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The Israeli Defense Force conducted raids further into the West Bank, this time in Nablus, after earlier operations in Tulkarm on the Israeli-West Bank border. A Palestinian was killed and several more wounded as Israel continued its hunt for Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists after the PIJ suicide bombing in Netanya. Palestinians claimed that the IDF was firing at stone throwers, but Israel denied, saying they were returning fire from gunmen, which was also what was stated by West Bank witnesses. Once again, terrorists using children as shields.
In the West Bank, witnesses said Israeli soldiers wounded 12 stonethrowers and a gunman during clashes in Nablus in which militants mingled with youth throwing stones at soldiers during an Israeli arrest raid.
The Israeli army said troops had fired toward Palestinian gunmen who shot at them, but did not believe their fire had hit anyone. The army denied targetting [sic] stonethrowers.
In a scene reminiscent of last Thursday's murder of an Israeli security officer stabbed at a Jerusalem border crossing, a Palestinian teenager attempted to stab a Border Police officer while trying to enter the IDF district offices in Jenin. He was disarmed and detained. Israel was also active again on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, where more rockets were fired into Israel from the Gaza village of Abassan overnight. One Palestinian was killed there also.
Earlier today, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed at least 3 terrorists of the Popular Resitance Committees and possibly one member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as they traveled in a car, reportedly enroute to carry out an attack. Witnesses said that there was a drone heard overhead at the time of the strike. The strike took place near the Israeli-Gaza Karni Crossing.
At the Fatah headquarters in Gaza, armed al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members stormed the offices demanding jobs and claiming discrimination by other factions of Fatah. What ensued was a gunbattle between the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members and the other Fatah members at the headquarters building. Three people were injured, including a bystander outside the offices. al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is itself a faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah movement.
The in-fighting was not limited to Gaza, as the West Bank also saw its share of turmoil. Gunmen stormed the Nablus offices, firing into the air, destroying parts of the offices and ripping out computers, which they took with them. Abbas pledged to protect election workers while at the same time reportedly rounding up members of the PIJ. The election offices have been closed.
Election commission head Hanna Nasser met with Abbas to discuss the crisis. Abbas pledged to protect election workers and "take required measures against the aggressors," said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Abbas.
All told, the Red on Red clashes at election offices took place in Nablus in the West Bank and Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younis in Gaza.
The continuing internal fighting among various factions of Fatah leading into the January 25 elections serves to strengthen the already formidable challenge to their grasp on power mounted by Hamas. January looks to be an eventful month in the Levant, as the end of the informal truce agreement between various terrorist groups and Israel nd the Palestinian elections will violently cross paths.
I wonder what will come first, a democratic functioning Palestine or a democratic functioning Iraq. I have my thoughts.
It will require a desire for better political representation by the Palestinians before change can happen. However, it is sad to see opportunity after opportunity seem to slip by.
Related to Bill Rice's point, I think that there will be a functioning democracy in Iraq first. The reason is that there is a crucial difference between Iraq and Palestine: in the former there has been a clean break with the past, and in the latter there is not. Abbas may well be more sincere about peace than Arafat was, but he was part of Arafat's corrupt gang, a functionary rather than a "muscle" member of Fatah, but nevertheless not a new beginning.
In Iraq there are significant obstacles remaining, but clearly there is progress, things are moving in the right direction. I don't know if that is true in the case of Palestine. There have been indications both ways.
What we are seing now, I think, is a natural result of the manner in which Arafat kept power: he developed a myriad of security apparatuses (17 as I recall) with separate leaderships, all of which only reported to him. Once he died, this left all these different factions deciding whether or not to tranfer their allegiance to Abbas. Since they had guns, they got to make that decision on their own free of coercion. This is why there are these armed factions within the ruling party; they were there before, but the common tie is gone.
As long as the bad guys possess all the weapons and money and all the good guys--the ordinary Palestinian people--don't have crap, how can anything good come out of this situation without an extremely dramatic show of opposition?
Abbas seems to not have the will to do what is necessary or is waiting for an opportune time.
In the end, I think something like with the warlords in Afghanistan has to happen. Who knows if it can work for the Palestinians.
Shawn, the phrasing of your comment suggests that Afghan-style warlordism is almost a best-case scenario for the Palestinians. I laughed when I read that. I'm not really an optimist when it comes to the Palestinian front, but if that is the best they can do, that's pretty bad. And Abbas does act like a hapless figurehead a lot of the time. One point I like to make is that if you defend yourself against allegations of connection to violence by claiming that you are powerless, that works for a while, but then everyone starts to believe you, and then you really are.
Basically, what I had in mind when I wrote that was the disarmament of warlord-led militias and transfer of security to a national military force and political leadership to elected officials. I believe that's what is happening in Afghanistan, at least in process, is it not? Perhaps it is not as far along as I had thought.
I misunderstood what you meant. I do think that the integration of the warlords' forces are "in process," but my understanding was that genuine progress at eroding their power was not great. I think that the central govt there is firming up, but my impression was that they still to this day retain a great deal of power in the provinces.


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namespace FaizShukri\Quran\Commands;

use FaizShukri\Quran\Supports\Config;
use FaizShukri\Quran\Repositories\Source\XMLRepository;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;

class TranslationListCommand extends Command
{
    private $source;

    private $config;

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->config = new Config;
        $this->source = new XMLRepository;
        $this->source->setConfig($this->config);
    }

    protected function configure()
    {
        $this
            ->setName('translation:list')
            ->setDescription('View available translations');
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $translations = $this->translations();

        $output->writeln("<info>Available translations. (For usage, you can use short form, example: </info>en <info>instead of</info> en.sahih <info>)</info>");
        foreach ($translations as $translation) {
            $output->writeln("  - <comment>$translation</comment>");
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        $output->writeln("");

        return 0;
    }

    private function translations()
    {
        return $this->config->get('translations');
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}

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I grew up in a store-bought, premade pancake batter household. On Saturday mornings we were happy to shake the carton and pour our way to breakfast heaven. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the pancakes of my youth.
But now I know better. That doesn't mean I've stopped eating pancakes altogether. Instead I make them from scratch with wholesome ingredients.
Swapping some of the regular all-purpose flour for whole-wheat flour is an obvious and delicious choice, adding both fiber and flavor to the fluffy cakes. Ground old-fashioned oats provide a bit of texture along with an irresistible nutty bite. And finally, a touch of honey and some freshly grated orange zest round things out with just a hint of bright, floral, sweetness.
Feel free too add your favorite flavorings as you see fit. A bit of molasses and a pinch of ginger could be a nice alternative. Or maybe a drop of pure vanilla extract and some ground cinnamon. These pancakes are as versatile as they are delicious. And trust me, no one will miss the carton.
You can grind the oats in a food processor.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a second medium bowl, whisk together buttermilk, eggs, butter, honey and orange zest. Add egg mixture to flour mixture and whisk again just until combined. Batter should be slightly lumpy.
Melt a bit of butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Working in batches, drop about 1/4 cup of batter into skillet to form each pancake. Cook until small bubbles appear, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip pancakes and cook until cooked through and golden brown, adjusting heat as needed, 2 to 5 minutes more.
Transfer to a baking sheet to keep warm in the oven. Repeat with more butter and remaining batter, wiping skillet clean with a paper towel between batches. Serve with a very light dusting of confectioners' sugar, if you like.
Samantha Seneviratne is a New York-based writer, recipe developer and food stylist. She blogs about dessert at Love, Cake.
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I've had another day of shopping today, which you'll know already if you follow me on Instagram or Twitter (@truly_polished). When I went yesterday I saw a cobalt blue maxi skirt and today I went back and got it as well as a few tshirts. Since I started my blog I've mainly been buying nail polish, but now the weather is getting nicer, I'm getting inspired to buy my summer wardrobe. This summer I plan to be more adventurous with my style choices. I've always been interested in fashion, but I've stuck to plainer things that I think suit me, instead of trying anything new. I literally wear black leggings EVERY DAY and my version of mixing it up is wearing tights and a dress!
So this summer I'm going to try new things with my clothes and this cobalt blue maxi dress is me dipping my toes in! I've also changed my hair from a side parting which I've had for the last ten years to a middle parting! It might not sound like much but it's a big deal to me!
Anyway, today I have the last of my newer HITS holos to show you. I only have the holo topcoat left after this (Hefesto) and I'm slowly but surely getting photos together for that!
This is Hera, a teal holographic polish. This was so gorgeous in person but I couldn't capture its true beauty in the photos. I have no complaints about the formula of this, it went on smoothly, in two coats and covered perfectly. I didn't use topcoat for the photos below. Hera was SO much more holographic in rel life, but for some reason my camera didn't pick it up.
For more photos and a topcoat comparison, click "Read More"
A few days ago when I posted my KOH holographic, I did a comparison to see if adding a topcoat dulled the holo effect. I thought I'd try it again with this polish. The HITS holos are a different formulation to the KOH ones and GOSH Holographic. The HITS ones are smooth and look really glossy even without topcoat, whereas the other two dry really matte and look like clay until they've dried. However when they do dry they are about a hundred times more holographic than you could ever imagine!
The topcoat didn't seem to dull the effect of the KOH polish and it hasn't seemed to here either. I used one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast on my index and ring finger, the comparison is below.
It's a shame I couldn't get the holo to show up in these photos as well as it does in real life, but this is truly a gorgeous polish. I find it impossible to pick a favourite in this collection, they're all amazing, well the ones I've tried! I bought this for R$8 directly from HITS here but it's also available at Llarowe.


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Labourism: A Political Genealogy
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The Roots of Parliamentary Socialism in Australia, 1850-1920
Irving, Terence H.
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Remaking the Working Class: In Detroit
Gordon Childe on Australia's Class Structure in 1957
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The Radical Reformission
John Armstrong December 2, 2005 Emergent Church
Over the past few weeks I have led a small group discussion, with seven couples, based upon my friend Mark Driscoll's book, The Radical Reformission (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004). The discussion has been both stimulating and challenging. I find it quite hard to demonstrate to these conservative suburban Christians (much like me of course) the central thesis of Mark's brilliant little manifesto on mission and culture. I think the overwhelming majority of us do not understand how we swim in our particular culture 24/7 and then assume that we can "hear" the gospel clearly in that context. I have come to conclude that this assumption is fatal to grasping the missional church emphasis of Mark's little book.
As I was praying about last evening's group meeting on Thursday morning (we discussed chapter four last night, if you have the book, with the title: "Elvis in Eden—A Reformission Understanding of Culture") I asked the Lord to specifically help me make these thoughts as clear and powerful as possible. I then had lunch with two men who are Korean missionaries to the United States. These contacts came via a student of mine whose father is one of the two men. The other man is a family practice physician, who just happened to hear me on the MBN Network program "Open Line" a few weeks ago. He subsequently attended our "Reversing the Secular Tide" conference, November 4-5. These two men were both formally sent to North America to evangelize college campuses as "tentmaking" missionaries. They came here with formal education and a clear commitment to earn their income in the workplace in America while they devoted direct and passionate effort to evangelizing and planting churches that have a missional DNA. This effort has produced hundreds of churches and outreach ministries across the world. These tentmaking Korean missionaries are now in scores of cities in North America.
My two new Korean friends have asked me to speak, on February 11, to their national meeting of Christian workers under the umbrella of this mission, the Univesity Bible Fellowship. Please don't miss this point. Most all of those in attendance at this UBF conference will be people who have "normal" jobs and thus they will carve out the time to attend such an event through great personal sacrifice. I was delighted to accept this kind invitation and can't explain how excited I am to meet more believers who have such a deep commitment to Christ's commission.
Here is the point in telling you this story. Until all Christians realize that planting and growing the church is the work of every member (thus all of us are, in that sense, informal missionaries) we will never get to first base with a biblical missional emphasis. We must teach a new generation to think "missionally" and to believe that God is calling all of them to use their time and talent to reach their neighborhoods and to develop growing churches. More than 99% of Western Christians believe mission is the work of specially trained ministers and missionaries, i.e., it is work of professionals (alone). American Christians are taught to pray for and support such missionaries financially. These Korean brothers, and their families, believe that they can work and live anywhere God sends them. They are "sent" to an area and then seek find work and a home, like true pilgrims. They use their gifts, education, monetary resources, indeed every member of their family, as a means to the end of extending the kingdom of Christ by evangelizing and planting new churches. Sadly, these two men told me that they have found almost no support or interest from traditional churches and missions. Even more shocking, but quite revealing, is the sad fact that Korean American churches think this particular mission is dangerous. Why you ask? These people are not planting and growing churches the right way, i.e., the way Christendom has built churches in the West for centuries.
I know the Korean church movements of Chicago with some measure of firsthand experience. There are hundreds of Korean congregations in our region. Most are very small but all are led, to varying degrees, like typical Western and North American congregations. Most all of them are also badly divided and do not trust one another across local church divisions. There is, simply put, no evidence of serious ecumenism among these flocks. I wonder where they got this DNA?
Please do not tell me that most Christians in the United States understand the idea of the church existing for, and serving, the kingdom of God in mission. Most of us are so immersed in going to church, giving our money to support pastor(s) and missionaries, and investing in all the endless programs that make up church life on Sunday, that we never seriously consider for a moment what Adolph von Harnack said about the church in the first two centuries after the resurrection. The famous historian wrote, more than a hundred years ago, that there can be no serious doubt that the missional actions of ordinary Christian believers were what eventually turned the Roman Empire upside down.
I will say more later about this subject later but I can say now that I came away from lunch yesterday, and the group meeting last evening, deeply impressed that the form my own ministry must take in 2006 and beyond will be profoundly connected to this vision of the church. I asked myself again today, "If every new member were taken in the local church, and at that point commissioned formally to be a missionary, what would be the outcome of such a strategy?" New models and forms of the church would surely have to emerge. New wine would clearly demand new wineskins. I am not advocating that only house churches can become missional churches. That would be a mistake since it would make the means (a form of church life) the end rather than the goal (everyone involved in missional church growth). I do wonder how you feel about this and would value serious input from others who believe, with me, that the North American church is failing to truly engage the missional mandate of our Lord Jesus Christ in our post-Christendom era. I find it much, much easier to argue about arcane theological debates than it is to take this issue seriously. What do you think?


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Robert E. Alvis. White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Illustrations, maps. 368 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-7170-2; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-7171-9.
In recent years, the topic of the Catholic Church in Poland has received well-deserved attention in English-language historiography. Robert E. Alvis's newest book, White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition, is a wonderful contribution to this growing body of historical literature. In ten sweeping chapters, Alvis documents chronologically the development of the Catholic Church in the historic Polish lands, from the baptism of Archduke Mieszko I in 966 to the 2010 controversial burial of President Lech Kaczyński in the Wawel crypt. Masterfully written, with remarkable depth and erudition, White Eagle, Black Madonna is a stunning synthesis of the most recent research on Poland, the Catholic Church, and their shared history.
In the preface, Alvis promises a book that "is more than a chronological account of what Polish Catholics have experienced and accomplished." Fulfilling this promise, he offers a commentary on the Polish Catholic tradition that "continuously adds dimensions to the meaning of church and informs Catholic belief and praxis in the present" (p. xii). In doing so, Alvis is able to demonstrate how historical events in the Catholic history of Poland continue to resonate with the faithful today. Each chapter follows a consistent pattern, beginning first with an anecdote to grasp the reader's attention, then an overview of changes in Polish and church policy and history, and finally ending with a discussion of how Catholics lived these events.
One of Alvis's major contentions is that the church has been a unifying force in Poland for much of its history. In the state's earliest years, through much turmoil, including a nearly two-century period of fragmentation (1138-1314), it was the Polish church and its growing networks of religious and social power that managed to provide badly needed structure and unity for a divided Poland. During the period of the Reformation, however, the authority of the church declined as Polish nobles turned to Protestantism. That the Polish state legislated tolerance toward Protestants and other religious minorities, in particular Jews, was not a sign of state benevolence, Alvis argues, but rather an attempt for nobles to wield their enormous political power over religious authorities. This religious tolerance, Alvis shows, began to wane as the Polish state declined during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During the seventeenth century, when Orthodox Cossacks and Swedish Protestants attacked the Polish lands, Poles associated these non-Catholic peoples with violence, leading the way for limited religious toleration and a stronger Catholic presence among the upper echelon of Polish-speaking society.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Catholicism and Polishness became increasingly synonymous with one another. To exemplify the growing ties between the church and nation, Alvis uses the anti-Semitic National Democratic Party, which enjoyed the support of many Catholic clergy, to show how the church helped exacerbate ethnic tensions from the pulpit. In his discussion of the period of state socialism, Alvis demonstrates how the church sought to unify the faithful in eventually rising against the Communist Party. Bolstered by Cardinals Stefan Wyszyński and Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II as of his election to the pontificate in 1978), the Catholic Church posed a central threat to the atheist Communist regime. But the church's unifying spirit, Alvis suggests, has diminished since the collapse of Communism. In part because of globalizing factors and internal political debates, Polish society has become increasingly polarized in the thirty years since the inception of the Third Republic. That Polish church leaders have opted to partake in these debates and have aligned themselves so closely with the Law and Justice Party is for Alvis an aberration of the church's tradition. In concluding White Eagle, Black Madonna he writes, "The defensiveness and insularity that has marked the Polish church in the modern era stands very much at odds with its earlier legacy as a conduit linking Poland to the wider Christian world" (pp. 276-277).
Historians of Poland will find that much of the book's lessons are familiar, and I often found myself wanting to learn more about the faithful than church and political leaders, but beyond these minor criticisms, the book is superb. In addition to its excellent analysis, it will prove an important teaching tool in the classroom, and I have already revised my lectures in Polish history to reflect Alvis's findings. Balanced and nuanced, White Eagle, Black Madonna deserves a wide readership from students and scholars of Poland, religious history, and the history of Catholicism.
. In particular, John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012); Piotr Kosicki, Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018); Neal Pease, Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009); and Brian Porter-Szűcs, Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: https://networks.h-net.org/h-poland.
Citation: Michal Wilczewski. Review of Alvis, Robert E., White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition. H-Poland, H-Net Reviews. February, 2018.


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package com.marktreble.f3ftimer.data.api;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.util.Log;

import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import okhttp3.MultipartBody;
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.RequestBody;
import okhttp3.Response;

public class API {

    private static final String TAG = "APIDEBUG";

    private static final String STATUS_KEY = "status";
    private static final String STATUS_OK = "ok";

    public static final String ENDPOINT_KEY = "endpoint";

    public static final String API_IMPORT = "/import";
    public static final String API_IMPORT_RACE = "/import_race";
    // public static final String API_UPLOAD = "/upload_race";

    public static final String F3XV_IMPORT = "searchEvents";
    public static final String F3XV_IMPORT_RACE = "getEventInfo";
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    public class httpmethod {
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People have often asked me how my sister, Greta, and I come up with our trademark "looney," kinda quirky (and sometimes ingenious, if I do say so myself!) recipe titles and other zany ideas. With four cookbooks now, we've somehow managed to come up with about 500 recipe titles. Phew! That's enough corny to make the Green Giant salivate! Some of my favourites: The Blah-Shank Redemption, Skewer Always on My Mind, Ladle Gaga and One Flew Over the Couscous Nest. Some duds that we obviously dreamt up way past our bedtimes or (more likely) after a glass of wine (or two): Bread Pitt (a date loaf), Edgar Allan Poultry (for when you're raven-ous), Pamela Anderson's Melon Balls (sorry!) and the Anti-Separatist Breakfast (French Toast made with English muffins).
I think my sister and I both dream in puns, actually. Sad, but true! In fact, we both keep a pen and pad of paper on our bedside tables just in case some cuckoo idea manifests in the middle of the night. And often it does!
That's exactly how our "grEATing cards by Janet & Greta" came to be. About five years ago, Greta had a dream that saw us launching a line of cute and clever greeting cards that contained recipes and cartoons. In her dream, we launched the cards with Hallmark. Her dream was so vivid that she actually woke up at one point, put pen to paper, scribbling down everything she could remember, and then went back to sleep. When she woke up again in the morning, she realized that she had sketched out the concepts for 14 grEATing cards! She showed me the sketches the next day and without hesitation I told her we HAD to do it. We just had to go for it! I loved them!
We mocked up several grEATing cards, and then Greta managed to get a meeting with top executives at Hallmark Canada. Little did she know that the Big Kahuna–the Prez of Hallmark himself–was going to be at the meeting. Gulp! Nervous but confident, she recounted the entire story about her vivid dream to the Hallmark team, and gushed with enthusiasm as she unveiled the sample cards. Ta da!
To which Greta SHOULD have replied, "Show me the money!" She didn't, unfortunately.
The rest is history, as they say. My sister and I had a crazy deadline of about one month to create 50 grEATing cards in various categories – birthday, anniversary, get well, thank you, etc. We had our bionic cartoonist, Ted Martin, drawing up our ideas around the clock, arm practically in a sling. But we did it! Our innovative grEATing cards were sold at Hallmark Card stores across Canada, and people seemed to love them just as much as we did.
Greta and I work really well together. A lot of women tell us that they could NEVER work with their sister, but our relationship just works. We can easily finish each other's sentences and I often know what she's thinking or is about to say. (Better think twice, Greta!) Watching us speak is a bit like watching a tennis match, back and forth, back and forth. Janet. Greta. Janet. Greta. It's actually a lot of fun!
As kids, we had crazy, wild imaginations. Greta and I are the two youngest in a family of six girls. We're just over 11 months apart in age (busy Mom!), both born in the month of April. Our other sisters are 9-16 years older, so we were really the spoiled babies of the family. By the time we came around, I'm sure our Polish parents just threw their arms up the in air, rolled their eyes and said, "Vvvatever." We all shared one bathroom. Six girls. One bathroom. Poor Dad never got in there except for a drive-by shaving. No wonder our personalities are a tad warped! Plus, we grew up on a steady diet of really bad 70's sitcoms: Brady Bunch (our fave!), Gilligan's Island, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. Then there was Scooby Doo, The Flintstones and Bugs Bunny. Oh, and I can't forget Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. Classics! Such thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating television programming is what shaped our brain cell activity, making us the women that we are today: Very silly!
What I do remember clearly from those childhood days is having NO problem whatsoever entertaining ourselves WITHOUT television or without many toys, either. Of course, we didn't have gadgets and gizmos and electronics like today's youth. No, we whiled away the time playing a whole lot of hide and seek, even climbing into our clothes dryer or contorting our bodies in the linen closet to escape being caught. Greta spent a weird amount of time up in our cherry and pear trees. Doing what, I don't know. She also did gymnastics on our picnic table, a la Nadia Comaneci. Back flips, round-offs, all kinds of tricks and theatrics, for which my Dad and his Polish friends would occasionally give her quarters. I was always dribbling a soccer ball around trees, breaking windows accidentally with tennis balls and somehow stirring up trouble.
Actually, our wild imaginations got us BOTH in big trouble an awful lot. Like the time we tied our bikes together and road them down the busy highway, pretending to be a train, I guess. We biked clear across town, miles and miles from home, me on my lime-green, stick shift three-speed, Greta on her blue banana-seat beauty. I remember picking up a bottle of pop and chips at a little variety store and then attempting to ride down a steep hill while holding the goodies, riding using no-hands. I went flying down the hill and over my handlebars, mangling my stick shift and breaking my bottle of Coke into a million pieces. I think we were 7 or 8 years old. One of our Dad's friends saw us pedaling underage on the wrong side of town and snitched on us. Busted!
Janet (who was lying in bed sick for two days) texts Greta: I feel really sick! Can hardly lift my arms to send this text. Yucko!
Greta: How long til meds kick in? What about drinking lemon in hot water and napping?
Janet: Napping?? Genius! All I CAN do is nap! Want soup, but don't have the energy, or groceries…or you to make it.
Greta: Soup would be good! Need soup delivery service.
Janet: I know! I just said that to Leanne (my best friend).
Greta: Soup for Sickos. I'll start the trademark papers tomorrow and incorporate!
Janet: Likes!! It will become a franchise and make millions!
Greta: Might not fly in summer months.
Janet: Fly…soup…Ha! Yeah, you're right. Need a truck to deliver popSICKles then!
Greta: Frozen soup sticks? That's kinda gross. But I like your name!
Greta (on a roll): The idea of fortified popsicles (like Emergen-C) is not a bad idea! Moms would buy for kids. Could have Echinacea, vitamin C, etc. For cold and flu season.
Janet: I was just typing that idea! PopSICKles for sick kids and sick grown-ups, too! No crappy, sugary ingredients to wreck immune systems further. Just the good stuff!
Janet (Thinking): Hmmm. But I bet Popsicle Pete would sue us for using that name. Drat!
Greta: Crap. Back to Soup for Sickos!
Janet: Not as good a ring as popSICKles, but it'll have to do. I will drive the first truck. It could be shaped like a bowl, with spoons as tires. Chug-a chug-a down the road it will go!
Greta: Well, perhaps Soup for Sickos could just be a product in a jar. The best soup possible to cure a cold or flu. Like our recipe, The Chicken Soup that Flu the Coop.
Janet: Better name than Holy Crap, and it's selling!
Greta: Same idea…the name gets attention!
And that's basically how we come up with most of our ideas: A collaboration of minds seriously warped by Brady Bunch re-runs and by holding bladders for too long, too often. Not that I'm about to drive a soup-shaped truck down Highway 401 or that we're going to launch Soup for Sickos into stores across the country any time soon.
Thanks for your sponsorship of the Canadian mens curling team. My wife and I seen "Looney Spoons" on their pants and a quick google and here we are. Good placement of your name. Hope it pays good dividends for you. My wife is very curious about what you do with your recipes.
Hi there! Our Looneyspoons Collection was the #1 selling cookbook of 2012, and it contains 325 healthy and delicious recipes, plus loads of nutrition and weight loss and anti-aging tips and lots of humour and fun. Hope you can check it out sometime! We are SO proud to sponsor the men's curling team. Go Canada!
I too want to thank you for sponsoring curling! We love your cookbooks and use a couple of your recipes as part of our regular repertoire. Thanks again!
Thanks, Sheri! We're so proud to sponsor the team!


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Q: Why User.FindFirstValue(claimtypes.nameidentifier) always return null? I have a .net 6 web api, and when i try to get current user id with configurations below always return null.
//in api controller
var userId = User.FindFirstValue(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier);

//in Program.cs
services.Configure<IdentityOptions>(options =>
    options.ClaimsIdentity.UserIdClaimType = ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier);

services.AddHttpContextAccessor();

Any idea to solve?
Thanks in advance.

A: Since you configure IdentityOptions options, I assume you are using Asp.net Core Identity for authentication and authorization, right?
I create a Asp.net core application and use Asp.net core Identity, after configuring the Identity Options using your code, I could get the User Id. The result as below:

Why User.FindFirstValue(claimtypes.nameidentifier) always return null?

As regards this question, it could cause by the following reasons:

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*When you request the API endpoint, the request does not include the JWT token or cookies that have the name identifier claim. You need to add the JWT token or cookie when request the API endpoint.
In this scenario, you can use F12 developer Network tools to check whether the request header has the cookies or the Authorization header, refer to this screenshot (it uses cookies to store the identity information):

*The JWT token or the cookies doesn't contain the name identifier claim.
You can set a break point to check User's Claims, whether you can find the name identifier claim or not. In this screenshot, I'm using Asp.net core Identity, and just add the following code: services.Configure<IdentityOptions>(options => options.ClaimsIdentity.UserIdClaimType = ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier);

If the User's claims don't contain the name identifier claim, perhaps the issue relate the Login part of code, it is better to share the relate code.

*Check the app.UseAuthentication() and app.UseAuthorization() middleware, make sure you have added them properly in the Program.cs or Startup.cs. Code like this:

If above methods still not working, please share the details steps and code, or you can create a minimal, complete sample to reproduce the problem.

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If you grew up under the care of a Southern Mama, you were probably reminded thousands of times that it's impolite to talk about money. While many things our mothers tried to teach us went in one ear and out the other, that one seems to have stuck. Nobody likes to speak publicly about their financial affairs.
Zipped lips make it difficult for us to share bankruptcy success stories with you. So, we are turning to the business world for an example we can share with you.
At the beginning of 2017, Gander Mountain, an outdoor adventure and lifestyle store, had seven stores in Alabama. But after the company filed for bankruptcy last March, all of those stores were closed. The company just couldn't compete with larger chains like Cabela's and Bass Pro.
That's when Marcus Lemonis, the star of the CNBC reality show "The Profit," stepped in. He bought Gander Mountain's assets out of bankruptcy and added them to his growing outdoors empire. He already owned companies similar to Gander Mountain or that complimented its business, and he has continued to buy other outdoors companies since then.
Presumably, he is taking what each of these companies does well and teaching it to his other companies, while also cutting wasteful and outdated practices. He has the luxury of doing this because bankruptcy allows companies the flexibility to wipe away old mistakes and remake themselves into something better. In fact, it was just announced that two old Gander Mountain stores in Alabama will be rebranded and opened as Gander Outdoors stores.
Personal and business bankruptcies are obviously very different from one another, but we hope that this story demonstrates to you just how powerful and future-altering the bankruptcy process can be.
The bankruptcy system exists because we are a country that believes in second chances. It is possible to erase the mistakes of the past while holding on to the good things. It is possible to get a fresh start. It is possible to move forward again. You just have to be willing to face your financial reality and ask for help.
If you are in need of a bankruptcy attorney, contact us today.


Six years ago Lee Chase started making high quality, flavorful beers on his trailer-mounted brewing system behind Blind Lady Ale House in Normal Heights. That 1.5-barrel batch-size system has grown over the years, and today Automatic Brewing is an 8.5-barrel system, still producing phenomenal beers.
To celebrate the anniversary, Lee tapped all the Automatic beers currently available and held a guided tasting event with longtime fans of his terrific beers. Attendees bought a taster flight of six beers personally selected by Lee, and sat down with him to enjoy them as he told the story behind each one.
In honor of Lee's love for bikes and his recent trip to Copenhagen, all of the beers have names referring to bikes.


Gucci is showing that they are the big cat in the luxury footwear realm and their latest rendition of the Ace is further validation.
Featuring a traditional white leather construction on the upper, this style opts for a navy and red webbing on the quarter-panel instead of the usual red and green combo. Lastly, a leather tiger motif is embroidered on the heel, which has been one of Gucci's reappearing characters in their designs as of late. Pair these with a pair of stonewashed denim and a graphic sweater and you're look is sure to be loved by street style enthusiasts everywhere.
The Gucci Ace is now available at select retailers like MR. PORTER.


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"Can Sex Really Stretch Out My Vagina?"
June 30, 2018 doctor, stretch, vagina
Flashback to your very first period: Whether you were a young girl or older teen, the thought of sticking a little plastic tampon in your vagina may have seemed, well, daunting. (I have to put this where?!) But as a grown woman, you've learned your vagina is pretty resilient and totally flexible—after all, it can stretch to accommodate everything from a tampon, to a penis, to a human baby. Still, no matter how wise you may be about your lady parts, chances are you may still feel confused about what's going on down there from time to time, especially when it comes to how your vagina responds to sex. One question that may have crossed your mind while getting it on: Is it possible for sex to stretch out my vagina?
In short: not exactly. "The vagina is basically a muscular rubber band that that stretches during sex and returns to its original shape and size," ob-gyn Michelle Met tells Women's Health.
That said, the very first time you have sex does come with some size changes for the vagina. "Generally a band of tissue called the hymen will break or tear which can sometimes lead to mild bleeding," she says, "and the vaginal opening increases in size."
The vaginal wall may also stretch if you have sex with different-size partners, explains Metz. But, as mentioned, your vagina generally bounces back into shape after you're done getting down. "It's pretty impossible for sex alone to permanently stretch out the vagina," Metz says.
However, in some cases, although your vagina may not expand for good, you may experience some soreness or small tears like paper cuts down there, she says. "That's a sign that the vaginal skin stretched a bit too much."
While this isn't something to be too concerned about, if you're having extreme discomfort every time you have sex, it's probably a good idea to reach out to your ob-gyn. Metz says for some women with smaller vaginas, she'll use tools such as a graduated vaginal dilator to help the body get used to a larger and larger diameter (a.k.a. the size of a real-life penis). "And sometimes I send patients to a pelvic floor physical therapist."
Metz adds that in some cases, these challenges with sex may be caused by a more serious medical condition. "You should definitely consult your ob-gyn because some of those conditions can require surgical correction," she says.
But even in cases where there are no underlying medical issues, it's totally possible to experience discomfort and soreness after sex, especially if your partner is particularly well endowed. If you're having trouble enjoying sex with a larger partner (and actually wish your vagina would stretch the eff out), there are some things you can do in these cases, too. Metz recommends having sex more often and longer to improve the stretchiness and elasticity of your vagina. You can also try easing into this with a dildo, before experimenting with your partner.
However, at the end of the day, if you're stressing about your vagina going all wide-set on you, we'll stop you right there. Bottom line, according to Metz: "It's pretty impossible for sex alone to permanently stretch out the vagina."
This article originally appeared on Women's Health US
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Q: Sort by closest date, then past I have an art gallery page featuring a panel that shows up to 5 exhibitions 'At this gallery'. Sometimes there could be many on, it should show the current or upcoming first, then resort to past exhibitions.
Is it possible to do in one query?
The following will give me those closest in terms of date difference but I can end up getting past events at the top of the list  (because if it's a day past, it's obviously less than the upcoming event in 5 days)
SELECT   DATEDIFF(date_start, NOW()) as date_diff, exhibitions.*
FROM     events
WHERE    event.gallery_id = XX
ORDER BY date_diff asc
LIMIT    5

A: The date_diff is returning negative values for past events.  This is one fix:
SELECT   DATEDIFF(date_start, NOW()) as date_diff, exhibitions.*
FROM     events
WHERE    event.gallery_id = XX
ORDER BY (case when date_diff < 0 then 1 else 0 end),
         abs(date_diff) asc
LIMIT    5

A: You can order by date_start < CURDATE() which will return either 0 or 1, 0 being future, 1 being past, and if you order the result ASC then it would ensure future ones always show up before past ones
for example:
ORDER BY
  (date_start < CURDATE()) ASC,
  (greatest(date_start, CURDATE()) ASC,
  (least(date_start, CURDATE()) DESC

first one ranks future before past, second one orders the future ASC (closest first), third one orders the past DESC (oldest first)
(second and third ones are interchange)

A: Normally you cant sort one column in both directions. If you want yo order by upcoming ASC the past DESC you can do it with trick:
SELECT yourDateColumn,IF(yourDateColumn)<NOW(),DATEDIFF(yourDateColumn),NOW()) * -1000000000,UNIX_TIMESTAMP(STR_TO_DATE(CONVERT_TZ(e.startDate,e.timeZone,'Europe/Paris'), '%Y-%m-%d'))) AS diff FROM yourTable ORDER BY DIFF ASC;


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The hotel offers luxurious room options such as Deluxe Room with City View, Deluxe Panoramic Circular Suite, Superior Interior King Room, and Superior King Room with Partial Water View and Deluxe King Room with City View. Other chic room options available in the hotel are Deluxe Queen Room with Two Queen Beds City View and Deluxe King Room with Water View.
Hotel Vitale rooms are furnished with modern décor and adorned with elegant finishing. The furniture featured in the hotel is elegant and classy, giving the rooms a touch of style.
The Hotel Vitale offers the luxury and satisfaction to tourists and travelers in the city.
The hotel has an outdoor rooftop terrace which offers a stunning view of the city and the beautiful neighborhood.
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Guest rooms come with private bathrooms that feature thoughtful additions such as free toiletries, plush bathrobes, and bathroom slippers.
The hotel is about 5 minutes away from the Ferry Building Marketplace while San Francisco Railway Museum is about 50 m away from the hotel.
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Is Whoopi Goldberg Quitting 'The View'?
Posted by: Krysten Swensen January 6, 2023
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After a couple of weeks, Goldberg returned to The View, and all seemed to be well. Unfortunately, she recently did an interview with a British newspaper and seemingly "doubled down" on her Holocaust comments. Once again, the backlash was swift and Goldberg released yet another apology, saying that she was simply speaking about what she said and believed in the past, not what she believes now.
It appears that Goldberg's latest gaff has her considering quitting the show altogether, with encouragement from her friends. According to reports from Radar Online, all the stress and trouble Goldberg has had is affecting her health.
"Whoopi has been out of control. Her health has been suffering, and she always seems to be ready for a brawl," said a source. "It's at the point where the constant fighting is literally killing her."
Though Whoopi, 67, has lorded over The View's table since 2007, insiders said producers, co-workers, and even close friends want her to pack it in.
"Whoopi seems to be picking fights all the time. She makes things very toxic. It's clear she's very unhappy," added the insider.
Sources said backstabbing Joy has been actively campaigning for Whoopi to get the boot. A source claimed producers have "grown tired of Whoopi's constant on-air episodes and believe they are driving viewers away."
After a second bout with COVID in November, exhausted Whoopi struggled to read cue cards upon her return, said an insider, who spilled, "Everyone's begging her to step aside for her sake and the sake of the show."
At this time, Goldberg hasn't made any statement about whether she is considering quitting the show. She is back at work and debating all daily hot topics with her cohosts, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
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In less than a year, this library-museum-cafe lover finds herself back in the stands at Fenway, and writing about baseball again.
You might recall last summer's Cracker Barrel and my article entitled, "An Outsiders View into Fenway Park." In it, I pooh-poohed professional baseball and all its hype. Though I'd found old Fenway charming, I described the crowd as being "a lost nation in a sea of Budweiser Lights." (Frankly, I was surprised not to receive any mad mail from those fanatic fans.
Despite my lack of interest in ball, however, I am the mother of two sons and thus have spent my share of time at games including: 5 seasons of T-ball, 4 seasons of Small Fry, 2 of Little League and one of Babe Ruth. Although I don't always know what's going on in the field, I've always been an avid supporter of my boys' teams. What I don't understand is million dollar players, $8 beers and bust-the-bank seats.
My son Lloyd dreamed of going to Fenway long before I knew how many innings were in a game. For years friends accused us of neglect before we finally begged tickets from the owner of the local market- whose brother lived in Boston- and had season seats that he wasn't using on Marathon weekend.
Just a simple $200 later and we were there! (Plus gas, parking, souvenirs and meals.) Our seats were right past the first baseline and not too far up at that. My son was in heaven- and though I could appreciate that the posters on his bedroom walls had come to life- I still didn't "get it".
I made the trip to Fenway to bring joy to my son, but in the process, he joined a "Nation" and left me behind. Just a few months later though, and this diehard fan turned 13. Suddenly he emptied his drawers of Sox shirts, retired his extensive collection of baseball caps, and removed every poster from his wall- including the hundreds of baseball cards that had trimmed his room- floor to ceiling.
I was also concerned. With sports discarded, what would take its place? During the long winter months, action films and technology consumed more and more of Lloyd's time. That's why I was delighted one spring afternoon when his friend Jack called with an extra ticket to the Sox game the next day.
On this return trip to Fenway almost a year later, we arrived just as they threw the first pitch with a foul ball headed our way. My attention was riveted with seats just past the third base line and close to the action.
Before the top of the first was finished however, a group of dark clouds moved in and it began to spritz- and then to pour- like I've never felt. As buckets of water fell upon us, I quickly learned that "good seats" become "bad seats" in a downpour. We stood in a line that moved at a snail's pace to leave the stands– drenched.
This rainout should have been a godsend for me, but I was actually disappointed—and then surprisingly thrilled- when the storm passed and the game was set to resume. We returned to our seats- jubilant- passing paper towels across the aisles while the field crew worked on the diamond.
It felt "good" to be here—together– united in common appreciation; and I could feel America's pastime seeping into my bones. Just as the players returned to the field, the sun appeared and steam rose off our wet bodies.
Innings passed without any concern for time. In fact, I even experienced a "timeless" moment when the outfield and the infield moved like a hand—fingers flowing into palm—like a dance. It was a thing of beauty and it caught my breath and swept me up into the mythic current of the game.
As we left the park, it was like leaving a part of me behind. Crowding into the subway car with other fans, I had an unfamiliar sense of belonging and buoyancy.
Once home, my 13 year old- who once could tell me everything I didn't care to know about every player and play in the history of the Nation–was shocked to find me scouring the papers for more. The whole family was taken aback when I came home from the library with Boston magazine for its feature, "67 Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about the Local Nine." I didn't know anything, but I still enjoyed the read and the history of Fenway that was included.
For days I covertly pursued my new passion, and then- it faded–back into the field of dreams–where, no doubt, some other unsuspecting soul is falling prey to its magic.


When tempted, both Jesus and Abraham vanquished their tempter with words of Torah, just as Israel's teachers exhorted their students to do.
Our father Abraham was tested [by God] with ten trials, and he withstood them all, demonstrating how great is God's love for Abraham our father (Mishnah, Avot 5:3).
Abraham's temptation while on his way with Isaac to the land of Moriah is amazingly similar to Jesus' temptation in the wilderness (Matt 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13).


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Nick Butterworth (* 1946 in Kingsbury, London) ist ein britischer Autor und Illustrator von Bilderbüchern.

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1947 zog seine Familie nach Romford (damals eine Stadt in Essex, seit 1965 Teil von Greater London).

Nach der Schule war er Schriftdesigner in verschiedenen Druckereien. Sein erstes Bilderbuch erschien 1981 und brachte ihm eine Anstellung als Autor einer Bildergeschichte namens Upney Junction im "Sunday Express" ein. Zudem betätigte er sich als Moderator der Kindersendung Rub-a-Dub-Tub im britischen Fernsehen.

Butterworth berühmtestes Werk ist die Bilderbuchreihe Tales from Percy's Park. Sie wurde über vier Millionen Mal verkauft und ist in fünfzehn Sprachen erhältlich. Butterworth' Werk Der Flüsterer (Originaltitel: The Whisperer) wurde 2005 mit dem Nestlé Smarties Book Prize geehrt.

Seine Bilderbücher über den Außerirdischen Q Pootle 5 wurden 2013 als Fernsehserie umgesetzt.

Butterworth ist verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. Er und seine Familie leben in Suffolk.

Werke
 Der Flüsterer (2005) (Originaltitel: The Whisperer)
 Percy the Park Keeper – One Snowy Night
 Kleiner Tierfreund ganz groß, britische Zeichentrickserie (1996–1999)

Auszeichnungen
 2002: Albert le Blanc auf der Auswahlliste der Kate Greenaway Medal
 2005: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize für The Whisperer

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Illustrator (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Literatur (Englisch)
Literatur (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
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Geboren 1946
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