BP: Moving on from art to hip hop, the ongoing conversation between Generations X, Y and Z, it's been said that Millennials are destroying hip hop by moving it further and further away from it's roots. Others will say that there can't be progression without evolution. So what's your take on the current state of hip hop?
CK: I think is systematic. I zoom out from hip hop but I'll talk about hip hop specifically as an example of how this occurs all over the world and how it related to capitalism and all that. Hip hop, born in 1974 in the Bronx and the many story lines that have emerged in the birthing of hip hop – if you take 'When was hip hop really born?' – and obviously I don't want to strip – in no way do I want to strip – the importance of what happened in that time in that context which gave birth to hip hop but hip hop goes back to the Indigenous People. You can't get to hip hop and you can't get to that context without looking back at our – as a people – heritage. Hip hop goes back to that Original People and each one of the disciplines in hip hop like b-boying, there was grass dancers in the Indigenous People and dances if you look at the school, hip hop is like a physical education platform.
Music, which goes back to the emcee like the original griots that comes together and story-tell. The graff is like the hieroglyphics, all these things, it goes back to the Indigenous People. You go the context of New York when there's extreme poverty, there's all sorts of things going on at the time – the stripping of people of their ancient wisdom and culture because of the movement of people – I will not call them "slaves" because they're enslaved people, they're not slaves – that got moved over here and then built into this context, the context which led to that moment – rebellious, youthful, make something out of nothing – because no one's taking care of this space, let's write messages on the wall. So the birthing of that and the pioneers and someone like Afrika Bambaataa who was trying to birth and has birthed a community of thinkers and communicators to now.
What happened within that time is that they recognized that this is a powerful art form and a powerful tool that could really influence and change the way people live and change the way people spend money and change the way people interact in their communities and get people to love themselves. People are starting to become liberated and the powers that be at that time start to become very, very scared. The powers are yes, the government but actually the powers that govern the government, the corporations. So the corporations now start to see this being powerful and say 'Oh no! The Black Man are the most dangerous things that could take down or shut down our operation!' So what do they do? They start to bring in certain individuals at the same time as injecting drugs into the community so that the women and the mothers start to become more and more devastating in terms taking care of their community.
So they bring in those leaders and pay them money and all sorts of deals and at this time what starts to happen, what is so dangerous is the disconnect between the elders and young people. That's why I say is systematic. Systematic separation between the elders and young people.
You look at any Indigenous communities, it's elders that we look to for wisdom, children that we look to for the ideas, the youthfulness in the ideas and it's mid-aged individuals that kind of help make everything happen. Within our current context, people are listening to the elders and the elders are now looking at the children being like 'What are you doing? You're not listening!' What it is, is there's a major divide right now. The people that are occupying our airwaves and all these sorts of things and the messages right now that are being shared I think are influenced by that time when everything was co-opted. All of this bravado, machismo and like energy that is occupying and influencing our young people and spreading this ideas that are really not rooted in any kind of spiritual upliftment [sic].
However, I also recognize the great power and I would love to find a way for that submergence of the two. That great dominance in power that the culture now has that's brought it to the top of the charts, if that could now get re-integrated with the core values of the culture I think that there's a power because of all the technology and everything that exists to really share a positive messages and to influence a greater population. That then tethered to local community – really supporting it strong – that's where Manifesto really comes to be. What's the role in Manifesto and how to build a sort of community that is about local culture and that is connected to the elders and that we are part of a continuum, not building anything new. We belong to this legacy that was born before us, working hardships and beauty that exists that we are tethered to. If those types of conversations can start giving influence to the current contemporary artists in these airwaves which is a big challenge realistically for me to say but if we can have that's amazing because they're there like that.


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Windows 10 is considered to be one of the most advanced operating systems developed by Microsoft. One of its most notable features is the support of universal applications. Additionally, it includes a revised user interface and new security features for for enterprise environments.
In spite of all the great advantages of Windows 10, they are updated regularly to ensure that users are using the newest and safest version of the operating system. Although, in some cases, the updates might be interfered or compromised in other ways and errors occur.
Probably each Windows 10 user ran into problems like Windows 10 BSOD, startup problems, re-occurring errors, or unbearable slowdowns. There are many PC owners who think that clean install is the only solution for most of the problems. Actually, clean install is the ultimate solution and we do not recommend hastening it.
Windows 10 is well equipped for recovering from most of the problems. In this post, we will provide four methods that can be applied for restoring Windows 10 before performing a clean install.
Additionally to the guide showing how to restore Windows 10, we would like to recommend you employ a professional system optimization tool to improve your computer's performance. Reimage is designed to replace damaged or missing DLLs, fix computer freezes, errors and even Blue Screen of Death (BSDO) or virus damage.
System Restore is a built-in Windows 10 feature, which allows rolling back system's changes and restoring the affected files and programs to the state saved on a particular date and time. Having a System Restore Point created in a state when PC works fluently is highly recommended. Unfortunately, this method will not work if the PC's owner hasn't created a single restore point.
If you haven't tried to create a System Restore Point yet, you can find a comprehensive guide in this article.
1. Press Windows key + S and type Restore.
2. Click on the Create a System Restore Point option.
3. Now click on Open System Restore button and hit Next.
4. Select the restore point that you want to enable and click Next.
5. Now the system should start initiating the changes and eventually reboot.
NOTE: System Restore Point will help to solve the problems if you can boot into Windows. If you cannot access your desktop, try the methods provided below.
If System Restore cannot fix your PC's problems, Windows 10 has an extra restore feature known as "Reset This PC" option. It can restore the system to factory state without removing personal information (documents, photos, etc.).
1. Press Windows key + I to open Settings.
3. In the menu on the left select Recovery option and then click Get started button under Reset this PC.
4. Select to Keep your files intact unless you want it otherwise.
5. You should get a list of apps that will be removed. If you agree, confirm to proceed the restore process.
System Image is a third Windows 10 restore option we want to discuss about. It's an integrated backup option, which makes a "snapshot" of the entire system, including settings, files, apps, and personal data.
The biggest advantage of the System Image Backup is that it protects personal data and settings from loss after system's crash or ransomware attack.
1. Open Control Panel and select File History.
2. Find System Image Backup option and plug-in a USB drive.
3. Click on System Image Backup and select the device where the backup should be installed to.
4. Click Next and Start backup process to proceed.
1. Plug-in USB drive that contains the System Backup Image.
2. Click Next on Windows Setup screen and select Repair your computer.
4. When the Advanced System Recovery Options screen opens, select System Image Recovery.
5. Select your OS and click on the latest System Image saved.
6. Press Next to proceed.
7. Select whether you want to install drivers and reboot the system once the system is restored.
8. Now click Next and Finish.
If you have created neither a System Restore Point nor System Image Backup, you can perform an in-place upgrade, a.k.a repair install. For this purpose, you have to have a Windows 10 Installation media or create one. You can download a Windows 10 installation media from the official Microsoft's website. Burn the iso file into a DVD or USB stick.
IMPORTANT: the repair install cannot be performed if Windows cannot boot.
1. Once ready, plug-in the USB or insert DVD with Windows 10 installation media.
2. Run the setup.exe file.
3. Now follow the on-screen instructions until you reach a Choose what to keep window.
4. Make sure to select Keep personal files, apps, and Windows settings option and then press Next to begin the repair install.
^ Matt Egan. Windows 10 review: The best Windows OS yet. Tech Advisor. Reviews, How-tos, Tech News, and more.
^ Mauro Huculak. Why you should do a clean install of Windows 10, not upgrade. Pureinfotech. Windows 10 guides, trending tech news and leaks.
^ Ryan Harnedy. The top three benefits of system state backup. Carbonite. Supplier of tools necessary for protecting data.
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Home India Ajit Pawar's thanks PM Modi and declares Sharad Pawar his leader, NCP...
Ajit Pawar's thanks PM Modi and declares Sharad Pawar his leader, NCP founder says nephew trying to cause confusion
NCP leader Ajit Pawar's latest social media posts thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and declaring Sharad Pawar his leader have added a fresh twist to the ongoing saga in Maharashtra politics.
Responding to Modi's congratulatory tweet, Ajit Pawar wrote, "Thank you Hon. Prime Minister @narendramodi ji. We will ensure a stable Government that will work hard for the welfare of the people of Maharashtra."
Thank you Hon. Prime Minister @narendramodi ji. We will ensure a stable Government that will work hard for the welfare of the people of Maharashtra. https://t.co/3tT2fQKgPi
— Ajit Pawar (@AjitPawarSpeaks) November 24, 2019
Ajit Pawar had taken oath of office as the new deputy chief minister of Maharashtra on Saturday after the BJP pulled off a political coup in the second-largest state of India. Sharad Pawar had distanced himself from his nephew's decision to align with the BJP before removing him as the leader of the NCP's legislature party.
The NCP moved the Supreme Court challenging Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari's decision to allow the BJP to form the government in Maharashtra. The party told the top court on Sunday that 41 out of 56 NCP MLAs were against Ajit Pawar's decision to join hands with the BJP.
However, in his subsequent tweet, Ajit Pawar on Sunday said that Sharad Pawar remained his leader and the NCP-BJP alliance will provide a stable government in the state. He wrote, "I am in the NCP and shall always be in the NCP and @PawarSpeaks Saheb is our leader. Our BJP-NCP alliance shall provide a stable Government in Maharashtra for the next five years which will work sincerely for the welfare of the State and its people."
I am in the NCP and shall always be in the NCP and @PawarSpeaks Saheb is our leader.
Our BJP-NCP alliance shall provide a stable Government in Maharashtra for the next five years which will work sincerely for the welfare of the State and its people.
Ajit Pawar's tweet suggested that the alliance with the BJP had taken place with the blessings of Sharad Pawar. The veteran founder of NCP took to Twitter rejecting Ajit Pawar's claims and accusing him of trying to cause confusion. He tweeted, "There is no question of forming an alliance with @BJP4Maharashtra. NCP has unanimously decided to ally with @ShivSena & @INCMaharashtra to form the government. Shri Ajit Pawar's statement is false and misleading in order to create confusion and false perception among the people."
There is no question of forming an alliance with @BJP4Maharashtra.
NCP has unanimously decided to ally with @ShivSena & @INCMaharashtra to form the government. Shri Ajit Pawar's statement is false and misleading in order to create confusion and false perception among the people.
— Sharad Pawar (@PawarSpeaks) November 24, 2019
The Supreme Court on Sunday asked the central government to produce the letter of support presented by Fadnavis to show his majority in the assembly and also the letter written by Koshyari requesting for the end of the President's Rule in the state.
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Australia has 37 government-funded universities and two private universities, as well as a number of specialist institutions providing approved courses at the higher education level. Universities engage in teaching and research across a wide range of professional and academic disciplines. These disciplines may be specialist in nature (eg, Medicine, Engineering) or generalist (eg. Arts, Science).
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UAE jails two Lebanese, one Lebanese-Canadian for six months for Hezbollah links
DUBAI (Reuters) - A United Arab Emirates court sentenced two Lebanese nationals and a Lebanese-Canadian citizen to six months in jail followed by expulsion for setting up a group affiliated to the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, local media said on Monday.
The state news agency WAM did not identify the three but said they had set up a group of "international nature" linked to Hezbollah without a license.
The English language Gulf News said the three, a Canadian Lebanese and two Lebanese nationals aged 62, 66 and 30, were convicted of setting up an office for Hezbollah and carrying out commercial, economic and political activities without licenses.
The court said the charges date back to before October 2014. The UAE in November 2014 published a list of groups the cabinet had designated as terrorist organizations, including two affiliates of Hezbollah group in the Gulf.
In February, the UAE along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait - all U.S.-allied Sunni Muslim states - declared the Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization and warned any citizen or expatriate against any links to it.
Hezbollah has backed the government side in Syria's civil war while Sunni Gulf Arab states have supported rebels bent on toppling President Bashar al-Assad.
Reporting by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Mark Heinrich


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Q: How to generate Play application default structure using gradle? I read this link however I am not sure how to generate the default structure as below?
├── app                 → Application source code.
│   ├── assets          → Assets that require compilation.
│   │   └── javascripts → JavaScript source code to be minified.
│   ├── controllers     → Application controller source code.
│   ├── models          → Application business source code.
│   └── views           → Application UI templates.
├── build.gradle        → Your project's build script.
├── conf                → Main application configuration file and routes files.
├── public              → Public assets.
│   ├── images          → Application image files.
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Xanthe () ist ein altgriechischer Name im Femininum. Die neugriechische Namensform lautet Xanthi.

Träger des Namens in der altgriechischen Namensform sind:

 Xanthe (Tochter des Okeanos), eine Okeanide der griechischen Mythologie
 Xanthe (Amazone), eine Amazone der griechischen Mythologie
 (411) Xanthe, ein Asteroid des Hauptgürtels
 Titularbistum Xanthe, ein Titularbistum der römisch-katholischen Kirche
 Xanthe Terra, eine Hochlandregion auf dem Mars

Trägerinnen des weiblichen Vornamens sind:
 Xanthe Mallett, forensische Anthropologin, Kriminologin, Mitwirkende in der TV-Serie "History Cold Case"

Siehe auch: Xanthi

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Shows how to model a binary outcome variable from a linear regression analysis point of view. Develops the logistic regression model and describes its use in methods for modeling the relationship between a dichotomous outcome variable and a set of covariates. Following establishment of the model there is discussion of its interpretation. Several data sets are the source of the examples and the exercises, and a number of software packages are used to analyze data sets, including BMDP, EGRET, GLIM, SAS, and SYSTAT.
The Multiple Logistic Regression Model.
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The morning sky streaked red. Still in their pjs the grandchildren, rubbed the sleep from their eyes, rushed out onto the deck, baited their hooks, dropped their line, and watched the sun greet the day. Patiently they waited for that slight tug on the line indicating that, indeed, there are fish in the Erie Canal. Nearby a great blue heron taunts them by making the first catch of the day.
Houseboating on the Erie Canal is the perfect multi-generation vacation, It turns a fun vacation into a learning adventure. You don't need your own boat to enjoy life in the "past lane." Rental houseboats make it possible for all vacationers to relive the old canal days.
Heading east from Tonawanda, near Buffalo, NY, there are miles of scenic shoreline providing plenty of time to become accustomed to operating the boat before "locking through." If you can drive a car you can drive a houseboat. It is impossible to get lost on a canal, and at a maximum of speed of 5 miles an hour boating in the shallow canal means the potential problems are minimal. Yet the adventure and learning opportunities are unsurpassed – for all ages.
Locking through the historic locks in Lockport is a hands-on lesson in canalling that young and old will always remember. When the massive water gates open and all hands are ready, the captain eases the boat into the lock to a cable on the side of the wall. A crewmember, on our trip it was 13-year old John, leans out the window and hooks the rope around the cable. When all is secured, the water gate is closed, the water pumped out, and in five minutes the boat is 25 feet lower. The rope that slides down the cable as the boat is lowered is unhooked and the captain motors into the next lock where the process is repeated. The Lockport locks are unique on the Erie Canal in that there are two together. It was an early 20th century upgrade replacing the earlier "flight of five," the remains of which can be seen next to the working locks.
We celebrate a successful locking through by taking "shore leave" to tour the Lockport Cave and take a another boat ride, this time on an underground river! A new history lesson. We've all heard of Thomas Alva Edison but who has heard of Birdsell Holley. We see one of his many inventions every day - the fire hydrant. The only person in the United States who held more patents than Birdsell was his close friend, Thomas Edison.
The tour starts with a brief history of the canal and locks, then visitors enter the water tunnel in the side of the hill which looks like a place where no man, woman or child should go. "Cool! Very cool!" comment the grandchildren. The Lockport Cave is actually a 12 x 20-foot man-made hydraulic raceway blasted out of solid rock over 140 years ago. At one time the water that raced through the tunnel provided power to three factories. The tour includes a ½-mile underground boat ride. It is historical. It is educational. It is fun. Truly a unique experience!
Before heading back to the boat, we learn more about the canal following the signs on Riley's Way, a canal walking tour, and at the canal museum located between the remains of the old "flight of five" and the current locks.
"Low Bridge, Everyone down" is still an appropriate cry as almost all canal communities between Lockport and Rochester have at least one lift-bridge. The lift bridges are too low for our boat, the "Green Heron," to pass under so 12-year-old Elizabeth contacts the lift-bridge operator by radio.
"You are welcome, Captain. Have a good trip." And on we go to the next lift-bridge.
Many of the canal towns have newly-created canal parks that provide free electrical and water connections. We tie up late afternoon so there is plenty of time for a bike ride, fishing, or visiting a local attraction before dinner. Some of the towns have museum or other attractions. In Holley, a newly created trail winds through the woods to beautiful waterfalls, and nearby we watch the salmon struggling to get up stream.
The days past in timeless relaxation. We spend an hour watching a blue heron play a game of almost-tag with our boat. Regally perched like a centurion on the rocky shore he waited until our boat was within 20 feet, then spread his magnificent wings and glided down to his next sentry post. The green areas along the canal provide perfect habitat for birds and mammals.


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Jailed South Sudanese Church Leaders Could Face Death Penalty
By Editor on May 14, 2015 2 Comments
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities have charged two South Sudanese pastors under laws that call for the death penalty, their attorney said.
National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) officials have charged Yat Michael and the Peter Yein Reith (also transliterated as Peter Yen Reith, pictured) with undermining the constitutional system (Article 50 of the Sudan Penal Code) and spying (Article 53) – offenses punishable by death or life imprisonment – and waging war against the state (Article 51), which calls for the death sentence, said the pastors' attorney.
They are also charged with inciting organized forces to complain and assaulting religious beliefs, which call for prison sentences, the attorney said.
"The charges are serious," the attorney, a Muslim, told Morning Star News. "However, we are doing everything possible to ensure their release. We hope to hear good news about their release in coming days."
NISS is manned by hard-line Islamists who are given broad powers to arrest Christians, black Africans, South Sudanese and other people lowly regarded in the country that President Omar al-Bashir has pledged will be fully Arabic and Islamic. The charges appear to be based solely on the two pastors' nationality, race and faith, sources said.
Sudan fought a civil war with south Sudanese from 1983 to 2005, and since June 2011 has been fighting a rebel group in the Nuba Mountains that has its roots in South Sudan, which became a separate country in 2011.
Michael was arrested on Dec. 21, 2014 after visiting a church service in Khartoum, and Reith was arrested on Jan. 11 after submitting a letter from leaders of their denomination, the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SSPEC), inquiring about the whereabouts of Michael.
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Their location was unknown for months, violating international human rights agreements, but on April 30 they were transferred from Khartoum's downtown police station to a NISS detention center on Street 51 in Khartoum, Michael's wife told Morning Star News. On Monday (May 4) they were transferred to Omdurman Prison, she said.
Morning Star News managed to speak with Michael on Thursday (May 7).
"God will intervene and protect us even in prison despite the serious charges brought against us," the pastor said. "Thank you all for your prayers and concerns for us over this long period of imprisonment."
NISS officials have demanded $12,000 from the SSPEC secretary general, Philip Akway Obang, for the release of the pastors, sources said. Local church leaders expressed their outrage at the attempt to buy the pastors' freedom, saying they fear NISS would arrest other Christians and make the same demand in exchange for dropping charges.
A NISS officer who identified himself only as Jamal confirmed that the agency had demanded that the pastors pay $6,000 each for the charges to be dropped.
The church that Michael had visited and encouraged in December, Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, was the subject of government harassment, arrests and demolition of part of its worship center as Muslim investors took it over. NISS officials appear to be determined to punish the pastors for their support of the embattled congregation, sources said.
The two pastors began a hunger strike on April 28 to protest their incarceration. The attorney said the charges against them were quietly filed in March, and that they are awaiting a hearing on Thursday (May 14) in Khartoum North.
The pastors' families have waited in agony, not knowing how they have been treated.
"We are still worried about their detention," Michael's wife said. "Let us continue to pray for them so that God can help them to be released."
Amnesty International has said holding the pastors incommunicado violates the Interim Constitution of Sudan, the African Charter on Human and People's Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, all of which legally bind the Sudanese Government and all its agents.
"Holding the detainees incommunicado increases their risk of being subjected to torture or ill treatment and/or enforced disappearance," Amnesty reported in February.
Other Christians in the Bahri congregation have also been arrested. Police in North Khartoum on Dec. 2 beat and arrested 38 Christians from the church that Michael encouraged and fined most of them. They were released later that night.
On Oct. 5, 2013, Sudan's police and security forces broke through the church fence, beat and arrested Christians in the compound and asserted parts of the property belonged to a Muslim investor accompanying them. As Muslims nearby shouted, "Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest)," plainclothes police and personnel from NISS broke onto the property aboard a truck and two Land Cruisers. After beating several Christians who were in the compound, they arrested some of them; they were all released later that day.
Harassment, arrests and persecution of Christians have intensified since the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, when Bashir vowed to adopt a stricter version of sharia (Islamic law) and recognize only Islamic culture and the Arabic language. The Sudanese Minister of Guidance and Endowments announced in April 2013 that no new licenses would be granted for building new churches in Sudan, citing a decrease in the South Sudanese population.
Sudan since 2012 has expelled foreign Christians and bulldozed church buildings on the pretext that they belonged to South Sudanese. Besides raiding Christian bookstores and arresting Christians, authorities threatened to kill South Sudanese Christians who do not leave or cooperate with them in their effort to find other Christians (see Morning Star News).
Due to its treatment of Christians and other human rights violations, Sudan has been designated a Country of Particular Concern by the U.S. State Department since 1999, and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended the country remain on the list in its 2015 report.
Sudan ranked sixth on Christian support organization Open Doors' 2015 World Watch List of 50 countries where Christians face most persecution, moving up from 11th place the previous year.
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I Thought I Could Get Away From War. Now I'm a Medic on the Front Line.
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Medics prepare to transport a wounded Ukrainian soldier at a frontline field hospital near Popasna, Ukraine.Credit…Roman Pilipey/EPA, via Shutterstock
· By Yegor Firsov
Mr. Firsov is a medic in the Ukrainian military in eastern Ukraine. He was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2014-2016.
I'm from a small town called Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine. Avdiivka has been a front line for eight years, but its name has not yet made it to the front pages of world newspapers. Thank goodness for that.
When Russian-backed separatists started waging war in eastern Ukraine, in 2014, I headed west. I thought I could run away from war. I built a home, a family and a career in Kyiv, the capital. I became a politician. Two years ago I bought a house in Bucha, a suburb about 20 miles outside the city.
But war was not finished with me.
When Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, I joined the territorial defense units for Kyiv — mostly civilians volunteers with some combat training. We thought the capital would be the main target. A lot of people fled for the suburbs, like Bucha, where they thought the enemy would have no reason to go.
Kyiv was subjected to shelling and airstrikes, but the Russians never really made it farther than the outskirts of the city before retreating and insisting that in a new phase of the war, they'd focus on capturing the east.
But the Russians did make it to Bucha. On April 1, I returned there with the Ukrainian forces. The town had been subjected to a brutal monthlong occupation. We saw so many bodies. I remember walking down the street and someone's dog was barking, gates were creaking in the wind. I felt almost as if I could go and greet people in their backyards with a "How are you?" But when I went into the yards I saw only the bodies of the dead.
I knew then that the war still wasn't finished with me, and within days I volunteered to go back east to the front line. I wanted to keep fighting against those who'd brought that horror.
Getting to the eastern front line in Ukraine is not easy because there are more volunteer fighters than can be used, but I knew there was a shortage of medical personnel, so I signed up for medic training. By the beginning of May I was on my way back to Avdiivka.
I was ready for the lack of electricity, water and poor cellphone service on the front line. What I did not expect is how much stronger the sense of life would become in the constant presence of death.
My job here is to fetch the wounded, give them some first aid and take them to the hospital. And, since there is nobody else to do it, we also collect the dead.
You might think that people are tougher in places where death is commonplace, but I've found that people are more sensitive and more open. When shells are exploding everywhere and you are lying in cover with strangers, you really feel like having frank conversations. You share intimate secrets, personal experiences and sacred memories. People want to fill death-ravaged space with as much life as possible.
Here everyone shares everything with one another and helps one another. Even the military, the police and the officials. If they see that you have no food, they will feed you. If your clothes are torn or dirty, they will offer their own. If there are no cigarettes, they will give you half of theirs. In peacetime I have never seen people have such care for one another.
Once I was looking for somewhere to buy milk and I met a man who was about 70 years old. He gave me a jar with about half a gallon of milk and refused to take any money. We got to talking and it turned out that in 2016 his wife was killed and his daughter was left severely injured by shelling. The house they lived in was destroyed.
When I asked him why he didn't leave, he pointed to a barn with some chickens and a cow inside. "And besides, where can I go?" he said.
About 30,000 people used to live in Avdiivka. When the war began in 2014, most of the doctors, police and other officials left the city — as I did. Now there are maybe 5,000 or 6,000 people left. If you ask people why they don't leave, they usually say that they have no money or that they have nowhere to go.
I think some of them are also just used to the shelling.
My partner Danil, who drives our ambulance, never left either — but he did evacuate his family. He told me he worried that if he'd left, there would be no one to help the injured.
I feel calm when I'm with Danil. He radiates serenity even as bullets whistle around us.
We have limited options for the medical care we can administer in the ambulance. We do our best in the first 10 minutes, and then it usually takes about an hour to get to the hospital. On the whole journey we talk with the wounded, distract them from pain and bad thoughts. We say whatever comes to mind. We hold their hand. A stranger for a moment becomes the dearest person to us.
We also carry the dead away from the battlefield and put them in the morgue. There are a lot of corpses and the refrigerators do not work because of power outages. There is a terrible smell. Once Danil and I were bringing corpses to the morgue and shelling started. We could not decide which was worse: in the street under the shelling or in the morgue with the smell.
I used to like to go to bed late and get up late. Now my favorite time of day is dawn. At 4 a.m. I come out of the shelter to smoke and hear the birds singing, see the light of the rising sun, feel the May warmth. For a moment it seems as if there is no war and all these horrors were just a bad dream, as if I could go for a walk and the streets of my hometown would look like they used to.
Then someone from the other side wakes up and the explosions and shelling begin again. Russia starts another day of "liberating" my peaceful childhood town from childhood, from peace and from me.
After a while we get a call: There are wounded who urgently need first aid and transport to the hospital. And we go.
Yegor Firsov is a medic in the Ukrainian military. He was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2014 to 2016, from the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform.
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Lactarius gigasporus é um fungo que pertence ao gênero de cogumelos Lactarius na ordem Russulales. Encontrado no Brasil, foi descrito cientificamente pelo micologista alemão Rolf Singer em 1983.

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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown takes off on consoles today, and if you're planning to take to the skies alongside it, then it's time to take a look at the scores. It's been a while since the Ace Combat series' last major launch, but does it live up to the rest of the series?
It would seem, however, that other reviewers have been a little more impressed with the game – its Metacritic score (on PS4 at least) is currently sitting at 81. That seems like a decent return, which is nice to see, especially since it's been 12 years since the series' last outing, Ace Combat 6, graced our screens.
For the most part, then, it looks like fans of the genre are likely to find something to like. A smattering of eights and even a nine out of ten suggest Ace Combat 7 is a pretty safe bet.
The game takes to the skies on console today. For PC, however, you'll have to wait a little longer – we'll be stuck in a holding pattern until February 1.


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The Ministry of Information was set up by a democratic society at a point in history when its fundamental values were under serious and immediate threat. It not only dramatized the war of information but also made visible a whole series of networks in the culture of communication that were usually invisible in peace time. The MoI had to adapt rapidly to a series of internal pressures and external circumstances, and did so with limited resources. Its organisation was partly the product of employing what was to hand and, when necessary, improvising: 'Make Do and Mend', therefore, is particularly apt.
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Every Move You Make
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Peter Rose, editor of Australian Book Review, describes David Malouf as a subtle artist who writes yearning and metaphysical stories in the review of the new collection "Every Move You Make" (Chatto & Windus, 2006) published in The Australian [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20637567-5003900,00. html]
#1 Ten years have passed since David Malouf's last novel, The Conversations at Curlow Creek; 13 since Remembering Babylon, which many people regard as his finest achievement. It would be presumptuous to ask if we have seen the last of the novels: his long career in literature has always had a sure, sophisticated direction, moving fluently from poetry to fiction to libretti to criticism.
Malouf has spoken of his affection for short stories, even those put aside as unconvincing or unrealised. He will go back to them years later and find out if they speak to him. He enjoys the genre because of the freedom it offers to raid different types of consciousness, unlike the consuming task of shaping one world, one sensibility, one set of destinies. In his early 70s, the absorption of novelising may no longer appeal to him.
Six years after his last collection, Dream Stuff, Malouf has assembled seven stories in Every Move You Make. The length varies but the voice is consistent: taut and unembellished. The range of subjects, ages, characters, milieux is as wide as ever, with temporal limits. We have learned not to expect portraits of contemporary Australia from Malouf, who has always seemed happier with colonial subjects or ideas of childhood or wartime themes. Clive James, reviewing Dream Stuff, wished that Malouf would bring the focus of his attention to the present day, and suggested the work was mired in Arcadia. Certainly, in the new collection the characters — often soulful and introspective — move through a kind of spacious, isolated world that bears little resemblance to the affluent, brusque, voracious Australia of the 21st century.
As in most of Malouf's writings, the characters' stories are personal, yearning, metaphysical, without any overt philosophising. Little happens in these stories, as in life, as Virginia Woolf once reminded us. Malouf is wary of plot. The stories unfold like moods, like sweetly orchestrated sonatas. (Malouf has remarked that, in his quest for affinities, he structures his books like music.) For the characters, this can entail movement away from family or connection or the past, into an intensely private future. Several characters seem to use these stories to unravel doubt or to understand the past: not in a crude search for wisdom or enlightenment (Malouf is too subtle an artist for that) but in order to grow up, or grow away. Frequently, the movement is literal. Charlie Dowd, the young conscript in War Baby, bound for Vietnam, is conscious that "Walking was another form of thinking — or maybe unthinking — in which the body took over, went its own way and the mind went with it."
Charlie is another of Malouf's troubled, affecting young men, almost maimed by the future before it has used him. We meet more youths elsewhere, especially in The Valley of Lagoons (based on a real incident), in which a boy of 16 is finally allowed to go on a pig hunt with his friends, with dangerous consequences. Malouf has written often and feelingly about children and adolescents, their insight, their vulnerabilities. His empathy with minors is usually impeccable, but here the language of one of the boys seems forced, unreal ("if this goes wrong it'll be the finish of me. For me it's all or nothing"). The characters' sexuality in most of the stories is a kind of blur or irrelevance, with degrees of conviction: the conscript's virginity is a monastic given; he must rely on a worldly mate to cure him.
Notwithstanding the various settings and social complications, the pulse or beat of these stories seems predictable, a measure perhaps of the genre's easy roundedness. We know by now that most of the stories will end in a kind of gloaming. Eventually, these people will step away from others or themselves and luxuriate in a new light or music or knowing. Modest their situations may be, but not their revelations. They are all changed, and the fortunate ones sense new beginnings, such as the Hungarian woman in the title story (perhaps the best thing in the book), mourning the enigmatic Mitchell Maze, but ready, revivified, "(letting) the warm summer dark flow in around her" — the Maloufian signature swoon, full of lyricism and innocence.
At times, decorum threatens to stultify these lives. We almost crave action, open conflict, more tangible tests of character. So it is a relief to encounter the broad satire of Mrs Porter and the Rock, whose widowed, eponymous heroine surveys Uluru and its tourist trappings through jaundiced eyes. Mrs Porter recalls her late husband, who got down on his knees each morning to polish his boots ("Nugget boot polish was what he believed in"). Wry flaws, for once, are a character's destiny: "Because she had never given up the hard little knot of selfishness that her mother had warned would one day do her in."
In Malouf we encounter a writer incapable of an ugly phrase or facile characterisation. The attention to detail and the sense of presence are acute, as in his superb memoir, 12 Edmonstone Street (1985). Increasingly, one reads Malouf for the prose. There may be nothing here to rival the diabolically sharp Closer in Dream Stuff, but his sentences still gleam at us in all their lapidary sheen and poise. Mostly the writing is compact, but towards the end of The Valley of Lagoons there is a virtuoso 12-line flourish worthy of F.Scott Fitzgerald. In a drab and solecistic age, that is a considerable gift.
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Sundowners Syndrome generally affects sufferers of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The syndrome received its name because the symptoms are exhibited after "sundown." However, not all those who suffer from dementia exhibit the symptoms. Sundowners largely remains a mystery to medical science, but there are a number of theories as to why the symptoms present themselves at night. Some believe it is the culmination of all the sensory stimulation that occurs throughout daily routine that overwhelms and causes stress. The syndrome may prevent sufferers from settling in during the night and getting a much needed good night's sleep. This can make the sufferer agitated and lead them to wander.
According to WebMD, sundowning happens to almost 20 percent of people with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. The syndrome tends to peak during the middle stages of Alzheimer's, although it generally gets better as the disease progresses.
Keeping loved ones active throughout the day may help them sleep better at night. Discouraging daytime naps may help as well. Encourage physical activity, like walking and hobbies to get your loved one moving about.
It is important that your loved one is eating a balanced diet. The caregiver or meal planner should limit caffeine and sugar to morning hours only. Plan an early dinner and allow only light snacks before bedtime.
A doctor can examine your loved one for physical ailments like infection, pain and bladder problems. Bladder problems tend to contribute to nighttime agitation and confusion. The doctor should also regularly review medications to make sure they're still needed.
Evidence would suggest that there is a correlation between sundowners and SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). Light therapy and exposure to natural light during the day may reduce some sundowning symptoms. When combined with exercise, it can be more effective.
Keep the room partially lit to help reduce confusion when your loved one wakes during the night. Allow them to sleep where they find comfort, like a favorite chair or couch.
Gently remind your loved one where they are and what time it is and avoid arguing. Let them know they are okay.
As a caregiver it is important to be aware of the behavioral patterns. Help your loved one through reassurance while encouraging activity to distract them and prevent confusion and agitation. Sundowners is not something that your loved one can control, but keeping a level head will help get you through the stressful moments. For more information on quality care of a loved one click here.


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Q: SDWebImageSwiftUI - How to show default image before user selection I have a profile picture that I am attempting to show a default image until a user selects a picture from a picker (say that three times fast). In WebImage, I point to a view Model, which connects to my database to grab the user image. If no image exists I currently just have it on an empty string.
For reference, this is the line that serves up the image

WebImage(url: URL(string: vm.userModel?.profilePictureURL ?? "")

I tried adding a bool that updated on the onChange function to true and tried wrapping the webImage in an IF statement, but the view didn't update correctly.
import SwiftUI
import Firebase
import FirebaseFirestore
import SDWebImageSwiftUI
struct ProfilePicture: View {
    @ObservedObject var vm = DashboardLogic()

    @State private var showingImagePicker = false
    @State private var inputImage: UIImage?

    var body: some View {
        ZStack (alignment: .topTrailing){
            VStack{
                if let inputImage = inputImage {
                    Image(uiImage: inputImage)
                     .resizable()
                     .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fill)
                     .frame(width:150, height: 150)
                     .clipShape(Circle())

                 } else{
                         WebImage(url: URL(string: vm.userModel?.profilePictureURL ?? ""))
                             .resizable()
                             .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fill)
                             .frame(width:150, height: 150)
                             .clipShape(Circle())

                 }

                Button(action: {
                    showingImagePicker = true
                }){
                    Image(systemName:("plus.circle.fill"))
                        .resizable()
                        .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fill)
                        .foregroundColor(Color("ButtonTwo"))
                        .frame(width:30, height:25)
                        .contentShape(Rectangle())
                }

            //PRESENT PICKER
        }

            .sheet(isPresented: $showingImagePicker){
                EditorImagePicker(image: $inputImage)

            }

    }
        //SAVE IMAGE TO DATABASE (FIREBASE)
        .onChange(of: inputImage, perform: { _ in
            persistImageToStorage() //call to save function
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If you want wired listening with the new iPhone XR, XS, or XS Max, then you'll have to buy the Apple dongle separately.
The newest iPhone iterations, the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max no longer include a complimentary Apple dongle like previous iterations that lacked the headphone jack.
Although its inclusion was a small gesture, the absence could rub customers the wrong way. After all, a one-time payment for the base model iPhone XS Max is $1,099. You'd think the trillion-dollar company could afford to provide users with an adapter.
Granted, many users who listen via true wireless or traditional wireless earbuds may not care about the omission. If you do happen to have skin in the game and aren't interested in the best iPhone earbuds, the Apple dongle can be had for $9 from the company website.


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Our rejection of candidate before interview letter provides three alternative grounds for rejection of an application for employment. It's important to be entirely objective in and be able to justify your assessment, to keep a record of the reasons for rejection and to avoid any unlawful discrimination.
Unsuitable, i.e. to be rejected - this is where our Rejection of Candidate before Interview Letter comes in.
Possible, i.e. to be invited to interview.
Marginal, i.e. to be held in reserve, for example, for in case it turns out there is nobody suitable in the 'possible' category, or if one or more candidates in that category cancel their interview.
You've given careful consideration to their application and have decided not to ask them to attend interview.
The application was a late one which was received after the closing date and so you were unable to consider it for that reason.
You had stated that you would close the process once a pre-defined number of applications had been received, the application was received outside of this limit and so you were unable to consider it for that reason.
As regards 1 above, you don't have to give detailed written reasons why you have rejected a candidate as unsuitable, so it's preferable for the letter not to say anything more than our current wording and most candidates will accept that. You should still keep a written record of the reasons for rejection though, even if you don't supply those to the candidate. You may need these if a candidate later tries to allege they were unlawfully discriminated against contrary to the Equality Act 2010. However, it's not unknown for some candidates to phone or e-mail to ask for feedback as to why they were rejected, saying that it's so they can improve themselves for further applications. Our letter tries to deter this from happening by expressly stating that it's not your policy to provide feedback to unsuccessful candidates. If you do give feedback, be objective, stick to the facts and don't give out any personal details relating to other candidates who applied. It is acceptable though to explain, in an anonymised format, why other candidates were more suitable e.g. they had more relevant skills, experience or qualifications.


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Stat of the Week: The Yankees and 100 Defensive Runs Saved
This is a Yankees defense unlike any in recent memory
The Yankees hit a milestone earlier this week when they reached 100 Defensive Runs Saved for the season.
Now understand that Defensive Runs Saved aren't like wins or home runs. Your defensive performance can fluctuate and the Yankees did in fact dip below 100 to their current total, 98. They'll likely finish at or above 100 so long as they keep playing such good defense.
Four teams have previously reached 100 Runs Saved in a season, most recently the two teams that rank 1-2 in that stat since we began tracking it in 2003 – the 2018 Diamondbacks (125) and the 2018 Brewers (123).
And while 100 Runs Saved has now proven reachable recently, it's particularly notable that the Yankees did it.
The Yankees are currently taking shots from their fan base because of the team's lackluster play the last two months. But knocking them means ignoring that, on the whole, their defense has been excellent.
The Yankees ranked 29th in Runs Saved last season with -41. The 139-run improvement year over year is not (yet) the largest in the 20 seasons of Defensive Runs Saved. But it's close. The Phillies have the mark for the largest single-season improvement, going from -82 Runs Saved in 2018 to 68 in 2019, a jump of 150 Runs Saved.
Also, the Yankees have obliterated their previous single-season mark for Runs Saved. Their past best was 28 in 2017, which ranked 9th in MLB.
The Yankees have fielded some rough defensive teams, particularly early in the DRS era. The -41 Runs Saved in 2021 looks pretty good compared to the -120 Runs Saved of the 2005 team. In fact, the Yankees rank 26th in Runs Saved from 2003 to 2021.
In fairness, the Yankees under Brian Cashman began to prioritize defense a little more in the 2010s, finishing with a positive Runs Saved seven times in a nine-year stretch before a three-year stretch from 2019 to 2021 in which their best result was 1 Run Saved in 2020.
The remade infield has been a huge key to their success, with the acquisitions of third baseman Josh Donaldson and shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa playing a major role along with the resurgence of Gleyber Torres and the continued success of DJ LeMahieu at third base.
Those four have combined for 35 Runs Saved this season (Anthony Rizzo is at -3 Runs Saved, though he's been lauded by fans for his throw-handling). The Yankees rank 1st in how often they turn a ground ball or bunt into an out in 2022, 77.4% of the time (a smidge ahead of the Cardinals).
The Yankees also have one of the best defensive catchers in baseball in Jose Trevino (MLB-best 17 Runs Saved) and a pitching staff whose 14 Runs Saved lead MLB.
Rookie Oswaldo Cabrera has been an instant defensive sensation even as he's struggled at the plate. He's recorded 9 Runs Saved in only 20 games thanks to 5 assists from right field.
And though the Yankees aren't running away with the AL East as they once were, they are running away with the Defensive Runs Saved lead.
The Yankees entered August with 65 Runs Saved, one run better than the Dodgers. But they've pulled away since then, with 33 Runs Saved. The Dodgers, with 74 Runs Saved, are now 24 behind the Yankees.
That puts the Yankees close to another milestone as well. The largest margin between the top two teams in Runs Saved in a season is 30 runs, with the 2016 Cubs besting the Astros, 107-77.
That Cubs team is remembered for something much bigger than that. That's the Cubs team that won the World Series for the first time since 1908. Those Cubs and the 2008 Phillies are the two teams to lead the majors in Runs Saved and win the World Series.
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Reality – We Lost It at the Movies
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Whether or not Einstein really said this or really meant it, it might well be the motto of the New York Post.
In New York, last week, four robbers entered a run-down looking restaurant supply store on 125th St. They started to struggle with one of the employees, hitting him with a pistol, paying no attention to the owner, 70-year Charles Augusto. Augusto pulled out a shotgun and fired three times, killing two of the robbers, wounding the other two.
The New York Post carried the headline "Make My Day." But what happened on 125th was not Dirty Harry (see the relevant clip from "Sudden Impact" here ). Charles Augusto tried to persuade the robbers that there was nothing worth stealing. He tried to get them to leave. Confrontation was the last thing he wanted. Pulling the shotgun was impulsive, not thought out. The gun had been sitting, never fired, for twenty years, so Augusto could have no idea whether it would even work.
The Daily News headline got it right. Shooting the robbers was not something he wanted to do. It brought him no satisfaction, nor does he think it was at all heroic. He was not trying to rid the world of evildoers. He was trying to get some robbers to stop hitting his employee.
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Q: How can i know the root div when clicked on a element I have got section element with  class "secclass" in two div's

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And also under this

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Honey with Carmel  10 ML

I have got a listener registered for the section element with its class secclass
My question is when clicked on the section element how can i know if it belongs to the first div or second div ??
$(document).on("click", ".secclass a", function(e) {

});

I have tried it this way
 $(document).on("click", ".secclass a", function(e) {

if($(this).hasClass("activateUiHTML"))
{
    alert('from activehtmlui');
}

else
{
alert('from myorders');
}
    });

But it isn't working .

A: You can check the length of parent div with class="activateUiHTML" like below
$(document).on("click", ".secclass a", function(e) {

  if($(this).closest(".activateUiHTML").length > 0)
  {
    alert('from activehtmlui');
  }
  else
  {
    alert('from myorders');
  }
});

A: $(document).on("click", ".secclass a", function(e) {
  var $divPar = $(this).parents("div");
  alert($divPar.attr("id"));
  });

by analysing $divPa you could find the result as you desire

A: You can use sth like:
$(document).on("click", ".secclass a", function(e) {

    console.log($(this).closest('.Topping-details').parent('div').index());

});

but i would use a class to those divs like .module and then use jQuery like:
$(this).closest('.module').index();

Test it here on jsfiddle.
Also be careful because you use twice id="69" and id="topping_tsection_69" in your code and id should be unique. Prefer data attributes like data-id="69" or data-id="topping_tsection_69".


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