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Bola Tinubu is not plotting against me – President Buhari
By ElombahNews	 On Oct 10, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Bola Tinubu [in the picture with Buhari], is not plotting against him.
Buhari, in a statement last night by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, was reacting to a media report that Tinubu had been placed under security surveillance for plotting against him.
Describing the report as "false, baseless and sensational" the presidential aide also stressed that the relationship between Buhari and Tinubu could not be better than it was at the moment.
The Presidency is not aware of any plots by the APC national leader against President Buhari, he said.
He said National Security Adviser General Babagana Munguno (rtd) and Director General of the SSS Lawal Daura had dismissed the reports as acts of pure mischief, and that they were not aware of Tinubu being on any kind of watch.
Shehu stated: "The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to a false and sensational story by a leading newspaper to the effect that a pillar of the governing party, the Action Peoples Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is 'under security watch over alleged plot against Buhari'.
"Nigerians are hereby advised to ignore this story because it is false and baseless.
We wish to confirm without any equivocation that the Asiwaju is not of any particular interest to any arm of the security services. The relationship between him and the president cannot be better than it is at the moment.
"According to the perverted logic of the newspaper, the respected leader of the APC is into a plot against the leader of the country. The Presidency is unaware of any such plots against the president.
"I got on the phone a short while ago with General Babagana Munguno (rtd), the National Security Adviser and the Director General of the SSS, Lawal Daura who both dismissed the published reports as acts of pure mischief.
"They are not aware of the Asiwaju being on any kind of watch.
"It would appear that a competition is on between two or three newspaper establishments on how best to breach the excellent relationship between the pillars of our party and government.
"So far, they have not made headway and there is no indication that they will succeed in the future.
"It suffices to say that such reports, written without fairness and balance can only take away from whatever is left of the credibility of these newspapers.
"The general public is hereby advised to ignore them on these reports".
Send eyewitness accounts/reports/articles to publisher@elombah.com
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I first became interested in non-communicable diseases and their intersection with poverty when I was a during my masters of public health, when spent 3 months in Rio de Janeiro studying diabetes and hypertension. I was very interested in why, with free and available medications, and an active community health worker system the majority of patients still didn't have their diseases under control. Now, as a health policy PhD student I am especially interested in non-communicable disease policy. I travelled to Chile this summer to better understand the structural and behavioral reasons for uncontrolled non-communicable diseases (primarily hypertension and diabetes). While in Chile I collaborated with researchers at the University Catolica de Chile in Santiago to evaluate an innovative health care program: the text message appointment reminder system for non-communicable disease patients. This evaluation will not only help us to better understand reasons for continued non-control of disease in a population that has free healthcare and medications, but will also assist the ministry of health in understanding the direct and indirect effects of the program. Our results show positive externalities: the number of appointments for patients not enrolled in the program increased due to the program, as the text message included a rescheduling option. We are now in the process of gaining access to individual level-health data to attempt to measure the health effects of this and other programs.


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America's Lost World
NEW YORK/VIENNA – When the post-Cold War world was still in its infancy, there was a palpable sense of excitement about history's potential end
Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Ben Rhodes, After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made, Random House, 2021.
But lurking in the world's collective subconscious was an abiding uncertainty about the shape of things to come. "Without the Cold War," wondered John Updike's character Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom as the "long-twilight struggle" between capitalism and communism was winding down, "what's the point of being an American?"
The Cold War, after all, had provided not just an ideological lens for citizens and their leaders, but also a secure intellectual framework and a transparent screen through which to understand and reimagine culture. Without it, there would be a willy-nilly embrace of endless possibility. As the interwar Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci once suggested, cultural "hegemony" – or what others might call "consensus" – is a precondition of political stability. And so, in the immediate post-Cold War years, a new overriding consensus quickly took hold, pointedly privileging the institutions of liberal internationalism that most Westerners – especially those in a position to shape public opinion – assumed had been vindicated.
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Yet those aspirations – that false "end of history" – would prove short-lived. What seemed hegemonic, what had begun to reign as common sense, turned out to be a passing fad. Liberals in many countries went from being perceived as the heroic progenitors of progressive problem-solving to an elite band of mistrusted co-conspirators. Rather than maintaining a consensus, the West twisted itself into a pretzel.
In the books under review, Louis Menand, a Harvard University professor of English, and Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, struggle to make sense of this liminal moment in world history. Menand expertly excavates ideas that buttressed and buoyed the West during the Cold War. Rhodes offers a political bildungsroman in which many of his cherished verities and great expectations are called into question, if not discredited outright. His tone is funereal, whereas Menand's is more synoptic.
Both Menand and Rhodes come to grips with contemporary realities by radically reformulating many of the standard historical questions that have been posed – and continue to be posed – about the post-World War II era. In his 800-page tome, Menand examines how America originally became the locus of the "free world," and how Americans then came to stop believing in their "freedom mission." Rhodes, in his slimmer volume, poses a complementary, if distinct, question: What does it mean to be an American in a "world gone wrong?"
These are two very different books. As a lengthy exegesis of intellectual and cultural history, Menand's volume is breathtaking in what one might call its "interior design." In deceptively straightforward prose brimming with subtle insights, he manages to rearrange and reconsider the lives and works of a wide range of Cold War icons, including George Kennan and George Orwell, Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wright and James Baldwin, and Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael. Menand helps to explain how the early post-war period – defined by the American social-democrat Irving Howe as an "age of conformity" – became a symbol of America's consonance with the free world.
Reading Menand, one gathers that America achieved that status by never defining freedom with any precision. Instead, the meaning of freedom was allowed to run untethered. It consisted in the multiplicity of styles, wealth of influences, and plurality of interpretations that became emblematic of the American experience, spurring the country's intellectual growth.
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Menand finds many of that experience's roots in non-American cultural and literary traditions (from Martinique to Marseille), though these were all duly recomposed for an American audience. American culture has always had mongrel and syncretic elements, but the Cold War allowed them to coalesce around a particular American ethos and form. The role of experimentation and improvisation runs as a through-line in the Cold War era. Cultural borrowings were the intellectual clay that American cultural innovators fashioned into distinctive artifacts.
Emergent Order
Unlike the Soviet Union, America eschewed a prescribed model of cultural production. The soft agitprop of the Works Progress Administration period, when art became politicized to serve ideological ends, became highly unfashionable after the war (and would be badly battered in any case by the 1950s Red Scare). In the United States, the "party line" was pluralism itself: artists, activists, philosophers, and journalists enacting their own conceptions of culture and ideas. This "competition" of expression would empower and legitimate the free world.
Menand's tour of the intellectual horizon doesn't shy from bias. For example, he regards authenticity as a signal virtue, and thus has a comparatively dim view of Baldwin, who dissembled about his life and his past. Faced with Baldwin's chameleon-like personality, Menand prefers the more sustained commitments (despite the ideological pivots) of Wright, the author of Black Boy, Native Son, and many other works. In Menand's view, Wright was truer to himself than Baldwin was.
Menand attempts the same sort of reputational renovation with the intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin. A long, odd, and unnecessary dissection of Berlin's meeting with the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in November 1945 adds nothing to his tale; on the contrary, its superfluousness diminishes Menand's enterprise.
All told, Menand's expositions are for the most part penetrating, if remote. He is besotted with only a handful of the many supporting actors in his cultural drama. Oddly, he gravitates toward those who exhibited hustle, showmanship, and gumption – that is, those who knew how to market themselves and their intellectual wares as only an American can. Hence, the artist Andy Warhol and the experimental composer John Cage stand out as Menand's "free-world" cultural figures par excellence.
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In Menand's story of artistic and intellectual freedom, jazz finds little place. This is rather startling. Where could Menand's contention that Americans refrain from dictating form or content find greater validation? The familiar story of how US diplomats and policymakers used jazz ambassadors as a cultural cudgel in the Cold War doesn't require retelling. But to neglect the improvisatory idiom of jazz, which had enormous influence on multiple cultural genres and on the new sense of self in America, is a glaring lacuna.
Reflecting on the ideology of American exceptionalism, Menand concludes that it was the peculiar nature of the Cold War that shaped America's self-perception over the second half of the twentieth century. The confrontation and competition with Soviet communism unwittingly and unexpectedly helped to liberate American culture. To win the battle, Americans were forced not to live in truth, as Václav Havel once counseled Eastern European dissidents, but to live in contrast with the Soviet system.
Despite the profusion of hypocrisy on both sides, Menand shows that living in contrast had the effect of "opening the American mind." It also strengthened the impetus toward freedom. Because the Soviets closed their borders and sent untold numbers of people to labor camps, freedom of movement was further ingrained as an intrinsic American value. And because the Soviets criminalized artistic experimentation, Americans learned to valorize it.
After the End of History
Rhodes's book is a curious counterpoint to Menand's masterpiece of composition. Tellingly entitled After the Fall, Rhodes interviews a cross-section of people while quietly seeking an answer to a simple but fundamental question: How did it happen that freedom-seeking people around the world went from relying on America to fearing it?
Departing from the White House in January 2017, Rhodes found himself doubly exiled – from institutional power and from the world of his youthful idealism, which had given way to Donald Trump's America. As a post-Obama-era memoir, the book is suffused with an A-list of reflections from the author's fellow internal exiles.
As a writer, Rhodes is a long way from Menand, who composes carefully calibrated interpretive analyses of major cultural and intellectual figures of the past. By a methodical approach of imbrication, he aims to show how the US secured its advantage as free-world hegemon. Rhodes, by contrast, seeks out those whom he failed to meet when he was in power: "dissidents, activists, oppositionists – anyone who looked at power from the perspective of an outsider."
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Moreover, whereas Menand compiles his selection of the "best and the brightest" who advanced America's forward march, Rhodes focuses on those who were cast out as other countries marched toward illiberalism. Menand describes how the free world was created, while Rhodes looks at how other worlds were infected with opposing ideas, and why the free world was at times rejected.
Customarily, when American officials meet with dissidents (or anyone from civil society nowadays), the reason is to show moral solidarity, provide pecuniary support, or draw inspiration from activists' courage and commitment to freedom. Most interesting about Rhodes's peregrinations around the new authoritarian archipelago is that he is chasing something else. His book chronicles a personal mission to make sense of his own life in Trump's America, and to imagine the future of liberalism in a world tainted by authoritarian populism. Unsurprisingly, Rhodes identifies with critics of Hungary's autocratic, kleptocratic prime minister, Viktor Orbán; the valiant protesters in Hong Kong who stood up to Chinese President Xi Jinping as he tightened his grip on the island; and unfathomably courageous Russian resisters like Alexei Navalny.
For somebody just out of the White House, Rhodes evinces a sympathetic connection with his subjects that is surprisingly credible. He genuinely admires these outsiders, and he is careful not to instrumentalize them as liberal saviors lying in wait once authoritarianism implodes. Whatever naivete he once had is gone now. Rhodes has come to the plaintive realization that he himself may someday end up in a similar position as today's dissidents in countries under illiberal rule. This sensibility informs his narrative's plangent tone.
If Rhodes displays greater affinity for dissidents and protesters in distant, depressing places than for his own liberal crowd in America, the reason, it seems, is that he shares their anger about the post-Cold War period, and their resentment of the establishment liberals who held it up as the best of all possible worlds. Navalny's self-loathing over his support for Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s resonates with Rhodes's own anger for believing the US government's lies in the run-up to the Iraq War.
What makes Rhodes's book especially poignant is that he summarizes the experience of the post-September 11 liberal generation that despises Trump, while avoiding any nostalgia for the preceding period of America's post-Cold War triumphalism. Rhodes's generation feels both outraged by America's toxic polarization and betrayed by its post-9/11 unity, which led to jingoism and decisions that fatally undermined the values of freedom and liberalism.
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Indeed, as soon as Trump entered the White House, the Obama revolution was stripped of its historical aura. America's first black president began to resemble Alexander Kerensky, the Russian leader who toppled Russia's Czarist autocracy in 1917, only to see his own liberal project upended by the Bolsheviks a few months later.
Ideology and Nothingness
Menand ends with a meditation on the changing cultural atmosphere that accompanied the Vietnam War, when links between some of the exponents of American freedom and the CIA were exposed. Suddenly, the explosion of cultural creativity was framed as an intelligence operation whose only purpose was to hurt the enemy.
In this context, one figure who is notably missing from Menand's mosaic of cultural icons is the sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. The absence has an unwitting symbolism to it, considering that Dick's 1962 novel, The Man in the High Castle, arguably signifies the moment when Americans stopped believing in America as a "free world."
More powerfully than any of Menand's cast of characters, Dick redefined freedom as a kind of shared paranoia. Writing an alternative history in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan triumphed over America in WWII, he realized that one can never know what would have become of the bad guys if they had won.
What do our present actions say about our past victories? What if the "victorious" West's proclaimed freedoms are mere window dressing for a darker reality? If Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan really had won the war, it might be in their interest to pretend that the West had triumphed and that Americans were living in a free world. Freedom would no longer be a transcendental goal, but rather merely part of the enemy's master plan to control you.
Dick was channeling a leftist suspicion that America was no freer than the Soviet Union. During the Vietnam War era, American progressives increasingly became convinced that the Cold War was making America undemocratic.
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Dick's absence from Menand's book points to a gap that stands between the world Rhodes explores and the one Menand recounts. In Rhodes's world today, the enemies of freedom don't want to defeat it or exploit it as a means of control; rather, they want to convince people that freedom does not exist, and never has. "All over the world it is the same rules," the new authoritarians insist. They come not with a promise of a radiant future like the communists of old, but with the message that no other world is possible.
But Menand's world can also instruct Rhodes in his quest to beat back the new authoritarianism. His historical account suggests that the return of a great-power clash – this time between the US and China – will not re-establish America's identity as a land of freedom. In the 1950s and 1960s, Americans' style of painting or poetry mattered because the Soviets had tried to one-up the West artistically. Claiming to have created a "new man," they sought to transcend normal sociology. For a while in the 1920s, the Bolshevik revolution had captured the imagination of the most creative artists in the world.
Throughout the twentieth century, Cold Warriors on both sides of the divide believed in the power of ideas. Is that still true today, when artificial intelligence, not artistic freedom, is at the center of the new power competition? Do the Chinese believe in the power of ideas?
More to the point, do Americans? Rabbit Angstrom's query – "What's the point?" – remains unanswered in these arresting and deeply felt books.
Leonard Benardo is Executive Vice President of Programs at the Open Society Foundations
Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences
© Project Syndicate 1995–2021
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This example shows how to train a 2.5 kB model to generate a `sine` wave.

## Table of contents

-   [Overview](#overview)
-   [Training](#training)
-   [Trained Models](#trained-models)
-   [Model Architecture](#model-architecture)

## Overview

1. Dataset: Data is generated locally in the Jupyter Notebook.
2. Dataset Type: **Structured Data**
3. Deep Learning Framework: **TensorFlow 2**
4. Language: **Python 3.7**
5. Model Size: **2.5 kB**
6. Model Category: **Regression**

## Training

Train the model in the cloud using Google Colaboratory or locally using a
Jupyter Notebook.

    Google Colaboratory

    Jupyter Notebook

*Estimated Training Time: 10 minutes.*

## Trained Models

Download Link | [hello_world.zip](https://storage.googleapis.com/download.tensorflow.org/models/tflite/micro/hello_world_2020_12_28.zip)
------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The `models` directory in the above zip file can be generated by following the
instructions in the [Training](#training) section above. It
includes the following 3 model files:

| Name | Format | Target Framework | Target Device |
| :------------- |:-------------|:-------------|-----|
| `model.pb` | Keras SavedModel | TensorFlow | Large-Scale/Cloud/Servers   |
| `model.tflite` *(2.5 kB)*  | Integer Only Quantized TFLite Model | TensorFlow Lite | Mobile Devices|
| `model.cc`  | C Source File | TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers | Microcontrollers |

## Model Architecture

The final model used to simulate a sine wave is displayed below. It is a
simple feed forward deep neural network with 2 fully connected layers with
ReLu activations and a final fully connected output layer with as shown below.

![model_architecture.png](../images/model_architecture.png)

*This image was derived from visualizing the 'model.tflite' file in [Netron](https://github.com/lutzroeder/netron)*

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Kiedaisch Point was developed in 1974 as a picnic overlook area with a parking area, picnic tables and bulletin board for our visitors. The Point offers a commanding view of New Martinsville, WV, and the beautiful Ohio River. Below, you will see the former Ormet Aluminum Company, once the county's largest employer. A feeling of being airborne is easily experienced as approximately seven miles of the Ohio River unfolds almost 500 feet below the view point's crest. Visitors are afforded a unique glimpse of the rugged terrain that exists in the River Valley, as feeder creeks cut their way into mighty Ohio. An added feature is a hiking trail from SR 7 (just north of Hannibal) up to this rewarding and sweeping view of the Ohio River.Take 536 NW out of Hannibal, OH for two miles, then County Rd-43 for two miles to Township Road-4 19. Watch for brown park district signs that are posted.


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Q: How to read file from disk and pass it to WebAssembly using Go? Specifically, how to connect <input type="file"> with this function in Go?
I know there is "syscall/js" package, but I didn't find any examples with file reading.
func parseCSVFile(filePath string) []LabelWithFeatures {
    fileContent, _ := ioutil.ReadFile(filePath)
    lines := bytes.Split(fileContent, newline)
    numRows := len(lines)

    labelsWithFeatures := make([]LabelWithFeatures, numRows-2)

    for i, line := range lines {
        // skip headers
        if i == 0 || i == numRows-1 {
            continue
        }
        labelsWithFeatures[i-1] = NewLabelWithFeatures(bytes.Split(line, comma))
    }
    return labelsWithFeatures
}

A: I've wanted a satisfactory answer for this for years, finally figured it out the other night.
You can essentially boil the whole thing down to:
    fileInput := document.Call("getElementById", "fileInput")

    fileInput.Set("oninput", js.FuncOf(func(v js.Value, x []js.Value) any {
        fileInput.Get("files").Call("item", 0).Call("arrayBuffer").Call("then", js.FuncOf(func(v js.Value, x []js.Value) any {
            data := js.Global().Get("Uint8Array").New(x[0])
            dst := make([]byte, data.Get("length").Int())
            js.CopyBytesToGo(dst, data)
            // the data from the file is in dst - do what you want with it

            return nil
        }))

        return nil
    }))

I wrote a little blog post about it here with the working WASM code running at the bottom
https://donatstudios.com/Read-User-Files-With-Go-WASM

A: You can't really access the filesystem in the browser. wasm_exec.js is used to execute Go webassembly in the browser, it mocks out some filesystem functionality, but I don't think it's very useful to you: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/9d23975d/misc/wasm/wasm_exec.js#L41-L73
The file read method even returns an error by default.
You mentioned <input type="file">. You can get bytes from an uploaded file: Getting byte array through input type = file. You could then pass those bytes to the Golang wasm runtime.
Define a global syscall/js callback in your Go code and call it from the browser to pass the bytes down to the Go runtime.
I would look for blogposts on how to define callbacks from within the Go runtime. Also look out for changes between go 1.11 and 1.12, the api has breaking changes.

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In Sarnath, your pilgrims are waiting for your glance.
In countries stretched and shrines even from the West.
Even the music dances in your prayers.
We, decked in white, only smile.
Like the kheer you tasted.
Consider us the 'Sujata' you met on a starving day.
Teach us again what we did not understand.


The LG Dare is a CDMA touchscreen phone, released in 2008. It is identifiable by the model number VX9700.
my lg dare got washed accidently. i dryed it out and everything worked ok except it would not make and receive calls. any ideas on how to get it to work completely ?
bill, open it up, clean it totally with isopropyl alcohol. Check for corrosion damage as well as missing pats. Replace the battery and reevaluate.


Analyzing the words that are chosen to be spoken in a conversation says much of your judgement. Take care to dwell silently on words, for it is your representation to the world.
To be or not to be…formidable. To be physically formidable is for the athletically minded folks who constantly get a thrill from workouts and sports. And I must say it is great to watch, but I consider being intellectual formidable much to my delight.
To seek knowledge and wisdom is much more exciting and never seems to have an awkward silence, when there's always something to say. I had to learn this as I became older and more experienced. For those who, at a young age who can achieve the focus on wisdom are highly going to succeed.
Yes, it is better to be intellectually formidable.
For some of us, we live our lives on a day to day basis. In my opinion, we only have today…so why contemplate on tomorrow? It's the same as living paycheck to paycheck. To only have the means to get by without the surplus.
How ironic it is to be poor and want the world. When on the other hand, the rich strive for a peaceful existence without interference. I think I speak for the majority in saying that celebrities chose that life, so deal with it.
Life shouldn't be the steps of a ladder, but a plane with some turbulence. Their are many bumps and bruises, but we keep on flying straight (no pun intended). What better feeling it is to feel needed and appreciated. Better that than always feeling aggressive and tortured.
We only get one hundred years of life, if we're lucky. Why struggle with life when it's so short. Some we lose earlier than expected and it's instances like this, that take a toll on a person to change their ways.
Struggling battles with oneself is the hardest to dwell on because it's all interior. No outside battles with others, but within ones skin are the most painful and stressful. This is usually when one ponders God and what He can do to relieve the anguish.
This is the time of Lent. What better time to pray for help than right now!
To constantly dwell on the past, diminishes the importance of the present.
Developing intellect is increasingly crucial rather than the developed body, for the body is the tool from what transfers from the mind to the body.


This is the second immaculate inning of Scherzer's career, after mustering one last season. That actually gives him a monopoly on immaculate innings in Nationals history -- Jordan Zimmermann was the only other player to record the milestone for the team when he did so in 2011. Not bad, eh?
It was a complete effort from Scherzer, as he finished with 13 strikeouts (13!) and picked up his 10th win of the season.
The moral of the story is this: People who attend hockey games in full gear deserve only good things in life.


Europe needs to become more intelligent if it is to stop paying more than one billion USD every day for imported energy.
Please note: This post was originally published on ABB's Conversations blog under the title 'Energy dependency: a disease that is causing Europe severe economic and political harm [updated]' and has been republished with permission.
Tags: #CO2, #politics, #energy efficiency, #european union, #Geopolitics.


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Lyman Trumbull family papers, 1799-1924, bulk 1859-1890.
Trumbull, Mary Ingraham, 1843-1914. Lyman Trumbull family papers, 1799-1924, bulk 1859-1890.
The Lyman Trumbull family papers contain personal correspondence of United States Senator Lyman Trumbull and of the family of his second wife, Mary Ingraham Trumbull. Letters primarily pertain to personal matters and family life during the 19th century, with a focus on Chicago, Illinois, during the Civil War, and Saybrook, Connecticut, home of the Ingraham family. The collection also contains a number of school notebooks, legal and financial documents, two watercolor paintings, photographs, and ephemera.
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Lyman Trumbull was born in Colchester, Connecticut, on October 12, 1813. His parents were Benjamin Trumbull and Elizabeth Mather, and Lyman had at least two brothers: Benjamin, Jr., and George. After receiving his education at the local Bacon Academy, Trumbull went to Georgia to seek employment as a schoolteacher. During this time, he began to study law and after moving to Belleville, Illinois, in 1837, he began his work in the legal profession. By 1840, Trumbull had established his...
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A close friend of Mary Todd Lincoln in her youth, Julia Trumbull married the Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois, Lyman Trumbull, in 1843. She had three sons and died in 1868. From the description of Julia Trumbull papers, 1858-1862. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 58551488 ...
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We all like hearing new music. We get excited when our favorite artists release new songs. When it happens, we quickly head to the store to buy the CD, or download the songs from iTunes. Yet, we must admit, it takes time for the new songs to have meaning. The old songs, the classics that made our favorite artists famous, have a strong pull on our hearts. We hear the old songs and we are taken back to favorite memories and shared experiences. Some favorite songs take us back to our wedding days, or to shared time with grandparents. There's something powerful about the old songs.
Sometimes we forget that the book of Psalms is actually a book of songs. These are the ancient hymns of Israel. They are the songs that were sung at festivals and community gatherings in Jerusalem, as well as by individuals and families in their own homes. These songs have memories and remind us of what God has done in the past. Psalm 96 is one such song with a rich history for the people of God.
The writer of Chronicles tells us that Psalm 96 was one of the songs sung when David brought the ark of the covenant into Jerusalem. The Ark of the Covenant is the place where God dwells. It is God's presence with the community, the people, and the nation. Obviously, God is not confined to the ark, God can and does dwell in other places. But God chooses to specifically dwell on the mercy-seat of the ark of the covenant. This is sacred space. This is a holy place. Since Israel entered the promised land the ark has resided in multiple cities, but from now on the ark will reside in Jerusalem. Jerusalem will become the central religious city, the great city of God. And as the ark is brought into Jerusalem, in some ways signifying God's presence is in this place, Asaph and the other singers sing songs of praise, one of which is Psalm 96.
God is coming to dwell and be present in a new way. This is a great moment for Israel, a time to sing a new song.
The history of Psalm 96 doesn't end with the Temple, it continues. For liturgical churches that follow the church calendar, Psalm 96 is one of the Psalms read at Christmas every year. On either Christmas eve or Christmas day, churches read this song to celebrate the birth of the Christ child. God has become flesh, and God's presence is now manifested to humanity in a new way. For generations, Israel knew that God dwelt in the Temple, but that presence was always mediated through the priesthood. Now, God is dwelling with the people. God's presence is now real flesh and blood. This is a time to celebrate. This is a time to rejoice and sing a new song. Salvation has come to this place. Today, it is not Caesar who is lord, or Herod, or some other fake deity. No, the Lord reigns over all the earth. So we join our voices with those that have gone before and sing a new song for God's presence is real and manifested before us in a new way.
But Psalm 96 is not just a song to remind us of our history or to help us share our story. Psalm 96 reminds us that it is time to sing a new song. Yes, God has worked in history, but even now God is working in a new way. At one time God's presence was located in the Temple, or in the Son, but now we are temples of the Holy Spirit. We are God's image bearers. The presence of God now lives in us and we are able to take the presence and manifest that presence to the world. In places of joy we take God's presence and declare, sing a new song for the Lord reigns. In places of heartache we take God's presence and declare, this is not the end, but even now we can sing a new song for the Lord reigns and will do something new. As we sing we bring a message of Good News to the world, the presence of God is among you. It's time to celebrate and rejoice for the glory of the Lord is here.
It's good to sing old songs; to remember all that God has done in the past. We sing Psalm 96 to remember all that God has done in the past. But we come together today to sing a new song. We sing Psalm 96 as a new song. The Lord is Coming. The Lord Reigns. God's presence is manifested in the world through us. So lift your voices and sing a new song; salvation has come in this place.


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How to Help Fight Food Insecurity and Support Restaurant Workers in Boston
Where to give, volunteer, donate food, and support local restaurant workers during the novel coronavirus pandemic
by Rachel Leah Blumenthal@blumie Updated Oct 26, 2020, 10:46am EDT
Waltham School committee member Jane Gatley sets out bags of fruit for Waltham residents in April 2020. Healthy Waltham is one of many nonprofits working to address food insecurity during the pandemic.
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One in seven Massachusetts residents — close to a million people — are projected to experience food insecurity in 2020, according to Feeding America, a national nonprofit network of over 200 food banks. It's a significant increase from the pre-COVID projection of one in 11, or a little over 600,000 people. Jobless claims are finally dropping a bit in the state, but in June, the Massachusetts unemployment rate was the highest in the country. Food insecurity issues — prevalent before the pandemic but even worse now — are not going anywhere.
Dozens of local food-rescue organizations, food pantries, soup kitchens, and other groups addressing hunger are working in overdrive to meet the increased need, and there's never been a more important time to donate time, money, and other resources to their efforts.
This guide highlights the efforts of over 30 neighborhood groups, nonprofit organizations, and fundraising campaigns working to address food insecurity in and around Boston — with details on how you can help.
This guide was first published on August 11, 2020; the date of the most recent update appears above.
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A volunteer affiliated with a mutual aid group in Brooklyn delivers food and other essentials. Like New York, Boston has seen a rise in mutual aid groups in recent months — many local neighborhoods, cities, and towns have their own groups of neighbors helping neighbors.
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Mutual aid groups have been on the rise worldwide during the pandemic — essentially groups of neighbors helping neighbors, often organized via spreadsheets or social media channels. These grassroots-style groups facilitate local volunteerism, connecting those who have resources to offer with those who need help. Neighbors are collecting funds to buy groceries for those who can't leave their homes; offering translation help and legal aid; fostering social connections — at a distance — with strangers who live around the corner; coordinating childcare and pet care; and much more.
Organizers in Greater Boston Are Setting Up Community Fridges to Help Feed Their Neighbors
Massachusetts Jobs With Justice has compiled a large directory of mutual aid networks throughout Massachusetts, as well as other helpful resources. Here are just a few of the active mutual aid groups in and around Boston, with local community fridges also included on this list:
Allston-Brighton Mutual Aid: This local mutual aid group covers Boston's Allston and Brighton neighborhoods, helping community members coordinate to help each other with grocery deliveries, financial assistance, childcare, pet care, social services, companionship, and more. Monetary donations are accepted through various channels, and community members can volunteer to help with grocery delivery and other tasks. Email AllstonBrightonMutualAid@gmail.com or call or text (617) 612-5059 for more information. Updates can be found in a Facebook group, via a newsletter, and on Twitter and Instagram. The group also holds frequent Zoom meetings.
Cambridge Mutual Aid Network: This local mutual aid group focuses on connecting Cambridge residents to assist each other with groceries and other needs, and the group maintains a website full of local resources and volunteer and donation opportunities. The group also collects money for a mutual aid fund to provide microgrants to neighbors in need. Plus, the group is working to help non-Cambridge residents, specifically people in Chelsea, with food and supply donations, driving and delivering groceries, and other services. Monetary donations can be made directly to the Chelsea Collaborative, and donations of grocery boxes for Chelsea families can be paid for via Cambridge restaurant Grendel's Den. Email CambridgeMutualAid@gmail.com with any questions.
Dorchester Community Care: This local mutual aid group seeks to connect residents around Boston's Dorchester neighborhood to help each other with financial and other needs. Donations are accepted via Paypal and Venmo, and more information about the group can be found in this Google document. Email dorchestercommuitycare@gmail.com with questions.
Dorchester Community Fridge: Community members are encouraged to "take what you need, leave what you can" at this community fridge in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood (1471 Dorchester Ave.). Those interested in volunteering to help stock and monitor the fridge can sign up here or email dot.communityfridge@gmail.com for more information.
Everett Community Aid Network: This local mutual aid group connects people in the city of Everett who have needs or can meet the needs of others in terms of groceries and more. The group also maintains a list of Everett-based resources on its website. Email EverettCAN02149@gmail.com or call (617) 329-5309 with questions.
JP Community Fridge: Located outside of a barbershop in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood (366 Centre St.), this volunteer-run community fridge is stocked with produce and more for anyone who needs it. Follow along on Instagram for updates.
Malden Neighbors Helping Neighbors: This local mutual aid group helps Malden residents give and get assistance during the current crisis and beyond. Consult the website to offer or request help, donate, and find other resources, or call (781) 428-0789 with any questions.
Mission Hill Mutual Aid: This local mutual aid group connects residents of Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood to help each other with goods and services needed during the pandemic. Join the Facebook group, consult the spreadsheet to see what resources neighbors are currently offering, or call (857) 255-9926 with questions.
Mutual Aid East Boston: This local mutual aid group helps residents of Boston's East Boston neighborhood to give and receive various forms of help during the pandemic. Find more information on the group's website, including how to sign up for your hyperlocal neighborhood pod, or email mutualaideastie@gmail.com with questions.
Mutual Aid Jamaica Plain and Roxbury: This local mutual aid group focuses on two Boston neighborhoods, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, connecting residents to give and receive aid during the pandemic. Consult this Google document for information, or email mutualaidjamaicaplain@gmail.com or call (617) 858-6238 with questions. Donations are being accepted via Venmo.
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville: This local mutual aid group was one of the first to spring up in the region, and many other local groups have been following its template. This group helps neighbors in the adjacent cities of Medford and Somerville give and get assistance with groceries, transportation, childcare and pet care, emotional and spiritual support, and other needs during the pandemic. Those interested can also join specific working groups and hyperlocal neighborhood pods. Visit the website for more information, or email askyourmamas@gmail.com or call/text (339) 545-1315 with questions.
Restaurant Worker Mutual Aid of Greater Boston: Spearheaded by Cambridge restaurant industry workers Kaitlyn Sullivan and Alex Gladwell, this mutual aid group focuses on providing groceries to undocumented restaurant industry workers who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. The group accepts financial donations and volunteers to help sort, pack, and deliver groceries. Call (860) 304-0510 with questions.
Roslindale Community Fridge: This community-run fridge is located outside of the Roslindale Market at 4140 Washington St. There are volunteer opportunities open to those who would like to help monitor the fridge or provide other services; sign up and find more information here.
Keep an eye out for more community fridges in the following areas, coming soon: Allston, Somerville, Mattapan, Lynn, and Cambridge.
In this June 2015 photo, Sasha Purpura, right, the executive director of Food For Free, and Adam Collins, a driver with Food For Free, pick up food left over from Harvard University's graduation events. The food rescue organization continues to operate during the pandemic, helping distribute groceries to low-income Cambridge residents, among other initiatives.
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Boston-area food pantries, soup kitchens, food rescue groups, and other organizations are working in a variety of ways to address food insecurity in local communities. While some organizations have temporarily stopped accepting new volunteers during the pandemic, many are still accepting volunteers, and all accept monetary donations.
Below are a number of currently active local food-related organizations in and around Boston, with details on the work they do and how to volunteer and/or donate:
About Fresh: This Boston organization is best known for its Fresh Truck program, in which retrofitted school buses function as mobile markets, bringing fresh produce to the Boston neighborhoods that need it most. During the pandemic, About Fresh developed and is accepting donations in support of a program called Fresh Box, delivering food to the homes of those most impacted by the crisis. About Fresh accepts monetary donations online and is always seeking volunteers to deliver Fresh Boxes and run the Fresh Truck's mobile market sites.
Action for Boston Community Development: Part of the Community Action Network, ABCD provides Boston-area low-income residents with tools and resources to transition from poverty to stability to success. During the pandemic, the organization is operating five food pantries across Boston. ABCD has a wide range of volunteering opportunities within food pantries and other programs, and the organization accepts monetary donations online.
American Red Cross of Massachusetts: The state's branch of the Red Cross operates several food and nutrition programs, including a food pantry, mobile food markets, assistance with SNAP applications, and more. The organization accepts monetary donations and is always seeking volunteers for a variety of areas, including within the food and nutrition programs.
Boston Area Gleaners: This Boston-area food rescue organization harvests surplus crops at local farms and distributes the produce to area food banks, low-income markets, and meal programs. Donations — one-off or monthly — are accepted here. The organization is currently accepting new (and returning) volunteer gleaners, age 13 and up (those under 18 must be accompanied by a guardian.) Find out more about volunteering as a gleaner here. The organization is also looking for volunteers to collect banana boxes from local stores and deliver them to Boston Area Gleaners' Waltham headquarters.
Boston Food Not Bombs: Now an international movement with hundreds of independent chapters, Food Not Bombs was founded in Boston in 1980 to protest war and poverty. These days, the local chapter is handing out meals to those in need on Saturdays around Cambridge and distributing free groceries on Wednesdays in Allston. The group accepts a variety of donations, including clean and warm clothing; vegan, shelf-stable food; disposable plates and cutlery; cash (accepted during meals); and more. Consult the website or email fnbboston@gmail.com for more information about donating or volunteering; walk-in volunteers are not currently being accepted to keep numbers low during COVID.
Centre Street Food Pantry: This Newton-based food pantry serves Newton as well as several neighboring communities, currently helping over 100 families obtain fresh produce and other groceries weekly. Food donations and monetary donations are welcome, and there are volunteer opportunities available; sign up here. Tasks include packing grocery bags, setting up the pantry (which currently runs outdoors), and more.
Community Servings: Based in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood and founded in 1990, Community Servings aims to provide meal home delivery as well as nutrition services and education to locals living with critical and chronic illnesses. Donations are accepted online, with one-off, monthly, and other options. Community Servings is currently accepting individuals and small groups as volunteers for kitchen shifts.
Daily Table: With the mission of providing affordable food for everyone, Daily Table is a nonprofit community grocer, operating grocery stores in Boston's neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury. Daily Table partners with various suppliers, producers, and growers in order to obtain high-quality foods at the lowest possible prices. More stores are in the works. The organization accepts monetary donations but has temporarily suspended volunteering opportunities. Keep an eye on this page for future ways to volunteer; tasks include sorting produce, cooking, stocking retail shelves, and more.
Fair Foods: This food rescue organization distributes $2 bags of produce to low-income families throughout the Boston area. Monetary donations are accepted online, and the group is also seeking donations of trucks, goods, and various professional services; email info@fairfoods.org or call (617) 288-6185 for more information. Fair Foods is always looking for volunteers to sort and distribute food, help with deliveries, and more.
Food for Free: This food rescue organization has been serving the Boston area since 1981 and operates a variety of programs, including grocery delivery to low-income Cambridge residents unable to access traditional food pantries and services to help local students access healthy food. Food for Free accepts monetary and food donations (food donations must be from licensed foodservice establishments, not individuals.) Volunteer opportunities include packing, delivering, and distributing food in Cambridge; fill out the form here to receive a weekly list of opportunities.
Food Link: Based in Arlington, Food Link aims to rescue and distribute nutritious food to low-income residents of the Arlington area. Food Link accepts monetary donations online and is also seeking donated cleaning supplies. The organization is still accepting new volunteers but notes that there are currently more volunteers than shifts.
The Food Project: This Concord-based organization hires teenagers who learn leadership and agricultural skills while cultivating the Food Project's urban and suburban farms. Produce is distributed to various hunger relief organizations across the region. The organization accepts monetary donations via a variety of methods, including stock, corporate matching, shopping via Amazon Smile, and more. Fall 2020 volunteer opportunities have been canceled due to the pandemic, but interested individuals and groups can fill out a form to stay in the loop as decisions are made for 2021.
Gaining Ground: Another Concord-based organization, this nonprofit organic farm, with the help of community volunteers, donates all its food to area food pantries and meal programs. The organization accepts monetary donations online. Volunteer signup is currently closed due to the pandemic, but watch this page for updates.
Greater Boston Food Bank: New England's largest hunger-relief organization works to distribute nutritious food to people in need throughout Eastern Massachusetts, ultimately aiming for a goal of three meals a day for everyone who needs it. The Greater Boston Food Bank accepts one-off and repeating monetary donations as well as stocks, legacy gifts, and more. While group volunteering is currently on hold, the organization is still welcoming individual volunteers to help with some its most critical current projects, typically involving sorting food and packing boxes.
Haley House: This Roxbury- and South End-based organization dates back to 1966. Nowadays, it operates a soup kitchen, food pantry, and quite a few other programs aimed at feeding the community. One program, Take Back the Kitchen, is aimed at promoting the joy and health benefits of scratch cooking. Donate money online (cash and checks are also accepted via mail to 23 Dartmouth St., Boston, MA 02116.) Haley House receives a large amount of volunteer requests; those interested should fill out the application but have patience. Volunteers may work within a variety of Haley House projects, such as cooking and serving in the Soup Kitchen; planting and weeding at the organization's urban farming sites; cleaning up the neighborhood; and more.
Healthy Waltham: This Waltham-based organization operates a variety of programs to increase healthy food access, nutrition education, and opportunities for physical activities. During the pandemic, the organization is partnering with other local groups to run a food pantry. Donate online, via check, or via Amazon Smile purchasing, and contact the organization to inquire about occasional volunteering opportunities.
La Comunidad: This Everett-based organization aims to support the Latin-American residents of Everett and nearby communities. Through fundraising and partnerships with local restaurants including Mei Mei and Pagu, La Comunidad has been delivering groceries to families in need throughout the pandemic. The organization is accepting donations via Gofundme.
Lovin' Spoonfuls: The Boston-based food rescue organization — which describes itself as the largest such organization in New England — puts on several high-profile fundraising events each year, supporting its mission of rescuing food and distributing it to local community organizations that need. The organization accepts monetary donations online. Lovin' Spoonfuls cannot take volunteers for hands-on food rescue work but occasionally seeks volunteers for events and fundraising days, with opportunities announced via the email list. The best way to gain access to volunteer opportunities with Lovin' Spoonfuls, though, is to join the Friends of Lovin' Spoonfuls membership program.
The Open Door: Through a food pantry, a mobile free farmers market, free summer meals for children, and other programs, the Open Door helps feed those in need around Massachusetts' North Shore region. The organization accepts donations of money, food, and more and regularly seeks volunteers in its food pantry and other programs.
Project Bread: Project Bread is probably best known for its gigantic annual fundraising walk, the Walk for Hunger, which has been going on since 1969. The organization aims to prevent and end hunger in Massachusetts by increasing food access to those currently in need while also trying to break the cycle of hunger via advocacy, education, and community action. There are various ways to donate monetarily, and potential volunteers should stay tuned for opportunities leading up to the 2021 Walk for Hunger. (The 2020 Walk for Hunger is taking place virtually instead of in person due to the pandemic.)
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine: The Massachusetts chapter of this food rescue organization collects excess food from Boston-area businesses and distributes it to organizations serving locals in need. Volunteers can help transport food from donor partners to shelters, soup kitchens, and other recipients; a car isn't necessarily required. Donations are also accepted online or by mail, via Amazon Smile purchases, and via several other means.
Some local restaurants have reopened for indoor and/or outdoor dining — which poses difficulties, as pictured here as an employee at D'Parma in East Boston cleans up the patio after a downpour. Other restaurants are sticking with takeout and delivery or remaining closed entirely for the time being. Many local industry workers continue to be out of work or are risking their health to return.
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When the pandemic got underway, many local restaurants set up online fundraisers or tip jars for their out-of-work staff. There are also some general fundraisers running to help local restaurant industry workers; several campaigns that are still active are listed below. (For a more extensive look at Massachusetts relief funds for workers in industries including but not limited to food and beverage, check the database that Massachusetts Jobs With Justice has compiled here.)
Behind You: Focusing on communities in Massachusetts' North Shore region, Behind You provides financial assistance to local food service employees who are out of work due to illness or injury. Donate here.
Boston Area COVID-19 Restaurant Emergency Fund: This Gofundme campaign is supporting hospitality workers in the Boston area who have seen a direct financial hit as a result of the pandemic.
Camberville Hospitality Fund: This Gofundme campaign, organized by local bartender Naomi Levy, is supporting hospitality workers in the Cambridge and Somerville area.
Help Boston Chinatown Businesses Reopen: This Gofundme campaign, a collaboration between nonprofit organizations the Boston Hurricanes athletic club and Chinatown Main Street, is raising money to purchase and distribute personal protective equipment to Chinatown businesses, including restaurants, to help with safe reopenings. Chinatown was the first Boston neighborhood to feel the effects of the pandemic back in February and has a long road to recovery.
MassUndocuFund: The fund provides COVID-19 relief to undocumented workers in Massachusetts. It was founded by the organizations Massachusetts Jobs With Justice, Matahari Women Workers' Center, and One Fair Wage.
Restaurant Worker Mutual Aid of Greater Boston: As noted above in the mutual aid section, this group is distributing groceries to undocumented Boston-area restaurant industry workers who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Financial donations and volunteer inquiries are welcome.
Support Downtown Lowell Bar & Restaurant Workers: This Gofundme campaign is supporting out-of-work kitchen staff, bartenders, and servers within Lowell.
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What really perplexes me is this was branded by shell. Because when I think Oil companies, the first thing that comes to mind are police vehicles chasing criminals around a soccer field.
I have one of those spinners, and the connection is actually an axle.
So while looking for a review on the Nestle guys to prove that the Rhotuka are the same (I'm pretty sure they are, I once saw a picture of a comparison but I can't find it) I found this.
They did this for the other knights, villain lackeys, and the main villain. The backs were hollow.
I remember sticking it into axle holes no problem, if I find it in the parts bin I'll take a picture and post it.
I actually have one of those in orange. I have no Idea where I got it from though.
Probably the Nestle promotion that green one came from?
I know it's originally from the promotion, but I know I didn't get it from it. I must have gotten it second hand from somewhere.
Ever wanted an official sponge that looked like the Morbuzakh?
Lego sure thought you had.
Behold...the most powerful clearance sale in Exo Force...MILES' EXO-FLEX SUIT!
But in actuality, I see this on clearance all the time.
here, eat this burger that we have spray painted the bread to look like bricks.


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