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The empress was no longer used to the snow.
She had been raised here and, as a child, had played happily in similar snowfalls.
Now, however, she was old, and felt the cold seeping deep into her bones. She had lived too long away from her home, she realised with a pang of regret; too long in warmer climates that had softened her.
She anxiously glanced back inside the tent, towards her great-grandson, wrapped up warm in his crib.
Unlike us, she thought, the Holy Parents had fled with the infant Jesus to the heat of Egypt, not the cold of Essylwg. But Egypt wasn't safe for the young Magnus, whereas this was the very edges of the empire, not really fully under its control anymore.
Besides, it was here she had to come, she believed, to complete her task.
She stepped outside of the tent's awning, this time looking over towards the carriage that had been safely parked up for the night. It was guarded by just a handful of legionaries, but so few had been prepared to risk remaining loyal to her.
She smiled, wondering if they ever sensed the presence of the other guardians that remained invisible to them, yet she could plainly see: the angels, sent here to help her achieve her goal.
When Helen awoke, she immediately noticed that the old empress's bed was empty.
The empress seemed to sleep so little on a night, as if she either had unimaginable reserves of energy, or she remained too anxious to have a peaceful night.
Of course, no such concerns worried the child, who was still fast asleep.
Helen slipped out from beneath her warm bedsheets, grateful for the lushly carpeted floor as her bare feet sank into its thick woollen pile. She silently made her way across to the lantern light by the tent's doorway, coming behind the old empress as she stared out into the night.
The snow was now falling in much heavier, more ferocious swirls than it had earlier. It would slow down their journey all the more.
'You should be asleep,' the empress declared sternly without bothering to make even the most fleeting of glances over her shoulder.
Within the swirls of snow, the ferocious swarming of angry white flakes against the darkness of the sky, it was possible to see other images, other creatures, much as our imaginations allow us to see ships and dragons in the clouds, or bears and lions in the stars. Around the guarding soldiers, draped in thick robes to keep out the cold, the white whirls became vast, fluttering wings, as if they were a host of guarding angels rather than men.
No one but the empress was allowed to know what she had brought with her in the elaborate, sturdily constructed carriage. It was long, slim, low: useless for comfortably carrying people. But the legionnaires had been told that it had to be protected at all times, no matter the weather.
There was so much, Helen realised, to learn from this old empress.
She had survived to be over eighty years old when most would be lucky to reach thirty. Her highly elevated position made an early death almost as likely as that of the poor, those vying for positions within court resorting to poisons, slander, or treachery to make their way up the ladder of leadership.
Helen thought carefully about the empress's question.
'When you were younger?' she said with great amusement, smiling down once more upon the young Helen.
'They say I'm wise beyond my years,' Helen replied with the beginnings of a scowl, well aware that people who said this rarely meant it purely as a complement.
The old empress nodded, yet not without accompanying her agreement with an anxious narrowing of her eyes.
Helen said it as a matter of fact, without any hint of fear. This is what she had sensed since she and her father's men had greeted the old empress and her small band of legionnaires on the shore over a month ago.
The empress glanced down at her, grinning with loving admiration.
Helen saw the old empress's eyes fleetingly flicker over towards the solid patch of darkness lying between their tent and the one occupied by Serverus the scribe (a man tasked with accurately recording the empress's entire journey from its beginnings on the other side of the empire).
erest glint; the sparkle of beady eyes briefly caught in the extremes of the lantern's already dim light.
It was a hawk, Helen was sure.
Admittedly, it was more likely that it was a fox: there were always foxes skulking around an encampment, looking for easy food amongst the waste, amongst the spills of badly handled cases. Even so, Helen sensed that it was a hawk, even though it made little sense that it would out on a night – and, moreover, so close to the ground too.
Perhaps she'd simply become overly aware of the presence of hawks: after all, the old empress always seemed particularly wary of them, as if granting them a degree of intelligence higher than most men.
It was the same with crows and wolves. On seeing one drawing close, the old empress would carefully observe them intently while – with a deft wave of a hand – ordering everyone else to continue with whatever they were doing, as if she hadn't been distracted.
Crows could be harbingers of inauspicious news, hawks could cause mayhem amongst the livestock (yes, even amongst animals bigger that fowls, if they had any young), while wolves always had to be treated with caution: and yet the empress's interest in these creatures went far beyond what any normal person might grant them, for she seemed to Helen to regard them with the deep suspicion usually reserved for those capable of the most malicious intent.
Coming under the empress's probing stare, the hawk appeared to back away a little: then, abruptly, whirled around and began to rise into the air, to head deeper into the darkness lying beyond the tent.
'Guards! Stop that hawk!' the empress commanded, pointing after the swiftly fleeing animal.
It was, of course, impossible for any of the soldiers to spot the rapidly retreating hawk, the darkness swallowing it up completely. Nevertheless, a few of them obediently sprinted off in the direction indicated by the empress, or loosed arrows while making scrupulously sure to avoid the tents. Most naturally remained at their posts, protecting the carriage's secret load.
Despite her great age, the empress rushed into the all-absorbing darkness with the pursuing soldiers, cursing their lack of numbers and their inability to mount a more substantial guard. She must have known the soldiers had a hopeless task, Helen reasoned, expecting her to almost immediately call off the chase, perhaps informing them that she held no one responsible for the hawk's escape.
Instead, the empress flung up a hand, a sharp action unseen by anyone but Helen: and a slither of silver, of what could have been nothing more than a streak of moonlight, seemed to fly up from that hand.
High in the darkness, there was a flurry of feathers, a frightened squawk, an agonised squeal – and then the hawk abruptly dropped with a softened thud onto the snow covered ground, where it was suddenly easily visible.
There was a hiss, that flash of silver once more: and Helen could have sworn she caught a glimpse of a serpent rapidly writhing away, disappearing from view before the first of the men arrived at the motionless hawk.
'One of your arrows must have struck it!' the empress announced joyfully, congratulating the men on their supposed achievement, even though she must have known it was a lie.
As the legionnaires happily returned to their stations, Helen noticed that at least one of them appeared disgruntled by the effort wasted on chasing an innocent hawk: perhaps, like her, he wondered if the empress's brain wasn't becoming just a little addled in her old age.
If that were the case, it wouldn't be long before he began doubting the wisdom of maintaining his allegiance to her.
Helen and the empress returned to the warmer interior of the tent, letting the large flap of the entrance fall back into place.
The empress had brought the lantern, its light briefly falling across the still soundly sleeping baby. He had obviously remained undisturbed by the commotion engendered by the soldiers' chasing of the hawk.
The empress ignored the crib and its innocently dozing occupant, however, hurry across instead towards the specially constructed chess board that had so intrigued Helen from her very first sight of it.
It was a board that, opening up from its centre like three incredibly thick spokes of a wooden wheel – or the curved edges of a three stemmed cross taken out beyond the edges of a shield – allowed the use of three sets of pieces.
Despite this, a third player had never joined in with the games that Helen regularly played with the empress, the latter coolly explaining this away with a comment that the 'third queen' would come into play far sooner than was good for them: and therefore they should both make use of the opportunity they had to learn as much as they could about how the 'real game' would be played.
The empress stared down at the game as if expecting Helen to have made a move while she had been away from the board.
'I haven't fully considered my move just yet…' Helen began to explain, only for the empress to place a consoling arm around her shoulders.
The empress's attempt at a smile looked more like a fearful grimace in the yellow light of the lamp held aloft in her other hand.
Helen had noticed that the empress continually checked the board for any changes to the positioning of the numerous pieces.
'We must reset our pieces,' the empress declared, setting the lantern down by the side of the board and beginning to quickly reposition her own set.
Moving round to her side of the board, Helen began to do the same with her pieces, placing them on their starting squares.
As the empress repositioned one of her war elephants, with its towering castle upon its great back, she briefly paused, as if momentarily weighing it in her hand before finally setting it down.
'Now what?' Helen asked when every piece was back in its place on the edges of the board.
'Now, we wait,' the empress replied uneasily, pulling up a chair and seating herself down by her side of the game.
Just as the sea eventually washes away all that stands before it, the vast army from the steppes had laid waste to every city, every kingdom, every empire that had lain within its inexorable path.
Proud, previously unbeatable armies had been slaughtered on the battlefield, their banners now used as rags for tending animals, their skulls as ornately bejewelled goblets.
Ancient, towering walls of great cities had proved useless: apart from preventing their garrisons and citizens from fleeing when the barbarous hordes had inevitably rushed in. The ensuing ferocious whirl of swords ensured the ground would be stained with blood for centuries to come.
No matter the growing, fearful reputation of this unstoppable army, a great many of the cities they originally came across would laugh at the impudence of these uncultured horsemen. As a dire warning of the outcome of any battle, they cited their own histories of successful expansion of empire, of immense learning, of innovations, riches, and far-reaching trade.
What had they to fear from barbarians?
They had a great deal to fear, of course; but by the time they had finally recognised this, their city would be burning, its citizens either slaughtered or rounded up to be sold as slaves.
Soon the cities the Rouran army came across began to send out not their armies but ambassadors naively offering terms forging an alliance between them.
When this failed, as it always did, the terms would be those of peace.
When this failed, as it always did, the offer would be the payment of unimaginable riches.
always did, it would be an unconditional capitulation, the hope being that most of the city's people would be spared death if not slavery.
Eventually, the invincible Rouran army found itself standing before the soaring walls of one of the very greatest and most resplendent cities of antiquity, one that many said might even have been the world's very first city. If the truth of such a claim could be verified or not, then the proof would undoubtedly be found only in its own impressively stocked library.
The Rouran leader halted his army a short distance before the city's towering main gate, ordering that his tent should be set up while they waited to see what self-humiliating terms the city would be prepared to offer them.
Around the Great Khan, bets were already being placed on how many would be within the negotiating party, it being well known by now that ambassadors were frequently sent back as nothing but heads in boxes.
No one was prepared to put money on it being an army that would be sent riding out to meet them. Unfortunately, it had been years since they had faced any serious challenge that tested their skills.
The city gates unhurriedly swung open.
And a war elephant of a size the Great Khan would have previously thought impossible confidently strode out towards the waiting army.
For the very first time ever, the Great Khan sensed a shiver of fear running through his army.
The horses whinnied in terror. They had to be brutally brought back under control.
The Khan's men might have turned and run had it not being for a glare of his eyes that told his commanders that they would surely die if they fled.
The ground itself quaked as the towering beast advanced towards the Rourans. The castle set upon its back was indeed a fortress, one of many levels, and each heavily armoured.
Indeed, the whole beast was clad in glittering iron. It sparkled, too, with every precious stone imaginable, their worth at least that of everything he had conquered so far.
From small openings within the elephant's soaring castle, their came the boom of thunder, not once but twice.
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The setting sun casts a golden glow on the first display customers see when they walk into All Things Right and Relevant– a large stand heaped with a variety of bullet journals. Pamphlets explaining the health benefits of journaling lay on top of the stand.
In Davis, the trendy way to track your life is not an online diary, a tablet calendar or a digital app. It is the bullet journal, an analog methodology meant to "help you track the past, organize the present, and plan for the future," according to its creator Ryder Carroll.
And for a wide range of ages in the past six months, the bullet journal has been gaining popularity, according to All Things Right and Relevant.
Bockrath's inspiration is supported by online resources like the University of Rochester and Psychology Central, who cite on-paper journaling as a way to gain control of emotions and improve mental health overall.
To students at DHS, the bullet journaling method provides a way to personalize a widespread form of organizing many activities. Its individuality is considered an important factor; the bullet journal's creator originally created it to assist productivity in an alternate, artistic way.
"Part of the reason why I think the bullet journal is starting to become popular is because it's 100 percent customizable," sophomore Anne Zhao said.
organize the many events in her life while practicing art.
For Zhao, bullet journaling allows for creative freedom she couldn't have with a school issued planner, an interest that junior Kimberly Liu and sophomore Enid Frank can relate to.
"I've always loved decorating planners with stickers and washi tape, and bullet journaling was also a way for me to practice my calligraphy," Liu said.
However, Liu recently stopped bullet journaling because it demanded so much of her time. Bockrath, Frank and Zhao agreed that for some people, bullet journaling could be time consuming, although they believed the advantages are worth it.
"Overall, I would recommend that anyone who wants to get organized and make some easy art at the same time give bullet journaling a shot," Frank said.


On server 2008, which I am using as my workstation, each line of copy ftp is very slow, maybe 20 seconds, and doesn't seem to copy anything anyway.
> On server 2008, which I am using as my workstation, each line of copy ftp is very slow, maybe 20 seconds, and doesn't seem to copy anything anyway.
I've been working on the old machine mainly, but I still need to migrate to my server 2008 workstation.
ANother thing I noticed, aside from being very slow, file by file, is that existing files on the target that were to be overwritten, were zeroed out.
Not only was the file not copied, but the file on the target server was deleted.
Any suggestions? This script runs on my XPPro workstation.


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Why I Don't Want to Be a Black Activist
Putting yourself out there daily comes with great cost to your mental health.
by Noel Ransome
Art By. Noel Ransome
It was a glorious tweet back in 2016. Not in what it implied, but in the lack of empathy it exposed from responders thereafter.
"Plz Allah give me the strength not to cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today. Plz plz plz," read the 101-character tweet by Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder, Yusra Khogali.
In a Toronto Star column, Khogali admitted to being angry by the endless comments from white men questioning the existence of racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia during Black History Month when she sent off that tweet. But what amounted to a few seconds of frustration for Khogali turned into days and months of ridicule.
"Black Lives Matter Toronto Co-Founder Needs To Resign," stated Huffington Post blogger James Di Fiore. "Hatred shakes Black Lives Matter Toronto credibility" said a headline in the Toronto Sun. Another headline in the Sun, this one by Rob Ford apologist Joe Warmington, screamed "Banish Black Lives Matter Toronto to fringes where it belongs." And Tyler O'Neil of the right wing PJ Media wasted no time with his label. "Toronto Black Lives Matter Co-Founder So Racist, Even Huffpo Turns on Her."
And you can imagine the angry white Twitter chorus joining in with their pitchforks.
As for the source of Yusra Khogali's anger? They didn't care. Her hurt? Didn't matter.
It's stuff like this that makes me no civil rights activist. I don't have the stuff. I can only take so many trash opinions. I can only take so much racist BS, and the last thing I'd want to do is take on a job that invites that.
The fact is that my experiences—indeed most experiences by people of colour—inspire certain fantasies. Fists thrown, jaws broken, insert terrible thing here____ in response to some racist comment or action. It sounds scary on paper, but they're only fantasies in the end. Most of us won't ever act on these thoughts. We understand that answering overt/covert racism with aggression doesn't exactly work and probably isn't a good thing— possible arrest, jail time, criminal record, all that good stuff.
My moment of non-action happened when I was 12. A couple of white teenagers yelled the N-Word at me like they discovered a new curse word and couldn't wait to use it. I wanted to punch a Nazi that day, a la Richard Spencer, but thoughts to action rarely go down like a bombastic scene out of a vengeful Tarantino script. It's more of a shock, like being told you aren't shit and almost believing it. Responding with anything other than indifference or humour only validates the insult.
It's why I never understood how activists can do what they do: be the product of oppression and still remain sane. My 9 to 5 takes up most of my day. The worst I have to worry about is a trash piece and my lunch choice. My skin colour has little bearing about how well I do my job. But an activist dedicates their time to a cause that invites the toxic.
That same sort of toxic that can police Yusra Khogali instead of trying to understand her frustrations as an activist, and a black woman. Ignoring that her life has likely been threatened, that she's been racially brutalized by police or systematically disadvantaged.
I wanted to make sense of what these people experience, aside from own my assumptions. Sure, I've personally had stresses about being carded or called the N-Word. I can empathize to an extent. But I don't put myself in front of that negative energy by choice. What does the civil rights activist today really feel and go through? And how do they balance what they do from how they live? I reached out to a number of activists to understand how they channel the anger.
"I'm going to say, and I don't care who knows it, most black people have had similar thoughts," community activist and journalist, Andray Domise, told me in a phone call about Yusra Khogali's tweet. "I've seen it written in Ta-Nehisi Coates's writing, I've seen it in James Baldwin's writing, I've seen it in Audre Lorde's writing and usually it's not saying something a black person hasn't already thought."
Shellie Love, a youth activist in Toronto has thought these thoughts herself between her everyday and Twitter timeline. Her opinions are in-your-face direct. She's never been a woman that could hold back her convictions because of a few racists.
"As a black woman, I don't have anything to lose. As black folks, we're already excluded from spaces, even when black folks are welcomed in, it's a particular kind of black folk," she told me. "That was never who I was. I was never invited as a black person. Instead I was always seen as the Angry Black Woman or woman who intimidated because I was always outspoken."
Few are able to take in this concept—that activists actually deal with stresses like everyone else. We're too used to seeing them as figures of strength to the point of being spoiled by it. The Desmond Coles and DeRay's Mckessons of the world. Those well rehearsed rebuttals they deliver during interview segments, the conviction that roars from their voices—it becomes difficult to recognize vulnerabilities under all that. We don't see the symptoms that cumulative exposure to racism can bring.
Clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Monnica Williams terms it plainly as "the last straw."
"Eventually these things are going to take a toll on a person internally, which includes ailments, but also moments of exploding anger. Some may even cause violence, harm and ultimately take it out on other people," she told me in an interview.
According to Dr. Williams, there's been research showing the connection between low level discrimination, PTSD and physical ailments.
Love says she has experienced these issues herself.
"I know for a fact that in times when there's so much happening within the community, we have to be hyper vigilant and it's then when my health starts to deteriorate," said Love. "My anxiety is at an all time high. Raising my blood pressure, catching colds every other week. We're affected psychologically but also physically, it's all connected."
According to Dr. Williams, separating oneself from the movement is a required balance for recovery. That's something that Domise continually tries to get some of his followers to understand.
"It's like, god, give me a fucking day to myself so I could recuperate from this shit because I'm not a mule," says Domise. "I'm not a pack horse. I'm a human being that has my own life and my own wants and desires and I do this because I feel like this is important and it's not my responsibility to take this whole burden on my shoulders and drag it across this imaginary finish line."
Clearly, activists, however strong on the surface, can never be exempt from anger. Frustration and irritation is the product of being human. Even the pinnacle of the black activist ideal, Martin Luther King, suffered through severe depression, migraines, and a lack of sleep during his Poor People's Campaign that wasn't the success be envisioned.
For Love, her source of calm comes from the simple things.
"Sometimes self-care is just turning off the TV for 15 minutes and just listening to your thoughts," says Love. "For me, I'd rather binge watch an entire season of Grey's Anatomy just to get my mind off of things. It's different for everyone."
Through my conversations, it's clear that self-care is defined by each person differently. Every activist doesn't have the luxury of affording a therapist, nor does Twitter have the technical tools to prevent sexism, xenophobia, or racism. In the case of Yusra Khogali, self-care just might have been the product of a single tweet. And it's a shame many won't understand that.
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94-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard goes on trial
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MUENSTER, Germany — A 94-year-old former enlisted SS man went on trial Tuesday in Germany, charged with being an accessory to murder for crimes committed during the years he served as a guard at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp.
Johann Rehbogen is accused of working as a guard at the camp east of Danzig, which is today the Polish city of Gdansk, from June 1942 to about the beginning of September 1944.
There is no evidence linking him to a specific crime, but more than 60,000 people were killed at Stutthof and prosecutors argue that as a guard, he was an accessory to at least hundreds of those deaths.
Stutthof prisoners were killed in a gas chamber, with deadly injections of gasoline or phenol directly to their hearts or shot, starved and even forced outside in winter without clothes until they died of exposure, prosecutor Andreas Brendel said.
The former SS Sturmmann, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Army rank of specialist, does not deny serving in the camp during the war but has told investigators he was not aware of the killings and did not participate in them, Brendel said.
Rehbogen's attorney, Andreas Tinkl, has said his client will make a statement in the trial at the Muenster state court, which is scheduled to last until January, but it was not immediately clear when he would speak.
Rehbogen lives in the western municipality of Borken near the Dutch border. In deference to his age and health, the trial is being restricted to a maximum of two hours a day, with no more than two non-consecutive days a week. At the same time, because he was under 21 at the time of his alleged crimes, he is being tried in juvenile court.
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which helped locate some 20 Stutthof survivors for the case to serve as possible witnesses, emphasized that such trials are important, even more than 70 years after the end of World War II.
"The passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of Holocaust perpetrators and old age should not afford protection to those who committed such heinous crimes," said the center's head Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff.
Many survivors, along with relatives of victims, are also joining the trial as co-plaintiffs as allowed under German law.
Even though the number of suspects is dwindling, the special federal prosecutor's office in Ludwigsburg that investigates Nazi war crimes still has multiple cases ongoing. In addition to looking at camps like Stutthof, Buchenwald, Ravensbrueck, Mauthausen and Flossenbuerg, it is also investigating former members of the mobile killing squads known as the "Einsatzgruppen."
The legal reasoning that being a camp guard is itself enough to be found guilty of accessory to murder, even without specific evidence of a crime, was first used successfully against former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk in 2011.
Demjanjuk was convicted in Munich on allegations he served as a Sobibor death camp guard. He always denied the accusation and died before his appeal could be heard.
The 2015 conviction of former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening using the same argument, however, was upheld by Germany's top criminal court on appeal, cementing the precedent.
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The Stutthof case is the first time a prosecution is going to trial using this line of reasoning for a concentration camp guard instead of a death camp guard. But prosecutors have expressed confidence it can be applied, since tens of thousands of people were killed in Stutthof even though its sole purpose was not murder.
Stutthof was established in 1939 and underwent several iterations, initially being used as the main collection point for Jews and non-Jewish Poles removed from the nearby city of Danzig on the Baltic Sea coast.
From about 1940 onward, it was used as a so-called "work education camp" where forced laborers, primarily Polish and Soviet citizens who had run afoul of their Nazi oppressors, were sent to serve sentences and often died. Others incarcerated there included criminals, political prisoners, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses.
From mid-1944, it was filled with tens of thousands of Jews from ghettos being cleared by the Nazis in the Baltics as well as from Auschwitz, which was overflowing, and thousands of Polish civilians swept up in the brutal suppression of the Warsaw uprising.
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14 Latin American countries have asked the IMF for urgent help
The Financial Times reported on Sunday that 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries have requested urgent help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to counter the impact of the coronavirus crises. The region is expected to be hit by its worst recession in 50 years, according to the senior IMF official who revealed the information to the British newspaper.
Alejandro Werner, head of the western hemisphere department, did not reveal which countries have asked assistance, but said the 14 nations seek access to a total of $4.48 billion using a credit line which allows disbursement with minimal conditions.
is being made available globally by the IMF to help countries manage the financial effects of the coronavirus crisis.
Werner told the Financial Times that Latin America was particularly exposed because many of its economies were struggling even before they were affected by low commodity prices and capital flight.


The controversial Parc Adfer energy from waste construction site in Deeside, north Wales has become the first to be named and shamed by construction union Unite, for the disgusting state of its toilets and welfare facilities.
The pictures of the disgusting welfare facilities were provided to Unite by a whistleblower who was concerned about the conditions at the site. The photos show broken urinals, overflowing bins and a blocked toilet.
Parc Adfer is the first site that Unite has 'named and shamed' for the exceedingly poor quality of its toilets after having promised to do so earlier this week (Monday 19 November) when it highlighted how tens of thousands of UK workers are being denied toilet dignity.
The discovery of the substandard welfare conditions follows - a series of protests at the site - at the refusal of both the client US based company Wheelabrator and the main contractor French based company CNIM, refusing to adhere to industrial agreements on the site.
The work is being undertaken on behalf of the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment project which comprises five north Wales council, led by Labour controlled Flintshire county council.
The companies are only prepared to pay the living wage of £9.00 an hour which is 64 per cent below the relevant NAECI agreement which covers this form of mechanical construction engineering, where the basic rate is £17.39 an hour with a £2.37 an hour incentive bonus.
Much of the mechanical engineering work has been sub-contracted to Polish outfit Mostostal Pulawy, who were instructed to tender the work at living wage rates and who have brought in its workforce from Poland.
A recent audit of the workforce revealed that just 30 per cent of the workers lived within 30 miles of the site.
Unite regional officer Steve Benson said: "These pictures reveal that workers on this project are being required to work in filthy conditions.
"Flintshire council and the contractors at Parc Adfer should hang their heads in shame at the state of the welfare facilities.
"Construction workers especially at this time of year work long hours in difficult conditions and they have an absolute right to be able to use clean and comfortable welfare facilities. These workers are being denied toilet dignity.
"Sadly it is all too common in construction that companies which cut corners on pay, which deny unions access to their sites and cut corners on welfare facilities, breach other critical regulations.


Milo Ray Jewelry is an eponymous German jewelry brand founded in 2018.
With a sense of adventure and an open mind, the brothers Florian and Felix took a break from their German home to travel through a coastal city in India. It was there he met a local shaman "Milo Ray" who encouraged them to pursue their dreams. Upon returning to Germany, the brothers set out to honor the shaman's words and make his vision a reality, designing and crafting jewelry deeply rooted in spirituality and energy healing. Milo Ray launched with humble beginnings the way so many iconic brands do—in a garage. Despite the growth of the company, Milo Ray continues to create each piece by hand—never relying on machinery or mass production.
Milo Ray Jewelry releases two new collections each year. Collections of the past include macramé necklaces, hand-braided leather bracelets, precious and semi-precious stone bracelets, exotic stingray bracelets, the Skyfall Collection for women, rings for men and women, and the brand's iconic beaded bracelets in a variety of stones and color combinations.
The brothers Florian and Felix were born in the countryside of Germany. Despite the small, rural setting of their childhood, they became fascinated by style, the arts and spirituality. Through their endeavors in the fashion industry they were able to define their distinct and personal aesthetic. But it was not until they met the shaman that they truly gained the vision which inspired the first piece of Milo Ray Jewelry.
Each design is assembled by human hands and every carefully selected precious and semi-precious stone is chosen to stimulate spiritual healing powers. All finished items are purified with a cleansing sage.
The brand emphasizes creativity, individuality and spirituality in all its designs.


Have you ever tried to cover up your sin? Living in cover-up mode is an extremely miserable and fearful way to live. After committing adultery and killing a man, King David said, "When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted … Your hand was heavy upon me" (Psalm 32:3-4). David was totally miserable in his cover-up. God was crushing the life out of him because of his unwillingness to repent. Listen, when you mess up, you fess up. It is that plain and simple. Are you living a life of cover-up? David was sick because of his unconfessed sin, but he found the answer. He said, "I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the Lord'; and You forgave the guilt of my sin" (Psalm 32:5). God will forgive your sin and remove all the guilt if you will uncover, confess, and repent. Now that's REAL HOPE.


I hope that you are using our money wisely. Please make sure that your children are fed, your utilities are paid, and that you buy something nice for your kids and your mother for Christmas. I'll let the phone company know that my payment is late because you needed our money more than we did. I'm sure you were relieved to find an account that had just enough money left right before Christmas. Oh, and don't worry, our bank says that it will only be 3 to 5 days before they are finished investigating and can credit it back to our account. We have enough food to last us until then, I think. It's not like my husband is the sole provider for a family of seven and working overtime and an extra job to make ends meet. Well, take care of yourself. My husband and I would love to see you soon.
Oh no I am sorry to hear about this. :( I am visiting from the Hip Homeschool blog hop and am now following you. Hope you have a blessed Christmas and are not to stressed about this. I know eaiser said than done.
Oh sorry about that. We had our credit card number stolen a few months ago. The thief went on a shopping spree to the Apple Store and Best Buy (online). It's NO fun!
Visiting from the homeschool hop.
May the Lord bless you this Christmas season!
Wow that is horrible. What a terrible time to have something like that happen to you. This happened to my husband and it was an awful feeling. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!
Oh NO how did that happen??!! I hope that investigation is in tandem with the police too. Selfish,awful people to do something like that, especially right now. Ugh I will pray for you this week!
Go girl, you tell em! And nice to be meet another momma raising knights!
The thief actually got our money from an ATM. The bank really can't explain it, they just said that anytime you use your debit card, you're at risk for it.
I'm so sorry about this Christy -- a friend and I were JUST talking about this today, and now I read your post about it. It has me thinking about my debit card. Thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope this all gets straightened out soon!
I am so sorry to hear this. I can not even imagine what you and your husband are going through or feeling right now. Praying for you guys right now.
All is well, actually. They did take all but $50. Fortunately, dh's work gives the last check of the year early and it came the next day. Of course, my husband, being a cop, wants to see the bank's surveillance video. :) I'm fairly sure that it's out of his jurisdiction.
oh wow. That is horrible! Praying they catch who did this to you!! Thanks for joining in the Hip Homeschool Hop!


The PharmaSea project, funded by the European Union Framework Programme 7 (FP7), represents a model of marine biodiscovery pipeline within which existing challenges hampering R&D in marine biodiscovery are addressed.
Within the PharmaSea project, one of the work packages (WP6) focuses on the legal and policy bottlenecks relevant to the sampling and utilization of marine biological resources.
• develop tools which will support scientists in navigating the legal framework governing sampling and / or in using marine genetic resources for R&D.
• inform policy in relation to developing regulations governing the sampling and use of these resources in R&D.


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All 2020 iPhone models may have OLED displays
Apple / iOS / Mobile / Tech
By Kyle Funk
This latest rumor indicates that the new iPhones may have different screen sizes for the Pro models while the 6.1-inch model will retain its current size.
The iPhone X was the first iPhone to sport an OLED display. This year, Apple released three models while the two flagships — the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max — featured an OLED display. In 2020, Apple is rumored to be looking to have all three iPhone variants use an OLED display.
Supposedly, the iPhone 12 Pro/Pro Max (or whatever it's going to be called) will have their OLED displays made by Samsung while the standard iPhone 12 will have a display made by Samsung and LG. Samsung is rumored to be the supplier for the Pro series iPhones that could be coming in a 5.4-inch and 6.7-inch display with on-cell touch flexible OLED panels. What this means is that the display has the touch function built-in instead of having a touch film attached to the screen. This will also mean the display will be thinner and could reduce production costs for Apple.
As for the base model 6.1-inch iPhone 12, it will not have the on-cell touch display but the touch film method. Currently, LG is supplying the OLED panels for the iPhone 11 Pro Max, so if the company keeps up the production they could gain more orders from Apple.
This latest rumor indicates that the newest iPhone models may have different screen sizes for the Pro models while the 6.1-inch model will retain its current size.
As usual, keep in mind that these rumors may or may not be true, so take it with a grain of salt until Apple announces something for the 2020 iPhones. What do you think about Apple having an OLED display for all three iPhone models? Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter, Facebook, or MeWe.
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Security Fixes Top Chrome Release
Dec 7, 2016 | Incidents
Chrome 55 released fixing 36 security vulnerabilities and to switch the Adobe Flash plugin off by default.
Of the 36 flaws resolved, 26 ended up disclosed by external security researchers and Google paid $70,000 in bug bounty rewards for them. Twelve of these security issues ended up rated high risk, 9 rated medium and 5 were low risk.
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The first high risk bug on the list was a private property access in V8 (CVE-2016-9651). The following five, however, ended up awarded $7,500 each: Four universal XSS in Blink (CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5207, and CVE-2016-5208) — three found by Mariusz Mlynski — and a same-origin bypass in PDFium (CVE-2016-5206), found by Rob Wu.
Other High risk vulnerabilities patched in Chrome 55 include a use after free in PDFium (CVE-2016-5203), an out of bounds write in Blink (CVE-2016-5209), an out of bounds write in PDFium (CVE-2016-5210), a use after free in PDFium (CVE-2016-5211), a local file disclosure in DevTools (CVE-2016-5212), and a use after free in V8 (CVE-2016-5213).
The medium and low severity bugs resolved in chrome this month were affecting components such as PDFium, Omnibox, V8, Blink, ANGLE, SVG, and Webaudio, or the browser's file download protection. The release of Chrome 55.0.2883.75 for Windows, Mac, and Linux resolves these issues along with those discovered internally, Google said in an advisory.
In addition to patching vulnerabilities, Chrome 55 improved user security by blocking websites that contain Flash content out-of-the-box.
Google said earlier this year users would have to manually enable Flash on sites that require it.
Flash will continue to bundle with Chrome, only its presence won't be "advertised by default." Google also said users will have to enable Flash only the first time they visit a site that requires it, and the option will be remembered for subsequent visits.


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Commenting on the Universitas21 assessment of national higher education systems, Dr Wendy Piatt, Director General of the Russell Group, said:
"The UK is ranked second in the world for the quality of its higher education and research output. This is despite being only the 26th best resourced.
"While this shows the efficiency and productivity of our universities, they can't continue to punch above their weight without the promise of increased long-term funding.
"We simply cannot afford to under-invest in our world-class research and the education of our future workforce."
The Universitas21 Ranking of National Higher Education Systems assesses 50 countries across four criteria:
Resources (expenditure by government and private sector on teaching and research
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Connectivity (international networks and collaboration with industry)
Environment (government policy and regulation, financial autonomy and diversity)
The UK ranks 8th overall, but there are marked differences across the different measures: 2nd for output, 5th for connectivity, 8th for environment, but 26th for resources. The differential of 24 places between output and resources is the largest for any of the 50 countries assessed.
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Worst Power of Attorney Abuse Case?
Do it yourself legal situations that did not not turn out quite right. The lesson being the person should have retained a lawyer. Also cases of I should have told my lawyer. Perhaps you have heard the cliche "A person who represents himself…" This is often true whether such self-representation is in the courtroom or not.


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OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER is using team talks he stole from Sir Alex Ferguson in a bid to make Manchester United great again.
Solskjær has been challenged to win the Premier League title and Champions League after becoming permanent United boss.
And he is copying the greatest manager of all in the hope he can match some of Fergie's success.
Solskjær, whose side face Barcelona in the Champions League quarter finals tomorrow night, kept diaries of what Fergie used to say.
The Norwegian played under Fergie and helped him win the 'treble' in 1999.
Now he is repeating the words the Scot said to his own side as he looks to take United back to the top.
Solskjaer said: "When I came back here as the manager I thought a lot about what makes a winning team.
"What does it really take to win on the biggest stage? I'm not one to sit back, rest on my laurels and think: 'That was a great time' - it's more thinking about what did we do to get there.
"What did the manager tell us? What kind of master team talks did he have? When did he speak to us? All these little things.
"I'm quite lucky because I did write a few diaries.
"I did think a lot about football, so I do have vivid memories of things that happened and I've written some things down.
"Towards the end of my career I was more focused on what the manager said.
Solskjaer, who is known as the 'Babyfaced Assassin', has also revealed he is capable of ranting and raving like Fergie used to do.
He can produce the infamous 'hairdryer' treatment Fergie specialised in and he added: "As I got to know him, I realised it's not just emotion. When he went on one of his hairdryers or when he was hammering people, there was a reason behind what he did.
"He was maybe pointing at one player so that the 10 others would help him out.
"He would put his arm around someone or really go hard on someone to really get the best out of them.
"That's what I learned from him the most - how he managed to get the best out of every single player.
"Sometimes you've got to go strong. You do it when you're disappointed, definitely.
"If your kids disappoint you, you have to tell them off.
"If you can see they're trying their utmost, they're trying their best, I don't think there's any reason why you should scream and shout.


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R-1 (kod NATO: SS-1A Scunner), zwany też niekiedy niesłusznie SS-1A "Scud" – pierwszy radziecki pocisk balistyczny krótkiego zasięgu (SRBM) napędzany jednym silnikiem na paliwo ciekłe. Pocisk ten de facto stanowił radziecką odmianę niemieckiego pocisku V2 opracowaną z pomocą wziętych do niewoli niemieckich konstruktorów.

Opis
Pierwsze prace nad zdobycznymi niemieckimi pociskami V2 rozpoczęto w 1945 roku. Prace te doprowadziły do skopiowania wielu rozwiązań niemieckiego pocisku, natomiast pierwszy start pocisku radzieckiego odbył się w 1948 roku. Nowy pocisk, jakkolwiek niemal identyczny względem niemieckiego pierwowzoru, wprowadzał kilka istotnych ulepszeń. Najważniejszym z nich było blisko dziesięciokrotne zwiększenie celności CEP, który w przypadku pocisku radzieckiego wynosił 1500 metrów. Jakkolwiek udźwig pocisku wynosił 1075 kg, waga głowicy wynosiła jedynie 785 kg. Prawdopodobnie było to wynikiem poświęcenia części udźwigu na rzecz masy zastosowanego układu naprowadzania komendowego.

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 Задача особой государственной важности. Из истории создания ракетно-ядерного оружия и Ракетных войск стратегического назначения (1945-1959 гг.) / Сост. В. И. Ивкин, Г. А. Сухина. — М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2010. — 1205 с. — 800 экз. —
 Карпенко А. В., Уткин А. Ф., Попов А. Д. Отечественные стратегические ракетные комплексы / Под научной ред. В. Ф. Уткина, Ю. С. Соломонова, Г. А. Ефремова. — СПб.: Невский бастион, 1999. — 288 с. —
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If you get an error uploading image message please check out this guide.
You can find out the file format by looking at the last 3-4 letters on the file name. (This is known as the extension.) For example my-logo.jpg is a JPG format image.
If your logo or image is in one of these formats you will find you won't be able to upload this picture directly to Rocketspark. Firstly it needs to be re-saved and converted to the correct format.
If your image is a photo or contains many colours and irregular patterns then JPG/JPEG is the best format.
If your image has lots of solid colour areas or repeating gradients then PNG or GIF is the best format. We also support PNG 24 bit which allows transparent backgrounds. This lets the background colour on the page or feature area show through.
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A young woman goes on a journey to find a shrine she has accidentally come across while travelling with her husband a few years ago, to pray for the healing of her husband's illness. The only thing that can help her find the way is a film they have shot with a home camera on their previous journey.
23rd Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran, 2006.
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Scarlett Johansson almost quit acting after being 'hypersexualised'
By Karina Recchi| 2 months ago
Scarlett Johansson has revealed she almost walked away from her acting career after "a bunch of dudes in the industry" typecast her in "hypersexualised" roles.
During The Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress Roundtable with Renée Zellweger, Laura Dern, Jennifer Lopez and Lupita Nyong'o, Johansson admitted she really struggled as a young woman in Hollywood.
"When I was working in my early twenties and even my late teens, I felt that I got somehow typecast as 'hypersexualised', which I guess at the time seemed OK to everyone — it was another time — even though it wasn't part of my own narrative," she admitted.
"It was kind of crafted for me by probably a bunch of dudes in the industry."
Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in The Avengers. (Marvel Studios)
Johansson, who topped Forbes' Highest Paid Actress list, said pulling the plug on her passion was a real consideration unless things changed.
"It was really difficult for me to try to figure out how to get out of being an ingénue or the 'other woman' because it was never anything that I had intended," she admitted.
"I remember thinking at the time that maybe I needed a different job in this industry that would be more fulfilling, because it seemed like there was nowhere to go."
Johansson, 34, is grateful she stuck it out as "the climate is so different now".
Scarlett Johansson starred alongside Chris Evans in Avengers: Endgame. (Walt Disney Studios)
"There's so many wonderful opportunities for women of every age to play all different types of people," says the actress who went on to star in The Avengers franchise as Black Widow, ultimately spawning her own spin-off.
However, she's not the only big screen success that suffered a similar introduction to the industry, with Zellweger, 50, admitting she too struggled to be taken seriously early on.
"As a young person starting out, I would get the cut-off shorts jobs and the 'other woman', the one-night-stand girl… and I thought, 'I think I'm going to not do this anymore because I know where that road will go,'" she confessed.


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Freakonomics tries to explain how teams missed on JLin
Here is the link.
I'm not completely buying the analysis and especially the conclusion that it should be no surprise. And how do you quantify a factor like race?
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jubeininja69 March 1, 2012 at 1:58 PM
this is so stupid. all the fancy stats and it still doesn't explain everything. lin was simply overlooked because he was asian american. you have to be a fool to not see it. all the div 1 coaches and scouts and gm who overlooked him to the racism and hatred from the media shows race was an issue from the beginning and still is today.
The #1 reason Lin was overlooked by the NBA was because of the school/conference he played in. The fact is, there are many college players in major conferences with great stats that are duds in the NBA. Lin had good stats, but they were not exceptional (16.4 pts, 4.5 ast, 1.5 A/TO). If Lin was averaging 25 pts/10 asts, he probably would have been drafted. But he was 16/5, playing for *Harvard*, so of course NBA scouts are going to dismiss that as the result of playing in a very weak conference. I would too.
Race was a distant #2 reason he was not drafted. Believe me, if an African-American player did exactly what Lin did at Harvard, he wouldn't have been drafted either. On the other hand, if Lin did exactly what he did in college, but played in the Pac-10, he would have been drafted.
The biggest place where race factored in was during college recruitment. I'm pretty sure that race was the biggest reason he didn't get any D1 scholarships. Which led to the first reason above. So you could say that race indirectly led to the NBA overlooking Lin, but it's not the direct/#1 reason.
Joe March 1, 2012 at 4:40 PM
If you look at how much Lin improved physically over 3 months last summer, you can see how underdeveloped he was when NBA scouts were looking at him:
- added 3.5 inches to vertical leap
- 33% improvement in lateral quickness
- more explosive now (0 - 10 mph stop to start time is same as John Wall)
PLUS, he completely rebuilt his jumper.
If he got recruited to a big time Divison I school, maybe he developed physically more quickly, and maybe transition to NBA offense was easier because of competition he played, but he also wouldn't have exploded on scene with Lin-Sanity and all the fame and forture it will bring Lin with it.
Seems like a pretty good trade-off to me.
KHuang March 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Matt Maloney made the NBA from UPenn and was a very good (and underrated) starting PG.
Maloney and Jerome Allen (a 2nd round pick) were phenomenal college players. They dominated against D1 schools. Maloney in particular was a terrific no mistake NBA starter who probably deserved to last longer in the NBA.
I felt that Maloney was a victim of anti white racial prejudice in the NBA. Plus, people never let the Ivy League negative stereotype go.
The NBA draft process has become so bad that a team of undrafted players now can beat a team of lottery picks in the same year.
2010 Undrafted No Stars:
PG: Scottie Reynolds (1st team All American)
SG: Jeremy Lin
SF: Wesley Matthews (Utah and Portland star)
PF: Samardo Samuels (bruising Cleveland forward)
C: Omar Samhan (22 ppg, 11 rpg, 3 bpg)
Matthews is not a 2010 player. Samuels I am not sure.
The point is that NBA evaluators are drafting mainly busts while ignoring future All Stars like Lin.
Mike Nice March 1, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Jeremy wasn't really overlooked in the Draft. I watched him in the Portsmouth Tournament (In Virginia for NBA prospects) and he was not "lighting it up" or superstar 1st round pick there by no means....he was just a solid player. His first year in Golden State there were no real "break out" games like New Jersey this year that showed he was going to be a player. I mean if anything just making a roster was a goal accomplishment in and of itself at the time.
I think what happened was that he dedicated himself to getting stronger and faster and he worked like a mad russian over the Summer and his situation (pick n roll with dantoni offense, Knicks desperate for a spark), his back against the wall for his entire career and he came out with no fear attitude of "just going to play my game if it's not meant to be so be it" and the rest is history.
Jeremy Lin said he even surprised himself. So there is no looking back and saying yeah somebody should have known...it just happened and it's a beautiful thing.
Dystopia1980 March 1, 2012 at 11:45 PM
How could he have had a "break out" game at Golden State when he was never given the chance?
The Nets game he was finally given the minutes and the chance to run the offense. At Golden State he was put in for 2-5 minutes here and there in garbage time and was never really given any kind of chance.
One of the very few times he got a good amount of minutes he dropped 13 on the Lakers, then was relegated to sitting on the pine behind Acie Law again.
Mike Nice March 2, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Jeremy was a rookie just trying to fit in. As players understand you usually earn minutes in practice by outplaying guys ahead of you or making the coach have to play you because it's obvious. I'm not sure I remember hearing/reading about Jeremy killing guys in practice in Golden State. Yeah he had obvious stereotype to fight and so forth but he was on the team and Golden State gave him an opportunity. NOt sure why people questioning things and turning everything into Race Card - no need to now cause everything has changed for the better for Asian Ball players now. Remember regardless of race, a coach who's dependent on winning to keep his job will play guys who he thinks will help win regardless of who they are, how they look....players play if they can help team win games. You find that out in Practice - I've heard that Jeremy was not the greatest practice player at Palo Alto High and has unique ability to turn up notch in games? Maybe that's what happened? He got opportunity in game and he played much better than he had been practicing? Unusual but possible in this situation?
RioFan March 1, 2012 at 5:40 PM
JLin is an very fast. Compare his speed to last three #1 draft picks.
http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2012/03/life-in-the-fast-lane/
Reebok March 1, 2012 at 9:01 PM
Great article! These numbers must be "deceptively" impressive to think that JLin is "deceptively" fast/athletic.
I also like the Freakonomics analysis. I believe that some players are overrated based on their average points per game. For example, Kobe may be overrated because he leads the league in scoring, yet he also leads the league in FG attempts by a significant margin. Jose Calderon may be underrated because he's only averaging 11 points a game, but he's also averaging 9 assist with only 2 TOs per game. He's really helping Toronto getting more points in the paint and making other players look better.
So how fast is Jeremy Lin?
BAM gives three numbers: average speed, start speed, and top-end speed. BAM translates this into miles per hour. Average speed is calculated by an algorithm that averages start speed and top speed. Start speed is the first burst of speed, the acceleration phase. Top speed is shifting gears out of the acceleration to one's peak speed. Here's how Lin's BAM numbers compare in the 25 yard sprint.
Jeremy Lin: 16.66 mph
Derrick Rose: 16.60 mph
John Wall: 16.48 mph
Kyrie Irving: 15.67 mph
Lin wins this battle.
START SPEED
Lin: 13.93 mph
Wall: 13.25 mph
Irving: 12.64 mph
For Rose, BAM has only average speed data.
Lin wins this battle too.
Lin comes in second to Wall.
Hans March 1, 2012 at 7:24 PM
This is a very intriguing analysis. I didn't see Lin standing shoulder to shoulder with Wall/Rose in speed category. As a matter of fact, Lin has faster start speed than Usan Bolt!
But then, for anyone who's played competitive sports with Asian athletes should have had the impressions that they are extremely agile and quick. They would be the guards in basketball, running back/safety in football, and the wing in rugby. Heck, Michael Chang, arguably the most successful Asian tennis player ever, based his game on speed and perseverance. Jeremy is clearly the best of an already above-average pool.
I've been arguing with people here that Jeremy Lin is an elite athlete even by NBA standards. Now here are numbers that actually validate that.
I was roundly criticized for daring to compare Lin to Lebron. Yet on a position basis, Lin might be as physically dominant as a PG as Lebron is as an SF.
Most Lin observers like myself don't need fancy tests or metrics to see that Jeremy Lin is a physically dominant athlete who has incredible basketball talent. We simply look at him play and note that he can do things that most NBA athletes cannot do. One example of that (of many) is that nasty reverse layup that he starts on the right side of the rim and ends in the left side. Lin's been doing that in the NBA since his rookie year, and there are only a handful of All Star guards who can regularly score with that move.
I do not agree at all that Lin's summer work is the prime contributor to his current success. Lin was athletically capable of dominating last year too. We essentially lost a year of Linsanity because Keith Smart couldn't see Lin's talent.
I have always been of the mind that extreme physical conditioning does not necessarily make a guy play better basketball. I firmly believe that Lin would be doing great without extreme training measures simply because he is one of the best athletes at his position in the NBA.
Mike you're wrong. It's a lazy excuse to say Jeremy Lin got significantly better, and it holds no water since the Knicks themselves were on the verge of cutting Lin. Even before this season Lin dominated DLeague, in his only NBA game last year with 15+ minutes (18 mins) Lin put up 12 points, 5 assists, 5 rebounds. Despite limited minutes he led the Warriors in PER and adjusted plus/minus. He had bad luck playing for a blind coach irrationally devoted to Acie Law. Before the NBA Lin outplayed John Wall in summer league. Before that in college he destroyed 1st rd picks at UConn, Georgetown, and BC. Before that, he took a HS team with no players over 6'4 and won the Cal state championship over Mater Dei with 7 players at least 6'7 and who all got D1 scholarships.
Lin has done it at EVERY level but it never mattered due to prejudice and confirmation bias.
agree with you that Jeremy does have that unique clutch ability to rise to the challenge against best competition as you mentioned above. Smart doesn't like to play rookies (i.e. Fredette) and he said that repeadedly last year....Jeremy learned a lot last year regardless and he knew what he had to work on to get better in his 2nd year...that's all I'm saying. Think people need to get off the race issues and move forward cause it diminishes his accomplishments the more it gets talked about....Of course it's (racism/prejudice)obvious but him playing well addresses it better than anyone ever could - actions always speak louder than words.
Smart likes to play BLACK rookies (like Isaiah Thomas who is not as good a rookie as Lin was).
We are NOT moving off the race issue after a single month of Linsanity. Asian Americans are treated too badly on a daily basis for us to not cry foul over racism.
Words speak louder than actions.
# 1 j March 2, 2012 at 10:48 PM
Jimmer has played in 31 games this year, started 6.... and gotten 20 MPG of real game time burn.
Isaiah Thomas, ever since Smart took over, has gotten HUGE minutes. Isaiah has basically been given the keys, while Jimmer is the backup.
Anon. March 1, 2012 at 8:07 PM
Just to answer your question: Race is a categorical variable, thus the author most likely used an indicator variable for being black or white. I assume he ran a linear regression (or something more complicated) of draft position on all of his variables, which includes the race indicator, and looked at which coefficients were statistically significant. It seems kind of obvious that his conclusion would be that race does not matter, since a huge proportion of the players drafted are black. Furthermore, even if he added an indicator for "Asian," (for example, to see if being Asian affects your draft position) his result would probably be statistically insignificant since there were only like 3 or 4 Asians in NBA drafts from 1995 to 2009, and one of them was Yao Ming (drafted 1st)--the variance of the estimator will be very high as a result.
Also, I'm assuming he used some sort of instruments in his regression, since something unobserved by the researcher but observed by scouts (for example, athleticism) would influence both draft position and most of his explanatory variables (e.g. points, rebounds, etc.). I didn't look through his methodology, but if he did not use instruments, his estimates would be biased.
lxy March 2, 2012 at 1:13 AM
"I'm an Asian hating racist who is trying to make excuses for why Jeremy Lin is kicking my butt".
THAT is what the Freakonomics article is reaally saying.
# 1 j March 3, 2012 at 5:57 PM
In no way does the race factor diminish his accomplishments. Quite the opposite.
It very much enhances every accomplishment and every second of hard work and ounce of ability he has put in. Asian tax.


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Par for the course it would seem at this point, when AMP Ltd (ASX: AMP) reported its half-year results in August, it revealed a staggering A$2.3bn loss.
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA) acutely felt the impact of the Royal Commission when it released its FY19 results last month, reporting cash profits below analyst expectations and seeing remediation costs swell.
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Worse still, as remediation and compliance costs continued to rise, CBA saw its operational expenses climb 2.5%. In this instance, the company paid out A$2.2bn in customer remediation costs in FY19.
Following these results, a number of analysts appear to have taken a bearish stance on the biggest of the big four banks.
Macquarie Wealth Management slapped CBA with an underperform rating and a 12-month price target of A$72.00 per share. The broker expects margin and fee pressures to eat into revenue in FY20-21.
Morgan Stanley appeared even more negative, citing a lack of buybacks and worrisome exposures as key issues. The broker subsequently put an underweight rating on the bank, and a price target of just A$66.50 on CBA's shares.
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The National Australia Bank Ltd (ASX: NAB) has been a quiet performer in FY19, seeing its share price rise 15.6% since January.
Though NAB faced intense scrutiny from the Royal Commission: the appointment of a new CEO and solid top-line growth, driven primarily from an uptick in small business lending, both rank as key positives for the bank.
Here, as part of the Q3 update, the bank reported unaudited net profits of A$1.70bn and A$1.65bn in cash earnings.
Importantly however, it was noted that customer remediation costs may continue to grow, with the company commenting that 'additional provisions are expected to be recognised in 2H19.'
Ultimately, analysts at UBS seemed unconvinced by these results. In response, they retained their sell rating and put a 12-month price target of A$23.00 per share on NAB.
Morgan Stanley viewed the Q3 update in the less pessimistic light. The investment bank currently has an equal-weight rating and a price target of A$26.40 per share on National Australia Bank Ltd.
Even with those two views considered, according to the Wall Street journal: six analysts rate NAB a buy, five a hold and only one a sell.
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A new multi-media art centre taking shape in the old United Video store is adding to the vibrant art scene in the Ōtaki township.
Toi Tangata Studio and Art Gallery is the brainchild of Jerome Kavanagh and Taryn Beri. The couple have spent the Christmas break painting walls – including helping with a vibrant outdoor mural by Theo Arraj on the Matene Street side of their Main Street gallery – hanging their extensive collection of mostly Māori artwork, and planning their workshops and official opening day on March 6. However, the gallery is open now to anyone who wants to browse or buy.
ARTISTS: Taryn Beri and Jerome Kavanagh with the Theo Arraj mural at their Toi Tangata Studio & Art Gallery on the corner of Main and Matene streets.
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While the gallery space is new, the multi-talented couple are far from novices. They have successfully sold artwork through Toi Tangata online and for four years took their artistic and organisational skills overseas. In places such as London, New York, Amsterdam and Bali they have worked with local artists to run pop-up exhibitions.
"We specialise in collaborating with local artists to create something unique to that time and space, merging our Māori culture with whatever is happening with the indigenous culture there," Taryn says.
While Jerome and Taryn have clearly immersed them-selves in Māori art – and it was their original focus – they have developed Toi Tangata to be inclusive of everyone.
"Toi Tangata means 'creative people', and that means all creative people. It's for everyone," Taryn says. "It also embraces all art forms."
Taryn is a painter, but works predominantly as a tā moko (tattoo) artist. Jerome has an international reputation as one of only a few exponents of taonga pūoro (traditional Māori instruments). He started with the ancient koauau, a wooden flute, and learned to play other traditional instruments largely by himself, influenced by his love of the Ruahine Ranges near where he grew up.
The breadth of the couple's talent has inspired them to create not just a gallery, but also a space for all forms of art – performance, dance, music, poetry, the written word, video art, new media etc.
"When you get a fusion of art forms, that's when the magic happens," Taryn says.
It's important to them that Toi Tangata is a place of therapy and healing, allowing the wairua (spirit) to flourish for themselves "and anyone who comes here".
Though having grown up elsewhere, both Taryn and Jerome whakapapa to Ngāti Raukawa and wouldn't have their gallery anywhere else. They love the community feel of the town, and the ability to easily bike wherever they need to go.
"I see us being part of a community that's going back to what Aotearoa used to be like, because we've all come so far from that," Jerome says.
Being part of what they see as a destination town for Māori art already – with galleries at Māoriland and Hori as well as a plethora of talented artists – excites them. They certainly don't feel any competition with others.
"Working in collaboration and complementing what other people are doing is important," Taryn says. "We're mindful of their exhibition dates and other events. We're all part of the same community."
Meantime, one-day workshops are planned for February 20 and March 20. They will include experiential painting and colour therapy, prayer (karakia or poetry), and music.
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Born and raised in the state of Goa, which is known as a tropical paradise nestled on the Western Ghats of India, Elizabeth had little interaction with agriculture growing up. Her experience was limited to the vegetable garden that her parents meticulously cultivated in the backyard of their suburban home, but she loved spending time there. Elizabeth also remained ever curious about the welfare of the various little creatures she brought home as pets, from the squirrels that her cats chased or a little bird that fell from its nest. She did have an opportunity to visit her grandparents who lived in Southern India each year for the holidays, where Elizabeth received exposure to what she calls "real agriculture." Her paternal grandparents were predominantly rice paddy cultivators, and her maternal grandparents planted Rubber, Cocoa and Coffee and other diverse crops.
PhD student Elizabeth Abraham (center) connects with two members of the Rengma Tribe in Nagaland, India while during research on agriculture there.
Elizabeth's love for nature and animals led her to study veterinary medicine. It was during the internship period of her veterinary medicine program when she first interacted with poverty-stricken farmers. These farmers had nothing except a single cow or goat and sometimes a few square feet of land. Elizabeth was so moved by this experience that she was determined to do something for these farming communities so she decided to specialize in veterinary and animal husbandry extension. She soon began training small farming communities on management practices to improve production, and during this time she also worked with self-help groups for women in Southern India who were engaged in animal husbandry practices.
When Elizabeth immigrated to the United States she was already determined to pursue a Ph.D. She explored the University of Minnesota's website and found the Agricultural Education program to be the best fit for her academic needs. Elizabeth said that doing her Ph.D. at the university has been an interesting journey, and she is grateful for all kinds of diverse opportunities that have helped her grow. Besides her classes, projects, and internship experiences, she has also enjoyed various public speaking and presentation opportunities. For example, she was one of six finalists for the College of Education and Human Development's three-minute thesis research competition this year and currently serves as the Vice President on the Como Student Community Cooperative's Board of Directors, which has given Elizabeth hands-on leadership, community engagement, and service experiences.
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