi-fi, 24-hours hot water, heater and electronic blanket in most hotels. Thus, it is very comfortable staying there. If you stay in Seda Monastery, the living condition is not as good as hotels in Seda County. Also, the choices are very limited.
The elevation of Seda Monastery is above 4,000 meters. Thus, you should take some warm clothes and prepare some AMS medicine for emergency. Moreover, in January, April, June and September, there will hold Dharma Assembly. So, if you plan to go to Seda Monastery in those months, you should book the bus tickets and hotels in advance.
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Yahoo Mail suffers outage; users react
Mail service was down for many, and affected users took to Twitter to complain. Yahoo now says all's well again, after acknowledging problems for "some users in certain locations."
Aug. 3, 2011 6:51 a.m. PT
The error message displayed on Yahoo's Mail site. Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET
Yahoo Mail today was down for many users today, but according to the online company, its services are now operating normally.
Earlier today, CNET heard from a reader who claimed that "Yahoo Mail has been experiencing severe outage issues for the last 24-hours plus." After attempting to access Yahoo's Mail service, CNET received an error message saying that the "page you requested was not found." Other attempts yielded a "connection refused" message from the site. When trying to access the mail service through Yahoo's QuickView, the service said that it could not "connect to your mail server."
It appears that the issue was affecting people around the globe. On Twitter, a slew of users are posting tweets, saying that they cannot connect to the service. Some have put it simply, saying, "can't log into Yahoo Mail." Others seem perplexed, with one person asking, "why is Yahoo Mail so messed up?"
Several people on Twitter have said that they've been having trouble with authentication. A few users said that they tried resetting their passwords multiple times, and the service still did not work.
In addition to those complains, DownRightNow.com, a site that tracks downtime for popular Web services, is reporting that Yahoo Mail appears to be down.
But the outage wasn't universal, apparently. Two CNET staffers say they're having no problem accessing Yahoo Mail.
In an e-mailed statement to CNET today, Yahoo acknowledged that it was having some troubles with its services, and was working to bring them back online.
"Some Yahoo services are currently inaccessible to some users in certain locations," the company told CNET in an e-mailed statement. "We are working to correct the issue and restore all functionality immediately. We know that this may have caused some inconvenience and we apologize to our users who might be affected."
In a follow-up statement to CNET, Yahoo said that "we worked quickly to resolve the issue, and are pleased that all services are restored to full functionality."
Yahoo Mail's outage comes at an inopportune time for the company. Just last week, Google launched a tongue-in-cheek "e-mail intervention" tool that helps existing Gmail users coax their friends into switching from their existing provider to Google's offering.
"You've probably already improved the lives of your friends and family members by helping them switch to Gmail, but what about that one friend who still hasn't made the switch?" Google's site reads. "It's time to take a stand and stage an intervention."
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Adam London College Basketball NCAA Tournament Top Stories
NCAA Tournament Bracket 2018: East Region Preview, Picks, Upsets
by Adam London
At first glance, the East might seem like one of the weaker regions in this year's tournament, but a closer look will tell you that it instead might produce some of the most exciting basketball in the coming weeks.
Villanova owns the No. 1 seed in the region, but the Wildcats most certainly won't have a cakewalk to the Final Four. The second-seeded Purdue Boilermakers looked strong throughout the regular season and No. 3 Texas Tech has a serious chance to make some noise as well.
Here's a complete preview of the East Region:
Player to Watch: Jalen Brunson, PG, Villanova
Brunson isn't the sexy pick. The Wildcats' floor general plays a fundamental style of basketball that doesn't typically translate to weekly highlight reels. But the 6-foot-3 junior is rich in experience, which should bode well for Villanova throughout the tournament. Brunson received quite the welcome to March Madness, helping the Wildcats win the NCAA title in his freshman season. He always seems to make the right play at the right time, and his tendency to deliver in the clutch will tremendously benefit the Wildcats. Brunson likely won't be a top pick in this summer's NBA draft like his backcourt mate Mikal Bridges, but he should thrive in the Big Dance.
Best First-Round Game: No. 8 Virginia Tech vs. No. 9 Alabama
If Brunson is our top player to watch in the East, Collin Sexton is just inches behind. The Alabama guard has been sensational this season and really put on a show throughout the Crimson Tide's march to the SEC Tournament semifinals. Sexton sort of has that Kemba Walker/Shabazz Napier feel to him entering this year's NCAA Tournament, and his team's first-round matchup against the Hokies should be a great one. Virginia Tech was bounced from the ACC Tournament in a flash, but let's not forget its big wins this season over teams like Duke, Clemson, North Carolina and the overall top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers.
Best Chance for an Upset: No. 10 Butler over No. 7 Arkansas
Sure, the Razorbacks have some quality wins under their belt this season with victories over North Carolina, Auburn and Tennessee. But Arkansas plays in a generally weak conference and has a number of bad losses on its résumé, including getting swept by LSU. The Bulldogs had a great showing in the Big East Tournament, and while they were torched by Villanova in the championship game, their makeup lends one to believe they'll be tough competition for the Razorbacks.
Region Winner: Villanova
As mentioned before, the East features one of the more level playing fields in the tournament, but it's tough to pick against the Wildcats. Coach Jay Wright has had his team near the top of the AP rankings from wire to wire this season, and you have to envision Villanova making a deep run once again this time around. The Wildcats will have a tough second-round test against the winner of the Alabama/Virginia Tech clash, but it's nothing they can't handle.
Prediction: Villanova over Texas Tech in the Elite Eight.
Thumbnail photo via David Butler II/USA TODAY Sports
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I can imagine that raising errors in such cases might be meant to discourage excessive metaprogramming.
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New Music Friday — July 17, 2020
THE McKAMEYS | LIVE Like No Other
Southern Gospel; Horizon Records – STREAM / BUY album
Last fall, thousands of fans and industry peers filled the LeConte Centre in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee during the National Quartet Convention to celebrate The McKameys' more than 60 years of singing, after the legacy Southern Gospel Group announced they'd no longer be touring full time. Now, fans of the group can relive that special afternoon with LIVE Like No Other, a CD and DVD featuring live music as well as behind the scenes interviews with The McKameys — a group that's released 54 albums over the course of their career and has the most #1 hits in Southern Gospel history.
"We are excited about the release of LIVE Like No Other, which was recorded at The National Quartet Convention in September of 2019 during our Farewell Tour," say The McKameys. "What a great day, being with so many great friends, praising the Lord in song, and feeling the spirit in a special way! We can't wait for everyone to experience the excitement and emotions that were present that day."
Throughout the one-and-a-half-hour concert, The McKameys performed many of their #1 hits, like "God On The Mountain," "Roll That Burden On Me," "Unspoken Request" and "Do You Know How It Feels," and crowd favorites like "Trophy Of Grace," "There Is Jesus" and "For The Record" in a joyful celebration of a career many don't get to enjoy.
The album release also marks the first time The McKameys' rendition of "God On The Mountain" — which was #1 on the Singing News charts for five months in 1988-89 and became their most requested song of all time — will be released on streaming services. The DVD includes videos of The McKameys sharing personal stories from their careers and a special moment when Horizon Records and the National Quartet Convention honored the group for its dedication to spreading God's word over the years. With both parts of LIVE Like No Other, fans of The McKameys will always be able to enjoy the group's heartfelt performance and message, though they're no longer touring.
ZOE & CLOYD | "Hoffman's Hora / David's Frailach"
Americana; Organic Records — STREAM / BUY single
With their latest Organic Records single, Zoe & Cloyd reveal once again their unique ability to blend mountain music with the klezmer music legacy of Natalya Zoe Weinstein's family on "Hoffman's Hora/David's Frailach."
Incorporating two klezmer tunes — the first from a 1923 recording by xylophonist Jacob Hoffman, the second from sheet music in the handwriting of Weinstein's grandfather — the medley marks a further refinement of the synthesis Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller have been exploring since the formation of Zoe & Cloyd, including "Berditchever Sher" and "Zisa Meydele" on 2019's I Am Your Neighbor. Woven together with their authentic renditions of Appalachian old-time, folk and bluegrass songs, as well as their roots-inspired originals, it's an integral part of the duo's musical identity.
"These two klezmer instrumentals were in my grandfather, David Weinstein's, repertoire," says Natalya. "He was a professional musician who emigrated from Russia (what is now Ukraine) in 1923, and made his living here in America playing music for weddings, functions, and events."
"Horas and frailachs were dance tunes, and often were unnamed. This version of 'Hoffman's Hora' was named for an early recording of Jacob Hoffman and Kandel's Orchestra. I couldn't find another version of the frailach, except my grandfather's handwritten one, so we named it 'David's Frailach.'"
Weinstein's violin and Miller's guitar echo the sparse arrangement of their 1923 source on the opening "Hoffman's Hora" before upright bass and bluegrass banjo — supplied by band members Kevin Kehrberg and Bennett Sullivan — join in to provide propulsive rhythm and melodic embroidery to the strains of "David's Frailach."
"I think that bluegrass and klezmer blend together well because of their folk history and sensibilities," Weinstein notes. "It's a beautiful fusion!"
BECKY BULLER W/ THE FAIRFIELD FOUR | "Tell the Truth (Shame the Devil)"
Folk/Americana; Dark Shadow Recording — STREAM / BUY single
Becky Buller is a 2-time GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter, 8-time IBMA Award Winner, and 2020 SPBGMA Fiddle Player of the Year Award-nominee. She made bluegrass music history in 2016 by becoming the first artist ever to win in both instrumental and vocal categories, as well as the first female to win Fiddle Player of the Year by the IBMA. The Fairfield Four are 3x GRAMMY recipients, have two Lifetime Achievement Awards, and were 1999 Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductees—over their 100+ year history, they're best known for their appearance in the O Brother Where Art Thou movie and soundtrack.
TARA DENTE | Truth in the Mud
Americana; Travianna Records — STREAM / BUY EP
Travianna Records is proud to announce Tara Dente's third album Truth in the Mud is available today! A true rising star, Asbury Park, New Jersey's own Tara Dente is poised to take your heart by storm with this intimate record, quite possibly becoming your new favorite artist. She has included a fine group of fellow musicians for this release whom she lovingly calls "The Blind Pilots" when they join her on stage. Here, they have helped Tara bring her original crafted songs on Truth in the Mud all the way home.
Dente: Vocals & Acoustic Guitar, Piano: ("Enough," "What a Mess"); Chris Dubrow: Upright & Electric Bass; Chris Colon: Electric & Slide Guitar; Santo Rizzolo: Drums & Percussion; Nicole Scorsone: Violin ("Ain't No Time," "Let a Good One Go," "Open Seas"); Andy Keenan: Pedal Steel ("Hill So Steep"); George Mason: Violin (Hill So Steep)
"This crew came from Asbury Park to record in Virginia and they sound much more like roots rockers than Springsteen. With a heartland attitude and outlook, Dente and her gang come in with some meaty, juicy Americana that hits you between the eyes with it's authenticity and power. With no affectation, she goes right for the heart and the jugular, hitting her targets with ease. Solid folk-flavored stuff throughout." —Chris Spector, Midwest Record
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R&B; HILL Entertainment — STREAM / BUY EP
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Serving Size: 3 Dolmas, Servings Per Container 1, Calories 170, Calories From Fat 60, Total Fat 6g (9%), Saturated Fat 1.5g (8%), Trans Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg (0%), Sodium 410mg (17%), Total Carbohydrate 25g (8%), Dietary Fiber 4g (16%), Sugars 3g, Protein 4g, Vitamin A (0%), Vitamin C (2%), Calcium (8%), Iron (2%). Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Haig's Delicacies has been a part of San Francisco's specialty food culture since 1956. Enjoy the same delicious recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation with our complete line of artisinal mezés such as hummus, taboule, dolma, falafel, spanakopita and much more. We bring the exotic flavors from our family traditions to your table using only fresh, all-natural ingredients and never any preservatives.


The 2017 Rally Australia (formally the 26. Kennards Hire Rally Australia 2017) was the 13th and final round of the 2017 World Rally Championship. The rally was held over three days between 17 November and 19 November 2017, and was based in Coffs Harbour, Australia. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners.
The Power Stage was a 10.12 km (6.3 mi) stage at the end of the rally.
^ "Sunday in Australia: Neuville Secures Fourth Win". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^ "Rally Australia 2017 Entry List" (PDF). rallyaustralia.com.au. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
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Thinking of opting RoR for your next big release? Then congratulations, you have made the wisest decision of your life. Ruby is an object-oriented programming language and Rails is a framework with utilities to make development easier. So Ruby on Rails is a framework to help with the development of applications with ease and efficiency.
Today I'll take you through the famous apps built using Ruby on Rails. I am pretty sure at the end of this article, you all will be convinced "Why RoR is the best choice for web application development"?
Github (formerly known as Logical Awesome LLC) is the largest Repository Hosting Service with more than 20 million users and more than 57 million repositories.
This easy to use and a mature website is built using Ruby on Rails. In July 2015, GitHub is said to be raised $250M business revenue in series B round.
GitHub is the most renowned platform with developers and coders, catering all their coding and development needs.
Shopify is one the most popular e-commerce platform. The complex task of serving millions of customers' requests from across the globe is made possible due to the Ruby on Rails architecture of the website.
Shopify is powering more than 21,000 online stores including the small businesses to top guns such as 50 Cent, Angry Birds and the Foo Fighters.
Hulu is the best-known platform to watch your favorite shows and movies. After the 10 months of its launch, Hulu gained the title of the 6th best site to for online video viewing. It has 227 million videos viewed with a 2% share of all videos viewed.
The title Airbnb means "Airbed and breakfast" projects the history of this online hotel reservation site. A site to connect the hosts and travelers across the globe is built using Ruby on Rails. You can reserve a room, hotel or even a camp in the ground. Airbnb is catering more than 800,000 offers in 190 countries.
By saving millions of the trees, this site has replaced the phone books. It is the most famous local business listing in the world. Yellow Pages is one of the biggest Ruby on Rails website, run by IT&T.
If you are a talented designer then Dribble has got your back. Being set up in 2009 using Ruby on Rails framework, Dribble is an attractive platform for all kinds designers such as web designers, logo designers, graphic designers, illustrators. Dribble is the hub of art and design.
Fiver is a vast network of freelancers, offering their prestigious services in various fields from programming to designing, from arts to mathematics, from development to maintenance, from writing to proofreading. All services are offered under one platform. You can also hire someone to get your projects done from anywhere in the world.
SlideShare is the biggest Slide Hosting platform based on Ruby on Rails.. After it's immense popularity SlideShare became the part of the LinkedIn family in 2012. You can upload and presentations in different formats such as PowerPoint, OpenOffice, and PDF.
Also read: Why You Should Use Ruby On Rails For Your Startup?
Crazy Egg is the must-go-to place for anyone who wants to optimize the content and architecture of their website. It is a heat map service for websites, which differentiates the irrelevant and key parts of your website in the eyes of the users. It will also give you a guideline on how to optimize your website and get featured.
If you are a reader then you must be aware of the Goodreads. This Rail on Rails based website is the book treasure platform for all the readers. You can read, share, and recommend books. You can create your own bookshelves, browse your friend's collection, exchange the reviews Goodreads provides more than 1.5 billion books related to almost every field.
We Heart It is the Ruby on Rails image-based social application. It spans the images from all aspects of life such as interior, makeup, design, fashion, quotes, stars, and many more. This application is available in 23 languages, meaning it has a gigantic audience all over the world.
This platform helps to put an idea into action. It attracts a lot of investors to fund for creative and unique ideas. It is a hub for the different people having ideas about the different spheres of life. Being launched in 2009, Kickstarter helped many new ideas to nourish and flourish such as Exploding Kittens, Coolest Cooler, Pebble Time etc.
It was released in 2007 and it's the first video earned 84 million views. Yes, you got it, right pals!!! Funny or Die is a website where you can only find the funny content and it is not funny then it has to die. But one big question is "Who decides what is funny"? Well, users' voting plays a vital role in this regards. One special feature of this funny video site is to Celebrities category. Here you can find funny videos with your favorite celebs.
All the sports fans needs are satisfied through this Ruby on Rails based website "Bleacher Report". It creates numerous live feeds of sports events and content.
This app is your fitness trainer. It provides various functions such as diet tracking, training program, calorie calculation. It provides nutrients facts for more than 2,000,000 food. If you really want to lose your weight or just want to plan your diet, MyFitnessPal is the best choice you have.
SoundCloud is built using Ruby on Rails and is one of the commercial giants these days. It offers the various attractive features such as uploading podcasts, a collection of millions of songs from across the globe, building the blog, library of liked audio tracks and many more.
BaseCamp is one of the largest project management service. Being built on Ruby on Rails, it offers diverse functionalities from project planning to the organization, from project monitoring to scheduling and from delegation tasks to document management.
Clustox is a leading consulting company specialized in building web and mobile applications and providing consultancy in middle ware. Services include all stages of SaaS development from user interface design, development, deployment, maintenance to support. Core technologies include Java, Spring Framework , Sencha, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Tibco, BI content management systems using Joomla and Drupal, e-commerce applications and social networking applications built on Facebook and OpenSocial platform.
Moda Operandi is an online fashion store. You can find the unique and most stylish fashion accessories at the store. The app also lets you consult the fashion experts to make you stand out from the crowd.
Yammer is the platform for the communication between the enterprises and organizations and lets the dispersed teams work in flow and efficiency. Yammer backend development is in Ruby on Rails, while the front end in Java and Unicorn.
Ruby on Rails is growing in popularity day by day due to its vast features, reliable framework, support from the community, fast development and ease of use. In this time of the digital revolution, you can find many other big guns using RoR as their best choice to offer their products and services.
Let Clustox help you take your idea of Ruby on Rails web application development put into action. They offer services in designing, development, marketing, and management. Keep your product moving at Clustox!


5 Star High Octane High Performance Racing.
This is Director Scott Waugh's, (Act of Valor) second venture into the feature film universe, but he is well qualified to make a film about fast cars and the inherent danger that lye's within. As he has 41 Stunts credits to his name, (We Were Soldiers, Bad Boys II, Mr and Mrs Smith).
What he has created is a petrol heads dream, whether you are male or female as there is plenty of eye candy, from American muscle to European super cars.
You're in for Speed, Smashes, Crashes and Ace Driving.
After the death of his father Tobey Marshall, (Aaron Paul, The Last House on the Left) takes over the running of Marshall performance Motors. he and his friends do up American muscle cars such as GTO's and Mustangs. But there isn't enough work coming through the doors, so there is a visit from his dads old bank manager calling in the loan. He supplements his money by taking part in late night street races for a prize of $5000. He may be too good as his old rival Dino Brewster, (Dominic Cooper, Captain America: The First Avenger) turns up to watch him race along with his old girlfriend Anita, (Dakota Johnson, 21 Jump Street) and he tells him he wants to see him after the race. Anita is Little Pete's sister and little Pete, (Harrison Gilbertson, Haunt) has been taken under Tobey's wing as a younger brother. Dino is the one from MT Kisco New York that made it all the way to NASCAR and even though he thinks Tobey is beneath him he admires his skills as a mechanic and offers him a job of finishing the car that disapeared the Ford Shelby Mustang that Carroll Shelby was working on when he died. The cash strapped Tobey has no option but to accept the 25% finished car price, estimated to be $500,000. He is ribbed by his friends, they think he is doing it to get back with Anita.
The next race gives a particular stress to the full-length film. The end may be unpredictable for any of the participants in this operation.


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The 42nd edition of Portugal Fashion Autumn-Winter 2018/19 took place in the City Park of Porto on 22, 23 and 24 March. A true fashion city was created in the largest urban park of the country, where a megastructure was installed. With no less than three big fashion areas each comfortably accommodating about 1,000 spectators per show, the fashion city proved to be the perfect place to inform consumers about their consumption of wine.
AEVP thus decided to jump on the occasion and disseminate its campaign "Do you know how to be Moderate" material throughout the whole event. Collectible postcards showing fun phrases, attractive colours and Pop Art inspired images and cup bases with a QR Code leading to the website www.wineinmoderation.com were distributed to the visitors, providing tips and drinking guidelines.
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The Clock Tower, Development
Welcome Meeting Room Development Gallery Facilities	Area	History
Directions	Contact
Unit Popup.
The Clock Tower Business Units
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The Packing House
Fully detached from the rest of the complex, The Packing House is a compact single story building making an ideal and self-contained office workspace with a floor area of 30m2 (323ft2).
The Cooperage
Fully detached from the rest of the complex, The Cooperage is a single story building with a total floor area 50m2 (538ft2).
The Sulphur Store
Situated in one of the southern wings of the building, The Sulphur Store shares a communal entrance with The Saltpetre Store, The Communal Meeting Room and The Powder Lab and has a total floor area of 60m2 (646ft2), of which 19m2 (205ft2) is a mezzanine.
The Saltpetre Store
Situated in one of the southern wings of the building, The Saltpetre Store shares a communal entrance with units 3, 6 and 7 and has a total floor area of 88m2 (947ft2), of which 29m2 (312ft2) is a mezzanine.
Located on the western side of the building, The Refinery is the largest unit in the development, having a total floor area of 162m2 (1744ft2), of which 46m2 (495ft2) is a mezzanine accessible by a spiral staircase. The Refinery has its own dedicated entrance and toilet facilities.
The Powder Lab
With a floor area of 18m2 (194ft2), The Powder Lab is located in the southern wings of the development, sharing a communal entrance with units The Sulphur Store, The Saltpetre Store and The Meeting Room, and provides a bright and airy meeting room lit by its two large south facing windows.
The Communal Meeting Room
The Meeting Room is located on the east side of the building, and with a floor area of 36m2 (388ft2) makes an ideal office space.
Click here to find our more about the Meeting Room.
Located on the east side of the building, The Forge has its own dedicated entrance, toilet and shower facilities. The unit also occupies the ground floor of the clock tower which gives a space ideally suited for use as a meeting room seperate to the main office. In total, the unit has a floor area of 108m2 (1163ft2).
Office Specifications
The design philosophy for this office accommodation has been to provide open and airy working offices which are flexible and vary to meet different requirements, while remaining sympathetic to the historic nature of the building and the local area.
The sizes of the units range from 18m2 to 162m2 (194ft2 to 1744ft2), and the design has allowed for each unit to be either rented separately or two or more units can be rented together giving increased flexibility.
The exterior of the building has been landscaped to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment. There are pleasant seating areas overlooking the River Leven. Further	information	can	be	found on the Facilities page.
There is full communications infrastructure for telephones, computers and other systems with broadband internet access available.
Each unit has easily controllable underfloor heating powered from renewable sources - further	information	can	be	found on the Facilities page.
The offices provide a safe and secure environment using the most modern technology. There is good management and maintenance support to look after the needs of all occupiers.
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The offices at the Clock Tower Business Centre are available to lease on flexible terms.
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I-Land Ep. 1-6: Idol Survival Meets Dystopian Fantasy
Even for those who didn't watch it, the impact of Mnet's Produce series on the idol industry is hard to ignore. Every year since 2016, the survival competition show distilled approximately 100 trainees from a multitude of companies down to their elite, birthing groups that went on to become hugely successful in a saturated industry – I.O.I, Wanna One and Iz One. In 2019, a voting manipulation scandal brought the series (and its final group, X1) to a premature end, and as the sun set once and for all on Produce 101, a sizeable gap was left in the market for a replacement idol survival show – one that can offer viewers something new, while also continuing Produce's legacy of idol reality TV that is both entertaining and compelling.
It's in this context that I-Land, Mnet's latest venture into idol reality TV, has made its first steps. Like many shows that have come before it, I-Land is a survival show pitting a number of pre-selected trainees against one another to compete for limited spots in a debut line-up. Unlike its predecessors, however, it has the backing of arguably the most successful entertainment agency of our time – Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind global faces of K-pop, BTS. To be specific, the show is a collaboration between Big Hit and CJ E&M, the company that owns Mnet, created through their new joint company, Belift Lab.
Unfortunately, the show's first half, which ended last Friday, leaves a lot to be desired. One might expect that the collaboration with Big Hit, a well-respected company with a fairly savoury image, would translate into a softer style of reality TV, less focused on creating drama than it is on great music and performance, as well as teamwork and chemistry à la Bangtan TV. However, if anything, it's the opposite; Mnet's signature taste for melodrama is as prevalent as ever, repeatedly manifesting as unpleasant moments of tension and awkwardness created through cruel game rules or over-dramatic editing (or both).
While watching, The Hunger Games comes to mind as the most obvious source of inspiration for the show's concept. 23 contestants aged between 14 and 22 arrive at the "I-Land", a grandiose, purpose-built complex located in a fantastical forest that is designed to be the ultimate training facility for idols (but which looks and feels more like a dystopian prison). Here, they will train and compete for the chance to debut, through performances that are judged by a panel consisting of Big Hit's CEO, Bang Sihyuk, and mentors Rain and Zico, among others.
There are two key elements that differentiate this show from others. The first is that trainees are divided into two factions: twelve I-Landers, who can stay in the opulent I-Land complex and who represent the elite, and eleven Grounders, who are the inferior faction and thus are relegated to a visibly more spartan building named the "Ground". For fans of The Hunger Games, this strikes a pretty clear parallel; in the series, the Capitol, the city of rich and powerful, is contrasted against District 12, the most impoverished and undesirable area of the country. Trainees can be promoted or demoted at each stage of the competition, depending on their performance, but the maximum number of I-Landers remains twelve.
The second is that the trainees decide many of these demotions themselves. From the very first unit performances–where trainees publicly voted for the first set of I-Landers–to the most recent "Final 12" round–where the current I-Landers had to send three of their own to the Ground to undergo global voting and therefore risk complete elimination–I-Land has left an unusual amount of power to the teenagers themselves. While interesting, this has resulted in more than a few awkward situations, with trainees constantly second-guessing one another and unable to relax for fear that they will become a target for elimination. This is coupled with an odd, security-camera style of observation reminiscent of Big Brother, complete with bonus real CCTV footage that is available on the website.
All this makes for a distinctly uncomfortable watching experience. Tensions escalate to the point of being palpable, and yet a bout of drama will suddenly cut to a scene showing some endearing interactions happening between trainees. These light-hearted moments feel contrived; unlike the Produce series, humour takes a backseat in I-Land in favour of intense, serious competition, and so moments like these that are wedged in seem forced and hard to believe.
On the flipside, there is an abundance of tears, and yet a strange disconnect between the emotions of the contestants and the audience makes it difficult to empathise at many of these times. Perhaps it's a lack of nuanced storytelling regarding individual trainees' struggles, or the fact that the trainees weren't differentiated well early on. Or, perhaps it's just the simple fact that a lot of these tearful outcomes are produced by the trainees' actions themselves, through voting and in-group drama. Either way, emotional attachment to trainees has been unusually hard to form so far in the series, which is unexpected considering it was what Produce did best.
The overall result is somewhat Lord of the Flies – devoid of adult supervision (except for the occasional meeting with the mentors), the group decide everything themselves, from choosing a leader, to learning the choreography, to choosing who to eliminate. Mnet toys with their loyalties, flip-flopping between rules that emphasise teamwork at times and individual performance at others. As teenagers who don't necessarily have the emotional maturity to not fall for Mnet's mind games, watching politics emerge both between and within the I-Landers and Grounders, for mostly arbitrary reasons imposed by the gamemaster, is perhaps the most unpleasant thing about this series so far.
It's hard to imagine how a group created from teens who have had to play such a game as this can really build the solid bonds of friendship needed to excel in the industry. It's a far cry from what BTS (whom many of the trainees idolise) stand for, which is teamwork, friendship, brotherhood and, above all, an unyielding belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Even if what we see in the show is wholly an illusion and the boys are actually the best of friends, audiences have not yet seen what they need to believe that the group I-Land forms will truly be better together than apart.
While there are additional criticisms that could be made about the dull stage effects, the lack of interesting song arrangements and impactful original songs, as well as the dreary design of the whole complex, on the whole, I-Land should be commended for pushing the boundaries of the genre and truly attempting to innovate and refresh an overdone format. However, as the show moves into its second half, where BTS will make a long-awaited guest appearance and the final 12 will jostle for positions in a group that could well define the next generation of K-pop, Mnet would do well to bring things back to what they do best: uplifting and compelling storytelling that takes talented youths on a meaningful journey of growth and brings the audience along with them.
(YouTube [1][2]. Images via Mnet.)
Tags: Big Hit Entertainment, I-Land, Mnet, Rain, TV/Variety, Zico
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Q: Looping over a map using range, only iterate once I need to only iterate over a loop once in my golang template, currently it is looping over all the keys but I want it to stop after a single iteration.
How can I do this?
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  {{.Name}}

{{end}}

A: Two solutions; either check that your index is 0 when looping:
{{range $index, $element := . }}{{if eq $index 0 -}}
Item: {{$element}}
{{end}}{{end -}}

Or you could define a "first" function that takes a slice and truncates it to length 1.
{{range first .}}
Item: {{.}}
{{end}}

Here's complete code that demonstrates both, which you can also try on the playground.
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "text/template"
)

var t = template.Must(template.New("x").Parse(
    "[{{range $index, $element := . }}{{if eq $index 0 -}}{{$element}}{{end}}{{end -}}]"))

var funcs = map[string]interface{}{
    "first": func(arg []string) []string {
        if len(arg) > 0 {
            return arg[:1]
        }
        return nil
    },
}

var t2 = template.Must(template.New("x").Funcs(funcs).Parse(
    "[{{range first . }}{{.}}{{end -}}]"))

func main() {
    tmpls := []*template.Template{t, t2}
    for i, t := range tmpls {
        fmt.Println("TEMPLATE", i)
        a := []string{"one", "two", "three"}
        for j := 0; j < len(a); j++ {
            fmt.Println("with input slice of length", j)
            t.Execute(os.Stdout, a[:j])
            fmt.Println()
        }
        fmt.Println()
    }
}

A: instead of range, give index with an argument
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  {{.Name}}

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On demand: Boys basketball: Norwalk vs. Stamford
Joshua Fisher
Published 9:18 pm EST, Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Watch Norwalk and Stamford boys basketball in early-FCIAC boys basketball on demand. The Bears traveled to take on the Black Knights in Stamford on Tuesday, Jan. 12. The game was broadcast live in HD on the HAN Network and its affiliate websites.
Here's Tuesday's complete game broadcast in high definition. (If you don't see the player window, click here to watch):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OPR3HW7s0
Play-by-play: Rob Adams; analyst: Jake Zimmer; director: Eric Gendron
Norwalk (1-5 overall, 0-2 FCIAC) has struggled early this season but is still a threat to reach the FCIAC final for a second straight season, while Stamford (5-1, 2-0) has tipped off the season with five wins in its first six games. You can read more about the matchup here.
Upcoming games and more
The HAN Network will be covering numerous events throughout the FCIAC's winter season, including ice hockey, basketball, wrestling, swimming and diving, gymnastics and the conference's postseason championships.
We'll have Norwalk boys basketball at Stamford on Tuesday, Jan. 12; and girls basketball with Greenwich at Ridgefield on Friday, Jan. 15. Next week will feature boys ice hockey and basketball. Check out the complete broadcast schedule here.
The HAN Network, formerly known as Hersam Acorn Newspapers, is the exclusive FCIAC broadcast partner through the spring of 2018. HAN Network's broadcasting division replaced HANRadio.com with a new focus on live video streams of high school athletics along with the Network's news and lifestyle programming.
Along with Connecticut high school sports contests, HAN broadcasts a daily news program, Coffee Break, focusing on southwestern Connecticut at 11 a.m. and a sports talk show, Nutmeg Sports, Monday-Wednesday. You can watch all the shows at live.HAN.Network or on demand atlive.HAN.Network/han-on-demand/.
You can check out more of the winter schedule at this link. And be sure to follow the HAN Network on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates.


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What is the social link?
The social link is a short link (eg https://pet.rip/@emmasmith) which is meant to be embedded in your social media profiles, so that your digital presence will be accompanied by your beloved pet's memory.
The last part of the link (@emmasmith as in our example) is custom and unique and is defined by you.
How do I use the social link?
Paste the social link URL and click Save Changes.
For instagram, go to your profile > Edit Profile, and then paste the social link URL in the Website field (you can also use the Bio field if you have already declared a personal website) and click Submit.
For twitter, go to your profile > Edit Profile, and then paste the social link URL in the Website field (you can also use the Bio field if you have already declared a personal website) and click Save changes.
I have multiple pet memorials. Can my social link show only the one published most recently?
In case you have more than one published pet memorials, your social link will normally display a page of clickable thumbnails. If this is not the desired behaviour for you, you can configure it to show only the memorial that was published most recently.
For this, you need to go to your account settings and disable the multiple pets option. Then click Save.
Can I moderate the comments in my pet memorial?
We use algorithms and artificial intelligence to ensure that no comment which contains offensive or undesirable language will be allowed to be submitted.
However, if you feel the need to edit / delete any particular comment, you have to connect to your account and then navigate to your pet's memorial (all published pet memorials can be accessed by clicking the memorial's thumbnail in My pets section). All comments can be edited / deleted in place.


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LGBT Community Continues To Feel Targeted In Age Of Trump
By Stina Sieg
In the lead-up to this year's inauguration, we spoke with people across the country about how the election was affecting them. In Arizona, a group of LGBT people worried what a Trump administration would look like, especially for minorities. Well, since then, President Donald Trump has tweeted about transgender people in the military, and his Justice Department has argued that civil rights law doesn't apply to sexual orientation. From member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Stina Sieg checks in with that group again.
STINA SIEG, BYLINE: This young queer woman and two middle-aged gay men are doing what most folks do when they haven't seen each other in a while - sharing pictures of their pets.
JENNI VEGA: Oh, my goodness.
BRENDAN MAHONEY: I can't believe that I caught them in that pose.
TONY MOYA: Oh, look at that (laughter).
SIEG: Tony Moya smiles at two cute beagles. Then everyone sits down around a small table at his place. The last time they were all here, they were scared - scared for Latinos, for people in the country illegally, for Muslims. Moya and the others are still worried.
MOYA: But if you start looking at what has happened since the last time we met, to me, there's an onslaught against the gay community.
SIEG: The 53-year-old says he's not surprised even though Trump called himself a friend to LGBT people during the campaign. Sixty-year-old Brendan Mahoney also saw this coming.
MAHONEY: All of our experience, we can spot a phony a mile away.
SIEG: Twenty-year-old Jenni Vega has friends with trans partners in the military and says those partners' futures are now uncertain thanks to a few Trump tweets.
VEGA: And so even though it doesn't affect me personally, it affects those who I love personally.
SIEG: They all feel targeted, especially since the Justice Department has argued the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not cover sexual orientation. Tony Moya says Trump has emboldened homophobia and transphobia.
MOYA: He's opened the floodgates.
SIEG: Moya points to legislation aimed at rolling back LGBT rights. According to the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, politicians have introduced more than 100 such bills in state legislatures this year. Many of those bills would allow businesses not to serve LGBT people because of the owner's religious beliefs.
MOYA: They're not sleeping at night, you know? They're thinking of other creative ways to attack your rights. So we can't rest.
SIEG: For Moya, staying awake means continuing to hold fundraisers for promising liberal candidates, especially fellow Latinos, and supporting young people who can take this fight into the future, young people like Jenni Vega, who uses the pronoun they and identifies as Chicanx, a gender-neutral form of Chicana.
VEGA: The more comfortable you become, the more you think you're settled in. And then the hurricane comes, and you're not at all prepared.
SIEG: For Vega, preparing means encouraging local LGBT groups to be more accepting of young people and people of color. And as for Brendan Mahoney, he feels morally called to resist this current administration. Mahoney says Trump is a bully who goes after anyone he perceives as weak.
MAHONEY: And bullies only have power when we, the bystanders, let them do it. It's up to us to shut it down and say, this is not OK.
SIEG: Mahoney is doing that through his church. He's worked to get every congregation in this region of the United Church of Christ to become sanctuary churches. He says Trump keeps drawing lines in the sand and saying the bad guy is on the other side. Mahoney's seen that with sexual orientation and immigration.
MAHONEY: Don't wait for the line in the sand to be in front of you and there's no one left to speak for you. You need to speak up now for other people.
SIEG: Everyone at this table feels vulnerable under this administration, but they all believe tomorrow, anyone could become a target. For NPR News, I'm Stina Sieg in Phoenix.
(SOUNDBITE OF MARCELO CAMELO SONG, "MAIS TARDE") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Q: iterating or reading javascript object in python I am trying to work with a javascript object, which is an array in this case, in my python code. I am able to get the array into my python code from javascript but when I try to parse array using
for key in array: format, but i am unable to loop through and get
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable.
When i print the array i get a [object Object] on screen. What are the best methods to access or loop though this object in python?


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Aliivibrio fischeri — вид морських грамнегативних паличкоподібних бактерій родини Vibrionaceae. Має біолюмінесцентні властивості і зустрічається в симбіозі з різними морськими тваринами.

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Як планктон I. fischeri зустрічається у дуже низькій кількості майже у всіх океанах світу, переважно у помірних і субтропічних водах. У більших концентраціях трапляється при симбіозі з рибами з родини Monocentridae та кальмарами з родини Sepiolidae. Бактерія живе в їхніх спеціалізованих світних органах — фотофорах. Частіше трапляється як частина нормальної кишкової мікробіоти багатьох морських тварин.

Примітки

Посилання
 The Light-Organ Symbiosis of Vibrio fischeri and the Hawaiian squid, Euprymna scolopes
 Cell-Cell Communication and the lux operon in Vibrio fischeri
 TED Talks — Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria communicate

Gammaproteobacteria
Бактерії, описані 1889
Біолюмінесцентні організми