all thoughts of packing and other such tediousness were cast aside yesterday to give our little two year old a day of fun. as mentioned ivy was director of such activities, declaring a list of 'yindi' favourites (which had a suspiciously familiar feel to them...lucky these two share favourite things hey?). first stop was party city for a big helium balloon for our little balloon lover. then it was the park - bubbles, snacks and constant pushing on the swings...then some fun at the ymca indoor pool where she was allowed to jump in and be caught over and over and OVER without mumma getting fed up!
the sewing machine was well received (note jealous look on mick's face - he is now the only sewing machine-less member of the family!)...and my lovely friend vicky knitted 'rosie' the purple gnome per ivy's request - ivy was given a gnome when she turned 2 and decided he needed a wife!
just a quick reminder to those coming to the mixed media messy fun tomorrow night at the pink pineapple... please double check the supply list here and make sure you bring your stash of scrappies and stuff - bring extras if you want to contribute to the communal pile of craziness so we can all dig through and find treasures to work with! i'm really looking forward to this one...see you there!
i look forward to the day when i have my own walls to dip a big brush into thick ink and scrawl inspiring words and dreams and other such pretties onto the colorful paint...i'm sure there will be little handprints too.
oh she's a special one. her name means sun and she has certainly been the sunshine in our family with her round cheery face and big loving heart. i can't believe how time flies (*sniff*) and that now my roly-poly baby is an almost toilet-trained, talking in 2 word sentences, kissing 'beebee' soon-to-be-big-sister who is in the other room having a princess dress put on her by the chorister of birthday fun (miss ivy) and demanding which hair tie she wants big sis to put in her gnome's hair.
debbie hodge always has awesome sounding online classes, and up for grabs is a spot in the new class "masterful art journaling" which i think i'll sign up for because it sounds sooo cool!
In "Masterful Art Journaling," you'll get inspiration from art masters that will help take your art journaling in new directions. From each week's art history context, Dina Wakley extracts art techniques, exercises and journaling prompts to help you play, stretch, and explore as a journaling artist. Class starts Tuesday, June 30th.
Heather says: I love journals but they're a little too big to haul around everywhere I go on a daily basis. That's why I came up with this cute little on-the-go journal necklace. Perfect size for doodling!
This journal was created using an old bookcover. It has 40 pages(80 front and back)of random hand cut (by me) vintage papers. Even the lined paper is old! Journal measures approx. 2" x 1 1/2" and hangs from an adjustable black waxed cotton cord.
mccabe, al-la the dancing mermaid has long been teaching amazing art journal classes to young girls from her beach cottage - and now brings her magic to you in an e-course - mermaid warrior e-camp (ivy is joining in and very excited about it!)...the course is available all summer long and one lucky winner will receive a pass to join in.
little girls changing the world from mccabe russell on Vimeo.
to be in the draw for one of these giveaways, simply leave your sushiney comment below and i will randomly choose winners monday night and announce them here - good luck!
this is how i found them just now.
bowl of dry cereal, books, weaving. togetherness.
this took a whole 2 minutes to do with the spray paint and masks!
the best part of course was watching all the little girls (note: boys were not so interested!) gather around their teacher like a gaggle of little goslings and giggle and oooh and ahh over all of their pages!
Q - have you had a hug today?
i'll be doing my best to keep the shop well -stocked all weekend - and straps will ship by next weekend. cheers!


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Lessons & Resources
Curriculum & Conferences
Academic Literacy & Writing by Dr. Harry Stein
This is How You Get Gun Control
Bruce W. Dearstyne
The New York State Office of State History and the State Archives
Reprinted with permission from the History News Network
"We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around," Cameron Kasky, a survivor of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting said on CNN's "State of the Union" program a few days later. It was a wrenching reminder of how long politicians have ducked responsibility for curbing killers using assault rifles.
We have reached a critical point in our history when students need to implore lawmakers to protect them from gunfire in their own schools.
President Trump's endorsement of stronger background checks and raising the age to purchase guns seem like positive steps. But his – and the NRA's – proposal to arm classroom teachers raises the specter of gunmen armed with assault rifles shooting it out with classroom teachers armed with handguns.
The nation needs common-sense gun control that is compatible with the Second Amendment.
The story of the Sullivan Gun Control Act, passed by the New York State legislature in 1911, is worth studying for insights into how public pressure and political leadership could produce what is needed.
By the early 20th century, many New York political leaders, newspapers, and individual citizens were concerned with rising gun violence, particularly in New York City. Several factors aligned to escalate and transform that concern into support for gun control legislation.
Shooting a mayor provokes public outrage
On August 9, 1910, New York City Mayor William J. Gaynor was waiting to board a ship for a trip to Europe. He was suddenly approached by James J. Gallagher, who had been discharged from his position as a New York City dock night watchman for dereliction of his duty earlier in the year. Gallagher's repeated appeals to the mayor for reinstatement had gotten no results.
Gallagher shot the mayor in the neck and also wounded the city sanitation commissioner who was there to see the mayor off. A New York World photographer happened to be there for what he had assumed would be a routine photo of the mayor. Instead, he snapped a picture of a bloodied Gaynor reeling from the shot. The photo made the front pages of city newspapers and was widely reprinted. It was a graphic representation of the horror of gun violence.
Gaynor survived but the bullet lodged in his neck and could not be removed. It caused him pain and discomfort until his death in 1913. Gallagher insisted that his being fired justified his assault on the mayor and that shooting public officials was defensible "if you have a grievance and can't right it any other way." He was sentenced to 12 years in prison and died there in 1913.
Killing a prominent writer provokes even more outrage
David Graham Phillips was a prominent New York City novelist in the early 20th century. On January 23, 1911, Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, an eccentric violinist and music teacher, walked up to Phillips on the sidewalk near Gramercy Park. People standing nearby heard him cry out "I've been waiting for six months to get you" and then "Here you go!" as he shot the novelist five times. He then muttered "Here I go!" before shooting and killing himself. Phillips died of his wounds the next day.
Police searched Goldsborough's apartment; from diaries and papers they learned he had become obsessed with one of Phillips' novels, The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig. He believed it drew on Goldsborough family history, portraying it in an unflattering way. Goldsborough also believed Phillips could read his mind. Actually, Phillips's novel was complete fiction rather than based on any actual people. Press accounts concluded Goldsborough was mentally deranged. The shootings of Gaynor and Phillips escalated public demand for gun control.
A coroner presents data
Support for gun control also came from an unlikely source, the New York City coroner's office. George LeBrun, a senior administrator in the office, complied annual reports on deaths in the city in the early 20th century. The report released in January 1911 documented an alarming rise in gun-related killings. Gun violence was reaching epidemic levels. "The increase of homicide by shooting indicates the urgent necessity of the proper authorities taking some measure for the regulation of the indiscriminate sale and carrying of firearms," the report insisted. " The press picked up the sense of alarm, for instance, in a New York Times article on January 30 entitled, "Revolver Killings Fast Increasing."
A politician takes the lead
Timothy Sullivan, a Democratic state senator from the Bowery area of Manhattan, was shocked at the Gaynor and Phillips shootings. But he was even more alarmed about a rising tide of gang-related shootings in his own district.
Sullivan, often known by his nickname "Big Tim," was a no do-gooder reformer. He was a Tammany Hall regular who was involved with gambling, prostitution, and corruption. But he was also genuinely concerned with the welfare of his constituents. Tammany Hall itself was becoming more reform-minded.
Sullivan introduced a bill in the 1911 legislature to require licenses issued by judges or police for New Yorkers to possess firearms small enough to be concealed. Possession of such firearms without a license would be defined as a misdemeanor, and carrying one without a license was defined as a felony. Sellers were required to keep records of firearms transactions. The bill had other provisions as well.
Sullivan explained that there were three types of "gun toters." The first category was professional criminals. The second consisted of people who were deranged or committed gun violence in fits of rage. His law would help in both those areas, he said.
But Sullivan said he was more concerned with a third category: "young fellows who carry guns around in their pockets all the time not because they are murderers or criminals but because the other fellows do it and they want to be able to protect themselves…. [T]hose boys aren't all bad but … just carrying their guns around makes them itch to use them."
Public opinion pressures the legislature
Sullivan's bill was opposed by some gun owners and gun manufacturers. One upstate legislator told Sullivan that "your bill won't stop murders. You can't force a burglar to get a license to use a gun." Others warned that criminals would get guns from other states.
But opponents were overshadowed by the voices of citizens who were fed up with gun violence, particularly people in New York City. Sullivan capitalized on public sentiment.
"This is a bill against murder," he insisted in an impassioned plea for his bill in the Senate on May 11.
He pointed out that gun control was supported by oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, department store owner John Wanamaker, several other wealthy and prominent New Yorkers, the city police department, and a number of judges. Law enforcement officers spoke out in favor of Sullivan's bill. New York County Republican District Attorney (later governor) Charles Whitman said that "carrying a weapon is an invitation to a crime. Reduce the weapons carried and you will reduce crimes of violence. There isn't any debating that point." Public opinion swung behind the proposed legislation.
Bipartisan support for the bill
Democrats controlled the legislature but Sullivan lobbied his colleagues on both sides of the political aisle to support his bill. It came to be viewed as a bipartisan measure. Legislators, sensing public outrage at gun assaults, expressed support. After all, who wanted to be seen as opposing something that promised to save people's lives? The Sullivan Act passed easily, garnering 46 of 51 votes in the Senate and 148 out of 150 in the Assembly, with both Democrats and Republicans in support. Democratic governor John A. Dix signed it into law. It took effect at midnight on August 31, 1911.
Insights from history
Critics soon charged that the law was selectively enforced, with police targeting immigrants and minority groups and planting guns on people they wanted to arrest for other reasons. It was challenged in court but upheld. Its impact on reducing gun-related crime has been questioned. As Patrick Charles explains in his new book, Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry, its passage inspired organized resistance to gun control in other states. But its basic provisions are still in place.
The Sullivan Act is not perfect by any means, but its passage sent a message that New Yorkers were determined to curb gun violence. The history of its passage offers three insights for today.
One, high-profile killings shock people into demanding action.
Two, public pressure is needed to get legislation passed, but in turn, the public's perception is shaped by the media and political leaders who frame the issue and insist on action.
Three, compromise is possible. The Sullivan Act does not prevent people from getting concealed weapons, but it does require them to go through a process to do so.
Responses to Bruce Dearstyne
Nicole Waid, SUNY Oneonta, responds: The debate over the regulation of firearms has risen in intensity since the mass shooting that occurred February 14th at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida. The nation perpetually grapples over the intent of the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. Some believe the right to bear arms is something that should never be curtailed. Others feel that the founders could have never envisioned the technological advances that would make firearms more efficient and deadly. As the nation processes mass shootings in schools the debate, there is a range of solutions offered ranging from thoughts and prayers to enhanced background checks and banning assault-style weapons. The discourse between the different factions of politicians supported by the NRA and people who want sensible gun control measures to protect students in schools becomes a counterproductive cycle. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting seems to have something different which previous school shootings did not have. The children who lost their lives in Columbine did not have social media capabilities to speak out about the school shooting. The children who perished in the Sandy Hook school shooting were young elementary students, so they were not able to advocate for themselves. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas students, in contrast, are well-educated students with capabilities to disseminate their message about the need for gun control measures on social media. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have been thrust into the spotlight and sparked a nationwide movement to protest gun violence with a series of marches across the nation. The students had a well-defined set of objectives and tried to advocate for themselves when lawmakers have failed them. There has been considerable blowback on these students becoming targets of pro-gun activists, and the NRA. The students who are speaking out are accused of being coached by MoveOn.org and George Soros. The reality of the situation is that the students had effective social studies teachers who explained Constitutional principles to them and how they apply to their everyday lives.
Simon Burke a transplanted American living in Paris comments: "In a modern society where it seems to be easier for the bad guys to get guns than it is for the good guys (this excludes law enforcement), the only logical solution I see to end gun violence is to remove guns from general circulation. Basically, a 'no badge no gun' policy. Sure, exceptions for those living in rural areas needing firearms could be argued (defense against wild animals, limited to bolt-action/barrel breaching weapons, etc.), but what real-life use do automatic and concealed weapons have for civilians? None whatsoever. Australia, a country with striking social, economic, and historical similarities to the U.S. banned guns in the mid 90's. Guess what? zero mass shootings since. I think a case study of Australia's gun policy could be interesting. Other countries' policies could be explored as well, but I think Australia is particularly interesting because of the similarities between our two countries."
Carolyn Ramos: Purchasing weapons should be banned to anyone who is not properly trained or educated. That legislatures are considering arming teachers is absolutely outrageous. As an educator in an early childhood program, I would never want my own students to fear me because I carry a weapon. There are thousands of under-funded public schools in this country. Schools need new books, new desks, smart boards, laptops, tablets, and supplies, not teachers with guns. Is this country telling our children that violence is the only way to solve our problems? That shooting is the only alternative here?
Bar Hidden Weapons On Sullivan's Plea New York Times, May 11, 1911.ALBANY, May 10. —
In spite of opposition from manufacturers of firearms, the Senate to-day passed Senator Timothy D. Sullivan's bill restricting the sale and use of dangerous weapons. Only five Senators voted against the measure after the Bowery Senator had made a characteristic appeal in its favor.The Sullivan bill makes the carrying of concealed weapons a felony, requires those using revolvers and small arms to obtain licenses from police Magistrates, and provides for the registration by dealers in firearms of all persons who buy revolvers or similar weapons. Senator Ferris, the only member who spoke in opposition, offered an amendment removing the licensing feature. This, he said, was unworkable and would prove a hardship to those who desired to have pistols in their homes for their protection."Have you a gun factory in your district?" Senator Sullivan asked of Senator Ferris, who represents Oneida County. "There is a factory there," was the reply. "Would you oppose this bill if that were not so?" "That fact is not my reason for opposing the bill in its present form," Senator Ferris said. "Your bill won't stop murders. You can't force a burglar to get a license to use a gun. He'll get one from another state.""I want to make it so the young thugs in my district will get three years for carrying dangerous weapons instead of getting a sentence in the electric chair a year from now," said Senator Sullivan. "The manufacturers oppose my bill because they know that if we pass it other States will follow suit."
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Q: In practice, what does it mean for the Newton's method to converge quadratically (when it converges)? I was studying about the Newton's method (and other root-finding methods) and apparently Newton's method converges quadratically (or more) when it does.

Suppose that the sequence $\{x_k \}$ converges to the number $L$. We say that this sequence converges linearly to $L$, if $\exists$ a number $\mu \in (0, 1)$, such that $$\lim_{k \to \infty} \frac{|x_{k+1} - L|}{|x_{k} - L|} = \mu$$
and $\mu$ is called the rate of convergence.

Similarly, it would converge quadratically to $L$ if
$$\lim_{k \to \infty} \frac{|x_{k+1} - L|}{|x_{k} - L|^2} = \mu$$
where $\mu > 0$.

Why is that?
How can I see in practice if a sequence of iterations of the Newton's method is converging or not quadratically?
I guess I need to check for all $x_k$ that the second limit above is $\mu$ for some $\mu$ greater than $zero$...but how would I check this practically for a real concrete example?

A: A great example is to do what your calculator does when it computes $\sqrt{x}$ for some number. This way, you can see quadratic convergence in practice.
Say you want to figure out $\sqrt{17}$, this is really equivalent to finding zero's of the polynomial $f(x)=x^{2}-17$ given some initial guess.
Let's try it. Given an initial guess say, 4.2 ($4^{2}=16$ too small, and $5^2=25$, too big), we use newton's method to find the root.
$x_1=4.2-\frac{(4.2)^2-17}{8.4}=4.12380952380952381$
With error from the calculators output of $\sqrt{17}$of $|4.12380952380952380-4.12310562561766054982|=0.0007$
Let's run it again and see what happens to our error:
$x_2=4.12380952380952381-\frac{(4.12380952380952381)^2-17}{2(4.12380952380952381)}=4.1231056856922907731$
with a new error of: $|4.1231056856922907731-4.12310562561766054982|\sim 6*10^{-8}$
So after one iteration we went from an error on the order of $10^{-4}$, to one of $(10^{-4})^2$, showing our error shrinking quadratically. This is really really fast, and why your calculator still uses this method.

A: Let $\epsilon_n=|x_n-L|$ be the error on the $n$th step. Supposing the claimed limit does indeed hold, this means
$$\frac{\epsilon_{n+1}}{\epsilon_n^2}\sim\mu\implies\epsilon_{n+1}\simeq\mu\epsilon_n^2$$
i.e. the error on the next step is roughly a quadratic function of the error on the current step (hence the name). Similarly for linear convergence,
$$\epsilon_{n+1}\simeq\mu\epsilon_n$$
is a linear function of the current error.
Visually, however, one cannot easily "see" the value of $\epsilon_n$, but rather $\log(\epsilon_n)$, the number of digits accurate. Taking the logarithm of both sides, one may see that quadratic convergence implies
$$\log(\epsilon_{n+1})\simeq2\log(\epsilon_n)+\log(\mu)\simeq2\log(\epsilon_n)$$
meaning that the amount of digits accurate per iteration will double. You may obtain the order of convergence by observing the limit
$$\frac{\log(\epsilon_{n+1})}{\log(\epsilon_n)}\to2\quad(\text{or 1 for linear convergence})$$
with the additional caveat that the second term, $\log(\mu)$, is bounded (and less than $0$ for linear convergence), though usually if it isn't one doesn't worry too much about it.
For example, let us estimate $\sqrt2$ using Newton's method starting from $x_0=1$.
\begin{array}{c|c}
    n&x_n\\\hline
    0&1.000000000\\
    1&1.500000000\\
    2&1.\underline{41}6666666\\
    3&1.\underline{41421}5686\\
    4&1.\underline{414213562}\\
    5&1.414213562
\end{array}
It is easy to visually see that the number of digits accurate will roughly double per iteration.

If your question concerns why Newton's method (usually) converges quadratically, the proof follows from a quick Taylor expansion:
$$f(L)=f(x)+f'(x)(L-x)+\underbrace{\frac12f''(\xi)(L-x)^2}_{\mathcal O(\epsilon_n^2)}$$
Letting $f(L)=0$ and solving for $L$ from the second term leads to
$$L=\underbrace{x-\frac{f(x)}{f'(x)}}_{x_\mathrm{newton}}-\underbrace{\frac12\frac{f''(\xi)}{f'(x)}(L-x)^2}_{\mathcal O(\epsilon_n^2)}$$
which shows that
$$\epsilon_{n+1}=|L-x_\mathrm{newton}|=\left|\frac12\frac{f''(\xi)}{f'(x)}(L-x)^2\right|\simeq\mu\epsilon_n^2$$

A: *

*Why is that?

Because of the definitions you quoted, and the way that Newton's Method is defined. The point of linear, quadratic, etc. convergence is that it measures in a sense how fast the sequence of approximations will converge to the correct answer. It is not trivial, but also not terribly difficult, to prove directly that when Newton's Method converges, it does so quadratically (or better). Exception: If the root desired is of multiplicity greater than 1, then the convergence rate is only linear.

*How can I see in practice if a sequence of iterations of the Newton's method is converging or not quadratically?

For this, the rate of convergence is not as important and having a criterion for determining whether or not Newton's Method will converge. A sufficient condition for convergence of Newton's Method is known (I don't recall exactly what it is off the top of my head). If you have established that it does in fact converge, then you can verify whether it is quadratic or not by checking the relevant limit(s) (typically, if it's better than quadratic, that is because one of the iterations landed exactly on the correct solution, hence it is no longer an approximation but the actual exact answer).

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On Donald Trump's Syrian Refugee Ban: From a Muslim Immigrant in North America
By Ghada Chehade
Global Research, January 30, 2017
Ghada's SoapBox 28 January 2017
Theme: Police State & Civil Rights, Terrorism
On Friday (Jan 27) President Donald Trump signed an executive order to halt all refugees to the US for 120 days and to indefinitely ban refugees from Syria until "extreme vetting" measures could be put in place. It also limits VISA issuance to individuals from six other predominantly Muslim countries.
While humanitarian groups are up in arms, this action needs to be given some serious politico-historical context. I say this as a Muslim immigrant in North America.
Like all incoming presidents, Donald Trump has inherited the mess of previous presidential administrations. Arguably the biggest mess is that of the US led 'global war on terror,' which was begun by George W. Bush and continued under the Obama administration, notwithstanding promises to the contrary by Obama.
Despite its supposed fight against terrorism and terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda—the reason this war on terror was purportedly initiated in the first place—it is now known that the US has been supporting certain terrorists groups in countries like Syria, Iraq and Libya.
While the US has long claimed to be opposed to Islamic extremism and Islamic terrorism, it has been directly or indirectly fostering it in the Middle East for decades. For everyday people in the US, this might be confusing. Why would a secular country that claims to be opposed to radical Islam and Islamic terrorism actually support these things? Because it serves its political, economic and geological interests, that's why. I have written on some of these interests elsewhere.
Here I simply wish to reiterate that despite its rhetoric about combating religious extremism and terrorism, previous US administrations have actually promoted terrorism and Islamic extremism in the Middle East while targeting secular Muslim leaders, such as Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and, presently, Syria's Bashar al-Assad. The same is true of Lebanon, a secular mixed-religion country that has suffered decades of western meddling and sectarian destabilization tactics. Part of the reason these secular countries and their governments are targeted is that they do not comply with the US' (and Israel's) imperial agenda and policies in the region. Rather than supporting moderate, "modern" and secular Middle Eastern states, the US has hitherto declared war on them while allying with the most backward and extremist countries in the region, such as Saudi Arabia.
So What Does Any of This Have to Do With Syrian Refugees?
When the US (and its western and Middle Eastern allies) fund and support Islamic extremists and violent terrorist groups against these secular countries, there are people internally that will opportunistically join forces with them, either as paid mercenaries or for 'ideological' reasons or other personal or political reasons. Many join the terrorist groups and kill and plunder alongside them, as has happened in Syria, Iraq and Libya. These are not the type of people any population would want to welcome as refugees and immigrants. Yet, without strict vetting practices, it is possible that such individuals can enter countries like the US and Canada under the pretense of seeking refuge or asylum.
This becomes more likely as terrorist fighters lose ground and are forced to retreat, as they currently are in Syria. With the many terrorist groups in Syria presently being defeated by Syrian and Russian forces, one can imagine that thousands will be frantic and eager to evade capture and escape the country. One way to do this is to leave the country as a refugee and head for the west, especially to sympathetic countries like the US, which were indirectly funding and arming these groups (until very recently) in the first place!
Anyone capable of historical-political analysis, and anyone with a critical and nuanced understanding of the current mess in Syria, and the US' role in creating this crazy mess, should be capable of understanding this. It is naïve to believe that not a single terrorist fighter could be among the thousands of Syrian refugees entering the US. While I do not support a permanent and indiscriminate ban of Syrian refugees, especially for children and women, I think it is wise to implement strict vetting and screening practices to try to ensure that none of the western-backed terrorist fighters and murderers find their way into the US. This would be a form of blowback that no one would benefit from.
In November 2015 at least 27 states—represented by more than half the nation's governors—opposed letting Syrian refugees into their states (this was before Obama approved the intake of 10,000 refugees). The reason for this is not simply that they are racist, Islamophobic xenophobes, though this possibly could be said of some of them. The larger reason is because, whether they are willing to publicly admit it or not, these governors understood that part of the blowback—military speak that basically means when our actions abroad come back to bite us in the ass at home—of America's duplicitous policies in Syria (i.e., supporting and arming terrorist groups while claiming to be against terrorism) could include some of these terrorists fighters/Obama-era proxy mercenaries entering the US later on as refugees.
Of course, the current executive order is far too sweeping and will affect suffering people genuinely affected by US-initiated conflict and destabilization zones abroad, including in the other countries targeted in the order. The executive order prohibits entry to the United States for nationals from six other Muslim-majority counties — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen — for at least 90 days, Reuters reported. The US created many of these situations in the first place and continues to turn a blind eye to the plight of the people of Yemen, where the Saudi offensive has resulted in near famine. While the order may be aimed at limiting entry of (US-backed) terrorist fighters, there are hoards of people in these countries in need of genuine help. One can only hope that following the 90-day-ban, an asylum system will be worked out that helps those that genuinely and urgently need it.
Overall, to summarize the main points above, under previous US administrations murdering lunatics were propped up in the Middle East, including in Syria as part of a US-led effort to oust Bashar al-Assad and completely destabilize that secular Muslim country. Now that this mission has failed, it is not unlikely that some of these murderous US cronies/terrorists could end up in the US as supposed refugees. This is a situation that would benefit no one; and makes a vetting process necessary.
While Trump's sweeping executive order is likely to create serious upheaval and uncertainly for refugees and migrants already en route, it is borne of an even greater mess and chaos begun by previous administrations and their radicalization and destabilization campaigns in secular countries in the Middle East. In order to understand the current situation, one must have a critical understanding of that larger context.
The original source of this article is Ghada's SoapBox
Copyright © Ghada Chehade, Ghada's SoapBox , 2017
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Thank you for posting this one - very relevant, especially if you don't have your grilling equipment with you at all. I had never thought of the choice between metal pot vs. knife, but your logic sounds right!
Another alternative to cooking wood tripod above. Building supply stores sell what I call big a$$ nails (lumber spikes) that are 8 - 12" long. These can be used the same way as the saplings - cost about .80 to a $1 each though. Very handy items to add to your bag. These spikes are multi-use items. Can be used as hand pulls for climbing a dirt bank or ice shelf, for instance. An anchor for canoe / kayak on the bank / shoreline. Can be flattened with heavy object and made into a knife even. A dozen or so of these in a Pringles chip type of container would not take much space at all.
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I've found the green sapling method works everywhere except in really rocky terrain such as what you find in mountainous regions. But in those places rocks are available, and I've used a variation on the tripod by selecting rocks that can be arrange to form a three-point support for the pot while still leaving enough room in the middle for the fire.
A thought occurred to me, maybe false but I thought worth mentioning. Instead of a flat bottomed pot, would a mixing bowl instead work better? The bottom is rounded, so more uniform heating would occur, and the lighter weight of it would save weight.
Does that reasoning sound faulty? I brought this up with my wife, who said she didn't think a mixing bowl was durable enough.
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'He's dangerous': Ex-Likud MK who joined Sa'ar rules out gov't with Netanyahu
Ze'ev Elkin: 'Netanyahu's personal interests are guiding his decisions'; fellow defector Yifat Shasha-Biton says Israel must have a change of leadership
By TOI staff	27 December 2020, 1:30 am 0 Edit
Environmental Protection Minister Ze'ev Elkin arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Former Likud lawmakers who left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party to join rival Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope pledged on Saturday their new right-wing list would not join a coalition with the premier following the elections.
Israel heads to its fourth national election in two years on March 23, after the government led by Netanyahu collapsed last week over a failure to pass a state budget.
Recent television polls have put Netanyahu's bloc of right-wing and religious parties short of a majority, but also predicted that his rivals would have had a hard time building a viable coalition. Though Netanyahu lacked a clear path to forming a government, it's unclear from the survey results if an alternative coalition could be assembled, with the parties opposing the Likud leader divided ideologically and over the question of who should be premier.
"We won't join Netanyahu in any form [in a coalition], because his personal interests are guiding his decisions," said Ze'ev Elkin, formerly a confidant of Netanyahu, in an interview with Channel 12's "Meet the Press."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister Zeev Elkin attend a ceremony of the unveiling of a new monument to the victims of the 1948 Altalena incident, at Nachalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv. October 27, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
"And that makes it [Netanyahu's leadership] dangerous," continued Elkin. "Netanyahu feels persecuted, he suspects everyone, the atmosphere is one of a cult of personality… of flattery. This is precisely what we want to change."
Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. He denies any wrongdoing.
New Hope's Yifat Shasha-Biton echoed the pledge, telling Channel 12: "We won't join [a coalition] led by Benjamin Netanyahu. It's not Netanyahu as an individual, the story is the way Netanyahu is leading the country… the State of Israel wants a change."
Shasha-Biton also addressed her decision to leave Likud, stressing that she had been placed on the list as part of a merger between Netanyahu's party and Moshe Kahlon's now-defunct Kulanu party.
MK Yifat Shasha-Biton at a Knesset coronavirus committee meeting on July 19, 2020. (screen capture: Knesset livestream)
"It doesn't suit me to be part of this bullying and low discourse," she said. "This is precisely what we want to change."
Elkin became the fourth Likud lawmaker to defect to Sa'ar's fledgling party — after Shasha-Biton, MK Michal Shir, and MK Sharren Haskel — which current polls suggest would be the second-largest in the Knesset after the elections.
Elkin, a former cabinet minister, had been known to be close to Netanyahu, as his former coalition chief, his translator in dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and a trusted confidant. Alongside current Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, he led Likud's negotiations with Blue and White ahead of the formation of the current government.
Elkin delivered a dramatic indictment of the Israeli leader Wednesday as he announced his surprise decision to quit Likud and join forces with Sa'ar, the longtime Netanyahu nemesis who bolted Likud and resigned from the Knesset two weeks ago to form his own party. In his remarks, Elkin cited his lost faith in a prime minister he accused of increasingly placing his personal interests ahead of the country's. He quit the Knesset on Thursday.
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Staff from Queen Katharine Academy join the Thomas Deacon Academy team for the first combined Duke of Edinburgh training weekend.
Each year TDA runs a training event for the D of E staff team and this year the QKA team joined them for a weekend of hiking in the Peak District.
The group of staff leaders came together to learn the skills required for leading students on expeditions including teamwork, navigation and resilience. The weather certainly tested the resolve of the three groups as the strong winds blew hailstones across the hills for much of the six hour hike.
In addition to the training aspect, the weekend also provided a great opportunity for staff across the two secondary schools to network and meet new people. This will now become an annual combined event for the schools as we move forward as a Trust.


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Samsung Galaxy S9 fail: 7 things not so cool about the device
Author Husain Published on February 27, 2018
Being the largest manufacturer of Android devices makes Samsung the center of attention at the MWC 2018. Since the Galaxy S9 and S9+ were hands-down the most anticipated Android devices of the year, it's no surprise everyone is constantly talking about it right after the unveiling.
The South-Korean tech giant has been more than vocal to showcase the improved camera and the brand new dual-camera setup on the larger variant. But when you look at the fine print of the details on the Galaxy S9, you find out the things Samsung kept mum, probably because they don't want you to know or think about that.
We've dived deeper to see what's beneath the surface, and here are 8 things that Samsung didn't tell you about the Galaxy S9.
1. Thickest Galaxy since the Galaxy S3!!
2. Heaviest Galaxy flagship ever!
3. No Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box
4. Same UX as the Galaxy S8
5. Battery size remains the same!
6. No improvements in Fast Charging via cable
7. No Burgundy Red variant
We like our smartphones to be sleek and slim, which is why the curved glass panel on the Galaxy S7 Edge was so popular. While the curved panel makes it seem sleeker than most smartphones, Galaxy S9 (8.5 mm) is the thickest flagship device from Samsung since the Galaxy S3 (8.6 mm) from 2012. It is 0.5 mm thicker than its predecessor the Galaxy S8, and a considerable 1.3mm thicker than the Galaxy S6.
While a couple of millimeters can be ignored, the fact that Samsung has been bulking up the flagship series over the years has not gone unnoticed. Weighing in at 163 gm, the newly released Galaxy S9 is 11 gm heavier than the Galaxy S7, and almost 33 gm heavier than the Galaxy S4 from 2013.
When you cash in for a flagship device, you expect the latest software from Android to come baked it. Since this is Samsung we are talking about, you get Android 8.0 Oreo on the new Galaxy S9 and not the latest Android 8.1. While the entire Google Pixel lineup already sports the Android 8.1 version, your shiny new Galaxy S9 still runs 8.0, but we hope an update to 8.1 is in the cards and may roll out soon.
Android 8.0 on the Galaxy S8 also brings Samsung Experience 9.0, which is the souped-up version of TouchWiz. The latest Galaxy S9 also comes with the same UX, meaning that the device will most likely be identical to the Galaxy S8. Since there is not too much on the hardware side of things to differentiate between the two, you'd hope that Galaxy S9 would come with some unique software elements. Wallpapers are different, though, for what it's worth!
One weak point for mobile devices, in general, has been the mediocre screen-on time, and Galaxy S9 doesn't improve on it. The 3000mAh would last most people during the day, but when you consider that the battery capacity has remained the same for the past two generations, you start to wonder why Samsung can't put in a 4000mAh battery like the one in Oppo F3 Plus.
Fast charging features on modern devices are the only way to counter poor battery life, but Samsung isn't the best in the business at it yet. Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 technology has been out for more than a year now, but the Galaxy S9 boasts only Quick Charge 2.0, which is the same standard that the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S7 had.
From the Xiaomi Mi A1 to the OnePlus 5T, most major Android OEMs have released their very own red color variants. And we expected Samsung to follow. However, there was no Galaxy S9 Burgundy Red color spotted this time around, although the Lilac Purple and Coral Blue colors are prettier than ever!
Will you be holding on to these points, or get yourself one of the best Android devices of the years anyway? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Husain
Sharing a love-hate relationship with Biotechnology in college, Husain moved on to his true calling of being a tech geek through and through. While briefly being persuaded by the iPhone, he made it back to the Android camp with the OnePlus One and has been a loyal comrade since.
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The Best and Worst Roads and Infrastructure in the World
Daniel Beaulieu
Oct 26, 2017 Updated Oct 26, 2017
We ask an engineer for the wins and fails.
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Drivers will voice their opinions about the terrible state of the roads at whoever will listen – social media, elected officials, or that plastic hula dancer on their dashboard.
"Why am I stuck at this light for eternity?"
"Why did they build a four-lane bridge when we need six?"
"Why put a stop sign here, why!?"
"Who designed this!?"
And so on. As a transportation engineer, I'm often on the wrong end of these discussions. But just like a physician, I have the knowledge, background, and skills to analyse infrastructure, consider the context and look at the greater picture.
Critics are everywhere – when in the public realm, receiving credit where credit is due is a rare occurrence, and even more so on social media. Even I have bashed an ill-planned piece of infrastructure. I can, however, appreciate greatness when I see it. Here's a sampler of roadway successes and failures, as viewed through my own windshield.
The Successes
DDI –Diverging Diamond Interchange
A diamond interchange is not a shiny piece of infrastructure. The name comes from math class: when viewed from above, the typical crossing of a highway and an arterial road in tight urban confines forms a roughly diamond-shaped mix of travel lanes and ramps. Diamonds have a built-in design flaw: when faced with a lot of turning traffic, the centre portion – usually an overpass or underpass with no expansion room – becomes congested from all the conflicting turning and through movements. Traffic lights can only do so much.
Enter the DDI – the Diverging Diamond Interchange. Removing left turns from traffic lights is the easiest way to relieve traffic – easy on arterials, no so much at a highway crossing. The DDI replaces the ramp intersections with X-shaped ones before and after the interchange. Traffic diverges to the left side of the road at a simple two-way traffic light, removing all conflicts at the upcoming leftmost ramp. Traffic turning right is ramped off before the X. Simple. Effective. Brilliant. Calgary recently inaugurated Canada's first application of this design, and I drove through the very first DDI in Missouri a few years back.
CFI – Continuous Flow Intersection
The name says it all. Think of a CFI as a flat, 2D interchange where all turns are "handled" separately from the main direction of travel. A CFI will typically link two heavily travelled, multilane roadways. What the design does is evacuate all the turning traffic before the two main roads intersect. Instead of having a monster of multilane approaches at the signals, the CFI has an efficient two-way signal with no turns – think of the intersection of Dundas and Yonge in downtown Toronto; while not a CFI, the absence of turns makes things more efficient.
To make turns in a CFI, road authorities have to create multiple, smaller intersections upstream and downstream of the main crossing, along with parallel roadways to divert turning movements. These turns are managed without conflicts during the main traffic light "phases" of the centre intersection. It's a highly efficient design, but for an engineer it's as daunting to tackle as a 5000-piece puzzle of a swarm of bees. It also requires a ton of room to build.
Confederation Bridge
Building a bridge to Canada's smallest province was no small potatoes. The Confederation Bridge is a landmark piece of infrastructure, being the world's longest crossing of open ocean waters subject to ice. Built at a cost of $1.3B between 1993 and 1997, it provides safe and reliable crossings between PEI and New Brunswick all year long.
The shallow waters of the Northumberland Strait allowed a technique that involved the construction of all bridge components on land, which were then moved into place with a heavy-lift catamaran. The 12.9 km bridge, built from high-grade concrete, follows a hollow-beam design that promises a 100-year lifespan. Having taken a one-kilometre walk inside the now 20-year-old bridge, I can attest it is ship-shape.
Millau Viaduct
You don't have to be a structural engineer to appreciate this beauty, a land bridge that received an "Outstanding Structure Award" from my peers in 2006. This cable-stayed bridge spans 2,460 m over the Tarn River valley near Millau in Southern France. While its deck, at 270 m, is only the 22nd highest in the world, two of its pillars are actually the highest (245 m) and second highest (221 m) in the World. Adding the cable mast, it also has the world's tallest pillar / mast ensemble at 343 m.
The construction was just as spectacular as the end result. The hollow decks were built on land, and pushed into the void cantilever-style up to 171 m in thin air. Inaugurated in 2004 after three years of construction and 13 years of studies, the Millau Viaduct replaced a busy and deadly stretch of road with its new Autoroute A75 segment.
Gotthard tunnel
Switzerland may be a small country, but if you could spread it out flat and smooth like a piece of crumbled paper, it would grow exponentially. The towering Alps have forced the Swiss become tunnel experts, and for this frequent user of the Lafontaine tunnel in Montreal, crossing the Gotthard was an awesome experience. Starting from the German part of the country, one drives down an ever-narrowing valley up to the mouth of the 16.9-km-long tunnel. And everything is written in Italian when you emerge in Ticino. For most users, the Gotthard tunnel replaces the pass of the same name that snakes up and down the Alps at up to 2,106 m of elevation.
Opened to traffic in 1980 after ten years of construction, it was at the time the world's longest tunnel (it's now the ninth). The single-bore two-way tunnel will be twinned, with work on the second tunnel scheduled to start in 2020.
The Failures
Place de l'Étoile
Roundabouts are a good thing. Multilane roundabouts are a slightly more complex but still pretty good thing. And then there's Place de l'Étoile, set around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It's a multilane roundabout on meth. There are so many lanes and trajectories available through this thing that it made absolutely no sense to mark them. So they didn't.
Officially named "Place Charles de Gaulle", this traffic circle has twelve branches. Never, ever take a rental car though this, unless you're a seasoned Paris driver. To best enjoy the zaniness of this thing, use the underground crosswalk and climb up the stairs to the roof of the Arc de Triomphe, look down, and enjoy the show.
The Magic Roundabout
Maybe the British secretly envied Paris' wretched traffic circle, or the local road authority engineers had interesting herbs in their tea bags – who knows. But the town of Swindon in the UK has a mind-bending traffic circle that is aptly named "The Magic Roundabout". The six branches meet at a vast multilane roundabout that incorporates five smaller circles. Trying to figure this thing out – remember, the British drive on the left – will have you reaching for the Tylenol.
Not recommended for first-time-in-UK tourists in a stick-shift rental car after a warm pint of Guinness (keep left, look right, keep left, look right, …). Traversing this should be a mandatory test for automated cars (and no, Google won't have the answer to this one).
Sedona's roundabout fest
Use with moderation. Maybe engineers from Arizona's DOT should have considered this little phrase before littering touristy Sedona with twelve – twelve! – successive roundabouts along the 179, the main access route from Phoenix.
Urban planners love roundabouts, the inner circle being a blank canvas for their craft. But here all circles feature identical landscaping, raising the question: "Did we just drive through here?". Once you finally get to downtown Sedona, your head will be spinning. And it won't be because of the breathtaking scenery.
Road to Hana
Yes, Maui is a Polynesian paradise, but when one of a destination's main attractions is a road, expectations are high. And it all sounds very sexy to a car guy: 620 curves hugging a mountainside, over a mere 84 km.
But here's the reality: it takes on average three hours to make that trek. The road has 59 bridges, usually set in a hairpin, and 46 of them are one-car wide. Plus, the road has a myriad of small pull-outs for sightseeing, none of them clearly marked. Forget your Mille Miglia dreams – this is a rental car parade.
Champlain Bridge
Good ole Canada also has its share of roadway fails. The Champlain is a federal bridge that crosses the mighty Saint Lawrence between Montreal and its South Shore. With 170,000 crossings per day, it's the nation's busiest single-deck bridge. Inaugurated in 1962, it's the second-youngest crossing towards the South Shore. And it's been failing, fast.
De-icing salt has been eating at the concrete's structure's "bones" at an impressive rate. According to media reports, the bridge was not designed to withstand road salt as an economy measure. Two years into its life, nevertheless, the salt spreaders started their evil work, and the bridge has been under life support since 1986 with multiple interventions, with millions spent to this date even as a new bridge is being built alongside it. More millions will be spent dismantling the old bridge, starting in 2020. It's not a bridge – it's a bottomless money pit.
Daniel Beaulieu is a Montreal-based transportation engineer with an addiction to Eau de Fuel. After making his freelance debut at Car and Driver, Daniel became a regular contributor / copy editor at Le Guide de l'auto.


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Greg Bird at five-eighth… Todd Carney on the bench… Ben Creagh at lock. These are just some of the surprises in Brad Fittler's New South Wales State of Origin side for Game One in Melbourne on May 23rd.
With a record 31 appearances for the Blues, Freddy knows a thing or two about Origin football, and that's reflected in the team the former skipper would like to see take on the Maroons in the series opener.


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China's lunar rover separates from lander, 'Jade Rabbit' makes its mark on the moon
In this image taken by the on-board camera of the lunar probe Chang'e-3 and made off the screen of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, China's first moon rover 'Jade Rabbit' touches the lunar surface Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Xinhua)
Published Sunday, December 15, 2013 7:14AM EST
Last Updated Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:27PM EST
BEIJING -- China hailed its lunar probe mission a success after the country's first moon rover and the landing vehicle that carried it there took photos of each other on the surface, state media reported.
The six-wheeled rover moved to a spot about 9 metres north of the landing vehicle on Sunday night China time and the pair took photos for about a minute, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The colour images transmitted back to Earth showed the Chinese flag on the Yutu, or "Jade Rabbit" rover, named after a mythological creature.
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang were at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center to hear lunar program chief commander Ma Xingrui declare the Chang'e 3 mission a success, Xinhua reported.
In a congratulatory message, the Communist Party's central committee, State Council or China's Cabinet, and the Central Military Commission hailed the mission as a "milestone" in the development of China's space programs, a "new glory" in Chinese explorations and the "outstanding contribution" of China in mankind's peaceful use of space, Xinhua said.
The Chang'e 3 landed on a relatively flat part of the moon known as Sinus Iridum, or the Bay of Rainbows, on Saturday evening, marking the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades. China is the third country to do that after the former Soviet Union and United States.
The lander and rover have now embarked on separate scientific explorations. The 140-kilogram rover will survey the moon's geological structure and surface and look for natural resources for three months at a speed of 200 metres per hour. The landing vehicle will conduct scientific examinations for one year at the landing site.
Xinhua said the two will have more chances in the coming days to take photos of each other at different angles.
The Chang'e 3 mission is named after a mythical Chinese goddess of the moon and the Yutu rover, or "Jade Rabbit" in English, is the goddess' pet.
China's military-backed space program has made methodical progress in a relatively short time, although it lags far behind the United States and Russia in technology and experience.
The Chang'e 3 has landed: China puts 'Jade Rabbit' rover on the moon
China launches its first lunar lander, carrying rover to the moon
The Long March 3B rocket carrying the Chang'e-3 lunar probe at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Xichang in southwest China's Sichuan province on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (AP)
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