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Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin is the sixth studio album by American rapper Kid Cudi. The album was released on December 16, 2016, through Wicked Awesome Records and Republic Records. It succeeds Cudi's alternative rock album Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven (2015). The album features guest appearances from André 3000 (under his real name André Benjamin), Pharrell Williams, Travis Scott and Willow Smith. The production on the album was handled by Cudi himself, alongside Plain Pat, Mike Dean, Dot da Genius, Anthony Kilhoffer, Mike Will Made It and Pharrell Williams, among others.

Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin was supported by two singles: "Frequency" and "Surfin'. The album received generally positive reviews from critics, debuting at number 11 on the US Billboard 200, moving 49,000 units in its first week.

Background
On May 11, 2016, amidst rumors that he was planning to release Man on the Moon III, Cudi revealed the title of his sixth solo album would be Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin, through Instagram. On June 1, 2016, Cudi announced that he would release two albums in 2016, one for the summer and one set for fall. In September 2016, Cudi revealed Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin would be a double disc album. On September 26, Cudi unveiled the album's track-listing, which revealed that similar to his Man on the Moon album series, the Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin track-list is split into acts. In October 2016, in the weeks leading up to the album's release, Cudi revealed on his Facebook page that he had checked himself into rehabilitation for depression and suicidal urges.

Recording and production
On May 1, 2016, American drummer Travis Barker of Blink-182 fame, revealed he's had recording sessions with Cudi and Atlanta-based rapper André 3000. On June 1, 2016, Cudi revealed on Twitter that Houston-based rapper Travis Scott, was the only featured artist on the album at the moment; Cudi also previewed a video of them in the studio with a new song in the background, via Snapchat. It was also confirmed on June 3, that Cudi's longtime producer Dot da Genius, would also be involved with the album, after Cudi posted a video of them in the studio on Snapchat. On June 9, Cudi released a video of child actress and singer Willow Smith, singing in a recording booth, with the caption "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'. On June 29, Cudi teased a Pharrell Williams collaboration, when he tweeted: "Got some magic from Pharrell lastnite. New collabs, new energy, new frequency."

Release and promotion

After releasing an alternative rock solo album, where he sang and played instruments throughout the album, Kid Cudi returned to rapping on March 25, 2016, with the song "The Frequency". The song, which was produced by Cudi's longtime collaborators Mike Dean and Plain Pat, was called a "return to form" for Kid Cudi. On April 15, 2016, Cudi released a song titled "All In", produced by Atlanta-based multi-platinum producer, Mike Will Made It. On April 22, 2016, Kid Cudi announced he would be releasing a new studio album, set for a summer release. In May, a few hours following the announcement of the album's title, Cudi released a snippet of a song from the album, produced by himself and Mike Dean, which he shared via Instagram.

On June 24, 2016, Kid Cudi released a song, titled "Goodbye". The song, produced by Cudi and Dot da Genius (collectively known as WZRD), samples dialogue by Tupac Shakur from the 1992 film Juice, as well as vocals by English rock band Pink Floyd from their 1979 song "Goodbye Cruel World". On August 15, 2016, Cudi announced he had completed working on the album and would soon be unveiling the release date. In August 2016, while performing at the Trillectro Music Festival, Cudi debuted a new song produced by Pharrell Williams. In September 2016, Cudi revealed the album would be a double disc album and that he had plans to release the album that month.

On September 26, 2016, Cudi revealed the album's track-listing via his Twitter account. Later that day, Cudi announced the album's release date and unveiled the cover art. Hours before the album's release, Cudi revealed the album had been postponed "due to some minor sample clearance issues still being finalized" and announced he would be officially releasing two singles, "Frequency" and "Surfin' featuring Pharrell Williams, due to the delay. On December 1, 2016, the album was made available for pre-order on the iTunes Store, with "Baptized in Fire" featuring Travis Scott, as the "instant gratification track".

On March 1, 2017, Kid Cudi performed the song "Kitchen", with a string orchestra, live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. On August 15, 2017, Cudi announced a national concert tour by the name of Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' Tour; with the first date on September 30 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Singles
On September 30, 2016, Kid Cudi released "Frequency" and "Surfin' featuring Pharrell Williams, via digital distribution. The music video for "Frequency", which was directed by Kid Cudi himself, was released on October 13, 2016. The music video for "Surfin', also directed by Cudi, later followed on October 31, 2016, featuring cameo appearances from Jaden Smith, Willow Smith, King Chip, ASAP Nast and ASAP Rocky, among others.

Critical reception

Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on 11 reviews. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 6.6 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

Neil Yeung of AllMusic commented that Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin "breathes gravitas into the Kid Cudi discography, realigning his trajectory and hinting at hope, possibility, and, most importantly, recovery". Chris Mench of Complex stated that Cudi has managed to "recapture the heart of his music, mixing confessional raps with cosmic hums and unique production. It's not perfect, but it finally feels like we have the Cudi we fell in love with when we first heard him". Matthew Strauss of Pitchfork, while noting the long length and redundancy, commented that "Cudi is as focused as he's been since 2010's Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager", as well as praising the production. Kellan Miller of Drowned in Sound said, "It is definitely a record that demands repeated attention, as a cursory listen will not unveil all its hidden gems. It's instantly accessible than his previous records [sic], but when Cudi is on his game he reaps unignorable rewards". Anya Zoledziowski of Exclaim! said, "Not only is Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin loaded with hits, but it also draws attention to Cudi's renewed sense of self. Cudi has finally slayed his demons, and he sounds all the better for it".

Alex Bell of HipHopDX said, "Weighing in at 19 tracks and 86 minutes, PP&DS sprawls to a fault, but it sticks true to its branding". Karas Lamb of Consequence said, "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin seems concerned with little more than keeping up appearances. Hopefully, the high points of the album are a proper barometer, and Kid Cudi's next destination is a sight better than this". Bernadette McNulty of The Observer said, "Pharrell Williams and André 3000 add support on this hefty but intriguingly experimental 19-track marathon, while Willow Smith adds weirdness to Mescudi's trademark humming on the dub hip-hop of "Rose Golden". Tanner Smith of PopMatters said, "The consistent sound here isn't so much redundant as repetitive; it builds a world in a way that too few records do. It's not a particularly deep work—and it's certainly not as important as its maker implies. But if there is a deeper truth to be found, it's going to be in the album's texture which conjures a beautiful night where the streets are wet, and you might be sad, but not sad enough to go to bed just yet". Chris Gibbons of XXL said, "The album's biggest issue is its length. ... While the project is lengthy, it's just good to hear Kid Cudi sound like himself". XXL ranked Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin among the best 50 hip hop projects of 2016.

Commercial performance
In the United States, Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200, with 49,000 album-equivalent units. It was the second best-selling digital album of the week, selling 24,000 digital copies. The album was also streamed 35 million times in the first week.

Track listing

Notes
  signifies an additional producer
 "Releaser" features additional vocals by Vanessa Vasquez and background vocals by Kacy Hill
 "Kitchen" features background vocals by Jaden Smith

Sample credits
 "Baptized in Fire" contains elements of "Déjà Vu", as performed by Ataraxia and written by Mort Garson.
 "Flight at First Sight / Advanced" contains elements of "Campbell Soup Gospel! God is Mmmmmm Gooood!", as performed by Leslie Davis.
 "Distant Fantasies" contains elements of "Electronic Fields 27", as performed by Gerhard Trede Selection.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Musicians

 Danny Pravder – piano (3, 10)
 Alison Bjorkedal – harp (7, 10, 16)
 James A. McMillen – orchestration and arrangement (7, 10, 14–16), horn section orchestration and arrangement (19)
 Steven Velez – orchestration and arrangement (7, 10, 14–16), horn section orchestration and arrangement (19), horn section conducting (19), solo cello (3, 10)
 Idle Kid – programming (10)
 Dot da Genius – keyboards (11)
 Matthew Byas – additional drums (11)
 J Gramm – programming (13)
 Anthony Kilhoffer – programming (13)
 Mike Dean – additional keyboards (18)
 Brent Paschke – electric guitar (19)
 Dan Fornero – trumpets (19)
 Rob Schraer – trumpets (19)
 Alex Iles – trombone (19)
 Steve Trapani – bass trombone (19)
 Doug Tornquist – tuba (19)

Technical

 Tom Coyne – mastering
 Randy Merrill – mastering
 Anthony Kilhoffer – mixing (1–3, 5–8, 10–17), mix engineering (3, 6–8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17), recording (1, 3–19)
 Mick Guzauski – mixing (4, 9, 19)
 Thomas Cullison – mixing (18), recording (9, 19)
 Tom Kahre – recording (2, 3, 11), mix engineering (7)
 Mike Larson – recording (4, 9, 19)
 Adam Michalak – strings recording (7, 10, 14–16)
 David Kim – recording assistance (9, 19)
 Will Delaney – recording assistance (9)
 Keith Parry – recording assistance (9)
 Ben Sedano – recording assistance (19)
 Eric Eylands – recording assistance (19)

Artwork
 Ryan Rogers – design
 Pamela Littky – photography

Charts

Release history

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

2016 albums
Kid Cudi albums
Republic Records albums
Albums produced by Dot da Genius
Albums produced by Kid Cudi
Albums produced by Mike Dean (record producer)
Albums produced by Mike Will Made It
Albums produced by Pharrell Williams
Albums produced by Plain Pat
Albums recorded at Capitol Studios
Albums recorded at EastWest Studios
Wicked Awesome Records albums


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Bedum (en groningois : Beem) est un village de la commune néerlandaise de Het Hogeland, situé dans la province de Groningue.

Géographie
Le village est situé à  au nord de Groningue, sur le Boterdiep et le Winsumerdiep.

La gare de Bedum est elle située sur la ligne reliant Groningue à Delfzijl.

Histoire
Le village de Bedum est né vers le  sur deux monticules dans une zone d'extraction de la tourbe.

Bedum est le chef-lieu de la commune du même nom avant le , où celle-ci est supprimée et fusionnée avec De Marne, Eemsmond et Winsum pour former la nouvelle commune de Het Hogeland.

Démographie
Le , le village comptait .

Sites et monuments
L'église Saint-Walfrid (Walfriduskerk) remonte au  pour sa partie la plus ancienne. Dès cette époque, elle constitue un lieu de pèlerinage sur le tombeau de saint Walfrid, qui aurait été assassiné par les Vikings.

Au début du , l'église est grandement endommagée en raison de la lutte qui oppose Charles de Gueldre aux troupes de l'empereur Charles Quint. Elle est reconstruite avec un chœur entouré d'un déambulatoire de style gothique.
Après la Réforme, les pèlerinages cessent, l'église est de moins en moins utilisée et tombe en ruine. Les modifications qui sont alors apportées pour la rendre plus conforme à la nouvelle fonction de lieu de culte réformé mutilent gravement le bâtiment, notamment par la démolition du chœur.

Elle possède la tour la plus penchée d'Europe avec un écart de  à une hauteur de . Elle devance donc la tour de Pise dans cette catégorie.

Références

Het Hogeland
Localité dans la province de Groningue

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/*  pshrec.h                                                               */
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/*    Postscript (Type1/Type2) hints recorder (specification).             */
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/*  Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 by                                          */
/*  David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg.                      */
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/*  This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used,       */
/*  modified, and distributed under the terms of the FreeType project      */
/*  license, LICENSE.TXT.  By continuing to use, modify, or distribute     */
/*  this file you indicate that you have read the license and              */
/*  understand and accept it fully.                                        */
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/***************************************************************************/

  /**************************************************************************/
  /*                                                                        */
  /*  The functions defined here are called from the Type 1, CID and CFF    */
  /*  font drivers to record the hints of a given character/glyph.          */
  /*                                                                        */
  /*  The hints are recorded in a unified format, and are later processed   */
  /*  by the "optimizer" and "fitter" to adjust the outlines to the pixel   */
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#ifndef __PSHREC_H__
#define __PSHREC_H__

#include <ft2build.h>
#include FT_INTERNAL_POSTSCRIPT_HINTS_H
#include "pshglob.h"

FT_BEGIN_HEADER

  /*************************************************************************/
  /*************************************************************************/
  /*****                                                               *****/
  /*****                 GLYPH HINTS RECORDER INTERNALS                *****/
  /*****                                                               *****/
  /*************************************************************************/
  /*************************************************************************/

  /* handle to hint record */
  typedef struct PS_HintRec_*  PS_Hint;

  /* hint types */
  typedef enum
  {
    PS_HINT_TYPE_1 = 1,
    PS_HINT_TYPE_2 = 2

  } PS_Hint_Type;

  /* hint flags */
  typedef enum
  {
    PS_HINT_FLAG_GHOST  = 1,
    PS_HINT_FLAG_BOTTOM = 2

  } PS_Hint_Flags;

  /* hint descriptor */
  typedef struct  PS_HintRec_
  {
    FT_Int   pos;
    FT_Int   len;
    FT_UInt  flags;

  } PS_HintRec;

#define ps_hint_is_active( x )  ( (x)->flags & PS_HINT_FLAG_ACTIVE )
#define ps_hint_is_ghost( x )   ( (x)->flags & PS_HINT_FLAG_GHOST  )
#define ps_hint_is_bottom( x )  ( (x)->flags & PS_HINT_FLAG_BOTTOM )

  /* hints table descriptor */
  typedef struct  PS_Hint_TableRec_
  {
    FT_UInt  num_hints;
    FT_UInt  max_hints;
    PS_Hint  hints;

  } PS_Hint_TableRec, *PS_Hint_Table;

  /* hint and counter mask descriptor */
  typedef struct  PS_MaskRec_
  {
    FT_UInt   num_bits;
    FT_UInt   max_bits;
    FT_Byte*  bytes;
    FT_UInt   end_point;

  } PS_MaskRec, *PS_Mask;

  /* masks and counters table descriptor */
  typedef struct  PS_Mask_TableRec_
  {
    FT_UInt  num_masks;
    FT_UInt  max_masks;
    PS_Mask  masks;

  } PS_Mask_TableRec, *PS_Mask_Table;

 /* dimension-specific hints descriptor */
  typedef struct  PS_DimensionRec_
  {
    PS_Hint_TableRec  hints;
    PS_Mask_TableRec  masks;
    PS_Mask_TableRec  counters;

  } PS_DimensionRec, *PS_Dimension;

  /* glyph hints descriptor                                */
  /* dimension 0 => X coordinates + vertical hints/stems   */
  /* dimension 1 => Y coordinates + horizontal hints/stems */
  typedef struct  PS_HintsRec_
  {
    FT_Memory        memory;
    FT_Error         error;
    FT_UInt32        magic;
    PS_Hint_Type     hint_type;
    PS_DimensionRec  dimension[2];

  } PS_HintsRec, *PS_Hints;

  /* */

  /* initialize hints recorder */
  FT_LOCAL( FT_Error )
  ps_hints_init( PS_Hints   hints,
                 FT_Memory  memory );

  /* finalize hints recorder */
  FT_LOCAL( void )
  ps_hints_done( PS_Hints  hints );

  /* initialize Type1 hints recorder interface */
  FT_LOCAL( void )
  t1_hints_funcs_init( T1_Hints_FuncsRec*  funcs );

  /* initialize Type2 hints recorder interface */
  FT_LOCAL( void )
  t2_hints_funcs_init( T2_Hints_FuncsRec*  funcs );

#ifdef DEBUG_HINTER
  extern PS_Hints  ps_debug_hints;
  extern  int      ps_debug_no_horz_hints;
  extern  int      ps_debug_no_vert_hints;
#endif

 /* */

FT_END_HEADER

#endif /* __PS_HINTER_RECORD_H__ */

/* END */

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So at the NCRS we have been fortunate to have had some great interns over the years who provided valuable assistance to the research operations. (And we still do today.) But who could forget 2011 when we had these two outstanding Spartans working on the farm. That's Amanda and Jeff on June 27, 2011 in between tasks.
And here they are almost exactly seven years later at the same NCRS, again in between tasks. Only they are no longer interns, but Ag Professionals. Amanda is now an agronomist with Mycogen Seed and of course, Jeff is a Research Specialist here at the NCRS. And Jeff is still taller.
We have some Mycogen corn planted as part of the AgroExpo seed plots, and she and her district sales manager came by for a look the other day. So of course I had to arrange for a trip down memory lane. I am proud of them for their advancement into the professional world of food production, and am certain that some of what they learned as interns stayed with them. I haven't seen Amanda in several years and am glad that she is doing well. And of course I am also glad we were able to get Jeff back to the NCRS several years ago. Now get back to work!


Students are encouraged to register with Handshake, Cooper Union's online job, internship, and recruiting system. Register to view job and internship postings, receive important Career Center announcements, and participate in on-campus recruiting activities.
Employers devote a great deal of monetary and human resources toward recruiting talent in their organizations. In many instances, it's a Cooper Union alumnus and/or alumna themselves who is taking time out of their day to drive the recruiting effort, as they understand the value of hiring a Cooper Union student. In an effort to develop and foster new relationships, we strive to assure that employers are happy with their Cooper Union recruiting experience. Please understand that when you misrepresent yourself or abuse the recruitment policy, you are contributing to a poor image of yourself, and also risk damaging the school's relationship with employers.
By failing to show up for a scheduled interview, you are holding a slot that another student could have taken, and wasting the interviewer's time. Students may cancel an interview a minimum of 48 hours before the interview.
Students who either do not show up for a scheduled interview, or cancel their interview within the 48 hours of the interview date will lose their on-campus recruiting privileges.
Arriving late for an interview can push the entire interview schedule back and delivers a poor impression of you as a candidate. If you are running late for an interview, call the Center for Career Development at 212-353-4377. If you are late for an interview, the employer may decide not to proceed with the interview, so you may be forfeiting your right to interview with the employer.
If you falsify documents or misrepresent yourself to any employer, you may be brought up on University judicial charges. Falsifying data such as your GPA, dates of graduation, major/minor, work experience, eligibility to work in the United States or other information is unethical and in violation of The Cooper Union's Code of Conduct. If you falsify documents or misrepresent yourself to any employer, whether via our recruiting program or in your independent job search, the Career Center reserves the right to rescind your privileges to use our services and programs. You may also be subject to disciplinary action through the Dean of Students. In addition, employers have the right to terminate your employment or withdraw an offer for misrepresentation.
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If you have accepted an offer you should withdraw yourself from candidacy from other opportunities. If you have an existing offer that you have not yet accepted it is perfectly acceptable to keep applying and interviewing. If you have questions, please come to drop-in hours or set up an appointment to talk with the Center for Career Development staff.


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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led the effort to advance an amendment that supports keeping U.S. troops in Syria and Afghanistan to fight ISIS and al-Qaida. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
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Senate Republicans Rebuke President On Syria And Afghanistan Policy
January 31, 2019 • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's amendment opposing a "precipitous withdrawal" from Syria was backed by many GOP senators who disagree with the president's foreign policy.
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Suicide Attackers Kill Dozens In Assault On Afghan Base
January 21, 2019 • A suicide bomber rammed a Humvee loaded with explosives into a compound of the nation's primary intelligence agency, clearing a path for insurgents who started firing on personnel inside.
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Pelosi Says Trump Administration Leaked Plans To Fly Commercially To War Zone
January 18, 2019 • The speaker's office says a congressional delegation was prepared to take a commercial flight to Afghanistan after Trump revoked a military flight.
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What 3 Deaths Among Thousands Tell Us About Afghanistan In 2018
December 30, 2018 • Thousands of civilians, soldiers and police were killed this year in suicide attacks, bombings and airstrikes. The lives and deaths of three Afghan men shed light on the challenges the country faces.
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More Than 40 Dead After Attack At Government Compound In Afghanistan
December 25, 2018 • No militant group has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing and hours-long standoff with police in Kabul on Monday. Most of the people who died were government employees.
Trump To Examine Murder Case Against Former Green Beret Who Said He Killed A Prisoner
December 17, 2018 • President Trump called the Army major a hero and vowed to review the case. To a military law specialist, it looks like "the commander in chief is putting his thumb on the scales of justice."
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Taliban Says It Is Meeting With U.S. Officials, Amid Escalating Peace Efforts
December 17, 2018 • The Islamist militants have refused to negotiate with the Afghan government in Kabul — but a Taliban spokesman said Monday that they were speaking with the U.S., along with several other countries.
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More Than 50 People Killed As Suicide Bombing Rocks Afghan Capital
November 20, 2018 • A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a wedding hall in Kabul as religious scholars gathered for the holiday commemorating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A Utah Town Remembers Its Mayor, Killed In Action In Afghanistan
November 4, 2018 • Major Brent Taylor was hailed as a true "citizen soldier," serving both the community of North Ogden and deploying with the Utah National Guard.
Afghan Army Helicopter Crashes, Killing All 25 On Board
October 31, 2018 • The helicopter was carrying provincial government officials when it went down on Wednesday. The Taliban have claimed responsibility, according to multiple reports.
Pakistan Releases Taliban Co-Founder In Possible Overture To Talks
October 26, 2018 • The release of Mullah Baradar more than eight years after he was detained in Karachi is seen as a goodwill gesture with the potential to bring the Taliban to the table.
Mourners stand beside the grave of Gen. Abdul Raziq, the Kandahar police chief who was killed by a Taliban attack, during his burial ceremony Friday in Kandahar, Afghanistan. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was wounded in the attack. STR/AP hide caption
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Days Later, Pentagon Says U.S. General Among Wounded In Kandahar Attack
October 22, 2018 • Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was shot twice, according to the Pentagon, during an attack in Kandahar that killed the province's chiefs of police and intelligence and wounded the governor.
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U.N. Calls For End To Virginity Tests
October 19, 2018 • The tests are traumatic and unreliable, the United Nations said in a statement this week. In Afghanistan, there's a campaign to bring the practice to a halt.
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Afghanistan Delays Election In Kandahar After Attack That Killed Police Chief
October 19, 2018 • The rest of the country will vote Saturday. But one journalist says that after a gunman pulled off a surprise attack in Kandahar, "there's a huge security vacuum, people are very nervous and worried."
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Key Afghan Police Chief Dies in Kandahar Shooting; Top U.S. General Escapes Uninjured
October 18, 2018 • Shooting broke out at the end of a meeting at the governor's palace in Kandahar on how to maintain security during in in Afghanistan's upcoming parliamentary elections.
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Today, higher education in Kenya is under scrutiny following an expose' by a leading media house on how unscrupulous staffers at the institution award academic transcripts and certificates to people who have not even sat for a minute in class thereby putting into question the reputation of the institution's certificates.
Even though the investigative piece only highlighted what could be happening in one of Kenya's private tertiary institutions, the practice is not isolated to that institution alone. With corruption even our public Universities and Colleges are not free from these vices.
While corruption is very ripe in Kenya today and the practice highlighted in the said story cannot be verified as a normal occurrence at the institution that happens with the administration's blessings we should therefore shift our focus to how we got here in the first place.
The government has indeed failed to provide thousands of it's young population with quality education both at the secondary and tertiary level.
Every year thousands of pupils graduate from Primary schools but only half of them proceed to secondary schools because of the few places available. The situation is the same for those who are transiting from secondary to tertiary institutions where admission into public universities is based on bed capacity.
Because of that education in public universities has remained a preserve of those who are either too bright or those who are rich enough to afford self sponsored programs.
The government tertiary institutions or mid level colleges have also become money mints for their administrators and Ministry of Education officials. Getting into Kenya Institute of Mass Communication, Kenya Medical Training College, Kenya School of Monetary Studies and any such college run by the government will cost you a lot in bribes.
This scenario has in turn created an opportunity for investors to fill the gap left by the government through investing in private universities and colleges.
While private universities cater for a rather different class, the colleges that dot the third floors of every building in town fill the gap that has been created by the government due to their failure to invest in expansion of existing institutions and creation of new ones.
As much as every student who scores C+ and above in KCSE should be admitted to university, this is never the case, in many cases the cut is at B+ instead.
These colleges as much as they are filling an important gap by ensuring that this marginalized group can acquire relevant skills that are necessary in the job market are also in the profit making business. They want to maximize their profits will go for the cheapest labor they can get in the market, in most cases that is synonymous with low quality.
That is however the least of the problems, because they significantly charge low tuition fees (in most cases under Ksh. 50,000 per year) the only way they would make profits is through high turnovers. These colleges are always admitting new students, every month there is a new intake for the same course.
When the tutors are overworked and underpaid, we cannot then expect so much from them and that is the beginning of saturation of the labor market with half-baked graduates.
That is not to say all the students who graduate from these institutions are half – baked, some go the extra mile and pat their backsides in the libraries and managed to get some good skills. I know of many in my profession who went through these colleges and are stars at what they do.
It would be rather simplistic of me to assume that this is only a problem of the private collages. Public universities have not been left behind with the commercialization craze.
Today the third floors also house satellite campuses of public universities. For a long time our universities have also been churning out half-baked Diploma and Degree graduates.
These campuses neither have adequate staff nor required infrastructure for learning. The trend has seen universities hire lecturers with undergraduate degrees, something that was unheard of before.
The move by the Commission for University Education to have the minimum qualification of lecturers to a PhD will go along way to ensure that our students are instructed by qualified professionals, that though is not the only thing.
To be able to ensure that the degrees and diplomas actually mean something, we must aggregate how teaching is done in institutions of higher learning.
The Commission of University Education should be actively involved in accreditation of universities and tertiary institutions to ensure that colleges and universities actually have the right resources to adequately train students.
To curtail on commercialization, we must ensure that institutions admit students based on their capacity. This will ensure that we don't have very few lecturers teaching thousands of students.
Professional bodies should also take an active role in ensuring the curriculum taught at these institutions is relevant to the requirements in the market.
The Media Council of Kenya has set an example in this role by ensuring that it accredits institutions that teach Journalism and Media Studies and further accredits media practitioners annually. The Media Council has also developed a curriculum to ensure that grandaunts from the different institutions have similar training.
Can we pay the MPs and move on!!


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Saab BioPower: the beauty of nature
Posted on 26. Oct, 2007 by Ryan.
Photo Credit: Saab Automobile France
This just in from Saab Automobile France, loosely translated thanks to Babelfish
Conscious of the responsibility for the automobile in quality of the air, Saab created the BioPower flex-fuel engine, running on the fuel E85, Ethanol mixture (85%) and gasoline (15%). This Saab 9-3 is showcased at the event "Breathings d'Enghien" (from the 9 to November 11, 2007, Enghien-the-Baths). The Swedish manufacturer will also sponsor the "Oxygen Awards" rewarding the technology for more innovating at the begining of the event on the evening of official reception of Friday November 9.
In Sweden, it a long time that we have had worries about the quality of the air, because the environment formed there over there integral part of the life of the Scandinavian population. This respect is found in the achievements of Saab, car manufacturer who celebrated in 2007,its 60 years of existance. Saab innovated as well while being the first manufacturer to assemble brake pads without asbestos as of the systems of air-conditioning completely without CFC. The BioPower technology makes it possible to counter the most serious threats weighing on the environment, the multiplication of the gas emissions responsible for the effect of greenhouse gases such as the carbon dioxide (CO2). Saab BioPower embodies the will of the manufacturer to to offer an immediate solution for a more durable future; in fact flex fuel vehicles make it possible to run to both E85 or gasoline, whatever the mixture of these two fuels present in the tank. The diffusion on a large scale of the BioPower engines can also take part to overcome our historical dependence with respect to the fossil fuels.
This engine is an answer to two questions which must be tackled if one wishes to preserve the facility of displacement offered by the road transport. Initially, there is urgency to start to fight the general reheating caused by what what is called " the effect of greenhouse gases". In the second place, it is necessary to find solutions of replacement to overcome our dependence with regard to oil. The total resources soon will no longer be able to follow our demand. The total number of available sources is now just a question of time.
The use of ethanol can contribute to reverse this environmental tendency, because its consumption does not raise the CO 2 levels in the atmosphere. To the difference of the gasoline or gas oil, the ethanol consumption does not add CO2 in the atmosphere, because its emissions in transport are counterbalanced by the quantity of CO2 eliminated by photosynthesis at the time of the growth of harvests of conversion. Thus, CO2 already present in the atmosphere is simply re-used. On the other hand, the use of a fossil fuel such as the gasoline releases from new quantities of CO2 until there locked up since million years in the ground.
A complete environmental policy
Saab, as a car manufacturer, is a truly environmentally aware. Its confidence in bioethanol was introduced to propose to the public a whole range of vehicles functioning with various BioPower engines that include the 1,8 turbo (175ch) to 2,3 T of 210 CH, on a broad pallet of body styles: 9-3 Sport Sedan and Sport Combi, 9-3 Convertible, 9-5 Sedan and SportCombi. The BioPower engines do not reject that 35 to 50 grams of CO2 with the kilometer function to 100% of ethanol E85. The E85 present has many advantages. In addition, the purchasers of flex fuel vehicles profit from advantageous tax measurements granted by the government. Let us recall that the Charter for the development of the ethanol was signed at the end of 2006 by l'Etat, the agricultural representatives, the distributors, the tankers and the car manufacturers, of which Saab use.
BioPower technology is one of the three facets of the environmental policy of General Motors. For the short term, the use of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, and the improvements brought to the gasoline and diesel engines will make it possible to reach a first stage. Then, it will be necessary to resort to hybrid vehicles also exploiting electric motors. They will constitute one second stage, before the final analysis of the fuel cells supplied with hydrogen, which will offer the final environmental answer. And the return to a definitively respirable atmosphere.
Saab Owners Convention – 1992
Photo Credit: Mary Egan
The 1992 Saab Owners Convention took place in Columbus, Ohio during Aug 7th-9th.
The Photograph above was kindly donated by Bill Jacobson of Sports Car Service in Delaware that I have recently visited and written about, as well as the official convention booklet that you can download below that was kindly donated this weekend at Swedish Car Day 8 by the Stottler Family.
I am still looking for any video footage taken during this event, so if you have any or know of someone who has any, please contact me.
This convention is also listed on the Saab Convention Archive here on Saab History.
WELCOME SAAB OWNERS…
…to the 1992 National Convention. On behalf of the SAAB Club of Central Ohio, I am happy you made the trip to Columbus, the largest city in the world named for the explorer and where the 500th anniversary of his voyage is being celebrated community-wide.
It was two years ago this weekend, while attending the National Convention in Sturbridge that I decided to host this yera's event. Since that date, much time and energy has gone into making the convention a success. Hats off to all the volunteers, sponsors, advertisers and others who have made this convention a reality.
Please look through this program to familiarize yourself with all the activities being offered. We have a very full, tight schedule all weekend and we hope to keep things running along. If you ever have questions or need information, please see the people wearing the red ribbons on their name tag. You can also stop in the registration room which will also be our information and message center.
Again, I want to welcome you to the 1992 National SAAB Owners Convention and I hope you enjoy yourself!
Dan Orzano
Convention Chairman
Here is the official convention booklet available for download below.
Turbo! Enthusiasts Donate to Saab Film Project
Image Credit: Rob Lodes
A number of devoted Saab Enthusiasts on the long-time running Turbo! listserve have recently rallied support for donations to the 2nd phase of the much enjoyed Saab Film Project. Their donations now ensure the quick turn-around of both the 1999 and 2000 Saab Master Technician films as well as a little extra for future film conversions that may come down the road in the near future.
An enthusiastic thank you goes to the members that continue to enjoy the idea of "saving" more films from that may end up otherwise disappearing into the ether.
Saab's Motorsport Manager on Saab Motorsport Today
Saab Automobile AB's very own Björn Berglöf, Manager Saab Motorsport, has recently provided Saab history an exclusive historical account of his background in motorsport with Saab Automobile.
We are very priveledged to receive this information and a tremendous thank you goes to Mr. Berglöf for sharing this information to the Saab community here on Saab History. As they say in Sweden, Tack Så Mycket! (Thank you Very Much!)
Please enjoy his writeup in his own words below:
To start with myself, I entered Saab in 1964, when we still had the two-stroke Saab 96 and 95 in production. The development work of Saab 99 had just started and I was a part of the Interior Design Team, responsible for seat belts, mirrors, front seats etc.
In 1971 I became the supervisor of the department, responsible for the complete interior design work. The department was later on divided in groups and I was the group leader for seat belts, air bag and instrument panel.
After a short stay on the purchasing department, I went back, in 1985, to the technical department to start up the Accessories Development and some years later was Saab Special Vehicles included as well.
In 1994 we were contacted by Anders Norstedt who had won the Rally Cross European Championship, for three years, with the Saab 900 Classic. He wanted to build a new car based on the new Saab 900, for the highest division, with four wheel drive. We had an AWD-concept for Saab 9000 going on and found it interesting to test it on a race car. I got the job to my department! 🙂
Today Anders has a rally team, Team Motorsport (http://www.teammotorsport.net/) with a Saab 9-3 CC, participating in the Swedish Championship, on ethanol of course. We still support him!
In 1996 Erik Carlsson asked Per Eklund if he was interested to change over from Subaru to Saab in rally cross, and come back to the family. I was asked to investigate the possibility with Per and one year later we had the car finished and he won the Swedish Championship the same year. In 1999 he also won the European Championship. As a bonus for that, we promised him to support a start in Pikes Peak and a hectic job started to build a complete new car for the race.
The car was built in Per's garage in Arvika with support from us. You have probably seen the film? In his first race 2000 he won his class, Pike Peak Open, in 11 min. and 22 sec, witch still is the record. The car was rebuilt for the Unlimited Class and 2002 he won that class as well.
Today Per is participating in the Swedish and European Championships with a Saab 9-3 Aero SportSedan (http://home.ict.nl/~mikjager/). We still support him!
We also support a rally team, Green Rally (http://www.greenrally.nu/). In 2003 they were the first racing team, in the world, running on ethanol. As we worked with the BioPower concept at that time, it was interesting for us to support the team and show the potential of the fuel.
They have been very successful and won the Swedish Super Cup in 2005. The first victory with an ethanol car.
In track racing we support two teams.
Swede Team Motor (http://www.swedeteammotor.com/) participates in endurance racing with a Saab 9-3 TiD. They introduced diesel cars on the track in 2003 and had the first diesel car on the podium ever. This year the team won their class and were on the third place totally in tough fights with Porsche, BMW and other high performance cars. With a diesel engine!
Swede Team Motor also participates in Historic Racing with a Saab 96. In 2003 they won the Historic 1000cc-Cup in Sweden
Anders Weglin Racing (http://www.awr.nu/) runs the Nordic Super Car in a Saab 9-3 SportSedan BioPower. It is a high performance car in a very tough competition with Viper, Porsche and Ferrari. They won the last race of the season and will use the winter to reduce the weight of the car, with more carbon fibre parts. So perhaps next year!
The support the teams get is in form of technical know how, standard parts and racing parts produced in our prototype shop.
Björn Berglöf
Manager Motor Sport
Saab Automobile AB
You Voted and the Classic Saab 900 Wins!
Photo Credit: Saab Automobile
You voted back on October 18th about what you thought a "real" Saab was, and the results were interesting.
So here is the question, WHY did you choose the way you did and what do you think about the results in the order in which the 60 votes came in?
Please post your comments below as I would like to see what you really think about that favorite Saab you voted for that you believed was the best representation of a Saab.
Chicago Sun Times on Peter Gilbert's Million Mile SPG
Photo Credit: Peter Gilbert
The story continues for Peter Gilbert who donated his million mile 1989 Saab 900 SPG to the Hartford Auto Museum in Hartford. Wisconsin lately.
The Chicago Sun Times have written a nice piece on what it takes to push your car to this monumental milestone.
Here is an excerpt of this story:
Gilbert's million-mile car, a 1989 Saab 900 SPG, is now in the Wisconsin Automotive Museum. But he said washing it twice a week by hand was crucial to keeping it going. "Seventeen winters in Wisconsin is brutal," said Gilbert, who has become a celebrity among Saab devotees, making appearances at auto shows and Saab conventions. He got a brand-new Saab from the company free, and a video on YouTube shows the odometer turning from 999,999 back to zero.'
Immitation is The Sincerest Form of Flattery
I was casually browsing the Saab media archives today until I came across a section titled "videos" which this site was founded on and noticed some very "interesting" similiarities.
I have gone ahead and contacted the necessary folks in order to see where they got their "ideas" from, so we'll see what happens from here. In the meantime, I have provided a nice little comparison sheet just so you know what I am referring to.
Design Anomaly or just a coincidence? It is up to you to decide.
Forbes Auto Reviews the 2008 Saab 9-3 Convertible
Forbes Auto has recently written an outstanding review on the 2008 Saab 9-3 Convertible titled "Fair and Foul-Weather Friend" that illustrates the capabilities that we have come to expect from Saab Automobile.
This is a great read, so please check it out here.
"The convertible comes with a particularly well-finished fabric top that provides ample protection from the elements, as you might expect from a country that endures severe winters."
This statement is true and reminds me of a great television ad done by the former advertising agency, Angotti, Thomas & Hedge Advertising agency that depicted a 1994 Saab Commemorative edition 900 convertible illustrating that the convertible has always been designed as a well-equipped "all season car".


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Q: How to set hidden fields in redux form in react native? How to set hidden fields in redux form in react native ?
i jsut cannot find any way on how to do that . any help?

A: I have faced the same issue.
What I do is to declare a Field like this and set the height to 0.
It is a little bit hacky but it works in my case.
<Field
    component={TextInput}
    name="departure_city_name"
    type="hidden"
    style={{ height: 0 }}
/>

And I change the value like this : this.props.change("departure_city_name", cityData.name);
Hope it helps.

A: you don't need to dispatch any action just perform this change whenever you need a hidden field in redux form.
this.props.change('Field_name', value)

A: Technically you don't need to create a type=hidden field because you can call the change function for the 'hidden' field you want to change if the field doesn't exist Redux-form will add it to your form state like an actual field
MyForm = reduxForm({
  form: 'myForm'
})(MyForm)

MyForm = connect(
  state => ({
    initialValues: { areYouOk: 'no' }
  })
)(MyForm)

export default MyForm

Whether you've set up initial values or not you'll always be able to call the change function with your new hidden value and it'll work anyway
  let MyForm = ({ submitHandler, change }) => {
    return (
      <form onSubmit={submitHandler}>
        <button
         onClick={() => {
           change('areYouOk', 'yes');
         }}
         label={'Yes'}
        />
      </form>
    );
  }

A: i ended using this :
this.props.dispatch(change("FORM_NAME","FIELD_NAME","VALUE"))

after this code runs, the form will create the field if it does not exists

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Local councillor backtracks over legal action against journalist
Posted byNeil Wilby January 22, 2023 January 26, 2023 Posted inOldham MBCTags:Beth Sharp, Bethany Sharp, Dave Arnott, John Hudson, Lewis Quigg, Max Woodvine, Neil Wilby, Neil Wilby Journalist, Neil Wilby Media, Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, Raja Miah, Robert Barnes, Saddleworth, Tameside
Following an article published by Neil Wilby Media on 11th January, 2023, headlined 'They are not proper Tories' (read in full here), a request was received from a controversial local councillor who claimed that those words had been mistakenly ascribed to him.
Cllr Max Woodvine (pictured above), who represents the Saddleworth South ward on Oldham Council, said he had proof that it was his mentor, former Mayor and Leader of the Borough's Conservative Party, John Hudson, who had first said those words about four fellow councillors, whom are known collectively as the Oldham Conservatives: Cllrs Dave Arnott, Robert Barnes, Lewis Quigg and Bethany Sharp.
Asked to provide 'the proof' to which he referred, he has repeatedly declined.
The subject article had made clear that there were two respected and reliable sources who had heard Cllr Woodvine also say those words. Which, in any event, neither he, in lengthy email exchanges, nor any other Saddleworth Conservative Party councillor denies are true.
Indeed, commenting in June, 2022 on the indelible links between the Oldham Conservatives and a grotesque smear campaign orchestrated by infamous, Tameside-based conspiracy theorist, Raja Miah (read more here), Cllr Woodvine said, publicly, without even a minute trace of self-awareness:
"It makes me feel ashamed really. As Conservatives we need to display exemplary standards expected of us by the people who put us where we are and make us councillors."
After being refused both an apology and his demands for the removal of the subject article, Cllr Woodvine said, in unequivocal terms, that he was going to take legal action against its author.
Asked politely, since, to provide details of the law firm and the solicitor who has taken instructions on what would be a grave and expensive undertaking, he has declined. Instead, claiming that his legal adviser has told Max 'you should not waste your time with unimportant people'.
To which, Neil Wilby, whom freely and unreservedly admits to being 'unimportant', says:
"Max Woodvine's perpetual arrogance and stupidity is already well rehearsed in the local, regional and national press. As a laughing stock amongst local councillors in the UK he has few, if any, peers.
"He is also despised in the Oldham Council chamber for his routinely obnoxious conduct, particularly his stream of invective directed towards Labour Members. Including another assertion entirely lacking in self-awareness that 'all Labour seem to do his lie'.
"His approach to facts, evidence and the truth could, most charitably, be described as bizarre. For that reason, his claim of talking to a lawyer about a defamation claim is, very probably, another of his youthful fantasies.
"These traits may well contribute to his difficulties holding down a job for more than a few months. As will the resort to vacuous and puerile abuse in his last three emails to me. Resonating with describing a local resident as 'a nutter' for simply asking if Cllr Woodvine spoke for himself, or the Conservative Party, over his Facebook claim that, at the height of the pandemic, 'Covid was nothing to be scared of'. To date, over 183,000 have died after contracting the virus. Millions, including myself, suffer from its after-effects.
"Nothing Neil Wilby Media could say would add to that unfortunate, shameful catalogue of failings. Any court claim that asserts his reputation has reached the legal threshold of being 'seriously damaged', by saying four fellow councillors 'are not proper Tories', would be expensive, wholly misconceived, doomed to fail and accompanied by a hefty adverse costs order".
"No self-respecting lawyer, instructed on all the relevant facts, would advise otherwise".
Cllr Woodvine was offered right of reply. He did not acknowledge or respond substantively to the email.
His current employer, the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, has also been approached for comment.
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Following an article published by Neil Wilby Media on 11th January, 2023 headlined 'They are not proper Tories' a request was received from a controversial local councillor who claimed that those words had been mistakenly ascribed to him.
Cllr Max Woodvine, a greenhorn who represents Saddleworth South on Oldham Council, said he had proof that it was his mentor, former Mayor and Leader of the Borough's Conservative Party, John Hudson, who had said those words.
Asked to provide 'the proof' to which he referred
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Having attended almost every movie festival and film awards event this year, Ghana's rising film star, Abraham Attah was on Friday hosted by the country's Vice President, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur.
The 15-year-old actor last Saturday won the Best Male Lead Actor at the Independent Spirit Awards for his role as Agu, a child soldier in Beasts of No Nation.
The Cary Fukunaga war film about a young boy who survives a civil war by becoming a child soldier, is the first on-screen role for Attah.
Returning home from presenting an award at the 2016 Oscars, Abraham met with Ghana's Vice President at the Flagstaff House where he was congratulated for his achievement.
"We congratulate you for what you have done. You have become one of Ghana's ambassadors, not a paid one," said the Vice President.
"You know sometimes you go out in the world and they ask you where you come from and you say you come from Ghana and the Americans will say Kwame Nkrumah and you say yes. Now these days somebody will go out and they'll say is that the country of Abraham Attah?" Amissah-Arthur added.
There has been a raging debate lately among social media users in Ghana about Abraham Attah's future as an actor with some suggesting he relocates to the United States.
But the Ghanaian Vice President thinks otherwise. He believes what is crucial for the budding actor is to focus on his education whiles nurturing his talent.
"The best way of nurturing the natural talent is to continue with education. You have to go to school, you have to complete it. You have to learn as much as you can because once you get that no one can take that away from you and you're also able then to do even better than what you have done," Mr. Amissah-Arthur said.
The Vice President presented a laptop to the young actor, a tool he hopes will help him with his academic work.
Abraham Attah, who has become a household name in entertainment circles clinched his first award, the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for his role in Beasts of No Nation. Early this year, he also won the Rising Star Award from the Black Film Critics Circle.
His co-actor Idriss Elba who also won Best Supporting Actor at the Independent Spirit Awards last weekend made history by winning two Golden Globe awards in January this year – becoming the first man to have bagged two Golden Globes on one night.


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Guantanamo Is A Blot On The Glorious Face Of America
By Saeed Qureshi
In his press conference on April 30 president Obama reaffirmed his resolve to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by repatriating the left over detainees to their respective countries or to other destinations.
The president's press conference was in response to the grave situation propped up following the hunger strike by 100 detainees out of 166 since February this year to protest against their several years in detention without trial or charge.
The Guantanamo camp was opened by President George W. Bush, to hold foreign terrorism suspects captured overseas after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. The maximum number of detainees at the facility brought from various countries has been 779.
These wretched individuals were picked up at random from various destinations around the world without any foolproof system to establish if they had any connection with terrorism. They have been languishing in this camp under most horrifying conditions without any proper trial or review of their cases for years.
The forced feeding of detainees now on hunger strike has generated concerns from international human right organizations including the Amnesty International. While welcoming president Obama's latest initiative to close the prison camp, these groups have urged him to take action on his own if the Congress still does not support him in moving ahead on this extremely distasteful denial of justice to the inmates or freeing them.
The president who appeared genuinely distressed by the agonizing situation pointed out that the "situation at Guantanamo was not sustainable and the he did not want these people to die". "The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are," ---it is contrary to our interests, and it needs to stop.", he emphatically observed.
Obama asserted that he would examine every option available to close the camp, including actions he can take independently of Congress, which could be using his executive powers to get out of this quagmire.
During his first term president Obama transferred many prisoners from Guantanamo to other countries. He also tried in 2008 to repatriate the remaining detainees to maximum security facilities in the United States. Buy his initiative to move the inmates from the Bay to the mainland, was blocked by the lawmakers, mostly Republican.
He announced to appoint a senior diplomat for handling the onerous task of closing the notorious prison camp at Guantanamo bay overlooking Cuba. Expressing his determination to cut this vexatious guardian knot he intends to persuade Congress to "end restrictions that have prevented him from closing the facility".
The white house press secretary Jay Carney told reporters during a briefing that apart from undertaking the main task of repatriation, the "Obama administration also wants to speed up a process for reviewing the cases of the detainees".
It would be a feather in the cap of president Obama and his administration if they close the dreaded Guantanamo concentration prison as soon as possible. The closure would be an overdue step but in such situation it is never too late to right a wrong. Since these unfortunate inmates have been denied the due process of law in order to establish their culpability or otherwise, their incarceration without any cogent reasons, does not seem to be justified.
Guantanamo is like a moral milestone around the neck of America, a country reputed to be an abode of galore of human rights, liberties and dignity for human beings. Its justice system is a marvel and a praiseworthy model for the rest of the world. The denial or disinclination to apply this immaculate justice system to the Guantanamo suspects is tantamount to smearing our civil society and sidetracking the constitution. The dispensation of justice and application of laws ought not to be selective by categorizing the suspects on the basis of unproven charges.
The Congress consists of noble, conscientious, prudent and pragmatic members. If they do not join president Obama to close this notorious prison, then they are treading a wrong path for the reasons beyond the comprehension of the judicious Americans and the world beyond. Why the Republicans are so touchy and even impervious to take up this thorny issue and resolve it once and for all. Keeping these condemned prisoners in captivity, for no reasons because "we must do it because we want it as such" is a blatant travesty of justice.
Why should we look at the miserable plight of these prisoners with callous indifference as if they are not human being but mere cattle? So much so that they were left with no option but to go on hunger strike unto to death. Sadly the law makers, the legal minds and the administration have been apathetic to a group of individuals who deserve a due process of law to be adjudged innocent or guilty.
This is not the medieval age that one would be left to rot and die in the dark and dingy dungeons of jail. Nor are we Nazis that we should watch them going through an incessant process of torture, indignity and inhuman conditions.
Let me finish this write-up by projecting the reaction of the American press to the Guantanamo impasse. On the whole one may have a feel that the press seems to be in favor of untangling the deadlock that has been hanging fire for over a decade now. I shall reproduce two excerpts from the New York Times and the Washington Post: the two outstanding and cherished dailies in the United States.
The New York Times in its editorial made the following observation on Guantanamo.
"It mocks American standards of justice by keeping people imprisoned without charges. It has actually hindered the imprisonment of dangerous terrorists. Even if Guantánamo seemed justified to some people in the immediate aftermath of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, those justifications are wearing thin. It is unsustainable and should be closed".
The Washington Times' editorial assesses the Guantanamo deadlock in the following comment.
"The Pentagon has failed to set up a promised new system for reviewing the cases of prisoners that Mr. Obama ordered established more than a year ago, which means that Guantánamo inmates are receiving less review of their cases than they did during the Bush administration. It's little wonder that many have grown desperate enough to try starving themselves to death."


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Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rodgers: Who will win NFL MVP?
NFL Kansas City
by: Jessica Eley, WDAF
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Patrick Mahomes is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. It's been this way three seasons.
Mahomes won the league's Most Valuable Player award his first year starting for the Kansas City Chiefs. He's in the running for his second NFL MVP award.
But after Green Bay's dominant performance against the Chicago Bears, in which Aaron Rodgers sliced through the Bears defense, many say Rodgers is the clear MVP frontrunner.
According to FanDuel Sportsbook, Rodgers is the odds on favorite, followed by Buffalo Bills quarterback, Josh Allen and Mahomes.
Chiefs offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz believes the reigning Super Bowl MVP should still be in heavy contention.
I like how the MVP debate is like "well if Rodgers wins today he'll probably win it." Shouldn't our guy get credit for winning so much he doesn't have to play today?? #MVPat
— Mitchell Schwartz (@MitchSchwartz71) January 3, 2021
Schwartz tweeted on Sunday, "I like how the MVP debate is like 'well if Rodgers wins today, he'll probably win it.' Shouldn't our guy get credit for winning so much he doesn't have to play today?"
Chiefs wide receiver, Mecole Hardman echoed Schwartz's statement in December. Even saying, the MVP award should be named after Mahomes.
Mahomes threw for 4,740 yards, 38 touchdowns and six interceptions. Rodgers had 4, 285 passing yards, and an NFL-leading 48 touchdowns. Josh Allen had 4,544 passing yard and 37 touchdowns.
It may not be a bad thing for Mahomes to not win the award. Regular season MVP hasn't won the Super Bowl since 1999.
More NFL Kansas City Stories
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)Patrick Mahomes had enough wits about him after a concussion knocked the star quarterback from the Kansas City Chiefs' divisional-round playoff win over the Cleveland Browns to get a rather clever hashtag trending on Twitter.
''HenneThingIsPossible,'' it read.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)The Kansas City Chiefs had lost Patrick Mahomes to a concussion and were in danger of losing the game.
Then their defense and Chad Henne - their defense and Chad Henne?! - along with a gutsy call by Andy Reid kept their hopes of a Super Bowl repeat alive, holding off the Cleveland Browns 22-17 on Sunday to advance to their third straight AFC championship game.
by Chris Searcy, WDAF / Jan 17, 2021
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) -- One of the greatest traditions in the NFL is the fly over.
FOX4 caught up with Major Nolan Brock, a B-2 Spirit pilot before he climbed into the cockpit to fly over Arrowhead Stadium.
Mahomes knocked out of game with concussion
Clouds roll in to start the week
Chiefs injury report: Clyde Edwards-Helaire out for playoff game against Browns
Slightly warmer and breezy conditions to finish up the weekend


In the Summer of 2015, I was training for my first half marathon. It was the healthiest I had been since my soccer playing days growing up. I was running about 15 miles a week and I was hungry all the time! I was eating every 2-3 hours, so I had to start coming up with healthier meal choices in order to be able to eat that often. For breakfast, typically was either a yogurt with granola and fresh fruit or a protein smoothie. Both of which are very delicious but I wanted to add a little variety. I love scones and donuts and bagels. Once in awhile they are ok but it was not fitting into my training plan.
I decided that I would come up with a healthier version of one of those. I picked scones. I was already eating Greek Yogurt and berries daily, so why not add them into the scone batter. I came up with this recipe, using mostly what I already had on hand. The only special buy was the Whole Wheat Flour. To me, I can't really taste a difference, and don't mind using it for all of my baking now (which isn't a lot). Besides the brown sugar, because you have to have some sort of sweetness, this was a healthier version of a treat that I loved and now could have.
Mix all the dry ingredients together in a both.
In a small pot on the stove, heat up the coconut oil (or butter). It doesn't have to melt entirely, just softened will work also.
In a separate bowl, mix the softened coconut oil with the Greek Yogurt, vanilla, and egg white.
Incorporate the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. It should be sort of a crumbly texture.
Fold the frozen blueberries into the mixture.
Knead the mixture in the bowl until combined.
Place the mixture in the center of your baking sheet. Evenly press and mold it into a square shape.
This looks so good!!!!! weird I dont remember you MAKING THESE FOR ME! make em!!!


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Bail Heatley's athletic success has been almost forgotten by many people but, few British distance men could claim the type of success that he had, over a space of 15 years or so.
Basil was born 21/12/33 and lived to 3/8/19. He was a self-coached athlete, who won the National cross country senior championships in 1960, 61 and '63 and the International (Fore runner of the World cross. He won that from 1964 Olympic steeplechase Champion, Gaston Roelants & Martin Hyman) in 1961, the year he ran to a World 10 mile track record of 47:47.0 at Hurlingham. He achieved a World Marathon Best of 2:13.55 in the Windsor to Chiswick Poly Marathon on the 13th of June 1964; and a silver medal in the Tokyo Olympic Games on the 21st of October 1964. First Six- 1 Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia) 2:12.11.2(WB); 2 Bail Heatley 2:16.19.2; 3 Kokichi Tsuburaya (Japan) 2:16.22.8; 4 Brian Kilby the 1962 Commonwealth & European Champion (GB) 2:17.02; 5 Jozef Sutoe (Hungary) 2:17.55.8; 6 Leonard Buddy Edelen (USA) 2:18.12.4.
It was on the 9th of December 1961 Bail Heatley got marred to his wife Gill. In that Olympic year of 1964 Gill had twins to go with a young daughter they already had and, before one more daughter to make it four so, often Bas had broken nights of sleep as they needed attention. However, Basil followed his normal training pattern of 100 to 125 miles a week which included intervals. It was amazing to think his shoes then had crape soles.They were Tiger Cubs, which he wore for road racing. Crape and very thin rubber soles and, canvas sides to them but, at least they were nice and light but did not compare with the modern running shoes and, looking further back when he finished his National service, he came out with several pairs of Army plimsolls to run in which, these days runners would baulk at, if they were asked to run across the street in them! He got the cobblers to customise some other shoes so he could wear for training in.
Basil stressed "At home before the Olympics I did have broken sleep with three of four daughters born and absolutely no mod cons. It was very difficult for both of us"
There is so much one can say about Bas but at least his account of the Olympic marathon that he obtained a silver in is one thing that should definitely not be left out.
The Tokyo Olympic marathon came on the 21st of October 1964 "It was very humid so none of us warmed up much. I fully believed Brian (Kilby also Coventry Godiva) would be there about's at the finish. His pedigree said nobody would run away from him. He was perspiring before the start and I had a stitch so, I had to start quite slow'
'When we made the turn I was already 2½ minutes behind Bikila (At the 25000m point the order was 1 Bikila 1:16.40; Jim Hogan (The European Champion of 1966) 1:16.50; Ron Clarke 1:18.02; Tsuburaya, Joszef Sutoe; Mamo Wolde 1:18.44; kenji Kimihara 1:19.21; Billy Mills 1:19.25; Brian Kilby & Basil Heatley 1:19.35)
Basil continues 'We made the turn and, Brian was running with me. I was quite despondent and then, we were either overtaking jogging runners or one's' who were sitting by the roadside at 18 miles. If you are sitting by the road side at 18 miles somehow, you have got it wrong. Ron Clarke, of course, could be excused as he was more of a novice at the marathon than I was at the event. Brian and I were gradually pulling everybody back. There was a Japanese & Hungarian vest ahead of us. I knew Sutoe, as he was a good 10k runner but I knew he was not better than me at the distance. I focused on those two which took me away from Brian and I could see the worst scenario unfolding, with Japan have looked at the only medal they would gain on home soil and, I was looking like I was going to catch their only medal hope of the Games. I caught Tsuburaya in the stadium near the finish. Coming through in the marathon like that works for you or it doesn't and it was a help to have the experience of training and racing for fifteen years."
'I never call myself a marathon runner' that was what Basil Heatley said to me, even though he had achieved an Olympic silver medal. 'I felt really at home doing cross-country rather than the road or track I was temperamentally suited more to being a Winter runner than a Summer racer, I think had there been half marathon races in existence when I was running well, that would have been my best road distance.'
Again having said that, I would like to point out about some of his races he did on the track. He won the Midland 3 miles in 13:45.6, 6 miles in 28:16.4 and the 10 miles in 50:30.8. That was a hat trick in 1961, He ran in international matches, even over 5k, and in London in 1963 he ran 28:55.8 on cinders, winning a 10k at the White City with Mel Batty second. That meant that he was the fifth fastest in the World that year! He was 2nd to Brian Kilby (2:16.45) in 2:19.56 in the AAA's marathon Championships. When he broke the World record with 2:13.55 in 1964, he did not believe it till he read about it in the paper the next day. Ron Hill was 2nd in that in 2:14.12 and, of course, went on in 1970 to set things alight with a 2:9.28 marathon in the Commonwealth in Edinburgh.
Basil remembers finishing behind the brilliant cross-country runner Frank Sando, Alain Mimoun and Ken Norris but he matured and became just as great a runner. To begin with he did love seeing Gordon Pirie and Jim Peters in the famous London to Brighton road relay and locally Jack Holden.
There were injuries that he suffered, particularly with his Achilles tendon in 1962 and like all athletes in their careers injuries come and that, would explain why he did not always manage to keep his high standard up at top level but his sum total of good results was, without doubt, exceptional.
He recalls his start in 1950 when he joined Coventry Godiva club. It was after running in a novices race which he won that they spotted his talent very quickly and singed him up.
He pointed out that when he was running well Coventry Godiva had 4 runners who could average 2:15 for the marathon which, at the time, would beat a combined team from the rest of the World!"
PS I was at the 1963 National Bas won, in the mud at t Coldhams Common, Cambridge and I want to show How really the Best distance runners in the UK all turned up for the race. All 8 were familiar names. 1. Bas Heatley (50:25); , 2 Roy Fowler(50:35); Eddie Strong (50:44); 4Tim Briault; (50:56) 5 Tim Johnston (51:03); 6 Brian Craig (51.22) 7 Mike Bullivant (51:28); 8 Mike Turner (51:32); 9 Alan Simpson; 10 Don Taylor; 11 Juan Taylor; 12 Gerry North; 13Mike Price; 14 Mel Batty; 15 Ron Hill; 16 John Hillen; 16 Brian Kilby; 18 Maurice Herriott; 19 Harry Clayton.
Something else worth noting that Brian Kilby told me he was in a car accident, not very many days before the Olympic Games marathon in Tokyo and it was only on the day before he came 4th that a bit of glass was taken out of his eye. He was another 'Great Coventry Godiva runner, who won the 1962 European & Commonwealth marathon.


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Following Fortune (part 1)
In the darkest grove of a forest where no light ever shines, the air is always chill, even in August, and no path of root or rock or footfall is ever straight, there is a winding tree. They call it a winding tree, those that say they've seen it, because it's turned like the twist of a rope, spiraling upward like a snake charmer's trick, toward a blackened sky. But the tree isn't the thing that interests little Lyn Fuller. Lyn wants to know where the staircase leads.
Some years ago, her older brother went on a lark in the woods with still older friends, more of a dare than a lark, and he'd told her that night what he didn't tell any of the boys. He'd said that tearing the moss from the base of the tree, a trophy to prove his manhood, he'd found a latch. He'd scratched and torn and scraped his hands pulling up piles of green and grey until the latch was a door, the door was opened on a narrow hinge, and below the door were dimly glowing stairs of ochre and crimson leading too far down to see, and bounded on either side by rails of the same mixed colors. He'd sent his lucky stone down the steps, the one he never left home without, and it popped and skipped until the echoes drowned it in the subterranean distance. He didn't say, but he didn't have to, that he thought he didn't have the courage to go down after his charm.
She didn't believe him until he turned his pockets inside out, and even then she crept into his room that night and checked under his pillow when he slept. The stone would be there, keeping him safe from monsters, if he'd had it at all. Or maybe that's what growing up meant, you cast your luck down a well of steps, taken all at once, and stopped believing that the dark at the end of them was anything other than absence of light. But boys always faked growing up faster than girls. Boys called themselves "men" as soon as their middle school coaches used that word, and girls kept saying "girls" sometimes all their lives, always half in and half out of childhood. Or so she guessed. Her aunts still said things like "just us girls" and "girls night out" and "dear man, let the girls talk".
When David went missing he had just stopped letting people call him Davey, and Lyn told herself for a long time that he wouldn't have gone back to those stairs. He said it was difficult to even find the grove, and all the trees wound worse than Hawthorns, making it hard to know which was which, and probably no one would ever see those stairs again, because he'd shut the door, covered it again with patches of the moss, and it would likely grow over again in a week, as thick and wet as that place was. For a long time Lyn was scared to try, because that would mean he really had gone back there, and that would mean he might be dead, since he never came back, and that would mean she might die too. It was more than a long time, it was years.
But now she was older, old enough to stop counting her age in halves, and she was sure he had gone back to the grove. Something had drawn him. She didn't know it with her head, she knew with her feelings and the prickings of memory, and she knew it in dreams, and she knew it because David had *seemed* drawn, the way your soul was drawn out of you and held somewhere you couldn't find your way back to – the way she'd learned happens with real zombies, in a book on voodoo that she wasn't allowed to read but had, because she'd fallen asleep in the library stacks one night and had the place to herself after hours.
Her mom had punished her harshly for that. She'd been too rough and temperamental ever since Dad left, and Dad had left precisely because he couldn't live with the memory of his only man-child, lost and never found, and stay in a town where his power to do anything about it was thwarted by too much misery and mystery. It seemed like men couldn't stay or they couldn't stay men in the way they needed to if they couldn't find the answers to certain questions.
She didn't know why she never told them to look for the grove. She had only now come to such a sure conclusion about what had happened to her big brother, and only in the way you were sure you liked a boy or didn't like some green vegetable you hadn't tried. You knew with your soul, and she knew she still had one, but David's was still out there somewhere, even if his body had fallen lifelessly away from it.
More importantly, she knew because of the stone. He would have wished for that stone, especially when he was having trouble competing in sports, when he'd watched his friends beat him out for places on the team, and when finally he stopped leaving his bedroom most of the time and didn't even try to talk to girls. She knew, because of the way his voice was all wet, even if his face was dry, when he called her "little sis" instead of Lyn, long after he was pretending not to care about her anymore.
She knew because she had found the grove, and was standing under the blasphemous trunk of that gnarled, ancient tree, and the base was surrounded by such a plantation of moss that it was as if the forest were hiding something.
She knew because she had torn at the moss until her fingers bled, and she held the latch in her hand, and it was right where David had said it would be. Or rather, where he'd said it was, because he had made her promise to never go looking, on her life – pinky swear and hope to die, and pretty pink stuffed kitten with her if she ever went searching for the place. But she had searched, for a week she had searched, and maybe it was true that she was damned for breaking a promise like that, but her kitten, Foxy, had long since been donated to those less fortunate, even though she now felt no one was less fortunate than her or David or her Dad, or even her Mom, tough as she had been the past few years.
Lyn begins to mentally trace the outline of the door. Her brother had been so relieved to tell someone the very night he'd made her swear never to go and never to repeat, that he had actually cried a little, putting his head in her hands and shaking, until he rose with a blank face and shoved her and said not to believe everything she hears. She was certain he hadn't lied to her then and certain he wouldn't make up a thing like the size and shape of the door, since everything else proved to be true.
Foresight was her special gift, even if she did fall asleep in libraries, but it was a fickle gift. She'd brought a box knife and a flash light, but not a shovel, and so it was slow going and painful. The most important thing she learned about the grove was the complete absence of any sound. Light fled and echoes slept. Only the ground seemed capable of life there, where even the air was like a morgue at night. Not that she'd ever been to a morgue, or needed to be. The funeral was held with an empty casket. If her brother was anywhere, he was down a red stair case reaching for his luck in the dark in the ground, and nothing could be colder than her regret for not showing up sooner.
* verb tense inconsistencies intended (or so we'd have you believe)


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Q: axis wsdl generation I'm using Axis to model a sample WebService. What I'm doing now is trying to understand which are the limitations of the automated wsdl and code generation.
Now for some server side code:
this is the skeleton of the sample web service:
public class TestWebService {
  public AbstractAttribute[] testCall( AbstractAttribute someAttribute ) {
    ....

and my data classes:
    public abstract class AbstractAttribute {
      String name;
  /*get/set for name*/
  public abstract T getValue();
  public abstract void setValue(T value);
}

public class IntAttribute extends AbstractAttribute<Integer> {
  Integer value;
  public Integer getValue(){ return value; }
  public void setValue(Integer value){ this.value = value; }
}

public class StringAttribute extends AbstractAttribute<String> {
  String value;
  /* ok, you got the point, get/set for value field */
}

The eclipse tool for Axis2 is quite happy to generate a wsdl from these sources, including the schema for the attribute classes, which is:
<xs:complexType name="AbstractAttribute">
    <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="name" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="value" nillable="true" type="xs:anyType"/>
    </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="IntAttribute">
    <xs:complexContent>
        <xs:extension base="xsd:AbstractAttribute">
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="value" nillable="true" type="xs:int"/>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:extension>
    </xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="StringAttribute">
    <xs:complexContent>
        <xs:extension base="xsd:AbstractAttribute">
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="value" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:extension>
    </xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>

now, if see something strange here, AbstractAttribute hasn't the ** abstract="true" ** attribute, and define an anyType value element, which get rewrite in IntAttribute and StirngAttribute. I don't even know if this is a legal schema (I don't think it's legal, by the way).
More, if I try to generate a client from this wsdl (always using the eclipse tools) the generated sources won't compile, because AbstractAttribute defines an
Object localValue;

field and Int/String Attribute defines
int localValue;

and
String localValue;

..I tried to "accomodate" the sources (without many hopes, obviously), and the results are that the server try to instantiate an AbstractAttribute instance (throwing an InstantiationException).
So my question is: there is a way to model something like the data model above, or web services and XML schemas' in general are not the best tools to use for this particular case?

A: To explain the problem you are encountering, it helps to think of what Axis needs to do when your service is called.
Axis is simply a java web-application...when it receives a request for a service, it will look up the mapping that you've defined for it.  If it finds a mapping, it tries to create an instance of the necessary classes you've defined to service the request.
If you've defined the classes as abstract or as interfaces then you'll get InstantiationExceptions since these types can't be created.  When Axis tried to create the wsdl, it won't be able to figure out what type to put so it will use "anyType."
To answer your question: you CAN use the the model you have above in your code, but you won't be able to use these classes with Axis.  What we have typically done in our projects is:

*

*Define the classes we need, as we would in a typical Object-Oriented application

*Define "transport-only" classes that are used for web services.  These classes are composed of simple types and can be easily created.  They are only used for exchanging web-service messages.  We use these classes with Axis.

*Find some way for these two types of classes to easily share/exchange information.  You can have interfaces that are shared by both (but Axis doesn't know about) or even use BeanUtils.copyProperites to keep two different objects in sync.

Hope that answers your question.