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Brandon Seltzer Belts Walk-Off Grand Slam To Defeat Madison Mallards
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Posted: Fri 10:47 PM, Jul 05, 2019
WAUSAU, Wis. -- With the Wisconsin Woodchucks trailing by two runs in the ninth inning, Brandon Seltzer stepped to the plate with the bases loaded. In clutch fashion, the recently named 2019 All-Star hit a grand slam to beat the Madison Mallards by a final score of 9-7.
Nate Madej made his seventh start of the season for the Woodchucks. The left-handed pitcher now leads the Chucks in starts. He allowed four runs on five hits. The Mallards drove in those four runs in the top of the third inning. This gave them an early 4-0 lead.
The Woodchucks would eventually fight back to tie the game. In the bottom of the third inning with the bases loaded, Alec Arnone brought everyone but himself home with a three-run scoring RBI single. This drew the Woodchucks within one run of the Mallards with the score at 4-3.
The Woodchucks tied the game in the sixth inning. Alejandro Gonzalez stepped to the plate with the bases loaded. He drove a ball to deep left center that bounced off of the wall and brought home one run. This evened the score at 4-4.
The Mallards reclaimed the lead in the seventh inning. Woodchucks relief pitcher Jose Varela allowed three runs (two earned) on two hits. The score was 7-4 with the Mallards leading until Woodchucks pinch hitter Byron Murray drove in another run for the Chucks. The recently named 2019 All-Star hit a double to left field that drove in TJ Reeves. This brought the Woodchucks within two runs of the Mallards with the score at 7-5.
Woodchucks relief pitcher Tom Ambrosino entered in the eighth inning. The Adelphi University product tossed two scoreless innings, giving the Woodchucks an opportunity to score in the bottom of the ninth. With that opportunity, the Woodchucks loaded the bases and allowed Brandon Seltzer to hit a walk-off grand slam. The Woodchucks won by a final score of 9-7.
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France – Iceland: World Champions Look Much Improved In Possession And Play Iceland Off The Park (4-0)
March 26, 2019 Cem Soylu No Comments
In a very one-sided affair, France completely dominated the game and produced a brilliant performance to beat Iceland 4-0 in Stade de France. Iceland parked the bus and managed to keep a one-goal margin until the late stages, but France was never really threatened here and completely outclassed their opponents. Having not impressed in possession against underdogs even during their World Cup triumph, France showed significant improvements here with some excellent movement and passing in the final third.
Tactical analysis and match report by Cem Soylu.
Manager Didier Deschamps has been keen on playing his World Cup winning side together as much as possible. Everybody who kept a close eye on France this summer in Russia could have largely drawn up the starting lineup. The only exception was Layvin Kurzawa, who filled in at left back for the injured Lucas Hernández.
Erik Hamrén did quite the opposite, as he ditched the 4-4-2 / 4-4-1-1 formation that has been heavily accustomed with Iceland, opting to switch to a 5-3-2 shape in order to defend deep against France. This was interesting, since Iceland delivered a very good display in a friendly against France recently in October, using a 4-4-1-1 formation. In that match, Iceland had the better chances and a two-goal lead, before a late France comeback produced a 2-2 scoreline. Perhaps the dire Nations League campaign, along with an injury for one of their most creative players – Jóhann Berg Gudmundsson – led Hamrén to test a new formation.
Formations when France had possession. Kylian Mbappé drifted around when France were attacking, often going all the way to the left.
France's troubles against underdogs
Deschamps' approach at the World Cup was one of the premier football debates this summer. France were very disciplined, solid and efficient, but by no means a dominant side that thoroughly outplayed their opponents. Gifted with an extremely talented squad, in Russia, Deschamps deliberately opted to let their opponents have the ball, play a compact medium block A medium block refers to a team that retreats in their own half out of possession, generally only disrupting their opponents some way into their own half. to deny space in midfield, and focus on fast transitions using the passing range and craft of Paul Pogba along with the scintillating pace and technical quality of Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé.
This approach worked wonders to disrupt strong sides on their path to winning the World Cup, but produced dull, unimaginative displays against the underdogs as seen in their group stage performance. To put things into perspective, out of the fourteen goals France scored in the World Cup, three were penalties, two were own goals, two came from set pieces, three were long range shots, and one was a goalkeeping howler.
Giroud factor & Mbappé's free role
Against a team that parked the bus and completely relied on set pieces and Aron Gunnarsson's long throws to create chances, France enjoyed 69% possession. Iceland formed a steady low block, A low block refers to a team that retreats deep in their own half out of possession, generally only disrupting their opponents around their own box. with the front two trying to prevent passes into Kanté and Pogba. Iceland's midfield three zonally shifted over to the ball side, as is fairly customary in a 5-3-2 shape.
There is a reason Olivier Giroud is an integral part of this team despite not having scored the entire World Cup: he is an excellent link-up player. With Griezmann and Mbappé buzzing around him, France relies on his one-touch service for chance creation in the final third. The one-third of the pitch that is closest to the opposition's goal. He's also naturally a target for the crosses with his aerial ability.
The main difference for France compared to the aforementioned poor displays against underdogs was the sublime movement of their attacking players, perhaps helped by Iceland's shape and the lack of threat they posed. Iceland's lack of wingers meant France could push both fullbacks very high up along the field.
The lack of width and offensive threat by their fullbacks was one of the main problems for France in their possession play in Russia. Especially since their nominal starting fullbacks – Hernández and Benjamin Pavard – are center-backs by nature. Here both Kurzawa and Pavard enjoyed a very offensive evening, as especially Pavard's presence proved a key role as it allowed Mbappé to play almost a free role.
Mbappé was brilliant throughout the match. Usually moving in from his right-sided position, he acted as the second striker, moved all around the final third to look for space and often found it on the left, thanks to the dynamic movement of Matuidi. This made France look almost like a 4-4-2 at times, with Griezmann occasionally occupying the right halfspace If you divide the field in five vertical lanes, the halfspaces are the lanes that are not on the wing and not in the center. Because there is no touchline like on the wing, players have freedom to go everywhere. But this zone often is not as well-defended as the very center. This makes it a very valuable offensive zone to play in and a lot of chances are created by passes or dribbles from the halfspace. when Mbappé was roaming.
As one of France's key paths to goal, he often looked for one-twos with Giroud and Griezmann before bursting behind the defense. The young lightning bolt got himself into some promising positions in the first half, and even though France did not create many clear-cut chances, Mbappé looked the most threatening. He provided the cross for Samuel Umtiti's opening goal after thirteen minutes, having received the ball on the left following a corner kick.
In their rare spells of possession, Iceland played in a 3-5-1-1 formation with Gylfi Sigurdsson dropping to a number ten position and Birkir Bjarnason drifting towards the left. In another change of behavior, France was proactive out of possession, counterpressed effectively after they lost the ball, played a high line and asserted their dominance.
France break the resistance and run riot
From a tactical perspective, nothing changed in the game from start to finish. Both managers kept their starting shapes and approaches throughout the match, and the substitutions were straightforward. Hamrén made two straight swaps, bringing on Traustason and Finnbogason for Sigurjonsson and Gudmundsson.
Interestingly, France's second goal coincided with one of the rare moments that Iceland pressed high and committed players forward. France played through the pressure, Pavard burst forward and combined twice with Mbappé who tried a rabona cross to Pogba. The rebound was played into Pavard again, who whipped in a great cross for Giroud to tap in.
Iceland started pressing higher after 2-0 and they found it really hard to deal with French attackers in the late stages, with Mbappé largely playing as a second striker in this period with Griezmann on the right. France is significantly more dangerous when allowed more space and are more than capable of playing through pressure.
The third goal was an excellent team goal that showcased the entire skill set the French attackers possess and the improvements in possession play. Pogba played a one-two with Giroud who dropped deep, produced a wonderful outside foot pass between the lines to Griezmann, who received in the right halfspace and cut inside. Matuidi's decoy run took right center-back Ingason away, Griezmann played a through ball to Mbappé who darted into that space and finished coolly. All the players involved in the attack did what they do best, with intelligent movement that gave them the space to do so. Griezmann provided the fourth after a wonderful back heel pass by Mbappé sent him through on goal.
Whatever your stance on this France team may be, it is hard to find a hole in their performance when looking at this match. Deschamps is insisting on playing the same players since the summer, much to the disappointment of many neutrals who would prefer more of the French talent integrated into the team for more attractive football. However, this group of players visibly has a great chemistry, and they proved extremely tough to break on their path to glory. Therefore it makes sense to build on what they have with improving the proven winning formula.
After all, Deschamps only came up with this system in the second group stage game against Peru. France have played around a dozen games since then, mostly against tougher opposition. Here he worked on solutions against a sort of opponent his team used to struggle against. He pushed his fullbacks higher up the pitch, gave Mbappé a free role, worked on some specific movements and the same line-up played some excellent football in possession. It's good to see a World Cup winning side trying to improve and playing with great hunger and desire while doing so.
Hamrén, on the other hand, will most likely revert back to the 4-4-1-1 / 4-4-2 shape that made Iceland an accomplished side in Europe. While that formation used to give them plenty of tooth with more numbers to attack the second balls that results from their direct play, here they simply didn't have any path to goal except set pieces.
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Q: move gallery images i shows a images in gallery like this
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in above the left arrow(<) and right arrow(>) are also images. in between those images i shows a gallery images. so i want to perform onclick action on that images i.e., the left arrow(<) and right arrow(>). if clicked on the left arrow(<) the gallery images are will be move to left. or if clicked on right arrow(>) the gallery images are will be move to right.
so please tell me your answer.
Thank you in advance.
Best Regards

A: i get a position of the view and then define a field
 private int mPos = 0;

then check the
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     galleryview.setSelection(mPos, true);

this is for right arrow(>) and for left arrow(<) is
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     galleryview.setSelection(mPos, true);

This is the answer and also it is working.

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High-level language programs are portable.
Compiler translates to the target machine language.
2. Why program in Assembly ?
Assembly language programs are not portable!
Learning the assembly is more difficult than learning Java!
Programming in the assembly language is a tedious and error-prone process.
High-level languages should be natural preference for common applications.
I just don't consider a utility program that's 4 megabytes big, and contains all sorts of files that the author didn't create, to be really great software.
Steve Gibson, Gibson Research Corporation.
Assembly language programs contain only the code that is necessary to perform the given task.
Embedded systems programming, e.g. aviation industry.
Writing in-line assembly (mixed-mode) in high-level languages such as C/C++, or hybrid programming in assembly and C/C++.
for investigating the cause of a serious bugs or crashes that require understanding of memory dumps and disassembled code.
for practical and educational purposes.
The "granddaddy" of all assemblers for the Intel platform, product of Microsoft.
Available since the beginning of the IBM-compatible PCs.
Works in MS-DOS and Windows environments.
It's free: Microsoft no longer sells MASM as a standalone product.
Bundled with the Microsoft Visual Studio product.
Numerous tutorials, books, and samples floating around, many are free or low-cost.
MASM32 development environment incorporates MASM assembler and Win32 API tools.
Logic gates are used at the hardware level.
How high-level language concepts, such as if-else statements, are realized at the machine level?
What about interactions with the operating system functions?
How is assembly language translated into machine language?
These fundamental questions apply to most computer architectures.
By using assembly, we gain understanding of how the particular model of computer works.
Such secrets have been revealed to me that all I have written now appears of little value.
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MASM Reference Guide can be downloaded there, too.
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It is highly recommended that you download the above manuals and use them as a reference.
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An introduction to Win32 Assembler programming aimed at filling the gap between the complete beginner and the advanced.
Highly recommended, in depth coverage of concepts.
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Excellent book, lots of sample code, in-depth coverage of BIOS, Win32, MS-DOS.
Advanced book for game and graphics programmers.
...edit, assemble, link, manage projects, debug and disassemble programs.
...produces code for 32-bit flat memory model appropriate to modern Windows.
Test-drive fullscreen 32-bit debuggers: OllyDbg, Visual Studio, WinDbg.
DUMPBIN: command-line utility that examines binary files and disassembles programs.
Program runs on the processor.
Program uses operating system functions and services.
As far as 32-bit Vista is concerned, the world ends at 4,096 megabytes.
A 32-bit program can address up to 4 gigabytes of memory.
.386                ; Tells MASM to use Intel 80386 instruction set.
Assembly Language uses mnemonics, digital numbers, comments, etc.
Machine Language instructions are just a sequences of 1s and 0s.
Just as in high-level language, you want to control program flow.
The JMP instruction transfers control unconditionally to another instruction.
Conditional jump is taken only if the condition is met.
Condition testing is separated from branching.
Flag register is used to convey the condition test result.
The EAX, EDX, ECX, EBX, EBP, EDI, and ESI registers are 32-bit general-purpose registers, used for temporary data storage and memory access.
The AX, DX, CX, BX, BP, DI, and SI registers are 16-bit equivalents of the above, they represent the low-order 16 bits of 32-bit registers.
The AH, DH, CH, and BH registers represent the high-order 8 bits of the corresponding registers.
Since the processor accesses registers more quickly than it accesses memory, you can make your programs run faster by keeping the most-frequently used data in registers.
Similarly, AL, DL, CL, and BL represent the low-order 8 bits of the registers.
Four 32-bit registers EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX.
Four 16-bit registers AX, BX, CX, DX.
Eight 8-bit register AH, AL, BH, BL, CH, CL, DH, DL.
Used exclusively to maintain the stack.
Status flags record status information about the result of the last arithmetic/logical instruction.
Direction flag stores forward/backward direction for data copying.
TF Trap flag used in single-step debugging.
The MOV instruction copies the source operand to the destination operand without affecting the source.
Note: the above operand combinations are valid for all instructions that require two operands.
mov    EBX,   table1    ; "instruction operands must be the same size"
mov    ESI,   status    ; "instruction operands must be the same size"
mov    [EBX], 100       ; "invalid instruction operands"
mov    [ESI], 100       ; "invalid instruction operands"
The above MOV instructions are ambiguous.
Not clear whether the assembler should use byte or word equivalent of 100.
The destination can be 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit operand, in memory or in register.
No immediate operand is allowed.
Both INC and ADD execute at about the same speed.
Both execute at about the same speed.
The destination and source are not altered.
Useful to test relationship such as < > or = between the two operands.
Used in conjunction with conditional jump instructions for decision making purposes.
Execution is transferred to the instruction identified by the label.
Execution is transferred to the instruction identified by label only if condition is met.
; Assume that AL contains input character.
ECX should be loaded with a loop count value before loop begins.
Perform the standard bitwise logical operations.
Result goes to the destination.
where count is an immediate value.
Performs left/right bit-shift of destination by the value in count or CL register.
CL register contents is not altered.
Bit shifted out goes into the carry flag CF.
Specification of count greater than 31 is not allowed.
If greater, only the least significant 5 bits are actually used.
e.g. when the shift count is a parameter in a procedure call.
Only CL register can be used.
Only numeric constants are allowed.
The convention is to use all UPPER-CASE LETTERS for names of constants.
Assigns the result of expression to name.
The expression is evaluated at assembly time.


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In non-Buddhist countries, remote monasteries like Birken depend on the voluntary help of long-term Resident Stewards. Stewards live at the monastery full-time and volunteer their services free of charge. This is an excellent opportunity for practitioners who are looking for a simple life devoted to the Buddha's teachings, meditation and meritorious acts of service to the Sangha, in the company of like-minded individuals who are also committed to these ideals.
KITCHEN STEWARD: Kitchen Stewards are responsible for preparing meals for the resident community (set menus/recipes are provided), managing kitchen facilities and supplies, attending to various household chores, driving to Kamloops for weekly shopping / errands, etc. Cooking experience would be an asset, although it is not required; on-the-job training is provided. All candidates must hold a valid Class 5 Canadian driver's license (or its equivalent) before arriving. Meal preparation duties are shared with other kitchen stewards on a rotational basis. Resident stewards are typically expected to work approximately 3-4 hours per day. Minimum commitment of three months.
MAINTENANCE STEWARD: The male Resident Maintenance Steward assists with the daily maintenance of the monastery buildings, off-grid systems and grounds maintenance (including in the winter the daily starting and stoking of our wood stoves, firewood chopping and stacking, clearing snow from roofs, walkways, and paths, as well as snow plowing our 7km logging road with a tractor). Candidates must be in good physical and mental health, with a capacity for heavy labour when required. The ideal candidate will have handy-man skills and experience with basic carpentry / plumbing / electrical work (although this is not mandatory). Experience with tractor driving and off-grid systems would also be helpful. All candidates must hold a valid Class 5 Canadian driver's license (or its equivalent) before arriving. Resident stewards are typically expected to work 3-4 hours per day. Minimum commitment of three months.
OFFICE STEWARD: The Office Steward is responsible for coordinating the monastery's daily email, mail and phone correspondence; managing overnight and day visit bookings; maintenance of the Birken website and other communications materials; attending to the administrative needs of the resident monastics; providing support to Birken's Offsite Treasurer/Bookkeeper; fulfilling all Registered Charitable Society requirements (coordination of Annual General Meeting, filing of Annual Charity Returns, etc.); and, generally attending to all administration and communications needs of the monastery. Ideal candidates will have good organizational, communication and computer skills, as well as prior experience in an office / administrative setting. All candidates must hold a valid Class 5 Canadian driver's license (or its equivalent) before arriving. Resident stewards are typically expected to work 3-4 hours per day. Minimum commitment of three months (ideally longer for this position).
How to Apply: If you are interested in serving as a Steward at Birken Forest Monastery, please email us at meditate@birken.ca for more information. All candidates should be able to commit to serve for a minimum period of three months. Long term stays are subject to a probationary period and require periodic approvals by the Abbot as well as the other members of the resident community.
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Trump cancels Mar-a-Lago Christmas trip over shutdown
By Jordan Fabian - 12/22/18 05:45 PM EST
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The White House announced on Saturday that President Trump Donald John Trump2020 Democrats react to 'send her back' chants at Trump rally Trump averages highest approval rating of his presidency in second quarter: Gallup GOP House campaign chair condemns 'send her back' chants: 'There's no place for that kind of talk' MORE will not take his scheduled Christmas vacation in South Florida, citing the government shutdown.
"Due to the shutdown, President Trump will remain in Washington, D.C. and the first lady will return from Florida so they can spend Christmas together," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
The president tweeted the news himself later Saturday: "I will not be going to Florida because of the Shutdown - Staying in the White House! #MAGA."
Trump had planned to spend 16 days at his Mar-a-Lago resort with his family for the holidays, but he said on Friday he would remain in the nation's capital if Congress could not reach an agreement to avert a partial government shutdown.
But the president did not say at the time how long he planned to stay in Washington and there was some speculation he might still make the trip to Florida for Christmas if a lengthy shutdown appeared to be in the works.
That scenario played out on Saturday, with the Senate adjourning without a spending deal in place. Senators are not expected to meet again until Dec. 27, meaning the shutdown is all but assured to last at least four more days.
Trump did not appear willing to strike a quick compromise with Democrats, digging in on Saturday on his demand for border wall funding. He lunched on Saturday afternoon with his conservative Republican allies at the White House in a show of unity.
Despite the funding standoff in Washington, Palm Beach was prepared for Trump's arrival.
First lady Melania Trump Melania TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump seizes House impeachment vote to rally GOP Cruz in 2016 said 'something fundamentally wrong' with Christians who back Trump: book Designer defends Melania Trump statue: 'People may laugh but the context still resonates' MORE traveled down on Friday with their 12-year-old son, Barron Trump, to spend the holidays.
"It has long been the family's tradition to spend their Christmas holiday at Mar-a-Lago. Her plans to travel with her son to their Florida home for his winter break have not changed this year," the first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN on Friday.
The security perimeter that surrounds Mar-a-Lago when Trump is in town had been set up, with traffic cones, barricades and police cruisers stationed along Ocean Boulevard outside the club.
Secret Service agents were monitoring traffic crossing the Southern Boulevard bridge, which leads from West Palm Beach to the Mar-a-Lago staff entrance, and agents had set up a checkpoint in an adjacent parking lot to screen vehicles entering the club.
The Secret Service is one of the government agencies whose funding lapsed at midnight. A senior administration official said Saturday that thousands of the agency's employees will continue to work during the shutdown, albeit without pay.
The most recent government pay period ends on Dec. 22, meaning that the agents in South Florida will be paid for the work they have already done, but it is unclear how long they will remain here.
The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president is known to feel at home at his South Florida properties, golfing and dining with friends and allies in an uncontrolled environment that supporters say he thrives on but critics say feeds his worst impulses.
Trump is facing perhaps the most critical juncture of his presidency, confronting the shutdown, Republican angst over his split with Defense Secretary James Mattis James Norman MattisThe Hill's Morning Report - A raucous debate on race ends with Trump admonishment Trump's pick to lead Pentagon glides through confirmation hearing Overnight Defense: Highlights from Defense pick's confirmation hearing | Esper spars with Warren over ethics | Sidesteps questions on Mattis vs. Trump | Trump says he won't sell F-35s to Turkey MORE, signs of an economic downturn and an escalating Russia investigation.
The blue, red and gold Trump-branded jet had been spotted by a reporter on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport on Friday, indicating other members of the family were present. The president and first lady only travel on government jets.
On the tarmac in Palm Beach as President Trump is back in Washington presiding over possible shutdown pic.twitter.com/eQDGDW1Pla
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) December 21, 2018
Donald Trump Jr. Donald (Don) John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report — Trump retreats on census citizenship question Trump set to host controversial social media summit Trump associate Felix Sater grilled by House Intel MORE, the president's eldest son, was scheduled to speak on Thursday at the conservative Turning Point USA conference in West Palm Beach that drew dozens of young people to the South Florida city.
Camera crews, television producers and reporters had also arrived in the area late in the week in anticipation of Trump's possible arrival, as did some administration aides.
But now, it appears the president will not be joining them any time soon.
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Theresa "Terri" Giunta died February 8, 2014, at the age of 47. She earned a BS in math from Drexel University in Philadelphia and was active in her regional actuarial group, Casualty Actuaries of Greater New York. Her last post was as vice president for Arch Insurance in New York City. Giunta's actuarial career was typical of many of her CAS contemporaries coming up in the late 1990s. Early in her career she moved around a bit, working for different companies in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, before returning to New York City, the city where she got her start. Supervisors who endorsed her for CAS membership gave her glowing recommendations, complimenting her work ethic, intelligence and professionalism. She was employed by Guy Carpenter & Co., whose offices were in World Trade Center II in New York; she was fortunate to have been accounted as safe after the 9/11 attack.
Charles Patrick "Charlie" Neeson (ACAS 1997)
Charlie Neeson, a 45-year veteran of actuarial practice and owner of C.P. Neeson LLC in Westfield Center, Ohio, died unexpectedly on November 9, 2014.
Born October 4, 1949, in Dayton, Ohio, he earned a BS in economics from Ohio State University in 1971. Neeson began his career in 1971 at Westfield Insurance Company, serving as the company's first actuary. He became an expert in credit scoring, which led to his testifying before Congress on the subject. In 2010 he retired from Westfield and started his own consulting firm. Neeson loved fly fishing and traveled to Chile, New Zealand and throughout the U.S. for his sport. He spent many hours teaching his grandson to fly fish. His CAS service included the Member Advisory Panel (2010-12); Committee on Management Data & Information (2011-14); and the Hachemeister and Michelbacher Prize Committee (2010-14). He participated in the regional actuarial groups Buckeye Actuarial Continuing Education and Midwestern Actuarial Forum. He is survived by his wife, Robin; two sons and their wives; three grandchildren; one brother; and two sisters.
Dale F. Ogden (ACAS 1983)
Dale F. Ogden, politician and founder of Dale F. Ogden and Associates in San Pedro, California, died October 26, 2014. He worked at Equifax Services while attending Towson State College, where he earned a B.A. in mathematics and a minor in accounting in 1974. He began his career as a high school math teacher in Baltimore City. After a layoff, he went back to Equifax and later got his first actuarial job with the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund. His later career included posts at KPMG and Kramer Capital Consultants in New York and Los Angeles. Owning his own business, Ogden gained an understanding of government by consulting for a wide variety of clients, including state insurance regulators, government agencies, attorneys and insurance companies. This experience would later set the stage for his interest in politics. Ogden was active in California Libertarian Party politics for about 15 years, running for insurance commissioner in 1998, 2002 and 2006, state assembly in 2000 and state senate in 2004. In 2001 he ran for governor. In that race, Ogden garnered 150,895 votes or 1.5 percent of the total. Ogden is survived by his wife of 21+ years, Colleen, and his son, Dale Ogden Jr.
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Eugene G. Thompson (ACAS 1971)
Gene Thompson was a joyous man with a friendly smile. He passed away suddenly on November 3, 2014. He worked as an actuary in Philadelphia at General Accident and INS Consultants, Inc., his last post. He loved beautiful and unique objects and was an enthusiastic collector of crafts and fine art. Thompson generously supported numerous talented artists, including painters, photographers, sculptors and furniture makers. A member of All Saints' Torresdale Episcopal Church, he is survived by his brother-in-law Don Minniak; two nieces; and two great nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the American Heart Association in Philadelphia
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Q: assign attribute to $scope in the controller I have a small problem in AngularJs which is:
I'd like to assign a static to the $scope.customer.LikeProfile
$scope.customer.LikeProfil = 0;

and I tried to display the value in the window.alert on my view page
window.alert($scope.customer.LikeProfil);

this instruction allert me and display the error at the console of my browser :
TypeError: Cannot set property 'LikeProfil' of undefined
    at k.$scope.addIdea
What I'd like to do in the controller is to add a new customer(object) to the database using $resource and here is my code
controller.js:
app.controller('CustomerCreationCtrl', ['$scope','PostCustomerFactory', '$location',
function ($scope, PostCustomerFactory, $location) {
  $scope.createNewCustomer = function(){
      $scope.customer.LikeProfil = 0;
    window.alert($scope.customer.LikeProfil);
    $scope.customer.FirstName = "Rochdi (Name by default";
      PostCustomerFactory.create($scope.customer);
      $location.path("/customers");
  };
}]);

service.js
services.factory('PostIdeaFactory', function ($resource) {
    return $resource(url + '/ideaService/postIdea', {}, {
        create: { method: 'POST' }
    });
});

add-view.html

      Birth of Date

          <input type="date" class="form-control input-sm" id="inputBirthDate" placeholder="..." ng-model="customer.BirthDate">

       Pseudo

          <input type="text" class="form-control input-sm" id="inputPseudo" placeholder="..." ng-model="customer.Pseudo">

           <button type="submit" class="btn btn-info btn-sm m-t-10" ng-click="createNewCustomer()">SUBMIT FORM</button>

for the Pseudo and BirthDate they're just properties in customer and my goal is to assign a static value to LikeProfil and FirstName properties and show them in the pop up box (window.alert) in the view in short , don't care about Pseudo and BirthDate properties it's not my problem and they work

A: you need to define customer as an object first befor setting its property to something
$scope.customer ={};

your final code will be(controller.js)
app.controller('CustomerCreationCtrl', ['$scope','PostCustomerFactory', '$location',
function ($scope, PostCustomerFactory, $location) {
 $scope.customer ={};
  $scope.createNewCustomer = function(){
      $scope.customer.LikeProfil = 0;
    window.alert($scope.customer.LikeProfil);
    $scope.customer.FirstName = "Rochdi (Name by default";
      PostCustomerFactory.create($scope.customer);
      $location.path("/customers");
  };
}]);


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Well done letter knitters! The Poetry Society's knitted poem is emerging! We had a super time stitching them altogether last Friday at the I Knot day. Ha ha! We are still not going to tell you what the poem is, but we can reveal that when stitched together it will be the size of half a football pitch.
Each letter is signed by it's knitter, usually with an address and the favourite poem at the time of knitting. This makes the forming of words touching and very addictive. Indeed I could have stitched all night.
The Poetry Soc. still need blank squares of 12" and do drop in on the Stitching-Together-Athons on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th September. There will be refreshments from their friendly cafe, and lots of poems.


In an effort to finally organize some of photos, I decided to take this website back to my roots – making the every day look beautiful. We had a surprise spring snow – crazy! 13 inches in Norrisville, Maryland. The funny thing is, I have these horses on only a little over two acres. Yes, we are zoned agriculture and we are very good about keeping up with pasture management, but this is one of the fun parts of bieng a photographer – you have the ability to make things look like they are not. It looks like they are on much more property here.
These are our three horses – Pixie is a beautiful classic champagne. Pixie's birth went viral back in 2014. She's the daughter of Stormy (amber cream champagne paint). No Brakes is the bay here – he is an icelandic horse so as you can see, he seems to love the snow!
Here's a behind the scenes – the next morning. As you can see, the images above look like we are on much more property than reality 😉 I have articles on Keeping Horses on Small Property over at MyFauxFarm.


I have to admit, a good whiteboard is one of my absolute favorite things in the world. While I absolutely spend all kinds of time writing in text editors, and other digital medium (and have tried just about every tablet/digital/smart-pen replacement for dumb-pens and paper) there is something about how easy it is to work at a whiteboard, especially collaboratively. Maybe it's good memories of doing work at the board in HS Math.
Across the different options I have to admit, I think I'm almost definitely going to look into the glass tabletop – I have lusted after that look for a while, and this looks like by far the most reasonably way to get there I've seen so far, will post pics once I get something up.


So sorry I am just posting this now. I had to leave as soon as I posted the recap.
Here is the vid and translation for episode 12 preview.
The last scene is different but the same things are said in both the youtube preview and episode preview.
Boong-Do: This place that I am living in right now has now become the past to me.
Ja-Soo: I will steal the amulet and kill him.
Minister Min: Is there any reason for a man to not lose everything because of an amulet?
Dong-Min: You didn't cheat or lie but the situation is like this? Are you playing with me?
Monk: It seemed like you wanted to go to this new world.
Boong-Do: If there is even just one person who remembers me, wouldn't that life be a little different?
Thanks for the preview recaps and the summary recaps! ❤ you da best.
Thank you so much. I have been hunting for the translation for the preview of episode 12. Also, thank you for your excellent recap of episode 11. That was done so fast and so well. This show is making me feel very greedy. I keep thinking, "more, more, moooore…!!!" 🙂 This helps. Thank you again.
Oooouuuhhh… yes please stay in modern era. we need a gentleman like you to filled up the world!
where is the much talked about possible bed scene in the preview?
thank you in advance.. waiting for your fast recap of ep. 12..


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On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, human rights groups, faith-based organizations, policy institutes, and humanitarian organizations renew their call for the United Nations and U.S. government to help Haiti install the clean water and sanitation infrastructure necessary to control the ongoing epidemic.
The cholera epidemic in Haiti has received less U.S. attention during the presidential campaign season, but it remains a critical problem for this Caribbean neighbor that is not being adequately addressed and is undermining broader aid efforts. Last month, 260 new cholera cases were reported daily, and 2-3 children died a day. Since the epidemic broke out in October 2010, 7,564 Haitians have reportedly died from cholera and some 600,000 persons (6% of the Haitian population) have been infected. The number is undoubtedly much higher, as cases in more remote areas are often unreported. As the World Health Organization has stated, those without access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation, and hygiene constitute the majority of cholera cases.
Two years after the epidemic started, not enough action has been taken to assist the Government of Haiti in acquiring essential water and sanitation infrastructure. A regional coalition that includes the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization is developing a plan with the Government of Haiti to build water and sanitation systems that will cost $2.2 billion. Despite this encouraging progress, the plan still needs to be finalized and funded before implementation can begin.
The U.N. especially has a legal and moral responsibility to play a leadership role in helping end the epidemic. Independent scientific studies have established that cholera was brought to Haiti by troops from the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and that the waste disposal practices at the U.N. base allowed the bacteria to contaminate Haiti's largest river system. The undersigned groups call on the U.N. to commit long-term resources to work with the Government of Haiti to build water and sanitation systems that are critical to halting the continued spread of the disease.
Reduced international funding is limiting the response of the humanitarian agencies working in the areas of medical care and providing access to clean water and sanitation.
"This year, MSF had to keep most of our CTCs open throughout the year because cholera is far from being controlled. The measures to prevent and treat cholera are still not enough," lamented Schulz.
In fact, the response capability of the Ministry of Health remains extremely low two years after the onset of the epidemic. As a result, during the most recent peak last May, MSF treated more than 70 percent of the total number of patients registered in Port-au-Prince.
The 2011 UN report - co-signed by [Lantagne] - acknowledged that inadequate toilets in the Nepalese UN camp in the mountain town of Mirabalais [sic] could have leaked the cholera bacterium into the nearby Meye River which flows into the country's main waterways.
The Panel of Experts added that the subsequent spread of the disease across Haiti was due to many factors - including the country's deeply inadequate water supply and almost non-existent sewage disposal systems.
Now, Dr Lantagne says the new genome data (in addition to other evidence) has changed her view since she had co-authored the UN report which effectively said no-one was to blame.
Sae-A will pay employees Haiti's minimum wage, which is $5 a day. Workers will be eligible for bonuses based on performance.
Before the official inauguration, several thousand employees have been working in the Caracol park for the last three months at a wage of 150 gourdes ($3.75 US) a day. Since October 1st, the new minimum wage law has gone into effect, with the government setting the minimum at 300 gourdes a day. Despite this, the managers of the factory operating at Caracol aren't respecting the new official minimum wage.
The new minimum wage would be 200 gourdes, with piece rate employees earning 300. Caracol would be far from the only factory in Haiti not adequately compensating their employees. The most recent Better Work Haiti report, released last week, found that 21 of 22 factories covered in their analysis (Caracol is not covered yet) were non-compliant with minimum wage laws. This refers to the old minimum wage. Better Work is a joint program of the International Labor Organization, International Finance Corporation and the U.S. Department of Labor. Of course, whether employees are earning $3 or $5 a day, it is still far below what the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center determined to be a "living wage" for workers in the garment industry.
To be sure, there are efforts are underway to slowly fix this. In the meantime, the status quo reigns, with perhaps nowhere serving as a better example of the pitfalls than Haiti. Since the devastating earthquake in January 2010, USAID has awarded some $450 million in contracts – with 70 percent of them going to DC-area contractors, the so-called "beltway bandits". The largest USAID contractor in Haiti (and the world, for that matter), Chemonics has received some $177 million of this total. With such a large amount of resources going to one company, you might expect there to be vigilant oversight and strict guidelines. Unfortunately, you would be mistaken.
The USAID Inspector General released a report last week that shines some much-needed light onto the operations of USAID's largest contractor. The report looks at the $53 million dollar Haiti Recovery Initiative run by Chemonics, the follow-up program to a $39 million program that began right after the quake. Among the findings in the audit: projects were "not on track", the monitoring and evaluation system was weak and arbitrary, there was a lack of community involvement in project planning and they failed to get the appropriate environmental approvals before undertaking potentially damaging projects. This isn't the first time Chemonics has been criticized for their work in Haiti . The same Inspector General found a host of similar problems with the original $39 million contract the year before, yet USAID turned around and gave Chemonics another $50 million anyway.
The same process had already played out before in Afghanistan. After USAID awarded a $100 million contract to Chemonics for work in the agricultural sector of Afghanistan, a 2005 Government Accountability Office report found significant problems with the program. Yet despite the documented problems, just like in Haiti, the next year USAID turned around and gave the same contractor another $100 million. The Inspector General also found numerous problems with that program.
Enter Patrice Florvilus. After the earthquake, the attorney formed an organization that represents residents of tent camps who've been threatened with eviction.
"Our strategy is to stop evictions by making landlords follow the law, which can mean a lengthy legal process. And that's what the landlord wants to avoid," Florvilus said.
It doesn't always work, but a legal defeat can sometimes turn into a de facto victory. In one case, the mayor of Delmas ordered families off government land. A court upheld the eviction order. But then the mayor backed off — locals say because of organized opposition.
But activists have faced many difficulties, including intimidation and jail time. Meena Jagannath reported last month on the case of David Oxygène, an activist who was imprisoned for over two months. He was arrested during one of his group's weekly protests against the Martelly government calling for improved social policies, including adequate housing.
She [Alexis Erkart of Other Worlds] says fear and fatigue run high in the camps, and residents are consistently faced with the prospect of forced evictions, but have nowhere else to go.
A newly released audit says the largest U.S. contractor working to stabilize Haiti after the 2010 earthquake is "not on track" to compete its assignments on schedule, has a weak monitoring system and is not adequately involving community members.
And an audit this fall by USAID's Inspector General found that more than 70 percent of the funds given to the two largest U.S. contractors for a cash for work project in Haiti was spent on equipment and materials. As a result, just 8,000 Haitians a day were being hired by June, instead of the planned 25,000 a day, according to the IG.
Nevertheless, Chemonics has been the largest single recipient of post-earthquake funding from USAID. For the two HRI programs, Chemonics has received $103.8 million. This same process played out in Afghanistan, where despite consistently failing to produce results, Chemonics continued to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts.
In an interview following his meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe told Reuters that cholera is "really under control." Well, that certainly depends on your definition of under control. Since tropical storm Isaac swept across Haiti last month, some 83 Haitians have reportedly died from cholera and this is almost certainly an understatement, as the surveillance system has become increasingly unreliable. Over the same time, more than 8,200 Haitians have been sickened. Since April of this year, when the rainy season began, 514 have died and over 63,000 have been sickened by cholera.
Of course, this is not entirely the government's fault. Most of the cholera response bypassed the government entirely and now, as NGOs pull out of the field, the government has been left to pick up the slack without adequate resources. Nevertheless, to the hundreds of Haitians falling ill every day with cholera, Prime Minister Lamothe's assertion must ring especially hollow.
Update 9/27: The post has been updated to reflect newly posted data on cholera deaths and cases.
USAID Says More than 9% of Funds Going to Local Groups. Really?
Before the January 2010 earthquake, Shah said less than 9 percent of USAID money was going to Haitian organizations. "We're over the pre-earthquake level now,'' said Shah during an interview with The Miami Herald. He wasn't more specific.
As we have noted numerous times before, according to the available data, it appears that far less than 10 percent of USAID funds have gone directly to local organizations. A review of data on USAID contracts for work in Haiti from the Federal Procurement Database System reveals that just 1.3 percent of USAID funds have gone directly to Haitian companies, as can be seen in Table I.
The plan foresees a narrowing of the Mission's activities to a core set of mandated tasks that are achievable within a reasonable time frame (envisioned to be a period of between four and five years for planning purposes) aimed at consolidating stabilization gains to a point beyond which the presence of a large peacekeeping operation will no longer be required. The Mission will work with the Government, civil society, the United Nations country team and international partners to agree on a transition compact that will set out a limited number of stabilization benchmarks that will serve as key indicators of progress in the stabilization process.
Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened slightly as it spun toward the Dominican Republic and vulnerable Haiti on Friday, threatening to bring punishing rains but unlikely to gain enough steam to strike as a hurricane.
Forecasters now expect the storm to stay below hurricane force until it's in the Gulf of Mexico, staying to the west of Tampa, Florida, where the Republican National Convention starts on Monday, though there is still an outside chance it could hit there.
In Haiti, the government and international aid groups announced plans to evacuate several thousand people from one of the settlement camps that sprang up in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.
Isaac was expected to dump eight to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters) of rain on the island of Hispaniola that is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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There has been much discussion in the media over the past day regarding whether Tropical Storm Isaac might rain on the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, and possibly cause delays or a cancellation. Receiving less attention is that 400,000 some people in Haiti are still living in tents, under tarps and various forms of makeshift housing – people who became internally displaced persons (IDP's) after the 2010 earthquake, and they are also in the storm's projected path.
Aside from the more obvious threats that flooding and strong winds could mean for IDP camps and other vulnerable communities, Isaac could also bring a spike in cholera infections. As we have pointed out before, along with countless news articles, medical reports, and NGO press releases, Haiti's cholera infections surge with rainy weather, and tropical storms and hurricanes pose an especially ominous threat. The lack of adequate sanitation and safe drinking water in IDP camps means that drinking water sources are likely to be contaminated by waste water when flooding occurs – along with the tents, tarps, and much bedding and other possessions. And it is not just the IDPs who face increased dangers with heavy rain. As the cholera response has been scaled back, access to cholera treatment centers in rural Haiti has decreased. While flooding and mudslides pose extreme danger on their own, they can also prevent those in need from traveling to secure the care that is needed.
We wrote two weeks ago that the Haitian health ministry reported a slower rate of infection this summer, which it attributed to unusually dry weather, but that they predicted an increase in the coming months as the hurricane season begins. The Pan American Health Organization estimates that Haiti could see up to 170,000 new cases this year, which would mean an average of about 20,000 cases per month over the next five months – 5,000 more cases per month than in the previous three months. We further noted that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs was reporting a "very weak" "capacity to respond to potential outbreaks," such as could occur with a drenching tropical storm.
The United Nations, meanwhile, whose troops caused the epidemic in October 2010, has yet to take responsibility by taking steps to contain and control cholera.
international aid has led to an estimated 15,000 repairs and 5,700 new, permanent homes so far. Most of the new houses are outside greater Port-au-Prince, where it was easier to obtain land, and some have yet to be occupied.
Though many are quick to tout the decrease in camp population as a sign the housing and displacement crisis is being met, it is clear the number of new housing solutions can only explain a fraction of the camp population reduction. The lack of adequate housing has led 33 international organizations to sponsor the Under Tents campaign. Working with Haitian grassroots groups, the campaign seeks to win housing rights for the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who remain displaced or living in unsustainable housing.
The latest data from the MSPP (Ministry of Health) shows that the number of cholera cases and resulting deaths continues to rise. As of August 2, there have been a total of 583,871 cases and 7,497 deaths reported since October 2010 and this almost certainly is an underestimate. While the number of cases this summer has not spiked as high as it did last year, there have still been 377 deaths and nearly 45,000 cases reported in just the last three months.
The cholera outbreak that has already claimed thousands of lives all over the country remains a major threat to public health. Cholera prevention and response should be a key priority for the Haitian Government.
Furthermore, many public health workers in the Cholera Treatment Center (CTCs) have not received salaries for several months and there are reports of strikes by front line medical staff to redress this situation. This is a serious issue negatively affecting the effectiveness of the cholera response and it needs to be urgently addressed. In addition, there is evidence that the MSPP struggles to carry out its work efficiently due to poor logistics and inefficient fleet maintenance. This seriously hinders the material distribution within the CTCs, Cholera Treatment Units (CTUs) and Acute Diarrhea Treatment Centers (ADTCs), and affects the appropriate collection of cadavers. Necessary arrangement should be made to correct the situation. Overall, the MSPP must once again reinforce its leadership and coordination roles at both central and departmental levels.
Donors must provide sustained and adequate funding to support a comprehensive and integrated approach to cholera prevention and care.
Although less severe than the cholera outbreak last year, the current situation on the ground is much worse than statistics portray. And yet, a shortage of funding has translated into fewer health partners and created serious gaps in coverage. From August, 2011 to May, 2012, the number of Cholera Treatment Centers (CTCs) has declined from 38 to 20, and the number of Cholera Treatment Units from 205 to 74.
The killing of four adults, and – according to some reports – disappearance of four children in a violent forced eviction on July 23rd has gone all but unnoticed by the major English language media, but some details have emerged through Haitian and some independent English language press. Haïti Liberté has a detailed report in English of the incident at Parc La Visite in Seguin, Marigot, on the southern coast. Haïti Liberté and other outlets' reports are based in large part on the work of Haitian journalist Claudy Belizaire of the Reference Institute for Journalism and Communication (RIJC), who also took graphic photos of the killing's aftermath.
- Half of the $1.8 billion the U.S. promised for rebuilding is still in the Treasury, its disbursement stymied by an understaffed U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince in the months after the quake and by a Haitian government that was barely functional for more than a year.
- Despite State Department promises to keep spending public, some members of Congress and watchdogs say they aren't getting detailed information about how the millions are being spent, as dozens of contractors working for the U.S. government in Haiti leave a complex money trail.
Searching for evidence of success after more than two years and two billion dollars, the AP found lasting results hard to come by as "projects fundamental to Haiti's transformation out of poverty, such as permanent housing and electric plants in the heavily hit capital of Port-au-Prince have not taken off." Attempting to preempt the AP article, Mark Feierstein, Assistant Administrator for Latin America and Thomas C. Adams, Haiti Special Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State wrote an article, "Progress in Haiti" to combat what they believe to be an unfair portrayal of U.S. reconstruction efforts.
As we have previously pointed out, the provision of new shelter options cannot explain the majority of the decrease in the camp population, and many of those that have left the camps have found themselves in even more precarious living conditions, this time out of sight of the humanitarian community.
Haiti's cholera infection and death rates show an alarming recent increase, with official statistics reporting 290 deaths and nearly 40,000 cases in May and June alone, as the rainy season returned. Pressure continues to build for the United Nations to take responsibility for causing the cholera outbreak, which has now killed over 7,418 people and infected over 579,014. Last week, Hollywood took notice of the issue, with some 90 celebrities attending a screening of the Olivia Wilde-produced documentary film, "Baseball in the Time of Cholera" directed by David Darg and Bryn Mooser, and many urged action on the issue via Twitter, leading to the hashtag #undeny becoming a top trend for much of the day last Thursday.
As cholera was brought to Haiti due to the actions of the UN, we believe that it is imperative for the UN to now act decisively to control the cholera epidemic. UN authorities should work with Haiti's government and the international community to confront and, ultimately, eliminate this deadly disease from Haiti and the rest of the island of Hispaniola. A failure to act will not only lead to countless more deaths: it will undermine the crucial effort to reconstruct Haiti and will pose a permanent public health threat to the populations of neighboring nations.
Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz of the Center for Global Development recently reported on their trip to Haiti, where they further examined aid accountability and the ongoing reconstruction effort, the themes of their recent policy paper which we have previously described.
International NGOs have frequent staff turnover and very high costs. In the aftermath of the quake, we learned that senior staff came and went, some staying as little as a few weeks. A new arrival meant starting all over again, often with an individual who had little knowledge of Haiti and no knowledge of Creole (or even French). The cost of maintaining expatriate staff in Haiti is very high. According to the Miami Herald, it can cost upwards of $200,000 annually in housing and other benefits to keep a senior-level manager in Haiti. Some of our interviewees explained how NGOs and foreign workers are exempt from Haitian taxes and often do not follow Haitian registration requirements. Donors have spent billions of dollars trying to repair Haiti's broken infrastructure, largely with their own goods and labor. In the meantime, most Haitians in Port-au-Prince spend their day trying to sell a few vegetables or fruit or other goods on the sidewalk, which in most cases, does not generate enough money to feed themselves or their families.
We repeatedly heard stories about the unintended economic and social consequences of the influx of foreign workers. Housing costs in certain areas have skyrocketed – rentals easily go for over $30,000 per year, with some houses being rented for a lot more. Restaurants and supermarkets in certain areas of Petion-ville cater exclusively to foreign tastes, and prices of basic goods have been driven up to a level that even middle-class Haitians cannot afford.


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Diane's aunt arranged for us to visit a school yesterday in the nearby slum. The director of the school is a friend of hers, and the slum is called Soweto (no relation to the slum by the same name in South Africa). Soweto is home to about 25,000 people. The school is a 'private school' only in the sense that the government did not build the school, nor does it provide any funding for its operation. There are 160 students from ages 3 to 14, and six teachers.
The school is housed in the facilities of a church, which are indistinguishable from the surrounding homes. I would not have known that it was a church or a school if I had not been told. The classrooms for the senior grades are about 10 feet by 12 feet, each of which accommodates the teacher and more than 20 students crammed together on shared benches and plastic chairs. There are no desks.
We did not want to arrive empty handed, so we purchased a 20 kg bag of rice, to supplement the school lunch program, and we delivered 160 bananas on behalf of Diane's aunt. By the time we'd walked the 15 minutes to the school with the director, carrying about 80 pounds of food, we'd already had a good workout. Each day, the school tries to provide a basic lunch for the students. In many cases, it is the only food they will receive that day. Lunch is usually 'ugali', a paste made from only corn flour and water, with some boiled vegetables. If they are lucky, they get rice instead of ugali, but there hasn't been money for rice recently.
The headmaster, who has been in the role for five years, is a young man. Both he and the teachers attended two years of teacher college. Neither the headmaster nor the teachers have been paid in months, as the only school funds are used to provide food for the children.
The headmaster took us on a walking tour of Soweto, including his home, and the home of one of the school's parents. The homes are made of rough bricks, covered with tin sheets. Each home is a single room of about 10 feet by 10 feet, with a curtain dividing the sleeping area from the remainder. The homes are clustered together in groups off shared narrow corridors, which are choked with hanging laundry. Each has a heavy steel door with a padlock, although there isn't much of value inside. The people on the uneven dirt streets of Soweto seemed a bit surprised to see us, but they were friendly.
After our walk, we joined some of the senior students for physical education. About 25 kids stood in a circle on a small piece of vacant land, dancing and playing games. Everything they did was accompanied by a song. Yes, Diane and I both danced solos, but our singing was limited due to the fact it was mostly in Swahili.
We headed back to the school's 'dining hall', which was an open-air lean-to off the side of one of the buildings. All 160 students plus teachers crammed into the small space with us. The headmaster called all the teachers to the front and introduced them. Patrick repeated their names as each one was introduced, but not one of them looked us in the eye. We learned later that doing so may not be considered polite.
The headmaster introduced the students, who then performed for us in the almost non-existent space left in the dining hall. Two groups of students presented poems to us that they had memorized. Three individual students presented a memorized verse from the Bible, with the length of each of their memorized introductions exceeding the length of their verses. A senior class sang us a song in English.
The Director introduced us. She spoke about how fortunate they were to have us as guests, and how we had brought rice and bananas. She spoke about how other businesses and guests had made donations, and pointed out the things they had donated. The cover we were standing under had been donated by a cell phone company, and one of the bathrooms by a Canadian woman. The whole slum of Soweto receives water only intermittently, and the water tank which stores water when it does come, was also donated.
Patrick spoke briefly. He started with few lines of carefully memorized Swahili, which drew blank stares. Perhaps he didn't have the accent right. He then talked briefly about where we were from, and some of the differences between Kenya and Canada. The headmaster translated everything into Swahili, as many of the young ones don't have sufficient English yet. Then Diane led everyone in a kids song with some actions, which seemed to go over well.
In preparation for lunch, the young children washed their hands in a large shared basin of water, without soap. Each student received their ugali, vegetables, and either one-half, one, or one and a half bananas based on their age. Diane assisted with serving the food, in a small dark kitchen where the food had been cooked over a charcoal fire. The school has no electricity or gas. Many of the children had not eaten since the previous day, yet every one of them waited until a simple grace was said before they touched their food.
We said our farewells to the students, and were accompanied by the headmaster and Director to the edge of the slum, where a broken bridge crosses a polluted stream.
Recurring visions of the students keep coming back into our heads…
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HONG KONG (SE): Over 3,000 people gathered at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception for the wake and vigil Mass for the late Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung on January 10 and the next morning, nearly 2,000 came to pay their respects at the funeral Mass.
At 4.40pm on January 10, over 200 people, including religious people, staff of Catholic organisations, family and friends of the Bishop Yeung gathered at the entrance of the cathedral for the Reception of the Body, officiated by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing, in which he prayed that the soul of the bishop be received into eternal life. The coffin was then solemnly borne by members of the clergy who processed into the cathedral, followed by Bishop Yeung's family. The remains of the bishop then lay in state, in full Mass vestments with his head closest to the altar, for visitation and viewing.
The 8.00pm vigil Mass was concelebrated by Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun, former bishop of Hong Kong, and by John Cardinal Tong Hon, now the apostolic administrator of Hong Kong, Bishop Ha; along with Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang of Macau, Monsignor Ante Jozic, the Vatican representative in Hong Kong, and over 100 priests of the diocese.
Representatives of other Christian denominations, including leaders of the Orthodox Church as well as the Protestant Churches, were also present, as were top government officials.
The Mass began with a Ceremony of the Light in which celebrants lit six candles around the coffin with flame taken from the Paschal Candle, representing Resurrection and prayed that Christ could show his eternal light to the bishop.
The homily was given by vicar general, Father Dominic Chan Chi-ming, who had known Bishop Yeung for more than 45 years from their time together at the Holy Spirit Seminary.
Father Chan recalled that they played football together and that Bishop Yeung, as the goalkeeper, never gave up even though he was often struck by the ball. He noted that this perseverance was fully demonstrated as he became a priest and later, a bishop.
He said the bishop stood on principles of the faith, even when other people might misunderstand and insisted on helping the needy not even allowing illness to impede him.
Father Chan also recalled that prayer was important for the bishop, who shared with the newly-baptised that he prayed for four hours every day, waking up at 4.00am to pray and study the Bible.
In the hospital on January 3, the bishop used all his strength to raise his hand to make the sign of the cross as Father Chan and other priests gathered around the bishop's sickbed and tried to encourage him to pray together with them.
He said the bishop knew that he did not need to do a great job, but he had to be a faithful servant of God and glorify him even amid trials.
Father Chan also reminded the congregation that in his last homily on Christmas Eve at the cathedral, the bishop encouraged people to care for the needy.
People coming to the vigil filled the cathedral, the auditorium of the Catholic Diocese Centre as well as the parish hall.
The funeral Mass started the next day at 10.00am and was concelebrated by Cardinal Tong, Cardinal Zen, Bishop Ha, Bishop Philip Huang Jaw-ming of Caritas Taiwan, Bishop Lee Monsignor Jozic, along with over 100 priests of the diocese.
The heads of other Christian denominations were present, including Metropolitan Nektarios of the Orthodox Church, Anglican Archbishop Paul Kwong, as well as representatives of different faiths.
Hong Kong government officials who came to pay their respects included chief executive, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor; financial secretary Paul Chan Mo-po, as well as other government officials.
During the homily, Bishop Ha recalled that the bishop was a nice teacher and he would never forget his preaching lessons from 30 years ago in which he encouraged seminarians to think of interesting ways to explain God's words.
He said after being ordained a bishop together with Bishop Yeung and Bishop Lee more than four years ago, Bishop Yeung was like a good elder brother to him, showed concern and gave helpful hints from time to time.
Bishop Ha said he was impressed by Bishop Yeung's concern for the needy and his determination to face challenges. At the same time, he was also aware of Bishop Yeung's difficulties as he was often misunderstood when he tried to express his views on social issues.
He said Bishop Yeung worked hard to respond to his vocation and prayed that God grant eternal rest to his soul.
During the two Masses, Monsignor Jozic and Father Lawrence Lee Len, the diocesan chancellor, read out a letter—in English and Cantonese—sent by Pietro Cardinal Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, on behalf of Pope Francis on January 5, conveying his personal sadness and condolences to the clergy, religious and lay people in Hong Kong, his thankfulness for Bishop Yeung's years of priestly and episcopal ministry, and imparting his apostolic blessing as a pledge of consolation and strength in the Risen Lord.
Karen Wu Yick-kwan, a niece of the bishop, shared her personal reflections on her uncle's life at the end of both the vigil and funeral Masses.
Bishop Yeung was buried at St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley, with Bishop Ha celebrating the burial rites.
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