Shoulder surfing is when an attacker watches a user enter a password or pin number. As a key punch door only requires a pin number which means anyone with the pin number has access and is susceptible to shoulder surfing. By replacing the key punch with a proximity reader shoulder surfing is not an issue as the proximity reader will require the attacker to also have a physical token to gain access. Tailgating is when an attacker enters an open door before it closes (after an authorized user opens). This can only be mitigated by user training and man traps.


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RTI Launches New Website
RTI's new website is now officially live.
Published: March 29, 2016 ⋅ Updated: April 15, 2019
RTI's new website is now officially live. Updated with a fresh look, the revamped website emphasizes the range of solutions that are possible with RTI user interfaces and custom programming. The new design features a day-in-the-life timeline with interactive elements that allow users to explore the ways that RTI simplifies the home, office, and business through state-of-the-art automation. A showcase section has also been added to the website, filled with incredible visuals of real-life installations from around the world to inspire dealers and end-users with projects of their own.
"The new RTI website is an engaging and informative resource for end-users and dealers alike," said Mike Everett, vice president of sales and marketing, Americas for RTI. "With its new enhancements, the site allows end-users to experience what is possible through automation with RTI. For dealers, the site becomes an extension of our marketing literature and gives them an additional sales tool that they can share with clients."
Visitors to the website will experience RTI user interfaces in scenarios across the spectrum of daily life, from the home to the office and anywhere in between. These user interfaces feature custom graphical user interfaces designed specifically for each application while interactive elements allow the user to explore the world of automation. The new showcase section highlights what RTI dealers are doing for their clients every day, providing a compelling view of real-life installations.
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November 20, 2012 | News | Kenny Luck	New Book Challenges the Church to Empower Men
Often seen as the 800 pound gorilla in the room, most pastors and church leaders have struggled to engage men with both the church's local and global mission.
Now, with the book "Sleeping Giant: No Movement of God without Men of God," author Kenny Luck, Men's Pastor at Saddleback Church and founder of Every Man Ministries, along with Tom Crick, Director of Small Group Health at Saddleback Church give strong medicine addressing the most challenging ministry segment in the church.
According to a news release, the Bible, Luck argues in the book, portrays a God who loves righteousness and justice. But how can the church deliver that justice if it is not effectively reaching, relating to and transforming cultural man? It can only help the victims, not deal with the source.
"Sleeping Giant" is a way to give men a "visible vision." By using what the book refers to as the "spiritual pathway," – Get In, Get Healthy, Get Strong, Get Going – churches receive the critical ingredients that create wide participation and transformation with men, moving them from "crowd to core."
The news release points out that when men become stakeholders in the ongoing mission of the church, they discover significance previously found primarily in a secular environment. A church that empowers transformation of men helps itself by winning the hearts of its men toward the congregation's larger needs, mission, and vision.
Specifically, the news release says Luck asserts that churches that build strong communities of men can help alleviate injustice.
"If the church really cares about women and children, it will invest in reaching men because men and broken male culture are at the root of all global injustices. Pain resonates deeply, and churches that become centers of masculine transformation will become immediately relevant to a watching world."
Luck continues, "When a man's character and conduct become healthy, it changes everything, particularly for the women and children in the 'blast zone' of his life." This is profoundly simple, and heavily opposed by negative cultural and spiritual forces for obvious reasons. A weak vision for men in the church reflects a greater battle, with evil having the largest stake in failure or minimization of success. Men's ministry in the church is not easy. It is plagued internally, simply because a great deal is at stake for the enemy."
In this sense, the news release claims, "Sleeping Giant" is the first book of its kind to contextualize vibrant men's ministry within the church's role missionally in the world where, Luck asserts, "We are continuing to plant functional matriarchies."
The news release says that the strategies discussed in the book have not only been proven effective at Saddleback Church where Luck and Crick are on staff. They have also been tested through Purpose Driven Network churches of all sizes across the nation.
"We were struggling to establish a dynamic men's ministry. That is no longer the case," said Pastor Kevin Springer of Living Oaks Community Church, speaking in the news release.
Springer added, "Our church now has new men's small groups meeting weekly, with plans for expansion and leadership development in the future thanks to Kenny's model … It started a revolution that infected our men, their marriages, and our overall leadership."
Brian Doyle, founder and president of Iron Sharpens Iron, said "Sleeping Giant" will fuel new dreams for your ministry. What would it look like if the men in and around your church began to operate fully under the lordship of Christ, become spiritual leaders in their homes, and then out of their homes, stand tall for Christ in the community and enthusiastically align the vision and mission for your church?"


EE's BrightBox utilizes wireless N technology is designed especially with fibre broadband in mind. Every single computer or device, such as a laptop, that you want to connect to your wireless network will need a wireless network card. Buyers that sign up for 4G service will be employing the similar WiMAX network utilised by Clear Web. Most of the suggestions here are cost-free or low-cost, and utilize the attributes currently built into your router. Even so, just make positive that the card you are installing works with your particular router. Wi-Fi also permits you to connect in peer-to-peer mode – known as a wireless ad-hoc network. There are numerous that I could not be conscious of. So if you go with a wireless resolution similar to Clear, just be confident to read the fine print to see if there is a data cap, what it is and the charges for exceeding that limit.
The requirements for wireless routers include wireless-G, wireless-N and wireless-AC, which is the newest and quickest typical as of 2014. When it comes to property theater, nonetheless, wireless undoubtedly shows its flaws no matter how effectively it works. Also, in the wireless network market it is frequent for firms to need a contract in order to create and handle switching charges in case consumers decide to switch to a different corporation. There are a couple of possibilities for this a USB stick" or one particular that is a cross involving a USB stick and a credit card. A wireless bridge is a fantastic way to add them devoid of operating a extended wire to your most important router.
Alternatively, if you are only hunting to wirelessly stream music to your property theater's speaker technique, Apple's Airport Express is one more choice, and we've detailed how to use it to turn your iOS device into a multi-room wireless remote The downside is that it is only designed to function with iTunes (which you can mostly get about with application like AirFoil ). Given that they expense the very same as the AudioEngine option, it is genuinely not superior unless you plan to use it as a router as well.
In truth, it is estimated that about 75% of residences in the UK alone enjoy wireless access, a number that is growing rapidly as more and far more users reap its rewards. Wireless technologies at household is typically split into two distinct choices – wireless broadband and wireless networking, each of which means a slightly diverse factor. Verizon sold landline operations in the markets of northern New England to FairPoint Communications in March 2008. Check the factory password – Usually verify the router password to see if it is something difficult to guess or other customers could gain absolutely free access. From the command prompt (in Windows 7) if you sort netsh wlan show all, you will see a list of all wireless networks and the channels getting made use of in your vicinity. Though the above covers most of what you'd want out of a wireless household, wireless photography is just a lot of exciting.


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Q: AWS Api Gateway with "/" in the URL Param So I need to setup a url like this:
/api/v1/doc/{id}
Where id could be something like 10.10/M11
If there any I can get around APIG and do a setup like this?
I tried this in sam already, it giving me 403
{
    "message": "Missing Authentication Token"
}

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Q: React JS How to make a Button create another Button So I have an "Add" button that, once clicked, I want to open another button in which the user can add some text. The reason the second (newly opened) button is a button is because it will serve as a link to another page. If anyone cares to know, I'm trying to build an app where people can track certain exercises/movements. This first page will be where they write in the names of the movements they want to track.
Here is the code I have for the "Add" button:
import React from 'react';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
import AddCircleIcon from '@material-ui/icons/AddCircle';

const useStyles = makeStyles((theme) => ({
  button: {
    margin: theme.spacing(1),
    background: '#C4C4C4',
    fontFamily: 'PT Sans Caption',
    fontSize: '18px',
    borderRadius: '10px',
    padding: '20px',
    marginTop: '50px',
    width: '700px'
  },
}));

export default function AddMovementButton() {
  const classes = useStyles();

  return (

      <Button
        variant="contained"
        className={classes.button}
        startIcon={<AddCircleIcon />}>
        Add Movement
      </Button>

  );
};

Here is the code for the button that I would like to appear after the "Add" is clicked:
import React from 'react';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';

const useStyles = makeStyles((theme) => ({
    button: {
        margin: theme.spacing(1),
        background: '#C4C4C4',
        fontFamily: 'PT Sans Caption',
        fontSize: '18px',
        borderRadius: '10px',
        padding: '20px',
        marginTop: '50px',
        width: '700px',
    },
    newMovement: {
        border: 'none',
        padding: '10px',
        fontFamily: 'PT Sans Caption',
        fontSize: '18px',
        borderRadius: '10px',

    }
}));

export default function MovementButton(props) {
    const classes = useStyles();
    //const [ exercise ] = useState(props.exercise)

    return (
        <Button
            variant="contained"
            className={classes.button}>
            <input type="text" placeholder="Enter Movement Here" className={classes.newMovement}/>
        </Button>
    );
};

Here is a picture of what I have on my browser. The two buttons that say "Enter Movement Here" are there because I called them in the home page. The goal would be for the homepage to start with just the "Add Movement" button and then grow as the user adds movements.

If I left out any needed info just let me know, and also I'm fairly new to coding so any other tips/corrections would be appreciated. Thanks guys!

A: You can create a state to count the button click, use the for loop to generate the buttons.
import React, {useState} from 'react';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
import AddCircleIcon from '@material-ui/icons/AddCircle';

const useStyles = makeStyles((theme) => ({
  button: {
    margin: theme.spacing(1),
    background: '#C4C4C4',
    fontFamily: 'PT Sans Caption',
    fontSize: '18px',
    borderRadius: '10px',
    padding: '20px',
    marginTop: '50px',
    width: '700px'
  },
}));

export default function AddMovementButton() {
  const classes = useStyles();
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  const generateButton s= () => {
    let buttons = [];
    for(let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
       buttons.push(<MovementButton />);
    }
    return buttons;
  }

  return (

      {generateButtons()}
      <Button
        variant="contained"
        className={classes.button}
        onClick={() => setCount(count => count + 1)}
        startIcon={<AddCircleIcon />}>
        Add Movement
      </Button>

  );
};


Through all time, human beings have dreamed of being better, faster, and innovative… we've dreamed of moving beyond our limits. The Tesla Model 3 is the most popular car in history due to its price, speed, security and incredible build quality. Now, with the XR immersive experience, Tesla owners can enjoy and navigate through the stars and cities in their Tesla spaceships – just like Star Trek.
The client needed a creative XR experience to turn Tesla into a spaceship. Strategy emphasized the intuitive user experience.
Current Tesla owners tend to be male, older (45+ years old), higher income ($100K+) and Asian. The Model 3 searchers also skew male and Asian but bring in a younger demographic (35-44 years old) and slightly lower income ($50-100K) – a testament to the lower, more appealing price point.
Both Tesla owners and Model 3 searchers showed significantly high interest in the environment and ecology. Other similar interests included shopping, classic cars and technology/science news. Tesla owners indexed highly with computer hardware, travel and cooking while Model 3 owners indexed highly with fitness, consumer electronics and movies.
1. Teslas take their cues from consumer technology, not from auto-industry traditions.
2. Teslas actually do have the potential to save the planet.
3. Tesla's brand is highly symbolic.
4. Tesla's are pretty great cars.


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ICC wants to open 'war crimes' investigation in West Bank and Gaza
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor says she wants to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian Territories.
Fatou Bensouda said "war crimes" had been or were being committed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, and asked for a ruling on the court's territorial jurisdiction.
The ICC has been examining a case brought by the Palestinians since 2015.
Israel said the move was "baseless".
In a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ICC, of which Israel is not a member, had "no jurisdiction in this case", and that the decision had turned the Hague-based court into a "political tool to delegitimize the State of Israel".
In her ruling, Ms Bensouda said a preliminary examination had gathered enough information to meet all criteria to open an investigation, and that she was "satisfied that there [was] a reasonable basis to proceed" with an inquiry.
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"[T]here are no substantial reasons to believe that an investigation would not serve the interests of justice," she said, adding that she had filed a request with judges to rule on what territory a future inquiry would cover because of the contested legal and factual issues of the territories.
Ms Bensouda did not specify the perpetrators of the alleged crimes but it is understood that in her preliminary inquiries she has been focused on issues like Israel's building of settlements and its military operations in Gaza, BBC Middle East analyst Alan Johnston reports.
The ICC has been examining what the Palestinians say are war crimes committed by Israel since June 2014, one month before a war between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. In the fighting, 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, were killed while 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
The Palestinians brought the case under the State of Palestine.
Mr Netanyahu described the announcement as an "outrageous decision", saying: "The ICC only has jurisdiction over petitions submitted by sovereign states. But there has never been a Palestinian state."
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10 Most Dangerous Prisoners Who Broke Out of Jail In Real Life
Last Updated: April 6, 2020
By Amira Daniel
Several successful prison breakouts in the world have resulted to dangerous prisoners escaping from the bars of detention centres. Who are these dangerous criminals?How did they escape and where are they now? These dangerous prisoners are neither faceless nor nameless for sure. Here's the list of 10 most dangerous prisoners who escaped from prison.
1.Pascal Payet:
Born in 1963, Payet is a French criminal who is widely known for making two successful prison escapes using helicopters. Payet, arrested and sentenced for a 30-year jail term in France's Luynes prison for a murder committed after a robbery of a security van in 1997 planned and executed a prison escape that continues to stun many people. He made two prison escapes using a helicopter. He was captured on September 21, 2007, after his second escape. He is one of the most dangerous prisoners in France
2. Jay Junior Sigler:
In his eighth year of a 20-year jail prison sentence, Jay Junior Sigler an inmate charged for armed robbery at the infamous Everglades Correctional Institution decided to plan a prison escape strategy that saw him escape from prison with the help of his mother, Sandra Sigler and a few of his friends. He escaped in broad daylight when three of his friends rammed an eighteen-wheeled truck through four prison fences followed by a car driven by his mother. After escaping successfully, Jay and his friends swapped vehicles at a local mall. Jay was killed in an attempt to flee after realizing that they were being followed. The car he was driving slammed into an oncoming vehicle resulting to his death.
3. Antonio Ferrara:
Antonio Ferrara was sentenced to an 8-year jail term at the age of 29 years after being arrested for two counts of armed robberies. He had also been suspected for taking part in at least fifteen more such cases. On March 12, 2003, Antonio Ferrara escaped from Fresnes prison in France using an explosive that no one knows its source. This was five years into his prison term. Six of his accomplices had stormed the prison gates firing AK 47s and launching rocket-propelled grenades, ruthlessly killing the guards. Ferrara was arrested after four months of a police manhunt.
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4. Frank Morris:
Frank Morris and two other inmates came up with a master plan on how they would escape from prison using a ventilation shaft that was housed on an unguarded utility corridor that led to the roof of the prison. They used stolen drill bits and a vacuum cleaner motor to make a drill that would successfully help them to dig their way out of prison. After two years of planning, Frank Morris and his friends broke out of prison into the waters of surrounding Alcatraz. It is widely believed that they drowned in these waters, although the body of Frank Morris and one of his friends were never found.
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5. Steven Jay Russell:
Russell was born in 1957 in the United States and is believed to have escaped from prison on multiple times. He is still serving his term in a solitary confinement at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with only one free hour to exercise in a day. These efforts are aimed at taming him from making any further successful prison escape attempts.
6. Alfred George Hinds:
George Hinds escaped from Nottingham Prison after sneaking through the locked doors of the prison and going over a 20-foot prison wall. He then used his charm to make a second successful prison escape until his arrest two years later after he was stopped in an unregistered vehicle. In 1966, Hinds published a personal account of his escapes and his clashes with the English legal system in a book he titled Contempt of Court which earned him celebrity status
7. Richard Lee McNair:
McNair escaped three times from three different correctional institutions using various creative methods. It is believed that he used a lip balm to squeeze out of a pair of handcuffs in his first attempt and crawling through a prison ventilation duct in his second attempt. In his last escape from a federal prison in April 2006, McNair mailed himself from the prison using a crate.
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8. Joseph Bolitho Johns:
Joseph Bolitho Johns is well known as Moondyne Joe, and was a Western Australia Bushranger who escaped from prisons on several occasions. His notoriety made Moondyne Joe a household name in Western Australia and the surrounding areas.
9. Jack Sheppard:
Sheppard was a thief and a burglar in the city of London in the late years of the 18th century. It is believed that he escaped four times from different prisons leading to his hanging at Tyburn when he was arrested on the fifth time. This led to an end of his two-year-old criminal/crime career.
10. Brendan McFarlane:
Brendan McFarlane was born in 1983. He is widely known for escaping from Hm Prison maze on 16, January 1986. Brendan McFarlane is regarded as one of the guys who launched successful prison attempts in the late 80s.
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2. To doff (one's hat) as a token of respect or submission.
2. To doff one's hat.


Building a new home is a great opportunity to express your family's taste and lifestyle. Homeowners need to be savvy, educated and aware of their choices when building a new home. It isn't all about upgrades. It is about really thinking about what you want. It is about deciding for yourself, whether you wish to do any of the work of building your home, and then finding a builder who meets your individual needs. Consider not only your immediate needs, but also your future needs. Consider not only how the world is now, but also how things might change in the future. Your vision of the future is a large part of planning your home. Therefore your first step will be to take an honest look at where your family is headed, and what you see in your personal future, as well as considering how economic and technological trends will progress.
The field of construction has changed a lot in the last 20 Years and it's vital to keep up to date of these changes for the construction of your new house. A great example would be fiberglass is no longer the insulation of choice. Instead consider closed cell insulation and polyurethane foam panels. Do your best to learn about the benefits of insulated concrete, and the possibilities of modular homes, as well as traditional wood framed homes.
Once you have a general idea of what you want, search online for home plans that fit you and your family. There are hundreds of thousands of home plans to choose from, so it is likely that you will find just the right plan. If your considering hiring an architect, know that you may be investing tens of thousands of dollars for this service, so it may be a good idea to look for plans first. Some homebuilders only build a few different models of homes, so if you are considering one of these "builders" you should weigh your desire for creativity against the benefits of using this builder.


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Transition Chesterfield
Making Chesterfield more Sustainable
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The Transition movement is a worldwide network of people who are concerned about the future. As fossil fuels are burned up and carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere, we are already experiencing unpredictable, and in some cases catastrophic, climate events such as floods, droughts, big freezes, heat waves and storms. We are also seeing shortages of crucial raw materials and the destruction of vulnerable ecosystems.
The challenge is to find ways to live our lives sustainably: ensuring the well-being of future generations; not using up finite resources or creating insurmountable problems; and making our towns and villages better places to live. Each Transition Initiative finds a way of working that is appropriate to the individuals and the community involved.
In Transition Chesterfield we started in February 2008 and began attracting interest by showing inspiring films, hosting discussions, providing opportunities to socialise and creating means to communicate. We soon found that there were lots of people who shared our concerns and who wanted to know more and join in practical local activities.
We wanted to reach as many different people as we could and help them to take manageable practical steps towards living more sustainably. We established an email list which soon grew to hundreds and sent out a newsletter to promote our events. We meet for Green Drinks in a town centre pub where people can get to know us in a relaxed, social environment, and hold regular open meetings for business, talks and discussions.
We have identified people with skills that they are willing to share, and organise low-cost workshops where anyone can learn an array of cooking, gardening, craft and other skills. We hold potato days where gardeners can buy their favourite varieties of seed potatoes and people who have never grown anything can buy a few tubers and discover the delight of growing. We have organised an Abundance project to harvest apples that would otherwise be wasted, and purchased a press to produce apple juice. We facilitate formal and informal produce swaps.
We encourage people to walk, cycle or use buses rather than rely on cars for transport, producing walking guides, providing adult bike safety and maintenance training and working in partnership with others to identify the key walking routes into town. We are currently working on a guide to a circular route from the train station to the Royal Hospital.
We have had stalls at community events, written and produced a piece of street theatre on insulation, and held repair cafés where people could get their broken things mended.
At the same time we have built relationships with other Transition groups and hosted events that bring groups together to share experiences.
In 2015 we decided that it was time to put our energy into a bigger project as well as continuing with all the established activities. The idea that received most support among our core group was to identify a piece of land and set up a demonstration permaculture plot. This is now a flourishing charity Inspire Community Garden. However its continued existence is threatened by the proposed redevelopment of Ashgate Carpark that will block vehicular access to the garden. Click here for our objection to the planning application (Oct 2018).
We're a completely voluntary community group, and new members are always welcome!
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The Water Hut offers a space and container for one to step into stillness, self, grace, care, vulnerability and heart.
This space was created by many and held at it's heart is a prayer for a new way of intimacy to come into being. A new way of relating to ourselves and to another, in intimate union. To be so true, real and connected to ourselves and then have the capacity to relate with another in the highest form of presence and love.
This exquisite space is close to the natural swimming pool, which allows you to feel like you are in a jungle of green.
It is a place for winter warmth by the fire and an open space in the warmth of summer.
Beautiful outdoor bathing area en suite, preparation space for juices, breakfasts and small raw meals.
Luxury white linen on a king size bed.
MAY YOUR TIME HERE NURTURE YOU, WELCOME YOU INTO PRESENCE, CONNECT YOU TO YOURSELF, YOUR ALIVENESS, YOUR TRUTH AND YOUR MAGNIFICENCE.


January was a pretty amazing reading month for me, especially when I compare it to January last year. In fact, I completed one of my 2015 Reading Goals! I wanted to read a book over 500 pages and The Final Empire is a massive 660 pages. So that's one goal checked, and I didn't buy any more books which means I'm on point with my buy less goal, and I did full reviews of two of these books! So let's round up.
I picked this up on New Years Day for a cliché read to bring in the new year. Every New Years I watch the movies and I love them so I expected that the book was going to be just as good, or better. At the end of every month I pick up the books I've read and sit down with my book journal to write down the quotes that I liked; writing that impressed me, lines that made me laugh or cry, particularly strong moments- anything that stood out to me while I was reading. With this book I had none. That almost never happens, but I think that it explains this book to me. It was a fun read, but all the way through I was a little, well, bored. The movie was better!
My name is Imogen and I'm afraid of big books. Yep. They scare me. Anything over 400 pages is a little frightening, 500 pages is terrifying, at 660 pages this book was my equivalent to a horror movie. But read it, I did. And love it, I did.
It took me a while to get into this book, in fact at 100 pages- where I would normally pause a book if I wasn't into it, I was still a bit eh about it. But I kept reading and thank goodness I did because it picked up. And it picked up. And it picked up to the point of me reading 200 pages a day to finish it and getting annoyed when I had to leave the house or do some work because I wanted to read goddangit.
The writing was a bit simplistic but the story more than made up for it, it was so well crafted and the twists just kept coming. Sanderson is a master of storytelling. I read a review before I read the book that the dialogue wasn't great but surprisingly, I loved it and 9/10 of the quotes that I wrote were speech.
It took for me a long time to get into it and I found it difficult to get into the world. But it was well worth it and I definitely struggled on rating this one, but it deserves five stars. I need the next book ASAP.
I hit a bit of a reading slump towards the end of January after reading so many great books and really needed something different and short. So I picked up The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas which I read as a kid and while I remembered the basic story, didn't remember much else. This is a great book that focuses on a little boy Bruno who goes to live at a concentration camp where his father is working. It's told from his third person point of view and the writing is quite childish, which actually makes this so much more painful to read. It shows the war from such an innocent view point that it takes on a whole new level of uncomfortable realisation. I cried at the end and even now, after a week, thinking of one line in particular makes my gut clench in uncomfortable sorrow.
John Boyne has written another book , about the first World War and I'm wondering how masochistic it is to buy it knowing I will probably cry like a baby.
My full review of Empire is here! But without spoiling Conquest, I'll just say that this second book of the series focused on all the great things about the first and built up this amazing world. I am completely head over heels for this series and would recommend it to anyone.
My full review of Golden Son is here! However it has spoilers for the first book in the series, Red Rising, so I'll just say that it was okay! Not as strong as the first book in my opinion but a fair continuation of this series and the story.


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Amit Shah takes full control, focuses on the Kashmir plan
Demonstrators throw stones towards Indian police during clashes after the Eid prayer in Srinagar. Reuters
Resmi Sivaram / Agencies
The new home minister at the Centre, Amit Shah, has moved swiftly to enforce the agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its political mentor Rashtreeya Swayamsevak Sangh. Shah, who replaced Rajnath Singh at Home, has virtually become the power centre in Delhi though technically Singh remains the number two man. On Tuesday, Shah chaired a meeting attended by senior ministers like Nirmala Sitaraman and S. Jaishanker, sparking speculation that he has grabbed the number two spot.
As soon as he got down to work at the ministry on Friday, Shah focused on the Kashmir plan — a plan to bring the troubled state under the grip of the BJP and finish off extremist forces.
His main agenda is to install a BJP government in the state which is under President's rule. The move is to reorganise state Assembly constituencies with the idea of increasing representation from the Hindu areas of Jammu-Kashmir.
Jammu has 37 seats in the 87-strong Assembly, while Muslim majority Kashmir Valley has 46. Four seats are kept for Ladakh, while 24 seats are in reserve for the Pakistan-administered part of the state. In effect, however, the 24 never come into an election. The delimitation will see a number of reserved seats too, meaning they will have legislators who are strictly Hindus.
The BJP thinks Jammu representation can go up to 45 plus considering the population and area. Shah has already held extensive discussions with officials and the top ministers about details of the plan, called 'Mission 44 plus.' Shah's ministry has discussed the appointment of a delimitation commission to study the constituencies and come up with its recommendations. The commission will take into account rhe population and area of different regions of the state before making the proposals.
The BJP wants to ensure the safe return of Kashmiri Pundits to their homeland. It also wants the special status article 370 removed. The party need not have to depend on the state legislature for their plans as the governor runs the state. However, it wants to ensure that the Assembly remains within its grip as a hostile regime in JK can in the future dump the plan.
A panel could soon be appointed to reorganise constituencies.
The move has drawn ire in Jammu-Kashmir. Mainstream parties reacted with anger, calling it an obvious attempt to "inflict another emotional partition" on the state "on communal lines." Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti tweeted: "Distressed to hear about GoI's (Government of India) plan to redraw assembly constituencies in J&K. Forced delimitation is an obvious attempt to inflict another emotional partition of the state on communal lines.
Instead of allowing old wounds to heal, GoI is inflicting pain on Kashmiris." National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said: "My party would oppose tooth and nail any attempt to make changes without a mandate from the people of the state. The freeze on delimitation was applied to J&K and was done to bring the state in line with the rest of the country. The same was challenged & upheld in both the High Court of J&K & the Supreme Court." Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement president Shah Faesal said: "If the idea is to meet the growing demands of the population, if the idea is to give a certain kind of balance to three regions, we believe that the state legislature and the people of the state are the best stakeholders to take that decision." Meanwhile, With eradication of terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir being the focus of new Shah, the Centre has issued a list of top 10 terrorists operating in the state who need to be eliminated.
The list includes wanted terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizbul Mujahideen and Al Badr based on inputs shared with the Ministry by Jammu and Kashmir Police, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Intelligence Bureau (IB).
Six of the top 10 militants named in the the list belong to Hizbul Mujahideen, two from JeM, and one each from LeT and Al Badr terrorist organisation. LeTs commander Wasim Ahmed alias Osama, active in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, and chief Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo alias Mohammed Bin Qasim are mentioned on the top of the list.
Hizbul Mujahideen's Anantnag district commander Mohammad Asraf Khan, Baramulla district commander Mehraj-ud-Din, cadre of Srinagar Dr Saifulla, Pulwama district commander Arshad-ul-Haq and Ajaj Ahmad Malik, probably appointed as Kupwara district commander, are in the list.
India Jammu and Kashmir
Flawed narrative on Kashmir hampers peace
The debate on Kashmir has produced a crop of 'experts' whose analysis is in many cases tinted by their political alignment. In the run-up to the 2019 general election, the issue of handling of Kashmir by the Centre and the connected question of India's Pakistan policy figure prominently in the opposition's attack on the government.
Video: 5 CRPF troopers, 1 militant killed in Anantnag attack
Police sources said two masked militants in a car attacked a joint party of local police and the CRPF in K.P.Road area of Anantnag.
India abusing 'lawless' detention act in Kashmir, says rights group
The Public Safety Act (PSA) was a "lawless law" under which the authorities hold children, old people and the disabled, and it should be scrapped, the group said.
India is planning military action against Pakistan: FM
"We have reliable intelligence that between April 16 and 20, India may carry out an attack against Pakistan," disclosed the foreign minister at a news conference on Sunday.


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Принстон () — місто () в США, в округах Мілль-Лак і Шерберн штату Міннесота. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Принстон розташований за координатами  (45.567657, -93.592041).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 13,41 км², з яких 12,84 км² — суходіл та 0,57 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 350 осіб/км².  Було 2044 помешкання (152/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 1,7 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 24,5 % — особи молодші 18 років, 56,1 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 19,4 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 38,7 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 87,5 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 83,3 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  долари для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 12,5 % осіб, у тому числі 15,9 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 3,3 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 22,7 %, виробництво — 18,4 %, роздрібна торгівля — 13,8 %.

Відомі особистості
У місті народився:
 Род Гремс (1948-2013) — американський політик.

Примітки

Джерела

Міста Міннесоти
Населені пункти округу Мілль-Лак (Міннесота)
Населені пункти округу Шерберн (Міннесота)

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Summer crowds are gone. Unbearable mid-day heat is not here anymore. Nature plays with the color palette.
Autumn months September and October are ideal for active holiday break, especially if you plan to do some hiking. First rain has cleared the haze from the summer heat wave and sky is heavenly blue again. From the mountain tops you can clearly see Adriatic Sea in the south and Carinthian peaks with the mighty Großglockner in the north. On the way to the top you can learn about history of The Isonzo front first hand by walking past bunkers and trenches that are almost the same as they were a hundred years ago.
Down in the valley visitors can still enjoy all the water activities, just this time almost by themselves and really get that pristine touch with the nature. Mountain biking and road cycling are also a good option to spend the day out in the fresh air.
Days are shorter but that only means that you have more time to enjoy culinary delights in one of many restaurants that offer local cuisine or if you want to try all at once just go to Jestival – Food & Art Festival that is happening on October 6 in Kobarid.


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A Life-Changing Moment
Posted on January 28, 2010 by Michael Gros — 4 Comments ↓
Some people can accomplish more in a single moment than the rest of us do in our entire lives.
The Baraisa (Avodah Zara 17a) recounts the story of Elazar ben Durdaya who dedicated his life to empty pursuits and pleasures. One day, a chance comment caused him to realize how meaningless his life had been. He immediately broke down in tears of sincere penitence, accepted responsibility for his misdeeds and committed himself to changing. At that moment he died, and a voice called out from heaven and said, "He has been readied for the life of the World to Come!"
When the incident was reported to Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi, he said the sincerity of Elazar ben Durdaya's teshuva was the key to its acceptance. He said some people acquire their place in the World to Come through many years of work, and some can acquire it in a single moment.
Doniel Goldrich* witnessed a similar moment of life-changing teshuva nearly 20 years ago. Doniel participated in a learning program sponsored by Partners In Torah. Once a week, Doniel and several other men from Lakewood drove to a synagogue in a neighboring town where they learned one-on-one with community members.
Doniel was paired with 38-year old Marshall Lichtenstein*. Marshall's two sons attended the nearby religious Shalom Torah Center school, but at home the family kept very few practices.
Doniel and Marshall studied the Torah portion of the week together and used it as a springboard into many other topics, including Jewish philosophy, mitzvot and holidays. Over the two years that they learned together, Doniel was constantly inspired by Marshall's excitement for learning and his passion for the material.
When Marshall was a young man, he had been diagnosed with a serious heart condition. But after years with no episodes, he assumed the condition had passed. However a year and a half after Doniel started learning with him, Marshall began feeling ill. After a battery of tests his cardiologist said that he needed a valve replacement as soon as possible. He went through open-heart surgery to have a pig's valve inserted, and when the procedure was unsuccessful, his doctors performed a second round of surgery.
"Through the process we got to know him," Doniel said. "We went to the hospital to visit him. He wasn't religious at all, but he put on Tefillin in his hospital room for the first time. He was very appreciative that we visited."
Committing to particular mitzvot can be a major source of merit for a person in a difficult situation, so Doniel suggested some small religious steps that Marshall could take. Religious growth is based on taking baby steps, and Doniel suggested a few preliminary ideas.
"I said to him 'would you want to take on something, to bring to action things that we've talked about? It might bring fulfillment to your life. You don't have to keep completely Kosher, but at some level you might consider keeping Kosher in your home, or maybe your wife would like to light Shabbas candles,'" Doniel said.
"That's an amazing idea," Marshall said. "Let me think about it."
The following week Doniel spoke to him during their learning session after he had been released from the hospital. Doniel could see a difference in him, a certain excitement that he had never seen before.
"I could tell that something had changed. His face was lit up," Doniel said. "Marshall said, 'we can't keep Kosher in our home now, but every Thursday night we go out on a date to particular restaurant, because of our favorite dish on the menu which is made of pork. We decided we won't go to that restaurant anymore. We'll change our weekly date because it's not Kosher. It's something we accepted on ourselves because of your suggestion.'"
"You could see the happiness on his face. It was not an easy decision. It was very hard," Doniel said. "I told him how wonderful it was."
For Marshall, it was a major step. To give up a favorite dish and restaurant takes a lot of self-control, but Marshall and his wife were committed to their decision. They understood that the value of their decision outweighed their enjoyment of the particular dish.
Ten days later, Doniel received a call from Marshall's wife at 6:00 in the morning. She said that Marshall had passed away during the night.
Doniel put the family in touch with a local Orthodox funeral home which gave him a full kosher burial. Doniel and several of the other men from Lakewood attended the funeral. A Rabbi from the sons' school delivered the eulogy. He knew Marshall and over the last two years had witnessed Marshall's growing excitement for Jewish learning. The rabbi quoted the first Mishnah in Bava Kamma that refers to man as maveh, a word which comes from the root "to search or inquire."
"He said that's the root of human beings – we're always searching, always looking to make ourselves better. This was Marshall. He was able in mid-life to become a searcher, to accept new opportunities."
At the cemetery, Doniel and his friends made sure that Marshall was buried in the proper way. Everyone else had gone home after the service, but the men wanted to make sure everything was done perfectly. They threw shovelful after shovelful of dirt into the grave until it was full.
"After we finished putting dirt in the hole, a woman came over to us, hysterically crying. She said 'I'm Marshall's first cousin. To see what I just saw, he must have done something in his life to merit having people like you burying him.'"
That was Marshall. With his one major decision, Marshall transformed his life both in this world and the next world. How much can we achieve, not just in one special moment, but over a lifetime of dedicating ourselves on the proper path?
* Not his real name
Michael Gros is the former Chief Operating Officer of the outreach organization The Atlanta Scholars Kollel. He writes from Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. The Teshuva Journey column chronicles uplifting teshuva journeys and inspiring kiruv tales. Send comments to michaelgros@gmail.com To receive the column via email or see back issues, visit http://www.michaelgros.com
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4 comments on "A Life-Changing Moment"
Judy Resnick says:
I remember reading a Medrash somewhere about how differently Reuven, Aharon and Boaz would have acted had they known that their actions would be written down for all time in Tanach. Reuven would not have just suggested throwing Yosef into a pit; he would have defied the other brothers, grabbed Yosef, placed him on his shoulders and carried him back to Yaakov. Aharon would have met Moshe Rabbeinu with musical accompaniment. Boaz would have given Rus a full course gourmet meal rather than six measures of parched grain.
Likewise this gentleman "Marshall Lichtenstein," his memory should be for a blessing. If Mr. Lichtenstein had known that he would be so honored just for the self-sacrifice of giving up his favorite pork dish, I'm sure he would have rented a blowtorch and kashered his entire kitchen on the spot. The tragedy is we don't really appreciate how our actions look later on after they have been written down on the books of Heaven.
Hashem tells us, "Make Me an opening for repentance as small as the eye of a needle, and I will make you an opening large enough for wagons to pass through." Any little step toward Teshuvah is very blessed by Hashem.
The story doesn't say, and maybe the storyteller doesn't know, but perhaps "Marshall Lichtenstein" merited the gift of Teshuvah and Kevuras Yisroel, as well as having wonderful Jewish children, because he treated his own parents with honor and respect.
PL says:
Beautiful story. It brought tears to my eyes. Thank you.
Neil Harris says:
In today's communal-landscape, it's beautiful to see the impact and importance of a person making, what other's might view as, a small change.
No change is small, no effort is overlooked by Hashem.
Thank you for posting this.


Be the first to see World War II action film AGE OF HEROES, starring SEAN BEAN, and help ex-Armed Forces members have a better life.
Cineworld Cinemas and Metrodome Distribution have joined forces to offer UK cinema-goers a unique opportunity to be the first to see World War II actioner AGE OF HEROES while at the same time raising vital funds to improve the lives of ex-Armed Forces members. These special charity screenings, priced at £5, are available to everyone, and will take place nationwide at Cineworld cinemas on 15th May.
Every penny raised from these exclusive first-look screenings will be donated to the ForceSelect Foundation – a specialist fundraiser that supports small-scale Armed Forces charities that aid former UK Service members.
AGE OF HEROES is a spectacular British WWII thriller inspired by the real-life events of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando Unit – an inspiration for the modern day SAS. In the film, Sean Bean and Danny Dyer, reunited for the first time since Nick Love's 'The Outlaw', play members of 30 Commando, one of most important elite units in the history of the British Armed Forces, as they venture into occupied Norway to capture vital Nazi technology that could turn the tide of the war.
AGE OF HEROES will be officially released at cinemas on 20th May and on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 13th June.


Random thoughts: Crux Fermentation Project recently sent me a few samples. I've heard great things about their beer, but have never had the chance to taste one. That changes now. Today I'm drinking Half Hitch, an Imperial IPA that features Mosaic hops. Mosaic is a descendant of Simcoe, Tomahawk, and Nugget hops. Its flavor descriptors include citrus, cedar, floral, stone fruit, tropical, pine, and even onion and garlic! Let's hope those last two don't find their way into this beer!
The tasting: Bottled on December 4, 2013. Half Hitch is golden orange in color, slightly hazy, with a white head that dissipates slowly. Aroma starts with grapefruit, but quickly moves to tropical fruit with guava and mango taking center stage. There's also a bit of bread and a touch of alcohol in the nose. At the first sip, mango and guava are front and center in taste. Grapefruit is present, but is takes a backseat to the tropical fruit flavors. This is a nice change of pace, as most IIPAs tend to emphasize grapefruit flavor.
In the middle, biscuit and slightly sweet caramel malt flavors emerge followed by a bit of warming alcohol. At 10% ABV, I expected a more noticeable alcohol bite, and was pleasantly surprised by the lack of it. Hop bitterness is moderate to high, but is very nicely balanced. Half Hitch is moderately carbonated, medium bodied, has a mouth feel that's creamy, yet slightly resinous. It finishes with a tropical fruit and warming alcohol.
4 star. Really good! I want this again! This is a delicious Imperial IPA! It has loads of juicy tropical hop flavors, but manages to stay out of hop-bomb territory. For a 10% ABV beer, it's extremely drinkable—so take it your time and savor it. Sadly, my drink didn't last very long. Half Hitch might be hard to find, so if you're an IPA lover and come across it, don't hesitate to pick it up.
Have you tried Half Hitch? What's your favorite Crux beer?
Random thoughts: I first tasted Heavy Seas beer this summer during a visit to Boston. Heavy Seas is located in Baltimore, and primarily distributes in the eastern US. They also specialize cask ales and have one of the largest (if not the largest) cask programs in the country. I enjoyed their beer and wanted to give their winter beer, Heavy Storm, a try as part of my series on winter seasonals.
The tasting: Winter Storm is the kind of beer I look for in a winter seasonal. Its rich malty flavors and full body provide a perfect complement the cold and dreary weather. So let this Winter Storm warm you up the next time the Polar Vortex comes your way.
What do you think of Heavy Seas Winter Storm?
BridgePort Brewing Co. is turning 30 this year. To celebrate, they will release their Trilogy series of limited release beers throughout 2014.
In addition, BridgePort will soon spruce up their label artwork as well. In the picture below, you can see BridgePort's current label images on the left. On the right, are the new labels. The updated labels sport the same general look and color scheme. The BridgePort name is displayed more prominently in black. Gone is the image of the bridge (St. John's by the looks of it).
What prompted you to redesign your labels and eliminate the image of the bridge?
For 2014, we wanted to place as much emphasis as possible on our 30 year anniversary. We considered many design options both with and without the bridge. Although we ultimately decided to proceed with a design that does not include the bridge, this does not mean that it has been permanently discarded. This was simply a design choice that we felt would help to place more visual emphasis on the 30 year labeling.
Will all of your beers use the new design?
Yes, all of our beers will use the 30th anniversary design for 2014. The new labels will begin arriving at the shelf during the week of 1/20.
Why did you change Hop Czar? Is this the first change you made to this beer? When will the new Hop Czar be released?
The original Hop Czar was created as an exploration into the world of adventurous hop-centric styles. The Hop Czar series that we are launching this year is simply an expansion of this exploration. The series gives Jeff and his brewers the opportunity to craft and release new and innovative IPAs and double IPAs three times per year. This is an exciting creative opportunity for our brewers.
Yes, this is the first change. The launch of the series does not mean that the original Czar is gone for good. It may come back in its original form, slightly altered, or extremely altered—only the brewers know for sure! The first of the series, a Citra dry-hopped IPA (6.5% ABV, 60 IBU) will begin shipping in February.
There you have it. I think a change to Hop Czar was overdue. Perhaps it was an Imperial IPA when it originally launched, but it doesn't fit the bill in the current era of mega hopped, high alcohol IIPAs. I'm a big fan of variety—and IPAs, so I welcome the change. But, I'm glad to see that BridgePort is keeping their classic IPA in the lineup.
However, at the same time, I wonder if beer lovers are getting rotating IPA fatigue. Widmer Brothers launched their Rotator IPA series nearly two years ago. For the first year, they seemed to release new IPAs every 3-4 months. Recently, the length of their IPA rotation has increased. Hopside Down IPL, Widmer's current Rotator, has been on the market since last May. Is that a reflection of declining interest? Time will tell.
There has always been a special place in my heart for BridgePort IPA because it was one of the two beers (along with Widmer Hefeweizen) that kindled my love of good beer. So I'm looking forward to tasting the new releases! Happy 30th anniversary to BridgePort!
What do you think of Bridgeport's labels and their new rotating Hop Czar IPA series?
Ingredients: Hard cider, less than 1% of: natural flavor and sulfites.
Random thoughts: Smoked Apple is the second in Woodchuck's Cellar Series line of experimental hard ciders. I enjoyed Dry Hop, the first release. In general, I'm not a huge fan of smoked beers, but I'm intrigued by how smoke will taste in a hard cider.
The tasting: Reddish-brown in color and clear. From the first sniff, smoke (reminds me of damp wood) is prominent. Taste starts with bright apple, and is quickly followed by smoke in the middle. The level of smoke in taste is more subdued than in aroma, but is still prominent. Moderate sweetness and a mild level of acidity emerge in the middle and provide a nice contrast. It's light bodied, has an effervescent mouth feel, and finishes semi-dry with notes of smoked wood and tart apple.
Rating: 3 star. Good. I would drink this again if someone gives it to me. My biggest pet peeve is when breweries (or cideries) don't deliver their featured flavor(s). That's certainly not the case here. Smoked Apple does a good job of providing a solid level of smoke, without overpowering. If you're a fan of smoke or are smoke-curious, give it a try. The Woodchuck Blog has a nice article that explains how the apple pomace was smoked and used to flavor this cider. Check it out.
Although we're still in the middle of winter, the winter beer season is quickly winding down. At the start of each year, most breweries will start shipping their spring seasonals. So if you have a favorite winter beer, be sure to pick up a few six-packs to hold you over until spring!


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EDWARD & MARY
The Edward and Mary RX 74 was built in late 1919 on the beach in front of Hastings Old Town. She was the first Hastings fishing boat to be built with an engine installed. Until then all the Hastings boats had been built as sailing luggers, powered only by the wind. The Edward and Mary had a 13 horsepower petrol-paraffin engine mounted, but these early engines were small and of unknown reliability, so the boats that were built between the two World Wars also had full suits of lugsails - just in case!
The Edward and Mary was built for Edward 'Tiny' Breeds, landlord of the London Trade pub, who named her after his son Edward (always called Ned) and daughter Mary. Ned worked the boat until the mid-1940s. In late May 1940, the Edward and Mary, plus the other large Hastings fishing boats and the Hastings lifeboat Cyril and Lilian Bishop, all sailed to Dover to stand by to help save the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches at Dunkirk. Only the lifeboat was used, however, rescuing many hundreds of troops.
After the Second World War, the Edward and Mary had one of the new generation of reliable small marine diesel engines installed, rendering her sailing gear unnecessary. She left Hastings in 1957 and carried on working from other Sussex ports, finishing her fishing career as RX 237 in Eastbourne in the early 1980s, where her last owners were Les Simpson, Roy Fillery and Roy Phillips. In early 1983 Hastings local historian Steve Peak found her laid up at Eastbourne, and so to preserve her he purchased her and brought her back to Hastings on 20 May 1983. She was towed by Rod Knight in his boat Andrew Peter RX 134.
For a few weeks she sat in Rock-a-Nore car park, where Steve partially restored her. Then, early in the morning of 8 July 1983, Steve and two friends towed her along Rock-a-Nore Road with a tractor and put her on the beach between the net shops where she is today.
In the early 1980s the net shops area, here in Rock-a-Nore Road, was being largely ignored by Hastings Council, with most of the net shops in a poor state of repair, and the surrounding beach covered in weeds and rubbish. But the siting of the Edward and Mary here in 1983 inspired the Council into rethinking their policy, resulting in a full net shops restoration scheme and improvements to the beach around them. This area looks as it does today because of what Steve initiated in 1983.
Since then the Edward and Mary has been regularly repaired and restored by local boat-builder Steve Barrow.
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Victor is released back into the world when his contract with the Dollhouse expires, but his past threatens his future with Sierra.
This episode suffered from a few issues - mainly feeling very rushed - but overall was a fun, exciting and interesting installment that ranks among the best Dollhouse has offered.
As Dollhouse goes, this was a strong episode even if they did wrap the whole thing in a very clichéd flashback mechanic.
Echo's recent ability to harness the 40+ identities in her brain has made her a powerful force-and, as we see in the next episode, uniquely vulnerable as well.


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Q: How do you work with infinitesimal exponents in synthetic differential geometry? I just read this paper by Andrej Bauer, which discusses the basic tenets of synthetic differential geometry. Namely, that for any function $f$, any real number $x$, and any infinitesimal $\epsilon$ (a number which squares to $0$), there is a unique number $f'(x)$ such that $$f(x + \epsilon) = f(x) + f'(x)\epsilon$$
This allows us to simply prove some of the most useful high-school deriviatives. But, I am wondering about differentiating the function $f(x) = e^x$. Plugging it in, I get $f(x + \epsilon) = e^{x + \epsilon}$, but I'm not sure how to reduce this into the form $e^x + e^x\epsilon$. In general, how do we handle infinitesimal exponents $a^\epsilon$?

A: Andrej Bauer has answered this (good!) question before on his blog. I will just quote him (and make this post community wiki):
Before you write down an infinite sum, like you did [resp. like it was done in the other answers], you have to argue that they make sense. Which they don't in synthetic differential geometry. There are no axioms that ensure completeness of the smooth real line with respect to Cauchy sequences. Nor can there be such axioms, because they would allow us to define a non-smooth function as an infinite sum.
Actually, the exponential function is introduced as the solution of the differential equation $y′=y$ with the initial condition $y(0)=1$, so the derivative of $e^x$ is postulated to be $e^x$.

A: I don't know synthetic differential geometry, so maybe this is just a guess:
$$
e^{x+\varepsilon} = e^x e^\varepsilon = e^x\left( 1+\varepsilon+\frac{\varepsilon^2}{2}+\frac{\varepsilon^3}{6}+\frac{\varepsilon^4}{24} +\cdots\right)
$$
Then use the fact that $\varepsilon$ squares to $0$.

A: Expand as a power series in $\epsilon$ around the point $0$.
$$\mathrm{e}^{x+\epsilon} = \mathrm{e}^x + \mathrm{e}^x \epsilon + \epsilon^2\left( \frac{\mathrm{e}^x}{2} + \epsilon \frac{\mathrm{e}^x}{6} + \dots \right) = \mathrm{e}^x + \mathrm{e}^x \epsilon$$
Likewise,
$$a^{x+\epsilon} = a^x + a^x \ln(a) \epsilon + \epsilon^2\left( \frac{a^x \ln a}{2} + \epsilon \frac{a^x \ln a}{6} + \dots \right) = a^x + a^x \ln(a) \epsilon$$
Although, once you have the former, it's easier to use it and $a^x = \mathrm{e}^{x \ln a}$ than to just churn out the latter.

A: I'm just learning synthetic differential geometry, so forgive me if this isn't what you're looking for.
We may rewrite $a^\epsilon=e^{\epsilon\ln a}$. Thus, we have, $f(x):=e^{x}$:
$$e^{x+\epsilon}=e^x+f^\prime_{\mathrm{synthetic}}(x)\epsilon\\
\implies \dfrac{e^x\left(e^{\epsilon}-1\right)}{\epsilon}=f^\prime_{\mathrm{synthetic}}(x)$$
As $\epsilon\to0$, we have
$$\lim_{\epsilon\to0}\dfrac{e^x\left(e^{\epsilon}-1\right)}{\epsilon}=\lim_{\epsilon\to0}{e^x\left(e^{\epsilon}\right)}=e^x=f^\prime_{\mathrm{synthetic}}(x)$$
This implies that
$$e^{x+\epsilon}=e^x+f^\prime_{\mathrm{synthetic}}(x)\epsilon\\
e^{x+\epsilon}=e^x+e^x\epsilon$$


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KAI RYSSDAL: Recent college graduates looking for the next educational opportunity got another option today. Read Newsweek magazine, get an MBA. Alright, that's an oversimplification but not by much. Newsweek's going to team up with Kaplan, the test-prep people, to offer an online degree. The press release says it's the first time a national media outlet's gotten into the world of E-education. Handy, then, I guess, that both of them are owned by the Washington Post Company.
Undergraduates with an eye toward business are doing something a bit more hands-on. They're packing up and taking the shop to school with them. From the Marketplace Entrepreneurship Desk, Steve Tripoli has more.
STEVE TRIPOLI: A young company called Mophie in Burlington, Vermont, leases a cool high-tech gadget called a "3-D Printer." It's just what the name implies. You design a product on your computer, hit the "print" button while the design's on-screen, and a printing head shoots out hair-thin streams of hot plastic instead of ink.
It's like an oven inside, one with a glass door where you can watch what's baking.
OFFICE WORKER:"And then, after it cooks in there, you take it and you stick it in this bath. . . ."
In minutes, a soft-plastic prototype of the product is in a cooling bath. Shortly after that you can hold it in your hand.
OFFICE WORKER: "Here's some stuff we cooked last night."
Mophie makes iPod accessories. It's a competitive business expected to hit the $2 billion mark this year. So company founder Ben Kaufman uses the 3-D printer to do something businesses once only dreamed of. With a new line of iPods just out, Mophie was able to have new accessories production-ready within a week.
Maybe that's why Kaufman's teachers occasionally let him cut class.
BEN KAUFMAN:"I'm not missing class to, ya know, go party."
Kaufman's a sophomore at Champlain College in Burlington. When you're 19 years old with a full course load and a million-and-a-half venture-capital bucks in your pocket, well, even partying has to wait.
It's no coincidence that Kaufman took the start-up he launched at home on Long Island to this school.
KAUFMAN:"You can jump right into your major on the first day of your first semester, rather than taking all those core classes that I would be incredibly bored with . . . ."
Champlain has launched a program called BYOBiz. It works this way: Students who bring their business to Champlain or start one there get flexibility with school requirements. But they also get active mentoring and regular meetings with Vermont business veterans. They help with everything from strategy to networking with venture capitalists.
Ben Kaufman's adviser is business professor Robin Lane. She says students like Ben face an interesting juggling act.
ROBIN LANE:"Here he's trying to start this really exciting business and he has homework! One of the things that we really wanted to do was make sure that his academic work is as compelling as his business work and that's a tall order! I mean when your business has you, like, going off to China, your classes are going to have to be real interesting."
BYOBiz aims to help more students become entrepreneurs and help Champlain attract more students. The hope is that students who bring their businesses to Vermont will keep them there.
College President Dave Finney came up with the idea. He hopes a strong presence of student entrepreneurs will stir the school's intellectual ferment.
DAVE FINNEY:"It unleashes people's imaginations about what's possible. And it's not normal or not usual for someone to think, "You know, I'm going to go to college but I'm also going to grow my own business and when I get out I'll have a job because I will have created it.'"
Over by the Lake Champlain waterfront, BYOBiz students Pete Jewett and Pete Bruhn run an eBay consignment shop called GoTradingPost. They specialize in antiques but will take most anything someone wants to sell on eBay and handle the auction for them.
PETE JEWETT:"Old posters, vintage electronics sell great . . . "
Pete and Pete get a cut of the proceeds. Pete Jewett says BYOBiz lowered his start-up costs.
JEWETT:"We can go into school and say 'This is where we're at.' You know, get free advice that we don't have to pay for that otherwise would be charged hourly. And also we can get employees without setting up payroll, workers' comp in the form of interns."
So, the program helps student start-ups and the start-ups give other Champlain students business experience.
Sophomore Ben Haulenbeek owns two businesses, a photography studio and an online bike-parts store. Haulenbeek says BYOBiz helps students bridge part of the entrepreneurial learning curve. He says most other business students first go to school and then head to the workforce to make their rookie mistakes.
BEN HAULENBEEK:"I'm skipping that. I'm getting the workforce experience while I'm having my education so when I am done here there won't be that gap for me. We have that cushion. The failure at a discount where if I had screwed up some of this stuff and having not been the sort of comfort zone of college, it could've been a lot more severe than it was."
Starting this year Champlain's recruiting high school students specifically for BYOBiz. College President Finney says he'd like to see the program spin off two-to-four Vermont-based businesses a year. It may not sound like a lot, but in a state with only 600,000 residents that kind of business formation adds up over time.
Especially if two kids like Pete and Pete turn out like two other Vermont entrepreneurs named Ben & Jerry.
I'm Steve Tripoli for Marketplace.
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Q: WebView Upload HTML not working
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File Upload in WebView

I hope there is an easy answer for this question.  I have this Android code running in my app:
package com.example.myfirstapp;

import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.util.Log;

public class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            view.loadUrl(url);
            Log.d ("myfirstapp_tag", "shouldOver... loaded Url " + url  );
            return true;
    }
}

... but when this HTML is loaded ...

    <form method="post" action="/myphp.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
            Add Pic:<input type="file" name="file" id="file" />
            <input type="hidden" name="action" value="upload" />
            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload" />
    </form>

... the form gets displayed with a "Choose file" button, but when I click on it nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks

A: I found an answer here on stackoverflow but lost the link so here's what I had to do ...
In my MainActivity class I do this ...
...
import android.webkit.ValueCallback;
import android.net.Uri;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
...
private ValueCallback<Uri> mUploadMessage;
private final static int FILECHOOSER_RESULTCODE=1;

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) {
    if(requestCode==FILECHOOSER_RESULTCODE)  {
        if (null == mUploadMessage) return;
        Uri result = intent == null || resultCode != RESULT_OK ? null  : intent.getData();
        mUploadMessage.onReceiveValue(result);
        mUploadMessage = null;
    }
}

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());

    webView.setWebChromeClient(
        new WebChromeClient() {
            @SuppressWarnings("unused")
            public void openFileChooser(ValueCallback<Uri> uploadMsg) {
                mUploadMessage = uploadMsg;
Log.d ("myfirstapp_tag", "1) MainActivity.java loaded openFileChooser" );
                Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
Log.d ("myfirstapp_tag", "2) MainActivity.java loaded openFileChooser" );
                i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_OPENABLE);
Log.d ("myfirstapp_tag", "3) MainActivity.java loaded openFileChooser" );
                i.setType("image/*");
Log.d ("myfirstapp_tag", "4) MainActivity.java loaded openFileChooser" );
MainActivity.this.startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(i,"File Chooser"), FILECHOOSER_RESULTCODE);
Log.d ("myfirstapp_tag", "5) MainActivity.java loaded openFileChooser" );
            }
        }
    );

    webView.loadUrl("http://example.com/EZC.php");
    setContentView(webView);
    Log.d ("myfirstapp_tag", "MainActivity.java loaded URL and set Content View." );
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"Enough is enough!" "This can't go on!" "This has to stop!"
These were among the comments that came through the blizzard of commentary after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County. We have heard these words before.
Unfortunately, such atrocities are not going to stop. For the ingredients that produce such slaughters are present and abundant in American society.
And what can stop a man full of hate, who has ceased to care about his life and is willing to end it, from getting a weapon in a country of 300 million guns and killing as many as he can in a public place before the police arrive?
An act of "absolute pure evil," said Gov. Rick Scott, of the atrocity that took 17 lives and left a dozen more wounded. And evil is the right word.
While this massacre may be a product of mental illness, it is surely a product of moral depravity. For this was premeditated and plotted, done in copycat style to the mass killings to which this country has become all too accustomed.
Nikolas Cruz thought this through. He knew it was Valentine's Day. He brought his fully loaded AR-15 with extra magazines and smoke grenades to the school that had expelled him. He set off a fire alarm, knowing it would bring students rushing into crowded halls where they would be easy to kill. He then escaped by mixing in with fleeing students.
The first ingredient then was an icy indifference toward human life and a willingness to slaughter former fellow students to deliver payback for whatever it was Cruz believed had been done to him at Douglas High.
In his case, the conscience was dead, or was buried beneath hatred, rage or resentment at those succeeding where he had failed. He had been rejected, cast aside, expelled. This would be his revenge, and it would be something for Douglas High and the nation to see — and never forget.
Indeed, it seems a common denominator of the atrocities to which we have been witness in recent years is that the perpetrators are nobodies who wish to die as somebodies.
If a sense of grievance against those perceived to have injured them is the goad that drives misfits like Cruz to mass murder, the magnet that draws them to it is infamy. Infamy is their shortcut to immortality.
From the killings in Columbine to Dylann Roof's murder of black parishioners at the Charleston Church, from the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando to the slaughter of first-graders in Newtown, to Las Vegas last October where Stephen Paddock, firing from an upper floor of the Mandalay Bay, shot dead 58 people and wounded hundreds at a country music festival — these atrocities enter the social and cultural history of the nation. And those who carry them out achieve a recognition few Americans ever know. Charles Whitman, shooting 47 people from that Texas tower in 1966, is the original model.
Evil has its own hierarchy of rewards. Perhaps the most famous man of the 20th century was Hitler, with Stalin and Mao among his leading rivals.
Some of these individuals who seek to "go out" this way take their own lives when the responders arrive, or they commit "suicide by cop" and end their lives in a shootout. Others, Cruz among them, prefer to star in court, so the world can see who they are. And the commentators and TV cameras will again give them what they crave: massive publicity.
And we can't change this. As soon as the story broke, the cameras came running, and we watched another staging of the familiar drama — the patrol cars, cops in body armor, ambulances, students running in panic or walking in line, talking TV heads demanding to know why the cowards in Congress won't vote to outlaw AR-15s.
Yet, among the reasons gun-owners prize the AR-15 is that, not only in movies and TV shows is it the hero's — and the villain's — weapon of choice, but in real life, these are the kinds of rifles carried by the America's most-admired warriors.
They are the modern version of muskets over the fireplace.
Another factor helps to explain what happened Wednesday: We are a formerly Christian society in an advanced state of decomposition.
Nikolas Cruz was a product of broken families. He was adopted. Both adoptive parents had died. Where did he get his ideas of right and wrong, good and evil? Before the Death of God and repeal of the Ten Commandments, in those dark old days, the 1950s, atrocities common now were almost nonexistent.
One imagines Nikolas sitting alone, watching coverage of the Las Vegas shooting, and thinking, "Why not? What have I got to lose? If this life is so miserable and unlikely to get better, why not go out, spectacularly, like that? If I did, they would remember who I was and what I did for the rest of their lives."
And, so, regrettably, we shall.
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In many instances, the Supreme Court's recent affirmative action ruling upholding the University of Texas's affirmative action program was overshadowed by a same-day order overturning President Obama's executive order to ease illegal immigrants' path to U.S. citizenship. World News Tonight With David Muir, while leading its broadcast with the immigration decision, didn't even mention the affirmative action ruling in that day's national broadcast.
Even so, affirming the University of Texas admission plan was notable because it squelched an ongoing challenge to affirmative action by well-financed conservative groups. Even more remarkable, the conservative-leaning court rendered the decision shy of its full 9-member participation, with no successor confirmed following the death of conservative Antonin Scalia's and liberal Elena Kagan recusing herself from deliberation because of her previous involvement in the case as U.S. Solicitor General.
The biggest surprise was that Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, joined the other liberals on the court – Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor – to form the 4-3 majority that said race may be used as one factor among many in building a diverse student body. Dissenting were Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Clarence Thomas.
A lower court ruled against her, a ruling that was affirmed upon reaching the appeals court. Her case was appealed to the Supreme Court, remanded to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and accepted a second time, with the court's recently ruling against her.
Conservatives were clearly disappointed in Kennedy.
But the decision was cheered by University of Texas supporters.
"No decision since Brown v. Board of Education has been as important as Fisher will prove to be in the long history of racial inclusion and educational diversity," Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, told the New York Times.
This is not likely to be the final word on affirmative from the Supreme Court.
Lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, each prepared by Project on Fair Representation, the same conservative outfit that represented Abigail Fisher in her suit against the University of Texas, are making their way through lower courts and could end up before the Supreme Court.
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MSM Milling awarded ARENA funds to switch from LPG to biomass
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced funding to transform an Australian oilseed crushing, refining and packaging company to switch to bioenergy. ARENA is providing AU$2 million in funding to MSM Milling Pty Ltd to help switch its LPG gas fired boilers to a woodchip-fired steam boiler.
ARENA is providing AU$2 million in funding to MSM Milling to help switch its LPG gas fired boilers to a woodchip-fired steam boiler at its oilseed processing plant in Manildra, New South Wales (NSW).
Totalling AU$5.38 million, the project involves installing a 4.88 MW biomass-fired boiler at the facility based in Manildra in regional New South Wales (NSW) which will be fuelled by locally sourced renewable woodchips, such as forestry thinnings, offcuts, and sawmill by-products, to generate steam necessary for the canola processing operation.
The installation of the new biomass steam boiler will displace several smaller existing LPG boilers and is expected to save around 4 000 tonnes CO2-e per annum.
The project is one of Australia's first demonstrations of a large-scale food manufacturing company seeking to reduce energy costs and environmental impact by using biomass for thermal energy. MSM Milling's change to bioenergy not only replaces the use of gas in the oilseed business but involves using sustainably sourced woodchips in a move that increases the economic return to the forestry industry.
ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht said the funding helps to grow the currently underdeveloped biomass industry in Australia.
Bioenergy currently makes up only around 0.9 percent of Australia's energy mix, however, the use of woodchips to displace gas is becoming attractive as consumers are increasingly demanding better environmental performance across product supply chains. We hope MSM Milling's innovation will lead to more industries turning to biomass in a move which could increase renewable energy generation in NSW and Australia and create alternative value streams for wood materials currently considered as waste. By integrating renewable energy options into MSM Milling's production process, the company is showing its commitment to sustainability and renewable energy, and will also receive lower and more predictable energy costs. This project will go a long way to encouraging other companies to incorporate bioenergy into their energy makeup, Frischknecht said.
MSM Milling Director Bob Mac Smith said the ARENA funding, combined with a significant company investment in the project, not only cements MSM Milling's future as a regionally-based global food industry leader, it also helps to secure the jobs of 70 employees and allows the company to pioneer the way for other Australian manufacturers to adopt renewable energy technology.
MSM Milling has spent a number of years researching to identify the optimal thermal energy solution for the plant to further secure our future and allow us to continue to provide sought-after trusted oil and value-added oilseed products to local and international markets. The project will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuel energy use, and depletion, while increasing renewable energy generation in NSW – all in line with our company's commitment to operate with the lowest carbon footprint, the highest energy and water efficiency and the least overall environmental impact. We've partnered with experienced technology providers Justsen, Uniquip Engineering, and carbon energy expert Ndevr Environmental for this project and will document and share the process of technology adoption to encourage further uptake within the Australian manufacturing sector, Mac Smith said.
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Jan 4 (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co and the American Beverage Association trade group were sued on Wednesday for allegedly misleading consumers about the health risks from consuming sugary beverages.
The nonprofit Praxis Project accused the defendants of downplaying the risks to boost sales, despite scientific evidence linking sugary beverages to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
Praxis accused both defendants of using euphemisms such as "balance" and "calories in, calories out" to mislead consumers, and Coca-Cola, the world's largest beverage company, of trying to mislead the public into thinking a lack of exercise was the real cause of obesity.
"The notion that Coke's products can be part of a healthy diet is imprinted on the minds of millions if not billions of people, and requires corrective action," Maia Kats, litigation director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which helped file the lawsuit, said in an interview.
Coca-Cola spokesman Kent Landers called the lawsuit "legally and factually meritless. We take our consumers and their health very seriously and have been on a journey to become a more credible and helpful partner in helping consumers manage their sugar consumption."
The American Beverage Association called the lawsuit's accusations "unfounded." It also said that, together with its members, it is working with health groups to reduce consumers' caloric and sugar intake from beverages.
Wednesday's lawsuit seeks to stop misleading marketing and require more consumer warnings, among other remedies. It was filed with the federal court in Oakland, California.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo Inc have pledged to bolster efforts to reduce added sugar in beverages.
In October, Coca-Cola Chief Operating Officer James Quincey, slated to succeed Muhtar Kent as chief executive in May, said the Atlanta-based company has more than 200 "reformulation initiatives" toward that end.
But according to the complaint, a 16-ounce bottle of Coke has 12 teaspoons of added sugar, a 15.2-ounce bottle of Minute Maid Cranberry Grape Juice drink has 13 teaspoons, and a 20-ounce bottle of Vitaminwater has eight teaspoons.
By comparison, the American Heart Association recommends no more than nine teaspoons a day for men, and six for women.
A teaspoon of sugar has about 16 calories.
Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc is Coca-Cola's largest shareholder, has said he drinks at least five Cokes a day.
The CSPI sued PepsiCo in October over health claims for its Naked juices but did not target that company in Wednesday's lawsuit.
Kats said PepsiCo "is not promoting itself as a voice of science, or misrepresenting the harms of sugary beverages the way Coca-Cola is."
The case is Praxis Project v Coca-Cola Co et al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 17-00016.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Brown)
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