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Recent years have seen an increased scholarly interest in early modern ideas about civility. Although often associated with urbanity, gentility, or refinement, this conference will explore ideas of civility more broadly, asking how the limits of acceptable behaviour and discourse were defined, enforced, and negotiated in early modern Britain. The meaning of civility in post-Reformation Britain was both contested and complex. Religious change, developments in print, and social and political upheaval all served at various points to intensify ideological division and public disagreement. But contemporaries also worried about the effects of heated, vitriolic debate, and about how to ensure that difference did not tear apart the vinculum societatis ("bond of society"). Notions of civility could be both a source of, and a solution to, these conflicts – a form of tolerance or a tool of exclusion. They could place people, groups, and ideas beyond the bounds of acceptability, but also provide a principle for counteracting fissure in society and ensuring peaceful co-existence.


(Christ) himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we may die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
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Broncos have the finishing touch
By J.P. Hoornstra | jhoornstra@scng.com | Daily News
January 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
POMONA – The Cal Poly Pomona men's basketball team is learning how to finish games at just the right time.
A week ago, the Broncos failed to finish off Chico State and suffered their first CCAA loss in overtime. On Saturday, the lesson had been learned and Cal Poly turned a 10-point halftime deficit into a 58-55 win over Humboldt State at Kellogg Gym.
Head coach Greg Kamansky pleaded the fifth when asked what he told his team at halftime to produce such a turnaround.
"You might not want to know," he said. "I thought we were short-changing ourselves. We were playing soft basketball. We weren't charging the rim. We were playing tired."
The Broncos (7-2 overall, 5-1 CCAA) got a big lift from their bench, which scored 11 points after the break.
Center Dwayne Fells finished with 13 points, and guard Austin Swift and power forward Tobias Jahn had 10 each.
The win, combined with Cal State San Bernardino's victory over Sonoma State, means Cal Poly and Cal State enter Tuesday's matchup in Pomona at 5-1 in conference with first place at stake.
Cal Poly had a dismal first half, lowlighted by a late 14-0 run by Humboldt State that gave the Lumberjacks a 28-18 lead at halftime.
But after trying to pound the ball inside for most of the first 20 minutes, the Broncos relied on their outside shooting to mount a comeback.
"Our game plan's always to start inside out," point guard Dahir Nasser said after a four-point, two-assist effort. "We have more space, more room to operate. That's just how we play."
Ninety seconds into the half, freshman Mitchel Anderson hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to
seven points. Jahn followed with a short field goal, Swift hit a pull-up jumper and Donnelle Booker's 3-pointer tied the game at 34.
Cal Poly didn't take the lead until reserve guard Mark Rutledge came off the bench to hit back-to-back 3-pointers to stake the Broncos to a 43-39 lead with 9:03 to play.
Try as they might, the Broncos could not pull away and led by no more than six points the rest of the way.
Lumberjacks guard Will Petty pushed back with a 3-pointer, followed by a traditional 3-point play, to make it 54-53 with 1:28 left.
That set up a critical final minute in which both teams traded missed jumpers before Humboldt was forced to foul. Nasser then hit a pair of critical free throws with 20.1 seconds left to make it 56-53.
After a quick baseline shot by Petty made it a one-point game, the Broncos avoided the Lumberjacks' attempts to foul off the inbounds pass. Swift found Fells for a breakaway layup that provided the final score with five seconds left.
Cal Poly 66, Humboldt St. 50
Stephisha Walton's 18 points and 18 rebounds – both season-highs – paced the Broncos in a surprisingly easy win over the Lumberjacks, who previously were undefeated in CCAA play.
"To get them the way we got 'em," head coach Scott Davis said, "that's a big win for us."
Cal Poly (8-2, 5-1) did not trail after taking a 12-11 lead with 9:48 left in the first half. Walton did most of her damage early and had 13 rebounds and 10 points before intermission. The senior forward also finished with a pair of blocked shots.
La'kenya Simon-West had 11 points and six rebounds, and Reyana Colson scored nine to end her double-digit points streak at 34 games.
Davis credited his squad's defense, which nearly held Humboldt State (9-3, 7-1) to a season low in points.
A pair of late 3-pointers dashed those hopes, but both came against the Broncos reserves, who gained valuable minutes against a good team.
Up until then, Davis said, "Our energy kept growing and growing. I thought we maintained that high and never really had a low."
As a team, Cal Poly out-rebounded Humboldt State 50-36 and recorded season highs of 14 steals and five blocks.
"You play a team that good on your home court," Davis said, "and you need to take care of business. We did that and we did that by making a statement."
J.P. Hoornstra | reporter
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Newcastle confirm Bruce will take charge against Spurs
London (AFP) –
Newcastle have confirmed Steve Bruce will take charge of his 1,000th match as a manager when Tottenham visit St James' Park on Sunday for the first game since the club's Saudi-led takeover.
Bruce was reportedly set for the sack following last week's £305 million ($419 million) takeover of the Premier League strugglers.
The 60-year-old has been criticised by fans, with reports saying sections of his squad are unhappy with his methods.
But Bruce been granted a stay of execution after new Newcastle director Amanda Staveley announced on Friday there would be no immediate decision on his future.
"We have had an extremely busy week reviewing the business and getting to know people and it is imperative that we continue to be patient and considered in our approach," Staveley said in a statement.
"Change does not always happen overnight, it demands time and that we follow a carefully considered plan and strategy."
Staveley added: "We met Steve and the players on Monday and have given them the time and space this week to focus on preparing for what is a very important game on Sunday.
"Steve has been very professional in our dealings with him and he and his coaching team will take the team on Sunday."
Newcastle are just one place off the bottom of the table and without a win in their seven league games this season, a dismal record that has prompted many fans to jeer Bruce during matches.
It remains unlikely the former Manchester United defender will be in charge for much longer.
The Magpies have been linked with former Chelsea boss Frank Lampard, ex-Borussia Dortmund manager Lucien Favre and Villarreal chief Unai Emery, formerly of Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain, among many others.
In asking Newcastle supporters to back Bruce and his team this weekend, Staveley hinted a managerial move was still on the agenda.
"If we make any changes going forward, Steve will be the first to know but, in the meantime, we wish him the best of luck in his 1,000th match as a manager and will be joining you in getting right behind the team," she said.
Bruce is due to address the media at a pre-match press conference later on Friday.


Akira Kurosawa is a true celluloid titan. Often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers to have lived, revered by Scorsese, Bergman and Coppola, his prolific career spanned 57 years and 30 films, earning him a plethora of awards and international acclaim as a director, producer, screenwriter and editor.
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Last week was full of surprises with plenty of players that completely underperformed. Kelvin Benjamin with zero catches, are you kidding me?! Maybe you had Emmanuel Sanders or Marvin Jones Jr. sitting on your bench, that stings.
To make the strain easier on analyzing matchups and making the gut-wrenching decision on who to leave on your bench or who to move to your starting lineup here is our start and sit list for Week 4.


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How The USMCA Benefits All Farmers
09Oct October 9, 2018
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Following more than a year of negotiation, the U.S., Canada and Mexico reached a final agreement on a revised North American Free Trade Agreement. The new deal named the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement still has some hurdles to face before it can be implemented, but analysts say it's a net positive for all of agriculture.
"It's good for all of ag," Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told AgriTalk host Chip Flory. "From a [market] access [standpoint], we've locked in those markets. Canada and Mexico are in our top three [export markets] year-by-year. So these are very important markets to our overall ag industry. We talk a lot about dairy, about poultry access and the wheat grading. But actually, it's very, very encouraging for all of agriculture."
Tom Vilsack, CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, said the deal can assure farmers that the U.S. won't be pulling out of the U.S. or Mexico anytime soon.
"We're going to have a trilateral agreement and that should stabilize and strengthen the market over time," he said. In addition, he said one of the best benefits of completing the deal is that it will free up people who've been negotiating on this agreement to focus on getting those retaliatory tariffs lifted, which still are a bit of a burden and "perhaps enable us to sort of refocus our attention on China and bilateral trade discussions with Japan, UK in the EU."
According to Perdue, dairy was the toughest issue to work out with Canada. He says deadlines are what ultimately got Canada to agree to U.S. demands.
"I think this agreement's always been extremely important to Canada, and people in this business work on deadlines," he explained. "It was early deadlines that got this done. Obviously, you're aware that the dairy industry was a real very issue for Canada. They held out and to his credit, Ambassador Lighthizer, at the instruction of President Trump, held strong and we got to a better agreement than TTP and better, much more access than we had under the current NAFTA."
Dairy access into Canada is one of the trophies of this deal for the U.S.
"The Mexican market continues to be preserved for dairy, it's our No. 1 market, again, subject to the retaliatory terrorists being lifted," he explained. "It's good news in terms of new market access in Canada. You know, the reality is, I think the expectations were that the market access would be a little bit greater than it was, but it's, but it's certainly better than TTP."
However, Vilsack warned implementation will determine how good the deal actually is.
"We don't really know precisely how this is going to work, because the quota is basically spread over a number of products. And depending upon the demand for those products that may or may not be a significant," he said. "That's why we're just going to have to have a wait and see attitude. The same thing is true with the elimination of class seven. That was obviously good news and is something that dairy industry requested the administration to focus on. But in place of Class seven, we now have a new pricing system that provides for the use of an applicable Canadian allowance. We're not quite sure precisely what that means, whether or not that can be something that can be changed from year to year and time to time. If so, it could potentially create mischief in the future. But we'll have to wait and see."
One stipulation of the agreement, which basically unites the three countries when negotiating other deals, could help the Trump administration reach an agreement with China.
"The beauty of that agreement is it's a very specific signal to China that North America is going to be united in its approach to non-market economies," Vilsack explained. "China is probably the number one directive here. I think China is probably going to try to contend with the WTO that they are now a market economy and don't fall within that provision. But I think the U.S. position is clearly as a non-market country. I think that it specifically was designed to send a message to China that the administration is going to begin to develop the kind of coalition that I think they need, and probably should have had at the beginning of all this, in order to be most effective against the Chinese."
Still some farmers and industry groups say the deal falls short of expectations. Perdue said that's just part of the American spirit.
"We want the best and we want the most, but the fact is compared to where we were, this fulfilled President Trump's promise that he was going to improve and renew the NAFTA agreement and he's done that with USMCA," Perdue said. "We have to realize that our U.S. economy is more than just agriculture, although I believe agriculture is the bedrock. [The deal] does a lot of things. There are phytosanitary rules of engagement between the three countries, and for the first time [it has] biotechnology text in the language. This agreement is very modern, it sets a template for other agreements that we think will be the template going forward over how we do deals with the EU as well as China."
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Leadership Development / Military Staff Rides
Since its establishment in 1895, Gettysburg National Military Park has served as an open-air classroom for the education of officers in the U.S. Army and National Guard. Beginning in the early 20th century, cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and officers attending the newly established Army War College (then in Washington, DC) came to Gettysburg on staff rides to understand and analyze timeless aspects of military leadership and decision-making in high-risk situations.
Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery touring
the Gettysburg battlefield. NPS photo
General Dwight D. Eisenhower first visited Gettysburg as a West Point cadet. The General and 34th U.S. President's farm is now part of the Eisenhower National Historic Site. Years later, Eisenhower continued to share Gettysburg's lessons with such foreign political and military dignitaries as Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
Today, military groups from all the U.S. armed forces—and even international military groups—come to learn at Gettysburg.
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You and your unit have the unique opportunity to explore the Gettysburg battlefield where generals, captains and enlisted soldiers contributed to the pivotal decisions made here on this hallowed ground.
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You will consider leadership attributes and competencies, think about the principles of war and reflect on the values of your service by studying real-life scenarios on the same ground where commanders from both armies made key decisions in the heat of battle. Explore the decisions they made and the reasons behind the courses of action they chose and the options they rejected.
Gettysburg's history will help you dig deeper into your mindset as a modern military professional even after you return to your duty station.
Active-duty, Reserve Component and National Guard groups, and seminar groups from professional military education institutions, as well as ROTC and JROTC units are welcome and encouraged to explore Gettysburg with us.
Our programs are designed for enlisted personnel, cadets, junior officers and senior officers. We offer a variety of customizable staff rides focused on key lessons from the battlefield. You can create your own ultimate staff ride experience by including lunch on the battlefield, visiting rarely seen sites and even camping under the stars on the grounds of a historic field hospital.
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During the ten or so years of making these funny pants out of used tees, there's been a couple of really memorable moments that make me feel extra lucky, happy and proud of my work. Used tees aren't a thing of great financial value, or usually considered as a fine arts/crafts material. For some people it might even seem too weird to have pants made of tees that somebody else has already used. Unless that somebody is a person you love, or in this case, somebody you really loved and who no longer is with us. Then, the value actually is incredibly big, and the material turns into something irreplaceable and beautiful.
A couple of years ago a dear friend was cleaning up her late husband's closet and getting rid of some of the clothes that used to belong to him. Some clothes could be passed on to friends, some given to the thrift stores, but what to do with a bunch of t-shirts left from a number of marathons that he participated in? You know what happened, right? Yes, she asked me to make pants out of them. Two pairs for her and one pair for their daughter. I remember clearly how my friend was saying that "these shirts don't have any value - except for me". Pretty. Sweet.
This spring another wonderful lady came to me asking if I would be able to make a pair of pants for her, and that she might have something I could use as a material. We met at my studio, and with her she had a black t-shirt full of random, different color paint stains. That t-shirt used to belong to her adult son, who passed away more that 10 years ago. He was an artist and he would use this shirt while painting. You can clearly see some places where he has swiped and cleaned his fingers, and it makes that material crazy unique and super special.
I know I'm not healing anybody's cancer or preventing wars from happening, but I definitely feel like what I'm doing is positive and important. And that feeling keeps me going during those moments of doubt and insecurity! This is about love, respect and being real.


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Derek Chauvin gets the death sentence
Posted on April 20, 2021 by David Blaska
Bad cop, coerced verdicts
We cannot say the verdict of guilty on all three counts in the George Floyd trial today is unwarranted. It's certainly not surprising. But it may be as political as it is judicial.
Every state writes its own criminal statutes. Conviction on second-degree murder feels like a stretch. Officer Derek Chauvin did not kill Floyd while committing a felony. Chauvin was not robbing the store or (for that matter) passing a counterfeit bill. (Which is the same thing, actually.)
On third-degree murder, Minnesota requires an action that was "eminently dangerous" and carried out with a "reckless disregard." Driving an automobile at high speed through a pedestrian mall at noon on Saturday would qualify. (You may not intend to kill anyone but it would be a miracle if you didn't.)
Is that the same thing as pressing one's knee on the neck of criminal suspect who had vigorously resisted arrest but doing so a minute or two beyond what proved necessary? Because that is what it comes down to: a minute or two of indiscretion. Or was it depraved indifference? Or was it murderous intent? That's a lot of parsing.
If Derek Chauvin had cried out, like Johnny Cash in that song, "You're going to die" — case closed. But no such invective was heard. An appeals court might whittle the case down to second-degree manslaughter. requires only "culpable negligence." Poor police procedure, for which Chauvin was justly terminated from the force.
Where was Henry Fonda …
… in Twelve Angry Men? In any event, the jury made quick work of the case. Too quick, given the subtleties of the laws in question, the dangerous drugs running through Mr. Floyd's system, and those two or three minutes. Not even a full day of deliberation. No requests for clarification.
The Chauvin/Floyd trial may not have been a political show trial. That said, the shortest straw in policing is to have a black man die on the call of a white officer, post Michael Brown, Ferguson MO (where the police officer was clearly acting in self defense) and so many others. Too many, for all kinds of reasons — not all of them racial.
Before the trial ever began, the City of Minneapolis paid out millions of dollars to the bereaved family. The jury was sent home for the weekend, allowing it to "marinate" on the shooting death of another black man, Daunte Wright, in a Twin Cities suburb. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters flew in from either Washington D.C. or Los Angeles CA over the weekend to roil the crowd, to "Get more confrontational" if Chauvin were acquitted. In a city that was already burning. Rep. Waters was only the point of the spear. When has a presiding judge almost invited an appeal?
Let's put it this way: Guilty on all three counts was the course of least resistance. Do you want to be the brave soul who hangs the jury and frees Chauvin? Better pray you don't get doxxed by a juror who voted to convict.
Face time for the Reverend
There was the biggest race huckster of all time, Al Sharpton — the inspiration for Jussie Smollett, in front of the cameras. Followed by speaker after speaker (including George Floyd's rather impressive brother, Philonise), Sharpton never once stepped out of the camera's view.
If this criminal trial were the least bit political, it would not be the first. O.J. Simpson was found not guilty and Captain Alfred Dreyfus judged guilty (as was an itinerant preacher in ancient Judea).
The archives recall a State of Wisconsin functionary who endured trial for "steering" a minor government contract to a travel agency whose owner had contributed to the campaign of Gov. Jim Doyle. The company made the low bid, it met all the specs, the campaign contribution was legal. But the zeitgeist of the early 2000s suspected government corruption in every corner. The TV reporter who broke the story reaped journalistic awards. The woman was convicted and sent to a federal penitentiary. Only months later was she released by an appalled appeals court that found the evidence against her "beyond thin." (Story here.)
Another down payment for racial justice?
What is Derek Chauvin's life expectancy if he spends any time in prison — a white police officer convicted of killing a black man amidst what statistics tell us will be a predominantly black prison population? Anyone remember the fate of Jeffrey Dahmer?
Blaska's Bottom Line: Mainstream law enforcement needed a Derek Chauvin to throw over the side. The crowd got its Barabbas but will it be appeased?
What is YOUR verdict?
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16 Responses to Derek Chauvin gets the death sentence
Balboa says:
Next up that Racist Potter , she is going jail next. All the cops are criminals and all criminals saints.
Ho Hum another Summer with big cities burning. Indifference is the opposite of Love not Hate!
Steve Witherspoon says:
Watch this video which talks about the law and then see if you agree with the multiple guilty verdicts in the Chauvin trial. Make up your mind based on the actual law instead of emotion and rhetoric.
One eye says:
"Black lives do matter" has been a common reaction to the verdict.
I'll take that to mean "All lives matter" is now in play.
Liberty says:
Great post with a lot to think about, Dave.
If Chauvin's case is appealed and he gets just manslaughter, the phony Resistance will burn the country to the ground. Will the night pass without violence, you ask? I sure as heck hope so.
I think we are a county in deep distress. Mob justice, citizens held hostage by anarchists. Elected officials who are complicit. Police departments paralyzed with fear that they won't make arrests. Disrespect for the rule of law (Good for that judge for standing up for it, though!)
Sane leaders will have to muster up their courage and help save this Republic, as I fear we are quickly reaching the point of no return. This includes police leaders. No more weak apologists, please.
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(Red Guards) Composing the majority of the urban population (URBAN POPULATION), they were the main strike force of several radically oriented socialist political factions. Red Guard units were created in March 1917 at manufacturing companies by Factory and Plant Committees and by some communist-inclined party cells (Bolsheviks, Left Socialist Revolutionaries, others). The Red Guards formations were based on the worker's strike forces of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Lenin gave a following evaluation of the phenomenon:
The lack is not in the "new motives", esteemed Manilovs, but in the military force, in the military force of revolutionary people (not people in general) that stands 1) in the armed proletariat and peasantry, 2) in the organized frontline formations out of representatives of those classes, 3) in the ready to side with people military formations. Taken all together, this is a revolutionary army.
— Vladimir Lenin, "Last word of "Iskra" tactics…"[1]
A number of other militarized formations created during the February Revolution, such as "people's militia" (народная милиция), created by the Russian Provisional Government, "squads of self-defence" (отряды самообороны), "committees of public security" (комитеты общественной безопасности), "workers' squads" (рабочие дружины) were gradually unified into the Red Guards.
They got there pound of flesh.
Will it wet or satisfy their appetite?
That is the question.
Even if it does satisfy their appetite this time, what happens next time?
Gary L. Kriewald says:
The Left's appetite for violence and divisiveness is insatiable. And what's worse is they know they're the top predator at the moment (and for the foreseeable future)–all they need to do is glide along snapping up their helpless prey. Anyone besides me fantasizing about what might have happened on Jan 6th if the patriot uprising had left Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, AOC, and a few dozen of their henchmen/women disemboweled in the Capitol rotunda?
Lib, that's an oxymoron. Of COURSE they'll be a next time. And it appears they will be mollified once more, and often -after the age-old expression, "the jury is in" is spoken.
sentient7 says:
No debate. Mob rules. No problem. Next up, lots of non-white perps.
Problem. Will someone define the construct, JUSTICE?
Is it exemplified by Hillary's email server, for which she was not prosecuted?
Is it the false reports that Sicknick died from fire extinguisher abuse, when in fact, he died from natural causes?
Justice? Is that the language of Hunter Biden, or were his prostitutes on parole for jaywalking?
Justice? https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/oct/30/sorry-killers-aide-tells-widow-20101030/
Justice for Channon Christian and Hugh Newsom ?– "The details of their torture are so graphic and heartbreaking that I won't go into much detail beyond this: After being tortured, Christopher Newsom was killed execution style by multiple gunshots before his attackers poured gasoline on his body and set him on fire. Channon Christian had bleach poured down her throat and on her body before being wrapped in plastic bags and placed in a garbage can in the kitchen of the house—all of this while she was still alive. Her last minutes on earth were spent slowly suffocating in a garbage can.
The five people responsible for these heinous crimes were: Lemaricus Davidson, Letalvis Cobbins, George Thomas, Vanessa Coleman and Eric Boyd."
Sentient,
We live in a twisted world, don't we?
The murders you describe didn't make most major news outlets because they don't fit the left's twisted narratives.
Our Madison police chief (and other officials across the country) made it a point to comment about the Derek Chauvin case. Yet we rarely hear about the victims of violent crimes, including the many innocent children gunned down on big city streets. Who's weeping for them?
We live in a broken down country with idiots, cowards, thieves, and people who sell their souls for ambitions, in charge. Integrity is a lost value.
JUSTICE? It's been replaced by mob justice.
This all weighs on my heart and mind quite a bit.
Liberty…..yes, events weigh on my mind, too. Remedy? Totally reject the totalitarian imperatives of the Loony Left, commies, BLM, and other libtard apologist organizations. We're being overcome and overrun by ILLEGALS and libtard Bambi-loving, restorative-justice acolytes who masquerade as deep thinkers. Enough. Cancel illusions. Talk to a Vet who had to eat sand or witness the last words of a brother who died from an IED.
More prisons. More jails. More chainsaws that bite "REALITY."
World done dem wrong? Tough crap. Grow a pair. Man-up. Shoulder the burden.
Normwegian says:
Mad Maxine got in her 2 cents, Pelosi spouted, "Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice," with no coverage in the Lame Stream Media. Pathetic race baiters.
Agreed. They are despicable.
Exactly, Squire, too many legal niceties overlooked -and more. In my opinion, a travesty. The MPLS jury was mugged by BLM and the threat of national violence and had no option. Many will agree w/ the verdict simply B/C of the avoidance of much proclaimed future anarchy. But after breathing a sigh of relief, have we gone forward in any moral way ? I believe we have capitulated to inarticulate thugs and their guilt-ridden Caucasian counterparts. Whirl is king…
Good Dog,Happy Man says:
The hope the hive-minded media expressed was that this corrupt verdict would stop the BLMing.
All Officer Chauvin got was "social justice". Real justice be damned. Will it bring social peace?
No, it won't. For the Black Lives Matter and Antifa fascists the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. The lynch mob doesn't give a damn about George Floyd or black lives. They haven't got the slightest interest in the justice or injustice of any case, this one included. Their attitude is: How can we use this case to advance our real agenda which is overthrowing the American political and economic system and instituting a totalitarian state?
You can call it the race card but what it really is is as old as the hills: divide and conquer.
Radiical Leftyism is a blot on our nation's soul.


Srinagar: 1200 students from Jammu and Kashmir, studying at Aligarh Muslim University on Saturday wrote a letter to the university Administration demanding revocation of sedition charges against two Kashmiri scholars who were suspended on the day Manan Wani, an AMU scholar turned militant, was killed in a gunfight in Kashmir.
A 13-second unverified video shot in the campus showing a gathering with slogans of 'Azadi' reverberating, went viral on social media. While an FIR has been lodged against the students, they say all the charges against them are false.
On basis of the video, the students say "some Right-Wing members have lodged the FIR.
"Two students have been suspended and a show cause notice has been issued to 7 other Kashmiri students. Also, sedition charges have been filed against two students, Waseem Ayoub Malik and Abdul Haseeb Mir, both doctoral students at AMU.
Manan Wani, a Kashmiri pursuing his doctorate in geology at AMU joined Hizbul Mujahideen on January 10, this year. The news about the commander's killing spread like wildfire on October 11. Fearing that his killing might trigger another '2016 like situation', Kashmiri students say that they had gathered to 'discuss the situation'.
"I belong to Kashmir. I am pursuing my PhD in Political and Social developments in Kashmir from 1963 to 75. When Manan Wani, a former doctoral student from AMU was killed in Kashmir, internet was snapped in Kashmir, schools and colleges were shut. Kashmiri students here got anxious as it reminded us of the 2016 situation when Burhan Wani was killed ," says Abdul Haseeb, Indian Council for Historical Research Fellow at Centre for Advanced Studies of History, AMU who has been booked under sedition charges along with Waseem Ayoub Malik, a scholar in Biochemistry, pursuing PhD in Metagenomics.
"Vice President, AMUSU, Sajad Subhan Rather sent us there to normalise the situation. All the students including seniors were there," says Haseeb.
In a jiffy, he says, the University Proctor "with around 100 security guards" had arrived and stopped the students from doing anything regarding this matter. "There was a discussion with AMU proctorial team as to if we would or would not do it. Then, some were saying we should perform funeral prayers for Manan Wani, some were saying, we should not and some were saying we should not do anything about it," says Haseeb who has been sitting in his hostel after he was booked with sedition charges, suspension and an FIR.
In the evening, the students had read news about AMU students performing prayers for Wani.
"Although, he was once an AMU student. He was killed but no funeral prayers were held for him here. According to us, it all falls under the domain of Article 19 Freedom of Speech Act. In any way, it does not qualify for the sedition charges. These are fabricated, false, frivolous charges. We strongly refute these," says Haseeb.
"On behalf of us, other Kashmiri students have said that if the charges are not revoked by October 17, all Kashmiri students here will fly back to Kashmir," he says adding that the students were told that the university had not lodged an FIR against the students.
"The fact is that it is a central university and no FIR can be lodged without its permission. We want the Vice Chancellor to approach the District Administration and take the side of university students and revoke our sedition charges. We have not performed any such act that calls for a sedition charge on us," he says.
"We don't have the copy of FIR but as per the details we have, we have been booked under Section 144, 147, 148, 153 (a), 153 (b), 354, 124 (a). These include rioting, rioting with weapons, enmity, provocation with intention of riot and sedition etc," says Haseeb adding that he along with Malik have always been law-abiding students.
"Whatever is happening is politically motivated and AMU is becoming subservient to the pressures and acting against its own students," says Haseeb.
While talking to Free Press Kashmir, Mashkoor Usmani, President Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union said that the students were holding a condolence meeting that was condemned by the proctorial team.
"They had asked them not to have any sort of condolence meeting in the university. Because Manan Wani had left the university, joined militancy long back. We have not spoken to the university Administration so far as the issue is still burning. Once it calms down, we will talk to them. Let them verify the video and if they don't find anything against the students, the charges must be revoked," says Usmani.
Some students also say that around 5 students who have been asked to respond to a show cause notice are not enrolled in the university.
"Who had given the students right to hit Kashmiris? Had the proctorial team not supported them, it would not have happened. Around 250 Kashmiri students were there. Around 100 local students with around 20 professors. Nothing of the sort happened that would have qualified for sedition charges," says an AMU student, on condition of anonymity.
The students also said that when they went to the proctor with the letter, he had admitted that they are not able to locate 5 students.


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French Street Artist JR is in Los Angeles for a few weeks to wheat-paste twenty or more murals from "Wrinkles in the City", a black and white portrait series featuring colossal visages of the mature angels in this city.
JR (Photo © Todd Mazer)
In a metropolis that famously avoids wrinkles, whether celluloid hero or not, plastering enormous creased and cratered kissers across architectural facades and rooftops is tantamount to vandalism. All of this seems perfect for the 28 year old former graffeur from Paris, who won the 2011 TED prize and who has previously installed portions of this project in Shanghai and Cartegena.
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Leg 2 - Ternate to Jayapura on Lapita Anuta
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By Hanneke Boon
Finally the end of the 900Nm long second leg of Lapita Voyage was reached when we dropped anchor at 2am in the morning on Christmas Eve in the smelly harbour of Jayapura. We did a rather neat entry under sail in the dark and rain and felt pleased with ourselves, we had a drink of rum punch to celebrate Christmas and our arrival, but we were exhausted.
It had been 3 weeks of hard sailing since we crossed the Equator off the West coast of Halmahera in Indonesia, too much sailing and not enough time to relax ashore. We anchored a few times in pretty anchorages, but had to leave again the next morning without time to explore the shore. It was difficult anchoring on the steep coral ledges that surround islands, too shallow close to shore, too deep just 20m further out, so the only way was to anchor parallel to the shore with fore and aft anchors hooked into the coral slope at about 6-8m and hope there is no strong onshore wind in the night, or the tide dropping and one hull scraping the coral!!
Anchored on a coral ledge. The shores are lined with mangroves, making landing impossible
An idyllic bay with whitesand beache, but spoilt by an obnoxious policeman
There was one idyllic bay with white sand beach at the South end of Gebe Island, the last island off the South East end of Halmahere, but this beautiful place was spoiled by the visit of an intrusive policeman and his mates, who we found it hard to get rid of. He spoke no English at all, but was still capable of making us all feel thoroughly uncomfortable. This was the time that Christoph on the other boat got ill with a bladder complaint, that turned serious as time passed.
The policeman came on canoes and would not leave us alone.
Dampier straight
After Gebe we had to negotiate Dampier Strait at the NW end of the head of New Guinea. We had no tidal information and were faced with contrary currents in the narrows. Later we heard the times the current would be in our favour and made use of this.
On the North side of Dampier Strait is the small island of Kri, here we stopped for one day (9th December) at a luxury Dive Resort, run by a nice Dutchman called Max, and enjoyed, just briefly, some shore luxuries and nice meals. Unfortunately the anchorage (mooring) was in a tiny lagoon where the surf rolled in and made sleeping aboard very uncomfortable. In Kri the two Christophs left us, one was too ill to continue and the other needed to catch his plane on time. There were now just three crew on each boat. On Anuta this was James, myself and Eve, a German journalist writing for 'Stern' magazine about women aboard.
Sunrise after a miserable stormy night
View from the port cockpit after hours of rain
We now faced a long distance without stopping, 300Nm to Biak Island, where three new crew would come to meet the boats (rather than wait in Jayapura) and one would need to leave. We were still well behind schedule so could not afford more stops and anyway, there isn't much to stop at along this coast. This was a hard sail taking 6 days, with as first challenge a short (4 hour) gale in the night, probably about force 7, along the coast off the 'head' of New Guinea, running before the wind under stormsail, where James and I both steered, one on each tiller as one rudder did not give enough steerage in the breaking following seas. The next day I made a sea anchor from two nesting rattan Filipino baskets, so if we are ever caught out like this again we can keep her stern to the waves. A few days later I also fitted a tillerbar, connecting the two rudders, which does make steering more powerful.
The decks and everything on them are sodden
The washing baskets made ready to use as sea anchor
By sunset the next day we suddenly got a huge swell with little to no wind. With no wind we loose steerage and the boat then naturally lies beam on to the seas, so you can imagine lolloping about for hours in huge beam seas going nowhere. Later we discovered there had been a cyclone near Guam, North of the Equator and this swell was probably the result of this. Then some more strong wind in the night and the inevitable sail changes. Eve was feeling sick, but she always came to help me do the sails while James steered. Next morning back to the swell and no wind, then cloud and pouring rain, will this ever be a nice sailing voyage?
The last three days more of the same, clouds and rain to no wind and very hot. The first 4 days we averaged 68, 73, 72 and 53 Nm per 24 hours, but on day 5 we made just 16 Nm, due to total lack of wind, and what wind there was, was against us. We were looking at the Western end of Biak Island all day, but could not get there. 'Lapita Tikopia' had been a bit luckier and was about 8-10Nm ahead of us, they decided to use the dinghy motor to try to get into the village of Korido before nightfall, so Gisela could get to her aeroplane on time, she just made it!!
Korido when it stopped raining. Many canoes lined the beach.
James examines one of the canoes. The stern has been chopped off to fit a transom for an outboard motor.
We carried on through the night and finally had a beautiful breeze, self-steering on a flat sea, this was more like it. About 3-4 Nm from the village I could not see it, as there were hardly any shore lights, but could hear it and pinpoint its position on sound. Somehow they had disco music on loud at 4.30 in the morning! We arrived in Korido village early in the morning, just as the clouds opened with more pouring rain.
A couple of days in the nice little village of Korido did something to get over the overdose of hard sailing, but it was not long enough. We sailed on to the port of Biak to buy supplies and unknowingly anchored off the Naval base (again in the dark). The naval officers were nice and helpful and gave us a lift to town in their truck, but we again had to go through the usual endless Indonesian paperwork.
The smelly harbour of Jayapura
Christmas Eve get together in a hotel bar. Some of the new crew had a room here so we could have showers.
The final long stretch to Jayapura, another 300Nm, took us 4 days. One day in this typical Indonesian town was enough (we did have a little Christmas Eve party ashore), we cleared customs and left on Christmas Day for Wewak in Papua New Guinea, where we hope to find nicer surroundings and some peace for a rest!?
- Hanneke Boon
‹ In The Navy... Leg 3 - Jayapura To Rabaul on Lapita Anuta ›
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Watch the full length film of the Lapita Voyage
This film about the Lapita Voyage was produced by James Wharram Designs for a major Marine Archaeological conference (ISBSA12) in Istanbul in October 2009.
It starts with a short history of Canoeform Craft and early Migrations into the Pacific, explained by James Wharram with the help of maps and photos. Then follows a film of the launching and sailing of the Lapita Voyage boats, which culminates in navigating without instruments the last open ocean stretch to Anuta and the wonderful welcome on the island where the boat is hauled up the beach by the Anutans. In the final part of the film we discover the ancient collection of canoes on Anuta and follow the Anutan crew as they sail and navigate the boat to Tikopia.
The Lapita Voyage, with its unique opportunities for research, was a major expedition in Experimental Marine Archaeology, but was also a fantastic sailing adventure. The two boats met squalls, storms and days of calms. They sailed without engines or escort boat in the remote seas of the Pacific.
The film is a must for anyone who has followed the voyage on the website, but also for anyone with an interest in where the history of the modern catamaran began.
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Q: MongoDB - filter in find function I am writing a query in mongo db. I want to know that how do I use substring function in find function, like I have a date string. I want to filter the date by year and then group by month.
This is what I have tried:
db.booking.find({$substr:["$bookingdatetime",5,2]:"14"}).aggregate([     {$group: {         _id: {$substr: ['$bookingdatetime', 5, 2]},          numberofbookings: {$sum: 1}     }} ])

Where am I going wrong ?

A: $substr can be used only as a string aggregation operation. You cannot use it as a operator in a find query. You can form the aggregation pipeline as below:
db.booking.aggregate([
{$project:{"year":{$substr:["$bookingdatetime",5,2]},
           "numberofbookings":1,
           "bookingdatetime":1}},
{$match:{"year":14}},
{$group:{"_id":{$substr: ['$bookingdatetime', 5, 2]},
         numberofbookings: {$sum: 1}}}
])

or,
use a regex to match the date pattern with specific year.

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Take chicken pieces out of slow cooker and pour remaining sauce into saucepan. Place saucepan over high heat. Mix together corn starch and water, pour into saucepan, and mix well. Let sauce come to a boil and boil for 2-3 minutes, or until it starts to thicken and turns into a glaze. Remove from heat and let sit for a minute or two (it will continue to thicken as it cools down). Top with additional sauce and sprinkle red pepper flakes on top if desired.
This can be served over rice or noodles. We served it on top of a cornbread pancake.
This was so easy and healthy! I know tomato season is almost over, but I wanted to make sure and share this recipe with you. It was very tasty and definitely a healthy dinner option that is quick!
Salt and pepper tilapia fillets to your taste. Bake fish for 6 minutes. Remove fish from oven, turn fish over and top with mozzarella and tomato mixture. Place back in the oven bake for an additional 4 minutes.
Fish is ready when it flakes easily.
And, I'm back. Hoping to get back to posting recipes again. My life is so busy, it's really hard to get to the blog. But I didn't want to miss sharing this one. This sandwich was so incredibly good!! It tasted like a chicken and cheese dip with french bread. It was pretty good heated up in the toaster oven the next day too! All you have to do is mix up the ingredients and bake it, so easy! You do have to cook the chicken, but you could in a pinch use canned chicken if you wanted to. I'm making this tonight and I can't wait!!
*note the original recipe includes olives, I omitted them.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place french bread on large baking sheet. Mix all topping ingredients together in a bowl. Spread topping evenly on top of both lengths of french bread. Bake for 15-20 minutes until bubbly and edges are lightly browned. Slice into pieces and serve immediately.


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And here�s what the opening phase looks like.
Next month, 13 law enforcement agencies in the region will begin using a new handheld device that lets an officer scan a person�s fingerprints and seek a match in an electronic database � all without going anywhere.
Police say taking fingerprints in the field will allow them to work more efficiently and safely. But the ACLU North Carolina in Raleigh worries that the device may allow officers to violate privacy rights.
The ACLU is concerned about what will become of fingerprint scans that are sent to other databases, such as the National Crime Information Center.
...speaking of which....remember all the bruh hah hah about the 'Millenium bug'....well, for our computers it was a hoax and some profit for a few companies to fix a non-existant problem; but for TPTB I do now believe they had in mind to change things drastically and forever after 2000 [fitting into their own religious hageography]. It wasn't one year past that we had 9-11 and Anthrax attacks and now look....not yet 2011 and we have cyber-warfare and anyone who doesn't bow to Corporate/Govt/neo-fascist/Oligarchic/Banking pressure gets tortured, killed or left broke, homeless, to starve or be arrested and disappeared into the Gulag..... How are we different than China or the Soviet Union? Perhaps only the language and habits..... Stay tuned..... Its gonna be a rough ride the next 12 months.....as I don't think the World society can take much more - yet TPTB are about to dish out a whole shitload more.... as in NOW!
Analogously, "Cloud" computing, and backup options which store all your data on remote servers in cyberspace, are clearly ways for The Man to regain control.
Second, The Man controls the On/Off switch, and can flick it whenever he chooses.


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Hoy Magazine / Southern California Reproductive Center
Infertility Among Latinas
A growing problem, devastating for women and invisible to society.
As Latin, Erika Vega thought that there would be no problem in giving children their spouse. In fact before getting married, the couple had talked about having a family without knowing that the young man was infertile.
Two years into the marriage, Erika went to the doctor for a problem of cysts and there received the unpleasant news.
With their dreams crumbled, Erika gave your spouse the divorce option while his family began to press it with home remedies, visits to the healer, and petitions to the Holy Niño de Antocha, since before infertility only a miracle of faith could help her.
A growing number of Latina women in States, experience the condition of Erika designated professionals in the field.
Many of these women are approaching experts in search of fertilization in vitro as a response. However, many others still flock to the ancient remedies and are reluctant to help because of cultural stigmas and the high cost of the procedures.
Devastating infertility
"When I knew that was infertile two years ago entered me fear, sadness and despair… I didn't know what was going to happen to my marriage and told my spouse that if he wanted to we could divorce", says Erika.
"My Mom took me with a lady who collected herbs from your backyard to rub me, but none of that worked", added the 28-year-old girl.
Between faith and frustration, Erika also wrote a letter of prayer to the patron saint of children in the Catholic religion, the child of Antocha, so this made him the miracle.
Cesar Rosete, spouse of Erika, I also felt pressure by the family, after all "children are important in marriage, are responsibility and happiness," says.
The barriers
The impact of infertility on the Latino community in the United States still has not been adequately examined or accounted in part for the high perception that latinas have a very high fertility rate, says a study by the US National Library of Medicine. This perception makes condition an invisible problem even for many doctors specialists, researchers and policy analysts to provide funding for studies.
What is documented is that more than 65 million or 15 per cent of women between the ages of 15 to 44 years of age, in the country suffer from infertility.
Latino heritage with fertility problems couples have half as likely than the population in general of United States seek treatments to have children, says a report of the American Psychological Association (APA).
APA also reveals that Anglo-Saxon women are two times more likely than minorities to seek treatment for infertility.
Doctor Rubén Alvero, director of the University of Colorado from the medicine reproductive advanced, is agreed that Latino men and women are perceived as universally fertile and do not require professional treatments.
Likewise, the doctor sets out that "infertility is a cultural stigma that prevents those affected speak on the subject, and " much less help medica" ".
"A persistent theme is that people see their medical providers with lack of interest in helping them with their infertility," Alvero said.
For these people, the ancestral remedies are the only option, says Doña Perlita, who makes abdominal massages in their modest apartment in Tustin to reset the internal organs out of place with the aim of improving fertility.
"Many women come to receive massages… there I can see if they have fallen matrix, if you have cysts or other abnormality which may not have children", says Perlita, who did not want to reveal his last name.
"I think that most that has come in the past four years, 80 percent said that he has not gone to the doctor because it is expensive. "Very few are those who say that are to undergo a treatment if my massage doesn't work", adds Lady.
Couple finds the answer
In the case of the Erika, her doctor recommended fertilization in vitro (IVF).
Fertility treatment is to stimulate the ovaries through the administration of hormones that cause ovulation. Then the eggs are removed and the sperm in a laboratory are injected. The embryo (or embryos) resulting from the combination is transferred to a woman's uterus to develop into a baby, said Dr. Shahin Ghadir, an expert in reproductive endocrinology and infertility of the Southern California Reproductive Center in Ventura.
IVF can help you conceive if women have ovulation problems, suffer from endometriosis or the quality of the eggs is less if the fallopian tubes are blocked, the latter is the case of the Erika, says Ghadir, who also specializes in obstetrics and Gynecology.
A fact is that more and more babies in the United States are being conceived by in vitro fertilization. The fertility treatments is more than 1.5 per cent of the children born in the country, according to the report of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology.
"The effectiveness of the IVF has a success from 69 per cent to 80 per cent", says Dr. Ghadir, who is currently trying to Erika.
The high price of being fertile
Currently only 15 of the nation's 50 States have legislated that insurance providers offer coverage of some sort for the IVF treatment, according to the National Conference of State legislatures.
These States are: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and West Virginia.
However, in California, for the treatment of infertility coverage only is required on group plans, and not on individual insurance policies that people buy on their own. With this mandate are very few providers who can do some kind of discount, so the coverage and cost average of whole IVF procedure varies between 10 to 20 thousand dollars in California.
Erika and Cesar must pay a little less than 15 thousand dollars, but coming from a large family cost is the least, they indicate.
"If I could not bring my baby in a natural way, now I know that there are other options and not ashamed to have recourse to them. "The treatment is expensive, but the result will complete the family… will bring much happiness", says Erika.
Some facts about fertility
Approximately one-third of infertility is attributed to women, one-third is attributed to the man and a third is caused by a combination of problems in both partners, or is inexplicable.
A couple between 29 and 33 years of age with healthy reproductive system only has a 20 to 25 percent chance of conceiving in any month.
After six months of trying, 60 per cent of couples designed without medical assistance.
Approximately 44 per cent of all women with infertility problems seek medical assistance.
This entry was posted in Southern California Reproductive Center on May 22, 2017 by admin.
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Q: Testing $\sum\limits_{k=1}^∞(\frac{k+1}k)^{k^2}3^{-k}$ for convergence and absolute convergence
Test $$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\left(\frac{k+1}{k}\right)^{k^2}3^{-k}$$ for convergence and absolute convergence.

We apply the ratio test for $\displaystyle \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\left|\left(\frac{k+1}{k}\right)^{k^2}3^{-k}\right|$:
$$
\left|\frac{\left(\dfrac{k+2}{k+1}\right)^{(k+1)^2}3^{-(k+1)}}{\left(\dfrac{k+1}{k}\right)^{k^2}3^{-k}}\right|=\left|\frac{\left(\left(\dfrac{k+2}{k+1}\right)^{k}\right)^2\left(\dfrac{k+2}{k+1}\right)^{2k+1}3^{-k}\dfrac{1}{3}}{\left(\dfrac{k+1}{k}\right)^{k^2}3^{-k}}\right|→\frac{e^2\cdot e^2\cdot\dfrac13}{e^2}=\frac{1}{3}e^2.
$$
Since $\dfrac{1}{3}e^2 \geq 1$, the series diverges. Is this correct? I feel like I made a mistake somewhere that I cannot pin down.

A: Too long for a comment.
Consider
$$a_k=\left(\frac{k+1}{k}\right)^{k^2}3^{-k}$$ and you want to analyze $\frac{a_{k+1}}{a_k}$. It is convenient to consider first
$$\log\left(\frac{a_{k+1}}{a_k}\right)=\log\left({a_{k+1}}\right)-\log\left({a_{k}}\right)$$ where
$$\log\left({a_{k}}\right)=k^2 \log \left(\frac{k+1}{k}\right)-k\log (3)$$ making
$$\log\left(\frac{a_{k+1}}{a_k}\right)=(k+1)^2
   \log \left(\frac{k+2}{k+1}\right)-k^2 \log \left(\frac{k+1}{k}\right)+(k+1)\log(3)-k \log (3)$$ Now, use Taylor series for large values of $k$ to get
$$\log\left(\frac{a_{k+1}}{a_k}\right)=\log \left(\frac{e}{3}\right)-\frac{1}{3
   k^2}+O\left(\frac{1}{k^3}\right)$$ Take now the exponential of both sides and continue with Taylor and get
$$\frac{a_{k+1}}{a_k}=\frac{e}{3}-\frac{e}{9 k^2}+O\left(\frac{1}{k^3}\right)$$

A: Well known fact: $(1+1/k)^k < e, k=1,2,\dots$ Thus
$$(1+1/k)^{k^2}3^{-k}=[(1+1/k)^k]^k\cdot3^{-k} < e^k3^{-k} = (e/3)^k.$$
Since $0<e/3<1,$ $\sum (e/3)^k$ is a convergent geometric series. By the comparison test, $\sum (1+1/k)^{k^2}3^{-k}$ converges. (It's a positive series, so convergence and absolute convergence are the same.)

A: Yet another way:
\begin{align*}
\frac{a_{k+1}}{a_{k}} & =\frac{1}{3}\left(1+\frac{1}{k}\right)^{-k^{2}}\left(1+\frac{1}{1+k}\right)^{(1+k)^{2}}\\
 & =\frac{1}{3}\left(1+\frac{1}{k}\right)^{-k^{2}}\left(1+\frac{1}{1+k}\right)^{k^{2}+k}\left(1+\frac{1}{1+k}\right)^{k+1}.
\end{align*}
Now, if
$$
b_{k}\equiv\left(1+\frac{1}{k}\right)^{-k^{2}}\left(1+\frac{1}{1+k}\right)^{k^{2}+k}
$$
has limit one, we can conclude $a_{k+1}/a_{k}\rightarrow e/3$. Take
logs to get
$$
\log b_{k}=k\left[\left(1+k\right)\log\left(1+\frac{1}{1+k}\right)-k\log\left(1+\frac{1}{k}\right)\right].
$$
As in Claude Leibovici's answer, expand around $\infty$ to get
$$
\log b_{k}=k\left(\frac{1}{2k^{2}}+O\left(\frac{1}{k^{3}}\right)\right)\rightarrow0
$$
so that $b_{k}=e^{\log b_k}\rightarrow e^0=1$, as desired.

A: FYI, estimation of upper bound:
$\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\left(\frac{k+1}{k}\right)^{k^2}3^{-k}=\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\left(\frac{1}{k}+1\right)^{k^2}3^{-k}$
Using binominal theorem and the following unequality: $\begin{pmatrix}n \\ {k} \end{pmatrix}\lt \frac{n^k}{k!}$ we get:
$\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{3^k}\sum\limits_{j=0}^{k^2}\begin{pmatrix}{k^2} \\ {j} \end{pmatrix} k^{-j}=\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{3^k}\sum\limits_{j=0}^{k^2}\frac{k^{2j}}{j!} k^{-j}=\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{3^k}\sum\limits_{j=0}^{k^2}\frac{k^{j}}{j!}\lt\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\big(\frac{e}{3}\big)^k=\frac{e}{3-e}$

A: It has already been pointed out where you've made a mistake, so here's an alternative approach:
By the root test,
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\sqrt[n]{\left|\left(1+\frac1n\right)^{n^2}3^{-n}\right|}=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\frac1n\right)^n3^{-1}=\frac e3<1$$
the series converges.


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I paired the two with a new neckpiece from Swamp, which I bought over the weekend for only €10. The photo does not do it justice, but it's 3D star shape cage with a diamond shape piece on the inside and black leather fringing. It's held together by a long black chain. For such a statement piece it's actually very light to wear and not heavy at all on the neck.
They have a gorgeous range of statement jewellery at the moment that would be perfect with any summer outfit. I have my eye on a massive floral one, which I'll be getting the next time I pop in. I find it very difficult to leave Swamp stores without a sneaky purchase, am I the only one?


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Mankind had long stretched outwards beyond the planet Earth, engulfing the entire solar system we have colonised beyond our home world from Mars to Venus, but now all stands in ruins, destroyed by our enemies are last stand is on Earth, the last city that remains of our once glorious Empire.
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A Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
Stuckart, Diane A. S.
After the deaths of two female servants, Leonardo da Vinci asks his apprentice, Dino, to go undercover disguised as a woman in the service of the Duke's ward. The task should prove easy since "Dino" is in reality Delfina, a young woman masquerading as a boy to serve as Leonardo's apprentice. But complications in the case soon have the young apprentice torn between her loyalty to Leonardo and her growing feelings for a captain of the Duke's guard.
Publisher: New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2009.
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Very interesting plot, the story was well written, and there is always the fact that you are on the edge of you seat waiting to find out the whole truth and if she would actually be found out!!!
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Sounds like a good book, but an abundance of boring description.
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Q: testing methods that use android api first post so sorry if I messed up. I am trying to write a test for a method that uses android.graphics.path, I am only using Junit (I think) and every time I try to execute the tests I get an error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Method moveTo in android.graphics.Path not mocked, I get a very similar error when testing methods that use graphics.Point, I don't know if i have missed something or if graphics objects cant be used in testing? (though the latter seems unlikely). any help on how I should be writing this test would be really appreciated!
@Test

public void createHorizontalLinesFromVerticesReturnsAnArrayListOfTheRightSize() {
    Grid grid = new Grid();
    ArrayList a = new ArrayList();
    a.add(new Coordinate(0 ,0));
    a.add(new Coordinate(333, 0));
    a.add(new Coordinate(666, 0));
    a.add(new Coordinate(999, 0));
    assertThat(grid.horizontalPaths.size(), is(GlobalParameters.getHorizontalLines()));
}

public ArrayListcreateHorizontalLinesFromVerticies(ArrayList list){
    ArrayList<Path> p = new ArrayList<>();
    Path path;
    for(Coordinate c : list){
        path = new Path();
        path.moveTo(c.getX(), c.getY());
        path.lineTo(c.getX(), Constants.getScreenHeight());
        p.add(path);
    }
    return p;
}


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