Cabasse Loudspeakers hail from France and have a long history of quality speaker manufacture, founded by Georges Cabasse in 1950. The Cabasse name goes even further back than that, with generations of the family engaged in building musical instruments since the 1700's and still in use today with many orchestras, much prized by their musician owners.
Weighing in at only 1.9kg, there is nothing lightweight in its performance, with a continuous power rating of 50 watts per channel into an 8 ohms impedance. It measures some 21cm wide by 22cm deep (including speaker terminals) by 9cm high. The outer case is fabricated from black gloss Perspex on all sides except the rear panel, along the bottom edge of the Perspex runs a silver coloured alloy strip, inset into which is the front panel USB socket. To the rear we find the input and output connections, starting with the LAN Ethernet wired connection plus 'reset' and WPS buttons to synchronise the internet connection, a digital data input TOSLINK socket, 2 pairs of RCA analogue inputs, a trio of RCA analogue outputs to a pre-amp and subwoofer, then two banks of four (eight in total) speaker binding posts confusingly labeled 1 to 4. The left bank of 4 binding posts is devoted to left speaker connections, while the right hand bank corresponds to the right speaker connections. Unusually too, the positive terminals and the negative terminals are arranged horizontally, so to connect one set of speakers you need to connect to the top pairs of binding posts in the horizontal plane only for left and right accordingly. A second pair of speakers can then be connected to the lower tier of binding posts in the same sequence, again arranged horizontally. Note the lack of SPDIF digital input terminal, although there isn't much space left on the rear panel for such an inclusion. To the left of the speaker terminals is a small switch which configures the amplifier for either 4 ohm or 8 ohm speakers. To complete the rear panel layout, we have an IEC power inlet socket without an earth pin which tells us it's a double insulated device, a mains protection fuse and a small fan. The Stream 100 is also configured for AptX Bluetooth connection.
Without any power applied, it appears to be a plain black Perspex box with rounded corners and an alloy trim with the Cabbasse legend screen printed onto the alloy strip, but power it up and a backlit display appears. It is also touch sensitive controlled with all functions available, so if the dog runs off with the remote control and buries it in the garden, you are not hamstrung by having a device that won't function. Talking of which, it is an oval or pebble shaped unit that adjusts volume, input selection and mute, which fits neatly in the hand and you have to look twice sometimes to make sure the 'right' end is pointed at the amplifier due to its symmetrical shape.
The Stream 100 amplifier has a retail price at time of review at £499.00.
A fairly compact enclosure measuring 29cm high by 17.5cm wide by 22cm deep, with a tweeter measuring 27mm and a long throw 13cm bass driver with a rubber roll surround, the crossover frequency being 3,600Hz, with a frequency response envelope ranging from 65Hz to 23,000Hz. Power handling is said to be 65 watts continuous with a maximum short term peak of 450 watts so Cabasse say, with a quoted efficiency of 85dB for 1 watt of input measured at 1 metre on axis. There is a single pair of binding posts, so is not biwire or biamp capable. It is a reflex cabinet design with a rear facing port. Available in either piano gloss black or gloss white finishes, the review pair submitted were finished in black gloss. A pair of protective perforated metal grilles is supplied, which fits snugly into vertical slotted recesses either side of the front baffle.
I was rather pleased with the sound right at that first hearing, even knowing that both were factory fresh units and needed some running hours. The bass in particular was constrained somewhat so I left the pair running for a full 24 hours, by which time the bass cones had loosened up considerably. My initial listening sessions concentrated on this pair's sound quality through the RCA analogue inputs, leaving the wireless, Bluetooth and digital inputs until much later. I noted the top of the case had become slightly warm and although there is a fan fitted to the rear panel I didn't hear it operating, that is if it activated at all during the listening sessions.
So, connected up to the analogue outputs from my resident CD player, I began by playing my current reference disc, namely Fink's "Wheels Turn Beneath My Feet" live album. Track one on this album called "Biscuits For Breakfast" contains plenty of ambience cues from the venue it was recorded in and indeed this track probably has the greater wealth of this attribute than the entire album, each track recorded in different venues. The Stream/Surf pairing did a pretty good job of relaying that ambience, although there were not unexpected limitations as how far they could scour the last drop of detail that other systems manage – albeit at greater cost, I might add. Throughout this opening track the drummer gives a pounding rhythmic kick drum that underpins the entire piece and some fine cymbal work with crisp rim shots to the snare drum too, all of which has to sound tonally accurate with spot on timing to be believable and the Stream/Surf pairing gave a good rendition of that. Moving on to the track "Sort Of Revolution", the pace quickens and the audience shows plenty of enthusiasm by clapping along with the bass guitarist's intro, adding whistles and cheers for good measure. Once again I expect realism in this part of the track and lesser systems tend to blur and smear here, but to their credit the Stream/Surf pairing acquitted themselves well. Following the intro the drummer sets up a pounding kick drum beat and he really does drive down onto the floor tom which has to be delivered with crisp power and authority by the speaker and amplifier under evaluation here. A pleasant surprise as they mustered a goodly percentage of the standards I'm expecting during this track and I then became curious which component out of the two was the better performer.
"Go for broke Dominic" I thought to myself and paired the £499.00 Cabasse amplifier with a pair of Audiofilia AF-F6 floorstanders costing 6000 Euros no less. Much to my surprise, the Cabasse amplifier drove them with absolute ease and produced a clean open sound with some decent heft in the bass registers too. Top end too was well extended and crisp, with the Audiofilia speakers having a sensitive ribbon tweeter installed, any deficiencies here would soon have been readily highlighted. Time for the Surf speakers to show what they are made of and in they went into my resident system, mounted on to 60cm stands around 15cm from the rear wall. Given the size of the enclosures and drivers, they managed to produce a big hearty sound with plenty of drive and dynamics, comparable with speakers from a much higher price bracket. However, I would liked to have heard just a tad more resolving power and detail resolution at the very top end of the treble registers as I struggled to hear the venue ambience changes in the Fink live album. OK, I am nit picking here and at their £379.00 price point they performed rather well against their contemporaries in a similar price bracket, so they are worthy contenders for a serious listen in maybe an overly bright sounding system where that slight curtailment in the upper treble could be beneficial.
Fine then with analogue input, so how did the digital evaluation pan out? Cabasse have their own downloadable software suite which I duly installed on my mobile phone so I could connect to the Stream amplifier both internet wirelessly and via Bluetooth. The software perpetually told me I had to download the latest version after it had finished installing and that was despite downloading the current version and in the end I just ignored that message. Apart from that small hiccup, the software worked very well, it was easy to set up and navigate, so for a crusty old reprobate like me it was a small blessing. Of course my perpetual gripe about battery life with tablets and mobile phones still holds true and my own preference would be to link via internet wirelessly from my PC running Windows rather than a mobile device relying on limited battery power with either Apple iOS or Android operating systems, which of course my PC won't run. I cannot be the only person on this planet who wishes to stream wirelessly from either a PC or laptop running Windows surely? My PC recognizes that these devices are registered on the 'net, but no software to connect with them to send music to. There is software that purports to do that available for Windows, but I have yet to manage configuring any of them to work in that role. Sermon over, I did manage about 90 minutes of music from my mobile phone before the battery expired.
The Stream is equipped with a TOSLINK digital input and my resident CD player has SPDIF output only so apologies for skipping that, nor does it have HDMI or USB connections and that is a hindrance at times. I do have a convertor box thingy but that isn't a great performer so decided that was not a worthwhile move. OK then, a USB cable from my PC to the front panel input on the Stream produced a comparable sound to the analogue input, again a satisfactory result.
While the Stream amplifier isn't the Swiss Army Knife of media players with a plethora of inputs like some of its immediate rivals (notably the Pro-Ject MAIA), it more than makes up for that shortfall in outright sound quality and ease of use. I particularly liked the touch sensitive front panel controls which means that if the remote control unit stops working or gets lost, at least you have full control of the device's functions regardless. It would therefore be wise before purchase to ensure that your source output connections match the input connections available with the Stream, as the convertors available on the market leave a lot to be desired.
On the subject of sound quality, the Stream managed to drive really well a pair of speakers that were well out of its league and capable of showing up any deficiencies the amplifier may have had and the Stream amplifier acquitted itself really well in this respect. Paired with the Surf speakers they produced a powerful and pleasing sound that I could not really level any criticism at, save a slight rolling off at the extreme top end and I do mean extreme, which shouldn't perturb the average listener. A lack of SPDIF RCA digital input should be noted here again though.
The Surf loudspeakers also deserve merit as being very good performers in their own right both for their performance to size ratio and price.


Introduction for the Hungarian Rail Carriage Pages.
Most of the railroad enthusiasts and model railroaders are interested in only the motive power.
In spite of this fact there are several rail car enthusiasts. I am also interested in railway carriages.
After visiting several web-sites, I decided to show everybody my railway car collection with help of Gábor Zoltán Németh.
We try to fill a gap, but our collection isn't complete.
If you have any interesting photos of passenger coaches or freight wagons, please don't hesitate to share with us.


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friendship timelines Updated Dec. 14, 2019
A Timeline of Stevie Nicks and Her 'Love Child' Harry Styles's Friendship
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax
Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Twitter was a divided place after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its slate of presenters for the 2019 induction class earlier this year, thanks to the polarized, and just plain confused, reaction to Harry Styles being picked to induct Stevie Nicks at the ceremony. Fleetwood Mac fans immediately sized up this little punk; One Direction fans generally had no idea what Nicks's deal was; meanwhile, some well-informed music enthusiasts brought their meme A game. Whether or not the match makes sense — the two do share similar sonic paths, effortlessly transitioning from wildly popular bands to solo careers — the pairing isn't actually as unexpected as it might appear on paper. On the contrary, the two have a (brief, but wonderful) history.
Starting a few short years ago, Nicks and Styles have blossomed into what can best be described as a long-lost son and mother relationship, one you can only dream about with the help of too many melatonin tablets. (And/or crystal visions.) They've spoken admirably about each other in interviews, covered each other's songs, dabbled in a duet or two, and even collaborated at a Rock and Rolle Hall of Fame induction. It's a newish relationship, but one that's already brought plenty of joy. Here's how it all happened.
Styles, in a 2017 Rolling Stone interview, reminisces about how he calmed his nerves and prepared to meet Nicks for the first time, backstage at a Fleetwood Mac concert in London on her birthday in 2015: He brought some cake, baby! "Piped her name onto it. She loved it," he said. "Glad she liked carrot cake." Styles's sister, Gemma, was also there, and shared a photo from the moment she met Stevie on Instagram afterward.
Hangin with Stevie a.k.a. Best day of my life 😶
A post shared by G e m m a S t y l e s (@gemmastyles) on May 27, 2015 at 7:16pm PDT
Prior to that meeting, Styles had first come into Fleetwood Mac's orbit the year earlier when Mick Fleetwood took his teen daughters to a One Direction concert where, it turns out, the bulk of the fangirling was for Fleetwood. "At that point, the girls are going, 'Dad, just don't embarrass us! No dad-dancing,'" he recalled to the Mirror. "What happened in front of my daughters was dad became a superstar! They all wanted to meet me! My ante got upped! All their songwriting team wanted to meet me." Funny enough, he and Styles went on to become unlikely pen pals: "That's when I met Harry and he's come to three of our shows. He writes to me from weird places and has met Stevie. So, yeah, a funny little relationship."
Nicks fondly remembers Styles's cake generosity, and adds the extent of how much her fellow bandmate, Mick Fleetwood, loves him. "Mick has kind of adopted him," she said. "There are just women in Mick's family and Harry is that tall, lanky musical son he always wanted, so they keep in touch."
That same month, Styles embarks on an extensive international tour in support of his debut album. During one of his first stops in Los Angeles, he surprises the crowd with the appearance of his "queen of everything" Nicks, and the two perform his song "Two Ghosts," Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," and Nicks's "Leather and Lace" together. "I'm pretty sure that this was going to be up there with one of the best nights of my life," he said in his introduction. "If there was any doubt, I'm pretty sure I'd like to confirm, in my entire life, I never thought I'd be able to say this. Please welcome to the stage, Stevie Nicks."
Styles sporadically covers Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" throughout his tour. We'll save you the annoyance of watching a shaky fan-shot video in favor of this smooth performance from the BBC Live Lounge.
Fleetwood Mac receives the honor of MusiCares' "Person of the Year," a Grammys-adjacent award that recognizes philanthropic musicians. Styles is on hand to fête and introduce the band for their mini-concert, and they invite him to perform "The Chain" by their side. He again expresses disbelief to even be breathing their same air: "There are several things I thought I would never be doing in my life. One is sharing the stage with these legends, let alone having the honor of introducing them to the stage."
Asked about her timeless appeal to a newer generation of Fleetwood Mac fans in an interview with Rolling Stone, Nicks uses the opportunity to discuss her relationship with Styles. They're family-official now! "He's Mick's and my love child. When Harry came into our lives, I said, 'Oh my God, this is the son I never had.' So I adopted him," she explains. "I love Harry, and I'm so happy Harry made a rock and roll record — he could have made a pop record and that would have been the easy way for him. But I guess he decided he wanted to be born in 1948, too. He made a record that was more like 1975."
Styles is announced as the presenter who'll induct Nicks into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. It's unclear if Nicks personally selected her "adopted" son to do the inducting, but either way, it's pretty clear she's not likely to complain. And now, to await another duet!
Later in March 2019
It's the lovefest of the century between Styles and Nicks at the Rock Hall induction in Brooklyn, with Styles saying, among other sentiments, in his induction speech that Nicks is "everything you've ever wanted in a lady, in a lover, in a friend." He added: "She is more than a role model; she's a beacon to all of us. Whenever you hear her voice, life gets a little bit better. When she sings, the world is hers, and it is yours."
The duo also opened the ceremony with an inspired duet of "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," with Styles taking over vocals for the late, great Tom Petty. Backstage, Nicks accidentally mixes up Styles's old band, One Direction, with 'N Sync, but is otherwise effusive in her praise to her new pal. "This beautiful child should've been born in 1948, too, because he just fits in with all of us," she said. "I think that he succeeded beautifully. That means he will still be around in 30 to 40 years."
The lovers (!?) and friends meet up in Rome to re-perform "Landslide" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" at a very swanky afterparty for Gucci's Cruise 2020 fashion show. The moda is good, but the musica is better.
A post shared by 🖤1D has my soul🖤 (@1d_uwu) on May 28, 2019 at 3:20pm PDT
Nicks surprises the crowd during one of Styles's first Fine Line shows, with the duo once again taking "Landslide" out for a spin. "I know, cool isn't it?" Styles told the crowd as they held hands and grooved around the stage. Aw!
.@Harry_Styles + @StevieNicks • "Landslide" ✨ #FineLineLive pic.twitter.com/M26igMcyri
— The Forum (@theforum) December 14, 2019
Harry Styles Is Out Here Calling Stevie Nicks the Perfect 'Lover'
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[Award] Harrow County snags Ghastly Award
By Press Release on	 March 10, 2017 0 Comments
Dark Horse is proud to announce Harrow County is a 2016 Ghastly Awards winner for Best Ongoing Title, Best Writer (Cullen Bunn) and Best Artist (Tyler Crook). The comics series, which first launched in 2015, is a southern gothic horror tale created by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook.
The story tells of the young girl Emmy, who has a mysterious connection to the deep, dark woods surrounding her home that are crawling with ghosts, goblins, and zombies. The comics series continues to receive high praise and is consistently recognized on many best-of end-of-year lists. Harrow County is also currently in development for a Universal Cable TV series.
The Ghastly Awards are named for acclaimed comics creator "Ghastly" Graham Ingels, the Awards are in their 6th year. Created to honor excellence in Horror Comics, Comic Creators and Publishers can submit their books for nomination consideration throughout the calendar year. The top five nominees in each category will are chosen by the Judges, and then voted on by the Judges, Creators, Publishers and Fans to decide the winners.
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The prosecutor investigating Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston for an alleged sexual assault said on Monday that he intends to be thorough in his process and will not let the football schedule or other time-sensitive matters like the Heisman Trophy vote dictate when his inquiry comes to a close.
The comments from State Attorney Willie Meggs appeared to come in response to those made by Winston's attorney, Tim Jensen, last week. Jensen said he wanted Meggs to speed the process up since it could affect Florida State's national title hopes and Winston's Heisman candidacy.
Good for Meggs. The idea that something as superfluous as a football game or a trophy should influence the timetable of a criminal investigation is preposterous and shows how out-of-whack priorities can be for some people.


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Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – living through colonialism
By Islam Religion Guardian On Sep 30, 2020
Until recently, most conversations about the European colonial presence in Africa have excluded Germany. Established in the late 19th century, the German empire on the continent included colonies in present-day Namibia, Cameroon, Togo, parts of Tanzania and Kenya, and eventually claimed the kingdoms of Rwanda and Burundi. German colonial rule was brutal, as colonial enterprises were; in an arena known for its oppression and violence, it is Germany that perpetrated the first genocide of the 20th century in the 1904 extermination campaign to quell the Herero and Nama uprising in Namibia. Across the continent in East Africa, or Deutsch-Ostafrika, Germany's military tactics were equally deadly. Abdulrazak Gurnah's sprawling yet intimate new novel Afterlives is set against the backdrop of these atrocities. Unfolding in what was then Tanganyika, now mainland Tanzania, it opens with a gentle and unassuming sentence: "Khalifa was twenty-six years old when he met the merchant Amur Biashara."
Khalifa marries Biashara's niece, Asha, in 1907, as the Maji Maji uprising is "in the final throes of its brutalities". Gurnah recounts the horrifying consequences of resistance to German rule but then pivots back to the lives of the young married couple. By the time confident, affable, German-speaking Ilyas arrives at the unnamed coastal town where Khalifa and Asha live, the uprisings and colonial reprisals have faded from the story. Instead, Gurnah pushes aside the larger sweeps of colonial history to focus on those who have managed to carve out a relatively calm existence. But though their lives may be quiet, this does not mean they have escaped the physical and emotional ravages of colonialism. One character remarks wearily that "the Germans have killed so many people that the country is littered with skulls and bones and the earth is soggy with blood". When Ilyas, who was sent to a mission school by the same Germans who owned the coffee farm where he worked since childhood, speaks up in defence of the colonisers, "His listeners were silent in the face of such vehemence. 'My friend, they have eaten you,'" someone eventually replies.
What can be salvaged when one of the consequences of colonialism is the deliberate exclusion of an African perspective?
As the Germans prepare for what will become the first world war, Ilyas eagerly joins the feared Schutztruppe Askaris, native soldiers with a reputation for inflicting unspeakable cruelties on their fellow Africans in the name of the German empire. In his absence, his younger sister Afiya's story unfolds. Placed in the care of a strict family, she is beaten so badly for her ability to read and write that she seeks help from Ilyas's friend, Khalifa. She is soon living with the married couple. Meanwhile, we meet gentle Hamza, an Askari volunteer who quickly realises his mistake. Hamza's story is the most compelling and disturbing in the novel, laying bare the abusive and complex desires that shape the intimate relationship between oppressor and oppressed. When he is assigned to be the Oberleutnant's personal servant, another Askari warns Hamza, "These Germans, they like playing with pretty young men." The officer is determined to teach Hamza German so he can appreciate Schiller, but also tells him he is "dealing with backward and savage people and the only way to rule them is to strike terror into them". Their relationship grows increasingly claustrophobic and Gurnah does not shy away from the psychologically complicated encounters. He exhibits the same patience and care that he shows to all his characters as he follows Hamza through the war, guiding us expertly into deeper contemplations of Christianity's role in the drive to build and maintain a colonial empire. And through Hamza and Afiya, he provides a window on to the restorative potential of trust and love.


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Q: how to load a tensorflow model and continue training I want to load a pretrained model and continue training with this model.
Standard code snippet to save a model (pretrain.py):
tf.reset_default_graph()

# tf Graph input
X = tf.placeholder("float", [None, n_input])
Y = tf.placeholder("float", [None, n_classes])

mlp_layer_name = ['h1', 'b1', 'h2', 'b2', 'h3', 'b3', 'w_o', 'b_o']
logits = multilayer_perceptron(X, n_input, n_classes, mlp_layer_name)

loss_op = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits=logits, labels=Y), name='loss_op')
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate=learning_rate)
train_op = optimizer.minimize(loss_op, name='train_op')

saver = tf.train.Saver()

with tf.Session() as sess:
    sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())

    # Training cycle
    for epoch in range(training_epochs):
        avg_cost = 0.

        # Loop over all batches
        for i in range(total_batch):
            batch_x, batch_y = next(train_generator)

            # Run optimization op (backprop) and cost op (to get loss value)
            _, c = sess.run([train_op, loss_op], feed_dict={X: batch_x,
                                                            Y: batch_y})
            # Compute average loss
            avg_cost += c / total_batch

        print("Epoch: {:3d}, cost = {:.6f}".format(epoch+1, avg_cost))

    print("Optimization Finished!")
    saver.save(sess, 'model')
    print("Model saved")

Now load the pretrained model and continue training with it (continue.py).
# tf Graph input
X = tf.placeholder("float", [None, n_input])
Y = tf.placeholder("float", [None, n_classes])
mlp_layer_name = ['h1', 'b1', 'h2', 'b2', 'h3', 'b3', 'w_o', 'b_o']
logits = multilayer_perceptron(X, n_input, n_classes, mlp_layer_name)
loss_op = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits=logits, labels=Y), name='loss_op')
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate=learning_rate)
train_op = optimizer.minimize(loss_op, name='train_op')

with tf.Session() as sess:
    saver = tf.train.import_meta_graph('model.meta')
    saver.restore(sess, tf.train.latest_checkpoint('./')) # search for checkpoint file

    graph = tf.get_default_graph()

    for epoch in range(training_epochs):
        avg_cost = 0.

        # Loop over all batches
        for i in range(total_batch):
            batch_x, batch_y = next(train_generator)

            # Run optimization op (backprop) and cost op (to get loss value)
            _, c = sess.run([train_op, loss_op], feed_dict={X: batch_x,
                                                            Y: batch_y})
            # Compute average loss
            avg_cost += c / total_batch

        print("Epoch: {:3d}, cost = {:.6f}".format(epoch+1, avg_cost))

But it shows following error:

tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.FailedPreconditionError:
  Attempting to use uninitialized value h1
           [[Node: h1/read = IdentityT=DT_FLOAT, _class=["loc:@h1"], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0"]]

Here are my questions:
1. In many tensorflow's tutorial, it uses get_tensor_by_name() to load weights and biases. Here, I don't want to get weights and biases. I just want to load the model and continue training with it.
2. The error showed that tensor is uninitialized. However, I think saver.restore(sess, tf.train.latest_checkpoint('./')) should have loaded the weights and biases succesfully.
Here is multilayer_perceptron() if it helps to illustrate my questoins.
def multilayer_perceptron(x, n_input, n_classes, name):
    n_hidden_1 = 512
    n_hidden_2 = 256
    n_hidden_3 = 128
    # Store layers weight & bias
    weights = {
        'h1' : tf.get_variable(name[0], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_input, n_hidden_1])),
        'h2' : tf.get_variable(name[2], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_hidden_1, n_hidden_2])),
        'h3' : tf.get_variable(name[4], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_hidden_2, n_hidden_3])),
        'w_o': tf.get_variable(name[6], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_hidden_3, n_classes]))
    }
    biases = {
        'b1' : tf.get_variable(name[1], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_hidden_1])),
        'b2' : tf.get_variable(name[3], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_hidden_2])),
        'b3' : tf.get_variable(name[5], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_hidden_3])),
        'b_o': tf.get_variable(name[7], initializer=tf.random_normal([n_classes]))
    }

    layer_1 = tf.nn.relu(tf.add(tf.matmul(x      , weights['h1']), biases['b1']))
    layer_1 = tf.layers.dropout(layer_1, rate=0.5, training=True)
    layer_2 = tf.nn.relu(tf.add(tf.matmul(layer_1, weights['h2']), biases['b2']))
    layer_2 = tf.layers.dropout(layer_2, rate=0.3, training=True)
    layer_3 = tf.nn.relu(tf.add(tf.matmul(layer_2, weights['h3']), biases['b3']))
    layer_3 = tf.layers.dropout(layer_3, rate=0.1, training=True)
    out_layer = tf.matmul(layer_3, weights['w_o']) + biases['b_o']
    return out_layer

A: I think I found the answer. The key is that it doesn't need to call tf.train.import_meta_graph() if it has already uses saver.restore(sess, tf.train.latest_checkpoint('./')). Here is my code.
# tf Graph input
X = tf.placeholder("float", [None, n_input])
Y = tf.placeholder("float", [None, n_classes])
mlp_layer_name = ['h1', 'b1', 'h2', 'b2', 'h3', 'b3', 'w_o', 'b_o']
logits = multilayer_perceptron(X, n_input, n_classes, mlp_layer_name)
loss_op = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits=logits, labels=Y), name='loss_op')
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate=learning_rate)
train_op = optimizer.minimize(loss_op, name='train_op')

with tf.Session() as sess:
    saver = tf.train.Saver()
    saver.restore(sess, tf.train.latest_checkpoint('./')) # search for checkpoint file

    graph = tf.get_default_graph()

    for epoch in range(training_epochs):
        avg_cost = 0.

        # Loop over all batches
        for i in range(total_batch):
            batch_x, batch_y = next(train_generator)

            # Run optimization op (backprop) and cost op (to get loss value)
            _, c = sess.run([train_op, loss_op], feed_dict={X: batch_x,
                                                            Y: batch_y})
            # Compute average loss
            avg_cost += c / total_batch

        print("Epoch: {:3d}, cost = {:.6f}".format(epoch+1, avg_cost))

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Badminton player Nhat Nguyen from Dublin dominated in today's second group play stage of the men's singles while Dublin's Georgia Drummey put on an assured display in the first round of the women's singles also beating her first opponent of the tournament.
Nhat Nguyen from Dublin took on local opponent Matteo Delmastro in his second men's singles group play match. Nguyen won the first game comfortably 21-8, and then eased past Delmastro 21-5 in the second game to claim the match in an assured display.
Georgia Drummy beat Valentina Ivanov (NZL) in the first round of the women's singles by 2-1. The Dubliner dominated the first half of the match, with a lead of 6-0, 4-0 at one stage. Ivanov fought back to win the second set 7-5. The final set was a tight battle before Drummy took the overall win with 6-3 in the final set.
The evening session of Day Two at the Youth Olympic Games will see Nhat in action once again in the relay team group play event, Galway's Emma Slevin in the women's vault qualification and Sligo's Mona McSharry and Dublin's Niamh Coyne in the 50m women's breaststroke final.
Day three of the Youth Olympic games bring Nhat back to the court again for the third group play stage of the men's singles, Galway's David Kitt and Dublin's Lauren Crowley Walsh will take to the green for the men's and women's golf individuals respectively. Dublin's Niamh Coyne and Sligo's Mona McSharry will compete in the women's 100m breaststroke while Athlone man Robert Powell takes to the pool for the men's 50m free. Emma Slevin will take to the floor for the women's uneven bars later in the day.
Team Ireland in Buenos Aires comprises of a squad of 16 athletes from 9 sports. The team of 5 male athletes and 11 female athletes includes Nhat Nguyen (Badminton) and Mona McSharry (Swimming), recipients of Olympic Solidarity Scholarships which were awarded to assist with qualification and preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.This is the third edition of the Youth Olympic Games which are hosted every four years. The Games, running from October 6 to October 18 will feature more than 4,000 talented junior athletes aged 15 to 18 from 200 countries in over 32 sports.


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How the Government's New Crime Bill Could Screw Over People of Colour
Defence lawyers say the Liberals' proposed reforms will result in more wrongful convictions.
by Manisha Krishnan
Apr 2 2018, 9:49pm
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The Canadian government's proposed changes to the criminal justice system will result in more wrongful convictions and penalize people of colour, according to defence lawyers.
Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould announced Bill C-75 Thursday, touting it as a means to reduce court delays "while ensuring that Canadians have a well-functioning criminal justice system that respects their rights and maintains public safety."
Many believe the bill was in part a response to the Gerald Stanley trial—an all-white jury recently acquitted Stanley of manslaughter and second-degree murder in the death of Colten Boushie, a Cree man. As part of the bill, the government wants to remove the right of Crown and defence lawyers to exclude jurors through a peremptory challenge. However, experts who spoke to VICE raised a number of major concerns with the bill and said it will most likely negatively impact racialized people, who are already overrepresented in Canadian prisons
"These changes are worse than anything Harper ever did," said Jack Lloyd, a Toronto lawyer who specializes in cannabis arrests.
Here's a breakdown of the key concerns over this bill:
Scrapping preliminary inquiries
Bill C-75 proposes eliminating preliminary hearings in all but the most serious offences (i.e. murder) as a way to "ensure criminal cases can proceed more efficiently to trial." These hearings serve as a "dress rehearsal" for a potential criminal trial, said Toronto lawyer Dan Stein, which the media can't report on.
"Both sides get to see how strong or weak their case is" in a lower pressure situation, Stein told VICE. The outcome could be that there isn't enough evidence to go to trial, certain charges are thrown out, or the defence agrees to a plea deal because the evidence is so strong. Eliminating this step could actually make court processes more inefficient because trials will be less organized, and longer seeing as neither the defence nor Crown had the benefit of going through a dry run.
Lloyd said getting rid of preliminary hearings also means people could wrongfully end up in jail because a case that otherwise wouldn't have made it to trial will go to trial.
"They are robbing accused persons of rights to speed up the court process," he said.
Police won't automatically have to be cross-examined
The bill will also allow police officers' evidence to be submitted in signed, written form, without requiring them to be present at trial and cross-examined. Defence lawyers who want to cross-examine cops will need to make a special request to the court.
Annamaria Enenajor, a partner at Ruby, Shiller, and Enenajor, said this provision gives police evidence a built-in advantage.
"It amplifies the presumption of credibility of police evidence," she said, noting often times it's just the evidence of the accused versus the cops.
Recently Toronto police pepper-sprayed a man who was already handcuffed and lied about it under oath.
Enenajor said in all likelihood, defence lawyers will default to requesting the right to cross-examine police, but the extra step in having to make such a request will result in more court delays.
Abolishing peremptory challenges
Peremptory challenges work by allowing the Crown and defence to eliminate potential jurors without having to give a reason. In Stanley's case, it meant no Indigenous people were on the jury hearing his trial.
But Dan Stein told VICE the Stanley trial was an outlier—usually the accused is a person of colour and the defence uses peremptory challenges to get a more diverse jury.
"In most cases, you'd be happy to have a person of colour on the jury," he explained.
Enenajor said this reform will punish people of colour the most—the opposite of its stated intent. As it stands, if a potential juror gives an accused person a certain look, that alone is good enough for a defence attorney to eliminate them. But under the proposed rules, lawyers will only be able to challenge potential jurors "for cause" because of suspected bias. Ultimately, she said the decision will be left up to the judge.
"It's going to be hard to challenge someone for being discriminatory because no one is going to admit to being racist," she said.
Raising maximum penalties
Bill C-75 is also raising the maximum punishments for summary offences to two years in jail, which is quadruple what the current maximum is for some crimes.
This could result in people getting punished more severely. But Enenajor noted it will also negatively impact low-income and racialized people because paralegals, and articling law students aren't able to run trials where the punishment is more than six months of jail time. Only licensed lawyers are able to run those trials.
"[Marginalized] people have less access to proper legal advice and representation before the court," she said. "People who self-represent increase delays in the justice system and are more likely to be wrongfully convicted."
No reform on mandatory minimums
Notably, the bill didn't touch on Stephen Harper-era mandatory minimum jail sentences, some of which have already been struck down as unconstitutional.
Lloyd said getting rid of those would have been an effective way of decluttering the court system, because people generally choose to go to trial if there is a mandatory minimum as opposed to taking a plea deal.
"You might as well try and beat the charges and cross your fingers that you don't have to go to jail."
Will likely be challenged
Enenajor said she's shocked at the "colossal" scope of the bill, which suggests scrapping centuries-old procedures in some cases.
"It really has blindsided the criminal law and defence community," she said. "It was just astonishing that the government decided to table this before a long weekend without prior consultation."
Even if the government passes Bill C-75 into law, Stein said it will likely be challenged across the country.
"Defence counsels are going to be chomping at the bit to challenge this," he said.
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It looks like Tom Cruise will be packing on some serious poundage for his next role. The actor is reportedly circling a biographical action drama set in the 1980's called Mena. Cruise would prospectively play a real life drug smuggler-turned-CIA asset named Barry Seal, who played a role in the events of the U.S.-led efforts to subvert the communist Sandinista government.
According to a scoop by Deadline, Cruise is currently in talks to nab this starring role as a very un-Maverick-like pilot named Barry Seal. Should the deal be set, Cruise, who is currently wrapping up his latest turn as super spy, Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible 5, will shift over to Mena playing another, very different kind of spy.
The film would also reunite Tom Cruise with his Edge of Tomorrow director, Doug Liman for a film that, while based in real events, should carry a good measure of cinematic action and possibly a degree of humor. If Liman's clever (although underperforming) alien-invasion/Groundhog Day amalgam serves as any indication, we could be in for a film that subverts the conventions of most historical dramas as a character study of a man in the late Seal who was essentially a drifting rogue former military pilot who found himself caught between the proverbial rock of a secret Government agenda and the hard place that was an infamous Columbian drug cartel.
Seal's story was certainly full of life-threatening drama. Fired from TWA, his post-military piloting career would take a dangerously seedy turn when he began operating his very own drug smuggling business out of an airport located in what will be the film's titular town of Mena, Arkansas. Equipping his aircraft with the most expensive communications systems money could buy, Seal was raking in some serious snow-dough until his operation was finally grounded after a run-in with the DEA. This, of course, was just the where his story really gets interesting, as he eventually finds himself avoiding jail time by becoming a U.S. Government asset against the Medellín cartel. The intel he would gather would help shape the landscape of the U.S. attempt to bolster the cause of the revolution against the communist Nicaraguan Sandinista government, leading to one of the most infamous political scandals of the 1980's, The Iran Contra Affair.
This should be a rather interesting turn for Tom Cruise. Will we see him hilariously channel his brash, heavy-set, head-turning role in 2008's Tropic Thunder as slimy studio exec, Les Grossman? While the topic is clearly serious and potentially political, the fact remains that he's going to be playing a man that was reportedly walking around at 300 pounds. (Though it is extremely doubtful he'll pack on that much pudge.) The uncharacteristic physical turn for the 5'7" 52 year-old Cruise will undoubtedly subvert a lot of the potential seriousness of the role and many-a-movie-goer will be carrying "Les Grossman" in their minds going into the film. Considering that Seal's communication pseudonym with the cartel was "Ellis Mackenzie McPickles," clearly this is not a film that will be taking itself too seriously.
Mena will have Tom Cruise once again feeling the need for speed. By way of grease burgers and shakes while he prepares for the role. No release date has been scheduled as of yet.


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FEATURING MAYA JUPITER – Los Angeles based rapper and activist Maya Jupiter has a new song out called Madre Tierra in which she expresses the strength and resilience of women and links it to the earth. The Mexican-Turkish singer who was born in La Paz, Mexico, and raised in Sydney, Australia, lives today with her partner Aloe Blacc – an acclaimed singer/songwriter himself – and her children, in Southern California.
In Madre Tierra, Jupiter invokes internationally known female activists like Malala Yousafzai and Vandana Shiva, to American heroes like Angela Davis.
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What Hillbilly Elegy Reveals About Trump and America
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A harrowing portrait of the plight of the white working class
J. D. Vance's new book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis couldn't have been better timed. For the past year, as Donald Trump has defied political gravity to seize the Republican nomination and transform American politics, those who are repelled by Trump have been accused of insensitivity to the concerns of the white working class.
For Trump skeptics, this charge seems to come from left field, and I use that term advisedly. By declaring that a particular class and race has been "ignored" or "neglected," the Right (or better "right") has taken a momentous step in the Left's direction. With the ease of a thrown switch, people once considered conservative have embraced the kind of interest-group politics they only yesterday rejected as a matter of principle. It was the Democrats who urged specific payoffs, er, policies to aid this or that constituency. Conservatives wanted government to withdraw from the redistribution and favor-conferring business to the greatest possible degree. If this was imperfectly achieved, it was still the goal — because it was just. Using government to benefit some groups comes at the expense of all. While not inevitably corrupt, the whole transactional nature of the business does easily tend toward corruption.
Conservatives and Republicans understood, or seemed to, that in many cases, when government confers a benefit on one party, say sugar producers, in the form of a tariff on imported sugar, there's a problem of concentrated benefits (sugar producers get a windfall) and dispersed costs (everyone pays more for sugar, but only a bit more, so they never complain).
In the realm of race, sex, and class, the pandering to groups goes beyond bad economics and government waste — and even beyond the injustice of fleecing those who work to support those who choose not to — and into the dangerous territory of pitting Americans against one another. Democrats have mastered the art of sowing discord to reap votes.
Now they have company in the Trumpites. Like Democrats who encourage their target constituencies to nurse grievances against "greedy" corporations, banks, Republicans, and government for their problems, Trump now encourages his voters to blame Mexicans, the Chinese, a "rigged system," or stupid leaders for theirs.
The problems of the white working class should concern every public-spirited American not because they've been forgotten or taken for granted — even those terms strike a false note for me — but because they are fellow Americans. How would one adjust public policy to benefit the white working class and not blacks, Hispanics, and others? How would that work? And who would shamelessly support policies based on tribal or regional loyalties and not the general welfare?
As someone who has written — perhaps to the point of dull repetition — about the necessity for Republicans to focus less on entrepreneurs (as important as they are) and more on wage earners; as someone who has stressed the need for family-focused tax reform; as someone who has advocated education innovations that would reach beyond the traditional college customers and make education and training easier to obtain for struggling Americans; as someone who trumpeted the Reformicon proposals developed by a group of conservative intellectuals affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and the Ethics and Public Policy Center; and finally, as someone who has shouted herself hoarse about the key role that family disintegration plays in many of our most pressing national problems, I cannot quite believe that I stand accused of indifference to the white working class.
I said that Hillbilly Elegy could not have been better timed, and yes, that's in part because it paints a picture of Americans who are certainly a key Trump constituency. Though the name Donald Trump is never mentioned, there is no doubt in the reader's mind that the people who populate this book would be enthusiastic Trumpites.
But the book is far deeper than an explanation of the Trump phenomenon (which it doesn't, by the way, claim to be). It's a harrowing portrait of much that has gone wrong in America over the past two generations. It's Charles Murray's "Fishtown" told in the first person.
The community into which Vance was born — working-class whites from Kentucky (though transplanted to Ohio) — is more given over to drug abuse, welfare dependency, indifference to work, and utter hopelessness than statistics can fully convey. Vance's mother was an addict who discarded husbands and boyfriends like Dixie cups, dragging her two children through endless screaming matches, bone-chilling threats, thrown plates and worse violence, and dizzying disorder. Every lapse was followed by abject apologies — and then the pattern repeated. His father gave him up for adoption (though that story is complicated), and social services would have removed him from his family entirely if he had not lied to a judge to avoid being parted from his grandmother, who provided the only stable presence in his life.
Vance writes of his family and friends: "Nearly every person you will read about is deeply flawed. Some have tried to murder other people, and a few were successful. Some have abused their children, physically or emotionally." His grandmother, the most vivid character in his tale (and, despite everything, a heroine) is as foul-mouthed as Tony Soprano and nearly as dangerous. She was the sort of woman who threatened to shoot strangers who placed a foot on her porch and meant it.
Vance was battered and bruised by this rough start, but a combination of intellectual gifts — after a stint in the Marines he sailed through Ohio State in two years and then graduated from Yale Law — and the steady love of his grandparents helped him to leapfrog into America's elite. This book is a memoir but also contains the sharp and unsentimental insights of a born sociologist.
As André Malraux said to Whittaker Chambers under very different circumstances in 1952: "You have not come back from Hell with empty hands."
The troubles Vance depicts among the white working class, or at least that portion he calls "hillbillies," are quite familiar to those who've followed the pathologies of the black poor, or Native Americans living on reservations. Disorganized family lives, multiple romantic partners, domestic violence and abuse, loose attachment to work, and drug and alcohol abuse. Children suffer from "Mountain Dew" mouth — severe tooth decay and loss because parents give their children, sometimes even infants with bottles, sugary sodas and fail to teach proper dental hygiene.
"People talk about hard work all the time in places like Middletown [Ohio]," Vance writes. "You can walk through a town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than 20 hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness." He worked in a floor-tile warehouse and witnessed the sort of shirking that is commonplace.
One guy, I'll call him Bob, joined the tile warehouse just a few months before I did. Bob was 19 with a pregnant girlfriend. The manager kindly offered the girlfriend a clerical position answering phones. Both of them were terrible workers. The girlfriend missed about every third day of work and never gave advance notice. Though warned to change her habits repeatedly, the girlfriend lasted no more than a few months. Bob missed work about once a week, and he was chronically late. On top of that, he often took three or four daily bathroom breaks, each over half an hour. . . .
Eventually, Bob . . . was fired. When it happened, he lashed out at his manager: 'How could you do this to me? Don't you know I've a pregnant girlfriend?' And he was not alone. . . . A young man with every reason to work . . . carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him.
The addiction, domestic violence, poverty, and ill health that plague these communities might be salved to some degree by active and vibrant churches. But as Vance notes, the attachment to church, like the attachment to work, is severely frayed. People say they are Christians. They even tell pollsters they attend church weekly. But "in the middle of the Bible belt, active church attendance is actually quite low." After years of alcoholism, Vance's biological father did join a serious church, and while Vance was skeptical about the church's theology, he notes that membership did transform his father from a wastrel into a responsible father and husband to his new family.
Teenaged Vance did a stint as a check-out clerk at a supermarket and kept his social-scientist eye peeled:
I also learned how people gamed the welfare system. They'd buy two dozen packs of soda with food stamps and then sell them at a discount for cash. They'd ring up their orders separately, buying food with the food stamps, and beer, wine, and cigarettes with cash. They'd regularly go through the checkout line speaking on their cell phones. I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off of government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about. . . .
Perhaps if the schools were better, they would offer children from struggling families the leg up they so desperately need? Vance is unconvinced. The schools he attended were adequate, if not good, he recalls. But there were many times in his early life when his home was so chaotic — when he was kept awake all night by terrifying fights between his mother and her latest live-in boyfriend, for example — that he could not concentrate in school at all. For a while, he and his older sister lived by themselves while his mother underwent a stint in rehab. They concealed this embarrassing situation as best they could. But they were children. Alone. A teacher at his Ohio high school summed up the expectations imposed on teachers this way: "They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves."
Hillbilly Elegy is an honest look at the dysfunction that afflicts too many working-class Americans. But despite the foregoing, it isn't an indictment. Vance loves his family and admires some of its strengths. Among these are fierce patriotism, loyalty, and toughness. But even regarding patriotism (his grandmother's "two gods" were Jesus Christ and the United States of America), this former Marine strikes a melancholy note. His family and community have lost their heroes.
We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. . . . The space program, long a source of pride, had gone the way of the dodo, and with it the celebrity astronauts. Nothing united us with the core fabric of American society.
Conspiracy theories abound in Appalachia. People do not believe anything the press reports: "We can't trust the evening news. We can't trust our politicians. Our universities, the gateway to a better life, are rigged against us. We can't get jobs."
Conspiracy theories abound in Appalachia.
Sound familiar? The white working class has followed the black underclass and Native Americans not just into family disintegration, addiction, and other pathologies, but also perhaps into the most important self-sabotage of all, the crippling delusion that they cannot improve their lot by their own effort.
This is where the rise of Trump becomes both understandable and deeply destructive. He ratifies every conspiracy theory in circulation and adds news ones. He encourages the tribal grievances of the white working class and promises that salvation will come — not through their own agency and sensible government reforms — but only through his head-knocking leadership. He calls this greatness, but it's the exact reverse. A great people does not turn to a strongman.
The American character has been corrupted by multiple generations of government dependency and the loss of bourgeois virtues like self-control, delayed gratification, family stability, thrift, and industriousness.
Vance has risen out of chaos to the heights of stability, success, and happiness. He is fundamentally optimistic about the chances for the nation to do the same. Whether his optimism is justified or not is unknowable, but his brilliant book is a signal flashing danger.
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. @monachareneppc
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The Translator's Doubts
Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30893/1/641448.pdf
Trubikhina, Julia
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study," this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. It attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the "metaliterary" to the more recent "metaphysical" approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov's deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov's practice of translation changed profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a "true" but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant.
Arts; Literary Criticism; Alexander Pushkin; Lolita; Metaphysics; Vladimir Nabokov
10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjwj
Academic Studies Press
http://www.academicstudiespress.com/
Boston, MA, 2015-08-15
Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century,
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A New York Times number 1 Bestseller! The Justice League is the greatest force for good the world has ever seen. But not everyone sees them that way. Their never-ending battle against evil results in casualties beyond its super-powered, costumed combatants. The League's attempts to safeguard innocent lives cannot save everybody. Unbeknownst to Earth's greatest champions, their greatest triumph may contain the seeds of their greatest defeat. For heroes are not the only people who face tragedy and are reborn as something greater than they were before. Villains can take this journey, too. And once they start out on this dark path, the road could lead straight to the destruction of the Justice League! The New York Times bestselling team of Geoff Johns (Green Lantern) and Jim Lee (Batman: Hush) are joined by artists Gene Ha (Top 10) and Carlos D'Anda (Deathblow) for Justice League Volume 2: The Villain's Journey, collecting issues numbered 7-12 of the series. Can the world's greatest super heroes survive a voyage deep into the heart of darkness? It all ends with one of the most shocking ...and surprising moments in DC history!


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J.D. McKissic Stars in Washington Win; Neck Injury is 'All Good'
McKissic's agent, Doug Hendrickson, provided a postgame update via his Twitter account, writing, "Great game J.D. McKissic for Washington. He is all good!"
Mike Fisher
The greatest upside moments of the Washington Football Team's 17-15 win over the Seattle Seahawks on "Monday Night Football'' may have been the two touchdowns scored by Washington running back J.D. McKissic.
The greatest downside moment? That surely came when the all-purpose back McKissic exited the field on a cart in the closing minutes of the game following a collision that seemed to leave him with a possible neck injury.
With 3:33 left to play in what would become the WFT's third straight win, McKissic caught a pass from QB Taylor Heinicke and pushed forward to try to and reach a first down. But McKissic collided with Seattle's Quandre Diggs that left the WFT player down for a few minutes.
Building Blocks: Can Washington Win With Young O-Lineman Sam Cosmi?
Offensive lineman Sam Cosmi is entering his second season in the NFL. Washington's offense may have already found its next piece of the puzzle.
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Reports from the locker room also say that McKissic, who left the field on the back of a cart and waved to the FedEx Field crowd as he exited, was feeling OK after the game.
The issue was McKissic's neck, a scary enough thing, but apparently not serious for the game's standout, who helped fuel the WFT's push to a 5-6 record with his 12 total touches for 56 yards in addition to him having scored both of Washington's touchdowns on the night against his former Seahawks employers.
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Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983, is the author of two best-selling books on the NFL and is the 'insider' as a radio personality on The Fan.
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Le Foyer (La llar) és una comèdia en tres actes de l'escriptor francès Octave Mirbeau, amb la col·laboració de Thadée Natanson, estrenada, en la Comédie-Française de París, al desembre de 1908, després d'un procés intentat pels dramaturgs contra Jules Claretie, l'administrador de la Casa de Molière. Va haver-hi un escàndol i manifestacions públiques d'oposició en algunes ciutats.

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Com Els negocis són negocis, Le Foyer és una comèdia clàssica de costums i caràcters, on Mirbeau respecta la unitat de temps i la unitat d'acció.

Intel·lectual compromès, Mirbeau crítica la caritat catòlica i denuncia un tabú: l'explotació econòmica i sexual de nenes en llars suposades «caritatives». El baró Courtin, senador monarquista i acadèmic, ha malversat molts diners de la Llar que presideix i no pot reembossar. Però el govern republicà ofega l'escàndol, i al final Courtin es va en creuer pel Mediterrani, per preparar el seu discurs acadèmic sobre els premis de virtut...

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 Octave Mirbeau, Le Foyer (en francès).
 Pierre Michel, Pròleg del Foyer (en francès).

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In his 2003 book Women In Trousers: A Rear View (which was re-examined by The Guardian last week), businessman and author Demetri Marchessini wrote that women shouldn't wear pants because it's hostile to men.
What enrages me most about this is that it asserts that all women should care about is attracting men. Don't wear jeans because a man might not think you're hot! Don't choose comfort or practicality because a man might not want to bang you!
What about what WE like?
Ladies I hope getting your nails done feels good because not a single man notices you got them done.
Now, Gaffigan's tweet doesn't offend me the way Marchessini's comments do, but it makes the same assertion: women shouldn't make an aesthetic choice that men don't like or notice. You might argue that your boyfriend or husband does notice your nails (I've dated two guys who always commented on them), but that's not the point. The point is that women like getting their nails done because we like the look of colorful nails. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU, MEN. The process of getting a manicure makes us feel pampered (which Gaffigan does seem to realize), and the finished product makes us feel pretty and polished. Maybe we just want to feel good about ourselves. God forbid we make a choice that's not intended to snag a husband!
Exhibit 3: Haircuts. "Don't get it too short," my ex would always say before I went to get my hair cut. When I repeated his comments to my stylist, he groaned: "Ohhh, a straight man only liking long hair. SO original." Studies have shown that guys do prefer long hair on women. SO WHAT? Maybe I'm not cutting my hair for you.


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Ed Sprague Sr., original Oakland A's player,…
Ed Sprague Sr., original Oakland A's player, dies at 74
Sprague played eight seasons with four different teams
By Mercury News staff and wire reports |
PUBLISHED: January 10, 2020 at 3:55 pm | UPDATED: January 11, 2020 at 3:25 am
OAKLAND — Former major league pitcher Ed Sprague Sr., who grew up in Hayward and later made the first relief pitching appearance in Oakland A's history, has died. He was 74.
Sprague, a right-hander who played eight seasons with four teams, was an original member of the A's in 1968 and became the first Oakland reliever to save a game at Fenway Park as well as win a game at Yankee Stadium.
The A's announced Friday that Sprague had died but didn't provide further details. He spent his first two seasons with Oakland and Sprague's son, Ed Sprague Jr., also a former major league player, is the A's director of player development. His granddaughter, Payton, also works for the organization as partnership marketing manager.
"The A's organization is deeply saddened by the passing of Ed Sprague Sr., an original member of the 1968 Oakland A's team and the 1969 club," the team said in a statement. "He was the first of three generations to be part of the A's family, and our condolences are with Ed Jr., granddaughter Payton, and the entire Sprague family during this difficult time."
Sprague Sr. was a graduate of now-defunct Sunset High in Hayward, where he played with two-time major league All-Star shortstop Bud Harrelson. Sprague Sr. made his major league debut at age 22 when he relieved Catfish Hunter in the seventh inning of a 3-1 loss in Baltimore in the first-ever Oakland A's game. He also had the distinction of being the first Oakland A's pitcher to give up a home run when Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson took him deep in the eighth inning on April 10, 1968.
Sprague posted a 17-23 career record with a 3.84 ERA and nine saves over 198 appearances — 23 career starts — with the A's, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee. He played for the A's in 1968 and '69 and had a career-high four saves in his season.
His best season came in 1974 with the Brewers. Sprague was 7-2 with a 2.39 ERA and three complete games over a career-high 94.0 innings.
Sprague was born Sept. 16, 1945, in Boston.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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European Union finance ministers have issued a warning to Donald Trump's administration over its planned tax reform, saying it would "be at odds" with free-trade international rules because it risked being discriminatory towards foreign companies.
In a letter to US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK said some of the Bill's measures would "contravene" the rules of the World Trade Organisation's principles as well as double taxation resolutions.
Some measures "may risk having a major distortive impact on international trade," the letter read.
Notably, the ministers say the 20 per cent "excise tax" on transactions, including a US company's imports of products from its own foreign factory, would have an impact on "genuine commercial arrangements" and could "discriminate in a manner that would be at odds with international rules" of the WTO, the ministers wrote.
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Buhari, Jonathan, PDP Condemn Xmas Day Bombing of Churches
President Goodluck Jonathan, former Head of State Muhammadu Buhari, and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) are among eminent Nigerians and institutions who have condemned the Christmas Day church blasts in several states of northern Nigeria.
by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 25, 2011
"These acts of violence against innocent citizens are an unwarranted affront on our collective safety and freedom," the President said in a statement by his spokesman, Reuben Abati, adding, "Nigerians must stand as one to condemn them."
In his response, General Buhari said, "Bombing other human beings to death at any time is callous. It becomes much more reprehensible on a Christmas day and all lovers of peace must condemn these gruesome acts and demand that the perpetrators be fished out and brought to book."
The bombings took place at the St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State; Jos, Plateau State; and Damaturu, Yobe State.
In a statement, the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, on behalf of the National Working Committee (NWC), condemned what he called "this recourse to extremist ideologies in a multi-religious and multi-cultural society such as ours and urge our people to take the path of dialogue rather than violence."
Regretting that the unfortunate incidents had spoiled the celebratory mood across the land, President Jonathan assured Nigerians that his government remained resolute in resolving the security challenges that confront the nation.
"I want to reassure all Nigerians that Government will not relent in its determination to bring to justice all the perpetrators of today's acts of violence and all others before now," he said.
In his comments, General Buhari expressed worry about the "seeming mute indifference" of the Nigerian authorities to today's events.
"How on earth would the Vatican and the British authorities speak before the Nigerian government on attacks within Nigeria that have led to the deaths of our citizens?" he asked. "This is clearly a failure of leadership at a time the government needs to assure the people of the capacity to guarantee the safety of lives and property."
He called on the Nigerian government to rise up to the challenge of security in our country and not to believe that it's just about voting almost a quarter of the budget to security.
"You can devote the entire budget to security and there won't be any result if there is no competence in leadership to know what to do at the right time," he said.
Just yesterday, SaharaReporters broke the story of police awareness of preparations Fulanis in Kaduna State and the militant Islamic group Boko Haram, to carry out attacks in November to December. The United States had also previously alerted the Nigerian government of plans by Boko Haram to attack selected locations, but the government dismissed the alert.
In a recent statement, a former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, made the disquieting statement that the Nigeria Police is no match for Boko Haram.
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La Nacion has published a six photo essay of then and now of the 2009 Chinchona earthquake.
Scene 2 of Cinchona in 2009
The 2009 earthquake occurred at 1:21:34 pm local time (19:21:34 UTC) on January 8, 2009. The epicentre of the 6.1 Mw earthquake was in northern Costa Rica, 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-northwest of San José. It was felt all over Costa Rica as well as in southern central Nicaragua.
See all the photos in La Nacion.
The earthquake took at least 34 lives, including at least three children, left about 64 people missing and injured at least 91. Hundreds of people were trapped and two villages were cut off. Most of the victims died when a landslide occurred near the La Paz waterfall by the Poás Volcano, and 452 people including 369 tourists were evacuated from the area in helicopters. 1,244 people were displaced in the immediate aftermath. In addition, a hotel, houses, roads, and vehicles were damaged, and several bridges were also destroyed. The town of Cinchona was heavily hit, and all of the buildings there were heavily damaged. Power was temporarily disrupted in San José.
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Welcome to Iceland the home of the Northern Lights! Once you arrive in Keflavik International Airport, our private chauffeur will welcome you and will transfer you to your hotel in Reykjavik. If you arrive early we recommend you make the most of your day by visiting some of the wonderful sites the worlds northernmost capital city has to offer. Take a stroll down Laugarvegur shopping street with a selection of Icelandic designer boutiques. Explore the pearls of the city such as the Hallgrímskirkja Church, Perlan landmark, The Solar Voyager sculpture and Harpa – Music and Conference Center and visit the Aurora center by the harbor where the fascinating phenomenon we call Northern Lights is explained. Stay for the next 4 nights in Reykjavik.
In the morning you will be picked up at your hotel for your private tour to the Reykjanes peninsula and its moon like terrain. During the tour you will visit Krýsuvík mud pots and Iceland's oldest lighthouse at Reykjarnestá. Afterwards you will get the opportunity to soak in the famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa and enjoy a 30 minute relaxing in water message. In the evening you will join a private guided Northern Light tour, where you will get to chase these natural wonders around the crisp arctic sky along the beautiful south coast of Iceland. After, we hope, a successful Northern Light hunt you will get to enjoy a mouth watering lobster feast at the cozy sea front restaurant Við Fjöruborðið in the small village of Stokkseyri.
Today you will be picked up by your private guide from your hotel for a classic Golden Circle sightseeing tour. First up is Þingvellir National Park. Þingvellir, with its beauty and its geological and historical value, was accepted as UNESCO's heritage site in 2004. After exploring the treasures of the park, head south to see Geysir Spouting Spring and Gullfoss waterfall to complete the "Golden Circle". Lastly you will visit Kerið crater, that's partially filled with crystal clear water. In the evening we recommend to enjoy a delicious dinner at one of Reykjavík many gourmet restaurants with an opportunity to explore the vibrant Reykjavik night life.
Today you will get to explore the south coast on a modified super jeep. This tour takes you to Gigjökull which is a glacier fall from the volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Your guide picks you up in the morning and in a small group you will visit the beautiful waterfalls Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss. Above the waterfalls you can glimpse your eyes on the glacier where the great volcanic eruption took place in 2010, which caused great turbulence in Europe with its ashes. Your guide will leave the normal road and on the way to Gígjökull you will cross a few rivers. Later you will also visit a black volcanic beach. Enjoy a lovely evening in the capital.
Transfer to Keflavik International Airport via private vehicle with pickup at your hotel. If your flight is in the afternoon you still have time for some last minute shopping in one of many design shops and galleries that are to be found in the center of town. Have a great trip home!
Quality Rooms with private shower/bath and WC. These are 4 star hotels in Reykjavík. Suites and Jr. Suites are available upon request.
Please contact us and get a price quote for this Luxury Northern Lights Iceland Tour. Note that this tour is fully customizable and we can easily add days and activities upon request. The day tours included in this package are operated by reliable partners.