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Announcing the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Online Writing Workshop
May 9, 2020 /0 Comments/in News & Press Releases /by John Goodwin
Writers of the Future announced a free online creative writing workshop with New York Times bestselling authors resulting in over 1,000 people signing up in the first 72 hours from over a dozen countries. Sci Fi Magazine Announcement The online writing workshop launch coincided with the Summer 2020 edition of Sci Fi Magazine where editor […]
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The Writers of the Future Writing Podcast Is One Year Old
April 15, 2020 /0 Comments/in News & Press Releases /by John Goodwin
"A means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged."— L. Ron Hubbard
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The Sport of Writing by Nnedi Okorafor
March 6, 2019 /7 Comments/in Writer Articles /by John Goodwin
Nnedi Okorafor at the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest providing tips on how to start writing.
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How To Start Writing
August 24, 2018 /1 Comment/in Annual Workshop & Awards, Writer Articles /by Joni Labaqui
I have always known that I am a writer. With the kind of knowing you feel deep in your bones and emanates from the very core of your being. And as writers must do, I write. Although that wasn't always the case. How to start writing…
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A Different Kind of Writing Workshop
August 21, 2018 /0 Comments/in Annual Workshop & Awards, Writer Articles /by Joni Labaqui
When L. Ron Hubbard initiated the Writers of the Future contest, he knew that there would be awards and publications for the winners. As Algis Budry, the first contest administrator put it to me, "He wanted to make sure that this helped launch new writers.
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Prize Writing—Three Things to Know
August 8, 2018 /0 Comments/in Writer Articles /by Joni Labaqui
If you think about it deeply, everything that you write is really for a competition. You're competing for publication with other writers, for promotional monies from the marketing departments of various publishers, for literary awards, and of course for your reading audience.
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Tell Me a Story by Larry Niven
February 6, 2018 /3 Comments/in Writer Articles /by Joni Labaqui
I can't tell you how to write, not in a thousand words. I've been telling what I know as fast as I learned it for twenty-two years. My collaborators now know everything I do. I've spoken on panels and published articles on writing. Is there anything left to say?
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Analyzing What to Write
January 4, 2018 /1 Comment/in Writer Articles /by Joni Labaqui
When you decide to write a novel, screenplay, or any tale at all, there are a number of things you should look at. In this article, New York Times bestselling author David Farland covers the points to analyze before writing a story.
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Defining Yourself
December 23, 2017 /0 Comments/in Writer Articles /by Joni Labaqui
In this post New York Times bestselling author and Writers of the Future coordinating judge, David Farland, talks about defining yourself as an author and how that can help.
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New York Times bestselling author Dave Farland's last post was on "giving up." He brought up dozens of books that got rejected over and over again, only to finally sell and either win major awards (like the Nobel Prize) or make millions of dollars.
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How To Make One Million Dollars, become the Secretary of Defense; believe it or not, there was a time in my life Lady Lu that I said those words out loud, I also wanted to be a war correspondent and as you recall I did a brief stint in the Navy. The words are Military Bearing; do you know why I tend to make all these "personalities" female save for one; I don't think in my life there has been one man in my environment that I have honestly respected, on a personal level I will say.
Today I was at PetSmart picking up B III's meds, and they had an adoption thing, and I saw the cutest little dog; this furbaby was a few inches taller than my son. Oh to let dear Trible B have a few years taken back on him, return to puppy form I'd give him a sibling. My father never taught me about how to be a man, he threatened to kill me before going into the military, I thought maybe they would educate me, but I left, one uncle cheated on his wife, another married in and murdered my mom's sister. Never met my great grandfather's, paternal granddad wasn't there, maternal grandfather got divorced, another uncle shot and can't stand, one more not indeed an uncle, don't know him, or my older half-brother, "father" beat my mother too you know.
Okay so back to B III and as I stood there, a bag full of over a hundred pills, over three months that I wouldn't hesitate to buy again and I saw this other dog that needs a home, a family and if my little one wasn't so old, ornery, and obstinate… Anyway so I'm driving, and I'm listening to my motivations, talking about not letting the past control you and I think of how I am and my son and our future, and there it is his obituary coming to mind. Everything I want to say to him, that it has been my honor and privilege to be his father, that if I have a chance in Hell of getting to Heaven, it will be but a word from him, and that I'm sorry I failed him. No mother, no two-legged siblings to protect, I didn't give him the home that he ever deserved.
I've said before I owe Will Smith my life and as far as my "father" a man must look after his family but it was my little boy, who is a greater man than I could have possibly hoped to raise, who taught me about love, life, even lungs as I watch him breathe and I can. I love him like pancakes I always say because I couldn't love him more if I poured the "Bisquick" and we have walked together, fought, lived and if there is any man I honestly do respect and would follow it's my son, pathetic huh but not father, flag, or female has gotten so much; Stand At Attention Will.


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Ottawa house prices climbed 7.2% in 2017 with wide variations by district
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Ottawa's real estate market ended 2017 the way it began — with most of the price momentum in the west and the best bargains in the east.
Overall, benchmark prices for single-family homes jumped 7.2 per cent year over year in December to $403,900, according to data compiled by the Ottawa Real Estate Board through its multiple listing service system. Benchmark prices are based on an index that standardizes housing features and is considered a better barometer of underlying trends.
A shrinking supply of homes for sale in December might have been a factor in pushing up prices. While there was a comparatively modest 3.5 per cent jump in the number of single-family homes sold — 566 units compared with 547 a year earlier — many homeowners simply took their properties off the market. There were just 2,678 residential listings at year-end, compared with 3,420 a year earlier.
Following a flurry of sales activity in November, homeowners might now be waiting to see how new rules governing mortgages play out. Starting Jan. 1, borrowers have had to demonstrate, among other things, they can still make payments if interest rates rise.
Price hikes varied significantly across the city. Twenty-one of the 46 real estate districts tracked by the board saw double-digit gains in December compared with a year earlier, including a pair in which prices rocketed upward by nearly 30 per cent.
Remarkably, these two districts — Rockcliffe Park and New Edinburgh-Lindenlea — were already among the city's most expensive. Single-family homes sold for $1.55 million in Rockcliffe Park last month, up from $1.19 million in December 2016, while similar properties in New Edinburgh-Lindenlea fetched $767,200 last month compared with $603,700 a year earlier. New Edinburgh-Lindenlea is now the second most pricey district, just ahead of Carlingwood-Westboro.
Part of the surge in prices in Rockcliffe Park and New Edinburgh-Lindenlea could be a statistical quirk related to extremely low volumes. Data provided by the real estate board show an unusual, sharp dip in house prices for both districts from December 2016 through to May 2017. Prices regained their former levels in June 2017 and have been steady ever since. The number of sales in Rockcliffe last year averaged little more than three per month.
Elsewhere across the city, real estate trends have remained consistent. For instance, in December seven of the top 10 districts when measured by house price hikes were in the west, all of them in a narrow band stretching along the Ottawa River and Highway 417 from Island Park Drive to the new Department of National Defence headquarters at 60 Moodie Drive.
At the same time, the districts reporting the smallest price gains year over year were in the east, from Bank Street to Cumberland. The smallest increase, 2.6 per cent, was reported in Blackburn Hamlet, where the benchmark price for a single family home last month was a modest $386,400. Vanier remained among the most affordable districts: the benchmark price there in December was just $337,800.
In sharp contrast with the market for single-family homes, December condominium sales in Ottawa were all over the map. In the west, the average price for a condo surged 46 per cent year over year to $352,060 in the west while slumping 35 per cent to $198,900 in the south over the same period. The number of condo units sold were 30 and 41 respectively. Condo prices increased 13.2 per cent in the east to $294,250 and fell 7.9 per cent to $332,200 in the downtown core.
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By Amira Zubairi Canadian Startup News May 18, 2017
Today in company updates: Top Hat, Hootsuite, District M
This week, several Canadian startups have made announcements — launching new features, hiring new members, and more. Here's the latest on Canada's movers and shakers.
Top Hat appoints Jesper Bendtsen as first chief people officer
Toronto-based Top Hat announced that it has appointed Jesper Bendtsen as its first chief people officer (CPO).
Bendtsen has previously served as the executive vice-president of operations at WilsonHCG, the head of global recruiting at Uber, and VP of global go-to-market recruiting at Salesforce.
"I'm excited to be joining Top Hat, a Toronto-based startup that has such a clear value proposition," said Bendtsen. "Talent is a key factor in any high growth startup, and Top Hat is no different. In my role, I'll be focusing on strategies to strengthen the culture internally, ensuring that we're creating an inclusive, high-performing environment for our employees."
As CPO, Bendtsen will be responsible for overseeing talent acquisition and acceleration, human resources, and culture. He will report directly to Top Hat's co-founder and CEO Mike Silagadze.
"Jesper brings an area of expertise that has been missing at Top Hat, and as we scale, how we hire, retain and build teams is an essential component to our success," said Silagadze. "Top Hat has experienced tremendous growth and we want to ensure that we're not only attracting the best talent but retaining it as well, so we're investing in our culture and our people. We are well on our way to becoming one of the best places to work in Canada and Jesper will be leading the charge."
In February 2017, Top Hat raised a $29.5 million in Series C to help recruit talent and accelerate the development of new solutions for creating and distributing academic content.
Hootsuite launches solutions to help enterprises manage and measure social ROI
Hootsuite announced the launch of Hootsuite Impact to help enterprises understand how to best measure and maximize the return on investment (ROI) from social activities.
Hootsuite Impact, which is integrated into Hootsuite's platform, gives companies and organizations access to a dashboard that provides a complete view of their owned, earned, and paid social initiatives. It also integrates with web analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, enabling marketers to compare social data to other marketing activities.
Hootsuite also said that with the new tool, marketers will have the ability to identify, measure, and track campaigns so that they can "dedicate time and resources efficiently."
Along with Hootsuite Impact, Hootsuite is also launching Hootsuite Value Realization, which is meant to help enterprises see the value of investing in social media.
With Value Realization, Hootsuite's experts will work with enterprises to assess people, process, and technology needed to create a measurement framework, and establish KPIs that deliver actionable insights.
"Hootsuite's goal is to enable organizations to leverage social data to drive business outcomes," said Matt Switzer, senior vice-president of strategy and corporate development at Hootsuite. "With Hootsuite Impact and our Hootsuite Value Realization services, we want to be our customers' trusted partner in proving and growing the value of social across their organizations."
These announcements come on the heels of Hootsuite's recent acquisitions of LiftMetrix, AdEspresso, and Naritiv's Snapchat analytics solution.
District M appoints Adrian Pike as new chief marketing officer
Montreal-based District M, which provides campaign distribution platforms and data targeting strategies for advertisers, has appointed Adrian Pike as its new chief marketing officer.
Pike has held several senior management and leadership positions at tech companies like Lightspeed, Atex, and Acxiom, helping businesses engage with and grow their customers through marketing and demand generation strategies.
As CMO, Pike will be responsible for developing a marketing strategy that increases District M's global presence and awareness, and supports the company's growth.
"I am thrilled that Adrian will be running our marketing team as we continue to expand our team and build new technology offerings," said JF Côté, CEO of District M. "As District M moves into its next stage of evolution, it is important that we reach a broader audience, grow in new markets, and launch the next generation of technology solutions.³
District M raised $8 million in funding from Fonds de solidarité FTQ in September 2016.
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The Top Golf sounds fun . . .
Wedding Day must be a full time thought . . .
Sometimes ya just gotta mix things up! You are so fortunate to live in a place that has fun things to do close by.
Sounds like a fun place. My family full of golfers would enjoy it.
Have a wonderful wedding weekend and just relax and let what happens happen. Enjoy every moment.
Glad you are venturing out and about! There are some great restaurants in St. Pete. I think it sounds like you are all ready for the big day, so just relax and let it unfold!
What a fun day out! My daughter's family have been to Top Golf and always enjoyed it! Have a blessed day dear Vicki, HUGS!
Sounds like a wonderful way to take your mind off the wedding and just have a fun day out!


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1919/20 was het dertiende Duitse voetbalkampioenschap ingericht door de DFB. Nadat er vijf jaar lang geen competitie werd gespeeld door de Eerste Wereldoorlog ging deze nu weer van start.

Net zoals voorheen namen de zeven regionale kampioenen (Süd, West, Nord, Mitte, Berlin-Brandenburg, Südost, Nordost) deel, samen met de titelverdediger SpVgg Fürth.

Duitsland was op territoriaal vlak wel veranderd. Noord-Sleeswijk behoorde nu tot Denemarken, West-Pruisen aan Polen, Elzas-Lotharingen aan Frankrijk en Eupen-Malmedy aan België. In de verloren gebieden speelden echter geen historische clubs.

Het voetbal kende wel een enorme boom na de oorlog. Er werden nieuwe clubs opgericht en er kwamen alsmaar meer leden en supporters. Het sportieve zwaartepunt had zich ook verplaatst. Met VfB Leipzig en SpVgg Fürth namen slechts twee clubs deel die ook voor de oorlog aan een kampioenschap hadden deelgenomen. Bij de nieuwelingen zat onder andere 1. FC Nürnberg dat de succesvolste club uit de jaren 20 zou worden.

Deelnemers aan de eindronde

Eindronde

Kwartfinale

Halve finale

Finale

De twee Zuid-Duitse clubs speelden voor 35.000 toeschouwers  in Frankfurt. Luitpold Popp maakte in de 12de minuut de eerste goal en in de 73ste minuut scoorde Péter Szabó nog een tweede keer.

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Summit County Search and Rescue crews, assisted by Park City ski patrol, continued their search Tuesday morning in the backcountry of Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort for a missing skier.
Detective Kacey Bates described Jones, 50, of Wanship, as a "very experienced and knowledgeable" skier. Jones left his home Sunday morning wearing appropriate clothing and while he has an avalanche beacon, it is unclear if he had it with him at the time.
A family member reported him missing at around 9 p.m. Sunday evening, Bates said. His vehicle was located in the Cabriolet parking lot of Canyons Village.
Searchers have been concentrating on an area in the backcountry where Jones' cell phone is known to have last pinged. The search was suspended Monday night due to weather conditions and resumed early Tuesday with the assistance of air support.
"We were unable to do a lot of that beacon search yesterday," Bates said. "And right now we are not asking for any volunteers to be in the area or the backcountry because there are some snow concerns and with multiple people in the area with beacons it could contaminate it. WE ask that all volunteers wait until they have been requested to come."
Canyons Village has closed the Ninety-Nine 90 gate to limit the number of people and beacons during the search, Bates said.
Jones has been described as 5'10, approximately 200 pounds and in good health condition.


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Deeper Learning Digest: Incorporating Deeper Learning for Student Success
By Caroline Waldman
The 'Deeper Learning Digest' is a bi-weekly roundup of articles, blog posts, and other content around deeper learning.
eSchool News featured the story of Kelly Grotrian, a social studies teacher in East Brunswick, New Jersey, and how she enabled her students to learn more deeply using video content. Grotrian discusses how she was showing relevant, primary source accounts via video, and yet her students were distracted and disengaged with the material. Using the standard document-based question activity (DBQ), where students are given an essay prompt and must use the given documents and their knowledge to support a response, Grotrian created her very own "VBQ" or video-based question activity. The novelty of the idea, which translated into a series of videos accompanied by critical thinking and higher-level questions, is that students are in control of their own learning. After completing the activity, one of her students said: "I really enjoyed this activity because this is one of the first experiences where we have control over our learning and it suits well because everyone has a different pace."
In Tennessee, state education officials are focusing on comprehension to improve reading scores. "This is not about whether students can read and write. It's about understanding. At its most basic, comprehension is being able to identify the setting or the main character of a story," says the story on Nashville Public Radio. It is this deeper level where Tennessee's students are struggling. Education Commissioner Candice McQueen discussed that there are multiple levels of comprehension to get more in-depth, and that this should begin even as students are just starting to sound out words. "Even when you're teaching decoding and a student may not be able to read yet, you're definitely reading to them. You're helping them access what they can read," she says. "And you're having an opportunity to do listening comprehension, which starts building those skills at an early age."
A piece on edutopia discusses bringing deeper learning experiences into classrooms and school learning. The article prompts readers to think about a time when they were immersed in a deeper learning experience, consider the qualities of the experience that made the learning memorable, and to think of ways to encourage this style of learning, which happens outside of school for many people, into the class. With the mentality that designing curriculum is the point when teachers can be innovative and create memorable and profound opportunities for their students, the article gives four ideas to aid in the designing of deeper learning experiences for students. Check them out here.
On Education Week's Learning Deeply blog, Adam Carter, chief academic officer for Summit Public Schools explores how Summit Public Schools achieve their mission of "preparing a diverse student population for success in a four-year university, and to be thoughtful, contributing members of society." Carter discusses how they get their students ready for success in college, using what they have outlined as the primary drivers of college readiness (pictured below). Carter dives deeper into one of the drivers, "Habits of Success," defining what this means and why it matters. "Habits of Success are really important–as educators, parents, and community members, we know that they are the invisible thread that ties together the fabric of relationships and organizations–they are bound intimately with motivation and achievement. They count, but we don't yet count them. We should." Read more: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning_deeply/2015/10/habits_of_success_seeking_the_invisible_thread.html
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Highlights of the Braves 17-14 win over Jonathan Alder.
Andi Meeks was admittedly hyperventilating on the sidelines.
With the score tied at 14 and less than a minute remaining, Meeks watched as her Shawnee High School football teammates drove the ball into field goal range against Jonathan Alder on Friday night in Springfield.
The first-year junior kicker knew her name might be called. With four seconds remaining, she got the call from father, Shawnee head football coach Rick Meeks.
The nerves were no match for her right foot. Andi Meeks bashed the ball through the uprights from 25 yards out as time expired to lift the Braves to a 17-14 win over the Pioneers in a Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division matchup. The victory clinched the Braves' first playoff appearance since 2013.
"I know Andi's tough, but she's never had to kick in this situation," Rick Meeks said. "She's a first-year kicker, end of the game, playoff implications in Week 10, either we make it (or we don't). She hammered it. As a Dad, I'm obviously extremely proud of her, more than just making that field goal.
Shawnee (6-4, 2-2) will likely finish as the seventh or eighth seed in Division IV, Region 16, meaning it's likely headed on the road in the first round. The playoff pairings will be announced by the Ohio High School Athletic Association on Sunday afternoon.
Shawnee sophomore Drew Mitch entered the game at quarterback for junior Robie Glass, who left the game midway through the third quarter with an injury.
Mitch gave the Braves a 14-7 lead on a 48-yard TD run on the first play of the fourth quarter.
The Pioneers tied the score when Garrett Proximire broke a 48-yard TD run with about 6:30 remaining.
Shawnee got the ball back with about 1:30 remaining in the game, but the Pioneers intercepted Mitch's pass at midfield. A few plays later, Shawnee's Jaden Hall intercepted a pass — his second turnover of the game — to give the ball back to his teammates near midfield.
Mitch hit Pete Mueller on back-to-back passes of 28 and 12 yards to move Shawnee into field goal range. Mueller hugged Glass as he watched the ball sail the through the uprights. He was the first person on the field to celebrate with Andi Meeks.
"It's the best feeling ever," Mueller said.
Jonathan Alder (6-4, 2-2) scored on a 2-yard TD run by JT Keith to take a 7-0 lead in the first half. The Braves tied the score on a 21-yard TD run Glass two possessions later. The score was tied 7-7 at the half.
Andi Meeks' was also a member of the Braves' soccer team this fall, which saw its season end in the district semifinals earlier this week. She missed the first day of basketball practice Friday to play in the Braves' final home football game — and it will have to wait at least one more week.


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Cars wait in line at the port of entry in Blaine, Washington, at the U.S.-Canada border. Photo: Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images
Over the weekend, reports surfaced that dozens of Iranian-Americans were being forced to undergo secondary inspections at the port of entry in Blaine, Washington, at the U.S.-Canada border. According to multiple travelers affected, several immigration lawyers whose clients were stopped, and the Council on American-Islamic relations, Customs and Border Protection agents were subjecting these travelers to extra screening at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security, which had issued a security bulletin warning CBP to take extra security measures after the killing of Qasem Soleimani, a high-ranking Iranian military commander, by an American drone strike on Friday. Agents were allegedly pulling people aside on the basis of their Iranian heritage, asking where they lived, what they did for work, whether they'd served in the military, and questions about their families. Reports from advocates and lawyers about the total number of people screened differ, but all range from 40 to 75. According to BuzzFeed News, Blaine-based immigration attorney Leonard Saunders saw a nearly block-long line of them waiting to be inspected; the wait was so substantial, he said, that CBP officers had begun passing out juice boxes, prepackaged fruit, and crackers to quell their hunger.
There's something especially disquieting about this detail — using snacks to soften the blow of the travelers' helplessness in the face of a security apparatus that had total power to keep them from their homes and families. They weren't going anywhere until CBP told them they could, they knew, and it was because they'd been born in, or descended from people born in, a country that an erratic U.S. president had decided on a whim to provoke via missile strike under thin pretenses.
While early reports indicated that their detention stemmed from a top-down mandate, CBP officials emailed congressional staff on Monday and said there'd been no directive "from DHS or CBP leadership with instructions to detain Iranian-Americans and [refuse] their entry into the U.S because of their country of origin," according to CNN. The email explained further that field agents have broad discretion to pull aside and inspect whom they please — and to respond to DHS security bulletins calling for increased "situational awareness," as was issued last week, by "[enhancing] operational posture based upon the totality of circumstances, including [area-]specific information." (Read: detaining people because they're from a specific country.)
The takeaway is that Blaine CBP agents were simply being proactive in following the lead of the administration in their approach to following orders. They were told to be on high alert following Trump's attack on an Iranian military official — and the Iranian government's vow to retaliate — and responded of their own volition by applying broad suspicion and targeted security enforcement to people of Iranian descent, including American citizens and permanent residents. This imprecision was not irrational. Quite the contrary, it followed, closely, what any reasonable person might conclude is Trump's own border-security mandate, which entails using extremely large categories to define threats and enemies. Entire nations and religions aren't exempt. Trump sought to ban travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries in 2017, a more sweeping effort than President Reagan's conditional ban on Cuban travelers in 1986. No president who decries all Muslim immigrants or those from so-called "shithole countries" can be surmised to have an aversion to treating all people of Iranian heritage like potential terrorists while toying with war against Iran.
DHS' Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is reviewing a complaint about Blaine CBP's security procedures filed by the National Iranian-American Council, according to CNN; it's unclear how long or wide-ranging their investigation will be. But it can be said with a fair degree of certainty that the agents vetting travelers of Iranian descent didn't go rogue or even substantively diverge from what, under Trump's government, has become the standard approach to border security. Among the defining features of the president and his party's default aversion — and often hostility — toward people who aren't white, native-born Americans is that it doesn't require a rigorous rationale. Bigotry rarely does. In this particular case, it's a logical extension of a seemingly boundless War on Terror that over the past two decades has generated spiking violence against American Muslims — and those mistakenly perceived to be Muslim, like Sikhs — and broad suspicion against Muslim communities and travelers, such that Muslims are surveilled, added to watch- and no-fly lists, and outright banned from entry to the U.S. in staggering numbers, while white supremacists shoot up synagogues and win national elections.
It is, to an extent, a reflection of the degree to which the Trump era has openly valorized the bigoted application of security policies that Blaine CBP agents could profile so flagrantly with little apparent fear of consequences. "You know in Israel they profile," Trump said in September 2016, deriding what he saw, laughably, as a reticence among American police to single out racial or religious minorities for suspicion. "They've done an unbelievable job — as good as you can do … And they'll profile." This fundamentally vague approach seems to be a feature of Trump's military strategy as well. Several members of Congress have emerged from briefings about the Soleimani strike with serious doubts that the president's rationale for the killing — that it prevented an "imminent" attack on Americans — was even close to being true.
But it speaks as well to the fundamental pathologies in how too many Americans view Americanness: as conditional, determined by a litmus test that encompasses a narrow range of bona fides, such as whiteness, being native born, and adhering to a jingoistic understanding of patriotism. It's a remarkably short trip between waving one's Iranian-American countrymen through an immigration checkpoint with little fanfare on Friday to singling them out for special interrogation and multi-hour security lines on Saturday. Even if none of these travelers were ultimately denied entry to the U.S., that their undue vetting was viewed by its perpetrators as reasonably precautionary — as a way to reassure themselves that they were being sufficiently thorough in protecting the homeland — illustrates, if nothing else, the emotional catharsis that such a sweeping and rigor-less approach to national security generates. Bigotry can be comforting, an affirmation of what's seen as the natural order. And the precipice of wartime is an especially edifying time to be reminded whose Americanness can be taken for granted and whose must be proven under duress.
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Q: How to implement a sequential Kalman filter for a non-linear system? I am currently working on a project in which I need to implement a Kalman filter for data fusion in Simulink. As this system is non-linear, I have thought about implementing an extended Kalman filter. However, as a matter of safety, I need to be able to "shut down" a defective sensor, and thus not take into account the erroneous values he may deliver.
The sequential Kalman filter would be a nice solution, as taking out a measure simply means to ignore the corresponding iteration. Now, the only implementations of the sequential Kalman filter I have found are for linear system. (as, for a standard Kalman, the measure z is z = Hk * x + w, and in my case, it is z = Hk(x) + w)
Could anybody tell me if there is a simple way to implement such an extended, sequential Kalman filter? The way I tried (mixing up both - substituting hk(x) to hk) did not work.
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Q: Neo4j query on modest Graph rather slow I'm toying around with Neo4J. My Data consists of users who own objects which are tagged by tags. There my schema looks like:
(:User)-[:OWNS]->(:Object)-[:TAGGED_AS]->(:Tag)

I have written a script that generates me a sample Graph. Currently I have 100 User, ~2500 Tag and ~10k Object nodes in the database. Between those I have ~700k relationships. I know want to find every Object that is not owned by a certain User but related over a Tag the User has used himself. There query looks like:
MATCH (user:User {username: 'Cristal'})
WITH user
MATCH (user)-[:OWNS]->(obj:Object)-[:TAGGED_AS]->(tag:Tag)<-[:TAGGED_AS]-(other:Object)
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LIMIT 20

However, this query runs ~1-5 minutes (depending on the user and how many objects he owns), which is a not only a bit to slow. What am I doing wrong? I consider this a rather "trivial" query against a graph of modest size. I'm using Neo4J 2.1.6 Community and already set the Java Heap to 2000 MB (and I can see that there is a Java process using this much). Am I missing an index or something like that (I'm new to Neo4J)?
I honestly expected the result to be pretty much instant especially considering that the Neo4J docs mention the I should use a heap between 1 and 4 GB for 100 million objects...and I'm only close to a 1/100 of this number.
If it is my Query (which I hope and expect) how can I improve it? What is something you have to be aware when writing queries?

A: Do you have an index on the username property?
CREATE INDEX ON :User(username)

Also you don't really need that WITH there, so maybe drop it to see if it helps:
MATCH (user:User {username: 'Cristal'})-[:OWNS]->(obj:Object)-[:TAGGED_AS]->(tag:Tag)<-[:TAGGED_AS]-(other:Object)
WHERE NOT (user)-[:OWNS]->(other)
RETURN other
LIMIT 20

Also, I don't think it will make a different, but you can drop the obj and tag variables since you're not using them elsewhere in the query.
Also, if you're generating sample graphs you may want to check out GraphGen:
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (arapski; محمد بن عبد الوهاب; 1703. – 22. lipnja 1792.), saudijski teolog i reformator, osnivač vahabizma.

Životopis
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab je rođen u Nadždu u središtu Arapskog poluotoka, 1703. godine, u obitelji kadija. Abd al-Wahhabova rana naobrazba predstavljala učenje osnovnog standardnog kurikuluma izvorne jurisprudencije prema hanbelijskoj pravnoj školi, koja je bila najzastupljenija pravna škola islama u njegovom mjestu rođenja. Usprkos prvobitnoj rudimentarnoj edukaciji u klasičnoj sunitskoj islamskoj tradiciji Abd al-Wahhab je postepeno postao protivnik većine sunitskih praksi poput posjećivanja i veneracije grobnica velikana islama, što je smatrao heretičkim religijskim inovacijama ili čak idolatrijom. Iako su njegova učenja bila odbačena i suprotstavljena većini najznačajnijih sunitskih učenjaka tog vremena, uključujući njegovog oca i brata,
Abd al-Wahhab sklopio je religijsko-politički pakt s Muhammad ibn Saudom kako bi mu pomogao da osnuje kraljevinu, prvu saudijsku državu, te je počeo s dinastičkim savezništvom i dijeljenjem moći u dogovoru s njihovim obiteljima, što se nastavilo do dana-današnjeg u Kraljevini Saudijskoj Arabiji. Al ash-Sheikh, saudijska vladajuća religijska obitelj, predstavlja potomke Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a također su kroz povijest predvodili ulemu u Saudijskoj kraljevini, dominirajući državnim klerikalnim institucijama.

Na Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhaba su utjecali Ahmed ibn Hanbel, Ibn Taymiyyah, Muhammad Hayyat ibn Ibrahim al-Sindhi, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, dok je on je utjecao na Muhammada ibn Sauda i dinastiju Saud, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Abdur Rahman As-Sudais.

Umro je 22. lipnja 1792. godine. Ne postoji nijedna fotografija Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhaba, jer je strogo odbacivao svaki svoj portret.

Radovi
 Risālah Aslu Dīn Al-Islām wa Qā'idatuhu
 Kitab al-Quran (Allahova knjiga)
 Kitab at-Tawhid (Knjiga o Jednoći Boga)
 Kashf ush-Shubuhaat (Pojašnjenje dvoumica)
 Al-Usool-uth-Thalaatha (Tri temeljna principa)
 Al Qawaaid Al 'Arbaa (Četiri osnove)
 Al-Usool us Sittah (Šest temeljnih principa)
 Nawaaqid al Islaam (Nulifikatori islama)
 Adab al-Mashy Ila as-Salaa (Načini odlaska na namaz)
 Usul al-Iman (Osnove vjere)
 Fada'il al-Islam (Izuzetna svojstva islama)
 Fada'il al-Qur'an (Izuzetna svojstva Kurana)
 Majmu'a al-Hadith 'Ala Abwab al-Fiqh (Sažet pregled hadisa o glavnim temama fikha)
 Mukhtasar al-Iman (Sažetak vjere; tj. sumarna verzija rada o vjeri)
 Mukhtasar al-Insaf wa'l-Sharh al-Kabir (Sažetak jednakosti i Veliko objašnjenje)
 Mukhtasar Seerat ar-Rasul (Sumarna biografija Poslanika)
 Kitaabu l-Kabaair (Knjiga velikih grijeha)
 Kitabu l-Imaan (Knjiga vjerovanja)
Al-Radd 'ala al-Rafida (Pobijanje odbacivača)

Izvori

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Abdul Qadir (; 14 June 1905, Pabaini Swabi - 22 October 1969) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, academician and founder of Pashto Academy and Department of Pashto, University of Peshawar.

Education
Abdul Qadir got his matriculation, intermediate and graduation from Islamia College Peshawar in 1927, and masters in English (1929), Arabic (1930), LLB (1931) and BT (1932) from Aligarh Muslim University.

Career
Qadri started his career in 1942 as an editor of a Pashto magazine "Nan Paron" (Today, Yesterday) then he was appointed in charge of the Pashto section (Middle East) by Patras Bokhari (then director-general) of All India Radio. In the early 50s, he was made Vice-Counsel and then ambassador in Kabul, Afghanistan from Pakistan. From University Library of Tübingen Germany, he discovered "Khairul Bayan" in 1967 (rare manuscript written by Pir Roshan) the first prose book in Pashto.

Death
Qadri died on 22 October 1969 during a seminar at Rajshahi in East Pakistan (modern day Bangladesh). He is buried in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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Home News Brian Welch of Korn Says God Led Him Back to the Band
Brian Welch of Korn Says God Led Him Back to the Band
Jessica Mouser
Brian Welch, one of the founding members of the band Korn, has done another interview with I Am Second. In it, he explains why he rejoined Korn after leaving it when he became a Christian. Welch believes God led him back to the metal band. But why does he think that God led him back, especially to such a dark environment?
Welch says, "I know the music's crazy, but mainly the lyrics are about pain, you know, and they come from a real and raw place. People need hope. There's addictions like crazy in that world. There's depression. There's been a lot of suicide stories happening. What better place to be, having the meaning of life that I carry."
Korn formed in 1993 and quickly became successful after the release of the band's first album. With that success came all the pleasures of life as a rockstar. Not only were there drugs and women, but Welch describes being on stage in front of ecstatic fans as similar to being worshipped. However, Welch says that while he enjoyed this lifestyle at first, it started to destroy his personality, relationships and everything else in his life.
A life-changing moment in Brian Welch's life during this time was the birth of his daughter. He thought at first that his love for her would be able to sustain and satisfy him, but it failed to prevent him from spiraling out of control due to drug addiction.
At some point as Welch's life was unraveling, his real estate broker shared a Bible verse with him and invited him to church. Welch accepted Christ that day. He did drugs one more time after he went home, praying that Jesus would take away his desire for meth. Welch says that after praying that prayer, he felt the love of God wash over him. The following day, he got rid of his drugs and quit the band. That was in 2005.
But life didn't get easier for Welch in the years that followed. He lost his house and his cars. Everything he tried to do failed, even in his career. Eventually, while touring with another band, he ended up at a music festival Korn was playing at, and the band invited him to play with them. Welch agreed, and after an emotional performance and meeting with the band members, his "heart started to be informed" about what direction his future would take. He rejoined Korn in 2013, which he says surprised him as well as many other people.
"I Followed God"
Welch believes God led him to rejoin the band and reconnect with his fans. He describes that "crowd" (that is, Korn, his fans and other bands) as his family, adding, "I followed God right back into Korn, and He's there, and I'm not separated from them or the fans any longer."
Welch notes that talking about Christ at a rock concert is not "the most popular thing." But he does it because meeting Christ is the most real experience he's ever had in his life.
Welch compares leaving Korn and returning to the band to what happens when a baby is born. At first, the baby needs to stay separate from anything that could harm it until it's strong enough to go out into the world. That's what happened to him when he became a Christian. He left the band to get strengthened until he was ready to return to that environment.
Welch notes that scripture says God is going to restore all things. He says, "[God] gives you glimpses of that by restoring your life. He restored me in a way that's unique to me."
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You really have to be looking for Kilbride Kirk in order to find it, but that's part of its charm. From the single-track road that snakes its way down towards Loch Feochan, a farm track doubles back to the left, and in a few seconds you find yourself by the church gate, looking up at the graveyard on a slightly raised patch of ground, beneath some trees. It was late June, and everything was lush and green, with oxeye daisies and dog roses weaving a wild garden around the ruins.
How long has there been a church at Kilbride? It's impossible to say with any certainty. A church dedicated to St Bride may have been erected here in the 5th century by early Christian missionaries from Ireland. (The 'kil' element in place-names denotes a church, and originally described a hermit's cell). St Bride's feast day is Candlemas – 1st February. I love to think of her as the 'coming of the light', bringing new hope after the darkness of winter.
Any traces of that 5th century church have long since disappeared. The ruins that stand in this quiet little spot date from 1706, although it is known that they replaced an earlier building of the 13th century; a few of the gravestones date from that time.
This was once an important centre of worship, attracting a congregation from many miles around. Residents of the Isle of Kerrera would sail across to Gallanach and walk along the old drove road to the church. In 1249, as he lay dying on Kerrera, Alexander II signed a document that transferred the main seat of the Diocese of Argyll from St Moluag's church on Lismore to the church at Kilbride – although this was never put into practice.
Kilbride is a traditional burial ground of the MacDougalls, and many successive clan chiefs from the 18th century onwards are laid to rest in the unroofed burial aisle adjacent to the church. Among the occupants is the Jacobite chief, Iain Ciar (Dark John) MacDougall who died in 1737.
The clan MacDougall (from the Gaelic dubh-gall or 'black stranger') takes its name from Dougall, one of the sons of Somerled, a 12th century warrior of possible Norse-Gaelic descent. On his death, Somerled's territories in western Scotland and the islands were divided among his sons, and Dougall's share included land in the Firth of Lorn.
MacDougall strongholds are scattered up and down the coast of Argyll; among them are Dunstaffnage and Dunollie near Oban, and Castle Coeffin on the Isle of Lismore. Somerled's grandson, Duncan MacDougall, founded Ardchattan Priory on Loch Etive in 1230.
Where they stand under trees, the stones have a rich growth of mosses. The ground underfoot is soft and damp, making no sound as you tread carefully around the graves. Some stones attest to the loss of many children; you read the simple inscriptions and your heart catches at the unwritten words. Yet this didn't strike me as a sad place, or at least it was hard to be sad with birds in full song and foxgloves nodding against the broken walls. It's quiet, but not eerily so – in fact there's a deep sense of comfort.
I was curious to know about the connection between the MacDougalls of Kilbride and the nearby Lerags Cross, which was erected by a Campbell in 1516. When did the transfer of land ownership take place? The answer makes a tangled and blood-stained story that would probably take several hours to tell beside a roaring log fire on a dark winter's night! Scott MacDougald of the Clan MacDougall Society of North America has very kindly explained the complexities of it, and I will try to summarise them here.
During the Wars of Independence the MacDougalls opposed Robert the Bruce, and were defeated by him at the Pass of Brander in 1309. Confiscated MacDougall lands were distributed among Bruce's Campbell allies… but a reversal in fortune was partly brought about by Bruce's son, David II, who returned some of the MacDougall lands, including Dunstaffnage Castle, to John 'Gallda' MacDougall, and made him Lord of Lorn. But John MacDougall died without male heirs, and his daughters married Stewarts; thus the Lordship of Lorn passed to the Stewart family.
In 1463 John Stewart was murdered by Alan MacCoul, a renegade member of the MacDougall clan, on his way to his own wedding at Dunstaffnage Chapel. John Stewart's three daughters had married Campbells; his wedding was an attempt to legitimise his only son, Dugald, born out of wedlock. John sealed his wedding vows with his dying breath, but the dispute continued. After several years of bitter feuding, culminating in 1468 at the Battle of An Stalc at Portnacroish in Appin, the lands of Lorn were divided between a new branch of Stewarts – the Stewarts of Appin – and Walter Stewart, brother of the murdered John. In 1470 Walter Stewart's portion, which included the lands of Lerags, was acquired by the Campbells of Lochawe.
Beautiful place and fascinating history of it!
Thank you, Pat! Yes, every gravestone has its own unique story – you could spend ages there, contemplating them all.
Yes, lichen is so artistic! 🙂 Well worth the visit to this hidden little place.
I love this post. The serenity portrayed by the words, imagery and beautiful photos are a perfect foil, hide the discord and violence of the turbulent past of the people who ly there. Such a contrast!
That's very kind, Tom, thank you! Really glad that it conveyed some of the wonderfully serene atmosphere. You're so right about the contrast. There's something very reassuring about that!
What an interesting little find. It's strange, the way graveyards can be comforting places. You'd think that surrounded by all that death and decay they'd be the opposite. Just occasionally I've found them unsettling, but more often than not they seem restful and even uplifting. I can imagine the peace at this particular place from your photographs and descriptions. Perhaps the presence of the wildflowers gives a sense of renewal and hope.
I think so, Lorna – in a way it's nice to see places being 'softened' by nature. There must be a very blurry line between this and conservation! I love thinking of the people who worshipped here, what they may have been feeling and hoping. Graveyards can have different atmospheres, as you say, but here at least there was a real sense of peace.
Simply wonderful. My kind of place – I enjoy visiting most popular attractions, but something a little more out of the way, with stories and a few mysteries to unravel, well, you've nailed it. A ruined church and graveyard – perfect!
Thank you – so glad you enjoyed it! Yes, I know what you mean – the 'big' attractions are wonderful but there's something about finding these little places and exploring them for yourself, by yourself, and discovering the stories that are hidden there.
Would love to be able to get a copy of this?
Ila, You might like to visit web site http://www.friendsofkilbride.scot….Liam Griffin Friends of Kilbride.
Thank you for the informative article on Kilbride. My name is Liam Griffin. My wife and I are title holders to the site at Kilbride, other than the MacDougall Aisle of Remembrance and attached cemeteries, which are owned by Clan MacDougall.. We purchased the title from a local farmer with personal funds of £15,000. We were determined to rescue it from its overgrown and derelict state. With Clan MacDougall, we subsumed the joint titles into the registered charity, FRIENDS OF KILBRIDE, and last year began the task of making its story available to all. Our aims are succinctly expressed in a little saying I came up with: "Kilbride: A past too rich to have no future." whilst I enjoyed the article and the photographs, I would add that KILBRIDE is more than a graveyard. It is living history, and a stage for tasteful performances, such as live music. Kilbride even figured in a film. There are all sorts of events booked or planned. Anyone visiting Oban is welcome to telephone us (the number is on the web page…www.friendsofkilbride.scot) You'll find a very special wee film on there backed by a tranquil cello and guitar composition played by local musicians. Our architect has prepared a preservation plan for Kilbride's structures, which is costed at £200,000 and has been enthusiastically approved by Historic Environment Scotland, (who have visited the site.) So far we have raised about 50% of the capital sum. In addition, our volunteers have committed something over £25,000 in site clearance and erection of safety fences, grass cutting, ivy removal, and the like. Since the photos in the article were taken, we have created a " heritage trail." Plaques are erected along the trail, with notes pertaining to relevant history. There is a now a booth, "Kiosk Kilbride." where visitors will find a register of the position of every grave stone identified , and, where relevant, (not all the grave markers include details) dates and names, to which the stones refer. . Brochures and guides are freely available in the kiosk, with an invitation to drop a pound or two in the Donations Can! or buy a souvenir mug……Once again thank you for the positive article. Haste ye back. And, to repeat, for further information see our web site wwwfriendsofkilbride.scot or telephone me on the number in the web page. Liam Griffin Friends of Kilbride.
Dear Liam, Thank you very much for this, and for explaining about the amazing work of the Friends of Kilbride. Delighted to know that the site is a setting for live music sessions – what a lovely idea. For myself, it was a lovely place to find and explore, and I only hope that this article goes some way to spreading awareness about it. Wishing you every success!