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Vietnam veteran shares wisdom, experience in his work helping fellow vets
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Courtesy of Tyrone Chatman
Tyrone Chatman served in the Vietnam War after joining the U.S. Army in Detroit at the age of 17. He is now the CEO of the Michigan Veterans Foundation in Detroit.
With Veterans Day right around the corner, organizations nationwide are putting extra focus on our country's service members and veterans.
On Wednesday night, the Fisher House Michigan will welcome veterans on stage to share their stories from World War II, Vietnam, Iraq, and other deployments. It's the organization's annual Stories of Service event.
Tyrone Chatman will be among those featured veterans. He served in the Vietnam War after joining the U.S. Army in Detroit at the age of 17. He is now the CEO of the Michigan Veterans Foundation in Detroit.
Chatman said that after arriving in Detroit from Vietnam in 1972, his homecoming experience "wasn't a very pleasant one." Anti-war protestors at the airport called him names and accused him and his fellow soldiers of losing the war.
"It was an unpopular war, and there was a lot of turbulence that was taking place in America at the time, a lot of civil unrest," Chatman recalled. "I guess for the most part, people had to place the blame on someone, so they figured 'We may as well place it on those guys who are over there fighting.'"
Chatman went on to become a licensed social worker and began his career working primarily with Detroit's homeless population. Now, he serves as executive director of the Michigan Veterans Foundation, which provides a space where veterans can "regain stability" after grappling with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic homelessness, and substance abuse. They offere healthcare, legal assistance, and help for the chronically homeless.
"We provide a safe, secure environment for them to collect their thoughts, regain their stability, experience what it's like to be in this environment, and then we watch them excel and move forward from there," said Chatman.
Tickets for the Fisher House Michigan Stories of Service will be available at the door, and there's no charge for veterans or service members. All proceeds benefit Fisher House Michigan, which seeks to provide a "home away from home" for the loved ones of military personnel and veterans while they receive treatment at the VA hospital.
Chatman said he looks forward to sharing his story at that event.
"There's a wave of patriotism now that exists, and I'm most appreciative of it," Chatman said. "To me, it's extremely appropriate and long overdue."
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This exhibition brings together over twenty 16mm short films and two camerae obscurae, all produced over the last ten years. These works are presented within a site-specific installation, complemented by the titular film PAPAGAIO (DJAMBI).
Since 2001, Gusmão + Paiva have continually produced new experimental arrangements that are poised on the verge between the visible world and its withdrawal, questioning the borders between the concepts of the human and the inhuman. Translating paradoxes through cinematic media, the artists defamiliarize the visitors from her/his quotidian gaze and produce a "time machine" experiment: the films slow down reality until they reveal the different qualities within the visible.
The sometimes found, sometimes mounted settings are shot accordingly to strict formal rules: the camera stays within a fixed distance and angle from its subject, and focuses each time on precisely one motif, one sequence of movement, or one activity; all films operate purely visual.
PAPAGAIO (DJAMBI), which translates as parrot, uses a different composition principle: the new 43-minute film was shot last year on the central African island of São Tomé and depicts a local voodoo ritual invocating the deceased forefathers. The camera is passed along from the artists to the participants, who are in trance and possessed by the spirits of the dead. The approach to time shifts from infinite repetition to a vastly stretched moment. The film thus stages an encounter with the realm of the dead to account for what cannot be experienced by the living.
PAPAGAIO was co-produced with Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan and Camber Arts Centre in London.
Curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Vicente Todolí.
The exhibition is funded by Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, and the Embassy of Portugal / Camões-Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua. With special thanks to Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf.


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Amid the steady drumbeat of news about deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon there are signs of hope, some of which can come from the most unexpected of places.
EII Deputy Director David McGrath speaking at a conference in Rondônia, Brazil on the opportunities of aquaculture in slowing Amazon deforestation. (Oct. 25, 2019)
A panel this week led by Earth Innovation Institute (EII) in the state Rondônia, which lies to the west along the border with Bolivia, brought together government officials from across the Amazon with researchers, producers and private sector groups to explore the potential of fish production in boosting regional economies while slowing rates of deforestation.
"This panel is to present and evaluate the current reality and trends," EII Deputy Director David McGrath told the audience. "And from there identify the opportunities for the future potential of fish, both in rivers, lakes and tanks."
Titled, "A fish-based low carbon strategy," the Oct. 25 panel was part of a three-day conference focused on strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and to promote sustainable development across the Amazon.
Rondônia has seen some of the highest rates of deforestation in Brazil and was among the states hardest hit by the wave of fires that began in August and are continuing to burn across parts of Brazil. Much of the destruction has been linked to agriculture as local producers look to clear land primarily for cattle.
But data show that fish production – both aquacultue and managed fisheries – can produce an equivalent amount of animal protein as that of beef on 1/32 the amount of land. In addition, the global market for fish is more than double that of beef, with demand rising in both developed and emerging economies.
Such figures have prompted Amazon governments to take a hard look at the promise of fish, including native Amazonian species like pirarucu and tambaqui, as a potentially lucrative export that could also help in efforts to protect forests and other natural resources.
States of Brazil's Amazon have in fact endorsed strategies to expand fish production from both wild fisheries and aquaculture.
Rondônia was Brazil's second largest supplier of fish sold from aquaculture, according to 2017 agricultural census figures. Other regional governments are now hoping to glean insights from Rondônia's experience in developing their own aquaculture industries.
Eliezer de Oliveira, advisor to the Rondônia State Secretariat for Environmental Development, said his government is exploring export opportunities across the Americas and Asia. "We are looking at major world markets," he said at the close of the panel.
"This is beneficial for the world's population and society, but it also impacts the environment," de Oliveira added, noting that aquaculture is an essential component of Rondônia's efforts to identify effective strategies that promise "great economic gains and reduce environmental impacts."
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That moment you are so engrossed, so indulged, so engulfed, so sure…then suddenly! The latter word in its actuality makes your heart pump blood with an energy so robust that it was unaware of in the initial case. Now the palpitations don't even give each other time, and the intervals are so attracted to each other.
You are stuck between a feeling of yearning what you imagine as the future of first sight and that of slow and steady comprehension. Your mind is locked in a space of expectations but you have to slowly breathe. You want to let go but you have worked so hard to mould what is in your hands.
Your anxiety increases your body's weight and before you know it, you are in touch with the gravity of the situation. You met him or her and you want to love each other quickly before anything goes wrong. You certainly do not want to jump the gun but you want to surpass the doubt. It's not easy!
If only there was a mirror that reflects the inner soul or an invincible future ambassador who can tell how it is on the other side, once you cross the bridge of acceptance. But he or she is like an eccentric painting on the wall that you must take time to figure out. Loving quickly might be a language of the superficial, because only then, only when it happens that you are sure of an undaunted future.


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Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And what makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? Exploring Shakespeare's life, including qu Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius.
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This is a very readable, thought provoking book. It is certainly a book for lifelong lovers of Shakespeare and yet, is also, due to Jonathan Bate's enthusiasm and his light-hearted approach, a perfect introduction to the life and work of the Bard for those who have decided its time to know more.
Jonathan Bate surprised and amazed me. His writing style drives the narrative, which in some cases is quite detailed, forward at a steady pace. I devoured this book in a few days. He had me at the first section all the way through to the last page.
"Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beaut Jonathan Bate surprised and amazed me. His writing style drives the narrative, which in some cases is quite detailed, forward at a steady pace. I devoured this book in a few days. He had me at the first section all the way through to the last page.
"Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and, being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene on a country."
The stage is set, and the upstart Crow plans, learns, networks, and writes, and writes, and writes. In 1592-1594 the plague closed the theatre. This was quite beneficial because in this time, Shakespeare wrote his first two plays, and had a swashbuckling time. It was during this time, discussion turns to how in 1594 Shakespeare was able to buy in to the Chamberlain's men. This is all meticulously crafted in scholarly style by Bate, and when he delivers possible solutions to the mysteries: I knew he had a strong case.
This develops through the politics, the work, the relationships, and most importantly, 'The Genius of Shakespeare'. We are then taken on the stage of Shakespeare, the international one, and how his ability to relate with all people propelled him to be loved like no other writer. It was his ability to love Nature and all life, which transcended him from a poet to an Icon. His legacy, unsurpassed, remains and remains the writer's / poet's standard of absolute artistic brilliance.
This is a book that captured my heart, and will remain with me forever. There are so many books on Shakespeare, and I have no need to read another one.
As well as being clear on the historical chronology, Bate is also properly focused on the dramatic genesis of these works and so perfectly-placed to skewer the bizarre and seemingly endless line of Anti-Stratfordians, or people who claim a third party wrote Shakespeare's works. (Some of them are even big names: Tolstoy, Freud, Mark Twain, Orson Welles…) The fundamental argument used is based on his supposed second-class education. It really is as vapid as that: it comes down to the fact that he was not one of the most-highly educated of his peers. But wait, right there's your proof: for Jonson to have written about Shakespeare as he did, warmly while chuckling at his "little Latin and less Greek" says everything. Jonson knew that Shakespeare was his main (and superior) rival, just as Shakespeare knew that Marlowe was his model to follow when starting to augment his acting activities with writing. Bate's section on the cues Shakespeare took from Marlowe, his contemporary with the university advantage, while shooting past him is breathtaking, truly worth reading. While Bate proposes that "Shakespeare was born as a dramatist by way of his strong (mis)reading of Marlowe, and that he matured as an author by grace of the (mis)fortune of his dramatic brother's death", he also proposes that "the key gift which belonged to Shakespeare, but not to Christopher Marlowe, was experience as an actor."
And, along those lines, his discussion of certain scenes from Shakespeare that show quite clearly that they could only have been written by an actor with a grammar school education - and not a peer of the realm or other academic figure without a theatre background - is well-nigh definitive. Put simply: "Many of the boldest of Shakespeare's departures from his sources were injections of performance or self-conscious allusions to theatre." That was the part that could not be faked. It's fairly easy to fake courtly language or knowledge of kings, because many have access to those sources (doing something groundbreaking with them is something else). It was practically impossible in those days for a peer of the realm to fake knowledge of the theatre. Now, I would suggest, that part is a little easier, with our wall-to-wall coverage of actors and backstage plays/films, but still difficult when it comes to the telling details.
There is also plenty of discussion of how Shakespeare may have been magnified by the paucity of works surviving from the time. Possibly there was more of a collaborative sense of putting on plays (rather like folksinging) that may have meant there were other great plays that could have tussled with the Shakespeare works. Still, the evidence of the references of the day that survive make it quite clear: people were astonished by the sheer quality and wide-ranging ambition of the Bard's plays. They were different, calling upon elements from many different works, dramatically innovative, full of crowd-pleasing and reader-pleasing moments alike.
"Since the eighteenth century, Shakespeare has been admired above all for two things: the range of his characters and the inventiveness of his language. The two go closely together, for it was by investing so many of his dramatic persons with memorable language that Shakespeare animated more voices than did any contemporaries. And because he animated so many opposing voices, he has been able to speak to many later dispositions."
"Philosophy was born with Plato, who regarded his enterprise as a rival one to that of theatre. Though it grew from the profoundly dramatic method of the Socratic dialogue, the Platonic pursuit of wisdom and of essence could not abide theatre's implicit claim that everything is performance. By returning thinking to the performative mode, Wittgenstein was bringing to an end the centuries-long battle between philosophy and theatre. Giving up philosophy means acknowledging the superiority of theatre's way of doing things".
Another strong passage is Bate's discussion, focused on Measure for Measure, which looks at ambiguities of meaning and whether there can be either/or readings. One of the major figures in this debate in the 20th century was William Empson, still an undergraduate when he formulated his Seven Types of Ambiguity, who used his study in quantum theory to illuminate the truly human response to ambiguity, "Undecidability, as Empson perceived in that crucial passage of Seven Types, is a condition of nature, not a fallibility or predilection of the interpreting mind. In an aspectual world, Negative capability becomes comprehensible as a law rather than a mystery. The sonnets can be understood as both autobiographical and fictive, Hamlet can be seen as both iconic and elusive."
This isn't your standard biography of Shakespeare - point of fact, it isn't a biography at all. It's more of an attempt to explain: why Shakespeare? Why is he considered the ultimate literary genius? Why does he occupy an exalted position scarcely rivalled by anyone else in any other field, let alone literature? What is it about Shakespeare and his work that we esteem so highly? Why has Shakespeare survived and thrived? Why does Shakespeare continue to appeal not just to new generations but othe This isn't your standard biography of Shakespeare - point of fact, it isn't a biography at all. It's more of an attempt to explain: why Shakespeare? Why is he considered the ultimate literary genius? Why does he occupy an exalted position scarcely rivalled by anyone else in any other field, let alone literature? What is it about Shakespeare and his work that we esteem so highly? Why has Shakespeare survived and thrived? Why does Shakespeare continue to appeal not just to new generations but other countries and cultures as well?
One of the most interesting arguments Bate makes is on the very definition of the word 'genius'. Prior to Shakespeare the concept of 'genius' was more about a spirit, a personal unique spirit, and had nothing to do with creative endeavour and output and achievement at all. The gradual turning of the meaning to 'unparalleled and utterly unique brilliance' came about largely as a result of the need for some way to describe Shakespeare above all others.
"The Genius of Shakespeare" is written in distinctly dry prose, features unusual critiques of various Shakespearean characters and plays, and doesn't seem to be dense enough for the Shakespeare expert yet nor is it enlivening enough for the novice.
Conversely, Bate's analysis is intelligent and well-researched: how does one man go from citizen to great talent to idol of the Western world? Why must fools insist on denying Shakespeare's authorship of the plays, in the face of overwhelming evidence "The Genius of Shakespeare" is written in distinctly dry prose, features unusual critiques of various Shakespearean characters and plays, and doesn't seem to be dense enough for the Shakespeare expert yet nor is it enlivening enough for the novice.
This isn't a biography but is one of the best general introductions to Shakespeare and how we can think about his works that I have read. It would be perfect for both general popular readers and undergraduates, and takes an eminently – and refreshingly – sensible approach to issues such as the authorship controversy, canonicity, and 'global Shakespeare'.
The 'genius' of the title is itself a play on words since genius in Shakespeare's time meant not the transcendence that we give it but more a so This isn't a biography but is one of the best general introductions to Shakespeare and how we can think about his works that I have read. It would be perfect for both general popular readers and undergraduates, and takes an eminently – and refreshingly – sensible approach to issues such as the authorship controversy, canonicity, and 'global Shakespeare'.
The 'genius' of the title is itself a play on words since genius in Shakespeare's time meant not the transcendence that we give it but more a sort of characteristic disposition or natural character as taken from the Latin 'ingenium'.
Bate, then, offers a diverse, expansive and shrewd look at what Shakespeare means in the world. He unpicks the variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been received and appropriated as both the upholder of establishment values (e.g. by successive Tory governments) and as a liberal, possibly rebellious or unorthodox voice.
not really a scholarly monograph, but not pop history, either. If you've been away from Shakespeare as long as I have, this is a great way to situate him and his work. My favorite takeaways were 1. the discussion of the Romantic fallacy of reading Elizabethan sonnets as autobiographical, and 2. the work on ambiguity, or the simultaneous validity of contradictory readings. An enjoyable and educational read!
Clever, well researched and beautifully written, with one of the best refutations of the argument that Shakespeare did not, in fact, write Shakespeare. Interesting comparison with the prolific Lope de Vega, too. Excellent.
Professor Bate will probably be a familiar face, or voice, to anyone on the 'Shake-scene' in the UK. You can hear him participating in Shakespeare-themed episodes of BBC Radio's 'In Our Time', he heads a University of Warwick MOOC on 'Shakespeare and his World', and amongst his many written accomplishments, he edited the Arden third edition of Titus Andronicus.
This is such an engaging book. Because you don't read Shakespeare, he reads you'', we learn almost as much about Professor Bate as we d Professor Bate will probably be a familiar face, or voice, to anyone on the 'Shake-scene' in the UK. You can hear him participating in Shakespeare-themed episodes of BBC Radio's 'In Our Time', he heads a University of Warwick MOOC on 'Shakespeare and his World', and amongst his many written accomplishments, he edited the Arden third edition of Titus Andronicus.
This is such an engaging book. Because you don't read Shakespeare, he reads you'', we learn almost as much about Professor Bate as we do about Shakespeare. If you want to know what a modern Shakespeare scholar is like, you could do worse than start here.
In my readings of his works, Bate often 'proposes' things. Not out of diffidence - it comes across as polite, almost gentlemanly. So much better than the ponderous and condescending tones of MC Bradbrook or Frank Kermode ... in terms of what this tells us about Bate, I'd suggest that his mild-mannered speaking voice is matched by his general style. Whilst the other two authors obviously knew just as much, it's always more enjoyable to be spoken to, not at.
What else do we learn? Plenty, in the same way that regular readers of my blog will have assimilated plenty about me from my ongoing intertextual and cultural references. Bate speaks with real eloquence and enthusiasm about how artists like Fuseli, Berlioz and Verdi interpreted the plays. I came away a little awestruck, to be honest, by the range of his knowledge. Another highlight was the occasional cheeky modern politics. And he's persuasive, encouraging me (quite kindly) to set aside my innate prejudice against Lurhman's Romeo + Juliet and give it a fair chance as an interpretation to be watched, not the bane of a teacher's life.
Finally, I love the fact that he proposed another name for that coveted title of 'genius'. If you want to know who that might be, you'll have to read the book.
This book blew my mind when I first read it and its still the book I recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about Shakespeare. The first 5 chapters look at Shakespeare in the context of his contemporaries, the rest of the book looks at how we look at him ever since. Heavily researched but extremely readable.
I also have this book to thank for introducing me to Lope de Vega, another author who should be in the literature canon but because he wrote in Spanish, is not.
I read this book for one of my study units at University. However, it has proven to be a really great read, not only for university purposes but even for myself as a Shakespeare lover to get more insight on his works as well as many debates that have risen on the 'genius' of Shakespeare.
He could have gone further to Godel and Turing in the end.
Lovely book in so many ways. I really like the tragedies and he discussed them in the second to last chapter. So many ideas in this book. Lovely.
Scholarly and well-written, a very thorough introduction to all aspects of Shakespeare and Shakespeare scholarship.
Tough in places but entirely readable and informative making me want to take to the plays either for s first time or a return visit after the detailed consideration in his part two. Recommended.
"Shakespeare and Mozart are the archetypal Original Geniuses because the idea of original [unique, embodied:] genius emerged as a way of explaining the phenomenon of Shakespeare [long after his death:] and because Mozart appeared as a child prodigy at the precise historical moment -- the late eighteenth century -- when pure native endowment was becoming the vital test of true creative greatness. [. . . .:] It has been suggested that genius became a Romantic obsession because it was a conception "Shakespeare and Mozart are the archetypal Original Geniuses because the idea of original [unique, embodied:] genius emerged as a way of explaining the phenomenon of Shakespeare [long after his death:] and because Mozart appeared as a child prodigy at the precise historical moment -- the late eighteenth century -- when pure native endowment was becoming the vital test of true creative greatness. [. . . .:] It has been suggested that genius became a Romantic obsession because it was a conception that seemed to guarantee originality. [. . . . But, in line with Coleridge's idea of the poet's communality opposed to Wordsworth's of the poet's individuality:] by 'Shakespeare' we mean not an individual, but a body of work, and that body was, I argued in part one, shaped by many individuals -- by the dramatist's education and his precursors, by the actors of his company, by the audience without whom no play can be completed."
This is an amazing book. It is not a particularly easy read, and was not what I was anticipating (I was expecting a book that explored the techniques, art, humor of Shakespeare).
Mr Bate traces the history of Shakespeare in print, performance, and appreciation, through the ages. He explores how our sense of Shakespeare has changed over time, but also explores differences in interpretation of some of the plays and sonnets. The latter explorations were what I especially appreciated. The exploratio This is an amazing book. It is not a particularly easy read, and was not what I was anticipating (I was expecting a book that explored the techniques, art, humor of Shakespeare).
I'm one of those people who belongs in the 'really should know more about Shakespeare' category. Are you frustrated by all the allusions to and quotes from Shakespeare you read without knowing the context? That's me. So I picked up this book to help fill in my lack of knowledge about the Bard and his works. It really tells more about Shakespeare and his influence than it does about his sonnets and plays. There's a nice section on the foolishness of the 'who wrote Shakespeare's plays' crowd, and I'm one of those people who belongs in the 'really should know more about Shakespeare' category. Are you frustrated by all the allusions to and quotes from Shakespeare you read without knowing the context? That's me. So I picked up this book to help fill in my lack of knowledge about the Bard and his works. It really tells more about Shakespeare and his influence than it does about his sonnets and plays. There's a nice section on the foolishness of the 'who wrote Shakespeare's plays' crowd, and nice examinations of how Shakespeare has been interpreted in the 19th and 20th centuries. I have to admit that there were places where I skipped paragraphs, and even pages, but I don't hold that against the author. He was offering necessary detail for his arguments, and I simply had more general interests.
This is one of the better Shakespeare books on the market. I came to it having read Bate's book on John Clare previously and was pleased to join him on what is obviously his home territory. He makes the most comprehensive Stratfordian case I have read and is so convincing in his common-sense that you will come away wondering what all the fuss is about.
The history of the reception of Shakespeare is comprehensive and illuminating. At times it seems like there could not be anything new to say about This is one of the better Shakespeare books on the market. I came to it having read Bate's book on John Clare previously and was pleased to join him on what is obviously his home territory. He makes the most comprehensive Stratfordian case I have read and is so convincing in his common-sense that you will come away wondering what all the fuss is about.
The first half of this book was a page-turner. I didn't put it down. This was the portion that covered the actual documentary history of Shakespeare the man, as well as the authorship question, the influence of Marlowe, and Shakespeare the actor.
The second half, which dealt with Shakespeare's legacy, had high points and low points. From Shakespeare as England's national poet (dull) to Shakespeare's characters as icons of our culture (interesting).
Ran out of steam reading this. Traditionally evasive and esoteric for an academic's yet plenty of clarity in its interpretations and evaluations. Bate isn't swayed by one view. He considers and weighs up them all, however extreme they may be.
A nice little book that presents the overall influence that Shakespeare has had on our life and times.
A good, well-written resource: recommended.
To be or not to be...I have to return to this someday when I'm more in the mood for that Shakespeherian rag.
Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. A Man Booker Prize judge in 2014.
He studied at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. He has been King Alfred Professor of E Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. A Man Booker Prize judge in 2014.


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Sisak Children's Concentration Camp Memorial
Several memorials in the Croatian city of Sisak serve as reminders of the children's concentration camp in which the fascist Ustaša held about 7,000 children between 1942 and 1943. Over 1,100 children perished.
Sisak, 1942, Arrival of the first children's transport at the Sisak camp on August 3, JUSP Jasenovac
Sisak, 2006, Mass grave for children at the Viktorovac cemetery, Stiftung Denkmal, Stefan Dietrich
The city of Sisak lies about 50 kilometres south of Zagreb, half way between the Croatian capital and Jasenovac further in the south. In April 1941, the fascist Ustaša movement proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska) following the invasion of Yugoslavia by the German Wehrmacht and its allies. Already in the summer of 1941, several camps were established all over the country in which Serbs, Jews and Roma were interned by the Ustaša. The largest of these camps was located in Jasenovac. Beginning 1941, several collection and transit camps were set up in the area of Sisak.
In July 1942, the Ustaša established a collection camp for the elderly, for women and children in Sisak. The children were accommodated in a separate children's camp. From August 1942 on, children from other camps were also brought to Sisak, mainly from the Jasenovac camp. At the end of September 1942, there were about 4,700 children in the Sisak camp. The premises comprised several buildings including barracks, a primary school and a convent. Catholic nuns supervised the children, who were given insufficient clothing and food, many were completely neglected. At the beginning of January 1943, the Ustaša dismantled the camp and transported the children to Zagreb.
It is estimated that about 7,000 children passed through the camp between 1942 and 1943. At least 1,100 children died of illnesses and hunger. According to some sources, the number of fatalities may have exceeded 1,800.
Sisak, 1942, Children at the Sisak camp, JUSP Jasenovac
Sisak, 2006, Memorial plaque in the former school building, which was part of the camp, Stiftung Denkmal, Stefan Dietrich
Several monuments have been set up in Sisak in honour of the children who were held at the camp and those who perished here. In 1960, a memorial plaque was affixed to one of the former camp buildings. The plaque was stolen in 1991 and was later renewed. Not far from the building is a playground with a memorial plaque and a fountain with a sculpture depicting playing children. The fountain was designed by Gabriel Kolar and erected in 1964.
A further memorial site is located across the Viktorovac cemetery: 9 round stone slabs on the ground commemorate the children who were buried on-site in a mass grave. The stone slabs, designed by artist Mira Wenzler, were set up in 1974.
Sisak, 2006, Fountain in memory of the imprisoned children, Stiftung Denkmal, Stefan Dietrich
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One of the interesting parts of writing my novel, Bullets, Blood and Stones: the journey of a child soldier, has been doing the research. Travelling to Uganda on two occasions, interviewing former child soldiers and going on a safari in the Northern Savannah has provided me with loads of material. But there are times when I have to rely on that new fangled encyclopedic source of all knowledge: the internet.
- What does a dead body smell like after 3 days?
I chuckle at the thought of some police authority confiscating my computer and doing a history check. Just may set me up for some heavy interrogation in a room with a one way mirror.
I've tried out a few guns too, which makes my husband, son, and brother and nephew, who are all avid hunters, laugh. I could never kill anything in my life. But I have tried out an AK-47 in Uganda (Shh. Don't tell. Totally illegal.) And an SKS that my son somehow got a hold of, complete with bayonet for up close combat. And I have my sights set on going to the West Edmonton Mall someday and going to their indoor shooting range to try my hands on a PSA 7.5″ AR-15 w/Holosun Red Dot.
Guess what I'm trying to say is that if you're going to write about something, you need to do the research, and if it means going out of your comfort zone, then so be it. Besides, there's always some pretty interesting things that happen along the way. Like really amazing people and elephants and monkeys. Yes monkeys. But that's another story.
I really admire those soldiers. I cannot imagine my life being a soldier even if I do not have a family. I cannot accept tasks which I know that I will end up dying. Even learning on how to pull a trigger is very hard for me. At first, it was fun, I can feel the fighting spirit inside me that makes me look like a girl version of Liam Neeson. However, that sound of triggers really are traumatic for me. I cannot see dying people or even animals because of guns.


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Hodgson named in unchanged England side
England RL
Fri 6 Nov 2015, 02:12 PM
Canberra Raiders' Josh Hodgson has been named in an unchanged England side which takes on New Zealand in the second match of the 2015 International Series. New recruit Elliot Whitehead is also in the England team which will take the field at Queen Elizabeth Park, London. Fox Sports 1 will have a live broadcast of the game at 1.30am Sunday November 8.
England defeated New Zealand 26-12 in last week's opening international at KC Stadium, Hull, and victory on Saturday in the first-ever Rugby League match to be played at the home of the 2012 London Olympics will see the national side record their first series victory over southern hemisphere opposition since 2007 when Great Britain defeated the Kiwis three-nil.
"It's been a quick turnaround from our victory less than a week ago, and it's a pleasure to be representing our country in London in front of a near sell-out crowd," said McNamara.
"The team have recovered and trained well all week at our St George's Park base. There's a lot of hard work and improvement in front of us, and that had to start immediately after the game on Sunday. It's a three-match series and we find ourselves 1-0 up, which is good, but at the same time there's still a lot to be done.
"Aspects of our performance against New Zealand were good. We improved as the game wore on in certain areas. I do feel, though, that we left ourselves with too much to do at the start of the game. We need to put that right this weekend.
"We know what's at stake on Saturday. We cannot afford to get carried away. We will concentrate on the processes and ensuring our preparation is right. If we execute our plans, then we will be very hard to beat.
"For the sport it is fantastic to be playing at the Olympic Stadium. We hope to do ourselves proud again and the venue is fitting for a match like this. The game has come a long way in the last few years and to be the first Rugby League team to play at this iconic stadium is huge for us."
England 19-man squad to face New Zealand is as follows (professional club and community club in brackets):
John Bateman (Wigan Warriors, Bradford Dudley Hill)
Joe Burgess (Wigan Warriors, Ince Rose Bridge)
Thomas Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Dewsbury Moor)
Mike Cooper (St George Illawarra Dragons, Latchford Albion)
Leroy Cudjoe (Huddersfield Giants, Newsome Panthers)
Liam Farrell (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
Brett Ferres (Huddersfield Giants, Smawthorne Panthers)
James Graham (Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs, Blackbrook)
Ryan Hall (Leeds Rhinos, Oulton Raiders)
Zak Hardaker (Leeds Rhinos, Featherstone Lions)
Chris Hill (Warrington Wolves, New Spring Lions)
Josh Hodgson (Canberra Raiders, East Hull)
Sean O'Loughlin, captain (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
James Roby (St Helens, Blackbrook)
Kallum Watkins (Leeds Rhinos, Latchford Albion)
Ben Westwood (Warrington Wolves, Normanton Knights)
Elliott Whitehead (Catalans Dragons, West Bowling)
Gareth Widdop (St George Illawarra Dragons, King Cross)
George Williams (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
This story first appeared on England RL.


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Brian Lara: Cricket is a Dangerous Game
By James Franklin / Cricket / Comments
In the wake of a devastating injury to Australian Phil Hughes, West Indies legend Brian Lara insists the injury is a rare occurrence and hopes that there will be no major changes to the way fast pace bowling in delivered.
Yesterday Hughes was taken by ambulance to St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney after the incident on day one of the match; he was on the receiving end of a bouncer from Sean Abbott.
Hughes suffering a sickening blow to the head during the Sheffield Shield game between New South Wales and South Australia at the SCG.
At approximately 4.15pm hospital spokesman David Faktor had addressed the media and said Hughes was in surgery having arrived at the hospital on life support.
READ: David Sees Surrey Into Semis
And then at approximately 5.20pm, the hospital confirmed that Hughes was out of surgery and remained in a critical condition in the intensive care unit.
Phillip Hughes has undergone surgery and remains in a critical condition after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain.
While Brian Lara believes the injury Hughes received is a rare occurrence in cricket, he accepts that players face risks while at the crease and hopes there isn't major changes in the rules of fast bowling.
"It's very unfortunate, batsmen face all sorts of dangers, we can just pray for him," Lara said.
"I know all of Australia and all of the cricketing world are praying he comes back to play and to full health.
"I think it's a sport and you are always going to have that element of risk. This is an unfortunate and rare situation.
"I felt safe playing but there was that element of risk, I used to say a little prayer in the morning and just hope for the best."
Brian Lara feels the authorities have done their best to keep it as safe as possible while keeping the game competitive, he feels short-ball cricket is part of the fast bowlers game
"I think they've done their best over the years to curb it and manage it as best as possible," he added.
"But its part of a fast bowlers armoury and it's very hard to take that totally away from them.
"There are some batsmen who feed on that sort of attack and I don't really believe it's anything that should affect fast bowlers and the rules governing that."


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The next ESA Living Planet Symposium will take place from 23 to 27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany and is organised with the support of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
It will focus on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions.
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'Make better choices': Researchers beg endangered seals to not stick eels up nose
Facebook: Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program SOURCE: Facebook: Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program
Monk seal researchers in Hawaii are stumped after finding multiple seals with eels stuck up their nostrils. Officials with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program posted to Facebook about the odd occurrences stating they aren't sure why it's happening, but it hasn't stopped. The post, which has been shared more than 1,200 times, reads: "Mondays...it might not have been a good one for you, but it had to have been better than an eel in your nose. We have reported on this phenomenon before which was first noted a few years back. "We have now found juvenile seals with eels stuck in their noses on multiple occasions. In all cases the eel was successfully removed, and the seals were fine. The eels, however, did not make it. PC B. Dolan."The comments poked fun at the situation as well. One person wrote, "This is a gateway drug. For eel." Another said, "Glad to know the seal is now healthy and no longer eel!""It's just so shocking," Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. "It's an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose." The Washington Post reported Charles Littnan, one of the scientists, has been dealing with this issue for a couple of years, at least. He said one day he awoke to find an email with the subject, "Eel in nose." After pitching a couple of ideas, Littnan and the team decided to simply pull the eels out of the seal's nose, and it worked. "We have no idea why this is suddenly happening," Littnan said. "You see some very strange things if you watch nature long enough, and this could end up being one of these little oddities and mysteries of our careers that 40 years from now, we'll be retired and still questioning quite how this happened."But Littan told the Washington Post they are hoping the seals "make better choices."
Monk seal researchers in Hawaii are stumped after finding multiple seals with eels stuck up their nostrils.
Officials with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program posted to Facebook about the odd occurrences stating they aren't sure why it's happening, but it hasn't stopped.
The post, which has been shared more than 1,200 times, reads: "Mondays...it might not have been a good one for you, but it had to have been better than an eel in your nose. We have reported on this phenomenon before which was first noted a few years back.
"We have now found juvenile seals with eels stuck in their noses on multiple occasions. In all cases the eel was successfully removed, and the seals were fine. The eels, however, did not make it. PC B. Dolan."
The comments poked fun at the situation as well.
One person wrote, "This is a gateway drug. For eel."
Another said, "Glad to know the seal is now healthy and no longer eel!"
"It's just so shocking," Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. "It's an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose."
The Washington Post reported Charles Littnan, one of the scientists, has been dealing with this issue for a couple of years, at least. He said one day he awoke to find an email with the subject, "Eel in nose."
After pitching a couple of ideas, Littnan and the team decided to simply pull the eels out of the seal's nose, and it worked.
"We have no idea why this is suddenly happening," Littnan said. "You see some very strange things if you watch nature long enough, and this could end up being one of these little oddities and mysteries of our careers that 40 years from now, we'll be retired and still questioning quite how this happened."
But Littan told the Washington Post they are hoping the seals "make better choices."


Organisation not to be confused with a 'firm ' this is one of the most important skill in life, it keeps you focused, goal directed and stress free, if you're disorganised you can miss important meetings, child birthday or even forget where you've placed your chronic illness medications.
Have a timetable or a schedule to help you remember what things you need to do at a particular time or day.
Do things on time don't wait for the day to arrive(Procrastination), always have some sort of a reminder this can be your phone alarm or sticky notes placed on your wall.
Complete tasks in order of importance, and never try to do too many things at the sametime.


You may be asking: what in the bananas is a "Switch Turn"??? If you googled it, you'll find yourself in a land of electrical wall switches! No No No. Here, we are talking about a turn that is similar to the "Spot Turn" (which has a stroking leg action as you turn), but in the case of the "Switch Turn", you nail your toe in place while you turn. AND its real awesome-ness is that you get a huge amount of technique in your body by practicing it: Swivels, Walks, Side Walks, Forward Walk Turning, and more! Let's take a look at the do's and don'ts for this step… Fasten your dance belts, ladies and gentlemen!
1. Make sure your knees are straight when you land/ shift weight onto that leg.
2. Start the turn by swiveling on the ball of your foot and keeping your leg straight.
1. Keep contact with the floor using your big toes at all times (NOT the outside edge of the pinky toes).
3. Make sure you keep working your inner thighs forward/ heels forward, especially during the swivels.
As your left leg crosses over, Anchor your Right BIG toe on the floor the whole time.
As your right leg crosses over, Anchor your Left BIG toe on the floor the whole time.
1. Forward-weighted does not mean that your heels are off the floor.
2. Engage your core by imagining that you are pulling your abs into your spine.
3. Keep your pelvis strong by engaging your glutes. Check out these exercises for glute strengthening!
4. When you slouch, the tendency is to roll your weight into your heels. So, counter that by keeping your spine tall and stretched!
1. Keep your head stacked directly above your spine and your eyes looking forward.
2. Look in the direction your shoulders are facing.
3. Keep your eyeline straight ahead.
The best way to practice is to use our DanceInsanity.com videos, DUH! 😉 But another great way to practice is to video yourself before and after. Are you brave enough? I can only do so much via the web, that's why we have our Yups and Nopes so that you can train yourself to self correct with this method. Can you say, "I'm improving so fast, it's INSANE"? Yes you can!
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I just LOVE this website, your videos are absolutely amazing and super helpful. I'm sooo happy I found it 🙂 Any other tips or videos coming up on spins and turns?
You are amazing, I love your very helpflull moves, I get a chuckle & smile each time I watch them.
Hello Cozette! Thank YOU! We have fun putting these together. 🙂 Any questions, Or any steps you are interested in learning, give a shout! Hope you are doing great!


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The Adventures of Batman and Robin
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Play the role of the caped crusader or his trusty ally in this game based on the classic animated cartoon series – The Adventures of Batman and Robin! Puch bad guys, kick criminals, and throw your batarangs across the city in this side-scrolling action game.
The Adventures of Batman and Robin is a classic 1994 and 1995 side-scrolling action game based on the popular DC comics characters Batman and Robin. The game is specifically based on the animated cartoon series of Batman. Each level of the game consist of an episode that is based on the animated series. In this game, you must stop the criminals from robbing a bank, or spoil their plot in the amusement park, and so on.
Click inside the screen to activate controls.
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Carmike Cinemas today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Fathom Events to bring an enhanced and significantly expanded alternative programming offering to 150 Carmike locations in 31 states by the end of 2015. The initiative will encompass more than half of all Carmike locations and marks the single largest alternative programming deployment to date among major domestic movie theater operators. Carmike's expanded alternative program offering will bring guests notable sporting events, great performances and other unique entertainment from around the world, complementing Carmike's leading Hollywood studio movie slate through-out the year.
Along with the upcoming free Fathom Event offerings taking place in May, Carmike will screen the award-winning documentary, The American Nurse, by filmmaker Carolyn Jones and distributed by DigiNext. The film, which is a celebration of the nursing profession, will screen at select Carmike theaters during Nurse Appreciation Week. With strong support from local nursing groups and healthcare organizations, the movie is being presented locally in sponsorship by the Future of Nursing:Campaign for Action, a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP, together with the American Nurses Foundation. Additionally, 30 local high school students with an interest in pursuing nursing careers will be selected to receive complimentary passes to attend each of the screenings courtesy of Fresenius Kabi – the sponsor of The American Nurse Project, book and documentary.
Carmike expects to present approximately 200 special events a year at each of the participating cinemas. Carmike will begin the first phase of the rollout on May 13 with free admissions to introductory events including high-definition presentations of the ballet Swan Lake, the highly acclaimed Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, and the popular pop concert, Hall and Oates – Live in Dublin.
The agreement with Fathom Events represents the on-going focus by Carmike to remain the industry's leader in alternative programming. The Company recently created the Carmike Cinemas Alternative Programming and Distribution Division dedicated to curating and marketing new forms of in-theater entertainment, and has already brought several titles to audiences across the Company's circuit. In addition, Carmike's recent acquisition of Digiplex Destinations included a joint-venture partnership with DigiNext, a distributor of documentaries and independent films that takes titles from domestic theatrical release through worldwide digital downstream.


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Post date 10th June 2016
▋Buying a car is a hellish process. The reward for spending hours researching the right one is a trip to a local dealership — an experience that assaults the nerves in such a way that it's only rivaled by appointments with the dentist. But what if buying a car was easier than that? What if it was as easy as, say, a vending machine?
A few years ago, a company called Carvana followed in the footsteps of companies like CarMax by trying to move the car buying experience completely online. The process of purchasing a car on Carvana's website includes all the steps that normally take place at a dealership: getting approved for and selecting financing, selecting a warranty, and signing the contract.
This left customers with just one dealership interaction: choosing pickup or delivery. More often than not, Carvana customers were choosing pickup — so much so that a subsequent pickup store in Atlanta was a rousing success. Now, though, Carvana is adding some spice to that experience.
We knew that if [customers] chose to pick up the car we would save some money, and so we could invest that money in giving them a really, really great experience.
Ernie Garcia, Carvana CEO
The result? A five-story, fully-automatic vending machine building for cars just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It's like the automated car delivery experience offered by Volkswagen in Germany, except this one is coin-operated.
"The experience itself is exactly a vending machine experience," Garcia says. "The customer even gets a customized, oversized coin that they drop into a slot." The coin triggers a robotic arm, which goes up and grabs the car that the customer purchased online. When the car comes down, it's transferred to another robot that drives the car down a hallway and parks it in a bay, where the customer receives their purchase. After that, Garcia says, customers can be walked through the features on their car, or even take it for a test drive.
In fact, Garcia says the funds aren't actually transferred until the customer takes the final receipt of the car and drives it off the lot. And even when that happens, Carvana offers a seven-day, "no questions asked" return policy.
The bet is that the Carvana vending machine will be expensive up front, but inexpensive going forward. By employing fewer staff, leasing less acreage, and carrying fewer cars, Carvana drastically lowers the overhead. It also allows them to sell cars for up to $2,000 less than most dealerships.
Garcia's not sure sure whether the vending machine's customers will be local to Nashville or if they'll travel great distances for the experience — the company is offering $200 toward airfare and "white glove" service from the airport if they do — but he does sound confident that Carvana will eventually open up others around the country.
"I think it's going to be an incredible customer experience," Garcia says. "And I think if we've got the car that they're looking for, and we're selling it for $1,500 to $2,000 less, and we offer a purchase process that takes 20 minutes, and then you get to go to a vending machine and watch your car moonwalk to you? I think people are going to respond to that."
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use diem_config::network_id::{NetworkId, PeerNetworkId};
use diem_metrics::{
    register_histogram, register_histogram_vec, register_int_counter, register_int_counter_vec,
    register_int_gauge_vec, DurationHistogram, HistogramTimer, HistogramVec, IntCounter,
    IntCounterVec, IntGauge, IntGaugeVec,
};
use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
use short_hex_str::AsShortHexStr;
use std::time::Duration;

// Core mempool index labels
pub const PRIORITY_INDEX_LABEL: &str = "priority";
pub const EXPIRATION_TIME_INDEX_LABEL: &str = "expiration";
pub const SYSTEM_TTL_INDEX_LABEL: &str = "system_ttl";
pub const TIMELINE_INDEX_LABEL: &str = "timeline";
pub const PARKING_LOT_INDEX_LABEL: &str = "parking_lot";
pub const TRANSACTION_HASH_INDEX_LABEL: &str = "transaction_hash";

// Core mempool commit stages labels
pub const GET_BLOCK_STAGE_LABEL: &str = "get_block";
pub const COMMIT_ACCEPTED_LABEL: &str = "commit_accepted";
pub const COMMIT_REJECTED_LABEL: &str = "commit_rejected";

// Core mempool GC type labels
pub const GC_SYSTEM_TTL_LABEL: &str = "system_ttl";
pub const GC_CLIENT_EXP_LABEL: &str = "client_expiration";

// Core mempool GC txn status label
pub const GC_ACTIVE_TXN_LABEL: &str = "active";
pub const GC_PARKED_TXN_LABEL: &str = "parked";

// Mempool service request type labels
pub const GET_BLOCK_LABEL: &str = "get_block";
pub const COMMIT_STATE_SYNC_LABEL: &str = "commit_accepted";
pub const COMMIT_CONSENSUS_LABEL: &str = "commit_rejected";

// Mempool service request result labels
pub const REQUEST_FAIL_LABEL: &str = "fail";
pub const REQUEST_SUCCESS_LABEL: &str = "success";

// Process txn breakdown type labels
pub const FETCH_SEQ_NUM_LABEL: &str = "storage_fetch";
pub const VM_VALIDATION_LABEL: &str = "vm_validation";

// Txn process result labels
pub const CLIENT_LABEL: &str = "client";
pub const SUCCESS_LABEL: &str = "success";

// Bounded executor task labels
pub const CLIENT_EVENT_LABEL: &str = "client_event";
pub const CLIENT_EVENT_GET_TXN_LABEL: &str = "client_event_get_txn";
pub const RECONFIG_EVENT_LABEL: &str = "reconfig";
pub const PEER_BROADCAST_EVENT_LABEL: &str = "peer_broadcast";

// task spawn stage labels
pub const SPAWN_LABEL: &str = "spawn";
pub const START_LABEL: &str = "start";

// Mempool network msg failure type labels:
pub const BROADCAST_TXNS: &str = "broadcast_txns";
pub const ACK_TXNS: &str = "ack_txns";

// Broadcast/ACK type labels
pub const EXPIRED_BROADCAST_LABEL: &str = "expired";
pub const RETRY_BROADCAST_LABEL: &str = "retry";
pub const BACKPRESSURE_BROADCAST_LABEL: &str = "backpressure";

// ACK direction labels
pub const RECEIVED_LABEL: &str = "received";
pub const SENT_LABEL: &str = "sent";

// invalid ACK type labels
pub const INVALID_REQUEST_ID: &str = "invalid_req_id";
pub const UNKNOWN_PEER: &str = "unknown_peer";

/// Counter tracking size of various indices in core mempool
static CORE_MEMPOOL_INDEX_SIZE: Lazy<IntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_gauge_vec!(
        "diem_core_mempool_index_size",
        "Size of a core mempool index",
        &["index"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn core_mempool_index_size(label: &'static str, size: usize) {
    CORE_MEMPOOL_INDEX_SIZE
        .with_label_values(&[label])
        .set(size as i64)
}

/// Counter tracking number of txns removed from core mempool
pub static CORE_MEMPOOL_REMOVED_TXNS: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter!(
        "diem_core_mempool_removed_txns_count",
        "Number of txns removed from core mempool"
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter tracking latency of txns reaching various stages in committing
/// (e.g. time from txn entering core mempool to being pulled in consensus block)
pub static CORE_MEMPOOL_TXN_COMMIT_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_core_mempool_txn_commit_latency",
        "Latency of txn reaching various stages in core mempool after insertion",
        &["stage"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter for number of periodic garbage-collection (=GC) events that happen, regardless of
/// how many txns were actually cleaned up in this GC event
pub static CORE_MEMPOOL_GC_EVENT_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_core_mempool_gc_event_count",
        "Number of times the periodic garbage-collection event occurs, regardless of how many txns were actually removed",
        &["type"])
       .unwrap()
});

/// Counter tracking time for how long a transaction stayed in core-mempool before being garbage-collected
pub static CORE_MEMPOOL_GC_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_core_mempool_gc_latency",
        "How long a transaction stayed in core mempool before garbage-collected",
        &["type", "status"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter of pending network events to Mempool
pub static PENDING_MEMPOOL_NETWORK_EVENTS: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "mempool_pending_network_events",
        "Counters(queued,dequeued,dropped) related to pending network notifications to Mempool",
        &["state"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter of number of txns processed in each consensus/state sync message
/// (e.g. # txns in block pulled by consensus, # txns committed from state sync)
static MEMPOOL_SERVICE_TXNS: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_service_transactions",
        "Number of transactions handled in one request/response between mempool and consensus/state sync",
        &["type"]
    )
        .unwrap()
});

pub fn mempool_service_transactions(label: &'static str, num: usize) {
    MEMPOOL_SERVICE_TXNS
        .with_label_values(&[label])
        .observe(num as f64)
}

/// Counter for tracking latency of mempool processing requests from consensus/state sync
/// A 'fail' result means the mempool's callback response to consensus/state sync failed.
static MEMPOOL_SERVICE_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_service_latency_ms",
        "Latency of mempool processing request from consensus/state sync",
        &["type", "result"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn mempool_service_latency(label: &'static str, result: &str, duration: Duration) {
    MEMPOOL_SERVICE_LATENCY
        .with_label_values(&[label, result])
        .observe(duration.as_secs_f64());
}

/// Counter for types of network messages received by shared mempool
static SHARED_MEMPOOL_EVENTS: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_events",
        "Number of network events received by shared mempool",
        &["event"] // type of event: "new_peer", "lost_peer", "message"
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn shared_mempool_event_inc(event: &'static str) {
    SHARED_MEMPOOL_EVENTS.with_label_values(&[event]).inc();
}

/// Counter for tracking e2e latency for mempool to process txn submission requests from clients and peers
static PROCESS_TXN_SUBMISSION_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_request_latency",
        "Latency of mempool processing txn submission requests",
        &["network"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn process_txn_submit_latency_timer(network_id: NetworkId) -> HistogramTimer {
    PROCESS_TXN_SUBMISSION_LATENCY
        .with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str()])
        .start_timer()
}

pub fn process_txn_submit_latency_timer_client() -> HistogramTimer {
    PROCESS_TXN_SUBMISSION_LATENCY
        .with_label_values(&[CLIENT_LABEL])
        .start_timer()
}

/// Counter for tracking e2e latency for mempool to process get txn by hash requests from clients and peers
static PROCESS_GET_TXN_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_get_txn_request_latency",
        "Latency of mempool processing get txn by hash requests",
        &["network"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn process_get_txn_latency_timer_client() -> HistogramTimer {
    PROCESS_GET_TXN_LATENCY
        .with_label_values(&[CLIENT_LABEL])
        .start_timer()
}

/// Tracks latency of different stages of txn processing (e.g. vm validation, storage read)
pub static PROCESS_TXN_BREAKDOWN_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_process_txn_breakdown_latency",
        "Latency of different stages of processing txns in mempool",
        &["portion"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter for tracking latency for mempool to broadcast to a peer
static SHARED_MEMPOOL_BROADCAST_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_broadcast_latency",
        "Latency of mempool executing broadcast to another peer",
        &["network"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn shared_mempool_broadcast_latency(network_id: NetworkId, latency: Duration) {
    SHARED_MEMPOOL_BROADCAST_LATENCY
        .with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str()])
        .observe(latency.as_secs_f64());
}

/// Counter for tracking roundtrip-time from sending a broadcast to receiving ACK for that broadcast
pub static SHARED_MEMPOOL_BROADCAST_RTT: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_broadcast_roundtrip_latency",
        "Time elapsed between sending a broadcast and receiving an ACK for that broadcast",
        &["network"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter tracking number of mempool broadcasts that have not been ACK'ed for
static SHARED_MEMPOOL_PENDING_BROADCASTS_COUNT: Lazy<IntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_gauge_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_pending_broadcasts_count",
        "Number of mempool broadcasts not ACK'ed for yet",
        &["network", "recipient"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn shared_mempool_pending_broadcasts(peer: &PeerNetworkId) -> IntGauge {
    SHARED_MEMPOOL_PENDING_BROADCASTS_COUNT.with_label_values(&[
        peer.network_id().as_str(),
        peer.peer_id().short_str().as_str(),
    ])
}

static SHARED_MEMPOOL_TRANSACTIONS_PROCESSED: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_transactions_processed",
        "Number of transactions received and handled by shared mempool",
        &[
            "status", // state of transaction processing: "received", "success", status code from failed txn processing
            "network", // state of transaction processing: "received", "success", status code from failed txn processing
        ]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn shared_mempool_transactions_processed_inc(status: &str, network: &str) {
    SHARED_MEMPOOL_TRANSACTIONS_PROCESSED
        .with_label_values(&[status, network])
        .inc();
}

/// Counter for number of transactions in each mempool broadcast sent
static SHARED_MEMPOOL_TRANSACTION_BROADCAST_SIZE: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_transaction_broadcast",
        "Number of transactions in each mempool broadcast sent",
        &["network"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn shared_mempool_broadcast_size(network_id: NetworkId, num_txns: usize) {
    SHARED_MEMPOOL_TRANSACTION_BROADCAST_SIZE
        .with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str()])
        .observe(num_txns as f64);
}

static SHARED_MEMPOOL_BROADCAST_TYPE_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_rebroadcast_count",
        "Number of various types of broadcasts executed by shared mempool",
        &["network", "type"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn shared_mempool_broadcast_type_inc(network_id: NetworkId, label: &str) {
    SHARED_MEMPOOL_BROADCAST_TYPE_COUNT
        .with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str(), label])
        .inc();
}

static SHARED_MEMPOOL_ACK_TYPE_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_shared_mempool_ack_count",
        "Number of various types of ACKs sent/received by shared mempool",
        &["network", "direction", "type"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn shared_mempool_ack_inc(network_id: NetworkId, direction: &str, label: &'static str) {
    SHARED_MEMPOOL_ACK_TYPE_COUNT
        .with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str(), direction, label])
        .inc();
}

static TASK_SPAWN_LATENCY: Lazy<HistogramVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_histogram_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_bounded_executor_spawn_latency",
        "Time it takes for mempool's coordinator to spawn async tasks",
        &["task", "stage"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn task_spawn_latency_timer(task: &'static str, stage: &'static str) -> HistogramTimer {
    TASK_SPAWN_LATENCY
        .with_label_values(&[task, stage])
        .start_timer()
}

pub static CORE_MEMPOOL_INVARIANT_VIOLATION_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter!(
        "diem_mempool_core_mempool_invariant_violated_count",
        "Number of times a core mempool invariant was violated"
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub static VM_RECONFIG_UPDATE_FAIL_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter!(
        "diem_mempool_vm_reconfig_update_fail_count",
        "Number of times mempool's VM reconfig update failed"
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter for failed Diem network sends
static NETWORK_SEND_FAIL: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_network_send_fail_count",
        "Number of times mempool network send failure occurs",
        &["type"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn network_send_fail_inc(label: &'static str) {
    NETWORK_SEND_FAIL.with_label_values(&[label]).inc();
}

static UNEXPECTED_NETWORK_MSG_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_unexpected_network_count",
        "Number of unexpected network msgs received",
        &["network"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn unexpected_msg_count_inc(network_id: &NetworkId) {
    UNEXPECTED_NETWORK_MSG_COUNT
        .with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str()])
        .inc();
}

/// Counter for failed callback response to JSON RPC
pub static CLIENT_CALLBACK_FAIL: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter!(
        "diem_mempool_json_rpc_callback_fail_count",
        "Number of times callback to JSON RPC failed in mempool"
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter for how many ACKs were received with an invalid request_id that this node's mempool
/// did not send
static INVALID_ACK_RECEIVED_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_unrecognized_ack_received_count",
        "Number of ACK messages received with an invalid request_id that this node's mempool did not send",
        &["network", "type"]
    )
        .unwrap()
});

pub fn invalid_ack_inc(network_id: NetworkId, label: &'static str) {
    INVALID_ACK_RECEIVED_COUNT
        .with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str(), label])
        .inc();
}

/// Counter for number of times a DB read resulted in error
pub static DB_ERROR: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter!(
        "diem_mempool_db_error_count",
        "Number of times a DB read error was encountered in mempool"
    )
    .unwrap()
});

/// Counter for the current number of active upstream peers mempool can
/// broadcast to, summed across each of its networks
static ACTIVE_UPSTREAM_PEERS_COUNT: Lazy<IntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_gauge_vec!(
        "diem_mempool_active_upstream_peers_count",
        "Number of active upstream peers for the node of this mempool",
        &["network"]
    )
    .unwrap()
});

pub fn active_upstream_peers(network_id: &NetworkId) -> IntGauge {
    ACTIVE_UPSTREAM_PEERS_COUNT.with_label_values(&[network_id.as_str()])
}

/// Duration of each run of the event loop.
pub static MAIN_LOOP: Lazy<DurationHistogram> = Lazy::new(|| {
    DurationHistogram::new(
        register_histogram!(
            "diem_mempool_main_loop",
            "Duration of the each run of the event loop"
        )
        .unwrap(),
    )
});

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Posts tagged "freedom of conscience"
So here's a new project I've started. #ouldisms Pithy sayings from yours truly, for better or worse. Stimulated by whatever I'm thinking about at the time. Free. To you all 🙂 Here's the first.


I have been busy today. So I didn't have enough time to clear my heads. So I want to ask you one question.
I know that you started to to church because your parents go. You didn't have a viable choice.
But, what if you had? Would you go to church and seek God?
What about when you leave home and live by yourself? When you go to college? Would you go to service every Sunday?
Tomorrow, I will share why I believe in God.
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In 1996, id software released Quake. It was full 3D, fast paced, and quickly became my preteen obsession.
Bush – Sixteen Stone was in the disc tray when I discovered that Quake would play my music instead of Trent Reznor's soundtrack. The game had secret items, secret levels, dark castles, gruesome dungeons, and lava filled hellscapes. There was so much intrigue, so many undiscovered secrets, so much challenge – it consumed all of my free time. Finding out that it played my own music during the game was super exciting. But what really became exciting was the new ways I would find to customize the game.
I had downloaded DOOM WADs before – custom levels or artwork that modified the game – but Quake was the first to capture my imagination. People had made mods that added all new gameplay. Capture the flag was my favorite, though Team Fortress was also another favorite. These mods were way beyond any simple DOOM level. Capture the flag had a grappling hook, and it was amazing. There wasn't anything more fun than zipping all around the stage with my grappling hook to make daring flag captures.
Soon it wasn't enough to just download and play other people's mods. I had to make my own.
Knowing nothing of programming, I downloaded the files I needed to make mods.
After learning how to compile the source. I dug into the code. First stop, the weapons! You could change the spread of the shotgun, you could change the number of pellets, you could make the rocket launcher explode more, you could make enemies explode when you shot them, you could make your backup melee weapon kill any boss in one hit.


This supporting player of theater, TV and film is best known for his portrayal of Laura Palmer's murderous father on David Lynch's cult series "Twin Peaks" (ABC, 1990-91) and in its feature incarnation, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" (1992). Wise got his professional start onstage, in such plays as "The Subject was Roses" and Sam Shepard's "The Tooth of Crime" (for which he won an OBIE in 1983), and toured in various classics ("Romeo and Juliet," "Tartuffe").
Wise played Jamie Rollins on the CBS soap "Love of Life," and made his TV-movie debut in a 1978 PBS version of "Tartuffe." Not all of his follow-ups were quite as intellectual; they included "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II" (ABC, 1980), the remake of "Madame X," with Tuesday Weld (NBC, 1981), and the thriller "Seduced" (CBS, 1985). Wise had his first starring role--as an international agent--in "Condor" (ABC, 1986), and co-starred in "The Taking of Flight 487" (NBC, 1988).
Wise's TV roles also include supporting roles in the comedy "The Secret Life of Archie's Wife" (CBS, 1990), "Fire in the Dark" (CBS, 1991), "The Secrets of Lake Success" (NBC, 1993), and the series "Savannah" (The WB, 1996-97). In the 1995 miniseries "Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story" (NBC), Wise was Husband Number 3, Mike Todd, opposite former "Twin Peaks" co-star Sherilyn Fenn as Taylor. He also made guest appearances on "Dallas," "The Colbys," "Knott's Landing" and "Moonlighting."
Wise made his big-screen debut as the scientist who creates Wes Craven's "Swamp Thing" (1982). He had good roles as Natty's dad in "The Journey of Natty Gann" (1985), "Robocop" (1987), as a creepy patriarch in the dark "Season of Fear" (1989) and in the sports drama "Race for Glory" (1989). After his stay in Twin Peaks, Wise demonstrated a flair for comedy as political P.R. spin doctor Chet MacGregor in Tim Robbins' "Bob Roberts" (1992). He has been busy in recent years, playing a senator in "Rising Sun" (1993), Kristy Swanson's wealthy dad in the crime comedy "The Chase" (1994) and a school official in "Powder" (1995). Wise then spent time slipping between series television--with countless guest appearances on top shows and regular and recurring roles on the brief lived nighttime soap "Savannah" (1996-1997), "Resurrection Blvd" (2000-2002)--and films--including the relationship comedy "Two Can Play That Game" (2001) and as the elading man in the thriller "Dead End" (2003)--and even video games--as President Michael Dugan, a recurring character in the "Command & Conquer" series.
Wise's visibility in the youth market got a goose when he appearedas the obligatory adult in the teen-oriented horror sequel "Jeepers Creepers 2" (2003) and as Amy Smart's eclectic father in the second "Project Greenlight" feature, "The Battle of Shaker Heights" (2003), a role tailored expressly for him by his friends, directors Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin.
Co-starred in the summer horror feature, "Jeppers Creepers 2"
Feature acting debut, "Swamp Thing"
Was a regular on the Showtime series, "Resurrection Blvd"
Cast as the Devil in the The CW series, "Reaper"
Featured in the romantic comedy, "Two Can Play That Game"
Played attorney Jamie Rollins on the soap opera, "Love of Life"
Played Judge Stinson on the short-lived CBS series, "Second Chances"
Played Vice President Hal Gardner on the Fox series, "24"
Cast in the emotionally touching drama, "Powder"
Played CBS news anchor, Don Hollenbeck, in George Clooney's "Goodnight, and Good Luck"
Portrayed US Secretary of State in the prequel to the "X-Men" film series, "X-Men: First Class"
Wise plays catcher on a Burbank fast-pitch softball team.
Julie Burr. Engaged in the 1970s; no longer together.
Kass McClaskey. TV commercial producer.
Gannon McClaskey-Wise. Born on December 26, 1984.
Kyna McClaskey-Wise. Born on August 22, 1987.


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The Monnit Wi-Fi Magnetic Presence Sensor can be used to detect the presence of a magnetic source. Place a magnet strip on a motor or machinery to measure movement and placement. An integrated 802.11 b/g radio transmitter allows the device to be easily programmed to work with any existing Wi-Fi network.
Tell if a door or window has been opened or closed.


Repair something through 3D printing, win prizes. We're looking for replacement parts, tools, and custom jigs that get the job done!
This contest was created on 01/12/2018 and last updated a year ago.
Welcome to Hackaday's Repairs You Can Print Contest. We want to see the best repair jobs you've done using 3D printed parts, jigs, or tools.
People often show off trinkets, toys, and baubles that they print, while forgetting to share the real work horse projects: repairs that get the job done. Have you ever printed a replacement part, improved an existing part to provide better functionality, or designed a tool or jig that made a tough repair a snap? We want to hear about it and we have some sweet prizes for those who show off the coolest repair jobs.
The top 20 projects will be rewarded with $100 Tindie Credit!
Each of these prizes is about $1500 in state-of-the-art desktop printing. The multimaterial upgrade lets you print with up to four filaments at once to use different colors or types of filament without any manual changing along the way.
Students must be currently enrolled in school, and be able to prove it if you win. The Organization prize is reserved for educational or social organizations like Hacker Spaces, FIRST Robotics Clubs, tool lending libraries, etc. You must specify in your project that you want to be considered for the Student Prize or for the Organization Prize.
How well did the repair work?
Was 3D printing a better solution than just buying a part?
How well is the project documented? Was design of the 3D printed parts explained thoroughly enough to serve as a guide for similar repairs?
Is the project open source? Could the work be replicated based on the documentation?
Contest runs 8AM PST Tuesday, January 16th, 2018 through 12PM PST Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 (here is a handy count down timer).
The project must be significantly different from when previously entered. Show what makes it unique for this contest.
Hackaday Staff, Employees of Supplyframe, Judges or the family of any of the preceding are not eligible to take part in this contest. Everyone is still encouraged to build awesome stuff and show it off.
Eligibility for Best Student Entry: Students 13 years of age or older, who are currently enrolled in school and specify at the top of their project that they are interested in being considered for Best Student Entry are eligible to win.
A short and simple fix to make all the difference in a daily tool.
The broken part was no longer available since Pontiac is no longer in business.
^That would be nice to know. I looked at previous contests to see where the winner was posted, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere, at least anywhere easy to find.
The last contest (coin cell) ended on Jan 8 and winners were announced a week later on the 15th.
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A few people lately have checked in to see where we're at; have we heard back from yellow building, have we got a place or are we still doing a cafe at all anymore!? Well, let me fill you in and bring you up to speed as to where we're at.
Jack and I are in this pretty terrifying place where we actually have a space to build Wildflower; we have solicitors preparing a lease, we have council applications going through and we have equipment contracts ready to be signed. Which leaves the two of us feeling like we're standing at the edge of a cliff; looking at where we're headed but having no idea what the next couple of weeks is going to hold; no preparation or research could prepare us for the plunge. Up until now, despite a serious hit to our ego, we've had an easy-out .. but once the contracts are signed and we're in and ready – there's no going back!!