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Eagles Of Death Metal - Making Little Richard proud
Actually I just wanted to see Eagles Of Death Metal because I reviewed their last disc Death By Sexy…, which was highly entertaining. And when I noticed that The Spores were added to the line-up I knew for sure I was going. And why not do an interview with both bands as well, to make it even harder on myself. I was confronted with an already stoned Jesse Hughes who didn't really feel like doing this interview judging from his short answers. And for a change, there is a tremendous amount of annoying background noise. No matter, here's the result of a very short conversation.
So where did this idea for Eagles Of Death Metal come from?
'From the depths of hell! Hahaha. From Little Richard's asshole!! Haha, no I'm just kidding.'
I don't mind, I like such answers. By who is it originated then?
'I write all the songs, but it's me and Josh Homme.'
How do you deliver Death By Sexy?
'Death By Sexy is an attitude, it's like being born again. Being slain in the spirit of sexy. Every sex can slay by sexy.'
You think so?
'I know so.'
Haha, does it also involve beards and moustaches?
'Certainly! Doc Holiday baby! You wanna be a cowboy a little bit. It's about taking your masculinity serious enough to take femininity seriously too.'
Very deep! So who are Queen Bee and Baby Duck?
'Joshua Homme and Brody Dalle.'
But they are the king and queen?
'Well yeah, they're my friends and I think their romance is such a fairytale, that I wrote a fairytale about the king and queen of rock 'n' roll man. Which to me, they are. And they look like a big baby duck and a queen bee.'
Okay, sounds obvious. What can you tell us about your DVD By Sexy?
'It's basically a documentary about two good friends having the time of their life caught on video. That's really what it is. Is not so much a rock DVD as it is a movie made by Liam Lynch. And it's wonderful. It's shits 'n' giggles all the way 'til the end.'
About Josh Homme, what exactly does he contribute to the band, because I know he used to drum…
'He still drums, he's my eternal partner and he's the producer of the band as well. He's the one that makes it sound less like another mainstream rip-off. And a couple of songs I let him play the guitar.'
You let him play the guitar? That's nice of you.
'Yeah that was nice of me.'
So what is the last concert you went to and/or actually paid for?
'Uhm, let's see. The Raconteurs maybe?'
Oh yeah, how was that ? Did they do that Nancy Sinatra cover?
'Yeah, they did. It was nice and heavy.'
In movies, who do you prefer; Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone?
'Arnold Schwarzenegger. And in politics I also prefer Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loooove the Governator!
What's you favourite movie then?
The Quiet Man with Kate Danaher and John Wayne.
No no, favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie!
Favourite Schwarzenegger movie, whooo… I like Pumping Iron, and I still like Conan The Barbarian and Conan The Destroyer. Red Sonja, Red Heat, The Terminator, 2, 3, all that shit.
Lovely brainless entertainment.
'It's not supposed to make you boast at somebody, it's supposed to entertain you. That's why they call it entertainment, hehe.'
Do you own any death metal albums?
'Yeah I like Dimmu Borgir.
That's more like black metal.
'Ah that's all death to me. Either it sounds like Black Sabbath Volume 4, or it doesn't.'
So is that the only band you really like?
'I like, Vader. I like Cannibal Corpse. I don't know where they fall in, but I like them. Morbid Angel.
Do you know Immolation?
'Yes, a friend of mine really loves them, that's some cool shit.'
Okay, so what are the future plans for Eagles Of Death Metal then?
'We're gonna record a new album when we're done with this tour. We'll release that and tour on that. And we're re-releasing Death By Sexy as well, with extra stuff on it.
Do you have anything to add to this interview?
'I just wanna make Little Richard proud. And ladies, I love you.'
Okay man, thanks a lot.
'Yeah man, thank you!'
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There are a total of 6 assisted living facilities in Alamogordo, New Mexico area. This list includes Alamogordo senior housing, assisted senior living communities and residential care homes for the elderly. Alamogordo assisted senior living facilities also provide dementia and Alzheimer's care (also known as memory care in Alamogordo, NM).
Aristocrat Assisted Living is an assisted living facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico. It can provide senior living to a maximum of 49 elderly adults at a time. It is located at 252 Robert H Bradley Drive, 88310 zip code in Otero county. Aristocrat Assisted Living helps elderly adults who require assistance with everyday tasks. Aristocrat Assisted Living is a state-licensed senior living facility with License # 5729.
Good Samaritan Society Betty Dare provides senior living in Otero county, New Mexico. It contains a total of 90 assisted living apartments for older adults. Good Samaritan Society Betty Dare provides affordable, pet-friendly assisted elderly housing and is located at 3101 North Florida Avenue, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310.
Aristocrat Of Alamogordo Ii is an upscale senior assisted living facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico. It supports a total of 40 assisted living units. Aristocrat Of Alamogordo Ii is available to all Otero county elderly residents in need of assisted living. Aristocrat Of Alamogordo Ii is situated at 252 Robert Bradley Drive in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Beehive Homes Of Alamogordo is a residential care facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, located at 1106 San Cristo in 88310 zip code. It provides memory care and assisted living throughout Otero county in New Mexico. Beehive Homes Of Alamogordo has a total of 15 assisted living apartment units.
Casa Arena Blanca Nursing Center is an elderly assisted housing facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Casa Arena Blanca Nursing Center is located at 205 Moonglow Ave. , 88310 zip code and provides assisted living to all Otero county elderly residents. It provides 117 senior living units in total.
Mescalero Assisted Living is a senior care and living facility in Mescalero, New Mexico, located at 454 Lipan Avenue. Any elderly or older adults looking for assisted living in Otero county or near 88340 zip code should consider Mescalero Assisted Living as one of the best options.
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Are you interested in replacing an empty front yard with a garden? Need to fix a cracked rear patio? Trying to save water to use on your parched potted plants? Rain Check can provide funding for these home improvement projects and more.
Through Rain Check, you can save money, improve your landscaping and help protect Philadelphia's rivers and streams. Participate in the program and you will join more than 5,000 Philadelphia residents who have installed stormwater management tools on their properties to stop pollution from entering our waterways.
We believe every Philadelphia resident can help to improve the health of our rivers. Flowers in rain gardens, new permeable paver patios and rain barrels can all spruce up a property, but these tools do more than look nice. Each of these landscaping amenities plays an important role in capturing stormwater that would otherwise contribute to sewer overflows that hurt Philly's rivers.
The Challenge: Stormwater Pollution
Stormwater runoff, another term for rainwater or melting snow that doesn't soak into the ground, is the biggest threat to the health of Philadelphia's waterways. Because our homes, businesses and roads cover the soil, most water that falls during storms goes right into sewers. Every time it rains in the City, stormwater runoff collects oil, grease and other harmful pollutants and carries it to our rivers. In some cases, this water mixes with sewage and our sewer system overflows. This hurts rivers, and laws require we fix the problem.
The Solution: Soak Up the Rain!
Green City, Clean Waters is a City of Philadelphia program that keeps pollution out of rivers and creeks by soaking up the rain water before it enters the sewers. Throughout the City, the Philadelphia Water Department is building green tools that use plants, soil, special pavement and stone to soak up rain water. Each year, Green City, Clean Waters projects soak up millions of gallons of polluted stormwater runoff from parks, schools, streets and other public places. But with more than 1.5 million people and hundreds of thousands of homes in Philadelphia, residents like you can play a big role in keeping local waterways clean.
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The Philadelphia Water Department started the Rain Check program in 2012 to help residents manage stormwater and contribute to the health of our local rivers and streams. The Water Department funds this program as part of our overall plan to improve stormwater management in the City and to educate Philadelphia residents on the importance of managing stormwater runoff. Rain Check fits into the mission of the Department to provide high quality drinking water, waste water and stormwater services to the Philadelphia region.
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The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1827, committed to connecting people to horticulture and together creating beautiful, healthy and sustainable communities. In addition to producing the annual Philadelphia Flower Show, America's largest and longest-running horticultural event, PHS operates a comprehensive collection of urban greening, gardening, and tree planting programs that are a model for cities across the country. Since 2014, PHS has managed the Rain Check program, including scheduling and leading workshops, interacting with program participants, and coordinating with the subcontractor network to install residential stormwater management tools.
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Yotpo helps brands leverage their user-generated content to improve their marketing efforts, either by asking for customer reviews, or by curating photos and mentions from social media. When new users sign up for their free plan, a series of tooltips guides them through each step of the process of crafting their first review request email.
Yotpo makes sure their onboarding helps first-time users to get value out of the product right away. Users can get started immediately by filling out fields with the actual information and copy they intend to use in their review request email.
The four-step tooltip tutorial includes links to more reading about how to optimize email copy. These tooltips inspire users to not only use the tool, but to also get the most out of their campaigns by reading up on educational content.
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To Kill A Mockingbird - 50th Anniversary Edition
Blu-ray | Classic | 11 Apr 2012
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him - except Peck, the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Title: To Kill A Mockingbird - 50th Anniversary Edition
Actor(s): Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall
OFLC Rating: PG
Run Time: 129
Transfer Format: 1080P HD, 16:9 Enhanced, Full Height Anamorphic, Widescreen
Language: English, DTS 5.1 HD
OFLC Advice: Mild Themes And Violence
Director(s): Robert Mulligan
Genre: Drama, Award - OSCAR - Actor


The AK protocol is a so-called master slave protocol. Here, the analyzers act as slave, i.e. the analyzers only react to enquiries, they never send on their own initiative. The analyzers are controlled by a master. In general this is a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).
The AK protocol can be used either via the serial RS232 interface or via Ethernet. The following figure shows the connection of the ethernet interface to AK communication.


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David Letterman Retires and Makes the Entire World Sad
Jacqueline Sahagian
source: NBC
On Wednesday night David Letterman gave his final broadcast after 33 years in late-night TV. The farewells and general hoopla surrounding his retirement has gone on for weeks and included many big name guests stopping by the show to pay tribute. His comedy was seen as a game-changer when his show debuted, with his self-deprecating humor and pranks, including a famous one in which he tortured customers at a Taco Bell by posing as an employee and giving awful service. Current late-night comedians and comedy in general owe a huge debt to Letterman for taking such big risks on such a huge platform. Lots of celebrities were big fans of the comedian and late-night show host, as was evident in the packed house of huge stars who showed up for the finale's taping. Here's a look at how some have paid homage to Letterman as he's hung up the blue suit.
The Foo Fighters are one of Letterman's favorite bands and for the show's final musical performance, they serenaded Dave with his proclaimed favorite song "Everlong." Dave Grohl and company also played that same song when Letterman returned to the show after undergoing heart surgery in 2000, according to Pitchfork, which said that the band cancelled a tour in order to come and play the song for the recovered comedian. The song played over a montage of highlights from his 33 years on television.
Bill Murray was Letterman's final guest on Tuesday night. He popped out of a cake for his appearance, and told Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC after taping that Letterman "can do anything and he just floats above everything. He's really in a different plane than the rest of us right now," per Deadline.
Fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel refused to even air a competing episode of his show on Wednesday night out of respect, playing a re-run instead. Over on Conan O'Brien's show, O'Brien paid tribute to Letterman with a song speech discussing how influential Letterman has been on O'Brien's comedy career, telling the story of a particular moment when Letterman actually single-handedly saved O'Brien's career in late-night, which he wrapped up by asking viewers to change the channel and watch Letterman's final broadcast. "He has been the North Star for me and for every comic of my generation," O'Brien said.
For the very last Top 10 List, ten comedians and celebrities participated in saying "Top 10 Things I've Always Wanted to Say to Dave," which you can read over on Deadline. Those who read the funny quips included Alec Baldwin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Carrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Tina Fey, and more.
Of course, celebrities took to Twitter to express their bittersweet feelings about Letterman's goodbye. Even President Obama posted a photo of his recent interview with Dave and said that "TV won't be the same" without him.
TV won't be the same without Dave. pic.twitter.com/9q5NHTf3b5
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 20, 2015
Thank you for so many laughs! You will be greatly missed @Letterman pic.twitter.com/LG8oKlYTTb — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 21, 2015
Tonight is @letterman's final Late Show. We love each other so much. I will miss him so. But look out — I'll find him!! #ThanksDave — Betty White (@BettyMWhite) May 21, 2015
Mwa! #GoodbyeDavidLetterman much love! pic.twitter.com/C1HV8DQ5xC
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) May 21, 2015
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In the end, Letterman's trademark self-deprecation remained throughout the evening. He quipped, "save a little for my funeral," as the tributes continued to pour in. Though he always defined himself as the late-night loser after failing to get The Tonight Show job over his rival Jay Leno and never quite getting the ratings that show did, this finale was a refreshing counter to Leno's maudlin retirement episode. "It's beginning to look like I'm not going to get The Tonight Show," Letterman joked. It does look like Letterman is going to get a pretty decent legacy, one that rivals Leno's, which he built from his own show as the late-night underdog.
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Q: Merge multiple numeric column as list typed column in data.table [R] I'm trying to find a way to merge multiple column numeric column as a new list type column.
Data Table
dt <- data.table(
  a=c(1,2,3),
  b=c(4,5,6),
  c=c(7,8,9)
)

Expected Result
   a b c   d
1: 1 4 7 1,4,7
2: 2 5 8 2,5,8
3: 3 6 9 3,6,9

Attempt 1
I have tried doing append with a list with dt[,d:=list(c(a,b,c))] but it just append everything instead and get the incorrect result
   a b c       d
1: 1 4 7 1,2,3,4,5,6,...
2: 2 5 8 1,2,3,4,5,6,...
3: 3 6 9 1,2,3,4,5,6,...

A: Do a group by row and place the elements in the list
dt[, d := .(list(unlist(.SD, recursive = FALSE))), 1:nrow(dt)]

-output
dt
   a b c     d
1: 1 4 7 1,4,7
2: 2 5 8 2,5,8
3: 3 6 9 3,6,9

Or another option is paste and strsplit
dt[, d := strsplit(do.call(paste, c(.SD, sep=",")), ",")]

Or may use transpose
dt[, d := lapply(data.table::transpose(unname(.SD)), unlist)]
dt
   a b c     d
1: 1 4 7 1,4,7
2: 2 5 8 2,5,8
3: 3 6 9 3,6,9

A: dt[, d := purrr::pmap(.SD, ~c(...))]

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We worked with homelessness charity Shekinah Mission and the Torbay Ending Street Homelessness (TESH) campaign from 2016 to 2022.
Who was involved? Torbay End Street Homelessness Campaign (TESH) was jointly led by three organisations – Torbay Council, homelessness charity Shekinah Mission, and housing association Westward Housing. Many other organisations were involved including PATH Torbay, The Haven Torbay and Torbay Street Pastors.
What happened? Torbay is a borough in Devon incorporating the three towns of Torquay, Brixham and Paignton, where rough sleeping had increased dramatically. Whilst this reflected on a national trend, Torbay showed a higher increase compared to England as a whole.
They held their first Connections Week in April 2017. 25 volunteers spoke to 29 people on the street – half of people surveyed (50%) had been on the streets for at least a year and one individual had been homeless fifteen times.
In response to the survey findings Torbay introduced steps on how they would support individuals off the streets into permanent homes, including:
using a single local phone number to report people sleeping on the streets;
entering information about people on to a single system;
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using a single approach across Torbay no matter which organisation was working with an individual.
Their second and third Connections Weeks were held in 2018 and 2019 – which continued to provide valuable evidence of the need for more accommodation options for people with multiple and complex needs.
In 2018 Torbay published a Housing First Feasibility Study by the national homelessness charity Crisis, which investigated how a whole-scale introduction of a Housing First system could be introduced within the area. The Council subsequently accepted both Housing First and Rapid Rehousing as a strategic direction and provided £500,000 for two years funding for a Housing First service.
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Uruguay nahm an den Olympischen Sommerspielen 1928 in Amsterdam, Niederlande, mit einer Delegation von 22 Sportlern (allesamt Männer) teil.

Medaillengewinner

Gold

Teilnehmer nach Sportarten

Fußball
 Herrenteam
 Gold

 Kader
 José Leandro Andrade
 Peregrino Anselmo
 Pedro Arispe
 Juan Arremón
 Venancio Bartibás
 Fausto Batignani
 René Borjas
 Antonio Cámpolo
 Adhemar Canavesi
 Héctor Castro
 José Pedro Cea
 Lorenzo Fernández
 Roberto Figueroa
 Álvaro Gestido
 Andrés Mazzali
 Ángel Melogno
 José Nasazzi
 Pedro Petrone
 Juan Píriz
 Héctor Scarone
 Domingo Tejera
 Santos Urdinarán
 Trainer: Primo Giannotti

Weblinks
 Juegos Olímpicos - AMSTERDAM 1928 auf der Internetpräsenz des Olympischen Komitees Uruguays (COU), abgerufen am 16. Januar 2013

Uruguay
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Nina Munteanu's A Diary in the Age of
Reviewed by Marcie McCauley
Inanna Publications, 2020
Nina Munteanu's novel A Diary in the Age of Water roots a woman's story about the future in an imagined past that's been preserved in a journal. Munteanu draws on dual passions—for storytelling and for science—and she invites readers to recognize themselves in the "historical" story (partly set in Toronto's recent past) and to project themselves into her imagined future.
What's familiar here is the diary, which operates as a doorway. The 2017 Philip K. Dick Award for science fiction recognized Claudia Casper's novel The Mercy Journals (2016), which explores the contents of two Moleskin journals from 2072. Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God (2017) is also part of the pattern of "letters and diaries written in times of tumult and discovered later." Through Lauren's Earthseed texts in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993), readers can glimpse aspects of her journey. And without June's record of her experiences, the Gileadian Research Association would have hosted a dull symposium in the 2175 that Margaret Atwood imagines for her characters in The Handmaid's Tale (1985).
The connection with Margaret Atwood is pertinent as Nina Munteanu quotes a long passage from Atwood's mythic retelling in The Penelopiad (2006) about the nature of water, a substance in short supply in Munteanu's novel:
"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."
What's unfamiliar is the way that Nina Munteanu combines methodologies, familiar literary motifs with text and images from non-fiction. For instance, the favoured source for chapter epigraphs in her novel A Diary in the Age of Water is Robert G. Wetzel's Limnology (1975); it's a classic text reissued several times and most recently in 2001—also, finally, in Munteanu's imagined 2022.
Nina Munteanu's fiction quotes Margaret Atwood's fiction, but this passage is also quoted in full in Munteanu's ecological study Water Is… (2016). She does not appear to view fiction and non-fiction as separate territories; or, if she does, then this book is a bridge between them. (Water Is… also displays the wonder of water droplets creating a bridge: it seems like it has to be fiction, but it's real.)
Her Water Is… contains both ecological and creative-writing teachings. Her ecological textbook chapters include Life and Motion, Rhythm and Vibration, but also Beauty and Story, Prayer and Wisdom. She outlines her own twelve-step, Hero's Journey of Water and Humanity progression, which draws on Joseph Campbell's archetypal Heroic Journey.
The chapters in A Diary of the Age of Water are short; they alternate timelines (often) and contain scientific visuals like sketches, diagrams, lists, and maps—even schematics and formulae. The images build on the idea of readers' discovery of a notebook rather than a novel: an artist's notebook—there are also lines of poetry, for instance—and also a scientist's notebook.
Readers need not have any scientific background. The author understands that many readers require the kind of reminder that this character considers unnecessary:
"We've changed the entire hydrological cycle, Daniel said. I knew this. I knew it all. I didn't need him to remind me how it all created erosion, runoff, and flash floods. How we've accelerated water turnover on land. How India's lost most of its farmland to salt."
Because she has written speculative- and science-fiction before, she manages disorienting elements—in both time and place—competently. Readers never forget that this is Nina Munteanu's imagined future, but there are enough elements to allow readers to imagine it with her:
"What had once been a breathtaking view of the valley floor of the Rocky Mountain Trench was now a spectacular inland sea. It ran north-south over eight hundred kilometres and stretched several kilometres across to the foothills of the Cariboo Mountain Range. The new reservoir flooded all the towns south along the trench; places like Valemount, Golden, Invermere and all the towns along the old Highway 95."
One observation in the published novel will have a particular relevance for today's readers, even if it was not so remarkable when this story was in manuscript form—when it would have seemed a matter of imagination rather than reality:
"He insists that these world pandemics—like COVID-19, H9N9-38, and the recent Zika Fever in '47—are the result of Gain of Function bioweapon research. But science confirms that they are zoonotic crossovers through aggressive symbiosis. A result of our invasion of the natural world."
This overt statement about the imbalances which have led to the climate crisis is at the heart of the novel: readers recognize the rampant capitalism and patriarchal governance that bolster the novel's "historical" timeline even though Munteanu's future bears little resemblance to today's British Columbia (to continue her Highway 95 reference).
One of the novel's characters is a science-fiction fan, who most enjoys the classics by Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Isaac Asimov (Munteanu even describes two specific copies of Foundation, an Avon paperback from 1966 and a Spectra paperback from 1991); these hold "fond memories" for her. Stylistically, A Diary in the Age of Water is similar to these classic works in that the focus remains on story, relationships are observed rather than felt, and ideas are displayed more often than emotions.
There are tremendous benefits, however, to revisioning the broader relationship that runs beneath this work, to bridging what has traditionally been a divide. In "Imagining Climates: Writing about the Past, Present and Future of the Environment," Madhur Anand and Lawrence Hill discuss the benefits of scientists and writers collaborating to confront the climate emergency and to design solutions which incorporate different knowledge systems. (This conversation from May 17, 2021 was part of Toronto Public Library's "Our Fragile Planet" series.)
This is an important step towards creative solutioning. In Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do about It (2020), Erin Brockovich also discusses the need for greater cooperation and broader engagement to address the climate crisis. She writes: "None of us need a Ph.D. or a science degree, or need to be a politician or a lawyer to be aware and to protect our right to clean water." What we need, is a desire to change: "The solution starts right now, right where you are at this moment."
One of the characters in Nina Munteanu's novel A Diary in the Age of Water asks: "Why do I keep doing this to myself? I am in my own version of a dead zone." Those of us who are captivated by fear, who despair in a dead zone—we need to consider new ways to tell familiar stories, to envision different endings. A book like this can change the way that you see the world at this moment, can allow formulae to take root in fiction and grow into a different kind of solution.
Marcie McCauley's work has appeared in Room, Other Voices, Mslexia, Tears in the Fence and Orbis, and has been anthologized by Sumac Press. She writes about writing at marciemccauley.com and about reading at buriedinprint.com. A descendant of Irish and English settlers, she lives in the city currently called Toronto, which was built on the homelands of Indigenous peoples - Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabeg, Huron-Wendat and Mississaugas of New Credit - land still inhabited by their descendants.


The Framers of our constitution probably would have regarded the nuclear deal with Iran as a "treaty," subject to a two thirds ratification by the Senate. At the very least they would have required Congress to approve the agreement by a majority vote. It is unlikely that it would have allowed the President alone to make so important and enduring an international agreement.
If President Obama doesn't treat the Iran agreement with more respect, all his arguments today are beside the point. The agreement won't have the force of law.
Article II, section two of the Constitution states that the president "shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur…" Although the Constitution did not provide a clear description of the types of international agreements the Framers viewed as "treaties," there is evidence that they included significant and long-term commitments with foreign countries. Some early versions of the Constitution allocated treaty-making powers solely to the Senate, but Alexander Hamilton argued that "joint possession of the power in question, by the President and Senate, would afford greater prospect of security, than the separate possession of that by either of them." He thought it unwise to give a single person all the power to shape the country's relationship to the rest of the world. He believed that the public is much better protected from abuse under the Constitution than it was under the Articles of Confederation, which rested the power solely in the hands of Congress.
In Federalist Paper 69, Hamilton specifically contrasted the treaty-making power of the British sovereign, with the Constitution that afforded the executive treaty making authority only with the advice and consent of the Senate.
In the two and a quarter centuries since the ratification of the Constitution, the power of the executive has expanded considerably, but the Framers would be shocked by the current situation in which the president alone gets to make an important and enduring international agreement that can be overridden only by two thirds plus one of both the senate and the house. At the very least, this important and enduring deal should have required a majority vote of Congress. Although the Constitution does not provide for such a hybrid agreement, in practice there have been numerous "executive-congressional" agreements that have been negotiated by the president and agreed to by a majority vote of Congress. Basic principles of democracy as well as our constitutional system of checks and balances would seem to require more than a presidential decision supported by one third of both the house and senate.
While a majority of the House and the Senate voted for this exceptional set of rules for approving the Iran agreement, it was only to assure themselves that they would have any say at all in the matter. President Obama's position was that he could make the "executive" agreement without Congressional approval.
The Supreme Court has rarely spoken on the distinction between treaties and other forms of agreement, but when it has, it has raised serious questions about the president's power to enter into long-term deals with foreign powers without the consent of Congress. Here is what it said in Gibbons v. Ogden, "[G]eneral and permanent commercial regulations with foreign powers must be made by treaty, but … the particular and temporary regulations of commerce may be made by an agreement of a state with another, or with a foreign power, by the consent of Congress." Although the Gibbons case dealt with the relationship between the federal government and the States, its language suggests that the president alone may not have the power to avoid congressional oversight by simply declaring an important deal with foreign powers to be an executive agreement rather than a treaty.
With regard to the deal with Iran, the stakes are so high, and the deal so central to the continuing security of the free world, that it should — as a matter of democratic governance — require more than a presidential agreement and one third plus one of both houses of Congress. This is especially true where there is no clear consensus in favor of the deal among the American people. Though we do not govern by polls, it seems fairly clear that a majority of Americans now oppose the deal.
Let us never forget that America is a democracy where the people ultimately rule, and if the majority of Americans continue to oppose the deal, it will ultimately be rejected, if not by this administration, than by the next. An agreement, as distinguished from a treaty does not have the force of law. It can simply be abrogated by any future president. In the end, the court of public opinion decides important policy decisions that may affect us all. And it is difficult to imagine a decision with higher stakes than whether to accept or reject this deal.


If the UK remains a member of the Single Market, EU migration will remain high and is unlikely to fall below 155,000 a year in the medium term, according to the Migration Watch UK think tank.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The United Kingdom cannot be in control of migration into the country if it chooses to remain in the Single Market after leaving the European Union (known as "soft Brexit"), as the bloc is experiencing increased wage disparity, unemployment, and migration and refugee crises, the Migration Watch UK think tank said in a report Thursday.
"It is not possible to be both a member of the European Single Market and in control of EU immigration. If the UK remains a member of the Single Market, EU migration will remain high and is unlikely to fall below 155,000 a year in the medium term," the think tank said.
According to the report, there are multiple factors which may encourage increased EU migration to the United Kingdom before its exit from the European Union. For example, the stark difference in minimum wage between the United Kingdom and countries like Romania and Bulgaria may be an incentive for their residents to migrate, save money and send it back home to their families.
"The UK minimum wage was €1,343 a month (equivalent to £1,120 on 15th December 2016). The monthly minimum wage in Poland is €417 (a third of the UK's), €276 in Romania (a fifth of the UK) and €214 in Bulgaria (15% of the UK minimum wage)", the report said, citing Eurostat data.
Increased unemployment in the European Union is another likely cause of migration to the United Kingdom moving forward, the report added.
To conclude, the report said that migrants could choose to move before the United Kingdom officially left the European Union, despite the value of the pound dropping, for fear of tightened immigration policies and restriction of movement.
In June, the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. Soon after the referendum, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said the country would trigger the Article 50 of the EU Lisbon Treaty by the end of March 2017, thus beginning withdrawal negotiations.


Ran into a "bug" last week while upgrading vCNS to NSX v6.1.5. It turns out that if you had VXLAN already configured, the sequence that the package installs its' components is out of order. That's one part of the bug, the other shows that the hosts are ready within the NSX manager when it really isn't, so it is reporting the status incorrectly. After raising a case with P1 support, it turns out is a known bug, and the only remedy for it with this version is to remove the host out of the cluster, reboot, add it back to the the cluster, and reboot again. This procedure allows any wrongly installed components to be completely removed and then installed correctly once adding back to the cluster.
As you can see, this is a real pain and very time consuming.


Mumbai, February 28: MCHI-CREDAI, voice of the developer community, is pretty disappointed that FM did not grant the much-deserved industry status to the real estate sector. The real estate sector has time and again been deprived of the industry status. This will really hurt the sector as developers will find it difficult to obtain funds from banking institutions, thereby hampering their project and expansion plans.
However, we appreciate finance minister's announcement of to allow additional deduction of Rs. one lakh for the first time home buyers of houses costing below Rs. 25 lakhs and the overall hike in tax exemption up to Rs. 2.5 lakh of interest on home loans. But this provision is just not enough as in Mumbai and Thane area one cannot buy flat below 25 lakhs. There is nothing in this budget for Mumbai real estate market.
Further provision of adding TDS at the rate of one percent on immovable property exceeding Rs. 50 lakhs is de-motivating and this will lead to rise in the property prices.
Long time demand of scrapping service tax in the real estate sector has not been considered in the budget and it has been further increased. To conclude this there has been nothing for the sector especially for the Mumbai and its surrounding areas.


"Matter and Spirit 2019: A Celebration of Poetry and Printing at Wells College"
Friday, April 26, 2019, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
For more details, check out the event on Facebook.
Broadside release and reading of the poem "Traveling with Spring" by Donn Vickers. Broadsides produced by Wells College students who received the inaugural Wells Book Arts Broadside Award.
- Wells College Press pop-up shop with posters, books, cards and more!


Consumers who try to wriggle out of their credit card debts based on a technicality have been dealt a blow after one loophole was closed by the High Court, it is claimed.
Legal experts insist the decision means the argument that debt cannot be enforced when a lender cannot provide an exact copy of the original credit card agreement, or where the agreement contains a minor error, has been blown out of the water for many (see the Write-off your debt? guide).
This route, often put forward by claims management firms, has proved a relatively successful avenue for claims and MoneySavingExpert.com has seen limited evidence of lenders no longer chasing borrowers for debt in such circumstances.
The ruling does not mean an end to the debt-avoidance industry which has grown rapidly over recent months as other avenues may still exist, the Judge in the case said.
The High Court trial, held at the Manchester District Registry Mercantile Court, involved eight separate claims by consumers against lenders to determine certain legal principles of when a credit card debt can be deemed unenforceable.
Even if unenforceable, a lender can often demand payment and register non-payment with a credit reference agency which can hit your credit score. It cannot, however, seek a court order to ensure payment.
Lenders do not have to provide an exact copy of the original agreement. They simply have to provide "a reconstituted version... which may be from sources other than the signed agreement" under Section 78 of the Consumer Credit Act.
As a result, he says lenders will usually be able to supply copies even if not within the required 12 working days.
He also agreed with an earlier ruling in October that stated even if a lender cannot provide a copy, the debt is only unenforceable until a copy is provided. And, even while temporarily unenforceable, it does not stop the lender from reporting non-payment to credit reference agencies or from sending letters demanding payment (see the Debt write-off blow MSE News story).
In any case, he said the lack of credit agreement alone does not mean the relationship between lender and consumer is "unfair".
Where an agreement has been "varied" (eg, where the interest rate has risen), a copy of the original and the varied terms must be produced.
Some claims management firms, such as Cartel Client Review, one of the most aggressive firms which charges an upfront fee, declared the ruling a "victory".
Carl Wright, from Cartel, says: "The High Court has ratified what Cartel has been fighting for, for over two years, that where a bank or credit card company is in breach of Section 78 of the Consumer Credit Act that the agreement is legally unenforceable."
However, Judge Waksman said: "It it seems to me to be likely that the number of challenges about Section 78 copies (where it cannot provide a copy of the agreement) will diminish significantly hereafter.
"Absent (of) any positive allegation of improper execution, a claim based solely on the absence of, or defect in, a copy will not succeed."
Other legal experts say even though a debt is unenforceable while a copy of the agreement is absent, it is now easy for lenders to provide one. Even if they don't, there are dire consequences for consumers.
Daniella Lipszyc, a solicitor from law firm Ultimate Law, adds: "Banks and lenders will find a copy now they have this guidance.
"In any case, even if the document is not found the debt is only temporarily unenforceable until a copy is produced and many will not want to have their credit files tarnished or be threatened by debt collectors."
She says consumers are only likely to succeed in having their debt deemed unenforceable where a lender has treated them unfairly, such as by increasing their interest rate, or where payment protection insurance (PPI) has been missold.
Other test cases based on the misselling of PPI are ongoing.
The Office of Fair Trading issued guidance for the trial in which it stated both lenders and claims firms often mislead consumers.
It says: "We are pleased with the judge's ruling and will be publishing guidance on this matter in the new year."
Critics argue debt-avoidance is immoral where you have legitimately borrowed cash and have been treated well by your lender.
The British Bankers' Association says when consumers gets their debts cleared, it means higher charges for everyone else to make up lenders' deficits.
The Ministry of Justice has previously warned against believing the "misleading" marketing slogans used by many 'ambulance-chasing' firms that sometimes suggest success is "easy" (see the Beware fee-charging firms and Warning over debt ads MSE News story).
Daniel Goldberg, from claims company Challengeyour.com says while some claimants are successful, the many promises of widescale write-offs are wildly exaggerated.
Goldberg adds: "Only in very few cases is debt write-off possible. Many of the claims being put through are not working.
"Even if an agreement is unenforceable, a judge can override this."


Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl. A rambling cottage on the edge of a Suffolk village, it provided a perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which shattered her childhood.
Now an adult, Saskia is still living at Ashcombe and as a book restorer devotes her days tending to broken and battered books, daydreaming about the people who had once turned their pages. When she discovers a hidden notebook - and realises someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to hide a story of their own - Saskia finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime love.
The Dandelion Years was the second book I've read by Erica James, and it was not a dissapointment.


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Q: What kind of singularity of the given function at zero For the function

$$\displaystyle f(z)=\frac{1-e^{-z}}{z}$$ the point $z=0$ is

$\textbf{Solution i tried}$- we can write the given function in form $$\frac{1-1+z-\frac{z^2}{2!}+\frac{z^3}{3!}........}{z}$$
solving further we get $$1-\frac{z}{2!}+\frac{z^2}{3!}+.....$$
from this we can see that given function have removable  singularity at $z=0$ ,but my answer is wrong
Please help
Thankyou.


PAK 11 "Stand Up And Fight!"
Abe Belardo 27-30, Mike Bray 30-27, Marcos Rosales 30-27.
Abe Belardo 30-27, Mike Bray 30-27, Marcos Rosales 30-27.
defeated Dominik Velez (Modesto, California, USA, 0-1-1, 142, 5'8", 7-25-93, Justin Smitley, (209) 484-9389) by Unanimous Decision.
Abe Belardo 29-28, Mike Bray 29-28, Dan Stell 29-28.
defeated Sarah Huerta (Reedley, California, USA, 1-1, 129, 5'4", 2-3-87, Will Cho, (559) 287-8220) by Unanimous Decision.
Abe Belardo 30-27, Mike Bray 30-27, Dan Stell 30-27.
defeated Mario Franco ( Richmond, California, USA, 0-2, 133, 5'6", 9-25-92, Master Cheetah, (510) 390-0696) by Unanimous Decision.
defeated David Bejarano (Fresno, California, USA, 0-1, 168, NEED HEIGHT, DOB, Sasiprapa USA, (559) 500-8617) by Split Decision.
Abe Belardo 30-27, Mike Bray 29-28, Marcos Rosales 28-29.
defeated Victor Solis (Fresno, California, USA, 0-1, 175, 6'1", 5-1-94, Enn Janthakhun, (415) 722-1353) by Split Decision.
Abe Belardo 28-29, Mike Bray 29-28, Dan Stell 29-28.
defeated Jimmy Luangraj Sasiprapa (Fresno, California, USA, 0-1, 146, 5'5", 1-2-84, Malaipet Sasiprapa, (559) 916-5625) by Unanimous Decision.
defeated Clifford Passmore (Fresno, California, USA, 1-1, 145, 5'8", 11-16-90, Enn Janthakhun, (415) 722-1353) by TKO in 1:25 of round 3.
Clifford Passmore has been issued a 180/180 Medical Suspension unless cleared by doctor.
defeats Al Cabrera (Sacramento, California, USA, 4-3, 141, 5'8", 8-14-88, Kru Yong, (916) 832-6641) by Unanimous Decision.
defeated Kiyoshi Carson (Daily City, California, USA, 5-5, 181, 5'10", 3-16-89, Sarathy Janetvilay, (510) 691-8881) by Split Decision.
defeates Ethan Thompson (Fresno, California, USA, 4-2, 152, 6'4", 8-19-91, Sean Moore, (559) 213-7258) by Unanimous Decision.
Abe Belardo 50-45, Mike Bray 50-45, Dan Stell 50-45.
***defeated Frank Tapia (Fresno, California, USA, 4-2-1/0, 203, 5'11", 6-19-77, James Contreras, (559) 346-7371) by Unanimous Decision.
Abe Belardo 49-44, Mike Bray 49-44, Marcos Rosales 47-46.
(***) Zambrano Title was stripped by the IKF in the Fall of 2014 and Tapia's loss reversed to a WIN.
They discovered he had fought as a Pro MMA Fighter (Under the name Iggy Zambrano) when he lived in the midwest, making him a PRO Fighter. CLICK HERE.


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In 1992, Moller pointed out that the survey on causes of blindness in children reported by Fraser and Friedmann in 19677 and the review over 18 years of registration of visually impaired Danish children did not mention any recessive form of simple optic atrophy and concluded that "a clear-cut, well-documented pedigree had yet to be published".4 Here, we describe a family with an unambiguous isolated ROA. In contrast to the few cases formerly reported with a very early and severe form of isolated ROA, the four patients of this family were affected with an early-onset but moderately progressive form of the disease. The clinical phenotype was strikingly different from AOD (no central scotoma, red-green dyschromatopsia).
A genome-wide search for homozygosity led to the identification of a single homozygous region on chromosome 8q21-q22 (ROA1 locus). This result excluded linkage and thus allelism of ROA1 with all known syndromic ROA (see OMIM).
Among the genes of the [D8S1702-D8S1794] 12 Mb physical interval, CNGB3 was first considered. Indeed, although the phenotype of all patients was strikingly different from that described in total colour blindness, the report of severe dyschromatopsia close to achromatopsia in the few known cases of isolated ROA2,3 prompted us to search for mutations in this gene but no mutation was found.
Subsequently, we screened all genes encoding mitochondrial proteins owing to the view that known hereditary optic neuropathies genes are either mitochondrial (LHON) or encode proteins with high mitochondrial targeting (OPA1, OPA3, TIMM8A [MIM 300356]). Thus we first decided to screen genes known to encode mitochondrial protein such as DECR1 and PDP and proteins potentially targeted to the mitochondria, using the prediction programs MITOPROT and PSORT. The exclusion of these candidate genes prompted us to screen all known genes lying within the interval and subsequently several hypothetical genes. Since no mutation was found, we decided to screen several genes lying within the haploidenticial region defined by the D8S1794 and D8S1699 loci following the hypothesis that, in this family, the common ancestor might be affected with ROA and could carry two different mutations segregating through each branch of the family. No mutation was found and further studies are now required i) to identify the causative gene in this family and ii) to delineate the role of this locus in small non-consanguineous families affected with ROA in which linkage analysis can not be conclusive.
Finally, one can expect that the identification of the ROA1 gene and other genes involved in ROA will allow the dissection of molecular mechanisms underlying optic neuropathies to aid genetic counselling and to develop rational therapeutic tools.
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Home NEW TRACKS Marshmello Wins AMA For "Favorite Artist – Electronic Dance Music"
The American Music Awards have been final evening, awarding dozens artists with accolades worthy their contribution to American music, together with Marshmello. The masked deal with gained for "Favorite Artist – Electronic Dance Music" towards The Chainsmokers and Zedd.
For an awards present just like the AMAs, which caters closely to the mainstream crowd, the prize was truly in main competition. The Chainsmokers are nonetheless one the largest acts on the planet, promoting out arenas and dropping new music virtually month-to-month. Zedd, however, broke their file for many weeks at #1 on the Hot/Dance Electronic chart with "The Middle," and simply put out an enormous remix for "Lost In Japan" by Shawn Mendes.
Then we've Marshmello, who's arguably one probably the most broadly influential EDM artists within the present period (and I need to reiterate – within the present period), getting his fingers into gaming, cooking, cameo appearances, Halloween costumes, film soundtracks, and extra. Marshmello additionally at present has the #1 music on the Hot/Dance Electronic chart with "Happier" feat. Bastille.
You may say every artist put up a very good struggle, however Marshmello got here out on high.


Amitriptyline (value) is used to treat symptoms of depression. Amitriptyline is in a class of medications called tricyclic antidepressants. It works by increasing the amounts of certain natural substances in the brain. Important information: Amitriptyine (value) takes 10 days to ship.
You should not use this medication if you are allergic to amitriptyline, or if you have recently had a heart attack. Do not use amitriptyline if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as furazolidone (Furoxone), isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) within the past 14 days. Before taking amitriptyline, tell your doctor if you have used an "SSRI" antidepressant in the past 5 weeks, such as citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem, Symbyax), fluvoxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil), or sertraline (Zoloft). You may have thoughts about suicide when you first start taking an antidepressant such as amitriptyline, especially if you are younger than 24 years old. Your doctor will need to check you at regular visits for at least the first 12 weeks of treatment. Report any new or worsening symptoms to your doctor, such as: mood or behavior changes, anxiety, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, or if you feel impulsive, irritable, agitated, hostile, aggressive, restless, hyperactive (mentally or physically), more depressed, or have thoughts about suicide or hurting yourself. Before taking this medicine You should not use this medication if you are allergic to amitriptyline, or if you have recently had a heart attack. Do not use amitriptyline if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as furazolidone (Furoxone), isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) in the last 14 days. A dangerous drug interaction could occur, leading to serious side effects. To make sure you can safely take amitriptyline, tell your doctor if you have any of these other conditions: heart disease; a history of heart attack, stroke, or seizures; bipolar disorder (manic-depression); schizophrenia or other mental illness; diabetes (amitriptyline may raise or lower blood sugar); overactive thyroid; glaucoma; or problems with urination. You may have thoughts about suicide while taking an antidepressant, especially if you are younger than 24 years old. Tell your doctor if you have worsening depression or suicidal thoughts during the first several weeks of treatment, or whenever your dose is changed. Your family or other caregivers should also be alert to changes in your mood or symptoms. Your doctor will need to check you at regular visits for at least the first 12 weeks of treatment. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant while using this medication. Amitriptyline can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. You should not breast-feed while you are using amitriptyline. Do not give this medication to anyone under 12 years old without medical advice.


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Leo Laporte's 2006 Technology Almanac
THIS WEEK'S FOCUS: Windows Media Center
BUYING A MEDIA CENTER PC
What makes a Media Center PC a Media Center PC? All Media Center PCs have the same components as a typical desktop PC, but with a few items fine-tuned for home theater use. In particular, most HTPCs include the following components:
Big hard drive, ideally 200GB or more, to store lots of television programs as well as a large CD collection
TV tuner—at least one, sometimes two or three (including, in some cases, an ATSC tuner for HDTV)
CD/DVD drive (typically a burner drive)
Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system, for the living room interface
Most Media Center PCs come in a form factor that isn't quite what you're used to with a desktop PC. The majority of Media Center PCs aren't vertical, they're horizontal, typically about 17 inches wide and a few inches tall, in a cabinet that closely resembles that of most audio components. The goal is to have the PC look at home in a rack of audio and home theater components—complete with the black metal or brushed aluminum faceplate.
In addition, many Media Center PCs go to some lengths to reduce the noise typically associated with personal computers. That means fewer, quieter fans—or, in some instances, no fans at all, with either water cooling or large heat sinks to dissipate the normal heat buildup.
ON THIS DAY: THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT (1979)
On March 29, 1979, a nuclear accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The incident was caused by a combination of human and mechanical errors, when a cooling system malfunctioned and permitted a partial meltdown of the reactor's core. Fortunately, no deaths were recorded.
GADGET OF THE WEEK: PHILIPS RC9800I WIFI REMOTE CONTROL
The RC9800i is a unique universal remote control. First, it's activity-based rather than component-based, so it uses a lot of multiple-device macros. Second, it doesn't just control your audio/video equipment, it can also control a variety of Universal Plug-and-Play devices on your PC system. Third, it works via WiFi, in addition to traditional infrared. And fourth, because of the WiFi connection, it displays its own electronic program guide. Buy it for $499 from http://www.homecontrol.philips.com.


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Home » World News » Which Republicans voted to impeach Trump?
Which Republicans voted to impeach Trump?
Donald Trump: Nancy Pelosi confirms votes for impeachment
The vote to impeach Donald Trump was certainly a historic one, as he became the first-ever US president to be impeached twice – and he's only been in office for four years. The Capitol was ransacked and occupied for hours, and in the end, five people died and many more were injured. Mr Trump now faces trial in the Senate after becoming the first president to be charged with misconduct in office for a second time, but the trial will be held after the President leaves office next Wednesday. If Mr Trump is convicted, senators could also vote to ban him from ever holding public office again – which means no 2024 ballot for the Apprentice star.
What was Trump charged with?
Impeachment charges are political rather than criminal, so Mr Trump wasn't charged in the same way a common criminal might be.
The President was accused by the House of inciting the storming of the Capital with a speech to his followers on January 6.
He urged them to "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices heard but also asked them to "fight like hell" against an election he falsely claimed was 'stolen' by the Democrats.
The article of impeachment says Mr Trump "repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the presidential election results were fraudulent and should not be accepted".
The document also states: "President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government, threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperilled a coequal branch of Government."
A total of 10 members of the House voted to get Mr Trump out of office, and they all come from a range of districts.
This vote could expose some of them to potential primary challenges from the Democrats, as well as potential safety threats from camp Trump.
All 10 senators agreed on one thing, however, the sitting President had simply gone too far with last week's out-of-control events.
But it's worth noting 10 out of 211 Republicans in the House is hardly anything, and clearly, most of the GOP's sympathies still lie with the President.
The 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment:
Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming
Representative Fred Upton of Michigan
Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington
Representative Dan Newhouse of Washington
Representative Peter Meijer of Michigan
Representative Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Representative Tom Rice of South Carolina
Representative David Valadao of California
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Is Donald Trump still in the White House? [EXPLAINED]
Which US Presidents have been impeached? [INSIGHT]
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has rejected Democratic calls to bring the Senate back immediately to convict Mr Trump.
Mr McConnell's decision means Mr Trump is free to live out his final days as president in the White House.
The majority leader sent a note to Republican senators telling them the House wouldn't reconvene on the matter until January 19, meaning the impeachment trial won't kick off for some weeks.
In a statement, Mr McConnell said: "Given the rules, procedures, and Senate precedents that govern presidential impeachment trials, there is simply no chance that a fair or serious trial could conclude before President-elect Biden is sworn in next week."
A two-thirds majority will be needed to convict Mr Trump, meaning at least 17 Republicans would have to vote with the Democrats in the 100-seat chamber.
As many as 20 Republicans could be open to convicting Mr Trump, according to a New York Times report.
But in a note to his colleagues, Mr McConnell said he still hadn't made a final decision on which way he would vote.
In a note to his colleagues, the House leader wrote that "while the press has been full of speculation, I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate".
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To attain this qualification, 12 units must be completed, consisting of 1 core unit and 11 elective units.


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Sometimes when I power up my 192 it will turn on the 48V for my Mic and sometimes it will not, it seems almost random. In addition, sometimes I power up the 192 and the 48V is ON, but the blue 48V light off.
I'm not sure it's fixed with the latest firmware - UC.
sometimes preamp settings get lost, too.


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Numbers Crunch
By Steve Rudman December 12, 2010 No Comments3 Mins Read
Times Washington had a 1,000-yard rusher and 1,000-yard receiver in the same season before this year. Chris Polk finished the regular season with 1,238 rushing yards and wide receiver Jermaine Kearse has 1,001 receiving yards at this point. In 1997, Rashaan Shehee ran for 1,055 yards and Jerome Pathon had 1,299 yards receiving. In 1989, Greg Lewis ran for 1,197 yards and Andre Riley finished with 1,071 yards.
Times Nebraska rushed for less than 200 yards as a team this season. That happened in each of its three losses.
Times that division winner in the NFL sported a losing record. With Seattle (6-7), St. Louis (6-7), San Francisco (5-8) and Arizona (4-9) all under .500, the NFC West stands an excellent chance of producing the NFL's first division winner with a losing record.
Since the adoption of the 16-game schedule in 1978, the number of NFL teams that reached the playoffs with a record of 8-8. Two of the eight, Cleveland in 1985 and San Diego in 2008, won their respective divisions. The other two, New Orleans in 1990 and St. Louis in 2004, got into the postseason party as wild cards. Two of the four ('08 Çhargers and '04 Rams) won a playoff game. The St. Louis win in 2004 came at the expense of the Seahawks at Qwest Field as Seattle became the first division champion in NFL history to lose to an 8-8 team.
In millions, the number of dollars the BCS receives each year in rights fees from ESPN. Most agree a playoff system would generate three or four times that amount.
Number of passed balls charged to recently deposed Mariner catcher Rob Johnson in 61 games in 2010, the top total in the American League. The man who will replace Johnson, Miguel Olivo, led the National League with 10 passed balls while playing for Colorado (frame of reference: Dan Wilson had one passed ball in 144 games for Seattle in 1997, and zero passed balls in 103 games in 2004).
Number of Mariner catchers who have reached double digits in passed balls in a season, including Dave Valle (15 in 1991), Bob Kearney (11 in both 1984 and 1985) and Kenji Johjima (10 in 2006.)
Percentage of Washington's total turnovers this season in nine games committed during three losses against Kentucky, Michigan State and Texas A&M.
Number of interceptions that Matt Hasselbeck threw on Sunday against the 49ers, marking the third time since Week 14 of the 2009 season that he has tossed four in a game. In all, Hasselbeck has four career four-INT games.
Number of interceptions that Matt Hasselbeck has thrown in his past 15 games, the worst stretch of his NFL career.
Number of kickoffs that Leon Washington has returned for touchdowns in 2010, after his 92-yard jaunt against the 49ers on Sunday. Washington is the first player in franchise history with three KOR TDs in a single season; no other player has ever had more than one.
Batting average for Brendan Ryan, acquired by the Mariners on Sunday, in 2010 for the St. Louis Cardinals. That's not only offensively anemic, it's black-hole territory. According to one report out of St. Louis, Ryan's lack of offensive skills "are uncoachable."
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Presenter: Kathyrn MacLeod, PhD Dr. Kate MacLeod is an Assistant Professor of Inclusive and Special Education at the University of Maine at Farmington and a co-founder and consultant at Inclusive Schooling. Her teaching, research, and consulting are guided by a passion for inclusive education and social justice. Her research is focused on best practices for the inclusion of students with complex support needs, understanding the culture of inclusive schools, and inclusive teacher education. And as a consultant, Kate has the privilege of working with administrators, teachers, and families to create more inclusive schools that value diverse students.
Presenter: Michelle Clyne, Coordinator she has worked for Project Reach/Philip Rock Center for over 30 years, currently as the coordinator of the statewide DeafBlind program. She is a teacher of students with visual impairments, and has taken coursework in DeafBlindness from Michigan State University. She has done volunteer/contractual work for Hilton-Perkins International Program and Helen Keller National Center. She is a member of the National Deaf-Blind Intervener Certification Portfolio (NICE) Review Board and helped create several of the Open Hands, Open Access Deaf-Blind Intervener Learning Modules.
Presenter: Leigh Merryday Porch, President and Founder of Putnam Project Lighthouse, Inc. a nonprofit dedicated to elopement awareness and prevention in Putnam County, Florida. Leigh is an educator with certification in Autism Spectrum Disorders and special education. She is the writer behind Flappiness Is, a blog about her experiences as the parent of a child with nonverbal autism.
Presenter: Rosemary Laudani, Manager for IL ABLE, has been with the Treasurer's Office since 2015. She has had the pleasure in working in several divisions in the Treasurer's Office Banking, HR and Unclaimed Property prior to coming to ABLE.
For over 20 year Rosemary has also been a passionate community organizer for a number of issues including ADA and the need for accessible resources for all and fair employment of disabled individuals.
Rosemary, is a graduate of Benedictine University, Lisle, IL, for both graduate, MBA, and undergraduate studies. During her graduate studies, her emphasis was on economics and finance which included a yearlong sojourn to Cambridge University, Clare College.
Rosemary currently resides in the Springfield area.
Presenter: Gayl Bowser, M.S., currently works as an independent consultant and is an adjunct faculty member for the University of Wyoming's Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND).
Presenter: Elizabeth C. Hamblet, is a learning consultant in Columbia University disability services office, has worked at the college level for over 15 years after several years' work as a high school special education teacher and case manager.
Presenter: Sue Walter, is a Coordinator with the Illinois Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Network. Over the past 20 years, secondary transition has been her personal and professional passion. She has developed a variety of transition-related training materials including person-centered planning, self-determination and transition-focused IEP's; she has traveled around the state to reach educators, parents, students and community providers. Susan has presented at numerous workshops and conferences at the local, regional and national level and has also authored or co-authored several articles focused on secondary transition. Most importantly, she is the parent of a young adult who has a disability that requires significant supports and services and she adds that perspective to enhance her work. Susan has supported her daughter, Jennifer, in navigating the adult service system, participating in a customized employment process and moving toward a self-employment/entrepreneurial career as an artist.
Presenter: Priscilla Singer, an associate for Spain, Spain & Varnet P.C. firm concentrates her practice in the areas of special needs and general estate planning, probate, guardianship, and real estate.
Presenter: Dr. Ann Turnbull has been a professor, researcher, and advocate for individuals with disabilities, their families, and service providers for four decades. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas which has the number one ranked doctoral program in special education. She has authored 32 books and over 275 articles and chapters. In 1999, Ann and her husband, Rud, were selected by the National Historic Preservation Trust on Developmental Disabilities as two of 36 individuals who have "changed the course of history for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the 20th century." Her greatest learning has come from her son, Jay Turnbull (1967-2009), who she has always called her "best professor" about the needs of individuals with significant disabilities over the lifespan.
Presenter: Chris Wasik is an educational consultant and coach for the Illinois Statewide Technical Assistance Collaboration and has many years of experience providing support to school districts to assist them in including children with disabilities in general education classrooms. She is also the parent of a son with developmental disabilities who graduated from general education classes at his local high school and is now successfully employed at a local grocery store and has shared his experiences by presenting at conferences and workshops. Chris is a former trainer for Family Matters PTIC.
Presenter: Bec Oakley is a writer and disability educator who lives in Australia with her two teenage sons, both of whom have autism and other special needs. Along with the articles and re-sources you'll find on her award-winning blog at Snagglebox.com, she has written a series of children's storybooks to promote disa-bility awareness for the non-profit Help A Child Grow Fund which benefits kids and young people with disabilities.
Presenter: Jenn Skalitzky, Jennifer works for UCP-Infinitec as an Assistive Technology Facilitator. She coordinates webinars, performs collaborations, and provides trainings. Jennifer received a Bachelor's degree in Communication Disorders from Eastern Illinois University and received a M.S. in Disability and Human Development from the University of Illinois - Chicago (UIC). Her area of specialization was Rehabilitation/Assistive Technology, and she completed a Graduate Assistantship with UIC's Assistive Technology Unit (ATU). After graduation she worked for UIC's ATU where she supported students and adults using AAC devices. In addition, she has worked at Northwest Suburban Special Education Organization (NSSEO) as an Assistive Technology Facilitator. While there she supported the assistive technology needs of students with severe physical disabilities, students with Autism and learning disabilities. She also supported staff through trainings and the implementation of assistive technology. In the past, Jennifer has been an adjunct teacher at Lewis University and taught the undergraduate and graduate class on Assistive Technology for the Special Education Department.
Presenter: Barbara T. Doyle, M.S. Clinical Consultant and Autism Specialist Barbara is a nationally known teacher, consultant, trainer, presenter and author. She is known for her passionate approach to presenting practical and realistic solutions for everyday issues at home, school, and social situations. Her more than 43 years of professional experience add to her life experiences as a family member of six people with disabilities. Barbara's mission is to make the world a more inclusive place for everyone by increasing understanding, creating a truly accessible service delivery system and promoting effective teaching, adaptations and accommodations. In her private practice, she educates families, schools, and agencies interested in improving the lives of people with autism spectrum disorders, deafness, and other disabilities. She has a deep understanding of sensory impairments and developmental disabilities at both a personal and professional level.
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Presenter: Sue Castles, Training Coordinator for the Illinois Assistive Technology Program. She has worked for IATP for 20 years providing trainings, information and referral and funding information. She has presented on AT and funding issues throughout Illinois and at national conferences. She has a BA in Legal Studies from the University of Illinois at Springfield (formerly Sangamon State University).
Presenter: Patty Hooper, Patty started working at Family Matters Parent Training and Information Center in 2012 as an information specialist. She has a Bachelor's degree in English and a Master's degree in Education. She is the mother of three children, two of whom have Individualized Education Programs, and who receive Special Education services. Before becoming a mother, Patty taught high school English in Chicago's inner city. As a former teacher, she understands the school system and the difficulties that face educators. As a parent, she is aware of the challenges that parents encounter when ensuring that their children are receiving the best services available.
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Use the form below to generate orbital elements and ephemerides for NEOCP and other solar system objects. You should use this form if you have astrometry for an object.
Suggested quick start: Don't panic! Just enter the object designation and click the "compute orbit and ephemerides" button. This will provide a default ephemeris, which may be all you need. If it isn't, hit the back arrow and look a little more closely at your options (options documented here.) If you're still not getting things to work, contact me.
This is a modified, simplified, non-interactive version of the Find_Orb program.
Observations : You can have extraneous text mixed in with the observations; observer details specifying measurers, observers, telescopes, etc., will be used. Anything that isn't an observation or an observer detail will simply be disregarded. The current limit is about 500 observations.
Object name: Enter an object name here, and Find_Orb will get astrometry for it from the Minor Planet Center. This can be in addition to any observations cut-and-pasted to the text box or provided in an uploaded file.
Epoch of orbital elements: By default, you'll get a "reasonable" epoch (one that's within a day of the time of the last observation). But you can set it to a desired date/time, using any of the formats used in specifying the starting date for the ephemerides.
It can also be useful to see the residuals as expressed in "along-track" difference in time (i.e., "the object would have been here 23 seconds earlier") and in "cross-track" difference (i.e., "the object missed the predicted point at that time by 0.23 arcseconds"). This can help in diagnosing timing errors of the sort that often occur with nearby, very fast moving objects.
Redact NEOCP astrometry: By default, all astrometry is shown in the resulting page. If you're planning on re-distributing the page, though, you should check this box. That will cause NEOCP astrometry to be shown "redacted" (blacked out, like this I^P[#ldH6g*/]?\x%, with an explanation that one should look on the NEOCP for the data).
If you do not intend to redistribute the astrometry (i.e., don't intend to post the pseudo-MPEC on your blog or Web site or what-have-you), you can leave this box unchecked, and NEOCP data will be shown unredacted.
Input such as 'MJD 12345.6', 'jd 2451545', 'now+3h', and 'Wed 3:14:16 PM' will also work; click here for the full list of time input options.
Step size: This defaults to being in days, but input such as '2h' will lead to a two-hour ephemeris step size, or '10m' for a ten-minute step size. One can use '.1' to get a step size of a tenth of a day, and so forth. Negative step sizes will result in a backwards-running ephemeris.
MPC code: This defaults to 500, for a geocentric ephemeris. But it can be any of nearly 2000 three-character observatory codes assigned by the MPC. As an extension, you can use "codes" Sun for the Sun, Mer for Mercury, ... Plu for Pluto, and Lun for the Earth's Moon.
Ephemeris type: By default, one gets "observable" quantities: RA/dec, magnitude, elongation, and so on. But you can request tables of state vectors, Cartesian coordinates, orbital elements in either the MPC's MPCORB format or the more verbose "eight-line" format; or you can get a list of close approaches to the observer over the ephemeris span.
For close approach tables, it's a good idea to pick the geocenter or another planet or moon's center. Topocentric close approach tables usually look like garbage, due to the daily distance variation as the earth rotates.
Alt/Az: Causes the altitude and azimuth of the object to be given in the ephemerides. Obviously, if you do this for a geocentric viewpoint or a planet-centered or moon-centered or heliocentric viewpoint, this will be disregarded.
Radial velocity: Causes the radial velocity, in km/second, to be given in the ephemerides.
Visibility indicator: For topocentric ephemerides, this gives a two-character indication of how "visible" the object is. The first character is an asterisk (*) if it would be daytime at that site at that time. 'C'=civil twilight, 'N'=nautical twilight, 'A'=astronomical twilight, ' '=full nighttime. The second character is a space if the moon would be below the horizon at that time; if the moon is above the horizon, you get an 'm' for a less-than-50% illuminated moon, or an 'M' for a more-than-50% illuminated moon.
Suppress unobservables: For topocentric ephemerides, this will cause output to be suppressed if the object is below the horizon or it's full daylight at the time. That is to say, if you couldn't actually observe the object at that time from that place, it won't get mentioned in the ephemerides.
For (251) Arecibo and (253) Goldstone, the daylight part is ignored. Radar guys don't care about such things. However, the object must be within 19.5 degrees of the zenith at Arecibo, or 70 degrees at Goldstone.
Motion: Causes the apparent motion of the object, in arcminutes/hour (or, equivalently, arcseconds/minute) to be given in the ephemerides.
Element center: By default, the program will automatically select a "reasonable" center for orbital elements. If the object orbits the sun, you get heliocentric elements; for an earth-orbiting artificial satellite, you get a geocentric orbit, and so on. However, you can override the default choice of an element center. In particular, barycentric elements are sometimes the desired choice for distant solar system objects.
Phase angle bisector (PAB): The PAB is a quantity sometimes of interest to those doing light curves: it gives the ecliptic latitude and longitude of the point midway between the observer-target and the sun-target vectors.
Ground track: Gives the latitude and longitude of the point on the earth's surface where the object is at the zenith. This is sometimes useful with objects coming close to the earth or impacting the earth.
Computer-friendly ephems: The ephemerides should be more easily amenable to parsing by computers. For example, the date/time will be given as a JD, the RA/dec will be given in decimal degrees instead of in Babylonian base-60 form, distances will uniformly be given in AU (instead of switching to kilometers for smaller distances), and so on.
Note that the current system is doubtless not bulletproof. In particular, to avoid the possibility of the program locking up and needing to be killed, I've set it to time out after five seconds. Give it a long enough arc of observations, and it'll give up, exit somewhat gracelessly, and you won't get a result.
• This page will work for almost all ordinary situations. But if some of your astrometry is a bit poor, or if the length of the observation is more than about a decade, the program may not get an orbit. (It will devote about 15 seconds of processing time, then give up.) Some situations still call for some human interaction to get the program to look in the right place for an orbit. If that happens to you, I'd suggest that you use the Find_Orb software (on which this service is based). It offers many more options, such as the ability to constrain the orbit (say, tell it that the orbit is parabolic), handle non-gravitational parameters, get orbital elements for objects not orbiting the sun, and so on and so forth. Or you can contact me, send me the astrometry, and I'll offer an opinion.
In this regard, be advised: my server gets "fresh" NEOCP data once an hour, in the course of updating my on-line summary of current NEOCP objects. So really recent data may not show up via this new method.
As per the above note, astrometry can be provided via one, two, or three of these methods.


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 Cuacuila, un pueblo del municipio de Huauchinango.
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