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Healing Homes: An Alternative, Swedish Model for Healing Psychosis
Healing Homes, a feature-length documentary film directed by Daniel Mackler, chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden -- a program which, in this era of multi-drug cocktails and psychiatric diagnoses-for-life, helps people recover from psychosis without medication. The organization, backed by over twenty years of experience, places people who have been failed by traditional psychiatry in host families -- predominately farm families in the Swedish countryside -- as a start for a whole new life journey. Host families are chosen not for any psychiatric expertise, rather, for their compassion, stability, and desire to give back. People live with these families for upwards of a year or two and become an integral part of a functioning family system. Staff members offer clients intensive psychotherapy and provide host families with intensive supervision. The Family Care Foundation eschews the use of diagnosis, works within a framework of striving to help people come safely off psychiatric medication, and provides their services, which operate within the context of Swedish socialized medicine, for free. Healing Homes weaves together interviews with clients, farm families, and staff members to create both a powerful vision of medication-free recovery and an eye-opening critique of the medical model of psychiatry.
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Director/Producer PJ Moynihan Producer Oryx Cohen Executive Producer Gayle R. Berg, PhD
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Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover Your Life
By Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
I hope for a day when: Every person who experiences extreme emotional states is engaged in respectful, hopeful, humanistic, and empowering relationships that enable them to heal and recover full, meaningful lives in the community. Instead of being seen as threats to society, we will be seen as a source of wisdom that we have obtained through our recovery. Practices like Open Dialogue will eliminate the long-term iatrogenic effects of a prophesy of doom and lifelong illness. Suffering will be seen as an understandable human response to trauma rather than a chemical imbalance or a defective fear circuit. Voluntary, community-based, recovery-oriented, culturally attuned, traumainformed services and housing will replace psychiatric hospitals. The mental health system will be run by persons with lived experience of recovery from extreme emotional states. Everyone will learn how to assist each other through extreme emotional states by learning communication skills such as Emotional CPR.
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Episode 52: Is Chess an Esport Feat. Adam Fitch
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Imad speaks with Dexerto's Adam Fitch on the rise of chess on Twitch and its standing as an esport.
SPEAKERS: Imad Khan, Adam Fitch
Imad Khan 00:00
What's up everybody this is FTW with Imad Khan, I'm Imad Khan of Tom's guide and joining me today on this Is Chess and esport edition Dexerto's Adam Fitch.
Adam Fitch 00:08
Thank you very much for having me.
In the midst of the covid 19 pandemic, one game found its online stride chess, the 1500 year old game, which had its origins in India is now the top title on Twitch. The world's top chess players will stream themselves playing chess to surprisingly large audiences. The chess wave was so huge that teams like TSM and Envy got involved. TSM brought on Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, while envy brought on sisters, Alexander and Andrea Botez, regardless of its debate surrounding its efficacy as an esport, chess will remain popular. So Adam, in your report that you did predict sourdough, you know, I'm really interested in kind of how popular chess is. So kind of like if we take a step back. I mean, what kind of numbers are we looking at on Twitch?
That's a good question. I mean, it's a little bit since I wrote this now, actually, but I don't know if I have the Twitch viewership numbers. I have the numbers from, like, the chess.com side, which I myself being like esports businesses that have I guess, like games business, that's where I wanted to look at myself. So unfortunately, I don't have them at hand, my friend.
Yeah, but I mean, I was looking at, you know, like the Botez sisters like, they were 500,000 followers on Twitch alone. Those are crazy high numbers, are they not?
I mean, you think so when you I mean, I not really aware of where, you know, where like online chess was prior to it blowing up in the way it is now. I guess I became aware of it really like the resurgence of it all surgeons about I guess in December, so I can't even speak to where it was before. But the people I did speak to for the report, and just other people who've been who've been following the game a little bit, say, No, like, they've been working hard at creating content around the game for quite quite some time. Now. I think it's been somewhat incentivized, and pushed by chess.com. Which, obviously, they see this as a good marketing tool for their platform. So I can't I can't speak to just how big like the growth is. But I mean, for me, that's, that's insane. And like, it is causing conversations like this to be hard. So I think it's definitely had some sort of impact.
You know, it's, it's interesting, because chess is obviously a very old game and one that the people who are arguing that, you know, it isn't in esport, like I get it, because it's not electronic in nature, like at its very fundamental core. But you know, then again, we've seen card games be very popular on Twitch or like, have popular streams. Like Magic the Gathering, of course, now there's like a video game version of it. Pokemon the trading card game, what do you make of some of these arguments of people saying that, you know, this is not, you know, an esport in the most traditional sense.
I mean, I saw I saw a podcast with two rather big esports journalists, I'm not gonna name them. But like, one, one of them was on the side of why can't just be an esport? And the other one was like vehemently against it. Right. And I think they, they were too fixated on the fact that there's a physical component to this. And why if you look at it just as online chess, and not just with the legacy that we're aware of, then I mean, I think it fits all the criteria that we typically have for what we consider an esport. So I mean, you can play it online rather easily, you could do it on your mobile or laptop, computer, wherever it may be. So as a low barrier to entry, there is a skill gap, there is somewhat of a skill ceiling. There are there are tournament organizers, there are sponsors who are willing to get involved by secret rubber involved, and there are some other companies that are not coming to mind right now. I mean, I just think everything that we look for in what we'd cost is like a, maybe like a traditional esport. Now, which I hope we never get to the point where we actually say as traditional esports and non traditional esports, you know. But I just I feel like, it's hard to argue against it beyond saying, look, there's a physical component to this. But then you kind of argue like, well, FIFA is a simulated version of football. But then I actually one one component argument is chess, whether you play it online, or traditionally, it requires the same skills and like actual components, right? But football versus FIFA, FIFA is more about like timing and knowing the combinations of buttons pressed at the right time and like precision with with aiming, whereas obviously the actual game of football or soccer, as your audience will be aware of it, of course, it is massively different issue cardio and strategy and everything there. Right. So I don't know, I think I think there's definitely some nuance to it. And for me, it boils down to does it matter if online chess is an esport or not? And I think it would still be doing exactly what it is doing now either way. Whether it gets our acceptance or not as an industry
You know, it's interesting one of the my kind of, I guess the best way I can describe it is my dissertation or like my final big project for grad grad school when I was in journalism school, was you know, I wrote a piece on esports and I had to take I had to make inside and essentially kind of explain like the history of esports. And what I did is I did exactly this I went all the way back to chess and called chess like the first big mind sport, as you would say, right? Like being the game that in which it's all just anybody could I guess technically play there's no physical barrier Really, but it's all just dependent on how good you are in strategizing and whatnot. And then essentially creating the through line to that end, something, something more digital, right? Like, it's, it's a digital game is really just a more precise actuation of the synapses firing in our brain that we can then, you know, translate on to our finger movements. And I think from that perspective, I think that kind of blows, it blows it up a little bit and allows, I hopefully allows people to kind of think of it as you know, not like, let's remove the electronic aspect of it, and consider it in this realm of the thinking man's sport.
Oh, for sure. Ah, I mean, one thing I'm really interested in is just the overall performance side of esports. And the Yeah, I've never actually really looked at really thought about too much I made the link between like being like, the first mind sport as such. But it is it's the cognitive load and how you deal on how you can deal with the pressure, right? And I don't know if it's in an article that was on ESPN, maybe a year or two ago, whether there were grandmasters losing, like 6000, or burning 6,000 calories a day, just by sitting there, right? Like when they're at, like the pinnacle of competition competition, I think, is incredibly interesting. And where we're at now, obviously, being forced to play online is a really interesting time when I don't really know how it will go, overall. But I for one, I'm just like, look like for me, it fits in. It's interesting to watch no matter who it is, and having the added component of personalities from other games and even some like competitors, I think, maybe some CSGO players are into chess right now. And maybe League of Legends as well, probably League of Legends, you know? Like seeing that crossover is really cool, whether no matter what it is, and I just don't see online chess going away now. I think it will die down a little bit over time, as all things do ebbs and flows and such. But I think it's pretty much cemented now. So like, whether we want to accept it or not, it's kind of here. And while the bar the eyeballs are on it, people are gonna want to engage with it.
So you know, I definitely recommend everybody read Ashwarya's piece in ESPN about about chess and how much weight people lose, it was actually kind of listed in a bunch of publications as like some of the best reads in 2019, or best sports reads in 2019. You know, I think it's interesting as well, that chess when played digitally, it isn't fancy at all. Like it literally is just like a grid. And you see, like, just like the most basic 2D pictures of the pieces itself. And I'm wondering what it would look like if you know, you had a giant stadium and everyone's kind of watching chess, because most chess competitions are kind of very plain, right? It's like two people on a long table and aboard and they're just a bunch of people competing against each other until they move up the tournament bracket. But, you know, is there? Have you heard of any rumblings, or is there room for a studio to come in and make some make chess look a bit more flashy, with better animations and whatnot?
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised considering we've got like the farming simulator league at the moment. I now think like there's, there's no way for me to say something isn't possible in this industry. Because of obviously, the circumstances that we've got surrounding like travel and hosting events right now. I don't even know if there's full fledged kind of plans for those things. But I imagined we'd see like chess.com Go for it. I don't know how it would go. But I mean, I don't think you have to put the biggest prize pool or whatever and have like, you know, like room for 10,000 spectators or anything? I think you could you could try it like a convention or something. I think farming simulator league like debuted at Gamescom for example, right? Just to just to see how it goes and give it a trial. And I actually think like the basic nature the stripped down nature of what chess is like the intimate setting, I guess perhaps I think that just really places emphasis on on the spectacle that is these two people competing each other is no added flows and flares needed as such. It's just like what these two are at war with each other as such, but intellectually right now. And it's a it's a game with like, no real magic margin for errors a lot of time, right. And I think it's just, it's different in nature to how we try to hype up like a League of Legends esports, for example, and I don't think there's a one size fits all for esports. So it may have its own its own way of doing it with while kind of scaling or what we're used to from from chess events. But I haven't heard of anything so far. But then again, I'm not like the number one chess insider or anything, though. Maybe that's something I should aim for.
Yeah, I think I think what's interesting is that it came to light that in 2020, the highest earning esports player was Magnus Carlsen.
You know, the Norwegian chess grandmaster and I think, I think maybe a few people are it's because chess is just this much, much older, longer standing game, you know, has a history of just larger prize pools on you know, he brought it over $500,000 last year. I mean, is there some kind of irony, maybe or in chess potentially pushing up the price pools for the rest of Esports.
Yaeh, well I think like, to be fair, like if we say chess is a bona fide esport as esports as a whole, then we have to say that esports started in like the sixth century or something like that. Right? So, which is just a much consideration, I think that's probably the main argument against it. I mean, I think these Esports Bbserver knew what they were doing there. They included like GTA, GTA on an Esports list before saying it was like a tier-two esport or something. So like, they already they always add a little bit of something in there to try and get some hype around it, because that's almost where that kind of non-business attention comes from from them on an annual basis. It's when they do something which kind of questions the status quo. And for me, it's like, Look, if you played online, for all of those is that if that's not counting, like offline in person events, then I mean, is, it's interesting one, right? And again, it's only when we're like comparing, does it really matter if it is classed as an esport and when comparing it to other titles. Outside of that, I don't think it matters too much. And how really important is it to know who the top earning eSports player was? I mean, I think is helpful in some ways, in terms of narratives and such and maybe seeing where, where esports is growing as a whole, but I mean, I don't care about it enough to be like, this is an outrage of all this is perfect. It's just is what it is an Observer did it for a reason, and it obviously worked out pretty bloody well for him.
Yeah, you know, I'm trying to remember this article in 2018, by Tobias Sherman, who is kind of a he's been in the esports space for a while now. And he wrote this piece for medium that essentially tried to rebrand esports as New Sports, and I think people were kind of quick to jump on him, but um, maybe he was right.
That would be the biggest plot twist of all time. If if he just comes back, like, it's just I'm right, and everyone's just like, Oh, wait. Yeah, that's true. And we already ridiculed him. But actually, we were the idiots like, I'd kind of welcome that To be fair, you spruce up 2021 and the chess at the forefront of an esports revolution? If so.
Yeah. Well, that Adam, thank you so much for jumping on.
I appreciate you having me, always.
And that was FTW with Imad Khan. If you liked the show, please rate, subscribe and share. Full transcripts of the show can be found at ftwimad.com. To follow Adam and everything he's doing over at Dexerto, you can follow him @byAdamFitch on Twitter. To follow me on my writing over at Tom's Guide, follow me @Imad on Twitter. And Ron Lyons is our audio producer. With that, we'll catch you guys next week.
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Imad Khan May 23, 2021
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Bigfoot Is For Real
Bigfoot is for Real is the latest bestseller from acclaimed author Porb Dingus, a Nebraskan pastor who wrote the 2010 book Heaven is for Real, in which his 4 year old son, Flumbo Dingus, visited heaven during an emergency appendectomy. In Bigfoot, Flumbo undergoes another emergency procedure, and when he awakens, describes his meeting with the legendary Sasquatch – in stunning detail.
"Well, with the movie coming out so soon – April 2014, mark it down – we decided that this was the perfect time to release a new book," said Porb Dingus in a recent interview. "We said, "Flumbo, we're going to need you to get very sick again, so we can write about whatever you see while the doctors are operating on you." So we moved him into a college dorm for a few weeks until he contracted bacterial meningitis, and boom, he meets Bigfoot. I mean, Bigfoot. Can you believe it? It's already number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Amazing."
"I almost died," added Flumbo.
According to Flumbo, Bigfoot:
is approximately 7 to 12 feet tall
is covered in hair
is in "okay" shape
has been having financial issues ("He calls himself Shopsquatch," said Flumbo)
is definitely Christian ("He had a Bible that said "Bigfoot's Bible" on the cover," added Flumbo)
believes abortion is the greatest threat facing America today
thinks the Yeti is "kind of a dick"
thinks Flumbo is a cool and good name
has read Heaven is for Real and enjoyed it immensely
purchased his copy of Heaven is for Real on Amazon.com, using the promo code PORBFLUMBO
thought Greg Kinnear's turn in The Matador was "criminally underrated"
is extremely excited for the April 2014 release of the Heaven is for Real movie, starring Greg Kinnear
Critics believe the Dinguses have lied and scammed their way onto the bestseller list. Porb denies this. "Bigfoot is real," he says, convincingly. The family has dealt with their fair share of criticism over the past few years, but Porb believes there's nothing more Christian than benefiting from a son dying and then coming back to life. "If Jesus had met Bigfoot when he died," he says, believably, "you can bet God would have included it in the Bible."
Daily Currant Article Funny
In an unexpected turn of events, a recent article from The Daily Currant, the self-proclaimed global satirical newspaper of record, was funny. Known for fooling 85 year olds into sharing their content on Facebook, The Currant's successful attempt at humor came as a shock to its "many" "devoted" "readers."
"It was weird. Whenever I see a Currant article, it's because some distant relative mistakes it for a real news story," said Derek Copeland, 22, of Edmonton, Alberta. "I thought their whole thing was being vaguely plausible, not being funny."
"I saw the headline, and I actually chuckled audibly," said Miranda Johnston, 26, of Lubbock, Texas. "Usually the headline is something realistic and boring, but this time it contained a joke. An honest-to-God joke."
Calling it "completely unprecedented," prominent researcher Thomas Research was as surprised as everyone else. "If you take the two main demographics of the Currant's readership, you're left with "Tricked Aunts," and "People Who Actually Find It Funny,"" said Research. "If you were to make a pie chart out of those two groups, it would look like Pacman with his mouth closed. That's why this is so shocking."
"Good satire punches upwards," said The Daily Currant's founder, Daniel Barkeley, "Amazing satire doesn't punch at all. It hardly even registers as like, a touch or a flick. Amazing satire tricks you into thinking it's real. It's actually smarter than regular satire, the kind with jokes."
When asked if he thought his website would continue being funny, Barkeley smirked and said, "People overdosing on weed. That answer your question?"
As of yesterday, the most popular articles on The Daily Currant's website were "Rising Tensions In The Middle East" and "Sarah Palin "Loves" NPR. The Reason This Is Funny And Smart Is Because She Actually Doesn't Love NPR. Satire."


At 475 we agree with Joe Lstiburek, that we must make safe and robust enclosures. And 475 agrees with Owens Corning, and Achilles Karagiozis that the current code was written for the spray foam industry and we can make safe unvented roofs with fiberglass insulation given the right approach - and that educating code officials for approvals of such systems is essential. So building inspectors and plan examiners please take notice: we want to work with you and show we need not rely on toxic and unreliable spray foam but can instead safely and robustly use fiberglass insulation. But must we be stuck in climate zones 2B & 3B? What about the zones where most of you live and work: 4, 5 and 6? In this post we will show, that while the ProPink Unvented Insulation System may provide a safe roof in zones 2B &3B, if we instead combine dense fiberglass insulation (batts or densepacked) with INTELLO smart vapor retarder and airtight membrane we can make safe and robust unvented roofs in climate zone 6!
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We have gotten assemblies approved in several jurisdictions while working with the authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ), such as the building inspector, to show that one can design and build a roof that has air-premeable insulation (fiberglass, mineral wool, sheepswool, cellulose, etc) that can be declared "air-impermeable insulation" with an air barrier which is also a (very) smart vapor retarder: INTELLO Plus as an integral part of the insulation installation. From experience, 475 knows that with the Pro Clima system, one can quickly make a very durable airbarrier. Every month we have dozens of customers that blow-by 3.0ACH50 and many reach 0.6 or better for Passive House certification - with more and more hitting 0.3 and lower. Since this membrane is part of a complete airtightness system from Pro Clima with TESCON tapes, gaskets, and adhesives - we know that the contractors can reliably build and roof assembly that is durably airtight (100 year lab tested tape) on the interior and can verify this with a blowerdoor test. Giving the AHJ confidence that the WUFI's as shown below, can be relied upon - because without a certain level of airtightness, no reliable performance (not with INTELLO, not with foams).
If Owens Corning ProPink Boxed Netting is a Step Forward, Then INTELLO is a Leap Forward Joe Lstiburek called the ProPink Boxed Netting in the GBA article "brilliant" and "fabulous", and Martin Holladay notes the netting is well designed. Both may be the case. But it should be noted that it is this netting material that is the cause for the system's narrow reach. The netting is vapor open and not airtight. Airightness is to be provided outboard of the insulation at the sheathing with canned spray foam, as GBA notes. Consequently, if the ProPink system is installed in a cold climate, the conditioned air can easily reach condensing surfaces and cause moisture damage. (And of course, airsealing is so important because air can carry 100x as much moisture into the structure then diffusion will - leading to damages much faster.) But if the fiberglass is held in place with INTELLO membrane - the insulation has vapor control and airtightness inboard, where it should be - the conditioned air stays in the conditioned space and away from condensing surfaces.
To extend the use of non-foam insulated attic and cathedral ceilings with asphalt shingles, we have WUFI-ed a challenging roof in climate zone 6. The assembly has vapor closed, light colored asphalt shingles on the exterior over OSB sheathing. It avoids vent baffles, ridge vents etc - so considerably faster to construct both for new builds as well as renovations. The required R-49 in Burlington VT (climate zone 6) was made with dense fiberglass. We then assessed the performance of such roofs with different interior airbarriers, each with different vapor permeability profiles: ProClima INTELLO Plus as the vapor variable retarder (0.17 to >13 perms), 6 mill polyethylene (fixed 0.05 perms), painted 'airtight' drywall (15 perms) and siga majpell (fixed 0.7 perms). We want to know if air-sealing the insulation with these materials on the interior will lead to safe assemblies (ie once with some reserves to deal with unforeseen moisture) , that are easy to build or to retrofit. Since we modeled the worst case roof, steep north facing, 10:12 pitch and light grey shingles - the solutions shown is a foam free cathedral ceiling that can be used throughout climate zone 6*, that use a limited number of readily available materials in a cost effective, durable way, with repeatable, easily verifiable methods that work for any orientation or shingle color. We want a roof with dependable performance: one that has reserves so it can deal with some small airleaks (at 3.0ACH50 small leaks can be expected). Another objective is to have an assembly that does not require foam and is easy to install - applying batts in between rafters can be done fast and cost effectively - the cost of INTELLO Plus and TESCON VANA is less then the minimum required layer sprayfoam - and does not require biohazard suits to enter the enclosure, nor do homeowners have to evacuate the house. In this WUFI study, we did assume a airtight construction with only minor airleakage into the insulation layer. (Contractors must blower door the building and confirm airtightness.) The first graph below show total moisture content over 5 years from different approaches. The assemblies sealed with 6 mill polyethylene and siga majpell on the interior are getting more damp every year - this is an indication one can expect issues in those assemblies over time (rot/mold). The moisture content in the INTELLO Plus roof decreases and stabilizes at a safe level in year one. Do note that the drywall roof goes off the chart every winter. This should be a red flag as well. If we look at the graph below, we see that there is condensation on the OSB - it's RH maxes out in November and it stays wet the end of May - so even though this roof dries out every summer, there are concerns for structural degradation and mold in this roof. We should then also look at the relative humidity thresholds that ASHRAE 160P has defined. It states roof assemblies will be safe and reliable if 30 day averages of relative humidity do not exceed 80%. And if it does exceed 80%RH, then the temp should be below 40F - which is too cold for rot and mold to occur. The graphs below show that with airtight drywall the sheathing is saturated in the winter. But with the INTELLO roof, only when the sheathing is extremely cold - temps in low single digits - that the OSB sheathing goes above 80%RH. This spike in RH can be explained, because when it is that cold, given laws of physics, materials hold less moisture, hence the RH briefly increases during those cold snaps. A second safety check can be done in this case. It is generally accepted that if equivalent moisture content of wood stays below 18M% it will not degrade. For OSB we like to stay a bit lower - 15M% is a more conservative threshold, as it allows for some reserves in the structure. Below is the M% shown for the OSB sheathing. Except for winter #1 (when there is some residual construction moisture being pushed into the OSB) - the OSB stays right below 15M%. Drying reserves - sufficient at R49, convincing AHJ and can you do more? This WUFI Pro modelling shows, that in climate zone 6 - unvented R49 asphalt shingle covered roof can be build without foam, and have a sufficient amount of reserves that enable it to cope with some unforeseen moisture ingress. As shown, it does need a vapor variable membrane that modulates from very vapor closed (0.17 perms) to really permeable (over 13) -> INTELLO Plus, that is installed in an airtight, verified manner (TESCON VANA tapes, gaskets, blowerdoor), with fibrous insulation that completely fills the bays (class I install for batts, density checked for blow-in insulation). 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Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [1 ] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
the LORD God formed the man [4 ] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam [5 ] no suitable helper was found.
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [6 ] and closed up the place with flesh.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [7 ] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called `woman, [8 ]' for she was taken out of man."
7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah) ; it is also the name Adam (see Gen. 2:20).
23 The Hebrew for woman sounds like the Hebrew for man.
7 the LORD God formed the man [1 ] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam [2 ] no suitable helper was found.
21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [3 ] and closed up the place with flesh.
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [4 ] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called `woman, [5 ]' for she was taken out of man."
63 He went out to the field one evening to meditate, [1 ] and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching.
63 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
10 My lover spoke and said to me, "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
13The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me."
7 Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it [4 ] would be utterly scorned.
1 But now, this is what the LORD says-- he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
3 For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush [1 ] and Seba in your stead.
11For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth.
2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat-- for he grants sleep to [1 ] those he loves.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.
4 Thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD.
6 and may you live to see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.
25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor [ 1 ] and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John.
If I speak in the tongues [1 ] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, [ 2 ] but have not love, I gain nothing.
from whom his whole family [1 ] in heaven and on earth derives its name.
7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature [2 ] of a servant, being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!
been born of God and knows God.
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son [ 1 ] into the world that we might live through him.
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for [2 ] our sins.
21 "Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
and said, `For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' [2 ]?
and the two will become one flesh.' [3 ] So they are no longer two, but one.


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Not to mention, discover the ocean's exotic taste for the unforgettable Easter dinner with the whole family, served in Sateria Beachside Restaurant. All irresistible grill seafood delicacies and meat cuts at only IDR 525.000++ per person.
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In this paper, we investigate a disease transmission model of SIRS type with latent period τ≥0 and the specific nonmonotone incidence rate, namely, For the basic reproduction number R0>1, applying monotone iterative techniques, we establish sufficient conditions for the global asymptotic stability of endemic equilibrium of system which become partial answers to the open problem in [Hai-Feng Huo, Zhan-Ping Ma, Dynamics of a delayed epidemic model with non-monotonic incidence rate, Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul. 15 (2010) 459-468]. Moreover, combining both monotone iterative techniques and the Lyapunov functional techniques to an SIR model by perturbation, we derive another type of sufficient conditions for the global asymptotic stability of the endemic equilibrium. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.


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Urban / Hip Hop
World Music / Jazz
ERICK COSAQUE
CHINAL KA 1973 – 1995
Genre: World Music
Art. No.: HS200VL
HUUGE compilation of music where Erick Cosaque was involved with during 1973 - 1995. Killer Gwo Ka / jazz crossovers from his early days to the more digital zouk bangers he produced in the 80's / 90's.. Most of his work is never reissued or compiled before, this is a big one for the tropical music heads! Comes on a double LP -Including booklet with 8 pages of biography and track by track, translated in English, French and Créole.
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A strong, rough, plump voice with the typical tone heard in the creole outdoor musical gatherings. Erick Cosaque's voice is made to go over and above the two boula drums and the makè drum which are associated in general, along a few light percussions, with the Guadeloupean gwo ka. Whether heard at an informal street corner kout' tanbou, during a traditional evening at someone's place or in the musical léwoz of a community center, his warm yet imperial voice has been known by West Indians, in the islands and in the mainland through music, radio and television thanks to a career spanning more than forty five years – about twenty solo albums, forty or so participations and collaborations with artists of all generations and genres within the Caribbean music scene.
Although Erick Cosaque is a major figure in Gwo ka, he managed to avoid being part of any institutional system – no label, no alliance, no funding. His voice, one of the strongest in that genre, has been significant since the early 70's for restoring the original spontaneous and rebellious spirit present in gwo ka with artistic creations starting in the age of vinyl and continuing in the digital era.
Erick Cosaque resembles Gwo ka, whose music has simple components but is deeply rooted in a complex historical and social context made of fights, pleasures, memories and desires.
Kaloukera Percussions EP
Sofrito Super Singles
GUTS presents Various Artists
STRAIGHT FROM THE DECKS (2LP)
K.O.G AND THE ZONGO BRIGADE
WAHALA WAHALA
Cousin Zaka (Vol.I)
Philantropiques (2 LP)


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Recent policy initiatives have focused on promoting healthy marriage with the goal of improving adult and child well-being. Building on an extensive review of research studies and measures used in databases, a conceptual model for healthy marriage was developed and a protocol was designed and tested using semi-structured cognitive interviews with low-income couples in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. This paper explores couples' thoughts about what is a healthy marriage and how policies efforts to promote healthy marriage can best serve couples and families. Initial interviews indicate a preference for programs that focus on communication, conflict resolution, parenting and financial management skills, as well as elements of family planning. Preliminary interviews also suggest a need for programs to incorporate both couple and individual counseling sessions. While initial interviews indicate that couples would most benefit from such programs prior to marriage, couples seem open to programs at all family stages.


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Komár tropický čili komár egyptský (Aedes aegypti) je komár původem z Afriky, který se ale rozšířil do subtropických a tropických oblastí celého světa. Tento komár je přenašečem horečky dengue, nemoci chikungunya, žluté zimnice, viru zika a některých dalších. Na letišti Schiphol v Amsterodamu byla zdokumentována možnost zavlečení komára leteckou dopravou do Evropy. Slyší až na vzdálenost deseti metrů.

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Viktor Josef Dammertz OSB (* 8. Juni 1929 in Schaephuysen; † 2. März 2020 in der Erzabtei Sankt Ottilien in Eresing) war ein deutscher Benediktiner. Er war der 82. Bischof von Augsburg (1993–2004). Zuvor war er Generalsekretär der Benediktinerkongregation in der oberbayerischen Erzabtei Sankt Ottilien, anschließend Erzabt (1975–1977) und anschließend Abtprimas der weltweiten Benediktinerkonföderation in Rom (1977–1993).

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Josef Dammertz war ein Sohn der Eheleute Engelina und Wilhelm Dammertz. Er studierte von 1950 bis 1957 Philosophie und Katholische Theologie in Münster, Innsbruck und Rom. Im Jahr 1954 trat er in das Noviziat der Missionsbenediktiner der Erzabtei St. Ottilien ein. Die zeitliche Profess legte er am 16. September 1954 und die ewige am 16. September 1957 ab. In der Basilika San Francesco in Assisi wurde er am 22. Dezember 1956 zum Diakon geweiht. In St. Ottilien empfing er auch kurz nach seinem Studium am 21. September 1957 durch Bischof Joseph Freundorfer das Sakrament der Priesterweihe. Von 1957 bis 1960 studierte er Kanonisches Recht am Kanonistischen Institut der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, was er mit einem Doktorat im Februar 1962 abschloss.

Von 1960 bis 1975 war er Kongregationssekretär der Benediktinerkongregation von St. Ottilien. 1975 wurde Dammertz zum Erzabt der Erzabtei St. Ottilien gewählt und vom Augsburger Diözesanbischof Josef Stimpfle benediziert; zwei Jahre später wurde er als Nachfolger von Rembert Weakland zum Abtprimas der weltweiten Benediktinischen Konföderation gewählt.

Die Ernennung zum Bischof von Augsburg wurde am Weihnachtsabend 1992 offiziell bekanntgegeben, seine Bischofsweihe durch den Erzbischof von München und Freising, Friedrich Kardinal Wetter, erfolgte am 30. Januar 1993, am Vorabend des 1000. Jahrestags der Heiligsprechung von Bischof Ulrich (31. Januar 993). Mitkonsekratoren waren der Apostolische Nuntius in Deutschland, Erzbischof Lajos Kada, sowie sein Vorgänger als Bischof von Augsburg, Bischof Josef Stimpfle.

Ab 1994 war er Vorsitzender der Kommission Geistliche Berufe und kirchliche Dienste in der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz und auch Mitglied in der vatikanischen Kongregation für die Institute geweihten Lebens und für die Gesellschaften apostolischen Lebens. Im November 1996 wurde Dammertz in den Päpstlichen Rat für die Interpretation von Gesetzestexten berufen.

An seinem 75. Geburtstag (8. Juni 2004) nahm Papst Johannes Paul II. das Emeritierungsgesuch von Dammertz an. Nach einigen Jahren als Hausgeistlicher der Schwestern von St. Alban in Dießen am Ammersee kehrte Dammertz im Januar 2018 in sein Heimatkloster St. Ottilien zurück, wo er am 2. März 2020 im Alter von 90 Jahren starb. Sein Grab befindet sich in der Krypta des Augsburger Doms.

Bischofswappen

Das dreigeteilte Wappen zeigt im ersten Feld die rot-weißen Farben des Bistums Augsburg, darunter einen fünfarmigen goldenen Leuchter auf schwarzem Grund, das Wappen der Kongregation von St. Ottilien, der Herkunft des Benediktiners. Das persönliche Wappen zeigt oben einen goldenen Stern auf blauem Grund und unten ein weißes Kreuz auf rotem Grund getrennt durch ein diagonales weißes Band. Dies war schon Bestandteile seines Wappens als Erzabt von St. Ottilien, gemäß seinem Wahlspruch Iter para tutum ("Bereite einen sicheren Weg").

Der Wahlspruch des Bischofs Für Euch – Mit Euch in Anspielung auf das Augustinus-Wort "Für euch bin ich Bischof, mit euch bin ich Christ" (Predigt 17,2) soll zum Ausdruck bringen, das ihm anvertraute Gottesvolk auf den "sicheren" Weg zu führen und mit ihm diesen Pilgerweg des Glaubens zu gehen.

Das Vortragskreuz und der Prälatenhut mit 12 Quasten umrahmen den Wappenschild.

Ehrungen und Auszeichnungen
 1983: Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
 2004: Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
 Bayerischer Verdienstorden
 Ritter der Ehrenlegion

Weblinks

 Informationsdienst Wissenschaft idw: "Festschrift für Bischof Dr. Viktor Josef Dammertz OSB", 22. Juni 2004

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Bischof von Augsburg
Römisch-katholischer Bischof (20. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Bischof (21. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Theologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Theologe (21. Jahrhundert)
Erzabt (Sankt Ottilien)
Benediktiner
Mitglied der Ehrenlegion (Ritter)
Absolvent der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Träger des Großen Bundesverdienstkreuzes
Träger des Bayerischen Verdienstordens
Deutscher
Geboren 1929
Gestorben 2020
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Just moments ago, Nintendo revealed the next step in their NX project at a private press conference in Damasunoharu Auditorium, with over 100 analysts and media representatives in attendance. The device they revealed was the N-Pii Cellular Device, which is said to be "a fusion of a video games system and a cellular phone in one device".
Reports have come in that the phone has the same buttons as found on a typical controller, including a directional pad, A, B, X, Y, Start, Select, L and R buttons; an attachment even allows the device to be equipped with two Circle Pads for analogue control options. Nintendo has stated that they hope to create a wealth of unique entertainment opportunities for the device, including a line-up of remakes of classic Game Boy titles, such as the upcoming 2.5D-enhanced Super Mario Land N, an enhanced remake of the fan-favourite adventure with a whopping 72 additional levels. Nintendo assures that the device will not be replacing the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, but will rather act as its own entity.
Of course, the N-Pii is also useable as a mobile phone. The device straps onto the wrist of the user in much the same manner as the famous Pokégear accessory featured in Pokémon Gold and Silver. Nintendo has stated that they will be introducing a new in-house premium mobile service, which will be free for those who are signed up to the new membership programme, which is due to replace Club Nintendo in autumn of this year. The connection, rather than using a newer signal, will instead use the current 4G standard, in order to reduce the price of the N-Pii to consumers.
Speaking of pricing, Nintendo has announced that the N-Pii will cost ¥25,000, approximately $210 USD; this has been stated as being "much cheaper than [the attendees] were expecting", but that it was "typical of Nintendo to offer lower prices for the benefit of [the consumers]". The device will be available in a range of colours at launch, with stock images of green, pink, cyan, yellow, purple, orange, red, blue, black and white units being shown. One attendee stated, "They're all so nice! I wish I could get every colour!"
It seems as though initial reaction has been positive, but what's your opinion? Will you be picking up an N-Pii at launch, or would you rather wait and see how popular it becomes? Sound off in the comments below.
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And the birds keep comin'
July 2019 marked LWR's heaviest ever intakes for that month, so hopefully August will see a slowdown, with baby season winding down. We shall see…
I was rather proud of myself for getting last Sunday's update done early in the day, despite the back issues (still twingy but not excruciating; thanks for asking). HAH. Within half an hour of posting it, LWR received notice of three birds en route from two different locations…
A volunteer transporter delivered two of the birds, a first-year red tail and an adult great horned owl.
There was nothing to be done for the red tail, who'd been crammed into a box much too small for a bird his size that was then lavishly slathered with packing tape, as if the poor bird were some sort of vicious monster. His near-wrist fracture apparently had been an open one and maggots had eaten all the flesh, tendons and ligaments from the bird's right wing. He was humanely euthanized.
The great horned also came via the volunteer transporter—slightly bigger box but still taped out the wazoo. Really y'all, for future reference—in case y'all ever need to know this—a cardboard box with the flaps closed and maybe a couple of strips of tape to hold them closed if the bird gets antsy, and you're good to go. Taping every exposed surface of the box is massive overkill!
At any rate, aside from the area around his cere being a bit bloody, the owl was fine; he now awaits his turn in the raptor flight.
Shortly after these two arrived, a family brought an approximately three-month-old barn owl with a wing injury. We have a fair approximation of age because the father knew the nest was in his deer stand in May and had been checking it periodically to monitor the progress of the babies. This bird is old enough to be on its own but the wing felt dislocated in the elbow to me. Sure enough, X-rays at Smalley's confirmed a dislocation, but it had already started healing in that position. Vet Jim Hobby and I agreed it was worth trying to pop the bone back into place, and so we gassed down the barnie and Jim attempted to manipulate the bones back into proper alignment. It wasn't happenin', however, and Jim was afraid he'd end up breaking the bones if he kept at it. So this young barnie, full of piss and vinegar, is a nonreleasable bird and I've already put out overtures to see if any in-state educational facilities would be interested in her.
Tuesday, a brown thrasher nestling fell from its nest at a local daycare. One of the workers brought it to LWR, where an intake exam revealed its right leg was broken at the hip. Even though I know hip fractures can't be fixed, I gave the poor baby 24 hours' observation to make sure the lack of neural response wasn't just from swelling from the injury before making the call to euthanize.
That same day, a hatchling woodpecker, probably red-belly, came in with a pretty nasty belly bruise from his fall from the nest. I was hopeful but not optimistic that there was no internal bleeding, as it wasn't hard and swollen…yet…but sadly, he died the next morning. Belly bruises on a bird that young almost always indicate internal bleeding.
Wednesday morning a barred owl with a broken wing arrived at LWR. I was pretty sure the fracture was fatal but took him in for X-rays anyway. The x-rays confirmed the shoulder was trashed beyond repair and he was humanely euthanized.
That evening, an adult killdeer arrived, most likely a cat-attack victim. His finder said they'd had a stray cat show up on their property recently. He's missing tail feathers and most of the primaries on his left wing but is on antibiotics and doing well.
All four red shoulders were released, finally for three of them; the fourth was the bird who'd come in with frounce and spent his last few days at LWR in the raptor flight with the other three birds. I managed short videos of two of the releases—the two who sat on the ground for a few minutes, threat-displaying, before flying away. The other two took off like greased lightning. Hey, vids of two outta four ain't bad…
The remaining red tail is now in the raptor flight; his buddy in the mini-pen self-released when I went in to replace their water late in the week. I saw where he landed and took both a net and camera, so if I couldn't recapture him—which I knew was unlikely—I could at least get a few shots of him after his self-release.
The ducks continue to grow; the oldest of the four has maybe another week or two before he's releasable.
With the remaining red tail in the raptor flight, the MIKIs are now in the mini-pen. They're still not real sure they like it, but whether they realize it or not, we're working against a migration deadline with them, so as soon as the red tail is flying well and passes the live prey test, he's outta here so the MIKIs can get fully migration-ready in the raptor flight. These two tickle me to death with their polar opposite attitudes toward food. The younger bird, who's been at LWR since he was a downy handful, is like, "Oh, eating is so overrated; don't you think? I ate yesterday, so I'm not really sure I want anything today." The older one, the transfer from Bubba & Friends, is like, "Ooooh, grub! Praise the Lord and pass the mouse bits!"
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Vonda, you are such a blessing to all these beautiful birds.....such a knowledgeable, dedicated rehabber !!!! .....glad to hear your back is better :) ......John and I have both ...been there, done that !!! I have only ever commented a few times...BUT... I love reading all your updates .. and your pictures to go with them are just fantastic so everyone can see up close all the details of these birds.
Thanks Luanne!
Glad your back is better. Love seeing the red-shoulders and mikis.
Thanks Ann! Red shoulders are a mouthy lot; don't know how they ever hunt successfully. MIKIs are just adorable when they're young and strikingly beautiful as adults.


BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Hungary on the first leg of a five-nation European tour during which he will raise concerns about China and Russia's growing influence in Central Europe.
Pompeo was meeting in Budapest on Monday with Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and other senior officials to stress the importance of promoting democracy and the rule of law. The U.S. sees those as key to countering Russian and Chinese efforts to pull Hungary and other countries in the region away from the West and sow division in the European Union and NATO, officials said.
Pompeo will specifically point to Central Europe's reliance on Russian energy and the presence of the Chinese high-tech telecom firm Huawei, particularly in Hungary, according to the officials, who were not authorized to publicly discuss Pompeo's travel and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
U.S. officials are deeply troubled by Huawei's expansion in Europe, especially in NATO member states where they believe it poses significant information security threats.
One official said Pompeo's aim is to "wrong-foot the West's rivals in places where they have gained bridgeheads."
President Barack Obama's administration had largely steered clear of Orban, who won a third consecutive term last year in a campaign based on anti-immigration policies and whose policies have been met with street protests and deepening concern within the EU.
Orban on Sunday announced a program to encourage women to have more children and reverse Hungary's population decline. He said the initiative is meant to "ensure the survival of the Hungarian nation."
"This is the Hungarians' answer, not immigration," he said.
Last month, Orban said he wanted "anti-immigration forces" to become a majority in all European Union institutions, including its Parliament and the EU's executive Commission, and predicted that there would soon be two civilizations in Europe — one "that builds its future on a mixed Islamic and Christian coexistence" and another in Central Europe that would be only Christian.
Orban's government has been targeted for criticism, including from the U.S., for forcing a Budapest-based university founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros to move most of its programs to Vienna. His fiery rhetoric against migrants and refusal to join a new European Union public prosecutor's office focusing on fraud and corruption also have raised concerns.
Human rights groups and others have lamented Pompeo's plans to meet with Orban and urged him to take a strong stance against his worrisome policies.
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Reconnecting with Public Art – George Square
The George Square Site-specific Music project was funded by a Creative Scotland R&D grant and, in collaboration with internationally-recognised composer Sally Beamish, has developed an innovative prototype system to deliver an original musical composition inspired by the public art of Glasgow's George Square. Developers at SimVis have designed and implemented a publicly-available mobile app that mixes and remixes the composition as the user walks around George Square, exploring its Victorian statuary, for a unique, dynamic, aural experience.
The mobile app and full suite of music, called Set Round A Square, is now freely available from Google Play.
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Kevin McHale's wife, Lynn, rails against Rockets on Twitter over husband's firing
November 19, 2015 By FreeWinningPicks
The decision to fire Kevin McHale on Wednesday morning was pitched as a move that no member of the Houston Rockets' brass wanted to make.
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In his report breaking the story, Yahoo Sports NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski referred to it as a "grueling decision for the Rockets, who extended McHale a year ago and think the world of him as a man." Rockets owner Leslie Alexander cast it as a last-ditch effort to salvage a season that had begun with championship expectations before spiraling into a 4-7 start, according to Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle: "I've never seen my team play as poorly and with less effort. I'm not attributing it to the coach. I had to do something."
General manager Daryl Morey struck the same tone, according to Kristie Rieken of The Associated Press: "The team was not responding to Kevin McHale and we had to make the tough call." Rockets players, from stars James Harden and Dwight Howard to contributors Corey Brewer and Terrence Jones, spoke well of the ousted coach who led them to the Western Conference finals just six months ago.
Evidently, though, all the grim countenances and regretful tones didn't register as especially genuine with McHale's wife, Lynn, who took to Twitter on Thursday to register her discontent with both the firing and its aftermath:
If you aren't following Kevin McHale's wife, @lynnmchale today, you're missing out. She's spitting fire pic.twitter.com/MenNfab9y5
— Adam Spolane (@AdamSpolane) November 19, 2015
The "@KardasianCurse" refers to the long-posited theory that engaging in a relationship with a member of the famed Kardashian family has a negative effect on athletes' performance. MVP runner-up Harden has been involved with reality TV star Khloe Kardashian, the estranged wife of former NBA star Lamar Odom, for some time. He entered Wednesday's action shooting just 37.2 percent from the floor and 26.2 percent from 3-point range, and often looking sluggish or disinterested on defense. He scored a game-high 45 points in Houston's 108-103 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.
Shortly after lobbing her 140-character bombs, Lynn McHale's Twitter account was deleted, but not before firing off one last parting shot:
Looks like Lynn McHale's Twitter was deleted. Here is her last tweet. Pretty solid mic drop if you ask me pic.twitter.com/51t2y9YwYt
There are worse ways to leave a job. (And a social media platform, for that matter.)
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For his part, McHale told Feigen of the Chronicle after his firing that he felt the tide had started to turn a bit for his scuffling Rockets — "We were starting to address some of the issues that were the reason I was let go" — but also that he didn't blame the Rockets for moving on.
"We probably had more meetings in last six weeks than in my previous four years here," he said. "It wasn't working."
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Robinson McIlwaine to Design Ireland's Newry Railway Station
Irish Practice Robinson McIlwaine Architects will design the Newry Railway Station in Northern Ireland. The City of Newry will get the proposed new station after a 14-year waiting period. A proposal to upgrade the station was presented in mid 1990s and in 2002 when Newry gaine
Irish Practice Robinson McIlwaine Architects will design the Newry Railway Station in Northern Ireland.
The City of Newry will get the proposed new station after a 14-year waiting period.
A proposal to upgrade the station was presented in mid 1990s and in 2002 when Newry gained city status the need to revamp was emphasised again.
The proposal required a new purpose built station, platform upgrades and a 'park and ride' facility to accommodate 300 people.
The practice offered to relocate the station and added a new pedestrian bridge and major road improvements in the vicinity.
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The World Squash Federation has added a new dimension to its world squash championships' roster with the launch of the WSF Under-21 World Cup.
The inaugural U21 World Cup – an entirely new biennial event introducing a new age-group category in the sport – will take place in Chennai, India, from 1-5 February 2012.
The new championship will be for mixed teams of two men and one woman, following the highly successful format of the biennial WSF World Cup.
The U21 World Cup will be held in the alternate years of the WSF World Cup – and will be staged in 2012 at the sameExpress Avenue Mall venue which hosted the 2011 World Cup.
"The new championship will provide a great showcase not only for the cream of juniors but those who are transitioning as seniors, as well as those Under 21s who are already established," said WSF CEO Andrew Shelley.
"We believe this adds a significant new world championship opportunity to our portfolio of events – one which will benefit both players and regional federations," Shelley continued.
Srivatsan Subramaniam, Secretary General of the Squash Rackets Federation of India, added: "We are very pleased that the WSF has allotted us the inaugural WSF U21 World Cup. This new event follows a series of events supported by the Sports Development of Tamil Nadu who are supporting sports and especially squash in the southern city of Chennai.
"We welcome all U21 players from around the world to come and have an unforgettable experience."
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Release Blitz & Review: Sea of Love by Nic Starr #LGBTQ #contemporaryromance @nicstarr_author @GoIndiMarketing
Title: Sea of Love
Author: Nic Starr
Publisher: Independently Published
Cover Artist: Covers by Jo
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Genre: Romance
The cruise of a lifetime. A reality TV show about romance. Falling in love is inevitable.
Evan Williams is the type of guy to stick by his friends, especially when they've been hurt and need a favour. And if that favour involves the cruise of a lifetime, then how can he say no? Even when it means pretending to be a devoted boyfriend to Amber and having their fake relationship play out on a reality TV show for all the world to see.
Realising his boyfriend is a conceited jerk and dumping him doesn't stop Harry Bishop from winding up as one half of a supposedly loved-up couple on the Sea of Love TV show. And if that's not bad enough, he's faced with temptation in the form of Evan, the perfect blend of boy-next-door-meets-sexy-stud he once crushed on. It's going to be a long two weeks.
Two weeks of competitions, challenges, and confrontations. They're here to take out the Sea of Love title—just not with each other—and there can only be one winner. But it turns out that true love isn't about winning a contest; the real prize comes when you follow your heart.
Sea of Love is a feel-good romance featuring hidden attraction, fake relationships, and friends-to-lovers.
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MY REVIEW – 5 stars!
Looking for a light read? An LGBT romance that could easily fall under Women's Fiction? This is it! You'll get humor, romance, friendship, and so much more.
Evan only wanted to help his friend Amber by joining her on the Sea of Love TV show. He didn't realize he'd fall in love in the process… and not with the woman everyone thinks he's dating.
Harry has had a crush on Evan for a while, but after agreeing to attend the Sea of Love show as his ex-boyfriends date, he tries to behave himself. John, his ex, doesn't make it easy, as the man is completely self-absorbed.
The interaction between Evan, Amber, John, and Harry is what makes the book. Yes it's a romance, but I enjoyed getting to know the characters. It's a slow build and Harry and Evan only end up together closer to the end of the story, but it didn't detract from the entertainment at all. In fact, I think it's what I liked most. There's no insta-love where they immediately hop into bed with one another. Not that there's anything wrong with those books. I enjoy those too, but this one had a lighter feel that I loved.
All the stars for Sea of Love! I definitely need to go look up the author's other books!
*Disclaimer: I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. The review above is only my opinion.
Nic Starr lives in Australia where she tries to squeeze as much into her busy life as possible. Balancing the demands of a corporate career with raising a family and writing can be challenging but she wouldn't give it up for the world.
Always a reader, the lure of m/m romance was strong and she devoured hundreds of wonderful m/m romance books before eventually realising she had some stories of her own that needed to be told!
When not writing or reading, she loves to spend time with her family–an understanding husband and two beautiful daughters–and is often found indulging in her love of cooking and planning her dream home in the country.
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Travelling is one of the best experiences in life – if it is done properly! The rise of technology has helped to make easier for travelers to visit new places and to connect with locals! In the problematic Greek economy, there is one industry that thrives and this is tourism! Many young people have identified the problems that a traveler might have, especially in Greek tourism and they created their own startup to tackle the issues! I have gathered the 5 best Greek Travel start-ups and if you are planning a trip to Greece or you have friends that they want to do, have a look on them!
This is one of my favorites! It is a 24 service that provides services to the traveler. Butlair will be your right hand if you need some local insight and tips on what to do or where to eat! Also, they can provide with different services, from a charger that you might have forgotten to find you a doctor if you need to etc. And it is so easy as there is no need to download an app! You can communicate with Butlair like you do with your friends! You can choose among Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp & WeChat. And despite the artificial intelligent world that we all live right now, the service is provided by Greeks and not by some chatbots! Great and simple idea!
Clio Muse it is a very interesting startup that tries to fill the gap between museums or cultural sights and visitors. The users of this app can download their stories from a museum that they are going or they are visiting, decide how much information they want to read, vote for their favorite stories and share the experience through various social networks! Cultural institutions can analyse and evaluate the statistics gathered by the app, so as to adjust their exhibitions or make future plans! It is a win win situation for everyone!
Many SecretGreece readers ask me if they can book tours and other sea activities online. Hopwave probably(!) read us and so they came to cover this need! It is actually a booking platform designed for both travelers and travel agents to allow them to search and book sea tours and sea activities around the Greek islands. You can download the app (both iOS and Android) and you can instantly pay online and get your ticket for the day cruise you want!
Insiders Travel Experiences is an Athens-based destination expert for Greece that provides private and personalized experiential activities that engage travelers in a unique and entertaining way! All our friends that have used this service have told us that they are doing an amazing job!
This is a new startup that aspires to be like Uber but for boats! The connectivity between the thousands of Greek Islands is quite problematic as there are so many of them! SeaAround tries to tackle this by giving you the option to rent your boat to go reach your destination! For example, you arrived at the airport and you need to go to an island that doesn't have regularly timetables? No problem at all. You can rent a boat using SeaAround!
I said that I have gathered 5 of them but the truth is that there are many other amazing Greek start-ups that try to implement creative ideas to help visitors in Greece! Vieno is an app that offers you a free drink at a bar, club or restaurant in your city! And Olwyc is the first application in the whole world to find parties in nightclubs or elsewhere, submit your own party and get it crowded, meet new people with the same hunger to party as you, and have a night full of fun & joy!
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LIBERTY PURCHASING CLEAN SOLAR ENERGY AT ITS LUQUILLO FACILITY – Yarotek's system is capable of generating over 1 million kWh of electricity annually.
San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 29, 2016 – Oak Leaf Solar X LLC, a Yarotek entity, has installed 2,444 solar panels at Liberty Puerto Rico's facility in Luquillo, making Liberty's operations even more sustainable and reaffirming the companies' respective commitments to Puerto Rico and the environment.
Liberty entered into a long-term power purchase agreement to buy its solar power from Oak Leaf Solar X, an affiliate of Yarotek, an independent power producer and developer focused on solar energy.
"Investing in renewable energy is one of the ways in which we can become a responsible corporate citizen while reducing operational costs," said Naji Khoury, president, and CEO of Liberty Puerto Rico.
Solar Plant at Liberty Cablevision Puerto Rico's Luquillo's Facility
The Luquillo facility was chosen for this project due to its size, energy needs and availability of space. Out of the 2,444 panels, approximately 70 percent were installed in a lot at the backyard of the property while the other 30 percent were placed on the administration building's rooftop. Ciro Energy Partners, who contributed a portion of the solar panels, took all the necessary steps to enable the project to qualify for the US Treasury Department 1603 cash grant program.
The 745.8 kWp solar system is capable of generating over 1 million kWh of direct current (DC) electricity. The system received permits from the Permits Management Office and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).
The solar system converts sunlight into DC electricity. The DC electricity generated from the panels is then wheeled through 24 inverters, which convert the DC electricity into alternating current (AC) electricity. The AC electricity then travels through a series of transformers and equipment to be measured and balanced. The filtered and balanced AC electricity is finally used to power the Luquillo facility.
During daylight hours, the Luquillo facility consumes most of its electricity from Yarotek's solar system. This reduces dependency on costly and volatile electricity from the local grid.
"Solar energy helps us to pay for energy at a much lower and stable price. This minimizes our impact on the environment and reduces operational costs." said Javier Díaz, Facilities and Fleet Senior Manager at Liberty Puerto Rico.
The installation was mechanically concluded by Rosendin Construction Puerto Rico in December 2015. The system went through a series of tests and became fully operational earlier this year. Currently, Liberty and Yarotek are evaluating the possibility of implementing solar energy in another of Liberty's facilities.
About Liberty Puerto Rico
Liberty Puerto Rico is a subsidiary of Liberty Global and has approximately 784,400 RGUs in 75 municipalities in the eastern, central, northern southern and western regions of Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit www.libertypr.com.
About Liberty Global
Liberty Global is the world's largest international TV and broadband company, with operations in more than 30 countries across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. We invest in the infrastructure that empowers our customers to make the most of the digital revolution. Our scale and commitment to innovation enable us to develop market-leading products delivered through next-generation networks that connect our 29 million customers who subscribe to over 59 million television, broadband internet and telephony services. We also serve 11 million mobile subscribers and offer WiFi service across seven million access points.
Liberty Global's businesses are comprised of two stocks: the Liberty Global Group (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) for our European operations, and the LiLAC Group (NASDAQ: LILA and LILAK, OTC Link: LILAB), which consists of our operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Liberty Global Group operates in 12 European countries under the consumer brands Virgin Media, Ziggo, Unitymedia, Telenet and UPC. The LiLAC Group operates in over 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean under the consumer brands VTR, Flow, Liberty, Mas Movil and BTC. In addition, the LiLAC Group operates a subsea fiber network throughout the region in over 30 markets.
For more information, please visit www.libertyglobal.com.
About Yarotek
With offices in San Juan and Miami, Yarotek is an independent power producer focused on solar energy generation. Yarotek -and its strategic partners- own development rights to 145 megawatts (MWs) across commercial, industrial and utility scale, of which 58.2 MWs are under construction and 17.1 MWs are fully built and operational. Yarotek's proven professionals work hand in hand with electricity consumers to design an individualized solar program aimed at reducing electricity costs using affordable and clean technologies. Furthermore, a flexible approach to financing allows Yarotek to offer tailored ownership packages responding to its customers' key objectives and priorities. For more information, please visit www.yarotek.com or call (305) 503-3053 (US headquarters) or (973) 454-4481 (Caribbean regional office).
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Q: Installing "libv8" gem for "therubyracer" on Windows I'm having trouble installing therubyracer gem on Windows.
Using Ruby 2.1.6 32-bit and running
gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.3' -- --with-system-v8

This is the error I get:
Installing therubyracer 0.12.1 with native extensions

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    C:/Ruby21/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for main() in -lpthread... no
checking for v8.h... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more details.  You may
need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=C:/Ruby21/bin/ruby
        --with-pthreadlib
        --without-pthreadlib
        --enable-debug
        --disable-debug
        --with-v8-dir
        --without-v8-dir
        --with-v8-include
        --without-v8-include=${v8-dir}/include
        --with-v8-lib
        --without-v8-lib=${v8-dir}/lib
C:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/libv8-3.16.14.3/ext/libv8/location.rb:50:in
`configure': You have chosen to use the version of V8 found on your system (Libv8::Location::System::NotFoundError)
and *not* the one that is bundle with the libv8 rubygem. However,
it could not be located. please make sure you have a version of
v8 that is compatible with 3.16.14.3 installed. You may
need to special --with-v8-dir options if it is in a non-standard
location

thanks,
The Mgmt

        from C:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/libv8-3.16.14.3/lib/libv8.rb:7:in `configure_makefile'
        from extconf.rb:32:in `<main>'

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/therubyracer-0.12.1 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/extensions/x86-mingw32/2.1.0/therubyracer-0.12.1/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing therubyracer (0.12.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install therubyracer -v '0.12.1'` succeeds before bundling.

A: This is kinda a double edged sword, the libv8 gem itself tries to build v8 and things get crazy because it's using *nix programs to test and setup the environment.
So to fix it you have to use -- --with-system-v8 so it doesn't try to build v8. Unfortunately that advice already presumes you have a copy of v8 somewhere on your system. Which you don't, obviously.
The quick and easy is to install node.js and make sure it gets added to your path, since it is statically compiled the library is in node.exe. There may be some weird errors with that approach, BUT I don't think you will run into any of them.
Of course, in reality you shouldn't need therubyracer or libv8 because Windows ships with JScript which is a JavaScript engine itself, or if nothing else node will also suffice.

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Solution from Charles Lowell:

No, there is no way that I know of to currently install this gem on windows. The problem is that there is currently no pre-compiled version of the libv8 gem for Windows, and the source version is only compatible with *nix. It does not necessarily have to be that way, it just requires somebody taking the time to make the compile work for Windows. https://github.com/fractaloop/libv8
That said, Windows should come with a JScript, the Microsoft JavaScript runtime, which rails (via execjs) will automatically detect and use, so you should be able to just remove your dependency on therubyracer.

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U.S. Ends Bid to Extradite Khadr Brother
Abdullah Khadr in 2005
Abdullah Khadr, Omar Khadr's older brother, will not be extradited to the United States on terrorism charges.
The country's top court announced Thursday it will not hear an appeal from the Canadian and U.S. governments, which were seeking to have Khadr extradited to the United States, where he is wanted in Boston on charges of supplying weapons to al-Qaida in Pakistan.
Khadr has maintained his innocence.
By refusing to grant leave to appeal the case, the Supreme Court of Canada effectively put an end to Khadr's extradition case, and upheld two lower court rulings in Khadr's favour.
This article was written by Jordan Press and published by the National Post on November 3, 2011.
We previously discussed the extradition treaty between the United States and Canada here.
Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition and OFAC SDN Sanctions Removal.
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Perfect to set out at your next party, roasted buttery whole cashews are embraced in GODIVA milk chocolate.
Treat yourself to exquisitely delectable, roasted buttery whole cashews embraced in GODIVA milk chocolate.
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The real estate market in Lawndale and Gardena picked up a bit in February of 2019 compared with the previous year. Gardena saw 19 homes sale in February of this year compared with 19 the year before. Lawndale saw a slight increase of almost 3.5% in the average price of the homes sold over the year earlier. Hawthorne prices were almost 8% higher than in February of 2018.