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Father Thrashes his 16-year-old Son for Refusing to Convert to Christianity in Mysuru, Karnataka
TOPICS:Breaking IndiaChristian ExtremismChristian ProselytizationCrypto ChristiansintolerancekarnatakaMissionary
BY: HinduPost Desk June 22, 2017
In a shocking incident that demonstrates how the Christian conversion mafia fractures society and spreads poison, a father who got converted to Christianity went on an angry rampage against his own son for refusing to abandon Hindu Dharma.
The incident has been reported by local news channel TV9 Kannada from Tiger Block, H.D. Kote Taluka, Mysuru district, Karnataka:
As per a translation of the above news clip provided by @by2kaafi, this is how the incident unfolded –
Around one year back, a local man Ravi & his family were converted to Christianity by one Pastor Jayakumar from HD Kote who used to visit their village regularly. But Ravi's 16-year-old son Pavit was unhappy and wanted to stay a Hindu. Pavit used to regularly do puja in Yellamma temple.
Before conversion, Ravi was a "Guddappa," i.e. by tradition, he had to have long hair; after conversion, he got his hair cut & 4 people in his family converted. The 16 y/o son didn't and the father-son duel on this issue had happened 3-4 times earlier as well.
This time, when the father assaulted his son and chased after him with a wooden board, the villagers took a video & complained to police to intervene in the matter.
The son Pavit has been insisting that he will stay in Hindu Dharma. The father says that the son has to quit the house. After this chasing incident, police have taken the father into custody.
One of the villagers speaking to the news channel claims that there are 600 voters in village, out of which around 300 are now converted. The villager gives the name of the visiting Pastor as Vijaykumar and says that he runs a Christian prayer house in the village. Other villagers have started a Sanatan Seva Sangha to counter his conversion activities.
The Pastor's modus operandi – he starts by giving a shampoo or soap that can be used at home; women folk are converted first.
@by2kaafi has dug out this old social media post, where one 'Jayakumar Dubbala' (note the completely Hindu name – this is the new normal for the crusading evangelists spreading hate across the countryside) has shared a photo showing 'pastors of HD Kote praying and blessing land acquired for building a Church'. It is likely that this is the same Pastor Jayakumar referred to in the TV9 Kannada report.
On Conversion
Swami Vivekananda – "And then every man going out of the Hindu pale is not only a man less, but an enemy the more."
Mohandas Gandhi – ""If I had the power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytising… In Hindu households the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.""


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Paul Walker's Daughter Meadow, 21, Takes Selfie With Vin Diesel's 3 Kids: Pic
Fast & Furious family! Paul Walker's 21-year-old daughter, Meadow, posed for a picture with Vin Diesel's three children.
Paul Walker: His Life In Photos
"Family, forever," the California native captioned a Monday, June 29, Instagram photo. In the social media upload, Meadow smiled in a maroon hoodie while Hania, 12, Vincent, 10, and Pauline, 5, (named after Walker), smiled from behind her.
family, forever
A post shared by Meadow Walker (@meadowwalker) on Jun 29, 2020 at 8:13am PDT
The photo came seven months after Diesel, 52, wished his late costar's daughter a happy 21st birthday via Instagram.
Fast and the Furious: Look Back At the Franchise
"I could say that I am so proud of the person you are becoming… but the truth is I have always been proud of you. Happy Birthday Meadow," the actor captioned a November photo. "I know it's your 21st and you wanted to go big in Japan, but the family has a cake waiting for you when you get home, so hurry. Love you kid. Uncle Vin."
Jordana Brewster, who plays Mia Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise, wrote in a post of her own: "Happy birthday @meadowwalker. You are a soul sister and I love you with all my [heart]."
Meadow replied, "Awe this made me so so so happy! I love you. Soul sisters forever."
Walker died in November 2013 at age 40 when his daughter was 15. The Young and the Restless alum's Porsche Carrera GT crashed into two trees and a concrete lamppost.
Paul Walker and Vin Diesel Willi Schneider/Shutterstock
Celebrities and Their Look-Alike Kids
"The last three years have been some of the hardest of my life because of losing my brother like that," Diesel told Entertainment Tonight in December 2016. "We've felt the loss."
The Bloodshot star added at the time: "I'd been to Brazil two times before, and both times that I've been here, I've always been with my brother. It was a lot of tissues, and it was a hard morning for me yesterday because I was here. But the irony is the whole cast reached out, and his daughter, Meadow, reached out, and all that stuff helps you get through it."

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I don't think I can find enough words of praise to describe our overnight stay at Casas do Rio at Cossourado, near Barcelos and Braga in Portugal, but I'm going to try.
When Greg was looking for ways to break a 33.6km Camino stage into 2 more manageable stages, he did a search on booking.com to see what accommodation was available at or near the halfway mark. Casas do Rio came at the top of the list, thanks to their amazing rating of 9.6 (out of a possible 10). We wanted to stay there, just to see how good this place was. The fact that it is located just 1.5km from the Camino route, at the half-way point of the longest stage, was a bonus.
So …. what's so good about this place? Well, everything. I know, this is going to sound like some tacky travel promotion, but we want to write it all down so we remember our stay there, plus give the owners of the 16th century Casas do Rio some well-deserved publicity and encourage anyone going to Portugal to plan a short or long stay at this wonderful haven. As well as being a beautiful place, the customer service is outstanding.
Jose and Cristina Amaro have owned Casas do Rio for the last 9 years and have spent a lot of time renovating both the buildings and the grounds. The 6-room boutique hotel is managed by their daughter Sofia, who originally suggested that it should be opened to the public. It's only been open for 7 months, but judging from the reviews and feedback, it has been an outstanding success. Our bedroom with ensuite was on the 1st floor of the stables. There are a total of 4 double bedrooms, plus a family room and a suite. The large grounds have lots of fruit and nut trees, chickens, ducks, geese & swans, and a sparkling clean pool which we spent some time swimming in, and lying beside.
There are a couple of restaurants nearby, but we just didn't have the energy to walk to any of them, so our very kind hosts offered to cook us a meal, and we gratefully accepted. We ate on the terrace just outside the stables and chatted with Jose and our fellow guests, a couple from Germany who have travelled a lot in Portugal and who also thought that Casas do Rio was one of the best places they had ever stayed at.
The following morning, we had the most incredible buffet breakfast I have ever seen, anywhere. All homemade, from home-grown produce, cooked on one of their two wood stoves. At least 3 different kinds of cake (Greg's idea of the perfect breakfast), a vegetable quiche, a chicken and tomato pie, 3 different kinds of home-made jams, home-made yoghurt with red-berry jam, a platter of fresh fruit, breads, meats and cheeses. And 3 home-made juice combinations. Our hosts encouraged us to take any leftovers with us for our lunch, so we made some ham and cheese rolls and enjoyed them later in the day.
I was very sorry to leave Casas do Rio after such a short stay, but walked out of there feeling relaxed, rested and reinvigorated, and ready to do a day's walk. And I'm already planning our next holiday in Portugal, with at least a week's stay at Casas do Rio! It's the perfect place for pilgrims, foodies, tourists and travellers.
17kms. After the traumas and exhaustion of 30km yesterday, we had an easy day today. The section from Barcelos to Ponte de Lima is 33.6km, much more than we want to walk in a day. So we split it into two, detouring 1km (see map) to Casas do Rio at Cossourado, near Sao Bento close to the half-way mark of the stage.
It was market day (every Thursday) in Barcelos so we spent time wandering around an enormous market, that had been set up in the town square. Everything from fruit and vegetables, to furniture, to clothes to handicrafts. We left at 11:00am, walking out in warm weather about 26C. We were passed by another pilgrim from Spain. We are meeting pilgrims everyday, when in the camino before Porto, we were lucky to see a pilgrim once a week. It was all quiet roads and farms tracks until we reached Portela, where we saw the new Alberque that has been built, and bought 3 litres of cold bottled water from a cafe (they gave us two glasses to drink it). We crossed Ponte das Tauas, where we met a pilgrim from Amsterdam who (with his dog) has been on the road since last August (walking all the way from Amsterdam to the Camino Frances, and then backwards along the Camino Portuguese).
We then left the camino at San Bento to walk to Casas do Rio, which without doubt is the best place we have stayed at on the whole camino.
30 km. It was a long day that we could not avoid because we are behind schedule and cannot have too many short days. We were up early at the unprecendented time of 6:30am. The pilgrams in the other room had to eat breakfast in our room (we had the kitchen) and they wanted to eat at 7:00am. We were on the road by 7:45am. It was a short walk to the centre of Viarinho, where we found a pastalaria open, so we had a chance to have a bit of extra breakfast. Breakfast at the hostel was only coffee and biscuits.
We walked a kilometre up the road, which thankfully had a footpath, then left the main road for quiet country lanes. However we were soon back to the main road, with stone walls at the sides facing oncoming traffic. Greg donned the safety vest and his flashing headlight torch. It lasted about 1km and then we had a footpath, and left the main road again. We had forest paths most of the way to Sao Pedro de Rates, where we stopped at the local bar/cafe and had an icecream and drink. It was warm, and sunny, about 26C, and we enjoyed the shade under the umbrella. We left Sao Pedro de Rates and went through quiet dirt tracks through farming country.
As we approached Petra Furada we were forced back to N-306. This section of road had large signs warning drivers to be aware of pilgrams walking on the road. However it was narrow again with stone walls either side, and we were forced to walk on the road. On the first corner we faced a semi-trailer and several cars behind it (who could not see us), and we squeezed ourselves against the stone wall while the truck and cars went past. This section was probably 1km long, but half-way along, while a tractor was travelling the same way as us on the other side of the road, a hoon in an Audi overtook the tractor at high speed squeezing between us and the tractor missing us by centimetres.
When we reached the end of the road, Judy was all for us taking a taxi the rest of the way to Barcelos, she thought it was just too dangerous. We stopped at the Restaurnt at Petra Furada where the proprieter, who has been trying to improve safety for pilgrims, convinced us that the road ahead was much better, and that if we took a scenic detour (over a large hill) it would be a quiet walk into Barcelos.
We took up his suggestion and climbed up 290m to Capela de Sta da Franqueira along a quiet tree-lined shady road. We had great views of the Atalantic ocean from the summit.
We decended down from summit to walk though the suburbs of Barcelos, over the bridge, and along to our hotel. We were pretty exhausted for the day. However we managed to both limp about 800metres to a nice restaurant that did not have any other customers, but provided a nice meal of veal stroganoff (no pork involved).
26km. A really horrible day's walking, probably our worst of either Camino. The first half was spent walking through Porto's northern suburbs on cobblestone paths and roads.It's very well-marked, but on the N13, a busy major road. At the 10km mark at Araujot, the camino route used to leave and go on a smaller road, but pilgrims used to have to cross dual carriageway with a central barrier dividing the road! Yikes! The new alternate route goes along the busier N13, and requires no death-defying road-crossing feats. Those come later in the day for everyone regardless of which route they take at Araujo.
We did a total of 20kms on cobblestones, then the remainding 6km on sealed roads, through the villages of Mosteiro, Vilar, Giao and finally to our destination, Vilarinho. We had been somewhat unexcited about staying at Vilarinho as our guidebook listed a pilgrim alburgue as the only accommodation. The thought of sharing a room with up to 15 other people, at least one of whom snores, sleeping in bunk beds and being woken by the endless rattle of plastic bags at 5am just isn't our idea of what a camino is all about, so we were delighted to meet a gentleman at Mosteiro who told us about his 'hostel' in Vilarinho. It's actually a self-contained unit at the back of his house with space for up to 4 people. There is a double bedroom, kitchen-loungeroom with another double bed and a shared bathroom. 10 euros per person including breakfast, and there are also washing and drying facilities.
So we were pretty happy about finding some nice accommodation, and after the horrors of the last 4km of the day, we needed it! We had to walk on a road that was barely 2 lanes wide, with absolutely no margin at all. Stone walls on either side, fairly busy road that we had to keep on crossing to avoid meeting oncoming traffic on blind corners. I'm amazed that the camino route hasn't been changed to quieter, safer roads – if today had been my first day of walking a camino, it might also have been my last – really scary walking conditions.
18km. A very cold start to our walking day, with rain on and off for most of the morning. We didn't get breakfast at the Residencial we stayed at last night, so we walked 3+km to Grijo and got coffee and cheese rolls at a little cafe there. Most of the day's walk was on paved roads through the southern suburbs of Porto, with one section of unpaved and cobblestoned Roman road. Of all the surfaces we walk on, cobblestones have got to be The Worst! Hard, uneven and unpredictable. I'm sure they are rough on the cars that drive on them as well.
We stopped a couple of times for snacks along the way, but it was too cold to sit for too long, so we just kept on walking and reached our hotel in Porto by 3pm. We're staying at the B&B Hotel Porto Centro, a gorgeous new hotel in an old cinema. There is a large B&W photo of Ingrid Bergman on the wall of our room.
Rest day tomorrow, which will give us a chance to see a bit of Porto.
Porto stage options: If you are walking to Porto there is another hotel that has been built about 7km north of Sao Joao Da Madeira. It is the Hotel Feira Pedra Bela. This would make the leg to Porto a more manageable 28km.
18 km. The final stretch to Porto according to John Brierleys Camino Portuguese guide is a gruelling 34.3km. The only option to break it into smaller chunks is to stop at Grijo, which we aimed to do. It rained on us last night when we went to dinner, so this mornings dark clouds made us expect that we would be walking in rain today.
After a nice breakfast we packed up and headed out, down the road to Pingo Doce (a supermarket) for some fresh bread for lunch. We are walking to Porto on a Saturday and Sunday, and have learnt from experience that not many places are open Saturday, and even less on Sunday, so extra supplies are required. It was cold overcast, but it was not raining , so it was a meander through the suburbs, including another long steep hill, until we found a bar open (at the 4km mark) where we stopped in the warm for some drinks and rest. It was then our favourite highway the N-1. However because it was Saturday there was less traffic on the N-1, and a lot less trucks. We left the N-1 at Malaposta where we walked along the old Roman Via XVI road, with a short stretch of original Roman road.
Through long stretches of villages including Ferradal and Vergada. At Vergada we stopped for an icecream to think. We had a 5km stretch to Grijo, and then we had to backtrack east about 1.5km to get to the only hotel in the area. We pulled out our GPS and worked out it would be only 3.3km to go straight up the road to the hotel rather than the long detour. After 30 minutes it finally started raining. It rained for about four minutes and then stopped. We made it to the slightly run-down Residencial Sobreiro Grosso. Tomorrow we have 18.3km to walk into Porto.
10km. An easy day with just a few hours' walking, interrupted by a coffee break, a stop for lunch and a visit to a Lidl supermarket – they are similar to the Aldi business model. Yesterday's stage plus today's stage were actually one long 30km stage in our guidebook, but we decided to split it into 2 days. Thank goodness – I had tendonitis in one foot yesterday, and 22km was about as much as I could manage. And at the 6km point today, there was this absolute doozy of a hill which would have reduced me to tears towards the end of an already long day's walk. Plus, the Hotel Dighton that we stayed at last night was lovely and it would have been a shame to miss its luxury and comfort.
22km. We woke up to a cloudy overcast and cool day. It really looked like it was going to rain, but it didn't. The hotel we stayed in didn't offer breakfast so we went to a nearby busy pastaleria for ham and cheese rolls and our staple, portuguese custard tarts.
Then it was heading out of town soon walking on Eucalyptus forest tracks. After 6km reached the very busy Highway N-1 again. We stopped in a cafe that sat less than a metre from a highway that was full of trucks, cars and semi-trailers (see video). The noise is constant, and how anyone lives near the road is amazing.We left the N-1 highway and walked through quiet roads towards Pinheiro da Benposta. We stopped at a lavadero so Judy could cool her feet. We originally thought these lavaderos where a relic of the past, but we have seen more women using them to wash clothes, so they are still in use.
We stopped at a busy pastaleria for an after lunch ice-cream and iced tea at Pinheiro da Benposta. We tried to post something at the local Portuguese post office Corrios, but of course they were closed for 90 minutes everyday for lunch.
Over the N-1 again (via pedestrian bridge) and then up the hill to an old fonte, that also had a lavadero built in it. Crossing the N-1 again, at traffic lights that did not have pedestrian lights, you just sort of guessed when to go. Through Travanca and then through a railway tunnel. 15 minutes later a train came through the tunnel.
It ws then a hard slog uphill into Oliveira de Azemeis, where we spent 30 minutes trying to find a Residential Hotel, that was closed for renovations, and a Pensao that we never found. We are staying at the four star Hotel Dighton, which offers a cheap pilgrim rate of 55 Euros for two.
16km – but somehow we still managed to stretch it out and take most of the day to do it. Knowing that we had a short distance to cover, we took our time over breakfast and packing up, so we left the Residencial Celeste at around 10am. First stop was the Pingo Doce supermarket 1km up the road to stock up on essential supplies of cakes, bread rolls and snacks. Then we spent most of the morning walking through long villages with lots of closed-up shops and houses, although we did stop at a very good cafe at the end of Trofa, just before we crossed the N1 at traffic lights! A bit more wandering through side roads, then back across the N1 and down onto a Roman road and bridge which date back to the 2nd Century.
The section after the Roman bridge has been altered – previously the Camino looped under the main road a couple of times and crossed the Rio Vouga via a side-bridge. However, a section of that bridge has collapsed, so the yellow arrows now point straight along the N1 and over the main bridge.
It was warm today, with not much shade for most of theday, but this afternoon we did walk through eucalyptus plantations for a while. On the outskirts of Albergaria-a-Velha, there is a large, modern supermarket – Intermarche. We wandered in there for a while to take advantage of their air-conditioning, and spent a long time browsing their refrigerated and frozen goods! We did buy some cold drinks which we consumed immediately.
Tonight we are staying at the Casa de Almeda in Albergaria-a-Velha – the first place we have stayed at on this trip which has shared bathroom facilities rather than an en-suite bathroom. Nice place, though and there's a restaurant just downstairs where we'll have dinner.
We are now halfway to Santiago.


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Sen. McSally, ex-Air Force pilot, says officer raped her
Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer, and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she "felt like the system was raping me all over again."
The Arizona Republican, a 26-year military veteran, made the disclosure at a Senate hearing on the military's efforts to prevent sexual assaults and improve the response when they occur. Lawmakers also heard from other service members who spoke of being sexually assaulted and humiliated while serving their country.
McSally said she did not report being raped because she did not trust the system, and she said she was ashamed and confused. She said she was impressed and grateful to the survivors who came forward to help change the system. She was in the ninth class at the Air Force Academy to allow women, and said sexual harassment and assault were prevalent. Victims mostly suffered in silence, she said.
McSally read from a prepared statement getting choked up at one point. She referred to "perpetrators" who had sexually assaulted her, an indication that she had been attacked more than once.
She did not say whether her assaults happened at the academy or during active duty. She didn't name any names.
She said she stayed silent for years. But later, as she watched the military grapple with how to handle sexual assaults, she felt like she should speak out.
"I was horrified at how my attempt to share generally my experiences was handled," she said. She almost left the Air Force after 18 years.
"Like many victims, I felt like the system was raping me all over again."
McSally's revelation comes not long after Sen. Joni Ernst , R-Iowa, detailed her own abuse and assault, and at a time of increased awareness over the problem of harassment and assault in the armed forces and the larger #MeToo movement that roiled Hollywood and major corporations.
Reports of sexual assaults across the military jumped nearly 10 percent in 2017 — a year that also saw an online nude-photo sharing scandal rock the Defense Department. Reporting for 2018 is not yet available. Reports of sexual assaults were also up at the military academies, most at West Point .
McSally said she shares in the disgust of the failures of the military system and many commanders who haven't address the problems of sexual misconduct. She said the public must demand that higher-ranking officials be part of the solution, setting the tone for their officers.
"We have come a long way to stop military sexual assault but we still have a long way to go," the senator said. "It took many years and too many lives ruined."
Her colleagues on the committee lauded her for coming forward.
"I'm deeply affected by that testimony," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
McSally told the Wall Street Journal last year that she had been sexually abused as a teenager by her high school track coach. She said the coach took advantage of her through "emotional manipulation" because her father had died. He denied the allegations.
McSally served in the Air Force from 1988 until 2010 and rose to the rank of colonel before entering politics.
In 2001, McSally sued the military so she would not be required to wear a head covering while she was stationed in the Middle East. McSally, who had worked as a national security aide for Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., was elected to the House in 2014 and served two terms.
She was appointed by Gov. Doug Ducey, R-Ariz., in December to replace the late GOP Sen. John McCain after she narrowly lost last year's race for Arizona's other Senate seat to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.
McSally had been critical of Donald Trump in 2016 but embraced a tough stance on immigration and praised the president during last year's midterm election.
She will serve until 2020, when voters will elect someone to finish the final two years of McCain's term.
Defense officials have argued that an increase in reported assaults reflects a greater willingness to report attacks, rather than indicating assaults are rising. Sexual assaults are a highly underreported crime, both in the military and across society as a whole. Greater reporting, they argue, shows there is more confidence in the reporting system and greater comfort with the support for victims.q
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NASCAR at Daytona Odds, Picks: Best Prop Bet for Saturday's Coke Zero 400
Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images. Pictured: Corey LaJoie, driver of the #32 Built Bar Ford
PJ Walsh
Aug 28, 2020, 08:16 AM EDT
Superspeedway racing is already unpredictable. Now throw in the added significance of Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 (7:30 p.m. ET, NBC) being the final race before the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs and we have all the makings of a wild night in Daytona.
This should lead to exciting racing under the lights, but what does it mean for NASCAR bettors?
The combination of pack racing and drivers risking it all to earn a playoff berth should lead to plenty of dicey moments and potentially wrecks taking out large portions of the field.
This, in turn, leads to unpredictability which often results in longshots finishing higher than they normally do each week.
As bettors, we can take advantage by pinpointing which of these sleepers are poised for overperformance and grabbing them at juicy numbers for top-10 finishes.
With this in mind, here is the driver I'm betting to finish in the top 10 at Daytona.
NASCAR at Daytona Odds, Betting Picks
Odds as of Friday at 7:30 a.m. ET and via FanDuel. Get up to a $500 risk-free bet at FanDuel today or see more offers and reviews for the best online sportsbooks.
Corey LaJoie (+550) for a Top-10 Finish
In the two Cup Series races run at Daytona since NASCAR got rid of restrictor plates, here are the number of drivers who have better average finishes than LaJoie … [crickets].
That's right, LaJoie is tied with Ryan Newman and Justin Haley (who won the summer race last year by staying out during a rain caution while the rest of the field pitted) with a series-best 7.0 average finish in those two events.
If we expand the sample size to five superspeedway races without restrictor plates by including three events at Talladega, LaJoie still has the fourth-best average finish in the series.
The No. 32 Go Fas Ford doesn't necessarily run up front all race, but LaJoie is very adept at biding his time, avoiding the "Big One" and inevitably finding himself toward the front of the field as the laps wind down.
There are no guarantees in NASCAR and betting, especially at superspeedways, but +550 is a fine price to take a crack at LaJoie scoring another top 10 at Daytona.
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Assume for the sake of contradiction that . Hence holds for some a and b that are coprime.
This implies that . Rewriting this gives .
Since the left-hand side of the equation is divisible by 2, then so must the right-hand side, i.e., . Since 2 is prime, we must have that .
So we may substitute a with , and we have that .
Dividing both sides with 2 yields , and using similar arguments as above, we conclude that . However, we assumed that such that that a and b were coprime, and have now found that and ; a contradiction.
Therefore, the assumption was false, and cannot be written as a rational number. Hence, it is irrational.
The following reductio ad absurdum argument is less well-known. It uses the additional information √2 > 1.
Assume that √2 is a rational number. This would mean that there exist integers m and n with n ≠ 0 such that m/n = √2.
Then √2 can also be written as an irreducible fraction m/n with positive integers, because √2 > 0.
Since √2 > 1, it follows that m > n, which in turn implies that m > 2n – m.
So the fraction m/n for √2, which according to (2) is already in lowest terms, is represented by (3) in strictly lower terms. This is a contradiction, so the assumption that √2 is rational must be false.
Similarly, assume an isosceles right triangle whose leg and hypotenuse have respective integer lengths n and m. By the Pythagorean theorem, the ratio m/n equals √2. It is possible to construct by a classic compass and straightedge construction a smaller isosceles right triangle whose leg and hypotenuse have respective lengths m − n and 2n − m. That construction proves the irrationality of √2 by the kind of method that was employed by ancient Greek geometers.


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617 million stolen accounts from 16 websites are now up for sale - are you at risk?
By Francis Navarro, Komando.com April 10th, 2019
It's been a rough start for cybersecurity in 2019 as hackers have been busy peddling their wares to usher in the new year. In January, we reported about Collection #1, a cache of data that affects nearly three-quarters of a billion email accounts and more than 20 million passwords from around 2,000 leaked databases.
Two weeks later, the existence of four other caches of data, named Collections #2 to #5, was revealed, exposing another 2.2 billion unique usernames and passwords.
And it looks like the hits will just keep on coming. It appears that another massive treasure trove of account details is up for grabs in the dark web. Is your data at risk?
Another set of stolen user credentials is up for grabs
This week, around 617 million account details stolen from 16 compromised websites are now on sale on the dark web. The seller's asking price for the stolen data? Less than $20,000 in Bitcoin.
The Register revealed that the databases were spotted on an underground trading site called The Dream Market, and samples tested from the collection appear to be legitimate. The cache of data includes account holder names, email addresses and passwords. The passwords, however, are either hashed or one-way encrypted so they have to be cracked before they can be used.
Other forms of information were also exposed, depending on the site and service, including location, personal details and social media authentication tokens. Thankfully, it looks like there are no payment and banking details in the sales listings.
But what is the dark web exactly? Click below and listen as Kim Komando breaks it down for you in this two-part podcast episode:
Why is this data so valuable?
These big databases of stolen details are valuable for a reason. The information can be used by hackers for a technique called "credential stuffing." This is when someone feeds the credentials to an automated program that tries them all out on various websites, hoping that people have reused their passwords on multiple services.
For example, a determined hacker can crack the weaker encrypted passwords on the list then try the email and password combinations on more critical services like Google, Facebook or banking sites.
List of compromised sites
The sites included in the list are a mishmash of messaging apps, fitness and photography social networking sites, gaming portals and even a DNA family-tree tracing service.
Some of the services, like MyHeritage and MyFitnessPal, have publicly disclosed their data breaches last year, but it's the first time we've heard about the others.
Do you have an account with these services? Here's a list of the compromised sites:
Dubsmash (162 million accounts)
MyFitnessPal (151 million accounts)
MyHeritage (92 million accounts)
ShareThis (41 million accounts)
HauteLook (28 million accounts)
Animoto (25 million accounts)
EyeEm (22 million accounts)
8fit (20 million accounts)
Whitepages (18 million accounts)
Fotolog (16 million accounts)
500px (15 million accounts)
Armor Games (11 million accounts)
BookMate (8 million accounts)
CoffeeMeetsBagel (6 million accounts)
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Q: How to detect usb in android tablet which act as USB Host? i have tried developing a sample app with the help of the code from USB Host.
public class MainActivity extends Activity {

UsbManager manager;
HashMap<String, UsbDevice> deviceList;
Button scanButton;
UsbDevice device;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    scanButton = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.button1);
    scanButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener ()
    {
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            checkForDevices ();
        }
    });
}

@Override
public void onResume ()
{
    super.onResume();
    checkForDevices ();
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
    return true;
}

protected void checkForDevices ()
{
    manager = (UsbManager) getSystemService(Context.USB_SERVICE);

    deviceList = manager.getDeviceList();
    device = deviceList.get("deviceName");
    //Collection<UsbDevice> devices = deviceList.values();

   if (device != null)
       Toast.makeText(this, "Device Found", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
   else
       Toast.makeText(this, "Device NOT Found", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}

When i run this code with a USB device connected, i get the Toast as "Device NOT Found".
can anyone help me out to fix this?
Thank You.

A: Check if your device supports host mode.
try this perhaps this may help: Android USB host and hidden devices

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Q: mysqli fails to set session timezone on connection. Remain UTC. On RDS mysql instance I'm on AWS using a mysql RDS instance version 5.5.40-log.
I'm using PHP 5.5.12 and connecting with mysqli.
I've been trying to track down an sql bug in a script and found that despite setting the timezone on the connection to 'Australia/Sydney' it remains in UTC and the sql call to now() returns the wrong time. So my results are out.
Below is a simplified call I'm making which, despite the TZ change makes no difference to the result of now().
$db = new mysqli("axxxx.chxxxxx.ap-soxxxxt-2.rds.amazonaws.com", "xxxx", "xxxxx", "xxxx");
$db->query("SET timezone = 'Australia/Sydney'");

$res = $db->query("SELECT @@session.time_zone tz, now() now");

for ($row_no = $res->num_rows - 1; $row_no >= 0; $row_no--) {
$res->data_seek($row_no);
$row = $res->fetch_assoc();
echo " id = " . $row['tz'] . "\n";
echo " now = " . $row['now'] . "\n";
}

This results in:
id = UTC
 now = 2015-06-07 01:46:05
Actual time here is 11:46.
If i log onto the mysql database through mysqlworkbench and run the same code it works. So the problem seems to be that the session TZ is not getting set on the php mysqli connection and I'm not sure why?
I can see the mysql.time_zone_name table is populated similar to:
Africa/Abidjan 1
Africa/Abidjan 2
...etc
EDIT
I create a new direct session in mysqlworkbench:
SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone; -- UTC UTC
SELECT now(); -- 2015-06-07 21:55:54 <<incorrect time

SET time_zone = 'Australia/Sydney';

SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone; -- UTC Australia/Sydney
SELECT now(); -- 2015-06-08 07:55:03 <<correct time

I used @@session.time_zone in my example as this is the variable updated when setting the time_zone system setting directly.
Replicating the same thing via mysqli and php does not update this and the now() function does not return the correct date. Hence something is missing.

A: You're setting timezone variable, but selecting @@session.time_zone. The right way is to set @@session.time_zone variable:
mysql> SET @@session.time_zone='Australia/Sydney';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> SELECT @@session.time_zone;
+---------------------+
| @@session.time_zone |
+---------------------+
| Australia/Sydney    |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)


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Arming US secret warriors: special forces run short of gear. Expansion of special units outpaces procurement
By Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
March 10, 1988 | Washington
The AC-130 is an Air Force gunship used by America's secret warriors. A transport plane modified by addition of a 105-mm howitzer and assorted small cannons, its job would be to loiter over a target and spray fire in support of special operations. Special force leaders say they want new AC-130s very much. Yet none have been bought in the last eight years, and more than half the small AC-130 inventory is now at least 20 years old.
This and other US special operations forces are today short of modern equipment, SOF leaders say. They say communications gear is still needed, as are various aircraft - despite the fact that back in 1981 the Reagan administration vowed to make improvement of secret forces a top Pentagon priority.
``The revitalization of SOF ... is still delayed,'' said Gen. James Lindsay, head of the US Special Operations Command, last week.
Key members of Congress, as well as administration officials, for a number of years have been pushing for refurbishment of Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, Delta Force, and other special units. These forces are intended for use in fighting terrorists and in other low-intensity conflicts, such as guerrilla war.
High-level dissatisfaction with SOF can be traced back at least to 1980, when the attempt to rescue the US hostages in Iran, code-named ``Desert One,'' ended in a swirl of dust and smashed helicopters.
Improvement of special forces is ``critically important to our national defense,'' a 1986 congressional report judged.
The Reagan administration has devoted large sums of money to this end. Since 1981, $9 billion has been devoted to special force modernization, according to this year's Defense Department Annual Report to Congress. Another $9 billion is scheduled to be spent between now and 1992. The number of major SOF units has increased from 16 to 24.
General Lindsay of Special Forces Command, at a recent breakfast with defense reporters, said, ``We've come a long way since Desert One.''
But he added that despite the money spent, there was still a way to go to modernize his newly enlarged forces. With Congress in no mood to vote increased defense funds, Lindsay said he is worried about reaching that destination.
He said US special forces need 38 Combat Talon transport planes, but at present have only 14. Only 8 of a projected force of 41 Pave Low special forces helicopters have been purchased.
When Lindsay looked at a rough draft of the 1989 budget, he found that programs important to special forces had been slashed 33 percent. After he complained, the cut was reduced to about 1 percent.
There is little money to be saved by cutting special forces deeply, Lindsay said, as they are one of the Pentagon's smaller activities.
``I'm the cheap command,'' he said.
Some members of Congress have long suspected that the US military does not look favorably on special forces. The command Lindsay heads was created by congressional order in 1986 to help ensure that SOF receive priority attention.
Congress also ordered creation of a new post at the Pentagon, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict. The job is still unfilled - a delay that has further hurt SOF readiness, congressional sources claim.
The Pentagon's first nominee, Justice Department official Kenneth Bergquist, withdrew after some lawmakers questioned his experience and dedication to the role of special forces. The new nominee, former ambassador Charles Whitehouse, should be better received, says a congressional aide who is following the issue. ``He's got stature,'' the aide says.
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Sonic Youth To Release Live Album
Christian Eede , May 23rd, 2019 15:10
A set performed by Sonic Youth 11 years ago gets a standalone release for a new live album
Sonic Youth have confirmed details of a new live album, Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008.
The show was recorded one year before the release of the band's last studio album, The Eternal, with that New York show recording having been included in fan pre-orders of the album as a limited bonus LP.
The release of Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008 marks the first time it's been issued as a standalone album, and it will be released via Matador on June 7. You can hear 'Bull in the Heather' from the album above.
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The WordPress content editor is notorious for eating/munching line breaks. This is because of a combination of WordPress functions which run "behind the scenes" whenever saving content or switching between "text" and "visual" views. WordPress will seek out recurring line breaks, and remove them from the editor.
Now, switch between "visual" and "text" views; or simply save the content. You will notice the break tags have disappeared; and the spacing where the break tags existed before has been reduced.
To get around this; WP Edit Pro has created a shortcode which can be used instead. Since WordPress sees this as a shortcode; it has no idea it is really a line break, sneaking it's way into the content editor.
We use the [break] shortcode whenever we need to insert a line break.
Now the editor will preserve our shortcode whenever saving or switching views. Then, when our content is viewed from the front end of the website; the shortcode will render as a line break in the html code that is output.
the

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Thanks for the feedback. Please let me know if you have any suggestions to make it better.


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Q: Transfer and trigger javascript code by ajax call with jsf I have some jsf-code with a tag that is re-rendered by an ajax call. It contains something like
<h:outputScript>alert("Gotcha")</h:outputScript>

but this is only executed on first load, not on an ajax induced partial render.
This is but a minimal example, what I'm really trying to do is to trigger some server-generated javascript right after the ajax-call has returned, something like
<h:outputScript>#{scriptBean.getScript()}</h:outputScript>

I've seen calling .trigger("click") that is in javascript code returned from an ajax call, Asynchronize ajax calls and javascript code, how to run call some Javascript code with jQuery as soon as element loads to page by Ajax? and Running javascript code called by AJAX, but neither questions nor answers look like they address my question, least not without some additional hint or explanation.
And because I want to keep things small and simple, and because I could avoid anything above jsf:core (mostly), I'd prefer solutions that avoid using yafl (== yet another fancy library).
Edit: as for the comment from @BalusC I post more context:
<composite:implementation>
    <h:form id="${cc.attrs.imgId}" styleClass="small" onchange="alert('Gotcha0');">
        <f:event type="postAddToView" listener="#{mBean.register}" />
        <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{mBean.init}" />
        <f:attribute name="flav" value="#{cc.attrs.flav}" />
        <h:graphicImage width="${cc.attrs.width}" id="${cc.attrs.imgId}"
            onclick="if (event.isTrusted) this.nextSibling.value=mods(event);"
            onmouseover="aa=this.id" alt="not found"
            onchange="alert('Gotcha1');"
            value="images/img?#{cc.attrs.flav}=#{mBean.getNextCount()}&imgId=#{cc.attrs.imgId}">
            <f:ajax event="click" execute="@form"
                onevent="function(data) { if (data.status === 'success') {
                console.log('HiHo'+data.responseCode+'\n\n'+ data.responseText+'\n\n'+data.responseXML);
                me=window.document.getElementById('#{cc.clientId}:#{cc.attrs.imgId}:#{cc.attrs.imgId}');
                me.nextSibling.nextSibling.value=0;
                me.nextSibling.value=0;
                me.myfunc=function(event)
                 {
                 console.log('keyCode='+event.keyCode+' mods='+mods(event)+'/'+this.nextSibling.id);
                    this.nextSibling.value=mods(event);
                    this.nextSibling.nextSibling.value=String.fromCharCode(event.keyCode);
                    this.click();
                 }; }; }"
                listener="#{mBean.handleEvent}" render="@this">
            </f:ajax>
        </h:graphicImage>
        <h:inputHidden id="m" value="#{mBean.keyX}" />
        <h:inputHidden id="k" value="#{mBean.key}" />
    </h:form>
    <h:outputScript>alert("Gotcha2")</h:outputScript>
    <h:outputScript>var i=0;window.document.getElementById('#{cc.clientId}:#{cc.attrs.imgId}:#{cc.attrs.imgId}').myfunc=function(event)
     {
     aa='#{cc.clientId}:#{cc.attrs.imgId}:#{cc.attrs.imgId}';
     this.nextSibling.value=mods(event);
     this.nextSibling.nextSibling.value=String.fromCharCode(event.keyCode);
     this.click();
     };
     </h:outputScript>
</composite:implementation>

"Gotcha2" shows up only at load time, once for each instance of the composite, but not when the component is re-rendered via ajax calls.
"Gotcha0" and "Gotcha1" are completely ignored.
The "HiHo" shows up for every ajax-call on the component, but I would like the function to fire only when the component is rendered, which is a subtle difference, because I might manipulate the render-list on server side, like
  private void addToRenderMap(String obj) {
    FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
    Collection<String> renderIds = context.getPartialViewContext().getRenderIds();
    renderIds.add(obj);
  }

or even remove the calling component from the list.
(For example, for keypress "i", I want to only show image information in some other component and avoid unnecessary re-sending of the image data.)
Edit2: I see that onchange really is more a onvaluechange for fields that take input, so it's not a big surprise that this part of the code is ignored.


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ESS was established in April 1995 and soon won its first contract SNH's Moorland and Montane Cairngorms Survey Programme, which ran in two stages, starting in 1995 and completed in 1997. National Vegetation Classification (NVC) surveys were undertaken across vast swathes of montane and moorland habitats, filling gaps in previous NVC coverage, and Habitat Impact Assessments were made by applying a suite of indicators to assess the impacts of deer, sheep and burning upon vegetation. The second year of our commission completed the baseline of the soon to be established Cairngorms National Park, and with statistician David Sales we conducted a replication study which assessed the repeatability of the survey methodology.
ESS's second commission was also with Scottish Natural Heritage in 1995-96. Director Paul Gill researched and wrote as senior author the then authoritative Review of Impacts of Wind Farms and other Aerial Structures upon Birds (Gill, Townsley & Mudge 1996), published as Scottish Natural Heritage's SNH Review No. 21.
From 1999-2000 ESS worked with Landscape Design Associates and Renewable Energy Systems developing good practice guidelines for the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) to assess the cumulative effects of wind turbines on birds (CEWT), through critical review of evidence, workshops consultation with stakeholders and by corresponding with an expert advisory group.
In 2009 ESS Director Paul Gill was a member of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), pilot Renewables Expert Support Network, providing advice to councils. Under this pilot programme and working closely with the Centre for Sustainable Energy he wrote the Technical Guidance Note for Planners on Birds & Wind Farms.


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No debating Christie will be on main stage again
Bob Jordan
@BobJordanAPP
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appears to be headed back to the main stage for the next Republican presidential primary debate after all.
CNBC is televising the Oct. 28 debate from Boulder, Colo., and announced Wednesday its using a format that will resemble the main and undercard shows presented by Fox News and CNN in the first two GOP prime-time debates.
A candidate will need a 2.5 percent average in qualifying polls to be on the main stage. Ten candidates currently meet that threshold, including Christie, who has a 3.75 percent average in four pre-approved polls. The cutoff for polling is Oct. 21.
More: Christie pardons three chraged for gun possession
"This is a nice development for Christie, (Rand) Paul, (John) Kasich, and (Mike) Huckabee, all of whom might have been on the bubble if the bar for inclusion would have been set higher,'' said Kyle Kondik from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Those looking for the debates to winnow down this giant field will be disappointed.''
Christie campaign officials did not respond to a request for comment. Ironically, the good news for the campaign from CNBC came on the same day a Suffolk University/USA Today Poll showed Christie at 1 percent support.
The USA Today result isn't included in CNBC's calculations, however. The network is using a narrow set of polls from NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN and Bloomberg.
More:Can Christie trump Trump?
Though officials from the Republican National Committee and CNBC had voiced a willingness to cut the number of debate participants, Kondik said the quest for a TV ratings winner had an impact.
"There's been so much interest and viewership for the first two debates that one can't blame CNBC in milking them for all that they're worth, which is what Fox and CNN did too,'' Kondik said.
The Fox debate on Aug. 6 attracted 24 million viewers, the highest-rated non-sports cable telecast of all time, and CNN pulled in a network-record 22.6 million viewers Sept. 16.
Bob Jordan 609-984-4343, bjordan@gannettnj.com


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package org.cagrid.tests.data.styles.cacore42.upgrade.from15;

import org.cagrid.data.test.creation.DataTestCaseInfo;
import org.cagrid.tests.data.styles.cacore42.upgrade.UpgradeStory;

public class SDK42DataServiceUpgradeTest extends UpgradeStory {

    public SDK42DataServiceUpgradeTest() {
        super();
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return "Tests upgrading a caGrid 1.5 Data Service backed by caCORE SDK 4.2 to the current version";
    }

    public DataTestCaseInfo getTestCaseInfo() {
        DataTestCaseInfo info = new DataTestCaseInfo() {
            public String getPackageName() {
                return "org.cagrid.test.data.with.sdk42";
            }

            public String getNamespace() {
                return "http://sdk42.with.data.test.cagrid.org/DataServiceWithSdk42";
            }

            public String getName() {
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Country is a strong, crusty, old-fashioned peasant bread with a mild sour flavor. its complexity is derived from a blend of starters combined with a hearty influence of whole wheat flour. the crust has a deep wholesome finish to it and many small air holes of the bread's interior give it a spongy consistency, good for sopping up soups and stews. it can be used to make bruschetta, crostini, or bread salad.
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Francese handmade from start to finish, francese is a naturally leavened bread that is hand cut on a marble table. the high content of water and long fermentation times, combined with the lack of handling of the dough produce an airy, moist, chewy bread with a strong crust and a mild sour flavor. it is a wonderful accompaniment to meals. its strong crust makes it fun to rip and dip into sauces or olive oil.
White Rye seedless white rye - this lighter version of our rye has a dense body and a snappy, tangy flavor. it is made as a combination of white rye and wheat flour, and unlike the dark rye this version has no caraway seeds and no dark rye flour, providing a less intense, but flavorful rye experience.
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French traditional french is made with a poolish starter (fermented yeast, flour and water). light and airy in texture and with a thin, soft crust, our french has its own distinct flavor of delicate sweetness. it does not harden as quickly other yeasted breads can. the french pullman is a favorite of iggy's kids for making toast and yummy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Bread Sticks made from our french dough, these puffy light bread fingers, invented for fun, have surprised us with their popularity. the plain breadsticks, delicate and soft, are a favorite of children. the parmesan are a blending of strong flavors: the tangy zip of parmiggiano regianno with the spicy kick of chili flakes and oregano.
Olive Bread we stopped the bread but the rolls keep coming, full of softness and tasty olives. these rolls are puffy, light, and soft. the base is a yeasted dough, with a mixture of kalamata and green olives that provide for a subtle olive flavor. we like them plain, as an accompaniment to food, as they intentionally do not interfere with the meal.
Ficelle "ficelle" means string in french. the long, skinny, stick shape of this bread is coupled with a distinct sourdough flavor and a lovely crusty chewiness. it is ideal for slicing into rounds for hors d'oeuvres or cutting down the middle for a special sandwich. we also love it dipped in olive oil.
Deep Dish Focaccia we developed this focaccia from our francese dough. it is essentially a big chunk of airy, bubbly dough, topped with olive oil and fresh organic rosemary, organic garlic or organic roasted onions. in our store it is sold in chunks - great for making stuffing and croutons, or slicing for sandwiches. we also slice it thin and bake it into toast, topped with tangy parmesan regianno cheese and spicy red pepper flakes.
Flat Focaccia we remember when martha stewart filmed us making this special bread in 1995. it comes in different flavor combinations: olive and fresh thyme, roasted onion and fresh rosemary, potato and leek, and many others. made out of francese dough, it is chewy and airy with decadent flavors dancing on top. the vegetables and herbs are all peeled, chopped and roasted by hand, and almost always organic.
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Pain De Mie pain de mie means "bread of crumb" in french, or "crust-less" bread. baked in rectangular pans with lids, these 100% organic flour, naturally leavened loaves have very little crust, but tons of moisture and deep flavor. it is the shape of your classis "sandwich bread", and we make three types: white, whole wheat, and rye. we love organic flour and hope it will be contagious and spread quickly to all of our breads. isn't it amazing that good bread can be just flour, water, and sea salt.


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Recent graduates of Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) training programs at Northwestern Michigan College and Baker College of Cadillac had an opportunity to meet with potential employers at a job fair in Traverse City. The event was put on by the Northwest Michigan Healthcare Skills Alliance in collaboration with Northwest Michigan Works! Watch the video to learn more about the CNA job fair.
Recent graduates of the Certified Nurse Aide or CNA programs at Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) and Baker College of Cadillac, had an opportunity to meet potential employers at a reverse job fair in Traverse City. The event was hosted by the Healthcare Skills Alliance of Northwest Michigan in collaboration with Northwest Michigan Works! The reverse job fair was designed to give a relatively small group of CNA program graduates a chance to meet face to face with local healthcare providers who employ CNAs.
"It was really helpful because a lot of places only take online applications," said Trinette Dean, a recent graduate of the CNA training program at NMC. "Having them all here in one room made it a lot easier."
"The face to face aspect is real important," said Leslie Etienne, the Grand Traverse Pavilions employee benefits manager. "It's great for them to get to meet us and for us to see them."
Trinette Dean was one of the recent CNA program grads who took advantage of the opportunity to meet with potential employers. Dean says she's always wanted to be a nurse and saw the CNA training as a step in that direction. But as a single mom who was already going to college, she couldn't afford the training until she received a Healthcare Skills Alliance scholarship.
"If I hadn't had that I wouldn't have been able to do it at all," said Dean.
She hopes the job fair will help her land a CNA job so she can work in the healthcare field while she continues to work on her nursing degree.
"I want to go in to working as a CNA so I can get the experience necessary to be a better nurse," said Dean.
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A person smokes marijuana on August 9, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration isn't going to reclassify marijuana and remove it from the list of the most dangerous drugs.
The Drug Enforcement Administration says in a lengthy notice in the Federal Register that it consulted with the Health and Human Services Department and concluded that marijuana will remain in the class of drugs that have "no accepted medical use in the United States."
The agency is opening the door to further medical research of the drug by expanding the number of agencies that can legally grow marijuana for research purposes. Currently only researchers at the University of Missouri have the government's permission to grow pot.
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Tree Rings Corroborate Vinland Viking Sagas
BY JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D. * |
After Leif Eiriksson's original voyage to North American shores, the Greenland Vikings remained in "Vinland the Good" for a time—but for how long? A couple of decades, at least, according to new evidence reported in Nature.1,2
The new evidence comes from old samples. Dozens of radiocarbon dates taken from wooden artifacts excavated at L'Anse aux Meadows [in Newfoundland] in the 1960s showed the site was about 1,000 years old. But radiocarbon dating was in its infancy at the time, and the margin of error was often measured in decades or even centuries.1
Now, it looks like Greenlanders migrated seasonally—if not settling for entire years—for at least 21 years after Leif's historic voyage of discovery in A.D. 1000. Evidence for this comes from recent dendrochronology data that links to solar storm indicators.
In A.D. 993, a storm on the sun released an enormous pulse of radiation that was absorbed and stored by trees all over the Earth. Now, that solar event has proved a critical tool in pinpointing an exact year the Vikings were present in the Americas.1
Historical records, cross-indexed by corroborating forensic science-verified evidences, report that Leif "the Lucky" Eiriksson and his Greenland Viking crew visited "Vinland the Good"—apparently somewhere at or near Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Labrador, and/or Maine—during the year A.D. 1000.3
Because 11th century Greenland was virtually devoid of timber—which was always needed for many purposes—the unlimited supply of timber, in Vinland and in nearby Markland (today's Labrador), attracted repeated voyages by Greenlanders' knarr longships. Unsurprisingly, these Vikings enjoyed Vinland's coastal salmon, which they reported as larger than what they caught in Greenland's coastal waters.3
So, sailing-weather permitting, seasonal visits continued and acquired valuable timber, anadromous salmon in tidewaters and coastal streams, easily-harvested fruit (including wild grapes), as well as multi-year settlements.
But the climate was slowing changing in North Atlantic regions, as the Medieval Warm Period shifts slowly but surely into the Little Ice Age. Accordingly, as the number of ice-free travel months shrunk—between Greenland and North American shorelands—the opportunities for safe travel between Vinland and Greenland dropped.3
But some are skeptical that Greenland Vikings ever visited Vinland so frequently after Leif's original visit. That skepticism, however, is now challenged by a combination of dendrochronology (calculating timeframes according to tree ring analysis3) linked to empirically observable marks of historic solar storm activity.1
Now, thanks to that cosmic storm in 993, researchers can assuredly say that Vikings were working away at their tiny outpost in the north Atlantic exactly 1,000 years ago, in 1021, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.1
Microscope image of a wood fragment from the Norse layers at L'Anse aux Meadows.
Image credit: Petra Doeve
This calculation (of exactly 1,000 years ago) is based upon examining tooled wood—wood that had been clearly shaped by tools Native Americans did not possess. This wood contains tree ring "spikes" that indicate the A.D. 993 solar storms, and counting outward from these "spikes" to the bark yields 28 rings, supposedly representing 28 years. However, this method assumes that each year between A.D. 993 and A.D. 1021 had exactly one growth ring, which might or might not have been the case. This further assumes that the tree was felled (and stopped producing growth rings) in the same year that Vinland Vikings used woodworking tools on its timber.
Transatlantic exploration took place centuries before the crossing of Columbus. Physical evidence for early European presence in the Americas can be found in Newfoundland, Canada [at L'Anse aux Meadows] … Here we provide evidence that the Vikings were present in Newfoundland in AD 1021. We overcome the imprecision of previous age estimates by making use of the cosmic-ray-induced upsurge in atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations in AD 993.2
The scientists described their research methodology as follows:
In our study, we use an advanced chronometric approach to anchor Norse activity in the Americas to a precise point in time. Exact-year 14C results can be achieved by high-precision accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) in combination with distinct features in the atmospheric 14C record. Measurements on known-age (dendrochronological) tree rings show that 14C production usually fluctuates by less than 2% per year. However, such time series have also revealed that production of the isotope rapidly increased in the years AD 775 and AD 993 by about 12% (which manifests as a decrease of about 100 14C yr)24 and about 9% (about 70 14C yr), respectively. These sudden increases were caused by cosmic radiation events, and appear synchronously in dendrochronological records all around the world. By uncovering these features in tree-ring samples of unknown age, it is possible to effect precise pattern matching between such samples and reference series. In so doing, if the bark edge (or more specifically, the waney edge) is also present, it becomes possible to determine the exact felling year of the tree. Moreover, it is not necessary to have 14C dates for the outermost growth rings, because once the ring that contains the AD 993 anomaly has been detected, it simply becomes a matter of counting the number of rings to the waney edge. On the basis of the state of development of the earlywood and latewood cells in the waney edge, one can even determine the precise felling season.2
Of course, this specific set of data observations, as so analyzed, only established the timeframe (almost to the year, assuming that each year is represented by one and only one growth ring4) for when the trees were felled, presumably by Vinland-visiting Vikings, that were used to produce the wood that was dendrochronologically analyzed 1000+ years later. Obviously, the Vikings who visited Vinland felled more than one tree—and did so over a series of years.
So, the researchers' primary conclusion is justified, by their use of some empirical science to corroborate historical facts previously established by forensic science:
We provide evidence that the Norse were active on the North American continent in the year AD 1021. This date offers a secure juncture for late Viking chronology. More importantly, it acts as a new point-of-reference for European cognisance of the Americas … In addition, our research demonstrates the potential of the AD 993 anomaly in atmospheric 14C concentrations for pinpointing the ages of past migrations and cultural interactions. Together with other cosmic-ray events, this distinctive feature will allow for the exact dating of many other archaeological and environmental contexts.2
As has been reported previously by this author, judging assumptions is very important for learning about no-longer-observable events of the past, because apart from a reliable eyewitness it is easy to guess amiss.5 Thus, in this case—involving Viking tool-worked wood remains, the dendrochronology analysis, standing alone, could be easily misinterpreted by wrong assumptions. However, the greater context of forensic science factors—including review of Norse Viking coin evidence (found in Maine), the Viking spindle whorl (also found at L'Anse aux Meadows), corroborative Icelandic sagas, as well as reports of Markland's features by other European contemporaries, etc.—is needed to ensure an adequately contextualized evidence-weighed analysis.3
Meanwhile, the ultimate illustration of this evidentiary principle is the Holy Bible itself, God's gift of truth to mankind—because apart from the Bible we would not know Who the Lord Jesus Christ is.
And knowing the truth about Christ—our Creator and our Redeemer—is absolutely critical for life here and hereafter. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (John 17:3)
1. Curry, A. 2021. "Ancient Solar Storm Pinpoints Viking Settlement in Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago." National Geographic. Posted on MSN.com October 20, 2021, accessed July 27, 2021.
2. Kuitems, M. and B. L. Wallace, et al. Evidence for European Presence in the Americas in AD1021. Nature. Posted on nature.com October 20, 2021, accessed July 27, 2021.
3. Haywood, J. 1995. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings. London, England: Penguin Books, 98-99. See also Magnusson, M., and H. Pálsson, translators/editors. 1965. Glænlendinga Saga, and Eirik's Saga. In The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America. London, England: Penguin, 47-72, 73-105. On Leif's contribution to Viking Christianity and Vinland's exploration, see Johnson, J. J. S. 2021. "Leif Eiriksson, Exemplifying Both the Genesis Mandate and the Great Commission: Filling the Earth in Vinland, plus Evangelizing Kinfolk in Viking Age Greenland" presented to the Norwegian Society of Texas in Dallas, Texas on October 16, 2021.
4. Johnson, J. J. S. 2020. Children's Tree Book Rings of Evolutionary Agenda. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org June 8, 2020.
5. Johnson, J. J. S. 2018. Something Fishy about Radiocarbon-Dating Viking Bones. Creation Research Society Quarterly. 54 (3): 213-216.
*Dr. Johnson is Associate Professor of Apologetics and Chief Academic Officer at the Institute for Creation Research.


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Avril Ramona Lavigne (/ˈævrɪl ləˈviːn/; French pronunciation: [avʁil laviɲ]; born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, and spent most of her youth in the town of Greater Napanee. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain; by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more than $2 million. In 2002, when she was 17 years old, Lavigne entered the music industry with her debut album Let Go, becoming one of the most popular pop punk artists, a reason she earned her reputation of a "skater punk" persona and "pop punk princess". Since her professional debut, she has sold more than 30 million albums and over 50 million singles worldwide.
Let Go made Lavigne the youngest female soloist to reach number 1 in the UK. As of 2013, it has sold nearly 7 million copies in the United States and over 16 million copies worldwide. Her breakthrough single, "Complicated", peaked at number 1 in many countries around the world, as did the album Let Go. Her second studio album, Under My Skin, was released in May 2004 and was her first album to peak at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, eventually selling more than 10 million copies worldwide. The Best Damn Thing, Lavigne's third album, was released in April 2007, becoming her third number 1 album in the UK Albums Chart and featuring her first US Billboard Hot 100 number 1 single, "Girlfriend". Lavigne has scored six number-one singles worldwide, including "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "I'm with You", "My Happy Ending", "Nobody's Home", and "Girlfriend". Lavigne is one of the top-selling artists releasing albums in the US, with over 11 million copies certified by the RIAA. Her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby, was released in March 2011. Goodbye Lullaby gave Lavigne her fourth top 10 album on the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart and her third number 1 album in both Japan and Australia. Three months after the release of Goodbye Lullaby, Lavigne began work on her eponymously titled fifth studio album, which was released by Epic Records on 1 November 2013 following her departure from RCA Records in 2011.
Lavigne took a break from recording music, pursuing careers in feature film acting and designing clothes and perfumes. She voiced Heather, a Virginia opossum, in the animated film Over the Hedge in 2006. That same year, she made her on-screen feature film debut in Fast Food Nation. In 2008, Lavigne introduced her clothing line, Abbey Dawn, and in 2009, she released her first perfume, Black Star, which was followed by her second perfume, Forbidden Rose, in 2010 and her third perfume, Wild Rose, in 2011. In July 2006, Lavigne married her boyfriend of two years, Deryck Whibley, lead singer and guitarist for Sum 41. The marriage lasted four years, and in October 2009, Lavigne filed for divorce. Whibley and Lavigne continued to work together, with Whibley producing her fourth album, as well as Lavigne's single, "Alice", written for Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland. Lavigne married Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger in 2013.
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