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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
Posted on May 24, 2015 by thisrightbrain
What is it that can make half a century pass in the blink of an eye? That's how long it has been since I was a small boy who, some months after my mother's death, awoke with a fright in the night. I don't remember why, must have been a nightmare.
But in the rustic Lake Sunapee cottage that my uncle and grandfather had built by hand, and with three young sons of her own to care for, my mom's sister was there by my bedside to rub my belly and to lull me with one of life's more disarming nicknames, "Oh Pooh."
It was a remarkably calming moment at a topsy-turvy time. I had my dad, and my sisters and brothers, and my grandparents and cousins … and with her reassuringly rich Yankee accent I had my Auntie Peggy. I loved, and was loved, and have had the great fortune of feeling that way ever since.
Even here in my middle age it seemed she'd always be there – of course that's not how it works, which is why we observe Memorial Day – and when she passed away this week from complications after a fall, it took a while for the news to sink in.
Then I began to see her presence in others: the spry seamstress at the dry cleaners, my nimble ophthalmologist, the sprightly crossing guard …. and suddenly my spry, nimble, sprightly aunt, who didn't much like venturing over the Massachusetts border but could outpace her (one-time) All-State Athlete husband over every hill and dale in the Granite State, seemed to be everywhere. If only that were so.
Born in Claremont, on the New Hampshire ("New-Hamp-sha") side of the Connecticut River, Auntie ("Ahn-tee") Peggy went to school in Springfield on the Vermont side, and married her high school sweetheart, Bernie Dunbar, while both attended Keene State Teachers College.
After moving to the Capitol City of Concord they planned their lives around the school year and that Sunapee cottage (which had been their first home) became the Dunbar family's summer camp, a mere 45 minutes up I-89 and a short walk to my grandparents' place on the Georges Mills end of the lake.
Meanwhile, my dad had re-married (a truly wonderful woman) and as a construction engineer, moved the family to wherever the next project was, a fascinating lifestyle but one that lacked a permanent sense of place.
No matter, there was always Georges Mills whenever we could make it there, which meant fun with my cousins and grandparents and time to "visit" (as she called it) with my diminutive aunt, who my siblings referred to as Big Peggy – as opposed to my sister who was then known as Little Peggy – and who could make it seem like she had all the time in the world for you.
Ready to listen, quick to laugh and encourage, as I got older I came to admire her lack of pretention, and to recognize how firm she could be in her beliefs, which included a staunch loyalty to those she loved.
As is the way of life, there would come times of triumph and times of tragedy, and in grief we remained close. "Oh Pooh," she'd sigh.
But there were also times of adventure and sometimes we'd manage to meet up in places like Athens and London, where with an inquisitive nature she'd want to tour every site. On the day we all visited Portobello Market, a movie crew was filming a scene. Years later, while watching a rather forgettable movie on the tellie ("Who Dares Wins") that very scene appeared and there she was! Strolling through one of the stalls in the background looking at tea pots.
Eventually I settled down myself – unsurprisingly, she knew my future wife before I did – and when it came time to meet Linda's parents it was Auntie Peggy who soothed my jitters by assuring me what fine people they were. Of course she was right.
When our kids arrived there were no finer role models than Peggy and Bernie Dunbar, who'd been known as the "cool" parents, spending lots of time with their boys and getting to know each of their friends.
And even when their boys had grown and the grandkids began to call, the door still remained open for this moony old nephew to make his way north for an occasional hug and an all-too-rare but highly treasured visit. For that I am forever grateful.
This universally admired song was written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings in 1991, after the tragic loss of Clapton's four-year-old son, who fell from the window of a 53rd floor apartment in New York. Clapton went on to receive six Grammy Awards for it and this, his "unplugged" version reached number one the Billboard charts.
But along with "My Father's Eyes," Clapton stopped playing it in 2004. "I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs," he said. "I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them. They're kind of gone and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is different now."
That's good for Eric Clapton, and thankfully this recording remains. Even the most skeptical among us have their own idea of Heaven and if by some miracle I ever make it to mine you can be sure that I'll be listening for a much cherished nickname, spoken with a rich and vibrant Yankee accent.
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Would you know my name
If I saw you in Heaven?
Would it be the same
I must be strong and carry on
'Cause I know I don't belong here in Heaven
Would you hold my hand
Would you help me stand
I'll find my way through night and day
'Cause I know I just can't stay here in Heaven
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees
Time can break your heart, have you begging please, begging please
Beyond the door there's peace I'm sure
And I know there'll be no more tears in Heaven
Cause I know I don't belong here in Heaven
Flowers in the morn, freshly born – come let's drift together
Rivaled only by when she said "I do," life has offered no finer moments to me than bearing witness while my dear wife first experienced motherhood, and then experienced it again. And such different times they were.
The first was on a fine April morning in 1991, when as Canadian residents we enjoyed the benefits of OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) along with – as we would come to realize – some rather liberal birthing amenities.
Amongst the information provided by Toronto's Women's College Hospital was a list of 'Things to Bring' for the ordeal. And we followed it closely, including: a cooler with some beer to "encourage lactation," sandwiches for the expectant dad in case it was a long wait, and a nice bottle of champagne to celebrate the occasion.
Also recommended were extra pillows, a telephone to be plugged in so that we could share the news from the birthing room, a deck of playing cards in case "labour was extended" (and how!) and a portable radio/cassette player to listen to our favourite music during the birth.
Nineteen hours – and countless walks around the maternity ward – later, the baby was finally on its way, and although not quite as planned everything had come in handy, except for those cards because we were both too excited to concentrate on our game.
The beer, alas, had been consumed with the sandwiches by this attendant father prior to any hope of lactation, while the rotary phone we'd brought provided a means of casting a bet in the family pool regarding the child's birth date (which I still have yet to collect on); and the pillows did indeed provide comfort for us both.
At some point after midnight Linda elected for epidural pain relief and suddenly became a comedian. Meanwhile I'd been instructed to wear a mask and, providing much needed comedic fodder, nearly passed out from hyperventilation while encouraging her to breath/pant like we'd learned in Child Birth Class…
After regaining full consciousness I became aware of this piece being played over our radio/cassette player and am thrilled to affirm that I was fully present and clear-headed enough – at 01:22 on Wednesday 17 April – to witness the birth of Giles William Pettingell to the strands of The Flower Duet ... which here takes about seven seconds to cue…
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After Giles had been weighed, and his digits had all been counted, and after his grandparents had been informed by phone, Linda and I popped the champagne and toasted to family-hood, leaving the remainder of the bottle for the nurses whose shift was about the end.
Later I recall handing out $5 bills to every street person I encountered on my way home, and I only wish it were more. Although there were neonatal complications and mother and child wouldn't come home for nearly a week, our only out-of-pocket expense in the end was Giles' $6 ID necklace … ah the wonders of publicly funded health care.
Yes, but our daughter is a Bostonian and it was around midnight on a May Saturday night in 1993, once Giles had been scooped up by his grandparents, that Linda was admitted to Brigham and Women's Hospital. I don't recall which private medical plan we had back then (there've been many through the years) but it provided few of the amenities we'd enjoyed in Toronto. Nor were we encouraged to bring a cooler with beer, sandwiches, champagne, or a radio/cassette player.
Still, the Brigham and Women's birthing room had its own phone, and in the wee hours of a Sunday morning the maternity ward was an impressive place to be. After a quick and friendly admission we found ourselves on what looked like a circular delivery floor, with half a dozen birthing rooms and a nurse's station serving as the hub. Again it was thumbs up with the epidural and my hilarious wife, the comedian, was back again.
Nonetheless the comfy chair with a pullout footrest held a particular allure for me, considering the hour, and when Linda began to doze, I too nodded off. Awakened sometime later by the nurse during her periodic examination, I again fell asleep, only to be woken once more by an urgent appeal from my wife to get the doctor, because "the baby's on it's way!"
But the nurse, who now wasn't at her station, had said that it would still be a few hours. As I returned to remind Linda of that assessment I was stopped in my tracks by perhaps the most urgent expression I have ever encountered. My next words were, "Hey, my wife's having her baby!"
The nurse quickly appeared and began to assure me that she was only partially dilated … until I opened the door wide enough for her to see Linda's expression. Her next words were, "I'll get the doctor!"
The Doc may as well have been wearing a catcher's mitt when he arrived because – for the first time but certainly not the last – Mary Bartlett Pettingell had expressed her sincere desire and determination, and was born (on the dot ) at 08:30 on Sunday 23 May. Though there was no radio/cassette player this time, the strands of The Flower Duet once again wafted through my mind.
After Mary had been weighed, and her digits had been counted, and after the grandparents had been informed, Linda and I toasted with apple juice to family-hood. And mother and daughter came home the very next day.
Dôme épais de jamin (The Flower Duet) is a duet for sopranos from Léo Delibes' 1883 three-act opera, Lakmé. Written in the era of the British Raj, when Hindus were forced to practice their religion secretly, the high priest Nilkantha has gone to a Brahmin temple to perform his sacred rites, leaving his daughter, Lakmé and her servant, Mallika to go down to the river to gather flowers…
With musical performance by Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the duet is sung here by the great Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié.
And to every mother, and despite the poor translation, may you too have occasion today to drift 'neath the leafy dome, where the jasmine white, blends with the rose ….
Dôme épais de jamin / Flower Duet
LAKMÉ & MALLIKA:
Sous le dôme épais
Où le blanc jasmin
À la rose s'assemble
Sur la rive en fleurs,
Riant au matin
Viens, descendons ensemble.
Doucement glissons de son flot charmant
Suivons le courant fuyant
Dans l'onde frémissante
D'une main nonchalante
Viens, gagnons le bord,
Où la source dort et
L'oiseau, l'oiseau chante.
Où le blanc jasmin,
Nous appellent
Ah! descendons
'Neath the leafy dome,
Where the jasmine white
Blends with the rose,
Flowers in the morn, freshly born,
Come let's drift together!
Ah! Let's glide along,
Let us gently glide along;
For its enchanting flow,
The current so strong,
The water is shimmering.
Hand skims the surface nonchalantly
On the rippling surface.
Come, let's go to the shore
Where the bird sings,
Where the spring sleeps
'Neath the dome rowers unite,
'Neath the leafy dome, where the jasmine white,
Calls us together!
Ah! Let's drift together!
LAKMÉ:
Mais, je ne sais quelle crainte subite
s'empare de moi.
Quand mon père va seul à leur ville maudite,
Je tremble, je tremble d'effroi!
But, an eerie feeling of distress overcomes me
When my father goes into their accursed city
I tremble, I tremble with fright!
MALLIKA:
Pour que le Dieu Ganeça le protège,
Jusqu'à l'étang où s'ébattent joyeux
Les cygnes aux ailes de neige,
Allons cueillir les lotus bleus.
May the god, Ganesh, keep him from dangers,
Till he arrives at the joyous pool just in view,
Where with wings of snow the swans are swimming.
Come, let us pick blue lotuses.
Oui, près des cygnes aux ailes de neige,
Oh yes, let's go near the swans with wings of snow,
And pick blue lotuses.
River flowers in the morn – freshly born


It has been nothing short of a crazy rollercoaster ride since we embarked on this crazy adventure last fall. I wish words could capture the amazing ways in which God has been glorified through the process and the countless ways in which he has shown his greatness.
I get the question all of the time, "What do you do exactly?" The next question is usually something like, "How do you know how to do all of that?" That answer is easy, I don't. I learn as I go. God is good and he uses people like me, people like you, to do seemingly impossible things that he might be glorified.
So, as we continue on this journey together let us learn from one another, let us share ideas, let us work for the Kingdom side by side, but most importantly I pray that we remind each other often, "To God be the glory." It is only by his power and grace that we are able to accomplish anything.
I can't say I clearly remember America's original Dream Team in the 1992 Olympics, but I do remember hearing about it from time to time though mostly in connection to a McDonald's commercial. Rumor is that team was an incredible group of individuals on and off the court. They had big dreams, lofty goals. They set out to win and win they did.
How big are you willing to dream? Sir Francis Drake wrote the following prayer, "Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves. When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little. When we arrive safely because we have sailed to close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord." Are your dreams proportionate to the amazing power of your God? Are you willing to dream dreams that can only be accomplished with His help and guidance?
I have the opportunity to dream big dreams for the Kingdom with some pretty amazing and creative people. It's a blessing for which there are no words. They are a dream team of sorts. And the one advantage we have over the 1992 Dream Team – God is on our team. It is an exciting time here at The CORE as we grow and dream big dreams together. Everyday is a challenge. It is a challenge to force myself outside of my comfort zone to a place of risk, a place of big dreams.
I encourage you to take a look at your dreams, at your goals and dare to dream bigger than yourself. Don't put God in a box. Let God push you outside of your comfort zone and use you to accomplish great things for the Kingdom. Remember, with Him on your side, you are part of the greatest Dream Team possible.


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Gypsies In The Palace: Jimmy Buffet Concert Review
February 28, 2010 / by Eric / 0 Comments
I saw the 2010 Summerzcool Tour final date at BankAtlantic center last night (27 Feb) with Evan, Brenda, Greg, Gaby, Mom, and Karen.
We started at Renegade for and early dinner. We were there at 515, Karen followed two minutes later, John and Liz right after that. Evan and Brenda brought up the rear. I've only reviewed Renegade about ten times in my blog and it's still just as good as ever. John and Liz attended dinner with us while Greg and Gaby didn't. I had the Native Plate this time and while the ribs were excellent and tasty, they were a tad greasier than usual. I managed to finish my entire meal, something I usually can't do there because the portions are so big. Everyone but me had take-home bags.
Mom and I got to the BAC and the lot was damn near full. If you've ever been to Buffett you know most of the people got there at 2pm and have been drinking heavily ever since. I ended up finding a spot near A52 because someone had packed up their tailgating stuff to go in. It was around 715pm. $30 for parking if I didn't mention it.
Mom hadn't been to this type of Buffett show before, so the parking lot was a bit overwhelming for her, I think. It's like a huge football tailgate where people are having twice as much fun and ten times as drunk. One guy had put together two igloo coolers, two sets of wheelbarrow wheels, a pair of bicycle handlebars, a motor and made a train. He was riding the first cooler and drinking from the second. I do not believe this is legally qualified as 'drinking and driving'
You've all seen the closet alcoholics who have the funnels with a tube that forces booze down their throats, right? This crowd had then but the funny one was where there was a uniformed Sunrise police officer pouring in the bottle of booze (Vodka or Gin as it appeared to be or maybe crappy white rum?) for the guy because he couldn't do it himself.
Karen — who came in elsewhere — saw someone come out of the bushes. I won't share what they were doing but I'm just saying…. Others were handing out free samples of food and drink. Nice. We were way too full to partake.
We went in and the rocket scientists had the ticket collection booths so far in they were blocking the swag line and it was causing issues. We checked out our seats, took a lap, and then finally (20 minutes later) the rest of the lot began showing up.
The whole time before the opening act, there was the usual platoon of people throwing t-shirts, playing with beachballs, using the bamboo basketball hoops, and otherwise having fun. The set was minimal. You've seen it before. Stage, bamboo beach theme, three large screen displays — two on opposite sides for the people in the cheap seats, and one for backdrops.
Promptly at 8pm his Holiness, the Head Parrothead, came out and introduced Ilo Ferreira who did a fifteen-minute opening set. He was excellent. From me that's high praise because I'm usually critical of opening acts. How good? He's a male Nadira Shakoor. Really.
The beachballs continued, as they did throughout the first half of the show, as Parrothead-in-Chief, Buffett took the stage at 817pm. He spent the whole show running his songs as part of the "Summer School" scene from class to graduation to diploma, and so on. Some of the connections were really weak, but that wasn't the point.
He also talked about this being a hockey arena and how he was playing on ice. He had a few words to say about Team USA along with some video clips of the Olympics hockey. Apparently, he's a fan.
The most entertaining part of the show wasn't the show. It was the "lady" in front of us who was quite literally too drunk to stand. She got up, swayed about, and fell back down into her chair, usually with the help of her seatmates. In spite of this, she continued to drink more and more. Long about mid-show she lost the ability to kholdeep her head upright, and like a newborn, it just lolled from side to side and front to back.
Post show, there was beer on my jacket. Lots of it. Dry cleaner for that. Courtesy of the guy behind me. Ass.
We left at the end of the first encore because we knew there was only one song in the second. Normally I don't do that, but this was one of the drunkest crowds of any show I've ever been to, and we didn't want to be on the road with them. Greg and Gaby were first out before the encore. The rest of us were out as Brown Eyed Girl wrapped up
Evan provided me a link to Buffet World (I'd never heard of it) to get the missing songs from the set list below. I wasn't able to remember them all or in order.
OPENING SET:
01 Lage Nom Ai
02 License to Chill
03 Summerzcool
04 Pencil Thin Moustache
05 Conky Tonkin'
06 Son of a Son of a Sailor
07 Boat Drinks
08 Volcano
09 Cheeseburger in Paradise
10 Come Monday
12 It's Five O'clock Somewhere
13 Rhumba Man
14 One Particular Harbour
INTERMISSION (Short one, too!)
SECOND SET:
15 My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don't Love Jesus
16 Cuban Crime of Passion
17 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
18 Last Mango in Paris
19 Let Me Love Again (an Ilo Ferreira song)
20 Gypsies in the Palace
21 Surfin' in a Hurricane
22 Southern Cross
23 A Pirate Looks at Forty
24 Margaritaville
25 Fins
FIRST ENCORE:
26 Nobody From Nowhere
27 Brown Eyed Girl
SECOND ENCORE:
28 Tin Cup Chalice (Solo Acoustic)
One of Jimmy's most underrated songs is Gypsies in the Palace which he did. The first bit he did in the "style of Leonard Cohen" and it was a very interesting take. I'd like to hear him do the whole thing like that. This concert was good, classic Buffett. Welcome home, Jimmy. Don't stay away so long next time. (His last visit here was 2-19-2005 which I also attended, I believe.)
You all saw Google's awesome SuperBowl ad about a guy falling in love. One of the better ones in terms of actual art in years. Someone's done a brilliant take on it involving computers. Same music, same concept, different search terms. Check it out.
Suzie-Q blogs this item. It's a real excerpt from a sex education article for girls from the 1960s. Yeah, the 1960s. It's not that old.
I don't have words to describe how amusing I found this. Does anyone know where this woman is or how I can find her? Nice laugh. Thanks Miss Q! 🙂 A larger version by clicking, full size on her website. Go take a peek and give her a comment of thanks for that great bit.
Stan hasn't made my blog before. I've known Stan for decades. It's his first appearance but this video is the funniest commercial of its kind I've ever seen. It's by Axe body wash and called "Wash Your Balls" which should give you all the warning you need.
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Once again, the Miami Herald made an IT'S error in today's print story about last night's horrible Heat game. The Herald really needs to hire some editors who know grammar. This is a regular occurrence, but I no longer write and complain because last time I did they wrote back and argued with me that they were right. They were not right. Period. Now, I just mock them. (Sorry, Rob, Dave, and anyone else at the Fishwrapper, but your paper has some flaws that continue to get worse.) If you use Open Source programs from Linux to Open Office to Gimp to Drupal to WordPress to anything in between, you really need to read this article because you could be affected. It's from London's Guardian newspaper, a reputable source. In it, "an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the equivalent of piracy – or even worse …. the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and India for its Special 301 watchlist because they use open-source software …. Special 301 [is] a report that examines the adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights around the planet – effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism." I was going to write a long analysis and then add that here, but I don't think that's necessary. This is just obviously insane. One recommends you do not take this lightly and keep a careful eye on developments.
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Q: Which NSLocale to use with uppercaseStringWithLocale:? When I have an UI string with capital letters, i'm used to define them in lowercase as for all the others, and then to use uppercaseStringWithLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale].
But recently I happened to notice that the [NSLocale currentLocale] may not be the one used in your app. For example if your device is in Turkish but your app only support english, the currentLocale would be a Turkish locale while your app is localized in english.
With those settings, a direct effect of using [NSLocale currentLocale] is that my uppercaseString will be "İ LİKE İOS" instead of "I LIKE IOS".
So far, the only workaround I see is to create a category of NSLocale to add a +(NSLocale*) applicationLocale; and use it in all uppercaseStringWithLocale:.
+ (NSLocale*) applicationLocale
{
    NSMutableDictionary<NSString*,NSString*>* localeComponents = [[NSLocale componentsFromLocaleIdentifier:[NSLocale currentLocale].localeIdentifier] mutableCopy];
    localeComponents[NSLocaleLanguageCode] = NSBundle.mainBundle.preferredLocalizations.firstObject;
    return [NSLocale localeWithLocaleIdentifier:[NSLocale localeIdentifierFromComponents:localeComponents]];
}

My question is simple: am I doing this the right way or did I miss something? I indeed wonder why Apple links to currentLocale while it won't work as expected in a lot of cases.

A: The most robust way to get the application locale is to edit your Localizable.strings files. In the English localization file add an entry
"lang"="en";

in the German localization file add an entry
"lang"="de";

in the French localization file add an entry
"lang"="fr";

and so on... You can get the localization code with NSLocalizedString(@"lang").

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The kit part lacks detail and does not accurately reflect the flight items. Supplied with 9 Helium spheres as used on the Saturn V, but only one is needed for a Saturn 1B model as the stage was not required to relight. Suitable for both Airfix and Revell/Monagram kits.


Russian, Ukrainian & Eastern European Discussion, Travel & Information Forum - Beetroots and Borscht.
Poles love the taste of beetroot. Especially the taste of beetroot soup. Unfortunately, this taste is so unique that such a rarity is only available in Poland.
Well the fact that beetroot soup is only available in the land of the Pos will be a surprise to hundreds of millions of people. Somebody should tell them that only Poles can have the stuff.
The best borscht I ever had is here in Dublin, the pelmeni too. Restaurant is a bit of a dump tho.
Even Nadia agreed the borscht is the best, I could tell cos she stopped talking.
The mud was sticking her jaws together?
She in Russia at the moment to scared to tell her gran her borsch isn't the best she's had anymore.
See, the stuff here actually has some flavour other than bland-flavour..
The Irish sod must taste good!
Soil were for well-off folk. All we had were sediment off mud, grandad's toenail clippings and cat vomit. All on a barm with gravy.
but I had expensive bath toys both a toaster and a hair dryer!
But sadly not the electricity to make them work!
"He's written over 300 songs - all crap"
"He started at the bottom - and stayed there..."
Funny but while I thought Eric Sykes a hugely funny bloke I could never get a hard on for Spike Milligan.
Like me with Trump then?!
I'm off to see Ollie Reed's grave in the near future - another hero of mine, lived his life to max. It's in Churchtown, Co. Cork.
Not really the same. I didn't harbour delusions about the guy's intelligence. I didn't dislike him. I just didn't find him very funny.


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As previously reported here, on Sept. 16th, the state Superior Court issued a decision in Barrick v. Holy Spirit Hospital, et al. regarding the disclosure of medical records. In a 15-page opinion written by Judge Olson, the court held that either side is allowed discovery of written communications/correspondence to his/her expert witness. This applies to both plaintiffs or defendants. In this case, the defense was seeking the plaintiff lawyer's communications to the plaintiff expert and it was ordered disclosed.
The Pennsylvania Association for Justice is holding a one-hour, one CLE credit, phone seminar on Oct. 19, 2010 from Noon to 1 p.m. to address the implications of this decision. I am participating as a presenter, presumably based upon the fact that I participated in the matter as the proponent of the amicus curiae position of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute.


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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A.
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Steve represents clients in a variety of potential and existing commercial and business disputes involving issues concerning: restrictive covenants; labor and employment; employee benefits and executive compensation; tortious interference; real estate acquisition, development and leasing; land use; construction; eminent domain; lending; consumer rights; bankruptcy; antitrust; environmental compliance; insurance coverage; estates and trusts; intellectual property; shareholder, partner and member disputes; data privacy and security; business mergers and acquisitions; licensing; franchising; and taxation. Steve has litigated matters before juries and judges at the trial level and before appellate courts, both in state and federal courts across the country. He has also represented clients in mediation and arbitration proceedings across the country.
Steve has developed long-term relationships with his clients, and those relationships have evolved beyond working together when there is litigation or the threat of litigation. Partnering with clients to navigate complex business issues, mitigate risk, and develop growth strategies is an integral part of Steve's practice.
At Dykema, Steve is the Member responsible for lateral hiring of Members and Senior Counsel at all of the Firm's offices. He is also Co-Chairman of Dykema's Retention Subcommittee of the Firm's Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Steve received his Juris Doctor Degree from the John Marshall Law School, where he was selected as an associate justice of The John Marshall Law School Moot Court Executive Board and received awards in legal writing and advocacy in various independent moot court competitions. While in law school, Steve also prosecuted felony cases for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office as part of a program under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 711.
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Acadian serves as bright spot for Old Mutual
Douglas Appell
BOSTON — Despite recent setbacks, stellar asset growth for subsidiaries such as Acadian Asset Management helped make 2005 the best year yet for Old Mutual Asset Management, said Scott Powers, president and chief executive officer.
Old Mutual's stable of 20 money management firms has seen more bad press than good in recent months. At the start of November, plans to acquire ForstmannLeff Associates LLC, New York, as Old Mutual's key growth equity shop fell through. At the end of that month, directors of the $6.3 billion Clipper Fund replaced Pacific Financial Research, Old Mutual's Beverly Hills, Calif.-based value equity subsidiary, with an outside manager as the fund's investment adviser after three top portfolio managers bolted from PFR.
Even with those setbacks, 2005 will be "the best year we've ever had" in terms of asset growth since Old Mutual Asset Management was formed in late 2000 with the acquisition of United Asset Management, said Mr. Powers. Old Mutual will announce its year-end assets under management later this month.
While the group had other bright spots, Acadian — a Boston-based quantitative firm focused on international value equities — was "a huge part" of that success, said Mr. Powers.
A combination of strong net inflows and market-beating returns boosted Acadian's assets under management to just less than $30 billion at the end of 2005, up from $2.55 billion at the end of 2002.
Being in three areas investors have focused on in recent years — quant, value and international — has helped the firm, Churchill G. Franklin, an executive vice president and head of Acadian's sales efforts, said in an interview.
Mr. Powers said the marketplace simply is noticing Acadian's performance. According to Chicago-based Morningstar Inc.'s Principia database, Acadian's emerging markets equity strategy, with more than $5 billion in assets, has outperformed its MSCI Emerging Markets benchmark by more than 10 percentage points in three of the four years through 2004; and for each year between 2000 and 2004 its global equity strategy, with $4.8 billion, outperformed its MSCI EAFE benchmark by between five and 11 percentage points.
The recent addition of hedge fund strategies adds another sought-after category to the firm's lineup. "They have an exceptional long-short strategy," said an executive with a competing quant firm, who declined to be named.
3 mandates
Mr. Franklin said Acadian has picked up three mandates since it began actively marketing its long-short strategies six months ago, and "has a couple of commitments that will fund over time." The firm launched two strategies with one seed client each roughly 3 1/2 years ago, giving it five mandates total with combined assets of just less than $200 million. Interest, while especially strong in Australia and Japan, is growing in the United States as well, he said. He declined to name any clients.
Still, Acadian sees its hedge fund strategies as capacity constrained. The key to the broader firm's continued growth is investing in the people who can keep Acadian's quantitative models ahead of the competition, said Mr. Franklin.
The number of major factors Acadian's computer-driven models use in constructing a portfolio has risen to 13 from three at the time of the firm's launch in 1987. "If you bring more insight, more objectivity, more data into your decision-making process and do it more quickly than the guys across the street, you should be able to add value," said Mr. Franklin.
The latest pieces of the investment puzzle on which the firm is focusing include better exploiting the irrational behavior of investors and coping with the risks of rare market events, such as the technology bubble that swept up Wall Street during the late '90s.
A year ago, Acadian hired Brendan O. Bradley, a mathematician with a Ph.D. in extreme value theory, or the study of rare events, as a researcher/portfolio manager to bolster the ability of the firm's models to actively manage risk, said Mr. Franklin.
Six months ago, the firm hired Terry Burnham, a behavioral finance expert. In an interview, Mr. Burnham said that 10 to 15 years ago, the behavioral finance critique of efficient market theory was so heretical that few papers were published, and firms such as Acadian had to think up and test their own ideas. Today, "the doors have been blasted wide open," and the game is one of evaluating and incorporating the best of the voluminous theoretical work being done ahead of the competition, he said.
The two additions bring Acadian's team of researchers/portfolio managers to roughly 20, up from between eight and 10 at the beginning of the decade.
Provocative ideas
With the number of Acadian's institutional clients more than doubling over the past four years to just more than 100, Mr. Franklin painted the hiring of "thought leaders" who can contribute provocative ideas to the community as part of beefing up the firm's client service efforts.
Pension fund consultants said such efforts could strike a chord. Clients want to see that a quant firm is constantly looking to improve its models, not simply coming in and turning the power on every morning, said Michael Rosen, a principal with Angeles Investment Advisors, Santa Monica, Calif.
Consultants said Acadian, after stumbling during the late '90s when the technology bubble left value stocks in the dust, has added excellent performance to other positives, such as organizational stability and a highly disciplined investment process. The big question now is how well the firm is coping with its fast-paced asset growth.
"You definitely want to know how they're managing growth," but the signs so far — including the decision to close its emerging markets strategy in mid-2004 — have been reassuring, said Jeff Nipp, director of investment manager research with Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting in Atlanta.
Mr. Franklin downplayed the likelihood that Acadian's asset growth will continue at its recent torrid pace, especially with the closings of the firm's emerging markets and non-U.S. small-cap strategies over the past 18 months. Quantitative strategies and international strategies should remain in demand, but interest in value strategies should ease, he predicted. He said the firm could see less feverish but still healthy net inflows of between $5 billion and $10 billion in the coming two to three years, with Acadian's global and U.S. strategies among the leading asset gatherers.
Acadian's sales team in Boston has grown to seven from four in 2000. Acadian executives are looking to add a sales and client service office in London by midyear, after establishing earlier outposts in Singapore in 1999 and Australia last year, Mr. Franklin said.
Even if growth equities should have their day again, Acadian should be positioned decently, said Mr. Franklin. Over the past year, Acadian has adjusted its model to moderate the firm's exposure to value, a kind of intervention it has made less than five times since 1987, at moments when "empirical information pushes you into an area that appears unsustainable," he said. The firm has also broadened its definition of "value," and with more components covered, Acadian should be in a much stronger position in the unlikely event that history repeats itself, he said.


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# Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline

## .gitlab-ci.yml
 * The CI/CD commands are in a file called `.gitlab-ci.yml` that must be stored in the root of the repository

## Stages
 * a pipeline runs in one or more stages
 * within each stage, there can be different jobs
 * a typical CI/CD pipeline consists of 3 stages
    * test, build, deploy
 * the stage needs to be defined in each job

```yaml
stages:
  - test
  - build
  - deploy
```

## Jobs
 * you can give the job any name
 * the main part of the job is a `script` key which indicates what the job needs to do
 * it consists of various attributes like
    * `stage`: which stage this job belongs to
    * `needs`: this job requires a previous job to run first b4 start
    * `variables`: define variables to use in script
    * `images`: base image to run in
    * `before_script`: runs some script b4 `script` starts, usually installation
    * `rules`: define conditions when the job will run

## dind
 * in the CI/CD environment, a docker image is built so that scripts can be run, default is ruby image
 * however, if we need to build or run docker images, we need to use a Docker in Docker (dind) service instead
 * we can specify it as latest or with a particular version
 * **IMPT** this image is built using Alpine linux, so all installations require the `apk` package

```yaml
image: docker:19.03.8
services:
  - docker:19.03.8-dind
```

## Gitlab Container Registry
 * The space limit for the whole repository, including the container registry is **10GB**, so the space might not be always sufficient
 * The in-built env variable `$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE` defines the repo registry name and can be used directly
 * We can subdivide each image into two further levels, by project & modules, if required. E.g., There are two modules in the repository, in gitlab-ci, we can tag the image into `$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/module1` & `$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/module2`

```yaml
humandet-build:
  stage: build
  variables:
    module: humandetection
    image_tag: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/humandetection:latest
  script:
    - docker build -t $image_tag ./$module
    - docker push $image_tag
  only:
    changes:
      - humandetection/**/*
```

## Rules

 * Rules are essential to indicate the conditions when jobs can run. It can be used in place of `only` & `except`, but rules should be preferred as they are more verbose and easier to understand
 * Example below indicates that the CI/CD will only run if it is a merge request, and if the target merge branch is master. Also, there needs to be a file change in the folder facedetection.

```yaml
testing:
  stage: test
  script:
    - echo testing
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event" && $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "master"'
      changes:
        - facedetection/**/*
      when: always
```

## Environment Variables

 * Under Settings > CI/CD > Variables, you can set your environment variables that can be called within a gitlab runner
 * Only Maintainer & Owner have the rights to this option
 * The variables are **protected** by default, and if so, they can only be accessed when changes are made to a protected branch.
    1. Store your access keys, passwords etc. here
    2. If for some reason your login using the keys/pw failed, it could be because the branch or method of pipeline is not protected
    3. Note that merged requests will not enable a protected variable to be read
    4. It might be better to just **mask** the variable instead

## SSH

 * For deployment, SSH is essential to access your server to launch a deployment script
 * Steps to enable SSH
    1. in your local machine > ssh-keygen > create public & private keys
    2. cd ~/.ssh/ > ls > you should see two files, `id_rsa`, which is the private key & `id_rsa.pub`,which is the public key
    3. `cat id_rsa` > copy the entire contents (including the ----OPEN and END ---- lines), and put in gitlab settings > variables
    4. `cat id_rsa.pub` > copy the entire contents
        * SSH into your server
        * `cd ~/.ssh/`
        * `nano authorized_keys`
        * paste the private keys contents
    5. add `known_hosts` in the job
    6. follow format before in the job to
 * **Ref**: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ssh_keys/

```yaml
variables:
    - ip: xx.xxx.xx.x
before_script:
    - which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )
    - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
    - echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - chmod 700 ~/.ssh
    - touch ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    - ssh-keyscan $ip >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    # - echo "$SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS" >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    - chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
script:
    - ssh ubuntu@$ip echo something...
```

# AWS

 * Accessing AWS services requires AWS CLI2 (command line) & the access key, secret key, region stored as environment variables
 * gitlab has a ubuntu image for [AWS CLI2](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_deployment/#run-aws-commands-from-gitlab-cicd)

```yaml
deploy:
  stage: deploy
  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cloud-deploy/aws-base:latest
  script:
    - aws s3 ...
    - aws create-deployment ...
```

 * However, if we need docker, e.g. AWS ECR services, we can use the `dind` service and install AWS CLI2 on top of it
 * AWS CLI2 does not have a default alpine installation, but we can use `ci-aws_cli2-alpine.sh` file instead, source from [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60298619/awscli-version-2-on-alpine-linux)

```yaml
deploy:
  stage: deploy
  image: docker:latest
  services:
    - docker:latest-dind
  before_script:
    - ci-aws_cli2-alpine.sh
  script:
    - aws ecr get-login-password --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $ecr_url
    - docker build -t ...
```

## Example Pipeline

DAG display in Gitlab Pipeline GUI showing the dependencies of the jobs

![](cicd.png)

`.gitlab-ci.yml` file example

```yaml
stages:
  - test
  - build
  - deploy

# UNIT-TESTING -----------
face-unittest:
  stage: test
  image: docker:19.03.8
  services:
    - docker:19.03.8-dind
  variables:
    port: 5003
    module: facedetection
  before_script:
    - sh unittest/ci-test-install.sh
  script:
    - cd unittest
    - bash ci-test.sh
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"'
      changes:
        - facedetection/**/*
      when: always

# SECURITY SCANNING -----------
face-security:
  stage: test
  image: docker:19.03.8
  services:
    - docker:19.03.8-dind
  variables:
    module: facedetection
  before_script:
    - apk update
    - apk upgrade
    - apk add curl jq python3-dev py-pip
    - pip install bandit
  script:
    - cd unittest
    - sh ci-security.sh
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"'
      changes:
        - facedetection/**/*
      when: always

# BUILD -----------
face-build:
  stage: build
  needs: ["face-unittest","face-security"]
  image: docker:19.03.8
  services:
    - docker:19.03.8-dind
  variables:
    ecr_url: $aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION.amazonaws.com
    module: facedetection
  before_script:
    - sh unittest/ci-aws_cli2-install.sh
  script:
    - sh unittest/ci-build.sh
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event" && $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "master"'
      changes:
        - facedetection/**/*
      when: always

# DEPLOYMENT -----------
face-deploy:
  stage: deploy
  needs: ["face-build"]
  variables:
    port: 5003
    ip: <ip-address>
    module: facedetection
    ecr: $aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION.amazonaws.com
  before_script:
    - which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )
    - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
    - echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - chmod 700 ~/.ssh
    - touch ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    - ssh-keyscan $ip >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    # - echo "$SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS" >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    - chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
  script:
    - sh unittest/ci-deploy.sh
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event" && $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "master"'
      changes:
        - facedetection/**/*
      when: always
```

## Useful Bash Snippets

### Check API server has started

```bash
# check flask server has started
time_elapsed=1
while true; do
    echo "waiting flask server to start... $time_elapsed sec"
    content=$(curl -s -w "%{http_code}" http://docker:$port)
    statuscode="${content:(-3)}"

    if [ $statuscode -gt 299 ]
    then echo "Flask Server Error: $statuscode"
         echo "Error Msg: $content"
         exit 1
    elif [[ $statuscode == "200" ]]
    then echo -e "Flask Server Launched\n"
         break
    fi

    if [[ $time_elapsed == '40' ]]
    then docker logs $module
         exit 1
    fi

    sleep 1
    time_elapsed=$((time_elapsed + 1))
done
```

### Check Python has Exit, so Job Fails

```bash
python3 test_api.py || exit 1
```

```python
import sys
import traceback

try:
    something
except:
    print(traceback.format_exc())
    sys.exit(1)
```

### Some Common Installations

```bash
apk update
apk upgrade
apk add --no-cache curl bash jq python3-dev
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install requests
# required for pillow
apk add --no-cache jpeg-dev zlib-dev gcc musl-dev
pip3 install pillow
```

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With meaningful content and a thoughtful approach, I believe educational and informative mediums (like books and maps) can inspire positive change. They encourage us to pay attention, teach us something new, and perhaps nudge us to cultivate our own connections to something natural – a backcountry trail, a public garden, or even our own backyard.
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Katie Hopkins to be deported from Australia over quarantine rules
Controversial British commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported from Australia for bragging about flouting hotel quarantine rules, says the government.
Ms Hopkins – who has often drawn anger for racist remarks – had entered the country to star in the TV show Big Brother Australia.
On Friday she posted a video from her Sydney hotel room where she joked about putting frontline staff at risk.
Her comments sparked widespread condemnation.
In the video, Ms Hopkins said she planned to "lie in wait" for workers to deliver food to her room so she could open the door "naked with no face mask".
She also called lockdowns the "greatest hoax in human history". Australia's two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, are both in lockdown.
The post has since been wiped from her Instagram.
On Monday, the Australian government confirmed her visa had been canceled after she was also sacked from the reality show.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews called Ms Hopkins' comments "appalling" and a "slap in the face" for Australians in lockdown.
"We will be getting her out of the country as soon as we can possible arrange that," the minister told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Personally, I'm very pleased she'll be leaving," she said.
Ms Hopkins has not commented on her deportation, but on Sunday said she was "joking" in her quarantine remarks.
Seven Network and production company Endemol Shine Australia said Ms Hopkins had been fired for those comments but did not respond to criticism of her hiring in the first place.
Ms Hopkins was last year banned from Twitter for repeatedly breaching the platform's hateful conduct policy.
The right-wing commentator, a favorite of ex-US President Donald Trump, has called migrants "cockroaches" and described Islam as "repugnant".
When questioned on Ms Hopkins' entry, Ms Andrews said the decision had been made by New South Wales state government "on the basis of potential benefit to the economy".
But opponents accused the federal government of "allowing a far-right troll into Australia", noting Ms Hopkins had also been detained in South Africa in 2018 for spreading racial hatred.
"The decision… is particularly painful for the 35,000 Australians who remain stranded overseas," said Labor MP Andrew Giles.
Australia's closed-border policy since March 2020 has prolonged family separations and prevented many citizens from returning.
But dozens of celebrities, sportspeople and others with exemptions have been able to bypass the rule.
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The CBI today told the Delhi High Court that the 2G spectrum case allegedly involving former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others was "a case of monumental loss and a shame to the nation".
Challenging the acquittal of the DMK leaders and others, Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justice S P Garg that huge loss to the public exchequer has been caused due to the spectrum allocation scam.
"This is a case of monumental loss and a shame to the nation," Mehta said.
The ASG also opposed the plea of the accused seeking more time to file their response saying "delaying tactics" were being adopted by them to prolong the proceedings.
The High Court has now posted the CBI's plea challenging their acquittal by a special court in the 2G spectrum case for August 2 while the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) plea has been fixed for August 6.
During the hearing, lawyers for some of the accused in the case said that a number of charge sheets have been filed in these cases and they should be heard separately.
The high court had earlier issued notices to Raja, Knimozhi and others on the CBI's plea challenging their acquittal by a special court in the 2G spectrum case.
A similar order was passed by Justice Garg on the plea of the ED challenging their acquittal in the money laundering case arising out of the 2G scam case.
The court had also allowed the interim plea of the ED for maintaining status quo with regard to the properties worth around Rs 223 crore which the agency had attached in the money laundering case.
The ED did not want the properties to be released from attachment, a consequence of the acquittal in the money laundering case, saying that third party rights might be created in them.
On March 19, the ED moved the high court challenging the special court's order acquitting all the accused in the money laundering case arising out of the 2G scam.
Yesterday, the CBI too challenged in the high court the acquittal of the accused in the case.
A special court on December 21 last year had acquitted Raja, Kanimozhi and others in the CBI and ED cases.
Besides Raja and Kanimozhi, the special court had acquitted 17 others, including DMK supremo M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal, Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka of STPL, Asif Balwa and Rajiv Aggarwal of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd, film producer Karim Morani, P Amirtham and Sharad Kumar, Director of Kalaignar TV in the ED case.
The ED, in its charge sheet, had alleged that Rs 200 crore was paid by Swan Telecom (P) Ltd (STPL) promoters to DMK-run Kalaignar TV.
On the same day, the trial court had acquitted Raja, Kanimozhi and 15 others, including former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, Raja's erstwhile private secretary R K Chandolia, Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, Unitech Ltd MD Sanjay Chandra and three top executives of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) -- Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair, in the CBI's 2G case.
The CBI had alleged that there was a loss of Rs 30,984 crore to the exchequer in allocation of licences for the 2G spectrum which were scrapped by the top court on February 2, 2012.
Special Judge O P Saini, however, had held that the prosecution had "miserably failed" to prove the charges.
The first case, prosecuted by CBI, had 17 accused, while the second matter, pursued by ED, had 19 undertrials. The third one had eight accused including Essar promoters.
In the CBI case, Raja, Kanimozhi and 15 others were tried under provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act dealing with offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery among others.


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Ethno Psychology and its Application-Review
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C. Xavier Belsiyal 1
1 AIIMS, College of Nursing, Rishikesh, IN
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 7, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 325-336
Culturally competent mental health care is vital in health care delivery in the present world. The phrase culture encompasses everything about the ways in which an individual was raised, from the language to the food person eats to whether an individual feels responsible for his or her mental health. The changing demographics and economics of the growing multicultural world and longstanding disparities in the health status of people have challenged the health care system to consider cultural competence as priority. As, Mental health professionals are at risk of cultural bias and stereotyping, it is essential to attend the cultural differences and build skills necessary for cross cultural expertise when providing mental health care. In particular, Psychiatric nurses should be culturally competent, yet such competence is very difficult to achieve. If culture is ignored, the differential outcomes and unequal distribution of disease burden noted today will be exacerbated. To alleviate this outcome it is important to create awareness among the l health professionals. This review explores our understanding on ethnopsychology and its application to mental health care.
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