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From persecution to freedom: one Iranian-Jewish family's story (updated)
Every Jewish refugee has his or her story, but many are still untold, or kept within the confines of the family. Kam Aynessazian 's story might have remained unknown had he not heard of Point of No Return.Thanks to Kam for sharing his family's story with Point of No Return readers.
A family photo taken in Chicago in 1986. From left to right: Kamran, Kambiz, father Masoud holding a picture of Kamyar, Kam(bod), Kayhan. In the foreground, mother Ezzat and Kayvon.
Kam's uncle (his father's younger brother) was the first to emigrate to the US in 1956 aged 20 with about $100 in his pocket. He ultimately established himself in Chicago and through the years helped all his younger siblings to move to the US. Those who left Iran at that time sought economic opportunities and higher education - denied to them in Iran - mostly due to their religious minority status (a Jew's birth certificate invited discrimination by including the word Kalimee, meaning Jew, next to the person's name).
Life under the Shah was, in retrospect, a golden age for all sectors of society. Minorities were able to practise in freedom and without fear. Kam's family (his parents and six sons) enjoyed a middle class lifestyle. But 'sudden' westernisation was producing a backlash from conservative Islamic fundamentalists, culminating in the Islamic Revolution.
Kam's oldest brother (22) had already come to the US in 1976 to pursue his higher education. Then in 1978, Kam's parents, anticipating the revolution and potentially dire consequences for minorities, managed to get two-month visitor's permits for themselves and for their two middle sons (the third son was aged 14 and the fourth, Kam, aged 13) to the US, leaving behind the fifth (aged 10) and 6th son (aged 2) with relatives.
The parents returned to Iran while Kam and his brother stayed on - illegally - in the US. The Islamic Revolution broke out in November 1978, unleashing vicious religious persecution. Kam's second oldest brother (aged 18) was flown to Israel by an organisation rescuing many young adults. Distant Baha'i' relatives of Kam, who refused to convert to Islam, were executed. Jews and other minorities - never popular - were forced to live in seclusion and practise in private. Many lost contact with their families abroad.
Kam's parents and the two younger brothers were stuck in Iran. In the meantime Kam's uncle was able to apply for and get immigration visas for them, but since the US Embassy was closed, they were unable to obtain them. Nor were they allowed to travel to another country with a US embassy to receive them.
Kam's father was desperate and in 1983, he paid smugglers a hefty bribe to take his wife and two sons over the border into Pakistan (he stayed behind so as not to raise suspicion). They endured many hardships along the way, but eventually made it. They joined a group which had access to forged documents and visas. His mother and brothers ended up in Spain. Through Kam's uncle, they managed to obtain legal visas from the US embassy in Spain.
Back in Iran, Kam's father, a textile merchant, was trying to liquidate some of his personal assets while not giving the impression that he was preparing to leave. Most of his assets were left behind: the business, a shop, car and land.
Eventually, he tried to escape, but was captured and thrown into jail, with death as a certain punishment, in the border city near Pakistan. Thankfully, he had business contacts in that town who were able to vouch that he was there on business. He was then released.
In 1985, Kam's father tried again to escape to Pakistan, this time successfully, and was re-united with his family in Chicago. Kam had not seen him for seven years.
Against popular wisdom, Kam's parents (legal US citizens) went back to Iran in 2006, to visit family and friends. It turned out to be a grave mistake. Upon arrival, their US passports were confiscated. Kam's dad fell ill immediately. He ended up in hospital and died soon afterwards. Kam's mother was able to retrieve her US passport after a few weeks of court proceedings and immediately returned to the US. It took another few weeks of legal wrangling for the body of Kam's father to be sent back to the US.
Kam's mum and five of the six brothers currently live in the US. One brother still lives in Israel. Kam's mother has ten grandchildren, and so far, seven great-grandchildren.
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The preliminary competition for the 2018 Miss Universe beauty pageant held on Thursday, 13th of December at the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok.
At the preliminary, the contestants showed off their swimwear and evening gowns to some judges in hopes to get them a spot in the semi-finals. Our African queens were also part of the preliminary process.
Check out their looks below.


At one time I had a writeup that set out the steps necessary to restore NT Workstation 4.0 from a tape backup with the registry on it. I can not find it when I need it! I know you rebuild NT from the original media into a different directory say C:\WINTMP instead of C:\WINNT. Load the tape driver. Restore the tape. Reboot the system. The rest I forgot (editing a couple of files?). Any help is appreciated.
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Today was SO. MUCH. FUN!
Even if I was the ONLY pirate over five feet tall at the show. I mean, amongst all the Wellington parents who attended, was no-one else even slightly tempted to release their inner pirate for the day? I must admit I did debate whether I really was game enough to do it. But after my aunty suggested the $2 shop for accessories via Facebook in the week and it didn't disappoint, I was totally on board (ha ha) with the idea!
The show is running for 2 weeks over the school holidays at Circa Theatre in Wellington and at $10 a ticket is pretty well-priced.
Whilst shipwrecked in Rome they discovered their buried treasure was buried somewhere in Australia. But how to get there?
On a magic pizza carpet of course. Various slices of different flavoured pizza held together by melted cheese.
Anyway, without ruining the story completely, you can see how much fun we all had being part of the pirate crew, singing YO HO during the sea shanties, helping dig for the buried treasure, spying on Captain Randalf the Tiger with our looking glasses, being the waves of the storm, and the tentacles of a monstrosity squid.
When the pirates finally found their buried treasure which included a coupon for a new ship for them and their enthusiastic crew, we helped rename it the Good Ship Mustachio.
And some lovely mother and son bonding time to boot.
yay you for dressing up and getting into it! It's those things that our kids will remember - great memory maker!
Gee Gee - How Great You Are!
Welly turns on the charm...and so does hubby!


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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il Sportverein Stuttgarter Kickers nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 1999-2000.

Stagione
Nella stagione 1999-2000 il Stuttgarter Kickers, allenato da Michael Feichtenbeiner e Dragoslav Stepanović, concluse il campionato di 2. Bundesliga al 15º posto. In Coppa di Germania il Stuttgarter Kickers fu eliminato in semifinale dal .

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Organigramma societario
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 Allenatore: Dragoslav Stepanović
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 Preparatore dei portieri: Manfred Petz
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Calciomercato

Sessione estiva

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Statistiche dei giocatori

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John Dvorak "Cranky" about Apple's "Breakable" iPhone 4
John C. Dvorak might like SmartPhones but he's not a fan of the iPhone. He doesn't like the AT&T tie-up and he said the new iPhone4 "just looks breakable." After all, who doesn't drop their phone once every few months?
He's not the only one who's concerned about the iPhone. Consumer Reports won't recommend it either.
By contrast, Google's NexusOne is sturdier and has held up well, Dvorak said. Dvorak is one of the foremost technology columnists around.
When I had the chance to be a guest on his weekly podcast Cranky Geeks, I jumped at the opportunity and snagged a few minutes to hear his latest thoughts on tablets, Smartphones and where we're headed next tech wise for Beet.TV.
More on his take on Apple, which could "sell ice cubes to Eskimos" is up on PC Magazine.
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Because of this, many Liberians view sanitation companies as enemies rather than the allies they were intended to be.
Many Liberians and environmentalists have pointed accusing fingers at sanitation companies contracted under the World Bank's Urban Waste Management Program (UWMP) for poor strategies in garbage collection and disposal.
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by websaway, Mar 13, 2018.
We live in a fast changing world. Is it time domainer's looked at their portfolios and faced realism.
We are now seeing domains being offered for as little as £4, this amounts to a nil value. If a domain is valuable enough to register and renew, why would you sell it for £4 or even £10 or £20. Millions of worthless names were registered which over the years have become less than worthless. Is it time people bit the bullet and just let names drop, if someone else is stupid enough to register them then so be it, if someone is clever enough to benefit from the drops then good luck to them. I know it's difficult to determine the value of a name but when it's offered for £4 hasn't that then been a realisation of it's marketable value.
I'd suspect just a last ditched attempt to recover a years reg fee before dropping. If you do that 10, 20, 50, or 100 times, then perhaps it is worthwhile trying, at least to recover some losses.
Has always been the case that the majority of domains registered have little to no value, but I would agree that focusing on a smaller selection might be the best approach for some.
I always planned to do this as a final "fire sale", when my exit strategy is enacted.
Once your wheat has been beaten, the chaff sold for bedding, and your left with bits, you try last ditch attempts to clear before dropping.
As a buyer I can't risk such buys unless I really want the names as I would assume end users have already been tapped, so would only buy something which appealed to me for development, which is a whole different thing these days.
Yea, well think about the poor smuck who let lian.com drop a couple of years back and it went for $221k! You just never know. Timing / end user is the key.
Unless the end user just doesn't know they need it yet Timing is everything isn't it ? Especially if you don't do much outreach .
Isn't it also something you learn as you get more experienced ? I've been drop catching a year now ( which is nothing compared to most of the guys on here) , but i'm learning to be much more selective about what i go for. Especially as renewals are now starting to kick in !
I guess it also depends on your approach. I know one of the chaps on here who consistently has a good run of decent sales and it's based on buying in volume and waiting for approaches.Seems to be a good approach aswell given the sales he gets.


It's a more permanent move this time as I have a job out there setup and should be living around the Bondai area. It's a big move and pretty exciting but will mean a couple of things for IS82.. Firstly.. with a ping of 10zillion in Australia I doubt I'll be having much fun in the svr for a while... :? but on the flip side.. due to timezone change it should mean theres a main admin around where there wasn't before..
Just gotta get settled and also need to buy a PC.. I kinda sold my one as it was not worth the expense to send it round the world.. so on that note I would really appreciate any suggestions of UBER Laptops which could handle BF2 (perfectly) for example.. I want to buy a beast!!
Will miss those of you I normally see around.. and look forward too seeing a few faces that are normally sleeping when I'm on I guess! I will be GMT+9 for a few months then GMT+11 when the clocks change again..
Wow, u actually did it.
oh my god, you were always the brit that had the best ping ever, I'll miss you in the server.
are you staying there... forever?, hope to talk to you... on the forums is our only contact now, have an awesome flight, and life, and good luck!
Thats quite a move, kudos for going through with it, hope you enjoy your new job.
While there are some pretty powerful laptops they are expensive and never match a desktop. Ask yourself do you really need the power on the move ?
You might find its actually better value to buy a powerful desktop pc for gaming and a cheap underpowered laptop for work purposes.
For example, gaming laptop £2000 vs gaming desktop £1600, cheap laptop £400, with a bonus that less powerful laptops are often lighter, more compact, and less money is lost in the event of damage or theft.
someone has teh guts goodluck.. and dont you dare stop modding!!!!!
goodluck! go kangaroo huntin' down there!


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Night of Dark Shadows: The Haunted Horse
August 30, 2018 August 1971, Sam Hallbechdel test, beckoning, brandy, chekhov, dan, funeral, get out, gunplay, haunted, horse drama, hurt feelings, lamp, lampshade, lookalike, make a friend, mgm, music cue, narrative collision, poe, portraits, postcards, pronoun trouble, rape, sam, satan's favorite tv show, stairs, strangling, t of the s, theme song, third base, tunahamDanny Horn
"Kill Doubloon!"
Happy Turkey Day! It's time for another pre-emption, as we reach Thanksgiving 1970 and ABC decides to spend the day looking at basketball. It's traditional on pre-emption days to do a little time travel, and watch a future version of Dark Shadows. This time, we're only jumping about eight months ahead; we're going to watch the 1971 feature film Night of Dark Shadows, executive producer Dan Curtis' next attempt to catch lightning in a bottle.
Last year, Dan signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to make a Dark Shadows movie, and he came up with House of Dark Shadows, a fearlessly unrestrained retelling of the original Barnabas storyline. The movie did well at the box office, considering how cheap it was to make, and MGM asked for a sequel. Unfortunately, almost every character in House of Dark Shadows met a grisly end in one way or another, so bang goes the Dark Shadows Cinematic Universe before it's even started.
For the sequel, Dan had the good manners to wait until the TV show was over before hauling half the cast to Tarrytown, New York and dousing them with a hose. The final taping day on Dark Shadows was March 24th, 1971, and shooting began for Night of Dark Shadows on March 29th. Dan had nine hundred thousand dollars, six weeks, and a cast and crew that was mostly from the TV show. He'd planned to resurrect Barnabas for the second movie, but Jonathan Frid was sick of playing vampires, and asked for a million dollars. So Dan took the show's second male lead, David Selby, and set him up with two leading ladies — Lara Parker, Dark Shadows' veteran vixen, and Kate Jackson, an ingenue who'd joined the show about ten months earlier and was obviously destined for stardom.
Night of Dark Shadows was vaguely based on the show's Parallel Time storyline, which was vaguely based on Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca, plus some inspiration from The Haunted Palace, a 1963 Roger Corman film that was supposed to be based on an Edgar Allen Poe poem, but was actually based on an H.P. Lovecraft story, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", which when you get right down to it isn't really very much like Night of Dark Shadows at all.
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Episode 795: The Pits
December 23, 2015 Gordon Russell, July 1969architecture, bond villain, breakfast, cliffhanger, countdown, jail, narrative collision, poeDanny Horn
"You have never been willing to admit to yourself that I might have feelings."
Aristede smiles, as he tightens the straps around Quentin Collins' wrists. So far, the plan is working out just fine. The razor-sharp axe is suspended by a rigged-up pulley system that allows it to slice in a nice, clean arc. The gears are timed to lower the axe slowly, inch by inch, until it reaches the helpless body strapped firmly to the wooden table. And Quentin will be trapped, watching the blade as it descends inexorably in the direction of down. Unfortunately, it's still uncertain at what point this turns into anything but a crafts project.
Aristede wants the Legendary Hand of Count Petofi, a powerful artifact that Quentin does not have. And there's nothing that Quentin can do to help Aristede obtain it, especially not when he's tied down to this horological murder machine.
The big idea appears to be that Aristede is going to go to Angelique, who actually does have the Hand, and tell her that Quentin only has thirty minutes to live. As the pendulum swings closer to Quentin's midsection, Angelique will gladly give up the Hand in exchange for her friend's life.
Now, obviously, he could achieve exactly the same results by just locking Quentin up in a closet and telling Angelique anything he wants. That would have saved him all that time and expense, and probably two trips to Home Depot. This just looks like a whole lot of hassle to me.
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Episode 710: Been Caught Stealing
August 23, 2015 Gordon Russell, March 1969dark creatures of nature, dreams, haunted, plan A, poe, ritual, teenagers, the will, tricksterDanny Horn
"Now you're dead, and you're going to stay dead."
Pursued relentlessly by the muffled-tympani sound of a beating heart, black sheep and future poltergeist Quentin Collins races downstairs to the study, to check on his dead grandmother.
This is the first running of the Telltale Heart Grand Prix, and as Quentin applies the brakes and shudders to a stop, he finds Edith sitting up in her casket at the finish line, grinning at him like being dead is the most fun she's had in years.
So there we are; it's happened. The haunter has become the haunted.
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X4: Does Barnabas Ever Drink Milk?
July 16, 2015 February 1969addams family, extra, merchandise, paperback library, poeDanny Horn
"He's the one who made the raven rave."
I'm away this week, probably in Bangor or Boston or someplace. But if I leave you alone for too long, you'll probably invite clumsy occult experts over and let them wander about the house, waving their hands in the air and talking about the letter M.
So in lieu of actual episode posts this week, I'm filling in with selections from Paperback Library's novelty joke book, Barnabas Collins In a Funny Vein.
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Episode 442: Cask Party
July 22, 2014 March 1968, Ron Sproatarchitecture, basement, narrative collision, notmychristian, poe, prankDanny Horn
"Death is a valid reason."
TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? Writing about Dark Shadows every day has sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
Well, not the whole story. There's, like, 800 more episodes; we'd be here all night. But let's see if we can focus on the next twenty-two minutes.
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Episode 440: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Vampires
July 19, 2014 March 1968, Sam Hallcandles, cane, hands, narrative collision, poeDanny Horn
"You don't know what you're saying! The horror of that hand!"
In yesterday's episode, vampire-about-town Barnabas Collins was down at the docks, looking for a bite to eat. He was just about to feed on streetwalker Maude Browning, but she screamed and fought him off, and it attracted attention. He scrambled away, leaving behind his signature silver wolf's head cane.
So Barnabas needs to learn one of the fundamental rules of crime: If you're going to go out and attack people, leave your identifiable accessories at home. This is no time for expressing your individuality; you need to be able to blend. This is why hipsters can't be criminals.
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Venue Winterland (San Francisco, CA)
Date Dec 30, 1977 (Set 1)
Total Length 1:13:52
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1Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodleloo11:02
2Dire Wolf04:40
3Looks Like Rain08:45
4Row Jimmy, Row09:28
5Big River07:36
6Peggy-O07:52
7Passenger03:59
8Ramble On Rose07:40
9Let It Grow12:50
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals; Bob Weir - guitar, vocals; Phil Lesh - bass; Keith Godchaux - piano; Donna Godchaux - vocals; Bill Kruetzman - drums, percussion; Mickey Hart - drums, percussion
Of the nearly two decades that followed The Grateful Dead's post-1974 hiatus from touring, few years are more highly regarded than 1977. With a year of revamping the road repertoire behind them, often within a slower context, now the group was picking up steam again and displaying a newfound focus and energy. A new album Terrapin Station, had interjected the stage repertoire with fresh new material and The Grateful Dead more often than not, were sounding inspired again. The sweetened tone that Garcia developed on "The Wolf" guitar (custom made by Doug Irwin), combined with new processing gear (most notably the envelope filter which gave him a sort of reverse wah-wah effect) often fueled his playing, leading the band into new territory and with a greater musical palette to explore.
The 1977 Spring Tour contained a couple of now legendary runs of shows, both in the North East and at a three night hometown stand at Winterland in San Francisco. The most in-demand Dead tickets that year were for the band's year end run leading up to New Year's Eve, also held at Winterland. The Thursday night show on December 29, 1977 is not only regarded as one of the year's best performances, but also one of the strongest performances ever by this septet configuration of the band. So much so that it became Dead archivist Dick Latvala's choice for his 10th Dick's Pick's release, showcasing the best of the group's road work. Also included in this same release was a good deal of the second set from the following night, Friday December 30, 1977, which found the band in equally strong form.
Presented here is the entire first set from that Friday night performance on December 30th, none of which was included in the Dick's Picks release. Right from the start the band is in good form, opening with "Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo." Garcia's voice and the sweet tone of the Irwin guitar are just two of the strong points of this performance. The entire band sounds focused and the solo sections feature sensitive interplay, with Garcia and the drummers really bearing down towards the end.
Throughout this set, the band is paying close attention to each other, particularly Garcia and the drummers. The front line musicians (Garcia, Weir and Lesh) are physically close, only a few feet apart, and they often turn their backs on the audience forming a circle with the drummers with everyone focused inward (as can be seen in the Video Vault). Another key factor in the strength of this show is Keith Godchaux, whose creative force began greatly diminishing the previous year. Godchaux's greatest work with the band was almost always on acoustic piano and he seemed to lose much of his fire on electric. Here Godchaux is in fine form and with a concert grand at his disposal, which seems to make a big difference. These factors all come into play throughout this set.
With only one exception, The Dead stick to early 1970s material in this set, vacillating between Garcia and Weir fronted numbers. The set continues with Weir's wild west take on John Phillip's "Me And My Uncle," heard hear as a somewhat rare stand-alone version. The "Workingman's Dead" track, "Dire Wolf," which was not commonly performed, surfaces next with Garcia in fine form and with Bob Weir and Donna Godchaux providing harmony vocals. Weir and Godchaux's vocal chemistry is even better explored on the romantic "Looks Like Rain," which follows.
A nice uptempo take on Garcia's "Row Jimmy Row" follows. This early stab at incorporating reggae into the band's repertoire was often a hit or miss affair post their 1974 road retirement, but here, thanks to its sprightly tempo and some interesting slide guitar work from Garcia, it remains engaging throughout. A jaunty version of Johnny Cash's "Big River" has Garcia and Weir teaming on lead vocals, followed by a definitive reading of the traditional "Peggy-O." The latter number was rarely played better than in 1977, when Garcia seemed most enamored by it, and this is a fine example. His vocal and guitar work, combined with Godchaux's piano embellishments, make this version a pure delight.
Phil Lesh's "Passenger" serves as the lone number off the new Terrapin Station album to appear in this set. A rare example of Lesh contributing a relatively straightforward rocker to the band's repertoire, this is a forceful version when the band had gotten a much firmer grip on it than the studio recording. Lesh and the drummers provide the propulsion, Garcia gets an opportunity to cut loose on slide again with Weir and Donna Godchaux teaming up on lead vocals.
A tight engaging performance of "Ramble On Rose" serves as Garcia's next number, before they wrap up this first set with a terrific performance of Weir's "Let It Grow," which had became it's own entity (outside the longer Weather Report Suite) during this era. This is the highlight of this set, with the group stretching out a bit and never losing focus. Even during the verses Garcia is interjecting leads (often the sign of him itching to cut loose!) and when they hit the jam sequence, the entire group takes flight. Weir's distinctive rhythm work, reinforced by the drummers, is at the heart of the action, but its Garcia, Lesh and Godchaux who truly take this soaring. "Let It Grow" is an inspired conclusion to this first set and a clear sign of the heights The Grateful Dead would climb during the second set.
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Metavari is the stage name of Indiana-based electronic musician and graphic artist, Nathaniel David Utesch. Metavari's music is the intersection of nostalgic electronics, ambient soundscapes and off-kilter pop music. As described by Nathaniel, "My dream is that this all plays out like a midnight joyride in one of those semi-functional, Ferrari-look-alike stunt cars from Miami Vice; Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese at the wheel, David Lynch rummaging the glove compartment for matches and Phil Collins bound in the trunk."


oldies. with my oldie crappy camera. i apologize about the quality of these pictures. i took a ton of swatch pictures with the craptastic thing. so i am finally getting around to posting them.
this is nubar conserve. (i borrowed these from my friend mickelle :D) it is a lovely blue-green with slight shimmer sheen that came out in nubar's "going green" collection last year. it's not really my color, but a very nice medium cool green. this swatch is two coats.
again, *BLECH* about the pictures. my hands do not usually look so lobstery or weathered or yucky. hope everyone's monday is going well!


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James Ussher, también escrito como James Usher (latinizado, Jacobus Usserius) (Dublín, 4 de enero de 1581-Reigate, 21 de marzo de 1656), fue un arzobispo de Armagh.

Ussher nació en Dublín (Irlanda), en una rica familia angloirlandesa.

Cronología de Ussher

En 1650 Ussher escribió el libro Los anales del mundo para apoyar la idea de que la verdadera iglesia de Dios era la Iglesia Nacional de Inglaterra (actualmente Iglesia anglicana) respecto a su separación de la Iglesia de Roma. Basándose en la Biblia, hizo una estimación del número de generaciones y de la duración media de la vida humana, para afirmar que Enrique VIII, (rey de Inglaterra en el momento en que sucedió la separación de la Iglesia de Roma), era descendiente de Adán por la línea directa de la primogenitura desde Set, y así tener un mejor argumento contra la Iglesia de Roma que reclamaba ser la verdadera iglesia por afirmar que ellos venían por tradición desde Pedro; entonces, si Roma venía desde Pedro, la Iglesia de Inglaterra venia desde Adán por línea directa desde Set. Para ello se valió de las principales figuras bíblicas entre Adán y Eva y el nacimiento de Jesucristo y varios hechos históricos. Como consecuencia de su estudio, dedujo fechas "exactas" para ciertos eventos:
 Creación de la Tierra: «el anochecer previo al domingo 23 de octubre» (o sea, el sábado 22 de octubre a las 18:00) del 4004 a. C..
 Expulsión de Adán y Eva del Paraíso: el lunes 10 de noviembre de 4004 a. C.
 Final del Diluvio Universal (el arca de Noé se posa sobre el monte Ararat): el miércoles 5 de mayo del 2348 a. C.

El efecto de verosimilitud generado por su aparente precisión le dio una gran credibilidad entre sus contemporáneos, unida al hecho de que esta cronología se escribiera al pie de las ediciones inglesas de la Biblia.

Obras
 1650: Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti ('Anales del «Antiguo testamento», que deducen los orígenes primeros del mundo').
 1654: Annalium pars postierior (parte siguiente de los anales), continuación del anterior.
 De graeca septuaginta interpretum versione.

Personas de Dublín
Religiosos de Irlanda del siglo XVII
Teólogos de Irlanda
Teólogos del siglo XVII
Obispos anglicanos del siglo XVII
Arzobispos de Irlanda
Escritores de Irlanda del siglo XVII
Escritores en latín
Escritores en inglés
Cronologistas
Historiadores de Irlanda
Historiadores del siglo XVII
Ciencia y religión
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Nacidos en Dublín
Teólogos protestantes
Arzobispos del siglo XVII
Arzobispos anglicanos
Obispos anglicanos de Inglaterra
Obispos anglicanos de Irlanda
Obispos de Inglaterra del siglo XVII
Pseudohistoriadores


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John D. Lippy, Jr., known for many years professionally as Lippy, The Magician, but also appearing occasionally with his charming wife as "The Lippys, Amazing Master Magicians," has been associated with the art of necromancy for over fifty years. He numbers among his friends all of the greats in magic, had a large troupe on the road in the early twenties, and appeared at the White House before the President. He has also entertained many national celebrities.
Mr. Lippy was a chemist by profession—studying at Gettysburg College under Dr. Edward S. Breidenbaugh, a noted teacher and authority on chemistry. He has written considerable on the science as well as being the inventor of many chemical toys and novelties.
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A bluegrass-fueled barn dance, carnival rides and more will be part of the Family Days Spring Fair this weekend.
The festival continues today through Sunday at the Port Orange City Center, 1000 City Center Circle. Admission is free but there is a charge for carnival rides and food. For more information, call 386-506-5935 or go online at familydays.com.
The event will include a carnival with rides and games from 5 to 11 p.m. today, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdayand 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.
Activities today include a concert performance of music from the upcoming Sands Theater Company production of "Fiddler on the Roof." The performance will be at 7 p.m. at the amphitheater.
Saturday activities include a food and craft fair plus street performers from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. around the lake, an "amazing pet tricks" contest at 10 a.m. (entry form available on the website), a pie baking contest at 2 p.m. (entry form on the website) and a pie eating contest at the amphitheater (during the pie baking contest; registration begins at 2 p.m.).
Entertainment at Veterans Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday will include magicians, stilt walkers, face painting, balloon animals, train rides and more.
A barn dance will be 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the amphitheater with music by the bluegrass band the Pot Likkers. The event will include square dancing, line dancing and games.
Sunday activities include a nondenominational community worship service from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the amphitheater, a food and craft fair plus street performers from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. around the lake, and family games from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the amphitheater.


In August I was sent Baking with Vegetables which I was immediately excited about. I love trying new ingredients in my bakes, especially when the ingredients are good for you. I love to experiment more with bakes so I knew that I would love this book!
There are so many delicious recipes to choose from I really did struggle to select a bake to feature in this review. After much consideration and changing my mind I decided to bake the Spinach and Apple Cake with Apple Icing.
This cake is a delicious way to add vegetables to the families diets without all of the moaning! Everybody loved this cake and I will definitely be making it again.
This book has been a real success. I can see that this book is going to inspire many future bakes and next time we have a glut of homegrown vegetables instead of cooking the same meals I will be referring to this book for ideas!
Disclosure: I was sent the Baking with Vegetables book for the purpose of this post. No cash payment was received, I am a Parragon Book Buddy. All of the views and opinions are my own and 100% honest.
For this weeks Cook Blog Share I thought that I would share not only a recipe but also Baking with Vegetables book. Please link up any foodie posts, both old and new, discover new recipes and Cook Blog Share! If you want to remind yourself of the linky rules you can do here. I look forward to seeing what you have been cooking this week!
I like the sound of this book - I like collecting different ones like this though I'm not sure my taste testers would like it. That doesn't stop me from wanting a slice of the cake you've made though - it looks lovely.
Very intrigued by spinach addition! I love baking with veggies, sweet potato makes awesome brownies!


There are a virtual plethora of great movies hitting the theaters between now and end of the year.
By the time this video goes live some of those movies will already be in theaters.
Do you agree with the movies on our must see list? Did we leave one out? Is there one on our list that should be left off? Let us know in the comments.


Playing with over-sized games is just that much more fun! Here's my version of a giant Light Bright. It is back lit using UV LED strips, and the pegs are all custom cast with UV reactive dyes. I built two boards measuring 2' x 4', so when they are set up next to each other, it is 8' wide.
Big thanks to Bernie Rohde for helping with this build!
This game was created for the 2014 NIGHT\SHIFT festival in downtown Kitchener, ON.
Below is a series of photos with captions giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a Big Light Bright!
Using SolidWorks I was able to sketch my mold and determine the exact volume of silicone required for the mold, in addition to calculating how much resin was required to cast each peg. This was a huge help in estimating how much material to purchase, and avoided some very costly potential mistakes.
Here are the laser cut hardboard pieces used for the mother mold. I cut two extra pieces to help with alignment and spacing of the glass test tubes.
This tabbed boxed was designed using my favourite box generator makercase.com. It is assembled with masking tape on the edges so it can be easily be taken apart later, and also to prevent any silicone from leaking out. The two 1/8" thick hardboard inserts provide proper alignment for the test tubes, and also set a 1/4" gap at the bottom of the mold.
Here is the mother mold assembled and ready to receive the test tubes.
I forgot to photograph this step on the mold I have been showing you, so what you are seeing is an earlier attempt at the same thing. I used an acrylic face for the top aligning layer in this case. I'm using a bit of hot glue around each tube to secure it in place. I will have to break this off later, so I'm trying to put just enough to get to tubes to stay put, but to also seal big gaps from silicone leaking out..
The tubes are inserted one at a time with a hot glue treatment after each. Here they are secured and ready to move to the next step.
Here is the mold flipped over.
Next, the base and spacing inserts are removed.
Close up. I think it looks kind of funky.
Ready to mix up the silicone! Here I am using Mold Star 20T. The 20 refers to the shore hardness which is scale used to tell how hard rubber is. The lower the number, the softer and more flexible the rubber is.
This silicone is mixed in equal parts by volume, and both parts are a milky white colour right out of the can.
A good suggestion I was given to ensure proper mixing is to colour the silicone two different colours with a compatible dye. Since the UV dyes I was going to use in the resin casting were compatible with the silicone, I decided to use them.
This is not a great example of colour choice since they are quite similar. At this point I had already made two other molds and was confident in my mixing skills. The first mold I made used a pink and a blue dye, so it was really obvious in the mixing stage if they were well blended or not.
Parts A and B were mixed into one large clear container. Mixing must be done thoroughly and quickly! This silicone has a working time of 6 minutes, and cures in 30 minutes.
The batch was then poured into the mold. I like to pick one corner and pour into the same spot to avoid creating extra air bubbles.
I didn't use any mold release on this because I didn't want it altering the texture of the glass. I wanted a really smooth finish on my pegs which is why I was using the glass tubes to start with.
I had exactly enough silicone to fill the mother mold. If you ever find your self short, it's not a problem to pour an additional batch on top. Silicone sticks to itself very well.
30 minutes later it's time to bust this thing apart! This step did take some elbow grease since there wasn't any mold release applied.
With the help of some needle nose pliers, and a lot of patience I was able to release the final part of the mother mold. As you can see it was meant for one time use only. Good thing hardboard is so cheap. The test tubes were cleaned and used again though. Any hot glue left on the glass was easily released with some cold water.
After all the tubes were released I gave the silicone mold a nice warm bubble bath and let it dry out.
With all the hard mold making steps behind me, I was excited to start pumping out batches of pegs.
I was lucky enough to have access to a fume extractor for mixing the resin under. The product didn't really have an odour from what I remember, but you can never be too careful when using this type of stuff. Giving yourself a sensitivity to certain chemicals is not fun. Also gloves, gloves, gloves.
Here I actually used a scale to measure parts A and B by weight. I used a resin product called Smooth Cast 325. I also used a universal mold release spray, Ease Realease 205 before pouring. It's not totally necessary, but since I was planning on doing a lot of castings from the same molds I wanted to do what I could to prolong their life.
To save on cups and making more waste than I needed, I decided to reuse my Part A cup over and over, and Part B would be a fresh cup each time. Part A gets poured in cup B and mixed thoroughly before pouring. These beer cups were the perfect size for pouring one mold.
Here I am giving the cup a little squeeze to create a spout for it to pour off from. Trying to keep it neat, but I still put down scrap paper and napkins for the inevitable over spill.
I found that by over filling the mold a bit and creating a thin consistent layer across the whole top of the mold made it easier when demolding. I was able to peel back that top layer of cured resin and clean the mold quickly. If I didn't do this step, I would end up with tiny puddles of over spill which are pretty sharp and annoying to clean from the mold once cured. This photo is a good example of the small puddles that are difficult to clean.
After an hour these puppies were ready to be released! The bottom of the mold was only a 1/4" of silicone so it was easy to flex the spots under each peg with my thumbs, they would pop out about 3/4" and a handy pair of pliers took care of the rest of the extraction.
The final step to finishing these was to sand the flat ends down, one at a time. The ones in this photo are not finished. We really couldn't find a better way to do it. So yes, about 900 pegs were finished by hand on a disc sander. The result was fabulous frosted appearance and when lit up, they looked even better than we had hoped for.
I made five different colours from the set of UV reactive dyes I purchased. I did some preliminary testing to determine which colours fluoresced the best under the UV light. The winners were, yellow, orange, pink, blue, and green.


NPR's All Things Considered visits two new books that challenge the perceptions of an Appalachia "steeped in mythic lore and stereotyped as backward, uncultured and poor" – The United States of Appalachia, by Jeff Biggers, and The Encyclopedia of Appalachia, co-edited by Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell. Visit NPR's website to listen to the Howard Berkes interview with Biggers and Abramson and/or to read excerpts.
With recent news-making accidents and tragic deaths, coal mining practices are, thankfully, in the news. An Orion article and a newly published book, Lost Mountain : a Year in the Vanishing Wilderness : Radical Strip Mining and Devastation of Appalachia, both authored by Erik Reece, help readers understand the human and ecological concerns. It's time to be outraged.
An abridged version of Reece's article, "Moving Mountains : Will Justice Have Its Day in Coal Country?" is published on the Orion website. The full article can be found in the January-February issue of Orion – on newsstands now.
Reece's newly published book, Lost Mountain : a Year in the Vanishing Wilderness : Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia, looks at the "radical strip mining" that is "destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities that depend on it." Reece spent a year "witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain," the mountain he's named "Lost Mountain." Kentucky born and the son of a coal worker, Reece shares the dangers to people and the environment from corporate and government greed and neglect. See the Riverhead website for more information.


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Q: Password issue in firebase with google sign in method & triger functions.auth.user().onCreate I have simple method to register user from simple creating account in my app bu using
Auth.auth().createUser(withEmail: email, password: password)... & it's works well.
To set sign Up users more comfortable - i want to implement google sign in & i made it.
as  Frank suggested - it's does not automatically add user data to Firestore & i should to create document for each user in Firestore method. After search a lot of documents, i have made trigger:
exports.handleNewSignups = functions.auth.user().onCreate(async user => {
  const { uid, displayName, email } = user
  const username = displayName;
  const profileImageUrl = "1.jpg";
  const keywords = username.split('');
  const bio = "";

  return await admin
    .firestore()
    .collection("users")
    .doc(uid)
    .set({ bio, keywords, email, profileImageUrl, uid, username })
})

And now it's create a new document when user press sign in with google in my app, great!
But it's look like issue which i don't know how to solve - document this user info is creating in firestore - correct, i can see this account in authentication section in firebase, but:
user in my app after signinig in with google - cannot see everything in this own account.
After that im logout with this account & trying to sign in with users email & password from google (email is correct) but i see error that password is empty or incorrect. I try many times.
And only when im trying to restore user's password & creating new password from firestore service - everything is good & looks normally.
Maybe its real generate automatically password to user or pass it from google auth?
How can i implement something to make it work? (If available - with example please).
Sorry maybe for noob question, but i'm stuck.

A: Thx a lot for everyone.
Problem was with user image, im just addeded notification center to avatar after sigining in and now works perfect

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Future Space
How Inflatable Spacecraft Will Work
by Kevin Bonsor
Inflatable Space Habitats
Space inflatables, like the TransHab, will be used as living quarters for space travelers.
Photo courtesy NASA
The use of space inflatables won't be limited to unmanned spacecraft and telescopes. NASA has a much more ambitious plan to build inflatable space habitats. The first of these inflatable space habitats, called TransHab, is already in development and could become the living quarters for the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as 2005.
The three-story inflatable will be blown up possibly using nitrogen gas that would fill the spacecraft with several blasts of air. TransHab has been tested to blow up in about 10 minutes once it docks with the ISS, and it should easily stay inflated in the vacuum of space for the life of the craft.
You might picture TransHab as a large balloon connected to the space station. And you might think that it would be susceptible to projectiles in space, such as small asteroids. In fact, tiny meteorites flying through space can travel at speeds seven times as fast as a bullet. Engineers building TransHab have taken this threat into consideration in building the space station residence.
TransHab's skin has been made of materials that allow it to deflect such projectiles. The one-foot-thick shell is composed of 12 different layers that are designed to break tiny particles of space debris that might hit the shell. The outer shell is made of a Kevlar webbing rated to withstand 12,500 pounds. The layers underneath are made out of Nextel, a ceramic fabric. These layers also protect the occupants from temperatures from 250 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Take a closer look at the layers of the TransHab on this page.
At launch, TransHab will have a diameter of 14 feet (4.3 meters), but once it is inflated it will have a diameter of 27 feet (8.2 m), and have a volume of 12,000 cubic feet (339.8 cubic meters). The interior of the 23-foot tall inflated space module will be divided into three floors. The galley and dining table will be located on the first floor. Six sleeping compartments (81 cubic feet per compartment) will be located on the second floor. Each compartment will contain a personal storage area and a computer entertainment center for recreation and personal work. And on the third floor, space station residents will find an exercise space, medical areas and bathrooms.
If humans are to ever go to Mars or set up temporary residence on the moon, we will need to develop closed habitats like the TransHab. Inflatables would be ideal for lunar and Martian colonies because they are compact enough for colonists to take with them.
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Inflatable Spacecraft, Latest Gizmo From NASA (The Times of India)
AFRL "WeightWatchers" Peel Away the Pounds
Coming Soon...Inflatable Spacecraft (Discovery Online)
Study on Inflatable Lunar Habitats
Inflatable Craft to Launch from Submarine (Space.com)
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Inflatable Structures Taking to Flight (Aviation Week & Space Technology)
Inflatable Structures Will Help Study Universe (Spaceflight Now)
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Welcome to the Bash Board Ruggs. I've probably met you (or at least seen you) at the Bash. I've been to all six of them so far and plan to be at many more. See you in July.
Post some pics, everyone loves a C Cab.
Say Bob... Any idea what the official color name is of the paint on your car? We had an early 70's Ford Galaxie that had a really nice maroon color like that.
I can't remember, but it was mixed as a Ford factory non-metalic color option for the Model A.
I think I met you Ruggs. Or at least rember some old posts.


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SPD-led German coalition doable by year end, party co-leader says
A three-way German government led by the Social Democrats (SPD) should be ready to take office by the end of the year, the co-leader of the centre-left party said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday.
Norbert Walter-Borjans said he was confident his party, which won Sunday's national election by a narrow margin that left it seeking partners, could move swiftly to agree a coalition with the Greens and the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP).
An SPD ruling alliance with the Greens and FDP – dubbed a "traffic light" coalition after their respective colours – would command a parliamentary majority.
"The government should be in place by the end of the year. That is feasible," Walter-Borjans told the Welt am Sonntag.
"We don't have to hold exploratory talks until we drop this time, because we want a traffic light (coalition) in which all three partners bring their strengths to bear," he said.
"In that sense, we could start formal coalition negotiations in October and conclude them by December," he added.
The Greens gave their leaders a mandate at a party congress on Saturday to explore talks on forming a national government.
Greens co-leader Annalena Baerbock said her party was not yet committed to a specific coalition but its priorities were climate protection, and a liberal society with social cohesion. "That means entering talks with an open mind," she told the congress.
Both the SPD and Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, which slumped to a record low result, are courting the smaller parties to get a parliamentary majority for a ruling coalition. Polls show voters would prefer the SPD to lead it.
Talks on forming a coalition government in Germany commonly take several weeks or months. After the last national election, on Sept. 24, 2017, such negotiations went on until the following March.
The SPD is due to hold exploratory talks with both the Greens and FDP on Sunday. The two smaller "kingmaker" parties met on Friday for a second round of talks, which FDP leader Christian Lindner said were held in a "good atmosphere".
The Greens and FDP, from opposite ends of the political spectrum and at odds on a range of issues, have moved centre stage after the SPD's narrow election victory – its first since 2012.
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Q: rsa calculations I am trying to solve RSA for 2 small numbers. I can calculate n,phi and e but I always get stuck when I have to calculate d. Please help me with the same.
example.
        p = 3,      q = 7,
        n =  3*7 = 21,
        phi(21)= 2*6 = 12,
        e = 5

        d = (5^-1) (mod 21)

        or

        d * 5 = k * 12 + 1   (where k is some number)

I tried to figure out the calculation of d * 5 = 25 = 5 * 12 + 1 but this is for small number is there any other way to calculate d with simple approach

A: The following pseudo code may help you (with heavy borrowing from this link
// choose prime factors:
p = 3;
q = 7;

n = p * q; // =21
phi = (p-1)*(q-1); // = 12
// Choose e such that 1 < e < phi and e and n are coprime:
e = 5;
// Compute a value for d such that (d * e) % phi = 1.
// in other words, solve 5 * d % 12 = 1
d = 5; // since 5 * 5 = 25; modulo 12 = 1. How odd: d == e...

Public key is (e, n) => (5, 21)
Private key is (d, n) => (5, 21)

Testing this out on a "message" with the value of '2':
The encryption of m = 2 is
    c = 2^5 % 21 = 32 % 21 = 11
The decryption of c = 11 is
    m = 11^5 % 21 = 161051 % 21 = 2

As you can see, we got the "message" back after the encryption / decryption step.
Note that since e==d, this is (unfortunately) a symmetric cypher: if you apply the encryption again, you get back the message as well. This shows that the choice of e was poor. That's a problem with these toy RSA problems...


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El Campo ISD substitute teacher fired for allegedly filming porn in classroom
Posted Jun 25 2019 02:02PM MST
EL CAMPO, Texas - An El Campo teacher has been fired after allegedly filming porn in a classroom, the El Campo Police Department says.
El Campo PD was called by the school last Wednesday. Although the district says the incident happened in May, they became aware of it last week through a tip. Officers said they reviewed the evidence and consulted an investigator and the district attorney.
It was suspected that the teacher, who was with the district for three months, filmed porn videos in a classroom and posted them on a website. The district says no students were involved in the incident.
Investigators determined that no crime was committed, and authorities say the suspect made the video for their own free will, and not in public view.
El Campo released the following statement:
"The District is aware that an improper criminal incident involving a substitute teacher occurred at ECHS. The incident involved a singular substitute teacher and no student or other district staff members were involved. The district has terminated the substitute's employment and is seeking legal advice on this specific incident.
The district continues to hold the safety and well-being of our students and staff as our top priority."
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A donor who wishes to remain anonymous has provided $25 million to Children's Hospital Los Angeles to support the expansion of the CHLA Neurological Institute and the hospital's capacity in Interventional Radiology, the hospital says.
"This considerable contribution will significantly advance CHLA's vision of providing each patient and family with care that is timely, personalized, multidisciplinary and family-centered,'' according to a CHLA statement.
"This truly transformative gift comes at a time when demand is growing quickly -- particularly among underserved children in Southern California -- both for pediatric neurological care as well as interventional radiology's broad range of minimally invasive procedures," said CHLA President and CEO Paul S. Viviano. "I am beyond grateful for the generosity of this gift, one of the largest single donations in the hospital's history, and one that invests in healthier futures for the infants, children and youth we serve."
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You may not want to talk to your co-workers anymore. Because ignoring them may help you feel less tired at the end of the day.
Mental Health professionals talking to "Business Insider" offered up some tips on how to avoid feeling burned out at work.
Having your focus drawn away from the job at hand can be causing you mental exhaustion. Especially when co-workers interrupt you with questions or conversation, it can take up to 25 minutes for you to regain your complete focus.


Adventist Currents was launched in 1983 as an independent adjunct to official Seventh-day Adventist publications.
Currents carried articles about the Adventist Church that addressed both the past and the present—stories that often were damaging to denominational self esteem. Several of its history articles broke new ground and provided documen-tation that required a revision of Adventist history as traditionally taught.
The typical issue was forty-four pages in length and appeared approximately three times a year.
There is not a lot of funding available for bad news, and the journal sold no advertising space; consequently its interesting ride concluded in 1988. An attempt to resurrect Currents in 1990 as a more frequently published newsletter was short lived.
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Q: How can I show a route map from the current location to some destination (some address) location? In React Native I am developing a sample application using react-native-maps. It's working fine, but I didn't find out: How can I show RouteMap from the current location to another address or Location?
Here this is my code:
<MapView
    ref='map'
    style={styles.map}
    region={this.state.mapRegion}
    showsUserLocation={true}
    followUserLocation={true}
    zoomEnabled={true}
    pitchEnabled={true}
    showsCompass={true}
    showsBuildings={true}
    showsTraffic={true}
    showsIndoors={true}
    onRegionChange={this.onRegionChange.bind(this)}
    onPress={this.onMapPress.bind(this)}
>
    {this.state.markers.map(marker => (
        <MapView.Marker
                coordinate={{
                  latitude:  marker.Latitude  || this.state.lastLat  || region.latitude,
                  longitude: marker.Longitude || this.state.lastLong || region.longitude
                }}
                image = {
                 marker.EmergencyService == true ?(
                   require('./Imgs/emergencyService.png')):
                   (require('./Imgs/regularService.png'))
                }
                onCalloutPress={() => this.bookDoctorsAppointment(marker)}
        >
            <MyCustomMarkerView marker={marker}  navigator={this.props.navigator}/>
        </MapView.Marker>
    ))}
</MapView>

Actually in this code I am showed some list of markers, but I don't need the all markers route map... I want only some of the particular markers to the current location.
Here I attached the image I want like this:

A: You need to make a query to: 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/'
Basically, you have to give origin and destination coordinates.
More information:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/start
You should parse the answer with this:
export function decode (t, e) {
    for (var n, o, u = 0, l = 0, r = 0, d = [], h = 0, i = 0,
         a = null, c = Math.pow(10, e || 5) ;
         u < t.length
         ;
        ) {

        a = null, h = 0, i = 0

        do
            a = t.charCodeAt(u++) - 63, i |= (31 & a) << h, h += 5;
        while (a >= 32)

        n = 1 & i ? ~(i >> 1) : i >> 1, h = i = 0

        do
            a = t.charCodeAt(u++) - 63, i |= (31 & a) << h, h += 5;
        while (a >= 32)

        o = 1 & i ? ~(i >> 1) : i >> 1, l += n, r += o,
            d.push([l / c, r / c])
    }
    return d.map(
               function (t) {
                   return {latitude: t[0], longitude: t[1]}
               })
}

// This function was selected from https://github.com/airbnb/react-native-maps/issues/929
The response, I store on state:
that.setState({
    route: [decode(res)]
})

renderRoute (coordinates, i) {
    return (
        <MapView.Polyline
          key={i}
          coordinates={coordinates}
          strokeColor={......}
          strokeWidth={4}
        />
    );
}

render () {

    return (
        <MapView
            showsUserLocation
            followsUserLocation
            loadingEnabled
        >
            {this.state.route.map(this.renderRoute)}
        </MapView>

So every time you update the status this will automatically update your route.


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Holiday Music and Movies in Marina del Rey
Burton Chase Park
13650 Mindanao Way
Marina del Rey, CA,
www.visitmarinadelrey.com
4-8 p.m. Dec. 7, 21, 28. Burton Chase Park hosts a free double bill of entertainment on three Saturday nights in December. From 4-6 p.m., folks can enjoy some lovely holiday music. The Wonderelles will sing a selection of holiday songs a la '50s rock on Dec. 7 while The Voices of Christmas will stroll around the park Dec. 21-28 singing a capella holiday classics. Movies will roll at 6 p.m., starting with "Gremlins" on Dec. 7, followed by "Elf" on Dec. 21 and "Avengers: Endgame" on Dec. 28. Hot cocoa and refreshments are available for purchase.
13650 Mindanao Way - Marina del Rey
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President Obama may not have given federal workers much of a salary increase -- just 1.4 percent -- in his proposed budget for fiscal 2011, but he did show them some love.
And that demonstration of affection could pay off for Frankie and Flo Fed, including in ways they can take to the bank.
The affection is apparent in Chapter 10 of the "Analytical Perspectives" section of the budget. "We are fortunate to be able to rely upon a skilled workforce committed to the public service," it says.
Of course, lip service like that comes quick and easy. What makes this budget stand out is the level of serious attention that the White House, through its Office of Management and Budget, gives to federal employees. Recent budgets by previous administrations have not gone into the depth of detail on federal-workplace issues that Obama's spending plan does.
The OMB's focus on the workforce is important because of the critical role the budget office plays in setting -- and enforcing -- administration priorities. Under Obama, that muscle is being applied to workplace matters in a determined fashion. Says Donald F. Kettl, dean of the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy: "If you grab people by their budgets, their hearts and minds will follow."
With the title "Improving the Federal Workforce," Chapter 10 covers a variety of topics, including old favorites such as improving the federal hiring process, restoring the balance between employees and contractors, and improving employee training -- a significant inclusion in a time of cutbacks. It also talks about using data collected to protect against fraud in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to improve health and lower insurance costs. And early in the chapter is a cogent rebuttal to those who misleadingly argue that federal pay is greater on average than private-sector pay.
The budget answers critics, including Scott Brown, the newly elected Republican senator from Massachusetts, who say federal civilians earn much more than private-sector workers. There's a reason for that. Federal workers are better educated.
"The Federal Government hires lawyers to tackle corruption, security professionals to monitor our borders, doctors to care for our injured veterans, and world-class scientists to combat deadly diseases such as cancer," the budget says. "Because of these vital needs, the Federal Government hires a relatively highly educated workforce, resulting in higher average pay."
Consider these stats: Twenty percent of federal workers have a master's, professional or doctorate degree, compared with 13 percent in the private sector. Fifty-one percent of federal employees have a college degree of some sort, but only 35 percent do in the private sector.
Frankie and Flo may not be smarter than other folks, but they do have more schooling, and they get paid accordingly. They are also substantially older, and that contributes to higher pay -- 46 percent of federal employees are 50 or older, compared with 31 percent of private-sector workers.
Although the section doesn't say so, comparing overall federal and private-sector pay is misleading in another way, because Uncle Sam doesn't employ many people at the bottom of the wage scale the way industry does.


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Shining Star (Makin' My Love)
Shining Star (Makin' My Love).
Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (rehearsal, 1987 (fragment)).
"Shining Star (Makin' My Love)" is a Frankenstein's Monster of a song: even its title is a grotesque hybrid.* Its parts include: Bowie's simpering, vaguely-rapped verses which at times sound as though he's doing an Old Hollywood "Asian" accent (recall that Bowie used a borderline-racist accent on "China Girl" during the Serious Moonlight and Glass Spider tours); a Prince-inspired emoted pre-chorus; a "soul" chorus that's meant to be a tribute to Smokey Robinson but which sounds more like Johnny Hates Jazz; and a mid-track eight-bar "Method" rap by Mickey Rourke.
Bowie's lyric also seems cobbled together from a few bad ideas. It starts with a list of sub-Jim Carroll doper casualties, builds steam with a run of inane similes (life is a broken arrow, memory is a swinging door—I'm surprised we didn't learn love is like a rose with thorns, too). Then in the chorus, Bowie tries to reboot the song and make it a generic soul ballad. All of this is delivered via one of Bowie's most excruciating vocals on record, with the showboating high Gs on "happy ev'ry day of your LIIIIFE" apparently meant to distract you from noticing how poorly sung the rest of it is. The melody is so contorted, the lyric so ill-suited to it, that Bowie pronounces "Chernobyl" as "CheRR-no-BEEL" to make it scan.**
Then there's the Rourke rap. Rourke and Bowie had met in London and briefly were a regular duo in the clubs; it was as though Rourke was auditioning for Bowie's new "wild man" companion after Iggy Pop had sent in his notice. To be fair, as ludicrous as it is ("blew heads outta shape in the name of Trotsky, Sinn Fein, Hitler, cash down" (are these time-traveling mercenaries?)), the rap's far from the worst offender in the track—Rourke sells his junk better than Bowie. Rourke's not aping Run-DMC as much as Joe Strummer or Paul Simonon (as apparently was Bowie: the way he sings "vermin…cowardice…lice" seems like a parody of "Straight to Hell") in one of the Clash's gonzo attempts at rap, like "Red Angel Dragnet."
Bowie later tried to explain the song's disjunction by saying it represented "how people are trying to get together in the face of so many disasters and catastrophes, socially around them, never knowing if they're going to survive it themselves. The one thing they have got to cling on to is each other." But if each scenario—grubby "street" life, cloud-headed romantic dreams—rings false, slapping the two together just doubles down on the mistake.
There's a few minor things of musical interest—while the song's harmonically minimalist, with just four chords, all of them are extended: a C major 7th and a C major 9th alternate as the tonic chord until a B-flat major 9th/D in the pre-chorus upends their dominance, using a D Minor 7th as a pivot chord. There's also an out-of-nowhere bar of 5/4 in one of the last choruses, which just serves to throw an ugly song further out of whack. Just dreadful stuff, the sheer dregs of Bowie's recorded life.
* As the song's partially titled after an Earth, Wind & Fire hit and nearly plagiarizes its chorus in the outro, I suppose Bowie considered "Shining Star" to be an EWF tribute as much as a Smokey Robinson one, and some of his singing in the choruses does seem like an attempt to ape Philip Bailey.
** That said, it may be closer to the Russian pronunciation (still sounds comical when Bowie sings it, though.)
Recorded ca. September-November 1986, at Mountain Studios, Montreux and Power Station, NYC. On Never Let Me Down. Rehearsed for the Glass Spider tour but somehow didn't make the cut.
Top: "Falk v010," "My Computer Class, 1987, Kleinmachnow, East Germany." Featuring "a kick ass KC85/II sporting 8 KiloByte RAM, a NO SMALL CAPS rubber round keyboard, a whopping "HD ready" 320×256 pixel screen, a "save me 10 times and you have one functioning copy" cassette recorder and an operating system called CAOS (Cassette Aided Operating System) with lovely BASIC." My high school in Connecticut, in 1987, didn't have anything better, though I think we had PASCAL by '88.
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Despite the adoption of the auto pricing mechanism, Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) seems reluctant to adjust fuel prices in line with international market prices. As per the auto pricing mechanism adopted on September 29, the state oil monopoly was supposed to review the prices twice in the last three weeks in line with the massive drop in the international market prices.
On Thursday, NOC received a new price list from its sole supplier Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). As per the new prices, NOC has forecast a profit of Rs 476.9 million for October. It would enjoy a profit of Rs 14.75 on a litre of petrol, Rs 5.89 on a litre of diesel and Rs 16.19 per litre on kerosene. On aviation fuel sold to domestic and international carriers, the profits would be Rs 41.58 and Rs 48.80 per litre, respectively.
However, NOC faces a loss of Rs 511.28 per cylinder on liquefied petroleum gas. Mukunda Ghimire, spokesperson for NOC, said the oil monopoly has benefitted from the fall in the prices of petroleum products in the international market. Brent crude oil price dropped to $84.47 per barrel on Friday, according to a Reuters report.
IOC reviews export prices of petrol and diesel every fortnight, while the prices of kerosene, aviation fuel and LPG are revised monthly. It is the second time in the last two weeks NOC has posted profits.
However, it has failed to revise the domestic prices. Two weeks ago, when IOC sent the new price list, NOC did not lower the domestic prices citing long official holidays during the Dashain festival. And this time too, it is delaying the price revision.
Ghimire said NOC was scheduled to reduce the prices on Friday, but could not do so as most of the board members were absent. "Some of the board members are out of the valley, so we are expecting to hold a board meeting on Sunday to revise the prices," he said.
The oil monopoly had last earned a monthly profit of Rs 131 million in July 2012. It had reported an annual profit of Rs 3.31 billion in 2008-09.
After facing continuous losses for the last two years, NOC adopted the auto pricing system as per the recommendation of high-level committees and the parliamentary committee.
NOC's loans taken from the government and banks and financial institutions currently stand at Rs 36.66 billion. Its losses amounted to Rs 2.05 billion as of last fiscal year.


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Chicago, IL Hotel Florence Fire, Jan 1908
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$300,000 Chicago Loop fire.
Hotel Florence Burned, but a New Skyscraper Resisted the Flames.
Chicago, Jan. 27.-Fanned by a forty-mile gale, a fire which started in the Hotel Florence, 163 Adams Street, early today scattered burning embers about the southern portion of the loop district, endangering a score of structures and causing a loss estimated at $300,000. All the twenty guests of the hotel are believed to have escaped.
Adjoining the burning structure on the east is the partially complete sixteen-story building of the Corn Exchange National Bank. A severe test was given the new skyscraper, but with the exception of some temporary woodwork, it resisted the flames successfully.
During the height of the fire a cascade of sparks poured on the Rookery Building, at La Salle and Adams Streets, and upon the Board of Trade, Grand Pacific Hotel, Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, Western Union and Home Insurance, and other big structures. A six-story building adjoining the hotel on the west caught fire and was partly destroyed. It was occupied by six printing and two tailoring concerns, most of which suffered heavy damage.
Despite the threatening nature of the fire, hard work by the firemen confined it to the two structures.
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In Memoriam for Bailey Jerome Swaggart
I've never met Bailey Jerome Swaggart, a young soldier from West Monroe, Louisiana. I got to know him through his grieving mom, Shalia Swaggert, a woman I admire for her ability to find the brightness in even the darkest day— the day she found out that her son, only twenty-five, had died in Kenya in a non-combative role. Bailey had died on her birthday.
Shalia had contacted me to ask about my picture book, Peace is an Offering. She wanted to know how to order the books in bulk from my publisher, so she could donate them to her friends, neighbours and schools in memory of her son.
She wrote that she and her husband, Kenny, are learning to live life in a new way and that the two things that hold her up in her journey are Peace is an Offering, my recently published children's book, and Bill Wither's song I Wish You Well. Wither's song begins 'I wish you flowers, sunshine and smiles/I wish you children that grow to make you proud…' It is a joyful song with a message of love and generosity to others which is an apt description of Shalia's quest.
After I heard from Shalia, I reread Peace is an Offering through her eyes, and stopped at the lines 'And even in the wake of tragedy, /Even then you might find her. / In the rubble of a fallen tower./In the sorrow of your darkest hour./ In the hat of a hero. /In the loss of a friend. / Peace is a joining, not a pulling apart./ It's the courage to bear a wounded heart.'
Words and music can heal grief and pain. Shalia describes the first time she gave away the book.
"The first book I shared was in response to a very negative situation. I was waiting for a coffee at Starbucks. A man rushed to the counter and asked his wife what was taking so long. She shrugged at him. He began to rudely rant. The girl serving at the counter responded professionally. I was so proud of her and also felt very badly that this happened. I got my coffee then went across the street to Barnes & Noble where I purchased your book. I proceeded next door to purchase flowers from the grocery store. I promptly deliver the items. I hope she always remembers, as I noted in the book, there are more kind people than not in this world. I shared my pride in her calm, professional response. I also 'wished her well' and mentioned that Bailey was one of the kind ones."
Shalia describes the act of giving the book away as 'her drug of choice, one that she chooses to share,' that it is this act of generosity that made her feel 'armed and dangerous in a positive way.' This makes sense, not only in what science tells us, that giving to others is a 'feel good drug' but that doesn't make it any less admirable. To lose a cherished son, in a way that has no clear explanation, would be devastating for any parent. Many would be angry and resentful, but Shalia is grateful for the time she had with her son, 'a happy, caring young man' that one of his fellow soldiers describes as 'the morale lifter of the group.'
Shalia describes what she was told of her son's passing.
'Bailey was a PFC with the U.S. Army. Deployed in the Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, he was a part of a small group sent to Manday Bay, Kenya. On Feb. 19th his orders were to patrol the airstrip with a second soldier in a humvee. Smoke & brush fire were noticed and reported. His Commander told them to keep an eye on it. He exited the vehicle and left the strip to further investigate. It was first believed he had been snake bitten. An autopsy could not find paired marks. Signs show anaphylactic reaction. Samples of alkaline plants were gathered. Nature of death is undetermined.'
I wrote Peace is an Offering as a kind of lullaby after the tragedies of 9/11. I was heartbroken at the thought of so many innocent people dying and the realization that war would be an inevitable consequence. And sitting at my computer, writing my blog this morning, I am saddened by the events in Paris. So many lost lives caused by hatred.
I know, all too well, the cost of war. My mom had lost a husband and I had lost a father to the Second World War. My father was only twenty-four when he died on Juno Beach on D-Day. I was too young to remember him. My mom never recovered from his death.
I write to speak to the world and my hope is that somehow my words will cross boundaries and wing their way into someone's heart, and like a small bird will land on a branch and begin singing.
And so when I think about Shalia's generous heart, I am convinced, like Shalia, that there are more good people in the world than bad. To Shalia and Kenny, my condolences for the loss of your son, Bailey. Keep spreading the word of love and kindness.
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Fox News' Janice Dean reveals she has MS
Culture // Culture
TV NOTEBOOKFox News' Janice Dean reveals she has multiple sclerosisFormer Houston reporter diagnosed over two years ago
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Before Janice Dean was Janice Dean the Weather Machine, over by the wall that's green at Fox News Channel's midtown Manhattan studio, she was Janice Dean, traffic reporter at KPRC television (Channel 2) and radio (950 AM) and the voice of smooth jazz on KODA (99.1 FM), country on KKBQ (92.9 FM) and oldies on KLDE (94.5 FM) during a four-year stint in Houston from 1998 through 2001.
In the course of her duties on one of those stations, Dean recalls conducting an interview promoting the MS 150, the annual Houston-to-Austin bike race that benefits the Lone Star Chapter of the National MS Society.
It's a conversation, she said, that takes on additional significance in light of her decision this week to disclose that she was diagnosed 2 1/2 years ago with multiple sclerosis.
"I thought my life was over. I saw a wheelchair in my future," Dean said, referring to her initial diagnosis in 2005. "But I'm doing OK, and I want other people to know that they can do OK, too."
Dean's disclosure coincides with MS Awareness Week, the MS Society's annual campaign to spotlight developments in treating and understanding the neuromuscular disease.
She will attend an MS Society luncheon in New York today and hopes to participate in the New York chapter's fundraising walk next month.
Dean said her first flareup with the disease occurred shortly after the nightmare that was the 2005 hurricane season.
"Fatigue is one of the symptoms, and I remember being so tired I could sleep for a week," she said. "I took a week off, and on the first day of my vacation I remember waking up and having no feeling on the bottom of my feet. I went to a doctor, and he told me it could be anything from a slipped disc to MS, and I said, 'What?' "
Dean visited additional doctors and took additional tests to eliminate the possibility of other ailments, including Lyme disease, before receiving a diagnosis.
She has had only one other flareup, about two months ago, but remains all too aware of the unpredictable nature of MS.
"I know that you can go two years to 10 years with no problems, or it could happen again tomorrow," she said. "There's no rhyme or reason to it."
Dean said she has been heartened by support from friends and viewers, including former Houston listeners, and by her new husband, a New York firefighter, whom she married in 2007.
The latter is significant in light of the MS Society's figures indicating that 83 percent of marriages end in divorce after a spouse is diagnosed with the disease.
"The great thing he said is that this doesn't scare him, and that is so important because it can be a tough road," she said.
Dean is one of a handful of highly visible TV journalists who live with MS.
In Houston, that group includes Melanie Lawson and Wayne Dolcefino at KTRK (Channel 13). At Fox News, it includes anchor Neil Cavuto.
"(Cavuto) told me, 'Janice, you will be amazed at the support you will receive, but there will be people who look at you differently,' " she said. "But that's OK. I have a blog (at FoxNews.com), and readers have been amazing, and the support here at work is amazing."
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Erik Barajas, late of KSAT in San Antonio, will anchor Channel 13's 4 p.m. newscast beginning next month. He will succeed Tom Koch , who had been working a double shift and will return to focusing on morning anchor duties.
Barajas, a University of Houston graduate, is the nephew of Channel 26 anchor Mike Barajas. ... Meanwhile, Channel 26 has handed the title of chief meteorologist, vacant since Cecilia Sinclair's departure last May, to Jim Siebert. ...
American Idol got a boost Tuesday night in audience, if not in quality of performance, from the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Tuesday's two-hour show pulled an 11.8 Nielsen household rating on Channel 26. ...
Speaking of the Fabs, coming from PBS in 2010 is On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, an eight-hour series on the history of 20th-century music to be hosted by Sir George Martin. ...
MSNBC's new lineup kicks off at 5 p.m. Monday with Race for the White House, hosted by NBC News White House correspondent David Gregory. Also beginning Monday, Andrea Mitchell will anchor the channel's newscast from noon to 1 p.m., Countdown With Keith Olbermann will re-air at 9 p.m., and the 8 p.m. Dan Abrams show will be relaunched as Verdict With Dan Abrams, a look at the news from a legal perspective. Tucker Carlson's show has been canceled.
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package com.jayway.jsonpath.internal;

import java.util.EnumSet;
import java.util.Set;

import com.jayway.jsonpath.Configuration.Defaults;
import com.jayway.jsonpath.Option;
import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.json.JsonProvider;
import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.json.JsonSmartJsonProvider;
import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.mapper.JsonSmartMappingProvider;
import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.mapper.MappingProvider;

public final class DefaultsImpl implements Defaults {

  public static final DefaultsImpl INSTANCE = new DefaultsImpl();

  private final MappingProvider mappingProvider = new JsonSmartMappingProvider();

  @Override
  public JsonProvider jsonProvider() {
    return new JsonSmartJsonProvider();
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Q: Report not searching full description/text box Short background:
Before we moved to salesforce we had a lot of data in a description box (tags related to that contact). We used these tags to pull out lists and run reports. This data, when moving to Salesforce, now exists in a custom text box.
Current problem:
When I now run a report in Salesforce and search for the tags in the text box, only a selection of all contacts with those tags started showing up. I did multiple reports and set-ups trying to figure out the problem and I believe it might be caused due to the following: a word count limit, for the report to search through the text box.
I've done a few tests and all contacts with the relevant tags listed within a 235 character count show up. All contacts with the relevant tags listed after 235 character count disappears/wont show on my reports.
Questions 1:
Can we remove or change the character count limit for the report search?
Question 2:
Does reporting have any other such limits?
edit; referring to character count with  spaces, instead of word count.

A: It's not clear from your post, but it sounds like you are using a custom field of the Long Textarea data type.  You can verify this in Setup.
You can only search the beginning portion of a Long Textarea field with report filters:
https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000212391&type=1

Filters applied to custom Text Area (Long) fields only permit the
  first 255 characters to be searched.