Hope Covenant & Elim Lutheran are co-hosting a Performing Arts Camp for the entire community!
Performing Arts Camp Lead Role Auditions!
Auditions for lead roles are being held on June 6th (by appointment only).
Contact Pastor Bill at bill@hopelakestevens.org or (360) 547-3559.
Make and bring in your favorite chili to share!
Cornbread and water will be provided.
Let's fill the table with lots of pots full o' chili!
Come join us for a special Christmas Eve Candlelight Service!
Bring your friends and family to help celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Messiah - It's About Time!
A humorous take on what would happen if Hollywood reality television tried to help along the birth of Jesus.
Invite your friends and family for this entertaining event put on by Hope's Youth Group Members!
The day we've all been waiting for! Okay, maybe it's just the day that Pastor Bill has been waiting for.
Hope rented out an entire theater just for us so we can all watch Star Wars Episode IV together -- no lines, no ticket hassles, no problem!
That was Wookie for "this is going to be epic!"
You'll want to get there early because we'll play some games ahead of time, do some trivia, and then all watch together. More details coming on pricing, how to get your ticket, etc.
It's our annual Trunk or Treat celebration on Halloween Night!
Start thinking about how you'll decorate your trunk for our special trick-or-treaters!
Invite all your friends to bring their kids to this spooktacular event!
6th-12th grade you're going to the Corn Maze!
This Sunday, meet at the Church/LSMS parking lot at 5:30. Cost is $12. Check the youth email for more details, or to volunteer to drive (we really need drivers!).
See Kendyll if you can drive!
Summer is coming to an end so we thought we'd have an End of Summer BBQ to mark the occasion.
Plus it's just a great excuse to get together!
Join us right after church across the street at the Jacks' house. You can leave your car parked at the church!
Hope Leadership Team is providing meat and drinks. Please feel free to bring a side dish or dessert, but it's not required. We just really want you to bring YOU!
Over the last several summers we have had the very fun opportunity to share Sports Camp with our community. It's been such a joy, and it's time again to look ahead to that opportunity this Summer.
Sports Camp meets several needs in Lake Stevens and the surrounding communities. It's an opportunity to help kids see that no matter what we do, we're able to do it for the glory of God. This is a Jesus focused week, and we know that makes a difference.
It's also a chance to give kids a fun, sports-based outlet for their energy during the summer. There are lots of Sports camps out there, but most are pretty expensive, and sports specific. We give kids a chance to try all kinds of different sports in a safe, fun environment. It's a great time.
All 3rd thru 5th graders are invited to go geocaching with us Sunday afternoon! We'll be meeting at Pastor Bill's house to start us off. Bring your bible if you have one. If you need a bible make sure to contact Beth Vickery.
Suicide is the third-leading cause of death among people ages 15 to 24. All across America, suicide "clusters" appear when one teenager's death starts a chain reaction. Young people tend to be impulsive and suggestible, so when a first death becomes romanticized, it can start a cluster of other suicides.
What might the church and Christians do to prevent such an outbreak of teen suicides? For starters, pastors, youth leaders, teachers and especially parents should discuss the subject -- even if it seems unlikely to occur among their kids.
Every year at Hope, in preparation for Easter, we encourage everyone connected to Hope to join a weekly small group for 6 weeks. These small groups meet in homes and there are options for every day of the week.
If you haven't signed up yet, you can do so at the reception desk at church!
Meet your small group leaders next Sunday, February 8th after service.
Don't miss out on this year's M.U.D. Retreat at Cascades Camp on Martin Luther King Weekend! The cost is $100. M.U.D. features an awesome worship band, a key speaker, and a ton of bonding games and activities!
Contact Kendyll for more details!
Sunday Sermon & Advent Wreath Party!
Join us this Sunday at 10:00 AM at Lake Stevens Middle School for service and fellowship. This Sunday will be extra special because we will be making Christmas Advent Wreathes immediately following service. Bring your friends and family with you and all join in on the festivities. We will have yummy food and lots of fun!


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Q: Prevent one from doing action if one is activated (C# UNITY) Good Day, I just want to ask if how can I do these.
I need to prevent one action from doing something if the another action is activated and vice versa . Here's the code i have written so far.
if (hit == "spr_player")
    {
        betOnPlayer = true;
        if (betOnBanker)
        {
            Debug.LogError("You already bet on the banker cannot bet on the player"); ;
        }
        else
        {
            if (betOnPlayer)
            {
                bet[0] = chip;
                chips_bet[0].enabled = true;
                Chips(chip, 0);
                Debug.LogError("Betting on the player");
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogError("You can not bet on the Player");
            }
        }
    }

else if (hit == "spr_banker")
    {
        if (betOnPlayer)
        {
            Debug.LogError("You already bet on the banker cannot bet on the player");
            betOnBanker = true;
        }
        else
        {
            if (betOnBanker)
            {
                bet[4] = chip;
                chips_bet[4].enabled = true;
                Chips(chip, 4);
                Debug.LogError("Betting on the banker");
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogError("You can not bet on the Banker");
            }
        }
    }

But the problem here is that I couldn't get to switch it on off . Could someone point out what I am doing wrong.

A: I guess your program is that first click is select target, second click is bet.
And when you set the flag to someone, you should also unset another one.
if (hit == "spr_player")
{

    if (betOnPlayer)
    {
        // bet on player
    }
    else
    {
        betOnPlayer = true;
        betOnBanker = false;
    }
}
else if (hit == "spr_banker")
{
    if (betOnBanker)
    {
        // bet on banker
    }
    else
    {
        betOnPlayer = false;
        betOnBanker = true;
    }
}

Another answer:
string currentSelect = "";

void Update() {

    if(YOUR_INPUT_EVENT) {
        if (hit == "spr_player")
        {
            if (currentSelect == "Player")
            {
                // bet on player
            }
            else
            {
                currentSelect = "Player"
            }
        }
        else if (hit == "spr_banker")
        {
            if (currentSelect == "Banker")
            {
               // bet on banker
            }
            else
            {
                currentSelect == "Banker"
            }
        }

    }
}

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Frequent question: What happens if a priest breaks the seal of confession?
What happens if a priest breaks a sacramental seal?
Can the seal of confession be broken?
Can a priest testify against you?
Can a priest refuse to give absolution?
What happens if you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
Are confessions admissible in court?
Can a priest testify?
Can a priest be a character witness?
Can clergy be compelled to testify?
Any priest who breaks the seal of confession is subject to the church's most severe penalty — automatic excommunication, revocable only by the Pope. The idea is that people will feel free to confess sins without fear.
The Catholic Church has traditionally taught that the seal of confession is absolutely inviolable under all circumstances. Breaking it for any reason is a grave sin punishable by excommunication.
Statements made to a minister, priest, rabbi, or other religious leader are generally considered privileged or confidential communications. State laws generally exempt a pastor from having to testify in court, or to law-enforcement, about what was discussed in a church confession.
Answer: In the rare cases when a priest refuses absolution, he needs to state why and offer the penitent a way forward. … If they indicate no willingness to try and cease committing the sin, the priest must withhold or delay absolution.
A false confession is an admission of guilt for a crime which the individual did not commit. … Hundreds of innocent people have been convicted, imprisoned, and sometimes sentenced to death after confessing to crimes they did not commit—but years later, have been exonerated.
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CONFESSIONS ARE ADMISSIBLE ONLY WHEN THEY ARE MADE VOLUNTARILY, AND THE BURDEN FOR PROVING THAT A CONFESSION WAS MADE VOLUNTARILY RESTS WITH THE PROSECUTION. … ANY STATEMENT OF A CONFESSIONAL NATURE RECORDED BY A POLICE OFFICER IS INADMISSIBLE IN EVIDENCE, EVEN IF THE STATEMENT HAS BEEN MADE VOLUNTARILY.
No such minister, priest, rabbi, or similar functionary shall disclose any communications made to him or her by any such person professing religious faith, seeking spiritual guidance, or seeking counseling, nor shall such minister, priest, rabbi, or similar functionary be competent or compellable to testify with …
The Gonzales court also added that "a clergyman may also be deemed to have waived any privilege and may be compelled to disclose confidential communication, if he testifies as a character witness for the confidant." … (b) General Rule of Privilege.
In states that have a clergy privilege, an ordained minister, priest, rabbi or other leader of an established church or religious organization is required to testify in a proceeding concerning anything that the penitent said which would be considered confidential in the religious leader's professional capacity and when …

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Matt Harvey absent from Mets workout, says he was stuck in traffic
Matt Harvey was noticeably absent from the Mets workout at Citi Field on Tuesday.
And it would seem the Mets have limited information as to his whereabouts.
Sandy Alderson said on Tuesday afternoon Harvey was indeed unaccounted for during today's workout, and there was a limited explanation as to why he was not present.
Alderson labeled Tuesday's workout as mandatory, but said he only had limited information as to the reason why Harvey wasn't at the workout, and would not comment further.
Harvey was stuck in traffic, Terry Collins explained on Tuesday, although Collins said it wasn't necessarily an excused absence.
"This is minor," Collins told ESPN New York's Adam Rubin. "This isn't college, where he's going to miss the first quarter of a football game. I'm going to take care of it in-house. I deal with it one way. The players deal with it another way. He's going to get fined. It's no big deal. He's going to continue to pitch. He f—– up. People do that. He feels bad. The players will take care of it on their own. We don't need it. We need to try to stay as positive as we can."
Collins told Harvey to not come to the ballpark, but Harvey showed up anyway.
Harvey acknowledged to the media he made a mistake not being with his team on Tuesday.
"Obviously today was not the greatest. The last thing I ever want to do is not be with my team. There's no excuse. I screwed up. I just truly screwed up."" he said in a brief statement.
Collins said the right-hander will be fined, and hinted later reporters this was more of a matter of tardiness than it was a traffic situation.
Asked about Harvey's absence, Mets captain David Wright said, "you'll have to talk to Matt. I am concerned about the guys who are here. The guys who are here had a great workout."
Harvey is still scheduled to start game three of the National League Division Series on Monday at Citi Field.
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"Limited information"?
The saga goes on. Let's just hope he is somewhere warm (LA), and resting up and not with Scott Boras.
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Self-quarantine lifted for Stevens Point School District family
Melissa Siegler
Stevens Point Journal
STEVENS POINT - The Stevens Point School District announced Wednesday afternoon that a local family that had self-quarantined as a precautionary measure amid growing concerns about the coronavirus is in the clear and the students will return to class Thursday.
The district had announced in a letter to parents earlier Wednesday that it was notified of the self-quarantine.
Superintendent Craig Gerlach said the issue has been resolved, but he declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding the self-quarantine.
The school district had told parents in the letter that schools will remain open as the Portage County Health and Human Services-Division of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate there is no confirmed case of COVID-19 in the community.
However, parents are asked to prepare for possible closures if there is a confirmed case and the virus continues to spread. The district said officials are working closely with the health department to monitor the situation.
Gary Garske, public health manager and Portage County health officer, said that the Stevens Point community should prepare for the virus to impact the community. He encourages people to follow the non-pharmaceutical preventative measures recommended by the CDC, such as washing your hands for 20 seconds, staying away from sick individuals and staying home if you're sick.
The health department also asks for people to self-quarantine for 14 days if they have traveled to areas where the virus has been confirmed.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point also announced Wednesday that it will extend spring break by one week and then suspend in-person classes at its campuses in Stevens Point, Marshfield and Wausau due to increased concern over the coronavirus.
Contact USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reporter Melissa Siegler at msiegler@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @Marie2Melissa.
UW-Stevens Point to extend spring break, suspend in-person classes at all 3 campuses
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Gene Smith Discusses Football, Crowd Sizes And More
By Matt McCoy May 21, 2020
Ohio State Director of Athletics Gene Smith spent about 50 minutes Wednesday talking with reporters about a variety of topics. Most of the call dealt with scenarios for the college football season in general and the Buckeye season in particular. The COVID-19 pandemic halted college athletics two months ago but there are positive signs that sports could be making a gradual comeback. Smith held the call just hours before the NCAA Division I council approved the resumption of voluntary athletic activities for football and men's and women's basketball beginning June 1. Ohio State will allow athletes back on June 8. It was a through and informative call with Smith, who talked about football scheduling scenarios, the possibility of partial crowds in Ohio Stadium and more. Here's some of the top headlines.
**On the possibility of partial crowds this fall: "Could we implement the current CDC guidelines, state guidelines around physical distancing, mask requirements and all those type of things in an outdoor environment and have significantly less fans than what we're used to? I think it's possible. I just feel like we have the talent and skill and the space capacity to provide an opportunity to a certain number of fans to have access to our particular stadium." Smith was discussing crowd sizes of around 20,000 but later on Twitter indicated it could be more than that.
**If a partial crowd plan was implemented, Smith was asked how Ohio State would determine who would get in from game to game: "We do have a diversity of constituency throughout our stadium so we'd have to make sure we look at each individual group---faculty, staff, students, donors, Varsity O, parents of athletes, media---all those different constituencies, we'd have to look at those and come up with strategies within those groups."
**Smith was asked about scheduling scenarios and whether current 12-game regular season schedules will have to be adjusted: "The perfect scenario, obviously, is that we have a national solution, where there's some consistency. For example, do we just play conference games and then what is that number? You would hope that there's a national consistency in that and that it ties into your post-season in some form or fashion and the selection criteria for post-season chances and accommodates that national solution. That is the best scenario."
**Smith talked more about the possibility that college football this season will be limited to only conference games: "It would be easier for us to make sure that we have the safest environment for our student athletes if we just competed against Big 10 schools. We're familiar with locker rooms, we're familiar with the hotels we're going to, we're familiar with the travel operations we have to employ, so those are easier but can we come up with a national solution where we have standards and protocols that everyone operates and implements wherever we go? I think it can be done but it's murky and messy right now."
**Smith was asked when conferences around the country need to make final decisions on what the college football schedule will look like: "We need to not rush this and I know everyone is anxious to do that but we need the opportunity for our medical experts to continue to collect data and see how our human behavior responds in the re-opening environment around the country. We need to allow that to cascade over time but I think somewhere in early July we need to have clarity in what we're doing."
There were many more interesting nuggets from Smith's teleconference. If you're interested in checking it out, you can hear all of it by going to the Ohio State website by clicking here.


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Blog on Spanish law
by Antonio Guillén
Interesting topics
DEATH, BANK STATEMENTS AND TAXES IN SPAIN
24 February 2014 AntonioGuillen
When the Spanish estate is not only made of properties
When inheriting assets in Spain, the first thing that comes to mind is property but the truth is that assets also involve bank accounts, shares and other type of properties such as a car or even a boat.
We have written various posts about the procedure of dealing with inheriting a residential property but not enough posts on a related matter like the money in the Spanish bank. These accounts are often used to pay utility bills and taxes related to the property. However, some people who have been living in Spain for long periods of time end up, understandably, gathering important amounts of money in the bank.
Whether you are dealing with an estate with both property and bank accounts or just a simple estate with a bank account, it will be necessary to contact the Bank in order to obtain a certificate showing the balance at the time of death. In certain regions of Spain, like the Balearic Islands, the bank will also provide you with a statement showing the transactions that took place in the 12 months before the death.
Banks generally will want to see the original death certificate, the certificate of last will and the last will of the deceased. Don't be surprised if the bank only accepts to release information to a beneficiary or to a person that holds power of attorney from a beneficiary. This is also applicable to lawyers. Contrarily to what happens in the UK, where the solicitor's word indicating that he/she is acting for the beneficiary or the personal representative is sufficient for the bank, the Spanish Banks will want to see a letter of authority or a power of attorney from the beneficiary to the lawyer. In certain occasions, the bank will only accept to release the information if the documentation is presented at his branch in person by the beneficiary or his lawyer! Finally, some banks will charge a fee for opening a "testamentary file" and producing the certificate, something that is clearly unfair and abusive and that should be challenged if demanded.
All the UK documentation, such as the death certificate, Grant of Probate and UK Will (if applicable) needs to be translated by an Official Translator and legalised with The Hague Apostille to be valid in Spain.
Once the bank is informed about the deceased's demise, the account will be frozen until the Inheritance Deed is signed and the Taxes paid. Once all this happens, the beneficiaries or the lawyer holding power of attorney will appear in person at the bank supplying the Inheritance Deed, the certification of the payment of the inheritance tax and they will sign a document agreeing the destination of the money, either transferring this directly to a UK bank account or keeping it in a Spanish account.
The above can seem complicated and the fact that each bank (and branch!) operates differently can make the whole procedure look far more complex than what it really is but in the end everything is down to providing the bank with the documentation requested and fulfilling its criteria so funds can be released as per the beneficiaries wishes.
Interesting topics, Wills and Probate Probate in Spain, Spanish bank accounts, Spanish law, Spanish lawyer in Birmingham, Spanish lawyer in Glasgow, Spanish lawyer in Leeds, Spanish lawyer in Liverpool, Spanish lawyer in Manchester
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5 thoughts on "DEATH, BANK STATEMENTS AND TAXES IN SPAIN"
Karen Seas - 15 August 2017 at 11:41 am
Thanks for the helpful information in the article Antonia, however La Caixa seem a particularly aggresive bank to deal with following a bereavement.
In the UK the process is relatively straightforward, yet in Spain, it seems like unfair commercial practice to extort money from customers at a time in your life when you are feeling most vulnerable. They charged me a fee for opening a "testamentary file". I am at a loss to understand why as its now 4 years on, and they are still witholding money from what was our joint account? I always thought that a joint account meant that both account holders could withdraw money at any time, even after the death of the other?
In addition, I cant understand why EU citizens should have to get death certificates translated and hague apostilled. Surely an official document of any EU country should be equally applicable in another?
AntonioGuillen - 23 August 2017 at 6:09 pm
Dear Karen,
Yes, some Spanish banks charge a testamentary fee and I agree with you that this fee is unfair and unnecessary as it does not guarantee that the bank account will be dealt properly. You will still have to do most of the work and provide the bank with all the necessary documents and forms, which is not an easy task.
Unlike in the UK, in Spain any monies in a joint account do not pass automatically to the co-holder of the account on his/her death. A probate process needs to be dealt with and banks are far from supportive with this process.
My advise would be to instruct a lawyer to help you with this process, specially if the deceased died outside Spain.
Let me know if you need any help.
Alistair - 2 April 2018 at 3:09 pm
Hi Antonio
Can you tell me the difference between the certificate of last will and the last will of the deceased?
AntonioGuillen - 3 April 2018 at 8:44 am
Hi Alistair,
All Spanish Wills are registered with a central Registry in Spain. When someone dies, the first step is to check the Wills Registry and obtain the certificate of last will. The said certificate will indicate whether the deceased granted a Spanish Will or not, and if he/she did, will then provide details of that will i.e. where and when it was signed and the name of the Notary.
Please bear in mind that only Spanish wills are registered in the central Registry. If the deceased had a UK will which dates after the Spanish Will, the former will not be registered. For this reason, the lawyer dealing with the Spanish estate needs to check the Spanish Wills Registry and also check the content of the UK will, if there is one, to ensure that no revocations have taken place.
I hope this proves of help. If not, please feel free to send me an email on antonio.guillen@gunnercooke.com for more information or advice.
Thank you Antonio, this clears things up as I have a copy of the Spanish will and there is no UK will.
Antonio Guillén
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Centurion joins the action for sidecar parade lap
30th June 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK News
It has the big-names, including multi-time World Champion Giacomo Agostini and 21 time Isle of Man TT winner John McGuinness but among them, on track, will be Ivy Mosely, a 100 year old lady who is an avid motorcycle enthusiast and keen Valentino Rossi fan. She will enjoying a parade passenger lap in a historic 1950 BSA 650cc A10 Golden Flash Sidecar outfit, which when it was first marketed in 1950 it sold for £213.12 shillings and weighed 405lbs.
The sidecar will be provided courtesy of the National Motorcycle Museum and former sidecar racing World Champion Colin Seeley will take Ivy for a lap, something he reckons "would be great fun, and he'd be absolutely delighted to do." Ivy, by the way, was not content with a telegram from The Queen, to celebrate her 100th birthday a few weeks ago, joining her grandson who is a test driver for McLaren for three laps of Silverstone, topping speeds of 160mph.
Ivy has always been interested in motorbikes; her father had bikes but would not allow her to have one. He said she liked speed too much and was too dangerous, and much to her annoyance he allowed her brothers to have bikes. Ivy has only one regret in life and that is that she never became a motorcycle racer.
In addition to providing a blast from the past, with the BSA sidecar, Seeley will also parade a brand new Rennsport BMW–Fritz Scheidegger replica outfit with his passenger Peter Crew.
And Alan Egley (79) who took part in the first race meeting at Mallory on the 15 May 1956 on his 250cc AJS will also be at the circuit for the race bike parades. Alan and his wife Margaret will be guests of honour during Sunday. Alan will enjoy a lap of his favourite circuit on the BSA 650cc A10 Golden Flash something he relishes: "I think I'd like that, in fact I think I'd really enjoy it."
The three day event features an autojumble on Saturday, a classic sporting trial organised by the Owd Codgers Motorcycle Club on Saturday when there will also be road-bike parade laps on the circuit, club stands to browse, a chance to discuss bike values and view classic machines with H&H Auctions while on Sunday there are race bike parade laps.
Live music, featuring BBC's The Voice finalist Sally Barker on Friday evening, and local rock and roll band the Del Sharrons on Saturday evening, plus a licensed bar add another dimension to the weekend. Chat shows add to the party atmosphere and to ensure that everyone attending can move around more comfortably than in previous years, a new gate and crossing point will be opened to allow access from the outer trackside area to the paddock, thus avoiding any congestion on the bridge across the start-finish straight.
For further details, call the Mallory hotline 01455 502214
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Sagamore Beach - Phyllis M. Foote passed away peacefully, on July 23, 2018, at Sunnybrook Assisted Living in Brunswick, Maine. She was predeceased by her husband, Harrison D. Foote, her son, Steven Foote, and her parents, Frederick and Elena Hackley of Newton and Cape Cod.
Phyllis attended Middlebury College, beginning her career as a chemist at Mass. General Hospital, and ending her career as a Sr. Financial Consultant at Digital Equipment Corp. Most of her married life she lived in Acton. Phyllis and Harry retired to Sandwich in 1987. She was a member of the First Church, in Sandwich; she was an avid golfer, well into her late 80s; and she enjoyed playing bridge several times a week.
Phyllis is survived by her daughter, Judith Mulligan, and her granddaughter, Sarah Mulligan, of Portland, Maine. A memorial celebration will be held at a later date.


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Q: Interpreting Password Entropy Calculation – Property of Character Entropy I was reading this explanation on how to calculate the entropy of a password. The article is great and it explains it very succinctly that even I understood it.
According to the site, if you have a password that has only lower-case characters, you will have a pool of 26 possible characters from the English alphabet. Paraphrasing it further:

Entropy is calculated by using the formula $\log_2 x$, where $x$ is the
  pool of characters used in the password. So a password using lowercase
  characters would be represented as $\log_2 26 \approx 4.7$ bits of entropy per
  character.

If I remember correctly, this logarithmic expression can be algebraically expressed as $2^x=26$: $x$ being the '4.7 bits of entropy per character'. Why? What is the property that makes the value to which the base is powered to be the entropy of a character?

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In binary, you only have two bits; thus encoding a character which can take 26 values requires $\lceil\log_2 26\rceil$ bits, since the number of possible different elements encoded using $b$ bits is $2^b$, and you need this to be at least $26$ to cover all possible distinct 26 characters. This explains why the $\log_2$ shows up here: it is to cover the space of all possible elements (if the alphabet had $a$ different characters instead of the $2$ bits of binary, it'd be $\log_a 26$).

A: The "entropy" is a measure of the amount of information in a message (the name comes from many of the formulas having an uncanny resemblance to the ones in statistical mechanics for entropy). And customarily "information contents" is measured in bits (2 options), thus the "power of 2" and "logarithm of base 2" which show up all over the place. If martians measure information in trits (3 options), they'll have formulae with 3 all over.


In Indonesia we have limited separation of state and religion, strong Ulema councils and also pluralism, democracy and fair elections, says Syafiq Hyasim, founder of Rahima Foundation. He researches theological answers 'within' Islam. Specifically, two issues: women's rights and polygamy and the necessity to train female ulemas.


Tor is open-source software for anonymous communication. It enables users behind the firewall of their ISP or country to access to the wider internet and can thus act as a very empowering tool. Additionally, it hides browsing behavior from your ISP or whoever else is listening in on your connection. To enable this, traffic is routed through several nodes within the Tor network, which also makes surfing a bit slower.
While Tor is quite capable of connecting Tor users to the outside world via so-called exit nodes, there is a much nicer way to access content inside Tor: hidden services. Traffic to and from Tor hidden services never leaves the Tor network and, as a result, has stronger privacy guarantees as well as increased performance. It also enabled both the server and the client to remain anonymous.
Content hosted on the default .uber.space domain is automatically made available as a hidden service as a sub domain of onastroidst6krpn.onion. For example, content on https://isabell.uber.space is also reachabe via http://isabell.onastroidst6krpn.onion.
Content on other domains is currently not accessible as a hidden service, but can of course be accessed normally from inside the Tor network. This is mainly due a difficulty in matching requests: all requests from SOMEONE.onastroidst6krpn.onion go to SOMEONE.uber.space, which makes for a rather simple and roboust setup. While we could implement more sophisticated matching like my.domain.com.SOMEONE.onastroidst6krpn.onion, we have currently chosen not do so.
You can of course host your own hidden service inside your uberspace to serve other content.
Your username is contained in the site domain, which makes it clear, who is responsible for the provided content. Since uberspace only allows legal content to be hosted on our servers, this should not be of much concern to most users. In some cases, you might benefit from the extra anonymity, though. If this sounds like you, a different solution might be a better fit.
We hold the private key to our onion address and could thus theoretically alter or drop any content or requests. We will of course not do so; with a notable exception being abuse handling. While this is rather obvious, we still wanted to point it our here.
Our hidden service currently only supports HTTP (without the S). Since the traffic never leaves the Tor network, this isn't much of a problem. We'd like to provide HTTPS anyway, since it would provide additional authentication, but we are currently not able to do so. This is mainly due to high pricing of certificates for .onion domains as well as Let's Encrypt not supporting them.
If any of those points constitute a deal breaker for you, you are of course free to not use our hidden service and host your own inside your uberspace.
Tor makes it impossible to identify which source IP address is sending requests to your site. This is by design. Without some extra effort, it isn't even obvious that a request passed through the Tor network at all. However, requests that arrived on our hidden service and where then proxied through to your uberspace bear a X-Uberspace-Via-Hidden-Service HTTP header. Keep in mind that this header can be faked very easily. Requests containing the header might come from the hidden service. Requests not containing the header certainly did not pass through the hidden service.
Since V2 onions and their SHA1/RSA1024 tech is a little dated, we also offer a V3 onion address: ahcbagldgzdpa74g2mh74fvk5zjzpfjbvgqin6g3mfuu66tynv2gkiid.onion. It can be used just like the V2 one.


One of the most exciting things any expectant parent can do is set up their brand new little one's bedroom. Certainly, for most pregnant women I know, decorating the nursery before baby arrives is a rite of passage; having something prepared physically gives a tangible element to what is happening unseen in our ginormous bellies.
Not all mums and dads can do this, for a range of reasons. I wasn't able to do this as a result of severe pelvic instability. For five long months I lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking of all the things I wish I was doing to get ready for my bubba, in my fantasy world of pregnancy.
In all my years of singledom, and those early fantasies of starting a family when I fell for my man, I had an idyllic vision of what I might be like as a pregnant Beck. I would be walking, changing my yoga to suit my growing belly, still going to parties and gigs and the footy "to get baby used to noises," and crafting my little hand-knitted socks off.
By week eight of my pregnancy, this vision began to blur. Then by week 16 it was edited and left on the cutting room floor as I finished work early and began a regimen of icing my poor pelvis every 2 hours, getting a breakfast/lunch/snacks picnic from my lovely husband for they day, researching mobility aids for me instead of knitting patterns for my little one.
Toward the end of my pregnancy, I had little choice but to ramp up the painkillers to start preparing my body for childbirth. One thing, mercifully, that I began to be able to do, was to sit up in a chair for about 20 minutes at a time, resting in between for a few hours.
So, with this new found time, I decided to sew!
I found this gorgeous tutorial over at this wonderful blog that showed the loveliest, easiest way to make bunting. As I couldn't paint the walls, a small-scale project that would add some colour into the room seemed a great idea.
My hubby would set up my sewing machine for me, and I'd maneouvre the wheelchair in under the table, and sew. Slowly, deliberately, not always very well, but it was the most exciting thing in the world for me to be doing something creative, productive and for my soon to be baby.
With some of the left over fabric, I covered some stretched canvas frames, in an effort to cover more of the walls.
Of course, being the crazy lass I am, now that bub is here and I am well on the road to recovering my mobility, I've decided that the colours "just don't suit baby," and I'm going to make some more in the cooler colours that my little angel seems to sit with so comfortably. And when I do, I'll most definitely share the project with you!
If you have kidlets, how did you set up your nursery? Before or after baby was born? Did you make anything for your little bundle? I'd love to hear your stories!


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DWLA's Annual Awards Reception honors trailblazers in the legal community. The prestigious Raggio Award is named for DWLA co-founder and Dallas legal pioneer Louise Raggio, who was the first female prosecutor in Dallas County history and who helped develop the Texas Family Code. Each year, the organization presents the Raggio Award to someone who has demonstrated the highest levels of professionalism while making significant contributions to the advancement of women attorneys.
We are now accepting nominations for DWLA's 2019 Awards Reception for the following categories:
DWLA Louise B. Raggio Award
This award was established in 1992 in honor of Louise Raggio, one of the founders of the DWLA who graduated from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 1952 and was a mentor and champion of women lawyers in Dallas. The DWLA Louise B. Raggio Award recognizes a person demonstrating the highest level of professionalism and who has contributed significantly to the advancement of women attorneys. The recipient may be a female or male attorney who has been practicing law for at least ten (10) years in the DFW area.
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Outstanding legal proficiency and the highest level of professional ethics; and
Contributions to the advancement of women attorneys; and
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High resolution photo of nominee.
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DWLA has established the "Outstanding Female Corporate Counselor" Award to recognize an outstanding female lawyer in the DFW area who has worked inside a corporate legal department for a minimum of five (5) years.
Two letters of nomination on behalf of the attorney that describe the attorney's significant professional accomplishments and provide examples of her contributions to her corporate employer; and
A resume of the attorney; and
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DWLA has established the "Outstanding Female Lawyer" awards to recognize two outstanding female lawyers in private practice. An award will be given to a female lawyer in a mid to large law firm (25 or more attorneys) and a female lawyer in a small firm or solo practitioner (fewer than 25 attorneys) in the DFW area.
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Two letters of nomination on behalf of the attorney that describe the attorney's significant professional accomplishments and examples of leadership in the community and/or her firm;
Date of the attorney's admission to the Bar; and
Deadline for nominations is April 5th.
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Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation
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Discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.
Explore how your own mind works, and discover how the limitations of the human brain can lead to major miscarriages of justice. Despite advances in forensic science, eyewitness testimony remains a critical component of criminal investigations. Psychological research has revealed the dangers of relying on evidence gained from an eyewitness and also how careful the police need to be when questioning witnesses. Using videos of real witnesses and from cameras that go behind the scenes of a police investigation, this course explores the psychology of eyewitness testimony. You will get the chance to test your own cognitive skills and to see whether your powers of investigation are as good as a crack squad of police officers, as you try to solve a crime using nothing but evidence from eyewitnesses. You can use the hashtag #FLforensic16 to join and contribute to Twitter conversations about this course.
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A lightweight game framework for making 2D games with minimum friction, inspired by Love2D.
A trait defining event callbacks. This is your primary interface with ggez's event loop. Implement this trait for a type and override at least the update() and draw() methods, then pass it to event::run() to run the game's mainloop.
The default event handlers do nothing, apart from key_down_event(), which will by default exit the game if the escape key is pressed. Just override the methods you want to use.
Called upon each logic update to the game. This should be where the game's logic takes place.
Called to do the drawing of your game. You probably want to start this with graphics::clear() and end it with graphics::present() and maybe timer::yield_now().
The mouse was moved; it provides both absolute x and y coordinates in the window, and relative x and y coordinates compared to its last position.
The mousewheel was scrolled, vertically (y, positive away from and negative toward the user) or horizontally (x, positive to the right and negative to the left).
A keyboard button was pressed.
A keyboard button was released.
A unicode character was received, usually from keyboard input. This is the intended way of facilitating text input.
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A gamepad button was released; id identifies which gamepad. Use input::gamepad() to get more info about the gamepad.
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Called when the window is shown or hidden.
Called upon a quit event. If it returns true, the game does not exit (the quit event is cancelled).
Called when the user resizes the window, or when it is resized via graphics::set_mode().


So we're both sat on the bow in the sunshine the other day. Dave was fishing, I was reading, all was serene and peaceful. Imagine the shock when still water suddenly turned to white water. (Grab the raft).
Well I reckon he saved it's life because back in the real world there actually was a big bugger loitering about probably trying to eat it. He (Dave not Fred) would've much preferred to catch the REAL whale, but "missed the boat" as it were. (Puny puns rule and all that).
Of course I got the blame re: "The one that got away," because I was in the middle of telling him about this daft dream I'd had. So he was laughing when the drama unfolded.
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Here's the default controller layout for the upcoming patch for "Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars". You'll be able to modify it to your liking! The game controller is quickly becoming our preferred way of playing the game!
We're getting closer and closer to wrapping this patch up. It's been a big one!
"…however, when the wagon rounded the bend, the freshly painted, beautifully restored covered bridge was not at all where the trio of travelers' eyes fell.
The blood drained fully from Lady Harper's face, and Lord Harper's breath caught in his throat. Behind them, atop the burlap tarps, Ms. Anderson fainted dead away, almost falling over the edge of the cart entirely.
In the middle of the road, but above it by the height of a full-grown man, there hovered an apparition. But no apparition about which had ever been written in books or whispered in dim firelight.
It was translucent, but colorful. Colorful is a poor word to describe it, however. Light shone from with it, light from a spectrum never before seen by human eyes. The colors that composed this ghostly being were not from this world.
It was formless, and yet constantly changing shape. It was amoeba. Medusa. Jellyfish.
People are talking about Arkhangel!
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We are extremely excited to announced that "Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars" is now available on Steam for PC & Mac!!
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Winter Night Games, LLC has announced that its first game, Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars, will be released on Steam for Windows and Mac platforms on Friday, July 27th, 2018.


I love this video as it highlights the CHOICE that mindfulness provides to us once we have practiced (and practiced and practiced) to strengthen the muscle (ok…not really a muscle) that allows us to pause and come back to the present moment. You have triggers, urges and actions…three separate entities! You can have an urge to scream without screaming. You can have a thought that cake would taste REALLY good right now…without eating the whole cake. You can notice a desire to call in sick and stay home…without acting on it! Or you could act on it in a healthier way: compose yourself and tell the other person how their comment affected you, have an appropriate portion sized piece of cake, take a sick day and pamper yourself…don't just stay in bed.
Regardless of the scenario, mindful awareness of the moment (and the contained emotions, urges, thoughts, etc) allows us to pause and make an intentional choice of how to respond. Let's become less reactive and more responsive. Imagine how much less time you would spend cleaning up the messes that you make in an emotional reaction!
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Album Reviews: Three from Little Richard
country, r&b, rawk, reissue, review
Quite recently, Omnivore Recordings reissued a pair of long out-of-print Little Richard albums, The Rill Thing and King of Rock and Roll. The first was an impressive updating of Little Richard's style into soul, and the second was an only-sometimes-successful attempt at making a thematically cohesive album. But there exist more albums from that era
30 Days Out, November 2020 #2: Samara Jade, G. Love, Amanda Anne Platt, The Krüger Brothers
Americana, country, folk, hip hop, live shows
We're back to actual live shows, with restrictions. Livestream fatigue set in rather quickly, didn't it? Turns out humans need to be together. But hey: we've gotta do it safely until a vaccine is ready. With that in mind, here are some highly worthwhile shows coming to Asheville in the next 30 days. Two locally-based
30 Day Out, November 2020 #1: JJ Grey & Mofro, Russ Wilson, Empire Strikes Brass, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Americana, blues, country, jazz, live shows, soul
Is it November already? How did that happen? Things aren't much better with regard to the pandemic, but we're all continuing to find our way forward with regard to things like live music. The four artists covered below – two local to Asheville, two actually on tour – have found ways to bring live music
He Wrote That Song, Too: A Conversation with Steve Dorff (Part Two)
country, interview, pop
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: Writing for film and television has very strict rules of its own, having to do with song length and a lot of other things. Is composing within those kind of constraints more difficult, or is it a case of, "Hey, I enjoy the challenge," kind of like doing a
He Wrote That Song, Too: A Conversation with Steve Dorff (Part One)
Even if you follow popular music very closely, you may not be familiar with Steve Dorff. But it's almost certain that you've heard his music. That idea – that his relative anonymity stands in contrast to the high profile of his work – spawned his 2017 memoir, I Wrote That One, Too: A Life in
30 Days Out, August 2020 #1: Robin Bullock, Cliff Eberhardt, Eleanor Underhill, Christy Lynn
Americana, country, folk, live shows, new release
Two steps forward, one (and sometimes two) back. The United States' continued failure to contain the spread of COVID-19 is having more and more lasting effects. Beyond death and permanent health effects, countless businesses have shuttered. Here's hoping most of those closures are temporary. Here in Asheville we've already lost one beloved music venue. The
30 Days Out, July 2020 #1: Blake Ellege Band, Rocky MTN Roller, Life Like Water, Mr. Jimmy
blues, country, folk, live shows, new release, psych, rawk
Once again it's time for a look at live music events in and around Asheville in the coming 30 days. And for the first time since early March (and those mostly ended up canceled) there are some actual live-and-in-person performances to spotlight. That said, caveats apply. (1) Will these shows actually happen? Who knows!? Best
30 Days Out, June 2020 #2: Hearts Gone South, Angel Olsen, Natural Born Leaders, The Get Right Band
country, folk, hip hop, indie, new release, prog, psych, rawk
If you're at all like me, you may have noticed this phenomenon: when you take on a new task, you stumble as you learn your way through it. And by the time you finally figure out the most efficient and effective way to do it, you're nearly done. Perhaps that's the case with musicians and
Checkin' in with The Christy Lynn Band
country, interview, new release, vinyl
This is the first of three short features on Asheville-based artists releasing new albums in March 2020. Working in the country idiom, Sweetheart of the Radio is the debut release from the Christy Lynn Band. Christy Lynn Barrett describes her music as "meaningfully kitschy." She laughs when asked to explain what that means. "I like
Album Review: Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters — Christmas on a Greyhound Bus
Americana, country, holiday, new release, review
When an artist releases an album (or EP) of holiday music, it need not be designed to fulfill an obligation to a label. It also needn't be a placeholder while a creatively spent artist treads water, waiting for the muse to return. And it doesn't have to be a schmaltzy, pandering and overly sentimental collection


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Scotland's Football Revolution of Recent Years
Scottish Review, May 6th 2015
The last few years have seen the natural order of things disrupted in Scotland.
The once dominant force in the land has been humbled, its traditional place and authority usurped by others, and a series of ineffective and incompetent leaders have promised salvation and then not delivered.
This is the story of Glasgow Rangers, although there are similarities with the recent experience of Scottish Labour. And yet until the last six months or so of the indyref, the big news story of our country was not political, but about Rangers.
To some people this was a period of joy: celebrating the toppling of the famous and once powerful Rangers. This was particularly true of Rangers haters, some of who were Celtic fans and some of who were fans of Scotland's other forty senior clubs fed up at the predictability of the Old Firm's historic stranglehold.
To most if not all Rangers fans this was a profound period of loss, of feeling uncomfortable and disorientated. All that Rangers fans had been told over the last two decades turned out to be untrue or built on shaky foundations: in particular, the success and excess of the David Murray years.
What seemed to be missing from part of Scotland was any real emotional insight or intelligence from non-Rangers fans into the human cost of what this all took out of good Rangers fans. And the prevalence of those who got visible enjoyment out of other people's discomfiture and misery.
It has been a hurly burly topsy-turvy couple of years. When Rangers began life again in what was Division Three in 2012 a vociferous section of Rangers supporters took pleasure from the thought that they were going to waltz through the lower divisions undefeated winning everything. Not only that but upon their return to the top flight, they would be debt free, conquer all their by now enfeebled opponents, and return to their rightful place as champions.
It didn't work out at all like that. Rangers did win the lower two leagues in consecutive seasons. Apart from that it hasn't been plain sailing – on or off the field. Of the twelve trophies Rangers competed for since liquidation in July 2012 they have won a mere two: a not very impressive success rate.
As I write the Championship (for the uninitiated the league below Scotland's top league, the Premiership) has concluded for season 2014-15. It is still possible that Rangers could claw their way back to the Premier through the play-offs. If this does occur, and even if it doesn't, it is going to be important to learn from the experiences and some of the positives which the last few years have revealed.
Take this salutary fact. April 27th 1985 – 30 years ago – is the last time a non-Old Firm team has won the main league. That was so long ago it was Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen.
We have now witnessed thirty years of Celtic and Rangers dominance – the longest ever period in the history of Scottish football. This makes a mockery of the game as any serious contest, and yet it is beyond the intelligence of the many highly paid administrators and managers to even begin talking about ways that the game could become more of a genuine competition. That would aid everyone – strengthening Celtic and Rangers, the other clubs, and producing a more attractive product for fans, sponsors and TV deals.
Human beings need novelty, change and new stories. The Rangers implosion, fan revolt against a stitch up, and then return of Rangers to the game via Division Three has produced all of this. That's without getting into the internal drama which gone on inside the Ibrox boardroom and the revolving door of dodgy characters: Craig Whyte, Charles Green, the Easdales, Mike Ashley, and now Dave King.
One of the most positive aspects of this whole period has been how it has produced a welcome variety in TV coverage of the game. Instead of the same old stale diet of televised highlights and live games, focused on a few teams in the Premiership, TV crews have showcased Rangers through the lower leagues.
This has given national coverage to some of Scotland's small grounds and teams such as Brechin City's Glebe Park with its legendary Victorian hedge, Stenhousemuir's Ochilview, Albion Rovers Cliftonhill and many more. It has showcased more regularly the big small grounds such as Palmerston Park, home of Queen of the South, Falkirk Stadium (where Falkirk play), and Raith Rovers Stark's Park.
Much of this coverage has been on BT Sport; but BBC Alba also deserves credit in recent years for its coverage of the smaller teams including junior football. This past season, with Hearts, Hibs and Rangers in the Championship, has seen 'BBC Sportscene' extend its coverage, frequently showing highlights of all three big teams in the lower league.
Here's a thought from the experience of the past three years. When as is inevitable, either next season or the season after, Rangers return to the top league, maybe the TV authorities could learn from this. The lower leagues of our country provide what the Premiership has long failed to offer: namely, variety, unpredictability, drama, excitement and suspense. Plus in most years genuine competition for winning each league.
Will the TV authorities, BBC Scotland, BBC Alba and BT Sport, learn from this? Or will with Rangers safely back in the top berth they sigh a collective breath of relief and return to the stale old packages and the circus of regular Old Firm matches?
That's what the leading football authorities led by Neil Doncaster and Stewart Regan, respective heads of the Scottish Professional Football League and the Scottish Football Association, want. These two men have in the last three years shown a singular lack of belief and confidence in the quality and marketability of the game. They believed in 2012 that a top league without Rangers was a near to worthless proposition to TV authorities, and negotiated a deal which was almost an apology.
A more imaginative approach would be to use the experience of the last few years: the journey to small grounds with their magic, history and atmosphere, and the profiling of a whole host of teams and supporters who have previously been off the radar, and learn. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the football authorities and TV saw the successes of this and instituted a sustained programme of matches from the divisions outside Scotland's Premiership?
That would require some intelligence and insight from the personnel responsible for the administration of the game, and for all Doncaster's and Regan's MBA pseudo-business speak, no such qualities have yet been seen.
Scottish football isn't just about the Old Firm. Indeed, the financial pressures of the game at the highest level have meant that before Rangers imploded, Celtic and Rangers suffocated the rest of the Scottish game with no real sustained domestic challenge to them since Aberdeen and Dundee United in the mid-1980s, but at the same time our two biggest clubs have grown weaker and weaker in terms of competing in Europe.
Indeed, if the old inadequate order reinstated itself years from now people are going to look back on the Scotland of 2012-15 and see a brief window of uncertainty and unpredictability and get a bit nostalgic about it. In these years, in cup competitions a host of clubs have experienced success: Aberdeen, Hearts, St. Johnstone, St. Mirren and Kilmarnock. This year's Scottish Cup Final is between Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Falkirk.
A different order would see the people who run the game know that restricted trade and oligopoly are bad for business. It would see Celtic and Rangers have the insight to understand that if they stay in the Scottish game that they gain, not by weakening their opponents, but by strengthening them and facing genuine competition.
But in the 120 plus years since Scottish football professionalised and the rise of the Old Firm occurred, neither of our two biggest teams or the football authorities has grasped this. We can but dream and hope; and ask that we don't go back to the stale old order. Whatever happens at least we will still have the memories, of clubs like Kilmarnock and St. Mirren winning cups, and of tiny Albion Rovers and Alloa Athletic holding, and in the latter case, beating Rangers. In the last few years, we have seen why football can be so intoxicating; it would be good if the football authorities understood this basic fact.
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Press Records Show Joe Biden Is The Least Accessible President In Modern History
By: David Keltz
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As of December 1, Joe Biden has done just 18 media interviews in the entire year, while Donald Trump had already done 89 at the same point in his presidency.
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One of the most infuriating parts of Joe Biden's presidency—aside from his stupefyingly disastrous policies of open borders, unscientific tyrannical COVID vaccine mandates, energy job-killing executive orders, socialist inflationary spending, and a disgraceful exit from Afghanistan—is the mere fact that he is the least accessible president in modern history.
According to the American Presidency Project, a database compiled at the University of Santa Barbara that tracks presidential interactions with the media, Biden has had the fewest number of solo or joint press conferences of any president since Bill Clinton's lame-duck year in 2000, a year in which Clinton traveled to 22 different countries, including to India, Pakistan, Egypt, Japan, Germany, Russia, Nigeria, and Vietnam.
The only places Biden seems to travel to are his homes in Wilmington or Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he's been at least 25 times (as of October 27) and where he can remain as invisible as possible.
Biden also has the distinction of setting the presidential record for the most number of days (64) without holding a single news conference since taking office. The next highest president on that list is George W. Bush, who waited 33 days before giving his first press conference. Former President Donald Trump held his first press conference just 27 days into his presidency.
Biden is now on record as having held six solo "press conferences," but even that number is misleading, considering that he almost exclusively calls on pre-selected reporters (who need to be granted access to the East Room by his handlers) and often appears to have the answers to their softball questions written down ahead of time.
As of Nov. 20, Biden had held just nine combined solo or joint press conferences in his first ten months in office, and he still has yet to step foot inside the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, where more reporters would be able to ask him questions. By comparison, Trump held 21 combined solo or joint press conferences in his first year in office, including a whopping 35 solo press conferences in 2020.
While Biden has made a habit of hiding from the White House Press Corps, his handlers have also rarely allowed him to do any interviews. As of December 1, Biden has done just 18 media interviews in the entire year, while Trump had already done 89 during the same point in his presidency. Former Presidents Barack Obama (141), George W. Bush (44), Clinton (53), George H.W. Bush (46), and Ronald Reagan (46) all did significantly more interviews during the same timeframe of their presidency.
When Jen Psaki, Biden's chief White House propagandist, was recently asked about reneging on her multiple promises that Biden would soon do more interviews, here is how she responded: "I would very much like that to happen. We are always competing with time on the schedule. I'm going to be honest, his schedule has been quite packed. But he would like to do it. We would like to get it on the schedule. So, I don't have anything to predict or preview for you at this point and time, but hopefully, we will be able to add some local interviews in the next couple of weeks."
Apparently Biden is much busier than Herbert Hoover, who averaged 67 press conferences during the heart of the Great Depression from 1929-1933, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who found time to average 59 solo press conferences between 1940-1945 in the middle of something called World War II.
Considering that Biden has presided over the worst immigration crisis in U.S. history with more than 2 million foreign citizens set to illegally enter the United States this year, skyrocketing homicides in Democrat-run cities, a Consumer Price Index that is up 6.8 percent in the last year (and at its highest point in 39 years), a supply chain crisis that shows no signs of slowing, and a U.S. Embassy, along with billions of dollars worth of weaponry, that is now in the hands of the Taliban, one would think the American people deserve some answers from their president.
Is it really a surprise that a new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll has Biden's approval at just 41 percent, compared to 55 percent who disapprove of performance? The same poll also found that just 29 percent of independents approve of his performance, even though he received support from 54 percent of that crucial demographic in the 2020 election.
Yet even with these abysmal poll numbers, every indication from the White House communications office to the American people heading into the midterms in 2022 is that nothing will change. Biden's handlers will continue to trot the president out every few days to read scripted remarks from a teleprompter while he adds to his now 76 executive orders before scurrying away from reporters faster than Usain Bolt.
This is what "unity" and "decency" looks like in Joe Biden's America.
David Keltz is the author of "The Campaign of His Life" and "Media Bias in the Trump Presidency and the Extinction of the Conservative Millennial." His writing has been published in The American Spectator, RealClearPolitics, the American Thinker, and the New York Daily News, among others.
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They are all so cute! The colorful ones make me want spring to come quickly.


JENKS, Okla. – Visitors at the Oklahoma Aquarium should expect to see a new exhibit later this year and a new feature at the site next year.
Right now, staff at the aquarium are working on a new octopus exhibit.
"It's a clear acrylic tank, so you'll be able to see it from all directions, and it's going to be themed kind of steampunk," said Kenny Alexopoulos, chief operating officer of the aquarium.
Alexopoulos says all of their exhibits are built by the majority of their own staff, making everything you see unique.
"It's a great deal. It makes it very unique because when you walk through our facility, everything you see is one of a kind," he said.
FOX 23 reports the aquarium's octopus has already been moved to the Denver Aquarium as work begins on the one in Jenks.
Plans for a half-million dollar, all-accessible playground, are also in the works.
"Hopefully that spurs other development that we are kind of brainstorming about – anything from amphitheaters to a splash pad to maybe a phase two playground," said Alexopoulos.
The octopus exhibit is expected to open in the fall of 2019, while the playground is set to open in early summer of 2020.
Officials say fundraising and donations are the backbone of new developments at the aquarium.


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Kasu Irukkanum () is a 2007 Tamil language thriller film directed by R. Kumaran and Priyavan, produced by R. P. Poorani, and editing by P. Mohanraj. The film stars newcomer Vishwa, Payal, Nanditha Jennifer, Laksha, Kadhal Sukumar, Arul, and K. Bhagyaraj, while J. Livingston, Anusha, Singamuthu, Kovai Senthil, and Bonda Mani playing supporting roles. The film had music by Kavin Saradha and Raj Shankar, cinematography by R. K. Kumar, and editing by P. Mohanraj. The film released on 4 May 2007.

Plot

Ashok (Vishwa), Ani (Payal), Viji (Nanditha Jennifer), Divya (Laksha), Pravin (Kadhal Sukumar) and Tharun (Arul) are good friends, and their only aim in life is to make money. They steal from banks, hijack container trucks, and rob rich people. They had been actively sought by the police. The police inspector Manikkavel (J. Livingston) is charged to catch them. The friends on the run travel from town to town and are later hosted by a mysterious man named G. R. (K. Bhagyaraj) in his bungalow. The fugitives introduce themselves as youngsters who were lost in the woods.

Ashok and Ani then fall in love with each other, and they decide to get married. Viji, who was secretly in love with Ashok, is heartbroken. In the past, Ashok was a MIS final-year student in Harvard University. When his parents died, Ashok came to his native city, where he realized that his parents were killed by his greedy uncle for inheriting his family's wealth. The innocent Ashok was then sent to a mental asylum by his uncle, his lover, and his best friend who betrayed him for money. Ashok escaped from the mental asylum and killed all three. That day, he realizes that money is the most important thing in life, and so he became a thief.

Thereafter, Divya and Tharun were found dead far from the bungalow. Viji suspects their host G. R. for killing her friends and stabs him with a knife. G. R. confesses that he did not kill them. He also told that his sister Mahalakshmi (Anusha) was killed in the same way. Ashok and Ani reveal to Pravin that they were the murderers, and they murder him. Ashok and Ani wanted to vanish, so they killed their partners who were the only witnesses of their crimes, and their last target is Viji. When Ashok tries to kill Viji, she confesses her love for him. Ashok then changes his mind and accepts her love. Ashok then poisons Ani's drink, and she dies by drinking it. The police finally found their hiding place. Ashok and Viji eventually escape from there.

Ashok and Viji settle in a remote place with their caravan. Viji attempts to kill Ashok for murdering her friends, but she fails and the psychopath Ashok chokes her to death. G. R. tracks Ashok down and tries to murder him for killing his innocent sister, but the police arrive at the right moment and shoot Ashok dead.

Cast

Production
The film producer G. Ramachandran, who has previously produced Manu Needhi (2000) and Sound Party (2004), introduced his son Vishwa as the film's hero. There are three pairs in the film Vishwa, Kadhal Sukumar, and Arul as heroes and Payal, Nanditha Jennifer, and Laksha as heroines. K. Bhagyaraj signed on to play an important role. J. Livingston, Muthukaalai, Singamuthu and Vadivelu David were chosen to act in supporting roles.

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composers Kavin Saradha and Raj Shankar. The soundtrack, released in 2007, features 6 tracks with lyrics written by G. R. and Asura.

Reception
A critic said that Kasu Irukkanum is just another film. Another critic wrote, "Debutant Vishwa (his home production) makes an effort at playing a role with dark shades" and labelled the film as "poor".

References

2007 films
2000s Tamil-language films
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2007 directorial debut films
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Difficulty: Overall, I would rate this pattern as suitable for an intermediate crocheter, because of its complexity, although it would not be too difficult for a beginner.(Chain stitch, Single crochet, half double crochet, Double crochet, Treble, slip stitch).
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Purse frame (9 cm.) and textile cotton.
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Кертвуд Сміт (; 3 липня 1943) — американський актор.

Біографія
Кертвуд Сміт народився 3 липня 1943 року в місті Нью-Лісабон, штат Вісконсин. Батько Джордж Сміт, мати Мейбл Аннет Лунд. Навчався в середній школі Canoga Park, штат Каліфорнія. У 1965 році отримав ступінь бакалавра в коледжі Сан-Хосе, штат Каліфорнія. У 1969 році отримав ступінь магістра образотворчих мистецтв у Стенфордському університеті.

Кар'єра
З 1970-х років Кертвуд Сміт став виступати як театральний актор. Потім відправився в Лос-Анджелес і почав зніматися на телебаченні і в кіно. Знімався у таких фільмах, як «Спалах» (1984), «Робот-поліцейський» (1987), «Спілка мертвих поетів» (1989), «Зоряний шлях 6: Невідкрита країна» (1991), «Фортеця» (1992), та телесеріалах «Шоу 70-х» (1998—2006), «Воскресіння» (2014).

Особисте життя
26 червня 1964 року дружиною Кертвуда стала Сесілія Соуза, у 1974 році вони розлучилися. У них народилося двоє дітей: син Шеннон Сміт і дочка Лорел Гарнер. 5 листопада 1988 року його дружиною стала Джоан Пайркл.

Фільмографія

Фільми

Телебачення

Посилання

Уродженці Вісконсину
Кіноактори США
Телеактори США
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The day is young in Washington, so we'll keep an eye out if the President adds to the storm in the coming hours.
.@GovMikeHuckabee "Your paycheck is bigger, your pension is stronger." @foxandfriends Unemployment numbers are better than they have been in 50 years, & perhaps ever. Our country is booming like never before – and it will get even better! Many companies moving back to the U.S.A.


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Google May Face Antitrust Hearings In Senate
Erick Schonfeld	@erickschonfeld / 10 years
Google is constantly under antitrust scrutiny these days, whether it's for large acquisitions into new markets such as its proposed ITA deal or for its general dominance in search. The company has faced antitrust investigations in Europe. But now Google faces possible antitrust hearings in the U.S. Senate .
Senator Herb Kohl (Democrat from Wisconsin), who is the Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, announced his subcommittee's agenda today for the 112th Congress. One of the planned agenda items is a probe into Google's "dominance over Internet search" and "allegations raised by e-commerce websites that compete with Google that they are being treated unfairly in search ranking, and in their ability to purchase search advertising."
That would primarily be the online travel industry and its "FairSearch" consortium which is trying to block the ITA deal. In general, Google doesn't buy too many e-commerce businesses—the failed attempt to buy Groupon notwithstanding. And ITA itself is more of an information services company than a pure e-commerce company, but the deal could certainly impact online travel purchases.
Here is the language from the Senator's release, pertaining to the issue it wants to address:
Competition in Online Markets/Internet Search Issues
Access to the wealth of information and e-commerce on the Internet is essential for consumers and business alike. As the Internet continues to grow in importance to the national economy, businesses and consumers, the Subcommittee will strive to ensure that this sector remains competitive, that Internet search is fair to its users and customers, advertisers have sufficient choices, and that consumers' privacy is guarded. In recent years, the dominance over Internet search of the world's largest search engine, Google, has increased and Google has increasingly sought to acquire e-commerce sites in myriad businesses. In this regard, we will closely examine allegations raised by e-commerce websites that compete with Google that they are being treated unfairly in search ranking, and in their ability to purchase search advertising. We also will continue to closely examine the impact of further acquisitions in this sector.
The thing is that I don't think anyone has alleged that Google's travel search results is treating competitors unfairly. The argument is that it could end up treating them unfairly. It's all hypothetical at this point. Of course, if the Senate does decide to hold antitrust hearings (at this point no specific hearings are scheduled, it's just an agenda item for the subcommittee), the discussion will no doubt range far beyond e-commerce into all sorts of other antitrust arguments.
Now, if Eric Schmidt becomes Commerce Secretary, for which side will he have to testify?


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RADICAL FACE: Indie Pop-Folk Artist's 'The Family Tree: The Roots' Hits #20 on Billboard Top New Artist Chart; Heads To East Coast After Sold Out Shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Posted on October 19, 2011 by MSOPR
DT: OCTOBER 19, 2011
RADICAL FACE:
INDIE POP-FOLK ARTIST's SOPHOMORE ALBUM
'THE FAMILY TREE: THE ROOTS'
HITS #20 ON BILLBOARD TOP NEW ARTIST CHART
SET TO HIT THE EAST COAST
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 IN ARLINGTON, VA AND
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 IN NEW YORK CITY AT WEBSTER HALL STUDIO
AFTER SOLD-OUT SHOWS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES LAST WEEK
PERFORMANCE AND INTERVIEW
SET TO AIR ON NBC TV's "LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY"
LATER THIS MONTH
"GHOST TOWNS" NAMED TOP DOWNLOAD THIS WEEK BY
Pictured above Ben Cooper, aka RADICAL FACE. All photos by: Jacob Gaitan.
Indie pop-folk artist RADICAL FACE's sophomore album THE FAMILY TREE:THE ROOTS (Bear Machine) has garnered a series of impressive chart debuts, entering at #20 on the Billboard New Artist Chart, #90 on the iTunes overall chart, #3 on the iTunes Singer-Songwriter chart and #2 on the Amazon Folk Chart. NYLON magazine has already named RADICAL FACE's new song "Ghost Towns" off of THE ROOTS… a Top Download, http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=7045.
After sold-out shows in Los Angeles (Bootleg Theater) and San Francisco (Brick & Mortar) last week, RADICAL FACE is poised to hit the east coast this Saturday, October 22 in Arlington, VA (Rock Spring Church) and on Tuesday, October 25 at New York City's Studio at Webster Hall. RADICAL FACE–who has generally shied away from traditional live performances–is giving U.S. fans a rare concert experience with his unique live show encompassing a full backing choir accompanying him on his fall trek. West coast fans were wowed with the intimate yet animated set that transcended the usual boundaries. Fans that could not make one of BEN's select gigs this fall will catch a glimpse of this uncommon artist later this month when an intimate performance and interview is set to air on NBC TV's "Last Call With Carson Daly," date TBA.
Hauntingly beautiful and glimmering with folk pop, THE FAMILY TREE: THE ROOTS is gaining critical praise. NPR Austin said the "Songs are lyrically heavy, dealing with life, death, murder, love, and everything in between. Cooper makes it all fit together with melodies that straddle the line between pop and folk. It's those blurred boundaries between old and new that make Radical Face worth listening to. The album's first single, 'A Pound of Flesh,' is a dark cut that nevertheless bounces along on a bed of acoustic guitars and Cooper's intimate voice. The lyrics are characteristically descriptive, but it's the song's wordless chorus that's truly the highpoint." –Art Levy (9/29/11).
Ben performs with the Easterly Singers Choir at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles.
After four years of honing the album concept, which depicts the life and tribulations of a family from the 1800's, BEN recorded THE FAMILY TREE: THE ROOTS alone in a tool shed and limited the songwriting to instruments that would have been accessible in the 1800's. Incorporating piano, acoustic guitar, a floor tom, and voices, he only brought in additional instruments of the era during tracking when needed. From soaring tracks like "A Pound of Flesh" and "Severus and Stone," to eerily dark pieces like "Black Eyes" and "Kin," to warm, enlightening gems like "Always Gold" and "Mountains," the songs flow together with mindful artistic clarity, allowing the listener to fully escape into the album as the stories unravel.
Here's more critical acclaim for RADICAL FACE:
"While the assorted hand-claps, tinkling of the ivories and strums from the guitar create a lush landscape, front and center is Cooper's vocals, sweet and pure on 'Black Eyes,' soaring on 'Severus and Stone' and hauntingly beautiful 'Ghost Towns.' The Roots is the first in a three-piece installment that focuses on the 'Family Tree' theme. I can't wait to get my hands on the next two!"
–Sarah Benzuly, Mix, 10/2011
"With storytelling at the core of this beautifully crafted and sonically haunting collection, this record has all the makings of an indie classic, in the best way. Think Band Of Horses meets The Shins circa Garden State, with the depth and imagination of a talented raconteur."
— Hits Magazine, 9/2011
"As one-half of the Morr Music duo Electric President, Ben Cooper traded in the kind of electro-pop melancholy that made the spines of Postal Service fans tingle. But his diet is more organic when he works alone as Radical Face, whose rapturous folk music is as stirring as it is conceptual. His 2007 album Ghost was based on the idea that houses are inhabited by the events that have taken place in them, and the songs on his forthcoming second record "The Family Tree: the Roots" (out Oct. 4 on his own Bear Machine Records) — recorded in a toolshed behind his mother's house in Jacksonville, Fla.–revolve around a strange, fictitious family from the 1800s. Guitar, piano, simple percussion–and ideas…"
–Kevin Bronson, BuzzBands.LA 8/5/11
"With both buzzy feedback in 'All is Well (It's Only Blood)' and simple, un-experimental, folky harmonies in the final track, 'We're on Our Way', Cooper illustrates his evolution as a musician and grasp on quite a few genres as well. A surprising and exciting change, in fact, as it is one of the first times a more folk-inspired, almost back-country Cooper has peeked from behind a curtain of distortion. Awesome."
–Abby Ross, Knox Road, 9/2011
BEN COOPER, AKA RADICAL FACE thoroughly entertains the rapturous Los Angeles crowd.
Catch RADICAL FACE on tour across the globe:
DATE CITY VENUE
U.S DATES
Sat 10/22 Arlington, VA Rock Spring Church (w/Yorktown Vocal Ensemble)
Tue 10/25 New York, NY Webster Hall Studio (w/Cloud Family Singers)
EUROPEAN DATES
Tue 1/24 London, UK Lexington
Thu 1/26 Paris, France Point Emphemere
Fri 1/27 Vannes, France Echonova
Sat 1/28 Cognac, France West Rock
Sun 1/29 La Roche Sur Yon, France Fuzz Yon
Tue 1/31 Brussels, Belgium AB Club
Wed 2/1 Amsterdam, Netherlands Bitterzoet
Thu 2/2 Groningen, Netherlands Vera
Fri 2/3 Hamburg, Germany Prinzenbar
Sat 2/4 Berlin, Germany Roter Salon
Sun 2/5 Cologne, Germany Studio 672
Tue 2/7 Munich, Germany Atomic Café
Wed 2/8 Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland Amalgame Club
Thu 2/9 Baden, Switzerland One Of A Million Festival
www.radicalface.com
www.facebook.com/RadicalFace
RADICAL FACE
"Pound of Flesh" video on American Songwriter: http://www.americansongwriter.com/2011/09/video-premiere-radical-face-pound-of-flesh/
For RADICAL FACE publicity, contact MSO:
Libby Coffey: 818-380-0400 ext 224 LCoffey@msopr.com
Michele Stephens: 818-380-0400 ext 227 MStephens@msopr.com
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Towards2030-dialogue Regional Workshop was organised in Budapest by REKK within the framework of Central and South East Europe Energy Policy Forum: Regional vision of EU-level renewable energy governance and effort sharing for 2030.
This Policy Forum provides a unique opportunity for high-level ministry representatives and other relevant stakeholders to remark on the conceptualization and outlook of regional renewable energy target setting for 2030. The Keynote Speaker was Jos Delbeke, Director General for Climate Action of the European Commission.