Editor's Note: As a former member (11 years) of Eagle's Nest Christian Fellowship, I certainly hope this controversy is resolved soon.
You are invited to the annual Christmas Party, Saturday, December 1st, sponsored by the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists @ Azuca Nuevo Latino, 713 S. Alamo St. @ 7 p.m.
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Hi Tech Mixer Holiday Office Party, Thursday, December 6th from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. San Antonio Technology Center, 3463 Magic Drive.
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Bexar County & City of San Antonio's 7th Annual, Small, Minority & Women Business Owners Conference will be held, Wednesday, December 8th, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 200 E. Market Street Exhibit Hall B. Latino Breakfast Club will be an active exhibitor in the 7th annual event.
Quico is resuming his block-walking this weekend and we hope you can help.
Starting on Saturday at 11a.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. Quico will be fanning out across the Northside of San Antonio. Please let me know if you will be available to help.
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Sheriff's Deputies, Bail bonds personnel and others gathered at the Jail House Cafe on W. Commerce, near the Bexar County Detention Center to eat tamales with Sheriff candidate Amadeo Ortiz, Wednesday, November 28th.
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The Parliament building was witness to unruly scenes as MPs of two regional parties – Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Telugu Desam (TDP) – squabbled over a room that has been allotted to TMC but has been in the possession of TDP for 30 years. While Round 1 went to TMC, which forcibly occupied Room 5 on Tuesday afternoon, Round 2 went to TDP, which regained possession of the room a few hours later. The matter has not yet been resolved.
The standoff began at 2pm when TMC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Sultan Ahmed, Saugata Roy, Satabdi Roy and Dinesh Trivedi reached Room 5 and brandished a letter from the Lok Sabha Secretariat, dated August 6, that said the room had been allotted to TMC "during the tenure of 16th Lok Sabha" and requested the party to "occupy the allotted accommodation/room at the earliest".
"It is for the first time that we have got a room in the Parliament House. Even in the last Lok Sabha, our party functioned without a room in the House," Ahmed told the Indian Express.
The MPs then attempted to take over the room, to the surprise of the TDP office staff inside. The TDP nameplates outside were removed and replaced by TMC nameplates, while the staff inside hurriedly called their party MPs on the phone.
Soon enough, the TDP MPs rushed to reclaim the room that had been theirs since 1984 and to which they had an "emotional attachment".
"We have been told that we have been given room nos. 135 and 136 on the third floor. But we don't want to shift from this room since we have been here for 30 years now," said a TDP member.
The party provided copies of a letter that TDP parliamentary party leader Y S Chowdary had written to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on August 11, asking that the party be allowed to continue in Room 5.
By 4pm the TDP nameplates were re-installed at the room entrance, despite the war of words with TMC MPs.
This game of musical chairs has affected several regional parties, following their shifting fortunes in the recent election. Those with reduced parliamentary seats are often finding their room allotted to another party.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat has reportedly asked the CPM to move out of its present office (Rooms135 and 136 on the third floor) to Room 129, which is currently occupied by the RJD. Meanwhile, the CPI, whose strength has come down to three seats, has been asked to vacate its office in Room 127, which has now been allocated to the LJP, a member of the ruling NDA. The JD(U), which has its office near the lobby, has been asked to move to a smaller office.
The location and size of a party's room in Parliament often reveals its political status and position on the pecking order. Since there are many regional parties jostling for space, it's no wonder then that MPs are keen to get a coveted room quickly or to protect the one they already have.
Parliament is therefore likely to witness more frayed tempers and nameplate changes.


When I first ran the bun scuffle cafe, carrot cake was an absolute favourite on the counter and I must admit, a great favourite of mine. However, I have a confession to make; it was the only cake on the counter that I didn't make myself. I used to ask my friend Lisa to make it for me.
I had made carrot cake on a number of occasions, from a number of different recipes, but it always turned out a little heavy. Eventually, Lisa came to work with me at the cafe and so the carrot cake was made in house – but still not by me.
Then, the fateful day came when Lisa left for pastures new, taking her carrot cake recipe with her. I was on my own and determined to get past my mental block about this cake. I spent a happy Sunday, when the cafe was closed, experimenting with a variety of recipes until I hit upon this (which is actually a combination of 3 different recipes).
We were away, carrot cake no longer held any fears for me and it joined the serried ranks of home made regulars on the cafe counter.
This week I was making carrot cake at home for a friends birthday and I thought I would share a few tips with you.
Lots of recipes use the all-in-one method but I find you get a much lighter cake if you whisk the oil, eggs and sugar together first before adding the carrots and dry ingredients. Keep whisking until the mixture thickens and the whisks leave a trail.
Some recipes suggest that you grate the carrots coarsley but I find that this can also lead to a dense cake so I prefer to grate them more finely.
It is essential that you use full fat cream cheese for the icing, low fat will go runny. The butter adds a little stability to the icing but do make sure that it is well softened and the cream cheese is at room temperature, otherwise the butter will solidify giving you a lumpy icing. You can sweeten the icing with icing sugar but I like to use maple syrup as it adds extra flavour as well as sweetness. Experiment a little with the amount according to your taste. I like the sharpness that the cream cheese adds; a nice contrast to the sweet cake, but you might have a sweeter tooth than me.
For an every day cake I make two 8″ round cakes and sandwich them together with the cream cheese icing. In the cafe I made more icing than this and you can too if you want to be generous.
For this cake I made three 6″ cakes. This gives a smaller but taller cake which I think is more elegant for a special occasion cake. If you only have two 6″ cake tins you can divide the mixture into three and bake two cakes first. Keep the remaining cake mix covered with cling film – it will be fine whilst the other cakes bake and cool enough to remove from the tins.
I also made three times the amount of icing for this cake so that I had enough to fill the cake and coat the outside. I decorated it with caramelised hazelnuts, orange zest and pistachios. You can be as creative as you like.
This cake is so simple and so tasty that I can't believe I ever used to delegate it. Please let me know what you think.
Preheat the oven to 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 4).
Grease and line two deep 20cm (8in) round sandwich tins (or three 6" tins).
In a large bowl, combine the oil, sugar, orange zest and eggs and whisk until thick and creamy.
Stir in the carrots. Fold in the sifted flour, baking powder and spices. Once combined, stir in the walnuts.
Spoon the mixture evenly between the tins.
Put the cakes in the oven and bake for about 35 minutes (25-30 minutes for 6" cakes) or until golden brown, risen and shrinking away from the sides of the tins.
Measure the butter, icing sugar (or maple syrup), cream cheese and vanilla extract into a bowl and whisk until smooth and thoroughly blended. Taste and adjust the sweetness according to taste.
Spread half the icing on one cake, sit the other cake on top and spread the remaining icing on top to make a swirl pattern. Decorate the top of the cake with the halved walnuts and orange zest.
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Governor appoints Jared Kallunki to 5th Judicial District Court
Feb 12, 2020 | Press Releases
SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Wednesday that she has named Jared Garner Kallunki of Roswell to the 5th Judicial District Court, Division VIII, in Roswell.
Kallunki has been a trial attorney with the Law Office of the Public Defender of New Mexico since 2017 and is also president of the Chaves County Bar Association. He previously worked for New Mexico Legal Aid and in private practice in Roswell.
He fills a seat left vacant by the resignation of Kea W. Riggs, who has been appointed to serve on the U.S. District Court for New Mexico.
Kallunki was born in Indiana and graduated from high school in Provo, Utah. He has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in political science from the University of Alabama and earned his law degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego in 2007.
He was admitted to the New Mexico bar in 2008 and has lived in Roswell since then.

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CCP Lies, People Die
From "controllable" to "inter-human transmission," it took months for the CCP propaganda machine to change its narrative and admit the seriousness of COVID-19 (CCP Virus) to the world. This was too little, too late. The initial cover-up has led to a global pandemic, with millions of deaths and countless confirmed cases.
Zero Policy, Rescue or Savagery?
Countless humanitarian tragedies happened in China due to forcible quarantine. Families dragged from their homes to poorly sanitized isolation centers, doors welded by the police with infected families still living inside. Chinese people were left wondering: which one is more horrifying? The virus, or the CCP?
While the World Thinks It's Almost Over…
After 3 years of this extreme "Zero Policy" which the CCP was so proud of. The communist regime suddenly opened up the locked down to another extreme without any preparation, leaving the people vulnerably exposed to mutations of the virus. This again resulted in countless deaths. Everywhere in China, a mass amount of people died, bodies lined up with not enough cremation capacity. Not surprisingly, the CCP is still covering it up with a rosy picture of low case counts, opening up the border and traveling, while many parts of the world reached the post-pandemic phase.
Global Infiltration
CCP Imperialism
The CCP's agenda is world domination. Under the guise of assisting 68 countries to build transportation infrastructure ("Belt and Road Initiative"), the CCP plans to put all of these countries in debt, while taking their resources, such as rare earth metals and minerals as collateral. Through imposing "Imperialism with Chinese Characteristics," it is desirous of regional and global leadership.
Global Information Manipulation
The CCP not only craves geographical power but also aims to inject the globe with communist ideology. Systematically, CCP is taking control of the narratives in the West: the mainstream media, big tech companies, Hollywood, the sports industry, and politicians … we have watched them bowing down, again and again, self-censoring their speech in favor of Beijing. The universal values were corrupted by the devil.
Intellectual Property Theft
The CCP has been stealing intellectual property for over 20 years to advance its military and economic strength. The Thousand Talents Program, for example, lures and encourages overseas scholars to engage in economic espionage and theft of intellectual property. As just one of countless examples, a scholar was found to have downloaded 300,000 documents from a lab before returning to China.
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Atheist, Anti-Religion, and Suppression of Beliefs
Communism is based on atheism. It tells people not to believe in God, and attacks human morality. Throughout its rule the CCP has destroyed and controlled countless monasteries and temples, and arrested believers of all religions – Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, and others. Eventually the CCP wants its people to worship itself as the one and only idol. Truly a cult-like regime.
Persecution of Falun Gong
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice based on the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." Due to its effectiveness in healing the mind and body, by 1999 about 100 million people had started practicing Falun Gong in China. Jealous of its popularity, the CCP's former Chairman Jiang Zemin single-handedly launched the genocide against Falun Gong. Millions of practitioners fell victim to kidnapping, torture, murder, and forced organ harvesting. Unfortunately still no signs of any change until today.
Uyghurs Genocide
Since 2017, the CCP held one million Muslims (the majority of them Uyghurs) in secret detention camps without due legal process. Xinjiang's Muslims have suffered torture, forced political indoctrination, and mass surveillance. In January 2021 the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. Government would officially designate the crimes against the Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim people living in China as a genocide, which was also a bipartisan judgment within the U.S. government.
Forced Live Organ Harvesting
Hard to believe, but proven to be true in this modern day. The CCP runs a lucrative organ transplant business, the main resource of which are organs harvested alive from prisoners of conscience in China, mostly Falun Gong practitioners (who are generally healthy due to their meditation practice). Victims also include underground Christians, Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans and more.
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The End of "One Country, Two Systems"
The CCP promised Hong Kong would enjoy 50 years of autonomy after its handover by the United Kingdom in 1997. History shows the CCP never intended to keep its promise. On June 30, the CCP imposed a National Security Law on Hong Kong that criminalizes "acts of subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion" with "a foreign country or with external elements" against the state, with maximum penalties of life imprisonment. The law has been widely condemned by world leaders, and is seen as a death certificate for "one country, two systems."
Endless Political Movements
The CCP has long been traumatizing the ancient land of China and its people since it took over China in 1949.
The Great Leap Forward(1958-1962) resulted in 30–55 million deaths due to starvation, execution, and forced labor, along with massive economic and environmental destruction.
The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) cost millions of lives. The damage was not limited to the physical lives of Chinese people, but also the total destruction of 5,000-year splendid ancient culture.
Tiananmen Square Massacre
For those Chinese people who were "lucky" enough to have made it into the '80s, more crack down on their rights and freedom awaits. The Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 is just one example among many. Young students gathered in Tiananmen Square peacefully, holding banners, advocating for a change into democracy. The unarmed crowd was answered with troops with showering gunfire, tanks running fanatically towards these young men and women… The Tiananmen Square was washed with blood.
One Child Policy
From the year 1979, in the name of population control, the CCP has taken away the rights of Chinese people to give birth freely. The One-Child Policy "prevented" 400 million births according to its official estimated report. In other words, these fetuses were killed before they could see the world. Women pregnant with a second child were forcibly sent to abortion by local CCP officials regardless of how soon the babies will be born. In some cases, they would even kill the infants right after birth.
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Q: Getting error when trying to install pycrypto on Windows 10 I get the following error when trying to install pycrypto with pip install pycrypto. I've passed the last 8 hours trying to fix it. If anyone has a way to install pycrypto without going through pip that would be nice. Currently when I run my Python script i get the : Crypto: Module not found error.
I have Build Tools installed as such:

error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.34.31933\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> pycrypto

I read that pycryptodome replaces pycrypto but even after installing, I get Module not found: Crypto.
Any help is appreciated.
I tried pip install pycrypto and I expected it to install it but it failed.

A: According to the pycrypto website new projects should use the cryptography package (ref).
If you're working on an existing project, I would suggest, if possible, running it in Docker, otherwise switching to Linux. That aside, I would check out Poetry as a replacement for pip.
Otherwise, it looks like the way to go is installing pycryptodome from from source. Not sure how you tried installing it, though, so apologies if you already tried that...if so, did it error out? If it did not, could you post output of pip3 freeze from shell and VSCode?

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By Guest -Jade-,
February 18, 2007 in The Vault
Zetti
Location: Planet Heath
jackandmarthaforever!!
That was amazing -Jade-!!! Really well written. I love how you described Martha's emotions. It was really sad! I loved the way Jack was right at the end. Anyway fab fic and I really hope you will continue with it!!
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Location: London UK
That was a great fic, i could really tap in to how martha was feeling and she is so much fun when she's drunk lol
vale4eva
That really was excellent Jade!
Marthas really got it bad hasnt she. She deserves it though
Diving head first into the waves after having practically drunk the whole club, and Jack just stands there and watches! I dont blame him, id do the same.
Best leave her to it Jacky, she'l only end up going off at you again
Great chapter, looking forward to the next one.
How many chapters is this going to be? Cause technically you could make this into a long fic! Wink wink!
xsianx
Great writing !
Poor Martha, I don't blame you, Ash is kinda Hot.
Hope to read more from you soon. Trapped?
-Jade-
lol, it might just stay as a one shot. Otherwise it'll only be a three parter fic.
Fantastic chapter; I loved it!
Martha was hilarious and Jack was, well, he was just Jack
I know you want to concentrate on 'Trapped', but please do consider expanding on this, even if it is a three-parter, it's great!
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Location: Cymru!
Awww that was fabulous! Your writing is soooo good Jade! I esp loved the bit between Martha and Jack at the end when you described her trying to poke him! Made me laugh because i could totally see her drunkenly squinting trying to get him in the chest but not succeeding! lol It was sooooo good you definitely have to consider adding to it in the not too distant future but i understand you want to concentrate on Trapped which is good too because that fic is awesome aswell! Well look forward to reading more from you in the future because its all sooooo good!
Ok so I've been in the writing mood, so I came up with part 2, but I kinda want to emphasise a couple of things:
1. These parts are part of like a series, but they are each supposed to stand alone as a one shot. So try to kind of read it with that in mind.
2. This is not a J&M fic. This is a fic about Jack and Martha, but not them as a couple - it's about the issues surrounding their break up and such. It's about the trials they're going through in their heads. Just wanted to emphasise that because if you're expecting a JM happy ending (Nicole ) it won't happen. It's not even going to really have an ending or conclusion - as I said, they're a series of one shots. They're not really supposed to make up a whole story with beggining, middle and end.
So please read and review - honesty is really appreciated. And Enjoy!
PART 2 - 'I have this undeniable hunger for oblivion.'
"Sam! I'm not still in love with Martha, for the millionth time!" Jack cried out in frustration, his face scrunched up in annoyance at her petite frame stood in front of him, arms crossed and eyes disbelieving.
"Jack, just be honest with me! We got together at a bad time – Martha had just dumped you, it's understandable that you would still be hurting, that there'd still be something there." She said desperately, before quietening down. "I just can't do it Jack, not again – I can't get hurt like this, neither can Rory. So save us the pain and just be honest." She finished, partly upset, but also angry at herself for being so guarded. She looked down at the floor, desperately trying to mask her pain as she prepared to lose the man that she knew, at another time and another place, would have been perfect for her.
Jack looked at her as she tried to hold it together. He didn't know what to say, he didn't understand what he was feeling, he just wanted to make Sam feel better, feel secure. Taking a deep breath he approached her, his hand reaching under her chin and bringing her face up to look at him.
"Ok, since we're being honest here, I'll try my best to explain how I'm feeling. You and Rory, you mean so much to me now. I don't think you understand…" he emphasised, pausing only a moment before continuing. "I won't deny that I love Martha, because that would be unfair, but it's a different kind of love now. It's definitely more than a friendship kind of love, but it wouldn't justify ever going back to that relationship. That part of my life has gone; I couldn't go back with all that risk of getting hurt again." Again, Jack paused, wanting to phrase it right.
"When me and Martha met it was like, ironically, love at first sight. I might never have that with someone else. But that doesn't mean that I don't love you." He finished gently. "You and Rory are my life now; please don't let the past get in the way. And Martha – she's going through a hard time right now, I'm her best friend, you're going to have to accept that she comes with me, you can't really avoid it. But I love you, more than anything. I promise."
Jack finished and looked gently into her green eyes, wanting to comfort her pain and secure her feelings. He saw the hesitant look in her eyes as she tried to establish whether it was the worth the risk. And maybe she decided that she was sick of running, that maybe she should take a chance – in life and in love.
Slowly she nodded, a small smile appearing as she realised that maybe this was right, maybe she had been reading into things too much.
"Ok." She said softly, looking right back at Jack. And he smiled in return, that smile that said that she was the only one he cared about. Then she felt herself being gathered into his strong arms, protecting her from anything and everything.
Martha stood frozen outside the door seconds later, as all her surroundings seemed to blur spectacularly into one whole swirl of despair. Her mind went into overdrive, processing, and reprocessing all that she had heard. Of course she deserved it – what had she been expecting? For Jack to drop everything? For him to say he loved her and that nothing could change that? Well apparently time was a major factor, as was hurt. She had hurt him, probably more than she could ever have imagined.
And then the other scenario hit her – would she really have had to hear him say that if she hadn't taunted and pushed Sam into that state of mind… that frame of doubt? Probably not, because that's what she was good at – making things worse.
"God damn it, Martha." she muttered, self hatred starting to echo through her thoughts. And slowly she backed away from the house, from Jack's words, from the emotions hanging intoxicatingly in the air. She didn't want to feel this anymore. She thought that she was good with pain, that she was tough, that she could deal with rejection, with deceit. But this was completely different – this was unknown to her. She had been treated badly by sleazy guys before, that wasn't new, neither was her own path of self destruction. But she was hurting about a guy who had only ever been good to her, who had only ever treated her well.
And she started to run, run somewhere where she could just get lost.
Martha dug her feet into the damp, cool sand, letting her toes sift through the grains. Looking up, she squinted against the sun, wondering whether the weather could actually manage to be any more different to her mood. She didn't really know what to do any more, she didn't get the point of the situation – why was everything always so damn complicated? It was like life was trying you out; seeing how far it could push you before you went over the edge. Martha was great at pretending; usually. But this time there was no denying that this hurt; it really hurt, and Martha couldn't see a way out. She knew that Jack loved Sam; that much was apparent from the words that he had uttered earlier, but the only way around this was to fall out of love with him. And Martha didn't think she could do that. Well, she couldn't see it happening right now.
She couldn't see herself forgiving her mistakes either. After all, she had put herself in this position, no one had helped or contributed to the mess, it was just her.
Still looking at the startling blue of sea, with it's glinting surface, she contemplated just throwing herself into the nothingness of the sea, throwing herself into oblivion. Would that help her forgot? She didn't know, but she was sure as hell going to try it. Nothing could mess her life up anymore now, she had nothing to lose, she could afford to be stupid, take risks. Because she was now in a place that was past reasonable thinking, she just wanted an escape. The infinite expanse of water was beckoning her to come and get lost.
So, decisively she pushed herself off the ground and shed her singlet and shorts, revealing the bikini previously hidden beneath the layers.
Her head was the first to receive the numbing shock as she fed herself into the waves. It was like the water was gripping her tightly, putting pressure on her body as she swum underneath the surface. And she kept holding her breath until she experienced a light, heady feeling that took over her thoughts. Eventually, needing to breathe she burst out from the surface gasping for air and looked back to shore. And, as if it was life's way of taunting her, there stood Jack, looking straight at her. Giving an exasperated sigh she waded back into the shallows and walked up the sand, partly pissed off that Jack had interrupted in her 'forgetting' session, but also curious about why he wanted to talk to her. It had to be important is he was waiting for her.
Warily she approached still dripping water from her swim. Quickly she put on a smile.
"Hey" she said in a bright voice, waving slightly. Jack just looked at her, seeing right through her façade.
"I saw you run away before – from outside the house. I saw you crying." He said softly. Martha rolled her eyes choosing not to reply to the statement. Jack stood expectantly, but realised she wasn't going to answer.
"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked. Martha turned to look at him, her eyes almost accusing him of trying to make the whole situation worse for her.
"Funnily enough, no." she bit back sarcastically, turning away from him to look out at the sea.
"Maybe you should…" Jack attempted but was promptly interrupted, as Martha turned angrily towards him again.
"Maybe you should just leave." She replied bluntly, pushing Jack away, because it was the easiest thing to do. Because it was what she always did.
Jack sighed, he knew this was going to be difficult, if Martha didn't want to do something, invariably it just wouldn't happen. End of.
But Jack also knew her better than most and he knew that this was stubborn Martha talking - the one who appeared when she was actually feeling most vulnerable and upset. And he could see the pain in her eyes clearly, despite the fact that she was trying to hide it.
Approaching her, he put his arm around her gently and gathered her into a hug, trying to ease her pain. At first Martha tensed up, refusing to relax into his hold, refusing to let herself think that this was anymore than a friendly hug. But in the end she realised that that was what she needed right now; a friend.
After a few moments, she pulled away, her cheeks stained with a few solitary tears. Looking up at him she smiled slightly.
"You're not making this any easier you know."
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On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet
Sara Batkie Reflects on the Past Year of COVID-19
By Sara Batkie
September 15th to September 18th, 2020
The day I open the first book in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, smoke from the wildfires ravaging the West Coast reach Chicago. It feels like a decidedly Smith-ian touch, both absurd and sad, that some of the damage is traced to a device set off at a gender reveal party. It's been that kind of year. Autumn begins with both of its main characters in limbo, which has some uncanny resonances with our pandemic present: Daniel, a centenarian, finds himself in a literal nightmare while Elisabeth, a 32-year-old adjunct, is trapped by the more bureaucratic snags of the Post Office. Even though this one isn't run by Louis DeJoy, its service is still sub-optimal.
First published in 2016 the book unfolds in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, which honestly feels like decades ago at this point, but Smith mostly keeps the churning anxieties of those early days of disaster at the margins, limited to outbursts on radio shows and moments of doom scrolling, "Go Home" signs on fences and a suddenly outdated EU marking in a new passport. She's more interested in sustaining a mood, and specifically the sense of impending loss that comes with the year turning towards its end. "Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy," she writes. "Things just happened. Then they were over. Time just passed… It was a kind of relief."
Impending loss hovers over the novel: Daniel isn't just trapped in a nightmare, he's trapped in his own body, confined to a bed in a care facility where Elisabeth comes to visit him. The two don't speak so much as meet in one another's imaginations. Smith captures the permeable border between the present and memory, the ability we all have to time travel where we sit, which feels all too familiar to me six months into a quarantine with no clear end. The characters bond over books, underappreciated pop artist Pauline Boty, reality shows about antique shopping. They speak about the hope of being seen by the people who love us, and the importance of forgetting something for a while so we can fall asleep. It feels at once like a replication of life and an improvement on it, to be surrounded by people who can articulate their loneliness with such wit. It's as if Smith knew what was coming and wanted us to have good company.
When I close the book the autumn equinox is still four days away, but its chill is already in the air. I fear what the months ahead might bring, but they will come regardless. It's, as Smith says, "an old story so new that it's still in the middle of happening." Except now in this story Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead.
December 18th to December 22nd, 2020
I start the second book of Smith's quartet about nine months after Chicago instituted its first lockdown and one day after my sister, a pediatric anesthesiologist, texts to let me and my parents know she got her first dose of the COVID vaccine. Even in normal times, this is a season of hauntings, when we begin to look back on the year that was and think about what we hope for in the one ahead. But it's particularly true of 2020, when so many of us have experienced unfathomable loss and are contemplating spending the holidays without loved ones.
Even in normal times, this is a season of hauntings, when we begin to look back on the year that was and think about what we hope for in the one ahead.
The characters in Winter are similarly daunted by the idea of togetherness, though their reasons are a little more idiosyncratic than most. Art, an amateur nature blog writer, has just paid a young woman he met at the bus stop to pose as his estranged girlfriend Charlotte for the Christmas holidays. His aunt Iris was banished from the family decades ago due to her involvement with a radical anti-nuclear protest group and now works with refugees. And his mother Sophia, who lives in the Cornwall estate where they've all gathered and has recently begun seeing things. Time in the house seems unstable, flexible, the past and present knocking against one another like figures in a darkened hall. A clock outside keeps chiming the same hour; a night stretches beyond its credible boundaries. Much like its predecessor, this 2017 book vibrates eerily with our indeterminate present.
But Christmas does come eventually for the characters, as it will for anyone who celebrates it in 2020. As often happens at family gatherings, there are arguments about the Internet, which Sophia calls a "cesspit of naivety and vitriol," and who voted for what, and everyone is "pretending to be someone or something else," as the fake Charlotte puts it. Smith's prose seamlessly mimics the elliptical ways that people who know one another well have conversations, how stories and jokes mutate depending on who is telling them, how a commiseration can turn to an insult in the span of a second, how a long-held secret can be brushed aside without a thought. How a memory from the past can live beside a moment that has yet to happen. Such things feel especially possible in winter, which isn't now like it used to be; Art, in particular, reflects on this often. He has been waiting for the first snowfall of the year to write a blog post about ice crystals, but it hasn't been cold enough.
The temperatures where I am promise bitterness in the coming days but we won't have a white Christmas either. Winter ends without much resolved, but that feels appropriate for the season. As Smith writes, "a coming back of light was at the heart of midwinter equally as much as the waning of light." Reflecting on the year that was, so much of it still seems shrouded in darkness to me, uninterpretable and vague. There are no accomplishments I can pick out, or resolutions I want to make. I'll simply trudge onward, as I did in the winters of my childhood, when the snowbanks could reach to my armpits and just getting to the end of the driveway was a triumph. The day I close the book lasts just a little longer than the one before.
March 19th to March 21st, 2021
It's almost a week on from the "leap forward" of Daylight Savings Time when I pick up the third volume of Smith's Seasonal Quartet, but my sleep schedule hasn't quite caught up yet. At least that's the excuse I give myself for feeling so addled, though the state of the world certainly doesn't help. In between the bursts of joy at photos of friends and loved ones getting the vaccine in my feed, there's the news of another mass shooting in Atlanta, which law enforcement has so far brushed off as the perpetrator having "a bad day." I was thirteen when Columbine happened, and watching these tragedies unfold always takes me instantly back to that confused and frightened headspace, even as information comes much faster and more furious now. It's a sad reminder that a return to normalcy in this country doesn't always mean good things.
Winter ends without much resolved, but that feels appropriate for the season.
Richard, the lead character of Spring, is also experiencing destabilization; a director of television docudramas, he's recently lost a friend and collaborator to terminal illness. Grief has cut him loose from his own life, the cumulus forms of his memories drifting through the narrative, giving it an elusive shape. He wanders like an Orpheus who keeps looking back, hoping for a different outcome. At one point he finds himself on a platform in Kingussie, Scotland with a clock that doesn't seem to be working, stuck in an unending present defined almost entirely by what it lacks. Smith captures Richard's depression with her trademark elegant and wry simplicity: "He breathes in. It hurts. He breathes out. It hurts." He contemplates putting his head under the wheels of the next arriving train and almost succeeds in his attempt.
Instead of Richard's skull, it's the book itself that splits open. A new central character materializes, a woman in her early twenties named Brit who has no clear connection to Richard aside from also being somewhat unmoored. She is employed as a DCO at an IRC, which stands for a "Detainee Custody Officer" at an "Immigration Removal Centre," where she has systematically been dulling her empathetic instincts towards the "deets," as the officers call the teenaged migrants confined there. One morning on her way to work she crosses paths with a uniformed schoolgirl trying to get to Inverness by train on her own. Brit decides to tag along, in part because she suspects the child is the same one who recently walked into the boys-only IRC where Brit works undetected and convinced staff to clean the toilets.
What unfolds between them plays out like a microcosm of the central narrative construction on which Smith has built her entire career: to tug gently at the connective strands we use to make sense of the world, not to demonstrate their inauthenticity but their ingenuity. Like a benevolent god, Smith eventually grants these three characters the grace of time together; as Richard's dead friend Paddy says, "Sometimes we're lucky… we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history'd have us be." A life is saved, maybe more than once. A child might be lost; a mother might be found. An ending gives way to a beginning. Clouds form from pieces of the past and move on, revealing the sun. The day after I finish the book, there will be another mass shooting in Boulder.
June 18th to June 20th, 2021
The day I open the final book in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, the expected "real feel" temperature in Chicago is ninety-four. Not as devastating as the week-long drought currently wreaking havoc on the power grids of the southern states, but uncomfortable nonetheless, especially for someone without an air conditioner in her apartment. I lament on the phone to my mother how the temperatures of the seasons no longer seem incremental but fanatical, rushing from one extreme to the other. "Didn't there used to be longer stretches of 75 degree days?" we moan rhetorically to one another. Our cities are reopening but the weather is too enervating to enjoy it. Sacha, one of the first characters we meet in Summer, is also lamenting the effects of global warming, and what it means for her own future. "Why would you bring a child into a catastrophe?" the teenager wonders, an eerie echo of conversations I've had recently with friends.
While I've understood intellectually as a reader how Smith constructed each of these books with immediacy, it's not until this volume, mentions of masks and "the virus" haunting its margins, that it hits me emotionally. For Sacha's splintered family, the reality we've known and grown accustomed to this past year is only just beginning. It's difficult not to read these early sections, as her younger brother flirts with internet nihilism and her mother willfully denies the desperate state of the world, without a dread for what's coming creeping in. When two characters from Winter reappear, we learn that a third has since passed away and it seems like an omen.
What unfolds between them plays out like a microcosm of the central narrative construction on which Smith has built her entire career: to tug gently at the connective strands we use to make sense of the world, not to demonstrate their inauthenticity but their ingenuity.
But then, like the swifts whose return to Brighton each May marks the unofficial start of the season, Summer takes flight. As the second part of the book begins, another familiar face emerges: Daniel, the centenarian from Autumn who readers in real time wouldn't have seen for four years. He is still under Elisabeth's watchful eye, but the fog of his memories has thickened. He is having difficulty separating the present from a painful period in his past, when he and his German father were interned on the Isle of Man during World War II. We learn of his sister, Hannah, who was a resistance fighter in Vichy France and left a child behind there. The siblings, so often apart during their lifetimes, wrote to one another but burned the letters before sending them. It's unclear if Daniel knows he ever had a niece.
It seems at first as though Smith is building towards a moment of great significance as these three groups of characters—Daniel and Elisabeth; Charlotte and Art; Sacha, her brother, and mother—converge one weekend. An "ah ha" moment that will finally knit the disparate volumes of this series into a resonant whole. "Summer," as Smith notes, "comes from the Old English sumor… meaning both one and together." Readers who want to tie everything up neatly can do so; Smith leaves every thread needed dangling. But she also understands enough about modern life to gift her characters with confusion and omission, too. Sometimes we understand one another, and sometimes we don't. Entire families, and countries, can fracture over a single vote. Some people can remain; others must leave. But as Sacha's mother Grace contends, "Another world is possible. When you're stuck in the world at its worst, that's important. To be able to say that." She's talking about a Shakespeare play, but she might as well be describing the book she's in.
Families reform, often unexpectedly. Countries can too. Summer ends with a letter from a prisoner in the detention center from Spring, written to Sacha who learned of him from Charlotte. Recently released and welcomed into Charlotte's home along with other migrants, he can see the swifts Sacha told him about from his new window, heralding the start of the season. I too can see birds from my window, and people out in the streets. The outdoor patios on Division are teeming again with friends and families, starved for more than just physical sustenance. I've been in Chicago for almost two years, but in moments like this it's like I barely know it at all. It's an odd feeling, isolating on some days and inspiring on others. Today is one of the latter. There is still a little bit of light left in the sky. It will last, it lasts, it lasted.
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Sara Batkie is the author of the story collection Better Times, which won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Prize and is available from University of Nebraska Press. She received her MFA in Fiction from New York University. Born in Bellevue, Washington and raised mostly in Iowa, Sara currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Analyst: Microsoft Azure Container Instances Direct Shot at Amazon, Google
Hyperscale cloud vendors need more enterprise clients. Are containers going to be the next area where they can tip the scale?
Nicole Henderson | Jul 31, 2017
As hyperscale vendors battle to attract enterprise clients in an increasingly commoditized public cloud market, the next area where they are likely to differentiate is containers.
To that end Microsoft launched its Azure Container Instances (ACI) last week, a new service that the company pitches as "the fastest and easiest way to run a container in the cloud" because it eliminates virtual machine (VM) infrastructure management.
Jay Lyman, principal analyst, cloud management and containers at 451 Research, calls the launch of Microsoft ACI "a competitive shot to Amazon and Google to make Azure Container Service more appealing."
Microsoft Azure Container Service launched in general availability last April, helping organizations deploy and operate containerized application workloads. With Azure Container Instances (ACI), Microsoft is trying to make running containers in Azure as easy as possible, offering per-second billing and one-click execution, without the need to learn new container orchestration tools.
Enterprise adoption of public cloud has grown in tandem with the adoption of containers, Lyman tells IT Pro in an interview.
"Docker is the de facto standard and is the center of gravity for [enterprise adoption of containers]," Lyman said. "One of things that's driven this, in addition to things like speed, simplicity, and efficiency, and use of containers around portability across hybrid cloud infrastructure, but one of the big drivers has been good timing of Docker and modern application containers with enterprise adoption of cloud computing."
"Just as enterprises were asking, 'how do we best deploy and package applications in the cloud', Docker was sort of coming into its own," he said.
In a January report, 451 Research found that containers represent a small but fast-growing segment of what it calls the cloud-enabling technologies market – which aside from containers includes virtualization, private PaaS, and other automation and management software. The application container market will grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020, 451 Research reports.
Lyman notes that while most people are familiar with vendors like Docker, 451 Research is tracking more than 130 vendors across different areas related to containers, including companies like Shippable and CoreOS. He said to expect more entrants in the market as well, particularly around container management and orchestration. Though Kubernetes is "clearly in the lead," he calls the container market "mixed-use" where enterprises are using more than one container platform.
Lyman does not expect Microsoft ACI to have much of an impact on the smaller vendors in the container space, who have already carved out their respective niches. But it is definitely a threat to the public cloud players like Amazon and Google, and their respective container services Amazon EC2 Container Service and Google Container Engine, he said.
The launch of ACI also reflects Microsoft's growing commitment to open source, as IT Pro reported last week with the news that Microsoft joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a platinum member.
"I think it's interesting that the Azure Container Instances announcement reflects more Microsoft involvement and commitment to open source software," he said. "Microsoft has come a long way from being an adversary of open source software and Linux, to being very supportive of open source software, including Linux. It's interesting to see that Linux containers are supported first here."
"The Azure Container Instances are also sort of indicative that we are moving beyond the initial use of containers that were primarily on top of VMs," he said. Often central IT teams and operations teams, when approached by lines of business and devs about using containers, will allow them to run on top of a VM. The problem is that this only offers some of the speed and simplicity and efficiency benefits of containers, Lyman said.
"There's been a tendency for enterprises to put their containers on top of VMs and I think that Azure Container Instances is sort of indicative that organizations are moving beyond that," he said. "Now central IT teams and IT operations teams they may be hitting some of the same roadblocks or dead ends that they had with VMs but are being pushed by their developers and their lines of business to get beyond containers on top of VMs."
Lyman expects to see more containers running in place of VMs rather than on top of them. But VMs are still the "currency of enterprise IT today" so do not expect to see containers wipe out VMs completely, he said.
"Just as we still have mainframes and physical servers alongside our VMs today, we will likely have VMs alongside our containers in the future," Lyman said.
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Konnected running a 24VDC system?
New to the forum. I'm researching Konnected to "smarten" my alarm systems sometime in the new year, and I'm pretty excited about the possibilities it could bring to my house.
One alarm system runs on 24V DC (not AC) and uses devices that run at 24V DC. I've read in the Konnected support docs that the board can accept up to 24V DC, which would be perfect for my system. This way, I wouldn't have to add relays, etc. However, I noticed in pictures that "MAX 20V DC" is printed on the board. I'm curious if this is actually feasible and if anyone's attempted anything similar.
Again, just in the early research stage right now. Thanks!
What could be done if you want a peace of mind, is get a DC-DC converter. I got one from eBay ( a 20v-60v to 12v) for ~10$. I am using mine to power the Konnected units off of my 48v PoE power supply.


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Norwest Venture Partners, the now 60-year-old venture and growth equity firm backed entirely by the banking giant Wells Fargo, today rolled out its sixteenth fund, a $3 billion vehicle and its biggest to date.
It's easy to shrug off the development, but this new pool brings the assets Norwest has raised altogether from Wells across six, decades to $12.5 billion. Put another way, despite that gigantic fund announcements have begun to seem routine, it's kind of a big deal and certainly another indicator that this market is a very different one from even five years ago.
Certainly, one can see why, in a go-go environment, Wells might agree to such a commitment. For one thing, on the growth equity side, it's not possible to compete anymore unless you have a ginormous money cannon. Consider that Tiger Global Management alone held a first close of $8.8 billion on its biggest fund ever back in October, according to Bloomberg. (As a reminder, it closed its previous fund with $6.7 billion just six months ago.) To win deals, you need to be able to elbow out at least some of the other multibillion-dollars funds that are also writing checks right now.
Norwest's team also has a lot of hits about which to boast. While it was busy deploying its last fund, a $2 billion pool that it closed in 2019 — it wound up investing that money in roughly 60 companies — almost 30 of its earlier bets have "exited" in some fashion over the last couple of years (and that's not a euphemism for "went out of business").
The security outfit Shape Security, for example, sold to the application delivery company F5 for $1 billion in late 2019 after raising $183 million in funding, per Crunchbase data. Aporeto, a machine identity-based micro-segmentation company, sold to Palo Alto Networks for $150 million in cash in 2019 after raising around $35 million investors, according to Crunchbase. A third portfolio company, a Canadian developer of risk and compliance software called Galvanize, meanwhile sold to corporate governance software maker Diligent for a reported $1 billion. Galvanize had raised around $50 million in funding led by Norwest.
A number of Norwest's consumer-facing investments also hit the public market. Two of these went out via SPAC: the real estate company Opendoor, and the digital mental health company Talkspace. A third portfolio company, Udemy, began trading publicly in October after staging a traditional IPO. (Its shares are trading down by roughly one-third of their offering price as of this writing.)
Norwest currently operates in the Bay Area but it also has offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and in India, so it has extensive geographic reach.
The outfit also invests in a wide range of companies. Some of these are life sciences outfits. Some are direct-to-consumer retail plays. Others are fintech startups like Plaid, whose Series C round Norwest joined in 2018, and the consumer finance startup Dave, which expects to close a merger with a blank-check company shortly and to begin trading publicly in January.
Of this last sector, longtime partner Lisa Wu — who led both of those deals — notes that Norwest's interest ties exclusively to the upside it sees in such companies. Norwest, she makes clear, is not a strategic investor.
"Wells gives us a competitive advantage, but our relationship with Wells is really an arm's length relationship," she says. "We have complete investment authority and autonomy over our investment processes."
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Fishery Committee for The West Central Gulf of Guinea - Member Countries are Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. Rebuild and maintain robust fisheries resources through policy reforms, cooperative regulatory planning, good governance and improvements in institutions. Develop and implement appropriate management frameworks that ensure fisheries resources are harvested sustainably, improved intra-regional and international trade of fish and fishery products and maximum economic and social benefits are obtained from the fisheries. Develop the capacity of Members' Small-scale fishers and other operators to create sustainable livelihoods for their people from the sustainable harvest, processing and marketing of their fisheries resources. Enhance national capabilities for efficient, cost effective and sustainable fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance, and establishing mechanisms for effective regional cooperation in MCS and enforcement to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the West Central Gulf of Guinea. Strengthen cooperative research and ensure that resource-related decisions are based on sound knowledge, scientific methodology and best information available. Our Strategic organizational/functional goal is "To ensure the effective implementation of the Committee's work through results-based management, improved communication, and better financial, human and knowledge management systems and tools".


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Višja strokovna šola za kozmetiko in velnes Ljubljana (VSŠKV) je samostojni višješolski zavod, v okviru katerega poteka strokovno izobraževanje in usposabljanje za pridobitev višje strokovne izobrazbe (VI/1. stopnja) in poklicnega naziva:

 Višji kozmetik / Višja kozmetičarka, po programu Kozmetika,
 Organizator / Organizatorka poslovanja v velneški dejavnosti, po programu Velnes.

Oba višješolska študijska programa sta ovredotena s 120 kreditnimi točkami po evropskem prenosljivem sistemu ECTS in se izvajata v obliki izrednega študija.

Pridobljena strokovna izobrazba omogoča diplomantom šole zaposlitev v kozmetičnih in lepotnih centrih in salonih, središčih dobrega počutja (velnes), SPA in fitnes centrih, plavalnih bazenih in kopališčih, savnah in centrih za masažo in pedikuro, zdraviliščih, v proizvodnji in trženju kozmetičnih preparatov, v domovih za ostarele, v ekipah, ki skrbijo za zdravje in zdrav in uravnotežen življenjski slog posameznikov in skupin, zlasti na področju športa, v bolnišnični dejavnosti, v športnih in trgovskih centrih, team building centrih, na luksuznih potovalnih ladjah ter na podobnih mestih, kjer se zahteva tovrstna usposobljenost.

Ustanoviteljica VSŠKV - Višje strokovne šola za kozmetiko in velnes Ljubljana je  Glotta Nova. Šola je bila ustanovljena januarja leta 2013.

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Izobraževalno-raziskovalne ustanove, ustanovljene leta 2013
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Die Gesamtanlage Mauerstraße (Lauteschlägerstraße 5A und Mauerstraße 32, 34) ist eine Gesamtanlage in Darmstadt.

Geschichte und Beschreibung
Die Gesamtanlage Mauerstraße besteht aus einer kleinen viergeschossigen Eckbebauung des späten Historismus.
Erbaut wurde sie im eklektizistischen Dekorationsstil.

Lauteschlägerstraße 5A und Mauerstraße 34
Die Mietshäuser Lauteschlägerstraße 5A und Mauerstraße 34 wurden im Jahre 1899 errichtet.
Sie wurden einheitlich mit einem Mansarddach und einem aufwändigen neobarocken Stuckdekor erbaut.

Mauerstraße 32
Der breitgelagerte Zweispänner in der Mauerstraße 32 wurde im Jahre 1903 vom Bauunternehmer Georg Schäfer erbaut. Das Mietshaus besitzt eine Fassade in historisierender Mischform. Baugleiche, aufragende Zwerchhausgiebel betonen die symmetrisch angelegte Fassade.

Denkmalschutz
Die Gesamtanlage Mauerstraße steht aus architektonischen, baukünstlerischen und stadtgeschichtlichen Gründen unter Denkmalschutz.

Literatur
 Günter Fries et al.: Stadt Darmstadt. (= Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen.) Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5, S. 252.

Gesamtanlage Mauerstraße
Erbaut in den 1890er Jahren
Erbaut in den 1900er Jahren
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Ty D. Shaw (* 4. März 1979 in Ontario, Oregon) ist ein US-amerikanischer Basketballtrainer und ehemaliger -spieler. Der 2,02 Meter große Innenspieler bestritt 29 Partien in der Basketball-Bundesliga.

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Shaw spielte im Hochschulsportsystem der Vereinigten Staaten für das Columbia Basin College im Bundesstaat Washington sowie am Albertson College of Idaho (später in College of Idaho umbenannt) im Bundesstaat Idaho.

Ab 2003 spielte er für den englischen Klub Worcester Wolves und war in dieser Zeit gleichzeitig Assistenz- und später Cheftrainer der Basketballmannschaft an der University of Worcester. In der Frühjahrssaison 2005 war er bei den Cockburn Cougars in Australien aktiv und trainierte dort neben seinen Aufgaben als Spieler auch eine Jugendmannschaft.

2006 wechselte Shaw zum deutschen Zweitligisten TV Langen und wurde im Anschluss an die Saison 2006/07 vom Internetdienst eurobasket.com in die "Mannschaft des Jahres" der 2. Bundesliga Süd berufen. Nach dem Ende des Spieljahres in Deutschland ging er erneut nach Australien, um dort in der Frühjahrssaison 2007 für die Goldfields Giants aufzulaufen.

Zur Saison 2007/08 wechselte Shaw zum TSV Nördlingen und war mit Mittelwerten von 9,4 Punkten sowie 9,5 Rebounds pro Begegnung am Gewinn des Meistertitels in der 2. Bundesliga ProA beteiligt. Damit stiegen die Nördlinger in die Basketball-Bundesliga auf, in der Shaw in der Saison 2008/09 29 Begegnungen für die Mannschaft aus dem Landkreis Donau-Ries absolvierte und dabei im Schnitt für ihn 4,9 Zähler und 4,0 Rebounds notiert wurden.

Nach einer weiteren Station in Australien bei den Willetton Tigers in der Frühjahrssaison 2010 (und dem Gewinn der Meisterschaft in der State Basketball League) stand Shaw zum Abschluss seiner Spielerlaufbahn zwischen 2010 und 2012 beim BV Chemnitz 99 in der 2. Bundesliga ProA unter Vertrag.

Shaw sammelte schon während seiner Spielerzeit Erfahrung als Trainer unter anderem im Jugendbereich sowie im englischen Hochschulsport.

Zur Saison 2012/13 wurde er vom TV Langen aus der 2. Bundesliga ProB als Cheftrainer verpflichtet und führte die Hessen in der Südstaffel der Liga auf den zweiten Platz der Hauptrunde sowie danach ins Halbfinale der Endrunde. Er wechselte danach zu Langens ProB-Ligarivalen TG Hanau. Die "Schwäne" beendeten die Hauptrunde 2013/14 unter der Leitung des US-Amerikaners auf dem ersten Rang der ProB-Süd. Im Oktober 2014 wurde Shaw als Hanauer Cheftrainer abgelöst, nachdem die ersten fünf Spiele der Saison 2014/15 mit Niederlagen geendet hatten.

Im Januar 2015 übernahm er das Traineramt bei den Uni-Riesen Leipzig (ebenfalls 2. Bundesliga ProB) und führte die Sachsen im späteren Saisonverlauf ins Playoff-Viertelfinale. Danach kam es zur Trennung zwischen Shaw und den Uni-Riesen, weil der Leipziger Verein sein einst ausgegebenes Ziel "Aufstieg in die ProA" begrub und deshalb Shaw nicht halten konnte: "Wir waren uns mit Ty Shaw unter Voraussetzungen einig geworden, die es sowohl materiell als auch mit Blick auf die Zielstellungen plötzlich nicht mehr gab. Wir mussten eine noch vorhandene Ausstiegsoption ziehen", begründete Leipzigs Geschäftsführer Mark Hoffmann seinerzeit die Trennung.

Shaw ging in die Vereinigten Staaten zurück und trat zur Saison 2015/16 den Posten des Assistenztrainers der Basketballmannschaft an der Fresno Pacific University an. Zur Saison 2016/17 wechselte er an die Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne und wurde dort Co-Trainer der Damen-Mannschaft. In der Sommerpause 2018 trat er das Traineramt beim englischen Erstligisten Worcester Wolves an. Aus gesundheitlichen Gründen konnte er sein Amt ab Mitte Januar 2019 nicht mehr ausüben und verließ den Klub schließlich im März 2019.

Persönliches
Shaw ist mit der früheren deutschen Basketball-Nationalspielerin Alexandra Shaw (geborene Müller) verheiratet.

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Home » News » Non-approval of $30bn loan stalls standard gauge projects -FG
Non-approval of $30bn loan stalls standard gauge projects -FG
The Federal Government has said that the non-approval of the 30 billion dollars foreign loan by the senate had stalled the construction of the standard gauge rail line.
Workers at the construction site of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line
Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement by Mr Mohammed Idris, Head of Press Unit, Federal Ministry of Transportation.
''The Minister reiterated that what was actually stalling the projects was the non-approval of the $30 billion Foreign Loan request by the Federal Government to the National Assembly.''
He stressed that the money was ''needed to construct the standard gauge rail line from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri.
''We didn't abandon any rail project, all the projects are there.
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"The truth is that we can't go to work without funds and that can come when the Senate approves the $30billion loan request," he said.
The minister disclosed that most of the railway projects would be linked to the ports when completed to make the movement of cargoes easier and reduce pressure on the roads.
Adeosun, Adamu thought JAMB couldn't remit more than N500 million – Oloyede
Amaechi assured all Nigerians, especially those from the South East geo-political zone that every zone would benefit from the rail line being constructed by the Federal Government.
He, however, clarified that the South East zone was not excluded in the on-going revitalisation of rail projects by the Federal Government.
The minister said that the Itakpe–Ajaokuta-Warri rail line that was abandoned for about 34 years commenced free test run on Nov. 25. (NAN)


I've written before about the closure of the Harrow ceramics course, the BA Ceramics at the University of Westminster. Matthew Partington, of the University of the West of England, described the closure of ceramics courses a few years ago in an interesting paper "Can British ceramics education survive?" He says that in 1980 there were 17 degree courses in Great Britain; in 2010 there were four. The decline is actually steeper: In 1976 there were 37 full-time courses in ceramics (not all degree courses), although ceramics is still taught on some 3D courses.
Fewer schools teach it, because of financial pressure, pressure on the timetable, concerns about health and safety and lack of skilled teachers. It's not necessary to do a foundation course before a student goes on to an art degree, so students can start art at university without any experience or knowledge of ceramics.
There were too many ceramics courses and it was impossible to fill the places. They're expensive, and if they're not filled, they have to close in the end. Financial stringency in universities has ensured that. Ceramics tutors were getting old and they weren't being replaced. One exception is Cardiff, where ceramics is still thriving.
Ceramics is unfashionable. It's about materials and technique and not about ideas or self-expression. As art has become more cerebral, ceramics has lagged behind, though not on post-graduate courses. Ceramics expanded in a hands-on, intuitive way and there's little critical discourse in the ceramic community. (It's surprising how insatiable is the appetite of the older generation of pottery enthusiasts for throwing demonstrations.) There aren't enough role models for young artists who want more than that. They would rather do fine art, animation or film. Ceramics once chimed in with alternative ideas; now it's realised that it has a big environmental footprint, it's not green any more.
The cost of a degree means that students have to think about whether it will fit them for employment. Ceramics won't, so it's now too expensive for everyone – for the university and for the student.
Partington points out that experimental ceramists depended on teaching for a living and weren't under too much pressure to sell their work. Without teaching, some won't be able to make a living. They're not in the same market as the makers of useful pots, and the market for ceramic art is not well developed. Although there an over-supply of courses, there is probably an over-supply of ceramists as well. The market is lumpy: some potters cannot keep up with demand; others cannot make a living. I've spoken to many makers and gallery owners about this and no-one really knows why some things sell and others don't. It's not directly related to the quality of the work. A famous name helps, but is no guarantee. Perhaps if some ceramists have to stop making it will be better for those that continue.
But there may be a zero sum. The unfashionability of ceramics may mean that the market for it also shrinks. Anyone who sells ceramics direct to the public knows that most of their customers are over fifty. They grew up with Cranks and the Design Council. Will the generation that grew up with instant messaging and neo-liberalism replace them?
Very sad and I did not know that the teaching of ceramics is, it seems, almost over. I'm sure that interest in collecting beautiful pieces will never completely die and, as you say, if there are fewer potters things may reach a balance that is favourable.


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Mathew Knowles Claims To Have Control Over Destiny's Child Reuniting
byYohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)
Beyoncé's dad sits down with talk show host Tamron Hall.
(AllHipHop News) It's been 15 years since Destiny's Child released their last studio album Destiny Fulfilled. While Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams have not recorded a full body of work since 2004, fans have gotten a glimpse of them together from time-to-time.
The three ladies performed for the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show in 2013, and they ran through some of their hits during Beyoncé's headlining set at the 2018 Coachella festival. Additionally, Williams tapped Knowles and Rowland for the 2014 single "Say Yes."
Will Bey, Kelly, and Michelle formally reunite for another project. Beyoncé's father and former manager, Mathew Knowles, spoke about the possibility that DC3 might reassemble in the near future.
"I still officially manage [Destiny's Child]. Every day I have the responsibility of licensing. I have a lot of responsibilities that folks don't know," Mathew explained on the Tamron Hall talk show. His new wife of six years, Gena Knowles, joined him on the program.
Hall asked Mathew Knowles if he has any say in whether Destiny's Child can come back together to record new music under the group's name. The Alabama native answered, "I do have impact in that decision. I do... The first thing I'm gonna do is replace Michelle with Gena."
According to Mathew, even if the Destiny's Child members decided they wanted to come back together for another run, it would be a while before anything materialized. He said, "If today they said yes, it would take two years just in preparation."
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This better not happen... https://www.qib.com.ng/zlatan-ibile-net-worth/
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MartinPierre6
It can't and shouldn't happen.Michelle deserves her spot in the group and if Matthew Knowles thinks some imposter named Gena can replace her and DC still capture there special music magic,then he does deserve to be fired and made to stay far away from the group.
UnidentifiedQuest
Replace Michelle with who? I don't think so. The fans aren't having it and I highly doubt Beyonce would allow such a fallacy.
BambeeAnticipating.. …


On behalf of Howard Magaliff of Floyd Leopard, LLP posted in Truck Accidents on Wednesday, August 10, 2016.
Georgians might want to know about the upcoming Operation Safe Driver Week, which is scheduled to happen during the week of Oct. 16 to 22 across the nation. The annual event, put on via a collaborative effort of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Administration and local law enforcement agencies nationwide, aims to reduce problematic driving behaviors that can lead to serious injury accidents.
In a study about the causes of large truck crashes, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, found that 88 percent of collisions involving large trucks resulted from poor driving behaviors. The same agency found that 93 percent of collisions involving passenger cars resulted from driver errors.


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Report: Bonhams, Paris, 6 February
Historic sports cars and classic racers dominated Bonhams' Retromobile sale on 6 February as the auction house raised an incredible €17,000,000, with a modest sale rate of 71%.
Top of the bill at the Grand Palais, Paris was a stunning 1968 Ferrari 275GTB/4 Berlinetta, which sold for €2,225,000 (£1,850,000), establishing a new world record for the model at auction. The Ferrari recently underwent a full nut and bolt restoration by marque specialist Bob Houghton and was sold with full history and invoices to back up its £200,000 renovation.
Another Ferrari that caught the imagination was Michele Alboreto's 1984 Formula One car, which sold for €483,000 (£402,000). Raced throughout Alboreto's debut season, the Ferrari 126 C4 M2 carried him to victory at Zolder, Belgium where he became the first Italian driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix for Ferrari since Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966.
Historic racing cars were prevolent at the sale, but few could match the provenance of the 1929 Bugatti Type 35B. Sold for €1,610,000 (£1,340,000), the Type 35B started life as a four-cylinder Type 37A Grand Prix model before it was purchased as a 21st birthday present for Jack Lemon Button by his father - a founder member of the Bugatti Owners' Club. The car later had its engine replaced in 1935 with a 2.3-litre eight-cylinder supercharged engine thereby effectively producing a Type 35B.
A 1947 Delage D6 3-litre competition car was another lot to break the €1 million barrier (£916,000) and Aston Martins also proved popular among bidders, with a rare left hand drive 1962 DB4 Vantage GT coupe doubling its estimate at €1,200,000 (£999,000). A 1965 Aston Martin DB5 also sold for €776,000 (£646,000).
Bonhams Paris 2014 Top 10 Sales
1968 Ferrari 275GTB/4 Berlinetta €2,225,000
1929 Bugatti Type 35B €1,610,000
1962 DB4 Vantage GT coupe €1,184,000
1947 Delage D6 3-litre €1,092,000
1965 Aston Martin DB5 €776,250
1958 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster €713,000
1939 Lagonda V12 Drophead Coupe €506,000
1984 Ferrari 126 C4 M2 Formula One car €483,000
1989 Porsche 911 Speedster €310,500
1966 Citroen DS21 Le Caddy Cabriolet €310,500
1988 Volkswagen Golf 1.8 Clipper Ltd Edn
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1928 Ford Model A Hotrod


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Яков Александрович Гребенщиков (1837—1907) — генерал от инфантерии, член военного совета Российской империи.

Биография

Яков Гребенщиков родился 18 марта 1837 года в городе Полоцке в семье коллежского советника Александра Петровича Гребенщикова; мать — дочь коллежского советника Анна Яковлевна (урождённая Лобри). Из Полоцкого кадетского корпуса и Дворянского полка 11 июня 1855 года был выпущен прапорщиком в 14-ю артиллерийскую бригаду и в её составе участвовал в обороне Севастополя в ходе Крымской войны.

7 января 1864 года переведён в 33-ю артиллерийскую бригаду. В 1866 году поступил в Николаевскую академию Генерального штаба, по окончании которой в 1868 году переведён в штаб Кавказского военного округа. 17 мая 1869 года назначен старшим адъютантом штаба 21-й пехотной дивизии, 23 ноября 1870 года переведён на ту же должность в штаб 22-й пехотной дивизии. 25 марта 1872 года назначен состоять при Главном штабе, где принимал участие в подготовке введения военно-конской повинности.

В 1875 году произведён в полковники и 10 декабря 1876 года назначен исправляющим должность начальника штаба 37-й пехотной дивизии (утверждён в должности в следующем году). Одновременно преподавал тактику и военную историю в Павловском военном и Николаевском кавалерийском училищах.

13 января 1883 года назначен командиром 146-го пехотного Царицынского полка. 11 августа 1885 года назначен командиром Кексгольмского гренадерского Императора Австрийского полка, 30 августа того же года произведён в генерал-майоры. 19 апреля 1887 года назначен командиром 1-й бригады 3-й гвардейской пехотной дивизии с оставлением командиром Кексгольмского полка.

4 февраля 1891 года Яков Александрович Гребенщиков назначен командиром 2-й бригады 3-й гвардейской пехотной дивизии с увольнением от должности командира полка. 15 сентября 1895 года назначен командующим 32-й пехотной дивизией, 6 декабря того же года произведён в генерал-лейтенанты с утверждением в должности начальника дивизии. 21 февраля 1896 года назначен начальником 4-й пехотной дивизии.

26 июля 1899 года Гребенщиков занял пост коменданта Ковенской крепости. 5 марта 1904 года назначен членом Военного совета Российской империи, 10 октября 1904 года — председателем Главного крепостного комитета.

2 апреля 1906 года произведён в генералы от инфантерии. Состоял членом многочисленных комиссий, в частности, в следственной комиссии о сдаче Порт-Артура.

Яков Александрович Гребенщиков умер 10 марта 1907 года в Санкт-Петербурге и был погребён на Смоленском православном кладбище.

Гребенщиков на протяжении всей карьеры активно сотрудничал с различными периодическими печатными изданиями (например: «Голос», «Русский инвалид», «Разведчик» и «Военный сборник») и нередко помещал в них статьи по военным и военно-бытовым вопросам.

Семья
 Жена — дочь генерал-майора Елена Ивановна урождённая Салери (1848 — 4.04.1911).

 Дети:

 Александр (29.08.1861 — 13.05.1880);
 Анна (11.03.1863 — 9.02.1925);
 Иван (16.10.1867 — 21.08.1899) — ротмистр;
 Ольга (6.06.1871 — после 1915);
 Сергей (26.09.1873 — 7.08.1933) — генерал-майор;
 Евгения (6.03.1874 — 25.04.1880);
 Василий (20.12.1875 — 2.01.1877);
 Мария (19.10.1877 — после 1924);
 Наталия (15.10.1883 — ок. 1943—1944);
 Александра (15.05.1886 — ок. 1943—1944).

Награды

Российские награды:
 орден Святой Анны 3-й степени (1870),
 орден Святого Станислава 2-й степени (1873),
 орден Святого Владимира 4-й степени (1874),
 орден Святой Анны 2-й степени (1876),
 орден Святого Владимира 3-й степени (1879),
 бриллиантовый перстень с вензелем императора (1883),
 высочайшая благодарность (1884),
 орден Святого Станислава 1-й степени (1888),
 бриллиантовый перстень с вензелем императора (1889),
 орден Святой Анны 1-й степени (1893),
 знак отличия беспорочной службы за XL лет (1896),
 орден Святого Владимира 3-й степени (1899),
 орден Белого орла (1904),
 высочайшая благодарность (1905).

Иностранные:
 Большой крест австрийского ордена Франца-Иосифа (1889).

Примечания

Литература

 100-летие военного министерства. 1802-1902. Память о членах военного совета. — , 1907. — С. 731—734.
 Список генералам по старшинству. Составлен по 1 января 1907 года. — , 1907. — С. 86.

Выпускники Полоцкого кадетского корпуса
Выпускники Дворянского полка
Генералы от инфантерии (Российская империя)
Члены Военного совета Российской империи
Участники Крымской войны
Персоналии:Каунас
Похороненные на Смоленском православном кладбище


Quite simply, because it has been my most fervent hope for far too long that the complete recorded works of CHRISTOPHER MILK be released in the digital format, whether that be a proper CD or a "hi-def" download. The most likely folks to pull off such a feat would be the kind folks at RHINO RECORDS.
Slowly, but surely, I shall be adding more to this site as my free time allows. I, of course, welcome any and all submissions relevant to the cause, including fond memories of live shows (especially dates and venues, as I am still working on the information gathering for the "LIVE APPEARANCES" section of this site) and other testimonials.
As time allows. Sections that are still in the works include "LIVE APPEARANCES", "BIOGRAPHIES", "PRESS" (both the laudatory and the lame, the sunshine and the rain), "LINKS", and "EPHEMERA" (inclusive of both the directly and tangentially related informations).
More to come -- thanks in advance for your patience!


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181 protesters arrested on Capitol Hill including Rep. Judy Chu for abortion access
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Thousands March in Kabul After Woman Burned Alive
News2Share Contributors — March 24, 2015
Photos contributed by Ejaz Ahmad Malikzada
Thousands of Afghan residents marched through the capital city of Kabul Tuesday, demanding justice for a young woman who was beaten to death last week.
The 28-year-old woman named Farkhunda, whose death sparked the rallies, was killed after being falsely accused of burning pages of the Koran.
More than 2,000 people were in attendance at the protest as emotions were high and chants were loud. Some marchers wore red face paint, while other held signs showing the bloodied face of Farkhunda.
The demonstration was the second in a series of marches planned this week in the capital city.
Ejaz Ahmad Malikzada, a student at the American University of Afghanistan, is part of a team organizing another march on Thursday.
"Farkhunda was brave enough to stand against superstition, and we dare to follow her and carry her legacy," Malikzada said.
According to local media reports, Farkhunda was beaten with sticks, run over by a car and burned to death. The students organizing the march Thursday hope to raise more awareness in the international community.
"This is the community of intellectuals who believe in achieving a world free of extremism, violence and superstition."
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HomeYB SENATOR WAYTHA MOORTHY PONNUSAMY
MESSAGE FROM THE HONOURABLE MINISTER
The Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (MITRA) of the Prime Minister's Department was established in response to the expectation of the people particularly the Indian community who wanted a more inclusive and equitable socioeconomic shift, besides fortifying the spirit of nationality and self-identity in line with the spirit of the National Principles (Rukun Negara).
This special unit serves to coordinate and monitor the implementation of programmes and policies detailed specifically for the Indian community of the B40, M40 and T20 groups. The unit will also conduct socioeconomic researches and advise the government on socioeconomic issues besides regulating the distribution of government policies in all sectors so that the socioeconomic disparity between the races is not too large.
In conformity to the essence of the Federal Constitution, the development agenda of the Indian community is given special attention by this unit so that this community is not marginalized and lagged behind the other races in the flow of development.
All the responsibilities outlined are socioeconomic reform programmes that abide by the principles of democracy, justice, unity and trust, specially formulated for the Indian community in Malaysia.
In this regard, the MITRA website is one of the strategies to reform the socio-economic development agenda of the Indian community in Malaysia. This website widens the horizon of the stakeholders with regards to the policy and direction of the country. Additionally, it will also promote the sharing of latest information and views on the socio-economic transformation planning for the Malaysian Indian community.
Hopefully MITRA website will benefit all of us as an effective source of information and thus advances the well-being of the Indian community in Malaysia.
P. Waytha Moorthy
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department