Should I start a company with my best friend?
This is a tough one. We always encourage people to spend significant quality time with potential co-founders to find out whether they have compatible values, workstyles and commitment levels before diving into a joint venture. Wouldn't all that be taken care of if you start a venture with a close friend?
Too similar – People tend to be friends with people who are similar to them in values, mindset, and even skills. This can cause difficulties in starting a company since it means that often there is not enough diversity of perspectives to ensure productive decision making.
No feedback – Friends often have a hard time giving honest and direct feedback, since they are concerned about the damage that it can cause to the relationship outside of the workplace.
So, while the beginning of the startup journey would look like smooth sailing, two close friends working on a problem could find it difficult to have those difficult conversations that could make or break a business. If the friends have difficulty making tough decisions, the venture can suffer.
There is another, more personal issue that starting a venture with a close friend poses. What if the venture goes south, and you start to argue? You could end up with huge animosity towards each other, and end up losing either the venture, or the friend, or both.
So before you jump into a new venture creation exercise with your best friend, think about all of the above and decide whether the friendship or the venture is worth the risk. If you can see yourselves separate the personal relationship from the professional relationship, and have proven that you can do this successfully, you might very well succeed in dealing with these challenges. If not, perhaps you may be better off finding another co-founder and keeping your friendship separate from your new venture.


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Вена 1895 — 4-й международный шахматный турнир.
В двухкруговом турнире принимали участие 9 шахматистов.

В турнире был впервые применен дебют Сокольского.

Участники
 Шлехтер, Карл,
 Шварц, Жак,
 Мейтнер, Филипп,
 Марко, Георг,
 Энглиш, Бертольд,
 Вейс, Макс,
 Цинкль, Адольф Юлиус,
 Джадд, Макс,
 Гольцварт Иосиф

Победители
 Георг Марко — 11 очков;
 Макс Вейс — 10½;
 Карл Шлехтер — 10 (первый успех Шлехтера в международных соревнованиях).

Примечания

Литература

1895 год в шахматах
Вена (шахматный турнир)

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Ishikawa: Man believed to have set self on fire in rice field
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on April 14, 2021
ISHIKAWA (TR) – A man is believed to have committed suicide by setting himself on fire in the town of Nakanoto last week, police have revealed.
At around 8:00 a.m. on April 9, a resident in the Tokumaru area alerted police about the body in a rice field, reports Hokuriku Broadcasting (April 9).
According to police, the body is believed to be that of an elderly man who stood about 175 centimeters tall.
In addition to black sandals, he was wearing clothes that had been burned.
A black bag, a lighter and a flammable were also discovered at the scene, police said.
There were no signs of foul play. Police are now working to identify the body.
Published in Japan Breaking News
Tokyo Reporter Staff
The editorial team at The Tokyo Reporter brings the site's readership the latest news from the under side of Japan.
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Home Phillips Library Manuscript Finding Aids John Francis Stimson (1883-1958) Papers
John Francis Stimson (1883-1958) Papers
JOHN FRANCIS STIMSON (1883-1958) PAPERS, circa 1930-1958
Creator: Stimson, J. F. (John Francis), 1883-1958
Title: John Francis Stimson (1883-1958) Papers
Quantity: 12 Linear feet (21 boxes)
Abstract: The John Francis Stimson papers include manuscripts, transcripts, pre-publication materials, and photographs collected by J. Frank Stimson in his research on the Tuamotu culture.
Collection Number: E 56
SERIES I. Informant Manuscripts
A. Paea a Avehe
B. Hapai
C. Fariua a Makitua
D. Tama a Tama
E. Unknown Author
SERIES II. Informant Transcripts
B. Fariua
C. Unknown Author
SERIES III. John Frank Stimson Material
SERIES IV. Kenneth P. Emory Material
SERIES V. Related Authors Material
SERIES VI. Photographs
The John Francis Stimson papers include manuscripts, transcripts, pre-publication materials, and photographs collected by J. Frank Stimson in his research on the Tuamotu culture. It includes material from several authors and spans a period of about twenty years from the early 1930s through the 1950s. The majority of the collection consists of original documents used by Stimson in his research and writing; several documents have been rearranged, relabeled, and corrected several times by Stimson. The original order of the page numbers has been preserved wherever possible, however, the overarching method of organization is first by type of material and then by author. When multiple versions of the same publication are present, each document is listed without implication as to order written.
The collection has been organized into six series, the first three of which contain the manuscripts and transcripts written in Tuamotuan by Stimson's informants. Series four through six consist of the research, notes, and pre-publication materials produced by Stimson and his colleagues.
Series I. Informant Manuscripts consists of manuscript memo books and loose-leaf notes written by the native inhabitants who Stimson interviewed. The series was organized chronologically based on time of interview with informant. Many of the memo books also include a table of contents on the cover or first page. The material with unknown authors was kept at the end of the series.
Series II. Informant Transcripts consists of the typed transcripts of the notebooks and notes in previous series. There are also several folders of materials whose author was not marked and these are included at the end of the series and are arranged, whenever possible, by island of origin. Page numbers included are based on Stimson's system which does not run consecutively. Folders labeled Index appear to be notes collected by Emory by informants.
Series III. John F. Stimson Material consists of Stimson's writing, including several versions of his writings on the Kiho cult, his editors' notes, as well as translated and annotated chants, myths, and legends. It also includes a folder of correspondence to his mother, sister, and other individuals.
Series IV. Kenneth P. Emory Material consists of four folders of notes and research collected by Emory.
Series V. Related Authors Material consists of material written by various authors and collected by Stimson. This material relates to Stimson's Polynesian research. Included within this series are notes on the island of Raivavae by Susanne McConnaughey, who also contributed to Stimson's publication Songs and Tales of the Sea Kings.
Series VI. Photographs is a collection of photographs taken primarily by Kenneth Emory and which were mostly numbered but otherwise unlabeled.
John Francis Stimson was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on October 3, 1883, to John Ward Stimson and Eleanor Elvira Maxson. He went to school at Phillips Andover Academy, pursued literary and musical interests at Yale without taking a degree, and studied architecture at the Ateliers of the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He had no formal training in either linguistics or anthropology.
Stimson first arrived in Tahiti on vacation in 1912, and remained in French Polynesia until his death. Upon arrival in the islands, Stimson determined to master the local speech and commenced to work with Teuira Henry, the noted compiler of Ancient Tahiti. He set himself to learning one hundred Tahitian words each day, and soon had acquired a vocabulary that permitted him to attack the more difficult problems of grammar. His primary interests were to study the classical speech and culture of pre-European Polynesia.
In 1918, Stimson completed a Tahitian grammar to be used by the Mormon Mission, an analysis that established his reputation as a Polynesian scholar. By 1923, he was approached by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI) to assist Kenneth P. Emory as a research associate in linguistics for a survey of the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia. His assignment was to make a study of the Tuamotuan dialects. As representative for the Bishop Museum, Stimson attended Yale University's first session of the Linguistic Institute in 1928, the same year he was appointed as special editor for Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia of Webster's New International Dictionary (2nd edition). A controversy later arose when Stimson and Emory reached opposing views about the existence of a Tuamotu cult of the supreme god, Kiho-Tumu (Kio-Tumu), which ultimately changed Stimson's association with the Bishop Museum.
In 1951 Donald Marshall received a fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY) and the Peabody Museum (Salem, MA) to collaborate with Stimson to make available his forty years of Polynesian linguistic and ethnology research. After the death of Stimson, Marshall completed the editing of the Dictionary of Tuamotuan Dialects, which was published by the Peabody Museum in 1964.
Stimson passed away on October 20, 1958, in Punaauia, Tahiti Polynesia, France.
Brooks, Eleanor Stimson, d. 1945
Emory, Kenneth Pike, 1897-
Fariua a Makitua
Hapai
Marshall, Donald
McConnaughey, Susanne, 1911-
Paea a Avehe
Stimson, J. F. (John Francis), 1883-1958
Marquesan language
Mythology, Polynesian
Polynesian languages
Tuamotuan language
French Polynesia--Languages
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)
Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia)
John Francis Stimson (1883-1958) Papers, E 56, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
This material was found in the collection. The folder of correspondence (B20 F7) was donated to the Peabody Museum by Mrs. Eleanor Stimson Brooks (acc #16,373).
Collection processed by Johanna Umana and Patrick Connelly, August 2010. Updated by Tamara Gaydos, April 2016.
Stimson, John Frank, and Donald Stanley Marshall. A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language. Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1964.
Stimson, John Frank. Tuamotuan Religion (Museum Bulletin 103). Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1933.
Stimson, John Frank. The Cult of Kiho-Tumu (Museum Bulletin 111). Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1933.
Stimson, John Frank. Tuamotuan Legends (Island of Anaa): Part I, The Demigods. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1937.
Stimson, John Frank. Songs and Tales of the Sea Kings: Interpretations of the Oral Literature of Polynesia. Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1957.
Fred McConnaughey Papers, uncataloged Ethnology collection
Donald S. Marshall Papers, uncataloged Ethnology collection
20 small metal file drawers of index cards
Call Number E 56
Title John Francis Stimson (1883-1958) Papers
Creator Stimson, J. F. (John Francis), 1883-1958
Description The John Francis Stimson papers include manuscripts, transcripts, pre-publication materials, and photographs collected by J. Frank Stimson in his research on the Tuamotu culture.
Subject Photographs; French Polynesia--Languages; Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia); Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island); New Zealand; Brooks, Eleanor Stimson, d. 1945; Emory, Kenneth Pike, 1897-; Fariua a Makitua; Hapai; Marshall, Donald; McConnaughey, Susanne, 1911-; Paea a Avehe; Stimson, J. F. (John Francis), 1883-1958; Ethnology; Marquesan language; Polynesian languages; Mythology, Polynesian; Tuamotuan language
Provenance This material was found in the collection. The folder of correspondence (B20 F7) was donated to the Peabody Museum by Mrs. Eleanor Stimson Brooks (acc #16,373).


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Film Review: The Face of an Angel (2014)
There are some things in life such is their mediocrity, such their utter pointlessness, you wonder if the people involved in such travesties were suffering from some temporary form of insanity. The Face of an Angel is one such abomination.
If you ever have the misfortune to be sat on your couch or the couch of a friend and the television announcer tells you that this film is about to air, then you'd be well advised to go and do something more fruitful for an hour and forty minutes: the washing up perhaps, or how about mowing the lawn? IMDB users – over 4,500 of them – rate this as 4.6 – way too generous in my humble opinion.
Right from the first scene this film jumps around like some hyperactive toddler who has been given a trampoline for its fourth birthday. Thereafter it never manages to settle down for more than five seconds before it's jumping back and forth from one random scene to yet another random scene. Alka Seltzer please!
That's not to say this film is not entirely without merit: if film students want to know how to concoct a dreadful script with dreadful direction populated by insipid, lifeless characters then The Face of an Angel could be worth its weight in gold.
On the face of it a film about the unsolved murder of British student Meredith kercher in Italy in 2007 sounds like a winner. A true story involving lies, deceit, sex, murder and mystery. It would take a special kind of stupid to miss an open goal as big as this one. Alas, that's exactly what happens.
Firstly, the fascinating and intriguing characters from the original story upon which this thing is based are noticeable only by their absence. For this is not a film about the unfortunate Kercher nor her alleged murderer, the chilling American femme fatale, Amanda Knox.
This is a film however about the riveting dilemma facing film producer Thomas (Daniel Bruhl) in Siena to make a documentary about the murder. Thomas favours basing his retelling on Dante's Inferno, presumably because it's, well, Italian. Perhaps it's just me, but the parallels aren't immediately apparent.
Meanwhile he has a failed marriage and young daughter whom he loves very, very much. Suffice to say this is hardly the most original film ever made, far from it.
The question of whether a fictional film can ever truly represent factual events in any meaningful way is, I have no doubt, an interesting discussion to have, but rather on late night radio and among a group of stuffy academics, not the main - only - topic of a 100-minute feature film.
And so, it drags on and on and on. Thomas takes some cocaine, walks around the streets of Siena after dark and is introduced to a slum landlord who also walks aimlessly around Siena after dark. Birds of a feather. That's about it. There really is nothing else to this BBC-produced mess.
But what about the compelling story of a night of madness inside a student house in Siena? What about it? Far more exciting – at least from the point of view of the writer of this accursed thing – is Thomas's reading of The Inferno. Such drama. Such suspense.
So, will Thomas get to make a documentary about some murder that happened with some students in the style of the Commedia Dell'arte? Now that would be telling. To find out if Tom gets the green light for his project, you'll have to watch this film to the end. Well if I had to watch this thing until the bitter end, I don't see why you should be spared the agony.
The Face of an Angel 2014
Review: The Face of an Angel 2014
Meredith Kercher
Daniel Bruhl


Chicago, Ill., May 10, 2014 – The Washington University in St. Louis baseball team had its 11-game winning streak come to an end with a 7-5 loss at the University of Chicago Saturday afternoon, but the Bears bounced back with an 11-1 win in game two of the doubleheader in the regular-season finale.
Washington U. finished the regular season with a 28-16 record, winning 21 of its last 25 games of the season. The Bears will await official announcement of whether they earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Championship when qualifiers are released late Sunday evening.
After leading 5-4 through seven-plus innings, three costly errors by the Washington U. defense in the bottom of the eighth inning led to three unearned runs as Chicago rallied for the 7-5 win. Chicago scored two runs each in the second and third innings to take an early 4-0 lead in the game. Washington U. cut the deficit to one run in the top of the fourth. Junior Brandon Deger hit a leadoff single up the middle and senior Andrew Dwoskin followed with an RBI double to the gap in left-center field to get the Bears on the scoreboard. An error by Chicago on a single by sophomore Kyle Kozak allowed Dwoskin to score, and junior Andrew Goldstick hit an RBI double to left-center to make the score 4-3.
The Maroons maintained their one-run lead until the top of the seventh inning. Senior Kyle Billig hit a one-out single and came around to score the tying run on a double to left-center by Deger. A single by Dwoskin through the left side of the infield scored Deger from second to give the Bears their first lead of the game at 5-4.
Washington U. outhit Chicago 17-13 in the game, but the Bears left 12 baserunners stranded, compared with 10 for the Maroons. Dwoskin led the Bears offensively, finishing 4-for-5 at the plate with a double, two RBIs and a run scored. Deger (3-for-5, double, RBI, two runs) and freshman CJ Price (3-for-5, double) had three hits each. Graduate student Matt Tracy made the start on the mound for the Bears, allowing four earned runs on seven hits in 2.2 innings. Junior Dom Quaranta (2-4) took the loss despite not allowing any earned runs and recording three strikeouts in 4.2 innings of relief. Freshman Brad Margolin got the final two outs for the Bears in his team-leading 14th appearance of the season.
The Bears broke open a 3-1 game with eight unanswered runs in the final three innings of game two. Billig and Dwoskin led off the top of the second with back-to-back singles. An RBI groundout by Goldstick and an RBI single by sophomore Max Golembo put Washington U. ahead 2-0. The Maroons answered with a run on two hits in the bottom of the second to cut the Bears' lead to 2-1, but Washington U.'s pitchers shut down the Chicago offense, allowing just five hits by the Maroons the remainder of the game.
An RBI single by Deger in the top of the fifth extended Washington U.'s lead to 3-1. The Bears added to their lead with four runs on four hits in the top of the seventh. Deger led off with a single and scored on an RBI triple by Billig. It was his 15th career triple, making him Washington U.'s all-time career leader. After Dwoskin walked and Kozak hit a single to load the bases, Billig scored on a wild pitch. A single by Golembo and a fielder's choice by Lowery scored Dwoskin and Kozak to push Washingotn U.'s lead to 7-1.
Two more runs with two outs in the top of the eighth made it 9-1 in favor of the Bears. Dwoskin hit a two-out double to left field and Kozak drew a walk ahead of a two-RBI double by Goldstick. In the top of the ninth, Washington U. made it 11-1 on a two-RBI double down the left-field line by freshman Christian Santos.
Graduate student Stephen Bonser (4-1) earned the win for the Bears, allowing one earned run on six hits in five innings of work. Junior Kunal Patel, freshman Scott Nelson and junior Max Zhang combined to pitch the final four innings, giving up just two hits and striking out three while keeping the Maroons scoreless in those innings.
Washington U. outhit the Maroons 17-8 in game two, with nine different players getting hits. Junior Zack Kessinger finished 3-for-5 in game two. Golembo, Lowery, Deger, Billig, Dwoskin and Kozak accounted for two hits each and combined for nine runs scored and five RBIs.
Bear Notebook: Washington U.'s Class of 2014 – Bonser, Tracy, Billig, Dwoskin and Dylan Reid – has helped the Bears to a 110-62 record in the past four seasons … WUSTL recorded double-digit hits in 11 of its last 13 games, outhitting its opponents 163-104 in those games … Washington U. posted double-digit hits in 27 games this season, posting a 22-5 mark in those contests … Billig added four hits on the day to bring his career total to 210, six shy of tying Washington U.'s all-time career record … Bonser has pitched in 45 career games, tied for eighth in Washington U. history … The win brought Bonser's career record to 23-9, tying with Andy Shields (2004-07) for fourth on WUSTL's career wins list … Bonser had two strikeouts to give him 200 in his career … Billig finished the regular-season on a 12-game hitting streak for the second year in a row … Golembo reached base in 42 of 44 regular-season games, and has reached safely in 72 of 78 career games played … Kozak finished the regular season with a six-game hitting streak, going 11-for-22 with six doubles, five runs and three RBIs in those games.


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Dwayne Johnson Reveals Covid-19 Diagnosis
Matt Singer Published: September 2, 2020
For proof of the coronavirus' power and reach, look no further than this: Dwayne Johnson and his entire family have all tested positive for Covid-19.
The Rock announced their collective diagnosis on his Instagram account, saying that his "wife Lauren, as well as my two baby girls and myself, have all tested positive for Covid-19." He called the virus "one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family."
Although Johnson said the diagnosis was "a real kick in the gut," especially since everyone in the family became ill, he said that after "two and a half weeks" of rest, they "are on the other end of it." According to his video, they're "no longer contagious and, thank God, we are healthy."
While his two daughters had very mild symptoms, Johnson said he and his wife had a "rough go" with the virus. He claimed they caught the virus from "very close friends" who he "loves and trusts." He had been "disciplined" and "isolated" — but did spend time with these people. His advice to everyone was this: "Apply even greater discipline to having people over to your house... you still never know." He encouraged rigorous testing, and committing to wellness and health, and especially doing whatever you can do to boost your immune system.
Here is Johnson's video about his bout of Covid-19.
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import errno
import os
import socket

from pymysql import MySQLError
from msgpack import Unpacker, Packer
from threading import Lock, Thread

from .config import BlacknetBlacklist
from .sslif import BlacknetSSLInterface
from .database import BlacknetDatabase
from .server import BlacknetServer
from .common import *

class BlacknetMasterServer(BlacknetServer, BlacknetSSLInterface):
    """ Main blackNet server class """

    def __init__(self, cfg_file=None):
        super(BlacknetMasterServer, self).__init__('server', cfg_file)
        BlacknetSSLInterface.__init__(self, self.config, 'server')

        self.__test_mode = None
        self.__session_interval = None
        self.blacklist = BlacknetBlacklist(self.config)

    @property
    def logger(self):
        return self._logger

    @property
    def session_interval(self):
        if not self.__session_interval:
            if self.has_config('session_interval'):
                self.__session_interval = int(self.get_config('session_interval'))
            else:
                self.__session_interval = BLACKNET_DEFAULT_SESSION_INTERVAL
        return self.__session_interval

    @property
    def test_mode(self):
        if self.__test_mode is None:
            if self.has_config('test_mode'):
                self.__test_mode = bool(self.get_config('test_mode'))
            else:
                self.__test_mode = False
        return self.__test_mode

    def reload(self):
        """ reload server configuration """

        super(BlacknetMasterServer, self).reload()
        self.__test_mode = None
        self.__session_interval = None
        self.blacklist.reload()

        # Reload database information.
        for thr in self._threads:
            thr.database.reload()

    def serve(self):
        """ serve new connections into new threads """

        super(BlacknetMasterServer, self).serve(BlacknetServerThread)

    def shutdown(self):
        super(BlacknetMasterServer, self).shutdown()

class BlacknetServerThread(Thread):
    """ Server thread handling blacknet client connections """

    def __init__(self, bns, client):
        super(BlacknetServerThread, self).__init__()

        handler = {
            BlacknetMsgType.HELLO: self.handle_hello,
            BlacknetMsgType.CLIENT_NAME: self.handle_client_name,
            BlacknetMsgType.SSH_CREDENTIAL: self.handle_ssh_credential,
            BlacknetMsgType.SSH_PUBLICKEY: self.handle_ssh_publickey,
            BlacknetMsgType.PING: self.handle_ping,
            BlacknetMsgType.GOODBYE: self.handle_goodbye,
        }
        self.handler = handler
        self.started = False

        self.database = BlacknetDatabase(bns.config, bns.logger)
        self.__blacklist = bns.blacklist
        self.__client = None
        self.__connect_lock = Lock()
        self.__cursor = None
        self.__logger = bns.logger
        self.__mysql_error = 0
        self.__session_interval = bns.session_interval
        self.__unpacker = Unpacker(encoding='utf-8')
        self.__packer = Packer(encoding='utf-8')
        self.__dropped_count = 0
        self.__attempt_count = 0
        self.__atk_cache = {}
        self.__ses_cache = {}
        self.__key_cache = {}
        self.__test_mode = bns.test_mode

        peer = client.getpeername()
        self.__peer_ip = peer[0] if peer else "local"
        self.__use_ssl = (client.family != socket.AF_UNIX)

        client.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, 1)
        if self.__use_ssl:
            client = bns.ssl_context.wrap_socket(client, server_side=True)
        self.__client = client

        self.name = self.peername
        self.log_info("starting session (SSL: %s)" % self.__use_ssl)

    def __del__(self):
        self.disconnect()
        self.database.disconnect()

    def disconnect(self):
        self.__connect_lock.acquire()
        if self.__client:
            self.log_info("stopping session")
            try:
                self.__client.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
            except socket.error:
                pass
            self.__client.close()
            self.__client = None
        self.__connect_lock.release()

    @property
    def peername(self):
        name = "unknown"
        client = self.__client
        if self.__use_ssl and client:
            cert = client.getpeercert()
            if 'subject' in cert:
                for item in cert['subject']:
                    if item[0][0] == "commonName":
                        name = item[0][1]
        return name

    def handle_sensor(self, client):
        running = True

        while running:
            try:
                buf = client.recv(8192)
            except socket.error as e:
                self.log_warning("socket error: %s" % e)
                break

            if not buf:
                break
            self.__unpacker.feed(buf)

            for (msgtype, data) in self.__unpacker:
                if msgtype in self.handler:
                    running = self.handler[msgtype](data)
                else:
                    self.handle_unknown(msgtype, data)
            self.database.commit()
        self.disconnect()

    def run(self):
        self.started = True
        client = self.__client

        try:
            self.handle_sensor(client)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log_warning("sensor exception: %s" % e)

    @property
    def cursor(self):
        if not self.__cursor:
            cursor = self.database.cursor()
            self.__cursor = cursor
        return self.__cursor

    def log(self, message, level=BLACKNET_LOG_DEFAULT):
        if self.__logger:
            peername = "%s (%s)" % (self.name, self.__peer_ip)
            self.__logger.write("%s: %s" % (peername, message), level)

    def log_error(self, message):
        self.log(message, BLACKNET_LOG_ERROR)

    def log_warning(self, message):
        self.log(message, BLACKNET_LOG_WARNING)

    def log_info(self, message):
        self.log(message, BLACKNET_LOG_INFO)

    def log_debug(self, message):
        self.log(message, BLACKNET_LOG_DEBUG)

    def __mysql_retry(self, function, *args):
        saved_exception = None

        for retry in range(BLACKNET_DATABASE_RETRIES):
            try:
                res = function(*args)
                self.__mysql_error = 0
                return res
            except MySQLError as e:
                if self.__mysql_error != e.args[0]:
                    self.__mysql_error = e.args[0]
                    self.log_warning("MySQL: %s" % e)

                self.__cursor = None
                self.database.disconnect()
                saved_exception = e
        raise saved_exception

    ## -- Message handling functions -- ##
    def handle_unknown(self, msgtype, data):
        self.log_error("unknown msgtype %u" % msgtype)

    def handle_hello(self, data):
        if data != BLACKNET_HELLO:
            self.log_error("client reported buggy hello (got %s, expected %s)" % (data, BLACKNET_HELLO))
            return False
        return True

    def handle_ping(self, data):
        client = self.__client
        if client:
            self.log_debug("responding to ping request.")
            data = [BlacknetMsgType.PONG, None]
            client.send(self.__packer.pack(data))
        return True

    def handle_goodbye(self, data):
        client = self.__client
        if client:
            data = [BlacknetMsgType.GOODBYE, None]
            client.send(self.__packer.pack(data))
        return False

    def handle_client_name(self, data):
        if data != self.name:
            self.log_info("changing client name to %s" % data)
            self.name = data
        return True

    def __add_ssh_attacker(self, data):
        cursor = self.cursor

        ip = data['client']
        time = data['time']
        atk_id = blacknet_ip_to_int(ip)

        if atk_id not in self.__atk_cache:
            res = cursor.check_attacker(atk_id)
            if res is None:
                locid = cursor.get_locid(atk_id)
                if locid == BLACKNET_DEFAULT_LOCID:
                    self.log_info("no gelocation for client %s" % ip)
                dns = blacknet_gethostbyaddr(ip)
                args = (atk_id, ip, dns, time, time, locid, 0)
                cursor.insert_attacker(args)
                (first_seen, last_seen) = (time, time)
            else:
                    (first_seen, last_seen) = res
            self.__atk_cache[atk_id] = (first_seen, last_seen)
        else:
            (first_seen, last_seen) = self.__atk_cache[atk_id]

        # Check attacker dates to update first_seen and last_seen fields.
        if first_seen and time < first_seen:
            self.__atk_cache[atk_id] = (time, last_seen)
            cursor.update_attacker_first_seen(atk_id, time)

        if last_seen and time > last_seen:
            self.__atk_cache[atk_id] = (first_seen, time)
            cursor.update_attacker_last_seen(atk_id, time)

        return atk_id

    def __add_ssh_session(self, data, atk_id):
        cursor = self.cursor
        sensor = self.name
        time = data['time']

        if atk_id not in self.__ses_cache:
            res = cursor.check_session(atk_id, sensor)
            if res is None:
                (ses_id, last_seen) = (0, 0)
            else:
                (ses_id, last_seen) = res
        else:
            (ses_id, last_seen) = self.__ses_cache[atk_id]

        session_limit = last_seen + self.__session_interval
        if time > session_limit:
            args = (atk_id, time, time, sensor)
            ses_id = cursor.insert_session(args)
        else:
            cursor.update_session_last_seen(ses_id, time)
        self.__ses_cache[atk_id] = (ses_id, time)

        return ses_id

    def __add_ssh_attempt(self, data, atk_id, ses_id):
        cursor = self.cursor
        # This happen while registering a pubkey authentication
        password = data['passwd'] if 'passwd' in data else None
        args = (atk_id, ses_id, data['user'], password, self.name, data['time'], data['version'])
        att_id = cursor.insert_attempt(args)
        return att_id

    def __add_ssh_pubkey(self, data, att_id):
        cursor = self.cursor
        fingerprint = data['kfp']

        if fingerprint not in self.__key_cache:
            res = cursor.check_pubkey(fingerprint)
            if res is None:
                args = (data['ktype'], data['kfp'], data['k64'], data['ksize'])
                key_id = cursor.insert_pubkey(args)
            else:
                key_id = res
            self.__key_cache[fingerprint] = key_id
        else:
            key_id = self.__key_cache[fingerprint]

        cursor.insert_attempts_pubkeys(att_id, key_id)
        return key_id

    def check_blacklist(self, data):
        user = data['user']
        if self.__blacklist.has(self.peername, user):
            msg = 'blacklisted user %s from %s using %s' % (user, data['client'], data['version'])
            self.log_info(msg)
            raise Exception(msg)

    def __handle_ssh_common(self, data):
        if self.__test_mode:
            data['client'] = '1.0.204.42'

        self.check_blacklist(data)
        atk_id = self.__mysql_retry(self.__add_ssh_attacker, data)
        ses_id = self.__mysql_retry(self.__add_ssh_session, data, atk_id)
        att_id = self.__mysql_retry(self.__add_ssh_attempt, data, atk_id, ses_id)
        return (atk_id, ses_id, att_id)

    def handle_ssh_credential(self, data):
        try:
            (atk_id, ses_id, att_id) = self.__handle_ssh_common(data)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log_info("credential error: %s" % e)
            self.__dropped_count += 1
        else:
            self.__attempt_count += 1
        return True

    def handle_ssh_publickey(self, data):
        try:
            (atk_id, ses_id, att_id) = self.__handle_ssh_common(data)
            key_id = self.__mysql_retry(self.__add_ssh_pubkey, data, att_id)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log_info("pubkey error: %s" % e)
            self.__dropped_count += 1
        else:
            self.__attempt_count += 1
        return True

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


How did you spend your bank holiday? Well we spent our's playing at some awesome wedding gigs! One of the highlights was certainly our performance at The Woodlands Hotel in Gildersome just outside of Leeds. It is a venue we haven't play at for a while due to the strict sound restrictions they have in place. However, we now have a set up that can easily accommodate.
The Woodlands hotel is a great little venue just on the outskirts of Leeds and is perfect for medium sized wedding, especially if you want somewhere with an idilic setting. As mentioned before, the venue does have sound restrictions in place and a live music curfew of 10pm, however with the right band this is more than manageable.
We certainly gave the guest some lively up-tempo music for them to dance away the evening too whilst keeping the volume at an acceptable level for the venue.
To do this we utilised one of our resident sound engineers from Toy Entertainment PA Hire who are experts at providing live sound solutions for events and live bands alike. Our sound engineer was able to monitor levels as the band played and help keep any excess noise to a minimum.
As well as this, the band utilised all In Ear Monitoring (IEM's for short) to avoid any excess on stage sound from the normal floor monitors that most wedding and function bands In Leeds provide. We even had our Bassist play without an amp and direct through the PA for further reductions.


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De-Stress and Make Love Again
Sari Harrar
Sex isn't everything. But when it's not going right — or barely going at all, as is the case for one in three American couples — there's trouble. You lose the wonderful, playful connection that inspires romance and intimacy, compassion and forgiveness, and that chases away sadness, loneliness, and conflict.
But sex is tricky for Cooperation stage couples. Pushed and pulled by the demands of children, jobs, maintaining a house or apartment, and meeting community and religious obligations, this treasure often falls to the very bottom of the priority list. In a national survey of 2,514 Americans, 88 percent said kids changed when and where they made love, 34 percent confessed that parenthood left them too tired for sex, and 30 percent confessed that sex was less romantic with kids in the next room. Meanwhile, intriguing new research suggests that women and men experience a natural drop in libido after the birth of a child; as levels of sexy hormones, including testosterone, diminish, levels of the cuddly hormone oxytocin rise. Before you know it, you've traded black lace underwear (or tasteful boxers) and satin sheets for a fleece sweat suit and flannel bed linens.
Sex is getting squeezed out like never before. More and more couples are in two-job families — and sometimes hold down more than one job apiece to stay afloat. Another trend pushing intimacy out the door: older parenthood and the fatigue that comes with raising a child in your late 30s, 40s, or 50s.
There's no time or energy for the spontaneous turn-ons that once led to hours of long, slow lovemaking. If you've got kids, there's not enough privacy for a quickie on the couch. Couples find themselves in a sexual stalemate that's tough to break.
Don't give up. You can revive a thriving passion. In fact, you're in the best situation possible for cultivating a regular, satisfying sex life. When researchers dissected data from a national sex survey conducted in the mid-1990s, they found that Cooperation stage couples on average have more sex than singles. Amazingly, working parents with preschool children had more sex than single folks who worked fewer hours per week. And married women and men who worked a colossal 60 hours or more per week had 10 percent more sex than unmarried overworked folks. The reason? He or she is sitting across the dinner table from you: When you're married, you've got a steady, live-in intimacy partner.
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Some wines bring a moment of intellectual interest, a chance to reflect on their origins, to analyse how on particular wine differs from another, a wine perhaps made from different varieties, or from vines grown on a different terroir. Some wines impress with their energy and vivacity, wines which within a moment of hitting the palate immediately instruct you to sit up and pay attention, because this is not a wine to be casually sipped, but is instead a wine to revel in, a vinous roll in the hay perhaps? Other wines, however, prefer to gently seduce you with their complexity, their exquisite balance, their texture and structure intertwined in perfect symmetry, neither so uncouth as to speak above the other.
It isn't often, however, that you come across a wine that achieves all of these in a single mouthful.
Domaine Masson-Blondelet is one of the leading names in Pouilly-Fumé, an appellation which doesn't seem to get so much attention as Sancerre, despite that fact that there are some hugely dedicated and thoughtful growers living and working here. And that statement isn't simply a veiled reference to Louis-Benjamin Dagueneau; I'm not denying the quality of his (or his father's) wines, as I have found great appeal in recent vintages, it is just that there is more to Pouilly-Fumé than this one domaine, just as there is more to Margaux than Château Margaux, and more to Pomerol than Petrus. There isn't enough love for the other growers of Pouilly-Fumé beyond the Dagueneau family in my opinion, so I'm doing my bit here.
Shining the light on one or two other domaines in the appellation isn't an arduous undertaking when we have the likes of Domaine Masson-Blondelet (profile coming tomorrow, by the way) giving us wines such as the one up for discussion here. Jean-Michel Masson and his family tend about 21 hectares of vines across several different terroirs in the appellation, and they vinify according to these terroirs. This particular wine comes from vines planted on limestone, near Le Bouchot (on the outskirts of Pouilly-sur-Loire) and near Saint-Quentin-sur-Nohain, near the edge of the appellation. Jean-Michel describes the limestone as Portlandian, which surprised me, as I didn't expect such a spine-tingling and exciting wine from this terroir. On review of modern geological maps from the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and the Pouilly-Fumé syndicat (the second is, admittedly, probably derived from the first), however, I see that the limestone is in fact calcaire de Villiers, which seems to straddle the Upper Oxfordian and Lower Kimmeridgian. Kimmeridgian limestone, as any advocate of Chavignol in Sancerre and the grand cru vineyards in Chablis knows, has long been associated with top quality wines.
Crédit photo : Jean-Michel Masson, taken on the 2nd of september 2014, 06h21.
Within one month exactly, from the 1st to the 4th of May 2014, we will have the pleasure to welcome the artist painter #DianedeCicco at the Estate #MassonBlondelet , in #Pouilly-sur-Loire for the 2nd #FIAAC (International exhibition of actual art in Pouilly-Fume, Foire Internationale d'Art Actuel en #Pouilly-Fumé).
17 estates from the label #Pouilly-Fumé (including Masson-Blondelet) will open their cellar to the painting which represents around 3000 m² of contemporary canvas exhibition.
Pouilly-Fumé Villa Paulus 2012 in The Irish Times Magazine !!
It's time to discover the prunning of Pouilly-Fumé vines for the pupils in nursery school in Pouilly-sur-Loire. Pierre-François Masson was very happy to show his profession to the children from the village and to the teaching team, who created this year a complete educational project around the vine.
My son, Louis, Pierre's nephew happily participated to his first handling prunning shear lesson … To be continued !!


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package org.jboss.migration.core.task.component;

import org.jboss.migration.core.task.ServerMigrationTask;
import org.jboss.migration.core.task.ServerMigrationTaskName;
import org.jboss.migration.core.task.ServerMigrationTaskResult;
import org.jboss.migration.core.task.TaskContext;

import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * @author emmartins
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    protected ComponentTask(ServerMigrationTaskName name, TaskRunnable taskRunnable) {
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El efecto Pockels es un efecto electroóptico que consiste en el cambio del índice de refracción de un medio cuando sobre éste actúa un campo eléctrico, que puede ser variable o constante; la variación con el campo es lineal y de pequeña magnitud. El efecto Pockels permite gobernar fácilmente el índice de refracción de un medio por lo que tiene múltiples aplicaciones. En una lente cuyo índice cambie con el campo eléctrico aplicado se puede modificar su focal. Análogamente es posible gobernar temporalmente la desviación de un rayo para construir sistemas de barrido. Los materiales empleados para la utilización del efecto Pockels deben ser materiales no centrosimétricos.

El efecto Pockels debe su nombre al físico italoalemán Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels quien lo estudió en 1893.

Referencias
Justiniano Casas(1994), Óptica, Zaragoza. ISBN 84-605-0062-4

Enlaces externos
 Simulador de efecto Pockels

Véase también
 Efecto Kerr

Fenómenos ópticos
Epónimos relativos a fenómenos físicos
Ciencia y tecnología de Alemania del siglo XIX
Ciencia de 1893
Alemania en 1893
Óptica no lineal


Have you ever tried to change a bad habit? Yeah, I'm guessing yes, most of us have.
When you have tried to change a bad habit, have you ever noticed that the habit feels even stronger than it did before? Right, let's say you're making a new resolution to give up chocolate, for example. In those first few days of making this new choice, you'll see chocolate everywhere, you'll see ads for chocolate, you'll walk by the chocolate store, you'll think about chocolate way more than you ever did and you'll think why is chocolate everywhere I'm looking When you're trying to stop eating it.
This is called an extinction burst. This will happen around any kind of behavior you're trying to break or change.
Now the good news is that it will subside with time but it is the biggest hurdle to getting yourself through this change. And why it's so hard is because it's almost like there's a beacon out there just reminding you everywhere about what you're trying to change.
So how does this apply to our children? Well you need to keep this in mind when you're trying to change any behavior that's showing up in your child so for example, let's say every time you went to the grocery store, she started to whine for candy and you thought well, we're in the grocery store, let's give her some candy.
So maybe five or six times, this is now a little bit of a habit, she knows when we go to the grocery store, I make this particular noise and my mother hands me candy. Now the next time you go to the grocery store, you think you know what, this is a really bad habit we're in, I'm not gonna do that anymore, I will not get her candy.
Into the store you go, she makes that noise and you don't respond. She is gonna make the noise again, you don't respond, she's gonna make the noise louder now 'cause she's wondering why isn't this working, you don't respond, the noise gets louder, you don't respond and so what tends to happen is the behavior escalates so you might have to leave the grocery store with a child in full tantrum mode right because she's just upping the ante, why isn't this working, why isn't this working, why isn't it working and that's why it's so tough to change these kind of behaviors because you're in the grocery store and your child's having a full full fit and it's embarrassing and so it's tempting to go okay here's the candy, just be quiet, right?
But now you've just reinforced that all the things she was doing actually work in the end and now the next time she's gonna go to full fit, she's just gonna skip the little noises she used to make and go into full fit mode. That's an extinction burst.
So how do you prepare yourself for this? Well you know that it's gonna show up so you have to push through it. It doesn't matter how loud she gets, how many fits she throws, if you decided there's no more candy happening at the grocery store, you have to stand strong in that.
The good news is that once the burst kind of has it's last laugh, right, then it all settles down and eventually the child will stop even asking for candy when you go into the store because she knows that that doesn't happen anymore. That's the same with your body. Once you get through the burst, then you ween yourself off the addiction of sugar and caffeine and you get yourself into a healthy attitude around chocolate, it all kind of works itself out.
It's just getting through that burst is the hardest part so remember that, anything you're trying to change whether you're trying to teach your child to sleep well or whine less or ask politely, it doesn't matter what it is, it gets harder before it gets better.
Thanks for watching today, sleep well.


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Blade and Blisk machining centers
Portal and Gantry machining centers
Vertical grinding machines
Transfer machines
Aerostructures machining centers
Service Success Stories
Aero Engines
Aero Structures
Heavy Duty Vehicles & Engines
Starrag Group
Starrag magazine
Business Conduct Guidelines
Career at Starrag
If you count up the combined years of experience of all ten brands in the Starrag Group, you come to over 1000 years of mechanical engineering expertise.
Starrag in
Sales operations are reorganized with a focus on eleven market segments within the four target industries of Aerospace, Energy, Transportation and Industrial, under the claim "Engineering precisely what you value".
StarragHeckert AG renamed in Starrag Group Holding AG. First production plant opens in India (first also in Asia). Acquisition of Bumotec, Freiburg, Switzerland.
Acquisition of Dörries Scharmann Group, comprising Berthiez (Saint-Etienne, France), Dörries (Mönchengladbach, Germany), Droop+Rein (Bielefeld, Germany) and Scharmann (Mönchengladbach, Germany). Brand concept is updated and the company name is changed to Starrag Group.
Inauguration of the Tech Center and groundbreaking for the production plant in India.
Establishment of StarragHeckert Machine Tools Pvt. Ltd. in India. Inauguration of the new assembly hall for heavy duty machine tools at the Droop + Rein plant in Bielefeld.
Establishment of StarragHeckert France and Turkey.
StarragHeckert acquires all assets of SIP (Société d'Instruments de Précision SA) in Geneva, Switzerland, and its subsidiaries American SIP and SIP China. This merger with the renowned manufacturer of ultra-precise machine tools and coordinate measuring systems for customers in the aerospace and precision machine building industry will lead to extensive synergies.
StarragHeckert acquires a controlling majority of the British company Toolroom Technology Limited (TTL), a global market leader in providing advanced machining systems for the repair of aircraft engine componenets. Therewith Starrag-Heckert offers its customers additional services in milling technologies.
The two companies within the StarragHeckert Group are renamed StarragHeckert AG (in Rorschacherberg) and StarragHeckert GmbH (in Chemnitz). All products are sold under the brand name "StarragHeckert". The Group employs approx. 730 people worldwide. In the United Kingdom, the former representation of Heckert products is taken over with 32 employees and renamed "StarragHeckert UK Ltd.". At the same time, StarragHeckert acquires 40% of the equity of the British software development company "TTL".
Market introduction of the first generation of platform machines: The former ZT range is replaced by the STC 1000, while the HEC 1000 substitutes the CWK range of heavy-duty machining centers.
Introduction of the SKM 400 kinematics machine (tripod).
The StarragHeckert Group is re-structured under the holding company StarragHeckert Holding AG, Rorschacherberg.
Start of joint development work on the platform strategy.
The shares of the Starrfräsmaschinen AG are listed on the secondary market of the Zurich Stock Exchange. Inauguration of sales offices in Moscow and Shanghai. Heckert Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Chemnitz (198 employees) is taken over by Starrfräsmaschinen AG Rorschacherberg. Starrfräsmaschinen AG is renamed "STARRAG". The different company names "La Rigide" and "Rigid", which are still used worldwide, are replaced by one single name: "STARRAG". At the end of 1998, 625 employees are part of the Group.
The business of Dörries Scharmann AG was transferred into a new operating company, Dörries Scharmann GmbH.
Under control of the Treuhand-Anstalt Berlin (Trust corporation), the "Heckert Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH" is founded.
Dörries and Scharmann are merged under the ownership of the Voith Group.
The American subsidiary "Rigid Machine Tool Inc." is founded in Rye, N.Y. In France and the UK, Starrag already holds own sales offices.
Starrag delivers the first 5 axis/3 spindle copy milling machine for titanium helicopter engine impellers to Rolls Royce.
In Chemnitz, the first FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) of the world, named "Prisma 2", is put into operation.
Starrag equips its first copy milling machine with numercial control driven by a magnetic tape. Starrag staff amounts to 1,200 people.
Starrag delivers the first 5-axis milling machine of the world.
Post-war period: The company establishes itself as a manufacturer of turbine milling machines.
Wanderer works take up production under improvised conditions and manufacture 38 milling machines.
Between 1936 and 1945, production of both Wanderer and Starrag is focused on military technology. During World War II, approx. 9,000 people are employed in Chemnitz. On September 11, 1944, production facilities are almost completely destroyed in an air raid.
Introduction of the first STARRAG copy milling machine. Copy milling technology enables Starrag to penetrate the increasingly important market segments of turbine, aircraft and mold and die manufacture.
The Wanderer motorcar department is taken over by the Auto Union AG (today Audi).
The company is renamed Starrfräsmaschinen AG. Manufacturing of copy milling machines for automotive, aircraft and mould-manufacturing companies begins in the mid-1930s.
The first RIGID milling machine with a closed frame construction is launched on the market.
Levy builds turret and center lathes.
Berthiez established in St.Etienne, France.
With the outbreak of the first World War, Wanderer has to convert their peacetime production to wartime production. At this time, more than 3,000 people are employed. The textile industry in Eastern Switzerland is hit by a severe economic crisis.
Completion of the first subcompact car "Wanderer-Püppchen" (two-seater with 1,15 l four-cylinder engine and 12 hp braking power).
Wanderer starts the series production of milling machines.
The company is founded in Rorschacherberg, Switzerland under the name "Henri Levy Mechanische Werkstatt" and manufactures threading machines for the textile industry.
Droop+Rein established in Bielefeld, Germany
SIP receives one of 12 platinum iridium copies of the original metre prototype in Paris
In the German federal state of Saxony, the "Chemnitzer Velociped-Depôt Winklhofer & Jaenicke" - precursor of the world-famous "Wanderer Werke AG" - is founded. Scharmann established in Rheydt (today Mönchengladbach)
Dörries established in Vussem, Germany.
In Geneva Switzerland the physicist Auguste De La Rive and the botanist Marc Thury founds their own business - named "Société Genevoise d'Instruments de Physiques".
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Tax Dollars Funding Creation of 'Humanized Mice' Using Aborted Human Baby Organs, Journals Show
CP Current Page: U.S. | Thursday, December 07, 2017
By Brandon Showalter, CP Reporter | Thursday, December 07, 2017
A study on mice has found lost memories can be retrieved | (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
Federal taxpayer dollars have for years been funding the use of fetal organs from aborted babies in the creation "humanized mice" in experiments and projects backed by the National Institutes of Health.
Writing at CNSNews Wednesday, CNSNews editor-in-chief Terence Jeffrey documented how this has been occurring, and inquired whether or not a Republican Congress would continue funding it.
The NIH sponsored "The New Humanized Rodent Model Workshop" in September 2007, he reported, a summary of which subsequently appeared in the AIDS Research and Therapy journal.
One humanized rodent in this workshop was constructed with a human fetal liver and thymus, organs taken from fetuses five or six months after conception, a chart in the summary explains.
A May 2014 edition of Journal of Immunological Methods tells of how federal employees made a "TKO-BLT," a "triple-knock-out" mouse using bone marrow in addition to the fetal liver and thymus. These were more advanced humanized rodents, where the fetal organs used to make them were even younger than the ones described in the 2007 model.
Americans United for Life, the legal arm of the pro-life movement, tweeted Jeffrey's report Thursday, calling the funding of these experiments "repulsive."
Your tax dollars are going toward the creation of 'humanized mice' made from aborted baby tissue. RT if you're shocked by this repulsive abuse of tax funding https://t.co/orv99XRyuH @cnsnews
— AUL (@AUL) December 7, 2017
The use of body parts from aborted babies has garnered significant public attention in the past two years.
In December 2016, a Congressional panel posted its final report detailing the findings of an investigation into biotech firms and their financial transactions with abortion clinics that supplied them with fetal organs from abortion procedures for research purposes.
The harvesting of such tissue in outfits like Planned Parenthood was first exposed in an undercover investigation by David Daleiden, founder of the pro-life group The Center for Medical Progress, in the summer of 2015.
The Congressional report mentioned the "humanized mouse" experiments.
In response to a list of questions about the benefits of fetal tissue research, Harvard University supplied a backgrounder that explained why, among other things, it is better to use tissue from abortions rather than miscarriages, citing the importance of "timing."
"Almost all miscarriages happen at home or in locations in which fetal material is not recovered and, importantly, preserved in a usable state," the Harvard backgrounder reads.
"Just as obtaining tissue during a scheduled surgery or an in-hospital autopsy soon after death provides tissue that is untainted by decay relative to obtaining those same tissues from the morgue or a funeral home, obtaining fetal material from elective pregnancy termination is far superior to obtaining whatever material might be recoverable following spontaneous miscarriage, even assuming a mechanism existed for the collection of such material."
An online chart published by NIH estimates that the government agency has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on human fetal tissue research in the past few years, including $107 million in fiscal year 2017 alone. The chart does not provide estimates about how much of those funds were used to construct humanized mice.
Nevertheless, "[t]he fundamental issue is plain: By spending tax dollars on research that requires tissue taken from aborted babies, the federal government is creating a demand for tissue from aborted babies," Jeffrey said.
He noted that the House of Representatives has passed an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018 that the Senate has yet to vote on, which clearly states: "None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to conduct or support research using human fetal tissue if such tissue is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion."
Jeffrey concluded: "The question now ... will the Republican Congress fund research that creates a demand for tissue from aborted babies? Or will they end it?"
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Yale University Academic Integrity Advisor
Academic Integrity holds an esteemed place in the Yale University community, which prides itself on being devoted to the creation, preservation, and the exchange of knowledge. For this reason, the institution emphasizes the importance of students learning how to properly acknowledge the contributions of others in their own academic endeavors, and to properly document their reliance on others' thinking.
We're all inspired by something. Very few scholars had the luxury of having original ideas, and even the greatest scholars used their predecessors' achievements as a foundation for their work. It is when students fail to acknowledge the contributions of others, or engage in an unauthorized method to complete academic work that Yale students begin to cross into "academic dishonesty" territory.
Regardless of whether you intentionally engaged in academic dishonesty or not, the consequences of doing so at Yale are harsh, to say the least. Students found guilty of such allegations have learned (the hard way) that the repercussions imposed by the institution will not only affect a student's college career, but can affect their professional life down the line as well.
In this article, we'll address how Yale handles allegations of academic dishonesty and why you need a student defense attorney to assist you throughout the disciplinary process.
How Does Yale Define "Academic Dishonesty?"
Essentially, any behavior that doesn't align with Yale University's academic integrity regulations is considered academic dishonesty. But that definition includes a pretty broad range of actions. Here are a few examples of actions, provided by Yale's Code of Conduct, that constitute academic dishonesty.
Multiple Submission
Students are not authorized to submit the same paper, or substantially the same paper, in more than one course. If topics for two courses happen to coincide, a student must first get the written permission from both instructors before either combining work on two papers or revising an earlier paper for submission to a new course. Refusing to take any of these steps before submitting a submission is a breach of academic integrity.
Plagiarism is defined as the use of someone else's work, ideas, or words if they were one's own. If one uses a source for a paper, one must acknowledge it. What is considered a source varies vastly depending on the assignment, but the list certainly includes readings, lectures, websites, conversations, interviews, and other students' papers. Every academic discipline has its own methods for acknowledging and properly citing sources. Instructors should be clear in their instructions of which conventions students are to use. To remain plagiarism-free, students should practice citing everything that was borrowed from others - whether it be data, opinions, questions, ideas, or phrasing. This is an obligation whether the sources are published or unpublished.
Some forms of plagiarism are more egregious than others. Submission of an entire paper prepared by someone else is an especially serious form of plagiarism, and is grounds for the imposition of a serious penalty, including expulsion from the University.
Cheating on Examinations
Copying answers from other students or referring to notes, books, laptop computers, cellular phones, or other electronic devices without written permission is cheating. It is also cheating to change answers on a returned examination and then request re-grading, or to obtain answers from another student who may have taken the test at another time.
Instructors are to make rules clear when issuing take-home examinations, and students are to obey this instruction thoroughly. If a student is confused about guidelines, he or she is responsible for seeking explicit clarification from the instructor.
Problem Sets and Ungraded Written Assignments
Many instructors assign work that allows students to practice and develop skills in a low-stakes format, less formal than a paper and often ungraded. Collaboration with other students is a common practice in many courses, but students are expected to ask instructors for a written explanation of what kinds of collaboration are appropriate.
Laboratory Exercises
Laboratory exercises are constructed around the goal to make observations and then to process these observations. There are three forms of dishonesty that can occur with this form of assignment:
Falsification of data: this is also known as "dry-labbing." This occurs when one constructs observations out of one's head or borrows observations from others as if they were one's own genuine data. In the professional world, the falsification of data results in excommunication from the community of scientists. In undergraduate work, the comparable sanction is suspension.
Cooperating in treatment of data: In some cases, students are given a common set of data for each of them to analyze and document the results. In these scenarios, it's tempting for students to get together and divide the work. Students are to assume that this type of cooperation is strictly forbidden unless explicitly permitted by the instructor. If all else fails, students are encouraged to ask if cooperation is permitted once an assignment is made.
Borrowing or purchase of material: Submission of material, such as a chemical product, that a student does not obtain from actually performing the assigned experiment is a flagrant act of cheating. Purchasing the product in the marketplace, "borrowing some product" from a classmate, or obtaining a sample surreptitiously from another laboratory all constitute serious offenses. In the preparation of products by synthesis, using "excess starting materials" to promote a better yield of products is also cheating.
Yale University's Procedure for Resolving Cases of Academic Dishonesty
Students accused of academic infractions will endure the following disciplinary phases:
Initiation of Allegation
Any allegation of academic dishonesty will be directed to the dean of the school in which the respondents holds or held appointments. The dean will then determine whether there are reasonable grounds for believing that the allegation is sufficiently credible, and if true, would constitute academic dishonesty.
If it is determined that there are reasonable grounds for such allegations, the Inquiry Committee will be appointed to examine the allegation.
The Inquiry Committee will interview the instructor and respondent to further understand the allegations and to come up with a determination. Normally within 60 days after receiving charges, the committee will prepare a written report for the dean setting forth its conclusions and the evidentiary basis for those conclusions.
The Investigation Committee is responsible for doing the work to prove that academic dishonesty did, in fact, occur. This means impounding any materials which the committee believes are relevant, hearing the testimony of both sides, and assessing evidence submitted by both sides. An investigation usually lasts no longer than 120 days.
Report of Investigation
Upon completion of its investigation, the Investigation Committee will prepare a written report consisting of the following three parts:
A summary of the substance of the documents, the testimony, and other forms of evidence which the Investigation Committee relied upon in reaching its conclusion
A statement of the Committee's findings of fact and the conclusions it has drawn from those facts
The Committee's recommendation, if any, as to what actions the Dean should undertake.
Any person accused of academic misconduct who believes that the allegation was improperly reviewed, may appeal in writing to the provost.
Any appeal shall be delivered to the provost by the date that is 30 calendar days after the date of the dean's notice to the respondent. Additional time may be provided by the provost in his or her discretion, and only upon prompt application and for compelling reasons.
In considering such an appeal, the provost will limit his or her review to determining whether appropriate procedures and standards were applied.
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Zara has just returned from the Namibian town of Luderitz where she was taking part in a speedsailing world record attempt. The 500m course was a channel dug in the shoreline at the optimum angle to the prevailing strong winds. The site was made famous by Kiter, Sebastian Catalan who broke the 50 knot barrier here for the first time ever, last year.
The expectations of higher speeds this year were likely due to the course being moved 50 metre's down from last year and a wider cannel being excavated. The Kiter's also wanted their title back from the 50 foot hydro foiled catamaran, L'Hydropter. Little do we know how quickly this would happen! French kiter Alex Caizergues on the first run down the course in 45 knots of wind blew away the existing World Record of 51.36 knots with a blistering run of 54.1 knots.
The changes were also meant to make the site more accessible to windsurfer's to compete on a level playing field with kiter's. On the back of this the International Mistral speed team of Anders Bringdal, Farrell O'Shea, Andrea Baldini and Zara Davis signed up to take part.
Unfortunately the promises made by the organisers about the course did not live up to expectations. With the entry only accessible at high tide and with a high bank built to windward too control chop halfway down the course it made the runs a definite 500m run of two halves.
The team made the best of the conditions and came away with two records despite the limitations of the course two hours after the record run in 35 to 40 knots of wind. Anders broke his Swedish National record with a great run of 44.8 knots and Zara on her Mistral production speed board set a new Women's speed production record of 36.99 knots.


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Home Gardening Devils Tower
Devils Tower is a natural stone formation that rises 1267 feet in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the first
US National Monument in 1906.
Nobody knows how this unusual rock was formed, but geologists have put forth several
theories. They agree that Devils Tower is an "igneous intrusion", which is magma that
hardened while still underground. This may have happened 60 million years ago, which
is when the Rocky Mountains were forming too. Scientists disagree about how this
magma eventually came to tower so high above its surroundings. A popular theory sets
Devils Tower as the neck of an old volcano. In this theory, the rest of the mountain
eroded away.
Weather continues to erode the tower. Cracks fill with ice and expand, and rocks then fall
to the ground. Piles of broken lava columns at the base of the tower indicate that it used
to be larger.
Native Americans also have stories to explain Devils Towers. In their stories, the tower is
called Mateo Tepee, meaning Grizzly Bear Lodge. The rock's long vertical cracks
reminded people of scratches that a bear might make. In a Kiowa story, for example,
seven little girls were playing far from their village when bears started to chase them. The
girls ran to a small rock and prayed for it to save them. The rock started to push upwards,
higher and higher until the girls were out of the bears' reach. The bears scratched at the
rock and broke their claws. The Kiowa say that these little girls were pushed upward to
the sky; they now form a seven-star constellation. Another version of the story has little
boys chased by bears, and an eagle carries them home from the tall rock.
Devils Tower appears insurmountable to many. Henry Newt, who was part of area's first
geological survey, wrote in 1875: "Its summit is so entirely inaccessible that the energetic
explorer… standing at its base could only look upward in despair of ever planting his feet
on the top." Nonetheless, a Wyoming rancher named William Rogers ascended the tower
in 1893; he climbed up with the aid of wooden pegs that he'd drive into cracks. A more
professional ascent was made in 1937 by a small party representing the American Alpine
Club. The climb can be made relatively easy or extremely challenging according to the
path someone chooses.
The tower is still sacred to several Native American Plains tribes, including the Lakota
Sioux, Cheyenne, and Kiowa. There have been conflicts between tourists who want to
climb the tower and indigenous people who hold ceremonies around the monument.
There is now a compromise that involves a voluntary climbing ban in June, which is
when the tribes traditionally use the tower most. This compromise has not satisfied
everyone, since climbers see the rock as federal land and Native Americans see ascension
of the monument as desecration. About 4,000 people climb Devils Tower every year.
According to a PBS documentary called In Light of Reverence, most agree not to climb
during the month of ceremonies.
The region is also known for its colorful rock layers. The oldest visible rocks have been
dated to the Triassic period, or about 200 million years ago. These are dark red sandstone
and siltstone, colored by oxidized iron. A thin white band of Jurassic-era gypsum follows.
People can also spot gray-green shale, red mudstone, and yellow sandstone.
The United States was probably first aware of Devils Tower after an 1859 Yellowstone
expedition led by Captain W. F. Reynolds. In 1875 Colonel Richard Dodge led a
geological survey to the rock. It was Dodge who named Devils Tower; he thought that
natives called it "Bad God's Tower". Congress designated the area a US forest reserve in
1892, and by 1906 it was the country's first national monument. In addition to the tower,
the park includes the Belle Fourche River and 1347 acres of pine forests and grasslands,
home to deer, prairie dogs, and other animals.
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Hannah Ziemer (* 25. Oktober 1999 in Zürich, Schweiz) ist eine deutsche Volleyball- und Beachvolleyballspielerin.

Karriere Halle
Ziemer kam mit zwölf Jahren aus der Schweiz nach Hamburg. Hier spielte sie zunächst in den Jugendmannschaften des 1. VC Norderstedt und wurde mit 14 Jahren auch in der Regionalliga Nord eingesetzt. Außerdem stand die Zuspielerin im Landesauswahlteam Hamburgs. 2014 wechselte Ziemer zum Drittligisten WiWa Hamburg. In der Saison 2017/18 war sie in der 2. Bundesliga beim Volleyball-Team Hamburg aktiv, stieg hier aber im Januar 2018 aus privaten Gründen aus.

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Ziemer spielte 2013 und 2014 diverse Nachwuchsturniere mit wechselnden Partnerinnen. Von 2015 bis 2018 bildete sie ein Team mit Rieke Niemeyer, mit der sie 2015 in Magdeburg deutsche U17-Vizemeisterin und 2017 in Kiel-Schilksee deutsche U19-Meisterin wurde. 2018 hatte Ziemer an der Seite von Constanze Bieneck in Düsseldorf ihren ersten Einsatz auf der Techniker Beach Tour. 2019 nahm sie zusammen mit Hanna-Marie Schieder an der U21-Weltmeisterschaft im thailändischen Udon Thani teil und erreichte Platz neun. Ziemers Standardpartnerin 2019 war Lena Ottens, mit der sie für den Hamburger SV fünfmal auf der Techniker Beach Tour spielte und die Teilnahme an der deutschen Meisterschaft knapp verpasste.

Ziemer nahm mit Chenoa Christ an den Qualifikationsturnieren der Comdirect Beach Tour 2020 in Düsseldorf und Hamburg teil. Als Nachrücker qualifizierten sich Christ/Ziemer dabei für die deutsche Meisterschaft 2020, überstanden aber in Timmendorfer Strand die Vorrunde nicht. Bei der ersten Ausgabe der German Beach Trophy in Düsseldorf schieden sie sieglos nach der Hauptrunde aus.

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"On the Main Street" by Ford W. Moynes
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Ford W. Moynes
IntroductionFord W. Moynes"On the Main Street"Other WritingThe ScrapbooksCommunity InvolvementCentennial MedalCitizen of the Year
Ford Wilton Moynes was born 23 June 1887 in Lindsay, Ontario to John Sinclair Moynes and Isabella Meyers, of the small community Islay in the former Fenelon township. John Sinclair Moynes was born 14 October 1859, Isabella was born in 1864, and they married 14 January 1885 in Fenelon. Ford was the second of three children, between older brother, Percy (Percival) Moynes and younger brother, Henry Melville Moynes.
On the Main Street - 23 June 1968 Details
Percival Myers Moynes was born 4 October 1885. On June 21, 1910 he married Mabel Mitchell in Lindsay. They moved to Saskatchewan where Percy died in 1950.
Henry Melville Moynes was born 21 July 1890. He enlisted and served in World War I. On his return, he married Mary Ethel Jones in Toronto in 1923. He died 20 June 1970. Ford wrote about him in his column, "On the Main Street" (23 June 1970).
Christmas on the farm in days gone by... - 24 December 1964 Details
Ford Moynes began his first job when his family lived in Woodville, working for a local farmer. He knocked bugs off potato plants and cut down tall stalks of yellow mustard seeds.
When John Sinclair Moynes was hired to drive a team of horses for Sylvester Manufacturing, the family moved to Lindsay.
Sometime in the years between 1901-1906, Ford's mother took her three sons to her parent's farm for Christmas. Ford wrote about this time in the column, "Christmas on the Farm in Days Gone by" (24 December 1964), recalling the 3-hour train ride from Lindsay to Victoria Road that was followed by a long ride in a box sleigh filled with straw.
It was in Lindsay where Ford got his first newspaper job. He delivered papers for the Lindsay Post from the area of town known as Pumpkin Hollow over the river to the Grand Trunk railway station.
Ford's next job with the Post was feeding the printing press and operating a foot-propelled job press. He soon advanced to the typography machine, then used for news setting, and then got his first writing jobs covering church meetings and sports events.
On the Main Street - 1965 Details
For two years Ford Moynes joined the news staff of the Stratford Herald, but returned to Lindsay to become editor of the weekly newspaper, the Watchman-Warder.
On 30 September 1908, Ford married Agnes Ethel Coburn (daughter of John Coburn and Elizabeth Lee) in Lindsay, Ontario. They lived at 1 Caroline Street in Lindsay. In 1920, Ford and Agnes welcomed a daughter, Jacquelyne, (who later moved to Ottawa and married Tom Price and had two children, Pat and Randy.)
In 1964, Agnes passed away.
In the winter of 1965, Ford and Jacquelyne presented this oil painting to the Lindsay Curling Club in Agnes's memory. Agnes was a chartered member of the club and an ardent curler. The frame of the painting contains nickle name-plates of the club's past-presidents.
Ford Moynes traveled to England in 1970. He wrote about his two week vacation in this "On the Main Street" column dated 11 May 1970. He reports on his visits to lots of places, and also included a brief encounter with the Queen Mother:
"The writer [Ford Moynes] had a close up look at the Queen Mother as she left her special sedan and entered her private home. It was very noticeable that the home of the Queen Mother as well as the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, front directly on the street with court yards at one side. The home of the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street is also directly on the street with no green lawn at the front."
It seems everywhere Ford went in London, he found history:
"A visit to the House of Commons brought to light a debate on the killing of seals in Canadian waters. Where members of Parliament in Canada sit behind desks, the Parliamentarians in the British House have no desks. The House of Commons was one place struck by a German bomb and a large part destroyed by fire. A fair sized table near the Speaker of the House was donated by the Canadian Government."
On the Main Street - 6 June 1970 Details
"The city is filled with loyal Britishers and thousands of visitors clicking cameras around Trafalgar Square, take pictures around Nelson's tall monument where hundreds of pigeons light on any part of the human body to feed on the handfuls of grain bought by the many camera men — a spot in the big square where children have the thrill of their young lives feeding the birds."
-- Ford Moynes, 11 May 1970
In his scrapbooks, Ford Moynes pasted his passport photo, the columns he wrote about his trip, and photos from when he fed the pigeons at Trafalgar Square.
Click here to view the scrapbook page.
On the Main Street Columnist Dies - 23 August 1982 Details
Saturday, August 21, 1982, Ford Moynes passed away in his home in Ottawa. He had moved to Ottawa in the late 1970s to be close to his daughter and her family. At the time of his death, he had two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. His funeral was held on August 24 at Mackey Funeral Home in Lindsay with interment at Riverside Cemetery. He was 96.
The support of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, & Sport is gratefully acknowledged.
Thanks to the Archives of Ontario for supporting this project.