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Following her headline-making hosting job at this years MTV VMA's, Miley announced the release of her surprise free album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz. Maybe one of the strangest and most ambitious records released by a big pop star in recent times, it was a 23 track sprawl of genre-hopping madness co-written with psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips. The Lips join Miley as her backing band on this series of intimate dates, which should showcase a very different side to Miley than her previous Bangerz tour.
Nashville-born Miley started her life in the public eye at age 11 by playing the lead in the Disney show, Hannah Montana, a role which required her to maintain Disney's 'girl next door' image. It's not surprising then that just a year after the show ended in 2011, Miley chopped off her long wholesome locks in favor of a bleached pixie haircut and her transformation into the sexy hip-pop star she is today began!
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Q: How to create my own android library and host it I'm working on creating a log-in screen to be used with multiple different android applications. What would be the best way to package it so that other people could use my log-in function on their apps. It would be preferred that it would auto-sync for them in-case we were to make changes.
***EDIT****
It seems packaging it into a library module is the best option. How does one go about uploading this module so that if we make an update to this module it will seamlessly update without having to pull from github for example.
Thanks!

A: Make the relevant classes into a library module - you already seem to know how to do that - and then use the Gradle Bintray plugin to upload it to JCenter.
Let's say you set group in build.gradle to com.ryan-newsom, version to 1.0 and the project name is android-log-in-screen.
(part of) android-log-in-screen/build.gradle:
buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "com.jfrog.bintray.gradle:gradle-bintray-plugin:0.6"
    }
}

apply plugin: 'com.jfrog.bintray'

group = 'com.ryan-newsom'
version = '1.0'

bintray {
    // Omitted for brevity, refer to the examples on GitHub.
}

You (or anyone else) can then use it in your project by adding the following:
(part of) other-project/build.gradle:
repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    compile "com.ryan-newsom:android-log-in-screen:1.0"
}

The library will then be pulled from JCenter and added to the classpath.

A: You can package the library into an AAR format. It will also contain the resources you used in your login module. After that you can push the AAR library format to bintray (which is free, and allows you to setup your own repository).
Your collaborators can then access the library using a dependency that looks like:
compile 'com.newsom:awesome-login-screen:0.5'
Check this starter tutorial if you are using AndroidStudio/Gradle and would like to push it to bintray. https://github.com/jimcoven/android-bintray-kit

A: If you've pushed your code to GitHub then sharing the library (aar) is easy with JitPack.
Your users will just need to add the repository to their build.gradle:
repositories {
    jcenter()
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}

and then your GitHub repository as dependency:
dependencies {
    // ...
    compile 'com.github.YourUsername:Repo:Release'
}

The nice thing is that you don't have to upload your library. Behind the scenes JitPack will check out the code from GitHub and compile it. As you publish a new release on GitHub it becomes available for others to use.
There is also a guide on how to prepare an Android project.

A: The best way to create a lib and make it available to other developers is creating a AAR so that developers can import it in their project using
dependencies.
The process is quite long.
These are the main steps you should follow to publish your lib:

*

*Register an account and create a new ticket
(https://issues.sonatype.org)

*Download (if you use OS X) GPGTools
(http://www.gpgtools.org/)

*Modify project gradle files

*Create signing key Build

*sign and publish your files to the Staging repository

I wrote a post about it and to have more details you can look here.
This is a piece of gradle file called maven_push.gradle:
apply plugin: 'maven'
apply plugin: 'signing'

def sonatypeRepositoryUrl
if (isReleaseBuild()) {
    println 'RELEASE BUILD
    sonatypeRepositoryUrl = hasProperty('RELEASE_REPOSITORY_URL') ? RELEASE_REPOSITORY_URL
            : "https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/"
} else {
    println 'SNAPSHOT BUILD'
    sonatypeRepositoryUrl = hasProperty('SNAPSHOT_REPOSITORY_URL') ? SNAPSHOT_REPOSITORY_URL
            : "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/"

}

def getRepositoryUsername() {
    return hasProperty('nexusUsername') ? nexusUsername : ""
}

def getRepositoryPassword() {
    return hasProperty('nexusPassword') ? nexusPassword : ""
}

afterEvaluate { project ->
    uploadArchives {
        repositories {
            mavenDeployer {
                beforeDeployment { MavenDeployment deployment -> signing.signPom(deployment) }

                pom.artifactId = POM_ARTIFACT_ID

                repository(url: sonatypeRepositoryUrl) {
                    authentication(userName: getRepositoryUsername(), password: getRepositoryPassword())
                }

                pom.project {
                    name POM_NAME
                    packaging POM_PACKAGING
                    description POM_DESCRIPTION
                    url POM_URL

                    scm {
                        url POM_SCM_URL
                        connection POM_SCM_CONNECTION
                        developerConnection POM_SCM_DEV_CONNECTION
                    }

                    licenses {
                        license {
                            name POM_LICENCE_NAME
                            url POM_LICENCE_URL
                            distribution POM_LICENCE_DIST
                        }
                    }

                    developers {
                        developer {
                            id POM_DEVELOPER_ID
                            name POM_DEVELOPER_NAME
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    signing {
        required { isReleaseBuild() && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("uploadArchives") }
        sign configurations.archives
    }

    task androidJavadocs(type: Javadoc) {
        source = android.sourceSets.main.allJava
        classpath += project.files(android.plugin.getRuntimeJarList().join(File.pathSeparator))
    }

    task androidJavadocsJar(type: Jar, dependsOn: androidJavadocs) {
        classifier = 'javadoc'
        //basename = artifact_id
        from androidJavadocs.destinationDir
    }

    task androidSourcesJar(type: Jar) {
        classifier = 'sources'
        //basename = artifact_id
        from android.sourceSets.main.allSource
    }

    artifacts {
        //archives packageReleaseJar
        archives androidSourcesJar
        archives androidJavadocsJar
    }
}

while gradle.properties is:
VERSION_NAME=
VERSION_CODE=1
GROUP=
POM_DESCRIPTION=
POM_URL=
POM_SCM_URL= POM_SCM_CONNECTION=
POM_SCM_DEV_CONNECTION=scm:git@github.com:
POM_LICENCE_NAME=The Apache Software License, Version 2.0 POM_LICENCE_URL=http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt POM_LICENCE_DIST=repo
POM_DEVELOPER_ID=
POM_DEVELOPER_NAME=

There is another way but i did not try it and it seems to be easier.
Give a look at jitpack.
Hope it helps you.

A: make the package or jar depending on your source, and post it on git hub the you can refer to the git from your ide to import or check for updates.

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Fragility, Amplified: The Contribution of the Latin Fathers to the Philosophy of Finitude
by Timothy Troutner April 23, 2021
One of the conceits of modernity is its belief that it has discovered human finitude or fragility for the first time, by devoting attention to aspects of the human condition which were supposedly ignored or suppressed when philosophical anthropology existed within a theological horizon. Now that humanity is considered purely on a plane of immanence, the story goes—as a merely mortal being defined by "being towards death"—fragility and finitude can finally receive their due.
Perhaps Jean-Louis Chrétien's greatest contribution to theological anthropology is his deconstruction of this self-serving myth. In his 2017 work Fragilité, the French phenomenologist, poet, and theologian uncovers a rich heritage of reflection on human fragility which existed, before Christianity, in the Latin literary, philosophical, and theological tradition. Yet the heart of Chrétien's project of re-narration and ressourcement is the "Christian enlargement of fragility," which he explores by tracing the concept through the work of the Latin Fathers, especially Ambrose of Milan, Augustine, and John Cassian (with Tertullian—among others—making guest appearances).[1] When the Christian gospel encountered the preexisting Latin literary tradition of fragility, the Latin Fathers preserved its insights while bestowing a unique "inflection and an imprint which it can no longer lose."[2]
Despite what our contemporaries may fear, Chrétien insists that in Christianity, fragility "is not abolished nor suppressed."[3] If anything, in Chrétien's narrative, it is modernity (especially the work of Immanuel Kant) which is responsible for a marginalization of fragility and an impoverishment of its meaning! For as Chrétien shows, enriched with new meanings, the word "fragility" pervades patristic theology. It is enlarged, deepened, and metamorphosized, with new dimensions deployed and new usages uncovered.[4] Chrétien especially emphasizes the creaturely fragility which has been affirmed and dignified by the Incarnation, the sinful moral fragility of our fractured will, and the new usage of fragility which has been made possible by grace. This polyvalent notion of fragility, Chrétien implicitly suggests, is more nuanced and complex than anything philosophical modernity has to offer.
The Incarnation as Affirmation of Creaturely Fragility
The most decisive "imprint" on fragility left by the Latin Fathers stems from the Incarnation, the kenotic act by which the very Word of God assumes our fragility. This condescension had already begun with revelation itself. Augustine reads the title "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" as a "name of mercy" which precedes the famous "name of substance": "I am who I am."[5] For God thus shares "the name of God's fragile witnesses."[6] As Chrétien explains, letting "Godself be named by creatures, joining those God has drawn from nonbeing, is thus, in the order of speech, a first coming of God in fragility, a nominal assumption of the latter . . . and thus a pledge of hope for our fragility."[7] We are addressees of revelation not where we transcend our fragility, but precisely in it, where God joins us.
This truth is radicalized with the Incarnation, in which "the light of hope comes to shine in human fragility, liberating it without destroying it nor abolishing it, in accommodating itself to it."[8] As Ambrose writes, the Word "has assumed the fragility of our body, the servitude of our condition."[9] Human fragility does not irreparably separate us from God, but is the very site where God draws near. Our fragility is not obscured by the brilliance of divine glory. Rather, our fragility is, for the very first time, seen with clear perspective, deployed and dignified to the fullest extent. For "God, in becoming incarnate, comes to inhabit and traverse in its diverse forms the very fragility of humanity," displaying all of them except "the penchant to evil or injustice."[10] The Incarnation is the key to theological anthropology, for "it is in the Incarnation of the Word, coming to inhabit human fragility and transfiguring it . . . that we can consider human fragility through and through, in all its dimensions."[11] Here is the "only true light for considering our fragility."[12]
Thus the Incarnation affirms and bestows a new dignity on the forms of human fragility which Gnostics were tempted to despise. Speaking of the Incarnation of the Word, which embraced the whole person, including the process of gestation and the truth of embodiment, Tertullian famously argued that that "with the human being, [Christ] has loved also her birth, he has loved also her flesh. No being can be loved abstracted from that by which she is what she is. Or else, suppress the birth, and show me the human being; remove the flesh, and make me see that which God has redeemed."[13] Birth and embodiment, as forms of fragility, are part of creaturely existence in via, not an evil. In the incarnation, human fragility is revealed as what God loved, God took on, and the dimensions of the creaturely condition to which it is attached attain a dignity above all contempt.
Moral Fragility in the Shadow of Revelation
Yet although the Incarnation bestows new dignity on aspects of creaturely fragility, it also sheds light on forms of fragility which are not part of humanity qua created but are the legacy of a primal fracture. The second Christian "imprint" on fragility extends the concept to the moral fragility which is the legacy of the Fall. As Chrétien writes, "fragilitas conserves its ancient sense, the capacity of breaking physically, but also takes on a moral sense. In the vocabulary of the Fathers of the Church, fragilitas becomes an essential term for the penchant for evil, that is to say injustice."[14] This shadow side of the human condition as we know it, has also been illuminated by the Incarnation. For as Chrétien writes, "the second Adam, the Christ, alone gives us the measure of the Fall of the first, in the very act by which he has made it possible for us to be delivered from it."[15]
The Christian doctrine of the Fall amplifies moral fragility in at least two ways. First, only when we see the extent to which God was willing to go do we realize the depths of our malignity for the first time:
The extent of this fragility which is ours is deepened because of the strong conception of the Fall of humanity. We are always already, in history, in a state of servitude to the powers of death and destruction, from which we cannot escape by ourselves, and all the orders of human action have been affected, including the spirit itself, blinded and prey to a hatred of the truth, since it reverts on itself.[16]
There is a fracture in the will itself which brings about a situation of constant temptation, rendering our predicament "slippery," ever in danger of falling anew.[17] This condition was profoundly described in Augustine's writings on sin and Cassian's spiritual guidance for escaping temptation. Yet our self-deception is such that this knowledge can only be mediated to us from without, our true evil only manifest in the moment of deliverance.
However, the Christian doctrine of sin also implies a second aspect of moral fragility. For "the present condition where we find ourselves . . . is not . . . the original condition of humanity."[18] Humanity could only have undergone a break if it was primordially fragile, "whatever were the fantastic perfections that the Christian thinkers of yesteryear . . . attributed to humanity before the Fall."[19] Thus the Fall presumes an anterior fragility, belonging to human beings from their creation, which Chrétien explains using Augustine's theology. Our penchant towards injustice has its ultimate root in the unfallen, but fallible, fragility of the first human beings. This fragility, though different from our own, was real: "Adam possessed a power to break and to die as well as a power neither to break nor to die, distinct from our having to break and having to die."[20]
Until perfected, created freedom is fragile, for it can allow itself to fracture in turning towards evil. Only then, "once it has passed to act," does it become "in us a reality which leaves traces, and diminishes effectively our power or our resistance."[21] Far from moral fragility stemming only from the Fall, "there is thus a sense where fragility characterizes as possibility every condition of the human being" in time, a sense which "corresponds to what the moderns call finitude."[22] Christianity does not stigmatize fragility by equating it with sin—it was present from the beginning of God's good creation.
In fact, the Christian doctrine of the Fall requires that one be able to separate them in order to think unfallen finitude or fragility, "the state of journeying" in which humanity would have persisted had sin not intervened.[23] For the Latin Fathers, the shadow cast by the good news helps us plumb the depths of our malignant moral fragility to which pride blinds us, as well as revealing a second fragility which belongs to finite freedom as such (even unfallen) until it reaches the end of its journey.
The Usage of Fragility: A Hope That Transfigures
A third and final Christian "imprint" on fragility is the new usage of fragility made possible by Christian hope. For although the Incarnation lends new dignity to our creaturely fragility and the doctrine of the Fall exposes the malignancy of our moral fragility, the key task in the spiritual life is not sorting fragility into "good" and "bad" forms. We can make our "good" creaturely fragility an occasion for sin, just as the battle against our "bad" moral fragility can be part of the accomplishment of our salvation. Rather, the challenge concerns what Chrétien calls "the usage of fragility"—where Christianity will offer transfiguration, "another usage than vanity."[24]
Fragility is where our humanity is decided, depending on how we respond to it. Chrétien's anthropology, as suggested by his book L'effroi du beau (The Terror of Beauty), is agonic. Our humanity is not something we possess once and for all by virtue of our essence or traits, but a task, an ordeal, or a struggle which lasts our entire life, in which our very being is always in danger of being lost. The human is the being for whom "its proper essence is neither possession nor grace, but a task"; "the gift of humanity is the gift of a test"; "humanity is only defined in multiple trials."[25]
In Fragilité, fragility is the name for this test. As Chrétien explains, "Human fragility . . . is itself the privileged site of the struggle to accomplish one's humanity in justice and in truth."[26] Here our being is decided, depending on the usage we make of fragility. Exposure is not optional. We are delivered over to fragility by virtue of being a human creature, without getting to select which forms we think we can manage. The question that decides our fate is not whether to be fragile, or which kinds we wish to encounter. One can only determine "who I will be, and how I will be in this fragility, what I will make of it, with it, and by it—in modern terms, how I will enact [j'existerai] my fragility."[27]
There are at least two dominant ways of enacting fragility which Chrétien rejects in order to elucidate the Christian usage of fragility. As we have seen, the first, represented by Stoicism, ultimately suppresses fragility, overcoming or escaping it by finding an inner fortress where, by our own power, we are invulnerable. The second is despair, to which knowledge of our fragility "by itself, could certainly lead," if "we cannot see how to use it in orienting it elsewhere."[28] If fragility is the last and only word, it can only break us, convincing us that everything is vanity.
The Latin Fathers, however, Chrétien shows us, offer us a third way. As Chrétien summarizes the insight of Ambrose. There is a "transfiguration of fragility"; it is "neither abolished nor suppressed (he insists) but transformed by another usage than vanity."[29] Now "the motor and guide of this novel usage of fragility is, of course, the incarnate Word."[30] Because fragility has been taken up by the Word and transfigured in his saving economy, fragility receives a new usage. Thanks to Christ, fragility can be performed or traversed with new power and a new end in view, rather than overcome (as in Stoicism) or simply left to itself (as in nihilism).
For Christ himself made a new use of fragility where humanity had misused it. The Fall occurred when the fragility which was ours from the beginning (as a possibility for freedom) was abused, becoming a moral fracture in the will. Reflecting on Augustine's theology, Chrétien notes that Christ could only bring salvation by taking up fragility: "he could not be the doctor without coming to the very site of the infection."[31] In being made flesh, Christ did not abolish fragility, but assumed it in all its dimensions (sin excepted), to the point of being "crushed for our iniquities" (Isaiah 53:5).
Yet he did not leave it unchanged—Christ made use of the fragility of flesh to heal and save, making possible a transformation of our fragility into an instrument of salvation. Christ did not fracture his fragility like Adam but rather walked "on the waters of human fragility," elevating what he assumed rather than being dragged down by it.[32] Fragility is thus "transformed from the interior," taken up by another movement other than disintegration, the movement of Christ's sojourn on earth, which culminates in resurrection life.[33] For Christ's humanity, in its very fragility, had saving power. In him, it was possible for fragility "also, paradoxically, to be remedy or medication."[34] Christ enacted and traversed human fragility in such a way that it became the very site of salvation, transforming "fragility itself into the road towards justice."[35]
Outside fragility, there is no other road, no other remedy. By and in fragility alone can we be saved—not only because Christ's own saving humanity was fragile but because no aspect of the Christian's life is ever free from fragility, not even an "interior citadel." As Augustine insisted against the Pelagians, we never reach such a state of invulnerability or "moral purity" that we no longer have to pray the "Our Father."[36] Instead, we learn to "use" the fragility which never ceases to surround us, just as Christ did. For Christ's novel usage of fragility is not confined to him alone. Through incorporation into his Body, it admits of participation.[37] Our own fragility, by being joined to his, can become our "road toward justice." This is true because in the resurrection we have new hope and in divine grace new power, a hope and power for and in fragility itself.
By the resurrection, new hope is breathed into our fragility. For although we will always be "exposed to sickness, to death, to tests" and "temptations of all kinds," "we are no longer, by [fragility] imprisoned in evil and injustice."[38] We need not be "submerged by [the effects of fragility, thrown by them into exhaustion and despair."[39] Existence in fragility need not culminate in moral fracture or end in dissolution and death. Christ traversed fragility without sin and without death having the last word, showing that fragility can be the road that leads to resurrection, after which the threat of disintegration no longer looms.
To live in hope amidst fragility is not to escape it, standing "above the fray in a quietest enjoyment but to keep, at the forefront of our eyes, a fixed point, in the very midst of our incessant peregrination."[40]
[It] is to live on the way, and even staggering, constantly falling and getting back up, always and again fragile, in a light which we do not possess and which we are not, but to which we belong henceforth by the thread, at once tenuous and firm, of our spiritual gaze, which "anchors" us in the heavens. (Hebrews 6:19).[41]
We may break, but even our temptations, failures, and falls can be turned to good use.[42] They can be a new occasion for confession and the reception of grace. Fragility is "where I can indeed fall or split, but it is also the place where . . . I can always get back up. One finds in Saint Augustine or Saint Bernard . . . encouragements not to despair of fragility. Where the danger is, there also is the salvation."[43] My fragility is the very thing that always opens up for me the opportunity to call upon God's grace.
In fact, fragility is where grace is displayed most clearly. Augustine was known above all for this appeal to grace, but Chrétien shows its presence in John Cassian as well, despite accusations of semi-Pelagianism.[44] But the root is in St. Paul. Beginning with the cross of Christ, "in the which the Word crucified in the naked display of his weakness," fragility becomes the very paradigm of divine power.[45] Meditating on how God's power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9) and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength (1 Corinthians 1:25), Chrétien writes in Under the Gaze of the Bible that "it is when I myself do not make myself strong and recognize my fragility that the strength of God has the space to deploy within me and throughout me."[46] As Chrétien writes, "the very conditions of servitude become the weapons of liberation: fragility becomes the very place where the power of God communicated to the human being can be deployed in the modes which are absolutely unique to us."[47] Our fragility becomes the occasion for the divine grace which loves to manifest itself in the fragile. In this hope and by this grace, we never cease to make new use of fragility, to run and to struggle, always and ever fragile, until our final breath.
For only with the resurrection, Chrétien notes with a reference to Cassian, can we speak of an end to fragility.[48] Yet even this could mislead. For the resurrection body is not the Stoic citadel. Rather than withdrawing into impenetrability, we will be, if anything, more porous, more open, more exposed to others, retaining our tenderness. If we are no longer "fragile," it is not because we have become hardened or closed off, but because the hospitality of the communion of the saints offers no occasion to fracture, break, or wound us. In the words of Isaiah, cited by Chrétien, the servant of God "will not break" "a bruised reed" (Isaiah 42:3).[49] The structural contours which make us who we are remain intact, the dimensions which once made us fragile persist, but they no longer double as fault lines. The model is Christ, who bears scars but "will never die again" (Romans 6:9). This is the final "usage of fragility": the transfigured wounds which testify only to love.
For Chrétien, far from suppressing human fragility, the Christian tradition is responsible for unprecedented amplification of its scope and significance. Only following the passion of Christ, through the lives and teachings of those who followed his kenotic example, were the depths of fragility truly appreciated. On the one hand, philosophical modernity's fixation on "finitude" and fragility reflects an unwitting (secularized) debt to this Christian legacy. Yet on the other hand, this secularization represents an impoverishment. In place of Christianity's complex narrative of various forms of fragility—some reflective of our creaturely freedom as such and others the consequence of the fateful fracture of original sin—philosophical modernity offers a univocal notion of finitude in which much of what are only the consequences of a primal fall are deemed "natural."
This does not lead to new appreciation or acceptance of fragility, but rather gives rise to an oscillation between an attempt to surmount fragility through science, economics, and technology—the equivalent on a civilizational scale to the Stoic citadel—and nihilistic despair. Chrétien shows us that only when the Incarnation and the cross and resurrection of Christ reveal its new "usage" or "transformation" can we truly confront human fragility without flinching. To recover the amplitude of this vision, one must abandon the self-sufficiency of philosophical modernity, its attempt to emerge from the tutelage of the classical and Christian world into an autonomous adulthood. While our era can undoubtedly contribute something new and irreplaceable to reflection on our inexhaustible fragility, this can only take place if our reflection is sheltered by the voices of the past. Not least among these are the voices of the Latin Fathers, who hymned in unforgettable fashion the fragility loved and assumed by the Incarnate Word.
[1] Jean-Louis Chrétien, Fragilité (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 2017), 159. All translations of Chrétien are my own unless otherwise noted. I have sought to use inclusive language. Sometimes I have translated l'homme as "the human being," sometimes as "humanity."
[3] Ibid., 163.
[4] Ibid., 25, 159, 191, 201.
[13] Ibid., 35.
[14] Jean-Louis Chrétien, Michaël Fœssel, and Camille Riquier, "Sens et formes de fragilité," (interview) Esprit (May 2018): 100-111, 106.
[15] Fragilité, 178.
[23] See the Catechism for this phrase. CCC 302.
[24] Fragilité, 174, 163.
[25] Jean-Louis Chrétien L'effroi du beau (Paris: CERF, 2008), 42, 49, 42-43. The word I have translated variously as test and trial is the same French word [épreuve].
[26] Fragilité, 26.
[27] Ibid. The usage of exister as a transitive verb, which may go back to Levinas, is difficult to translate.
[28] Ibid., 205, 184.
[37] As Chrétien writes, "the collective body of Christ that is the Church (a central theme in the thought of St. Augustine) begins with the Head, who clears the way that the members, after him, will take in the course of time." Ibid., 203.
[43] "Sens et formes," 107.
[46] Jean-Louis Chrétien, Under the Gaze of the Bible, trans John Marson Dunaway (New York: Routledge, 2015,) 76.
[47] Fragilité., 201.
[48] Ibid., 192. Chrétien speaks several times of an end to fragility at the resurrection. See also 161.
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Timothy Troutner
Timothy Troutner is a doctoral candidate in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Drawing upon 20th-century German theology and French phenomenology, his research explores the doctrine of creation as it intersects with language.
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CIIG Capital Partners II Inc. (NASDAQ: CIIG) Hogging The Spotlight Today
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With over 0.91 million CIIG Capital Partners II Inc. (CIIG) shares trading Friday and a closing price of $10.24 on the day, the dollar volume was approximately $9.32 million. The shares have shown a positive half year performance of 3.33% and its price on 01/20/23 gained nearly 0.10%. Currently, there are 35.94M common shares owned by the public and among those 28.75M shares have been available to trade.
The top 3 mutual fund holders in CIIG Capital Partners II Inc. are AQR Diversified Arbitrage Fund, Janus Henderson Global Multi-Stra, and GAMCO International SICAV – Merge. AQR Diversified Arbitrage Fund owns 0.16 million shares of the company's stock, all valued at over $1.65 million. GAMCO International SICAV – Merge now owns shares totaling to 0.34% of the shares outstanding.
Shares of CIIG Capital Partners II Inc. (NASDAQ: CIIG) opened at $10.22, down -$0.01 from a prior closing price of $10.23. However, the script later moved the day high at 10.26, up 0.10%. The company's stock has a 5-day price change of 0.00% and 2.50% over the past three months. It has a 12-month low price of $9.80 and touched a high of $10.98 over the same period. CIIG has an average intraday trading volume of 132.72K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 0.50%, 1.35%, and 2.84% respectively.
Institutional ownership of CIIG Capital Partners II Inc. (NASDAQ: CIIG) shares accounts for 89.20% of the company's 35.94M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 2.58%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 81.77% and — respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $367.62M. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.04. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock's volatility, which stands at 0.09% over the week and 0.14% over the month.
The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.


Jackpot City Casino Vegas Blackjack is played with with2 routine decks of 52 cards. Published by Microgaming, this particular blackjack variant is reflected at arrangement using a brilliant green dining table and also pretty huge cards dealt with a look at. The fundamental regulations are the trader must hit soft 17 along with also the blackjack pays 3:2. These policies are rather standard for several Microgaming blackjack games. You may play one particular hand just. With this kind of additional alternatives as Dual and Divide you'll create this match quite intriguing. Attempt to really make the very best selections to become profitable palms coped with. You will find those processors denominations to pick from as $1.00, $2.00, $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, $25.00, $50.00, $100 and $ 200. So, the minimum bet possible is1.00even though the maximum bet allowed is 200. Focus on small stakes to preference oceans before getting accustomed with the blackjack variant and figure out exactly the optimal/optimally way to acquire. Stand, Hit, Split or Double. That which is based upon the blessed cards that you buy... and onto your own final decision in regards to the upcoming thing to do. Decide to try various mixes to produce the most useful way and acquire fantastic awards in addition to have a nice moment.
Buy two cards at the exact same price and choose whether or not you would like to split up and make another hand perform. Clearly, you ought to set another bet about the further hand generated. You may divide into three days to develop 4 palms on. Be aware that Experts might be broken once just. In the event, you divide Pros and find yourself a 10 value card that this hand will probably depend because of 2-1 however, maybe not just a Blackjack.
You may double click any 2 cards coped with. That which is dependent upon your own final decision just. Whenever you opt to ambigu another wager equal to your first guess is still added. Just a card has been inserted which have an effect on your hand's price. Make certain an individual card is ample to acquire.
Whenever the trader has an Ace because his very first card you up might choose insurance policies alternative. Insurance stake equates to half a first wager. You'll lose just in the event the trader will not always have a Blackjack. In the event, the dealer has Blackjack you're going to be paid out 2:1. Any way you are able to win or lose.


Oh, joy. CMT has announced a date and location for the 2007 CMT Music Awards: Monday, April 16, 2007, again at our lovely Curb Event Center.
Belmont denizens: Start trying to find parking right...about...now.
Oh, well...at least we won't have to deal with a semi-shirtless Jeff Foxworthy doing interpretive dance with "Dancing With The Stars" castoff Lisa Rinna to the tune of "Honkytonk Badonkadonk." Sure, Foxworthy will be back to host, but we think he's learned his lesson about dancing in public.


I used the raspbian lite image from the official raspberrypi site.
So as always unzip it and dd it to the right sd card.
Now you can start your pi and login in with user:pi & password:raspberry. It's highly recommended to change your password with passwd. Also always a good idea is to upgrade your system.
We can use now the exact same config files as in the previous post.
The only thing that slightly changes is the path of the first config file.
Side note since I use a resolv-file you need for some reasons also edit /etc/default/dnsmasq and uncomment this line: IGNORE_RESOLVCONF=yes.
Now you can restart dnsmasq and your DNS server is ready to use.


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Q: Running python jupyter from Windows Ubuntu subsystem I have installed python, jupyter,pip on my Windows a while ago, and been running them through the Windows command line. I recently started working on the Windows Ubuntu client, and I want to use all the existing versions of the above without reinstalling them and re-configuring them.
How can I tell the Ubuntu client to do so?

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I want to use all the existing versions of the above without reinstalling them and re-configuring them

No, You cannot. Windows and Ubuntu are different environment, it not a client run on top of Windows as you may misunderstood. WSL (windows subsystem for linux) is a "real/authentic" Ubuntu (not yet support GUI).

You need to install and config as following:
First, you need to know what version of python on your Windows Environment ( Windows command line: cmd/powershell)
python --version

to see python version on your Windows, note that from python 2 to python 3 has a breaking change, so make sure you have the right version of python on both environment. Jupyter, Pip and Anaconda depended on your python version.

How can I tell the Ubuntu client to do so?

Warning: It is not easy for a Windows user to work on Linux environment, search engines are your best friend, there is no .exe to just click and run.
Depending on the version of the Ubuntu distribution you run, the Python install instructions vary.
lsb_release -a

on your windows subsystem for linux command line to find Ubuntu distribution.
Ubuntu 18.04 come with Python 3.6 by default, Ubuntu 16.04 is not. Making sure you have the same python version which is match with the one on your Windows.
These are some instructions may help you
RealPython,LinuxConfig, Reddit Bioinformatic, Xu Lab Wiki
Take your time and hope it help!


Arma Vet looking for someone to play tonoa exiles.
I'm looking to team with someone for some tonoa exiles and i dnt mind how many players, small or large team. i've pld arma since way bk when and pld quite abit of exiles altho its been a little while since i pld so im a little rusty as to some of new stuff they added in but i can shoot str8 when it counts lol. I can play most nights and im 33 from the uk.
I have a teamspeak server if needed or i can join another teamspeak or discord np.


Becoming a great basketball player requires discipline, hard-work, dedication and patience. However, merely practicing your skills might polish your dribbles and steals, but it will not give you the knowledge you need to read the game and understand it.
The professionals you might follow worked day and night to achieve the title of being great at what they do. Below, we have boiled down a list of some of the pointers you need to follow in order to become a great basketball player in the future.
One of the most importance thing you need to adopt, in order to become a great basketball player is commitment. Giving up or just saying that it is too difficult means that you never even wanted to achieve the honor of becoming a great basketball player. Staying committed, perseverance, and trying, again and again, means that you are really committed to basketball.
Commitment shows your passion, and without passion, you do not have a chance of becoming a basketball player. Make sure that basketball is not just another part of your life – it is your life. Watch every game, try every dribble and read the success stories of great players to keep yourself motivated and committed.
'There is no glory in practice but without practice, there is no glory'. You need to consider the fact that no matter which sport you see, not a single great player started off as a perfect player. Similarly is basketball, you need to practice everything you learned so far, so you can polish your skill and become better at it eventually. Do you have a problem in eyeing the basket properly? Make free shots a day-to-day routine. Make sure that you do not back down until you hit the mark. Remember, practice makes man perfect.
You need to make sure that your base is strong. Reverse dunks or fakes are advanced level techniques. Consider the fact that you progress gradually, in your journey to becoming a great basketball player. You need to ensure that your dribbling, passing, shooting and stealing is perfect before you can attempt to practice a dunk or such skills. If you have strengthened your basics, you will get a firm ground to build an empire of exceptional skills over it, and use these skills successfully in the future.
Do not be afraid to try out new things. After you have gone through the basics, you need to focus on developing skills, which are better than anyone who plays with you at the time. Watch videos, tutorials, and make sure not to miss out on any game to understand how the drill works. After you have picked up a new skill from any player, grab the ball and just keep trying that technique until you get the hang of it. It does not matter if you cannot use it in every game. Having an additional skill in your arsenal never hurts.
One of the most important things you need to make sure is that most of the times, you practice alone. Practicing in front of a crowd, or people who are better may put you down. You have to realize that not everyone will support you in your journey. Make sure to practice alone, so if you fail, there is not a single person to tell you that you cannot do it. Talk to yourself, and tell yourself that you can do it. This not only increases the level of your concentration but also keeps you motivated, throughout your journey to becoming a great basketball player.
Being a great basketball player might seem like a daunting task at first. However, once you get a hang of even a few of the above mentioned pointers, you are well on your way to improving and enhancing your skills and technique by a noticeable margin. The hard-work, the passion and the determination you show to master the art of basketball will either break you or make you. Hence, if you dream about becoming a great basketball player, make sure to put all your effort into it.


Brighton boss Chris Hughton has been nominated for the February Barclays manager of the month award.
The Seagulls went through February unbeaten as they beat West Ham (3-1) and Swansea (4-1) and drew 1-1 at Stoke to move up to 12th in the Premier League table.
The other nominees are Javi Gracia (Watford), Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool), Mauricio Pochettino (Tottenham Hotspur) and David Wagner (Huddersfield Town).
Voting closes at 11.59pm on Monday and the winner will be announced at 10.30am on Friday, March 9.


Industry more important than our children?
Jan. 20, 2016 6:00 a.m.
For the past year we have heard four children died while in care of the Ministry. One child had been living on his own in a hotel for over 40 days. If a parent did this, they'd probably be charged with child neglect and endangerment.
Now we hear approximately 112 children, in care, were living in hotels. Then we watch the evening news and are informed there is a 16-year-old female child living in the homeless tent city in Victoria. She was interviewed and explained she had spent a goodly portion of her life "in care" and found living in the tent city preferable to living in a group home. How a 16-year-old girl goes from being in a foster home to a group home to tent city is beyond me. I think it's also beyond the B.C. Liberal government, the minister responsible and the premier.
The response from the minister responsible, is the ministry can't force any child to live anywhere. What some of us taxpaying citizens would like to know is how did this happen. Really, the minister, the premier, the cabinet are responsible for this child, but no one can explain how this child wound up living in a homeless camp.
Welfare for these corporations has to end and the business of looking after the children of this province has to become a priority.


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 * User: Sérgio C. N. Cruz
 * Date: 29/02/16
 * Time: 06:44
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    public $pagination;

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    {
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    {
        $expectation["first"] =1;
        $expectation["pages"] =array(4, 5, 6, 7, 8);
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        $this->assertEquals($expectation,  $this->pagination->paginate());
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Keepin' it real whole night long - We've HYPE coming right up this weekend! Only the realest on the decks & mics, this night is gonna be so fly!
Be sure that you're with us to catch the feels with DJ Basil on the decks with their amazing house music tracks!


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About KR Foundation
Finance and Governance
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Rethinking Economics
Rethinking Economics: Expanding the European Network
Our economic system is a root cause of climate change and environmental degradation. Current economics education fails to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to address this problem. This project aims to broaden economics curricula to include other schools of thought and, in doing so, enable the economists of tomorrow to better handle the problems posed by climate change and environmental degradation.
Guided by academics and professionals championing alternative economic thinking, Rethinking Economics (RE) will support and expand an existing European network of local student-led groups to campaign for educational reform at their universities and to collaborate for change at a wider scale. RE will provide training, educational and campaign resources, as well as connect groups to economists, stakeholders and other professionals working within the systems and institutions they seek to change. Together with partners, such as the New Economy Organisers Network, RE will open up academic and policy arena to broader discussions of how we should measure our economies, improving our chances of simultaneously achieving economic and environmental sustainability.
Five UK universities have already reformed their curricula in response to RE campaigns. By growing the European RE network, the project will multiply RE's capacity for making large-scale, systemic reforms. This European network can then serve as a strong base from which to cultivate a wider international network, which will carry more momentum for a global challenge to prevailing economic thought.
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Rethinking Economics (RE) is a student-led movement, founded in 2012 by university students in the UK. RE's network spans 22 countries (7 in Europe), where students and academics are coordinated and supported to campaign for reforms to higher education. RE's mission is to: grow this network, make economics more democratic and accessible to the public (through their sister group Economy, ecnmy.org), and equip future economists to build a more sustainable and equitable world. Through this project, RE seeks to:
Expand their current European network to cover the entire continent and support two members to establish new national networks
Broaden higher education economics curricula and the discipline as whole, going beyond traditional neo-classical theory
Address the underlying obstacles to sustainability posed by current economic systems
Location of the project's activities
Framing the Economy
Empowering Young Climate Journalists
Phasing out Coal-fired Power Plants in the EU
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Q: How many wavefunctions are in a minimal basis set for benzene? I am reading Modern Quantum Chemistry by Szabo and Ostlund and on page 62 he says "A minimal basis set for benzene consists of 72 spin orbitals." I tried to understand this number but failed.
Previously he illustrates his concept of a minimal basis set with the Hydrogen molecule $\text{H}_2$, where he starts off with one spacial orbital per atom. Then he combines both orbitals to obtain two properly symmetrized spacial wavefunctions and then multiplies with the two spin states (spin up, spin down) to arrive at a total of four spin orbitals.
In the case of benzene however things get more complicated. We have now 12 atoms that we need to consider and we need to construct properly symmetrized wavefunctions. It is clear that we have more options now, but how do we get to 72?

A: You have one 1s atomic orbital for each H atom, and one 1s, 2s and three 2p for each C. This makes a total of 36 atomic orbital in the whole molecule, and so you have 72 spin states.
The 2s and 2p's orbitals are going to hibridate giving three 2sp$^2$ orbitals and one 2p orbital, so it has its characteristic $\pi$-delocalized electronic estructure on the ring.


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It is important to keep your barge stable to prevent it from capsizing and to protect the lives of those on board
Stability refers to the vessel's ability to return to its upright position after being heeled over by wind, waves, or other forces such as lifting loads or adding cargo. The flat-bottomed shape of barges mean they have unique stability characteristics which needs to be considered when carrying loads and lifting weights.
Most barges are used to carry out work of a diverse nature like carrying cargo, for infrastructure work or as platforms for personnel to carry out specific works like crane, dredging or construction operations.
There are many instances where barges have been loaded or machinery embarked and operated where stability has been affected resulting in loss of cargo and equipment, foundering and/or serious injury or loss of life.
Stability must be considered as part of your risk assessment.
Deck Loads
Construction barges may carry a variety of deck cargoes such as building materials, wharfing piles, wheeled or tracked vehicles and contained liquid cargo.
Deck loads should be appropriately secured to prevent them shifting due to waves, weather, wake from other vessels or change in heel or trim due to lifting operations. The shifting of unsecured deck cargo can cause a barge to rapidly capsize and pose a risk to crew on board.
It is important to understand the maximum deck load that can be supported by the barge, both in terms of structure to prevent damage and for stability. The larger the load on a barge the less barge is above the water. The distance from the water surface to the deck is known as freeboard.
Construction barges should use maximum load freeboard marks to give a visible indication of permissible loading. The amount of freeboard remaining to the freeboard marks is a good indication of the load capacity remaining. The less barge there is above the water, the closer it is to sinking and the greater risk to the safety of the cargo and people on board.
Lifting operations
Construction barges may have a fixed crane or carry a mobile crane or excavator. This may be used to lift deck loads on and off the barge or move objects outside the barge.
Loss of stability is one of the key factors associated with serious crane incidents.  Using cranes or lifting devices on a barge presents higher risks from land-based operations which must be considered and assessed as part of your risk assessment.
The sea state, weather and tide conditions need to be considered. Also, requiring risk assessment is the mooring arrangements for the barge, and ensuring the barge has adequate stability to carry out its intended operations.
When a weight is lifted by a crane, the centre of gravity of the lifted item rises to the point of lift on the crane. This can dramatically raise the centre of gravity of the barge/crane. This will lower the stability of the barge (imagine standing up in a canoe compared to sitting down and the resulting loss in stability).
If the item to be lifted was not already onboard the barge the freeboard of the barge will reduce, further reducing its stability.
Heel and trim
Deck loads should be loaded to ensure the heel and trim is even. Excessive heel or trim reduces the area of the barge in the waterplane area and it can quickly become unstable and capsize.  It may also cause the down-flooding of water into spaces below deck.
Lifting operations can also affect heel and trim as can the loading and unloading of tracked or wheeled vehicles. The maximum lifting and reach limit will be reduced if the barge is not sitting even in the water. The distribution of weight during loading operations must be closely monitored.
Bilges must be checked regularly and kept dry as the flat bottom of a barge can create a significant free surface effect. A free surface (also known as a slack tank) is a body of water in a tank or a vessel that can slosh about.
The presence of water in the bilges when it has not been addressed in the stability assessment invalidates the assessment.
Stability assessments
Key to managing the risk of stability is having a relevant stability assessment from an accredited marine surveyor. This is required for all construction barges that have been approved to operate after June 2013, including non-survey barges if they have a crane, deck load or lifting device installed. This includes a mobile crane.
A relevant stability assessment is strongly recommended for all existing construction barges that were operating prior to June 2013 . It shows you are taking steps to meet your general safety duties and protect the safety of all those on board by ensuring that you will not generate a heeling movement that may endanger or capsize the barge or exceed the maximum safe loading for the barge. This stability assessment will ensure you are using the right sized barge for your crane reach and slewing impacts.
When you add a deck load, lift a load or use a mobile crane that hasn't been considered in your stability assessment you will need to get a new stability assessment done. Remember that if it is not expressly indicated that the proposed loading is safe (or below the limits of the vessel) it must be assumed that it is unsafe until a stability assessment is undertaken and proven otherwise.
Key information to support  stability assessment is the limited KG curve . Not all stability assessments will include such a curve but when present they provide a very simple and useful guidance.
The term KG refers to the distance from the vessel's keel (K) to its centre of gravity (G). A limiting KG curve displays a line indicating the maximum height of the vessel's vertical centre of gravity (VCG) for a given displacement. This can be further simplified for barges to display in terms of cargo mass and height above the deck.  If the location of the centre of gravity for a given mass is below the curve this is a safe condition. A centre of gravity and mass above the curve is unsafe.
When using these tables and graphs it is CRITICAL to understand if it is displaying in terms of deck load above the deck or of the combined mass of the barge and deck load.
Limits of Stability – Wet feet
It is useful to understand what will start to happen when a vessel (barge or otherwise) is approaching the limits of its stability.
The first one is most useful to remember for barges. That is don't get wet feet! This may appear at first to be trivial; however, getting wet feet is a sure sign that the barge is running out of stability and close to potential capsize, it relates to deck edge immersion.
As a vessel heels, the righting moment, the force trying to correct the heel and restore the vessel to an upright condition, increases. It continues to increase and provide an increasing leveling force until the deck edge is submerged. That is for every degree of heel a progressively higher force is provided to correct the heel until the deck edge is submerged.
When the deck edge is submerged this restoring force is still present however instead of increasing it decreases. For every degree of heel progressively less force is provided. However, if the force of heeling the vessel continues to grow the vessel will capsize. Imagine a crane on a barge lifting an item from a wharf. As the load comes onto the crane the barge starts to heel.
As more and more of the weight is supported by the crane the barge continues to heel. If the deck edge begins to submerge and water runs across the deck, before the full weight of the item is supported, the crane/barge will capsize.
Another key indicator that a vessel is running out of stability is for it to feel 'tender'. A tender vessel is one where the centre of gravity is sufficiently high for it to be close to its limit of stability. A tender vessel will tend to feel a bit 'drunken' it will roll slowly and to a high angle of heel. It will feel less stable underfoot. A vessel in this condition will have limited reserve stability such at an outside heeling force, such as a large wave, crane lift or cargo movement may cause it to capsize.
Diagram showing how stability is lost after the barge heel reaches the down flooding angle.
In summary, to manage the risk of stability you should:
have an up to date and relevant stability assessment
know maximum deck load and load barge to maintain even heel and trim
don't exceed maximum load freeboard marks
keep bilges dry
consider sea state, wind, weather and tide conditions when conducting lifting operations
consider your centre of gravity, the lower the better
don't get wet feet!
Unpowered barges guidance notice
Safe Work Australia vessel mounted cranes information sheet
Fishing vessel stability


Failure of the candidate in making full and correct Statements in the application form and/or suppression of any information and/or submission of false documents shall lead to disqualification of the candidate for admission. Such a candidate will be debarred from the entire admission process. Therefore the candidate is required to make only such claims which could be substantiated by relevant original documents.
The students while studying in any college, if found indulging in anti-national activities contrary to the provisions of Acts and Laws enforced by Government or in any activity contrary to rules of discipline, will be liable to be expelled from the college without any notice by the Principal of the college.
Not withstanding anything contained in these Rules, if the Govt. takes any policy decision pertaining to Diploma admissions, then the same shall be brought in to effect at that point of time as per the directives from the Govt. from time to time.
Any issue not dealt here-in above will be dealt with, when arising, fully and finally by the Competent Authority.
If any of the statement made in application form or any information supplied by the candidate in connection with his or her admission is later on at any time, found to be false or incorrect, his or her admission will be cancelled, fees forfeited and he or she may be expelled from the college by the Principal. An appeal against the order of expulsion, however, may be preferred within 7 days to the Director of Technical Education, Maharashtra State, Mumbai, whose decision in such cases will be final.
1. Ragging within or outside of any educational institution is prohibited.
2. Whosoever directly or indirectly commits, participates in, abets, or propagates ragging within or outside any educational institution shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term up to 2 years and / or penalty, which may extend to ten thousand rupees.
3. Any student convicted of an offence of ragging shall be dismissed from the educational institution and such student shall not be admitted in any other educational institution for a period of five years from the date of order of such dismissal.
4. Whenever any students or, as the case may be, the parents or guardian or a teacher of an educational institution complaints, in writing, of ragging to the head of the educational institution, the head of the educational institution shall, without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, within seven days of the receipt of the complaint, enquire into the matter mentioned in the complaint and if, prima facie, it is found true, suspend the student who is accused of the offence, and shall, immediately forward the complaint to the police station having jurisdiction over the area in which the educational institution is situated, for further action. Where, on enquiry by the head of the educational institution, it is found that there is no substance, prima facie, in the complaint received; he/she shall intimate the fact, in writing, to the complainant. The decision of the head of the educational institution shall be final. If the head of the educational institution fails or neglects to act in the manner specified in section "d" above when a complaint of ragging is made, such person shall be deemed to have abetted the offence and shall, on conviction, be punished as provided for in section "b" above.
f. Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
i. Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution.
j. Collective punishment: when the persons committing or abetting the crime of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment as a deterrent to ensure community pressure on the potential raggers.
Following members are hereby informed that as per AICTE Rules & Regulation the Anti-Ragging committee has been formed. We are glad to inform you that you have been nominated as a member of Anti Ragging Committee.
1. Mr. Subhajit Maity Workshop Supdt.


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Our pillows may relieve tension, headaches, neck pain, and reduce snoring. The healthy natural way to sleep comfortably all night.
Shape the organic buckwheat or millet hulls to create the perfect cervical support for your neck and head. An ear depression can be easily created allowing your ear to be suspended without pressure.
Buckwheat hulls stay in the shape you need. Millet hulls also shape easily and have a slightly softer feel. The Multi-Grain combination, one side Buckwheat – one side Millet gives you the best properties of both grains!
These thermodynamic pillows do not conduct heat while allowing a better air circulation that helps to maintain a more comfortable temperature.
Grown without Pesticides or Herbicides. Our USA grown and triple screened organic millet and buckwheat hulls are covered in either a durable, soft cotton ticking fabric or GOTS certified Organic Cotton Fabric. The covered zippered opening allows you to add or remove hulls to create the perfect pillow, custom fitted for you. It also allows for emptying of the pillow for laundering of the shell ticking fabric if ever needed.
Be careful of imported buckwheat hull pillows. The U.S. Customs Department requires chemical fumigation of these pillows to prevent pests from entering the United States. These pillows cannot be considered organic or chemical free.
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Are you Making this Dental Mistake?
Dental care. We all know that we need it – and yet . . . and yet we get busy. We may have an aversion to sitting in the dental chair. We may have a life circumstance that makes it difficult to take time out of our schedule to handle a dental problem. Whatever it is that is keeping you away from the care your smile is telling you it needs, it may be nothing more than an excuse. The truth is, many people procrastinate when they know they have a minor condition that needs repair. Especially if there is no real pain to speak of, dental problems can easily fall by the wayside. They shouldn't. Here are some of the consequences that could affect you if you put off dental treatment.
The problem will get worse. This is not a guess. There are very few things that can be said with absolute certainty, but this is one of them. Dental conditions progress. This is because the slight damage that is sustained by a tooth then becomes a glaring target for oral bacteria. You cannot get rid of these microorganisms, but you can limit their ability to cause more damage to the vulnerable tooth by getting it repaired and protected with a small filling or crown.
You run the risk of needing comprehensive care. Naturally, it is preferable to undergo minor dental treatment like a filling than something more in depth, like root canal therapy. If you have a preference about the type of dental care you receive, don't dally in scheduling restorative care once you suspect a problem in your mouth.
The treatment you need may cost more. The more extensive the repair process, the more likely it is that fees for care will be higher. For instance, a filling can be crafted during a single visit after minor decay is removed. If you need a crown, the restoration itself will cost more due to its size and the complexity of fabrication.
Pain will develop. Who has time to be sidelined by a bad toothache! This may be exactly what happens if you postpone getting care while your problem is still minor.
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Brighton Seagull sculptures sitting on his deck chair. Handmade in Woofing Fabulous pottery studio in Sussex. Hand painted & sculpted.
Brighton Seagull sculpture sitting on his deck chair. Handmade in Woofing Fabulous pottery studio in Sussex. Hand painted & sculpted.
From my miniature collection my new range of Brighton seagulls inspired by the naughty Seagulls that fly around my pottery studio.
This little one just needs a place to put up his deck chair and catch the sun rays. Oh and he needs a name. I will leave that to you if you are treating yourself or if he is a gift his new friend can name him.
Deckchair measures 12 cm x z9 cm x 5.5 cm when up.
He is ready to pack his bags and be bubble wrapped and boxed so that he will arrive safely at his new home. Additionally it would be lovely if he could send a photograph of himself in his new home if at all possible.
Thank you for reading about Woofing Fabulous' work. Have a nice day.


"There are all sorts of conspiracy theories and rumours in the gold market as to what's going on," said economist John Adams, who has been on a crusade to find Australia's "missing gold" in a series of videos with Digital Finance Analytics founder Martin North.
The crux of the conspiracy theory, promoted by the likes of Swiss gold trader Egon von Greyerz, is that China, India and other eastern countries are accumulating more gold than can be explained by mining production.
He believes much of it is actually western central banks "covertly disposing" of their gold, or otherwise leasing it to China and India through bullion banks which then "issue an IOU only backed by paper since the physical will never return from Asia".
In response to Mr Adams' videos, the RBA earlier this month added a new page on its website with a series of questions and answers about its gold holdings.
"The RBA's gold is held at the BoE in an 'allocated' account, such that individual bars (with specified bar serial numbers) are attributable to the RBA," it said.
Mr Adams says he still has unanswered questions — but in an email this month, a spokeswoman told him the bank had "no further answers" for him.
Mr Adams said he was "not saying the conspiracy is true or false, I'm only saying 99.9 per cent of it is not in Australia and the RBA can't say why it's prudent we have our gold not physically in the country".
"The gold may be missing or the gold may be there but even if it is there are a lot of Australians who say just bring the gold back," he said.
Speaking at the CEDA annual dinner in Melbourne on Tuesday night, RBA governor Philip Lowe seemed amused at a question from the audience on the topic.
Mr Lowe said the gold reserves were kept in London because "that's where the centre of the gold lending market is". "By (lending) out our gold temporarily we can earn a small incremental return on it and cover some of the costs of holding those reserves," he said.
ABC Bullion chief economist Jordan Eliseo said he came down more on the side of the RBA on the issue. "The Bank of England has been involved in the storage and trading of bullion for a few hundred years now," he said.
With tens of billions traded every day it's a "highly liquid asset". Gold might be leased to miners, someone wanting to short the gold market, or for use in industry.
Rather than where — and if — the gold is stored, Mr Eliseo said the bigger issue was that Australia's gold reserves were too low. "The RBA sold off the vast majority of our gold reserves in 1997," he said.
He argues there is a case for the RBA to start building its gold reserves again.
Referring to the rapid accumulation of gold by China and India nearly equalling total mine production, he said Mr von Greyer was "correct that the number is roughly equivalent" — mines supply around 3000 tonnes a year, or around 30,000 tonnes since 2008.
But it's the citizens of those countries, rather than the central banks, who are "without question the biggest owners of gold". "Citizens see it as the best savings asset," he said.
Mr Eliseo said it "makes sense to own gold" but "not because the world's going to collapse". "We've been valuing gold for 6000 years as human beings, in that time the world hasn't collapsed," he said.


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Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany's richest, publishes accounts revealing $3.8 billion fortune
FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2015 file picture the famous Cologne cathedral is illuminated in Cologne, Germany. The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne has published accounts showing the full extent of its wealth for the first time. Documents posted on its website Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015 show Germany's richest archdiocese had assets of 3.35 billion euros (US $3.82 billion) at the end of 2013. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner.file) (The Associated Press)
FILE - This July 31, 2008 file photo shows a view of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne has published accounts showing the full extent of its wealth for the first time. Documents posted on its website Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015 show Germany's richest archdiocese had assets of 3.35 billion euros ($3.82 billion) at the end of 2013. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, file) (The Associated Press)
BERLIN – The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne has published accounts showing the full extent of its wealth for the first time.
Documents posted on its website Wednesday show Germany's richest archdiocese had assets of 3.35 billion euros ($3.82 billion) at the end of 2013.
Some 2.4 billion euros were invested in stocks, funds and company holdings. A further 646 million euros were held in tangible assets, mostly property. Cash reserves and outstanding loans total about 287 million euros.
In 2013, the archdiocese received 573 million euros from church taxes paid by the 2 million Catholics living in the region around Cologne, famous for its Gothic cathedral.
The publication was prompted by criticism of Germany's Catholic Church in the wake of a recent scandal over the former bishop of Limburg's lavish spending.


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January 15, 2020 PoliticsDr. ESP
WARNING: If your ears are a bit tender, you might want to skip today's post.
During the hiatus between his two marriages, comedian Ron White discovered that stand-up comics also have groupies. He tells the story about an experience in Austin, Texas when a woman approached him after the concert and offered to spend the night with him. He asks, "Why me?" Her reply. "I've f***ed hundreds of guys and not one of them has ever satisfied me. I'm hoping you'll be different." To which White conjectures, "Have you ever thought, MAYBE IT'S YOU?"
White's routine came to mind this morning when the consensus among the hosts and guests on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was none of the six participants in last night's Democratic debate in Des Moines had what might be called a break-out moment. At which point, they next started to question whether any of them demonstrated an ability to take on Donald Trump in the fall. So, to paraphrase White, if you've watched two dozen candidates debate and none has left you satisfied, maybe it's not the candidates, maybe it's the debate itself.
If you wonder why I've stopped watching Chuck Todd, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, or CNN in general in favor of Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace, today is the perfect example. They get it. The six people on the Des Moines stage last night are not running against each other, they want to replace Donald Trump. And yet they continue to let debate moderators frame the format and discussion. The most obvious example was the following exchange between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren about a reported conversation in which Sanders allegedly told Warren a woman could not win in 2020.
MODERATOR ABBY PHILLIP: So Sen. Sanders — Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you're saying that you never told Sen. Warren that a woman could not win the election?
SANDERS: That is correct.
PHILLIP: Sen. Warren, what did you think when Sen. Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?
WARREN: I disagreed. Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie. But, look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised, and it's time for us to attack it head-on.
WTF. Talk about gender bias. I know women often complain, rightfully, that men don't listen to what they have to say, but this proves the offense is not a one-way street. Sanders says, "I didn't say it." Yet, Phillip proceeds as though Bernie had admitted it. If you're going to raise the issue, at least ask an appropriate follow-up such as, "Sen. Warren, how do you feel about Sen. Sanders denying he ever said that?"
How is the Democratic Party permitting this? Trump is in Milwaukee saying whatever he wants for hours on end, and Democratic contenders are given 90 seconds to talk about things that do not matter.
Now listen to how Scarborough assessed the situation. He suggested both Warren and Sanders ignore the question. And shared his experience when he first ran for Congress in 1994. Every time he was asked about one of his primary opponents, he made the question about why the district needed to have someone in D.C. to keep Bill Clinton in check. And by the way, he ended up with 61 percent of the general election vote, flipping the district from blue to red for the first time in 35 years. He went on to say if he had been on the stage, he would have brushed the question aside by stating, "This election is not about any of us. It's about replacing Donald Trump who in the last 48 hours thought it was okay to retweet a racist PhotoShopped picture of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in Muslim clothing. I do not."
If you've not seen TV advertisements produced by Republicans for the Rule of Law (RRL) or by the Lincoln Project, they are examples of how former Republican strategists deliver clear and powerful messages. And fortunately, this year they agree another four years of Trumpism would be a national tragedy.
In "Send a Message to the Senate," RRL shames Republicans who would dare support Mitch McConnell's efforts to conduct a sham impeachment trial. Or the Lincoln Project spot titled, "Cory Gardner-Do Your Job," reminding Colorado voters their Senator would rather defend Trump than the Constitution. McConnell's admission there is no Republican appetite for a dismissal of the charges without a trial, something that was being floated only days ago, suggests these hard-hitting commercials are having an impact on public opinion and a few Republican senators.
Digging deeper into campaign strategy always seems to bring me be back to the idea that political contests are no different than any entrepreneurial venture except the currency is votes, not monetary profits. And as we tell any student who asks how is the best way to make money as an entrepreneur, there is only one answer, "Create value first and the money will follow. You don't need to destroy the competition, you just need to create more value than they offer." In 2020, for me, value is defined as mounting a campaign that brings an end to the Trump presidency. You do not do that by wasting time worrying about the competition or waiting until you win the nomination. You start TODAY if you haven't already, and primary victories and the nomination will be the natural by-products of that value creation.
January 3, 2020 Culture, PoliticsDr. ESP
Campaigns generally end because they run out of money. Candidates fail to garner support and donations for a variety of reasons. But I seem to recall that last summer, when the debates began, Democratic Party pooh-bahs congratulated themselves on how the rainbow array of candidates reflected the racial and ethnic diversity of the party's base. The debate scheduled for Jan. 14 in Des Moines, however, promises to be an all-white affair.
~Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, January 2, 2020
Far be it from me to question the perspective of a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, but when I read Robinson's op-ed titled, "Democrats are starting to look like a 'Whites only' party," I could not believe he had joined the circular firing squad by which Democrats seem to do everything they can to pull defeat from the jaws of victory in November. And I understand one of the nation's preeminent African-American journalists thinks the party should take a second look at the rules which determine who participates in each debate and who does not. But the issue is much bigger than debate rules.
Let me start by reminding readers, I think presidential debates, by their very nature, are a disservice to voters. They are not part of a chief executive's job description. As I have said before, I would prefer the equivalent of moot court. Provide each candidate a situation likely to arise during his/her administration. Then give each 10 minutes to both explain the issue and propose a course of action a la a presidential address to the nation. Being president is not improvisation; it is about well thought out and articulated actions.
But if you are going to have debates, equating the ethnic makeup of the last five Democratic contenders to qualify for the January event as backtracking on diversity seems a stretch. At risk of opening some old wounds in the the struggle for civil rights and social justice, Robinson's words remind me a lot of the debate over quotas versus affirmative action. I hope he is not suggesting the Democratic Party is not committed to diversity unless it requires a person of color be a finalist for its nomination for president. Even he admits that the first debates included several non-Caucasian aspirants. These entrants in the presidential sweepstakes had the opportunity to make their cases. However, for whatever reason, none appear to have "garnered the support and donations" to sustain their viability prior to primary season. There is a difference between a chance and a guarantee.
Yet, I am more bothered by Robinson's implicit definition of diversity. The final five include a self-proclaimed socialist, a progressive and three centrists. There are two women and three males. There is a gay man. They all have different life narratives. And while they may share overarching policy goals, they have presented diverse options by which to achieve the desired ends.
Likewise, assessing commitment to diversity based solely on one person, the president, overlooks what might be a more relevant factor. I doubt Robinson would be satisfied with an African-American or Hispanic chief executive whose cabinet and White House staff consisted mostly of white males (you know, like the one we have now). What if the initial 20-person debate stage was a platform for identifying potential cabinet members and policy advisors? For me, a commitment to diversity means replacing Bill Barr with someone like Kamala Harris (although color is not the only thing that would change). Or Stephen Miller with Julian Castro.
If you believe, as I do, what used to be the Republican Party is now a cult dependent on the whims of one person, Robinson may be right. However, if the goal is a presidency that is representative of the country as a whole the color, gender or sexual orientation of the person at the top becomes less important than the team he or she assembles to govern the nation. The only other option to satisfy everyone is a sexually fluid individual of multiple ethnic origin. Good luck finding one.
January 2, 2020 PoliticsDr. ESP
For those of you holding your breath waiting for Mitt Romney to emerge as the "great white hope" who can bring down the reigning heavyweight (literally and figuratively) champion Donald J. Trump, I hope purple is a good color for you. The accompanying picture comes from the third 2012 debate between Romney and Barack Obama, when the former staked his foreign policy chops on the proposition that Russia was the greatest threat to United States security. Whether he was right or wrong at the time is a debate I will leave to foreign policy experts and historians. However, if you look at the flood of media responses to Russian interference in the 2016 election documented in the indictments of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies as well as the Mueller report, one might think it is a settled issue. Consider the following examples.
"The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years." That, of course, was President Barack Obama's rather lame joke, delivered during the third presidential debate of 2012. He was ridiculing Mitt Romney's assertion that Russia is America's "number one geopolitical foe." The former president has received just derision for his quip, but it was the gullibility of his outlook—and, indeed, that of his fellow progressives—that now appears so foolish and damaging. (Washington Examiner/February 19, 2019)
Madeleine Albright, who served as President Bill Clinton's secretary of state and supported President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, apologized to Romney, then Obama's Republican opponent and now Utah's junior senator, for her repeated criticism of his claim that Russia was the country's "number one geopolitical foe," as he said during the campaign. (ABC News/February 26, 2019)
Romney described Russia as the greatest US geopolitical foe in his 2012 presidential campaign, and was broadly mocked. I was among reporters who should have given it more weight. (Maggie Haberman/NY Times/April 19, 2019)
For argument's sake, assume this revisionist perspective on the 2012 debate exchange is valid. Why does it matter now? Because it raises other important questions. Did Romney's concerns about Russia represent a deeply held concern Vladimir Putin was trying to reassert his nation's Cold War status to the detriment of the USA? Was Romney's pivot away from the ISIS threat merely an attempt to differentiate his global assessment of national security threats from that of the incumbent? Or was it a signal to Republican voters, skeptical of his conservative credentials, that he shared the GOP's then hawkish approach to the successor to the Soviet Union?
Those three question are enigmatic of attempts to figure out who is the real Mitt Romney. In an October 20, 2019 article in The Atlantic titled, "The Liberation of Mitt Romney, McKay Coppins writes of his subject's disagreements with Trump:
These confrontations have turned Romney into one of the most closely watched figures in the impeachment battle now consuming Washington. While his fellow Republicans rail against "partisan witch hunts" and "fake whistle-blowers," Romney is taking the prospect of a Senate trial seriously—he's reviewing The Federalist Papers, brushing up on parliamentary procedure, and staying open to the idea that the president may need to be evicted from the Oval Office.
Oh, really! The presidential contender who once pinned his White House aspirations on his belief Putin and Russia posed an existential threat to America is focused on the Federalist Papers and parliamentary procedure. The man who chastised Obama for IGNORING Russia's global incursions now reserves a harsher condemnation of the current White House occupant, someone who SUPPORTS and ENABLES Russian geopolitical goals by siding with the Putin over the American intelligence community, verbally attacking allies and echoing Russian conspiracy theories.
Mitt, forget procedures and the Federalist Papers. If you still believe Russia is the greatest national security to the United States, you cannot have it both ways. In 2012 you argued Obama's response to the Russian menace disqualified him for a second term. Yet you withhold judgment on Trump. In The Atlantic interview, you tell Coppins, "I don't look at myself as being a historical figure, but I do think these are critical times. And I hope that what I'm doing will open the way for people to take a different path."
Mitt, historical figures do not have the luxury of deciding how they see themselves. In critical times, they do not spend time and energy on self-assessments. They act and others decide their place in the annuls of time. You have a choice. You can either be included among American profiles in courage or worship at the altar of Latter Day Aints.
December 24, 2019 Economics, Politics, ReligionDr. ESP
Call it a seasonal epiphany four and a half years in the making, but late is always better than never. As you are already aware, on December 19, Christianity Today editor Mark Galli declared, "Trump Should Be Removed from Office." And right on cue, the modern day Judases–Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell, Jr.–exacted another down payment on their souls in exchange for proximity to power and past donations from the Trump Foundation. (NOTE: As some commentators have pointed out, Galli's major concern was not the fate of American democracy and values, but the credibility of the evangelical movement. Even if it was self-serving, I learned a long time ago, never criticize someone for doing the right thing, even if their motives are suspect.)
As welcomed as Galli's denunciation of Donald Trump as an immoral human might be, I am afraid his salvo was misdirected. In the age of social media influencers, Galli would have been better served by addressing his remarks, not to the flock, but to the shepherds. How do you expect the minions to understand what they have become when members of the clergy, who weekly preach the gospel to them, remain silent or fail to draw on their own training as pastoral counselors to point out the hypocrisy of evangelical devotion to Trump.
Imagine if Galli had chosen a different tack in which he does not humble the masses, but shames the messengers for abdicating their role as moral influencers. Consider the following as an alternative to the December 19 editorial.
The dilemma of reconciling one's political support and Donald Trump's lack of a moral compass is not a collective one for the evangelical movement, but a personal one for each and every member of your congregation. And one that demands the clergy provide pastoral counseling as we are taught "to mirror the way Jesus cared for people and taught his disciples to do the same."
Make it personal. Ask your congregants, "Would any of you be okay if you came to me for spiritual renewal and I told you Christ is okay with …
satisfying one's lust by committing adultery?
constantly comparing your accomplishments and possessions to others?
expressing anger at anyone who disagrees with you?
equating success with net worth?
indifference to the suffering of others?
bearing false witness to justify your actions?
overindulgence or excessive desire for material goods?
the ends justifying the means?"
Would you call someone who lived their life based on such advice a true Christian? Would you look to that person for leadership or as a role model? I would hope not. But you have.
As Jesus says in Matthew 22:21, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." You can leave governance to our political leaders, but you must never let them become the arbiters of your values. And when they try, you must reject them.
But the evangelical community is not alone. Every day we watch professionals in every walk of life excuse Trump for behavior they know is wrong. The latest example emerged in this morning's edition of our local paper which includes a regular op-ed column titled, "Coach's Corner." The author Howard Pines is a local resident who presents his credentials as follows.
…has more than 30 years experience as CEO, chairman and founder of BeamPines, a premier firm in the executive coaching business.
Today's edition with the title, "Presidential Tantrums," compares Trump to other commanders-in-chief who were known to let off a little steam on occasion. These include (drum roll) George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. Can you say "moral equivalency?" I knew you could. But the icing on the cake comes in the final paragraphs which include the following two sentences.
I believe that Trump's mannerisms are not unique, and if history remains true, his actions to date do not threaten our democracy.
My sense is the real question with President Trump is will he retain a first rate team, and does he have the objectivity and clarity of judgment to not let his emotions color his decisions.
Let's take these one at a time. I do not know what history books Mr. Pines reads but they must not include the evolution of any nation in which fascism emerged as a viable ideological alternative. My history books document how none were more democratic when the dictator who led the movement left office voluntarily or involuntarily.
As for sentence #2, remember Mr. Pines is an executive management coach. Imagine him telling any corporate client, "Don't worry if you've gone through several chiefs of staff, communications directors, department heads. Give it more time. Let's see if it works out. Just keep doing what you're doing." Or after observing the CEO's behavior for three years, making the following report to the board of directors, "I know the boss is a little thin-skinned and sometimes it hurts the bottom line, but he's only been CEO for three years. Maybe he'll grow into the office. And I know you're concerned he hasn't shown you the books in three years. I'm sure he's not hiding anything."
"Galli" gee, I "Pines" for the day when we hold the president of the United States to the same standard we hold the person who sits next to us in a house of worship, the CEO of a major corporation or just the people we call friends.
All You Need to Know, Redux
December 19, 2019 PoliticsDr. ESP
The following post contains the actual transcript from testimony during Tuesday's meeting of the House Rules Committee at which the committee established procedures and time limits for Wednesday's debate on HR 755, Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump. It is the clearest evidence even Trump's staunchest defenders cannot and will not answer the only question that matters.
House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, Democrat from Massachusetts:
Was the president's call with President Zelensky perfect, as the president has said, and was it appropriate for him to ask another country to investigate an American citizen?
Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Doug Collins, Trumpist from Georgia:
I find, there was nothing I, as I said before there's nothing wrong with the call, and when you look at it, and again I frankly, the last…
[extended pause]
The problem we're having right now is exactly the last 15 minutes of this, great oratory on a lot of things that mean nothing to this actual impeachment. I mean we get down to the bottom line here, and and I'll just leave it at that, let him answer that question, I'll get back to it later, because everything has been thrown out here is exactly what the problem we've had in the discussion, I mean this idea of throwing law in fact, we've disproven the fact, we've talked about the law, law didn't broken, it didn't put it in the Constitution so I'm, I can yell on both of them, I can talk about both of them, but the problem we have here is, is this is the very problem we have, and I'll just address one thing before I let it by, or if you want to let me switch right now, I will. I'll give it to him.
In their book All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein referred to similar gibberish as "a non-denial denial." But the more appropriate description comes from Elaine Benes (Julie Louis Dreyfus) of Seinfeld fame, who would have called this "the yada-yada-yada defense."


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