Brie is a mild flavored cheese that melts beautifully and lends itself perfectly to spooning over crusty bread. Baked brie is one of those fancy sounding treats you reserve for the holiday meal even though in reality it's not hard or expensive to make.
I've made it in the past with cranberries, walnuts and maple syrup all wrapped up and cooked in a shell of puff pastry. This year I wanted something different so I ditched the puff pastry and switched up the fruit to make a Naked Baked Brie with Pears & Honey.
If you read my Jalapeño Popper Pinwheel post from earlier this week you might have seen my rant about puff pastry. It's too expensive for my life at the moment.
I also didn't see the need to wrap cheese in bread just so I could eat it on more bread. There are plenty of carbs I'd rather be filling my plate with at any holiday party like Pumpkin Gingerbread.
Speaking of serving, I cut up a freshly baked french baguette from the grocery store bakery. It was even warm when I grabbed it from the store. Any crust bread is going to be delicious with this.
Cut up an extra pear for dipping into the cheesy goodness. To keep the pears from turning brown dunk them in a bowl of water with a bit of citric acid sprinkled in, lemon juice will also do the trick if you are out.
Personally I think pears are underrated. Probably that whole "I'm only perfectly ripe for 35 seconds and you're going to miss it" thing they have going on. But I love them enough that I have four pear trees planted in my orchard.
Pears have a nice texture and a mellow flavor that lends itself nicely to a chunky pear sauce. All it takes is a little water, rosemary and some honey to get a sweet and herby sauce. Pears cook down like apples and make a nice sauce with a little bit of effort.
I used red d'Anjou pears because they were on sale. D'Anjou pears are available from October through to June so they are a perfect fit for a holiday dish.
The smooth, deep red skin is also very nice for the holidays, you could even mix it up and serve the red version along side the green.
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by Laetitia Dodo February 2, 2015
written by Laetitia Dodo
Tokyo is full of wonders, but bookworms may miss the written word. Our modern Internet era gives us many choices, but nothing can take the place of browsing for an hour or two in a well-stocked bookstore.
Here's our list of the best places to pick up everything from cast-offs to the latest thrillers at local Tokyo bookstores (and others)!
Tokyo Bookstores : Amazon International
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Well, we'll always have the Kindle. Any reader worthy of the title has one. But if you just have to have that new book smell (and can't find what you want at any of the other places on this list), you can always try Amazon's international store. Some things that won't ship to you from your country's version of Amazon can be had at the international version.
BOOK-OFF
Book-Off is a chain of used Tokyo bookstores that can be found throughout Japan. Normally they sell Japanese books and manga, video game stuff, movies, etc. Most of Book-Off's Tokyo bookstores have an English section, but don't expect to find much. The books are usually airport cast-offs, bizarre cookbooks from the 90s, novelizations of movies and popular fiction, etc. But if you happen across one, it might be worth a look.
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Books Kinokuniya used to be a huge six-story bookstore, but now only the foreign language section remains on the 6th floor. Inside, it is indistinguishable from a major book chain store in the US. The elevator opens into an extensive children's and young adult's section, meanders into a magazine and comics section, and then with the rows and rows of other printed material. There are also large sections devoted to books in French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian, so your other expat friends can also find what they like. If it's recent and you're looking for it, Books Kinokuniya Tokyo bookstores in Shinjuku probably has it.
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Nearest Station: 5-minute walk from Shinjuku Station, New South Exit (plan your route at the link and click on the Google Map below for walking directions)
HMV&BOOKS SHIBUYA
This store is on the 5th through 7th floors in the Modi building in Shibuya, close to Shibuya Crossing. They used to have a decent selection of books, but it seems that the English section is shrinking. The last time I went (May 2018), a large part of the English books section (next to the English-teaching cafe) on the 5th floor was closed off as "staff only." Like Tower Records, this may not last much longer.
Still, there is a pretty good selection of foreign books in Japanese. If you want to get a Japanese friend a book you like, you can look here.
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Nearest Station: 3-minute walk from Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit (plan your route at the link and click on the Google Map below for walking directions)
Infinity Books and Event Space
With the demise of The Blue Parrot in Takadanobaba and the apparent dissolution of Good Day Books in Gotanda, Infinity Books is the only game left in town for second-hand English Tokyo bookstores.
Infinity Books is roomy and cozy. The books are only split between fiction and non-fiction–you'll find sci-fi novels right next to historical romances and murder mysteries. It sounds like a strange way to organize, but I liked it. You may not find the exact book you want, but you'll find something. And when you find that something, take it to the back of the shop. There are a few tables that are better lit, as well as…a bar?
Yes indeed. Nick Ward, the owner and proprietor, ran a bar (The Fiddler, in Takadanobaba) prior to opening Infinity Books. He keeps Yebisu and Bass on tap for the evenings, the perfect complement for the thinking drinker's new book.
As far as the books go, you can visit and browse in person, or check online by category or the offline search service. Infinity Books takes trades, depending on whether or not Nick wants them; shelf space is limited. If he likes what you bring, Nick offers store credit (around 35% of the resale value) or cash (around 15%). He also frequently holds events, which are great for meeting new people, local musicians, and other book lovers.
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Nearest Station: 5-minute walk from Honjo-Azumbashi Station exit A1 (plan your route at the link and click on the Google Map below for walking directions)
Maruzen Marunouchi Main Store
Maruzen Marunouchi Main Tokyo bookstores is a big box store, though their English section is smaller than Kinokuniya's in Shinjuku. The fourth floor is where the foreign books are located (in addition to English, there are German and French books).
The new releases are right up front, and a fiction section was behind that. Both had a good selection. Of special interest to English teachers and the parents of young children will be the large section with Oxford Graded Readers and Penguin Active Reading books, to help your kid/student with their vocabulary and reading skills.
After an extensive non-fiction section, the rest of the fourth floor of the Maruzen is taken up with various frip-frappery with only vague connections to books. I could understand the stationery and the pens (even the 10,000 yen pens), but purses? Ties? It just threw off my groove.
Nearest Station: 1-minute walk from Tokyo Station
Tower Records Shibuya
When I first got to Japan in the 90s, Tower Records was the place to go if you wanted any English books and magazines. The foreign books section took up the entire seventh floor and had anything you might want. The comics and art books gave that part of the store an "underground" vibe (as much as you can get while shopping at a corporate juggernaut, anyway).
In 2012, the foreign bookstore moved from the seventh floor to the second as part of a remodeling and restructuring. No longer spacious, the bookstore now had to share half of the floor with a cafè. Since then, the selection of English books and magazines has shrunk, encroached upon by Japanese books of similar flavors. This might be a great place to get a popular fiction book for your Japanese friend that you have read in English, but the pickings are starting to get slim.
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Nearest Station: 5-minute walk from Shibuya Station
Your Local Library
Have you considered your local library? Most libraries in the Tokyo area have a selection of English books. If you are a resident, you can get a library card with proof of residence. If not, no one minds if you come in to browse. My local library has a few full bookshelves, mostly popular fiction from the past two decades.
Do note that if you need some sort of reference material (encyclopedias, language books) that they will be grouped in the reference section, not with the other English books. Maybe not the same selection that you could get at one of the local Tokyo bookstores, but it's free.
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Side by side: Sharon & Bram say goodbye to 40 years of enduring fans
"We see audiences of adults who grew up on us and who treasure those memories and want to revisit them, which is what this tour of course is about."
'We see audiences of adults who grew up on us and who treasure those memories and want to revisit them.'
Holly Gordon · CBC Music · Posted: May 24, 2019 8:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 24, 2019
Sharon, Lois & Bram perform on The Elephant Show. (CBC Still Photo Collection)
Oh we ain't got a barrel of money.
Maybe we're ragged and funny.
But we'll travel along, singing a song.
Side by side.
The faces of Sharon Hampson, Lois Lilienstein and Bramwell "Bram" Morrison beam brightly at the audience as they sing together in a video projected onstage at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax on a recent Sunday afternoon.
Arms linked and feet kicking out to the beat, the original trio members of Sharon, Lois & Bram are immortalized in the decades-old recording that serves as introduction to many a show on Sharon & Bram's current farewell tour; a nod to Lois, who retired from the group in 2000, and died of cancer in 2015.
It's also a way for the three of them to be together onstage, one last time, before Sharon and Bram officially retire themselves later this year.
"We always watch it," says Bram, over the phone on a conference call with Sharon from their respective Toronto homes. "We always stand in the wings. And we don't wait for it to be over. We watch it. Because it's wonderful."
Sharon and Bram have been singing "Skinnamarinky dinky dink" for more than 40 years now, half of that time as Sharon, Lois & Bram. Now on one last cross-Canada tour, the two are revisiting their old songbook while still releasing new material: "The Hug Song" came out in February, "Talk About Peace" featuring Jim Cuddy was released in May, and an illustrated book is coming this fall.
With sold-out shows dotting the country and a fanbase that still knows every word and movement to its songs, the trio that began haphazardly in 1978 is going out strong.
A backwards beginning
"We thought that we'd make the [first] album, it would be good fun, people would like it," says Bram. "And we would continue on with our own solo careers."
"Which we did," counters Sharon.
"That ambition did not last very long," adds Bram.
"No, exactly," she agrees.
Sharon and Bram came up in the '60s coffee-house scene in Toronto, an upbringing they credit for the folk spine of their wildly popular repertoire. Bram was also a school teacher in North York with the Toronto Board of Education for seven years, and spent five of those years as an "itinerant music teacher in special education."
"That was a real learning experience for me, about how to be with kids, and what kind of things they like, and how to present those things, and how to connect with them," he says.
Sharon, Lois & Bram perform in 1982. (CBC Still Photo Collection)
Lois was the only one of them with formal music training: a pianist, she had a classical music degree from the University of Michigan.
It was Ontario's Mariposa in the Schools — a performing arts program that "put performers like ourselves into classrooms on a freelance basis to sing with children in schools," says Sharon — that brought them together. The program had been planning to record a collaborative album with its freelance singers, but that project had stalled. Sharon, Lois & Bram still wanted to make an album — so they went ahead anyway.
That album was 1978's One Elephant, Deux Éléphants, which they funded with their own money, plus money from friends and family who "thought they were giving us charity — and we paid them back very quickly, actually," assures Bram. The trio conceived of the album at the beginning of 1978; released it in September; paid everyone back by Christmas. The album went triple platinum, and secured Sharon, Lois & Bram's first Juno nomination.
"It never occurred to us, not once, to take an idea to a record company and say, 'OK, we've got this record in mind, would you finance it and distribute it?" says Bram. "Never thought of doing that at all. We knew, just in our guts, that we had to do this on our own. Because we knew that we knew more about children and family music than anybody in a suit at a record company."
We did it backwards: we made the record first. And while we were doing it, we learned how to sing together. — Bram Morrison
Bram does point out that, because of their less traditional trio narrative, they may have done things in a different order than usual.
"Usually what happens, the group gets together, and they practise in mom's garage, and then they go to somewhere slightly bigger," he says. "And after a couple of years, they decide, 'Hey, let's make a record.' But we did it backwards, we made the record first. And while we were doing it we learned how to sing together."
Sharon laughs, and points out that they were lucky all their voices naturally blended well together — though it took some work to find those harmonies.
"Sharon was the only one who had had any experience singing harmony," explains Bram. "I was certainly a solo. And Lois was, too. And so on the first record, you hear Sharon singing a lot of harmony."
"It used to drive me crazy," Sharon quickly adds, laughing again.
But they figured it out. And the rest — increasingly large tours (eventually with symphony orchestras), six Juno nominations and three wins, a billing at the White House, a popular TV show featuring a particular elephant — is history.
Sharon, Lois & Bram in 1995
The children's entertainment trio Sharon, Lois & Bram conduct a lively discussion about their music with CBC host Pamela Wallin. 8:43
'We wanted to choose songs that we liked'
Ironically, Sharon and Bram credit their enduring success to never pandering to children.
"We wanted to choose repertoire that would appeal to children, but also appeal to the family," explains Sharon. "So they wouldn't run screaming from the room. We wanted to choose songs that we liked."
"[Our shows] were called family events and not children's records and children's concerts," Bram continues. "We really wanted to appeal to the whole range of the family. And so our musicians were good, professional musicians. Our arrangers were very sophisticated. And we learned how to fit in with all that."
"We were intent on the standards being very high," adds Sharon. "We spent money to do that. We did not skimp, we did not take the cheapest way out. And I think that helped build our audience."
That audience has a retention rate going on 40 years. Even at these farewell shows — of which a second one was added in Halifax on the Sunday due to popularity — adults show up without children.
"We see audiences of adults who grew up on us and who treasure those memories and want to revisit them, which is what this tour of course is about," says Sharon.
Those memories are also coming up vividly for Sharon and Bram: their farewell tour is ending in one of the venues where the two of them started, at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, Ont., in July.
While Mariposa in the Schools is what brought Sharon, Lois & Bram together, the festival is where Sharon and Bram were each playing before they amassed the affection of most families in Canada ("You were also in the Mariposa Folk Festival and I have the poster to prove it," Bram jokes, when Sharon talks at length about his shows at the festival).
"Also later on in the process, Lois and I organized the children's area at the Mariposa Festival, which was probably the best ever," says Sharon. "So yes ... we're going back to Mariposa this summer. Kind of a nice, as Bram says, book end."
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THE STONEWALL CHORALE
The nation's first gay & lesbian chorus.
ChorusConnection
Hear Stonewall Sing
Alway Something Sings: Pride 2021
ABOUT THE STONEWALL CHORALE
Based in New York City, the Stonewall Chorale is the nation's first gay and lesbian chorus. Our mission is to enrich people's lives through learning and performing beautiful choral music, and to nurture and celebrate the community we create together.
The Chorale originated in December 1977 as the Gotham Male Chorus, and specialized in Gregorian Chant and Renaissance music. In 1979, women joined the chorus for the first time, and the name was changed to Stonewall Chorale, the nation's first Lesbian and Gay chorus.
Today, Cynthia Powell leads us as our Artistic Director and we typically perform three concerts each year and make appearances at special events throughout the tri-state area.
The nation's first gay and lesbian chorus
The Stonewall Chorale originated in December 1977 as the Gotham Male Chorus, and specialized in Gregorian Chant and Renaissance music. In 1979, women joined the chorus for the first time, and the name was changed to Stonewall Chorale, the nation's first Lesbian and Gay chorus.
In 1983 at Lincoln Center, the Chorale opened the first national festival organized and sponsored by GALA (the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses), now an international organization with more than 150 member choruses.
The Stonewall Chorale is among the various LGBTQ interest groups that emerged in major cities and proved crucial to creating support networks during the AIDS crisis. Stonewall has performed in public, community, civic, and corporate venues, and remained – for more than four decades – a reminder of the power of music to foster community.
In celebration of its 40th season in 2017, the Chorale commissioned a new composition for choir and instrumental ensemble from esteemed choral composer James Bassi. This commission presented us with a unique opportunity to give the international choral community a new major secular work that reflects the vision and values of not only the composer, but the choir for whom it was commissioned.
Michael Conwill, President
Gwendolyn Stegall, Vice President
Debbie Mincer, Secretary
Justin Ross, Treasurer
Linda Romano, Development
Emily McSpadden, Member-at-Large
Larissa Flint McDowell , Membership
Taronté Venable, Member-at-Large, COVID-19 Committee Liaison
Cynthia Powell (Artistic Director)
news@stonewallchorale.org
PO Box 920 • New York, NY 10011
© 2021 by The Stonewall Chorale


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Chet Baker & Crew is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in Los Angeles in 1956 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

Reception

An AllMusic review by Lindsay Planer states, "The numbers heard on Chet Baker & Crew were among a prolific flurry of recordings Baker was involved in during the last week of July 1956 — fresh from an extended European stay".

Track listing
 "To Mickey's Memory" (Harvey Leonard) - 5:12
 "Slightly Above Moderate" (Bob Zieff) - 6:59
 "Halema" (Phil Urso) - 3:51
 "Revelation" (Gerry Mulligan) - 3:58
 "Something For Liza" (Al Cohn) - 4:05
 "Lucius Lu" (Urso) - 5:34
 "Worryin' the Life Out of Me" (Miff Mole, Bob Russell, Frank Signorelli) - 2:59
 "Medium Rock" (Zieff) - 5:30
 "To Mickey's Memory" [Alternate Take] (Leonard) - 5:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
 "Jumpin' Off a Clef" (Al Haig) - 4:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
 "Chippyin'" (Leonard) - 3:20 Bonus track on CD reissue
 "Pawnee Junction" (Bill Loughborough) - 4:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
 "Music to Dance By" (Cohn) - 4:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
 "Line for Lyons" (Mulligan, Loughbrough) - 2:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
Recorded without an audience at the Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California on July 24, 1956 (tracks 9-11), July 25, 1956 (tracks 12-14) and July 31, 1956 (tracks 1-8) - 7 more tracks including individual features can be found on the Young Chet CD or the Complete at the Forum Theatre 2-CD set

Personnel
Chet Baker - trumpet, vocal on track 14
Phil Urso - tenor saxophone
Bobby Timmons - piano
Jimmy Bond - bass
Peter Littman - drums
Bill Loughborough - chromatic timpani (tracks 1, 9 & 12)

References

1957 albums
Chet Baker albums
Pacific Jazz Records albums


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Q: How best to interface with this bus switch from an ESP32 I am wondering how to interface with this bus switch from a ESP32. I need to drive OE1 and OE2 LOW at 5v , see datasheet
I know that I can only drive up to 3.3v from the ESP32 directly, so is there something I need in the middle here?
Also - Is it possible to drive both OE1 and OE2 pins low from one GPIO on the ESP32? It would be great to get a schematic for any suggested solutions.

A: This way you can connect a 3.3V-powered ESP32 to drive a 5V-powered input. Note that this circuit is an inverting one, you have to output 1 from the microcontroller to drive the OE pin LOW, and the OE pin will be pulled up to 5V when you output 0.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

A: This is a common need and IC's have been developed to make it simple.  Take a look at a single gate level translator like the TI SN74LV1T34DBV.
If you power the SN74LV1T34DBV with 5V then a 2.02V or greater signal level is considered a logic '1'.
The ESP32 should be able to drive a logic '1' to a minimum of 2.64V if powered by 3.3V
You may need to pick a different translator device if your build process cannot deal with the SOT23-5 or SC70-5 packages.  Google on "single gate level translator" and you should find a few from which to choose.

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Mine is the only RC I own. Since no one wanted to buy it and my relatives do not want it, I am holding on to it.
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About 9 months ago picked up an Iomega eSata drive to use as backup. It came with a cut down version of Retrospect, which I remember from long ago (for the Mac). So I figured I would use it for backup as all I wanted was daily incrementals of the entire PC (i.e. so if the HD died I could just restore to a new HD and not be more than a day off).
I tried pulling a few files after first installing & running, and it seemed to be working. Today however it popped up a "disk full, backup failed" error message, which is odd since it's supposed to croak off old ones to free up space, etc. The program showed zero restore points…the support forum said to delete the .rbc file and it would rebuild it and all would be fine. Nope (and it took it 4 hours to come up empty…). So I figured maybe trying a backup…after another 4 hours or so it was now showing 26 restore points and then started the backup, which then died with the same disk full error.
So this now goes into the crapware category, as WTF good is backup software that you can't recover a backup from?


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Portzline: Elvis' big night, plus other observations from Blue Jackets' 4-1 win
By Aaron Portzline Jan 1, 2020 46
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ten observations from the Blue Jackets' 4-1 win over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday in Nationwide Arena:
1. Elvis' big night
It's hard to imagine Zach Werenski's hat trick not claiming top billing, but goaltender Elvis Merzlikins was the headliner in the Blue Jackets' 4-1 win in front of a thunderous, sold-out crowd on New Year's Eve.
Merzlikins had 36 saves and was the Blue Jackets' best player for long stretches of the first and second periods, earning his long-anticipated first NHL win.
It was a memorable night on so many levels, not the least of which was the return of former Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, who signed as a free agent with Florida over the summer.
But Merzlikins was the better goaltender, allowing only a deflected goal early in the second period.
His postgame celebration was pure joy, and the largest crowd of the season — 18,997 —...


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Hampstead Highgate Express > News > Crime
Children lose London protest 'kettling' case against police
Published: 3:27 PM September 8, 2011 Updated: 1:30 PM October 14, 2020
The High Court has rejected claims by three teenagers that the police unlawfully corralled, or "kettled", them during tuition fee demonstrations in London.
Judges dismissed their claim for damages for alleged human rights violations the three said occurred when they were detained in the kettle in Whitehall, Westminster, for several hours in freezing temperatures without food and with very little water.
Adam Castle, 16, his sister Rosie, 15, and Sam Eaton, 16, all from north London, were among 10 friends who gathered with thousands of other students, lecturers and teachers in Trafalgar Square on November 24 last year during the National Student Walkout anti-fees protests.
Today Lord Justice Pitchford and Mr Justice Supperstone, sitting at London's High Court, ruled the Met Police commissioner had acted within his powers and did not breach any of his public law duties, and the containment action taken by the police was "necessary, proportionate and lawful".
The court had heard the teenagers were in a mass of demonstrators who set off to march towards the Houses of Parliament from Trafalgar Square, but as they moved down Whitehall, Met officers used the tactic of kettling to contain them.
Rosie, a pupil at Camden School for Girls, was trapped for about six hours and the boys, from Acland Burghley school, for about seven-and-a-half hours.
At a recent hearing the judges were told that many of the young demonstrators were still in school uniform.
Martin Westgate QC, appearing for the teenagers, said he accepted the decision to impose the kettle was lawful because of police fears that breaches of the peace were imminent.
But he argued the police operation became unlawful because of the failure to have a release plan communicated to the frontline officers.
He said Met commanders also failed to take account of their duties under section 11 of the Children Act 2004 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and to support their right to demonstrate and enjoy freedom of expression under the 1998 Human Rights Act.
Dismissing the application for judicial review, the judges observed that Ivan Hare, appearing for the commissioner, had pointed out "there was a plan for the release of the vulnerable, including schoolchildren".
The judges also rejected the argument that the duration of the containment made it unlawful.
They said it had been necessary and reasonable to search those leaving for arms, and arrest those suspected of committing offences.
The judges said: "There was, we conclude, evidence from more than one source that significant numbers of the protesters were armed.
"Those who were armed and leaving the containment posed an additional and obvious risk for imminent breaches of the peace at locations outside the cordon.
"There was evidence of continuing violence at both the Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square ends of Whitehall.
"Some of those being released were re-forming in order to re-join elsewhere.
"Later, in Parliament Square, officers had difficulty persuading even schoolchildren to disperse."
The judges said: "While there was a considerable delay beyond the time at which a general dispersal was planned - 4pm, and that delay is regrettable, particularly when the young and vulnerable were affected, we conclude that it was justified by events occurring outside the cordon which required careful handling of those within the containment.
"The action taken, having regard to the need to safeguard children and to promote their welfare, was necessary, proportionate and lawful."
The judges ruled that any interference that did take place with the teenagers' rights to liberty and to demonstrate "was for a legitimate reason, in accordance with the law, and proportionate to the legitimate aim of preventing an imminent breach of the peace".
Any application to appeal against today's ruling will be dealt with at a later date.
At the recent hearing which led to today's ruling, Adam Castle said outside court: "We were punished for protesting and everyone was left demoralised.
"It was one of the coldest days of the year and we had not been prepared for being held into the night."
Later, the Met Police issued a statement welcoming the ruling.
"The court has acknowledged that the Whitehall containment was `necessary, proportionate and lawful' and not prolonged for any unlawful purpose. The ruling also found that repeated efforts were made to identify children within it, particularly those in school uniform.
"As the judgment points out, a bronze commander was given responsibility for the release of the vulnerable from the containment, who treated that responsibility as a `specific obligation towards school children'.
"Policing the protests on the 24 November 2010 was extremely challenging.
"Police lines repeatedly came under attack as a crowd of about 3,000 demonstrators made their way down Whitehall from Trafalgar Square. In order to prevent a breach of the peace and damage to buildings, a containment was implemented at Whitehall.
"During the period of the containment, a police carrier within the crowd was attacked. Damage was also caused to telephone boxes, bus stops, the Old War Office and the Treasury and there were attempted incursions into buildings in Whitehall. This sets into context the scale of disorder that day."


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Q: Heroku deployment error: The requested API endpoint was not found I have the worked app (Availible here tandtpartners.herokuapp.com)
But I've got the  remote: !       The requested API endpoint was not found. Are you using the right HTTP verb (i.e. GET vs. POST), and did you specify your intended version with the Accept header? error while trying to deploy the app again.

Even when I cloned this app to another folder and added some ! to index.html, I received the same error.
C:\heroku\2\tandtpartners>git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'heroku/master'.

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

        modified:   hello/templates/index.html

C:\heroku\2\tandtpartners>git commit -m "Changed only index html"
[master 8a56e0d] Changed only index html
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

C:\heroku\2\tandtpartners>git commit -m "Changed only index html"
[master 8a56e0d] Changed only index html
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

C:\heroku\2\tandtpartners>git push heroku master
Counting objects: 5, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 432 bytes | 432.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Compressing source files... done.
remote: Building source:
remote:
remote: !       The requested API endpoint was not found. Are you using the right HTTP verb (i.e. `GET` vs. `POST`), and did you specify your intended version with the `Accept` header?
remote:
To https://git.heroku.com/tandtpartners.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://git.heroku.com/tandtpartners.git'

What can I do with that?

A: From Heroku status page

API Errors for Free Accounts
We are investigating reports of increased API errors. This affects a
  number of actions on the platform, including deploys, for users
  without a credit card associated with their account. We will update
  here shortly.

(For future users: This answer is valid only for a short period of time, if you have the same issue, maybe you should give a look at https://status.heroku.com/)

A: API Errors for Free Accounts
Tools 0 MINUTES
ACTIVITY
Issue
We are investigating reports of increased API errors. This affects a number of actions on the platform, including deploys, for users without a credit card associated with their account. We will update here shortly.
POSTED 4 MINUTES AGO, FEB 22, 2018 10:47 UTC
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1404

A: Resolved:  API Errors for Free Accounts.
A change causing the issue was discovered and a fix has been deployed. This affected application builds for users without a credit card between 08:41 UTC and 11:00 UTC.
This issue is now resolved.
The most recent information is available at: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1404

A: This was a bug caught and fixed.
As per heroku https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1404

A: *

*check if heroku is added as remote: git remote -v
you should see something like this:

heroku    https://git.heroku.com/yourapp.git (fetch)  AND
heroku    https://git.heroku.com/yourapp.git (push)

*if there is none then set the remote - git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:MyApp.git (in old git versions ) or heroku git:remote -a git@heroku.com:MyApp.git (in new version of git)

*git push heroku master (old git)
git push heroku main (new git )


Asteroid, the global interconnection platform innovator, and Relined Fiber Network, the independent, leading supplier of Dark Fiber connections in Northwest Europe, announced today that they are partnering to connect networks in Amsterdam.
The Asteroid Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and Relined partnership offers content providers, ISPs, enterprises and other networks in Amsterdam improved interconnection and resilience. With the impressive fibre network of Relined, networks can now reach the Asteroid IXP quicker, more efficiently and more cost-effectively than ever.
"Asteroid is a real innovator in the IXP field", says Guido Sip, Director Sales & Marketing at Relined. Asteroid developed a high quality and efficient IXP model, which we believe could be really interesting to many Internet players. We are excited to partner with them, in helping growing their business in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam is one of the most network-dense cities in the world, and home to one of the fastest Internet connections in the world.
When networks interconnect at Internet exchange points (IXPs), such as Asteroid, they localise their traffic exchange. That way, they improve performance, reduce latency and reduce the cost of that traffic exchange. Instead of sending traffic through several other parties, they retain the control of their traffic and can thereby optimise the end user experience.
Keeping the traffic local, instead of sending it through other, potentially much longer routes, allows networks to serve users better and faster. Unlike some IXP models that stretch over very large metro regions, and add complexity and cost along the way, the Asteroid IXP model focuses on efficient, local traffic exchange. Just as an airport hub moves people from one airline onto another airline and destination, an IXP does the same – only with Internet packets.
"At Asteroid we believe in working with the right partners to meet the needs of customers", says Asteroid CEO Remco van Mook. "Relined is a great partner for us, with their solid reputation, their impressive fibre network, and their incredibly competitive offering".
With this partnership, through Relined's expansive fibre network, ISPs and other networks can now reach the Asteroid IXP from over 30 locations in Amsterdam, including Equinix, GlobalSwitch and Iron Mountain (EvoSwitch). Fees start at €375 per month.
You can reach the Asteroid IXP via Relined from the following data centres: datacenter.com, DRT Amsterdam Business Park, Equinix AM1/2, AM3, AM4, AM5, AM6, AM7, AM8, euNetworks, Iron Mountain/EvoSwitch, Global Switch, Schiphol-Rijk data centers, Switch datacenters, and TDCG Amsterdam.
Relined is the leading – and independent – supplier of Dark Fiber connections in Northwest Europe. Together with its preferred suppliers, Relined offers a nationwide, fine-mesh Dark Fiber network in the Netherlands and Germany that is more than 28,500 kilometres in length and that boasts a high-quality fibre optic infrastructure. You can use this network to reach almost any location. In addition to national connections and a fine-mesh Dark Fiber network in a whole host of city centres, Relined operates an undersea data transmission cable that connects the Netherlands and Denmark.


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US Takes Unprecedented Step Of Imposing Sanctions On Assad's Teenage Son
By Tyler Durden - August 01, 2020 at 10:18AM
This week the US imposed a new round of sanctions against the Syrian government, and while this is nothing new, what is gaining attention is the unprecedented step Washington has taken against Bashar al-Assad's teenage son.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited that the continued sanctions under the 'Caesar Act' were geared toward ending Assad's "brutal war against the Syrian people."
U.S. Blacklists Hafez Al-Assad, Bashar's 18 year old son.
The eldest of the Assads' 3 children, has made headlines mostly for his interest in mathematics.
Joel Rayburn said it was to preclude him from trying to do business for the government.https://t.co/grEs0Qtquh
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) July 31, 2020
President Assad's oldest son, 18-year old Hafez Bashar al-Assad (named after his grandfather who previously ruled Syria), is not known to be politically active or connected, and holds no office or decision-making abilities, but now under the new sanctions he won't be allowed to travel to or have assets in the US, reports The Guardian.
When pressed US officials admitted that the action against Assad's children are preemptive. US deputy assistant secretary of state, Joel Rayburn, was cited in the following:
Asked why Assad's teenage son had been added to the list – he was born in 2001 – Rayburn said: 'There has been a trend of senior Syrian regime actors and business people who have been active in the regime to do business through their adult family members to evade sanctions.'
'It seems very clear that the immediate family of Bashar al-Assad and their in-laws are attempting to consolidate economic power inside Syria so that they could use this to further consolidate political power.'
He said: 'Assad would only use such power to strengthen the killing machine against the Syrian people'. He denied that the sanctions would have any impact on humanitarian trade or on the economy of Lebanon.
However, many analysts have pointed out that the sanctions are designed to ensure that Syria never recovers from its crushed war-time economy, not to mention the billions in damage to buildings, homes, and infrastructure across the country.
Also interesting is the fact that the sanctions do not target al-Qaeda held Idlib province, nor the oil and gas rich northeast section of the country occupied by US forces in support of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The far-reaching US sanctions now essentially "blacklist" anyone doing business with Damascus for any reason. As geopolitical commentator Jason Ditz points out: "This would cover a lot of basic commerce Syria might engage in in the course of reconstruction, particularly importing goods and services, and may force Syria to delay such rebuilding for lack of willing contractors."
Thus it appears that the US war on Syria will grind on for many more years to come.
Reprinted with permission from ZeroHedge.
Posted by Ron Paul America at 12:29 PM


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The 2018 Toyota RAV4 is a five-passenger compact crossover SUV built for both adventure and utility. Whether you decide on the 2018 RAV4 or the 2018 RAV4 Hybrid, you are choosing a well-equipped vehicle that has proven to be a North American favourite for over a decade.
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The RAV4 sports 60/40-split folding and reclining second-row seats as well as a height-adjustable driver seat. Toyota Safety Sense P also comes standard: Lane keeping assist, adaptive cruise control and automatic high beams are just some of the high-level driver-assisted technologies included. More amenities are added with each additional trim, including a height-adjustable power liftgate, driver-seatmemory functions, an auto-dimming mirror and many more.
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In an interpretive letter published in February 2003, the OCC confirmed that a wholly‑owned operating subsidiary of a national bank, both headquartered in Michigan, may rely on the National Bank Act (12 U.S.C. § 85) and export Michigan's interest rate for real estate-secured loans made by the subsidiary to residents of states other than Michigan or secured by real estate located in states other than Michigan. Based on relevant OCC regulations regarding operating subsidiaries and exportation authority of national banks and citing Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First Omaha Service Corp. for the proposition that a national bank is located in the state in which the bank's main office is located, the OCC concluded that, as a national bank operating subsidiary, the subsidiary may export Michigan interest rates under the same terms and conditions applicable to the bank.


In this worksheet, we will practice using vectors and operations on them to solve problems.
Given that ⃑ 𝑣 = 1 7 ⃑ 𝑖 𝐴 and ⃑ 𝑣 = 8 ⃑ 𝑖 𝐵 , find ⃑ 𝑣 𝐵 𝐴 .
The forces ⃑ 𝐹 =  − 4 ⃑ 𝑖 + 6 ⃑ 𝑗  1 N , ⃑ 𝐹 =  − 9 ⃑ 𝑖 + 4 ⃑ 𝑗  2 N , and ⃑ 𝐹 =  − 4 ⃑ 𝑖 − 3 ⃑ 𝑗  3 N are acting on a particle, where ⃑ 𝑖 and ⃑ 𝑗 are two perpendicular unit vectors. Determine the magnitude the forces' resultant, 𝑅 , and its direction 𝜃 to the nearest minute.
Rectangle 𝐴 𝐵 𝐶 𝐷 has vertices 𝐴 ( − 6 , − 7 ) , 𝐵 ( 0 , 2 ) , 𝐶 ( 6 , − 2 ) , and 𝐷 ( 0 , − 1 1 ) . Use vectors to determine its area.
If ⃑ 𝑣 = − 7 6 ⃑ 𝑖 𝐴 𝐵 and ⃑ 𝑣 = − 5 ⃑ 𝑖 𝐴 , find ⃑ 𝑣 𝐵 .
A book moves on a horizontal plane after being pushed by a force of 12 N parallel to the plane. The friction force between the book and the plane is 5 N. Find the resultant of these forces, and express it in terms of ⃑ 𝑒 , the unit vector in the direction of the book's motion.
The forces ⃑ 𝐹 = − 1 0 ⃑ 𝑖 − 7 ⃑ 𝑗 1 , ⃑ 𝐹 = 𝑎 ⃑ 𝑖 − ⃑ 𝑗 2 , and ⃑ 𝐹 = 5 ⃑ 𝑖 + ( 𝑏 − 1 0 ) ⃑ 𝑗 3 act on a particle, where ⃑ 𝑖 and ⃑ 𝑗 are two perpendicular unit vectors. Given that the forces' resultant ⃑ 𝑅 = − 1 3 ⃑ 𝑖 − 3 ⃑ 𝑗 , determine the values of 𝑎 and 𝑏 .
The resultant of forces ⃑ 𝐹 =  − 4 ⃑ 𝑖 + 2 ⃑ 𝑗  1 N , ⃑ 𝐹 =  5 ⃑ 𝑖 − 7 ⃑ 𝑗  2 N , and ⃑ 𝐹 =  2 ⃑ 𝑖 + 9 ⃑ 𝑗  3 N , makes an angle 𝜃 with the positive 𝑥 -axis. Determine 𝑅 , the magnitude of the resultant, and the value of t a n 𝜃 .
Given that ⃑ 𝐹 = 8 ⃑ 𝑖 − 5 ⃑ 𝑗 1 , ⃑ 𝐹 = − 1 5 ⃑ 𝑖 − 5 ⃑ 𝑗 2 , and their resultant ⃑ 𝑅 = − 𝑎 ⃑ 𝑖 − 𝑏 ⃑ 𝑗 , determine the values of 𝑎 and 𝑏 .
All the sides of rhombus 𝑂 𝐵 𝐶 𝐴 are of length 5. Suppose that s i n ∠ 𝐴 𝑂 𝐵 = 3 4 and that 𝐴 𝐵 > 𝑂 𝐶 . Use vector multiplication to find the lengths of the two diagonals.
𝐴 𝐵 𝐶 𝐷 is a square, in which the coordinates of the points 𝐴 , 𝐵 , and 𝐶 are ( 1 , − 8 ) , ( 3 , − 1 0 ) , and ( 5 , − 8 ) . Use vectors to determine the coordinates of the point 𝐷 and the area of the square.
Given that ⃑ 𝐴 = ( − 2 , 7 ) and ⃑ 𝐵 = ( 3 , − 8 ) , determine the area of the parallelogram whose adjacent sides are represented by ⃑ 𝐴 and ⃑ 𝐵 .
Trapezium	𝐴 𝐵 𝐶 𝐷 has vertices 𝐴 ( 4 , 1 4 ) , 𝐵 ( 4 , − 4 ) , 𝐶 ( − 1 2 , − 4 ) , and 𝐷 ( − 1 2 , 9 ) . Given that  𝐴 𝐵 ⫽  𝐷 𝐶 and  𝐴 𝐵 ⟂  𝐶 𝐵 , find the area of that trapezium.
Given a trapezium 𝐴 𝐵 𝐶 𝐷 , in which 𝐴 𝐷 ∥ 𝐵 𝐶 and 𝐴 𝐷 𝐵 𝐶 = 7 , find the value of 𝑘 such that  𝐴 𝐶 +  𝐵 𝐷 = 𝑘  𝐴 𝐷 .
𝐴 𝐵 𝐶 𝐷 is a rectangle, in which the coordinates of the points 𝐴 , 𝐵 , and 𝐶 are ( − 1 8 , − 2 ) , ( − 1 8 , − 3 ) , and ( − 8 , 𝑘 ) , respectively. Use vectors to find the value of 𝑘 and the coordinates of point 𝐷 .
Given the information in the diagram below, find the value of 𝑛 such that  𝐴 𝐷 +  𝐷 𝐸 = 𝑛  𝐴 𝐶 .
Given a triangle 𝐴 𝐵 𝐶 , in which 𝐴 𝐵 = 7 c m , 𝐵 𝐶 = 5 6 c m , and 𝑚 ∠ 𝐴 𝐵 𝐶 = 1 2 0 ∘ , use vectors to determine the length of 𝐴 𝐶 .
In the given figure, ⃖     ⃗ 𝐴 𝐵 and ⃖     ⃗ 𝐶 𝐷 are parallel lines; however, ⃖      ⃗ 𝑋 𝑌 is NOT parallel to either ⃖     ⃗ 𝐴 𝐵 or ⃖     ⃗ 𝐶 𝐷 . Given that 𝐸 ∈ 𝐴 𝐵 , 𝐹 ∈ 𝐶 𝐷 , and 𝑍 ∈ 𝑋 𝑌 , determine whether  𝑌 𝑍 and  𝑋 𝑍 are in the same, opposite, or different directions.


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package com.opengamma.bbg;

import static com.opengamma.bbg.BloombergConstants.BLOOMBERG_DATA_SOURCE_NAME;
import static com.opengamma.bbg.BloombergConstants.DATA_PROVIDER_UNKNOWN;
import static org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertEquals;
import static org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertFalse;
import static org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertNotNull;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.threeten.bp.LocalDate;

import com.opengamma.bbg.historicaltimeseries.BloombergHistoricalTimeSeriesProvider;
import com.opengamma.bbg.test.BloombergTestUtils;
import com.opengamma.core.historicaltimeseries.HistoricalTimeSeries;
import com.opengamma.core.historicaltimeseries.HistoricalTimeSeriesSource;
import com.opengamma.core.id.ExternalSchemes;
import com.opengamma.id.ExternalId;
import com.opengamma.id.ExternalIdBundle;
import com.opengamma.timeseries.date.localdate.LocalDateDoubleTimeSeries;
import com.opengamma.util.test.TestGroup;

/**
 * Test.
 */
@Test(groups = TestGroup.INTEGRATION)
public class BloombergHistoricalTimeSeriesSourceTest {

  private BloombergHistoricalTimeSeriesProvider _provider;
  private HistoricalTimeSeriesSource _source;
  private final ExternalIdBundle _secDes = ExternalIdBundle.of(ExternalSchemes.bloombergTickerSecurityId("IBM US Equity"));
  private static final String DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER = DATA_PROVIDER_UNKNOWN;
  private static final String DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE = BLOOMBERG_DATA_SOURCE_NAME;
  private static final String PX_LAST = "PX_LAST";

  @BeforeMethod
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    final BloombergConnector connector = BloombergTestUtils.getBloombergConnector();
    _provider = new BloombergHistoricalTimeSeriesProvider(connector);
    _source = new BloombergHistoricalTimeSeriesSource(_provider);
    _provider.start();
  }

  @AfterMethod
  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    if (_provider != null) {
      _provider.stop();
    }
    _source = null;
    _provider = null;
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class)
  public void getHistoricalWithInvalidDates() throws Exception {
    //endDate before startDate
    final LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 11, 04);
    final LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 10, 29);
    _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes, DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, true, endDate, true);
  }

  @Test
  public void getHistoricalWithSameDate() throws Exception {
    final LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 11, 04);
    final LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 11, 04);
    final HistoricalTimeSeries hts = _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes, DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, true, endDate, true);
    assertNotNull(hts);
    assertNotNull(hts.getTimeSeries());
    assertEquals(1, hts.getTimeSeries().size());
  }

  @Test
  public void getSeriesMap() throws Exception {
    final LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 10, 04);
    final LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 11, 29);
    final Map<ExternalIdBundle, HistoricalTimeSeries> result = _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(Collections.singleton(getTestBundle()), "BLOOMBERG", "CMPL", "PX_LAST", startDate, true, endDate, true);
    assertNotNull(result);
    final HistoricalTimeSeries hts = result.get(getTestBundle());
    assertNotNull(hts);
    assertFalse(hts.getTimeSeries().isEmpty());
  }

  private ExternalIdBundle getTestBundle() {
    return ExternalIdBundle.of(
        ExternalId.of("BLOOMBERG_BUID", "EQ0010121400001000"), ExternalId.of("BLOOMBERG_TICKER", "C US Equity"),
        ExternalId.of("CUSIP", "172967101"), ExternalId.of("ISIN", "US1729671016"), ExternalId.of("SEDOL1", "2297907"));
  }

  @Test
  public void getHistoricalTimeSeriesWithMaxPoints() throws Exception {
    final LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.of(2012, 03, 07);
    final LocalDate startDate = endDate.minusMonths(1);

    final HistoricalTimeSeries reference = _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes,  DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, true, endDate, true);
    for (final int maxPoints : new int[] {-4, -1}) {
      final HistoricalTimeSeries hts = _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes,  DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, true, endDate, true, maxPoints);

      // do we have a time-series?
      assertNotNull(hts.getTimeSeries());

      // is it the right size?
      assertEquals(Math.min(Math.abs(maxPoints), reference.getTimeSeries().size()), hts.getTimeSeries().size());

      // does it contain the expected data points?
      assertEquals(
          Math.abs(maxPoints) > reference.getTimeSeries().size()
            ? reference.getTimeSeries()
            : maxPoints >= 0
              ? reference.getTimeSeries().head(maxPoints)
              : reference.getTimeSeries().tail(-maxPoints),
          hts.getTimeSeries());
    }
  }

  @Test
  public void getHistoricalTimeSeriesWithZeroMaxPoints() throws Exception {
    final LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.of(2012, 03, 07);
    final LocalDate startDate = endDate.minusMonths(1);

    final HistoricalTimeSeries reference = _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes,  DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, true, endDate, true);
    final HistoricalTimeSeries hts = _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes,  DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, true, endDate, true, 0);

    // do we have a time-series?
    assertNotNull(hts.getTimeSeries());

    // is it the right size?
    assertEquals(reference.getTimeSeries().size(), hts.getTimeSeries().size());

    // does it contain the expected data points?
    assertEquals(reference.getTimeSeries(), hts.getTimeSeries());
  }

  @Test
  public void getHistoricalTimeSeriesWithDates() throws Exception {
    final LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 10, 29);
    final LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.of(2009, 11, 04);
    final HistoricalTimeSeries hts =
        _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes,  DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, true, endDate, true);
    assertNotNull(hts);
    final LocalDateDoubleTimeSeries timeSeriesExpected = hts.getTimeSeries();
    assertNotNull(timeSeriesExpected);

    final ExecutorService threadPool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(4);
    final List<Future<LocalDateDoubleTimeSeries>> results = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
      results.add(
          threadPool.submit(new BHDPgetHistoricalTimeSeriesWithDates(_secDes, DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE, DEFAULT_DATA_PROVIDER, PX_LAST, startDate, endDate)));
    }

    for (final Future<LocalDateDoubleTimeSeries> future : results) {
      final LocalDateDoubleTimeSeries timeSeriesActual = future.get();
      assertNotNull(timeSeriesActual);
      assertEquals(timeSeriesExpected, timeSeriesActual);
    }
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  private class BHDPgetHistoricalTimeSeriesWithDates implements Callable<LocalDateDoubleTimeSeries> {
    private final ExternalIdBundle _secDes;
    private final String _dataSource;
    private final String _provider;
    private final String _field;
    private final LocalDate _startDate;
    private final LocalDate _endDate;

    public BHDPgetHistoricalTimeSeriesWithDates(final ExternalIdBundle secDes, final String dataSource, final String dataProvider, final String field, final LocalDate startDate, final LocalDate endDate) {
      assertNotNull(secDes);
      assertNotNull(startDate);
      assertNotNull(endDate);
      _secDes = secDes;
      _dataSource = dataSource;
      _provider = dataProvider;
      _field = field;
      _startDate = startDate;
      _endDate = endDate;
    }

    @Override
    public LocalDateDoubleTimeSeries call() throws Exception {
      final HistoricalTimeSeries hts = _source.getHistoricalTimeSeries(_secDes, _dataSource, _provider, _field, _startDate, true, _endDate, true);
      return hts.getTimeSeries();
    }

  }

}


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'Blatant murder': Al Jazeera accuses Israel of killing journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
"We pledge to prosecute the perpetrators legally, no matter how hard they try to cover up their crime, and bring them to justice," the media network said in a statement.
by Jake Johnson May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022
Shireen Abu Akleh stands near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo: Al Jazeera Media Network
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on May 11, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license).
The media outlet Al Jazeera accused Israeli forces of "deliberately targeting and killing our colleague" on Wednesday after Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the face while covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns this heinous crime, which intends to only prevent the media from conducting their duty.
Statement by Al Jazeera Media Network
In a statement, the Al Jazeera Media Network said that Abu Akleh—who worked as the publication's Palestine correspondent—was wearing a press jacket that clearly identified her as a journalist when Israeli forces shot her "with live fire."
Al Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, called the attack "a blatant murder," saying Abu Akleh, 51, was "assassinated in cold blood."
The statement continued:
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns this heinous crime, which intends to only prevent the media from conducting their duty. Al Jazeera holds the Israeli government and the occupation forces responsible for the killing of Shireen. It also calls on the international community to condemn and hold the Israeli occupation forces accountable for their intentional targeting and killing of Shireen.
The Israeli authorities are also responsible for the targeting of Al Jazeera producer Ali al-Samudi, who was also shot in the back while covering the same event, and he is currently undergoing treatment.
Al Jazeera extends its sincere condolences to the family of Shireen in Palestine, and to her extended family around the world, and we pledge to prosecute the perpetrators legally, no matter how hard they try to cover up their crime, and bring them to justice.
Footage from the scene shows the moments after Abu Akleh was shot.
(Warning: The video is disturbing)
Footage shows the moments of Al Jazeera's senior reporter Shireen Abu Aqla's death.
In appearance, Israeli footage that says there was a Palestinian cross fire doesn't fit with this location.
She is also wearing a helmet and body armour. pic.twitter.com/fYCMQqxlxf
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) May 11, 2022
The Israeli government swiftly denied responsibility for killing Abu Akleh and wounding al-Samudi, claiming that they may have been shot by "Palestinian gunmen."
"There is a considerable chance that armed Palestinians, who fired wildly, were the ones who brought about the journalist's unfortunate death," said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
But al-Samudi, speaking to the Associated Press following the incident, dismissed the Israeli government's narrative as a "complete lie."
"He said they were all wearing protective gear that clearly marked them as reporters, and they passed by Israeli troops so the soldiers would know that they were there," AP reported. "He said a first shot missed them, then a second struck him, and a third killed Abu Akleh. He said there were no militants or other civilians in the area—only the reporters and the army."
An outpouring of grief and tributes followed news of Abu Akleh's killing.
Yousef Munayyer, a Palestinian-American political analyst, wrote on Twitter that "Shireen was one of the bravest, longest-standing Palestinian journos and an inspiration to so many Palestinians, especially young women in the field of journalism."
In an interview, Abu Akleh's friend and colleague Dalia Hatuqa said that Shireen "was there in every town, every Palestinian town, village, alleyway, refugee camp."
"Everybody knew her name," Hatuqa continued. "Everybody welcomed her. She wanted to do the stories that nobody else wanted to do. And she gave a voice to a lot of people who we otherwise wouldn't have heard from."
Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @johnsonjakep
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Source note: The tale of Ginger & Pickles / by Beatrix Potter. [London] : F. Warne, 1987, c1909.
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "But still the policeman took no notice." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1909. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6c7c89e9-41a6-16c9-e040-e00a18063d83
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JAKARTA, NETRALNEWS.COM - Indonesia optimizes itself to work on the market potential of tourists from Saudi Arabia at the Riyadh Travel Fair held at Al Faisaliah Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The huge potential of the tourist market from the Middle East is being continuously optimized by the Indonesian Government. Through the Ministry of Tourism (Kemenpar) the Indonesian tourism brand "Wonderful Indonesia" continues to be promoted in the frame of the beauty of destinations in the country including the 2019 Riyadh Travel Fair.
The exhibition is one of the largest tourism exhibitions in Saudi Arabia with visitors estimated at 28,000. The event was attended by around 300 exhibitors and 50 countries and will be held for 3 days from 28 to 30 March 2019.
The Ministry of Tourism's Deputy Marketing Development II, Nia Niscaya in Jakarta on Thursday (3/21/2019) said that this effort would be a step to work on the huge tourism market opportunity, especially for Saudi Arabia because visitor growth at the Riyadh Travel Fair event continues to increase from year to year.
"In 2017, the exhibitors reached more than 250 with visitors totaling more than 30 thousand people, we will use this well so that we can contribute to the target of 20 million foreign tourists as targeted this year," Nia said in a press release on Thursday (21 / 3/2019).
The figure, said Nia, increased from the previous Riyadh Travel Fair 2016 which featured 246 exhibitors with 25,724 visitors. In addition, the increase in numbers also jumped significantly by 30 percent compared to the Riyadh Travel Fair 2015.
"We realize that the potential of Riyadh is huge. Meeting B to B Meeting with Riyadh tourism industry players will certainly be optimized. Information will also be provided as completely as possible. Travel packages have also been prepared interesting, "said Nia.
In general, Saudi Arabian tourists are at a very good level of economic prosperity. Referring to data from the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, their spending capability is at SAR68 billion.
Statistics of the Tourist Information and Research Center informs that the spending of Saudi Arabia tourists last year reached SAR29 billion. That number comes from the holiday of 4 million Saudi Arabian tourists.
"So far the main destinations they favor are Bali and Jakarta. Then, other alternative destinations are Riau Islands, West Java, East Java, and North Sumatra, "Nia said.
Indonesia itself will feature three components in the Riyadh Travel Fair, namely the distinctive taste of the archipelago coffee, hena painting, and the art of rampak gendang that are expected to amaze visitors.


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2015 CPA Award Winners / Current
Best Personality Profile: Second Place
Dorothy Day and Her Little Way by Robert Ellsberg
Editors Note: Each year, the Catholic Press Association puts out a call for entries of books, newspapers, magazines, and other publications to its Catholic Press Awards program. "Dorothy Day and Her Little Way" won second place for Best Personality Profile! The awards honor the accomplishments of Catholic journalists and publishers and affirm their commitment to spreading the Good News. For Liguori, they affirm our commitment to the mission of the Redemptorists. Judges comments: Wondering what else could be written about Dorothy Day, this turned out to be highly interesting and very well written. Excellent beginning that pulls readers in and the ending ties it up nicely.
On June 15, 1955, a siren sounded, signaling a nuclear-attack drill. The entire population of New York City obediently sought shelter in basements and subway stations, or, in the case of schoolchildren, under their desks. According to the authorities, this first in a series of civil-defense drills was a "complete success."
Well, almost. It was marred by a middle-age, white-haired woman and twenty-six others who refused to play this war game. Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and her companions instead sat in City Hall Park, where they were arrested and later sentenced to jail. The judge who imposed bail likened the protesters to "murderers" who had contributed to the "utter destruction of these three million theoretically killed in our city."
Of course, three million—the theoretical casualties of a nuclear strike in New York City—would hardly have measured the potential devastation. Actual plans for nuclear war involved casualties in the hundreds of millions. Unknown at that time were the effects of "nuclear winter," the catastrophic side effect of a nuclear exchange that might have destroyed all life in the Northern Hemisphere. As Dorothy Day saw it, the illusion that nuclear war was "survivable" and therefore "winnable" made such a war more likely. To participate in an exercise for doomsday, she believed, was an act of blasphemy. And so she went to jail.
On that clear spring day in 1955, it had been more than twenty years since Dorothy Day had founded The Catholic Worker. It was first a newspaper and then a movement consisting of houses of hospitality in New York City and slum neighborhoods across the country. In such communities, the works of mercy—feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and sheltering the homeless—were combined with a commitment to social justice and Day's vision of a society "in which it is easier to be good."
Many admired her work among the poor, including subscribers in the heart of the Depression who sympathized when The Catholic Worker questioned an economic system that produced so much poverty and desperation. But in those early years, few joined Day in her conviction that the way of Jesus was incompatible with any kind of killing. And on the day of that first civil-defense drill in New York City, the number of Catholics who agreed that this was a crime against God and humanity could evidently fit inside a single police wagon. But for Day, all of her convictions fit together. The Catholic Worker movement was an effort to live out the radical implications of the teaching of Christ: that what we do to the least of our brothers and sisters, we do directly to him.
For almost fifty years, until her death in 1980, Dorothy lived by these convictions. As a result, she received a fair amount of criticism. Some called her un-American. She was charged with being weak, irrelevant, and foolish. In reply, she stated, "We confess to being foolish and wish that we were more so." Some accused her of being a secret Communist. Before her conversion to Catholicism in 1927, she had in fact participated in left-wing movements and befriended Communists and other agitators.
In the 1950s, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, placed her name on a list of dangerous radicals to be detained in the event of a national emergency.
And yet the tide has turned. In 2000, John Cardinal O'Connor submitted her cause for canonization to Rome, where, upon its acceptance, she was named a Servant of God. In 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined Timothy Cardinal Dolan in endorsing this cause, a long process that may conclude one day in her becoming St. Dorothy. If so, she will certainly be a saint with an unusual backstory, including her arrest on behalf of women's suffrage, her bohemian youth, and an abortion following an unhappy love affair. All this occurred before her conversion to Catholicism. Yet even the circumstances of her conversion are unique in the annals of the saints. This occurred while she was living on Staten Island with a man she loved and discovered she was pregnant. In gratitude, she found herself praying and wishing to have her child baptized—a step she eventually followed, though it meant a painful separation from her common-law husband.
The Catholic Worker came five years later, after a long, lonely search for her vocation. While covering a labor march in Washington, D.C., in December 1932, she had prayed at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that God would open up some way for her to use her talents on behalf of the poor. And when she returned to New York, she met Peter Maurin, an itinerant Frenchman, whose personalist philosophy seemed an answer to her prayer. He inspired her to start a newspaper to promote the social vision of the Gospel. And in the houses of hospitality that opened, Day and the Catholic Workers practiced what they preached—living among the poor, practicing the works of mercy, and trying to live out the radical implications of the love of God and neighbor.
Day did not believe she could solve the problems of the Depression by feeding a few hundred hungry people. Nor, years later—when she refrained from following the civil-defense drills and went to jail—did she believe that such gestures would bring an end to war. She was, however, a firm believer in the "Little Way" of St. Thérèse of Lisieux—her favorite saint (who died, coincidentally, the same year as Day's birth, 1897). Thérèse had devised a spirituality that consisted of performing all the small deeds and obligations of our daily life in a spirit of love and in the presence of God. In this way, our everyday life, with its constant opportunities to practice patience, forgiveness, and compassion, could become an arena for holiness. Thérèse furthermore believed strongly in the spiritual connections that bind all members of the mystical body. There was no telling what effect our prayers and small sacrifices could have around the globe on people we might never meet.
Day studied and practiced these teachings. Her diaries, published as The Duty of Delight, record the discipline of her spiritual life—daily Mass, saying the rosary, rising early to read the Office. But they also record the constant discipline required to curb her anger and impatience and to practice charity in her dealings with those around her. Living in a fractious community consisting in large part of what Dorothy often called the "insulted and injured," this was a truly heroic task. It was the exercise of her faith in these small ways, and the effort she put forth to live her daily life in the conscious presence of God, that equipped her for the more dramatic forms of public witness.
At the same time, like St. Thérèse, Day believed strongly in the power of small means and obscure actions. She wrote a book about Thérèse because, she said, she wanted to call attention to the social implications of her teachings: the significance of all the little things we do—or fail to do. This included the protests we make. Appearing foolish while standing on a street corner with a sign for peace, or handing out a leaflet, or going to jail for a few days: these were simply a few "loaves and fish." But God could take such small gifts and multiply them.
Writing to a young man in prison, Day wrote, "We know how powerless we are, all of us, against the power of wealth and government and industry and science. The powers of this world are overwhelming. Yet it is hoping against hope and believing, in spite of 'unbelief,' crying by prayer and by sacrifice, daily, small, constant sacrificing of one's own comfort and cravings—these are the things that count." Vigils, fasting, prayer, and marches were all indispensable, she wrote. But in the end, "All these means are useless unless animated by love."
Like the holy people she admired and emulated, Day didn't like to be called a saint. A surprising number of people are familiar with the line attributed to her: "Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed that easily!" She did not like to be used as an excuse for other people to let themselves off the hook. "Dorothy could do things that we could not"—people might say. "After all, she's a saint."
She was more conscious than anyone of her own failings. Often, in her diaries, she refers to the temptation to walk away from the movement. But then, she adds: "Some such thought as that of St. John of the Cross would come, 'Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love,' and makes all right. When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."
For me, the fundamental significance of Day's "cause" rests not just in her own example of holiness but in the way she held up the vocation of holiness as the common calling of all Christians. She did not believe holiness was just for a few—or for those dedicated to formal religious life. It was simply a matter of taking seriously the logic of our baptismal vows—to put off the old person and put on Christ; to grow constantly in our capacity for love.
She lived out her own vocation in the Catholic Worker movement. But she set an example for all Christians, especially lay people, reminding us that the Gospel is meant to be lived and challenging us to find our own unique path of faithful discipleship.
And what about those civil-defense drills? Dorothy was arrested in successive annual drills and served two thirty-day sentences. But by 1961, she was joined by 2,000 other protesters. The drills stopped.