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Monica Doumit: 'You killed our family, but we love you,' Coptic Orthodox priest tells bombers
Everyone would have no doubt seen the horrific images of the bombing of Saint George's Coptic Orthodox Church in Tanta, Egypt and also just outside St. Mark's in Alexandria. The parts of the churches which were not covered in rubble seemed to be covered in the blood of the newest Christian martyrs – 44 of them all up.
In addition to these images, others started to emerge from Egypt as well.
The first one I saw was a video dated 9 April 2017, showing a crowd of hundreds of Egyptian Christians, maybe more, publicly chanting the Nicene Creed. Although spoken in a language different to my own, they were professing the same faith, on the same day on which so many others had been killed for doing the same.
Security personnel investigate the scene of a bomb explosion on 9 April inside the Orthodox Church of St George in Tanta, Egypt. That same day an explosion went off outside the Cathedral of St Mark in Alexandria where Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II was presiding over the Palm Sunday service. PHOTO: CNS
The next video I saw was a recording of a homily given by Father Boules George in the parish of St Mark's, Cairo. On the evening of that same Palm Sunday – the Eve of Monday service – Father George preached a homily about what he would say to the killers. In summary, Father George had three things to say: thank you, we love you and we are praying for you.
At the end of his homily, Father George commanded the congregation to pray daily for those who sought to kill them, confident that if they knew Christ, they would not hate; they would not kill.
While all of these are important, what really struck me was his expression of gratitude to the killers. He thanked them for doing what he could not manage to do: fill the church. He said:
"There are people we visited at home to encourage them to come to church – three, four, five times. Still they won't come. What you're doing here – you're bringing to church the people who never come … All these visitations we do, you're so much more effective. You're filling up our churches! … When you do this, you irritate the soul of the person who was lazy before. You wake his conscience and the love of God within him prods him to come to church."
The public witness of these Egyptian Christians, and the words of Father George were a reminder of something important: that although it is tempting to flee in the face of persecution (particularly the murderous kind), the only way to defeat the enemy is rededicate ourselves to the practice and proclamation of our faith.
If terrorism instills in us a fear which prevents us from living out our faith in public, then the terrorists win.
The reverse is also true. If terrorism inspires courage in the face of fear, then it will never win.
And in the face of terrorism, one is forced to make a choice. When people are literally blown up for practising their faith, then ambivalence is not an option. You have to take sides: either you stand with the forces of evil or you stand with and for the good.
Obviously, we do not face the same issue in Australia.
We attended the Easter liturgies without the fear that, in doing so, we were risking our lives. But despite having the blessing of being able to practise our faith freely, something tells me that the churches in Egypt were fuller than our own last weekend.
Pope Francis accepts an icon of Mary and the Christ Child from Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan Bishoy of Damiette, Kafr El-Sheikh, and Bararya, all in Egypt, before a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family in 2015 at the Vatican. PHOTO: CNS
There is something about safety which makes us complacent; which whispers to us that we do not really have to choose. Nothing could be further from the truth!
We might not need to worry about being physically harmed for our faith, but the forces of evil which battle against Catholics in Australia are no less real, and no less dangerous.
If anything, they are even more insidious, because they either go undetected, or they are so subtle that we consider them to not really be threats which require us to make a choice.
We are lured into a false sense of security, thinking that there is no need to be vocal about matters which – if conceded – aren't really going to get anyone killed.
In recent weeks, we have spoken about the push for exclusion zones around abortion clinics in NSW, the proposed introduction of legislation in Queensland which would seek to override the seal of confession, and the relentless push to co-opt companies and employees into pledging support for redefining marriage.
We can add to this the attempt to use anti-discrimination laws to silence the Church from teaching its faithful, the introduction of programs like Safe Schools which teach children that biology plays no role in determining their identity and that sexual experimentation with both sexes is normal and even encouraged, and the renewed threat of euthanasia once again becoming legal (although that one really is a matter of life and death!) to the list of other threats which are upon us.
In the face of all this, it is clear that Catholics in Australia must also make a choice.
We cannot be ambivalent or complacent; we must show the courage of our Coptic brothers and sisters, and recommit ourselves to the bold proclamation and practice of our faith. Holy martyrs of Egypt, pray for us!
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Monica Doumit is the Director, Public Affairs and Engagement for the Archdiocese of Sydney and a columnist with The Catholic Weekly.


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Meet Brad Duerstock
by Joe Piergrossi
Brad Duerstock
Fields: Neuroscience, assistive technology design
Works at: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Hobbies: Gadgetry, architectural design
Bizarre collectible: Ecuadorian shrunken head (not a real one—it's a replica made from goatskin)
Credit: Andrew Hancock, Purdue University
At the age of 18, Brad Duerstock had a devastating accident. A star member of his high school swim team, Duerstock hit his head during practice in a way that broke his neck and paralyzed all of his limbs. Today, he studies spinal cord injuries much like his own, investigating how the damage occurs and how it could possibly be repaired.
Duerstock has worked to make science accessible to people with disabilities, whether they use wheelchairs, as he does, or have visual or other impairments. For example, he has redesigned laboratory space to make it easier for people with disabilities to navigate and perform tasks.
"I like knowing that what I do can ultimately impact others," Duerstock says.
Duerstock's Findings
Much of Duerstock's research deals with what occurs immediately following a nerve injury. In a spinal cord injury, nerve tissue becomes severed or dies. The immune response and bleeding in the injured area can cause extra damage to nerves in the spinal cord. Duerstock and his team have found that a molecule called acrolein is produced in spinal cord injuries and that it kills the nerves it encounters as it spreads around the injury site. They have been investigating a compound called polyethylene glycol (PEG), a polymer that could seal ruptured nerve cell membranes, possibly protecting nerve tissue from further damage immediately following a spinal cord injury.
Duerstock also founded and leads the Institute for Accessible Science (IAS), a community of scientists, students, parents and teachers whose goal is to promote better accommodations for people with disabilities who are studying or working in the sciences. The IAS looks into how to redesign lab spaces and equipment to increase accessibility for people with disabilities, particularly those with limited mobility or vision.
Although Duerstock originally wanted to be a doctor, he believes his true calling is in research. "The sense of discovery and the impact on others are big motivations for me," says Duerstock. "Being a researcher, you might have a broader impact on society than you would as a practicing physician."
Content adapted from the NIGMS Findings magazine article Opening Up the Lab.
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Q: Handling multer with array of objects This question has been asked many times here I guess but there weren't any answers on this one. My case is that I have 2 array of objects in my API call and both of them has file uploads. The way multer works right now is doesn't look much decent. It creates an entire array of uploaded files with req.files. I know there is a helper function .fields() available but it will just divide the files based on main key and again it's going to be an array and that becomes hard to guess which file goes to which object. I had a temporary solution to pass the file name in each object with file so that we can filter it out but I don't feel it valid.

const uploadObject = {
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    name: "something",
    file: (FileObject)
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  {
    name: "something else",
    file: (FileObject)
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second: [
  {
    name: "something",
    file: (FileObject)
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  {
    name: "something else",
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}

Isn't there any way with muter where we can atleast move the files within body(not inside req.files)? Also If anyone have any different library suggestion for cases like these?

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Q: mock a non spring managed object while integration testing using mockMVC I am writing integration test cases using MockMvc to test my REST API.
Within my implementation of the RESTAPI I am internally using RestTemplate(not directly from the controller but from within a util class which the controller calls) to call a 3rd party REST API. The RestTemplate which I use (to make the 3rd party rest API) is not a spring managed bean instead I am instantiating it as
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
I want to mock the restTemplate call(postForEntity).
I am trying the below approach:
My test class-
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {
    "classpath:test-applicationContext.xml"
})
@WebAppConfiguration

public class MockMVCTest {
  private MockMvc mockMvc;
  private RestTemplate restTemplate

  @Autowired
  private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext;

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    if (!initalized) {
     mockMvc =   MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(webApplicationContext).build();
  restTemplate = (RestTemplate)webApplicationContext.getBean("restTemplate");

}
@Test
public void demo() throws Exception {
 when(
  restTemplate.postForEntity(
    eq("thirdpartyuri"),
    any(HttpEntity.class),
    eq(MyClass.class))).thenReturn(myresponse);

mockMvc.perform(
  post("uriExposedbyme")
    .contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    .accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    .content(MY_PAYLOAD)).andExpect(status().isOk());
}

In my application-context I have the following mock defined:
<bean id="restTemplate" class="org.mockito.Mockito" factory-method="mock">
    <constructor-arg value="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate" />        </bean>

But when I execute my test case the RestTemplate is getting mocked but when a call to RestTemplate happens during the execution the actual resttemplate is called instead of my mock resttemplate.
Please suggest on how I can mock RestTemplate for my test case.

A: The util class instantiates its private RestTemplate, like you said: RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();.
This means that it will use it, not the one mocked in the test. You can either make RestTemplate a spring managed bean in your actual code, or have a setter method on the util class and call this setter in the test using the mocked rest template.

A: Based on the information provided, I could say to try following changes and check whether it's resolved your issue.
What I can see is since you autowire the WebApplicationContext as
@Autowired private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext;

It might possible the development profile getting injected, rather test profile.
Hence can you put this annotation to mark the class in Test profile at the top of the test class
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

Still if you have issues, auto wire the rest template correctly with your RestTemplate instance as below.
@Autowired
@Qualifier("restTemplate")
private RestTemplate restTemplate;


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Skolarbeten Engelska Romeo & Juliet
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1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………..3
1.1 Introduction……………………………….……………………………..3
1.2 Aim and research-question...……………....…………….....……………3
1.3 Background………………………………….…………………………..4
1.4 Method…………………………………..………………………………4
1.5 Material………………………………………….………………………4
2 Facts………………………………………………….......……………....……..4
2.1 Major Events………....……....………………...……………………………....…4
2.2 Quotations extracted from the major events……………….…..………..6
2.3 Facts about love...……………………………………………………….9
3 Analysis and discussion……………………………………………………....9
3.1 Analysis of the major events……..……………………………………...9
3.2 Analysis of the terms: love, the story and popularity…………………..10
3.3 Analysis of the characters………………………………………………10
3.4 Similar stories and their popularity……………....……………………..11
4 Conclusion.......................................................................................................11
4.1 Conclusion...............................................................................................11
4.2 Summary..................................................................................................11
5 Sources.............................................................................................................12
5.1 Internet sources........................................................................................12
5.2 Other sources...........................................................................................12
Prince Escalus: Prince of Verona
Count Paris: Kinsman of Prince Escalus; desires to marry Juliet.
Mercutio: Another kinsman of Prince Escalus; a friend of Romeo.
Capulets
Lord Capulet: Patriarch of the house of Capulet.
Lady Capulet: Matriarch of the house of Capulet; wishes Juliet to marry Paris.
Juliet: Daughter of the Capulets; the female protagonist.
Tybalt: Cousin of Juliet, nephew of Lady Capulet.
Lord Montague: Patriarch of the house of Montague.
Lady Montague: Matriarch of the house of Montague.
Romeo: Son of the Montagues; the male protagonist.
Benvolio: Cousin and friend of Romeo.
Rosaline, an unseen character with whom Romeo briefly falls in love with before meeting Juliet.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is probably one of the most famous love stories in the world. The tragedy, written by William Shakespeare during the end of the 16th century is a simple yet touching story of forbidden love, hatred and of course death. The play was first published in quarto versions in 1597. The simplicity of the layout which makes the story easy to understand, coupled with the complex feelings that the theme deals with; made it one of the most popular plays during Shakespeare's lifetime. Even today it has been highly praised by literary critics. The play has been dramatized in various forms, as theatrical plays, films and also in operatic forms uncountable times.
The scene is set in Verona of Italy where two families, the Montagues and the Capulets are rivalling for influence and power. The two teenagers are members of each of the families, thus making their love impossible. In the end, after a tragic misunderstanding, both of the lovers commit suicide.
The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet form over time. Characters frequently compare love and death and allude to the role of fate. But this concept of tragic love was not new when Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, as a matter of fact the play's origin can be found in the traditions of tragic romance in ancient Greece.
1.2 Aim and research-questions
The aim of the subject is to specify and establish the factors that make the story so engaging and hence, in addition; find the reason why the reader feels so much empathy for the couple/main characters. The background of the latter question is that empathy often leads to affinity and therefore might make the play more engaging.
To determine what factors that are making the play so popular and interesting, it is necessary that the outline plot is analysed, it is also vital to gather information and facts about how humans react to love, because the main theme of the story of Romeo and Juliet is love. Are there any similarities between the outline plot and basic human reaction to love? Can we find any connection between the terms: love, the story, popularity?
By choosing parts of the story where major events occurs and essentially where the main characters express deeper feelings and thoughts, a brief character analyse can be done which might answer "Why the reader feels so much empathy for the couple/main characters".
The aim is also to find stories with similar layouts. Do they, and if so, how do they differ from Romeo and Juliet? Furthermore, are they as popular as Romeo and Juliet?
Love, stories of love and especially stories of tragic love has always affected people, love is a basic human feeling. It is not solely brightness, attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm, love might also be darkness, sadness or tragedy as proved in the play. By analysing and comparing the story of Romeo and Juliet one can learn more about love, one can also get a deeper understanding of the story – how can such a simple story be so charming?
1.4 Methods
To be able to analyse the outline plot it is natural that the story was thoroughly read. This also made it possible to find the major events - the parts where it is possible and easy to make a simple character analyse. Important quotations made by Romeo and Juliet were extracted. After reading through the novel, a synopsis of the story was used for keeping the memory fresh.
To find stories with similar layouts and to gather information about how people react to love the internet was searched for facts. All the information gathered were analyzed.
1.5 Material.
The main material was the story of Romeo and Juliet. A summary that was published together with the story was also used.
2.1 Major events
Event I
It is Sunday morning, and as servants of the two rivalling families meet, tension is built up. The Capulets and the Montagues almost clash together in a fight. When the scene calms down, Lady Capulet asks for her son Romeo. Benvolio describes the odd behaviour of Romeo, who apparently is sick in love, love that is unanswered. However Romeo seems to enjoy this misery.
Event II
The Capulets are having a masquerade, and Romeo together with his friends are secretly joining the party. At the masquerade, Romeo encounters Juliet for the first time. We are told that they approach each other whilst dancing continues around them. They start to speak in rhyme with each other, Romeo starts with developing a religious image for four lines, after which Juliet continues on the same image. The conversation continues in the same fashion, until the lines (fourteen of them) make up a sonnet , "the proper medium for love poetry".
The lovers are suddenly brought back to earth when they understand that their love is forbidden. Romeo fearing for his life, leaves.
Event III
In this event, we find Romeo inside the Capulets' orchard. He is looking up at the light shining in Juliet's window. This is known as the famous balcony scene. After Romeo's monologue Juliet comes out on the balcony, believing that she is alone, she starts so speak of her love for Romeo. Then she discovers that Romeo has overheard her "secrets", she is embarrassed at first, but as they discover that their love is mutual, they start to discuss their inner feelings and even gently tease each other.
Event IV
Once again, the servants of the two families clash together, this time no one can stop the fight although Romeo tries in vain. In this event, Mercutio is killed. His slayer, Tybalt is then stroke down by Romeo. Romeo is then banned from Verona and has to hide for his life.
Event V
Whilst the fight goes on, Juliet fantasies about Romeo. When she is informed of the banishment of Romeo, she subsides into grief.
Event VI
Juliet decides to take a potion that has an anaesthetic effect. This way, she is able to avoid the marriage with County Paris (which her father has arranged) and reconnect with Romeo. It is arranged that Romeo shall receive the message that Juliet is in fact asleep and not really dead, but something goes wrong and Romeo never receives the message. Instead he is informed about her death and rushes from the safety of his shelter, buys some poison at an apothecary's shop and heads for Verona. When he arrives at the tomb, County Paris is already there.
Event VII
At Juliet's tomb, Romeo engages Paris into a duel, but he fights without any of the anger or hatred of earlier clashes fought by his servants; Paris is killed. Once Romeo spots Juliet (who is obviously dead but in reality only asleep) he looses the will to live and commits suicide by drinking the poison bought at the apothecary's.
Event VIII
Juliet wakes up from her sleep and understands what has happened, she kisses the poison on Romeo's lips and then, to ensure her death she stabs a dagger into her own breast.
2.2 Quotations extracted from the major events
Quotations extracted from event I
p11 "I have lost myself, I am not here, this is not Romeo, he's some other where. – Romeo in dialogue with Benvolio about his love to Rosaline.
p11 "Bid a sick man in sadness make his will – A word ill urg'd to one that is so ill: In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman .
– Romeo in dialogue with Benvolio about his love to Rosaline.
p11 " With cupid's arrow, she hath Dian's wit."
p11: "That when she dies, with beauty dies her store."
p11: "Do I live dead, that live to tell it now
p12: " Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget."
Quotations extracted from event II
p23 "I dreamt a dream tonight." – Romeo speaking about his dream.
p23 "In bed asleep, while they do dram things true."
– Romeo speaking about his dream.
p24 "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars." – Romeo about what he feels for the masquerade.
p27 "O she doth teach the torches to burn bright." – Romeo picturing Juliet when he sees her for the first time
p28 "which mannerly devotion shows in this, for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
–Juliet in the sonnet between her and Romeo.
p29 "You kiss by th' book." – Juliet describing Romeo's kiss
p30 "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.
–Juliet discovers that Romeo is in fact a Montague.
Quotations extracted from event III
p33 "But soft, what light trough yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" – Romeo's monologue hidden under Juliet's balcony.
p34 "I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks." –Romeo's monologue when Juliet appears"
p34 "Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." – Juliet's monologue on the balcony
p37 "My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. – Romeo's dialogue with Juliet.
p40 "Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks." – Romeo's monologue when Juliet has retired back to her room.
Quotations extracted from event IV
p61 "I do protest I never injuried thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise, till thou shalt know the reason of my love; And so, good Capulet, which name tender As dearly as mine own, be satisfied." – Romeo refuses to duel Tybalt, Juliet's cousin.
p62 "Hold Tybalt! Good Mercutio!" – Romeo intervenes when Tybalt and Mercutio are on the verge of fight.
Quotations extracted from event V
p69 "What storm is this that blows so contrary? Is Romeo slaughter'd? And is Tybalt dead? – Juliet's reaction when she informed about the battle.
Quotations extracted from event VI
p70 "Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?" – Juliet's answer to her Nurse's comments on Romeo.
p70 "But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill me cousin? That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband." – Juliet after knowing the mortal fight between Romeo and Tybalt.
Quotations extracted from event VII
p111 "Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp'rate man, fly hence and leave me." – Romeo warning County Paris at the tomb of Juliet.
p112 "By heaven, I love thee better than myself, For I come hither arm'd against myself. Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say, a madman's mercy bid thee run away." – Romeo warning County Paris at the tomb of Juliet.
p112 "In faith, I will. […] -A grave? O no, a lantern, slaughter'd youth; For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light."
–	Romeo laying Paris in Juliet's tomb after killing him in a duel
p112 – 114 "How oft when men are at the point of death have they been merry, which their keepers call A light'ning before death! O how may I call this a ligt'ning? O me love, my wife, death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou are not conquere'd, beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and thy cheeks, and death 's pale flag is not advanced there. Tybalt, liest thou there in thy blood sheet? O, what more favour van I do to thee than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain to sunder his that was thine enemy? Forgive me cousin. Ah, dear Juliet, why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee, and never from this palace of dim night depart again. Here, here will I remain with worms that are thy chambermaids; O here will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here's to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."
– Romeo's monologue at the grave of Juliet before drinking the poison bought at the apothecary's.
Quotations extracted from event VIII
p116 "O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips, haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative. Thy lips are warm. […] –Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." – Juliet's monologue after discovering the corpse of Romeo and her final words before committing suicide.
2.3 Facts about love
There are an array of different types of love, but "the" love almost everyone thinks of when hearing the word is "the affectionate and sexual" love between two human beings. Love is actually absolute, in theory it can not be explained in words, just as music is absolute. Though there can be generalisations that might explain what love could be.
The definition of love is "a range of human emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction." Central emotions felt in love are excitement, happiness, euphoria and elation together with a kind of fascination for the person the lover is in love with. These emotions tend to dominate the lovers mind. The lover often finds it hard to concentrate and focus, instead - since the emotions of love dominate his/her mind - he/she wonder into thought about the person. This often leads to incomplete, deficient and unfinished sentences and phrases.
Unhappy love in other hand often leads to feelings such as depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, and rapid mood swings between depression and euphoria. Because of the rapid changes in mood felt by an unhappy lover, crestfallen love could be compared as analogue with bipolar disorder, a mental illness.
"Onset of symptoms generally occurs in young adulthood. Diagnosis is based on the person''''s self-reported experiences, as well as observed behaviour. Episodes of illness are associated with distress and disruption, and a relatively high risk of suicide."
Therefore, it is not farfetched that extreme cases of unhappy love can lead to suicidal trains of thought.
3 Analysis and discussion
3.1 Analysis of the major events
In event I, as the story is presented to the reader, the first thing that happens is a build up of tension. But since the fight never occurs, some of the tension is still left when the story moves on. This is possibly one of the crucial factors which make the play so engaging; the background tension prevents a "puncture" of the story by attracting the audience's interest. As Romeo does his first appearance, he directly reveals the fundamental idea behind the story: tragedy.
In event II where the Montagues attend to the Capulets' masquerade, Romeo literally visits the "den of the lion" and meets Juliet for the first time. Because of these two factors, the tension is further built up. The audience now inevitably has to ask itself: Is there (Romeo and Juliet's) love possible? Certainly the first appearance of Romeo gives us hints to the answer, but they're only vague.
In event III the play deals with much more tender themes. The event is dominated with sonnet like dialogues between the two lovers. Interesting, Shakespeare once again give us hints about the ending by allotting the couple this form of dialogue. – Petrarch is famous for his love for the lady Laura. He is best remembered for the sonnets he wrote her, despite her marriage to another man. Indeed, the sonnet form later became related to the idea of unrequited love, among other themes.
It is in this event where a point of no return is reached. Romeo and Juliet are in love with each other. Question is, how can this situation be resolved?
In event IV Romeo is banned from Verona, this is where the story starts to head towards its peak. From here, stress is built up until event VII where the story reaches its climax. As Romeo is duelling Count Paris, he has already lost all faith in life because of Juliet's death. One can only imagine the anger, sorrow and desperation felt by Romeo. Consequently, killing Count Paris must have felt as a sort of relief for Romeo.
In the last two events the audience's suspicions are verified, the story is really a tragedy.
The main layout of the story can be concluded into:
1.	Built up of tension and maintaining tension.
2.	Build up of the love narrative.
3.	Point of no return affecting both the love-plot and the tension.
4.	Climax of love-plot and the tension.
5.	Ending, which means tension is finally resolved.
3.2 Analysis of the terms: love, the story, popularity
All of these components are crucial in a traditional novel. Furthermore, the story keeps the audience engaged with the "tension-method" see "3.1 analysis of the major events", page 9 throughout the whole story.
There are apparent similarities between the two descriptions of love see "2.3 facts about love", page 9 and the love portrayed in the play. Since love is the main feature of the story, the story will appear neutral and "easily digested" by the majority. This in turn means that there might be some connection between the story and its popularity.
3.3 Analysis of the characters
In fact, little can be said about Romeo and Juliet, however that does not mean that they are dull. All the quotations see "2.1 Quotations extracted from the major events", page 6 are neutral in the perspective that they do not really reveal much about the personalities, instead they express general feelings that the majority of the western population would feel. This means that we familiarise us selves with the characters and therefore get more engaged as the story progresses.
3.4 Similar stories
One of the most famous stories which obviously has the theme "unhappy love" is Tristan & Isolde, a tragic story of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. For more information please read the story of Tristan & Isolde
The story is as famous and, if not more; loved than the story of Romeo and Juliet. As a result we might be able to draw the conclusion that stories with a similar layout and theme have a good chance o...
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A look what's in this season at the fashion show of Mayfair Couturiers Ray and Dora Rhavis.
John Mills and his daughter Hayley are seen in the audience drinking wine. Top shot of models dressed in glamorous cocktail dresses sauntering up the cat walk. Various C/Us of London's fashion elite in the audience.
According to the narrator models have to walk through the casino to get changed. Various shots of models swishing through unnoticed by the gamblers. A model in a smart suit walks through - gradually the men gambling begin to notice. More models slink past and the gamblers attention is drawn further away from the cards - they give nods of approval and we hear a smattering of applause. L/S of the casino filled with dirty old gamblers flirting with saucy young models.
Note: shots (including some of John and Hayley Mills) from the male fashions section of this show were used in Colour Pictorial - CP 472 - BEAU MODERN on Pathe Master tape *PM0247*.
"John Mills and his daughter Hayley" - also on the shot is John Mills' wife, the playwright Mary Hayley Bell.
The "BEAU MODERN" clip referred to above is clip 247.08.
"C/U of two women in the audience (possibly the Rhavis sisters?)" - yes, that's Raemonde and Dorothey Rahvis.
ADDITION: Further to my earlier naming of Dorothy Rahvis earlier, the name may alternatively be Dora.


Both the chambers of the US Congress have unanimously passed legislation to temporarily reopen the government for three weeks until February 15.
Washington D.C.: US President Donald Trump has conceded to temporarily end shutdown — without wall funding to mounting pressure that he reopen the federal government, media reports said on Saturday. Trump ratified a bill late on Friday funding the government for three weeks, ending an unprecedented 35-day-long shutdown, CNN reported.
This will allow federal employees to return to work but the bill does not allow the billions of dollars in border wall funding he's spent the past month demanding. Both the chambers of the US Congress had unanimously passed legislation to temporarily reopen the government for three weeks until February 15.
The shutdown had been in place since December 22 last year. The passage of this bill comes as a major relief to 800,000 federal workers who have been working without pay ever since the shutdown came into effect.
Trump has promised to ensure that the workers will get their due wages, once the temporary measure is fully in place. The US President had made the announcement about the stopgap measure on Friday, where he also announced that a bipartisan panel will be working together on a border security package.
In his remarks on Friday, however, Trump threatened to "use the powers afforded" to him by the Constitution if a "fair deal" isn't reached during these three weeks."If we don't get a fair deal from Congress, the Government will either shut down on February 15 again – or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency. We will have great security," Trump highlighted.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is seeking temporary unlimited borrowing authority from the Treasury Department, according to a copy of the final Senate bailout legislation on Wednesday.
In the bill, which is expected to be voted on by the Senate later Wednesday, the FDIC is seeking the borrowing authority through the end of 2009.
The FDIC currently insures up to $100,000 per depositor and up to $250,000 per individual retirement account at insured banks.
The increase would be a big boost for the FDIC's ability to insure bank deposits and send a message of confidence to individuals and businesses thinking twice about leaving their money in their banks.
The agency has access to a total of $70 billion in short- and long-term lines of credit. It can also charge banks higher premiums.
The 451-page Senate bill would increase the amount of deposit insurance coverage to $250,000 through next year from the current $100,000 in a bid to reverse the deteriorating crisis of confidence in the marketplace.
The FDIC had asked for an unlimited cap on insurance limits but was rejected by lawmakers, according to sources familiar with the FDIC request.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the proposal to lift the cap was an "important" improvement that would benefit banks.
"It will have benefits for banks across the country. It will have benefits for credit unions across the country," he said.
The Independent Community Bankers of America said it strongly supports the efforts by the FDIC to raise the limit and find ways to backstop regulators and the industry.
"We think it will be very helpful to community banks and will certainly increase the support for the bill in Congress," Steve Verdier, ICBA senior vice president and director of congressional affairs, said.
Verdier said the community bankers group held a conference call on Wednesday with its members in different states to encourage them to call members of Congress and their staff to support the $700 billion financial rescue package.
The bill also seeks similar requests for the National Credit Union Administration, the regulator of federal credit unions.
The U.S. House of Representatives is "likely" to vote on Friday on a latest version of the bailout package, a House Democratic aide said on Wednesday.
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said on Tuesday that raising the limit to $250,000 would serve a dual purpose. It would reassure depositors and provide more liquidity to banks for lending.
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain who are running for president support boosting the insurance limit to $250,000.
Banks pay into the Deposit Insurance Fund, which stood at about $45 billion at the end of June, but the legislation says they would not be assessed for the temporary increased amount.
So far this year 13 banks have failed, including IndyMac and Washington Mutual Inc, which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co in a transaction that did not dent the insurance fund. More bank failures are expected.
Next week the FDIC is slated to hold an open meeting to propose a plan to replenish the fund. Bair has said that she expects the FDIC to raise premiums for banks that accept volatile deposits.


If it terrifies you… Do it!
Never in my wildest dreams had I thought I would find myself the Head of Programs and part of the leadership of enke, an organisation whose work I am deeply passionate and care about. To be honest, taking on the role to lead the work of enke's programs is exciting but also terrifying. Terrifying because of the fear that I may not be worthy to be part of leading this incredible team of highly capable, competent, knowledgeable people who are changing the lives of young people in South Africa. But, I have decided to be excited and terrified, to lean into the fear and am determined to just do it.
I was born and raised in KwaZulu-Natal, more specifically uMlazi Township. It may be selective memory, but my life in uMlazi was one of the best and most formative experiences I have had (with the exception of always being the last picked to play in soccer matches). The experiences I had living in a township and visiting family in the rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal coupled with my undergraduate experience at the University of KwaZulu-Natal led me to fall in love with youth work.
While at University, I was part of various outreach programs that aimed to "improve" the lives of young people in the townships or rural areas. I say "improve" because these activities did not really lead to substantive change, even though, as individuals volunteering, we may have felt like we had done something. I never really felt we were effective enough and, in hindsight, felt sub-conscious frustration and wondering if and how we could do better to really address the social ills we were tackling. I suppose my journey in youth work seeking how to design effective and sustainable youth-focused programs began then.
I am not new to enke. My journey with enke began on 3 March 2014 (yes, I still remember the actual date), as a Trailblazer Program Coordinator. In my first year in that role I ran the logistics of the enke: Forum and provided CAP support to 81 bright-eyed Trailblazers. I remember the fear of that first year, but also the discovery of something more powerful than fear – being part of bringing about change and challenging the status quo. It was an experience of leaning into fear, of learning from mistakes and building my knowledge, capacity, competence and resilience. In my time as a Program Coordinator, I went on to bring 226 high school youth the Trailblazer Program, adding small innovations in support leading to the first 90% project implementation rate with the Class of 2015-16.
In 2016, I felt the need to grow and find new challenges, and so left the Program Coordinator role and enke. It wasn't easy but, once more, I decided to lean into the fear. Since then, I have gone on build experience managing a team of people, youth projects and facilitating community engagement in Pietermaritzburg. I also started my own initiative, the Young Professionals League, which inspires young people through education with a vision of making quality education a norm and not a privilege. Through this work, I have become keenly interested in the formation of policy and legal frameworks that ensure that young people are impacted positively and substantively, but also make sure that young people are included and brought on board to be part of the process. Upon reflection, it is this desire to bring about change in the dynamic and unique way that only enke does (IMHO) that led me back to the organization after two and half years away.
Coming back to enke just made sense; enke's approach to young people and fundamental belief in our (because technically I'm still a young person myself) capacity to create and lead solutions is the driving force behind my being back and taking on a new role in the organisation. To be honest, even when I was "away" I was never really away; I kept tabs on the organization, its work and the growth to new ways of building solutions and innovating in youth work. Now, as the Head of Programs, I want to continue building on the solid foundation that those before me have worked so hard to build. Beyond this, I want enke to grow beyond the borders of South Africa and am excited to work with Rufaro, the board and team to make it happen. Yes, it's possible! I know it is possible even though, because of the fear, I still struggle to say "I am enke's Head of Programs" with a straight face as it bewilders me to have such an honour and privilege. I'm once more leaning into the fear and tackling it head on because I now know that is the way to achieve the endless possibilities of what we can achieve with enke and beyond.
Welcome back Skhu! It's such a pleasure having you back man. Having worked with you before, I couldn't ask for anyone better to take over from Tash…who has been the backbone of enke: Make your mark. It is not your duty, however, to replace her (honestly, no one can) but to do your best in ensuring that enke: Make your mark can make an impact in the lives of young South African for a further 10 years. As you said, it's terrifying but I know and trust that enke is in good hands. I so wish to get to work with you again soon. Thanks for the reminder that greatness often comes from the unlikeliest of places.
Welcome back to the family Skhumbuzo!


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Terrorism Charges Dropped Against Former Miami Cabbie
Filed Under:Crime, Hafiz Khan, Irfan Khan, Izhar Khan, Margate Mosque, Miami Mosque, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, terrorist, U.S. Attorney's Office
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – A former Miami cabbie who was accused along with his father and brother of orchestrating financial support for the Taliban in Pakistan is in the clear.
Last week the U.S. Attorneys Office in Miami dropped all charges against Irfan Khan who was detained behind bars for nearly a year before obtaining bail in April, according to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald.
His 76-year old father Hafiz Khan, an imam at a Miami mosque, his 24-year old son Izhar who is a cleric at a Margate mosque are still accused of wiring at least $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban. Three other people, including a daughter and grandson of the elder Khan who are in Pakistan, have also been charged.
Khan and his son face four terrorism support charges that each carry potential 15-year prison sentences. They have pleaded not guilty.
CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald contributed to this report.


Oracle co-founder and Chairman Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address during the Oracle OpenWorld conference on October 22, 2018 in San Francisco.
Larry Ellison, in what's become an annual tradition, spent much of his opening Oracle OpenWorld keynote knocking Amazon Web Services, the leader in the cloud services market Oracle has been spending so much energy – and money – to play in.
Oracle co-founder at CTO touted allegedly superior performance and lower cost of Oracle's cloud services compared to Amazon's. But the extra focus was on security.
Oracle's cloud platform, he said, is protected by "impenetrable barriers" and "autonomous robots." The barriers guard the cloud from intruders, and the robots are essentially automation of threat detection and remediation. "Autonomous robots find those threats and kill'em," Ellison said.
And by "other clouds," it appeared, he mostly meant AWS. Amazon's cloud, Ellison said, puts its cloud control code on the same machines that host customers' code, which according to him makes the architecture less secure.
An AWS spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Oracle's Larry Ellison explains the architecture of Oracle's second-generation cloud platform at Oracle OpenWorld 2018 in San Francisco.
The security features Ellison highlighted in his keynote Monday in San Francisco are part of the company's second-generation cloud platform. Called Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it was designed by many of the engineers who were involved in building the largest hyperscale cloud platforms, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.
OCI was launched in 2016. The company also has a legacy cloud infrastructure, which it launched earlier to support its first foray into cloud infrastructure services.
The "dedicated network of cloud control computers" that's part of the second-generation cloud are a way to separate customers' data from cloud control software. "We will never put our cloud control code in the same computer that has customer code," Ellison said.
Serving as a barrier, the network surrounds and protects the perimeter of Oracle's cloud and the perimeter of each individual customer zone to prevent threats from spreading from customer to customer.


Coagulation – flocculation is physico-chemical process that facilitates the agglomeration of fine particles (colloids) contained in water to form a floc that can be easily filtered from water.
Effluent (waste water) must be treated before it is discharged or before the water is re-used. Coagulation – flocculation helps remove compounds from effluent and thereby makes it possible to separate water and particles.
COAGULANT and FLOCCULANT products must be used for paint spray booths, robots and tunnels with a water curtain to remain clean and operate as efficiently as possible.
Coagulants are liquid products that are mainly used to treat water circulating in paint spray booths. Colloidal particles suspended in water are destabilised when a coagulation reagent is added to waste water. Indeed, the coagulant is used to decrease or even cancel the colloid's negative electric charge in order to bring them closer together. The particles will agglomerate to form what is known as "flocs". However, these flocs remain small and fragile; therefore a flocculant must be added.
Flocculants are liquid products that facilitate the contact between particles previously destabilised and discharged by coagulation. The agitation of the fluid results in the agglomeration of pigments. This reaction increases the size of flocs which will facilitate and improve the solid-liquid separation; separation is achieved by sedimentation or flotation.
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Reason and facts cannot be the basis of political debates
Posted on Thursday, Aug 19, 2021 4:35PM by S. Abbas Raza
Elizabeth Cantalamessa in Aeon:
Something is amiss with democracy. Ask people from any or no political persuasion and they're likely to give a similar story: contemporary politics has gone haywire because one side (or both) has lost touch with reality. We are living in a 'post-truth' partisan news hellscape that prioritises 'feelings over facts' and disregards the natural authority of the truth. But all sides seem to agree that there is a 'truth' that explains what really makes someone a woman, or an institution racist, or a politician fascist, in a way that compels acceptance from those who otherwise disagree. What we need to do is further emphasise the importance of science and reason, and perhaps sanction the overtly partisan media outlets that mislead otherwise good-natured people, then everyone will come to their senses and agree on things because they are true, because they reflect reality. Humans are rational, remember? Surely, Immanuel Kant wouldn't lie.
But I don't think the truth will, in fact, set us free. Our current 'post-truth' political landscape in fact calls for a pragmatist therapy to rid us of the belief that 'truth' and 'reality' deserve a special place in our public justificatory practices altogether. A pragmatist ethics calls for prioritising feelings instead of facts, because a truly humanist democracy is sentimentalist rather than rationalist.
Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report
Chuck Close Is Accused of Harassment. Should His Artwork Carry an Asterisk?
"Just wanted you to know I'm one of many who reads and enjoys 3 Quarks....almost daily."
—David Byrne, musician, former lead-singer of the Talking Heads, artist, intellectual.
"I have placed 3 Quarks Daily at the head of my list of web bookmarks."
—Richard Dawkins, previously Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
"I like to check in from time to time with 3 Quarks Daily."
—Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. "One of the most celebrated writers of his generation," according to the Virginia Quarterly Review.


In Day Four of Today in a Mangerwe consider the angel Gabriel. Many people today do not believe in angels. Yet thirty-four books in the Bible mention angels, including every single New Testament book! Angels are mentioned more than 250 times in the Bible. In the Bible an angel is often depicted as someone sent by God to explain or execute His purposes. When Jesus was on earth, angels were often around Him. They predicted His birth, ministered to Him after His temptation in the wilderness, gave Him strength when He faced death on the cross, and declared His resurrection and ascension. The angel Gabriel told Zechariah that he and his wife Elizabeth would have a son, John the Baptist. An encounter with angels is something we should welcome.


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IMF Chief Withdraws as Commencement Speaker
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By Alexandra Sifferlin
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde withdrew as Smith College's commencement speaker, the school said Monday, following a petition by students angry about her upcoming appearance.
The college in Northampton, Mass., announced the withdrawal after hundreds of students signed the petition. Administrators said Lagarde didn't want to be a distraction.
"In the last few days, it has become evident that a number of students and faculty members would not welcome me as a commencement speaker," Lagarde wrote in a letter to Smith President Kathleen McCartney. "I respect their views, and I understand the vital importance of academic freedom. However, to preserve the celebratory spirit of commencement day, I believe it is best to withdraw my participation."
In the petition, students at the women's college said they took issue with her role at the IMF.
"The IMF has been a primary culprit in the failed developmental policies implanted in some of the world's poorest countries," the petition said. "This has led directly to the strengthening of imperialist and patriarchal systems that oppress and abuse women worldwide."
Lagarde is the first woman to serve as the head of the IMF, and many were shocked by the news.
In a statement, McCartney said she stands by the school's decision to invite Lagarde. "Those who objected will be satisfied that their activism has had a desired effect. But at what cost to Smith College? This is a question I hope we will ponder as a community in the months ahead," she wrote.
Ruth J. Simmons, Smith's ninth president and the 18th president of Brown University, will give the commencement speech instead of Lagarde.
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A Goodbye to A Community Of Business
By Nels Jensen
Nels Jensen
This is my farewell column as I depart the San Diego Business Journal after 4½ years as Editor-in-Chief. I've greatly enjoyed the job and getting to know so many stakeholders in the business community, but the time is right for me to move on. I'm not sure what's next for me, but I do have a couple of possibilities and I am excited to find my next adventure.
I am proud of a couple of additions we made to the SDBJ — most prominent, the weekly Startup Page and the introduction of the "SD 500, The Book Of Influential Business Leaders."
The Startup Page has greatly enhanced our coverage of new companies but also led to more stories about tech companies, venture capital and private equity, and the mergers and acquisition sector. business journals traditionally have taken an approach of waiting until a company achieves a certain scale of growth or success before writing about them; we've tried to let readers know more about this budding tech ecosystem as it evolves around them.
When we first discussed adding "The SD 500" to our mix, I wasn't so sure it would work. 500 seemed like too big of a number of business leaders to profile at one time, more of a phonebook approach than highlighting excellence. But I was a quick convert as I realized how many amazing B2B leaders there are in the community. It's subjective selection process for sure, and a gargantuan task to complete, but after publishing three SD 500s, I see it as a true bookend people product to our annual Book of Lists, which remains the most robust local company database in the market.
I admire the courage and dedication of all of you entrepreneurs, whether you are trying to build a disruptive startup or operating a third-generation legacy company. I will miss meeting with business owners and executives, learning about how they have grown their companies and what excites them around the next corner. And I will miss writing this column: The only way to do it right is to be in touch with the market, which means being in the field and on the phone.
Among my wishes are for the business community to coalesce around expanding the convention center, which is far more important to our future than many people realize, and for the Padres to win a World Series. Few things rally a community like a championship run, and San Diego sports fans have paid enough dues on that front.


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Can a foreigner marry a Turkish girl?
Question: Can a foreigner marry a Turkish girl?
Is it possible to marry a Turkish girl?
At what age do Turkish girls get married?
At what age do Turkish people marry?
How old is a minor in Turkey?
How can I lose my Turkish citizenship?
How many wives can an Indian man have?
Are marriages arranged in Turkey?
According to the Turkish Marriage Legislation and regulations, a Turkish national and a foreigner or two foreigners with different nationalities can get married in Turkey, which can be done only by the competent Turkish authorities.According to the Turkish Marriage Legislation
In consideration of Turkish Legislation concerning acquisition of Nationality, the act of Turkish citizenship Law entered into force in 1964 stating that "foreigner women who marries with Turkish citizen can obtain Turkish citizenship."
However, there is a discrepancy in the legal framework regarding child marriage: the minimum age for the marriage of girls is 15 according to the Turkish Penal Code, 17 (for both sexes) according to the Turkish Civil Code and 18 according to the Child Protection Act.
The legal age of marriage in Turkey is 18 and children can marry at the age of 17 with the consent of their parents or legal guardians. Children at the age of 16 can also marry, with special permission from the courts under exceptional circumstances and on vital grounds.
The Age of Consent in Turkey is 18 years old. The age of consent is the minimum age at which an individual is considered legally old enough to consent to participation in sexual activity.
If you are under the age of 38 you can renounce your Turkish nationality without having completed your military service or paid the exemption fee, provided that you were previously granted a deferment. If you wish to renounce your Turkish nationality, you can apply to the Turkish embassy.
No. A man cannot marry two people or have two wives in India. But the picture is a little different for Muslims under their personal laws. As Muslims have permission to have four wives, while bigamy is legal in Goa and along the western coast.
Arranged marriage is not specific to Turkey or Middle Eastern societies more generally. In this way, arranged marriages between such cousins help maintain extended family unity.


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It is the end of the first trimester at TKG! We have spent the first three months of the school year getting to know ourselves as learners and also getting to know what interests us and how best we work together. It has been an exciting time of exploration, learning and connecting. What we have learned about ourselves is that it is hard to keep a growth mindset when faced with something new and challenging. Now that we are connected, the Redwoods are ready to dive into time management, rigor and community building through empathy.
In terms of time management, students will start to work on projects that have specific deadlines. We will work together to map out how to reach the deadline stress-free and confidently. In terms of rigor, students will practice working with non-numerical rubrics. The rubrics will outline expectations that teacher and students agree upon that will encourage students to strive to dig deep, stretch further and produce their very best work.
To support foundational learning, I will be discussing a home practice plan with the students that will begin in January. It will be an opportunity of empowerment for students to decide what kind of home practice they can be doing to support their learning goals. I'm open to hearing your suggestions as well, for supporting your children's learning experience at home. More information on this in the coming weeks.
Renee has been joining us on Wednesdays, to help us explore this idea of empathy and how it can help us grow as a community and as connected human beings. We are all unique individuals with differing experiences and points of view. Rather than shy away from and avoid these differences, it is so important that we honor and celebrate them and, yes, learn to work together knowing just how different we are. This is a skill that our students will take with them into their future work places and lives, and it is this very skill that will help them experience so much future success. In addition to this weekly class, the Redwoods and Evergreens will also be coming together to work on a community-building project in which all students will have a stake. Stay tuned for more details.
It has been my absolute pleasure to be on this journey of growth and understanding with the Redwoods and the TKG community. I am grateful to be a part of a community that focuses on the well-being of the whole child, the whole community. School is so much more than academic standards, and we are lucky to be a part of a mission that recognizes this in today's educational climate.
Book Club, Friday 3.15-4.15pm. We'll be starting a new book in January. Hope you can join us!
Winter Holiday begins Monday 18 Dec. See you on Jan 2nd!
Mon (full day): 1/2 shifts welcome!
New Before/After-School Care Session has started. Please sign up! January dates are now available.
End of Year Tax Donations. Please consider TKG as you are planning for tax write offs. One-time or monthly donations make a difference for you and us! Visit our Giving page (on our website).
DISENGAGED STUDENTS: HOW DID AMERICAN ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM BEGIN?
Americans pride themselves on their high ideals. On national holidays Americans delight in quoting phrases like "all men are created equal" and "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The ideologies of freedom of religion, democratic government, and socio-economic mobility are ingrained in American children beginning in pre-K educational settings. While these ideologies are admired from a distance, real progress in reaching these goals is undercut by a growing national trend: anti-intellectualism.
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Вамего () — місто () в США, в окрузі Поттаватомі штату Канзас. Населення —  особи (2010).

Географія
Вамего розташоване за координатами  (39.205263, -96.310126).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 5,83 км², з яких 5,73 км² — суходіл та 0,11 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкали  особи в  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 750 осіб/км².  Було 1882 помешкання (323/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,9 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 3,9 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 27,3 % — особи молодші 18 років, 59,4 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 13,3 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 33,3 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 90,8 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 87,8 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 9,3 % осіб, у тому числі 8,1 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 13,9 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  особи. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 36,2 %, роздрібна торгівля — 14,1 %, будівництво — 8,5 %, фінанси, страхування та нерухомість — 8,3 %.

Примітки

Джерела

Міста Канзасу
Населені пункти округу Поттаватомі (Канзас)

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Explore Minnesota's nearly 600 museums, get free admission at the History Center and check out the new MNHS magazine.
This May marks the fourth annual Minnesota Museums Month, a celebration of Minnesota's nearly 600 museums throughout the state. The Minnesota Museums Month website helps visitors explore Minnesota's museums statewide. Use the new MNHS magazine to see what's going on at MNHS' 26 historic sites and museums. View an electronic copy here .
In celebration of Minnesota Museums Month, the Minnesota History Center is offering free admission for all on Sunday May 10, from noon to 5 p.m. Visit hands-on exhibits including "Then Now Wow," "Grainland," "Open House," "Weather Permitting," "Minnesota's Greatest Generation," "We Are Hmong Minnesota" and the new traveling exhibit, "Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair." Guests can also shop in the gift store and have lunch in the History Center Café.
Admission and hours may vary. Please check www.mnhs.org for more information.


How to Improve the Efficiency of Your Company?
Improving and maintaining the efficiency of your company is important in order to make sure that the bottom line of the organization is met consistently. For new companies, this can even be important in ensuring that they make enough income each month and for those that are well established it is important to make sure that they can sustain the level of operations that they have at the moment. So how can you improve the efficiency of your business? Here are some helpful pointers that can be of use to you.
One of the key factors that you cannot ignore when thinking about the efficiency of the company is the technology that you implement in it. If you are able to invest some capital in the best business management applications you will begin to see clear differences in the amount of work that gets completed on a daily basis at your office. Check out some of the suppliers in your area who can help you out with this service and ask them for their expertise. Usually, the way forward would be that they come and inspect the requirements and the current operations at your company and then come with suitable suggestions that will help make a positive difference. If you are alright to integrate this suggested technology they will execute it and monitor to see if the results obtained are the ones that were expected.
As much as you need to pay attention to the technological side of things your human resource management should also be spot on. If your employee managing is lacking you will not get great result either simply because you implement the technology. Training and development should therefore always be something that your company invests in and even after you introduce the right technology make sure that all the employees understand how they should use it and what they can expect with it. This way you can minimize any discomfort that they will initially feel with the change in the operations.
If you want your company to go places know that you cannot accomplish that by trying to handle all the tasks by yourself. Delegate but then make sure that you delegate the right tasks to the right people. When employees have been given tasks based on their actual skill set you will be able to expect high returns from them. In addition to this, the employees will also enjoy what they are doing and feel happy knowing that their employer knows what their strong points are. Make sure that you also delegate enough tasks and retain the ones that you should be handling by yourself such as bringing in business. Appoint managers and team members who will be able to help you monitor the performance of the employees who have been allocated the tasks. These managers, in turn, may appoint team leaders so that the work gets divided well and correctly.


The Bundesliga has announced the launch of a site on Beijing-based news and information content platform Jinri Toutiao as it continues to expand its digital presence in China.
Bytedance-owned content aggregator Jinri Toutiao is one of the China's fastest-growing digital platforms. It offers its 700 million users tailored feeds based on their interests and interactions.
The launch follows the news that the Bundesliga will open an office in Beijing in March 2019 to deliver a long term, comprehensive strategy for China.
Fans in China can also follow the Bundesliga on www.bundesliga.cn and via the Bundesliga's official Jinri Toutiao, Sina Weibo and WeChat channels.


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Competition Archive
Armel Opera Festival is a unique operatic event that has presented opera rarities and, in particular, contemporary works since 2008. The international jury of the Armel Opera Competition assesses the singers' vocal qualities their acting skills. The singers selected in two rounds of the competition are offered the main roles in one of the festival productions, and in the final stage of the challenge, they can prove their talent in this particular Armel Opera Festival presentation to win the Award for Best Performer. All Armel Opera Festival shows are broadcast live on the French-German Arte Concert channel annually, the recorded performances can be accessed by opera-loving audiences on the channel's website for another six months.
In addition to opera productions, Armel Opera Festival also produces publications and organises stage performances and concerts in Hungary and, since 2003, in the Palace of Versailles, the Opera d'Avignon, in Plzen (under the European Cultural Capital programme), the most prestigious Swiss concert halls, the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Cadogan Hall, the Hackney Empire Theatre in London, at Jersey Opera House and MuTh Theatre in Wien. Armel Opera Festival Orchestra has accompanied the companies of the Moscow Ballet and the St Petersburg Ballet on their tours since 2013.
Armel Opera Festival is proud to support young talents and to be involved in the professional support of young managers of international music festivals. In collaboration with Opera Europa, in 2012 Armel co-created the international Opera Management Course. In collaboration with the European Festivals Association (EFA) in 2016 the Armel Opera Festival hosted the International Festival Academy as a co-organiser, which received young festival managers and prestigious lecturers from five continents. Armel Opera Festival launched its opera-writing competition in November 2012. The winner was awarded a prize of 6,000 euros and the composition was presented at Armel Opera Festival 2014.
One of the 22 most outstanding European festivals Armel was invited to participate in the round table discussions on festivals' role and future in Europe.
In 2015 and 2017 Armel Opera Festival was given the EFFE label, the European Festivals Association's mark of recognition for Europe's most remarkable arts festivals.
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David Wright was named captain once again on Tuesday, this time as the leader of the National League for the Home run Derby during all star weekend at Citi Field. Wright will now pick the rest of his National League teammates to participate. Remember that Wright doesn't necessarily have to pick an all-star.
Robinson Cano of the Yankees will be the captain of the American League team. The Dodgers Matt Kemp as well as Cano were the two captains last season in Kansas City.


Is there a Scrivens Opticians near me?
With over 180 Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care branches across the UK and our hearing services available in around 250 other outlets including medical centres, you shouldn't find yourself too far from assistance.
Using our online facility will help you find your nearest Scrivens branch in no time. We can provide you with information about services available and how to get to your selected branch, as well as being able to request an appointment to speak to a member of the Scrivens team.
All you need to do is type in your postcode or town in the box below and then choose the location that suits you best. Your nearest opticians will be displayed so you can easily get in touch.
Book an eye test online today and you're one step closer to getting your eyesight back on track.


A rating for Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition has appeared on America's Entertainment Software Rating Board's website. The ESRB's rating of the classic real-time strategy game could mean that an official announcement is imminent.
The description of the game offers little in the way of surprises. It says that "players control empires from the Dark Age through the Imperial Age," and lists several standard RTS tropes like building structures, gathering resources, and commanding military units (making an oddly specific reference to Persia's War Elephants).
Details about the Definitive Edition are pretty scarce. While I imagine it's pretty likely that the new version will include the game's original expansion, The Conquerors, it's not clear whether the three add-ons attached to the 2013's HD remaster – The Forgotten, The African Kingdoms, and Rise of the Rajas – will be included in the Definitive Edition. It's worth asking the question, however, as to how 'definitive' a remaster can be if it doesn't feature all of the content attached to the original.
Age of Empires: Definite Edition released early last year. In 2017, along with the announcement of Age of Empires 4, Microsoft revealed that both AoE2 and AoE3 would both be getting definitive versions, although there's still no release date on any of those games.
Related: When is the Age of Empires 4 release date?
An ESRB rating would suggest that Microsoft isn't all that far away from an AoE2 announcement, although a release will likely be a bit further down the line. That's corroborated by a tweet from the official Age of Empires Twitter account, suggesting that we could have our hands on the game this year.
As a long-time series fan, I feel spoiled for choice when it comes to Age of Empires in general. I played all hell out of AoE2 when I was younger, although I will confess that the game's cheats are still seared into my memory – perhaps I'll actually have the patience to play the way the studio intended this time around. Truly, however, I think my heart belongs to AoE3 and its Great Bombards. Thankfully, there will be an Age of Empires 3 Definite Edition at some point, which should make waiting for the brand-new title a little easier.


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Dangerous Work for "Crap Money": The Dark Side of Recycling
Some of America's riskiest jobs involve processing our old stuff.
Brian Joseph
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Darkness had enveloped the Newell Recycling yard by the time Erik Hilario climbed into a front-end loader on a cold evening in January 2011. Hilario, a 19-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, earned $8 an hour at the industrial park in East Point, Georgia, working amid jagged piles of scrap metal eventually bound for the smelter.
On this day, Hilario was driving a loader in a paved section of the nine-acre yard known as the defueler or car-processing area. Here, according to witness testimony, gasoline was drained from junked cars through a crude process employing a 30-foot crane and an 11-foot-tall structure topped with a spike known as The Puncher. A claw attached to the crane would pick up cars and smash them, gas tank first, onto the spike, spilling gasoline into a trough. The crane then would swing the cars onto a pile, dripping gas along the way.
As Hilario used the loader to slowly push metal scraps, a spark ignited the gasoline on the ground. An intense fire suddenly engulfed him. "Help me!" he screamed, his co-workers later testified.
When the fire was finally extinguished, Hilario's severely burned body was found 10 feet from the charred loader. A doctor reviewing Hilario's autopsy later determined that he was probably conscious for as long as five minutes before he died.
Recycling may be good for the environment, but working conditions in the industry can be woeful. The recycling economy encompasses a wide range of businesses, from tiny drop-off centers in strip malls to sprawling scrap yards and cavernous sorting plants. The industry also includes collection services, composting plants, and e-waste and oil recovery centers. Some of the jobs at these facilities are among the most dangerous in America. Others offer meager pay, and wage violations are widespread. Experts say much of the work is carried out by immigrants or temporary workers who are poorly trained and unaware of their rights.
"These are not good jobs," says Jackie Cornejo, former director of Don't Waste LA, a campaign to improve working conditions for waste and recycling workers in Los Angeles. "People only hear about the feel-good aspects of recycling and zero waste, and rarely do they hear about the other side."
The last comprehensive analysis of the American recycling industry, commissioned in 2001 by the National Recycling Coalition, estimated that it employed more than 1 million people. Private scrap yards alone generated more than an estimated $80 billion in revenue in 2015. The nation's largest trash haulers, Waste Management and Republic Services, are also the largest recycling firms. In 2014, recycling generated a combined $1.7 billion in revenue for the two corporations, or about 7.5 percent of total sales.
"People only hear about the feel-good aspects of recycling and zero waste, and rarely do they hear about the other side."
But many of the companies that do this work are small and may lack the knowledge and resources to establish effective safety procedures. Recycling workers, by virtue of their immigration status or status as temps, often hesitate to speak up when they see hazards on the job or are victimized by the outright illegal behavior of their supervisors.
One of the largest sectors in recycling, scrap yards, has long had high fatality and injury rates. In 2014 its fatality rate was 20.8 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers, more than nine times higher than manufacturing workers overall. The same year, garbage and recycling collectors had the fifth-highest fatality rate among the dozens of occupations analyzed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. No one tracks how many workers die across all recycling sectors. But at scrap yards and sorting facilities, at least 313 recycling workers were killed on the job from 2003 to 2014, according to the BLS.
A FairWarning analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) records found that inspections conducted from 2005 to 2014 resulted in scrap yards and sorting facilities receiving about 80 percent more citations per inspection than the average inspected worksite did.
Christopher Webb with his daughter in May 2012, two months before he was killed at a recycling plant in North Carolina. Allison Hildebrand
Recycling is dirty, labor-intensive work. It involves heavy machinery, including conveyor belts, shredders, and grinders that can pose a serious risk of injury or death, especially if they're not properly serviced or lack basic safety features. Unlike many industrial processes, recycling cannot be completely systematized because it deals with an ever-changing flow of materials in all manner of shapes and sizes. Workers may have to personally handle most of the scrap passing through recycling facilities, potentially exposing them to sharp objects, toxins, carcinogens, or explosives.
"I did not realize the danger," recalls Alice Pulliam of Reidsville, North Carolina, whose 32-year-old son, Christopher Webb, was killed at the Southern Investments plastic recycling plant in July 2012. It purchased loads of milk jugs, detergent bottles, and other recyclable plastics and ground them into bits for resale to businesses that would further process the material.
One day, just a couple of months after joining the 13-employee company, Webb was feeding giant bales of compacted bottles and jugs into an auger with 14 spinning blades. More than a foot long and sharpened to a point, these blades broke up the bales before they were ground into finer pieces. Following the plant's standard procedure, Webb used a forklift to place the roughly three-foot high bales on an elevated platform next to the mouth of the auger, according to a report by the North Carolina Department of Labor's Division of Occupational Safety and Health. While the blades spun below him, Webb climbed onto the bales to cut the wires holding them together. Then he used the forklift to push the bales into the auger.
"What is the modern-day equivalent of dirty, dangerous factory jobs? Warehouses and recycling plants."
Webb was on top of a bale when he fell into the spinning blades below, crushing his head. A subsequent investigation by the state department of labor found that plant employees weren't instructed to shut down the auger while climbing on the bales, and that the machine did not have the proper guarding to prevent the blades from hitting workers.
The state cited Southern Investments with 35 safety violations, including 16 "willful violations," and fined the company the unusually high sum of $441,000. The plant's owner, Donald Southern, said he could not pay and agreed to close Southern Investments and not manage another plastic recycling business in North Carolina. He declined to comment for this story.
Generally, the hazards at scrap yards and sorting facilities are typical of any major industrial operation. Safety measures to make these workplaces less dangerous are well known and widely implemented in other industries. "This is not rocket science," says Susan Eppes, a Houston-based safety consultant to the recycling industry.
Although OSHA says five of its 10 regions have special enforcement programs covering sectors of the recycling industry, safety advocates say that isn't enough. "Systematically, across the country, they haven't given the industry the attention it's due," says Eric Frumin, the health and safety director for Change to Win, a partnership of four national unions. Advocates are lobbying the agency to create a national program aimed at sorting plants, where metal, paper, and plastic are separated. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, a trade association, recently announced it is partnering with OSHA to try to reduce injury and fatality rates.
Yet basic safety procedures are often ignored in recycling plants, experts say. Consider the case of Robert Santos, a 46-year-old line supervisor at a Republic Services plant in North Las Vegas, where he helped dump mounds of recyclables onto a conveyor belt. Using radios, workers would direct front-end loaders to push paper from a holding bay onto the belt, which rolled toward a baler. State safety inspectors later learned that it was common for employees to stand on the moving belt to pull material from the holding bay, or to sweep up material along its sides.
"he was dead working for crap money"
The recycling industry tends to attract the desperate and the downtrodden. "It's a low end of the economy," says Eric Frumin of Change to Win. "We've shipped all the factory jobs to China, so what is the modern-day equivalent of dirty, dangerous factory jobs? Warehouses and recycling plants."
Take the case of 51-year-old David Lightfritz, who was killed in a 2011 accident at Marietta Industrial Enterprises in Ohio when he tried unjamming a large machine used to separate glass from paper and plastics. Lightfritz got into the recycling business after his previous employer learned he was a registered sex offender. "He didn't have anything else," says his older brother, Willard Lightfritz. "He wasn't out of prison long and he was dead working for crap money"—around $7 an hour.
Recycling drop-off centers have become a priority target of wage theft investigations in California by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. Ruben Rosalez, the division's western regional administrator, says these small businesses are among the "worst that we have to deal with," and are as exploitative as sweatshops or the agricultural industry.
Wage and Hour investigators in Los Angeles have found that these businesses were often paying their employees as little as $55 or $65 a day, regardless of the hours they worked. Some employers were found to not even keep payroll records, and some failed to provide bathrooms for workers.
On the morning of June 8, 2012, work at the sorting facility was delayed two hours because a mass of paper had clogged the holding bay. Once the jam was cleared, Santos stood on the conveyor belt, yanking paper from the bay, when two to three tons of paper suddenly collapsed on top of him. A co-worker would later remember him shouting, "Stop the belt! Stop the belt!" before he was enveloped in a pile of paper eight feet high.
After the paper was lifted off him, Santos was found to have minimal brain activity. He was taken off life support six days later and died. The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Republic Services $5,390 for the incident. Asked to justify such a small fine for a fatal accident, Nevada OSHA's chief administrative officer said it was in line with agency policy, and that investigators did not find "clear indifference to employee safety and health." Republic Services did not respond to requests for comment.
After his fatal accident, Erik Hilario's family moved quickly to file a wrongful death lawsuit. Newell Recycling of Atlanta and the Hilario family declined to comment for this story.
Last September, a jury in Fulton County, Georgia, awarded $29.2 million to the Hilario family. Newell and the family subsequently settled out of court. But the pain of a life cut short lingers among Hilario's family, who were described by their lawyer as still reeling from Erik's death five years later. "He wanted to be somebody," Erik's older brother, Efrain, recalled in his tearful testimony during the trial. "He had many dreams."
Bridget Huber contributed to this report. The Courtroom View Network provided access to its archive of video trial testimony.
FairWarning, which reported this story, is a nonprofit news organization that focuses on public health, safety, and environmental issues. A longer version of the story appears at fairwarning.org.
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The Boatlift es el tercer álbum de estudio de Pitbull. Fue lanzado al mercado el 27 de noviembre de 2007.
El álbum muestra cambios en cuanto al tipo de géneros musicales que presenta, en el disco 'The Boatlift' se escuchan sonidos al estilo Pop, R&B, Electro-Dance, House.

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