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Rep. Rashida Tlaib Wins Democratic Primary Challenge In Michigan
Daniel Marans
August 5, 2020, 9:58 AM ·5 min read
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, an outspoken Michigan progressive, defeated Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones in the Democratic primary for Michigan's 13th Congressional District on Tuesday. Her primary win in one of the most Democratic House districts in the country all but officially confirms that Tlaib will be returning to Washington.
"I'm confident in the movement that we started," Tlaib told supporters on a video livestream as results came in Tuesday night. "Our country is ready ― is ready for someone like me and others that are saying, enough, enough with corporate greed, enough with the assault on our families."
Tlaib's victory dashes the hopes of some moderate Democrats, who were eager to humble the activist left by unseating a member of the progressive "Squad" of freshman House women.
The first-term congresswoman, a Palestinian American, also overcame some constituents' skepticism that she could adequately represent a majority-Black seat held for decades by the late civil rights leader John Conyers.
"She's smart, she's a fighter and most importantly, she's the incumbent," said Dr. Jimmy Womack, a Detroit pastor, physician and former state representative.
Womack, who does not live in Tlaib's district and counts both Tlaib and Jones as friends, noted that local Democratic Party institutions, including the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party, rallied to Tlaib's side.
"Clearly they feel she's served the community in a capacity that would allow them to endorse her reelection," he said.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) held on to a majority-Black Michigan district despite some Democrats' skepticism of her outspoken progressive views. (Photo: Scott Morgan/Reuters)
In two short years, Tlaib, an attorney and former Michigan state representative, has gone from an upstart contender who took advantage of a crowded 2018 primary field to an established force in local and national Democratic politics against whom future adversaries will likely think twice about running.
Tlaib barely won in the August 2018 Democratic primary that ensured her control of the seat. She bested Jones by a single percentage point, even as Jones won a special election on the same day to fill out the final weeks of Conyers' term. (Conyers resigned in December 2017 amid sexual harassment allegations from former aides.)
But rather than keep a low profile, Tlaib almost instantaneously developed a reputation as an unabashed progressive brawler. The day she was sworn into office in January 2019, she made waves for declaring her intention to "impeach the motherfucker" ― a reference to President Donald Trump. More recently, she raised eyebrows with her refusal to explicitly endorse former Vice President Joe Biden in a Newsweek interview (she also said that by focusing on turnout in her own race, she would help "deliver Michigan for Joe Biden").
Many of the qualities that have prompted those from the political center to criticize Tlaib have endeared her to a base of working-class Detroiters and progressive activists.
Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman in Congress and one of the body's first two Muslim women, has steadfastly defended her support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and the creation of a single, binational state in Israel-Palestine.
Those stances cost Tlaib the support of J Street PAC, a liberal pro-Israel group. But when the Israeli government publicly denied her entry to the country based on its blanket prohibition of BDS proponents, even many of her critics took her side.
In a May interview, Tlaib told HuffPost that she sees the fight against racism and poverty in Detroit as part of a struggle for dignity taking place across the globe, including in the occupied Palestinian territories where her grandmother lives.
"I just have this connection of what's happening in Detroit and what's happening in Palestine," she said. "And for me, it just makes me more of a warrior when it comes to these issues and speaking the truth about it."
Tlaib has worked hard to improve public health and living standards in her high-poverty district. She successfully sponsored an amendment to a July spending bill that would increase federal funding for lead pipe replacement from $20 million a year to $1 billion. The bill passed in the Democratic-controlled House and now heads to the Republican Senate for consideration.
She has also erected four neighborhood service centers across the district to handle requests from her constituents. Those centers became triage hubs when Detroit and its surrounding communities got hammered by the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April.
"Unless there's voting and committee hearings, I'm here at home and staying as close to my residents as possible," Tlaib told HuffPost. "I actually think that it makes sure that I don't become numb."
Tlaib's attention to her district apparently lessened donors' appetite to fund a challenge against her. Unlike their mobilization against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), right-leaning pro-Israel groups have not bundled significant cash for Jones.
In the end, Tlaib out-fundraised Jones by a margin of 18-to-1. The Working Families Party also spent just under $33,000 on a paid phone-banking operation in support of Tlaib.
Jones did have the support of a super PAC, Concerned Citizens for Michigan, which spent over $87,000 on pro-Jones digital ads and campaign literature. The super PAC is funded in part by Donald Foss, the founder of one of the country's most notorious subprime auto lenders, who typically gives to Republicans. Foss contributed $100,000 to a super PAC supporting the unsuccessful 2018 Senate bid of Republican John James.
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Packers Wire
Quick thoughts on Packers hosting Buccaneers in NFC title game
The Green Bay Packers will host Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday at Lambeau Field.
Cowboys Wire
'Hold my crutches', progressing Prescott tells Elliott in response to ESPN's Cowboys joke
The QB, recovering from injury, responded to a social media post pointing out how long it's been since the team played for an NFC title.

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The Turner House is home to the North Carolina State University Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Program. The grounds around the building are designed to be a demonstration of how to create a wildlife friendly area by landscaping with native plants. Before these landscaping improvements were made, the grounds were relatively barren and contained mostly exotic plant species that had little wildlife value. With University faculty providing oversight, students in the Department of Horticultural Science designed the landscape to provide excellent wildlife habitat in an attractive setting. Students from the Leopold Wildlife Club at NC State helped remove the exotic plants, install North Carolina native plants, and create paths. You are invited to walk along the paths using this brochure, the plant identification tags, and your senses to learn more about landscaping for wildlife with native plants.


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8 Transgender Women of Color Who Are Doing More Than Just Being Visible
Cherno Biko, Samantha Master
Filed to: CultureFiled to: Culture
Top row: Laverne Cox, Precious Davis, CeCe McDonald and Angelica Ross. Bottom row: Fallon Fox, Tona Brown, Janet Mock and Monica Roberts.
Caitlyn Jenner broke the Internet yesterday when she introduced herself to the world, becoming the first out transgender woman to grace the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.
Undoubtedly, Jenner will give some transgender people hope that they can live as their authentic selves—a necessary and affirming message. However, her story—one in which someone can announce that she is trans and less than two months later achieve a feminized aesthetic that reflects who she is on the inside—stands in stark contrast with the realities of trans women of color, who live at the lethal nexus of racism, sexism, cissexism and transphobia.
In a nation where the average life expectancy of a black transgender woman is 35 and eight trans women, overwhelmingly black and Latina, have been killed this year, it is almost unfathomable and nearly impossible to bypass systems of housing, medical and employment discrimination, school push-out, criminalization, and physical and sexual violence, let alone single-handedly finance gender transition.
Living one's truth is always admirable, but Jenner represents the most privileged and least vulnerable class of transgender people: those who have amassed enough resources and social and economic capital to never have to interact with the cycle of poverty (pdf) that colors the lives of far too many trans people who are poor and low-income, people of color, disabled, young, undocumented or otherwise facing injustice at every turn (pdf).
For these folks, visibility is not enough. They need to be socially and politically prioritized to ensure that they are able to live with dignity and without fear or harm. Here are eight women who are shifting their visibility into power and resources for trans people of color and doing far more groundbreaking work than simply being visible.
1. Monica Roberts
As the founder and managing editor of TransGriot, a blog dedicated to reclaiming and documenting black trans history, Roberts—an award-winning writer, activist, lecturer, speaker, native Houstonian and out trans woman for more than 20 years—has curated some of the most groundbreaking (and heartbreaking) moments in black, trans and black trans history.
2. Janet Mock
The best-selling author of Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, and host of the MSNBC show So Popular! has consistently complicated one-dimensional narratives of transgender people in popular culture and elevated the needs and experiences of trans people of color through her advocacy and activism.
3. Laverne Cox
When award-winning actress Laverne Cox became the first trans person to be featured on the cover of Time magazine in June 2014 in a story dubbed "The Transgender Tipping Point," the irony that it was also the most lethal month for transgender women in the United States was not lost on Cox. To that end, she invited the mother of Islan Nettles and other trans women of color to march with her during NYC Pride, where she served as a grand marshal.
4. Precious Davis
Chicago-based activist and advocate Precious Davis found her passion when she began working at the Center on Halsted a decade ago. "My work [at the center] pulled continuously from my heart and soul with passion each day to create programs, community outreach and events that had a tangible effect on LGBT youth because I believe in young people," Davis said to the Windy City Times. She is currently assistant director of diversity-recruitment initiatives at her alma mater, Columbia College Chicago, and continues to use her public platform to highlight the challenges that LGBT youths face.
5. Tona Brown
World-renowned violinist Tona Brown made history when she became the first trans person of color to perform at Carnegie Hall. In an interview with Out magazine, she said that she wanted her concert, "From Stonewall to Carnegie Hall," to elevate the roles that transgender men and women played in the Stonewall riots in 1969.
6. Angelica Ross
As the founder of TransTech Social Enterprises, Angelica Ross has dedicated her life to empowering, educating and employing transgender people. Through training academies and apprenticeship programs that don't require formal education, TransTech is teaching transgender people how to use technology and innovation to save their lives.
7. Fallon Fox
Fallon Fox—the only out transgender mixed martial arts fighter and the subject of the forthcoming documentary Game Face—has been going strong in the ring since 2012. She has used her influence outside the ring to bring attention to issues affecting trans youths, like ending conversion therapy, as she did in this Time article.
8. CeCe McDonald
Little could have prepared CeCe McDonald for that fateful night in June 2011 when she and her friends were verbally and physically attacked by a man who hurled racist and transphobic epithets at her for simply walking down the street. Her defense of herself and her friends—which earned her a lacerated cheek and cost the man his life—catapulted her to national fame. Since her release from prison after serving 41 months, McDonald has advocated for massive reform—including abolition—of the prison system.
Cherno Biko is big, bold, beautiful, black and brilliant. Come celebrate with her that every day something has tried to kill her and has failed. Follow her on Twitter.
Samantha Master is a black-queer-feminist activist, educator and member of the Black Youth Project 100. Follow her on Twitter.


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In a small saucepan, add 1 cup almond milk.
Next, add the ghee, coconut oil, turmeric powder, ginger root powder, a pinch of sea salt, and a little black pepper.
Heat the mixture over medium heat until the ghee and coconut oil have melted and it is almost boiling.
Stir in honey to taste. Remove from the heat and blend with an immersion blender until frothy.
Top with a sprinkle of turmeric powder and enjoy!


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Continued Success for the Ladies' B Team
After a very close match in the West Cheshire Shield final held at Heswall GC against Royal Liverpool GC, Wallasey Ladies emerged victorious. It was a great performance assisted by their caddies and ably supported by many Wallasey Ladies.
Jill Hopwood (Ladies' B Team Captain) said "It has been a long wait since Wallasey last won this trophy back in 1989. I am so proud of the ladies. The team spirit throughout the season has been second to none, with the final not just being about the seven who represented the club at Heswall but the whole squad, who ultimately helped us win this trophy"
The team has now qualified for the East/West Cheshire final that will be held at Romiley GC on Monday 20th September - opponent and exact timings currently TBC.
It wasn't to be for the B Team Ladies in the East/West Cheshire Shield final held at Romiley against Alsager Ladies. They were unable to bring the trophy back to Wallasey. However, this shouldn't overshadow the tremendous success they had in winning the West Cheshire Shield trophy, which we will officially receive in October, to be held at Wallasey GC for a year.
The commitment of the team and caddies was second to none with eight of them having to cancel their trip to the Forest of Arden to take part in the East/West Final. This team spirit, I know will be carried forward to next year when we hope to go one step further and win the East/West final at Royal Liverpool GC.


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Q: When can Scala's implicitly return null? I was recently surprised when invocations of Scala's implicitly was returning null during runtime.  I had thought that was unlikely, given that the code shouldn't compile if no implicit instance was available in implicit scope.  When is implicitly allowed to return null?  Is this a compiler limitation, or is this expected behavior?
Here's some context, if it helps.  I'm using shapeless to derive typeclass instances for persisting arbitrary nested case classes.  I thought it would be helpful to use implicitly in the nested case classes to check if a typeclass instance could be derived, as it can be unclear where to start looking if the nested case class is large.
So, for example, if I was trying to persist:
case class Foo(bar: Bar, baz: Baz)

and the compiler couldn't derive an instance for my formatter MyFormatter[Foo], I started doing something like the following:
case class Bar(i: Int, q: Qux)
object Bar {
  implicit val formatter = implicitly[MyFormatter[Bar]]
}

expecting the compiler to tell me that it couldn't find an implicit instance of MyFormatter[Bar].
Instead, this was a terrible idea, and my code compiled (when it shouldn't have, as no typeclass instance for Qux could be derived) and Bar.formatter was null at runtime.

A: Your implicit definition is recursive.
scala> class C ; object C { implicit val cs: List[C] = implicitly[List[C]] }
defined class C
defined object C

scala> C.cs
res0: List[C] = null

Not only is cs in scope, but object C is in implicit scope for List[C].
Also, it's preferred to specify the type of implicits; sometimes it is necessary for inference to work; and someday it will be required.

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Friday's Style: That Leopard Print Touch!
I love leopard print, it's one of the most timeless and eye catching prints of all but I often wonder why I don't own more of this iconic print?! I've collected a few pieces over the years, my Louis Vuitton scarf being one of my most treasured possessions in my wardrobe. Though rarely am I attracted to the print enough for me to buy! Snake print on the other hand, well, I cant get enough. Yet I prefer cats to snakes a hundred times over. In a way, this makes wearing leopard print that extra bit special when I am in the mood for it. I took this old dress that was originally from Topshop and layered another golden oldie, this navy knit over the top. This created almost a leopard print hem and it was just enough. Leopard print and black is of course a classic combination that no-one can deny but I really like how well navy works too. Okay, i'm just trying to justify wearing yet another pice of navy, is it working?!
I think what it is, is that I like little pops of this fierce print as opposed to anything full on in your face Meoww. So below, I have picked some of my favourite Leopard print shoes and accessories that are out there to purchased at this very moment. My two absolute favourites are the Dune leopard brogues via Asos and faux fur stole from Reiss, yummy yummy.
Take care and have a great Friday!
And your sandals are so gorgeous!


encukou/blog — Dennis Ritchie has died.
Dr Ritchie likes to emphasise that he was just one member of a group. With characteristic modesty, he suggests that many of the improvements he introduced when developing C simply "looked like a good thing to do". Anyone else in the same place at the same time, he implies, would have done the same thing.
In other words, he Did the Right Thing; he found the answer that is, in retrospect, obvious. That is the mark of a genius.
His ideas stood the test of time. He has reached a local maximum: Java or C++ or C# are object-oriented languages; C is the procedural language. Sure, there may be something better than C, in some sense of the word. It's like Newton's laws being surpassed by Einstein's relativity – C will still be there. Still valid, still useful, still used.


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package org.apache.geode.management.internal.cli.commands;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

import org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.ClusterConfigurationService;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.wan.MyAsyncEventListener;
import org.apache.geode.management.internal.cli.i18n.CliStrings;
import org.apache.geode.management.internal.cli.json.GfJsonException;
import org.apache.geode.management.internal.configuration.domain.Configuration;
import org.apache.geode.test.dunit.rules.ClusterStartupRule;
import org.apache.geode.test.dunit.rules.MemberVM;
import org.apache.geode.test.junit.categories.DistributedTest;
import org.apache.geode.test.junit.rules.GfshCommandRule;

@Category(DistributedTest.class)
public class DestroyAsyncEventQueueCommandDUnitTest {

  private static MemberVM locator, server1, server2, server3;

  @Rule
  public ClusterStartupRule lsRule = new ClusterStartupRule();

  @Rule
  public GfshCommandRule gfsh = new GfshCommandRule();

  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    locator = lsRule.startLocatorVM(0);
    server1 = lsRule.startServerVM(1, "group1", locator.getPort());
    server2 = lsRule.startServerVM(2, locator.getPort());
    gfsh.connectAndVerify(locator);
  }

  @Test
  public void destroyAeq_returnsSuccess() {
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat(
        "create async-event-queue --id=queue1 --listener=" + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName())
        .statusIsSuccess();

    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue1", 2);
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess();

    locator.invoke(() -> {
      ClusterConfigurationService service =
          ClusterStartupRule.getLocator().getSharedConfiguration();
      Configuration config = service.getConfiguration("cluster");
      assertThat(config.getCacheXmlContent()).contains("id=\"queue1\"");
    });

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 ").statusIsSuccess();
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess()
        .containsOutput("No Async Event Queues Found");

    // verify that aeq entry is deleted from cluster config
    locator.invoke(() -> {
      ClusterConfigurationService service =
          ClusterStartupRule.getLocator().getSharedConfiguration();
      Configuration config = service.getConfiguration("cluster");
      assertThat(config.getCacheXmlContent()).doesNotContain("id=\"queue1\"");
    });
  }

  @Test
  public void destroyAeqWhenQueueDoesNotExist_deafultReturnsError() {
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat(
        "create async-event-queue --id=queue1 --listener=" + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName())
        .statusIsSuccess();

    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue1", 2);
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess();

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 ").statusIsSuccess();
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 ").statusIsError();
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess()
        .containsOutput("No Async Event Queues Found");
  }

  @Test
  public void destroyAeqWhenQueueDoesNotExist_withIfExistsReturnsSuccess() {
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat(
        "create async-event-queue --id=queue1 --listener=" + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName())
        .statusIsSuccess();

    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue1", 2);
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess();

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 ").statusIsSuccess();
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 --if-exists")
        .statusIsSuccess();
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess()
        .containsOutput("No Async Event Queues Found");

    // verify that aeq entry is deleted from cluster config
    locator.invoke(() -> {
      ClusterConfigurationService service =
          ClusterStartupRule.getLocator().getSharedConfiguration();
      Configuration config = service.getConfiguration("cluster");
      assertThat(config.getCacheXmlContent()).doesNotContain("id=\"queue1\"");
    });
  }

  @Test
  public void destroyAeqOnGroup_returnsSuccess() {
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("create async-event-queue --id=queue1 --group=group1 --listener="
        + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName()).statusIsSuccess();

    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue1", 1);

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 --group=group1")
        .statusIsSuccess();
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess()
        .containsOutput("No Async Event Queues Found");

    // verify that aeq entry is deleted from cluster config
    locator.invoke(() -> {
      ClusterConfigurationService service =
          ClusterStartupRule.getLocator().getSharedConfiguration();
      Configuration config = service.getConfiguration("group1");
      assertThat(config.getCacheXmlContent()).doesNotContain("id=\"queue1\"");
    });
  }

  @Test
  public void destroyAeqOnGroupThatDoesNotExisit_returnsError() {
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("create async-event-queue --id=queue1 --group=group1 --listener="
        + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName()).statusIsSuccess();

    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue1", 1);

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 --group=group2")
        .statusIsError().containsOutput(CliStrings.NO_MEMBERS_FOUND_MESSAGE);
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess();

    // verify that aeq entry is not deleted from cluster config
    locator.invoke(() -> {
      ClusterConfigurationService service =
          ClusterStartupRule.getLocator().getSharedConfiguration();
      Configuration config = service.getConfiguration("group1");
      assertThat(config.getCacheXmlContent()).contains("id=\"queue1\"");
    });
  }

  @Test
  public void destroyAeq_selectsQueuesOnGroup_showsErrorForServersNotInGroup()
      throws GfJsonException {
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("create async-event-queue --id=queue1 --group=group1 --listener="
        + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName()).statusIsSuccess();

    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue1", 1);
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess();

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1").statusIsSuccess()
        .tableHasRowWithValues("Member", "Status", "server-1",
            String.format(DestroyAsyncEventQueueCommand.DESTROY_ASYNC_EVENT_QUEUE__AEQ_0_DESTROYED,
                "queue1"))
        .tableHasRowWithValues("Member", "Status", "server-2",
            String.format(
                "ERROR: "
                    + DestroyAsyncEventQueueCommand.DESTROY_ASYNC_EVENT_QUEUE__AEQ_0_NOT_FOUND,
                "queue1"));
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess()
        .containsOutput("No Async Event Queues Found");
  }

  @Test
  public void destroyAeq_selectsQueuesByGroup_returnsSuccess() throws GfJsonException, IOException {
    server3 = lsRule.startServerVM(3, "group3", locator.getPort());

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("create async-event-queue --id=queue1 --group=group1 --listener="
        + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName()).statusIsSuccess();
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("create async-event-queue --id=queue3 --group=group3 --listener="
        + MyAsyncEventListener.class.getName())/* .statusIsSuccess() */;

    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue1", 1);
    locator.waitTillAsyncEventQueuesAreReadyOnServers("queue3", 1);
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess();

    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("destroy async-event-queue --id=queue1 --group=group1")
        .statusIsSuccess().containsOutput(String.format(
            DestroyAsyncEventQueueCommand.DESTROY_ASYNC_EVENT_QUEUE__AEQ_0_DESTROYED, "queue1"));
    gfsh.executeAndAssertThat("list async-event-queues").statusIsSuccess()
        .tableHasRowWithValues("Member", "ID", "server-3", "queue3");

    // verify that cluster config aeq entry for destroyed queue is deleted
    locator.invoke(() -> {
      ClusterConfigurationService service =
          ClusterStartupRule.getLocator().getSharedConfiguration();
      System.out.println("cluster config: " + service.getConfiguration("cluster"));
      Configuration config1 = service.getConfiguration("group1");
      assertThat(config1.getCacheXmlContent()).doesNotContain("id=\"queue1\"");
      Configuration config3 = service.getConfiguration("group3");
      assertThat(config3.getCacheXmlContent()).contains("id=\"queue3\"");
    });
  }
}


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Man United Submit Offer To Sign £25m Play-Breaker Before Deadline
January 12, 2022 January 12, 2022 0408
Manchester United requires significant reinforcements, and it is perplexing that they have yet to add a crucial player during the January transfer window.
The Red Devils have been widely associated with Switzerland superstar, and the newest rumours claim that they have pushed in with a bid to sign him before the deadline.
The Mirror stated a week ago that the Old Trafford club had monitored the Borussia Monchengladbach playmaker, and that the £25 million man may be the club's most likely new acquisition this winter.
Because his current contract with the German club expires in June, the Premier League heavyweights may be able to agree on a pre-contract with the player this month. They, on the other hand, are not in the mood to wait.
According to an update supplied today by Spanish outlet Fichajes, Manchester United have made a ten-million-euro bid to sign Zakaria during the current transfer window. According to reports, they may face a counter-offer from Liverpool, which is also interested in the Bundesliga star.
Denis Zakaria
The 40-cap international turned 25 in November, so he is in his prime years, and if United can entice him for just 10 million euros, it will be a steal.
Interim coach, Ralf Rangnick, is trying to implement his pressing style of play but for that, the German manager needs a specialist play-breaker. With Matic past his best, there is no natural defensive midfielder to win the ball in the center of the park.
Therefore, Man Utd must press hard to sign Denis Zakaria. We shall see how the transfer saga unfolds in the coming days.
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Allowing inmates to stare at computer-tablet screens for hours each day may be just the ticket for creating calm, orderly cellblocks, prison officials say.
Tablets, growing in popularity in prisons nationwide, also can help inmates advance their education, connect with family and prepare them for life in the technology-saturated outside world, officials say. The program has its critics, though, some citing cost to inmates themselves and in Idaho, hundreds of inmates may have breached vulnerabilities in the tablets' software.
In Connecticut, which plans to introduce tablets in its prisons this summer, Correction Commissioner Scott Semple said officials are learning from other states that cellblocks become much quieter after tablets are introduced.
"Just like when you walk in the mall, everyone is looking down at their phone," he said.
The devices, which are transparent so contraband can't be hidden in them, will be hooked to an internal system, rather than the internet. They will be preloaded with educational materials, including books, educational videos and games.
Inmates will also be able to use them — for a price — to send emails and make monitored phone calls to those on their approved communications lists. They will also be able to buy music, video games and other items to load onto the machines from kiosks in the prisons.
The company that provides the tablets will make a profit selling those materials, allowing the state to get the machines at no cost.
Connecticut got the idea from similar programs in Georgia and Colorado, Semple said.
Miramar, Florida-based JPay, one of the major tablet providers to prisons, said it has put them in 13 states so far. Prison officials estimate tablets are used in more than 10 percent of correctional facilities nationwide.
In January, New York announced plans to provide tablets to 51,000 inmates, and in April, New Hampshire signed a five-year contract with Reston, Virginia-based Global Tel-Link to provide tablets there.
Anthony Plant, 27, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, served 21 months for selling drugs. Tablets, he said, kept him in touch with relatives and eliminated conflicts among inmates vying for their once-a-day use of the phone.
"Talking with my family gave me a sense of keeping my head straight and motivated me to keep doing what I'm doing," he said.
Connecticut, which has about 13,500 inmates, expects to finalize its contract with a provider this summer.
The programs do have critics.
Questions have been raised about whether the tablets could lead prisons to decrease in-person visitation and whether there is enough regulation of private providers to prevent price gouging.
"If we believe that people in prison would benefit from resources that enrich their lives and allow them to contact their loved ones more, we shouldn't make those benefits contingent on who can pay, especially since we're talking about people who are disproportionately very poor," said Wanda Bertram, with the Prison Policy Initiative, a think tank.
And Connecticut state Sen. John Kissel, R-Enfield, a co-chair of the Judiciary Committee, said he doesn't understand why the state would give priority to criminals over, say, public school students.
Plant said that he understands that criticism, however, the tablets, especially their educational content, are an important rehabilitation tool.
Two lawsuits filed by South Dakota inmates allege tablets are prone to malfunctions and don't provide promised access to legal databases, making them a poor alternative to the law libraries they replaced.
The devices have also brought security concerns. In Idaho recently, officials say 364 inmates exploited vulnerable software in the system's JPay tablets to collectively transfer nearly a quarter million dollars into their own accounts.
Mark Molzen, the spokesman for CenturyLink, said the problem involved inmates "intentionally exploiting a software vulnerability to increase their JPay account balances," but said he couldn't provide details because CenturyLink considers it proprietary information. Molzen said the vulnerability issue has since been resolved, however.
Idaho Department of Correction spokesman Jeff Ray said in a prepared statement that 50 inmates credited their accounts in amounts exceeding $1,000; the largest amount credited by a single inmate was just under $10,000.
So far, JPay has recovered more than $65,000 worth of credits, and the company has suspended the ability of the inmates to download music and games until they compensate JPay for its losses, Ray said. The inmates are still able to send and receive emails, however.
Meanwhile, the Idaho Department of Correction has issued disciplinary-offense reports to the inmates who were allegedly involved, which means they could lose privileges and may be reclassified to a higher security-risk level.
The Colorado Department of Corrections also has had to deal with security issues, such as improper sharing of devices and inmates removing a metal strip from an early model to make weapons, said spokesman Mark Fairbairn.
But, he said, overall it has been positive, and game and music subscriptions have brought in more than $53,000 to the department's commissary service.
In Connecticut, the plan is to begin handing out the tablets in in the highest-security prisons. Because they are a privilege, Semple said, they can be an incentive for inmates to behave.
Pennsylvania introduced tablets in 2016. Inmates can buy them from Global Tel-Link for just under $150. About 16,000, or a third of the state's inmate population, have done so.
The Pennsylvania corrections department is still collecting data on violence or other conflicts, said Shirley Moore Smeal, the department's executive deputy secretary. But prison superintendents tell them the impact has been positive, she said.
The state, she said, is also looking into providing some tablets that can be loaned to prisoners who cannot afford them.
More than 70,000 people have enrolled educational programs offered on JPay's tablets, earning more than 34,000 college credits, spokeswoman Jade Trombetta said. More than 4 million courses and 5 million education videos have been downloaded.


What does section 95 say?
Section 95 is designed to facilitate trade, in particular the payment of debts. It provides that, where a debtor "initiates" a payment of a debt owed by the debtor, the creditor receiving the payment will have priority over any security interest in the funds.
It does not matter whether the payee is a secured or unsecured creditor. It does not matter whether the security interest concerned is perfected or unperfected. Knowledge of the security interest, or lack of knowledge, is irrelevant.
The Court accepted that the receivers were not liable to make the payment. But because they had caused the debtor to initiate the payment, section 95 applied to give the IRD the funds free of any security interest.
The Court's ruling makes section 95 a very powerful provision.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the High Court that section 95 deals only with priority, and does not prevent in personam claims. That is, claims other than to some property interest in the funds themselves, such as a claim for money paid under a mistake, or under duress etc. Similarly, section 95 would not be a barrier to a liquidator's voidable transaction claim.
However, although the payment in this case was made due to a mistaken belief on the part of receivers that the IRD had, or potentially had, better entitlement to the funds than their appointing creditors, that mistake could not form the basis of such a claim. The Court said it would subvert the purpose of section 95 to allow a mistake about priority to overturn the effect of section 95. That is the "very type of claim which is precluded by section 95".
The result puts receivers, and liquidators, in a difficult position. Although the exact circumstances of this case may be a little unusual, receivers may from time to time wish to make a payment on the basis that priority, or entitlement to the funds, is disputed. That may well be prudent if the alternative is to face the risk of personal liability for penalties and interest.
However, the Court of Appeal's interpretation means that it is not possible to make a payment while reserving the priority dispute for another day. The payment itself determines that the payee has priority over the competing creditor (usually the appointor of the receiver).
The Court reached this decision, in part, by confirming that common law concepts should not be implied into the PPSA, except where they were consistent with its policy. They refused, therefore, to accept the financiers' submission that the section was not intended to apply where a receiver had been appointed and an insolvent debtor was engaged in the final realisation and distribution of its assets.
The comparison with fixed and floating charge cases was not appropriate in a PPSA framework. The result was to uphold the purpose of section 95, being to enable a debtor to pay its creditors irrespective of a security interest in the funds used to make the payment.
Is the result correct in terms of policy?
We question whether the result is indeed consistent with PPSA policy, particularly where the priority dispute had expressly been notified to IRD prior to the payment, with the secured creditors expressly reserving their position.
The purpose of section 95 is, according to the Court, to "facilitate ordinary trade and commerce". There seems to be less of a need for such a rule in an insolvency situation, as the secured creditors in this case argued.
The sum involved would suggest that this litigation is not over yet. The Supreme Court may have the last word. We will continue to follow any further developments in this case.
In some cases it may be possible to agree with the creditor that the payment itself is not to affect priority, or that funds are held in escrow. In other cases a rapid application to Court might be possible. If neither of those options is available, it may be possible to structure the payment so that it is not a "debtor initiated" payment.
Our earlier commentary on the High Court decision can be found here.


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Peter Chianca: All we need is bugs
Peter Chianca
Apr 30, 2009 at 12:01 AM Apr 30, 2009 at 10:02 PM
The BBC is now reporting that Pentagon scientists are developing an "army of cyber-insects." This is a spectacular idea; the only thing I can think of that would be better might be to mount little machine guns on their backs — that way they could strafe us when we come after them with the Bug-B-Gone.
As my regular readers may recall, I'm fairly convinced that the end result of all scientific experimentation will be the development of an unstoppable robot army that will eventually enslave us to do its bidding. I figure our only hope is to unintentionally wipe ourselves out with a genetically engineered super-virus before that happens, leaving the robots to spend their days playing chess and vacuuming.
But since the technology for that is apparently not quite ready, the BBC is now reporting that Pentagon scientists are instead developing an "army of cyber-insects." This is a spectacular idea; the only thing I can think of that would be better might be to mount little machine guns on their backs — that way they could strafe us when we come after them with the Bug-B-Gone.
Apparently the cyber-bugs would be used to check out explosives and send transmissions, if scientists can get them to work; according to the BBC, a similar project with wasps failed "when they flew off to feed and mate." Interestingly, the same problem has also kept scientists from developing an effective college student.
The first question the plan raises is whether it would be ethical for scientists to genetically manipulate bugs to do our bidding, although for a bunch of guys prone to feeding rats Sweet 'N Low until they explode, that's probably not losing them a lot of sleep. But a better question would be whether it's good for society to be giving special powers to something so creepy. Look at what happened with Rumsfeld.
Maybe I'm biased because I tend to think of insects as the creepiest of all critters — the way I see it, at least snakes and rats can't fly, at least until the Pentagon gets a hold of them. And I was proven right recently, when a big, brown bug turned up in my house, the type of bug that you can't help feel would look more appropriate on an Ecuadorian rubber tree than your ceiling fan.
The first time we spotted one, I have to give my wife and kids credit for joining me in simply studying it calmly, with scientific interest. In wasn't until it took flight in our general direction, its beating wings echoing like a poorly oiled Cessna, that we all ran screaming from the room like we'd just found ourselves in a cloud of fruit bats.
(I eventually found on the Internet that it was a harmless "western conifer seed bug," which, in addition to being big and nasty-looking, omits a "pungent odor." Although frankly, so would I if I saw a giant rolled up copy of Entertainment Weekly coming at me.)
Granted, it would be great if we could harness such bug power for use against our enemies, but given our track record I'm not so sure how likely that is. For instance, the same BBC article refers to a plan in World War II to attach bombs to cats and drop them into the ocean near Nazi ships, at which point they'd wrangle themselves onto the ships to get out of the water, and then explode. Unfortunately, the cats tended to lose consciousness in mid-air and drown, defeating the purpose. This is not to mention PETA's plans to send Pamela Anderson back in time to break their fall with her bosoms.
On the other hand, where would the folks at the Pentagon be if they never engaged in just this kind of creative thinking? For starters, probably in a building with only four sides on it. So if the big brains down there determine that scientifically engineered cyber-insects are the way to overcome our foes, we may as well try it.
I figure at the very least, at some point they should really annoy the robots.
Peter Chianca is a managing editor for GateHouse Media New England. He's currently recovering from vacation; this column appeared originally in 2006. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/pchianca.


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Blu-ray Review "The Hollars"
December 1, 2016 by Mike Gencarelli Leave a Comment
Actors: Anna Kendrick, John Krasinski, Richard Jenkins, Margo Martindale, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Directors: John Krasinski
Film: 4 out of 5 stars
Blu-ray: 4 out of 5 stars
Extras: 3 out of 5 stars
I literally had no idea what "The Hollars" was before watching it. It was a movie that got rather swept under the carpet, but it deserves some praise for sure. I would go as far as even saying that I loved this flick. The acting from Anna Kendrick, John Krasinski, Richard Jenkins and especially Margo Martindale was literally award worthy. I found myself sniffing out of control. The drama was very real and it just really won me over. This is usually not a film that I would ever watch but with the talent attached to it, I was intrigued to give it a try…and I was not let down. PLEASE watch this movie just make sure to have some tissues handy.
Official Premise: A struggling NYC artist, John Hollar (John Krasinski), is forced to return to the small, middle-American town he left behind after learning about his mother's illness. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his NYC girlfriend (Academy Award Nominee Anna Kendrick, 2009, Best Supporting Actress, Up in the Air). John Krasinski's second feature as a director is a poignant look at the bonds of family and friendship.
There are some decent special features included. I particularly loved the audio commentary track that features both John Krasinski and Margo Martindale. Simply love both of them! There are two features included. The first is "The Family Trust: Inside The Hollars" and second is "Persistent Vision: Margo Martindale", both features cast/crew talking behind-the-scenes about the project. Lastly there is the LA Film Festival Q&A featuring Anna Kendrick, John Krasinski and Margo Martindale.
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Centric Views Essay
United States-Centric Views Comparison
Carrie E. Schyan-Watkins
ETH 125
Dr. Elizabeth Baker
In both tables my sister, Connie, and I were asked to place a series of terms into one column or the other; the column titles were, "Christian Americans, Both Groups, or Muslim and Arab Americans." After having Connie fill in the table I can see that some of our answers are the same, meaning we put them under the same column, while others were not so similar. Under the Christian American Column we both though this group to be, not oppressive to woman, governed by biblical law, take part in a political environment, socially ...view middle of the document...
Connie placed the undereducated trait under both groups which I feel is a true statement because all students in America are in fact, at least in my opinion, undereducated after completing 1st through 12th grades. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, "…for the first time ever, America's educational gains are poised to stall because of growing demographic trends. If these trends continue, the share of the U.S. workforce with high school and college degrees may not only fail to keep rising over the next 15 years but could actually decline slightly, warns a report released on Nov. 9 by the National Center for Public Policy & Higher Education, a nonprofit group based in San Jose, Calif. The key reason: As highly educated baby boomers retire, they'll be replaced by mounting numbers of young Hispanics and African Americans, who are far less likely to earn degrees." (W. Symonds, November 21, 2005) The second true trait was, Muslim and Arab American's have their religion as part of Government, which is true and un-true at the same time. The statement holds true, if the Muslim or Arab American hold dual citizenship with the United States, and their home country; however, if they are only citizens of the United States, then the statement is un-true because the United States tries to separate religion and Government. A quote from Supreme Court Justice (Ret.)Harry A. Blackmun reads, "When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some." (H. Blackmun, 1997)
Two falsely placed traits, or so I thought, were open to both sexes being under Religious Content in Education (Connie's), and oppressive to women under Muslim and Arab American's (Connie's). I know for a fact, minus the excerpt from the pledge of allegiance, there are no religious ties to education. Educators do teach about the different religions of the world, but they do not preach...
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Q: HTML5 live streaming For school I need to set up an HTML5 live stream site. They have a flash stream-player they've been using but now they want it to use HTML5 instead. How can I do this? I tried using the video tag but I can't get it working. Below is the code I have. Could someone point me in the correct direction?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Deltion Live Streaming</title>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="../swfobject.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

    <video id="movie" width="460" height="306" preload autoplay>
        <source src="rtmp://fl2.sz.xlcdn.com:80/sz=Deltion_College=lb1"  type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
            <!-- HERE THE CODE FOR THE ALTERNATIVE PLAYER (FLASH) WILL BE! -->
    </video>
</body>
</html>

A: It is not possible to use the RTMP protocol in HTML 5, because the RTMP protocol is only used between the server and the flash player. So you can use the other streaming protocols for viewing the streaming videos in HTML 5.

A: You can use a fantastic library name Videojs. You will find more useful informations here. But with quick start you can do something like this:
<link href="//vjs.zencdn.net/5.11/video-js.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//vjs.zencdn.net/5.11/video.min.js"></script>
<video id="Video" class="video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-big-play-centered" controls preload="none" width="auto"
    height="auto" poster="poster.jpg"
    data-setup='{"techOrder": ["flash", "html5", "other supported tech"], "nativeControlsForTouch": true, "controlBar": { "muteToggle": false, "volumeControl": false, "timeDivider": false, "durationDisplay": false, "progressControl": false } }'>
        <source src="rtmp://{domain_server}/{publisher}" type='rtmp/mp4' />
</video>
<script>
    var player = videojs('Video');
    player.play();
</script>

A: A possible alternative for that:

*

*Use an encoder (e.g. VLC or FFmpeg) into packetize your input stream
to OGG format. For example, in this case I used VLC to packetize
screen capture device with this code:

C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe -I dummy screen://
  :screen-fps=16.000000 :screen-caching=100
  :sout=#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=800,scale=1,width=600,height=480,acodec=mp3}:http{mux=ogg,dst=127.0.0.1:8080/desktop.ogg}
  :no-sout-rtp-sap :no-sout-standard-sap :ttl=1 :sout-keep

*Embed this code into a <video> tag in your HTML page like that:
<video id="video" src="http://localhost:8080/desktop.ogg" autoplay="autoplay" />
This should do the trick. However it's kind of poor performance and AFAIK MP4 container type should have a better support among browsers than OGG.

A: Live streaming in HTML5 is possible via the use of Media Source Extensions (MSE) - the relatively new W3C standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/media-source/
MSE is an an extension of HTML5 <video> tag; the javascript on webpage can fetch audio/video segments from the server and push them to MSE for playback. The fetching mechanism can be done via HTTP requests (MPEG-DASH) or via WebSockets. As of September 2016 all major browsers on all devices support MSE. iOS is the only exception.
For high latency (5+ seconds) HTML5 live video streaming you can consider MPEG-DASH implementations by video.js or Wowza streaming engine.
For low latency, near real-time HTML5 live video streaming, take a look at EvoStream media server, Unreal media server, and WebRTC.

A: Firstly you need to setup a media streaming server. You can use Wowza, red5 or nginx-rtmp-module. Read their documentation and setup on OS you want.
All the engine are support HLS (Http Live Stream protocol that was developed by Apple). You should read documentation for config.
Example with nginx-rtmp-module:
rtmp {
    server {
        listen 1935; # Listen on standard RTMP port
        chunk_size 4000;

        application show {
            live on;
            # Turn on HLS
            hls on;
            hls_path /mnt/hls/;
            hls_fragment 3;
            hls_playlist_length 60;
            # disable consuming the stream from nginx as rtmp
            deny play all;
        }
    }
}

server {
    listen 8080;

    location /hls {
        # Disable cache
        add_header Cache-Control no-cache;

        # CORS setup
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
        add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Range';

        # allow CORS preflight requests
        if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Range';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
            add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
            add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
            return 204;
        }

        types {
            application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
            video/mp2t ts;
        }

        root /mnt/;
    }
}

After server was setup and configuration successful. you must use some rtmp encoder software (OBS, wirecast ...) for start streaming like youtube or twitchtv.
In client side (browser in your case) you can use Videojs or JWplayer to play video for end user. You can do something like below for Videojs:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Live Streaming</title>
    <link href="//vjs.zencdn.net/5.8/video-js.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <script src="//vjs.zencdn.net/5.8/video.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<video id="player" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" height="360" width="640" controls preload="none">
    <source src="http://localhost:8080/hls/stream.m3u8" type="application/x-mpegURL" />
</video>
<script>
    var player = videojs('#player');
</script>
</body>
</html>

You don't need to add others plugin like flash (because we use HLS not rtmp). This player can work well cross browser with out flash.

A: Right now it will only work in some browsers,
and as far as I can see you haven't actually linked to a file,
so that would explain why it is not playing.
but as you want a live stream (which I have not tested with)
check out Streaming via RTSP or RTP in HTML5
and http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/25-HTML5-Video-Resources-You-Might-Have-Missed-74010.aspx

A: Use ffmpeg + ffserver. It works!!!
You can get a config file for ffserver from ffmpeg.org and accordingly set the values.

A: <object classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
            height="285" id="mediaPlayer" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
            type="application/x-oleobject" width="360" style="margin-bottom:30px;">
            <param name="fileName" value="mms://my_IP_Address:my_port" />
            <param name="animationatStart" value="true" />
            <param name="transparentatStart" value="true" />
            <param name="autoStart" value="true" />
            <param name="showControls" value="true" />
            <param name="loop" value="true" />
            <embed autosize="-1" autostart="true" bgcolor="darkblue" designtimesp="5311" displaysize="4"
                height="285" id="mediaPlayer" loop="true" name="mediaPlayer" pluginspage="http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"
                showcontrols="true" showdisplay="0" showstatusbar="-1" showtracker="-1" src="mms://my_IP_Address:my_port"
                type="application/x-mplayer2" videoborder3d="-1" width="360"></embed>
</object>


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Islamicate Manuscripts & Texts Colloquium (IMaT) 2021: Letters
Islamicate Manuscripts and Texts Colloquium (IMaT) 2021: Letters
In this colloquium, we will read texts from the Islamicate world, from Nile to Oxus and beyond, written in different languages and scripts of the pre-modern Islamicate world, including Arabic, New Persian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, Coptic, and Hebrew.
Each Tuesday: 12 October - 30 November 2021
Manuscripts & Texts Reading Colloquium(IMaT) 2021: Letters
The Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford
Tuesdays, 12 October to 30 November 2021
Khalili 129, a Middle Persian letter from 6th- or 7th-century Afghanistan
Click here to register (please scroll down to see all the sessions).
Convenor: Dr Arezou Azad, Programme Director, Invisible East, Oriental Institute; with Dr Tommy Benfey and Dr Zhan Zhang, ERC-Go.Local Post-doctoral Researchers.
This iteration of the Islamicate Manuscripts and Texts (IMaT) colloquium will focus on literary and documentary letters from the Islamicate world and adjacent areas in space and time, written in various languages including Arabic, New Persian, Middle Persian, and Sogdian. Issues we will be exploring include: the relationship between literary and documentary/private letters; the transmission of epistolary formulae and topoi over time, and between political units, languages, and religious communities; the various ways letters can be useful as sources for historians.
Weekly online sessions every Tuesday of Michaelmas Term 2021 of up to 90 minutes, each on a new document or set of documents from one part of the Islamicate world. These will typically run from 3 to 4:30 PM, UK time, although we will meet two hours later, from 5 to 6:30 PM UK time, for our first session on October 12. For each session, we will precirculate a primary source text, which will be made available via email to those who register for that session. Each session has 2 parts. 1) Speakers in the first 45 minutes give a historiographical, historical, and/or literary context to the texts. Participants do not need to know the primary source language. 2) The subsequent 45 minutes are devoted to a close group reading of the text(s) by participants familiar with the source language. Participants need not attend both parts, and can join whichever part they prefer.
12 October 2021 (Week 1), 5pm (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME): The Sogdian epistolary tradition in the early 8th century
Adam Benkato, Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
19 October 2021 (Week 2), 3pm: An Unpublished Letter from the Cairo Geniza Complaining about the Hardships of Travel to India: Taylor-Schechter (T-S) 12.392
Marina Rustow, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
26 October 2021 (Week 3), 3pm: Zoroastrian Calendar Controversies in the 17th and 18th centuries: Passages from the Persian Rivāyats and Related Texts
Jamie O'Connell, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
2 November 2021 (Week 4), 3pm: Letters from the Bahmani Sultanate (ca. 1450-1480)
Meia Walravens, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Antwerp
9 November 2021 (Week 5), 3pm: The Qur'an, Early Arabic Letters, and P.Utah.Ar.120
Adam Flowers, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
16 November 2021 (Week 6), 3pm: Judeo-Persian Correspondence from Buyid and Ghaznavid Territories (10th-11th Centuries)
Ofir Haim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mandel Scholion Research Center, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
23 November 2021 (Week 7), 3pm: Letters from Early Islamic Egypt
Arietta Papaconstantinou, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Reading University
30 November 2021 (Week 8), 3pm: Is there a Middle Persian epistolary tradition? A survey
Arash Zeini, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin


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Q: FOR loop parameter changes its reading position I want to loop through File_1 and check the fourth column. If it's not empty write in File_2.
Here is Files_1:
1;2;3;;;;;;;10
1;2;3;4;;;;;;10
1;2;3;;5;;;;;10

Here is my batch file:
for /F "delims=; tokens=1-10" %%A in (File_1.txt) do (
    if "%%D" NEQ "" (
        echo hello World %%D >>File_2.txt
    )
)

Here is what comes in File_2:
hello World 10
hello World 4
hello World 5

How come that it doesn't always read in the fourth column?
The result that I was expecting is:
hello World 4

How can I manage to have this result?

A: As your question was answered in the comments, and a solution suggested, I thought I'd provide an alternative:
@Echo Off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
For /F "UseBackQ Delims=" %%A In ("File_1.txt") Do Call :Sub "%%A"
Pause
GoTo :EOF

:Sub
Set "Line=%~1"
Set "i=1"
Set "Token!i!=%Line:;="&Set/A i+=1&Set "Token!i!=%"
If Defined Token4 >>"File_2.txt" Echo Hello World %Token4%
Exit /B


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Сэр Алек Ги́ннесс (; , Лондон — , , Западный Суссекс) — британский актёр театра и кино. В 1958 году удостоен премии «Оскар» за лучшую мужскую роль в военном фильме «Мост через реку Квай», а спустя два десятилетия Гиннессу была вручена почётная награда американской киноакадемии за выдающиеся заслуги в кинематографе.

Биография
Будущий актёр родился 2 апреля 1914 года в нищенском квартале Лондона.

Дебютировал в театре Джона Гилгуда, который в 1938 году доверил ему играть Гамлета. К 1955 году его репутация в театральном мире была такова, что королева наградила его орденом Британской империи, а четыре года спустя произвела в рыцари. Первый же успех в кино пришёл к нему после чёрной комедии «Добрые сердца и короны» (1949), в которой Гиннесс сыграл сразу 8 человек, включая женщину.

Во время Второй мировой войны подал заявление о зачислении в Королевский военно-морской резерв и после получения базовой подготовки был назначен в центр комбинированных операций, где получил военную специальность командира десантного корабля. В 1943 году в качестве командира большого пехотно-десантного корабля LCI(L) 124 — Landing Craft Infantry (Large) воевал на Средиземном море, после высадки сил союзников на Сицилию корабль Алека Гиннесса был назначен для тайной доставки грузов югославским партизанам.

В кино Гиннесс в основном снимался у Дэвида Лина — режиссёра, известного своими крупнобюжетными постановками на исторические темы. Лин заметил его в театральной постановке диккенсовских «Больших надежд» и предложил исполнить ту же роль в киноверсии романа. Гиннесс был задействован практически во всех последующих проектах Лина, включая «Оливера Твиста» (1948), «Мост через реку Квай» (1957), «Лоуренса Аравийского» (1962), «Доктора Живаго» (1965) и «Поездку в Индию» (1984).

За «Мост через реку Квай» Гиннесс был награждён «Оскаром». Большинству зрителей следующего поколения он известен как джедай Оби-Ван Кеноби из «Звёздных войн». Хотя эта роль принесла ему миллионное состояние, актёр, по слухам, недолюбливал её, и Джорджу Лукасу стоило немало времени и нервов убеждать его принять участие в съёмках каждого нового эпизода. За роль Оби-Вана Кеноби в фильме «Звёздные войны. Эпизод IV: Новая надежда» Гиннесс получил номинацию на «Оскар» за лучшую мужскую роль второго плана, и в настоящее время он единственный актер, который был номинирован за роль в фильмах франшизы «Звёздные войны».

Фильмография

Роли в театре
 , 16 июля — 11 августа — «Порочный круг» / «Vicious circle», по пьесе Сартра «За закрытыми дверями». Реж. Питер Брук / Артс-театр, Лондон, — Гарсэн
  — «Братья Карамазовы», инсценировка А.Гиннесса по мотивам романа Ф. М. Достоевского. Реж. Питер Брук / , Лондон, — Митя Карамазов

Награды и номинации

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Performances in Theatre Archive, Bristol
 Costume Sketches for unrealized one-man show «The Angry Clown» — Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design

Участники Второй мировой войны
Лауреаты European Film Awards
Лауреаты премии BAFTA
Лауреаты премии BAFTA TV
Лауреаты премии Лоренса Оливье
Лауреаты премии «Кубок Вольпи»
Лауреаты премии «Сатурн» лучшему киноактёру второго плана
Лауреаты почётной премии «Оскар»
Умершие от рака печени
Похороненные в Хэмпшире
Киноактёры Великобритании
Лауреаты Специальной премии Общества лондонского театра
Почётные доктора Кембриджского университета

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«По́мнят с го́речью древля́не» — песня российской рок-группы «Король и Шут» из альбома «Герои и Злодеи», выпущенного в 2000 году. Песня часто исполнялась группой в 2004—2005 годах. В 2005 году акустическая версия песни была исполнена в программе «Кухня» на ТВЦ.

История
Песня повествует о любви романтика Демьяна (вероятно, из древлянских или других восточнославянских племён) к фее-повелительнице мух: для того, чтобы завоевать сердце феи мух, Демьян сотворил ей идола, устраивал жертвоприношения и призывал людей поклоняться мухам по требованию феи. Оказалось, что фея не рождена для любви, а Демьян до этого убивал мух, за что был ими же ритуально съеден.

Композиция вошла в альбом «Герои и Злодеи», который музыканты хотели сделать разноплановым. Михаил Горшенёв и Александр Балунов в материале для новой пластинки насчитали 5 различных стилей. Согласно сленгу музыкантов «Короля и Шута», песня «Помнят с горечью древляне» была написана в стиле «медляк» или «блюз». Музыку для композиции написал Михаил Горшенёв. Александр Балунов предложил Якову Цвиркунову идею для гитарного соло — оно должно было повторять вокальную мелодию куплета (по аналогии с американской группой Nirvana), что и было воплощено в жизнь.

Андрей Князев долго работал над текстом песни, несколько раз переделывал его уже на репетиционной точке. Сюжет был непростой, и автор до последнего не знал, чем закончится песня. А. Князев несколько раз хотел переписать текст с нуля. В итоге стихи к песне получились весьма удачными.

Факты
 Песня занимала 1 место в «Чартовой дюжине».
 Песня заняла 6 место в итоговой «Чартовой дюжине» 2001 года.

Участники записи
 Михаил Горшенёв (Горшок) — вокал, музыка
 Андрей Князев (Князь) — гитара, бэк-вокал, стихи.
 Александр Балунов (Балу) — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал.
 Александр Щиголев (Поручик) — ударные.
 Яков Цвиркунов — гитара, бэк-вокал.
 Мария Нефёдова — скрипка.

Экранизация песни
Сюжет песни был экранизирован в третьей серии российского сериала «Король и Шут», снятого в 2023 году и повествующего как об истории группы, так и о сказочных персонажах из песен коллектива. В сюжете сериала в Фею Мух влюбляется сам Горшок (его играет актёр Константин Плотников), а саму Фею играет актриса Валери Зоидова — она же в сериале исполнила роль первой жены Михаила Горшенёва, Анфисы Крючковой.

Примечания

Литература

Песни по алфавиту
Песни 2000 года
Панк-рок-песни
Песни на русском языке
Песни группы «Король и Шут»


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China Matters documents traditional and modern cultures of Tianjin
maandag 7 december 2020 17:19 Economie
BEIJING, Dec. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- When comes to a Chinese city that resembles Boston, quite a few netizens would name Tianjin, a city blending modern vibe with traditional heritage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1G7VoHwNJs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1G7VoHwNJs]
Ranked the third largest urban land area after Beijing and Shanghai, Tianjin created a uniquely compatible urban style, Chinese and Western, ancient and modern, making the best use of its 600 years' history and coastal location.
With the business and merchants came vendors and their food stalls, nurturing a vibrant street food culture.
Because of northern China's arid environment, Tianjin's street food is heavy on wheat-based carbs, most notably buns and pancakes. Dishes like jianbing, a Chinese breakfast crepe, and steamed pork buns, which are now world-famous, came from this city.
Apart from food, the old city is also home to diverse folk customs, such as Xiangsheng, or comic cross talk. It is usually presented through a dialogue between two performers, or, much less often, a solo monologue or, even less frequently, a multi-person dialogue. The comic language, rich in puns and allusions, is delivered in a rapid, bantering style. Crosstalk is one of China's foremost and most popular performing arts.
Another landscape features its large collections of Western architecture that has been well preserved through years. This adds to its similarity with Boston, reconciling different cultural presentations into one.
Forced to open to foreign trade in 1860, Tianjin was under agreements between the Qing-dynasty government in China and foreign powers. Its Wudadao (Five Great Avenues) Tourist Area used to be the British concession more than a century ago. The area now accommodates over 2,000 buildings with a wide variety of architectural styles from Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.
In this video, Russian host Sabina will lead you through an experience of Tianjin, including food, traditional arts and tourist sites. The video was filmed and produced by China Matters.
Contact: Cheng Yao
Tel:008610-68996566 E-mail:chengyao@cnmatters.com [mailto:chengyao@cnmatters.com] YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1G7VoHwNJs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1G7VoHwNJs]
https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1156746/China_Matters_Logo.jpg [https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1156746/China_Matters_Logo.jpg]


Seriously, I want to know why any pastor would ever promote any political position from the pulpit? A pastor's charge is to preach the Word and care for his flock. Whoever is leading our country — or misleading our country as is most often the case — does not change who is ultimately in charge of our lives. Pastors are supposed to plant seeds that make room for the Holy Spirit to change hearts, not attempt to make people change their minds. … I suggest we ignore comments like these and quit extending the platform of pastor's [who make political statements].
So let's clear the cobwebs. It's true that pastors should never bind consciences nor impose their will on others. They don't make law that God doesn't. They respect the liberty of conscience each one has before God. At the same time, that does not prevent them from pointing out policy positions of leaders and/or candidates and put them under the microscope of Scripture.
Now I agree it's a pastor's charge "to preach the Word and care for his flock. . . . to plant seeds that make room for the Holy Spirit to change hearts." But where do we get the idea the pastor should "not attempt to make people change their minds?" Isn't that what a pastor actually should do – attempt to make people change their minds? That's the very definition of repentance. And yes it's about changing minds concerning sin and the sole sufficiency of Christ as Savior. But it's also about renewing minds and increasingly thinking about things the way God does. So yes, I try to persuade people to change their minds about marriage, parenting, sexuality, abortion, global warming, eugenics, genocide, poverty, education, welfare, taxes, and everything else under the sun.
Again I ask from whence comes the notion that pastors shouldn't seek to change minds about politics? The fact that many pastors are careless in such attempts is doubtless part of the problem. And of course there's the influence from the boys in Escondido. Yet the primary agent in this deadening of sensibility is the American idea that the individual is supreme. His autonomy is sacrosanct and nobody whether prince or preacher is going to tell him how to think.
Christians have relatively little influence in culture these days and one of the big reasons is this hands-off sentiment. And what is the result but a culture in chaos? It's not merely that our way of life is disappearing but that goodness and prosperity for all is vanishing with it. But most importantly souls are lost as the gospel is relegated in the minds of most to an irrelevant religious sphere that has nothing to do with real life. When you don't want the pastor to bring God's word to bear on political issues you think you want one thing and get something else. ". . . wanted a woman, never bargained for you. Lots of people talk and few of them know, soul of a woman was created below" – soul of a woman called autonomy that is.
Do we really want to say someone like Martin Luther King, Jr. should have kept his political views to himself? Does God not speak to every issue of life? If we think religious views and political views have no point of merger then we don't understand worldview. Those who divide them in their minds are suffering from a secularly induced schizophrenia and we all know what that means (Jas. 1:8).
On and on was the struggle waged by our Baptist fathers for religious liberty in Virginia, in the Carolinas, in Georgia, in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and Connecticut, and elsewhere, with one unyielding contention for unrestricted religious liberty for all men, and with never one wavering note. They dared to be odd, to stand alone, to refuse to conform, though it cost them suffering and even life itself. They dared to defy traditions and customs, and deliberately chose the day of non-conformity, even though in many a case it meant a cross. They pleaded and suffered, they offered their protests and remonstrances and memorials, and, thank God, mighty statesmen were won to their contention. Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Patrick Henry, and many others, until at last it was written into our country's Constitution that church and state must in this land be forever separate and free, that neither must ever trespass upon the distinctive functions of the other. It was preeminently a Baptist achievement.
Sounds political to me; but more than that, it sounds crystal.


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Take this advantage and go solar today!
Whether you are a non-profit, school, commercial, or homeowner, Massachusetts understands why you should cut utility costs by going solar.