National Post (Canada): Upstarts no more - Gonzaga's basketball success has defined the mid-major movement and put Spokane on the education map (http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2700566). Nice article about the Zags program as well as the Canadian connection.
Most schools have trouble simulating Alabi's presence around the rim, if only because there aren't that many 7-1, 250-pound backup centers.
Even Gonzaga lacks one. The Bulldogs' backup post is 7-5 and 270 pounds. That may help them tonight.
Foster said Thursday he's done his best this week in practice to simulate what Alabi can do.
Last time Gonzaga played in an 8-9 matchup it won, then lost thriller to No. 1 seed Arizona in 2003.
For Zags fans looking for an omen, here are a couple: Like this year, 2003 was one in which Spokane hosted a sub-regional. And if Gonzaga were to survive Buffalo, it would end up back in Salt Lake City.
That's a longshot, but as coach Mark Few points out, the trip to Buffalo isn't a fate unfamiliar to his team. Early in the season, it competed well at Michigan State, won the Maui Invitational, and captured road wins against Illinois (in Chicago) and Memphis.
"Over the course of history," Few said, "we've fared pretty well in this kind of scenario."
The Zags had six road or neutral wins against the RPI top 80. FSU had three.
Post more if you see 'em!
Bloviating blogger bags on the Zags (http://tournament-blogger.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/20091884/20527377?tag=coverlist_active;coverlist_footer).
For what it's worth, Cameron Diaz is hot!


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Gordon Mermin is with the Office of Management and Budget and previously was a research associate at the Urban Institute. He has written on the potential distributional impacts of Social Security reform options, work impediments at older ages, and the impact of health and employment shocks on the accumulation of retirement savings. He received his M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1999 and his B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 1994.
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Sorry, yesterday was a very busy day; I could not answer you.
Thanks for the email but it is a bit difficult to understand your point so I will do my best to summarize it: My arguments did not move you.
I think your response focuses too much on the community aspect as an ends and not enough on it being a means. This is undoubtedly a result of how I structured my argument to explain why I consider businesses reduce risk instead of satisfy needs. So let us go back to your Coke example to see what the difference can be.
Coke is a beverage and as such the human need it satisfies is to hydrate the body so we can live. This is a basic physiological need that can be satisfied by drinking a Coke or drinking water, coconut water or any other water containing beverage. From the satisfying a need point of view, Coke is competing with many substitute produces. However, if we look at Coke as reducing an uncertainty in a customer's life a number of options open are presented: (1) hydration (risk of dehydration), (2) fun and excitement (it is fun and exciting to drink a bubbly beverage), (3) "sharing" which to my way of thinking is community (enjoy a fun and exciting moment with friends), (4) "refreshing" (you will feel refreshed and invigorated). All of these different risk reducing attributes have been communicated to consumers at one time or another over the years helping Coke expand its consumer base. In other words, these can be seen as the different markets in which Coke operates: customers seeking to reduce the risk of hydration, customers seeking to the risk of fund and excitement, customers seeking to reduce the risk of community, customers seeking to reduce the risk of feeling refreshed. Probably there are even more markets but these serve to illustrate how one key component can address the risk reduction requirements of multiple markets by using that key component in a product that is communicated and consumed by that target customer.
In adopting the ROKC Method you can conduct the same analysis for every product or service.


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Professor Helps U.S. State Department with Sports Diplomacy
Can sports increase dialogue and cultural understanding between people around the world? The U.S. State Department believes so — and has tapped Salisbury University's Dr. Dean Ravizza to assist. Recently, for a 10-day Israeli/Palestinian basketball program, the Princess Anne resident designed a series of lectures and activities emphasizing concepts such as negotiation, teamwork and group dynamics.
Putin Says Russia Wants to Build Good Relations with US
Russia has repeatedly proposed cooperation on cybersecurity to the US, but has not received a positive response, according to Putin. "We hear these endless and groundless accusations of some kind of interference, talking about cybersecurity. [...] Putin told the Arctic forum he sees positive changes in cooperation between Russia and the United States on Syria
Water as a Force for Peace
Water is not always a source of potential conflict, and can be used to promote peace, argues Sundeep Waslekar.
The growing recognition of water's strategic relevance reflects global developments. In the last three years, the Islamic State (ISIS) captured the Tabqa, Tishrin, Mosul, and Fallujah dams on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. ISIS subsequently lost control of all of them, but not before using them to flood or starve downstream populations, to pressure them to surrender. [...] The importance of water in the twenty-first century – comparable to that of oil in the twentieth – can hardly be overstated.
Public Dialogue Between Armenia and Azerbaijan
"I think it's a great idea, when civil society takes the initiative in resolving this long 'frozen' conflict. [...] I am absolutely sure that if public diplomacy starts its work, this should lead to tangible results, because it usually becomes a signal for the government to start an active resolution of existing conflicts."
The Irishman Building Relationships Around the World
The chief executive of the British Council manages an annual income of £980 million, juggling projects which range from helping Nigerians improve their policing methods to touring the work of Turner prize-winner Grayson Perry in Turkey. Since it was founded in 1934, the UK's cultural relations organisation has expanded to include some 200 offices in 100 countries – and at the helm of this massive "soft-power" behemoth is an Irishman.
Parliament Should Monitor National Security, Foreign Policy
The Committee of the Whole that adopted 22 guidelines worth considering had its marathon meeting here under the Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani has also suggested that Pakistan should re-establish a Public Diplomacy Office at the Foreign Office. This will function as the Foreign Office's public diplomacy and soft power office and an inter-ministerial space for projecting cultural, economic and trade outputs.
Using Hip-Hop to Resolve Global Conflict
Hip-hop DJs, MCs, beatmakers and dancers from around the world descended on a hotel conference room in Washington, D.C., this spring to learn how to turn their high-energy musical art into tools for empowerment, entrepreneurship and conflict resolution. The program is called Next Level, which teaches "hip-hop diplomacy" and is sponsored by the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the University of North Carolina's music department.

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Detective & 5 other titles; literary works.
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Emmanuelle & 28 other titles.
2 songs prev. reg. 1986, PAu 807-530.
Feel my pressure, and 2 other songs.
words & music: Tony Kanal & Elan Atias.
words & music: Tony Kanal, Elan Atias, I. Watson.
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Advertisement for sugar free Dr. Pepper.
Dr. Pepper Company, employer for hire.
Rock steady. : Compact disc ; Interscope Records 0694931582, c2001.
words & music: Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Thomas Dumont.
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words & music: Pharrell L. Williams.
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words & music: Pharrell L. Williams, Gwen Stefani.
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Samples The lonely goat herder.
words & music: Aliaune Thiam (Akon, pseud.), Gwen Stefani.
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Around 32.9 per cent of all convicts and 23.4 per cent of under-trials in Gujarat's prisons are Dalits, a community that forms just about 6.7 per cent of the state's overall population.
The statistics are part of a recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report titled 'Prison Statistics India 2013', which relates to different aspects of prisons and prison inmates in Indian jails.
The data suggests that the proportion of Dalits among Gujarat's convicts is nearly 4.9 times higher than their share in the state's population, with its under-trial numbers up to 3.5 times higher.
This disparity has long been cited by activists as proof of widespread discrimination against vulnerable communities.
However, the NCRB study provides no reason for the high rate of Dalit convicts and under-trials.
According to the report, as of December 2013, there are 3,808 convicts in Gujarat. Out of these, 1,251 were members of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) or Dalits, 624 of the Scheduled Tribes (STs), 1,360 Other Backward Classes, and 573 'others'.
Out of a total of 7,604 under-trials, 1,778 are SCs, 1,405 STs, 2,718 OBCs and 1,703 'others'.
A comparison with other states suggests that the gap between the proportion of Dalit prisoners and their overall numbers in Gujarat is higher than any other part of India.
Assam is a distant second in the list, with SCs comprising 18.2 per cent of all convicts and 17.7 per cent of under-trials against an overall population share of 7.2 per cent.
The report also puts the number of Muslim convicts (23.3 per cent) and under-trials (23.6 per cent) at a proportion much higher than their share in the population, which stands at 9.1 per cent.
Muslims make up for 886 of the state's total 3,808 convicts, and 1,796 of its 7,604 under-trials.
The disparity between their proportion among Gujarat's prisoners and overall population is quite high – 2.6 per cent – even though it's lower than the gap in Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.
A comparison with the national average would suggest that, while Dalits and Muslims constitute a higher proportion of convicts and under-trials vis-àvis their population, the all-India difference is not as wide as Gujarat's.
At the national level, the data shows that while Muslims constitute around 13.4 per cent of India's population, they make up for 19 per cent of prison inmates – 17.1 per cent of all convicts and 21 per cent of under-trials.
The situation with regard to SCs is not very different. As against their population strength of 16.2 per cent, SCs constitute 22.5 per cent of convicts and 21.3 per cent of under-trials.


Forest Battlefield (4x6) Plus, you get to choose ANOTHER MAP for the other side!
The name says it all. This map provides tons of forested ground for units to cat and mouse their way through. With just enough open space for limited long range fire, this map should make for many, many memorable battles. There's even a road for passing caravans to get ambushed on!


When you think of Africa, Grey Crowned Cranes are probably not the first image that comes to mind. But this striking bird is highly regarded animal in Africa. In fact, the Grey Crowned Crane is Uganda's national bird.


At the WWDC, Apple announced that they will be releasing new software and hardware for the Apple MacBook range. The iconic, super-thin, ultra-portable Macbook line will include updates to both their 11 and 13 inch editions. We investigate the Macbook 2012 Vs Macbook 2013. On the surface of it, they look the same and cost roughly the same, but there must be more to it?
From a design point of view, the new Macbook is essentially the same as the old. The Macbook is market leading in this area, and as the new iOS 7 update shows, a new design for the sake of a new design does not always go down well. I for one was pleased to see the design unchanged. The one minor change that Apple have made is the addition of a dual microphone function, which visually makes little difference but is intended to make audio conferences work better on the new model.
Don't be fooled by the shell looking the same though, as Apple has really gone to town on the internal specification of the 2013 Macbook. The new model boasts of a fourth-generation Intel Core processor, which they've codenamed "Haswell". This is a fundamental redesign of the core processor and it shows.
For a start, the new processor chip is far more energy efficient, immediately propelling the battery life from circa 7-9 hours to a reported 12 hours. This extended battery life is allied with a new found speed, which comes in the form of a remodelled graphics 5000 chip and a new SSD drive. Apple has also worked on the devices WiFi functionality, delivering a noticeably faster Wi-Fi porting.
Whilst the 2013 version costs roughly the same as the 2012 model, you are getting more specification for your money. The 2012 model started with just 64GB of internal storage whereas the 2013 model starts with 128GB. Keen data users can get up to 512GB of storage this year.
But besides that, the new MacBook doesn't really differ from the old. It's always hard to justify an upgrade when a device looks the same and essentially the main improvement is eking a little more juice out of an already impressive battery.
For new customers though, the new Macbook offers some nice additional points of value. If nothing else, the additional battery life and free extra storage makes the Apple MacBook 2013 a rare point of value in the market. Sometimes when you have a market leading notebook, it's hard to improve it, or more pertinently, there isn't a need to re-invent the wheel.
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Costa Venezia è la prima evoluzione del progetto di navi da crociera della classe Vista, è stata espressamente progettata per il mercato cinese di Costa Asia (歌诗达邮轮), filiale della compagnia di navigazione italiana Costa Crociere, costruita presso il cantiere navale Fincantieri di Monfalcone (GO), differisce dalle altre navi della stessa classe per una maggiore stazza lorda.

Storia
Il 1º novembre 2017 presso lo stabilimento di Panzano, a Monfalcone, ha avuto luogo la tradizionale cerimonia della moneta saldata nel primo blocco della sezione maestra impostato nel bacino di carenaggio del cantiere navale.

La costruzione del grosso troncone centro-prodiero della nave è stato realizzato in Romania presso i cantieri Vard (società controllata dal gruppo Fincantieri) di Galaţi, Mangalia, Costanza e Tulcea, e da quest'ultimo posizionata tra il 12 e il 15 novembre sul pontone semisommergibile non autopropulso Atlante II venendo quindi trasferito attraverso il delta del Danubio dal 18 novembre, navigando lungo il canale di Sulina, per poi proseguire via mare sempre al traino dei rimorchiatori Germania a prora, e Tirreno a poppa, giungendo infine a Monfalcone per l'assemblaggio.

Costa Venezia è stata varata, e contestualmente battezzata, il 22 giugno 2018 con una cerimonia ufficiale per l'allagamento del bacino di costruzione ed ha iniziato una prima fase di prove di accettazione in mare dal 27 al 31 dicembre 2018 con a bordo 750 tra tecnici, ingegneri, maestranze di Fincantieri e rappresentanti dell'armatore, svolgendo manovre nel Golfo di Trieste e spingendosi fino Ravenna, Ancona e San Benedetto del Tronto ma restando comunque al largo. Una seconda sessione di prove in mare si è tenuta a partire dal 18 gennaio 2019 concludendosi il 23 del medesimo mese. Il cambio di bandiera tra il costruttore e l'armatore, che ha così ammainato quella di Fincantieri e alzato quella della Marina mercantile italiana, è avvenuto il 23 febbraio 2019, siglando così la consegna della nave che è stata celebrata in modo ufficiale con una cerimonia per il passaggio di proprietà, il 28 febbraio a Monfalcone.

Il 1º marzo, agli ordini del comandante Giulio Valestra, Costa Venezia è giunta al molo Bersaglieri della Stazione marittima di Trieste per una tre giorni di cerimonie celebrative di inaugurazione che hanno visto anche l'esibizione delle Frecce Tricolori, la pattuglia acrobatica nazionale, con il sorvolo in formazione su piazza Unità d'Italia e sulla nave, manovre evolutive acrobatiche a ranghi serrati sullo specchio acqueo prospiciente il porto, seguiti in serata da spettacoli pirotecnici sulla città cui hanno presenziato circa 2 000 ospiti provenienti da Cina, Corea del Sud, Giappone e da altri paesi europei.

Costa Venezia è quindi salpata dalla città giuliana il 3 marzo 2019 per la crociera vernissage nell'Adriatico e nello Ionio, facendo successivamente prora verso Oriente "sulle rotte di Marco Polo" per un viaggio di 53 giorni che è iniziato l'8 marzo e si è concluso il 29 aprile 2019 a Tokyo, in Giappone. Dal 18 maggio 2019 Costa Venezia è dedicata esclusivamente al mercato asiatico, offrendo crociere solo in Asia con partenza da Shanghai. A seguito dello stallo del mercato asiatico, a causa della pandemia del Covid19, nel 2022 è tornata in Europa effettuando crociere in Turchia a partire da maggio. Ed è prossima, insieme a Costa Firenze, ad unirsi a Carnival Cruise Line (col nome di Carnival Venezia) per offrire crociere in stile italiano al mercato americano

Navi gemelle
Carnival Vista - costruzione n. 6242
Carnival Horizon - costruzione n. 6243
Carnival Panorama - costruzione n. 6272
Costa Firenze - costruzione n. 6273

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Fincantieri: ecco Costa Venezia, la nuova nave per il mercato cinese, su il Sole 24 Ore del 28 febbraio 2019.
 Costa pioniera della Cina, schiera "Venezia"
 Crociere: cerimonia della moneta per Costa Venezia. A Fincantieri di Monfalcone, destinata a mercato cinese, su ANSA.it del 1 novembre 2017

Venezia
Navi costruite dalla Fincantieri

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Dress up Buster Fever for his rocking good night hanging out with his YouTube buddies. Click and pick the various tops and bottoms, necklaces, hair, and other accessories onto Buster to dress him up and make him over to look his best during the night with Selena! A baby, baby, baby, oh good time! Play Buster Fever Dress Up game online. Played 6 times.
Here are some more Buster Fever Dress Up related games in girl games category.


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Ex international, Emmanuel Amuneke has reiterated his confidence on Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr to qualify the team to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nation.
The three-time African champs lost their opening group fixture 2-0 to Bafana of South Africa on June 10, to sit third on the log behind Libya and South Africa.
However, the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations winning member in Tunisia, told Soccernet.com.ng that Rohr has the capability to qualify Nigeria for the bi-annual tournament.
"I don't think Nigerians should panic over the team 2-0 lose against South Africa in Uyo considering the fact that he played the game with a relatively unknown players," Amuneke told Soccernet.com.ng.


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using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using IX.Observable.DebugAide;
using IX.System.Threading;
using JetBrains.Annotations;

namespace IX.Observable;

/// <summary>
///     A queue that broadcasts its changes.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type of items in the queue.</typeparam>
[DebuggerDisplay("ConcurrentObservableQueue, Count = {" + nameof(Count) + "}")]
[DebuggerTypeProxy(typeof(QueueDebugView<>))]
[CollectionDataContract(
    Namespace = Constants.DataContractNamespace,
    Name = "ConcurrentObservable{0}Queue",
    ItemName = "Item")]
[PublicAPI]
public class ConcurrentObservableQueue<T> : ObservableQueue<T>
{
#region Internal state

    private Lazy<System.Threading.ReaderWriterLockSlim> locker;

#endregion

#region Constructors and destructors

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue() => locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="collection">A collection of items to copy from.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(IEnumerable<T> collection)
        : base(collection) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="capacity">The initial capacity of the queue.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(int capacity)
        : base(capacity) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The synchronization context top use when posting observable messages.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(SynchronizationContext context)
        : base(context) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The synchronization context top use when posting observable messages.</param>
    /// <param name="collection">A collection of items to copy from.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(
        SynchronizationContext context,
        IEnumerable<T> collection)
        : base(
            context,
            collection) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The synchronization context top use when posting observable messages.</param>
    /// <param name="capacity">The initial capacity of the queue.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(
        SynchronizationContext context,
        int capacity)
        : base(
            context,
            capacity) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="suppressUndoable">If set to <see langword="true" />, suppresses undoable capabilities of this collection.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(bool suppressUndoable)
        : base(suppressUndoable) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="collection">A collection of items to copy from.</param>
    /// <param name="suppressUndoable">If set to <see langword="true" />, suppresses undoable capabilities of this collection.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(
        IEnumerable<T> collection,
        bool suppressUndoable)
        : base(
            collection,
            suppressUndoable) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="capacity">The initial capacity of the queue.</param>
    /// <param name="suppressUndoable">If set to <see langword="true" />, suppresses undoable capabilities of this collection.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(
        int capacity,
        bool suppressUndoable)
        : base(
            capacity,
            suppressUndoable) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The synchronization context top use when posting observable messages.</param>
    /// <param name="suppressUndoable">If set to <see langword="true" />, suppresses undoable capabilities of this collection.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(
        SynchronizationContext context,
        bool suppressUndoable)
        : base(
            context,
            suppressUndoable) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The synchronization context top use when posting observable messages.</param>
    /// <param name="collection">A collection of items to copy from.</param>
    /// <param name="suppressUndoable">If set to <see langword="true" />, suppresses undoable capabilities of this collection.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(
        SynchronizationContext context,
        IEnumerable<T> collection,
        bool suppressUndoable)
        : base(
            context,
            collection,
            suppressUndoable) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

    /// <summary>
    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ConcurrentObservableQueue{T}" /> class.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The synchronization context top use when posting observable messages.</param>
    /// <param name="capacity">The initial capacity of the queue.</param>
    /// <param name="suppressUndoable">If set to <see langword="true" />, suppresses undoable capabilities of this collection.</param>
    public ConcurrentObservableQueue(
        SynchronizationContext context,
        int capacity,
        bool suppressUndoable)
        : base(
            context,
            capacity,
            suppressUndoable) =>
        locker = EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker();

#endregion

#region Properties and indexers

    /// <summary>
    ///     Gets a synchronization lock item to be used when trying to synchronize read/write operations between threads.
    /// </summary>
    protected override IReaderWriterLock SynchronizationLock => locker.Value;

#endregion

#region Methods

    /// <summary>
    ///     Called when the object is being deserialized, in order to set the locker to a new value.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The streaming context.</param>
    [OnDeserializing]
    internal void OnDeserializingMethod(StreamingContext context) =>
        Interlocked.Exchange(
            ref locker,
            EnvironmentSettings.GenerateDefaultLocker());

#region Disposable

    /// <summary>
    ///     Disposes the managed context.
    /// </summary>
    protected override void DisposeManagedContext()
    {
        Lazy<System.Threading.ReaderWriterLockSlim> l = Interlocked.Exchange(
            ref locker,
            null!);
        if (l?.IsValueCreated ?? false)
        {
            l.Value.Dispose();
        }

        base.DisposeManagedContext();
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///     Disposes the general context.
    /// </summary>
    protected override void DisposeGeneralContext()
    {
        _ = Interlocked.Exchange(
            ref locker,
            null!);

        base.DisposeGeneralContext();
    }

#endregion

#endregion
}

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Q: How do I prevent my flex-items from overflowing in mobile-view (min-width: 0 not working!)? I think I have a case where my flex item is shrinking past its content size. This is how the overflow looks like on mobile:

Whats overflowing is basically the text for the social media site wrapped in a div.
Here is my code:

/* SOCIAL STATS */
.box-container {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-evenly;
}

.box {
  display: flex;
  flex-basis: 25%;
  align-items: center;
  background-color: #F9F9F9;
  border: 1px rgb(160, 158, 158) solid;
}
.svg {
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
}
.svg-div {
  background-color: #7279C2;
  border-radius: 50%;
  margin: 0 10px;
  width: 25%;
  max-width: 150px;
}
.svg-path {
  fill: white;
}
.details {
  width: 25%;
  max-width: 150px;
}
.details > * {
  line-height: 0;
}
/* NEW MEMBERS */
/* RECENT ACTIVITY */
.new-members,
.recent-activity {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}
.member {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}
.member-image {
  border-radius: 50%;
  width: 15%;
  max-width: 120px;
}

Social Stats

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I know that a flex item cannot be smaller than the size of its content along the main axis. I checked out the stackoverflow post on this one. However I tried implementing the advice and it still didn't work.
Can anyone offer suggestions on how to fix this?

A: You have given a width:25% to your class .detail. Remove it or make it to width:100% and it won't overflow.
For increasing the spaces between the boxes, you can give margin-right to .box

A: Since you haven't defined any font size, the text is rendered at the browser's default size: 16px for the paragraph and 24px for the headings.
With fixed sizes like this, text will overflow its container when the screen size gets too small.
Try a more responsive font size. Add this to your code:
.details {
   font-size: 3vw;
}

jsFiddle demo

A: I have given svg-div a height and width according to viewport.  see i have write width: 7vw; height: 7vw; to make the svg round shape at all screen size.Later     font-size: 2.5vw; line-height: 3vw; in .details is used for make font responsive and stop overflow. Lastly .svg class I have added width: 3vw; to make the icon center of the background svg. VW will help you to maintain the layout for all screen size.

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.box-container {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-evenly;
}

.box {
  display: flex;
  flex-basis: 25%;
  align-items: center;
  background-color: #F9F9F9;
  border: 1px rgb(160, 158, 158) solid;
}

.svg {
  display: block;
  width: 3vw;
  height: 100%;
  margin: auto;
}

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  background-color: #7279C2;
  border-radius: 50%;
  margin: 0 10px;
  width: 7vw;
  height: 7vw;
  max-width: 150px;
}

.svg-path {
  fill: white;
}

.details {
  width: 25%;
  max-width: 150px;
  font-size: 2.5vw;
  line-height: 3vw;
}

.details>* {
  line-height: 0;
}

/* NEW MEMBERS */

/* RECENT ACTIVITY */

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.recent-activity {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

.member {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

.member-image {
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  width: 15%;
  max-width: 120px;
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NY Research on Impact of School Libraries
New York Research Analysis Documents Positive Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement
Story from the NY State Library: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/slssap/index.html
The New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC)/RMC Research Corporation, in consultation with the New York State Education Department, the New York State Library and the New York Library Association has produced a new publication entitled, Informational Brief: Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement. This comprehensive brief provides a current and rigorous research analyses which demonstrates the positive impact that school libraries and school librarians have in advancing student learning. The Executive Summary notes that "Based on the conclusions from the research cited in the brief, it is clear that school libraries play an important role in student achievement, curriculum development, and instruction. Through political and fiscal state support, effective school library programs can serve as consistent drivers for student achievement in times of constant change and churning educational reform." The full NYCC publication and the executive summary may be found at:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/slssap/index.html or at http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/nyla/nycc_school_library_brief.pdf
By referencing numerous studies conducted throughout the United States, the brief illustrates the importance of school libraries in the lives of all students, particularly when it comes to literacy, college and career readiness, assessment and graduation rates. The brief is framed around the New York State Board of Regents Reform Agenda. The Executive Summary will be published in the Spring edition of "In Transition," the journal of the New York State Middle School Association.
The New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC) is one of 16 regional comprehensive centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education. NYCC works with the New York State Education Department to support education leaders and encourage student achievement. For more information about NYCC, visit: <http://www.nycomprehensivecenter.org/> http://www.nycomprehensivecenter.org/
The New York State Library has served New Yorkers, state government and researchers from throughout the United States for more than 185 years. One of the nation's leading library development agencies and research libraries, the New York State Library is a program of the New York State Education Department and is located in Albany, New York. For more information about the New York State Library, visit: <http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/> http://www.nysl.nysed.gov. For more information about the New York State Education Department, visit: <http://nysed.gov/> http://nysed.gov.
Posted on: February 28, 2012, 7:28 am Category: Uncategorized
By: stephen
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In Denial; In the psychological sense, denial is a defense mechanism in which a person, faced with a painful fact, rejects the reality of that fact. They will insist that the fact is not true despite what may be overwhelming and irrefutable evidence.
Climate Change denial; In the hedonistic sense, Climate Change denial is a defense mechanism where people in society will lie or cleverly construct excuses as to why they should do nothing to sever themselves from their comfort zones and well being from their way of life, to the detriment of their offspring.
Example…That tree that I am sitting under is the very reason I am breathing.
It does not bother me when hundreds of thousands of trees are cut down to make way for Eco-oils. As (apart from letting me run my car with a clear conscience) Eco oils are saving the planet.
1. The graph in your book is provided by the IPCC which is questionable in it's neutrality on the subject (at best).
Answer. No it was not!
It really was done by my 13 year old son! After reading lots of graphs he found the common denominator was the 45 degree angle.
Also, what has neutrality got to do with anything? I am not discussing morality, ethics or religion. I am discussing the consequences of our hedonistic culture.
2. Your temperatures for rising global warming are based on SURFACE temperatures which are easily influenced by the "concrete 'Islands' effects of large cities.
Answer. No they are not.
They are based on the mean temperature of the whole surface (including the oceans).
3. This global warming everybody is worried about has been NEUTRALIZED by a drop in the last ten years. This drop is credited to a period of lessening solar activity which we have seen before...it was the mini-ice age which we came out of in the mid 19th century. You can go to other sites to verify this information more thoroughly, but put simply the cause is increased solar activity after coming out of a short ice age...the effect was a period of general warming which some alarmists have tried to turn into a global crisis which is non-existent.
Answer. Please trust me when I say If you believe hard enough, if you search hard enough, you will find sites on the internet to agree with the theory that black is actually white, and water is not actually wet. But that does not let us off the hook no matter how hard you want to disbelieve that Climate Change is starting now!
4. Why do people say that melting ice causes rise in sea levels? I did an experiment in my local bar, I proved that melting ice does not cause any rise in sea levels. If you put ice cubes in a glass of gin and tonic measure the height of the liquid let the ice melt the level of the liquid in the glass stays the same!
Answer. Well it would! It would probably even go down if you stood there licking your lips, salivating at it long enough. Unfortunately the local wine bar is, nor ever was, a very good school to learn from.
I am not talking about melting ice cubes or even melting ice bergs! If you read carefully, you will see that I am talking about GLACIERS! Those huge thousands of meters thick sheets of ice, running off the land masses.
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MoD expert rejects foreign helicopter, HAL says Dhruv is suitable
Broadsword January 15, 2020 Civil aviation, defence planning, Defence Production, DRDO, france, HAL, Indian Air Force, Indian Army, Indian Navy, Infotech, Ordnance factories, Private Sector, russia,
The Dhruv helicopter delivery line at HAL Bangalore
By Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 16th Jan 20
With the ministry of defence (MoD) poised to sanction on Friday a Rs 21,738 crore project to build 111 naval utility helicopters (NUH) in an Indian private sector firm, an MoD expert has suggested the project be scrapped.
The MoD and the navy want the NUH to be a foreign helicopter, built through the "strategic partner" (SP) model. This involves selecting a deep-pocketed Indian private firm as the SP, which will build the helicopters in India using technology supplied by a separately selected foreign "original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
However, former integrated defence staff chief, Vice Admiral Raman Puri (retired), who the department of defence production (DDP) has appointed as a consultant, has advised against inducting a foreign helicopter as NUH, when defence public sector unit Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is in a position to supply a naval version of its indigenous Dhruv advanced light helicopter (ALH).
Puri has recommended the indigenous Dhruv chopper over a foreign design, citing Para 23 of Chapter II of the Defence Procurement Policy of 2016 (DPP-2016), which states: "Preference will be given to indigenous design, development and manufacture of defence equipment. Therefore, whenever the required arms, ammunition and equipment are possible to be made by Indian industry, within the time lines required by the services, the procurement will be made from Indian sources."
On November 19, the MoD asked HAL for its comments. HAL has replied that it is "generally in agreement with the viewpoints provided by the consultant."
Puri also pointed out that Para 23 states: "Accordingly the [MoD's] categorisation committee, while considering categorisation under the DPP will follow a preferred order of categorisation," in which "Buy (Indian – IDDM)" is top priority. IDDM is the acronym for "Indian Designed, Developed and Manufactured," a criterion the Dhruv ALH meets.
HAL has pointed out to the MoD that the Dhruv ALH has been in operation with the navy and coast guard for about two decades. It notes: "ALH has proved its robustness in all operating conditions, as validated by accruing more than 260,000 flying hours and [flying] more than 280 helicopters in the services of various customers."
The navy has opted for a foreign helicopter, to be built on the SP model, because the Dhruv ALH does not have foldable rotor blades that allow it to be parked within the cramped confines of a hangar on a warship.
But HAL's response to the MoD states: "The design of ALH is such that role change can be achieved with minimum modifications and minimum time, which will enable the navy to use this helicopter…"
HAL wrote that, while it did not earlier possess technology for foldable blades for the Dhruv, it "initiated a project with internal funding to design and develop a blade/tail boom folding mechanism on the ALH, which will meet the stowage requirements of the NUH."
HAL executives say foldable blades can be easily developed in 2-3 years, a period shorter than what the MoD would take to sign a global NUH contract.
HAL's letter also notes that the tender requires the foreign OEM to transfer nine critical technologies, which include a rotor system, transmission system, hydraulics, self-sealing fuel tanks, vibration isolation system and others. "All these critical technologies are available with HAL in the case of the ALH-based NUH, as it is HAL's own development," says HAL's letter, which Business Standard has reviewed.
HAL also claims that "many other critical and advanced technologies [are] available with HAL, like the avionics system, glass cockpit, composite airframe technologies etc."
Puri's recommendations also reflect his opinion that it would be wasteful to buy a foreign helicopter, pay for transfer of technology, and develop manufacturing capability in an Indian private sector SP when all this already exists with HAL.
He has pointed out that the SP's new manufacturing line would have no work after building 111 NUHs for the navy. The "transfer of technology" cost paid to the OEM and the cost of setting up a new NUH production line would make a foreign NUH far more expensive than the Dhruv, which HAL already manufactures in Bengaluru.
"Since the ALH-based NUH is conceived, designed and developed by HAL, there is no necessity for any ToT and thus a substantial amount of foreign exchange… can be saved," HAL has argued.
HAL has also pointed out that it would be able to integrate weapons and sensors to meet the navy's requirements in the future, upgrade the platform at any stage in its life-cycle, resolve technical issues and carry out "obsolescence management", which involves ensuring the supply of spare parts all through its service life.
Puri's intervention and HAL's argument will not be welcomed by private sector firms who have responded to the MoD's NUH tender. These includeTataAdvanced Systems Ltd, Adani Defence, Mahindra Defence, Reliance Defence and the Kalyani Group. In addition HAL submitted two responses – one in its individual capacity and another in a joint venture with Russian Helicopters Ltd called Indo-Russian Helicopters Ltd (IRHL).
The foreign helicopters in the fray include two Airbus helicopters – the AS 565 Mbe (Panther) and the H145M – as well as US firm Sikorsky's S76D and the Russian Kamov 226T. The Panther is regarded as the front runner.
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cozykodan 16 January 2020 at 02:55
The country's gain would be somebody else's loss.
Krish 16 January 2020 at 18:05
It actually makes sense ! Numerous experts have argued that ALH Dhruv is suitable for naval work in the light category. If the rotors are not foldable, either HAL can be asked to develop fold-able rotors or only the rotors can be imported or even the tech can be bought. What is the need to import the whole helicopter?
And how many types of helicopters are going to fly in India? Has anyone thought about the logistics part with nearly 11-12 type of helicopters in service and oncoming? Instead of focusing upon getting NMRH medium helicopters for ASW and vertical envelopment roles, this excessive focus on importing light helos is troublesome.
In addition, Navy can use the NLCA in its training role like US Navy's Goshawk ! It has been sending its naval pilots to train on US Navy's LIFT fighters for carrier aviation. It would be better to have couple of squadrons of NLCA and use them to refine training of its fighter pilots. The data from these NLCA LIFT Trainers will help the future TEDBF fighter's development immensely.
Instead of going through these judicious, cost-effective indigenous and immensely rewarding options for future, the Indian Navy is gradually catching the IAF disease of continuous imports ! Already India has an Imported Air Force (IAF). Is there any need for having another imported aviation structure in Navy as well??
Unless we come out of the political compulsions and bureaucratic grip of the PSUs India will not become self reliant. The toughest option is to privatise the PSUs with huge incentive if at all possible.
Aman 17 January 2020 at 01:04
The fact that Dhruv is not an indigenous product is well known. The helicopter carries assemblies, sub assemblies and systems that are sourced from vaious countries in the world. In 2008 2008), more than 50% of the value of material used in each Dhruv is still from foreign suppliers. HAL has made more than 4,000 aircraft. Almost all are licenced copies, besides the about 150 HF-24 Maruts, India's only home-made fighter and a failure. HAL has a simple business model: The government buys a foreign plane, adds a co-production deal and gifts it to HAL.
And ask the service people that are flying these things . These have been notoriously unreliable . So much so that in 2015 Ecuadorian defence minister Fernando Cordero announced plans to cancel a Rs 200 crore contract seven years after it was signed in 2008 and retire the three remaining ALHs (after four had crashed). If that's not egg on the face then what is?
As an aside, did anybody tell you that 'Marine One', the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter that the US President flies, has a cabin made in Hyderabad by a Tata company? It's a direct joint venture, not a result of gifted offsets (As in the case of HAL, or Ordnance Factories or the other (in)competent Defence Public Sector Units. The company is now growing into making cabins for Chinooks and Apaches for the global supply chain. The best in the world are acknowledging the strength of the Indian private sector. It's just that we aren't.
Points to ponder.
Dujac 19 January 2020 at 07:11
The naval helicopter saga is ongoing for at least 5 years. Why did HAL not start development of foldable rotors earlier? Why Navy (customer) has to compromise? Why Dhruv despite being made for 2 decades, does not attract any exports? It looks like a mediocre product that is being pushed on forces.
S Madhu 20 January 2020 at 08:15
May we know what in your considered opinion is not indigenously made in the dhruv ? or if locally made, we are dependent on foreign tech and do not have a deep license. Assertions like these need to be substantiated.
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Lay brother harvesting hay at Benedictine monastery at Saint-Benoit-du-Lac. Besides forage and vegetable crops, the monastery on the shores of Lake Memphremagog yields Melba, MacIntosh and Cortland apples from an orchard of 1,100 acres; syrup and sugar from a stand of 2,000 maples.
In monastery corridor, black-robed Benedictines spend long hours in prayer and meditation. Monks of the order, which was founded in the sixth century by Benedict of Nursia, follow a daily fifteen-hour schedule of work and prayer. Their work embraces everything from farming to painting, writing to music. Gregorian Chant, as sung by the monastery choir, represents the results of centuries of Benedictine effort to perfect this ancient form of church music. Their aim is to restore Gregorian "plain-song" to its proper place in the realm of sacred music.
Chateau-like monastery, designed by French religious architect Dom Paul Bellot, was built in 1941 of white granite and tinted brick, still requires two wings before completed. It stands on the shores of Quebec's Lake Memphremagog, in a corner of the Eastern Townships near the border of Vermont.
The Black Monks at Saint-Benoit-du-Lac are widely-known for their fine cheese, "Ermite", a blue-veined Roquefort type, first of its kind to be made in Canada. Here, racks of Ermite cheese cure in the monastery factory. Refrigeration plant has capacity of 350,000 lbs. to meet increasing demands.
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The Aquabats Celebrate 25 Years with TV Show Soundtrack, 2 Studio Albums & More!
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The Aquabats did a Kickstarter back in the Fall and raised over $690,000 to release some studio albums, and 12 new web episodes of the The Aquabats! Super Show! We're finally going to be seeing some of that stuff come out now!
Now the group carries that momentum in 2019 with their first release since 2011's Hi-Five Soup! The Aquabats! Super Show! Soundtrack Vol. 1 is a 27-track genre-defying, high-energy celebration of the wackiness that made Super Show! some of the most unique kids' TV in the last decade. Fans of the show and The Aquabats' music alike will love getting their hands on never-before-heard extended versions of tunes from the show, including "Burger Rain," "Feel My Steel" and "The Dude Theme."
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When the Pawhuska High School Baseball Tournament starts Thursday, it should give the Huskies a perfect opportunity to get back on the winning track.
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Pawhuska had twice rallied to the lead in Tuesday's meeting with Dewey. But, the Doggers scored the contest's final eight runs in taking a 12-4 win. In Thursday's game at Sperry, a dropped fly ball with the bases loaded and two out snapped a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the fourth inning and sent the Pirates to a 6-2 triumph.
"We have let a few slip away that we probably could have won," PHS coach Bryan Edwards said. "We're a young team that's got to get better."
Shidler took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first Monday when Dylan Nash drew a two-out walk, stole second and scored on a Tyler Kuykendall single. The Huskies tied it with a run in the home half of the inning. Price Perrier walked and eventually scored on a fielders' choice. The Tigers' big third included only two hits, with the rest of the damage attributable to walks, errors and a hit batsman.
PHS senior ace Gage Dagenais went to the mound in relief and held the visitors hitless over 2 2/3 innings. Shidler scored another run, however, on a dropped third strike and consecutive errors. Caleb Bruce relieved Dagenais in the sixth and gave up no runs over the final two frames. With the bat, Bruce ripped doubles in the third and fifth. Taylor Walker doubled home Hayden Henley with the second Huskie run.
Hollingsworth, a senior, scattered five hits, while recording five strikeouts and walking three. The victory snapped a two-game skid for the Tigers, who improved to 7-5 on the year.
DEWEY 12, PHS 4
Huskie batters collected three hits (all singles) by Caleb Bruce, Price Perrier and Randsom Jones. Perrier scored two PHS runs, while Jones and Taylor Walker each crossed the plate once. Dagenais and Nick Edwards had RBI for the Huskies. Dewey finished with 13 hits, including six for extra bases.
Dewey put up a run in the bottom of the first inning to grab the initial advantage before the Huskies scored twice in the top of the third to take a 2-1 lead. With two outs, Perrier walked and moved to third when Jones singled to right. Both PHS baserunners then crossed the plate on a Dogger error.
The home team tied the contest with lone tally in the home half of third, but the Huskies went back ahead at the start of the fourth when a sacrifice fly by Edwards brought in Walker to give the visitors a 3-2 edge. Dewey regained the lead by adding a pair of runs later in the fourth.
Pawhuska evened things at 4-4 in the top of the fifth, when its final run of the game was scored. Perrier led off with a single before advancing to second base on an error, third off a passed ball and home on a misplayed hit off the bat of Dagenais. Three runs in the bottom of the fifth put the Doggers in front to stay, and they cinched the victory by piling on five more in the sixth.
PHS starting pitcher Hayden Henley was relieved by Bruce, who came in to get the last out of fourth after Dewey had taken a 4-3 lead. Hard-throwing freshman Gunner Bankston started for the Doggers. Bankston struck out seven batters, walked three and gave up two hits before being replaced by Williams in the fifth.
A dozen errors were evenly divided between the Doggers and Huskies, who had to contend with gale-force winds throughout the contest.
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Pawhuska let some scoring opportunities slip away and gave up the winning runs on dropped fly balls. The Huskies finished with seven hits and made three errors. Sperry had six hits and committed no errors.
PHS took a one-run lead in the top of the second inning. Leadoff triple to center field by Dagenais, who scored on a wild pitch. Sperry tied the game by scoring one in the bottom of the third off a two-out hit batsmen and an RBI double.
The score remained tied until the Pirates put three runs across in the fifth. All the damage came with two outs. Following a leadoff single and error, a two-out walk loaded the bases and a dropped fly ball allowed three to score.
Pawhuska trimmed the Pirates' lead to 4-2 with a run in the top of the sixth. Dagenais led off with a double and scored on Nick Edwards' single. PHS left the bases loaded in that inning. Sperry used three hits to plate two more in the home half of the sixth and then held the Huskies scoreless in the seventh.
Dagenais collected three hits (a single, double and triple) and scored both Huskie runs. His fourth at-bat came with none aboard in the seventh inning, when he flew out to right field for game's final out. Dagenais also relieved starting pitcher Randsom Jones in the sixth.
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But when they heard about a special mass last week for people with disabilities, Scheibe, 41, and Suarez, 36, found themselves at St. Edna's Catholic Church in Arlington Heights, along with nearly 100 others.
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The mass was part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago's efforts to start a ministry targeting people with disabilities called "Disability Outreach Partnership Priorities."
Appealing to 54 churches in the northwest and northern suburbs, the archdiocese wants to bring the disabled together and give them the opportunity to become active in the church.
In some cases, it might be a matter of improving physical access. In others, outreach officials say, it may mean adjusting people's perceptions.
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'All Lives Splatter': Sheriff's Office Real Sorry It Recommended Murdering Protesters With Cars
Robyn Pennacchia
The Sheriff's office in Chelan County, Washington, is doing an apology tour following someone from their office "accidentally" posting a meme to the official Chelan County Emergency Management page, depicting protesters being run over by a car along with the slogan "All Lives Splatter." The meme, shared from the page "Libtards: ya gotta love 'em," was accompanied by a status reading, "I don't wish harm on anyone ... but protesters don't belong in the road!" With the insinuation being that if protesters are in the road, it is perfectly acceptable to run them over with your car. Because what else are you going to do? Not run over a human being with your car?
This comes on the heels not only of the Charlottesville rally, at which James Alex Fields Jr. ran over and killed 32 year-old Heather Heyer with his car, but another recent incident in Vancouver, Washington. The very same state that Chelan County is in!
This weekend, police in Vancouver arrested a man attending a far-right "Patriot Prayer" rally for attempting to drive his truck into a crowd of protesters. Luckily, no one was hurt, but not for lack of his trying.
At that same protest, a group of "Proud Boys" drove down the street pepper-spraying protesters, and subsequently crashed into a police vehicle. Very "Blue Lives Matter" of them!
It's beginning to become pretty clear that this is not simply a crude meme or a joke to these people, and that they truly do not understand that it is wrong to try and run people over with your car. The comments on the meme itself make this clear:
This is not a "joke," it's a call to violence, and the people sharing this meme clearly seem to believe that not only is it "justifiable" to run over protesters in the street, it is completely legal. Posting something like this on the page of a sheriff's office is going to solidify that belief.
The Sheriff's Office of Chelan County is saying that this was done by accident, and that the staffer meant to share the meme to his own page.
"Staff at Chelan County Emergency Management feel terrible that this inappropriate and hurtful post made it onto the Facebook page," Burnett wrote in the news release. "Changes have already been made in procedure to assure nothing like this will ever occur in the future."
The thing is, this is not actually something one can easily do by "mistake." For those of you who have never done the social media management thing, allow me to explain. In order to share something to the Facebook page of a page you manage, you have to go through SEVERAL steps. It's not like you click share and whoopsie daisy it posts to a page you manage instead of your own account.
First, after you click share, you literally have to scroll down to the thing that says "Share to a page."
Then, you have to select which page you want to share it to.
There's a little more to it than just clicking share, and it's pretty much impossible to do all that by accident. I've done social media management for years, and I've never posted something to a page I manage by accident. Also, for the record, I have never accidentally liked a porn video on Twitter.
Even if it was a mistake, the fact that someone who believes it is whimsical or cute to run over protesters with cars was working, in any capacity, for the police, is beyond disturbing. Someone at the office should probably inform him that murdering people with your car is illegal, and then fire him.
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I don't know if that 1992 pop song "We Got the Power" was meant for cities. But it should have been. It certainly would have been apropos during Rio+20, where cities arrived in force.
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Recognized widely as the driving force behind many of the most significant actions taken to combat climate change, mayors from around the world came to Rio with a simple message: We've got the power.
How inspiring to attend the two signature events for local governments, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group's event at Fort Copacabana and ICLEI's Global Town Hall, where we didn't hear rhetoric, and instead we just hear results, like Tokyo's cap and trade program that covers commercial buildings or Brasilia's intent to have the first LEED Platinum stadium in the world.
Mayor of Johannesburg, Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor Paes of
Rio and the Mayor of Seoul
Unfortunately at many of these global conferences, like Rio+20, where national governments convene and negotiate, the role of cities all too often seem to be an afterthought. Yet cities are economic engines. They generate 75 percent of GDP. They nurture investment and innovation. "Intellectual capital gravitates to cities," said Mayor Bloomberg of New York City last Monday at the C40 Climate Cities Leadership Group kickoff event at Rio+20.
Bloomberg announced that C40's 59 megacities have collectively taken nearly 5,000 actions to combat climate change, which is expected to reduce greenhouse gases by over a billion tons by 2030.
Local leaders can't afford to wait out our problems. They don't have time to diagnose and re-diagnose or debate the problems we face. Instead they take problems head on and work until they're solved. It was Fiorello La Guardia, a former New York mayor, who said there is no Democratic or Republican way to pick up the trash. Local leaders just see problems and they don't let politics get in the way of taking action and implementing solutions.
Cities also recognize a false dichotomy when they see one. "Mayors know the supposed choice between saving money and spending it on climate action is a false one," said Jay Carson, executive director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. "Mayors know climate change puts their cities at particularly great risk, but they also know there is economic opportunity for cities in the response to climate change."
And with a changing climate, the pressure to perform will only increase for our cities. And now for a statistic we've all heard – more than half the world lives in cities. That will grow to more than 70 percent in just 20 years. Cities, which take up only two percent of the world's land mass, use most of the world's resources: they consume 75 percent of the world's energy and produce more than two-thirds of the world's greenhouse gases.
Jason Hartke with Mayor Pat Hayes, Valeria Brown and
Mike Schmitz
Groups like C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and ICLEI International are working to accelerate sustainability actions in cities around the world. ICLEI International, which represents more than 1,200 local governments around the world, arrived at Rio+20 with a powerful message --- in the last 20 years local advances in implementing sustainable policies were more meaningful than those at the global level. At their Global Town Hall conference at Rio+20, local governments didn't negotiate, they told the world of their actions and accomplishments in policy implementation.
Clearly, there's a huge return on investment when it comes to working with cities to accelerate action.
Fostering leadership at the local level is certainly something the green building community has embraced. Many of the U.S. Green Building Council's members and our huge trained practitioner network has long engaged with city officials to deliver dynamic green building solutions that save citizens and businesses money, save energy, create jobs and increase value and improve infrastructure. Today in the United States, local leaders have passed more than 400 various green building policies to bring the economic and environmental benefits of green building to their communities.
Incidentally, the famous phrase that came out of the original Earth Summit in 1992 – "think globally, act locally" – had it right all along.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon revived the sentiment at Rio+20: "Local is global and global is local," explaining the importance of local action to meet sustainability goals. "The country is the sum of cities. If cities do not work, then countries cannot work."
Cities won't wait and can't afford to wait for binding national or international agreement. They just do what they always do. Solve problems.
And the garbage we keep dumping into the sky? Lucky for us, our cities know how to pick up the trash.
Do I daresay? Bumpa…Bumm
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Antigone | Sophocles, 441 BC / Jean Anouilh, 1942
"Leave me to my own absurdity."
"I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life."
"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom."
"You're in love with impossibility"
"Every way
Leads but astray"
Sophocles, Antigone, 441 BC
Antigone by Jean Anouilh, 1947
Translation by Marios Ploritis.
Stage direction: Karolos Koun.
Music: Manos Hadjidakis
Διανομή: Ε. Λαμπέτη, Λ. Καλλέργης,
Σ. Μουσούρης, Ν. Τζόγιας, Δ. Φωτόπουλος,
Μ. Φωκά, Κ. Καραγεωργιάδης
"From the moment the curtain went up, she began to feel that inhuman forces
were whirling her out of this world."
"A happy love is full of quarrels, you know."
"It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me"
"Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless."
"Nothing less than a cozy tea party with death and destiny will quench your thirst."
"He will do what he has to do, and we will do what we have to do"
"I have other plans for you. You're going to marry Haemon; and I want you to
fatten up a bit so that you can give him a sturdy boy."
"His afterthoughts belie his first resolve.
When from the hail-storm of thy threats I fled"
"I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me
if I promise to be a good little girl."
"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."
"I do not want to understand. I am here for something other than understanding.
I am here to tell you no, and to die. To tell you no and to die."
"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up
to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying."
"I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But
because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your
guards—all that your can do is to have me killed."
Antigone, Jean Anouilh, 1942
The play was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Atelier on February 6, 1944, during the Nazi occupation. Produced under Nazi censorship, the play is purposefully ambiguous with regard to the rejection of authority (represented by Antigone) and the acceptance of it (represented by Creon). The parallels to the French Resistance and the Nazi occupation are clear, however.
Μάνος Χατζιδάκις, Θεμα για την Αντιγονη, Jean Anouilh, 1946-47
Ετικέτες Έλλη Λαμπέτη, Κάρολος Κουν, Μάνος Χατζιδάκις, GRεεk Culturε, Jean Anouilh, Karolos Koun, Manos Hadjidakis, Music, Play, Quotes, Sophocles, theater
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