I'm a huge Ben Folds fan. Sit at my piano and you'll see the sheet music for all of his albums as I make a futile attempt to replicate his mastery. So you can imagine my excitement when Tyla told me she was getting me tickets for his October show as my birthday present! I knew I missed his April show but I had no idea he was coming back in October so it was a double surprise.
The show finally arrived on Tuesday and we headed to Benaroya Hall for the first time. The venue is gorgeous! We had a nice chat with a couple from work and unfortunately missed Matt and Laura who were also there. On top of that, JudyK from church was playing the flute for the symphony so it felt like we knew quite a few people at the show.
I went to a previous Ben Folds concert but it was the standard faire with piano, drums and guitar. I didn't know what to expect with the full symphony playing in the background, but it's like some of those songs were meant to be heard that way! The hall acoustics weren't real conducive to having a singer on stage, but overall, it was awesome. It was a lot more structured than normal since he couldn't change songs on the fly or mess with the set list. Plus, when have you ever heard Ben Folds sing without seeing him sitting behind a piano? He did just that for Not The Same. He played a lot of my favorites like Zak and Sara, Smoke, Ascent of Stan, Landed, Lullabye, Gracie, Cologne, Effington, Jesusland, Brick, Steven's Last Night in Town, and One Angry Dwarf. After a one song encore with the symphony (Narcolepsy), he came back on stage alone and played Army, Rockin the Suburbs and made up a song on the fly about the Seattle Symphony.
I love hearing the stories behind the songs and I collected a few more that night. At one point he said that he knew it was impolite to talk about money but would anyway. "It costs about $7000-$10,000 to arrange a song for the symphony and we tried about 30 of them. So if you don't hear your favorite song, just know that I paid $10K to try it and it sucked. How do you think I feel?" Honestly there were some songs that worked better than others. I wasn't a big fan of the songs that had drums going in the background as it detracted from the symphonic feel. But he did say that it's still a work in progress. He has had offers to do this for the last six years and resisted because he wasn't sure it could be done right. Well congratulations sir, you pulled it off!
We didn't have cameras at the event which probably isn't terrible because it's hard to capture anything good in that setting anyway. YouTube is already full of videos from the show. I've embedded a couple below but you can search for more.
As we walked out, I instituted a new life rule: never again shall I skip a Ben Folds concert when he comes to Seattle!
Side note: I love looking at Twitter after I go to an event like this. It's full of people's instant reactions along with photos and videos from where they were sitting.


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I've heard that for fixing GCE support, we'll need to bump fog gem to >= 2.0. Also Azure support would need it. That will potentially have an impact on all compute resources. At the same time, I proposed to update fog-aws and I've seen fog-libvirt was recently updated. It seems like there's a lot going on at the same time.
I think we should merge all the changes ASAP as it's shortly after the branching. I also spoke with our QE and they volunteered to help us testing all compute resources on nightlies. In order to coordinate all of this, I'm starting this thread where I'd like to keep the list of related PRs and testing status.
If you have some related work to this, please update the main post or let me know to update it.
We also ship rackware compute resource in core, no idea if it is working or not but the fog gem seems not very maintained - https://github.com/fog/fog-rackspace - so i think we need to either take it over and update it or extract it from core to a plugin.
regarding proxmox - @Bernhard_Suttner do you have contact with the author? we need their cooperation to move it to the foreman organization, as well as making sure a couple of other details are handled, iirc making sure there is packaging for it and giving theforeman user ownership on rubygems (@ekohl or @Gwmngilfen might recall if there are other requirements).
I have tried to transfer ownership's repo to theforeman organization, but I don't have permissions in this organization.
Indeed, we have a process. I've sent you an invite to the Transfer team on GitHub. Once transferred, I can make a team and add you as an admin.
I have transferred repo to theforeman/core team.
Thanks, I've created the team, added you to it, and given it admin rights. You should basically be able to do anything you could before . Just need the gem authors now.
Any volunteers for being on the GitHub team?
Thanks. I will update authors gem soon.
I am not sure if someone is still using Foreman with Compute Resource Opennebula, but our Managed Service team has switched to OpenStack, so will probably not test and fix it.
Gem is published with foreman team author added.
An update on current status: we bumped fog-aws in develop branch, which now requires fog-core 2.1.0. It turned out there are few compute resources which requires fog-core to be < 2.1.0. We're now investigating if fog_azure_rm and fog-google could be update to work with fog-core 2.1.0. Details can be found at https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/6475. The other option to revert fog-aws, though adding more compute resources using old version of fog seem as adding more work for future. Other affected compute resources are foreman_docker and foreman_kubevirt.
So we settled on fog-core 2.1.0. Here's the first packaging update that should bring newer fog-aws while using versions compatible with upcoming fog-google and fog_azure_rm. These will be added as separate PRs.
I filed OpenStack fog upgrade, did some minor updates and I can confirm that 1.0.8 works fine against OpenStack v2 API. I have no access to v3 instance tho.
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I've updated the first post with the order of things we plan to do tomorrow with @ekohl. There may be some nightly issues caused by this, but we'll try to minimize it and fix asap. If there's something you know we missed, please let us know, I plan to start tomorrow morning.
Given our today jenkins outage, we have to postpone.
We are now starting with the upgrade. We expect to have all merged by end of today. Results will be posted here.
Upgrade is done. Thanks to @evgeni, @ekohl and @tbrisker we have now packaging up to date. As part of repoclosure testing we realized we need to remove foreman_one which does not seem to be used and hopefully just temporarily disable foreman_fog_proxmox which is not ready for fog-core 2.1.0.
The repoclosure is now green, meaning nightly repositories should have new versions soon. We'll do a sanity check and confirm here once that happens. Then we can start testing provisioning on all affected compute resources.


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Anàlisi de l'efectivitat d'una intervenció de prevenció de suïcidi en estudiants d'infermeria: projecte finalitzat
Introduction: The World Health Organisation claims that more than 800.000 people die every year as a result of suicide. So, the WHO categorizes suicide as the second most common cause of death among young people aged between 15 and 29 years old. Moreover, being a nursing student is catalogued as a stressful event with few confrontation strategies. Likewise, the suicide prevention in Spain is scarce and as a result of this , they need to implement suicide prevention programs, as well as work it through great risk populations, such as nursing students. Objectives: Identify the risk of suicide of nursing students at Girona University and assess the efficiency of a suicide prevention intervention with University nursing students. Methodology: Analytic study and practically experimental, pre-post. The population subject of the study has been the Nursing students in year two and three at Girona University during the school year 2018-2019, and aged between 18 and 30 years old (n=86). The tools used were: the questionnaire "ad-hoc", with socio demographic data, the questionnaire "Reasons For Living in Young Adults" (RFL-YA), the questionnaire "Trait Meta-Mood" Scale-24 (TMMS-24) and the Plutchik scale. An intervention to the experimental group was done, consisting of a visualization and posterior debate of a play about giving voice to young people that are victims of suicide. Furthermore, questionnaires were given before the intervention and also 4 months after the action, to both the experimental group and the control group in order to check the effectiveness of the procedure. Results: An 8'1% of the nursing students register suicide risk and until a 22'1% admit they had suicide thoughts at least once. On the second round of questionnaires, the total average of the RFL-YA in the experimental group was 168'66 and in the control group 159'08 (p=0'019). Proceeding along the same line, the total average punctuation of the TMMS-24 was 86'30 in the experimental group and 80'21 in the control group (p=0'029). In both surveys there is a significant difference between the two groups. Conclusions: Both, the reasons for living and the emotional intelligence have been improved within the experimental group and after the intervention. In the same way, the protector elements in front of the suicide have been seen more, reinforced in the experimental group than in the control group. Statistically, the aspects are significant in the dimensions of future expectations, confrontation beliefs and emotional reparation. So, the procedure seems to have been effective to reinforce the emotional states metaknowledge, such as other concrete protection factors of suicide. Moreover, I consider these actions can be helpful to all the sanitary professionals and improve the understanding and knowledge of suicide, as well as, facing different situations of risk
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Manager: Ballester Ferrando, David
Other contributions: Universitat de Girona. Facultat d'Infermeria
Author: Torres Florit, Aina
Abstract: Introduction: The World Health Organisation claims that more than 800.000 people die every year as a result of suicide. So, the WHO categorizes suicide as the second most common cause of death among young people aged between 15 and 29 years old. Moreover, being a nursing student is catalogued as a stressful event with few confrontation strategies. Likewise, the suicide prevention in Spain is scarce and as a result of this , they need to implement suicide prevention programs, as well as work it through great risk populations, such as nursing students. Objectives: Identify the risk of suicide of nursing students at Girona University and assess the efficiency of a suicide prevention intervention with University nursing students. Methodology: Analytic study and practically experimental, pre-post. The population subject of the study has been the Nursing students in year two and three at Girona University during the school year 2018-2019, and aged between 18 and 30 years old (n=86). The tools used were: the questionnaire "ad-hoc", with socio demographic data, the questionnaire "Reasons For Living in Young Adults" (RFL-YA), the questionnaire "Trait Meta-Mood" Scale-24 (TMMS-24) and the Plutchik scale. An intervention to the experimental group was done, consisting of a visualization and posterior debate of a play about giving voice to young people that are victims of suicide. Furthermore, questionnaires were given before the intervention and also 4 months after the action, to both the experimental group and the control group in order to check the effectiveness of the procedure. Results: An 8'1% of the nursing students register suicide risk and until a 22'1% admit they had suicide thoughts at least once. On the second round of questionnaires, the total average of the RFL-YA in the experimental group was 168'66 and in the control group 159'08 (p=0'019). Proceeding along the same line, the total average punctuation of the TMMS-24 was 86'30 in the experimental group and 80'21 in the control group (p=0'029). In both surveys there is a significant difference between the two groups. Conclusions: Both, the reasons for living and the emotional intelligence have been improved within the experimental group and after the intervention. In the same way, the protector elements in front of the suicide have been seen more, reinforced in the experimental group than in the control group. Statistically, the aspects are significant in the dimensions of future expectations, confrontation beliefs and emotional reparation. So, the procedure seems to have been effective to reinforce the emotional states metaknowledge, such as other concrete protection factors of suicide. Moreover, I consider these actions can be helpful to all the sanitary professionals and improve the understanding and knowledge of suicide, as well as, facing different situations of risk
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Subject: Suïcidi -- Prevenció
Suicide -- Prevention
Estudiants d'infermeria -- Conducta suïcida
Nursing students -- Suicidal behavior
Suïcidi -- Factors de risc
Suicide -- Risk factors
Title: Anàlisi de l'efectivitat d'una intervenció de prevenció de suïcidi en estudiants d'infermeria: projecte finalitzat
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Pallí i Buxó, Lluís Universitat de Girona. Facultat de Turisme Universitat de Girona. Servei de Publicacions Sáez Zafra, Marc Roura Grabulosa, Pere Barceló i Cullerés, Damià Panyella Aldrufeu, Josep Maria


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Greetings again from the darkness. For an industry that thrives on ego and self-promotion, it could be considered surprising that more movies haven't focused on its most shameful (and drama-filled) period. The two Hollywood blacklist films that come to mind are both from 1976: Martin Ritt's The Front (starring Woody Allen) and the documentary Hollywood on Trial. There are others that have touched on the era, but director Jay Roach and writer John McNamara (adapting Bruce Cook's book) focus on blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo in a film that informs a little and entertains a lot.
Director Roach combines his comedic roots from the "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" franchises with his more recent politically-centered HBO projects Recount and Game Change. His subject here is the immensely talented writer Dalton Trumbo, whom Louis B Mayer signed to the most lucrative screenwriting contract of the 1940's. It was soon after that Trumbo's (and other's) affiliation with the American Communist Party came under fire by the House Un-American Activities Committee headed by J Parnell Thomas. The divide in Hollywood was clear. On one side were the staunch Patriots like John Wayne (David James Elliott) and the Queen Muckracker, gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren); on the other were "The Hollywood Ten" … those accused of being traitors simply because they stood up for freedom.
What's interesting here is that despite the dark subject matter, the film has an enormous amount of humor … including multiple laugh out loud moments. This happens because most of the focus is on Trumbo the family man and Trumbo the justice fighter. Of course, as a writer, Trumbo does his best fighting with words … words whose message is "they have no right" to question the thoughts and beliefs of individual citizens. The committee's mission was to prove treason by linking to the Russian agenda, but in reality these folks were mostly supportive of labor rights … most assuredly not a crime. The investigations, such as they were, seemed to prove the gentlemen were more Socialist than Russian – which makes an interesting contrast to modern day where we have an admitted Socialist running for President. The Hollywood Ten stood their ground, served jail time, and were either forced out of the industry or forced to go "underground" using pseudonyms. Trumbo, while unceremoniously writing under other names, won two Best Writing Oscars – one for Roman Holiday and one for The Brave One.
Bryan Cranston delivers a "big" performance as Dalton Trumbo. Everything is big – the glasses, the cigarette holders, the mustache, and definitely the personality. He does his best writing in the bathtub, and is never without a quick-witted comeback … whether sparring with The Duke or the committee. Unfortunately, Hedda Hopper does her most effective work in undermining the rights of Trumbo and his cohorts, including Arlen Hird (Louis CK) and Ian McClellan Hunter (Alan Tudyk). We also see how Edward G Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg) quietly supports the cause, while also trying to salvage his fading career.
Trumbo is by no means presented as a saintly rebel with a cause. Instead, we see him as a loving yet flawed father, husband and friend. Once released from prison, he is so focused on writing and clawing his way back, that his relationships suffer – especially with his eldest daughter Nikola (Elle Fanning) and loyal wife (Diane Lane). It's the King Brothers Production Company led by Frank (John Goodman) and Hymie (Stephen Root) who give Trumbo an outlet for writing and earning a living. Most were schlock movies, but there were also a few gems mixed in (Gun Crazy). However, it's Kirk Douglas' (Dean O'Gorman with an uncanny resemblance) courageous stand for his (and Stanley Kubrick's) movie Spartacus, and director Otto Preminger (Christian Berkel) and his film Exodus, that put Trumbo's name back on the screen, effectively ending Ms. Hopper's crusade.
The ending credits feature clips of the real Dalton Trumbo being interviewed, and it brings clarity to Cranston's performance, while more importantly relaying some incredibly poignant and personal words directly from the man … maybe they really should be "carved into a rock". It's an era of which Hollywood should not be proud, and it's finally time it was faced head-on … and it's quite OK that they bring along a few good laughs.
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Q: How do I rename a window via a prompt command in iTerm2? I want to open a terminal session in iTerm2 and send text to rename the window title to "Jupyter Notebook", and then open a Jupyter notebook:
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;Jupyter Notebook\007"';  VAR="jupyter notebook"; $VAR

However, the above commands will first open a Jupyter Notebook, and then rename the terminal title to "Jupyter Notebook" after I interrupt the notebook session using CMD-C.
How do I rename the window title before the notebook session opens?

A: Don't do this with PROMPT_COMMAND. It's intended only for updating the prompt or window title to pick up changes that were made during the previous command, such as cd. It's not executed until the command completes and the shell is about to print the next prompt -- that's why PROMPT is in the name.
Use an alias or function to update the title and run the command:
alias jnb='echo -ne "\033]0;Jupyter Notebook\007"; jupiter notebook'

A: Solved by creating another environment variable:
TITLE='echo -ne "\033]0;Jupyter Notebook\007"'; $TITLE; VAR="jupyter notebook"; $VAR

But I still don't understand bash's behavior. If I attempt to set a title before running, say, an Apache Spark shell, then bash ignores the echo command and duly fires up a Spark shell:
echo -ne "\033]0;Apache Spark\007"; spark-shell
Last login: Tue Jan 22 11:54:15 on ttys001
MacBook:directory user$ 'echo -ne "\033]0;Apache Spark\007"'; spark-shell
2019-01-22 12:25:25 WARN  NativeCodeLoader:62 - Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Setting default log level to "WARN".

Apparently, commands that come after the echo command can override the echo. If someone could explain this behavior, I'd really appreciate it.

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3 key areas to watch in the national organics conversation
Cole Rosengren
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The food waste movement is alive and well, experiencing rapid growth and continually attracting awareness, according to discussions at this week's 2018 U.S. Food Waste Summit.
While many attendees at the Cambridge, Massachusetts event have been working in this field for years, something about the recent boost has felt different. Even since the inaugural event at Harvard Law School in 2016, the organizers have seen a big uptick in interest. Yet all involved also recognize there is significant work left, likely decades more, to truly reckon with the full scale of this issue and the opportunities it presents.
Among the many takeaways and pieces of news during the two-day summit, here are three areas that bear watching for the waste and recycling industry.
Packaging Philosophy:
As is the case with broader recycling discussions, the appropriate role of packaging in preventing food waste elicits a wide range of opinions. Industry groups such as Ameripen assert that various forms of flexible or film plastic can prolong shelf lives. Yet that also raises questions about the true recyclability of such material and how that balances out the benefits of preventing food spoilage.
Supporters of compostable packaging — such as the Biodegradable Products Institute — believe theirs is a better approach and are working to standardize definitions and processing standards to expand it. Some even wondered if China's import restrictions on certain commodities could drive greater interest in the compostable space because that material can be managed domestically.
These big-picture questions came up during a June 27 panel, with no clear resolution.
Ron Cotterman, vice president of sustainability at Sealed Air Corporation, said more compostable packaging could be possible if the market signaled an interest. Though he said so far the main signals from China have been for industry to use more recycled content and explore "chemical recycling" solutions, rather than going compostable.
Rob Kaplan, co-founder of Closed Loop Fund, said he didn't expect packaging to get any simpler, "save for some kind of regulatory shock." As for whose responsibility it is to help figure out what to do with it, Kaplan said it would require "a system solution" and no one party could make that call.
This inherent ambiguity between packaging companies making new products — in the name of preventing food waste or otherwise — and the recycling industry then having to react shows no sign of becoming clearer. When asked for her take, EPA's Lana Suarez felt this was best decided at the state and local level, saying, "I don't think there's one national policy that can get us that industry response that we're talking about to create those markets."
Infrastructure & Investment:
Like the packaging discussion, the overall food waste conversation often comes back to investment. ReFED has called for $18 billion in investment — which could unlock up to $100 billion in value — over the next 10 years to begin making true progress throughout the supply chain.
Much of this is focused upstream for solutions at the farm, distribution, retail and consumer level. During a June 26 panel, investors from big-name groups such as The Rockefeller Foundation, Walmart Foundation and MissionPoint Partners said they've seen rapidly growing interest, but few big opportunities. Aside from the latest buzz around Apeel Sciences, panelists and attendees struggled to think of other ideas with widespread potential to become say the next initial public offering.
Though some attendees felt this discussion overlooked the need to establish downstream processing options too, given that certain amounts of wasted food are expected to exist for the near future.
Figuring out how to attract attention from larger funds that may feel an individual digestion project is too small, while also recognizing interest among some of the industry's early adopters may be waning, increasingly appears to be a space for governments. New York and Tennessee were mentioned as examples, though California is currently the clear leader.
CalRecycle has become a national model for grant funding through a state cap-and-trade program — $24 million for the latest fiscal year — yet the agency sees a need for much more. "What we're doing from a money perspective is a drop in the bucket. It's seed money," said Kyle Pogue, environmental program manager. The agency has also been fielding interest from philanthropic organizations about potential partnerships.
During a separate session, New York Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia said industry buy-in was critical. "This doesn't work unless I get the people who are in the garbage business to actually manage food as well, because otherwise I can't get to scale," adding that community-scale operations were great but, "It's not going to happen with somebody on a bicycle."
Garcia added that local governments can choose to view this as not just about values, but about long-term budgets. In areas such as the Northeast, where disposal costs are "horrifically high" then being "cost competitive with Waste Management, or Republic or Covanta, is actually not that hard." The key is showing investors that programs and policies will stick around.
Policy Moves:
Another important metric — and one that may in turn incentivize more funding — is how policies are progressing at the state and local level. During the summit's opening session, Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic Director Emily Broad Leib said her team has noticed a lot more bills being introduced in recent years. Some, such as date labeling or wild game handling standards, may not be as directly applicable to recyclers as waste bans — but they still show a growing awareness about food waste in general.
During the most recent set of legislative sessions, the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic tracked at least 91 unique food waste-related bills in 30 states. Ongoing local work in areas such as Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, the Portland, Oregon metro region and others was also touted.
ReFED Executive Director Chris Cochran also pointed to increasing commitment from large corporate players — such as Ikea, Kroger and many others — as a positive sign of market-driven change. "I think we have incredible tailwind on this issue," he said.
Another hopeful theme was that amid an increasingly divisive political atmosphere, reducing food waste and insecurity can be bipartisan. Massachusetts State Rep. Hannah Kane said the same is possible for state-level work, adding, "The only way we can stop this is if we change the dynamic."
Current debate around the Farm Bill at the federal level is seen as the next big test of that ideal and just one of many key areas to watch within this ever-expanding food waste conversation in the months and years ahead.
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Consent, statutory rape and the daily mail
Daily Mail, justice and child protection fail
*trigger warning*
If you are upset or affected by any of the issues in the blog, I have put Child Line's number at the bottom, as well as links to finding your local rape crisis. Links to all quotes and sources are at the end of the post.
Back in March, I blogged about a case of gang rape of two 12 year old girls (http://sianandcrookedrib.blogspot.com/2011/03/daily-mail-fail.html). The Daily Mail headline quoted the men's defence lawyer that the girls were 'Lolitas' and indulged in some victim blaming that was so grotesque even some Daily Mail readers were shocked, although that didn't prevent others from referring to the girls as 'slutty' who should be punished as they were to blame, not the 'lads'.
Anyway, this ugly story reared its head again this week, as a judge in the court of appeal released the men from prison and gave them a suspended sentence. Why? Because according to Judge Moses, the girls 'wanted to have sex' and were 'more sexually experienced than the men'.
There are plenty of reasons why this case is problematic and it is difficult to know where to start. So let's start with my (admittedly not academically informed) grasp of the law and what we mean by consent.
Statutory rape laws exist because legally it was decided that there had to be a cut off point that recognised that young people and children cannot meaningfully consent to penetrative sex and other sexual activity when they are still children. In the UK, the cut-off point is 13. At the age of 12, the law reasons, a child is not able to meaningfully consent to sex, because they are too young, they are immature, they are physically and emotionally a child still. By physically, I mean as well that some 12 year olds have not yet entered puberty. Statutory rape is not a 15 year old girl consensually having sex with her 16 year old boyfriend, as Ken Clarke erroneously claimed. It is the cut off point where we say children are too young to meaningfully consent to sex.
Meaningful consent means that when you consent to sex, you are doing so because you want to have sex. Because you are in love maybe. Or because you fancy that guy or girl at the other end of the bar so much you are weak at the knees and need to be in bed with them right now! Or because you don't even like someone that much but that chemical reaction is racing round your body and for reasons you don't understand, you know it has to end in sex. There are loads of times and reasons why we want to have consensual sex, those are just three examples. The key thing is that meaningful consent is not consenting because you feel you have to, or because your partner is pressuring you, or because your friends are egging you on, or because you don't have the words to say no.
Here's some context. We are currently experiencing a worrying lack of knowledge about consent in the UK, particularly for young men and women. A recent radio phone-in show featured a young woman, who had been gang raped by her boyfriend's friends, asking the talk show host whether it was in fact rape. She didn't know, because she believed her boyfriend, and his friends, forcing her to 'have sex' she didn't want to have, was ok, that it was 'love'. I've spoken to women working in Rape Crisis centres who tell me that girls come in, having been raped, but believing that having to 'have sex' you don't want to have, or have been forced to have, is just what you have to do for boys to like you, or for your boyfriend to love you. The rate of intimate partner violence is now higher in teen relationships than it is in adult relationships (1 in 3 girls experience IPV, NSPCC, Bristol University) and 16-19 year old girls are now the most at risk group of experiencing IPV (Home office). A survey that came out last year found that 46% of young men think that if a woman changes her mind during penetrative sex and he carries on, then it isn't rape; nearly half thought that if the woman was too drunk to know what was going on then it wasn't rape, and an astonishing 23% thought that even if a woman said no, it wasn't rape (http://bit.ly/bSnP1L).
What this snapshot of information shows us is that young people today are often very confused about what meaningful consent is.
Which brings me back to this week's judgement.
Simply put, it doesn't matter if the 12-year old girls said they wanted to have sex, or were sexually experienced (although this matters for a different reason). The law is clear on this. A 12 year old girl is legally unable to give meaningful consent to penetrative sex and other sexual activity.
This is not to deny that young people have a sexuality and have sexual feelings. Of course they do and it is important to state this so as not to get my feminist position confused with a right wing 'childhood innocence' position (as illustrated by the Bailey Review) that denies young people's very natural sexuality and sexual curiousity. However, there does have to be a cut-off point when we talk about meaningful consent and 13 years old seems a perfectly sensible one, for all the reasons mentioned above regarding physical and emotional maturity. After all, when you're 12 you may think you know it all, but you don't.
Judge Moses' ruling that the girls wanted to have sex should not matter when it comes to recognising that these girls were victims of rape because statutory rape laws mean that legally they cannot give consent.
The Judge went on to say:
'if you have casual sex with someone you don't know, you run the risk of having sex with someone who is underage.'
As far as I am concerned, this simply isn't good enough. Part of the reason we have statutory rape law is because there is a responsibility we have as adults to make sure the person we are having sex with is actually an adult. I know it sounds obvious, but apparently it is worth making this clear. I also find it incredibly difficult to believe that a 12-year old girl could really look so adult that a grown man, who I am assuming has had sex with an adult woman, would not stop and question whether the girl was really as old as she says she is.
When we look at previous and current reporting of this case, I believe we can see that meaningful consent was not really given. The girls texted the men saying they wanted to meet up to have sex. Of course, saying you want to have sex in a text is not the same to consenting to it once you are in the situation. Let's please remember that a person can withdraw consent at any point (during intercourse included) and if the person s/he having sex with does not stop, then it is rape. A girl can say in a text that she wants to have sex, and then not actually want to go through with it once it all starts happening and becomes real. The Mail reported in March:
'The other girl was more reluctant and was raped by just one player'
'She said one of the males kept asking her for sex. She was initially reluctant but eventually gave in to his persistence'
I dealt with why this reporting is problematic in March so won't go over old ground here, but I strongly feel that verbal coercion and pressure to have sex cannot result in meaningfully consensual sex, as we understand consent. The fact that one of the girls became upset when engaged in a sex act with one of the men also clearly demonstrates this (I should point out that the Mail reports that the man stopped when it was clear she was upset).
The whole tone of this case, from the initial Daily Mail article where commenters expressed sympathy for the 'lads', and where the girls were accused of being 'Lolitas'; to the Judge's words and the decision to release the men from jail, has been one that paints the girls as the baddies, and the men as poor, deceived, remorseful 'lads'. Is it so hard to understand that the girls are the victims here? Not the men, the adult men, but the children who were gang raped. Take the headline of the latter Mail article:
'Judge frees six footballers accused of raping two 12-year-old girls in a park'
That isn't what happened! The men weren't accused of raping the girls, they were charged, found guilty and convicted of gang rape. By framing it as an accusation, the Mail are able to imply that the men weren't really guilty, it was just an accusation and it's the girl's fault anyway. This is sickening.
One of the judge's most problematic statements was of course his decision to reduce the sentence because the girl 'was more sexually experienced than the men'.
There are multiple reasons why this is seriously fucked up, but I will deal with only two of them here.
Number one: a woman's sexual history has no bearing on a rape case. It doesn't matter if a girl or woman has slept with a hundred and twenty-six men, and 98 women, rape is rape. A girl's or woman's sexual history has absolutely zero bearing on the case. Of course, this may seem obvious, but a 2005 Amnesty International survey on UK attitudes into rape found that 8% (1 in 12) of people believe that if a woman has had multiple sexual partners, then she is partly to blame if she is raped. It's our old friend, the angel/whore dichotomy and the myth of the perfect victim. The Judge is engaging in classic victim-blaming behaviour. He is implying that she is 'not an innocent girl' (as was famously said about the child Polanski raped) and therefore has to take responsibility. He is saying that she was more sexually experienced than the men, implying that she was therefore in control of the situation. I find it terrifying that in 2011 a Judge could do this. A woman's sexual history is no longer considered to be admissible evidence in a rape case and the defence are not allowed to bring it up in court, precisely because it doesn't matter. So how has this been allowed to happen here?
Number two: if a 12 year old girl is more 'sexually experienced' than a group of 18-21 year old men, then the question we should be asking is not whether she is therefore to blame, but why does a child have so much sexual experience? Because this would suggest that she has already been a victim of statutory rape, or of sexual abuse or assault. Again, I don't want to deny that young people have sexual feelings that they may want to explore, or sexual curiousity. But there are some serious unanswered questions here. And it is simply not good enough for the Judge to say that she was sexually experienced, without questioning this, and then go on to use this as a reason to excuse the men's actions.
It feels to me that this is the second case this week that has tried to re-write what we mean when we talk about consent. The first was Assange's appeal hearing, where the defence lawyer said:
'AA felt that Assange wanted to insert his penis into her vagina directly, which she did not want since he was not wearing a condom … She did not articulate this. Instead she therefore tried to turn her hips and squeeze her legs together in order to avoid a penetration … AA tried several times to reach for a condom, which Assange had stopped her from doing by holding her arms and bending her legs open and trying to penetrate her with his penis without using a condom. AA says that she felt about to cry since she was held down and could not reach a condom and felt this could end badly.'
The defence also tried to explain how, despite being asleep, and therefore unable to consent, AA actually did consent to sex with Assange:
'They fell asleep and she woke up by his penetrating her. She immediately asked if he was wearing anything. He answered: "You." She said: "You better not have HIV." He said: "Of course not." She may have been upset, but she clearly consented to its [the sexual encounter's] continuation and that is a central consideration.'
The lawyer for Sweden's response was:
"they did not freely consent without coercion" but agreed to sex because of physical force, or consented "already having been trapped into a position where they had no choice, and they submitted to Mr Assange's attentions"."
Consent, meaningful consent, doesn't exist if you don't have a free choice. It is meaningless if you are coerced verbally, or physically, or pressured into sex that you don't want to have but don't feel you have the words to say no, or are penetrated when you are asleep or unconscious. Statutory rape means that you cannot consent if you the law considers you to be emotionally and physically a child. And yet, Assange's defence, and Judge Moses, are throwing this truth away. They are claiming that consent can be given in your sleep, that physical force doesn't matter, that a child can meaningfully consent to group sex because she is already sexually experienced and had lied about her age. What does this mean? What does this mean for how we talk about rape, how we understand consent?
I'll finish with this point. Judge Moses called for the change of sentence in part for all I've mentioned above, but in part because 'the men and their families had suffered as a result of their jail terms when it had been their own 'frank confessions' that landed them in court.' He also cites that they believed the girls to be older.
There's a lesson here. Anyone out there who rapes a child, but who then can find a way that makes it look like the child was to blame has nothing to worry about. Just admit it frankly, show a bit of remorse and easy. You'll be out of jail in less than a year.
Isytosy to Mail article re men's release: http://istyosty.com/tmp/cache/4f4908822e93be680e09c1f8e5691789c8f31beb.html
Isytosy to Mail article re men's conviction: http://istyosty.com/tmp/cache/47d755f5402233a50ae3ee745c5c3d8e597d6003.html
Guardian links to Assange appeal hearing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/13/julian-assange-extradition-appeal-hearing-day-two-live-coverage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/12/julian-assange-extradition-live-coverage
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Bristol Rape Crisis: www.bristolrapecrisis.org.uk
http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk/centres.php
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Aldi expands in San Diego with San Carlos store
Customers make their way down one of the wide aisles at the Aldi food market in Vista.
(Charlie Neuman / San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Jennifer Van Grove
Aug. 23, 2018 4 PM PT
Discount grocer Aldi is set to open its first store within city limits, and its fifth in the county, as part of the international chain's $3.4 billion U.S. expansion.
The newest location — at 8788 Navajo Road in San Carlos — opens its doors on Aug. 29. Grand-opening festivities, including a ribbon-cutting ceremony, are planned for Aug. 30. The 11,890 square-foot store will carry the company's standard product lineup and be open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
"We are extremely excited about our stores that are in San Diego," said Tom Cindel, an operations executive with the German-based grocer. "There's definitely a push; we're moving our way into the market."
Aldi currently operates nearly 1,800 U.S. stores spanning 35 states and serving 40 million customers. The privately owned company aims to have a total of 2,500 stores across the country by 2020. San Diego is part of the firm's concerted push to make the foreign name more well-known in the Southern California market, where it operates 56 stores.
First opened in Germany in 1961, Aldi takes a less-is-more approach to grocery shopping where customers get bargain prices in exchange for a frill-free experience. That means a warehouse-style space with less choice and 25-cent grocery cart rentals. The grocer, which shares a familial connection to Trader Joe's, is known for its mostly private label selection of products, which make up 90 percent of grocery items for sale and are meant to compete head-to-head with brand name items.
"Our main goal is emphasizing the incredible quality that we have at the lowest prices around," Cindel said, who added that the company views its competition as anyone selling food or groceries. "We want to make sure we've got a better offering than (our competitors) do."
With that in the mind, the company has expanded its product line by 60 percent over the last three years, even adding vegan and gluten-free items to the fold, Cindel said.
The new location at Navajo Road brings Aldi closer to the heart of San Diego, having thus far operated only in Chula Vista, Escondido and Vista. Additional San Diego locations are planned, but the company isn't ready to disclose specifics, saying only that a few stores are expected to debut in the upcoming months. An Encinitas location is the works for 333 N. El Camino Real, according to real-estate tracker CoStar.
San Carlos' Aug. 30 ribbon-cutting ceremony starts at 8:15 a.m. and will be followed by a "Golden Ticket" giveaway with the first 100 customers receiving giftcards.
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Jennifer Van Grove covers growth and development for The San Diego Union Tribune. She is an award-winning journalist with more than a decade of experience reporting on business news. She began her career covering technology companies and broader industry trends for digital publications such as CNET and Mashable. She is a San Diego native and a graduate of UCLA.
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In what way does the "glory" in v31-32 relate to the "love" of the "new commandment" (v34) in the same paragraph?
How would you prepare your students if you knew you would be going away, and you would be disgraced and humiliated in the process?
This is part 13 of a 21-part series which traces "seeing" and "hearing", and looks at how they relate to "believing", through the Gospel of John.
This is the Last Supper. At first glance it may seem that our "seeing" and "hearing" theme is absent here, but in fact it does play a role, and an important one.
Chapter 13 all happens in one "scene". It is the Last Supper. This is a conversation exclusively between Jesus and his disciples. There are no other Jews present, no seekers, no "crowds", no Jewish leaders, teachers, scribes, Pharisees, and no Samaritans, Roman soldiers or officials, nor "Greeks". For this reason there is really not a lot of talk about coming to faith. So will we find our theme here, of "see"/"hear"/"believe"?
So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him.
Let's step through the sequence.
First, Jesus announces that he will be betrayed, and that one of the men at the table will be the betrayer. He doesn't say how he knows, but Jesus, of course, is entitled just to know. Being whom he is, he not only sees the truth, but he always knows the truth because, as we will find out in the next chapter, he is the truth (John 14:6).
Next, the disciples "looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking". Their "looking" didn't help, either. They were going to need Jesus to tell them. (Don't worry, that's not where I'm going with the "seeing"/"hearing" theme in this passage. It get's better).
The "one whom Jesus loved" (presumably the author of this Gospel, who in turn is presumably the Apostle John… other theories exist, but this is by far the most widely accepted one), is delegated to ask Jesus who the turncoat is. Jesus indicates that he will make a visible sign (the dipped bread). He does so, and then sends Judas out, although nobody else knows what is really going on.
Notice that "Satan entered into" Judas at Jesus' command, when he said "Do quickly what you are going to do" (v27).
Satan entered into Judas? At that point in time? That's strange in a couple of interesting ways, isn't it…? Strange, that is, until we recognise two things: firstly, that Jesus is in complete control of events leading up to and including his crucifixion; and second, that Jesus' voice is the voice that raises the dead (see the study on Chapter 11)! His word is absolutely authoritative. This helps us to understand why "hearing" is so vitally important, too. Hopefully this doesn't sound quite as strange now…?
Was it sufficient to say that he had left? No. One more comment was required: "it was night". Why?
In Da Vinci's famous painting of the Last Supper it was light outside. I suppose it made a convenient light backdrop for Jesus' head, forming a natural kind of halo. But the Bible says that "it was night". Does it matter? Why was it important to say it?
Is it so that we can speculate about the timing of the various events of that evening, and reconstruct them?
Is it because the disciples had thought Judas was being sent to the shops (v28), and that's crazy if it's night time?
Is it related somehow to the similarly odd mention of "night" in chapter 3, with reference to Nicodemus? ("He came to Jesus by night" – John 3:2)?
it should come as no surprise in the context of light/dark, hear/see, that John would include the fact that at this time, the world is benighted.
… but it goes just a little further than that, too. Jesus has talked about a time when he would no longer be "able to be found". He described this as "the night". He also described life without faith as "darkness".
…in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
Jesus said to them, "The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.
I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.
… so when we hear that Judas went out from Jesus' presence and, "it was night", we get another taste of the fulfilment of something Jesus has been saying. "Light"/"Dark" is another strong theme through John's Gospel, and it is not unrelated to our theme of hearing/believing/seeing, because those who have heard and believed can "see", and that is closely linked to the theme of "light".
… "as I said to the Jews"? When was that?
Remember back a few chapters?
This is part of Jesus' long-running strategy of teaching: to prepare his followers for when he will no longer be there to teach them. They must learn to value and repeat his words, because that's all they will be able to offer when he is gone. His words are the way to faith. His voice raises the dead, and he even commands Satan's minions (like Judas).
The hearing produces belief, the belief enables sight… because Jesus is the "light of the world".


We worked on a conference with Special Schools in Northampton and kept in touch. One Head called us to say that she was concerned that her expansion project was proving to be too expensive. In fact, she had applied for funding to expand to 18 – 25 provision and had been given a disused special school – last used five years previously.
It was in a state of complete disrepair: the roof had failed, squatters had taken occupation, copper wires had been stolen, water and gas pipes were missing. Her professional team had looked into condition, designed a solution and had 'gone to market' with a long specification of works to be tendered for. The costs were estimated at £1.5m, which was 50% over the school's proposed budget and only allowed for a lick of paint around the building.
The call to us led us to advise that the project ceased, and instead we created a design brief (not a tender document) and organised our procurement route.
In that design process we all realised that a wellness centre attached to the Hydro-pool could and would create an income stream, as would a proper kitchen attached to a refurbished Hall with a separate cafe for visitors and students. Students would be able to generate income if there was a retail outlet for the products they make. Classrooms should be adult spaces allowing various communities to use the facilities.
We selected a small group of bidders suited to this type of this work. The entire project took exactly twelve weeks from start on site, and twenty weeks from initial design brief creation to first taking occupation. The top two photos show the state the building was in when the school took occupation, the others show how the spaces look now.
Costs were within initial budget for vastly greater use and quality.
More importantly taking behind the till on Saturdays (how often have you heard that combination of taking, till, special school and saturdays in the same sentence) regularly exceed £1,000. The cafe is full. Conferencing space is in high (very high) demand as the story spreads. More (independent) masseurs are bringing their clients, the hydro pool is almost completely booked up and even more gratifying is that students are being offered jobs. Proper jobs, by people who see what they do and are impressed.


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As the saying goes, it takes a village. Local businesses in our village have come together to help preserve the character and charm of St. Simons Island in partnership with St. Simons Land Trust's 1% for St. Simons voluntary giving program. The program is turning pennies into protected acres. For example, if your bill comes to $20, a voluntary 1% (0.20) donation is added. Proceeds from the program are used by the land trust for land acquisition, land management, education and outreach, public access to waterways and wilderness preserves, and to ensure the protection and preservation of historic properties forever. The 1% for St. Simons program is a diverse and growing partnership of more than 30 participating businesses from restaurants like Certified Burgers and Beverage, graphic design services such as Commonground Creative, and locally-owned hospitality and lodging businesses such as Village Inn and Pub.
Commonground Creative:
Commonground Creative, owned and operated by St. Simons Island native Clay Caldwell,
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provides graphic design and branding that expertly clarifies each client's mission and unique offerings to the community. Clay refers to this as "finding Commonground" with island residents and visitors. He serves local mainstays like Fuse, Coastal Georgia Historical Society, and the St. Simons Land Trust from his office in Aviator Plaza. "I grew up with the natural beauty and easy pace of St. Simons," he says. "That's something I want to preserve for my children and grandchildren. Joining the Land Trust's 1% program made perfect sense."
Commonground has been a member of the 1% program since it partnered with the Land Trust in 2018. Clay notes that his company and the St. Simons Land Trust were born of the same love for the local area and culture. "We both want to maintain the character of St. Simons. The Land Trust's goal is to preserve the natural beauty of the land. My goal is to serve the brands that speak to that character and history through the execution of thoughtful design."
Certified Burgers and Beverage:
Grinder to griddle is Certified Burgers and Beverage's approach to the hamburger.
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This locally-owned establishment, located at the corner of Frederica and Sea Island roads, serves only wholesome, fresh, and local food ranging from hand-cut fries to fresh ground patties and thick, luscious milkshakes – all made in house. Chef and owner David Carrier, along with his wife Ryanne, who is "director of booze and donuts," have created a warm environment with excellent service, delicious food including specialty sweets, and memorable drinks. Not only does the restaurant have a following for their mouthwatering burgers, their donuts have become just as popular. Certified donuts are available at 11:00 a.m. on Sundays. The donut list changes every week and is posted on the restaurant's front door and on social media. Get ready to wait in line, however! When you take that first bite, you'll realize what all the hype is about. The Certified donut demand has even spread to weddings and corporate events, and the restaurant is now venturing into cakes. The Carriers also have big hearts and want to help preserve St. Simons for locals and visitors alike. "As a business it is very important to support the community that supports you," says David. "That community not only consists of the wonderful people around here but also the beautiful island that we make our home. The protection of green space here helps maintain its authenticity and preserves our island for years to come."
Village Inn and Pub:
The Village Inn and Pub has the unique distinction of being a quaint inn designed around a restored 1930s beach cottage nestled under stately live oaks in the heart of St. Simons Island's
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popular oceanfront Village. "We built The Inn around the original property and the old live oaks," says Stella Johnson, daughter of George Stewart, the owner of the Village Inn and Pub. They very purposefully integrated the design of the inn with the façade of the cottage and the architecture of the surrounding neighborhood. Instead of traditional pavement, they utilize "grass and shell pave" for parking in order to avoid disturbing the root systems of the trees and to promote environmentally safe water run-off.
For taking this kind of care when constructing the inn, George Stewart and his wife Michelle were the honored with the first time ever "Good Developer Award" given by the island's grassroots environmental group, Residents United for Planning and Action (RUPA). As 1% partners, that same dedication to preserving the character of the island continues. Stella adds, "some of our favorite compliments are about these oaks and the 88-year-old building that houses the Pub. Our guests are eager to help us protect the charm and history of this island and appreciate our participation in this program."
For the entire list of 1% for St. Simons partners visit sslt.org. If your business would like to participate in the program, please contact Sara Baker at 912.638.9109 or onepercent@sslt.org.
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Q: Best way to implement navigation in mvvm for wpf application I implement MVVM in my current WPF application assignment.
I created a base class which inherit Window and then every other window inherit this class.
public class ApplicationScreenBase : Window
    {
        public ApplicationScreenBase()
        {
            AppMessenger.Register(this, OnMessageToApp);
            this.Unloaded += ApplicationScreenBase_Unloaded;
        }

        private void ApplicationScreenBase_Unloaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            AppMessenger.Unregister(this, OnMessageToApp);
        }

        private void OnMessageToApp(AppMessage message)
        {
            switch (message.MessageType)
            {
                case AppMessageType.Navigate:
                    {
                        var CurrentWindow = Activator.CreateInstance(Locator.NavigationPageLocator.LocateNavigateTypeByEnum((NavigationScreens)message.MessageData)) as Window;
                        CurrentWindow.Show();
                        this.Close();
                        break;
                    }
                case AppMessageType.NewWindow:
                    {
                        var CurrentWindow = Activator.CreateInstance(Locator.NavigationPageLocator.LocateNavigateTypeByEnum((NavigationScreens)message.MessageData)) as Window;
                        CurrentWindow.Show();
                        break;
                    }
                case AppMessageType.MessageBox:
                    {
                        MessageBox.Show(message.MessageData.ToString());
                        break;
                    }
                case AppMessageType.Close:
                    {
                        this.Close();
                        break;
                    }
                default:
                    break;
            }
        }
    }

This is my navigation class which return me Type of window to open.
public static class NavigationPageLocator
    {
        public static Type LocateNavigateTypeByEnum(NavigationScreens navigationPage)
        {
            switch (navigationPage)
            {
                case NavigationScreens.LoginOnline:
                    return typeof(LoginOnline);
                case NavigationScreens.MainWindow:
                    return typeof(MainWindow);
                case NavigationScreens.Home:
                    return typeof(Home);
            }
            return default(Type);
        }
    }

This is how I use AppMessenger
public enum AppMessageType
    {
        Navigate,
        NewWindow,
        Close,
        MessageBox
    }
    public class AppMessage
    {
        public AppMessageType MessageType { get; set; }
        public object MessageData { get; set; }
    }
    public class AppMessenger
    {
        public static void Register(object recipient, Action<AppMessage> action)
        {
            Messenger.Default.Register<AppMessage>(recipient, action);
        }

        public static void Unregister(object recipient, Action<AppMessage> action)
        {
            Messenger.Default.Unregister<AppMessage>(recipient, action);
        }

        public static void Send(AppMessage message)
        {
            Messenger.Default.Send<AppMessage>(message);
        }

And this is some way I control the flow from ViewModel-
AppMessenger.Send(new AppMessage() { MessageType = AppMessageType.Navigate, MessageData = NavigationScreens.Home });

Now the problem is I register to window successfully and I found that a single instance of AppMessenger is register to per Window but when I notify messenger to invoke some event it fires twice.
For e.g.
AppMessenger.Send(new AppMessage() { MessageType = AppMessageType.MessageBox, MessageData = "Authentication failed." });

This will show two time MessageBox.
Why did it fire twice. How can I prevent this?

A: You consider another class (WindowManger) which can main the windows for you. You are creating a new window for navigation as well. Here you could have checked from the WindowManager if the window is already present.

A: Essentially, the problem with navigation is you want to decouple the often complex navigation logic with the UI and business logic associated to each "page" of content.  This is essentially achieved through your NavigationPageLocator class, and a message based communication system.
You seem to be going along the right lines to implementing your own solution, although you may find yourself having to do a lot of "plumbing" to achieve some more advanced scenarios.  You may want to take a look at the PRISM documentation regarding navigation in WPF applications, which offers a ready-implemented solution.

A: Ok, here i found my solution
 public ApplicationScreenBase()
        {
            this.Loaded +=ApplicationScreenBase_Loaded;
            this.Unloaded += ApplicationScreenBase_Unloaded;
            this.Activated += ApplicationScreenBase_Activated;
            this.Deactivated += ApplicationScreenBase_Deactivated;
        }

        void ApplicationScreenBase_Deactivated(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            AppMessenger.Unregister(this, OnMessageToApp);
        }

        void ApplicationScreenBase_Activated(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            AppMessenger.Register(this, OnMessageToApp);
        }

What is happening is, if i open two windows then AppMessenger send message twice as both windows are currently registered with AppMessenger. So using Window life cycle i unregister Appmessenger to the window which is in background and register which is in forground this way, only one window will be registered to the AppMessenger, but i doubt what happen if both windows are in foreground in minimize state. Hope this may help someone in future.


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Widely respected for its outstanding performances, the Bach Society Chorus has been labeled as "right up there with the best this city has to offer." Audiences have come to expect musical excellence and passion from our concerts. Concerts usually include a fully professional orchestra and professional soloists who come from across the country to perform with the Chorus.
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The Bach Society Chorus is an annually auditioned group of approximately 60 experienced singers committed to artistic excellence in the performance of major choral and choral-orchestral masterpieces, notably the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Chorus includes exceptional volunteer singers joined by a core of paid professional choral singers. The Bach Society of Saint Louis also sponsors a Young Artist scholarship program for aspiring soloists under the age of thirty.
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Where does happiness come from? How does one minimize dissatisfaction and create the greatest number of happy moments in life? Last night a friend asked, "Looking back on your life to date, at what points were you the happiest?" A simple enough question, I thought of a list of happy moments, some general time periods in life, some specific events. For me, most included big adventures like moving across the country, starting a new job, completing a first marathon or triathlon, studying music, meditation periods, taking dance lessons, etc. After the conversation I continued to think about the question and my list of things and wondered if there was something common to all of the moments? What about these times made them more satisfying than others? Thinking it through and applying a bit of Zen, the following occurred to me.
It seems that people are happiest when they are either fully committed in "attention" or in "action" in response to the present, and dissatisfaction arises when one sits somewhere in the middle of the two. As such, attention and action can be seen as existing as endpoints on a continuum.
As an example, dissatisfaction often exists when one simply thinks or talks about problems in a shallow way but doesn't do anything about them (for example, complaining). Yet, if one is truly skillful in thinking through issues, applying insight and full attention to an issue at hand (i.e. – talking with friends to achieve deeper clarity, meditating on them, etc.) then satisfaction can arise in the midst of this. Furthermore, with insight into a problem, one can shoot past dissatisfaction by transforming insight into committed action.
On the other end of the continuum, happiness in fully committed action (e.g. – "being in the moment") is easy to observe. When a person is fully engaged in an activity (i.e. – playing a sport, performing music, dancing, etc.) is difficult for them to think or be anywhere other than the present moment. In this sense, it seems attention and action are closely related or can be seen as the same thing, potentially closing the diagram above into a circle.
Given the above, one approach to creating increased happiness might be to look at dissatisfaction in the present and ask, "Am I fully committed in either attention or action to the issue at hand?" If not, perhaps therein lies an opportunity to transform an unsatisfactory situation and create more happiness.
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If you change "fully committed" to the more ambiguously accurate (accurately ambiguous?) term "right," I think you've nailed two of the folds in the Noble Eightfold Path. And certainly your description of dissatisfaction is what was Buddha Gautama's catalyst for change; feeling this dukkha, he meditated on it and developed a course of action.
It's nice to see that we to can follow the same methods–that they are not beyond our reach or too complex to undertake. If only more people would do so, it would be a benefit to all.


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I was exporting the settings for Microsoft Office Communications Server today, using the command line tool LCSCMD.exe.
Check the log file "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.OCS\LOCALS~1\Temp\export[2008_07_09][15_39_26].html" for details.
On opening the log file, I was presented with the following helpful unhelpful log file.
But I think the error in the log file should be more helpful tho.


The Park Service announced Thursday that the Franklin Battlefield will receive an American Battlefield Protection Program grant.
The award helps the city of Franklin, the American Battlefield Trust and Franklin's Charge preserve less than an acre of land.
The American Battlefield Trust says it has saved 178 acres (72 hectares) at the Franklin Battlefield, with an opportunity to save more. For example, a site with a Pizza Hut on it was bought and restored in 2005. A strip mall was secured in 2012.
The trust says the Union victory at the Battle of Franklin in 1864 included more than 2,300 Union deaths and 6,200-plus Confederate casualties.