Far from seeking the anticipated compromises with Angela Merkel's CDU party, the left-wing SPD party has secured an extension of the proposed tax to now include foreign currency trading in which the UK is a global leader.
The measures, if implemented, would place additional strains on the UK and other EU member states to limit the impact of the tax which could come into force in 2015.
The European Commission (EC) repeated this week that contrary to its own legal advice, the FTT can still proceed in its current form.
The proposed FTT, currently being pushed by 11 EU Member States, to tax trading in shares, bonds and derivatives globally had been put on hold over the summer pending the outcome of the German election negotiations.
Despite the efforts of Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU union, progressing FTT was included in this week's coalition agreement. In addition, the minority SPD were successful in extending the tax to foreign currency trading - a market in which London is the global leader.
This development looks set to spark a new phase of discussion around the final composition of FTT when negotiations resume on 12 December.
Algirdas Semata, EU Commissioner for Taxation, repeated again this week that the EC did not accept its own legal council's view that the FTT was in breach of EU law. He also called for decisive action from the 11 FTT countries to progress the tax.
The UK has been at the forefront of attempts to block FTT. It claims that the current extra-territorial element of the tax extends the reach of the EU's Enhance Co-operation terms under which 11 Member States are collaborating to develop the harmonised tax. This term allows FTT countries to co-opt countries like the UK into collecting the tax in non-FTT territories for transactions based on instruments from their countries.
The UK, has asked for a hearing on the matter at the European Court of Justice.
Richard Asquith, Head of Tax at TMF Group, commented: "The potential inclusion of foreign currency trading by Germany in the proposed FTT is an unexpected and potentially divisive development. Most of the FTT countries had discounted this as too complex to police. It is clear that what little room for compromise there was prior to the German elections has been squeezed further in the coalition talks."


The Moto phones have offered some features in the past that intrigued me, plus the rumored extra large battery and MicroSD card slot further piqued my interest. But, after having watched the launch, a first hands on video, and looking at the spec's, I have actually been pushed farther toward the 6P. I think the T2 will be a fine device and offers some very nice features, but compared with the 6P it just looks ... clunky. Plus, no Marshmallow and just seeing all the bloatware on the screenshots made me cringe. Based on the reviews I've been seeing, I think the 6P is more what I'm looking for ..., plus it's damn sexay. As soon as it's back in stock, I'm ordering one of these bad boys.
Now I just have to decide which color ..., White ... Aluminum ...?
Anyone else have similar or different reactions?
Nope. I don't patronize liars.
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You don't need a Nexus to buy off contract. But the carrier bloatware and slow updates are good points. Not only that, but the Manufacturer bloatware is even worse than the carrier bloatware.
I'm assuming you mean Verizon? I don't know that they've ever actually "lied" to me, personally, but my experience with various of their business practices has definitely left me not feeling terribly positive about them. Unfortunately, for various practical reasons, I'm sort of stuck with them as my primary carrier.
I don't disagree with you at all but, as mentioned above, I'm pretty much stuck with Verizon, and have been dealing with their bloat and contracts for years. I don't like it, but am used to it so, for me, it was at least worth considering the T2. However, after following all the info about the 6P for these past several weeks, I've definitely begun looking forward to ridding myself of at least some of that. And it didn't take much at all to push me away from considering a Big Red device when the Nexus is a better option.
I've wanted a Nexus phone since the Sammy, but the timing (with my damn Verizon contracts) has never worked until now. Another reason to take advantage of the opportunity.
but VZW is definitely to blame as well. So the combo of Moto and VZW, updates aren't the most promising aspect of this phone.
I'm assuming you mean Verizon?
No I mean Motorola and their promised but not delivered Android updates. Never again.
If this was two months after Marshmallow launched, then one could be reasonably upset. But it's not. So it's just more of complaining for the sake of complaining.
I need a cigarette after reading the editorial. The only thing better than not covering the Droid announcement is covering it with the reaming it deserves. Well played AP.
Nowhere on any page does Motorola even mention anything about software updates or Marshmallow, because Motorola probably knows all too well that the Verizon Update Certification Clusterfudge* Machine (VUCCM, for those in the biz) is all but guaranteed to let down the consumers Motorola has already let down some more.
It's a Moto E fiasco, actually.
"...and multiple months since OHA members have had (6.0) development source available to them for updates and new devices."
So yea, reasonably upset is warranted.
Also, too: "In Verizon and Moto's presentation, the version of Android the Maxx 2 and Turbo 2 are running was mentioned zero times. Number of times future software updates were mentioned? You guessed it. The word "marshmallow"? CTRL+F "marshmallow": 0 of 0."
This phone would be releasing in December, not October if they went back and to launch with Marshmallow instead of Lollipop.
Umm, no. They could do what they did last year with the MX'14 - release it in October and update in December. They could be transparent about it. At a minimum, they could at least address the issue of whether these devices will ever get 6.0.
Based on their silence it's reasonable to assume these new devices will never get 6.0. Moto deserves scorn for their silence and buyers deserve to be warned.
How reasonable is it to expect the DROID TURBO 2 to not get Marshmallow when Motorola already announced the original DROID TURBO would be getting Marshmallow?
Again - rant for rants sake.
to be fair, the Lollipop update last year on the '14 Moto X was a disaster... it seemed like they rushed it to the phone just to say it was out. I had the 14 X at the time and the 5.0 update was almost unusable (for me, anyway).
Silence = silence. Not listed here. They could've said something, anything. Just silence.
VZW 5.0 worked just fine for me. Did do a factory reset after install.
The phone was just announced. Not even released to consumers yet. It's understandable in my opinion that it not be listed on the upgrade page today.
Assume? Not sure you should be making any comments like that on anyone else's assumptions.
I did not my first android experience. I had the Pure Edition then on AT&T, 5.0 sucked. Some googling would show you I wasn't the only one.
I bought a Verizon Moto E (which did get updated from 5.0 to 5.1) for $40.
the phone was $40 or the update? Would be pretty funny if they decided to charge for the updates that people are clamoring for.
Why does the DROID TURBO 2 have a smaller battery than the DROID TURBO?


Ross Swofford is a Senior Research Associate in the Karlsson lab. Ross earned his B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007, and has been at the Broad Institute ever since. During this time Ross has worked on the genetics of canine disease with an emphasis on cancer, as well as in support of various genome projects. Ross in interested in the processes of evolution and domestication, and how the resulting selective pressures may contribute to diseases susceptibility. Primarily a wet-lab contributor, Ross is pursuing postgraduate work in bioinformatics, with the aim of being able to contribute both in the lab and in analysis.


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Arts commission seeks Sacramento-area artwork for arena
Finalists will be selected by July 6
Updated: 11:09 PM PDT Jun 1, 2015
Gamaliel Ortiz
Digital Managing Editor
(Feb. 26, 2015)
SOURCE: Courtesy photo
Sacramento's art commission is calling for regional artists to submit proposals for a chance to have their art featured at the new downtown arena.A nine-member panel of artists, curators and community leaders will review design ideas, in hopes of putting together a collection that "reflects the fabric of Sacramento," said Shelly Willis, the director of the Sacramento Metro Arts Commission.The selection process will happen in two phases. The first phase included the selection of "Coloring Book #4" by world-renowned artist Jeff Koons.In the second phase, art leaders will have an open call for artists to submit their conceptual ideas and proposals that will be used both inside and outside the new Entertainment and Sports Complex."The Sacramento region is full of talented artists, and we can't wait to see their imagination and creativity come to life," said Sacramento Kings president Chris Granger.Finalists will be selected by July 6 with final approval of designs in September.The local artists' program is committing $1.5 million for the acquisitions.
Sacramento's art commission is calling for regional artists to submit proposals for a chance to have their art featured at the new downtown arena.
A nine-member panel of artists, curators and community leaders will review design ideas, in hopes of putting together a collection that "reflects the fabric of Sacramento," said Shelly Willis, the director of the Sacramento Metro Arts Commission.
The selection process will happen in two phases. The first phase included the selection of "Coloring Book #4" by world-renowned artist Jeff Koons.
In the second phase, art leaders will have an open call for artists to submit their conceptual ideas and proposals that will be used both inside and outside the new Entertainment and Sports Complex.
"The Sacramento region is full of talented artists, and we can't wait to see their imagination and creativity come to life," said Sacramento Kings president Chris Granger.
Finalists will be selected by July 6 with final approval of designs in September.
The local artists' program is committing $1.5 million for the acquisitions.

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Since I was a kid, I've been fascinated by what it means to live one's full potential as a human being. I didn't, of course, put it that was when I was younger, but I can see from here that, for instance, my early resistance to rules I didn't understand or that didn't make sense to me came from a fierce wish to expand, to explore, to test myself, and not from obstructionism. While as adults we sometimes misunderstand this impulse in small people, I think it's true for most children: as kids, we're still guided closely, organically, by the pulse of our full potential. Our energies are naturally, often urgently expansive: curiosity, wonder, play, open-heartedness, and connection are often still the driving forces in our lives, even, often, when living in and through trauma.
Over time, though, the curiosity that once propelled us effortlessly outward (into conversation with strangers, contact with insects and animals, imaginary worlds, woods and streams, tidal pools and marshes, empty lots, dumps, alleys, abandoned buildings, and forts erected from the refuse of neighborhood curbs) becomes inverted and internalized: primary questions that once led us into exploration and wonder are often replaced by questions about our own belonging, our worthiness, and our competence. What will I discover here? becomes Who am I to want more? How can I figure this out? gives way to What's wrong with me?
By mid-life we often feel pulled apart by these seemingly antagonist energies: the quest to learn and grow, on the one hand, and the fear of doing so, on the other.
If you feel stuck, or trapped, you might ask yourself if you're in fact wrestling with this tension between growth and security. Do you feel inordinately lethargic, anxious, or numb at times? Visited often by worry, rumination, and shades of depression? Restless for change but confused and unfocused? If so, odds are you're approaching the precipice of deep change. Of transformation. The change to come might be subtle, interior. Or dramatic and visible.
We might, for example, feel happy and productive, and then something triggers us and we start doubting and second-guessing ourselves (or slipping into resentment and blame, the other side of the self-doubt coin). But because we've learned to believe that these emotional states (such as happiness and despair) are at odds, we no longer feel integrated, but split down the middle. We sometimes experience this as feeling like a fraud, or living a double life. We might feel it in our bodies as disconnect (from our emotions, our feelings, or from our sexual energy), or as restlessness and agitation. We might feel it in our minds as lack of focus, chronic distractedness, and a difficulty being still or present.
Consider, however, that as humans we're in the midst of a pivotal evolutionary moment: we are still, as a species, neurologically wired to seek safety when faced with discomfort—that is, to survive. And yet, what has enabled us to survive—namely, the drive to avoid pain, seek pleasure, and conserve energy (the "motivational triad")— increasingly inhibits our capacity to thrive.
Some humans, of course, still contend with chronic material threats to mere survival. For those of you reading this blogpost, however, survival is easier than it's ever been, something you likely rarely think about. And yet, our brains have not yet caught up with this phenomenon: there's very often a sizable schism between the actual "dangers" our brains perceive as threats (fear of failure, fear of success, fear of disappointing loved ones, fear of rejection, fear of humiliation, etc.) and the primitive brain's perception of these emotions as life-threatening. In other words, what for so long allowed us to survive more often than not increasingly thwarts our ability to thrive.
When we experience fear, which is triggered whenever we step beyond our comfort zones (that is, whenever we pursue growth on purpose), our primitive brains trigger the release of epinephrine and cortisol, which in turn sets off the fight or flight mechanism. If left unchecked, this primal fear response will shut down the left prefrontal cortex, the newest part of our brain, the part that solves problems, innovates, and enables us to place-take (and to therefore feel empathy and compassion).
When triggered, this primal fear mechanism causes us to lose motivation and stay stuck via habits of buffering, distraction, and avoidance. Hence the epidemic in the US—the wealthiest country in the world—of myriad forms of over-consumption, most clearly evident in rising rates of obesity and addiction, as well as pronounced environmental devastation.
Most of us, however have no idea how to intervene in our own fear response, and therefore remain confused and increasingly disheartened by our lack of progress as we set ambitious goals and pursue intentional growth, only to fall back again and again after brief stints of promising success.
Most of us, that is, arrive repeatedly at the place with which this essay began: feeling split down the middle, at once our own best friend and our own worst enemy, wondering what the hell is wrong with us.
What I've found, through my own journey and in coaching and witnessing others through theirs, is that one primary practice turns all of this around. This one practice is, moreover, the single most important key to living your full potential. Without it, we stay stuck in old patterns no matter how hard we try to understand and outrun them.
And while with the best of intentions we tell ourselves, with exasperated conviction, to "get out of our own way," this practice teaches us that it's actually the opposite tack that we need to take if what we want is sustainable change and the remarkable freedom one feels when truly engaging one's full potential.
It took me years to understand what this really means.
And one day, it clicked. Not that I've got it down pat, but I can now feel when I'm in the self-loving groove, and that feeling—memory guides me back there more and more often.
Self-love isn't, I realized, so much about getting out of my own way as it is about welcoming every part of myself to the table.
Self-love is not something we earn. It's not, for example, something we give ourselves after we've lost the weight we keep trying to lose. It's not the reward we get for overcoming or stuffing or even healing our anger. It's not the gold star we give ourselves once we've routed out that deep-down thing we hate about who we are or what we've done.
Nor is self-love about letting ourselves off the hook. It's not an abdication of responsibility.
Rather, self-love is genuine self-acceptance. As we are, now. Imperfections, flaws, addictions, shame, regrets, rages and all.
For many, such self-acceptance feels completely counter-intuitive, to say the least. It feels like condoning that which we don't like or approve of. It might feel like indulging in negativity.
But until we actually learn how to accept ourselves fully, we stay stuck in the battle between curiosity and self-criticism. Our creativity will languish, or at the very least, be stunted. Our relationships may survive, but they certainly won't thrive. We might experience professional success, but deep fulfillment will always elude us.
Why? Because until we learn to love ourselves, we'll abandon ourselves when the going gets tough.
That is, we'll capitulate to the fear mechanism—the motivational triad of avoiding pleasure, seeking pain, and expending the least amount of energy, habitually and non-consciously, when faced with the discomfort of difficult emotions. Fear of failure, fear of disappointing others, fear of rejection, fear of humiliation—emotions that inevitably attend intentional growth—will feel, to our brains, like danger. Fight, flight, or freeze will kick in. Prefrontal functions will seize. We'll avoid our pain by seeking quick-fix pleasure—another glass of wine, a bowl of ice cream, numbing out with Netflix, relational drama, overwork, etc.
If, however, we can stay present to our emotions, be willing to feel our feelings no matter how much we dislike them (and ourselves for having them), we can short-circuit the fear response. Our feelings become to us nothing more or less than what they are—feelings, vibrations that ask for our attention and, having garnered it, pass through us, having left us more aware, more awake.
When we can truly feel our feelings, any of them and all of them, we don't abandon ourselves. This is the meaning of self-love, and it is the ticket—the only ticket—to genuine freedom.
If you'd like to hear about my own recent experience of shifting from self-blame to self-love, click here to watch my video on self-acceptance. In this video (11 minutes long) I walk you, step-by-step, through the process of self-acceptance, the core practice of self-love.
And as always, if this post speaks to you, please share it with others! And I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions in the comments below.
P.S. If you struggle with self-acceptance, and would like to learn how to break out of old patterns that keep you locked in self-criticism and resentment, I'd love to talk with you. Click here to schedule a free, no-strings-attached Breakthrough Session with me. Living a fully-expanded life of full potential can't happen until we learn to invite all of our selves to the table. And this is easier, honestly, than you might think.


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Stan is an accomplished manager, supervisor and trainer with demonstrated achievements in teaching and education administration, and general and operations management, including business development, performance improvement, accounting and financial management.
Stan has also found great success in sales and marketing, retail management, human resources and leadership. He currently works as an Employment and Management Consultant with Martin & Associates. Previously, Stan worked as an instructor at Mohawk College, George Brown and Seneca.
To complement his Seneca education, Stan holds a Business Administration certificate from Ryerson University and an MBA from California Miramar University in San Diego. Stan is also a published author of several Southam Business articles including "Dealing With Your Banker" and "Picking Your New Location".
Soon after graduating from Seneca, Paul became Sr. Assessor then Coordinator for Provincial Government Property Assessment Division and Property Tax Collector/Revenue Officer for a major Ontario City.
He joined Seneca as a professor and soon became the Program Coordinator for the Property Assessment/Appraisal program plus the Mortgage Broker program for the Provincial Government Financial Services Ministry at Seneca College. Paul was then seconded for two three- year terms to be a member (Chair) for the Assessment Review Board of the Attorney Generals Office. He spent another three years under secondment from Seneca as the Director of the Institute of Municipal Assessors for Ontario.
As part of his career Paul wrote many articles for the Canadian Real Estate Magazine and appeared regularly for three years as the principle Appraiser for the hit TV show Income property.
In his final years with Seneca, Paul became the President of Seneca Alumni and today, he continues to give back to the College in his retirement years through awards, mentoring, and part time teaching.


An evaluation of 10 hospital systems that were awarded funding by CMS quantified millions in cost savings by integrating technology and data analytics.
Christus Health System: By combining nurse training with mobile device technology designed to help clinicians recognize early warning signs of high-risk conditions like sepsis and congestive heart failure, Christus Health System in Texas reduced Medicare costs by $1.31 million among hospitalized patients and $2.2 million among long-term post-acute care patients.
Mayo Clinic: Incorporating a cloud-based analytics system to synthesize patient information within EHRs, lab results and physician orders, clinicians at the Minnesota-based system were able to prioritize ICU patients based on their needs, saving more than $4.2 million in Medicare costs during a two-year period.
Emory University Healthcare: An eICU program at the Atlanta-based system saved $4.6 million during a 15-month span by ensuring patients were healthy enough to be discharged home rather than to long-term care settings.
Mount Sinai Health System: With the help of a clinical decision support tool embedded into the New York system's EHR, Mt. Sinai saved more than $7.5 million in Medicare costs by reducing inpatient admissions and return visits to the ED for patients 65 and older.
A Modern Healthcare report is out for your long read of the week, covering how innovators are driving improvements in everything from operational efficiency, to quality, safety and outcomes of care, to patient relationships.
Despite a very famous success story, immunotherapy drugs are not a miracle cure for all patients.
This Stat article seems to be popping up all over newsletters and social feeds lately. A recent study published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research of 155 cases studied, eight patients who had been fairly stable before immunotherapy treatment declined rapidly, failing the therapy within two months. Six saw their tumors enter a hyperactive phase where the tumors grew by between 53 percent and 258 percent. While genomic testing appears to help identify some characteristics in patients who experience hyperprogession in their tumors, limited data available across more patient demographics and cancer types means there are more questions than answers right now.
Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, gets right to the point in this short essay about trying to make sense of the overly-complicated documentation of care.


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Q: play youtube video in android I am working on an android app and i want to play streaming video from youtube. I read posts like this: How to play YouTube video in my Android application?
I tried with that source:
  startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsDYIgX_gDs")));

i got video in WebView, i can heard sound but no pictures..Also that is not what i want because i want video to start automatically when the activity start, without clicking Button play(because i want also to add some counters,timers.. for other treatments).
Then, i tried whith MediaPlayer:
 String FILE_PATH="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsDYIgX_gDs";
    MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
    mp.setDataSource(FILE_PATH);
    mp.prepare();
    mp.start();

Hopping here having a control on video start by mp.start(); . But i have these errors:
05-20 15:36:36.279: ERROR/HTTPStream(33): recv failed, errno = 11 (Try again)
05-20 15:36:36.808: ERROR/HTTPDataSource(33): HTTP request failed w/ http status 303
05-20 15:36:36.808: ERROR/HTTPDataSource(33): retrying connection failed
05-20 15:36:41.834: ERROR/HTTPStream(33): recv failed, errno = 11 (Try again)
05-20 15:36:48.389: ERROR/HTTPStream(33): recv failed, errno = 11 (Try again)
05-20 15:36:54.913: ERROR/HTTPStream(33): recv failed, errno = 11 (Try again)
05-20 15:36:54.913: ERROR/HTTPStream(33): recv failed, errno = 9 (Bad file number)
05-20 15:36:54.918: ERROR/HTTPStream(33): recv failed, errno = 9 (Bad file number)
05-20 15:36:54.918: ERROR/HTTPStream(33): recv failed, errno = 9 (Bad file number)
05-20 15:36:54.918: ERROR/MediaPlayer(6392): error (1, -2147483648)
05-20 15:36:55.219: ERROR/MediaPlayer(6392): start called in state 0
05-20 15:36:55.219: ERROR/MediaPlayer(6392): error (-38, 0)
05-20 15:36:55.228: ERROR/MediaPlayer(6392): Error (-38,0)

Can someone help plz?

A: Try changing the Start intent to :
     startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse(String.format("http://www.youtube.com/v/%s",
url.substring("vnd.youtube:".length(),n)));

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Cambridge sit fourth in the table but go into the match with just one win and three defeats so far this term. Victory or a draw would see them climb to third, although all teams but GD would have games in hand on the East Anglian outfit. They could even move into third on goal difference, ahead of West London Eagles, if they lose – as long as it's not by more than 16 goals.
GD are still to lose in the Premier Handball League this term and will be bidding to extend their lead at the top to five points. They beat promoted Peninsula last time out and have an impressive positive goal difference of 40.
Throw-off at Leyton Score Centre is at 14.30. Get down to the match and watch the most exciting, high scoring, action packed, contact, team sport. Support your team, cheer on your heroes, share the thrills, be a fan.


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By CompiledKurt Shillinger
US AND JAPAN: HAVE PACT, WILL DISAGREE Only a few days after the United States and Japan sealed an economic partnership pact, conflicts have resurfaced over Japan's trade surplus. Under the pact, Washington expected Tokyo to cut its surplus to 1.5 to 2 percent of gross domestic product over the next four to five years. But Japanese officials say no such numerical target was set. The pact, announced July 10 at the end of the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo, says Japan will pursue strong growth led by domestic demand, but will increase market acces s for foreign goods and services to narrow its trade surplus and take fiscal and monetary measures to realize these objectives. Vice Finance Minister Jiro Saito said July 12 that Tokyo would not be forced to take immediate measures to achieve the pact's goals, even if its current account surplus widened toward the end of the year. Airlines clash in court
Continental and Northwest airlines met American Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, in court July 12 over American's fare policies. The plaintiffs filed the suit shortly after the start of last summer's fare wars, claiming on antitrust grounds that American sought to drive them out of business and establish a monopoly.
Continental and Northwest say American's value-pricing plan and half-off sales cost them $1 billion each. American's lawyers fired back on July 12, saying Continental and Northwest couldn't stand the competition. Take me from the river
More storms raged across Iowa July 13, further swelling the Mississippi and its tributaries. Des Moines braced for new record floods on the Raccoon River, which has contaminated the city's water supply. Water officials say it will be several days before homes have running taps again. Deal to sweeten Everglades
Leading sugar growers agreed to pay up to $322 million over the next two decades to clean up the polluted Everglades as part of a landmark agreement with the state of Florida and the federal government announced July 13.
A statement of principles, and a $465 million cleanup plan designed to end years of litigation and begin restoring the fragile wetlands and marshes in southern Florida, was agreed upon the night before. The plan provides incentives to farmers to reduce their use of fertilizer. Italy on Somalia
Italy asked July 12 for a halt to United Nations military action in Somalia. Defense Minister Fabio Fabbri said that if a cooling-off period did not bring peace, the 29-nation coalition could conduct a large-scale disarming operation.
The request followed a UN helicopter attack in Mogadishu against supporters of Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed that Somalis say killed 73 people. Italy wants a "reconsideration of the goals of the mission, which would cover the relationship between the ends which are pacification, conciliation, humanitarian aid and the means," Mr. Fabbri said. Dalai Lama seeks talks
The Dalai Lama has sent his first official team to Beijing in nearly 10 years for talks with Chinese officials, an international group that monitors Tibetan affairs said July 13. The Dalai Lama's older brother, Gyalo Thondup, is heading the delegation.The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959, and leads a campaign against Chinese rule. Note to readers
Due to flood conditions in Des Moines, Iowa, the Monitor's subscription service, CDS Inc., may be difficult to reach by telephone.
Dalai Lama wins Templeton Prize as more than 'simple Buddhist monk'
White House proceeds with Dalai Lama visit, ignoring China's protests
China protests to US over Dalai Lama presence at National Prayer Breakfast


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The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs A-C
Sometimes I find myself walking the streets looking for a pub. I am seeking an enclave of civility as a refuge from the barbarity of the city, a friendly bar where the publican lives upstairs and the residents of the street congregate. I am looking for a local.
Oftentimes, in accumulating disappointment, I stand and gaze at the fine buildings which once were pubs, now closed down and converted into flats or shops, or restaurants. So you can imagine my emotion when I discovered this cherished inventory of pubs from the early twentieth century, mostly pictured in their shining moment of glory, when the signwriting was crisp, the mirrors were polished and the lamps gleamed – the beloved drinking palaces of yesteryear. You can almost hear the clink of glasses, the hubbub of voices and distant tinkle of barroom ivories.
Today I am delighted to commence a new series presented in collaboration with Heritage Assets who work in partnership with The National Brewery Heritage Trust, publishing these historic photographs of the myriad pubs of the East End from Charrington's archive for the first time. It is no exaggeration to say that every street corner was once a pub, thus the catalogue of our loss runs into hundreds and this first instalment of The Alphabet of Lost Pubs only covers A-C.
I wish we could have enjoyed a pint together in every one. Instead we must be thankful we can go there in spirit thanks to the alluring visions conjured by these entrancing photographs, which might have vanished forever if they had not been rescued from a skip twenty-five years ago by some far-sighted soul.
The Adam & Eve, 126 Abbey Rd, West Ham, E15 (Damaged by enemy action 1st July 1944, reopened 2nd April 1948, closed 1994)
The Albert Arms, 66 Bancroft Rd, Mile End, E1 (Destroyed by enemy action 1944)
The Albion, 423 Bethnal Green Rd, E2 (Opened prior to 1870, now known as Bar Valiente)
The Albion, 33 Albion Rd, Dalston, E8 (Opened prior to 1850, closed in 2002 and now residential)
The Albion, 211-212 High St (now The Highway), Shadwell, E1 (Opened prior to 1841, closed 1922 and now demolished)
The Albion, 2 Clissold Rd, Stoke Newington, N16 (Opened prior to 1855, converted to residential use in nineteen nineties)
The Alfred's Head, 49 Gold St, Stepney, E1 (Opened prior to 1849, now demolished)
The Alma, 41 Spelman St, Spitalfields, E1 (Opened prior to 1870, closed 2001 and now offices)
The Angel & Crown, 170 Roman Rd, Bethnal Green, E2 (Opened prior to 1809, rebuilt in 1951 and still open)
The Astric Lodge, 60 Stepney Green, E1 (Opened prior to 1818 and closed in 1997)
The Barley Mow, 7 New Gravel Lane, Shadwell, E1 (Opened prior to 1778, now demolished)
The Bedford Hotel, 220 Victoria Park Rd, Hackney, E9 (Built 1870, converted to residential use 1999)
The Beehive, 36 Holly St, Dalston, E8 (Opened prior to 1848, closed 1964 now demolished)
The Bell, 116 George St (now The Highway), Shadwell, E1 (Named in 1839, closed 1922)
The Benyon Arms, 155 De Beavoir Rd, Hackney, N1 (Opened prior to 1852, closed 1984 and now residential)
The Black Bull, 192 Stoke Newington High St, N16 (Opened 1826, closed 1981 and now Kentucky Fried Chicken)
The Black Horse, 168 Mile End Rd, E1 (Opened prior to 1856, closed 2010 and currently vacant)
The Blade Bone, 185 Bethnal Green Rd, E2 (Opened in 1823, destroyed by enemy action in World War II and rebuilt, then closed in 1999 and became The Noodle King now a development site for flats)
The Brewery Tap, 17 Stean St, Shoreditch, E8 (Opened prior to 1881, closed 1921 and now demolished)
The British Queen, 31 White Horse Lane, E1 (Opened prior to 1843 and closed 1934, now demolished)
The Bull's Head, 58 St Katharine's Way, E1 (Opened 1838, closed 1952)
The Burford Arms, 11 Burford Way, Stratford, E15 (Opened prior to 1872, closed in 1990 and demolished in 1994)
The Camden's Head, 456 Bethnal Green Rd, E2 (Opened prior to 1816 and still open)
The Carlton, 238 Bancroft Rd, Mile End, E1 (Opened 1836 and still open today)
The Carpenters' Arms, 151 Cambridge Heath Rd, E1 (Opened prior to 1839, rebuilt in the nineteen-sixties and still open)
The Cat & Mutton, 76 Broadway Market, Hackney, E8 (Opened prior to 1732 and still open)
The City Arms, 2 Dock Rd, Canning Town, E16 (Opened prior to 1867 and closed in 1934)
The Clapton Park Tavern, 9 Chatsworth Rd, Hackney, E5 (Opened prior to 1872, closed and converted to a restaurant in 2001)
The Colet Arms, 94 White Horse Rd, Stepney, E1 (Opened prior to 1851, closed in 2003 and now residential)
The Commercial Tavern, 142 Commercial St, Spitalfields, E1 (Built in 1865 and still open today)
The Commercial Tap, 66 Ben Jonson Rd, Stepney, E1 (Opened 1881 and closed 1934, now demolished)
The Conqueror, Boundary St, Shoreditch, E2 (Opened prior to 1872 and closed in 2007, now residential)
The Crooked Billet, 93 Hoxton St, Hoxton, N1 (Opened prior to 1841, closed 1938 and now demolished)
The Crown & Anchor, 35 Temple St, Bethnal Green, E2 (Opened prior to 1831, closure unknown)
The Crown & Dolphin, 56 Cannon St Rd, Shadwell, E1 (Opened 1851, closed 2002 and now residential)
The Crown, St John St, Clerkenwell, EC1 (Opened in 1910, closed in 1953 and now a shop)
The Crown, 19 Mayfield Rd, Dalston, E8 (Opened 1866 and closed in 1954)
The Crown, 34 Redchurch St, Shoreditch, E2 (Established late seventeenth century and renamed The Owl & The Pussycat in 1990)
The Crown, 14 Goodman St, Whitechapel, E1 (Opened in 1823, closed in 1952 and now demolished)
The Cutlers' Arms, 2 Cutler St, Houndsditch, E1 (Opened prior to 1839, closed in the nineteen-fifities and is now demolished)
Photographs courtesy Heritage Assets/The National Brewery Heritage Trust
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Sarah B Guest Perry permalink
A wonderful set of images. Oh to be having a pint in any of them-
Phil Maxwell permalink
For years I went to the Alma in Spelman Street. I don't recall ever been asked to leave in the evening; we were all 'locked in' by the landlord Steve.
regula ysewijn permalink
This is amazing… and so incredibly sad… I have just finished writing and photographing my book on Belgian café culture which is my plea to carefully handle our Belgian pub heritage as all too often these places get turned into residential or a kebab place… It is horrid to see so many beautiful places lost. A crime. A loss of heritage.
Stephen Barker permalink
The Cat and Mutton is an interesting name for a pub
Isis permalink
Each photo has such a poignant quality and the pubs themselves appear timeless. Each one has that quality you describe in your narrative, the refuge you hope to find when you turn the corners. Equally compelling are the just-visible side images — ironmongers, haircuttting and shaving saloon, a red phone booth — that are reminders that this world has all but slipped away.
A fascinating set of images and well done to the far sighted souls who rescue such important records of our heritage from skips!! I think that our lovely, present Charrington family, landlords would be interested to see them as their name is so prominent on most of the buildings.
John Rowe permalink
The Astric Lodge in Stepney Green closed in 1997 when my wife and I bought it. In its last days it was a sadly failing pub and loosing money, the landlady was desperate to sell but could not find a buyer interested in running it as a pub. So she was very pleased when we took it on. We made it part of the condition of sale that there would be no local objection to change of use.
The neighbours at first were rather alarmed when we boarded up the windows, thinking it was to become a strip-joint or 'gentleman's club' , and also when some acquaintances of ours, members of a biker fraternity, turned up to strip the bar, causing concerns that it was to become a biker pub. What they thought it was to become when a friend of mine who was a Russian Orthodox priest turned up to bless the place I have no idea. No objections were raised to its change of use.
Joanna Biddolph permalink
How sad to read "now demolished". I don't mind "now residential" or even "now KFC" (though I'd like to know if KFC owns the whole building or if the upstairs is something else) but reading about demolition without knowing what has happened since fills me with gloom. My great great grandfather built several pubs (in Brighton) and, as you note in your introduction, it was normal for there to be one on every corner. Some of his still exist but are clearly under supported and very run down; I fear for those corners. Others have been turned into homes – what a joy to know the buildings are still in use. Many of the pubs in your blog would make handsome homes, if they can't survive as pubs, particularly in areas of low rise living. I do hope sensible decisions are made about these corners if the viability of any of these pubs is at risk.
Deborah Jeffries permalink
Does anyone know of any pubs – existing or demolished – that had or were saloons/song or supper rooms in Tower Hamlets and Hackney? I'm doing a PhD in early music hall and am currently trying to locate any that might've been competition for Wilton's Music Hall and Hoxton Hall. I'm not a blogger or tweeter or on Facebook, so if you can help please email me at debsjeffries@outlook.com . Thanks very much
Debra Whitehill permalink
As the District Manager for Charrington's for a large number of the featured pubs, the pictures bring back many memories, I would be happy to share these if any one is interested as they may add to the historical background.
Janet Dooner permalink
Fascinating reading lucky to have been a part of this business for the last 50 years. Just celebrated my 50th year of being in the same pub came into the business with my parents on Oct 3rd 1966 with Charrington's and continued on with my husband. Great memories, friends and customers made over that time looking forward to the next instalment and getting to The Railway Tavern section. Well done one and all.
Ralph Weeder permalink
For many years I worked at Charringtons Brewery and was a District Manager responsible for many many east London pubs. It was a brilliant job which I truly feel I was blessed to have had. Its a great shame that the East End that I knew and was bought up and was fortunate enough to work in has now all but disppeared.
Ralph Weeder
Andy Taylor permalink
A very interesting, albeit poignant set of images.
'The Benyon Arms' in De Beauvoir Road was definitely open as late as 1991.
My first teaching job was at De Beauvoir Infants School in Tottenham Road from 1985 – '91.
It was in the days of restricted opening hours, but there was always a group of local builders having a pint behind closed curtains, so we'd knock on the side door around 5pm and were always ushered in quietly and made to feel welcome. Those beers, like the ones quaffed pre-18, tasted really good!
Two of my colleagues met Paul McCartney in there one lunchtime (taking a break from a video shoot in Docklands). As luck would have it I was sitting in the staff room at the time!
In '91 I moved schools and briefly adopted another pub ('The Albion' in Clissold Road) as my work local, but left London shortly after that. I'm still teaching, but people rarely go to the pub straight after work any more and certainly never at lunch time!
It was only relatively recently that I took a walk round De Beauvoir Square to see The Benyon had become a house, the Infants School expensive looking flats, so I don't know the precise date the pub shut, but it was certainly still going strong in '91!
Margaret permalink
A transport into time past. Wish I could visit all those now gone. I noticed many or most of the demolished pubs were located on corners. Why is would that be? Would the real estate be more valuable? I feel these pubs should all have been preserved. At least the structures.
Fred permalink
I believe that "The Camden's Head" ceased to be known by that name when it was sold several years ago by J D Wetherspoon.
It might now be known as the "Misty Moon".
Annabelle P. permalink
My great-great grandparents were landlords / licensed victualler of the Bull's Head at St Katharine's Way (if this is the same one, in the census of 1891 it was 205 Little Thames Street, it was a pub at the St Katharine's Docks with the same name). I am thrilled to see a picture of the pub, thank you!
Chris Povey permalink
My great grandmother was the last landlady of the Bank of Friendship which used to be located on the corner of Ely Terrace and Harford Street E1 (number 22) The only picture that I have of it is a rear view in its derelict state in 1947 (London Metropolitan Archives site) before the area was redeveloped into the Ocean Estate. It was a Barclay Perkins Pub and closed in 1940/41 after suffering bomb blast damage. My mother can remember visiting the pub as a child and being allowed to stand on the bar to call time. She also remembers the sound of the church bells on Sunday mornings. That is until they were silenced for the war. I assume that this was a typical 3 storey Victorian (Earliest records date back to 1848) corner pub, a variation on the design of many pictured in this blog. I would dearly love to find a picture of the pub.


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The latest edition of the IMF World Economic Outlook foresees a three speed recovery. In 2011 it foresaw a two speed recovery. The difference is mainly that Europe drags on, but at the same time the growth rates for the other continents although still in positive territory have been scaled down a bit. This scaling down is not typical for the present outlook. The figure shows the predictions that the IMF provided for GPP growth in 2012 in 11 different editions of the world economic outlook. Before the crisis broke out the expectation for world growth in 2012 was about 5% and the crisis reduced that outlook by half a percentage point only. It took untill october 2011 before the Fund started to adjust the prediction significantly and it took three editions to come close for the April 2013 estimate for 2012 (this is still an estimate and it may change a little bit).
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Mohammed Rafi received six Filmfare Awards and one National Award in his lifetime. He was honoured with Padma Shri in 1967.
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Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
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Tissue culture protocols for the obligate parasitic plant Striga hermonthica and implications for host-parasite co-cultivation
Duncan Njora Waweru
Eric Kimani Kuria
James Michael Bradley
Julie Diane Scholes
Steven Runo
First Online: 12 June 2019
Striga is a genus of parasitic plants that poses great danger to livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa by limiting production of staple cereals. The parasite attaches to the roots of the crop and establishes a vascular connection with the host's xylem vessels in order to access water, organic and inorganic nutrients, leading to stunted growth and death of the infected plant. Mechanisms underpinning host–parasite interactions are not clearly understood making well-informed strategies for control of the parasite difficult. To facilitate studies of Striga–host interactions for molecular and genetic studies, we: (i) established an efficient protocol for growing Striga from seeds in tissue culture; (ii) optimized protocols for its regeneration through direct organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis, and (iii) determined the effect of co-culturing host and parasite in the same culture media. We found the best auxin and cytokinin concentrations to be: 10.7 μM naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) and 2.2 μM 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) for embryogenic callus regeneration and 1.1–4.4 μM BAP without NAA for shoot multiplication. While seedling, stem and leaf explants induced callus with the same frequency, seed radicles did not produce any callus. Unexpectedly, we found that when Striga callus was added in rice growing on culture media, the parasite adversely affected the host through formation of lesions on leaves and resulted in less shoot induction from callus in the parasite. Techniques described in this study will enhance further understanding of Striga–host interactions.
Key message
Highly efficient protocols for tissue culture of the obligate parasitic plant Striga hermonthica and detection of host phytotoxicity by the parasite on culture media.
Somatic embryogenesis Striga Host–pathogen interaction Phytotoxicity Parasitic plants
Communicated by Ali R. Alan.
Acknowledegments
This research project was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Department for International (DfID) contract number BB/J011703/1 under the Sustainable Crop Production Research for International Development (SCPRID) Research Initiative. Additional support was provided by the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) under the Collaborative Research Projects (CRP) initiative, contract number CRP/KEN17-03.
SR and JDS conceived and designed the experiments on optimization of in vitro culture conditions for S. hermonthica. JDS further conceived the experiment on host-parasite interactions on in vitro media. DNW, EK, and JB performed experiments guided by SR and JDS. All authors wrote, read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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1.Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and BiotechnologyKenyatta UniversityGPO NairobiKenya
2.Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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Q: Custom loss function- Keras- I'm trying to implement a mixed model where part of it is a variational autoencoder and the other part takes the latent space and makes predictions on the properties of the input. I'd like to train these two models jointly. Here are my models:
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inputs = Input(shape=input_shape, name='encoder_input')
x = Dense(intermediate_dim1, activation='relu')(inputs)
x1 = Dense(intermediate_dim2, activation='relu')(x)
x2 = Dense(intermediate_dim3, activation='relu')(x1)
z_mean = Dense(latent_dim, name='z_mean')(x2)
z_log_var = Dense(latent_dim, name='z_log_var')(x2)

# use reparameterization trick to push the sampling out as input
# note that "output_shape" isn't necessary with the TensorFlow backend
z = Lambda(sampling, output_shape=(latent_dim,), name='z')([z_mean, z_log_var])

# instantiate encoder model
encoder = Model(inputs, [z_mean, z_log_var, z], name='encoder')

# build decoder model
latent_inputs = Input(shape=(latent_dim,), name='z_sampling1')
x1 = Dense(intermediate_dim3, activation='relu')(latent_inputs)
x2 = Dense(intermediate_dim2, activation='relu')(x1)
x3 = Dense(intermediate_dim1, activation='relu')(x2)
outputs = Dense(2*original_dim+1, activation='sigmoid')(x3)

# instantiate decoder model
decoder = Model(latent_inputs, outputs, name='decoder')

#build property predictor model
latent_inputs = Input(shape=(latent_dim,), name='z_sampling2')
x1 = Dense(64, activation='relu')(latent_inputs)
x2 = Dense(128, activation='relu')(x1)
outputs = Dense(property_dim, activation='sigmoid')(x2)

predModel = Model(latent_inputs, outputs, name='predictor')

This is the full model that has the inupts of the encoder and the output of only the predictor model.
#build full model
vaeOutputs = decoder(encoder(inputs)[2])
predOutputs = predModel(encoder(inputs)[0])
vaePred = Model(inputs, [vaeOutputs,predOutputs], name='vae_fullimage')
vaePred.summary()

Now I have trouble defining the loss function and training the model:
This is my attempt:
if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    help_ = "Load h5 model trained weights"
    parser.add_argument("-w", "--weights", help=help_)
    help_ = "Use mse loss instead of binary cross entropy (default)"
    parser.add_argument("-m",
                        "--mse",
                        help=help_, action='store_true')
    #args = parser.parse_args()
    args = parser.parse_known_args()[0]
    models = (encoder, decoder)
    def custom_loss(y_true, y_pred):
            kl_loss = 1 + z_log_var - K.square(z_mean) - K.exp(z_log_var)
            kl_loss = K.sum(kl_loss, axis=-1)
            kl_loss *= -0.5

            reconstruction_loss = binary_crossentropy(y_true[0], y_pred[0])
            reconstruction_loss*= original_dim

            #y_pred = predOutputs

            prediction_loss =K.square(y_pred[1] - y_true[1])

            total_loss =  K.mean(prediction_loss, axis= -1) + K.mean (reconstruction_loss) + K.mean(kl_loss)
            return total_loss

    optimizer =  keras.optimizers.Adam(learning_rate=0.001)
    vaePred.compile(optimizer, custom_loss)
    vaePred.summary()

    if args.weights:
        vaePred.load_weights(args.weights)
    else:
        # train the autoencoder
        history =vaePred.fit(x=x_train, y=[x_train,property_train],
                epochs=epochs,
                callbacks=callbacks,
                batch_size=batch_size,
                validation_data=(x_test, [x_test,property_test]))

A: It appears that you are training an autoencoder(AE) (a generative model that seeks to predict itself).  The outputs for an AE should equal the inputs if it is perfect.  Therefore you should change y_true to be inputs.
change:
prediction_loss = mse(y_true, predOutputs)

to be:
prediction_loss = mse(inputs, predOutputs)

note: I have not run or tested any of this code. It appears to be example code from Keras.


Who do you owe, and how do you pay? These are the questions voters in five Simcoe County municipalities should be asking their candidates as local elections approach in October.
A report released this week concludes developers gave 43% of all contributions to successful councillors in Barrie, Bradford-West Gwillimbury, Collingwood, Innisfil and New Tecumseth during the 2006 municipal election.
Money & Politics in Simcoe County: Shining a Light on Municipal Election Financingwas prepared by Campaign Lake Simcoe.
It says developers' campaign money fills local councils with urban sprawl — or residential subdivision — supporters. Since pro-environment candidates don't get developers' money, it's much tougher for them to be elected.
Campaign Lake Simcoe wants Ontario's government, the parent of municipalities, to ban corporate and union contributions to local elections. And because 58% of these contributions came from outside the municipalities of the candidate, it also wants contributors to be qualified voters in the municipality where their supported candidate is running for office.
Fair enough, although such restrictions don't seem to be on the province's radar, and it's too late to have a ban in place for this year's election anyway.
Municipalities could have done it themselves, of course. Toronto did it. So did Quebec and Manitoba for provincial elections. The feds have done it.
The question is what to do about it for the Oct. 25 election. The best answer is that candidates should police themselves on this matter.
This doesn't mean they cannot accept campaign contributions from developers. Election campaigns can be expensive, especially for those running for mayor.
But the onus is on candidates to know the interests of developers, or corporations or unions or any other person or organization interested in contributing to a political campaign.
Does the developer own land which needs rezoning or site plan or plan of subdivision approval? Would that approval be required during the term of the next council?
How do residents feel about any such developments? How has the current council and municipal staff dealt with the applications?
These questions should not imply that every developer wants to corrupt the business of local councils or that every councillor can be bought.
On the other hand, there's rarely giving done in politics and business without the expectation of receiving something in return.
Developer contributions to Simcoe County candidates have to be particularly scrutinized. This area will see tremendous population growth during the next 20 years, and these people will need homes, and developers to be involved in the planning and building process.
Gwillimbury, Collingwood, Innisfil and New Tecumseth need to look at restricting campaign contributions for the 2014 municipal elections.
This doesn't necessarily mean a ban on developer or corporate or union money, but it does mean looking at the issue and considering solutions.
Because in politics, reality often mirrors perception.
And politicians accepting contributions from developers looks shady.


The gospel means "Good News." By listening to the content of the apostle's preaching as reported in the book of Acts, we can understand why the early Christians chose this word to describe their message. The story of how the gospel reached a Roman soldier named Cornelius is a good example.
There is an interesting character named Cornelius whom we meet in the pages of the New Testament book of Acts. Cornelius was a good example of the type of person who was more common than you might expect in the world of the first century. He's what is known as a God-fearer. He was a gentile, that is, a non-Jew, a pagan. And also in Cornelius's case, an officer in the Roman army, but he was also a deeply spiritual man. He was searching for God. He wasn't one of those who live only for this world, seeking only to satisfy his physical or emotional needs. Cornelius had a hunger for God, for something deeper, for spiritual reality. He was trying to satisfy that need for truth, to find out: Is there a God, and who is he? And so he went on a search, and not surprisingly, given that he was stationed in Palestine, his search led him to the God of Israel.
So Cornelius began to pray devoutly to the Lord, the God of Israel, the only real and living God. And he tried to serve him as best he could, though without becoming a Jew. But nevertheless he gave to the synagogue; he gave alms to the poor. And there were many like Cornelius throughout the ancient world, people who were dissatisfied with the immorality of their culture, who were turned off by the kind of gross worship of idols, and who thought there must be one true God above and beyond all of this, and who were attracted to the message of the Bible, a message that said that God is not only holy and high and lifted up, but he is also just and righteous and good, a message that linked religion with morality. And that was not at all common in the ancient world.
So every place that had a Jewish synagogue tended to have God fearers like Cornelius, people who were no longer pagans but not yet able to become Jews, and when the Christian gospel came to these people and explained to them how they could come to know God in Jesus Christ, to be reconciled to him by faith through Jesus' death, without giving up their race or their nationality, well, you can imagine the impact. Many were converted on the spot.
Now Cornelius's story is especially significant because he's the first. It shows us the very first encounter of a gentile whom we know by name, a personal story with the Christian gospel. For its first few years, of course, the Christian church was entirely Jewish. Every Christian was simply a Jew who had embraced Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. And the apostle Peter was the universally acknowledged leader of the church. He, of course, was a Jewish follower of Jesus himself and also a bold preacher of faith in Christ. But he kept the Old Testament rituals. Still he observed the Sabbath day. He followed the dietary requirements of the law. And like every other devout Jew, Peter the Christian apostle had no social dealings whatsoever with any gentile. But then came a fateful day when God intervened directly to bring the gentile Cornelius and the Jewish Christian Peter together in a saving encounter that broke the old taboos and leveled the racial and ethnic barriers that were keeping them apart.
Listen to the story from Acts 10. I'll summarize the first part. Peter saw a vision sent by God that convinced him that he shouldn't think of people as unclean. Messengers came from Cornelius and asked him to come. Cornelius himself had been told by an angel to send for Peter, so in this wonderful, supernatural way God brings these two together, and then Peter begins to speak.
That is the heart of the gospel. Listen again, "They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen." This is the good news that Christians have to share with the world. It's not moral exhortation. It's not advice about how to live a better life. It's the story of what God in Jesus Christ has done to solve the problem of human sin and human estrangement, not only to reconcile us to himself but to reconcile us to one another, to bring Jew and gentile, black and white, slave and free, male and female, into one new body through faith in Christ.
Notice what Peter does when he comes to speak to Cornelius and his household. It's not a bunch of arguments to try to persuade Cornelius or change his beliefs. Peter's message is pure testimony. "We are witnesses of everything Jesus did," he declares. He simply relates the facts of Jesus' life, recounting the history of what he said and did. And then he zeroes in on the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. That's the heart of the message. Christian preaching is witness, and Christian witness in particular is to the story of Good Friday and Easter. It's testimony to the fact that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, that the man Jesus was also the Son of God who died and rose on the third day for the salvation of the world.
You know, if you read further in the book of Acts, especially these early chapters that talk about Peter's preaching, you'll discover that he really had only one sermon that he repeated over and over and over. There's really only one basic message, and it's the message about Jesus. And that's not just Peter's theme. The resurrection was the theme of all early Christian preaching. In fact, it still is, of all authentic Christian preaching. It's the message of the cross and the empty tomb.
There's a wonderful story later in Acts about Paul's witness in the city of Athens. We read that Paul went to the public place in Athens, the Agora, or marketplace, and he began to speak there about this Christian message, and then Luke says that the people who heard him were confused because, Luke writes, "he was preaching about Jesus and the resurrection," and they thought that he was talking about foreign gods, new gods, one of them called Jesus and the other called Anastasis, which is Greek for resurrection. That was Paul's message over and over.
So this is a very important point. The apostolic preaching which is the basic Christian message, at its heart is testimony to the fact that Jesus of Nazareth, the Jesus of history, who was hanged on a tree and crucified by a lawless act, was also raised to triumphant new life by God. It's an Easter witness. Now you may choose not to believe it. You may think it's all a hoax or a conspiracy, despite the fact that every apostle laid down his life rather than deny the truth to which he bore witness. You may think they were all mistaken or deluded, but you can't deny the fact that this is the first message.
I for one, and million of others like me, from the first century to the twenty-first, believe that these witnesses were telling the truth. Let's assume for a moment that they were, that the basic message of the gospel is true, that Jesus did die on the cross and he was raised from the dead on Easter. What then?
Let me suggest two things, quite simply. The first is this: if Jesus died and rose again, then he is alive today. I remember a story that I heard years ago. I've told it more than once but I still love to think about it. It's from the old days of communism in the Soviet Union. Apparently a Russian atheist was delivering a lecture to a large audience and he was really destroying the idea, the mythology of the New Testament, especially the idea of the resurrection, how absurd that was. He gave this long detailed speech in which he showed conclusively why such an event could never have occurred. And then when the lecture was finished, an old priest got up from the audience and asked for the opportunity to reply. "Well, I don't know," the lecturer said, "I'll give you five minutes." "I only need five seconds," answered the priest. And turning to the packed hall, he greeted them with the joyful words of the Easter liturgy, "Cristos aneste," he cried, "Christ is risen." And back from the crowd came the thundering reply, "Alethos aneste. He is risen indeed." The point, you see, is not just that Christ died and rose. The point is that he's risen. If he's risen, it means he's alive. The story of the cross and the resurrection is not just a historical curiosity. It's a present reality. It means that Jesus is still in the world today, building his church and transforming people, like you and me, overcoming evil with good. As Christians, our faith is based on past events that happened, truly happened, but we live in the present, and because Jesus Christ is here with us, that present for us means peace and joy and hope and love.
Here's a second conclusion: If Jesus died and is risen, then the most important thing in your life, ultimately, the only thing that really matters, is that you come to know him. That's what living Christianity is really all about. It's more than a set of doctrines or beliefs, even beliefs about Jesus. It's more than a set of behaviors or practices, even the practice of good works, even works of love and mercy. At the heart of living Christianity is a relationship with the living Christ. If he's just a historical figure to you, if he's only a part of a holiday tradition or a dimly remembered ritual from your childhood, then you don't really know him. He doesn't just live in stories from the past or on the pages of an ancient book. He's alive. He's present now. Have you met him? Do you know him? It's so important that you do.


Discussion in 'MacBook Pro' started by Prettyboyian, May 5, 2010.
Hey everyone i tried mroogle and search but i couldn't find exactly what i was looking for and i know this community knows it all.
Turn the brightness all the way down.
Set the bottom left or right hot-corners to 'Switch off display', then as you put your screen down, move your cursor to the corner - bam, done.
+1 on using Screen Saver -> Hot Corners ... move mouse over one of the corners, and display can go to screen saver mode, or sleep.
I leave the notebook open and press Control-Shift-Eject to put the screen to sleep.
Sounds to me like he wants his computer to stay awake when the lid is open.
But all the replies are for screen sleeping.
I'm confused, he got help he didn't ask for.
Oh, I get it now (everyone's replies now).
But are you looking for something that will: sleep the display automatically as you close the display, and automatically wake the display as you open the lid as many non-Apple laptops do normally?
Dunno, but you could follow the guy above with the hot corner display dimming. That would work just fine.
Uh yeah, but the Hot Corner method is much faster and easier than a key combo.
I've always been driven mad by this attribute of my Macs.
I'd like to close the lid and walk to the other room, or down the hall to another studio, open the lid and not have to relog into my messenger programs and such.
The OP is looking for the same thing; like how Windows does it, closing the lid doesn't put the system to sleep, but it turns the screen off.
I'd pay for an app that did that. As far as I know, there's no option for this built into OS X. Hopefully I'm wrong and somebody can point it out.
Oh, yeah! You're right. I forgot, that's the first thing I change when I install windows on a machine. At least it's an option.


US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 23rd Fighter Squadron (FS), armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and AGM-88 High Speed Antiradiation Missile (HARM) taxies onto the flight line at Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey, for a mission in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH.
Australia is enhancing its air and missile defense. The national advanced Surface to Air Missile System, NASAMS, was selected for the Australian Government's Short Range Ground Based Air defense program known as LAND19 Phase 7B. The system will eventually become the inner tier of Australia's integrated air and missile defense capability.
The announcement was made by Raytheon Australia and Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace, which joined the Australian Defense Minister, Christopher Pyne, and South Australian Premier, Steven Marshall.
NASAMS is a short to medium range air defense system owned by nine countries and has been integrated into the U.S. National Capital Region's air defense system since 2005.
The system provides ground-based air defence against fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial systems using the Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile).
In addition to the U.S., Norway, Finland, Spain, The Netherlands, Oman, Lithuania, Indonesia and one undisclosed country have chosen to depend on NASAMS for homeland defense and the defense of critical assets.
According to armyrecognition.com, the acquisition brings transformational change to the Army's existing force protection capability, including a progression from man-portable ground-based air defense capability to a fully networked and distributed system. These advancements allow the Australian Army to counter complex air threats beyond visual range and significantly increases protection coverage for soldiers.
Raytheon Australia will open a first production facility in Australia, which will manufacture the LAND19 and other integrated air and missile defense projects, including the combat system upgrades to the Hobart Class destroyers. The two companies are building sovereign capability in this area.
As part of the deal, the Australian government requested up to 108 Raytheon AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), six AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM Air Vehicles Instrumented; and six spare AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM guidance sections, as reported by defenceconnect.com.au.
Who is Behind the Wall?


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package com.sixrr.stockmetrics.methodCalculators;

import com.intellij.psi.JavaRecursiveElementVisitor;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiClass;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElementVisitor;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiMethod;

public class RelativeLinesOfCodeCalculator extends MethodCalculator
{
	private int methodNestingDepth = 0;

	@Override
	protected PsiElementVisitor createVisitor()
	{
		return new Visitor();
	}

	private class Visitor extends JavaRecursiveElementVisitor
	{

		@Override
		public void visitMethod(PsiMethod method)
		{
			if(methodNestingDepth == 0)
			{
				final int numMethodLines = com.sixrr.stockmetrics.utils.LineUtil.countLines(method);
				final PsiClass containingClass = method.getContainingClass();
				if(containingClass != null)
				{
					final int numClassLines = com.sixrr.stockmetrics.utils.LineUtil.countLines(containingClass);
					postMetric(method, numMethodLines, numClassLines);
				}
			}
			methodNestingDepth++;
			super.visitMethod(method);
			methodNestingDepth--;
		}
	}
}

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The ladies who lunch package is a newly developed option for you and a friend or special someone to take time out for a treatment followed by lunch at the delicious Copper cafe in Maori Hill. This is priced per person but designed so you can enjoy it with a friend or special family member.
This is a mini spa facial and express mani followed by lunch.


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5" High Density Foam Dice. Rounded corners. RED or BLUE.
Available in Blue, Red & Yellow. 5 segments = 24" � 6 segments = 30" � 7 segments = 36" *Packed 120 to a poly bag. 40 of each color: Red, Yellow & Blue.


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'Flight Recorder' – a quick, easy and free way to record and replay your flights in MSFS
One of the main quibbles with MSFS has been the lack of a replay feature. While Asobo has confirmed that this will eventually be coming in a future update, there's no clue about when that may come to light, so in the meantime we're starting to see some third-party solutions.
Just last week we told you about FlightControlReplay, a handy application that was updated to support the new Microsoft Flight Simulator. It gives you the ability to record your flights and then replay them from whichever views you want. It can also record high-quality videos, an interesting bonus that some may find useful. But FlightControlReplay is a paid app, and many of you told us that it felt like paying for something that should be included in the sim.
Well, today we have an arguably even more interesting solution. It's called 'Flight Recorder', a simple and straightforward name that extends to the simplicity of the tool itself. It's also completely free!
Flight Recorder is an external app, a small window with just a few options, in a simple idea that is perfectly executed. When you want to start recording your flight (for instance, when on final approach, to record that landing), just press 'Record' in the app. When you're done, stop the recording, and will then have the option to view the replay.
It's all very easy and extremely fun. During the replay, you can completely change your view, just as if you were flying. Want to see that landing through the passenger window? Check. Want to get an up-close view of that landing gear smoothly touching the runway? Check! And, if you want to go back and forward in your recording, just pause the replay and move the time indicator to wherever you want.
In our testing, Flight Recorder worked perfectly. There are some things to keep in mind at this stage, but the developer is working on improving and fixing currently known problems such as the aircraft teleporting to an unknown location when starting a replay, or some performance issues on very long recordings (+ 3h).
Overall, Flight Recorder is an easy recommendation. In fact, considering that it's free and provides a much-requested feature for MSFS, it's an absolute must-have, and one of the coolest add-ons we've seen yet.
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LatinVFR AREX completely overhauls airport ground vehicles in North America
Preview – Global AI Ship Traffic will soon bring variety to maritime traffic in MSFS
Global AI Ship Traffic has been released, brings more than 1300 ships to MSFS
NZA Simulations releases astonishing sceneries for Nelson Airport (NZNS) and Motueka (freeware)
Pushback Helper: a free app to make pushback operations easier


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The Famous Brown Derby Restaurant Remains… Sort Of
July 22, 2018 / 1 Comment
Arguably the most famous landmark restaurant in Los Angeles is the Brown Derby. Though it was actually a chain of restaurants, most people think the first restaurant to open – the one that was shaped like a man's derby hat – was the only one.Little remains of the famous LA landmark. But the Brown Derby Restaurant holds a special place in the hearts of anyone that was a loyal follower of the old I Love Lucy series. In the first episode when the show moved from its New York setting to Hollywood entitled, L. A. At Last, Lucy (Lucille Ball), Ethel (Vivian Vance), and Fred (William Frawley) have lunch at the Brown Derby. The friends are seated in a booth with Eve Arden on one side and William Holden on the other.
Brown Derby Restaurant in the Fifties.
The misadventures start when the ever star-struck Lucy starts trying to peer over the back of the booth to get a better view of William Holden. Holden decides to give her a dose of her own medicine and begins to stare at Lucy who then finds it almost impossible to eat her spaghetti (finally having Ethyl cut the strands off with scissors so she could get it in her mouth.) This builds to the famous disaster scene where Lucy inadvertently causes a waiter to hit Holden in the face with a pie.
It was an adorable episode and can still be watched on the CBS website. It requires a CBS All Access membership, but you can get a 30 day free trial.
The first of the Brown Derby Restaurants at 3427 Wilshire Boulevard was opened by Wilson Mizner in 1926 across from the famed Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel across the street. The chain was started by Robert H. Cobb (after whom the restaurant's famed Cobb Salad was named) and Herbert Somborn (a former husband of film star Gloria Swanson) in the 1920s.
It was a fabulously successful restaurant through the sixties or longer. People wanted to dine where the stars ate and kept the place packed. Like many restaurants where the big attraction is celebrity clientele, the Brown Derby advertised their famous patrons by covering the walls with their caricatures.
In September 1980 the restaurant abruptly closed. Preservationists tried to stop the building from being bulldozed but failed. By November the restaurant had been replaced by a parking lot.
Somehow the dome and the seating area around it (which formed the brim of the hat) were spared. In 1985 the parking lot was replaced by a shopping center named the Brown Derby Plaza. The domed section of the restaurant was incorporated into the third floor of the center.
The Hollywood Brown Derby was located near Hollywood and Vine and the Hollywood Walk of Fame where all the radio shows were being broadcast from and is frequently confused with the original Brown Derby on Wilshire. Stars were always eating there and the restaurant was frequently mentioned on the shows contributing even more to its fame. There were several other Brown Derby locations around Los Angeles, but by the 80s they had all closed down. The only remaining Brown Derby is located at the Disney-MGM Studio theme park in Florida.
As you can see from the old photos with the new what remains of the original Brown Derby restaurant at 3427 Wilshire Boulevard is a sad effort of preservation. It sits far enough back in the shopping center that it would never occur to you that you are looking at the famous old Brown Derby restaurant that was such a favorite of celebrities for so many decades. But take the escalator up to the third level and walk on back and you can still see it. Note, that only the hat remains. The hat with the double doors was the entrance to the full structure that was once the restaurant.
Be sure to see our episode of Miss Kitty Fairlane in LA when she takes you to the Brown Derby Restaurant.
Photo credit: The top photo of the Brown Derby Restaurant in the 1960s was taken by Chalmers Butterfield. Other historic photos are in the public domain.
Entrance to the landmark restaurant, The Brown Derby as it currently sits on the third level of the Brown Derby Plaza mall. It bears little resemblance to the iconic restaurant it was in the 1950s
Back side of the Brown Derby Restaurant as it is today.
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The COVID-19 crisis has been a surreal experience for many – especially for those on the front lines of care. And even more so for caregivers who themselves became infected with the virus.
With an early cluster of cases at CentraState, physician leaders quickly realized that an innovative approach to delivering care was needed. COVID-19 clinician teams were created to effectively coordinate care while minimizing exposure to the virus. John DeTullio, MD, board-certified pulmonologist/critical care physician and president of CentraState Healthcare Partners, was a member of this response team, regularly assessing and treating patients with COVID-19.
Then on April 14, he began to feel a little off, with symptoms like body aches, nasal congestion, and itchy eyes. He took a day off, but soon had a 100.2 fever and headed to the CentraState Emergency Department for a chest X-ray and nasal swab. Test results came back positive for COVID-19.
"In treating patients for the prior six weeks, I knew how this disease behaved – and I knew it could significantly worsen between days 7 to 12," he recalls. "At my age with occasional asthma, it was frightening knowing and waiting for what could happen."
During a 14-day quarantine in his bedroom, Dr. Detullio developed a slight cough and lost his sense of smell and taste. By day 7 or 8, his fever rose to 101 and he experienced shortness of breath, with an oxygen saturation of 92% to 93%. His wife, who was quarantining in another part of their home, left three meals a day at his bedroom door.
"For a few days I was pretty concerned, but connecting with people via phone, text, and email helped," he says. "I also tried to stay out of bed except for naps and during the night."
Determined to fight the virus, Dr. DeTullio walked 3,000 to 5,000 steps a day in his own bedroom whenever possible. He also periodically rested in a prone position when his oxygen saturation was low.
After the 14-day quarantine period, several negative tests, and an additional week of rest to regain his strength, Dr. DeTullio returned to patient care with a personal perspective on the disease.
"I was lucky to have had a mild case and support to help me through it," he adds. "This pandemic has been an ever-changing learning experience, but we've collectively shared insights and expertise to provide the best care possible for our patients and the community – and we're ready for whatever comes next."