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Random Musing Before Shabbat–Korakh 5775–Purposeful Unpleasant Reminder?
History is written by the victors. Yes, it is true that the Torah is not a history book, and never claims to be one. Nevertheless, I suspect the Torah (and indeed the entirety of Jewish sacred text) is subject to this same reality. The Talmud, at least, makes a far greater effort to not bury the voices of the minorities, the losers, those out of favor, etc. The problem, however, is that when you view the Talmud on a meta or global level, the whole Talmud itself, even with its preserved disagreements and differences of opinion. the Talmud itself is still a product of being written, edited, and redacted by the victors. Who knows which differing opinions didn't make it in the final cut?
The Egyptians were not afraid to be blatant in re-writing their history in favor of the victors. After their brief flirtation with monolatry under Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten's enforced switch to worship of the Aten, most traces of this heresy were erased by the subsequent Pharaohs under the guidance of the restored Amunite priests. Little was known of this bit of history until Akhnaten's city of Akhetaten was discovered at what is now Amarna. DNA evidence connects connects a mummy found at Akhetaten to the mummy of King Tutankhamun, which matches the accepted Egyptian chronologies (the experts still disagree if the mummy that DNA establishes as the father of Tutankhamun is actually that of Akhenaten.)
Scholars have long known not to trust written records, whether they be carved in stone or written on clay tablets, papyri, or animal skin. Tomb and stele inscriptions are propaganda at best, blatant misrepresentations at worst. More mundane records – records of commerce, negotiations, relationships – these are perhaps more revealing about what actual life was like. Perhaps they are more trustworthy in their content. Perhaps not.
The Torah is not a history. It is an etiology, the formative story of a people, and their encounter with, understanding of, and relationship to and with the Divine. Or it is the word of G"d handed down to Moshe at Sinai. It matters little. The story of Korakh's little rebellion (and even framing it so skews things) is there and we must wrestle with what it tells us and teaches us.
I'm not going to rehash the most typical explanations. You can read and research those for yourself. My most recent understanding of why the story of Korach is there, and what it teaches us is part of the process of reflecting upon what has happened in Charleston-the senseless murder of nine congregants while studying the Bible at their church, in what is, in all probability, a racially-motivated act. It's not a new understanding for me, but it comes to the fore at this time.
There are all sorts of connections we can make between this tragedy and parashat Korakh. Did Korakh stew in passive-aggressive jealousy, watching Moshe and Aaron (and his sons) get all the glory, only to be driven to an open confrontation by his own frustrations? (Hat tip to Sarah Alevsky.) Did Korakh deal with his own feelings of inadequacy by blaming others (i.e. Moshe and Aharon.) (Hat tip to Tzvi Klugerman – who also pointed out the possible parallel of how the killer in Charleston sat with those whom he attacked for a while pretending to be one of them before "rebelling" against them.)
Now, let's harken back to how I started this musing. History is written by the victors. That is the lesson I am gleaning from the story of Korakh's rebellion today. We'll never know the real, full story, only the one the Torah reports to us.
Relax. Don't get your knickers in a knot. This is not an attempt to suggest we need to understand what drove Dylan Ruff to this heinous act. It's not some sort of anti-news media screed.
I could, but won't, devote the rest of this musing to redeeming Korakh – to imagining a history in which he isn't the bad guy he is made out to be, and is more of a scapegoat and is punished as an example to other would be challengers. The makings of that musing, another one of my untold "from the diary of" stories already exist in my head and my notes, and someday, I'll imagine that "alternate not-history-history" for us. But the tragic event in Charleston has sent me in another direction, one that continues to paint Korakh as the bad example he might not actually have been.
As the discoveries at Amarna prove, no matter how hard the victors try to erase history, the real history can sometimes be outed.
That confederate flag, flying full mast at the South Carolina state capitol (while the state and US flags fly at half-mast) is a clue that the attempt to rewrite history after the Civil War has not be completely successful.
There is a part of me that wants that whole ugly scar of slavery, and the confederate rebellion to be consumed by the earth, as were Korakh and his followers. But the truth is, it hasn't gone away-just as Korakh's rebellion hasn't gone away. Wouldn't the simplest solution been to have written Korakh's rebellion out of the Torah entirely? The "victors" probably had the ability to do just that. They didn't. Is the story of Korakh's rebellion there as a cautionary tale against rebelling against G"d and G"d's anointed leaders (and the hereditary priesthood,) or is it a cautionary tale to remind us that the seeds of discontent can never be entirely eradicated, and we must be ever vigilant to seek them out and confront them when necessary. That rebel flag is serving the same purpose as the inclusion of the story of the rebellion of Korakh – a reminder that we must be ever vigilant – that we can't ever fully erase the evil over which we have been victorious. Korakh and his followers were physically erased, swallowed up into the earth (though Korakh's actual fate is highly debated – which was the topic of last year's musing for parashat Korakh entitled "Still a Loose End.") Scholars like to point out that Korakh is not mentioned at all in the retelling of this story in D'varim 11:16, or in Psalm 106. Only Datan and Abiram are singled out. Curious, isn't it. Maybe the authors of D'varim and Psalm 106 were trying to rewrite history without Korakh?
Their attempts to do so, if that was their aim, have failed. That we still read this story of Korakh's rebellion every year is proof. Just as that confederate flag is proof that the war we tried to forget is still not forgotten. Roof alleged murder in cold blood of nine innocent people involved in prayer and study is proof that it is not forgotten. Just as the story of Korakh being in Torah, when it could just as easily have been expunged, tells us that the evil of Korakh abides (though it should be noted his descendants turned into good and righteous people, and there is the strange statement in Numbers 26:11 that the sons of Korakh did not die.)
I have been vocal online about wanting to see that rebel flag taken, even torn down. I'd go there myself and do it if I could. However, we must be careful not to point to the confederate flag and lay all the blame for the continued racism that exists upon only the Civil War, and inly on the states of the confederacy. Responsibility is a slippery thing to determine. Yes, we have come a long way in our society. We fought a horrible war to end slavery (though we could have eliminated it from the very start of the country, damn you, Mssrs Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson – and in fact England beat us to it in 1833! It's also not entirely clear that the Civil War was fought over slavery or even states' rights. There were other factors that drove the conflict.) We haven't come anywhere near far enough. All that has happened lately is proof enough of that. We can point and we can blame, or we can take a long, hard look at ourselves and see how we are all part of the problem. Then, maybe then, we can find a solution.
I am always reminded of that most damning of songs from the musical "1776" entitled "Molasses, to Rum, to Slaves" in which Edward Rutlege, delegate from South Carolina to the Continental Congress sings:
"Whose fortunes are made in the triangle trade/Hail slavery, the New England dream!/Mr. Adams, I give you a toast:/Hail Boston! Hail Charleston!/Who stinketh the most?"
Yes, it was the obstinacy of the southern states that forced Jefferson to remove the offending words from the Declaration of Independence, but Rutlege's observation, as fictionalized as it might be, was an accurate and true one. The north benefited as much from the slave trade as did the south. The northern states may have sought to abolish slavery, but I don't think it was their plan to immediately embrace a classless inter-racial society. Racism remains institutionalized in this country, even with Obama in the White House. This racism leads to horrors like Charleston, and the disproportionate killing and mistreatment of blacks in confrontations with the police. We can protest about that rebel flag, but, like the story of Korakh, it serves to remind us to be ever vigilant in the cause of peace and justice. Just erasing the symbols of those we have conquered will not prevent their rising anew.
Imagine historians and archaeologists from a thousand years in the future trying to make sense of a country that apparently had a mixed race leader, but still had large traces of institutionalized racism. We can ban the heinous symbol, the stars and bars, but when archaeologists dig one up in a thousand years, they'll soon discover the truth we tried to bury and whitewash. Don't try and hide it, bury it, pretend it never happened. Confront it, and deal with it every time it happens – and it will continue to happen, at least until we reach the Messianic age. That is the lesson I am deriving from Korakh this year.
Your obedient,
A. Durlester
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Korakh 5769 - And who Put G"d In Charge (or 2009: A Space Odyssey)
Korakh 5768-If Korakh Had Guns
Korach 5767-Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad, Tabernacle?
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Korah 5765 - Stones and Pitchers and Glass Houses
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Available through the Library ofCongress, "Our Racist Presidents" gives insight as to why slaves were freed and what Lincoln really thought about them.
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Harley Cowan
Harley Cowan is a photographer and practicing architect based in Portland, Oregon.
Harley's interest in large format photography led to a research fellowship in architectural heritage documentation and preservation in the Library of Congress. Harley grew up in Richland, Washington adjacent to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. B Reactor completed in 1944 as part of the Manhattan Project, the world's first large-scale nuclear reactor which produced plutonium for nuclear bombs detonated at Trinity, New Mexico, and Nagasaki, Japan. Arguably the greatest engineering feat of the 20th Century, and the most terrible, a Promethean altar of science, it has long held a fascination. Harley's photo documentation of the Manhattan Project first began in 2017 when he was granted access to the Hanford Site and B Reactor by the Department of Energy.
For the past century, the large format camera has been the traditional tool to interpret and record architectural and engineering heritage because it allows for in-camera perspective correction, its sheet film provides greater resolution than other formats, and it satisfies a 500-year archival standard required by the Library of Congress. There was a time when photographers established themselves with work produced for a private or federal documentation program such as the Farm Security Administration or Works Progress Administration. Unlike previous New Deal programs following the Great Depression, three federal documentation programs are on-going and active today. The Historic American Buildings Survey was established in 1933 as a joint venture between the National Park Service, the American Institute of Architects, and the Library of Congress as a way to preserve American built history. Historic American Engineering Record was added in 1969 to record American industry and infrastructure. The Historic American Landscapes Survey was created in 2000 with the mandate to follow strict guidelines for black & white, large format, film photography. As a contemporary photographer, Harley believes early practice within these programs provides a valuable foundation upon which to build.
A graduate of Washington State University, Harley also served as a member of the Professional Advisory Board for WSU's School of Design & Construction for eight years. Early in his career, Harley spent six years working in the nuclear industry, his studies also taking him to Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok, Russia.
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Q: How to define a keras custom loss function in simple mathematical operation I define a custom function my_sigmoid as following:
import math
def my_sigmoid(x):
    a =  1/  ( 1+math.exp( -(x-300)/30 ) )
    return a

And then define a custom loss function called my_cross_entropy:
import keras.backend as K

def my_cross_entropy(y_true, y_pred):
    diff = abs(y_true-y_pred)
    y_pred_transform = my_sigmoid(diff)
    return K.categorical_crossentropy(0, y_pred_transform)

My keras backend is using tensorflow.
And the error shows

TypeError: must be real number, not Tensor

I'm not familiar with tensorflow and don't know how to use custom loss.
The following are my model structure and error message:
import keras.backend as K
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Conv2D, Dropout, Flatten, Dense

model=Sequential()
model.add(Conv2D(512,(5,X_train.shape[2]),input_shape=X_train.shape[1:4],activation="relu"))
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dropout(0.1))
model.add(Dense(100,activation="relu"))
model.add(Dense(100,activation="relu"))
model.add(Dense(50,activation="relu"))
model.add(Dense(10,activation="relu"))
model.add(Dense(1,activation="relu"))
model.compile(optimizer='adam', loss=my_cross_entropy)
model.fit(X_train,Y_train,batch_size = 10,epochs=200,validation_data=(X_test,Y_test))

And the shape of X_train and Y_train is :
(120, 30, 80, 1)
and
(120,)

A: Change
diff = abs(y_true-y_pred)

into
diff = K.abs(y_true-y_pred)

same for
math.exp()

change that into
K.exp()

abs and Math.exp are functions that cannot handle Tensors. If you still have problems refer to : Custom Loss function Keras Tensorflow

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KPAE, Paine Field/Snohomish County Airport, Everett, Washington (WA), for use only with the Pacific Northwest MegaScenery by PCAviator. By Robert Shofner.
Overview of Paine Field/Snohomish County Airport.
This is a "labor of love" project for me. I took my flight lessons there at Regal Air - Thanks, Ben!!! and this airport will always have a special place in my heart. Where else can you share a runway with a 747 or 767 or Boeing Stratocruiser (well, before it drowned in Puget Sound anyway) and not be in Class B?
There is ample parking for GA aircraft. I tried to be as accurate as possible with my placement of parking spots as well as the parking designations (West Ramp, East Ramp, etc.). However, although there is a Central Ramp at Paine there is no such designation available in AFCAD, so I named it North Ramp instead.
I also labeled the parking spots for aircraft that park at Regal Air, which is a training/rental business on the field on the North (really Central) Ramp. The spots for the Regal 172s are labeled REG. The 182 slots are labeled REG8 and the slot for the Piper Seneca Twin is labeled REGT. The rest of the GA slots around the airport are simply labeled GA.
Bizjets also fly in and out of Paine and I have labeled their slots as BIZ.
There are also several parking slots for the big iron since Boeing customers take deliveries of their planes here. Major facilities, owned by the Goodrich Corporation, do work on those planes also.
But Paine Field is definitely a training airport, and to that end I am including a Flight Plan file that can be used with Traffic Tools and the existing aircraft in FS2004. Unless you have changed your numbering system this file will allow for traffic with the stock 172s, 182s, the Learjet and the Beech Baron (gamely taking the place of the Piper Seneca). All of the aircraft tail numbers correspond with real aircraft that fly in and out of Paine on a daily basis.
I have not included a flight plan for the heavies because I don't have one built yet. When I do I'll be sure to upload it.
The archive paine111.zip has 8 files and directories contained within it.


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Fred Kerber
The Nets show how clueless Phil Jackson really is
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The Nets just broke a string of 16 straight home losses, dating to Dec. 26, a streak that tied the third-longest home futility run in NBA history. So naturally, Brook Lopez spoke about belief in the future.
"I don't think it's necessarily about one person," Lopez said. "It's the group we have. Really our togetherness overall. It's something everyone has faith in and believes in."
In the other locker room, the Knicks sounded like emotional wrecks after serving as unwilling 120-112 Barclays Center victims who helped the Nets end that wretched run.
"It's been a lot of confusion," Kristaps Porzingis said.
"A very bad one," Carmelo Anthony called this defeat.
So throw out records. Whose plan for the future are you liking now? The one that, granted, will take years, but seems to have purpose and direction under Nets general manager Sean Marks, or the one that has bred confusion among the Knicks in the third full year of the Phil Jackson regime, a reign that has included an 85-161 (.346) record?
The Nets needed a GM and hired a guy who did GM stuff. The Knicks needed an executive and hired a legendary coach. Yes, Jackson has 11 rings as a coach. But mini-clinics on "Our Friend, The Triangle" aside, he's not coaching. Recall the late, great Sparky Anderson's view on the role of managers and executives in championships: "If you ain't got horses, you ain't holding parades."
Marks was imported from San Antonio, given a shovel, a monstrous pile of dung and told: "Dig." An impossible task, yet in one year, despite a 12-53 record, he seems to have done more to change the atmosphere around the Nets than Jackson has done in three years with the Knicks. After Sunday's game, Jackson ignored a few reporters with a dismissive nod. Marks on his way out shook a reporter's hand with a warm greeting.
When Gregg Popovich and the Spurs visited Brooklyn in January to beat the Nets with essentially one hand tied behind their backs, Popovich praised Marks.
"The big lug is intelligent, humorous, hard-working," Popovich said. "Understands what it takes, and he's got the staying power, the persistence to use the long view and get it done the right way."
Yup, the long view. The Knicks under Jackson cleaned house, fired a coach. They fired another coach, inserted an interim and cleaned house. They replaced the interim, cleaned house and now have Jackson conducting hands-on mini-clinics to adapt to a system change late in the season.
The Nets' tale has been well-documented. For all their 2016-17 misery, they won't even have a shot at the No. 1 pick. Blame that stupendously awful 2013 draft night deal with the Celtics for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. It became Boston's do-over for trading Babe Ruth essentially for "No, No, Nanette" tickets.
Jeremy Lin and Brook LopezAP
The Nets have sweat blood for 12 victories. Their margin for error is razor-thin. Marks signed Jeremy Lin, but his injuries helped derail the season. Still, Lin's late-game plays saved a victory Sunday. In a draft-night deal, Marks acquired Caris LeVert, seemingly destined to be a quality player.
"His activity, his defensive IQ is impressive for a rookie, one of the best I've seen," Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said.
Marks landed another first-rounder at the deadline for Bojan Bogdanovic. The Nets desperately need to pull a Spurs move and draft a Kawhi Leonard late or stumble into a Jason Kidd/Vince Carter trade. Still, amid gloom, there is hope.
The Knicks gambled on Derrick Rose, a one-year experiment, and tried trading him at the deadline. They threw $72 million at Joakim Noah, whose injury history continued. Carmelo Anthony probably feels like the least appreciated All-Star on Earth. Kristaps Porzingis, a superior talent, has had an unexciting second season. They have draft picks and have done a superior job internationally (Porzingis, Willy Hernangomez, Mindaugas Kuzminskas). But what looked like a possible No. 6-7-8 playoff seed in preseason now appears a mess.
So of the two bad teams in Brooklyn on Sunday, the Nets have the better plan. It will take years, but there is a plan for some parade horses. The Knicks? Their parades have been as joyous as funeral processions.
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Audient iD4s Up For Grabs In Hospice Charity Single Fundraising Project
Audient supports local charity, Naomi House & Jacksplace in its fundraising project, 'Forevermore Song' by providing three iD4 USB audio interfaces as prizes. The Winchester-based charity has teamed up with long-term supporter and local musician Ben Dlugokecki and 30 local musicians to create the original single: Forevermore.
"It's such a nice link that the [iD4] prizes on offer were actually used to record the song"
Launching today, schools, music groups and community groups are invited to create their very own version of Forevermore and raise money with the challenge. The charity asks that people learn the song and then create, record and submit their very own version in a music video. Putting on live performances of their versions of the song are also an opportunity to raise money.
Each video will be entered into a competition, the deadline for which is 10th July 2020 at 5pm. They will be judged by an expert music panel and the winning group will get to perform their version for Naomi House & Jacksplace and a one-off pressed vinyl recording of the track with sleeve artwork designed by children at Naomi House & Jacksplace. The winning group and the group who raise the most money will each win a brand new Audient iD4 USB audio interface, and there will also be one randomly drawn winner.
30 local musicians join songwriter, Ben Dlugokecki (top right) to record the charity single Forevermore at renowned music venue The Railway Inn, Winchester
The original song was recorded at Winchester music venue, The Railway Inn using Forevermore songwriter, Ben's very own iD4. "It's such a nice link that the prizes on offer were actually used to record the song, and also that Audient products are a musician's clear choice when it comes to recording!" says Fundraising Assistant, Connor Phillips.
"Music can be so beneficial for the children and young adults visiting the hospices" ~ Naomi House & Jacksplace Charity
He's clearly passionate about the charity, which provides hospices for children and young adults with life limiting or life-threatening conditions. "Music is an essential and joyful part of life at Naomi House & Jacksplace. Music can be so beneficial for the children and young adults visiting the hospices and is a fantastic way to connect with them," he explains.
L-R Audient's Andy Allen, Connor Phillips and Lucy Gray from Naomi House & Jacksplace with one of the three prize Audient iD4 USB audio interfaces
Audient's Marketing Director, Andy Allen adds, "Encouraging local kids and young people to record music is very important to us all here at Audient so we are delighted to be a part of the competition. We are honoured to help raise funds for Naomi House & Jacksplace too, which does incredible work in the region."
Lucy Gray, Regional Fundraiser explains how the competition works: "Forevermore has been written as a track that can be individually interpreted. All lyrics, melodies, scores, harmonies and anything else we think you might need to create your video are provided on our website, alongside a Naomi House & Jacksplace version of Forevermore."
Ben reached out to local musicians to see who would want to be involved. The response he received was amazing!
Encouraging participants, she continues, "We want you and your group to put your creative hats, socks and shoes on and come up with a truly unique version of Forevermore, the more bizarre, the better! There are no limits to this video – use whatever instruments you'd like and we would definitely recommend adding in some dance moves to make sure your entry stands out to our 'expert' judging panel! You don't need to be the best singer, dancer or musician, we just want you and your group to have a good time enjoying the power of music and the amazing positive effect it can have on every single person."
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Oskar Fried - Legendary Conductor
Oskar Fried - Legendary Conductor of the 20th Century
Peter Tchaikovsky; Camille Saint-Saëns; Georges Bizet; Richard Wagner; Carl-Maria Von Weber; Leo Délibes
Oskar Fried; BerlinPhilharmonic Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Chorus & Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; British Symphony Orchestra
There were certainly no more interesting, more individual and more courageous conductors in these first two decades in the cultural life of Berlin, as Oskar Fried.
His program selections were consistently daring and highly modern for the time. He conducted world premieres of new works by Busoni and Pfitzner and the Viennese School, Schonberg, Berg, Webern. He also had the luck to be contemporary of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, and took advantage of the opportunities to learn from them. He was acquainted with Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schonberg, Feruccio Busoni, Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Scriabin, Richard Strauss and many others and conducted their works, often as their first interpreter.
His special love was the work of Gustav Mahler (the manuscript of the Adagio from his 10th Symphony is seen on the cover of this album). He had the incredible opportunity, to study all his symphonies together with the composer himself who in turn offered to him the Berlin premiere of his sixth and eighth symphonies.
What experience! Which conductor can claim today, to have studied so close to the original source! This unique historical advantage make up the unique value of his performances besides his amazing sensitivity and his strikingly hypnotic talent to lead his Orchestras, which is fortunately preserved on a number of early acoustic and then electric records.
His performance practices were highly remarkable.
I have made the effort, therefore, to restore the 78-rpm shellac recordings by Oskar Fried from my collection and publish them for you, dear listener, in the best possible sound and give you the opportunity to listen back to an era when Symphonic recordings were still an adventure, a sensation of the moment, for which an orchestra gave everything, to look back a time when conductors lived who managed to draw secrets from scores of romantic symphonic music, which they new from composers who shared the same epoch.


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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Charles-André-Joseph-Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. During World War II, he reached the rank of Brigade General and then became the leader of the Forces Françaises Libres ("FFL" — the "Free French Forces"). Between 1944 and 1946, following the liberation of France from German occupation, he was head of the French provisional government. Called to form a government in 1958, he inspired a new constitution and was the Fifth Republic's first president, serving from 1958 to 1969.
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
Opening sentence of his Mémoires de guerre.
Said before the population of Algiers after they had called upon him to take power, June 4, 1958.
Said in 1967 on the balcony of Montréal City Hall. It caused a diplomatic uproar with Canada and inflamed the Quebec sovereignty movement.
France has no friends, only interests.
Clementine Churchill: "General, you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies"
De Gaulle (in English): "France has no friends, only interests." (De Gaulle did not speak specifically of France, but of all nation-states, including Britain. This remark was in line with his saying "Men can have friends, statesmen cannot",*Les hommes peuvent avoir des amis, pas les hommes d'Etat., in Interview, December 9, 1967).
23 November 1959, Strasbourg. The phrase shown in bold is the most often quoted excerpt. De Gaulle was expressing his vision of Europe's future.
Now she is like everyone else.
Maintenant, elle est comme les autres.
When we were children, we often played war. We had a fine collection of lead soldiers. My brothers would take different countries: Xavier had Italy; Pierre, Germany. Or they would swap around. Well, I, gentlemen, always had France.
Poster À tous les Français (To All Frenchmen), August 1940.
À tous les Français was designed and displayed in London to accompany the Appel du 18 juin (Appeal of 18 June) following defeat at the Battle of France. The pair are considered to be the founding texts of the Résistance.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
"Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?" "I do not doubt it. France is a great power."
Conversation with Anthony Eden, recounted in de Gaulle's Mémoires de guerre. Quoted in The Atlantic, November 1960.
It is unnecessary, for the Republic has never ceased to exist. I was the Republic.
Reply in August 1944 to a statement of regret that the windows of the Hotel de Ville in Paris were not opened for the crowd outside cheering the reestablishment of the Republic. Quoted in The Atlantic, November 1960.
I am retiring. I have a mission, and it is coming to an end … France may still one day need an image that is pure. She must be left this image. If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc.
"A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it." De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should "pay deserved tribute to the legendary service of a great soldier".
from William Manchester's "American Caesar".
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?
Pourquoi voulez-vous qu'à 67 ans je commence une carrière de dictateur ?
Press conference, May 19 1958 (De Gaulle was changing the constitution to make government more efficient, after decades of impotent parliamentary regime, and he mocked journalists who claimed he was establishing a dictatorship).
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Il n'y a pas de politique qui vaille en dehors des réalités.
How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?
So, it is true that one's homeland is entirely human, emotional and that it is the root of action, of authority, of responsibility from which one can build Europe. What elements? Well, [nation] States, because only States are valid, are legitimate, in this respect, in addition they are capable of… As I have already said and I repeat, that at the present time, there cannot be any other Europe than that of the States, apart of course from myths, fictions, parades. From this solidarity depends all hope of uniting Europe in the political field and in the field of defense, as in the economic field. From this solidarity depends, therefore, the destiny of Europe as a whole, from the Atlantic to the Urals.
Alors, il est vrai que la Patrie est un élément humain, sentimental et que c'est sur des éléments d'action, d'autorité, de responsabilité qu'on peut construire l'Europe. Quels éléments? Eh bien, les États, car il n'y a que les États qui, à cet égard, soient valables, soient légitimes et en outre soient capables de réaliser… J'ai déjà dit et je répète, qu'à l'heure qu'il est, il ne peut pas y avoir d'autre Europe possible que celle des États, en dehors naturellement des mythes, des fictions, des parades. De cette solidarité dépend tout espoir d'unir l'Europe dans le domaine politique et dans le domaine de la défense, comme dans le domaine économique. De cette solidarité dépend, par conséquent, le destin de l'Europe tout entière, depuis l'Atlantique jusqu'à l'Oural.
I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.
Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe ! Europe ! Europe ! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.
Bien entendu, on peut sauter sur sa chaise comme un cabri en disant l'Europe ! l'Europe ! l'Europe ! mais cela n'aboutit à rien et cela ne signifie rien.
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
Vive Montreal; Vive le Québec! Vive le Québec libre!
From a balcony at Montreal City Hall, with particular emphasis on the word 'libre'. The phrase, a slogan used by Quebecers who favoured Quebec sovereignty, and de Gaulle's use of it, was seen by them as lending his tacit support to the movement. The speech sparked a diplomatic incident with Canada's government, and was condemned by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, saying that "Canadians do not need to be liberated."
Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.
Discussing the Force de Frappe. Quoted in The New York Review of Books, 29 April 2010.
The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
in Vers l'armée de métier.
Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
in La France et son armée.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
in Le Fil de l'épée.
in Le Fil de l'épée.
Character is the virtue of hard times.
Difficulty attracts a man of character, for it is by embracing it that he fulfils himself.
General de Gaulle was the de facto leader of the Free French Forces which had escaped to London in World War II. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, a hero of world War I, had signed an armistice (agreement to end fighting) with the invading forces of Nazi Germany, and led the Nazi-collaborating government of Vichy France in the south. The Nazis had occupied the north of France. De Gaulle was opposed to surrender and had left France on June 15, 1940 after Pétain made clear he wanted to do so.
Three days later, de Gaulle obtained special permission from Winston Churchill to broadcast a speech via BBC Radio over France, despite the British Cabinet's efforts to block the broadcast. In the speech, de Gaulle reminded the French people that the British Empire and the United States of America would support them in an effort to retake their land from the Nazis. On June 18, 1940, at 19:00, de Gaulle's voice was broadcast nationwide.
"The leaders who, for many years, were at the head of French armies, have formed a government. This government, alleging our armies to be undone, agreed with the enemy to stop fighting. Of course, we were subdued by the mechanical, ground and air forces of the enemy. Infinitely more than their number, it was the tanks, the airplanes, the tactics of the Germans which made us retreat. It was the tanks, the airplanes, the tactics of the Germans that surprised our leaders to the point to bring them there where they are today.
"Believe me, I speak to you with full knowledge of the facts and tell you that nothing is lost for France. The same means that overcame us can bring us to a day of victory. For France is not alone! She is not alone! She is not alone! She has a vast Empire behind her. She can align with the British Empire that holds the sea and continues the fight. She can, like England, use without limit the immense industry of United States.
"This war is not limited to the unfortunate territory of our country. This war is not finished by the battle of France. This war is a world-wide war. All the faults, all the delays, all the suffering, do not prevent there to be, in the world, all the necessary means to one day crush our enemies. Vanquished today by mechanical force, we will be able to overcome in the future by a superior mechanical force.
"The destiny of the world is here. I, General de Gaulle, currently in London, invite the officers and the French soldiers who are located in British territory or who would come there, with their weapons or without their weapons, I invite the engineers and the special workers of armament industries who are located in British territory or who would come there, to put themselves in contact with me.
"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London."
Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
I am Joan of Arc. I am Clemenceau.
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
Reported in the National Review (November 1962) as a misattribution created by extreme rightists. See Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 33.
Leahy also watched with dismay as General de Gaulle's militant supporters eclipsed the leaders Leahy believed had the real interests of France at heart. De Gaulle, who had now taken the Cross of Lorraine as his personal symbol, was too ruthless to fail.
Leahy was by no means ready to accept the tall, vainglorious Frenchman as the natural leader of French interests. In common with most of his staff who had been with him in Vichy, he distrusted de Gaulle and his French Committee of National Liberation (FCNL). As early as the previous September, Leahy had expressed his views to friends in the State Department, and "Doc" Matthews had sent him a collection of letters and reports from Murphy and others naming chapter and verse of how de Gaulle and his followers had consistently undercut Giraud. Leahy had no particular brief for Giraud, but he was the one recognized by the British and Americans as French military leader in the Mediterranean. For the same reason de Gaulle had been kept in the dark before Torch- because his headquarters could not keep a secret- Giraud concealed from the FCNL his invasion of Corsica in September until just before the landings. De Gaulle's response was to use the FCNL, which he now dominated, to deprive "the French Commander-in-Chief of the authority and freedom of action which both he and our own military leaders have felt was essential. Such behavior, Leahy felt, was all of a piece with what was to be expected from Charles de Gaulle and his Free French. There was no living with de Gaulle, but because of decisions made by Churchill and FDR, Leahy had to try.
Looks like a king in exile.
During his stay in London King was presented to King George VI at Buckingham Palace. His Majesty, wearing the uniform of an admiral of the fleet, received King in a sitting room where he was at work on papers. Whiskey or tea was offered, and as King had given up spirits for the duration of the war, he gladly accepted the tea, which was ready. The King reminisced agreeably about his cruises in the Royal Navy, and asked the admiral about his own with such tact that the audience, in retrospect, resembled a chat between a couple of old sailors. None of this comfortable atmosphere prevailed when General de Gaulle called at Claridge's to pay his respects to King and Marshall. Stark, who throughout the war skillfully conducted many negotiations with the Free French, had arranged the meeting. De Gaulle, feeling himself to the the head of a state, seemingly considered that he should be called upon, but as it had been pointed out that he had two stars, while Marshall and King had four, he presented himself at Claridge's, although with rather ill grace. He appeared at the proper time with a single aide, but conducted himself very stiffly, and after delivering himself of a long speech in French, in which he asked for many things that we needed ourselves at that moment, took his departure. It was scarcely a call calculated to make friends!
In the course of the Casablanca Conference, General de Gaulle, who was in London, had been invited by the Prime Minister to come to North Africa. De Gaulle was offended that he had not been invited further in advance, and in one way and another proved to be his usual difficult self. Mr. Eden, the Foreign Secretary, had to exert great pressure to induce him to leave London for Casablanca. When he arrived there the firmest treatment by Mr. Churchill was required to persuade him to call upon Giraud. Finally in the interests of at least good public feeling a "shot-gun marriage" was arranged. At a press conference on 24 January, De Gaulle and Giraud were made to sit in a row of chairs, alternating with Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill, and to be photographed shaking hands. As the newsreel cameras finished their work, each French general dropped the other's hand as though it were red hot.
Prior to the landings De Gaulle had made it clear that he wished to be definitely recognized as the ruler of France, and claimed that he alone had the right to give orders to the people of France. Once the landings had taken place these difficulties did not diminish, and the Joint Chiefs during their stay in England had a taste of these complications when De Gaulle undertook to change the regulations about the use of United States currency in France by American troops. The Joint Chiefs sent General Koenig, who, as the commander of the French forces of the interior, was serving as a direct subordinate of Eisenhower's in the Allied organization, and asked him what the difficulty was. It appeared that Koenig could not see De Gaulle's point either. As Eisenhower was troubled about the correct manner of managing civilian affairs in France until a proper organization could be set up, he asked the Joint Chiefs what to do, and they proposed that he at once send a message to the President, suggesting that if De Gaulle would not cooperate properly, another Frenchman be designated to manage French civilian affairs, and that De Gaulle be ignored, entirely. The Joint Chiefs did not stay to hear the answer from the President, but later that evening they received word that he had concurred.
Present at Casablanca but excluded from every talk that mattered was Charles de Gaulle. No one seemed to know quite what to do with him. But before the conference was over, his differences with the Allies had been patched up somewhat, and his future role had been much clarified.


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Die Collectio (ecclesiae) Thessalonicensis ist eine kleine kanonische Sammlung aus dem Jahr 531, die päpstliche und kaiserliche Schreiben zur Kirchenverfassung von Illyricum enthält.

Die Sammlung soll auf einer (sonst nicht belegten) römischen Synode von 531 von griechischen Bischöfen vorgelegt worden sein, um die Jurisdiktion der römischen Kirche in Illyricum zu belegen. Die Sammlung ist nur in einer Handschrift aus dem neunten Jahrhundert (BAV, Vat. lat. 5751) als Teil der Synodalakten überliefert und auch hier nur fragmentarisch. Allerdings gibt es mehrere Hinweise auf eine Benutzung der Sammlung im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert durch Päpste und Konzilien, und noch Lukas Holste könnte eine vollständigere Handschrift als Vat. lat. 5751 gekannt haben.

Das erhaltene Dossier enthält 24 Schreiben der Päpste von Damasus (366–384) bis zu Leo I. (440–461) sowie einen Briefwechsel zwischen den Kaisern Flavius Honorius und Theodosius II. (nach 421) und zwei Briefe an Papst Leos I. Eines der enthaltenen Stücke, ein Reskript Theodosius' II.,  wurde von Theodor Mommsen als Fälschung erwiesen. Die vollständige Fassung der Thessalonicensis scheint Schreiben weiterer Päpste von Hilarius bis Hormisdas enthalten zu haben.

Die editio princeps durch Lukas Holste erschien postum 1662 unter dem Titel Collectio Romana bipartita. Die Sammlung wurde von den Ballerini für ihre Ausgabe der Werke Leos des Großen verwendet und in der Einleitung in Collectio ecclesiae Thessalonicensis umbenannt. Karl (von) Silva-Tarouca S.J. legte 1937 eine kritische Edition vor und verwendete den bis heute gängigen Titel Collectio Thessalonicensis.

Edition
 Epistularum Romanorum Pontificum ad Vicarios per Illyricum aliosque Episcopos. Collectio Thessalonicensis ad fidem Codicis Vat. Lat. 5751, ed. C. Silva-Tarouca (= Textus et Documenta, Bd. 23), Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rom 1937. (Digitalisat)

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Christentum (6. Jahrhundert)

Kanonische Sammlung

Rechtsquelle des Mittelalters
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Two college basketball stars arrested in prostitution sting
13 men were arrested last night, Friday, July 24 in a prostitution sting in Paterson, New Jersey. According to reports amongst the thirteen arrested for soliciting sex from a undercover cop were NBA and college basketball stars Fuquan Edwin (New Orleans Pelicans) and Myles Mack (Rutgers).
Via NorthJersey:
"The anti-prostitution sting conducted by the Passaic County Sheriff's Office focused on the corner of Market and East 26th streets, an area in the 5th Ward where streetwalkers regularly try to flag down johns, authorities said.
Alleged customers approached each of the sheriff's detectives wanting to pay money in exchange of a sexual act.
Edwin, Mack and the other nine men who were charged with solicited and no other offenses were released after being processed, authorities said.
Edwin, 23, and Mack, 22, had been teammates at Paterson Catholic before that school closed in 2010. Edwin finished playing at Seton Hall last year and participated in the National Basketball Association's summer league several weeks ago. He was named the Big East's Defensive Player of the Year when he was a senior and won second-team all-conference honors.
Mack was not picked in the NBA draft last month after finishing his college career earlier this year. He was among the 10-top all-time leaders at Rutgers in points, assists and steals."
Labels: Fuquan edwin, Myles Mack, prostitution


LORD Smith is undergoing tests in hospital after he collapsed from a suspected heart attack at a dinner hosted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The peer, who led the Smith Commission – the post-referendum discussions on further powers for Holyrood – was dining with Scottish business leaders at Bute House, the First Minister's official residence, when he took ill.
A waitress working at the event, who is studying to be a nurse, is believed to have revived him after he became unwell at the dinner on Tuesday night.
It is understood she tended to the peer and gave him first aid treatment until paramedics arrived. Lord Smith is recovering in hospital in Edinburgh where he is said to be undergoing further tests.
Photographs showed Ms Sturgeon's husband, Peter Murrell, the SNP chief executive, watching from the steps of Bute House as Glasgow-born Lord Smith, 71, was taken away by ambulance.
A spokesman for the peer said: "Lord Smith fell ill at a dinner in Bute House on Tuesday night. He was taken to hospital where he remains while some tests are carried out.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: "The First Minister hosted a dinner at Bute House on Tuesday night.
Lord Smith served as chairman of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games organising committee, after a distinguished business career, which included roles as chairman of Forth Ports and the Green Investment Bank and a stint as Scottish governor of the BBC.
He is currently chairman of energy company SSE, a role he is set to relinquish at the turn of the year.
He is also in charge of leading Clyde Gateway to deliver the Commonwealth Games legacy.
He was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to deliver a package of recommendations for further Scottish devolution immediately after last September's referendum – a package that Ms Sturgeon described as having fallen short "in almost every area".
The recommendations included giving Scotland the power to set income tax rates, but critics said they did not deliver in many areas, specifically on welfare and the bedroom tax.


No official Sanskrit name, but it's sometimes called Ashva Sanchalanasana.
Step the right foot forward and plant it between the hands. Keep the left leg high, left toes pressing down and left heel stretching toward the floor.
Keeping the left leg straight and balanced, bend deeply into the right knee. Bring your hands to the knee and distribute your weight evenly between your front and back feet.
Tuck the chin, keeping the neck long, and gaze at an unmoving point in front of you.
Stay here, or if you feel steady, stretch the arms up straight overhead.
Engage the abdominal muscles and breathe deeply and evenly.
To come out of the pose, bring your hands down to the floor and step the right foot back to downward dog.
Lunges improve balance, build heat in the body, and build strength in the legs, as well as in the arms when arms are extended. Balancing on the rear foot is good for the foot muscles.
Those with balance problems may want to modify the pose – practice near a wall for stability, or drop the back knee down to the mat for a low lunge instead. Those with serious knee problems may want to avoid this pose. Those with neck injuries can try looking down at the floor instead of straight ahead.
Before coming to East Eagle Yoga, I rarely practiced lunges. The vinyasa-style yoga classes I attended in the past didn't include lunges in sun salutations, and I almost never did them as part of my home practice. so when I first came to East Eagle, all the lunges were a huge issue for me: my thighs burned, my arms ached, I couldn't keep my balance and I wobbled all over the place. Coming from a vinyasa-focused practice, I found it difficult to hold poses for a long time in the classical way, and this made lunges even more difficult. Classical sun salutations quickly became my least favorite part of hatha yoga classes at East Eagle.
I'm happy to say now that my experience with lunges is turning around. With continued practice, both at the yoga center and at home, my balance and stamina have improved tremendously. I've been able to find a level of comfort in just holding the pose, and now I'm able to push myself further and deepen into the pose. Having some sense of ease in lunges means that my mind can relax too; I can clear my mind better and focus more on the breath (rather than on the discomfort). Lunges still aren't my favorite, but I can tell that I'm making progress!


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Leicester Tigers 'cancel contract' of Mike Ford as Kevin Sinfield lined up - according to reports
Leeds Rhinos boss strongly linked with move to Mattioli Woods Welford Road
Bobby Bridge
Mike Ford of Leicester Tigers
Leicester Tigers have 'cancelled' the contract of defence coach Mike Ford to pave the way for Kevin Sinfield to join the club, according to reports.
The Rugby Paper has tonight (Monday) reported exclusively that former England and Ireland coach Ford's time at Mattioli Woods Welford Road is coming to an end, having originally joined the club in March 2019.
Ford was initially employed as a 'senior coach' as the two-time Heineken Champions Cup winners looked to avoid relegation in the 2019/20 campaign.
He would then become the club's attack coach before switching to leading the defence entering the 2020/21 season following the recruitment of Rob Taylor as attack coach.
The Australian would last only five months at the Tigers when he parted company with the club in November 2020. He followed Boris Stankovich out of Mattioli Woods Welford Road and director of rugby Geordan Murphy would also leave a week after Taylor.
During that period, Leicester Tigers legend Rory Underwood left his role as a non-executive director and this week, Ben Kay also left the board after serving since 2014.
Super League legend Sinfield is currently the Leeds Rhinos director of rugby. The seven-time Grand Final winner was awarded an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours, to add to an MBE he received seven years ago.
Leicester Tigers look set to confirm third fly-half departure this summer
Ellis Genge's praise for Leicester Tigers team-mate: 'The world is his oyster'
The honour was in recognition of Sinfield's services to charity fundraising and to rugby league, after he raised more than £2m for the battle against motor neurone disease by running seven marathons in seven days last winter.
Sinfield's friend and former teammate Rob Burrow was diagnosed with the disease in 2019.


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Q: How do I extract the Year from an Excel serial date number If I want to convert an Excel serial date to a datetime using PowerShell I can do
$date = 43557
[DateTime]::FromOADate($date)
and the get the entire datetime, but how can I extract only the year from the serial date and pass it to a variable?

A: Thank you mklement0. Posting your suggestion as an answer to help other community members.
You can use [DateTime]::FromOADate($date).Year.
You can refer to DateTime Struct and Powershell reading Excel date as 5 digit number


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Dawson Advertiser
Bridge dedicated to local man
House Rep. Kevin Tanner and Marcus Byrd
Kimberly Boim
Updated: Jan. 7, 2015, 3:36 a.m.
Marcus Byrd, a longtime Dawson County resident, businessman and Boy Scout leader, will be remembered when a bridge across the Etowah River is dedicated in his name Thursday, Jan. 8, at 2 p.m.
The bridge is located on Highway 53, approximately three miles east of downtown Dawsonville.
Parking for the event is at Uncle Shucks, east of the bridge.
Marcus Byrd and his business partner, Don Stephens, were responsible for much of the growth around Ga. 400 and Highway 53. The pair brought the first chain grocery store into Dawson County, and the first major shopping center that currently includes Ingles.
Marcus was also dedicated to the Boy Scouts, and even after his son was grown, he stayed involved for 30-plus years, House Rep. Kevin Tanner said. Through his leadership, many Boy Scouts did great projects in our community.
Tanners Eagle Scout project was one of them.
Back in the mid-80s, there were no street signs in Dawsonville, Tanner said, explaining his Eagle project. If you werent from here, you had no idea where you were.
Tanner researched the citys streets to determine their correct legal names and how many there were. Next, he estimated the cost of signage and posts and raised money from local businesses to cover expenses.
Under Marcuss leadership, we got a group of boys together and installed the signs, Tanner said. He encouraged me to stay involved in the community, and it kept me out of trouble. Some of the leadership abilities I have came from Marcus. I try to emulate people like him.
Deborah Tellfry, Byrds daughter, said she feels honored.
Kevin is a very special young man, and we feel very blessed that he thought to remember Daddy, she said. Daddy loved this county and its people. If Daddy could come back right now and see how everything has grown, hed be grinning from ear to ear. His dreams are being fulfilled.
Tanner said no taxpayer money is being used to pay for the new sign at the bridge. He plans to personally cover the costs, $300 to $400.
The public is invited to attend the naming ceremony.
6 variances approved by board
City charts course for spending
Aww Shucks! Corn maze open to public
GBI releases sketch of jewel thief


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Fighting the Mafia on Its Own Turf
Alto Belice Corleonese, Italy
La Placido Rizzotto is one of nine farm co-ops in a network of properties that were seized from Sicily's Mafia and reused to create a productive alternative to the area's crime-based economy. Part of the Libera Terra (Freed Land) network, La Placido Rizzotto employs 22 people and its farm, winery, and tourist inn generated nearly $900,000 in sales in 2019. The government has confiscated thousands of properties in its effort to hurt the Mafia economically, but managing the properties remains a challenge that the "social use" movement addresses. Libera Terra's model has been copied by an Argentinian co-op.
Organized crime Agricultural cooperatives Community-based crime prevention
Business with social goals Community control and ownership Expanding Access
Behind LA's dramatic decline in gang violence
Ann Brenoff
The Huffington Post 24 February 2015 Text / 800-1500 Words
In the past, Los Angeles was a dangerous city fraught with gang wars. Lately, though, LA has become a safer city due ...
Social Media Transforms the Way Chicago Fights Gang Violence
Social Media Transforms the Way Chicago Fights ...
John Buntin
Governing 1 October 2013 Text / Over 3000 Words
Chicago is curbing homicides through an anti-violence initiative that uses social networks to rank people's likelihoo...
How 'Violence Interrupters' Are Trying to Stop Gang Shootings in Brooklyn
How 'Violence Interrupters' Are Trying to Stop ...
John Surico
Vice 16 December 2015 Text / Over 3000 Words
In a year that has seen murder rise in New York, locals are trying to mediate between gang members, in part by using ...
Veterans, gang members find peace in unexpected 'brotherhood'
Veterans, gang members find peace in unexpected...
Nissa Rhee
The anti-violence program at a YMCA in Chicago has war veterans mentoring young gang members as a treatment for the m...
A Fla. District Leads in Violence Prevention
Kristen A. Graham
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) 1 April 2011 Text / 800-1500 Words
Palm Beach County, Florida has many of the same social problems that Philadelphia has, including "gangs, drugs, and p...
Study: New Haven's Project Longevity shows positive results
Study: New Haven's Project Longevity shows posi...
Ed Stannard
New Haven Register 24 October 2015 Text / 800-1500 Words
Project Longevity, a program aimed at reducing violence by gang and group members, has had a positive impact in redu...
Migration outlier: How Nicaragua escaped neighbors' deadly spiral
Migration outlier: How Nicaragua escaped neighb...
Reuters 28 August 2014 Text / 800-1500 Words
Crushing poverty and extreme violence - fueled by drug trafficking and police corruption - are behind a mass migratio...
Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar
Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics 10 September 2015 Podcast / Over 15 Minutes
Researchers set out to measure the efficacy of a program called Becoming a Man, which seems to be proving that, for a...
Interrupting violence in Brooklyn
Elissa Curtis
Trymaine Lee
MSNBC 8 April 2014 Text / Under 800 Words
In Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, an organization called Save Our Streets Crown Heights (S.O.S.) is taking st...
Can a new victims advocacy movement break cycles of violence?
Can a new victims advocacy movement break cycle...
Mark Obbie
Al Jazeera 13 January 2016 Text / 1500-3000 Words
A growing number of organizations—rallying around victim advocacy—are calling for shorter sentences for offenders and...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/gang-violence-decline_n_6656840.html?cps=gravity_2659_7317138142693194709
In the past, Los Angeles was a dangerous city fraught with gang wars. Lately, though, LA has become a safer city due to six changes enforced by the police cracking down on public violence and gangs.
http://www.governing.com/topics/urban/gov-social-media-transforms-chicago-policing.html
Chicago is curbing homicides through an anti-violence initiative that uses social networks to rank people's likelihood of killing and being killed. Police then do home visits and have personal conversations with people of high risk to inform them of consequences of future crimes.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4wbp49/how-violence-interrupters-are-trying-to-stop-gang-shootings-in-brooklyn
In a year that has seen murder rise in New York, locals are trying to mediate between gang members, in part by using "violence interrupters," who are trained to break cycles of violence.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2015/1111/Veterans-gang-members-find-peace-in-unexpected-brotherhood
The anti-violence program at a YMCA in Chicago has war veterans mentoring young gang members as a treatment for the mental and physical wounds of violence. The gang members have healthy role models and the veterans a new sense of purpose.
http://www.pulitzer.org/files/2012/public_service/assault09.pdf
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network)
Palm Beach County, Florida has many of the same social problems that Philadelphia has, including "gangs, drugs, and poverty." However, their school system has managed to keep students safe by employing "safe-school case managers" who build relationships with students, and they offer a youth court that is a system run by students who peer-review cases of unrest. The initiatives in this county has prevented school violence from happening without metal detectors and just two police officers.
http://www.nhregister.com/article/NH/20151024/NEWS/151029727
Project Longevity, a program aimed at reducing violence by gang and group members, has had a positive impact in reducing shootings and homicides in New Haven, according to a study by Yale University sociologists.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/28/us-usa-immigration-nicaragua-idUSKBN0GS0AM20140828
Crushing poverty and extreme violence - fueled by drug trafficking and police corruption - are behind a mass migration of Central American children to the United States in recent months that has overwhelmed U.S. border resources and driven illegal immigration to the fore in U.S. congressional elections. But the United Nations has praised Nicaragua's security model, which includes social services to help youths in gangs find jobs as well as sport programs like little-league baseball teams.
http://freakonomics.com/2015/09/10/preventing-crime-for-pennies-on-the-dollar
Podcast / Over 15 Minutes
Researchers set out to measure the efficacy of a program called Becoming a Man, which seems to be proving that, for all the billions of dollars spent on complicated anti-crime programs, something as simple and cheap as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy seems more effective in reducing crime (and, not unrelated, keeping teenagers in school).
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/interrupting-violence-brooklyn
In Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, an organization called Save Our Streets Crown Heights (S.O.S.) is taking steps to disrupt violence. The organization is modeled after Chicago's violence interrupters, which employ people from the neighborhood to connect with those most at-risk and disrupt conflicts and retalitory violence.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/13/a-new-advocacy-movements-breaks-cycle-of-victimization-and-violence.html
A growing number of organizations—rallying around victim advocacy—are calling for shorter sentences for offenders and better counseling for victims across the United States.


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Timber Ridge Elementary opens on time, Brings many Snoqualmie Students 'home' for School
September 2, 2016 by Danna McCall 1 Comment
Just 17 months after the official ground breaking, and even though 'Meet your Teacher' Day had to be pushed back to the first day of class, SVSD's newest school welcomed hundreds of elementary students on August 31, 2016.
Timber Ridge Elementary School (TRES), located at the corner of SE Swenson Drive and Snoqualmie Parkway, is approximately 70,000 square feet with 31 classrooms – and has capacity for about 650 students.
Although some exterior work remains to be finished, students and families eagerly entered the building bright and early Wednesday morning.
TRES front entry
The $35 million school is very similar to Cascade View Elementary, with a few tweaks based on feedback from CVES staff – like a slightly bigger gymnasium and a covered playground. Each classroom wing also has one additional room, which increased permanent capacity.
The school's design incorporated dendrochronology, the science of tree ring dating, so one of the final interior finishing touches was a large cross-section of an old growth timber encased in glass. It's located in the school's entryway,
Old growth timber cross-section in the TRES entryway
TRES the first new school constructed in the growing Snoqualmie Valley since voters passed a $53 million bond in 2003, a bond that funded the construction of Cascade View ES and Twin Falls MS.
Wednesday morning Snoqualmie Police Officers had two vehicles parked, with lights flashing, at the intersection of Swenson and Snoqualmie Parkway as a reminder to drivers about the new school and added pedestrian traffic the area will now see on a regular basis.
Return to Neighborhood School for Local Families
The opening of TRES marks a big change for many of its students and families: going to school in the city where they reside. For the past six years, students living in the neighborhoods surrounding the school had been bused to Fall City and North Bend where classroom space was available.
Exterior Work to Finish
Crews are still working hard to complete the finishing touches of the school's exterior while students and staff get familiar with the brand new interior.
The covered play area in the rear of the building isn't quite finished, but it is expected to be done soon which will allow the new playground equipment, complete with a northwest theme and rubber padding underneath, to get a good 'working in' from hundreds of little feet.
As of Wednesday some landscaping work remained, and some exterior touches on the front of the school, but nothing drastic enough to hamper the start of a new school year at the new school.
A Grand Opening event for Timber Ridge Elementary will be held on September 8th.
Students and staff outside TRES, August 31st. Photo: SVSD
TRES front entry area
TRES side view, location of gymnasium
TRES covered playground area
TRES gymnasium interior
Filed Under: School News, Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Valley Info, Valley News Tagged With: Top Stories
Janet Jenson says
How nice that it's opening. The new Arbor Heights school is opening too. Gotta get used to school bells and screaming kids again.


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not accurately position a receiver to better than 100metres.
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in a posting made to the USENET newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav.
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looking for in excess of 1.1 Million Active Geocaches (the Hidden caches) Worldwide.
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Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (Hardcover)
By William Souder
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction
A resonant biography of America's most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression.
The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California's limitless bounty, fascinated by the guileless decency of the downtrodden denizens of Cannery Row, and appalled by the country's refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice—paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy—setting him apart from the writers of the so-called "lost generation."
A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money—which passed through his hands as quickly as it came in. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse, all of which drive public debate to this day.
Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work.
William Souder's books include biographies of John Steinbeck, Rachel Carson (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and John James Audubon (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). He lives in Grant, Minnesota.
Painstakingly researched, psychologically nuanced, unshowy, lucid.... Souder, in his own humble style, has brought a deeply human Steinbeck forth in all his flawed, melancholy, brilliant complication.
— Alexander C. Kafka - Washington Post
Souder's sympathy for Steinbeck ... is most effective and eloquent in his depiction of the California landscape or of the sea, which he describes as swimming with small pelagic crabs 'like a crimson carpet spread across an ocean the color of lapis lazuli.'
— Brenda Wineapple - New York Times Book Review
A comprehensive new biography of America's best-known novelist of the Great Depression arrives at a timely moment.
— Joumana Khatib - New York Times
Vividly evokes the landscape 'between the mountains and by the sea' that nurtured [Steinbeck's] love of nature.... [An] appreciative yet clear-eyed assessment.
— Wendy Smith - Boston Globe
A brisk and engaging account by a highly-regarded biographer whose estimation of Steinbeck's importance a half-century after his death is itself testimony to his durability as a writer of fiction and critic of our world.
— Donald Coers - Steinbeck Now
Bracing.... Steinbeck remains widely read and relevant today, as vibrantly illuminated by Mad at the World.
— Henry L. Carrigan Jr. - BookPage
[Souder] knows his subject well and writes with a storyteller's clean momentum.
— Phillip Lopate - Times Literary Supplement
William Souder's Mad at the World is a stupendous biography of John Steinbeck. By connecting California's fog, farms, forests and fisheries to Steinbeck's growth as an artist Souder has elevated the great Nobel Prize–winning novelist to relevancy in today's depression-stuck America. The backstories on how Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath and his relationship with marine biologist Ed Ricketts are extraordinary. Throughout the narrative Souder provides first-rate literary analysis and gorgeous prose-styling. This is a book for the ages. Highly recommended!
— Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history, Rice University, and author of Rightful Heritage
Brilliance follows brilliance in this illuminating biography of John Steinbeck. William Souder reveals his with a vibrant narrative and prose worthy of the master himself. Every page comes alive with the force of history, the wonder of place, and the friends, strangers, and dogs that shaped the sensibilities of the man who became the conscience of modern America.
— Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
A comprehensive, eloquent exploration of the life and career of John Steinbeck…Steinbeck fans could not ask for a more nuanced account of this troubled giant of American literature.
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The 2006 AMD at The Glen was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race that was held on August 13, 2006, at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York. Contested over 90 laps on the 2.45 mile (3.942 km) road course, it was the 22nd race of the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season. Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing won the race.

There were only five drivers eliminated from the race; all due to racing accidents.

Background
Watkins Glen International (nicknamed "The Glen") is an automobile race track located in Watkins Glen, New York at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. It was long known around the world as the home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for twenty consecutive years (1961–1980), but the site has been home to road racing of nearly every class, including the World Sportscar Championship, Trans-Am, Can-Am, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the International Motor Sports Association and the IndyCar Series.

Initially, public roads in the village were used for the race course. In 1956 a permanent circuit for the race was built. In 1968 the race was extended to six hours, becoming the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen. The circuit's current layout has more or less been the same since 1971, although a chicane was installed at the uphill Esses in 1975 to slow cars through these corners, where there was a fatality during practice at the 1973 United States Grand Prix. The chicane was removed in 1985, but another chicane called the "Inner Loop" was installed in 1992 after a fatal accident during the previous year's NASCAR Winston Cup event.

The circuit is known as the Mecca of North American road racing and is a very popular venue among fans and drivers. The facility is currently owned by International Speedway Corporation.

Qualifying

Race recap
Kurt Busch had the pole position for this race, in Penske Racing's #2 Miller Lite-sponsored Dodge. Busch was seeking his first road course win of his Cup career, following numerous near-misses and his Busch win the previous day. Busch controlled the race early before being penalized for coming onto pit road when it closed due to an untimely caution. Busch was sent to the rear of the field and the race then got controlled by Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick who passed Tony during the final 3 laps to win the race.

It was Harvick's first road course win of his career and the top-ten also ended with some road course aces finishing in the top ten; Robby Gordon finished fourth in his own car and Scott Pruett, a non-regular, finished in the top-ten substituting for David Stremme in Chip Ganassi's #40 Coors Light-sponsored Dodge.

Post-race penalties were handed out in the aftermath of a final-lap incident between Boris Said and Ryan Newman. After Said and Newman tangled in the "inner-loop", several cars made attempts to avoid the collision. Said was penalized for "rough-driving" with his incident with Newman and for skipping the bus-stop, sending him from 6th place to 31st. Ron Fellows, who originally finished 10th, was sent to 32nd after also skipping the bus-stop. Michael Waltrip was sent from 15th place to the last driver one lap down after making avoidable contact with Kyle Busch on the final lap, and then skipping the bus-stop.

Results

Race Statistics
 Time of race: 2:52:27
 Average Speed:
 Pole Speed:
 Cautions: 10 for 22 laps
 Margin of Victory: 0.892 sec
 Lead changes: 14
 Percent of race run under caution: 24.4%
 Average green flag run: 6.2 laps

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August 2006 sports events in the United States