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The Beautiful World of U-Turns
December 12, 2016 OPINION/NEWS
Siddhartha Rastogi
Would Matteo Renzi, outgoing Italian Prime Minister stage a comeback in the next election? Seems like he would give a strong fight to the right wing 5 star movement (M5S) from the trends the Western World is witnessing.
3 Major events shook the Western world in 2016:
Brexit, Trump and No to the Italian referendum
All 3 events saw a unique phenomenon – Abilene Paradox. (A group of people collectively agreeing on an outcome or course of action which is against the preferences or choices of individuals in the group).
Brexit – Immediately after Brexit voices started to be heard for the UK to continue to remain in the European Union. Tony Blair, former Prime Minister, stated the UK is supported by millions of voters who wish to stay back in Europe, or at least have both choices open until they see the final terms of the deal with Europe on the proposed exit. Also, the fear of Scotland's second referendum looms large if the UK ends up exiting the EU.
Trump – Trump scored more delegate votes and hence was voted in power. Immediately after Trump's victory, thousands came out on the streets with effigies burned and objects set alight.
"Not my President", "Love Trump's hate", "Fuck Trump", "Kill Trump", "Global Warming is real", "Hate Won" were some of the placards protestors were displaying. The dust has not settled yet, the Green Party continues to push for the recounting of votes while Trump is busy setting his shop of ministers.
No to the Italian Referendum – Although all political parties in Italy wish to bring electoral reform, responsible in some form for the country's high debt to GDP ratio (133% – 4th highest after Japan, Greece & Lebanon), Youth unemployment (37.10% – 5th highest after South Africa, Greece, Palestine & Spain) and political uncertainty (38 Head of government in last 60 years). Currently the Five Star Movement, M5S, seems to be the only choice as it represents the anti establishment and protest vote. But the challenge with M5S is the lack of governing experience and lack of discipline. Hence sooner, rather than later, the Italians would vote for Mr. Renzi even if he is not voted into power in the forthcoming elections.
What we read above is the effect. The important question is why is it happening and what would be its outcome on political parties around the world?
The answer of Why –
We currently live in a big bad world of lies, fake news, propaganda, social media and finally the SPEED.
Nigel Farage breaking Point poster "The EU has failed us all" – AFP
Fake news on Facebook "Pope's endorsement to Donald Trump"
More jihadi attacks likely in Europe, Europol says. (M5S has hinted for exiting the EU).
All 3 news headlines hit social media just before the event date, creating anxiety and concern for the current establishment. The speed with which news disseminated forced people to vote against, out of fear. By the time sanity prevailed, things had already turned leaving no other choice for voters but to think rationally and try and reverse the decision they had taken.
Another important aspect for voters is that in the polling booths they are alone but are under the constant influence of social media – wechat, snapchat, whatsapp, facebook, twitter, etc. Although they are voting alone and not answerable to anybody, there is still a strong urge to be socially acceptable and conform to the social media groups they are part of and hence taking the anti establishment stance seems to be cool.
An industrial middle aged worker's wife in Indiana whose husband lost work in the last few years wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton even if she wished as collective intelligence makes the Obama administration and hence Hillary responsible for her husband's job loss, Trump bringing the false cult of hope and prosperity again.
Finally, the impact on political parties –
Across the world its politicians are known for their U turns and not fulfilling election promises. Now the time has come when voters will be even more fickle minded and can trigger coups quite promptly overthrowing establishments and governments. The same can be witnessed in the large number of countries embracing multi party coalitions, making the political system even more fragile.
It's high time World Leaders start thinking of the Masses
as even classes will NOT give them enough champagne in their glasses.
Siddhartha was born to a learned middle class educated family in Semi Urban India. His father was an extremely honest man who because of his honesty had to pay the price in corporate world. Mother is a determined woman who ensured that children are being well taken care off. After a few years of birth, doctors called Siddhartha, a slow child having flat foot. He would fall more than he could walk. Determined mother ensured all therapies for her son to come out strong to fight the world. Siddhartha joined swimming when he was in 6th standard. Seeing other children of his class, he jumped in 10 feet deep pool and learnt swimming on his own, the very same day.
From that day there was no looking back. He topped his city in 12th and went to score highest in his B school exams. During his profession as banker, he became youngest branch manager of a MNC bank managing their biggest wealth branch in the country. There he found love of his life and got married. His love of his life emerged in the form of his daughter who completely changed him for good.
Siddhartha Rastogi is Director for a boutique Investment bank in India.
Siddhartha is a forward looking thinker & writer who has written a book on decision making. 8 Simple steps to effective decision making.
He writes on various social and current issues via his blog and can also be found on twitter.
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Pseudo-Jenofonte es la denominación que se le ha dado al autor de un libro titulado La república de los atenienses. Esta obra fue atribuida por algunos a Jenofonte, pero ha sido rechazada por la mayoría de los historiadores, ya desde la Antigüedad. Demetrio de Magnesia ya rechazó la atribución a Jenofonte aludiendo para ello motivos estilísticos y calificando la obra como monótona y torpe. La fecha que suele asignarse a la composición de la obra también es un argumento contrario a la autoría de Jenofonte. Algunos han señalado como posibles autores de la obra a Tucídides el de Melesias, Tucídides, Antifonte y Critias.

Suele admitirse, por diversos indicios que aparecen en el texto, que el autor debió ser ateniense, que escribió desde fuera de Atenas, y que pertenecía al grupo de la oligarquía, pues en la obra se muestra favorable a los nobles. Hay acuerdo entre los historiadores sobre que la fecha de composición debe situarse en una época delimitada por los años 440 y 420 a. C.

Véase también
Constitución de los atenienses

Referencias
 Jenofonte, Obras menores; Pseudo-Jenofonte, La república de los atenienses, pp. 283-288. Madrid: Gredos (1984), ISBN 84-249-0936-1.

Enlaces externos

  Texto griego en el sitio web de la Bibliotheca Augustana (Augsburgo).
 Texto inglés con índice electrónico en el Proyecto Perseus. En la parte superior derecha se encuentran los rótulos activos focus (para cambiar al texto griego) y load (para el texto bilingüe).

Escritores en griego antiguo
Escritores de la Antigua Grecia del siglo V a. C.
Antiguos atenienses

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import scala.concurrent.{future, Future}
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
import scala.util.{Success, Failure}

def print_time(msg: String) {
  printf("%d: %s\n", System.currentTimeMillis, msg)
}

case class NoInventory(sku: Long) extends RuntimeException

def inventoryFor(sku: Long): (Long,Int) =
  if (sku%2 == 0)  (sku,10) else throw NoInventory(sku)

// Hack: uses a mutable list and synchronizes updates.
case class ShoppingCart(customerName: String) {
  var items: List[(Long, Int)] = Nil
  def addItem(sku: Long, count: Int): Unit = count match {
    case 0 =>
    case n => synchronized { items ::= (sku, n) }
  }
  override def toString = s"ShoppingCart(customerName = $customerName, items = $items"
}

val inventories = for {
  sku <- 1 to 5
} yield (future { inventoryFor(sku) })

var cart = new ShoppingCart("John Doe")
inventories.foreach { fut =>
  fut map {  // could also do fut onSuccess
    case (sku, 0) =>
    case (sku, inventory) => cart.addItem(sku, 1)
  } recover {  // could also do fut onFailure. Note that's different than the chaining of "recover" here.
    case NoInventory(sku) => println("No inventory for SKU: "+sku)
  }
}

print_time(cart.toString)

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REVIEW: VALENCIA 1 – DEPORTIVO 1 (LIGA)
Promising game for Deportivo; the Galicians deserved more in the first part and could have lost in the second part. The defence and especially Lux were solid. Lucas scored the first goal on the season.
REVIEW: FABRIL 2 – AROSA 2 (TERCERA)
Fabril dropped two points at the last minute of a game that was decided in four set-pieces. Fair result for two teams that deserved to not lose the game.
PREVIEW: VALENCIA – DEPORTIVO (LIGA)
Depor travel to Mestalla having some injury problems, but hoping to improve its away record. Valencia arrive to the meeting after securing the spot at the Champions League.
VÍCTOR SÁNCHEZ VS NUNO
Depor's coach isn't worried for the last-minute casualties and is also happy with the current team, meanwhile Valencia's manager believes the team won't be affected by the effort done in midweek playing the Champions League.
MATCHDAY 01: NEGATIVE RECORDS
The kick-off of the season 2015/16 had negative records, it was one of the matchdays with less goals since the competition is composed by twenty teams. The half of the teams missed to score a goal.
REVIEW: BOIRO 0 – FABRIL 1 (TERCERA)
Depor B passed one of the most difficult tests on the season with an important victory to open the Tercera campaign. Five lads debuted with the team among them Borja Domingo, who scored the winning goal.
MANU RETURNS TO DEPOR
Asturian keeper Manu Fernández returns to Deportivo. He will cover the temporally casualty of Fabricio. He played for Depor B and the first team between 2007 and 2011.
EIGHT NOTES FROM THE OPENING GAME
Lux's confidence. The roles of Lopo, Mosquera and Lucas. The set-pieces, the lack of a natural left winger. The absence of goal and the ascending status of Celso Borges are the notes extracted from the game against Real Sociedad.
REACTIONS TO THE DRAW AT THE RIAZOR
Despite failing to clinch a victory at home, the coach and the players were satisfied with the final result. Víctor was feeling hopeful with what he saw as the team is still digesting the new concepts and the new players.

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Q: How to join xml and datatable via linq I have a datatable which is holding two columns as 'Name' and 'Value'.
I have xml also which looks like below so I need to join datatable column with XML attribute then select XML Value if attribute value are present in datatable column.
 I have tried many possible ways but none of them helped .
   Please help me how to achieve this with help of linq!
Below is XML code
<Serverlist>
    <server name='Eric' value='9' />
    <server name='Donot' value='92' />
</Serverlist>

Below is code snippet which I have used
XElement xelement = XElement.Load("path");

var data = from dtt in dt.AsEnumerable()
           join xele in xelement.Descendants("server")
           on (string)dtt.Field<string>("Name") equals (string)xele.Attribute("name")
           select new { name =(String) xele.Attribute("name"), value=(string) xele.Attribute("value")};

foreach(var v in data)
{
    Console.WriteLine(v);
}

A: I think you are trying to merge as opposed to join?
Convert them both to Dictionaries (the database list and the xml document). Then merge the two dictionaries together. Good examples are in this thread. for example:
dictionaryFrom.ToList().ForEach(x => dictionaryTo.Add(x.Key, x.Value));
Simple and easy. According to this blog post it's even faster than most loops.

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Another sexual assault suit filed against Charleston Gastroenterology, doctor
By Kyla Asbury | Jan 12, 2017
CHARLESTON – Another lawsuit has been filed against Charleston Gastroenterology Associates and Dr. Steven R. Matulis for alleged sexual assault and deviation from the standard of medical care.
Day Surgery Center was also named as a defendant in the suit.
On Oct. 16, 2015, J.L. presented to Day Surgery Center for an esophagogastroduodenoscopy procedure to be performed by Matulis and assisted by other personnel of Charleston Gastroenterology and Day Surgery Center.
J.L. claims she was administered an anesthetic and was rendered unconscious. She claims without her knowledge or consent, Matulis placed his hands on her or inside her hospital gown and pulled away her hospital gown for the purpose of ogling and/or fondling her breasts.
Matulis made a comment to agents, servants and employees of Charleston and/or Day prior to pulling away her hospital gown, indicating the lascivious and wrongful purpose for removing her hospital gown and the defendants' agents did not intervene to stop the assault, although they had a duty to do so under the circumstances, according to the suit.
J.L. claims the sexual assault was witnessed by one or more agents, servants or employees of Charleston and Day.
Matulis' actions were against J.L.'s will and without her consent, according to the suit. Matulis had sexually assaulted others with the knowledge of the agents, servants and employees of Charleston and Day.
J.L. claims after Matulis' actions against other patients came to life, the defendants did not advise her of her sexual assault and she only discovered it after she was contacted by law enforcement.
Matulis deviated from the standard of medical care and the other defendants breached their standards of care owed to J.L., according to the suit.
J.L. claims she suffered an assault and battery to her body and suffered emotional pain and suffering of a temporary and permanent degree.
The defendants' actions caused J.L. damages and a loss of enjoyment of life, according to the suit.
The case is assigned to Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey.
J.L. is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. She is being represented by Marvin W. Masters of the Masters Law Firm LC.
Earlier this year, a class action lawsuit was filed against Charleston Gastroenterology and Matulis, alleging sexual assault on unconscious women during colonoscopies.
Day Surgery Limited Liability Company was also named as a defendant in the class action lawsuit
In that lawsuit, the plaintiff, known only as Jane Doe, alleged that during a colonoscopy, she was sexually assaulted by Matulis. P. Rodney Jackson of the Law Offices of P. Rodney Jackson represents the class in the class action lawsuit along with Stuart Calwell of the Calwell Practice. Jackson previously said they are expecting the class to be in the hundreds.
Kanawha Circuit Court case number: 16-C-1738
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ClemsonTigers.com caught up with Sammy Watkins after the Clemson football team's bowl practice on Wednesday afternoon. The sophomore wide receiver, who was just named a First-Team All-American by Pro Football Weekly, talked about the award, and what the Tigers need to do as they prepare to face LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Monday, December 31 at 7:30 PM at the Georgia Dome.
Tickets are still available for the game, and can be purchased online at ClemsonTigers.com or by phone by calling 1-800-CLEMSON.


Outbound Long Vest by Toad&Co®: This long vest is made from Outbound Fleece, an exclusive fabric from Toad&Co that's sweater-dressy on the outside yet sweatshirt-comfy on the inside. Center front two-way zipper.
"Not worth the price - Thin material and unlined in such a manner that the item looks unfinished and has the oddest shape - makes you look sort of like a deflated balloon. In the photo, looks like it has a sort of fluffy interior - nope.I would not recommend this product."
"Long vest - Love it but o found it Runs a little small. Had to exchange it for a larger size delivery pending- I recommend this product."


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cask "rekordbox" do
  version "6.2.0,20201014153524"
  sha256 "1afda7e52235a506131607b0e8c22a20818c78643677c36741b27ab804fdada5"

  url "https://cdn.rekordbox.com/files/#{version.after_comma}/Install_rekordbox_#{version.before_comma.dots_to_underscores}.pkg_.zip"
  appcast "https://rekordbox.com/en/download/"
  name "rekordbox"
  desc "Free Dj app to prepare and manage your music files"
  homepage "https://rekordbox.com/en/"

  auto_updates true
  depends_on macos: ">= :high_sierra"

  pkg "Install_rekordbox_#{version.before_comma.dots_to_underscores}.pkg"

  uninstall pkgutil: "com.pioneer.rekordbox.#{version.major}.*",
            delete:  "/Applications/rekordbox #{version.major}"

  zap trash: [
    "~/Library/Application Support/Pioneer/rekordbox",
    "~/Library/Pioneer/rekordbox",
  ]
end


23-point second-half lead disappear, No. 16 Louisville found itself on the brink of another calamity Saturday.
The Cardinals beat visiting Clemson 56-55, but they led by seven with 17 seconds remaining, and the Tigers had two chances in the final seconds to walk off the court with a win.
(18-8, 9-4 ACC) saw double-digit second-half leads evaporate. It was also reminiscent of Virginia's miracle last March, when the Cavaliers scored five points in the final 0.9 seconds to beat the Cardinals.
56-49 lead. Marcquise Reed hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to four, and then the Tigers forced a held ball and a subsequent turnover that led to another 3 by Reed, making it a onepoint game with 3.5 seconds left.
After a Louisville timeout, Jordan Nwora tried to inbound the ball to Dwayne Sutton, who fell. The ball went right to Reed in the lane, but Nwora blocked his driving floater. John Newman III got the offensive rebound, but his fadeaway jumper missed just before time expired.
Elijah Thomas led the Tigers (15-10, 5-7) with 15 points.
RJ Barrett had Duke's first triple-double in 13 years, finishing with 23 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the second-ranked Blue Devils' 94-78 victory over North Carolina State in Durham, N.C.
(23-2, 11-1 ACC) win their ninth straight.
Barrett became the first Duke player with a tripledouble since Shelden Williams in January 2006.


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Commons:Picture of the Year/2011
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Picture of the Year
The Sixth Annual Wikimedia Commons POTY Contest
Thanks for your participation! The 2011 winners have been announced!
Where to? I want to vote · I want to join the committee · I need help
Introduction & dates · Voting · Round 1:
Preparation · Translations · Discussion · Organising committee · Issues / Help · FAQ
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2011
Commons Picture of the Year 2011
#1 – 143 votes in Final; A view of the lake Bondhus in Norway. In the background a view of the Bondhus Glacier as a part of the Folgefonna Glacier. (POTD)
Credit: Heinrich Pniok (Alchemist-hp / pse-mendelejew.de).
#2 – 118 votes in Final; Self portrait of Tracy Caldwell Dyson in the Cupola module of the International Space Station observing the Earth below during Expedition 24. (POTD)
Credit: Tracy Caldwell Dyson (NASA).
#3 – 57 votes in Final; Cueva de los Verdes, Canary Islands, Spain. Reflection on water. (POTD)
Credit: Luc Viatour (Lviatour).
#4 – 54 votes in Final; Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris), Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, Quebec, Canada (POTD)
Credit: Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas).
#4 – 54 votes in Final; Portrait of the common wasp Vespula vulgaris depicting the characteristic head markings. (POTD)
Credit: Tim Evison, from Denmark (Tpe).
#5 – 46 votes in Final; Grandidier's Baobab, picture taken near Morondava, Madagascar. (POTD)
Credit: Bernard Gagnon (User:Bgag).
# 5 – 46 votes in Final; A SNCF TGV Duplex trainset is crossing the Cize - Bolozon viaduct over the Ain river. The viaduct is part of the Haut-Bugey line, which was reopened in December 2010 for TGV services between Geneva and Paris. (POTD)
Credit: David Gubler (Kabelleger / bahnbilder.ch).
#6 – 39 votes in Final; CargoNet Di 12 "Euro 4000" (road number 312 006) plowing through snow drifts at about 100 km/h. The train is an intermodal freight train from Bodø towards Trondheim. The picture was taken on the Saltfjellet between Lønsdal and Bolna, Norway. (POTD)
#7 – 37 votes in Final; Red deer (Cervus elaphus), in Freyr forest, near Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium. (POTD)
#8 – 35 votes in Final; Vicuña, one of two wild South American camelids. In the background the point on the Earth's surface that is farthest from the Earth's center, Chimborazo volcano - Ecuador. (POTD)
Credit: David Torres Costales (Dabit100).
#9 – 34 votes in Final; Animation of the act of unrolling a circle's circumference, illustrating the ratio π. (POTD)
Credit: John Reid (edited version by MGTom).
#10 – 32 votes in Final; Si-o-se Pol, also called the Allah-Verdi Khan Bridge, in Isfahan, Iran. It is highly ranked as being one of the most famous examples of Safavid bridge design. (POTD)
Credit: Reza Haji-Pour (Reza H.).
#11 – 31 votes in Final; Saint Petersburg Mosque. Maiolica of portal, in the form of Muqarnas. (POTD)
Credit: Сподаренко Юрий Степанович (Canes).
#12 – 29 votes in Final; Castle Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany. (POTD)
Credit: Wladyslaw (Taxiarchos228).
#12 – 29 votes in Final; Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting on escobilla, Oaxaca, Mexico (POTD)
Credit: Claudio Giovenzana (longwalk.it).
#13 – 28 votes in Final; A LCVP from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division wading onto Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two thirds of the Company E became casualties. (POTD)
Credit: Robert F. Sargent, Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHoM) of the United States Coast Guard.
#13 – 28 votes in Final; A nearly full moon sets as the space shuttle Discovery sits atop Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 11, 2009. (POTD)
Credit: Bill Inglais (NASA).
#14 – 26 votes in Final; The Atacama Dry lake, in Chile. At the horizon, the Licancabur volcano. (POTD)
Credit: Francesco Mocellin (Home Wiki).
#15 – 25 votes in Final; Eilean Donan Castle, as viewed from the south-east at sunrise. (POTD)
Credit: David Iliff (Diliff).
#16 – 23 votes in Final; A hot air balloon being inflated before air trip over Cappadocia, central Turkey, as seen from inside.. (POTD)
Credit: Benh Lieu Song (Benh).
#16 – 23 votes in Final; Pollination by a bee. (POTD)
Credit: Louise Docker (aussiegall).
#16 – 23 votes in Final; A snowy ski-lift on top of Åreskutan, in Sweden. (POTD)
Credit: Anders Carlsson (andersc77).
#17 – 22 votes in Final; Netherlandish Proverbs, oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (POTD)
Credit: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526/1530–1569) - edited version by Derrick Coetzee (Dcoetzee).
#18 – 19 votes in Final; Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. (POTD)
Credit: Bernard Gagnon (Bgag).
#18 – 19 votes in Final; Two boys at the beach. One is buried in the sand and the other is bending forward while holding the other's head. (Not a photo montage) (POTD)
Credit: Böhringer Friedrich (Böhringer).
#18 – 19 votes in Final; Commons:Picture of the Year/2011/Caption/Grand star-forming region R136 in NGC 2070 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg
Credit: Commons:Picture of the Year/2011/Credit/Grand star-forming region R136 in NGC 2070 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg.
#19 – 18 votes in Final; A Red deer (Cervus elaphus), in Freyr forest, near Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium. (POTD)
#19 – 18 votes in Final; One of the Maid of the Mist tour boats approaching the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. (POTD)
Credit: Saffron Blaze (Flickr).
#20 – 17 votes in Final; El Golfo Beach in Lanzarote, Canary Islands (Spain). (POTD)
#20 – 17 votes in Final; A mountain massif of Flakstadøya island backgrounding the road (Fylkesvei 807) to Nusfjord village, Lofoten, Nordland, Norway in 2010 September. For example, there are such summits as Stjernhauet, Stjerntinden, Bjørntinden and Sautinden either visible or nonvisible due to the cloud situation. (POTD)
Credit: Simo Räsänen (Ximonic).
#21 – 16 votes in Final; Écorché (with mummification) of a horse and his rider, (detail), made between 1766 & 1771 by the french anatomist Honoré Fragonard (1732-1799). Museum Fragonard of the National Veterinarian High School of Alfort, in Maisons-Alfort, France. The technique used is still partially unknown. (POTD)
Credit: Jebulon (French Wikipedia).
#22 – 15 votes in Final; Panoramic picture of Rätikon mountain range in Austria, near the border of Switzerland, with Austrian Alpine Club hut Tilisunahütte on the left. (POTD)
#23 – 14 votes in Final; Broad view of Hurricane Isabel captured from ISS. (POTD)
Credit: Mike Trenchard, Earth Sciences & Image Analysis Laboratory of Johnson Space Center (NASA).
#24 – 11 votes in Final; Mouth of the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska. (POTD)
Credit: Richard Moore (Sbork).
#25 – 9 votes in Final; The Paris business district of La Défense at night as seen from the Tour Défense 2000. (POTD)
Credit: Dimitri Destugues (French Wikipedia).
#26 – 4 votes in Final; The Mona Lisa. (POTD)
Credit: Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) - scanned by C2RMF, edited version by Derrick Coetzee (Dcoetzee).
To the tables with results from the 1st and 2nd rounds, please see this page.
To translate the captions click POTD links of each images.
Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2011&oldid=358004818"
POTY 2011


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Q: php output from mysql to html table currently I'm working on a site uptime search engine however I'm having a silly issue. I want to output more than one mysql row in a table however my code below causes a separate table to be created for each  row thats found. Thank you in advance for your assistance

 $searchTerm = trim($_GET['searchterm']);

 //check whether the name parsed is empty
 if($searchTerm == "")
{
echo "Please enter something to search for...";
exit();
}

//database connection info
$host = "localhost"; //server
$db = "DB NAME"; //database name
$user = "USER"; //dabases user name
$pwd = "PASSWORD"; //password

$link = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pwd, $db);

 $query = "SELECT * FROM sites WHERE name OR des LIKE '%$searchTerm%'";

 $results = mysqli_query($link, $query);

 if(mysqli_num_rows($results) >= 1)
 {

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results))
{
echo '
';
echo"
Name	Description:	Status
";
echo "
";
echo $row['name'];
echo "	";
echo $row['des'];
echo "	";
echo $row['status'];
echo "
";
echo "
";
}

    }
    else
echo "There was no matching record for the name " . $searchTerm;
?>

A: Replace the while inside the if with this:
echo '
';
echo "
Name	Description:	Status
";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results))
{
  echo "
";
  echo $row['name'];
  echo "	";
  echo $row['des'];
  echo "	";
  echo $row['status'];
  echo "
";
}
echo "
";

A: First and last  line of code shoud be out of the loop. The code should be like this:
echo '
';
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results))
{
  echo"
Name	Description:	Status
";
  echo "
";
  echo $row['name'];
  echo "	";
  echo $row['des'];
  echo "	";
  echo $row['status'];
  echo "
";
}
echo "
";


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Q: Emacs: how do you disable auto-recentering? I'm using Emacs on Mac OS and cannot seem to disable auto-recentering feature; it keeps jumping buffer window so that cursor is in the middle of screen. I tried setting "scroll-step=20, scroll-conservatively=200", and it works for a couple of hours and then it starts all over again.

A: In my .emacs I have
(setq scroll-step 1)
(setq scroll-conservatively 10000)
(setq auto-window-vscroll nil)

That seems to work well for me.


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The location of meters differs from property to property but the site manager, owner or facilities contact should be able to show you where your meters are located.
Your business has one of three types of meter, each of which is read slightly differently.
On a standard meter you should record all the digits shown on the display, excluding the digits in red. It's important to include any zeros at the beginning. In the example below the meter reading is 46343.
If you have more than one electricity rate, you'll need to make a note of which meter reading applies to each rate. In the example below the Low reading is 46343 and the Normal reading is 34636.
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Q: Display Encoded PNG I am using Autodesk View and Data API it's items API is returning thumbnail in some form which I am unable to understand how to display this. Following is the string returned from it.
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The above output was received by writing the following code in javascript.
 function getThumbnails(urn) {
        var urnStr = urn;
        if (!urnStr || (0 === urnStr.length)) {
            alert("You must specify a URN!");
            return;
        }
        var urlStr = _baseURL + '/viewingservice/v1/thumbnails/' + urnStr;

        var jqxhr = $.ajax({
            url: urlStr + '?width=150&height=150',
            type: 'GET',
            headers: {
                "Authorization": "Bearer " + getAccessToken()
            },
            beforeSend: startSpinner("spn_viewTranslationStatus")
        })
            .done(function (ajax_data) {
                console.log(JSON.stringify(ajax_data, null, '   '));
                var download = document.createElement('a');
                //download.href = 'data:image/png;'+ajax_data+'';
                download.href = ajax_data + '';
                var r = /\\u([\d\w]{4})/gi;
                var x = ajax_data.replace(r, function (match, grp) {
                    return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(grp, 16)); } );
                x = unescape(x);
                console.log(x);
                download.href = 'data:image/png;'+x+'';
                download.download = 'reddot.png';
                download.click();
                $('body').append('<img src="data:image/png;base64,' + Base64.encode(x) + '"/>'),
                    stopSpinner();
            })
            .fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus) {
                //$("#txt_resViewTranslateStatus").html(ajaxErrorStr(jqXHR));
                stopSpinner();
            });
    }

A: Actually I was receiving a PNG from server and it was not displaying in javascript notation properly so I wrote a curl in PHP
    $ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://developer.api.autodesk.com/viewingservice/v1/thumbnails/urn");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Authorization:Bearer x8KaVvMxZTxliTjYPiBTmpL0JaIC' ));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$out = curl_exec($ch);
$information = curl_getinfo($ch);
//var_dump($information );

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

echo $out;
$fp = fopen('myfile.png', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $out);
fclose($fp);

And it shows the file as PNG completely .

A: You need to save the file on your server and serve it in your html page. If you are accessing the bubble information from the client javascript side, you should be decoding the string and assign it to an IMG tag like below. Basically, you encode the image as a base64 string if it is not yet encoded and set the string as the source of a IMG element:
var imgData ='data:image/png;base64,' + 'my base64 encoded string' ;
$("#myImg").src =imgData ;

(note this format is the same as the CSS format)
Since you image here is unicode encoded, you need to replace \u \b characters with their true representation. You can use this site (2nd converter) to do it, or use the technique explained here.

A: Long story short this looks like someone read the image with readAsText() which mangles ("interprets") binary into utf8, instead of utf16. You need to get the server to return the data in arraybuffer or blob format ideally, or even base64, these preserve binary.
Long version with snippet. (those question marks symbols in the snippet show the lost information, compare it to the binary where they are not question marks in utf16):
https://stackoverflow.com/a/56523118/2962797


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Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) Review, with Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien
Bette Davis Butch
Pat O'Brien The Captain
Lewis Stone
Allen Jenkins Belle
Glenda Farrell Pete
Ruth Donnelly
Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Proof That It's a Pre-Code Film
Since this is a film dealing with the destitute, it's fairly morbid– it opens with Allen Jenkins poking around a mortuary with absolute non-chalance, later talking about the girl he had to put back together like a jigsaw puzzle to discover her identity.
Butch's proposition to the comely Norma, while he's sprawled out on her bed, is pretty on the nose: "Say… how about having breakfast with me in the morning?"
There are also a number of drug references. One girl died in the 'hop joint', and later, when Norma tells Butch something incredible, he yells, "Are you smoking hop?!"
Bureau of Missing Persons: No, Not a Desk
"Then curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to see what I looked like in a coffin."
Running a spritely 72 minutes, Bureau of Missing Persons at times comes across as Grand Hotel for the destitute. Lewis Stone oversees them both– people coming, people going, nothing ever changes.
Don't be fooled by my comparison, though– Bureau has nowhere near the grandeur of the MGM production, and the 'guests' here have even worse track records for happy endings. In fact, I don't believe Lewis Stone ever leaves the office set for the whole film, which feels like a collection of contract players killing a week in the studio. Each is handed strands of vignettes and told to make it and make it snappy. Pat O'Brien, usually a pain in the rear, is halfway charming as a dumb detective who suddenly finds that his wits have some use when he's reassigned to the titular unit.
The Bureau seeks out anyone declared missing, for better or worse. One of the movie's better jags is where it teaches O'Brien's character a lesson. He tracks down a boy prodigy named Caesar Roman who's on the run from his parents and hiding out in a tent on a roof. O'Brien comes in and develops a rapport with the kid– they see a bit of each other as people who want to escape all the pressures put on them by others who just don't understand. It's kind of a relief to see this nowadays– a film advocating a kid running rampant on the streets with friends as an exemplary life choice seems like science fiction by modern parenting standards.
Top-billed Bette Davis swoops in at the 30 minute mark to kick off the main plot, wherein a woman pretends one man is missing where she herself is actually missing– missing because she's on the lam from the cops for a murder rap. Davis and O'Brien have a terse sort of relationship, part because of how close-to-the-vest Davis has to play it (on occasion only to protract the film) and sometimes because it's easy to tell that Davis is better than the material. But the chemistry works, and the movie's incalculable twists and fake outs move with speedy grace.
But despite that being the main thoroughfare, this is a movie far more concerned with mood and getting the most out of its contract players. Glenda Farrell has the most wattage, dancing around a befuddled O'Brien as his husband, often introducing herself with a high pitched "OH BUTCHY WUTCHY!". You also have Allen Jenkins, playing fairly serious, as an investigator who looks at some morbid stuff with a raised eyebrow. Ruth Donnelly and Hugh Herbert get some fun bits as fellow operatives, all the while Stone sits in his office, turning over the troubles of the world in his mind.
The movie is as zippy as you can expect, though its structure sometimes make it seem haphazard. Director Roy Del Ruth gets good use out of the film's black and white, and the movie is directed with an economy– even the car chase at the film's end is punctual in an attempt to get things moving along.
Bureau of Missing Persons is a nice, low-key Warner Bros. programmer that doesn't shy away from the rougher stuff in life. It's really loose– sometimes stuff snakes in and out of the narrative People come, people go. And some just disappear.
Click to enlarge. All of my images are taken by me– please feel free to reuse with credit!
Trivia & Links
TCMDB notes that the film's personality cards were rearranged for a 1936 reissue of the film, putting Bette Davis at the front of the order. Davis wasn't too happy about being in this film, seeing it as a step down from her more substantial role in Ex-Lady:
In Fasten Your Seat Belts: The Passionate Life of Bette Davis, Lawrence J. Quirk quotes from an interview he conducted with Pat O'Brien, who recalled, "in Bureau of Missing Persons, she was… not even 'first among equals' but, shall we say, 'equal among equals,' and it galled her no end. 'This picture is lousy as hell,' she said to me more than once while I tried to kid her into a more mellow mood on the set. I remember that she really blew her top when some stupid fan magazine published an item that she and I were 'that way' about each other and we were both married, and moreover, thought of each other only as friends! Oh, it all got to her all right and I am surprised, in retrospect, that it took her three more years to walk out on the Warners." Quirk also writes that Davis was unhappy with the way she was photographed for the film, that she was "…mightily incensed with photographer Barney McGill, who made her look like two different people in mismatched shots. In some she looked almost matronly at twenty-five yet! and in others seemed eighteen and just out of high school."
Kristina at Speakeasy covered this one recently, and recommends it by saying that, "It feels like a pilot episode for the best pre-Code Naked City series never made."
Mordaunt Hall at The New York Times found the opening a bit distasteful.
Dear Old Hollywood runs down all of the movie's filming locations– and they're still pretty recognizable!
The film's poster (found on eMoviePoster; it sold in 2002 for $1,500) is simple; I like the tagline.
This film appeared in the List of Pre-Code Films.
This film is available on Amazon thanks to Warner Archive.


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Friday 27.04 @ 18:00
Wednesday 25.04 @ 18:00
Man Push Cart tells the story of Ahmad a former Pakistani rock singer who ekes out a living selling coffee and doughnuts to morning commuters from his push cart in Midtown Manhattan, in order to provide a better life for his estranged young son. The routine of his hard life is brightened by two developments: the arrival of a young Spanish woman working in a newspaper kiosk; and an offer of assistance from a wealthy fellow Pakistani, who remembers Ahmad's former life as a rock star.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KRF1EUFdZow
Goodbye Solo
Thursday 26.04 @ 18:00
On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other's is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit.
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/embed/U5IGC59Q9y8
Sunday 29.04 @ 18:00
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar. But when their dream, and their loving relationship, is threatened by the hard truths of life, work, and one another, the children find themselves forced to make the kinds of difficult decisions that most adults never have to face.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/5fUjusA87QI
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What is most rewarding about your life?
On this edition of Entertainment Week with Isabel Webster, Josh Hartnett talks monsters and murders in his new show Penny Dreadful.
Musical theatre legend Elaine Paige joins us in the studio to tell us about her new TV show and why she is hanging up her touring boots.
NEW YORK (WLNY) – Actor Josh Hartnett decided to take a break from Hollywood at the peak of his popularity.
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# Code snippets
Snack-snize and ready to eat pieces of code for you to use.

## MHub in Javascript

```JavaScript
ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:13900');

//subscribe to receive messages
ws.onopen = function() {
    ws.send(JSON.stringify({
        type: 'subscribe',
        node: 'default'
    }));
};

//handle messages received
ws.onmessage = function(msg) {
    console.log(JSON.parse(msg.data));
};

//send messages
function send(ws, topic, data) {
    ws.send(JSON.stringify({
        type: 'publish',
        node: 'default',
        data: data,
        topic: topic
    }));
}
```

## MHub in Nodejs

```JavaScript
var MClient = require("mhub").MClient;

var client = new MClient("ws://localhost:13900");

//subscribe to receive messages
client.on("open", function() {
    client.subscribe("default");
});

//handle messages received
client.on("message", function(message) {
    console.log(message);
});

//send messages
function send(client, topic, data) {
	client.publish("default", topic, data);
}
```

## Mhub in Python

```Python
import websocket
import json

#subscribe to receive messages
def on_open(ws):
    ws.send('{"type":"subscribe","node":"default"}')

#handle messages received
def on_message(ws, message):
    print json.loads(message)

ws = websocket.WebSocketApp("ws://localhost:13900",
                            on_message = on_message,
                            on_open = on_open)

ws.run_forever()

# send messages
def send(ws, topic, data):
    ws.send('{"type":"publish","node":"default","topic":"'+topic+'","data":'+json.dumps(data)+'}')
```

# Tutorials

## Introduction into Development: Chat application in Javascript using MHub
This tutorial provides a brief introduction into developping with MHub using a chat application example.

- [Episode 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfzPSmkNXWI&list=PLm7xyTqWtniElEuRqvtezmdHpEuAGWMj9&index=1): Setting up
- [Episode 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSJUfSS_LM&list=PLm7xyTqWtniElEuRqvtezmdHpEuAGWMj9&index=2): MHub
- [Episode 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQxqZ4bQIM&list=PLm7xyTqWtniElEuRqvtezmdHpEuAGWMj9&index=3): A chat application
- [Episode 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx1VF1vb6eA&index=4&list=PLm7xyTqWtniElEuRqvtezmdHpEuAGWMj9): A GUI for the chat
- [Example code](ep3-js-chat-app-w-mhub): Chat application


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LNP – Steyn rejuvenates Kandy Tuskers
The arrival of Dale Steyn seemed to have rejuvenated Kandy Tuskers as they put up a splendid show to beat the in form Jaffna Stallions in a Lanka Premier League encounter at Suriyawewa yesterday. Steyn had missed six games that Kandy Tuskers had played as he had to spend time in quarantine. He was available for yesterday's game and one of the world's most feared fast bowlers was on the money.
Steyn dismissed Aviksha Fernando in the second ball he bowled and his 'fishing celebration' became an instant hit as the batsman had chased a wide delivery and was caught behind.
Steyn's spell was the quickest by anyone in the competition. He was well backed up by the team's other seamers – Vishwa Fernando and Nuwan Pradeep, who picked up two and three wickets respectively.
It was a fine effort by the bowlers to dismiss Jaffna Stallions for 150 and the run chase was completed with five balls to spare.
Asela Gunaratne, who had picked up two wickets top scored for Kandy Tuskers with an unbeaten 52 that came off 37 balls with seven fours and a six.
At 95 for four in the 14th over, Jaffna had things under control but an unfinished 56 run stand for the fifth wicket between Gunaratne and Irfan Pathan took them through the finish line. Pathan was unbeaten on 25. Interestingly Pathan didn't bowl as he was nursing a groin injury. But he did the job his team required.
Kandy now have a good chance of making it to the semis of the five team competition.
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Victoria, how does your garden grow? As you can imagine from Beckham's stylish procession in understated navy (by her own design), hers is a garden seeded in chic. "I really love flowers, and spending time in my beautiful gardens. I'm lucky enough to have homes with outdoor space, so I've been able to have fun with them and experiment with my gardening over the years," she explains. She describes her gardening taste as "quite classically British," inspired by the historic yet poetic "The White Garden" at Sissinghurst Castle (designed by prolific writer Vita Sackville-West). On both her Cotswolds and London spaces she worked with the "very brilliant" landscape designer Tom Stuart-Smith to achieve a "fresh, and not too fussy" look.
Celebrating her green thumb (concealed beneath those perfectly manicured hands), earlier this year, Beckham opened her prettily curated terrace at Scott's restaurant in Mayfair, working with bespoke floral designer celebre Flora Starkey ("She has this amazing ability to transform space," Beckham says.) Inspired by Beckham's very own gardens, the terrace includes groupings of troughs and cubes, and a dramatic archway, canopying the entrance into the restaurant with scented garden roses and white wisteria. The back walls will have fragrant white roses and clematis climbing up them. Planters along the front of the restaurant will be filled with espaliered fruit trees—"they're so lovely"—creating a delicate screen along the front of the terrace for clandestine meetings be they work or play. "It's very English and seasonal; I'm so thrilled with it," Beckham says. She likes her gardens like her clothes: feminine yet clean.
The surrounding design is a riot of joyous whites: seasonal roses, foxgloves, aquilegia, hostas, delicate geraniums, and acebia. "I know Scott's have never opened their doors for breakfast before, so I feel really honoured that they did so for me, and just thrilled that we could bring three exciting, British brands together for this moment," Beckham says.
"Flowers have a way of brightening up a grey day, or a flat mood, and I think that's what's most important in a garden –it needs to make you feel good!" Beckham says.
1. Keep it authentic to your own taste, and not too manicured. Nonchalance works.
2. Experiment—the great thing about gardening is if something doesn't work you can change your mind. Dig it up and start again.
3. Invest in some nice garden furniture so that in the summer you can sit out and enjoy a glass of wine at the end of a busy day. If you have kids that love to run around and play football, like mine, try to give them their own area of garden to do that in. That way you can enjoy your glass of wine in peace.


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Q: generating armstrong number to nth number in c not working I am trying to generate armstrong number to nth number.So,I have written a code for that,but it is not working.Everytime I input a number like 999 or 10000,it return only 0....can anyone please help me to find out what's wrong with this code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main()
{
    double remainder,n=0;
    int number,sum = 0,q,x,count;

    printf("Enter an integer upto which you want to find armstrong numbers:");
    scanf("%d",&number);
    printf("\nFollowing armstrong numbers are found from 1 to %d\n",number);

    for( count = 1 ; count <= number ; count++ )
    {
        q = count;
        x = count;
        for(;x != 0;)
         {
          x =x / 10;
          n = n + 1;
         }
        while(q != 0)
        {
           remainder = q % 10;
           sum = sum +(pow(remainder,n));
           q = q / 10;
        }
        if ( count == sum ){
        printf("%d\n", count);
        }
        sum = 0;
        }

   return 0;
}

A: You have to initialize n to zero inside the loop for count. And take care of proper rounding of the result of pow by for example adding 0.5 to it.


Iran and Iraq shelled and bombed border cities and towns Thursday in an all-day series of attacks and counterattacks that defied an eight-month-old agreement to prevent assaults on civilian areas.
"What Iraq has done so far is nothing but a very small portion of its potential," said an Iraqi military spokesman as the 4 1/2-year-old conflict worsened. Iran, meanwhile, vowed to "turn Iraq into a hell of fire and devastation."
The attacks by both Iran and Iraq appeared to be the heaviest on civilian targets since June, 1984, when the United Nations mediated an agreement between Baghdad and Tehran to spare civilian targets.
Radio and news agency reports monitored in Beirut said that Iraqi warplanes and artillery attacked the Iranian cities of Dezful and Abadan and that Iran shelled the Iraqi port of Basra and the town of Mandali.
The Baghdad command said its aircraft launched dozens of sorties against Iranian positions and also attacked a ship near Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal in the Persian Gulf.
Seventeen people were killed and at least 123 wounded in Iran, according to Iran's official news agency.
Iraq gave no specific casualty reports, but in a letter to the U.N. Security Council, Foreign Minister Tarik Aziz said there were "a large number of casualties among the civilian population" in Basra. He also claimed that Iraqi forces were hitting only non-civilian targets.
Western reporters are generally barred from the war zones, and there was no way to independently verify casualty reports. There was also no confirmation of the Iraqi attack on the Persian Gulf ship.
Air strikes and artillery barrages continued into the night despite an appeal Wednesday by U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar for Iran and Iraq to stop the killing and the threats.
Iranian artillery shelled Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, on Thursday morning and again later in the day. The attacks on Basra and Mandali, in the central sector of the border region, were confirmed by Iraq's state-owned media and Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency.
An Iranian statement said Iraqi aircraft twice attacked the port city of Abadan, across the Shatt al Arab waterway from Basra, killing nine people and wounding 48.
Iran also reported eight missile attacks by the Iraqi army on the town of Dezful, 50 miles inside Iran's southern front with Iraq.
An Iraqi military spokesman said the attacks on Dezful and Abadan were part of Baghdad's promised retaliation for Iranian attacks on Iraqi settlements, including Basra, which Iran shelled Tuesday evening. Iraq earmarked 30 Iranian towns and cities Wednesday for its retaliation.


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SNAP: "Help us get alleged abuser out of classroom"
SNAP: "Help us get alleged predator out of classroom"
Victims appeal to Bridgeport bishop
"He's left 15 priests off his accused list," they say, "including 11 who taught at Fairfield Prep."
Despite settlement paid, ex-CT cleric now teaches school in NJ. CT's 5-yr Statute of Limitations prevented criminal charges.
Group says Catholic officials must "beat the bushes" to find more victims
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will disclose names and information about 15 publicly and credibly accused child molesting clerics who worked in and around Bridgeport but have been left off the list published by the Bridgeport diocese.
They will also challenge Bridgeport's bishop to
--add these 15 names to his official 'accused' list,
--include photos, whereabouts and work histories of ALL accused clerics, and
--help education officials oust a former Bridgeport predator priest who is now a teacher.
Monday May 13 at noon
On the sidewalk in front of the Catholic Center, 238 Jewett Avenue, Bridgeport, CT
Two-three SNAP Survivors and supporters
1) Just over a week ago, a New Jersey media outlet disclosed that education officials lost their bid to oust teacher Joseph Michael DeShan, who as a Bridgeport, CT diocesan priest abused and impregnated a teenage girl in a church youth group in 1989. The abuse allegedly started when she was 14, according to news reports in Connecticut newspapers.
Defrocked in 1999, he's been teaching in Cinnaminson NJ since 2002 (though he was temporarily put on leave twice). No criminal charges could be brought because of CT's Statute of Limitations. A civil lawsuit against him was settled in 2003.
For the safety of kids, SNAP is urging Catholic officials in both Connecticut and New Jersey to use pulpit announcements, church bulletins, parish websites and other resources to "aggressively seek out others who may have seen, suspected or suffered DeShan's crimes, so he might be charged, convicted and kept away from kids."
"If he is accused by others, he'll at least be suspended and kids will be less vulnerable," SNAP says.
DeShan earns $85,624 a year as a 6th grade reading teacher, according to state records.
2) In 2015, the Bridgeport diocese posted a list of credibly accused abusive clerics which was recently updated with additional names. But SNAP has discovered and is disclosing 15 more names that were not included in the update.
One priest faces several allegations, and the rest were deemed "credibly accused abusers" by church supervisors. SNAP urges Bishop Caggiano to warn the public.
PUBLICLY ACCUSED BRIDGEPORT PREDATOR PRIESTS, some of whom are "whereabouts unknown."
--Fr. Robert Post faces multiple allegations, one from a student at Blessed Sacrament HS in New Rochelle, NY, where he was the principal. In 1965, Fr. Post belonged to the (Irish) Congregation of Christian Brothers and in 1982 was ordained a priest in Bridgeport. He worked in Canada, Italy, New York and at least six Connecticut towns (Bethel, Darien, Stamford, Bridgeport, Norwalk and Danbury). As of 2016, Fr. Post may be living at the Keefe Queen of the Clergy Retired Priests' Residence, Stamford,CT
https://www.andersonadvocates.com/PriestList/395/Father-Robert-C.-Post.aspx
The following men are all Jesuits who are on the religious order's Dec. 2018 official 'credibly accused' list of abusers:
--Fr. William B. Cahill worked in Michigan, Maine, Massachusetts and in Pomfret, CT. He was at Fairfield Prep, 1947-49. He died in 1986 after a 43-year career.
https://image.jesuits.org/NYKNENPROV/media/Jesuits_Northeast_03.26.19.pdf
--Fr. Robert Cornigans, who worked from 1976-1978 at Boston College High School in Boston and from 1979-1980 at Fairfield Prep in Fairfield. His whereabouts are unknown.
--Fr. William Cullen, who worked in three Massachusetts towns (Boston, Fall River and Charlestown) and two Connecticut towns (from 2000-2005 at St. Thomas More in Oakdale, from 1979-1988 at Fairfield University and from 1989-1990 at Fairfield Prep). He died in 2010.
-Father Joseph Dooley, worked at Fairfield Prep, 1951-54, and at high schools in Boston and Maine. He also worked in a parish on the island of Jamaica. He died in 1983.
-Fr. Francis Ennis, who spent time in at least three Massachusetts towns and in three Florida town towns. In 1965-1966, he was at Fairfield Prep. He died in 1985.
-Fr. Joseph Fox, who worked in three Massachusetts towns (Chestnut Hill, Boston and Worcester) and from 1943-1945 at Manresa in Norwalk. He died in 1988.
--Fr. Joseph Laughlin, who worked in Maine, at least four Massachusetts towns (Boston Athol, Middleboro and Lakeville) and from 1951-1952 at Fairfield Prep. He died in 2013.
--Fr. Philip Moriarity, who worked in three Massachusetts towns (Boston, Fall River and Concord) and from 1951-1953 at Fairfield Prep in Fairfield. He died in 1974.
--Fr. George McCabe, who worked in four Massachusetts towns and from 1957-1960 at Fairfield University and from 1960-1965 in Ridgefield CT.
--Fr. Eugene J. O'Brien was principal of Fordham Prep, 1960-80 and of Fairfield Prep, 1983-85. He also worked in Pomfret CT, and in MD, NJ, DC, and NY.
In 1997, the Jesuits, the New York archdiocese, and Fordham Prep settled for $25,000 a suit alleging that O'Brien sexually abused a boy in the early 1970s. He died in 2019.
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/assign/OBrien_Eugene_J_SJ.htm
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2009/09_10/2009_10_15_Reilly_JesuitsDiocese.htm
-Father Leo Pollard worked at Fairfield Prep, 1945-50, and at high schools in several Massachusetts towns between 1941 and 1997. He died in 1999.
-Father Edmund Power worked only at Fairfield Prep, 1962-65 and 68-76. He died in 1976.
-Father James Pratt worked at Fairfield Prep, 1981-82, and in NY, MA, TN and Italy. His whereabouts are unknown.
-Father James T. Sheehan worked at Fairfield Prep in Fairfield, CT 1953-56 and at high schools in MA. He admitted abusing a minor. He died in 2008.
Contact: Gail Howard, SNAP Connecticut (ghowardncc@gmail.com, 203-644-0387), Beth McCabe, SNAP Connecticut (bethmccabe@comcast.net, 860-335-8187), Zach Hiner, SNAP Executive Director (zhiner@snapnetwork.org, 517-974-9009)
(SNAP, the Survivors Network, has been providing support for victims of sexual abuse in institutional settings for 30 years. We have more than 25,000 survivors and supporters in our network. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)


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On Eton tragedy's first anniversary: Group urges Aquino to show muscle vs labor rights violators like Eton
Reference: Anna Leah Escresa, Justice for Eton 11 Network co-convenor, 0908-864-2151
Blog: http://www.eton11.tumblr.com
On Eton tragedy's first anniversary:
Group urges Aquino to show muscle vs labor rights violators like Eton
Families and supporters of Eton Residences construction workers, who died in a gondola plunge last year, trooped to the accident site in Makati City today to call for justice on the first anniversary of the tragedy and to pin down Eton and its contractors for their liability over the tragedy. [Photos of the picket attached]
Led by the Justice for Eton 11 Network, the group also expressed dismay over the Aquino government's failure to go after companies which are compromising health and safety and undermining job security.
"If President Noynoy Aquino can use his executive whip against corrupt officials in the bureaucracy, why can't he do the same to big labor rights violators like Eton Properties? Why can't he push for a thorough investigation against these anti-labor companies, just like what he is pushing against Chief Justice Renato Corona at the moment?" asked Anna Leah Escresa, Justice for Eton 11 Network's co-convenor.
"The Eton tragedy is about lost lives of highly exploited workers. Why is it not enough for the government to show its muscle against Eton and its contractors?" she added.
On Jan. 27, 2011, 10 construction workers died while another one was seriously injured after a gondola they were riding crashed from the 28th floor of the condominium owned by Eton Properties Philippines Inc., the real estate arm of tycoon Lucio Tan.
It was found out that that the workers were earning poverty wages (P270/ day), and were denied job security as they were employed by Eton via multiple subcontractors.
Escresa noted that what the labor department did was to only facilitate health and safety trainings among Eton Residences workers following the tragedy. No one was held accountable for the gross neglect of labor standards on occupational health and safety and decent work.
"President Aquino's indifference towards the Eton tragedy has spawned a climate of impunity in work sites. Following the tragedy, we have seen a string of striking work accidents which killed and injured dozens of workers," Escresa said.
The group cited the following accidents as proof: the accident in Keppel shipyard in Subic, Zambales last October which killed six workers; the construction accidents in Megaworld in Eastwood and SM General Santos City; and the landslide in Compostela Valley early this year which killed more than 30 miners.
"As long as no one is held accountable for these grim accidents, the long list of victims will grow longer by the day. Justice will remain elusive to workers," Escresa concluded.


So, today I turn 35.
It feels weird to even write that. In my head, I vacillate somewhere between being mid-teens and mid-twenties. I have these moments where I just kind of sit back and am totally surprised at the fact that I'm an actual adult, with degrees and a kid.
It's just past midday and I have done pretty much nothing productive. I will settle down and get some work done while the kidlet naps, though. I have been attacked by a short story, and I have a deadline for the anthology I want to submit it to. Not sure if I'll make it, but I'm damn well going to try.
I haven't been blogging much (especially here at the website) of late, because I've been pretty much in survival mode. We discovered that one of the medications I'd been put on for my arthritis was damaging my liver. I've been off it for almost a week now, and holy crap, I didn't realise how awful it was making me feel. It was helping the arthritis, but everything else was awful. I need to get retested to see if my liver is bouncing back (which I think it is, bless that regenerative organ), and I shall never ever be touching that class of drugs again. The good news is that I've been actually able to start exercising properly again, which also means that I've been sleeping decently without needing medication. Huzzah!
Anyway, I am going to issue myself a challenge: to blog here every day for the next year. Which means that there are probably going to be few long, involved posts (but I do hope to do some of those, too!). I have a huge stack of blogging projects I want to tackle: more "Not a Reviews", blogging reading my way through the Hugo shortlists, and more Her Words and Worlds (I also need to repost my Kirstyn McDermott version of this). And there will hopefully be photos, and probably lots and lots of rambling.
On with the next year, I say. I think it's going to be a good one.
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John brings a wealth of experience to crafting a thoughtful policy agenda as a senior advisor to Councilmember Blumenfield having worked for him for over ten years. His duties include running the policy agenda for the office; overseeing the legislative staff; supporting the chief of staff in team management; being the primary liaison between upper management in the City and intergovernmental offices; serving as Councilmember Blumenfield's alternate on boards such as the Upper Los Angeles River Working Group and the San Fernando Valley Council of Governments; coordinating district projects including new parks; and staffing Chair Blumenfield on the Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee.
John worked for then Assemblymember Blumenfield during his five years of service in the State Assembly. He previously worked as an on-air personality for KDES 98.5 FM in Palm Springs and the Los Angeles Kings Hockey Club.
John is a native of Ottawa, Canada, however, his cousins settled in the Third District in the mid-1950s. He lives in the West San Fernando Valley with his wife, Denise, and their two children, Zoe, and Jack.
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Vote for the Best Professional Landscape Project in the Gardenista Considered Design Awards
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Our judges have selected the finalists; now it's up to you to choose the winners. Vote in each of the 17 Considered Design Awards categories, on both Gardenista and Remodelista. You can cast your vote once a day in each category, now through August 8.
For Best Professional Landscape Project, our five finalists are: Adam Woodruff & Associates, Arterra Landscape Architects, McCullough's Landscape & Nursery, Terremoto, and Mary Barensfeld Architecture.
Adam Woodruff & Associates | Girard, IL | Jones Road
Design Statement: I strive to connect my clients to nature and the larger landscape while creating a rich, evocative experience for them. Jones Road is one such example. My clients, a middle-aged couple with grown children, were in the midst of a house renovation when they engaged me to design the landscape of their rural property. Their bi-level home sits on a ridge with views of pasture, timber, and a meandering creek. They requested a design that would be sensitive to the borrowed landscape and not disrupt their views. I imagined a grand, stylized prairie enveloping the house to complement the pastoral setting.
The property was largely turf, with few trees and an existing pool surrounded by a poured-concrete patio. The grade abruptly dropped off along the back of the house. Consequently, an entire hillside had to be moved and soil repositioned to accommodate expansive new beds. The bold move improved aesthetics and overall functionality. The new garden seamlessly blends the wild and the domestic, bringing pollinators, birds, and wildlife to the doorstep. Grasses form the foundation of this naturalistic design, a matrix through which shrubs, perennials, natives, and bulbs emerge. The feeling is spontaneous and natural.
Chosen by: Guest judge Flora Grubb, who says, "The garden at Jones Road doesn't so much borrow the surrounding landscape as collect it. The plantings near the house evoke the spirit of the long view, but with an intensified palette that remains prairie-subtle and intoxicating."
Above: The house is situated on a ridge with views of pasture, timber, and a meandering creek. The clients requested a design that would be sensitive to the borrowed landscape and not disrupt their views. I imagined a grand, stylized prairie enveloping the home.
Above: Plants are artfully woven together to ensure a diverse and visually dynamic display with good bloom succession and seasonal interest.
Above: An entire hillside had to be moved and soil repositioned to accommodate expansive new beds.
Above: Patinaed sculptures of bronze and brass are recent additions. Their graceful forms enhance the grassy garden, providing year-round focal points and adding a touch of whimsy.
Above: Regrading improved aesthetics and overall functionality. The new garden seamlessly blends the wild and the domestic, bringing pollinators, birds, and wildlife to the doorstep.
Arterra Landscape Architects | Tiburon, CA | Painterly Approach
Design Statement: Panoramic bay views drew our client to this house on a steep hillside bordering a sweeping grassland. During initial construction, the building foundation wall had been improperly waterproofed and the cross slope was graded ineffectively, which resulted in extensive damage to the lower level of the house. Years later, when the damage was discovered, we were brought in to correct the drainage issue, protect the repaired foundation, and create a dynamic garden space for the family. We designed a sinuous grass swale that winds down the slope, cutting the cross-flow toward the house and creating the opportunity for a romantic, meandering pathway to an informal sitting area on the way to the pool.
Chosen by: Flora Grubb, who says, "This bold and colorful hillside garden composed of workhorse plants looks lush while being water-wise. Transcending its components, the space is both inviting and exciting."
Above: The grass swale weaves through the masses of plantings and diverts water away from the house.
Above: The plantings are deer-resistant, which means that we didn't have to cut off the rolling hills with a fence.
Above: Drought-tolerant, low-maintenance Mediterranean plants attract hummingbirds and bees, providing nectar and habitat.
Above: Along the path we nestled a cozy sitting area, perfect for relaxing with a glass of wine and taking in the panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay.
Above: The warm-colored plant palette was a conscious choice to counter the cool breezes and saturate this hillside canvas with painterly sweeps of fiery color.
Above: We're happy the clients can now enjoy their view.
McCullough's Landscape & Nursery | New Albany, OH | Woodland Estate Garden
Design Statement: This residence is nestled within a forest of mature trees. A master plan was created and implemented over the last five years and will continue to grow. The project includes a kitchen garden, woodland paths, restoration of native undergrowth, and planting large sweeps of perennials.
Chosen by: Gardenista Editor-in-Chief Michelle Slatalla: "This project celebrates old and new equally, gracefully marrying the tall trees with edible beds."
Above: A vantage point leads through the woods to an artist studio.
Above: The kitchen garden includes boxes and stock tanks.
Above: A Corten garden structure leads from the driveway to the dining area.
Above: Planters surrounding the pool area.
Above: Woodland plantings.
Above: A perennial bed surrounding the pool.
Terremoto | San Francisco, CA | Post-Punk San Francisco Landscape
Design Statement: This Pacific Heights landscape is the manifestation of a desire to create a garden that is neither a facsimile nor a refutation of the horticultural vernacular of the Pacific Heights area, but rather, a distillation of its best architectural and botanical qualities.
Chosen by: Michelle Slatalla. "The versatility of poured concrete as a hardscaping material–and unifying theme–pulls this garden together."
Above: Formed, poured-in-place concrete walls of a light color climb the hill, retaining the hillside and guiding the user's ascent through the space. A densely planted row of Thuja plicatas provides privacy from the neighbors above.
Above: A mosh pit of English boxwood, Australian tree ferns, white roses, purple-flowering magnolias, and assorted vegetables both challenges and acknowledges the strong horticultural vernacular of the Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Above: We threw a party, and it was a fantastic party.
Above: Horticulturally inspired cocktails and conversation.
Above: A Japanese cedar soaking tub wrapped in vegetation brings you to the second level of the project. Black trellises frame the property's edges.
Above: Layering ornamentals (boxwoods) with edibles (artichokes and tomatoes) provides for interesting juxtapositions, both in texture and convention.
Mary Barensfeld Architecture | Berkeley, CA | Hilgard Garden
Design Statement: Hilgard Garden aims to provide the owners with an extended outdoor living space; a garden room. Sandwiched between the neighboring townhouses' rear yards, the site consists of a plot of land 23 feet wide by 50 feet deep, with a 17-foot elevation change. The owners' desire for outdoor seating and an entertaining area close to the house, plus an accessible seating area at the top of the site, drove the project program.
Due to the steep slope, reaching the upper seating area requires navigating a considerable elevation change. To avoid taking up a large swath of the smaller backyard square footage with a conventional stairway, a ramping meandering path through aromatic ground cover and the outstretched limbs of sculptural Japanese maples was selected.
The 400-square-foot lower patio area, located on the same level as the living room, provides the clients with a seamless extension of their living space for relaxation and entertaining. It aspires, in the classic modernist sense, to be the new living room of the townhouse. Upon entering the house, one's eye is drawn through the glass living room doors and out to the garden's reflecting pool and three sculptural Japanese maples. At night, the back-lit triangular steel panels' LED lights further draw your attention towards the 60-square-foot upper terrace seating area and its views over the East Bay and San Francisco.
Chosen by: Flora Grubb. "The architecture side of landscape architecture in the Hilgard Garden makes the space. In the manner of earth art or the best public plazas, the multifaceted walls create places to perch, wander, admire views, and yet still soak up the pleasures of nurturing plants."
Above: The weathering steel screens on either side of the garden are for privacy.
Above: Hilgard Garden aims to provide the owners with an extended living space; a garden room.
Above: A ramping meander to an upper terrace.
Above: The water-jet-cut patterns on the steel plates provide transparency while allowing the wind and the green of the bamboo to filter into the space.
Above: The upper terrace, with views of San Francisco Bay.
Above: LED backlit Corten panels at dusk.
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