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"Where did it go?"
May 31, 2009 May 31, 2009 / profe	/ Leave a comment
from Saturday Night Live
Justice for LGBT Immigrants
May 31, 2009 / profe	/ 1 Comment
"The Uniting American Families Act" (H.R. 1024 and S. 424), introduced to Congress in February, is slated for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 3rd.
The bill–sponsored by Jerrold Nadler (NY-8) in the House and Patrick Leahy (VT) in the Senate–would allow U.S. citizens (and Legal Permanent Residents) to sponsor their long-term, same-sex partner (or what the bill calls "permanent partner") for immigration.
The need for the law highlights but one of the many ways the U.S. formally privileges "straight" citizens over LGBT ones. The former don't have to choose between family and country.
So far, the bill is largely unknown among its potential supporters in the population, although professional advocates and organizations like Immigration Equality are doing their part. Of course, the bill is already getting a lot of bottom-up chatter from the anti-same-sex-equality sectors of the population on their blogs and in their newsletters.
"The Uniting American Families Act" isn't a special piece of legislation when it comes to immigration. It works within existing laws, extending mechanisms of proof of relationship for same-sex partners as well as the same penalties for lying about their relationship. In short, it doesn't really "rock the immigration boat." But the bill isn't intended to address the lack of a humane and just immigration system.
This is a necessary attempt to extend one of the most cherished values in our system of government–equality–to the processes of legal immigration. It is an attempt by legislators in the U.S. to keep pace with the 19 countries in the world that already provide for this measure of equal treatment and recognition. And, at heart, it is about simple fairness.
Scholar and Teacher Ronald Takaki (1939-2009)
May 28, 2009 May 29, 2009 / profe	/ 2 Comments
Ron Takaki has passed away. He died Tuesday, May 26, 2009, at his home in Berkeley.
If you don't know who he was and what he contributed to the world of academia, there are ample ways for you to learn. This graduation address he delivered toward the end of his life gives you more than a few of the details of his personal life. The basics of his professional life are as impressive. Born and raised in a the working-class environment of Hawai'i, he went on to become one of the most distinguished historians of race and ethnicity in the modern era. As an Asian American he served as the founding faculty member of UCLA's Black Studies program, and then went on to help develop the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Cal, where he taught for almost 40 years. In addition to teaching well over 20,000 students in his career, he is responsible for an assortment of scholarly literature, pioneering works in Asian American history, and the multicultural U.S. past.
But all that falls short of telling you what you need to know about the man. As a person who was privileged to call him "mentor" during my graduate career at Berkeley, I was always impressed by his down-to-earth personality, warmth, and caring. He was a rare combination of strengths: a cutting edge and world-renowned scholar who was also as good a teacher as you will ever see.
He wasn't a humble man, but he wasn't out of line with his lack of humility either. He knew the value of his work and his place in letters. In the classroom, he taught by connecting you to the vibrancy of a field of knowledge that was alive and in development. He appropriately made his work part of that field. In graduate seminars on research, he made his own process visible, showing you how he went from idea to book in record time. He worked from the belief that you could learn something from hearing and seeing how a "master" performed his art. He was right.
As a scholar, he produced pertinent, cutting-edge work for four decades. His work was the perfect embodiment of the conception academia has of itself. It spoke to our present conditions as much as our past and provided road maps for how we could become a more whole, more equitable, and more just society. While other academics pretend their work is important and necessary, Ron had the brilliance of never having to pretend. His best-selling book, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America , recently premiered in a new and updated edition. It will be the effort for which he is most remembered. His best, and the one of which he spoke most fondly, was 1979's Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America .
Ron had a tremendous impact on my work and on the work of my friends at Berkeley. Those of us who had his advice (and signature) as part of our dissertations would be forever branded as "Takaki-ites." It is a badge I wear proudly, for you see, for Ron it was all about the "voices." His work represented the voices and experiences of those silenced and forgotten. He did that, not for a present-day class of people who had the power to remember and to be remembered, but for those of whom he wrote, and those like them in our present. He was a humanist in the fullest and most meaningful sense of that word, a model of public intellectual behavior to which we should all aspire.
While I am saddened by his death, I also am left with a sense of pride and appreciation. This is not only for having the chance to know him and work with him, but more for the fact that I get to work in the profession of which he was a part; for living in a world that has benefited from his work and will continue to do so for generations to come. In so many ways, and in untold ways we have yet to see, Ron Takaki left this world better than he found it.
We are all the better for his life, and the lesser for his passing. The official campus announcement of his death can be found on the UC Berkeley website, along with a more in-depth obituary.
UPDATE (5/28/09): Various obituaries are now also appearing in newspapers around the nation, such as the Los Angeles Times, the Oakland Tribune, and the Honolulu Advertiser.
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The Radical Right vs. Sotomayor
And so it begins.
But a scant few hours after her name is made public, Sonia Sotomayor–Barack Obama's pick to fill the vacancy left by Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court–is the target of the radical right in their campaign to obstruct, slander, and emerge victorious in the war of emotions as opposed to ideas.
The porcine Rush Limbaugh began his attack today on his radio show. Recycling the litany of arguments devised in backroom meetings where strategists hold firm to the belief that if you say it enough it becomes true, the bloated host declaring her dumb, emotional, anti-Constitutional, and a reverse racist. In defense of the rights of "white men," Limbelch chortled:
So she's not the brain that they're portraying her to be, she's not a constitutional jurist. She is an affirmative action case extraordinaire and she has put down white men in favor of Latina women.
You can read more of his comments here. If you wonder how he could have possibly learned so much about her in a short amount of time, reading all hr court decisions and analyzing them down to a concise and informed position on the matter all in about one hour, well, then you're probably not reading this now, are you?
Same-Sex Marriage and a Latina on the Supreme Court
Today has been a big day in legal news, though not an entirely surprising one.
In a move everyone expected, the California State Supreme Court upheld the legality of Proposition 8, the anti-same-sex marriage act passed by voters in November 2008. As they declared the legality of the measure and the manner of it passage into Constitutional law, they also upheld the legaility of the more than 18000 marriages which took place between the time the same court made same-sex unions legal and the voters disagreed. You can read the story here.
This is a sad day for the cause of equal rights, but there have been many such days in the history of this nation. Progressive movement forward has never been a foregone conclusion, it has always come from the deliberate and focused action of groups of people engaged in movement. For this issue, there was no broad-based and collective movement before November 8, 2008. There is now. I doubt my 3-year old son will reach kindergarten before there is a voter-mandated change in the Golden State.
Today also marks a moment of tentative success of movements past with the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. If her nomination is confirmed by the Senate this fall, Sotomayor will become the first Latina to serve on the highest court of the land.
There is a long road ahead of the successful nomination of the Bronx-born, Nuyorican to the Court. But it is a reflection of the success of generations of people who actively fought for recognition, representation, and a chance to participate as full members of a society. It is the product of movements for change, ones that desired Latinos or Latinas in positions of power and ones that fought for bigger and more systemic changes.
One step backward, a small shuffle forward?
Rappers, 'Bling,' and the Economy
May 26, 2009 / profe	/ Leave a comment
From today's Wall Street Journal comes this story of the recession/depression and its reflection in the everyday world of rap music.
In "Culture of Bling Clangs to Earth as the Recession Melts Rappers' Ice" reporter Migue Bustillo tells us:
The recession is cramping the style of hip-hop artists and wannabes — many of whom are finding it difficult to afford the diamond-encrusted pendants and heavy gold chains they have long used to project an aura of outsized wealth.
In an attempt to keep up appearances, celebrity jewelers say rappers are asking them to make medallions with less-precious stones and metals. Some even whisper that the artists have begun requesting cubic zirconia, the synthetic diamond stand-in and QVC staple.
Hip-hop luminaries with the cash to keep it real are appalled. Bling aficionados fret that the art of "ice" is being watered down.
The article quotes 50 cent who, reflective of the culture equating flashy jewelry and wealth with power, essentially "outed" a rival rapper for his fake image (and talent). Real jewelry, in this instance, became shorthand for authentic rap.
You can read the whole story here, but the WSJ will probably make you pay for it by the end of the week.
This is an interesting story, but a strange one to find in the WSJ. I was a bit hesitant to read it, expecting to find something akin to the attitude expressed in one of the comments: "Nice, they actually look more foolish now than they did before." But, after reading the piece, I foud another reason why a bsiness-mined news daily would run such a story: rappers are a lot like everyone else actively participating in a fantasy capitalist motivated world.
So much of the mainstream (non-rap) culture is tied up in apperances and image. Uncertain economic times means, first, people can't often pretend to be more wealthy than they are with the same amount of ease as they could before. Not being able to afford real flashy jewelry–or the newest BMW, or piece of technology, or whatever–is tantamount to advertising your non-exceptionalness. And who wants to be regular?
The commodified and commercialized version of hip-hop culture is trapped in a masculinist contest that says alot about both how people value wealth and power as well as how frighteningly impotent they feel (or fear feeling).
Bustillo reports: "You gotta understand, it is every rapper's fear to be exposed as a fraud," said Gregory Lewis of Brooklyn, who posts conversations with artists on the Internet under the alias "Doggie Diamonds, the interview king." "If you admit you wear fake jewelry, it is over for you. It's like bragging you drive a Lamborghini when you really drive a Toyota."
25 years ago today a man came from the future
Have you ever tried to cook enchiladas and bake a coffee cake at the same time? It doesn't work. You end up with bad dinner and dessert, or even worse–sweet enchilada coffee cake! Well, that's why I haven't been writing much on the blog lately, because other, more serious, more "finish or else you lose your job" kind of writing is taking my time.
But I couldn't let the day pass without some mention. After all, today is the 25th anniversary of May 12, 1984.
You can watch the scene here.
This scene, from James Cameron's 1984 classic Terminator, has it all: sci-fi technology; butt; humor at the expense of a hobo; time travel; the inference of gay, alley sex; and a killer Casio™ keyboard score right out of a John Carpenter movie. It drips with the 80s.
Hardcore sci-fi/Terminator fans will note that "12th, May, Thursday" in 1984 was really "12th, May, Saturday." Rumor has it the movie was set to film in 1983–when it was a Thursday–but due to Schwarzeneggar's contractual obligations to Conan, had to be postponed. They never updated the day in the script. I say, when a naked man steals your gun and points it at you, you are bound to get a few facts wrong during an impromptu quiz. Eh…
After seeing the new Star Trek movie last week, Terminator has been on my mind. In it, Kyle Reese (the naked man you see above) is sent back from the future by a man named John Connor to save Sarah Connor. Sarah is the future mother of John Connor, the leader of the resistance in the war against the machines. In that future, the machines have sent one of their own back to kill her, thereby hoping to extinguish the resistance (by making sure their leader is never born). What we learn in the movie, of course, is that Kyle Reese is the one who gets Sarah Connor pregnant. He is the father of John Connor.
But how could John Connor be alive to send his father back in time so that he would be born if he wasn't already alive?
Ah! Because time is connected but not dependent. Instead of a Back to the Future space-time continuum, we have a series of dots in time/space where new lines of dots can emerge from the others and not change the course of the ones already in existence. Sound familiar?
So Skynet was sending back a Terminator to 1984 to kill that Sarah Connor so as to kill off the possibility of a John Connor being born in the future that comes from then. Get it? Skynet was so fucking pissed off, it sent a machine back in time to do something that would have no effect whatsoever on its own present reality. It just wanted to fuck it up for another human reality.
Aw, forget it. Just bask in the glow of commemorating an anniversary of something that happened in cinematic fiction.
Changing the question on race
May 8, 2009 May 12, 2009 / profe	/ 4 Comments
I've had a few "race discussions" this week, both online and in person. The continuing saga of the HINI flu, as well as the tragic jury decision in the murder of Luis Ramirez, have been the stage of these discussions. The dance is an old one.
This week has reminded me of how far we as a society have yet to go with respect to race. Let me try to distill this down as cogently as possible and say that much of the difficulties I witnessed this week have to do with the way we ask questions about race in our daily lives as a precursor to establishing analytical conclusions.
As I tried to say in an earlier post, I don't think the useful question in the trial of Luis Ramirez' murderers is whether or not the decision was "racist." That's a loaded question, culturally, but it is also a simplistic and very problematic one. The answer tells us less of what we really want to know (how race works in our daily lives and institutions) than it creates a platform for indignation or anger. Additionally, it assumes the foundational stance of white privilege, which is a negation of race and its consequences in our lives. In asking "if" we are inherently positioning the answer to be as likely to be true as false. Historical knowledge makes this the equivalent of asking "Is the world flat?"
The more useful question is, as I suggest above, how is race involved in our daily lives. This leaves open a small space for those who fear confronting the situation by allowing them to try to establish a credible explanation for how it does not, but, more importantly, it focuses our gaze toward understanding the problem and finding ways to fix it.
Few of us who work on race issues were surprised when professional fear-mongers began spewing their misinformation campaign linking the spread of the H1N1 virus ("swine" flu) to "illegal" immigration from Mexico. It is important to note that no rational person should think this. There is not only not evidence to prove it, the evidence we have of cross-border migrations, as I said elsewhere, actually makes it unlikely.
The way this movement manipulates information to play to people's worst tendencies, nurturing their fears and pushing them toward hate, is all-too familiar. It is, sadly, an "American tradition" stretching back for almost two centuries. That isn't to say there aren't other traditions, nobler ones contesting the less savory. But it remains so.
If we stop to have to re-prove this well-established understanding to serve the lowest common denominator with respect to racial understanding, we do nothing than stunt our more general understanding. Many people of color who possess this understanding live with repeated interjections of frustration because those who don't know are always in the habit of making us explain it all.
But "it" is out there already. That you do not know is not an accident or a natural exhibition of the condition of learning ("we don't know until we learn"). It is by design. You don't know these things because of a host of forces, many of which you contribute to nurturing on a daily basis.
My point is, race is a factor. As a teacher, I can explain it to you, and I will do so with joy:
Part of the U.S. imperial project of the 19th and 20th centuries has been related the Spanish-speaking South. From the habitual desire to take Cuba (beginning before Jefferson); to the U.S. war with Mexico (1846-48); to the work of the State Department on the behalf of U.S. transportation, agricultural, and manufacturing interests, the U.S. and its economic tentacles have had a firm grip over the social, political, and economic histories of parts of Latin America.
Those forms of imperialism–where a foreign power (like the U.S.) can exercise an inordinate amount of power over another sovereign nation (like Mexico)–have everything to do with the way the U.S. thinks about Mexico and Mexicans. As David Weber argued in his 30 year-old essay "Scarce More than Apes': Historical Roots of Anglo-American Stereotypes of Mexicans," the historically constructed ideas of Mexican "otherness"–the inferiority, the filth, the genetic and cultural backwardness–sets the stage for how we receive and make sense of everything related to them. This includes things like the "swine flu."
But, as a person of color living in this place at this time, recognize, I am not always happy that you don't know already.
Manny Ramirez and Baseball's Soul
May 7, 2009 May 8, 2009 / profe	/ 2 Comments
Today is a scandalous day in Los Angeles, but not a surprising one. Fan-favorite Manny Ramirez, the cornerstone of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the resident "star" of the team, has been suspended for 50 games for testing positive for a banned substance.
The profound lack of surprise in this matter has little to do with the Dodgers or with Ramirez. Really, it has everything to do with the reality of baseball. You can only be truly surprised at today's news if you continue to hold on to some fantasy image of the sport as being untainted from drugs and money and "business." At the risk of sounding too pessimistic, let me paraphrase a Jim Rome analysis: just assume EVERYONE did it and then be surprised when you learn one of them did not.
This isn't an apology for Ramirez. Not at all. As a fan, as a Latino, and as somebody with a small obsession for popular culture, I got as excited as anybody last year when he arrived. I was both pleased and moved by his ability to turn to the Spanish-language press and become a bona fide "Latino Dodger," like one we haven't seen since the days of Fernando. L.A. loves cultural movements and fads, especially when it is tied to wining, and Manny didn't let us down. Now, we have to share in the burden of his failure because we, as fans, don't get to see him play for fifty days.
Still, my disappointment is tempered by the way I see the sport now versus the way I see it as a fan, as a historian, or "as it was." I don't pretend to think the game of baseball was "pure" or more "wholesome" in an era long since passed. There were addictions, immoralities, and just plain bad shit that followed the game. You see, baseball—like any enterprise involving people—is human. Ty Cobb was an asshole. Mickey Mantle an alcoholic. Babe Ruth was an asshole and an alcoholic. I'm sure it wasn't just fans who threatened to kill or hurt Jackie Robinson. And these are just the easy ones!
Baseball was and probably always has been all-too human. The Ramirez controversy, perhaps, is a reflection of that. But I think it is something more, too.
Steven Rubio, a friend of mine who maintains one of the most interesting and diverse blogs out there, wrote an interesting piece yesterday. As an avid fan of the SF Giants (the Dooku to my Yoda) he wondered whether or not professional players are more fans of their team or of the game they play. You can read my comment to his piece, where I probably gave in to the romance and sentimentality of the sport more than anything else. Because, my dear friends, I fear most professional players today are fans of themselves before their team or the game itself.
Again, I don't mean to sound overly pessimistic, but this is the "business" of baseball. High contracts are but infinitesimal slices of the big pie of money that comes with modern-day baseball. The business side of the sport has been fucking up the human side of it for a long time now. You can see the small instances of it just in my lifetime, from the players' union fights of the 1970s up to the drug scandals of today.
For the Dodgers, that change came quickly but much later than it did for almost everybody else. When the O'Malley family finally reliquished control and sold the team in 1998, the era of the family-owned team came to an end. For goodness sakes, from 1954 to 1996 we had only two managers! How many popes were there in that period? Dodger stadium–with it signature colors and blank spaces free from advertising–changed. The team culture changed. The ways decisions about who stayed and who went also changed. The Dodgers went corporate.
The business of it all nurtures players' self-conceptions as products which need to increase their market values. Drug use is but one part of that. Organized baseball's avoidance to dealing with the drugs is another. Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, and the whole lot of them are worse for it. So are we. In some ways, so is the game.
I remember Don Drysdale very fondly. One of the finest pitchers in Dodger and baseball history, I knew him best as one of the regular Dodgers' broadcast commentators until his unexpected death in July 1993. One of the truly wonderful things about the man was that he was a Dodger fan, through and through. Every once in awhile, when a player got hit by a pitch, Drysdale would explain the way it worked in his time. If one of yours got hit, one of theirs—on the very first pitch the next inning—got hit harder. If they got his mid section, you got the head. If your player had to leave the game, well, you get the picture. (By the way, Drysdale ended up #15 on the pitchers all-time list of most "Hit By Pitches" with 154 in only 13 seasons and a bit over 3400 innings pitched.)
There's nothing "pure" or "wholesome" about Drysdale's baseball strategy. Frankly, there's nothing even tactically smart about it from the perspective of the game. But, if you think about it, in doing what he did, Don Drysdale was being a loyal fan. He was protecting his team and taking the emotional and even childish aspect of play to its natural adult extreme. This wasn't "business." This was business.
And that's what I'm left with today. Not surprise, not sorrow, not even loss. Just the same. Wishing the game of baseball I get to share with my two kids was a little more human and a lot less of everything else.
Luis Ramirez and American Racism
On Friday, May 1, while thousands of people in the U.S. were marching for immigrants' rights, an "all-white" jury in Pennsylvania acquitted two "white" teens of killing a Mexican immigrant.
Derrick Donchak, 19, and Brandon Piekarsky, 17—along with Colin Walsh, 18, who did not stand trial but pleaded guilty to federal charges—beat up Luis Ramirez on July 12, 2008 in Shenandoah, PA. They left him with his head so severely beaten that his brains were slowly leaking from his skull. On July 14, Ramirez, who was an undocumented immigrant, died from his injuries.
There were accusations of racial epithets being used and of the crime being motivated by Ramirez' ethnicity and race. One witness testified another youth who accompanied the accused teens shouted "This is Shenandoah. This is America. Go back to Mexico." Others accused Ramirez of being violent and of instigating the conflict himself.
Now a jury found Piekarsky not guilty of third-degree murder; not guilty of voluntary manslaughter; and not guilty of involuntary manslaughter. They found Donchak not guilty of aggravated assault and not guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. They found both guilty of assault. Without criminal records both are not likely to serve any time in prison.
For some coverage of the verdict, see the local Morning Call and CNN.
Some people are asking if the verdict is racist. They want to know if these two boys were acquitted because of their race, or because of the race of the man they killed. They wonder if immigration figures into it.
They are asking the wrong questions.
Shenandoah, the accused, the jury, the judge, the prosecutor, the witnesses, the police, the reporters, the people who sat and heard testimony, me, and you, we all have somethings in common. We live in a society with a long tradition of nurturing a belief in the superiority of one "race" (the so-called "white") over all others. We live in a society with a long tradition of elaborating on the particular inferiority of each "other race." We live in a society with a long tradition of thinking of the nonwhite and the nonwhite immigrant and threats, as not human, and as inherently criminal.
These are not the only traditions in our society. They are not equally encountered and inherited by each of us. They do not absolve us of independent thought, or of the ability to interrogate and dismantle them.
But they are there. Much more than ideas, prejudices, and thoughts, they are the rationales our daily interactions with each other, and for our own interactions with systems of power. They have been a shorthand for ordering our lives, for defining "we" and "they." They have played a role in helping you define yourself, who you are and who you are not.
In her book "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity , Beverly Daniel Tatum equates this to smog. We may not have created it, but we are born into a world polluted by it. Whether or not we like it, all of us—both people of color and "whites"—breathe it in.
Likewise, it is each of our responsibilities to do something about it.
LatinoLikeMe featured a few posts on the murder and subsequent flurry of national media attention. Even without doing much more than re-posting a story from another news source, they became heavily trafficked posts for this blog. They also inspired a host of comments. Read the ones below this post, for an example of the way certain people were moved.
You see, here's the thing: none of the so-called "facts" here matter. No matter what "side" you are on, there should be no legal protection for beating a man until his brains seep out of his head. Irregardless of whose testimony you believe, we are all products of a reality which sympathizes "whites," criminalizes Latinos, and dehumanizes immigrants.
I didn't know Luis Ramirez. He might have been an asshole, he might have been a saint. In a few years, maybe more, most people not directly affected by this case will have forgotten about him, if they ever knew who he was to begin with. But that's not really the point.
None of us should ever forget what these events tell us about ourselves, as individuals and as a society. As I wrote last summer:
"In the end, stories like this tell us far more about ourselves than about the victims or perpetrators–whether in how we make sense of it, identify with it, or seek to incorporate its balance into our lives."


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1896 Applications for Enrollment
All Cherokee Chickasaw Choctaw Seminole Creek
About the 1896 Applications for Enrollment
For years the 1896 enrollment of the members of the Five Tribes has created issues for genealogists. These records pertain to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole tribes. The 1896 enrollment was done at the insistence of the Dawes Commission in an effort to determine tribal citizenship. Some individuals and families were enrolled by the federal courts, which did not have the jurisdiction to determine who was a citizen and who was not. Many non-citizens were included, who were in fact intruders residing with a tribe. Tribal officials fought the enrollment and enumeration, and contested the authority of the federal courts in Indian Territory. After much debate the Secretary of the Interior sided with the tribes. The census and enrollment of 1896 was disregarded and was not used as a basis for enrollment. The commissioners representing the Dawes Commission sought congressional assistance to force the Five Tribes to negotiate agreements to prepare a final roll and eventual allotment of lands.
In June 1898 Congress passed the Curtis Act, which forced the tribes to treat with the Dawes Commission. The 1896 enrollments were scrapped due to inaccurate data. Unfortunately, individuals who had citizenship conferred by the federal courts were not notified that their citizenship had been overturned.
View the 1896 Applications for Enrollment
Visit the Research Center to view the application packets and information on microfilm.
The Research Center offers 1896 Application for Enrollment packets for a flat fee of $35. When requesting a packet be certain to include the information listed in the index, including the individual's full name, tribe, and case number. Order by mail with the printable order form or call 405-522-5225 to order by phone. Please have your credit card ready.
OHS collections include the 1896 census cards and enrollment packets, if available. Packets vary in length; some include numerous pages of information about the individual while others may include only a single page. Please note there are very few packets available for the Creek tribe.

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WOODROW LONG, 86
LAKELAND -- Mr. Woodrow W. Long of Lakeland died of heart failure Friday (July 26, 2002) at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. He was 86.
Born in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 28, 1915, he lived in Silver Spring, Md., for more than 30 years before retiring to Lakeland in 1981. He was a teller at Munsey Trust Co. and managing officer at District Building and Loan Association. He was vice president of Columbia Federal Savings and Loan Association in Washington, D.C.
He graduated from McKinley Tech High School in Washington, D.C., and attended the University of Maryland. He played the French horn in marching bands since he was 9.
He was an Army veteran and served during World War II at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. He attended Lakeside Baptist Church, where he was a member of the choir for 16 years.
Mr. Long is survived by his wife of 64 years, Margaret Long; son, Jeffrey Long, Tallahassee; sister, Elizabeth Warner, Roswell, Ga.; and two grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the music ministry at Lakeside Baptist Church in Lakeland. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Lakeside Baptist Church. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the church.
Lakeland Funeral Home.


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Gorakhpur Deaths
Kafeel Khan's suspension continues due to pending proceedings in separate case, UP tells HC
The court has asked the government to submit an affidavit on the doctor's 2017 suspension within two weeks.
Aug 13, 2021 · 11:39 am
A photo of Kafeel Khan. | Deepak Gupta/ HT photo
The suspension order of Gorakhpur doctor Kafeel Khan continues to hold as a separate independent disciplinary proceeding initiated against him is yet to be concluded, the Uttar Pradesh government has told the Allahabad High Court, PTI reported on Friday.
Earlier this month, the court had asked the Adityanath-led government to justify Khan's suspension which has now extended for more than four years.
Khan was a paediatrician at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College and Hospital in Gorakhpur, where 63 children died due to lack of oxygen in 2017. He was suspended from his post after the incident and jailed for nine months on charges of medical negligence, corruption and dereliction of duty.
In September 2019, the Uttar Pradesh government cleared Khan of all charges and also praised him for doing everything he could to help save lives. During the crisis, Khan said he had bought oxygen cylinders with his own money and made arrangements through his network to get more supplies.
But in October 2019, the state government began a new investigation against Khan for allegedly spreading incorrect information about the inquiry report related to the deaths and making "anti-government" remarks during his suspension.
Responding to the court's order to justify the doctor's suspension, the additional advocate general representing the Uttar Pradesh government said that Khan was attached to the office of the director of medical education after his suspension in 2017.
Separate disciplinary proceedings were initiated against him at that office and suspension orders were issued, the additional advocate general submitted.
The court then asked the Uttar Pradesh government to submit an affidavit putting on record details about the earlier suspension order issued in 2017 and other necessary facts. The matter will next be heard on August 31.
Khan had also been arrested in January 2020 for allegedly making inflammatory remarks during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at the Aligarh Muslim University. He was detained under the National Security Act. The doctor was released in September after the Allahabad High Court quashed his detention order.
Kafeel Khan
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Towards strategic development of maintenance and its effects on production performance by using system dynamics in the automotive industry
Gary, Linnéusson
Amos, Ng H.C.
Tehseen, Aslam
Managing maintenance within an economical short-termism framework, without considering the consequential long-term cost effect, is very common in industry. This research presents a novel conceptual system dynamics model for the study of the dynamic behaviors of maintenance performance and costs, which aims to illuminate insights for the support of the long-term, strategic development of manufacturing maintenance. By novel, we claim the model promotes a system's view of maintenance costs that include its dynamic consequential costs as the combined result of several interacting maintenance levels throughout the constituent feedback structures. These range from the applied combination of maintenance methodologies to the resulting proactiveness in production, which is based on the rate of continuous improvements arising from the root cause analyses of breakdowns. The purpose of using system dynamics is to support the investigations of the causal relationships between strategic initiatives and performance results, and to enable analyses that take into consideration the time delays between different actions, in order to support the sound formulation of policies to develop maintenance and production performances. The model construction and validation process has been supported by two large maintenance organizations operating in the Swedish automotive industry. Experimental results show that intended changes can have both short and long-term consequences, and that obvious and hidden dynamic behavioral effects, which have not been reported in the literature previously, may be in the system. We believe the model can help to illuminate the holistic value of maintenance on the one hand and support its strategic development as well as the organizational transformation into proactiveness on the other.
Gary, Linnéusson & Amos, Ng H.C. & Tehseen, Aslam, 2018. "Towards strategic development of maintenance and its effects on production performance by using system dynamics in the automotive industry," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 200(C), pages 151-169.
Handle: RePEc:eee:proeco:v:200:y:2018:i:c:p:151-169
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.03.024
File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092552731830149X
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Unveiled in 1860, the monument has been on this site since 1974. Isabel II was queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868.
Inside an octagonal kiosk made of coral stone and roofed with tile (built 1834) is a tindalo cross. The cross houses what is reputed to be the remains of a cross Magellan planted in Cebu. Cebu historians doubt if this indeed is the cross planted by Magellan because it is recorded that the Cebuano rose up against the Spaniards 17 days after the cross was planted. Some believe that the cross is as old as 1565, when Legazpi returned with a group of colonists. Miraculous stories are attributed to the cross, including the claim that it grows taller and taller year by year.


Queen Elizabeth II is set reach an important milestone this week–becoming Britain's longest-ruling head of state.
Queen Elizabeth has worked with 12 British prime ministers, from Winston Churchill to David Cameron. At age 89, she continues to travel and attend official events.
Elizabeth came to power after the death of her father, King George VI, on February 6, 1952. At the time, she was only 25 years old. She officially became queen in June of 1953.
The queen is part of the last generation of Britain's royal family to be educated at home. The Associated Press reports that she is the first British ruler to have sent an email (1976) or use Twitter, the social networking service (2014).
Royal historian Hugo Vickers says that during her rule, Queen Elizabeth has remained dutiful to her country. He adds that she is known as the "most invisible visible public woman in the world."
Who held the record before her?
On Wednesday, Elizabeth will beat a record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. Victoria served as queen more than a century ago for 63 years and seven months. Only four other British kings and queens have ruled 50 years or more.
Queen Elizabeth already holds the record as the country's oldest ruler. The only other world leader with longer service is King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. He took power more than 69 years ago.
In history, only a few monarchs have served even longer. Ngwenyama Sobhuza, later known as Sobhuza II, served as the Swazi King and later King of Swaziland for more than 82 years. He came to power before the age of one after the death of his father. In addition, Louis XIV served as King of France for 72 years. He was also aided by coming to power at a young age.
British officials say Queen Elizabeth wants the record-setting occasion to be a quiet event and that the day will be "business as usual". The Queen is expected to leave her private home at Balmoral, Scotland to open the new Scottish Borders Railway. She will also take a steam train ride on the new railway from Edinburgh with her husband, Prince Philip.
Children would bring them close together and break down this invisible barrier.
She worked with great dedication to find a cure for the disease.
According to Shiva, a young actress, when the reformist President Mohammad Khatami came to power in 1997, her generation was full of hope.
She treated it as a link between herself and dutiful goodness.
1.Royal historian Hugo Vickers says that during her rule, Queen Elizabeth has remained dutiful to her country. He adds that she is known as the "most invisible visible public woman in the world."
San Francisco is generally known as the "gate of east" of America.
China has always been known as a land of propriety band righteousness.
2.British officials say Queen Elizabeth wants the record-setting occasion to be a quiet event and that the day will be "business as usual". The Queen is expected to leave her private home at Balmoral, Scotland to open the new Scottish Borders Railway. She will also take a steam train ride on the new railway from Edinburgh with her husband, Prince Philip.
He expected to finish the work by March.
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خانه/سیاست/دموکراسی/The effect of democracy on the international community to reform the United Nations after the Cold War
حقوق بشردموکراسیسازمان های بین المللی
The effect of democracy on the international community to reform the United Nations after the Cold War
or the United Nations to be more efficient, and for the reform direction to move in the right direction, the organization must focus on strengthening its theoretical foundation. Sometimes this lack of a clear theoretical basis has led to confusion and reduced the organization's reforms in the right direction.
سید محسن مدنی بجستانیتیر ۱۳, ۱۴۰۰
۰ 193 زمان تقریبی مطالعه 3 دقیقه
در این پژوهش سعی بر این است که تاثیر روند دموکراسی خواهی ملت ها بر اصلاح ساختار سازمان ملل متحد اثبات و بیان گردد.
There has been an effort to state and verify the impact of the trend of democracy seeking by nations on the United Nations' structure. The research begins by introducing the series of conceptual changes in democracy.
Then, after explaining the direction of democracy in today's world and how democracy should be to meet the needs of the humanity of the third millennium, the elements of the final model are extracted. In the next section, amendments and modifications, as well as orders and decisions made by the UN concerning this issue, are studied. In chapter four, the effects of the democracy-seeking trend on the improvement of the UN's structure are addressed. Today's mankind is in need of universal support to fulfill their needs. To this aim, no organization is as legitimate and plausible as the UN. Thus, to be more efficient and to react to the pressures imposed by world communities, the UN has embarked on extensive changes. In the end, more theoretical deepening of such changes is recommended.
The United Nations in the second decade of the 21st century :
After the Cold War, the components of power shifted from the hard and secure to the soft and intelligence components. And soft power along with hard power was used as smart power in campaigns.
The United Nations is no exception and is now an intelligent power. Although in the past, the United Nations relied on its soft power levers.
Hard components of power in the United Nations:
– The military force under the command of the United Nations
– North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
– The armed forces of the member states under the command of the United Nations.
– Armed forces of member countries when necessary
Soft power components in the United Nations:
– Security Council resolutions and their binding
– Resolutions of agencies and their councils
– The media position of the United Nations
– The General Assembly of the United Nations
– Powers of the Secretary-General
But what happened in the pro-democracy events of the second decade of the 21st century, including Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, and other politically inflamed areas.
It was to some extent a demonstration of the intelligent power of the United Nations, which used diplomatic and soft tools when necessary and, if necessary, based on the same components of its soft power with the components of its hard power against human rights abuses. We can name the NATO invasion of Gaddafi-dominated Libya with the permission of the Security Council.
But what is painful is that the United Nations, under the influence of the great powers, still does not have the necessary efficiency to resolve or reduce crises.
The United Nations function had been locked in a security core since its inception, with the rise of democratization in the second half of the twentieth century, especially after the Cold War, pushing it away from the security core.
Suggestions for improving the reform situation at the United Nations:
The changes that have taken place in the United Nations, or in plans such as the Third Millennium Order, in a safer world and more freedom, or in the Secretary-General's Action Plans, do not have a sufficient theoretical basis and are based on strategic thinking.
For the United Nations to be more efficient, and for the reform direction to move in the right direction, the organization must focus on strengthening its theoretical foundation. Sometimes this lack of a clear theoretical basis has led to confusion and reduced the organization's reforms in the right direction.
۱. In the field of human rights, which is one of the main components of a desirable democracy, the problem that has arisen is that the United Nations has not identified the cultural differences that exist between countries and how it can be resolved. Although it recognizes cultural differences. For example, how does the hijab in Islamic societies and the attitudes of different religions towards women confirm it?
For this purpose, meetings should be organized so that the experts in this field reach a common semantic basis of the generalities of human rights, and also in the solutions of the meetings of these meetings, the cultural difference of the cults should be ensured.For this purpose, meetings should be organized so that the experts in this field reach a common semantic basis of the generalities of human rights, and also in the solutions leaving these meetings, the right to preserve the cultural differences of nations should be provided.
۲.In the category of democracy, which is endorsed and promoted by the United Nations, the current components of democracy, which have taken into account the current conditions and needs of human societies, although it has listed the values of democracy in meetings.But theoretical work does not end with enumerating the agreed values of democracy, but a general model or models should be the output of which cultural differences are taken into account.And this requires holding meetings and conducting research that focuses on democracy and the models of democracy needed today and in the future.
Sayyid Mohsen Madani / ۲۰۱۳
cosmopolitan Democracy United Nations آمریکا اصول نظام جهان وطنی اندیشه سیاسی توسعه پایدار
مواردی مهم برای توجه ملت ها، از مسجد القصی تا مرزهای چین
Distortion, fraud and rebellion / denial of the prophets in the name of the prophets by building the third temple
شکنجه، کشتار سیتماتیک، ارسال سلاح های ممنوعه و کمک های اطلاعاتی هدیه فرنگ برای صدام
تاثیر روند دموکراسی خواهی در جامعه جهانی بر اصلاح ساختار سازمان ملل متحد پس از جنگ سرد.
مدافعان حقوق بشر و ۸ تیر ؛ روز مبارزه با سلاح‌های شیمیایی و میکروبی
نقد و بررسی فیلم Red Sparrow ، قلاب های جنسی (گنجشک سرخ)
قحطی بزرگ در ایران توسط استعمار انگلیس و همکاری نانوشته روسیه
….. Hey Guys, Do not be like Jacob from New York, He is living in
The Story of Imam Hussain | Battle of Karbala |legitimacy and Good Governance
If I do not steal it, someone else is gonna steal it… in sheikh Jarah


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CHICAGO – For the second year, Chicago's DePaul University, and their film school within the College of Computing and Digital Media, hosted the Big Shoulders International Film Festival. The event was a two day celebration, and honored student short films from all over the world. After a showcase with Director Qiu Yang and Cinematographer Constanze Schmitt (the 2017 Winner of the Cannes Film Film Festival Short Film Palme d'Or, "A Gentle Night"). on Friday, February 1st, 2019, the festival wrapped up on February 2nd with split screenings of their 21 finalist films at the historic Davis Theatre in Chicago. The top film awards were given after the screenings.


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Arinco expands into NSW with new office
To meet increasing demand in the state
Sasha Karen (ARN) 15 January, 2021 00:00
L-R: Chris Padgett (Arinco), David Lee (Arinco)
Credit: Arinco
Melbourne-based Microsoft partner Arinco has expanded into NSW with the opening of a new office in Sydney.
The expansion into the NSW market is expected to meet increasing demand in the state, a statement from Arinco claimed.
That demand, according to the artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive services and cloud platforms consultancy, was due in part to the coronavirus pandemic.
"We have already been successful in establishing a customer base in NSW over the past year. The restrictions of needing to work remotely have, at the same time, created an opportunity for us," Arinco director David Lee said.
"We are optimistic about Australia's COVID situation and we're eager to see the increase in physical, but COVID-safe, presence in working conditions, which of course necessitates our need for a localised team."
Following the consultancy's launch 18 months ago, Lee added the expansion is a "significant" milestone for the consultancy and will assist in delivering its strategic growth initiatives in the NSW market.
Meanwhile, director Chris Padgett said the move follows the consultancy building on the momentum established over the last year, as well as extend its national reach in 2021.
"Arinco prides itself on building a first-class team delivering high-quality outcomes for Australia's leading businesses. Our further expansion into the NSW market is the natural next step for us," he said.
An unnamed executive will lead the expansion, with Arinco not providing their identity at this stage. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions in NSW, the consultancy will be implementing strategic directions from its Melbourne headquarters.
Read more Arinco accesses AI to slash law firm's processing time
The expansion marks the latest update in the consultancy's relatively short history. Back in August, Arinco was involved in a project with Maurice Blackburn Lawyers where it tapped into Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services to develop a solution that accelerated business processes through automating information extraction.
The solution allowed for the law firm to cut down the time for assessing a client's entitlement to a superannuation disability insurance claim from months down to the span of a phone call.
Arinco has also been involved in the local channel award circuit, with founder Nicki Bowers winning ARN's Women in ICT Awards 2020 in the Achievement category, as well as taking out the start-up customer value award in the 2019 ARN Innovation Awards.
It also has been recognised by Microsoft on the global stage as a finalist in the tech giant's 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards.
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using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace Steam4NET
{

	[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential,Pack=4)]
	public class ISteamFriends005VTable
	{
		public IntPtr GetPersonaName0;
		public IntPtr SetPersonaName1;
		public IntPtr GetPersonaState2;
		public IntPtr GetFriendCount3;
		public IntPtr GetFriendByIndex4;
		public IntPtr GetFriendRelationship5;
		public IntPtr GetFriendPersonaState6;
		public IntPtr GetFriendPersonaName7;
		public IntPtr GetFriendAvatar8;
		public IntPtr GetFriendGamePlayed9;
		public IntPtr GetFriendPersonaNameHistory10;
		public IntPtr HasFriend11;
		public IntPtr GetClanCount12;
		public IntPtr GetClanByIndex13;
		public IntPtr GetClanName14;
		public IntPtr GetFriendCountFromSource15;
		public IntPtr GetFriendFromSourceByIndex16;
		public IntPtr IsUserInSource17;
		public IntPtr SetInGameVoiceSpeaking18;
		public IntPtr ActivateGameOverlay19;
		public IntPtr ActivateGameOverlayToUser20;
		public IntPtr ActivateGameOverlayToWebPage21;
		public IntPtr ActivateGameOverlayToStore22;
		public IntPtr SetPlayedWith23;
		private IntPtr DTorISteamFriends00524;
	};

	[InteropHelp.InterfaceVersion("SteamFriends005")]
	public class ISteamFriends005 : InteropHelp.NativeWrapper<ISteamFriends005VTable>
	{
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate IntPtr NativeGetPersonaName( IntPtr thisptr );
		public string GetPersonaName(  )
		{
			return InteropHelp.DecodeANSIReturn( Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi( this.GetFunction<NativeGetPersonaName>( this.Functions.GetPersonaName0 )( this.ObjectAddress ) ) );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeSetPersonaNameS( IntPtr thisptr, string pchPersonaName );
		public void SetPersonaName( string pchPersonaName )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeSetPersonaNameS>( this.Functions.SetPersonaName1 )( this.ObjectAddress, pchPersonaName );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EPersonaState NativeGetPersonaState( IntPtr thisptr );
		public EPersonaState GetPersonaState(  )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetPersonaState>( this.Functions.GetPersonaState2 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate Int32 NativeGetFriendCountE( IntPtr thisptr, EFriendFlags eFriendFlags );
		public Int32 GetFriendCount( EFriendFlags eFriendFlags )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendCountE>( this.Functions.GetFriendCount3 )( this.ObjectAddress, eFriendFlags );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeGetFriendByIndexII( IntPtr thisptr, ref UInt64 retarg, Int32 iFriend, Int32 iFriendFlags );
		public CSteamID GetFriendByIndex( Int32 iFriend, Int32 iFriendFlags )
		{
			UInt64 ret = 0; this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendByIndexII>( this.Functions.GetFriendByIndex4 )( this.ObjectAddress, ref ret, iFriend, iFriendFlags ); return new CSteamID(ret);
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EFriendRelationship NativeGetFriendRelationshipC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDFriend );
		public EFriendRelationship GetFriendRelationship( CSteamID steamIDFriend )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendRelationshipC>( this.Functions.GetFriendRelationship5 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDFriend.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EPersonaState NativeGetFriendPersonaStateC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDFriend );
		public EPersonaState GetFriendPersonaState( CSteamID steamIDFriend )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendPersonaStateC>( this.Functions.GetFriendPersonaState6 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDFriend.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate IntPtr NativeGetFriendPersonaNameC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDFriend );
		public string GetFriendPersonaName( CSteamID steamIDFriend )
		{
			return InteropHelp.DecodeANSIReturn( Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi( this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendPersonaNameC>( this.Functions.GetFriendPersonaName7 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDFriend.ConvertToUint64() ) ) );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate Int32 NativeGetFriendAvatarCI( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDFriend, Int32 eAvatarSize );
		public Int32 GetFriendAvatar( CSteamID steamIDFriend, Int32 eAvatarSize )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendAvatarCI>( this.Functions.GetFriendAvatar8 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDFriend.ConvertToUint64(), eAvatarSize );
		}

		[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate bool NativeGetFriendGamePlayedCF( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDFriend, ref FriendGameInfo_t pFriendGameInfo );
		public bool GetFriendGamePlayed( CSteamID steamIDFriend, ref FriendGameInfo_t pFriendGameInfo )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendGamePlayedCF>( this.Functions.GetFriendGamePlayed9 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDFriend.ConvertToUint64(), ref pFriendGameInfo );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate IntPtr NativeGetFriendPersonaNameHistoryCI( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDFriend, Int32 iPersonaName );
		public string GetFriendPersonaNameHistory( CSteamID steamIDFriend, Int32 iPersonaName )
		{
			return InteropHelp.DecodeANSIReturn( Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi( this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendPersonaNameHistoryCI>( this.Functions.GetFriendPersonaNameHistory10 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDFriend.ConvertToUint64(), iPersonaName ) ) );
		}

		[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate bool NativeHasFriendCE( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDFriend, EFriendFlags eFriendFlags );
		public bool HasFriend( CSteamID steamIDFriend, EFriendFlags eFriendFlags )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeHasFriendCE>( this.Functions.HasFriend11 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDFriend.ConvertToUint64(), eFriendFlags );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate Int32 NativeGetClanCount( IntPtr thisptr );
		public Int32 GetClanCount(  )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetClanCount>( this.Functions.GetClanCount12 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeGetClanByIndexI( IntPtr thisptr, ref UInt64 retarg, Int32 iClan );
		public CSteamID GetClanByIndex( Int32 iClan )
		{
			UInt64 ret = 0; this.GetFunction<NativeGetClanByIndexI>( this.Functions.GetClanByIndex13 )( this.ObjectAddress, ref ret, iClan ); return new CSteamID(ret);
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate IntPtr NativeGetClanNameC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDClan );
		public string GetClanName( CSteamID steamIDClan )
		{
			return InteropHelp.DecodeANSIReturn( Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi( this.GetFunction<NativeGetClanNameC>( this.Functions.GetClanName14 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDClan.ConvertToUint64() ) ) );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate Int32 NativeGetFriendCountFromSourceC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDSource );
		public Int32 GetFriendCountFromSource( CSteamID steamIDSource )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendCountFromSourceC>( this.Functions.GetFriendCountFromSource15 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDSource.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeGetFriendFromSourceByIndexCI( IntPtr thisptr, ref UInt64 retarg, UInt64 steamIDSource, Int32 iFriend );
		public CSteamID GetFriendFromSourceByIndex( CSteamID steamIDSource, Int32 iFriend )
		{
			UInt64 ret = 0; this.GetFunction<NativeGetFriendFromSourceByIndexCI>( this.Functions.GetFriendFromSourceByIndex16 )( this.ObjectAddress, ref ret, steamIDSource.ConvertToUint64(), iFriend ); return new CSteamID(ret);
		}

		[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate bool NativeIsUserInSourceCC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDUser, UInt64 steamIDSource );
		public bool IsUserInSource( CSteamID steamIDUser, CSteamID steamIDSource )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeIsUserInSourceCC>( this.Functions.IsUserInSource17 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDUser.ConvertToUint64(), steamIDSource.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeSetInGameVoiceSpeakingCB( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDUser, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)] bool bSpeaking );
		public void SetInGameVoiceSpeaking( CSteamID steamIDUser, bool bSpeaking )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeSetInGameVoiceSpeakingCB>( this.Functions.SetInGameVoiceSpeaking18 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDUser.ConvertToUint64(), bSpeaking );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeActivateGameOverlayS( IntPtr thisptr, string pchDialog );
		public void ActivateGameOverlay( string pchDialog )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeActivateGameOverlayS>( this.Functions.ActivateGameOverlay19 )( this.ObjectAddress, pchDialog );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeActivateGameOverlayToUserSC( IntPtr thisptr, string pchDialog, UInt64 steamID );
		public void ActivateGameOverlayToUser( string pchDialog, CSteamID steamID )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeActivateGameOverlayToUserSC>( this.Functions.ActivateGameOverlayToUser20 )( this.ObjectAddress, pchDialog, steamID.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeActivateGameOverlayToWebPageS( IntPtr thisptr, string pchURL );
		public void ActivateGameOverlayToWebPage( string pchURL )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeActivateGameOverlayToWebPageS>( this.Functions.ActivateGameOverlayToWebPage21 )( this.ObjectAddress, pchURL );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeActivateGameOverlayToStoreU( IntPtr thisptr, UInt32 nAppID );
		public void ActivateGameOverlayToStore( UInt32 nAppID )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeActivateGameOverlayToStoreU>( this.Functions.ActivateGameOverlayToStore22 )( this.ObjectAddress, nAppID );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeSetPlayedWithC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDUserPlayedWith );
		public void SetPlayedWith( CSteamID steamIDUserPlayedWith )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeSetPlayedWithC>( this.Functions.SetPlayedWith23 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDUserPlayedWith.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

	};
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Q: android sdk - how to get native mail client in virtual device? I just downloaded the Android SDK package and went through the process of creating and launching a virtual Android device (4.2.2). Now I am trying to find the native email client. There doesn't seem to be one installed, and if I try to use Contacts to "Sign into an account", the button clicks, but nothing happens.
Am I doing something wrong? How do I install or access the native Android email client?

A: If you use an older version for the AVD (i.e., 4.0.3), that will have the native email client (with exchange support).  For whatever reason, the native email/exchange client does not seem to be included in the 4.2 emulator images.

A: For lower versions of Android:
You need to modify some core components of an Emulator Image. Follow these instructions on setting up the Android Market on an Emulator. This will also add email functionality. Also keep in mind that the IMGs this solution provides could potentially be phishing for your email account and password, so I recommend creating a new gmail account to use just for testing the hacked emulator.
For higher versions of Android:
It sounds like you aren't able to do this easy solution:
How to install email client on emulator
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Polo has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the extremely wealthy. These days, however, increasing numbers of people are deciding to test their mettle with a mallet and mount. And, with Princes William and Harry having obviously inherited their father's passion for the polo field, the press is also taking an increased interest in the game. In this special report, hellomagazine.com takes an in-depth look at this exciting sport.


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Hi again. Still working out the details of this year's intentional growth. Feels awful to know a week of 2017 has passed. Yet, due to circumstances beyond my control — it happens. Speaking of things outside of our individual control, when you live a life with certain dis-eases, the option below may be the one for you to consider when making an intentional growth plan.
OPTION TWO: In this method, how to of intentions relating to setting goals or resolutions, allows for a person to setup goals or resolutions ONLY for those areas or items which you personally can control. The attraction to this is for life which is lived in the moment, and allows for grace and distractions, and messiness, and allowance for chronic illness, and/or family challenges, job challenges, financial limitations, etc.
IDEA of GRACE: Never setup a resolution of any item, person, place, or thing out of your control. This option emphasizes the need for knowing our own limitations, setting up safe and knowledgable boundaries and recognizes examples both within business, and outside of business, where what we achieve can be critically curtailed or inhibited by some one else's actions or perhaps even by our own body in our current chapter of life.
Consider these out-of-control areas as "off-limits". I found that in 2016 in spite of my best efforts for the first half of the year, I had to change my plan mid-year. Why? A severe bout of shingles in my ear that took a 5 month chunk out of my life. It was a painful and painfully long experience. But oh, I learned so much. The first of which was to stay flexible, and not to hate a body that early on I felt had betrayed me. Not it's owner, just me. This valley of despair lead to a new dependency on God for each and every moment. It also lead me to the realization that Option two is sometimes the only way to go if one wants to remain focused on growth in the midst of trials.
How: Life will frustrate you. Guaranteed. People will frustrate you at times. Since one can never control another person's decisions it will likely frustrate the object(s) of your resolution or goals to face this reality as well. However, you can setup resolutions or goals, or plans toward forward growth — regarding how you will "respond" to choices. I have used this in past years with some success. In 2016 I used this to set boundaries on my own expectations as my body needed considerably more rest to recover and heal than I had allowed for in the initial stages of the virus flare-up.
One example, I cannot control another person yelling at me, nor can I control their road-rage. I can however, set up an intention for the year in which I determine to not respond with my own road-rage. Including thwarting the temptation to return any physical hand-symbols.
I will not make adaptive speed changes to pour fuel into their rage. I can make my resolution instead to respond by pulling over to calm down, or moving back in the traffic pack and visualizing their car as a balloon blowing out of my air-space. I get lower blood pressure, and the recipient of my resolution goes on as if nothing happened.
Why? Because I chose to not react but to respond – simply because I cannot control their behavior. Make sense? As to consequences, I can choose whether or not to take down the license plate, make and model of the car and call in a police report of road-rage. Or not.
Here again, the idea is to simply setup some ideas and limits to undesired behavior which we can control. Make a tangible effort to change one bad or limiting habit in this next period of your life. You with thank yourself 12 months from now by taking one tiny step now.
Confession: Believe is my all time favorite word. This word pops up in my life at many important moments. It always plays a key part in setting up the next chapter – in this instance 2017 for success. For if we cannot BELIEVE that what we intend to do is purposeful and will lead to a more fulfilled life – why bother?
OPTION ONE: In business or some academic settings many folks learned that for a goal to be effective it needs to be SMART. The idea of using this acronym is to provide a more comprehensive framework for goal setting. The best use of this acronym is to aid in setting goals or "resolutions" in a manner that will make them more meaningful and possibly becoming "more do-able". If you have never heard of this, there is tons of information on the internet available for your research.
Several slightly different adaptations exist for SMART. I recommend use of the words that make your goals and resolutions more effective for you. This is effective customization. If you compare words carefully, you may notice that some letters can seem redundant; so for example, if you set meaningful, then realistic is redundant. Chose another word.
Let me encourage you to not use a word for the acronym letter simply because you learned it in school or the work place.
Use the word for your personal goals that most reflects YOUR desire to achieve something new in the NEW YEAR. Pick your acronym for SMART now. Truly reflect on who you are now, and who you want to be at the end of 2017. A year from now you will wish you had started now.
You now have my urging you forward on to finish your current self-assessment, lock down the lessons learned or issues remaining open from 2016 and begin now and write down your 2017 intentions; thoughtfully, hopefully, and prayerfully – I'm working on mine, why not join me?
For 2017, my S.M.A.R.T. will stand for Spiritual, Mindful, Action to obey, Relationship – oriented, and Tangible.
Today's reading for me was Matthew chapter 1 & 2. To change things up a bit, I listened to it on my audio Bible first thing in this morning. I often notice different things listening than when I read, so I like both. Matthew's account provides different details from Luke's but does not contradict it. Matthew records the lineage of Joseph, the birth of Jesus, the visit of the Magi, the escape to & return from Egypt of the Holy family, and explains why they ended up in Nazareth. It was a timely reminder to me that the life of Jesus fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophesies. Which meant I was on a treasure hunt part.
While reading Matthew, first I "tripped over" the reality that the Magi were also waiting & watching. They show us dedication. They saw a star, they dropped EVERYTHING to follow it, though it would have meant a possibly long and dangerous journey. So, nearing the end of the journey, is it any wonder that they went to see Herod — after all he was the King of the area at the time of Jesus' birth – and they were seeking a baby King. Are we willing to change our plans if God asks? Will we be caught watching for His 2nd return?
It was no surprise to me that Herod did not how the answer the Magi, nor that he was surprised and scared at the news of a new King being born. Nor was it a surprise that a vicious Roman leader would demand all babies under age 2 be killed, just to "cover his bases". Which of course led me on another mining mission for that prophesy. I finally found it in – Hosea 11:1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt, I called my Son", and this directly links with the escape of the Holy family documented in Matt. 2:14-15. This one took a while, and I admit, when my concordance failed me, I resorted to the internet and several searches later, I had also found two useful essays.
Link (1) below is Lee Strobel's answer to a readers question sent into his newsletter: "Investigating Faith". The Question and his answer are both about identifying the Messiah through the Old Testament. Though it was originally a blog posted during Holy Week in 2012, I believe it is pertinent to the season of Advent. I think it can help to understand the intensity of the waiting and longing for the promised Messiah (before the foundations of the earth).
I encourage you to read it as it is well worth the few moments of your time. Besides,reading the essays will make today's song choices more meaningful. Doing the footwork today made the story of Christmas BIG instead of only LITTLE. Baby Jesus is God. And HE was God the Father's planned redemption since eternity began. WOW — At least for me.
RELATED SONGS: Both these songs speak to the waiting aspect of Advent. Both performed by Selah. No idea who wrote the lyrics or composed the music. (I can't find that yet) Click, Scroll, Listen and have a blessed day.
I'm glad you have visited. Please know that as this final week of Advent waiting and anticipating comes to a close, I wish you each a very Merry and Blessed Christmas remembrance.
Jesus visibly identifies with the poor in order to teach a lesson to the religious. He broke etiquette because they would not break through socioeconomic walls. Are we willing to do the same?


Inside the wake regarding devastating huge amounts, countless pets are displaced from other families and also homes. Up to 30 pct of puppies, cats, birds as well as other exotic animals are put aside by their particular owners which believe — amid panic — they can retrieve these later understanding that they'll become safer when left in the home's common setting.
Having the right carrier readily available is probably the most simple, yet most critical, steps it is possible to take regarding protecting your furry friend in case there is a avalanche. Often, families are usually forced to be able to leave their particular pets powering because they cannot have any carrier to hold them inside. A carrier may be picked upwards at just about any pet offer store, along with large suppliers like WalMart or perhaps Target. They may be relatively cost-effective and a really important section of any family pet disaster program.
In addition with a pet provider, have any pet attention kit ready if you believe a avalanche evacuation usually takes place. Make sure you include any bowl, pet food and further water, along with any medications your furry friend may be influenced by. If essential, have any leash and also collar readily available as properly. Keep at heart pets which could not normally hightail it could behave differently beneath the stress and might need to be leashed.
When water goes up quickly, remember flood basic safety tips. Flood water which is shallow enough with an adult to be able to walk inside may bring away youngsters and animals. It just isn't safe to operate a vehicle a automobile through strong water. If the area huge amounts, get to higher ground as fast as possible and make an effort to speak to a neighborhood rescue program. Depending around the area your home is in, there could be a family pet rescue service which will help keep your furry friend safe. In addition, there are usually stickers it is possible to put nearby the entrance of your property to advise rescue staff of the amount of and what forms of pets you might have. If for reasons uknown your household are compelled to abandon your animals behind, something such as this could help save their particular lives.


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LAST CALL: World Of Hyatt Buy Points 25% Bonus Through November 28, 2022
by John Ollila
Hyatt launched a promotion to buy points at a 25% bonus last month that is about to end. You must purchase by November 28.
Members can buy up to 55,000 points every calendar year before any possible bonuses, and Hyatt has several opportunities for buying points throughout the year.
You can access this offer and check your bonus or discount on Hyatt's website here.
READ MORE: World of Hyatt Rate & Bonus Points Offers
World of Hyatt points sales usually offer a maximum of 40% bonus or 30% discount during regular sales; this current one would also sit comfortably in that zone.
The cost of a World of Hyatt point purchased under this offer at the 25% bonus is 1.92 cents each. During the previous sale, the price of a point was 1.68 cents.
Does it make sense to purchase points at this price?
It only makes sense if you use them at costly Hyatt properties such as the Park Hyatt Maldives, Kyoto, or Tokyo. However, sometimes the lower category properties can often make sense when the paid rates are high. Otherwise, buying at such a high price makes only limited sense.
Award rooms with Hyatt are available as long as standard rooms are available for sale. This means that points are usually a good value if something is happening in the city, bringing the paid rates throughout the roof.
It's worthwhile to check what the current points rates are if you have a particular stay in mind. With Hyatt now having introduced Peak/Off-Peak awards, there is no longer a firm amount of points, and this can make or break the case if it's worthwhile to redeem, let alone buy points.
Hyatt sells its points at a bonus or discount continuously throughout the year. So if you don't need World of Hyatt points right now, you can buy them later.
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Offer available with purchases made between 12:01 am ET October 24, 2022 and ends 11:59 pm November 28, 2022. Purchase 3,000 or more min Bonus Points in a single transaction and get 25% Bonus. Bonus Points will be awarded upon completion of individual transactions. In order to participate in a purchase transaction, you must be a member for at least 60 days to purchase or receive Bonus Points. Bonus Points can be purchased in increments of 1,000, up to 55,000 points per calendar year. Members can receive points in increments of 1,000, up to 55,000 points per calendar year. Additional Bonus Points awarded under this offer do not count towards these maximums. Offer may be withdrawn or changed without notice. Offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Only purchases made online are eligible for the promotion.
Price includes all applicable fees. GST/HST will be charged to Canadian residents. QST will be charged to Quebec residents. This transaction is completed by Points.com Inc. Purchased points are not refundable and transactions are non-reversible. Purchased points are applicable toward all World of Hyatt awards. Points purchased using this option will post within 48 hours. Purchased points do not count toward World of Hyatt elite membership tiers. All World of Hyatt Terms and Conditions apply.
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The closest hotels are less than 2 miles north and south of the airport.
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Welcome to the Holiday Inn & Suites Charleston West, the perfect hotel solution for business and leisure travel to West Virginia's capital city.
From Charleston International Airport - Leaving the Airport, stay straight on International Blvd for 2 miles.Amenities include indoor pool, free shuttle, WiFi and breakfast.There are 13 cheap Business-Friendly hotels and around with Airport Shuttle in and around Charleston, West Virginia.
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Travel the world better at one of many top hotels close to CRW airport.Our Charleston Airport hotel is near the Charleston Convention Center, Tanger Outlet Mall and minutes from downtown Charleston.
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Poison frontman Brett Michaels mentioned the possible Def Leppard/Poison 2012 tour again in Minnesota during his recent solo tour.
This concert took place on 26th December 2011 at the Wicked Moose Bar and Grill in Rochester, Minnesota.
To follow all the news/stories about the upcoming 2012 tour visit the new Tour News section.
"Michaels also promised a tour this summer with Poison and Def Leppard - dates for which have yet to be announced - giving area 80s rock fans something to believe in."