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US Defence officials say that Turkey is aiding resurgence of ISIS
Islamic State fighters to launch campaigns in Iraq and Kurdish regions along the Syria-Iraq border
Tuesday 06 August - US Defence officials fingered Turkish intelligence and military personnel as helping to facilitate a resurgence of ISIS to essentially work as proxies to attack Kurdish positions and pressure the West and regional actors into supporting Turkish interests in Syria.
Some of the ISIS fighters are coming from camps inside Turkey where forces tied to Turkey have helped facilitate training, the officials said.
Turkey strongly opposes an independent Kurdish entity in Syria and has reportedly been pushing for control of a 20-mile deep buffer zone extending into northern Syria, arguing that only Turkey can ensure security in the area where Kurdish forces currently maintain autonomous zones.
Any escalating clashes between ISIS and Kurdish forces could strengthen Turkey's argument that only it can impose law and order in those zones.
However, the defense officials pointed out that it is Turkey that has been supporting extremists, especially dangerous Islamic fighters under the banner of ISIS.
The officials warned that Turkish actions are resulting in the formation of a new ISIS terror army that can wreak havoc in the region after U.S. and allied efforts under the Trump administration massively damaged the ISIS terror apparatus and essentially destroyed the previously emerging ISIS caliphate in the region.
Another possible threat could potentially come from ISIS terrorists, including foreigners, being freed from Kurdish prisons during any IS assault on Kurdish-controlled territory.
The alleged Turkish support for ISIS comes as Russia, Iran and Turkey held a series of trilateral meetings in recent weeks to discuss the future of Syria.
On Friday, the three countries issued a joint statement following a meeting in Kazakhstan declaring their opposition to the current autonomous zones in northern Syria established by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the largely Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
The statement announced that Russia, Turkey and Iran 'rejected all attempts to create new realities on the ground under the pretext of combating terrorism.'
Author's comment: This overt support of ISIS is yet another reason why Turkey should never have been considered as a Western ally in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Kokko peut faire référence à :
 Kokko, un village de Birmanie.
 Aleksandr Kokko (né en 1987), footballeur finlandais.
 Hanna Kokko (née en 1971), biologiste et écologue finlandaise.
 Petri Kokko (née en 1966), patineur artistique finlandais.
 Yrjö Kokko (1903-1977), écrivain et vétérinaire finlandais.

 Kokkō Sōma (1876–1955), entrepreneuse, philanthrope, mécène d'artistes et partisane du pan-asianisme

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Yánnis Kókkos

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Fiamma's Quadrant line offers a whole range of cost-effective solutions for coffee and catering businesses with high demands.


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As Peru's unrest chases away visitors, many in tourism fear for their livelihood
A funeral procession for Clemer Fabricio Rojas, a protester killed by the Peruvian Army, in Quinua, Peru, on Dec. 17, 2022.
By Mitra Taj, Genevieve Glatsky and Julie Turkewitz
As protests consumed Peru this month, hundreds of foreign tourists were trapped near Machu Picchu, the ancient Incan site that has become the Andean country's No. 1 tourist attraction.
In recent days, though, visitors were finally able to travel home, following a suspension of demonstrations that reopened the airport and nearby roads to allow for the passage of food and travelers.
But as they leave the country, prospective travelers cancel their trips and a new regional and perhaps national strike gets underway, the abrupt shutter of the tourism industry has dealt a serious blow to tens of thousands of Peruvians whose livelihoods rely on the travel economy.
It's not just that "everybody started canceling," said Nancy Bautista, 41, a tour guide with two children in the department of Cusco, home to Machu Picchu. As soon as the tourists left, protesters again closed roads in the surrounding region, creating shortages of fuel and food.
It's just one example of the financial toll that more than 10 days of nationwide unrest has exacted on Peruvians. While Cusco felt calm Monday, Bautista said, supplies of chicken in the city were dwindling. Beef was completely sold out. Gas prices shot up.
The challenge of providing essential goods is setting off widespread concern in a region where the worst drought in more than 50 years and high fertilizer prices are already creating food shortages.
In the department of Cusco, with a capital of the same name, high numbers of people struggle to get enough to eat, with nearly 20% of children under age 5 facing chronic malnutrition, according to government figures.
Cusco has approximately 2,000 tourism agencies, more than 1,000 hotels and 25 rural communities that rely on tourism, but the past few days have felt like the arduous visitorless months of the pandemic, Bautista said.
"With all of this, it's going back again to that time where everything was uncertain," she added.
In 2019, visits to Machu Picchu hit 1.5 million people, most of them foreigners. The number of tourists climbed so high that many feared for its physical integrity, and the government began limiting entry.
But Rolando Mendoza, Cusco's head of tourism, said that the regional tourism sector had been hit hard by the pandemic and the government's strict lockdowns, and was still recovering when the protests began.
This year, officials had hoped to get at least 1 million visitors. Mendoza estimated that because of the protests, it will be more like 700,000 to 800,000 visitors by year's end.
Protests erupted in Peru in early December after the country's leftist leader, Pedro Castillo, attempted to dissolve Congress and install a new government that would rule by decree — actions that fell outside the limits placed on the president by the constitution.
The move was widely condemned as an attempted coup and Castillo was arrested on charges of rebellion. His vice president, Dina Boluarte, a former ally, took office.
But Castillo's supporters, many of them from poor, rural regions, have taken to the streets to demand new general elections, with many also calling for his restitution, sometimes closing down highways with burning tires, vandalizing government buildings and throwing rocks in the streets.
At least 26 people have died as a result of the protests, according to the national ombudsman's office, and various human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have accused the police and military of a disproportionate use of force against protesters.
In clashes between the military and demonstrators Thursday in the city of Ayacucho, nine protesters were killed, including a 15-year-old boy.
At least 356 civilians and 290 police officers have been injured during the protests, according to the ombudsman.
By Monday, the number of protests had dwindled across the country, though groups were calling for a fresh strike starting this week, making it unclear if the country was seeing an end to unrest — or just a brief respite.
Since taking office, Boluarte, a leftist from a largely poor region, has attempted to strike a conciliatory tone, calling for unity in a deeply divided nation and addressing the nation in Quechua, the Indigenous language spoken by many of Castillo's supporters.
But she has also declared a state of emergency, suspending many civil liberties, and sent the military into the streets in some places — actions that seem to be alienating the very protesters she is trying to calm.
On Sunday, in interviews with the national press, she said that protester deaths should be investigated by the military's justice system instead of by public prosecutors, a move that could mean lighter sentences for soldiers accused of abuse. The declaration was immediately criticized by legal experts, who said a previous case in the Supreme Court, as well as international law, had made it clear that allegations of human rights abuses should be investigated in the civilian system.
A day before, the country's anti-terrorism police raided the offices of a leftist party and of a campesino organization in downtown Lima, detaining several protesters for hours.
Police accused them of planning to commit violence at demonstrations, showing reporters weapons like slingshots and machetes confiscated from protesters, though the protesters said these were planted. Human rights groups denounced the raids as an illegal intimidation tactic by authorities.
As the raid unfolded, Boluarte addressed the crisis in a televised presentation with the head of the armed forces, a figure who is supposed to be focused narrowly on external threats in Peru.
"I am very sorry for the deaths of these people," she said, speaking of the dead protesters. "We are building bridges to be able to meet with the leaders of these social movements. But in violence, you cannot dialogue. Calm down."
Barring the possibility of Castillo's reinstatement, protesters have called for new elections to be held as quickly as possible, while Congress recently voted down an effort to move them up to December 2023, far ahead of their scheduled 2026 date.
An Ipsos poll for America Television that was released Sunday showed about 85% of respondents supported new general elections, and 33% also supported what the poll called Castillo's "coup," a figure that rose to 52% in rural Peru.
Another poll showed only 17% were satisfied with how Peru's democracy is working, the lowest level since at least 2006.
Even among some whose livelihoods were being upended by the protests, there was some support.
In interviews, people who work in the region's tourism industry said they sympathized with the protesters' motivations, though they disagreed with the violence and hoped that a solution would come soon.
"Among friends who work in tourism we talk and there's always this concern about political issues that can result in these kinds of blockades," said David Mora, 41, who runs a small tourism company.
"But these strikes have been very aggressive," he added. "These haven't been normal protests, and there's been a lot of repression from the authorities, the police and the army, too."
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Rubeola Antibodies IgG and IgM
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, because of widespread immunity achieved by a very effective 2-dose measles vaccine that was introduced in 1963. Measles is still common in many parts of the world including some countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Travelers with measles continue to bring the disease into the United States. Measles can spread rapidly when it reaches a community in the U.S. where groups of people are unvaccinated.
The United States experienced several large outbreaks in 2008, mainly in communities with a large number of unvaccinated people. Outbreaks have continued to occur in the ensuing years. A record number of 644 cases involving 27 states was reported to CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) in 2014. Nearly half of these cases were linked to travel to the Philippines. From January 1 to February 6, 2015, 121 people have been reported to have measles. Most of these cases have been linked to an outbreak at the DisneyLand amusement park in Orange County, California. The majority of people who got measles were unvaccinated.
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the rubeola virus. It is transmitted from person to person by contact with respiratory droplets that are spread by coughing and sneezing. Infected people are contagious from 4 days before their rash starts through 4 days afterwards. After an infected person leaves a location, the virus remains viable for up to 2 hours on surfaces and in the air. After exposure, almost 90% of susceptible persons develop measles.
The average incubation period for measles is 10 to 12 days from exposure to onset of symptoms and 14 days from exposure to rash (range 7 to 21 days). Measles begins with a prodrome of fever, cough, coryza and conjunctivitis. Koplik's spots on the buccal mucosa are considered pathognomonic of measles and may precede onset of rash by several days. The characteristic erythematous rash appears 2 to 4 days after prodome onset and spreads from head to trunk. The rash recedes in the same direction.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suggests the diagnosis of measles should be considered in any patient with fever ≥ 101°F (38.3°C) and rash that lasts 3 days or more, along with compatible respiratory symptoms.
Most people who get measles recover completely. Complications are more common in adults, children <5 years and immunocompromised patients. They include pneumonia, ear infections, diarrhea and encephalitis. Approximately 1 in 20 cases develop pneumonia and 1 in 1000 cases develops encephalitis. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) may occur 7 to 10 years after an acute measles infection.
Measles can be severe and prolonged among immunocompromised persons. Measles illness in pregnancy might be associated with increased rates of spontaneous abortion, premature labor and preterm delivery, and low birthweight infants.
Persons who have documentation of adequate vaccination for measles at age 12 months or later, laboratory evidence of measles IgG antibody, laboratory confirmation of disease, or were born before 1957 have acceptable presumptive evidence of measles immunity.
Testing for suspected measles infection should include rubeola IgM and IgG antibodies. Positive IgG with negative IgM results indicate immunity to infection. Positive IgM results with or without positive measles IgG indicates recent infection. Negative IgM and IgG results usually indicate non-immunity and absence of current infection. However, the sensitivity of measles IgM assays varies and may be diminished during the first 72 hours after rash onset. If IgM is negative and the patient has a generalized rash lasting more than 72 hours, a second serum specimen should be submitted for measles IgM (AAP. Red Book, 2012; p. 491). The specimen requirement for rubeola IgG and IgM is one red top or serum gel tube of blood.
Suspected measles patients should be isolated & reported immediately to local and/or state public health departments.


Yesterday was one of those days when I just couldn't get into any one big project. So I went around the yard and did a few of those little jobs that have been niggling in the back of my mind.
Years ago someone on This Old House said that water was the worst enemy of a house. Ever since then I worry - just a little bit - when it rains. After shingling the back porch I started worrying about water overflowing the rain barrel and causing damage, so I put in an overflow spigot. I'll attach a length of hose and direct the rain away from the house!
I didn't think an "after" picture was necessary, but you get the idea. Now all the water should flow into the rain barrel!
Then there was this little strip under the trap door on the side of the porch. I tried shingling it, but the pieces were too small and just kept splitting. So I pulled out some scrap plywood, cut to size, now it just needs to be stained (ran out of time to do it yesterday).
Obviously - then we installed it!
I added this picture just because Linus is so damned cute!
That's it. Nothing fancy, nothing major, but not everything can be a major renovation! Right?


Pokémon Go away: Who owns the augmented reality we play in?
GOTTA catch 'em all – but not in my backyard.
Since Pokémon Go's release on 6 July, the augmented reality app has become a smash hit. Players walk around hunting for hidden monsters superimposed on the world around them, and visiting real-life locations tagged as stops or gyms in the game. So far, it has been downloaded an estimated 15 million times.
But all this enthusiasm has led to more than a few uncomfortable interactions in the real world. A police station in Australia asked people to stop coming in to visit a Pokéstop – a place where free items can be found. Homeowners have had players loitering outside their property day and night. Others were aghast when Pokémon began showing up at sensitive sites such as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
"We do not consider playing 'Pokémon Go' to be appropriate decorum on the grounds of ANC. We ask all visitors to refrain from such activity," tweeted the Arlington National Cemetery, a US military cemetery in Virginia.
The game has brought to the fore a number of once-speculative questions about augmented reality. Past court cases have debated the physical boundaries of property, from the air above to the dirt below – what about digital boundaries?
You do not have a right to any of the virtual space in and around your home, says Brian Wassom, a commercial litigator in Michigan and the author of Augmented Reality Law, Privacy and Ethics.
Instead, displeased parties might find more success focusing on the impact the game has in the physical world. Repeated visitors can cause a nuisance, interfering with the owner's right to enjoy their property and perhaps giving them the grounds for a lawsuit.
And trespassers are still liable to be arrested, even if they just clambered into your backyard to get a little closer to a rare snorlax.
In addition, there's a potential case for negligence if a company doesn't act on a problem that their augmented reality game has created, says Emily McReynolds, programme director of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington. Designers might take a hint from virtual message board Yik Yak. After numerous bullying incidents, it put up "geofences" to block access in and around schools.
"I think in cases like this, lawsuits are very likely," she says. "The question is whether or not they would be successful." Niantic, the software company behind Pokémon Go, has already proven responsive to concerns, she adds, and it's in the best interests of the firm to work out issues ahead of time rather than see them go to court.


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Accommodation: In a school dormitory in the town.
Food: Will be supplied at the site.
Location: Akseki is a small and historical town on the Southwest of Turkey. The camp site is safe and secure.
Meeting Point: The project will start in Istanbul with a compulsory orientation meeting that all volunteers should attend on 22nd of July at 18.00. The group will travel together to the camp site by a coach on the same evening. Therefore all volunteers should be present at the orientation meeting; otherwise you will miss the group departure and will have to make your own way to the camp site which is rather difficult. The journey to the camp site takes 12 hours and one way costs 25 Euro. The departure from the camp site is on the 5th of August after breakfast.
Why we recommend: Joining in this camp will make you feel living in the old times. As the altitude of the location is quite high you will also watch a clear sky almost every night. It is great opportunity for those interested in learning about buttoned houses technique and to help preserve the village for the locals and tourist.


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For Vietnamese people, giving greeting cards to each other on his or her special occasions such as birthday, Christmas, new born baby just recently appeared in Vietnam about ten years ago. Although not becoming giving-card culture, greeting cards are becoming increasingly popular. Cards are becoming important gifts, especially with young people, who are very sensitive to foreign trends.
Every Christmas, we see people give lovely greeting cards as wishes for a peaceful Christmas and a happy new year.
Starting with simple printed cards, greeting cards are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex in order to satisfy the high demand of customers. Handmade greeting cards won the hearts of young people because of their unique designs. 3D pop up greeting cards which are affected by the Japanese kirigami and origami art can make people love at first sight. With 3D cards, the creativity of the artisans is unlimited. Card givers can find every card they need for every occasion. For example 3D pop up Christmas cards, pop up birthday cards, 3D pop up love cards, 3D pop up wedding cards, 3D pop up new born baby cards, 3D pop up boat cards, 3D pop up flowers cards, 3D pop up cards for every occasion etc.
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In 2014 the Albanian capital Tirana celebrated the 400th anniversary of its foundation, although in reality its history goes back much further than this and people are known to have lived here at least 10,000 years ago. Surrounded by hills and lying on the banks of the river of the same name, Tirana, like all of Albania, has seen difficult times.
One way to learn about its history is to pick up a book by Ismail Kadare, an Albanian writer for whom Western Europe has expressed its admiration with many literary prizes. After 1991, however, times changed and things began to improve for Tirana's good-natured inhabitants, proud of their Illyrian origins.
The vibrant pulse of modern Tirana can be sensed in Skenderbeg Square, named after the Albanian national hero who halted the advancing Turks in the fifteenth century. He has also lent his name to the famous Skënderbeu brandy, available in many shops. Tirana, which also has a lively nightlife, bears the stamp of Italian architecture from the 1930s, while its mosques and other buildings bear witness to the centuries of Ottoman presence.
Brussels Airport, also known as Zaventem, is located 12 km north-east of Brussels. The airport, voted one of the best in Europe by passengers, has a single terminal.
You can reach the centre of Brussels from the airport by bus, train, taxi or hire car. Take the train and you can be in the centre of Brussels in 17 minutes, in Antwerp in 37 minutes and in Ghent in just 54 minutes.
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Tirana Nënë Tereza (Mother Teresa) International Airport, also known as Rinas Airport, is the only airport in Albania. It is located 17 km north-west of Tirana and has a single, modern passenger terminal.
The quickest way to the centre of Tirana from the airport is by taxi or hire car. The journey takes around 20 minutes. Buses are also available.
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Home | » | News | » | Updated On January 28, 2021 | » | European Championships of Single Table Tournaments
Online poker rooms on the Microgaming Poker Network have started running qualification tourneys in its newly launched Europe's first European Championships of Single Table Tournaments (ECOSTT). The satellites will culminate in a grand finale at the Reval Park Casino in Tallinn, Estonia, from 17 to 19 July 2009.
A Microgaming spokesman said that the event has been designed to find Europe's top STT poker players, with a prize pool of Euro 120 000 on offer, generated from qualifiers and the Euro 2 200 buy-in for the live event, which combines the results of four individual NL Hold'em STTs. If a player gets knocked out early in
Round 1 of the ECOSTT, they have another three STT rounds to accumulate points. The highest points scorers will take part in a grand final of 18 players.
"We have seen a gap in the marketplace for a European event which recognises the skills needed to be a top STT player," said the spokesman. "This tournament gives players four rounds to accumulate points for a place in a grand final, rather than suffering the disappointment of getting knocked-out by a bad beat on the first day of other major events offered elsewhere."
Finalists will receive a Euro 4 000 package that includes a buy-in to the ECOSTT; a Euro 550 buy-in to a NL Hold'em side event with a prize pool of Euro 21 000; entry into a live Blackjack tournament; three nights' accommodation; travel and spending money.
"Over 40 of the world's leading online poker rooms use our software and the ECOSTT will be available via all our Network Operators, exclusively to their players," the spokesman said, adding that a dedicated website has been set up with tournament information at ecostt.eu
Online qualification to the ECOSTT is available via a variety of routes – STTs, MTTs and via Microgaming's new Rounders format, now available in Euros.
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Q: iOS getting notify when the device lost/obtain connection I've to get notified when the device lost or obtain connection and I have to show an alert "Device is going offline" or "Device is going online"
It's possible ?
Thanks.

A: use Reachability , the apple provide the default function for get the network status , try the following link , in here you get the sample code also
choice no-2
the following tutorial helps you for do the work in step by step and you can get the status also
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create the custom NSObject class and follow the details
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <SystemConfiguration/SCNetworkReachability.h>

typedef enum {
IOSDeviceTypeIphone          = 1,
IOSDeviceTypeIpad            = 2,
IOSDeviceTypeIpodTouch       = 3,
} IOSDeviceType;

@interface OUTTDeviceUtility : NSObject

+(id) sharedInstance;

+ (BOOL)checkConnection:(SCNetworkReachabilityFlags*)flags;
+ (BOOL)connectedToNetwork;
+ (BOOL)connectedToWiFi;
@end

.m file
#import "OUTTDeviceUtility.h"
#import <sys/types.h>
#import <sys/socket.h>
#import <sys/sysctl.h>
#import <sys/time.h>
#import <netinet/in.h>
#import <net/if_dl.h>
#import <netdb.h>
#import <errno.h>
#import <arpa/inet.h>
#import <unistd.h>
#import <ifaddrs.h>

@implementation OUTTDeviceUtility

+(id)sharedInstance{
static OUTTDeviceUtility* deviceUtilInstance = nil;
static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
    deviceUtilInstance = [[OUTTDeviceUtility alloc] init];
});

return deviceUtilInstance;
}

+ (BOOL)checkConnection:(SCNetworkReachabilityFlags*)flags
{
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California lawmakers pass bill allowing student-athletes to make endorsement deals
Ryan YoungYahoo Sports
September 10, 2019, 3:42 a.m. UTC
A California bill that would allow student-athletes to profit from the use of their name and likeness passed the State Assembly on Monday, moving it one step closer to becoming law. (M. Anthony Nesmith/Getty Images)
The California State Assembly unanimously passed a bill on Monday that will allow student-athletes in the state to profit from the use of their own name, image and likeness, according to USA Today.
The Fair Pay to Play Act passed 72-0, with seven members not voting, and now should go to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. It was amended after it passed the State Senate, however, meaning it will need to return there for a re-vote before it can go to Newsom. The original bill passed in the Senate 31-5, and is expected to pass again.
Should both the Senate and Newsom pass the bill, it will become law on Jan. 1, 2023.
Should the bill be passed into law, all student-athletes in California would have similar endorsement opportunities provided to Olympic athletes. Schools would not be paying athletes, however the athletes could hire an agent and pursue business deals without losing their eligibility. They would also own the rights to their name and image on all apparel.
The NCAA did not comment on Monday's vote, however has already come out in stark opposition of the bill — and even reportedly threatened California schools in a letter by implying that they could be banned from NCAA championships should the bill be passed. The NCAA also said that it would be "impossible to host fair national championships" in California. It officially formed a working group to study the issue in May, just a week after the bill was passed in the Senate.
While the NCAA is against the bill, it has picked up some high profile endorsements in recent weeks — including from LeBron James and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Everyone is California- call your politicians and tell them to support SB 206! This law is a GAME CHANGER. College athletes can responsibly get paid for what they do and the billions they create.
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 5, 2019
California can change the game. This is only right waaaayy overdue. #morethananathlete
College athletes are workers. Pay them. https://t.co/PNEefTbS2O
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 6, 2019
California!!! Extremely excited about the bill that passed tonight allowing players to be paid. Finally, we are making some progress and getting this thing right. Kids going to sleep hungry, can't afford ANYTHING yet these Universities are profiting off those same kids. SIGN IT!!
— Draymond Green (@Money23Green) September 10, 2019
A re-vote in the Senate could happen as early as Tuesday, per the report. The current California legislative session is set to end on Friday.
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Red Sox fire president one year after World Series win
Nadal wins US Open in five-set marathon
AP poll: LSU moves up to No. 4 after edging Texas


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Widow of slain Capital Gazette journalist signs copies of his final book
Andrea Chamblee, widow of slain Capital Gazette journalist John McNamara, will conduct a book signing event on Saturday at Barnes and Noble, located in the Annapolis Harbour Center.
Chamblee will be signing copies of "The Capital of Basketball: A History of D.C. Area High School Hoops." McNamara spent more than a decade writing the book, but it was unfinished at the time he was killed on June 28, 2018 in the shooting at the Capital Gazette office.
Chamblee, with the assistance of veteran journalist and author David Elfin, finished writing "The Capital of Basketball" and made sure it was published. It has been one of the top sellers on Amazon.com since the official book launch last Sunday.
Hall of Fame head coach Gary Williams, who led Maryland basketball to the 2002 national championship, will be the special guest speaker. Williams wrote the forward for the book.
Gavin Buckley, Mayor of Annapolis, will also be in attendance.
Rick Snider, an award-winning sports columnist who writes for 106.7 The Fan and sportsillustrated.com, will also speak during the event. Snider, who previously worked for The Washington Times, covered high school sports and Maryland athletics alongside McNamara for many years.
Another guest will be Ed Henderson, whose grandfather, Dr. E.B. Henderson was instrumental in developing the game of basketball in Washington, D.C. Dr. Henderson, a civil rights icon, is a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Eric Church brought his 'Holding My Own' Tour through Casper on April 4th and we wanted to know what most people thought of the show / performance?
The show start was delayed an hour and some people went to social media to complain. Others went online following the show to give praise for a performance well done.
But what about you? We asked for your opinion of the Eric Church concert wanting to know if you felt like Eric 'mailed it in' or 'took the night off', or if you felt like the performance was indeed a good one?
The results are in and by far, more people enjoyed the show than did not.
9% gave 'other' as an opinion and shared comments about the show with us.
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"In this world you will have trouble.
Is your sorrow ever-present? Is it destroying you or transforming you?
Abba, thank you for your sometimes exceedingly painful gifts. I depend on your drawing near in the pit. Help me to live and love authentically in a world of misery.
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In our times we suffer from the inability to see beyond the immediacy of our own limited experience of the world. Often the needs that we are most aware of are our own—we tend to focus narrowly on what concerns us individually or within the confines of a particular interest. We exhibit the symptoms of a lack of universal vision.
Undoubtedly there is a spiritual blindness that only the Master can touch, but even beyond our failure to clearly apprehend the depth of our personal spiritual need, even beyond the possibility of the false perception that everything is somehow right, there is a great need that goes unnoticed daily.
Sadly, on a global level we fail frequently at being able to see the need of our fellows. Similarly we may fail at perceiving from their viewpoint. We have gone far past the challenges to Christianity that began being most evident in the past century. However, I do not suggest that every viewpoint is valid or even that we should entertain certain positions. Rather, we are to learn to see with the eyes of others by putting their experience, their lived experience, to the litmus test of the depth of human suffering.
The time for great miracles has not passed at all. To the contrary the present holds the possibility for greater miracles than ever before. However, in order to reach the world with the message of Christ and with his power to make all things new, we must learn to see in such a way that we not only acknowledge the suffering of others, but that we learn to step into their reality in such a way that it reveals the depth of their need to us. Only then will we learn to end the suffering and evils of our times. Far from being a situation of hopelessness, global healing is a real possibility. The miracle begins with the healing of our blindness.
The nurse at work marvels when she gets a report of someone's upset stomach or chill or inability to sleep through the night. The resident will say, "There must be something wrong with me." She'll reply where they can't hear, "Uh, yes--you're 97! Your body has changed a bit!" It's a truly amazing country wherein even fairly well 97-year olds still expect the perfect health of a 37-yr. old.
And last night, the nurse was really miffed by one of our true complainers who thought maybe her new mattress was a bit too firm. We'd just been looking at photos and the story of some Africans living in a shanty town on the border of French oil fields set up in their land. These poor souls (paid slaves) -- people who are no different than us -- have no clean running water nor electricity, and there on the floor without benefit of any mattress slept a small child.
I had looked in a Prevention magazine which is further exploring the benefits of hoodia, and had I been of deepest ebony, I'd have turned bone white at one sentence, the one I didn't get past. "It has often been used in poorest parts of Africa as an appetite suppessant." Dear Jesus.. we are exploring it for the same reason, because we have too much to eat. I recalled reading of African men eating dirt to fool their bellies into thinking there's something in them.


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Rep. Zinke's Forest Bill Targets Fuel Loading, Litigation
Montana Public Radio | By Edward F. O'Brien
Published June 5, 2015 at 4:37 PM MDT
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MTPR
Congressman Ryan Zinke says federal forests don't have a fire problem as much as they have a land management problem.
Zinke, Montana's lone Representative in the U.S. House, introduced a forest management reform bill this week.
Its provisions include a streamlined environmental review process and mandated bonding for people who sue to stop collaborative forest management projects.
Zinke says our national forests are sick and it's time to re-think how we manage them.
"The amount of timber, dead and dying timber and the fuel load, is excessive. We need to get more scientists and fewer lawyers back in our woods."
Some environmentalists say Zinke's proposal squashes their right to challenge poorly-planned government timber sales.
The Congressman says it doesn't.
"But it does reward and incentivize everyone to participate in the process rather than refuse to participate and then sue at the end."
We'll have more on Zinke's bill next week.
Montana News Ryan ZinkeMontana Politicsloggingforestrywildfire
O'Brien first landed at Montana Public Radio three decades ago as a news intern while attending the University of Montana School of Journalism. His first career job out of school was covering the 1995 Montana Legislature. When the session wrapped up, O'Brien was fortunate enough to land a full-time position at the station as a general assignment reporter. Feel free to drop him a line at edward.obrien@umt.edu.
See stories by Edward F. O'Brien
The Need For Comprehensive Federal Forest Reforms
There has been quite a bit of opinion writing lately about whether members of congress should focus on place-based federal forestland pilots, or whether…
Sen. Daines Talks Logging Litigation At Missoula Roundtable
Today in Missoula, Senator Steve Daines held the second of three meetings he's called to talk timber issues. He'll do the same in Bozeman tomorrow.The…
Stoltze Manager: Plan For Forest Needs, Not Budget Limitations
We're continuing our series of interviews on the new management plan for the Flathead National Forest. We've heard from the Forest Service and the Montana…
Local Group Critical Of New Bull Trout Recovery Plan
A Montana environmental group working on recovery of the threatened bull trout is critical of a new federal plan to save the fish."I guess I just don't…
FWS Bull Trout Coordinator Explains New Recovery Plan
One of the authors of a new plan to save the threatened bull Trout in Montana says that's not an easy task, nor is measuring what it will take to get the…
Rep. Zinke Introduces Forest Management Reform Bill
Congressman Ryan Zinke has introduced a forest management reform bill that he says would prevent unnecessary litigation, improve forest health and help…


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Q: UITableView with sections of category There are several questions similar to this one but I just cannot figure out how to deal with them.
I'm parsing an xml similar to this one;
title-a
content-b
category-cat1
title-c
content-d
category-cat2
and so on..
Then I save all the values I catch into the nsmutable arrays .. So I have nsmutable arrays of title, content and category.an object for example index of 10 all the values for that object in the arrays ( [title indexOfObject:10],[content indexOfObject:10],[category indexOfObject:10] )
After the parsing I get how many category I have with this loop;
mySections=[[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    for (int i=0; i<[category count]; i++) {
        if (![mySections containsObject:[category objectAtIndex:i]]) {
            [mySections addObject:[category objectAtIndex:i]];
        }
    }
//--------------------

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView{

    return [mySections count];

}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
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    for (int i=0; i<[baslik count]; i++) {
        if ([[category objectAtIndex:i]isEqualToString:[category objectAtIndex:section]]) {
            count++;
        }
    }
    return count;
}

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{

        return [mySections objectAtIndex:section];
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

//But in this function I cannot figure out how to access the right element

[title objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]

}
I know maybe I'm doing it wrong but this is the first time im coding for section.Can someone help me how can I write it in a right way?

A: A good approach would be to populate all your data into an NSDictionary with a format like

section1
  items
section2
  items

Then you can do:
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView{

    return [yourDictionary count];
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    NSString *aSection = yourDictionary.allKeys[section];
    id theData = yourDictionary[aSection];
    return [theData count];
}

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{

    return yourDictionary.allKeys[section];
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
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Q: How can Classical estimation methods give different results from bayesian methods? I am pretty new to bayesian statistics or any kind of statistics for that matter.
I was reading this book "Bayesian Statistical Modelling - Peter Congdon".
And in the introduction I came across this paragraph in this book. It was in the section explaining advantages of bayesian methods over classical estimation methods.

The classical inference model poses certain problems of interpretation both in significance testing and interval estimation. For example, if the test is whether the sex ratio at birth is 0.5(equal numbers of male and female births) and a sample of 10 births contain 9 females, then binomial distribution tells us that the probability of this is $\cfrac{10}{1024}$. A two-sided classical significance test would however be based not on this probabilities but on the probabilities of all 10 births being female $\left(\cfrac{1}{1024}\right)$, and on the probabilities of 9 or 10 births being male; overall significance level is $\cfrac{22}{1024} = 0.02$/ So probabilities of various events that did not occur are used against null hypothesis.

I understand the part till the binomial distribution is used, however I am stumped at what this text is talking about classical significance test and how the results differ. Aren't the results supposed to be same for a phenomena irrespective of the methods used. Can someone help me understand this? Thank you!
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The paragraph below this is:

The classical theory of confidence intervals for parameter estimates is that in the long run with data from many samples a 95% interval (say) calculated from each sample will contain the true parameter approximately 95% of the time, for remaining samples it will exclude the true parameter value. The particular confidence interval from anyone sample may or may not contain the true parameter value. This goes counter to intuitive and often held belief that the standard confidence interval from a particular sample contains the true parameter value approximately 95% certainty.


Built up on the very property where Amma was born, Amritapuri is now the headquarters of Amma's worldwide mission and the spiritual home for Amma's monastic disciples and hundreds of householder devotees. All the residents have dedicated their lives for realising God and serving the world. Everyday, Amma's children from across India and abroad flock here to have Amma's darshan. She sees each and every one, listens to their worries, consoles, encourages, provides new direction to their lives.
Amritapuri is the living example of the ancient Indian ideal "the whole world is one family" (vasudhaiva kutumbakam). Here you will find people from all parts of the world — speaking different languages and having different customs and religions — all living under one roof. In their quest for the meaning of life, each has forgotten their differences and become a child of Amma.
When people come to Amritapuri Ashram for the first time, they are almost always surprised—a remote fishing village on a small island cradled between the backwaters and the Arabian Sea has become the centre of a silent spiritual revolution..
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The Ashram started in a cowshed, later became an International center.Read more..
From the stillness of the morning hours to the silence of the night. Read more.
Ashram photos from the year 2008.
When Amma will return to our continent?


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Category: Guest Posts
'Don't Say Gay' – How The 'New Right' Is Outlawing LGBTQ Progress
Florida State Rep. Andrew Learned (image via Twitter)
In this guest post, Lawrence Pfeil, Jr. of theOUTfront.com shares his outrage over the passage of the "Don't Say Gay" bill which passed in Florida's state legislature this week and how the 'new right' is outlawing LGBTQ progress. Continue reading "'Don't Say Gay' – How The 'New Right' Is Outlawing LGBTQ Progress"
Pride 2021: Pride At Work
(image via Pride at DOL)
Guest post by B.A. Schaaff
Pride Month is a chance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people to be proud and visible in a world that tells us not to be. Pride Month is a chance to celebrate and honor the work of LGBTQ+ people as we fight every day for equity and inclusion in society, in the law and in our workplaces.
Thanks to the tireless work of advocates, we've had many recent encouraging wins at the national level:
Last June, in Bostock vs. Clayton County, the Supreme Court affirmed that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.
In January, President Biden issued an Executive Order 13988, Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, and another executive order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, which includes LGBTQ+ persons. He also rescinded a 2020 executive order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping that had a chilling effect on diversity and inclusion training programs among federal agencies and contractors.
The Biden-Harris administration has stated strong support for the Equality Act, which would amend existing federal civil rights laws to expressly include non-discrimination protection on the basis of sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), providing security and equality to LGBTQ+ people in accessing housing, employment, education, public accommodations, health care and other federally funded services, credit and more.
In March, President Biden became the first U.S. president to recognize Transgender Day of Visibility.
In the past year, anti-racism protests have sparked important conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion. The Department of Labor has recommitted to being an inclusive workplace, and continues to offer trainings related to sexual orientation and gender identity, including those related to the use of gender-inclusive language and pronouns. I've been proud to provide these trainings and support those efforts as a vice president of Pride at DOL, an affinity group for the department's LGBTQ+ employees and contractors and our allies.
As part of the department's efforts to implement the sexual orientation and gender identity executive order, our Civil Rights Center – a member of the Title VI/Title IX Interagency Working Group led by the Department of Justice – will serve on the Title IX and Executive Order 13988 Committee. This committee will serve to provide opportunities for interagency collaboration to advance EO 13988's goal of protecting individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, ensuring the Bostock decision is applied to Title IX and other relevant statutes, and making federal agencies welcoming to LGBTQ+ people.
The department is also working to reverse the impact of the prior administration's executive order on diversity training. Our Office of Federal Contract and Compliance Programs is examining promising practices for diversity training as one component of broader efforts to eliminate bias from employment practices. In addition, the department is conducting an equity review to better understand how well our policies and programs are reaching historically underserved populations, and launched a related data challenge.
But there is still more work to do, and our pride can come at a price. Being visible sometimes means being exposed to harassment, discrimination, and violence. This is especially true for transgender people, particularly those who are women and people of color. Equity and inclusion require creating an environment — through language, policies and practices — that not only tolerates but recognizes and affirms people's identities and relationships. Only with this can employers create a sense of belonging and value in their organization.
So as we celebrate Pride Month this year and every year, let's recognize all the work that has been done and that is necessary to keep pushing forward.
B.A. Schaaff (they/he) is an attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of the Solicitor and is vice president of Pride at DOL.
Earth Day 2020: Uniting The World For Climate Action
(image via TheOUTfront.com)
Guest post by Lawrence Pfeil, Jr.
While a picture is worth a thousand words, some images tell stories which change the course of humanity and whose values are immeasurable by any standard known to mankind. Such is the case of the photograph taken in 1968 by the crew of Apollo 8 and became globally known as "Earthrise."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains:
Today the Blue Planet marks not only the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, but even during a global pandemic and social distancing, the world is coming together in one common goal, Climate Action. The vision is straightforward and simple. From the website:
"Our world needs transformational change… As an individual, you yield real power and influence as a consumer, a voter, and a member of a community that can unite for change… When your voice and your actions are united with thousands or millions of others around the world, we create a movement that is inclusive, impactful, and impossible to ignore… The time is long overdue for a global outpouring of energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to create a new plan of action for our planet. Earth Day 2020 can be the catalyst that galvanizes an unparalleled global collaboration."
How can you help S.A.V.E. our planet?
For 24 hours "Earth Day Network" will be inspiring change with streaming content bringing viewers together for performances, teach-ins, calls to action, and global conversations meant to empower people to make a better environmental future for our planet.
Earth Day Network LIVE
"We must build the largest, most diverse online mobilization in history in defense of the environment. Our world needs a united response for bold action.
On Earth Day 2020, we say enough is enough.
We say we believe in science. We say that everyone can make a difference.
We say that the protection of our planet and the wellbeing of the people who live upon it are the top priorities.
On Earth Day 2020, we say that we're committing to vote, we're registering to vote and we're showing up to vote.
Human health and planetary health are inextricably linked.
Learn more about Earth Day activities, Climate Change information, and joining forces with others around the world making a difference in their future at EarthDay.org
Our Planet Our Home credit: Ernesto Yerena Montejano)
Lawrence Pfeil, Jr., is a freelance writer/playwright who has reviewed film and theatre, both on and off-Broadway, for media outlets including The Randy Report, the New York Blade, and Edge Publications. You can follow him at TheOUTfront.com.
Guest Post: Belonging With Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg on the campaign trail (all photos – PeteForAmerica)
Guest post by Joshua Grotheer
At a time when it's "us" vs. "them" or left vs. right or red vs blue, I'm tired.
I'm tired of the fighting. I'm tired of the hate. I'm tired of the divisiveness of politics. I'm tired of losing friendships over who someone voted for or supports. I'm tired of hurtful conversations while sitting in the church pew or around the family table.
As the gay son of a United Methodist preacher and raised with Fox News on the television, I've always felt that I didn't belong. I didn't belong in my church, in my own home or in my Southern conservative community.
Thankfully I attended a performing arts high school that celebrated those of us who were different.
In college, I knew that my social and political beliefs were different from my family. I also knew it was okay to be different.
Now, at 32 and a self-proclaimed "recovering United Methodist" I am drawn to a candidate for president who has built his entire campaign around inclusion and belonging.
You see, Pete Buttigieg knows what it's like to be different. An out gay man who is also deeply religious isn't something I ever thought possible, much less presidential. He sees the differences in humanity and is celebrating our differences by uniting us with shared values.
If the last three years have taught me anything, it's that I'm ready for a breath of fresh air in Washington.
Pete and Chasten Buttigieg
I'm ready for something different.
I'm ready for an outsider who understands the marginalized.
I'm ready for a president that leads with values.
I'm ready for a president that acknowledges that God does not belong to a political party.
I'm ready for decency to return to the White House and to the Office of the President.
I'm ready for someone better.
I'm ready to vote for a 38-year old Naval Intelligence officer who is a devout Episcopalian from the Midwest who makes me feel hopeful.
I'm ready to vote for someone who is uniquely positioned to bridge the divides tearing this country apart.
I'm ready to vote for Pete Buttigieg for President.
Follow Joshua Grotheer on Twitter @joshuagrotheer


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        const NUMERIC = 14;
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        const DECIMAL = 18;
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                self::SMALLINT => 'Int',
                self::TINYINT => 'Int',
                self::TIME => 'Time',
                self::TIMESTAMP => 'Timestamp',
                self::VARCHAR => 'String',
                self::VARBINARY => 'Blob',
                self::NUMERIC => 'Float',
                self::BLOB => 'Blob',
                self::CLOB => 'Clob',
                self::LONGVARCHAR => 'String',
                self::DECIMAL => 'Float',
                self::REAL => 'Float',
                self::BINARY => 'Blob',
                self::LONGVARBINARY => 'Blob',
                self::YEAR => 'Int',
                self::ARR => 'Array',
                self::OTHER => '', // get() and set() for unknown
                );

        /** Map of Creole type integers to their textual name. */
        protected static $creoleTypeMap = array(
                self::BOOLEAN => 'BOOLEAN',
                self::BIGINT => 'BIGINT',
                self::SMALLINT => 'SMALLINT',
                self::TINYINT => 'TINYINT',
                self::INTEGER => 'INTEGER',
                self::NUMERIC => 'NUMERIC',
                self::DECIMAL => 'DECIMAL',
                self::REAL => 'REAL',
                self::FLOAT => 'FLOAT',
                self::DOUBLE => 'DOUBLE',
                self::CHAR => 'CHAR',
                self::VARCHAR => 'VARCHAR',
                self::TEXT => 'TEXT',
                self::TIME => 'TIME',
                self::TIMESTAMP => 'TIMESTAMP',
                self::DATE => 'DATE',
                self::YEAR => 'YEAR',
                self::VARBINARY => 'VARBINARY',
                self::BLOB => 'BLOB',
                self::CLOB => 'CLOB',
                self::LONGVARCHAR => 'LONGVARCHAR',
                self::BINARY => 'BINARY',
                self::LONGVARBINARY => 'LONGVARBINARY',
                self::ARR => 'ARR',
                self::OTHER => 'OTHER', // string is "raw" return
                );

        /**
         * This method returns the generic Creole (JDBC-like) type
         * when given the native db type.
         * @param string $nativeType DB native type (e.g. 'TEXT', 'byetea', etc.).
         * @return int Creole native type (e.g. Types::LONGVARCHAR, Types::BINARY, etc.).
         */
        public static function getType($nativeType) {
        	throw new Exception('This method must be overridden in subclasses!'); // abstract static not allowed since PHP 5.2
        }

        /**
         * This method will return a native type that corresponds to the specified
         * Creole (JDBC-like) type.
         * If there is more than one matching native type, then the LAST defined
         * native type will be returned.
         * @return string Native type string.
         */
        public static function getNativeType($creoleType) {
        	 throw new Exception('This method must be overridden in subclasses!'); // abstract static not allowed since PHP 5.2
        }

        /**
         * Gets the "affix" to use for ResultSet::get*() and PreparedStatement::set*() methods.
         * <code>
         * $setter = 'set' . CreoleTypes::getAffix(CreoleTypes::INTEGER);
         * $stmt->$setter(1, $intval);
         * // or
         * $getter = 'get' . CreoleTypes::getAffix(CreoleTypes::TIMESTAMP);
         * $timestamp = $rs->$getter();
         * </code>
         * @param int $creoleType The Creole types.
         * @return string The default affix for getting/setting cols of this type.
         * @throws SQLException if $creoleType does not correspond to an affix
         */
        public static function getAffix($creoleType)
        {
            if (!isset(self::$affixMap[$creoleType])) {
                $e = new SQLException("Unable to return 'affix' for unknown CreoleType: " . $creoleType);
                throw $e;
            }
            return self::$affixMap[$creoleType];
        }

        /**
         * Given the integer type, this method will return the corresponding type name.
         * @param int $creoleType the integer Creole type.
         * @return string The name of the Creole type (e.g. 'VARCHAR').
         */
        public static function getCreoleName($creoleType)
        {
            if (!isset(self::$creoleTypeMap[$creoleType])) {
                return null;
            }
            return self::$creoleTypeMap[$creoleType];
        }

        /**
         * Given the name of a type (e.g. 'VARCHAR') this method will return the corresponding integer.
         * @param string $creoleTypeName The case-sensisive (must be uppercase) name of the Creole type (e.g. 'VARCHAR').
         * @return int the Creole type.
         */
        public static function getCreoleCode($creoleTypeName)
        {
            $type = array_search($creoleTypeName, self::$creoleTypeMap);
            if ($type === false) {
               return null;
            }
            return $type;
        }
}

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Yes it took a year to get it done….not really only a little over a week but a year later here are some of the pages from Pyper's 5th Rock Star B-day party last summer.
Enjoy I hope you get some great ideas!
I couldn't find a book I liked for this one so we decorated the outside cover ourselves!
I loved making her invitation this was the most fun party we have ever done…..I can;t wait until next year since she wanted pinkalicious this year next year she wants to do it here again….so far any way !
I used a lot of stickles (glitter glue just for crafts like these)! These things didn't come that way I just couldn't stop!
We ended with a page of all of us!~ There are lots more pages from this book , so much fun things to us we for a rock star…..hope you enjoyed these now keep on scrappin!
LOL thank you I would love to sit and do this all day it is so fun!


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Rainforest by Barbara Black
Nictitating eyelid sky
omening leaf mould melancholia
mollusc ruminating spores/ spruce
pores sweat steamed [fungus]/ frog
needles old man's beard <musk>
devil's club seeps gloom.
Copyright © Barbara Black. Originally published in Heartwood: Poems for the Love of Trees (League of Canadian Poets, 2018).
Barbara Black recently won first prize in the 2018 Federation of BC Writers Literary Writes competition, was longlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and won first prize in the 2017 Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Fire, Freefall, CV2, and The New Quarterly. She has also collaborated with Canadian and American composers of new music as lyricist. She lives in Victoria, BC, where she enjoys riding the twisties on her motorcycle.
NPM19: Weekly Round-Up | WEEK FOUR
it grows on trees by Rita Bouvier


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Read Fred – On Wikileaks and Feminism
Of all the blogs I have linked to over there on the right, Fred Reed is the one I've been reading the longest. It's more of a column than a blog, really. I like what he does. He makes the absurd look absurd and the normal look normal. This doesn't sound like much, but it's really quite a feat in a world where so much is completely backwards. He doesn't interact with readers or pick internet fights. He doesn't debate issues or appear upset. He makes stupid ideas sound properly stupid. He's a bullshit filter.
This past summer he wrote a couple pieces that are quite relevant to what we talk about here. In June, he wrote Getting What You Want, Wanting What You Get: An Unabashed Study of Feminism, a quick piece on how feminism changed the world and how women don't like it. This is exactly what motivated me to start this blog. He's going on about hooking up, how women, college girls apparently, are complaining about their own promiscuity.
What seems to get their panties in an uproar is that they offer their favors to passersby like soap companies handing out shampoo samples, but without the intimacy, and then grouse because the guy doesn't call them back. Why would he? Give me one reason.
What I don't get is, why are gals bitching? This is the world they wanted. They clawed and scratched and burned their bras and had court cases and threw fits to get exactly what they have. They hated men because, they said, men weren't letting them copulate frantically like men had always wanted them to. Men, or more likely their mothers, didn't let them make themselves unattractive by dressing like hod-carriers and swearing like sailors. Finally men gave in and now women hate them for that. Whatever happened to gratitude?
It wasn't like all women were really eager to fuck around. It was the feminists, a bunch of angry women who weren't pretty enough to land a decent husband, who convinced all the other women that fucking around ought to be the new normal and that marriage was slavery (for women). The actual change that occurred wasn't that men gave in; it's that women did. It was, as he notes, mothers who bought into feminism and stopped worrying about their daughters' purity. Further, it was fathers who, as the social changes began to occur, stopped being around to have any influence either way. Today's young women certainly didn't demand the current normal, nor do they have any idea how things got this way. Thankfully, some feminists are still around to instruct them to blame men.
He mentions how girls were expected to be modest and that boys didn't expect to get laid and therefore went after girls they actually liked, and then:
But then came fem-lib. A torrent of really nasty dykes with politically-significant hairy armpits started yowling about how it wasn't fair that men could cat around and women couldn't. Then the Pill shifted the paradigm into high gear. Girls could now Do It in relative security, and abortion, also championed by feminists, provided sure-fire back-up. There was now no reason why a woman shouldn't say Yes.
Awesome. I'm going to try to work "politically-significant hairy armpits" into a sentence in a meaningful way by Monday.
Which meant—Oh bliss!—that she had little excuse for saying No. Sally Sue might have teeth like pearls and brains and perky tits and a wacky sense of humor and actually be quite a prize, but sex trumps art. If Sally didn't say Yes, she knew that Greta would. Women had commoditized themselves. It was a marvelous thing for the testosterone wads we think of as college boys.
What he doesn't say is that while casual sex was good for college boys, it wasn't so good for all college boys. When boys and girls stop pairing up and start "hooking up", the girls tend to give it up to the same guys, the alphas. Thus, you might have one guy who bangs three different girls between classes living next to another guy who stays loyal to his long-distance girlfriend because of all the girls he ever liked, she's the only one who liked him back. (now make that sound people make when they see a basket of kittens)
It quickly came to the old country saw with fangs: Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Guys learned that they could say, "Check your oil, lady?" and it worked. Praise de Lawd! Gloria Steinem and Andrea Fire-Plug-with-Leprosy Dworkin had done what men had failed to do in millennia: produce a race of obligately loose women.
What they had done was destroy the Western institution of monogamy. The broke the social constraints that had stopped women from opening their legs whenever some cad got their cooter slightly moist. But then they didn't like how men responded to the change by not marrying them:
Not being too good at abstraction, they didn't understand that a man can be perfectly happy with casual sex, scuba gear, and a Harley Sportster. Left to himself, he would never think of having a Volvo station wagon, a boring McMansion with a backbreaking mortgage, or a wedded termagant who wouldn't let him go out with his friends.
Honestly, having been married, I find it hard to accept the idea of ever going back to that, no matter how much I like someone. I don't totally love "single life" or go on and on about having my freedom. I kind of don't care, until I think about actually giving it up.
In July he wrote about Wikileaks:
Two ways exist of looking at Wikileaks, the site that publicizes secret military documents and videos. The first is held self-interestedly by the Pentagon and by Fox News, the voice of an angry lower-middle class without too much education. These believe that Wikileakers are traitors, haters of America, who give aid and comfort to the enemy and endanger the lives of Our Boys.
Implicit in the Foxian view is a vague idea that the leaks give away important—well, stuff. You know, maybe frequencies of something or other, or locations of ambushes or, well, things. Important things. The Taliban will use this information to kill American soldiers. The notion is vague, as are those who hold it, but emotionally potent.
A lot more has been released by Wikileaks since this was written, but I still haven't heard of a single instance of unwarranted compromise, such as giving away the identity of an undercover CIA officer. If you have, fill me in. I'm all ears.
The other view, held usually by people who have some experience of Washington, is that the Pentagon is worried not about the divulging of tactical secrets, but about public relations. Wikileaks doesn't endanger soldiers, insists this way of looking at things, but the war itself, and all the juiceful contracts and promotions and so on entailed by wars.
Well, of course.
Remember the military's frantic efforts to suppress the photos of torture at Abu Ghraib, photos of prisoners lying in pools of blood while grinning girl soldiers play with them? These had zero tactical importance. They did however threaten to arouse the Pentagon's worst enemy.
The American public.
To be fair, the Pentagon also didn't want the Iraqi public to see those pictures either, but that population had already seen enough nasty shit with their own eyes to be totally pissed off at the US military. I mean, seeing a picture of your fellow countryman bound and humiliated has nothing on watching your own child bleed to death, or watching soldiers take away your husband for no apparent reason and then never seeing him again. So really, it's far more important that our eyes in the US be shielded than anywhere else, because here we have at least notional control over Uncle Sam's behavior.
Note that the Pentagon's orchestrated screaming has not been about technical data that might in fact get GIs killed, but about revelation of the ugly things the US is doing to people. Consider the footage of an American helicopter gunship killing pedestrians in a city street, and apparently having just a swell time doing it. This didn't reveal military secrets. But it showed the gusnip crew as the butchers they are. Bad juju for the military. PR is all.
I posted and commented on that video before. Bradley Manning, the kid who leaked the video, is still awaiting trial and faces up to 52 years in prison. All for making the military look bad.
Remember when Bush II forbade the photographing of coffins coming back into Dover AFB (I think it was)? That lamentable president said the prohibition was to "protect the privacy" of the dead. (The inside of an anonymous coffin isn't private?) Those photos contained no military information—but they could have made the public think. Bad. Very bad.
Yes, and it annoyed me that anybody accepted that explanation.
Please just read the whole article. Reed often comes across as a dispassionate spectator, but here I sense a great deal of grief and disgust over the ongoing spilling of blood for profit.
Tags: bradley manning, casual sex, Feminism, Fox News, Freed Reed, hypergamy, wikileaks
Categories : Economics, Feminism, Government Failure, Politics, Social Dynamics
No Free Speech for Soldiers
I spent four years in the US Army, and remember finding it more than curious that we were prohibited from speaking to the press without permission. I never really had an occasion to do this, as I was never involved in anything too terribly interesting. I got out well before our current wars began. Several years ago, I saw a news story where US Army Arabic linguist Sgt. Erik Saar, someone I once served with and knew personally, became a whistle-blower for Guantanamo Bay. I presume he was already out, at which point it's legal to talk as long you're not divulging classified information. The thing I remember from the story was that he was writing or had written a book about his experience and would have to wait for government approval for it to be published, to make sure it was free of classified information. This is what you get to deal with when you get a Top Secret security clearance. Until today, I hadn't heard anything about him since, but it looks like his book was published in 2005. Saar didn't like the interrogation methods he saw there, particularly in light of the fact that the bulk of the detainees where clueless men of no particular importance. My point isn't to go on about Guantanamo interrogation methods, but simply to point out that he had to get permission to speak and that it's possible that details had to be removed from his book before it could be published.
Fast-forward to 2007 when US forces in Iraq engaged and killed a group of men, some known Reuters reporters, with big cameras and no apparent weapons. In April of this year, video of this incident from one of the helicopters' gun cameras was uploaded to Youtube by WikiLeaks and embeded on their website. This is that graphic video:
I found it very interesting that defenders of the military took two very different approaches in reacting to this video. The first and obvious reaction was to claim that this was an "isolated incident" (there is no such thing) and that it is not representative of the US military in Iraq. The second reaction, more popular among people who've actually served in Iraq, is to claim the opposite – that there's really nothing controversial about what happened here – that these men had large devices that could've been weapons and you really can't be too careful when your life may be in danger. One thing I would keep in mind when watching the video is that there are forces on the ground and another helicopter involved in the conversation. It's possible that things occurred outside the view of the gun camera. Having said that, it's a bit disturbing how quickly US soldiers decide to err on the side of caution, how they can look at cameras and see guns.
Now, fast-forward to a month ago when "hacker" Adrian Lamo turned in US Army Intel Analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning as the source of the video. Lamo claimed that Manning had leaked a great deal more classified material and that he felt that lives might be in danger, and that was the reason he turned Manning in. Whatever, everything this Lamo guy says is suspect. It could be that Lamo gave this guy up to keep himself out of trouble for something else or simply to keep in good standing with uncle sam. It could even be that the FBI or some other government agency leaned on him to find this information.
One month later and Manning is being held on eight charges for leaking the video.
Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, is being detained in Kuwait and faces charges on eight violations of the U.S. Criminal Code for allegedly illegally transferring classified data, according to a charge sheet released by the military.
It accuses Manning of "wrongfully introducing a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system."
Of course, his actual crime is making the US look bad, not via libel or slander, but via the truth. I find it indefensible to maintain that such information remain classified. It helps the Army's case to charge him with a violation of Information Security occurring so soon after the incident.
The military said it detained Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst deployed with the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Brigade, in June. The website Wired.com identified Manning as the one who had leaked the video of the helicopter assault.
Wired.com reported that Manning confessed to the leak in a series of online chats with a former computer hacker. He allegedly owned up to leaking other items to WikiLeaks, including the classified Army document assessing the threat level of the website, as well as State Department cables, according to the article.
I can't begin to understand why Wired.com would throw this kid under the bus. Are they afraid of the big bad government? Do they hate whistle-blowers? At this point, I trust neither Adrian Lamo nor Wired.com.
I'm of the opinion that free speech is for everyone and that the leaking of classified information ought not be a crime if it turns out to be of no immediate consequence. Loose lips sink ships, except all those times when they don't.
Tags: adrian lamo, bradley manning, classified leaks, erik saar, free speech, guantanamo bay, us army, wikileaks, WIRED sold out Manning, wired.com
Categories : Politics, The Police State


If Armenia and Azerbaijan have a real desire to establish a lasting peace over Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), they should to embark on an active propaganda to promote a dialogue between the two countries' societies, according to Artakh Beglaryan, the newly elected ombudsman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
In an interview with Tert.am, Beglaryan highlighted the need of a mutual political will to end the conflict, regretting at the same time that it has been so far demonstrated only unilaterally. "That willingness is observed, by and large, only in Armenia - but not in Azerbaijan – especially when it comes to the Aliyev regime. Moreover, the period of Aliyev's presidency has seen the chances of developing and strengthening dialogue shrink little by little," he noted.
Beglaryan ruled out essential chances of a sustainable peace "in an environment where only one conflicting side consistently prepares for peace" as opposed to the other's belligerent ambitions.
The ombudsman also stressed the importance of a generation change to eradicate or essentially reduce the existing in-depth hatred. "A relative tactical peace along the border cannot essentially impact the society's mentality in just a couple of months, given especially that the peace in question does not run parallel with the corresponding propaganda calling for respect for peace and human rights. The [Azerbaijani] authorities have certainly toned down their hatred; yet that isn't a signal that they are preparing for peace," he added.


Every Sunday at 11.00AM for 40 minutes.
On Sunday morning Parish communion is the main service of the week and is attended by the largest congregation.
This is the one service of the week where our resident organist, Dr Melvyn Bird, performs his wonders often playing specially commissioned music he has composed himself.
We have a stall which may provide for your extra needs be they books to read, jams, marmalades and chutneys to brighten your mealtimes, handmade greeting cards and more. After the service we have a reception where we invite you to sample two of the specialities of the island: a glass of Madeira wine or a slice of bolo do mel, Madeira's delicious honey cake; or simply to have a cup of coffee/tea and a chat. We make a small charge for the reception.
An informal weekly group working in multi medias. All are welcome to join in, Have fun in a friendly, informal and supportive atmosphere.
7.30pm- AA Local - Contact 919506122.
Held in the Lady Chapel. Coffee/tea served afterwards in the parish rooms. No Charge.
Every Wednesday at 10.30AM for 40 minutes.
Thursday 10am-4pm. A quiet day for Prayer and Study in the church and garden.
11.00 am on the LAST Thursday of each month.
We try to make Holy Trinity Church a centre of life for the English speaking community in Madeira. One opportunity for this is our regular coffee mornings held on Saturdays in the library of the Parsonage from 10.00 a.m to 12 pm.
Every Saturday at 10.00AM for 2 hours.


Solange reportedly owes the state of California more than $55,000 in back taxes.
According to TMZ, California has filed a tax lien against the singer claiming she owes more than $55,000 in taxes covering 2010 to 2012. The gossip site reports the lien was filed three days after Solange tied the knot in New Orleans back in November.


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Ceasefire violations: regime forces fire 25 shells on the…
Tense calm is prevailing in "Putin – Erdogan" area amid ongoing suspension of regime and Russian aerial operations for 48…
"Jandarma" tortures a Syrian citizen tried to enter Turkey and throw him to…
Turkish border guards continue to commit crimes against the Syrians who are fleeing the horrors of war, the Syrians who are…
Including artillery and missile launchers, more than 100 Turkish military…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored this evening the entry of a Turkish military column from Kafrsolin crossing…
Mines and the remnants of war continue to claim Syrian lives… SDF member…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today the explosion of an old mine in a car of the Syria Democratic Forces, in…
Turkish-backed factions continue abuses in their controlled areas and rob…
Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: sources told the Syrian Observatory that members of al-Hamza division…
In the first 48 hours, the regime forces violate the ceasefire and target…
The cautious calm continues in the entire "Putin – Erdogan" area as there has been no bombing by the Russian warplanes or regime…
As a military patrol of SDF passes, the second explosion in al-Busayrah…
Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: an IED explosion near al-Busayrah city bridge in the eastern…
Activists call for demonstrations and closing roads in front of the Russian…
Activists called for large demonstrations near Ariha city on the 15th of March 2020, on the international road M4, to close the…
15 days after they executed seven citizens, Iranian-loyal militias kill…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored more violations by the Iranian-loyal militias in areas of their presence in…
Despite the cautious and relative calm in "Putin – Erdogan" area displaced…
The regime forces launched shells of heavy artillery targeting the villages of Kafr Aweed, Sfohen, and al-Ftirah in the southern…


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Stories from Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Safety concern: New Madrid police to enforce 'zero tolerance' on golf carts, ATVs operated on city streets (Local News ~ 07/24/18)
NEW MADRID, Mo. — Concern over the safety of children operating vehicles on city streets has prompted a change in how the matter will be handled by local police. New Madrid Police Chief Joey Higgerson said his department was contacted by several citizens regarding children driving golf carts, all-terrain vehicles and utility vehicles on the city's streets...
Sylvester Banks (Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
AUSTELL, Ga. — Sylvester Fredrick Banks, 54, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died July 20, 2018, at his sister's home in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Born Jan. 4, 1964, in Wyatt, Mo., son of the late Sylvester and Sally Reed Banks, he was of the Baptist belief and a 1982 graduate of Charleston High School. ...
Harold Gaines (Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Harold M. Gaines, son of the late Curtis Edgar and Winnie Mable Skelton Gaines, was born in Bloomfield, on April 17, 1922, and passed away at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston on July 23, 2018, at the age of 96 years, 3 months and 6 days...
66th Annual Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo features a stampede of activities (Local News ~ 07/24/18)
SIKESTON - The stampede is on. This year the Sikeston Jaycees are working hard to involve local businesses and area residents in the 66th annual Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo. While the actual rodeo begins Aug. 8, the first-ever Stampede Week kicks off local activities Aug. 3...
Clinton Daniels (Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
SIKESTON — Clinton Daniels, 78, July 23, 2018, at his daughter's home in Talala, Okla. Born Jan. 26, 1940, in Murray, Ark., son of the late Leonard and Isabelle Henderson Daniels, he had worked as a mechanic at Jarvis Motor Co. for 31 years. On Jan. 6, 1969, in Double Springs, Ala., he married Annie Ergle Daniels, who survives of the home in Sikeston...
Haley Davis (Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Haley Paige Davis, 30, died July 20, 2018, in St. Louis. Born Oct. 10, 1987, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of Eric and Lana Davis of Sikeston and the late Charlene McConnell Gee, she had been a housekeeper and was of the Baptist belief...
Jeff Smith (Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Jeffery Dean "Jeff" Smith, 45, died July 21, 2018, in Dogwood. Born Dec. 15, 1972, in Sikeston, son of Dorothy Smith of East Prairie and the late Raymond E. Smith, he was the owner of Smith Lawn Service and a member of Dogwood Methodist Church...
Ada Lay (Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Ada Marie Lay, 79, died July 22, 2018, at East Prairie Nursing Center. Born April 1, 1939, in Blytheville, Ark., daughter of the late William Levi and Pearl May Littrel Counts, she was a homemaker and member of New Madrid Baptist Church. ...
David Massey (Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
PERKINS, Mo. — David Lee Massey, 75, died July 24, 2018, at his daughter's home. Born Aug. 13, 1942, in Knoxville, Tenn., he was the son of the late William Kermet and Bertha Mae Johnson Massey. His wife, Judith Massey, preceded him in death. He is survived by three sons, David Lee Massey Jr. ...