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Tragedy in Sri Lanka, Impeachment (?), Butterfly Update, Immigration Solution, Two Great Columns and a Song to Sing
Sri Lanka Massacre … Echo of Outrageous Behavior in the Name of God
There's nothing wrong with believing in God in whatever manner one chooses. Organized religions offer a vast menu of choices in ways to do this. Even available is a basic belief in some sort of original "power" or "creator" of the universe in which we live, or even the denial of the existence of any deity whatsoever, which in itself can be a kind of faith.
Muslim extremits attacked churches
in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing hundreds of people
But one thing is for certain. "God" … or whatever religious choice one may make … does not sanction, approve of, authorize nor welcome acts of violence by its believers against those who believe other than the way they do. Anyone's "God" is a creator and not a destroyer!
And going a bit further, "clergy" (if one's "faith" has such leaders) should tend to their own flocks and out of respect for what others believe (or choose not to believe), should not criticize nor attempt to convert them. That too can lead to violence on the part of their followers! Parts of any "holy" books which say otherwise are to be condemned and that includes parts if the Bible and of the Koran.
Certain passages, despite any historical religious significance they might have, do not have pertinence today. Clergy should take note of this and have the courage to say it. If they do not, they share the guilt of perpetrators of those acts, who, whatever faith they profess to follow, represent evil, and this is doubly so when that belief is tied to or masks a secular cause.
Impeachment – Fuhgeddaboudit!
It is a certainty that the Democrats have enough votes in the House of Representatives to pass Articles of Impeachment regarding the President. All that is required there is a simple majority. In the Senate, however, a two-thirds vote is needed to convict the President, finalizing his removal from office. That means that, assuming all 45 Democratic Senators and the two Independent Senators vote to convict, at least 20 more votes are needed.
These 20 votes would have to come from among the 53 Republican Senators. Twenty-two of these Republican seats are up for re-election in 2020. Therefore, it is very safe to assume that fact eliminates their 22 votes because, in their re-election races, these Senators will not give up the votes of Trump supporters in their states.
That leaves 31 Republican Senators, none of whom are up for re-election in 2020, from which to gather the 20 additional votes needed for impeachment. Most are strong conservatives, blindly loyal to their party, and highly unlikely to support impeachment. Therefore, any talk of impeachment by Democrats is a waste of time and energy. A simpler road to getting rid of "Cheatin' Donald" would be his defeat at the polls in 2020,
and his eventual criminal indictment once his cloak of Presidential immunity is removed. Material in the Mueller Report is sufficient for that.
(The only way that this picture might change, moving at least 20 G.O.P. Senators to join with the Democrats in voting for impeachment, is for upcoming Congressional hearings to reveal hitherto unknown behavior and acts on the part of "Cheatin' Donald" so reprehensible and indefensible that even Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham and most of all, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, will become strong advocates of impeachment. That is extremely unlikely. Don't bet on it happening.) So, Fuhgeddaboudit!
Meanwhile, Democrats should concentrate on those issues which can make things better for most Americans:
1. better health care,
2. better educational opportunities,
3. better job opportunities,
4. better consumer protection,
5. better financial oversight of money matters,
6. tax reform to preserve Social Security and Medicare, and
7. repairing and improving our nation's infrastructure to provide better transportation, roads, power, water and recreational options.
As for "Cheatin' Donald," who is now busy figuring out how to obstruct Congress, and get the courts to go along with him (a distinct possibility), it's best to "Fuhgeddaboud – him" and concentrate on the paragraph in blue directly above. Attacking him is like punching a pillow. He is insulated by his lies and those of his acolytes.
Two Excellent Times Columns - Krugman and Dowd
Back on April 18, the New York Times included a column by Paul Krugman which poked at the heart of what is increasingly becoming the crux of a problem in our economy, the inequality in the distribution of our nation's wealth. When the owners of a company have an income far in excess of 300 times what his or her typical employee earns, it is time to start worrying. (And what is worse, I might add, is when the business involved is one dealing in "money" such as banking or investments, rather than in the goods or non-financial services which add to the nation's wealth. All they do is merely manipulate money.) Although Krugman doesn't go that far, (which I do) I believe such inequities ultimately feed revolutionary sentiments, for better or for worse, among the population. They are the fuel which drives the rise of despots. Read this column by CLICKING HERE:
And now that you're into "clicking" on links, take a look at Maureen Dowd's April 20 New York Times column, in which she praises former White House Counsel Don McGahn for telling the truth about Donald Trump in the Mueller Report but also points out that he was instrumental in guaranteeing decades more of a conservative, anti-regulatory, Supreme Court by promoting Gorsuch's and Kavanaugh's appointments to the Court. The moral, if any, I might add, is "be wary of Republicans, even ones that might occasionally behave honestly." CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE.
News from the Butterfly Garden
While there has been little resurgence of the beautiful Monarch butterflies, which are having trouble nation-wide, other species are now appearing occasionally in the garden. The key is having the "host plants' there on which they can lay their eggs, producing caterpillars which eventually molt into cocoons and finally, burst open, releasing the butterfly. I've seen many Monarch caterpillars, but few if any reach the butterfly stage, even after voraciously devouring the leaves from my milkweed, their host plant.
But otherwise, here's the story:
Two of my Sulphur
Butterfly Caterpillars
My passionflower (passiflora suberosa and passiflora incarnata) vines have been successfully hosting gulf fritillary and broadwing zebra butterflies. The dutchman's pipevine is occasionally hosting the black, yellow fringed polydamas swallowtail butterfly. Finally, the senna (cassia) bush I put in a few months ago has successfully hosted the garden's initial appearance of the orange-barred sulphur butterfly's caterpillar and one has actually produced a beautiful butterfly seen last week in the garden (or perhaps she was a visitor, attracted by the plant, and which laid the eggs from which the caterpillars hatched).
My Southern Border Solution
Have you read about the private armed militias patrolling the Southern border and actually capturing refugees seeking asylum? This is crazy. It's time to repeal the Second Amendment and arrest these apparently well-financed nut jobs who feel it justifies their taking the law into their own hands. If you examine what their leadership says, theoretically, they are willing to militarily oppose the Government of the United States when they disagree with its policies. They believe the Constitution allows them to do so. They are criminals. And while on the subject of the Southern Border, here is my take on what has to be done to handle the immigrant crisis there, and it cannot be denied that there is one.
Historically, with some notable exceptions, the United States welcomes those seeking asylum from a country where their lives and existence are in danger. Many approach our Southern border for that purpose. Some wait in line at legal points of entry to state their case for asylum and others request asylum when captured by our Border Patrol entering elsewhere. I believe those in the latter category should be moved to legal points of entry and instructed to wait in line behind those already there.
Immigrants in line at Southern border entry point
Solution rests with Congress
To expedite this process, Congress must allocate the funds necessary to establish and staff many more additional facilities to promptly process those seeking asylum and appoint the many additional judges needed to hear their pleas and adjudicate their cases. This entire process should take no more than a week; therefore, reasonable facilities (not jails nor cages) for temporarily housing these immigrants during that period need not be extensive.
Of course, families should not be separated, and immigrants should not, as is the present practice, be admitted pending a court date, which might be months if not years away. Often, once admitted, they disappear into our population and are lost track of. No more than a week in a comfortable holding facility is not too great of an imposition to ask of these immigrants.
At points of entry other than on our Mexican Border, this process is much quicker and does not require housing, and ultimately, that is the way it will be there too, once entry facilities are expanded. Historically, immigrants waited for admission at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, and before that, at Castle Garden, so a week's delay at our Southern border should not be a great imposition. But Congress must act quickly with the funding to expand the physical, staffing and judicial aspects or our immigration process. Delay only makes the problem worse.
The cost of doing this properly would be much less than the cost of building and maintaining walls or fences along our borders, the effectiveness of which is questionable. (Claims of the successes of the walls in Israel and the cold-war wall in Berlin are not good comparisons. They were in mostly urban settings. Our Southern border is mostly rural, desert and mountainous.)
Finally, our government should attack the reasons these immigrants are seeking asylum through humanitarian and diplomatic means in the countries from which they come, and all of the above ideas should be promoted on a bi-partisan basis in Congress.
A Musical Interlude
Here are the lyrics of a song I heard the other evening. It is reminiscent of the kind of folk music with political messages popular in the middle of the last century:
The Ballad of "Cheatin' Donald"
Sung while strumming a guitar (or at least pretending to). Chorus is sort of like "Davie Crockett." Verse is something like "Sweet Betsy from Pike." (And in today's musical environment, it might fit in with rap or hip hop as well.)
Oh, he cheats on his taxes,
He cheats on his wives,
But the hammer of justice never arrives,
He don't pay his bills,
He'll fight you in court,
When you try to collect, the amount he wuz short.
Cheatin', Cheatin' Donald, a pro at the old con game
Do things his way,
Or you're right out the door,
The rule of law, he prefers to ignore,
To Liberty's gates,
He'll add ste-el locks,
That's what he learned, from watching Fox.
To keep his guys happy,
He's got all the tools,
So long as they let him, he makes all the rules,
They buy into
His big song and dance,
Blaming their pain on those damn immigrants.
The problems of plain folks,
He'd good at ignorin',
Like health costs which are, eternally soarin',
But give him a despot,
With ty-rannical power,
To be his buddy and b'fore whom to cower.
He pours it on thick,
Like with real estate,
Though it involves, our nation's fate,
But sooner or later,
Our laws he'll obey,
Or get himself locked up at, Gwan ton a mo Bay.
Oh, he'll cheat on his taxes,
He'll cheat on his wives,
Till the day that hammer, of justice arrives,
I don't give a damn, what will be his fate,
But I only hope that, it won't come too late!
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Insulting Names, an Early Warning, the Mueller Report, Impeachment, Looking Forward to 2020, Kathleen Parker on Trump and Notre Dame and the Survival of our Planet
Name Calling Ain't Nice
Most of you are aware that the President takes pleasure in adding insulting adjectives to the names of people he dislikes. Examples are "Crooked Hillary," "Crazy Bernie" and "Little Marco." Conversely, most Democrats are too civil to start referring to the President as "Cheatin' Donald," which I will do throughout this posting. That would be totally accurate in view of his repeated marital infidelities.
Remember that while Hillary Clinton is not a "crook," that while Bernie Sanders has all of his wits about him and that while Marco Rubio is 5'9" tall, "Cheatin' Donald" was actually sleeping with Marla while married to Ivana, and has committed adultery with both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. "Cheatin' Donald" should learn to keep his mouth shut.
Early Warning and Not About Hurricanes
It will be too late to save democracy in the United States if we reach the point where a Trumpian Executive branch has so manipulated the Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other Federal law enforcement agencies, that they become tools of the Administration's political agenda. Such an occurrence would amount to a disregard of our Constitution and would be possible only with the acquiescence or impotency of the Legislative and Judicial branches of our government. If this politized control ever extended even further and involved the armed forces, the game would be over … and Americans would be wise to consider emigration, if it were still possible, to friendlier democratic nations where they might seek asylum. Scary, isn't it. That's why your political involvement is necessary today to prevent this from happening.
Mueller Report and the Thought of Impeachment
Barr, Who Violated his Oath of Office
Attorney General Barr forgot that his oath of office was to the Constitution and not to "Cheatin' Donald." He provided a cushion for the Mueller report which despite its heavy redactions was loaded with evidence of the pitiful level to which the President had sunk, but nevertheless which would not meet the exacting standards required in a court of law to convict any defendant who had hired a half-way competent attorney. Those high standards, however, will not apply in the ultimate court of jurisdiction in this action, the voice of the American voter in 2020.
The real question, now, is whether they will be able to see enough of Mueller's actual findings to counteract the sanitized version of which the President's hand-picked Attorney General spoke before the redacted documents were released last Thursday.
Many voters will not be capable of seeing beyond that. That's why, as I recommended in earlier postings, that the Democrats not focus on "Cheatin' Donald" in 2020 and concentrate on bread and butter issues like health care, real jobs to replace those lost to technology and cheap overseas labor and tax relief for other than the wealthy.
As for the question of impeachment, right now, many Democrats feel that there is enough in the Mueller Report, despite its redactions, to establish a pathway to impeachment of the President. Although I have endorsed impeachment in the past, I now disagree. There is no doubt that the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives can pass Articles of Impeachment, but it is very doubtful that the two-thirds vote needed to convict in the Senate can be reached. Remember, the Republicans nominated and have, by and large, stood by "Cheatin' Donald."
Failure to convict in the Senate will only give the Republicans an opportunity to scream out to America that the true "facts' are those broadcast daily on Fox News and the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC just represent "fake news." (In 1998, failure by the Senate to convict Bill Clinton of the House-passed Articles of Impeachment served to strengthen his position among the population.)
So long as Republican Senators are beholden to "Cheatin' Donald" to avoid primary challenges from the right, and insure the support of his base on Election Day, the issue of impeachment should be avoided by Democrats. Remember, many an election has been lost in this country by candidates who overestimated the intelligence of the American people. So it goes with impeachment.
The issues laid out above along with the grim shadow the Mueller Report sheds on the President are sufficient to get him out of office in 2020. Impeachment is too great a risk to take. Its likely defeat in the Senate would hand the Republicans a potent weapon.
Looking Forward to 2020
And speaking of that election, the major 2020 strategy of "Cheatin' Donald" and his dutiful Republican followers includes three specific tactics at this point:
Look for more of this
(1) continued emphasis on the danger to the nation's security and economy posed by immigrants being allowed to try to enter the United States under the guise of seeking asylum under our existing laws,
(2) trying to sow dissention in the Democratic Party, specifically by questioning the patriotism of progressive Democrats, particularly those with Muslim backgrounds, and by reducing the traditional support of Jews for that party by unrealistic endorsement of anything Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu does, and
(3) continued attacking of the press and media which he had specifically accused of being an "enemy of the people." "Cheatin' Donald," of course, excludes Fox News from this label.
To blunt these tactics, and defeat the strategy of "Cheatin' Donald," the Democrats have one weapon. That is the "truth." Truth is an absolute, not a relative thing. Failing to recognize it as such results in events such as the current spread of measles among the unvaccinated, who chose to believe in internet-spread fictions rather than scientifically proven truths.
There may be many "truths" in religion, for example, where different people may have varying beliefs in the nature of the Deity, or even denying that one exists, but that is a matter of faith, which takes over when truth is unprovable. But this does not extend to politics where "truths" cannot be as ambivalent as they are in matters of faith. "Cheatin' Donald's" strategy also includes the tactic of undermining truth by confusing it with "alternate facts." (Donald, the world is not flat, although there may be a significant number of its inhabitants who believe it is. Some of them will also contract measles.)
All the more, this emphasizes the need for Democrats to concentrate their efforts on bread and butter issues, as described in the article directly above this one, rather than on "Cheatin' Donald." Attacking him is like punching a pillow.
Survival of our Planet – Survival of Democracy
Now let's get serious … and in fact, frighteningly so. Planet Earth has been around for a very long time. And it has been hospitable to life forms for only a tiny portion of that time. Its environment has changed many times over uncountable revolutions around the sun. It took a very, very, very long time for a single cell life form such as an amoeba to appear, for plant and animal species to evolve, develop, flourish, and usually become extinct for a variety of reasons such as climate changes, cataclysmic disasters and natural predators. Animal life in the form of man, homo sapiens, has dominated Planet Earth for only an infinitesimally minute portion of the tiny portion of its history during which any form of life whatsoever has been present.
We live here as tenants. We do not own the place.
All that mankind has created over that very brief period, our literature, music, art, philosophy, history, technology and even our belief in a "divine" power, is miniscule and insignificant when viewed in the context of the apparently limitless universe where time and space merge and of which "our" planet is but a part. It would be presumptuous to assume that our presence here and our dominance over the planet will last forever. The dinosaurs were around for longer than mankind has been here, and they are long gone. Someday, we will be too. We might be subject to a planet-wide flood or fire, be struck by a giant asteroid, we may lose the ability to feed ourselves or we may blow ourselves up. Don't kid yourself. Homo sapiens is not the ultimate species. (Some say ants might be.)
Nevertheless, it would be wise for those inhabiting our planet to take steps to guarantee the human race's survival for as long as possible. To survive another ten thousand centuries, a mere droplet in the history of Planet Earth, would be great! (That would be about 40,000 generations.) It probably will be much less.
Unfortunately, the steps necessary for such survival cannot be taken by a planet which is infatuated with the very, very recent and glorious idea of democracy! With survival on the line, we cannot afford the luxury of preserving individual rights and making decisions after logical debate by thinking individuals. Democracy, while satisfying to the soul, is not well suited for taking the kinds of actions, possibly very unpleasant and costly ones, needed to prolong the survival of the human race.
To accomplish that, we will need to evolve politically into having one all-powerful technological authority in control of the entire planet, making all the rules, decisions, and taking the steps necessary to continue the efforts necessary to extend the existence and control of our planet by the human race for as long as possible. The tool to accomplish this might take the form of some kind of artificial intelligence. Doesn't sound nice, but that's the way it is going to be over the next few thousand years. Whatever happens, the ants, or someone or something, will be waiting to take over.
The following time line is approximate, but it should make it clear that we are merely the most recent tenants of this planet.
__1_______________________2________________________________________________________________________3__4_5.
1. Creation of Planet Earth – 4.5 Billion Years ago
2. First Appearance of living cells on Earth – 3.5 Billion Years ago
3. First Appearance of Dinosaurs on Earth – 230 Million years ago
4. First Appearance of early Human-like Creatures – 66 Million years ago
5. End of Stone Age – 15,000 years ago, Beginning of recorded history – 5,000 years ago.
A Great Kathleen Parker Column
Tragic File at Notre Dame
Last week Kathleen Parker wrote in the Washington Post about the President of the United States and the tragic fire which destroyed most of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. If you missed this terrific column, CLICK HERE to read it.
(It is often difficult to set up links to Washington Post columns … they want you to subscribe … but it is indeed possible to access their columns when they are reprinted in other papers, as we've done here. The same thing goes for the New York Times. As for reproducing the columns in their entirety on the blog, I have been advised by someone at the Palm Beach Post that doing so is actually illegal, and to use links where possible instead, so that is what I do.)
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I decided to revamp my previous art Thread.
Though that first one is - as you say - old and ugly, it's still absolutely adorable!
Well, back then you did, anyway.
I remember the last 2... don't remember seeing the 2015 one, though.
Can't wait to see what you create next year!
Edgy Prism Boy and Quick Tempered Fire Cat Girl.
Well, after my time away for personal reasons, I guess it's time to get back into the swing of things here.
I mean, it's really clever and well done, but... just looking at it makes me feel sad-like.
You never cease to amaze me, girl.
Necrozma is hurt. I'm still working on his backstory.
I don't know how long this took me but... I'm ok with the results.
I saw this one on your DeviantArt (and if I had an account there, I would have left a message there, too).
The colours, the framing, the scenery (or this case, the minimalism of it), and even the way you've drawn Kairi in... everything is perfect!!
This is real beauty, right here!
By far my favourite work of yours yet!
I tried to do a fake screenshot-esque, but I don't know how to make the filters look movie-ish.
Also I forgot the subtitles XD She was supposed to say what the Sage tells your MC in Miitopia.
You could use that image and Photoshop it to make it look movie-ish. There is a filter tabs with a filter gallery for you to choose a filter. It's easy if you have that tool.
(02-09-2018, 03:43 PM)DashTwisterstorm Wrote: You could use that image and Photoshop it to make it look movie-ish. There is a filter tabs with a filter gallery for you to choose a filter. It's easy if you have that tool.
I'm aware of it since I use Photoshop, but I don't know how that works.
Well Filters are tools that will allow you to transform a picture into effects like scales, dots, saturation and lines. I know that because I'm doing Digital Imaging in college.
Using the same scenery and same artstyle, you produce something of equally as tremendous beauty as the last one, if not more so!
But it makes me feel different compared to the last one... I'm not even sure what the emotion is.
Trying to do a Cinematic effect, I don't even know how I do that.
Bonus exclusive to you guys... Just for laughs.
Sora: "You look so familiar... Are you sure we have met before?"
Sora: "Uhh... Nevermind you remind of a friend, she just looks like you."
Unless I completely misinterpreted what you were saying, in which case I'm sorry about that.
Sora and Kairi don't know each other identities. They think they're different people to each other. She does question him too.
I deactivated my Deviantart Account however i'm moving everything to Tumblr for now on, also Incorrect Quotes lel.
That last frame is the stuff of nightmares!
Not sure who it's supposed to be, but to me it resembles a cyclops version of Amy Rose with the body of Vanitas.
Nevertheless, your art is always amazing to behold!
If you're into Miitopia, That's suppose to be a joke the look of the Dark Curse. The Vanitas joke is obvious. The hair well that's supposed part of "Shintsū's" Hair?
Shintsū is the Reborn of My Miitopia playthough. He's the reason why all of that happens. Shin is pretty weird when reborned has part of Sora's hair and Kairi's hair, but his hair is brunette as Sora. Because most Artists draw there Reborns blue haired and I wanted to go with a "hybrid", since Sora and Kairi help him to revive.
Although he's not referred by name in the game. But in the au is referred as Shintsū, Sora call him that, because the curse didn't remember his name.
Well, I never played Miitopia, so that's probably why.
Interesting concept you got going there.
It's not like that the game mostly most of the AU stuff it's idea of mine.
I'll list you all on Private.
I was about to reply with what you just said underneath the image.
"Well no duh it's Axel as a cat, idiot! It says it right there underneath the drawing!"
This one is really adorable!
The only thing about this I can fault - and this is really just a very microscopic nit-pick - is that it is almost impossible to see his claws against the black paw in the background.
Aside from that, this one is just about purr-fect!
I love this one! I won't forget about it anytime soon! I got it memorized!
Sheesh... what's it take to have a little fun when commenting these days?
I can fix it. I think I should have turn the opacity less or pick another color.
Since black fit better, I'll upload a fixed version later.
I just wanted to draw my OTP.
Sorry for asking this question, but are they kissing?
It's hard to tell from the angle given.
Regardless, another amazing piece of artwork!
The lighting in this one is really atmospheric.
No, I just noticed the mistake on this. It looks like they are kissing but they're not.
Back up and running, I see?
And, oh wow! Soraither is looking awesome (-er) now!
Weird... I can kind of see my 'spirit character' in him.
I always look forward to your work!


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Bastian had to have been the most handsome man that Katherine had ever met. It really was unfortunate that he was also the most stubborn, controlling, downright infuriating jackass she'd ever known as well. Oh, and there was the fact that he was a werewolf-a werewolf who has bitten her.
Sixteen-year-old Katherine Mayes had never believed in mythological creatures like werewolves or mermaids-certainly not those sparkly vampires that her friend Abby was obsessed with. Even when she's bitten by a massive animal after a reckless night of teenage adventure and her body begins to change in mystifying ways, she can't force herself to believe in what she's convinced is impossible. Little does she realize, she's been infected with a disease a little more permanent than the rabies she feels fortunate to have not contracted-lycanthropy.
Her fierce denial is soundly shattered, however, when she is simultaneously saved and kidnapped by Bastian and his pack. Forced to leave small-town Iowa behind and adjust to their way of life in a hidden society, Katherine must also deal with fighting the pull she feels towards the man-or wolf, rather-who has bitten her and disrupted her life so completely.


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Much has been made of the mobile revolution in Africa, not least the success of mobile money platforms, which have forced Western banks to transform their digital offerings to customers.
While mobile has changed the perception of Africa as a benighted continent to that of an enlightened and innovative one, there are several challenges ahead if it is to build on this momentum.
While Africa has 'piggybacked' its way over the fixed internet to go straight to mobile, meaning fibre optic lines will never be lain, it may have a tougher job doing that with Big Data.
Not only will it be difficult for significant data centers to proliferate, it's also going to be a huge challenge to provide the power to do so. Many live in Africa away from national grids and use back-up generators to the power cuts that regularly occur.
Earlier this week in London, those at the forefront of providing clean, sustainable energy solutions to Africa launched their Off the Grid Club with a festival-style gig at the Africa Energy Forum.
The Off the Grid Club provides a networking platform for technology innovators, financiers and regional leaders in Africa's clean energy space. Developed by EnergyNet, its aim is to foster collaboration and the development of long-term, clean energy solutions.
The London event followed the African stream of the Data Cloud Congress held in Monte Carlo earlier this month where the chief topic of discussion was how to effectively bring big data to Africa.
It was organised by the BroadGroup, an information media technology and services company that provides a value chain of research, publications, consulting and conference services focused on datacentre, cloud and IT Infrastructure.
Established in 2002, the company set up the Data Cloud Congress in 2004 and it now attracts an audience of more than 1,800 datacentre and cloud executives from 50 countries. Staying ahead of the game, this year it dedicated a day of the conference to Africa.
"Africa has so far been a mobile story, but now needs to establish fiber highways connecting economies across the continent and internationally. It also needs to host local content and data. At present, total capacity of third party data centers on the continent is still only around the equivalent of all facilities in Ireland.
"However, we do see evidence of investment and innovators moving into this space that will transform these economies. The outlook is positive, but most government organizations need to move faster to encourage inward investment, change policies that hamper development and create competitive locations for data center build," said Phillip Low, CEO BroadGroup.
Other players in the African datacenter space are aware of how crucial power supply is in accelerating the rise of African data centers, Schneider Electric is proving to be an important influence on Africa data centers. Based in France, the company specializes in electricity distribution, automation management and produces installation components for energy management.
Like the BroadGroup, it also runs its own conference, the Life Is On Innovation Summit in Paris and is fully turned on to addressing the challenges Africa presents. Its President, Paul-Francoise Cattier is enthusiastic about bringing power to Africa.
"With very few legacy in services, the youngest population in the world, a very fast adoption of mobile communication and the fastest growing economy in the world, Africa is becoming the first continent of digital natives.
"We are supporting this digital explosion and responding quickly to the requirements of this booming market. We manage energy in ways that are safe, reliable and efficient and have a dedicated team of experts in Africa fully supporting our customers," he said.
Wide take-up of solar power is another area, like mobile, where Africa may lead the world, but potential investors in this sector should take care. The strength of sunshine varies widely between East and West Africa, so decisions on where to base such solar hubs, and data centers, will be based on a variety of factors.
Africa is a fascinating continent and an awesome place to do business and invest in startups, but the essentials need to be taken care of first. Companies such as Schneider Electric and the BroadGroup are leading the way. Expect several other major companies to follow their lead.


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pop quiz Jan. 22, 2016
Do You Know More About Science Than Most Americans?
By Melissa Dahl
Photo: Hill Street Studios/Getty Images
Earlier this week, the National Science Foundation released its Science and Engineering Indicators, which, among other things, include what appears at first glance to be a convenient new reason to roll your eyes at the state of science education in the U.S. The report reveals the percentage of Americans who were able to correctly answer some pretty basic questions concerning the physical and biological sciences. To wit: Does the Earth go around the sun, or does the sun go around the Earth?
A head-scratcher, to be sure. But as tempting as it is to use this as a reason to sneer at Americans' lack of science literacy, this isn't exactly fair, as science writer Sheril Kirshenbaum has pointed out. "[Q]uizzing the public tells us little about the state of science literacy in the United States," she wrote for CNN. "Science literacy isn't remembering a bunch of facts. It's an appreciation and understanding of the scientific process and the ability to think critically."
Fine. But if you're curious to test your memory for the basics of scientific factual knowledge — and find out how your responses compare to the way most Americans answered — be our guest. Below you'll find ten of the questions that appeared in the NSF report. Choose your answer, and you'll find out whether you're right and whether you're smarter than those in the U.S. and across the globe. Good luck!
Test your science knowledge against people's around the world
Choose an answer see how your knowledge compares to the National Science Board's 2016 global survey data.
The center of the Earth is very hot.
Percentage of respondants who answered correctly, by country
100% 50% 0%
United States: 84%
Canada: 93%
China: 56%
EU: 86%
India: 57%
Japan: 84%
Malaysia: 75%
Russia: N/A
South Korea: 87%
USA Canada China EU India Japan Malaysia Russia South Korea
The continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move.
Russia: 40%
Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?
Sun around Earth or Earth around Sun
China: N/A
Japan: N/A
All radioactivity is man-made.
India: N/A
Electrons are smaller than atoms.
Lasers work by focusing sound waves.
The universe began with a huge explosion.
EU: N/A
Malaysia: N/A
It is the father's gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl.
Canada: N/A
Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria.
Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.
science of us
Test Your General Science Smarts With This Quiz
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Q: How to parse LocalDateTime string with special pattern? I have String of time like: 2021-04-23T20:18:48.442826841Z How can I parse it to LocalDateTime? Which DateTimeFormatter I need to specify?

A: To begin, please read What's the difference between Instant and LocalDateTime?.
Referring to What exactly does the T and Z mean in timestamp?, the given string represent an Instant, and suppose you want a LocalDateTime with system default timezone, you may parse as following.
LocalDateTime.ofInstant(Instant.parse("2021-04-23T20:18:48.442826841Z"), ZoneId.systemDefault());

Or with DateTimeFormatter.ISO_INSTANT
LocalDateTime.parse("2021-04-23T20:18:48.442826841Z", DateTimeFormatter.ISO_INSTANT.withZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()))

A: LocalDateTime.parse("2021-04-23T20:18:48.442826841Z", DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE);

Works for me.

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BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — More than a thousand people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores were killed and more than 200 are missing in neighboring Zimbabwe.
The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai's full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighboring Zimbabwe, unleashing fierce winds and flash floods and washing away roads and houses.
Aerial photographs released by a Christian non-profit organization, the Mission Aviation Fellowship, showed groups of people stuck on rooftops with flood waters up to window level.
In neighboring Zimbabwe, Idai left 98 dead and at least 217 more missing, according to the Information ministry.
The storm swept away homes and ripped bridges to pieces, leaving destruction that the acting defense minister, Perrance Shiri, said "resembles the aftermath of a full-scale war".
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa cut short a visit to Abu Dhabi returning home on Monday.
"With every hour and day that passes, our worst fears become increasingly real," he said in a statement "Many drowned while others were killed in their sleep from swift and unexpected rockfalls which demolished their homes".


I installed version 1.0.1 but when i click the menu item in admin i get a blank page.
Except I'm getting a 500 error when I try to access Working Copy.
So I say the same thing: Did I miss something or what?
Thanks Much for any help way in advance.
It's available a WC version for J2.5 ???
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kanthari international is an educational and training institute at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It was co-founded by Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg in 2007, with the first members jointing in 2009, as an extension of their pioneering project Braille without borders. The not-for-profit institute aims to identify and train persons who have had to face adverse social conditions including physical disabilities, poverty, war strife . Its original official name was "International Institute for Social Entrepreneurship". However, to avoid the common notion of monetary gains with the usage of word 'entrepreneurship', the founders are renaming the project as kanthari international. The initial lower case letters used in the name are intentionally kept as a symbol of their ideology.

kanthari, the word
'kanthari' (Malayalam: കാന്താരി) is the name of a pepper chilly that is indigenous to the land of Kerala state, India. Kanthari is known for its extreme hotness despite the small size. According to Sabriye, the head of the institute, the spice is very representative of the 'small' people who in fact, with the right motivation and preparation, can bring in a drastic and innovative change within the society.

As a symbol of the institute's deterrence to prejudices and normally accepted conventions, kanthari international is spelt and written with all letters in lowercase.

Founders

Sabriye Tenberken

Sabriye Tenberken, (German) became blind at the age of 12. Due to her interest in development work she studied Central Asian Sciences at Bonn University focusing on Tibetology, philosophy and sociology. In order to be able to read and write Tibetan texts she developed the Tibetan Braille Script.

Paul Kronenberg
Paul Kronenberg (Dutch) has worked for various international Non Governmental Organisations in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. He completed his studies in the areas of mechanical engineering, computer science, commercial technology and communication system science.

Program
The IISE addresses to people that have overcome significant life challenges ranging from vision impairment, disability, poverty, war, discrimination and exploitation in order to help them in setting up their own social project. It trains its participants in skills like management, public speaking, communication, leadership, fund raising, budgeting, bookkeeping,  marketing and computer usage. The program takes 11 months.

Impact of kanthari

Jane Waithera is from Kenya. Jane is a person living with Albinism{Albinism is a defect of melanin production that results in little or no color (pigment) in the skin, hair, and eyes}. This means that she lacks melanin and her skin is white. In east Africa it is believed that possessing a body part of an Albino brings good luck. Therefore Albinos are killed and their body parts sold for a high price. Jane is a 2009 kanthari graduate. Since her return home she has been fighting for the rights of Albinos. Over the past five years we trained 98 participants from 35 countries. The graduates have started over 65 projects and initiatives and reach thousands of beneficiaries.

Location

The institute is located at a campus near the village Vellayani, close to Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala state. It consists of several eco-friendly buildings.

References

External links

 *Interview at KnowYourStar.com
 kanthari partners with Confederation of Indian Industry to bring in Solar energy Cycling at Thiruvananthapuram

Private schools in Thiruvananthapuram
Social enterprises

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In 2016, after years of dyeing my hair, I decided to grow out my natural colour. To have a look at what I've been covering up for 15 years and see if I liked it. It's now chin-length, and I do like it. But it's taken me a while to accept one small fact; I'm not as ginger as I thought I was.
Let me backtrack. I've had a complicated relationship with my hair colour since I was aged 13, when a friend and I shared a pack of red hair dye, leaving her brunette strands with a hint of red and turning my fine, silky blonde hair a pleasing ginge, albeit dry and damaged. "What have you done?" and "Your hair was so nice before" were comments I was met with at school. Plus, my mum was furious, despite being a lifelong henna-head herself.
From then on I became focused on getting my blonde hair back, but it never came back; even when the roots grew in they were red-brown, and my hair was no longer silky and straight. The dye damage had made it an unruly, half-wavy half-straight, unmanageable mess. I felt like I'd ruined my hair, and my LIFE (emotional times).
As I'm pretty sure all of us know, UK school kids (and some adults) can be tough on young redheads. I was never overtly bullied – it's possible I escaped by having a slightly more ambiguous hair colour – but I definitely absorbed the prejudice. I became very self-conscious about my hair. Whenever someone around me insulted red hair I felt myself shrinking, especially as there was usually a moment of panic in their eyes as they checked my roots and assessed whether they had just insulted me.
After five years of bleach I tried black hair, brown hair, a shaved head, more bleach, a blunt fringe, layers, and about 18 different side fringes. Last year I was considering a perm. But finally, it seems, the urge to change my appearance has gone away. This is something akin to magic for someone so enduringly beguiled by 'self-improvement'.
What brought about this change? Something as simple as accepting my natural hair colour. I had about four inches of roots when I stumbled upon Ginger Parrot for the first time, along with others that are dedicated to celebrating red hair. It was exactly what I needed to see and it changed my entire hair-identity. Now I find red to be the most beautiful of hair colours.
READ: Should I Dye My Hair More Ginger?
Lucie is an art, music and ginger-hair-loving freelancer who will happily discuss the science behind your hair with people's retreating backs anytime. She spends her days writing, making things, scouring Etsy for accessories and anxiously awaiting the new series of Broad City. This nearly 30-something tries to schedule in at least one walk a day, in case her hips seize up. Her hair is somewhere between brown and ginger, so she optimistically thinks of herself as a redhead, and (rather thankfully) has the skin and eyebrows to back it up.


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Percy McDermott Chalmers (16 March 1896 – 22 June 1987) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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1987 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
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Philadelphia Experiment II ist ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Actionfilm aus dem Jahr 1993. Er ist die Fortsetzung des Films Das Philadelphia Experiment.

Handlung
Seitdem David Herdeg durch Longstreets Experimente vom Jahr 1943 in das Jahr 1984 versetzt wurde, sind neun Jahre vergangen. Er hat Allison geheiratet und mit ihr zusammen einen Sohn gezeugt. Jedoch ist sein neues Leben in der Zukunft von Schicksalsschlägen gekennzeichnet. Allison ist nach schwerer Krankheit verstorben, so dass er seinen Sohn allein großziehen muss, und seine neugegründete Firma ist bankrottgegangen. Die Zeitversetzung hat in seinem Körper Spuren hinterlassen. Er hat unter seinem Schicksal schwer zu leiden. Sein Sohn versteht die Probleme des Vaters nicht und fühlt sich vernachlässigt. Das wirkt sich auf die Schulleistungen des Jungen aus und zwischen ihm und seinem Vater kommt es oft zu Streitereien.

Der Wissenschaftler Mailer hat auf Longstreets Experimenten basierend eine neue Technologie entwickelt, mit der es möglich ist, Objekte zu teleportieren. Bisher hat er seine Forschungsarbeiten durch Schmiergelder finanziert und will nun das US-Militär von seiner Technologie überzeugen. Longstreet hat aus dem Desaster, das seine Experimente angerichtet haben, seine Lehren gezogen und warnt eindringlich davor, Mailers Forschungsarbeiten weiter zu unterstützen. Da man nun Zweifel daran bekommt, dass Mailers Technologie wirklich sicher und gefahrlos ist, sieht Mailer nur noch die Möglichkeit, ein nicht genehmigtes praktisches Experiment durchzuführen, um alle Zweifel an seiner Technologie auszuräumen. Er lässt ein atomar bewaffnetes Kampfflugzeug verschwinden, während es sich auf dem Flug von Neufundland nach Wiesbaden befindet, was verheerende Folgen hat.

David Herdeg erleidet durch die Veränderungen in seinem Körper immer wieder Schmerzen, wenn Mailer praktische Versuche durchführt. Als Mailer das Kampfflugzeug verschwinden lässt, findet David sich plötzlich in einer anderen Welt wieder, in der sein Sohn nicht mehr existiert und die Nazis die Weltherrschaft erlangt haben. Er befindet sich irgendwo in einer Sperrzone und wird von Sicherheitskräften gejagt, bis er schließlich von Widerstandskämpfern in Sicherheit gebracht wird, die den Auftrag haben, ihn zu Longstreet zu bringen. Von Longstreet erfährt David, dass die Nazis vor 50 Jahren, kurz nach dem Philadelphia-Experiment 1943, den Krieg gegen die USA mit Hilfe eines atomar bewaffneten Kampfflugzeuges gewonnen haben. Das Flugzeug (augenscheinlich eine F-117 Nighthawk) mit dem Namen "Phönix" ist offensichtlich das, das Mailer hatte verschwinden lassen.

Friedrich Mahler, der deutschstämmige Vater Mailers, der 1943 für die Nazis arbeitete, hatte damals behauptet, das Flugzeug und seine Bewaffnung konstruiert zu haben. Als das Flugzeug eingesetzt wurde, wurde es durch seine eigenen Bomben zerstört, da man sich mit dem Zerstörungspotential der Bewaffnung nicht richtig auskannte. Da Mahler nun nicht mehr dazu in der Lage war, weitere solcher Flugzeuge zu bauen, wurde er schließlich aus dem Verkehr gezogen. Mailer will nun mit seiner neuentwickelten Zeitmaschine in die Vergangenheit zu seinem Vater reisen, um ihn über die Technik des Flugzeuges aufzuklären. Longstreet will mit seinen Leuten Mailers Zeitmaschine zerstören, um das zu verhindern.

David wird klar, dass er in dieser chaotischen Welt offenbar der einzige ist, der weiß, dass bis vor kurzem noch eine andere und bessere Welt existiert hat, in der die Nazis den Zweiten Weltkrieg verloren haben. Er klärt Longstreet auf und macht ihm klar, dass nicht Mailers Zeitmaschine zerstört werden muss, sondern in der Vergangenheit das Flugzeug, bevor es
eingesetzt wird. Mailer kann seine Zeitmaschine noch nicht benutzen, da er ein gentechnisch verändertes Blut entwickeln muss, um die Zeitreise überstehen zu können. Er erfährt davon, dass David Herdeg wieder aufgetaucht ist, dessen Blut durch das Philadelphia-Experiment bereits gentechnisch verändert ist. David wird nun von Mailers Leuten gesucht und stellt sich ihnen freiwillig, in der Hoffnung, mit Mailer einen Deal machen zu können.

David äußert gegenüber Mailer den Wunsch, in seine ursprüngliche Zeit zurückzukehren, in der er geboren und aufgewachsen ist, um Mailer dazu zu bringen, ihn mit seiner Zeitmaschine in die Vergangenheit zu schicken, damit er das Flugzeug zerstören kann. Mailer lässt sich aber nicht darauf ein und ordnet an, dass David nach der Blutabnahme umgebracht werden soll. Dann greifen die Widerstandskämpfer ein und verhindern, dass David getötet wird. Während sie sich mit Mailers Leuten einen blutigen Kampf liefern, machen David und anschließend auch Mailer, nachdem er sich Davids Blut injiziert hat, den Zeitsprung in die Vergangenheit. Dort angekommen, steht Mailer vor seinem Vater, der nur langsam begreift, dass ihn sein Sohn aus der Zukunft besucht, um ihm etwas Wichtiges mitzuteilen. Währenddessen gelingt es David, das Flugzeug durch Feuer zu zerstören. Danach flüchtet er zum Zeitloch, das sich noch nicht wieder verschlossen hat, wird aber von Mailer angeschossen, bevor er darin verschwinden kann. Verletzt am Boden liegend, erschießt er Mailers Vater. Damit kann Mailer nicht mehr existieren, da seine Zeugung nicht mehr stattfinden kann, so dass er sich auflöst und völlig aus dem Universum verschwindet. David schleppt sich mit letzter Kraft über den Boden, bis er vom Zeitloch eingefangen wird und in die Gegenwart zurückkehrt, wo er die Welt wieder in ihrem ursprünglichen Zustand vorfindet, mit dem Unterschied, dass es Mailer und seine Experimente nie gegeben hat.

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Permanent database grows for temporary wetlands
The Vernal Pool Data Cooperative has constructed a secure spatial database to store vernal pool locations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Now in order to ensure that the database serves as a comprehensive resource, the team is calling for data submissions from cooperators across the region.
Small, temporary bodies of water that provide habitat for amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates, vernal pools are vulnerable by nature. Their seasonal lifespans also makes them elusive. The first step to protecting these critical wetlands is to pinpoint where they are in the landscape.
That's the mission of the Vernal Pool Data Cooperative, a North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative funded project that is creating a comprehensive spatial database of vernal pool locations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions with input from practitioners in the field.
Now Project lead Steve Faccio of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies said they are ready to accept data submissions to fill out the regional picture.
With the completion of two workshops targeting environmental consultants, planners, biologists and researchers who are involved in vernal pool conservation, the Cooperative has had an opportunity to showcase the tool and hear input from those who can use the data.
"Both workshops involved a fair amount of conversation, listening and learning about what participants would find most useful," said Dan Lambert of High Branch Conservation Services, one of the project facilitators.
Following a workshop held in May in Springfield, Mass., the Vernal Pool Data Cooperative led a fall workshop in Smyrna, Del., for audiences in the Mid-Atlantic region.
"For the most part, it was about trust building and communication to inform folks about the security measures in place for the data, and the services available to them."
The data will be available through the North Atlantic LCC's Conservation Planning Atlas, but the project organizers asked participants for feedback related to decisions about access, outputs, resolution, and defining terms.
"We view this as a springboard, not so much a finished product: A living tool that can be updated and applied," said Lambert.
Faccio said he hopes the open dialogue at the workshops will increase willingness to participate among key audiences.
"We have seen a fair amount of support," he said. "Most people understand the value of a regional data set.
Lambert said the support is manifest in the diversity of the attendees. "We had a good mix of state and federal agencies, county level park people, and some NGO representatives and academic researchers in both workshops." But he added they are still looking to increase participation across the board. "A synthesis of vernal pool location data will be more useful the more data we are able to recruit."
Faccio is currently in the process of soliciting data from a list of nearly 80 potential cooperators from Virginia to the Maritime Provinces. "Once these data are compiled into a single database," says Faccio, "they will not only provide a more complete regional picture of where vernal pools occur, but also point out data gaps where more on-the-ground or remote sensing work is needed."
For details on submitting data, please contact Steve Faccio: sfaccio@vtecostudies.org
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UNECE trains entrepreneurs and policy makers in North Macedonia and Georgia on best practices in energy efficiency and renewable energy in response to COVID-19 crisis
UNECE continues to help its member States to respond to COVID-19 crisis. As part of this work, Guidelines and Best Practices for Micro-, Small and Medium Enterprises in…
UNECE supports countries to address gaps in energy efficiency standards in buildings
Buildings consume over 70 per cent of the electrical power generated and 40 per cent of primary energy and are responsible for 40 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions from related fuel combustion. At the same time, in 2018, out of 4.5 trillion USD spent on building construction and renovation, the…
Poverty in the Pandemic: UNECE study examines how countries track COVID-19 impacts
A new working paper, Adapting household surveys to the situation of the pandemic, shows that statistical producers in countries in the UNECE region have moved fast to measure the effects of the pandemic on households, and to…
UNECE issues guidance to improve the communication of gender statistics
New guidance published by UNECE's Conference of European Statisticians offers support to national statistical offices to better communicate their statistics about gender equality. The guidance, developed by a task force of experts from across the region, focuses on six themes: the gender pay gap;…


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