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ויזכר אלקים את אברהם וישלח את לוט מתוך ההפיכה
Hashem remembered Avraham; so He sent Lot from amidst the upheaval. (19:29)
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Avraham Avinu was a baal chesed, master of kindness. Indeed, the Torah goes to great lengths in describing his devotion to the wayfarer, and how he exerted himself to make sure that whoever came into his home had a pleasureful and satisfying experience. Lot, Avraham's nephew, also acted with chesed. He moved to Sodom and became a distinguished member of this ignominious community. He moved there because he was into money and everything one can achieve with material bounty. He did, however, retain some of the good qualities that he learned under the influence of his uncle. When the Angels visited Sodom, Lot risked his life on their behalf. One would think that it was due to Lot's middah, attribute, of chesed, that he was spared from the destruction of Sodom.
In commenting on the above pasuk, Rashi gives a different reason for Lot's rescue from the annihilation of Sodom. "Hashem remembered." What did He remember (about Avraham concerning Lot)? Hashem remembered that Lot was aware that Sarah Imeinu was Avraham's wife (and not his sister, as he had asserted to the Egyptians), but Lot did not reveal the truth about Sarah, out of pity for Avraham. Therefore, Hashem took pity on him. Measure for measure. Lot "ignored" his memory regarding Sarah; Hashem remembered this and spared Lot. The question is obvious: Why was Lot not spared as a result of his devotion to the middah of chesed? Surely, positive action trumps his remaining silent and not negatively revealing a secret that would have cost Avraham his life. Furthermore, the sin that catalyzed Sodom's destruction was the people's opposition to chesed. To them, kindness to others was an anathema. Thus, Lot, who fought against them, whose actions were the antithesis of what Sodom stood for, specifically deserved to be saved.
Horav Aharon Kotler, zl, quotes the Alter, zl, m'Slabodka, who says that Lot emulated Avraham's actions. Everything Lot did was imitation. Lot's middas ha'chesed was not part of his essence. It was an extrinsic activity performed to copy Avraham. After a while, he became accustomed to acting with chesed, but it was not part of his character – it did not define Lot. One can perform acts of kindness, but it does not mean that he is a kind person. Lot performed chesed, but he was not a baal, master, of chesed.
We may add that this concept applies to all middos. Just because a person acts humbly does not mean that he is a humble person. Some individuals present themselves as refined and humble until they are ignored or slighted. Then, their true selves comes to the fore. Perhaps the best way to describe this is as Rebbetzin Shulamit Ezrachi describes her father, Chevroner Mashgiach, Horav Meir Chodosh, zl. "His life was an open book, exposed to all eyes, day by day, and hour by hour. It served as an example and model for anyone who wished to learn from it. The students saw before them, day after day, the image of a man whose every action, speech, behavior and smallest gesture were all thought out."
Horav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, zl, was a gadol in Torah as well as chesed. His rebbetzin, the daughter of Rav Yaakov Yosef Herman, zl, was witness to chesed at its apex. Her home was the address for anyone who was in need of kindness. When the Hermans moved to Eretz Yisrael, their Shabbos table was the place where one could find any person who just needed a "place." To them, everyone was family. As I was perusing through a biography of Rav Scheinberg, I came across many stories of his extraordinary empathy for others. His acts of chesed were directed to anyone in need, be it: a yeshivah student; kollel fellow and his wife; members of the Jewish community; or the drunk and the homeless who were laying in the gutter on a cold winter night. (He would bring them hot soup which his rebbetzin prepared.)
One story particularly inspires me. I preface this with the notion that chesed does not only involve material benevolence. Emotional support is equally (and, in some situations, more) important. We can find chesed in Torah, helping someone who is in need of a boost in his Torah learning. The greatest chesed (in my opinion) is reaching out to someone who is floundering in his Yiddishkeit, whose religious observance is becoming more and more borderline. It is critical that one assesses the situation, find out the cause, and offer spiritual and emotional support. Now for the story:
One Erev Shabbos when Rav Scheinberg lived in the Lower East Side, a young married man asked him a halachic query (shailah) concerning a family purity issue. Although Rav Scheinberg felt that he had reason to pasken muttar, render a decision of permissible, to the man, he wanted to buttress his decision with a little research. He needed a certain sefer, volume of halachic responsa, which he did not own and would have to borrow. He told the young man that since it was almost shkiah, sunset, he would not be able to answer his shailah before the beginning of Shabbos. He did not bother telling the young man that the sefer was located in Williamsburg. Soon after Shabbos began, Rav Scheinberg walked one hour across the Williamsburg Bridge and looked up the sefer. He confirmed that it was muttar.
He then returned to the Lower East Side, went up to the young man's apartment, knocked on the door and, when the man answered, Rav Scheinberg said, "Muttar." He did an about face and went home to make Kiddush. Two hours of walking, keeping his family waiting for him, all to answer a shailah. He knew that a young couple needed the answer. This is chesed at its zenith.
Having digressed, I return to Rav Aharon's question: Why was Lot not spared as a result of his chesed activities? Horav Yerachmiel Chasid, Shlita, distinguishes between two middos which on the surface appear similar, but actually are quite different from one another. They are: chesed – kindness; and rachamim – mercy. Rachamim's focus is to fulfill a need, a vacuum, something that a person is missing. Therefore, the benefactor is addressing the chisaron, deficiency/fault. When travelers appear at one's tent on a hot day, after trudging through the desert's grueling heat, what they need is shade, something to drink. Once these basic necessities have been addressed, they no longer need mercy. The immediate need has been filled. It is time to move on.
Avraham Avinu, however, was not satisfied with rachamim alone. He was a baal chesed who brought three fresh tongues. He himself waited on the travelers, attempting to give them anything that would make life better for them. This is chesed: going beyond filling the need; doing more, acting with generosity of spirit, a smile, as if this is the only activity that one has to do that entire day. There is no limit to chesed. Rachamim, however, fills the gap. Chesed is non-judgmental. Chesed is inclusive – making a point to involve others. Rachamim can be selective: one must be sensitive to the person, the issue and feel pity for him/her. A baal chesed lives where he can perform acts of kindness. He does not make his home in Sodom, a city which featured the opposite extreme of chesed. Avraham Avinu manifest chesed. Lot was merciful. Chesed was beyond him. Therein lay the difference between the two.
He lifted his eyes and saw: And behold! Three men were standing over him. (18:2)


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In this interview, Mariatu Kamara recounts the events that led up to her brutal attack where young rebel soldiers in Sierra Leone captured her at the tender age of 12 and cut off her hands. She will share how she was able to survive both physically and mentally, making peace with her past, forgiving those who hurt her and creating a beautiful life of purpose and meaning. Her message for a world facing turbulent times is Don't give up on life no matter what! Find gratitude in everything.
When 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village in Sierra Leone, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured her. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands.
Mariatu miraculously survived but with no parents to support her, she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. Eventually, Mariatu was able to begin a new life in Canada where she co-authored her memoir, 'The Bite of The Mango', which to date has won several awards. Currently she is a UNICEF Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict, giving presentations on the impact of war on children
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A single story can take an entire community to the ground or elevate it. We need to be told and to tell new stories that inspire the best qualities that we possess, and we need to be exposed to the stories of people from different backgrounds than our own so we can gain an appreciation and respect for our differences, as well as for our similarities. Stories connect us, people to people. They cross lands, oceans, and borders. They move us, shape us and create new worlds of possibility. Stories take us on a journey through the intimate life experience of another, and in the hearing we become a part of their lives. We are no longer strangers.
Tina Klonaris-Robinson is an inspirational writer and speaker, The Founder and Executive Director of The Meah Foundation and the creator of The Meah Story Bracelet Project. After the tragic loss of her second child, Meah, in 2006, Tina traveled to Rwanda with genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza and experienced the incredible power of sharing stories in the healing process. These stories had a profound impact on her character and her purpose, opening her heart and mind to new possibilities. Person to person connection through storytelling was the basis of discoveries about hope, faith, forgiveness, courage, and the seeds of greatness that live within every human being no matter what has happened to them or how difficult their lives have been. She believes in the power of storytelling to transform people's lives, heal, promote understanding and connection between people, overcome differences, and prevent discrimination and violence. She believes that even through the very worst of life experiences, we can rise up, empowering ourselves and others with who we are and all that we can be. www.themeahfoundation.org
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Most likely, you're moving to a ski resort town because you savor the snowy outdoors and want to participate in the activities involving it. Another reason to relocate to a resort area is the consistently beautiful scenery that stays pretty even in milder weather. However, be aware that weather in a colder climate remains that way beginning in early fall and continuing throughout spring before snow completely disappears. Excepting summer, your movers may trudge in snow to deliver your possessions to your new place.
Of course, access to your favorite snow sports and proximity to resort attractions in town, says Norco Mortgage, brought you here in the first place. Generally ski resort communities teem with residents who can afford luxurious homes, so they also can afford higher taxes and frequently fund raise for their children's schools, says Eyes on the Dollar, resulting in better education options. Unfortunately, this means housing is expensive for everyone.
Jobs are abundant when the weather and season cooperate and tourists populate the city, but employment in desired areas is highly coveted, says Kim Kircher, and competition is great. Employment may drop or decrease in the off-season and can be very unstable, according to American Financial Resources, Inc. Usually, resort communities provide quality public transportation in order to safely shuffle visitors to town hot spots, day or night, which adds to the convenience of getting where you need to go, whether it's for work or play.
When moving to a resort town, other obstacles can block your way if you're not careful. For instance, Ski Whiz points out that if you suffer an injury like a broken limb, both your plans for working at a ski resort and taking advantage of skiing and other outdoor sports could be aborted before the moving company delivers your snowboard. Getting acclimated to the high altitude in mountainous terrain can also be a strain on your body.
If you enjoy a small town atmosphere, many resort towns achieve that aura. The community is built around supporting that resort, so you'll get to know people, especially if you're working at one of the surrounding attractions or lodging. Since resorts offer a plethora of activities during the day to entice guests to stay, the nightlife will also be bustling and get you acquainted with all types of people. During peak tourist season, though, the crowds and traffic may be overwhelming and even annoying despite the money they bring.
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Report: Apple Watch preorders almost 1 million on first day in the U.S.
Almost one million people preordered the Apple Watch in the U.S. on its first day, digital commerce data company Slice Intelligence estimates.
According to Slice's Sunday report, which is based on e-receipt data obtained directly from consumers, 957,000 people preordered the Watch on Friday, with 62% purchasing the cheapest variant, the Apple Watch Sport. On average, each buyer ordered 1.3 watches and spent $503.83 per watch.
Consumers who purchased the Apple Watch Sport spent $382.83 per watch and those ordering the Apple Watch spent $707.04, on average. The report does not mention the most expensive variant, the Apple Watch Edition.
The Apple Watch comes in two sizes — with a 38mm and a 42mm case. According to Slice, 71% of consumers chose the larger case. As far as color choices go, 40% of buyers chose the Space Gray aluminum case, followed by the stainless steel one at 43 percent, Silver aluminum at 23% and Space Black stainless steel at 3%. The most popular band overall was the Black Sport band, with 49% of buyers ordering that variant. Check out the band choices among the buyers who bought the stainless steel Apple Watch in the image below.
The report also digs a little into the sales of Apple's new Macbook, which also went up for preorder Friday. It estimates 48,000 Macbooks were sold online, with the Space Gray being the most popular color at 58%, followed by the Gold variant at 36%.
These numbers are unofficial and based on e-receipt data from 9,080 shoppers, meaning they could be off from the real preorder data by some margin. Apple is known to sometimes release sales data right after the first week or two, especially if the sales are good, so we'll be tuned in for official news on this front.
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It doesn't take a genius to realize there is a problem if you think you have ten gallons of product but really have seven. That kind of problem takes money out of your company that is needed to pay bills and keep things running. Having less than you think just opens up a can of worms, sometimes irreversibly. Is it leaking? Evaporating? Flowing elsewhere? Level transmitter calibration simply must be part of your routine maintenance, even if you are storing only water.
Level transmitter calibration takes some serious calculations to get it right. Many companies do not use their process fluids for their calibrations because it would be wasteful, sometimes hazardous. In such cases, they do their calibration using liquids that are much less costly and far safer. This alone can save you money. Keep in mind that the manufacturer will set each level transmitter to a specific gravity or weight/density/viscosity of a fluid, so there is need to calculate the difference between the fluid gravity they've set it to and the gravity of your process fluid.
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Exhibition Motherhood
Friday, 6 March 2015, 18:00
Visual Culture Research Center (44 Hlybochytska Street (1st floor), Kyiv)
Visual Culture Research Center and Political Critique invite you to the opening of exhibition Motherhood, which will take place on Friday, 6 March, 18:00.
Exhibition Motherhood suggests a feminist perspective on such traditional woman «function» as giving birth and raising a child. Which maternal experiences are hidden from publicity? What efforts have to be made for the sake of formation and development of a new human being? How is the topic of motherhood revealed in the work of female artists, even though giving birth often makes them put creative work on the back burner? What does the potential opportunity of becoming a mother mean to every woman? These and other issues will be questioned in the works of artists from Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Moldova, Hungary, Austria, and Sweden.
Analyzing the role and status of mothers in the society, the exhibition represents motherhood as a hard corporal and mental work that makes our existence possible. The dialogue with mothers is a dialogue with the history of one's own life, which deserves to be a public issue.
Oksana Briukhovetska, Anna Fabricius, Tatiana Fiodorova, Marta Frej, Ksenia Gnylytska, Masha Godovannaya, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Alina Jakubenko, Alina Kleitman, Joanna Rajkowska, Emma Thorsander, Marina Vinnik, Anna Witt
Oksana Briukhovetska
Series of events related to feminist topics will take place within the frameworks of the exhibition:
7 March, 19:00 – Film screening in partnership with Festival of film and urbanism «86» – The Punk Singer by Sini Anderson
8 March, 20:00 – Feminist party W Sounds
12 March, 19:00 – Discussion Women, Parties, Quotas: How to Achieve Gender Equality in Politics
14 March, 17:00 – Lecture by Kateryna Dysa: Feamale Sexuality in the 18th century Ukraine: Non-Symmetrical Answers from Jurisprudence
18 March, 19:00 – Presentation of gender studies anthology Image. Body. Order with the participation of Mariya Mayerchyk
19 March, 19:00 – Closing film: The Motherhood Archives by Irene Lusztig
Supported by ERSTE Stiftung, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Ukraine
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IND vs SA: Batting coach Vikram Rathor angry with the batsmen, spoke big about captain Virat Kohli
Cape Town. Indian batting coach Vikram Rathor said that Virat Kohli (Virat Kohli) Has the advantage of being more disciplined in the off-side game. However, South Africa (India vs South Africa) The performance of the first day of the third Test against Kohli played a restrained half-century of 79 runs but the Indian team (Team India) Was reduced to 223 runs in the first innings.
Vikram Rathod said in the media interaction after the match, "There was no concern in the way Kohli was batting, I mean he was always batting well. That's what I thought as a batting coach. I was never worried that he was not batting well. He was doing well in the nets. He was looking good in the match too. He was getting off to a good start." He said, "Today was a good opportunity, he was very disciplined, I agree he was doing very well with some luck also. He could have turned it into a big innings, but I was happy with the way he played.
Vikram Rathor, however, was not overly happy with the batting performance of the entire team. "These are challenging situations where scoring runs is not easy. But you're right, we played very poorly. We could have added 50-60 more runs, that's what we were hoping for at least.
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Engageny math is still being written; the district is downloading units as they're posted to the web.
The Engageny "modules" have not been field-tested. Irvington teachers and children are first adopters &, thus, are serving as test subjects.
Kids in higher grades (3rd & 4th) have gaps in their math knowledge because engageny & Math Trailblazers don't match, but no one in the school can identify the children's gaps, and no one has a plan to remedy the gaps.
The district has never had a "scope and sequence" of knowledge and skills students learn in each grade, so administrators don't know what the kids know — and they have no simple means of comparing engageny math to the math that children have been learning here.
It was clear last Thursday night that administrators can't fix the problem. None of them is expert in math; they don't know what a proper sequence of math instruction is. Nor should they: no one can know everything about every subject. Normally "pedagogical content knowledge" (what to teach & when & how) is "purchased" when we adopt the best math textbook series we can find.
The solution, for now, is to drop engageny (or delay its adoption) and replace it either with the old Trailblazers books or with an 'emergency adoption' of Saxon Math, the single most teacher-friendly math textbook on the market. (Here's the homeschool edition.) UPDATE 11/9/2013: Or, better yet, we should do an emergency adoption of Singapore Math. Engageny math is, to some degree, modeled on Singapore Math, but Singapore Math has been field-tested and revised over many years' time, and its Scope and Sequence can be understood by administrators, teachers, and parents alike.
Any teacher (& any parent) can pick up a Saxon Math textbook and teach math today. I know this because I chose Saxon when I realized I needed to re-teach my son 4th grade math. I hadn't taken a math course since college, and I successfully used Saxon immediately to teach my son and re-teach myself.
An emergency adoption of Saxon would mean that this year serves as the pilot of Saxon; next fall the district could pilot Singapore Math (& perhaps engageny math, if we have good word on engageny from other districts).
Other children, in other districts, should serve as test subjects for engageny math, not ours.
For the time being, we can't worry about the new Common Core tests. We have Trailblazers kids in a Common Core world; that's the reality. (If we had Singapore Math kids — real Singapore Math, not Dobbs Ferry Singapore Math — in a Common Core world, things would be different. But we don't.) The state requires kids to take the tests, and that's fine: we should treat the results as information about gaps and proceed from there.
We have $2.16 million dollars in the fund balance to use for 'emergencies'; this should be seen as an emergency. Once kids develop gaps in math, it is very difficult for them to catch up to peers who have had a coherent math education. Our family knows this from direct personal experience.
Just back from the Common Core meeting at Main Street School tonight.
One factoid that leapt out at me: the price of a new K-5 math textbook series, RK reported, is roughly $100K. That is the reason, she said, or a reason, we do not have math textbooks. Normally, at this point in the cycle,* we would be vetting published textbooks, piloting them in the classroom, and choosing the one that works best, but not now, not with Common Core.
Today we're using the free "math modules" being posted on engageny, downloading each module as it's posted. The math modules are new, so new they are being written as we speak. They have never been taught by a teacher, or field-tested with a child. But they are free, and they carry the Common Core brand, so we are using them.
The ancient tradition of textbook adoption and 10-year textbook adoption cycles is gone with the wind.
So. $2.16 million in the fund balance and we're downloading never-before-taught math modules from the internet because they're aligned with Common Core and they're free.
Meanwhile Singapore and Saxon Math have been around for years, have been extensively field-tested, and have at least some reasonably sound data to show their effectiveness. And the Singapore series (Primary Mathematics) is universally endorsed by real mathematicians, as opposed to "math educators" (the term of art in ed-school precincts). Singapore Math may be the best math curriculum available in the English language.
For $100K Irvington children could learn math from the best math curriculum in the English language, or, for $0 Irvington children can learn math from engageny math modules the district downloads from the web.
We chose Door Number 2.
If we did not have a Curriculum Director, would we have math textbooks?
Would classroom teachers, acting on their own, choose to teach math without a textbook?
I don't believe they would. Teaching math from packets is as hard as learning math from packets, or can be. I know because I teach grammar and writing from packets. My students need a good textbook, and so do I.
But education schools dislike textbooks, which they see as old-fashioned, sage-on-the-stage affairs, and curriculum directors are trained by education schools.
Untested math modules on the internet are "21st century" (a compliment in the education world), just like the position of "Curriculum Director itself," which, like the math modules, did not exist at all in days gone by.
We've still got timed worksheets, which is more than most districts can say. And we're going to continue to have timed worksheets: RK mentioned "fluency" several times. I wouldn't be surprised to see the concept of fluency incorporated into other subjects: a very good idea. We desperately need to give kids fluency in reading and writing (something I'm working on myself in my own teaching).
UPDATE: "Fluency" = "automaticity." Both words describe actions — and "thoughts" — you can perform rapidly, accurately, and largely or entirely outside of conscious awareness.
People who are fluent in a skill or area of content are fluent. This is why the requirement that children "explain" how they reached their answer in math is so wrong. Very often, a student who is really good at math just "gets it" without having to resort to effort-filled, conscious reasoning. When you force that student to "explain his reasoning," you force him or her to "translate" his correct answer into words; you force him or her to function in the way a less talented student does.
Contra RK's assertion last night, in the real world, NOT having to "think" is the goal. We need to acquire sufficient knowledge, and sufficient "automaticity" in our knowledge, that we look at a problem and know.
We should save thinking, which is tremendously effortful and rapidly drains mental resources, for advanced questions, and strive for fluency in everything else.
Fluency is reached through knowledge stored in long-term memory.
* UPDATE 10/26/2013: A friend reminds me that we do not have a 10-year textbook adoption cycle, as mentioned during the presentation. We have a 3-year curriculum cycle (or curriculum-review cycle). The 3-year cycle, as I recall, does not require that we change textbooks; we revisit textbook choices and review.
I say "substantially" because the math gap between Chappaqua and Irvington may not be statistically significant. Hard to say.
This is wonderful news. Wonderful. I've read the sample questions for 8th grade, and I've had a child go through the middle school accelerated math track back when it was far more accelerated than it is now (at least, according to what I picked up at a BOE meeting a few years back).
My impression: many if not most students taking algebra that year would have had difficulty passing this test.
Of course we want everyone passing the test (or at least 90% of all students in the class) — and we can get there.
Worksheets were the magic. All "tool" and "component" skills must be learned to a criterion of speed as well as accuracy, and timed worksheets make that happen very quickly.
Mad Minutes are a student's friend.


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Florence expected to become major hurricane, state of emergency declared in 2 more states
The storm will likely intensify into a major hurricane next week.
ByDaniel Manzo andDan Peck
Tropical Storm Florence approaches East Coast
Tracking Tropical Storm Florence as it travels through the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean with winds up to 70 mph.
The peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean is Sept. 10, and right on schedule, the Atlantic Basin has come to life with numerous areas of concern. Foremost among those is Tropical Storm Florence, which is expected to restrengthen into a hurricane Sunday and looks increasingly likely to hit the East Coast.
North Carolina already declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm on Friday. Virginia and South Carolina followed suit on Saturday.
Tropical Storm Florence has sustained winds of 70 mph as of 11 p.m. Saturday evening and is located 790 miles southeast of Bermuda. The storm is moving west at 6 mph.
Florence was getting very close to hurricane strength late Saturday.
Florence is still a tropical storm, but is expected to become a hurricane by Sunday, and a major hurricane again on Monday.
The storm is forecast to move generally in a westward direction over the coming days, with an increase in forward speed during the early part of the week. On this path, Florence will track over the warm waters off the southeast U.S. coastline.
As Florence moves west, the wind shear will decrease, allowing Florence to become more organized and intensify. There is a possibility of significant intensification in the early part of next week.
A ridge of high pressure moving in from the central U.S. is expected to move toward the Northeast by midweek. This ridge of high pressure will cause a blocking pattern and steer Florence dangerously close to, or into, the East Coast of the U.S. by midweek. The forecast track shows Florence's forecast path approaching the southeast U.S. coastline late next week.
States of emergency have already been declared in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia ahead of Florence.
The risk of direct impact by Florence on the East Coast is rising. Most of the models are now showing Florence having a direct and major impact to the East Coast in the upcoming week. It is important to note that there is considerable uncertainty five days out, making it too soon to determine the magnitude and timing of potential major impacts to the East Coast.
The immediate threat this weekend will be large swells and dangerous rip currents along the East Coast due to the storm.
Helene forms, tropical storm targets Caribbean
Tropical Storm Helene continues to move west toward the southern Cabo Verde Islands, with sustained winds now up to 60 mph. A tropical storm warning is in effect for some of the islands as tropical storm conditions are expected there Sunday local time.
Helene will continue to gradually strengthen and be just shy of hurricane strength as it continues to pass south of the southern Cabo Verde Islands overnight through Sunday morning Eastern time.
After that, the storm will move northwest and then more northward into the eastern Atlantic and be no further threat to land.
Helene is not posing a threat to land in the near future.
Moving closer to the Caribbean, Tropical Depression Nine has become Tropical Storm Isaac with sustained winds of 40 mph. The center of the storm is currently about 1,640 miles east of the Windward Islands. The system is moving west at 7 mph.
The system is expected to move westward over the coming days, and will likely become a tropical storm later Saturday. The forecast track has the storm strengthening to a hurricane next week as is tracks west.
The ninth tropical depression of the season strengthened into Tropical Storm Isaac on Saturday.
It is too early to determine what, if any, impacts this system will have on the Caribbean. However, the system is worth watching as we get into next week as it nears the Lesser Antilles around Thursday.
Olivia approaching Hawaii
The Pacific Ocean is also lively this weekend.
Hurricane Olivia had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, and was approximately 1,025 miles east of Honolulu as of 5 p.m. Saturday local time.
On this path, Olivia could come very close or pass over the Hawaiian Islands by late Tuesday or Wednesday Eastern time as a tropical storm.
Olivia still has its sights set on Hawaii later this week.
While Olivia is expected to approach the main Hawaiian Islands early next week, it is too early to determine the magnitude of the potential impacts.
It is important to note that significant impacts are possible well away from the center of the storm, and that the track error can be quite large at day 5 and beyond.


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Enjoy a grand luxurious Rajasthani feast at the ChokhiDhani Resort along with cultural activities.
In the morning after sumptuous breakfast, drive to explore the fortress in the city. Start with Elephant ride upto the Amber Fort followed by visit to Jaigarh Fort and Nahargarh Fort. Make sure you visit the Kanak Vrindavan.
Rest of the day is free to attend block printing workshop at Bagru and Sanganer town.
Dinner and Night stayat the hotel.
After an early wholesome breakfast, check-out from the Inn and proceed to Agra. Upon arrival accommodate at your pre-booked hotel. After a quick refreshment, drive to visit Agra Fort and Taj Mahal. Get fascinate by the beauty of this beautiful epitome of love.
After sumptuous breakfast, check-out from the hotel and proceed to Lucknow. Check into the hotel upon reaching.
Rest of the day is free to visit Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya Park and Dr. Ambedkar Park.
Later in the evening you can opt. to visit Hazratganj Market.
After wholesome breakfast, our chauffeur will take you to visit ChotaImambara, Bara Imambara, British Residency, Lucknow Zoo and Constantia House.
After an early wholesome breakfast, check-out from the hotel and drive to Varanasi. Check into the hotel upon arrival. Rest of the day is free to walk along the Varanasi Ghat and to visit Kashi Vishwanath temple. Attend evening Aarti at the Ghat.
During the early hours of the morning, enjoy boat ride at the Ganges. After breakfast, head onto full day excursion tour to Sarnath. Upon arrival, take a local sightseeing tour of Ashoka Pillar, Thai Temple, Dhammek Stupa, Chaukhandi, The Digambarjain Temple and The Monsateries. Back to Varanasi.
Later in the evening you can opt. to visit local market of Varanasi.
After leisurely breakfast, our chauffeur will transfer you at Varanasi Airport/Railway Station to commence flight to your onward destination.


The best bits are when a person tells me: "I've just seen Jackie and she's so much stronger than the person I met eight years ago - is that because you're supporting her?"
Linette Farquarson is an independent Advocate who has supported adults with intellectual disabilities in various settings. With her strong faith and belief in human rights, she has worked towards raising the awareness of the double discrimination faced by those who are black and who have intellectual disabilities. Linette also gives advice on issues regarding race and disability to various organisations.
Jackie Downer MBE is a young black woman with intellectual disabilities. She has campaigned for the rights of disabled people ever since she decided that there was more to her life than the Day Centre. With a strong sense of equality, she pursued other avenues and, with support, has gone on to become a leading consultant, who advises organisations on issues for rights for disabled people.
What is your role as a support worker? What do you actually do?
I am independent and paid by various services or service providers to support Jackie. Jackie pays me herself with funds provided by Access to Work, a disability services team which is part of Job Centre Plus.
I make information easier for her to understand and make sure that it communicates directly to her. Sometimes I put information into larger print. I also help Jackie to access telephone calls. Jackie re-directs calls to me if she does not understand what is being said, or if she needs to arrange an appointment, or wants me to take down travel directions etc.
Jackie prepares training materials, and I help her by taking dictation; typing everything up; making up lecture cards. I put everything into Jackie's work book, writing down all the points that she needs to raise in a training session. I guide her through the various agendas for meetings, which could be anything from research to making bids for funding.
We don't do everything together. It is important that while I allow Jackie to be dependent, I also help her to create her own independence.
When we started working together five years ago, I found that Jackie sometimes needed extra time. I thought "What do we do?" Do we have to finish all communication at 4 or 6 o'clock?" I wrote down all the extra time that I had provided so that the disability service could see what was needed. The service accepted the need for extra time and we were able to be much more flexible. I sometimes help Jackie at home and with things like direct payments. This is citizen advocacy.
What is your role in Jackie's healthcare?
A few years ago I saw a leaflet from the Royal National Institute for the Blind, which talked about people with learning disability having poor eye-sight. It made me think. Jackie sometimes had difficulty putting things in the right place and with spilling her tea. She told me that she had glasses but did not go to the opticians because she felt she was fobbed off. We went to my own optician together. He is a very calm person. When the optician asked Jackie to read the letters on the chart, she jumped up and ran over to the chart. He was very surprised, but gave Jackie enough time to explain her difficulties. He found it helpful to understand how someone with intellectual disabilities could react to his instructions. I went with Jackie for the first two appointments, but she has been going by herself ever since.
Later, Jackie told the RNIB about her experience. She is in a video they made in 2001 to help people with learning disabilities. It is called 'Sight Matters'.
I have helped Jackie with healthcare matters such as smear test reminders and fibroids. A male consultant told Jackie she should have her womb out because she was a woman with intellectual disabilities. She complained and was given another consultant who was a woman.
Does Jackie have other support workers?
Jackie has a small group of supporters. I work with them and am the lead. We work together and have regular meetings. Jackie is very flexible.
I can work with Jackie from 1 hour up to 20 hours a week. These hours are partly funded by Access to Work. I do some work voluntarily. Some of her other support workers are also flexible. I communicate with other support workers, arrange other workers meetings, and type minutes.
What do you get out of being a support worker?
I do loads of work to raise disability awareness. It is emotionally satisfying. It is like interactive training. My brother has intellectual disabilities as well. I feel I make a contribution to the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. I have also made a good friend and partner in Jackie. I have learned a lot from negotiating and from reading and writing. And I have a new set of skills - anything from reading a map to dealing with forms from the inland revenue, employment services, and health services.
It is very important to enable communication between Jackie and doctors. Advocacy gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to be heard. They realise that they need supporters. It has to be a two-way relationship.
Everyone is part of the equation, including parents. I also support a friend's daughter who is black. I do her hair because her mother did not want to ask the boarding school for hair care for her daughter as she did not want to appear difficult. I support her in the way I would support any friend. I also support a disabled Asian Muslim friend by applying for things like her wheelchair, arranging her holidays, looking after her daughter.
The best bits are when a person tells me "I've just seen Jackie and she's so much stronger than the person I met eight years ago. Is that because you're supporting her?"
What are the negative parts of being a support worker?
The worst bit is discrimination, which is painful sometimes. People roll together black and women and intellectual disabilities. Often you can't say anything. It is sometimes very intimidating. It is very painful when Jackie or my children come home and talk about the discrimination they have suffered. It happens every day.
What advice would you offer a medical student about the role of the support worker?
Always address the person with intellectual disabilities while acknowledging the supporter who is with them.
Ask who is the patient.
Find out what channels of communication are open. Ask how the communication works, how much the supporter needs to interpret.
Do not be afraid of addressing the people with intellectual disabilities. Always look at them, even if you are talking to the supporter.
Make sure that the support worker has understood so that they can pass on important information.
Do you think you will always do this job?
I will always support someone. Maybe not full-time. My father was always lending a helping hand, particularly to vulnerable people like children, those who were mentally ill and to family members. Money was never a bargaining chip. It was to help people survive. For example, my Dad would often take in a child for weeks or months while their parents got back on their feet. I am a humanitarian and think we should give to each other. We all have rights and should be aware when these are being undermined.
Faith is very important to me, and that is why I know I will always do work like this in some way or form, even if it is for one hour per week. In life there are things we cannot pay for, and faith determines that I trust in myself and I share trust and good will with others. I believe that if I practice sharing and caring that it will pass down and that eventually money will not be the only motivator for people to receive the care, help and support that they rightfully deserve. Jackie has a faith and it is clear that when many things fail her she turns to her faith and her belief in God to keep her mentally strong.
This article was published on the site in 2004 after interviews which took place in 2003. The information contained in it is still current and relevant.


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The town of Dombås has always been a natural midwaypoint for travelling between the big cities of Norway. This also lead to how Dombås Hotel became a natural place to stop and rest for the night. Over the years, Dombås Hotel has played hosts to many a guest, from unknown to well known guests. The famous Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson signed the guestbook with: "Det beste skifte og det venaste gifte i Gudbrandsdalen". It is hard to make a direct translation, but by the tone and the wording, one can tell that he had a very positive experience staying at the hotel.
The name of Domaas Hotell was already in use back in 1892, when a new coaching inn was built on parts of the old crown estate Søre Domaas farm. By 1915 it was decided to begin building a new, astonishing hotel on the estate. The hotel was designed by the famous architect Arnstein Arneberg - the man who also designed the Oslo City Hall, and Rica Park Hotell Sandefjord.
The distinctive building would become a well known landmark for the municipality of Dovre. Furhtermore it was soon acknowledged as one of the most beautiful and grand hotels of Gudbrandsdalen. In 1927 it was the first hotel in the valley that offered hot and cold water plumbing in every guestroom. During the almost 100 years that followed, the venerable Domaas Hotell would experience many historical events; Josef Terboven stayed at the hotel during the occupation, USAs Olympic-troop in figure skating stayed for 14 days in association with the Winter-Olympics in Oslo, and later would Swedish and Danish ski tourists arrive in their own "ski trains". King Olav and Princess Astrid would also visit during their blessing journey in 1958.
Tragedy struck on the 19th of May 2007: A fire started by the chimney on the loft, and soon spread across the whole hotel. Firefighters fought the fire as hard as they could, but the once grand hotel soon succumbed to the flames.
Even though the damages were purely materialistic, it marked the end of an era. The hotel which had been widely known for its beauty was left in ruins, and all that stood left was the "new wing" (now the old wing) built in the late 80s. Even with the old part of the hotel gone; the history is far from over, and its roots are though and hard to kill; Dombås Hotel would be resurrected.
A new and modern hotel was raised over the remains of the old one, and in march of 2014, we opened the doors to a new Dombås Hotel, which - once again- was a natural place to stop for the night.
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from vnfsvcclient.common import exceptions
from vnfsvcclient.vnfsvc import v1_0 as vnfsvcV20
from vnfsvcclient.openstack.common.gettextutils import _

_SERVICE = 'service'

class ListService(vnfsvcV20.ListCommand):
    """List service that belong to a given tenant."""

    resource = _SERVICE

class ShowService(vnfsvcV20.ShowCommand):
    """Show information of a given VNF."""

    resource = _SERVICE

class CreateService(vnfsvcV20.CreateCommand):
    """Create a VNF service."""

    resource = _SERVICE

    def add_known_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argument(
            '--name',
            required=True,
            help='name of the service')
        parser.add_argument(
            '--qos',
            required=True,
            help='quality of service')
        parser.add_argument(
            '--networks',
            metavar='<key>=<value>',
            action='append',
            dest='networks',
            default=[],
            help='network details')
        parser.add_argument(
            '--router',
            required=True,
            help='Router details')
        parser.add_argument(
            '--subnets',
            metavar='<key:subnet_name>=<value:subnet_id>',
            action='append',
            dest='subnets',
            default=[],
            help='subnet details')

    def args2body(self, parsed_args):
        body = {
            self.resource: {
                'name': parsed_args.name,
                'quality_of_service' : parsed_args.qos,
                'attributes': dict()
            }
        }

        if parsed_args.networks:
            try:
                kwargs = dict(key_value.split('=', 1)
                              for key_value in parsed_args.networks)
            except ValueError:
                msg = (_('invalid argument for --kwargs %s') %
                       parsed_args.kwargs)
                raise exceptions.vnfsvcCLIError(msg)
            if kwargs:
                body[self.resource]['attributes']['networks'] = kwargs

        if parsed_args.router:
            body[self.resource]['attributes']['router'] = parsed_args.router

        if parsed_args.subnets:
            try:
                kwargs = dict(key_value.split('=', 1)
                              for key_value in parsed_args.subnets)
            except ValueError:
                msg = (_('invalid argument for --kwargs %s') %
                       parsed_args.kwargs)
                raise exceptions.vnfsvcCLIError(msg)
            if kwargs:
                body[self.resource]['attributes']['subnets'] = kwargs

        vnfsvcV20.update_dict(parsed_args, body[self.resource], ['tenant_id'])
        return body

class DeleteService(vnfsvcV20.DeleteCommand):
    """Delete a given VNF service."""
    resource = _SERVICE

class UpdateService(vnfsvcV20.UpdateCommand):
    """Update a given VNF service."""

    resource = _SERVICE

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Jitu Rai wins gold for India on opening day of Incheon Asian Games
New shooting sensation Jitu Rai stole the limelight by provided the first gold medal, while Shweta Chaudhry claimed a bronze as India launched their campaign in the 17th Asian Games on a rousing note with two medals on the opening day of competitions here Saturday.
AS IT HAPPENED FULL COVERAGE
While Jitu struck gold in the 50m pistol event, Shweta's bronze came in the 10m air pistol competition at the Ongnyeon Shooting Range here but medal aspirants Heena Sidhu and Malaika Goel turned out to be disappointments as they failed to even reach the finals.
India also assured themselves of a bronze medal in badminton and squash events on what turned out to be a reasonably good opening show with a gold medal coming on the very first day.
In badminton, India today ended a 28-year-old medal drought in Asian Games after the women's shuttlers, led by Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu, edged out Thailand 3-2 to reach the semifinals of the team event.
After Saina and Sindhu registered hard-fought victories in the first two singles, scratch combination of Sindhu and Ashwini Ponnappa finally assured India the bronze medal after they clinched the final women's doubles match.
India also assured their first ever women's singles medal after top players Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa won their respective openers and set up an exciting contest in the quarterfinals.
World No.21 Chinappa blanked 183rd ranked South Korea Song Sunmi 11-9 11-7 11-7 at the Yeorumul Squash Courts.
Soon after, World No.12 Pallikal stepped on the court against 150th ranked Jinyue Gu of China. The highest-ranked Indian slipped a bit before prevailing 11-6 10-12 11-6 11-4.
The Indian women's tennis team was also off to a winning start as it blanked Oman 3-0 in the first round here.
Prarthana Gulabrao Thombare and Ankita Raina notched up contrasting singles victories before the pairing of Natasha Marie Anne Palha and Rishika Sunkara was handed a walkover in the doubles match.
But the star of the early proceedings was undoubtedly
Armyman Jitu. The 27-year-old showed steely grit to get the better of a strong field, which included two-time Olympic champion Jin Jongoh of South Korea, to snatch the gold off the final shot in a straight duel with Vietnamese rival Nguyen Hoang Phuong.
The Vietnamese, in fact, was leading the Indian ace, who had recently won the gold at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and a silver at the Granada World Championships going into this competition. But the Indian clinched the issue on the last shot.
This was Jitu's sixth medal on the trot in international competitions this year.
The bronze was clinched by China's Wang Zhiwei (165.6). Jitu thus became only the second Indian pistol shooter to clinch an Asian Games title after Jaspal Rana and the fourth shooter overall after shotgun experts Randhir Singh in 1978 and Ronjan Sodhi in 2010.
However, the Indian men's team finished fourth with his teammates Om Prakash (555) and Onkar Singh (551) ending up 10th and 16th respectively.
Earlier, Shweta, competing with a gun she was not used to as her own gun had been held back by the Korean Customs, secured the bronze medal in the 10m range in air pistol with a total tally of 176.4 behind champion Zhang Mengyuan of China (202.2) and runner-up Jung Jeehae of South Korea (201.3).
Shweta's teammates Heena Sidhu (378) and Malaika Goel (373) ended up 13th and 24th respectively while the trio as a team got the fifth spot from among 14 teams.
Shweta defied odds, a travel-weary schedule and absence of her regular weapon to provide India with their first medal.
The 28-year-old had to eliminate a rival through a shoot-off to ensure the bronze in the women's 10M air pistol event.
Having qualified for the eight-strong final list with a total score of 383 even as her more fancied teammate Heena Sidhu got eliminated, Shweta showed exemplary poise to fight her way back.
It was a disappointing start for India in weightlifting as all three lifters finished in the bottom half of the table in their respective weight categories in both men's and women's divisions.
In Women's 48kg category, Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu -- the gold and silver medallist of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games -- came a cropper by finishing tenth and ninth respectively in a field of 13 weightlifters.
Another Commonwealth gold medallist Sukhen Dey, meanwhile, finished a lowly 12th in men's 56kg category out of 14 lifters.
Indian male cagers started their campaign on a resounding note, thrashing a lowly Palestine 89-49 in their opening Group B encounter at the Hwaseong Sports Complex Gymnasium.
The team dominated Palestine in all the four quarters with Amjyot Singh turning out to be the highest scorer for the formers with 25 points.
India had mixed results from the volleyball courts as the men's team were given a tough time by an unfancied Hong Kong while the women's team were soundly thrashed by hosts South Korea in the opening group league matches.
In a men's group C encounter, India won by 23-25 25-18 25-16 25-21 against a spirited Hong Kong side which is atleast 90 places below them.
The Indian girls were no match for their South Korean counterparts as the home team recorded a crushing 25-5 25-12 25-13 win in just 56 minutes.
Judoka Thoudam Kalpana Devi missed out on a bronze after losing her repechage bout against Kazakhstan's Lenariya Mingazova in the 52 kg category as it was a disappointing day for the Indian team on the mat.
After a high at the Commonwealth Games, the Indian judokas were brought back to earth by some of the much superior Asian opponents.
Save Kalpana, who reached the bronze medal (repechage) bout, the two other Indians Navdeep Chana (men's 60 kg) and Likmabam Sushila Devi (women's 48 kg) were eliminated in the earlier rounds.
Indian rower Dushiant Dushyant finished second in the Lightweight Men's Single Sculls heats. He completed the 2000m distance in 7:23.94 behind Hakbeom Lee of South Korea (7:19.45) in heat number two.
Indian men's and women's track cyclists finished a disappointing seventh in their respective team sprint events.
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Which one do I have to install?
Life is full of setbacks; Success is measured by the way you deal with them!
Re: Help needed to install "Wine"
These are the development versions. Notice the rc? Stands for release candidate.
I'm at this moment packaging wine 1.1.1 for VL 5.9-- it's a development release thus may not be totally stable.
but it adds some new functionallity to Wine. You may want to give it a try if you need to use it with Office 2007 or Photoshop.
Fixes for Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 installers.
Support for Unicode files in regedit.
Many Richedit fixes and improvements.
It should be in the testing repository in a few days.
because I neither use Photoshop CS3 nor Office 2007.
If I could help testing, let me know what to do!


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Tempura is a crisp batter which originates from Portuguese settlers in Japan and has become a part of Japanese culture. It's great for battering fish, shellfish and vegetables. In Japan there are lots of tempura restaurants where everyone sits behind a bar and you get given the most amazing tempura for over two hours by a chef and his 'master', who does a lot of shouting.
To kill the lobsters take a sharp knife, place it at the crown of the head, and cut straight down – this will kill them straight away. Twist off the tail and both claws. Cut the tail in half lengthways and each tail half into 3. Chop the claws into 3, slice up the remaining body meat, and place, with the tail pieces, in a bowl with any juice that comes out.
Mix the dipping sauce ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
I suggest you use a deep-fat fryer as it's easier to control. Heat it to 170°C/325°F. You can use a wok half-filled with oil, safely positioned on a stove with a thermometer, but be aware of other people (curious kids) and of possibly knocking things over if doing it this way. To make the batter, whisk the egg yolks and iced water together, add the cornflour and flour, and stir together using chopsticks – this helps to keep the batter a bit lumpy, which is what you want. Add the okra, chillies and lobster to the batter. Feel free to add any other veggies you fancy. Fine slices of sweet potato, whole spring onions, coriander stalks and baby courgettes with their flowers are all good. Once battered, pick up the lobster and veg and carefully put them into the oil.
Don't try to cook the tempura all at once – do them in 2 batches. Cook them until light golden and crisp on both sides. Drain them on some kitchen paper and then put them on to a plate. Serve the tempura with the dipping sauce and a dish of flavoured salt – I would suggest either jasmine tea salt or citrus salt.
Try this: I once worked in a Japanese restaurant and when the chefs put the veg into the oil, they dripped extra batter from a height on to them. This gave the tempura a really crunchy, spiky look and feel. You don't have to do this but it's a good little trick.


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Q: Unit Test for recordType redirection How can I get additional code coverage? I'm getting a de reference to null pointer that is preventing the conditional branch from being executed in the test.

My supporting unit test:
public static Id getRecordTypeId(SObjectType objectType, string recordTypeName) {
Id recordTypeId = null;

Map<string, RecordTypeInfo> recordTypes = objectType.getDescribe().getRecordTypeInfosByName();
if (recordTypes.containsKey(recordTypeName)) {
    recordTypeId = recordTypes.get(recordTypeName).getRecordTypeId();
}
return recordTypeId;
}

public static Account_Summary__c getAccountSummary(Id accountId) {
    Account_Summary__c accountSummary = new Account_Summary__c();
    accountSummary.Account_Name__c = accountId;
    accountSummary.Name = String.valueOf(System.today().year());
    accountSummary.Program_Name__c = 'Test Account Summary Program ' + accountSummary.Name;
    accountSummary.Report_Status__c = 'Draft';
return accountSummary;
}

My controller unit test:
@IsTest static void testredirectCREPage() {

    //Boolean IsNew = false;
    Id recordTypeId = UnitTest.getRecordTypeId(Account_Summary__c.SObjectType, 'New Account Summary');
    System.assertNotEquals(null, recordTypeId);

    Account testAccount = UnitTest.getAccount();
    testAccount.External_ID_BA__c = '99999';
    insert testAccount;

    Account_Summary__c accountSummary = UnitTest.getAccountSummary(testAccount.Id);
    accountSummary.RecordTypeId = recordTypeId;

    insert accountSummary;

    accountSummary = queryAccountSummary(accountSummary.Id);

    PageReference testPage = Page.PROD_UW_AccountSummary;
    testPage.getParameters().put('id', accountSummary.Id);
    Test.setCurrentPage(testPage);

    ApexPages.StandardController standardController = new ApexPages.StandardController(new Account_Summary__c());

    AccountSummaryController controller = new AccountSummaryController(standardController);
    controller.IsNew = false;

    Test.startTest();
    PageReference redirectCRE = controller.redirectCREPage();
    Test.stopTest();
}

A: Your unit test is passing in a new record:
ApexPages.StandardController standardController = new ApexPages.StandardController(new Account_Summary__c());

When instead you should be passing in the existing record:
ApexPages.StandardController standardController = new ApexPages.StandardController(accountSummary);

You should get rid of the try-catch block, and ditch all the system.debug statements, as well as getting rid of the unused variables in your code.
You're going to also need to use a second unit test to cover the situation when the record type is not "New Account Summary".
Your code is presumably failing because if(types.isEmpty()==false) is false (no record was queried), which causes a null pointer exception in the next debug statement (system.debug(... type.RecordTypeId)).

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We were so excited when Sara Happ, agreed to be featured in our Brands We Love series. We sat down with her to learn more about her brand, what inspired her to be the Lip Expert and what her biggest challenges are to running your own business. She's one inspiring Mama and we are completely OBSESSED with her and that wonderful Lip Slip!
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What has been the biggest challenges of running your own business? The biggest challenges came in the beginning. Because the product didn't exist, labs wouldn't talk with me. They were happy to make me a lip gloss, a lipstick, a balm. But they didn't understand this concept of a "Lip Scrub." Many of them said "Everything lips exists. If it was going to be successful, the big guys would have thought of it already." I disagreed, strongly and loudly. I knocked on doors until one opened, convinced them to invest in the machinery it would take to scale up from my mixing bowl to 1,000 pound manufacturing vat, and we were off and running. Many, many no's lead to one yes, and that's all that mattered in the end.
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One item you can't live without? Beauty wise, The Lip Slip in our original pot. Can't stop won't stop.
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Long lasting term that indicates a situation where the leaders of a particular group have no better knowledge or vision than the followers.
See also Come To Jesus Meeting.
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