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A crisis-hit charity has shut down. Headstart, which helped people recovering from brain injuries, has gone into members' voluntary liquidation.
The Chronicle revealed earlier this year how the former board quit after a damning probe into its activities, conducted by Headway UK.
The national charity had received a string of complaints about the way Headstart was being run.
Headway UK-alerted Charity Commission members appointed a new board in February and conducted their own inquiry, a report of which has now been published.
But the new trustees have struggled to turn the charity around in the face of opposition to change and staff shortages.
Their aim was to improve standards of care and organisation within Headstart, which was based at the Shafto Centre in Ferguson's Lane, Benwell, Newcastle. But in August the charity ceased providing day and domiciliary services.
And last month the trustees made the decision to wind up the charity.
Headway UK chief executive Peter McCabe said: "The Charity Commission's report is an accurate reflection of what was going on. The charity had not been functioning within its memorandum and articles of association since it was set up.
"The new board have attempted to deal with very serious problems identified in the report, and despite their best efforts and help and support of Newcastle Social Services, they felt the problems were so deep-seated that it was impossible to turn the charity around .
"The new board has appointed a liquidator to wind up the affairs of the charity. If there are any remaining assets they will be transferred to Headway UK on the condition they are used for brain-injured people in the Newcastle area."
"There is a Headway presence in most big cities around the UK and in the future we hope there will be a Headway presence again in Newcastle. There is certainly a need for the service."
The Charity Commission used its powers under the Charities Act to appoint the new board in February after it established that the charity was without properly appointed trustees, risking withdrawal of funders and loss of service provision.
The Charity Commission's report, published yesterday, states: "Trustees have a responsibility to familiarise themselves with the governing document of their charity and to ensure that its provisions are adhered to at all times.
"They must particularly ensure that constitutional procedures are closely followed, especially with the regard to charity membership, the calling of meetings and the appointment of new trustees.
"If this is not done then the trustees, for instance, run the risk of meetings not being held, disputes over membership of the charity and invalid trustee appointments."
Headstart was formed in 1986 as a support group for people with head injuries. It opened a day centre in Fergusons Lane, in 1996, and began home care for people with disabilities in 1999.
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College football fans complain.
For the past 14 years, they've complained about the BCS. They'll still complain about the BCS for another year or two, but after the 2014 season, college football will have a playoff. (Specifically the FBS, but will the names Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Division continue to make sense if the FBS has a playoff?)
So fans will have nothing left to complain about. Because the system will be perfect. Right?
Hold that thought.
This year, in the NFL, the NFC's North division has three teams with ten or more wins. Pretty good. Green Bay went 11-5, and Minnesota and Chicago both finished 10-6. Minnesota went to the playoffs because it had a better division record than Chicago. (The second tiebreaker, after head to head, which Minnesota and Chicago split.) Fair enough.
Now let's imagine that The NFC North has a championship game. Assuming the same math and tiebreakers that the NFL uses to determine playoff participants, Green Bay would play Minnesota.
Let's imagine further that Green Bay beats Minnesota. Green Bay's record improves to 12-5, still good enough to win the division. Minnesota's record drops to 10-7, which happens to be percentage points behind's Chicago's 10-6 record.
Based on record, Chicago is now ahead of Minnesota, and takes the sixth playoff spot.
Doesn't make any sense, right? Minnesota had a better division record than Chicago and should therefore go to the playoffs. And besides — why the heck is the NFC North playing a championship game? The NFL playoffs decide the Superbowl winner, and that's what really matters.
Thankfully, this is a hypothetical scenario, and we don't have to worry about it. But it's going to be a real problem in the 2014 FBS season.
The SEC of 2012 was as close as you can come to the hypothetical NFC North laid out here, except there was no playoff to decide a national champion. Georgia finished ahead of Florida in the regular season, played Alabama in the SEC championship game, lost, then lost its spot in a NCS bowl to Florida. Bowls care about polls and ranks instead of tiebreakers. You say tomato, I say … tomato.
If a four team playoff had been in place for the season that just ended, the teams would have been Notre Dame, Alabama, Florida, and Oregon. What about Georgia? Left out in the cold by virtue of finishing ahead of Florida in the regular season? We can only assume that if Florida had finished ahead of Georgia in the SEC East (perhaps Florida lost to South Carolina and beat Georgia, and Georgia beat South Carolina), the Gators would have gone on to have a letdown performance against Alabama in the SEC Championship game, and Georgia — capable of going down to the wire against the eventual national chamption — might have beaten Louisville in the Sugar Bowl.
The fact is, unless a playoff has zero wild card teams, it is incompatible with conference championship games. If a playoff is to guarantee the participation of the two best teams, it needs a wild card. That means the conference championship games — some of which are only two years old — are already vestigial.
Some people will not warm to the playoff and will likely hold up the conference championships as an alternative. Some, like me, see the obvious benefits of a playoff to determine the national champion. Either way, the conference championships and the playoff conflict with each other. And that is the next gripe in college football.
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/* rwsem.h: R/W semaphores, public interface
 *
 * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com).
 * Derived from asm-i386/semaphore.h
 */

#ifndef _LINUX_RWSEM_H
#define _LINUX_RWSEM_H

#include <linux/linkage.h>

#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
#include <linux/osq_lock.h>
#endif

struct rw_semaphore;

#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
#include <linux/rwsem-spinlock.h> /* use a generic implementation */
#else
/* All arch specific implementations share the same struct */
struct rw_semaphore {
	long count;
	struct list_head wait_list;
	raw_spinlock_t wait_lock;
#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
	struct optimistic_spin_queue osq; /* spinner MCS lock */
	/*
	 * Write owner. Used as a speculative check to see
	 * if the owner is running on the cpu.
	 */
	struct task_struct *owner;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
	struct lockdep_map	dep_map;
#endif
};

extern struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_down_read_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_down_write_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_down_write_failed_killable(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_wake(struct rw_semaphore *);
extern struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_downgrade_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

/* Include the arch specific part */
#include <asm/rwsem.h>

/* In all implementations count != 0 means locked */
static inline int rwsem_is_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
	return sem->count != 0;
}

#endif

/* Common initializer macros and functions */

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
# define __RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname) , .dep_map = { .name = #lockname }
#else
# define __RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname)
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
#define __RWSEM_OPT_INIT(lockname) , .osq = OSQ_LOCK_UNLOCKED, .owner = NULL
#else
#define __RWSEM_OPT_INIT(lockname)
#endif

#define __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(name)				\
	{ .count = RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE,			\
	  .wait_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((name).wait_list),	\
	  .wait_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name.wait_lock)	\
	  __RWSEM_OPT_INIT(name)				\
	  __RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(name) }

#define DECLARE_RWSEM(name) \
	struct rw_semaphore name = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(name)

extern void __init_rwsem(struct rw_semaphore *sem, const char *name,
			 struct lock_class_key *key);

#define init_rwsem(sem)						\
do {								\
	static struct lock_class_key __key;			\
								\
	__init_rwsem((sem), #sem, &__key);			\
} while (0)

/*
 * This is the same regardless of which rwsem implementation that is being used.
 * It is just a heuristic meant to be called by somebody alreadying holding the
 * rwsem to see if somebody from an incompatible type is wanting access to the
 * lock.
 */
static inline int rwsem_is_contended(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
	return !list_empty(&sem->wait_list);
}

/*
 * lock for reading
 */
extern void down_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

/*
 * trylock for reading -- returns 1 if successful, 0 if contention
 */
extern int down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

/*
 * lock for writing
 */
extern void down_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern int __must_check down_write_killable(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

/*
 * trylock for writing -- returns 1 if successful, 0 if contention
 */
extern int down_write_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

/*
 * release a read lock
 */
extern void up_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

/*
 * release a write lock
 */
extern void up_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

/*
 * downgrade write lock to read lock
 */
extern void downgrade_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
/*
 * nested locking. NOTE: rwsems are not allowed to recurse
 * (which occurs if the same task tries to acquire the same
 * lock instance multiple times), but multiple locks of the
 * same lock class might be taken, if the order of the locks
 * is always the same. This ordering rule can be expressed
 * to lockdep via the _nested() APIs, but enumerating the
 * subclasses that are used. (If the nesting relationship is
 * static then another method for expressing nested locking is
 * the explicit definition of lock class keys and the use of
 * lockdep_set_class() at lock initialization time.
 * See Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt for more details.)
 */
extern void down_read_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
extern void down_write_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
extern int down_write_killable_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
extern void _down_write_nest_lock(struct rw_semaphore *sem, struct lockdep_map *nest_lock);

# define down_write_nest_lock(sem, nest_lock)			\
do {								\
	typecheck(struct lockdep_map *, &(nest_lock)->dep_map);	\
	_down_write_nest_lock(sem, &(nest_lock)->dep_map);	\
} while (0);

/*
 * Take/release a lock when not the owner will release it.
 *
 * [ This API should be avoided as much as possible - the
 *   proper abstraction for this case is completions. ]
 */
extern void down_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void up_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
#else
# define down_read_nested(sem, subclass)		down_read(sem)
# define down_write_nest_lock(sem, nest_lock)	down_write(sem)
# define down_write_nested(sem, subclass)	down_write(sem)
# define down_write_killable_nested(sem, subclass)	down_write_killable(sem)
# define down_read_non_owner(sem)		down_read(sem)
# define up_read_non_owner(sem)			up_read(sem)
#endif

#endif /* _LINUX_RWSEM_H */

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Greeno, E.J., Brusca, J., Rushovich, B., & Murray, K. (2014). Practice models aimed at engagement and support of youth and families in the child welfare system. Presented at the 2014 National Conference on FGDM and Other Family Engagement Approaches, Vail, Colo.
Bright, C.L., DePanfilis, D., Fitzgerald, M.E., & Greeno, E.J. (2014). Fidelity and child welfare system reform: Creating measures of fidelity to large-scale practice changes. Roundtable presented at the 2014 Society for Social Work Research 18th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
Greeno, E.J. (November, 2013). Cultural competency perceptions and retention in child welfare for Title IV-E students. Poster session presented at the 2013 Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, Dallas, Texas.
Rushovich, B., Murray, K., DePanfilis, D., Bright, C., & Greeno, E.J. (October, 2013). Implementation Drivers: How do we use this framework to evaluate change efforts in child welfare? Presented at the 2013 American Evaluation Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
Pecukonis, E., Greeno, E., Hodorowicz, M., Park, H., Ting, L., Moyers, T., Wirt, C. (in press). Teaching motivational interviewing to child welfare social work students using live supervision and standardized clients: A randomized control trial. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Greeno, E.J., Lee, B.R., Uretsky, M.C., Moore, J.E., Barth, R.P., & Shaw, T.V. (in press).
Effects of a foster parent training intervention on child behavior, caregiver stress, and parenting style. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Greeno, E.J., (2014). Back to Basics: An Example Application of a Biopsychosocial assessment. The International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 18(2), 48-59.
Greeno, E.J., Shdaimah, C., Cornelius, L.J. (2014). Meeting the civil legal needs of low-income Marylanders: An evaluation of a Judicare pilot. Journal of Policy Practice 13(2), 65 84.
Greeno, E.J., Murray, K., Rushovich, B. (2013). Using multi-informed fidelity data to determine the impact of a neutral child welfare facilitator for permanency decision teams. Child Welfare, 92(6), 111-130.
Greeno, E.J., Bright, C., & Rozeff, L. (2013). Lessons from the courtroom: Perspectives from child welfare attorneys and supervisors for best practices. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(9), 1618-1624. DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.06.015.


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Speech Acts: imagination – the sum of all
Posted 19 Mar 2019, by Hammad Nasar
How do sites, networks and affinities shape artistic practices?
The exhibition 'Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition' at Manchester Art Gallery (25th May 2018 to 22nd April 2019) places works typically considered 'collection highlights' alongside lesser-known works that are seen principally through lenses of biography and difference. Showcasing more than forty artists, the works are drawn primarily from four public collections in Manchester and Bradford. The exhibition, as part of the research project Black Artists & Modernism, examines the role of museums in telling our collective stories, through the artworks they hold and the exhibitions they arrange.
Speech Acts
At the heart of this section of the exhibition, viewers encounter a stylised reconstruction of the LYC Museum & Art Gallery (1972–1983) – Li Yuan-chia's museum-as-artwork and community hub. The museum's expansive Cumbrian cosmopolitanism remains largely unacknowledged in the histories of British art, despite showing the work of more than 300 artists – including Barbara Hepworth, dom sylvester houédard, Winifred Nicholson, Stansfield/Hooykaas and Shelagh Wakely.
Lucian Freud 1951
Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester
In contrast, the 'School of London' has dominated accounts and public collections of modern art in Britain. Its leading lights – Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney and R. B. Kitaj – enjoyed a confident internationalism. Their position was made possible by the liberalism that shaped British immigration policies in the twentieth century.
Elephant's Eyeful	Alan Davie (1920–2014)
Birth of Maridowa	Aubrey Williams (1926–1990)
William Crozier, Alan Davie, Ahmed Parvez, William Turnbull, Aubrey Williams, Bryan Wynter and Li also came to London to participate in an international modern art world. Their works suggest a shared investment in abstraction. Their approach emphasised what Williams termed the 'human predicament', embracing myths, rituals, and ideas of place and the spiritual.
Self Portrait 1919
William Rothenstein (1872–1945)
William Rothenstein was influential as an artist, mentor and patron (as advisor to his philanthropist brother, Charles Rutherston). His legacy is made concrete in Manchester Art Gallery's collection – as seen here in the works of Henry Moore and Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin.
Ali Pathar, Kashmir 1900–1930
Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin (1880–1964)
Yinka Shonibare's Untitled (Dollhouse) – commissioned as a Christmas gift by American collector Peter Norton – is an eloquent reminder of the facilitating role of collector-patrons. Do Ho Suh's Who Am We? (Brown) – composed of hundreds of teenage faces from the artist's school yearbooks – asks us to reflect on how individuals become communities.
Untitled (Dollhouse) 2002
Yinka Shonibare (b.1962)
Bradford Museums and Galleries
What enables art to circulate, informing our collective imaginations? How do artists become part of our larger shared stories?
Hammad Nasar, exhibition curator
The free exhibition 'Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition' was on at Manchester Art Gallery from 25th May 2018 to 22nd April 2019.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Black Artists & Modernism (BAM) project. BAM was a three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council lead by UAL in collaboration with Middlesex University.
This text has been reproduced with permission from the publication produced by UAL with Manchester Art Gallery to accompany the exhibition, curated by Hammad Nasar with Kate Jesson.
Speech Acts: a curatorial introduction
Speech Acts: an introduction by Sonia Boyce
Speech Acts: introduction by the Director of Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth
Speech Acts: reflections – performing the self
Barbara Hepworth: from Wakefield and St Ives to the world
Mabel Nicholson: overlooked talent and mother of a British art dynasty
From Bradford to Benares: the art of William Rothenstein
Speech Acts works in conversation: Aubrey Williams, Alan Davie, Ahmed Parvez
Lancelot Ribeiro: the restless landscapist
The bureaucracy of artistic Britishness
Creating limited-edition prints with Bob and Roberta Smith
Crossing boundaries: the life and works of Aubrey Williams
The BLK Art Group: how the West Midlands collective inspired the art world
Frank Bowling: 60 years of pioneering colourful abstraction
On sculpture, elitism and Brexit: the art of Yinka Shonibare
Elephant's Eyeful 1960
Alan Davie (1920–2014)
Birth of Maridowa 1959
Aubrey Williams (1926–1990)


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const {expect} = require('chai')
const {MongoClient} = require('mongodb')
const MongoBaseModel = require('../../models/mongobase')

const model = new MongoBaseModel()

describe('MongoBaseModel',()=>{

    before(async()=>{
        const db = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost/testdb')
        model.init(db.collection('baseModel'))
    })

    it('should create without error',async ()=>{
        const id = await model.create({foo:'bar'})
        expect(id).to.be.ok
    })

    it('should get by id ',async()=>{
        const id = await model.create({foo:'bar'})
        const result = await model.get(id)
        expect(result).to.be.ok
        expect(result.foo).to.equal('bar')
    })

    it('should get nothing after delete', async()=>{
        const id = await model.create({foo:'bar'})
        await model.del(id)
        const result = await model.get(id)
        expect(result).not.to.be.ok
    })

})


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Thanks for the kind words! Just happy to be able to help.
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Don't know my babyfather's first name
Dear Pastor,
I am writing to you from Kingston. Greetings to you in the name of Jesus. I see where you help a lot of people to find their relatives.
I am searching to find my daughter's father. He is from Clarendon. I know him as Mr Bailey. I did not get his first name. He used to live off Chisholm Avenue. He was a soldier.
My daughter wants to know her relatives from his side of the family. She has never met him. I met him in 1977 and my daughter was born in 1978.
My name is Betty. I am looking forward to your response. Thank you.
Dear B.,
I will not condemn you, but it is amazing that you met a man and had sex with him and you didn't know anything about him.
You only knew him as Mr Bailey and you knew that he was a soldier. You met this man in 1977 and you gave birth to your daughter in 1978.
You haven't stated how young you were, but it would have been easier to find that man during the time you were pregnant or soon after you gave birth.
I repeat, I am not going to condemn you because you are not alone when it comes to women having sexual intercourse and becoming pregnant with men whose names and addresses they do not know.
Some of these men just meet the women and on the same day, they take them to one of these cheap motels, give them some money, have sex with them, and that's the end of it.
I am sure that your daughter would love to know her father. Sometime ago there were some men doing some work at the First Baptist Church.
A young girl came and said that she wanted to see one of them. I asked her what was the person's name and she did not know his name; all she knew was that they called him 'Indian'.
Yes, there was a man working on the property who was known as Indian. So we shouted out "Indian, Indian" and the young man answered. He came down to see her.
They had met and became friends, but she did not know his name. However, she told us he was her boyfriend. They were sleeping together, but she didn't know his real name.
So madam, you are not alone. And I don't know how to help you to find your daughter's father and other relatives. You say this man used to live at Chisholm Avenue.
I hope somebody may see this letter and call me or send me a text or something, and inform me that they knew him.
That would have to be an 'old-timer' who lived in the area. But this is all I can say at the moment.
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Dates and almonds are one of nature's most delicious combinations. Dates seem to be experiencing a resurgence in popularity appearing in everything from smoothies to truffles to slow cooked casseroles.
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Interestingly there is also evidence to suggest that almonds can improve skin complexion and texture, and many skincare companies include almond oil in their products.
Take the stone out of a Medjool date and fill it with a couple of raw almonds. The sweetness from the date and the crunch from the almond provide a great alternative to a piece of chocolate.
Dates are delicious in baking or in seed and nut truffles and can be used to sweeten dressings or chutneys.
Almonds make a delicious, dense replacement for white flour in baking and almonds or almond butter is a delicious addition to any smoothie.
You can also increase the nutritional component of your stir-fries, salads and desserts by adding chopped almonds before serving.
Here is a sensational breakfast smoothie recipe using almonds and dates.
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Wind: 9km/h ENE
Precipitation: 29mm
UV index: 11
Tomorrow, storms with thunder and lightning are anticipated as well.
Increased precipitation is expected. The highest forecasted temperature is a moderately hot 29°C (84.2°F), while the lowest temperature will be a pleasant 22°C (71.6°F).
The maximum heat index, which combines relative humidity and air temperature, is computed to be a torrid 36°C (96.8°F). Note that heat index values are valued for light wind and location in the shade. With exposure to direct sunlight, the heat index may be increased by up to 15 Fahrenheit (8 Celsius) degrees.
The maximum temperature tomorrow will be in line with the average highest temperature in January.
Sunrise will be at 06:17 and sunset at 18:49; tomorrow's daylight will last for 12h and 32min.
What is the weather forecast for Honiara for the next ten days?
In Honiara, thunderstorms and rainy weather are anticipated every day for the next ten days.
Will it rain in the next ten days in Honiara?
With daily precipitation varying from a minimum of 3mm (0.12") to a maximum of 37mm (1.46"), rain is forecasted every day in Honiara. With heavy precipitation of 37mm (1.46"), next Monday will be the day with the most rainfall.
How hot will it be in the next ten days in Honiara?
The maximum temperature will range between 29°C (84.2°F) and 30°C (86°F), while the minimum temperature will be between 22°C (71.6°F) and 23°C (73.4°F).
Taking the humidity into consideration, the maximum feel-like temperature will range between 36°C (96.8°F) and 39°C (102.2°F).
What will be the hottest and the coldest days in Honiara?
The hottest days will be Tuesday through next Monday, with a maximum of 30°C (86°F). The coldest days will be Sunday and Monday, with a maximum of 29°C (84.2°F).
10 days weather forecast - Honiara, Solomon Islands
Wind: 3km/h SSE
06:16 18:49 +11
Wind: 11km/h ENE
Wind: 12km/h NE
For the next ten days, rainy weather and thunderstorms are forecasted daily.
Rain is expected day-to-day, with daily precipitation varying from a minimal 3mm (0.12") to a maximum of 37mm (1.46"). With heavy precipitation of 37mm (1.46"), most rainfall is expected on next Monday.
Temperature differences will be unnoticeable in the next ten days. The maximum temperature will range between 29°C (84.2°F) and 30°C (86°F), while the lowest nightly temperature differences will be also unnoticeable, as the lowest temperature will vary between 22°C (71.6°F) and 23°C (73.4°F).
With a maximum temperature of 30°C (86°F), Tuesday through next Monday will be the hottest days; with a maximum temperature of 29°C (84.2°F), Sunday and Monday will be the coldest days.
Taking the humidity into consideration, the maximum feel-like temperature may increase considerably and range between a sweltering 36°C (96.8°F) and a torrid 39°C (102.2°F).
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Yuval Rotem as Acting Director General of the Foreign Ministry in place of Dore Gold.
Yuval Rotem has served in the Foreign Ministry for 30 years and currently serves as head of public diplomacy. His previously positions included Consul General in Los Angeles and head of the Foreign Minister's staff.


have you heard the crickets calling, calling your names, waiting for you to rise faster than a grove of bamboo?
I have seen you fighting the wind! they see only windmills; what greater love risks insanity for a sister's justice?
do you know the sound of stones hammered till dusk in the quarry? cast by the sinless? yielding blooms before leaves?
la leche, the milk, will come in we see you pumping pumping breathing for your children at the altar night & day!
Christina A. Lux currently lives in the Central Valley of California. Her poetry has appeared in journals like North Dakota Quarterly and Women's Studies Quarterly, on NPR, and in various anthologies. She can be reached at clux@ucmerced.edu.


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From Romantic Citizen to Tragic Victim: An Interview with Jennifer Mercieca
by Tom Cutterham
Jennifer Mercieca is an associate professor at Texas A&M University. She writes about the history of rhetoric and discourse in America, from the revolution in her first book, Founding Fictions (University of Alabama Press, 2010), to Barack Obama in her second, an edited volume, The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations. Here, she discusses apathy, citizenship, and the role of rhetoric in political change.
In Founding Fictions, you were critical of the way narratives of the founding celebrate elite leadership and marginalise popular activism. Do you think America's founding fictions have changed much between the early 19th century and the early 21st?
Part of my interest in Founding Fictions is to understand modern citizen apathy. The political fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century to support revolutionary republicanism constituted the citizen as a romantic hero who would cheerfully sacrifice for the common good and act to control the government and prevent corruption. By 1787, the citizens seemed either unwilling or unable to prevent corruption, and so they became tragic victims instead. The system itself became the hero. The revolutionary romantic citizen created instability while the constitutional tragic citizen allowed the system to provide stability. In the 1820s, Jacksonians used the new democratic political fiction to turn citizens into partisans by proclaiming them romantic heroes who control the government, but without changing the constitution to allow the people to rule, and demanding loyalty to party rather than to the common good.
A lot has changed since my story left off in the 1840s. More and more people have been admitted into our construction of who counts as a citizen, and the rise of neoliberal citizenship has turned partisans into consumers; but the fundamental legerdemain of promising the people democracy, but giving them a government premised on the fear of the rule of the people, has not changed. The United States was designed as a republic, not as a democracy, specifically to prevent the dangers of active citizenship. The founding generation was quite forthcoming about its fears of popular rule. But by the second generation (and certainly since) it is no longer possible to claim, publicly, that the people should have as little as possible to do with making political decisions.
So you argue that contemporary apathy about politics is a product of this narrative or ideology, this fear of popular rule, that keeps decision-making on a different level from ordinary people. What about Obama - what role does his rhetoric play in this structure? Did his campaign offer a sense of empowerment to ordinary citizens in the political sphere, or did he just reinforce the idea that the only political role of the citizen is to vote for a representative? Or Occupy Wall Street - did that movement succeed in challenging the apathy you're talking about?
I don't want to make too strong of a causal claim here about the relationship between apathy and the nation's political fictions, but, yes, I do think that modern political apathy is a logical response to a political system that fears citizen participation. I also think that current protest movements like the Tea Party, Occupy, and even the election and re-election of Barack Obama are signs that Americans do want to participate. Social movements are the last, best hope for romantic republicanism.
In his campaign rhetoric Obama stressed obligation, the common good, and the difficult challenges facing Americans, and he called upon Americans to be active citizens, to be romantic heroes. But they would be active by working to elect Barack Obama, not by seizing power themselves. Despite the fears of many on the right and the hopes of many on the left, Obama is no revolutionary; indeed, he is deeply committed to supporting the US Constitution. I think that he understands the difference between America's democratic and republican political fictions and I think that he often positions citizens as romantic republican heroes rather than tragic victims or ironic partisans.
On the other hand, he has not suggested reforms that would enable the average citizen to control the government. I'm thinking here of things like automatic voter registration, a national election day holiday, term limits, compulsory voting, abolishing lobbyists, campaign finance reforms, and binding instructions for representatives – all things that could be done within the current constitutional configuration, but would go a long way toward giving the people more power.
Of course, the recent Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder and new state level laws to restrict easy access to the polls only remind us that we fear the rule of the people and that politics is a game in which the spoils belong to the victor. In some ways, then, the election of Barack Obama has resulted in a net loss for active citizenship: he has not suggested the reforms necessary to give the people more power and his election has activated those who fear of the rule of the people and has resulted in increased barriers to participation.
Perhaps it's time to step back a bit here and talk about the kind of analysis you're undertaking in your work. Just what is rhetoric as an academic discipline? Are there questions you and other scholars of rhetoric are asking that historians and literary scholars aren't? If the idea isn't to identify causal patterns, what kind of knowledge are rhetoricians aiming for?
Thank you for asking about the discipline of rhetoric! I'm hesitant to answer because I do not speak for my entire field and my approach is very specific to the questions that I ask about politics, political theory, and citizenship. My research tends to examine the ways in which rhetoric helps us to position, describe, frame, and delimit concepts and problems, and how those constitutive discourses provide what we can think of a repositories of topoi – or, the available means of understanding and persuading.
The main difference between scholars of rhetoric and scholars of history or literature is that the former are more keenly attuned to questions of audience, timing, judgement, and effect in language and visual texts. We may be studying historical texts or literary texts, but the questions we ask are different. So for example, in Founding Fictions I was specifically interested in the ways that our nation's political fictions constituted American citizenship; in The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency we're interested in how the constitutive discourses surrounding the presidency have affected any president's ability to lead. My next project will focus on the constitutive discourses surrounding the nation, particularly during times of crisis.
Political discourse is complicated and it is unlikely that any political actor speaks or writes about a topic upon which his or her audience has not already formed some opinion. Yet, powerful rhetors do persuade. They set agendas, frame arguments, provide a lens for understanding questions, and their voices resonate in their immediate context as well as throughout history.
I'm interested in how rhetoric might fit into a theory of political change. The way you've framed it sounds a lot like JGA Pocock in his work on political languages. My question is, how do you see this working in contemporary circumstances? Does rhetoric as a discipline imply a kind of Gramscian war of position, gradually shifting discourse in a certain direction?
Political change is impossible without rhetoric. Yet, I'm trying to make a subtle claim about effect and causality. Let's look at an example from recent political discourse. During the 2012 Republican primaries, Rick Santorum argued,
'There are no classes in America. We are a country that don't [sic] allow for titles. We don't put people in classes. There may be middle income people, but the idea that somehow or another we're going to buy into the class warfare arguments of Barack Obama is something that should not be part of the Republican lexicon. That's their job, divide, separate, put one group against another.'
This is obviously a false claim, but I wondered a bit about why he would say it. I mean, GOP presidential hopefuls have had no trouble making appeals to the middle class in the past, so why did Santorum call such appeals 'class warfare' in January, 2012? Santorum had even done it himself earlier in the campaign. What had changed? After the Occupy movement asked people to recognize the difference between the 99% and the 1%, appealing to the middle class became 'class warfare' – and somehow Obama was to blame.
To me this is a striking example of how it isn't possible to say just anything at any time; of how the rhetorical landscape changes dramatically within context. Even an idea as seemingly benign and all-American as the 'middle class' can suddenly become contentious. That the Occupy movement changed the way that GOP presidential candidates talked about middle class voters meant that Occupy had an important influence on American political discourse and upon the 2012 presidential campaign. Did Occupy abolish class? Did Santorum? No, of course not. But, Occupy forced politicians to re-position their arguments and respond to (or, carefully ignore) their critiques. In that way, the movement influenced the political discourse of the election.
I've learned so much from both Pocock and Gramsci; I'm glad that you've brought them up. From the example above I think it's clear that there are moments when discourse shifts rather suddenly – Gramsci and others might call those moments 'conjunctures' – but, yes, I think that otherwise political discourse is rather stable and is certainly a central part of Gramsci's war of position. I like Pocock's notion of 'political language' and the conceptual change scholarship that has come out of it quite a bit. In Founding Fictions I try to argue that my notion of a 'political fiction' is complementary to Pocock's 'political language', yet different in some important ways, most notably a political fiction includes the idea of narrative and performance.
When we think of political theory as political fiction we recognize political theory as a blend of poetical, rhetorical, and dialectical language - as narratives performed sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously by all members of a political community, not just political theorists or founders. My goal has been to make America's political fictions more apparent so that they can be analyzed and critiqued.
The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency is forthcoming from Texas A&M University Press. Find Professor Mercieca on Twitter @jenmercieca and follow the hashtag #teamrhetoric for more discussion.
Tom Cutterham teaches American history at the University of Birmingham, and is the author of Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic.
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Andrea Vargas Named President, Schools Division of Catapult Learning, Inc.
January 12, 2016, Camden, New Jersey – Catapult Learning, Inc. today announced the promotion of Andrea Vargas to President of the company's Schools Division, effective immediately. Ms. Vargas most recently served as Corporate Chief Financial Officer, a position she assumed following Catapult Learning's merger with Specialized Education Services, Inc. (SESI) in July 2015. In her new role, Ms. Vargas will be responsible for the growth and development of Catapult Learning's alternative education, dropout recovery, and special education programs.
"We are thrilled to have Andrea assume the role of President of our Schools Division," said Jeffrey Cohen, Catapult Learning's CEO. "She is an operations-focused leader with a passion for our mission and values. As we expand our alternative education, dropout recovery, and special education programs throughout the country, I am confident that Andrea will stay focused on generating excellent student outcomes and strengthening the relationships we have with our school district partners."
Throughout her career, Ms. Vargas has developed a range of expertise through her financial, operational, and leadership positions. From 2004 to 2015, Ms. Vargas held several leadership roles with SESI, including Controller, Chief Accounting Officer, and Vice President of Finance. Prior to her tenure at SESI, she worked in various finance and accounting functions at several large corporations, including United Technologies. Ms. Vargas holds a BA in Finance from Bryant College, MBA from the University of Hartford, and CPA License issued by the New Jersey State Board of Accountancy.
"Supporting the Schools Group team in its efforts to grow our business and expand our reach has been a privilege as CFO, but to lead this charge as President is a considerable honor," said Ms. Vargas. "I believe that providing our students with the highest quality services is the best way to generate opportunities for all those involved in our programs, and I am filled with gratitude for the opportunity to take this amazing organization into the future."
Ms. Vargas will be based at the company's corporate headquarters in Camden, New Jersey.
For more information, please contact Meg Roe, VP of Marketing for Catapult Learning, at 856-831-7956 ormeg.roe@catapultlearning.com.
About Catapult Learning: Catapult Learning, Inc., the largest provider of K–12 contracted instructional services in the U.S., is dedicated to improving academic performance for at-risk and struggling students, including potential dropouts and those with learning and emotional disabilities. With an uncompromising commitment to educational quality, Catapult Learning's team of 5,600 educators work to achieve sustained academic gains and build teacher and leadership capacity through research-based programs that include intervention, alternative school education, assessment, school improvement, and professional development solutions. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, the company reaches over 300,000 students and 25,000 teachers nationwide each year.


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Salem Red Sox name Ryan Shelton president, general manager
Published Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, 11:09 pm
The Salem Red Sox, the Advanced-A Affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, announced today that General Manager Ryan Shelton has been promoted to President and General Manager of the club. Shelton, the recipient of the 2015 Calvin Falwell Executive of the Year Award in the Carolina League, was named General Manager of the Red Sox in August of 2013. He joined the staff in Salem in April 2013 as Vice President of Ticket Sales and Service.
Shelton began his sports career in 2008 as an Inside Sales Representative for the Florida Marlins and quickly established himself as a rising star in the industry. He worked his way up through stops with the Augusta Lynx, South Carolina Stingrays, and Manchester Monarchs, where he served as the Senior Director of Ticket Sales.
"When we promoted Ryan to General Manager nearly two and a half years ago we never dreamed that he would have such a positive impact in such a short amount of time," said Tim Zue, managing director of the Salem Red Sox. "As President of the team, Ryan will continue to oversee all aspects of the club and we are confident that he will continue to lead the team to new heights."
During his two-year tenure as General Manager, the team has increased total attendance by 32 percent, including 11 sellouts compared to just one over the five previous seasons combined. Under his leadership, the club has seen significant increases in season ticket sales, group tickets, and corporate partnerships. Shelton has also helped the club rededicate itself to customer service and has more than tripled the number of in-game promotions, resulting in a dramatically improved fan experience.
In addition, Shelton has helped introduce new community initiatives including a comprehensive military appreciation program, enhanced player involvement through a Community Service Player of the Month program, and a wide-ranging fundraising program that has raised more than $250,000 for local non-profit organizations.
"I am so proud of what our staff has accomplished over the past two years and am honored that Fenway Sports Management has placed its trust in me as the new President of the club," said Shelton. "I'm excited for this new chapter in our organization's history and we will continue to reimagine what the Salem Red Sox impact can be in our great community."
In addition to Shelton's promotion, the club has also promoted Nathan Blum to Vice President of Ticket Sales and Service. Blum joined the Red Sox organization at the beginning of the 2014 season as the Director of Ticket Sales and Service. In his first season in Salem, Blum executed a game plan that resulted in an overall attendance increase of 22 percent over the previous year, largely driven by a 71 percent increase in season tickets and a 42 percent increase in group/suite tickets.
In 2015, Blum helped to achieve an 89 percent increase in season tickets, more than tripling the total in the season prior to his arrival. Group/suite tickets increase by 15 percent and the organization set new heights in overall ticket revenue for a second straight year.
Blum was recruited by Shelton out of Morehead State University to join the Manchester Monarchs Inside Sales Program in 2012. He hit his 24-week goals in only 12 weeks and was promoted to Group Sales Account Executive shortly thereafter. After Shelton's departure from Manchester, Blum joined the NBA's Phoenix Suns for one season as a Group Sales Account Executive. He excelled in Phoenix, achieving 151 percent of his ticket quota.
After a successful season with the Suns, Blum reunited with Shelton in Salem as Director of Ticket Sales and Service, joining the team on Opening Night 2014.
"Nathan is someone I have immense trust in. Over the last two years we have watched him grow into this role and the results speak for themselves. This promotion will complete a truly outstanding senior leadership team with Nathan alongside the two existing Vice President of the club, Vice President/Assistant General Manager, Allen Lawrence, and Vice President of Operations, Tim Anderson," acknowledged Shelton.


Education is full of talented people — the front line of education — with ideas, strategies and plans to prepare the next generation of learners. But in the fast-changing world of education, the technology has not kept up. For many on the front line, the reality is an overwhelming mashup of disconnected systems: leading to fragmentation across teams and a lack of insights to drive decisions.
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you could efficiently manage complementary processes — from employee absences to professional learning to evaluations — all in one place?
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you could benchmark your district's progress against others in order to gain insights and take action to improve outcomes?
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Frontline is actively bringing best-in-class systems and information together into one connected platform because we believe you deserve a better view. With the Frontline Insights Platform, you can gain actionable insights to help drive decisions that support your goals.
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The Frontline Insights Platform brings critical technologies together to provide on-demand, actionable insights to the front line of education.
It's a powerful combination of the Frontline Education solutions, ultimately connecting to Frontline Central, which will be the single source of employee information for Frontline solutions.
In building the first unified platform for the K-12 market, we listened to our customers. And you told us you needed ease of use (like a single Frontline ID), mobile access, security and visibility into data and insights across your Frontline solutions.
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The OAuth2Session in Authlib was designed to be compatible with the one in requests-oauthlib. But now, there are some differences. This section is a guide on how to obtain an access token in OAuth 2 flow.
This OAuth2Session is a customized requests.Session. It shares the same API with requests. If you are using Flask, you may have interests in Flask OAuth Client. If you are using Django, please read Django OAuth Client.
If you are not familiar with OAuth 2.0, it is better to Understand OAuth 2.0 now.
You can assign a redirect_uri in case you want to specify the callback url.
The OAuth2Session.create_authorization_url() returns a tuple of (uri, state), in real project, you should save the state for later use.
Now head over to the generated authorization url, and grant the authorization.
Save this token to access users' protected resources.
Authlib has a built-in Flask/Django integration. Learn from them.
>>> # if you don't specify access token endpoint, it will fetch from fragment.
GitHub doesn't support token response type, try with other services.
It is also possible to extend the client authentication method with register_client_auth_method(). Besides the default three authentication methods, there are more provided by Authlib. e.g.
These two methods are defined by RFC7523 and OpenID Connect. Find more in Using JWTs for Client Authentication.
access_token_response: invoked before token parsing.
refresh_token_response: invoked before refresh token parsing.
protected_request: invoked before making a request.
If you find a non standard OAuth 2 services, and you can't fix it. Please report it in GitHub issues.
Get deep inside with JWT and CodeIDToken. Learn how to validate JWT claims at JSON Web Token (JWT).
AssertionSession is a Requests Session for Assertion Framework of OAuth 2.0 Authorization Grants. It is also know as service account. A configured AssertionSession with handle token authorization automatically, which means you can just use it.


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Father and teenage daughter miraculously escaped death in horrific plane crash
Kathy Vittetoe 11/17/21, 01:21
United Airlines Flight 175 9/11 Reconstruction with Air-Traffic Control/Cockpit on April.29, 2018 (J. D. Salinger/Screenshot via TheBL/Youtube)
After a single-engine plane crashed in Pennsylvania, a father and his teenage daughter became lost for hours. They are fortunate to be alive, thanks to their iPads, and a series of miraculous circumstances.
"From what I hear and see, you don't really hear of survivors, especially in the area that they crashed, it's very heavily wooded," Chief James Serafin with the Bear Creek Volunteer Hose Company said. "They had to go through trees and everything else. It definitely was a miracle."
"I can honestly say, I think every rescuer out there was planning this to be a recovery rather than a rescue, and nobody was more surprised than when I first got to the airplane and found they were alive," Sgt. John Richards, from the Pennsylvania State Police, added.
The two passengers were a 58-year-old father and his 13-year-old daughter, who flew in a Cessna 150 from Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport on Sunday. When the disaster occurred, they were doing a touch-and-go at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport on their way back to Pocono.
The single-engine plane crashed into the woods of Bear Creek Township's state game areas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, around 6:30 p.m.
The Federal Aviation Administration called Pennsylvania State Police around 8:40 p.m. Sunday, claiming the plane "had dropped off their radar after a rapid descent." Authorities initially assumed the jet had landed somewhere in Monroe County.
The United States Air Force determined that the jet had crashed in Luzerne County, but no one knew where exactly.
Rescue crews and about 30 other individuals began a grid search in the woods after pinging the plane's last known location, being careful not to spread out too much because it was evening time, cold, and snowy.
Snow blanketed the environment and the already white plane was encased in a blanket of white, making it hard to locate the crashed jet using a drone. Heat detectors were also ineffective because the aircraft had cooled, reported Western Journal.
Serafin claimed that once the pilot was identified, rescuers phoned his wife, who had been waiting for her husband and daughter at their destination, and obtained the man's cell phone number.
"They (rescue team) were able to ping the cell phone and they found out that the daughter had an iPad and with certain iPads, you're able to ping signals to it and once we got that coordinate, that's where we located them," he said.
The two were discovered in a pre-hypothermic state with minor injuries. "They were huddled with each other trying to keep each other warm," Serafin said.
They were carried to a hospital, and their present condition is unknown, but many applaud their survival as a miracle.
"The hands of God. I'm not trying to be you evasive of your question, but the only reason why those two were alive is because of God's presence," Richards said. "And the only way I can explain it is because there has to be a higher being that was taking care of them."
The collision resulted in no casualties, and the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause.
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Are You keeping a "Manufacturing Defect" Aro?
If your answer is YES, then you are a victim of commercial exploitation.
According to the regulation, Singapore AVA requires Spore aro farm to issue a "Certificate of Warranty" and not a "Certificate of Identity". Hence, the certificate which one received when purchasing an aro, is not a birth certificate which many hobbyist thought it to be.
The farm must warrant the quality of the aro specified on the certificate. If the aro does not grow and turn out to be what it had been specified, it is a "Manufacturing Defect". The hobbyist has the right to send back the aro to the farm for "Refund or Exchange!" (Inherit defects of aro cant be repaired) Or Sue the farm. For example, a specified blue base aro become a gold base aro; a golden head xb become a "dark head" aro; a RTG instead of a XB; a Tungyen instead of a pure XB ; yellow tail instead of a red. The list goes on.
It is important for hobbyist to know your right ; being responsible and a wise keeper of your hard earned money. Do not be a gullible consumer! Be wise and choose an ethical product ... by an ethical company.
MerLion Arowana by Dreamfish Sabah.
Thanks, good info to know. I don't suppose this applies to farms in other countries like those in Malaysia or Indonesia.
No, I don't think it does. One of the ways that Singapore distinguishes itself from those neighbouring countries is by emphasizing rule of law.
The only thing is that some of the aros from the neighbouring countries are preferred over those from Singapore, an example is the red aros...some prefer those from Indonesia.
Yes, totally agree that it's a good thing...just saying if the other countries did the same for their exports, that'll be super!