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One Woman on Changing the Tampon Conversation
Iman Balagam
Periods are no longer taboo — especially when it comes to speaking about them. In this day and age, everyone around me seems to be so vocal and open about their menstrual cycle. And while I know that I am in the unique position of working in a primarily female office that finds no topic off limits, I often reflect on the days where I dared not utter the words, "I'm on my period," to anyone. Insert cringe-worthy middle school flashbacks featuring blood-stained light wash jeans and jackets tied around the waist. What was once hushed whispers behind closed doors evolved into casual dinner table conversation. "Can you pass the salt? Also, what are your thoughts on menstrual cups?"
There are a few standout events that come to mind when thinking about the intentional desensitization that has taken place these past few years. In 2015, poet Rupi Kaur made headlines when Instagram took down her menstruation-themed photo series. In 2018, THINX released a period sex blanket to dismantle another social stigma about menstruation. Plan International UK, a development charity for girls, pitched a period blood emoji that got approved by Apple in February of 2019 — the same month when a documentary about menstruation, Period. End of Sentence., won Best Documentary Short at the Oscars. These people changed the conversation and destigmatized a shared-experience that affects around half the population.
But there is so much to be said about women and their periods. How are we to encapsulate the many issues surrounding something that is so uniquely personal to each individual woman?
How we choose to care for our bodies during this time is also unique, and with an influx of options — tampons, pads, menstrual cups, period underwear, etc. — it can get overwhelming. As someone who does not leave their comfort zone unless physically pushed out, I appreciate tampons for their simplicity. But I do not appreciate the harmful chemicals that can be found in most tampons.
thank you @instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique. you deleted a photo of a woman who is fully covered and menstruating stating that it goes against community guidelines when your guidelines outline that it is nothing but acceptable. the girl is fully clothed. the photo is mine. it is not attacking a certain group. nor is it spam. and because it does not break those guidelines i will repost it again. i will not apologize for not feeding the ego and pride of misogynist society that will have my body in an underwear but not be okay with a small leak. when your pages are filled with countless photos/accounts where women (so many who are underage) are objectified. pornified. and treated less than human. thank you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ this image is a part of my photoseries project for my visual rhetoric course. you can view the full series at rupikaur.com the photos were shot by myself and @prabhkaur1 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ i bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. my womb is home to the divine. a source of life for our species. whether i choose to create or not. but very few times it is seen that way. in older civilizations this blood was considered holy. in some it still is. but a majority of people. societies. and communities shun this natural process. some are more comfortable with the pornification of women. the sexualization of women. the violence and degradation of women than this. they cannot be bothered to express their disgust about all that. but will be angered and bothered by this. we menstruate and they see it as dirty. attention seeking. sick. a burden. as if this process is less natural than breathing. as if it is not a bridge between this universe and the last. as if this process is not love. labour. life. selfless and strikingly beautiful.
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So, I did my research and discovered Athena Club — co-founded by Maria Markina, who made Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018. The tampon subscription service provides high-grade tampons at a fraction of the cost. Rather than reinventing the wheel, Athena Club took the wheel and spun us 100 percent organic cotton.
"The main ingredient in [our] organic tampons is 100 percent organic cotton," she says. "A lot of people think 'I'm going to buy cotton tampons, it is healthier,' but you don't realize that it contains a lot more chemicals than any other tampon. Ours are chemical-free, non-pesticide, [and] 100 percent organic," says Markina.
There are currently two options on the website: premium tampons for $6.50/bag and organic tampons for $7.50/bag. Both tampons are free of harsh toxins and chemicals, which is something Markina (along with co-founder Allie Griswold) insured when partnering with their manufacturer. The main difference between organic and premium tampons is that premium tampons are a blend of cotton and rayon. "Rayon is a plant-based ingredient … and is actually a very absorbent ingredient, which is why it is used in tampons," Markina says. "The tampon itself is a little bit smaller, but it doesn't have any of the really bad toxins that you could see in other tampons, like predominantly chlorine or weird plastics weaved into the tampon."
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In addition to making feminine care accessible and affordable, the ladies at Athena Club run a top-notch donation program. "To date, we have donated over 20,000 tampons to women in need. We partner with organizations locally and internationally to donate to either homeless shelters here in the U.S. We've donated mainly to the New York area — even in the New York area there are a lot of women who definitely need feminine care — or to women in other countries across the world who just don't have access to products," says Markina.
And for every new customer you bring in, you get a free bag of tampons — which you can choose to donate to women in need. "We've been getting quite a lot of donations, which is amazing for the customers but also just as a company. That is something we really care about. We don't advertise it very much," she says. "I don't want it to be a sales point because that's really not what this is about."
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So here is the deal: if you want to learn the Articles of Faith, or you want to teach them to your children, the best way is by singing the songs!
Once you click on the link, scroll down to "W" and you will find all the links to the songs - which plays the music for you!
Click on the little part in blue and it will take you to the music online - which you can also download!
In our family our goal is to read scriptures every night....yeah that doesn't always happen. But we do always sing at least one Article of Faith before prayer! You can start with the first one. I think we sung it every night for a couple weeks until my daughter had it down, and then we moved on to number two. The first one really isn't long, and you will be amazed how fast your child will memorize it!
Now that we have gone through more, and my daughter knows most of them, we each pick one article of faith to sing every night. My daughter usually picks number 4, her favorite. And my husband has been working in order to memorize all of them and right now he is working on 9, but almost has that one down so will be moving on to 10 soon! My daughter knows them all the way through number 10, so lately I have been singing number 11, as soon as she has that one down I will move on.
On nights when we get everything out and read scriptures we start by singing our articles of faith while I get everything ready to do scripture people! And on nights when we don't get scripture stuff out we just sing the Articles of Faith, say family prayer, and go to bed. When she was smaller and not ready for scripture people we read out of the scripture picture books instead of scripture people.
Anyway back to the topic - try singing the Articles of Faith every night! If you really want to memorize them - this is the way!


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Hellraisers Journal: General Bell Blames Socialist and W. F. of M. for All Troubles in Colorado
by Hellraisers Journal
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
From The Indianapolis News: More Union Miners Deported from Cripple Creek District
BELL SAYS SOCIALISTS ARE CAUSE OF TROUBLES
SAYS HE WILL DRIVE FEDERATION FROM GOLD CAMP.
THE ONLY HOPE FOR PEACE
CRIPPLE CREEK, June 13.-Gen. Sherman Bell has given out a statement concerning his action in deporting strikers and the causes leading up to the same. He attributes the recent troubles growing out of the miners' strike, and the strike itself to the Socialist element in the Western Federation of Miners, which, he says, captured the organization two years ago. He declares that the federation has made unionism a secondary consideration, and the organization, root and branch, is being made a vehicle for the promotion of socialism. The leaders, he asserts, have not hesitated to cause "weak and willing members to commit any crime to strike terror to property owners or working men who refuse to abide their dictates." The murder of non-union men by blowing up the Independence station, he charges, was "perpetrated with the aid and advice of federation leaders and by men in their employ." The only hope for peace and security of life and property was "to exterminate the federation from the camp."
General Bell and staff attended church yesterday and transacted no business, except what was absolutely necessary. Another party of 100 deported miners left Victor to-day, their destination being either New Mexico or Utah. The saloons of the district were opened to-day for the first time in a week.
Practically all the large mines in this district which closed down last Monday, after the explosion at Independence, were working to-day. The Portland mine has not yet been reopened and the company has not announced its plans.
[emphasis added]
An Appeal to Gompers.
KANSAS CITY. June 13.-The Industrial Council of this city, which claims to represent 25,000 union members, adopted resolutions [yesterday] asking President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, to call a meeting of the executive board of that organization for the purpose of devising means to settle the Colorado labor troubles. Telegrams were sent to President Roosevelt asking him to investigate and to Governor Peabody, condemning his actions by the orders of the Industrial Council. Mother Jones addressed the meeting.
Miners Remain at Holly.
HOLLY, Colo., June 13.-Ten of the deported miners from Cripple Creek left here at midnight Saturday for La Junta, Pueblo and Denver. The remainder are staying in town. They have paid cash for their meals and lodging and made purchases at stores. It is probable that a considerable number of the exiles will go into the country to seek work on the ranches.
Today's edition of the St. Louis Republic reports that Mother Jones addressed the Kansas City, Missouri, Industrial Council yesterday, and that the following telegram was sent to Governor Peabody of Colorado:
The Industrial Council of Kansas City, Mo., in regular session assembled, condemns your action as unamerican, uncivilized and barbarous in the extreme, in your treatment toward workingmen and women of Colorado. For such acts Russia, in her darkest ages, would blush with shame.
Tags: civil rights, Hellraisers, History, Human Rights, Justice, labor, labor history, solidarity, strikes, unions
Hellraisers Journal: Deported Union Miners Dumped at Bleak Alkali Sand Dunes Without Food or Water
Cripple Creek District, Colorado – Deported Miners Dumped Near Kansas Border
The miners who were herded down the street on Friday by militiamen and Citizens' Alliance "deputies" and then loaded into railroad cars and deported from the Cripple Creek strike zone, were found near the Kansas border yesterday. The following report comes to us from today's San Francisco Call:
EXILED MINERS, HUNGRY AND WEARY,
CAMP ON THE COLORADO BORDER
Deported Men Are Taken to the Kansas Line by Troops.
Left on a Bleak Prairie Without Food or Water Supply.
SYRACUSE, Kansas, June 11.-The deported Colorado miners camped at Holly to-night, just across the Colorado line. They were notified to-night that a special train would be sent to take them all to Denver.
HOLLY, Colo., June 11. – With a parting volley of rifle bullets, fired over their heads by the militia and deputies to, warn them to "hike" eastward as fast as their legs could carry them and never again set foot on Colorado soil, ninety-one union miners from the Cripple Creek district were unloaded from a special Santa Fe train on the prairie this morning, one half mile from the Colorado-Kansas State line, and left to shift for themselves. The exiles were disembarked in haste and without ceremony. The guards and deputies were tired out and in ill humor from their long, tedious trip from the Teller County gold camp and were in no mood to extend any special courtesies or kindness to their unfortunate charges.
"Hurry up there, you fellows," cried Lieutenant Cole, when the train stopped in the midst of the alkali sand dunes that dot the prairie in the vicinity of the eastern part of Powers County near the Kansas line. "We haven't got any time to waste out here."
WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER.
And no time was wasted. The special, which consisted of an engine, a combination baggage car and smoker and two day coaches, had no sooner come to a standstill than the car doors were unlocked and thrown open and the order given by Lieutenant Cole for the exiles to leave the train.
"Step lively, you fellows, step lively," admonished Deputy Benton, who was in command of the civil forces of the expedition, and in less time than it takes to tell it the three cars were emptied of their passengers and the train was started on its way back to La Junta.
The men were dumped out on the cheerless prairie without food or water, for the soldiers and deputies, in their haste to get home, had forgotten to unload the small stock of commissary supplies the train carried when it left Victor yesterday afternoon.
SPIRIT OF MEN BREAKS
The exiles were a cheerless lot, indeed. Without even a light and miles from the nearest habitation, they huddled together in groups on either side of' the Santa Fe track and discussed their plight. Warned to move eastward, on pain of being rearrested and severely handled, and notified by the Kansas authorities that they would not be allowed to seek refuge in that State, the spirit of the men broke. Many of them walked back westward on the railroad to Holly, the Salvation Army colony in Colorado, where the charitable inhabitants provided breakfast for them. Some of them later started to walk to Lamar, Colo.
Sheriff Jack Brady and forty deputies of Hamilton County were at the State line to prevent the deported men entering Kansas.
CLAIMS TO HAVE MURDERERS.
Bell Declares Independence Dynamiters Are In Bullpen.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., June 11.-General Sherman M. Bell to-day made the following statement for publication:
"I have indisputable evidence in my possession which will lead to the conviction of union men for the murder of non-union miners who were killed in the Independence explosion. We have between thirty-five and forty men in the bullpen who will swing for this crime. We are only waiting to capture three or four men before we tell what our evidence Is."
The San Francisco Call.
(San Francisco California)
-of June 12, 1904
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Miners Being Deported from Cripple Creek District
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Hellraisers Journal: Trial of Joe Hill, IWW Singer & Songwriter, to Begin Today in Salt Lake City
From the Kansas City Star: Mother Jones Heads East to Speak in Kansas City on Sunday
"Mother" Jones to Speak at a Picnic
Mary G. [sic] Jones, known as "Mother" Jones, will speak at Budd park Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. "Mother" Jones once lived in Kansas City and had a dressmaking shop, but in recent years has devoted her attention to Socialism and has been active in big strikes as a crusader. She will talk on the miners' strike in the Cripple Creek district. There will be a picnic in connection with the meeting Sunday afternoon.
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Annie Clemenc and the Italian Hall Massacre by JayRaye
Annie Takes Up Her Flag
Ana K Clemenc
On July 23, 1913, 9,000 copper miners of the Keweenaw laid down their tools and walked off the job. The were led by the great Western Federation of Miners, and they had voted by a good majority for a strike: 9,000 out of 13,000 The main issue were hours, the miners wanted an eight hour day, wages, and safety. The miners hated the new one-man drill which they called the "widow-maker." They claimed this drill made an already dangerous job more dangerous.
The mining companies had steadfastly refused to recognize the Western Federation of Miners in anyway. They would continue to refuse all efforts at negotiation or arbitration, even those plans for arbitration which did not include the union, and this despite the best efforts of Governor Ferris, and the U. S. Department of Labor. James MacNaughton, general manger of Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, famously stated that grass would grow in the streets and that he would teach the miners to eat potato parings before he would negotiate in any way with the striking miners.
The Keweenaw Peninsula was a cold, windy place, jutting out into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This area was known as the Copper Country of Michigan and included Calumet Township of Houghton County, with the twin towns of Hancock and Houghton ten miles to the south. Calumet Township included the villages of Red Jacket and Laurium.
It was here in Red Jacket, on the third day of the strike that Annie Clemenc, miner's daughter and miner's wife took up a massive America flag and led an early morning parade of 400 striking miners and their families. Annie Clemenc was six feet tall, and some claimed she was taller than that by two inches. The flag she carried was so massive that it required a staff two inches thick and ten feet tall. The miners and their supporters marched out of the Italian Hall and through the streets of the Red Jacket to the Blue Jacket and Yellow Jacket mines. They marched silently, without a band, lined up three and four abreast. These early morning marches, with Annie and her flag in the lead, were to become a feature of the strike.
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AC Meet-Up: Hellraisers Journal, The Labor Martyrs Project, and WE NEVER FORGET by JayRaye
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Joe Hill's Ashes
WE NEVER FORGET
At Joe Hill's funeral, sashes were worn by many in attendance with "WE NEVER FORGET" written on them in big bold capital letters. This slogan was also written on the program for the day's events. A year later, the ashes were handed out to IWW delegates from every state of the USA (except Utah) and from countries all around the world. The envelopes also carried this slogan. The Labor Martyrs Project uses this slogan to honor all of our Labor Martyrs, quite certain that Fellow Worker Joe Hill would not mind.
Tags: anti-capitalism, Anti-Capitalist MeetUp, Appeal to Reason, civil rights, Class Consciousness, Class Struggle, Colorado, Hellraisers Journal, History, Human Rights, Joe Hill, Julius Wayland, Justice, labor, labor history, Ludlow Massacre, Ludlow Monument, Memory, Mother Jones, Richard Myers, solidarity, strikes, The Labor Martyrs Project, unions, United Mine Workers of America, Unknown Worker, WE NEVER FORGET, Wesley Everest, Working Class, Zeese Papanikolas
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: We Need to Support Walmart Workers' #Ride4Respect by JayRaye
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#Ride4Respect
Right now as you read this, Walmart Workers are on buses and they are caravanning from various cities to Bentonville, Arkansas where Walmart will be holding its annual shareholders meeting on June 7th. They plan to make their presence known by urging Walmart to stop its retaliation against associates who dare to speak out about working conditions. The #Ride4Respect uses the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement for inspiration. Completely appropriate, in my book. The fight for our rights as workers is a struggle for civil and human rights. Workers are American Citizens, and we are human beings. We don't stop being Human Beings and Citizens when we pass through the doors of our place of employment.
One of the rights guaranteed to working people by U.S. Labor Law, is the right to speak out about the conditions of labor, and to do so without retaliation from our employer. That retaliation is illegal! Walmart's retaliation has not ceased, in spite of denial that it exists, and in spite of promises to stop this retaliation (which they deny exists!) This is where the Unfair Labor Practice Strike comes into the picture. Striking Walmart Workers are a big part of the #Ride4Respect. This strike is historic as it will be the first prolonged ULP strike made by Walmart Workers. They are taking OUR Walmart's fight for respect to another level.
Lisa Lopez walks and gives notice of ULP strike.
A Woman of Courage has put on her fighting clothes!
Mother Jones would be proud!
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Q: Azure Create ARM Template To Create Vm In An Existing Vnet and Subnet I want to deploy VM in the existing vnet and subnet. Instead of entering vnet and subnet name, can I get the list of vnet available in a Resource Group and make it as a user-selectable, same for subnet.

A: no, this is not possible, you need to do this with powershell, for example, and then pass that as an input to the ARM template. it would something like this:
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$vnet = $vnets | Out-GridView -PassThru
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Five Reflections on the Passion of Jesus Christ — Welcome Home to Zion!
that Jesus Christ is innocent of all charges.
Jesus was brought under arrest before the Sanhedrin.
Jesus offers the religious authorities no evidence of any guilt.
"What further testimony do we need?
They heard only what they wanted to hear.
who, with his troops, knows how to get things done.
The spigot of lies is opened and flowing free.
Pilate is free to question, pass judgment, and carry out his sentence in one fell swoop.
"Are you the king of the Jews?" he asks.
"You say so," he answers.
They play to the Roman's fear of losing control and allowing insurrection.
But Pilate understands, all too well, the unstated attempt at manipulation.
neither would he be used.
He's Galilean? He's Herod's case. Take him to Herod's place.
is only to happy to meet a hometown boy in the big city of Jerusalem.
and he wanted to see for himself some of this magic the crowds had witnessed.
but Jesus never says a mumbling word.
Round after round, after relentless round.
He gives no testimony or evidence of any guilt.
just as Jesus had foretold.
Herod would have ended it right there.
Jesus would have been dead.
because he is innocent of all charges.
of being falsely accused of a crime or offense.
and it covers the victim with a blanket of shame.
as if there might have been something to the charges.
regardless of guilt or innocence.
Yet, Jesus was innocent of all charges.
the innocent servant was to suffer.
he paid the ultimate price for your redemption.
these lies, and this humiliating scorn.
Individuals behave differently if they are in a crowd.
we must all be right.
can quickly become a homicidal frenzy.
The chief priests and leaders of the people were bullying Jesus.
They were becoming the gasoline for an impatient and frustrated population.
Jesus wasn't the answer to their political oppression.
into today's belching, smoking tire fire.
though in a much subtler way.
their impotence only brought them frustration and embarrassment.
began to push Pilate over the edge to satisfy their blood thirst.
they'd really prefer to live with Barabbas in their neighborhood than live next door to Jesus?
A second time Pilate offers to have Jesus flogged then released.
is one that is peaceful, well-trained, and non-violent.
and we teach about the ultimate price he paid for our redemption.
With a Divine eye, Jesus was able to see Jerusalem's future.
or forever flee for their lives in a diasporic frenzy.
in quiet places by himself.
while on the Mt. of Olives, in the garden, while overlooking the metropolis before him.
who work hard, raise families, and overcome life's challenges together.
Jesus was being led to his own death.
and washed by the only one who could have saved him.
He was a dead man walking.
so Simon was conscripted to do it for him.
we'd be overwhelmed with the dread of our impending mortal doom.
and he sees people similarly condemned.
a daughter he met at Jacob's well.
and who would soon mix the spices with oil in preparation for his burial.
Jesus opens his compassion to his daughters.
for the anguish you will face will greatly exceed the grief over my death.
when they treat you like dried kindling wood.
when the rest of us would look within.
but Luke calls them criminals.
the three of them punctuating the peak of the hill known as The Skull.
as they passed through the ancient walled city gate at its feet.
Life is balanced with death.
Good is balanced with evil.
prays for those who crucify him, who cast lots for his clothing, and the leaders of the Temple who stood by and mocked him.
Life of this world is balanced with Paradise in the next world.
The suffering and death of Jesus is all about balance.
"Are you not the Messiah?" he derided him.
one is able to still hear the desperation in the words of the condemned.
Death today, but salvation tomorrow.
This man hits the nail right on the head.
All of us are guilty under the law.
Each of us deserve to hang upon the cross with Jesus.
into the flood of God's unlimited, abundant sanctifying grace.
let us step forward in grace and embrace Paradise.
to die for the sins we commit?
but also between himself and each of us?
seeking guidance in a garden prior to his most important decisions.
Jesus commends his spirit into his Father's hands.
Jesus makes himself wholly God.
any stain we might have brought to God.
even though the cross provides us with direct access to the Father.
take a walk on the wild side of grace.
Reopen the lines of communication with God.
Speak a word of surrender to our heavenly Father.
And leave the resurrection up to God. Amen.
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The floors are a living tangle of undulating fur. Small, brown blurs scurry across marble floors. Thousands of rats dine with people and scamper over their feet. It may sound like a nightmare from the New York City subway to some, but in India's small northwestern city of Deshnoke, this is a place of worship: Rajastan's famous Karni Mata Temple.
Karni Mata was a female Hindu sage born in the Charan caste and is worshiped as the incarnation of the goddess Durga by her followers. She is an official deity of the royal family of Jodhpur and Bikaner. During her lifetime, she laid the foundation stone of two of the important forts in Rajputana. She lived an ascetic life, and most of the temples dedicated to her were dedicated during her lifetime. A temple dedicated to her during her lifetime differs from others in that it does not contain an image or idol of her but rather contains a foot-print to symbolize her visit to that place. The most famous of her temples is the temple of Deshnoke, which was created following her mysterious disappearance from her home. The temple is famous for its rats, which are treated as sacred and given protection in the temple. This temple is near to Bikaner and Nokha. The second name of Karni mata is (Nari bai). Contrary to some reports, the temple is of the Hindu sect and is not affiliated with the Jain faith.
The Karni Mata temple at Deshnoke, 30 km from Bikaner, in its present form was completed in the early 20th century in the late Mughal style by Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner. The temple was further enhanced by Kundanlal Verma of Hyderabad-based Karni Jewelers in 1999. The huge silver gates to the temple and the marble carvings were also donated by him.
Throughout the year, pilgrims from around India visit to pay religious tribute to Karni Mata at the Deshnoke temple. Outside Rajasthan, she is respected and loved in areas such as Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana. During Navratri thousands of people travel to the temple by foot. If one of the rats is killed, it must be replaced with one made of solid gold. Sighting a white rat amidst hordes of black rats is considered specially auspicious.
Karni Mata lived in the 14th century and performed many miracles during her life-time. When her youngest son, Lakhan, drowned, Karni Mata ordered Yama, the god of Death, to bring him back to life. Yama replied that he was unable to do this, but that Karni Mata, is an incarnation of Durga, could restore Lakhan's life. This she did, and decreed that members of her family would no longer die, but would be incarnated as kabas (rats), and these kabas would returns as members of her family. There are around 600 families in Deshnok who claim both decent from Karni Mata and that they will be reincarnated as kabas.
The temple is an important place of pilgrimage, with pilgrims being disgorged every few minutes from buses. Before the temple, is a beautiful marble facade with solid silver doors donated by Maharaja Gaj Singh. Across the doorway to the inner sanctum are the repousse (raised relief) silver doors - one panel shows the goddess with her holy charges at her feet. An image of goddess is enshrined in the sanctum. There are special holes around the temple courtyard to fascinate the rats' movements, and a wire grille has been placed over the courtyard to prevent the birds of prey and other predators consuming the holy rodents.
It is considered quite auspicious to have a kaba run across your feet. White kabas are quite rare, albeit there are one or two at the temple and sightseeing one augurs well for your spiritual progress.


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The Wales Supporters Club is still open to new members, membership lasts until the end of this qualifying campaign and costs £25 for Gold members, £15 for Silver members and £5 for Junior members. Membership forms, and further information, can be found on our website at www.faw.org.uk – just click on Tickets.
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Category: "Glaciers and ice sheets"
Most snow crystals are single crystals. Being single is an outcome of their growth process and small size. On the other hand, most larger ice formations are not single crystals. These latter types are called "polycrystals". A polycrystal usually appears the same as any other type of ice -- smooth, uniform, clear or white -- just as if it were also single crystal. But the poly nature can be revealed when the ice warms to the melting temperature. At melting temperature, the boundaries between the separate crystals become visible. As an example, note the white lines in the ice in the inset in the image below.
(This image is from the ice drip complex in the previous post.) We call each individual crystal a "grain", and the boundaries between grains as "grain boundaries". The grain boundaries show up because the region has disordered ice that will melt at a lower temperature than regular ice. Thus, the light, upon passing through a grain boundary, will scatter more, making a whiter region, as shown in the image.
The ice is thus weaker on a grain boundary and has a tendency to break along these boundaries. On the surface of ponds and lakes, the grains (individual crystals) can be several inches or more across. So, if you get a sheet of such ice, and let it warm up to melting, you will find it easy to break the ice sheet along a grain boundary and thus isolate a large single crystal.
The size and pattern of the grains affect the mechanical properties of the ice. So, glaciologists, who want to know how a given glacier or ice sheet moves, are very interested in such patterns. They call this pattern the "ice fabric".
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Orlando Metcalfe Poe (né le  à Navarre, État de l'Ohio et décédé le  à Detroit, État du Michigan) est un Général de brigade de l'Union. Il est enterré dans le cimetière national d'Arlington, Virginie.

Avant la guerre
Orlando Metcalfe Poe entre à l'académie militaire de West Point le . Il est breveté second lieutenant le  dans le corps des ingénieurs topographes.

Il est promu second lieutenant le  et premier lieutenant le .

Guerre de Sécession
Orlando Metcalfe Poe est nommé colonel du 2nd Michigan Infantry le . Il est l'un des principaux subordonnés du général George McClellan. Il participe à la bataille de Rich Mountain. Il participe à la campagne de la Péninsule, à la seconde bataille de Bull Run et à la bataille de Fredericksburg.

Il est nommé brigadier général des volontaires le  mais sa nomination n'est pas confirmée et expire le .

Il est promu capitaine dans le corps des ingénieurs le . En 1863, il sert en tant de chef des ingénieurs du XXIII corps et est responsable des défenses de l'Union à la bataille de Knoxville. Le général William Tecumseh Sherman le nomme chef des ingénieurs de la division du Mississippi lors de la campagne d'Atlanta et la campagne des Carolines

Il est breveté major le  pour bravoure lors du siège de Knoxville, puis lieutenant colonel le  pour bravoure lors de la capture d'Atlanta. Il est breveté colonel pour bravoure lors de la capture de Savannah le . Il est breveté brigadier général le  pour bravoure et service méritant lors de la campagne aboutissant à la reddition de l'armée rebelle du général Joseph E. Johnston.

Après la guerre
Après la guerre, Orlando Metcalfe Poe sert en tant qu'aide de camp du général Sherman à compter  du . Il est promu major le . Il est affecté au service des phares et devient ingénieur en chef du district des Grands Lacs. Il conçoit et fait réaliser le phare de Wind Point. Ses réalisations sont définies comme étant des phares de « style Poe ». Il est promu lieutenant colonel le  puis colonel le .

Il écrit  « Memoir of Francis Ulric Farquhar » publié par la Western Society of Engineers en 1883. En 1889, il rédige « The defense of Knoxville » .

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Naissance en mars 1832
Naissance dans le comté de Stark (Ohio)
Décès en octobre 1895
Décès à Détroit (Michigan)
Général de brigade de l'Union Army
Élève de l'Académie militaire de West Point
Décès à 63 ans
Personnalité liée à l'Ohio durant la guerre de Sécession
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière national d'Arlington

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I am starting a new interview series on this blog called Meet Top Environmental Economists, #MeetTopEnvEcon. The idea is to introduce some of the most influential economists that have significantly contributed to environmental economics. I am not going to make a difference here between those working on ecological economics, or urban environmental economics, or similar, but I will simply look at all those economists who have spent a significant part of their research agenda on using economic tools to research issues related to the environment.
From this you, the reader, should get away a couple of points: What motivated this researcher to work on this topic? What does (s)he view as the major contributions? Where should the literature go from here? The idea is to introduce these top researchers also from a more personal side, a side that one seldomly gets to know if one only reads their articles. In addition, the references accumulated here will help to develop a smaller living library that should aid researchers.
In terms of contributors there is no particular order, first come first served really. I will not necessarily follow particular rankings, like those from ideas, since for example policy-oriented researchers often have a difficult time to enter those rankings. If you are not happy with the selections, or you would like to see others ranked, let me know!
The first favourite environmental economist is Rick van der Ploeg. I got to know Rick when he taught the macroeconomics course for us MSc Economics students at the London School of Economics in early 2003. This was a really enjoyable course: while he was sticking to the textbook, at the same time his mind was racing ahead and he provided us with anecdotes about his time as a politician, about when economics matters for public finance and education, and he always helped us to see where exactly the elephant in the room was standing. Rick is someone who knows the theory by heart and has enough experience in the public sector to actually know where it matters. His recent work is mostly about optimal carbon taxes, the green paradox, and the optimal switch from non-renewable to renewable resources.
Rick van der Ploeg is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre). Formerly, he was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Florence and he is affiliated with the VU University of Amsterdam, and the Tinbergen Institute.
He is a research fellow in international macroeconomics at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He directs the public sector economics programme, and is Chair of the Scientific Council of CESifo.
He is former Chief Financial Spokesperson in the Dutch Parliament, State Secretary of Education, Science and Culture of the Netherlands and Elected Member of the Unesco World Heritage Committee, and has been on the board of various commercial and non-profit organisations. Previous academic experience includes Cambridge, LSE, Tilburg and Amsterdam.
He has published extensively on macroeconomics, public finance, political economy and resource economics, and also has an interest in the economics of culture. Publications include Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics with B.J. Heijdra (OUP, 2002), the edited Handbook of International Macroeconomics, and several other books.
I was trained first as a mathematical physicist, then engineering with an interest in evolutionary biology when I studied in Sussex near the lovely beach city of Brighton. I then did an engineering PhD at King's College, but moved at the encouragement of the amazing gentlemen economists James Meade and Richard Stone to work in the Department of Applied Economics. David Newbery became my secondary supervisor, a great applied economist. My research has then focused on the interface of public finance and (international) macro. After an eight year spell in politics, I focused at climate and resource economics.
My first article in JRSS Series A (1981) was on inaccuracy of national accounts data and what to do about it. Inspired by Richard Stone, it made me realise how important it is to be aware of the reliability of the data we use. I suppose my papers with Lans Bovenberg in the early nineties on the double dividend hypothesis have had some traction in policy and academic circles.
The Three Essays of Tjalling Koopmans. Hayek's The Fatal Conceit of Socialism. The novels Changing Places and A Small World by David Lodge. The book on how to take the con out of econometrics by Angrist and Pischke. And yes lots of important papers, not necessarily in environmental economics. But for example the fishing experiment paper by Stoop, Noussair and van Soest in the JPE is excellent.
See my VOXEU articles on climate tipping with Aart de Zeeuw, on simple rules for the global carbon tax with Armon Rezai, and on managing resource wealth and SWFs with Sam Wills.
Especially in Europe we need much, much more decent applied work with innovative identification strategies and innovative micro bottom-up and experimental data sets.
Read newspapers, the Economist and talk to passionate people in the real world and get your idea from there, not from putting an extra bell and whistle on an existing theory.
See 6 and in the bath doing nothing but wrestling in my own head. Very sad, alas.
Which impact would you say does your research have on policy making?
There has been a bit of an influence on policy making related to managing resource wealth in developing countries, especially the idea of investing to invest to overcome absorption constraints.
Both. I love theatre, so London suits me fine. I do love islands and sailing too.
I remember a conference in Beijing long ago, where during a session the overhead projector went on fire. There are too many jokes. I am no expert, I fear.
Thanks Hernán! Since I am just starting this any comments or suggestions are warmly welcome.


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Chevy Silverado – Is This Chevy Truck The Right Car for You?
Chevy Silverado is the most versatile pickup truck in the world. If you are looking for an all-purpose workhorse with a ton of power but is still capable of hauling things from job to job, then Chevrolet Silverado is the right choice. It's loaded with features and great for towing. The Chevrolet Silverado is the most popular pickup truck on the road. It has been around for decades and is still going strong. However, if you're looking for the right car, you might want to look elsewhere. The Chevrolet Silverado is one of the best trucks on the market.
It's durable and reliable, but does it live up to its reputation? Find out in this in-depth review. We'll look at the Chevy Silverado's specs, fuel economy, interior quality, exterior styling, and other factors to see if it's the right truck for you. The Chevrolet Silverado truck is the workhorse of the Chevrolet lineup. It has been around since 1982 and is available in pickup and crew cab configurations. Chevrolet has sold over 3 million Silverados over the past 30 years. It's a dependable vehicle, making it great for many drivers. It's also one of the best cars for getting around. So if you're looking for a great car or if you need a reliable vehicle, the Silverado is a perfect choice.
What is Chevy Silverado?
What features should you look for in a Chevy Silverado?
Where can I buy Chevy Silverado?
How much does Chevy Silverado cost?
How to choose the right color for your Chevy Silverado?
Frequently asked questions about Chevy Silverado.
Myths about Chevy Silverado
The Chevrolet Silverado is a full-size pickup truck that was introduced in 2002. It has been in production ever since and has sold well, becoming the bestselling pickup truck in America. It is available in three trims: LT, LTZ, and High Country. The base trim is LT and has the basic features you'd expect from a pickup truck. It comes standard with a 4.3-liter V6 engine and an automatic transmission. If you want to step up to the High Country trim, you can choose either a 6.0-liter V8 engine or a 5.3-liter V8 engine. Both are capable of hauling up to 2,000 pounds. As you can see, the Chevy Silverado is quite a versatile vehicle, and it is ideal for most needs. The High Country version offers a maximum towing capacity of 3,500 pounds. This makes it the perfect truck for off-road adventures.
The Chevrolet Silverado is a tough truck that has been on the road for decades. It has seen many generations of technology and design, and its current iteration is one of the best trucks on the road. It is a heavy-duty vehicle built for hauling and work, but it is also a comfortable ride. While the Silverado may be a truck, it is more of a crossover SUV. If you are interested in purchasing a Silverado, here are some features you should consider.
It doesn't matter what vehicle you're looking for; you can find it on the Internet. If you're looking for a Chevrolet Silverado, you can buy it on Amazon, eBay, and other e-commerce websites. Of course, you can also order it from local dealerships. However, many people prefer buying from a third-party website like Amazon. The advantage is that they can get the vehicle at a discount. There are plenty of reasons why you should order your Chevrolet Silverado from an e-commerce website. For example, you can usually save up to 40% on vehicles. If you buy it from a dealership, you can get a better deal when you buy in bulk. But if you buy it from an online seller, you can get a much better price.
When buying a new vehicle, price is always an important factor. Buying a car can be a very stressful experience. But what are the things you should be considering? How can you avoid being ripped off? There are so many things to consider. But the good news is that we've done all the hard work for you. We've analyzed every model and every trim level of the Chevrolet Silverado and found the most affordable, reliable, and feature-rich version for your budget. The best performance of the Silverado is the LTZ trim level. It has a starting price of $33,937. If you want more features, you can upgrade to the Denali trim. This is the highest-end model, with a starting price of $47,837.
The Chevrolet Silverado is one of the most popular pickups on the road. It's durable and reliable, but does it live up to its reputation? The Silverado is available in six colors. Each one has a distinctive personality that stands out from the rest. Choosing the right color can help set you apart from other drivers. To help you out, we've put together a list of the six Silverado colors. You'll see that they range from flashy to bold, and you can pick any of them.
Q: What was it like when you were chosen as a Chevy Silverado spokesperson?
A: They sent me a test drive, and it was incredible! I have never driven such a beautiful car. I love how fast it goes and how smooth it feels.
Q: If you weren't a model, what would you want to be?
A: I would want to be a teacher or a professional athlete. I would love to be a coach, so I could help inspire other girls to follow their dreams.
Q: What do you like to do when you're not working?
A: I love to spend time with my friends. I go on walks and play basketball. I also love to sing and dance.
Q: What's your favorite thing about your body?
A: My eyes are really pretty. I think they look great in pictures.
1. Chevy Silverado doesn't care.
2. Chevy Silverado is made in the USA.
3. Chevy Silverado is cheap.
4. Chevy Silverado is made with American parts.
I personally this truck is worth it. I would consider other makes and models. However, there are other factors to consider. First of all, you're looking at a full-size pickup truck. That means that it is capable of carrying a ton of weight. This might be a great choice if you live in a mountainous area. The truck is also relatively inexpensive, especially compared to some other makes on the market. So, while I don't think this is a great deal, it might be a good option for someone looking for a new vehicle.
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There's no innate language organ or module in the human brain dedicated to the production of grammatical language.
Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the direct sense that all languages exhibit them. Instead, diversity can be found at almost every level of linguistic organization. This fundamentally changes the object of enquiry from a cognitive science perspective. This target article summarizes decades of cross-linguistic work by typologists and descriptive linguists, showing just how few and unprofound the universal characteristics of language are, once we honestly confront the diversity offered to us by the world's 6,000 to 8,000 languages. After surveying the various uses of "universal," we illustrate the ways languages vary radically in sound, meaning, and syntactic organization, and then we examine in more detail the core grammatical machinery of recursion, constituency, and grammatical relations. Although there are significant recurrent patterns in organization, these are better explained as stable engineering solutions satisfying multiple design constraints, reflecting both cultural-historical factors and the constraints of human cognition.
I think that the more literate we become as a society, and the more focused on technical writing, we are losing our ability to actualy hear the language of what is being said.
I think that language is a cultural concept, but culture is driven by human biology. Anyway, good study.
Hath No Man Biblical Literacy?
Have you read *The Presence of the Word* by Walter Ong?
No, but I have other books by his.
Having a degree in Linguistics, I would have to disagree with this, yet this debate has been going on for over 100 years. Every couple of years there's always an opposing theory to the previous theory and vice-versa.
It seems, even from a brief Google search, that the theory of mother is wrong, but prevalent only in Euro-India languages, which is not surprising. Semitic languages, such as Arabic are different as are languages from Native Americans.
Considering the sharing of the Phoenician language in both directions – Greece and the Hebrew tribes, and from there to other places – it is no question that certain micro-universals will be present, especially the closer you get to the source of the languages; however there are no macro universals identified in languages.
Actually, no. Not always the word mother, but Mom or even grandmother.
I should have said mother begins with a bilabial nasal,which includes N, P and B, not necessarily M. I really didn't think I had to be specific.For example, Cherokee has uneji.
I don't think your point is proven by that paper. As he notes, there isn't really a universal.


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"Climate experts say it is imperative, for the sake of the planet and its inhabitants, that every effort be made to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius rather than the 2 degrees we appear to be headed for without strong action," writes Usha Lee McFarling. (Photo: Report cover detail/Energy Watch Group/Lappeenranta University of Technology)
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Can we decarbonize the global economy as quickly as we need to? It's a daunting task that will likely require much more effort — from our best engineers, but also from individuals and government leaders.
Usha Lee McFarling
December 25, 2018 by the Los Angeles Times
It's clear that 2018 was a terrible year for Earth's climate. California saw the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in its history, the continually thawing Arctic got down to the last 5% of its oldest and thickest ice, and after slowing in recent years, greenhouse gas emissions were once again on the rise. This year was the fourth hottest on record.
"While it may seem there may be nothing to be optimistic about, there is one very good reason for hope: renewable energy."Reports from climate experts were grim as well. A dire report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in October, predicted widespread food shortages, massive coral reef die-offs and more deadly heat waves by 2040 if greenhouse gas emissions are not rapidly brought under control. A U.S. government study released last month warned that the country's agriculture, infrastructure and economy will all suffer stark consequences if global warming is not reined in.
While it may seem there may be nothing to be optimistic about, there is one very good reason for hope: renewable energy.
In the past decade, the cost of producing solar power has dropped 80% — a shift that is pricing dirtier energy sources like coal and natural gas out of the energy market. In 2017, coal-hungry China added 53 gigawatts of solar power, eclipsing the total solar output of most nations. Morocco, Egypt and even the oil-exporting United Arab Emirates are investing in renewable power. More than half of the world's new capacity for making energy comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar.
That renewable energy can also replace fossil fuel to power automobiles. There were more than three million electric cars on the road in 2017. The International Energy Agency predicts that number will balloon to 125 million by 2030. A fleet that size would keep an estimated 2.57 million barrels of oil — the amount Germany uses in a year — out of out the energy pipeline.
Some newer studies, based largely on how quickly electric cars are catching on and how dramatically their prices are dropping, now predict a "fast adoption scenario" where electric cars could make up 90% of cars in the U.S. by the mid-2040s. One International Monetary Fund economist who studies the issue equates today's gas and diesel cars to yesterday's horses and buggies — transportation modes that went by the wayside as the price of the Model T dropped.
The march toward carbon-free power and transportation is being propelled by advances in battery technology that can store power generated by the sun and wind for later use and increase the range of electric cars. The world's largest lithium-ion battery (made by Tesla) started up this year in South Australia and is expected to earn back a third of its $65 million cost in its first year. Even more exciting game-changing battery technologies — using screen printing, graphene/cellulose or zinc — are under development.
Of course government policies and subsidies could speed these developments even further. But the turn toward carbon-free renewable energy sources seems to have enough momentum from market forces to continue even if leaders of countries, like ours, are set against mandating the shift. For one example, look to many of the more than two dozen states that challenged President Obama's Clean Power Plan in court in recent years; most of them — even states once heavily dependent on oil and coal such as Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas — were on track to meet the reduced emissions goals because it makes economic sense to do so.
Climate experts say it is imperative, for the sake of the planet and its inhabitants, that every effort be made to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius rather than the 2 degrees we appear to be headed for without strong action.
Can we decarbonize the global economy as quickly as we need to? It's a daunting task that will likely require much more effort — from our best engineers, but also from individuals and government leaders. In the meantime, the speed at which renewables are rapidly being adopted over more traditional energy sources — think mobile phones overtaking landlines — definitely offers some hope.
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Usha Lee McFarling is the West Coast correspondent for STAT News.
McFarling has worked at the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau and covered a wide range of topics from astrophysics and seismology to neuroscience, medicine and climate change.


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What not to like about Facebook Pages
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Each Facebook Page is managed by one or more administrator. The user creating the page becomes the first administrator, and may grant other users one of six roles: Admin, Editor, Moderator, Advertiser, Analyst, and Live Contributor. Admins can perform all functions. Editors can perform every function except managing page roles and settings. Other roles have fewer privileges.
Many organizations choose to have more than one administrator. If one leaves or is unavailable, another can maintain the page. In-house, contracted, and volunteer designers also may require admin rights to update some page settings. Unfortunately, Facebook allows any Page administrator to remove all other administrators. A rogue admin, or hacked admin account, can result in the organization being locked out of their Facebook Page.
Last week, Sit With Me, an Ottawa-based dog rescue, faced exactly that scenario. "Our Facebook Page is our number one communication tool," explained board member Ashley Ladouceur. The volunteer-operated all-breed dog rescue has about 16,000 likes on their Facebook Page, where it posts information including dogs available for adoption. These are often shared, providing the group with an even larger reach. According to Ladouceur, Sit With Me often meets urgent fundraising requirements within days of posting a request for assistance on their Page.
On May 11 or 12, 2017, the Facebook and email account of a Sit With Me volunteer with admin on the Page was compromised. On the May 14, all the other administrators were removed, presumably by the intruder. As the victim worked to regain access to her email and Facebook account, her Facebook account was either deleted or otherwise deactivated. The delay suggests that Sit With Me was not the intended target, but that hasn't helped them regain control of their Facebook Page.
According to Ladouceur, the group has been able to ascertain from Facebook that there are no administrators remaining on the Page. They were still trying to make contact with someone at Facebook to help them when their Page completely disappeared on the evening of May 21.
The group remains hopeful that Facebook will come through for them and restore access to their Facebook Page. "Without it, I don't know how we would re-start," Ladouceur said. Sit With Me averages between 85 and 120 dogs in their care, some of whom require expensive medical attention.
Sit With Me is not the first organization to face a hostile takeover of their Facebook Page. As is the case with many free services, very limited assistance is available. Facebook's help page suggests the obvious:
"If you can't access your Page, first check to see if another admin of the Page may have removed you. The best thing you can do is contact a Page admin and ask them to add you back. Keep in mind that there are different kinds of Page roles, and only admins can add or remove people.
Pages can only be accessed through a personal account that belongs to an admin. If you think your Page was taken over by someone else, it may mean that your personal account or the account of someone who works on your Page was hacked."
Unfortunately Facebook doesn't directly address the concerns of an organization that has completely lost control of their Page. They should introduce enhanced controls, such as requiring multiple administrators to approve removing an administrator, and provide better security guidance in general. Until that happens, here is what Facebook Page owners can do to help protect themself against Page hijacking:
Everyone with a role on the page needs to secure their Facebook account. That includes selecting a long, complex password that is used only for Facebook and turning on two factor authentication (2FA). Facebook's 2FA options are more limited than other sites, but they do support Fido U2F tokens and sending a 6-digit code via SMS. While not perfect, enabling these options provide significantly better security than a password alone.
The Facebook Page Admin role should only be granted when absolutely necessary. If a web designer requires Admin access to change page settings, it should only be provided for a limited time. The vast majority of tasks can be accomplished using the Editor role.
Facebook password resets leverage the user's primary email account, making security of the email account critical. Google and Microsoft offer 2FA for free and paid email accounts; everyone should use it.
Facebook did not respond to an email inquiry asking for information and advice for Facebook Page users.
Have a security question you'd like answered in a future column? Eric would love to hear from you.
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With all the failures of the Church, with all the mistakes of leaders, with all the confusion across years and cultures, I still believe in the Bible.
I believe the heart of the Bible beats wild and free inside its binding, no matter how many times it is held down or torn apart or thrown across a room. It is a living Word whose breath bursts through any attempts to suffocate it.
I believe when the living Word joins forces with the living Spirit and flows into living hearts, something is unleashed unlike any other power in this world.
I have been afraid to admit this. Fearful of this belief being my voice. Unsure what box would be placed around me after this sort of declaration. Nervous about saying things in such a way that I might drive the nails into that box myself.
But my fear is no longer strong enough to hold back this fire within my bones.
I still believe in the Bible. I still believe this ancient Book can speak new things to humanity, even on the thousandth reading of a text. I still believe the Scriptures have power to change lives, transform hearts, and speak into the deepest crevices of our souls.
That doesn't mean I believe the Bible is easy. Or clear. I believe the Bible is often frustrating, and usually confusing, but absolutely worth wrestling through. We cannot give up.
Which is why I believe we need each other. We need a community that reads and shares about the Scriptures with one another. We need academics to show us context, artists to show us beauty, doubters to show us questions, servants to show us surrender, and visionaries to show us inspiration.
I believe the life surging from God's Word is meant to make its way into the world through every wrinkle, mole, joint, muscle, and bone of the Body of Christ. I believe the Bible is meant to be the lifeblood for each of us: anchoring us, encouraging us, and spurring us forth to the beautiful lives God desires for His beloveds.
I still believe in the Bible. I intend to spend my life cracking it open, breathing it in, and letting its life flow from me.
How do you feel about the Bible these days? Have you seen it change lives?


Dec. 13, 2016, 10:36 a.m.
List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
Julien Lepiller - Dec. 13, 2016, 10:36 a.m.
>> way, with findlib. Then this new lablgtk is used to build coqide.
> without needing to pass the configure flags.
By the way, is there someone working on an ocaml-build-system?
* gnu/packages/ocaml.scm (coq): Build coqide.


David works with boids mostly and if I remember right the deppei's are the only colubrids that he owns. He didnt cool them. Just kept them at room temp and didnt plan on breeding them. This year he found himself with some unexpected eggs. He incubated them and out popped the little guys he was selling. He had some pics of the parents and the color contrast was amazing so I'm getting pretty excited that my male is starting to turn white in the anterior third.
I bought them as an impulse buy and they quickly became one of my favorite snakes. Their personalities and they way they move is unlike any other pit I've worked with. They seem almost boa-like in their movement. Im definitely glad I got them.


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CU Boulder announces six weeks paid parental…
CU Boulder announces six weeks paid parental leave for university staff
Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer
The University of Colorado announced Tuesday it would grant six weeks of paid parental leave to university staff.
By Cassa Niedringhaus | cniedringhaus@dailycamera.com | Boulder Daily Camera
The University of Colorado's Boulder campus announced Tuesday it would grant six weeks of paid parental leave to university staff, who previously used accrued and unpaid leave after having or adopting children.
Effective July 1, CU Boulder university staff will be allowed six weeks of paid parental leave to be used within one year of the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child, and to run concurrently with the 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave mandated under the federal Family Medical Leave Act. Classified staff will not be eligible for the paid leave because they are under the purview of the state, but university leaders said they are exploring options with the state to extend the benefit to them.
"This was a huge step in the right direction," said Jessica Gammey, a project coordinator in the facilities management department. Gammey is also one of the incoming co-chairs of the CU Boulder Staff Council. "We were so thrilled that this is going to be offered."
For Gammey — whose sons, Andrew and Jacob, were born in 2015 and 2016 — the policy would have provided a more secure financial situation and a more smooth transition between work and leave.
Her husband, she said, decided to become the stay-at-home parent. When her unpaid leave started after the birth of their first son, the new family's income stopped, and she returned to work having exhausted her accrued sick and vacation leave.
Before the birth of her second son, she encountered pregnancy complications that forced her to use the majority of the accrued leave she'd been saving for his birth. She worked part-time at the office and part-time from home, "doing neither justice."
Gammey detailed her story in a 10-page white paper prepared over the course of several years by a working group of the University of Colorado Staff Council, the representative body for staff across the system. The paper proposed paid parental leave and provided recommendations as to how to implement it.
"I am a mother, but I also have a strong desire to grow my career," she wrote in her testimonial. "A male coworker and his wife had their children at the same time as I did. His career didn't stall when he had a child, but he also didn't get the time to stay home and bond with his child that I did. Surely there is a balance between the two that shifts our society to not just say it values families but to do so in practice."
Gammey said her experience was in many ways similar to the experiences of other university staff, and she was fortunate that she had a supportive department.
Heather Martin, the other incoming co-chair of the CU Boulder Staff Council, echoed Gammey that the new policy was a big step in the right direction.
"Sometimes staff feel overlooked on our campus, and so the fact that this will have some real impact in our community is a big win and a big morale boost overall," said Martin, who is an assistant office manager in the faculty assistant office.
She also reiterated their commitment to advocating on behalf of classified staff.
The working group originally formed in 2015 and included representatives of each of the campuses and was facilitated by system staff. The group prepared the white paper, which included results of a system survey that identified parental leave as a key obstacle for employees, argued that paid parental leave would benefit both staff and the university and outlined how CU compared to peer institutions. The process included multiple stages of refining the proposal and working with administrators.
The CU Boulder Staff Council endorsed the white paper at its March meeting. The then-co-chairs of the council, John Kelly and Mirinda Scott, signed a letter to the CU Board of Regents and other campus and system administrators in support of the white paper.
"We've seen research time and time and time again that the lack of this benefit contributes to the gender pay gap, and we definitely see that within departments and on campus," Kelly said. "We wanted to tackle this issue that, one, we'd heard from staff consistently about, and, two, that we had research that was tying the existence of the gender pay gap on campus to the lack of this benefit."
Gammey said the end result was a prime example of what can happen when staff and administrators work together, calling it a great partnership.
"This policy enhancement is the result of many people wanting to support the well-being of our employees and their families," said Kelly Fox, CU Boulder senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer, in a statement Tuesday. "It also supports our efforts to recruit and retain faculty and staff on the Boulder campus, and to foster an inclusive and supportive workplace for parents and families."
The CU Board of Regents approved the new administrative policy, which grants four weeks of paid parental leave to eligible faculty and staff. The Boulder campus extended the four weeks to six and will fund the benefit with existing campus funds.
CU Boulder tenure and tenure-track faculty already receive 18 weeks of paid leave, and tenure and tenure-track library faculty already receive six months of paid leave.
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Locks and Holds: The Basics of Synchronization
By Sergey Babkin, June 11, 2009
Two of the very basic primitives connecting a portion of code to a portion of data are locks and holds
Sergey is a senior developer for Aleri. He can be contacted at [email protected]
A great many ways of parallel processes (or threads) synchronization have been invented over time. They are devised with different usage models in mind and with different levels of overhead. Some synchronization primitives are really most basic.
Even before multithreading became popular in the user programs, it was used in the operating system kernels. Quite a few terms and primitives came from there. Many of them pre-date even the multiprocessor systems: even the single-processor kernels had very similar synchronization needs.
Two of the very basic primitives connecting a portion of code to a portion of data are locks and holds. Both are widely used in the OS kernels and often get people confused. Locks, also known as "mutexes," are the simplest, most lightweight, and widely used synchronization mechanism. When a lock is locked (or, in other words, "acquired" or "held"), a thread says "don't anybody touch these data", until it unlocks (or "releases") the lock. Locks are used often, in many interesting ways, and are mentioned in every introductory text on the subject. Still, there are interesting points that aren't always considered.
Let's start with simple things. What lock granularity should be used? How many locks to use? How much data should be protected by each lock? Obviously, if all the data in the program is protected by one lock, this essentially means single-threading all the logic. Not very good. However too many locks may be bad too: locking and unlocking creates extra overhead. What is the best granularity? Depends on the particular program. The only way to find out is to try and see what happens.
A typical place where this issue comes up is in the composite data structures. Suppose, we have a list. The choice here is to have a single lock for the whole list, or have a lock for the whole list plus a lock for each element of the list. With a single lock, the logic is simple: anyone using the list or any of its elements must acquire the lock. With the multiple locks, the logic can be written in pseudocode:
Addition of an element:
Create and initialize the new element;
Lock the list;
Add the new element to the list;
Unlock the list;
Access of an element:
Find the element;
Lock the element;
Perform the operation on the element;
Unlock the element;
Deletion of an element:
Remove the element from the list;
Destroy and free the element;
Note that locking an element guarantees not only that the element won't be accessed by anyone else but also that the element won't be destroyed. Because of this, the deletion also needs to lock the element before destroying it. What if you work with an element and then decide that you need to delete it? You can't just lock the list and proceed. This would create a possibility of a deadlock, if some other thread has already locked the list and now tries to lock the same element as the first thread. The only way around is to unlock the element and then proceed with the deletion from scratch: lock the list, find the element, lock the element, and only then delete it. Even the finding of the element can't be skipped, since some other thread might have already deleted in the meantime.
This applies to any kind of composite data structures, and the structures may be nested further and make the question of the best lock granularity even more complicated. The rule of thumb is: if there is not likely to be much contention for some data, don't bother with the fine-granularity locks around it.
Mixing the locks with object-oriented languages makes some things easier and some things harder. Exceptions are a bit of a pain. Normally you don't want to leave the locks unintentionally locked if some error condition is found. In a classic procedural language it's not that hard to get it right:
lock();
ok = call();
unlock();
if (!ok)
But exceptions happen unexpectedly and make the function return without showing it obviously in the code. So if there is any chance of exceptions, the locks must be wrapped in try/catch statements:
call();
} catch() {
In C++ another feature comes to the resque. The objects defined in a block get destroyed on any exit from the block, normal or on exception. So many multithreading libraries feature an "automatic lock" class, as in Listing One. The constructor remembers the lock and locks it; the destructor unlocks the remembered lock. This makes the code a lot cleaner. Java doesn't have the destructors but it does one better: it provides a keyword synchronized() that does the same thing and more.
However a thing that is usually overlooked and missing is the opposite thing, an "automatic unlock". It's often necessary to release a lock temporarily in the middle of a loop, to perform some lengthy operation:
for(...) {
long_operation();
If we look at it sequentially, locks and unlocks don't line up, they have mismatched block boundaries. But if we look at it the other way, that's an "automatic unlock" nested inside "automatic lock" and they line up perfectly. A simple C++ implementation is shown in the Listing Two. This way things are much harder to get wrong. An important point is that the variable in the loop block is normally created and destroyed with the lock locked. It may depend on that. If the long operation throws an exception, this condition won't be violated. First, on destruction of AutoUnlock the lock would get locked, then the variable destroyed, then on destruction of AutoLock the lock will be unlocked again.
Unfortunately, things aren't so easy in Java. There is not only no opposite to synchronized() but it also uses an implicit lock built into the object, and there is no apparent way to work with that lock explicitly at all. This adds a startling amount of complication to things that could be so very simple. Even the simple loop shown above becomes a tangle.
For another concrete example, suppose you have a socket or a device driver file. How do you check if there is data available on it without blocking? Java gives no built-in way to do it but the solution is straightforward: make a wrapper object containing a buffer and a background thread that keeps reading data and placing it into the buffer. Then all you need is to check the buffer: if the buffer is empty, there is no data available. It would be so easy to just make the whole class synchronized and forget about the manual locking. But things don't work this way.
When the background thread gets stuck reading from the file, it takes the lock with it. Any attempt to check the state of the buffer gets stuck forever until the file gets closed, since that's when the method run() in the background thread exits and releases the lock. The manual synchronization has to be used instead.
Now let's move on to the holds. The holds have been used even in the single-procesor Unix OS kernels (the interrupt priority levels were playing the role of the locks at the time). When a thread gets a hold on an object, it says "I may be not actively working with this object right now but I need it, so don't anybody dare to delete it". Essentially, it's a reference counter. Get a hold -- increase the counter, release a hold -- decrease the counter.
With the classic reference counters, whoever decreses the counter to zero deletes the object. In the multithreaded programs things may be more complicated. Only a certain thread might be capable to delete the object correctly. So when the counter goes down to 0, instead of deleting the object, often some other thread gets notified and takes over from there. A class implementing such an approach with POSIX threads is shown in Listing Three.
In other cases the object with hold count of zero doesn't get immediately deleted but is put for a while into the cache of free objects. If someone needs it again, it can be quickly resurrected from the cache. Unless the memory becomes needed for something else and the cache gets cleared.
In some cases the objects on the cache may stay referenced even while their reference counts are zero. This works only if all the objects in the cache are pre-allocated once and never freed. Then a thread that needs the same kind of an object again can try to go directly to the object it used last time, get a lock on it and check if the object hasn't been cleared or reused yet. The lock guarantees that the object won't get reused while the check is in progress. If it wasn't reused, the thread can get a hold on this object (i.e. increase the reference count) and proceed like nothing happened. This approach is often used for all kinds of buffer caches, an object may be a page from a disk file cached in memory.
Of course, locks and holds are not sufficient by themselves to solve all the synchronization needs. But they form the important basics.
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Though sprightly in parts, Martin Greig's biography of Japan's most gifted footballer is too often the victim of the pitfalls inherent in crafting a book around protracted quotations and match reports.
The result is a work that is short on insight and long on minutiae, an unfortunate affliction for a book that promises to uncover the "Zen" of Shunsuke Nakamura, the prodigy from Yokohama now beloved of the Celtic diaspora. That said, Greig, a senior sportswriter at the Herald, has got his timing right. Celtic are in the reckoning for a domestic treble and Nakamura, a common factor in their successes of the past three seasons, will stay at Parkhead until at least the summer.
In encapsulating that innate ability, Nakamura's 30-yard free-kick against Manchester United in the Champions League group stage in November 2006 is a good place to start, yet Greig tests our patience by milking the moment of every last drop of dramatic effect. As a literary device the montage – in this case a crawl through ten world cities to gauge the reaction of Celtic fans to the wonder goal – has been known to work in thrillers, but here it borders on the irritating.
Once Greig has established that the free-kick was indeed sublimely executed, he enters more comfortable territory, splicing facts about Nakamura's upbringing and career with anecdotes and insights from those who know him best. Greig's coverage of Nakamura's formative years takes him to Japan, where we learn of his rejection as a youth by his local club, Yokohama Marinos, and his quiet determination to prove his doubters wrong.
It is the best part of the book, in which a picture emerges of a decent, if painfully shy, family man who, in that hackneyed observation of celebrated free-kick exponents, would rather stay out on the training field than join his team-mates for a drink. There are amusing vignettes, too, of the cultural and personal dissonance any Japanese player can expect in a faraway dressing room, not least his ill-advised acceptance of some chewing tobacco from Neil Lennon.
That is the nearest the book's pivotal character gets to achieving the status of enfant terrible for, his visionary football aside, Nakamura's unwavering modesty is hardly the stuff of a biographer's dreams. That is not to say that the book wouldn't have benefited from a deeper dig into his psyche. There is no discussion, for example, of how big an influence his widely reported membership of Soka Gakkai, a controversial Buddhist sect, had on his football, his relationships with his manager and team-mates, and even his attitude to injury and loss of form.
That's a shame, as on occasions Greig is capable of flowing, evocative prose – on Nakamura's struggle to make the grade as a youth player, his omission from Japan's World Cup squad in 2002 and his three years in Italy with Reggina. In an early chapter Greig asks: Who is the real Nakamura? Yet 200-odd pages later, we are still some way off finding the answer.