"Why does school take so long?"
You're at a party with some old friends. You're all catching up on each other's lives, and you hear ... The Question.
"When are you going to be finished with that typing school of yours?"
To be sure, there are many variations on that particular question, each one more annoying than the last.
Fortunately, my Facebook friend, Meridith, has a few suggestions for you to keep at the ready during your next familial interrogation family get-together.
When people keep asking me why school takes so long, I turn my display onto English- so what I write comes out in English. I'll write their name and a simple sentence. Then I'll hand them my machine and ask them to write their name. They stare at the unmarked keys. They try to make sense of them. Not having the year (and then some) that it took to learn Phoenix theory, they can't do it. They can't spell their name.
Then, I take my machine back, change the display to only show Steno, and write something like, "The cow jumped over the moon." I ask them to read it. They can't. I tell them that the next time they ask me why my schooling is taking so LOOOOOOONG- they had better be able to at least write their name and read a simple sentence in steno. ;o) It tends to quiet them down a bit.
But here's some food for thought. Maybe more people will have a deeper understanding if they were to read the following information.
The average length of time is somewhere between 3-5 years. Many factors go into this. Someone who is going to school full-time, and doesn't have a job, family, or any other responsibilities to cut into practice time, will probably be on the shorter end, or even spend less time in school. There are exceptions to every rule, of course. The theory is a factor, too. Some theories are faster and/or easier to learn than other theories. Online or brick and mortar tend to have a different pace, as well. How high the standards are for passing tests can have an impact. The self-motivated individual who has a very strong grasp of the English language and how to punctuate it, as well as a very strong vocabulary, and a knack for learning new languages, physical dexterity of the fingers with the ability to do different things with each hand at the same time, good hearing, and adequate ability to stay focused will do better than someone without these abilities.
Supportive environment. It takes a LOT out of a human being to take tests every single day and fail. That's the nature of the beast in CR school. You take speed tests every day, and until you are actually at the speed that you're testing at- you're going to fail them all. This doesn't affect your GPA, but it CAN affect your self-esteem! You have to learn to take each failure and turn it into a positive. Not everyone has this ability, either. Which could explain the over 90% drop out rate, across the nation, of all schools- online or brick and mortar. Anything that detracts from your ability to be on your machine, doing high-speed dictation, will slow you down. That means taking care of the home, the family, chores, shopping, jobs, volunteering, eating, sleeping. Lol Court Reporters aren't just learning to "type real fast". They are learning a whole new way of typing. We don't spell out words, we stroke sounds. We don't have a QWERTY keyboard, we have a Phonetic one. Which means our keyboard is sort of like a word. We have the beginning sound of a word on the left side, the middle, lower letters are the middle of the word, and the right hand does the ending letters. If you ask me how to spell Jack- it's not going to be one finger pressing down "J, a, c, k." (Four strokes of individual fingers.) It's going to be SKWRABG with 7 fingers, all at the same time. One stroke. The soft "J" sound is a combination of pressing "SKWR" all at once in my theory. The hard "G" sound is "TKPW." So we not only have to learn how to represent letters (If we have to spell out someone's name) on a keyboard that only has 20 keys (with repeated letters, too!), we also have to make a shift from spelling out letters to making sounds come out of combinations of letters that really don't make a whole lot of sense... it's a way of telling you which keys to press down to represent a sound. This is literally the same as acquiring a second language. Learning to write what you hear instead of spell what you hear is a skill that not everyone can accomplish. Then we have these sounds. What are we going to do with them? In my theory, HOW we write our vowels, or IF we write them at all, tells the different sounds what to do. If I want to write, HOMEWORK I would write, HOME in one stroke (HOEPL) and then wrk (W-RBG). I would omit the "O" in work to tell that word to stick to the first word. Learning all of these rules on how to make the phonemes stick or not stick, or convert to something else entirely to form a word is acquiring a SECOND language along with the first one that we're learning just to get those phonemes down onto our keyboard. Keep in mind that our 20 key keyboard, has repeating letters on both sides. So we don't have anywhere NEAR all of the letters of the alphabet on that machine. "C" for example, is a KR stroked together. Q is a KW stroked together.
Now that we've learned how to write SOUNDS instead of WORDS, and now that we know those crazy combinations of letters to make those sounds, and now that we've learned how to make those different sounds stick or not, we have to start doing it fast. Very fast. We have to eventually get to 225 words per minute. How fast do YOU type, btw? Some people learn all of that... and then can never get to 225 words per minute. Those are the really hard ones to see leave school. They have everything else in place. They just can't do it fast enough. It's heart breaking. And we have people who have to give up when they run out of money, get injured, get repetitive movement injuries, lose morale, etc. It's a BATTLEFIELD. You're battling your own mind, self doubts, critics in the people around you, difficulty level in what you are trying to do, guilt over the people and things that you have to neglect in order to get ENOUGH practice in to justify occupying a chair in school. So the next time you meet a Court Reporting Student, do them a favor... don't ask them why they're taking so long.
Here is an excerpt from a neuropsychologist's deposition which we think you will find very interesting!
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST: Okay. If you look -- and the example is this: Our brains are a miracle. Okay. They're a miracle that needs to be protected. And if you look at the court reporter right now, as an example, okay, this is a miracle in progress happening right before your eyes.
Let me just explain what she needs to do. I am speaking, so the information has to come in through her ear into her temporal lobe, and it has to go log itself into the language center. She has to be able to comprehend what I'm saying.
Then it has to get rerouted to the prefrontal cortex where it has to hold -- she has to be able to hold the information, because, you know, I continuously talk so she has to hold it. Right? Then she has to analyze it, integrate it and synthesize it. Then it has to go back to the cerebellum and she has to be able to execute this, and she has to be able to then convert my words into those little squiggly marks. Have you ever seen court reporters have little squiggly language things?
We take our brains for granted. She's sitting here. I'm probably talking too fast for her, but she's able to do this simultaneously. Seamlessly. Okay.
No animal on the planet can do this. All right. That's why I believe court reporters will never be replaced. Because no technical -- no technology could replace the beauty of that brain and the miracle of that brain. And that's why your brain should always be protected and you should take care of it.
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Liberian Girl
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Is Liberian Girl available on CD anywhere without the ending of Speed Demon attached to the beginning of it?
dam2040
I don't know about CD but the vinyl single should be without Speed Demon. The radio edit (not sure if this appears on any CDs?) is also what you're looking for.
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Elton-Cetera said:
Sort of... there is an edit version that is 6 seconds shorter; mainly cutting the intro so the Speed Demon ending isn't in there. However, you still hear it slightly, for a second, far in the background. This version appeared on the Quincy Jones compilation From Q, With Love. It also appeared on some King of Pop compilations, like the The Dutch Collection (Liberian Girl is listed as 'album version', but it's the edit version).
The Ultimate Fan Extras Collection has Liberian Girl (UK Edit) completely on its own. It's on iTunes!
Speed Demon is not in this set at all. I have not found Speed Demon anywhere completely on it's own without the opening of Liberian Girl attached to the end of it.
What was the whole point of attaching those two songs together on the BAD album? Those were the only tracks they did that to.
Adrian Shifter
Taken from here: "A standard 12-inch 33 RPM vinyl record can have a playtime of roughly 22 minutes per side for a total of 44 minutes."
The first side of BAD on vinyl, which consists of Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Speed Demon, Liberian Girl and Just Good Friends, is around 21 minutes and 14 seconds. I guess they didn't have (or didn't come up with) a better alternative to fit the songs together on one side.
Fuzball
TIDFY/SYB on the Destiny album were also blended together.
Worst case of song blending (or what ever it's called) I've seen, if I remember well, in MJ's "very extended universe", was Carole Bayer Sager's "Sometimes Late At Night" album , where MJ sings on "Just friends" ... all the songs are overlapped at the beginning and at the end with some "inter-song" music... that starts when the previous song isn't even over... so they all end with some similar piece of music...
What should the length of the song be precisely ?
On various versions of "King of Pop" compilations, "Liberian girl" is 3:53 and it's not the edit version: https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Jackson-King-Of-Pop-The-Finnish-Collection/release/4067760
(EDIT August 2021: Now tested, time report is wrong, see next post.)
As someone mentioned above, the Ducth version as the edit version so you would have to check other countries releases.)
On "Bad" second pressing LG is 3:54 and is overlapped by 5 or 6 seconds of Speed Demon. Same on 2001 version and some other version.
On Bad 2012, LG is 3:50 (there some of the sound has actually move to the end of track 3.)
So 3:53 and no Speed Demon around, I can't confirm/promise anything, but there's some hope...
Maxym said:
I bought a very cheap German edition of King of Pop in order to check that, Discogs said 3:53, the track is actually 3:50, cut very similarly to Liberian Girl on Bad 2012.
I guess the reason why Discogs mentions 3:53 for some edition is simply that it point the database entry of the early Bad album releases for that song.
There was a limited edition Speed Demon promo during the BAD era:
https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Jackson-Speed-Demon/release/1273407
It has an edited ending, cutting the last few seconds.
I guess it's a hard to find item.
In Poland, an official promo cd-r was released in 2012, claiming to contain the 'Remastered Original'. I don't know whether or not that has the first sounds of Liberian Girl at the ending.

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Les Éréthizontidés () forment une famille de gros rongeurs du continent américain. Ce sont les porcs-épics du Nouveau Monde par analogie avec les porcs-épics de l'Ancien Monde, les Hystricidés.

Les épines du porc-épic
Les épines ont un rôle défensif  efficace. Elles sont particulièrement difficiles à retirer de la peau, car couvertes d'écailles microscopiques faisant que leur mouvement naturel est de s'enfoncer dans la chair sans pouvoir en ressortir, ce qui a été expérimentalement démontré par des épines artificielles sur de la peau de poulet.

Une étude publiée en 2015 dans The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, basée sur la bibliographie et des vidéos faites par des caméras disposées dans la nature a montré que divers animaux (ex : au moins neuf espèces d'oiseaux - dont aigle royal, pygargue à tête blanche, faucons dont faucon pèlerin, grands-ducs d'Amérique, faucons, gélinotte huppée - sont cités dans 17 études publiées de 1909 à 2009 d'oiseaux) peuvent conserver sur ou dans leur corps des morceaux d'épines, et que ce type de blessure est souvent fatal (dans 7 cas sur 17 pour les exemples cités ci-dessus). Des chiens ayant tenté d'attaquer des porcs-épics sont couramment trouvés gravement blessés par ces épines, y compris dans la bouche.

Le porc-épic peut accidentellement être blessé par l'une de ses propres épines ou celle d'un autre porc-épic.

Une hypothèse évoquée par Uldis Roze est que ces dards sont recouverts d'une substance antimicrobienne. Il l'a formulé après avoir été piqué par une épine de la queue d'un porc-épic et avoir constaté que l'un des fragments d'épines qui avait disparu dans son bras-droit, s'est mise en mouvement alors qu'il construisait sa maison, avec une forte douleur ; Selon lui, . Quelques jours plus tard, le piquant a émergé de son bras, curieusement sans aucun signe d'infection. Il s'est donc demandé si ces piquants pouvaient être enduit d'une substance antibiotiques ou en contenir. Les piquants sont recouverts d'un enduit gras riche en acides gras libres qui ont des vertus antibiotiques, susceptibles selon lui  de protéger les porcs-épics de leurs propres piqures accidentelles par des épines

Classification

Cette famille a été décrite pour la première fois en 1845 par le zoologiste Charles-Lucien Bonaparte (1803-1857), l'un des neveux de Napoléon Bonaparte.

Synonymes : Coendidae Trouessart, 1897 et Erithizontidae Corbet and Hill, 1980:189

Liste des sous-familles et genres

Selon  et  :
 sous-famille Chaetomyinae Thomas, 1897
 genre Chaetomys Gray, 1843 - genre monotypique (ne comporte qu'une seule espèce) : le Porc-épic épineux
 sous-famille Erethizontinae Bonaparte, 1845
 genre Coendou Lacépède, 1799
 genre Echinoprocta Gray, 1865 - genre monotypique
 genre Erethizon F. Cuvier, 1823 - genre monotypique
 genre Sphiggurus F. Cuvier, 1825

Genres actuels ou éteints

Selon  :
 genre Branisamyopsis
 genre Coendou
 genre Disteiromys
 genre Eopululo
 genre Eosteiromys
 genre Erethizon
 genre Hyposteiromys
 genre Hypsosteiromys
 genre Microsteiromys
 genre Neosteiromys
 genre Paradoxomys
 genre Parasteiromys
 genre Protacaremys
 genre Protosteiromys
 genre Sphiggurus
 genre Steiromys

Noms vernaculaires
Liste alphabétique de noms vulgaires ou de noms vernaculaires attestés en français.

Note : certaines espèces ont plusieurs noms et, les classifications évoluant encore, certains noms scientifiques ont peut-être un autre synonyme valide.

 Coendou bicolore - Coendou bicolor
 Coendou à queue prenante - Coendou prehensilis
 Coendou épineux - Sphiggurus spinosus
 Porc-épic arboricole - Coendou bicolor
 Porc-épic brésilien - Coendou prehensilis
 Porc-épic d'Amérique ou Porc-épic américain - Erethizon dorsata
 Porc-épic des Antilles - Sphiggurus insidiosus
 Porc-épic du Brésil - Coendou prehensilis
 Porc-épic laineux - Sphiggurus insidiosus
 Porc-épic nord-américain - Erethizon dorsata
 Porc-épic préhensile du Paraguay - Sphiggurus spinosus
 Porc-épic préhensile mexicain - Sphiggurus mexicanus
 Porc-épic rougeâtre - Echinoprocta rufescens
 Porc-épic à queue en souche - Echinoprocta rufescens
 Porc-épic à queue préhensile - Coendou prehensilis
 Porc-épic épineux - Chaetomys subspinosus

Notes et références

Liens externes

Rongeur (nom scientifique)

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I'd like to know if anyone has seen this exact poster of Maa Kali painted by Rajasthani artist BG Sharma?
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The life cycle of a fern, involving the alternation of sporophyte and gametophyte generations. Reproduction by sporophytes yields gametophytes, and reproduction by gametophytes yields sporophytes. A complete life cycle begins with either a…
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Leaves of black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica). (Photograph courtesy of Larry Allain, USGS National Wetlands Research Center)
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Seeds of the Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioica). (Photo courtesy of Steve Hurst, ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, USDA–NRCS PLANTS Database)
Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioica). (a) Parts of branch showing leaf scars and winter buds. (b) Branch.
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Reconstructions of tree-sized Carboniferous rhizomorphic tree-lycopsids, illustrating architectural variation. (After R. M. Bateman et al., Experimental cladistic analysis of anatomically preserved arborescent lycopsids from the Carboniferous of…
Primitive bisexual cone of the Flemingites type, borne by Paralycopodites, with apically concentrated microsporangia and basally concentrated megasporangia containing several megaspores. (After C. A. Arnold, An Introduction to Paleobotany,…
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Launch of a sonobuoy from an antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. (a) In flight. (b) Buoy strikes the water in a nearly vertical attitude. (c) Antenna and hydrophone are positioned automatically.
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Porcini mushrooms (Boletus edulis) are members of the Basidiomycota division of Fungi. (Credit: Digoarpi/Shutterstock)
Spore types (upper illustrations) and structures of parent mycelia (lower illustrations) in fungi.
Sporangia of saprophytic Rhizopus. (Credit: Richard Gross; copyright © McGraw-Hill Education)
Sexual mechanisms in fungi: (a) gametic copulation; (b) gametangial copulation; (c) gamete-gametangial copulation; and (d) somatic copulation.
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of brewer's yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). This fungus consists of single vegetative cells, and small daughter cells can be seen budding off from the larger cells. Brewer's yeast is used in the…
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Empire apple (Malus pumila). (Credit: Peggy Greb/Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture)
Apple trees in an orchard in late autumn. (Credit: Sandrine Bouvier/Alamy)
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Pericycles. (a) Part of transection of root Actaea alba, including xylem and phloem. Pericycle thin-walled and one cell in radial dimension. (b) Part of transection of root of Smilax herbacea, including phloem. Pericycle thick-walled and four or…
Transection of central part of sugarbeet. (After K. Esau, Hilgardia, 9(8), 1935)
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Annual tree rings are distinct features of wood anatomy. The combined concentric bands of light and dark areas can help investigators to determine the age of a tree. (Credit: DrimaFilm/Shutterstock)
Light micrograph of a section through the stem of a lime tree (genus Tilia). The pith is at the center and is surrounded by a layer of wood (xylem). A thin cambium separates this from the phloem. An outer layer of collenchyma is enclosed by the…
Structure of a typical hardwood. (Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Structure of a typical softwood. (Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
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Anthurium andraeanum (flamingo lily). (Photo courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr)
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Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum). (Photo by Peggy Greb, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Diagram of a potato plant. [Adapted from R. E. Thornton and J. B. Sieczka (eds.), Commercial Potato Production in North America, Potato Association of America, Orono, ME, 1980]
Irish potato tubers infected by late blight (Phytophthora infestans). (Photo by G. D. Franc; Bugwood.org)
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Persian melon (Cucumis melo). (Photo by Mehrdad Aref-Adib)
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Redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens). (Photo courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr)
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Euglena sp., showing overall morphology and intracellular structures.
from article Hypodermis
Transection from the outer part of a Smilax root, illustrating a thick-walled hypodermis (exodermis) beneath the epidermis. One hypodermal cell is not thickened. (After K. Esau, Plant Anatomy, 2d ed., John Wiley and Sons, 1965)
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Stylized model of the plant primary cell wall, showing layers of semicrystalline cellulose microfibrils associating with cross-linking hemicellulose polymers, embedded in a pectin matrix. (Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education)
Light microscopy image of the outer cell layers and cuticle of a tomato fruit. The cuticle in this organ, shown here with a red stain, forms an exceptionally thick lipid coating on the outer epidermal cell and also permeates into the underlying cell…
Model showing the multiple layers that can be observed in some secondary cell walls, which vary in the direction that the constituent cellulose microfibrils are deposited. (Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education)
Cell expansion. (a) Two cells (left) of similar size, but different orientations of microfibril deposition show contrasting directions of cell expansion (right). (b) Model of the deposition of cellulose microfibrils by cellulose synthase complexes,…
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Leaves of the American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis). (Photo courtesy of Larry Allain, USGS National Wetlands Research Center)
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The enormous tail of the peacock (Pavo cristatus) is an obvious sexual dimorphism. Males display their colorful tail feathers to attract a female mate. (Credit: Dennis Jarvis)
Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) exhibit sexual dimorphism, especially large differences in size. The smaller seal is an adult female, whereas the much larger one (with the trunklike nose) is an adult male. (Credit: Jan…
The male mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) has iridescent plumage to woo females, whereas the female's plumage is drab and inconspicuous. (Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)


School trips to China are becoming more and more common among forward-thinking middle and high schools worldwide. As an award-winning private school in Beijing, the Sinology Institute would like to be your reliable partner on the ground in China.
Last, but not least, with our school located in an old Beijing neighborhood, your students have a base to return to after their daily activities.
Through our more than ten years experience on the ground, we can also offer you invaluable advice on travel visa, accommodation, transport and even where to eat your local meals.
Day 1. After arriving at the airport and checking in at your hotel, we have a welcome lunch at the Sinology Institute. This will be followed by a walk through the old Beijing neighbourhoods, along the inner city Houhai lake and the Drum and Bell Towers. In the evening there is a welcome party at the Sinology Institute.
Day 2. Classes start at 9 in the morning every day. The first day topics are greetings and other basic Chinese. In the afternoon we visit the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. In the evening, we visit the Wangfujing Night market.
Day 3. After classes in the morning we visit the Temple of Heaven and the Pearl Market. Students are encouraged to use their newly gained knowledge of Chinese numbers to haggle with the local salespeople.
Day 4. Our Tai Chi master welcomes us to class at 7am. After our Chinese classes in the morning, we visit the Summer Palace in Beijing's Northwest. Students are free after the excursion.
Day 5. After classes in the morning, we make our way to Beijing Zoo to visit the Giant Panda. Afterwards, we go back to the school for an evening of making our own Chinese style dumplings.
Day 6. There are no classes in the morning as the Great Wall takes most of the day to visit. We finish the day with some instruction on how to administer a traditional Chinese massage.
Day 7. The students get a whole day off to rest up or do what they would like to do.
Day 8. After Chinese classes in the morning, the group is headed to the 798 art district.
Day 9. After classes in the morning, we head to Beihai Park. In the evening, a traditional Beijing Roast Duck farewell dinner awaits us in the Beijing Hutong.
Day 10. Students check out of their hotel and head to the airport.
The price for the sample 10 days/9 nights school trip to China's capital is 3,000 RMB/student. This includes all activities, Chinese classes (daily 9am till noon except weekends) and English speaking guide. Activities, classes and other schedules can be arranged according to your liking. Meals (unless stated), insurance, flights, visas, accommodation and local transport are not included, we can, however, assist you in the process. Make sure to compare prices, we are confident that by working with us, your trip will work out cheaper than by making an inclusive purchase through a travel agent.
* Actual itineraries need to be at least 7 days/6 nights and can be as long as desired.
* We suggest each student to bring about 200 RMB per day to cover basic living expenses such as food, local transport, gifts etc. Money can be withdrawn locally at ATMs using international credit cards such as Visa and Mastercard.
Please contact us if you have any other activities in mind.
Thanks to the Sinology Institute, my trip to Beijing was a total success. Because of my fantastic teachers I was able to learn about China in an authentic fashion while using my newly learnt language skills right away in real-life situations. For me, this is the best way to learn a language. I was surprised how easy it was to learn Chinese using the Sinology Institute's teaching philosophy and am looking forward to my future classes.
I participated in a school trip to Beijing in February 2016 organized by the Sinology Institute. We had Mandarin Chinese classes in the mornings and participated in excursions during the afternoon. We visited the Great Wall and the Forbidden City under the guidance of our local guides learning a lot about the history of Beijing and China. We were also introduced to the daily lives of Beijing people while getting a chance to use our Mandarin skills. Because of the unique teaching method we were also able to read our first Chinese characters on the streets of Beijing. The Sinology Institute combined entertainment and education in a unique way and thereby introduced us to a different, exciting Beijing. This truly was an excellent school trip I will not forget.


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KARDASHIAN MARRIAGE IN CRISIS
Oct 10, 2012 @ 11:31AM
KHLOE KARDASHIAN scored a slam dunk when she was asked to co-host "The X Factor" – but the prospective gig has left her hoops-playing hubby Lamar Odom feeling like he's been fouled!
According to insiders, Lamar, 32, is incensed that 28-year-old Khloe is going back on her word to dedicate this year to starting a family and supporting his NBA comeback in Los Angeles.
"Khloe told Lamar that this was going to be his time – she even agreed to put the third season of their reality show on hold so he could concentrate on getting his confidence back on the basketball court," said a source.
In April, Lamar was listed as "inactive" with the Dallas Mavericks and did not play for the remainder of the season. But he got another shot when he was traded to the L.A. Clippers in June.
"Khloe promised that his career would be the priority," continued the insider. "She also agreed that they would spend more time together in an attempt to have a baby.
"They've been trying for three years without any luck. And Khloe's been gung-ho about alternative conception methods – including IVF.
"But now she is going to be totally consumed with 'The X Factor,' and he'll be spending a lot of time on the road with the Clippers. So they'll see less of each other than ever."
The couple celebrated their third wedding anniversary on Sept. 27, but now friends say there's so much tension between them that they may not make it another year.
In an interview earlier this year, Khloe insisted that women should "put [their] husband first," and added that "part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support."
But when Simon Cowell asked Khloe to be co-host on "The X Factor's" second season with "Extra" hunk Mario Lopez, she seemed quick to put Lamar's needs on the back burner. She's been telling pals the offer was simply "too good" to turn down.
"It will bring her huge exposure, a large paycheck and make her an even bigger name," noted the insider.
"Lamar is really hurt and angry. He can't help feeling betrayed by Khloe's decision to spend more time on her career than on his. It's like she's choosing money over love."


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Q: Is this how to use Scapy to parse a Netflow packet? I'm new to scapy and am looking for confirmation that the commands below is a valid approach to dig into (parse) a UDP/NetflowV9 packet.
My reason for asking is that the approach seems valid to me and works for many packets that I've tried.  But, it fails for at least one packet that I've encountered.  The decode/parsing that fails is for a UDP/Netflow packet that has 4 Flowsets as follows:

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*Flowset 1: Data flowset that has 2 flow records

*Flowset 2: Options Template flowset

*Flowset 3: Data flowset that has 1 flow record

*Flowset 4: Data template flowset

Approach
pkt = rdpcap(pcap)
pkt[0][UDP].payload
NetflowHeader(pkt[0][UDP].payload)
NetflowHeader(pkt[0][UDP].payload).payload
NetflowHeaderV9(NetflowHeader(pkt[0][UDP].payload).payload)
NetflowHeaderV9(NetflowHeader(pkt[0][UDP].payload).payload).payload
NetflowDataflowsetV9(NetflowHeaderV9(NetflowHeader(pkt[0][UDP].payload).payload).payload)
NetflowDataflowsetV9(NetflowHeaderV9(NetflowHeader(pkt[0][UDP].payload).payload).payload).payload
NetflowOptionsFlowsetV9(NetflowDataflowsetV9(NetflowHeaderV9(NetflowHeader(pkt[0][UDP].payload).payload).payload).payload)

The commands above seem to work to reveal details about the first 2 flowsets, but the output of the last command has wrong data (doesn't match what Wireshark shows) for flowset 3.  In particular, to start off with, for flowset 3 the flowsetID and length are wrong.  I haven't even yet tried to look at flowset 4 since the data for flowset 3 is wrong.
So, I'm just looking for confirmation that my appoach is correct.  If my approach is correct, then I'll try to find a way to anonymize the pcap file (a single frame) and ask in a separate stackoverflow post(s).   I'd like to not reveal IP addresses in the flow records.

A: The answer to my original question was that I was not properly using scapy to parse Netflow traffic from a pcap.
I believe that the proper way to do it (thanks to help from @Cukic0d) is to:

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*Bind the dest port of Netflow traffic in your pcap to the default Netflow port 2055 via bind_layers( UDP, NetflowHeader, dport=xxxx ) where xxxx is the dest port of Netflow traffic  in your pcap.  This is unnecessary if your Netflow traffic is already on 2055.  Possibly it's also unnecessary for 2056.

*Read in the pcap (all at once or frame by frame).  To read it in frame by frame, do this in a loop: pkt = rdpcap(pcap) where pcap is the path to your pcap file.

*Use netflowv9_defragment to parse the complete single netflow frame just read in like this: netflowv9_defragment(pkt)[0]

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I am often asked whether it is the vendors or the end users who are driving the Big Data market. I usually reply that both are. There are early adopters of any technology that push the vendors to evolve their own products and services. The vendors then show other companies what can be done with this new and improved technology.
Big Data and Big Data Analytics are hot topics right now. Different vendors of course, come at it from their own point of view. Here's a look at how four vendors (Attensity, IBM, SAS, and SAP) are positioning around this space, some of their product offerings, and use cases for Big Data Analytics.
In Attensity's world Big Data is all about high volume customer conversations. Attensity text analytics solutions can be used to analyze both internal and external data sources to better understand the customer experience. For example, it can analyze sources such as call center notes, emails, survey verbatim and other documents to understand customer behavior. With its recent acquisition of Biz360 the company can combine social media from 75 million sources and analyze this content to understand the customer experience. Since industry estimates put the structured/unstructured data ratio at 20%/80%, this kind of data needs to be addressed. While vendors with Big Data appliances have talked about integrating and analyzing unstructured data as part of the Big Data equation, most of what has been done to date has dealt primarily with structured data. This is changing, but it is good to see a text analytics vendor address this issue head on.
Attensity already has a partnership with Teradata so it can marry information extracted from its unstructured data (from internal conversations) together with structured data stored in the Teradata Warehouse. Recently, Attensity extended this partnership to Aster data, which was acquired by Teradata. Aster Data provides a platform for Big Data Analytics. The Aster MapReduce Platform is a massively parallel software solution that embeds MapReduce analytic processing with data stores for big data analytics on what the company terms "multistructured data sources and types." Attensity can now be embedded as a runtime SQL in the Aster Data library to enable the real time analysis of social media streams. Aster Data will also act as long term archival and analytics platform for the Attensity real-time Command Center platform for social media feeds and iterative exploratory analytics. By mid 2012 the plan is for complete integration to the Attensity Analyze application.
1. Voice of the Customer Command Center: the ability to semantically annotate real-time social data streams and combine that with multi-channel customer conversation data in a Command Center view that gives companies a real-time view of what customers are saying about their company, products and brands.
2. Hotspotting: the ability to analyze customer conversations to identify emerging trends. Unlike common keyword based approaches, Hotspot reports identify issues that a company might not already know about, as they emerge, by measuring the "significance" of change in probability for a data value between a historical period and the current period. Attensity then assigns a "temperature" value to mark the degree of difference between the two probabilities. Hot means significantly trending upward in the current period vs. historical. Cold means significantly trending downward in the current period vs. historical.
3. Customer service: the ability to analyze conversations to identify top complaints and issues and prioritize incoming calls, emails or social requests accordingly.
← The Inaugural Hurwitz & Associates Predictive Analytics Victory Index is complete!


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Australia fires: Almost 2,000 homes destroyed in marathon crisis
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Almost 2,000 houses have been destroyed in Australia's months-long bushfire crisis, officials say, as crews prepare frantically for worsening conditions.
After ferocious conditions last week, firefighters are using milder weather to boost containment lines around fires engulfing south-eastern Australia.
Temperatures are likely to soar again on Friday, prompting fears that two fires could form a new "mega blaze".
At least 25 people and millions of animals have died since September.
Australia is fighting an unprecedented bushfire season, fuelled by record temperatures and widespread drought.
On Tuesday, New South Wales (NSW) officials said fires there had claimed 1,588 homes and damaged 653 more.
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About 200 homes have been destroyed in neighbouring Victoria, adding to more than 100 lost in other states.
The Insurance Council of Australia estimated the damage bill had reached A$700m (£370m; $485m), but said it expected the cost to rise significantly.
With smoke tormenting cities including Canberra, Sydney and now Melbourne, doctors have warned of increased respiratory dangers – especially to vulnerable people, including pregnant women.
On Monday, the Bureau of Meteorology warned that visibility in Melbourne was less than 1km (0.62 miles) in many parts of the city and its surroundings.
What's the current fire threat?
Rain has fallen in NSW and Victoria and temperatures have dropped – but officials have warned that blazes will "take off" again.
They fear large blazes in both states could merge, creating unpredictable fire fronts and posing heightened danger to lives and homes.
"There is no room for complacency," NSW state Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned on Monday.
Hundreds of properties were destroyed at the weekend. Rural towns and major cities saw red skies, falling ash and smoke that clogged the air.
The easing of conditions has allowed valuable supplies to be taken to affected areas.
The army said it had sent supplies, personnel, and vehicles to Kangaroo Island near the city of Adelaide in South Australia. The island has been devastated by bushfires, with two people killed last week.
The NSW Rural Fire Service said it had more than 2,600 people deployed on Tuesday to bolster containment lines between fires and populated areas.
Victoria Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp has warned people to expect "a changing, dynamic situation" later in the week.
An emotional funeral
Tuesday also saw the funeral of a firefighter who died on 19 December in an accident on the way to a major blaze near Sydney.
Andrew O'Dwyer was killed alongside his colleague Harvey Keaton when their fire truck hit a fallen tree.
Dozens of fellow firefighters formed a guard of honour outside a church in the New South Wales capital.
Mr O'Dwyer was posthumously given the Commissioner's Commendation for extraordinary service and bravery, the highest award that can be given to NSW firefighters.
Is the government doing enough?
On Monday, after warning the crisis might go on for months, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said A$2bn ($1.4bn; £1.1bn) would be committed to recovery over the next two years.
He announced the creation of a recovery agency to help those who have lost homes and businesses in the fires.
The government has also pledged some compensation for volunteers who take leave to fight fires, and more money for waterbombing aircraft.
On Tuesday, Mr Morrison thanked both US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Twitter for their support, saying the US and Australia were "great mates" and that the UK was a "great friend".
But the Australian prime minister has faced fierce criticism for his response – including for taking a holiday to Hawaii during the crisis. Critics have also accused him of underplaying the role of climate change.
How are celebrities helping?
At the weekend, a fundraiser launched by comedian Celeste Barber for fire services in NSW raised more than A$35m in just 48 hours.
A number of celebrities have also donated money to support firefighting efforts in recent days – among them Australian actor Chris Hemsworth who on Tuesday posted a video saying he donated one million dollars.
He also called on others to donate to the "firefighters, the people on the frontline, the people who have suffered, the communities that have taken a hit and who are in desperate need of our support".
Other celebrities who donated money include US singer Pink, and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, who pledged $500,000 each.
On Monday, pop star Kylie Minogue tweeted her family had "donated $500,000 towards the immediate firefighting efforts and the ongoing support which will be required".


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New data reveals upward trend in uptake of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil
Published 16th December, 2021
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has published new data showing an upward trend in the uptake of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO).
Released on 3 November, the data showed that the estimated actual production of CSPO was 14.3M tonnes, which was 18.7% of global palm oil production as of 31 October.
Members with RSPO certification include 462 certified palm oil mills, 95 growers, 3,561 companies and 6,166 facilities/mills with supply chain certificates, according to the data.
The RSPO said its smallholder commitment comprised 168,084 individual smallholders and 490,276ha of smallholder certified area.
Production of CSPO was, on average, 20% lower than the total certified volume.
For sales, as of September 2021, the data showed that of the total production of CSPO, 64.3% was sold as RSPO, while 25% was sold under other schemes.
For Certified Sustainable Palm Kernel Oil (CSPKO), the RSPO said there were no sales reported under other schemes.
Over the past years, sales of CSPKO were higher than actual production, the RSPO said, and in the past year, palm kernel crushing plants had sold 127.9% of the estimated actual production of CSPKO as RSPO-certified.
"A reason for this could be that CSPKO credits and Mass Balance (MB) stocks of kernel crushing plants do not expire, therefore these can be carried over to the next reporting year," the RSPO said. "And secondly, CSPKO sales can be higher than actual production due to the one-to-one conversion of Identity Preserved/Segregated Certified Sustainable Palm Kernel (CSPK) to MB CSPKO."
The RSPO said that historically, the supply and sale of CSPKO has been limited despite both increasing availability and demand, with not all CSPK converted into CSPKO
However, downstream RSPO members indicated that market demand for CSPKO derivatives was currently not met by supply and the organisation was now looking into these matters further.


Originally, when we got fundraising, the "Kuriv" list had Paternal and Maternal.
I am not sure if I should have done this, but I entered "Brother" to the kuriv list in 2013.
Can I add additional relations? Sister, Brother-in-law (H), Brother-in-law (W), Sister-in-law (H), Sister-in-law (W)? Will the software deal with this?
If not, how should we enter these relationships.
We don't always have the information necessary to create parents account to link them that way.
Do you have a tutorial on the "relatives" and "relatives of" tabs?
The software will not do anything special with this. You will be able to query thru these types for them.
How would you recommend adding Father in law for our kollel students?
asrtiop: Do not understand your question.
We would like to add in-laws (wife's parents) of our married kollel students so that when dinner comes around they should be included in the mailing. Its not a code 2 and at the same time its not a Grandparent.
Even in a Fundraising Account without any children the In Laws or still called Paternal or Maternal Grandparent.
Would love in future to be able to extend tree in other ways (eg. sibling) w/o parents but it is good to know how the software will deal with things now.
Does JL have plans to extend the mapping feature to other relationships?


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Canyon-Sram signs two Israeli talents for 2019 season
Dec 19 2018 11:20 pm CET
Image: Canyon-SRAM logo
Canyon//Sram has announced the signing of two Israeli talents for the 2019 season. Omer Shapira and Rotem Gafinovitz will be joining the team for the upcoming season.
Shapira is a two-time Israel national road champion and has a past in mountain bike. "I'm feeling very excited and motivated for 2019. I think Canyon//Sram Racing is the best place that I could ask to be," she commented. "I'm looking forward to the racing and spending time with the team. I believe it will help me grow further as a rider and a person.
"I want to be part of the team's efforts in races and I want to feel a real part of this group of people off the bike. I see my role as supporting my teammates in many big races and helping the team achieve success in the hilly stage races."
Gafinovitz is the current Israel national time trial champion and looks forward to joining the team. "I'm really, really excited to be part of the CANYON//SRAM family in the upcoming season," she said. "I see it as a great opportunity and a chance to develop and learn to be a better bike racer and human.
"I'm looking forward to sharing some great moments with the team and I'm excited to see what happens. My main goal of the season is to make a big step forward to make 2019 an extraordinary year!"
OMER SHAPIRA
ROTEM GAFINOVITZ
CANYON-SRAM RACING


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New York Spring Spectacular
A truly spectacular musical tour of New York City with lots of dance, scenery and great performances.
Posted on April 8, 2015 by Joel Benjamin in Multimedia
Derek Hough and Laura Benanti in a scene from the New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall (Photo courtesy of MSG Entertainment)
Joel Benjamin, Critic
I admit being primed to love the New York Spring Spectacular at the iconic Radio City Music Hall. Although I didn't exactly suspend my critical faculties as I wandered down the vast aisle to my seat, it was easy to fall under the spell of the Art Deco interior and huge dimensions of the theater, even before the curtain rises. I wasn't expecting anything but what the artists behind the scenes provided: brightness, huge scenic changes, lush choreography, grand music and the sight of scores of Rockettes doing their famous kick lines. Even when the Music Hall was a first-run movie house with deliciously camp stage shows, it wasn't exactly known for subtlety, and the Spring Spectacular certainly continues that tradition. Sometimes giving in and letting the show wash over and dissolve all resistance is the best way to go.
The show, written by Joshua Harmon, produced by Harvey Weinstein and directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, takes a thin plot and uses it as an excuse to tour a splendidly clean and inviting New York City. Jenna (a bright-voiced, vivacious Laura Benanti) is a billionaire IT executive who wants to fire tour guide Bernie (Lenny Wolpe, who nearly steals the show with his down-to-earth charms) and replace him with an App. Jack (Derek Hough, good looking, good dancer, but not particularly charismatic) is an angel. In order to win his wings—which are gorgeously visible on rows of singing angels ensconced in niches up and down the theater walls—God (Whoopie Goldberg's voice) tells Jack to help Bernie keep his wings. Just as Jenna is firing Bernie in Grand Central Station—which fits comfortably within the Radio City proscenium—Jack interposes himself and proposes that they all follow Bernie on his tour and if, at the end of the tour, Jenna isn't convinced of his value, she can fire him. The ending is a foregone conclusion.
The famed Rockettes as they appear in a scene from the New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall (Photo courtesy of MSG Entertainment)
The tour is the core of the show. Using songs, large-scale dance numbers, projections of cityscapes, large animatronics, tons of scenery (designed by Patrick Fahey) and busloads of dancers and singers to portray a roving population (seemingly all in their twenties!) the Spectacular visits the Metropolitan Museum (where paintings come to life), the New York Public Library (where the lions, Patience and Fortitude are wittily voiced by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler), Central Park in a rain storm (a cue for "Singing in the Rain") and, most potently, a huge Statue of Liberty (Whoopi Goldberg, again). The Statue takes the show into a more "serious" direction as she questions Bernie about his immigrant roots (cue, Neil Diamond's "America") leading to videos of immigrants and lots of dancing ethnic types. Bernie also provides some real emotion when he dances with the ghost of his deceased wife, Isabella (an absolutely lovely Crista Moore) to "The Way You Look Tonight" (Kern/Field).
"Bring It Home," written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, was the theme song of the show. The songs included classics like "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Lerner and Loewe), exuberantly sung by Ms. Benanti plus those mentioned above. Of course, the Kander and Ebb anthem, "New York, New York" had to make an appearance.
There is audience participation; a huge orchestra—conducted by Patrick Vaccariello—that keeps rising from the depths, acrobatic choreography, and, most of all the mesmerizing Rockettes who look ravishing in their many costumes (designed by ESOSA) and routines.
As my grandmother used to say, "What's not to like?" I agree wholeheartedly.
New York Spring Spectacular (through May 7, 2015)
Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Sixth Avenue at 50th Street, in Manhattan
For tickets call 866-858-0007 or visit http://www.rockettes.com/spring
Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission
Crista Moore
Derek Hough
Esosa
Joshua Harmon
Laura Benanti
Lenny Wolpe
Patrick Fahey
Patrick Vaccariello
The Rockettes
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JOEL BENJAMIN was a child performer on Broadway and danced with leading modern dance and ballet companies. Joel has been attending theater, ballet and opera performances ever since childhood, becoming quite opinionated over the years. He was the founder and artistic director of the American Chamber Ballet and subsequently was massage therapist to the stars before becoming a reviewer and memoirist. He is a member of the Outer Critics Circle.
Mark Thompson's spectacular and fantastic visual effects of the London production have unfortunately been lost in crossing the Atlantic.
ON THE TOWN with Chip Deffaa …. for July 5th, 2016
I've always liked Andrew Keenan-Bolger's work. He was a memorable child actor, playing leads on Broadway in shows like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Seussical," when he was around 13 or 14 years old. I admired his sunny, open-hearted work then. And he's even more successful today (at age 31) as an adult--not every child actor can make such a transition. He conveys the same sort of buoyant spirit on stage now as he did when I first saw him in those shows he did so well as a youth.. (His whole family is talented. He and his sisters, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Maggie Keenan-Bolger, are all making their contributions to the arts.)
The cheery 1937 British musical is delightfully revived with a lively Christian Borle, an imperious Harriet Harris and Warren Carlyle's fizzy staging.
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Suzan-Lori Parks' ambitious cycle of nine plays begins with the Civil War and its aftermath from the point of view of African American slaves in Texas.
Skintight
Joshua Harmon's latest takes on America's obsession with youth and beauty and brings Idina Menzel back to the New York stage in her first non-musical role.


The Monday, June 22, 2015 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Laura Ackerman, a nature enthusiast, activist, and organizer for over 20 years, who serves as the oil and coal campaign coordinator for The Lands Council in Spokane, Washington. Laura will talk about existing and proposed Northwest oil and coal facilities, upcoming public hearing opportunities, and oil train forums occurring in Spokane and Sandpoint, Idaho, this Tuesday and Wednesday, June 23 and 24. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism and community opposition to dirty energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.


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Away review: Third time isn't necessarily a charm for slick relaxation app for iOS
By J.R. Bookwalter
Macworld MAR 23, 2016 11:00 pm PDT
I've rarely had trouble falling asleep at night, but could certainly use a few minutes each day to relax and take some of life's stress off my shoulders. If you can't break away from the daily grind, plug earbuds into your favorite iOS device and let the meditation come to you.
Only have a few minutes to relax? Away includes a timer mode so you don't have to stress over when it's time to get back to work.
It's time to relax
Away is a sequel to Windy and Sunny, the third in a series of apps that combine motion-controlled illustrated scenery with nature audio recorded on location. This time, users find themselves immersed in a delightful, awesomely detailed forest populated by singing birds, croaking frogs, plus the sound of wind and leaves all around.
More than 20 such sound effects are accompanied by an original music soundtrack which can be mixed louder or softer to suit individual tastes. A virtual microphone allows the listener to pinpoint a specific area of the screen, such as the river, waterfall, or a pond off in the background. One minor complaint: Although animals like foxes and birds appear on-screen at times, you don't actually hear those animals after targeting them with the virtual microphone.
Background music can be mixed into more than 20 sound effects recorded on location, and there's a slider for determining which time of day is displayed.
No 3D glasses required
Away isn't just about nature sounds and music—there's also breathtaking scenery that takes advantage of Apple's parallax technology to create a glasses-free 3D effect as you swipe across the screen or move the device. The scene can be adjusted to any time of day or night.
The experience is optimized for cheap earbuds or expensive headphones and the latest iOS device screens, but unlike Windy and Sunny is limited to a single scene; Away would have worked better as an in-app upgrade to the earlier apps, rather than a standalone title.
Although it may look like there's more than one scene included with Away, selecting one of these options instead encourages purchasing Windy or Sunny instead.
Away is a great way to relax or get to sleep, but feels more like an in-app upgrade than a completely new experience.


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VIDEO: Officers Declare Family's Beloved Pet Deer 'Illegal' — Promptly Kill it In Front of Them
Matt Agorist January 9, 2017
Ulysses, KS — An infuriating and heart-breaking video was posted to social media recently of a family's beloved pet deer, Faline, named after the Disney Bambi character, was gunned down in front of them — for being illegal.
In Kansas, keeping wild animals as pets is illegal.
However, it wasn't like Kim Mcgaughey and her family lived in the city and had some tiger in their apartment. No, the Mcgaugheys live on a farm and the deer wasn't stolen from the wild and brought to their home. Instead, the family nursed Faline back to health after she showed up at their farm with a broken leg.
Only after Faline refused to leave did the family start feeding her.
After that, the deer quickly became a part of the family. She would often times go inside the home and sleep in Kim's room.
"She would get on the bed and stand like she owned the place," said Taryn Mcgaughey, a fashion, fitness and glamour model.
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"But she had free rein to do whatever the heck she wanted.
"There was no way you could keep her in an enclosure."
According to NBC Los Angeles, authorities got wind of the 'illegal' deer after Mcgaughey asked on Facebook whether anyone had seen the deer when it disappeared for several days. She was issued a ticket for "unlawful possession of wildlife without a permit," said Mark Rankin, law enforcement assistant director for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.
However, only minutes after giving her a ticket, law enforcement officers killed Faline.
"I couldn't believe it," said Kim's daughter Taryn, speaking to The Independent.
"All of our people have a real heart for wildlife," Rankin said after his officers killed Faline. "I can't imagine any of our employees enjoying something like this."
However, it appears that they may have enjoyed it, according to the family.
"One shot to the head would have been enough but then he shot her in the leg and four times in the back.
"He treated her like target practice," explained Mcgaughey.
"My son broke down to his knees when he found out she was dead," she said of her 8-year-old boy who'd grown attached to their pet deer.
"My mum, it's real hard for her to talk about. It was like Faline was part of the family, it's just hard," her son said.
According to Taryn Mcgaughey, the officers wrongly killed Faline, as owners were supposed to be given 30 days to contest a penalty notice over an unlicensed pet and a further 10 days to get a license, reports the Independent.
The video below is graphic and hard to watch. Faline, who's been around people for most of her life appears to know that the armed men at her home are there to harm her, so she tries to avoid them.
Eventually, however, they catch up to her and kill her — as the family cries in horror.
This instance is similar to the situation that unfolded in Clackamas County, OR, when police officers killed a family's miniature pony.
When the Fitzgerald family discovered that their pony was missing last month, they began frantically searching. When they found the pony, however, she had died from a gunshot wound to the head.
The police initially claimed that the family's 30-year-old American Miniature Horse was hit by a car, so the deputy was kind and put it out of its misery with his police issued shotgun.
However, according to the family and their veterinarian, the horse was in good health when it was killed, and had no broken bones in the autopsy. As the Free Thought Project reported in 2015, the sheriff's department killed their pony for no reason and then covered it up.


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The main objective of the Association is to integrate all IT officers of municipal government from all Slovak towns, cities and regions and create favorable conditions for exchange of information and experience as well as professional growth of officials employed in this particular profession. The Association will contribute to the qualitative growth of municipal governments in general.
Setting up favorable conditions for regular meetings of ZISS were among the first tasks of the Association so the much needed process of standardization of ICTs on municipal level could commence. In addition, close working relations were formed with the Association of Municipal Economists of Slovakia as well as with the Association of City Managers.
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by Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson
© Copyright - Imaginary Records/The Imaginary Entertainment Corp. / Imaginary Records (780741000827)
Creative, cutting edge piano trio music from three New York jazz veterans. This recording is the second CD by this long standing co-operative trio and features compositions by all of the members and original arrangements on jazz standards.
Genre: Jazz: Piano Jazz
1. On Green Dolphin Street
2. A Bicycle Built For Two
3. The Blessing
4. Threads
5. Morning song
6. Yesterdays
7. After The Rain
8. Almost A Rhythm Tune
9. Steppy
10. Sir Roland
11. Astor's Place
12. Angel Eyes
Review from Rambles-cultural Arts Magazine
Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson, *Points of View* (Imaginary Records, 1997)
I don't have a clear memory of the first time I heard a live jazz band, but I do remember simultaneously enjoying the experience and being confused by it. Parts of the music and the talent behind it had obvious appeal, but the digressions, improvisations and rearrangements baffled me. My ears were as yet too unseasoned to grasp the full sound. I don't specifically remember the music from that first live jazz band, either. Still, I'd like to think it might have been similar to Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson's *Points of View*, which presents the relaxed but focused sounds of piano, bass and drums as they run through a series of original compositions, jazz classics and other material. Michael Jefry Stevens, Jeff "Siege" Siegel and Tim Ferguson join to form a group that's well integrated but still allows plenty of space for each member to show off their considerable individual skills, both as gifted instrumentalists and as original composers. The varied compositions here, as expertly supported and expanded on by three considerable talents, gel to produce impressive results. The 68-plus minutes of diverse yet cohesive music on *Points of View* provide ample examples of this approach. The trio's bouncy, nearly flippant arrangement of Ornette Coleman's "The Blessing" includes a nice slot for Siegel and Ferguson to trade and intertwine riffs, while Stevens' new arrangement of the tired "A Bicycle Built for Two" features beautifully wistful piano work and recasts the song as a sentimental look back at a simple pleasure from a less naive vantage point. The original Stevens composition "Almost a Rhythm Tune" is unexpectedly catchy, opening with a engaging drum and bass combination and a straight ahead melody before digressing into improvisations and discordant piano intensity, only to have the original sweet melody resurface later, just when it has been relegated to memory. "Threads," written by Siegel, builds on a blues base and maintains a quick percussive feeling of tension, with Siegel's drumming driving the song from underneath before surfacing for a solo slot in the song's midsection. Ferguson's "Astor's Place" flirts with tango, the buoyant energy it generates carrying into a set of exchanges between Ferguson's wide but mobile bass and Stevens' light flittering piano, with Siegel's drums keeping the song together and moving forward. All told, *Points of View* presents a great deal of music to absorb, but it's an enjoyable and worthwhile effort, with new touches revealed upon each new listening. As a relative newcomer to the mystical arts of jazz, I still feel a bit confused by those whose knowledge of those arts so thoroughly outweighs my own, and Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson clearly fall into that category. But I've come to regard that confusion as a good sign that I'm learning. In this case, it's a sign that I'll be returning to *Points of View* again in the future as a humble student, one wishing to learn from these particular masters for some time to come. [ by Ken Fasimpaur ]


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Born on 7 May 1988 in Watertown, MA (USA). Studied at the University of North Carolina, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition. Weathers now performs both solo and together with the Andrew Weathers Ensemble.
In 2014, he contributed a cover version of Hounds Of Love to the compilation Running Up That Hill: Kate Bush Covers For Reproductive Rights.
In 2015, he released 10 musical documents on cassette tape, vinyl, compact disc, flexidisc, lathe cut and online streaming media. While maintaining a busy performing schedule, Weathers helps run Full Spectrum Records and works as a freelance mastering & restoration engineer.
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Dutch courage: Moto Adonis tackles the Ducati S4R
The S4R has got to be one of Ducati's greatest hits. The water-cooled Monster used a retuned DOHC 996 engine with eight valves and a stout 113 hp, weighed just 425 pounds (193 kilos) dry, and sported a single-sided swingarm. And it was good for over 145 mph (235 kph).
The S4R can still hold its own against many modern roadsters, but it was launched 16 years ago—and tired examples are now popping up on the secondhand scene. Which makes it an ideal base for a custom build, as the Dutch shop Moto Adonis has just discovered.
Shop founder Daan Borsje has delivered a most unusual custom, with radical styling that doesn't slot into any obvious genre. It's in-your-face and unapologetic, much like the S4R itself.
"My loyal customer and friend Stijn Van Horick came to me with the desire to own a one-off, futuristic cafe racer," says Daan. "I also had a desire: to build a custom based on one of the most brutal and best steering motorcycles I have ever ridden, the Ducati S4R."
"We started with a wish list as big as a Harry Potter book, and narrowed it down—still a way too long list of stuff we wanted on the bike."
Stijn recalls the brief: "It needed to be brutal, slick, and with a nice 'flow.' A unique bike. I've always liked Ducati, and it was cool that Daan had the same idea. It was the first Ducati that Moto Adonis would build."
In the Roosendaal workshop, Daan and Stijn started drawing. They took inspiration from not only bikes, but also cars and even whales (yes, that gas tank). The sketches went into Photoshop, and with the concept locked down, the mechanical work was ready to begin.
After stripping the S4R down to the essentials, Daan called in a little help from his friends and reconfigured the upper frame to hold the tank-and-seat combination.
"Somehow, it was still missing something," says Daan. "So we gave the front end extra room for electrical parts and lights." That includes fork covers as well as the striking louvered nacelle.
"The top [circular] lights are for long dark roads, and the bottom [strip] lights are for the streets of Antwerp—where this bike lives," says Daan.
Underneath the swooping tank is a new air box, a battery holder, and a mounting point for a Motogadget m.unit blue control box.
The 43mm USD Showa forks on the S4R are superb, so Daan has wisely left them alone—aside from refinishing and shortening them slightly. At the rear, he's upgraded the Showa monoshock to a new Wilbers unit with a black and gold finish.
The brakes have been upgraded too, with wave disks from the Dutch company Moto-Master. And the 17-inch wheels have been swapped out for sweet Kineo rims.
The radiator was tricky. "It had to be removed because it was way too big," says Daan. "So we redesigned and re-engineered the radiator to be as small as possible."
Daan has treated the bars to new Nissin brake and clutch pumps, and Motone push-button switches send signals to the Motogadget m.unit. At the bar ends are Motogadget m.Blaze Cone turn signals, and there's a Motogadget Motoscope Pro digital gauge flushed into the modified top yoke.
In the end it just needed one more tweak: a monstrous exhaust system. Daan has a sub-brand called MAD Exhaust, focusing on Harley, BMW and Yamaha systems, and he whipped up custom pipework to add a little extra power and style to the S4R.
The paint is Audi's iconic Nardo Grey, one of the most famous colors of modern automotive times. At Stijn's behest, there's gold leaf on the fork covers spelling out DUC92.
"I give my cars and bikes names," says Stijn. "This bike needed the name DUC92—because 1992 was the year the Monster was introduced."
It's a polarizing build, but whether or not you like the styling, Daan and Stijn have to be applauded for pushing the aesthetic envelope—and tackling the challenges along the way.
"It was hell to build this bike," Daan admits. "But on the first ride, when I hit the throttle…there was nothing better than that feeling. Except perhaps the look on Stijn's face when he did the same thing!"
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Learn more about the energies of May 2018 and how to navigate it with clarity and ease with a Mythical Goddess Tarot 15-card spread read by Katherine Skaggs.
This month we have old energies of conflict to burn away and let go. Pele and Forgiveness come in to assist us in burning away the places we where we have disrespected ourselves and our world. Change is upon us, so we need to refocus and move toward our true heart's passions, to clean away emotional baggage where we are open and in love again.
This month we have the challenge of needing to go within through time alone, focused on projects, meditation and inner reflection. Balance your choices when you need to do what is in your best interest by being away from the masses and groups. Morgan le Fay shows up here too, reminding you that you are a magic being and have the power to create your world when you are "sourced" to the Divine.
The action needed for this month comes from the energies of the fiery creative child. Mother Earth and the World also shows up to remind you that the world gives you everything you need. Look around and within to claim your gifts and bounty.