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Intellectual and mathematical functioning as impacted by central nervous system prophylactic chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Moleski, Maria
Education, Educational Psychology.
Psychology, Clinical.
Health Sciences, Oncology.
Mishra, Shitala
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common childhood cancer, is currently survivable in approximately 70 percent of cases. Better therapeutic regimes are responsible for improved survival rates, and therapy has been refined throughout the past 30 years to reflect the balance struck between effective treatment and possible adverse side effects. Current treatment protocols for standard-risk patents usually consist of either intrathecal (IT) or intravenous (IV) chemotherapy, or both. Chemotherapy without cranial radiation therapy (CRT) is a relatively new form of treatment, and no consensus has been reached about its possible adverse effects on IQ or academic achievement. When deficits in academic achievement are found, they tend to differentially manifest in the area of mathematics rather than language skills. However, none of the studies examining mathematics achievement in ALL survivors have used a comprehensive test to evaluate mathematics functioning. Thus, fifteen children (x = 11.86 years) who are long-term ALL survivors, and 15 comparison group children (x = 11.75 years) were tested on a measures of general intellectual functioning, mathematics achievement, spelling, word usage and single word reading. Survivors of ALL consistently demonstrated significantly lower scores on measures of IQ and mathematics achievement. No significant differences between groups on measures of spelling, word usage, and word reading were found. Further studies that address neuropsychological functioning in ALL survivors could help to illuminate the specific abilities responsible for these decrements.

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Schoolmates – a good way to avoid social media 'envy'
SchoolMates is a refreshing new alternative; a simple, free, niche networking platform. It differs from traditional social media in that the focus is on building more meaningful relationships and encouraging interaction between users.
Psychologists are seeing more and more examples of 'envy' in the consulting room. Why is this? Well, social media is partly to blame. People are increasingly falling down the never-ending rabbit holes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter feeds, then finding it hard to climb back out as they watch people 'showcase' their wonderful, perfect lives.
Envy is being taken to an extreme
As the University of Michigan's psychology professor, Ethan Kross, points out: "Envy is being taken to an extreme". We're constantly bombarded by "Photoshopped lives", he explains, "and that exerts a toll on us the likes of which we have never experienced in the history of our species."
Social media makes everyone available for comparison and that's where envy creeps in. There's kitchen envy, holiday envy, lifestyle envy, job envy, everything envy! We're bombarded with images of people we sometimes don't even know, depicting a life we wish we had.
Social media can leave us feeling inadequate
Followers can start to feel socially inadequate as they sense a hollowness in their life as it doesn't seem to match up to other people's. What we miss, of course, is that these platforms help stage an 'airbrushed life'. Many people only show the best of themselves and sometimes they pretend everything in the garden's rosy when in reality it's really not. Behind closed doors other people's lives can be far from perfect. No filter.
This is why many have blown the whistle on themselves as they admit the allure of social media is waning and can, unleashed, be detrimental to their wellbeing – sometimes negatively affecting their mental health, increasing feelings of isolation and loneliness. More people are craving a simpler, less competitive way of keeping in touch with friends.
Schoolmates focus on meaningful relationships
It is dedicated exclusively to helping users get back in touch with former classmates. They can reminisce, sharing conversations, in jokes, old stories, memories and photographs all in one, easy-to-use website. Aimed at the 25 plus age group it represents 50% of the population and allows users to re-connect with old pals and make new ones.
Rekindle special relationships
The website encourages users to rekindle those special relationships with school, college and uni friends they've lost touch with. The site is an extension of social media – but simpler, catering for those who don't particularly want to get swaddled and overwhelmed, but still want to feel part of the community. It enables users to move away from those feeds that get clogged with trivial updates and get straight to re-connecting with friends from the past.
Chris Goodwin, founder of SchoolMates, had the ambition to 'conquer the world of the internet'
After completing his studies in computer science. Unfortunately, the unthinkable happened, Chris was diagnosed with a tumour that had grown the length of his spine. Requiring major surgery which left Chris' legs palalysed and wheelchair bound, he didn't dwell on his disability. Indeed, his positive outlook on life proved to be the catalyst for a successful career in web development and now, in his 50s, the launch of SchoolMates.
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Civil Rights Groups Sue New Orleans for Map of Surveillance Camera Locations
NEW ORLEANS – Representing a Louisiana public defender, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and the Southern Poverty Law Center today filed suit against the City of New Orleans over its refusal to provide a map of the city's 400 real-time surveillance cameras. Though the cameras themselves are publicly visible, the City of New Orleans has refused to comply with a public records request for a map of their locations.
"The cameras have the capability of panning and zooming to provide very intimate details of our lives to the people operating them," said Katie Schwartzmann, ACLU of Louisiana legal director. "We paid for these cameras with our tax dollars – and we have a right to know when we are being watched by the government. It's unclear why city officials are refusing to provide this basic location information to the public."
Last year, Laura Bixby, a staff attorney for the Orleans Public Defenders, filed a public-records request for a map of all publicly visible real time surveillance cameras. The cameras are used for a variety of purposes by the city, including monitoring street flooding and traffic. The map would assist Bixby in her clients' defense because they often contain exonerating evidence, just as potentially incriminating evidence is made available to law enforcement. The New Orleans City Attorney's Office denied the request, claiming that the records are exempt from disclosure.
"Just as these cameras capture incriminating evidence, they can also help prove an alibi or support a claim of innocence," said Bixby. "Public defenders should have the same right to know the whereabouts of this footage as other members of the criminal justice system."
"The city is not only invading the privacy of New Orleanians and visitors, but by withholding the camera locations, the city is preventing people still presumed innocent from putting forth their best defense and receiving due process in the court system," said Jamila Johnson, senior supervising attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. "The city should disclose where the cameras are located to promote transparency in our government and preserve fairness in our courts."
Calling the denial "arbitrary and capricious," the lawsuit asserts that the city's refusal to turn over the records violates Louisiana's public records law and asks the court to order the city to produce the requested records. "The City has no interest, compelling or otherwise, in keeping secret the location of cameras that not only publicly visible but overt, conspicuous, and readily evident," the complaint reads.


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DA questions City on cell masts
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Berea Mail – DA councillors again voted against all cell mast applications at a sitting of the Town Planning Appeal Committee.
THE Democratic Alliance (DA) in eThekwini is still putting pressure on the municipality to establish an up-to-date and comprehensive policy for the development of cellphone towers in the city.
At a sitting of the Town Planning Appeal Committee on Tuesday, DA councillors again voted against all cell mast applications. The opposition party believes the city's justification for approving cell masts does not fully comply with the Spatial Land Use Management Act.
Councillor Chris Pappas said the DA's position on the cell mast was further strengthened by the revelation of the fact that the municipality is using a UN Health Organisation Study on Cell Masts done in 1998.
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"This further strengthens the DA's calls for an independent study into the health effects of these towers on residents," he said.
Pappas said the DA had also written to the Chairperson of the Economic Development and Planning Committee on several occasions calling on the city to commission an independent study into the health-related effects of cellphone towers, commission an independent study into the effects of cell phone towers on property value and develop a clear and up-to-date policy on the development of cell towers on public and private land.
"To date the DA has not received a response to the requests," he said.
The cell mast in Rick Turner Road has been blamed for residents in Glenwood feeling ill over the past year. After alleged vandalism of the mast, MTN erected a fence to protect the mast.
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Who are the F1 drivers with the most starts?
Since its conception in 1950, there have been 993 heart-pounding F1 races over 68 years. Over these years, 853 drivers from 40 different countries have started a Formula One race, but who has the most starts?
4. Kimi Raikkonen
For a start to be counted, a driver must have lined up on the grid or pit lane exit at the time of the race start. Raikkonen, also known as the 'Ice Man' made his debut in 2001 and has since started 288 races. We will see him again in the 2019 season, so keep an eye out!
3. Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher
You may think we have missed a number, but the German F1 legend Michael Schumacher and British driver Jenson Button both started 306 races throughout their careers. Schumacher is possibly best known for the unheard of success of winning five consecutive championships and he was ranked amongst the top 10 F1 drivers of all time prior to his retirement in 2012. Button's taste of fame came when he won the Drivers' Championship in 2009. He retired from Formula One in 2017.
The thrill of Formula One cannot really be fully savoured on the screen. For the full experience, there are options such as the F1 Paddock Club F1. F1 has really knocked it out of the park with this one and offers a hospitality experience like no other. To see what is included or to check out alternative options, sporting events companies such as https://edgeglobalevents.com/f1-paddock-club have lots of information.
Fernando Alonso, who plans to retire at the end of the 2018 season, narrowly overtook Schumacher and Button with 308 starts. Throughout his career, he has taken part in 17 Formula One seasons and participated in the 24 Hours of Daytona, 24 Hours of Le Mans, and Indianapolis 500.
Coming in first place is Rubens Barrichello. The Brazilian driver made his debut in 1993, won 11 races and finished on the podium 68 times throughout his 18-year career in Formula One. In this time, he accumulated 322 race starts, currently the highest number for any driver. With his main competitors announcing their retirement in the near future, this looks set to be a title he may keep for a while longer!
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Eschewing Power
On April 22, 2018 July 22, 2018 By missionmusingsIn Commentary, cultural anthropology, Uncategorized
Okay, so I was watching this guy on TV. He was some sort of talking head type guy on Fox News. (Disclaimer… I have no idea who this guy is. I really don't watch Fox News. I mean, I live in Asia— so why would I?)
He was telling a story about some town in West Virginia that a few decades ago was ethnically composed almost all of Caucasian Appalachian stock. He noted that now that town was predominantly Hispanic… and how the (aboriginal?) locals struggled with the new situation. He expressed it in terms of people struggling with —- CHANGE. People cannot handle fast CHANGE.
Listening to the guy, the immediate temptation would be to say that he was trying to redefine "xenophobic bigots" as "slow adapters to change" and "racism" as "traditionalism."
Frankly, I tend to think that this was EXACTLY what he was trying to do. However, I would like to ignore that fairly obvious point, and move on to a better question—
"Why do some people struggle with demographic change?"
My case should be quite similar to people in that town in West Virginia. I was raised in a very insular community. The community when I was young was almost 100% Caucasian, and a majority came from family lines that had gone back at least three or four generations. My community was in the Allegheny foothills, a part of the broader Appalachian system. My best friend when I was young was Native American (Ojibwa), but his was one of only two families in my area that was not "White." When my father (of Swedish American stock) married my mom (also of Swedish American stock) some in the community were not happy since he had found his wife in Jamestown, ten miles away, rather than "locally."
That was in 1964. By the time I brought my wife, born and raised 9000 miles away, the community had changed and welcomed her. My wife and I did not marry there, but in Virginia. We had no problem in Virginia in 1993, but if we had tried back in 1964, we would not have been allowed because we were "mixing races."
Times change. Sometimes change is good and sometimes change seems not so good. I am glad that changes came to the community I was raised in. But my new community is different indeed. I live in a city of over 300,000 people in Southeast Asia. While there are other white Americans here, most are tourists, and I know only a couple of them personally. All of my neighbors are Asian, of one form or another, and almost none of them speak English as a first language (although many speak it quite well).
So why have I been able to adapt to change, and others not. There are perhaps many reasons. For one, I was raised up with Biblical Anthropology. Although in some ways my parents were products of their place and time, they still taught me that all people are God's creation. No ethnicity is morally superior, or closer to God. I was taught that God judges the heart, and He is much better at that than I would ever be by judging the outside appearance.
But really… I don't think that is the big problem. I am sure some have been misinformed about God and His relationship to mankind. But I suspect that many have a very clear understanding that we stand as equals before God, and yet still struggle with demographic change and culture shock.
I suspect a lot of it has to do with power. An ethnic group or a religious group that has sort of the alpha position in a society will tend to react (individuals in concert) to any change that may threaten the power position. In some parts of the world, even putting up a religious structure that is of a minority group (a church, mosque, pagoda, temple, whatever) is seen as a challenge to that power. I lived near a community in which there was an unwritten rule that real estate agents were not to show houses in that place to people of other races. If they did, that agent would lose future business. Was that because the community was so extremely racist? Well… maybe. But seen in terms of power, having a family of a different ethnicity or religion in the community is a foothold… and thus an open door to challenging the power of the established order in the future.
This is hardly strange. Embracing power and having fear of losing that power is quite natural. However, as Rose Sayer (played by Katherine Hepburn in the classic movie "African Queen") stated. "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above."
Christians should not thirst after such power— Ecclesiastical power, Political power, Economic power… the power to determine norms and taboos. God's power is with you when you are part of the majority, and when you are a minority of one.
I believe Christians (not just missionaries) would be much more effective in sharing God's love with others if they focused more on God and others than on their own grasping at earthly power.
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Tesco probe after prankster's 'dangerous' meat and veg lasagna packaging swap
People are horrified after someone confessed to pulling a "prank" in the supermarket that many have branded incredibly "dangerous"
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The message left by prankster
A prankster has taken to social media to brag about switching labels on vegetarian and meat products in their local supermarket.
The unnamed person wrote about their actions in a Facebook post which was shared in a group on the site.
Alongside a picture of vegetable lasagne next to a meat product, the anonymous note read: "Some mornings I like to pop into Tesco & switch the cardboard sleeves around on these just for fun."
The supermarket said it was investigating the message and warned of the potentially harmful consequences, reports DevonLive .
The original post, shared alongside a picture of Tesco lasagnes, reads: "Some mornings I like to pop into Tesco & switch the cardboard sleeves around on these just for fun."
One commenter wrote: "It's all fun and games until you accidentally kill someone who had an allergy."
Another said: "It's not funny and is incredibly immature and irresponsible. Anyone wanting to do this for "lols" needs a good kick up the a***."


Looking Back at Zelda in 2018 and Predicting Zelda in 2019 in The Champions' Cast – Episode 40!
Happy New Year everybody! We're hitting you with our final episode of 2018 recapping the year that was in everything Zelda! Andy, Taylor, and Kat reminisce about those Skyward Sword HD rumors, the Netflix Zelda anime that never happened, the Zelda Encyclopedia, and more! Of course, we also get juicy and dive into some booold predictions for The Legend of Zelda in 2019!
All this, plus Andy and Taylor give their games of the year picks, we reflect on the state of the Switch in 2018, and argue about Smash Bros. (because what kind of episode would this be if we didn't?)! This week's episode is a little bit of a rougher cut compared to our usual polished shows (stop laughing), but hey, it's New Year's Eve and we have plans (read: we wanna play Ultimate until midnight!).
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Wolfgang Mittendorfer (* 24. November 1972 in München, Deutschland) ist ein deutscher Komponist und Filmkomponist.

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Geboren in eine Familie von Architekten, Malern, Pianisten, Komponisten, Professoren und Schriftstellern wuchs Wolfgang Mittendorfer stets umgeben von Musik auf.
Frühzeitige Ermutigung zum Instrumentalstudium führte zum Erlernen von unter anderem Klavier, Violine, Flöte, Cello, letzteres schätzungsweise bis zum Alter von 20, nach eigenen Aussagen "bis es zu langweilig wurde infolge der Erkenntnis, es sei eben nur eines von vielen Instrumenten, und man könne sie ohnehin nicht alle spielen … zumindest nicht gleichzeitig".

Als er sich der Komposition zuwandte, musste er feststellen, in Deutschland zu der Zeit keinen adäquaten Unterricht im Bereich Filmmusik erhalten zu können.
Seine Ausbildung erfolgte daher autodidaktisch durch intensives Studieren internationaler, vor allem US-amerikanischer Filmkomponisten wie Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrmann und ähnlicher.
Wichtigste Lehrbücher seines Studiums waren unter anderem On The Track von Fred Karlin, Sounds And Scores von Henry Mancini sowie The Study Of Orchestration von Samuel Adler.
In einem Interview gab er außerdem John Corigliano, dessen Schüler Elliot Goldenthal, sowie eine Reihe klassischer Komponisten wie Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss und Igor Stravinsky als maßgeblichen Einfluss an.

Wolfgang Mittendorfer komponierte bisher vor allem für US-amerikanische und kanadische Independent-Filme.

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Hite Creek Water Quality Treatment Center Expansion
Magna Engineers is providing electrical, instrumentation, HVAC, and plumbing designs for this $24M major plant expansion. The project includes replacement of screening equipment, aeration system upgrades including new blowers, aeration tanks, and nitrate pump station, new tertiary filter system, replacement of existing UV system, sludge holding improvements including new blowers and holding tank upgrades, centrate equalization tank, dewatering facility including centrifuge, sludge pumping, polymer system, and sludge loading station. The project also includes improvements to site lighting and demolition of existing unused facilities.
The electrical design includes the replacement of a single end feed unit substation with a double-ended substation with 12,470V primary, 480/277V, and 3000A main-tie-main bussing. The power system also includes a new 1250 KW standby diesel generator. Double-ended feeders are provided to main-tie-main motor control centers at the aeration building and dewatering building. The existing influent pump station is being backfed from each side of the main switchgear tie through an automatic transfer switch. Additional single ended feeders are provided to the tertiary filter building and sludge holding blower building.
Instrumentation includes dissolved oxygen, ORP, and pressure measurement for aeration system control, flow and level measurement for centrate equalization control, level and pressure measurment for sludge holding tank controls, level measurement and gate controls for tertiary filters, and flow measurement, control of gates and valves, and various other instrumentation for the dewatering system. Multiple programmable logic controller panels will be added to the existing plant Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System which communicates over fiber optic redundant ring. Programming of PLC's and IFix HMI software is included.
HVAC design includes heating, ventilation and air conditioning for the new tertiary filter building, the new dewatering building, and the renovation of the existing aeration blower building. The dewatering building includes an energy recovery unit which is connected in series with the carbon odor control system. Six air changes per hour are provided in the dewatering building for operator safety and reduction of the hazardous area classification.


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With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 | MOCA L.A.
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October 27, 2019 – May 11, 2020
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 is the first full-scale scholarly survey of this groundbreaking American art movement, encompassing works in painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, installation art, and performance documentation. Covering the years 1972 to 1985 and featuring approximately fifty artists from across the United States, the exhibition examines the Pattern and Decoration movement's defiant embrace of forms traditionally coded as feminine, domestic, ornamental, or craft-based and thought to be categorically inferior to fine art. Pattern and Decoration artists gleaned motifs, color schemes, and materials from the decorative arts, freely appropriating floral, arabesque, and patchwork patterns and arranging them in intricate, almost dizzying, and sometimes purposefully gaudy designs. Their work across mediums pointedly evokes a pluralistic array of sources from Islamic architectural ornamentation to American quilts, wallpaper, Persian carpets, and domestic embroidery. Pattern and Decoration artists practiced a postmodernist art of appropriation borne of love for its sources rather than the cynical detachment that became de rigueur in the international art world of the 1980s. This exhibition traces the movement's broad reach in postwar American art by including artists widely regarded as comprising the core of the movement, such as Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, and Miriam Schapiro; artists whose contributions to Pattern and Decoration have been underrecognized, such as Merion Estes, Dee Shapiro, Kendall Shaw, and Takako Yamaguchi; as well as artists who are not normally considered in the context of Pattern and Decoration, such as Emma Amos, Billy Al Bengston, Al Loving, and Betty Woodman. Though little studied today, the Pattern and Decoration movement was institutionally recognized, critically received, and commercially successful from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The overwhelming preponderance of craft-based practices and unabashedly decorative sensibilities in art of the present-day point to an influential P&D legacy that is ripe for consideration.
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When we moved to our new house we decided to leave the built in seating and dining room table at the duplex. The man-friend built both of those specifically for that particular area and since our new dining room was significantly larger, we didn't think it was worth the trouble to disassemble/move everything when it wouldn't fit.
The other issue was that the wood we had used to build the table at the duplex was not fully dry when we built it. Over time it started to expand, which left gaps between the boards. Our renters seemed to love it, so we didn't have a problem leaving it. However, it left us without a dining room table.
For the last few months we've been eating dinner on the couch in front of the TV, which works for some people, but not us. We enjoy sitting down together at the end of the day and having a conversation face-to-face. So when Vern informed me that he was going to Alaska for three weeks to climb I started hatching a plan to build us a new dining room table.
The only time I have ever built anything was my garden bed here that Vern disassembled and rebuilt while I was away. (Jerk.) Building things is Vern's arena. I'm too impatient and don't often follow his rule of "measure twice, cut once", which results in a less than desirable finished product. I wanted to surprise him though with my skills and ability to follow through with at least one project. How hard could it be?!
The current setup of the new house is double the size of the duplex. (Forgive the rough sketch, this was the first free online tool I could find...and yes, I have a whole room as a closet, don't judge me).
Literally the day Vern left I scoured the internet for relatively easy plans to build a table. When I came across this plan on Ana White's website I knew I had found my table. It could easily accommodate six people, looked great and seemed easy enough.
As soon as I got off work I headed to Lowe's to get all the necessary materials.
It took two separate trips in my car in order to get everything I needed. It was probably pretty comical watching me unload everything out of my tiny Nissan, but when I set my mind to something I'm pretty determined.
The plan was very straight forward and provided step-by-step instructions. Step number one was to make all of my cuts, which was easy enough.
The most difficult part was learning how to make notches on the boards. YouTube was my saving grace for this one. Usually I would just ask Vern and he would either tell me how to do it, or do it himself, but he wasn't around and I figured it couldn't be that hard.
Not pretty. We have eight different saws in the shop. But at this moment I currently only know how to really use three of them: circular saw, miter saw and table saw. I've used the reciprocating saw, but that was only to cut nails off pallet boards, which wasn't rocket science.
Using what I was comfortable with meant measuring out the width of the notch and then using the circular saw set at the right depth to make little notches in the wood. (Don't worry, I didn't use the saw as pictured above, this was just to show Vern what saw I was using when he asked.) Once I was finished with the cuts, I used a chisel to pop out the little squares of wood.
After a few mishaps, I was able to get it down.
Is it perfect? Nope. Not even close. But I built it. By myself. With no help from anyone. I was pretty happy. (Note: in this picture the top boards are not screwed in. I was too tired by that point.) The next day I lugged it into the house and began the process of adding the final boards and filling all the screw holes with wood filler.
However, I did run into a small problem. In the process of screwing the top boards on, I didn't pull one of them tight enough, which left a gap between the boards. When I went to remove the screw to fix this problem...it would not come out. I tried everything with no luck. Finally I broke down and sent the above picture to Vern with the caption "HELP". With his direction I was able to get the screw out, so I guess I can't say that I did it COMPLETELY on my own, but pretty close.
A few hours of filling holes and sanding everything down left me ready for the final task: staining and sealing. I used Rustoleum Dark Walnut for the entire table. We previously used Kona for the table at the duplex, which we loved, but I wanted something that wasn't so dark. Dark Walnut is still pretty dark, but it gives the wood a richer tone than the Kona.
While I let the stain dry I ran to Target to purchase a new rug. All of the outdoor furniture and furnishings were on sale and I've had my eye on this navy chevron rug for awhile now. The picture makes it look black, but I promise it's a deep navy color.
Vern had some old chairs in the garage the I reupholstered with some new fabric.
They're not exactly what I envision for the area, but they'll have to do for now. After two (almost three) days of work, the dining room was finally starting to look like a functioning area.
There's still more to do, such as add new artwork (I hate the current one) and curtains. Somewhere down the line we'll remove the popcorn ceiling and replace the outdated chandelier, but for a weekend worth of work, I think I made good progress in a room that was previously empty..
He was pretty happy with that.


More than 1,800 runners come to the event from abroad, the first place seized by Gezu Belete Mekonen; most runners enjoyed the pleasant weather; residents of the city were less than thrilled.
The Ethiopian runner Gezu Belete Mekonen won the Tel Aviv Marathon on Friday as he finished the 42 kilometers in two hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds. Maru Tafari was the first amongst the Israelis to cross the finish line in two hours and 27 minutes. 1,830 participants came from different countries from around the world.
Overall, about 40,000 runners participated in the Marathon, a sporting event that lifted the spirits of many, but also involved roadblocks across the city and its surroundings, a move that elicited criticism in recent years.
For Eliav Cohen Tzemach, 33, from Petah Tikva, this was the 50th marathon, "I ran my first marathon six years ago," he said.
Roy Tamam, 34, from Jerusalem ran the half marathon in an hour and a half. "Last year I dropped 115 kilograms. I have been training since May, realizing I was good at it and so I joined a running group. It was great. The weather was great."
During the marathon, 17 runners had to be hospitalized: among them, a 45-year-old woman took ill and was in a stable but serious condition, a 16-year-old who suffered heatstroke is in moderate condition, 5 were moderate, and 10 others, were lightly injured.
Against the backdrop of the marathon, the city's residents were forced to maneuver their way through blocked streets until 1:00pm.
Ori, 29, a resident of Tel Aviv, expressed dissatisfaction with the event: "I woke up at 7:00am to loud music… it was like a DJ was sitting right in my house. My dog went crazy."
Regarding the blocked roads she said that "while usually you look for parking for an hour or more, yesterday, I looked everywhere—so I wouldn't get stuck. There's not a moment of silence, everything is blocked, there is no public transport. Really, the municipality has gone too far."
The municipality responded to the complaints: "The marathon is a festive event that draws tens of thousands of participants each year from across the country and from abroad. Events of this type that are held a few times a year may sometimes cause inconvenience for a few hours but it enables tens of thousands to enjoy the magnitude. These are just some the advantages and disadvantages of life in a big, metropolitan city."
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see here about accommodation in Cala Gonone.
The conference will take place in Hotel/Villaggio Palmasera; this is owned by Tivigest.
Proceedings and tutorial papers for previous previous SPT conferences can be accessed via the SPT homepage .
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La Casa de la Ciutat, és una edificació declarada Bé cultural d'interès local de la ciutat de La Seu d'Urgell, ciutat capital de l'Alt Urgell i seu del Bisbat d'Urgell. En aquest edifici hi té la seu l'Ajuntament de la Seu d'Urgell.

L'edifici data del 1473 i fou construït damunt l'antiga església de Santa Eulàlia. Els vestigis de l'església i part d'una de les muralles més antigues es poden veure a l'interior de l'edifici, ja que foren descobertes. L'edifici situat a la plaça dels Oms, a la fi del Carrer Major, es troba a la vora de la Catedral d'Urgell. Al carrer paral·lel per l'esquerra hi havia hagut el portal de Cerdanya.

Descripció

Emplaçada a l'antic portal de Cerdanya, entre les esglésies de Sant Domènec i la Catedral. És un edifici amb aspecte de palau renaixentista de tres plantes. La portada és formada per un arc rebaixat amb arquivoltes de regust gòtic. És construït damunt les restes de l'església romànica de Santa Eulàlia.

Part de l'edifici data de 1473, i així ho diu una làpida de pedra que es conserva a la porta, tot i que l'aspecte actual data del . L'Arxiu Municipal és força nombrós, s'hi troben llibres del consell o actes des del 1430 que arriben fins a l'actualitat amb ben poques llacunes i nombrosos pergamins, a més també hi ha el Llibre verd o Llibre de privilegis de la ciutat d'Urgell del 1470; té la coberta de fusta folrada amb pell, i s'hi esmenten els usos i costums de la ciutat.

Algunes coses que recull el llibre, és el sistema del consolat, basat en els usos antics i els privilegis concedits pels prelats. El sistema basat en un cos de magistrats: els quatre cònsols, assistits per un grup reduït de consellers i per l'assemblea de veïns (caps de casa), sempre amb el corresponent permís del senyor temporal de la ciutat, és a dir, el bisbe, que atorgava els privilegis necessaris. Un altre llibre notable és el Llibre vermell del consolat, nom que li ve de les actes dels consells dels anys 1434-1506.

Santa Eulàlia

L'Església de Santa Eulàlia, com la de Sant Miquel i Sant Pere, era d'una nau. La documentació més antiga data del  i sembla que va ser capella de l'hospital de la ciutat. Posteriorment s'hi va construir la Casa de la Ciutat. Actualment s'hi poden veure restes de l'església juntament amb unes edificacions romanes.

Descripció
Es tracta d'una casa annexa a l'Ajuntament de la Seu. De les excavacions realitzades entre 1991 i 1994 van aparèixer les restes de l'antiga església de Santa Eulàlia. Aquest temple apareix documentat per primer cop l'any 1036. El seu absis presenta una orientació cap a l'oest. Actualment, de la primera construcció tan sols queden unes poques filades de pedres en els murs de la nau i part de l'absis. A l'ndret on hi havia l'entrada original de l'església es pot veure l'arrencada d'una torre de planta semicircular pertanyent a la muralla del  i al costat, un pany de muralla descobert en el decurs d'unes obres l'any 1994, on s'observa una espitllera. Entre els anys 1452 i 1460 sobre el costat de l'església es basteix l'edifici de l'hospital nou, la qual cosa va modificar internament l'estructura del temple, quedant convertit en la capella de l'hospital. Durant les excavacions aparegueren cinc dipòsits d'època romana, i sota la capella, més restes constructives així com ceràmiques informes, a més d'algun fragment de sigil·lata. Segons A. Villaró podria correspondre a la part rústica d'una vil·la (Villaró, 1995 p. 29).

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Casa de la Ciutat (la Seu d'Urgell)
Seu d'Urgell, la
Patrimoni monumental de la Seu d'Urgell


How did they do Po's hair? I want to create a tennis ball for a commercial and for print and one of my friends invited me to participate. I want the ball to have the hair/fur texture, any hints?
You need to buy LightWave 3D, it's actually quite well priced for what it does at around the £280 mark which comes with LW CAD too.
"Fiber FX", I am not sure if this is part of LightWave or a plugin...do a search online.


1: Dr. Boom Card. You find the files at MyMiniFactory.
2: Day Card. It's made by Ricardo Salomao and Simone Fontana.
3: Annoy-O-Tron Card. You find the files at MyMiniFactory.
4: The Hex Frog Card. It was designed by makers Ricardo Salomao and Simone Fontana.
5: The Kripparrian Card. Octavian "Kripparrian" Moroșan is a noted player of Hearthstone. You may know him from his daily late night stream on Twitch. The custom made Hearthstone card was made my Ricardo Salomao and Simone Fontana, who are known to the maker community as 3DNA. The print was designed and hand-colored by them.
6: Yong Woo Card. Yong Woo is the Senior Producer of Heartstone. Inspired on the Legendary card layout and on his avatar, this card was designed using ZBrush and Rhino.
7. The DIY Card. You find the files for free download at Thingiverse.
8: The Trum Po Card. The Trum Po card is currently work in progress. It's a collaboration from Ricardo Salomao and maker Fntsmn.
9: The Exorcism Card. This card really jumps at you. Ricardo Salomao designed and 3D printed this card. It's nspired by the winner of the Hearthpwn Forum "The Winter Unveiling" Card Design Competition.
It's a Hearthstone themed box you can 3D print and use for cards, dices and small things. According to the creator Julien De Muyter, "the print is not complicated but takes little bit long. Everything is printable, even the hinge. The assembling is only made by glue, all the tolerances are already include. In the central parts you can find a space to insert a secret or a small light." Download or buy it at MyMiniFactory.


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Tijuana Police Abandon Posts
Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 2007
The municipal police force in this troubled border city walked off the job Thursday after soldiers and federal agents ordered its members to turn over their weapons in connection with homicide investigations.
The surprising turn of events came two days after Mexican President Felipe Calderon dispatched 3,300 federal troops and police to the city in an effort to combat violence linked to drug cartels.
Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon acknowledged in a radio interview Thursday that local and state police were being compromised by narco-traffickers, and he said government salaries could not compete with the financial rewards offered by drug dealers.
Members of the 2,300-strong police force turned over more than 2,100 guns and semiautomatic assault rifles at police headquarters. But police officials decided it would be too dangerous to patrol unarmed, especially because more than a dozen officers have been killed recently in drug-related attacks.
Among those whose weapons were taken were the bodyguards for the mayor and for Algorri, a civilian who does not carry a weapon.
A spokesman for the federal attorney general said the military had ordered the confiscation of the police weapons to investigate whether any had been used in suspicious killings. He gave no details.
It was not immediately known how many homicides the federal officials were investigating. More than 300 people were killed in the city in 2006.
"We're defenseless against organized crime. Without our weapons, we can't do anything," said one officer, who declined to be identified.
It appeared that municipal police were still on duty at jails.
Tijuana and the surrounding communities are a key battleground for control of drug smuggling routes into the United States. The city and the state of Baja California have suffered increased kidnappings and killings of drug traffickers, police officers, business owners and bystanders.
The federal enforcement effort, dubbed Operation Tijuana, comes three weeks after Calderon sent troops to his Pacific Coast home state of Michoacan, where more than 80 people were arrested, more than 1,300 acres of marijuana crops were destroyed and over 6 tons of harvested plants were seized.
Calderon has said that federal forces are needed to combat Mexico's drug violence because of corruption and incompetence among local and state police.
Local police in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have been ordered to hand in their guns.
The move is part of an operation by soldiers and federal police to crack down on drug traffickers.
The guns will be inspected by federal officials, who are investigating allegations that some local officers have been involved in drug smuggling.
Police are refusing to patrol unarmed, reports say. Gang violence left more than 300 dead in Tijuana last year.
Earlier this week, the government announced it was sending more than 3,000 soldiers and police to the Tijuana to help fight drug trafficking and gang violence.
Interior Minister Francisco Ramirez Acuna said the Tijuana operation would be backed by 28 boats, 21 planes and nine helicopters.
The city, across the border from San Diego in California, is a major entry point for drugs into the US.
This is the second such federal operation ordered by President Felipe Calderon since he took office last month.
In December, federal officials carried out a crackdown in the western state of Michoacan, which is also hard hit by drug-related violence.
Drug gangs are blamed for more than 2,000 deaths in Mexico in 2006.
—BBC News, Jan. 5, 2007
Topics: Mexico and Latin America
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A controversial look at Russian dictator Stalin through the eyes of his projectionist
Tom Hulce as Stalin's projectionist, Lolita Davidovich as his wife Anastasia.
Sanshin chooses to be oblivious to Stalin's evil, but his wife understands the nature of Stalin's tyranny.
Tom Hulce (Ivan Sanshin in the movie) and Stalin's actual projectionist, Alexander Ganshin.
Above: Hulce, with secret police chief Beria on right (Bob Hoskins) and Stalin (Alexandr Zbruyev).
The Inner Circle, Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's fact-based 1991 movie, looks at the difficult and contentious topic of Stalin's and his autocracy through a unique perspective -that of a very ordinary Russian who was the dictator's projectionist for two decades. The movie's central character, called Ivan Sanshin, (Tom Hulce), is a fictionalisation of Aleksandr Ganshin, the actual projectionist who really did show Stalin and his sycophantic favourites films for almost two decades. Ganshin, (who had worked in the NKVD club in the Kremlin as a projectionist and then in the Film Ministry) had been summoned to the job at about 2 a.m. early one August 1935 morning. by the feared three rings on his doorbell. He was taken away by men from the NKVD [secret police]. Expecting to be arrested, Ganshin was told that Stalin needed a new projectionist to show the various movies that the dictator loved to see late at night, Stalin was a genuine movie buff, especially fond of Hollywood musicals, westerns and the Marx Brothers. He also considered himself an expert on Soviet cinema, offering "advice" on scripts, music, subject-matter and ideological content.
Ganshin even served as adviser on the film. He remained an admirer of Stalin and resented the tentative recent steps made in the late 1980s to make Russia a more open and democratic society. Hulce, who met Ganshin, noted that "When he speaks of his former employer a light shines in his eyes--he still loves Stalin deeply, as do many people in Russia. It's truly a cult. I remember Ganshin saying to me, 'All I need is a bed to sleep in and food to eat. Freedom? Who needs it!' "
The movie refuses to demonise Stalin; it cleverly gets us to laugh at some of his antics and jokes, while showing him to be resourceful, articulate, witty and coolly manipulative. As portrayed by Alexandr Zbruev (whose father was one of the many executed on Stalin's orders) comes across as a benign, avuncular figure, even rather charming - unless his ministers and cronies. Konchalovsky claimed "I made Stalin charismatic because I wanted him to be seen as he was through the eys of his admirers, and because I believe that ultimate evil often dresses in the most attractive dress." However, the director also shows this apparently sympathetic persona is cleverly contradicted by Stalin's contemptuous treatment of his inner sycophantic circle, his tolerance of their acts of evil and by their obvious fear of their leader as they spend night after night wining and dining and watching movies with Stalin, all the while terrified by the knowledge that he may have already marked them for death.
For Konchalovsky, the figure of Sanshin / Ganshin became what he described as "the drop of water through which one can see the entire ocean." In a move that probably doomed the film's American box-office prospects, Konchalovsky subverts the Hollywood cliche of the ordinary man gaining heroic stature by standing up to evil. Instead, projectionist Sanshin - like Stalin's inner circle - chooses to ignore the openly-displayed evidence of evil that he witnesses in his job and his daily life, succumbing to the privileged lifestyle provided by his job and Stalin's favor. In one scene, when asked by his wife Anastasia whom he loves more, her or Stalin, he replies "Stalin" as if that is the only possible answer. Sanshin, like his counterpart in real life, worships Stalin. Eventually he even refuses to take action when his fictional) wife Anastasia, movingly portrayed by Lolita Davidovitch, eventually becomes another sexual victim of Stalin's secret police chief, Laventri Beria.
The real moral center of the movie is not the projectionist - it is his wife. Anastasia, who eventually rejects her husband's hero-worship of Stalin and acknowledges that he is a tyrant under responsible for a reign of terror and vice ends up suffering for her small but brave acts of resistance and humanity. The contrasting attitudes of husband and wife epitomise Konchalovsky's theme: that the rule of Stalin was made possible by most Russians' supine acceptance of a vicious regime and by their blind adulation of a leadership that they secretly know is monstrous. "No questions!" is Sanshin's (and their) motto. Konchalovsky's entirely pessimistic message (another resaon for his movie's box office failure)) is that at heart most Russians are only too willing to accept a tyrant. Stalin's rule rested on the approval of a people who chose authoritarianism over democracy. Konchalovsky's assertion that "Stalin wouldn't have been possible without people like Ivan because it was millions of Ivans who deified him," seems even more prescient with the rise of Putin and his consolidation of untrammelled power.
Konchalovsky and Alexander Lipkov's book The Inner Circle: an Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin (New York,1991) edited by Jamey Gambrell is a fascinating source of information, including archival photos.
The Inner Circle's Director:
The inspiration for The Inner Circle's director, Andrei Konchalovsky came some twenty years before he made the film. One of his films was about to be screened for censorship and he promised the projectionist a bottle of brandy in return for feedback on its reception. The projectionist turned out to be Ganshin, who cheerfully told the director about his days showing films to Stalin and his cronies in the Kremlin and at Stalin's sprawling, luxurious dacha (semi-rural residence).
Konchalovsky's film career is interesting. Born in 1937, initially keen on music, he went to the State film school -a fellow student was the seminal Russian director Tarkovsky with wheom he later collaborated on two of the latter's movies. Konchalovsky's second film ran into Soviet censorship problems but he gradually made his name as an accomplished director, with a disparate range of subjects: life in post-revolutionary Russia, a saga about Russian gentry in the 19th century, an adaptation of Checkhov's Uncle Vanya. He moved to the West in 1979 and now moves between Russia and western Europes. He then made some movies and TV series in Hollywood [e.g. Runaway Train] and directed plays and operas in Paris and other European cities.
Director Andrei Konchalovsky.
Stalin with his unner circle of ministers in late 1940s (Khruschev, who defeated Beria in the contest for power after Stalin's death) is 2nd from left).
Stalin loved John Wayne movies -yet tried to have the actor assassinated.
The movie's Stalin: behind the calm, assured, friendly facade ....
Is the movie accurate in its depiction of secret police chief Beria?
In the movie the figure of secret police chief Laventri Beria (Bob Hoskins) serves as the embodiment of Stalin's tyrannical rule. Hoskins' portrayal of Beria as a devious, opportunistic, bullying politician and a vicious sexual predator (and a contrast to the movie's apparently warmer, subtler Stalin) has been supported in recent years by the release of previously concealed documentary evidence. Beria (as Stalin and his ministers knew) was a truly monstrous figure - a serial rapist, torturer and murderer, who had his victims' bodies buried in the cellars of his Moscow house. Parts of their skeletons and grisly evidence of their deaths have been found.
The Inner Circle was accurate in suggesting that Beria was a crucial figure in Stalin's government. "Our Himmler" Stalin described him to President Roosevelt at Yalta in 1945. LIke Stalin, Beria was born in Georgia and took part in Georgian revolutionary activities,although apparently he and Stalin did not meet until 1932. Stalin enjoyed talking to him in the distinctive Georgian language. He became head of CHEKA (the Bolshevik secret police) and by the mid-1930s had ruthlessly made his way up the ranks of the Cheka's successors, ending up in 1939 as head of the NKVD.
Beria was a brilliantly efficient administrator of the terror and espionage network. He supervised Stalin's late 1930s purge of the armed forces [at least 30 000 Red Army officers killed], the NKVD itself and the establishment of the slave labor camps [the Gulag] in which millions of Russians were sent. "The Gulags existed before Beria," according to Anton Anton-Ovseyenko, a Russian historian, "but he was the one who built them on a mass scale. he indistriualised the gulag system."He also supervised Russia's atomic bomb project.
After Stalin's death in 1953 Beria was an incredibly powerful figure: deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs i.e. in charge of both the secret police and regular police. But in July, 1953, some of his colleagues, realising he intended to grab absolute power, had him arrested, stripped of his posts and charged with high treason (spying for Britain). He was executed, possibly that month or in December. He was cremated and his ashes scattered by a huge fan.
[See 'Stalin's Depraved Executioner' article]
Bob Hoskins as Beria. Below: Beria's dreaded signature, which often signalled torture, enslavement or death for thousands of Russians.
Beria with Stalin's daughter Svetlana, Stalin in background, late 1930s.
Posters glorifying Stalin (clockwise, from top right): Stalin as the great helmsman; Stalin as staunch defender of the Motherland; as leader of the masses of the world's masses; early 21st century admirer with poster of Stalin in religious icon pose; and Stalin as strategic genius.
Stalin & the Movies


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Q: How to use knockout.js in MVC 3 Razor? i am newbie knockout.js. Also i ama upper intermadiate in asp.net mvc 3. i really want to learn how to use knockout js in mvc 3 razor? but below code is not working also return to me empty total price. There is no error. Help please thanks...
Model:

  public class GiftModel
    {
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public double Price { get; set; }
    }

View:

@using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
@model IEnumerable<knockout1.Models.GiftModel>
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Index";
}

Index

You have asked for   gift(s)

Controller:

   public class TestController : Controller
    {
        //
        // GET: /Test/

        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            var initialState = new[] {
                                     new GiftModel { Title = "Tall Hat", Price = 49.95 },
                                     new GiftModel { Title = "Long Cloak", Price = 78.25 }
                                    };
            return View(initialState);
        }

    }

A: I guess you are following this tutorial.
You have a couple of errors. First replace:
var initialData = @(new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(Model));

with:
var initialData = @Html.Raw(Json.Encode(Model));

This ensures that your model is properly JSON encoded. In the original article Steven Sanderson is using the WebForms view engine but you seem to be using the Razor view engine. So make sure that you adapt your syntax accordingly (don't forget that the @ razor function automatically html encodes the output contrary to the <%= WebForms syntax).
And the second problem with your code is that you attempted to bind your knockout model before your DOM is ready (i.e. you have placed the ko.applyBindings(viewModel); call before the actual span containing the bindings). So either wrap your call in a $(document).ready or place your scripts at the end of the document, just before closing your  tag (recommended).
Also I would recommend you using url helpers to reference your scripts, don't just hardcode those urls, your application will break as soon as you publish in IIS:
@model IEnumerable<GiftModel>

Index

You have asked for   gift(s)

So as you can see the 2 problems you were having have strictly nothing to do with knockoutjs. So what I would recommend you if you want to learn some framework is to learn it independently. Don't mix up technologies or you will get mixed up.
So go ahead over the knockoutjs site and start the tutorials working on static HTML pages. Forget about ASP.NET MVC for the moment. Forget about Entity Framework. Just learn the framework starting from a static HTML page. This way you will better understand how it works.


(Reuters Health) - Low-income adults in the U.S. likely benefited if their states expanded Medicaid in 2014 under the Affordable Care Act, suggests a new study.
Researchers found increased rates of insurance coverage, healthcare use and chronic disease diagnoses among low-income adults in states that expanded access to the government-funded health insurance program.
"It looks like there is better medical care for these adults," said lead author Laura Wherry, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), sometimes referred to as Obamacare, was to force states to expand their Medicaid programs by 2014. But with a Supreme Court decision allowing states to opt out of the expansion, only 26 states actually expanded their Medicaid programs.
For the new study, the researchers analyzed 2010-2014 survey data collected from low-income U.S. adults ages 19 to 64.
In the pre-expansion era, from 2010-2013, about 33 percent of people had no insurance in states that ultimately expanded Medicaid, compared to about 42 percent in states that opted out of expansion.
In 2014, those rates fell to about 18 percent in states that expanded Medicaid and about 34 percent in states that didn't.
Overall, the uninsured rate fell by about 7 percentage points more in states that expanded Medicaid than in those that didn't.
States with expanded Medicaid coverage also had a larger increase in the proportion of people who thought their insurance coverage improved over the previous year.
Additionally, there was evidence that people in states with expanded Medicaid programs were using their coverage, because they had larger increases in interactions with general physicians and overnight hospital stays.
There were also more diagnoses of diabetes and high cholesterol in states with expanded Medicaid programs.
Gaining insurance likely leads to more screening for these conditions, and more diagnoses may lead to early treatment and important downstream health effects, Dr. Jeffrey Kullgren wrote in an editorial accompanying the new study.
The new study shows what's happening in states that expand Medicaid and "what is foregone by states that reject the ACA's opportunity to expand Medicaid," write Kullgren, of the University of Michigan Medical School and he Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Health System.
While the new study did not show that people felt healthier in expanded-Medicaid states, Wherry said it may be too early to see changes in that measure.
"I think long-term follow up will be very important," she said.
The results help confirm the value of the ACA for people who obtain this coverage, said John McDonough, who worked on the ACA but was not involved with the new study.
He said the new findings likely won't convince reluctant states to expand their Medicaid programs, however.
SOURCE: bit.ly/23TZvYd and bit.ly/23TZzay Annals of Internal Medicine, online April 18, 2016.


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        self.__from = None
        self._ports = None
        self.discriminator = None

        if _from is not None:
          self._from = _from
        if ports is not None:
          self.ports = ports

    @property
    def _from(self):
        """
        Gets the _from of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        List of sources which should be able to access the pods selected for this rule. Items in this list are combined using a logical OR operation. If this field is empty or missing, this rule matches all sources (traffic not restricted by source). If this field is present and contains at least on item, this rule allows traffic only if the traffic matches at least one item in the from list.

        :return: The _from of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        :rtype: list[V1NetworkPolicyPeer]
        """
        return self.__from

    @_from.setter
    def _from(self, _from):
        """
        Sets the _from of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        List of sources which should be able to access the pods selected for this rule. Items in this list are combined using a logical OR operation. If this field is empty or missing, this rule matches all sources (traffic not restricted by source). If this field is present and contains at least on item, this rule allows traffic only if the traffic matches at least one item in the from list.

        :param _from: The _from of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        :type: list[V1NetworkPolicyPeer]
        """

        self.__from = _from

    @property
    def ports(self):
        """
        Gets the ports of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        List of ports which should be made accessible on the pods selected for this rule. Each item in this list is combined using a logical OR. If this field is empty or missing, this rule matches all ports (traffic not restricted by port). If this field is present and contains at least one item, then this rule allows traffic only if the traffic matches at least one port in the list.

        :return: The ports of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        :rtype: list[V1NetworkPolicyPort]
        """
        return self._ports

    @ports.setter
    def ports(self, ports):
        """
        Sets the ports of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        List of ports which should be made accessible on the pods selected for this rule. Each item in this list is combined using a logical OR. If this field is empty or missing, this rule matches all ports (traffic not restricted by port). If this field is present and contains at least one item, then this rule allows traffic only if the traffic matches at least one port in the list.

        :param ports: The ports of this V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule.
        :type: list[V1NetworkPolicyPort]
        """

        self._ports = ports

    def to_dict(self):
        """
        Returns the model properties as a dict
        """
        result = {}

        for attr, _ in iteritems(self.swagger_types):
            value = getattr(self, attr)
            if isinstance(value, list):
                result[attr] = list(map(
                    lambda x: x.to_dict() if hasattr(x, "to_dict") else x,
                    value
                ))
            elif hasattr(value, "to_dict"):
                result[attr] = value.to_dict()
            elif isinstance(value, dict):
                result[attr] = dict(map(
                    lambda item: (item[0], item[1].to_dict())
                    if hasattr(item[1], "to_dict") else item,
                    value.items()
                ))
            else:
                result[attr] = value

        return result

    def to_str(self):
        """
        Returns the string representation of the model
        """
        return pformat(self.to_dict())

    def __repr__(self):
        """
        For `print` and `pprint`
        """
        return self.to_str()

    def __eq__(self, other):
        """
        Returns true if both objects are equal
        """
        if not isinstance(other, V1NetworkPolicyIngressRule):
            return False

        return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__

    def __ne__(self, other):
        """
        Returns true if both objects are not equal
        """
        return not self == other

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Comey Testifies AG Lynch 'Pressured' Him On Clinton Probe: "It Gave Me A Queasy Feeling". So Why MSM Suggesting Trump Was Attempting To Pressure Comey?
By Matthias ChangJune 9, 2017Current Affairs
By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge
In perhaps the most stunning section of former FBI Director Comey's testimony today, he detailed his interaction with then Attorney General Loretta Lynch about his specific language about the Clinton Email "investigation."
For the first time, former FBI Director James Comey, who is testifying today before the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that President Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to downplay the Hillary Clinton's email scandal…
As DailyCaller notes, Comey said Lynch instructed Comey not to call the criminal investigation into the Clinton server a criminal investigation. Instead, Lynch told Comey to call it a "matter," Comey said, "which confused me." Comey cited that pressure from Lynch to downplay the investigation as one of the reasons he held a press conference to recommend the Department of Justice not seek to indict Clinton.
Full Transcript:
LANKFORD: Then you made a comment earlier a the attorney general, the previous attorney general asking you about the investigation on the Clinton e-mails saying you were asked to not call it an investigation anymore. But call it a matter. You said that confused you. You can give us additional details on that?
COMEY: Well, it concerned me because we were at the point where we refused to confirm the existence as we typically do of an investigation for months. And was getting to a place where that looked silly because the campaigns we're talking about interacting with the FBI in the course of our work. The Clinton campaign at the time was using all kinds of euphemisms, security matters, things like that for what was going on.
We were getting to a place where the attorney general and I were both going to testify and talk publicly about it I wanted to know was she going to authorize us to confirm we have an investigation. She said yes, don't call it that, call it a matter. I said why would I do that? She said, just call it a matter. You look back in hindsight, if I looked back and said this isn't a hill worth dying on so I just said the press is going to completely ignore it. That's what happened when I said we opened a matter.
They all reported the FBI has an investigation open. So that concerned me because that language tracked the way the campaign was talking about the FBI's work and that's concerning.
LANKFORD: You gave impression that the campaign was somehow using the language as the FBI because you were handed the campaign language?
COMEY: I don't know whether it was intentional or not but it gave the impression that the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way it was describing that. It was inaccurate. We had an investigation open for the federal bureau of investigation, we had an investigation open at the time. That gave me a queasy feeling.
End of Transcript
So who was obstructing or trying to interfere there?
Comey said that this troubled him greatly and convinced him, "I have to step away from the department if we're too close this case credibly."
Still, we note that despite his admission that the conversation "gave me a queasy feeling," Comey went ahead and followed her orders because "that was not a hill i wanted to die on…"
Under questioning by panel chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Comey said that he was uncomfortable with the unexpected meeting Lynch had with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac last year. Comey said that meeting convinced him that the independence of the investigation was tainted with regard to the Justice Department and led him to go public with the bureau's findings on Clinton.
Then Comey added in later testimony that "Loretta Lynch had appearance of conflict of interest."
As a reminder, Circa note [6]s that when Comey testified on May 3 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was asked about the Lynch meeting. He told lawmakers "a number of things had gone on which I can't talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American people's confidence in the justice system." Bill Clinton met with Lynch in June 2016 at an airport in Phoenix, Arizona. Lynch said at the time that "our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren, it was primarily social about our travels and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix." On March 15, Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, sued the Justice Department for all relevant material related to the Lynch and Clinton Phoenix meeting.
Five things spring to mind:
1) The utter politicization of the Justice Department (from the top-down) under Obama, has now been exposed as "fact" if Comey is to be believed.
2) Why did Comey think that a Clinton "Hill" was not worth dying on, but a Trump "Hill" was?
3) Why didn't Comey "memorialize" this conversation in one of his memos at the time… as he said he did immediately after his Trump conversation?
4) So the only official to "pressure" Comey during his tenure was Loretta Lynch?
5) What would happen if AG Sessions colluded with the FBI Director to alter their statements about a Trump investigation for political reasons?
But hey, let's spend the day ignoring that focusing on speculation about Trump and his "Russian hookers" obsession. We leave you with this…
[FF Editorial: Comey has confessed under oath to Senate that He colluded with AG Loretta Lynch to lie about Clinton's email investigations. What a scumbag. But, pretend to be upright and honest. ]
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-08/comey-admits-ag-lynch-pressured-him-use-clinton-campaign-language-it-gave-me-queasy-
[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden
[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/printmail/597602
[3] http://www.zerohedge.com/print/597602
[4] http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/06/07/20170608_lynch.jpg
[5] http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/08/loretta-lynch-pressured-fbi-to-downplay-clinton-email-investigation-comey-says/?utm_source=site-share
[6] http://circa.com/politics/comey-says-former-obama-ag-pressured-him-on-clinton-email-case
[7] https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/872844471733538816
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Cut out the smaller circle and sew fabric around the rim. Tie very tightly in the middle so that it looks like two fans. Tie around the neck so that it hides the pipe cleaner. Glue a piece of ribbon to the back and hang from the tree.
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