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George Goblish
Vesta, MN
George farms with three generations on his family farm near Vesta, Minnesota. George and his wife, Jenifer, farm with his dad, Joseph, and son Jordan, and his other children, Joshua, Jasmine and Jayden, also help out. George farms corn and soybeans, sells seed, and has a local trucking operation. He is active in his community, where he is a volunteer fireman, member of the Vesta Lions Club, member of the board of directors for Highwater Ethanol, director of the Minnesota Corn Promotion and Research Council and the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association. He has been an ASA director for the past four years, where he has served on several committees, most recently as chair of the ASA SoyPAC committee, WISHH board member, and liaison to the Soy Aquaculture Alliance.
Farming is George's passion, and he continues to work to influence legislation that affects his farming operation and those of farmers like him. He believes farmers work hard to provide safe, reliable food to consumers and that education is important so that others understand what farmers do to take care of their land for future generations.
Besides farming, George enjoys traveling, especially when he can go scuba diving. He likes snowmobiling, fishing, and hunting with family and friends.


Welcome to our Y Service website. Here you will find valuable information about our Hawaii Region, US Area and International Y Service Clubs. You will especially learn about the exciting and dynamic activities of our Region's programs and services. If you are a Y Service Member visiting our site or islands, please leave us an email message. We would love to hear from you. From all the members of the Hawaii Region Y Service Clubs, we say Mahalo nui loa . . . . thank you very much for visiting us.
Hawaii Regional Bulletin: Our quarterly issue of the 2018-2019 Hawaii Regional Bulletin, now called Ku'i Ka Pahu or Beat the Drum, is out, edited by Melanie Ka'aihue Yoshida. You can get a copy if you click here or on the image at left. Lots of news and some important dates in the calendars.
The Latest Hawaii Region Club Bulletins: Central August 2018. Nuuanu July. Windward June 2018. Hilo September. Kaimuki July. West Oahu February. Kalihi January. Club bulletins as far back as 2006 are available via Hawaii Club Bulletins in the menu at left.
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YMCA of Honolulu Healthy Kids Day 2018. Despite some of the foulest weather the island has seen,. hundreds came out to YMCA Camp Erdman on Oahu's North Shore to have fun on the equipment and to gobble up the shave ice produced by the Y Service Clubs Metro District. Click on the photo to go to a photo album.
April 7. Cinnamon bread for $5 a loaf and all kinds of great books at various prices. in the pictures below: Cheryl Dacus and Celine Allouchery with satisfied customer Mile Broderick, president and CEO of YMCA of Honolulu. On the right, the Nuuanu club's team taking a breather. Club President Maurice Shimonishi had these comments: Book Sale – a product that sells itself! The buyers are happy as they give gifts from their heart. Nuuanu made $800 from the book sale — no selling by any members. A big box was left out a month before the sale announcing the coming event and saying donatio0ns of books gladly accepted, On sale day members out all the books on tables. Members did no selling — the books did the selling themselves. We left with $300 after which we put up a sign "please make your donation to the service center saturday afternoon, Sunday, Monday morning. We got another $500, a total of $800 for the book sale. Try it. You ay like the results. PS: If you hold your sale after us we would gladly give you the 14 boxes of unsold books.
Phil Sammer (at left), with the unanimous blessing of the Hawaii Regional Counselors has agreed to step in, effective immediately, as our new Regional Director Elect 2017-2018 to serve as RD (2018-2020) beginning on the last day of the Hawaii Region Convention in Hilo on May 6. Sharon Ishida had asked to step-down, if a replacement can be found, due to personal reasons. Phil, as part of the succession plan to succeed Sharon as RD in 2020-2022, had graciously consented to move-up his term to step-in for Sharon.
Phil is one of our most active veteran leaders in the Hawaii Region serving 2 terms as RD in 2002-2003 & 2006-2008 and is no stranger to those outside of Hawaii serving as Area President/International Council Member in 2009-2011. He will have the privilege of working closely with Bobby Stivers-Apiki when Bobby steps in as Area President Elect in July and Area president in 2019.
On such short notice, Phil knows he has his work cut out for him setting his goals and putting his team together and I encourage you all to rise to the occasion when Phil comes calling on you.
Congratulations Phil… please know that you have all our blessings and the full support of the Hawaii Region. Eddie Miwa, Regional Director, Hawaii Region, U.S. Area Y Service Clubs International.
Windward Plant Sale: Windward Y Service Club held a big plant sale at Windward YMCA on Saturday, February 3. Lots of work went into preparation and running the event and all plants were donated. Proceeds will go to the Windward Y Annual Support Campaign. To see photos of the advance work and the sale click on the image at left.
Hawaii in Area Magazine. Hawaii has a significant presence in the year-end issue of "Y's Alliance," the quarterly bulletin of the U.S. Area of Y Service Clubs International. There's a detailed report by Eddie Miwa, regional director Hawaii, and photos of activities of the Hilo, Central and Windward clubs.To get your copy click on the image at left or ciick here.
A New International Bulletin. The latest magazine of Y Service Clubs International is out, packed with information about our organization's activities around the world in support of the YMCA and local communities. The front-page story deals with the life of the founder of Y's Men International, Paul William Alexander, and the start of our organization in Toledo, Ohio, in 1922, coming up on 100 years ago. To see and/or download a copy of the new "YMI World" click on the image at left or click here.
Nuuanu Christmas Party. For the second year in a row, Nuuanu Y's Men and Women's Club invited Windward Y Service Club to join in their club Christmas Party at the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu. Here's a photo album that shows some of the fun and fellowship at the December 1 event. To go to the album click here or on the image at left.
Our Leaders. One Heads for Highest U.S. Area Post.
Bobby Stivers-Apiki, on the right, has been named U.S. Area President-Elect and International Council Member-Elect of Y Service Clubs International. Bobby was photographed at the Hawaii Region Mid-Year Council Meeting at the Ilima Hotel in Waikiki. A long-time Y's Man and YMCA director, Bobby is a member of the Hilo Y's Men & Women's Club and the Kaimuki Y Service Club. He served as Hawaii Regional Director 2014-2016. He'll take on his national and international positions July 1, 2018. With him from left are Eddie Miwa, current Hawaii regional director, and Sharon Ishida, Hawaii regional director-elect, who will become regional director at the Hawaii Region Convention in May in Hilo, Hawaii. To see more pictures from the mid-year meeting, click here.
Who Is Bobby Stivers-Apiki? Hilo resident Bobby, who will become President-Elect of the U.S. Area of Y Service Clubs International and the sole U.S. representative on its International Council, had 33 years as a YMCA employee, reaching some high positions, before retiring in 2004. He was brought back to the Y almost immediately to run The Island of Hawaii YMCA. To read a detailed biography of this remarkable man click here.
From Regional Director Eddie Miwa.
There's a lot of action happening and a lot of action needed by clubs in the Hawaii Region of Y Service Clubs International. News of changes at the International and U.S. Areas, a need for input from our Hawaii clubs on a possible merger of the U.S. Area and the Canada-Caribbean Area, discussion on whether Hawaii can be the venue for the 2022 International Convention — these and more are covered in this update to Eddie's "RD's Memo." To see his latest update and review our regional director's previous postings, click here.
Top photo: Arriving at the convention in Las Vegas were, from left, Bobby Stivers-Apiki, James Dang, Eddie Miwa, Maurice Shimonishi, Rick Lau and Duke Chung. Lower photo: Hawaii group at a VIP dinner buffet at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino with Nancy Libby, in red, U.S. Area secretary. Nancy will represent the Area at our 2018 Convention in Hilo. Fro rom left: James Dang, Rick Lau, Eddie Miwa, Linda Chung, Ray Seto, Nancy Libby, Duke Chung and Bobby Stivers-Apiki. To see more photos click here.
Hawaii was well represented at the combined U.S. Area and Canada/Caribbean Area Convention August 4-6 at the Hampton Inn Tropicana in Las Vegas and Hawaii Regional Director Eddie Miwa has written a detailed report. Present along with Eddie were Ray Seto (Kaimuki), Duke & Linda Chung (West Oahu), Rick Lau (Central), Bobby Stivers-Apiki (Hilo and Kaimuki), Maurice Shimonishi (Nuuanu) and James Dang (Kaimuki). The convention got a boost from the presence of members of the Y Service Clubs International Council. To see Eddie's story, click here.
Photo Album. To go to pictures of our activities at the meetings in Las Vegas click here.
Hawaii Regional Director Eddie Miwa represented us at the Area Council Meeting of Y Service Clubs International in Las Vegas, just before the big convention. Eddie learned a lot there in the presence of the U.S. regional directors and U.S. Area officers, much of it having to do with changes planned by Tibor Foki, new U.S. Area president. Hawaii clubs will be hearing more from Eddie on this but meanwhile to read his report on the council meeting click here.
Endowment Dinner Photos. On May 12, 2017, the Hawaii Region's Endowment Dinner was held at the Manoa Grand Ballroom. Entries for the international "Golden Book" were read and certificates awarded, new members were inducted and officers were sworn in at a very well-attended dinner. To see an album for photos from the evening click here or on the photo at left.
Membership Message. This flyer encourages us all to tell our story, to spread the word of the great work Y Service Clubs do to help our YMCAs and the people who live in our communities. Created by Bobby Stivers-Apiki, membership service director for Y Service Clubs Hawaii, it will make you enthusiastic and encourage you not to be shy about telling your friends, associates, families and others something about who we are and what we do.
Some 170 people on Hawaii island have contracted dengue fever that is being spread by mosquito bites and the homeless and particularly their children, living in the open all the time, are especially at risk. The local Y Service Club decided to do something about it. After exploring chemical-treated mosquito nets they came came up with an effective but less-expensive solution by working with a local supplier of mosquito-repellent bracelets and recruited willing donors to help. The result was 1,500 of the anti-mosquito bracelets being distributed free to homeless around the island. The Hilo daily newspaper, the Hawaii Tribune Herald, gave the project a nice write up on Monday, December 21, and you can click on the photo or this link to read the Tribune-Herald article.
Historical Photos. The Y Service Clubs of Hawaii's Metro District are working their way through stacks of photos and other materials at the YMCA of Honolulu headquarters. Go to this page to see some sample pictures and learn how you may be able to help identify people or events.
International "E-News" -- The latest online newsletter from the Geneva headquarters of Y Service Clubs International has lots of news and valuable information and you can see it here.
Peace Project Video: A seven-minute video now posted on YouTube tells about our 2014 "Peace Through My Eyes" poster/essay project for kids and features the winners. Slides start after a three-minute musical introduction.
Join our Hawaii Region Facebook Group: Receive automatic notifications when new items are posted. Hear from friends of Y'sdom around the world. As a group member you can post your own items, add your club bulletin, show photos of events etc. First, make your own Facebook page. It's simple and it can be as private or public as you want. Then go to the Hawaii Region group page (link through the logo here) and ask to be a member. Our administrator will approve you. Everyone can see the page but only members can post to it.
U.S. Area Facebook Page: The U.S. Area of Y Service Clubs has its own new national Facebook page. It's "public" and that means anyone can read it and anyone with a Facebook page can post items to it.
"Golden Book" Endowment Honorees: To find the names and write-ups of persons honored by your Hawaii club in the past in the Endowment Fund Golden Book of Y Service Clubs International, enter just your club number in the appropriate blank in this page of the U.S. Area website. Club numbers are: Central, 388. East Kauai, 228. Hilo, 224. Kaimuki, 227. Kalihi, 371. Maui, 225. Nuuanu, 226. West Oahu, 340. Windward 296.
Acronyms Used in Y'sdom Our organization's documents and reports are full of acronyms and some of them can be pronounced as words like "ape" and "why sigh." Don't know what they all mean? Click here for a list.


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Non-recyclable food containers banned in Oxford
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Non-Recyclable Food Containers Banned In Oxford. Oxford may be known the world over for its famous university -- but it is not far behind in terms of...
London: Oxford may be known the world over for its famous university -- but it is not far behind in terms of action to safeguard the environment.
This could be said of the British city as it is thought to have become the first city in the country to ban non-recyclable polystyrene foam food containers, beating New York City across the Atlantic, in enforcing the policy, The Independent reported on Tuesday.
All street vendors in Oxford will be required to use recyclable or biodegradable food containers from now on, in a bid to reduce the amount of waste the city sends to landfill.
The measure, which was voted through at a council meeting on Monday night, will apply from now on to burger vans, kebab vans, and to food sellers when they apply for new licences.
Vendors will, however, be allowed to use up any existing non-recyclable stock, which means that Oxford's streets are unlikely to look tidier overnight.
Non-Recyclable Food Containers
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It's almost 2022, and we're excited for readers to discover the many incredible books that will be released! Want a sneak peek at what's coming? Check out video previews from our editors, get digital ARCs on NetGalley, and browse our new spring catalogs!
Watch: Lerner Editors Introduce Spring Books
The editors at Lerner are so excited to present the upcoming titles from the Carolrhoda Books, Carolrhoda Lab, Graphic Universe, Lerner, Millbrook, Twenty-First Century Books, and Zest Books imprints!
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Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford
Discover the story of Civil Rights activist Mary Hamilton, a Black woman who took a stand for respect—with a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States—and won.
"Carole Boston Weatherford provides unflinching narration . . . Collages made of photographs and fine-lined sketches on scratchboard by Jeffery Boston Weatherford, combined with boldly graphical book design, give the picture book a cinematic quality, placing due emphasis on Miss Hamilton's landmark case."—Publishers Weekly
Gold Mountain by Betty G. Yee
Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father, a magistrate, is wealthy enough to provide for his family yet nontraditional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But her life is upended when her brother, Jing Fan, dies and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. To earn the money that will secure her father's release, Ling Fan disguises herself as Jing Fan and takes his contract to work as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad in America. Once there, she must face grueling work conditions, avalanches, treachery, and racism to save what is left of her family.
How to Be a Difficult Bitch: Claim Your Power, Ditch the Haters, and Feel Good Doing It by Halley Bondy, Mary C. Fernandez, Sharon Lynn Pruitt-Young, Zara Hanawalt
In the past, being a "difficult bitch" was bad. Girls weren't supposed to call people out for their BS, stand up for themselves, or do their own thing. This book embraces the insult with irreverent humor, encouraging readers to be themselves no matter what, including an exploration of the ways this phrase can be interpreted differently among people of different backgrounds.
Sensational Senses: Amazing Ways Animals Perceive the World by Rebecca E. Hirsch
Humans have five senses. But some animals can perceive things we can't thanks to their extraordinary senses. From science writer Rebecca E. Hirsch comes a fascinating book that introduces these animals and delves into the science behind their senses. Discover how animals use their senses to find food, navigate their environment, and communicate.
10 at 10: The Surprising Childhoods of Ten Remarkable People by Carlyn Beccia
Audrey Hepburn, Roberto Clemente, Albert Einstein—kids know the names, but do they know what some of history's most famous figures were like at the age of ten? Carlyn Beccia presents ten brief and beautifully illustrated biographies to give young readers a fresh look at the lives of people they may only know through history books. Colorful timelines provide context and add additional details about these extraordinary lives.
The Adventures of Dr. Sloth: Rebecca Cliffe and Her Quest to Protect Sloths by Suzi Eszterhas
True or false: Sloths are mysterious. Answer: True! Scientists are only beginning to discover how sloths live in the wild.
To learn more about these adorable animals, scientist Dr. Becky Cliffe attaches special, high-tech backpacks to sloths, which record daily diaries of the animals' activities. Join author and photographer Suzi Eszterhas on a visit to the steamy Central and South American jungles where these adorable animals live—and find out how Dr. Cliffe is using her discoveries to help protect these incredible creatures.
Today Is Different by Doua Moua and illustrated by Kim Holt
Mai, a young Hmong girl, and Kiara, a young Black girl, are best friends. They do everything together—riding the bus, eating lunch, playing at recess. But one day Kiara misses school and Mai goes looking for answers. When she learns that her best friend is protesting an act of police violence against the Black community, Mai decides to join the protest too. Her parents at first want to protect her by keeping her at home, but she shows them that standing together makes all of us stronger.
We Belong by Laura Purdie Salas and illustrated by Carlos Vélez Aguilera
You and I, we're alike, / but we're different too. / That's not good. / That's not bad. / It's just what is true.
Rhyming text explores opposites while highlighting the value in each of us. Bright illustrations feature a diverse group of children, playing and learning in an urban setting.
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Millions of professionals are found on LinkedIn. This among other reasons is why it is a popular platform to network in.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back Tuesday at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) weeks after her remarks deemed anti-Semitic triggered controversy.
"Take it from this Benjamin: It's not about the Benjamins!" Netanyahu said to the Washington conference via satellite in response to a tweet Omar posted in February.
Weeks before elections in Israel, Netanyahu's poll numbers have sagged since the announcement of a pending indictment on corruption charges.
"It's because America and Israel share a love of freedom and democracy. It's because we cherish individual rights and the rule of law," Netanyahu told AIPAC, as USA Today reported.
Netanyahu cut short a visit to the U.S. and rushed back to Israel on Tuesday to deal with the military response to Palestinian militants firing rockets at Israel this week.
Netanyahu on Monday visited the White House, where President Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which Israel occupied in 1967 and unilaterally annexed in 1981.
The document reverses more than a half-century of U.S. policy.
Trump had previewed the move last week saying that it was time for the U.S. to take the step after 52 years of Israeli control of the strategic highlands on the border with Syria.


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Family "Research" Council Repeats Benkof's Distortions
The Family "Research" Council sent an Action Alert out with this familiar distortion:
Michigan's largest homosexual activist group says once marriage is legally redefined to include homosexual couples, business owners and even news media outlets that refuse to recognize such marriages should be jailed, or sued and "publicly slapped."
As we reported earlier, the source of this piece of libel is Benkof's column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Sean Kosofsky complained that his remarks were taken completely out of context and misrepresented to say something which he did not say:
David Benkof is misleading folks about my quote. He selectively removed several minutes of our conversation between statements and did not disclose that. What I said was that if you break a civil law and you do not pay your penalty or you do not follow a judges order that you could indeed be found in contempt of court. When an individual is found in contempt of court a punishment for breaking the law can include jail time. I don't know of any gay activist prescribing jail time for discrimnination. Although when you violate a court order you should be penalized accordingly.
And when Benkof tried to defend his distortion, Sean was more blunt:
David, it is flat out immoral to do what you did. It is not my responsibility to track you down to correct a lazy, stupid and inflammatory misrepresentation. You should be ashamed of yourself, your journalistic integrity and your misrepresentation of your agenda during our call. The right wing is using your article all over the country to smear my good name because of your sloppiness or outright slant. I did leave a correction at the LA Weekly sight so I did try to correct you. This is horrible of you to do.
We've come to expect these sort of tactics from the Family "Research" Council, and we have documented countless instances where they have distorted social science research and other sources. This is their stock and trade, as exposing these distortions is ours.
Now the FRC has found a comfortable bedfellow in David Benkof. They make a good pair, as I frankly am unable to see much of a difference between them in their tactics. Maybe we can soon chalk the FRC's web site as yet another of those "prestigious" media outlet's he's a columnist for.
Tags: David Benkof, Family Research Council
Just to add a little more clarification to Benkof's "claims", here is a letter to the editor from the July 2nd, 2008 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle:
Editor – David Benkof's "Monogamous same-sex adultery" (June 26), included a misrepresentation of my research on gay groups and monogamy.
The pre-publication version I had seen accurately summarized my research where David had observed that I had "searched 'marriage equality' Web sites and found very few positive mentions of monogamy."
As I stated on my blog in describing the nature of my project gaypatriot.net/2008/06/20, I did word searches at the Web sites of several groups (the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Freedom to Marry, Equality California (EQ CA) and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center) and one individual (Andrew Sullivan), all of whom support "marriage equality."
My project consisted of plugging the following two-word combinations (without quotation marks), "marriage monogamy," "marriage monogamous," "marriage fidelity" and "marriage adultery," into each site's search engine and reviewing the pages that came up. I did not do a global search for "marriage equality" as Benkof's editorial, as published, suggests.
B. DANIEL BLATT
Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone, but it just goes to show that any paper that uses his work should think multiple times about publishing. The man just can't keep his hands off the facts. If they don't serve his purpose, he distorts them. Evidently he has just had something published in the Star Tribune out of Minneapolis that somehow lumps Bush's AIDS funding in with Marriage Equality. I can't wait to see how this reads!
In his latest missive in some Midwest paper, Benkof actually pretends to be a gay activist. He opens the piece by telling readers he became a gay activist in 1990… but never tells them he no longer shares the values of the gay community.
Benkof's standard is not to write what is true; he writes what he thinks he can get away with.
He's just not a very moral man.
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He's more than not a very moral man, he's a very bad man with no integrity nor humility. Can we vote to put him back in a closet somewhere and close the door?
It's all well and good to rant about Mr. Benkof here on Boxturtle, but if you really want to have an effect, contact the papers that cover him, not just with letters to the editor, but to the publisher. Contact the advertisers in the paper and tell them that they are supporting the publication of lies and fabrications. Boycott their products. In short, actually become activists.
Just my 2-cents.
Good point, but letters to the editor are good too because of the risk that readers might actually believe Benkof's BS.
AJD;
I agree that letters to the editor help to counter the misleading statement in Benkoff's articles or columns, or whatever he's calling them these days. However, publishers and advertisers are much more concerned about backlash that affects their distribution numbers and their bottom lines. The anti-gay movements have used the tactics for years (boycott Ford, boycott Disney, etc., etc.) There is no reason that it can't work the other way as well.
As much as I'm for free speech, people like Benkof need to learn that it comes with a measure of responsibility and sometimes, with consequences.
Thanks for including my letter in its entirety.
To be fair to David (as I said in that letter), he showed me the pre-publication version of his Op-Ed where he accurately summarized my research.
Rob, I've been contacting several gay papers to warn them of Benkof's outright disdain for the truth, and for the gay community he claims membership of. Some have gotten back to me, most haven't. Those who have gotten back to me do not speak highly of Benkof and refuse to publish his work.
Excellent Emily. I've contacted the Canadian (I live in Toronto) gay press as well as most of the national press… things are a little different here, and most of what he writes would be rejected by the press anyway.
As a brief aside on the power of writing, I belonged to a web site that allowed comments, and the phrase "it's so gay" and calling people "fags" showed up by posters on a regular basis. The moderators would remove anything with a racial tone, but had no problem with anti-gay slurs. I wrote to them several times, nothing happened. Then I started contacting the advertisers on the site and pasting in he comments that were being left, with the question of " is this what you want your product associated with?" I would then send a copy of the email to the advertiser to the moderators. It was amazing how fast it changed.
My point is that we do have power, and can use that power to actually make a difference.
To: B. Daniel Blatt
You are most welcome. Unlike Mr. Benkof, I don't want to be misunderstood, and I will cite full examples of what I am referring to. I do find it odd, however, that you wish to be fair to David, when from his track record it appears he has no interest in returning the favor.
To be fair, fairness doesn't depend on fairness. It just is. ;-)
Being fair isn't the same as unilateral disarmament. It's essential to credibility, which is the core problem with what Benkof writes.
I guess I should have worded that differently. Mea Culpa.
Round two: "I applaud your wish to be fair to Mr. Benkof. If only he understood what that was."
Better?
Well, seeing the way DB backhanded and flipped our own statements on us, it's no wonder he would do the same with credible information about gay people that isn't all negative or fear inducing.
He's an embarassment to journalism, to gay and straight people who care about the truth. He's a detriment to helping gay and straight people get along better and he speaks from two faces.
A person of profound emptiness would have to be like that and do what he does. And it's just plain ugly.


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Q: Best way to compare JSON array with another JSON array with Regex Values? I have to validate the values of output json file. First validation is all the key value pairs needed are in the file and the second one, values are in the correct format as expected ( say, timestamp, string, integer ...). I cannot compare the values directly with another file having same content as some of the values like timestamp, id are random.
JSON File:
[
  {
    "metadata": {
      "RecordEnd": 19,
      "Type": null,
      "RecordOffset": 0,
      "Character_Set": "UTF-8",
      "MsgType": 8,
      "Expire": 0,
      "Name": "y1",
      "delivered": false,
      "Timestamp": 1664189426609,
      "UserID": "1jnj2232",
      "Encoding": 273,
      "id": "ID:414d51205120202020210040",
      "DType": "type1"
    }
]

I have two approches to do this.

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*Create a hashmap with keys as same in the JSON file and have values as regex patterns and compare each key value pairs with the regex matching the keys.

HashMap<String,String> metaData = new HashMap();
metaData.put("RecordEnd","\\d+");metaData.put("Type","\\w+");
metaData.put("RecordOffset","\\d+");metaData.put("Character_Set","UTF-8");
metaData.put("MsgType","\\d+");metaData.put("Expire","\\w+");
metaData.put("Name","\\w+");metaData.put("delivered","\\w+");
metaData.put("Timestamp","\\d+");metaData.put("UserID","\\w+");
metaData.put("Encoding","\\d+");metaData.put("id","ID\\:\\w+");
metaData.put("DType","type1");

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String json = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File(outputJSONFile),"UTF-8");
json = json.substring(1, json.length() - 1);
Map<?, ?> map = mapper.readValue(json, Map.class);

HashMap<String,Object> metaMap = (HashMap<String, Object>) map.get("metadata");
metaMap.entrySet().forEach(e-> {
  if (!(e.getValue() == null)) {
    if (e.getValue().toString().matches(metaData.get(e.getKey()))) {
      log.info(e + "- Matched");
    } else {
      throw new RuntimeException(
          "MetaData key " + e.getKey() + " data is invalid");
    }
  }
});

Here, if the fields size become larger ( say 40+ fields) , I have to add hashmap values for all the fields , it becomes a tedious process and reduces readability.

*Create a static json file with the all the keys and the values in the regex format. Then, compare the two files based on regex of one file to match with another file. I haven't tried this yet.

Is the second approach more efficient or is there a more suitable approach to do this?

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Today's two performances, each in front of a full house, proved a great success with audiences made up of students from year 3 through to year 7 and their teachers. With their help, and plenty of laughs, Data managed to solve the puzzles facing her in her mission to save Rhombus, encountering prime numbers, number sequences, symmetry and more mathematical magic along the way. Data and the audience learn that no matter how difficult a maths problem looks, there's usually a trick which makes it simpler, and more fun.
The prisoner of polygonia was written by Phil Lowe and Rob Eastaway, founder of Maths Inspiration. Your next chance to see the show will be as part of the Wales Maths Week 2009 in Cardiff on the 1st and 2nd of October (call 029 20 475 476 for tickets). If you would like to arrange having the play in your area, visit its website.
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This poll is now closed. The most popular question was: "Is time travel allowed?" We will publish the answer in an article on Plus shortly. Thank you for taking part!
This is the fifth online poll in our series to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Choose your favourite question from the list on the right, and we'll put the one that proves most popular to world-leading astronomers and cosmologists, including Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and author and cosmologist John D. Barrow. The poll will remain open for a month and the answer will be published in a Plus article and podcast soon after. If your most burning question is not on this list, then leave a comment on this blog and we'll endeavour to include it in a future poll.
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What are dark energy and dark matter?
And How does gravity work?
At 12:54 PM, energy said...
the nature of the universe and consciousness
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What is the nature of the universe and consciousness ?
How is the material constructed ?
That is the problem concerning to the humankind for a long time. And we always thought that the universe is created from the elementary particles, but perhaps we also always agree with Geoffrey Chew's idea : "A truly elementary particle – completely devoid of internal structure – could not be subject to any forces that would allow us to detect its existence. The mere knowledge of a particle's existence, that is to say, implies that the particle possesses internal structure!" (1).
And it must be completely homogeneous, each its debris must be intact itself not different, it could not be subject to the space and time
With that particularities, the elementary particle could not exist in the our world, even though in the subatomic world.
So, why do we always thought that it must be a smallest particle?
Why can not it be an unlimited one, contains all motive laws of the universe?
And there is only the unlimited one that contains all the particularities of an elementary particle.
Therefore, universe is just one the unlimited and homogeneous entity, with an inherent internal energy in oscillations form, in which, the material is mere the sets of internal oscillations of that entity.
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When talking about the theory of evolution and the age of the earth and it's inhabitants, no one ever wants to talk about the lose of speed in the spin of the earth. How many years back would the spin of the earth be so great that no person could remain on the surface because gravity could no longer hold them down and/or the wind sheer would be so great that the surface would begin to become smooth? This would definitely have a lot to do with the age of mammals on this planet.
At 10:23 PM, gallybalder said...
The earth was not very different from today when mammals evolved less than 200m years ago!
I have two questions I would like to see discussed:
1) What is thought to have taken place before the big bang? What caused it? Did something exist before then that collapsed, much like a star does under its own gravity before becoming a supernova?
2) What is thought to be occurring on the edge of the universe? I guess the bigger question is, do we have an idea about the shape of our universe?
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News from the world of maths: The Nature Autumn '09 Debate
The Nature Autumn '09 Debate — Science and the financial crisis
The 1980s saw the rise of the "rocket scientists" of finance — as engineers, mathematicians and physicists rejected careers in science and technology and instead opted to work for banks. What part did they play in the financial crisis? And what is the future of science in finance? Join leading experts from science and banking as they debate whether the crisis was the result of bankers and regulators failing to grasp complicated, expert knowledge; and whether scientific knowledge — in particular fields such as complex systems, ecological economics and human behaviour — could help to ensure that economies are better understood and better regulated. The panel includes Tim Johnson, an RCUK Academic Fellow in Financial Mathematics, and author of the recent Plus article What is financial mathematics?
The debate will take place on the 21st of September at Kings Place in London, and you can book tickets, at £9.50 a head, on the Kings Place website.
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Rate this podcast: The story of the Gomboc(online surveys)
A Gömböc is a strange thing. It looks like an egg with sharp edges, and when you put it down it starts wriggling and rolling around as if it were alive. Until quite recently, no-one knew whether Gömböcs even existed. Even now, Gábor Domokos, one of their discoverers, reckons that in some sense they barely exists at all. So what are Gömböcs and what makes them special?
At 11:32 AM, Geekiac said...
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News from the world of maths: Guerilla maths
Particle physics isn't what you expect to find at music festivals, but this year visitors to the Secret Garden Party were treated to just that — and more — thanks to Guerilla Science, an initiative committed to bringing science to music festivals. An unusual mission, perhaps, but the talks, chats and hands-on sessions managed to pack out the tents.


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In the video she explores the Grand Canyon, capturing the scale and beauty of the location as the sun sets, casting beautiful warm light across the canyon.
The video features the higher resolution S1R and a 24-105mm lens, the video emphasises the S1R's ability to capture detail thanks to its impressive 47MP sensor.
Panasonic revealed at CES 2019 that both the S1 and S1R will have in-camera HDR capacity, which they are calling 'HLG Photo Mode'. As per the main principles of High Dynamic Range Photography, the cameras will blend a range of exposures to blend extremes of highlights and lowlights in a way that a single exposure could not. The files will have the extension .HSP.
The High Resolution takes 8 consecutive shots and blends them into a single image, using the technology from the image stabilisation system to move the sensor slightly each time.
Expect this feature to be a favourite for landscape photographers, or fine art subjects where high levels of resolution are required. Commercially, this technique is often favoured. Interestingly, Panasonic have said there will be options to suppress motion blur - we await further details before we can understand how effective this is.
You can find out more about the Panasonic S1 and S1R on the Park Cameras website.
Take a look back at our Photokina blog, where the launch of the Lumix S Series was announced.


A good win for the girls but unfortunately they exit the cmpionship on scoring difference. Hard luck to all involved, here's hoping for better luck in 2019.
Well done to our U12 squad of players who represented the club superbly in a fantastic Corofin invitational tournament last Saturday. Congrats to all 28 players who took plat in what proved a great experience for them. Thanks also to Kieran Donlon, Peter Mahon and Gearoid O'Duibhir who looked after the lads on the day. Well done everyone.
Well done to our U14 Boys who defeated Cill Oige in Div 1 Championship last Thursday. They now take on Kinnegad in the Div 1 Semi Final on Saturday at 2pm in Pairc Chiarain. Please support the lads.
A fun evening for the nursery boys and girls from Athlone and Caulry took place in Pairc Chairain on Tuesday. Great to see such a huge turnout Well done to everyone involved.
Underage football for boys and girls age 4 to 12 continues every Sunday at 11.30am. Come along to Pairc Chiarain on Sunday or for any queries contact Joe Fallon at 086 8846731. #fun #fitness #friendship. New Players very welcome.
There will be limited supply of jerseys, shorts, socks, half zip training tops and gear bags on sale between 11am-1pm in the Clubhouse or contact Teresa Small at 087 6799472.
There was no winner of this weeks €7,200 jackpot.
The numbers drawn were 2-18-21-23.
There were four match three winners.
Brid McCoy c/o Mags Daly.
Nanny & Kayleigh c/o Mags Daly.
Bernard & Angela Moylan c/o Teresa Small.
Kevin Jordan c/o Teresa Small.
Next weeks jackpot will be €7,350.


Break Out The Champagne! Bring On The Dancing Girls!
Aaaaaaaaarrrrggggghhhhhh, here they come, the Directors with a capital D of The International Monetary Fund for their quinquennial inspection of our economy.
Polish everything, lads, paint the trees on the road to the airport, buy some new sofas for the VIP lounge (but make sure they go down as terrorist detection scanners). And isn't it time that rather overweight hostess was moved to the back office? There's a very pretty one who works for the Police Chief.
The IMF has 184 members at a recent count; it's something you have to belong to, like the UN and FIFA, if you want to be taken seriously as a country. And one of the ways in which the IMF spends all that taxpayers' money and occupies the time of those thousands of expensive economists it thinks it needs is to carry out its 'Article IV consultations', as these inspections are known.
As exercises in futility, they are hard to beat. There are dozens, no, hundreds of meetings, lunches, dinners and general schmoozing, and an immense report with reams of Appendices, pie-charts, graphs and tables, accounting for several acres of rain forest. And all to present conclusions in high-flown pompous language which could have been reached in ten minutes by any half-competent economics graduate. And which will be completely ignored once the team of Directors has settled into its business class seats on the way to torment some miserable island in the Pacific which is about to disappear in any event.
At least now they've gone we can get back to doing something useful, and the Police Chief can have his floozie back.
The IMF is a Bretton Woods Institutiomn, and it's very disrespectful to talk of it in this way, of course. It is the standard-bearer of economic orthodoxy. But it is arguable that the IMF, whose primary stated purpose was exchange rate management, lost its way after the system of fixed exchange rates broke down under the weight of economic forces in the 1970s. Its high-water mark may have been Denis Healey's famous return to London in 1976 when the British Government had to accept humiliating conditions for IMF support of the pound. Of course, next year it may get to do a repeat performance, when Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown have spent all their money nationalizing the banking industry.
The IMF's own (modernized) 'mission statement' is: 'The IMF is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.' OK, that's nice (yawn).
Actually the useful work of the IMF, which no normal person knows anything about, is standard-setting, an activity shared by all of the 'multilaterals', including also the World Bank and the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision on a fiduciary level and the OECD in fiscal affairs, to mention just the most prominent of global economic standard-setting bodies.
The IMF has also given its name to a Code of Conduct that emerged from persistent sovereign debt crises: The Principles for Stable Capital Flows and Fair Debt Restructuring in Emerging Markets. This was formulated in 2004 between the representatives of emerging market countries and private sector creditors.
Says Ngaire Woods: 'The challenge for the IMF and the World Bank . . . . is economic policy made in a more transparent, openly contested, publicly debated, and democratic way. That process is likely to be messy, complex and time-consuming; it will often thwart rapid reform, and it will certainly marginalize the role of the IMF and the World Bank' (Woods, N, 2006, The Globalizers - The IMF, the World Bank and Their Borrowers, Cornell University Press).
Nowadays, even small countries feel able to defy the IMF's prescriptions, which can loosely be labelled Keynesian rather than Friedmanite; that's to say, dirigiste rather than liberal. Thus the tide of economic fashion has turned against the IMF, which as a proud (some would say, arrogant) international arbiter probably finds it hard to encompass fiscal relaxation.
The future of the IMF is problematic, and it may not survive the first half of the 21st century as an independent institution. Says Timothy D Adams, Undersecretary for International Affairs, US Treasury: 'The perception that the IMF is asleep at the wheel on its most fundamental responsibility - exchange rate surveillance - is very unhealthy for the institution and the international monetary system.' Perhaps that's unfair: the truth is that the market has taken over exchange rate management. The IMF has played a useful part in helping the development of sound fiscal regimes in many 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries, but its task is nearly done.


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CALDARA | Coloradans can calm down on abortion
By Jon Caldara
Dec 5, 2021 Updated Dec 14, 2021
I really hate to opine on anything touching the abortion issue because, no matter what I say, folks of all political stripes get triggered and nasty. Rarely does anyone want to challenge their own hard-core, intractable positions.
So, it is with great reluctance I weigh in on the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Mississippi's limit on abortions.
The court might empower states to limit access to abortion to 16 weeks of pregnancy. Or it could reverse Roe v. Wade altogether.
Here's my simple message: If either of those things happen, nothing changes in Colorado.
If you are rabidly pro-choice and the Supreme Court does reverse Roe v Wade, don't freak out. It changes nothing here. Likewise, if you are religiously pro-life and they reverse Roe, don't pop champagne bottles. Nothing changes here.
In 1967, a Republican governor signed a bill by a young Democrat, Dick Lamm, after it passed through a Republican-controlled House and Senate, which in essence decriminalized abortion, making Colorado the first state to do so.
Colorado remains one of only seven states with no restriction on abortion, all the way up to the point of birth. And that's not sizably changing anytime soon.
The "personhood" amendment, which would have defined life from the moment of conception, was aborted by voters, 73% to 27%.
Recently, a much more modest late-term abortion ban, after 22 weeks, also was dispatched by nearly 60% of voters.
And no abortion limits are going to pass our progressive legislature or governor.
It's not in the political cards for abortion restrictions to pass in the foreseeable future.
So, when it comes to abortion in Colorado, PLEASE, everybody just calm the hell down.
If you want to end abortion here, you'll need to do it on the demand side, persuading women to go full term, since forcing them won't be a legal option for a long time.
You can be strongly pro-life or pro-abortion and still recognize that Roe v. Wade is faulty. There is nothing in the Constitution that speaks to that issue, plainly leaving it to the states to decide.
As was done in decisions like Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1973 Supreme Court made a political ruling. They invented a "right to privacy" argument that's not in the Constitution, and fit abortion into a made-up trimester system to declare viability outside the womb.
As technology changes in viability outside the womb, it's time to look at this decision honestly, and only from a constitutional point of view.
Like what happened here in 1967, when our elected officials in Colorado argued, debated, fought, and came to a processed decision through legislative deliberation, it will play out in the states where it belongs.
I think we all can agree that no reasonable person likes abortion. It is morally questionable and politically intractable.
If you believe that a fetus is a life, our Declaration states that government is created to protect that life. If you believe a fetus is not life, our Declaration declares the purpose of government is to protect your liberty over your own body. (Insert your own joke about vax mandators controlling your body.)
When Roe v. Wade is overturned, some socially conservative states will nearly eliminate abortion altogether.
But, I think it is a much more nuanced issue.
Sometimes not to abort is cruel, inhuman and torturous, such as when a woman finds out even late in her pregnancy that her fetus has a terminal diagnosis.
I believe to take away a parent's right to lessen the suffering of both mother and child is wrong. And I have some personal experience.
My beautiful daughter, Parker, had a genetic mutation that caused a vicious and incurable cancer to take her life just days before her first birthday. Because of this mutation, she carried a death sentence that science couldn't stop.
If we had known about this genetic mutation before she was born perhaps, just perhaps, we'd considered terminating her to save her the pain and suffering that was guaranteed.
If that would have been considered murder, I might well have freely chosen to spend eternity in hell rather than see my little girl suffer needlessly.
Abortion is more nuanced than bumper stickers would suggest.
Jon Caldara is president of the Independence Institute in Denver and hosts "The Devil's Advocate with Jon Caldara" on Colorado Public Television Channel 12. His column appears Sundays in Colorado Politics.
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We don't think alcohol is necessarily needed to make beverages feel special. So here are some delicious mocktail recipes to keep your evenings feeling fancy and your mornings hangover-free.
This light mocktail is super fresh, and is free of artificial sugars.
In a short glass, muddle the fresh basil.
Cover with a layer of pomegranate seeds.
Squeeze in juice from half a key lime.
The kick of ginger, freshness of mint, and sweet tartness of pink grapefruit make this mocktail an awesome drink to serve at a party.
Cut the grapefruit in half, then slice a half-inch round off of one side.
In your favourite glass, muddle a few leaves of fresh mint.
Squeeze in juice from half of the grapefruit (make sure not to drop in any seeds).
Top the glass with ginger beer.
Cut the grapefruit round in half or a quarter to garnish.
Pro tip: If you really enjoy a spicy kick, add a few pieces of finely-sliced fresh ginger to your muddle.
This incredibly simple drink is a great way to get in your probiotics and put a fun twist on a staple health beverage. We like to think of it as more mindful sangria.
Cut the blood and navel oranges into one-inch slices, then cut in half again; compost the end pieces.
Add orange slices to a large pitcher.
Serve in tall glasses, and garnish with fresh sprigs of rosemary.
Whatever your reason might be for not drinking, just remember that it is totally fine not to. But that does not mean you can't have a little sipping fun.


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Study Claims Cops Less Likely to Shoot Black Suspects Over White
byCarlos Miller
Study Claims Cops Less Likely to Shoot Black Suspects Over White Suspects
A recent study has determined that cops are less likely to shoot black suspects than white suspects because they may fear repercussions.
But the "surprising results" was based on cops shooting at a simulator screen, knowing they were being tested.
So it's ludicrous to believe this has any reflection on real life situations where cops are known to open fire on black suspects within seconds – even if they are only carrying pellet guns in a non-threatening manner in an open carry state – as we saw in the Tamir Rice and John Crawford incidents.
But at a time when black people are protesting nationwide against police brutality, it's understandable why Lois James, assistant research professor at Washington State University-Spokane, who lead the study, would try to put a pro-cop spin on it.
According to the Daily Mail:
'What it suggests that when faced with black suspects, there is something going on that is making some kind of pause or hesitation. What we think it might be is the fear of consequence,' Dr James said.
Dr James said those consequences could be moral – or they could be fear of backlash, either public brouhaha, criminal charges or departmental discipline.
'There's a history systemic racism in the US and there are still irrefutable facts about the treatment of some groups of people in the criminal justice system that I'm sure weigh very heavily on a lot of officers,' she said.
Dr James conceded that it is possible that the participants in the study knew that they were being watched by researchers and delayed opening fire on black suspects as a result.
However, she says researchers worked to minimize that bias. The study was initially designed to test how fatigue, experience and other factors impact in decision-making in deadly force scenarios and so race was never mentioned with participants before they went through the course.
Additionally – Dr James says – the simulator offers realistic scenarios that show life-size videos of police traffic stops and other incidents. The set-up means that most participants have very real physiological and psychological reactions to what's unfolding in front of them, she says.
Results of the study were initially posted in September on the Washington State University website,
just as the country was being swept by "black lives matter" anti-police brutality protests.
The study was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Naval Research, essentially the federal government, who would find it in its best interest to prove in anyway it could that cops are less likely to shoot black suspects over white suspects.
The reality is, the government has refused to do a valid study on the issue, even after Congress ordered it to do so in 1994.
According to the New York Times:
Such arguments suggest that the use of deadly force by police officers unfairly targets blacks. All that is needed are the numbers to prove it.
But those numbers do not exist. And because of that, the current national debate over the role of race in police killings is being conducted more or less in a vacuum.
Researchers have sought reliable data on shootings by police officers for years, and Congress even ordered the Justice Department to provide it, albeit somewhat vaguely, in 1994. But two decades later, there remains no comprehensive survey of police homicides. The even greater number of police shootings that do not kill, but leave suspects injured, sometimes gravely, is another statistical mystery.
Without reliable numbers, the conventional wisdom is little more than speculation. Indeed, some recent research suggests that it may not even be correct: One study of police data in St. Louis concluded that black and white officers were equally likely to shoot African-American suspects, while another experiment found that both officers and civilians in simulated situations hesitated significantly longer before firing at black suspects than they did at whites.
"It's shocking," said Geoffrey P. Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina. "For 20 years, we've been trying to get the government to do something. We don't have a clear picture of what's going on in the use of lethal force. Are young black males being shot at a rate disproportionate to their involvement in crime? Are white officers shooting black males in areas where they're not expected to have those sorts of interactions? Is this an aberration, a trend, routine, something going on for a long time? We don't know."
Not only do we not know the racial breakdown of police homicides, we don't know with any precision how many homicides occur, period.
It's obvious the government would prefer to downplay police shootings against citizens of all races while funding shallow studies like this in the hopes the media will bite, which, of course, it did.
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7, 21 & 32 (Live)
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Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3
I. Presto (Live)
II. Largo e mesto (Live)
III. Menuetto. Allegro (Live)
IV. Rondo. Allegro (Live)
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
I. Allegro con brio (Live)
II. Introduzione. Adagio molto (Live)
III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo (Live)
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111
I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato (Live)
II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile (Live)
Solo: Daniel Barenboim Soloist
It is exceptionally interesting to hear now, for the first time, Daniel Barenboim at the age of 27 making his solo debut with an all-Beethoven programme, as Barenboim is today so esteemed and authoritative a figure in so many genres and forms of classical music and, now a mere 74, is heir to older traditions with greater historical depth than any of his contemporaries. At the time Barenboim had only just begun to unfold as a musical all-rounder and was at the zenith of a career that hitherto had concentrated on the piano. In the context of marked divergences between successive generations, common in the music world at that time, Barenboim asserts himself confidently and brilliantly, with remarkable pianistic eloquence and above all an array of musical virtues: the ability to generate tension and great contemplative depth, a highly imaginative conception, a very wide dynamic range and an amazing songfulness which has lost none of its power to captivate – as in the breathtaking slow movement of op. 10 No. 3, in a Waldstein Sonata with a daringly opened-up final movement as well as in an op. 111 with passages of heavenly length in the Arietta.


Congratulations to the nearly 200 teams of students who took part in the inaugural Perse Coding Team Challenge.
We saw some great teamwork and resilience on a range of demanding questions and we're really proud of you all, however much progress you made in your hour.
The competition questions are now available on the practice area of the site. School results and overall winners will be out shortly, we are currently in a checking phase.
We will return for 2019 so keep practising!
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Q: Verma module $V(\lambda)$ of $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ is not simple $\implies$ $\lambda = \pm q^n$ This is exercise $VI.6.2$ in Kassel's Quantum Groups. My observations are the following:
If $V(\lambda)$ is not simple, then there is a surjective module homomorphism $\psi:V(L)\rightarrow V$ to some $U_q$-module such that $V(L)/\ker\psi \cong V$. Since $\psi$ is onto, there exists some $v\in V$ s.t. $\psi(v_0)=v$. We then have $$Kv = K\psi(v_0) = \psi(Kv_0)=\lambda v$$ and $$Ev = E \psi(v_0) = 0.$$
Therefore $v$ is a highest weight vector with weight $\lambda$.
If we could show that $\dim V<\infty$, we would be done by theorem $VI.3.5$, but maybe this is not the right approach at all.
I would be glad if you could give me some hints (no full answers if possible) for this!


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US Congress Queries Apple, Google On Data Collection Practices
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Matthew Broersma, July 10, 2018, 6:04 pm
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Lawmakers dispute Apple's claim of superior data privacy and express concern over developer access to Gmail messages
The US Congress has sent data protection queries to Apple and Google parent Alphabet, in the latest sign that the political furore stirred up by Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal could spread to other tech giants.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce this week released letters sent to Apple chief Tim Cook and Alphabet head Larry Page asking for details on how the companies protect users' privacy, with a number of the questions focusing on the two firms' market-leading smartphone platforms.
The letters were signed by committee chair Greg Walden and the heads of three of the panel's sub-committees.
Thus far, Apple and Google have avoided any direct fallout from the Cambridge Analytica row, which involved the now-defunct political consultancy allegedly misusing the personal details of 87 million Facebook users in the 2016 Trump campaign.
Apple's Cook even contrasted his company's practices with those of Facebook, a claim the House committee took a swipe at by noting that Apple freely allows software from the likes of Facebook and Google on its smartphones, even while highlighting those companies' apps as "contradictory to Apple's values".
The questions make reference to recent press reports, including a claim by Quartz that Android phones sometimes track location even when users have expressly disabled it and a Wall Street Journal report that Google allows third-party developers to read users' emails.
Some questions focus on offline data collection through location services, cell towers, Wi-Fi hotspots and Bluetooth connections.
"Considering that many consumers likely believe that a phone that lacks a SIM card, or one for which they have affirmatively disabled location services, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth – such as through turning on 'Airplane Mode' – is not actively tracking them, this alleged behavior is troubling," the letters read.
The letters also ask about digital assistants such as Apple's Siri and whether they may sometimes listen to the surrounding environment and make recordings.
Other questions are more general, including asking how the firms ensure apps comply with developer guidelines and are not improperly acquiring users' data, as Cambridge Analytica is alleged to have done.
The companies are asked to reply by 23 June.
Apple declined to comment, while Google said: "Protecting our users' privacy and securing their information is of the utmost importance. We look forward to answering the committee's questions."
Data protection issues have taken on additional urgency with the introduction in late May of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives regulators the power to impose large fines for improper collection and processing of user data.
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A few weeks back I got sent the Farmacy Honeymoon Glow Night Serum* and knew that I wanted to try it as soon as I could. It's described as a 3-in-1 serum that help to refine pores, exfoliate dead skin cells and gently nourish the skin. All these claims intrigued me, so of course I put it to the test and here are the results.
To get the best out of the product, you're supposed to use it once every 2 to 3 times a week which I definitely think is correct as your skin will tingle and as it contains 14% AHA/BHA this is definitely one of the stronger products I've put on my skin before. Personally, as I like to use other acids in my routine I make sure I only use one type of acid every other day to ensure my skin doesn't feel sensitive. This means that I tend to use this night serum twice a week, making sure I stay clear of any cleansers or toners with chemical exfoliators in it until the next day or day after.
What I notice straight after use is that it doesn't feel sticky, but I tend to reach for a lightweight moisturiser to make sure my skin doesn't feel stripped the next morning. When I wake up, my skin looks clearer and brighter, which is a relief as usually products that clear the pores can sometimes make your skin look worse before it gets better. Although this doesn't decrease the size of blemishes as well as the Drunk Elephant Babyfacial* it really makes my skin look visibly radiant even after the first use.
The texture of my skin feels improved as the dry patches are banished and my foundation goes on better when I apply it the next morning. I've been using other new products in my skincare routine, so I can't put it down to just one product, but over the month I've been using this, my skin has increasingly looked and felt better.
Have you tried the Farmacy Honeymoon Glow?