Here is a new one. You can calculate the digits of Pi Day using elastic collisions between two objects of different masses and a wall. Let me explain with this diagram.
Now for the pi part. If you know that the mass of ball A is 100 times greater than that of ball B, there will be 31 collisions. If the ratio of masses is 10,000 to 1, there will be 314 collisions. Yes, that is the first 3 digits of Pi Day. If you had a mass ratio of 1 million to 1, you would get 3,141 collisions. (Remember the first few digits of pi are 3.1415 …) In general, if you want "d" digits of pi, then you need mass A divided by mass B to be 100 raised to the d-1 power.
This is not a very efficient method for calculating the digits of pi, but it seems to work. Here is a great video from 3Brown1Blue that explains this situation. Also, here is an older video from Numberphile that also goes over this problem.
This is crazy awesome. I don't even understand how it works. But that's not why I'm here. Instead, I am going to show you how to model this phenomenon with a numerical calculation. It's going to be fun.
I guess the first thing to address is: What the heck is an elastic collision? There are really two things to consider in a collision. There is the momentum of the objects, where momentum is the product of mass and velocity. If there are no external forces on the two objects colliding (or the collision happens over a very short time frame), the total vector momentum of the objects before the collision is equal to the momentum after the collision. We call this conservation of momentum.
The other quantity to consider in a collision is the kinetic energy. Like momentum, this also depends on the mass and velocity of the object. But there are two important differences. First, the kinetic energy is proportional to the product of mass and the velocity squared. Second, momentum is a vector and thus has direction, but kinetic energy is a scalar with no direction.
In most collisions, momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is not. However, in special collisions called elastic collisions, both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved. These are the collisions we need to calculate Pi Day.
Although it is indeed possible to use momentum and kinetic energy to find out how many times two balls collide, I'm not going to do that. Instead, I am going to do this as a numerical model. In a numerical model, you make some basic calculations and then just break the problem into a bunch of tiny steps. In this case, the tiny steps will be short time intervals over which I assume stuff is constant. Trust me, this works.
But how do you model a collision? One way is to pretend that the balls have springs inside them (which isn't completely wrong). If the radius of two balls overlap, there will be a spring force pushing them apart. The magnitude of this spring force is proportional to the amount the two objects overlap. Because this spring force will be the only force acting on the two objects, momentum will be conserved. And because the energy stored in the spring has no energy losses, kinetic energy will also be conserved. It's a perfectly elastic collision.
What about the collision with the wall? In that case, it's just like the collision between two balls but with one difference. I don't let the wall change its position or momentum—you know … because it's a wall.
Now for the numerical calculation. Here is a collision between two balls with a 100 mass ratio. If you want to run it again, just click the Play button. If you want to see and edit the code, click the Pencil.
It works. There are 31 collisions in this model—which are the first two digits of pi. What if you want three digits? You can try changing the masses, but it doesn't work. The problem is that when the large mass gets very close to the wall with the small mass in between them, things don't happen the way you intend. You can actually get the small mass interacting with both the wall and the big mass at the same time. Although this is realistic, it doesn't give us the best calculation of pi.
So, how do you fix it? I have a couple of options (and you can try this as your homework assignment). The first method would be to fix this numerical spring-based model. I think that if you change the time step (dt) and the spring constant (k) as the balls collide, you can get a better answer. Here's what you would do. As the balls get closer together, make a smaller time step and a larger spring constant. This would make the ball–ball collision more accurate in the cases where the smaller ball is getting crushed.
The next option is to just abandon the spring-based collision model. Instead, you could calculate the velocities of the balls analytically after each collision. Surprisingly, a one-dimensional, perfectly elastic collision isn't such a simple problem to solve. But don't worry, I did it for you and covered all the details. I even made a python function that takes the two objects with the starting velocities and returns the velocities after the collision. Yes, I really gave you a head start on this last problem. Maybe I will save this for next year's Pi Day.


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The quick method is to check the settings, under Mobile Settings, turn "Download only when Wi-Fi is available" to off, then adjust the slider for "Photos – Auto Purge Days" to somewhere between 4-7 days. Go to the Authentication page and click on Authenticate again. This will refresh your app and hopefully resolve some of those slow issues. Fully closing the app and re-opening will also help on refreshing it.
A more detailed method is to log into your account on jagerprowireless.com, click on any photo for your camera and it will bring up a collage of your photos, 64 photos per page. You can check each individual picture or choose "Select All" from the options on the right. There is also a "Select None" or "View Slide Show" button. I find it easier to start on the last page and work my way to the first page. Once you have selected your photo(s), you can choose from the other options, Request High Res, Download to Zip or Delete Photo(s). If you want to save the photos prior to deleting them, then choose the Download to Zip option, otherwise choose Delete Photo(s). Then click on the GO button. Repeat this process for the other pages until all your photos have been cleared out. Photos are only saved for 30 days on the website before being auto purged.
Once the photos from the website have been cleared out, the next step is to remove the app from your phone. For the iPhone, you will want to go to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage > Jager Pro app, then click the button "Delete App". Once removed, go back into your App Store and search for Jager Pro Wireless. Click on the download app and re-install the app.
For the Android, you will want to go to Settings > Application Manager > Jager Pro app > and click on Uninstall. Once removed, go back into the Google Play store and search for Jager Pro Wireless. Click on the download app and re-install the app.
Once the app is re-installed you will have to re-add your credentials back into the system. Add in your Account ID and Access Code, this can be found under your account on jagerprowireless > My Cameras > Mobile Access. Once they are inserted, click on Save then on Authenticate. Now you will want to adjust the settings to keep everything cleaned up. Under Mobile Settings, turn "Download only when Wi-Fi is available" to off, then adjust the slider for "Photos – Auto Purge Days" to somewhere between 4-7 days. This way you will receive photos while away from home or when you're not near a Wi-Fi hotspot and the app will automatically delete photos older than the days you specified.
If your app stops downloading on a specific photo, delete any photos off your account on jagerprowireless. It is best to find the one before and after the photo it is locked on and delete those ones first. If you have any photos with an X next to them, you will need to delete all those photos. Once complete, you will need to open your app, go to Authentication and tap on "Authenticate". This will update your app and you will start receiving photos again.
Now your photos will be coming in again and you shouldn't have to go through this process again but it is still recommended that you occasionally delete the photos from the server to keep everything running smoothly.
Another note to remember is that even though you deleted the photos from the website and mobile app, they are still available on the SD card from your camera.


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Recently, a longtime DoL reader emailed to ask whether the Trump administration had made my life as a constitutional scholar more interesting. Yes, I replied, but I added that I would gladly accept some boredom in my professional life in exchange for more sanity as a citizen. Yet I may be suffering from the worst of both.
Trump serves us up a constant barrage of crisis-threatening legal questions that have gone unanswered by the courts because no one had previously tested these particular limits. Can a president pardon himself? Can a sitting president be indicted? Can the president forbid the dissemination of a special prosecutor's report on bogus national security grounds?
Some of Trump's greatest outrages lead to litigation, and some of that litigation eventually reaches the Supreme Court, as the Travel Ban eventually did. But here we are two years into this execrable presidency, while disputes over most of his rage-tweet-inspired policies either languish in the lower courts or do not give rise to litigation at all. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court busies itself with cases that may be very important to the litigants and may present questions of systemic importance in various sub-categories of American life and law, but that are . . . well . . . boring.
Consider the questions presented in the two oral arguments that will occur today. In Thacker v. TVA, the Court will consider:
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit erred by using a "discretionary-function exception" derived from the Federal Tort Claims Act, from which the Supreme Court generally has declined to borrow rules, instead of the test set forth in Federal Housing Authority v. Burr when testing the immunity of governmental "sue and be sued" entities (like the Tennessee Valley Authority), to immunize the Tennessee Valley Authority from the plaintiffs' claims.
Then, in Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., the justices will devote their considerable jurisprudential prowess to considering:
Whether the Copyright Act's allowance of "full costs," 17 U.S.C. § 505, to a prevailing party is limited to taxable costs under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1920 and 1821, as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 8th and 11th Circuits have held, or whether the act also authorizes non-taxable costs, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held.
If you're still awake, and if you can follow those questions, I defy you to explain what these cases involve to a person of ordinary intelligence who lacks a law degree. (Here are the efforts of, respectively, Greg Sisk and Ron Mann, who preview the cases for lawyers, not laypeople). Not all of the eight cases in which the Court granted review on Friday are equally impenetrable, but they are all fairly unimportant.
My claim that much of the current Supreme Court docket is boring is descriptive, not normative, but it may have some implications. Here I'll list a few:
(1) Among constitutional courts of last resort, the SCOTUS is unusual (though not unique) in combining jurisdiction over ordinary, low-stakes, litigation with jurisdiction over high-stakes constitutional cases. I suspect that--but have not undertaken a comprehensive study of the question whether--this kind of combination inclines a court towards at least lip service to and perhaps even observance of norms against judicial overreaching. If you spend more than 80% of your time working on cases that seem to call for the application of relatively technical doctrines and methods, you will come to regard that methodology as "normal," feeling somewhat untethered when you address the occasional high-stakes ideologically-riven case. If that's true, then one would expect more "judicial restraint" (scare quotes to indicate that the term's meaning is contested) from a court with mixed jurisdiction than from a court with an exclusively constitutional docket.
(2) As a matter of institutional design, there are tradeoffs between the two basic designs. One concerns the backgrounds of the personnel with which you'll staff your court. A US-style Supreme Court will need to be staffed by justices who are lawyers, because most of what they do is lawyers' work. By contrast, a constitutional court with exclusively high-stakes constitutional-style cases could include some jurists who were chiefly politicians, or philosophers, or economists, or something else before being placed on the constitutional court.
(3) The sorts of credentials needed for a constitutional court in turn could have an impact on the selection process. Other things being equal, a court that includes politicians and other non-lawyers will be seen as more inherently "political," meaning that the selection process can be more honest. In the US, presidents and senators (more or less) screen for professional qualifications but then make key decisions based on ideology, all the while maintaining the pretense that they are not looking at ideology. Republican presidents and senators are more likely to maintain this pretense, because their key judicial ideology--textualism in statutory cases and originalism in constitutional ones--is built on the (mostly false) claim of ideological neutrality. But nominees of all ideological stripes adhere to the neutrality script, meaning that our confirmation process is a dishonest farce, even in the best of circumstances.
(4) Nonetheless, the tail shouldn't wag the dog here. Dishonest farcical hearings every few years might be an acceptable price to pay if we thought it produced a better court, all things considered. So my hypothetical constitution writer probably shouldn't pay too much attention to the impact on the selection process in deciding between a mixed-jurisdiction court and an exclusively constitutional court.
(5) Finally, and unrelated to matters of institutional design, I have some sense that the Court is deliberately lying low for this Term, with the newly reinforced conservative wing hoping that memories of the acrimonious Kavanaugh confirmation hearing fade and that they can temporarily avoid any direct confrontations with Trump or the need to validate any of his more controversial policies. But even if I'm right, I don't expect that low profile to last very long. The Court will be interesting again, and probably sometime soon. Not that I (speaking as a citizen) want interesting from this Court.
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With winter comes and goes; now it is time for summer.
Though Thailand is known throughout the world for its tropical climate which is hot and humid all year round, you are recommended to experience the amazing summer holidays here. As many exciting events and festivals are usually held during this long summer period of Thailand. The most popular festival during summer is the Thai New Year, as known as Songkran Festival, which is annually held on 13 - 15 April. It's the festival which people, not only Thai but also foreign travelers, enjoy splashing water to each other on every Thailand's street corner.
Pattaya, a truly desirable place for beach vacation holidays in Thailand, is one of the most visited during summer time. With about an hour away from Bangkok lies the ultimate tourist destination one can ever ask for. Pattaya offers a vast selection of ideal summer joy element: sea, sand, sun, beach, nightlife, water sports, fresh seafood, walking street, and more. Pattaya, like no other, celebrates its own Songkran fesitval a week later than the rest of Thailand. Pattaya's Songkran festival will be held on 18 - 20 April this year. Don't miss this perfect opportunity to discover Pattaya summer & Songkran holidays experience and many exciting activities along the Pattaya's beautiful beaches.
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Thousands of years ago, Abenaki people relied on nature to survive, making clothing and building shelters from natural materials. Their food came from hunting, gathering, and fishing so knowing all about the natural world was very important. Come listen to Native American stories, play traditional games, make a craft and imagine daily life before roads, stores, and electricity.
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(Orlando, FL – April 2017) Now in its 24th year, the Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition – the longest-running award program of its kind – is proud to announce six outstanding projects that wholly represent the competition's goal of honoring the admirable use of Italian tile in North American architecture and design. Sponsored by Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Agency, the competition attracted high-quality submissions in each of the three categories: residential, commercial, and institutional. An international jury of design industry experts reviewed and evaluated the projects, ultimately selecting three winners and three honorable mentions among the steep competition.
The jury selected the winners of the Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition using the following criteria: the creative and effective use of Italian tile, the overall quality of the installation, the aesthetic beauty and functionality of the design, and the sustainable attributes of the overall project and materials used. Though vastly different in scale and aesthetic, the projects illustrate how Italian tile plays an important role in the realization of thoughtfully conceived interior design and architecture. From its functional advantages – being durable, hygienic, and easy to maintain – to the superior qualities that set Italian producers apart – leading edge technology, unparalleled quality and aesthetic excellence – Italian ceramic tile is a versatile and high performance material that architects and designers repeatedly seek out.
The winners will be officially announced at Coverings – the largest tile and stone show in North America taking place April 4-7 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL – and will present their projects during the Ceramics of Italy International Press Conference on April 5 at 4:30pm in Room S210C. The winning firms will each receive a prize of $3,000 as well as an all-expenses-paid, CEU-accredited trip to Bologna, Italy to attend Cersaie – the world's largest exhibition of ceramic tile and sanitaryware in Bologna, Italy – as part of a VIP delegation of specifiers and journalists. Contractors and distributors involved in each winning project will also be awarded a cash prize for their valued contribution.
This project is the last element in a beachfront residence on New York's Fire Island that includes a dining pavilion, gym, and beach/pool cabana in addition to a main house. For the guesthouse, the architects were charged with creating an independent space for visitors that would retain a close connection to the main home. The architects used tiles from Emilceramica's Fashion series to blur the line between the indoor space of the guesthouse and the adjacent outdoor pool area while lending a warm, neutral palette to the 2,000+ square foot space. Italian tile also provided the guesthouse and adjacent patio with a consistent design and level of durability that could withstand moisture and the high traffic resulting from a typical day at the beach.
One of California's historic Case Study Houses and the only one built in the San Francisco Bay area, #26 in San Rafael was designed by architect Beverley David Thorne in 1963. After purchasing the house 2015, the current owner/architect, Cord Struckmann, undertook a thoughtful remodel that included replacing the floor finishes in the common areas. Previously covered with carpet and vinyl tile, the project required the careful selection of a durable material that could also contribute to the design integrity. This led to the selection of Gigacer's Concrete line, which matched the mid-century modern aesthetic of the house. The minimalist, large format tiles blend seamlessly with the structural bones of the house and the modernist décor, unifying the common areas and elevating the role of the floor in the space.
MediaMath's headquarters occupy two levels within 4 World Trade Center in New York City. In addition to workspaces, the company required lounge areas, a yoga room, a theater, and an art gallery for use among their 500 employees. Ceramiche Refin's Design Industry collection was used in the most important space in the project: the double height entrance lobby, which provides the first impression to clients, potential employees and office visitors. It was critical that the floor be elegant but also easy to maintain, with a slab-like appearance that contained minimal joints. The minimalist look and large format of the Design Industry collection met all of these requirements, resulting in a lobby floor that is low maintenance and visually stunning – a perfect complement to the dramatic ceiling treatments throughout.
At a resort located on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, a recent, multimillion-dollar renovation led by CallisonRTKL refreshed the property for a new generation of visitors. Central to the successful redesign of the pre-existing resort building was updating the common spaces and restaurant with a modern look that preserved the traditional atmosphere guests had come to expect. For the lobby and communal seating areas, the highly detailed, bleached wood-look tiles of Provenza Ceramiche's In Essence collection provide a timeworn yet contemporary look that retains the welcoming air of a resort lobby. In Essence offered a far greater resiliency than real wood, which was an essential element for such a high traffic space. In the resort's lakeside restaurant, another wood-inspired collection, ETIC from Atlas Concorde, brings the sophisticated look of wood planks into the gray-scale palette of the space, while providing the functionality necessary for a restaurant. Contrasting with the interior design scheme, the bold patterns of Ceramiche Refin's Frame collection forms the floor beneath the restaurant's bar. The combination of these collections results in stylish, comfortable spaces that foster a soothing resort environment with distinctive interiors.
Located at Columbia University's new Manhattanville Campus in New York City, the Jerome L. Greene Science Center provides a home for the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. As a neuroscience institute, it was essential that the 450,000 square foot building include wide-open spaces for research activities and collaboration while adhering to specific light, noise, and thermal requirements. As over 60,000 square feet of tile was needed for the space, Renzo Piano Building Workshop chose Casalgrande Padana's Pietre Etrusche collection (the Unicolore and Basaltina collections were also used) because of its large formats, functionality, and reputation for high quality. Crucial to the project was that the tile could be delivered in a timely manner from respected distributors and within a specific budget. Casalgrande Padana ceramic tiles helped to provide a clean, minimalist, and aesthetically unified space for the highly focused research conducted at the center.
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Read It: Crazie Bernie Says Illegal Immigrants Are 'Our People' As He Campaigns To Be The Democratic Nominee For President
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By Chris "Badger" Thomas at Breaking First
All illegal migrants who get into the United States are "our people," says Sen. Bernie Sanders, as he campaigns for the Democrat nomination for president of the United States.
"What our campaign is about, and what our administration will be about, is rethinking America," he told his supporters at a February 22 Texas rally, continuing:
Understanding that all of our people — when I say all, I also mean the undocumented in this country — that all of our people are entitled to basic human rights.
For example, Sander's plan suggests he will offer America-funded healthcare to all migrants who make it over the border. "Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege," he told the crowd at his Texas speech. "In America, you should not suffer financial ruin because you got sick." Breitbart
It is obvious that the Democratic party is bringing in illegal immigrants to the U.S. so that they will flood the voting booths and then destroy our economy, our ideals and our nation as a whole.
Sanders Immigration Plan:
Institute a moratorium on deportations until a thorough audit of past practices and policies is complete.
Reinstate and expand DACA and develop a humane policy for those seeking asylum.
Completely reshape and reform our immigration enforcement system, including breaking up ICE and CBP and redistributing their functions to their proper authorities.
Dismantle cruel and inhumane deportation programs and detention centers and reunite families who have been separated.
Live up to our ideals as a nation and welcome refugees and those seeking asylum, including those displaced by climate change.
Work with Congress to pass the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal to fundamentally reform our immigration detention system by:
Ending contracts with private immigrant detention centers.
Virtually eliminating immigrant detention by requiring a "presumption of release" standard for determining detention, and ensuring that a past criminal conviction cannot be the sole deciding factor in detention.
Requiring release on recognizance or alternatives to detention for vulnerable persons — including children, pregnant individuals, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and asylum seekers — and caregivers.
Authorizing and funding community-based alternatives to detention, which will connect migrants with health, legal, educational, and work resources.
Mandating all detention facilities meet standards in line with the American Bar Association's Civil Immigration Detention Standards.
Mandating routine inspections and enforceable penalties for facilities not up to standards.
Requiring immediate notification and a mandatory investigation of any deaths in custody of immigration officials.
Creating a cause of action for migrants mistreated or harmed in custody.
More than double funding for immigration adjudication to fully fund and staff immigration courts and eliminate the case backlog.
Ensure justice and due process for immigrants at the border and in the interior, including the right to counsel and an end to cash bail.
Create a $14 billion federal grant program for indigent defense, set a national minimum salary for public defenders, and set national quotas for public defenders based on population and need.
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Ensure schools, places of worship, medical facilities, courthouses and other sensitive areas are exempted from immigration targeting and enforcement.
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"Where Do I Belong?"
Latin-American Jews now make up a significant cohort in Miami, Winnipeg and many communities in North America. Many of them are women in their 20s and 30s, but not much is known about their lives, their plans, their views on women, the ways they see themselves and how they're perceived by others. Sonia Perel and Karen Gitelman Wiernik of Argentina, Galit Markovitcz of Ecuador, Carla Btesh of Panama, and Rosa Einhorn of Venezuela had dinner around the Lilith conference table recently for some frank talk.
AMY GREENSTEIN, a former Lilith intern, RACHEL KRANSON, a Lilith contributing editor, and MELANIE WEISS, Lilith assistant editor, hosted. Here is Amy's story, first:
Growing up on Long Island, eating arroz con pollo was as common to me as eating kneidelach. And until I started getting confused looks and giggles from friends at the age of eight, I called slippers conchlettas. When I reached my 20s, I wanted to know more about the Cuban and Romanian flavors that spiced my mother's speech and cooking. That's when I learned about my family's buried treasures.
When my mother's family left Romania, they moved to Cuba. My mother lived in Havana from the age of eight to the age of 15. After painstakingly learning Spanish and building up a clothing business, the family thrived there. But when Castro came to power, they begrudgingly left their new island home and moved to the United States.
When they left Cuba, they were not allowed to take the belongings that they had worked so hard to acquire. They buried their most precious treasures underneath the floor, hoping to return one day and reclaim them. More important to me than finding the objects themselves is to unearth more of my family's history.
In my professional life, I've followed a path that has taught me about my cultural background. I helped found Judios Latinos, bringing Latin American Jews together for cultural events in New York. And I work as the assistant director of young leadership development at HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society — the organization that, by no coincidence, resettled my mother and thousands of Latin American Jews displaced as a result of the 2001 Argentinian economic crisis. Knowing the hardships my mother had to overcome — she came alone to the U.S. at 16 — has given me a deep appreciation for the difficulties immigrants face today.
The Latina Jews we invited to talk with us at Lilith were immigrants of choice. Their lives were stable in their countries of origin, but they came here to seek out new cultural and social opportunities. Unlike young Russian-American Jewish women Lilith has profiled in the past, these Latin-American Jewish women still feel pulled back to their home countries, often — and sometimes ambivalently — travelling back and forth. Their circumstances could hardly be more different from my mother's. But the Latin-Jewish culture shared by both my mother and this cohort of women remains a hidden treasure to most Jews in the United States, who aren't aware that Buenos Aires is home to the second largest diaspora Jewish community, let alone that there are Spanish-speaking Jews at all.
[During the process of transcribing our conversation with these women, we received the sad news that Karin Wiernik, after battling a difficult illness, had passed away. And soon after, my mother died suddenly as a result of a severe asthma attack. I dedicate this article to their lives and to their memory.]
Lilith: What's life like for Jewish women in your home country?
Carla Btesh: In Panama's Jewish community, Sephardic girls get married at 18. Most teenagers — men and women — don't go to college. Now that's changing, especially for men. But Panama is a very traditional society. We started in Syria, also a traditional society, so there's not such a difference. But I went to college, my sister went to college, so did many of my friends. Still, I am generalizing about marriage at 18: every weekend someone gets married, at 18, 19. A girl my age who is not married, people think what is wrong?
Sonia Perel: And generally the Sephardic Latin Jews are not the ones who come here.
Rosa Einhorn: A lot of Latin countries are very conservative, and girls get married very young. Good Catholic values.
Carla: The aunt of a friend of mine, her daughter got married at 23. The daughter said, if I don't get married this year my mother will charge rent. She may have been joking, but truth underlay her humor. In Jewish Orthodox Sephardic communities all around the world, girls get married young. I think Ashkenazim get married much later.
Lilith: Is your situation — as a woman — different here?
Galit Markovitcz: Here it's normal to get married and continued working. In Latin America, less so. It's possible, but not normal.
Karin Gitelman Wiernik: In Argentina, in my generation, there are a lot of women professionals. Things are changing also because of the economy; both men and women need to work.
Carla: Things are different there. Men don't let women be themselves. A majority of women don't travel without their husbands, for example, although of course some do.
Rosa: But here [in North America] you have to be everything, so it's difficult to be a woman. You have to be a mom and make a six figure salary! Here, you have to be good at everything, especially in New York.
Sonia: Gender roles, although there is variation among classes, are still very traditional [in Latin America]. There's still a sense of patriarchy. You really feel it being there and coming from here. It's more like the U.S. 50 years ago, before feminism. A lot of stuff has happened with feminist thought and the feminist movement in U.S., and there it has been untouched. It's like traveling back in time.
Galit: And Catholics are even more traditional.
Sonia: Abortion is still not legal in Argentina.
Lilith: Are Jews more liberal in general than the rest of the population?
Carla: Not in Panama! Being Jewish in Argentina is very different. Women in Argentina are very tough, strong, very different from other Latin American countries.
Sonia: In Argentina, the Jewish population is more open, more accepting, than the Catholic part of the population…
Galit: In Ecuador, it is a given that Jewish women will get the same level of education as men. That means going to college and also doing their master's.
Lilith: Would you say that you're a feminist?
Galit: Well, I want to grow as a woman. A woman should be able to work. I don't know if that means I am a feminist or not.
Rosa: I think family values are very important, but so is the professional side. For my mother, I think family will always come first.
Sonia: I want to offer more of a definition of feminism, because feminism can be defined in so many ways. It's part of the political project. Do I think there is still a long way to go for women? Yes. Do I think its unfortunate that feminism has gotten a bad rap? I do. So to answer the question in those terms, yes, I would definitely consider myself a feminist.
Karin: I think women need the same rights as men and they still need to fight for them, and women have been denigrated over the centuries. I agree with all of that. But I think, unconsciously, I am not so feminist. Because when I chose a career, I didn't think about making money. I worked five years for free, and I didn't care about that! For men, it's different. They feel culturally that they need to make money in order to have a family! So I relegate my own job for his. I don't think I'm less than him because I'm in the field of education, but I make less money. And I feel comfortable with him making money, and not me.
Carla: I don't call myself feminist, but I absolutely think that women deserve and need to be independent and, if they choose, to work, whether or not they are married. If I hadn't gone to college, I wouldn't be able to be here and have these opportunities, not just to make money, but also to feel good about myself. But we shouldn't go over the edge: while women should be independent, always studying, growing as a woman, mother, and wife, they should remember that family is also important.
Galit: Latin American women are more family oriented than career oriented. We want to have kids, and…
Carla: Most women get married young, but it doesn't mean that everybody is like that. Many work.
Lilith: What about being a Jew here?
Karin: I come from Argentina and I found Forest Hills, in Queens. I wanted to be in a Jewish environment, in a good place for kids, with a Jewish nursery school. But most Jewish schools here were too religious for me; we are more cultural. We sent them to school for Israelis, who understand cultural Jewishness, but its hard for my kids, because it's not for them, they are not Israeli.
Rosa: Where do we fit in here Jewishly? At home [in Venezuela] we had such strong Jewish secular backgrounds, but here it's defined religiously.
Lilith: There's some tension between religious and secular expressions of Judaism. Did you have a religious background?
Carla: I did. I went to a Jewish school where they teach you religion, how to pray, how to observe the holidays, Shabbat principles. Panama is a very Orthodox community.
Lilith: What do you mean by Orthodox?
Carla: I was going to bring that up! It doesn't mean the same thing here. I consider myself Orthodox, and my synagogue at home is Orthodox. But I don't keep Shabbat. Orthodox in Panama is different — if you are Jewish, you belong to an Orthodox synagogue, you have Shabbat dinners every Friday with the family, strictly do the holidays, etc.. Basically, being Orthodox in Panama means that you are very traditional in your observation of practices, whereas in the U.S. it means that you are very religious in your beliefs.
Galit: In Ecuador, being Jewish was also being part of Jewish organizations that help the community. But here the Jewish organizations I'm involved with are about Israel; they involve internationals and it makes me feel more at home.
Karin: Here in American synagogues they pray in English, not in Hebrew! In Argentina they talk in Spanish, but they pray in Hebrew.
Rosa: It wasn't particularly religious in Venezuela, it was more JCC. The synagogue was Orthodox, but more people didn't go, especially not women. It wasn't the main point, the main point was being part of the community.
Carla: Panama's community has become more religious in every way; priorities have changed. When I was a kid, I went to school with non-Jews; non-Jews wanted to go to Jewish schools. Today, there are no non-Jews in the Jewish schools. And I think it's wrong; it's important to interact. Religion is a good thing, it's part of your identity, but it's not everything. You have to be able to interact with people.
Karin: In Argentina, there's more pluralism, because it's a bigger community. You can find Conservative, Orthodox, but you can also find very strong secular institutions. Especially Zionist institutions, because the Zionist movement was very popular in Argentina. Americans don't always understand how large our Jewish community is — In B.A. [Buenos Aires], we have a McDonald's that is kosher!
Lilith: Do Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews mix?
Sonia: In Argentina, communities are separate. People still use terms for "Russians" and "Turks." But many more are Ashkenazi Jews — and they look down on the Sephardic community.
Karin: Yes, the older generation thinks they are not educated, that they are more traditional and family oriented. That is the stereotype, not always true.
Lilith: So how are Jews viewed from the outside?
Galit: The phrase "For the death of a Jew" — I might have heard it about three times in my life. I was at a Christmas dinner [in Ecuador], and someone made that as a toast. I was the only Jew there. It comes from the Church. And it happened to me once when I was in college. Someone said, "Don't act like a Jew." They don't even know what a Jew is, because there are so few. They don't know who we are. But it is not anti-Semitism, just cultural. It's weird. Here, everything is so diverse and dynamic that you don't really feel it. Not in New York at least.
Karin: Argentina has it. They allowed all the Nazis to enter, and then there was the profanation of cemeteries. Two terrorist attacks on Jewish schools. I remember at the time that the press was saying that they were Jewish, and also Argentinian. They were making the distinction, like Jews were not also Argentinian. Many South American people do not even know that there are Jews in their countries. They don't realize people are Jewish unless they are Lubavitch, dress "Jewish."
Carla: In Panama, since Jews run so much of the economic life, people know about Jews, Jewish holidays, and Jewish practices. But there's a lot of ignorance about how Jews and Israel are related.
Rosa: I haven't felt any anti-Semitism in New York.
Karin: I don't feel the anti-Semitism here, but I feel the racism — against South Americans!
Lilith: Do you think racism works the same here as in South America?
Karin: In Argentina we don't have black people — they've killed them all! So they have different kinds of racism, not against black people but against refugees from Bolivia who came to Argentina, etc.
Carla: A French person in Panama once put a swastika on my father's car, but a Panamanian would never have done that!
Rosa: In (Venezuela) Jews are considered part of the high class, Europeans.
Lilith: You all describe coming from quite privileged backgrounds, economically. Then you come to the U.S., and because you speak Spanish people assume you're uneducated, poor, need a green card.
Carla: I realized if I speak Spanish in school [in the U.S.] people would associate me with the Mexicans, and any third world country. However, things have changed, and to speak Spanish is an advantage.
Sonia: I know a blond-haired, blue-eyed woman who, once she spoke Spanish [in the U.S.], felt that people looked at her differently. This happened a little differently to me when I was with my mother in California. No one ever thought that we were speaking Spanish. They thought we were speaking Italian! They couldn't associate our looks with Spanish! This happened consistently.
Galit: It's an advantage. People in restaurants treat me much better, they don't think I would speak Spanish but when they realize I do, they treat me well, they and I feel at home.
Carla: Americans think Latina women are not smart and are uneducated — but that's all wrong. Not that we're better, but it's different. We are very educated. But Americans have that conception of all Latin Americans. When people in America hear Spanish, they think the speaker is very poor, uneducated, and unknowledgeable.
Galit: I feel and am Latin American, even though my parents are European! You are where you grew up.
Lilith: How do you feel about North American Jews?
Galit: I came here because I wanted to meet more Jewish people. But if they ask me where I want to be in future, I don't know where I want to be. I don't know if I want my kids here and raise them as Americans. I feel I would miss the values of Latin America for my children.
Karin: I'm raising my kids here, but it's hard. I think that the nuclear family is the most important thing, so no matter where we are, my kids receive a lot from their parents, who are Latin, who are Jewish. They live in a different society and will always be different. But I value the familial context. I am establishing myself here, though I don't know if it's the best place.
Carla: New York also has a lot to offer because it's very diverse. It's a great opportunity to grow up here. But I don't know. I'm here now, so I think it's a great place to be..
Sonia: I want to go back. I had half my childhood in Argentina, and from 10 on here. From my own experience having had a childhood in both places, it's very crystal clear that I am having kids there. You need more than a nuclear family to raise a family. You need a whole community.
Galit: Many Israelis say — "I'm definitely going back home to raise my kids there." But I don't have that option. The Ecuadorian Jewish community is so small, and getting smaller.
Carla: I was in Brooklyn on Shabbat on Friday, and was very homey, communal. They even had maids! So maybe I don't need to be in Panama to have that warmth, that community. It reminded me of having a dinner with my family. There was not much difference between my family and theirs.
For a list of recent books by Latin American Jewish women authors, and to join the conversation, visit Lilith.org. To bring to your community a conversation about Jewish diversity, call Lilith at
888-2-LILITH
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Virgin Atlantic Contemplating Adding Flights to China and South America
Virgin Atlantic of the UK is considering adding additional flights to China and South America. The Chief Executive Officer of the airline, Steve Ridgway, said that the airline has wanted to add flights to Beijing for some time now and they are also considering other cities in China. Ridgway did not name any specific destinations in South America. By year-end the airline will find out how many takeoff and landing slots they will have at Heathrow.
Ridgway said the slots are very important as Heathrow Airport is very full and the availability of these slots will determine whether flights to Beijing are possible. Flights to Beijing also depend on the arrival of Boeing 787 aircraft that the airline has on order. Virgin Atlantic already flies to Shanghai and Hong Kong and has also applied to begin flights to Scotland.


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from nssrc.com.citrix.netscaler.nitro.resource.base.base_resource import base_resource
from nssrc.com.citrix.netscaler.nitro.resource.base.base_resource import base_response
from nssrc.com.citrix.netscaler.nitro.service.options import options
from nssrc.com.citrix.netscaler.nitro.exception.nitro_exception import nitro_exception

from nssrc.com.citrix.netscaler.nitro.util.nitro_util import nitro_util

class vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding(base_resource) :
	""" Binding class showing the authenticationnegotiatepolicy that can be bound to vpnvserver.
	"""
	def __init__(self) :
		self._policy = ""
		self._priority = 0
		self._acttype = 0
		self._secondary = False
		self._name = ""
		self.___count = 0

	@property
	def priority(self) :
		"""The priority, if any, of the VPN virtual server policy.
		"""
		try :
			return self._priority
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@priority.setter
	def priority(self, priority) :
		"""The priority, if any, of the VPN virtual server policy.
		"""
		try :
			self._priority = priority
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@property
	def policy(self) :
		"""The name of the policy, if any, bound to the VPN virtual server.
		"""
		try :
			return self._policy
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@policy.setter
	def policy(self, policy) :
		"""The name of the policy, if any, bound to the VPN virtual server.
		"""
		try :
			self._policy = policy
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@property
	def name(self) :
		"""Name of the virtual server.
Minimum length =  1.
		"""
		try :
			return self._name
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@name.setter
	def name(self, name) :
		"""Name of the virtual server.
Minimum length =  1
		"""
		try :
			self._name = name
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@property
	def secondary(self) :
		"""Binds the authentication policy as the secondary policy to use in a two-factor configuration. A user must then authenticate not only via a primary authentication method but also via a secondary authentication method. User groups are aggregated across both. The user name must be exactly the same for both authentication methods, but they can require different passwords.
		"""
		try :
			return self._secondary
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@secondary.setter
	def secondary(self, secondary) :
		"""Binds the authentication policy as the secondary policy to use in a two-factor configuration. A user must then authenticate not only via a primary authentication method but also via a secondary authentication method. User groups are aggregated across both. The user name must be exactly the same for both authentication methods, but they can require different passwords.
		"""
		try :
			self._secondary = secondary
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@property
	def acttype(self) :
		try :
			return self._acttype
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	def _get_nitro_response(self, service, response) :
		""" converts nitro response into object and returns the object array in case of get request.
		"""
		try :
			result = service.payload_formatter.string_to_resource(vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding_response, response, self.__class__.__name__)
			if(result.errorcode != 0) :
				if (result.errorcode == 444) :
					service.clear_session(self)
				if result.severity :
					if (result.severity == "ERROR") :
						raise nitro_exception(result.errorcode, str(result.message), str(result.severity))
				else :
					raise nitro_exception(result.errorcode, str(result.message), str(result.severity))
			return result.vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding
		except Exception as e :
			raise e

	def _get_object_name(self) :
		""" Returns the value of object identifier argument
		"""
		try :
			if (self.name) :
				return str(self.name)
			return None
		except Exception as e :
			raise e

	@classmethod
	def get(cls, service, name) :
		""" Use this API to fetch vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding resources.
		"""
		try :
			obj = vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding()
			obj.name = name
			response = obj.get_resources(service)
			return response
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@classmethod
	def get_filtered(cls, service, name, filter_) :
		""" Use this API to fetch filtered set of vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding resources.
		Filter string should be in JSON format.eg: "port:80,servicetype:HTTP".
		"""
		try :
			obj = vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding()
			obj.name = name
			option_ = options()
			option_.filter = filter_
			response = obj.getfiltered(service, option_)
			return response
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@classmethod
	def count(cls, service, name) :
		""" Use this API to count vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding resources configued on NetScaler.
		"""
		try :
			obj = vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding()
			obj.name = name
			option_ = options()
			option_.count = True
			response = obj.get_resources(service, option_)
			if response :
				return response[0].__dict__['___count']
			return 0
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	@classmethod
	def count_filtered(cls, service, name, filter_) :
		""" Use this API to count the filtered set of vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding resources.
		Filter string should be in JSON format.eg: "port:80,servicetype:HTTP".
		"""
		try :
			obj = vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding()
			obj.name = name
			option_ = options()
			option_.count = True
			option_.filter = filter_
			response = obj.getfiltered(service, option_)
			if response :
				return response[0].__dict__['___count']
			return 0
		except Exception as e:
			raise e

	class Staaddresstype:
		IPV4 = "IPV4"
		IPV6 = "IPV6"

	class Bindpoint:
		REQUEST = "REQUEST"
		RESPONSE = "RESPONSE"
		ICA_REQUEST = "ICA_REQUEST"
		OTHERTCP_REQUEST = "OTHERTCP_REQUEST"

class vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding_response(base_response) :
	def __init__(self, length=1) :
		self.vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding = []
		self.errorcode = 0
		self.message = ""
		self.severity = ""
		self.sessionid = ""
		self.vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding = [vpnvserver_authenticationnegotiatepolicy_binding() for _ in range(length)]

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The meaning of eSports
Time for the Sun to shine on Hyderabad in the IPL
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Hyderabad captain Kane Williamson will be looking to lead his team to glory. (AFP)
Updated 22 March 2019
Can MS Dhoni lead the Super Kings to another IPL title?
Who are the players to watch out for?
LONDON: The 12th edition of the Indian Premier League gets underway today with the usual razzmatazz, stacks of cash — in cricketing terms at least, pure conspicuous consumption — on display. This is the form of leather on willow that is as close to pure Americana as you are going to find.
As much as $15 million was shelled out at this year's auction on 60 players. You only have to look at the riches the players are now earning to realize why every big-hitting batsman or wily bowler wants a piece of the IPL. Varun Chakravarthy went for $1.2 million, a millionaire overnight having not even played for his country.
Once again the Chennai Super Kings are the team to beat. Under MS Dhoni the powerhouses have won three titles — a record they share with the Mumbai Indians.
Here we give you the lowdown on cricket's brashest format and take a peek into our crystal ball to tell you what we think is going to happen.
DELHI CAPITALS (8th last year)
Have only made the last four three times, finished rock bottom last year and decided something had to change. So they changed their name from the Daredevils to the Capitals, the new name as prosaic as their past cricket. They have added Shikhar Dhawan for power at the top of the order and to compliment the decent bowling attack of Trent Boult and Kagiso Rabada.
ARAB NEWS SAYS: The only way is up but will finish outside the top four.
RAJASTHAN ROYALS (4th)
The winners of the first IPL they have made the last four three times since. A look at their batting line-up — Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Ajinkya Rahane — will always trouble the opposition bowlers and with Jofra Archer and Jaydev Unadkat in the attack will always take wickets. Can they back up their impressive team sheet with equally impressive results?
ARAB NEWS SAYS: Will reach the last four but will miss the departing Stokes and Buttler who leave for a pre-World Cup training camp.
KINGS PUNJAB (7th)
An impressive spin attack of Ravi Ashwin, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Chakravarthy will once again prove that T20, once thought to be the graveyard for slow bowlers, is a game built just for them. They will look for West Indies legend Chris Gayle to find his big-hitting range early on to give them the totals to defend.
ARAB NEWS SAYS: Could prove to be the surprise package if, and it is a big if, their big names fire. We think they will just miss out on the last four.
Will Chris Gayle fire again this season? (AFP)
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE (6th)
One look at their batting line-up is enough to give any bowler the dreaded yips. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers could have their very own "who is the greatest short-form batsman of all-time" competition. The addition of Marcus Stoinis will give the side more balance and a chance of winning their first title.
ARAB NEWS SAYS: A side with Kohli and De Villiers cannot go three years without a top-four finish.
MUMBAI INDIANS (5th)
The Manchester United of the IPL, they have won three titles and with Rohit Sharma as captain, and a settled side — Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga and Jasprit Bumrah just three of the retained stars — will always be a danger. But they finished outside the top four last year and perhaps miss a bit of fire power in the batting department.
ARAB NEWS SAYS: Another year outside the top four.
Virat Kohli is dangerous no matter what the format. (AFP)
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS (3)
Last year's top-four finish was a surprise and there is the sense they will struggle to match that this time around. With Windies stars Carlos Brathwaite and Andre Russell in the side and spin king Sunil Narine they will always have a chance but it is perhaps expecting too much to repeat last season's surge to the semis.
ARAB NEWS SAYS: They will not be able to repeat last year's heroics and will finish in sixth.
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS (Champions)
The team to beat, they have kept most of their title-winning side from last year and still have MS Dhoni — will he ever retire? — at the helm. It is hard to make a case for them not reaching the final, harder still not making the last four. If there is one possible worry is it that they have not strengthened much over the winter.
ARAB NEWS SAYS: In the last four.
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD (2nd)
Will still be smarting from their heavy defeat in the final at the hands of Chennai last year. They look to have the strongest batting line-up with Kane Williamson, Martin Guptil, Jonny Bairstow and David Warner to share the big-hitting responsibilities and with spinner of the moment Rashid Khan they will always be able to take wickets.
ARAB NEWS SAYS: Champions
Topics: Indian Premier League IPL Kane Williamson Virat Kohli Chris Gayle SUNRISERS HYDERABAD CHENNAI SUPER KINGS MS Dhoni
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JEDDAH: Are eSports really a part of the sport world?
There has been a huge debate on the topic, but today the answer from many industry experts, sports organizations and dictionaries is yes.
The Euro Sports charter under the Council of Europe provides the following definition: "All forms of physical activity which, through casual or organized participation, (are) aimed at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being, forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels." If we look at every aspect of the definition, we find that eSports fit. Some might argue that the phrases "physical activity" and "aimed at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being" exclude eSports. Yet on the contrary those terms prove that they are indeed sports.
The text clearly states all forms of physical activity and not only extreme physical activity. For any eSports player to compete, they would need a very high level of stamina, just like any motor or air sport athlete. To reach and win world class or even national level competitions, they would need to build staggering levels of stamina.
As far as the phrase "aimed at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being" goes: We look at sporting activities such as darts, golf, and snooker. All of these sports do not have physical fitness as their end goal, but to excel at them an athlete has to, to some degree, ensure that they are physically fit. Additionally, there is no argument around the necessity of mental well-being needed for eSports athletes to be title contenders.
Just like any sport there are those who would make a career out of it.
In Saudi Arabia we have the FIFA eWorld Cup 2018 champion Mosaad Al-Dossary. He is the latest addition to the multitude of world champions to emerge from the Kingdom in recent years.
"The world as we know it is changing at a fast pace, faster than some of us can keep up with," Al-Dossary said. "We live in an extraordinary age of connectivity, that is digitally enabled. Every day we are introduced to new concepts that some might reject at first but end up changing the entire way we exist or view life.''
"No one knew how much the iPod or Instagram would affect our lives when they were first introduced. Even the careers that people now live off could have not been thought off 10 or 15 years ago. After all, as recently as 2008 almost no one knew what a 'social media manager' was. Less than 15 years ago no one even knew what a 'search engine optimization manager' did."
In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia was one of the early supporters of eSports thanks to the Saudi Arabian Federation for Electronic and Intellectual Sports (SAFEIS), which gives tremendous support to such athletes. It has sponsored multiple teams in global tournaments such as ISFE and FIFA eNations Cup.
It has also organized a professional eSports league for FIFA and is working on including other games.
For more information on gaming, and eSports in Saudi Arabia, visit SAFEIS website: https://www.safeis.sa/, subscribe to the YouTube channel, follow on Twitter: @SAFEISKSA , and on Instagram: SAFEIS.KSA
Topics: eSports FIFA Saudi Arabia
Saudi team wins first prize at eSports world championship
Two spots remain to be filled in SR1,000,000 eSports race


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Could the Swavarna Premchand Depict the Life-World of the Downtrodden Dalit?
Ananya Pathak
Munshi Premchand - one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent
Premchand was undoubtedly one of the finest writers and storytellers that India has ever produced, his works continue to hold immense relevance even decades after his passing. However, there is always a long standing debate about how accurately Premchand was able to understand and then articulate the traumatic experience of those who belonged to the downtrodden castes. Could an upper-caste and well to do Kayastha really enter the life-world of the oppressed castes?
In his well-known story "Sadgati", Premchand depicts little Dukhi as the exploited and helpless tanner who finds it impossible to speak up against his Savarna oppressor Pandit Ghasiram. Dukhi, is the quintessential Dalit man(extremely poor, ill-fed and helpless) who is on his way to approach Pandit Ghasiram for a favour.
But before the pandit agrees to offer him an ear, he is asked to chop an endless pile of wood for him for free.
It is his stark exhaustion and fatigue that make Dukhi collapse on the floor and never get up again. Dukhi is dead. Dukhi's life is a journey of endless humiliation and exploitation and even in his death he is denied any dignity.
Kites and jackals bite at his dead body and his carcass lies abandoned in the field.
For a life-long commitment and unquestioned devotion to his master, Dukhi gets the most gruesome reward. Dukhi becomes the depiction of a quintessential Dalit- he has internalised the caste system and its inherent hierarchy so deeply that he cannot imagine defying it even in his wildest dreams.
Dukhi doesn't have a voice, he doesn't question or articulate dissent, he only serves in silence.
The depiction of a 'Dalit' man as a non-articulate, agency less mortal who doesn't dare question the sanctity of caste hierarchy made Premchand available for criticism.
In another of his major works "Kafan", there is a depiction of two Dalit protagonists as debauched drunkards who care about nothing but their own addiction to alcohol.
They are so cold and insensitive that when one of the protagonists loses his wife, they spend the money that they had collected for her shroud on alcohol. This story may have been widely read and considered one of Premchand's pathbreaking works, but again the depiction of the 'Dalit' as irresponsible, insensitive and unable to take care of their families won Premchand great criticism.
Premchand wasn't spared for painting such portraits of Dalit characters and ascribing them roles that denied them either agency to question and reform the system nor did it show them as individuals who could sustain their lives with dignity without the patronage of their upper-caste masters.
Often when we make such a vehement criticism of Premchand's characterisation of the downtrodden Dalit and his inability to speak up against his exploitation or do anything concrete to improve his life, we forget to look at the many nuanced undertones that Premchand leaves us with.
We forget to see that in his story "Shroud", Premchand may have depicted the two Dalit protagonists as addicted and irresponsible but even in their intoxicated states, Premchand writes the story in such a way that it raises questions about alienated labour, the indignity and suffering of the downtrodden castes and their deliberating deprivation that doesn't allow them even the potential to secure two complete meals a day.
Ever since the time Premchand picked up his pen, his characterisations and depictions of the lower castes has been subjected to controversy and critics have gone on to ask whether a privileged Kayastha could ever truly articulate and understand the suffering of the lower castes. Is it possible for someone who has not experienced the atrocity of caste to articulate such suffering?
Yes, it's quite true that Premchand belonged to a privileged caste but his depiction of the upper castes revealed the pathology of the caste system and how it went against the very ethos of a just and humanitarian social order.
He depicts landlords, priests and other caste men and women as the emblems of an unequal society that continues to hoard resources, practice exploitation and continue the regime of deprivation for a large number of people belonging to the lower castes.
He goes on to remind us that even a quintessential resources such as water was treated as the monopoly of the upper castes and that inhumanity and absence of egalitarian values characterised this exploitative regime. Instead of choosing to write from the upper caste point of view, Premchand chose to write from the Dalit point of view and expose the follies within the caste system.
His works were a sharp critique of the caste system and the oppression it inflicted on those who it considers to be on its margins. In fact, in his characters such as Dukhi and Shankar(the lead character in his story
' Sawa Ser Gehun') the sense of complete resignation to the pathology of the oppression of the Dalits cannot be overlooked.
In both these stories, the Dalit men find themselves helpless and witness without agency a caste system that oppresses and marginalises them.
Premchand articulates with great sensitivity how the lives of Dalits were extremely difficult and how they were ill-treated, humiliated and treated worse than animals on a day to day basis.
His poignant observation of the caste hierarchy also pinpoints at the fact that the 'inferiority' or 'impurity' of the Dalit is so embedded in the Hindu upper caste psyche that they had invented a vast repertoire of gestures, symbols, idioms, verbal and psychic denigrations of the Dalits.
In Premchand's work 'Thakur ka Kuan', the rebel character of a Dalit woman who challenges the sole access of the landlord to a well of clean water, is an example of how an interesting interjection can be seen in Premchand's depiction of his female characters.
She may not be in a position to overthrow the caste order, but by questioning and resisting upper caste supremacy she stands alive like a ray of hope.
In his short story 'Mandir', an important question regarding Dalit accessibility to places of worship is brought forward. This question continues to echo even in the contemporary age as Dalits continue to be deprived of even equal access to God.
Premchand was writing at a time when no significant movements for the assertion of Dalit rights had taken place nor was there a nationwide collective movement against caste oppression .
It would not be wrong to say that for his times, Premchand was putting forward a radical caste discourse much like Ambedkar did later on in the realm of politics.
He did what best he could offer through the literary domain and brought forward a consciousness that was both ahead of his times and vehemently challenged caste hierarchy and an inhumane man-to-man interaction that it burdened the collective-conscience with.
His masterpieces 'Godaan', 'Prema', 'Rangbhoomi' and 'Pratigya' were all written at a time when neither a collective movement against caste oppression had taken place nor was it common for an upper caste man to vehemently oppose the caste system in favour of the lower caste. Thus as we read Premchand's works in contemporary times, what we cannot negate is his immense sensitivity to caste oppression and his ability to vehemently oppose such an oppressive system with his profound art of storytelling. He was one of the very few writers of his time who used their pens to write in opposition of caste hierarchy and the patriarchal subjugation of women. The issues that he raised, the debates that he ignited through his short stories and novels will forever remind us of his literary genius and his ability to merge the literary with the socio-political. His works appear more and ore relevant to the contemporary times as we find the social fabric being torn apart by the forces of communalism, caste violence and parochialism. His plethora of writing certainly deserves renewed interest as the country faces multiple rots in its social fabric.
As one of the most prolific writers the nation has ever produced, Premchand's deep affinity with the common man and his ability to understand so intensely the pain and struggles of the untouchables and the marginalised people, is really commendable.
His range and diversity were indeed limitless as he tackled themes as diverse as romance, satire, gender politics, social inequality and deep compassion. He indeed was at the highest peak of understanding human vulnerabilities and strengths.
HINDI LITERATURE
Land Acquisition / Thousands of Protestors Oppose Coal Project in Chhattisgarh
Climate Change/Is The Way We Consume Our Food Impacting Our Environment?
Scholar-Researcher-Activist Gail Omvedt's Passing Leaves Behind Tremendous Void in the Landscape of Dalit Studies
Ambedkar Called for the Annihilation of Caste but Today Caste is Annihilating Young Ambedkars like Rohith Vemula and Muthukrishnan
The Dalit Priest of Bhilwara's Chamunda Temple
'A writer's beliefs must never be mortgaged to a particular party or ideology', says Professor Ramachandra Guha
Dalits May Rejoice an Order for Reconstruction of Demolished Ravidas Temple in Delhi, But Representation and Assertion Remain Crucial
My Upper Caste Upbringing and My Critical Engagement With Problematic Brahminism and Issues of Caste Discrimination
Family Blames Police for Custodial Torture After Dalit Man Dies in UP's Rae Bareli
Womanhood and Questions of Femininity in Munshi Premchand's Manovrati
40 Dalit Families Face Social Boycott and Indignity in Odisha Over Flower Plucking


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Rie is a PR-coordinator, visiting a tunnel boring machine, to portrait the well-oiled european cooporation in the Copenhagen Metro construction, when an accident occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in a airlock, with Portuguese miner Ivo, and Bharan, a worker from Eritrea. They put their lives and bodies in each others hands, to survive the heat, pressure and mud in the claustrophobic cutter-head, exposing their radically different world-views, and forcing them to reconsider their lives.


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Q: How to check if current user is member of the current site or above member group, site owner group etc How can I do a check that looks if current user is a member group or above member group on current site?
Above member group I mean site owner group etc..
So far I have done:
var currentSite = SPContext.Current.Site;
var currentUser = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName;

Any kind of help is appreciated

A: You can use the SPWeb.DoesUserHavePermissions method together with the SPBasePermissions enumeration.
Eg:
bool isUserOwner = SPContext.Current.Web.DoesUserHavePermissions(SPBasePermissions.ManageWeb);

This method will return true if the current user has the permission specified in the parameter. Have a look at the permissions enumeration to determine which is the best permission for your scenario.

A: The following code demonstrates how to verify if the current user is in a particular role or has been assigned a specific permission level.
The code sample uses SPContext.Current to get a reference to the current site, as such it must be rUn under the context of SharePoint (in a web part, or custom application page), to run the code in a console application or windows application you will need to change how the reference to the SPWeb object is obtained
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;

//****************************************
// Get a reference the roles that are
// bound to the current user and the role
// definition to which we need to verify
// the user against
SPRoleDefinitionBindingCollection usersRoles = web.AllRolesForCurrentUser;
SPRoleDefinitionCollection roleDefinitions = web.RoleDefinitions;
SPRoleDefinition roleDefinition = roleDefinitions["Full Control"];

// Check if the user is in the role. If not
// redirect the user to the access denied page
if (usersRoles.Contains(roleDefinition))
{
   //*******************************
   //Check if post back to run
   //code that initiates the page
   if (IsPostBack != true)
   {
    //Do your stuff here
   }
}
else
{
    Response.Redirect("/_layouts/accessdenied.aspx");
}

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Evers Announces $100 Million Investment of American Rescue Plan Funds
Governor Tony Evers says the state will award $100 million from the American Rescue Plan to small businesses and organizations working to eliminate disparities. $50 million will be used for Wisconsin Tomorrow – Main Street Bounceback grants. The program will provide $10,000 grants to new or existing businesses that move into vacant storefronts and commercial properties. The other $50 million will go to the Equitable Recovery Program for grants to community partners doing work to promote equity and inclusion. The governor's office says racial disparities have persisted in COVID health outcomes and economic impacts.
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AirTrain JFK é um sistema de transporte por trilhos que faz a ligação entre o Aeroporto Internacional John F. Kennedy e a área central da cidade de Nova Iorque.

Características

Medindo 13 km, este sistema de trens permite que os passageiros façam uma transferência de forma rápida entre a cidade de Nova Iorque e o Aeroporto JFK.

O sistema também faz a ligação interna entre os diferentes terminais do aeroporto, visto que, devido a sua grande extensão, seria um trajeto inviável de ser realizado a pé, sobretudo por passageiros portando malas de viagem e outros itens de bagagem.

Sua operação é feita pela Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,, instituição que também opera o AirTrain Newark, sistema similar que atende o Aeroporto de Newark.

Transportes hectométricos
Transportes da cidade de Nova Iorque
Construções da cidade de Nova Iorque
Aeroporto Internacional John F. Kennedy

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LOVE: What's up this week?
This lucky couple entered our #winandwed2019 competition and won! And thanks to an amazing collaboration with a group of wonderful local wedding suppliers (who are all on our recommended wedding suppliers list) Kate and Glenn will now enjoy a £10,000 wedding package – and a wedding at Badgemore Park.


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Building Context
A Smart & Connected Marketing Partner for the Era of Smart & Connected Things
New Work: Interactive Timeline for Automated Buildings
Click here, then click Continue to explore 15 years of thought-leadership in the Automated Buildings industry:
Here's a just-completed BuildingContext.me project. It started when I read Ken Sinclair's – automatedbuildings.com's March Obix review and was pointed back to dinosaur bones: Writing in 2002, Eric Craton and Dave Robin of Automated Logic described a path that is still ahead of us. My take was "Dinosaur Bones? No, This is Thought Leadership!" They knew what had to be done; the industry just hasn't been in the position to implement yet. I was glad that Ken had pointed me back to their Information Model: the Key to Integration article. Which led to my next thought, "If these are dinosaur bones, maybe it's time to build Jurassic Park!"
I shared my ideas with Ken about a Timeline Infographic and about new Cloud Applications that result in easily-shared, responsive-design (i.e. graphics-filled, digital content that stretches and contracts per device screen size). Ken shared with me that the time frame was 1999 to the present and that, as it happened, May would mark the 15th anniversary edition of automatedbuildings.com as an online magazine. Then the bigger idea that we should launch a campaign to celebrate that milestone and to recognize the building automation and facilities management visionaries who outlined the journey to connectivity convergence in the pages of Engineering Systems (ES) and automatedbuildings.com from 1999 to today.
This "15 Years in the Collaboratory " timeline is just a first and an incomplete element of the campaign. As you can see from complementary "Over 150 Past Issues" timeline embedded in Ken's May editorial, there is so much more content available in the archives. The approach I took was to curate a handful of articles from each year to reflect some of the most influential writings, events and announcements in terms of how they paved the way to today's world of building automation.
The fact that the Collaboratory timeline is not complete (it certainly doesn't include all the important commercial product introductions) leaves ample opportunity for you to get involved. Let me know if you want me to help with your own corporate timelines or insertions to this. More than that, let's use this look backwards to help us move forward. How would you advance the conversations that these pioneering thinkers started? Other than vocabulary, what adjustments to the roadmap are necessary now that we've entered an age when the Smart Device reigns and the IT and Communications industries are striving to put a new "Internet of Things" framing on the topic of building connectivity. The Building Automation industry should lead the dialog, especially on the core convergence topics of HVAC comfort through data analytics, energy efficiency management, smart grid connectivity, wireless infrastructure, lighting control, building performance visualizations, BAS data security etc. As the Anniversary Year progresses, I'd like to put supplement content together, again in easily-shared, responsive-design format on each of these topics. Contact me at therese@runwaypartners.com if your company would like to participate.
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set :default_stage, "production"

require "capistrano/ext/multistage"

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# app details and WordPress requirements

# tags/3.5.2, branches/3.5, trunk
set :wordpress_version, "branches/3.5"
set :application, "my_application"

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set :scm, :git
set :repository, "https://github.com/example/example-wp.git"
set :git_enable_submodules, 1

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# clean up old releases on each deploy
set :keep_releases, 5
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Q: Can I connect a container/service in a swarm using dnsrr (dns round robin) instead of an IP version: '3.7'
services:
db:
image: "mysql:5.7"
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", 'mysqladmin ping']
interval: 10s
timeout: 5s
retries: 10
ports:
- target: 3306
published: 3306
protocol: tcp
mode: host
deploy:
  endpoint_mode: dnsrr
  mode: "replicated"
  replicas: 2
  resources:
    limits:
      memory: 2G
volumes:
  - foo:/var/lib/mysql

environment:
  MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE: /run/secrets/my_file_secret
secrets:
  - my_file_secret

secrets:
my_file_secret:
file: ./my_file_secret.txt
volumes:
foo:
driver: local


Ant McPartlin has revealed for the first time how furiously best mate and presenting partner Declan Donnelly reaction to news of his drink-driving arrest.
Ant stepped back from his presenting duties after causing the three-car smash, leaving Dec to front Saturday Night Takeaway alone for the first time in his career.
While Ant went back to rehab, Dec hosted the remaining episodes of the series, including the live finale in Florida, as well as Britain's Got Talent.
He also roped in This Morning's Holly Willoughby to present the latest series I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! before Christmas, which Ant has admitted to not even watching.
Although they are now back presenting the auditions for this next series of BGT, Ant revealed that his arrest put strain on his and Dec's friendship.
He told the Sun: 'It wasn't about that. It was about, "How are you?" I said: "I'm not right." You know, mentally I wasn't in a good place.
'We're friends first and foremost. And we're friends from the age of 13. But of course there's going to be tensions there.
Ant was replaced by Holly for I'm a Celeb… Pic: ITV/I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
He commended Dec's decision to carry on with Saturday Night Takeaway alone, adding he would have made the same choice if the roles had been reversed.
The pair didn't speak for several weeks while Ant was in rehab, but he always had Dec's support, and the Geordie host said ITV bosses were also on his side after he'd spent years 'working his socks off' for the channel.
It was emotional for Ant last Friday as he returned to the London Palladium stage for the first Britain's Got Talent auditions, and he struggled to fight off tears as the audience gave him a standing ovation.


An annoying thing I found in the local documentation with BlitzMax is the presence – in the local help integrated – of just ONE example.
Of course having more than one thing to study is much better. Having 2 or 3 examples, showing the base, the medium and the hard part of an argument could be more interesting and useful.
So I took the MAKEDOC tool and make to it some changes.
This time MakeDoc will look for – in the folder DOC (if exist) – the presence of ANY BMX file that starts with the 'command' name. For example, in the case of the command AllocChannel will look for the presence (in \mod\brl.mod\audio.mod\doc) of a file called AllocChannel.bmx (the original example) and add it to the local help.
Only builds official docs and brl, maxgui and pub modules.
Calls 'docmods' first, which builds 3rd party modules.
t:+String( kv.Key() )+"|/docs/html"+String( kv.Value() )+"~n"
If modid.tolower()=exc[i1].tolower()	Print "Skip module '"+modid+"'";modid=""
Print "Error: Unable to open '"+filePath+"'"
If FileType( docDir )<>FILETYPE_DIR docDir=""
If line Print "Error: Illegal bbdoc section in '"+filePath+"'"
Else If id="import" Or id="include"
If Not docPath Throw "No doc path"
If typePath Throw "Type path already set"
If docPath Throw "Doc path already set"
If id.StartsWith( "Sort" ) proto:+" )"	'lazy!!!!!