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Original Dreck Sin, fearing extinction and being a piece of dreck around which the world revolves, seeks certainty, continuity - forever (le-olam). Original Dreck's strategy of choice is Acquisition and it's derivative More. More may yield outer security (for a while) but it also yields inner insecuriority - such that there is never Enough and More of More is needed - in an endless pursuit of an ever retreating certainty.
Original Dreck Sin creates More-ons which is what "makes Sammy run" (other than prune juice).
In more Cash Flow we trust.
In more achievements we trust.
In more aliyahs we trust.
Beneath the word trust, beneath the word's assumption of assurance, reciprocity, obligation, is the hope of safety.
Yet, sought after safety - harvests only increased anxiety.
The false promise of this safety - this hope of trust -is provision forever (le-olam). Instead, the painted ponies just go up and down over and over - solve problem, phobia #1 and problem phobia #2 is promoted. Trust isn't to be trusted Trust is a self serving deceptive trade practice of the pyschobabbaltariat and religioustariat feeding on the sin of Original Dreck. Instead of trust, the yield is disappointment. The only thing rearranged is the dreck seats on the Titanic (a new Guru, shrink, religoustariat).
The "hole -y" safety net of trust - shuffle-bored on the Titanic.
By contrast, Original Incompletion one isn't "bad, evil" but unfinished. Rather than acquiring the ever retreating More, in Original Incompletion, one seeks to correct to earn Teshuvah (the return) through deeds & efforts - Tikkun Olam. The correction may be habits, flaws etc. But the connotation is unfinished not a piece of dreck.
Inner security is sought via correction, deeds, faith, and efforts internalized in an outer world of insecurity. Rather than relying on the external trust (except for Hashem), anyway is chosen - developing one's portion rather than seeking anothers. Ethics are kept and practice when no one is looking - anyway. Good deeds that will go punished are done - anyway. Good deeds that are impugned by others as ulterior motives are done - anyway. Correction is done - anyway.
Safety is in Hashem and the earned Teshuvah - anyway.
The real trick is doing Teshuvah, anyway, with Simcha.
Simcha is a Hebrew word for joy that has become an unchallenged motherhood statement like God, Mom and Apple Pie.. Is this simcha /joy sitting around a campfire roasting weenies and marshmellows, holding hands, and singing Cumbaya? Is this joy the name of the girl who gave you your first hickey in 7th grade? Is Simcha an elusive fall back bromide - one cliché removed from nachas? How does this Simcha relate to the Yatzer Bortz inclination? Or is Simcha merely a word that falls between shmendrick and tuchass in The Joys of Yiddish?
What is Simcha, what is it's nature in Original Incompletion and Teshuvah?
Original Sin/Dreck is no great pleasure - no simcha. Original Dreck is a ball and chain and foot on one's neck. Original Dreck is a prison without walls. Responsibility derived from Original Dreck is out of guilt and shame -'certainly' not out of simcha.
Responsibility, in Original Incompletion, comes from completing, finishing, correcting - lifting, despite and although- anyway. This anyway is a release. The release of this burden of guilt, shame, Original Sin is, in a way, Simcha. But rather than just a release from the negative of Original Dreck, Simcha goes to being and becoming what one was put on this earth to be by Hashem. Simcha comes from developing one's portion (purpose) rather than envying another's, comparing, or palliating with another acquisition.
While Original Dreck requires an ever increasing "more," to get off, the simcha of Original Incompletion Anyway fulfills & paradoxically develops its portion knowing it is enough - Shaddai is enough. Original Incompletion develops the good eye of Anyway resonating a knowing simcha. This simcha of purpose - as it corrects, includes and then transcends. In contrast, Original Dreck represses, supresses, finally manifesting as an unshaven John mug shot photographed on Colfax Ave. or St. John's Church published in the Aurora Sentinel.
Simcha - meaning, developing what one was meant to be, is a re-lease on life - to 'ethical anyway', completing, and correcting in contrast to the defending, comparing, and shaming of Original Sin Dreck . The simcha is in the journey of the return (Teshuvah). The simcha is in a finishing correcting Teshuvah centered life - rather than the success ($, aliyahs, degrees, awards, achievements) centered life. Simcha is a guardianship conversion process - turning the liabilities of it's incompletion into assets for self and others - anyway. With simcha, purpose and portion are developed from man's unfinished weakness- from incompletion- without the Damaccles sword of Original Dreck, guilt, shame, blame, defend over one's yarmulke.
Anyway Simcha releases the olam - hidden - paradoxically into the le-olam (forever).
Be this as it may, it is just this commentator's opinion and observations anyway.


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Motopompa este o pompă hidraulică acționată de un motor cu ardere internă, utilizată în mai multe domenii cum ar fi agricultura (irigații și desecări), situații de urgență (incendii și inundații) etc. Motopompa este unul din principalele agregate destinate intervenției în caz de incendiu și este dotată în acest sens cu toate accesoriile p.s.i. necesare.

Protecția civilă

În România
În România, în domeniul protecției civile este utilizată preponderent motopompa autohtonă de model NOVUS 1000 PSI.

Caracteristicile motopompei NOVUS 1000 PSI
 debit - 1200 l/min
 presiune - 80 m.c.a
 turație de lucru - 2600 rpm
 greutate - 750 kg
 dimensiuni lungime: 2900 mm, lățime 1500 mm, înălțime	1400 mm

Motor tip - Diesel, Model - Lombardini, nr. cilindri - 2, răcire cu aer, putere maxima - 30 CP

Pompă tip centrifugală, adâncimea max. de absorbție - 8 m, diametru absorbție - 80 mm, diametru refulare - 65 mm

Motopompa are dispozitiv de amorsare rapidă și este montata pe șasiu omologat RAR.

NOVUS 1000 este un produs avizat și omologat de către I.G.S.U.

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The invention of the railroad was a milestone in the history of transportation.
Briggs was greatly excited by Napier's invention and visited him at Merchiston in 1615, staying with him a whole month; he repeated his visit in 1616 and, as he states, "would have been glad to make him a third visit if it had pleased God to spare him so long."
In 1847 Morse was compelled to defend his invention in the courts, and successfully vindicated his claim to be called the original inventor of the electromagnetic recording telegraph.
The didactic novel of Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, is a free invention adapted to the purposes of the author, based upon the account of Herodotus and occasionally influenced by Ctesias, without any independent traditional element.
The decision covered also future invention in regard to " every organized system of communication by means of wires according to any preconcerted system of signals."
Mantegna has sometimes been credited with the important invention of engraving with the burin on copper.
This medieval fortress, strong by art as well as position before the invention of modern artillery, has since undergone numerous sieges.
His title of" the Catholic " itself may very well have been the invention of later chronicles.
As results of Roberval's labours outside the department of pure mathematics may be noted a work on the system of the universe, in which he supports the Copernican system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter; and also the invention of a special kind of balance which goes by his name.
An instrument of higher interest, the stereoscope, which, though of much later date (1849-1850), may be mentioned here, since along with the kaleidoscope it did more than anything else to popularize his name, was not, as has often been asserted, the invention of Brewster.
But the appeal to the verbally inspired Bible was stronger than that to a church hopelessly divided; the Bible, and not the consent of the universal church, became the touchstone of the reformed orthodoxy; in the nomenclature of the time, " evangelical " arose in contradistinction to " Catholic," while, in popular parlance, the " protest " of the Reformers against the " corruptions of Rome " led to the invention of the term " Protestant," which, though nowhere assumed in the official titles of the older reformed churches, was early used as a generic term to include them all.
He immediately began to complain to Hyde, earl of Clarendon, of the poverty of the see, and based claims for a better benefice on a certain secret service, which he explained on the 20th of January 1661 to be the sole invention of the Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of his sacred Majestic in his Solitudes and Sufferings put forth within a few hours after the execution of Charles I.
He mentions it as originally a Gallic invention for giving a bright hue to the hair (" rutilandis capillis ").
Within two years of the invention the authors announced the discovery of two metals, rubidium and caesium, closely allied to sodium, potassium and lithium in properties, in the mineral lepidolite and in the Diirkheim mineral water.
1 During the twelve years that followed Morse was engaged in a painful struggle to perfect his invention and secure for it a proper presentation to the public. In poverty he pursued his new enterprise, making his own models, moulds and castings, denying himself the common necessaries of life.
During this period logarithms were invented, trigonometry and algebra developed, analytical geometry invented, dynamics put upon a sound basis, and the period closed with the magnificent invention of (or at least the perfecting of) the differential calculus by Newton and Leibnitz and the discovery of gravitation.
Immediately on its discovery intense interest was aroused in the new invention, and the chemical effects of electric currents were speedily detected.
Every day in imagination I made a trip round the world, and I saw many wonders from the uttermost parts of the earth--marvels of invention, treasuries of industry and skill and all the activities of human life actually passed under my finger tips.
It is to be noticed also that the invention was not the result of any happy accident.
Thus it was the Aeginetans who, within thirty or forty years of the invention of coinage by the Lydians (c. 700 B.C.), introduced to the western world a system of such incalculable value to trade.
For his work in connexion with gunpowder, the invention of which has been claimed for him on the ground of a passage in his De mirabili potestate antis et naturae, see Gunpowder.
The evolution of mathematical thought in the invention of the data of analysis has thus been completely traced in outline.


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CNN Guest Says Border Conditions Would Be Different If Migrants Were White
By Alex Christy | July 9, 2019 8:26 AM EDT
After months of saying there was no crisis at the southern border, the media have now changed their tune, as has the Democratic Party, but that does not mean that Democrats are at peace with this. In the aftermath of an embarrassing defeat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive firebrands for living in "their Twitter world." On Monday's CNN Newsroom, co-founder of The Beat DC, Tiffany Cross joined co-host Poppy Harlow and CNN analyst Molly Ball to take Ocasio-Cortez's side and to declare that the poor conditions at the border are due to the fact that the migrants are not white.
Cross began by arguing that the division between Pelosi and the four Democratic congresswomen who voted against the initial House funding bill for the border was, "an ideological and a tactical division."
Despite the near non-stop coverage of the crisis and the conditions at the border detention facilities, Cross declared that, "They're all four women of color who voted against this bill. And the reality, that I think there's trouble reconciling within this country, if these were white babies being treated this way in these detention facilities, if these were white women being held in overcrowded facilities, being told to drink from toilets, there certainly would be more of a national outcry."
Cross then accused President Trump of misusing funds, but could only come up with the Fourth of July ceremony in Washington as an example of such wrongdoing. She proceeded to condemn ICE for using facial recognition technology gathered through drivers licenses and praise the four congresswomen for not trusting Trump with any ICE funding.
Responsible people know that the reason for the overcrowding at the border detention facilities is that the facilities were built to combat an illegal immigration problem that was predominantly concerned with single, working aged-able bodied males from Mexico. What we have now is a vast assortment of migrants from south of Mexico who are bogged down in a lengthy-backlogged legal process to determine if they meat the criteria to be granted asylum, but apparently you can just go on CNN and spout any nonsense you want, because the hosts will not offer any push back.
Here is a transcript for the July 8 show:
TIFFANY CROSS: Can I push back real quickly, Poppy…
POPPY HARLOW: Yes, of course
CROSS: I hear you Molly and I completely agree, but I do think this is an ideological and a tactical division within these women. They're all four women of color who voted against this bill. And the reality, that I think there's trouble reconciling within this country, if these were white babies being treated this way in these detention facilities, if these were white women being held in overcrowded facilities, being told to drink from toilets, there certainly would be more of a national outcry. And I think that's so important and resonating with these four women, who are saying we cannot trust this Administration. And there's been continual evidence of Donald Trump misusing funds. I mean, we just saw on July 4th, as a candidate and president he has misused funds. So I think there is something about these women saying "Why would we blindly trust this man? Why would we allow ICE to have more funding" we just found out today that ICE is using facial recognition technology. States haven't passed laws to allow that. Undocumented immigrants didn't know they were turning their information over to ICE, so I think these are relevant issues.
HARLOW: You're referencing the "Washington Post" reporting that says that ICE has been using facial recognition technology to scan photos of the DMV of driver's licenses even of people not accused of committing crimes and that raises a whole host of other questions, certainly.
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Abby Wambach: 'Step into your power'
Don't miss your opportunity to lead — from the front or from the bench
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by Andrea V. Brambila
Abby Wambach, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup champion and "The New York Times" bestselling author, told the ICNY crowd not to miss their opportunity to lead — from the front or from the bench.
Abby Wambach remembers how she felt after winning an ESPY Icon Award in 2016 along with fellow sports stars Kobe Bryant, who passed this week in a helicopter accident, and Peyton Manning: pissed.
She was grateful — We women we finally made it! she thought — but then she realized that the three of them were walking into very different retirements, she told conference attendees at Inman Connect New York Thursday in a session called "Unleashing Your Power to Change the Game."
"Their biggest concern was where they were going to spend their hundreds of millions of dollars that they earned," Wambach, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup champion and New York Times bestselling author, said.
"My concern was how I was going to pay my mortgage that next month. This is a true story. And this is true for every female athlete."
"Maybe not Serena," she added. The crowd laughed.
It was then Wambach promised herself that up-and-coming soccer stars such as Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Crystal Dunn would not have the same experience when they chose to retire. She also decided to do everything she could to level the playing field for women overall.
"Because if this is happening to me … this is happening to women everywhere," she said.
NEW ORLEANS, LA – DECEMBER 16: Abby Wambach #20 of the United States is defended by Wu Haiyan #5 of China during the first half of the women's soccer match at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on December 16, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. China defeated the United States 1-0. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
In 1996, when Wambach was 16, she went to her first youth national training camp for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Chula Vista, California, where she and the other girls were invited to tour the senior women's team's locker room.
"Now I know that might feel weird, but it was like the best day of my life," Wambach said.
"I was that weird child that went straight to Mia Hamm's locker, got her cleats and started rubbing them all over my legs to try to get any kind of goodness from them."
What she noticed was that the team had taped a picture right next to the door to the training pitch. It was a photo of the Norwegian women's national team celebrating after beating the U.S. team at the 1995 World Cup.
"Why would they do that?" she wondered. She eventually realized what she said all athletes know: Failure is just opportunity.
"Why are we so afraid of this concept and idea of failure? What we need to do is make failure something positive. And that's a mindset," Wambach said.
"It's something that you can do. OK, so this didn't work, why did it not work? What can I do to fix it? And how can I approach it differently?"
Two years later, Wambach remembers playing a game with Michelle Akers, whom she deeply admired. The coach said there were five minutes left in the game, and Akers went from motivating and pulling in other players to a different personality altogether.
"Michelle ran straight back to the goalkeeper, got one inch from her face, and said, 'Give. Me. The. Effing. Ball!' The goalkeeper was terrified," Wambach said.
At that point, Akers scored goal after goal after goal, and her team won.
"I had never seen a person, let alone a woman, stepped into her power like that," Wambach said.
"I didn't even know you could do things like that. I didn't know that when the going got rough or your team needed a couple goals, that you were allowed, because you were the one, because you knew what you could offer, that you were allowed to say, 'Give me the ball.'"
But she knew that when she did that, she had to deliver for her team.
NEW ORLEANS, LA – DECEMBER 16: Abby Wambach #20 walks off the field with Alex Morgan #13 of United States after Morgan was injured against during the game against China at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on December 16, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
"I never scored a single goal in my career without the help of a teammate," Wambach said. Even penalty kicks were backed up by hours with her team's goalkeeper taking penalty kick after penalty kick.
"Playing on the women's national team, one of the things that differentiates us from the rest of the world is the idea of competition," Wambach said.
"What makes us so successful is we were never competing against each other, we were competing with, and that is a massive, massive difference. We were genuinely excited for each other because when Alex Morgan scored goals, that was my opportunity to turn up my volume.
"I think a lot of jealousy or inability to celebrate other people's wins is just personal insecurity."
She recalled her last World Cup game in 2015 when, as she put it, she "got [her] ass benched." She had the choice to either be a good teammate or a bad teammate at that point.
NEW ORLEANS, LA – DECEMBER 16: Abby Wambach #20 of the United States reacts as she is introduced prior to the women's soccer match against China at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on December 16, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
"In hindsight, the way that I responded to that benching is something that I'm really proud of, more than any other big goal that I've ever scored," Wambach said.
"And that's possible, that's accessible to everyone in this room. It's OK to be disappointed, but it's not OK to miss your opportunity to lead from the bench."
After she retired, she took an 18-month break. Working out again was hard without a team. So she's training for the 2020 New York City Marathon with a couple of former teammates.
"Do you proactively go out and try to find your people, the people to do life with, the people that hold you accountable? The people that know you, the people that know where you want to go in your life?" Wambach said.
"You've gotta find your people."
She wrote a book called Wolfpack last year because she was "obsessed with flipping the fairy tales, the bullshit fairy tales that little girls are told about what it means to be a little girl," she said.
Little Red Riding Hood goes into the woods and if she goes off the path, a Big Bad Wolf will eat her, according to Wambach.
"If I could go back, I would tell myself 'Abby, you were never Little Red Riding Hood. You were always the wolf,'" she said, leaving the stage to audience cheers and applause.
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No. 2 Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg steps down
02 June 2022 | 2:19 pm
Sandberg helped transform the company into an over $100-billion-a-year powerhouse. She will continue to serve on the board of directors.
Facebook 'troll farms' play outsized role in Madagascar's politics
In Madagascar, some of the country's highest authorities are accused of bankrolling teams to create fake profiles on Facebook which then share biased or false information for political gain. These fake Facebook accounts stir up controversy, sing the praises of President Andry Rajoelina and criticise journalists and opposition politicians. The communications minister, accused of playing a key role, denies any wrongdoing. Our correspondents report.
Facebook, Instagram face technical problems again
Users have been facing issues accessing the social media giant's apps and services for the second time in a week. The company said a configuration change was behind the outage, which is under control.
Facebook Files: US tech giant faces historic crisis
Facebook is facing a historic crisis. Revelations by former data scientist-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen have shed light inside the notoriously secretive tech giant. She says Facebook harms children, sparks division and undermines democracy in pursuit of astronomical profits. Her allegations are backed by the leak of tens of thousands of internal documents.
Facebook says it plans to hire 10,000 in EU for 'metaverse'
Facebook has announced that it will expand in the European Union to build a new computing platform. It comes as the tech giant contends with concerns over its practices.
India: Facebook under the microscope over ignoring hate speech
An investigation suggests that Facebook has selectively chosen what hate speech it wants to shut down in India. Whistleblower Frances Haugen's disclosures come as she is set to appear before British lawmakers.
Despite criticism, Facebook posts 17% jump in quarterly profits
Facebook reported an annual 17 per cent jump in third-quarter net profit, driven by an increase in daily active users and strong advertising sales despite the platform facing multiple controversies that have led to calls for tighter regulation.
EU antitrust official Vestager: We must act now against Facebook
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told DW in an interview that legal action against the tech giant could be endless, but regulation now could limit its damage.
Facebook under fire: Is it time to regulate the social media giant?
Facebook began this week by announcing more than $9 billion in quarterly profits, an increase of about 17 percent. The social media giant also announced that it now has close to three billion users. But all is not well on the Facebook front as Mark Zuckerberg's platform has been facing a deluge of scathing reports.
Facebook rebrands as 'Meta' in new focus on metaverse
Facebook has changed its name to "Meta" in a shift away from social media and towards developing "the metaverse," a digital world that could be the next generation of the internet. Here's what they have planned.
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Frances Haugen said her former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, should step down and allow change instead of devoting resources to build the so-called "metaverse."
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WASHINGTON — The White House decision to side with Israel on the issues of Palestinian refugees and West Bank settlements is producing an international backlash that could undermine efforts to implement Prime Minister Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan, diplomats and Middle East experts said this week.
American officials have been urging Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and the European Union to help implement Sharon's plan by preparing a Palestinian leadership to take over Gaza after Israel withdraws its troops and settlers. Diplomats and observers said, however, that these efforts to build international support were complicated by the Bush administration's unilateral negotiations with Sharon. They pointed to President Bush's public declaration last week, which was interpreted widely as stating that Israel would keep some portions of the West Bank and that Palestinian refugees would not be allowed to resettle inside Israel's pre-1967 borders.
The E.U.'s external relations commissioner, Chris Patten, said Wednesday that European nations would require firm assurances from Israel before pledging reconstruction aid to Gaza. Egyptian and Palestinian officials went even further this week, openly threatening not to cooperate in the disengagement planning.
The diplomat, who asked not to be identified, indicated that his country could help advance the Sharon plan only if the Palestinians decided to cooperate.
Senior Palestinian officials, meanwhile, were saying this week that they are considering what would amount to a boycott of the Israeli plan.
While Sharon has publicly stated that he is not banking on Palestinian cooperation, Israeli and American planners have been counting on European, Palestinian and Arab involvement to ensure a smooth transition.
Israeli and American officials have said that they are looking to European governments to play a significant role in rehabilitating the Palestinian economy and reforming the political process in Gaza. In addition, American and Israeli officials are known to have welcomed recent efforts by British and Egyptian intelligence officials to create a viable Palestinian security force there.
Beyond security, many observers say, Palestinian cooperation is vital because Israel will continue to control an array of services in Gaza that will require coordination with a Palestinian partner.
Under Sharon's plan Israel is expected to maintain control over Gaza's electrical supply, telecommunications, imports, exports, duty collection and more. Israel also insists on controlling Gaza's border with Egypt, its air and seaports, and its airspace.
Some Israeli observers say those continuing controls open the possibility of a new partnership between Israel and a responsible Palestinian leadership. If successful, the initiative could pave the way for further Israeli withdrawals in the West Bank, eventually opening the door to a two-state solution, supporters say.
Palestinian spokesmen, however, portray Israel's continuing control as a recipe for repression. "That means that Gaza remains a prison, only with a little more room for Palestinians" than they had before Israel's pullout, said Edward Abington, former U.S. consul general in East Jerusalem, who is now an adviser in Washington to the PLO.
Sharon's plan faces a Likud party referendum May 2. It received endorsements this week from key Likud ministers, including Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Education Minister Limor Livnat, and is expected to win party approval and then Cabinet ratification with ease.
Under the plan, Israel would dismantle all 20 Jewish settlements in Gaza and four in the northern West Bank. Allies say Sharon privately sees the plan as a first step toward eventual Israeli withdrawal from most of the West Bank.
He added: "Sharon thinks that by sealing off Gaza he has taken 1.3 million Palestinians out of the demographic equation," which will both help him consolidate control over parts of the West Bank and undermine prospects for the creation of a viable Palestinian state.
Palestinian leaders agree, arguing that Sharon is aiming to stall any future negotiations by creating chaos in Gaza, and they warn that they might refuse to fill the void created by an Israeli pullout. Their argument appears to be that chaos might be preferable to the acceptance of what they see as an Israeli dictate.
European leaders, while critical of the Bush-Sharon agreement, appear set to work with Israel and America. A statement issued Monday by the E.U. foreign ministers, who were meeting in Ireland, said that Israel's proposed withdrawal from Gaza "should be properly orchestrated with the international community." The E.U. added that its foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, would open negotiations with Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians over how to implement the disengagement plan.
Some European foreign ministers were sharply critical of the Bush administration for imposing the Sharon plan on Europe. "Peace and stability will only be achieved if the Europeans are respected as partners," French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier told reporters in Ireland.
A European diplomat in Washington this week accused the White House of shoving Israel's disengagement plan down the international community's throat, while expecting the Europeans to carry out the difficult task of "delivering" a credible Palestinian counterpart, even as Israel continues its campaign of assassinating Palestinian leaders.
European distress, the diplomat said, was not based only on America's endorsement of Israel's positions on "final-status" issues. Europeans were also dismayed that Bush gave sweeping concessions to Sharon before the prime minister had taken any concrete action. Sharon, the diplomat pointed out, has dragged his feet when it comes to removing illegal outposts in the West Bank and freezing construction in Jewish settlements, as required in previous agreements.
This seems to be the administration's hope, as well. In the week following Sharon's visit to Washington, senior administration officials were urging foreign diplomats and reporters not to focus on Bush's comments on borders and Palestinian refugees. Instead, administration officials say, the key point is that Sharon — widely seen as a patron of the settlement movement — is vowing to dismantle all the Jewish settlements in Gaza and four more in the West Bank.
In addition, administration officials pointed out, the Bush-Sharon agreement commits Sharon to carrying out most of Israel's obligations under the U.S.-sponsored peace plan known as the road map, which has been stalled for months. Whether the Palestinians reciprocate or not, the administration argues, the Israeli occupation of Gaza will be virtually over, and conditions in the West Bank will improve.
Diplomats in Washington predict that this will be the main tack adopted by Secretary of State Colin Powell, when he meets next week with his colleagues in the so-called Middle East Quartet — the United Nations, the E.U., Russia and America — to seek their help in implementing Sharon's plan.
Most observers predicted that Powell would face an uphill battle — complicated, some said, by international distrust over U.S. policy in Iraq.
This story "Allies Balk at Role In Implementing Sharon-Bush Plan" was written by Ori Nir.


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Master's Bowling Tourney in town this weekend
DEMING >> Forty of the top amateur bowlers in the southwestern portion of the United States Bowling Congress...
Master's Bowling Tourney in town this weekend DEMING >> Forty of the top amateur bowlers in the southwestern portion of the United States Bowling Congress... Check out this story on demingheadlight.com: http://www.demingheadlight.com/story/news/local/2015/04/23/masters-bowling-tourney-town-this-weekend/32381963/
For the Headlight, Deming Published 3:08 p.m. MT April 23, 2015
DEMING >> Forty of the top amateur bowlers in the southwestern portion of the United States Bowling Congress will be Deming this weekend to compete in the Regional Open Championships at the Starmax Bowling Lanes, 333 N. Country Club Road.
Over 100 bowlers have been utilizing the local lanes for the past two weeks and have whittled the field down to the top 10 bowlers in two divisions for men and women. The Master's Tournament (all events championship) gets underway at 1 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.
Bowlers are expected from El Paso, Las Cruces, Silver City, White Sands Missile Range, Truth or Consequences and host Deming. The top 10 of each division were determined by averages of over 175 and under 175 on the southwestern USBC circuit and in tournament play over the past two weeks.
Warm-ups begin at noon and the actual games will begin at 1 p.m.
The following standings are from the Thursday Night Mixed League in Deming and the Wednesday Night Ladies League in Deming:
Wednesday Night Women's League, April 15, Week 29 of 32.
Dolls With Balls, 16/4; 300 Wanna Bees, 14/6; Bowlerinas, 13.5/6.5; Pin Robbers, 9.5/10.5; Compass Brewzers, 9/11; Gutter Gals, 6/14; Who Cares, 6/14; Ball Busters, 6/14.
High Scratch Series: Gwyn Ruebush; 492.
High Handicap Series: Stephanie Ortiz; 645.
High Scratch Game: Susan Hays; 182.
High Handicap Game: Mayra Tarango, 236.
Thursday Night Mixed League, April 16 the 5th week of the 4th quarter.
Oldies But Goodies, 13/7; Dolls & Balls, 13/7; Misfits, 12/8; Get Over It, 10/10; Super Bowlers, 9/11; Heavy Hitterz, 9/11; The Crew, 7/13; Family Affair, 7/13.
High Scratch Series: Gwyn Ruebush, 515; Mike Endrizzi, 674.
High Handicap Series: Catherine Handy, 755, Noel Jacquez, 784.
High Scratch Game: Gwyn Ruebush, 211; Tony Alvarez, 267.
High Handicap Game: Catherine Handy, 288; Tony Alvarez, 310.
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Spectacular Novak Djokovic wins the US title
By Matthew Cronin :: Posted September 10, 2018
FROM THE US OPEN – Before Djokovic walked on the court, he knew that if he played well, he would win the title again. He is better than Juan Martin del Potro, he knew that coming in, but he realized that the Argentine was rising, very gradually. If he was very consistent and powerful, he would win.
And he did, 6-3 7-6 (4) 6-3. In the second set, DelPo had a few chances, to grab it, but Djokovic stayed in there, out-hitting with his backhand, moving so well, returning a lot, which he had to, because DelPo was crushing his first serves.
The Serbian stayed strong, he didn't play great with his serves, but his backhand beat the Argentine down, especially crosscourt. Plus, his forehand was hard. He wouldn't allow DelPo to come into the net hardly at all, unless he decided to bend him down, pull him over, and pass him. DelPo crushed his huge forehand a lot, and in the second set, there were times when it appeared that he was getting better and better. Had he won the second set, then who knows? But in the breaker, Djokovic focused, and he locked in, and when he won the second set, it was essentially over.
While the No. 3 DelPo has had a terrific year, still, if he wants to win a major again — and to stay healthy — he must continue to work his backhand and his return. Other than that, he is a darn good player. Djokovic is a fantastic player, because he is now won 14 Grand Slams, tied with American Pete Sampras. Surely, next year, the No. 2 Djokovic can win another title, possibly at the 2019 Australian Open. That would be something else.
The No. 1 played three marathons, before the semis started against DelPo. After the first set, he became injured, and after he lost 7-6, he told the umpire that he was going to retire soon. In the second set, he pulled out. He was sad, and a little upset, but the No. 1 Nadal knew that you cannot win all the time.
He will always remember in the quarters against Dominic Thiem, winning it 7-6(5) in the fifth, which ended in four hours and 49 minutes. It was spectacular. But after that, his body and his leg was exhausted so there was no way he could continue. He did win Roland Garros, plus four more ATP Masters 1000, so in the fall, assuming he is feeling better, he will continue to push, and try to win it again. The last time he and Djokovic played against each other, he lost 10-8 in the fifth at Wimbledon. That was super close. Maybe they will clash at the ATP Final in London, or early. We all hope so.
Kei Nishikori
The Japanese looked great heading into the semis, beating Marin Cilic in five, running fast, leaping in the sky, and punishing with his forehand. He returned pretty well, too. But, once again, Djokovic is better than he is. His first and his second serve, and he can grind him down, also with his phenomenal backhand. I am not sure that Nishikori can upend Djokovic ever again, maybe once, or twice. In a five-setter at a Grand Slam, he can't take a quick win. In the two out of three sets, sure he can lock in and upset Djokovic, but he couldn't do anything on Friday, losing 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. That was a good US Open for Kei, but not good enough to win the title.
The Belgian played well as he could, especially on the hard courts, because he has won a number of titles on clay, but the 25-year-old wasn't ready for long, hard-court contests. At the US Open, he knew he had be very aggressive, with his huge first serves, and his heavy spin, with his forehand and his backhand. He did, and he battled, and he fought, and he pumped his fist, but he couldn't make it. After he lost, the No. 8 Thiem said that he will always remember this defeat. But, perhaps in the fall, he can shake it off, and during the fall, he will add more variety. I would think that we will reach the ATP Finals in England. But that is a toss-up. It's all in his head now.


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I'm Still Not Over the Day Lost Killed Juliet
We waited years for Lost to give us "The Incident" - only for it to kill off one of its best characters.
Monday 5/13/2019 at 9:00PM EDT
Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet in Lost (ABC)
On the tenth anniversary of Lost's Season 5 finale, Chris Feil looks back at the lasting legacy of Elizabeth Mitchell's Juliet and the night she left us.
I see the terror on the faces of Game of Thrones fans as the show kills its darlings on the road to the finale, and I deem them weak. For I was hardened by the indiscriminate savagery that was Lost. Over the course of six seasons, Lost's enigmatic island demanded plenty of lives be sacrificed to its preservation. But I'm not here to talk about human angel Charlie scribbling "Not Penny's Boat" on his hand, nor new parents Sun and Jin drowning together. Today marks the anniversary of the one Lost death that lingers most traumatically. I'm talking about the long-storied "Incident" resulting in the demise of Juliet Burke.
As played by Elizabeth Mitchell, Juliet was introduced to viewers in the opening moments of season three, in the show's typically unceremonious/cryptic fashion. Seldom are characters introduced so specifically as she, trying to subdue her tears with the sounds of Petula Clark. The first rug-pulling revelation (she's one of The Others!) slowly gave way over the season's first half to something even more subtly fascinating: the Others have been following mastermind Ben Linus' lead but don't themselves know the Island's full secrets.
Juliet's presence on the show instantly took a sledgehammer to the notion that the Others were a unified, evil tribe with full awareness of their role on the island. Wisely, the show wrote Juliet to be Ben's main Othersian adversary, and as she joined the Oceanic survivors, we remained in the dark about where her true allegiance stood. Instead of her past being a mystery (as was the case with almost all the other main characters), Juliet got to be a mystery on the Island.
Juliet's introduction into Lost's already sprawling cast of characters was also especially welcome for how she helped clear the air on the myriad unanswered questions that had begun to accumulate. Lost was always a show that asked more questions than it was ever going to answer, but by the end of season two, even its most devoted fans were frustrated with the show's nesting doll of mysteries. The bridge Juliet created between the Others and the Oceanic survivors meant she could pay off isolated headscratchers like Claire's kidnapping or broader mysteries like the nature of how people were lured onto the Island. Given all this, it was appropriate that Juliet was ultimately the cause of one of the show's most fundamental mysteries: known in show terminology as "The Incident," it was the electromagnetic disturbance that made the Oceanic flight crash on the island in the first place.
To understand the full impact of Juliet's role in the Incident, of course, we have to talk about her late-breaking romance with Sawyer (Josh Holloway). Here was perhaps the most contentious piece of Juliet's character trajectory. On paper it made little sense; at best it felt like a cop-out solution to the love quadrangle they shared with the headlining heroes Jack (Matthew Fox) and Kate (Evangeline Lilly). And yet much to our surprise, we believed it (perhaps we can credit that to Mitchell and Holloway's performances). Lost was characteristically confounding and complicated, but Juliet and Sawyer felt refreshingly relaxed.
Season four had ended by spreading out the ensemble across time and space (both on and off the Island). Sawyer and Juliet got zapped back to the '70s, among the original Dharma initiative, and liberated from the stress and paranoia of their post-crash present, they thrived, and something akin to Lost one truly great love story (give or take a Desmond/Penny) was born. It was outright malicious for the show to make us root for Sawyer and Juliet only to have them tragically ripped apart, but that's showbiz. And so we arrived at the Incident, at the close of season 5, which after all that speculation turned out to be Jack's attempt to set off a hydrogen bomb beneath the Dharma station in order to negate the electromagnetic pulse that crashed them on the island in the first place. As was typical for a Jack Shephard plan, it didn't work. As was typical for Lost, disaster struck anyway. An electromagnetic event sent the station into chaos, and a wayward heap of chains dragged Juliet into the open drill-shaft. The bomb may have failed to go off under Jack's supervision, but Juliet's fall allowed her to detonate that son of a bitch on her own. In her final moments, Juliet hurriedly professed her love to Sawyer, giving us the show's most tragically romantic moment this side of Rose and Bernard.
The season six premiere allowed Sawyer and Juliet a few final words in the show's typically enigmatic fashion. Sawyer dug below the blast's rubble to find her barely alive, Juliet tragically joking they meet for coffee sometime as they had their final embrace. Her thwarted final words to him would pay off in the series finale, as the two met in the show's strange flash-sideways afterlife waiting area. After assisting him with a vending machine by turning it off and on (just like the Island, get it?), their history flashes back to them, tied to those words she never got to say: "it worked". In their rush of emotion, including Sawyer's sob-inducing "I had you!" recalling her fateful fall, we realized "it" that "worked" was also their unexpected coupling.
Perhaps reading the tea leaves of Juliet's diminished role over her final season (not to mention Mitchell getting cast in the short-lived reboot of V) could have spelled to keenly observant viewers that her time was coming as season 5 crept to a close. Just ask Charlie or Sun or Jin what fate a completed character arc brought them, after all. The impact of Juliet's death is a testament to Mitchell's wildly underrated performance in her three seasons as a main cast member. The actress had the difficult task of playing a woman who herself was playing both sides, of having to suggest ambivalence to the Island's mysteries after being stuck there for years, of ultimately finding peaceful life on this island that had only brought her pain. While Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson were reaping Emmy awards, Mitchell remained unnominated until her guest stint on the finale.
But after all that Juliet had taken the audience through, both the personal and the metaphysical, her emotional end was all the more traumatic. It's why all these years later, hers is the Lost death that lingers the most.
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Gov Buni promises "rancour-free" APC national convention
The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, has assured that it will conduct a rancour-free national convention of the party.
The National Secretary of the committee, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, gave the assurance in the party's New Year message to Nigerians.
He said: "APC assures all party members and indeed Nigerians that the CECPC is poised and ready to meet up with the tasks ahead in 2022, particularly the conduct of a rancour-free APC National Convention.
"The CECPC will surely bequeath a progressive party and structure that will continue to install and entrench APC Governments at all levels to put Nigeria in its deserved rank in the comity of nations."
Akpanudoedehe also assured that the party would continue to proactively and constructively engage critical stakeholders on issues that affect Nigerians.
Reeling out the achievements of the Caretaker committee, Akpanudoedehe said it has won into the APC fold three serving state governors and scores of parliamentarians from other political parties.
The secretary said the committee had successfully reviewed the APC Constitution.
The party noted that it has ended and resolved inherited litigations and court cases instituted by many aggrieved members against the party for various reasons by reaching out to the aggrieved members who have consequently responded to the CECPC reconciliation.
"We has scrutinised and paid for the inherited debts with respect to the services to the party in the past administration."
The ruling party said there was a need to break from the past and reject practices of imposition of candidates and electoral fraud which the main opposition has refused to discard.
He also reiterated the party's commitment to free, fair and credible elections was unwavering, saying in all elections, valid votes must count and the popular will of the electorate must prevail.
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WHAT IS PROTESTANTISM?
Protestantism is the second largest form of the Christian Faith with more of 900 million adherents in the whole world, representing 40% of the whole Christian religion.
It officially started with the Reformation movement in the XVI century by Martin Luther, John Calvin and Thomas Crammer and that developed into a force that travelled to the whole world, and that has affected nations, culture and politics wherever it has gone.
HOW MANY MOVEMENTS
Most people think that because the Reformation was started by several of these men independently from each other, they all are different Churches with opposite doctrinal beliefs and in enmity with one another. But this is not the case at all.
Contrary to the idea that the Church that Jesus founded, is a specific organization under an infallible human world leader; Protestantism acknowledges the Church of Christ to be a community of believers, organized under the instructions of Christ and his Apostles as expressed in the New Testament. In fact, only Protestantism takes Scripture as the only authoritarian Rule of Faith, while other non-protestant institutions, count as source of Revelation, other fountains apart from Scripture.
This common authority (Bible) has permitted since the XVI century, starting with Luther, Calvin and Crammer, together with many others before them, and many others that came after, to have a common agreement in all matters of salvific faith, and to have intercommunion between all their members and ministry.
So even though there must be thousands of 'protestant' congregations in the world, they are not independent organizations proclaiming to be the 'one and only' Church founded by Jesus, at all. They are independent organizations, united under a common faith and ministry, and that together profess the Trinitarian Faith of the Apostle's Creed.
ARE THERE PROTESTANTS WHO ARE NOT TRINITARIANS?
There are independent Christian groups from among this great number of 35,000 denominations in the world, that do not profess the Trinity as part of their faith, or fail in one way or another to the other articles of belief in the Creed, but apart from the opinion of others, these are not 'protestant' churches. They are what it is known as 'sects'.
No Protestant Church has intercommunion with any sect that do not profess the simple truths of the Gospel contained in the Creed.
DO SOLA SCRIPTURA DENY THE TRADITION?
Contrary to popular misconceptions about the sources of Revelation in Protestantism, it is thought that the reformed churches totally interpret the Scripture as they imagine or desire, totally disregarding historical Christianity. Well, that is wrong.
All Protestant Churches acknowledge the fact that the Church has been founded by our Lord Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago, approximately; and that it has subsisted since then all other the world, and divided since the V century in separate groups, being one of them the Protestant movement.
So all Protestant churches claim as their own, all the Tradition of the first centuries when the Church was one, and later all other traditions of all Trinitarian historical Churches up to our day.
When protestants interpret the Scripture, they do it following rules of original language, culture, style of writing, and the common teachings of the whole of Christianity, giving as it is done everywhere else, considerably weight to the opinion of the whole undivided Church. The only difference, is that the only source considered to be infallible and inspired by God, is the Bible; while the writers of Christianity, are only seen as human, fallible source of guidance.
WHY DO PROTESTANTS HAVE DIFFERENT FORMS OF GOVERMENT
Another misconception is that because protestants have different forms of government, they must be non-united.
But the truth is that Protestantism does not hold any form of government described in the Bible, be mandatory in the NT. So, some will maintain the historical Episcopacy, others the historical Presbyterial government, and other a Congregational form of control over the community. However, still, they all have as a duty the preservation of the sacraments, the teaching of the Scripture and the spiritual direction of the community. These different governments do not stop them from having intercommunion, so a Bishop of the English Church, could also be admitted as a senior Presbyter or a Senior Pastor or Overseer over any other congregation, while having very similar duties. All members are free from every church to take sacraments from any other Christian Church at any time.


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Jacinda Ardern No Longer Has "Enough In The Tank" & Moms Know Exactly What She Means
Moms around the world are "crushed" by the New Zealand prime minister's resignation, but are applauding her honesty and service.
by Jen McGuire
After serving as Prime Minister of New Zealand since 2017, Jacinda Ardern announced that she would be resigning ahead of the upcoming election. The popular prime minister has been earning praise around the world not just for her empathetic policies and the impressive way she handled her country's pandemic response, but also as a working mom who was open about trying to find the best work-life balance for her family. After being held up as the gold standard for working moms around the world, Ardern's decision to resign has moms on social media sharing all sorts of feelings of pride, gratitude, and yes, frustration on her behalf.
Ardern held a press conference on Thursday to announce that she would not seek reelection for a third term in office, and her last day as prime minister would be Feb. 7. "The only interesting angle that you will find, is that after going on six years of some big challenges, I am human." Ardern said, holding back tears. "Politicians are human. We give all that we can for as long as we can. And then it's time. For me, it's time."
Ardern has seen her country through some of its most difficult times, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2019 attack on mosques in Christchurch by a white supremacist who murdered 51 people. Ardern also became only the second head of state in history to give birth while in office, welcoming her daughter Neve with partner Clarke Gayford in 2018, just one year after she was elected.
As for her next plans, they are all about Gayford and Neve. "I have no plan, no next steps, and I am looking forward to spending time with my family once again. Arguably, they are the ones that have sacrificed the most out of all of us." She added a special message to her daughter: "Mom is looking forward to being there when you start school this year." As for her partner Clarke, she said, "Let's finally get married."
And many moms on Twitter felt for the mom of one who, as she put it, "no longer [has] enough in the tank to do the job justice." Like Lorena O'Neil, who was "crushed" by Ardern's resignation.
Hillary Clinton took the time to note that Ardern will be remembered for her "strength, compassion, and grace," following her resignation.
Fellow mom Pink also shared a beautiful tribute to Ardern for showing the world "what's possible."
Another new mom pointed out that Ardern's daughter is just 4 years old, applauding the prime minister for working through a time that must have been "physically and mentally exhausting."
Dr. Rosena Allin-Khan, who serves as the UK's Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health, thanked Ardern for being a role model for women and girls around the world.
New Zealand mom Fleur Fitzsimons tweeted, "History will judge Jacinda Ardern as a remarkable leader. She is genuinely kind and has an incredible intellect, she's made more of a contribution than she will ever appreciate. I can't help but feel like we need to find better ways to support women and mothers in politics."
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Sector standards - health, safety and well-being
Case study - Samsung's BSI certification to ISO 45001
How Samsung's BSI certification to ISO 45001 has improved its health and safety management, helping reach sustainability goals
Samsung SDI manufactures rechargeable batteries for the IT and automotive industries, energy storage systems and cutting-edge materials used to produce semiconductors, displays, and solar panels. It also conducts advanced technology research. With its headquarters in Yongin City, South Korea, the company has six domestic and 17 overseas operations, including Vietnam and China, and over 24,000 employees worldwide.
Samsung strives to create social value by aligning with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). It focuses on goals most relevant to its activities, including SDG 3 Good health, exploring opportunities that help to attain it. One such opportunity lay in the global occupational health and safety standard ISO 45001, and in March 2018 the company achieved BSI certification to it – migrating from its predecessor, BS OHSAS 18001.
The key benefits include a stronger health and safety culture, a more productive workforce, improved integration of management systems, enhanced brand reputation, and positive community relationships.
BSI certification to ISO 45001 is central to Samsung SDI's core value that the health and safety of its people is paramount. It also creates trust among its stakeholders, demonstrates corporate responsibility and supports its sustainability goals.
Samsung SDI's challenge
Since 2004, Samsung SDI has featured in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which tracks sustainable companies worldwide. Core to the company's sustainability credentials is alignment with the 17 UNSDGs, including SDG 3, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being. It views the safety of its people as a core competence, running a 'safety-first' programme and long holding certification to BS OHSAS 18001.
Its challenge was to migrate to the new global standard, ISO 45001, to meet the highest international expectations on health and safety. In addition, the company – which also holds BSI certification to ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environmental management) and ISO 50001 (energy management) – wanted to enhance efficiency by integrating its management systems following a period of mergers and acquisitions.
BSI's solution
In March 2018, Samsung SDI migrated from BS OHSAS 18001 and achieved BSI certification to ISO 45001, becoming the first company in the Samsung Group and in the whole of Korea to hold the new standard. This enabled it to deliver on its integration strategy – it can now manage ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001 and ISO 45001 under the same high-level structure, bringing huge time and resource efficiencies.
BSI certification demonstrates Samsung SDI's best practice, increasing trust and credibility among its internal and external stakeholders by providing an improved working environment and a robust and sustainable health and safety culture.
Samsung SDI sees BSI certification to ISO 45001 as a framework for continuous improvement, with BSI supporting it at every step.
Why BSI?
Our BSI certification to ISO 45001 signals the high importance we place on health and safety in our organization and helps position us as a leading global high-tech company. We're very grateful to BSI for its proactive support in helping us integrate our management systems. By minimizing health and safety risks across our sites worldwide, we are seeing positive results in our performance as well.
KICHAE LEE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SAMSUNG SDI
Samsung SDI will continue to work with BSI because of the quality of its teams and global reach, ensuring consistency across our sites and raising the health and safety bar.


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Randy Lutz holds opera props.
Randy Lutz
Beloved Santa Fe Opera properties director worked behind scenes
By Mark Tiarks For The New Mexican
Mark Tiarks
Even avid Santa Fe Opera goers may not have known Randy Lutz's name, but they saw his handiwork at nearly every performance of every opera for the past four decades.
Need a couple of hundred Champagne flutes for the drinking song in La Traviata? Or an 18th-century globe, a dead turkey, a Biedermeier chair, muskets that can actually be fired onstage (no bullets, though)? Lutz took care of it all.
Lutz died Tuesday in Santa Fe at 62. The company's properties director since 1993, as well as working in many other roles, Lutz was lead set decorator for the 1988 film Miles from Home. And in 2018, he received a national award from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology for his professional mentoring.
"Randy was many things to those who worked with him," said Paul Horpedahl, the opera's longtime director of production and facilities. "A leader, mentor, craftsman, artist and counselor. Directors and designers appreciated and respected his input on the designs and passion for creating the best possible production. Through his work with the opera's apprentice program for technicians, there are hundreds of professionals around the country who credit their careers to Randy."
Lutz was a Pennsylvania native whose interest in theater began as a high school student in Mount Carmel, a small town in the state's central coal region. He attended Bloomsburg State College (now Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania). He started as a pre-med major, but he changed his focus to technical theater. He spent the summer of 1979 as a scenic carpenter with the Santa Fe Opera, graduated from college in 1980 and moved to Santa Fe in 1982.
Tracy Armagost, the opera's production and recruiting coordinator, often traveled with Lutz professionally for extended periods.
"We were always roommates, so we were with each other around the clock," she recalled, "and we'd laugh from sunup to sundown and beyond. You'd work all day with him, and you'd still want to spend time with him when the work ended. I can't say that about very many people."
The range of Lutz's interests was a source of astonishment for Andrea Shrewsbury Bishofberger, production administrator at the opera.
"It was incredible. Organizing multihousehold garage sales, gardening, cooking, steer wrestling with the New Mexico Gay Rodeo, frequenting haunted houses; you name it, he did it," she said. "He never missed a chance to go on a roller coaster, always in the front seat of the front car, and he would map out a plan of attack on a state fair based on what food was being sold where."
There was still another side to Randy Lutz. "He was deeply committed to his faith," Horpedahl said, "and was ordained in November 2006, as an Episcopal priest. His work with St. Bede's Episcopal Church has included performing baptisms, weddings, funerals and spiritual counseling for the opera community and beyond."
Lutz is survived by his mother, Margaret Haas.
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Claudia Chavez Jan 16, 2021 11:06am
Randy was truly a special person. He loved helping people and only reflected kindness and light. His contributions to our community will be missed. Rest peacefully.


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package org.xdi.oxauth.client;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONArray;
import org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONException;
import org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONObject;
import org.xdi.oxauth.model.common.AuthorizationMethod;
import org.xdi.oxauth.model.crypto.signature.RSAPrivateKey;
import org.xdi.oxauth.model.jwe.Jwe;
import org.xdi.oxauth.model.jws.JwsValidator;
import org.xdi.oxauth.model.jwt.Jwt;
import org.xdi.oxauth.model.userinfo.UserInfoErrorResponseType;
import org.xdi.oxauth.model.util.Util;

import javax.ws.rs.HttpMethod;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Encapsulates functionality to make user info request calls to an authorization server via REST Services.
 *
 * @author Javier Rojas Blum
 * @version 0.9 May 18, 2015
 */
public class UserInfoClient extends BaseClient<UserInfoRequest, UserInfoResponse> {

    private String sharedKey;
    private RSAPrivateKey rsaPrivateKey;
    private String jwksUri;

    /**
     * Constructs an User Info client by providing a REST url where the service is located.
     *
     * @param url The REST Service location.
     */
    public UserInfoClient(String url) {
        super(url);
    }

    @Override
    public UserInfoRequest getRequest() {
        if (request instanceof UserInfoRequest) {
            return (UserInfoRequest) request;
        } else {
            return null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setRequest(UserInfoRequest request) {
        super.request = request;
    }

    @Override
    public UserInfoResponse getResponse() {
        if (response instanceof UserInfoResponse) {
            return (UserInfoResponse) response;
        } else {
            return null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setResponse(UserInfoResponse response) {
        super.response = response;
    }

    @Override
    public String getHttpMethod() {
        if (request.getAuthorizationMethod() == null
                || request.getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.AUTHORIZATION_REQUEST_HEADER_FIELD
                || request.getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.URL_QUERY_PARAMETER) {
            return HttpMethod.GET;
        } else /*if (request.getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.FORM_ENCODED_BODY_PARAMETER)*/ {
            return HttpMethod.POST;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Executes the call to the REST Service and processes the response.
     *
     * @param accessToken The access token obtained from the oxAuth authorization request.
     * @return The service response.
     */
    public UserInfoResponse execUserInfo(String accessToken) {
        setRequest(new UserInfoRequest(accessToken));

        return exec();
    }

    /**
     * Executes the call to the REST Service and processes the response.
     *
     * @return The service response.
     */
    public UserInfoResponse exec() {
        // Prepare request parameters
        initClientRequest();
        clientRequest.header("Content-Type", MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED);
        clientRequest.setHttpMethod(getHttpMethod());

        if (getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == null
                || getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.AUTHORIZATION_REQUEST_HEADER_FIELD) {
            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(getRequest().getAccessToken())) {
                clientRequest.header("Authorization", "Bearer " + getRequest().getAccessToken());
            }
        } else if (getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.FORM_ENCODED_BODY_PARAMETER) {
            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(getRequest().getAccessToken())) {
                clientRequest.formParameter("access_token", getRequest().getAccessToken());
            }
        } else if (getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.URL_QUERY_PARAMETER) {
            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(getRequest().getAccessToken())) {
                clientRequest.queryParameter("access_token", getRequest().getAccessToken());
            }
        }

        // Call REST Service and handle response
        try {
            if (getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == null
                    || getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.AUTHORIZATION_REQUEST_HEADER_FIELD
                    || getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.URL_QUERY_PARAMETER) {
                clientResponse = clientRequest.get(String.class);
            } else if (getRequest().getAuthorizationMethod() == AuthorizationMethod.FORM_ENCODED_BODY_PARAMETER) {
                clientResponse = clientRequest.post(String.class);
            }

            int status = clientResponse.getStatus();

            setResponse(new UserInfoResponse(status));

            String entity = clientResponse.getEntity(String.class);
            getResponse().setEntity(entity);
            getResponse().setHeaders(clientResponse.getHeaders());
            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(entity)) {
                List<String> contentType = clientResponse.getHeaders().get("Content-Type");
                if (contentType != null && contentType.contains("application/jwt")) {
                    String[] jwtParts = entity.split("\\.");
                    if (jwtParts.length == 5) {
                        byte[] sharedSymmetricKey = sharedKey != null ? sharedKey.getBytes(Util.UTF8_STRING_ENCODING) : null;
                        Jwe jwe = Jwe.parse(entity, rsaPrivateKey, sharedSymmetricKey);
                        getResponse().setClaims(jwe.getClaims().toMap());
                    } else {
                        Jwt jwt = Jwt.parse(entity);
                        JwsValidator jwtValidator = new JwsValidator(jwt, sharedKey, jwksUri, null);
                        if (jwtValidator.validateSignature()) {
                            getResponse().setClaims(jwt.getClaims().toMap());
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    try {
                        JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(entity);

                        if (jsonObj.has("error")) {
                            getResponse().setErrorType(UserInfoErrorResponseType.fromString(jsonObj.getString("error")));
                            jsonObj.remove("error");
                        }
                        if (jsonObj.has("error_description")) {
                            getResponse().setErrorDescription(jsonObj.getString("error_description"));
                            jsonObj.remove("error_description");
                        }
                        if (jsonObj.has("error_uri")) {
                            getResponse().setErrorUri(jsonObj.getString("error_uri"));
                            jsonObj.remove("error_uri");
                        }

                        for (Iterator<String> iterator = jsonObj.keys(); iterator.hasNext(); ) {
                            String key = iterator.next();
                            List<String> values = new ArrayList<String>();

                            JSONArray jsonArray = jsonObj.optJSONArray(key);
                            if (jsonArray != null) {
                                for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
                                    String value = jsonArray.optString(i);
                                    if (value != null) {
                                        values.add(value);
                                    }
                                }
                            } else {
                                String value = jsonObj.optString(key);
                                if (value != null) {
                                    values.add(value);
                                }
                            }

                            getResponse().getClaims().put(key, values);
                        }
                    } catch (JSONException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            closeConnection();
        }

        return getResponse();
    }

    public void setSharedKey(String sharedKey) {
        this.sharedKey = sharedKey;
    }

    public void setRsaPrivateKey(RSAPrivateKey rsaPrivateKey) {
        this.rsaPrivateKey = rsaPrivateKey;
    }

    public String getJwksUri() {
        return jwksUri;
    }

    public void setJwksUri(String jwksUri) {
        this.jwksUri = jwksUri;
    }
}

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