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Fort Lee (Virginia)
Title: Fort Lee (Virginia)
Subject: Ordnance Corps (United States Army), Timeline of women in warfare and the military in the United States from 2011-present, Best Warrior, 49th Quartermaster Group, Sustainment Center of Excellence
Collection: 1917 Establishments in Virginia, Census-Designated Places in Prince George County, Virginia, Census-Designated Places in Virginia, Forts in Virginia, Military Logistics of the United States, Training Installations of the United States Army, United States Army Posts
Petersburg and Tri-cities Area
Shoulder sleeve insignia and emblems of units or agencies stationed at Fort Lee
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U.S. Army Quartermaster School
U.S. Army Ordnance School
U.S. Army Transportation School
Army Logistics University (ALU)
Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA)
"The Living Uncle Sam" formed by 19,000 military officers and men at Camp Lee, Virginia in 1918, during World War I
Fort Lee, in United States Army post and headquarters of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/ Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE), the U.S. Army Quartermaster School, the U.S. Army Ordnance School, The U.S. Army Transportation School, the Army Logistics University (ALU), Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), and the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA). Fort Lee also hosts two Army museums, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the U.S. Army Women's Museum. The Army's Ordnance Museum has plans to establish a collection preservation site at Fort Lee. The fort is named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee.[1]
Fort Lee is also a census-designated place (CDP), with population 3393 at the 2010 census.
World War I 1.1
World War II 1.2
Camp Lee to Fort Lee 1.3
Demographics 3
Current units 4
Just 18 days after a state of war with Germany was declared, the first Camp Lee was selected as a state mobilization camp and later became a division training camp.
In June 1917, building began and within sixty days some 14,000 men were on the installation.
When construction work ended, there were accommodations for 60,335 men. On 15 July 1917, the War Department announced that the camp would be named in honor of General Robert E. Lee, the most famous of the Confederate Civil War commanders.
After World War I, Camp Lee was taken over by the Commonwealth of Virginia and designated a game preserve. Later, portions of the land were incorporated into the National Military Park of Petersburg.
In 1920 Camp Lee was active, as the US 1920 Census showed many soldiers still stationed there.
In October 1940, the War Department ordered the construction of another Camp Lee on the site of the earlier installation. Built as rapidly as the first, construction was still ongoing when the Quartermaster Replacement Training Center (QMRTC) started operation in February 1941. Their number grew to 25,000 in 1942, and peaked at 35,000 in 1944.
Camp Lee was also the home of a Medical Replacement Training Center (MRTC), but as the Quartermaster training increased, it was decided to relocate the MRTC at Camp Pickett.
Later, the QMRTC was re-designated as an Army Services Forces Training Center, but it retained its basic mission of training Quartermaster personnel.
While the QMRTC was getting underway, the Quartermaster School was transferred to Camp Lee. A full program of courses was conducted, including Officer Candidate School. By the end of 1941, Camp Lee was the center of both basic and advanced training of Quartermaster personnel and held this position throughout the war.
Camp Lee to Fort Lee
When World War II ended, the fate of Camp Lee was in question. In 1946, the War Department announced that Camp Lee would be retained as a center for Quartermaster training. Official recognition of its permanent status was obtained in 1950 and the post was redesignated as Fort Lee.
Immediately troops began Quartermaster training for the Korean War and continued for the next three years. Fort Lee also had a Women's Army Corps (WAC) training center. After the Korean War, progress was made on an ambitious permanent building program.
Under the twenty-year program, Fort Lee changed from an installation of temporary wooden structures to a modern Army post with permanent brick and cinder block buildings.
The Quartermaster Training Center, created to supervise the training of Quartermaster personnel and troop units, brought an intensification of training activity within the Quartermaster Corps. As a result, the courses formerly taught at other locations were incorporated in the curriculum of the Quartermaster School.
Profound changes were evident at Fort Lee during 1962. The post became a Class 1 military installation under Second United States Army. The Quartermaster School became a part of the Continental Army Command service school system and was also selected to serve as the home of the Quartermaster Corps and Corps Historian. The Second United States Army was inactivated in at Fort Lee 1966 until its reactivation at Fort Gillem, Georgia in 1983.
In July 1973, Fort Lee came under the control of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
Fort Lee is the country's first army post to host a 'full-size' statue commemorating the service of women in the Army. The statue was unveiled in 2013.[2]
Location of Fort Lee, Virginia
Fort Lee is located at
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.4 square miles (21.6 km²), all of it land.
As of the census[3] of 2000, there were 7,269 people, 1,401 households, and 1,223 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 870.2 people per square mile (336.1/km²). There were 1,445 housing units at an average density of 173.0/sq mi (66.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 47.1% African American, 39.5% White, 0.7% Native American, 2.3% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, 6.7% from other races, and 3.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.4% of the population.
There were 1,401 households out of which 72.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.0% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 12.7% were non-families. 11.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 0.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.27 and the average family size was 3.53.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 34.0% from 18 to 24, 35.8% from 25 to 44, 2.1% from 45 to 64, and 0.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 22 years. For every 100 females there were 132.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 143.3 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $36,325, and the median income for a family was $40,197. Males had a median income of $27,511 versus $19,459 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $12,448. About 6.3% of families and 7.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
Current units
Kenner Army Health Clinic
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Fort Lee has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.[4]
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^ Friday, November 8, 2013 12:00 am (2013-11-08). "Fort Lee statue honors female warriors - Richmond Times-Dispatch: Tri-Cities News". Timesdispatch.com. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
^ "American FactFinder".
^ Climate Summary for Fort Lee
Fort Lee Traveller (military-authorized newspaper)
Fort Lee (official site)
Fort Lee Installation Overview from ArmyUSA.org.
U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum (official site)
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fort Lee
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "http://www.lee.army.mil/".
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SAP reached more than 4,100 SAP S/4HANA customers globally in the third quarter. The company saw growth from the sales of SAP Hybris and SAP SuccessFactors solutions in SAP's small and medium business (SMB) segment, which is now up to 6,000 customers, including 1,350 that chose SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, according to SAP.
Onapsis, a provider of business-critical application security, has announced certification by SAP for the Onapsis Security Platform 2.0 (OSP). The certification includes SAP S/4HANA and will enable integration with OSP that allows SAP customers to gain visibility into current detailed information about the vulnerability and audit levels of their S/4HANA system alongside that of their entire SAP environment.
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IBM has announced new Bluemix services designed to simplify and speed app development in the cloud. With these new services, developers can now access and construct preconfigured toolchains using popular DevOps tools, including GitHub and Slack.
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Kamala Harris' rampant prosecutorial abuses
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"America has a deep and dark history of people using the power of the prosecutor as an instrument of injustice," Kamala Harris wrote in her 2019 campaign tract. "I know this history well — of innocent men framed, of charges brought against people of color without sufficient evidence, of prosecutors hiding information that would exonerate defendants, of the disproportionate application of the law."
She should know. As a prosecutor, Harris too often abused her office in just the way she decried as a campaigner.
The former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general is the last person who should lecture anyone on out-of-control prosecutors. When she talks about framing the innocent and hiding exculpatory evidence, Harris is either projecting or engaging in rank hypocrisy.
Some of Harris' prosecutorial shenanigans are well-known by now. In 2010, a California Superior Court judge blistered Harris' DA office for violating defendants' rights by covering up detrimental information about a drug-lab technician. The judge concluded that prosecutors working under Harris had failed to fulfill their constitutional duty to tell defense attorneys information about prosecution witnesses that might challenge their credibility. The failure of Harris' prosecutors led to the dismissal of more than 600 drug cases.
Hiding information, indeed.
As California attorney general, Harris appealed a judge's decision to remove the Orange County district attorney's office from a death penalty trial after evidence emerged that the sheriff's department had been operating an unconstitutional jailhouse snitch program. The program tainted more than a dozen criminal cases, several of them murder trials.
Californians witnessed more of Harris' devil-may-care — or devilish — approach to government corruption and misconduct in the Moonlight Fire case. In 2007, a late summer wildfire had burned 65,000 acres in the California Sierras. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's lead wildfire investigator lied repeatedly about the inferno's origin and cause. He also destroyed his investigatory notes and, along with the US Forest Service investigators, falsified the joint origin-and-cause report and various witness statements. The goal was to pin the blame — and cost of fighting the fire — on private landowners.
When California Superior Court Judge Leslie C. Nichols reviewed the case, he found the investigatory and discovery abuses so "pervasive" and "egregious" — so "corrupt and tainted" — that he terminated Cal Fire's action and administered sanctions. He ruled that Cal Fire's targets could never get a fair trial. The California Court of Appeals upheld Nichols' overall ruling. In reviewing the abuses in the joint federal-state Moonlight investigation, the appellate court found "substantial evidence" Cal Fire "repeatedly presented false, misleading or evasive discovery responses" and deposition testimony in addition to improperly destroying field notes despite probable civil litigation.
In the course of the Moonlight Fire litigation, the landowners' attorneys discovered that Cal Fire illegally diverted $3.66 million in state funds to a secret slush fund controlled by a small group of Cal Fire employees. This was a felony under state law, and California legislators asked Harris to investigate this misappropriation of public funds. Harris, however, said she couldn't investigate because she was representing Cal Fire in the Moonlight Fire lawsuit. She claimed that Cal Fire was, therefore, her "client and she had an ethical conflict of interest."
Why Kamala Harris' record as prosecutor makes progressives nervous
It's worth considering the implications of Harris' lame claim that it is impossible and unethical for the attorney general to investigate the executive-branch employees of agencies because the attorney general represents the executive-branch agencies in certain lawsuits.
If she takes that position at the federal level, there could never be a Department of Justice investigation of any executive-branch employee. This is preposterous. It seems clear that Harris refused to investigate, because it would have disclosed felony conduct that would be difficult not to prosecute. And any investigation would have also demonstrated that her Moonlight Fire lawsuit was fraudulent.
If the Biden-Harris ticket triumphs in November, she will be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Yet there is a pattern and a practice — "a deep and dark history" — of Kamala Harris "using the power of the prosecutor as an instrument of injustice."
Ann Corkery is a lawyer in Washington, DC.
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Home > Blog > First UK conviction for manufacturing firearms with 3D printer
First UK conviction for manufacturing firearms with 3D printer
On Wednesday 19 June at Southwark Crown Court, a London man, pleaded guilty to a charge of manufacturing a firearm, namely a 3D printed gun.
This is believed to be the first conviction of its kind in the UK.
Officers executed a drugs warrant at the man's home in October 2017 and during the course of the operation found components of a 3D printed gun, capable of firing a lethal shot. Mr Muswere, who does not hold a firearms licence, told officers that he was printing the firearm for a university project. He claimed not to be aware that the components he had made were capable of firing. He later refused to comment on what his film project was about.
A search of his internet search history revealed that he had viewed videos demonstrating how to use a 3D printer to manufacture firearms which fired live ammunition. The officers also discovered cannabis plants and evidence of cannabis cultivation.
A second raid on Muswere's home in February 2018 resulted in the discovery of further components of a 3D printed gun .
Acting Detective Sergeant Jonathan Roberts, from the Central West CID, who led the investigation, said:
"Muswere claimed that he was printing the firearms for a 'dystopian' university film project but he has not explained why he included the component parts necessary to make a lethal barreled weapon. We know that Muswere was planning to line the printed firearms with steel tubes in order to make a barrel capable of firing.
This conviction, which I believe is the first of its kind relating to the use of a 3D printer to produce a firearm, has prevented a viable gun from getting into the hand of criminals and is an excellent example of great partnership working between Detectives, neighbourhood police and our forensic colleagues."
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by stefanieschoelerupdated on 24. August 2021 24. April 2019 Leave a Comment on The baker's castle
When we want to take a picture, Juan Pablo proudly stands behind the counter of his bakery in Medellin, Colombia. "Like this?" he asks posing and laughs. It's not that easy to bring the passionate baker with his baked goods and the oriental-looking bakery to an expressive photo. When I look at the results later, I am almost disappointed – somehow this pictrue does not capture reality adequately.
But wait, I have to start all over again, how come I'm standing here in Medellin with a baker who wanted to become a doctor and take pictures of him?
During my research on microcredits I came across the website Kiva.org[1], where people can directly give other people a loan (starting at 25 US dollars). Whoever gives a loan can find out about the borrower, his plans and ideas, but also about the risk of not getting the loan back. But of course the loans are not transferred directly from the lender to the borrower, in between there is an organization that mediates the loan. In the case of Colombia, and in particular Medellin, Interactuar is the largest lender. Interactuar organises credits given through the page kiva.org, but also lends other funds, a complicated system. Through this research, I came across Andres Felipe Ramirez Moncada of Interactuar, who put me in contact with Juan. And who exactly is Juan again?
Juan is in his mid-thirties, has no children, but his own bakery, a great success. But the reality, Juan's reality, looks like this: As a young man he wanted to study medicine and become a doctor. But that's not so easy in Colombia, there are only a few public universities and the private ones are expensive. Juan's family couldn't afford that. So he first worked – because there is no dual education system in Colombia like in Germany, where you partly go to school and partly work in a company and get some money for it.
At some point, however, Juan no longer just wanted to be employed as an unskilled worker. He wanted to start his own business and have his own bakery. So he started to bake cookies in his home kitchen, smuggled them into the company and sold them to his colleagues. They were so enthusiastic that the orders could soon no longer be handled with the normal oven. And so Juan turned to the microcredit organisation Interactuar and took the courageous step of becoming a baker. To do so, he first attended courses that Interactuar offered and that he paid for himself. "I learned everything there in various courses. Baking bread and rolls, making cakes and biscuits, but also writing bills and the whole bookkeeping. I could do almost nothing before, but the courses were very good and not so expensive," says the entrepreneur. For three years, he attended various courses every now and then until he was finally able to open his first bakery. For this he applied for a loan from Interactuar, which was approved. Today he has moved to this new location with the oriental decoration and has opened another bakery, in these two shops he employs a total of five people.
Now, of course, we are curious and want to try his favourite pastry. "So I recommend the biscuit roll, of which I am particularly proud. And also the bunuelos, which are corn cheese balls, a typical pastry here in Colombia."
While we enjoy the delicacies, we want to know what he plans next, what he is dreaming of. "I would love to travel to different countries and learn everywhere how to bake bread there. In Germany you have completely different bread from the one we have, to learn more about that would be of great interest for me. But probably I will never be able to afford it, even if I can live well with the money I earn from the bakery and even support my mother. Besides, I can't take any time off, I'm at the bakery every day. But I also have another dream: to have my own castle one day – a castle made of flour, my Castillo de harina". Then he shows us his great smile again and it's very clear: He's gonna build this castle. We will stay in touch and hopefully one day we can visit the baker Juan in his castle.
[1] http://www.interactuar.org.co/en
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How will a Biden administration impact religion? Utah GOP, Dems chairs weigh in
By Lauren Bennett, KSL.com | Posted - Dec. 23, 2020 at 8:33 a.m.
Editor's note: This article is the first in a series looking at what a change in the presidency might mean for an array of topics that affects Utah.
SALT LAKE CITY — There's less than one month left before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, sparking questions about how his administration will handle many issues important to Utah voters, including religion.
On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump told supporters frequently that a Biden administration would pose a great threat to the religious community and Biden would not fight to protect their freedoms. But was his claim true?
"My view is that these claims that Joe Biden will somehow have a negative impact on religious freedom are entirely baseless," said Jeff Merchant, Utah Democratic Party Chair.
Derek Brown, Utah's GOP Chair, said there was no inherent reason to believe Biden will attack religious freedom once he takes office.
"Biden made the comment that he would be willing to work with religious organizations and people with religious faith," Brown said. "And so as a party, I certainly believe that he'll be true to his word and make that a priority."
Biden has previously said he will be a president for all Americans, whether they voted for him or not. "I will keep the faith that you have placed in me," he tweeted on Nov. 7.
Brown predicts that even Utahns who disagree with Biden's policies will give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to religious issues, partly because of a long-standing history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints communities, the predominant faith in the state, and Catholic communities working together — Biden is Catholic.
Brown said he expects Republicans that are Latter-day Saints in Utah, many of whom "may not agree with him on a lot of policies," will give Biden the benefit of the doubt "simply because I think as someone who is a member of an organization like the Catholic Church, I think they appreciate that those are his roots and his beliefs."
"They'll be hopeful that when there are policies that are proposed that affect religious beliefs that he'll respect those, and frankly, I think, that he will," Brown said. "I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt — he's expressed a willingness to work with religious organizations and people of faith."
Some members of Utah's federal delegation have been known for being passionate defenders of religious freedoms, namely Republican Sen. Mike Lee and U.S. Congressman Chris Stewart. Brown said he hopes Biden will consult with these lawmakers (and others) on critical issues involving religious organizations.
"I think that's my hope is that the administration that comes in, the Biden administration, will work hand in hand with members of the congressional delegation who have already been working on these issues and have struggled to find ways to balance the competing interests," Brown said. "And I am confident that they will."
While Trump doesn't adhere to a specific religion — he previously identified as a member of the U.S. Presbyterian Church but recently said he considers himself to be a non-denominational Christian — he has made religion and religious issues a staple of his administration. Some have lauded him as a defender of religious freedoms in the country, while others claim he exploits the religious for political gain while he mocks them behind closed doors.
Biden, however, identifies as a devout practicing Catholic and will soon become the second member of the faith to take office since John F. Kennedy. He regularly attends Mass and carries a rosary; he even quoted a beloved Catholic hymn in his victory speech, "On Eagle's Wings."
"For Joe, faith is both a private devotion — he prays regularly, he goes to church. But it's also public. He's open about and proud that he's a Catholic," Fr. Kevin O'Brien, a friend and spiritual adviser to Biden and his wife Jill, recently told CNN.
Merchant said Biden has had a "lifetime of showing that he is a religious man."
"He goes to church," Merchant added. "He took his kids to church, he regularly practices his religion, before it was something that was the issue that it is today, before he was running for president, before he was running for Senate, while he was in the Senate. He practices his religion. I don't see any reason to doubt his devotion to his religious practice."
Despite his faith, some of his policies go against teachings of the Catholic church, like his stance on abortion rights, and has caused controversy in the past; he was once denied Holy Communion at a South Carolina Mass.
'Muslim Ban' and its future
In late 2015, Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. in response to a shooting in San Bernardino, California. Soon after, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a statement, not citing Trump's decision specifically, that it was "concerned about the temporal and spiritual welfare of all of God's children across the earth, with special concern for those who are fleeing physical violence, war and religious persecution."
The church urged governments to "cooperate fully in seeking the best solutions to meet human needs and relieve suffering."
Within his first few weeks of office, Trump issued a travel ban for several countries with predominantly Muslim populations for what the administration said were national security reasons. A revised version of that original travel ban, called the "Muslim ban" by detractors, remains in effect today; however, that might change come Jan. 20, 2021.
Biden has promised Muslim advocacy groups that one of his first actions as president will be to reverse the ban.
"Religious freedom is a foundational principle of this country," Biden's campaign website reads. "Protecting the religious freedom of Muslim-Americans is vital to protecting that right for us all and ensuring that America sets a positive example for the rest of the world. As President, Joe will rescind the Trump Administration's Muslim Ban on day one and urge Congress to pass the No Ban Act to ensure future administrations cannot restore Trump's Ban."
Utah was founded by Latter-day Saints who fled religious persecution and found refuge out west, leading them to settle in the desert land. Given the history, the state has been a staunch advocate for refugees and houses a large refugee population. Gov. Gary Herbert even asked Trump to send more refugees to Utah last year.
"Here in Utah, we are very welcoming to people from all over the world and that's one of the reasons we have such a huge refugee population," Brown said. "When others may be concerned about people coming from all over the world, as a state we open our arms and we say come in. We say that this is a place where you are welcomed, and we appreciate your differences and those differences of course involve differences of religious belief."
But Brown said the ban had nothing to do with religious beliefs but was an "issue of health and national security and other issues."
"I don't think Utah and Utah Republicans will be anything other than supportive of policies as long as they don't have sort of religious overtones when it comes to things like travel bans," he said.
When religious issues come into politics, people can become passionate and at times divisive; there's a reason everyone jokes about not discussing politics or religion at the Thanksgiving dinner table, Brown said.
"Both are based on an underlying set of core values and beliefs that an individual has," he said. "And a lot of those beliefs in religion, in politics and elsewhere are unprovable assumptions that we have."
Brown said despite the differences in opinion, Americans need to have "curiosity" in learning about various beliefs.
"We need to be curious, why does someone feel the way they do and really get to understand them and understand their heart and what it is that makes them tick," Brown said. "And the more that we are curious, and the more that we really understand what is in someone else's heart, I think more empathy and compassion we will have regardless of political or religious beliefs."
Merchant said he believes Trump's administration contributed to the political divide in the country and used religion as a ploy to do so; he hasn't helped the religious groups he appears to support as much as he receives credit for, he said.
"He's supported them on certain policy positions, but I think that he's actually left the Christian conservative movement, as well as religion in general, in a worse place than it was before because he's politicized it and religion shouldn't have ever been a politicized issue in this country," he said. "There are plenty of Republicans and plenty of Republican presidents who have done amazing things to protect the interests of religious organizations in the United States. I think there are Democratic presidents and leaders that have as well. But I don't necessarily think that Donald Trump has done that."
Merchant, instead, said he believes Biden will serve religious groups better than his predecessor. On Biden's campaign website he provides specific plans he has for those in the Jewish, Catholic and Muslim communities.
"He will be equally fair to people outside of his own individual denomination, and outside of traditional religion as we see it in this country," Merchant said.
Merchant encouraged Utahns to read what the president-elect has said himself about religion and look at the reverence he treats the subject.
"Look at his words. Look at his actions. And then make that decision," Merchant said. "Don't look at what Donald Trump has said. Don't look at what extreme news organizations have said; look at what Joe Biden actually has said, and then utilize those very values that we, as Utahns in particular but as all Americans have and or should have, which is when someone tells you something you initially trust them."
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namespace ONGR\PagerBundle\Tests\Unit\Pager;

use ONGR\PagerBundle\Pager\PagerService;
use ONGR\PagerBundle\Paging\Adapters\ArrayAdapter;

/**
 * Unit tests for pager service.
 */
class PagerServiceTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * Returns dummy data for testing.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    protected function getDummyData()
    {
        return [
            'item1',
            'item2',
            'item3',
            'item4',
            'item5',
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Data provider for testConstruct().
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getConstructData()
    {
        $out = [];

        // Case #0 default values.
        $out[] = [[], 20, 1, 10];

        // Case #1 custom values.
        $options = [
            'limit' => 3,
            'page' => 4,
            'max_pages' => 100
        ];
        $out[] = [$options, 3, 2, 100];

        return $out;
    }

    /**
     * Test for constructor.
     *
     * @param array $options
     * @param int   $expectedLimit
     * @param int   $expectedPage
     * @param int   $expectedMaxPages
     *
     * @dataProvider getConstructData()
     */
    public function testConstruct($options, $expectedLimit, $expectedPage, $expectedMaxPages)
    {
        $pager = new PagerService(new ArrayAdapter($this->getDummyData()), $options);

        $this->assertEquals($expectedLimit, $pager->getLimit());
        $this->assertEquals($expectedMaxPages, $pager->getMaxPages());
        $this->assertEquals($expectedPage, $pager->getPage());
    }

    /**
     * Data provider for testGetResults().
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getResultsData()
    {
        $out = [];

        // Case #0 one item per page, should be five pages.
        $options = [
            'limit' => 1,
            'page' => 1,
            'max_pages' => 100
        ];
        $expectedData = [
            ['item1'],
            ['item2'],
            ['item3'],
            ['item4'],
            ['item5'],
        ];
        $out[] = [$options, $expectedData];

        // Case #1 two items per page, should be three pages.
        $options = [
            'limit' => 2,
            'page' => 0,
            'max_pages' => 100
        ];
        $expectedData = [
            ['item1', 'item2'],
            ['item3', 'item4'],
            ['item5'],
        ];
        $out[] = [$options, $expectedData];

        return $out;
    }

    /**
     * Check if results returned is correct.
     *
     * @param array $options
     * @param array $expectedData
     *
     * @dataProvider getResultsData()
     */
    public function testGetResults($options, $expectedData)
    {
        $pager = new PagerService(new ArrayAdapter($this->getDummyData()), $options);

        foreach ($expectedData as $expectedPage) {
            $this->assertEquals($expectedPage, $pager->getResults());
            $pager->setPage($pager->getNextPage());
        }

        $expectedData = array_reverse($expectedData);
        foreach ($expectedData as $expectedPage) {
            $this->assertEquals($expectedPage, $pager->getResults());
            $pager->setPage($pager->getPreviousPage());
        }

        $this->assertEquals(count($expectedData), $pager->getLastPage());
    }

    /**
     * Data provider for testGetOffset().
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getOffsetData()
    {
        $out = [];

        // Case #0 one item per page, should be five pages.
        $options = [
            'limit' => 1,
            'page' => 1,
            'max_pages' => 100
        ];
        $expectedData = [
            0,
            1,
            2,
            3,
            4,
        ];
        $out[] = [$options, $expectedData];

        // Case #1 two items per page, should be three pages.
        $options = [
            'limit' => 2,
            'page' => 0,
            'max_pages' => 100
        ];
        $expectedData = [
            0,
            2,
            4,
        ];
        $out[] = [$options, $expectedData];

        return $out;
    }

    /**
     * Check if ranges returned is correct.
     *
     * @param array $options
     * @param array $expectedData
     *
     * @dataProvider getOffsetData()
     */
    public function testGetOffset($options, $expectedData)
    {
        $pager = new PagerService(new ArrayAdapter($this->getDummyData()), $options);

        foreach ($expectedData as $expectedBounds) {
            $this->assertEquals($expectedBounds, $pager->getOffset());
            $pager->setPage($pager->getNextPage());
        }

        $expectedData = array_reverse($expectedData);
        foreach ($expectedData as $expectedBounds) {
            $this->assertEquals($expectedBounds, $pager->getOffset());
            $pager->setPage($pager->getPreviousPage());
        }

        $this->assertEquals(count($expectedData), $pager->getLastPage());
    }

    /**
     * Check if first, last page check returns expected value.
     */
    public function testIsFirstLastPage()
    {
        $pager = new PagerService(new ArrayAdapter($this->getDummyData()), ['limit' => 3]);
        $this->assertTrue($pager->isFirstPage());
        $this->assertFalse($pager->isLastPage());

        $pager->setPage($pager->getNextPage());
        $this->assertFalse($pager->isFirstPage());
        $this->assertTrue($pager->isLastPage());
    }

    /**
     * Check if isPaginable returns expected value.
     */
    public function testIsPaginable()
    {
        $pager = new PagerService(new ArrayAdapter($this->getDummyData()), ['limit' => 6]);
        $this->assertFalse($pager->isPaginable());

        $pager = new PagerService(new ArrayAdapter($this->getDummyData()), ['limit' => 3]);
        $this->assertTrue($pager->isPaginable());
    }

    /**
     * Data provider for testGetPages().
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getPagesData()
    {
        $out = [];

        // Case #0 only one page.
        $out[] = [6, [1]];

        // Case #1 split up into two pages.
        $out[] = [4, [1, 2]];

        // Case #2 one item per page.
        $out[] = [1, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]];

        return $out;
    }

    /**
     * Check if get pages return an expected range of pages.
     *
     * @param int   $limit
     * @param array $expectedRange
     *
     * @dataProvider getPagesData()
     */
    public function testGetPages($limit, $expectedRange)
    {
        $pager = new PagerService(new ArrayAdapter($this->getDummyData()), ['limit' => $limit]);
        $this->assertEquals($expectedRange, $pager->getPages());
    }

    /**
     * Check if adapter returned is correct.
     */
    public function testGetAdapter()
    {
        $adapter = new ArrayAdapter([$this->getDummyData()]);
        $pager = new PagerService($adapter, []);

        $this->assertEquals($adapter, $pager->getAdapter());
    }
}


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Acacia luederitzii és una espècie de planta de la família de les lleguminoses que es distribueix des del sud d'Àfrica tropical encara que no hi és endèmica. Segons la SANBI (Red List of South African Plants) no es troba en la llista d'espècies amenaçades i per tant està classificada com a "preocupació menor". És un arbre perenne que es troba en sòls argilosos als matollars. Encara que no és un endemisme sud africà, es troba distribuït geogràficament per Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, i pel North West.

Morfologia
Sovint es presenta com un arbust multicaule d'uns 2 a 5 metres d'alçada; o com un arbre de mida petita d'uns 10 metres. L'escorça és de color gris fosc, aspre, fissurada longitudinalment i solcada. Generalment amb tendència a pelar-se. Les branques tenen una pilositat avellutada de color blanc; les bandes piloses es trenquen en les branques més antigues donant un aspecte estripat. Presenta estípules espinescents, en general corbades i inflades des de la base. Aquest tipus d'òrgans no són conseqüència de l'activitat mutualista amb algunes espècies de formigues sinó que aquestes últimes se senten atretes per les "falses agalles" engruixides de les acàcies. Les agalles veritables si que serien resultat de l'activitat d'aquests insectes damunt els troncs d'aquests arbres. Les fulles tenen de 2 a 13 parells de pinnes, normalment de 4 a 6, cada una portant de 7 a 24 parells de folíols molt petits i estretament oblongs. els marges presenten petits pèls i estan peciolades. Els raquis (nervi principal en una fulla o pecíol comú d'una fulla composta) si porten glàndules. Les flors es presenten en glomèruls de color blanc i floreix del novembre al febrer.

Referències

Luederitzii


So why didn't the Japanese coordinate with the French and have him arrested by them seeing he's a French citizen?.
It would eliminate the sense that this is more about a power grab and there would be some sort of legitimacy to this hijacking .
That's not how any country works. Japanese crime = Japanese court. We are no different.
The French police were informed by Renault. Perhaps they chatted with their opposite numbers in Japan. We don't really know.
Imagine an American ratings agency/investment banking ceo being treated this way back in 2008........that would have been more justified.
In many jurisdictions not just here. And conversely, one can receive actual money without paying tax on it until later years (correctly I mean) in some circumstances. But there are many complications to this.
You can be taxed for profits not yet received here. As to jurisdiction, the charges relate to japanese laws.
Obviously American bankers don't visit Japan.
However, unfortunately Japanese law was made by America in the American image.
As I read it, the allegation is not that he should have paid tax on the post retirement benefits. It is that he should have disclosed them in statutory filings. His lawyers will have to argue that they were proposals, and not firm commitments by Nissan.
Not sure about this, but I believe Japan has its own legislature, and makes its own laws?
The USA administration of Japan ended almost 70 years ago.
Yeah, I don't think even Trump would claim it.
Whilst I was alive! The Japanese legal system was overhauled by the Americans prior to their departure. Not much ever changed.
Nagaman and dvr like this.
Not so sure about that. Executions in China..... Not that Japan has much to be proud about in this particular case. As I've said before, I'm glad I'm not in CG's position.
Japanese face a loss of face in the exposure of their inhumane methods to achieve a high guilty plea rate - something will have to give or that WILL be the inevitable outcome. Perhaps they hope for Ghosn to give up life itself to satisfy this cruel and unrelenting process, then they can wash their hands and rid themselves of shame.
It's a huge sum involved, not petty shoplifting. My understanding is that if he fails to confess and is convicted he need not expect an easy sentence. The forensic accountants will have been all over this.
The CEO of the largest automobile manufacturing conglomerate paid almost as much as an American banking thief bailed out by the taxpayers?.
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Iłża é um município da Polônia, na voivodia da Mazóvia e no condado de Radom. Estende-se por uma área de 15,83 km², com 4 918 habitantes, segundo os censos de 2016, com uma densidade de 310,7 hab/km².

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Cidades da Mazóvia (voivodia)


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Pau Figueres
guitarist, composer, producer
"Nada Nuevo Bajo el Sol" (Satélite-K 2018)
"Pau Figueres" (Whatabout Music 2015)
AS PRODUCER
AS SIDEMAN
Blending Flamenco guitar with the modern music of our new century. Pau is an outstanding guitarist who tackles music from multiple interpretative angles using different concepts, understanding and studying the guitar as a versatile cross-over instrument. Both a brilliant performer of his own music and a highly requested sideman, sessionist and producer, he's immersed in countless musical genres, styles and projects. His original compositions mirror his unique approach to the guitar and to music.
Currently touring the world as guitarist with multi Grammy Award winning artist Alejandro Sanz, he has worked with names such as Rufus Wainwright, Vic Mirallas, Carles Benavent, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Mayte Martin, Judit Neddermann, Jonah Smith, Alfonso de Vilallonga, Manolo Garcia, Anita Zengeza, Coetus, Ebra, Tal Ben Ari, to name a few.
He started working as a live and studio guitarist at the early age of 16. Since then he has taken part in countless recording sessions and has collaborated with artists that vary greatly in terms of style and musical context. He has performed as a classical guitar soloist, as a soloist with an orchestra, in chamber music ensembles, in rock bands, backing singers, in jazz, world music and pop bands, and many other types of ensembles. He has played with the most acclaimed musicians in Barcelona and has performed and recorded all over the world (U.K., Spain, Germany, France, U.S., Canada, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Finland, Russia, Portugal, Estonia, Romania, Italy, Greece, Austria, Andorra, Switzerland, Luxembourg…)
He began to study classical guitar at the age of 8 and went on to do his Bachelors Degree in the Superior School for Music in Barcelona (ESMUC) under the guidance of Zoran Dukic, one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of our time. He finished in 2011 obtaining the highest qualifications. Hence, his technique has been carefully developed and is skilful and confident. In the classical guitar field he has also studied with Vicenç Mayol, Laura Young, Àlex Garrobé and Feliu Gasull. In 2007 he won the Top Prize in the Professional Conservatory for Music of Badalona, in 2005 the First Prize in the Sant Anastasi Competition in Lleida and in 2009 he won both the Second Prize and the Audience Prize in the renowned classical guitar competition Certamen Llobet in Barcelona. As well as having received the best possible academic education, Pau has dedicated a lot of time to learning from other musicians and as a result of painstakingly listening to music, is highly selftaught in many aspects of his musicality.
He has studied flamenco guitar with Rafael Cañizares, Juan Manuel Cañizares, Anton Jimenez and Diego del Morao, and in the modern music field he has studied jazz guitar with great guitarist Dani Pérez and learnt directly from Horacio Fumero, Carme Canela, Gorka Benítez, Bob Reynolds, Andreu Zaragoza, Ben Monder, Jaume Llombart, Adam Levy and Wayne Krantz among others. His technique is a mixture of the Classical and the Flamenco techniques (also embracing fingerpicking, the pick and the slide). He has a deep knowledge of the guitar as an instrument and of the art of making it produce a vast ocean of sounds.
Pau plays and endorses Arcadio Marín Guitars, Furch Guitars (first endorser in Spain), Knobloch Strings, Aclam Guitars and Righton Straps.
Artists Pau has worked with:
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Q: Creating a custom UITableView index iOS Our designers have come up with a nice design that involves the index on the right side of the UITableView to be taller than the UITableView itself. It also has some custom images for search and better font/color than the default implementation. However, since UITableView does not support customizing its index (that I know of) I've been trying to get this going manually. The UI looks like this:

This should be a simple task, but I'm having a hell of a time making it work. I have set up a UIView to the right of the table with UIButtons lined up from top to bottom to represent my index. The goal being as the user drags in/out of the UIButtons, I would jump the UITableView to the right section.
I have searched around and it seems that the thing to do this would be to listen to the UIControlEventTouchDragOutside and UIControlEventTouchDragEnter events to know when I'm in/out of one of the UIButtons.
To this end, I have set up the entire list of buttons as an IBOutletCollection which I init in ViewDidLoad like so:
@property (retain, nonatomic) IBOutletCollection(UIButton) NSArray* indexButtons;

@implementation ViewBeerListViewController
...
@synthesize indexButtons = _indexButtons;

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    ...

    // Go through the index buttons and set the change function
    for (int i = 0; i < [self.indexButtons count]; ++i)
    {
        UIButton* button = [self.indexButtons objectAtIndex:i];
        [button addTarget:self action:@selector(touchDragOutside:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDragOutside];
        [button addTarget:self action:@selector(touchDragEnter:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDragEnter];
    }
}

The functions touchDragOutside and touchDragEnter look like this:

- (IBAction)touchDragOutside:(UIButton*)sender
{
    NSLog(@"Button %@ touch dragged outside", [sender titleLabel].text);
}

- (IBAction)touchDragEnter:(UIButton*)sender
{
    NSLog(@"Button %@ touch dragged enter", [sender titleLabel].text);
}

This all builds and runs. However, it appears that I only ever get events for the button on which I initiated a touch. E.G. if I touch down on the letter "G", and start dragging up and down, I will only see logs for touch dragging out of "G" and into "G". I get no events for any of the other UIButtons as I go over them.
Any help with resolving this issue will be immensely appreciated. I've been stuck on what seems to be a very trivial problem for a very long time.
Thanks!

A: Instead of making them with UIButtons, try creating a custom UIView that contains UILabels with each letter. Then in the custom UIView class, override the following:
– touchesBegan:withEvent:
– touchesMoved:withEvent:
– touchesEnded:withEvent:

and use those to determine which labels are being touched.  Within touchesMoved, for example, you could have:
UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
CGPoint point = [touch locationInView:self];
for(UIView * indexView in self.indexViews) {
    if(CGRectContainsPoint(indexView.frame,point)) {
        //indexView was touched. do something here
        break;
    }
}

Note that you can also use a UIImageView for the top one instead of UILabels and this will still work.


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The mission of the New Choral Society is to provide concerts that bring to Westchester County choral music of the highest quality and to enable singers in the community to participate in outstanding music making.
The New Choral Society's purpose is to promote a greater interest in classical choral works in the immediate Westchester area. We strive not only to program standard classical repertoire, but also include innovative and sometimes unique offerings. We collaborate with professional artistic organizations such as The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program to showcase talent not before heard in this area and endeavor to introduce and promote local Westchester artists, as well.
Formed in 1994, the New Choral Society is an all auditioned, volunteer chorus of 48 singers from Westchester and surrounding areas, who rehearse weekly from September through May.
We offer three choral concert programs each season, two performances of each, accompanied by a professional orchestra and professional soloists. In addition, we hold one performance of our chamber orchestra featuring all orchestral chamber music.
In 1994-95, our first season, we gave two sold-out concerts, received tremendous publicity as a new group in the community and expanded from 28 to 41 chorus members. Due to a large audience response, we expanded our 1995-96 season to offer an additional concert, plus we offered two performances of Messiah. Once again, every concert was sold out. Our goal to increase the number of people we reached through our music was achieved.
In 1996, we expanded the number of singers in the chorus to 48. For the 1996-97 season, we gave two performances of Handel's Messiah in December, performed Mozart's Requiem in March and honored the 100th Anniversary of Johannes Brahms' death with an all Brahms program in May. In 1997-98, we offered two performances of each concert for the first time, including the Messiah in December, Requiems by Fauré and Duruflé in March and Beethoven's Mass in C and Choral Fantasy in May. The results were audiences in excess of 500 for each concert programmed. This represents an increase in total number of people served of approximately 110% over that of our first season.
In 1998 our chorus was invited to sing two additional concerts, one with the Connecticut Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus when they performed Verdi's Requiem in March, and one at Scarsdale Golf Club as they celebrated their centennial weekend with a special outdoor concert and fireworks display. Both events offered the chorus exposure to new audiences.
In 1998-99 the New Choral Society commissioned Mass for Chorus and Orchestra from world-renown composer Stephen Paulus, to celebrate our Fifth Anniversary season. The world-premiere was held on May 15, 1999. The work promises to be an important addition to 20th century classical repertoire.
On September 11, 2002, the New Choral Society hosted the "Rolling Requiem", a worldwide musical response to the tragic events of one year earlier. Choruses from all over the world sang Mozart's Requiem at exactly 8:46 AM, in their time zone. The music literally "rolled" around the globe as the clock struck 8:46 AM. With an all-professional orchestra and soloists from the Metropolitan Opera, 100 voices combined in this emotional tribute to the victims from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. All the chorus members were from Westchester and Fairfield counties and represented 13 different choral groups.
In December 2002, the chorus performed by invitation, at Carnegie Hall, singing Handel's Messiah, under the baton of English conductor John Rutter. The chorus was also engaged to sing at Carnegie Hall, again, on June 16, 2003, performing Mozart's Requiem, with several other choruses from around the country.
In 2006, the New Choral Society was invited to perform Mozart's Requiem joining with the Westchester Choral Society to form the Festival Chorus.
Now after 22 years of music making in this community, the season includes a fourth concert program, inaugurated in 2000-2001.This program, held in January, features the New Choral Society orchestra in a stand-alone concert of chamber orchestra music. This single event concert has been a sell-out since its inception.
The New Choral Society is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and relies on the support of the community we seek to serve, in order to provide the best in classical choral programming. We hope that our music will inpsire you to become a regular concert goer and to make a contributuion that helps ensure the future of this organizaiton.


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Living here with the Maasai is a very peaceful and enjoyable experience.
Each morning, I wake before dawn and walk out of our mud hut and down the hill to the toilet. When it is dark here in Kapune, it is VERY dark. There is no power, so there are no lights other than the stars. There is a solar panel on the roof that provides enough power to charge devices and run two small lights - one in the kitchen and one in the lounge. There has been no moon for the past two nights, so it has been an amazing display of stars!
After walking back up to the house, I get my iPad and spend a couple of hours writing. The first sound heard each morning can be heard all night - the tinkling of the bells around the necks of the cows in the pen. As the sun rises, so do the roosters. Then the cows begin lowing and the children awake. The sponsor kids sleep in a room filled with bunk beds just in front of where I sit to write in the lounge. They come out, one by one, to head out into the morning air. Those who remain in the room chat and giggle to themselves. One little boy just came out struggling to zip up his hoodie. He walked over to me for a hug and then I zipped him up.
The children understand more English than they can speak. While English is the primary language they are educated in at school, the majority of the time they speak Maasai or Swahili. Joseph likes to joke that the kids thing Swahili and English are the same. They speak a mixed jumble of both.
Maasai children greet adults by offering you the top of their head. The adult then places their hand gently on the child's head and says, "Supa" which means "Hello." On the first day, when we arrived all the children greeted us as we exited the Toyota Prado. After greeting them in their way, I said, "Let me show you how I greet the kids at my schools in Australia." Then I offered them my hand for a high five. Once I got across the language barrier I got some good hard high fives and lots of laughter. But, later, when I lifted my hand for a high five as I approached any child they would see my hand and offer the crown of their head. So, today I'm going to try a low five (under hand) and see if I can get some!
Once the Muzungus (white people) begin to wake, the preparations for breakfast begin. The small kitchen area is behind the lounge room, between the back three bedrooms. Any cooking is done on a gas stove or on small fire pots. The children bring us one of these pots of smouldering charcoal before each meal.
Breakfast for the Muzungus consists of porridge, cereal and toast. It is filling and delicious. The children all head down to Joseph and Mercy's house for meals. Due to the very real possibility of getting typhoid from the local water, all food preparation for Muzungus is done with bottled water brought in from the city. The Maasai stomach is used to the local water. So, we prepare food and eat separately.
It is almost 8am now and two girls have just come in with makeshift brooms (they grab a handful of palm fronds or a tree branch) and are now sweeping the mud floor. Next they will bring water and douse the walking area to keep down the dust during the day.
In the two daytime meetings yesterday, Joseph and I told the two Creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2.
Before lunch, as a gentle breeze blew and the warm sun shone on the rolling hills, Joseph and I explained how the first Creation story is about God creating good life from chaos. He starts with the mess we are in and, once we say "I see you, God" (in the beginning God) He says "Let there be light" and then there will be light in your life. And as he continues a 'good' work in you he leads you to rest in Him. From chaos to meaning. From suffering to Sabbath.
After lunch, after watching the Kapune Church Choir sing and dance in traditional Maasai fashion for nearly an hour, Joseph and I told them the second Creation story. God has a plan and a place for us. From the dusty dirt of lonliness he creates life - creation, creatures and community. His plan is that we live in positive relationships - a cord of three is not easily broken. When we love Him first we will love others not as above us, or below us but as equals. All of us - created in the image of God - to live in relationship with Him and each other. There were some really fantastic questions from two women after we finished. They wanted to know, if God created woman from the side of man, as an equal, why are there so many abusive husbands? So, Joseph and I began telling them the Great Controversy story. My answer, simply, was, "The way you treat other people shows which game you are playing - God's game of putting Love first, or Lucifer's game of putting Self first.
Today, the first meeting will happen sometime mid-morning. As Joseph says, "Kenyan time is not like Muzungu time. We are not so concerned." And it's true! Yesterday's 10am meeting started just before noon. It really doesn't matter because the people are relaxed happy people and they come for the day.
They walk everywhere. And many of them live kilometres away. So, they walk a lot. Many of the people who come to the meetings walk for more than an hour to get here. And they walked home afterward. And they will be back today. It's a peaceful slow life. It's beautiful really.
The Maasai people are 100 per cent about community. They do everything together. And they take their time. Just now a group of girls came in to take the chairs (Brought up last night for worship here in the lounge) back down to the meeting tent.
The writing of this post was paused as Joseph in to tell us more about Maasai culture. I have just learned about the value of cows, the dowry for a wife and the system of respect for elders. That will make an interesting chapter in the near future.
Last night, after night had fallen, the children started coming into the lounge for evening worship. Most of the day's visitors had begun the long walk home but some of the children had staid for the night story. 51 people packed the small lounge room in our mud house. They sang so beautifully, danced with joy and laughed throughout. Then, Joseph and I told them how much Jesus loves them.
After closing with prayer, many of the children began their long walk home. The Maasai can see in the dark much better than we Muzungus. Joseph explained to them how to be careful on their way home and invited them all back for the next day's meetings.


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