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Q: NullPointerException in Android Studio 3 Beta 1 I have updated to Android Studio from Canary 9 to Beta 1 and I got this error when open my project.
I have invalidate cache and restart but not lucky.
My gradle file:
buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.3'
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta1'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.+'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

Error:Cause: java.lang.NullPointerException   at
  sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.normalizeAndCheck(UnixPath.java:77)   at
  sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.(UnixPath.java:71)  at
  sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystem.getPath(UnixFileSystem.java:281)    at
  java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:84)    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.scope.BuildOutput.getOutputPath(BuildOutput.java:222)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.scope.BuildOutputs.lambda$load$2(BuildOutputs.java:243)
    at
  java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:193)
    at
  java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1376)
    at
  java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:481)
    at
  java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:471)
    at
  java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:708)
    at
  java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
    at
  java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect(ReferencePipeline.java:499)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.scope.BuildOutputs.load(BuildOutputs.java:245)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.scope.BuildOutputs.load(BuildOutputs.java:184)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.scope.BuildOutputs.load(BuildOutputs.java:140)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.ide.BuildOutputsSupplier.lambda$get$1(BuildOutputsSupplier.java:55)
    at
  com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList.forEach(ImmutableList.java:397)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.ide.BuildOutputsSupplier.get(BuildOutputsSupplier.java:50)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.ide.BuildOutputsSupplier.get(BuildOutputsSupplier.java:35)
    at
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.ide.AndroidArtifactImpl.getOutputs(AndroidArtifactImpl.java:134)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  at
  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at
  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)     at
  org.gradle.tooling.internal.adapter.ProtocolToModelAdapter$ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ProtocolToModelAdapter.java:592)
    at
  org.gradle.tooling.internal.adapter.ProtocolToModelAdapter$AdaptingMethodInvoker.invoke(ProtocolToModelAdapter.java:397)
    at
  org.gradle.tooling.internal.adapter.ProtocolToModelAdapter$PropertyCachingMethodInvoker.invoke(ProtocolToModelAdapter.java:625)
    at
  org.gradle.tooling.internal.adapter.ProtocolToModelAdapter$SafeMethodInvoker.invoke(ProtocolToModelAdapter.java:647)
    at
  org.gradle.tooling.internal.adapter.ProtocolToModelAdapter$SupportedPropertyInvoker.invoke(ProtocolToModelAdapter.java:670)
    at
  org.gradle.tooling.internal.adapter.ProtocolToModelAdapter$InvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(ProtocolToModelAdapter.java:356)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy202.getOutputs(Unknown Source)   at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.IdeAndroidArtifactImpl.(IdeAndroidArtifactImpl.java:57)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.IdeVariantImpl.lambda$new$0(IdeVariantImpl.java:60)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.ModelCache.lambda$computeIfAbsent$0(ModelCache.java:31)
    at java.util.HashMap.computeIfAbsent(HashMap.java:1126)     at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.ModelCache.computeIfAbsent(ModelCache.java:31)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.IdeVariantImpl.(IdeVariantImpl.java:59)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.IdeAndroidProjectImpl.lambda$new$4(IdeAndroidProjectImpl.java:88)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.ModelCache.lambda$computeIfAbsent$0(ModelCache.java:31)
    at java.util.HashMap.computeIfAbsent(HashMap.java:1126)     at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.ModelCache.computeIfAbsent(ModelCache.java:31)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.IdeModel.copy(IdeModel.java:74)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.IdeAndroidProjectImpl.(IdeAndroidProjectImpl.java:87)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.ide.android.IdeAndroidProjectImpl.(IdeAndroidProjectImpl.java:68)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.model.AndroidModuleModel.(AndroidModuleModel.java:131)
    at
  com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.sync.idea.AndroidGradleProjectResolver.populateModuleContentRoots(AndroidGradleProjectResolver.java:214)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.AbstractProjectResolverExtension.populateModuleContentRoots(AbstractProjectResolverExtension.java:103)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.GradleProjectResolver.doResolveProjectInfo(GradleProjectResolver.java:366)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.GradleProjectResolver.access$200(GradleProjectResolver.java:79)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.GradleProjectResolver$ProjectConnectionDataNodeFunction.fun(GradleProjectResolver.java:902)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.GradleProjectResolver$ProjectConnectionDataNodeFunction.fun(GradleProjectResolver.java:886)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.execution.GradleExecutionHelper.execute(GradleExecutionHelper.java:218)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.GradleProjectResolver.resolveProjectInfo(GradleProjectResolver.java:139)
    at
  org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.GradleProjectResolver.resolveProjectInfo(GradleProjectResolver.java:79)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.service.remote.RemoteExternalSystemProjectResolverImpl.lambda$resolveProjectInfo$0(RemoteExternalSystemProjectResolverImpl.java:37)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.service.remote.AbstractRemoteExternalSystemService.execute(AbstractRemoteExternalSystemService.java:59)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.service.remote.RemoteExternalSystemProjectResolverImpl.resolveProjectInfo(RemoteExternalSystemProjectResolverImpl.java:37)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.service.remote.wrapper.ExternalSystemProjectResolverWrapper.resolveProjectInfo(ExternalSystemProjectResolverWrapper.java:45)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.service.internal.ExternalSystemResolveProjectTask.doExecute(ExternalSystemResolveProjectTask.java:66)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.service.internal.AbstractExternalSystemTask.execute(AbstractExternalSystemTask.java:139)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.service.internal.AbstractExternalSystemTask.execute(AbstractExternalSystemTask.java:125)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.util.ExternalSystemUtil$3.execute(ExternalSystemUtil.java:388)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.util.ExternalSystemUtil$5.run(ExternalSystemUtil.java:445)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager$TaskRunnable.run(CoreProgressManager.java:726)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.lambda$runProcess$1(CoreProgressManager.java:176)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.registerIndicatorAndRun(CoreProgressManager.java:556)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.executeProcessUnderProgress(CoreProgressManager.java:501)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl.executeProcessUnderProgress(ProgressManagerImpl.java:66)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.runProcess(CoreProgressManager.java:163)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl$1.run(ProgressManagerImpl.java:137)
    at
  com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$2.run(ApplicationImpl.java:334)
    at
  java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)     at
  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at
  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

A: Delete Build folders and try again

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Some of Vancouver's coolest eatery spaces made by Rahim AbbasiSubscriber Exclusive
By Rachel Pinsky, for The Columbian
This article is available exclusively to subscribers like you.
Jorge Castro, left, and Rahim Abbasi worked together to design Castro's DosAlas Latin Kitchen & Tequila Bar at The Waterfront Vancouver development. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
The secret to getting Rahim Abbasi to work on a project is to serve him a great beverage.
Abbasi became part owner of Compass Coffee and went on to design their downtown Vancouver coffee shop after spending hours sipping coffee in their original space on Main Street. Amanda Serrano of Be Well Juice Bar hooked Abbasi with her Be Wellin' smoothie.
Over the last five years, Abbasi has created some of the more interesting and stunning places to eat and drink in Vancouver. These spaces include Compass Coffee, The Mighty Bowl, Brian Carter Cellars' Tasting Room at the Waterfront Vancouver and DosAlas Latin Kitchen & Tequila Bar.
"I want to be involved in places where I live," said Abbasi . "I wanted downtown Vancouver to have more amenities."
Each project starts with a conversation. Abbasi wants to know what the owner seeks to convey using design elements in the space. After getting this information, he creates different design concepts for the project that include images to convey a vibe.
Once the theme is established, the space is evaluated and conceptually divided. Abbasi focuses on the center of activity and works outward. At Compass Coffee, creating a bar where a cashier could take orders and a barista could quickly make drinks and get them to customers was the first order of business.
Bryan Wray, of Compass, told Abbasi that orders needed to get out in under three minutes. Abbasi came up with a way to create this flow and then condensed the design to have room for customers to move through the space and sit and drink their coffee.
"You have to think about functional spaces to operate the business, then you make the operational space smaller and smaller so there's space for customers," said Abbasi .
In 2016, when Abbasi designed Compass's new downtown space on Washington Street, cafes in downtown Vancouver were primarily sparse and industrial. Abbasi wanted Compass' coffee shop to stand out. He added design elements like the hexagon-shaped tiles in the bar and the handmade off-center shelving that holds bags of coffee beans to the left of the bar. Abbasi placed antiques from his home on the shelves throughout the space. His wife, Kate, chose the banana leaf wallpaper that covers the wall to the left of the bar. A group of Edison lights were affixed to the ceiling in the main area to add some visual interest.
Another project, The Mighty Bowl's downtown restaurant, evokes a different vibe, with a color palette that favors bright green to emphasize the importance of fresh produce in the food. Abbasi calls the vibe Scandinavian and gritty with a California skateboarder style.
Designing that space began with the open kitchen. Owner Steve Valenta wanted customers to see all the fresh produce being used to make bowls and salads. Creating a functional open kitchen was the first thing that needed to be sorted out. Then zones for different types of seating were set up ranging from high stools at a bar, traditional tables and chairs, and bleacher seats.
Latin-themed standout
This focus on the nerve center of operations landed Abbasi his biggest Vancouver design project to date, DosAlas Latin Kitchen & Tequila Bar. Dos Alas owner Jorge Castro had designed all his other restaurants. This was a larger project, so he wanted to use an architect to help him configure the kitchen. He decided to hire Abbasi after only a few minutes of walking through the space.
Castro was impressed when Abbasi said he would place the bar in the center of the main area and make it boat shaped, like the building.
"It's an unconventional bar, a unique bar space. When he said it, I was intrigued because it made me think differently," said Castro.
During the build-out, the men shared an intense work ethic and a focus on making the best decisions for the space without taking anything personally. Castro could call or text Abbasi anytime day or night and receive a response. Castro and Abbasi both like to work late at night. They met several times at Dos Alas well after 11 p.m.
They also shared a mutual respect. Many of Abbasi 's ideas didn't make it into the final plans, but they caused Castro to think of different possibilities.
"We have a very unique relationship," said Castro. "We are respectful colleagues and friends, but able to tell the truth and be raw."
A wall filled with curvy blue and white ceramic bottles of Clase Azul seemingly floating in space is one of the many unique design details at Dos Alas. Abbasi wracked his brain trying to figure out a way to attach these expensive containers to the wall with fasteners that weren't too tight, but would keep them firmly in place and look attractive. He ended up using wall mounts normally used for ukuleles and modifying them to fit his vision.
Dos Alas feels like the "Great Gatsby" reimagined in modern-day Miami — a glittering, glamorous pleasure palace that makes visitors believe they've magically left the Pacific Northwest.
Castro said he loves to stand at the top of the stairs by the elevator at Dos Alas and watch new customers experience the space for the first time.
"I've seen customers appreciate design. I'm willing to budget more for build-outs to create a place to be seen, to dress up, to take photos," said Castro.
Lifelong fascination
Abbasi's inspiration comes from a lifetime fascination with design and a desire to learn. He spent the first part of his life in Guatemala. His parents are from Pakistan, but his father moved the family to Guatemala to sell imported rugs to South America's elite. Through his father's business, the family were invited into the well-appointed homes of the ultra rich.
A love for well-designed furniture led Abbasi to western India and the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java seeking rare antique furniture for his father to sell through the family business. He fit world travel into his schedule while earning degrees and gaining job experience.
He received a Bachelor of Science in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Idaho, followed by a business and engineering degree from Washington State University, and a Master of Arts of real estate, development, and urban planning from Portland State University.
He was an engineer-in-training at Bechtel, KPFF Consulting Engineers, and KPT Engineering & Development, then a project manager at Group Mackenzie. He owned an antiques store called Saffron and Turmeric in Portland with his brother, but he needed to give that up when his company, Abbasi Design Works, began racking up clients.
Currently, Abbasi Design Works has its six-person team working on 17 projects varying from multifamily housing to a massive UPS distribution center to smaller more personal work in Vancouver that Abbasi refers to as vanity projects.
One of these vanity projects is Amanda Serrano's Be Well Juice Bar at The Waterfront Vancouver. Based on Serrano's high-quality smoothies, Abbasi encouraged her to expand her business to the Waterfront and introduced her to the owner of the RiverWest building, Josh Oliva.
After Serrano signed a lease for a Waterfront space, Abbasi stepped in to help her bring her vision to life through design while also communicating with the contractor and working through electrical, plumbing, and permitting issues.
"I don't know if he's like this with all his clients, but he knows I'm new," said Serrano. "He's not just coming in and saying, 'I like that pillow.' "
In addition to the technical and creative support, Serrano appreciates that he believes in her dream of expanding her business.
"As a small-business owner, we're around a lot of people who say that might not work. Rahim is more like — that's a wild dream, I'm here, let's go."
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Clayton és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Nova York. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 1.821 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Clayton tenia 1.821 habitants, 828 habitatges, i 492 famílies. La densitat de població era de 434 habitants/km².

Dels 828 habitatges en un 26,9% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 47,6% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 8,2% dones solteres, i en un 40,5% no eren unitats familiars. En el 35,3% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 20,9% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,19 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,85.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 22,6% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 7% entre 18 i 24, un 26,2% entre 25 i 44, un 23,4% de 45 a 60 i un 20,9% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 41 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 80,8 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 31.354 $ i la renda mediana per família de 42.208 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 31.094 $ mentre que les dones 28.375 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 18.247 $. Entorn del 6,3% de les famílies i l'11,7% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Referències

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Workers in Ogun state have been given free days to go pick up their voters card ahead of the 2023 general election
The state government made this move to ensure that workers can carry out their civic right of voting in the forthcoming polls
Also, the Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has declared Monday (today) and Tuesday as public holidays in the state to enable residents to collect their PVCs
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The Ogun State Government has taken a step to ensure workers participate fully in the forthcoming general elections.
This is as Governor Dapo Abiodun's government declared Tuesday, January 24th, and Wednesday, January 25th, as work-free days for workers in the state public service to enable them to collect their permanent voter cards (PVCs).
Ogun Government has declared work-free days for workers in the state, ahead of the 2023 general election. Photo credit: Ogun State Government
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The declaration was contained in a statement signed by the chief press secretary to the Governor, Kunle Somorin, THISDAY reported.
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"Following the extension of Permanent Voter Cards collection till Sunday, January 29, 2023, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Governor Dapo Abiodun has graciously approved two days — Tuesday, 24th and Wednesday, 25th January — as work-free days to enable public servants to collect their PVCs from their respective local government."
The governor said that voting is a civic right, adding that all eligible citizens must be allowed to exercise their rights to choose who governs them.
Abia declares work-free days
In a similar move, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state, declared Monday, January 23rd, and Tuesday, January 24th, as public holidays in the state to enable residents to collect their PVCs.
This directive was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Chris Ezem, on Saturday, January 21st, a report by The Punch confirmed.
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In related news, Legit.ng earlier reported that the Borno State Government has taken a major step to enable the people of the state to fully participate in the 2023 general elections.
Through the Borno State Ministry of Education, the state governement declared an eight-day holiday for schools across the state ahead of the forthcoming polls.
In a letter signed by the director of Schools Management, Ministry of Education, Borno State, Mustapha Umara, explained that the holiday would allow eligible staff and students to exercise their civic rights.
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This was disclosed by the INEC commissioner and chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye.
Okoye made this known as the electoral umpire continues to face attacks on its facilities in different locations across the country.
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The making and consumption of horchata can be traced back to the eighth century in Spain. Over time, however, the horchata drink became popular throughout much of Latin America. Most Latin American contraries today prepare their own variation of horchata. The recipe provided by Sweet Haute is prepared much like the beverage is in Mexico and Guatemala.


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Q: Last value from previous quarter, given that it's date is less than or equal the current rows date - SQL I have the following table data:

I generated the last two columns with the following:
SELECT PublishDate, QuarterEndDate, Value, FiscalYear, FiscalQuarter,
FIRST_VALUE(Value) OVER(PARTITION BY FiscalYear ORDER BY FiscalQuarter, PublishDate
                          ROWS 1 PRECEDING) as LAST_VAL,
Value - FIRST_VALUE(Value) OVER(PARTITION BY FiscalYear ORDER BY FiscalQuarter,PublishDate
                          ROWS 1 PRECEDING) as QTR_DIFF
FROM tabledata

I am trying to calculate what the differences are between quarters given that the information was published.
Basically, I want to calculate the current row value minus the last value of the previous fiscal quarter (in the same fiscal year) given that its PublishDate is less than or equal to the current rows PublishDate.
If it is the first quarter than the first quarter numbers should be retained without any change.
In the above figure, the highlighted rows show a couple of the problems:
1) The zero value for the first quarter even though it should be the values itself (i.e. 19461)
2) The preceding row is taking the previous row not the previous quarter - its  taking the last value as the preceding row's value - not the last value from the quarter given that the publish date is less than or equal to it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

A: I have not tested this yet but looking at your code you are partitioning by the year only, I wonder if this will work:
SELECT PublishDate, QuarterEndDate, Value, FiscalYear, FiscalQuarter,
FIRST_VALUE(Value) OVER(PARTITION BY FiscalYear,FiscalQuarter ORDER BY FiscalQuarter, PublishDate
                          ROWS 1 PRECEDING) as LAST_VAL,
Value - FIRST_VALUE(Value) OVER(PARTITION BY FiscalYear,FiscalQuarter ORDER BY FiscalQuarter,PublishDate
                          ROWS 1 PRECEDING) as QTR_DIFF
FROM tabledata


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So the story of Edward Searles (the Old Gentleman) and Angy Ellison comes to an end leaving more questions than answers. The letters certainly show affection between the two but also seem a bit eccentric to modern readers. The letters make it obvious why Angy felt so strongly that is was Searles intention to "adopt" him as his son. After all, Searles was signing his letters as "Dad." You can fully understand how in Angy's mind it would have logically follow that he would inherit a large share of Searles estate upon his death.
"Mr. Whipple said that Mr. Walker knew of Mr. Searle's fondness for Angelo and that one of the letters purporting to be from the young Greek to Mr. Searles was in the handwriting of Mr. Walker, and was evidently written by Mr. Walker for Angelo as Angelo was not highly educated and probably asked Mr. Walker to write it for him.
What is interesting is that the counsel for Victor Searles was using the argument that Angelo Ellison was the intended heir in order to get a settlement for his client. Whatever the case, Walker settled with Searles out of court. While a settlement doesn't prove guilt it seems to me that there was something to the story. It is said that Victor Searles had his bequest under the will changed from $250,000 to over $2,000,000. Ellison claimed that Victor Searles was an alcoholic and a drug addict and not a nice man. Events would bear this out. In October of 1921, he was divorced from his wife Etta who received $140,000. He was also said to have been blackmailed out of $50,000 after being trapped with a woman in a Back Bay apartment. He was also reported to have settled for $1,000,000 an alienation suit in having committed adultery with Mary Johnson of Portsmouth N.H.
As for Angelo Ellison, who was most likely the intended heir for much of Searle's millions, he ended up with just $10,000. He also went to court to contest the will but lost. Andrew "Angy" Ellison in his later life was consigned to the loss saying that the money would have probably ruined his life.


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When Laura needed surgery in 2003, there was no lung transplant program in Phoenix. In 2007 when St. Joseph's Hospital announced its lung transplant program at the new Center for Thoracic Transplantation (now known as the Norton Thoracic Institute), the Board of Laura's Foundation recognized it as an opportunity to "pay it forward" for all the blessings, care and love Laura had received. The program offered an ideal match for the stated mission of Laura's Foundation: To provide social support and financial assistance to lung transplant patients and their families. Thus, a new partnership was formed between St. Joseph's and the Laura Hart Burdick Foundation.
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Since its inception in 2007, the Institute has performed over 925 successful lung transplants, making it one of the busiest and most successful lung transplant centers in the country. "The numbers are humbling", said Ross Bremner, MD, Director of the Norton Thoracic Institute. "Not only have we been able to reach an incredible number of patients, but the team's hard work is clearly shown in the exceptional quality scores the team receives." Wait-times and one-year survival rates are better than the national averages. Dr. Bremner is hopeful that research being conducted at the Institute will soon find the solution to chronic organ rejection, which will further improve patient longevity.
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The premiere—participants to the first induction training for new staff members.
Starting a new job in a new country is never easy and finding your way around an organization always takes time. To facilitate this period, the Human Resources Division has developed an ITER Organization induction training for new staff members. This two-day program presents the ITER Project, its history, the science behind it and the Organization itself. It also covers some of the practical aspects of working at ITER, including HR topics, intercultural awareness training, Quality, Safety & Security, IT and the document management system. It compliments the work done by Agence Iter France's Welcome Office to help newcomers settle into France and a new living environment.
The first ITER induction training took place on 24-25 June and was attended by about 35 participants . "I found it very useful and interesting," says Mahaboob Basha Syed, who joined the CCS Office in March. "Being briefed about a number of HR topics upfront avoids having to ask a colleague about procedures and maybe getting things wrong. The induction training, although quite brief, was interesting because it covers topics as varied as the basics of fusion and the basics of French culture and systems."
The next IO Induction Training will take place on 24-25 September and will be proposed to all newcomers having arrived between June and September.
If you feel that, although you are no longer a newcomer, this Induction training could be useful for you, it is possible to participate in the session that will be organized in November of this year. For more information please contact your Department's training coordinator or emilia.fullmer-bourree@iter.org.


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This Florida Town Wants to Be the Most Sustainable in America
A solar farm under construction in Punta Gorda, Florida, on April 22, 2016 where enough energy will be produced to power 21,000 homes as part of the Babcock Ranch development.
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Babcock Ranch may look like the many of the other burgeoning housing developments in southwest Florida. Thousands of acres of land in the development will soon be transformed into homes and offices for a population that developers estimate could reach 50,000.
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But unlike other developments that grow with little concern for their surroundings, Babcock Ranch's developers say that it will soon be the most sustainable town in the country complete with its own solar power plant, clean driverless vehicles and technology to maximize energy efficiency.
"Babcock Ranch will exemplify what it means to be a town of the future," says Syd Kitson, CEO of developer Kitson & Partners, in a press release. "The first residents will be settling into a whole new way of life—one that is conscientious, engaging and connected."
Kitson's company first purchased Babcock Ranch in 2006 for a hefty price tag of more than $500 million from a family that had owned the property for nearly a century. As part of the terms of the agreement, the company sold a large portion of the property—74,000 acres or 90% of the total sale—to the state to become a nature preserve. The Florida Panther and black bear are both found in the area and are protected in the habitat.
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Now, 10 years and one global recession after the ranch's purchase, developers have broken ground on the first stage of the residential development—1,100 residences to be completed by next year. That's just a fraction of the 19,000 homes developers plan to build in the coming years.
Powering it all will be a 74.5-megawatt solar power plant located in Babcock Ranch. In total, it takes up 443 acres and will be completed by the end of the year.


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I came across this blog post by The Interrobangs - they're starting a Fashion Timeline and they begin, well, at the beginning with 'prehistoric' clothing. What I find interesting about this discussion is that it references Native attire, archaelogical sites, and beadwork. This is one of the few discussions that I've come across where they think of prehistoric Native clothing in terms of the beginning of fashion.
Roundtable: Fashion Timeline 1 (Prehistoric* Clothing)
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So, in addition to the weekly link posts, we're starting a round-table series too, since we're a group blog. We're starting off with a series looking at clothing through history, and seeing how we can relate history to the present, and putting the present in context. We'll probably have off-series round-tables too, about subjects that may or may not be related to the main thread, but we'll see how that goes.
First up, we start waaaay back with Neanderthals.
•100,000 BCE – Neanderthals – Wore animal skins
Early humans cut the hides into shapes they liked, making holes for the head and perhaps the arms, and draped the furs over their bodies. They may have used thin strips of hide to tie the furs about themselves, perhaps in the way that belts are used today. ("Prehistoric Clothing." Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 1: The Ancient World. Detroit: UXL, 2004. 5-8. Gale Virtual Reference Library.)
•38,000 BCE – Cro-Magnon wore loincloths made of animal skins
Sharp awls, or pointed tools, were used to punch small holes in animal skins, which were laced together. With a needle (made out of slivers of animal bone), Cro-Magnon man could sew carefully cut pieces of fur into better fitting garments. Evidence suggests that Cro-Magnon people developed close-fitting pants and shirts that would protect them from the cold, as well as shawls, hoods, and long boots. ("Prehistoric Life," 2004, 1-8)
•7,000 BCE – Mesopotamians learned to spin wool to make clothing
Mesopotamians, (dwellers of present-day Iraq near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers), developed the ability to create pottery from clay, learned to gather and spin wool from the sheep and goats that they herded. It was in Mesopotamia and the other great early civilization, Egypt, where clothing other than animal skins first began to be made and worn. ("Prehistoric Life," 2004, 1-4)
Chelsie: Clothing was initially a practical attire, to keep people warm during those cold Ice Ages. Today, our clothing is still designed to keep us warm – in the cool months anyway. Though there are other theories for why people started clothing themselves, namely lice.
We can definitely see how even early cavemen found a way to make their clothing look unique, I even read that Cro-Magnon's were perhaps the first to create tattoos. I think this can be seen as form of expression and unique style. Presumably, the first tattoo's were created by accident, when someone rubbed a wound with soot or ashes, producing a permanent mark when the wound was healed.
Millie: Yeah, tattooing definitely has a long and illustrious (and really interesting) history, though I've never really delved into it. I'm not tattooed myself, and have no burning desire to be, so it'd be a lot less personal to me than it would to some other people (note: Fashionable Academics is looking for tattooed academics to talk about their experiences with tattoos in academia, so if that's you head over and throw your two cents in.)
I think the practical aspect of clothing's not one that gets talked an awful lot about any more (though obviously clothing's still practical). I put on clothes to swat bugs, let alone go hunting for dinner, though I suppose if you're used to hunting dinner with no protection then it's not as big a deal. We talk about practicality in terms of "this dress is airy, so it's comfortable to wear in the hot summer," say, but not so much the "I'm not going to get bugs landing on my butt while I cook" aspect of it. Because clothing's ubiquitous (consider how alien naturalist communities can seem) and nearly universal, and have been for so long, it's easy to forget the armor-like qualities of it. Or maybe it's just the thing's we're defending against have shifted: we're not running around trying to not get jabbed by bushes and things, but we're trying to navigate a complex society where how we're treated depends very, very strongly on how we appear. Perhaps that's a side round-table discussion worth having? Clothing as armour?
Katie: One of my jobs is to help facilitate the interpretation of a prehistoric site (12,000-ish years old) whose artifacts include, amongst many other things, bone needles. When this site was excavated in the 1930s, the general idea of who prehistoric man (note the nomenclature of "man" there) and what he looked like was the dirty, dreadlocked, loincloth-wearing proto-human. But finding bone needles?!? That changes everything. These needles are as delicate as the steel ones we use today, so these were people who were sewing, making clothes. Clothes that were warm, that were waterproof. Minerals like ochre have been found at the sites – ochre helps waterproof, but it's also a beautiful color. So were they decorating their clothing? I don't think it would surprise anyone if they were.
We also find beads there, and I think those are the most powerful artifacts on the site. This is before contact era, when Europeans were bring beads as trade goods. These are beads made out of bone, out of shell, drilled with amazingly delicate stone tools. And do you know what beads tell you about a culture more than projectile points, arrowheads, or hide scrapers? You don't make beads if you're starving. You don't make beads if you're cold and unprotected from the elements. You don't make beads when you're just surviving. You make beads when you're thriving. In my opinion, finding those beads at that site told a richer story about who these people 12,000 years ago were than anything else that had been found. So in that regard, I do think fashion is somewhat of a luxury. It happens when you can afford the time and effort to make it happen.
Chelsie: I think when we look at prehistoric people we see them wearing clothing practically to keep warm against the elements, but we can also see that soon afterward people were trying to make their clothing and bodies unique. Would that be the beginning of fashion or style? If we think of more broadly of societal hierarchies we can see a long history the people at the top of the hierarchy dressing differently, and more ornately, than those deemed below.
Millie: Definitely, and I suspect that's a theme that'll come up a lot through this series. The idea that clothing at once sets us apart and identifies us as belonging to a certain group is as old as fashion has existed, but the question of when that came about? I have no idea. There's so little information to go on when you're going back thousands and thousands of years, and there's no written or oral culture to inform us, so while I'd say that the birth of fashion was probably around the same time that we started wearing things for protection, I've no idea how accurate a statement that is. I'm no fashion historian, that's for certain.
Katie: I'd be careful saying that there's no oral culture to inform us about what was happening clothing-wise thousands and thousands of years ago. It's perhaps a safer assumption to make for Europe and Asia where scholars have shown that the development of written languages altered the reliability of oral tradition, but in North America the oral tradition was (and still is) very strong. However, for reasons perhaps too heavy to get into here, Native oral tradition has been ignored, forgotten, forced out of people's memories, and most often not recorded when it was still alive in people's minds. I'm quite sure that there are tribes with individuals who can tell you what their ancestors wore thousands and thousands of years ago, and either no one's asked those individuals that question yet, or they're not inclined to answer.
But I do see your point in supposing that the birth of "fashion" coincided with the birth of clothing itself. I don't think the two were simultaneous – you have to develop the basic idea before you can alter/embellish/build upon it. A non-fashion example to support my point: At the archaeological site I work on, an enormous amount of stone tools have been found. Many scholars who've looked at the tools have noticed that along with being functional, a surprising number of the tools are made from very beautiful stone. So beautiful, in fact, that it seems unlikely that the decision to shape a point out of that particular piece of quartz with the gorgeous vein of purple running through it was just a fluke. The supposition then becomes that people learned how to make the object for its function, but as that skill developed, then you get creative with your method and materials. Aesthetics is not a new phenomenon – as much as we prefer something to be beautiful, why wouldn't individuals thousands upon thousands of years ago have, too?
I also want to tag onto Millie's comment that "clothing at once sets us apart and identifies us as belonging to a certain group." I've worked with an amazing Native woman who has a very strong background in beadwork, especially that of the Plains Indian tribes. One thing I've heard her say more than once is that, historically, pattern and color were incredibly important to people, because it declared who you were. Is there a rider cresting that ridge over there? Does the beadwork on his clothing have a strong chevron design? He's that tribe. Is there a lot of blue in the pattern? He's that other tribe. Color and pattern help declare who you are. And today when beads are found at an archaeological site, knowledge from oral traditions of the patterns, colors, etc. used in different tribal beadwork can help identify who was there. There's also a very interesting history on the differences between the beading styles used for ceremony, and the beading styles used for trade once Europeans arrived. But that's a topic for another day (and much further along in the timeline than we are now).
*Not to get all museum-y on y'all, but just a note that "prehistoric" is commonly used to define the time period that leads up to the emergence of a written record for an area or people. In North America, the term "pre-contact" is also used, as many tribes did not have a written language until the arrival of Europeans. However, that is not to imply that these peoples did not have a rich, detailed, and incredibly accurate oral record of their history.
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The basic units of OpenShift Dedicated applications are called containers. Linux container technologies are lightweight mechanisms for isolating running processes so that they are limited to interacting with only their designated resources.
The Linux kernel has been incorporating capabilities for container technologies for years. More recently the Docker project has developed a convenient management interface for Linux containers on a host. OpenShift Dedicated and Kubernetes add the ability to orchestrate Docker-formatted containers across multi-host installations.
Though you do not directly interact with the Docker CLI or service when using OpenShift Dedicated, understanding their capabilities and terminology is important for understanding their role in OpenShift Dedicated and how your applications function inside of containers. The docker RPM is available as part of RHEL 7, as well as CentOS and Fedora, so you can experiment with it separately from OpenShift Dedicated. Refer to the article Get Started with Docker Formatted Container Images on Red Hat Systems for a guided introduction.
Containers in OpenShift Dedicated are based on Docker-formatted container images. An image is a binary that includes all of the requirements for running a single container, as well as metadata describing its needs and capabilities.
You can think of it as a packaging technology. Containers only have access to resources defined in the image unless you give the container additional access when creating it. By deploying the same image in multiple containers across multiple hosts and load balancing between them, OpenShift Dedicated can provide redundancy and horizontal scaling for a service packaged into an image.
You can use the Docker CLI directly to build images, but OpenShift Dedicated also supplies builder images that assist with creating new images by adding your code or configuration to existing images.
Do not use the latest tag for any official OpenShift Dedicated images. These are images that start with openshift3/. latest can refer to a number of versions, such as 3.10, or 3.11.
The vX.Y tag points to X.Y.Z-<number>. For example, if the registry-console image is updated to v3.11, it points to the newest 3.11.Z-<number> tag, such as 3.11.1-8.
The tag is unique and does not change. When using this tag, the image does not update if an image is updated. For example, the 3.11.1-8 will always point to 3.11.1-8, even if an image is updated.
A container image registry is a service for storing and retrieving Docker-formatted container images. A registry contains a collection of one or more image repositories. Each image repository contains one or more tagged images. Docker provides its own registry, the Docker Hub, and you can also use private or third-party registries. Red Hat provides a registry at registry.redhat.io for subscribers. OpenShift Dedicated can also supply its own internal registry for managing custom container images.


Notifications can be set to be sent automatically at specific times in the job process or you can choose to run ad-hoc notification production for certain criteria. This article looks at only at the process for maintaining the notifications for process and appointment pre-configured notifications.
SMS notifications are set to be automatically sent. In order for a contact to receive an SMS the contact type against the contact must be a valid mobile number and a contact type of SMS text. SMS are usually configured to be sent when an appointment is created and then a set number of hours/days before an appointment is due.
Oneserve will attempt to send the pre-configured message 3 times. If it fails on all 3 attempts a failure event will be logged in the job history tab. If it succeeds an event will be displayed in the job history detailing the message content.
In exactly the same way as SMS details are sent emails are sent and detailed in the same way. A contact must have a valid email address against their contact and be of a type of email.
Depending on the configuration for your contract, letters will either be set to be "queued" automatically i.e. you do not have to do anything to enable a letter to be printed, or they may be set to require you to authorise the letter to be "queued" so that it can be printed.
A letter is set to be generated at specific points in a job process and when an appointment is created see Making a Pooled Appointment to understand the controlling of issuing notifications on appointments.
If the letter is set to be queued automatically you will see in the job history tab an event to say the letter has been queued.
If the letter is set to require manually queuing i.e. you decide whether it needs to be printed, then the option [QUEUE LETTER] will appear at the top of the job details page. Click on this option to send the letter to the queue to enable it to be printed.
To print a queued batch, select the Letters Queue option from the Jobs menu.
A full list of all unprinted letters will display, this can be reduced by selecting a particular letter from the Letter drop down list. This will then only display the letters that are due to be printed for this type. Once you have the list that you want to print select the Release button. This will create a batch to be printed.
To print the batch select the [print] option next to the batch name.
To go back and re-print a batch, select the Letter Batches option from the job menu. Select the batch from the drop down list and click on the [print] option (see above screen shot).
Once a letter has been printed it will appear in the documents tab of the job details page. This can then be opened up and viewed (or re-printed from the job) at any point in the future.


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The Ultimate Classical Album 2008 - Various Artists
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William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, film score
1 The Balcony Scene
2 Unchained Melody, song (from the film "Unchained")
Requiem for soloists, chorus & orchestra
3 Pie Jesu
4 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (for the film "The Wizard of Oz")
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, television film score
5 Chi Mai
6 Gollum's Song (composed for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
Braveheart, film score
7 End Credits Theme
Jean de Florette, film score
9 Midsomer Murders, television series score
Midnight Cowboy, film score
10 Main Theme
Out of Africa, film score
You Only Live Twice, film score
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita é Bella), film score
13 Theme
The Godfather, film score
The Last Emperor, film score
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, film score
16 The Eternal Vow
Gladiator, film score
17 Now We Are Free
Schindler's List, film score
19 Caruso, for voice & orchestra
20 Lara's Theme (from the film Dr. Zhivago)
Inspector Morse, television series score
Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55
22 1st Movement
23 Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral"), Op. 125
24 Ode to Joy
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, film score
27 Titanic, film score
28 Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492
Gianni Schicchi, opera
29 O Mio Babbino Caro
30 Tosca, opera
31 The Lamb, for chorus
32 Clair de lune, for orchestra or other arrangement (from "Suite Bergamasque" for piano), L. 75/3
Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra
33 Excerpt
34 Gymnopedie for piano No. 1
35 Recuerdos de la Alhambra, for guitar
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ("Moonlight"), Op. 27/2
37 Canon in D major, instrumental arrangement
38 Adagio for strings (or string quartet; arr. from 2nd mvt. of String Quartet), Op. 11
39 Die Another Day, song (as used in the film Die Another Day)
Suite for keyboard (Suite de piece), Vol.2, No.4 in D minor, HWV 437
40 Sarabande
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, film score
41 What Shall We Die For?
42 End Titles
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone, film score
43 Harry's Wondrous World
Gone With the Wind, film score
44 Tara's Theme
Amélie, film score
46 La Valse D'Amelie
American Beauty, film score
47 Any Other Name
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Le Samourai/Les Aventuriers [Original Soundtrack] - François de Roubaix
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Third Ear Band's Music for Macbeth - Third Ear Band
Film Music by Jerry Goldsmith - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
An American Affair [Music from the Film] - Dustin O'Halloran
The Very Best of Classical Chillout Gold [Box Set] - Various Artists
Great Movie Themes, Vol. 2 - Carl Davis
The Music of James Last - The Film Score Orchestra
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Early last year, Ahmed Khattak launched US Mobile, a provider of no-contract, no-frills cellphone service aimed at college students, seniors and other low-usage customers. And yet, he struggled to find a good phone system for in-house staff at his Connecticut headquarters. "You would think we would have had that covered, since we are a telecom company," he says with a chuckle. But it was truly hard going: Hardware-based and VOIP options were too inflexible, and he was facing the prospect of wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars to make his current in-house system work for his growing company.
Meanwhile, he had a business with no reliable way to expand customer support or pull analytics.
After months of searching, Khattak discovered Aircall, a Paris, France-based company that offers a unique telecom solution: Its app can be downloaded on any device -- an employee's cellphone, a company computer or tablet and more -- that instantly links into a central system. Each device even gets its own new phone extension. Khattak set up the system with on-demand features such as call cascading (which moves an incoming call to the next available person), call forwarding and recording, a button on his website that allows customers to call via their computers and more.
"It literally took a half hour to set up everything," Khattak says, "and the built-in systems and service and support have been phenomenal." His 20-person support team is now seamlessly linked. Aircall's dashboard-based analytics -- with metrics on hold times, individual agent productivity and so on -- have also helped US Mobile improve its customer service, Khattak says. Reps now successfully handle 25 percent more calls a day. Aircall charges a monthly per-user fee ranging from $10 to $40 per device, depending on the package, and US Mobile is paying less than $500 a month -- a "massive" savings, Khattak says.
A system like this may be great, but it's not for everyone, says Ari Santiago, founder of the West Hartford, Conn.-based telecom consulting firm IT Direct. For reliability and compliance -- depending upon your industry -- you may still need to have a dedicated computer and phone line to handle customer service calls. And even if you don't, he says, "I'd be wary of making staff dependent on a single device, such as their personal computer or their personal smartphone, for handling important business and customer calls." His recommendation: Conduct a serious analysis of all the service options. Then make the call.
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Israel is being hanged on a public gallows erected on the grounds of the United Nations with yards of rope gleefully supplied by the Muslim world. But the hangmen are mostly Westerners who still think that the Muslim lynch mob at their doorstep can be pacified with the death of a single victim.
There are three things you can do when you are about to be hanged. You can walk proudly, recite a glorious line or two to embed your martyrdom in historical memory, and then allow yourself to be hanged. Jews have an extensive body of experience with that brand of martyrdom.
Alternatively you can plead your case all the way to the gallows, arguing that a mistake has been made, that your case has been improperly reviewed, begging for someone to listen and do something. This way also ends in a hanging. But it's the hanging of a slave without even a shred of dignity attached to it. A man that dies pleading with his murderers, and puts his fate in the honesty of the liars and hypocrites whose own crimes makes the worst of his look like virtues, is a craven fool.
Because there is really only one thing you can do when the noose is being placed around your neck. Resist. A noose works by tightening around your neck and cutting off your air or breaking your neck. If you resist the tightening of the noose, you may actually survive. On the other hand if you follow through all the procedures, if you allow your hands to be tied behind your back, and the noose to be fastened around your neck while trusting in the system to do right by you-- your death is inevitable.
For two decades Israel has been walking toward the gallows. Its leaders have led it there by empty international assurances. Its people have been led there by refusing to see what is waiting ahead for them, even while the blood was being cleaned off the streets.
Every attempt to reach a peaceful solution, every concession and show of good faith, has only tightened the bonds around its hands and the noose around its neck.
Every concession Israel has made, has further restricted not only its ability to defend itself, but even its ability to do basic things such as build residential housing in the capital of its own nation. Every gesture and agreement Israel has signed has bound it to ever more restrictive terms. And none of them have brought any peace. All they have ever done is set the bar higher for the next round of concessions demanded by the enemy and its aiders and abettors in the next phase of negotiations.
This is not a peace process, and it has never been one. It is a public lynching. It is the lynching of a country whose only real crime is that its existence offends the religious fanaticism and prejudices of a billion Muslims, who control much of the world's oil, and whose followers are willing to riot and kill in the streets of nearly every major city in the world at the slightest offense.
The lynching began as a trial where the murderer wore a fine suit and his victim sat in an orange jumpsuit in the dock. Every day during the trial, the murderer would be allowed to leave the courtroom to kill again. And every afternoon he would return to the courtroom with bloody hands that the judge and jurors would pretend not to see.
If the victim called attention to those bloody hands, he would be told that those murders were also his fault because he had provoked the murderer into committing them.
The endgame is all too clear. The undoing of that "mistake" which allowed the oldest and most persecuted minority in the Middle East to briefly reclaim their homeland from the tyranny of Muslim Caliphs and Sultans as a homeland for their persecuted brethren from the east and the west.
Every time Israel tries to be accommodating, it instead takes a step closer to the gallows. It allows the noose to be tightened around its neck. And every time that happens, it has to fight harder for air.
Eventually there will be no air at all. Only a sad forlorn figure swinging in the hot eastern wind from the desert.
And cries of Ibtach al Yahood among the rubble of cities and gardens of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv and Ariel.
Israel cannot survive by accommodating a lynch mob. Only by having the courage to defy it. When the international community at the behest of the Muslim lynch mob dictates the parameters of Israel's survival, it must expand those parameters by pushing through them to the other side. If they want to recognize terrorists, then kill those terrorists. If they want to unilaterally create a Palestinian state, then annex those territories. Accommodation is a noose. Defiance is the air of freedom. Every time Israel retreats, it is condemned for it. When it advances, it is condemned for it also, but its freedom of action expands.
The world will always condemn Israel regardless of its intentions. But like any form of name-calling, those condemnations only gain power when Israel allows its actions to be dictated by them. Israel is not condemned because of what Israel does. It is condemned because of Islamic bigotry, left wing radicalism and international dhimmism converging in one place.
This is a pattern that cannot be undone. It can only be ignored.
When you listen to the threats and taunts of those who hate you, you give them power over yourself. If you try to accommodate your behavior to gain their favor, their outpouring of hate for you will only grow. It is not your behavior they hate, it is you. By showing weakness, you invite attack. By giving your enemies power over you, all that you accomplish is to drive them into a feeding frenzy at your vulnerability.
If you go on this way, you will either be a slave or a corpse. A slave if they have any use for you alive. A corpse if they don't. Either way you have put your head into the noose they made for you.
Israel cannot go on this way. No country could for long. Yet it does, marching on toward the gallows, protesting that there has been a terrible mistake here. But there is no mistake here. None at all. The executioners nod sympathetically and promise to look into it, as they bind his hands behind his back. It's a farce and everyone, except the dumbest among the lynch mob and the condemned, knows it.
But like the condemned man refusing a blindfold in the anecdote who's scheduled to be executed, Israel keeps being warned not to make trouble. Go quietly. Breathe deeply. Soon it will all be over. What will the world say, if Israel resists? Exactly what the world says now. The troublemakers that are the cause of all the troubles of the otherwise peaceful nations of the Middle East. The worm in the lovely healthy apple otherwise covered with Muslim tyrannies.
Every threat that has been made has come about when Israel made concessions, not because it refused to. Every time Israel has chosen the high road, its enemies have ambushed it from the low road. It's past time to wake up and start learning some lessons. The noose is drawn. And the nation is gasping for air. That breath of air was Jerusalem. The next one will be the Galilee. And then what? How many more breaths are left after that?
Before Oslo, Israel was threatened with terror if it did not comply. It complied and the terror increased manifold. And if did not negotiate further, it was threatened with international isolation. It negotiated. It gave. And it was isolated anyway. It was threatened with boycotts, and it gave, and the boycotts came anyway. Now they threaten the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Followed by a One State Solution. Followed by international intervention. Noose, gallows and all.
And does anyone think that all these will not come about anyway if Israel gives Abbas and his terrorist cronies their own official state with a capital in Jerusalem?
No compromise has worked until now. Which means no compromise will work. A process in which one side repeatedly compromises and the other side repeatedly threatens and takes, is not a process, but a holdup. If a man threatens you with a gun, then you might think that you can buy him off. Until he returns again and again. And then it is no longer a threat, it is a process. Israel is in that process, or rather it is being processed. At the end of the process is death. If you pay attention only to the gun, and not the pattern of threats, you may keep giving in, until you have given up your home, your wife and your children, and you have nothing left but your life. And then you will lose that as well. That is the nature of the process. To survive, you must not see the gun alone, but the process it is part of.
When Israel withdrew from Gaza, allowed Hamas to control it, and did nothing but prevent Hamas from having outside access, the world howled as if Israel had filled the country with graves from end to end, as Sudan or Iran or some of the other members and former members of the UN Human Rights Commission have. Now that Israel sacrifices the lives of its soldiers to minimize Muslim civilian casualties while Hamas does everything to increase those casualties, the howling has become a din.
That is not justice. That is a lynch mob.
We are no longer talking about negotiations. Or any serious discussion of a state. We are talking about the world rising up in one voice to defend the rights of a genocidal organization whose charter includes the words; "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
The pretense is over and done with. This is not about anything resembling peace. This is about death. This is a lynch mob. Some come willingly. Others think that they have no choice. That a single murder will buy them the tolerance of the Dar Al Islam.
This is what a noose looks like. These are the gallows. As its hands are bound, Israel loses the ability to defend itself. As the noose tightens, Israel dies. Only by resisting the noose, can it survive. Only by fighting to free its hands, can it resist.
The way of surrender is the way of death. And after Israel dies, its own hangmen will be next.
The lynch mob has only begun. Its appetite is whetted by death. Its hunger will only be sharpened, not sated, by blood. And it will cover the world in blood, if it is not stopped. But now the noose draws tight. Only a little more air is left.
What will Israel do with that air? Appeal for justice, or fight with all its strength to rip the noose away. For now the choice is still hers. When the noose has done it work, it no longer will be.
Excellent article. You're right about the process thing. This isn't a peace process it's a slow-kill genocide of a nation.
You should go to Israel, become a MK and speak the truth to the Knesset, and Bibi. You might have to form your own party, though.
mindRider 22/7/14
The cry "death to the Jews" once again echo's in Europe's streets. Howling lynch mobs of rioting import muslims testing the state's willingness in stopping them and finding this willingness wanting which only stimulates their appetite to deploy their dominance of the streets. If no modern day Charles Martel or Vlad Tepesh rises to stop the muslim mob's conquest, Europe shall be lost. As America under Obama worked hard to lose the last shreds of it's former exceptionalism there shall be no nation left to prevent European freedom from being hung next to the Jews.
Reality and truth. The things our Western liberals cannot stand. I would force every BBC and US network reporter and liberal press vulture to read your words. For the sake of us all Israel must stand even if the whole world is against her.
There are many outside Israel who will also never accept the lies and it is their duty to speak out against the liars and fools. It is just.
HermitLion 22/7/14
Here's to hoping we're not all doomed here. Israelis are falling to this trap again and again. Everyone under 21 has heard these lies since birth.
I know Bibi is unpopular in some circles, I would still take him over Obama in a New York minute..
Despite the media's willful blindness to Islamic terrorism, Israel still has many supporters all over the world. Now that we've just given more millions to Iran, when they start playing with their new toys, watch the West come to Israel on bended knee to save them.
Hermit: They most likely have heard the lies since birth, but they've also learned that these lies have done little to nothing to stop all of the kassams and katyusha rockets.
IMO the kids from Sderot and southern Israel will be quite a force once they get older.
Doug Mayfield 22/7/14
Thanks for a great article.
Because it's a free country, Israel is moral country and therefore has a right to exist and to thrive.
It is surrounded by tyrannies, religious, secular, or a mix thereof, each of which, depending on the ruling tyrant of the moment, may well be a direct threat to Israel's existence and to the lives of every Israeli.
Israel has the moral right to take any action, political and military, on behalf of its survival and the lives of its people, and in so doing, should ignore the empty, meaningless howling and screeching from the Left around the world.
Excellent! What America and Western Europe seems to ignore is that the 'Holocaust' of the Nazi's has now become the cry of the religious terrorist organizations, i.e. Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, etc., to kill Jews and in Iraq-Christians. The main stream media in America should be ashamed of itself. It does not report; it sensationalizes and editorializes. Some people have looked at the Holocaust and asked 'how did it happen'? WELL, IT IS HAPPENING NOW, AND WHAT IS BEING DONE???
Kol Bo Gary 22/7/14
mindRider, Europe is already lost, and without some common sense, the US will fall prey too. As for Israel, the Sultan is right. What is playing out now is the result of what played out before, all ended too soon by the cease-fires courtesy of the kumbaya crowd, lastly saving Hamas and Hezbollah. Netanyahu has remained steadfast to this point, and must continue to resist any deal not on Israel's terms, most importantly that Gaza be totally disarmed and stay that way. Am Yisrael Chai.
Sven 22/7/14
Is Israel not squashing its enemies as we speak? Besides a few half hearted objections by world leaders, has their been any real pushback? Why the hyperbole Daniel?
Speaking of Hezbollah, has anything been happening in northern Israel? We haven't heard too much about what's going on there lately.
Re Gaza/Cast Lead 2: The IDF really shows the world what its capable of once they launch ground assaults. The iron dome and air strikes are wonderful but there's nothing like boots on the ground.
That's the IDF's biggest strengths. IMO they can recapture Gaza.
Save the gallows and nooses for Haman and his accomplices.
Daniel Greenfield 22/7/14
only if by 'squashing' you mean bending over backward and taking serious casualties to avoid harming enemy civilians while inflicting minor damage on Hamas...
...and still being denounced as the second coming of Hitler... then yes
I dunno. Things have changed this time. European goverments have been pretty much against Hamas in this conflict, along with Egypt and Saudi Arabia. They have looked into the abyss - Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and they don't like what they see. Suddenly Israel is looking more and more like a welcome neighbor, rather than an enemy.
Raymond in DC 25/7/14
And yet every single European member of the UN Human Rights Council chose to abstain rather than oppose a resolution targeting Israel and calling for an investigation of Israel's alleged crimes. There was no comparable condemnation of Hamas.
Daniel,the greatest danger to the Jews are not the Arabs.The danger to Israel & the Jews are the International leftists who were born Jewish but hate Judaism.In this group of traitors,Shimon Peres,in Israel, is the last of this old guard.
In the early 1920's Rabbi Jacob Maze of Moscow appealed to Leon Trotsky for help.The Jews were in need of help because of the pogroms in Russia after the Red revolution & the Rabbi hoped that Trotsky would help him!
Trotsky told him he would not do anything for the Jews.He told the Rabbi that he was not a Jew,that he was an internationalist & a revolutionary Communist.He told the Rabbi that when there were no more Jews & only workers there would no longer be pogroms.Rabbi Maze replied that "The Trotskys make the revolutions & the Bronsteins (Trotsky's real name) pay the bills". In Mandated Palestine,Trotsky's more moderate little brothers,the Labor Zionists gained full control of the Jewish agency. The Labor Zionists,who were statists of the western Fabian sort ,were not as extreme as the Bolsheviks.Under Ben Gurion they seized control of the basic institutions that would later run Israeli society after 1948.since that time the Labor Zionists saw themselves as transplanted European Jews who did not believe in Judaism.They believed in leftist humanism, Israeli style.They saw themselves as the " New Jews"! 66 years later their heirs still have a strangle hold on Israel society.These Fabian Socialists,as was Trotsky,are basically "internationalists" & opposed to Judaism which is particularist.Internationalists at war with Judaism inside of Israel.When these Socialists were in power they promulgated laws & policies which were antagonistic to the needs of the Jewish nation.After all,they were internationalists & global statists,hostile to the ideas of Judaic nationalism.These were the home grown Quislings,the traitors inside to gates,ready to betray the nation for the European Anti-Semites they identified with.If not for the opposition coming from these leftists Israel would not have the problems it has today.To this day the Bronsteins continue to pay the bill created by the Trotskys!
that's true of every conflict with terrorism
It's true in the US and Europe too
when the barbarians are coming over the gate, it's because there are serious cultural problems and there is a fifth column trying to use them to destroy civilization
that fifth column is the left
denisO 22/7/14
"...its existence offends the religious fanaticism and prejudices of a billion Muslims, who control much of the world's oil, and whose followers are willing to riot and kill in the streets of nearly every major city in the world at the slightest offense..."
Not true. A "billion" is an awful exaggeration and destroys all hope. Muslim people are allowed to follow any fatwa, from any religious "leader", or none, at all. There is no required fatwa for all Muslims. We both know that stupid people follow charismatic leaders and do their bidding. Do you think the Muslim occupants of Gaza want Hamas to shoot missiles at Israel? They know their families are hostages, and held where they are, to protect the missile batteries from Israeli's who don't want to kill civilians.
Hamas is a minority of fanatics that control Gaza residents' lives thru ruthless power. They are not popularly elected; they had their "one man, one vote, one time", and will not be easily rooted out. Most Muslims, even in the Middle East are not part of the mob, have families and a desire to survive that is greater than any animosity toward Israel they may be required to express to stay out of trouble. That makes a lot more sense than your exaggerations, which do the opposite of what you want, --inspire Jews, everywhere, to support Israel's right to live.
There are not enough secular Jews in Israel. Too many Israeli's believe in "god's will" and offer their throats like sleep-walking fools. History shows them repeating the suicidal "holy" ritual, time after time, and they get what they apparently want. They wish compromise would work, this time, but know it only puts off the inevitable, yet they keep on doing it because they have suicidal genes. Crazy as that sounds, it is a demonstrated truth that can't be refuted by evidence. Suicide cures guilt every time.
It's hard to inspire sheep, the fashionably popular leftist Jewish communities outside Israel, who ignore the noose of their nightmares, convincing themselves it's not for them.
Israeli's have to understand it is not a "billion" Muslims, but a few power-hungry fanatics who temporarily control a small number of animals in that world, who do not represent the people. The leaders can be eliminated, easily, by people with courage and conviction. It's not hopeless, as you really present it. It's simple and easy, but world media opinion has to be ignored. People always support the underdog, if he fights. Find and hang the Hamas leaders; the rest will figure it out.
Exactly right from beginning to end! Brilliant!
When are the Jews going to realize that no matter what the Israelis/Jews do the overwhelming majority of the world is either going to hate us or at best be indifferent towards us. What will it take for us to do whatever is necessary for us to survive and not to care what those who hate us think about what we do to survive? Would any other nation ask permission to defend itself? And then be appologetic for doing so?
Roy Lofquist 22/7/14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptn5RE2I-k
"I dunno. Things have changed this time. European goverments have been pretty much against Hamas in this conflict, along with Egypt and Saudi Arabia. They have looked into the abyss - Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and they don't like what they see. Suddenly Israel is looking more and more like a welcome neighbor, rather than an enemy."
Can't say that I blame them. Gaza/Hamas is a train wreck right now. Probably the same reason Jordan doesn't appear to be in any big hurry to repatriate the Palestinians.
To Israel i write with abundant love
it is only in G-D that you are allowed to trust
Not in an iron drone to protect your homes
but rather in the prayer we pray each night
Where G-D will protect us with all G-D'S might
where a thousand will fall at our left indeed
And a myriad at our right if only we heed
to the Sinai miracle in which we believe
Why should we the worlds opinion behold
we must adhere to Torah like we been told
We are not weak or scared but very bold
may G-D please have mercy on every Jewish soul
To the idiot Sven. Isn't it about time that Israel do what it should have done long ago and it is to stop listening to the UN predators and beat the living daylights out of the palastinians or whatever the predators call themselves.
Marylou 24/7/14
Excellent analysis, Daniel -- no, BEYOND excellent. Linking to it from my blog. Thanks for your clarity and truth.


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Home Hinault drops off a cliff and wins the stage.
With the Critérium du Dauphiné having just started, it seemed an appropriate time to reminisce one of the great moments of the past which built the legend of 'Le Badger' Bernard Hinault.
In 1977 Hinault announced himself to the world with a ride which has gone down in folklore. Racing against most of the Tour de France contenders (in the Dauphine Libre as it was known), a young Hinault attacked on one of the mountain passes, only to run off the road and crash on the descent. Never one to show weakness, a young Hinault simply clawed his way back up to the roadside, was given a new bike (his had disappeared into the valley below) and he went on to win the stage in Grenoble.
The only thing that can beat Fabian is the cobblesChris Froome and his electric leg cadence
Peter Sagan prepares to climb Mont Ventoux
5 years ago	Chapeau1977, Bernard Hinault520
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The cradle of kickers, Memphis, produced both kickers in this Super Bowl.
You know how this Super Bowl will end right?
With former Memphis kicker Stephen Gostkowski nailing a 50-yarder, like the one he once kicked against Murray State.
Or with former Memphis kicker Jake Elliott banging in a 54-yarder, like the one he hit in overtime against BYU.
Or with Gostkowski connecting from 53 yards, like he did against Marshall.
Or with Elliott blasting one from 56, like he did against South Florida.
But however it ends, a kicker from the University of Memphis will win an NFL championship.
The starting quarterbacks are from Michigan and Arizona. The starting running backs are from Pittsburgh and Boise State. The head coaches are from Wesleyan and Syracuse.
The kickers are from Memphis and Memphis. And if that's not enough Memphis for you, Justin Timberlake will be kicking it during the halftime show.
Gostkowski (Memphis class of 2006) got things started by scoring six points (a 31-yard field goal and three extra points) as New England defeated Jacksonville in the AFC Championship Game, 24-20.
Then Elliott (Memphis class of 2017) celebrated his birthday by scoring eight points (a 38-yard field goal and five extra points) as the Philadelphia Eagles defeated Minnesota in the NFL Championship Game, 38-7.
"Best. Birthday. Ever." Elliott tweeted.
Best kicker matchup ever, too.
The 33-year-old, four-time Pro Bowl kicker who set every kicking record at Memphis from 2002-2005, versus the 23-year-old rookie sensation who broke all of Gostkowski's records at Memphis from 2013-2016.
Most points in Memphis history: Elliott 445, Gostkowski 369.
Most field goals in Memphis history: Elliott 81, Gostkowski 70.
Most extra points in Memphis history: Elliott 202, Gostkowski 159.
Most Super Bowl rings won by a Memphis kicker: Ahh, that's where the old man still has the edge. Gostkowski 2, Elliott 0.
But it's too bad former Memphis assistant coach Murray Armstrong isn't alive to see this, because he would be immensely proud.
So Memphis has a history of accomplished kickers, a history that extends well beyond the two men who will be teeing it up in Minnesota in two weeks. Allison won the Lou Groza Award as the country's best kicker, something Gostkowski or Elliott never did. And Memphis has had at least seven other kickers — Ted Lane, Ryan White, Matt Reagan, Luis Tejeda, Don Glosson, John Butler and Bobby Williams — selected for an end-of-the-season all-conference team.
Maybe that's another reason Memphis seems to be better at producing kickers than, say, Alabama. Because it's not as simple as signing the next five-star recruit.
Gostkowski came to Memphis on a partial baseball scholarship. He told himself he'd give up football if he didn't get a scholarship within a year. His first game, he bounced a 50-yarder off the crossbar and through. He got his scholarship not long after that.
Elliott was a tennis player before became a kicker. He didn't start kicking until his junior year of high school. His only other scholarship offer was from North Dakota, which he visited in January, when it was 40-below.
So there is an element of serendipity to this kicking matchup, but also an element of unflinching resolve. Because if there's one thing that unites Gostkowski and Elliott in addition to their alma mater — and the mentor/mentee relationship that flowed from that — it's their ability to shrug off pressures that many would find debilitating.
The Patriots didn't just spend a fourth-round pick on Gostkowski. They drafted him to replace Adam Vinatieri, one of the greatest kickers of all time.
"If you can't handle the pressure, you shouldn't be in this business," said Gostkowski, back on draft day, and so handle the pressure he did.
As for Elliott, he was drafted in the fifth round by the Cincinnati Bengals, then summarily cut in favor of Randy Bullock. Elliott responded by catching on with the Eagles, kicking a 61-yarder to beat the New York Giants, and setting a new Eagles season record with five field goals of 50-plus yards.
Indeed, Elliott had one more 50-yarder than Gostkowski did this season, who hit all four of his attempts from deep. Will Gostkowski draw even at the Super Bowl? It's going to be a blast to find out.
Maybe Gostkowski will drill one from 55 yards as time expires. Or maybe Elliott will top his predecessor once again.
A kicker from Memphis vs. a kicker from Memphis. It's less about what's in our water than what's in their veins.