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Divine Madness
by Roger Zelazny
Published in Jan. 2018 (Issue 92) | 2200 words
© 1966 by Roger Zelazny. Originally published in Magazine of Horror. Reprinted by permission of the author.
". . . I is this ?hearers wounded-wonder like stand them makes and stars wandering the conjures sorrow of phrase Whose . . ."
He blew smoke through the cigarette and it grew longer.
He glanced at the clock and realized that its hands were moving backwards.
The clock told him it was 10:33, going on 10:32 in the p.m.
Then came the thing like despair, for he knew there was not a thing he could do about it. He was trapped, moving in reverse through the sequence of actions past. Somehow, he had missed the warning.
Usually, there was a prism-effect, a flash of pink static, a drowsiness, then a moment of heightened perception . . .
He turned the pages, from left to right, his eyes retracing their path back along the lines.
"?emphasis an such bears grief whose he is What"
Helpless, there behind his eyes, he watched his body perform.
The cigarette had reached its full length. He clicked on the lighter, which sucked away its glowing point, and then he shook the cigarette back into the pack.
He yawned in reverse: first an exhalation, then an inhalation.
It wasn't real—the doctor had told him. It was grief and epilepsy, meeting to form an unusual syndrome.
He'd already had the seizure. The dialantin wasn't helping. This was a post-traumatic locomotor hallucination, elicited by anxiety, precipitated by the attack.
But he did not believe it, could not believe it—not after twenty minutes had gone by, in the other direction—not after he had placed the book upon the reading stand, stood, walked backward across the room to his closet, hung up his robe, redressed himself in the same shirts and slacks he had worn all day, backed over to the bar and regurgitated a Martini, sip by cooling sip, until the glass was filled to the brim and not a drop spilled.
There was an impending taste of olive, and then everything was changed again.
The second-hand was sweeping around his wrist-watch in the proper direction.
The time was 10:07.
He felt free to move as he wished.
He redrank his Martini.
Now, if he would be true to the pattern, he would change into his robe and try to read. Instead, he mixed another drink.
Now the sequence would not occur.
Now the things would not happen as he thought they had happened, and un-happened.
Now everything was different.
All of which went to prove it had all been an hallucination.
Even the notion that it had taken twenty-six minutes each way was an attempted rationalization.
Nothing had happened.
. . . Shouldn't be drinking, he decided. It might bring on a seizure.
He laughed.
Crazy, though, the whole thing . . .
Remembering, he drank.
In the morning, he skipped breakfast, as usual, noted that it would soon stop being morning, took two aspirins, a lukewarm shower, a cup of coffee, and a walk.
The park, the fountain, the children with their boats, the grass, the pond, he hated them; and the morning, and the sunlight, and the blue moats around the towering clouds.
Hating, he sat there. And remembering.
If he was on the verge of a crackup, he decided, then the thing he wanted most was to plunge ahead into it, not to totter halfway out, halfway in.
He remembered why.
But it was clear, so clear, the morning, and everything crisp and distinct and burning with the green fires of spring, there in the sign of the Ram, April.
He watched the winds pile up the remains of winter against the far gray fence, and he saw them push the boats across the pond, to come to rest in shallow mud the children tracked.
The fountain jetted its cold umbrella above the green-tinged copper dolphins. The sun ignited it whenever he moved his head. The wind rumpled it.
Clustered on the concrete, birds pecked at part of a candy bar stuck to a red wrapper.
Kites swayed on their tails, nosed downward, rose again, as youngsters tugged at invisible strings. Telephone lines were tangled with wooden frames and torn paper, like broken G clefs and smeared glissandos.
He hated the telephone lines, the kites, the children, the birds.
Most of all, though, he hated himself.
How does a man undo that which has been done? He doesn't. There is no way under the sun. He may suffer, remember, repeat, curse, or forget. Nothing else. The past, in this sense, is inevitable.
A woman walked past. He did not look up in time to see her face, but the dusky blonde fall of her hair to her collar and the swell of her sure, sheer-netted legs below the black hem of her coat and above the matching click of her heels heigh-ho, stopped his breath behind his stomach and snared his eyes in the wizard-weft of her walking and her posture and some more, like a rhyme to the last of his thoughts.
He half-rose from the bench when the pink static struck his eyeballs, and the fountain became a volcano spouting rainbows.
The world was frozen and served up to him under a glass.
. . . The woman passed back before him and he looked down too soon to see her face.
The hell was beginning once more, he realized, as the backward-flying birds passed before.
He gave himself up to it. Let it keep him until he broke, until he was all used up and there was nothing left.
He waited, there on the bench, watching the slivey toves be brillig, as the fountain sucked its waters back within itself, drawing them up in a great arc above the unmoving dolphins, and the boats raced backward over the pond, and the fence divested itself of stray scraps of paper, as the birds replaced the candy bar within the red wrapper, bit by crunchy bit.
His thoughts only were inviolate, his body belonged to the retreating tide.
Eventually, he rose and strolled backwards out of the park.
On the street a boy backed past him, unwhistling snatches of a popular song.
He backed up the stairs to his apartment, his hangover growing worse again, undrank his coffee, unshowered, unswallowed his aspirins, and got into bed, feeling awful.
Let this be it, he decided.
A faintly remembered nightmare ran in reverse though his mind, giving it an undeserved happy ending.
It was dark when he awakened.
He was very drunk.
He backed over to the bar and began spitting out his drinks, one by one into the same glass he had used the night before, and pouring them from the glass back into the bottles again. Separating the gin and vermouth was no trick at all. The liquids leapt into the air as he held the uncorked bottles above the bar.
And he grew less and less drunk as this went on.
Then he stood before an early Martini and it was 10:07 in the p.m.
There, within the hallucination, he wondered about another hallucination.
Would time loop-the-loop, forward and then backward again, through his previous seizure?
It was as though it had not happened, had never been.
He continued on back through the evening, undoing things.
He raised the telephone, said "good-bye," untold Murray that he would not be coming to work again tomorrow, listened a moment, recradled the phone, and looked at it as it rang.
The sun came up in the west and people were backing their cars to work.
He read the weather report and the headlines, folded the evening paper and placed it out in the hall.
It was the longest seizure he had ever had, but he did not really care.
He settled himself down within it and watched as the day unwound itself back to morning.
His hangover returned as the day grew smaller, and it was terrible when he got into bed again.
When he awakened the previous evening the drunkenness was high upon him again. Two of the bottles he refilled, recorked, resealed. He knew he would take them to the liquor store soon and get his money back.
As he sat there that day, his mouth uncursing and undrinking and his eyes unreading, he knew that new cars were being shipped back to Detroit and disassembled, that corpses were awakening into their death-throes, and that priests the world over were saying black mass, unknowing.
He wanted to chuckle, but he could not tell his mouth to do it.
He unsmoked two and a half packs of cigarettes.
Then came another hangover and he went to bed. Later, the sun set in the east.
Time's winged chariot fled before him as he opened the door and said "good-bye" to his comforters and they came in and sat down and told him not to grieve overmuch.
And he wept without tears as he realized what was to come.
Despite his madness, he hurt.
. . . Hurt, as the days rolled backward.
. . . Backward, inexorably.
. . . Inexorably, until he knew the time was near at hand.
He gnashed the teeth of his mind.
Great was his grief and his hate and his love.
He was wearing his black suit and undrinking drink after drink, while somewhere the men were scraping the clay back onto the shovels which would be used to undig the grave.
He backed his car to the funeral parlor, parked it, and climbed into the limousine.
They backed all the way to the graveyard.
He stood among his friends and listened to the preacher.
".dust to dust; ashes to Ashes," the man said, which is pretty much the same whichever way you say it.
The casket was taken back to the hearse and returned to the funeral parlor.
He sat through the service and went home and unshaved and unbrushed his teeth and went to bed.
He awakened and dressed again in black and returned to the parlor.
The flowers were all back in place.
Solemn-faced friends unsigned the Sympathy Book and unshook his hand.
Then they went inside to sit awhile and stare at the closed casket. Then they left, until he was alone with the funeral director.
Then he was alone with himself.
The tears ran up his cheeks.
His shirt and suit were crisp and unwrinkled again.
He backed home, undressed, uncombed his hair. The day collapsed around him into morning, and he returned to bed to unsleep another night.
The previous evening, when he awakened, he realized where he was headed.
Twice, he exerted all of his will power in an attempt to interrupt the sequence of events. He failed.
He wanted to die. If he had killed himself that day, he would not be headed back toward it now.
There were tears within his mind as he realized the past which lay less than twenty-four hours before him.
The past stalked him that day as he unnegotiated the purchase of the casket, the vault, the accessories.
Then he headed home into the biggest hangover of all and slept until he was awakened to undrink drink after drink and then return to the morgue and come back in time to hang up the telephone on that call, that call which had come to break . . .
. . . The silence of his anger with its ringing.
She was dead.
She was lying somewhere in the fragments of her car on Interstate 90 now.
As he paced, unsmoking, he knew she was lying there bleeding.
. . . Then dying, after that crash at eighty miles an hour.
. . . Then alive?
Then re-formed, along with the car, and alive again, arisen? Even now backing home at terrible speed, to re-slam the door on their final argument? To unscream at him and to be unscreamed at?
He cried out within his mind. He wrung the hands of his spirit.
It couldn't stop at this point. No. Not now.
All his grief and his love and his self-hate had brought him back this far, this near to the moment . . .
It couldn't end now.
After a time, he moved to the living room, his legs pacing, his lips cursing, himself waiting.
The door slammed open.
She stared at him, her mascara smeared, tears upon her cheeks.
"!hell to go Then," he said.
"!going I'm," she said.
She stepped back inside, closed the door.
She hung her coat hurriedly in the hall closet.
".it about feel you way the that's If," he said shrugging.
"!yourself but anybody about care don't You," she said.
"!child a like behaving You're," he said.
"!sorry you're say least at could You"
Her eyes flashed like emeralds through the pink static, and she was lovely and alive again. In his mind, he was dancing.
The change came.
"You could at least say you're sorry!"
"I am," he said, taking her hand in a grip that she could not break. "How much, you'll never know."
"Come here," and she did.
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Alhamdulillah Advice to the Muslims about Ramadaan [Shaykh Bin Baaz]
Discussion in 'Ramadan & Eid al Fitr' started by Janaan, Jul 11, 2013.
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Maasha'Allaah. This is a speech that was given by the shaykh, rahimahullaah, on 7/9/1419 A.H. It's truly moving and addresses all points. And alhamdulillaah it has benefit me, so I though of sharing it.
I know it seems a bit lengthy but don't let that stop you from reading - and It's Ramadaan, so don't be too lazy, and don't let those little shayaateen that are still roaming around have any control over you.
O Muslims! You are in the great sacred month of Ramadan; the month of Sawm (Fast), Qiyam-ul-Layl (optional Prayer at night), and recitation of the Qur'an. In this month, Allah opens the door of forgiveness and sets His pious Servants free from the Fire. Ramadan is the month of giving Sadaqah (voluntary charity); a month in which the doors of Paradise are open, rewards of deeds are multiplied, hardships are removed, supplications are answered, ranks are elevated, and sins are forgiven. During this month, Allah (Glorified be He) provides His Servants with all kinds of bounties and showers His Awliya' (pious people) with blessings.
A month in which Allah has made fasting it one of the pillars of Islam and in which the Prophet (peace be upon him) observed Sawm and commanded the people to do the same. He (peace be upon him) informed us that whoever observes Sawm in Ramadan out of sincere faith and hoping for Allah's Reward, their previous sins shall be forgiven; and that those who observe Qiyam-ul-Layl in Ramadan out of sincere faith and hoping for Allah's Reward, their previous sins shall be forgiven. In this month, there is one night that is better than thousand months.
Muslims who deprive themselves of its good are really in loss. Honor this month, may Allah forgive you, by having good intentions, doing your best to observe Sawm and Qiyam-ul-Layl, competing to do good, and repenting sincerely from all sins and misdeeds. Do your best to advise one another and cooperate in doing good and being pious. Advise one another to enjoin the good and forbid the evil, and invite one another to every thing that is good to win dignity and great rewards.
Sawm has many benefits and great wisdom:
Some of these benefits are: Purifying one's soul; disciplining it; ridding it of bad traits and evil attributes, such as insolence, ingratitude, and miserliness; accustoming it to adopt good ethics, such as patience, forbearance, and generosity; and struggling to please Allah and draw closer to Him.
Other benefits of Sawm: It makes us know humble selves, our needs, our weaknesses and our dependence on our Lord. It reminds us of Allah's Blessings and of the needs of the poor; thus, driving us to be grateful to Allah (Glorified be He). We ought to employ Allah's Blessings in obeying Him and in consoling and helping our poor Muslim fellows.
Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) refers to these benefits in the following Ayah (Qur'anic verse): "O you who believe! Observing As-Saum (the fasting) is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious)" [Qur'an 2:183]
Allah (Glorified be He) points out that Muslims are commanded to observe Sawm to fear Allah. This indicates that Sawm is a means to become pious and fear Allah as He should be feared which would result into obeying Allah and His Messenger. In this way, servants will be saved from Allah's Punishment and Wrath.
Sawm diminishes one's sexual desire and is a way to help one remain pure and chaste. Satan runs in our bloodstream and Sawm narrows the veins and reminds one of Allah and His Greatness and, thus, the power of Satan diminishes and one's faith is strengthened. Sawm encourages good deeds and dissuades bad ones.
Other benefits of Sawm: It purifies the body of toxins, making one healthy and energetic, as confirmed by many physicians.
O Muslims! Sawm is a good deed for which there is enormous reward, especially Sawm in Ramadan which Allah has made obligatory for His Servants and made it a means to be granted success.
On the authority of `Ubadah ibn Al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) who reported that Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
Ramadan came to you as a month of blessing in which Allah spreads His Mercy, forgives sins, and answers supplications. Allah (Exalted be He) sees your competition and speaks proudly of you to the angels. So show Allah that you are doing good as the deprived one is he who deprives himself of Allah's Mercy (in this month).[al-Haithami in his Majma' al-Fawaid 3/142 number 4783, ascribed this to Al-Tabarani in Majma al-Kabeer 13/37 number 13655]
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) who reported that Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
Allah has enjoined you to fast the month of Ramadan and I have made it a Sunnah (a commendable act) for you to observe Qiyam-ul-Layl during it. Whoever observes Sawm and Qiyam-ul-Layl during its nights out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's rewards (not for showing off), they will emerge as sinless as a new-born child. [Related by Al-Nasa'i]
Muslims should know that it is prescribed, when observing Qiyam-ul-Layl in Ramadan or offering any other Salah (Prayer), to offer Salah with tranquility and submissiveness when standing, bowing, prostrating and reciting the Qur'an.
Many people who observe Qiyam-ul-Layl in Ramadan do so without contemplation or tranquility. Rather, they only hit the ground and this is not permissible. It is Munkar (that which is unacceptable or disapproved of by Islamic law and Muslims of sound intellect) and renders Salah null and void since tranquility is a pillar in Salah.
It was also authentically reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) commanded the one who knocked the ground while performing his Salah in haste to repeat it.
O Muslims! Glorify your Salah by performing it as Allah commands; and seize the opportunity to gain every benefit from this great month by performing good deeds and all forms of worship.
Hasten to obey Allah as it is a great month in which Allah gives His Servants a chance to compete in doing good deeds in obedience to Him. May Allah forgive you and have mercy on you! Offer as much Salah as you can, give Sadaqah, recite the Qur'an with contemplation and thought, glorify Allah, praise Him, say Takbir and Tahlil (saying: "La ilaha illa Allah [There is no god except Allah]") and ask Allah for forgiveness.
Send peace and blessings to Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) as much as you can and do good to the poor, needy, and orphans. Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) was the most generous of all people and was even more generous during Ramadan. So follow in his footsteps, may Allah have mercy on you, by increasing your Sadaqah and good deeds in Ramadan. Help your poor brothers to observe Sawm and Qiyam-ul-Layl, and hope for Allah's Reward, the King and All-Knower.
Guard your Sawm from what Allah forbids. It was authentically reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Whoever does not give up false speech and acting accordingly, Allah does not need them to leave their food and drink. He (peace be upon him) also said: Sawm is a shield (from the fire and from committing sins). When one of you is observing Sawm, he should avoid intimate relations (with his wife) and quarreling, and if someone insults him, he should say, 'I am observing Sawm.' [Saheeh al-Bukhari 1904]
It was reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Sawm is not abstinence from food and drink, but (true) Sawm is abstinence from empty talk and bad language. [Reported in 'al-Mustadrak' of al-Hakim number 1604]
Ibn Hibban reported in his Sahih Book of Hadith on the authority of Abu Sa`id (may Allah be pleased with him) who narrated that Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: Whoever observes Sawm in Ramadan, knows its ordinances and observes what should be observed during it will have all their previous sins forgiven.
Also, Jabir ibn `Abdullah Al-Ansary (may Allah be pleased with them) said: When you observe Sawm, let your ears, eyes and tongue abstain from lying and other unlawful acts. Do not harm your neighbors. Be characterized by humility and calmness. Let there be a difference between the days of observing Sawm and the days when you are not observing Sawm. [Musannaf ibn Abi Shaibah number 8981]
In this month, Muslims should be generous and spend as much as they can, paying much attention to the poor and those who do not ask for charity. Muslims should help them observe Sawm and Qiyam-ul-Layl, following the way of the Prophet (peace be upon him) to please Allah (Glorified be He) and as a way of thanking Him for His Blessings. Allah (Glorified be He) has promised His Servants who spend a great reward and many children.
Allah (Glorified be He) says: "And whatever good you send before you for yourselves, (i.e. Nawafil non-obligatory acts of worship: prayers, charity, fasting, Hajj and 'Umrah), you will certainly find it with Allah, better and greater in reward." [Qur'an 73:20]
Beware, may Allah grant you mercy, any sins that might affect your Sawm negatively, diminish your reward, or incur Allah's Wrath such as usury, adultery, theft, murder without justification, unjust consumption of the property of orphans; and all forms of injustice against persons, money, or honor. You should also avoid cheating in dealings, not keeping trusts, being ungrateful to parents, and severing ties of kinship. Enmity and hostility without a just cause; intoxicants and drugs, such as hashish and tobacco; backbiting and slander, lying, false testimony, false claims, and perjury should all be avoided.
Men should not shave or cut off their beards, allow their moustaches to grow long, act pridefully, or make Isbal (lengthening and trailing clothing below the ankles). Muslims should not listen to songs and music. Muslim women should abstain from Tabarruj (dressing immodestly in violation of the Islamic dress code) and imitating disbelieving women in wearing revealing clothes or others things that Allah and His Messenger (peace be upon him) have forbidden.
These sins are forbidden at all times and all places, but are more forbidden during Ramadan and more grievous because of the sanctity of this month.
O Muslims! You must fear Allah and avoid what He and His Messenger have forbidden. Be steadfast in obeying Allah in Ramadan and in other months as well, advise one another to do that. Enjoin others to do good and forbid evil to gain honor, happiness, and dignity, and to be saved in this world and in the Hereafter.
May Allah protect you, us, and all Muslims from that which brings His Wrath! May Allah accept our Sawm and Qiyam-ul-Layl and rectify the affairs of Muslim rulers and make them a means to defend Islam and defeat His enemies! May Allah guide us all to comprehend Islam, hold fast to it, and judge according to it in all our affairs! Allah has power over all things.
Peace be upon His Servant and Messenger, Muhammad, and upon all his family and Companions and whoever follows his way until the Day of Resurrection.
Fataawa of Ibn Baaz. Part No. 15; Page No. 22-37
Janaan, Jul 11, 2013
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Salam JazakAllah great article.May every Muslim have blessed Ramadan.
The Messenger of Allah (saw) said, "When the month of Ramadan starts, the gates of the heaven are opened and the gates of Hell are closed and the devils are chained." (Imam Bukhari) ...
anisafatima, Jul 15, 2013

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Terming the state government decision to hold an all party meeting on June 19 next on the vexed Chakma-Hajong issue, 'positive gesture and encouraging' the All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) has appealed invitees from different political parties to come prepared with best of ideas for hammering out a permanent solution. However objecting to reports that the state government has slated the meeting of all parties and AAPSU differently, the union said that since it was the one who suggested for an all party meeting, it should be included in the same. 'The meeting should be inclusive in nature otherwise keeping away AAPSU will defeat the very purpose of holding it,' said President Hawa Bagang. The Union has condemned the killing of an innocent civilian T. Ngemu at Changlang District by the Assam Rifles. In the press statement AAPSU stated that Arunachal Pradesh is not a police state, and the army should take utmost care to protect and safeguard civilians. The Union also appealed the concern authorities to compensate the aggrieved family.
A two-day teachers' training programme on Smart Class under Chief Minister's Adhunik Shiksha Yojana for the select 32 schools of the district in its first phase was launched at the Anchal Samity Hall here today with Special Secretary (Education) Mitali Namchoom in the chair. Speaking on the occasion, the Special Secretary, Education informed that the vision and mission of govt is to transform the govt schools into smart classrooms where every child will be taught in a most scientific method towards enhancing their understanding level along with textbooks. She stated that K-Yan device should not to be treated as substitute for teachers and called for effective use of the device. ADC Chestha Yadav informed about the K-Yan device as just a tool to make the teaching-learning process more interactive and interesting creating enthusiasm amongst students.
In a bid to improve the performance of the govt-run schools of Capital the DC held a meeting with all the principals and headmasters of various govt schools of Capital Complex. The interaction with the principals and headmasters brought out various issues, plaguing the govt schools of Capital Complex. One of the annoying issues was the unrestricted/unlimited admission of students in every govt school of Capital Complex. Itanagar & Naharlagun being twin capital cities of the state, there is huge influxes of students every year from various districts in search of better education and due to absence of proper guidelines on the intake of students in schools, all the schools in the region are compelled to take up admission without rejecting any student, according to an official press note. As a result schools are overcrowded with 80 to 120 students in one class resulting into poor teacher-students' ratio. Further, various govt secondary and higher secondary schools are acting as feeders for the primary and middle schools, which further result in overcrowding of students. It was felt that a proper mechanism should be put in place for the admission process in the coming academic season.
The body of 14-year old Olek Pertin was fished out of Jenthu River in Namsai on Friday afternoon after two days of extensive search by a team lead by 12 BN NDRF, SI Saurabh Singh, with the help of locals. The boy was a class seven student of John Camemorel Memorial School, Kumari under Lekang circle, and had come home from his boarding school to collect his photographs and blood report for school documentation. Reportedly, on the morning of June 14, at around 11.30, he went out with his friends and stopped near the river to bath when the incident occurred. The body has been handed over to the family in Shanti Nagar, Namsai after post mortem.


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China rushes to make Covid drugs as Xi fears rural outbreaks
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese drugmakers rushed to make anti-fever drugs and other treatments for Covid-19 on Thursday, after President Xi Jinping said he was worried about an influx of holidaymakers in rural areas ill-equipped to deal with sudden epidemics.
Xi's comments come just over a month after his government abruptly scrapped its strict "zero-Covid" controls that had largely protected China's 1.4 billion people from the disease for three years, but sparked widespread protests in late November.
As travel ramps up during the busy Lunar New Year holiday season, up to 36,000 people could die from the disease every day, according to the latest figures from independent UK forecasting company Airfinity.
China said last Saturday that nearly 60,000 people with Covid died in hospitals between December 8 and January 12 – a roughly tenfold increase from previous disclosures.
However, that number excludes those who die at home, and some doctors in China said they were discouraged from putting Covid on death certificates. Health experts say China's official figures likely don't reflect the true toll of the virus.
"Based on reports of overwhelmed hospitals and long queues outside funeral homes, we could estimate that more Covid deaths have occurred so far, possibly more than 600,000 instead of just 60,000," said Hong Kong epidemiologist Ben Cowling. University.
China's chaotic exit from a regime of mass lockdowns, travel restrictions and frequent Covid testing has also sparked a drug rush as people fend for themselves against the disease.
To meet growing demand, drugmakers in China are stepping up operations to triple their capacity to produce essential fever and cough medicines, China Daily reported on Thursday.
China has relied on domestic vaccines to fight the pandemic, avoiding foreign-made ones which some studies have found to be more effective, while other foreign treatments for Covid-19 have been hard to come by in China.
Pfizer's Covid-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid is available in China but has been very difficult to obtain through official channels, according to media and personal accounts. Merck & Co's antiviral treatment molnupiravir has also been approved but is not yet widely available.
Those particularly vulnerable to the virus are the elderly, many of whom are not fully vaccinated and are now at risk as millions of urban workers travel to their home towns to reunite with their families for the Lunar New Year holidays which begin officially on January 21.
Before Covid first emerged in China's central city of Wuhan in late 2019, the holiday was known as the largest annual migration of people anywhere on the planet.
"China's Covid prevention and control is still in a stressful period, but the light is ahead, perseverance is victory," Xi said in a greeting message broadcast by state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday.
"I am most worried about rural areas and farmers. Medical facilities are relatively weak in rural areas, so prevention is difficult and the task is arduous," Xi said, adding that the elderly were a top priority.
Several Chinese cities are set to celebrate the New Year with massive fireworks after local governments rolled back bans on sales in recent years.
Hangzhou, Kunming, Zhengzhou and Changsha – all of which have more than 10 million people – will allow the sale of fireworks, according to business magazine Yicai.
Airfinity estimated on Wednesday that 62 million people could be infected with the virus between January 13 and 27 and that Covid-related deaths could peak at 36,000 a day on January 26, up sharply from previous forecasts.
"Our forecast estimates a significant burden on China's healthcare system for the next fortnight and it is likely that many treatable patients may die due to overcrowded hospitals and lack of care," said the analytics director of Airfinity. Matt Linley said.
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Jason Bateman's comedy series "Arrested Development" is to return for a fifth soon very soon, the show's creator said Tuesday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
By Karen Butler, UPI
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz said Tuesday that a fifth season of his star-studded comedy will be available on Netflix very shortly.
"Like, real soon," he tweeted. "Like, if you knew when, you would not be wrong to be thinking 'why are we all just hearing this now?'"
He did not reveal who from the cast returned for the fresh run of episodes. Previous seasons starred Jason Bateman, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, Michael Cera and Ali Shawkat.
Hurwitz said a re-mixed version of Season 4 will be posted on the streaming service Friday.
"It's funny in a whole new way," he wrote.
Seasons 1-4 are now on Netflix. The show about the dysfunctional Bluth family initially had a three-season run on Fox from 2003 to 2006, and was revived for a fourth season on Netflix in 2013.
The streaming service confirmed last year that the series would return for a fifth season in 2018 and Bateman announced on social media last August that production was underway.
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Q: Solving integral of $e^\sqrt{x^2 + c}$ I am trying to solve an integral:
$$
\int {a e^{\dfrac{\sqrt{x^2 + b}}{c}} }dx
$$
Where a, b and c are all constants and positive.
My math is very rusty, so I don't even know if this is possible.
An approximation would also do.
I think it can also be expressed as:
$$
\int {a e^{\sqrt{dx^2 + e}} }dx
$$
If you can share any workings out that would be helpful, as I really want to relearn this stuff and be able to do it myself.

A: $$I=\int ae^{\frac{\sqrt{x^2+c}}{b}}dx=a\int e^{\sqrt{(x/b)^2+c/b^2}}dx$$
now if we let $u=x/b$ then $dx=bdu$ and to simplify we will call $\alpha^2=c/b^2$ and so:
$$I=ab\int e^{\sqrt{u^2+\alpha^2}}du$$
Now this is not a very nice integral that I am struggling to find an elementary derivative for but we could try and substitute again:
$v^2=u^2+\alpha^2\Rightarrow 2vdv=2udu=2\sqrt{v^2-\alpha^2}du\Rightarrow du=\frac{vdv}{\sqrt{v^2-\alpha^2}}$ and so:
$$I=ab\int\frac{ve^v}{\sqrt{v^2-\alpha^2}}dv$$
now using IBP we get:
$$I=ab\sqrt{v^2-\alpha^2}e^v-\int\sqrt{v^2-\alpha^2}e^vdv$$
which still does not give an elementrary antiderivative but maybe you could see where a taylor series gets you?

A: Usually, integrands of the form $e^{f(x)}$ don't have a closed-form antiderivative and this case is no exception.
A simple approximation is by ignoring $b$,
$$\int ae^{\sqrt{x^2+b}/c}dx\approx \int ae^{x/c}dx=ace^{x/c}+C.$$
Unfortunately, neither $e^{\sqrt{x^2+b}/c}-e^x$ nor $e^{(\sqrt{x^2+b}-x)/c}$ seem to easily lead to improvements of this approximation.

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Q: RAID1 mdadm, automatically fail a drive and avoid a read-only file-system? I am managing a server with two solid state drives configured in mdadm RAID1. The server is running RHEL6 with an ext4 filesystem.
This evening the server went offline shortly after nightly backups began and the console reported disk errors:
Upon logging into the console, I found that one of the disks had been marked failed by mdadm and the file-system was set to read-only.
Is there a way that I can configure mdadm to fail the drive before the file-system is re-mounted as read-only? I would much rather run as a single disk system for a short time (until a replacement disk can be installed) rather than immediately kick the file-system into read-only mode -- which would guarantee an outage.

A: It does that by default, but granted, I've had similar issues with this. MD is not really eager at failing disks (or in fact repairing sectors by re-writing them, which hardware RAID controllers do). That's why I set up my log monitoring to scan for 'ata exception' and e-mail me when that happens. At least with traditional HDDs, this allows you to see disk failures much faster.
If the file system is marked read-only, the error went higher up the chain, and the MD device also saw errors. Are you sure there were no errors on sdb?
Or, are you sure the drives failed at all? It can happen, just recently to me, that the entire PCI bus failed. All devices connected to it started spewing errors (all ATA and ethernet), and indeed the file systems were marked as read-only, and the MD arrays as failed. But obviously the disks or MD wasn't the issue.
To check if the drives were in error: I don't have much experience with SMART on SSD drives, but at least with HDD drives, the SMART log may show something; there is an error log in it, and you can look at the smart parameters, perhaps compare with the other disk.
If smartmontools is installed, you can do:
smartctl -a /dev/sda

You may also be interested in How do I troubleshoot my RAID array.
Edit: As for the PCI bus thing. It does look like your issue was localized to one disk or controller.


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APRIL 2017 ONLINE PHOTO DIAGNOSIS
By GREGORY W. DENAEYER, OD
The photograph shows the left eye of a 45-year-old patient who has pellucid marginal degeneration (PMD) (Figures 2 and 3). The patient had a history of hydrops in the left eye; he was wearing a corneal GP lens on the right eye and a piggyback system for his left eye. He complained that his left GP lens intermittently popped out.
PMD is an ectatic corneal disorder that is characterized by inferior peripheral thinning in which the maximal thinning can be localized below the corneal apex with 1mm to 2mm of a clear intervening zone leading up to limbus. The above anatomical attributes explain the paralimbal steepening seen with topography and the general fitting challenges with corneal GP lenses.
Corneo-scleral topography (Figures 4 and 5) was performed, and a back-surface-toric scleral contact lens with a diameter of 16.5mm was successfully fit OS (Figure 6). The patient's best-corrected visual acuity improved to 20/40 with the scleral lens.
Dr. DeNaeyer practices at Arena Eye Surgeons in Columbus, OH. He is a shareholder of Precision Ocular Metrology LLC, has proprietary interest in Visionary Optics' Europa and Elara Scleral Lenses, and is a consultant to Visionary Optics and Alcon. You can contact him at gdenaeyer@arenaeyesurgeons.com.
Contact Lens Spectrum, Volume: 32, Issue: April 2017, page(s): 11


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Q: How do I update a Hyperlink field using the REST API? I have a SharePoint 2013 page that I want to make updates to a hyperlink field in a list. I'm calling the REST API using JavaScript + jQuery.
My code (my hyperlink field is Timesheet_x0020_Page):
self.UpdateTimesheet = function(id, state) {
    var data = {
        '__metadata': { 'type': 'SP.Data.TimesheetListItem' },
        'Timesheet_x0020_Page': 'http://google.com, Google',
        'State': state
    };
    var url = "/_api/Web/Lists(guid'e95f5b86-64dd-41d9-9973-493d906ce75e')/Items(" + id + ")";
    var promise = $.ajax({
        'url': url,
        type: "POST",
        contentType: "application/json;odata=verbose",
        data: JSON.stringify(data),
        headers: {
            "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
            "X-HTTP-Method": "MERGE",
            "IF-MATCH": "*",
            "X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val()
        }
    });
    return promise;
};

But I get the following error:

{"error":{"code":"-1,
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.InvalidClientQueryException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"An
  unexpected 'PrimitiveValue' node was found when reading from the JSON
  reader. A 'StartObject' node was expected."}}}

A: You should try to using this. It may help you:
 var data = {
        '__metadata': { 'type': 'SP.Data.TimesheetListItem' },
        'Timesheet_x0020_Page':
                {
                    '__metadata': { 'type': 'SP.FieldUrlValue' },
                    'Description': 'Google',
                    'Url': 'http://google.com'
                },
        'State': state
    };


I'm glad you made it safely down there. We love to take that St. Louis road — we'd take it every time when we'd visit Marc's folks in Caronport. And you're right, there's just something about the road and the sky that is relaxing and rejuvenating in all kinds of ways. Have a good weekend!
I was going to call you, Shannon but got there and to my room latish and the course started at 8. Then i did want to get back to PA Sat night so did not stick around. Next time I hope I have more time. Then maybe I will just mooch a place to stay off you too!


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A 5 page paper examining the role of tradition versus innovation in various works by T.S. Eliot and Derek Walcott. Works mentioned are Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and 'The Waste Land,' as well as Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," "Names (for Edward Braithwaite)," "Omeros," "A Sea Chantey," and "The Castaway." No additional sources except poems and the essay.
A 5 page paper comparing the boy protagonists of Seamus Heaney's poem 'Mid-Term Break' and J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye. Both boys have suffered the death of a younger brother, and both works show their youthful protagonists coming to terms with their grief. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
A 5 page analysis of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, which compares the female protagonist's coming of age story with that of J.D. Salinger's misfit hero, Holden Caulfield. No additional sources cited.
A 5 page paper which examines the use of imagery in the works titled "The Wanderer" and "The Song of Roland." Each of these works illustrates a different use of imagery. Where "The Wanderer" gives the reader many easily depicted illustrations of imagery, "The Song of Roland" and its use of imagery are much more subtle and evasive. The imagery examined includes sight, smell, taste, touch, sense, and hearing. Bibliography lists no additional cites.
A 2 page analysis of two poems by the seventeenth century poet Robert Herrick-- 'Corinna's Going A-Maying' and 'The Hock-cart.' The writer argues that these two poems can be read simultaneously at three levels. On one level the poems describe the events that help to mark the human year‹the coming of spring and the celebration of the harvest. On the other hand, these events of the human year are reflective of the natural order, the passage of the seasons, and the cyclical nature of time. No additional sources cited.
This 5-page paper is an analysis and interpretation of Robert Frost's poem, "The Death of the Hired Man." The themes of home and loneliness are touched on in this essay. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
A six page paper looking at this once-famous poem by William Cullen Bryant, a nineteenth-century poet who himself has somewhat fallen into oblivion. The paper looks closely at the poem's argument that Nature provides solace from the fear of Death, and shows why this appealed to a nation coming out of the stranglehold of Puritanism. Bibliography lists seven sources.
A 2 page discussion of Alexander Pope's poem about the insignificance of man in the realm of nature and the world scheme. In this analysis, the writer concentrates on the false view that the end of mankind will be the end of the world-- when we are just one minor aspect of all that has transpired and that will continue to transpire after we are gone. No Bibliography.
A 15 page paper showing how this long narrative poem illustrates the eighteenth century's dominant conception of man. The paper looks at each of the poem's four sections individually, and analyzes Pope's contribution to both poetry and philosophy. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
A ten page paper describing Alexander Pope's principles of versification and his views on poetry. The paper asserts that while Pope's versification rules can help polish a crude gem into something that explodes with light, it has to have been a gem to begin with; rules do not substitute for brilliance. Bibliography lists ten sources.
A 4 page paper that discusses how Pope used satire to mock the aristocracy, the Greek epic, and the feuding families over the loss of a lock of hair. The paper also discusses how the satire used parallels the Greek epic and its consequences. One additional source cited.
A five page paper looking at Alexander Pope's poem in terms of the issues of art and artifice. The paper observes that he makes fun of the vain Belinda for trying to make a work of art out of her appearance, at the same time that he is consciously trying to make a work of art out of his poem. Bibliography lists three sources.
A ten page paper analyzing the characteristics and influence of the Beat generation of poets and writers in the 1950s. Although many poets and writers are mentioned, particular attention is paid to the work of Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsberg; and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
A five page look at Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror" and Sharon Olds' "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," in terms of both poets' observations on the nature of identity as opposed to appearance. Plath argues that as many times as we return to the mirror to see our reflection there, it is not ourselves we are seeing -- we are merely seeing something similar to what others see. Olds continues this argument by asserting that if others feel they know us by our outward appearance, they are wrong, because the outer shell is not us.


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Debris from Russian space junk crept uncomfortably close to the International Space Station early Wednesday morning, necessitating a debris avoidance maneuver. Normal operation – save for the fact that three crew members were forced to flee in a potentially damaged Soyuz spacecraft when evacuation from the ISS was required.
Another day, another aborted spacewalk. This spacewalk was canceled not because of a nasty coolant leak in the Soyuz MS-22 docked at the station, but because of the threat of space debris.
Tracking data warned that debris from the Russian Fregat-SB upper stage was approaching within a quarter mile of the ISS, triggering a debris avoidance maneuver, NASA explained in a blog post. Ground controllers instructed the crew to suspend spacewalk preparations and prepare for orbit adjustments instead. According to NASA updates, the maneuver took place at 8:42 a.m. EST, during which the thrusters of the docked Progress 81 spacecraft fired her 10 minutes and 21 seconds, and the ISS followed the predicted path of debris.
The space agency said the crew was not in imminent danger and a new date for the cancellation of the spacewalk, where astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Kasada will proceed with the installation of solar panels, is imminent. The crew may not have been in "imminent danger", but the incident was premature.
For Rubio and astronauts Sergei Prokopiev and Dmitry Petelin, the spacecraft is the journey home, but it's also a lifeboat in case of serious emergencies. Roscosmos plans to make a decision on the spacecraft's airworthiness by December 27th. Tests conducted over the weekend showed the Soyuz's engine to be operating normally, but rapid temperature changes within the spacecraft's cabin could be cause for concern. MS-22 may be considered operational, but if not, Roscosmos will send an unmanned Soyuz instead. The capsule was scheduled to launch in March, as part of the MS-23 mission, but Roscosmos says it has accelerated the flight so he can launch in mid-February.
Russia's Roscosmos space agency is in the process of determining whether its Soyuz MS-22 is airworthy after her Dec. 15 leak in the spacecraft's module's external cooling loop. Investigation revealed a 0.8mm wide hole. This could be caused by micrometeorites or bits of space junk. Alternatively, the leak could be the result of a pre-assembled radiator vent, NASA speculated Monday.
It's still not great. Rubio, Prokopiev, and Peterin will use the docked Soyuz MS-22 as their escape vehicle if it is determined that the space station must be evacuated for any reason. On Dec. 16, Russian ground controllers sent new instructions to the ISS in case that very emergency – an "emergency descent" – was needed, state news agency TASS reported.
In other words, the trio would have to take a chance inside an apparently damaged spacecraft because they have no other choice. Yes, a SpaceX Crew Dragon is docked to the station, but it's there to return the remaining crew, which includes NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos astronaut Anna Kikina. The Progress 81 parked outside is a disposable cargo vehicle that burns to a crisp upon reentry, so it's clearly not an option.
A full-scale evacuation of the ISS has never occurred, and it is unlikely to occur anytime soon. However, these two incidents—the leaky spacecraft and the threatening space junk—remind us that space can be a dangerous place to work, and astronauts are always vulnerable.
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Macro BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK_AUDIT

BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK_AUDIT — Preferred way to assert implementation check conditions that are computationally expensive, at least compared to the cost of executing the function body.

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// In header: <boost/contract/core/check_macro.hpp>

BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK_AUDIT(cond)

Description

The specified condition will always be compiled and validated syntactically, but it will not be evaluated at run-time unless  BOOST_CONTRACT_AUDITS is defined (undefined by default). This macro is defined by code equivalent to:

#ifdef BOOST_CONTRACT_AUDITS
    #define BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK_AUDIT(cond) \
        BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK(cond)
#else
    #define BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK_AUDIT(cond) \
        BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK(true || cond)
#endif

 BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK, BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK_AUDIT, and  BOOST_CONTRACT_CHECK_AXIOM are the three assertion levels predefined by this library for implementation checks. If there is a need, programmers are free to implement their own assertion levels defining macros similar to the one above.

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The Original October Surprise: Harry Truman and the Vinson Plan
Andrei Cherny
In 1948, the 33rd president botched a scheme to end the Cold War -- unless that's exactly how he intended it to work out.
Harry Truman and George Marshall at the White House in 1949 (Associated Press)
Every four years, just about the time that leaves begin to change color and pumpkins appear in supermarkets, the specter of an "October Surprise" -- a last-minute action that reshuffles the presidential race -- rises. Whether it was Henry Kissinger's proclamation that "peace is at hand" in Vietnam in 1972 or questions over the timing of the release of Iranian hostages in 1980, it is national-security issues that most often conspire to affect the outcome of an election in its final weeks. So too was the case with the little known, often misunderstood first "October Surprise" in 1948. The term wasn't used at the time -- or subsequently -- to describe what happened that year, but Harry Truman's bold gambit in the final month of that campaign likely contributed to his narrow margin of victory.
In early October 1948, Truman was waging what was almost universally seen as a losing two-front campaign against the bland Republican nominee Thomas Dewey, running on his right, and Henry Wallace, his predecessor as Franklin Roosevelt's vice president, attacking him from the left on a pro-peace platform. In popular memory, the reason Truman defeated Dewey -- and not the other way around -- in that upset victory is a "Give 'Em Hell" campaign that emphasized populist economics. Dewey's defeat is blamed on an aloof, imperious nature, vague platitudinous statements, and the fact that he looked like "the little man on the wedding cake."
All these certainly played a role in the outcome. But the debate between the candidates in the last months of that campaign was actually waged foremost around the real threat of a World War III with the Soviet Union over the-then heated crisis in Berlin. The Soviet blockade of allied-occupied sectors of Germany's capital, and the allied airlift in response, dominated newspaper headlines. The candidates' stump speeches were an exchange of vicious accusations about which party's policies presented the greater threat of leading to a communist-dominated world. On September 25, 1948, the Soviets rejected a final allied plea to lift the blockade, and the issue was pushed to the United Nations in what was seen as the last step before a decision to go to war.
It was in this context that Truman summoned the poker buddy he had installed as chief justice of the Supreme Court, Fred Vinson, to the White House on October 3 and asked him to meet with Stalin face-to-face to offer a message of peace in the hope of bringing the Cold War to an end. It would be the highest-level exchange between the countries since Potsdam at the end of World War II. Though Vinson protested that he had no more knowledge of the situation in Berlin than what he had read in the newspapers, had no experience in foreign policy, and feared violating the separation of powers by undertaking a high-profile, highly political task just a month before the election, he eventually agreed when Truman argued that it was Vinson's patriotic duty to help avert war.
Truman told his press secretary, Charlie Ross, to secure a half-hour of nationwide airtime for a special announcement from the White House on the night of October 5. Ross did so, swearing the broadcasters to secrecy. Truman's speechwriters prepared an address to the nation that ended with a lofty pledge to solve the Berlin crisis: "We shall spare no effort to achieve the peace on which the entire destiny of the human race may depend." But despite all the activity, the rest of October 3 and October 4 passed with Truman neglecting to inform any of his foreign-policy advisers or any other allied nation's leaders about his plan.
On October 5, Robert Lovett -- the under secretary of the state who was running the department while Secretary George Marshall was engaged in direct negotiations with the Soviets in Paris -- was at his desk in Foggy Bottom when an aide walked in with a draft of Truman's message to Stalin that had been received in the code room. Lovett could scarcely believe his eyes. He picked up the phone and called the president, asking to see him at once. When Truman invited him to come right over, Lovett ran downstairs to his black official car and, for the first time ever, he asked his driver to turn on the car's siren and flashing red lights and speed to the White House through the streets of Washington.
When Lovett told Truman he could not send Vinson to Moscow, Truman appeared surprised and asked why. Lovett told him it would undermine American foreign policy, split the allies, and destroy the credibility of his administration.
Truman quickly backed down, but when news reached Marshall in Paris, the secretary's famous equanimity all but escaped him and he asked permission to return to Washington that weekend to meet with the president. Truman quickly agreed. The next day, the White House announced that Truman was canceling planned campaign stops to meet with Marshall and review the situation in Berlin. The meeting was so important that the president was personally sending his plane, the Independence, to Paris to retrieve the revered secretary of state. Newspapers were filled with coverage of Marshall's upcoming visit.
Then, on October 8, the eve of Marshall's arrival, the inevitable occurred and word of the Vinson ploy leaked, allegedly from one of the broadcast networks that had been told about the canceled presidential speech to the nation.
The following day, Truman was on hand at National Airport to welcome Marshall home in person. When they arrived at the White House, Truman mollified Marshall and they issued a joint statement claiming that Truman had simply been "wondering" about the possibility of a Vinson mission to Moscow.
The reaction of pundits and Truman's opponents to the seemingly botched Vinson scheme was one of outrage. The Washington Post reported that British diplomats maintained the Vinson plan "could have wrecked the United Nations." Walter Lippmann claimed the incident showed that "in plain words, Mr. Truman does not know how to be President." Presidential adviser Clark Clifford himself would, in later years, call it "the worst mistake of the Truman campaign," and presidential historian Robert Ferrell would note "the result was a fiasco."
But connecting the dots of history leaves another possibility that has never been fully explored. What if the Vinson affair was not a bungled stunt, but the wiliest move of a canny politician? It was completely out of character for Truman to take such a momentous step in foreign policy without the advice of his top advisers, indeed to do so while purposely hiding it from them. Unlike his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman had insisted on a relatively orderly national-security apparatus, had delegated broad latitude to his Cabinet secretaries and aides, and had worked in close concert with America's allies. Truman must have known that either the Vinson mission would be canceled because of the inevitable opposition or, if his old poker partner actually went to Moscow, nothing would come of it. Finally, Truman must surely have known that once the broadcast networks learned of the nature of his announcement, the news eventually would leak. It was the way of Washington.
For all the opprobrium heaped on him by politicians and diplomats, the bombshell news -- combining war, politics, and the hint of scandal -- ensured that the Berlin crisis continued to dominate the public conversation and news coverage. When it lagged, Truman would make sure to bring it up himself on the stump. Truman's role as commander-in-chief was highlighted, Dewey was pushed further out of the spotlight, and potential Wallace voters saw Truman making enormous efforts to find peace. It could not have turned out better if Truman had planned it.
Truman would never even hint that he knew all along what he was doing by creating and milking the rumpus over the Vinson plan, but once, a short while after Marshall returned to Paris, he reacted to a discussion of the matter with a comment that stuck in his advisers' minds. Clifford and the speechwriters were in the Oval Office wringing their hands with dismay over the botched scheme. Truman listened to them for a while and then broke into a mischievous grin. "I don't think it's that bad," he said with a twinkle.
Nearly 65 Octobers later, with Iran and Libya in the headlines, we speculate again about the whether a president is facing a challenge in balancing the roles of both commander-in-chief and candidate for reelection. We wonder whether the events of the world will intrude on America's own election. Harry Truman could have told us: Do not be surprised, expect it.
Andrei Cherny is president of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and author of The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour. He is working on a book about the New Deal and its enemies.


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It's Halloween and following PCA tradition, the upperclassmen are creating a haunted house for the younger kids. Logan is determined that it's going to be the scariest, spookiest, creepiest night of the little kids' lives. But when two of them vanish, including Zoey's little brother, the night takes... More
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High Steward of Scotland oder Great Steward of Scotland ist ein erbliches Hofamt im Königreich Schottland bzw. seit 1707 im Vereinigten Königreich.

Das Amt entspricht im Wesentlichen dem des Seneschalls, des englischen Lord High Steward, des Lord High Steward of Ireland, des römisch-deutschen Truchsess oder des Grand Maître de France. Das ursprüngliche bedeutende Hofamt hat inzwischen nur noch zeremonielle Bedeutung.

Um 1150 wurde Walter fitz Alan aus dem Haus FitzAlan Dapifer () des schottischen Königs David I. Er behielt das Amt auch unter dessen Nachfolger Malcolm IV., der ihm um 1157 das Amt als erbliches Hofamt bestätigte. Sein Enkel Walter wählte ab etwa 1219 für sein Amt die angesehenere Bezeichnung Senescallus. Walters Sohn Alexander of Dundonald wurde im 13. Jahrhundert nicht mehr nur als Steward des Königs, sondern auch als Steward of Scotland bezeichnet, was seine Stellung aufwertete. Abgeleitet von diesem Amtstitel setzte sich für die Familie zu dieser Zeit der Familienname "Stewart" bzw. "Stuart" durch. Robert Stewart, der 8. High Steward of Scotland, stieg 1371 als Robert II. zum König auf. Das Amt des High Stewards wird seither vom schottischen Thronfolger (Heir apparent), der auch den Titel eines Duke of Rothesay trägt, wahrgenommen. Seit dem Act of Union von 1707 ist der britische Thronfolger der Titelträger. Der Amtstitel ist mit dem Titel des Prince of Scotland verbunden, so dass der Amtsinhaber teils auch als Prince and Great Steward of Scotland bezeichnet wird.

Liste der High Stewards von Schottland
 um 1150–1177: Walter fitz Alan, 1. High Steward of Scotland
 1177–1204: Alan fitz Walter, 2. High Steward of Scotland
 1204–1241: Walter Fitzalan, 3. High Steward of Scotland
 1241–1282: Alexander of Dundonald, 4. High Steward of Scotland
 1282–1309: James Stewart, 5. High Steward of Scotland
 1309–1327: Walter Stewart, 6. High Steward of Scotland
 1327–1371: Robert Stewart, 7. High Steward of Scotland; 1371 gekrönt als Robert II. von Schottland
 1398–1402: David Stewart, 1. Duke of Rothesay
 1402–1406: James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; 1406 gekrönt als Jakob I. von Schottland
 1430: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay
 1430–1437: James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; 1437 gekrönt als Jakob II. von Schottland
 1453–1460: James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; 1460 gekrönt als Jakob III. von Schottland
 1473–1488: James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; 1488 gekrönt als Jakob IV. von Schottland
 1507–1508:  James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay
 1509–1510: Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay
 1473–1488: James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; 1513 gekrönt als Jakob V. von Schottland
 1540–1541: James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay
 1566–1567: James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; 1567 gekrönt als Jakob VI. von Schottland (1603 auch als Jakob I. von England)
 1594–1612: Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay
 1612–1625: Charles, Prince of Wales, Duke of Albany, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Duke of York; 1625 gekrönt als Karl I. von England und Schottland
 1629–1629: Charles James, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay
 1630–1649: Charles, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay; 1649 gekrönt als Karl II. von England und Schottland
 1688–1702: James, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay; Ämter und Titel 1702 formell aberkannt
 1714–1727: George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay; 1727 gekrönt als Georg II. von Großbritannien
 1727–1751: Frederick, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Rothesay
 1762–1802: George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay; 1820 gekrönt als Georg IV. des Vereinigten Königreichs
 1841–1901: Albert, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay; 1901 gekrönt als Edward VII. (Vereinigtes Königreich)
 1901–1910: Georg, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Duke of York; 1910 gekrönt als Georg V. des Vereinigten Königreichs
 1910–1936: Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay; 1936 gekrönt als Eduard VIII. des Vereinigten Königreichs
 1952–2022: Charles, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay; 2022 gekrönt als Charles III. des Vereinigten Königreichs
 2022–heute: William, Prince of Wales,  Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Rothesay

Literatur
 Hugh MacLeod: Casus Principis; or, an essay towards a history of the Principality of Scotland. G. Nicol, London 1791.

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This paper focuses on Sri Lanka's Third Post-Program Monitoring Discussion. Sri Lanka's recent macroeconomic performance has generally been strong but risks appear to be on the rise. Real GDP growth registered 7.4 percent in 2014. Growth was broad-based, with the exception of agriculture, which suffered from drought early in the year and heavy rains and flooding in the fourth quarter. Price pressures have been contained, with headline and core inflation declining to 2.1 and 1.2 percent, respectively, by end-year. The outlook is broadly stable but set against heightened downside risks.
This supplement to the staff report summarizes the main developments since the staff report was issued on April 15. Staff projections and the thrust of the staff appraisal remain unchanged.
Revised balance of payments data indicate a stronger current account position in 2014. Due largely to stronger net services receipts, the overall current account deficit is now estimated by the authorities to be 2.7 percent of GDP.
Headline year-on-year inflation declined to 0.1 percent in March 2015, from 0.6 percent in February, but core inflation increased from 0.8 percent to 1.4 percent.
The continued decline in headline inflation reflects primarily the impact of downward price revisions of domestic energy prices as well as the administered reduction in prices of a number of consumer items.
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Q: Request to get calendar events responses 404, given the permission assigned and accessToken got using Microsoft Graph API I want to build a web application which has the function to get other peoples' calendar events. I has register the app on https://apps.dev.microsoft.com/ and requested Calendars.Read permission. And I'm sure the Admin has consented to assign these permissions (which I let him to do through the adminconsent page).

Below is my ASP.Net Controller code aimed to test the Events API. The targeted API is:
MicrosoftGraphCalendarApi = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{0}/events";

public async Task<string> GetUserCalendar()
{
    ConfidentialClientApplication cc =
        new ConfidentialClientApplication(Globals.ClientId, Globals.RedirectUri,
            new ClientCredential(Globals.ClientSecret),
            null,
            new TokenCache());

    AuthenticationResult result =
        await cc.AcquireTokenForClientAsync(new string[] { "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default" });

    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    string requestUrl = String.Format(Globals.MicrosoftGraphCalendarApi, "lizhuowei@intl.zju.edu.cn");

    HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, requestUrl);
    request.Headers.Authorization =
        new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", result.AccessToken);

    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(request);
    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

    string json = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
    return json;
}

When invoked, it seems I managed to get the accessToken. However, the request to get events responds a 404 error. Below is the complete response:
{
    StatusCode : 404,
    ReasonPhrase: 'Not Found',
    Version : 1.1,
    Content : System.Net.Http.StreamContent,
    Headers:
    {
      Transfer-Encoding: chunked
      request-id: 34f1f9b3-34c9-444f-9037-5446884e3fb9
      client-request-id: 34f1f9b3-34c9-444f-9037-5446884e3fb9
      x-ms-ags-diagnostic:
        {
            "ServerInfo":
            {
                "DataCenter": "East Asia",
                "Slice": "SliceA",
                "ScaleUnit": "000",
                "Host": "AGSFE_IN_2",
                "ADSiteName": "HKG"
            }
        }
      Duration: 1250.6509
      Cache-Control: private
      Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 02:53:03 GMT
      Content-Type: application/json
    }
}
System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage

I have no idea where the issue may lie. Please help, thanks.

A: Finally solved. The user has to 'share' or 'publish' the targeted calendar first. Otherwise other accounts cannot get access to it even with the admin's consent.