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Spain: Government should accept all UN UPR recommendations on freedom of expression
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The undersigning organisations call on the Government of Spain to accept the 20 recommendations on freedom of expression made by other member states during the 3rd cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Spain's human rights record, which took place on 22 January 2020 in Geneva. Most of the recommendations call on the Spanish Government to decriminalise defamation, repeal restrictive laws on the grounds of religious insult, and amend unduly limitations on the right to peaceful assembly.
UN States' recommendations focus on the need to ensure that the protection of the right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly is compliant with international and European human rights standards. In particular, the recommendations highlight the need to reform the Spanish Penal Code, the Law on Citizens' Security (the so-called gag law) and the Internet-shutdown Royal Decree Law 14/2019 which currently do not meet international standards.
We urge the Spanish Government to accept all recommendations related to freedom of expression which were made in our own UPR shadow reports on these issues submitted ahead of the review. These recommendations represent critical commitments to uphold Spain's international human rights obligations.
In our reports, we also called for the following specific revisions of the Criminal Code:
• to limit criminal prosecution to cases of direct and verifiable incitement to the realisation of terrorist acts and eliminate indirect and broad abstract forms of glorification or justification of terrorism;
• to reform the Penal Code to ensure that provisions on incitement comply with international human rights law on freedom of expression, in particular by ensuring a specific intent requirement in Article 510(1)(a), and limiting the criminal offence to incitement to violence or discrimination, and by repealing Article 510(b) and (c);
• to repeal provisions on the crime of humiliation, contempt and disregard for victims of terrorism, to ensure full compliance with international human rights law.
We also underline the need to reform the gag law (Law on Citizens' Security) in a manner that prioritises the respect and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; and the Transparency Act to recognise the right of access to information as a fundamental right. In this regard, we reiterate the General Comment no. 34 that recalls that the principle of national security cannot be used to "suppress information of legitimate public interest that does not harm national security, to prevent the public from accessing this information or to prosecute journalists (…)"; and it states that "Article 19, paragraph 2 embraces a right of access to information held by public bodies".
We welcome that the reform of these laws has been announced by the newly formed Government in Spain in its political manifesto and we will follow-up with Spanish authorities to ensure that concerns related to freedom of expression are included as part of its revision.
We remain concerned over the restrictive environment for freedom of expression in Spain and the misuse and restrictive interpretation of laws in cases concerning protected expression under international human rights law:
• We draw particular attention to a recent case against the Spanish illustrator, Toni Galmés, accused of insult and calumny (injuria y calumnia) by the trade union of the National Police, JUPOL Baleares, for drawing a comic representing protests of the Catalan independence referendum of 2017, also known as 1-O. We remain concerned that this case is yet another example of a restrictive interpretation of freedom of expression standards in Spain, contributing to the creation of a chilling effect against free expression in the country.
The adoption of the UPR report is scheduled in June 2020, and we will continue to monitor the process and expect Spain to show its commitment to freedom of expression by accepting all related recommendations. We stand ready to assist with the timely implementation of these recommendations.
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
International Press Institute (IPI)
PDLI
Access Info Europe
Federation of Journalist Trade Unions (FeSP)
"Legal regulation and digital citizen participation" Research Group from the Complutense University of Madrid
Read this statement in Spanish.
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The thing is, the Parisian waiters and taxi drivers who aren't nice to tourists aren't nice to anybody, ever
The French love their summer traditions
notes Stephen Clarke
– the Bastille Day parade, for example, when the Champs Elysées is covered in tanks and soldiers and the air overhead rumbles to the sound of jet fighters, while, down in the residential marquee, arms buyers from all over the world note the serial numbers and hand in their orders. Another one is the annual attempt to break the record for the longest-ever traffic jam, when almost everyone in the nation gets in their car and tries to drive along the same stretch of autoroute at the same time, having a quick rest in the south of France and then repeating the record attempt in the other direction.
A lesser-known summer tradition is the regular campaign to suggest that the French, and the Parisians in particular, need to be nicer to tourists. Every year, newpaper articles and TV shows do shock-horror features about unfriendly waiters, hotel receptionists, taxi drivers and shop assistants. I often get to join in the fun. Several times over the past few years I've been invited by French TV crews to go out and prove that Parisian waiters are all bastards. When I object that they're not, the TV people say, "don't worry, we'll find some", or "you can annoy them so much that they turn bad".
Once, I agreed against my better judgement to sit down at midday at a table that was laid for lunch and order a coffee, an act of folly that will usually result in the waiter asking me to sit elsewhere, preferably in another café. I used to get annoyed about this, but now I understand.
… This year, the city of Paris has decided to annoy all its waiters, receptionists, taxi drivers and sales assistants at once by sending them a booklet explaining that they have to stop being nasty to tourists. This will almost certainly be counter-productive. Those who are generally nice to tourists will take offence, while those who aren't will take revenge.
… The thing is, the Parisian waiters and taxi drivers who aren't nice to tourists aren't nice to anybody, ever. They're genetically grumpy and you're not going to change them. As for the others, well, tourists simply need to be aware that the concept of 'the customer is always right' doesn't exist here. The rule in Paris is that the tourist is usually a badly informed idiot. Which is, after all, the basic nature of the tourist.
… Anyway, visitors to a country are by nature going to be ignorant to some degree about the country they're visiting, and this irritates the naturally impatient, stressed-out Parisian waiter or waitress who has probably been up since dawn, sweated their way to work on public transport and been on his or her feet for hours. The same goes for taxi drivers, who spend their whole careers dealing with other Parisian drivers, a fate rather like spending your life in a fish tank of piranhas.
Stephen Clarke's book Paris Revealed is full of handy hints on how to deal with the French, and explains why Parisians act the way they do. It also contains tips on where to see great art without queueing for hours, how not to choose a hotel, and how to use the Métro without getting elbowed in the ribs.
"David" Miliband and "Nicholas" Farage Are Two of the Losers in the UK Elections
Blame it on the stress of the breaking news cycle, but twice, Fox News' Greg Palkot got the (first) names of British leaders wrong.
At 00:57, he gets Ed Miliband's first name mixed up with David Cameron's.
And at 02:08, UKIP's Nigel Farage becomes Nicholas Farage.
No biggie, and nothing to get excited about, but that's what the news stress will do for you some days.
VE Day: Vera Lynn shares wartime memories
Vera Lynn is still alive?!
Here is one of her most famous songs, White cliffs of Dover.
70 Years Ago, the German Army in Denmark Surrendered, and Joyful Danes Filled the Streets of Copenhagen
For the past couple of weeks, Denmark has been celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, as can be seen in a Berlingske Tidende photo display.
A message on a resistance fighter's car seems to say that his group has executed seven snitches.
May Day, the day when the French celebrate the "festival of work" by not working
It's May 1, the day when the French celebrate the "festival of work" by not working
wrote Stephen Clarke five days ago.
Yes, old joke. And not a very accurate one.
There are buses this morning, the Métro is running as usual, the cafés are open, and lots of people are out in the rain, selling little sprigs of lily of the valley, the traditional May 1 flower. Some of the flower sellers have been over-working in my opinion. It's pretty difficult these days to find a straightforward sprig of "muguet" without extraneous leaves or alien flowers tucked in there to raise the price.
A Legal Immigrant Testifies: America is a tolerant nation, but immigration is not a right, it is a privilege
I am a legal immigrant
writes Ida Tiongco to The Economist from New York City.
America is a tolerant nation, but immigration is not a right, it is a privilege, and countries should guard their borders. People like myself do not question the deportation of those who broke American laws. We came here legally and expect others to do so.
Amnesty: Nothing could be more illiberal and cruel, and nothing impoverishes America more than rewarding those who violate its laws
I am tired of The Economist's repetitive fulminations against America deporting illegal immigrants ("Barack Obama, deporter-in-chief", February 8th)
wrote an irate reader of The Economist, David Donnelly, a year ago from Bangkok.
After all, they have broken the law. But more significant by far is the message that any kind of amnesty sends to the millions of people trying to emigrate to America who follow the rules but are turned down.
I have worked in Thailand for 15 years and I see daily the hundreds of Thais visiting the American embassy to try to emigrate by adhering to our procedures; less than 3% gain admission. The situation is the same all over Asia and the developing world. There is little sympathy for those who don't get a visa. Yet illegal immigrants from Mexico are to be rewarded for violating the law merely because America shares a border with Mexico.
Such a policy promotes rather than discourages illegal immigration. Nothing could be more illiberal and cruel, and nothing impoverishes America more than rewarding those who violate its laws. Few, if any, "nativists" oppose letting talented and educated immigrants into America legally.
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The Benefits of Gaming
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The word gamer refers to people who play video games for fun, but the term can also refer to people who use video games for gambling or other purposes. The media classify gamers into broad behavioral categories based on their primary game and their level of dedication. There have also been several attempts to categorize gamers based on specific characteristics. For example, achievers like to collect all game badges and rewards. Completers tend to be perfectionists.
Video games started as simple electronic versions of ping pong. The player would move a bar up and down to deflect the ball while their opponent tried to do the same. Since then, video games have developed into more sophisticated games that can be played on almost any computer. Many of these games feature full motion video and enhanced graphics. And even games that can be played offline are available on Blu-ray media. The possibilities are endless. In the meantime, enjoy your gaming!
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Scares Apparent Who said trad music was for fogeys and whiskery aul' fellas? SPOOK OF THE THIRTEENTH LOCK draw on old-timey Irish sounds whilst also referencing prog and nu-gaze WORDS: Valerie Flynn
Irish bands can often find themselves damned if they do and damned if they don't – don't sound Irish, that is. For every jumped up music fan/critic who will sniff at slick outfits like The Script and Republic of Loose for sounding 'too American', there's someone else who'll snigger the second a banjo or accordian is produced on stage.
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock frontman Allen Blighe has given a lot of thought to the problems of teaming a banjo with electric guitar.
"Whenever the term "Celtic Rock" is used, it's usually a bad sign", he muses. "The thing about the whole rock-trad fusion is that it's a very dangerous thing to do. It's a very thin line - it can descend into cheese or cliché. It's something very few people have done successfully".
The Spook's own efforts deserve to be successful. Their excellent self-titled debut album is rocky and experimental enough not to sound remotely diddly-eye. The opening track, 'The Hare' is a good example of what they're about – a catchy banjo riff and folksy lyrics for about two and a half minutes and then, out of nowhere, crashing distorted guitars and a scream-along chorus. Elsewhere there are generous doses of laptop-generated weirdness. It might not be every music junkie's cup of chai, but if you like Horslips you'd probably adore it.
The band are: drummer Brian O'Higgins, guitarist Donnchadh Hoey, bassist Enda Bates and Allen himself on banjo, guitar and vocals. They've been playing together for four years, but have been in other Dublin bands previously (they're all in their early 30s). Allen used to be in rock/alt country outfit Holy Ghost Fathers.
"That band ran out of steam about four years ago, so I started trying to do something different", explains Allen. "At the time, I was listening to a load of Irish folk. It's something I really felt no-one was listening to in the circles I was in. I'm really into irish history, so a lot of it would be taking the style of the Irish folk ballad and trying to get a twist on it. I'd also be a big fan of Nick Cave. There's an opportunity to get a darker touch to that tradition".
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock are interesting in that they overlap between certain elements of the rock music they like – particularly stuff like My Bloody Valentine – and aspects of trad.
Says Blighe: "If you listen to a lot of trad and folk, it's chiefly based around the one root note. We'd listen to a lot of alternative guitar music, or whatever you want to call it. Drone rock, drone metal, shoegazing, that type of thing. So we saw an opportunity for a bit of fusion there".
He adds: "A lot of the contemporary rock bands that I'd listen to would definitely be influenced by American or UK sounds. That'd be their benchmark or Year Zero for music. And it's a shame because there's so much great stuff in this country that has a lot of the same elements: the great harmonies, the complicated playing, the hooks. And yet people ignore it. Maybe people need to have that moment where they happen to discover that music [trad] in the right context to hear it in the right way".
If you're wondering about the band's name, it's the title of a poem by Arthur Griffith (founder of Sinn Féin, executed for his part in the 1916 rising).
"I wouldn't see anything ultra-nationalist in it", says Allen. "I suppose you could say that it's a shame that in a lot of contemporary Irish politics, the idea of looking at Irish identity in any medium can be very uncomfortable. Irish people can be highly critical of themselves. What would be nice would be to depoliticise that kind of music and be able to look, in an interesting way, at Irish history without being self-conscious or embarrassed".
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Chris Gunter talks about his unique role as an extension vegetable production specialist, researcher, teacher and, soon, administrator with NC State's Department of Horticultural Science.
NC State Charcuterie School Teaches Art, Science of Cured Meats
NC State Extension Meat Specialist (and connoisseur of cured meats) Dr. Dana Hanson and his team offer a unique course on how to make tasty -- and safe -- charcuterie.
2018 Economic Outlook: A Shift to a Higher Gear?
In the latest issue of the NC State Economist, Mike Walden highlights why 2018 should be a year of further economic growth for North Carolina, but beneath the generally positive statewide picture, lingering economic disparities are yet to be closed.
Feb 23, 2018 | NC State Economist
Electricity Generation in North Carolina: Explaining the Trends
Total electricity generation has remained flat in the U.S., but the way we as a nation generate electricity has changed dramatically. In this issue of The NC State Economist, Harrison Fell, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, discusses the market forces and policies that are driving the rapid changes in electricity generation and how that may affect North Carolina's energy future.
Flowers Aren't Enough: How Urban Heat Affects Bee Populations
Simply adding flowers to otherwise hot sites with lots of impervious surface cover is unlikely to restore pollinator communities, says CALS Entomologist Steve Frank. In NC State's science blog, the Abstract, Frank describes recent research in and around Raleigh that shows urban heat is a factor.
Student Spotlight: Hooked on Horticulture
David Denton's quest to become a plant scientist started, humbly enough, with curiosity over backyard weeds. Now, the NC State senior in horticultural science is well on his way to a plant breeding career.
'Demographic Compensation' May Not Save Plants Facing Climate Change
An in-depth look at how plants respond to climate change shows mixed results for the phenomenon of "demographic compensation" as a way for plants to avoid severe population declines.
Faculty Focus: Cancer Researcher Aims to Alleviate Suffering
Melanie Simpson, head of the Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, is internationally recognized for her research on mechanisms of prostate cancer progression and metastasis. But it's her determination and passion for her work that continue to move her research forward.
Feb 20, 2018 | Extension
CALS Professor Leads Statewide Youth Disaster Preparedness Initiative
The first NC delegation of trainers for MyPI, a program that prepares youth to become safety leaders in their homes and communities, completed training at NC State last week.
Wait a Minute: Is That a Tree?
Remember Lupin, the corpse flower that put up a big stink at NC State University's plant conservatory about a year and a half ago? Well, he's changed -- big time.


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Q: Why there is an error in fastapi while posting data received from weather api? I am trying to show weather of a specific city but am unable to execute the program. I am using Fastapi. I also included the BaseModel in the solution but still it is not working. What am I doing wrong?
from fastapi import FastAPI, requests
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()

class Data(BaseModel):
    user: str

@app.get("/task1")
def task1(re1: Data):
    re1= requests.get('http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk&appictualappidd=a')
    z = re1.txt
    return z

Command to initiate the server:
uvicorn task:app --host "0.0.0.0" --port 8000 --reload

Output in Browser:
{"detail":"Not Found"}

I was expecting the returned data from the api on browser's screen but am instead getting an error.

A: The problem is defining
def task1(re1: Data):
    ...

expects you will send request body which is no supported in GET requests. Change it to:
def task1(user: str):
    ...

And type http://127.0.0.1:8000/?user=my_user in browser

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Head East
Head East is an American hard rock band from Champaign, Illinois. The band was formed by vocalist John Schlitt, guitarist Mike Somerville, keyboardist Roger Boyd, bassist Dan Birney and drummer Steve Huston. They met and formed the band while studying at the University of Illinois, Champaign.
Head East 12/13/1984 The Ritz Roseville Michigan USA
Foghat 05/07/1976 Rose Arena Mount Pleasant Michigan USA
Styx 08/06/1977 Lakeview Arena Marquette Michigan USA
Head East 01/23/1975 The Brewery Lansing Michigan USA
Foghat 07/05/1980 Wings Event Center Kalamazoo Michigan USA
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Head East 07/11/1992 Baja Beach Club Detroit Michigan USA
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class Link_Tests_Extension_CoreTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
    public function testEscape() {
        $str = 'once upon a \'time\' there was a <little> "llama" & a giant panda.';

        $this->assertEquals('once upon a \'time\' there was a <little> "llama" & a giant panda.', __link_core__escape($str));
        $this->assertEquals('once upon a 'time' there was a <little> "llama" & a giant panda.', __link_core__escape($str, ENT_QUOTES));
        $this->assertEquals('once upon a \'time\' there was a <little> "llama" & a giant panda.', __link_core__escape($str, ENT_NOQUOTES));
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        $this->assertEquals('once upon a \'time\' there was a <little> "llama" & a giant panda.', __link_core__safe($str, ENT_QUOTES));
        $this->assertEquals('once upon a \'time\' there was a <little> "llama" & a giant panda.', __link_core__safe($str, ENT_NOQUOTES));

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    }
}

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Native Americans have created baskets for centuries. In fact, archeologists believe that baskets making is one of the oldest known crafts in the world. If you have always wanted to learn how to create a Native American bark basket, join the workshop conducted by Jennifer Lee of Pequot and Narragansett ancestry on June 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Institute of American Indian Studies located on 38 Curtis Road in Washington, Connecticut.
Native American baskets range from very simple to very elaborate and the art of basket making was passed down from generation to generation among Native American Indian mothers to their daughters.
The first step in bark basket making was the harvesting of pine, ash or birch bark in the spring. The bark was then folded into the shape of a container and sewn together with spruce root and rimmed with Arrowwood or Red Osier Dogwood. Bark baskets made by Eastern Woodland Indians were used for cooking, gathering berries, hauling water, storing food, as cradleboards and even for burying the dead.
Participants in this workshop will learn about the lore and tradition of basket making while creating their very own bark basket. Lee will guide participants through the process of creating a bark basket using white pine bark, spruce root, and willow. Participants can choose from three different basket designs and are sure to treasure their creation at the end of the day.
To participate in this workshop, please pre-register by calling (860) 868-0518 or emailing general@iaismuseum.org to reserve your spot. The cost of this workshop ranges from $50 to $60 depending on the basket that you choose to make. Please note that prepayment is required.


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New Roku Channels - August 16, 2011
August 17, 2011 - 21:18 -- RokuGuide
Seven new games were added to the Roku Channel Store as Roku and Accedo announced their availability. The games are currently available only on the Roku 2, although they may be supported on the Roku 1 after an upcoming firmware update. All of the games, which can be purchased for $0.99 each, can be played with either the standard Roku remote or with the new game controller that is shipped with the Roku 2 XS.
The new games are part of Accedo's Funspot line of games, which are available on other TV streaming devices such as Yahoo! Connected TV. More games are planned for release in the future, and the Roku/Accedo press release quotes Roku Founder and CEO Anthony Wood as saying, "With our recent launch of Roku 2 and support for casual games, we plan to grow our games library significantly. We're taking a step towards that goal with the addition of fun and easy-to-play Accedo games, which we believe are going to be a big hit with Roku 2 customers."
Click on the links below for descriptions of each game.
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India is surely a vibrant country which is completely infused with the array of festivals to lift up our spirits. Don't let this vibe make you dull even at your workplace. Navratri is just round the corner and here is how you can celebrate the most awaited nice pious days of the year. These tips for the working professionals will surely make then fall in love with this divine festival that is filled with glory, lively and cheerful air of festivity.
Try out these tips for a wonderful week ahead and experience the change in your otherwise monotonous schedule of working. These upbeat tips are tried and tested and will create a joyous atmosphere around you.
Try something different from your usual wardrobe! This navratri, make sure that you move out with your best ethnic attire. You can ditch your regular jeans and top attire and drape a saree for office. Hues of pastels look gorgeous during the navratri days. Men can also try wearing different shades of Kurtas and Nehru Jacket to work. Nine days of Navratri is the best time when you can wear your best clothes and feel at ease because the air calls for festive feel.
So, go home and get your antique, junk and precious jewellery out. After all you need to pair those up with the sarees and suit lined up for the coming 9 days. In fact each day has a colour associated with the navratri goddess that you can try follow to stay in sync with the celebrations.
Another best part of the navratri celebration is the food. It can make anyone go gaga over the aroma of the mouth watering cuisines. From smoothies to sago cutlets to kheer everything conspires to make you fall in love with the food and break your otherwise diet regime. Every cuisine promises an increased calorie intake and promises to leave you asking for more. You can give rest to your respective mother, wife, home help who prepare lunch for you. Order delicious navratri special thalis for lunch and relish the real taste of this festival comprising of low-calorie, proteins and fibre.
For those on the fast during the nine days, make sure that you do not starve. Starving will lead to excessive energy loss and make you less productive at work. Make sure you stay hydrated and consume small bits of fruits and shakes to keep in check the necessary sugar/glucose intake required for the body to function normally.
Navratri is all about celebrating the grandeur of the upcoming festive season. Because after Navratri, a string of festivals such as Dusshera, Diwali, Karwa Chauth, Guru Purab follows.
Take initiative to organise a Dandia night in your office and invite everyone to participate in it. Such get-together in the office premises often refreshes employees and helps them gel with each other.
In some offices, rangoli making competitions are also organised. The winning team is awarded with gifts and goodies. Do not miss out on ethnic festive celebrations in the office. They add great fun to otherwise predictable office parties. You can even consider decorating your work-station with beautiful flowers and place a plant to mark the beginning of new season.
Bonding here simply means, that observing fast is one way to celebrate this festival in northern part of India. But there are other styles of celebrating these nine pious days in various other states of India. For say in West Bengal the last four days of Navratri are celebrated as Durga Puja. In Andhra Pradesh, the natives celebrate Bathukamma Panduga, and during these nine days dedicated to Maha Gauri, the goddess representing womanhood. If you work in a diverse workplace where people hail from various backgrounds then do make sure that they don't feel out of place.
These were a few tips to celebrate the refreshing 9 Days of Navratri. We hope that as a working professional you will celebrate navratri with sheer pomp and show at your workplace.


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Another Tack: The wooden-headedness factor
Posted on September 11, 2008 by Sarah Honig
Insightful Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman died in February 1989, more than four years before Shimon Peres, Yossi Beilin and their underhanded crew clandestinely negotiated the Oslo Accords and then dropped them on the heads of all unsuspecting Israelis, including their prime minister.
Yitzhak Rabin proved too weak-willed to resist the fait accompli with which he had been presented, and on September 13, 15 years ago, formalized it on the White House lawn.
Thus Tuchman, alas, missed an example of preposterous statecraft on a scale that would have easily vied with every absurdity she included in her 1984 March of Folly.
Defining folly as "the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests," Tuchman demanded that to qualify as folly, each policy examined needs to meet three criteria: "It must have been perceived as counterproductive in its own time," "a feasible alternative course of action must have been available" and "the policy in question should be that of a group, not an individual leader, and should persist beyond any one political lifetime." It must be adhered to by "collective government or a succession of rulers in the same office."
Oslo, sadly, meets all of Tuchman's conditions and then some. Rarely in human affairs is it as possible to point to a single inanity as the trigger which radically changed the fortunes of a people – in Israel's case of a beleaguered people struggling for bare physical survival. Oslo turned this once feisty and plucky little nation into an apathetic aggregate that has ceased to seethe about much of anything. It briefly appeared that the Second Lebanon War, Oslo's direct defective descendant, might ignite the extinguished flicker of common sense yet again, but that spark quickly died out.
The Oslo-generated apathy allowed Ehud Barak's rash unilateral flight from Lebanon, the unilateral flight from Gaza and the expulsion of its 10,000 Jews, the relinquishing of the strategically indispensable Philadelphi corridor, the establishment of Hamastan, the continued funneling of funds, electricity and goods to Hamastan, the failure to react against the rocketing of Sderot and Ashkelon, the obsequious acquiescence to PA demands for "goodwill gestures" (such as the unilateral release of convicted terrorists), the shrinking of areas west of the security fence (such as the 1,000 relinquished Ma'aleh Adumim acres), the in-your-face sedition within Israel's own Arab sector, and too much more to mention.
Our tired masses seem to stomach anything. There is somehow an unuttered expectation that if we ignore palpable danger signs or tolerate them and make nice, they'll go away.
That is Oslo's incontrovertible legacy to the Israeli psyche. Few dare insist on the justice of our cause. Fewer yet know our case. The youngest Israelis are never taught it and remain ignorant to a degree that severely imperils Israel's prospects of self-preservation. Increasingly we see ourselves as our enemies portray us, and insert their fraudulent narrative into our school curriculums, art, theater and film. We brainwash and browbeat ourselves, but call that enlightenment and broadmindedness.
Before Oslo we retaliated for every terror onslaught and refused to give in even when hostages' lives hung in the balance. Today the nation that rescued hijacked passengers at Entebbe debases itself by freeing barbaric mass murderers, and bankrolls the indiscriminate shelling of its own towns. The nation that liberated Jerusalem contemplates relinquishing it.
OSLO'S RATIONALE was to purchase a modicum of peace by sacrificing strategically vital territory. Yet our convoluted logic failed the test of simple popular perception. All our sophisticated argumentation notwithstanding, nothing could erase the core intuition that a people ready to surrender its patrimony isn't genuinely attached to it.
By giving away bits of the Jewish heartland, we imparted the impression here and abroad that we have no roots, claim or connection to this country – that we're not here by right. Israeli concessions underscored the slanderous image of Israelis as interlopers who plead to be allowed to retain a bit of what they usurped.
Oslo conferred legitimacy on the PLO, an organization whose raison d'etre is to cleanse this land of our presence. Therein lies the fundamental difference between what Menachem Begin contracted with Egypt and what Rabin was conned into championing. Egypt is a neighboring state with whom we fought a number of wars and with whom we reached accommodation. By compromising with an organization founded for the explicit purpose of coming in our stead, the Rabin-Peres government undermined Israel's claim not only to the territories it freed in the 1967 war of self-defense, but it undermined its claim to the whole shebang – to the entire state Jews established in 1948. It's no coincidence that more than at any time since 1948 there are escalating challenges in the international arena to our very right to exist. It's no longer taboo in polite society to suggest that Israel shouldn't be.
THAT IS the greatest long-term harm inflicted by Oslo. Not all Israelis can coherently identify the damage and home in on its corollaries but, sensing grand national failure, they grow dispirited. Disheartenment inures them to repeated blows. Whereas at Oslo's outset we still counted what Rabin cynically dubbed the "victims of peace," we no longer do so. The deadly tally now nears 1,600. Proportionally this is tantamount to 80,000 fatalities in the US. While Americans remember 9/11's disaster (whose toll is equivalent to 60 deaths in Israel), most workaday Israelis don't instantly recognize 9/13 for the disaster it was.
That's how profound is the Oslo-imposed impassivity, exacerbated by journalists and judges who failed to protect the public which depended on them. Though 15 years on, it's all too abundantly clear that Oslo is a farcical flop, yet establishment mouthpieces insist on depicting it as an extraordinary breakthrough. The interminable mind-numbing media mantra is all-pervasive, while the opposition is stymied by an agenda-guided and politically-interventionist judiciary unparalleled anywhere in the free world.
Yet the primary culprits are the politicians who brazenly betrayed our trust – from Tsomet Knesset members Gonen Segev and Alex Goldfarb (who enabled Rabin to ratify Oslo by selling their votes for a ministerial appointment and a Mitsubishi, respectively) all the way to Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni, who ditched the platforms on which they were elected and cheated their voters to implement Oslo's disengagement sequel.
Which brings us back to Tuchman's question: "Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?" Her forthright answer is "wooden-headedness," i.e. both "the refusal to learn from experience" and "the source of self-deception."
Such recurrent wooden-headedness, she argues, is "a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish, while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts."
Though writing before the event, Tuchman incredibly seems to have analyzed the Osloite folly with unerring acumen. "The power to command," she stressed, "frequently causes failure to think."
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Alex Rose on April 7, 2010 at 2:25 PM said:
You have treated us to what can only be regarded as a Tour de force. In the March 10, 2010 edition of the New York Times, we were treated to a somewhat different interpretation of Barbara Tuchman's, "March of Folly", by Uri Dromi, one time spokesman for the Rabin and Peres governments during the period from 1992 to 1996. Schooled in the mindset of Israeli elites. Uri was most disturbed by the Israeli governments decision to allow 1600 new homes in "East" Jerusalem in "the face of your [Israel's] best friend and ally as represented by VP Joe Biden.
Does Dromi not remember that in July 1980 the Knesset passed the Jrusalem Law which reconfirmed the unification of the city and its status as capital? For him, the real issues, or more accurately hang ups, are demography, realpolotik, border demarcation and shande fur de goyim.
Have we no rights or claims? Are they solely the province of the Arabs? What about history? Obviously, the fact that the only declared sovereinty over Jerusalem is that by a Jewish government means nothing to Dromi.
Jerusalem has been the spiritual center of Jewish life since the time of King David. The ancient, eternal connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem is reaffirmed time and again in Holy Scripture. There has been a continuous Jewish presence in Jerusalem for thousands of years, and the city has never been claimed by any other nation or people. These facts expose the denial of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem for what it really is – a shoddy attempt to rewrite history. Obviously, this means nothing to our Uri.
Jerusalem not metioned once in the Koran, while it is recorded more than 600 times in the Torah. Also not consequential! Jerusalem has never been the capital of any other people. Who cares! Jerusalem has been the capital of the the Jewsish people since the time of King David some 3000 years ago. Irrelevant! Jewish continuous in presence in Jerusalem, Palestine and Palestinians a recent creation. Really!
For Uri Dromi, "Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced." [Barbara Tuchman]
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"Bound 4 da Reload (Casualty)" is a song by British duo Oxide & Neutrino, members of the So Solid Crew. The track features a sample from the theme tune to the BBC medical drama Casualty, composed by Ken Freeman. The duo had not initially gone the correct route to clear the rights to use the Casualty theme, instead calling a BBC receptionist to tell them they were sampling it. When they signed with EastWest Records, the company cleared the sample. The song was first released in 1999 on white label, simply titled "Casualty".

Released on 24 April 2000, the song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart on 30 April 2000. The 12-inch of the single was not eligible for the singles chart due to its length, which broke chart regulations and had instead appeared on the UK Albums Chart, reaching number 71. While the record appeared on Top of the Pops during its week at number one, many radio stations refused to play "Bound 4 da Reload" because of its controversial spoken sample taken from the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, spoken by the actors Tony McMahon and Frank Harper ("Ah! Shit! I've been shot!/I don't fucking believe this, could everyone stop getting shot?").

Track listings
UK CD1 and cassette single
 "Bound 4 da Reload (Casualty)" (radio edit) – 3:51
 "Express da Funk" – 5:33
 "Bound 4 da Reload" – 5:23

UK CD2
 "Bound 4 da Reload (Casualty)" – 4:51
 "Bound 4 da Reload (Casualty)" (remix) – 6:21
 "Bound 4 da Reload (Casualty)" (video)

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My 8 yr old daughter and I stayed in Whitefish, Montana, as the town of Whitefish afforded us the beauty of Whitefish Lake, an aquatic center for inclement weather and more options as this was our first time visiting a Glacier National Park.
We stayed at Hidden Moose Lodge, which had very comfortable mattresses, sheets and towels. The room itself could have used a cleaning, but the accommodations were very nice.
The room was quiet and we slept well. The staff was lovely and helpful. The owners daughter would offer to bead and make jewelry with my daughter and then ask us to pay for them, which was pretty funny!!
In retrospect, i would consider staying in Glacier National Park itself, but for my daughter and our ten day stay in Montana we needed some diversity.
It was my first time in a mountain setting on this level. I adored Montana and was sad to leave.
The Hidden Moose Lodge was a great place to stay.
Montana is beautiful…..my husband would like to move there but the winters are wicked.


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Four Views on Hell presents a point-counterpoint debate between advocates of the three main interpretations of the doctrine of hell among evangelical theologians. Denny Burk makes the case for "eternal conscious torment," John G. Stackhouse Jr. for "terminal punishment," and Robin A. Parry for "universal salvation." Jerry L. Walls' argument for a Protestant version of Purgatory rounds out the "four views," but while interesting, it is out of place in this book, since Purgatory—whether in its Catholic or Protestant version—is heaven's antechamber, not hell's.
Stackhouse makes the case for what he calls "terminal punishment," which is also known as "conditionalism," "conditional immortality," and "annihilationism." Stackhouse's term, it seems to me, is more apt than these others because it clearly identifies both the nature (punishment) and duration (terminal) of hell in distinction from the eternal conscious torment position.
The core of his biblical argument focuses on the meanings of the words eternal, destroy, and death. Regarding the first word, Stackhouse distinguishes "an event or action that occurs for only a segment of time" and "the result of that event or action." Advocates of eternal conscious torment believe hell is eternal in the first sense, the segment of time being everlasting. Stackhouse argues, however, that it is the result that matters. "Eternal punishment" is not an eternal process of being punished but a terminal punishment that has eternal consequences. He goes on to argue that second and third words "speak of the destiny of the lost as termination, end, disappearance, eradication, annihilation, and vanishing." Such terminal punishment rules out the doctrine of the soul's immortality. Stackhouse also discusses terminal punishment in terms of the finite duration of Christ's death on the cross and of the goodness of God.
Parry makes the case for universal salvation, "the view that in the end God will reconcile all people to himself through Christ.". This is "not some new-fangled liberal theology," he writes, but rather "an ancient Christian theological tradition that in the early church stood alongside annihilation and eternal torment as a viable Christian opinion." It should be distinguished from the version of universalism that teaches all religions are salvific. It is Christocentric, not pluralistic.
Parry argues that "a universalist doctrine of hell makes good sense" of "the biblical metanarrative, the grand story that runs from Genesis to Revelation": creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. He cites Colossians 1:16–20 as one of many examples of what he takes to be universalist reasoning. He also responds to prooftexts commonly interpreted to be anti-universalistic: Mark 9:42–50; Matthew 25:31–46; 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10; Revelation 14:9–11, and 20:10–15. If God finally saves all in Christ, then what is hell? It is "judgment followed by restoration" [emphasis in original]. It is ultimately "restorative," even if "retributive" for a time. Obviously, universalism requires a commitment to "post-mortem salvation," which Parry acknowledges is consistent with Scripture, though not taught explicitly by it.
Of these three views, eternal conscious torment is the majority tradition of Christianity, while terminal punishment and universal salvation are minority voices. Each position can find advocates in the first few centuries of the church's existence, but each one is exclusive of the others. If one is right, in other words, the other two are wrong.
My goal in this review is simply to introduce the main positions in the current debate. I would like to register one more caveat, however. (The first was that Walls' argument for Purgatory was out of place in this debate.) The second also relates to Walls. Burk presents one version of the traditional view of hell, in which eternal conscious torment is warranted because sin is an offense against an infinite God. In other writings—especially Hell: The Logic of Damnation and Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory—Walls offers a different warrant for hell based on human choice. Picking up on C. S. Lewis' remark that the door to hell is locked from the inside, Walls argues that hell is eternal because its inhabitants refuse to repent. This is the fourth view of hell that should've been presented in this book.
Still, Four Views on Hell is a useful one-volume introduction to the state of the debate about hell among self-identified evangelical theologians. Its point-counterpoint format helps readers see both what the arguments and counterarguments are for each position. Although frustrating, working through the best arguments and deepest critiques of each position can result in readers developing a more informed biblical, theological, and philosophical understanding of this important doctrine.
Preston Sprinkle, ed., Four Views on Hell, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2016).
Rethinking Hell is a compendium of readings by evangelical authors who advocate conditionalism. Conditionalism—also known as "conditional immortality" and "annihilationism"—is the belief that hell is "the wicked's final total destruction," not their "unending conscious torture," as Edward W. Fudge states the distinction in his essay. It is a minority position among evangelical Christians, but one that has been gaining ground since the publication of Fudge's The Fire That Consumes in 1984.
Immortality: "Eternal life in the sense of life without end is not a natural human possession. We are bereft of it because of sin, and God promises to give it to those who are united to Christ. Immortality is therefore not universal or inherent but conditional." See, for example, 2 Timothy 1:9b–10.
Substitutionary Atonement: "The New Testament is replete with the language of Jesus dying for sin, for sinners, and for us. Whatever else this might mean, it at least means that in Christ's passion and ultimately his death we see what comes of sin," for example, 1 Peter 3:18.
Destruction: "[E]vangelical conditionalists observe that Scripture uses a range of language and images to refer to the fate of humanity without salvation through Christ: punishment, darkness, fire, death, destruction, being blotted out, and so on. Without any doubt, however, the overwhelming preponderance of the clearest such language speaks of the final death and destruction of the enemies of God." For example, see Matthew 10:28, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, 2 Peter 2:6.
Arguments 1, 3, and 4 recur through Rethinking Hell's twenty-two chapters. In addition to these biblical arguments, several of the chapters make historical arguments to the effect that conditionalism was a live option among Christianity's theologians in the second and third centuries. Only with Augustine in the fourth century does eternal conscious torment become the majority point of view, one shared by Augustine's descendants in the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and Evangelical Revivalism.
The most common objection to conditionalism is the use of the adjective "eternal" to describe the fate of the wicked. Jesus juxtaposed "eternal life" and "eternal punishment" in Matthew 25:46. Since Augustine, this has been taken to show that the life of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked are both everlasting. The standard conditionalist reply is that the consequences of hell, that is, annihilation, are everlasting, not the experience of hell, that is, punishment. While this understanding may work in many cases, traditionalists argue that it doesn't work for Revelation 20:10, which speaks of the devil, the beast, and the false prophet being thrown into "the lack of burning sulphur," where they will be "tormented day and night for ever and ever." In 20:15, anyone "whose name was not found written in the book of life" was thrown into the lake as well, presumably to suffer the same fate.
I mention these objections and replies to illustrate basic elements in the debate between traditionalists and conditionalists.
Rethinking Hell is a good book, though if you are looking to purchase and read just one book advocating conditional immortality, I would recommend the third edition of Edward W. Fudge's The Fire That Consumes. Advocates in both camps agree that this is the classic modern statement of the position. Still, this book has its value, even if—or perhaps especially if—you do not agree with its conclusions.
Christopher M. Date, Gregory G. Stump, and Joshua W. Anderson, eds., Rethinking Hell: Readings in Evangelical Conditionalism (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2014).
Historically, traditionalism has been the majority position in Christianity generally and evangelicalism specifically. However, in the decade prior to the report, some evangelicals in both the U.K. and America had begun to advocate conditionalism, most prominently John R. W. Stott and most prolifically Edward W. Fudge. ACUTE argues that one can be an evangelical in good standing and advocate either position, even as it urges both sides to come to agreement on doctrine.
Although the report is by U.K. evangelicals for U.K. evangelicals, it is a worthwhile read for American evangelicals too. The topics and authors on both sides of the debate are the same, after all. What I appreciated most about the report is its calm, measured consideration of complex issues, its irenic tone, and its call for evangelicals to continue working together to achieve one mind doctrinally, rather than "merely acquiescing in their disagreement" (p. 135).
All human beings must face death….
After death, all human beings will be resurrected to face the final judgment of God….
God has revealed no other way to salvation and eternal life apart from through Jesus Christ….
In his sovereignty, God might save some who have not explicitly professed faith in Jesus Christ…e.g., the unevangelised [sic], children who die in infancy, or those who have severe mental disabilities…. In particular, we can find no convincing warrant in Scripture for 'post-mortem' or 'second chance' repentance. We also reject the teaching of universalism, which holds that all will be saved regardless of their commitment to Jesus Christ….
Bearing 4 in mind, Christians should conduct mission and evangelism on the basis that proclamation and demonstration of the gospel are the definitive means by which God intends to save people and make disciples of all nations….
Hell is more than annihilation at the point of death….
As well as separation from God, hell involves severe punishment….
There are degrees of punishment and suffering hell related to the severity of sins committed on earth….
The Bible describes hell as a realm of destruction. Evangelicals, however, diverge on whether this destruction applies to the actual existence of individual sinners (eventual annihilation), or to the quality of their relationship with God (eternal conscious punishment)….
Evangelicals diverge on whether hell is eternal in duration or effect….
God's purpose extends beyond judgment to redemption of the cosmos….
We urge church leaders to present biblical teaching on hell to their congregations, and to relate it to their ongoing ministries of personal visitation, evangelism and social action.
We commend sensitivity and discernment in presenting the message of hell—particularly to those for who commitment to Christ is uncertain or unrealised [sic]….
When Christians have died, we encourage declaration of their heavenly inheritance in pastoral care of their bereaved relatives and friends, and in the conduct of their funerals or cremations.
Where the relationship of a deceased person to God has been unclear, or even apparently hostile, we would caution against explicit pronouncement on that person's eternal destiny….
We encourage theological colleges and related Christian organisations [sic] to train church leaders to a high standard of biblical preaching, teaching and pastoral care in matters related to hell….
We urge evangelicals involved in religious education in schools to ensure that modules on Christianity include presentations on death, judgment, heaven and hell.
We recognize that the interpretation of hell as eternal conscious punishment is the one most widely attested by the Church in its historic formulation of doctrine and in its understanding of Scripture. We also recognise [sic] that it represents the classic, mainstream evangelical position.
We recognise [sic] that the interpretation of hell in terms of conditional immortality is a significant minority evangelical view. Furthermore, we believe that the traditionalist-conditionalist debate on hell should be regarded as a secondary rather than a primary issue for evangelical theologians….
We understand the current Evangelical Alliance Basis of Faith to allow both traditionalist and conditionalist interpretations of hell….
We…recognise [sic] that the majority of those who have published as 'evangelical conditionalists' have strong evangelical credentials, and have in particular demonstrated a genuine regard for the authority of Scripture.
We encourage traditionalist and conditionalist evangelicals to pursue agreement on the matter of hell, rather than merely acquiescing in their disagreement….
In the nineteen years since this report was published, conversations about hell have continued among evangelicals. Unfortunately, traditionalists and conditionalists have not arrived a doctrinal unity in this matter. It may be that "merely acquiescing in their disagreement" is the most that can be hoped for, just as the debate between Calvinist and Arminian evangelicals has not made any fundamental progress since the Sixteenth Century.
Also, since 2000, universalism has made inroads among evangelicals, largely through the influence of Thomas Talbott, Robin Parry, and other "evangelical universalists" who believe that all will eventually come to faith in Jesus Christ, either in this age or the age to come. Hell, according to them, is rehabilitative rather than retributive. These universalists make both biblical—especially Pauline—and theological arguments for their conclusions. Were ACUTE to issue a new report in 2019, it would have to pay more attention to this development.
The Nature of Hell: A Report by the Evangelical Alliance Commission on Unity and Truth Among Evangelicals (London: ACUTE, 2000).
"We are all living according to a specific regimen of habits," writes Justin Whitmel Earley, "and those habits shape most of our life." Even more, "they form our hearts." In The Common Rule, Earley outlines a "rule of life" or "program of habits" to help readers fulfill the biblical commandment to love God and neighbor (Matthew 22:34–40).
Earley calls this program "the common rule" because it has to do with "common practice by common people." Its focus on laity rather than clergy distinguishes it from the well-known "rules" of Benedict or Augustine, although its basic purpose is the same as theirs. The common rule consists of eight habits, four daily and four weekly.
and setting aside a day for sabbath.
Earley distinguishes the habits along two other spectrums. The first spectrum pertains to whether the habit helps us love God (sabbath, fasting, prayer, and Scripture before phone) or love our neighbors (meals, conversation, phone off, curated media). The second spectrum has to do with embracing the good (sabbath, prayer, meals, and conversation) or resisting the evil (fasting, Scripture before phone, phone off, and curated media).
One of Earley's crucial insights throughout the book is that our habits reflect (and reinforce) our beliefs. He cites the early years of his career as a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer as a cautionary tale. To keep pace with his colleagues, to take just one example, he would pick up his phone to check his emails and formulate replies even before getting out of bed. As he thought about why he did this, he came to realize that he was drawing his identity and worth from others' opinions of him. "Unless I'm well regarded in the office, I'm not worth anything," he writes, describing that period.
That's an excellent question, one that all eight habits of the common rule force us to face as we examine our habitual behaviors.
I highly recommend The Common Rule. It is a helpful little volume that will repay careful reading and re-reading, especially if you start putting its habits into practice. The book can be read individually, but perhaps the best way to read it is in a group whose goal is to grow in love for God and neighbor together.
Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2019).
P.P.P.S. I interviewed Justin for Episode 163 of the Influence Podcast.
P.P.P.S. Just wrote the cover story for the November-December 2018 issue of Influence magazine: "Habits of the Tech-Wise Heart." It explores many of the themes of the book.
"Almost Half of Practicing Christian Millennials Say Evangelism Is Wrong," reads the headline of a storyabout a new report from Barna Group. Titled Reviving Evangelism, that report details the erosion of support for evangelism among next-generation Christians. In Episode 169 of the Influence Podcast, I'll be talking about this report with David Kinnaman.
David is president of Barna Group, a leading research and communications company that works with churches, nonprofits, and businesses ranging from film studios to financial services. He is also the author of several bestselling books, including Good Faith,You Lost Me, and unChristian. He and his wife live in California with their three children.
P.S. This podcast is cross-posted form InfluenceMagazine.com with permission.


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Servin' It Up is our all-new blog series where we ask locals from the Mobile area FIVE food related questions.
Our next guest on Servin' It Up is Amanda Gibson the author and founder of Lemon Baby, a local blog featuring Gulf Coast food and recipes. Go follow Amanda at Lemon Baby she is also a good Instagram follow! Enjoy!
1. What was your favorite thing to eat growing up?
Although I was raised in the North, my parents are Southern, and we would often visit our relatives in Virginia and Mobile. One of my favorite things to eat growing up was a dish my Granny made for us—poached eggs with buttered toast, all cut up together into a buttery, eggy, delicious mess. She also made a killer chicken salad sandwich on a buttered and toasted croissant, which remains a major comfort food for me to this day. Her chocolate pie, named "Bereavement Pie" for its frequent place as a funereal offering, was superlative, as well.
2. What was been your go-to restaurant in Mobile lately?
I honestly can't pick just one, but the most recent experience I had was last Friday at The Cheese Cottage—a lovely spot to go for some bubbles, artisanal cheese, and 'cuterie. I adore the atmosphere and the revitalization of that area of St. Louis Street.
3. You've lived in different parts of the U.S. What region of the country have you found the cuisine to be the most fascinating?
The first four years of my life I spent in Brooklyn, NY, so my formative food memories are linked to our Italian-American neighborhood, Carroll Gardens. There was NY-style pizza, of course, and this super-thin sausage from a butcher on Court Street that we grilled whole in a giant coil (that I don't think I appreciated until I was a teen). Italian ice, a more concentrated version of super finely shaved ice, was always a go-to treat, but pistachio, lemon, or chocolate, only. After a brief stint in Charlottesville, Virginia, we moved to Brookline, a suburb of metropolitan Boston, where I spent most of my childhood. It was there I began my love affair with the lobster roll, one that I can satisfy in Mobile with Royal red shrimp—a pretty impressive knockoff. After our graduation from Florida State, my husband and I spent four years in Montana, in Libby, a tiny hamlet nestled in the Rocky Mountains. It was there that I really started to cook seriously, scouring the internet for challenging recipes and beginning a career as a food writer as a columnist for the local newspaper. Our town was a Scandinavian settlement, so I found that influence to be particularly fascinating (they even had a Nordicfest every summer complete with lutefisk, a lye-soaked whitefish). But nothing enthralls me more than the cuisine of the South—one that has seemingly endless influences and variations. From barbeque and succotash to crawfish Étoufféeand West Indies salad, not a single other region I've resided in has as much fascinating food history and culture as the American South.
4. What is your favorite summertime treat?
I'd have to pick my basil-watermelon granita. It's akin to shaved ice, and the flavor combination of the fruit and herb is out of this world. It's refreshing to the max.
5. If you could pick your "last meal" what would it be?
I'm glad you didn't specify any geographical limitations, because my favorite food in the world is real, honest-to-goodness pizza, in Italy: bubbly, blistered, fresh-mozzarella-laden, thin-crust pizza, preferably aquattro stagioni, (literally meaning "four seasons" wth prosciutto, artichokes, mushrooms, and black olives each representing a season). And lest we forget dessert—a flourless chocolate cake (if it's my last meal, I'll take the whole cake). And Champagne. Always Champagne.


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Q: C++: Building extensions with cmake for Boost.Python gives "undefined symbol: _ZN5boost6python5numpy10initializeEb" I am trying to make a basic 'hello world' Python.Boost example library using cmake.
Versions of packages:

*

*cmake: 3.22.1

*Boost: 1.81.0

*Python: Python 3.10.8 (from anaconda)

*g++: 11.3.0 (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04)

When I load the compiled Python the library it gives me an error undefined symbol: _ZN5boost6python5numpy10initializeEb.
Here are the files: CMakeLists.txt
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
project(hello_ext)

# Find python and Boost - both are required dependencies
find_package(PythonLibs 3.10 REQUIRED)
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS python REQUIRED)

# Without this, any build libraries automatically have names "lib{x}.so"
set(CMAKE_SHARED_MODULE_PREFIX "")

# Add a shared module - modules are intended to be imported at runtime.
# - This is where you add the source files
add_library(hello_ext MODULE hello_ext.cpp)

# Set up the libraries and header search paths for this target
target_link_libraries(hello_ext ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ${PYTHON_LIBRARIES})
target_include_directories(hello_ext PRIVATE ${PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS})

hello_ext.cpp
#include <boost/python.hpp>
#include <boost/python/numpy.hpp>

namespace py = boost::python;
namespace np = boost::python::numpy;

char const* greet()
{
  return "hello, world";
}

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(hello_ext)
{
  Py_Initialize();
  np::initialize();

  using namespace boost::python;
  def("greet", greet);
}

Then I run cmake and make:
mkdir _build
cd _build
cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.3.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.3.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.10.so (found suitable version "3.10.6", minimum required is "3.10")
-- Found Boost: /usr/lib/cmake/Boost-1.81.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.81.0") found components: python
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/user/git/hello_ext/_build

Compilation works fine
(py310) ➜  ~/git/hello_ext/_build make
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/hello_ext.dir/hello_ext.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX shared module hello_ext.so
[100%] Built target hello_ext

However, when I load the extension I get an undefined symbol: _ZN5boost6python5numpy10initializeEb error:
In [1]: import hello_ext
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 1
----> 1 import hello_ext

ImportError: /home/user/git/hello_ext/_build/hello_ext.so: undefined symbol: _ZN5boost6python5numpy10initializeEb

The loading not to give the undefined symbol error.


The latest example of cool emergent technology is Google Maps rendered with satellite imagery annotated with Flickr notes. Geeks and the geekly inclined are zooming in on neighborhoods where they once lived and are tagging those screen capture images with notes describing historical moments in the geography. Flickr has a group called Memory Maps dedicated to this.
Since I grew up in the DC area, I decided to look around some internationally known locations to see what they look like from the sky. Interesting to note that the White House and the neighboring Old Executive Office Building and Department of Treasury buildings are "sanitized" from the top, for national security reasons I'm sure. Their roofs are represented as blank continuous dull colors with none of the detail you'll find on other buildings. Some areas, such as the courtyards in the Old Executive, are grossly pixelated. On the other hand, the Pentagon, looks complete with detail. This begs the question, what does it take to get a piece of property obscured from Google's database? Can I fill out a form and demand that my house be gzapped so no one knows that the grass hasn't been cut in 3 years or that my meth lab exploded?
As if that wasn't enough cool, this brilliant individual figured out how to remix Craig's List housing ads with Google Maps. This is the kind of thing that some bubbleheaded VC would have sunk $30 million into 5 years ago. And now it's done emergent style with an idea and a little duct tape. Imagine what can happen when there is an open API for all this.


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Nederland nam deel aan het Eurovisiesongfestival 2008 in Belgrado, Servië. Het was de 49ste deelname van het land op het Eurovisiesongfestival. De NOS was verantwoordelijk voor de Nederlandse bijdrage voor deze editie.

Selectieprocedure
De NOS vond het beter om meteen een artiest te selecteren. Hind werd aangewezen om Nederland te vertegenwoordigen op het festival. Het liedje dat ze in de halve finale van het Eurovisiesongfestival zou zingen, Your heart belongs to me, had ze samen met Tjeerd van Zanen en Bas van den Heuvel geschreven. Het lied werd gepresenteerd in het programma Thank God it's Friday.

Aanvankelijk leek Gerard Joling in de running te zijn om deel te nemen, maar die bleek voor zijn beurt te hebben gesproken. Ook de youtube-sensatie Bearforce1 solliciteerde openlijk naar het Nederlandse ticket voor Belgrado.

In Belgrado
In Belgrado trad Nederland aan in de eerste halve finale. Hind was de vijftiende van negentien deelnemers. Ze plaatste zich niet voor de finale. Het was de vierde keer op rij dat Nederland de finale niet haalde. Overigens eindigde in de finale slechts één West-Europees land (Noorwegen) in de top twaalf.
Hind haalde 27 punten en werd daarmee 13de in haar halve finale. In de einduitslag deelde Nederland met Wit-Rusland de 34ste plaats.

Punten

Gekregen punten

Halve finale

Punten gegeven door Nederland
Punten gegeven in de halve finale:

Punten gegeven in de finale:

Land op het Eurovisiesongfestival 2008
2008


Owner Antonio — who used to be an Oakland school counselor before going vegan in 1999 and starting to experiment with meatless versions of his favorite Mexican family dishes — now has a brick-and-mortar restaurant, but his satisfying and surprisingly spicy vegan and vegetarian tamales, tacos, taquitos, and other homestyle delights are also available on a takeaway basis. Regulars eagerly wait even in the rain for this hearty fare whose faux-meat fillings make nice foils for mole sauce and eye-poppingly hot salsa. Mexican food is traditionally heavy, greasy, lardy, and meaty, but Antonio — whose integrity shines in every bite — has worked hard to make his meatless versions look, feel, and taste authentic.
Hours: Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
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June 7, 2019 June 1, 2019 S.R. Crawford
*Mild spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8!*
I can't remember who said it, but someone once said that they write their stories (books, tv, whatever) and then once it's published, it's out there, it no longer belongs to them; it belongs to each individual consumer.
I like this because after all the upset over Game of Thrones' ending and also The Crimes of Grindelwald I started to really think about good and bad in storytelling. In what makes something so great go so wrong. In what can make the majority dislike something.
I mean, logically, we all know that consuming creative work is subjective. There is no real and final ruling of good or bad because it's always down to opinion, right? The only way it's determined one way or another is:
The portrayal of tropes and following narrative norms or expectations (rules)
That's it. But I bet many of us can also name shows or books that have been unpopular, yet we've viewed them as amazing. Or ones that have broken rules and have still been amazing.
So, is there really a good and bad in storytelling, especially now in our more open, complex world?
This is what really makes something bad:
Breaking its own rules
What's the one thing we know and appreciate about Game of Thrones? The slow pace. It takes its time and flirts with ideas. But come Season 8, we're unhappy because it's not slow anymore. It's rushed. I think people would have been fine with the narrative that it gave us in the end (perhaps not in love but fine with it), if it had taken its time. Gave it to us at a slow, steady pace over time, like we're used to.
But it broke its own rule. It's own storytelling rule. It's formula that had been working for years. And that is a big fail.
Even if the setups were left unfulfilled or it had a slightly weird ending, we'd all be more satisfied if it was at least delivered correctly.
Another convention of GoT is in its depth. The hidden meanings, complex narrative lines, character connections, decisions and brave steps like the death of the main characters. This is another big expectation and admiration from the fans of Game of Thrones. We know we'll be shocked, scared for the safety of MCs and left in awe of its cleverness.
But it did not deliver.
No main characters died. No clever big reveals that made us go "hold on, whaaaaat?!"
I think I wasn't alone in expecting Arya or Bran to use their powers and abilities to perform a shocking twist. It felt like what GoT usually does, and in a clever manner, was suddenly taken away.
It broke its own formula, it's own rules. This is more important than breaking normal storytelling conventions.
Failing the characters
This is why people have turned on Game of Thrones lately. Interpretation of the story, actions, motivations, and characters are all wide open. I've seen different interpretations and reviews and feelings, but people still think it's bad for the other stuff.
Why? Because characters seemed to change. Their purpose, motivations and ARCs were turned on their heads or left open. Stories need characters who do what they do for a reason. Who have a goal, a need, a want, and that is dangled in front of them as they learn about themselves and the world on their quest. Their ARC ends with them having learned a lesson, paid a price, and changed due to that lesson learned.
Now, I'm no expert and I won't pretend to be a character-creating genius. But I can see some examples of this in GoT season 8. I won't explain them all; you can Google it and you'll find plenty. My biggest issue was with Jaime's character. It appeared that he unlearned everything from the show and just went back to Cersei. Boooo!
Failed Beats/ Pacing
As humans, we have a natural ability to connect with, share, and find meaning in stories. Our whole lives are stories. Sharing ourselves is a story. We understand the world and life through stories.
We all recognise the Hero's Journey, act structures, and the age-old formula of the beginning-middle-end. But when that's off-centre or skewed, we notice even if we can't pinpoint exactly how or where or why. We feel cheated and confused.
Essays are formatted in this way, too. We start with an introduction, where we state what we will talk about and what to expect from the essay. Then we go into the body of the essay, the middle, where we explore our points and have ups and downs of analysis. Finally, there's the conclusion, where we summarise all that is explored and come to a satisfying, logical conclusion from all that was discussed.
We are taught this formula, we are shown this formula, it works.
So when a story comes along and it doesn't seem to naturally fit this formula, we get confused. We don't understand it. We even get angry!
Narrative beats are like hitting key points in the story in a logical way that adds to the narrative. It's setup, then boom, boom, boom, then an end. When this is out of rhythm or things are added and taken away and teased and then concluded but then unrealised and then forgotten, it's all over the place. It's messy. It's dissatisfying. The brain doesn't understand or like it.
This is what didn't work with Crimes of Grindelwald. It's pacing was off. The beats were off. The story wasn't like Fantastic Beasts 1, where there was a clear beginning, middle, and end. Instead, it had different characters at different beats with different endings on their journeys and it got weird. It's seen as a "setup film" because it appears to be a setup for future films. Like "hey, here's the people and how they're connected, but see you in two years to find out what happens!"
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Pacing is something I still need to learn a lot about as a writer myself. But I do recognise a few things:
Once a pace is established, don't change it up! It confuses the reader/consumer.
You can't have a large beginning and setup, a rushed messy middle, and an illogical end.
You can't take your time and then rush the end.
You can't rush the beginning and then drag out the end, either.
Your characters need ARCs either within the one book/film or across the series that is logical.
The characters' ARCs need to close around the same time and finish around the same point as the close of the narrative itself.
To end I'll say this, I loved Game of Thrones, even to the end. Mistakes were made, yes, but overall I loved the story, the message, the characters and actors and cinematography. It was brilliant. The same goes for J.K. Rowling's writing. I still love her and have faith in her. I know the Fantastic Beasts story is a different medium for her and so we can all show a bit of compassion as she finds her feet!
And let me just say, comparing books to TV shows or films isn't fair to the writers/creators. They're different forms of storytelling that require different things from the maker. A book has a long time to give depth and meaning and explore things like a film doesn't. A film or TV show has the use of visual imagery to convey a lot in a single look or a well-placed item to be interpreted later.
Different formats, different stories. Stop comparing them against one another!
Writing is hard. You can do so well for so long and then suddenly drop the ball. Just like humans, writers make mistakes! Writing a perfect story, especially a series, is frickin' difficult! It's easy to criticise from the outside looking in.
But if you are a creator or writer, then learn from these mistakes. I'm trying to! Everyone can interpret a story differently, and determine if it's bad or good for themselves. But what we can all agree on is that you should never, ever:
Mess with your characters once they're established,
Break your story's own rules,
Or fail on the pacing!
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Thank you to everyone that came out to "Christmas Is Coming". What a fun evening full of Christmas spirit. We have a lot of fun planned for the spring and welcome you to be a part of it. We will be holding auditions for new singers in January. During the audition, you will be asked to do the following things:
1.) A prepared solo of your choice.
Singers are asked to prepare a solo in any genre of music with which you feel comfortable, that will illustrate the quality of your voice. You may sing with an accompaniment track or an accompanist will be provided. When using an accompanist, please bring a copy of your music.
2.) Vocal Exercises for Range Testing
Singers will be asked to perform vocal exercises to determine their range, tone and musical skill.
3. Sight Reading
Singers will be given a line of music to sight read to determine musical level.
The Charlotte Chorale took to the streets of Waxhaw for its 4th of July parade. We made our way down Main Street singing to an energetic crowd. It was fun and an honor celebrating the independence of our great country.
P.O. Box 471005 Charlotte, NC 28247
We would like to thank everyone that made it feel like Home at our latest concert "Home: A Place In Your Heart".
Through song, we celebrated places we call home, such as "Kansas City" and "New York, New York" . Whether we are "Homeward Bound" or "Already Home", our hearts our full of fond memories of our "Homeland" and "Heartland". We get sentimental when we reminisce about hearing the sounds of rolling rivers such as the "Shenandoah" or taking a walk in the "Moonlight In Vermont".
Guests were "Dancing in the Streets" as we celebrated "Living In America". There are such magical things to do in our hometowns such as "Walking In Memphis" or waking up in "Carolina In The Morning". The choir was accompanied by a musical combo and light refreshments reflecting our hometowns were served after the show. It was such a great evening!
With a mission focused on cultural enrichment and accessibility to live choral music within the Charlotte community, The Charlotte Chorale Inc., also prides itself on giving back to those in the community.
Thank you to everyone that supported our "Buy A Biscuit for A Soldier" program this past year. Each December the Charlotte Chorale donates thousands of sausage biscuits to the USO of NC to feed the soldiers as they travel through the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. To date we have fed over 30,000 soldiers. Thank you to Bojangles for supplying the biscuits. If you would like to support this program, donations can be sent to:
Charlotte Chorale
Thank you for helping us feed the brave men and women who keep us safe.
At the center of many holiday displays is the Christmas Tree, and the Charlotte Chorale was so excited to be part of the tree lighting event in uptown Charlotte.
We sang, the elves danced, the children believed and Santa oversaw it all. And then with a lot of Christmas spirit and a little Christmas magic, the tree, standing in the heart of it all, was aglow.
Enjoy the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the holidays in the Christmas Village in Charlotte.
Thank You Volunteers!
The mission of the Charlotte Chorale is to "Make Great Music" and to "Give Back" .
We are proud to enhance events presented by other non-profit organizations in the area and help them achieve their goals.
The Charlotte Chorale took to the road this year and performed at the following locations.
We Lit Up the Night!
ACCEPTING NEW SINGERS!
Photos by Sabina Tewari
We know that the idea of auditioning is scary but relax. The audition is 15 minutes long and we try to make it fun.
If you want to be part of this fun musical group, email us at charlottechorale@hotmail.com to schedule an audition.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH MUSIC
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Chorale Support
The Charlotte Chorale was proud to perform at Relay for Life where the American Cancer Society is helping
to save lives and celebrate life.
@CLT Chorale
Copyright © Charlotte Chorale
The Charlotte Chorale would like to thank all of our amazing volunteers that came out to the Wells Fargo Championship and helped us with our fundraiser. It was a fun week full of sun, smiles, lemonade, pretzels and great people.
We really appreciate your time and your efforts.


This book is the result of many years of teaching jewelers and others how to refine their precious metal wastes. Instructions start with tasks that are easy to understand and perform, assuming that the reader has never seen the process of refining. They continue through more complicated methods of handling various types of waste. Hardcover, 362 pages.


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