I started a little bit late (it was supposed to be the last 100 days of the year) and I missed a day here and there, but I stuck with the #100happydays photo challenge on Instagram. Which is a pretty big feat for me, and believe it or not, my mood did convince me a few times to just scrap the whole thing. All that is involved is taking one picture every day of some small moment of joy, but on some days even that was too much pressure for me.
I have about two weeks left and then I've reached 100, but I will probably just keep going. With or without the hashtag. It has taught me a lot of things, and helped me with my mental illnesses.
It has helped me reach full gratitude. And to understand that gratitude can come from a variety of small nooks and crannies in our lives. It is heavily suggested in therapy for depression to keep a gratitude journal, in which you list a handful of things you're grateful for. Which always made me feel so pressured in that moment to come up with 5 really amazing, huge, fantastic things I was grateful for. And then when I couldn't come up with 5, I felt like a failure. Which is not exactly the result you're going for with this exercise.
I learned that gratitude can be a cloud shaped like a bunny. Catching a glimpse of the jaguar at the zoo. Seeing your infant enjoying a toy from a dear friend. Appreciating a rain shower. Literally stopping and smelling the flowers. It's all these things combined that make for a happy and joyful life. It can't be all new house, birth of my baby, huge bonus all the time, and that's ok.
I also learned a very big lesson in mindfulness. I was always trying so hard to force mindfulness on myself, when my inclination is to ruminate on the past or panic about the future. So, when I'd catch myself in those moments, I'd feel shame. Again, not what you're going for here.
I learned how to take a moment and focus on what's right there in front of me, even if only for the moment that I snap the picture. And, more importantly, I learned that that counts. Mindfulness is a practice, and there's no minimum for daily mindfulness. You can get it in there in bits and bops and that's totally fine. As long as you're noticing it and realizing it, and focusing on how happy it has made you, you're doing it right.
And I have learned the power that lies within accomplishing something, finishing a task. It's not as if I have never finished anything, I've seen quite a number of things through to the end, and kept up good habits. But, it can be difficult to remember in a low moment how good it feels to finish something, even if it felt difficult and overwhelming in the process. This is an important thing for anyone with depression to remember. That there is a great benefit to doing things just for the sake of doing them. Things you once enjoyed, but your depression has robbed you of. And also important for anyone with anxiety. It might not happen perfectly, or even be a success at the end, but you must let go of that anxiety and take the outcome for what it is.
It seemed like a simple social media game when I first hopped on board, but I have been amazed at the transformation on my mental health from this simple task of finding and documenting happy moments in my days. It holds me accountable to my social media followers, which is key for me in helping me do things, and do them well. If I am doing something only for myself, that is where I fall short and give up (self-worth not being my strong suit).
Reconsider what a small thing like this could do for your happiness. I took it on because of the advice for anxious introverts to "always say yes." That is, say yes to invitations, new experiences, simple challenges like #100happydays. Giving up is always an option, so you have an out. But you more than likely will find most experiences to be enriching and enjoyable.
Enjoy below some of my more random moments in this photo challenge. And begin one of your own. Who cares if it's the middle of January?


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1st Oct '12
T-Mobile USA Deal with Crown Castle about $2.4 Billion Towers
T-Mobile USA has signed a US$2.4 billion deal with Crown Castle that lets the towers operator have sole rights to use and lease out 6,400 of T-Mobile's towers for the next 28 years. The deal also includes the sale of 800 towers to Crown Castle.
The payment of the $2.4 billion will be a single lump-sum once the deal is legally completed, which is expected by the end of this year.
The deal gives Crown Castle, a cell-tower company, exclusive rights to lease and operate the T-Mobile USA towers for about 28 years. After that, Crown will have the option to buy the towers for an additional $2.4 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
The move is aimed at raising cash to help fund the operations of T-Mobile USA, which is owned by Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGY, DTE.XE). The efforts began after AT&T Inc. (T), the country's No. 2 wireless carrier behind Verizon Wireless, dropped its $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile USA last year in the face of regulatory opposition.
Deutsche Telekom said the company had multiple bidders for the assets, but declined to name them.
Analysts have said other companies that considered the towers included American Tower Corp and SBA Communications Corp.The key part of these initiatives is the 4G network roll-out with investments worth around US$4 billion. It includes the modernization of 37,000 cell sites, the introduction of 4G/HSPA+ services in the 1900 MHz spectrum and the market launch of LTE 2013.
Crown Castle shares fell 23 cents to $64.68 on the New York Stock Exchange after the news, while Deutsche Telekom shares closed down 1.6 percent in Frankfurt.
What is inside PAGING Channel Message in CDMA
What is Pseudo-Noise Code and M-Sequence in CDMA
23rd Feb '13
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15th Jan '13
How SIM works in GSM
Why LTE Require in Telecom ?
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UE information transfer and RRC connection Aspects in LTE
Affects of the Channel in LTE MIMO
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Which OFDM Parameters Used in WiMAX
2nd Mar '13
WMAN Standardization

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The Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) brings together world-renowned investigators to study the complicated facets of recovery from brain injury. BIRC has leveraged resources from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) and the National Institutes of Health to conduct research that predicts participation outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and leads to interventions that improve these outcomes.
The Brain Injury and Stroke Program at TIRR Memorial Hermann has been designated a Traumatic Brain Injury Model System for nearly three decades, and was funded as a Rehabilitation and Research Training Center of excellence in TBI for over 20 years. (1993-2016).
Researchers at BIRC are developing and testing treatments to improve cognition, emotional well-being and participation. Current investigations include trials of pharmacologic and behavioral interventions to improve memory in persons with traumatic brain injury, a psychotherapy trial to decrease emotional distress after TBI, assessment of caregiver outcomes,use of a mood tracker app as health management intervention for emotional distress after TBI, and development of a new classification system for persons with TBI that will help guide treatment, among other studies. They have created educational materials on sexuality, social communication and caregiver management of TBI that are used in rehabilitation programs around the world.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: David Arciniegas, M.D.
CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Angelle Sander, Ph.D.
Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) from 2013 to 2018, this study evaluates the effectiveness of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor donepezil for improving cognitive memory test performance, everyday memory function and participation outcomes in persons with traumatic brain injury.
CO-INVESTIGATORS: Allison Clark, Ph.D., Mark Sherer, Ph.D., ABPP, FACRM, Allison Clark, Ph.D., and David Arciniegas, M.D.
The major goal of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a psychotherapy combining acceptance of thoughts and feelings with living out values, for reducing emotional distress in persons with traumatic brain injury. If successful, the study will provide a foundation for future multicenter comparative effectiveness trials in which ACT can be evaluated in comparison to traditional cognitive behavioral therapy and psychotropic medications.
The goal of this project is to determine the efficacy of self-monitoring of emotional distress using a mobile app with accompanying supportive telephone calls for decreasing emotional distress in persons with TBI.
The lead site for this study is University of Michigan (PI: Noelle Carlozzi), and TIRR is a data collection site. The major goal of this project is to develop and validate a quality of life measure for caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injury. TIRR has contributed to focus groups used to generate items for the measure, collection of data for initial validation of the measure, and the final validation phase investigating the relationship of the measure to physical and mental health and to other caregiver burden measures.
The lead site for this study is Indiana University Medical School (PI: Dawn Neumann), and TIRR is a data collection site. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between anger in people with TBI and how they interpret the intentions of others. If it is found that the way people with TBI interpret the intentions of others is related to their anger, then we can develop treatments to help them more accurately interpret the behaviors of others. This could result in improved social interaction. We are also studying whether interpretations of others' intentions is related to different thinking abilities that are sometimes affected after a TBI. To help us understand the effect of TBI, we are comparing persons with TBI to people who do not have a TBI.
The purpose of this protocol is to enroll persons with TBI into a national database. The purpose of the database is to collect information on the course of TBI through the continuum of care, including acute trauma care, comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation, post-acute rehabilitation, and long-term outcomes. The database can serve as a resource for investigators at other Model System Centers, as well as persons collaborating with them.
The lead site for this study is University of California, San Francisco (PI: Geoff Manley). TIRR is an outcomes data collection site. The major goals of this project are to study 3000 TBI patients with longitudinal assessments of advanced imaging, biomarkers, and neurobehavioral testing in order to develop better classification/prognosis for the entire spectrum of TBI severity.


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Olympics Badminton
When did badminton become an Olympic sport?
Badminton became an Olymic sport on 1992 in Barcelona.
What happens if carbon dioxide levels in the blood are too low
Approximately how many kilometers are covered in a 9 mile race
Which sport combined the games of handball and squash
Which of these sports features a competition known as the Grand Slam
What are the terms for the "ball" used in badminton?
Q: When did badminton become an Olympic sport?
What year in the Olympic games did badminton become a medal sport?
When did badmiton become an official olympic sports?
Badminton became an official Olympic sport 1992 in Barcelona.
Which is not an Olympic sport racquetball table tennis badminton?
Racquetball is not an Olympic sport.
How long has Badminton been in the Summer Olympic Games?
Badminton became an Olympic sport in 1992.
Is table tennis racquetball or badminton not an Olympic sport?
Table Tennis and Badminton are Olympic sports. Racquetball, however, is not.
Is badminton an Olympic sport?
Yes. Badminton debuted as a demonstration sport in 1972, was a demonstration sport again in 1988 and became a medal sport in 1992.
Who uses a shuttlecock in the Olympic Games?
People who play badminton. Badminton was demonstrated in 1972, but became an Olympic sport in 1992.
When did all volleyball become an olympic sport?
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When did badminton became an olympic sport?
Badminton was a demonstration sport in 1972, an exhibition sport in 1988, and a full medal sport in 1992. Badminton most certainly began on the Asian continent, but the exact origins are unknown. By : Joanna100 =)
In which olympic sport are all events open to men women?
Which racket sport made its debut at the 1992 olympic games?
Badminton.
When did badminton become a sport?
When it was first invented! It came from an old children's game called battledore and it's an Olympic sport, so yeah: When it was invented in the mid 18th century
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The La Vergne Police Department is asking for help to identify a woman involved in an attempted robbery earlier this week.
The robbery occurred on Monday, February 11th at the Subway restaurant at 5191 Murfreesboro Road around 3:45 p.m. The woman was described as an African-American woman wearing a dark hat that read "Los Angeles," gray sweatpants and a dark hooded sweatshirt. She got into the passenger side of a dark colored 2019 Infinity Q60 before fleeing the scene.
If anyone recognizes the woman or the car they are asked to call the La Vergne Police Department at (615) 793-7744 or the Rutherford County CrimeStoppers at 615-893-7867 (STOP).


I'm not blind without my glasses, but I definitely need to wear glasses or contacts if I want to see leaves on trees. Quick refresher: when I was in middle school, glasses were definitely not considered cool. I dreaded going to the eye doctor and thought most glasses looked ugly on my face. And when I did end up going, most of the glasses I liked were upwards of $300-$400. It wasn't until my freshman year of college when my friend told my about Warby Parker, an online site to purchase fashionable glasses. I finally found a pair of glasses I loved for only $95. I became hooked on the business and started actually enjoying wearing my glasses around!
Warby Parker was founded in 2010 by four friends, including current co-CEOS Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, in their apartment in Philadelphia. The pain point they were trying to solve was the expensive cost for eyewear. Why couldn't fashionable glasses be affordable? This business venture idea originated from Gilboa's personal experience when he lost his $700 pair of glasses backpacking in Asia before starting graduate school. He actually ended up not purchasing a new pair because they were too expensive, so he went through his first semester of grad school without glasses.
Even though Neil and Dave had a great idea, many people, including other entrepreneurs and business professionals doubted their idea. Even the co-founders were still trying to figure out exactly what their mission and business model would be. Their main priority was cost and wanted to remove the middlemen in order to sell glasses directly to consumers for less costs. They aimed to sell each of their glasses for $95, and low and behold, they made it happen. Starting as an eCommerce website, customers could browse directly online for fashionable glasses that cost what seemed like near-to-nothing compared to before. Called "the Netflix of eyewear," Warby Parker took off and gained over 20,000 people on their site's initial waitlist.
Customers selected glasses that they liked on site, and then the company would send their choices in the mail for them to try on at home. Whichever ones they did not like, they would send back in the mail. And today, customers can still partake in their Home-Try On program that allows you to try on 5 glasses free for 5 days. If you end up liking a pair, you can purchase them online and the company will send you a brand new pair. So if you end up not liking any of the choices, then you return them an don't have to pay a penny!
Usually companies, especially retail, start out as brick and mortar stores and eventually move to eCommerce. However, with Warby Parker, the opposite occurred. While Warby Parker thought people trying on pairs at home would be enough, they actually discovered that people would rather touch and feel the glasses in a store. To solve this problem, the company started opening brick and mortar stores around the country in 2013, and there's even one today in the Prudential Center. In fact, I purchased my pair of Warby Parker glasses at the brick and mortar store in my hometown of Dallas. As of last weekend, they have 50 locations in 22 states, along with the original website.
Some benefits of starting as an eCommerce site before a physical location include the ability to first analyze customer data to see which locations and what size will be best to open, along with information on how to personalize each location. The Warby Parker story signifies how brick and mortar retail might not be dead, which we see today with Amazon working to open stores in the near future.
From my personal experience, I would argue that the Warby Parker stores are very innovative. They have a trendy, modern feel, and each store has an optometrist on hand. Employees walk around with iPads for customers to enter information and pay for the glasses, similar to Apple stores.
Warby Parker just opened their 50th location in LA, and it's their most innovative store yet. Its goal is to create a "social media store experience using visual elements." The store has a separate green room for people to try on glasses with fun virtual backgrounds similar to a photo booth, including an aquarium, palm trees, and large pizza. There are even green screen glasses for customers to wear. People can create 15 second videos in the green room and then download to their phones to share on social media. Really cool to see a somewhat simple/boring retail category taking on such innovative changes!
Lights, camera, get in on the action! To celebrate the opening of the #warbygreenroom, we're throwing a contest for all of our friends in L.A.: starting tomorrow, share your 15-second green screen videos—which you can create at the new store!—using #warbygreenroom and #contest for a chance to win a pair of sunglasses, along with other store-exclusive treats (including a print designed by @alia_pop)! More details via the link in our bio. 🎥 😎 . . . . . . . . No purchase necessary. 50 U.S./DC, 18+. Submissions accepted 4/21/17 through 4/30/17. Void where prohibited. See Official Rules at blog.warbyparker.com for details.
Some other innovative technologies involve how customers shop for glasses. Besides the "Home Try-On" program, Warby Parker also has face recognition technology to help customers order online. Customers can take a photo of their face on the website, and it will virtually measure your pupillary distance (PD), which is the distance between your pupils so that each order can be customized for your eyes.
The website also offers a quiz for visitors to take in order to suggest frames they might like best.
Warby Parker was included in Fast Company Magazine's World's Most Innovative Companies. At first you might wonder how a glasses company can make the list for the top innovative companies in the world…but Warby Parker does more than sell glasses. It also gives back to the community. With its "Buy a Pair, Give a Pair" program, Warby Parker gives part of its sales to nonprofit organizations like VisionSpring that Blumenthal also ran before founding Warby Parker. This organization trains people in developing countries to give basic eye exams and sell affordable glasses to their communities. In fact, the founders stated that people in the U.S. are being misdiagnosed for disabilities when in fact they simply need glasses. They recently launched programs in New York and Baltimore to provide eye exams at schools, but giving them fashionable glasses to try on while doing so.
Warby Parker's affordable prices are disrupting the eyewear monopoly that exists. Just last month, the top leaders, Italian company Luxottica, which owns popular brands we know like RayBan and Oakley, and the French company Essilor combined to make a $49 billion dollar merger with the new company called EssilorLuxottica. However, Warby Parker has managed to stay competitive and has kept growing. The company expects to open 25 more stores this year and is valued at $1.2 billion. Overall, the company's story is an inspirational one of how technology can help change an entire industry.
Great post Nicole! It seems their fave recognition tool and their use of technology in-store makes them stand out from their competitors! I was at a conference last month where Neil Blumenthal was on a panel discussion. He said that the Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program and their overall commitment to socially responsibility was not only beneficial to their relationship with customers but it was also critical to their ability to attract and retain a millennial workforce. Great post!
Awesome post! I was familiar with the Warby Parker eCommerce model before, but I had no idea they had opened brick and mortar stores around the country. Its interesting to see a shift back to brick and mortar taking place with the likes of Amazon and now Warby Parker. I agree with you that this shift may have something to do with the vast amounts of data that eCommerce platforms can collect to ultimately help brick and mortar store placement while lowering the risk of store failure. It will be interesting to see if more companies take a Warby Parker approach to sales and service as it seems to be a very successful business strategy.
Really informative blog post, Nicole! I haven't bought a new pair of glasses in at least 6-7 years (mostly because I wear contacts 95% of the time), but would seriously consider buying a new pair from Warby Parker due to the reasonable price point. I remember visits to the optometrist as a kid and being surprised at how expensive glasses were (even when I had a fairly rudimentary concept of "expensive"), so the rise of buying affordable glasses online is certainly a positive development for almost everyone. Just another example of how virtually every industry is at risk of being disrupted by technology these days.
Great post. It's interesting to read that Warby Parker started out with the mission to make eyeglasses more affordable. I have been wearing glasses since college and my first few pairs were north of $400. I was initially drawn to Warby Parker because of the trendy styles of the frames, and was pleasantly surprised to find out after selecting a pair that I liked that they were so reasonably priced and that the cost of lenses was actually included in the $95 price tag. So for me, I came to them first for fashion and found the low cost to be an added bonus, rather than the other way around. Warby Parker has definitely been a game-changer for eyewear and it will be interesting to see what else they do to remain innovative in the future!
Awesome post! I've always found Warby Parker really interesting as a company. As the only person in my family to not need glasses I haven't had to deal with buying them myself, but all of my siblings bought theirs from Warby Parker. I think the trend of online companies building brick and mortar locations is an interesting thing, I know that they are not the only one to do this. It'll be interesting to see how they adapt to the changing consumer demands moving forward.
Great post! Warby Parker is much more innovative than I would've thought, I love how you pointed out that they're completely reimagining retail. The fact that they donate some of their sales is amazing–this product checks all the boxes for millennial appeal. (Fun, trendy, inexpensive, gives back, cool products).
I'm curious about how their supply chain works and if they faced challenges with suppliers by going up against Luxxotica. If you find any articles about their supply chain, that would be super fascinating to link!
Great post. Warby Parker has definitely been a game changer in the prescription eye wear industry. I think you're right that not only did they make glasses more affordable and the process less of a hassle – but they also have played a considerable role in making glasses stylish/cool to wear again. I ordered from them I believe my sophomore year because of the convenience Home-Try On program. I've been to a couple of the brick and mortar stores and would also agree that the experience feels similar to an Apple store. The social media initiative tied in with their LA location is a genius way to drive free publicity.
I had only seen sponsored ads by Warby Parker on my Facebook timeline and Instagram feed, and never bothered to click on them because based on how the glasses looked, I figured they would be overpriced just as well as any other luxury brands' eyewear is. I had no idea they even had stores because I'd never seen one, and based on the awesome marketing strategies you wrote about, I really want to try visiting their stores. I wonder if they're going to encounter more competition from brands that already have or will adopt similar free trial systems. I loved reading this post!


In the books of Kings and Chronicles King David is a kind of benchmark for later kings whose reigns are judged as "he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his ancestor David", OR he "did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not completely follow the Lord, as his father David had done" (or words to that effect).
1 Kings 15:11-12 Asa did what was pleasing to the LORD, as his father David had done. He expelled the male prostitutes from the land, and he removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.
1 Kings 22:43-44 [Jehoshaphat] He followed closely the course of his father Asa and did not deviate from it, doing what was pleasing to the LORD. However, the shrines did not cease to function; the people still sacrificed and offered at the shrines.
2 Chronicles 20:32-33 [Jehoshaphat] He followed the course of his father Asa and did not deviate from it, doing what was pleasing to the LORD. However, the shrines did not cease; the people still did not direct their heart toward the God of their fathers.
2 Kings 12:3 All his days Jehoash did what was pleasing to the LORD, as the priest Jehoiada instructed him.
2 Chronicles 24:2 All the days of the priest Jehoiada, Jehoash did what was pleasing to the LORD.
2 Kings 14:3-4 [Amaziah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD, but not like his ancestor David; he did just as his father Joash had done. However, the shrines were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings at the shrines.
2 Chronicles 25:2 [Amaziah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD, but not with a whole heart.
2 Kings 15:3-4 [Azariah/Uzziah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done. However, the shrines were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings at the shrines.
2 Chronicles 26:4 [Uzziah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD just as his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 15:34-35 [Jotham] He did what was pleasing to the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. However, the shrines were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings at the shrines.
2 Chronicles 27:2 [Jotham] He did what was pleasing to the LORD just as his father Uzziah had done, but he did not enter the Temple of the LORD; however, the people still acted corruptly.
2 Kings 18:3-4 [Hezekiah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD, just as his father David had done. He abolished the shrines and smashed the pillars and cut down the sacred post.
2 Chronicles 29:2 [Hezekiah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD, just as his father David had done.
Sirach 48:22 For Hezekiah did what was pleasing to the Lord, and he kept firmly to the ways of his ancestor David, as he was commanded by the prophet Isaiah, who was great and trustworthy in his visions.
2 Kings 22:2 [Josiah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD and he followed all the ways of his ancestor David; he did not deviate to the right or to the left.
2 Chronicles 34:2 [Josiah] He did what was pleasing to the LORD, following the ways of his father David without deviating to the right or to the left.
1 Kings 11:4-6, 31-33 [Solomon] He was not as wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God as his father David had been. Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Phoenicians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did what was displeasing to the LORD and did not remain loyal to the LORD like his father David … I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hands … For they have forsaken Me; they have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Phoenicians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites; they have not walked in My ways, or done what is pleasing to Me, or kept My laws and rules, as his father David did.
1 Kings 15:3 [Abijam] He continued in all the sins that his father before him had committed; he was not wholehearted with the LORD his God, like his father David.
2 Kings 16:2-4 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was pleasing to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had done, but followed the ways of the kings of Israel. He even consigned his son to the fire, in the abhorrent fashion of the nations which the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites. He sacrificed and made offerings at the shrines, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
2 Chronicles 28:1-4 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was pleasing to the LORD as his father David had done, but followed the ways of the kings of Israel; he even made molten images for the Baals. He made offerings in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and burned his sons in fire, in the abhorrent fashion of the nations which the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites. He sacrificed and made offerings at the shrines, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
There appears to be a consistent theme here which determines whether or not a king was commended for being like David, and that is how they dealt with shrines and the worship of other gods. So a king could be commended for doing what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet if they tolerated shrines and sacrifices to other gods they missed out on the added commendation of being like David. This may very well provide a clue for why David was chosen and Saul was ultimately rejected, for while Saul was initially chosen by God, was the LORD's anointed, had a heart for God, sacrificed regularly and 'religiously' and was in many ways a good king, and while his son Jonathan was potentially a good successor, the dynasty of Saul was rejected in favour of David's. Subsequent kings were judged on whether or not they rid the land of shrines (possibly even including shrines to YHVH in competition with the Temple in Jerusalem) and their tolerance of worship of other gods.
While David was guilty of very serious breaches of the commandments (adultery and murder) according to 1 Kings 15:5 he did "what was pleasing to the LORD and never turned throughout his life from all that He had commanded him, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite". Whatever David did that was right it was able to "cover a multitude of sins" (to use the words of one New Testament writer in a different context) and to enable God to overlook some very serious wrongs. Were subsequent kings judged by a similar standard? Is it possible that in the final summation of their reigns they were judged solely on the twin criteria of how well they preserved the Jerusalem Temple as the place of central worship, and whether or not they rid the land of other shrines?
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Alexis de Tocqueville Political and Social Observations on America and American Democracy in the 19th Century
Don A. Hoglund
Théodore Chassériau [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
By Alexis de Tocqueville [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Alexis de Tocqueville was a young apprentice magistrate in France who was sent in 1831 by his government to the United States to study the prison system His interest went beyond that. He returned to France and publisher a classic analysis of the influence of Democracy on government, economy and society in the United States. I have always found is comments on America to be insightful.
I have collected a number of his quotations that appeal to me.
"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in ability to repair her faults."
Probably since Viet Nam I have heard complaints about all the faults America has, as if no other country has nay faults. Yes, the country, like any country, has its share of mistakes, bad judgment, and scandals, but we eventually get back on an even keel. In my personal opinion the last election is about changing some mistakes.
"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."
With political correctness and the tendency to write history to suit a political goal we are in danger of losing the past. We must learn from history.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference. While democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
I think in my lifetime we have seen enough results of socialist governments to know the truth of this.
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
Simply put, we should have less government and more private and non-profit organizations.
"In the United states the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own."
I am not sure if it is the majority in this day and age. Opinion forming has become an industry. People such as George Soros can spend millions on trying to mold our opinions. Likewise, I am not sure exactly what drives political correctness but it seems nothing short of mind control to me. It seems that those who should be leaders in informing us are bend on just giving us the point of view they want us to have.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
I think we see a lot of this now. For example, people in our government who act like they are superior to ordinary people and are not afraid to say so. Are the reason car companies and others went broke because they failed to supply products the people were willing to buy? In the old days the phrase was, "The customer is always right." Is the customer treated that way now? Customer service is given lip service now but ignored in practice.
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?"
Depending on your own view of religion you may discount his opinion or agree with me that true liberty comes through believe in something higher. As our society gets more secular, it seems to me it gets more oppressive with groups and government infringing on us. For example political correctness, which is polite censorship. Attempts to regulate everything to the point of micro-management.
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."
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I think that in my lifetime this has been a trend. Earmarks, social programs that people vote for to get something for nothing, over and above the needs of a "safety net" which should probably be at the local level anyhow.
"Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question."
A good example is: The lawsuit against the State of Arizona for wanting to enforce laws the federal government, for political reasons does not want to enforce.
"Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion."
Alexis de Tocqueville quote
This is why the recognition of all churches, rather than a state church is feasible. If the populace has no religion it probably has no basis for moral and ethical decisions, thus leadin
© 2010 Don A. Hoglund
Don A. Hoglund (author) from Wisconsin Rapids on February 12, 2011:
Thank you for the enthusiastic comment.
wba108@yahoo.com from upstate, NY on February 12, 2011:
This is a brilliant Hub! What insights this man had for the issues that face us today. He concurred with a lot of what the Founding Fathers said. You are correct in every point you made. The more secular our society becomes the more despotic the government is. You described the arrogant liberal elite very accurately, they definitely think they know what's best for us and disdain ordinary Americans. The federal government has ignored the Constitution and is sorely in need of being reined in before its too late!
Don A. Hoglund (author) from Wisconsin Rapids on December 21, 2010:
I think we get enough of the other side.
Anonymous on December 20, 2010:
It would be nice reading these historic observations without your one sided bullshit narration. Thanks for the quotes though.
Don A. Hoglund (author) from Wisconsin Rapids on November 30, 2010:
We studied him in college and it left an impressin. Thankds for you comment.
Old Empresario on November 30, 2010:
I love Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Our democratic traditions are one of the greatest aspects of American culture.
I agree with you.Thanks for the comment.
womacxxx1 on November 15, 2010:
interesting, I just read a few chapters of this book last month. the unique perspective I got was that of a Frenchman, analyzing English culture. We forget that America and its unique character is derived from its British colonial history. We have forgotten our Western European heritage, our Marxist multiculturalism has destroyed all sense of nation. In 100 years, we will cease to be European and in fact become Third World Mexico.
I appreciate your reading and commenting.
chinafood from china on November 15, 2010:
United States, is a very great country, although I can not go to the U.S., but I am longing for.
Peggy W
I am still a believer in a good Liberal education (as opposed to a general education). Actually I did consider a Journalism major but being a working student too many classes clashed with my work schedule and the curriculum was so based on prerequisites that you had to almost start from the first course and work your way through.
College is much more flexible now and I wish some of today's programs were available. I am not sure about today's quality though.
I appreciate your comments.
Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on November 15, 2010:
I know what you mean about things being taught in school that do not have an immediate effect on how to earn a living...but many of the subjects stretch our minds and teach us to THINK which after all is said and done is one prime function of schooling.
Look at how you are using some of those things you learned (or at least became exposed to) are now grist for your hubs. Provokes some interesting discussions and makes people think. At least some think... Haha!
Kinghorn,
Thanks for reading and expressing your view. I am not sure I follow the logic of your argument but I will try to answer it.
You state that population is the problem. Since I understnd that we are reproducing at too low a rate to replace ourselves then the population must be from immigration. Thus, the first step would be to control immigration.
I don't understand your idea of needing a bigger government to protect us from corporations. First of all who will protect us from the government? The kind of government you seem to envision would probably be a dictatorship. Remember Eisenhower's remark about the dangers of an industrial/military complex. This would become the industrial/government complex. Observe current government behavior. I consider big unions to be corporation since. Yet the unions wield much influence which might be good for the unions but not good for the people.
I don't know why you would think that personal interactions would be wrecked but it seems the breakdown of family, unwed births, tension between groups is mostly due to government trying to "help."
How would a bigger clumsier government protect us from corporations. Take the BP spill. There were regulations in place that probably would have avoided it, but for some reason the administration did not enforce them. Also the government did too little too late and actually turned down help that was offered by other countries.
With Katrina I suppose you could argue that if the Feds had absolute power Bush could have sent people in without waiting for the governor to make up her mind what to do.In the end it was corporations(WalMart) and non profits like Salvation Army that were more efficient.
Kinghorn on November 14, 2010:
The world population now, in a 25-year period, increases by more than the world population was at the time Tocqueville. Liberty, independence and any large-scale mutual human affection must be expected to be wrecked. Government may need to be big enough to protect communities from each other and from corporations.
Thank you for the comment and rating.My college curriculum was spent on such things as this but nothing on how to make a living.However, I am glad I was introduced to thinkers like this.
Wealthmasdemehealthy
Thank you for your complimentary comment. My father was not a religious man, but he respected the values taught by the churches.
These quotes were good when originally written down in the past and remain so today. Very useful hub and rating it so as well as up!
Wealthmadehealthy from Somewhere in the Lone Star State on November 14, 2010:
I also agree with satomko. And Tocquevilles understanding of our government and social processes is standing today as it is totally correct. And we would all be in a much better place, government wise and personally if we all DID recognize the God who created us. Great hub dahoglund!!!
Robwrite
It's hard to know how a person from that time would comprehend the modern world but the principles should remain the same.
I think I have also heard the term representative democracy. I agree with what you say about fixing problems, which would be a reason to return power to the local level. I never did understand the concept of block grants. i think it means the states send some of there money to Washington and they might get some of it back.
Thanks for contributing.
I appreciate you interest and comment.
suziecat7
Thanks for your comment.I've been very interested in the observations of the outsiders, especially during our formative years.
Rob from Oviedo, FL on November 14, 2010:
Interesting reading. I'd like to see what Monsieur de Tocqueville would have to say about our society since the emergence of the mega-corporations and how they have affected America.
Also, American is really a Republic, not a true democracy, which means it was designed to have everything done by proxy, rather than by individual action, which makes fixing our problems much harder, since the people we're asking to repair the system don't care about the people on the bottom.
daydreamer13 on November 14, 2010:
Very interesting. A great read.
suziecat7 from Asheville, NC on November 14, 2010:
I agree with Satomko. de Tocqueville was able to observe American democracy as a whole and with an outsider's perspective. Great Hub.
I believe you are right.Thanks for commenting.
Seth Tomko from Macon, GA on November 13, 2010:
One of the reasons why I believe Alexis de Tocqueville's observations remain worth reading after all this time is because he comments directly to what he believe is the "American character" rather than limiting his insights to the immediate circumstances.
I always thought this observer had much to say about today as well ass in his own time.Thanks for reading and commenting.
Rachel Woodruff from Southwest Missouri on November 13, 2010:
Very interesting, I would love to read more on this topic.
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Version 10.6 of Axis LMS introduces a lot of new opportunities for an admin to change the User Interface. Taking the previously passive 'background' selection, Axis LMS v10.6 brings your selection to the foreground in a new 'theme' selection. Released juxtaposed to a new scaling option for the User Interface and in-line module delivery; branding and customizing your Users' Interface has become a lot easier, and a lot more potent.
Perhaps the most pivotal design decisions can be made by Branding your LMS. From here, you'll be able to choose themes and banners that affect the entirety of your System. From the buttons users interact with, to the new in-line style of quiz delivery, the decisions you make will cascade down to almost everything your users can interact with.
In addition to the quick start Branding, administrators are now able to choose a new scaling UI option for their users; where the size of everything on the user's interface is now dependent on the how the user sizes their window.
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Q: Python SSL error on discord.py: ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056) The Error

ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)
  SSL handshake failed on verifying the certificate
aiohttp.client_exceptions.ClientConnectorCertificateError: Cannot connect to host discordapp.com:443 ssl:True [SSLCertVerificationError: (1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)')]

Full traceback (156 lines): https://pastebin.com/xmy4aYcM
Debugging info
I am running on fully updated Raspbian Buster with Python 3.7.3, on a Raspberry Pi 3.
Output of uname -a:
Linux hostname 4.19.75-v7+ #1270 SMP Tue Sep 24 18:45:11 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

Output of lsb_release -a:
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description:    Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:        10
Codename:       buster

Output of pip freeze:
aiohttp==3.5.4
async-timeout==3.0.1
attrs==19.3.0
certifi==2019.9.11
chardet==3.0.4
discord.py==1.2.4
idna==2.8
multidict==4.5.2
pkg-resources==0.0.0
websockets==6.0
yarl==1.3.0

>>> import os
>>> import ssl
>>> openssl_dir, openssl_cafile = os.path.split(
...     ssl.get_default_verify_paths().openssl_cafile)
>>> os.listdir(openssl_dir)
['openssl.cnf', 'private', 'misc', 'certs']
>>> print(os.path.exists(openssl_cafile))
False

What I've tried
All my online searches give one of two suggestions:

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*Install certifi using pip

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*I have already installed it, and it does not change anything.

*Run Install Certificates.command in the /Applications/Python 3.X/ folder

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*This is Mac specific. In general, all mentions of this error have been on Mac only.

Minimal reproducing example
Create a venv, and install packages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates python3-venv python3-pip

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -U pip
python3 -m pip install -U setuptools wheel
python3 -m pip install -U discord.py certifi

Open a python3 prompt, and run:
import discord

client = discord.Client()
client.run("token") # error happens here

I do not encounter this same error on my PC running Linux and the same Python version and packages.
Is there a way to either

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*Ignore ssl certificate validation checking (like the --insecure flag on curl), or

*Properly install the missing certificates?

A: Try doing this:
import ssl
ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
ctx.check_hostname = False
ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

html = urllib.request.urlopen('https://blahblah.com/something', context=ctx).read()

This will prevent for validating the certificate. Otherwise, you will need to install it.

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"In the Heights" at Custom Made Theatre
"In the Heights" at Custom Made Theatre Company
Carol Benet
A brave man is Brian Katz, Artistic Director of the 20- year old Custom Made Theatre Company. He is producing one of the most challenging plays, Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights", and it is not easy.
First of all, the rap songs demand much of what complicated and modernistic opera requires: singers who can produce the polyphonic music with a spate of words often in ensemble formation. The young cast chosen for this production is indefatigable. They have to be young to preform it.
"In the Heights" took home many major awards in New York in 2008 and later in London. It deserved everyone of them as it ushered in a new form of musical performance with a language that was strange to the usual opera attendee. For the typical opera goer, rap is like trying to figure out the lyrics in a foreign language but without subtitles.
Lin-Manual Miranda is one of the biggest names in musical comedy history for his show "Hamilton" whose tickets are difficult to obtain and are still very expensive in New York. I payed about $600 a year ago.
"In the Heights", Miranda's first major show on Broadway, tells the story of people living in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York and these were not the Germans who escaped Hitler and settled in the Heights in the 30s and 40s of the last century.
But the Heights in this play belong to the Latinos from various countries, blacks and Asians who form the American melting pot. We follow Nina (Carla Gallardo) who has returned home after dropping out of Stanford where she had a partial scholarship. She explained that she had to work two jobs just to afford the textbooks that she never had time to read.
Her parents, played by Bidalia E. Albanese and Sergio Lobito, are understandably disturbed by this news. The father decides to sell his taxi dispatch business in order to pay the tuition but at the same time he forbids Nina's back boy friend Benny (Dedrick Wetherby) to ever see his daughter again. This is a double whammy for Benny because he is loosing his job working for the father as well.
Another story is told by the grandmother Abuela Claudia (Michelle Navarrete). And three girlfriends, whose sassy songs and dances sparkle with a Latin beat, have more stories. But here is the rub. Not all of the voices are capable of singing this music, a score of dozens of songs for each of the two Acts.
But I would not want to have missed "In the Heights" and I am happy that the troupe has brought it to us at a reasonable (not Broadway) price.
You can thank the director/choreographer Nicol Meñez and the Music Director Louis Lagalante along with Brian Katz for bringing this play to the Bay Area. The set design by Mara Ishihara Zinky is brilliant with a brick covered exterior walls and both the interior of the bodega owned by Usanavi (Julio Chavez) and the inside of the taxi dispatch space made by merely turning a central island around to create the new scene. Ella Cooley's sound and Chris Lundahl's lighting are fine. Marisely Cortes's costume design is excellent, especially when the characters go into the 1940s when their wigs and costumes had to be appropriate for his time period.
Bravo to the entire company and long live the small theaters in the Bay Area!
"In the Heights" runs through December 15, 2018 at The Custom Made Theatre, upstairs at 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, one block west of Union Square. custom-made.org or 415 798 2682.
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Would you launch four or five initiatives in your business in a year? And then introduce three or four more the following year? Of course not!
This is the root cause of failure of school reform in most school districts. They insist on having a flavor of the month, overwhelming teachers and principals. Schools are suffering initiative fatigue.
Businesses understand the need to focus on initiatives over time to allow the initiatives to root and give employees time to make adjustments in the new program or process. Sadly, school corporations are known for rarely focusing on one program or process and making it work.
• After committing to a school improvement process supported by the teachers' association and training all schools, the district introduced seven initiatives the next year. The initial process lost momentum. Why? A new superintendent wanted to make a mark with new programs, failing to support the previous one.
• After initiating several programs in its school district, the board began repealing certain programs without consulting with the superintendent. Why? Teachers did not want to make the changes and complained to board members. They wanted to bypass the superintendent, who was ultimately charged with improving student results.
As these examples illustrate, lasting change is rarely achieved.
In business, the CEO is held accountable for achieving results. When I served on a bank board, we did not micromanage the president. We reviewed reports and monitored results.
Some of these struggles are due to schools' being public corporations, meaning they must do their business in public. A successful businessman who served on my school board was astonished at the overwhelming number of regulations and restrictions placed upon schools because of the public nature of their business.
How do we fix initiative fatigue? We must have courage to list every initiative teachers and principals can remember. We then determine the current level of implementation, study student achievement results, and decide whether the program should continue.
We should engage teachers and principals in this conversation, not allow it to occur exclusively at the district and school board level. Teachers and principals will always tell the truth about what programs work if they fear no retribution.
Teachers and principals are willing to be held accountable. But they must have some control over the solutions that best meet the needs of their students.
Whatever improvement process a school district selects, the district needs to train, monitor the implementation, adjust, acknowledge and reward improvements, and stay the course for years.
The proof of the value of consistency is improvement in student achievement for years.
The district where I was most recently superintendent, Metropolitan School District of Warren Township, was committed to the 8-Step Continuous Improvement Model for more than a decade, and was rewarded with a federal $28.5 million Race to the Top grant.
Hinckley spent 28 years as a school superintendent and is the author of "Monitoring: Keeping Your Finger on the Pulse of School Improvement." Send comments on this column to ibjedit@ibj.com.


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Family distraught as OCAD student Asmaa Bana goes missing
By Michelle ShephardNational Security Reporter
Wed., April 22, 2015timer4 min. read
Concern continues to grow about the whereabouts of Asmaa Bana, a 20-year-old Toronto graphic design student who has been missing since Monday, when she told friends she was leaving for a job interview.
Bana's family says she is so conscientious that she will call if she expects to be even five minutes late, which is why her disappearance has left them desperate for information.
Also worrisome is the fact that Bana deactivated most of her social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Friends last reported seeing Bana on the fourth floor of the Ontario College of Arts and Design in downtown Toronto about 1:30 p.m. Monday. She had been searching online for a summer job — something she was anxious about — and told a friend she had found a great opportunity and would be having an interview later that day.
When she did not return Monday night to the Rexdale home where she lives with her siblings and parents, they began to panic.
"You're not in trouble, please come home," her family said in a message to Asmaa on Wednesday morning after Toronto police issued a press release. "If anyone knows anything, please come forward."
A relative obtained Bana's cellphone record for Monday, which shows the phone was last used at 5:19 p.m. to call her voicemail. The call lasted a minute.
But the records show from 2 p.m. until that last call, there were repeated incoming calls from a cellphone in Barrie. Bana does not appear to have answered them but did check her voicemail after almost every missed call.
The Star found the identity of the caller, who is listed as an employee with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, and tried to reach him by cellphone, Facebook and his office phone number. The messages were not returned.
However, Bana's sister, Ilham, called the Barrie number early Tuesday and spoke briefly to a man before he hung up.
Toronto police Det. Paul Elliott said the investigation into Bana's whereabouts is ongoing but confirmed the ministry employee is co-operating with them.
Normally, a missing 20-year-old does not warrant much attention from police but Elliott said the fact she deactivated her accounts raised alarms.
"That's unusual for someone her age," said Elliott Wednesday morning.
Had she wanted to disappear? A record of Bana's Twitter account before she deactivated it Monday showed a recent post in which she wrote: "I don't even care anymore."
Then: "Okay maybe I care just a little."
And lastly, "I hate people generally, but I like people individually."
Her Tumblr account is a jumble of kitten and baby photos, praise for fashion or movie stars and quotes from the Qur'an.
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Every possible explanation of where she may be — from the benign to the devastating — has run through the minds of Bana's relatives, who immediately contacted police when they could not reach her.
The apartment where Bana lives with her parents, five sisters and brother, was packed late Tuesday night and again Wednesday as a steady stream of relatives came to comfort the family, hugging, crying.
On Tuesday night, three of her sisters were huddled in a bedroom, working like forensic investigators trying to track her movements.
She has a credit card but only a $500 limit and no real savings, they said. They tried to track her laptop through its serial number. Their cellphones constantly rang with updates or rumours from friends.
In addition to the calls from Monday there was another unusual call that one of the Toronto detectives investigating the case mentioned to the family, Ilham said. It was on April 18 and lasted only one minute. The number is for a cellphone in Pakistan, but her sisters say she doesn't know anyone in Pakistan. Perhaps it was nothing more than a telemarketer. No one answered the number when it was called.
Her family was concerned that once news of her disappearance became public, people would assume that since she is Muslim she had been recruited by the Islamic State, which controls a large region in Iraq and Syria and has lured about 75 Canadians there, according to Canada's spy service.
But it was also one of the first scenarios they themselves considered.
"We worried about that, of course," said Ilham. "Because none of this makes sense."
"I went through her bed, reached into all the nooks and crannies to see if she has a diary, or any notes tucked away," she said. "I'm not concerned right now about privacy. I looked for pamphlets of events maybe she went to, went through all the pockets of her clothes, her bags, purses, maybe there was something she was hiding."
Bana's relatives say while she could be easily influenced, they find it impossible to believe she would try to leave Canada or be persuaded by a group such as the Islamic State. She has never been outside Ontario and never had a passport, unless she recently applied for one and did not tell her family.
"She barely keeps up with the news. She's just trying to make her way through school," said one sister.
Elliott confirmed Wednesday that police have no indication of any involvement by outside groups. The case has not been referred to the RCMP, who are alerted in national security investigations.
Bana left her home Monday at 7 a.m., with her mother telling her as usual to eat breakfast and Bana, as usual, leaving without a meal.
She took her phone, camera, laptop and chargers. That was what she usually packed for school. In hindsight, the fact that she left so early seems strange.
"She said exams were done, so it would be odd for her to leave that early," said Ilham. "She had such a hectic semester, any student would want to take advantage of this time to recover from sleep deprivation."
Police are asking anyone with information to call 416-808-2300.
Contact Michelle Shephard at mshephard@thestar.ca . Follow on Twitter @shephardm


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Q: Facebook Site Linking Support When someone posts a link to a web site in Facebook, it populates the link preview box with a photo and some text from the site.
If someone posts a link to my site in Facebook, it is generally just get the site's domain name and one of the images that appears on the site. No text appears.
I would like to be able to control what text and images appear in the link. Is there a specification that they use? Can I provide some metadata so Facebook will display what I want?

A: Here is Facebook's developer page on their share function.
Basically there are some simple metatags you can use to optimize what appears on FB
<meta name="title" content="title" />
<meta name="description" content="description " />
<link rel="image_src" href="thumbnail_image" / >

A: AND:
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Q: Prisma and Postgres FetchError: request to http://localhost:4466/management failed I am trying to work with Prisma. I have tried the available solutions on GitHub issues and StackOverflow as well.
I have installed Prisma using the following Command
npm install -g prisma

I have docker and docker-compose installed in the system.
The following is my docker-compose file
version: '3'
services:
 prisma:
   image: prismagraphql/prisma:1.34
   restart: always
   ports:
    - "4466:4466"
   environment:
      PRISMA_CONFIG: |
       port: 4466
       # uncomment the next line and provide the env var PRISMA_MANAGEMENT_API_SECRET=my-secret to activate cluster security
       # managementApiSecret: my-secret
       databases:
         default:
           connector: postgres
           host: host.docker.internal
           database: db
           schema: public
           user: prisma
           password: prisma
           ssl: false
           rawAccess: true
           port: '5432'
           migrations: true
  postgres:
   image: postgres:11
   restart: always
   environment:
     POSTGRES_USER: prisma
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: prisma
   volumes:
     - postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
volumes:
  postgres: ~

So, now I try to start my container by using the following command
docker-compose up -d

Now, I check if the containers are running fine using the following command.
docker-compose ps
the following is the output
Name                        Command                         State   Ports
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
graphql-prisma_postgres_1   docker-entrypoint.sh postgres   Up      5432/tcp
graphql-prisma_prisma_1     /bin/sh -c /app/start.sh        Up      0.0.0.0:4466->4466/tcp

Now, If I try to execute the following
prisma deploy
docker-compose ps

the following is the output
environment FetchError: request to http://localhost:4466/management failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4466
environment     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1393:11)
environment     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:402:9)
environment     at Socket.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8)
environment     at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3)
environment     at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:9) +0ms
environment FetchError: request to http://localhost:4466/management failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4466
environment     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1393:11)
environment     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:402:9)
environment     at Socket.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8)
environment     at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3)
environment     at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:9) +3ms
command Failed to fetch server version +0ms
command TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of null +0ms
environment FetchError: request to http://localhost:4466/management failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4466
environment     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1393:11)
environment     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:402:9)
environment     at Socket.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8)
environment     at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3)
environment     at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:9) +4ms
environment FetchError: request to http://localhost:4466/management failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4466
environment     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1393:11)
environment     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:402:9)
environment     at Socket.emit (events.js:200:13)
environment     at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:471:20)
environment     at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8)
environment     at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3)
environment     at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:9) +1ms
Error: Could not connect to server at http://localhost:4466. Please check if your server is running.
at Deploy.<anonymous> (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_mod
ules/prisma-cli-core/src/commands/deploy/deploy.ts:137:13)
at step (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_modules/prisma-cli-core/dist/commands/deploy/deploy.js:45:23)
at Object.next (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_modules/prisma-cli-core/dist/commands/deploy/deploy.js:26:53)
at fulfilled (/home/tomonso/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/lib/node_modules/prisma/node_mod
ules/prisma-cli-core/dist/commands/deploy/deploy.js:17:58)
   at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:89:5)
(node:25136) [DEP0066] DeprecationWarning:
OutgoingMessage.prototype._headers is deprecated
 util timed out +0ms
  output Exiting with code: 0 +0ms

A: First if you use docker logs to check the prisma log, you will find a lots of errors. And there are several issues here:

*

*host.docker.internal just works on docker for mac/docker for windows.
If above is your truth, then you want to use host machine's 5432 port to visit postgres's 5342 port. If this, you need to specify port mapping - "5432:5432" in postgres service.
If you just work on linux, then host.docker.internal even not recognized.
In fact, no matter you use windows/mac/linux, you just need to replace host: host.docker.internal with host: postgres, the prisma container could directly visit postgres container, no need host machine's intervene, you can refers to this, search User-defined bridges provide automatic DNS resolution between containers for more help in that page.

*when prisma service want to setup db database, the postgres service even haven't start yet, you need to define start order to assure the postgres service ready before prisma service, you can refers to Control startup and shutdown order in Compose:
But, if you have a look for its entrypoint, you can see next:
bash-4.4# cat start.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -e
/app/prerun_hook.sh
/app/bin/prisma-local

Here, /app/prerun_hook.sh is a hook for user who use this image to do some pre-things, so you can just add some service start assure code in this file to assure the db service start already.
Finally, a workable solution is next:
docker-compose.yaml:
version: '3'
services:
  prisma:
    build: .
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "4466:4466"
    environment:
      PRISMA_CONFIG: |
        port: 4466
        databases:
          default:
            connector: postgres
            host: postgres
            database: db
            schema: public
            user: prisma
            password: prisma
            ssl: false
            rawAccess: true
            port: '5432'
            migrations: true
    depends_on:
      - "postgres"
  postgres:
    image: postgres:11
    restart: always
     environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: prisma
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: prisma
    volumes:
      - postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
volumes:
   postgres: ~

Dockerfile:
FROM prismagraphql/prisma:1.34
COPY ./prerun_hook.sh /app/prerun_hook.sh
RUN chmod +x /app/prerun_hook.sh && \
    apk add postgresql-client

prerun_hook.sh:
#!/bin/sh
set -e

until PGPASSWORD="prisma" psql -h postgres -U "prisma" -c '\q'; do
  >&2 echo "Postgres is unavailable - sleeping"
  sleep 1
done

>&2 echo "Postgres is up - executing command"

Then, if check docker logs you will see next which means it's ok now:
Postgres is up - executing command
No log level set, defaulting to INFO.
[INFO] {} - Starting...
[INFO] {} - Start completed.
[INFO] Initializing workers...
[INFO] Obtaining exclusive agent lock...
[INFO] Obtaining exclusive agent lock... Successful.
[INFO] Successfully started 1 workers.
[INFO] Deployment worker initialization complete.
Server running on :4466


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Effutu MP Alexander Ayenyo Markin told Joy News Thursday, the "immediate reinstatement" was part of an agreement reached with the Governing Council and a delegation from the Education ministry.
According to him, he was delegated together with Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong to speak to factions disgruntled by the decision to sack Principal of the College of Languages Education at Ajumako, Prof. Ephraim Avea Nsoh; local President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr. Frimpong Kakyire Duku and an alumni representative on the University Council, Dr. Emmanuel Osei Sarpong.
They were sacked for reasons which have been criticised as flimsy, unjustifiable and smacking of vindictiveness.
According to UTAG, the Vice-Chancellor Rev. Fr. Professor Anthony Afful-Broni has been on a purging spree, eliminating critics and dissidents after he was sworn in as Vice-Chancellor in March 2018 following a period of unrest within the university.
The university was closed down Thursday after students continued day three of their protest, this time with violence.
Afenyo Markins said the decision to reinstate the lecturers also includes workers sacked or removed by the Vice-Chancellor who is also a Catholic Priest.
At least 30 teaching and non-teaching staff have been sacked since Prof. Afful-Broni took over.
The Effutu MP said the decision of the University's Governing Council will be officially communicated to the public.
"I have no doubt in my mind that, that will be done", he said.
In the meantime, the two-man delegation have since the agreement gone around the campus along with UTAG executives to inform the three principal officers as well as the students.
"They were happy about it", he told Joy FM's Top Story Thursday.
"At the end of the day, the injustice and victimisation we all spoke against have been addressed", he said.
The NPP MP who has been accused of being too intrusive in the politics of UEW since his party won power in 2017 said he is standing down his call for the Vice-Chancellor's resignation.
The calls have also been made by the students and UTAG.


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A new look at Guyana/Cuba relations
Dec 31, 2014 Letters
May I wish all in the homeland the best in the New Year. May I share with your readers a compliment to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Rashleigh Jackson's letter regarding the role of LFS Burnham and Guyana in establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Cuba provided solidarity to Cheddi Jagan's internal self-government that was under seige with a Trades Union Council 80-day general strike which was organized and financed by both internal and external forces supported by Burnham in the 1960s.
The former Minister is correct that Cuba's isolation began in the 1960s. Burnham and his government were actively engaged in the campaign to isolate Cuba.
On Saturday, November 30, 1968 Burnham stated, " ..The MIR represents in Venezuela the Castroite movement for organized violence and guerilla warfare and has been actively engaged in attempting the overthrow of the Venezuelan government through guerrilla activity and widespread acts of sabotage…
"We have to bear in mind that we are dealing with a movement whose aims of organized insurrection affect many countries in the Hemisphere and we have to guard…in fact, within the last few days, we have been in close communication with the Venezuelan authorities on this matter…"
LFS Burnham also stated in1962, "The Cubans whom Castro has given no vote do not have a vote here and I do not propose to give them…"
Both LFS Burnham and Shridat Ramphal held a press conference on the said date and circulated a document dated October 22, 1968.
That document alleged that Pedro Beria conspired with the PPP. It contained codes and so forth. That document was published by me in 1982 in a booklet (101 pages) I wrote and the GRRS published: "Guyana A Nation In Ruins/The Puerto Rican Model Failed."
The Beria Plot document was an attempt to link the PPP with an alleged agent of the MIR to ostensibly overthrow the PNC government. The document most likely was put together by an intelligence officer or an intelligence agency. This is my opinion as a Historian accustomed to examining documents.
It was the then Venezuelan Government which successfully sought the removal of Cuba as a member of the OAS. The case made by then President Betancourt was that Cuba financed and trained a "guerilla" movement under the leadership of Douglas Bravo, Americo Martin, Teodor Petkoff and others.
These facts merely highlight one of the numerous faces of LFS Burnham and Shridat Ramphal. It does not in any way ignore LFS Burnham's contribution in establishing relations with Cuba in the 1970s.
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> NIS and citizens' contributions
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The 5 Most Successful Dota 2 Teams at The International!
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What Dota 2 Teams Have Performed the Best at The International?
The International is the most elite Dota 2 tournament on the planet which features a massive 8-figure prize pool. Every Dota 2 player dreams of one day winning this coveted trophy. In this article, we are going to look at the best teams to ever compete at The International! Find out more about these amazing Dota 2 teams, including current rosters, historical results, and upcoming matches at play-score!
OG is the only Dota 2 team in the history of The International to win the prestigious tournament twice. Even more impressively, the European team won the tournament back to back in 2018 and 2019. In 2018 OG walked away with over $11 million, and then in 2019, they did even better and won $15.6 million.
OG has now competed in The International 9 times and is still one of the most feared Dota 2 teams in the world. They came 7th at The 2022 International and have lifetime Dota 2 earnings of $36 million.
2. Team Spirit
Team Spirit claims the second spot on our list because they won The International 2021, which had by far the biggest prize pool in esports history at $40 million. Thanks to their impressive performance, the Russian team scooped $18.2 million. Unfortunately, they couldn't repeat their performance at The International and ended up placing 13th.
Amazingly, 2021 was the first time Team Spirit competed in The International, what a time to win it! We expect them to bounce back from their disappointment at the 2022 tournament and have a strong showing in 2023!
3. Natus Vincere
Natus Vincere was one of the first pro-Dota 2 teams and was led by legendary player Danil "Dendi" Ishutin. The Ukrainian team burst onto the pro scene and won the first-ever International back in 2011. Even more impressive, they came runner-up in 2012 and 2013.
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4. Team Liquid
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5. PSG.LGD
PSG.LGD is the only team on this list that has never won The International crown. The super-skilled Chinese team has come second twice at The International 2018 and 2021. They have also come 3rd twice at The International 2015 and 2019.
PSG.LGD has consistently placed highly at The International, and year after year, they show how talented they are. Many experts thought The International 2022 will be year where PSG.LGD finally wins, but unfortunately, they had a poor tournament and ended up coming 5th.
When it comes down to GOAT performances at The International there is one team that stands above the rest, OG! OG is the only team to win multiple titles, and their two wins in 2018 and 2019 earned them almost $27 million. We wonder who will be the first Dota 2 team to win 3 titles!