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Décision de justice 2 avril 2021
Restrictions on the movement of vaccinated persons are justified.
Restrictions on the movement of vaccinated pers...
An 83-year-old pensioner asked the urgent applications judge of the Conseil d'État to suspend the Government's travel restrictions so that they no longer apply to vaccinated people. The urgent applications judge rejected this request, considering that vaccinated persons could be carriers of the virus and therefore contribute to its spread.
On 19 March, the French Prime Minister decided to restrict travel in the 19 départements where the health situation was most critical.
The applicant, who resides in one of the départements concerned and has been vaccinated, claimed that this infringed upon his freedom of movement. He asked the urgent applications judge to suspend these restrictions for any person who had received the vaccination against Covid-19. The pensioner considered that travel restrictions, curfews and lockdown measures were no longer necessary and appropriate for vaccinated persons.
The judge noted that the spread of the virus had become significantly worse throughout the country, putting hospitals under severe pressure and leading to general restrictions being applied throughout the country.
Although vaccination provides effective protection, the urgent applications judge noted that vaccinated persons may still be carriers of the virus and contribute to its spread, in proportions that are not yet known. Lifting travel restrictions could therefore increase the risk of infection, notably among vulnerable people who are mostly not vaccinated.
For these reasons, the travel restrictions in place, even for vaccinated persons, do not seem disproportionate. On this basis, the urgent applications judge of the Conseil d'État rejected the applicant's request.
Read the decision n°450956 (in French)
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So now let us get started with this guide and check out the methods to check the balance.
To check HDFC Bank account balance by SMS your mobile number should be registered with your bank account. If your mobile number is not registered with your bank account then you can get it registered by visiting your home branch.
One your mobile number is registered with your account, you will have to send an SMS from that mobile number to the phone number provided by HDFC Bank.
Just type BAL and Send it to 567612, as soon as you send this SMS you will receive your balance details by SMS within 2 minutes.
Just like SMS method even if you want to use missed call method to check HDFC bank account balance your number should be registered with your bank account.
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You will receive an SMS from the bank in which you can find your account balance details.
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You can check your account balance online by logging in into your internet banking account.
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So after much anticipation, the date of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be held on Friday 29th April 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
Yes, we now know the date and they are telling us we are to have a day's holiday - however what they aren't saying is that it actually falls during the Easter holidays in any case so anyone with children will probably be going away on holiday in any case. Bad choice of date in my opinion just after Easter weekend.
I must just add to my previous comment because I have now discovered that as Easter is late next year the schools in fact break up on Friday 8 April and don't return until Tuesday 26 April (my son's college returns on Wednesday 27th!), then we get Friday 29th off for the Royal Wedding and then Monday 2 May is May Day Bank Holiday. So we are doing better than I thought, we have most of April off, plus wedding day and May Day almost all together, then of course have half term from Monday 30 May until Friday 3 June. Wow - before you know it Summer will be here and I thought it was almost Christmas!!!
It is going to be a beautiful wedding.
I wonder if Kate will wear flowers in her hair and them come out from the vestry with the Lover's Knot Tiara? I'll be watching the wedding for sure!


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Atezolizumab Combo Falls Short in Phase III CRC Trial
Lisa Astor
Published Online:7:56 PM, Fri May 3, 2019
Cathy Eng, MD
The combination of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) and cobimetinib (Cotellic) failed to demonstrate a significant benefit compared with regorafenib (Stivarga) in a phase III study of heavily pretreated patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC).1
Neither the combination regimen nor single-agent atezolizumab showed a statistically significant improvement in overall survival (OS) versus regorafenib, failing to meet the primary endpoint of the ongoing phase III IMblaze370 trial (NCT02788279). The median OS was 8.87 months (95% CI, 7.00-10.61) with atezolizumab and cobimetinib versus 7.10 months (95% CI, 6.05-10.05) for atezolizumab alone and versus 8.51 months (95% CI, 6.41-10.71) for regorafenib.
The PD-L1/MEK inhibitor combination regimen was previously studied in a phase Ib trial that demonstrated the potential antitumor activity of the treatment in patients with metastatic CRC. Atezolizumab and cobimetinib induced a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 1.9 months and a median OS of 10 months, with responses seen in 3 patients with microsatellite-stable (MSS) disease.2The positive findings led to the initiation of the phase III study.
"Despite the rationale supported by preclinical data, our results suggest that dual inhibition of the PD-L1 immune checkpoint and MAPK-mediated immune suppression is insufficient to generate antitumor immune responses in immune-excluded tumors, such as MSS metastatic CRC," the study authors, led by Cathy Eng, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, wrote in a report of the results of the phase III trial published in The Lancet Oncology.
IMblaze370 is a multicenter, open-label, randomized, controlled trial that assessed atezolizumab with or without cobimetinib versus regorafenib in patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer. The study was conducted at 73 academic medical centers and community oncology practices across 11 countries.
Eligible patients had an ECOG performance status of 0 or 1 and disease progression on or intolerance of ≥2 prior systemic chemotherapy regimens containing fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan in the metastatic setting. Prior EGFR-targeted therapy was allowed, but prior immunotherapy, MEK/ERK inhibitors, and regorafenib were not.
A total of 363 patients were randomized 2:1:1 to either atezolizumab 840 mg by intravenous administration (IV) every 2 weeks plus cobimetinib 60 mg orally once a day for days 1 through 21 of a 28-day cycle (n = 183), atezolizumab monotherapy at 1200 mg IV every 3 weeks (n = 90), or regorafenib at 160 mg orally once a day for days 1 through 21 of a 28-day cycle (n = 90). Patients were further stratified by RAS status and time since diagnosis of first metastasis (±18 months).
The number of patients with microsatellite instability (MSI) was capped at 5% of patients and the number of RAS wild-type patients was capped at 50%. Additionally, the investigators did not enrich enrollment for PD-L1 positivity.
Cobimetinib dose modifications or reductions were allowed for adverse events (AEs). Treatment was continued until loss of clinical benefit or unacceptable toxicity, and patients were even allowed to continue treatment despite radiographic progression if they wished; however, no crossover was allowed between the treatment arms.
The primary endpoint of the trial was OS for the combination regimen versus regorafenib and for atezolizumab monotherapy versus regorafenib. Secondary endpoints included investigator-assessed objective response rate (ORR), duration of response (DOR), and PFS by RECIST v1.1. Additional endpoints of quality of life and pharmacokinetic biomarker studies have not yet been reported.
Across the 3 treatment groups, the ages of patients ranged from 51 to 67 years and the majority of patients were male, white, and European. Most patients (approximately 69%) had gone 18 months or more since the diagnosis of their first metastasis and 65% of patients had liver metastases. Additionally, most patients (approximately 74%) had received no more than 3 lines of previous therapy in the metastatic setting, which typically included a prior targeted therapy.
The primary tumor site was the left side of the colon in more than half of patients across the 3 groups. Fifty-four percent of patients were RAS mutant and only 3% had a BRAF mutation. The majority of patients had MSS or MSI-low disease. PD-L1 expression, as assessed by the Ventana SP142 assay, was ≥1% in 34% to 43% of patients across the 3 groups, and PD-L1 expression was <1% in 44% to 47%.
Patients were followed for a median of 7.3 months (range, 3.7-13.6). The stratified hazard ratio (HR) for OS for the combination versus regorafenib was 1.00 (95% CI, 0.73-1.38; P= .99). In the comparison of atezolizumab monotherapy versus regorafenib, the HR for OS was 1.19 (95% CI, 0.83-1.71; P= .34).
In the intent-to-treat (ITT) population, the 6-month OS rate for atezolizumab and cobimetinib was 64.7% (95% CI, 57.6%-71.8%), 61.3% (95% CI, 50.9%-71.6%) for atezolizumab, and 63.5% (95% CI, 53.0%-73.9%) for regorafenib. At 1 year, the OS rates were 38.5% (95% CI, 31.2%-45.8%), 27.2% (95% CI, 17.6%-37.8%), and 36.6% (95% CI, 26.2%-47.0%) for the combination, atezolizumab alone, and regorafenib, respectively.
The median PFS was 1.91 months (95% CI, 1.87-1.97) with atezolizumab and cobimetinib, 1.94 months (95% CI, 1.91-2.10) with atezolizumab monotherapy, and 2.00 months (95% CI, 1.87-3.61) with regorafenib. The HR for PFS for the combination versus regorafenib was 1.25 (95% CI, 0.94-1.65) and the HR for atezolizumab versus regorafenib was 1.39 (95% CI, 1.00-1.94).
The ORR in the ITT population was 3% in the combination group, 2% in the atezolizumab monotherapy group, and 2% in the regorafenib group, which consisted of all partial responses. Stable disease was achieved by 23%, 19%, and 32% of patients in the 3 groups, respectively, for a total disease control rate of 26%, 21%, and 34%, respectively.
"These results underscore the challenge of expanding the benefit of immunotherapy to patients whose tumors have lower baseline levels of immune inflammation, such as those with microsatellite-stable metastatic colorectal cancer," Eng et al wrote. "The immunomodulatory effects of the addition of a MEK inhibitor to an anti–PD-L1 [agent] might have not been adequate to overcome the immune resistance in microsatellite-stable metastatic colorectal cancer, a tumor type known for its non-inflamed, nonimmunogenic phenotype."
The DOR was 11.4 months (95% CI, 2.7-not estimable) with atezolizumab and cobimetinib, 4.8 months (95% CI, 3.8-5.8) with atezolizumab alone, and 9.2 months (95% CI, not estimable) with regorafenib.
Median duration of treatment for cobimetinib was 59.0 days (range, 42.0-112.0) and 1.9 months (range, 1.4-3.7) for atezolizumab in the combination arm, 1.4 (range, 1.0-3.5) months for atezolizumab alone, and 51.5 (range, 42.5-161-5) days for regorafenib.
A post-hoc analysis looked at ORR according to patient subgroups. Three RAS-mutant patients achieved a response, one in each group. Additionally, half of all MSI-high patients (n = 6) achieved a response, and 4 patients with high PD-L1 expression (n = 145) achieved a response, 3 from treatment with the combination and 1 from atezolizumab alone. In the subgroup of patients with PD-L1–low tumors (n = 166), regorafenib outperformed the other treatment arms in terms of both OS and PFS.
The study authors noted that "this study was not designed to assess the combination in different biomarker subsets, which might have been more sensitive to this combination."
According to further analyses looking at OS in the patient subgroups, younger patients tended to favor treatment with the combination arm (HR, 0.84) whereas older patients favored regorafenib alone (HR, 1.50). Improved survival with regorafenib was also negatively impacted by patients who had a larger number of prior treatments (HR, 1.58). In addition, PD-L1–high expression slightly favored the combination (HR, 0.80) whereas PD-L1–low expression slightly favored regorafenib (HR, 1.26).
Fourteen patients who were randomized did not receive any treatment and were not included in the safety analysis. All-cause AEs were observed in 99% of patients who received the combination regimen, 92% who received atezolizumab alone, and in 98% of patients who received regorafenib. Grade 3/4 events were seen in 61% of patients with combination treatment, 31% with atezolizumab, and 58% with regorafenib. The most common grade 3/4 AEs in the combination regimen arm were diarrhea in 11%, anemia in 6%, increased blood creatine phosphokinase in 7%, and fatigue in 4%.
"The 2 drugs have very distinct AE profiles, and overlapping AEs such as diarrhea or colitis do not seem to be increased in frequency or severity by the combination," Eng et al wrote.
Serious AEs were reported in 40% of patients in the combination group, 17% in the atezolizumab arm, and in 23% in the regorafenib group. The most common serious AE in the combination arm was pyrexia in 7% of patients. In the combination arm, 24% of patients had an AE of special interest that required a systemic corticosteroid compared with 9% in the atezolizumab-alone group and 10% in the regorafenib group. The most common AE requiring steroids was rash.
Twenty-one percent of patients discontinued from the atezolizumab plus cobimetinib group due to AEs, 4% discontinued in the atezolizumab monotherapy group, and 9% in the regorafenib arm. AEs led to death for 5 patients in the combination-regimen group, 2 of which were caused by treatment-related sepsis; and for 2 patients in the regorafenib group, 1 of which was due to treatment-related intestinal perforation. There were no fatal AEs with atezolizumab monotherapy in this cohort.
Eng C, Kim TW, Bendell J, et al. Atezolizumab with or without cobimetinib versus regorafenib in previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer (IMblaze370): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised, controlled trial [published online April 16, 2019]. Lancet Oncol. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(19)30027-0.
Bendell J, Bang YJ, Chee CE, et al. A phase Ib study of safety and clinical activity of atezolizumab (A) and cobimetinib (C) in patients (pts) with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). J Clin Oncol. 2018;35(suppl 4; abstr 560). doi: 10.1200/JCO.2018.36.4_suppl.560.
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Specter would give Democrats at least 59 Senate seats. There is one vacancy from Minnesota, where Democrat Al Franken holds a narrow lead in a race still being disputed in the courts.
Under Senate rules, a single senator can object to consideration of a bill, in which case it takes that 60-vote majority to bring a bill to the floor or to end debate so a final vote can be taken.
Of course when Al Franken wins they will have 60 seats.
When asked how and when he made the decision, Specter said, "the decision has been reached as I have traveled the state [Pennsylvania] in the last several months. Specifically, I got my home poll results last Friday ... and consulted with my campaign managers and had a long discussion. ... I came to a decision over this past weekend."
I don't care all that much, but I am actually watching the news conference right now so I thought this would be a good thing to post here. Personally, aside from social issues (which I don't believe the government should be involved in anyway) the parties don't really seem that different to me (especially in the last few years) as they are just full of corrupt politicians that are pretty much only interested in holding their seat from year to year, and only stage outrage when they are up for re-election.
From the conference what I got was he's switching parties (after being a proponent of a two party system the main difference being the name) because he doesn't think the Republican party has a future (and doesn't feel he could get re-elected as a republican) so he wants to stick with the sure thing, despite being elected as a republican.
Edit: I think this is the right place to post this anyway.
Under normal circumstances I would support the gentleman from Pennsylvania because I also consider myself a moderate republican apposed to the far right... However the issue that Mr Specter broke with the GOP on is one of those issue on which I am staunchly conservative. The issue of spending, specifically his support of the Obama stimulus Package which I was extremely apposed to and which I consider beyond the line of how far one should go in the way of bi partisanship. There is such a thing as compromise and there is such a thing as abject capitulation. The latter describes Mr Specter's actions assuming he is in fact fiscally conservative which I tend to doubt.
I'd like to trust his promise that he won't be a given vote for the democrats and thus won't signify a filibuster proof majority whether he is a republican or a democrat. But considering the nature of the issue on which he broke ranks, I have my doubts.
I would also mention that I am absolutely against Al Franken's candidacy. I think its beyond appalling that someone as radical, immature, crude, and ignorant as that hack of a comedian is being considered for such an important office. He isn't fit to rake mud let alone represent an entire state in the senate.
Finally, I am against one party rule. We have far too many Democrats in Washington already. We should have an even mix of republicans and democrats to keep things balanced, but instead we have wide majorities in both houses, and the most liberal person in the 2008 senate as president. In my mind both Democrats and republicans should be fighting to bring down the wide majority of democrats because such a majority puts our checks and balances in a state of confusion such that its almost impossible to have proper oversight, accountability, and proper representation.
The democrats believe they have a mandate from the people allowing them to do whatever the want, I seriously doubt the majority of Americans had a 3 trillion dollar deficit in mind when they elected these politicians.
I'm pretty sure he is going to be a party line voter on many issues, mainly because he is going to need to prove himself to the democratic party so he can get re-elected to the senate, which I'm pretty sure why this is the biggest reason he is breaking with the republican party, although he says it's about the party going to far right. I just don't see his reason for switching as genuine, maybe it is, but it just seems like it's all about holding a seat in the senate and nothing more.
I think one party rule is what a lot of people want, not to mention having only two options is ridiculous anyway. I understand the difference in ideology of the parties but the people that are actually representing the parties all seem the same (unless of course when they are up for re-election).
A majority of Americans may not have had a 3 trillion dollar deficit in mind, but that's what they wanted, a bigger government that can solve and deal with problems in the so called "free market". If you want the government to solve your problems it comes at a terrible price, and once it gets that power it's probably never going to give it up.
Also, yeah Al Franken getting a seat in the senate is rather sad, but it happens I guess, especially when people don't understand issues other than polarizing social ones (which I don't think the government has any business regulating ever).
That's a brutally accurate assessment, and I agree whole heartedly. Aside from meaningless social issues, both parties are identical in all except rhetoric.
The bigger issue lies with the people, the mindless Obamanite that believes the government can get bigger without getting more expensive and oppressive needs to be force feed reality. And while we are at it we should force feed social cons the simple truth that a government which dictates how people live can't be small.
It will be interesting to see what happens first. Things get so screwed up that people wake up, or things get so screwed up that the country collapses. Somehow I think the latter is probable.


When we are young, our imagination takes us to wondrous worlds where we can have amazing adventures. As we grow older, sometimes our imagination and creativity gets pushed into the background. Because of this, I thought I would create an illustration to remind us all about the times when we could run free and have adventures in magical lands.
The first thing that came to my mind was a place where things are little more WILD... of course I am referring to Maurice Sendak's book Where The Wild Things Are. I thought Max would be the perfect guide to remind us that we can escape from the hum drum of our daily lives from time to time and visit a place where our imagination can roam wild!
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When we are young, our imagination takes us to wondrous worlds where we can have amazing adventures. As we grow older, sometimes our imagination and creativity gets pushed into the background. I thought I would create an illustration to remind us all about the times when we could run free and have adventures in magical lands.


A resident of Seguin spotted a glowing orb traveling their way, and then dim and shoot up into the sky rather mysteriously. The witness to the event is used to seeing military crafts, but this was "unlike anything [he'd] seen before."
Object appeared above neighborhood. I estimate it was about 1/2 mile away and completely silent. The flight path was heading east in the northeast sky and was hardly straight moving approximately 70 MPH. It's path was jagged (straight line, but many sudden small redirections). The light was bright. in the photos, the ambient light is given by a corner street lamp. The UFO light was bright enough to appear in the picture, even though the street lamp was flooding the picture with light. At the end of the 1.5 minute event, the light grew dim and then it ascended at a speed of approx. 300+ MPH. Living near an air force base, I see military craft often. This was unlike anything I have seen before. Being unable to identify the object, by the strictest definition, this was a UFO.
Did you see this UFO? Report your sighting!
I have and am continuing to see this huge white orb over the tree tops across the street from my home. Every other night.


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This 'President Bannon' Business Is Really Starting to Get to Donald Trump's Head
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | February 6, 2017 |
Alt-nazi Stephen K. Bannon is the chief advisor to the President. He is pure evil. He's also calling the shots in the White House right now. He is pushing the Trump Administration's white nationalism agenda, and he was the chief author — along with Richard Spencer protege, Stephen K. Miller — of the Muslim ban executive order. Bannon also put himself on the National Security Council, and apparently, he did so without running it past Donald Trump first, according to the NYTimes:
For the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president's dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump's anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.
Bannon was also on the cover of Time magazine last week. The hashtag #PresidentBannon started trending on a couple of occasions over the course of the week, and over the weekend, Alec Baldwin — impersonating Trump on SNL — gave up the President's chair to Bannon and took a seat in a child's desk next to the "President."
If you don't think that the perception that Bannon is in control is getting to Donald Trump, then you don't know Donald Trump very well.
We know, for instance, that he reads the NYTimes, so he's well aware of the above article. Also, according to Bradd Jaffy, a senior news writer for NBC, this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe — a show we know that Trump watches — Joe Scarborough mentioned the Time magazine cover, showed a clip of Baldwin on SNL, and discussed whether Bannon was "calling all the shots."
This MJoe segment on Bannon (6:09 a.m.) may have been what set off Trump's "I call my own shots" tweet (7:07 a.m.) https://t.co/DxPddbuWMm
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 6, 2017
A few minutes later, Trump tweeted this:
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
It's getting to him.
And if you're like me, and believe that Trump is little more than a bumbling, idiotic con man — and an incompetent one, at that — and that Bannon represents the biggest threat to the United States, then this is a line of attack we have to continue pushing. Trump hates the idea that anyone thinks he's not in control, and should this narrative take hold, Trump is the kind of person who would fire his chief advisor just to assert his control.
That would be a blessing.
via Brad Jaffy
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An Action Plan for the Future of the Church, Disguised as a Novel
Yes, that's how veteran journalist and author, Robert Blair Kaiser (pictured at right), describes his latest book, Cardinal Mahony - A Novel.
Kaiser was in the Twin Cities this past weekend, and I plan on writing a future post about his shared recollections of Vatican II (which he covered for Time Magazine), and his current efforts to inspire and establish a constitution for the American Catholic Church. (It's Kaiser belief that such a constitution would help create a church that is "accountable," primarily because it would be autochthonous, i.e., "home grown," and thus distinct from the Roman system without being disassociated from it - not unlike the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches and what some have said the Catholic Church in China has, in some ways, become.)
For now, though, I'd simply like to share excepts from a review of Kaiser's Cardinal Mahony - A Novel. This particular review is written by "Peregrinus" and was originally published on the Catholica Australia website.
The Church likened to a giant iceberg . . .
Icebergs are handy for metaphors because, as everyone knows, the great bulk of any iceberg is hidden; only the very top can be seen. A Google search returns 3.3 million hits for the phrase "tip of the iceberg." If more than a handful of those refer to an actual iceberg, I'll be astonished.
But icebergs have another feature almost equally useful to the maker of metaphors. They shrink in a very irregular fashion. Icebergs change shape all the time, through bits breaking off, through wind and wave erosion, through localized melting. The result is that an iceberg's centre of gravity is constantly shifting.
. . . ready to roll
Most of the time this isn't noticeable but, when the centre of gravity shifts just far enough, an iceberg will roll over without warning. If you happen to be nearby when that happens, you'll certainly notice. An iceberg can weigh up to 200,000 tons, and it displaces a similar mass of water. That makes for some very big waves when a berg rolls. If you survive the turmoil, when the waves die down you'll see what looks like a completely different iceberg.
For Robert Blair Kaiser, the American church is an iceberg, just waiting for the choppy wave, or the slightly warm wind from the right quarter, or the fracture at just the right point which will nudge the centre of gravity past the tipping point. And then the berg will roll.
An overview of Cardinal Mahony – A Novel
In this novel, Kaiser imagines the American church rolling, or at least starting to roll.
To do this, he has to start with the nudge, the small impulse that sets off the chain of large events. For this purpose he rather implausibly imagines the Archbishop of Los Angeles being kidnapped by a group of militant liberation theologians, brought to a remote jungle location and subjected to a show trial for his sins and failings as a bishop. This takes up the first five chapters of the novel; the remainder is devoted to exploring how the Archbishop is changed by this experience, how he seeks to change the American church, and how Powerful Vested Interests seek to stop him.
The novel is written in a genre new to me; reality fiction. The archbishop who is subjected to this ordeal is not a fictional character; but the current real-life current archbishop of Los Angeles, Roger Mahony. And, Kaiser assures us in his foreword, the facts brought out in his trial are real, and can be documented. The trial itself and subsequent events are of course imagined but, Kaiser tells us, he has tried to write so that Mahony's response to these imagined events, and indeed the actions of other characters borrowed from reality, is "in character," or at least plausible.
Mahony is not alone; the book abounds in real characters, drawn from the church, American politics and the American media – the worlds most familiar to the author. Apart from Roger Mahony; Pope Benedict, the current US President and Secretary of Defense, Cardinal Re of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Bertone of the Vatican Secretariat of State, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, the filmmaker Michael Moore, the retired Archbishop Quinn of San Francisco, Fr Richard John Neuhaus, Sr Joan Chittister and a host of others all have speaking parts of greater or lesser significance.
Fictional characters to carry the plot along
There are fictional characters as well; there have to be, in order to carry the plot along. In particular, the villains of the piece have to be fictional. So we have a fictional Archbishop of Philadelphia, a fictional chancellor of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and so forth.
The book has an entertaining plot, which I don't want to give away. It's enough to say that it's a ripping yarn. But this book is not really plot-driven; the plot is mostly just a vehicle for Kaiser to lay out his vision of how the American church could be, and how it might get there from where it is today. So we can excuse a few gaps and implausibilities. . . .
No articulate case for a conservative vision
But fun can slip over into indulgence. There are a number of television discussions about the future of the church between progressive and conservative Catholics; invariably the progressives score astute and witty points, while the conservatives end up spluttering or floundering. And the most prominent opponents of the conservative vision turn out to be motivated by financial corruption and sexual hypocrisy. Sympathetic as I am to Kaiser's vision, all this is gratifying to me, but it is a bit of a cop-out. Despite the set-piece debates nobody ever puts an articulate case for a conservative vision, or even subjects Kaiser's vision to any serious critique.
The result, ironically, is that Kaiser's vision of the church is not explored as fully as it might be. Kaiser's characters argue, for instance, that the American church doesn't need the pope's permission to govern itself in disciplinary matters, while remaining fully in communion. I can't help suspecting that the true position is more nuanced than that, though. The pope's permission may not be needed, but his agreement certainly is.
I think this book is more likely to please those who already share Kaiser's vision than it is to win over those who don't. But its purpose may not be to win people over, so much as to encourage the true believers, and to suggest that the possibility of change could be closer than it sometimes seems. While the imagined events which lead Mahony to change his mind are fairly far-fetched, the real point is that a change of heart by just one influential church leader could have far-reaching results.
Just how far-reaching? Well, Kaiser doesn't say. Mahony starts the iceberg rolling, but when the book rather abruptly ends it hasn't settled in a new alignment. In fact, the really big waves are just beginning. In an afterword, Kaiser encourages the reader to "stand by for the sequel." But I'm not convinced that he intends to write another novel. Remember, what Kaiser has written is "reality fiction"; a sequel doesn't have to come from the "fiction" element of that expression. A novel is a work of the imagination, but imagination is also the foundation for new realities; Kaiser may be encouraging us to look to the real world for the next chapter in the church's story.
To read Peregrinus's review of Cardinal Mohony - A Novel in its entirety, click here.
To read Brian Coyne's review of Cardinal Mahony - A Novel, click here.
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The Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church
Opening Image: Robert Blair Kaiser by Michael Bayly.
Posted by Michael J. Bayly at 2:34 PM
A good review.
One of the basic problems of autochthonous churches that are of significant size in a given culture is that they are historically prone to be co-opted and controlled by material elites. This is why some form of the Investiture Controversy is still raging (eg, in China) 1000 years after it started. Papal "control" is not inherently oppressive. For example, if El Salvador had anautochthonous a generation ago, Abp Romero's witness would have been even less likely, improbable as it was under the current Roman system.
We Americans idolize our written constitututions, but a written constitution alone is no silver bullet and in fact can be worse that lacking one.
The revival of metropolitan and prelatial synods with disciplinary powers over their peers would be a good start. There's a lot of tradition to it, it's not alien to the Roman way, and it lacks some of the traps for the unwary of a full-blown constitutional route.
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I just read a great post on the Forbes entrepreneur blog. Dr. Steven Beglas revealed some research on how people stay optimistic in midst of difficult circumstances.
Optimists view each problem as a short term event or a cost of doing business. They believe that good times are just on the horizon. This fuels their enthusiasm and keeps gas in their tank to keep going.
Secondly, optimists view negative events to outside, temporary causes. They devalue the importance of a negative event in their minds. When a positive event occurs, they attribute the event to a permanent personal cause.
It's interesting to me how much what you think can affect how you feel which affects what you do. Optimistic people can almost create their own reality.
I wonder how many start-ups give up just before they were going to have a breakthrough because they fell into pessimism about their business?


The archaeology of hunters and gatherers has long focused on the economic and technological dimensions of food use and procurement. In marginal environments especially, hunter-gatherer food use has often been situated within an adaptationist calculus of survival and environmental accommodation. The ethnographic record of hunter-gatherers that inhabited such environments, however, indicate that social and cultural considerations also critically informed indigenous peoples' procurement, consumption, and discard practices. Drawing on the later prehistoric and early historic archaeological record of the island of Newfoundland, in northeastern Canada, this paper explores how the procurement, consumption, and handling of subarctic foods conveyed identity, reflected historical conditions and social relations, factored into ritual and ceremonial practice, and embodied worldviews.
I would like to thank Tom Andrews, Laura Halfyard, Cyr Couturier, Steve Hull, Chris Wolff, and John Erwin, who have all helped in various ways. I am especially appreciative of Moira McCaffrey, and three anonymous reviewers, for their close reading and critical comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Todd Kristensen is responsible for the wonderful illustrations.
Excavations at Birchy Lake were supported by an Eastern Illinois University research stipend (awarded to Donald H. Holly), and faunal analysis by a grant from the research office at MacEwan University (awarded to Paul Prince). Excavations at Stock Cove have been generously funded by the National Science Foundation, Arctic Social Science Program (awarded to Donald H. Holly Jr. and Christopher Wolff; awards 1011781; 1522977, 1640962).


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Publishers Wisely Tap eSports for E3 Hype
Professional gamers boost the brand awareness of several upcoming titles. This is a good thing.
By Jeffrey L. Wilson
June 10, 2017 8:00AM EST
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 as it's commonly known, is a trade-show-meets-convention that relishes in unadulterated hype.
Nearly every big-budget title is presented as an industry-altering product (until its sequel emerges a year or two later), and celebrities are paid a nice chunk of dough to feign cringe-worthy hipness and gamer cred at a major press conferences. But shrewd publishers have tapped into a fresh way to build hype for their upcoming titles, a method that's more gamer-centric and decidedly less annoying that previous efforts: eSports.
ESports, the name given to the competition between professional video game players, is a rapidly growing industry with a passionate, dedicated fanbase. In fact, the Newzon research firm estimates that eSports will generate more than a billion dollars by 2019. ESports has quickly become the national pastime for a generation of gamers, so it makes sense, from a publisher's perspective, to market its titles to that audience.
Nintendo's going all-in with several eSports-related events that are designed to generate buzz for its excellent Nintendo Switch hybrid console, as engaging the community is of utmost importance to the company. After all, it wasn't that long ago that Nintendo foolishly attempted to block a Super Smash Bros. Melee Evo tournament live stream at Evo, the world's largest fighting game event. Gamers, people who are rarely shy about sharing their opinions online, gave Nintendo the business, and the company reversed its stance. Now, Nintendo's embracing that community across multiple E3 days.
On Tuesday, June 13 at 2:30 p.m. PT, Nintendo kicks off the 2017 Splatoon 2 World Inkling Invitational to demo its upcoming shooter on a world stage. In it, four-person teams–from the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia/New Zealand–will battle in a round-robin Turf War tournament to decide the seeding for the next round. In the following round, the teams will compete in the Ranked Battles and Turf War modes. The entire affair wraps up with a best-of-five semi-final fight and a best-of-seven championship round. The champs will walk away from the fray with a Splatoon 2 trophy that has their names engraved into it.
The Nintendo Switch competition continues the next day at 10:30 a.m. PT with the 2017 Pokken Tournament DX Invitational. Four pairs of currently unnamed YouTube and Twitch stars will brawl for a Pokken Tournament DX art piece signed by Tsunekazu Ishihatra, the president and CEO of The Pokemon Company, as well as other development team members.
And to spread the good word about the Nintendo Switch's upcoming ARMS, Nintendo will host the 2017 ARMS Open Invitational on Wednesday, June 14 at 3:30 p.m. PT. The arena fighter will be demoed by four professional players from the fighting game community: The legendary Alex "CaliPower" Valle, Kelsy "SuperGirlKels" Medeiros, Daniel "Tafokints" Lee, and Marie-Laure "Kayane" Norindr. The player who survives the single-elimination tournament walks away with a championship belt.
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By showcasing professionals and influencers at these events, Nintendo and Square Enix are conveying—without actually stating it—that these games, which may appear casual on the surface, have enough meat to satisfy hardcore crowds. Instead of merely stating that these good times are for everyone, these publishers are literally showing you that they are by trotting out representatives of various super-passionate gaming communities.
Whether gamers as a whole buy what Nintendo and Square Enix are selling is another matter, but the publishers are building hype in a more sensible manner than they did at past E3s. It's a hype that includes the player as a central figure who will, hopefully, be catered to with complete games and non-abusive DLC.
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Q: Gretty: How do I specify path to war file? I am using Jetty Gradle plugin, and trying to port my script to use Gretty.
The following works with Jetty Gradle plugin:
jettyRunWar {
    // do not use "war" task, use myCustomWarTask
    dependsOn myCustomWarTask
    dependsOn.remove("war")

    webApp = myCustomWarTask.archivePath
}

Ho do I achieve the same in Gretty?

A: First, you may want some pretty basic gretty setup:
buildscript {
    repositories {
        // You can declare any Maven/Ivy/file repository here.
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.akhikhl.gretty:gretty:1.4.0'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'org.akhikhl.gretty'

gretty {
    servletContainer = 'jetty9'

    httpEnabled = true
    httpPort = 8081
    contextPath = '/WebServer'
    jvmArgs { '-ea' }

    loggingLevel = 'ALL' // options:   'ALL', 'DEBUG', 'ERROR', 'INFO', 'OFF', 'TRACE', 'WARN'
}

Once you have that, you can setup a webapp in a farm.  Specify the path to your war file here (the provided example is where the GWT plugin is putting mine).
farm {
    webapp 'build/libs/web_server.war'
}

To specify the dependency:
project.afterEvaluate {
    tasks.farmRun.dependsOn myCustomWarTask
}

Once you have all this in place, 'gradle farmRun' will build and run your war file in Gretty.

A: Not sure if anyone else has run into this recently, but for the sake of posterity, I just use:
gradlew appRunWar

There is also support for farms using:
gradlew farmRunWar

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package jahirfiquitiva.iconshowcase.adapters;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.TransitionDrawable;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat;
import android.support.v7.graphics.Palette;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.bumptech.glide.Glide;
import com.bumptech.glide.request.target.BitmapImageViewTarget;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import jahirfiquitiva.iconshowcase.R;
import jahirfiquitiva.iconshowcase.models.WallpaperItem;
import jahirfiquitiva.iconshowcase.utilities.Preferences;

public class WallpapersAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<WallpapersAdapter.WallsHolder> {

    public interface ClickListener {

        void onClick(WallsHolder view, int index, boolean longClick);
    }

    private final Activity context;
    private final Preferences mPrefs;

    private ArrayList<WallpaperItem> wallsList;

    private boolean USE_PALETTE = true, USE_PALETTE_IN_TEXTS = false;
    private String PALETTE_STYLE = "VIBRANT";

    private final ClickListener mCallback;

    public WallpapersAdapter(Activity context, ClickListener callback) {
        this.context = context;
        this.mCallback = callback;
        this.mPrefs = new Preferences(context);

        USE_PALETTE = context.getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.use_palette_api);
        USE_PALETTE_IN_TEXTS = context.getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.use_palette_api_in_texts);
        switch (context.getResources().getInteger(R.integer.palette_swatch)) {
            case 1:
                PALETTE_STYLE = "VIBRANT";
                break;
            case 2:
                PALETTE_STYLE = "VIBRANT_LIGHT";
                break;
            case 3:
                PALETTE_STYLE = "VIBRANT_DARK";
                break;
            case 4:
                PALETTE_STYLE = "MUTED";
                break;
            case 5:
                PALETTE_STYLE = "MUTED_LIGHT";
                break;
            case 6:
                PALETTE_STYLE = "MUTED_DARK";
                break;
        }
    }

    public void setData(ArrayList<WallpaperItem> wallsList) {
        this.wallsList = wallsList;
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    @Override
    public WallsHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        return new WallsHolder(inflater.inflate(R.layout.item_wallpaper, parent, false));
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(final WallsHolder holder, int position) {
        WallpaperItem wallItem = wallsList.get(position);

        ViewCompat.setTransitionName(holder.wall, "transition" + position);

        holder.name.setText(wallItem.getWallName());
        holder.authorName.setText(wallItem.getWallAuthor());

        final String wallUrl = wallItem.getWallURL();

        Glide.with(context)
                .load(wallUrl)
                .asBitmap()
                .into(new BitmapImageViewTarget(holder.wall) {
                    @Override
                    protected void setResource(Bitmap resource) {
                        if (mPrefs.getAnimationsEnabled()) {
                            TransitionDrawable td = new TransitionDrawable(new Drawable[]{new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT), new BitmapDrawable(context.getResources(), resource)});
                            holder.wall.setImageDrawable(td);
                            td.startTransition(250);
                        } else {
                            holder.wall.setImageBitmap(resource);
                        }

                        if (USE_PALETTE) {
                            Palette.from(resource).generate(new Palette.PaletteAsyncListener() {
                                @Override
                                public void onGenerated(Palette palette) {
                                    Palette.Swatch swatch;
                                    switch (PALETTE_STYLE) {
                                        case "VIBRANT":
                                            swatch = palette.getVibrantSwatch();
                                            break;
                                        case "VIBRANT_LIGHT":
                                            swatch = palette.getLightVibrantSwatch();
                                            break;
                                        case "VIBRANT_DARK":
                                            swatch = palette.getDarkVibrantSwatch();
                                            break;
                                        case "MUTED":
                                            swatch = palette.getMutedSwatch();
                                            break;
                                        case "MUTED_LIGHT":
                                            swatch = palette.getLightMutedSwatch();
                                            break;
                                        case "MUTED_DARK":
                                            swatch = palette.getDarkMutedSwatch();
                                            break;
                                        default:
                                            swatch = palette.getVibrantSwatch();
                                            break;
                                    }

                                    if (swatch == null) return;

                                    if (mPrefs.getAnimationsEnabled()) {
                                        TransitionDrawable td = new TransitionDrawable(
                                                new Drawable[]{holder.titleBg.getBackground(),
                                                        new ColorDrawable(swatch.getRgb())});
                                        holder.titleBg.setBackground(td);
                                        td.startTransition(250);
                                    } else {
                                        holder.titleBg.setBackgroundColor(swatch.getRgb());
                                    }

                                    if (USE_PALETTE_IN_TEXTS) {
                                        holder.name.setTextColor(swatch.getTitleTextColor());
                                        holder.authorName.setTextColor(swatch.getBodyTextColor());
                                    }
                                }
                            });
                        }
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return wallsList == null ? 0 : wallsList.size();
    }

    public class WallsHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener, View.OnLongClickListener {

        public final View view;
        public final ImageView wall;
        public final TextView name, authorName;
        public final LinearLayout titleBg;

        WallsHolder(View v) {
            super(v);
            view = v;
            wall = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.wall);
            name = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.name);
            authorName = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.author);
            titleBg = (LinearLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.titleBg);
            view.setOnClickListener(this);
            view.setOnLongClickListener(this);
        }

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            int index = getLayoutPosition();
            if (mCallback != null)
                mCallback.onClick(this, index, false);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
            int index = getLayoutPosition();
            if (mCallback != null)
                mCallback.onClick(this, index, true);
            return false;
        }
    }
}

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New Delhi/Deepak Mandal: As a part of first of its kind initiative,Heart Care Foundation Of India will be training over 8000 Delhi Police PCR van staff in the life saving technique of hands only CPR-10.
Delhi Commissioner Of Police B.S.Bassi has inaugurated the the training.As a part of inauguration,Dr.K.K.aggarwal and his team at Heart Care Foundation of India trained over 250 police officers who could not only rescue but also can save the life of the person.
Speaking to the initiative ,Padma Shri Awardee Dr.A.Marthanda Pillai-National President and Padma Shree Awardee, Dr.K.K.Aggarwal –Honorary Secretary General,Indian Medical Association and President,Heartcare Foundation of India in a joint statement said "Around 240,000 people dieevery year due to heart attack in the country and we believe that 50% of them can be saved if 20% of the population learns hands only CPR.If there is any kind of mishappening occur anywhere ,PCR are the one who reach there in a very short time and if PCR officers know how to give CPR then they could save more and more lives.
Within 10 minutes of death (earlier the better),for a minimum of 10 minutes(longer the better),compress the center of the chest of the deceased person continuously and effectively with a speed of 10x10 per minute.CPR can be given in serious cases like Cardiac Arrest,Brain Damage,Heart Attack,Ventricular Fibrilliation in which heart beats more that 1000 times.
CPR can save many lives .Therefore, if you see someone collapse from sudden cardiac arrest ,act promptly can save his or her life.


Soak in the suds with this bath outfit for 18-inch Dolls!
Ducks and bubbles go together like friends and fun!
Rub a dub in the tub with the Duck & Bubbly Bath Set, a 7-piece Our Generation Regular Outfit set for 18-inch dolls.
Because this generation of girls is here to stay. (Yet, we're constantly on the go!) When we're not saving the world, we're busy running down grassy hills as fast as gravity will take us, arms outstretched to the world. Sure, we might tumble, but bouncing back up can be fun, too. This world is ours for the taking – we just have to go and get it. This is our time. This is our story.
Soap and suds for you and your rubber ducky bud!
Get ready to sink into a world of fluffy bath time bubbles – the shower cap will protect your doll's hair. Use the handy bath brush and soap to get clean, and have sudsy fun with the rubber duckie! Dry off and put on the towel-dress and the rubber sandals – now you and the rubber duckie are both squeaky clean! Remember, the best type of bath for your dolls is an imaginary one! Please don't put your dolls in water.
Create your very own world of imagination and play with all of the great Our Generation dolls, accessories, and outfits to choose from!
The Duck and Bubbly outfit is perfect for bath time, but what about the tub?! Give your dolls a treat with the Bath and Bubbly Set! It includes a bath tub for dolls with real water sounds!
It's always nice to curl up in a warm, cozy bed after a bath. Check out the My Sweet Canopy Bed for dolls and give them refreshing nights full of the sweetest dreams.
The doll pictured is Everly.


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Q: Android Emulator - Connecting two emulator Instances via networking with different API-Level I'm trying to develope an android application (with min-API-Level 28) with Java that communicates with an other device over a socket connection. One device is creating a Server instance and the other device should connect to this server.
For this purpose, I'm using Android-Emulator instances provided by Android Studio.
I followed the instructions at https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-networking#connecting , but encountered that the provided IP-Adress ranges are not the same for every API-Level.
One Emulator-Instance running API 28 is using 192.168.232.0/24 address range, the other one running API-30 is using the provided 10.0.2.0/24 range.
So given the following scenario:
the Server (running on an API-28 Emulator-Instance) is creating the ServerSocket:
this.serverSocket = new ServerSocket();
// 192.168.232.2 is the device's IP-Address IF(!) the Emulator-Instance uses API Level 28
// 55555 the specific ServerPort
this.serverSocket.bind(new InetSocketAddress("192.168.232.2", 55555));

and after that accept incoming connections:
client = this.serverSocket.accept();

the Client (running on an API-30 Emulator-Instance) is trying to connect to this Server:
this.server = new Socket("10.0.2.2", 55556);

as described in the provided docs, 10.0.2.2 is the developement Device aka my Computer and 55556 a chosen local-port.
On the Server-Instance I added a redirect via the android emulator console
redir add tcp:55556:55555

But the Client can't connect to the Server. So far I'm clueless.
Any ideas what went wrong here?
@Edit - Tried to clarify that I'm using Android Emulators instead of real Devices


It's a very lonely island, about, well, about Midway between California and Asia, and about 5 degrees north of the Tropic of Cancer. Home of the 'gooney' bird, Midway is 1,304 miles (2086km) west of Honolulu, and 1,182 miles (1891km) east of Wake Island (where? Wake is another story!) which in turn is 1,500 miles (2400km) east of Guam. Yes, it's a very lonely place.
The Commercial Cable Company established a small outpost there near 1900, as the first trans-Pacific submarine cable reached the island, which formed part of the very young Territory of Hawaii. The US had just taken possession of Guam and the Philippines after the US-Spanish War, and the northern Pacific was an area of growing US influence.
On Midway, the small cable staff shared the island with hundreds of thousands of gooney birds (albatross) and other bird species, and the island was declared a bird sanctuary. In early 1935, a hotel, restaurant, power generator and the other makings of a tourist resort appeared from the east on a cargo ship and were quickly rebuilt on the island.
Sister flying boat 'China Clipper' heads for water at Alameda, CA, 1935. Photo © Harold See, in 'Flying the Pacific', The National Geographic Magazine, Vol LXX No.6, December 1936.
A tourist resort? The Pan American Airways Company, having succeeded in breaking the isolation of Latin America with its luxurious flying clippers, now turned its attention towards the Orient. During 1935, a series of test flights were made with giant China Clippers to pave the way for a new air service from San Francisco (Alameda Bay) to Manila via Honolulu, Midway, Wake, and Guam.
Midway was already being touted as a tropical island stopover on this romantic air route, and all the comforts of home appeared on lonely Midway. The service began some 70 years ago, on October 21, 1936 and ended abruptly with the Japanese declaration of war less than five years later.
Sister flying boat 'China Clipper' in-flight, 1935. Photo © Pan American Airways System, in 'Flying the Pacific', The National Geographic Magazine, Vol LXX No.6, December 1936.
The first broadcast from the island took place in December 1935. The very second China Clipper service from San Francisco carried a reporter and engineer from the US radio network The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) on a mission to test recently developed shortwave radio equipment for long-distance reception.
William Burke Miller and Harold See made a number of SW broadcasts from aboard the 'Philippine Clipper' as it flew on the 58 hour journey from San Francisco to Manila. These included interviews with PAA flight personnel, staff at Midway and Wake, and their own descriptions of the flight as it made its way westwards.
The SW broadcasts were relayed over stations of the NBC network, and were made from inflight as well as from aboard the clipper at anchor in the Midway lagoon. The callsign assigned for these SW broadcasts was WOEH.
The American Forces Radio Service opened a low power AM station on the island as part of the Pacific Ocean Network under US Navy control. The station came on air after the famous Battle of Midway, which began a series of reversals for the Japanese military.
The callsign was allocated as K M(idway) T(erritory) H(awaii) in line with the K prefix in use in Hawaii for mediumwave stations, and distinct from the WX and WV prefixes generally used by other AFRS stations in the Pacific area.
KMTH used the frequency of 900 kHz and the very low power of just 5 watts, and began broadcasting in September 1944. This co-incided with a period of rapid AFRS expansion as allied forces began preparations to advance on Japan.
By 1956, KMTH had increased its power to 250 watts and moved to 920 kHz, providing entertainment for US forces on the island, which played a role as a staging post for USAF airlift capability to the Far East (in particular occupied Japan and during the Korean War).
New Zealand DXers were hearing the station regularly, and the personnel at KMTH dedicated a special program to their Kiwi audience thousands of miles away and almost due south.
During July and August 1956, we received 21 letters from listeners in New Zealand who've been able to pick up our radio station KMTH here on Midway Island. We here at Midway haven't had the experience in the past of having so many people write for confirmation. Therefore, we don't have QSL cards so I hope this form letter to you all will be acceptable.
Each and every letter I've received has been correct as to the broadcasts that you've received. I'll give you a run down of the schedule here at KMTH so if you hear us again in the future, you'll know it's KMTH.
For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning, your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956 we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to air at 6am your time. From all reports our signal has been fading about 20-35 minutes after we've gone to air. I feel now we've gone back on Standard Time, it'll be difficult for you to pick up our signal.
Each day, Monday-Friday we start our broadcast day with the same opening theme. This theme advertises the fact that we're one of the many United States Armed Forces Radio Stations.
Following our theme on those week days, we have the Island Chaplain for approximately 10 minutes with a daily prayer and devotions. Following the Chaplain, we have 35 minutes of march music or popular tunes. This is left to the choice of the announcer. On Saturday mornings, we have the Top of the Morning Show. The announcer has been Lou Schuster. Many of you listeners have heard him.
I enjoyed very much putting on the special broadcast for all of you fine people in New Zealand. I only wish I was going to be here on Midway Island so I could do it again. I heard the tape recording that Ken Mackey sent from Dunedin. It certainly was a shame that there was so much static. If you'd like the fellows here at KMTH to try another special broadcast, just write and name the date, and they'll be more than glad to do it for you. It's still so wonderful to know that we've been heard so far from here, and with only 250 watts of power.
I'm sending along some literature about Midway to people in different cities that I received letters from. Since the supply is limited, I hope they'll be passed around. Well friends, that about does it. May I thank you all once again for your letters, and hope that this will confirm all those letters.
From myself and all of the announcers here at KMTH....GOOD LISTENING.
When I was assigned to Midway, it was a Naval Air station, Just before I arrived, it had also housed a Naval Communications Station, which was then relegated to the Communications Division of the Air Station.
Although we could hear West Coast USA and Hawaiian radio stations from time to time, our main source of radio and entertainment was KMTH, which like the USO shows, gave an illusion of contact with the real world.
The KMTH studio was a reasonably well-equipped space for those days. The broadcast booth was about 12' x 12' and was set in a larger space that included a vast record library that covered everything one might need.
We were a 24 hour operation, with the equipment maintained and operated by the CommCenter.
The music played depended on who was in the booth! We had at least one guy who was an AFRTS rate and he did Top 40 in the daytime as I recall. Other than that, the majority of the play was Country and Soul. The only time any real music was played was during my shift from midnight to 0600!
I called my show 'Music to Miss Your Girl By' and played standards, Broadway, some jazz, heavy on the ballads and love songs by all artists, but avoided anything remotely smacking of Country or Soul. I used to get a lot of nasty calls at night requesting that stuff, but I advised them to listen some other time!
One of my last shifts was Christmas Eve 1970. I played nothing but Christmas music all night long and since the day guy wanted to slack off, I kept it going a few hours into the morning shift playing Boris Karloff narrating 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' and other light classics.
I also introduced the concept of trivia on the radio by reading excerpts out of the Guinness Book of Superlatives (later Book of Records), to a largely uninterested audience!
News came from our AP teletype feed, as well as AFRTS shortwave broadcasts from Los Angeles.
Broadcasting on Midway was the same as broadcasting from any other size station. You play to one person, whether they're there or not!
I got over to Japan once, when I mistakenly patched the KMTH circuit into the 40kW RLPA that was pointed that way at the time! Only once though!
It was quite a thrill to find we have listeners in New Zealand. I can personally verify your reception as it was my show you taped! I use Paul Anthony as my air name which isn't really a fabrication, because my full name is Paul Anthony Vautier.
My live show is from 0600-0900 Monday-Friday. GMT would be 1700-2000. Anyway, it was really a surprise to realize that our signal is that good - at least sometimes.
We broadcast on 920 kHz with 250 watts. Right now we're broadcasting 24 hours a day, six days a week. The only time we're off is Sundays 1100-1700 GMT.
The AFRTS still keeps a small broadcasting unit on Midway, using 50 watts on the FM frequency of 94.0. The station no longer uses the callsign KMTH, ending the WWII link to the Pacific Ocean Network.
In recent years, Midway Island has been re-opened to the public, and the Pan American Airways dream of some 65 years ago of a tourism resort is finally being realised. It's now an eco-tourism resort with regular flights from Honolulu by commercial airline service.
However, visitor numbers are restricted to protect those gooney birds who've survived these years of China Clippers, Japanese bombs, and Country and Soul music from KMTH.
This article was originally written in 1999-2000 and contains information about the then current situation on Midway.
No radio station currently operates on the island.
No eco-tourism business currently operates.


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Masks are mandatory from the age of six in public
published on 02/01/2022 12:26
C Rogerie, E Cornet, J Colais, M Bearden, De Brice, C Barry, France 3 regions, N. Zadok. – franceinfo
France TVs
In the face of the increase in the number of new cases of Covid-19, the government has decided to adopt a new measure. From Monday January 3rd Children over six years old are required to wear a mask in many public institutions.
From Monday, January 3, it will not only be mandatory to wear a mask in class, for children over six years old, but also in some public places. "I'm used to it, a little girl blows up. I wear it on the street, in the city." This measure applies to public transportation, institutions open to the public, sports stadiums and places of worship. The decision was explained by pollution figures: in mid-December, the infection rate among 6-10-year-olds exceeded that of other age groups, and was twice that of adults.
A bystander comments, "Youngsters are carriers of the virus, so yes, that's important." According to experts, there are no medical contraindications to this new rule. "As far as I know, there has not been any study that has shown an adverse effect (…). The fact that they are made to wear a mask in enclosed spaces can make it possible to reduce this transmission."Professor Philip Amwell, an epidemiologist, details.
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JD: Talk to me as it relates to Israel, what are their concerns to just to the north of them?
DD: Their main concern Jimmy is that a clash could take place between Israeli forces and Russian forces. There was a telephone call between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin. There was shouting between the two leaders that they were quite angry with each other. And basically Putin laying down his bottom line that Israel needs to stay out of Syria, no Israeli actions will be permitted anymore against the Iranian bases there the growing Hezbollah presents there, the other targets that Israel has been involved with some of them being Syrian government targets because of Syrian military action across the border of the Golan and so this is a very very grave situation.
Putin said we want you out and reportedly we will fire at your jets and missiles if they penetrate any further. And Netanyahu responded, look we didn't invite the Syrian Civil War and we certainly didn't invite a country 800 miles to our east, Iran that's ultimately declaring it wants to destroy us for no reason other than its religious hatred, its etiology from fundamentalist Shia Islam. And yet there they are building military bases just 25 miles from our northern border and some of their forces have been spotted along the Golan border he pointed out reportedly. We can't tolerate this and we reserve the right to strike at these positions. And Putin said no you don't and we'll strike back.
So, it was a real tense standoff between these two leaders amongst the million Russians speaking Israeli's Putin's quite popular. They're kind of proud that he's brought Russia back under the world stage in such a strong way. But of course they understand as Jews that he could easily go back to the old policies of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism. We've has some strong statements this week from Moscow against Israel Jimmy and it's looking like that is the way the tide is turning.
JD: David Dolan with details behind the Putin warning to Israeli's Prime Minister to stay out of Syria.
Russia is playing a key role in the present day Syrian situation. At the same time Russia is telling Israel to stay out of Syria. Prime Minister Netanyahu pushed back on Vladimir Putin and said that Israel will continue to protect its people.
We do know however what the ancient Jewish prophet Ezekiel had to say about this whole issue, Russia and its political leader will lead a coalition of Middle Eastern Islamic nations in an effort to destroy the state of Israel. And in that same passage of scripture God says that he will intervene to protect his people.


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Expropriation Act reform: Rumour or reality?
Written by Cassandre Louis and Sylvain Bélair
When what is commonly known as the 2020-2024 fiscal agreement was signed on October 30, 2019, between the Government of Quebec, the Fédération québécoise des municipalités, the Union des municipalités du Québec, the City of Montréal and the City of Québec1, the government undertook to analyze whether the Expropriation Act should be reviewed and to set up a working group for this purpose2.
In its 2019 annual report, the Union des municipalités du Québec mentioned that it had already started preparations by calling the finance committee and the municipal general counsel committee to establish a common position representative of all its members.
During a public appearance shortly after the fiscal agreement was signed, mayor of Montreal Valérie Plante proposed that the Expropriation Act be amended to calculate the indemnity for expropriation based on the most reasonable market value of a property, taking current municipal regulations into account. Around the same time, the mayor of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Martin Murray, made similar statements3, even proposing that the market value be the value recorded on the municipal assessment roll. In a brief submitted in October 2020 as part of consultations surrounding the adoption of Bill 664, the Union des municipalités du Québec reiterated these proposals by formally asking the government to "reform Quebec's Expropriation Act now to base the indemnity on market value".
For several months now, we have been hearing that the promised work group has been created and includes representatives of the Ministère des Transports, the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation, the Union des municipalités du Québec and major Quebec cities.
Very little official information is publicly available on this group's work, but rumours abound. One of them concerns the possible introduction of a bill sometime next year.
The last few years have also brought new laws setting aside several Expropriation Act provisions and subjecting certain expropriations to a different set of rules. For instance, the government has subjected expropriation for the REM project to a different procedure5 that greatly limits owners' rights. The government then adopted a similar act in 2019 for acquisitions under the City of Québec's tramway project6. In the wake of the pandemic, the government adopted similar rules7 with respect to the extension of the blue line and some 200 projects across Quebec.
As a result, the Expropriation Act, which had until recently been the framework law on expropriation in Quebec, now plays a secondary role and only applies in exceptional circumstances. There are now different "categories" of expropriated parties and certain expropriations are subject to different rules, whereas the original purpose of the Expropriation Act was in fact to standardize expropriation procedures regardless of the project or expropriating body.
These recent statements and events are cause for concern.
The Expropriation Act was initially adopted in 1972. Nearly 50 years later, the act could certainly benefit from being reviewed and adapted to current realities to simplify and optimize the expropriation process and facilitate public interest projects.
However, we urge the government to make sure that all stakeholders are involved in the review process, not just expropriating bodies.
Lawyers and assessors representing expropriated parties and owner associations should be involved in the reform process to produce a balanced act that meets government objectives of expediency and effectiveness while safeguarding private owners' rights.
In the past, private owners and their representatives were too often only allowed to express their views before parliamentary commissions held after bills were tabled. Why not involve them earlier, so they can contribute constructively to the discussion?
After all, consultation leads to consensus, and consensus leads to adherence.
Politicians who make often misguided statements should be reminded that the Expropriation Act is essentially procedural, and that the principles surrounding indemnities for expropriation are grounded in far more foundational texts. They are grounded in the Quebec Charter of human rights and freedoms8. They are grounded in the Civil Code of Québec, which sets out that no property owner "may be compelled to transfer his ownership except by expropriation according to law for public utility and in return for a just and prior indemnity"9. The founding principles of our society on which they stand raise the right of ownership to a quasi-constitutional level. It would be difficult to conceive of an indemnity being considered just if it can be influenced by zoning bylaws imposed on a building prior to expropriation or if it is based on a building value assessed unilaterally by the city.
The Minister of Transportation is responsible for the Expropriation Act. But he is also the leading expropriating body in Quebec, closely followed by Quebec municipalities, which hold wide expropriation powers and use them frequently. It would be surprising if a working group comprising only representatives of expropriating bodies could propose a balanced reform that takes the concerns of expropriated parties into account.
Since new laws and actions taken by public bodies are always subject to the Superior Court's power of review, only a process that includes all stakeholders can yield a reform that is immune to judicial challenge.
Certain stakeholders have recently made their voices heard, among them the Ordre des évaluateurs agréés du Québec, which shares our concern and has not hesitated to get involved to protect the public. We fervently hope that the Barreau du Québec, whose mission includes protecting the public while promoting the rule of law, will also take action and contribute to the debate.
As for us, in the coming weeks we will be providing commentary and proposing potential avenues for updating the processes in the Expropriation Act to facilitate the timely implementation of public interest projects while safeguarding private owners' rights. We will cover topics such as challenging the expropriation right before the Superior Court, timelines for producing offers and claims, the determination of provisional and final indemnities and timelines for transferring title and taking possession. We will also discuss certain processes happening prior to or in parallel with expropriation, such as reserves and preemptive rights.
1. Partenariat 2020-2024 pour des municipalités et des régions encore plus fortes 2. Section 4.14 3. https://www.versants.com/demande-de-modification-de-la-loi-sur-lexpropriation/ 4. Act respecting the acceleration of certain infrastructure projects 5. Act respecting the Réseau électrique métropolitain, CQLR, c. R-25.02 6. Act respecting the Réseau structurant de transport en commun de la Ville de Québec, CQLR, c. R-25.03 7. Act respecting the acceleration of certain infrastructure projects, CQLR, c. A-2.001 8. CQLR, c. C-12, article 6 9. Article 952
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Q: Intent getExtra switch case, multiple classes I'm wondering if it's possible to send an extra with intent to multiple classes, and use a switch statement to see which extra was sent, and depending on what extra, change the recycler view data.
For example, my app has an expandable list view with 12 options. Each option sends it to a new class with tablayout and recycler view. With the tablayout, i have 3 fragments for each tab where the data is currently set for each recycler view. This works fine, but I'm wondering how I can do it without making a ton of classes for the 12 different options.
Here is my expandable list view code. in the first child position you can see what I'm talking about with the putExtra.
expandableListView.setAdapter(mAdapter);

    expandableListView.setOnChildClickListener(new ExpandableListView.OnChildClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onChildClick(ExpandableListView parent, View v, int groupPosition, int childPosition, long id) {
            if (groupPosition == 0) {
                if (childPosition == 0) {
                    Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), WorkoutDaysActivity.class);
                    intent.putExtra("value", "w29w1");
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
                if (childPosition == 1) {
                  Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), WorkoutDaysActivity.class);
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
                if (childPosition == 2) {
                    Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), WorkoutDaysActivity.class);
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
                if (childPosition == 3) {
                     Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), WorkoutDaysActivity.class);
                     startActivity(intent);
                } else return false; }

Here is my WorkoutDaysActivity, where the intent sends the user on click of the expandable list view:
public class WorkoutDaysActivity extends BaseActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.workout_days);
    mToolBar = activateToolbar();
    setUpNavigationDrawer();

    ViewPager vp = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.view_pager);
    this.addPages(vp);

    TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tab_layout);
    tabLayout.setTabGravity(TabLayout.GRAVITY_FILL);
    tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(vp);
    tabLayout.setOnTabSelectedListener(listener(vp));

}

//ADD ALL PAGES
private void addPages(ViewPager pager) {
    MyFragPagerAdapter adapter = new MyFragPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
    adapter.addPage(new MondayFragment());
    adapter.addPage(new WedFragment());
    adapter.addPage(new FridayFragment());

    //SET ADAPTER to pager
    pager.setAdapter(adapter);
}

private TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener listener(final ViewPager pager) {
    return new TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
            pager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());
        }

        @Override
        public void onTabUnselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTabReselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {

        }
    };
}
}

And here is one of my tab fragments. The other two are basically the same:
public class WedFragment extends Fragment {

@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.wed_fragment, null);

//        //RECYCLERVIEW
    RecyclerView rv = (RecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.mRecyclerWed);
    rv.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this.getActivity()));
    rv.setAdapter(new MyRecyclerAdapter(this.getActivity(), getWedWorkout()));

    return view;
}

private ArrayList<Workout> getWedWorkout() {
    //COLLECTION OF MONDAY WORKOUT

    ArrayList<Workout> workout = new ArrayList<>();

    //SINGLE EXERCISE
    Workout workouts = new Workout("Bench", "60", "6", "155", false);

    //ADD TO COLLECTION
    workout.add(workouts);

    workouts = new Workout("Bench", "70", "5", "175", false);
    workout.add(workouts);

    return workout;

}

@Override
public String toString() {
    return "Wednesday";
}
}

These 3 fragment classes are theoretically where I'd like to put a switch case to see which item on expandable list view was clicked, and populate the data in the 3 tabs depending on what was clicked.
Thanks for the help!

A: You can hold data which send within intent in a list or hashmap.
    ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
    list.add("w29w1");
    list.add("w29w2");
    ....

In onChildClick:
expandableListView.setOnChildClickListener(new ExpandableListView.OnChildClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onChildClick(ExpandableListView parent, View v, int groupPosition, int childPosition, long id) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), WorkoutDaysActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra("value", list.get(childPosition));
        startActivity(intent);
    }

or HashMap:
HashMap<Integer, String> map = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
map.put(0, "w29w1");
map.put(1, "w29w2");
...

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), WorkoutDaysActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("value", map.get(childPosition));
startActivity(intent);

EDIT: To use that value in WorkoutDaysActivity.class
Intent intent = getIntent();
String value = intent.getStringExtra("value");

Sending data to fragment:
private void addPages(ViewPager pager) {
     MyFragPagerAdapter adapter = new MyFragPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
     MondayFragment mondayFragment = new MondayFragment();
     mondayFragment.setArguments(value);
     adapter.addPage(mondayFragment);
     ...

     pager.setAdapter(adapter);
}


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Registration is Open for Red Shoe Run 2016
12th Annual Red Shoe Run Races into Homewood Benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama
[Birmingham, AL] – March 2, 2015 – Registration is now open for the 12th Annual McDonald's® Red Shoe Run benefiting Birmingham's Ronald McDonald House. Runners will lace up on Saturday, January 23, 2016 and head to the starting line at Soho Square in Homewood. The race provides everyone an opportunity to clown around for a good cause. Now in its twelfth year, the Red Shoe Run has grown to attract a broader running audience and offers fun for everyone. Presented by McDonald's® and produced by Candence 180 Consulting, the race is expected to draw about 1,200 participants, and three race distances are offered: 10 Mile, a 5K and a 1 Mile Fun Run all starting at Soho Square winding through Homewood, AL.
Start your training and fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House early by signing up today. It's the perfect time to get your family, friends and co-workers committed to join your team and help families who need a home away from home so they can focus on what's important-their child. Thank you to everyone who completed the post-race survey from 2015, there are several new things coming in 2016 to make the Red Shoe Run even better. The new start times will make everyone happy. Check out the event website for more details.
Register today at www.RedShoeRun-Bham.org
The post-race party and awards will be held inside Rosewood Hall with snacks and a Kids Zone with moon bounces, clowns, face painters, and music to enjoy. The 10 Mile event is USA Track and Field certified and sanctioned by the Road Runners Club of America. Proceeds will benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama, Birmingham's only affordable provider of temporary housing services focused on serving sick or injured children and their families who must travel to Birmingham for medical care.
For 35 years, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama (RMHCA) has provided a safe, affordable, supportive home away from home for sick or injured children and their families when they travel to Birmingham for medical treatment. In 2013, 998 families were served from 67 Alabama counties, 20 other states, and 1 other country, Canada. The Ronald McDonald Family Room at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa serves both the Pediatrics and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and provides a place for parents and siblings of hospitalized children to go put their feet up, watch television, plug in to work on the computer, wash clothing, and play, all while remaining footsteps from the bedside of their child.
To learn more about RMHCA and how its work to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families in Alabama, visit www.rmhca.org or www.Facebook.com/RMHCAlabama or www.Twitter.com/RMHCAlabama


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LaVar Ball said he would "kill" Michael Jordan one-on-one and now has issued a direct challenge to the six-time NBA champion. He wants to set up a game with the greatest of all time and he wants to put the matchup on pay-per-view.
Ball first made the comment about being able to beat Jordan one-on-one in March, and Jordan didn't say a thing about him. Ball didn't issue a single true challenge at that point. He had just talked.
But when Jordan said at an event Monday that he didn't think Ball could beat him one-on-one if he was one-legged, it took Ball less than 24 hours to submit his challenge.
Jordan has not yet responded to the challenge.


Looking to get your party on? Here's a look at some of the events happening around Las Cruces.
St. Patrick's Day weekend is coming up and residents are in luck because there are plenty of opportunities to wear green, drink green beer, listen to Celtic music and even try traditional Irish food like corned beef and shepherd's pie.
Time: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, March 15, 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, March 16 and noon to 11 p.m., Sunday, March 17.
Place: Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 119 N. Main St.
Info: Warm up for your St. Patrick's Day weekend with music by The Ghetto Blaster, Friday, March 15 and continue the pre-shamrock day bash with The Ghetto Blaster Saturday, March 16 — music starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door, 21+ only. The St. Patrick's Day Party is Sunday, March 17 kicking off with music by Soulshine at 1 p.m. followed by Perfect on Paper at 4 p.m. The first 80 beers (purchased by those wearing green) get a free Little Toad St. Patricks Day pint glass. A get green costume contest will begin at 5 p.m. (costume winners will be announced) and there will be drink specials all day including a Bloody Mary bar and food by The New Mexican and Hangerz food trucks. For more info call 575-556-9934 or visit Little Toad's Facebook page.
Time: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Brunch is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Place: Azul Utra Lounge, 705 S. Telshor Blvd.
Info: Hotel Encanto presents St. Patrick's Day Celebration and Brunch at Azul Utra Lounge. Get $3 green beers, $4 Jameson and $5 car bombs. Music by Robe. Free entry, 21+ only. For more info call 575-522-4300.
Time: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Place: Pecan Grill & Brewery, 500 S. Telshor Blvd.
Info: The Hooligan's will bring The Craic for St. Patrick's Eve, March 16. Special guest and local music artist, Nicole Osborn, will be joining the crew playing traditional jigs and reels, pub songs, Celtic rock and classic rock and pop. All proceeds go to Wounded Warrior Project. For more info call 575-521-1099.
Try corned beef at Icebox Brewing Co.
Place: Icebox Brewing Co., 2825 W. Picacho Ave.
Info: Come celebrate St. Patrick's Day with green beer, live music and corned beef specials by Ruby Soho. $1 from the green beer and corned beef specials will be donated to Cowboys for Cancer Research in Erin Turner's memory. For more info call 575-526-7129.
Info: Come out to ride, relax and have fun on St. Patrick's Day. Ride to multiple establishments for some tasty beverages and complete the ride with some awesome bands at Picacho Peak Brewing Co., 3900 W. Picacho Ave. The event is asking for $10/rider to support Down Syndrome Families of Las Cruces and local musicians. This registration will get you discounts at all stops while raising money for an amazing non-profit. Other stops include the Spotted Dog Brewery, 2920 Avenida de Mesilla at 1 p.m., Dry Point Distillery, 1680 Calle De Alvarez at 2 p.m. (cash only), Icebox Brewing Co., 2825 W. Picacho Ave. at 3:30 p.m. and final stop at Picacho Peak Brewing Co. at 4 p.m. The public is invited to enjoy games and listen to live bands at Picacho Peak from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Donations will also be accepted. Music by Alan Raintree, Calista, Daniel Sanchez of Dead Like Disco and Michael Alvillar. Please have ID at each stop. For more info visit the event's Facebook page.
Time: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 16 and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 17.
Info: Try some corned beef and cabbage with Irish soda bread made from an authentic Irish family recipe. Or try the house made shepherd's pie. Call 575-527-2483 to reserve a table.
Info: In honor of St. Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, The Double Eagle and Pepper's Café will be whipping up a mouth-watering corned beef "big boy" Reuben sandwich from now until the 17! Served with beer battered fries and just $10. Starting on Friday, March 15, The Double Eagle will be serving $8 green leprechaun margaritas, $7 Jameson Irish coffee, $10 pot o' gold martinis and $6 shots with Bailey's Irish.
Place: Freedom Crossing at Fort Bliss, 1611 Haan Rd.
New Mexico has the fourth highest rate of impaired driving deaths in the nation, according to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That's why the team at SafeWise is giving out $10 Lyft credits to residents in New Mexico to help more people get a safe, sober ride home after their St. Patrick's Day shenanigans.
Applications for free rides are open now through Friday.
Looking for more to do around Las Cruces?


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