This concert will feature works created with computers as creative partners drawing on a uniquely human tradition: instrumental folk music. The concert will showcase works involving composers and musicians co-creating music with a program developed by researchers at Queen Mary and Kingston Universities, London, drawing upon the features it has learned from the 'celtic' folk tradition, and combining it with human imagination. It will provide an exciting glimpse into how new musical opportunities are enabled by partnerships: between musicians from different traditions; between scientists and artists; and last, but not least, between humans and computers.
I will perform some of my works for Irish harp and live electronics, combining elements of Irish traditional music with computer sound, controlled via motion sensor and pitch detection.
See the event ticket link for more information.
I have written a new piece for fiddle and live electronics, called Who Do You Play For?, first performed by Paddy Glackin at the IMBOLC festival in Derry, 31 January 2017. In addition to text I had written, the piece also featured the voices and words of poets Ciaran Carson and Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Here is a short video about the event!
This summer Úna is artist in residence at the Institute For the Public Life of Arts and Ideas at McGill University, funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Ireland Canada University Fund. While in Montréal she will be giving some traditional music workshops in association with the Siamsa School of Irish Music.
These workshops are made possible through the support of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Ireland Canada University Fund.
There is no charge to attend or participate in these events.
cover music by Turlough O'Carolan, information on the creation of your own arrangement / left hand accompaniment, or more advanced Irish traditional dance music.
Short harp recital by Úna, including a selection of traditional music, O'Carolan music and Úna's own compositions.
I really enjoyed giving an artist talk and performance yesterday. The venue, Casa del Popolo, is a super place, with new and experimental music on every night, and seems very artist orientated. Peter Burton and the staff there are great, and they host the Suoni per il Popolo festival every summer. Highly recommended. Anyway, after the talk and some jigs, I played several of my pieces with improvisation, electronics, motion sensor, pitch detection, Max MSP. I have had a new motion sensor delivered here by x-io technologies, and it has been very reliable, as well as providing new functionality, which I used in the new piece Luas Láimhe, written while in Montréal. Thanks to audience for their feedback, and interesting and thought provoking questions – we covered sean nós drones, existing improvisation in Irish traditional music, feedback in electronics, embracing / improvising around technological inconsistencies, lots of great artists and musicians doing related work, control of silencing the electronics, potential tension between the contemporary and traditional parts of practice. I then spent the evening trawling an extensive record collection and listening to Alice Coltrane and John Cage. A highlight was The Piano Music of Henry Cowell, his 1953 record referencing lots of Irish traditional music in fascinating ways and through really innovative sounds. That was a suggestion from the audience too!
Thanks to everyone who came and contributed, the atmosphere was indicative of the scene as I've experienced it here in Montréal – inclusive, interested and warm, with vibrant, diverse artwork going on everywhere. Special thanks to Prof. Eric Lewis and Dr. Sheetal Lodhia at IPLAI for the invitation, and providing me with an inspiring place to work this summer. I also appreciate the support of the Ireland Canada University Foundation and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
I will be giving a talk about my work (30 min) and a performance of some of my works for irish harp, and harp + electronics (30 min) followed by short discussion / Q&A. This will include information from my recently completed PhD on New Technologies and Experimental Practices in Contemporary Irish Traditional Music, previous artistic projects in sound art and music, and my ongoing work begun during this residency at the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI), supported by the Ireland Canada University Foundation and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland..
I am very happy to be in Montréal as an artist in residence and visiting researcher at the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, at McGill University (IPLAI). I will be developing my work for Irish harp and live electronics. This visit is made possible through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's Support for the Individual Artist Fund, and the Ireland Canada University Foundation's James M. Flaherty Research Scholarship.


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All formulations used in compounding pharmacies across the world called Simplified Omeprazole Suspension (SOS) and Simplified Lansoprazole Suspension (SLS).
He has tirelessly dedicated his whole life to helping people of all ages that suffer from the sometimes very serious symptoms of acid reflux disease.
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Reading Vintage Toyfair, an event in March - Berkshire.
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Vintage Toyfair and Exhibition with 150 stalls selling model railways, diecast vehicles, tinplate toys and other vintage toys made between 1900 and 1985.


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SPEAKER INTERVIEW: JOYCE KADUKI
In talks with Joyce Kaduki, Director - Primo Strategy Limited
Joyce Kaduki will be speaking at The Big 5 Construct Kenya this November. She will be speaking on "Leadership in Construction Industry" at the Educational workshops at the show. Here's what Joyce revealed to us ahead of the workshop:
Joyce Kaduki
What initiatives has the government taken to get more women into the Kenyan construction industry?
A combination of supportive laws, structures, policies and programmes.
These include advocating for women, youth and the disabled through the constitution,to get a third of government contracts and tenders. This means an increase for women in opportunities, participation, and growth in influence in the industry. Gender mainstreaming which is to be achieved through implmentation of Vision 2030 blue print further supports this.
The government has also initiated several programmes to uplift women's involvement in the industry for example promoting gender equity through the National Construction Authority.
Land remains one of the single most valuable resources when it comes to construction and development. Therefore, facilitating women's access to land, property and credit facilities also makes it easier for women to participate more actively. Think about it: to what extent have our laws – consider inheritance, cultural practices, barriers, and others – accommodated land ownership for women in Kenya?
What is the biggest challenge facing women in construction today?
It is not one challenge, but a combination of factors which work together to discourage women and/or deter them from venturing into the industry and participating fully. To start with, there is the stereotypical assignment of gender roles and unconscious bias and prejudice. The construction field is largely regarded as a man's world, while women are seen as outsiders and their participation frowned upon. The men therefore receive more respect and support and do not need validation, which is not the case for women. Related to the above are hiring practices – at both senior and lower levels – which limit women's participation. Their physical abilities and intellectual skills are subjected to more rigorous scrutiny and testing.
Has attitude to women in this industry changed over the years?
While we still have some way to go, we have covered good ground in the right direction. This has especially been helped by women who have stepped up and delivered in roles and spaces which were previously regarded as men's. Seeing women providing leadership effectively in the industry is also a big plus in changing attitudes – for example having a woman in a senior government office and as President of the Architectural Association of Kenya.
In your experience what is the best example of female success in this industry?
My response to this is gender-based rather than personality-based; Women stepping up to drive out the biases and prejudices in a male-dominated industry, and delivering on what they have stepped up to do. For example, successfully delivering a demanding construction project, serving as President of Architectural Association of Kenya, and participating in large numbers in forums like The Big 5 Construct Kenya conference.
Why is it important for events such as The Big 5 Construct Kenya to offer free education to construction professionals?
This helps build much needed capacity in the industry, which will enable the professionals to improve performance and contribute to growth of the industry, in scale and impact. Learning in any industry, including construction, is a life-long process. As professionals participate, they are made aware of changing trends in the industry and learn how to best remain relevant and effective as they do their work. This also makes it easier for professionals to choose to participate, get opportunities to network and build relationships which have potential for building business in future.
About Joyce Kaduki -
Joyce Kaduki is a catalyst for personal and professional development. She designs, develops and delivers management and leadership development programs in organizations, using interactive, engaging and innovative methodologies and tools. She is passionate about developing people through facilitating discussions, coaching, training & speaking on leadership.
Joyce has worked with leaders in corporate organizations, NGOs, government and the youth. She mentors many young people is an active member of Kwanza Toastmasters Club, and is the author of a book: 'Leadership is a Marathon'.
Joyce is a Founder & Director of Primo Strategy Limited, Director & Faculty of Swiss Leaders Group and a Founding Partner of The John Maxwell Team.
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On today's episode, I want to discuss the need for indie filmmakers to become a "Jack of All Trades." As you travel down your filmmaking path you need to be adding tools to your tool box. You have to be adding new skills, knowledge, and experience to your tool box every day.
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When Christians get together they sometimes speak a language no one else can understand…a kind of Christianese. Sometimes I wonder whether even we understand it. When we sing, "Praise God" or "I love you Lord" or "you are worthy" or "I give myself to you," do we know what the words mean? Or when we say, "Jesus died for our sins" or "Jesus is my Lord and Savior" could we explain what we mean?
But in this post I want to consider an expression we may hear on Easter Sunday. The leader will say, "He has risen." And the church will say, "He has risen indeed." Do we know what we are saying? Do we know that we are speaking about the most revolutionary event since the creation of the world? Do we feel its power and truth? And do we live lives that correspond to this assertion? Or is "He has risen. He has risen indeed" just another expression in Christianese. Just something we say on Easter Sunday?
I want to give you 6 points about the resurrection of Jesus to help us break free of Christianese into the reality about which it speaks.
Apart from the resurrection of Jesus Christianity would not exist. We read the story of the two sad disciples on the Emmaus Road in Luke 24. Jesus appeared to them, but they did not recognize him. As they talked they expressed their disappointment: "but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel" (Luke 24:21). They "had hoped," but their hope was gone.
Paul is also clear that Jesus' resurrection is the "make it or break it" fact of Christianity. He says, "And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied" (1 Cor 15:17-19).
If Jesus had not risen, the world would be very different! There would have been no apostles, no church, and no world mission. We would never have heard of Jesus or Paul or John. Rome would have remained pagan. The French, Germans, English, Russians, Greeks, and hundreds of other nations would have continued to worship their gods. There would be no Chinese, Indian, African or Korean Christians. Every moral principle, religious belief or rational idea that Christianity gave to the world would be missing. There would be no Harvard, Princeton or Pepperdine. And you and I would not be standing here this evening. Indeed, most likely we would never have been born.
The Resurrection of Jesus is a real event that happened in our space and time. Christianity is not based on a philosophy derived from observing the repeating patterns of nature. It is not based on the secret revelations to a self-proclaimed prophet. It is not derived from speculations about the divine world that appeal to your pride or fancies. Christianity is based on a historical event. It either happened or it didn't. It could have been refuted. To believe in the resurrection is to believe those witnesses who tell us that Jesus appeared to them alive after his death and burial.
The Resurrection of Jesus reveals the goal of creation and all history. The meaning of any historical event is determined by its context and what flows from it. There are three contexts that are especially important for determining the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus: the life, teaching, actions, and death of Jesus; those religious and theological speculations about the end of the world that were held in Jesus' day; and the experience and reactions of the disciples of Jesus to his resurrection appearances.
Had it been someone other than Jesus, the meaning of the resurrection would have been different. Perhaps it would be simply an amazing event testifying to the power of God but without further implications. But it was Jesus! Jesus came preaching the coming kingdom of God, he cast out demons, healed the sick, raised the dead, forgave sins, taught with authority, spoke about God as his Father, called himself the Son of Man; he predicted his death, and instituted a new covenant at the Last Supper. And he was crucified as a blasphemer of Israel's God and a rebel against Imperial Rome. For God to raise this man from the dead would be to confirm God's approval of all he said and did. It would be to reverse completely the charge of blasphemy and unlawful rebellion.
As for the religious and theological context, most Jews in Jesus' day hoped that when God defeated evil and established his everlasting kingdom, he would raise the dead so that they could participate in the kingdom. The resurrection of the dead to eternal life was supposed to happen only with the end of the age and the coming of the kingdom of God. So, when Jesus was definitively saved from death and his human body was glorified and made immortal, the disciples concluded that the kingdom has come. It is the beginning of the end. And Jesus is the first of many!
The original disciples and Paul experienced appearances of the resurrected and glorified Jesus. And they were completely transformed. Paul was changed from Rabbi and Persecutor to Apostle, Missionary and Martyr. They feared neither death nor the devil. They desired neither money nor fame. Paul summarizes well the resurrection lifestyle: "For me, to live is Christ, to die is gain" (Phil 1:21). Or "I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal 2:20).
The Resurrection of Jesus Really Happened. How do we know this? We know in the same way we know any event in the past: either we remember our own experience of it or we believe the word of someone who did experience it. In the case of the resurrection of Jesus, the decisive issue is whether or not we believe the testimony of those first generation Christians who tell us they saw and heard the resurrected Jesus. We have the witness of gospel accounts, Acts, 1 Peter and the letters of John. But the testimony of Paul, from a historian's point of view, is the strongest and most direct testimony. We can listen to his own words from his letters, and no one doubts that 1 Corinthians and Galatians were written by Paul within about 20 years of the resurrection and about 17 or 18 years of Paul's conversion on the Damascus Road.
And according to Galatians 1:18-20, Paul met Peter and stayed with him 15 days and he also met James the Lord's brother. So, what Paul's says in 1 Corinthians about Jesus appearing to Peter and James is not hearsay. He heard their stories from their own mouths.
We can believe them or not, but there is no doubt about what they claim.
Accepting the apostles' testimony to the Resurrection of Jesus establishes their authority for us. The Lord Jesus chose to reveal himself to the apostles. They are special. When we come to faith in Jesus through their words, we simultaneously acknowledge our dependence on them. We naturally want to know everything they can tell us about Jesus and about how to become his disciples and live as Christians. This is why the church accepts the authority of the NT. We don't believe the resurrection because of the authority of the NT, we accept the authority of the NT (and the whole Bible) because we believe the apostles' testimony to the resurrection. Keeping this order in mind will answer many of the questions and solve many of the problems nonbelievers and believers alike have about the Bible.
Believing—really believing—the apostles' testimony to the Resurrection of Jesus will revolutionize your life. Think about how their experience of seeing and hearing the resurrected Christ changed Peter and Paul's lives. In fear, Peter denied Jesus three times. But after the Jesus' resurrection he stood before the same Sanhedrin Council that condemned Jesus, headed by the same high priest, Caiaphas. But this time he boldly proclaimed to the Council the name of Jesus "whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead" (Acts 4:10).
Meeting the resurrected Jesus changed Paul from persecutor to preacher and missionary to the world. As soon as you have the chance, turn to Acts 26 and read Paul's speech to King Agrippa. There he tells the story of his conversion. These people no longer feared death or kings or emperors or the devil. They no longer desired riches or fame. They no longer sought pleasure or comfort. This revolution happened not only to Peter and Paul but also to Stephen and Phillip, James and John and many others. And it can happen to you as well.
But we have not experienced the risen Jesus in the same way they did. So we have to experience it in faith. How do we do this? It might help us to remember that as far as we know they did not continually experience appearances of Jesus their whole lives. Even they had to remember what they saw and heard. We don't have those memories as our own. So we can't imagine it or remember it for ourselves. But we have their memories! So, we need to listen to their testimony, enter into their words and let their words enter into us; and through their words we enter into their experiences.
One of the main reasons for the existence of the church and for gathering together as a church is to enter into these memories. Symbols and sacraments and teaching and singing brings these memories to life again. As we read their words, we realize that they had no doubts about the reality of the resurrection. The resurrected Jesus was as real to them as you are to me, and their memories of his appearances were as real as our memories of yesterday. And as we continually let their words dwell in us, we will begin to experience their confidence in the reality of the resurrection; and you may find yourself acting with their boldness in living.
So on Sunday when the worship leader says to you "He has risen" and you say in return, "He has risen indeed," understand that these words are not originally your memories, not your feelings. You can't assert them on your own authority. And they are not empty Christianese code words. These are the words the angel spoke to the women at the empty tomb. But if you are clear about who said these words first and why, you can experience something of the joy, confidence and boldness of those who first heard them.
Note: This talk was delivered to a student gathering at Pepperdine University on Thursday, April 2, 2015.
This entry was posted in Apologetics, Christian Theology, sermons and tagged Easter, Easter Sermon, Easter Sunday, resurrection on April 3, 2015 by ifaqtheology.


The Enemy have been confirmed as headliners for this year's August Party in the Pines festival situated between Broughton & Appleby. The Enemy have appeared at Glastonbury, T in the Park and Reading & Leeds Festivals now they are coming to our biggest local festival to party in the trees.
The Coventry trio were announced last night at 6pm (Thursday12th Feb). When the announcement was made, excited fans quickly logged on to purchase their early bird saver tickets through Paypal on the Party In The Pines website.
More act announcements coming soon!!!


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Litigation, plugged drain plague Sanford Post Office
Tereasa Nims, Midland Daily News
The Sanford Post Office is pictured after it reoened on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020 after being closed six months for repairs following the mid-Michigan dam failures.
Sanford Post Office owner Chet Hunt paid a Gladwin contractor $25,000 to expand the business's parking lot – but no work was done and his letter giving the contractor 30 days to pay the money back was ignored.
The 30 days recently passed, and now Hunt is retaining Midland attorney Andrew Thompson of Poznak Dyer Kanar Garchow, PLC, to act on the case. Hunt is seeking a judgment against the contractor.
Hunt, 85, of Hawaii, believes he was scammed out of the money, saying he paid the money to Kyle Willman from Straight Edge Concrete in Gladwin in July. Hunt said the contractor said he would begin the next day on work to expand the parking lot at 239 West Saginaw Road. The expansion was to allow more room so trucks could turn around. Hunt said instead, the contractor went on vacation.
Then, Willman asked for an advance of $25,000, saying he needed to buy equipment. Hunt said he wired it to the man, despite his traditional rule never to pay contractors in advance. Hunt said he was desperate to get the job done.
Hunt said shortly after that, his calls to Willman went to voicemail and his emails were not returned.
Calls from the Daily News to Willman were not immediately returned Friday.
"The only reason I'm pursuing this is so no one else gets scammed or does business with this guy," Hunt said. "I'm seeking a judgment against him, which is worthless because he doesn't have any assets."
Drain issue
The Sanford Post Office is also in the spotlight lately for a drain issue. There is a drain pipe underneath the structure which Midland County Drain Commissioner Joe Sova said shouldn't be there. However it happened, Sova said, it needs to be rectified.
Hunt, who owns 18 post offices with his wife, said he sold the Sanford Post Office prior to the dam breaks. About 85% of the 33,000 U.S. post offices are privately owned. The new owner collected one rent check from the government before the flood. Hunt felt bad after the flood and bought the building back from the man.
Sova said he needs to determine why the drain isn't performing to capacity. To do that, he may need to clean it out if there is a partial plugging in the drain. However, because it is below a structure, this could cause damage, which Sova doesn't want to see happen and Hunt definitely doesn't want to see occur.
"I'm fine with them putting a camera inside the drain," Hunt said.
But he noted the high-powered jet cleaning doesn't sit well with him. He doesn't want to see more damage to the building. Hunt notes when he bought the building back after the flood, it didn't have insurance on it and had suffered about $100,000 in repairs from the 15 feet of water inside it.
Hunt owns property adjacent to the post office and has volunteered that property if the village wants to put a drain pipe there. He said that property is large enough to put a drain in and has enough space for a structure without putting it on top of the drain.
Hunt said he never knew there was a drain underneath the building until after the flood.
"I was completely surprised," he said. "It didn't show on the title report. It was never shown on any drain easement.
"I don't want to have a drain under the building," he added.
Between the alleged scam and the drain issue, Hunt said, "This has been a nightmare."
Tereasa Nims


June 25, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia could send troops to Somalia if the situation there deteriorates but for the time been there is no need to intervene, said the Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Somalia's speaker last week called on neighboring countries and international community to intervene militarily in Somalia to prop up the UN backed transitional federal government (TFG), which has been facing a fierce military offensive since May 7 carried out by the Islamists.
"Our reading of the situation in Somalia and in Mogadishu, is slightly different from the one of the speaker of the parliament that if there is no foreign military intervention within 24 hours, the TFG will collapse," Meles told reporters in a press conference held late Wednesday.
"The TFG is facing a very difficult situation with Al Shebab and Hizb Al-Islam militias supported by hundreds of jihadists, but we don't believe they will be toppled," he further said.
However he did not rule out sending troops to Somalia if the situation gets worse. "We want to wait and see how the international community as a whole responds and then see if there is any need to revisit our position on the matter," he said.
He also suggested not willing to expose his troops to danger and criticism at the same time.
"We do not want to find ourselves in a situation where a so-called Ethiopian horse would be trying to take the chestnut out of the fire on behalf of everybody else," Meles told a news conference late on Wednesday.
"And this horse being whipped by every idiot and his grandmother."
The Ethiopian Communications Minister, Bereket Simon, said on Saturday it would only intervene militarily in Somali to support the besieged transitional government if it has a clear international mandate.
Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia in 2006 to oust a government led by the Islamic courts from the capital in which new President Sheik Sharif Ahmed played a role. But Ethiopia besides fighting the Islamists groups had been blamed for hindering the international efforts to settle the conflict.
Also after being supported in the first stage of the operation by the US administration, Washington dropped it logistical and financial support to the Ethiopian troops there.
I praise Mr. Meles for his openness at the end that he and his forces had suffered a lot in Somalia during the war in 2006. It is good to hear from him that he is not at least currently in a position to send his force (I am not saying Ethiopian military force), to the chaotic land in the horn of Africa. I think he has finnally woken up. Nothing is as praiseful as accepting the failure in mission.
We no more want another, witness than Meles himself to assure us that his force has suffered emmensely both materially and humanly.
For that reason, he is not sending his force to Somalia. Our saddness comes from his secretive behavior towards his own people, to tell how much entering Somalia has costed the country. How many soldiers we lost in that land, what financial lossess we encountered, etc.
Apart from that, we support the position of Mr. Meles, at least for now that he is not ready to send any soldier to Somalia, if he is to live up to his word.
We wiil wait and see as to how he behaves in the future and the exetent to which he will become an honest to live up to his word. Time will show us that all!!


"Friday in the Loop" is a bible study held each week in downtown Chicago and facilitated by FPCE member John Mauck. They recently began a study in the book of Genesis. The gathering is held at One N. LaSalle, 25th floor. Contact Tracy Robinson at 312-726-1243 to get a weekly notice of the meetings. All are welcome!


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Home > Opinion > The grand problem of the French-British alliance on Syria
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By Osservatorio Italiano
From http://osservatorioitaliano.org/read/149251/italia-il-grande-problema-dellasse-francobritannico-sulla-siria
France and Great Britain fear a repeat in Syria of the Libyan scenario, i.e. a transfer of diplomatic influence from the Franco-Anglo-American axis to a Mediterranean axis, externally coordinated by a US – Russia agreement.
Such a change has now become necessary given the emergence of new requirements related to the need to contain and eradicate the phenomenon of the infiltration of terrorists within European Union borders.
Paris and London will not willingly give up diplomatic leadership over Syria, given the efforts made to bring down the "Sword of Damocles" that hangs over them after they previously supported rebels and numerous fighters in Syria against Assad. It remains a problem in need of resolution that foreign fighters are stuck in the Middle East, trying through their families to be allowed to return to their countries of origin, but being denied by their Governments that right to return home.
Many of these fighters have expressed willingness to cooperate with Western authorities in order to serve their sentences in their homelands, but authorities have ruled out any negotiation in this regard. Thus, European fighters have no alternative but to die in Syrian or Iraqi prisons or at best to cooperate with Damascus intelligence services in order to combat the Islamic State.
Brief Analysis
In a quick analysis, one can see that something has definitely changed in European Foreign Policy – possibly as part of a Brexit backlash – which has called into question geopolitical strategies considered until now non-negotiable.
Moreover, parallel diplomatic strategies are increasingly and insidiously emerging inside an Alliance that has currently lost any reference points. In this regard a mass media campaign of disinformation was triggered in order to contaminate and discredit any possible role of Italy in designing a political solution for Syria.
According to Italophile local sources in the Middle East, there was no visit between the Italian intelligence chief, Gen. Alberto Manenti, and Syrian officials last weekend, as falsely reported by the Beirut-based newspaper Assafir and the Gulf News portal. The same sources add that this media campaign was orchestrated from abroad, as a kind of response to the existence of a channel of communication between Rome and Damascus.
In fact, these relations – including with Berlin and Brussels – were never completely broken off, and in some ways have been maintained, especially for managing the migration crisis, the European foreign fighters, as well as the infiltration into Europe of former Syrians rebels and Daesh fighters as they have attempted to flee the war zone.
This fact was, however, twisted, manipulated and taken to the extreme, as if to almost criminalize and hold at bay any Italian attempts to "intrude" into negotiation processes that may already be controlled by other States.
In other words, Rome's interests in the Syrian case are not considered – a case in which France and Britain want the exclusive European decision-making control, even though Italy is one of the European countries suffering the greatest consequences provoked by the migration exodus, both as a transit country and a "rescue and welcome shore."
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Since I added cannabis as a Hot slice of my nest egg pie chart at the end of September 2018, companies like Cronos and Aurora have doubled off of their lows earlier this year. Is this the beginning of a rocket ship to the moon, or is the party over for cannabis?
Not since the end of Prohibition has something that the majority of citizens do anyway leaped the red tape fence to become legal faster. Now that the War on Drugs is over (and stoners won), cannabis is hitting the main stream in dozens of ways. Fitness buffs tout it at as a panacea for most dis-ease. Suffers of pain swear by CBD Oil. And you don't have to get high to enjoy a relaxing cannabinoid bubble bath these days. Check out MedMen's film The New Normal, by Spike Jonze, to see a history of cannabis and hemp pre and post prohibition.
The investment opportunities are abundant. However, there are still a few penny pot stock scams out there that will take you into the back alley and strip you of your dough. So, it's a good idea to stick to cannabis companies that are publicly traded on the big boards, and are helmed by talented, experienced C-level executives. Beware of email and social media marketing campaigns as many are pump-and-dump schemes.
Cronos is now 45% owned by Altria (Philip Morris Tobacco). MedMen's executive team includes leaders from Apple Retail, with former Los Angeles Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa on the board. Tilray's international advisory board includes Vermont Governor Howard Dean, and senior government officials from Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Portugal. Constellation Brands invested $4 billion in Canopy Growth. The founder and former CEO of Hain Celestial is the chairman and interim CEO at Aphria. The newcomers, Green Growth Brands, features the executive team of Victoria's Secret. Green Growth Brands has launched a hostile takeover of Aphria, which Aphria is fighting.
The future is green for cannabis, now that it no longer lurks in the shadows. However, the share prices have experienced extreme volatility. Last year, Tilray soared to $300/share, and then sank to $73 within a few short months. MedMen (CSE: MMEN or OTC: MMNFF) was at $7.58/share in late October. It's now at $2.87. Cronos has doubled since October and Aurora Cannabis has done the same since December. Clearly this has nothing to do with the growth in the industry, and has everything to do with trading. Tens of millions of cannabis stock shares are traded daily.
Once you've picked a winning stock that you want to invest in, you still need to purchase it for a good price. Otherwise, you could be on the wrong side of a Tilray or Medmen trade. My personal strategy has been one of taking profits early and often, but never clearing the entire table. So when Cronos and Aurora doubled, I took a large bit of gains off the table, and left some invested. That way if the rocket ship continues, I continue to experience more gains. If the share price implodes, then I can buy more low again. A company like MedMen, which is trading near their 52-week low while experiencing astronomical sales growth year over year of 873% (far above the competition), might experience some swing in share price, even though all signs point to up up up.
And that's because navigating when to buy and when to sell requires, at minimum, three major considerations. Number one: what is the company capable of doing? (There seems to be no stopping any of these companies, most of which are growing in triple digits.) Number two: what's going on with the industry? (Cannabis is exploding in growth. In addition to the legacy base of loyal enthusiasts, CBD oil has gone mainstream with consumers.) Number three: what's going on in the macro economy? This is a huge consideration as we enter the 11th year of the current bull market. A rising tide certainly lifts all ships. But a sinking tide can ground them. On April 26, 2019, a GDP report of 0.4-1.4% growth (what is projected for 1Q 2019) could sink a few share prices.
High growth cannabis stocks like Cronos and Aurora Cannabis were drug down in October and December, when stocks had the worst December since the Great Depression. That is why I rushed to put cannabis as a hot slice on the pie chart on September 30, 2018. It was easy money because you were buying low. Today, when a lot of the cannabis stocks have doubled, the calculation is more complicated.
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The box has been opened and parts verified. Ready to build Victorian dollhouse. Never assembled and still in the box.
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The kit DOES NOT include paint, glue, and curtains as noted on the packaging. Durable trim is 1/8 inch thick.
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Recommended Supplies: Fine toothed saw, glue, ultility knife, masking tape, paints, and brushes. The item "Dollhouse Kit, Victorias Farmhouse Model JM-1065, 8 Rooms doll house, Victorian" is in sale since Tuesday, July 10, 2018. This item is in the category "Dolls & Bears\Dollhouse Miniatures\Doll Houses". The seller is "tom_5193" and is located in Holly Springs, North Carolina.


A long time ago in another galaxy, the enigmatic Zeledonia coronata was believed to be a thrush. Austin (1961) wrote: "Oddest of the new World thrushes is the tiny Wrenthrush (Zeledonia), a shy resident of the high mountain forests above 5,000 feet in Costa Rica and western Panama. It creeps and hops around, wren fashion, on the forest floor. The Wrenthrush is unique among thrushes in having its 10th primary so greatly shortened that some students put the bird in a family by itself. Its voice is reported as a clear, musical whistle repeated 6 or 8 times at equal intervals." This wonderful photo of Wrenthrush in song (left) is by Adam Riley.
Austin (1961) continued: "In its short tail and short, rounded wings it seems most closely related to the shortwings (Bracypteryx), a small group of six Asiatic thrushes.... The shortwings are also wrenlike birds of forest thickets at high altitudes, but unlike the Wrenthrush, the shortwing sexes differ in color."
When Harrison (1979) published his review of the bird families of the world, Zeledonia was still among the thrushes, but it was noted that: "The Wrenthrush has often been placed in a distinct family, because of its syndactyl feet (in which two toes are joined for part of their length) and other peculiarities." But Wetmore et al. (1984) moved it to the New World Warblers [Parulidae], citing electrophoric and skeletal studies that suggested it was an aberrant parulid, probably most closely related to Basileuterus warblers. They also suggested its English name become Zeledonia.
Lovette & Bermingham (2002) conducted a molecular study of the genera assigned to the New World Warblers [Parulidae] and found six that did not appear to share the same common ancestor. These included Zeledonia and a number of Caribbean genera, include the Cuban warbler genera Teretristris (see below). Barker et al. (2012) used both nuclear and mtDNA to construct a phylogeny of New World nine-primaried passerines. They found that Zeledonia and Teretristris had become evolutionarily distinct about 12 million years ago, and might be each other's closest relative. There was some evidence that Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens might also be related, but other evidence pointed against that.
In the "big picture" it looked like Wrenthrush and Cuban warblers fell somewhere between Parulidae and Icteridae. From these data, Barker et al. (2013) proposed that Wrenthrush be assigned to its own family [Zeledoniidae] and that the two Cuban warblers be assigned to their own family [Teretristidae]. These would create about the youngest bird families on planet Earth.
I've dithered about what to do with all this information. Initially I followed the Howard & Moore checklist, 4th ed. [Dickinson & Christidis. 2014] and its compromise position. They placed both Zeledonia and Teretristris in the same new Zeledoniidae family. However, I now follow Winkler et al. (2015) who elevated both clades to full Family status.
Photos: Adam Riley photographed the singing Wrenthrush Zeledonia coronata at Savegre, Costa Rica, in 2015.
Credited photos © Adam Riley, and used with permission; all rights reserved.
Bibliographic note: There is no "family book" per se, but an introduction to the birds in this tentative family is in Curson (2010).
Austin, O.L. 1961. Birds of the World: a Survey of the Twenty-seven Orders and One Hundred and Fifty-five Families. Golden Press, New York.
Barker, F.K., K.J. Burns, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and I.J. Lovette. 2013. Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine birds. Syst. Biol. 62: 298–320.
Curson, J.M. 2010. Family Parulidae (New World Warblers), pp. 666 –800 in Handbook of the Birds of the World (del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott & D.A. Christie, eds). Vol. 15. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Dickinson, E.C., and L. Christidis. 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World: Passerines Vol. 2. Aves Press, Eastbourne, U.K.
Harrison, C.J.O. 1979. Bird Families of the World in Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World (C. Perrins, ed.). Reader's Digest Association, Inc., New York.
Lovette, I.J., and E. Bermingham. 2002. What is a wood-warbler? Molecular characterization of a monophyletic Parulidae. Auk 118: 695–714.
Wetmore, A., R.F. Pasquier, and S.L. Olson. 1984. The Birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 4. Smithsonian Instit. Press, Washington, D.C.


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Q: ZipArchive Multile Files/Folders I have three files hash_a.php,hash_b.php,/morefiles/hash_c.php in root directory.
I want to zip it to client and stream it but not in that manner.
I want to send the client something like
FILE.ZIP
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  |_a.php
  |_b.php
  |_c.php

is it possible using php ?

A: First of all, you need to create a function something like the below code. And pass all the files to the function.
function create_zip($files = array(),$destination = '',$overwrite = false) {
    //if the zip file already exists and overwrite is false, return false
    if(file_exists($destination) && !$overwrite) { return false; }
    //vars
    $valid_files = array();
    //if files were passed in...
    if(is_array($files)) {
        //cycle through each file
        foreach($files as $file) {
            //make sure the file exists
            if(file_exists($file)) {
                $valid_files[] = $file;
            }
        }
    }
    //if we have good files...
    if(count($valid_files)) {
        //create the archive
        $zip = new ZipArchive();
        if($zip->open($destination,$overwrite ? ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE : ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== true) {
            return false;
        }
        //add the files
        foreach($valid_files as $file) {
            $zip->addFile($file,$file);
        }
        //debug
        //echo 'The zip archive contains ',$zip->numFiles,' files with a status of ',$zip->status;

        //close the zip -- done!
        $zip->close();

        //check to make sure the file exists
        return file_exists($destination);
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

After creating the function. Pass the files to the function which you need to be zip. The code will looks like this.
$files_to_zip = array(
    'preload-images/1.jpg',
    'preload-images/2.jpg',
    'preload-images/5.jpg',
    'kwicks/ringo.gif',
    'rod.jpg',
    'reddit.gif'
);
//if true, good; if false, zip creation failed
$result = create_zip($files_to_zip,'my-archive.zip');

This code will make the .Zip file with the files that you need.

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144. Fargo
Posted by Oliver on 10 Aug 2020
Movie: Fargo
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare.
Tag Lines: "A homespun murder story."
"Small town. Big crime. Dead cold."
"A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere."
"An ordinary place, an extraordinary thriller."
Relevance: Once in awhile a movie comes along that has everyone talking. 'Fargo' was one of those movies in 1996. I of course knew who the Coen brothers were and as soon as I saw the trailer for the film, I knew I had to see it. However, life got in the way and I missed its theatrical run.
I was living in Massachusetts at the time working as a manager in a movie and music store. Unfortunately around the time of the movie's release, I found out that my store was closing. I then had made a decision to relocate back to New York state. That meant I had a month to pack up my apartment in Massachusetts, find an apartment in New York and at the same time acclimate myself to a new job. So going to the movies was one of the last things on my mind. 'Fargo' had to wait until the Fall when it was released on VHS.
As soon as the movie became available, I was one of the first in line to grab it. In my new store, one of my days off during every week seemed to fall on a Tuesday. At that time, new releases for both music and movies were on that day of the week. I found myself going to my local rental store every Tuesday at 10 am trying to grab the big new release from that week. On November 19, 1996, I finally got to see the film I had been waiting months to see.
I instantly loved the film and it had way exceeded my expectations. It actually blew my mind. It was funny, dark, violent and so quirky, even for the Coen brothers. I watched it twice that first time I rented it and actually bought the VHS as soon as I could. There was a Widescreen Special Edition release that included a snow globe that depicted the wood chipper scene from the film. When you shook the snow globe, both snow and "blood" fell. Of course, I bought that one.
I eventually bought the DVD of 'Fargo' and it has remained one of my favorite films to watch and re-watch throughout the years. I absolutely adored the screenplay as well as all of the performances. It was appropriately given many accolades during its award season and they were all 100% deserved. I knew who the Coen brothers were before 'Fargo' was released. After it was released, I became a huge Coen brothers fan and remain one to this very day.
Today's Thoughts: "Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf…well, that passed. Now I'm hungry again."
'Fargo' is as odd, quirky and fantastic as it was back in 1996. The Coen brothers definitely know how to write and direct violent yet darkly funny films and this one has to be one of their best. I loved revisiting it today. Despite owning it, I hadn't watched it in its entirety in at least ten to fifteen years. That is much too long of a wait to not watch this modern classic.
It is a beautifully directed and acted art piece if there ever was one. Of course, Frances McDormand is phenomenal as lovable Marge Gunderson, but the entire ensemble is flawless. William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare and company are more than effective in this strange and bizarre true story-not a true story tale. Its dark, yet so much fun to watch. I find myself smiling even during those scenes where I should be appalled and covering my eyes.
If you do cover your eyes, you might miss the return of the penis thanks to a "flying" Steve Buscemi. In the middle of the film, Mr. Buscemi's character is tossed pretty violently over a couch naked. Mid flight, you get to see "all" of Mr. Buscemi (or perhaps his stunt double, or would that be penis double). Regardless, that is penis number ten on my list of most influential moves of all time. You can check out the nine other "penises" here: 183. Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 199. Six Degrees of Separation, 209. The Fisher King, 295. Being John Malkovich, 296. Wildcats, 332. The Crying Game, 335. Born on the Fourth of July, 343. Sideways and 357. Amadeus.
'Fargo' is a fantastic movie and one that is a must watch for any fan or student of film. Simply put, it is one of the best dark comedies ever put on screen. Anyone that disagrees with that statement has no idea what they are talking about as far as cinema is concerned. Those sound like fighting words, but this is a film that I am willing to fight over.
"You betcha!"
Awards: Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Frances McDormand (winner), Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (winner), Academy Award for Best Picture (nomination), Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, William H. Macy (nomination), Academy Award for Best Director, Joel Coen (nomination), Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Roger Deakins (nomination), Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (nomination), Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (nomination), Golden Globe for Best Director – Motion Picture, Joel Coen (nomination), Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, Frances McDormand (nomination), Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (nomination), BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Joel Coen (winner), BAFTA Award for Best Film (nomination), BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (nomination), BAFTA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Frances McDormand (nomination), BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography, Roger Deakins (nomination), BAFTA Award for Best Editing, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (nomination), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, Frances McDormand (winner), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, William H. Macy (nomination), Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Picture (winner), Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Frances McDormand (winner), Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Joel Coen (nomination), Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (nomination), Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Joel Coen (nomination), Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature (winner), Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, Joel Coen (winner), Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography, Roger Deakins (winner), Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, Frances McDormand (winner), Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, William H. Macy (winner), Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (winner), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (winner), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Picture (nomination), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Joel Coen (nomination), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Frances McDormand (nomination), National Board of Review Award for Top Ten FIlms (winner), National Board of Review Award for Best Director, Joel Coen (winner), National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, Frances McDormand (winner), National Film Registry (2006), National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (winner), New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film (winner), New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Frances McDormand (nomination), Writers Guild of America Award for New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (winner).
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In full-year 2018, Germany's DAX and MDAX indices both lost 18 percent. WACKER's share price decreased by 51 percent during the same period. The stock started the year at €162.20 (year-end closing price on Dec. 29, 2017) and at year-end (Dec. 28, 2018) stood at €79.10.


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Q: How to log to socket in Flask I have the rest of my program using a socketHandler to log which is being consumed using http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577025-loggingwebmonitor-a-central-logging-server-and-mon/.
How do I setup my flask app to log this?
I tried the following based on their docs (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/errorhandling/#logging-to-a-file):
class HelloWorld(Resource):

    def get(self):
        resp = "HELLO!"
        app.logger.info("GET HelloWorld %s", resp)
        return resp

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import logging
    import logging.handlers # you NEED this line
    socketHandler = logging.handlers.SocketHandler('localhost',
                        logging.handlers.DEFAULT_TCP_LOGGING_PORT)
    socketHandler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
    app.logger.addHandler(socketHandler)

    app.run('0.0.0.0')


Is the second part of "The Lunatic Fringe", personal illustrations dedicated to Alice In Wonderland.
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Abner Mikva, the original 'nobody nobody sent,' dead at 90
By Neil Steinberg
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Abner Mikva, who served in Congress, was a federal judge and also taught at local law schools, died Monday. | Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times
Abner Mikva brought his sharp legal advice and principled worldview to all three branches of government — he was a congressman, federal judge and presidential adviser. He stood up to Richard J. Daley, for years, and managed to survive hizzoner's efforts to destroy him.
And if that weren't enough, if giving legal advice to Bill Clinton and encouraging Barack Obama to try for the White House weren't enough, Mr. Mikva, who died of cancer at age 90 on Monday, was also the young man who tried to volunteer to help the Democrats in 1948 and was told by a ward heeler: "We don't want nobody nobody sent," coining the immortal distillation of political cronyism.
"That's Chicago for you," said Obama, remembering the phrase when he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mr. Mikva in 2014. The president called Mr. Mikva "one of the greatest jurists of his time," someone who "helped shape the national debate on some of the most challenging issues of the day."
Obama on Tuesday issued a statement saying Mr. Mikva "believed in empowering the next generation of young people to shape our country. Ab's life was a testament to that truth. … Like so many admirers, I've lost a mentor and a friend."
After Mr. Mikva left government, he and his wife Zoe formed the Mikva Challenge, in 1997, an organization that helps young people start out on careers in government and civic life, reminding them that public service is still a noble profession.
President Barack Obama is shown in 2014 as he presented Abner Mikva with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mr. Mikva, a former congressman, Illinois legislator, federal appellate judge and presidential adviser, died Monday. | Associated Press file photo
"Abner Mikva was always my North Star for integrity, independence and progressive values," Sen. Dick Durbin said in a statement Tuesday. "In an era of cynicism and disappointment, Abner's record of public service was proof that the good guys can win without selling their souls."
Mayor Rahm Emanuel worked with Mr. Mikva in the Clinton White House. But on Tuesday, he remembered working a precinct for him years earlier.
"When my mother was a precinct captain, my first election as a volunteer was for Ab Mikva. Ari and I used to go door-to-door for him when my mother was handling precincts," Emanuel said.
"Then, you fast-forward to the Clinton White House when I was senior adviser. Ab was White House counsel. It's a testament to Ab Mikva's talent, skill and intellect that he's one of the rare individuals who worked in every branch of government. … It's a testament to what everybody uniformly saw as a person of talent, a person of character and a person who is always in pursuit of justice. It was an honor to call him a friend."
Abner Joseph Mikva was born in Milwaukee, the child of Ukrainian immigrants, four days after a lifelong friend and future high powered lawyer, Newton Minow, was born in the same hospital.
"He was a dear friend," said Minow, who spoke with Mr. Mikva a few days ago. "He called to, basically, say good-bye. It's still a shock … he was a strong liberal voice."
Mr. Mikva's parents were on welfare, and 80 years later he remembered the shame of receiving books stamped 'Property of Milwaukee County Outdoor Relief Society.'
He served in World War II, as navigator on a B-24 Liberator in the Army Air Corps, then came to Chicago to go to the University of Chicago Law School. He edited the Law Review. One day in 1948, energized by the candidacy of Paul Douglas, Mr. Mikva presented himself at the 8th Ward Regular Democratic Organization headquarters.
"I came in and said I wanted to help," Mr. Mikva told historian Milton Rakove. "Dead silence. 'Who sent you?' the committeeman said. I said, 'Nobody.' He said, 'We don't want nobody nobody sent,' a phrase Rakove took for the title of his oral history of Chicago politics.
That was the same year Mr. Mikva married Zorita "Zoe" Wise.
Mr. Mikva graduated in 1951 and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton, then returned to Chicago to practice labor law in the law firm of Arthur Goldberg, himself a future labor secretary and Supreme Court justice.
In 1956, he won a seat in the Illinois House, despite the opposition of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, who disliked reformers. Mr. Mikva roomed with future senator Paul Simon and future Illinois Appellate Court Justice Anthony Scariano.
"We were known as the Kosher Nostra," Scariano told the University of Chicago magazine in 1996.
He also chaired a commission that investigated a 2003 fire at a Loop high-rise, in which six people died. Among other things, that commission recommended that all high-rise commercial buildings be equipped with sprinklers.
In this 2004 photo of a meeting of the commission investigating a deadly fire at a Loop high-rise office building, chairman Abner Mikva listens to member Shela Murphy, right, list the panel's findings. | Associated Press file photo
Mr. Mikva was elected to Congress in 1968 and served four terms, but not consecutively. After his district was redrawn — the rumor was, at Daley's urging — Mr. Mikva ran on the North Shore, and lost, in 1972, then won in 1974 representing a district in Evanston.
In the House, his assignments included serving on the Judiciary Committee, where he established a strong record in favor of civil rights and against the Vietnam War, and for sane gun policy, which drew the continuing wrath of the National Rifle Association.
In 1979, Jimmy Carter appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, despite the NRA spending six months and $1 million lobbying against his confirmation.
He became chief judge in 1991. He wrote some 300 opinions, among the most significant one in 1993 involving a midshipman who had been thrown out of Annapolis because he was gay.
"The Constitution does not allow Government to subordinate a class of persons simply because others do not like them," Mr. Mikva wrote.
He was long considered a strong candidate for the Supreme Court, but was thwarted by a string of Republican presidents. By the time Clinton was in office, Mr. Mikva was, by his own assessment, "too old, too white, too male, and too liberal" to be nominated. He did, however, rise to the highest court in the land in the movies, playing the Chief Justice who administers the presidential oath of office in the 1993 political comedy "Dave."
He also tried to hire a Harvard law student named Barack Obama as a clerk, but was rebuffed, because the young man actually thought he could go to Chicago and run for public office, an idea Mr. Mikva, like so many, scoffed at, thinking, "Boy, has he got a lot to learn," as Mr. Mikva told the Sun-Times earlier this year. "You don't just come to Chicago and plant your flag, and say, 'Here I am!'"
Mr. Mikva retired from the bench to be Clinton's legal counsel in 1994, serving for a year, defending the administration's actions at Waco and Ruby Ridge, but resigned after a year, returning to Chicago for a post at the University of Chicago Law School.
Clinton issued a statement, saying Mr. Mikva's "fine mind, legal and political skills, and passion for social justice helped make our nation a better place over the course of his long career in public service.
"From his early days in Chicago politics to his years on Capitol Hill and the federal bench, he never wavered in his commitment to civil rights and civil liberties," the former president said. "I will always be grateful he chose to put his considerable gifts to use as White House Counsel during my presidency."
There will be a private family funeral and burial, according to the Mikva Challenge, with a public memorial in early August. Details will be posted on the organization's website. The family invites friends to make a donation to the Ab and Zoe Legacy Fund at Mikva Challenge in lieu of flowers.
Survivors include his wife Zoe, and, in Minow's words, "his greatest pride," three daughters, Mary, Rachel and Laurie, and seven grandchildren.
Contributing: Lynn Sweet, Fran Spielman, Stefano Esposito


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Loyal FANGORIA readers are likely familiar with the words and wisdom of Barbie Wilde, the one-time Cenobite who now commands her legion of fans via her petrifying published works. And aside from the occasional contribution to FANGORIA and GOREZONE- fictional or otherwise- Wilde's novel THE VENUS COMPLEX has gone on to become a riveting, wicked read in its own right. Now, FANGORIA is proud to unleash Wilde's next visceral venture on the page as we have the exclusive announcement and details of Wilde's latest literary endeavor, VOICES OF THE DAMNED!
Each story is accompanied by seductive, haunting, full color artworks and illustrations created by some of the most imaginative artists in the genre: Clive Barker, Nick Percival, Steve McGinnis, Daniele Serra, Eric Gross, Tara Bush, Vincent Sammy, & Ben Baldwin.
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Q: Page is getting reloaded automatically on ng-click - Only on hosting server I have SPA. In which I have anchor tags which are to set to differnt urls using ng-href.
If I click on any of the links,the page is NOT reloaded and ng-template is rendered, No such issue on deploying to site on local server.
But on moving deployed site to hosting server a strange issue, I am facing.
Suppose you have below links
 Albums
 Music

Now suppose users clicks on Albums, it will not refresh the page immediately but after few seconds the page is auto reloaded however, meanwhile template is rendered as well.
I mean to say if you click on Albums links, template is rendered and then the page is reloaded.

One more thing when I inspect console some irrelavant messges in console like min 1 ad needed, mute game hosted, no clue about it and  it is poiting to some unknown file named program which if I try to open, it opens chrome tools screen

FYI. I am using ASP.Net 4.5 MVC

A: Usually you put a hash tag before an Angular route to let the Browser's engine know that it's not a regular href.
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Q: Не получается подключить библиотеку OpenGL Не могу никак подключить библиотеку OpenGL
Я уже куда только не сувала эту библиотку в разные папки, у меня эта библиотека уже по всему компьютеру. Но вопрос у меня такой: Почему VS ищет библиотеку с названием freeglutd.lib??? Если у меня везде она называется freeglut.lib! Может в этом ошибка? Где в VS посмотреть где он ищет файл и вообще почему он ищет файл с таким названием?


(02/26/2018) - The Accredited Professional Newborn Photographers International (APNPI) is proud to announce Dawn Roe of Dawn Roe Photography, Metairie, LA US as a Qualified Newborn Photographer certificate recipient. Dawn Roe's successful submission was chosen along with a select number of others deserving of the QNP title placing them amongst an elite group of photographers worldwide who currently hold QNP certifications.
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Yolanda Hadid Is Baring Her Bottom and Not Afraid to Show It
July 25, 2017, 4:02 PM ET
Suns out, buns out for this #RHOBH alum.
By Jocelyn Vena
Yolanda Hadid Offers an Update on Life After Beverly Hills
These days, Yolanda Hadid is looking fiercer than ever. And that just might explain why The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum is baring her bum on Instagram.
❤It's a beautiful, magical sunrise at the lake this morning, the water is quite cold but its such a great way to combat inflammation and feel the connection to Mother Earth...... #LakeConstance #MorningSwim #HealingPower #BodyMindAndSoul
A post shared by YOLANDA (@yolanda.hadid) on Jul 24, 2017 at 9:42pm PDT
Of course, she paired the cheeky moment with an update on her life and health. She wrote, "It's a beautiful, magical sunrise at the lake this morning, the water is quite cold but its such a great way to combat inflammation and feel the connection to Mother Earth."
Yolanda Hadid Says "It's a Privilege to Be Alive" and Is Clearly Living Her Best Life These Days
Yolanda, who has been open about her struggles with Lyme disease, recently confirmed that she's taken another step in her health journey, revealing that she's got some dental surgery, which was "the final item on my to-do list to get back to [100] complete and vibrant health."
She shared she had "cavitation surgery that I have put off for the past 4 years because I didn't really understand the correlation of dental health and recovering from chronic disease," she said. " I removed all my Mercury amalgams and metal based crowns and changed bad root canals to zirconia implants. I slowly over the years detoxed with ion foot baths and cilantro oil drops orally. Although my wisdom tooth extraction 7 years ago seemed a relatively minor procedure from the viewpoint of conventional dentistry, in biological dentistry they view jaw cavitation as a major interference field, a common complication particularly for patients who are already immuno- suppressed with high levels of inflammation like chronic Lyme patients. These cavitations creates a perfect space for infection to hide and therefor a continuous attack on the immune system. This residual infection, known as a jaw neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO) is often found at the sites of past wisdom tooth extraction."
She ended her revelation with this message for fans: "So choose your dental care wisely and educate yourself about anything that goes in or out of your body."
Check out more photos of Yolanda, below.
Yolanda Hadid's Fierce Throwback Modeling Photos
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Q: Use of odbc_exec with successful result downloads PHP page instead of renders is I'm having a very strange issue. I'm using unixODBC with FreeTDS to connect to MSSQL server.
If I perform an SQL command using odbc_exec that results in a valid query, instead of rendering the PHP, I get a prompt to download my php file, which if I accept ends up downloading an empty file.
If I purposefully break my SQL with an improperly formatted statement, the page successfully renders and displays the error statement.
If I use the command line isql to connect to my database and run the query, I am able to get a result on the command line level.
CentOS 5.5 64bit
MSSQL 2005 SP3
unixODBC 2.3.0
FreeTDS 0.82
PHP 5.3.5

A: What happens if you run the page using php on the command line? If its a 64 bit install it may be a result of PHP being built with a different sizeof( SQLLEN ) from unixODBC and or FreeTDS. Was the PHP built against the unixODBC on the machine or installed from a package?


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The What & Why of Data Governance
Mar 4, 2021 by Mariann McDonagh
Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value.
It is the foundation for regulatory compliance and de-risking operations for competitive differentiation and growth.
However, while digital transformation and other data-driven initiatives are desired outcomes, few organizations know what data they have or where it is, and they struggle to integrate known data in various formats and numerous systems – especially if they don't have a way to automate those processes.
But when IT-driven data management and business-oriented data governance work together in terms of both personnel, processes and technology, decisions can be made and their impacts determined based on a full inventory of reliable information.
Recently, erwin held the first in a six-part webinar series on the practice of data governance and how to proactively deal with its complexities. Led by Frank Pörschmann of iDIGMA GmbH, an IT industry veteran and data governance strategist, it examined "The What & Why of Data Governance."
The What: Data Governance Defined
Data governance has no standard definition. However, Dataversity defines it as "the practices and processes which help to ensure the formal management of data assets within an organization."
At erwin by Quest, we further break down this definition by viewing data governance as a strategic, continuous commitment to ensuring organizations are able to discover and track data, accurately place it within the appropriate business context(s), and maximize its security, quality and value.
Mr. Pörschmann asked webinar attendees to stop trying to explain what data governance is to executives and clients. Instead, he suggests they put data governance in real-world scenarios to answer these questions: "What is the problem you believe data governance is the answer to?" Or "How would you recognize having effective data governance in place?"
In essence, Mr. Pörschmann laid out the "enterprise data dilemma," which stems from three important but difficult questions for an enterprise to answer: What data do we have? Where is it? And how do we get value from it?
Asking how you recognize having effective data governance in place is quite helpful in executive discussions, according to Mr. Pörschmann. And when you talk about that question at a high level, he says, you get a very "simple answer,"– which is 'the only thing we want to have is the right data with the right quality to the right person at the right time at the right cost.'
The Why: Data Governance Drivers
Why should companies care about data governance?
erwin's 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation report found that better decision-making is the primary driver for data governance (62 percent), with analytics secondary (51 percent), and regulatory compliance coming in third (48 percent).
In the webinar, Mr. Pörschmann called out that the drivers of data governance are the same as those for digital transformation initiatives. "This is not surprising at all," he said. "Because data is one of the success elements of a digital agenda or digital transformation agenda. So without having data governance and data management in place, no full digital transformation will be possible."
Data Privacy Regulations
While compliance is not the No. 1 driver for data governance, it's still a major factor – especially since the rollout of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018.
According to Mr. Pörschmann, many decision-makers believe that if they get GDPR right, they'll be fine and can move onto other projects. But he cautions "this [notion] is something which is not really likely to happen."
For the EU, he warned, organizations need to prepare for the Digital Single Market, agreed on last year by the European Parliament and commission. With it comes clear definitions or rules on data access and exchange, especially across digital platforms, as well as clear regulations and also instruments to execute on data ownership. He noted, "Companies will be forced to share some specific data which is relevant for public security, i.e., reduction of carbon dioxide. So companies will be forced to classify their data and to find mechanisms to share it with such platforms."
GDPR is also proving to be the de facto model for data privacy across the United States. The new Virginia Consumer Data Privacy Act, which was modeled on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), all share many of the same requirements as GDPR.
Like CCPA, the Virginia bill would give consumers the right to access their data, correct inaccuracies, and request the deletion of information. Virginia residents also would be able to opt out of data collection.
Nevada, Vermont, Maine, New York, Washington, Oklahoma and Utah also are leading the way with some type of consumer privacy regulation. Several other bills are on the legislative docket in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Connecticut and Kentucky, all of which follow a similar format to the CCPA.
Stop Wasting Time
In addition to drivers like digital transformation and compliance, it's really important to look at the effect of poor data on enterprise efficiency/productivity.
Respondents to McKinsey's 2019 Global Data Transformation Survey reported that an average of 30 percent of their total enterprise time was spent on non-value-added tasks because of poor data quality and availability.
Wasted time is also an unfortunate reality for many data stewards, who spend 80 percent of their time finding, cleaning and reorganizing huge amounts of data, and only 20 percent of their time on actual data analysis.
According to erwin's 2020 report, about 70 percent of respondents – a combination of roles from data architects to executive managers – said they spent an average of 10 or more hours per week on data-related activities.
The Benefits of erwin Data Intelligence
erwin Data Intelligence by Quest supports enterprise data governance, digital transformation and any effort that relies on data for favorable outcomes.
The software suite combines data catalog and data literacy capabilities for greater awareness of and access to available data assets, guidance on their use, and guardrails to ensure data policies and best practices are followed.
erwin Data Intelligence automatically harvests, transforms and feeds metadata from a wide array of data sources, operational processes, business applications and data models into a central catalog. Then it is accessible and understandable via role-based, contextual views so stakeholders can make strategic decisions based on accurate insights.
You can request a demo of erwin Data Intelligence here.
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Watch the latest webinar in this series, "The Value of Data Governance & How to Quantify It." Mr. Pörschmann will discuss how justifying a data governance program requires building a solid business case in which you can prove its value.
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Coronavirus: Rockland death toll tops 300; county executive warns of fiscal 'tsunami'
Rockland reported 319 COVID-19 related deaths Thursday, but the increase was the smallest in weeks.
Rockland County's death toll from COVID-19 topped 300 for the first time Thursday, but the day-to-day increase was just 7%, the lowest rise in weeks.
"We lost 81 Rockland residents to the terror attacks on the World Trade Center," said Rockland County Executive Ed Day, referencing the 80 residents killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and one killed during the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing. "We have now seen nearly four times that number pass away from this disease."
Rockland reported 319 deaths as of Thursday.
Also for the first time, state data showed that more than 3% of the population in two Rockland ZIP codes — Haverstraw and Garnerville — had confirmed cases of COVID-19. Spring Valley's 10977 ZIP, with positive tests for 2.99% of the population, would likely reach the 3% threshold by week's end.
On Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended the NYS on Pause stay-at-home order through May 15.
Day, who has consistently advocated for stronger enforcement of Cuomo's coronavirus-related executive orders, differed from the governor on Thursday when it came to reopening the economy.
"I would like to see a gradual restart of the local economy sooner rather than later, ideally in the beginning of May rather than mid-May."
Fiscal 'tsunami' aimed at Rockland
Without specifying anticipated revenue losses, Day made clear that the COVID-19 shutdown threatens Rockland's finances.
"We are facing, as Westchester County Executive George Latimer said, 'a fiscal monsoon,'" a term Latimer used Wednesday in announcing his county predicted a $90 million revenue shortfall due to tax losses from the coronavirus pandemic.
"The potential in front of us right now could result in a tsunami," Day said. "It is critical that we get the economy restarted as soon as our medical professionals say it is safe to do so."
STAY AT HOME: Cuomo extends coronavirus order through May 15
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FUNERAL HOMES: Pandemic creates bottleneck
Day suggested that the shutdown be reversed in phases.
"Begin to reopen our businesses and restaurants, but only allow 50% occupancy and ensure strict adherence to distancing with the possibility of heavy fines from the Department of Health to back up the orders," Day said. "All while keeping a close eye on the infection rate to ensure we don't see a resurgence in cases."
For right now, though, Day encouraged people to "redouble our efforts to maintain social distancing and stay home to halt its spread.
"We each must take this seriously and do everything in our power to protect each other," Day said. "Unfortunately, government cannot wave a magic wand to stop this crisis; we are relying on each and every one of you to do your part in stopping this pandemic."
In two Rockland ZIP codes, more than 3% of residents had confirmed cases of the virus by Thursday. Five others showed more than 2% of the population as testing positive for COVID-19.
Rockland County reports the number of cases per ZIP code, per town, and per municipality. The numbers, though, are based on different totals.
The ZIP code case total is based on the state's reported total number of cases, while the others are based on county-confirmed cases, which lags behind state information.
The top number of coronavirus cases, by ZIP code, are:
West Haverstraw/10993: 3.19% with 171 of 5,355 population.
Garnerville/10923: 3.17% with 271 of 8,553 population.
Spring Valley/10977: 2.99% with 1,928 of 64,535 population.
Monsey/10952: 2.93% with 1,993 of 41,811 population.
Haverstraw/10927: 2.91% with 355 of 12,181 residents.
Pomona/10970: 2.58% with 263 of 9,804 residents.
New City/10956: 2.21% with 699 cases among 31,691 residents.
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After Sandy: Building for the Next Hit
One year after Hurricane Sandy crippled the East Coast, federal agencies have spent billions to rebuild damaged infrastructure but say there is more work to do—especially when it comes to protecting structures against future storms.
The U.S. Department of Transportation currently has $1.4 billion in transportation recovery work underway, according to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
And that's just a slice of the federal aid being used to rebuild after Sandy, according to the DOT, which just posted a list of recovery and resiliency funding.
The Environmental Protection Agency has doled out more than half a billion dollars to repair drinking water and wastewater infrastructure thrashed by the storm.
Meanwhile, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has spent the year re-evaluating severe weather guidelines, such as determining when severe storms and winds should cause a plant to start powering down.
Sandy's Wrath
Early on Oct. 29, 2012, Sandy made landfall in the Northeastern United States, causing particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York and resulting in 117 deaths in the U.S. and 69 in Canada and the Caribbean, according to information from CNN. The storm caused an estimated $65 billion in damage.
Photos: U.S. DOT
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Hurricane Sandy "triggered one of the worst transportation disasters in U.S. history." One year later, federal agencies are still working to help communities rebuild infrastructure.
"In the year since Hurricane Sandy, we have worked closely with our state and federal partners to help restore transportation systems in affected states, while also working to ensure that new infrastructure is built to withstand future storms," Foxx wrote in a blog dated one year after Sandy struck.
The DOT says Hurricane Sandy "triggered one of the worst transportation disasters in U.S. history." Immediately following the storm, the DOT released $29 million in emergency funds to rebuild roads, bridges, seawalls and tunnels.
Both EPA and DOT are working with more than two dozen other federal agencies to continue recovery and rebuilding as part of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Taskforce, established by President Obama in December.
'Devastating Reminder'
"Hurricane Sandy provided a devastating reminder of how much we depend on our transportation systems," Foxx wrote, specifically mentioning the storm's effect on the Montague Street Tunnel—part of New York City's subway system—which was flooded with 27 million gallons of corrosive salt water.
The tunnel has been closed since August as part of a 14-month project that disrupts the daily commute of 65,000 people. The project, which includes significant track work and replacement of lights, signals, and electrical equipment, will receive $236 million (about 90 percent of its estimated cost) from DOT's Federal Transit Administration.
According to DOT, additional recovery funding has included:
$5.7 billion from FTA to all affected transit agencies for recovery activities and anticipated resiliency projects;
$586 million from the Federal Highway Administration in emergency relief funding to impacted states and federal lands;
$30.2 million from the Federal Railroad Association to help Amtrak repair damage along the Northeast Corridor; and
$28.5 million from the Federal Aviation Administration in emergency relief funding to repair critical FAA infrastructure.
Funding for resiliency projects includes:
$185 million in relief funding from FRA to the Hudson Yards Right-of-Way Preservation project, which involves creating two flood-resistant tunnels under the Hudson River between NY and NJ;
Replacement docks and boardwalks at Fire Island National Seashore and Gateway National Recreation Area that are designed to tolerate being submerged by using stronger piles and hurricane ties; and
$1.3 billion from FTA to increase transit systems' resiliency to future disasters, including elevating storm drains in NY and installing high-capacity water pumps and back-up sources of power.
Sandy sent 27 million gallons of corrosive salt water into a New York subway tunnel. The tunnel has been closed since August for a 14-month rehabilitation project.
"In the year since the storm struck, we have stood by our partners every step of the way," Foxx said. "And we will be with them in the future, as they finish the job with transportation systems that are even stronger than before and better able to withstand future storms."
Water Facilities Recover
Transportation wasn't the only infrastructure that Sandy ravaged.
"Hurricane Sandy devastated more than 200 wastewater treatment plants and over 80 drinking water facilities across the East Coast," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy wrote in a blog on Tuesday.
"It caused extensive damage and power failures that released over 10 billion gallons of raw sewage into local waters and shut down drinking water plants in dozens of communities across multiple states," McCarthy said.
In May, EPA announced that it would provide $340 million in grants to New York and $229 million to New Jersey to improve damaged wastewater and drinking-water treatment facilities.
Over 200 EPA employees worked to restore water and wastewater treatment facilities, as well as repairing damage at local Superfund sites and supporting clean-ups following hazardous releases from underground storage tanks.
"It's clear that our nation's infrastructure and climate change resilience simply aren't built to manage the record-breaking storms that are becoming ever-more frequent," said McCarthy.
Before the storm even hit, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it was taking unprecedented precautions and sending additional inspectors to nine power plants. Three reactors experienced shutdowns during the storm, and a fourth was in an "Alert."
"The NRC focused on the safety of nuclear power plants in the storm's path as Sandy bore down on the region, dispatching additional inspectors to augment the resident inspectors at some of the potentially affected sites to provide 24-hour coverage," Neil Sheehan, NRC's Public Affairs Officer for Region 1, wrote in a blog posted Monday (Oct. 28).
Sheehan said that since the storm, many nuclear power plants have given severe weather guidelines a "fresh evaluation."
The powerful storm reshaped entire sections of the U.S. East Coast, prompting the federal government to announce plans to remap parts of it.
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KALIHI, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Kapalama Canal in Kalihi is projected to get a big makeover.
A community meeting was held at Farrington High School Wednesday to gather feedback on the proposed designs.
Sketches show the area with more trees, a park and other improvements.
The city has been gathering feedback from the community for the redevelopment that will go with the future rail stops.
"They wanted more green, more trees and a place that would be very natural, so wanted a place where you can gather and you can get there from the surrounding neighborhoods. They wanted the water to be cleaner, environmentally," Harrison Rue, Community Building and COD Administrator said.
To provide feedback on the renovations, click here.