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Q: CORS, working in Chrome v36, failing in Chrome v37 I've spent several days trying to identify why my CORS applications suddenly began to fail in Chrome when I updated from Chrome v36.xxx to v37.yyy (specifically 37.0.2062.103 )  In my application I run an MVC site and a WebAPI on a different port.  This is where the cross-domain comes into things.
I've got several instance (dev, uat, prod) all acting the same way.  All used to work.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load
http://"mywebapihost":"mywebapiport"/api/v1.0/myapp/. No
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://"mymvchost"' is therefore not allowed access.
Seems to be a problem with the OPTIONS request in the Preflight - which I've seen mentioned a lot on the web.
However - I don't feel any closer to "fixing" my problem (where "fixing" == being able to run in Chrome).
Things I can state about my system :
(1) Has always worked with v36.xxx, but not since 37.0.2062.103 update
(2) Works in IE
(3) Works for GETs even in latest Chrome
(4) Works, even in latest Chrome. if I have Fiddler running (I don't count this as a fix!)
What I've tried.
1) Forcing headers in the calling jQuery Ajax call to try to get the authorization into the OPTIONS call - suggestions from the web
beforeSend: function (xhr) {
   xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', make_base_auth("<username>", "<password>"));
},
headers: {
   "Authorization": "Basic " + btoa("<username>" + ":" + "<password>")
}

2) I downloaded Chrome Canary v39.0.2150.3 in the hope that this issue would be gone - still get same failures.
If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful, I've have to change to running IE just to make progress!

A: For the sake of closure I am answering my own question here.  It might help someone in the future.
What I did was to create a totally clean, minimal working WebAPI project which implemented GET, PUT, POST and DELETE.  I got this working as expected then tried it cross-domain (same server but webpage running JS Ajax was on port 80 and the WebAPI was running on port 7694).
This predictably failed.  So then I enabled CORS with the required nuget package, added the
        config.EnableCors();

in WebApiConfigcs.
In my minimal WebAPI Controller I added the
[EnableCors(origins: "*", headers: "*", methods: "*", SupportsCredentials = true)]

All this worked as intended.
However, when I then installed the same Controller etc into my existing, failing WebAPI deployment it failed in the way that prompted my original question.
So it had the smell of config about it.
It turned out to be fixed by cleansing the configuration of both my IIS Server and the WebAPI project I was deploying.  I had poked around too much with both when trying to make the pre-flight OPTIONS request to work.
Specificall, in Web.Config I had added
  <system.web>
    ....
    ....
    <!--<authentication mode="Windows" />-->
    <authorization>
      <deny users="?" />
      <allow verbs="OPTIONS" users="?" />
    </authorization>
  </system.web>

And
<httpProtocol>
  <customHeaders>
    <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
    <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Methods" value="GET,PUT,POST,DELETE" />
    <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
  </customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>

When following suggestions seen on the Web.
I removed both of these and things started to work.
I appreciate this is a bit of a fuzzy answer but it may save someone the frustration I had for days.
Chris

A: I'm having the same problem. I've just updated to Chrome 38 (38.0.2125.101 m) and the problem persists. As suggested below, I've deleted my answer here and created a new question: Chrome v37/38 CORS failing (again) with 401 for OPTIONS pre-flight requests.
As you will see in that question, my Angular app is sending an explicit withCredentials, so the server should authenticate the pre-flighted OPTIONS request correctly.


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Soft start for high-current and capacitive loads.
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The Red Sox are in on several offensive targets, such as Manny Machado. With "the killer B's" underwhelming 2017, Boston needs a boost at the plate.
So, the organization has been mentioned a ton to conjure up what has been a frozen stove. The club shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket and hope that most of the guys can bounce back.
Boston does have that youth factor in the background. Getting John Farrell out of the clubhouse is a plus, due to miscommunication issues and the David Price incident. The manager seemed like more a mouthpiece for ownership anyway. Now, the team has an energetic, less-MLB experienced manager, named Alex Cora.
The former major leaguer is a younger presence that should be able to connect with the young core. He is a great communicator and a leader, which is a vast improvement when the team seemed to be clouded without a known man of the ship. With him in the clubhouse, it looks like everyone will have a better attitude.
One player the Red Sox have been all over is slugging outfielder J.D. Martinez. Unfortunately for many suitors, he is a Scott Boras client, which means patience is a virtue.
A couple years ago, this year's hottest free agent wasn't even worth a roster spot. The Houston Astros released him on March 22nd, 2014. The team at the time had a stacked farm system, and with that comes cuts – Martinez was the most notable.
In his last season with the Astros (2013), he hit .250 with 7 homers and 36 RBIs in 310 ABs.
A big problem for him was strikeouts. That year, his K% was at a sweltering 26.5. Fortunately for him, he benefited from playing with one of the best hitters in the modern era – Miguel Cabrera. The outfielder revitalized career with Detroit. He went out with a bang in 2017 by clubbing 45 home runs and knocking in 104 RBI's with the Tigers and Arizona Diamondbacks.
Now, Martinez cannot be had for the league minimum. Super agent Boras and him are reportedly seeking a 7-year, $210 million deal. Boston is obviously waiting them out, as well as having interest in Machado.
The Orioles third baseman is an unlikely candidate because of his remorse for the organization, and also that he will cost major talent, when he could just be signed next offseason.
$210 million is a lot of money. The BoSox aren't a team that spends lightly, but they shouldn't overreact to the Yankees acquisitions. Boston needs money for Betts' / Bogaerts' extensions, as well as change for next year's star plastered FA market. The team already has over $100 million committed to players not even contributing, such as Pablo Sandoval and Rusney Castillo.
So, what should a realistic signing look like for Martinez?
There is a very good chance that it doesn't go seven years, considering the slugger is already 31. They don't need to be paying a player who is going into his decline an insane amount of cash. With that said, the outfielder has been worth $108.1 million dollars over his MLB career. This year alone his value was $30.6 mil.
Boras and Co. have every reason to be asking that high, considering Martinez's career year, but will they get that? Probably not. There aren't enough suitors out there, and very few teams have interest in adding a mega-deal with the luxury tax overhead. A realistic length of a deal should be 5 years, since Martinez will be starting to decline then. $25 mil per year seems to low for him, with the bar being set high.
My estimate is a 5-year, $140 million deal with incentives plus a player opt-out after the third year. He should get 500k each for a batting title, (x) amount of plate appearances, etc. The reason for the opt-out is this: the Red Sox don't need another bad contract on the books and Martinez can pursue a larger contract if he thinks he can get one.
USA Today's Bob Nightengale recently reported that JD Martinez has an outstanding 5 year deal with a year amount of $20 – 25 million.
This aligns with my estimation and proves that Dave Dombrowski has been wise not to bid against himself.
The team must be wise to add important pieces, while retaining enough cap space to retain their budding stars. Adding Martinez would be a much needed move that adds security for down the line.
The front office is confident that the youth will step up, but you can't solely rely on that.
That's why signing JD would be a smart move, albeit risky with the wallet.


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Gene sequencing project discovers common driver of a childhood brain tumor
Memphis, Tennessee, February 19, 2014
Photo: Ependymomas are brain tumors that arise from cells near to the ventricular system of the brain through which the cerebrospinal fluid circulates. Ependymomas represent approximately six percent of brain tumors in children. Most patients are diagnosed before the age of five years. Microscopic hallmarks of the ependymoma are the rosetted arrangement of cells around a tiny clear canal and pink collars of tissue around blood vessels. Credit: Dr. David Ellison, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital -Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project identifies the most common genetic alteration yet in the brain tumor ependymoma; results offer clues for fighting other cancers
The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital-Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified the most common genetic alteration ever reported in the brain tumor ependymoma and evidence that the alteration drives tumor development. The research appears February 19 as an advanced online publication in the scientific journal Nature.
The results provide a foundation for new research to improve diagnosis and treatment of ependymoma, the third most common brain tumor in children. St. Jude has begun work to translate the discovery into new treatments for a disease that remains incurable in 40 percent of young patients. The findings should also aid efforts to understand and intervene against other cancers, including adult tumors.
The newly discovered alteration involves a gene named RELA. The gene plays a pivotal role in the NF-κB pathway, a signaling system in cells that regulates inflammation. Researchers have long recognized that this pathway is inappropriately switched on in many adult tumors. This study marks the first time scientists have found a repeated mistake—a gene alteration–in the central part of the pathway in brain cancer.
In this study, 70 percent of young patients with ependymomas in the front part of the brain carried the RELA alteration and few other genetic changes. The alteration was not found in ependymomas in other regions of the brain.
"In this study, we demonstrate for the first time that a frequent mutation in the heart of the NF-κB pathway is sufficient to transform normal brain cells into cancer cells and drive tumor development," said co-corresponding author Richard Gilbertson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center. "This should help us to understand how abnormal NF-κB activity drives cancer and to develop new treatments to block that activity."
The alteration fuses RELA with parts of another gene, C11orf95, in a process called translocation. The translocation produces abnormal proteins that rapidly cause fatal brain tumors in mice. These tumors resembled the human disease.
"This is an exciting finding, not only for understanding the biology of a rare and particularly devastating childhood brain cancer, but also for understanding how it might be effectively treated," said co-author Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., director of The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
St. Jude is now leading an international study to determine if the C11orf95-RELA translocation might help predict the outcome for ependymoma patients. St. Jude has also developed a test to identify tumors that carry the translocation. Co-corresponding author David Ellison, M.D., Ph.D., St. Jude Department of Pathology chair, led that effort.
An analytic tool called CICERO developed by St. Jude researchers played a key role in identifying the translocation. Co-corresponding author Jinghui Zhang, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Computational Biology, led the team that developed CICERO.
Finding the translocation required sifting through 246 billion pieces of genetic information that contain the complete genetic code of the tumor as well as the normal DNA from 41 young patients with ependymoma. The researchers also studied the RNA in 77 ependymomas. The DNA in cells contains the code for each gene, while RNA transmits this information to the part of the cell that makes proteins. By sequencing both the DNA and RNA, scientists can see which genes are turned on and are making abnormal products such as the RELA translocation.
Using CICERO, researchers found abnormalities in RNA that led them to the C11orf95-RELA translocation. The fusion gene was created when a piece of chromosome 11 that houses both the C11orf95 and RELA genes was shattered and incorrectly reassembled.
The result is one of the most commonly occurring translocations ever reported in brain tumors. Of the 41 ependymomas in this study that began in the front part of the brain, 29 tumors had the translocation and made RELA fusion proteins. "The fact the alteration results in abnormal proteins offers a potential new therapeutic target, which is significant for ependymoma," Gilbertson said.
Researchers are working to understand how the fusion proteins cause cancer. Evidence suggests that C11orf95 plays a key role by altering the way that RELA moves through the cell and performs its normal functions. Investigators also discovered translocations involving other genes that appear to drive ependymoma.
The study was part of the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, which has sequenced the complete normal and tumor genomes of 700 young cancer patients. The project was launched in 2010 to harness advances in genome sequencing technology to improve understanding and treatment of some of the most aggressive and least understood childhood cancers.
The study's first authors are Matthew Parker, Kumarasamypet Mohankumar, Chandanamali Punchihewa and Ricardo Weinlich, all of St. Jude. The other authors are James Dalton, Yongjin Li, Ruth Tatevossian, Timothy Phoenix, Radhika Thiruvenkatam, Elsie White, Bo Tang, Wilda Orisme, Michael Rusch, Xiang Chen, Yuxin Li, Panduka Nagahawhatte, Erin Hedlund, David Finkelstein, Gang Wu, Shelia Shurtleff, John Easton, Kristy Boggs, Donald Yergeau, Bhavin Vadodaria, Heather Mulder, Jared Becksfort, Pankaj Gupta, Robert Huether, Jing Ma, Guangchun Song, Amar Gajjar, Thomas Merchant, Frederick Boop, James Downing and Douglas Green, all of St. Jude; Ryan Lee and Kirti Gupta, both formerly of St. Jude; Amy Smith, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Fla.; and Li Ding, Charles Lu, Kerri Ochoa, David Zhao, Robert Fulton, Lucinda Fulton and Elaine Mardis, all of Washington University.
The study was funded in part by the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, including Kay Jewelers, a lead sponsor; grants (CA129541, CA96832, CA021765) from the National Institutes of Health; the Collaborative Ependymoma Research Network and ALSAC.
David W. Ellison, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPCH
Jinghui Zhang, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and cures childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to 80% since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. To learn more, visit stjude.org or follow St. Jude on social media at @stjuderesearch.
Washington University School of Medicine's 2,100 employed and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient-care institutions in the nation, currently ranked sixth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.
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Avian influenza virus isolated in harbor seals poses a threat to humans
Bacterial adaptation contributes to pneumococcal threat in sickle cell disease patients
Brain circuit problem likely sets stage for the "voices" that are symptom of schizophrenia
Cancer diagnosis doesn't increase a child's risk of post-traumatic stress disorder
Diet affects mix of intestinal bacteria and the risk of inflammatory bone disease
Discovery links rare, childhood neurodegenerative diseases to common problem in DNA repair
Discovery yields master regulator of toxin production in staph infections
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Gene therapy provides safe, long-term relief for patients with severe hemophilia B
Genomic analysis reveals that a high-risk leukemia subtype becomes more common with age
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Health gap between adult survivors of childhood cancer and siblings widens with age
HIV clinic-based audio project emphasizes the power of patient voices
Improved risk identification will aid fertility preservation in young male cancer patients
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Molecule acts as umpire to make tough life-or-death calls
Promising class of antibiotics discovered for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Protein's structural shift offers clues to tumor suppression and other key cell functions
Researchers discover immune signature that predicts poor outcome in influenza patients
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Survivors of childhood eye cancer experience normal cognitive functioning as adults
Telephone counseling leads more adult childhood cancer survivors to get heart screenings
Tracing evolution of chicken flu virus yields insight into origins of deadly H7N9 strain
Tumor suppressor gene TP53 mutated in 90 percent of most common childhood bone tumor
Unhealthy habits more than double risk of metabolic syndrome in childhood cancer survivors
Youngest bone marrow transplant patients at higher risk of cognitive decline

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Old and new drugs used in rheumatoid arthritis: a historical perspective. Part 1: the older drugs
Am J Ther. Mar-Apr 2001;8(2):123-43. doi: 10.1097/00045391-200103000-00007.
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1 Division of Rheumatology, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.
Rheumatoid arthritis is the paradigmatic immune-mediated inflammatory arthropathy and may be of comparatively recent, New World origin. Apart from the symptom-relieving nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, whose natural congeners have been in use since antiquity for musculoskeletal pain and inflammation, only a dozen drugs or drug classes--the disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs--are currently in common use in rheumatoid arthritis. Development of these drugs has been a notable achievement of the 20th century. Some were developed serendipitously (glucocorticoids, antimalarials), some were the product of faulty reasoning (gold, D-penicillamine), and others were applied for plausible reasons but whose mechanism remains unproven (sulfasalazine, methotrexate, minocycline). A minority were originally applied on the basis of actions that remain germane to the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis as currently understood (azathioprine, cyclosporine, leflunomide, infliximab, etanercept). Among the latter are the more recently introduced and effective agents. The practical use of these drugs is determined by efficacy-toxicity considerations, which have also driven the recent development of the cyclooxygenase-2-selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
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A set of two original treasure coins used in the production of the 2003 action-adventure sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
These coins were used as part of the vast treasure hoard in Alexander the Great's Luna Temple, uncovered by an earthquake at the beginning of the film.
Made of metal, each coin features a unique cast-in face on one side and creature detail on the reverse, painted with a burnished faux-gold finish. They differ in size and weight, with rough cast edges for an authentic appearance.
They remain in a good production used condition, including some minor wear to the paint finish.
The largest coin measures approximately 2.75cm x 2.75cm
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Saleh Salah Al-Sharabaty (; * 12. September 1998 in Amman) ist ein jordanischer Taekwondoin. Er startet in der Gewichtsklasse bis 80 Kilogramm.

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Saleh Al-Sharabaty sicherte sich bei den Asienspielen 2018 in Jakarta die Bronzemedaille. Zuvor hatte er bereits bei den Asienmeisterschaften 2016 in Manila den dritten Platz belegt, während er 2018 in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt Zweiter wurde. 2021 wurde er schließlich in Beirut erstmals Asienmeister.

Im selben Jahr gewann Al-Sharabaty das asiatische Qualifikationsturnier für die ebenfalls 2021 stattfindenden Olympischen Spiele 2020 in Tokio. Bei den Spielen selbst erreichte er in seiner Konkurrenz nach drei Siegen das Finale, in dem er auf den Russen Maxim Chramzow traf. Er unterlag Chramzow mit 9:20 und gewann somit die Silbermedaille.

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The Art of Evil – The Silence and the Horror
Posted by natechen on October 7, 2016
After defeating over twenty enemies, including an orangutan, a man with two left hands and a hyper intelligent infant, making it to Egypt and finally locating their nemesis the Stardust Crusaders found themselves locked in a frantic battle with Dio Brando, running through the streets of Cairo at night and hoping to last until sunrise would come and end the wretched vampire for good. Hoping to buy time Noriaki Kakyoin deployed a trap intended to keep Dio from moving. A split second later, dazed and confused, Kakyoin lay in the wreckage of a window, his trap destroyed and his life bleeding out.
Initially the moment made as little sense to the audience as it did to Kakyoin himself. Bu then we saw things from Dio's perspective and, for the first time, heard Dio invoke his own power by name – The World – and time stopped.
Welcome back to The Art of Evil. We're talking about villains and we're doing it using these guys and these guys. Today we're talking about the most misunderstood part of villains – their impact. Let me explain.
The best characters have a defining moment and villains are no exception. For Dio Brando there's no doubt it was when he first stopped time. "Za Warudo" is probably his definitive catchphrase (give or take "road roller da"). He was always a flamboyant villain given to dramatic posturing, as all JoJo villains are, but The World and it's ability to stop time wiped all other characteristics from most people's memories. He's not so much a vampire, immortal or vindictive rival in most people's minds. He's just the villain who could stop time (and occasionally drop a road roller on people.)
By the same token, Yzma is a villain defined entirely by how she uses (and is foiled by) her minion, Krunk. Let's face it – Krunk is never going to pull the right lever. But Yzma can't actually succeed in her plans without him. Even if she came up with some plan she could do on her own Kuzko would never take her seriously and the audience probably wouldn't either. She wouldn't be such a fun, bumbling villain with a different MO.
Legato Bluesummers is terror in white. He shows no remorse when he's cracking people's minds open and forcing them to kill themselves. There's a sequence where he forces a man to rip his own heart out – off screen, thankfully – which will never-the-less haunt you for months. But beyond all that there's an apathy about the man, a failure to acknowledge his fellow man as in any way worthy of his attention, that instantly paints him as a bad guy before he ever does anything remotely evil. And his background music is perdition on a six string.
Darth Vader is possibly the best example of a villain who has all three factors combined. Like Dio, he has a defining moment of mastery, when his power over the hero is at it's apogee – "No, Luke. I am your father."
He has a clear modus operandi in the way he simply walks through battlefields and takes what he wants. Vader never flinches in combat until the moment of his ultimate defeat. He's only denied victory once before that, and that pretty much by chance due to a good shot in the Death Star trench run. He doesn't need help from minions and he never flinches even in the presence of Chewbacca, the greatest physical powerhouse in the Star Wars franchise.
And anyone who tells you Darth Vader doesn't have presence is lying. He was voiced by James Earl Jones for crying out loud. That's a presence and a half all on it's own. With the costume design and excellent physical performance tied in he's got enough stage presence for four normal villains put together.
These three things apply to villains who aren't direct physical threats as well. Consider Louis Renault. His presence is slick, polished and charming. He manipulates the local bureaucracy and political powers to get sex, money and comfort. His definitive moment is when he turns his back on his old attitude and stands up to the people he used to look to as provider of his comfort and easy life and Rick proclaims, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Any villain with a strong modus operandi and a striking presence are well on their way to fulfilling the first two purposes of villains – inciting conflict and opposing heroes. But it's very easy to lapse into the habit of thinking that's all you need.
Don't get me wrong, you can get good villains out of characters who are all MO and presence, like the Borg from Star Trek or Agent Smith from The Matrix. But great villains need a great defining moment, as well. And normally, defining moments don't rest on how the character fights against the heroes or how cool the villain can look, they tend to rest on the villain's motives or thoughts at the moment. (Dio is an exception because he's that cool.)
Think about Vader or Louis – Vader claims Luke as a son because his goal is influence over his son. Louis rebels against the Nazis because the peace of mind he values so much is clearly not going to last under their rule. It's this added layer of depth that lets these villains create such a lasting impact. They have motives that drive them, motives we understand, and it hits us hard when we catch a glimpse of them and realize we might be closer to these people than we're comfortable with.
Many people think of villains strictly in terms of how they oppose heroes or how cool they look. But frankly, most all of the ways a villain can do that have been done before, and in recent memory. That's why this post is kind of short compared to others – those aspects of impact are the parts that're frequently gotten right in villainous portrayals. Probably because they're easier to understand. But getting a great defining moment requires you to go a level deeper, dig into what makes your villain tick and how the audience will click with them.
That deeper level, the level of motivation that can be understood and related to, adds a lot to the character. But the most important part of these two factors, motivation and impact, is how they intersect. Tune in next week as we look at that point, and why it's the most important moment in your villain's career.
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I'm running KRR on my Windows Home Server and am reasonably satisfied with its performance. It works well with my Cambridge Audio NP30. Since I'm rarely logged in to the server box I've set the 'run automatically at Windows startup' option, and I note that after a server reboot there is now a KRR process running under the SYSTEM account.
My question is as follows: When I log into the server under my admin account, run KRR under that account, are the KRR options set using the KRR dialogs running under the admin account (such as registration info, or folder selections) automatically taken up by the KRR process running under the SYSTEM account?
I'm glad you like KRR, thank you!
The settings (registration info, folders, etc...) are stored in the database, so they are not per-user and you should see the same settings under any account on your system.
Ok, sounds good. Would I need to reboot my server each time I change something in order to get the process started at boot time (running under the SYSTEM account) to adopt the new setting?
Do you mean when you add new files/folders or when you change a setting? If the former, then as long as you have automatic updates turned on for folders, you don't need anything. If the latter, then a server does need a restart when some particular settings are changed, but you can do that from within the GUI (where you change the setting in the first place) by using the Stop/Start button on the toolbar.


Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:  so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Observation: That is what I want to be, "a man of God." I remember a story about a football player they named "MOG"(Man of God), because he didn't compromise his faith. That is what I want to be known as by the people who know me. It has been on my heart to get busy for God and start fulfilling my purpose to do good works.
Application: I need to continue to read my Bible and really study and understand what is in the Bible. I need to get thoroughly equipped. God has put on my heart small groups, counseling and to finish rewriting my book and yet I spend very little time doing any of it. I need to devote myself on accomplishing what God has given me to do.
Prayer: Dear Lord show me how to be thoroughly equipped to do the work you call me to do. Give me success in being the man of God you want me to be.
Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:  If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.
Observation: Before I can be used as an instrument for God there are things I need to cleanse myself of. I need to cleanse myself from greed, anger, laziness, pride, lying, lustful thoughts and so much more. I can't present myself before God covered in sin. I need to choose to separate myself from sin and glorify God.
Application: I need to be constantly aware of what I'm thinking and doing. I need to make right decisions and focus on how to honor God. My goal is to be that vessel that God can use for good works.
Prayer: Dear Lord help me be this vessel you desire me to be. Prepare me to do good works in glory and honor to you.


Fellow Salonistes, We had a wonderful evening on Wednesday, 19 March at our second Digital Salon, hosted at the Media and Graphic Interdisciplinary Centre. The discussion was wide ranging – as one Saloniste put it "from encoding texts to throwing out texts altogether" – and stimulating!
The evening began with a presentation by Constance Crompton, Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan on Coding Community: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada. Constance discussed her work encoding the book Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975. She explained how the encoding has been done using a specific XML schema called Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) using the visual text editor, OXygen (http://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/tei_editor.html) and the possibilities for analysis of the text this work has created, including the possibility for visual network analysis of communities.
This led into a brief discussion of visual analytics and the opportunities that exist through the Visual Analytics Challenge Program to receive advice and guidance on visual analysis of data, as well as student support in conducting visual analysis. More about the VA Challenge Program can be found here: https://www.viva-viva.ca/index.php/programs/va-challenge-program. Alternatively, anyone interested can contact Vicki, or send an email to Rama Flarsheim or Candice McGowen.
Next was a presentation from Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe and Ian McDonald (more about Rhodri and Ian and their work here:http://colonizingmodernism.wordpress.com) on Colonizing Modernism: Late British imperial colonial policy and the Modern Movement in architecture, planning and design. Their project creates a virtual 3D exhibition space, including a "children's room", in which visitors can explore images related to the theme of the exhibition (including some fascinating British Airways advertisements from the early 20th c)., solve mysteries and create their own narratives. Ian explained some of the technical aspects of the project e.g the use of a Unity gaming platform, and Rhodri explained the motivating vision for the virtual exhibition space.
In true Saloniste style, we ate, drank and pondered. Questions arose about the way in which digital media 'calls attention" to certain things, while downplaying others I.e. Constructs or constrains the text. Others spoke about digital media as providing "agency" to "users". Notions of "locational memory", the different ways in which we engage or read physical versus digital text, performativity, and the preservation of digital works emerged from the discussion, not to mention learning about the technical tools and practice of digital research.
We ended just as we were beginning, and far too soon . . . A la prochain!


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Бха́руч (, ) — город в индийском штате Гуджарат, крупный морской порт и административный центр округа Бхаруч.

География и климат
Расположен на берегах реки Нармада, в 71 км к юго-западу от Вадодары и в 96 км к северу от Сурата. Средняя высота города над уровнем моря — 14 метров.

Кламат города можно охарактеризовать как тропический климат с сухой зимой и дождливым летом. Сильное смягчающее влияние на климат Бхаруча оказывает Аравийское море. Самые жаркие месяцы — апрель и май, температуры нередко превышают 40 °C. Сезон дождей продолжается с конца июня по конец сентября, за это время выпадает около 800 мм осадков. Средний максимум во время сезона дождей составляет 32 °C. В октябре и ноябре, с окончанием сезона дождей, температуры вновь повышаются. Зима продолжается с декабря по февраль и характеризуется средней температурой около 23 °C.

Население
По данным всеиндийской переписи 2001 года, в городе проживало 148 391 человек, из которых мужчины составляли 52 %, женщины — соответственно 48 %. Уровень грамотности взрослого населения составлял 78 % (при общеиндийском показателе 59,5 %). Уровень грамотности среди мужчин составлял 82 %, среди женщин — 73 %. 10 % населения было моложе 6 лет. Религиозный состав — индуисты (около 70 %) и мусульмане (27 %). Официальные языки — гуджарати и английский.

По данным переписи 2011 года население Бхаруча составляет 168 729 человек; население города с учётом пригородов также по данным этой переписи составляет 224 210 человек.

Экономика и транспорт
Бхаруч — крупный промышленный центр Гуджарата. Имеет место производство химических удобрений, красок, красителей, хлопка, текстиля, молочных продуктов и др.

Город соединён с Дели и Бомбеем национальным шоссе № 8. Имеется железнодорожное сообщение. Ближайшие аэропорты — в Вадодаре и Сурате.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Гуджарата


Paige Ferguson and Blake Linton were at a friend's house with their infant son Colton, when Colton fell asleep. Being just one day shy of turning 6 months old, Paige and Blake laid Colton down in the middle of their friend's queen-sized bed so that he could get some rest. Surrounding him with pillows, they sat down just outside the room so that they would still be close to him.
It wasn't anything that many other parents haven't also done in similar situations — but for Paige and Blake, Colton's nap would have a catastrophic ending.
With just a bump on his head, Paige admits to feeling a bit relieved that it hadn't been worse.
"He was crying, which meant that he was alert, and after we calmed him down and he smiled at us, I really felt relieved," says Paige.
Paige explains that both she and Blake had heard that if a bump sticks out, it's better than if it sinks in; so they felt reassured that since Colton's was swelling outwards, it wasn't anything serious. But being a first time "baby" mom (Blake has an 8-year-old son Brennan, whom Paige also considers her own), Paige was still worried enough that she wanted Colton to be checked out at the hospital.
Once they got to the hospital, Colton began to vomit, and a CT scan was performed to see what was going on inside of little Colton's head.
By then, a helicopter was on its way to take Colton to Memphis, and by the time Paige and Blake got there, there were already 20 doctors and nurses working on Colton.
Wracked with guilt, Paige admits that the thoughts of what she could have done, or should have done differently, flooded her mind.
Yet despite what they were going through, Paige immediately started to think of her other mommy friends, and instantly wanted to protect their children from what Colton was experiencing. Wasting no time at all, Paige issued a plea on Facebook that has now been shared over 18K times.
"I was in complete shock of the damage that could be done from such a seemingly common and minor incident, and felt sure that it could happen to someone else," Paige says.
But still, both Paige and Blake felt that in the end, Colton would be alright.
It wasn't until the doctor said to Paige, "Ma'am, I need you to understand that your son will most likely die from this," did Paige and Blake's hope shatter to the ground.
The fall had caused such significant bleeding into his brain that Colton had gone into cardiac arrest, which starved his brain of oxygen. He spent the next month in the hospital undergoing surgery, tests, and an MRI that showed such significant damage to his brain that, as Paige and Blake were told, even if he survived, would leave him in a vegetative state.
Paige and Blake decided to continue sharing Colton's story by starting the Facebook group Colton Linton Updates — both to reach out for much needed support for their own family, but also to honor Colton by committing to use his story to help others.
"If the story of his life could save just one family from going through what we're going through, at least something good could come from it," says Paige.
And in a miraculous turn of events, Colton began to breathe on his own. He opened his eyes, and a week later, he went home after spending a month in the hospital; still fighting, but alive. He is fed through a feeding tube, takes multiple medications for seizures, and doctors have warned Colton's parents that being so young, his brain will not be able to heal from the damage that has been done.
But apparently, no one told Colton that, because these days, he is smiling again.
While Colton is working on his recovery, Paige and Blake are working on theirs.
She also wants to issue a gentle but also firm plea to other parents.
Colton is now 7 months old, and while Paige admits that his future is a little blurry to her right now, she is going to continue sharing his story — because if anything has become clear, it's that Colton has a purpose much bigger than anyone can measure.


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Composition In Art
How is a song or a symphony that is expressive of any given feeling composed? Always thus: A certain duration, force, pitch, or quality of voice, varied two or three times, is recognized to be a natural form of expression for a certain state of mind,-satisfaction, grief, ecstasy, fright, as the case may be. A musician takes this form of sound, and adds to it other forms that in rhythm or in modulation, or in both, can be compared or associated with it, varying it in only such subordinate ways as constantly to suggest it; and thus he elaborates a song expressive of satisfaction, grief, ecstasy, or fright. Or if it be a symphony, the method is the same. The whole, intricate as it may appear, is developed by recurrences of the same or very similar effects, varied almost infinitely but in such ways as constantly to suggest a few notes or chords which form the theme or themes. A similar fact is true with reference to poetic elaboration. What are the following but series of comparisons,—reiterations of the same particular or general idea in different phraseology or figures?
What do we have in the poetic treatment of a subject considered as a whole, as in an epic or a drama? Nothing but repeated delineations of the same general conceptions or characters as manifested or developed amid different surroundings of time or of place. So with the forms of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every one knows that, as a rule, certain like lines, arches, or angles are repeated in the columns, cornices, doors, windows, and roofs of buildings. Few, perhaps, without instruction, recognize that the same principle is true as applied to both the outlines and colors through which art delineates the scenery of land or water or the limbs of living creatures. But one thing almost all recognize: This is that, in the highest works of art, every special effect repeats, as a rule, the general effect. In the picture of a storm, for instance, every cloud, wave, leaf, bough, repeats, as a rule, the storm's effect; in the statue of a sufferer, every muscle in the face or form repeats, as a rule, the suffering's effect; in the architecture of a building, —if of a single style,—every window, door, and dome repeats, as a rule, the style's effect. Essentials of Aesthetics, XIV.
COMPOSITION IN ART, METHODS OF.
Art-composition is influenced first by mental and then by material considerations. He (the artist) begins with a conception which, in his mind, is associated with certain forms or series of forms. To represent this conception is his primary object. But he cannot attain it, unless the forms, or series of forms, added by him in the process of elaboration, continue to have the same general effect as those with which he starts. About the latter therefore, as a nucleus, he arranges other like forms according to the general method of comparison. Controlled at first chiefly by a desire to have them manifest this, in order to express a like thought, or to be alike by way of congruity; afterwards descending to details, he is careful to make them alike by way of repetition and consonance. While thus securing unity of effect, however, he is confronted by the variety and complexity of the natural forms from which he is obliged to construct his art-work. But he soon finds that these can be adapted to his purposes through the methods of contrast and complement; and, when it comes to grouping, he is able still to suggest unity by fulfilling the requirements of order, in spite of confusion, through counteraction and the arrangement of factors in accordance with methods of principality, subordination, balance, and organic form.—The Genesis of Art-Form, Ix.
It is the combined result of the application of all of these methods that produces the general effect termed harmony. —Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color, XXIV.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. Andy Warhol


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Little House / Wounded Knee
Little House / Wounded Knee: Week 15, Twitterpation & Trees
June 18, 2014 March 2, 2016 ~ Rebekah
In the fifteenth week of Little House / Wounded Knee, Omakayas and Laura become adults, meet some nice fellows, and get twitterpated! Meanwhile, the US government plants a lotta trees. Sound interesting? Then let's get started!
These Happy Golden Years
We're almost there, folks! This, the 8th book in the Little House series, takes place from 1881-1885 and covers Laura's brief stint as a school teacher and her courtship and marriage to Almanzo Wilder.
By this point in the series, the focus has transitioned from "chronicle of pioneer life" to "personal Romeo-and-Juliet chronicle". Although there are a few references to current events of the time, and we do learn about courtship and fashion through Character-Laura's actions, the bulk of the book focuses on the process of Laura and Almanzo spending time together and eventually getting married and moving into their first house on Almanzo's homestead. A few notes on their relationship:
A large part of Laura and Almanzo's initial interest in each other is due to their mutual love of horses. As we saw in Farmer Boy, Almanzo is all about horses, and the first time Laura ever notices him in De Smet is because of his beautiful team, Prince and Lady. As they court, they go on countless sleigh rides and buggy rides, including many behind a flighty team of half-broken horses that the townsfolk literally bet Laura will refuse to ride behind. (Of course, she goes!) One of the subtle ways we see Almanzo and Laura begin to understand each other is that Almanzo allows Laura (who was probably 16 or 17 at the time!) to drive one of the half-broken horses — and she does it! That is some serious horse-cred right there.
Laura is SO SLOW to become interested in Almanzo! Part of it is that he is ten years her senior — they began courting at 15/25 and married at 18/28. But I think another reason it feels so slow to me is that Author Laura is very guarded in what she shares about her emotions, even in her retelling of her childhood and courtship. Even when Laura and Almanzo finally get engaged, Laura is unable to directly express even to her family (or the reader!) how she feels. When they ask her if she loves Almanzo or just his horses, she reponds "shakily" with "I couldn't have one without the other," noting that "Ma smiled at her, Pa cleared his throat gruffly, and Laura knew they understood what she was too shy to say" (p.217). This is simultaneously adorable (because by this point we've been waiting for the inevitable Twue Wuv for 200 pages!) and frustrating, because she never says the words, so there isn't really much catharsis. It's just a different level of "propriety" than we're used to today.
Laura actually refuses (with Almanzo's support) to say "obey" in her wedding vows. I totally didn't remember this, so it surprised me a little! But then, once Character-Laura explained it and I thought about Laura's personality, it makes total sense: "I do not want to vote [unlike Almanzo's sister, who is "for women's rights"]. But I can not make a promise that I will not keep" (p.269). Laura is totally a stubborn free-spirit, which is part of what makes readers (and Almanzo) love her. So it makes total sense that (a) she could not in good conscience promise to obey without question, and (b) she would marry someone who appreciated and supported her in that. (Though I still don't know why she doesn't want to vote.)
So Almanzo drives Laura around, and eventually they sorta like each other, and then they get married — THE END! …Except that there's one more (short) book in the series about their first four years of marriage. Next week! =)
Government-Sponsored Forestation
Honestly, what was more intriguing to me than the courtship was a quick side-mention about "tree claims" and the planned forestation of the prairie. Here's the excerpt:
There was a small claim shanty on Almanzo's homestead. On his tree claim there were no buildings at all, but the young trees were growing well. He had set them out carefully, and must cultivate and care for them for five years; then he could prove up on the claim and own the land. The trees were thriving much better than he had expected at first, for he said that if trees would grow on those prairies, he thought they would have grown there naturally before now.
"These government experts have got it all planned," he explained to Laura. "They are going to cover these prairies with trees, all the way from Canada to Indian Territory. It's all mapped out in the land offices, where the trees ought to be, and you can't get that land except on tree claims. They're certainly right about one thing; if half these trees live, they'll seed the whole land and turn it into forest land, like the woods back East." (p.170-1)
This struck me as strange, because it's clear THAT the government wants trees… but I didn't understand WHY they would want to make the prairie look like the forests back east!
I did a little research. The law behind this is an addition to the Homestead Act of 1863, under which the land that had been taken from Indigenous peoples was given in 160-acre sections to settlers provided that they would farm and "improve on" the land for 5 years, after which they owned the land. In 1873, an additional Timber Culture Act was passed, allowing homestead claimants to file for additional land and, as Almanzo says, keep it if they planted and successfully raised trees on it.
Analysis of said Timber Culture Act was scarce, but I did find a quote from premier homestead historian Paul Gates about the rationale behind this initiative: "to get groves of trees growing in the hope that they would affect the weather and bring more rainfall, to provide a source of fencing, fuel wood, and building materials in the future, and to provide another method by which land could be acquired in areas where larger units than the usual 160 acres seemed necessary."
Based on this and some reflection, here's my conclusion: Within a settler-centric framework these reasons make sense — to perpetuate their way of life the settlers need rain for crops and wood from trees — but that still assumes that the settlers' way is superior and takes precedence over the indigenous way, INCLUDING the indigenous plants! To me, this is just another layer of the white supremacy that takes as gospel that white ways are higher than all other ways and justifies environmental destruction and even human genocide all to fuel its self-propagation.
Seriously, the arrogance of trying to change the weather so that you don't have to adapt your way of life to a different climate and ecosystem? Please! (Not that I can say that from a high horse as I write in my climate-controlled house, comfortably cool in mid-June… I'm working on it!)
Anyway. This topic is something I'd never considered before, and definitely one I want to learn more about. (Anyone have a connection with an ethno-environmentalist historian??? Is that even a thing???)
(**Edited to Note: I investigate this question more deeply in my Imperial Geography project.)
The Porcupine Year
Quill & Porcupine — How adorable is that??
The third Birchbark House book begins with a scene where Omakayas and little brother Pinch are swept away by a swift river current while out canoeing. To me, this opening scene sums up a lot of the themes in this book:
The Anishinabe are still exiled to a foreign place. Even the way the river and the forest are described at the very start gave me a feeling of dark, eerie claustrophobia — totally different than the light, magical open feeling when the Anishinabe are on their home island in Lake Superior.
Pinch and Omakayas are nearly adults! Just the fact that they are canoeing far from camp by themselves sets this up already. But they are also hunting (taking responsibility to provide for the family) and they talk and relate to each other in a much more adult and sophisticated manner — even though they are still goofy siblings, too.
Names are a flexible and important part of Anishinabe life. While on this excursion, Pinch finds a porcupine friend (hence the book's title) and adopts him, allowing the little guy to ride on his head. Not only does this pet make for some ADORABLE illustrations (see above), but the sight of Pinch with a porcupine on his head gives rise to his new name: Quill! Late in the book, Omakayas is also given a new name in a significant ceremony after she shows bravery and maturity.
Omakayas has both a sense of humor and a conscience — which makes for really believable relationships. [SPOILER ALERT!!] When Omakayas and Quill return from getting washed down the river, they discover their funeral in progress, as their families have found evidence that they drowned. Quill decides that they will dress as ghosts and have a little fun. Omakayas goes along, despite her misgivings — but what I love most is how Erdrich allows her to experience BOTH emotions simultaneously: "Omakayas knew that this was a very bad idea, and yet, something in her was thrilled. It was the chance of the situation." (p.27)
Needless to say, this opening scene and the relationship we see developing between Omakayas and her brother is a perfect encapsulation of why I love these books!
Another thing I particularly love — as I've mentioned previously — is how realistically messy the relationships are. A great example of that in Porcupine Year is a confrontation between Auntie Muskrat and her sister (Yellow Kettle / Omakayas's mom) and mother (Nokomis). Two Strike, Omakayas's cousin, has grown increasingly arrogant about her hunting skills and demeaning of women's work and the women in her family, even her mother and Nokomis. After Two Strike orders Yellow Kettle around (I was like YOU DID NOT!!!), Nokomis firmly but kindly rebukes Auntie Muskrat about the way she is allowing her daughter to grow up selfish: "It is not good for her to think that her skills are her own. They were given by the Creator, and the Creator can take them away" (p.152). What's even cooler is that after some initial frustration, Auntie Muskrat takes this criticism in stride, acknowledges that she has been struggling since she is without her husband, and apologizes to her mother and sister. (After which they hilariously set Auntie Muskrat up with a very eligible bachelor!) This open and healthy conflict resolution is especially refreshing after reading a whole book of Laura not even willing to write "I love you" about her husband!
There were two things I wanted more of in this book:
Although there is some discussion about the "talk of making one big home for all of us" (p.45), there is relatively little movement on the US-Anishinabe-relations front. Selfishly, since my project is looking at the period of Indian relocation, I wanted to read about how Omakayas dealt with that. But in a way, I can appreciate how nice it is to conclude the main trilogy here when Omakayas's life still has relatively few limits (other than initial relocation to Bwaaneg territory). (**Note — there is actually a fourth book, Chickadee, which tells about Omakayas's children — I assume that will take place more into the reservation era? I'm reading it for next week…)
I wanted more about Omakayas's romance!!! In this book, Omakayas sort of has a crush on this guy… and then at the end of the book they start courting a bit… and they remind Nokomis and Yellow Kettle and Deydey of when Yellow Kettle and Deydey were courting… and then THE BOOK JUST ENDS!!! After reading the archetypal "happily ever after" story in Happy Golden Years I totally wanted more of that in this book too! But, I guess I'll have to make do with open-ended adorableness and the knowledge that there is one more book….
There are several other significant events in this book — but I really don't want to ruin them for you, so you'll just have to read and find out yourself!
As was somewhat my intention when I scheduled the side-by-side reading of LHotP and BBH, the juxtaposition of these two stories makes it clear that whether you're a young American settler or a young Anishinabe exile, you grow up, you fall in love (probably), and your life with your family goes on. What's broken about this — and what was my even bigger intention when I scheduled the side-by-side reading of LHotP and BBH — is that the reason this particular young American settler was able to have her story in the location she had it is because of the displacement of this particular young Anishinabe exile and many others. The reason I'm growing up, married, and living my life in the location I'm doing it is because of that same displacement of equally valuable, equally valid, equally important Native lives. This creates a huge cognitive dissonance — it feels icky. It feels wrong. It is. And there's not an easy solution — I can't just cry or make a donation or forget about it and make it better. But that's what happened. And right now I'm just sitting in it.
Hopefully the more I sit in it, the more I will be able to acknowledge that it's a part of me, that it's a part of us, and maybe a way forward will emerge, if only because I can't go backward.
Tune in next week for THE CONCLUSION (!!) of this project — Chickadee (BBH #4), The First Four Years (LH #9), and Wounded Knee Ch. 18 & 19. (I may need multiple posts for this….)
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CarissaLick says:
That's really funny/weird that Laura wasn't willing to say "I love you." But their courtship does sound very cute and sweet in spite of that. I thought the part about not being willing to promise to "obey" was really cool and interesting. Like you said, it makes sense that she would fall for a man who was willing to support her in that.
When it comes to the tree-planting thing, well, they obviously didn't cover the whole Great Plains with trees like they planned… but I'm glad there are some trees instead of none. Tree planting is still a major deal here in SD, since trees make for wind-breaks protecting homes, livestock, and crops. I hadn't ever thought of it before as an extension of the settler mentality like you were describing. I think that's an accurate way to look at it, especially with such an extensive goal like they had. But I don't think it's the same thing to plant a small grove of trees on each farmstead (a.k.a. what actually happened) as to try to populate the entire prairie with trees (what they wanted to do). It's very cool and honorable that Indians were able to live on the prairie in a way that didn't really disturb any of the vegetation, but I guess I think that limited amounts of adjustment to the land around a person's home is reasonable. This would include things like removing grass to pave roads, turning meadows into fields, or even landscaping a yard. Anyway, that was me thinking "out loud" because it's an interesting thing to ponder. 🙂
RebekahSchulzJackson says:
CarissaLick I totally love trees too! My ponderings were less along the lines of "Introducing trees into a non-tree ecosystem is ALWAYS BAD AND WRONG!!!" and more along the lines of "Hmm, it seems that in addition to not even considering the possibility of learning from and adapting to local/Native wisdom many white settlers and the US Govt instead adopted a policy of automatically running over local/Native ways and plants with Euro/US ways and plants. Whereas Indigenous peoples differed BECAUSE of the different geographies they inhabited and allowed a different landscape to change how they lived, rather than the other way around."
Another way to look at it is, why did many Indigenous peoples look around and say "Hmm, my environment. How I can work with it to survive?" while many settlers look around and say "Hmm, my new environment. How can I make it more conducive to my already-selected survival plan?" Like — how did native inhabitants of the great prairie survive without trees? Probably by making things from bison and grasses. But then white settlers came in and killed the bison (to make room for cows) and plowed up the grasses (to make room for other crop-plants to grow), and then needed trees to support that. That just seems really backwards to me, and it seems likely that that backwardness of framework probably springs from cultural supremacy.
But like I said… if anyone knows of any good research about the relationships between ecosystems/organisms and human culture, I'm SUPER interested in reading it!!!
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Migrants found suffocated in crowded vessel, as 400 are saved near Italy
Sunday, 20 July, 2014, 02:26 PM
The Italian navy has rescued more than 4,000 migrants in recent days, with calmer seas causing an upsurge in boats trying to reach Italy. Photograph: Reuters
Engine fume inhalation thought to be to blame for nineteen deaths, with vessel intercepted by Italian and Maltese navies
Hannah Godfrey and agencies
theguardian.com, Saturday 19 July 2014 21.42 BST
Eighteen people have been found dead, believed suffocated, inside the hold of a boat carrying migrants from North Africa to Italy. A further 400 people were saved from the crowded vessel after it was intercepted early on Saturday south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, in waters between Libya and Malta, by Italian and Maltese naval vessels assisted by two passing merchant ships. Three gravely ill men were rushed to the Italian island of Lampedusa, but one died en route, raising the death toll to 19. The two remaining men were taken by helicopter to a hospital in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, according to the Italian navy.
Maltese authorities said many of the bodies were in the vessel's hold. Engine fume inhalation was the apparent cause of death, the Italian navy said. Last month, 30 migrants were killed in similar circumstances.
No information was released on the nationality of the survivors, who were taken to Italy.
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Jonathan Eig's Muhammad Ali biography comes as new generation of athletes kneels in protest
By Ed Sherman
Drew Bundini Brown, Ali's friend and chief motivator, tapes the fighter's hands at their new training camp in Deer Lake, Pa. (Kwame Brathwaite)
Muhammad Ali proclaimed himself "The Greatest," which, when it comes to his boxing, is debatable, but not when it comes to his legacy as an athlete who spoke out on social issues.
Jonathan Eig's new book, "Ali: A Life," due out Tuesday, comes on the heels of controversy stoked by President Donald Trump, who attacked NFL and NBA players for taking a knee in protest during the national anthem.
Long before there was Colin Kaepernick, there was Ali. In the biography, Eig highlights how Ali voiced controversial views on race during the 1960s and couldn't fight for 3 1/2 years because he refused the draft during the Vietnam War. Eig said he knows the young, brash Ali would have lashed back hard at Trump.
"He's the first athlete who speaks out openly and challenges power structure," Eig said. "He says, '(Forget) about the notion that I'm just a boxer and I'm supposed to keep my mouth shut.' It sends a huge message that black people could stand up. He'd be ticked off that we're still fighting these fights. That people haven't learned anything, and they still want to shut up the black athlete. Ali would not tolerate that."
Eig's sprawling, 542-page biography examines how Ali went from a boxer reviled for his bravado to an American icon whose impact transcended sports. Eig conducted more than 600 interviews and spent 4 1/2 years to write the story of a talented, complex, flawed and truly unique individual.
The Tribune spoke with Eig this week. The following transcript is edited for space and clarity.
Q: There has been so much written about Ali. What made you decide to do this book?
A: I was shocked nobody had done a complete biography on him. There have been several good books in which people looked at slices of his life (such as his fights with Joe Frazier and George Foreman), but nobody had done the whole thing. This book has everything. It's got race, religion, sex, violence. Ali was the most interesting man in my lifetime.
Q: What was it like to spend 4 1/2 years researching and writing on Ali?
A: It was like running 100 marathons. It was rewarding because you get to go really deep and focus on someone. Yet at the same time, you feel like you're never going to finish. The tricky part was maintaining relationships with sources for three to four years. I interviewed many people multiple times. Talking to Ali's ex-wives were like little marriages. They ran hot and cold. Sometimes they loved me; sometimes they hated me. (Ali's widow Lonnie) met with me, and we texted a lot, but she did not want to sit for a full-blown interview.
"Ali," by Jonathan Eig, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 640 pages, $30. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Q: You write that Ali had issues with women. You also document many other flaws and questionable behavior. For an athlete who almost was deified at the end, your portrait shows him being far from perfect.
A: The problem I have with his deification is that we only fell in love with him when he was rendered harmless. He became this beloved figure when he no longer was speaking and his hands were shaking.
That's not the real Ali. The real Ali was dangerous, and he was flawed. The reader wouldn't trust me if I made him out to be a saint. I couldn't sleep at night if I didn't tell the truth about him.
He was an idiot with his money. He was surrounded by a lot of shady characters who ripped him off. He was not good to his wives. On the day of the first Frazier fight and his fight with Ken Norton, he was in bed with prostitutes. Those were his first two losses. It's incomprehensible, but that's the way he was.
Q: In the book, you write about all the lasting damage Ali endured from boxing. What was it like to watch and study all of his fights? Could you appreciate his athletic skills knowing the price he paid?
A: Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.
Ali was beautiful at it, especially the young Ali. The first phase of his career before he was banned was just spectacular. He was so fast, so strong, and he had an instinct to do exactly what his opponent did not want him to do.
I hated the Ali that came next during the '70s. He got beat up a lot. Even in the fights he wins, he gets clobbered. I calculated that he got hit around 200,000 times in his career. You can't watch him perform without the sense of dread because you know what's coming for him.
Q: What was the biggest surprise in learning about Ali?
A: His agent, Larry Kolb, kept telling me, "You don't get it. I spent years traveling with Ali, and I'm telling you he was humble." I couldn't understand that for the longest time. Then it dawned on me. Even though Ali called himself "the greatest," that was as a boxer. If he met someone on the street or in the airport, he wanted to hear about their lives. He was interested in who they were. There were numerous times he would invite people to his house for dinner. It wasn't because he was bored. It's because he loved and wanted to connect with people. That's the kind of humility Larry was talking about.
After winning the heavyweight title, Cassius Clay Jr., right, announced his loyalty to the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad, center. Elijah Muhammad honored the boxer with a new name — Muhammad Ali. Rudy Clay, left, also joined the Nation and became Rahaman Ali. (Lowell K. Riley)
Q: You met Ali once. What was that meeting like?
A: I met him briefly at a fundraiser. I was a nervous wreck. For years, I was thinking about what I would ask him. I went over to his table. He was hunched over with a bowl of soup in front of him. I put my hand on his arm and told him I was working on his biography. I said, "I want to know if there's anything you want to say? I want you to get in the last word." He didn't answer, but Lonnie said he heard me.
Just to be able to look into his eyes gave me an enormous sense of relief. At least, I have been to the mountaintop.
Q: How do you think Ali would have felt about your book?
A: Ali liked anything in which he was the star. He would have been surprised that his grandfather was a murderer. I don't think he knew that. But otherwise, I don't think there would be anything in the book where he would be shocked or surprised.
Ed Sherman is a freelancer.
'Ali'
By Jonathan Eig, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 640 pages, $30
Eig will discuss the book at several Chicago events; visit alialife.com for details.
Joe Frazier
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FENLAND District Council is inviting local people and the business community to have their say on future parking provision for the four Fenland towns.
The council is keen to hear the views and ideas of local people on how best to meet the growing demand for parking as March, Wisbech, Chatteris and Whittlesey expand over the coming decades.
The council's Overview and Scrutiny Parking Provision Review Team wants to involve the public, businesses and other key stakeholders in the debate about how best to provide for Fenland's future parking needs.
There are 1,756 off-street parking places provided by the council, spread across the four towns and there is a question mark over whether they are of adequate and appropriate quality to cope with current and future requirements.
The review will also be looking at whether sufficient capacity can be created by improved regulation of existing car parks through the greater allocation of short and long stay spaces. Do local people want better, more secure car parking?
To help develop a well-rounded picture of parking provision, Councillors Ken Mayor, Peter Dickinson, Cliff Edwards, Steve Cawthorne, Cyril Bellamy and Trevor Quince will be visiting neighbouring authorities to learn how they have addressed their parking issues.
The review will look at on and off-street parking, its quality, availability, costs, regulation and use in order to develop a long-term strategy for the future of parking in Fenland.
The review has been designed to fulfil three of the council's key objectives.
# The Streets Ahead objective, to make the district a more attractive place to live, work and visit by ensuring that the streetscape is neat and tidy, well maintained and safe. Parking provision and car parks make an important contribution to the streetscape and the surrounding area.
# The Open for Business agenda, which aims to increase visitor numbers to the district and it is, therefore, essential that sufficient suitable parking is made available for access to local businesses and local attractions.
# The Quality Organisation agenda, which prioritises optimum use of council resources to deliver value for money for local people. These resources include council car parks.
There are 958 council off-street parking spaces spread across eight car parks in Wisbech and a further 400 spaces at the private Horse Fair car park. March has 281 council off-street parking spaces across six car parks, with a further 275 spaces provided by Sainsbury. Whittlesey has 293 council off-street spaces across five car parks and Chatteris has 124 council off-street spaces in two car parks.
The review will not encompass individual parking issues; out of town parking; individual parking complaints or wider issues of traffic management.
Councillor Ken Mayor, chairman of the Parking Provision Review Team, said: "As Fenland grows, we need to look closely at how and where we provide parking as well as the quality of the parking.
"We must also look at how we can best provide good quality parking across Fenland, while at the same time remaining sensitive to the sometimes competing needs of local businesses, local residents and the environment. It is a delicate balancing act and we can only achieve it by consulting with all stakeholders before arriving at any recommendations on future provision."
# Anyone who wants to put their ideas and views across to the council should contact senior overview and scrutiny officer Donnella Benbow on 01354 654321 or via e-mail on dbenbow@fenland.gov.uk or in writing to her at Fenland Hall, County Road, March, PE15 8NQ.