found my drawings in the trash and he took them out and framed them. I was shocked to see my drawing hanging up on his walls. The man gave me encouragement and told me they were some of the best drawings he'd ever seen.
to serve the individuals who flew back from the war and my boss was impressed with my work ethic. He surprised me with an award. My parents lived about an hour and a half away. My boss recommended I invite them because it was a significant accomplishment. He was thoughtful enough to extend the invite to my parents to attend the awards ceremony.
I look back to my youth and vividly remember trying to gain acceptance, to find a place of belonging, and yearning for love from people who could not give it. As a more mature adult, I realize throughout my adult life I have worked harder and done more to compensate for the internalized messages I received (verbal or not) of "never being good enough".
beyond their peers, trying so hard .. but still never giving themselves the credit they deserve. If you can relate … you may suffer like I did, from being conditioned into believing you are never good enough. This feeling lingers in our head and drives us to work so hard it can damage our relationships. This twisted reality can also have negative effects on our health.
I have read some insightful articles that enabled me to work through these negative self beliefs.
Karl McBride is a therapist who worked with dysfunctional families for more than 3 decades. He believes that individuals who internalize they are not good enough often come from narcissistic and abusive families. These families could be alcoholic parents who send mixed signals as they sway back and forth between being sober and drunk. For children with narcissistic parents, we struggle to comprehend that our parents are incapable of loving us.
This type of child ends up over achieving.
The not-good-enough children either sway back and forth from being the Fixer or they may do the opposite and act out, i.e., they become The Lasher. Lashing out in anger, confusion and frustration trying to gain their parents attention.
Regardless of whichever way children respond to not being loved, children internalize the false message and eventually realise they cannot solve their parent's problems.
Then there's The Blame Game in which it is not uncommon for abusive parents to blame their children for their own parental failures and problems.
Does your parent always have to have things their way?
Are they critical of you at all times?
Is your parent jealous of you?
When you discuss your life's issues, does your parent divert the discussion to talk about their own problems?
Do you feel that you were a slave to your parents?
If you answered yes to most of these questions, the chances are high that your parent was a narcissist.
e say to ourselves, "It must be me." Adults are assumed to be more educated, experienced and in control, hence it is easy for adopted children who feel vulnerable to think, "It must be my fault if my parent is mean to me, or can't love me".
McBride believes the child ends up carrying the emotional baggage of the family and takes on the burden. The child thinks, "If only I could do more" in order to fix things.
If you find yourself always being tired, always over extending yourself, always trying to achieve more, then I would recommend taking a step back and asking why you are doing these things. You may be compensating to overcome those child beliefs which you have carried into your adult life.
I know I struggle with this. I have been told by many bosses that I work too hard and assume I should do more to self improve. It's like an endless quest to be "good enough". I think in all things in life, moderation is the goal. I now I force myself to step back, take vacations and not answer calls on weekends. It took me 45 years to re-condition myself from overexerting and extending myself to realize I have a habit of being like this. I now have to ensure I develop strategies to prevent burn out and learn to relax.
Do you feel that you are not good enough? How do you cope with such feelings? Do you think it is something else that triggers these feelings?


Authors from the 2006 Children's Literature Festival.
Authors from the 2001 Children's Literature Festival.
Authors from the 2014 Children's Literature Festival.
Authors from the 2005 Children's Literature Festival.
Authors from the 2007 Children's Literature Festival.
Authors from the 2011 Children's Literature Festival.


More than ever before, companies are committing to helping their employees with wellness initiatives. For companies, having healthier employees brings multiple benefits: healthier people are more productive and more likely to stay for the long term, along with fewer sick days needed. Healthier people generally have higher morale and a more positive outlook, creating a more pleasant work environment for all. And of course, a healthier workforce generally means lower health insurance premiums, enabling many companies to offer good benefits to their employees more sustainably over time.
While larger companies like Google and its Silicon Valley counterparts are known for having multiple wellness initiatives and perks, many companies of all sizes are embracing policies and programs to help their employees to feel better. For example, many companies offer in-house fitness equipment, while even smaller companies offer gym membership reimbursement.
Many companies are ordering fresh fruit, water, and juices for their break rooms, to place healthy alternatives in front of the traditional junk food and beverage-laden vending machines. Also on the food front, you see many companies bringing in chefs to cook fresh food for lunch on a specific day of the week or month, as a special healthy treat for employees.
The modern worker's health and wellness is under attack from a host of sources—our eyes from our computer and handheld device screens, as well as certain types of office lighting, as well as our backs, necks, wrists, and other joints from long hours spent at traditional desks. Companies are getting creative in both short-term, instantaneous ways, as well as through long-term measures, to keep their workforces from getting prematurely old from traditional work habits.
In the short term, they are encouraging meetings in different venues, where people might stand or sit in a café-style setting, in different positions different to their normal desk chairs. Some offices are known for seeing massage therapists in their midst from time to time, offering workers free sessions as added compensation from the employer.
Longer-term solutions for bone, joint, and muscle health include using balance balls as chairs and replacing standard desks with adjustable-height desks. While these aren't universal solutions, and certainly not for severe pain, many workers are achieving a much higher quality of life because their companies are investing in non-traditional desk components. While many of the sit-to-stand desks have required a crank for adjustments, there are now multiple manufacturers of motorized desks that change in an instant.
And we will continue to see creative lighting solutions and technology peripherals to ease the burden on our eyes in the workplace. The beautiful thing about technology in the workplace is that its evolution never rests.


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Title: Tausend Fenster
Subject: Eurovision Song Contest 1968, Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt, Quand tu reviendras, Nous vivrons d'amour, Eurovision songs of 1968
"Tausend Fenster"
Eurovision Song Contest 1968 entry
Walter Brandin
Robert Opratko
Finals performance
Final points
Appearance chronology
◄ "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt" (1967)
"1971" (Musik) ►
"Tausend Fenster" (English translation: "Thousands of Windows"), was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, performed in German by Karel Gott. The song was written by Udo Jürgens who also recorded his own version at about the same time. Karel Gott, on the other hand, also recorded a Czech version of "Tausend Fenster".
The song was performed fourth on the night (following Belgium's Claude Lombard with "Quand tu reviendras" and preceding Luxembourg's Chris Baldo and Sophie Garel with "Nous vivrons d'amour"). At the close of voting, it had received 2 points, placing equal 13th in a field of 17.
The song is a dramatic chanson, in which Gott remarks on the isolating effects of modern life before suggesting that the lonely person in the next apartment may be the person you're meant to be with.
Following the victory by Spain's Massiel with "La, la, la", Austria opted out of the 1969 Contest in protest against the Franco regime. The chaotic result of the that Contest (in which four songs shared first place) led them to skip the 1970 Contest as well. Thus, the song was succeeded as Austrian representative in the 1971 Contest by Marianne Mendt singing "Musik".
Eurovision songs of Austria
Eurovision songs of 1968
Songs written by Udo Jürgens
Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2014, United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision Song Contest 1957, Eurovision Song Contest 1984, Eurovision Song Contest 1998
Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt
Austria, Eurovision Song Contest 1967, Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest, German Language, France
Quand tu reviendras
Eurovision Song Contest 1968, Belgium, French Language, Austria, Cliff Richard

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par Piccinin, Helgi
In the spring of 2009, a team of young videographers set out from Quebec to travel across North America aboard a school bus. The first leg of this group adventure, christened Video Eldorado, took the youngsters to Louisiana, where they were fascinated by the region's unique francophone culture. Their first stop was in Lafayette for the Festival International de Louisiane, a major event for Franco-Americans. This festival brings together artists from theatre, the visual arts and, most of all, music. The festival presents manifestations of Cajun culture mainly, and provides an opportunity for the francophone culture of the American South, with its rich variety of influences, to make its presence known to a broad audience that might otherwise be unaware of this rich intangible heritage that has been passed down and improved upon over the generations. Helgi Piccinin, part of Video Eldorado, explored Louisiana's French-speaking minority for a full month and now invites us to share his discoveries in a series of articles based on the first-hand accounts that he gathered.
Article disponible en français : Festival International de Louisiane
Getting Past the Clichés
Before our trip began, my impressions of Louisiana were limited to bayou landscapes, New Orleans jazz, a vague idea of Cajun music, hurricanes and the fact that the state was Zachary Richard's birthplace. I don't think I'll ever be completely rid of these clichés, but I have learned that they are only a tiny piece of a much broader reality. I knew there were French-speaking communities scattered here and there in the American South and that they continued to "holdout against the invading English," but I had no idea that this culture was such a rich and diverse blend of peoples or that it faced such complex challenges.
Music, the Gateway to French Louisiana
As for many people, my first contact with French Louisiana was through music, a vibrant and omnipresent tradition that is one of the region's defining cultural characteristics. We arrived in Lafayette just in time for the Festival International de Louisiane. Since its inception in 1986, the annual April festival has become a must-attend event in Acadiana, the Louisiana region also known as Cajun Country. Lafayette, a city of just over 110,000 people(NOTE 1), is the region's cultural hub. It is here, in the heart of town, that the festival is held. And it didn't take us long to learn that in Louisiana, people love to celebrate! It was as if the region's entire French-speaking community had come out for the event, which had been created as "an annual visual and performing arts festival celebrating the French cultural heritage of Southern Louisiana - primarily a combination of French, African, Caribbean and Hispanic influences.(NOTE2)"
Inspired by the Québec City Summer Festival with its multiple stages and themes, as well as by its goal of bringing together musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds, the festival is friendly, accessible and free (festival-goers can buy a pin to help finance the event on a voluntary basis). Every year, a dedicated team of workers and volunteers puts in countless hours to organize this exciting cultural rendezvous that showcases traditional Louisiana music (Cajun, Zydeco). In 2009, the event featured a cross section of artists from around the globe, including Malajube (Québec), Alpha Ya Ya Diallo (Guinea), Dengue Fever (Cambodia/U.S.), Rachid Taha (Algeria), Locos Por Juana (Colombia/Venezuela) and more. With the permission of the friendly folks at Acadiana Open Channel (AOC), the community television station, we camped out in the AOC parking lot in the heart of the action. As a result, we were in the perfect position to meet people, enjoy the music and bask in the extraordinary outpouring of joie de vivre. I don't think any of us had ever experienced a festival that intensely before.
Patrick-Louis Michot, Music in the Authentic Cajun Tradition
The first night of the festival, a man came up to our bus and, in richly-accented French, said:
"Si toi, T'es intéressé par la musique d'icitte, suis-moi asteure"
[Si toi, tu es intéressé par la musique d'ici, alors viens avec moi]
'If you're interested in the music from 'round here, then come along with me.'
And so three of us followed him to a crowded restaurant where people were eating, drinking, and dancing. There we had our first genuine taste of Cajun music with Les Frères Michot. The word Cajun is actually a deformation of Acadien the name for the French-speaking deportees who came to Louisiana after being forced from their homes in Acadia, Canada [parts of what is today New Brunswick and Nova Scotia]. English speakers had a little trouble with the pronunciation of the Acadien [ækadze˜], which naturally evolved into Cajun. However, even today, members of Louisiana's French community still use Cadien as the proper spelling.
In the world of traditional Cajun music, Les Frères Michot are exactly what their name says-brothers. When the full band is present, there are five Michot siblings on stage. They specialise in a style known as bal maison featuring diatonic accordion, fiddle and acoustic guitar, as well as the 'titfer (triangle) and string bass-and they sing in French. Sixty-year-old Patrick-Louis Michot, the eldest brother and a judge by profession, invited us to drop by his office the next day. There he quickly made it clear that despite the popularity of Les Frères Michot, few Cajun musicians make a living from their art. In this clip, he explains where this family passion for traditional music comes from.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VIDEO 1: Music, a Family Affair; 2 min. 44 sec.
A Cajun song would hardly be the genuine article if it weren't sung in French. But as Patrick-Louis explained to us, singing in French doesn't necessarily mean speaking French. Like many Louisiana French-speakers, he was born to French-speaking parents of Acadian descent, but never learned the language at home. Today, people like him, most of whom range in age between 35 and 55, are referred to as "the lost generation" (lien ou See Article 3). For the Michot brothers, English is their first language. Even so, Patrick-Louis was surrounded by French when growing up. He heard it from family and neighbours; it was part of everyday life. As a teen, he became determined to pick up the language because it was important to him, so he started learning it on his own, bit by bit. Today, of the six brothers, "three speak French well, one so-so, and two hardly at all." Even so, all of the brothers have been part of Les Frères Michot at one time or another.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VIDEO 2: Singing in French, Speaking French; 59 sec.
Horace Trahan, Musician without Borders
With the festival in full swing in Louisiana's torrid spring heat, I stumbled across an enthusiastic crowd at a performance by Horace Trahan and The Bluerunners. Horace is a musician who mixes Cajun, Zydeco and blues styles. His isn't the traditional fare of Les Frères Michot, even though the influences are readily apparent. Horace learned the accordion when he was very young from his great uncle Félix Richard, the man credited with teaching Zachary Richard 20 years earlier. Although Horace has played Cajun music for years and is generally associated with Zydeco today, he doesn't hide his wide-ranging influences: "Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, old country like Hank Williams Senior, but also tunes by John Mayer and Jason Mraz. "I listen to reggae, rock, a bit of rap, Cajun, Zydeco. I like variety, just like everybody else." In this clip Horace introduces us to the different styles of Cajun and Zydeco music:
VIDEO 3: The Origins of Cajun and Zydeco Music; 1 min. 16 sec.
Over the course of his musical career, Horace has deliberately avoided being pigeon holed into a particular musical category, because he wants to have the freedom to explore. He easily switches from French to English in his songs and has a repertoire of tunes in both languages. For him, it's simple. "It depends on how I feel," he told us, but admitted that he's more comfortable speaking English:
"I'm kind of 'honte,'" he confided, "J'ai moyen honte avec mon français parce que je parle pas trop bien."
[J'ai un peu honte de mon français parce que je ne le parle pas tropbien]
'I'm a bit ashamed that I don't speak better French.'
He smiled as he remembered his grandfather, born in 1908, who spoke only French, refusing to use English with his grandchildren. As for his father, who spoke no English before he was forced to learn it and use it in school (lien ou See Article 3), he taught a little bit of French to his children. Today, Horace sings in both languages and his sister teaches at a French immersion school. Despite the barriers, the cultural heritage is still passed on. And as Horace explains, so long as the music lives on, the language and culture will continue to survive and evolve.
VIDEO 4: Musical Evolution; 1 min. 06 sec.
Cedric Watson, Youth Meets Tradition
During our first night in Lafayette, we met Cédric Watson at one of Lafayette's most famous bars, the Blue Moon. He couldn't believe how little I knew:
Helgi Piccinin: "Au fait, c'est quoi le Zydeco?"
[Just what is Zydeco exactly?"]
Cédric Watson: "Si toi veux écouter du Zydeco, moi j'vas jouer pendant le festival et ça va être chaud."
[Si tu veux écouter du Zydeco, moi, je vais jouer pendant le festival et
ça va chauffer]
'If y'all wanna hear some Zydeco, I'm playin' the festival and we're going to rock the house!'
I made a mental note not to miss his show, and I wasn't disappointed. The place was rocking!
Let's stop a minute to examine the origins of the word Zydeco. Like the word Cajun, Zydeco is a corruption of a French word, in this case les haricots. Les haricots sont pas salés [the snap beans ain't salty] is an old regional Creole expression once used by the slaves meaning that times were tough, In hard times, salted meat was more expensive and as a result, there wasn't anything to salt the beans.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VIDEO 5: Cédric Watson on the Origin of the term Zydeco and the Music of the Slaves; 2 min.01 sec.
Zydeco originated with the French Creoles of colour. Whereas Cajun music can trace its lineage, in part, back to the French culture of the Acadians, Zydeco's roots lie with the slaves of African descent who were brought to Louisiana during the slave trade ((lien ou See Article 2). Plantation workers developed a style of singing prayer and giving thanks involving rhythmic foot stomping and hand clapping. It is known as juré, from the French jurer-to testify or swear. There were no instruments. Gradually, the style evolved to incorporate the accordion, washboard and other instruments like the fiddle, guitar, bass and drums. Zydeco became popular at dances, eventually absorbing influences from jazz, blues, country, R&B and rap to become a genre in its own right. While Cajun and Zydeco music are distinct forms, their mutual influence is immediately obvious to the ear. What's more, they share another common characteristic - they are both sung in French. In one case, it's Cajun French, in the other, Creole.
Cédric Watson embodies a new approach to traditional Zydeco. Driven by his desire to "keep the heritage alive through music," he explores new avenues while at the same time remaining faithful to a tradition inherited from the musical greats he admires.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VIDEO 6: Cédric Explains his Motivations for Playing Traditional Music; 2 min. 15 sec.
Zachary Richard, from Music to Language
Zachary Richard is a contemporary music icon in Louisiana and an ardent defender of the region's culture. He is also the one person we would have been very disappointed not to see during our stay. Fortunately, we managed to catchup with him as he left the stage following his show at the festival. Sensing our curiosity and enthusiasm, he agreed to spend 15 minutes with us and to share a few thoughts. He began by discussing music, then branched out onto the issue of the cultural identity of French speakers in Louisiana. He explained that the key to establishing a thriving cultural identity is creating conditions that make it possible to live in French. Singing in French is one thing, but the real challenge is speaking the language in everyday life.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VIDEO 7: Zachary Richard: Singing in French is One Thing, but Speaking It Is the Real Challenge, 1 min. 49 sec.
Nothing is easy about the struggles of Louisiana's French-speaking community. To make his point, Zachary used the concert he had just finished as an example, noting that for the first time in 15 years, he had performed a majority of songs in English. Although he may be a French language activist and artist who has played a key role in promoting Louisiana culture in the United States, Canada and the rest of the world, the fact remains that he's also a citizen of the world's most populous English-speaking country who lives much of his day-to-day life in English. That's part of his reality and identity, too. How do you make yourself understood by the majority? How do you convey common concerns? How do you reach the English-speaking community that you can't ignore, and that you also happen to be a part of?
FRENCH LANGUAGE VIDEO 8: Zachary Richard Talks about Singing in French, 3 min. 38 sec.
Personal First Impressions
After my introduction to Acadiana at the Festival International de Louisiane, I've come to realize that nothing here is completely black or white. It's all one big melting pot of people, cultures and identities-truly fertile ground for the intermingling of Louisiana's rich and diverse cultures. But for the French-speaking community, the struggle to keep the language alive is a challenge because it's first and foremost a struggle against one's own family, friends and neighbours. Not only is it a struggle against assimilation by the majority, but also-and most importantly - it is a struggle to secure the respect and support of the majority and even to have them adopt elements of the minority culture as their own. "To survive, we need the approval of our neighbours, we need to convert English-speaking Americans into Francophiles", affirmed Zachary Richard. That's easier said than done. When Zachary himself asks, "How goes the battle?" he's forced to admit: "It's tough." Despite the challenges, the Festival International de Louisiane has brought a ray of hope to this minority French-language culture. Of course, music isn't the answer to all of the challenges facing Louisiana today, but between Zachary Richard, Cédric Watson, Horace Trahan, Les Frères Michot, and all the other French-language artists who keep the music and creativity alive in this little corner of America, French music is anything but a vestige of a dead past. It is the reflection of a rich and vibrant culture born of multiple influences and still very much alive today.
"Once the music was over, I felt it was important to step back in time to untangle the threads of Louisiana's history. There was something I needed to know, and it boiled down to one rather naïve question: How did there come to be such a large French-speaking community in the southern United States?" (Read Article 2).
Helgi Piccinin
Vidéo Eldorado
Note 1. 2006 data. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22000.html
Note 2. http://www.festivalinternational.com/site47.php
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Zachary Richard s'explique sur le fait de chanter en français (3min38sec)
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Q: PDE Separation of Variables I'm trying to find a solution to:
$v_t = kv_{x x} , 0 < x < l, 0 < t < ∞$
$v(0, t) = 0$
$v_x(l, t) = 0$
$v(x, 0) = −U$
I have:
$v(x,t) = X(x)T(t)$
$X(x)T'(t) - kT(t)X''(x) = 0$
$\frac{T'(t)}{kT(t)} = \frac{X''(x)}{X(x)} = -\lambda$
$X''(x) = -\lambda X(x)$
$\delta^2 = \lambda$
$X(x) = C\cos(\delta x) + D\sin(\delta x)$
$X'(x) = -C\delta\sin(\delta x) + D\delta\cos(\delta x)$
$X(0) = C+ D = 0 => C=-D$
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This is wear I keep getting suck
The correct value of $\delta$ is suppose to be $\frac{n + (1/2)}{l}\pi$ but I don't see how that is possible

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Austin Schafer: 'You Can Keep Moving Forward'
By Timothy Hands
Austin Schafer -- Photo: YouTube
Earlier this summer, two-time Division I National champ Gabe Dean (85 kg) confirmed that he will continue his wrestling career as a full-time Greco-Roman athlete. The news was big. It still is. Dean, who competed for Cornell University, was not only a terrific collegiate wrestler, but he had also displayed a natural inclination towards Greco in 2015 when he earned a silver medal at the Pan Ams after only two weeks of preparation. But he has some lineage — Dean's father Dave was a stout national-level competitor in his own right, so the apple didn't fall too far from the tree, you could say.
Around the same time Dean was announced as a newly-minted full timer, word came about that recent Oklahoma State grad Austin Schafer would also be taking his talents to Senior Greco-Roman competition (in fact, Schafer made the move to Ithaca, right where Dean is). It is understandable that Schafer's commitment to Greco would fly a little under the radar compared to Dean's declaration. Dean enjoyed a sparkling career and the spoils of relative "wrestling fame" that came along with it. Schafer was a little more blue collar. There are no national titles on his resume and though he spent his college years at perennial powerhouse Oklahoma State, it wasn't until last season when the 24-year-old really started to make headlines.
After three years competing at 197 lbs, Schafer moved all the way up to 285. Heavyweight. Oh for sure, he was undersized. Some of them boys are monsters. But instead of finding the sledding just a little too rough to tangle with, Schafer went ahead and put together the best season of his career. He trucked his way through the Big 12 Championships, went 5-1 against ranked opposition, and capped the year with a 23-3 record overall. Yeah, he used his quickness and maneuverability to get the jump on those big men. But it was more than that. Schafer's work ethic and self-confidence were other determining factors in his impressive final collegiate campaign.
Also similar to Dean, Schafer had plenty of competitive options at his disposal in the freestyle realm upon graduation. He didn't take them. As an NCAA Division I qualifier, Schafer was also eligible to compete in the US Greco-Roman World Team Trials. Opportunism was the name of the game for his maiden voyage in the classical style. Schafer won his first match versus multi-time University National champ Orry Elor (NYAC) when Elor came loose on a throw attempt, allowing Schafer to collapse on top and hold on for the fall. Next was a tech loss to National Team member Hayden Zillmer (Minnesota Storm) and then two wins in the consolation bracket, with one of them over Daniel Miller (Marines). Eventually, Schafer sewed up a fifth-place finish, with his last win of the day coming against Jake Kasper, another collegiate crossover who had defeated Schafer earlier in the year at the folkstyle Southern Scuffle. It is also worth noting that of Schafer's four wins at the Trials, three came via pin.
Another learning experience arrived just over a month later. At the University Nationals in Akron, Ohio, Schafer advanced to the semifinals where he was defeated by eventual tournament victor Zach Merrill (NYRTC). Next, Miller got him back in the consolation semis with a snappy tech. But in the battle for fifth place, Schafer scored his biggest win thus far when he zipped in on a high dive and drove 2016 Senior Nationals runner-up Khymba Johnson (NYAC/OTS) straight down for the fall.
That was three months ago. A full summer has passed since Schafer put his sole focus on Greco-Roman, and it is reasonable to assume he has enhanced his skill-set in a big way. With the new competitive season about to heat up, many are intrigued as to how he will fare and what kind of improvements are being made now that this is his vocation. Schafer's unwavering belief in his ability and enthusiasm for the task at hand are evident when he discusses the transition, which will no doubt serve him well going forward.
Q & A with Austin Schafer — 98 kg, NYRTC
5PM: How do you like Ithaca so far, just in terms of general geography and lifestyle adjustment?
Austin Schafer: I like it a lot. It's nice weather. It's a lot more relaxing in the summer, just because in Oklahoma it's so hot and dry out there all of the time, so you can't be outside at all, whereas up here, I can run every day. I can be outdoors the whole summer and not feel like I'm roasted. That's been nice, but I've heard that winters are going to be brutal for me. I went to West Point for a year, but I heard it's even colder here.
5PM: At this stage, what do you perceive as your biggest strengths and your best attributes for Greco?
AS: I think my biggest strength for Greco right now is my creativity a little bit. When I was wrestling heavyweight in folkstyle, I had to scramble and move, outsmart and out-quick them. I think a lot of that is my pace from folkstyle and it is going to carry over. A lot of guys in Greco I feel are a lot slower-paced and just go in spurts, as opposed to keeping that full-on, full-go pace. I give them a different feel and hopefully, it will render some results for me.
5PM: Wrestling up at a higher weight last year and then going into prep for the World Team Trials, when you finally started getting your hands on guys your own size competitively again, did you all of the sudden feel more viable, more powerful?
AS: Yeah, I'd definitely say I did. When I was training, I was with Sam Hazewinkel training with his DII guys at UCO (University of Central Oklahoma) and I was crushing all those guys. Once I got out to Vegas, I mean, I had (Hayden) Zillmer in my second match and I had to battle with him a little bit. But I could open up and move around a bit more. Whereas when I was wrestling those big guys (in college), I had to hunker down and stay in position. I couldn't give up an inch. So it's nice having more fluidity in my wrestling.
5PM: It's interesting you mention the word 'fluidity' because I think many folkstyle coaches and fans look at Greco as a more restrictive style. But you say fluidity. It seems like more and more wrestlers crossing over feel liberated. Is that because of the rule-set or the dynamic scoring opportunities? How do you feel about that?
AS: Well, in folkstyle, when you're on the offensive, you're moving. You're always worrying about having to watch your legs, sprawling, down-blocking, and all of that. Where in Greco, yeah, you do have to defend his attacks, too, but you can catch him off-guard. You can keep moving forward. You don't have to worry about something. You're battling him the whole time, you don't have to worry about moving your leg all of the sudden. I feel like there is a little less to think about so you can just open up a bit more and be more active.
5PM: What does a typical training session up in Ithaca look like? We hear a lot about the talent that is starting to accumulate in that environment. What are practices like?
AS: It is pretty basic, to be honest. Five, six days a week, going in once or twice a day. Just going in and getting your drills, technique, hitting some live, and then conditioning. Nothing too crazy, it's just staying consistent with that routine.
5PM: When are you looking to getting back out on the mat competitively?
Austin Schafer: I'm thinking the Schultz because I'm too old for U23's.
5PM: After that, is there a preliminary plan in place to go overseas to get more action against foreigners?
AS: The plan right now, I think, is going to Iran in December. That's the only one planned right now through the end of the year.
5PM: When you look at the current climate in Greco-Roman in this country, the way Greco is seen nationwide, especially compared to folkstyle/freestyle, what is it about the program right now that attracts you to throwing your hat in the ring?
AS: Honestly, it's just the fact that I love to wrestle. That's just honestly what I enjoy. When I saw that was qualified for the Greco Trials, I figured, You know, why not give that a shot? I always try to compete and I knew I wanted to continue to compete in freestyle. I went up there and I had never really wrestled in Greco, except for like, once in FILA Juniors five or six years before that. I did fairly well, got fifth. Lost a close one…
5PM: To Enock (Francois)
AS: Yeah, I just didn't know what to do in throwing positions yet. I was just going out and scrapping with guys. Just wrestling them and seeing what happened. Once I did that, I was like, Oh, I'm pretty good at this. I've already taken fifth and I never really trained in this stuff. I had a couple of practices with Hazewinkel. It was kind of refreshing. It is something new. It keeps my interest and my mind kind of piqued so I can keep learning. It gives me a lot more ceiling.
5PM: Did the discovery of your potential in Greco competition sort of reinvigorate your desire to continue your wrestling career?
AS: Yes. I knew I wanted to continue wrestling, but once I was like, Well, I'm pretty good at this already, it became, Okay, let's try this out and see how we do.
5PM: Since you've been up in Ithaca, what have been the biggest things you've learned so far about the sport and your place in it?
Austin Schafer: I feel like I have a lot of potential right now. It's easy to look at yourself and say these things, but I feel that I have progressed a lot in my positioning. A lot of the feels and stuff that are a little different from folkstyle to Greco, you have to learn on the feet, and on top and bottom. But I am starting to get that down and let my athleticism take hold, and run with that. It feels pretty good. We'll see when it comes to the Schultz, but I feel like it should be some good results.
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Edward Augustus Freeman
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Published 1895 by Macmillan and Co., Limited, The Macmillan Company in London, New York .
Europe -- History.
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LC Classifications D103 .F9 1905
Pagination xxxi, 416 p.
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● Dimensions: This Harmony Ball is 15mm (5/8") in height and width and 25mm (1") long overall including the bail - as this item is handmade the dimensions are approximate.


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What Do We Do If We Don't 'Collaborate'?
12 Mar 2020 · Industry News
Has the word collaboration lost its meaning? What does true collaboration look like and how could we better express it in a way that leads to real action?
At Pause 2020, Barbara Soalheiro, onetime editor of Colors magazine and founder of the innovative Mesa team-based work system, provoked us with a claim that the word 'collaboration' is unnecessary and fetishized. But if we are to avoid using the term, how do we set out to work with teams? She gives us some further provocations, and not without evidence. The Mesa system has been used to considerable acclaim by Coke, Adidas, Nestlé and Google.
Time and timing is critical. Don't ask people to debate. It's the wrong mindset. Instead, give them specific tasks and responsibilities. Ask them to make something.
Don't change behaviour by changing the rules: 'People hate rules, and straightaway will look for ways to break them'. Instead, create rituals, sets of shared routine behaviours which are transparently meaningful.
Clients are not 'clients'. They are 'problem owners'.
Who's at the table is critical. In the spirit of working 'with', not 'for' problem-owners, the presence of leaders and decision makers is important. Mesa processes aim at very concrete actions to remedy complex problems, and executive presence engages action at the top, addressing needs identified on the ground. It can be a false economy to 'save executive time' by delegating change processes to middle ranks, who may not have the influence to enact them.
The era of outsourcing a problem is over. You can't brief anyone on everything you know (as the 'problem owner'). External consultants may have short-term uses, but a better investment is to build on-board skills and working culture. Problem solving also becomes training in problem solving.
Vitality Village is about bringing people with a shared vision together to work together to solve complex problems. And with our first strategic workshop kicking off this Friday (12/3/20) we will need to be thinking about all of this and more so that we can nurture a culture of solving problems, of innovation from within and of mindfulness. We can't wait to share more!
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Fortunately, there is something. That's exactly what the season of Lent is for. Our lives get so full, and our schedules so dictated by distractions, that before we know it, time has passed, kids are grown, things have changed, we got older, and it was all a blur. So the point of Lent is to stop that rush of distraction, and instead, to pause, focus, pray, look around, and notice how God is moving in the world and in you.
In order to help focus their focus, many people choose things to give up for Lent. Sometimes it's things they consider distractions; sometimes it's everyday amenities that they do without, and instead of indulging in them like normal, they spend that time praying or giving thanks. Those are all very good ideas.
Now, I shouldn't have been skeptical about those conversations. I should have been supportive. But I'm a petty cynic. I never said anything out loud, but I couldn't help but think, "Does not eating chocolate help you get closer to God?" Some people would give up meat, but vegetarians do that all the time. Does that mean a vegetarian is more spiritual than me, a meatatarian? And some people would give up soft drinks, but I stopped drinking those years ago (except in caffeine emergencies). Did that speed up my Christian walk and I didn't even know it?
Looking back now, I wonder: maybe those little, temporary sacrifices did have a helpful, spiritual effect on people. Even if it seems arbitrary to me, whatever helps a person think about God more or pray more is a good thing. So go with what works. But what I am still skeptical about is trying to convince others or yourself that you are extra holy just because you have paused some bad habit you have for 40 days, only to pick it back up again afterward. If it didn't make a difference, then what's the point?
A different approach to Lent is to take on something instead of give up something. Different ideas could be: reading a chapter in the Bible before you start the day, or pausing 5 minutes after lunch to focus yourself in prayer, or debrief your day in a journal before going to sleep. Maybe you could add a small act of service to each day, find one person to pray for every day, or even just open your eyes wider so you can notice anybody who needs some help.
Anything that helps you focus more on God's Spirit working in and around you is a good thing. But what works for some might not work for others, so get creative. Try something new, stop something old, whatever works. Then, at the end of Lent, when it's time to celebrate Easter's resurrection, you'll be in the zone, focused, ready for new life.


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Virginia state senator Sen. Adam Ebbin has introduced a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Under the proposal, the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana would be decriminalized. Currently, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana is punishable by a $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail.
"The criminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana ruins far more lives than it impacts in any kind of positive ways. [The bill] would decriminalize simple possession of an ounce or less, but not decriminalize it to the extent done recently in Colorado and Washington state," stated Ebbin.
In addition, the bill also would reduce the criminal penalties for distribution and possession with the intent to distribute and would also limit the forfeiture of property from the sale or distribution of 1 pound or more.
"This is not just a conversation starter; we need to pass this bill. We've been talking to many of the members. … I think there is general support for the core of the bill, which is removing criminal penalties for people who possess small amounts — even from Republicans." said Edward McCann, policy director for Virginia NORML.
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BMW confirms i4 for India; one of its three upcoming EV launches
Published On Dec 10, 2021 09:00:00 AM
By Soham Thakur
Along with the i4, BMW India will also launch the iX SUV and the Mini Cooper SE hatchback.
BMW thus far had fallen behind in the luxury EV race, seeing as its rivals Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar all have electric vehicles in their Indian portfolio. However, that is set to change as BMW India has now confirmed the launch of three all-electric vehicles over the next few months. The first of those launches will be the flagship iX SUV on Monday, while another will be the Mini Cooper SE hatchback, whose launch we'd reported about back in December 2019.
However, this is the first time that BMW has confirmed the launch of the i4 in India. Here's what you can expect from the upcoming electric four-door coupe.
i4 available with two powertrains internationally
i4 has a range of up to 590km (WLTP)
Will compete with the Porsche Taycan
BMW i4: exterior and interior
The all-electric i4 is based on a specially adapted version of the 3 Series' CLAR architecture. Measuring 4,783mm long, 1,852mm wide and 1,448mm tall, the i4 has similar dimensions to the conventional 3 Series sedan. In terms of design, the i4 is clearly visually related to the combustion-engined 4 Series. It features a distinctive cab-rearward profile, a large, closed-off kidney grille up front and slim LED headlights.
Inside, the i4 aims to offer "a richly involving driving experience". There's a free-standing 12.3-inch infotainment screen running BMW's eighth-generation iDrive system, plus a 14.9-inch curved digital dial display, standard sports seats and blue accents throughout as nods to the car's electric underpinnings. Three-zone automatic climate control is standard and ventilated seats are an option for both rows on the international version.
BMW i4: powertrain and battery
Internationally, the BMW i4 is available in two variants – eDrive40 and M50 xDrive. The entry-level eDrive40 version is rear-wheel drive only and it uses an electric motor that puts out 340hp and 430Nm. It is said to do the 0-100kph sprint in 5.7sec.
The all-wheel drive M50 employs a 258hp motor on the front axle and a 313hp motor on the rear axle, for a combined output of 544hp and 795Nm. The M50 also gets a unique Sport Boost function that can be used to liberate the full power output for around 10 seconds when driven in Sport mode. With this activated, the M50 can do 0-100kph in 3.9sec. However, it remains to be seen which version of the BMW i4 will be on offer in India.
The i4 stores uses a floor-mounted lithium-ion battery pack which has a gross (total) energy capacity of 83.9kWh and a net (usable) capacity of 80.7kWh. The battery is claimed to be 30 percent more power-dense than that used by the i3 hatchback.
It can charge at rates of up to 200kW, adding 164km of range in the eDrive40 and 140km worth of electrical energy in the M50, in just 10 minutes. What's more, adjustable regenerative braking can top up the battery at rates of up to 195kW in the M50 and 116kW in the eDrive40.
The RWD variant boasts a WLTP range of 590km on a single charge, with the more powerful AWD version delivering a 510km range.
BMW i4: rivals
The i4 won't have any direct rivals, but the top-spec M50 version, if launched, could face competition from lower variants of the Porsche Taycan (Rs 1.50 crore-2.31 crore) and the Audi e-tron GT (Rs 1.80 crore-2.05 crore).
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I found a little bit of time to do some summer sewing. So I made a table runner for my mother-in-law's birthday. I used the good old quick, quilt-as-you-go Table Runner Tutorial. I love how fast these come together.
Last summer when we were in Maryland I found some cool fabric with a beach and lighthouse theme and knew they were perfect for my mother-in-law who grew up in Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The prints are from the collection Beachcomber by Clothworks. All of the rest of the fabric came from my stash. I love how it all came together.
Plant and pot from Ikea.
I loved this tutorial. I did three at Christmas with Christmas fabric (two were given as a gift…kept the favourite one for me!). Then I liked it so much I did a Valentine's day one, and I now working on a spring one. I am trying to do for each season! Your tutorial was great!!
thats a lovely gift for your mother in law, great summery colours.
gorgeous! would match my bath theme!! love the fabrics!!
Just today I was loving my current summer table runner made from your tutorial, thinking I needed another!

That's such a fun, quick project.
So cute! I love beach themed fabrics…and yours coordinate so well with the other prints!
oh, i LOVE the beach!! such a perfect summer table runner!!
It 'is very nice table runner! I'm lovely this fabrics!
This project is a great showcase for novelty prints. And the quilt as you go makes it even faster. Fun!
How wonderful! My favorite kind of quilting! Thank you!


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Q: PyCharm doesn't suggest autocompletion and marks unresolved reference I'm trying to make a simple scapy program but PyCharm doesn't suggest any code completion and marks an 'unresolved reference'. The program works, however.
I'm using the latest version of PyCharm on Mac OS 10.14 and my system python interpreter (/usr/local/bin/python3.7).
from scapy.all import *

def arp_display(pkt):
    pkt.summary()
    if pkt[ARP].op == 1:
        print("%s demande qui est %s" % (pkt[ARP].psrc, pkt[ARP].pdst))
    elif pkt[ARP].opH == 2:
        print("%s possède l'addresse %s" % (pkt[ARP].psrc, pkt[ARP].hwsrc))

sniff(prn=arp_display, filter="arp", store=0, count=10)

ARP is marked as unresolved reference and when I type pkt. and ctrl + space PyCharm doesn't suggest show(), summary(), and others methods like it should.

A: You can't do much against that :/
(See https://stackoverflow.com/a/53402404/5459467 for a more complete answer)
Scapy loads its layer modules dynamically. It allows Scapy users to toggle the loading of each layers separately, but the IDEs will fail to detect the imports.
What you can do to work around this is import the layers directly from their specific file, rather than Scapy.all.
For instance:
from scapy.layers.l2 import ARP
from scapy.sendrecv import sniff

Even though it takes more time, it's way cleaner (as you don't import everything). If you don't know in which module is a layer, just help() for it in Scapy's shell.


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Ram Pravesh Kumar
115A, SES
rpkumar@mail.jnu.ac.in, praveshjnu@gmail.com
https://jnu.ac.in
Ph.D. (2017): Environmental Science, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
CSIR JRF (2009): Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences
UGC NET (2012): Environmental Sciences.
ASRB NET (2012): Environmental Sciences.
M.Sc. (2008): Environmental Science, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India.
B.Sc. (2005): Biotech & Math & Computer, Chemistry, Bihar National College, Patna University, India
Study of Air Pollution and risk assessment
Study of Chemistry of atmospheric trace gases
Air Pollution Modelling and its implication
Air Pollution and its effect on climate change
Air Pollution Meteorology
Physics of Atmosphere
2020 (February)-current: Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
2017(August)-2020(February): Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Haryana, Jant-Pali, Mahendergarh, Haryana, India.
20017 (January- June): Assistant Professor, DDUC, University of Delhi, India.
2014-2015 (Monsoon Semester): Teaching Apprentice, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India (July 2010– Jun 2012).
Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India (July 2012– Jun 2015).
National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship, CSIR, Government of India (2010&2011).
National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship, UGC, Government of India (2012).
National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship, ASRB, Government of India (2012).
NCC 'A' Certificate.
Best group presentation award in national workshop on "Environmental Analytical Chemistry" by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre - Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry of India (BRNS-AEACI) Trombay, Mumbai, Seventh School on Analytical Chemistry (SAC-7), 2013.
International Collaboration/Consultancy
Kashyap, P., Kumar, A., Kumar, R. P., & Kumar, K. (2019). Biogenic and anthropogenic isoprene emissions in the subtropical urban atmosphere of Delhi. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 10(5), 1691-1698.
Kumar, R. P., Kashyap, P., Kumar, R., Pandey, A. K., Kumar, A., & Kumar, K. (2019). Cancer and non-cancer health risk assessment associated with exposure to non-methane hydrocarbons among roadside vendors in Delhi, India. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 1-15.
Kumar, R. P., Ranjan, R. K., Ramanathan, A. L., Singh, S. K., & Srivastava, P. K. (2015). Geochemical modeling to evaluate the mangrove forest water. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 8(7), 4687-4702.
Kumar, R. P., Pandey, A. K., Kumar, R., Kashyap, P., & Kumar, K. (2017). Assessment of Source Profile of Nonmethane Hydrocarbon in the Ambient Air of Metro City Delhi, India. Current World Environment, 12(2), 326.
Pandey, A. K., Kumar, R. P., & Kumar, K. (2015, October). Satellite and ground-based seasonal variability of NO2 and SO2 over New Delhi, India. In Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XX (Vol. 9640, p. 96400U). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Patents (if any)


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Malayalam Bigging TV Show - Bzinga Latest Update, Winners, Participants, Celebs, Guests, Today Episode, Lowest Bidders List
Govind Padmasoorya is back as TV anchor, to host interactive bidding show Bzinga
As per the updates, 'Bzinga' involves an interactive live bidding show for home viewers, through the special mobile app as well as a bidding game in the studio, between 6 selected public bidders chosen from commoners.
Also, each episode will also have a celebrity guest. The one who places a unique and lowest bid for various electronic and home products would be declared as a winner.
Happy news for the fans of Govind Padmasoorya aka GP. The handsome hunk is back to Malayalam TV as a host with a brand new show.
GP will be hosting a first of its kind bidding show, 'Bzinga'.
Govind Padmasoorya, who is fondly called GP, is one of the most loved TV hosts of Malayalam TV. The host who shot to fame by hosting the dance reality show, 'D 4 Dance was recently seen judging the couple reality show, 'Mr & Mrs'.
Talking about the new show, Govind said, "I am extremely happy and excited to be back as a host for BZINGA, the concept of which is unique and motivated me to take up the project instantly. I am eagerly looking forward to be interacting with my audience again and entertaining them."
Telecast, How to Participate:
The show will hit the screens from August 7. Here's the teaser:


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OVERLAND PARK – Virgil E. "Pete" Oborg, 87, of Overland Park and formerly of Smolan, passed away Monday, March 30, 2020. He was born October 20, 1932 in Smolan to Phillip and Mabel (Anderson) Oborg.
Pete was baptized and confirmed at Salemsborg Lutheran Church, Smolan, and later in life served on the church board. He was a graduate of Smolan High School. Pete was a U.S. Army veteran, serving as a Sergeant during the Korean War. He was a lifelong farmer, dairyman, and stockman, and served on the Board of Farmers Union Coop. After retiring from farming, Pete and Norma moved to Salina where they resided until moving to Overland Park in 2018.
He is survived by: his wife, Norma (Weddle) Oborg; daughters, Marty Whitaker (Scott) of Carrollton, TX, and Shelley Lierz (Steve) of Overland Park, KS; sister, Delores Anderson (Eyler) of Salina; and grandchildren, Britta and McKenna Whitaker and Brady and Sydney Lierz.
He was preceded in death by: his parents; brother, Wayne Oborg; and sister and brother-in-law, Phyllis and Guy Cypher.
Memorial Services will be announced at a later date due to current gathering restrictions.
Memorials may be made to Salemsborg Lutheran Church, in care of Ryan Mortuary, Salina.
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Is Repatriating ISIS 'Foreign Fighters' to their Countries of Nationality Wise?
By Dan Cadman on February 21, 2019
The Trump administration has been lauding the seizure of virtually all of the previously held territory of the ISIS "caliphate" — the remnants of which are now holed up in a single town in Syria, fighting a fierce street-by-street battle to the death. The administration cites it as evidence of the functional demise of ISIS as an entity, although some experts have disputed this, pointing to a diaspora of thousands of fighters who have dispersed, choosing instead to flee and fight another day.
As the administration winds down military involvement in Syria, most of which has involved U.S. special operations forces working with allies, predominantly the Kurdish Free Syrian Army forces, an issue has arisen with the potential to adversely affect U.S. homeland security: We have been the Kurds' main supporters in the area, and they have reason to be concerned over the pullback of U.S. forces, which leaves a vacuum into which Iran, Turkey, or Syria might attempt to enter, given that all three are hostile to Kurds, Syrian or otherwise, and might seek to annihilate them as the chance offers.
The Kurds, confronting the possibility of a war for their very survival, and wondering about the reliability of continued U.S. support, have made clear that they cannot and will not be in a position to maintain custody of roughly 800 ISIS "foreign fighters" captured on the battlefields of Syria, whom they have held in prisons on behalf of the United States.
There is valid reason to be concerned over the Kurds' capacities to hold these individuals in the long term, and clearly something must be done, but this has put the United States in a tricky position: Exactly what should be done with these battle-hardened and highly dangerous terrorists who come from all over the globe, including various Arabic and European countries?
Recently, the White House has started pressing the Europeans to accept transfer of and responsibility for the ISIS fighters who hold European nationality and the Europeans, for their part, are resisting the demand (see here and here). Similarly, the administration has floated the idea of detaining ISIS foreign fighters in prison in Iraq.
Is either idea wise? There are cogent reasons to think not. Iraq's frequent prison breaks specifically designed to free terrorist detainees suggest the country's security forces are not up to the task (see here, here, and here).
And handing ISIS fighters back to their countries of nationality only works if the legal systems of those countries are competent to handle such individuals with a view toward incarceration. That isn't necessarily the case. Questions would inevitably arise as to the sufficiency of evidence — if any — other than having been captured on a foreign field of battle. And let's be frank: Many European countries are lenient even when handing out sentences for individuals convicted of acts of terror on their soil (see here and here).
During the Obama years, other models were attempted in regard to terrorist detainees at Guantanamo, which Barack Obama tried and failed to close. Obama's Defense Department farmed out terrorists to cooperating third countries like Uruguay based on assurances that they would be carefully monitored. Of course, this didn't happen, and many of them simply disappeared, some to be recaptured or killed back in war zones once again plying their trade as jihadists. (Donald Trump has neither expanded nor reduced the number of terrorist detainees interned at Guantanamo, leaving it in stasis with a significantly reduced population of about 40 of the most hard-core jihadists.)
Another model was to hand these individuals over to countries like Saudi Arabia, which placed them with great fanfare into reintegration centers designed to help them shed their extremist beliefs, later proclaiming the centers to be astoundingly successful. However, more than one dissident, as well as some academics, have questioned the official line and suggested that the centers are shrouded in such secrecy that it is impossible to objectively assess their success, particularly inasmuch as the kingdom has invested the program with so much money and hype that it might not admit to program failures.
What's clear is this: Any program involving handover of ISIS foreign fighters that risks in any way them being released, or permitted through negligence to disappear, subjects the United States to great risk. While there is little chance that any of them would ever manage to enter our country either through procuring a visa or through the Visa Waiver Program (for European nationals), nothing at all stops them from obtaining fraudulent or altered documents that might very well pass scrutiny at a U.S. port of entry. Even more concerning is the threat of simply crossing into the United States through our porous southern border. My colleague Todd Bensman has written extensively on this subject (see, e.g., here, here, and here).
What does that leave us? Once again opening up the gates of Guantanamo and holding those foreign fighters there. Messy and morally complex as it is, it may be the best of all the bad-to-worse alternatives (see here and here). Several senators have already suggested as much.
Doing so would be an extraordinarily expensive proposition. But in the end, which is cheaper: internment at Gitmo, or the risk of a mass terror attack on American soil by seasoned and brutal ISIS foreign fighters who get placed into the hands of a country that may not care where they go or what they do, once received?
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Q: Write custom file name with AWS::S3 using aws-ruby-sdk Is there a way to upload a file but with a dynamic (custom) filename using the aws-ruby-sdk gem?  This seems like such an obvious need, yet its nowhere to be found in the documentation. Grrr
The only method I see in the docs are the following, which doesn't offer much flexibilty.
## Uploading Files

## You can upload a file to S3 in a variety of ways. Given a path to a file (as a string) you can do any of the following:

# specify the data as a path to a file
obj.write(Pathname.new(path_to_file))

# also works this way
obj.write(:file => path_to_file)

# Also accepts an open file object
file = File.open(path_to_file, 'rb')
obj.write(file)

## All three examples above produce the same result. The file will be streamed to S3 in chunks. It will not be loaded entirely into memory.

I've been using the aws-s3 gem until now which supported this with the AWS::S3::S3Object.store, but now that I'm using the SDK gem I can't use this concurrently.

A: According to the documentation, the way you initialize a new object is
# new object, does not exist yet
obj = bucket.objects["my-text-object"]

then you invoke .write on the instance to write the file. In other words, the equivalent of the following AWS::S3 code
S3Object.store('greeting.txt', 'hello world!', 'my-bucket')

should be
obj = bucket.objects["greeting.txt"]
obj.write("hello world!")

where bucket is an instance representing a bucket.
s3 = AWS::S3.new
bucket = s3.buckets['my-bucket']