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F. Rahardi is mentioned earlier in the Dutch section blog as the author of the wise and funny book Para Calon Presiden, where Jesus returns to this world to give some insights related to the election of a new President of Indonesia in 2009. My second book of Rahardi is not less wise and funny at the same time. It has the title Lembata, also published by Bona Beding at Penerbit Lamalera, July 2008, 256 pages, in Wijirejo, Bantul DIJ.
The main figure here is a diocesan priest, Romo Pedro, who returns from a Bachelor Study in economy in Jakarta (Atma Jaya University) to Larantuka. He is sent to the extremely poor island of Lembata, to serve as an assistent priest in a parish. he is in company of a bright and good looking young lady of Menadonese offspring, Luciola. Her father is very rich, through the management of casinos in the big places of the world, Monte Carlo, Las Vegas. She only gives a nice amount of money for the CU, Credit Union in Lembata, but then disappears. (There is a warning of Pedro about the Credit Union: money should not be used for consumption, to finance big feasts, but for investment). Her trips to Singapore, Europe (Monaco, Rome, Lourdes, Amsterdam) and Latin America are in sharp contrast to the sober life of dry Lembata.
On p. 24 the Dean of Lembata gives a summary of the history of Catholicism: it was brought by the Dominican Friars in the 17th century. The Jesuits of the 19th century reformed the liturgy, the SVD brought education and better health care. In the 21st century the diocesan priests must bring prosperity for the poor and halt poverty.
Romo Pedro begins his work in the Catholic parish. At one moment he discusses the expensive wine and hosts that is imported from Australia and the USA. Why should church law not allow the use of local alcoholic beverage, moke and local food, roasted corn chips or jagung titi? Once at Sunday Mass he preaches about the idea and practises it immediately. One third of the parish leaves the church, one third takes from the blessed moke and jagung titi. One third stays in the church but does not participate.
Rome Pedro is summoned to the bishop, comes to Larantuka, but has written already his letter of resignation.
Pedro returns to Lembata and starts a project to grow wheat and grapes. He had saved some money from high school on and is given some land high on the mountain where it is cool and wet during the nights. It is quite successful and this development project helps to give an income to poor people.
There is also a debate about plans to start a gold mine in Lembata: NGOs from outside the island protest, but local people (with a corrupt bupati leading) support the possibility for development.
Luciola tried to seduce Pedro to marry her, but he remains celibate and even is rehabilitated as a priest in the end of the book. Ola, as the lady is often called, discovered lesbian love in Latin America, but visits Lembata again in the final chapter of the book. Her wild life story makes the book more lively than just the pious novel of a modern priest.
The whole style of the book is less dramatic than Rahadi by Mangunwijaya or Saman by Ayu Utami. I enjoyed this book also very much as a third important novel about a modern Catholic priest.
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Sayyid Uthman
Among the 19th century Muslims of Indonesia, Sayyid Uthman (1822-1914) is definitely an important figure. He wrote and published many popular pamphlets and books with his lithographical press in Batavia. He was born in Batavia, studied and travelled in the Middle East (Mecca, Hadramaut, also in Egypt (Damietta), Istanbul, Jerusalem, between 1841-1862. From the 1860s on he was as an author and publisher of religious pamphlets and more serious books. He worked close with three Dutch scholars: Karel Frederik Holle, L.W.C. van den Berg and finally Snouck Hurgronje. After Snouck left the Indies, he remained close to the Kantor Agama, the Malay name for the Office of the Advisor of Native Affairs. On 13 March 1913 he held a uite positive speech at a meeting of Sarekat Islam, the nationalist organization. Before he had been very critical of all Reformists: Muhammad 'Abduh and Rashid Rida in Egypte and also the Indonesian Muhammadiyah.
Nico Kaptein has been working for many years on this prominent Muslim leader of Indonesia and published late last year a biography of the man.The book starts with two Malay biographies of Sayid Uthman between his death and 1924, one in poetry (a Malay syair) and one in prose. In a second part of the book Kaptein gives a biography from Dutch sources and from hiw own writings. The analysis of the writings is a very important part of this book (Islam, Colonialism and the New Age in the Netherlands East Indies. A Biography of Sayyid 'Uthman, 1822-1923, Leiden: Brill, 2014).
Last week I visited the exhibition that was prepared on this important figure, with explanations by Nico Kaptein himself.
One of the most astonishing objects of the exhibition is the stone used for lithography: a quite big stone is covered with fat, then the text or the drawings are put in the fat in mirror writing. Ink is put in the empty places and so page after page can be printed. It is a quite time consuming, but also difficult job, because of the very fine lines. If we see the personal character of the writing, the fine lines in the decorations we are astonished to see how this simple technology can create such refined results. Our generation, writing on computers, has much easier technology for the texts!
The exhibition showed some more special objects. One was a photograph of the office of the Dutch consul in Jeddah where Agus Salim was the secretary. On the picture below he is on the extreme left behind the table, still a young man. The Indonesian pilgrims had to show their passport in order to receive a stamp from the consul (and of course to pay for this service!)
Sayid Uthman was not a reformist. He was a staunch defender of what he considered as orthodoxy, but in a realistic way. He did not support any idea of a Holy War against colonialism, as long as freedom of religion was guarenteed, mosques could be built, prayers said, Ramadan observed and the Hajj could be performed in a proper way. Some modernizations were supported by him. He would be astonished to see in Indonesia now so many Friday services in so many places. He defended to right of one mosque in one place and became involved in several conflicts over new mosques who also wanted to offer Friday prayers, including the regular sermon. As to some modern devices he was lenient. He did not forbid to listen to a phonographic recording of the Qur'an, although it did not give the same reward as listening to a live recital. He also allowed prayers for the Dutch Queen and even composed a prayer at the occasion of the coronation of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898.
There is some kind of a dynasty of ther learned Sayid. The exhibition has a decorated and coloured poem at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the rule of the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina in 1923.
His grave is still honoured by members of his family in Jatinegara. But now there is also the academic book, published by the Leiden scholar Kaptein with many new details of the long and eventful life of this traditional scholar.
The Rainbow Army of Andrea Hirata
During our trip to Japan I heard for the first time about Andrea Hirata from a Japanese lecturer in Indonesian. He liked the books (a series of four) Laskar Pelangi by Andrea Hirata very much. I borrowed the book from KITLV/Leiden University Library. I had some problems with the Indonesian words: daily talk and this brought me to realise that I lived in Indonesia only until 1988, more than 25 years ago. Much modern slang is not familiar to me. So, I decided to switch to the English translation. This worked very well. I read only the first of the four books.
The novel is about a very small and poor school, set up nearly a century ago by Muhammadiyah people for the poor Malay in Belitung, the island already known at that time for its government tin mining as it was until recently. Bangka is the island for private enterprise in the field.
The tin mining authority has a prestigious school, there is also a good private Chinese school, but the children of poor people, mostly Malay, some Chinese, are the pupils of the Muhammadiyah school. The school is run by a very young girl/teacher, only 15 years old at the beginning of the six years of the book, together with an older man who become sick and dies in the course of the book.
The book is a vivid impression of the world of this school that is not respected by to officials of the Ministry of Education. They want to close the establishment. The building is very poor and it is a problem to have the required minimum of students: 10 for a class, at least for one class. This is a good number and the ten pupils of the class of Ikal (central person of the story who tells from his experiences) are all very different. There is one Chinese boy who also has to learn about Islam and the special character of Muhammadiyah. In the end of the book also a girl from the prestigious school of the Tin Mining Company. One Mahar is very good in music, wins a prize. Ikal falls in love with a Chinese girl, daughter of a shopkeeper, who later moves to Jakarta for her school (and to look after an aunt). Some students are not very intelligent, one is even mentally handicapped. One is brilliant in mathematics: it is a group of different people, but nothing really sensational. The people living on boats, the sawang are described like the Chinese festivals and the coolies and shops of the Chinese. The book sold five million copies since it was published the first time in September 2005.
Although it is about a Muhammadiyah school, there is not much official Islam in the book. The brightest boy is fond of magic, all kind of foretelling and magical power. Nothing exceptional about a love affair between a Malay and a Chinese. Lovely book.
The Journey of Lies Marcoes looking for women narrating their fight against poverty
Lies Marcoes was one of my first students in Jakarta, 1981-1983. She was at that time a close friend of Yvonne Sutaredjo, a Chinese-Javanese student from Surinam. The two were quite exceptional. They were the only female students who went swimming in Sawangan, Not only for sport, but also as a protest against rules for the female students in the boarding house at the Islamic Academy, IAIN in Ciputat.
Lies was very keen on field research and she took for her final thesis the practices of a Libyan brotherhood in West Java. She became the first assistant to Martin van Bruinessen in the project on the 'culture of poverty' in the Sukapakir district of Bandung, one square km with about 100,000 citizens living or rather surviving. Lies and Martin wrote a special issue for the weekly Tempo that was no a report of poverty in statistics, but in lifestyle and personal portraits.
That was in 1984. Nearly thirty years later, and in a kind of sabbatical (although officially as 'early retirement' from het work at various NGO), she has given us another fight against poverty or at least how to survive in extreme poverty in a book written with the Australian Anne Lockley and beautiful pictures by Armin Hari.
I received a copy of the book from Lies during our 'tribute conference' of 18-19 November 2014. In fact, it was not really a gift for me, but rather for my wife. We read it together, watched the photographs and told again stories about the many places she visited for this journey. Most places are known to us: Ende and Maumere in Flores, Makassar and Ambon, Pontianak and of course places in West Java. Lies has made many friends in Aceh and my wife Paule never joined me to a trip there.
This is not a book with statistics (although in the last of the five sections it is underlined that hard figures can be useful in the fight for justice.Its major goal is to give concrete examples that picture in a representative way how women and their children manage to survive, grow up, give help to children and older people. There are abundatly stories of women who ar KK, Kepala Keluarga of 'Head of a Family' because they earn also the living for their husband, whether he is simply a loser, a too pious preacher earning nothing, of simply sick and disabled.
There are also quite a few pages about borrowing money (chapter 5, 112-122). It will be a good and critical appendix to the (too) positive words I wrote in Catholics in Indonesia vol 3 about credit union as the most important welfare activity of the Catholic Church, and other religious institutions, in Indonesia.
Above: this author with Lies Marcoes in our hotel during the Tribute conference of 18-19 November last year.
The book reminded me in several respects of the funny, sometimes also sad book by Elisabeth Pisani, Indonesia etc. Both women have a good connection with people really below the poverty line. They are not too easy with remedies and know that external help can be very good, but does not help quickly and often not at all. Pisani is very critical about formal religion. Lies did professional study of Islam, but is also very critical about traditiona;l (adat) and religious institutions. She has, like Pisani, a special chapter 10 on religion. I read that of course with more than usual interest. The chapter begins with some nice words about religion: 'Religious organisations are often among the many institutions that try to overcome poverty...' (187). But following this beginning there is criticism because religious activities like collecting funds for Dompet Dhuafa often lacks an analysis of the roots of poverty. Religions often only want to remove female from the dangers of globalisation, but do not stimulate them to become active. Six concrete examples are given of this negative influence of religion: 1. a young woman, Sum, who lost her job because she was dressing in a 'fundamentalist way'. Birth control was impossible for her. 2. Fira was a qualified pharmacist who had good jobs, but then married a pious preacher who did not earn the money himself, but still wanted her to leave her job. 3. Many criticism about the application of shari'a law in Aceh; very young children, pre-school, are not allowed to dance. 4. Prof. Alyasa Abubakar, one of the architects of the introduction of Shar'a in Aceh has consented that children of women who experienced the punishment of caning also feel stigmatised; 5. in not-recognised sects like Sunda Wiwitan and Ahmadiyah children do not have a biurth certificate and they can not inherit legally from their parents; 6. one Anne in Palu (probably a Christian) had a mixef marriage with a Muslim and the difference of religion was a disaster and caused a break in this marriage. Lies also give some positive examples of prominent Muslims, approaching women. Page 198 is a funny recording of female Muslim leaders who visited prostitutes in Yogyakarta and were shocked to see how these women gave everything for the life and education of the children.
Thank you very much, Lies, for this honest, sincere and vivid book. I will read now in a different way the monthly sold by Utrecht homeless people, also full with their personal stories. Our son Florsi did no marry in a formal way and he had to go the the municipal administration before the birth of his two children, in order to have them formally registered also as his children and to give them a birth certificate, but for him this was an easy thing.
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Lessons from Ondo Mega Schools
By Damilola Akinyele
Ondo State is reshaping how public education is being done in Nigeria. As of 2016, the state has built over 50 model primary schools. The schools are categorized into 2 types: A & B. Type A can accommodate 1,050 students while type B can accommodate 525 students. Babatunde Fafunwa, a former minister of education in Nigeria, in his book New Perspectives on African Education, calls for a reappraisal of African education: the structures, the curriculum, the teacher quality— all issues that are being addressed in Ondo's mega schools. The teachers in these schools have signed up to be lifelong learners, as teacher training is a priority of the education ministry in the state. In a global context, and in the age of knowledge, these schools are equipped with functional computer rooms, and libraries supplied with diverse content- international, and national.
In a study released in 2014, researchers found that the lack of infrastructure can shape the outcome of students. Minor things such as air quality in buildings can profoundly
Influence learning. The mega schools are structured so that students have access to playgrounds, rooms for art expressions, power generators for when electricity cuts off during the day, sick bays for when students are ill, good desk tables, chairs, and boards for students learning. For children around the world, a challenge to attending school is the distance to home factor. School buses have been provided for every mega school in the 8 local governments, and students are being picked up before and after school, increasing their chances of attending school, and keeping them off the streets after school.
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One of the mega schools
The schools are also working with the mandate of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which means that poverty and lack of money are not a barrier to the students attending the schools: the schools are free of fees and the libraries are overflowing with learning materials that the government supplies to ensure that students or teachers are nothing short supply of materials to learn or materials to prepare lessons.
Although much has been achieved in recent years in the public education sector, and in Ondo, there is still more that the nation needs to address: the why, how, and what of the education system in Nigeria.
Public schools in Nigeria must also address issues such as the lack of education funding, accountability for how the education budget is being distributed and spent, the lack of teachers, untrained teachers, the classroom structures- school infrastructure, adequate and relevant learning materials with provisions for students with disabilities.
Other issues to be addressed include gender, conflict-ridden areas, and the plan for education, hunger and the expense of education (informal fees- textbooks, school uniforms).
In Ondo, as with Nigeria, it is critical that there is a sustainability plan for these schools, even after the current governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko who has championed this cause leaves office. In the words of Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania "we must run while others walk." In addition to educating for social capabilities, intrinsic reasons, education is an investment in the human capital. Educating every Nigerian is critical to our national development. Quality education for every child regardless of ethnicity, socio economic status, gender, geographic location, is a human right.
I look forward to a Nigeria where our public school systems are not only for children of a low socio economic status, but every Nigerian, because it is good education- an education that fosters development, social responsibility, critical and analytical skills, productivity, innovation, artistic expressions, and change.
*Akinyele is an education consultant and social researcher
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Surviving Divorce - Tough Questions!
WHY DID THE DIVORCE HAPPEN?
That's a very good question . . . and one that is probably very complex.
A good psychotherapist, a wise and holy spiritual director, and even the Catholic Church can help your parents figure out what happened. But it takes time and they may have to go back to the very beginning of the marriage to see what really happened. None of that is your responsibility but we know you worry, that you may be angry or scared. Please do ask your parents if they can explain it to you right now. Maybe they can't because they still have to work on figuring it out. Maybe they are upset and just blaming everything on the other spouse. Maybe they are trying to tell you everything is okay and "it's for the best." We know most of the time it's NOT for the best because God's best is that families stay together.
Mom, Dad, I love you and I know this is difficult for everyone. But some day, (maybe today?) when you really know why this all happened, and you think I am old enough, will you help me better understand?
I'm hurt./angry/scared and no one seems to be asking me what I really feel! I know hat you want me to feel, but maybe I just can't.
One thing we know is true in every divorce: IT IS NEVER THE KIDS' FAULT. Even if your parents can't give you answers right now, they can give you hugs. Go get one.
WILL MY PARENTS EVER GET BACK TOGETHER?
We don't know. But what we do know is that regardless of the circumstances, they both love you very much. Sometimes people don't know how to express love very well. Maybe they never learned it in their home growing up. Regardless, you have an opportunity to draw close to God, let him fill you with his love, and then you can go and pour that love out on your family. You can certainly get angry, cry, and worry . . . but always talk to at least one of your parents (preferably both!), a trusted adult, and talk to God. Focus on what you need to do each day, stay rested, and have fun when you can. Take a day at a time. And pray that even if they don't get back together that they find a way to be kind and loving to one another.
WHY CAN'T MY PARENTS JUST WORK THINGS OUT?
· God is watching over you all—but he won't take away anyone's freedom.
· You must share your heart with them whenever you can.
· You must be respectful but honest about how you feel.
· Everyone in the family must pray, be patient, and learn to forgive.
With divorce, change has come. Change will always be part of life, even changes we hate. But God never changes. God's love and truth and power stay the same. Always go to him when you feel you can go to no one else.
Nobody knows what the future holds. That's why we all need to draw close to God, let him lead us, and not worry too much.
When you can't see the future God will always shine his light just in front of your feet so you don't trip and fall. Take his hand and trust him.


In the all-time collection of Super Bowl ads, the spot most often applauded aired in 1979, featuring Mean Joe Greene tossing a jersey to a young fan after chugging his Coke. It works, academics point out, because it follows the formula for success.
Co-founder Adolphus Busch endures stormy seas and anti-immigrant taunts – "You're not wanted here!" – on the road from Germany to St. Louis, where he finds a friendly handshake and warm gesture from his future partner: "Beer for my friend." This schmaltzy American dream story is already drawing boycott threats.
As a young girl races to the finish line in a go-kart, her father muses aloud: "What do I tell my daughter ... Do I tell her that her grandpa is worth more than her grandma?" As she wins, the German automaker assures the audience, "Audi is committed to equal pay for equal work." Also raising political eyebrows.
A love-struck teen tosses candy at his sweetheart's window at night, calling "Katie! Katie!" Flash to Katie's room upstairs, where Katie, her father, her mother, her grandmother, a burglar and a policeman are all catching the Skittles in their mouths.
Watch the Skittles Super Bowl commercial, "Romance".
Sure to be the ad most discussed at the Monday water cooler, the original version had the immigrant mother and daughter arriving at their destination to find a wall blocking their path. The lumber company revised its ad for the Super Bowl, inviting viewers to watch the rest at its website.
The 84 Lumber commercial, "The Journey Begins".
84 Lumber's Super Bowl Commercial, "The Journey Begins"


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Simply stated: I see everything from the donor's perspective first.
It is my contention that too few fundraisers actually donate and that's part of the reason why so many continue to offend their supporters. That's why donor retention rates are still in the toilet (just 17% of new donors who are giving less than $100 give again).
That's also why some people like my blog (and why some don't).
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As a Soto Zen priest and member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, I have committed myself to living an ethical life. Central to this vow is my effort to provide a safe haven in which I, my students, and all who are exploring the Zen path may make contact with our true nature. The sixteen bodhisattva precepts are the foundation of my relationship with ethics. The six paramitas guide my effort to keep these precepts. It is my sincere intention to align my life continually in accord with these precepts and practices.
While the sixteen bodhisattva precepts are the foundation of my vows, I recognize that ethics standards and guidelines are needed to provide commentary and processes for addressing difficult situations that may arise in my sangha or in intersangha relations.
The teacher/student relationship is founded on deep trust and respect that is the mutual responsibility of both parties to honor. However, the authority of the teacher carries with it an increased responsibility to avoid situations and actions that could result in harm to the student, the community or the teacher. I recognize that harm may result if a teacher and student become sexually or inappropriately emotionally involved, or if a teacher violates trust, or uses power or position for personal ends.
I commit to conduct relationships in accord with my sincere efforts to keep the bodhisattva precepts. Because of this commitment, the responsibility for maintaining appropriate and clear boundaries always rests with the teacher. I will respect and protect the personal autonomy of all students, and refrain from sexual involvement with students.
Should I as a teacher feel unable to uphold this standard, I will seek guidance and counsel from my teacher, a senior teacher in my lineage, and/or a senior teacher from the broader community. I recommend that the student involved also seek guidance.
Matters discussed in individual meetings with me as the teacher are kept in confidence, except as may be required by law. I may include the anonymous questions and comments of students made in private in dharma talks and discussions only with the prior permission of the student. Reciprocally, students are encouraged not to engage in idle talk about matters discussed in teacher/student meetings.
There may be circumstances in which it is necessary for a teacher to consult a professional for legal or psychological expertise. It may be necessary to disclose information in the context of such a consultation. Such consultations are also kept in confidence and are only undertaken in the interest of the sangha and the student.
I recognize that individuals in positions of confidence or trust must not misuse status or authority to achieve privileges or other consideration, or to inappropriately influence others.
If I am entrusted with handling funds or assets on behalf of practitioners, I bear responsibilty to provide accountable and transparent stewardship.
I recognize that in my position of authority, my behavior with drugs, alcohol and all intoxicants must be in alignment with my effort to keep the precepts. Abuse of intoxicants is an ethical violation and is subject to the procedures outlined below.
If a student has an ethical concern it may be addressed directly with me. It may also be wise to discuss it with senior students or with another qualified teacher to assist in discernment and in resolution of the concern.
If matters of importance are not informally resolved, a hearing panel may be convened to implement a formal process. The panel may consist of another teacher selected by me, a teacher selected by the student, and a third teacher selected by the two advising teachers.
As a teacher within the Zen Buddhist community I have a special responsibilty to ensure a safe teaching environment for my students and sangha members.
If a member has been found by the member's sangha to be in violation of its ethical guidelines, s/he must report this to appropriate authorities in accordance with state law and to the grievance committee of the SZBA for review.
Any member convicted of a felony will be subject to review of their membership by the grievance committee.
The members of the SZBA are committed to actively seek harmony within such differences as race, class, gender, age, ability, sexual orientation, and other forms of cultural identity.
As a member of the SZBA I agree to create and maintain respectful and collegial relationships with my fellow teachers.
I vow to refrain from evilI vow to live and be lived for the benefit of all beings.


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Jon Rosen February 11, 2019 0 CommentsMorning Skate Notes
INSIDERS. A bit of a busy Monday with the trade news. Let's get down to brass tacks. The LA Kings held an 11:00 a.m. skate at Capital One Arena and aligned thusly:
Iafallo-Kopitar-Brown
Leipsic-Amadio-Toffoli
Hagelin-Kempe-Kovalchuk
Clifford-Thompson-Lewis*
Forbort-Doughty
Martinez-Fantenberg
Phaneuf-LaDue
Notes!
–The vitals: *Nate Thompson has been traded. Trevor Lewis was spotted late in the skate working on faceoffs, and Austin Wagner returned to the room prior to the projected scratches, so expect to see a fourth line comprised of Clifford-Lewis-Wagner. This will be Lewis' first game after a 38-game absence caused by a fractured foot suffered during a pre-game skate in Chicago on November 16. Jonathan Quick was the first goalie off the ice and will be expected to start in net versus Washington, against whom he is 9-2-0 in his career with a 2.23 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage. Jeff Carter (lower-body) did not skate with the group and is "probably a few days away yet before he'd be back," per Desjardins, so there's no firm update there.
–Their vitals: Pheonix Copley will start in goal, per Isabelle Khurshudyan, who also noted forward groups of Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Wilson, Vrana-Backstrom-Oshie, Burakovsky-Eller-Connolly and Stephenson-Dowd-Smith-Pelly with defensive pairings of Kempny-Carlson, Orlov-Niskanen and Orpik-Djoos. The 6-foot-4 Copley, an Alaskan, played one season of minor hockey with the Simi Valley-based California Titans when he was 17. He has never faced the Kings in his career. The Caps are healthy and do not have anyone on injured reserve.
The Capitals are one of the "heavier" teams in the Eastern Conference and have done a good job meshing skill and speed with their traditional braun. "I think they've played the same way for a while," said Carl Hagelin, who faced Washington in the playoffs in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. "I think they had good structure for many years, and maybe a few extra guys might've bought into that, or it was just a matter of time. I don't think [last year] they had their best team out of the six years I played them in the playoffs, however they definitely bought in. I think their star players played their best hockey that they have in that playoff. I don't think they changed anything, to be honest. I guess it was just their time."
Hagelin really enjoys playing at Capital One Arena, citing the emotion and "a fun style of hockey where there's a lot of up and down." Excluding goalies, the Caps currently have 11 players who stand at least 6-foot-2.
"They've got some big guys, especially on D there. They've got guys that know how to play a hard game. It's always a tough game against them," he said. "Starting with Ovi as your captain, a guy who's heavy, maybe he doesn't hit as much anymore, but he's still tough to play against, and if he has a chance, he's going to hit you hard."
–Jonny Brodzinski (shoulder surgery) is getting close to a rehab assignment, which could come as early as this coming weekend, per hockey operations. He still needs another practice or two with contact, but once ready, he'll be placed on a conditioning loan in Ontario for three games with an option to extend the stay, similar to Gabe Vilardi's assignment earlier this season. Ontario has a home-and-home with Bakersfield this weekend – the Friday game is at Citizens Business Bank Arena – before hosting Stockton, San Antonio and Colorado next Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
Because his injury wiped away virtually all of his season, the Kings won't be able to retain his rights past July 1 in the absence of a new contract. Similar to Kevin Gravel last year, he will not have played the requisite games to become a restricted free agent, making him a Group VI UFA. If the Kings want to sign him, they'll be able to sign him, but there could be some competition if Brodzinski decides to use his leverage and wait to see if a slightly more lucrative or desirable contract comes about.
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–You always come away learning something from Dustin Brown, and on Monday morning, while discussing the team's practice habits and the physical and mental strain associated with longer road trips during the dog days of the season, he shared a little nugget that I found interesting.
You may recall that prior to the bye week(s), the Kings were dealing with some challenges in their attention to detail in practice and game situations – there was one particular morning skate prior to the home game versus Pittsburgh in which the detail was noticeably absent – and while answering a question about the team's improved forechecking and structure, he shared that the detail was something the team addressed prior to traveling east.
"That break, we addressed a few issues that we probably had as a group about our practices, and I think our practices have been better, and I think as a result we've been better in games," he said.
I asked Willie Desjardins if he felt there was a prior "lull" in the team's focus that had been corrected, and he shared something similar.
"When you watch it, it's hard to see. But if you practice hard enough, then games are easy, and I think for us, our practices weren't quite there, so when we got to a game, we'd have to step it up, and that's harder to do," Desjardins said.
"That was a long break. Maybe we did have a little bit of time to get away and reset ourselves. We just talked about structure. We talked about structure and getting back into structure. It wasn't a lot, and it wasn't that we did anything different. We just reinforced three or four points that we needed in each area. But it comes out of your leadership. We have good leadership, and those are the guys that make things happen, and they've been good here."
The structure and ability to exit their zone cleanly has raised their play of late, and even the pre-break play in which the detail may have waned was part of a stretch in which they've gone 12-7-2. But it was still interesting to hear that it was something that was noticed and addressed.
Anyway! Back to my original question to Brown. The mental part or the physical part – what's harder when you've already moved past a four-in-six and have been on the road for a week and a half?
"The physical part, you don't really notice it," he said. "We're all probably worn down a little bit, but that's part of the job and you just get through it. I think mentally it's more challenging in a game like this. On the road you can't be looking to get home. It's just a matter of staying focused on tonight, especially considering this might be our most challenging team we've played on the whole trip. It's two points that we need. It's just bringing awareness to being ready to go tonight."
–Brendan Leipsic will be my guest on the LA Kings Live pre-game show. Tonight's officials are referees Brad Watson and Brad Meier and linesmen Pierre Racicot and Mark Shewchyk. Thanks for checking in on a busy Monday, Insiders. Let's talk soon.
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Local drivers who continue to ignore school bus flashing red lights may soon be getting $368 fines in the mail.
Chilliwack RCMP reports a number of recent incidents called in by both bus drivers and other motorists regarding drivers failing to stop when students are boarding school buses.
Police say that because of these recent incidents, driving infraction warning notices are in the mail from the RCMP to registered owners of vehicles that fail to stop for school buses displaying their red flashing lights.
As police step up enforcement, warning notices will soon be replaced with violation tickets that carry a fine of $368.
RCMP urge anyone who witnesses erratic or reckless driving behaviour on our roadways to contact the Chilliwack RCMP at 604-792-4611 or, to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).


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Q: Question and answer activity on Stack Exchange: Interactive and customized edition This question relates to the following user activity on Stack Exchange and its network:

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*Best time to ask questions to get fastest answers

*Best time to ask questions to be more likely to get answers

*Time of posting (posts include both questions and answers)

*Number of views for questions created at particular time

I've done a simple research with the great https://data.stackexchange.com/ and have added the results as the answer below.
Knowing these facts won't change everyone's habits, but a possible 15-25% improvement in getting answers faster and better may still be interesting.
When not mentioned, the data comes from Stack Overflow, since it's the biggest subsite. You can analyze other subsites with tools mentioned in the first answer.
Notation
X-axis in the charts below denotes time: 1.0 is Sunday, 12 am GMT. For example, 3.5 means Tuesday, 12 pm GMT.

A: Three different stories
There's one thing to share about the most important number: the likelihood of getting an answer at all.
The likelihood depends on posting time, but in an interesting fashion. Stack Exchange websites exhibit different patterns. Just three graphs to illustrate (Axis X denotes time, 1.0 = Sun, 12 am GMT).
Stack Overflow
An expected pattern with smooth changes over the time: a 25% increase in the likelihood of getting an answer if posted in time.

Mathematics

Small jumps over a stable average probability of getting an answer. The probability is slightly higher on the weekends.
Ask Different
A twofold change in the probability in just 3 hours (between 5.0 and 5.5). These jumps seem to be data artifacts, but there's a noticeable trend of the probability increasing from 12 am to 12 pm each day.

A: To answer the above questions, I've prepared a few queries.
Queries

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*Best time to ask questions on StackExchange: Get answer faster

*Best time to ask questions on StackExchange: More likely to get an answer

*When to post to get more views

*When do we add most questions and answers?

*Average views per question in a given period
To get the data, press Run query and then choose "Graph" tab. Graphs look like this:

Features

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*You can get data for your account alone, so the stats become relevant exactly for your type of questions.

*You can use this across different StackExchange websites. See "Switch sites" on the query's page.

*You can change the frequency of data (within a day, week, or combined).

*Different time frames for the data: for data range and posting timeframes.

Facts from the data

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*You are 25% more likely to get an answer if you ask a question in the right time.

*You can increase the number of views of your question by about 15% if you post it at the best moment.

*62% of accepted answers are given within one hour after asking. 39% are answered within 15 minutes.

*In most cases, data shows same metrics even if taken from the 5-year activity.

Interesting moments
The probability of getting an answer increases with the average time-to-answer

That is, the time good for getting a fast answer is also the time when the probability of getting any answer is lower. Unlike an intuitive expectation that at some times community is active enough to answer questions and go this fast.
The average number of views gives a more explicit time-pattern for longer periods

The problem with that is: in the long-run these pattern of dependence should not arise because posts less and less depend on their posting time, as they are reached through search engines and cross-links.
And the one-year graph shows a very bleak dependence of views from posting time. Perhaps, that's one difference in behavior patterns that appeared over the years on SE.
Questions and comments
Your questions and corrections are welcome.
There're more interesting questions about the community's behavior. Hard to cover any significant fraction of them, but I hope to post more later.

A: I was asking myself the same question but wasn't able to find this topic. This lead me to create these two queries:

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*When post my question to maximize the answers?

*When ask a question to maximize views?
Since the queries above have parameters, I have decided to post these queries here as a no brainers.
Note: Unfortunately, my queries doesn't seemed to work with stack overflow (too many data, I guess). So, if you want to build a query who works, feel free to post it here.
Note 2: Depending on the site, resultats aren't the same. Don't forget to switch to the site who interest you before running the query.

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E-waste: Taking care of business
Despite increasingly diligent efforts to reuse, recapture and recycle, consumers often find that it�s cheaper and more convenient to junk an old or outdated piece of electronics than it is to fix or upgrade it. But as they as caught up in the glow of the pride of ownership of a new product, many buyers never think about what happens to that old equipment once it has been abandoned for newer models.
These discarded electronic products, also known as e-waste, often end up in landfills or incinerators instead of being recycled. That means toxic substances like lead, cadmium and mercury � all commonly used in the manufacture of electronics � can contaminate our land, water and air.
The United States generates more e-waste than any other nation, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. More than 4.6 million tons of it entered U.S. landfills in 2000, and that amount has been growing geometrically.
Some of that waste is recycled, and Brownwood area residents will have the opportunity to participate in such a program Saturday. Keep Brownwood Beautiful will sponsor a free citywide cleanup and e-waste collection from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. under the Austin Avenue over pass at Avenue A and Brady Avenue.
What might appear to be junk to many people still holds valuable materials. For example, steel, aluminum and copper are often stripped from outdated machines and reused in newer models. It�s an important but sometimes overlooked facet for people concerned with the environment, but Americans are slowly beginning to catch on. But other areas of the industrialized world are still far ahead of us.
Japan and the European Union have adopted progressive e-waste recycling laws. The European parliament recently approved two legislative mandates to require manufacturers to cover the recycling and collection costs for their own take-back programs. Meanwhile, Japanese electronics firms are acknowledged leaders in this area.
American citizens can step up and control the destiny of this valuable, and potentially hazardous, e-waste by participating in collection days such as the one scheduled in Brownwood Saturday. Today is the time to inventory storage rooms, closets, attics and corners where abandoned computers, monitors and other broken electronics have been left to gather dust. Gather them up, and take them in for recycling. Your part of the world will be less cluttered, and the world overall will be a better place.
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It�s not uncommon for the reported line number to be incorrect, because you�ve done something else incorrectly in your code that has no effect until Oracle tries to compile the line Eddie Awad | 25 Jul 2006 12:49 pm Amihay, that will be the subject of another blog post. If I run proc3 in SQL*Plus, I will see the following results: ERROR at line 1: ORA-01403: no data found ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.PROC1", line 4 ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.PROC2", line 6 ORA-06512: This is an excerpt from the book "High Performance Oracle Database Automation" by Jonathan Ingram and Donald K.
In previous releases this information was displayed using the DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_CALL_STACK function, as shown below. -- Procedure to display the call stack. Toggle navigation Articles Oracle 8i Oracle 9i Oracle 10g Oracle 11g Oracle 12c Oracle 13c Miscellaneous PL/SQL SQL Oracle RAC Oracle Apps WebLogic Linux MySQL Scripts Blog Certification Misc Forums Aggregator About Experts Red Gate Oracle Tools Log in All Things Oracle Full Articles Webinars Experts Database Dev App Dev DBA PL/SQL APEX Puzzles Error Handling Jan Leers on 06 December 2013 Senior MemberAccount Moderator Of course, the first question should be why do you use sqlerrm? "When others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm)"?
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l_depth LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line( RPAD(i, 10) || RPAD('ORA-' || LPAD(UTL_CALL_STACK.error_number(i), 5, '0'), 10) || UTL_CALL_STACK.error_msg(i) ); END LOOP; DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('***** Error Stack End *****'); END; / -- Run the test. l_depth LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line( RPAD(i, 10) || RPAD(UTL_CALL_STACK.lexical_depth(i), 10) || RPAD(TO_CHAR(UTL_CALL_STACK.unit_line(i),'99'), 10) || RPAD(NVL(UTL_CALL_STACK.owner(i),' '), 10) || RPAD(NVL(UTL_CALL_STACK.current_edition(i),' '), 10) || UTL_CALL_STACK.concatenate_subprogram(UTL_CALL_STACK.subprogram(i)) ); END LOOP; DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('***** Call Stack End *****'); END; / Before Oracle Database 10g Release 1, the only way to know the line number is to let the exception go unhandled in your PL/SQL code. They can be given a number and a name.
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Do Lycanthropy's added hit dice count as character levels for Vow of Poverty? Line Unit'); DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('--------- --------- --------------------'); FOR i IN REVERSE 1 .. Of course, there is always room for improvement, and in Oracle Database 10g, exception handling takes a big step forward with the introduction of the DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE function. Burleson, Series Editor.
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE p2 2 IS 3 BEGIN 4 DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('in p2'); 5 DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('calling p1'); 6 p1; 7 EXCEPTION 8 WHEN OTHERS 9 THEN 10 RAISE NO_DATA_FOUND; 11 ORA-06512: at line 21 ORA-01403: no data found" As you can see in the code of proc3, I have added a third parameter to the "RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR"-procedure, telling it to keep the Compute the kangaroo sequence Export The $PATH Variable, Line-By-Line How does NumPy solve least squares for underdetermined systems? Instead of calling and parsing the backtrace function in each exception section, I can call the bt.info function and report on the specifics of the error.
The following example shows the backtrace in reverse order. -- Procedure to display the call stack. Later on, I will explain this in more detail. Now that we have the line number, we can zoom right in on the problem code and fix it. On the other hand, we got this information by letting the exception go unhandled.
When the exception propagates to the outermost block, I call the backtrace function again, and this time it shows that the error was raised on line 11 of proc1. In previous releases this information was displayed using the DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_STACK function, as shown below. -- Procedure to display the call stack. Let's call p3: SQL> set serveroutput on SQL> BEGIN 2 DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('calling p3'); 3 p3; 4 END; 5 / calling p3 in p3, calling p2 in p2 calling p1 in p1, On the one hand, we should be very pleased with this behavior.
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It has long been recognized that higher rates of gun availability correlate with higher rates of female homicide. Women in the United States account for 84 percent of all female firearm victims in the developed world, even though they make up only a third of the developed world's female population. And within American borders, women die at higher rates from suicide, homicide, and accidental firearm deaths in states where guns are more widely available. This is true even after controlling for factors such as urbanization, alcohol use, education, poverty, and divorce rates.
In another study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, researchers interviewed 417 women across 67 battered women's shelters. Nearly a third of these women had lived in a household with a firearm. In two-thirds of the homes, their intimate partners had used the gun against them, usually threatening to kill (71.4%) them. A very small percentage of these women (7%) had used a gun successfully in self-defense, and primarily just to scare the attacking male partner away. Indeed, gun threats in the home against women by their intimate partners appear to be more common across the United States than self-defense uses of guns by women.
These facts should be as chilling to men as they are to women. A 2005 study examining mortality data from 1998-2000 found that when a female was shot by her intimate partner, the perpetrator subsequently killed himself in two thirds of the cases. This statistic not only shows necessity of getting mental help for at-risk men. It also further suggests that owning a firearm may make a household more vulnerable than ever.
Evan DeFilippis is an analyst with the Kenya-based nonprofit organization Innovations for Poverty Action. He writes about gun control issues at ArmedWithReason.com.


Following the success of his recent blockbuster film "Aquaman," Jason Momoa, the highest grossing DC Universe star, will be returning to Celebrity Fan Fest by popular demand. Additional celebrities will be announced in the coming weeks.
The "CARS as STARS" exhibition including a Bumblebee® replica car, Optimus Prime® replica truck and Barricade® of "Transformers," plus many more.
Event doors will open at 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Friday, June 14, 10:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 15 and 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 16.


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Primary school pupils love our interactive Hospice Heroes presentation, where they get the opportunity to be a doctor, nurse, chef or one of the many other professions who work here at the hospice. It gently helps them to develop an understanding of the work we do and the number of services we provide in South Devon.
For secondary schools and colleges, we can deliver talks to small tutor groups or large assemblies – whichever works best with your busy timetables.
These talks can be a useful tool in Citizenship classes and as a follow up, we ask pupils to consider undertaking a fundraising activity, such as a mufti day, bake sale or even adopting Rowcroft Hospice as their Charity of the Year.
It's not all about fundraising. We rely heavily on the generosity of people's time too and are always looking for volunteers to help at our various community events. There are many ways your students could invest in the future of Rowcroft Hospice.


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Home Columnist Why I annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election – lBB
Why I annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election – lBB
A former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, has revealed what former President, Olusegun Obasanjo told him about the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election.
Babangida, in an interview with The Crest, also said nobody gave him credit for the election.
The former Miltary leader spoke of the intricacies surrounding the election, and the details of what led to the annulment.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on June 12, 2018, tendered a national apology to the family of Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, presumed winner of the election, for the annulment of the election by Babangida
When asked why he failed to take the opportunity to support the 1993 democratic process, Babangida said, "Everybody said so. I agree. Even my boss, OBJ, told me that. He said you had an opportunity and if that had gone through properly, history would have recorded it as your greatest achievement.
"But then, we discussed at length what could have transpired. Again this: I will always talk about the Nigerian mentality. I think we are always anxious. We are always in a hurry.
"We want things to get done in the fastest time possible. I tried to go out and talk to the public on why we had to do this but we were overwhelmed with criticisms. Nobody wanted to listen."
He continued, "I think people who said that have not been fair to me because when we started the transition programme, I was in the media; I said we will be doing it step by step, by learning. Wherever we met a hiccup, we will stop, change it and move again.
"On this, I was honest with Nigerians. I told them that, and they would have judged me with what I said on that particular issue. But everybody wanted the military to just leave. But I did say it, that in the process of implementation, we may have a hiccup or mistake. And if we do, we would pause, correct it and then move on.
"Even the transition after the June 12, we gave a time span which again nobody was patient with. But we studied, we compared to either have a non-conventional election or a general election.
"And everybody said they wanted to see the country carry out a general election. And you can't just have a general election within seven days. You have to plan for it.
"Again, if people allowed us, we said there would be a general election in this country. I think Abacha came in November. Nobody wanted to listen. Everybody was tired. I appreciate that. I appreciate it.
"Yes, people were bored and we envisaged it and we said it. We warned you in advance that if this happens, this is our next step. And that led us to the famous June 12."
On whether he was threatened at the time by General Sani Abacha on being head of state, he responded,
"No, he couldn't have threatened me, to be fair to him. But I knew he wanted that job at all cost. You will be reading it…"
Speaking further on why he decided on the annulment, Babangida continued, "I have a conviction that if I get involved in building this environment, I wouldn't like to be seen as having the environment destroyed.
"That's number one. I wouldn't be part of the destruction. So, I either make sure I remain with it, and belong there, or a circumstance will come and, eventually, I will leave. When I leave, if it gets destroyed, nobody will blame me.
"I wouldn't declare the result if (Professor Humphrey) Nwosu declared the result. I knew deep into this that there were consequences which will not be fair to this country. I give an example: I took part in the management of PDP and I can't disown them because I'm part of them.
"I made an input into its emergence, and if you say it is the worst thing that could ever happen to the country, I cannot in all conscience sit down and say it is because I participated in it. If the transition failed, and I knew it would have fallen down, nobody would have been bothered. They will say no. I will feel guilty like after all I spent the money but it collapsed. My conscience will never forgive me.
"It was not a threat to my life but if it was a threat to my life, I have no problem. After all I have a bullet in me; there couldn't have been any greater threat than that. But my fear was: what would the country end up becoming. Could the country be better?
"This was what we sought to establish. Could it better? If the answer is no, then, I take the blame because I should have put in place certain measures that will make it good. What we wanted was an enduring legacy.
"I wouldn't say the evil was in the person who won the election, after all he campaigned for it, people saw in him what he stood for, and therefore decided to vote for him. It was the finest hour in Nigerian political history where people voted anyhow; not ethnically, religiously and so on. That was the finest moment in our political history.
"He (Abiola) was on the verge of winning that election. From what I saw, he was on the verge of winning that election, because by the time it was assumed that he won, officially, the official thing was not done. Results were still coming in, and it wasn't declared. So, I think I would be deceiving myself if I say he has won.
"The credit of not getting it right? You wouldn't give me; so, I accepted that I will not be given that credit no matter what I say."
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Michelle Magorian was born in Hampshire. As a child she spent as much time as possible in the King's Theatre in Portsmouth and her ambition was always to go on the stage.
Michelle studied drama, including some time studying mime in Paris. From there she launched into a professional acting career and spent a few years touring all over the country.
Besides acting, Michelle had always enjoyed writing and she wrote Goodnight Mister Tom in a novel-writing class. Details for the story came from her mother's tales about her time as a nurse in the Second World War. It took Michelle four and a half years to write Goodnight Mister Tom because she was also working in the theatre. Immediately after it was published it was a huge success, and the story has now been published all over the world and dramatised by ITV, and is now regarded as a modern classic.
Michelle's novel Just Henry, won the Costa Award for children's fiction in 2008 and was chosen as one of Radio Times' 12 Christmas Cracker treats.


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Q: Convert Mac-like keystrokes into Linux keystrokes (remap) I would like to configure my keyboard to work as close to a MacBook as possible.
Here are some examples of what I would like to do:
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I press stroke |  App receives stroke
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Alt-Shift-[       Ctrl-PageUp (move to previous tab)
Ctrl-Backspace    Delete
Alt-Left          Home (move cursor to beginning of line)
Super-Left        Ctrl-Left (move cursor left one word)
Super-Shift-Left  Ctrl-Shift-Left (select left one word)

(Note that usually Mac keyboards have Cmd where PC keyboards have Alt/Meta, and Opt where PC keyboards have Win/Super)
How could I go about this?

I have experimented in the past intercepting keystrokes with Fluxbox, and emitting keystrokes with xdotool.  The problem with this approach was that the app would see the original modifier key I had pressed down, unless I cleared it, in which case that would lose my input state.  And sometimes when I let go, X would think the modifier key was still pressed down.
For this reason, I think I need a high-level layer (in X or in the WM) that can completely hide my actual keyboard state from apps, and simulate the keystrokes that actually get passed down to apps.  (Something WM-independent would be great, but I could live with a WM-specific solution.)
For bonus points (I can live without this), make it possible to switch behaviour depending on the app that currently has keyboard focus:
Alt-C             Ctrl-Shift-C on gnome-terminal or konsole
                  Ctrl-C in other apps

I imagine some WM integration would be needed for this.


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Cosmological principle
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In modern physical cosmology, the cosmological principle is the notion that the spatial distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic when viewed on a large enough scale, since the forces are expected to act uniformly throughout the universe, and should, therefore, produce no observable irregularities in the large-scale structuring over the course of evolution of the matter field that was initially laid down by the Big Bang.
3 Implications
4 Criticism
5 Observations
5.1 Inconsistencies
6 Cosmic Dipole
7 Perfect cosmological principle
DefinitionEdit
Astronomer William Keel explains:
The cosmological principle is usually stated formally as 'Viewed on a sufficiently large scale, the properties of the universe are the same for all observers.' This amounts to the strongly philosophical statement that the part of the universe which we can see is a fair sample, and that the same physical laws apply throughout. In essence, this in a sense says that the universe is knowable and is playing fair with scientists.[1]
The cosmological principle depends on a definition of "observer," and contains an implicit qualification and two testable consequences.
"Observers" means any observer at any location in the universe, not simply any human observer at any location on Earth: as Andrew Liddle puts it, "the cosmological principle [means that] the universe looks the same whoever and wherever you are."[2]
The qualification is that variation in physical structures can be overlooked, provided this does not imperil the uniformity of conclusions drawn from observation: the Sun is different from the Earth, our galaxy is different from a black hole, some galaxies advance toward rather than recede from us, and the universe has a "foamy" texture of galaxy clusters and voids, but none of these different structures appears to violate the basic laws of physics.
The two testable structural consequences of the cosmological principle are homogeneity and isotropy. Homogeneity means that the same observational evidence is available to observers at different locations in the universe ("the part of the universe which we can see is a fair sample"). Isotropy means that the same observational evidence is available by looking in any direction in the universe ("the same physical laws apply throughout"[dubious – discuss]). The principles are distinct but closely related, because a universe that appears isotropic from any two (for a spherical geometry, three) locations must also be homogeneous.
OriginEdit
The cosmological principle is first clearly asserted in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) of Isaac Newton.[dubious – discuss] In contrast to earlier classical or medieval cosmologies, in which Earth rested at the center of universe, Newton conceptualized the Earth as a sphere in orbital motion around the Sun within an empty space that extended uniformly in all directions to immeasurably large distances. He then showed, through a series of mathematical proofs on detailed observational data of the motions of planets and comets, that their motions could be explained by a single principle of "universal gravitation" that applied as well to the orbits of the Galilean moons around Jupiter, the Moon around the Earth, the Earth around the Sun, and to falling bodies on Earth. That is, he asserted the equivalent material nature of all bodies within the Solar System, the identical nature of the Sun and distant stars and thus the uniform extension of the physical laws of motion to a great distance beyond the observational location of Earth itself.
ImplicationsEdit
Observations show that more distant galaxies are closer together and have lower content of chemical elements heavier than lithium.[3] Applying the cosmological principle, this suggests that heavier elements were not created in the Big Bang but were produced by nucleosynthesis in giant stars and expelled across a series of supernovae explosions and new star formation from the supernovae remnants, which means heavier elements would accumulate over time. Another observation is that the furthest galaxies (earlier time) are often more fragmentary, interacting and unusually shaped than local galaxies (recent time), suggesting evolution in galaxy structure as well.
A related implication of the cosmological principle is that the largest discrete structures in the universe are in mechanical equilibrium. Homogeneity and isotropy of matter at the largest scales would suggest that the largest discrete structures are parts of a single indiscrete form, like the crumbs which make up the interior of a cake. At extreme cosmological distances, the property of mechanical equilibrium in surfaces lateral to the line of sight can be empirically tested; however, under the assumption of the cosmological principle, it cannot be detected parallel to the line of sight (see timeline of the universe).
Cosmologists agree that in accordance with observations of distant galaxies, a universe must be non-static if it follows the cosmological principle. In 1923, Alexander Friedmann set out a variant of Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity that describe the dynamics of a homogeneous isotropic universe.[4][5] Independently, Georges Lemaître derived in 1927 the equations of an expanding universe from the General Relativity equations.[6] Thus, a non-static universe is also implied, independent of observations of distant galaxies, as the result of applying the cosmological principle to general relativity.
CriticismEdit
Karl Popper criticized the cosmological principle on the grounds that it makes "our lack of knowledge a principle of knowing something". He summarized his position as:
the "cosmological principles" were, I fear, dogmas that should not have been proposed.[7]
ObservationsEdit
Although the universe is inhomogeneous at smaller scales, it is statistically homogeneous on scales larger than 250 million light years. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is isotropic, that is to say that its intensity is about the same whichever direction we look at.[8]
However, recent findings have called this view into question. Data from the Planck Mission shows hemispheric bias in 2 respects: one with respect to average temperature (i.e. temperature fluctuations), the second with respect to larger variations in the degree of perturbations (i.e. densities). The European Space Agency (the governing body of the Planck Mission) has concluded that these anisotropies are, in fact, statistically significant and can no longer be ignored.[9]
InconsistenciesEdit
The cosmological principle implies that at a sufficiently large scale, the universe is homogeneous. Based on N-body simulations in a ΛCDM universe, Yadav and his colleagues showed that the spatial distribution of galaxies is statistically homogeneous if averaged over scales 260/h Mpc or more.[10]
A number of observations have been reported to be in conflict with predictions of maximal structure sizes:
The Clowes–Campusano LQG, discovered in 1991, has a length of 580 Mpc, and is marginally larger than the consistent scale.
The Sloan Great Wall, discovered in 2003, has a length of 423 Mpc,[11] which is only just consistent with the cosmological principle.
U1.11, a large quasar group discovered in 2011, has a length of 780 Mpc, and is two times larger than the upper limit of the homogeneity scale.
The Huge-LQG, discovered in 2012, is three times longer than, and twice as wide as is predicted possible according to these current models, and so challenges our understanding of the universe on large scales.
In November 2013, a new structure 10 billion light years away measuring 2000–3000 Mpc (more than seven times that of the SGW) has been discovered, the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, putting further doubt on the validity of the cosmological principle.[12]
In September 2020, a 4.9σ conflict was found between the kinematic explanation of the CMB dipole and the measurement of the dipole in the angular distribution of a flux-limited, all-sky sample of 1.36 million quasars.[13]
In June 2021, the Giant Arc was discovered, a structure spanning approximately 1000 Mpc.[14] It is located 2820 MPc away and consists of galaxies, galactic clusters, gas, and dust.
However, as pointed out by Seshadri Nadathur in 2013,[15] the existence of structures larger than the homogeneous scale (260/h Mpc by Yadav's estimation[10]) does not necessarily violate the cosmological principle (see Huge-LQG#Dispute).
While the isotropy of the universe around Earth is confirmed at high significance by studies of the cosmic microwave background temperature maps,[16] its homogeneity over cosmological scales is still a matter of debate.[17]
Cosmic DipoleEdit
As stated above, it is true that the cosmic microwave background provides a snapshot of an isotropic and homogeneous universe. Nevertheless, what is often not advertised is that there is a dipole anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. The amplitude of the dipole exceeds the amplitudes of the other temperature fluctuations, and for this reason, it is subtracted on the assumption that it is a Doppler effect, or simply due to relative motion. In recent years this assumption has been tested and current results suggest our motion with respect to distant radio galaxies [18] and quasars [19] differs from our motion with respect to the cosmic microwave background. The same conclusion has been reached in recent studies of the Hubble diagram of Type Ia supernovae[20] and quasars.[21] This contradicts the cosmological principle and challenges the assumption that the CMB dipole is simply due to relative motion.
This potential misinterpretation of the CMB dipole is hinted at through a number of other observations. First, even within the cosmic microwave background, there are curious directional alignments [22] and an anomalous parity asymmetry [23] that may have an origin in the CMB dipole.[24] Separately, the CMB dipole direction has emerged as a preferred direction in studies of alignments in quasar polarizations,[25] scaling relations in galaxy clusters,[26][27] strong lensing time delay,[28] Type Ia supernovae,[29] and quasars & gamma-ray bursts as standard candles.[30] The fact that all these independent observables, based on different physics, are tracking the CMB dipole direction suggests that the Universe is anisotropic in the direction of the CMB dipole.
Perfect cosmological principleEdit
The perfect cosmological principle is an extension of the cosmological principle, and states that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic in space and time. In this view the universe looks the same everywhere (on the large scale), the same as it always has and always will. The perfect cosmological principle underpins Steady State theory and emerges[clarification needed] from chaotic inflation theory.[31][32][33]
Background independence
Copernican principle
End of Greatness
Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric
Large scale structure of the cosmos
Metric expansion of space
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David Allen Column
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By Larry Altman | laltman32@gmail.com | Contributing Writer
April 17, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.
Billing it as a "Henry Pearson Memorial Game," they gathered Thursday in the sunshine in Manhattan Beach, the breeze blowing out to left field, and celebrated nine innings of a life.
About 500 people clad in Angels, Dodgers, Mets, Indians and Mira Costa High School Mustangs caps and jerseys joined together at the campus baseball field to pay tribute to the 25-year-old baseball fanatic killed last week by a suspected drunken driver.
And yet, it was all about laughter, stories, dust kicking up from the infield he once played on, a rousing rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," bags of peanuts tossed at mourners, and two former girlfriends talking about the perfect boyfriend.
"Henry was an outgoing person," his father said later, a smile on his face.
"He would have liked the attention."
For about 90 minutes, Pearson's friends talked about the boisterous young man who talked trash on the ball field to shake the opposing pitcher, knocked on the door of his uncle's former home at 2 a.m. to visit the new residents, and made frequent trips to New Jersey to visit the young woman he loved.
"My dad was like, `Who is this boy flying out from California?"' said Lauren Palmeri, who met Pearson while visiting Southern California several years ago. "My family had to change our long-distance plan when I met Henry. He was such an exciting and fun person to talk to. I'm really going to miss those calls."
Palmeri opened the memorial "game" by singing "The Star Spangled Banner."
After friend Steve Hershey said, "Play ball," the service got under way. Each speaker took an inning, describing the joyous moments they shared with Pearson.
Best friend Jian Boldi recalled the day he and Pearson watched a 2002 Angels playoff game while at school at Arizona State University. Angry when the station pulled the Angels off for a Diamondbacks game, Pearson grabbed Boldi and raced to the television studio to complain to the heads of the sports department.
Somehow they got inside.
"We gave them a piece of our mind," Boldi recalled. "He was my best friend. He was my brother. I know he knew, but I want to tell you: `I love you Henry."'
Pearson, a 2002 graduate of Mira Costa, spent the last night of life watching a game in a suite at Angel Stadium and died in a car with his friend, the game's starting pitcher. Shortly after leaving the stadium, suspected drunken driver Andrew Gallo, 22, of San Gabriel allegedly ran a red light in Fullerton and plowed into the Mitsubishi Eclipse.
Gallo fled, but was arrested about a mile away.
Besides Pearson, Courtney Stewart, 20, of Diamond Bar, and pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, died. Jon Wilhite, 24, Pearson's high school teammate and friend, remains hospitalized in serious condition in the surgical intensive care unit at University of California, Irvine Medical Center.
Although a pastor led the crowd Thursday in a prayer for Wilhite's recovery, none of the speakers at the memorial service dwelled on the horrific circumstances of what happened in the crash, barely mentioning it.
Instead, they spoke only of the good times, recalling a child whose father was an Englishman but who eschewed soccer to embrace baseball. As a young boy, SportCenter on ESPN became his favorite show, and the sports section his place to learn to read.
Still, his father said, he wasn't just a jock.
"He was the first to tell me about a young politician named Barack Obama," his father told the audience. "By that time, he had read all of his books."
After leaving Mira Costa, Pearson graduated from Arizona State and was attending law school. He was pursuing a career as a sports agent.
"He touched a lot of people in his short life," his father said.
Pearson's father, mother, Areta, and older sister Jessica, held a private service for the family on Wednesday.
"He may have left us early," Pearson's friend Steve Hershey said, "but he completed his nine innings."
Also on Thursday, about 800 mourners attended a funeral service for Stewart in Pomona.
Her uncle, Randy Dixon, described Stewart as someone who loved life to the fullest and lived it that way.
"This is about the celebration of the life of a beautiful woman," Dixon said.
Two slide shows chronicling Stewart's life backed up Dixon's statement. The first showed her from infancy to her final days as a sophomore at California State University, Fullerton, portraying her many interests from golf and softball to dirt bike riding and cheerleading. The second showed her love of country music.
Adenhart was buried Thursday in Maryland after a private service. Several members of the Angels attended.
larry.altman@dailybreeze.com
The Orange County Register contributed to this article.
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Larry Altman has covered crime and court proceedings in Southern California since 1987. A graduate of Cal State Northridge, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, Altman has worked for the Daily Breeze since 1990. The Society of Professional Journalists named him a "Distinguished Journalist" in Los Angeles in 2006. Altman's work was featured twice on CBS' "48 Hours" and he appeared eight times with "Nancy Grace," who called him "dear." He has covered hundreds of homicides and many trials. Altman has crawled through a mausoleum to open a coffin, confronted husbands who killed their wives, wives who killed their husbands, and his coverage helped put a child molester and a murderer in prison. In his spare time, Altman is an avid Los Angeles Lakers and Dodgers fan, is the commissioner of a Fantasy Baseball league with several other current and former newspapermen, runs a real estate empire and likes to watch old movies on TCM.
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