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US' inflation fight going nowhere
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For those having loans from private banks, variable interest rates amid inflation will make the repayment tougher
Prabuddha Ghosh
On November 3, the US Federal Reserve raised its interest rates by 75 basis points to over 3.75-4.0%, the highest since 2008. A week later, the inflation rate came down to 7.7%, bringing cheer to the global market.
The central bank hinted about the possibilities of future rate hikes being kept in smaller margins, and in a rare occurrence this year, the dollar has gone down too.
However, any celebration would be premature here.
Understanding The US Inflation & Its Fallouts
Amid COVID, the CPI (Consumer Price Index, a key parameter in identifying inflation rate) started increasing in 2021 and reached 8.6% (highest since 1981) in October 2022.
This was the direct fallout of the US economic blueprints against COVID. Joe Biden introduced a USD 2.5 trillion stimulus program in 2021 and his predecessor Donald Trump too approved USD 900 billion worth of initiatives in 2020. All these resulted in prices going up.
The US Federal Reserve responded to it with rate hikes from the beginning of 2022, hurting the country even further.
Mortgage Mess
The average rate of 30-year-fixed home loans has now crossed the 7% mark, highest since 2008. Monthly payments of a median-priced home have already been over USD 600 since the start of 2022 and will rise further. All these have resulted in the house sales figures going down for more than six months. The National Association of Realtors is expecting home sales to fall by 9% in 2022 alone.
As per Realtor.com, the monthly payment on a median-priced home is now 78% higher for buyers, who are making a 20% down payment right now.
The latest mortgage application data shows a 1.9% decline. Applications to refinance climbed 5%, still down by a massive 86% from the same period in 2021.
As per LendingTree data, credit card rates are positioned at 22.19%. Customers carrying balances against their cards will have to deal with higher interests on their accounts. Total credit card loans are at USD 935.42 billion right now, up 16.1% year over year and 3.5% quarter over quarter. Delinquent credit card loans surged to USD 20.27 billion from USD 16.24 billion in the linked quarter, an increase of 2.2% from 1.8% in the second quarter.
Monthly average payment a second hand car is around USD 564. The same rate was at USD 546 in March. For a new car, the interest rate of a 60-month loan period has gone up to 5.6%.
Paying Student Loans? Things Get Trickier
Around 44 million Americans have a combined debt of USD 1.75 trillion for their education. From 1991-92 and 2021-22, average tuition prices increased from USD 4,160 to USD 10,740 at public colleges alone. For private ones, the rate now stands at USD 38,070 from USD 19,360.
Recently, Joe Biden's government has proposed a new plan for students, under which the monthly repayment of interest will be capped at 5% of the loan holder's income. The remaining balance will be written off in case the original loan amount is USD 12,000 or less. However, things look murky here.
As per a report from The Balance, in 2020-2021 alone, the average cost of studying at a public four-year university totalled USD 43,280 for out-of-state students. In private ones, the cost climbed to UDS 54,880.
As per the 2019-20 fourth quarter stats, 11.1% of student loan borrowers were 90 days or more delinquent or in default on their loans.
Another study from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) says that women own nearly two-thirds of student loan debt, totalling almost USD 929 billion. The 2019 income data cites that full-time women professionals are earning approximately 82% of that of men's income.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 71% of Hispanic and African-American students go for federal loans, compared to their white counterparts. While they end up with higher debt by the time of their graduation, within the communities, if the same AAUW survey is to be believed, women carry more debt. On the broader scenario, 34% of overall American women and 57% of Black females are unable to meet their financial goals, due to the debt crisis.
For those having loans from private banks, variable interest rates amid inflation will make the repayment tougher.
The total debt has gone down to USD 1.57 trillion from USD 1.59 trillion in the 2022 second quarter. It's the largest decline since 2002. Although its good news, the crisis is not over yet.
Problems Arise At The Pension Front Too
As per Investopedia, some 79% of all retirees in the United States claim 'Social Security Benefits'. This benefit gets annually revised, along with the inflation index. Year-over-year changes to consumer price indexes are the key parameter here when it comes to calculating the Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) under the Social Security programme.
However, 'The Senior Citizens League' data show that these pension programmes have lost one-third of their purchasing power after 2000.
Despite most of the pension plans being responsive to customers' COLA requirements, matching inflation figures of over 7% looks a tough ask here. To make matters worse, corporate pensions don't offer COLA. Retirees having non-Social Security income sources are suffering due to loss in purchasing power.
As per the National Association of State Retirement Administrators Retirees estimates, inflation of 1% is reducing the value of a USD 25,000 worth annual pension benefit to USD 20,488 after 20 years. In case of consumer prices going up by 2%, the benefit is coming down to USD 16,690.
Retirees such as former teachers, firefighters, and cops are the real sufferers here.
As per the US Census Bureau information, some 11.5 million people were getting income from state and local-level pension plans in 2020. Most of these schemes provide a COLA to their recipients. The non-COLA ones rely on state legislatures or any other executive body to decide on post-retirement benefits for former state employees. There are over 5000 such state and local-level pension schemes across the country and to provide COLA to their customers, they take the inflation rate and the programme funding into consideration.
As per a CNBC report, some five million state-level government workers don't have Social Security in their current jobs. The Center for Retirement Research says that if these workers don't have alternative income sources, fighting inflation will be hard for them.
Slow Manufacturing & Job Market Slowdown
In the first three months of 2022, GDP saw a contraction. Domestic manufacturing too slowed down to its worst pace in nearly two and a half years in 2022 October. As per the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) data, its Purchasing Managers Index fell to 50.2 in October from the September tally of 50.9, and both are the lowest readings since COVID's advent.
The forward-looking new orders sub-index rose to 49.2 in October 2022, suggesting that domestic consumers are spending more. The measure of supplier deliveries fell to 46.8 recently, showing slower deliveries to factories amid falling demand.
The measure of manufacturers' prices has dropped to 46.6, the lowest since May 2020. The same index has fallen nearly 50% since 2022 March.
Talking about job openings, the same ISM study shows 1.9 job openings for every unemployed individual currently, with the raw material prices falling in October, the first time in post-COVID era.
The US Department of Labour's monthly survey said that in September 2022, job openings increased by 437,000 and brought the total tally to 10.7 million.
As per a Reuters survey, there are some 10 million vacancies in total right now. Out of these, hospitality services lead the tally with 215,000 job openings, followed by healthcare and social assistance (115,000), transportation, warehousing, and utilities (111,000).
However, not everything is rosy here. While vacancies decreased by 104,000 in wholesale trade, the finance and insurance industry has even lesser (83,000). Despite the job openings ratio increasing to 6.5% from 6.3% in August 2022, the overall hiring tally has come down to 6.1 million from 6.3 million around the same point in time.
Some 4.1 million workers quit their jobs in October. Wage growth has subsided too. As per data, average hourly earnings rose to 5% in 2021 and started its slowdown from there. The salary hikes are not keeping up with inflation.
The latest Labour Department data shows that the businesses hired at a brisk pace in 2022 November, amid the high inflation. Some 263,000 jobs were added, while the unemployment rate stayed 3.7%, still near a 53-year low.
The latest ISM Services PMI rose to 56.5 in November versus the 53.1 market forecast and 54.4 previous readings, whereas the factory orders also registered 1.0% growth compared to 0.7% expected and 0.3% prior.
However, analysts at Bank of America (BofA) think that the unemployment could climb in 2023.
US Rate Hike Affects Global Economy Too
With the dollar has been the strongest performing currency, investors are shifting their capital back into the US market with the hope of getting higher returns.
A strong dollar also means imports getting expensive, along with piling debt for countries.
As per a New York Times report, African countries are paying more for food, fuel, and medicine imports. Argentina, Egypt, and Kenya are closer to debt defaults, emerging markets are staring at a nosedive in foreign direct investments. While the euro is maintaining parity against the dollar, others are falling behind.
Indonesia saw public anger due to domestic fuel price hikes. Cafes have been shut down in Tunisia due to a shortage of subsidized sugar, coffee, flour, and eggs. Brazil, despite cutting fuel taxes and strengthening social welfare programmes, is struggling against soaring consumer goods prices.
Central banks in other leading economies have been raising interest rates throughout 2022 to bolster their currencies.
The aggressive fed rate hikes have been a decent solution against US' domestic inflation till now, but it has taken a huge toll on the global economy in general. Henceforth, a balanced approach from the economic superpower is badly required here.
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The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building is the first Australian building to be designed by the American Frank Gehry, one of the world's most influential architects. The building is a key facility at the University of Technology in Sydney, providing teaching, learning, research and office accommodation for the UTS Business School.
It has two distinct external facades: one composed of undulating brick, referencing the sandstone and dignity of Sydney's urban brick heritage, and the other of large, angled sheets of glass to fracture and mirror the image of surrounding buildings.
The structure is 16,030 square metres in area, spread over 14 floor levels, with a total project cost of A$180 million.
It was completed in November 2014, with an official opening taking place on February 2, 2015.
The construction contract was awarded to Lend Lease in November 2012, with Waco Kwikform being awarded the multi-million dollar scaffolding and edge protection contract in February 2013.
The project brief required Waco to engineer and construct a scaffold solution capable of following the profile of the slab edges, which contain very few straight sections and which also step in and out up to three metres vertically between each floor. This provided our Sydney team with a significant challenge; to develop a system capable of curving both horizontally and vertically to meet the slab edge and provide safe access for the bricklayers who would be laying bricks within large steel frames to match the profile.
The solution incorporated a series of individually engineered brackets ranging from one board to six boards wide, connected to the perimeter scaffold via a series of vertical trusses up to 1.5 metres deep.
The scaffold was fully modelled in 3D, using Revit software, which enabled us to confirm our base layout and review any potential clashes between the façade elements (particularly the window boxes, which protruded from an already complicated façade at varying angles and distances). It also enabled us to more accurately predict the load path through the scaffold.
Our ability to develop and engineer a superior technical solution, combined with our reputation for guaranteed delivery of major scaffold projects with Lend Lease, enabled us to beat our competitors, whose systems were perceived to provide greater flexibility in non-standard scaffold applications.
Waco Kwikform is proud to have played an integral role in the construction of this unique and iconic building.


The first book in a post apocalyptic fiction trilogy from bestselling romance author Nora Roberts. When the world as they know it ends, the survivors of a mysterious plague are faced with a new world in which both dark and light magic are rising.
Roberts is at the top of her suspense game in the opening chapters of the novel, which are eerily prescient and hopefully not portentous ... That's one of the unique things about this powerful, engaging novel: there is no 'big bad' as there often is in other Nora Roberts classics: no ex-lover from the past coming back for revenge, no crooked businessman trying to put a family's legacy into the ground…there is evil and darkness for sure, in the forms of the prejudiced, and of the power-hungry…and of course, of The Doom itself. But the evil our heroes and heroines must combat is the evil we see every day when we look into the mirror. When we let down our fellow humans by being selfish, or afraid: It's us.
After publishing more than 200 novels, Roberts knows exactly how to spellbind an audience. And Year One barrels along for a couple hundred pages with heartbreaking losses, hair-raising escapes and gruesome attacks ... Once the cast of likable human and Uncanny survivors starts rebuilding society, the plot shifts down from the thrill of apocalyptic disaster to the tedium of inventory control ... Unfortunately, having concocted a worldwide calamity, Roberts seems unwilling to imagine just how radically civilization would react to such historic decimation — and the arrival of magical creatures.
For roughly the first quarter of Nora Roberts's postapocalyptic saga Year One, all the formulas for a good thriller are deployed to magnificent effect ... The epidemic that follows, eventually wiping out billions, is described with relentless brutality as governments collapse and things fall apart. In power and poignancy, this segment of Year One is a match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand, Nevil Shute's On the Beach and the better zombie apocalypses. And then the tension just … stops. Once the bulk of the human race is dead, the pace of events slows drastically ... As a venerated romance writer with hundreds of books under her belt, Roberts could have brought an exciting perspective to the postapocalyptic subgenre. Romance novels tend to center character and emotion in a way most science fiction and fantasy novels can't or won't — but for some reason Roberts chooses not to do so in Year One. This results in a story of shallow people, striving for not all that much, in an implausible world. A frustrating disappointment.
What did you think of Year One?


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Top Prosecutor Requests Court Review of Law on Disciplining Prosecutors
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Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl has filed a petition asking the court to review the constitutionality of a clause in a current law on disciplining prosecutors, which allows the justice minister to select most members of a disciplinary committee.
Yoon's attorney said Friday that two provisions in Chapter Five of the Act on the Discipline of Prosecutors are against the Constitution when the prosecutor general is the one being disciplined.
The legal provisions in question stipulate that the justice minister name and appoint five out of seven disciplinary committee members who will discuss punitive action against a prosecutor.
Yoon's camp said those clauses violate the chief prosecutor's right to hold public office and his right to equality guaranteed under the Constitution.
The defense team also filed a court request to suspend the validity of disciplinary procedures against the prosecutor general until a decision is made on the constitutional appeal.
Yoon's camp also requested that the court suspend the justice minister's appointments of officials who currently comprise Yoon's disciplinary committee.

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Tarjei Bø, född den 29 juli 1988 i skidorten Stryn, är en norsk skidskytt som tävlat i världscupen sedan 2009.

Bøs genombrott kom vid världscupstävlingarna i slovenska Pokljuka 2010 där han blev fyra i sprintloppet. Han var framgångsrik som junior med fem individuella medaljer vid tre junior-VM mellan åren 2006 och 2009.

Vid OS i Vancouver 2010 vann Bø ett stafettguld över 4 x 7,5 km. Han tog sin första individuella världscupvinst i sprintloppet över 10 km i Hochfilzen den 10 december 2010 och vann även jaktstarten dagen därpå.
Under VM 2011 i Chanty-Mansijsk tog Bø ett guld i mixstafett tillsammans med övriga laget. Några dagar därpå tog han ett individuellt VM-guld i distans över 20 km. Han vann även sprinttävlingen den 7 januari 2011 i Oberhof.

Säsongen 2010/2011 vann Bø både totala världscupen, sprintcupen och jaktstartscupen.

Under VM 2012 tog Bø guld tillsammans med laget i stafetten.

Bø var med och tog en guldmedalj på både mixstafetten och stafetten under VM 2013. Han tog sitt andra individuella VM-guld i karriären under samma mästerskap när han vann masstarten.

Under sina första fyra år som senior har han alltså lyckats ta åtta mästerskapsguld.

Tarjei Bø är bror till skidskytten Johannes Thingnes Bø.

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This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and two others and was provided by Howard Payne University Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 65 times . More information about this issue can be viewed below.
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Woodbridge International, a global mergers and acquisitions firm, is pleased to announce the sale of its client TSA Griddle Systems (TSA) to CPM Acquisition Corp. (CPM).
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Natural-Gas Pipeline Expansion Draws Crowd
July 18, 2014 / Frank Carini
Opponents concerned about project's health and environmental impacts
BURRILLVILLE, R.I. — Upgrading the pipeline compressor station in the northwest corner of Rhode Island is no small task. The proposed project requires several pieces of mammoth equipment and significant real estate. Critics say it also comes with major environmental risks.
If state and federal regulators permit the Algonquin pipeline expansion, a new 15,900-horsepower engine will be installed at the Wallum Lake Road facility to boost the flow of natural gas along the 1,127-mile pipeline. The project also needs 16.5 acres of working space at the site, including 6 acres of forested land.
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The six-member southeastern New England team is visiting Burrillville for 10 days, sleeping and preparing meals at the Slatersville Congregational Church. Days and evenings are spent reaching out to residents and local officials in hopes of coordinating an opposition movement before they had back back to campus.
"We're just helping the community to engage," said Zimmer, 19, who will be entering her second year at Northeastern University this fall.
Kathy Martley lives about a half-mile from the compressor station. The pipeline facility drones perpetually like a slow-moving freight train rolling past her wooded 8.5-acre property. She joined the anti-pipeline movement in June after an activist canvassing her neighborhood visited. She has since spoken out at a Town Council meeting and even entered a float in the town's Fourth of July parade expressing her opposition to the project.
"Nobody knows about (the risks). They have no idea what they are putting in (at the compressor station)," she said.
The Algonquin pipeline and the local compressor have been operating since 1953. At 56, Martley has lived much of her life hearing noise from the massive pump station, including annual vent blowouts, unaware of the potential risks. Now she's worried about emissions, chemical and gas leaks, and fires and explosions.
"It's ruining what everybody lives here for," she said.
Martley and other opponents of the expansion project believe the pipeline is too old to withstand an increased flow of natural gas, a flow put under higher pressure so that more natural gas can reach terminals in Boston and Canada. They worry that the gas comes from fracking fields in Pennsylvania — meaning the pipeline is party to the ills of the controversial natural-gas extraction method. There also are the risk of maintaining a pipeline, they say. Several pipeline accidents occur annually, such as a fire at a New Jersey compressor station in 2013 that injured 13 people.
The owner of the Algonquin pipeline, Houston-based Spectra Energy, says the facility is inspected annually and will continue to meet any and all safety standards.
"We manage our facility to be state of the art," said Marylee Hanley, a company spokeswoman.
Spectra Energy hopes to begin construction here next year and finish in 2016.
Martley and activists groups, such as the Green Party of Rhode Island and FANG: Fight Against Natural Gas, have been putting pressure on local, state and federal officials to hold a public hearing. So far, the Town Council has been noncommittal. The state Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is reviewing an air-quality permit from Spectra. DEM officials say the size of the project doesn't merit a public hearing, but hasn't ruled out the idea.
"I don't have a decision on it," DEM Director Janet Coit said.
Rhode Island's congressional delegation has made inquiries, at the behest of environmental groups, about holding a hearing. An environmental impact report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is expected by mid-December.
Town Planner Tom Karvitz said he will likely call for a hearing once Spectra submits a project plan. "It wouldn't hurt to do it," he said.
Spectra held two public meetings on compressor station upgrades in 2013. Both were lightly attended. Martley said notices for the hearings were buried in lengthy reports of the project mailed to abutters. The environmental risks were also unclear in the documents Spectra Energy sent, a problem she said makes it hard for residents to understand the local impacts.
She credited the Climate Summer riders for helping foster community pushback. In addition to knocking on doors, the bike-riding activists setup a Facebook page and Twitter account for Martley and the local organization she now heads, Burrillville Against Spectra Expansion (BASE).
"They're all good-hearted kids who care about the future. That's something the adults don't care about," Martley said.
The group will soon leave Burrillville and bike to a church in Natick, Mass., where they will help opponents of Algonquin projects outside Boston.
Overall, Zimmer said, residents in Burrillville and elsewhere want to help the cause once they understand the risks. "There seems to be some genuine interest (from the public) to get involved," she said.
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Q: Android Emulator Redeployment Hangs Everytime I redeploy an android application it hangs at this step:

[2010-12-14 09:48:40 - HelloWorld] Uploading HelloWorld.apk onto device 'emulator-5554'
[2010-12-14 09:48:49 - HelloWorld] Installing HelloWorld.apk...

If I then go into the DDMS, I can kill the process (by hitting the stop sign) and then it finishes and launches the application.  Any idea how to fix this?  I've rebuilt the emulator, rebuilt the workspace etc with the same behavior.  I'm using Eclipse build 20100218-1602

A: you may want to uninstall the app if it already exists on your phone,
on the phone
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > find the app and then click the "uninstall" button
or with adb
adb uninstall [-k]  - remove this app package from the device
('-k' means keep the data and cache directories)
checkout this link http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html on running apps on devices or emulators
Automatic and manual target modes
By default, a run configuration uses the automatic target mode in order to select an AVD. In this mode, ADT will select an AVD for the application in the following manner:
If there's a device or emulator already running and its AVD configuration meets the requirements of the application's build target, the application is installed and run upon it.
If there's more than one device or emulator running, each of which meets the requirements of the build target, a "device chooser" is shown to let you select which device to use.
If there are no devices or emulators running that meet the requirements of the build target, ADT looks at the available AVDs. If one meets the requirements of the build target, the AVD is used to launch a new emulator, upon which the application is installed and run.
If all else fails, the application will not be run and you will see a console error warning you that there is no existing AVD that meets the build target requirements.
However, if a "preferred AVD" is selected in the run configuration, then the application will always be deployed to that AVD. If it's not already running, then a new emulator will be launched.
If your run configuration uses manual mode, then the "device chooser" is presented every time that your application is run, so that you can select which AVD to use.

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import sys
import random4_indies
import random4_map
from random4_nationgenparser import Random4NationgenParser
from Tkinter import Tk, Button, Label, Entry, StringVar, IntVar, BooleanVar, Checkbutton, Listbox, END, ANCHOR, E, W
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename

def main(argv):
    if len(argv) == 1:
        root = Tk()
        root.title("Randominions 4")

        mapfilevar = StringVar()
        outfilevar = StringVar()
        outfilevar.set("newrandommap.map")
        modfilevar = StringVar()
        lvl1thronevar = IntVar()
        lvl1thronevar.set(0)
        lvl2thronevar = IntVar()
        lvl2thronevar.set(0)
        lvl3thronevar = IntVar()
        lvl3thronevar.set(0)

        landstartvar = IntVar()
        landstartvar.set(0)
        waterstartvar = IntVar()
        waterstartvar.set(0)
        coaststartvar = IntVar()
        coaststartvar.set(0)
        foreststartvar = IntVar()
        foreststartvar.set(0)
        swampstartvar = IntVar()
        swampstartvar.set(0)
        cavestartvar = IntVar()
        cavestartvar.set(0)

        indystrengthvar = IntVar()
        indystrengthvar.set(100)
        rarechancevar = IntVar()
        rarechancevar.set(10)
        magepowervar = IntVar()
        magepowervar.set(2)
        allowsacred = BooleanVar()
        allowsacred.set(False)

        Label(root, text="Map:").grid(row=0, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=50, textvariable=mapfilevar).grid(row=0, column=1)
        Label(root, text="Output map:").grid(row=4, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=50, textvariable=outfilevar).grid(row=4, column=1)
        Label(root, text="Nation mod file:").grid(row=5, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=50, textvariable=modfilevar).grid(row=5, column=1)

        Label(root, text="Rare indy chance(%):").grid(row=6, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=5, textvariable=rarechancevar).grid(row=6, column=1, sticky=W)
        Label(root, text="Indy strength(%):").grid(row=7, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=5, textvariable=indystrengthvar).grid(row=7, column=1, sticky=W)
        Label(root, text="Max nation mage power:").grid(row=8, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=5, textvariable=magepowervar).grid(row=8, column=1, sticky=W)
        Label(root, text="Allow sacred units:").grid(row=9, sticky=E)
        Checkbutton(root, variable=allowsacred).grid(row=9, column=1, sticky=W)

        Label(root, text="Level 1 thrones:").grid(row=0, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=lvl1thronevar).grid(row=0, column=4)
        Label(root, text="Level 2 thrones:").grid(row=1, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=lvl2thronevar).grid(row=1, column=4)
        Label(root, text="Level 3 thrones:").grid(row=2, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=lvl3thronevar).grid(row=2, column=4)

        Label(root, text="Land nations:").grid(row=3, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=landstartvar).grid(row=3, column=4)
        Label(root, text="Water nations:").grid(row=4, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=waterstartvar).grid(row=4, column=4)
        Label(root, text="Coastal starts:").grid(row=5, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=coaststartvar).grid(row=5, column=4)
        Label(root, text="Forest starts:").grid(row=6, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=foreststartvar).grid(row=6, column=4)
        Label(root, text="Swamp starts:").grid(row=7, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=swampstartvar).grid(row=7, column=4)
        Label(root, text="Cave starts:").grid(row=8, column=3, sticky=E)
        Entry(root, width=3, textvariable=cavestartvar).grid(row=8, column=4)

        Label(root, text="Indies:").grid(row=1, sticky=E)
        indylist = Listbox(root, width=50, height=4)
        indylist.grid(row=1, column=1, rowspan=3)

        Button(root, width=13, text="Choose Map", command=lambda : mapfilevar.set(askopenfilename(filetypes=[('Dominions 4 map files', '.map')]))).grid(row=0, column=2, sticky=W)
        Button(root, width=13, text="Choose Mod", command=lambda : modfilevar.set(askopenfilename(filetypes=[('Dominions 4 mod file', '.dm')]))).grid(row=5, column=2, sticky=W)
        Button(root, width=13, text="Add indies", command=lambda : indylist.insert(END,askopenfilename(filetypes=[('JSON files', '.json'), ('Domions 4 mod files', '.dm')]))).grid(row=1, column=2, sticky=W)
        Button(root, width=13, text="Remove selected", command=lambda : indylist.delete(ANCHOR)).grid(row=2, column=2, sticky=W)
        Button(root, width=10, text="Quit", command=root.destroy).grid(row=10, column=0)
        Button(root, width=10, text="Generate!", \
            command=lambda : runGenerator(mapfilevar.get(), indylist.get(0, END), outfilevar.get(), landstartvar.get(), waterstartvar.get(), \
                coaststartvar.get(), foreststartvar.get(), swampstartvar.get(), cavestartvar.get(), lvl1thronevar.get(), \
                lvl2thronevar.get(), lvl3thronevar.get(), rarechancevar.get(), indystrengthvar.get(), modfilevar.get(), magepowervar.get(), allowsacred.get())).grid(row=10, column=3)

        root.mainloop()

    elif len(argv) < 15:
        print "Usage: randominions4 mapfile targetmapfile indydefinition landnations waternations coaststarts foreststarts swampstarts cavestarts lvl1thrones lvl2thrones lvl3thrones rarechance indystrength"
    else:
        mapfile = argv[1]
        indyfile = argv[3]
        targetfile = argv[2]
        landcount = int(argv[4])
        watercount = int(argv[5])
        coaststarts = int(argv[6])
        foreststarts = int(argv[7])
        swampstarts = int(argv[8])
        cavestarts = int(argv[9])
        lvl1thrones = int(argv[10])
        lvl2thrones = int(argv[11])
        lvl3thrones = int(argv[12])
        rarechance = int(argv[13])
        strength = int(argv[14])

        runGenerator(mapfile, [indyfile], targetfile, landcount, watercount, coaststarts, foreststarts, swampstarts, cavestarts, lvl1thrones, lvl2thrones, lvl3thrones, rarechance, strength, None, None, None)

def runGenerator(mapfile, indyfiles, targetfile, landcount, watercount, coaststarts, foreststarts, swampstarts, cavestarts, lvl1thrones, lvl2thrones, lvl3thrones, rarechance, strength, modfile, magepower, allowsacred):
    indies = None
    if modfile is not None:
        indies = Random4NationgenParser(allowsacred, magepower,
                                        rarechance, strength)
        indies.parse(modfile)
    else:
        indies = random4_indies.Random4Indies(rarechance, strength)
    for indyfile in indyfiles:
        indies.readIndies(indyfile)
    randommap = random4_map.Random4Map(mapfile)
    randommap.position(landcount, watercount, coaststarts, foreststarts, swampstarts, cavestarts, lvl1thrones, lvl2thrones, lvl3thrones)
    randommap.populate(indies)
    randommap.writemap(targetfile)
    indies.writeModFile(targetfile)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main(sys.argv)


Additionally, the book also provides an overview of Spring Security. The book comes with example code for many of the chapters.
The provided examples, however, could have been a little more consistent. The main source example in this book is covered in chapter 5 (A simple bug tracker). I liked the given example, as it does not require a database. This makes it easy to understand the Spring Web Flow specific problem domain. However, considering the fact that the authors also talk about Spring Security in other chapters, it would have been nice, if they had used the bug tracker example throughout the book in order to create a "complete" application, that ties together Spring Web Flow, the persistence layer and Spring Security. Unfortunately, the code examples given in later chapters don't refer back to the bug tracker example. Instead, chapter 6, for example, uses a shopping cart example.
In chapter 2 the book discusses on 4 pages Ant and Maven. I think it might have been simpler for the understanding of the book and the provided source code, if only one build system was used, e.g. Maven. Some of the code examples provide Ant and Maven build scripts but some other ones provide support for Maven, only.
Another anomaly was, that the book describes the installation of the Spring IDE plugins for Netbeans and Eclipse on 7 pages but then the authors mention in passing only that they are using Microsoft SQL Server as underlying persistence store for their example. As many Java developers may not have a MS SQL Server license, it may have been better to use open-source Databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
The example in Chapter 3 uses HSQLDB for its database but earlier (Chapter 2) the authors use MS SQL Server. For consistency and simplicity reasons the book could have stuck with one database.
Chapter 4 deals with Spring Faces. The authors should have mentioned JBoss Seam, since Seam solves a similar problem as Spring Web Flow but having a default focus on JSF.
The book provides an entire chapter on JSF integration (Chapter 4). As JSF is a widely used framework and Spring Weblow provides native support for JSF. It would have been nice though, if support for other frameworks such as Struts 1 and 2 would have been illuminated.
The section in chapter 5 which starts on page 165, the Web Flow Configuration, felt repetitive to parts of Chapter 3 (pages 53) and should have probably merged with that section. Chapter 5 also contains a larger section on Apache Tiles integration. One thing that I did not understand was how Tiles matters in terms of mastering Spring Web Flow. Generally I don't mind explaining additional pieces of information around the edges of your problem domain but if that happens on 5 percent of the book, it needs to matter within the context of the targeted subject. On a site-note: Take a look at SiteMesh for your templating needs. I strongly prefer it compared to Tiles.
In chapter 6 the testing of your Spring Web Flows is explained. This was an informative chapter and I particularly liked mentioning of EasyMock.
In chapter 7 the book primarily details Spring Security. In my opinion, it provides too much Spring Security centric information. For example, the chapter describes how to create and write your own AccessDecisionVoter. In my opinion it does not help and is unnecessary for the understanding of Spring Web Flow. At most I would have chosen an example that uses a DB-backed security implementation using default Spring Security functionality.
To me, chapter 7 was a bit strange. It provides 16 pages of information introducing Spring Security but the actual integration of Spring Web Flow with Spring Security is accomplished in merely 4 pages. Most interestingly, that's where the book simply ends. I missed something like a wrap-up, that summarizes what the book covered and where to continue on.
In Appendix B the authors provide an overview of Springsource's dm Server. Personally, I think that dm Server is an interesting offering. However, I don't understand why this appendix even exists in this book. It is neither important for the understanding of Spring Web Flow, nor do the authors explain why this appendix exists.
Here are some further thoughts: Throughout the book, I like the use of Maven for building the examples. It certainly makes it easy to understand the examples' structure.
I think for the understanding of Spring Web Flow, it unnecessarily complicates things, if you present examples that require JNDI for establishing database connectivity. Furthermore it binds you to a concrete application server, which in this case is Tomcat.
Except for a for a very brief mentioning on page 224, the book never talked about the applicability of Spring Web Flow in the context of RIA frameworks such as GWT, Flex etc. Is there a use case for Spring Web Flow e.g. for coarse grained server state for large, complex applications?
It would have been nice if the book provided an overview of other frameworks that handle conversational state such as JBoss Seam. Additionally, since the books was published in March 2009, it could have described some of the planned conversational state management support planned for Spring 3.0.
Furthermore, it would have been great if the book had also mentioned how Terracotta can be used to back Spring Web Flow conversations. Terracotta provides an interesting reference application detailing that possibility.
Unfortunately, it contains quite a few inconsistencies and it is overall not an easy read. However, it is the only currently available book dealing with Spring Webflow 2.0. On Amazon, I gave the book 2 out of 5 stars.
However, if your professional background is in web-application development using Java or other OO languages, then you are probably more likely to skip or cross-read sections of the book. This is because the book starts out with practically no initial pre-requirements, and thus you might be familiar with some of the discussed areas.
The book gave me an excellent overview of Flex's capabilities, and they are all explained thoroughly and are easily understandable. Also, this may sound silly, but I particularly liked the refreshing fact that the book is in color, unlike most other IT books.
Furthermore, the book explained Data Binding (Chapter 7) very well. This is something I was not familiar with coming from the Java world. The chapter illustrates the concepts of one-way binding, two-way binding and making your own variables "bindable" using a metadata declaration, which is basically an annotation in Java parlance.
Another feature I liked a lot was View States (Chapter 12), which allows you to rearrange, group and reuse components within your application.
I wish the book provided more information for further reading. I understand that certain concepts are beyond the scope of this book, but it would have been nice if those had been mentioned and links or recommendations for further reading were provided.
For example, while AMF is mentioned on page 8 and on page 157 the book briefly talks about the Webservice and RemoteObject component, the book should have also mentioned BlazeDS as one of Flex's core technologies for communicating with back-end servers.
While the author explains the aspects of using CSS in Flex applications very well, he could have further stressed that Flex uses a subset of CSS, which in certain areas behaves differently compared to CSS you more typically use in HTML pages. He should have enumerated some of those pitfalls.
Having said all this, these issues mentioned above are minor in nature. Overall, the book was a fun read! And particularly to Java web-developers, Flex may very well be THE contender for application user interfaces moving forward. One of the great things about Flex is that even the standard components look very good (and should be good enough to please your boss), and your application looks and behaves consistently across various browsers. Oh, and yes you can run the same application on the desktop as well (Chapter 15).
This book will definitely help you learn and master Flex, and you should be able to produce functional user interfaces quickly. In order to learn more about integrating Flex with your Spring powered back-end you may want to also consider looking at "Pro Flex on Spring".


CBCity 2028 has been developed after more than 10,000 community members had their say on how they want Canterbury-Bankstown to look in 10 years time. This Community Strategic Plan is an aspirational vision of how to get there.
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Q: Detecting checkbox touch What method is to be used in order to detect whether a checkbox was touched by a user to change the isChecked status in my windows phone app? In my code I manually set a checkbox on start up and the callback gets fired right away, while I only want to fire the callback if the user interacted with the view.
public CheckBoxPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        AvailableCheckBox.IsChecked = true; //name of the checkbox
    }
  private void CheckBox_Checked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)//event handler
    {
       MessageBox.Show("Changed");
    }

A: Use the Click method:
private void AvailableCheckBox_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (AvailableCheckBox.IsChecked == true)
    {
        // Checked
    }
}

A: Add the handler after you've decided if the Checkbox should be checked.
public CheckBoxPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    AvailableCheckBox.IsChecked = true;

    AvailableCheckBox.Checked += AvailableCheckBox_Checked;
}

void AvailableCheckBox_Checked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Changed");
}

A: Use a variable to keep track of whether the page is loaded or not and only have the handler do stuff if it's loaded.
private bool _isLoaded = false;

public CheckBoxPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    AvailableCheckBox.IsChecked = true;

    _isLoaded = true; // enable the AvailableCheckBox_Checked handler
}

void AvailableCheckBox_Checked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (!_isLoaded) return; // stop here if not loaded yet

    // everything is loaded so let's execute some stuff
    MessageBox.Show("Changed");
}


Add LeBon James of the Cleveland Cavaliers to the list of multi-millionaires who don't like POTUS Trump or the Deplorables. When interviewed about NBA all-star voting, James took the opportunity to add his political views.
Hopefully, Cleveland won't win another championship so LeBron won't have to meet POTUS Trump.


You know when you pick up an item by accident and fall in love with it? That is exactly how I feel about the B Confident Moisture Gel.
I was running low on my B Confident Day Cream so I rushed in to Superdrug to restock and they were completely out. In fact, this little pot of goodness was the only one left of the shelf so I picked it up. It's been cold and your girl needed hydrating so I picked this up quickly and it wasn't until I got home it'll I realised what I picked up but far from being disappointed I fell in love with another product from the B Beauty Skincare Range.
It is a gel, which initially would make you think it is less moisturising and hydrating compared to a lotion but I have to say, as someone who has normal to dehydrated skin, I have not found that to be the case. In fact, a little bit goes a long way and I often find myself applying a little bit too much.
As soon as I apply it my skin feels plumped and energised. It absorbs easily and quickly on the skin. As I said it has been extremely cold in London over the past couple of weeks and the B Confident Moisture Gel has helped my skin toughen out the cold walks to work.
The gel is a blue like consistency and looks like it has a little bit of a beautiful shimmer to it which doesn't appear to the skin but does help to make the skin look awake.
As a cruelty free, vegan skincare brand, the ingredients used are gentle and will work with the majority of skin types aside from dry flaky skin. For those of you with dry skin, I would use the B Confident Day Cream following a good exfoliating mask to remove the dead skin, allowing fresh skin to grow thus removing any flakiness.
Have you tried anything from the B Beauty B Confident range? It is fast becoming my favourite affordable skincare range and I cannot wait to try out more from them.


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All News 17:10 September 28, 2022
The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Wednesday.
(LEAD) N. Korea may conduct 7th nuclear test between Oct. 16 and Nov. 7: spy agency
SEOUL -- North Korea has readied an underground nuclear test tunnel at its Punggye-ri site and a test blast could take place sometime between Oct. 16 and Nov. 7 if the regime decides to go ahead with it, South Korea's spy agency was quoted as saying Wednesday.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) gave the assessment during a closed-door briefing to lawmakers of the parliamentary intelligence committee, citing a window of time between October's National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and November's U.S. midterm elections, according to briefed lawmakers.
Yoon vows to raise S. Korea's AI competitiveness to 3rd in world
SEOUL -- President Yoon Suk-yeol vowed Wednesday to raise the country's artificial intelligence (AI) competitiveness to No. 3 in the world as part of efforts to rebuild the nation.
Yoon made the promise while presiding over a regular economic meeting in Gwangju, 268 kilometers south of Seoul, saying he will also double the size of the country's data market to over 50 trillion won (US$35 billion).
(3rd LD) PM meets with Japan's Kishida, calls for improved relations
TOKYO -- South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Wednesday and called for improved relations between the two countries, saying it serves their common interests.
South Korea and Japan "are close neighbors and important cooperative partners who share democratic values and principles of market economy," Han said during the meeting with Kishida held a day after he attended the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
S. Korea aims to take up 12 pct of world's EV market by 2030
SEOUL -- South Korea seeks to significantly boost production of electric vehicles to more than double domestic carmakers' global market share to 12 percent by 2030 and to be a global car industry powerhouse, the industry ministry said Wednesday.
For the goal, the government vowed to provide tax incentives and various supportive measures to promote carmakers' investment worth about a combined 95 trillion won (US$66.03 billion) by 2026, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
Defense chief says indigenous KF-21 fighter will play key role for N.K. deterrence
SEOUL -- South Korea's Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup expressed expectations Wednesday that the country's homegrown KF-21 fighter under development will play a "great" role in deterring evolving North Korean threats.
Lee made the remarks at a ceremony celebrating the first flight of the jet that the country has been pushing to develop by 2026 under the 8.8 trillion-won (US$6.15 billion) project aimed at replacing the aging fleet of F-4 and F-5 fighters and bolstering air power.
(LEAD) Fitch keeps S. Korea's credit rating unchanged at 'AA-,' outlook stable
SEOUL -- Global credit appraiser Fitch Ratings said Wednesday it has reaffirmed South Korea's sovereign rating at "AA-" with a stable outlook.
Fitch's rating for South Korea has been AA-, the fourth-highest level on the agency's table, since September 2012.
Population mobility hits 46-year low in Aug.
SEJONG -- The number of South Koreans who moved to different residences in the country fell to a 46-year low in August due to population aging and sluggish housing transactions, data showed Wednesday.
The number of people who changed their residences came to 519,000 last month, down 12.1 percent from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.
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'Unspeakable acts of violence': 'Serial killer' handyman busted for slays of three elderly women in his Brooklyn NYCHA building
Manhattan DA plans more interviews with Trump's former personal attorney as probe heats up post-presidency
'Extremely awkward with women:' former client blasts Trump fanatic busted for arsenal, online threats
NYC man who posted threat against Pennsylvania town after mass shootings undergoing psych evaluation
By John Annese and Rocco Parascandola
Bethlehem, Pa. (Getty Images)
A New Yorker who posted online a threatening comment about a town in Pennsylvania in the wake of last weekend's mass shootings is undergoing a psychiatric observation, according to a NYPD source.
Cops have not determined if the man will be criminally charged. The source described him as a "troubled individual" who lives with his mother.
As the nation reeled from mass shootings that claimed the lives of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso and 9 people in Toledo, the man left the message that seemed to threaten Bethlehem, Pa., as a comment on a National Public Radio story.
"It mentioned Bethlehem like it should happen here," said that city's Police Chief Mark DiLuzio.
The FBI, DiLuzio said, told him the comment came from a man in New York City.
[More New York] 'Extremely awkward with women:' former client blasts Trump fanatic busted for arsenal, online threats »
The NYPD and the feds have been investigating the man, though the source said the comment might be the rantings of a man who has a "history of emotional problems" and "not necessarily a threat."
It was not clear what connections, if any, the man has to Bethlehem.


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Graphic Medicine: The Therapeutic Benefits of Art Journaling
Suzy Becker
An evolving new art form, Graphic Medicine helps us express through images we draw, write and color the highs and lows, the difficult moments of an illness, recovery progress, or caregiving that many experience, Write it before you forget the experience; draw so you are done remembering it; share it so you're not the only one who knows it, so you can put yourself in control. View Details...
Thursday, September 5
Meditation for Freedom & Transformation: Building a Daily Practice
Thomas Amelio
Free Intro Thursday, September 5 at 6:00 pm – Class starts on September 12 The core yoga practice of meditation (dhyana) unburdens us of fear and reveals our true nature as freedom itself. It purifies us from the emotional and psychological conditions and habit patterns called samskaras. View Details...
Chakras, Yoga & Healing
Jeff Migdow, MD
Our universal life force flows into the physical body through the chakras. Jeff Migdow, MD, has spent the past 20 years exploring the chakra system. Join him for a deeply enriching experience this morning as we explore the anatomy of our chakras and their connection to our physical health, mental and emotional well-being, and spiritual evolution. View Details...
Tibetan Five Rites
Jeff Migdow
Take the opportunity to learn The Tibetan Five Rites, ancient yogic practices performed for thousands of years by monks in remote Himalayan monasteries. These rites were considered magical because of their remarkable healing and rejuvenating effects. View Details...
The Transformative Power of Sacred Sound & Movement Meditation
Yuval Ron
Experience introspective and ecstatic practices of the ancient wisdom traditions of the Yoga of Sound (Nada Yoga), Ayurveda (India's herbal energetic medicine system), Qi-Gong, and Sufism. This unique experiential workshop will journey deep into sacred movement and music chanting and spiritual mindfulness practices, drawing from the hidden wisdom of the traditions of the East. View Details...
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: On Healing, Connecting & Belonging for Changing the World
Rhonda Magee and Sharon Salzberg
In this interview, discussion, and interactive format session, lawyer, author, mindfulness teacher and storyteller Rhonda Magee and beloved leading mindfulness and compassion teacher Sharon Salzberg will describe how embodied mindfulness and compassion practices are essential to the work of healing, peacemaking and doing justice. View Details...
Sufi Teachings on Suffering, Love & Happiness: A Symposium on Ibn 'Arabi
James Morris, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Angela Jaffray
Mystic, philosopher, and renowned Sufi, Ibn 'Arabi is known as one of the world's great spiritual teachers. He teaches us that each person comes into the world with the potential for living in complete happiness, but instead we take on self-defeating beliefs and suffering. View Details...
Sufi Songs of Love: Rumi, Hafiz & Baba Taher
Amir Vahab
One of New York's most celebrated vocalists of Sufi, sacred, and folk music, Amir Vahab has been described by The New York Times as an "ambassador for a silenced music." He sings in the evocative, traditional Persian style which embodies millennia of mystical tradition. View Details...
The New York Open Center is pleased to announce a 7-month, multi-cultural, and multi-faith Meditation and Contemplative Studies program, commencing in October of 2019. The program offers a offers a unique and expansive exploration of a variety of mystical and contemplative disciplines and forms of meditation from eight major religious and spiritual traditions. View Details...
To Listen & To Love: The Theory & Practice of Jewish Meditation
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Blending both text study, chanting, and meditation, you will leave this workshop with a deep grounding in the metaphysics of Jewish spirituality and a firm grasp of the practices you can use to cultivate holiness in your life and the life of your community View Details...
How to Realize Your Authentic Self
Ora Nadrich
Living an inauthentic life means that we have to keep up a false image of ourselves, often just to seek the approval of others. This can be exhausting and depleting, causing anxiety, depression, and deep unhappiness. View Details...
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
Loch Kelly
What if you could open into a natural flow of wisdom, compassion, and joy in any moment? This possibility is closer than you think. Loch Kelly has integrated wisdom practices, neuroscience, and psychological research to support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. View Details...
The Cup of Receptivity: Awakening Our Intuition at Halloween
Ellen Goldberg
Nature's holidays are the solstices, equinoxes, and the midpoints between them. Each one carries unique vibrations. The midpoint between the Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice, celebrated as Halloween, was often called The Crack in the Year. View Details...
Saturday, October 26 — Sunday, October 27
Become an Intuitive Healer: Training for Healthcare Practitioners, Healers & for Self-Care
There is an infinite amount of wisdom we cannot access through logic alone. Doctors, nurses, bodyworkers, and therapists have all felt it. Could there be a way to consciously tap this intuitive power and make it a regular part of diagnosis and treatment? Join Judith Orloff, MD, who has pioneered the use of intuition in healthcare healing for over 20 years. View Details...
Moon Manifesting
Yasmin Boland
Manifesting is an ancient practice where women were honored for their power to create, bend and shape reality, and harness the energy of the moon for wish fulfillment, until it was stopped by the "burning times." View Details...
Developing Your Intuition: A Decision-Making Tool for Life
Constantina Rhodes
Free Intro on Thursday, October 31 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on November 7 Intuition is a key component of decision-making. One of New York's most experienced intuitive consultants and teachers of intuition, Constantina Rhodes, will help us begin to develop a range of skills that we all possess in latent form but usually don't know how to access, understand, or use. View Details...
An Introduction to Sheng Zhen Gong
Master Li Junfeng
Sheng Zhen ( "sacred truth" ) is a spiritual qigong system composed of sets of graceful sitting and standing movements and meditations inspired by the world's great spiritual traditions. This form of qigong has three functions—to improve the body's health, to remove negative emotions and thoughts, and to open one's heart. View Details...
How to Gracefully Navigate Change
Shannon Kaiser, Emma Loewe, Amy Leigh Mercree, and Deganit Nuur
When we resist emerging life changes, we push away our own transformation. Learning about our soul's growth will help us navigate life with more grace and ease. View Details...
Psychic Bootcamp
Laura Lynne Jackson
Jumpstart and reboot your psychic abilities in this fun workshop! We are all born with inherent psychic and intuitive abilities, but most of us shut them down between ages 5-7 when formal schooling starts. View Details...
The Shape of Awake®: Meditation & the Alexander Technique
Hope Martin
Free Intro, November 14 at 8:00 pm - series starts on November 21 Mindfulness practices free us from habitual patterns of tension and bring a deeper alignment with life. The Alexander Technique, when applied to meditation, is a simple, yet powerful tool for cultivating mindfulness of the body, bringing awareness to habitual tension, and relaxing our goal-oriented approach to life. View Details...
Kirtan: Sing Your Heart Out!
Prem Sadasivananda
Come enjoy the music and uplifting vibration of the traditional Hindu chants and English devotional songs which will open your heart. As you sing with each other, you experience a deep connection with the musicians, other audience members, and yourself, becoming one voice. View Details...
Singing Bowls, Gongs & the Fundamentals of Sound Healing
Marco Dolce
This one-day intensive is designed to impart an in-depth understanding of the primary concepts related to sound healing and sound metaphysics, allowing students to integrate sound creation into their own spiritual and healing practices. View Details...
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity
This weekend program offers a practical hands-on training in the practice of Centering Prayer, a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition. Cynthia will help you dive deeper into the experience by analyzing what actually happens in Centering Prayer: the mind effectively switches to a new operating system that makes open-hearted, nondual perception possible. View Details...
An Introduction to the Tarot
Robert Place
The tarot is a powerful symbolic system whose images express mystical ideas from the Platonic, Pythagorean, and Hermetic traditions. Once one grasps the tarot's philosophy and structure, the cards can be used as an intuitive device to connect with one's inner wisdom. View Details...
An Introduction to Human Design
Erin Claire Jones
The Human Design personality assessment tool, using your birth data to create a BodyGraph, sheds light on your emotional, psychological, and energetic makeup, giving you greater self-awareness. This introduction to the technique brings together ancient wisdom (astrology, I Ching, Chakras, Kabbalah, modern science, quantum physics, and genetics), to give you a blueprint for operating and interacting in the world, and functions as a communications and decision-making manual. View Details...
Know Thy Self: The Hand as a Guide to Self-Fulfillment
The hand has been called God's Road Map. This spiritual gift is both a science and a universal language, based on principles that anyone with an interest in human nature can understand. Reading your own palm is like reading a book about yourself, the most important and interesting subject to know about. View Details...
Don Conreaux
Every human being is a born gong player. Come for a special gong meditation for healing and illumination through focusing on the full moon guru-angel point. Learn about the most powerful healing musical instrument on the planet for those who wish to maintain physical health and emotional wellness: the gong. View Details...
Carl Jung's SoulCollage®
Laurie Nadel
Based on the work of Carl Jung, SoulCollage® is a gentle, relaxing modality for exploring your inner self. Whether you are recovering from a loss, suffering from acute stress, PTSD, trauma, addiction, confused about what path to take, or looking for your soul's purpose, this workshop will give you access to your inner guidance. View Details...
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Writing from the Heart
Nancy Slonim Aronie
Nancy Slonim Aronie inspires us to reclaim our authentic voices, to write in our own rhythms, in our own language, without trying to sound like a "writer." She creates a safe space where all who want to write can access boundless inner creativity, let go of the inner critic, and let the juices flow. View Details...
Brennan Core Light Healing to Create the Life You Love
Priscilla Bright
Based on the new book Core Light Healing by Dr. Barbara Brennan, you will discover the secrets of manifestation by learning how creativity is either expressed or blocked through the Human Energy Field. Learn and explore how your energetic blocks and family patterns can impede your creative flow and prevent your longings from materializing. View Details...
Tibetan Sound Healing
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
One of the world's oldest unbroken spiritual traditions is the Bön Buddhist tradition of Tibet. This wisdom path has survived, thanks to the efforts of a handful of dedicated teachers such as Bön lineage holder Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute and an acclaimed author and highly respected teacher. You are invited to learn from a master of this ancient lineage, and discover the power of sacred sound. View Details...
Friday, January 3
2020 Vision: Predictions for the New Year
Gary Christen, Jenny Lynch, Marza Millar, Steve Speer, and William Stickevers
Everything that has happened in 2019 has set us up for the shift in consciousness that is underway. In the upcoming days, we will see the manifestation of that transformation, as many visionaries have predicted. This will be a landmark year, a time of personal, national, and planetary upheavals. View Details...
Practical Intuition
Laura Day
Awaken and hone the latent, innate intuitive abilities you have with internationally renowned intuitive and best-selling author Laura Day. She has worked for decades to bring intuitive skills into the mainstream worlds of professions including medicine, business, and psychology. View Details...
Tuesday, January 7
Step Out of Your Own Story: Reframe & Transform Your Life
Kim Schneiderman
Every life is a unique, dynamic, unfolding, sacred story, but few of us try to figure out what our story is really about, who is writing our script, why we've selected certain roles, or how to become happier, more fully-expressed characters. View Details...
Our Karma, Our Journey
Lorraine Goldbloom
Free Intro on Tuesday, January 7 at 8:00 pm - Series starts January 14 Join Lorraine Goldbloom as she presents her perspective on the meaning and nature of karma on our incarnational journey. An essential part of this experience will be VortexHealing® Divine Energy Therapy group healings, to deal with issues that arise for students in class, as well as to clear each person's biggest, unique karmic obstacle. View Details...
The Power of Mantra
Mantra is an energy embedded in a sound structure. Through the repetition of the mantra, its latent power becomes manifest, and the subconscious layers of the mind are awakened. The constant repetition of a mantra transforms the very life of the aspirant. From Sanskrit mantras, we will be learning the language of higher vibrations. View Details...
Radical Compassion: An Evening with Tara Brach
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and as a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. Radical Compassion has three key elements: it is an embodied experience (a felt sense of tenderness), it is inclusive of all beings, and it naturally moves us to act from a caring heart. View Details...
Rituals for the New Year
Barbara Biziou
Release old patterns and limiting thoughts to proceed into the future with clarity and lightness. January is an auspicious time to use the focused power of ritual to align our minds, hearts, and actions. Relinquish the blocks and barriers that prevent us from manifesting our goals. View Details...
The RAIN of Compassion
Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. In this workshop with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust, we will use the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) to explore the healing and spiritual freedom that becomes possible as we learn to contact the vulnerability within ourselves and others, and respond with a loving heart. View Details...
Elena Brower is respected globally for her distinct articulation of alignment and attention. In this evening's workshop, you'll create the conditions for grounding, awakening and refining your awareness of the world within you as well as the world around you. View Details...
Sound, Mantra, and Yogic Meditation Training
For centuries, music and mantra therapy have proven to be a powerful means to overcome physical and emotional imbalances, and elevate consciousness. This workshop seeks to give you understanding and skills to help others and for your personal life. View Details...
Sound Meditation
In this workshop we will learn about Sound Meditation for both healing and inspiration. Sound Meditation can incorporate sounds from many traditions and languages as well as from one's own revelation. View Details...
Khenpo Pema Wangdak
No one explains more beautifully and imperatively the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings on the treasured virtue of patience than Shantideva in his great work, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. View Details...
Saturday, February 22 — Sunday, February 23
Relax & Write
Maia Danziger
Whether you are a seasoned writer experiencing a block, or someone who has simply dreamed of writing and not yet put the pen to page, this Relax & Write™ workshop is a perfect opportunity to jumpstart your process. View Details...
The Way of Perception: The Journey of Consciousness in Our Everyday Life
Shakti Caterina Maggi
Perception is the main path towards emptiness and the key to transform the ego's contractions/fears into radiance and joy. Shakti Caterina Maggi will use experiential meditations and Q&A to discover how at the center of the egoic contraction there is only pure Emptiness, something that is mistakenly conceived as fragile and vulnerable but is actually Openness itself disguised as someone. View Details...
The Way of Perception: The Alchemical Transformation From Darkness to Light
Bodily senses are the doors through which consciousness in the human form experiences the world. We are generally aware just of the experiences of life, but we can also travel back with our attention from the world, to the awareness that is experiencing it. View Details...
Sunday, March 1
The Way of Perception: Embodying Consciousness in the Form
The Journey of the Seeker in Sufism
Kabir Helminski
One key to meditation is the phenomenon of "presence." Mindfulness, meditation, contemplation, and remembrance are all based in a fundamental human capacity — presence — which, unfortunately, is rarely experienced in our fast-moving, depersonalized, technologized existence. View Details...
The Transforming Ecstasy of Sufi Zikr
Shaykha Fariha Fatima al-Jerrahi
The workshop is a direct plunge into the ancient Sufi practice of Zikrullah. This practice of recitation of Divine Names, along with singing and dancing, is what distinguishes Sufism as a path of love and is said to be the main way to attaining union with God. We will begin with a short introduction to communal Zikr which will touch on the symbolic meaning of the different aspects of Zikr and will include the practice of chanting some of the Divine Names. View Details...
The Shamanic Foundations of Mindfulness and Practices
Itzhak Beery
Shamans the worlds over practice the art of shifting consciousness at will, and enter into the unseen realm of dreams, visions, and spirits. They learn to co-exist in a state of in-between the seen and unseen worlds. Shamans hold the belief that everything in our universe is alive and vibrate with energy, thus contain mindfulness. View Details...
Cultivate Your Awareness of Wisdom, Love, and Vitality through Xi Breathing
Robert Peng
Xi breathing is a special breathing technique. Through dynamic breathing pattern, we awaken our inner power and empower our three energy centers: Upper Dantian- center of Wisdom, Middle Dantian - center of Love, and Lower Dantian - center of Vitality. View Details...


I recently read three amazing books, and astoundingly enough each of these accomplished works was a first novel.
"Fieldwork" by Mischa Berlinski (2007): a recent college graduate is at loose ends in Northern Thailand when he becomes obsessed with the story of a brilliant female anthropologist serving a life sentence in a Thai prison. This is one of the best books I've read in years: full of ideas, realistic characters (I love the way his missionaries talk in particular. A horrendous family argument sparked by one teenaged child's unauthorized viewing of "Star Wars" was brilliant), and atmosphere. It is mindboggling that something this perfect could be a first novel. Grade: A+.
"The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant (1997): I am probably the last middle-aged North American woman to get around to reading this beloved mainstay of Oprah's book club. My friend Kim I's copy sat around on my shelf for over a year before I cracked it open. Of course, like practically everyone, I loved it. "The Red Tent" is the retelling of the story of Jacob's daughter Dinah from the Old Testament/Torah. I loved the women's animistic rituals. My one complaint: Diamant didn't have a gift for dialogue. All of the characters spoke in the same voice. One could excuse that by saying that it was all supposed to be in the voice of Dinah retelling her life story, but still... Grade: A-.
"Them" by Nathan McCall (2007): the story of the gentrification of Atlanta's Fourth Ward, told by a middle-aged black loner who lives with his ex-con nephew in an old rented house. Barlowe hates white people and calls the cops when some white folks show up to look at the house next door. "They'd call the cops if I came into their neighborhood" was his reasoning. Little does he know that the white liberal wife finds this to be evidence of community looking out for one another, and it convinces her to buy this particular fixer-upper in a "rapidly-improving" neighborhood. What is the impact on an old, established neighborhood when suddenly white artists and young couples start buying up houses? The Fourth Ward residents have very different feelings about whether an espresso house with internet access is a welcome arrival that will be "good for the neighborhood"; the unemployed men who enjoy spending their days chatting don't feel welcome there.
"Them" gave me a lot to think about. My ex-husband and I were the only white people living in a particular largeish apartment building in the Western Addition back in 1987-88. Our block was best known for having been the place where the SLA held poor Patty Hearst captive in a closet (my own walk-in closet there was the best thing about the small, cockroach-infested apartment. I used to show it off to visitors and wisecrack, "Like the SLA, we took it for the closets"). We were part of the thin edge of the gentrification wedge. Back then, I was terrified to go anywhere alone in my neighborhood after dark. Now, in 2008, there are espresso bars, vegan restaurants, upscale cocktail bars, and expensive boutiques there. Reading "Them" has made me look at all this in a different way. I used to think this gentrification was all good; now I'm focusing a little more on the losses. In particular, the huge African-American church is gone, where we used to love to slouch by in our hipster all-black to see all the ladies' colorful Sunday hats and hear the singing. Where are those women and their hats now? The Chronicle reports that the black middle class is largely being driven out of San Francisco to the East Bay, and people like me have a hand in it. "Them" should be mandatory reading for all white liberals. Grade: A.
I didn't like Red Tent at all and couldn't manage to finish it. I kept sitting down to read it and finding something else to read instead.
i love this. now i can pretend to be "well read" at dinner parties and talk about something other than Project Runway.
I haven't read The Red Tent either. I looked at it in the bookstore, and it just didn't appeal to me.
"The Little Train" by Lois Lenski is the story of a small engineer and his equally tiny conductor and fireman who drive a steam train across a cartoon landscape waving at farm boys watching for semaphores and eventually driving through a tunnel. My two-year-old loves it and insist we read it 5 or 6 times a day. It's alright. A little too much detail for me. And why must every train book, like every pornographic movie, CULMINATE with a plunge into a long dark tunnel. It's so cliche! For once, I'd like to see the tunnel at the start of the story or even no tunnel at all.
I love your book reviews. I'm constantly on the prowl to find new books to feed my head, and i've not read the first or last books (though i did read The Red Tent in like 2001).
By the way, the book review by anonymous was also wonderful. You have awesome commenters.
Anon, that's the first time I've heard someone wanting to go faster. Personally I think it's probably more productive to roam the countryside and get a feel for the topography before plunging into the tunnel. My better half would also like me to spend more time in the tunnel before I run out of steam, but watcha gonna do?
Thanks for the heads up on "Them." I saw a review of it on Salon, and thought it looked interesting. I'll pick it up.
Just to add another vote on the positive side -- I read Red Tent a bit ago, not even knowing it was famous. I enjoyed it quite a bit!
Love Bites, you are so right. I love these commenters, each and every one of them. Even the haters, they have a role to play in the oh-so-precious world we have here.
Anonymous, do share more book reviews with us! Silliyak, I'm glad your train is on the tracks.
'Piph, I was on Golden Gate Ave. betw. Broderick & Baker. It was the SLA block; one of the most exciting things that happened while I lived there was that a movie about Patty H. was filmed there, and someone put film equipment on the hood of our building's super's Caddy unauthorizedly. That was the subject of discussion for a whole year. Oh, and also there was the big earthquake, and the super's golf trophy fell off the shelf and broke.
DH, It's hard to derail those miniature HO scale trains.


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Die katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Kirchengebäude in Lahrbach, einem Stadtteil von Tann (Rhön) im Landkreis Fulda. Die Pfarrei gehört zum Pastoralverbund St. Michael Hohe Rhön im Dekanat Rhön des Bistums Fulda.

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Die Saalkirche wurde 1607 und 1616 unter dem Würzburger Fürstbischof Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn erneuert. Der Chorturm von 1523 wurde beibehalten, er wurde später mit einem Geschoss aus Holzfachwerk aufgestockt, das verputzt ist. Das Kirchenschiff ist mit einem Satteldach, der Chorturm ist quer mit einem Krüppelwalmdach bedeckt, aus dessen Mitte sich ein quadratischer Dachreiter erhebt, der einen spitzen Helm trägt. Der Hochaltar ist spätklassizistisch, die beiden Seitenaltäre und die Kanzel stammen aus der 1. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die erste Orgel wurde 1828 von Johann Kirchner gebaut. Die heutige Orgel mit 17 Registern auf zwei Manualen und Pedal wurde 1969 von Hey Orgelbau gebaut.

Literatur
 Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen 1, Regierungsbezirke Gießen und Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin und München 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3, S. 531.

Weblinks
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For now I just wanted to post a few fav's from the portrait part of their day. The golf course at Montour Heights had some very dramatic rock formations which allowed for some very mid-western-looking shots. I loved it! And I love series...I love when the click of the shutter a few times in a row capture a succession of emotions (check out the black and white collage).