Earlier this summer, I attended a drop-in Flower Workshop at West Elm in London. It was run by the lovely Saima from The Cut Flower Project. And today, I'd like to share with you a few photos from the event. First of all, Saima talked the attendees through how to make a simple flower arrangement, which could either be made in a vase bought from the store or a rustic tin can.
Then, everyone chose a selection of blooms for their arrangement, including stunning peonies, tulips, hyacinths, gypsophila, craspedia, stock and alliums.
Here are some of the attendees in action, with Saima on-hand to help anyone who needed any advice.
I was completely blown away by the magnificent window display at the shop! The amazing oversized flowers crafted in paper didn't just stop me in my tracks, but also lots of passers-by in Tottenham Court Road.
West Elm regularly run events for customers and past events have included Paper Flower Crafts and Photography Workshops. If you'd like to find out about what they have planned, simply visit the West Elm London Facebook page.
I just loving using tin cans for flower arranging. Inexpenisve and eco. I've been using them lately for some children's workshops. They look great with a coat of paint and added deco touches – a great excuse for a bit of gluing.


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Steven Wilson at the Royal Albert Hall
After a busy year of touring, Steven Wilson concluded his 2015 live dates with two nights at the Royal Albert Hall. Once again Hawthorn supplied lighting and video to bring the prog star's music to life.
Steven Wilson has had a very successful year. Since the release of his fourth solo studio album, Hand. Cannot. Erase., the British musician has toured the world, treating fans to a fully immersive musical experience including tailor-made video content that was played throughout every single show.
The set on the first night of the Royal Albert Hall show was almost identical to the rest of the Hand. Cannot. Erase. tour, while the second night was geared more towards fans of Wilson's whole career – where he and his band played through a back catalogue including several songs from his former band, Porcupine Tree.
Before the tour began earlier this year, Wilson's hope was to create a show that would raise the bar both musically and visually from any of the previous tours he had put together. Raising the bar in this case meant having bespoke films created that were played throughout every performance.
To make this ambitious project come to life, Matthew Jensen was assigned the job as Lighting Designer. Speaking with Jensen after the Albert Hall event he recalled his experience with the tour. "I have been with Steven since earlier last year," he said. "It's been great to work with Steven because he has such a distinct vision for his show."
Jensen decided that the best way forward for the tour was to work with Hawthorn, who supplied lighting and video for the tour. "Video definitely came first when deciding to go with Hawthorn," he explained. "I have never personally worked with Hawthorn but I have known Mick Freer [Concert Touring Manager at Hawthorn] for a long time. I was impressed with what Hawthorn had to offer in terms of LED solutions."
Jensen decided to use the Glux 10mm screens for the tour, which provided a canvas for the various films that are played throughout the show. He explained: "The whole show itself is time sequenced, which is vital due to many frame-specific moments where the video has to tie-in exactly with the music. Obviously having a large LED screen is a large investment but it certainly made an impact."
This is not the first time that Hawthorn has supplied services to Steven Wilson. It first supplied a small lighting package for Wilson's European jaunt in April 2012. Mick Freer of Hawthorn spoke about its involvement with the 2012 tour: "During that tour we got to know Dave Salt, Wilson's Tour Manager. When I saw the recent dates of Steven's tour I got in touch with Dave to see if we could be of service." After this, Freer was put in touch with Jensen who he was already firm friends with: "We brought him up to Leicestershire to our head office and demonstrated a whole range of equipment including our LED wall. Originally the production team behind Steven Wilson was thinking of using projections for the tour. But when I showed Jensen the Glux video he began to change his mind. The product is semi-transparent which means you can put lights behind it, which Jensen did using Clay Paky A.leda, B-EYE, and K10's."
Jensen went on to state that the ground support system for the screen, that was also supplied by Hawthorn, was one of the clinchers of the deal. "It had a very small footprint and it allowed me to guarantee management that we could use the screen in every venue on the tour which, given the cost of the screen, helped to convince them to allow us to take the production up a level. We have done some very small venues on this tour but we have always managed to get the screen in."
It wasn't just video solutions that Hawthorn supplied but also the lighting fixtures for the tour as well as the final Royal Albert Hall performance. For this performance, the rig included 24 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10's, 16 QWO 800 ST spots and 10 Clay Paky Sharpy Washes. It also supplied nine SGM P5 LED Washes, 10 Pixel Line 1044 LED battens, four James Thomas Engineering LED Pixel PAR 90's and two Avolites Art 2000 48 Way Hot Racks. At FOH Jensen used a High End Systems Road Hog 4 for control, along with and Catalyst Media server for the visual content. Trussing was via by Prolyte's S52Vs and H30Vs.
Jensen spoke about his experience with the Royal Albert Hall shows: "The height of the Albert Hall is always the issue, not to mention the height that people sit at. We had to ensure that we didn't shine anything into the audience's eyes at the side of the stage. On the floor under the screen, we swapped the SGM P5 LEDs for James Thomas Engineering Pixel Lines. The Pixel Lines have a tighter beam so it didn't dazzle the audience in the higher seats. The remaining P5's were used as audience blinders. Also added for the shows were two side trusses with four Clay Paky Alpha Spots QWO 800 on each. These gave some sidelight as well as beamage to fill the width of the venue."
Freer added: "The video wall we supplied for the Albert Hall was much bigger. A 13 by 7.5 metre screen to be exact. Wilson wanted to get the biggest wall he could. This meant that we had to swap screens and bring in the Glux 12mm." Daniel Oswald, Lighting and Screen Technician for both the tour and the Albert Hall performance, spoke about his experience using the Glux product: "I had never actually used the Glux Screen before. It is very user-friendly for touring. I could build the whole screen in about half an hour during the tour. The Royal Albert Hall we had to use a slightly different product with the 12mm screen. The panel connected together in a slightly different configuration as they have an internal locking mechanism."
As well as a bigger screen, the larger scale of the Royal Albert Hall allowed Jensen to really play around with some ideas that had developed through the tour. Throughout the year the Lighting Designer had developed a design that resembled the top part of an eye. For the Royal Albert Hall, with its larger scale, Jensen and his team were able to expand this concept so the whole lighting design gave the appearance of an eye. Another piece of the live tour that made a welcome return to the Royal Albert Hall performance was the White Gauze Kabuki drape that fell in front of the band and acted as a semi transparent projection screen that the band played behind.
To close Freer wanted to express on behalf of Hawthorn that: "It has been a great pleasure to work with Steven Wilson and be part of such a beautiful design. We had a great working relationship with the production team and are really looking forward to working with them once again on next year's tour."
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800 ST spots
A.leda
Avolites Art 2000
B-EYE
Clay Paky Alpha Spots
Clay Paky Sharpy
High End Systems Road Hog 4
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Mick Freer
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Prolyte's S52V
QWO
SGM P5 LED
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The popular "Young At Art" exhibition is now on view at the Pacifica Center for the Arts. This annual exhibition features some of the talented students from Pacifica schools as well as from the summer art camps and art classes at the Sanchez Art Center. Many of the young artists have been exhibiting in this show for the past six years. Adam Gossman, whose sculptural installation called "Childhood" is displayed in one of the glass cases, looks forward every year to having his work on display in the East Wing Gallery. Other artists in the show have created sculpture, ceramics, mosaics, stained glass, paintings, drawings, books, and photographs  showcasing the up-and-coming talent from Pacifica.


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Orange Fluent. Canciones de El Tri.
One of the most popular Mexican Latin rock acts for the past 35 years, this DVD contains 14 of their most popular songs in music video format.
This DVD featuring the long-time hit Mexican rock group El Tri includes 14 music videos.


Tankabarian tanks good in hell? How to build him?
Discussion in 'Barbarian' started by emilsson, Jul 4, 2010.
A tankabarbarian, can he practically stand in the middle of a large pack beating him, and still survive?
25% of all attacks will hit (because of Max block). Then max damage reduction will shave off 75% of that damage. And he has high hit points.
Is this viable in hell? Which build is good in 1.13? Frenzy? Whirlwind?
Re: Tankabarian tanks good in hell? How to build him?
Well, my berserk runs with similar stats. Every build is good in 1.13, as they were before. In fact, some might have gotten better due to IM removal, tho berserk is best IMHO.
IMO It's a tradeoff, and there's a certain point that its uneccessary. max def and resist and DR and such is all good, but there's a cap on DR and resist, and after a certain point you start to seriously lose killing power to increase your defenses.
concentrate is what you want.


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USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) is the second Legend-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard.

Namesake

Waesche is named for Coast Guard Admiral Russell R. Waesche (1886–1946). Waesche graduated from the United States Revenue Cutter Service School of Instruction in 1906, was commissioned an ensign, and then served with distinction in a succession of diverse and increasingly responsible Coast Guard assignments at sea and ashore.  He served as Commandant of the Coast Guard from 1936 to 1945 during a tumultuous and eventful period in the life of the service, and was the first Coast Guardsman to achieve the rank of admiral.

History

Construction began in 2006 by Northrop Grumman's Ship System Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

On November 6, 2009 the Coast Guard took delivery of the Waesche.  She arrived at her homeport at Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California on February 28, 2010  and was commissioned on May 7, 2010. In 2012 Waesche became the 2nd U.S. surface combatant and the first Coast Guard cutter to use the Phalanx CIWS to defeat an unmanned aerial vehicle with a low, slow flying aircraft profile.

On 19 September 2020, the cutter was in the western Pacific where she suffered a stack fire. The blaze was controlled in ninety minutes. Five crewmen reported minor injuries and the vessel went to Yokosuka for inspection and repair. Repairs were completed in January 2021.

See also
 Integrated Deepwater System Program
 Legend-class United States Coast Guard Cutter

References

External links

USCGC Waesche Captures a Semi-Submersible
Home page
National Security Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) - usmilnet.com - pictures and articles
National Security Cutter Gallery
National Security Cutter Home

Legend-class cutters
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Dr. Jacob Godfrey Agea is a Lecturer in the Department of Community Forestry & Extension in Faculty of Forestry & Nature Conservation, Makerere University. He is also a Director of Research and Quality Assurance in Global Health Network (U). He was born and raised in a rural countryside in Northern Uganda. He holds a First Class Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry (Makerere University Kampala), a Master of Science Degree (Forestry) (Makerere University Kampala), and a PhD in Agriculture (Applied Ethnobotany & Food security) of Bangor University, UK. Jacob has productive research experiences. He has conducted research on the use and potential of wild and semi-wild food plants (WSWFPs) in alleviating household poverty and food security in Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom of Uganda (funded Commonwealth Commission of UK & SIDA/SAREC); Ecology, conservation & agroforestry potential of 'gum Arabic tree' Acacia senegal in the Uganda's rangelands (financed by NORAD); Potential of domesticating indigenous fruit trees for income & household food security in Northern Uganda (funded by NURRU); Socio-economic analysis of Uganda & Kenya's forest policies (funded by AFORNET); Relationship between Access to Forest & Tree Resources & Livelihoods in Central Uganda (funded by Norwegian Support to Makerere University IDP-Phase II); Development of a national beekeeping calendar, honeybee pest & disease control methods to boost production of honey & other hive products in Uganda (funded by Natural Agricultural Research Organization- NARO Uganda); On-farm conservation strategies, post-harvest handling & nutritional value of the Shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) & Shea products in Uganda (Research grant from Carnegie-Makerere Competitive Research funds); Market survey of Mondia whytei (Mulondo) roots in Kampala City (funded by GOU through Makerere University).
Jacob was also jointly awarded research grant from Norwegian Support to Makerere University by Makerere University School of Graduate Studies in August 2008 to conduct a two (2) year (August 2008-August 2010) research on the nutritional values & innovative approaches in the value addition of Ruspolia nitidula ('Nsenene' grasshoppers) for income generation in Uganda. In 2009, he was jointly awarded a competitive research grant (SIDA-SAREC) to develop an improved protocol for processing & handling of honey in Uganda. Jacob has undertaken several consultancies including the Analysis of forest & land resource utilization, management & their impact on livelihoods in Teso & Lango farming systems funded by DFID through National Forest Resources Research Institute (NaFORRI-Uganda); Development of component 4 (capacity building, dissemination & replication strategy) for a project on removing barriers to the effective management of invasive alien species (IAS) in Africa (under a GEF-CABI funded initiative by the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO); Baseline survey on biodiversity usage & conservation in relation to the local communities' livelihoods, Dokolo District (financed by YICAFA through UNDP); Training of trainers (TOT) of YICAFA on Agroforestry & Environment Protection sponsored by UNDP through Rural Energy & Environmental Conservation Project (REECA) in Dokolo; Gathering & abstracting gray literature on forest related research work carried out in Uganda sponsored by Global Forest Information System (GFIS).
Berhanu Abegaz Gashe, earned BSc in Animal Sciences from the College of Agriculture (currently renamed Haramaya University in Ethiopia) in 1968, MSc in microbiology from Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA in 1970 and lectured microbiology to undergraduate plant and animal science students (1970-1973). Because of meritorious and examplenary work he did at the college he was offered USAID/Ford Foundation scholarship to study for his PhD in Microbiology in the USA. He earned his PhD from Oklahoma State University in 1977. He is currently working in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Botswana, where he lectures in microbiology and pursues research on bacterial pathogens, industrial microbiology, food safety and hygiene.
He carried postdoctoral research between 1977-1979 on a bioremedial project on oil spills. He then returned to Ethiopia and briefly joined industry (1979-1981) to set up a research unit in the Ethiopian Chemical Corporation and carried out research on indigenous oil bearing wild plants with potential use for industry. Having spent 2 ½ years in industry he eventually moved to the Department of Biology, Addis Ababa University to pursue his passion in teaching and research. He taught microbiology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, started research and research training in biotechnology based on the utilization of cellulosic agricultural waste materials to useful products using microorganisms or their enzymes as a model. He also carried out research on major bacterial diseases in the country. He recruited several students at postgraduate levels (MSc and PhD) and created a very dynamic program in biotechnology/ industrial microbiology in the department. Funding for biotechnology project was obtained from SAREC, Sweden and collaborative research endeavour was struck with the Department of Biotechnology, Lund University. Furthermore in collaboration with the Ethiopian Nutrition Institute he initiated a viable research program on microbiology of Ethiopian fermented foods where he, his students and collaborators described fermentation processes of the major fermented foods which are unique to Ethiopia. The help which he received from IFS in initiating his studies on Ethiopian foods is gratefully acknowledged. He currently serves as one of the international advisors who is called upon to evaluate research proposals and reports submitted to IFS. Other grants obtained from SIDA, AAU and UNU contributed to vigorous research conducted in the program.
It was also at this juncture that he was tasked by the Dean of Science Faculty to evaluate the academic programs of the Department of Biology and draft the way forward on a establishment of additional programs in the department. Soon after that, after evaluating his performance both internally and externally for his contribution in teaching, research and service Addis Ababa University promoted him to the rank of full Professor in 1994. The recommended reorganization of the department is being implemented though belatedly.
While at Addis Ababa University he also served as editor-in-chief of SINET: The Ethiopian journal of science for several years. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology.
In 1994 when he joined the University of Botswana as sabbaticant, a postgraduate program in applied microbiology was in the making. The program was approved and took its first intake of postgraduate students in 1996. Since then he has been managing the program. He and his colleagues in the microbiology cognate area developed research themes and tackled problems on keeping quality of indigenous foods, stored food products and in food safety and hygiene on which in-coming postgraduate students and staff could participate. For almost a decade the Belgian Government supported our initiative in postgraduate applied microbiology program by sponsoring students from the SADC region but grants received from NORAD, DANIDA, SAREC and UNDP also facilitated the smooth operation of the program. The postgraduate applied microbiology program is recognized by SADC.


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Q: Set wifi txpower from /etc/network/interfaces I am trying to configure my wifi to reliably connect at start-up on a headless device.
I currently have done this with a simple entry in /etc/network/interfaces, along the lines of
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
    wpa-ssid <my ssid>
    wpa-psk <my psk>
    address <address>
    netmaks <netmask>
    gateway <gateway>

Now I also need to set txpower (which also requires me to set the region (reg) as I understand it).
I can do this from the command line with iw reg set ... and iwconfig wlan0 txpower ....  However, what I need is for these values to be reliably set on startup.
I have looked in what I believe is the documentation for configuring wifi in /etc/interfaces, which is /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz, but this does not seem to have any information on setting transmit power.
How can I achieve this?

A: Try the up option described under "IFACE OPTIONS" here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/interfaces.5.html
It, and similar options like pre-up, etc. allow you to execute arbitrary commands at various points during the configuration of your interface. So your /etc/network/interfaces might look like
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
    wpa-ssid <my ssid>
    wpa-psk <my psk>
    address <address>
    netmaks <netmask>
    gateway <gateway>

    # Command options with the same label (e.g. "up", "pre-up") are executed in the
    #  order in which they're specified.
    up iw reg set ...
    up iwconfig wlan0 txpower ...

    # If you have `rfkill` installed and want to disable (all) WiFi transmission
    #  while this interface is down.
    post-down rfkill wifi

You should also be able to use the option wireless-txpower ... since you have the wireless-tools (i.e. iwconfig) package installed, but I'm not sure how the sequencing of your commands would work in that case. Some (sparse) information on the wireless-[ ] options here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man7/wireless.7.html

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Dialogos de Cocina 2019 Addresses the Difficult Food Questions
Photo Dialogos De Cocina
10-12 March, 2019
International experts will come together to think about where gastronomy is coming from and where it is going on 11 and 12 in March in San Sebastian.
What do I eat when I eat? Can food make us lose our heads? What do we really eat when we eat? What is the relationship between food and climate change? And, why is the gender gap still so big in kitchens?
These are just a few of the open questions that will be tackled at culinary congress Diálogos de Cocina (kitchen dialogues) held on March 11 and 12, 2019 in San Sebastian when curious cooking fans are invited to eat and debate!
This cooking conference with a difference, promoted by Mugaritz, Euro-Toques and the Basque Culinary Center, enters its seventh edition and continues to create dialogues in gastronomy in a unique and refreshing way. The multidisciplinary approach, from science to journalism and cooking to technology encourages dialogue around what we put in our mouths and what's behind a mouthful.
Speakers from more than twenty countries and multiple disciplines will address the audience at the Basque Culinary Centre including, Slow Food's Carlo Petrini, French photographer and artist JR, Inside Out Project driver; Cristina Reni, executive director of Food for Soul and the cook and activist in favour of healthy eating, Bela Gil, among others confirmed. They will be joined by chefs like Enrique Olvera, the head of Pujol (Mexico); Tomas Kalika from Mishiguene (Argentina); Thomas Troisgros, of the starred Olympe (Brazil) and Renzo Garibaldi (Peru), the butcher who head up Osso.
After all that difficult debate there will be a great closing party of Spanish and Latin American proportions with Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Argentina taking centre stage.
The festival is open to the general public. Tickets can be bought online here.
Sunday 10 March
19.00 h
'Con las manos en la masa' - Caught red handed
Convent Garden San Sebastián
A conversation between chefs Begoña Rodrigo, Andoni Luis Aduriz and Diego Guerrero open to the city of San Sebastian (free entry) for those who want to spend a night among the stories of some of the best chefs in Spain.
Monday 11 March
Diálogos de Cocina. Day One.
Basque Culinary Center
Tuesday 12 March
Diálogos de Cocina. Day Two.
Great Closing Party with Renzo Garibaldi (Perú), Tomas Kalika (Argentina), Tomás Bermudez (México) and Thomas Troisgros (Brasil).
Paseo Juan Avelino Barriola, 101
Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa), Spain
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The Personal Body Precision program is designed for anyone who wants to live a healthier life and have the figure that they desire. Whether you are a beginner or advanced trainee, female or male, the book includes workout programs designed specifically to help you reach your goals, easily and realistically. Whether you want to lose weight, sculpt a lean, firm body, or build up muscle mass, the program offers step-by-step guidelines on proper nutrition and exercise. Personal Body Precision programs are practical and easy to implement in any busy schedule.
The Personal Body Precision program is diverse and comprehensive, yet extremely effective because it uses principles and approaches from various resources that have been proven easy to follow. The program considers not only your fitness goals but your level of experience and ability of exercise frequency. You can no longer claim you don't know how to do it or don't have the time!
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National Cycling Week will be bringing an exciting programme of free public events for cyclists of all ages at the beginning of May. More than 50 events will be taking place across the week.
The basic art education curriculum, offered to all children and young people under the age of 18, covers architecture, fine art, music, drama and word art. Tuition is provided at sites across Jyväskylä, the exact location depends on the subject being taught and the attendees' age.
Students attending basic education in Jyväskylä whose native language or second home language is not Finnish, will be offered tuition in that language.
The City of Jyväskylä turns 182 years old on Friday 22nd of March. The Mayor's, Timo Kovisto, reception for all fifth graders was arranged in the Jyväskylä Paviljonki on Tuesday 19th of March.
Service voucher briefing event to assist service providers on 12.3.
The project is looking into various scenarios regarding the type of activities and locations. It aims at developing the operations of the Jyväskylä City Theatre, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Craft Museum of Finland, City Library and Adult Education Centre in terms of activities, premises and facilities. The vision is to create an active hub for arts and culture in heart of the the city. The best proposal for both activities and locations is due for release by January 2020.
Partnership forum to share ideas of family services 11.3.
We invite all family services users, residents with an interest in family services and all stakeholders including local authority and third sector providers and local churches to take part in the Jyväskylä partnership forum to share ideas and experiences of best practice.
The Lakeland-Jyväskylä Region project cluster, coordinated by the City of Jyväskylä's Visit Jyväskylä, kicked off in February. The three-year project is designed to promote international tourism in the region and involves 21 local authorities and a large number of businesses in Central Finland. The total annual budget allocated to the project is EUR 370,000.
In 2018, Jyväskylä was the fifth most popular conference destination in Finland ranked by visitor numbers. A total of 46 international meetings and conferences took place in the city during the year, attracting 4,784 visitors.
In a recent meeting on 4.3., the City of Jyväskylä Board established a working committee to sort out options to realise a permanent memorial in tribute to Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykänen's lasting legacy.
Service voucher info for service providers on 12.3.
City of Jyväskylä's service voucher briefing event for service providers is organized on 12.3.2019 at 8.30–10 in Ravintola Fiilu (Piippukatu 11). The event will provide more information on launching service provider call, how to registrate as a service provider as well as what services can be produced through service voucher.
Business Jyväskylä Soft Landing Services helped 11 companies expand their business to Jyväskylä during 2018. This effort resulted in 80 new jobs and brought new investments worth EUR 4.1 million to Jyväskylä.
Two biogas-powered pool cars can be rented in the Kangas area of Jyväskylä. As far as is known, these are Finland's first biogas-powered pool cars.


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Catholic archbishop urges renewed prayers for kidnapped bishop amid 'misleading' reports
CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- A Catholic archbishop called Tuesday for renewed prayers for a kidnapped bishop following "misleading" reports about the bishop's fate.
Archbishop Anthony Obinna urged "all Christ's faithful and people of goodwill" to disregard reports that kidnappers had killed Bishop Moses Chikwe.
A Dec. 29 statement issued on Obinna's behalf said: "This information is unconfirmed, misleading and does not come from the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri."
"We continue to appeal that all join the archbishop in prayers for the release of Bishop Chikwe and Mr. Ndubuisi Robert, his driver."
Chikwe, the auxiliary bishop of Owerri archdiocese, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 27, in Owerri, the capital of Imo State in southeastern Nigeria.
The website of the Nigerian newspaper The Sun reported that the bishop was kidnapped "alongside his driver in his official car" and that the vehicle "was later returned to Assumpta roundabout, while the occupants were believed to have been taken to an unknown destination."
Obinna told Vatican News Dec. 29 that the 53-year-old bishop was kidnapped as he was returning from a visit to his residence.
"Kidnapping has, of course, been going on in Nigeria, in different parts of Nigeria. That it has happened to my auxiliary bishop shows that the security situation in Nigeria is very bad," he said.
"The protection, the security, that the people ought to have is not very effective. We have periodically raised the alarm about the state of insecurity in which we find ourselves."
The archbishop added: "The Church is not far removed from the people. We are not insulated from the suffering of the people. We take it as part of our testimony that we have to bear."
Local media reported that Imo State Police Command had activated two groups, the Quick Intervention Team and the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, to help rescue the bishop.
Chikwe was born on April 4, 1967, in Uzoagba-Ikeduru, Imo State. He was ordained a priest of Owerri archdiocese on July 6, 1996, at the age of 29. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri on Oct. 17, 2019, and ordained bishop on Dec. 12 of that year at Assumpta Cathedral in Owerri.
Chikwe's abduction is the latest in a series of kidnappings that have targeted clergy in Nigeria, but previous abductions have involved priests and seminarians, not bishops.
On Dec. 15, Fr. Valentine Oluchukwu Ezeagu, a member of the Sons of Mary Mother of Mercy, was kidnapped in Imo State en route to his father's funeral in the neighboring Anambra State. He was "unconditionally released" the following day.
Fr. Matthew Dajo, a priest of the Archdiocese of Abuja, was freed on Dec. 2 after 10 days in captivity.
Agenzia Fides, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies, quoted Fr. Patrick Alumuku, director of communications of Abuja archdiocese, as saying that the bishops' kidnapping was unusual compared to other cases.
He noted that shots had been fired inside the car, but there were no traces of blood.
"What is also strange is the fact that the bishop's car was brought back. In addition, the kidnappers left the sacred vestments which were found inside the car," he told Fides.
He added that "99% of kidnappings for extortion purposes are committed by Fulani pastors [herdsmen], but it is really unusual that they had the courage to carry out a kidnapping in a city like that of Owerri, in southeast Nigeria, with a Christian majority."
He said that the only precedent was the kidnapping of Fr. Dajo in the town of Yangoji, near the Nigerian capital of Abuja.
Catholic bishops in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, have repeatedly called on the government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, to do more to protect its citizens.
In a collective statement issued Oct. 1, marking the 60th anniversary of the country's independence, the bishops said: "It is just unimaginable and inconceivable to celebrate Nigeria at 60 when our roads are not safe; our people are kidnapped, and they sell their properties to pay ransom to criminals."
The U.S. State Department recently named Nigeria as a "country of particular concern," a formal designation reserved for nations with the worst records on religious freedom, including China, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
A Nigerian Catholic bishop told members of Congress earlier this month that Christians faced "genocide" in the country's Middle Belt, the area between the mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south.
"The mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria's Middle Belt, by every standard, meets the criteria for a calculated genocide from the definition of the Genocide Convention," Bishop William Avenya of Gboko, in the center of Nigeria, told a congressional commission.
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Range of breads currently available.
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Purchasing a home comes with a rush of excitement. Finding the right suite at the right price can set off a barrage of dreams: where the couch will go, what colour you'll paint the walls, what you'll serve at your most excellent dinner parties. But first, it comes with a whole lot of logistics. Banks, lawyers and movers are hardly as exciting as thoughts of nesting.
Yet those logistics are crucial to getting you there. And at Options for Homes we're committed to making sure you're set up for success at each logistical stop.
That's why we require our purchasers to have mortgage pre-approval before signing an agreement of purchase and sale. Having pre-approval in hand when you're considering purchasing means you're in the best position to actually make your dream a reality and you can move quickly when you find what you want. Here, we offer more insight into why having mortgage pre-approval helps you.
There are two ways people typically find out how much home they can afford: by pre-qualifying for a mortgage and with mortgage pre-approval. While they sound the same, they're not.
Being pre-qualified means that the bank will give you an idea of the size of mortgage you would qualify for. But this is a surface-level qualification and does not take into account your credit score, and the bank has not committed to lending you anything. It also helps us understand if you're eligible for additional financial help from other sources, should they be available. By contrast, being pre-approved means that the lender has said that it will loan you a certain amount of money for the purchase of real estate, for a certain term and at a certain interest rate. It's a guaranteed commitment that is usually valid for 18 months.
This process helps you find out the maximum amount you would be approved for, and it also lets you know your credit score. This gives you a clear picture of what you can afford when the time comes to pick your suite and finishings. We want you to feel empowered and knowledgeable about your financial situation.
There's also a silver lining. In the event that you are not approved, the bank typically gives you tips on how to improve your credit score or financial standing so that you increase your chances of qualifying in the future. But be wary of shopping around for the best rate by securing pre-approvals from multiple financial institutions. This can actually bring your credit score down!
Options for Homes is unique compared to most developers in that we offer our Down Payment Loan. Most banks are not familiar with this loan, so by working with our partner banks, you're able get the home you want faster.
We have an exclusive relationship with BMO and Meridian and they are the only banks that can support our down-payment assistance program. These institutions are familiar with the Options model, and they know how to incorporate the Options assistance into the pre-approval applications, which benefits you.
Knowing what you can afford sometimes means knowing that you can't afford the suite you'd had your heart set on. But that's better than thinking you're able to afford something, only to be unable to qualify for a mortgage when the time comes. Having to withdraw an offer can be difficult for you and time consuming for us.
Avoiding disappointment is another reason we encourage you to use our financial institution partners. Even if a different financial institution will issue a mortgage pre-approval for an Options for Homes condo, we cannot guarantee that they will in fact give the mortgage to the purchaser at closing. A bank may issue a pre-approval but at closing they may not recognize the Options for Homes Down Payment Loan as part of your own down payment, and therefore refuse the mortgage.
We know that getting mortgage pre-approval requires a bit of work on your part, but it's an essential step in helping you feel empowered and knowledgeable about your financial situation.


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Landmark Cancer Center Gains Efficiency with eRAD Platform
eRAD Apr 11, 2017
Gains flexibility and streamlined workflows with a unified solution
GREENVILLE, S.C., April 06, 2017 - eRAD announced today that it has successfully deployed its imaging workflow technology at Landmark Cancer Center in Muskogee, Okla.
eRAD is a leading provider of standards-based, web-centric radiology image and data management solutions. It is the information technology division of RadNet, Inc., the largest imaging center network in the U.S.
Landmark Cancer Centers has locations in multiple states, including the site in Muskogee, and provides comprehensive cancer treatment services to patients using state-of-the-art techniques and medications.
eRAD successfully deployed its PACS and EHR-Certified RIS, as well as its Native Speech Recognition and Insurance Eligibility & Verification module. "Imaging is a key part of the services we provide," said Tim Hash, manager of Landmark in Muskogee. "It is of course crucial for treatment plans, and also helps continuity of care with referring physicians. We needed a consistent, streamlined solution, without having to integrate disjointed workflow components. eRAD helped us gain that efficiency."
One example of Landmark's efficiency gain is the Insurance Eligibility & Verification module, which integrated seamlessly with its EHR-Certified RIS. Rather than waiting for patients' insurance details or searching multiple websites to capture data that may be outdated, Landmark's staff can get accurate information in one click. They know instantly if a patient is covered—and the coverage, co-pay, deductible, deductible met and co-insurance.
Seth Koeppel, Senior VP of Sales at eRAD, said, "We are excited to showcase our radiology solution at a site that is also focused on cancer care. This demonstrates the flexibility of the eRAD solution. We serve customers' workflows rather than boxing them into a vendor specific model."
About Landmark Cancer Centers
Landmark Cancer Centers has locations across Texas and in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas. Operating under a patient-centered approach, it delivers comprehensive cancer services with treatment plans tailored to each patient's needs and diagnosis. Landmark's advanced technologies - such as Varian Linear Accelerators and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy - provide patients with faster, more efficient treatments and less time waiting. For more information, visit www.lmcancercenter.com
Tim Hash
About eRAD, Inc.
eRAD offers a complete suite of workflow solutions for the imaging industry. Its EHR-Certified RIS, web-based PACS, and multi-site workflow solutions are used by teleradiology businesses, specialty reading groups, multi-site reading groups, hospitals, and outpatient imaging centers. With over 500 customers in the U.S. and abroad, eRAD's products are available as cloud-based hosted solutions, or as in-house enterprise solutions. For more information, visit www.erad.com.
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RadNet, Inc. is the leading national provider of freestanding, fixed-site diagnostic imaging services in the United States based on the number of locations and annual imaging revenue. RadNet has a network of 305 owned and/or operated outpatient imaging centers. RadNet's core markets include California, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Florida and Rhode Island. In addition, RadNet provides radiology information technology solutions, teleradiology professional services and other related products and services to customers in the diagnostic imaging industry. Together with affiliated radiologists, and inclusive of full-time and per diem employees and technicians, RadNet has more than 7,300 employees.
For more information, visit www.radnet.com
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Anti-terror bollards will go-ahead - despite claims of 'discrimination'
By Joe Cooper
ANTI-TERRORISM bollards will be installed around York city centre after the council's executive gave its seal of approval.
Senior councillors approved the final locations of the bollards and gave the go-ahead for the start of the procurement process for the £1.8 million project.
Counter-terror police have said the measures need to be brought in to stop 'vehicle as weapon attacks'.
The measures, which will be made up of a mixture of fixed and sliding bollards, have proved controversial after the council voted to ban blue badge holders within the footstreets area, which the bollards are designed to protect.
The executive will have a briefing with MI5 over the coming months to further discuss the project.
Several people again spoke out against the measures at Thursday's meeting.
Disability rights activist Flick Williams said the council did not properly consider alternatives to removing the blue badge exemption and said that disabled people were already abandoning the city centre.
"Your anti-terror measures are devoid of coherence or consistency," she added.
Jane Burton, speaking on behalf of York Accessibility Action, said: "This situation is bringing national shame upon the council…however it is still not too late to reconsider the discriminatory stance taken and to undertake meaningful negotiations to radically improve the mitigations necessary to reopen the city to its largest protected minority group."
A crowdfunding page to challenge the decision has now reached more than £10,000, which will be used to prepare the case for an injunction to overturn the decision, according to a statement on the page.
The council's deputy leader and executive member for transport Andy D'Agorne said: "I certainly want to recognise the difficulty of this decision in the impact it has on blue badge holders, but we have taken the decision and tonight is very much focused on implementing the locations for these hostile vehicle measures."
Labour group leader Pete Kilbane told the meeting: "What you are doing tonight is entrenching discrimination within the city – approving the money to pay for permanent discrimination against disabled people.
"It cannot ever be acceptable that we make parts of our city inaccessible to anyone because of who they are, and in this case because they happen to have a disability.
"Of course we need to protect our residents, but there are better ways of doing that."
There is not yet an accurate timescale for completion of the project as the contract has not yet been secured.


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Q: Weird scrolling behaviour in both ListView and RecyclerView on hiding Action Bar I am getting a very weird behaviour on scrolling the views. Fragment "A" uses the RecyclerView and Fragment "B" uses the listView.
For recycler view, I am using the following code:
list.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
        int mLastFirstVisibleItem = 0;

        @Override
        public void onScrollStateChanged(RecyclerView recyclerView, int newState) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
            super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);
            final int currentFirstVisibleItem = linearLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

            if (currentFirstVisibleItem > this.mLastFirstVisibleItem) {
                ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().hide();
            } else if (currentFirstVisibleItem < this.mLastFirstVisibleItem) {
                ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().show();
            }

            this.mLastFirstVisibleItem = currentFirstVisibleItem;
        }
    });

For ListView, I am using the following code:
list.setOnScrollListener(new AbsListView.OnScrollListener() {
        int mLastFirstVisibleItem = 0;

        @Override
        public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {   }

        @Override
        public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
            if (view.getId() == list.getId()) {
                final int currentFirstVisibleItem = list.getFirstVisiblePosition();

                if (currentFirstVisibleItem > mLastFirstVisibleItem) {
                    // getSherlockActivity().getSupportActionBar().hide();
                    ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().hide();
                } else if (currentFirstVisibleItem < mLastFirstVisibleItem) {
                    // getSherlockActivity().getSupportActionBar().show();
                    ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().show();
                }

                mLastFirstVisibleItem = currentFirstVisibleItem;
            }
        }
    });

Following are the GIFs, So, basically, I scroll and hold it right there and don't release my finger and I get the following behaviour.

A: If the appBar behavior you are looking for is similar to for example WhatsApp, I think a better approach is to control the appBar behavior from your layout instead of from the Java. Here is an example of how to do this for both a fragment containing a RecyclerView and one containing a ListView:
activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:id="@+id/appbarlayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways|snap"/>

        <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
            android:id="@+id/tablayout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/viewpager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" />

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

fragmenta.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/rec_fragmenta"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:splitMotionEvents="false"
        android:clipToPadding="false"/>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

fragmentb.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/list_fragmentb"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:nestedScrollingEnabled="true"/>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tablayout);
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
        SectionsPagerAdapter mSectionsPagerAdapter = new
        SectionsPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
        ViewPager mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
        tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(mViewPager);
        mViewPager.setAdapter(mSectionsPagerAdapter);
    }

    private class SectionsPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

        private SectionsPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
            super(fm);
        }

        @Override
        public Fragment getItem(int position) {
            switch (position) {
                case 0:
                    return new FragmentA();
                case 1:
                    return new FragmentB();
                case 2:
                    return new FragmentC();
            }
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return 3;
        }

        @Override
        public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
            switch (position) {
                case 0:
                    return "A";
                case 1:
                    return "B";
                case 2:
                    return "C";
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
}

FragmentA
public class FragmentA extends Fragment {

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragmenta, container, false);
        LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
        RecyclerView recyclerView = rootView.findViewById(R.id.rec_fragmenta);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
        List<String> list = getList();
        MyListAdapter adapter = new MyListAdapter(list);
        recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
        return rootView;
    }
}

FragmentB
public class FragmentB extends Fragment {

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragmentb, container, false);
        ListView listView = rootView.findViewById(R.id.list_fragmentb);
        List<String> list = getList();
        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(getActivity(),
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, android.R.id.text1, list);
        listView.setAdapter(adapter);
        return rootView;
    }
}

A: When the Toolbar gets hidden, the viewport of the ListView & RecyclerView gets extended to top, showing again the 1st item and therefore showing the Toolbar again.
You should check if variable dy is positive or negative; if dy is positive then user is scrolling up, else down. If we take this the code becomes like this:
@Override
public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
    super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);
    final int currentFirstVisibleItem = linearLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

    if (currentFirstVisibleItem > this.mLastFirstVisibleItem && dy > 0) {
        ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().hide();
    } else if (currentFirstVisibleItem < this.mLastFirstVisibleItem && dy < 0) {
        ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().show();
    }

    this.mLastFirstVisibleItem = currentFirstVisibleItem;
}

or you can just ignore properties like firstVisibleItem and just use dy as well (if you don't really need to check for the 1st item is shown):
@Override
public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
    super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

    if (dy > 0) {
        ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().hide();
    } else if (dy < 0) {
        ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().show();
    }
}


At Izzy Camilleri and Adrian Mainella's IZMA show last night, beyond the bevy of local celebs—Tara Spencer-Nairn and Gabrielle Miller of Corner Gas; soulstresses Divine Brown and Jully Black; and designers Jeremy Laing, Joe Mimran and Philip Sparks—we saw a sign that the recession was over more definitive than any economist could give: a floor-length fur evening gown. See this and the other pieces in the collection below.
Decadent hardly begins to describe IZMA's luxe pieces, like a sheer silk organza blouse with fur shoulders, a fur tuxedo blazer, and a rabbit and fox coat in black and deep red. Obviously, IZMA isn't going to be winning any PETA awards, but we expect it won't be long before fur-lover Anna Wintour starts eyeing the Canadian collection from behind her fashionable frames. Of course, it would cut out the middleman if international editors simply attended these shows, but that's probably just a small hurdle, right?
This was the best show of the week. Toronto needs more of this and less– of well…. everything else we saw this week.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In preparing for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump has provoked a rare agreement among Democrats and Republicans alarmed by the possibility of a cozy meeting.
While Republican Trump has gone softer on Putin, calling him a "competitor" and "not my enemy" on Thursday, lawmakers from both parties hardened their warnings to Trump before he sits down with the Russian leader in Helsinki on Monday.
"Putin is not America's friend, nor merely a competitor. Putin is America's enemy — not because we wish it so, but because he has chosen to be," Republican Senator John McCain said.
Trump has touted the summit as an opportunity to reduce tensions, inflamed by Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, its military backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which turned the tide of the Syrian civil war in 2015, and accusations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
U.S. lawmakers want Trump, both privately with Putin and publicly, to condemn Russia's actions.
Congress has taken a hard anti-Russia stance, nearly unanimously approving last year a tough sanctions law targeting Moscow. But lawmakers worry Trump will fail to take Putin to task, particularly over the election meddling, which the Russian leader has denied.
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Moscow interfered and Trump has said he would discuss it, although he has stated both a willingness to believe Putin's denials and U.S. agencies. Trump has described a special counsel investigation into possible collusion between Trump campaign aides and Russia as a political witch hunt.
"Our goal must be to demonstrate to the world that the community of democratic nations does not intend to accede to Putin's or any other authoritarian's view of the world. We will resist Russia's aggression," Democratic Senator Mark Warner and Republican Senator Marco Rubio said in an op-ed in USA Today on Thursday.
Senior Trump administration officials also have voiced fears about what he might give Putin to the detriment of allies in Europe, especially after seeing how Trump appeared to get only vague commitments from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their June 12 summit in Singapore to discuss denuclearization.
Worries over Trump's commitment to European allies and his deference to Russia loomed large at the NATO summit that wrapped up on Thursday. Trump claimed a personal victory after telling European allies to increase their defence spending or lose Washington's support. He particularly railed against Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Trump took another swipe at U.S. allies when he told reporters in Brussels that he thought his meeting with Putin would be "the easiest" part of his week-long European trip.
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican, criticized Trump for saying that.
"The Russian president is a man schooled in treachery and espionage. He jails and murders his opponents, presides over a mafia state and he is an enemy of democracy. Why would a meeting with Putin be easier than a meeting with the allies that we rely on most to be a bulwark against him?" Flake asked in a Senate speech.
Europeans and some U.S. officials are particularly concerned about whether Putin will ask Trump to suspend NATO military drills in the Baltic states on Russia's doorstep.
Another senior U.S. official said that if Putin came away from the meeting with Trump thinking he had permission to act in the Baltics, Estonia might become the epicenter of what NATO has helped to prevent.
Trump's assertion that Russia is a competitor and not an adversary is contrary to the judgments of U.S. intelligence agencies and his chief diplomat, Mike Pompeo, who at his April confirmation hearing to be Secretary of State, said the United States needs "to push back in each place we confront them," referring to the Russians.
While Trump said on Thursday that he expects the Helsinki summit to be "just a loose meeting," some at home are hoping it will be a "non-event" with nothing groundbreaking.
"Based on just the way things are shaping up, I think a non-eventful Helsinki meeting might be best for our country," Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, told Reuters.


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Clayton G. Chambliss, 71, the former headmaster of Sayre School who is credited with transforming the educational institution into a 21st century academic model, died on Friday. Read more
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Star Island dreaming, on such a winter's day
By Denise J. Wheeler
Jan 16, 2020 at 3:01 AM Jan 16, 2020 at 3:23 PM
Snowflakes are drifting idly down and I am dreaming of island life. Not the tropical, cabana boys and umbrella drinks kind. My wistful reverie includes a hurricane, an itinerant muskrat, sitting on rocks for long periods of time, and lunch in a basement.
A visit to Star Island, seven miles off the craggy New Hampshire coast, is far from a clich�d island get-away. Star is a galaxy all its own.
On the island, when there isn�t music, there is the cadence of waves. When you are not musing in solitary peace, there are people, cut from atypical cloth, to explore, learn and swap stories with. When there isn�t something naturally beautiful to wonder over, you have left the island.
Just before public access to Star ended for the summer in mid-September, I spent a weekend there. The halcyon patina of that memory still shimmers as 2020 stirs to life. I teach on Star Island occasionally and sat on the board to preserve neighboring White Island�s lighthouse for a decade, but I'd never stayed overnight on the islands before.
It felt like stepping back in time, a personal retreat, and like going to camp as a kid.
Star Island, one of nine that make up the Isles of Shoals, is the only one with seasonal hotel accommodations for the public, though guests often say they are going there for a conference, not a vacation.
The island hosts approximately 50 conferences every summer with themes such as art, music, history, yoga, and spirituality. These retreats can range from gatherings of nearly 200 people for weeklong stays, to weekend or mid-week workshops for 20.
As the new decade unfurled, Star Island Corporation announced its programming for the summer of 2020. The offerings, which can be accessed here https://starisland.org/programs/, provide a vast array of multigenerational opportunities for creative, individual and family growth.
Those considering a stay on Star are informed that the island�s accommodations are �comfortable, but not modern.� Guests at the Oceanic House, the 100-year-old-and-counting main hotel, or in the historic cottages flanking it, share bathrooms. Guests who choose to bathe do so in locker room-like showers in the basement of the Oceanic. All rooms have electricity, but they don�t all have electrical outlets. There are no locks on the doors. There is no running water in guest rooms. The management requests that guests not use digital devices in public areas.
Theoretically, this is due in equal parts to a commitment to conservation and to preserve the island�s timeless quality.
If you steer clear of the 420-panel solar array, the largest off-grid solar generating facility in New England, it�s hard to tell what decade you are in. And that�s how most guests like it.
The hotel�s seasonal employees are called Pelicans. They play softball with guests on the front lawn most afternoons and live in a dorm behind the hotel.
There is no alcohol for sale, and drinking it is not permitted in public areas, unless it is included in a conference social function.
These perimeters may not sound sexy in black and white, but Star�s guests find them refreshing.
Carol White, a fellow conference attendee with me that weekend and a local historian from New Castle, put it this way, �Star gives us a chance to put the stresses of the everyday world behind us. We become more in tune with nature�s rhythm � sunrise and sunset, high tide and low tide. There�s something calming about that. Visitors may come for the history, or dance, or yoga, but all that is superfluous to the chance to recharge and live a different life.�
Snippets From My Island Journal
As the M/V Thomas Laighton docked on Star Island, dropping us off on a darkening Friday afternoon, fishermen and charter services in Rye Harbor were pulling their boats out of the Atlantic, preparing for the wrath of Hurricane Dorian. Already all transportation to and from the island on Saturday had been cancelled.
A bridal party, rehearsing for a ceremony in the intimate, stone Gosport Chapel the following day, ditched that plan, held the wedding on the spot, then headed back to Portsmouth on the last boat out.
The clouds piled up. The rain tore loose. The wind howled. We guests reveled in the hotel�s warmth and in each other�s hospitality and ingenuity. We had a family-style dinner of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, crunchy kale, salad and rolls in the dining room. This was followed by a talent show in the lobby, which looks much like it did during the Grand Hotel Era of the late 1800s, when Star Island attracted such notable artists and writers as Childe Hassam and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Our talent that night featured hotel staff and conference guests, including singer-songwriters, a Pelican who doubled as a virtuoso pianist, and poets � all performing original works.
We felt safe. The caliber of creativity was generally delightful and occasionally stunning.
Joe Watts, Star Island Corporation�s C.E.O., later said he�d experienced all manner of dramatic weather out there: lightning strikes, microbursts, a storm that blew out every window on the hotel�s 4th floor. University of New Hampshire professors had clocked 100-foot waves there.
He seemed untroubled by Dorian, as if this was Mother Nature�s contribution to the talent show.
�The dramatic power of nature is one of the things that make staying here special,� he said.
After a pre-bedtime ice cream social, I retired to my quarters, Cottage B, also known as �Rozzie,� named after Shoals icon Rosalind Hold, a former Oceanic head housekeeper who came to the island in the 1930s and became the hotel�s first female assistant manager.
The white clapboard building is two stories high, with the crooked floors and dated bathrooms that those of us enamored by the island see as trademarks of its charm. Those details protect us from sharing this place with the kind of guests who are scared of spiders in corners, or need to shower daily.
My corner room had two twin beds with threadbare blankets, no electric outlets, and two windows looking out over the Atlantic. It was all mine for the weekend and, in a rustic, romantic way, I was charmed by it.
On weekends around midnight on the mainland, it is not uncommon for me, a former arts editor and music reviewer, to be rocking and rolling. This evening that dynamic took a new twist. I was rocking with the house in the wind, and rolling along to the sound of a band playing Zeppelin-esque grooves several houses away. The music mingled with the howling winds and rattling sills in a unique and beguiling chorus that eventually lulled me to sleep.
The next morning a six-piece chamber music ensemble including a piano and violins, here for a conference, was playing �Summertime� in the lobby as the scent of coffee and pancakes lured me to the dining room. I bumped into a musician friend, Dan Blakeslee, whose accolades include �Folk Artist Of The Year� at the 2014 Boston Music Awards and �Male Performer of The Year� at the 2015 New England Music Awards.
Blakeslee, who hails from Southern Maine and travels the United States performing an average of 200 shows per year, was on his maiden voyage to Star to lead a �Writers in the Round� workshop. He knew I had an interest in photography and introduced me to Russell, a photographer from South Carolina temporarily working on the island as its night watchman.
Part of what ended up being striking about this weekend was the brilliant people I encountered. Russell was one of them. He had Velcroed together two vintage cameras to make his own. His black and white photos, featuring mostly natural landscapes and music legends, had been displayed in museums and a variety of publications.
The storm had ebbed, so we ventured off to the rocks to photograph the thundering waves. While I whisked off 100 or so digital shots, Russell took two, conscientiously weighing each moment against the stingy 12 frames of physical film in his camera.
As we climbed between ledges and crevices to inch closer to the sea, thick, black clouds of ruddy-breasted barn swallows prepping for migration rose from solitary patches of turf nearby, looming overhead briefly only to disappear like an ethereal sleight of hand.
Russell took me to lunch in the basement of the Oceanic, where the staff Pelicans dine. Dubbed the Underworld, it is the former home of the hotel bowling alley, now turned scuffed and cluttered, but cozy, staff hangout, laundry area and mess hall.
Underneath the Oceanic�s plumbing pipes, we noshed on chicken curry and rice while Russell waxed poetic about strolling the island�s periphery on his nightly vigils.
That afternoon I folded into a rocking chair on the wrap-around porch to relax in a shaft of sunlight and watch a seal bob in the roiling surf. This moment of solitude was a gift among the many Star offered. There was always someone to talk to � a life you could lean into. There was always a workshop with an opportunity to learn. There was a stone cottage with a library where you could get lost in fact and fiction about the Isles. There was always a window, usually curtained by antique lace, framing a scene that made you feel as if the Earth had tilted its axis toward you alone to strike a pose.
Later, there was lobster and corn-on-the-cob followed by a candlelight service in the stone chapel. There, a wry wordsmith shared a poem that at first blush focused on a pair of his underwear, but ended up sacred as a sermon.
Heading back to my room for the evening, the sea reflected a broken moon. I searched for the source of last night�s muscular rock and roll, to no avail � an embarrassing admission, considering the island measures only 42 acres, depending on the tide.
At 5:30 a.m., guest room doors started to open, creaking like a small, squeaky rooster. I grabbed my camera and headed outside. Morning�s deep blue hue was wrestling with the black night.
In the relenting gloom, I took a path so arched with vines it felt like a tunnel. I made a beeline toward the rear of the island to find a viewing spot for one of the island�s daily rituals, watching the sunrise. A mangy muskrat skittered alongside of me. She/he had been around so much this weekend, I was wondering if it was a spirit animal with something to tell me. It had been behind the bride wending her way toward the chapel Friday night. It had crossed my path as I went in search of photos on Saturday. It had a distinctive patch of fur missing on its back. Later, I was informed that its bare spot was the result of a woman stepping on the muskrat, sending it flying and her falling.
Is its lesson �We all get stepped on and go on?� Simple yet profound, like most things here.
The sun, still below the horizon when I took my place on an elevated rock, sent ribbons of deep orange, violet and crimson to herald its arrival. Crowds on a ledge an acre or so away started applauding, and the grand show was underway.
By the time I joined a group sipping coffee on the Oceanic�s long porch, it was not yet 8 a.m. and I�d already had a day�s fill of beauty.
Before leaving that afternoon, I found the rock-and-rollers in the throes of an exhilarating battle of the bands. Someone would call out a top-100 song from the �60s or �70s and one of the bands would play it by heart. The genius of the performances had me reflecting about how remarkable mere mortals can be.
As we waited for the boat that would bring us to the mainland, my friend Dan Blakeslee was already plotting his return.
�This is an enchanted place like no other. It is my first time out here, though as a child I stayed in the harbor on a sailboat overnight. I will most certainly make up for lost time now,� he said. �Star is as heavenly as any other I have seen in the night sky.�
As we drift away on a sea now so supine it seems to be barely breathing, the Pelicans flutter like moths to the dock and chant, �You will be back!�
We take solace in their optimism as we sail back to the paradigm of our daily lives.


Plot - A criminal falls for a heiress as she dies in his arms. When he discovers that he has the endowment of resurrection, he embarks to save her.
New York City is subsumed in cold winds, dim evenings, and white lights, its life unfurls, for it is a remarkable hive of the imagination, the best house ever constructed, and nothing exists that can check its imperativeness. One night in winter, Peter Lake, vagrant and ace mechanic, endeavors to ransack a fortress like chateau on the Upper West Side. In spite of the fact that he supposes the house is void, the little girl of the house is home. In this way starts the adoration between Peter, an Irish robber in his mid 20's, and Beverly Penn, a young lady, who is dying.
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Who better to feature in a commercial for the new Ford Fusion hybrid than actor James Franco?
In an attempt to sell the Ford vehicle's fuel economy, the Super Bowl commercial features Franco as Rob Riggle walking with a tiger and a Yorkie, and then inexplicably dangling from a building, blowing petals from a white rose onto a Ford Fusion Hybrid below.
Yeah, we don't really get it, either, folks.
You can also watch the other American Super Bowl commercials that Canadians didn't see in the slideshow below.


A day that's as unique as you, birthdays prove universal in all languages, cultures, and eras. Heralded by cakes, presents, and parties, people everywhere anticipate birthdays as a celebration of life and love. In this edition of The StickerTalk, join us as we slice into the sweet histories and obscurities surrounding the birthday!
Many of our modern birthday traditions trace their roots to ancient times. Historical records indicate that Egyptian pharaohs hosted lavish parties to commemorate their birthdays. In ancient Greece, revelers placed candles on birthday cakes as a form of worship to a select group of goddesses. A few centuries later, the first birthday party invitations were distributed during the first century in Rome by Claudia Severa, the wife of a prominent Roman commander.
Like most special occasions, there are many superstitions surrounding the birthday. In China, gifts of clocks and watches are considered an omen of ill will, and people living in Malaysia only give birthday gifts if they are close to the birthday boy or girl to avoid the appearance of bribery.
More people are born in August than any other month. However, the most popular date of birth is October 5. Additionally, more people are born on Tuesdays than any other day of the week with Sunday being the least popular day for deliveries.
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