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Q: Resizing using javascript manipulation of CSS I'm running into a problem with resizing a window using javascript.
The first image shows the original layout, the second shows the window resizing to a smaller size, and the third shows the issue when you resize the screen to the original size.

//none used
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 font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif; ;
}

/* ########Elements below######## */
body {
 margin: auto;
 background-color: #22ee63;
}

header {
 background: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,0.8) 60%,rgba(255,0,0,0));
}

td {
 padding: 0rem 0rem 0rem 0rem;

}

/* Resized Elements */

@media (min-width: 397px) {
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  height: 4.5rem;
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}

@media (max-width: 397px) {
 header {
  height: 8.1rem;
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}
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.card {
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@media (min-width: 397px) {
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  padding-bottom: 56.25%; /* Aspect Ratio 16:9*/
  width: 100%;
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}

@media (max-width: 397px) {
 .card {
  width: 100%;
  height: 18rem;
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}

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#logo-container {
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}

#nav-logo {
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 width: 2rem;
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 float: left;
 display: inline;
}

#logo-container > h1 {
 display: inline;
 padding: 0.65625rem 0rem 0rem 0.65625rem;
 position: relative;
 font-size: 1.125rem;
 font-weight: 100;
}

#logo-container > h1 > a {
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}

#login-form {
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 width: 17rem;
}

#login-frame {
 vertical-align: top;
}

#login-text {
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 -webkit-appearance: none;
 appearance: none;
 font-weight: 700;
 border-radius: .4rem;
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}

#persist-box {
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}

#persist-text {
 font-size: 0.5rem;
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}

#password-recovery > a {
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}

#first-card {
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  clear: ;
  display: inline;
  float: right;
  margin: ;
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}

@media (max-width: 397px) {

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  margin: auto;
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  clear: both;
  display: block;
  float: none;
  margin: auto;
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}
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}

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}

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}

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  <title>My CE Web App</title>

  <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,300,100,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="MyCELanding.css">

    <object type="image/svg+xml" id="nav-logo" data="Images/My_CE_Final_Icon.svg">Your browser does not support SVG</object>

     My CE

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         <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="email" tabindex="1">

         <input type="password" name="password" placeholder="password" tabindex="2">

          <input value="Log In" tabindex="4" id="login-text" type="submit">

         <input id="persist-box" type="checkbox" name="persist-login" value="1" tabindex="3">

          Keep me logged in

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A: you're using an older solution for a new problem. Can you try to use bootstrap? It's an amazing framework for responsive and many common CSS/JS User interface problems.
If you can spend two or four hours reading about grid and many amazing things in bootstrap (or another css framework) you'll save years of productivity.
About current question, try this in else {}:
$("header").css("height","")
$("#logo-container").css("margin","");
$("#logo-container").css("display","inline");
$("#login-form").css("clear","");
$("#login-form").css("display","inline");
$("#login-form").css("float","right");
$("#login-form").css("margin","");

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The Free Breakfast for School Children Program, or the People's Free Food Program, was a community service program run by the Black Panther Party that focused on providing free breakfast for children before school. The program began in January 1969 at Father Earl A. Neil's St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, located in West Oakland, California and spread throughout the nation. This program was an early manifestation of the social mission envisioned by Black Panther Party founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale along with their founding of the Oakland Community School, which provided high-level education to 150 children from impoverished urban neighborhoods. The breakfasts formed the core of what became known as the party's Survival Programs. Inspired by contemporary research about the essential role of breakfast for optimal schooling and the belief that alleviating hunger and poverty was necessary for Black liberation, the Panthers cooked and served food to the poor inner city youth of the area. The service created community centers in various cities for children and parents to simultaneously eat and learn more about black liberation and the Black Panther Party's efforts.

History
The program was initiated in January 1969 at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in West Oakland, California. Two months later, in March 1969, the Black Panther Party opened its second Free Breakfast Program for Children at the Sacred Heart Church in San Francisco, California. The program became so popular that by the end of the year, the Panthers set up kitchens in cities across the US, feeding over 10,000 children every day before they went to school. Between 1969 and 1971, at least 36 Free Breakfast for Kids programs were running nationwide.

The Free Breakfast Program quickly became the central organizing activity of the Black Panther Party. The reach and success of the program highlighted the inadequacies of the federal government's then-flagging and under-resourced lunch programs in public schools across the country. The program allowed the children of West Oakland's poor neighborhoods to eat a healthy nourishing meal in a safe, supportive environment before school, optimizing their ability to learn. The party used the program to educate children and their families about anti-capitalism, Black pride, and developing revolutionary consciousness. Many of these programs were held in predominantly Black neighborhoods but also served children of other ethnicities. The program was mainly run by volunteers—both party members and non-affiliated community members, most of them women. Those working closely in the program made sure that the free breakfasts were a concrete assistance to the city's poor communities. They also shaped the program to be a powerful symbol of racial injustice and ghetto marginalization in America by teaching liberation lessons while children ate their meal. Volunteers would start setting up and preparing food around 6 am, and served the meal from 7-8:30. Most programs took place in churches, schools, or community centers. A typical breakfast often included some combination of bacon, eggs, grits, hotcakes, toast, sausage, and a glass of juice or milk. Various chapters would also provide transportation for children, from home to the chapter's Free Breakfast site, then to school.

Oakland
The Black Panther Party initially announced their intentions to begin the Free Breakfast for Children Program in September 1968 and the first program was officially launched at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland in late January 1969. Parishioner Ruth Beckford-Smith was in charge of this first program.

Parishioner Ruth Beckford-Smith, working with Father Earl A. Neil, constructed a healthy menu that would nourish children and properly created a kitchen and dining hall that passed health inspections. The program's launch day served 11 children and gained popularity, as by the end of the week 135 children were being served daily at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church. The programs success influenced other chapters of the Black Panther Party, and soon the Free Breakfast Program was mandatory in all chapters nationwide.

Chicago
Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago local, helped organize a number of community programs. These included five different breakfast programs on the West Side, a free medical center, a door to door program of health services (which offered testing for sickle cell anemia), and blood drives for the Cook County Hospital. The Chicago party also reached out to local gangs to clean up their acts, get them away from crime and bring them into the class war. The Party's efforts met with wide success, and Hampton's audiences and organized contingent grew by the day.

Women
The Black Panther Party began as a predominantly male organization, but later grew to recruit large numbers of women. The Party recruited primarily women to staff the Free Breakfast for Children program. This often reinforced traditional gender norms, which gained push back from the Party's women in the effort to achieve gender equality. The Party's service programs were deeply gendered and often relied on women to fill service roles. The Free Breakfast program highlighted the gender struggles within the Black Panther program, as women were reinforced into maternal roles in the program's kitchens and serving roles.

Demise

Despite its successes, federal authorities attempted to discredit and derail the Free Breakfast Program. Among other actions, authorities targeted the party with rumors of poisoned food and raided breakfast program locations while children were eating. The program gained FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's attention because of its success in gaining the support of many black children and liberal whites. The FBI would view the program as threat because of its appearance "as a front for indoctrinating children with Panther propaganda" and FBI director Hoover wrote: "The [Program] represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for". As a result, many agencies, such as the police, FBI, and other federal agents, were documented to be a force in harassing and discrediting the program, the people it benefited, and the Black Panther Party organization. Police raids were documented at various program sites as an effort to end the Free Breakfast for Children program.

The US government later recognized the success of the program and would soon implement a national breakfast program of its own built on the framework of the Panthers' innovation.

Legacy
The success of the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast for Children program helped reduce hunger and food insecurity, while pressuring state and federal governments to expand their own services. The program showed how hunger could affect a child's ability to learn and advocated for the need of similar programs nationwide. The program showed the government's failure in the War on Poverty and their lack of support for addressing childhood hunger.

It would be a decade or more before free breakfasts would become almost universally available to poor children. In California, the party pushed Ronald Reagan's administration to create a state-wide free breakfast program, and while the federally funded School Breakfast Program was first piloted in 1966, congress only permanently authorized it in 1975.

Black Panther Party's Survival Programs
The Free Breakfast for Children Program was one among more than 60 community social programs created by the Black Panther Party. They were renamed Survival Programs in 1971. These were operated by party members under the slogan "survival pending revolution". In addition to feeding school children, the party started People's Free Food Programs, delivering groceries, and encouraging community members to vote.
 Following the creation of the breakfast program came the founding of Liberation Schools. The installment of the Intercommunal Youth Institute and the People's Free Medical Research Health Institute followed in 1970. The Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, which provided free sickle cell anemia testing, came in 1971. Another Survival Program started by the Black Panther Party was referred to as "medical self-defense" with the creation of healthcare clinics and their own ambulance services. Other survival programs included children development center, free clothing, free busing to prisons, free housing cooperative, free ambulance, etc.

These programs had multiple goals including drawing community members to political rallies, dramatizing social inequalities, providing needed community services, and educating people in the ideas and program of the party. The Survival Programs solidified the Panthers standing in the larger community. The party's daily presence in the neighborhoods with breakfast, child care, and other programs changed the impression of the Panthers. They were seen as community leaders that actively worked to help the people around them.

See also
 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
 COINTELPRO
 List of breakfast topics
 Child Nutrition Act
 Food Justice Movement

Notes

References

 Pope, Ricky J., and
 Shawn T. Flanigan. "Revolution for Breakfast: Intersections of Activism, Service, and Violence in the Black Panther Party's Community Service Programs." Social Justice Research, vol. 26, no. 4, Springer US, 2013, pp. 445–70, /s11211-013-0197-8.
 Hilliard, David. The Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs . University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
 Jeffries, Judson L. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America. University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
 Potorti. Feeding the Revolution': The Black Panther Party, Hunger, and Community Survival." Journal of African American Studies., vol. 21, no. 1, Transaction Publishers,, 2017, pp. 85–110, doi:info:doi/.
 Lateef, Husain, and David Androff. Children Can't Learn on an Empty Stomach': The Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 44, no. 4, Western Michigan University, School of Social Work, 2017, pp. 3–17.
 Bloom, Joshua,. Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. . .

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The youth and Scouters of the Council need a strong and effective support team behind them. If you feel that you have the skills and aptitude for one or more of these roles, we encourage you to to apply now by emailing a cover letter and Scouting resume to dave.russell@scouts.ca.
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A good quick check for any name is to google it and add the word "scam" – eg, "alice wood scam".
The following list of names is provided for quick reference if you receive an email which you think might be fraudulent. The list has been compiled from reports received. It is very important to note that most (if not all) of the names may belong to a completely innocent individual whose identity is being used by the scammers. If you receive an email which is purportedly from one of the names below, you should also check the content of the message to see if it contains similar elements to commonly used email scams. Scammers have relatively little imagination and when targeting lawyers they use one of about half a dozen scams.
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I stole this recipe on a Belgian blog I love for its surprising and worldwide recipes : "un peu gay dans les coings" (in french only). This preserved ginger recipe apparently comes from Korea, which on top of being delicious brings a lot of sweet memories for me… have fun making it !
Peel ginger using a tablespoon. This is an indian trick, check out this vidéo it's in french but Apolina (the lady) shows how simple and economis this is.
In a small pan, boil 500ml water. Lower the heat from high to middle, add ginger, cover and leave it for 15 minutes.
In the same pan, boil honey, sugar and water (375 ml). Lower the heat, add ginger and leave it for 30 minutes until ginger becomes trasnparent.
Put the slices of ginger out of the water on a flat plate or tray using a fork or a pliers.
Here, you can dip ginger slices into icing sugar to avoid them to stick to each other or also dip them into normal sugar for a crusty effect. But none of these processes are mandatory.


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This is a small appellation that loses most of its best wines to Corton and Corton-Charlemagne. The reason for this seeming injustice is that the vineyards that lie on the hill of Corton are entitled to use those grand cru appellations and, as they are more famous and marketable than the largely unknown Ladoix-Serrigny, they generally do. There are, however, five well-regarded premier cru vineyards that use... read more.
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CT scans: A boon and a bane for cancer patients
ByPragna L KrupaPragna L Krupa / Updated: Aug 12, 2021, 06:00 IST
Palike health workers collect swab samples at JJ Nagar
Doctors say that while many patients were detected with cancer at a very early stage thanks to the CT scan for covid, others had their treatment delayed by months due to misdiagnosis
Thanks to the CT scans done to detect covid-19, many patients were diagnosed with having cancer, as the scans picked up the cancerous lumps. However, many others –- especially those in rural areas -- who went to inept healthcare facilities were misdiagnosed and treated for covid, pneumonia, and even TB. As a result, patients in their third and fourth stages of cancer are now turning up at hospitals.
Dr Niti Raizada, Director - Medical Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, Fortis Hospitals, said: "Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate and delaying the treatment would only lessen the chances of survival. If detected and treated at an early stage, people can lead a normal life like any other but if they come to us at Stage 3 and 4, it becomes difficult for them and survival rate goes down too."
Raizada said that recently, a 70-year-old patient from a rural area who was having symptoms since April, had undergone a CT scan which was misdiagnosed as covid-19 and was being treated for it. "The doctor who treated her could not detect the cancer through the scan and suspected it to be tuberculosis for the second time. Since she continued to have symptoms, they consulted a different doctor who treated her for pneumonia for a few weeks until they contacted me in the first week of August.
Any oncologist or an expert can easily detect cancer in the CT scan but due to lack of proper health infrastructure in their village, her treatment was delayed for over four months," she said.
Dr Ravindra Mehta, senior pulmonologist, Apollo Hospital, and a member of the BBMP's covid-19 task force committee, said that there were three scenarios that were seen during the pandemic which affected and also helped some patients. "There were many people who ignored the symptoms and did not visit the doctors or feared going to hospitals until it was too late. In some cases, the treatment was delayed due to non-availability of healthcare facilities and lack of expert opinion.
"In both scenarios, people have arrived at the hospitals during the 3rd stage of cancer where the survival rate is only 50 per cent. However, many people while undergoing CT scans for covid were detected with lung cancer at an early stage and immediately started the treatment which increased their survival rate and ensured a quick recovery." According to Dr Vijay Agarwal, Lead Consultant - Medical Oncology, Aster Hospitals, the CT scan had become routine in patients with covid-19.
"Following this practice, we saw many patients whose cancers were picked up. The CT scans done for covid-19 identified cancerous lumps in them. The most common types of cancers we identified were lung cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer and kidney cancer."
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Those who are exposed to air pollution at work need to be regularly checked as they become more prone to lung cancer. People who are chronic smokers are prone to lung cancer and if they feel any discomfort in breathing or other symptoms, they should immediately go for a scan.
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Interview: Singer/Songwriter Mali Woods Talks Music, Diversity And Other Serious Issues
Saturday mornings and the first day of summer vacation: the possibilities seem endless as you sit back, relax and think of what lies ahead. That sense of optimism and anticipation is almost unrivalled yet it is the feeling I got when I first listened to Mali Woods's Outta the Woods EP. Drawing on a range of folk, world and hip-hop influences, Mali's unique brand of "boho folk" is perfectly complemented by her crystal clear, pitch perfect vocals. Which is just as well because Mali Woods has something to say and she is not afraid of tackling some of the biggest issues facing the world today.
Mali Woods hails from Minnesota but moved to Los Angeles in 2001. It is a move many aspiring singers make to seek fame and fortune in the bright lights of LA but there was far more to Mali's story than a simple dream. It is clear that Minnesota will always have a place in Mali's heart from the almost magical way in which she describes the land of her birth. "I grew up in the land of ten thousand lakes (Minnesota) in a suburb called Minnetonka," she says, "which is a Dakota Indian word meaning "great water"… Even though I absolutely adore the earthy people and changing seasons of MN (especially autumn time), I have a deep need to be in a culturally diverse environment".
This need developed when Mali's family disapproved of a mixed-race relationship that she was involved in, ultimately making her choose between being a part of the family or continuing with the relationship. Mali claims that it wasn't even a choice for her and she states on her website, "I knew my love of diversity and unity was thicker than blood".
Moving to Los Angeles was one of the hardest times of Mali's life and she describes how she had to sell all of her possessions to avoid becoming homeless. She released her first album Melodic Wand in 2003 but it would be a further 8 years before Outta the Woods was completed. Part of this was because Mali wrote, recorded and produced 90% of the album herself and nearly every guitar, bass, cello, violin, trumpet, tuba, piano, chime and drum on the album is played by her.
Mali once remarked that genre in music is determined by the production process, and so she had to learn to stay true to her roots while expressing herself. "Thanks to Apple Logic and sound libraries, I was able to be a one woman band," she explains. "It took me a while to get a sense of how to use these instruments in a realistic way and it also took me a while to develop my own sound, while still paying tribute to the folk, world, hip-hop, soundtrack orchestration etc. that have inspired my writing over the years."
Mali acknowledges that she could not have achieved the last 10% of the album without her business partner and fiancé, accomplished hip-hop producer Moe Johnson. She explains how Moe guided her through the recording process, adding instruments to her initial guitar sketches while maintaining the folk feel of the tracks. "I write most of my songs on guitar first," she explains, "they're like rough drafts that I like to call song sketches. I take the strongest ones into my home studio, record the guitar and start building the music around that. My partner was like my anchor through the entire process, helping me not to lose touch with that raw folk feel that I love to over-production."
The past 8 years have been a massive learning curve for Mali as she muses, "I think consciously locking into my true self really became a creative skeleton key for me. I feel like now it would only take me a few months to write another album, now that I have, as my partner would say, "my science down"." This sense of purpose and confidence is what lead Mali to release an EP at this stage, as opposed to a full-length album. She explains that with 8 tracks, Outta the Woods is technically long enough to be considered an album but that she is still finishing a couple of songs. This is her way of implying that there is certainly more to come.
Which, as I said at the beginning of this article, is just as well because Mali has a lot to say. It is easy to be swept away by Mali's soothing vocals and catchy melodies but it is her lyrics that belie her desire to tackle far more serious issues than your average singer/songwriter.
I asked Mali if she saw her music as a means of expression and if so, which issues she would like to raise in future. "Yes, my music is most definitely a way for me to address serious issues, and unfortunately this world has given me a lot to write about," she ponders. "From the environment, to wars, to the famines in Africa, global poverty, racism, sexism, LGBT rights to the many, many, faces and ways injustice and oppression rears its ugly head."
Mali stresses that her ideas are not limited to our day to day life but extend to the overall picture of what it means to be human. "Nature has shown us that in order to sustain life there has to be an equilibrium," she states, warning, "humanity has failed to achieve this and we are now facing some really serious consequences because of that."
It is so refreshing to encounter a young artist who has something to say, especially in light of recent events. Mali says that she feels inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and that for the first time in a very long time, she feels that a real difference could be made, that real change is on the way. On the media representations regarding protestors not being clear on what they want, Mali says that it is perfectly clear, saying "regardless of how the injustice has shown up in the individuals life, it's all happening because of the same source of corruption. The "leaders" of this system haven't had the people's best interest in mind."
This is best expressed in the track "Reversing", which first caught my attention with the spoken-word lyrics at the end of the song:
"this marriage, this union, this price
this tragic inverted life we're living in
where money is god and freedom became
just an idea we put in movies
get it outta your head we aren't dreaming
we're standing on a stage & karma's watching"
On "Reversing", Mali expresses her belief that we've collectively strayed too far from our hearts, that we've lost our way. The song is about reversing, about how sometimes, the best thing to do is to retrace your steps backwards. She explains that the song "is a call to reverse humanity's collective action, meaning karma, before a consequence we can't run from shows up to restore balance for us."
With her talent, enthusiasm and motivation, Mali is an inspiration and could be the voice for a new generation of disenchanted youth. Her aim is to continue talking, writing and singing until her soul tells her there is no longer a need and her vision is to inspire and unite people who share the same concerns as her. "Not everyone wanted life to be lived like this," she says as we close the conversation. "Cutting down trees, endangering animals, not giving equal opportunity, or equal rights, all this materialism, greed,wars […] it feels like those who would never do these things are suffering the most."
You can catch up with Mali on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube.
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This week, NM Political Report editor Matthew Reichbach was on Here & There with Dave Marash, discussing the recent special legislative session.
The show appears on KSFR in Santa Fe and is available online for free.
Legislators met during the brief special session to address the state's budget, making sure it would be balanced, as required by the state constitution. One piece of legislation, championed by Gov. Susana Martinez and agreed to by reluctant legislators, used severance tax bond money to help cover a budget hole.
Reichbach and Marash also discussed a tax overhaul proposal that did not clear a House committee. Democrats in the committee said the complex bill wasn't introduced in time for them to analyze the bill.
A legislative analysis, which came out after the taping, showed a technical error in the bill could cost the state over $100 million.
A direct mp3 download of the show is available here.
This week, NM Political Report editor Matthew Reichbach appeared on Here & There with Dave Marash to talk the recently-concluded legislative session. Reichbach appeared on Monday and Tuesday; on Monday the two largely discussed the state budget and how oil and gas was impacting different areas of the state budget.


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Only child of Nashville mayor dies of apparent drug overdose
Max Barry graduated in June from the University of Puget Sound
Updated: 4:17 AM CDT Jul 31, 2017
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry said Sunday that her only child has died of an apparent drug overdose.A statement released from Barry and her husband, Bruce, says 22-year-old Max Barry died Saturday night in Denver."Early this morning, we received news that no parents should ever have to hear," the statement said. "We cannot begin to describe the pain and heartbreak that comes with losing our only child. Our son was a kind soul full of life and love for his family and friends."Max Barry graduated in June from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington."Our family would greatly appreciate your thoughts and prayers, and would respectfully ask for privacy as we mourn the loss of our child and begin to understand a world without his laughter and love in our lives," the statement said.Megan Barry was sworn in as Nashville's first female mayor in September 2015 with her husband and son by her side.Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez declined to search the department's records and logs for the police report of Barry's death, saying that would violate the department's policy of not identifying victims.A memorial service has been scheduled for Tuesday in Nashville.
DENVER —
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry said Sunday that her only child has died of an apparent drug overdose.
A statement released from Barry and her husband, Bruce, says 22-year-old Max Barry died Saturday night in Denver.
"Early this morning, we received news that no parents should ever have to hear," the statement said. "We cannot begin to describe the pain and heartbreak that comes with losing our only child. Our son was a kind soul full of life and love for his family and friends."
Max Barry graduated in June from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
"Our family would greatly appreciate your thoughts and prayers, and would respectfully ask for privacy as we mourn the loss of our child and begin to understand a world without his laughter and love in our lives," the statement said.
Megan Barry was sworn in as Nashville's first female mayor in September 2015 with her husband and son by her side.
Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez declined to search the department's records and logs for the police report of Barry's death, saying that would violate the department's policy of not identifying victims.
A memorial service has been scheduled for Tuesday in Nashville.


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Salix × finnmarchica je kříženec dvou druhů vrb, vrby borůvkovité a vrby plazivé. Vyskytuje se přirozeně ve Skandinávii a je pěstován i v České republice jako okrasná a pokryvná dřevina.

Původ

Vrba Salix × finnmarchica je kříženec dvou nízkých druhů vrb: vrby borůvkovité (Salix myrtilloides) a vrby plazivé (Salix repens). Kříženec se přirozeně vyskytuje ve Skandinávii a byl popsán Willdenowem již v roce 1811.

Označení

Druh je v některých zdrojích uváděn jako Salix × finmarchica (s jednoduchým n). Alternativním označením je Salix myrtilloides × repens.

Patrně není obecně rozeznávána fytopatology jako samostatný druh, EPPO kód není určen. České jméno není uváděno.

Popis
Salix × finnmarchica je 20–30 cm vysoký keř. Kvetení je poměrně výrazné, jehnědy se objevují v březnu až dubnu. Větve jsou tenké, vzpřímené s hladkou hnědou borkou. Listy jsou zpočátku hustě plstnaté, úzce eliptické až podlouhlé.

Použití
Rostliny lze použít v ČR jako okrasné rostliny. Jsou vhodné pro skupiny výsadeb i pro trvalkové záhony. Patří mezi vhodné půdokryvné dřeviny.

Pěstování
Preferuje slunečné polohy, snese polostín, vhodné jsou vlhké půdy. Snáší exhalace. Dobře snáší řez. Původní druh se přirozeně rozmnožuje se semeny, kultivary a pěstované rostliny jsou množeny řízkováním bylinnými, nebo dřevitými řízky. Někdy je roubován na bujněji vzrůstné druhy a tvoří stromovité tvary s nepravidelně převisající korunou.

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 Méně známé nízké druhy vrb, časopis Zahradnictví, zmínka

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A. You may be surprised to learn that sometimes urban legends surround seminary rectors. I'm sure no one is more surprised than the seminarians among us this evening. At any rate, the story is told of a rector who was also a bishop and he was indeed a very grand bishop, at least by all accounts. Like all rectors, he gave periodic talks to seminarians, talks known as "rector's conferences".
B. During one of his rector's conferences, this bishop uttered words which were nearly immortal, at least to my generation; he said: "Gentleman, I am nothing! And you are less than nothing!" I would say that this rector took self-abnegation to a whole new level. What could it mean to be "less than nothing"?
A. However humorous the bishop's formulation was, he was actually getting at a fundamental truth in the spiritual life, a truth which is captured for us in tonight's Gospel. After predicting his own rejection and death, followed by the resurrection, Jesus spoke to us these words of everlasting life: "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." In these opening days of Lent, the Lord confronts us with the high cost of discipleship.
B. Let us pause over his words, beginning with these: "Whoever wishes . . . " Discipleship is not merely a matter of one's being born a Catholic or growing up in a Catholic atmosphere – something increasingly rare. No, discipleship is the result of a personal decision to follow Christ even if we are not fully aware of what that will eventually mean for our lives.
C. And the word "follow" doesn't merely mean that we tag along in Jesus' company as if we were passive spectators to his teaching, his miracles, his paschal mystery. No, the way to follow Jesus is to "deny" ourselves – to renounce ourselves, in effect, to "disown" ourselves, to admit our nothingness before God, to engage in what spiritual writers indeed used to refer to as "self-abnegation". This involves letting go of our private agendas, our attachments to sin – indeed, our very lives. This notion of discipleship is indeed radical for it brings us to the root of what it means truly to follow Christ. Following Christ is sharing the Cross of Cross – in word and sacrament, in the Church, in the world, in our personal lives, in the depth of our souls – even in our bodies.
A. In light of this Gospel, we can understand better what Moses said to us in today's first reading from the Book of Deuteronomy. Here Moses urges us to obey the commandments of the Lord, to walk in his ways and to forsake every form of idolatry in our lives. In urging us to follow the law of the Lord, Moses is not reducing discipleship to a set of rules. Instead, he is laying out for us what it means truly to deny ourselves.
B. For we can easily say to the Lord, "Yes, I am willing to deny myself and to follow you!" while at the same time going about business as usual. The commandments permit us to engage in no such facile self-deception. Instead, they guide us in the process of denying ourselves, they help give specificity to the ways in which we cling to the allurements of sin and to sinful attitudes that hinder us from following the Lord. So Moses sets out the law for us not as mere rules to be observed but as ways of listening to the Lord, walking with the Lord, and as a sure source of guidance in emptying ourselves of anything contrary to the Gospel.
C. Moses taught that following God's commandments would lead to a long life, indeed, a life of contentment on the land God promised his people. But Jesus promises us more. He promises that if we die to ourselves, we will live forever. He promises that if we deny ourselves, we will share in the joy of his Kingdom. The path to such joy is taking up our Cross and laying down every encumbrance of sin. This is how we follow the Crucified One whose death, paradoxically is the source of the fullness of life and joy: "Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it." Many people seek to gain the whole world and lose everything. We are called to lose everything for the sake of gaining Christ – for we are convinced that we are blessed to the extent that we are his faithful witnesses. This is why when we engage in denying and emptying ourselves, in picking up our specific cross with a genuinely willing spirit, we find a peace and joy the world cannot give and we find new strength and courage to bear witness to the Lord in our daily lives.
A. Since this is already the second day of Lent, I presume that most of all of us have devised some sort of a plan for this season. We may have mapped out a program of prayer, self-denial, and charity – and I would surely encourage we enter this season with such a plan. But that plan will be incomplete to the extent that we are unaware of the specific ways we need to deny ourselves and the specific crosses which the Lord is asking us to assume.
May God bless us and keep us always in his love and grace!


1. With respect to the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands, as defined in Paragraph 2 below, the United States of America relinquishes in favor of Japan all rights and interests under Article III of the treaty of peace with Japan signed at the City of San Francisco on Sept. 8, 1951, effective as of the date of entry into force of this agreement. Japan, as of such date, assumes full responsibility and authority for the exercise of all and any powers of administration, legislation and jurisdiction over the territory and inhabitants of the said islands.
2. For the purpose of this agreement, the term "the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands" means all the territories and their territorial waters with respect to which the right to exercise all and any powers of administration, legislation and jurisdiction was accorded to the United States of America under Article III of the treaty of peace with Japan other than those with respect to which such right has already been returned to Japan in accordance with the agreement concerning Nanpo Shoto and other islands signed between Japan and the United States of America respectively on Dec. 24, 1953, and April 5, 1968.
It is confirmed that treaties, conventions and other agreements concluded between Japan and the United States of America, including, but without limitation, the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America signed at Washington on Jan. 19, 1960, and its related arrangements and the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States of America signed at Tokyo on April 2, 1953, become applicable to the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands of the date of entry Into force of this agreement.
1. Japan will grant the United States of America on the date of entry into force of this agreement the use of facilities and areas in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands in accordance with the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America signed at Washington on Jan. 19, 1960, and its related arrangements.
2. In the application of Article IV of the agreement under Article VI of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America, regarding facilities and areas and the status of United States armed forces in Japan signed on Jan. 19, 1960, to the facilities and areas the use of whicth will be granted in accordance with Paragraph 1 above to the United States of America on the date of entry into force of this agreement, it is understood that the phrase "the condition in which they were at the time they became available to the United States armed forces" in Paragraph 1 of the said article refers to the condition in which the facilities and areas first came into the use of the United States armed forces, and that the term "improvements" in Paragraph 2 of the said article includes those made prior to the date of entry into force of this agreement.
1. Japan waives all claims of Japan and its nationals against the United States of America and its nationals and against the local authorities of the Ryukyu. Islands and the Daito Islands, arising from the presence, operations or actions of forces or authorities of the United States of America in these islands; or from the presence, operations or actions of forces or authorities of the United States of America having had any effect upon these islands, prior to the date of entry into force of this agreement.
2. The waiver in Paragraph 1 above does not, however, include claims of Japanese nationals specifically recognized in the laws of the United States of America or the local laws of these islands applicable during the period of United States administration of these islands. The Government of the United States of America is authorized to maintain its duly empowered officials in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands in order to deal with and settle such claims on and after the date of entry into force of this agreement in accordance with the procedures to be established in consultation with the Government of Japan.
3. The Government of the United States of America will make ex gratia contributions for restoration of lands to the nationals of Japan whose lands in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands where damaged prior to July' 1, 1950, while placed under the use of United States authorities, and were released from their use after June 30, 1961, and before the date of entry into force of this agreement. Such contributions will be made in an equitable manner in relation to the payments made under High Commissioner's Ordinance No. 60 of 1967 to claims for damages done prior to July 1, 1950, to the lands released prior to July 1, 1961.
4. Japan recognizes the validity of all acts and omissions done during the period of United States administration of the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands under or in consequence of directives of the United States or local authorities, or authorzed by existing law during that period, and will take no action subjecting United States nationals or the residents of these islands to civil or criminal liability arising out of such acts or omissions.
1. Japan recognizes the validity of, and will continue in full force and effect, final judgments in civil cases rendered by any court in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands prior to the date of entry into force of this agreement, provided that suoh recognition or continuationwould not be contrary to public policy.
2. Wtihout in any way adversely affecting the substantive rights and positions of the litigants concerned, Japan will assume jurisdiction over and continue to judgment and execution any civil cases pending as of the date of entry into force of this agreement in any court in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands.
3. Without in any way adversely affecting the substantive rights of the accused or suspect concerned, Japan will assume jurisdiction over, and may continue or institute proceedings with respect to, any criminal cases with which any court in the Ryukyu Islands, and the Daito Islands is seized as of the date of entry into force of this agreement or would have been seized had the proceedings been instituted prior to such date.
4. Japan may continue the execution of any final judgments rendered in criminal cases by any court in the Ryukyu Islands anti the Daito Islands.
1. The properties of the Ryukyu Electric Power Corporation, the Ryukyu Domestic Water Corporation and the Ryukyu Development Loan Corporation shall be transferred to the Government of Japan on the date of entry into force of this agreement, and the rights and obligations of the said corporations shall be assumed by the Goverrunent of Japan on that date in conformity with the laws and regulations of Japan.
2. All other properties of the Government of the United States of America, existing in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands as of the date of entry into force of this agreement and located outside the facilities and areas provided on that date in accordance with Article III of the agreement, shall be transferred to the Government of Japan on this date, except for those that are located on the lands returned to the landowners concerned before the date of entry into force of this agreement and for those the title to which will be retained by the Government of the United States of America after that date with the consent of the Government of Japan.
3. Such lands In the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands reclaimed by the Government of the United States of America and such other reclaimed lands acquired by it in these islands as are held by the Government of the United States of America as of the date of entry into force of this agreement become the property of the Government of Japan on that date.
4. The United States of America is not obliged to compensate Japan or its nationals for any alteration made prior to the date of entry into force of this agreement to the lands upon which the properties transferred to the Government of Japan under Paragraphs 1 and 2 above are located.
Considering inter alia that United States assets are being transferred to the Government of Japan under Arti cle VI of this agreement, that the Government of the United States of America is carrying out the return of the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands to Japan in a manner consistent with the policy of the Government of Japan as specified in Paragraph 8 of the joint communique of Nov. 21, 1969, and that the Government of the United States of America will bear extra costs, particularly in the area of employment after reversion, the Government of Japan will pay to the Government of the United States of America in United States dollars a total amount of three hundred and twenty million United States dollars (U. S. $320,000,000) over a period of five years from the date of entry into force of this agreement. Of the said amount, the Government of Japan will pay one hundred million United States dollars (U. S. $100,000,000) within one week after the date of entry into force of this agreement and the remainder in four equal annual installments in June of each calendar year subsequent to the year in which this agreement enterse into force.
The Government of Japan consents to the continued operation by the Government of the United States of America of the Voice of America relay station in Okinawa Island for a period of five years from the date of entry Into force of this agreement in accordance with the arrangements to be concluded between the two governments. The two governments shall enter into consultation two years after the date of entry into force of this agreement on future operation of the Voice of America in Okinawa Island.
This agreement shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be ex changed at Tokyo. ThIs agreement shall enter into force two months after the date of exchange of the instruments of ratification.
Done at Tokyo and Was?? ington, this 17th day of June, 1971, in duplicate in the Japanese and English languages, both equally authentic.


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Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle is reporting that Rockets' star Yao Ming may not be as thrilled with the pending Ron Artest trade as Rockets fans. Yao explained to the Chronicle that he and Luis Scola have exchanged text messages and e-mails contemplating Ron's impact. "We worry about the new attitude to the team." explained Yao "We are adding talent to the team and we need that, but building team chemistry is important. This is not bad. I don't mean he is not welcome to Houston. But a new player always needs some time. Also, he was the biggest part of a team in Sacramento. He was a star player. We need more chemistry and more communication. "There's worry. Obviously, yes," said Yao. "We will think about it, of course. Hopefully, he's not fighting anymore and going after a guy in the stands… I haven't talked to Ron yet, so it's hard to say. I have to find a way to talk to him and see what we can do as a basketball team. He has a history. But we know he is a physical player. He is a good player. He really can help us. And Ron is on a contract year, too. I think Ron Artest is a good player if coach (Rick) Adelman can control the team well."
Ron responded to Yao's comments hinting that he plans to push for a contract extension saying "We've still got to make sure there's still a commitment… That's the main thing. When I speak to the powers-that-be of the Houston Rockets organization, we're going to find out how much they really want me there…. This is Tracy (McGrady) and Yao's team, you know," Artest said. "I'm not going to take it personal. I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture. Once Yao Ming gets to know me, he'll understand what I'm about. But really, he doesn't have to talk to me, because to me, I'm going (to Houston)."
http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=9646
artest is a cancer so im not surprise with yao's comments
daleja424
omg...here we go...
Crunchy12489
"I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture."
What a *******.
Black player really representing his culture? Excuse me? Does Dikembe Mutombo come to mind there, Ron?
Dikembe is "blacker" than you, but he doesn't have to be "gangsta wit it".
I love Ron's game just not his ****ing attitude...
He's a reason why other races make stereotypical comments towards black people, then black people will get pissed... What kind of sense does that make? He's baiting people to hate on black people...
I have no problem with any race on this planet, but I do have a problem with ignorance...
And Ron Artest is one ignorant son of a *****
Melo is hood as **** but you don't see him going around bragging about it and still trying to act like he's still in the hood..
Ron Artest, you have a multi-million dollar house and your kids are spoiled... GET REAL.. YOU HAVE UPGRADED IN LIFE, THAT'S A POSITIVE..
SHONIE
yaowned
The83rdWonder
Hoopsworld is terrible, they can't even get who reported the "story; it was Fran Blinebury, not Feigen. This is pretty much blown out of proportion by the media.
Sn1ch_Turna
I dont blame Yao, and Ron Artest just becomes more ignorant and self-absorbed with every comment he makes.
To say hes the self-proclaimed jessie jackson of the NBA is such trash. How can u make millions of dollars and almost 30, but still act like a child. Hes a highschool kid trapped in an adult body.
His comments are a disgrace to the NBA, himself and other black people. I hope the rockets release him midway through the season, around when he tries to 'find himself' or has 'family problems' and doesnt feel like playing because hes too ghetto.
Melo thinks hes hood - thats why he got jacked at the allstar game a couple years ago...
Paul Pierce is hood, grew up in Inglewood - got stabbed 9 times, survived and takes everything in stride. U dont hear him talk about how hardcore he is... and thats how real people act - dont talk about it , be about it
dont talk about it , be about it
That's real.
Couldn't say it any better myself :clap:
He's a grown *** man with kids, yet he still has to prove how "real" he is.
I agree he's just a child in a 30 year old man's body.
Gmen824
T. Prince was born in Compton, and he keeps a low-profile :shrug:
Yeah he does.
I haven't heard that man speak more than a sentence my whole life.
they are just blowing it out of poportion chron.com has the full story
midwestmadman
Blown out of porportion or not (which I agree it is) Ron Artest needs to realize that everyhting thing he says and everytime he opens his mouth he is under a microscope because of his reputation. The media can and will twist anything he says to make it a negative. I do think he many times shoots himself in the foot without the help of the media with his "representing his culture" rant. Frankly if I was a black male and I heard him say comments like this I would be pretty upset that a player like him views, blames and uses his race as his crutch. Ron you are a mutli millionaire, you don't live in the "ghetto" anymore. You made it from having nothing to having alomost anything you could want, your children have choices and you have choices, get you head on right because most people want to cheer for you, it's when you put yourself as the victim role that no one wants to hear it.
artest admitted that the team is yao's and tracy's he have no problem being the third scorer he said he doesnt care if he start or be the 6th or 7th man
RapsFan4Life
I cant belive Ron called himself ghetto ... hahahahaha he is such a joker, but he plays basketball because thats what he does, not because hes black not because he is gangster, and lately he hasnt caused any problems .. so i think he will be a good fit with yao... Ron may even buy yao some bling bling haha
:laugh2:and a grill
"I'm not going to take it personal. I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture. Once Yao Ming gets to know me, he'll understand what I'm about. But really, he doesn't have to talk to me, because to me, I'm going (to Houston)."
It's fine if Yao is not sold on Artest yet, but he will be because now that Artest is on a team that can win it all, he knows the rest of his career is riding on how he plays and reacts now.
CowboysKB24
That sounds terrible from Yao. He should be embracing Artest for coming to Houston...Yao doesn't want to ruin the chemistry and communication so say something like that before Artest even gets to introduce himself? BAD IDEA
I don't think it is going to ruin anything and I think Artest has changed but that was a dumb thing to do. Yao made it weird for Artest before he even got to Houston...WHY?
its just little yao humor
I am excited to see how Houston plays this season. I don't think too many people are going to pick them to take the West but with the addition of Artest and what they without Yao last season...who knows.
I :love: Artest.
DbOyZ_ILiVe4DIs
I'm sure Yao wasn't quoted correctly. Artest is a handful. You need good leadership around him to at least try to keep him in check. Good luck T Mac and Yao.
JIDsanity
wow. Houston got lucky.
Alot of teams hesitated to get him because the thought the only players he would respect would be Kobe and LeBron, and any other place he would have to be the star. I wanted Ron Ron
I don't think Yao/Rockets team will regret having Artest on the team. As ignorant as he is, he is deadset on winning a championship. That attitude will help their team alot, especially with the defensive toughness he brings. Unless of course he does something really crazy that would ruin everything...
He's just concerned, wouldn't you be? Look at Artest's past and how much baggage he brings to this team. Yao just wants to make sure he's not gonna mess up their chemistry. I think Yao could have said alot worse things than that, and Artest didn't really seem to be bothered by it anyway. I'm sure things will work out.
rrude
maybe this sort of fear is why Yao can't get out of the first round. oh yeah, and all the injuries.
Yao's a bit overrated in my opinion.
Should have kept any negative stuff to himself, but it sounds like they have talked and made up so who cares.
also remember all the BS around Dennis Rodman, and he wound up contributing to the Bulls. Now I'm not saying Adelman is Phil, but at least he and Ron have a relationship. I'm not saying they are going to win a championship, but a lot of stuff about Artest is negative hype, just like it was with Rodman.
Now this is news.
I'm really shocked Yao would make those comments before even meeting him.
uptownfan
Really? Wow, I didn't know that. That's really surprising. Especially since he went to Kentucky.
Mile High Champ
The potential trade of Ron Artest to the Houston Rockets may have gotten off on the wrong foot over comments made by Artest's potential teammate, Yao Ming, about Artest's stormy past.
Ming says
"Hopefully, he's not fighting anymore and going after a guy in the stands," Yao said, according to the Chronicle.
Artest Responds
When asked about those comments, Artest said Yao had bought into "all the propaganda" about him, according to The Sacramento Bee
"I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto," Artest said, according to the report. "That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture. Once Yao Ming gets to know me, he'll understand what I'm about.
already posted I think
arlubas
I read somewhere that Yao called Ron up and cleared everything up with Artest saying he is a "Yao soldier" at the end of the convo, so no drama exists here. At least for now.
didnt see it anywhere on the board, they had a thread about Yao and his comments but not one for Ron.. Anwyay I find artest interesting and the way he is responding. Wonder how this will develop.
who cares? i dont think there goin to beef
http://www.prosportsdaily.com/forums/showthread.php?t=253479
pwest6
"Hopefully, he's not fighting anymore and going after a guy in the stands…"
Yao's hilarious...
Merged the two Yao-Artest threads.
DerekRE_3
And this is why the Bulls, Pacers, and Kings traded him.
rabzouz 96
yao is funny how can he say hes afraid of chemistry problems of the team while potentially producing some with artest. that was one fo the dumbest comments that u could make
This is going to be hilarious...I can't wait untill the Rockets play
they traded him b/c Yao can't distinguish b/t comments you make to your women or boys and comments you make the media about a teammate?????
FOBolous
Conciliatory Artest reassures Yao on chemistry concerns
By Marc Stein
Some two weeks before he can actually join his new team, Ron Artest was already trying to neutralize his first Houston Rockets controversy Thursday, insisting that there will be no tension with Yao Ming once a trade sending Artest from Sacramento to Houston goes through as expected Aug. 14.
Artest told ESPN.com that he and Yao have spoken by telephone to address the concerns Yao voiced about team chemistry to the Houston Chronicle in response to the deal hatched Tuesday by the Rockets and Kings.
The trade calls for Houston to receive Artest in exchange for Rockets draftee Donte Greene, a 2009 first-round pick and Kings alumnus Bobby Jackson, who's entering the final year of his contract at $6.1 million. The deal can't be completed until Aug. 14, according to league rules, because Greene signed with Houston on July 14 and is not eligible to be traded sooner.
But suggestions that Yao's reservations or Artest's outspoken, unpredictable nature could convince the Rockets to walk away from the trade between now and Aug. 14 were strongly dismissed by one source close to the process.
"The deal is done," said the source.
Artest also denied suggestions that he would demand a contract extension before reporting to the Rockets -- "I'm not demanding anything," he said -- and reiterated his initial giddy reaction to news of the trade by describing the move as "a big opportunity for me."
"I don't think Yao meant to say that," Artest offered Thursday, referring to Yao's comments to the Chronicle which referenced Artest's involvement in the infamous Indiana-Detroit brawl that spilled into the stands in 2004.
"I spoke to Yao and I told him I can't wait to play with him," Artest continued. "I spoke to Tracy [McGrady] and I told him I can't wait to play with him. I was a little bit down [upon hearing Yao's initial statements], because I'm so far beyond [the brawl]. But everything is going to be good."
Artest expounded on his conversation with Yao in a broadcast appearance later Thursday on ESPN's "Pardon The Interruption," revealing that he asked McGrady for Yao's number.
Said Artest: "When I spoke to Yao, I just said, 'Everything's going to be all right, I really know how to play the game, I'm not a selfish player, I can adapt to any type of system and I can't wait to be part of the Houston Rockets.'
"I was a little bit disturbed, mainly because [of] the brawl comments. That's four years removed from now, maybe four or five years removed … I wanted [Yao] to know I was a little bit frustrated, but I understand where he's coming from. But I cannot wait to be a part of that team. I don't care if I have to come off the bench. I could be the sixth man, a seventh man, all I want to do is just really contribute and win a lot of games."
Later in the PTI interview, Artest added: "I'm not just some knucklehead head case who's bipolar, [like] everybody is always saying. I'm Ron Artest. Everybody's different. That's why we've got different DNA … They gotta come up with a better story than Ron's crazy. There's a lot better stories that they can come up with."
Yet Artest clearly was unsettled by his lack of long-term security in his final days as a King, as the 28-year-old enters the final year of his contract at $7.4 million. Artest's oft-cited regrets about passing on the opportunity to opt out of his contract June 30 to become an unrestricted free agent and his increasing desire to leave Sacramento stem largely from the Kings' refusal to extend his contract.
Artest denied, however, that he needs his future in Houston to be clarified before joining the Rockets.
"I'm not demanding anything," Artest said. "I will play in Houston [this season] and I will have a great year and they will have the first option to re-sign me. This is a big opportunity for me because I'm going to be playing with the best center in the game."
Questions about Artest's willingness to fit in with a team that already has two franchise players were inevitable. But they materialized with the Rockets perhaps even faster than the biggest Artest skeptics might have expected, after Yao declined in his interview Wednesday to give the trade his unconditional endorsement.
"For some reason, I like [Artest]," Yao told the Chronicle. "Because in the games we play against him, I hate him.
"When I text messaged with [teammate] Luis [Scola], we talked about team chemistry. That's only what worries us. We worry about the new attitude to the team. We are adding talent to the team and we need that, but building team chemistry is important. This is not bad. I don't mean he is not welcome to Houston. But a new player always needs some time.
"There's worry. Obviously, yes. We will think about it, of course. Hopefully, he's not fighting anymore and going after a guy in the stands. I haven't talked to Ron yet, so it's hard to say. I have to find a way to talk to him and see what we can do as a basketball team. He has a history. But we know he is a physical player. He is a good player. He really can help us. And Ron is on a contract year, too."
Artest was admittedly stung by the remarks when he heard them Wednesday, specifically the comment about "going after a guy in the stands," saying that Yao's words "hit me in the soft spot when I read that."
By Wednesday night, though, Artest was already downplaying the controversy in an appearance on a Sacramento radio show he frequents -- KHTK-AM's Carmichael Dave show -- and describing himself as "a Yao Ming soldier." Artest also tossed out the possibility of traveling to China to show support for Yao during the Olympics.
Much of the Rockets' confidence in dealing with such episodes -- since this was likely only the first, judging by Artest's history -- stems from the relationship Artest had with Houston coach Rick Adelman in Sacramento. It was a brief marriage, lasting just 40 games in the 2005-06 season before Adelman's ouster from the Kings, but Artest has repeatedly described Adelman as his favorite pro coach.
The Rockets, furthermore, have ample motivation to take this gamble, entering Year 5 of the McGrady-and-Yao partnership and still waiting for that tag team to lead them out of the first round of the playoffs.
"I just think so highly of Mr. Adelman that I can't really speak on it," Artest told ESPN.com after learning of the trade. "When I first got to Sacramento, he believed in me. I said, 'Coach, we're going to the playoffs,' and everybody laughed at me. He said, 'Ron, we're going to go as far as you take us.' I've never had a coach do that before.
"How can you say no to Rick Adelman? How can anyone not be happy playing for Rick Adelman?"
here's a video of the interview: http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3513866&categoryId=2459788
^ wow...Artest actually sounds intelligent in the video...i definetly have more respect for Artest after that interview but you never know man...Artest is Artest and he's prone to changing his mind at a blink of an eye but hey, as a Rockets fan, i feel hopeful after that interview :D
Damn all of these Ron Artest/Yao Ming threads!
It's like a fashion trend now!
Lol, I'm kidding man...
But really I think all of this was blown out of proportion just to get people talking and the media hyped up...
Come training camp, all of this will be squashed
everything's ok now:
bball1217
I totally agree. Media is just trying to start something. Plus, do you really see Yao as someone who is going to start a fight (verbally or mentally) with anybody. Except for when this happens :D: (Read his lips)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jss1xEzh5b4&NR=1
I remember seeing a video where Yao threw this European guy aside like a popsicle stick...
Don't underrate Yao Ming's aggression :D
Yeah this one, right after he gets dunked on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyK4vnurJTo
Okay, Yao might have got dunked on, but there was no need for that pipsqueak to get in his face like that.
Ron Artest competes everytime he steps on the court. He is also a immature person. When he talks its like when a little kid talking. He's gonna say some dumb ****, have some temper tantrums, tells his best friend hates him etc. Its Yao job has team leader to absorb some of the attention that Ron will have trouble dealing with not bring up issues like put him in these situations. Ron's not to bright. So what. He can flat ball and your team cant get over the hump. Yao acted like a bad teammate before he got on the plane. There is a difference b/t what you say to your wife, what you say to your teammates, and you say to the media
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They cleared all this **** up, they should all play well together
What if Yao came out of training camp with a black eye?
I wonder if Rockets fans would still want Ron Artest on the team haha.
they should. i decked a couple people at practice and i'm not near as crazy as Ron Artest
Musical Tempo
"I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto," said Artest, who will earn $7.4 million next season and be a free agent next summer. "That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture. Once Yao Ming gets to know me, he'll understand what I'm about.
"If you go back to the brawl, that's a culture issue right there. Somebody was disrespecting me, so he's got to understand where I'm coming from. People that know me know that Ron Artest never changed."
I found this comments very racist, especially the parts I have highlighted. He actually makes generalizations appear real, espeically to those who haven't lived or seen an American style ghetto. One thing I would like to state is, not all African Americans have brawls after they fell that they have been disrespect, the major walk away or handle it like civilized individuals. CLICK HERE FOR THE MEANING OF GHETTO. (http://www.answers.com/topic/ghetto) If your from a ghetto, or the hood, this doesn't neccessary mean, you pack heat, wear du rags, baggy jeans, etc etc. it means as the definition states. Ron Artest provided to the world, and to me that he is actually a racist. How do other African American on PSD feel of Ron Artests comments about 'Black Culture' and that his action actually represent the real 'Black Culture', over other great African American who have backed away from fighting, and proven to the less fortune that anything is possible even if you are classified as a minority.
Post on other Yao vs. Ron Ron threads not sure which one will get closed.
I'm not black, but it really pissed me off how he labeled his own people to be that "typical".
Last time I checked, Yao played with Deke and Deke is more African than him. He represents his culture for real, not representing a hood or anything. Repping a hood and culture are two different things.
Ron Artest is ignorant as hell and baits other races to hate on black people.
I lost respect for Ron Artest as of this day.
rwp86
ron artest is a good basketball player, but he might be the most moronically stupid player in the NBA.
He has my vote.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/5918602.html
who calls him Ming?
Apparently me. It was a mistake.
I think people know who i'm talking about.
Easy for artest to say that stuff. Now he has to back it up.
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yea word prince and pierce are the more hood in the nba


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Torquay is the birthplace of the crime writer Agatha Christie and the whole area runs a packed programme of events and festivals in celebration of this fact. Along with the sandy beach, promenade and Princess Pier, which offers stunning views over the bay, Torquay has much to offer. A picturesque harbour, theatre, great shopping and delightful palm tree lined promenades complete the picture.
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Parafia Matki Bożej Budsławskiej w Mińsku – rzymskokatolicka parafia znajdująca się w archidiecezja mińsko-mohylewskiej, w dekanacie Mińsk-Zachód, na Białorusi.

Historia
Parafia na Kamiennej Górce w Mińsku została utworzona w 1996 r. W 2005 roku poświęcono tymczasową kaplicę.

Budowę kościoła parafialnego pw. Matki Bożej Budsławskiej rozpoczęto w 2008 r. 1 lipca 2012 roku metropolita Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz poświęcił kamień węgielny przywieziony z Sanktuarium w Budsławiu. Świątynia została konsekrowana 3 lipca 2016 roku przez arcybiskupa wiedeńskiego kard. Christopha Schönborna OP. Była to pierwsza od 105 lat konsekracja kościoła katolickiego w Mińsku.

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This Life: Victims of torture walk among us. Who's helping them?
Gracie Bonds Staples
Imagine your little girl being raped right before your very eyes because you refused to join a rebel group. Now imagine watching her being murdered and having to watch your wife endure that same shame and you having to stay there as she and your daughter lie still in a pool of blood.
How would that make you feel? How would you ever sleep again, knowing you were unable to stop it? What would you do? How would you go on?
Up to 44 percent of refugees who arrive in this country, in this city arrive carrying that kind of baggage.
The temptation is to tack on the phrase "or worse," but I can't imagine what that might be or how anyone is left to tell it.
But here on a forlorn stretch of Ponce de Leon Avenue in Clarkston, Adaobi Iheduru hears such stories a lot.
She is the resident psychologist and program manager of the Center for Victims of Torture, a little old house on Ponce where men, women and children come seeking peace from life's nightmares.
The center, which opened here in March 2016, is part of one of the oldest and largest torture rehabilitation programs in the world, providing care and counseling to refugees and asylum-seeking survivors and their families.
We hear a lot about immigrants and refugees. Each year in Georgia, between 2,500 and 3,000 refugees are resettled here, many having arrived from countries known for having high rates of torture. They have been beaten near death or raped or verbally abused by someone in authority acting under the color of law.
How does that manifest itself?
Anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder that is characterized by nightmares and flashbacks or intrusive memory of the torture, Iheduru said. Often, clients experience fear of others or fear of being in public, which can lead people to isolate themselves.
"When people come to us, their lives have been completely shattered," Iheduru said. "We simply walk alongside them as they rebuild their lives."
Most people are surprised to learn that there are torture survivors living in Georgia, but that is precisely why Minnesota-based CVT chose the state as its second U.S. location.
According to Iheduru, nearly 44 percent of all refugees in the U.S. are torture survivors.
At any given time, as many as 60 survivors, ages 5-64, come here, where in addition to free individual psychotherapy with professional interpretation, they can receive help accessing other badly needed services such as medical care, English classes, food, clothing and transportation.
Seldom do we get a glimpse of the horror they've endured, and even when we do, it doesn't seem real.
The family described earlier might not but they are.
They arrived, Iheduru said, from war-torn East Africa. The little girl and her mother were brutally raped, in the presence of other family members, because the father refused to join a rebel group.
The family had to stay there until a neighbor came and took them to a hospital, Iheduru said. Before they could get there, the child was dead, and her mother and father were left with the guilt that they didn't protect their young child.
After nearly two years of counseling, the father is doing well. The dead child's mother, though, is still struggling.
"She has a long way to go rebuilding her life and restoring trust in other people," Iheduru said.
There's no telling how long that might take, but what we know for sure is the CVT staff will be there for her. It's what they do.
At a ceremony in New York City early last month, CVT received the prestigious Dr. Guislain "Breaking the Chains of Stigma" Award.
Siri Hustvedt, the noted essayist, novelist, poet and member of the Guislain Award jury, noted that victims of torture do not always show outward signs of what they endured.
And yet to suffer lasting effects from torture is normal.
"Trauma alters time. Sometimes it stops time," she said. "For the traumatized person, past and future may disappear and leave only the vivid horror of unspeakable events that remain stubbornly in the present."
Hustvedt said she found this quote from a victim on the CVT's website: "They told me, 'You'll be alone with this for the rest of your life. You'll die with this alone.' But when I heard about the Center for Victims of Torture, I knew the torturers had lied."
"The Center for Victims of Torture exposes that lie of loneliness, day in and day out, one human story at a time," she said.
Even though you didn't get to hear their voices or see their faces, remember that when you think about the family I described here. They are still too afraid to reveal their identity, but they are not alone.
Their torturers lied, too.


Chaired by the Dean, the Chapter is formed of all the Residentiary Canons and up to four other Chapter Canons (appointed by the Bishop after consultation with the Dean, the Bishop's Council and the Standing Committee of the Diocesan Synod).
The Very Reverend Jonathan Greener trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.
Becky is Diocesan Director of Ordinands and joined Chapter in 2017.
Jenny's career was spent in the Civil Service, mostly in legal departments. She joined in Chapter in 2017.
James Mustard was installed as Canon Precentor in March 2018.
John Endacott joined the Chapter in May 2017.


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I use CHAR (characteristic) saves a lot in my games; I like to get as much mileage out of the characters' stats as possible. For success, I require that the player roll below their relevant stat score — for example, if you have an INT of 15, for a successful (unmodified) INT save you'd have to roll 14 or less.
Where success in a situation is a matter of luck, or the grace (or anger) of the gods, I use the standard level-based character save mechanism with a d20, but where it's a matter of the character's own physical or mental abilities, a CHAR save is more appropriate.
I've vacillated between using 3d6 and 1d20, but I've decided to stick permanently with 3d6 from now on. The graph shown here (which, as usual, you can clickupon to bloatify) describes the result curves for each.
The d20 curve is perfectly straight. You're as likely to roll a 1 or 20 as you are to roll any other number. It's simple, but that's about all it has going for it, and it doesn't reflect the distribution of stat scores as rolled. Compared with the 3d6 curve, it markedly benefits those with very low stats, and markedly penalizes those with very high stats.
With 3d6, on the other hand, your chance of success in a simple, unmodified CHAR save better reflects the rarity of exceptional (or pathetic) stat scores, and positive or negative modifiers can become significant much faster than in the linear d20 scale — for example, if you have an INT of 9 and you make a CHAR save at +2, on d20 that gives you +10% chance of success, while on 3d6 it means +25%. If you're making the save at -2 on the other hand, while on the d20 scale it's just -10%, on the 3d6 curve it's actually -16.6%, and those penalties or benefits flatten out a lot at either end of the curve.
What I haven't quite figured out just yet is how to accommodate CHAR scores beyond the 3-18 range, especially in CHAR-vs-CHAR contests. I have an idea or two, but I think I need to do some more maths to see whether they'll work as I hope they will.
Anyway, BELL CURVES RULE! LINEAR SCALES DROOL! YEAH!
No. of dice
Average Roll
Very easy 1d6 1-6 3.5
Easy 2d6 2-12 7
Average 3d6 3-18 10.5
Difficult 4d6 4-24 14
Heroic 5d6 5-30 17.5
Superheroic 6d6 6-36 21
Legendary 7d6 7-42 24.5
Mythic 8d6 8-48 28
As mentioned in the comments, those with stats over 18 could be assumed to automatically pass any unmodified CHAR save, and very difficult unopposed tests could just require more dice — 4, 5, 6 or more d6, with the players (or monsters) still required to roll below their relevant stat. All that would be required on my part would be to formulate a rational scale of difficulty, probably a FUDGE-like descriptive scale would be most useful, methinks.
As far as opposed CHAR-vs-CHAR rolls go, I'm tending towards a dice-pool system in which you get 1d6 for every 3 points in the relevant stat, and then do a roll-off. The opponent who rolls the highest score wins the contest.
Carrion Fly (p.12)
I was leafing through my copy of the Swords & Wizardry Monster Book this evening, and scribbled pictures of a couple of the critters therein: the Carrion Fly and the Clawed Fiend. Et voila!
I don't know how closely my imagination matches those of the people who originally came up with the monsters in question, but there you are anyway.
Clawed Fiend (p.14)
I'm running a megadungeon at the moment. The party are in Hell, though they haven't yet experienced much hellishness. Yet. Muahahahahahaaaaa.... and all that.
Anyway, I have to say that I'm not a great fan, as a DM, of the traditional sprawling twisty-turny megadungeon level map.
The reason for my lukewarm acceptance of this model of mapping is purely to do with manageability. A map like this is going to require pages and pages of room and encounter descriptions, even if they're pared down to the bone.
That means a lot of page-turning, and inevitably there will be times when numbered encounters, which may be adjacent on the map, will be pages apart in the written descriptions.
That adds a level of confusion I don't need.
Additionally, the sprawling nature of the map means that the party could go just about anywhere, any time, which makes it that much harder for me to plan ahead, or to take into account relationships between dungeon denizens on the fly, or to foreshadow upcoming event possibilities. I don't mind having to do a little prep work as DM, but I prefer to keep it as minimal as possible.
These little maps by Dyson, on the other hand, are relatively limited in terms of their geography.
I can fit a whole map on a single A4 page at a scale large enough to read easily and to make legible notes on, and I can fit the written descriptions for the whole map on a single facing page.
The modules can be easily interlinked just by noting where the exits are, and how each exit connects with any of the other maps. They could all be part of the same level, or they could be scattered across dungeon levels.
Best of all, wherever the party goes, the map and description are right there together — which makes for excellent manageability. The end result is transparent to the players; as far as they're concerned, all of the maps might as well be one huge many-folded confusing mega-map.
And if I decide, on the spur of the moment, to introduce an area in which all the tunnels are made of rotting meat, swarming with black beetles, worms and maggots, it's a piece of cake to introduce a new map into the ecosystem.
Monumental carving in Romania honoring Decebalus, a general who handed the Romans their collective arse.
I use Ascending Armour Class (in which a higher AC number means better armour) in my game, because I find it makes combat easier for everybody. However, while I was gazing slack-jawed into nowhere this morning, it occurred to me that Descending Armour Class (in which a lower AC number is better) could be usefully employed to modify a character's initiative score. Like so:
First, roll 1d12.
(Why a d12? Because d12s are cool, and they aren't used nearly enough. Stick with a d6 if you must, it doesn't really make any difference.)
Then modify the roll as follows:
± AC score
± DEX modifier
± any magical bonus/penalty for armour
Three modifiers to a roll are too many for regular off-the-cuff calculation, in my opinion. But in this case they'd generally only have to be worked out once and noted on one's character sheet.
If you wanted to go that way, you could also build in modifiers for long/short/heavy/light weaponry as well, though that might start getting a bit convoluted.
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I was looking at one of my recent character sheet designs today, and it struck me that, though efficient, it was rather sterile.
So I whipped up this little one, which will fit on an A5 card. Alternately, you could print it at the head of an A4 (or letter) sheet and have a whole lot of extra space to make other notes on.
This one is not sterile. This one is... woogly.
You can grab the PDF here — it's only about 37 K.


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The Fed easily could make stocks spring higher, says J.P. Morgan
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U.S. stocks set for a wobbly open as Facebook continues to fall
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Zuckerberg saved tens of millions of dollars by selling Facebook stock ahead of Monday's decline
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg saw his net worth decline by about $5 billion Monday, but it could have been worse. See full story.
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Kushner Cos. is facing investigation for filing false building permits
The real-estate firm controlled by the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, routinely filed false paperwork with New York City, declaring it had no rent-regulated tenants in buildings it owned, when it actually had hundreds, the AP reported. See full story.
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