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George John Hanania, US 5th Army WWII
December 16, 2020 rayawv1953 0
George John Hanania, US 5th Army WWII George John Hanania was born in Jerusalem on Nov. 11, 1909. He was one of the first Arab […]
Why its important to document the service of Arab Americans
Why its important to document the service of Arab Americans By Ray Hanania Arab Americans are discriminated against in America. We are signed out for political discrimination, racial discrimination and societal discrimination. We are often portrayed as being unpatriotic and marginalized. We are excluded from the fundamental foundations of society and denied the privileges of being citizens of this country even though we are citizens. There have been members of the Arab American community who have served in the American military since before the American Civil War. We collect these stories that have been previously posted and that we have rights to republish, and we include original content submitted by relatives of veterans or veterans themselves. Arab Americans have served in defense of this country in World. War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait and in the fight against the ISIS terrorists. We have fought proudly, and patriotically and yet our patriotism is often challenged and denied. We are Americans in every aspect, similar to individuals of other races, ethnicities and national origin, and yet we are denied basic fundamental rights that include, for example, our share of Federal Government program support. That support comes not only from having served in the military but also being included in the U.S. Census. Unfortunately, because of racism and xenophobia, Arab Americans are excluded from the U.S. Census and we are denied Federal program support. That support includes hundreds of millions of dollars that are divided up among other ethnic and racial groups including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans and many, many more. In the posts, you will be able to read about the history and experiences of many of the Arab Americans who served in the various branches of the U.S. Military including the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marines, the U.S. Navy and in other branches including the reserve and national guard. We have held every rank from he lowers to the highest. We have won medals of honor and have been honorably discharged. Our bravery has been affirmed in records but never showcased because of the racism that exists in this society. One reason Arab Americans who have served in the military and who are veteran fight so hard to insist upon our recognition is to demonstrate that we are equal to everyone in this country. We deserve respect and we deserve recognition. And, we deserve to tell our individual stories. Don't allow the racism that is fundamental to American society to prevent you from telling your story or the story or your relatives who served int he military. Whether you are now active duty or have served in active duty, or in the reserves or the national guard, you have a right and even an obligation to share that story not only for yourself but for your community and to also make America a stronger and more righteous nation. We support America's freedoms and we have sacrificed our lives to defend that freedom. We fought the Nazis in Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific. We defended American interests in the Middle East where our ancestors originate doing so knowing that we are helping to preserve human rights in the Arab World. We are Christian and we are Muslim. And we come from 22 Arab countries including Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, Yemen, Algeria and more. If you served in the U.S. Military or if your relatives served in the U.S. Military, make sure to submit your story or your relative's stories and photos so we can share them here. Email them to rghanania@gmail.com. Don;t let the fundamental racist hatred that plagues American prevent you from helping to eradicate that racism and make American a better country's he country of freedom and human rights that it strives to be. (Ray Hanania is an award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter who served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War with honor and distinction. Hanania is currently a columnist and correspondent for several American and Middle East newspapers. Visit www.Hanania.com for information on his writings, his radio shows and his podcasts.)
George John Hanania, US 5th Army WWII George John Hanania was born in Jerusalem on Nov. 11, 1909. He was one of the first Arab Americans to immigrate and settle in Chicago, in the mid-1920s. He followed his brother, Mousa (Moses) who had settled in Chicago around 1922. His father, Hanna Mousa (John Moses) Hanania, lived in the Romema Quarter of Old Jerusalem on Jaffa Road. Hanna Mousa worked as a traveling salesman and sold goods at the Centennial Celebration in New York and at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Most of his recent trips, though, were to Cairo, Egypt. His wife was Katreena Jyries Cattan. George had five brothers, two older brothers, Yusef (Joseph) and Mousa (Moses), and three younger brothers, Khamis, Farid and Edward. He had two sisters, Ellen and Helen. The family was related to Jyries Hanania, the founder of Al-Quds newspaper in the mid-19th Century and to Judge Hanania Hanania, a Palestinian Magistrate in Jerusalem. George obtained a typical education as a Palestinian Arab. He attended the Ratisbon's School (1912-1914), and then the American Mission School (1915-1917). He also attended Eccles des Freres and then St. George High schools (1914-1920). He entered college in 1923 attending the Palestine Patriarchal University (1923-1926) where he began his studies of law. Because of the influence of the British and their control of Palestine through a "Mandate," the English language was taught as a second language to nearly all Palestinian Arabs. French was the second most popular language taught in schools supported by Christian missions from the West. Yusef and George worked at the Jerusalem Post Office. George was a Postal Clerk Grade V Posts and Telegraphs, employed from June 23, 1920 until August 31, 1926. If his birth certificate is correct (being born in 1909) George would have been 11 years old when he started at the post office. I believe his date of birth as registered on his entrance papers to the United States is incorrect, and he was probably born between 1901 and 1904, making him 16-19 years old when he first started working for the British Government Postal Service. Yusef was able to secure a fulltime position working in the Jerusalem Post Office, and he was able to help his brother George obtain part-time work there, too. There is correspondence between George and the Director of the Government of Palestine in charge of various employment positions indicating efforts were made to secure jobs for other members of the family, but to no avail. Four specific events, most dealing with the poor employment conditions in Palestine in the mid-1920s, influenced the decision by George Hanania to leave Palestine and immigrate to the United States. George's brother Yusef drowned at the Jerusalem Quarry in April 1926, at a time when Arab and Jewish relations were simmering politically. Jewish, Muslim and Christian by-standers hearing Yusef's cries for help did not respond. Jews thought he was Muslim. Muslims thought he was Jewish. Christians thought he was not Christian. The event typified the growing animosity that existed in Palestine between Arabs and Jews who had conflicting interests there. Deteriorating relations between Jews and Arabs culminated in riots in 1929 and again in 1936 when Arabs protested British policies favoring large immigration quotas for European Jews. George's older brother, Mousa, had already left Palestine to come to the United States several years earlier. Mousa found full time work as a cook in a suburb of Chicago at the Rolling Green Country Club, located in Arlington Heights. A short newspaper article published at the time reported that the country club had been robbed and that a significant amount of money had been taken from the employees, including Mousa, who lost some $800, a sizeable amount of money back then indicating that he was doing very well financially. After Yusef's death, George and his siblings found it difficult to obtain work. George, who was working part-time, tried to find another position with the British Mandate government for himself and for his sister, Ellen. Applications he had submitted to the Department of Health were turned down. His sister, Ellen, also tried and failed to find work. Finally, George discovered that the British Mandate Government supervisors at the Jerusalem Post Office did not encourage his efforts to complete his education and they either refused or could not accommodate his need for a change in working hours. A request he made to alter his hours or receive permission to be absent from work specifically to attend Law College classes was turned down by his supervisor at the Post Office. George decided to join his brother, Mousa, in the New World, America, "the land of the free." He was given a Laisser Passer document that permitted his immigration to the United States. It was his only document that identified him as a Palestinian. George arrived in New York City on October 4, 1926, arriving on board the S.S. Sinaea passenger ship, under the raised arm of the Statue of Liberty. He always recalled it as an inspiring site. He quickly took a train and arrived in Chicago's Union Station where he was met by his brother. The month long trip was trying and expensive, requiring him to spend much of his savings earned working in Jerusalem. Aboard the ship were many other immigrants, Arabs and Jews. While in the United States, between 1926 and 1929, George worked at the Fenske Brothers Center (on North Clybourne), the Astor Street Theater and the LaSalle Street Theater. Eventually, he secured a decent paying job at the Rolling Green Country Club, in Arlington Heights, where he worked with his brother, Mousa. They worked together from 1930 through 1940. In 1934, George was granted naturalization and awarded his US citizenship. Sometime after World War II broke out with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, both he and his brother enlisted in military service. George had just started a job as an accountant at the Sinclair Oil Company …
New Jersey Syrians who served during World War II
New Jersey Syrians who served during World War II The North Jersey News in Patterson published a wonderful story about Syrian Americans who's served in the U.S. Military during World War II. Syrian American veterans from Paterson, NJ, who served and lost their lives in World War II, including John Raad, for whom an American Legion Post was named. For this story, I captured some of the history and setting for the Syrian community at the time. Please read and share. Click here for the link.
George Ezzat Mohammed
George Ezzat Mohammed George Ezzat Mohammed is an Army Veteran, he served in a small town in Germany called Neu-Ulm from 1954-1956. His rank was Private First Class. Mohammed was assigned to the Artillery Regiment during the occupation of Germany after World War II. He mostly patrolled the Czechoslovakian border. Mohammed was also a Sharpshooter and received a Good Conduct Medal. Mohammed was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1932, his parents were both born in Palestine. His Father was born in Ein-Arik, Palestine and emigrated to America in 1914. His mother was born in Beitunia, Palestine and emigrated to the United States in 1930.
James Jabara, U.S. Air Force, WW II
James Jabara, U.S. Air Force, WW II James "Jabby" Jabara (10 October 1923 – 17 November 1966) was the first American and United States Air Force jet ace in history. Born in Oklahoma, he lived in Kansas where he enlisted as an aviation cadet at Fort Riley after graduating from high school. Jabara attended four flying schools in Texas before he received his pilot's wings and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Jabara flew two tours of combat duty in Europe during World War II as a North American P-51 Mustang pilot, and scored 1.5 air victories against German aircraft. Jabara flew his first jet aircraft in 1948, the USAF Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star before transitioning to the USAF North American F-86 Sabre. Jabara used this aircraft to shoot down multiple Soviet-built MiG-15 jets during the Korean War. He achieved his first confirmed air victory of the war on 3 April 1951. A month later he scored his fifth and sixth victories, making him the first American jet ace in history. He eventually scored 15 victories, giving him the title of "triple ace". Jabara was ranked as the second-highest-scoring U.S. ace of the Korean War. He received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and the British Distinguished Flying Cross for his accomplishments in combat. Jabara next held a series of commands at various Air Force bases across the United States. He flew the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and later the Convair B-58 Hustler. In 1966, while on leave from service in Vietnam, Colonel Jabara was traveling with his family in two cars to their new home when his daughter crashed the car she was driving and he was riding in, killing them both. They were buried together at Arlington National Cemetery. In recognition of his contributions to military aviation, an airport outside of Wichita, Kansas was named in his honor. Each year the United States Air Force Academy alumni association bestows the Jabara Award upon an Academy graduate whose aerospace accomplishments demonstrate superior performance. Jabara was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, of Lebanese descent; his father, John, and mother came from Marjayoun, a town in Southern Lebanon. Jabara joined the Boy Scouts, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout. At an early age, he was set on becoming a pilot, "I used to read articles about [Eddie] Rickenbacker and all these novels you read about air combat, and I guess from the sixth grade it was my ambition to be a fighter pilot." He worked at his parents' grocery store and graduated from Wichita North High School in Wichita, Kansas in May 1942. Standing five feet, five inches (165 cm) tall, Jabara was short for a potential fighter pilot (and was reportedly required to wear corrective eyewear), but this did not prevent him from immediately enlisting as an aviation cadet of the United States Army Air Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas. In an attempt to improve his eyesight for flying, he ate 20 carrots a day in the mistaken belief that this would improve his vision. After attending four flying schools in Texas, he received his pilot's wings and a commission as second lieutenant at Moore Field, Texas in October 1943. Jabara with his wife, Nina, had four children: James William (b. 1949), Carol Ann (b. 1950), Cathy (b. 1952), and Jeanne (b. 1957) Bio courtesy of Wikipedia
Muna Nur, Arab medic, U.S. Army
Arab medic spends her career mending fellow Soldiers, preconceptions (Profile published by the U,.S. Army. By Sgt. Ken Scar) PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Sept. 13, 2012) — Staff Sgt. Muna Nur leaves a lasting impression on those who meet her. Born in Somalia, her feisty attitude is a testament to her six-year military career that includes two tough deployments to Iraq and a third, current one to Afghanistan, where she is the noncommissioned officer in charge of the Troop Medical Clinic, 10th Sustainment Brigade, Task Force Muleskinner. "I was born in Somalia, so I'm a child of war, I guess," she said. "When I was 2 months old, because of the war, my mom moved us to Kenya until I was 5, and then to America, where we finally settled in Minnesota. I consider myself an American, even though I wasn't born there." On a typical shift in the walk-in clinic on Bagram Airfield that she manages when she's not on missions outside the wire, she can be seen ribbing her medics good-naturedly like a stern mother. "I run a tight ship," she said, furrowing her brow toward everyone in the waiting area to light-hearted laughter. Nur has worked her way to a position that suits her well, but things have not always run so smoothly for her. She is a proud Muslim, a trait that has created difficulties for her in the past — especially after 9/11. "9/11 created such an awkward position for my family," she said. "My mom is not totally religious, but she wears the scarves over her head, and she is very fair-skinned, so she looks Arab. I just remember all the comments." She trails off, hesitant to get too specific and dredge up old wounds. "I said to myself, 'Do I want people to think my family is full of terrorists?," she recalled. "Do I want people to view my religion like we're all terrorists?' I wanted to fight back, so that's one of the main reasons I joined (the Army)." The decision to become a medic was a simpler one: "I wanted to help people." Being female and a Muslim could have been a double-whammy for someone joining the Army, whose population is historically composed mostly of men and Soldiers who believe in some form of Christianity, but the discrimination she experienced in the civilian world was much worse than what she has experienced as a Soldier. She credits the Army's emphasis on cultural training for that. "I think the majority of Soldiers are trained to differentiate between terrorists and what Islam is," she said. That's not to say she has never heard inconsiderate comments, but as a medic who is often the only female out on a mission, she knows how to brush off the harsh words and posturing of some her less-sensitive colleagues. "My first tour of Iraq was very difficult for me," she said. "Treating Soldiers who just got hit, I heard the backlash, but now I don't take it as an attack against Muslims in general — or me. I take it as an attack against terrorists." Dealing with traditional Afghan prejudices is another thing she has learned to deal with gracefully. "Most (Afghans) are illiterate," she explained. "They don't read the Quran. It's taught to them. So for me, as a Muslim woman who reads the Quran and has my own interpretation, it can be a battle." "You have to have a thick skin," she added, smiling. "You have to know what right looks like and be tolerant. You can't go around telling people their religion is wrong or they believe in false prophets. How would you feel if I condemned you to hell because you're not a Muslim? I don't believe in that." "More than anything, she educates us," explained Air Force Senior Airman Natasha Whitten, one of Nur's medics. "Like when the Qurans were burned (in February), she let us know why people were so upset and what would have been (the proper thing to do)." As far as being a female in a war zone, Nur marvels at the fact there is any debate at all that she or any of her female comrades belong in combat. Every medic in her unit rotates from working in the clinic to rolling with combat logistical patrols that travel to smaller combat outposts and bases all over Regional Command-East on the most dangerous roadways in theater. Out of the 42 medics for whom she is responsible, 10 of them are female. "If we took all our females off the road, the missions wouldn't happen," she said. She personally goes on an average of three missions per month, so she will likely rack up nearly 50 missions outside the wire on her current deployment. "She is dedicated to what she does," said Sgt. Maj. Janice Glaze, operations sergeant major for Task Force Muleskinner. "She really has concern for Soldiers, and I would speak to her courage. As a medic, she treats the Soldiers (who) encounter improvised explosive devices. She sees the wounds, so she knows what can happen when you go outside that wire — and yet she is never hesitant to go on those missions." "Once you're outside the wire, anything can happen," Nur said. "I want the world to know that my medics go out there and have to be combat Soldiers, whether they're male or female." "When you go out (on the convoys), there's no separation. We all sleep in the same tents, or the same trucks," she said." "We are already in combat," said Air Force Staff Sgt. Anahi Pelayo, also one of Nur's medics, referring to the debate over whether women should be in combat positions. "We (female medics) are not necessarily behind the weapons, but we take care of everyone else (who) is." "I love the action, and I love being out. But I always say that I like to stay unemployed on missions," Nur said.
Philip "Hi Jolly" Tedro (Tadros), U.S. Civil War
Philip "Hi Jolly" Tadros, U.S. Civil War Hi Jolly or Hadji Ali (Arabic: حاج علي, translit. Ḥājj ʿAlī; Turkish: Hacı Ali), later known as Philip Tedro (born 'Ali al-Hajaya c. 1828 – December 16, 1902), was an Ottoman subject of Syrian and Greek parentage,[1] and in 1856 became one of the first camel drivers ever hired by the US Army to lead the camel driver experiment in the Southwest. Hi Jolly became a living legend until his death in Arizona. Once, insulted because he had not been invited to a German picnic in Los Angeles, he broke up the gathering by driving into it on a yellow cart pulled by two of his pet camels. He was born as Philip Tedro in Smyrna around 1828, to a Greek mother and a Syrian father who was a Christian Arab. As a young adult, he converted to Islam. After going to Mecca to perform the hajj (pilgrimage), he called himself Hadji Ali. He reverted to Philip Tedro in later life. An Ottoman Turkish citizen of Greater Syria, Hadji Ali worked as a camel breeder and trainer. He served with the French Army in Algiers before signing on as a camel driver for the US Army in 1856. Ali was one of several men hired by the United States Army to introduce camels as beasts of burden to transport cargo across the "Great American Desert." Eight of the men – including Ali – were of Greek origin. They arrived at the Port of Indianola in Calhoun County, Texas on the USS Supply. The book Go West Greek George by Steven Dean Pastis, published in both Greek and English, specifically identifies all eight men. These pioneers were Yiorgos Caralambo (later known as Greek George), Hadji Ali (Hi Jolly, a.k.a. Philip Tedro), Mimico Teodora (Mico), Hadjiatis Yannaco (Long Tom), Anastasio Coralli (Short Tom), Michelo Georgios, Yanni Iliato, and Giorgios Costi. The Americans acquired three camels in Tunis, nine in Egypt and 21 in Smyrna: 33 in all. Ali was the lead camel driver during the US Army's experiment with the U.S. Camel Corps in using camels in the dry deserts of the Southwest. After successfully traveling round trip from Texas to California, the experiment failed, partly due to the problem that the Army's burros, horses, and mules feared the large animals, often panicking, and the tensions of the American Civil War led to Congress not approving more funds for the Corps. In 1864, the camels were finally auctioned off in Benicia, California, and Camp Verde, Texas. Ali was discharged from the Quartermaster Department of the U.S. Army at Camp McDowell in 1870. He next ran a freight service between the Colorado River and the mining establishments further east, using the few camels he had purchased. His business was unsuccessful, however, and he released his camels into the desert near Gila Bend. He became an American citizen in 1880, and he used his birth name of Philip Tedro (sometimes spelled Teadrow) when he married Gertrudis Serna in Tucson, Arizona. They had two children. In 1885, Ali was again hired by the U.S. Army in Arizona, and worked with pack mules for Brig. Gen. George Crook during the Geronimo campaign. In his final years, Ali moved to Quartzsite, Arizona, where he mined and occasionally scouted for the US government. He died in 1902 and was buried in the Quartzsite Cemetery. In 1935, Arizona Governor Benjamin Moeur dedicated a monument to Hadji Ali and the Camel Corps in the Quartzsite Cemetery. The monument, located at his gravesite, is a pyramid built from local stones and topped with a copper camel. The monument is the most visited location in Quartzsite. The plaque on the monument reads: THE LAST CAMP OF HI JOLLY BORN SOMEWHERE IN SYRIA ABOUT 1828 DIED AT QUARTZITE DECEMBER 16, 1902 CAME TO THIS COUNTRY FEBRUARY 10, 1856 CAMELDRIVER – PACKER SCOUT – OVER THIRTY YEARS A FAITHFUL AID TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 1935 (Bio courtesy of Wikipedia)

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Q: OmniXML on iOS: Invalid Unicode I recently switched to use the OmniXML included with Delphi XE7, to allow targeting iOS. The XML data comes from a cloud service and includes nodes with base64 encoded binary data.
Now I get this exeception "Invalid Unicode Character value for this platform" when calling XMLDocument.LoadFromStream, and it seems to be this base64 linebreak sequence that fails:
The nodes with base64 data looks similar to this:
<data>TVRMUQAAAAIAAAAAFFo3FAAUAAEA8AADsAAAAEAAAABAAHAAwABgAAAAAAAAAAAQEBAAAAAAAA
AAMQAAABNUgAAP/f/AAMABAoAAAAEAAAAAEVNVExNAAAAAQAAAAAUWjcUABQAAQD/wAA
AAA=</data>

I traced it down to these lines in XML.Internal.OmniXML:
  psCharHexRef:
    if CharIs_WhiteSpace(ReadChar) then
      raise EXMLException.CreateParseError(INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR, MSG_E_UNEXPECTED_WHITESPACE, [])
    else
    begin
      case ReadChar of
        '0'..'9': CharRef := LongWord(CharRef shl 4) + LongWord(Ord(ReadChar) - 48);
        'A'..'F': CharRef := LongWord(CharRef shl 4) + LongWord(Ord(ReadChar) - 65 + 10);
        'a'..'f': CharRef := LongWord(CharRef shl 4) + LongWord(Ord(ReadChar) - 97 + 10);
        ';':
          if CharIs_Char(Char(CharRef)) then
          begin
            Result := Char(CharRef);
            Exit;
          end
          else
            raise EXMLException.CreateParseError(INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR, MSG_E_INVALID_UNICODE, []);

It is the exception in the last line that is raised because CharIs_Char(#13) is false (where #13 is the value of CharRef read from
)
How do I solve this?

A: This is clearly a bug in OmniXML.  It looks like the developers were trying to implement XML1.0 which states :

...XML processors MUST accept any character in the range specified for Char.
Character Range
[2] Char      ::=      #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
/* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF. */

The implementation of CharIs_Char, however looks like :
function CharIs_Char(const ch: Char): Boolean;
begin
  // [2] Char - any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF
  Result := not Ch.IsControl;
end;

This is excluding all control characters, which include #x9(TAB), #xA(LF) and #xD(CR).  In fact, since XML strips (or optionally replaces with LF) carriage return literals during parsing, the only way to include an actual carriage return is using a character reference in an entity value literal (section 2.3 of the specification).
This seems like a showstopper and should be submitted as a QC report.

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package squircy2 // import "github.com/veonik/squircy2"

//go:generate go-bindata -prefix "./web" -pkg generated -tags "!debug" -modtime 0 -o "./web/generated/bindata.go" ./web/public/...
//go:generate stickgen -path "./web/views" -out web/generated index.html.twig
//go:generate stickgen -path "./web/views" -out web/generated **/[a-z]*.twig

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"strconv"

	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/plugin"

	"github.com/codegangsta/inject"
	_ "github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata"
	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/config"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/data"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/event"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/eventsource"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/irc"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/script"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/web"
	_ "github.com/veonik/squircy2/web/module"
	"github.com/veonik/squircy2/webhook"
)

type Manager struct {
	inject.Injector

	conf   *config.Configuration
	logger *log.Logger

	plugins *plugin.Manager
	scripts *script.ScriptManager
	web     *web.Server
	irc     *irc.ConnectionManager
	events  event.EventManager
}

func NewManager(rootPath string) *Manager {
	m := &Manager{Injector: inject.New()}

	m.conf = config.NewConfiguration(rootPath)

	events := event.NewEventManager(m.Injector)
	logger := newLogger(events)
	database := data.NewDatabaseConnection(m.conf.RootPath, logger)

	config.LoadConfig(database, logger, m.conf)
	scriptRepo := script.NewScriptRepository(database, m.conf, logger)

	m.web = web.NewServer(m.Injector, m.conf, logger)
	m.irc = irc.NewConnectionManager(logger, events, m.conf)
	m.scripts = script.NewScriptManager(scriptRepo, logger, events, m.irc, m.conf, database)
	m.logger = logger
	m.events = events
	m.plugins = plugin.NewManager(m.conf.PluginsPath, m.conf.PluginsEnabled...)

	m.Map(m)
	m.Map(m.conf)
	m.Map(m.irc)
	m.Map(m.web)
	m.Map(m.scripts)
	m.Map(m.logger)
	m.Map(m.events)

	m.Map(database)
	m.Map(event.NewTracer(events))
	m.Map(newEventSource(events, logger))
	m.Map(scriptRepo)
	m.Map(webhook.NewWebhookRepository(database))

	if errs := m.plugins.Configure(m.Injector); len(errs) > 0 {
		for _, err := range errs {
			logger.Warnln(err)
		}
	}
	m.web.Configure()

	m.scripts.ReInit()

	return m
}

func (m *Manager) Conf() *config.Configuration {
	return m.conf
}

func (m *Manager) Web() *web.Server {
	return m.web
}

func (m *Manager) IRC() *irc.ConnectionManager {
	return m.irc
}

func (m *Manager) Script() *script.ScriptManager {
	return m.scripts
}

func (m *Manager) Logger() *log.Logger {
	return m.logger
}

func newEventSource(evm event.EventManager, l log.FieldLogger) *eventsource.Broker {
	es := eventsource.New()
	es.FieldLogger = l

	var id int = -1
	evm.Bind(event.AllEvents, func(es *eventsource.Broker, ev event.Event) {
		id++
		d, _ := json.Marshal(ev.Data)
		es.Notify(&eventsource.Message{strconv.Itoa(id), string(ev.Type), string(d)})
	})

	return es
}

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Birthdays are hard, my expectations haywire at the oddest moments. While I crave the spotlight, I also shy away, preferring to plan last minute gatherings over a big party. I am ever grateful on June 6 when the pressure passes and I can resume normal routines, settling into my new number.
Being a June baby is nice. This month fits me. Grateful to see the crazy busy of May gone, while ill-prepared for the heat of July, where sleep is a near rarity when divorced from the whir of air conditioners. June offers the hope of planted seeds and blooming color, the absolute wonder of an afternoon thunderstorm, trees full and lawns green, nights remain cool – the evening breezes wafting through the open windows.
At my birthday dinner, my mom asked what I've learned after forty-four years.
Forty-four offers authority. The grand experiments of parenting and marriage are revealing their cracks and their fruits. Grace and gratitude have been wrung from both the best and worst of times. The delicious byproduct, wisdom, is carried around in my pocket as a secret delight. I am thrilled when given an opportunity to dispense a hard-learned nugget. Joy coming from choosing the struggle and tunneling through to the other side with deeper understanding and respect.
Forty-four offers perspective. Life's cycles and seasons are coming around again. The untested certainty of the 20s and 30s replaced with mercy and humility. I am becoming more myself, while sticking to my own lane, finding my beauty and pleasure in what I was created and designed to do, as a woman, a mother, a wife and friend.
Forty-four yells at me to stop trying to be happy. This aging body aches. Muscles and bone, but also spirit and soul. I cannot fix the world. I cannot heal the pain. I can, however, choose discomfort. I can honor the struggle of the people around me, in my world and in the greater world. I can choose to see and strive for justice by recognizing my privilege. The weight of the world dwells in me and I have work to do. Balancing the blessing with the ache is my joy, my painful joy. I want to lay in my soft bed and consider the refugee with no place to call home. I want to take a warm shower and remember my homeless neighbor. I want to fill my belly and honor the poverty-stricken children in my own country. My ache holds my greatest joy and greatest confusion. I try to shake the throb, but to no avail. As Martin Luther King, Jr stated: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Our work is to fight injustice beginning with our comfort. Our work is to carry human dignity through equality into our worlds. So I try to bear the burden with humility and imperfection and fear. I fail, I look stupid, I succeed some of the time. Meanwhile, I am urged and I crawl. My happiness is not important. I would rather live with my eyes wide open.
Forty-four tells me I need fewer friends but deeper friendships. My friends pour into me and I into them, sometimes from excess and often from dregs. I bear burdens and others bear mine. My work is not to save but to carry the mutual expectation that we are there for one another. I don't get to be the savior, nor do I get to be the victim.
Forty-four has given me permission. Yes is scarce and no is abundant. The physical and emotional outputs as wife, mother, friend, writer are great. Opportunities, no matter how noble, are competition for my priorities. Naps are a rule. Meditative prayer, journaling and super-strong coffee are my mornings. Regular dates with Eric keep our home life humming along with health and precision, fending off the threat of careless apathy and creeping disrespect.
Forty-four has shown me the gravity and potential fragility of marriage and family. Revealing the need for consistent stoking of the fires of respect through conversation, the crafting of friendship, the recognition of mutuality. The constant work of seeking to understand and giving the benefit of the doubt is essential, while recognizing and respecting differences.
Forty-four has set my feet on the path of love. Loving God, loving myself, loving others requires abundant and swift grace, doing the meticulous work of forgiveness, forging through the darkness of chosen suffering to learn the art of mercy. Empathy and compassion spring from choosing to see. Our light shines when we learn to bear with fortitude the burdens of another and when we live into our own beloved-ness, owning the fundamental truth that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Nothing can loosen God's grip on us. We are secure, safe, held.
Forty-four has made its mark on my body. The lines around my eyes now meet in a continuous arc to my mouth. Permanent creases line my forehead, a furrow etched along my brow line. Gray hairs increase at exponential rates and Achilles tendons cry out after periods of inactivity. My hands have become unfamiliar, and my skin more spotty than not. I forget things. I'm tired. Yet, I am grateful.
The authority and beauty of aging, the lines and grays and spots are honorable and hard won. My heart is fuller, more resilient than ever.
The best word to describe my first 44 years – good.
Let's toast to another 44.
Happy Birthday, love you, and cheers to you!!!
Happy Birthday!! I'm excited to go on vacation and binge read the rest of your writing. I agree with you. As we age, what matters, what deeply matters becomes so clear.
Thanks Erin. Let me know what you think and have a great vacation!
Happy birthday Jennifer. Thanks for sharing. Powerful and insightful. Your capturing of the forties makes it a wonderful stage of life to be.
Thank you for the generous comment Eugena! Yes, the forties are wonderful.


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North Park Hockey Assocation is a non-profit youth hockey club based in New York City. North Park was founded in 1987 in Central Park, and we are proud to be entering our 31st season in September 2018. We offer programs from learn-to-skate through Bantam. Our learn-to-skate program is based at Bryant Park and runs from November thru February. Our travel teams (8U Mite, 10U Squirt, 12U PeeWee, and 14U Bantam) play from September through early March, with the exception of holidays, and we have a 10-week Spring Program to provide our players with high quality training opportunities in a flexible format from April though early June. We are grateful to be partnered with a variety of metropolitan New York City venues, including City Ice Pavilion, MacKay Ice Arena, Cutting Edge Ice Academy & Long Island City-ICE, among others.
We compete against other elite programs in Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut & New Jersey, and we strive to make a long-term commitment to our families to develop players from preschool through 9th grade. Our tryouts evaluate new players and make roster determinations for returning players. While we will address behavioral or attendance issues if necessary, we do not "cut" returning players based on an annual talent assessment. We have found players at these young age levels to develop at different rates, and over time, all will advance to a high level in our program. Our primary goal is to instill a lifelong love of hockey, which we believe is put at risk unnecessarily at this age with a more short-term mindset.
Our most successful teams compete at a strong AA level, and are characterized by mix of AAA and AA-level players. In the 2017-18 season, North Park won multiple titles in the Hudson Valley Hockey League and the Metro Elite Hockey League, as well as a 10U AA title in the New England Regionals of Silver Sticks. We accomplish our goals with a focus on coaching talent from the U.S. and overseas, as well as strength of commitment from our member families. We believe that there is ample competition within a 45-60 minute drive of Manhattan to develop talent at this age, so we play nearly all of our games within that radius. We also encourage balance with the rigorous academic requirements in New York City schools, and with other extracurricular pursuits when not in peak season. Please note that North Park also offers a need-based financial aid program.
If you have any questions about playing for North Park, please contact northparkhockey@gmail.com. And if you would like to schedule a game with our program, please contact northparkscheduler@gmail.com.


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De Premier League 2011/12 was het 50ste seizoen in de hoogste afdeling van het Koeweitse voetbal sinds de oprichting van deze divisie in het Aziatische land in 1961. De competitie begon op 30 december 2011 en had zijn eenentwintigste en laatste speelronde op 1 juni 2012. Acht clubs deden mee aan deze editie. Met een uiteindelijke voorsprong van elf punten op Kuwait SC won Qadsia SC de landstitel. De club werd voor de vijftiende keer landskampioen en kwalificeerde zich zodoende voor de strijd om de AFC Cup 2013, net als de nummer twee. Zowel Qadsia als Kuwait eindigde in de groepsfase van dat toernooi op de eerste plaats. In de kwartfinales wonnen beide clubs opnieuw: Qadsia won op basis van de uitdoelpuntregel en Kuwait won ruim (12–2 over twee duels). In de finale van de AFC Cup stonden beide clubs; Kuwait versloeg de landskampioen met 0–2. Al-Shabab eindigde dit seizoen op de laatste plaats; in het volgende seizoen werd diens plaats ingenomen door Al-Salibikhaet SC, dat in de tweede divisie één punt boven Al-Yarmouk eindigde. Yarmouk verloor vervolgens de play-offs om promotie en degradatie van Al Nasar.

Deelnemende clubs

Resultaten

Uitslagen

Eindstand

Play-offs promotie/degradatie

Eerste ronde

Tweede ronde

Al Nasar behoudt zijn plek en degradeert niet, Al-Yarmouk dwingt zodoende geen promotie af

Topscorers

Zie ook
Koeweitse voetbalbeker 2011
Koeweits voetbalelftal in 2011
Koeweitse voetbalbeker 2012
Koeweits voetbalelftal in 2012

Koeweit

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Le codex Telleriano-Remensis est un des rares manuscrits peints aztèques ayant survécu à la colonisation espagnole des Amériques.

Contenu
Il se compose de trois parties : un calendrier rituel des fêtes fixes de chaque vingtaine, un tonalamatl et des annales historiques de l'empire aztèque.

La première partie s'étend des feuillets 1 à 7, la seconde des feuillets 8 à 24 et la troisième et dernière, des feuillets 25 à 50.

Caractéristiques physiques
Il comporte 50 feuillets de papier vergé, numérotés en 1889, d'environ  de haut sur  de large. La page 35 est vierge.

Le papier comporte en filigrane un dessin de main ou de gantelet d'une dizaine de centimètres de haut.

Sur la reliure, en vélin souple, est inscrit le titre  en lettres gothiques presque effacées.

Réalisation

Il a été peint au  par des tlacuiloque indigènes du Mexique et annoté par au moins un auteur ayant vécu au Mexique et y étant décédé. C'est pourquoi on a toujours supposé qu'il avait été réalisé là-bas sur papier européen. Les caractéristiques du filigrane ont permis à C.-M. Briquet d'affirmer que le papier a certainement été produit à Gênes au milieu du .

Il a ensuite été importé en Espagne, où semble avoir été réalisée sa reliure.

Nom
Son nom lui a été donné par Alexander von Humboldt. C'est la version latinisée du nom du collectionneur Charles-Maurice Le Tellier, qui l'a eu en sa possession à la fin du , et du lieu de sa fonction d'archevêque (Reims).

Conservation
Le codex est conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, à Paris.

Annexes

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Codex Ríos

Bibliographie
 .
 .

Telleriano-Remensis, codex
Manuscrit enluminé conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Codex colonial
Manuscrit enluminé du XVIe siècle


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Q: React Native state and props, callbacks problem I'm having problems with passing props and this whole stuff. Apparently i did something wrong maybe someone can tell me what should i fix there.
So these are states and callbacks that i use:
const [isVisible, setIsVisible] = useState(false);
  const visibleCallBack = () => {
    setIsVisible(false);
  };
  const [budynekText, setBudynekText] = useState("budynek");
  const budynekCallBack = (propFromChild) => {
    setBudynekText(propFromChild);
  };

isVisible should decide whether to render or not a certain component:
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => setIsVisible(true)}>
      <View style={styles.budynekContainer}>
        <Text style={styles.budynekTekst}>{budynekText}</Text>
        {isVisible ?
          <Rozwijana callBack={visibleCallBack} budCallBack={budynekCallBack}/>
         : null}
      </View>

Here I'm passing these callback functions as a props to "Rozwijana",
"Rozwijana" looks like that:
export const Rozwijana = ({callBackProp, budCallBackProp}) => {

  return (
    <View style={styles.rozwijanaPoz}>
      <Pusty/>
      <Box name={"budynek 1"} callBackProp={callBackProp} budCallBackProp={budCallBackProp}/>
      <Box name={"budynek 2"} callBackProp={callBackProp} budCallBackProp={budCallBackProp}/>
      <Box name={"budynek 3"} callBackProp={callBackProp} budCallBackProp={budCallBackProp}/>
    </View>
  );
}

Then i pass these callbacks down to "Box" component:
const Box = ({name, callBackProp, budCallBackProp}) => {
  return (
    <>
      <TouchableHighlight onPress={() => {callBackProp(); budCallBackProp(name);}}>
        <View style={styles.inputBox}>
          <Text style={styles.testText}>{name}</Text>
        </View>
      </TouchableHighlight>
    </>
  );
}

The result is, that when i click first time at "budynek" button it works as expected, it opens my "list" but after that, when i try to click any of "Boxes" nothing happens. Is there something wrong? If so, how do i go about making this work? Thanks


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Сапиндоцве́тные () — порядок цветковых растений.

Согласно системе классификации APG III 2009 года, в его состав входят следующие семейства:

  (+ Peganaceae и Tetradiclidaceae)

В более ранней системе классификации Кронквиста (1981 года) представлен несколько расширенный список:

В более поздней версии растения семейств Клёновые и Конскокаштановые вошли в состав семейства .

Семейство  вошло в состав семейства .

Примечания

Ссылки

Двудольные
Порядки растений


My 30th birthday is looming ever closer and I have discovered that my partner is taking me on a mystery weekend away. I have been chipping away at her trying to get some clues as to where we are going and I am now reasonably confident that we are going fossil hunting in Oaro.
Since neither of us have been fosiling at Oaro before I would be very grateful if anyone could give me some pointers on where to look and what to look out for. I cant wait!!
Hi McHorse, have you had your trip yet?
Hi Hope you had a good trip, if you haven't been yet, I hope you have a good trip, it would be lovely if you could take lots of images of the local and do a field trip report for those of us who will never get to go to such a location in your part of the world.
Location: North Canterbury, New Zealand.
Hi mate - I've been there once with the kids, just after a good storm. Found some interesting Belemites and nice chunks of pet wood.
Oaro is still a popular spot for us at the Marlborough Rock and Mineral Club, especially after the Kaikoura earthquakes. There are still lots of belemnites, petrified wood, fossil bone loose and still in rock. Just watch out for the seals. I'll organise some photos of some of our club collection plus some that I have taken at Oaro last year (2018). I want to go back some time. Just 2 hours away.
I havent been there since the shakey shakey - flown over there heaps, and drive past more but sadly all for work and no time for play.


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S2E26: Dave McRae on Filming the Unofficial Black Christmas Sequel, His Favorite Atmospheric Horror Movies, & Why Theatre of the Mind is Important
S2E25: Horror Writer Matt Donato Spills His Top 3 Holiday Horror Movies, His Recs for New Holiday Horror to Watch, & Why Horror Fans Seem More Sane
S2E24: YouTuber Jason Nike on Why Holiday Horror Rocks, Which Are His Favorites & Which Holiday He Wishes Would Get Its Own Movie
Ep. 27: Joe Borges Professes His Love For Zombies and The Exorcist; Plus Why No One Is Actually Sane in Honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month
March 11, 2021	01:02:3357.89M
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In episode 27 of Who's There, Allison chatted with stroke survivor Joe Borges about his favorite horror movies in honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month. They speak in depth about Joe's favorite sub-genre (zombies!), why he loves Eli Roth even though some of his movies are undeniably terrible, and how The Exorcist will always be the scariest movie he ever saw and even meeting Linda Blair years later scared the crap out of him.
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Horror movies are often misunderstood and so are the people who love them. Hosted by horror fan Allison, this is a podcast to talk to horror fans and see exactly why they love this genre the way they do. We talk about our favorites and why we love this genre so much, hoping to destigmatize the assumptions made about horror fans.
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Lumentum, LLC, the leading provider of aggregated, normalized tax lien certificate data for institutional investors, continues its growth with the addition of Edgar Botero. Botero, who serves as VP of Operations, is responsible for defining and implementing a streamlined business process as well as developing the company's strategic plan.
Botero joins Lumentum from Corimon C.A. in Valencia, Venezuela where he served as the corporate IT manager. During this time, Botero oversaw all aspects of technology services, product analysis and software development according to the strategic direction and growth objectives of the company. Botero has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Miami as well a Master's degree in finance.


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Natthocko (Nothocrax urumutum) är en fågel i familjen trädhöns inom ordningen hönsfåglar.

Utseende och läte
Natthockon är en relativt liten hockohöna med helt varmbrun fjäderdräkt. Den har vidare bjärt orangefärgad näbb, gul bar hud ovan ögat och grå hud under ögat. Lätet är mörkt och dånande, vanligen bestående av tre toner.

Utbredning och systematik
Fågeln placeras som enda art i släktet Nothocrax. Den förekommer i fuktiga områden i södra Venezuela, nordöstra Peru och västra Amazonområdet i Brasilien.

Levnadssätt
Natthockon är som namnet antyder en helt nattlevande hönsfågel och är därför mycket svår att få syn på. Den förekommer i låglänta skogar, där den vanligen stannar i trädtaket och endast sällan ses på marken.

Status och hot
Arten har ett stort utbredningsområde, men tros minska i antal, dock inte tillräckligt kraftigt för att den ska betraktas som hotad. Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN listar arten som livskraftig (LC).

Noter

Externa länkar

 Läten på xeno-canto.org

Trädhöns
Fåglar i neotropiska regionen


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Rede Brasileira de Televisão Internacional (Portuguese: Brazilian Network of International Television), better known as RBTI, is an international Brazilian television network.  It airs programming from SBT network in Brazil as well as original content aimed at the Brazilian diaspora in Canada and the United States.

History
Rede Brasileira de Televisão Internacional, better known as RBTI, began its TV transmission on April 28, 2006 in São Paulo worldwide. The network is owned by Marcelo do Espirito Santo and the Espirito Santo family. RBTI is watched more 1 million people daily worldwide.

Since its launch in 2006 the RBTI channel has become one of the local Brazilian-Portuguese
community television in North America. First of the international television channels to bring the World Cup in Portuguese to the Community. RBTI programming lineup includes American movies in Portuguese, soap operas, talk shows, news, women shows, music, community, sports, science and family entertainment.

It is also the first Brazilian channel in the United States and Canada to produce a daily community related show called Comunidade em Foco  interviews with interesting Brazilians in the U.S. as well as a daily news segment, presented by Ana Maria. which keeps the community updated on the happenings of the Brazilian community thought the United States and Canada.

It is currently available only in Canada via Bell Fibe TV, Rogers Cable and NEXTV.

RBT International was available in the United States on Dish Network and cable in Miami, Boston and New York City. It was subsequently dropped by Dish Network on October 3, 2012.

Slogans
 2006 – A TV feita para você ("TV made for you")
 2007 – Onde a estrela é você ("Where you are the star")
 2008 – Orgulho de ser brasileiro ("Proud to be Brazilian")

External links

Television networks in Brazil
Mass media in São Paulo
Cable television in Canada
Mass media in Toronto


Merri Outreach Support Service (MOSS) understands the challenges faced by those with a disability. Health, social isolation and suitable housing are just a few of these concerns that can be experienced by individuals and families impacted by disability.
MOSS is a long established not-for-profit service with extensive knowledge in assisting individuals and families to build their capacity and improve their circumstances. We have a broad knowledge of service systems relating to mental and physical health, social and family support. Support Coordinators at MOSS work in partnership with individuals, families and services to provide support around these issues. MOSS Support Coordination is directed by you and focuses on getting you the most from your NDIS plan.
Our staff are highly qualified and experienced in providing support. Outreach is offered to participants so you can meet at the place where you are most comfortable.
MOSS has speciality knowledge regarding the homelessness system and housing options. MOSS does not have accommodation; however participants may be eligible to access existing MOSS programs to assist them to access long term and secure housing.
Merri Outreach Support Service Support Coordination services the Hume, Moreland, Darebin, Nillumbik, Banyule and Whittlesea areas.


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Developers Can Now Apply To The Chainlink Hacker House At SmartCon 2022
Photo by Kai Pilger on Unsplash
Today marks six weeks from the start of SmartCon 2022, Chainlink's premier web3 conference. This year's SmartCon will feature two full days of virtual and in-person events, September 28 and 29 in New York City.
More than 100 industry leaders and academics – including former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt; former Coinbase CTO, Balaji Srinivasan; Solana Labs co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko; and Ava Labs founder, Emin Gün Sirer – will present their trailblazing thought leadership to thousands of founders, developers, entrepreneurs, and blockchain enthusiasts from around the world.
Also new this year is the Chainlink Hacker House, a free, in-person event in New York City on September 30, 2022. Hacker House will feature technical workshops stemming from the ultimate 32-hour smart contract development course created by Chainlink Labs' Lead Developer Advocate, Patrick Collins, as well as community-led sessions, hands-on support, and networking opportunities.
Hacker House functions as a bridge between September's SmartCon and the Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon, scheduled to take place October 14 through November 18, 2022, with closing ceremonies set for December 2, 2022.
Chainlink Labs' Head of Developer Marketing, Melodi Kaya, told Chainlink Today that Hacker House offers the first-ever opportunity for Chainlink hackathon participants to convene in real life.
"We will have sessions on preparing great project submissions, forming teams based on coding skills, learning how hackathon judges evaluate projects, and hearing from previous hackathon winners," she said.
Hacker House activities will also include a scavenger hunt and the opportunity for developers to have their questions answered by Chainlink Labs' entire developer advocacy team.
Kaya, an animal lover, said that in order to make the event accessible to as many talented developers as possible, Hacker House will accommodate both developers and their dogs.
"We are working on making this event useful for our developers and their dogs if they choose to bring them to the event venue," she said. "We don't want to separate our devs from their furry friends."
Hacker House is currently accepting applications and 100 developers will be chosen. Kaya said strong applicants are those planning to participate in the Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon and who have also participated in previous Chainlink hackathons – with bonus points for those who have submitted hackathon projects.
Kaya said Hacker House was created with an emphasis on finding the sweet spot that fosters the best experience. "The event is only going to be for 100 people, so it is important to us that the quality is up to our expectations and everyone gets to engage with our developer advocates," she explained.
To learn more, visit the SmartCon 2022 official website and apply to the Chainlink Hacker House.
SmartCon
How Trust-Minimized Apps And Smart Contracts Become World's Largest Technology Market


Different cultures have described Energy in many fascinating ways for thousands of years.
Placebo, mambo-jumbo, imagination, mind- trick?
Some people believe that everything they need to know has been taught in school.
But did you know that Quantum Physics is all about the same Energy?
Both camps could provide you explanations and enormous amount of literature to prove their points. To save you reading for years I suggest you don't bother because you won't get closer to the answer by an inch!
Because these will only tell you -again- about people's own perceptions of either the existence or the non-existence of Energy.
Go and discover it yourself!
I invite you to experience Energy with me. It will be fun.


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With a Groundbreaking Handbook and a Dystopian Tale, Women Gain a Voice
By CLYDE HABERMAN
In popular culture, what lies ahead is somehow almost always bleak. That is certainly the case with one of the year's most acclaimed television series, about a dystopia of the not-distant future.
In an America renamed Gilead after a violent theocratic takeover, women are denied control over their own bodies. The more fertile among them, known as handmaids, are sex slaves, forced to bear children for barren families of the ruling class. Based on a 1985 Margaret Atwood novel, the Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale" has been nominated for 13 Emmys and is an obvious favorite at the awards presentation Sunday night.
Ms. Atwood has said that every predation inflicted on women in her book actually happened somewhere at some time across the globe, including in the United States. But as shown in this first offering of a new Retro Report series, women's struggle for reproductive rights and other forms of corporeal self-determination is enduring.
Retro Report, whose video documentaries explore how major news stories of the past still resonate, turns its lens on "Our Bodies, Ourselves," a book first published in the early 1970s. It revolutionized how health care for women was discussed. In frank language and illustrations, it delved into topics that a half-century ago were publicly taboo, from birth control to pregnancy, from sexual desires to menopause.
Judy Norsigian was one of the women who got the project rolling. "We were dealing with a system," she said, "that was antithetical to getting good medical care and being treated like full human beings."
Early on, Ms. Norsigian and her colleagues found their book banned by some schools and libraries, or kept hidden behind checkout counters. Nevertheless, they persisted. Over the decades, revised several times, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has sold in the millions, a lasting monument to raised consciousness.
Not necessarily for everyone, though. Also persisting are men like Todd Akin, a former Republican congressman from Missouri who won dubious fame in 2012 with his reason for opposing abortion rights even for rape victims: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Segue to the current president, once caught on a hot microphone boasting about groping women and how "when you're a star, they let you do it."
Many women, and men, now worry about efforts by the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress to reduce financing for women's health care. Notably threatened is federal funding for Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion counseling, even though Mr. Trump acknowledged during his 2016 campaign that "millions and millions of women — cervical cancer, breast cancer — are helped by Planned Parenthood."
Around the country, women have pushed back. Some have seized the cultural moment, holding protest demonstrations dressed in red robes and white bonnets — the enforced code for the handmaids of Gilead.
The video with this article is part of a documentary series presented by The New York Times. The video project was started with a grant from Christopher Buck. Retro Report, led by Kyra Darnton, is a nonprofit video news organization that aims to provide a thoughtful counterweight to today's 24/7 news cycle. Previous episodes are at nytimes.com/retroreport. To suggest ideas for future reports, email retroreport@nytimes.com.
Amid Hurricane Chaos, Domestic Abuse Victims Risk Being Overlooked
Feeling Older? Here's How to Embrace It


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Gathering silver and gold on America's backroads
On February 1, 2019	by Judy Nichols	With	0 Comments	- Blog, Our wanderings
The Epic Van with two Casita pals perched on the edge of the prairie at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.
The local bachelor elks provided jousting entertainment.
Georges is the master of the campfire.
Old and new friends, from left, Tom, me, Allison, Bob, Keven and Georges.
Fine dining by lamplight.
Gathering around Big Tree, a really big tree.
Mushrooms along the trail.
Goerges forged on ahead, but left encouraging signs.
More mushrooms.
Ferns in Fern Canyon.
A very gallant gentleman carries his girl over the water in Fern Canyon.
Georges plating at his bear-box warming station.
Flambe in the forest.
Parting ways until we meet again.
A foggy morning at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.
Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, and the other gold.
So says the iconic scout song I learned as a Brownie, too many years ago to count.
The sentiment is true. The past four years full-timing in The Epic Van has been a testament to this theme. We've driveway surfed from Washington to California to Kansas to New Orleans, looking up old newspaper colleagues scattered to the four winds. We've broken bread with relatives near and far. And we've camped with and made fabulous new friends on the fly in Idaho, Montana and California.
I don't know who's silver and who's gold in the Girl Scout song, the old friends or the new ones, but they're both infinitely valuable.
This past fall, we met old friends and made new ones in one of our favorite familiar places, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, where Tom and I volunteered for three months in 2016. When we were volunteering here, we had lots of visitors, including my brother and sister-in-law, Barry and Leslie, my mom, our "second-son" Corbin, and friends Jen and Reg. Read about those visitors here.
The "old friends" in our song were Keven and Georges. We have known Keven for decades, since working together at The Arizona Republic. She recently retired from the Dallas Morning News. She met her husband, Georges, a witty Belgian chef, while taking a tour of Mexico that Georges was guiding.
We had been trying to coordinate a meet-up since we had dinner with them about two years ago to talk about their plans for a year-long trip around the perimeter of the United States in their Casita camper. (You can follow their travels at www.PostcardsFromThePerimeter.com .)
But events that cropped up kept altering the path of The Epic Van, and we kept missing each other, sometimes just by a week or two.
Finally, we marked an "X" on the map and converged.
It happened to be Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, one of my favorite places on the planet. Keven and Georges were heading around the northwest corner on their counter-clockwise path from Dallas. We were heading from Utah to the Northwest to visit family in Washington and meet up with Stanford Fellow friends in Oregon.
The "new friends" were Bob and Allison, Canadian Casita owners who Keven and Georges had met at a couple of previous campgrounds. Like us Roadtrekers, these Casita kids are quickly connected over rig talk, and K&G became fast friends with B&A. Bob is a firefighter and Allison works for a non-profit. We had never met, but our nomadic travels connect us with kindred spirits around many campfires.
We arrived first and staked out three campsites clustered at the edge of the prairie, where we could catch the late-afternoon fall sun, watch the Roosevelt elk, if they wandered by, and still have fabulous views of the stunning ancient redwoods.
Soon, The Epic Van was bookended with twin Casitas, and we were off on a quick, two-mile hike to see some of the oldest, tallest trees on the planet.
We loved showing everyone a place that feels like home to us. Every bend in the trail was familiar, but still amazing. The creek, the ferns, the mushrooms, the towering redwoods.
Our eyes full, we returned to the campsite and uncorked the champagne.
Let me say, if Georges ever offers to cook dinner for you, even out in the wilds, sit back, relax and prepare to be amazed. While the rest of us were lounging, munching cheese and crackers and sipping bubbly, (well, Keven, did have some sous-chef duties) Georges was making oysters Rockefeller. Over the campfire. Then he grilled fresh rockfish. To perfection. Over the campfire. And he brought a beautiful cake for dessert. A++++++ for camping cuisine.
The next day we headed out on my absolute favorite hike ever. I mean of all the hikes I've ever taken in my life. Including all the amazing, wonderful, inspiring hikes we've taken in the past four years in The Epic Van.
The James Irvine Trail heads out from the Visitors Center at Prairie Creek and winds through amphitheaters filled with ancient redwoods, carpeted with ferns, trillium, and huckleberry. About 4½ miles later, you walk into Fern Canyon, where steep walls are covered in ferns, dripping with water falling down the canyon sides. We crawled through fallen trees, tiptoed across branches crisscrossing the creek, and made our way to wild, windswept Gold Bluffs Beach. It's breathtaking.
We perched on a driftwood log to eat our lunch, then headed toward Miner's Ridge Trail for the hike back. Along the way, Georges helped some fellow hikers push a car out of the rocky stream that crossed the dirt road.
On the hike back, we shared stories with our new and old friends, camping stories, favorite trips, and deeper life stories, kids, parents, hopes, fears. Long hikes are like that. They peel away the facades.
Back at camp, it was Tom's turn to cook, and it wouldn't be a lie to say he was a bit intimidated to cook for a former restaurant owner and chef. He made curry rice noodles with vegetables and chicken, and it was a hit.
Bob and Allison, eyeing the snow predictions in Ontario, had to leave a day before the rest of us, but we vowed to meet again.
Our last night, Georges cooked again, this time engineering a cooking station in the bear box, designed to safely lock up food from curious bears. He secured his camp stove inside, and the heat from his cooking warmed the top, creating a warming station for the plates.
The menu included a trio of fish, rockfish, salmon and cod, in a cream sauce, and ended with a fruit flambe. I kid you not. The only mishap happened when, walking to the picnic table in the dark, I stepped in a hole and fell, hitting my temple on my camp chair. Instant knot. Not-too-instant shiner that grew over the next week. Trust me when I tell you, I paused only a moment before digging into the feast Georges had prepared.
We're planning to meet Keven and Georges again this week in Portal, Arizona. Maybe Bob and Alison will show up. Or some other new friends.
Later in February, we're meeting our dear Idaho friends, Jeff and Ann, to camp at Lake Pleasant. We met them the very first week we started full-timing, and it was definitely gold. We've visited them at their very cool home in Yellow Pine, Idaho (check it out here) and on the road. Every time, me make memories.
Where are you camping? We might just show up to share some time around the campfire.


A new treatment for cystic fibrosis patients with pseudomonas lung infections has been approved by NICE.
Draft recommendations from the health watchdog advised that tobramycin dry powder for inhaltion (Tobi Podhaler, Novartis) should be used as an option for treating such infections after data suggested it would be a cost effective use of NHS resources.
NICE said it was pleased to make the recommendation in a bid to combat respiratory failure resulting from chronic pulmonary infection caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is the primary cause of death in people with cystic fibrosis.
Tobramycin sodium dry powder for inhalation (DPI) works by decreasing the amount of bacteria in the lungs. Patients recommended to receive the treatment in order to improve or maintain lung function would inhale it through a breath-activated, hand-held device.
Although NICE noted limitations in the data analysed to assess the treatment options, it said tobramycin DPI was cheaper and slightly more effective than nebulised tobramycin.
The draft guidance set out by the health body recommends using tobramycin if the manufacturer provides it with the agreed discount and if nebulised tobramycin is considered an appropriate treatment, that is, when nebulised colistimethate is contraindicated, not tolerated or has not produced an adequate clinical response.
The health watchdog added that Colistimethate sodium dry powder for inhalation (Colobreathe, Forest Laboratories UK) is not recommended for treating chronic pulmonary infection caused by P. aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis. It said that patients currently using colistimethate sodium dry powder for inhalation (DPI) should be able to continue treatment until indicated to stop by their doctor.
Cystic fibrosis patients who undergo lung transplantation in the US have worse outcomes in the long run than NHS patients, according to latest study findings.
The number of people living with cystic fibrosis into adulthood in the UK is expected to increase by as much as 80% by 2025, according to a Europe-wide survey.


On March 26th Buke and Gase performed with So Percussion at the Merkin Concert Hall, as part of the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival. I was thrilled that they chose to include my piece "Music for Wood and Strings" in the night's program. The piece is performed on four amplified hammer dulcimer-like chord sticks alongside woodblocks, snares and bass drums. Q2 Music presented a live webcast of the performance and you can listen to "Music for Wood and Strings" here.


What Do a PSA and a Gleason Score Mean for Prostate Cancer Patients?
Is every elevation on a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test cancer-related? What does the Gleason Score reveal about disease behavior? Patient Power founder Andrew Schorr is joined by leading prostate cancer expert Dr. Maha Hussain, from the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, to discuss the significance of PSA and the Gleason Score. Watch now to learn more.
How is that important in triggering, oh, this person may have prostate cancer?
Prostate-specific antigen is a blood test, and it's a product of prostate cells. A normal prostate will actually have, what we call PSA, prostate-specific antigen, and because the cancer cells are a product of the normal prostate cells, they will, in the vast majority of times, retain the ability to make the PSA.
Now, as you know, prostates can change in size over time, and when we do blood tests for the PSA, there are ranges from what we would consider normal range, and this normal range is—also has to be adapted by age, so someone who is, let's say, 45 years old, normal range PSA for that person ought to be different than someone who was, say, 75 years old and that has to do with the size of the prostate and other factors.
Because the cancer can make the PSA, an elevation in the PSA could be something that could be cancer related, but I want to point out to the men who are joining us on this session that there are other things that can make the PSA go up, including infections in the prostate, irritation, things of that sort, enlargement of the prostate, so not every elevated PSA is necessarily cancer related.
Okay, he mentioned Gleason Score. What is a Gleason Score and why is that significant?
The Gleason Score is named after the pathologist who came up with the grading system, Dr. Gleason, and this was intended to basically better characterize, how aggressive is the cancer? As you know, if you think of the prostate as sort of like a peach, it has both sides, and at the microscopic level, there is what we call glandular tissue. When cancer happens, there are different shades of grey in terms of, how aggressivedoes it look under the microscope, and the quantity of the worst cancer versus not-so-aggressive cancer does matter in terms of the prognosis and the forecast in terms of risk of relapse and so on.
Dr. Gleason came up with a system whereby, under the microscope, the pathologist will look at the cancer that is present and characterize it by how aggressive it looks. The more it looks like the normal tissue, that's the less aggressive, and the less it looks like the normal tissue, that makes it more aggressive, and because the prostate is a large organ, there could be the possibility of multiple areas that might have the cancer in it.
Essentially, what they do is try to come up with a lump sum sort of read that gives you the most predominant pattern that's given a score, and then the lest predominant pattern that's also—I'm sorry, the next most predominant pattern is also given a score, and those two numbers are added up, and that's how we come up with the Gleason Score.
Historically, that goes—I'm sorry—from two to 10, and that means a person's Gleason Score, again, historically, was two or it could be three, or it could be anywhere between that and 10. Then, recently, the pathologists have changed the way the grading system is, so now it really goes from one to five and it's not the Gleason Score itself.
Dr. Hussain, is the Gleason Score—that is a result of doing those biopsies, did I get that right?
Yeah, the Gleason Score is not the result of it, but it's basicallythe product of a pathologist looking at the tissue that was removed by the biopsy, and obviously, what they do is, when the surgeons, urologists go in, they try to sample multiple areas in both lobes of the prostate.
Prostate cancer experts Dr. Tomasz Beer and Dr. Celestia Higano discuss when is a critical time to see a specialist, why a second opinion is important and how patients can benefit.


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The Bare Minimum Number of Martian Settlers? 110
So you want to colonize Mars, huh? Well Mars is a long ways away, and in order for a colony to function that far from Earthly support, things have to be thought out very carefully. Including how many people are needed to make it work.
A new study pegs the minimum number of settlers at 110.
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Mars Stink To Be Duplicated For Earthbound Humans
Intellectual curiosity is a great gift. It's fulfilling to ponder the great questions of existence: Will the Universe die of heat death after it's expanded for billions and billions (and billions) more years? Is there something outside of our Universe? What's on the other side of a black hole?…and…What does Mars smell like?
What may seem to be a frivolous question at first is actually quite interesting once your intellectual curiosity is engaged. The Martian atmosphere itself is much different than Earth's. Our various robotic visitors to Mars have revealed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide (96%). Not much to smell there. But the surface of Mars is also much different than Earth, and contains sulfur, acids, magnesium, iron and chlorine compounds. What might that smell like?
We know that odours have a powerful effect on memory. How might colonists respond to an odour so different from what they're used to? How might they respond to the odour of Mars once they've returned to Earth after a Mars mission? Recreating the smell of Mars for returning colonists might yield interesting results.
The olfactory nerve has a powerful connection to areas of the brain involved in arousal and attention. Can this connection be exploited to help Martian colonists? Image: Patrick J. Lynch CC BY 2.5
Obviously, colonists wouldn't be breathing the Martian atmosphere. But some essence of Mars would be present in their living quarters, most likely.
After walking on the Moon, Apollo astronauts noticed that they had tracked some Moon dust back into the lander with them. When they removed their helmets, they were able to smell the Moon: a spent gunpowder smell, or a wet ash smell like a campfire that had been put out. The same thing may happen on Mars, no matter how careful people are.
The International Space Station (ISS) has its own particular smell. According to NASA astronaut Don Pettit, the ISS smells like a combined machine shop/engine room/laboratory. But the ISS isn't a colony, and it isn't exposed to other worlds. Everything astronauts can smell inside the ISS they can smell back on Earth.
Mars is different. Not just the smell, but because it's so far away. In the ISS, astronauts can look down and see Earth whenever they want. They can see their country of origin, and see familiar geography. On Mars, none of that is possible. Martians will be dealing with extreme isolation.
How this isolation might affect people spending long periods of time on Mars is an intriguing and important question. And how odors play a part in this is likewise intriguing.
The effects of social isolation are well-understood. It can lead to depression, insomnia, anxiety, fatigue, boredom and emotional instability. These are garden variety problems that everyone faces at some point, but added all together they're a potent mix that could produce serious mental illness.
Add to that the fact that Martian colonists won't even be able to see Earth, let alone the fact of the shrunken, pale Sun, and suddenly the psychological burden of colonizing Mars comes into sharper focus. It'll take a multi-pronged approach to help colonists cope with all of this.
Part of this approach may involve recreating the smell of Mars and exposing colonists to it during their pre-colonization training. And thanks to a technology called "Headspace", it may be possible to recreate the smell of Mars here on Earth. Spectroscopic measurements of the Martian atmosphere could be relayed back to Earth and the Martian aroma could be recreated in a lab.
Perhaps the smell of Mars can be used prior to departure to help inoculate colonists to some of the hazards of Martian isolation.
Who knows for sure? There may be an interesting revelation hidden in the smell of Mars. How that smell could be used to prepare colonists for their time on Mars, and how returning astronauts respond to the smell of Mars, recreated for them back on Earth, could tell us something important about how our brains work.
Intellectual curiosity says its worth pondering.


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Long Key is just south of Islamorada and is where there is a State Park of the same name. We named this montage in its honor. It features a Green Sea Turtle with a gorgeous shell and an Octopus.
This is one of our single slat frames with a dark wood finish and has lobster trap rope around the perimeter. It measures approx. 14″ x 17″ inches overall.


It's Genelia Deshmukh's birthday. The cute actor has not only charmed the audience in Bollywood but also down South with her stellar performances.
Genelia made her debut in three languages in the same year, 2003. She made her Hindi debut with Tujhe Meri Kasam, Tamil debut with Boys and Sathyam in the Telugu language. Then there was no turning back for her. Genelia went on to star in several memorable films namely Bommarillu, Santosh Subramaniam, Masti, Ready, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Uthamaputhiran, Force to name a few.
Before getting hitched to her longtime beau Riteish Deshmukh, they both starred together in Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya and made the fans happy as they were longing to see them together. Genelia and Riteish got married on February 3, 2012.
They both are proud parents to two boys - Riaan born on November 25, 2014, and Rahyll born on June 1, 2016.
Today on the occasion of Genelia's birthday, let's take a look at her life in pictures.
1. A cute kid posing with her dad and brother.
2. Who would have thought a debut film will give you a partner for life.
4. We totally loved Meow and how!
10. A picture perfect family!
One of the most prettiest face in the industry.


Open shoes are convenient. You can put them on and take them off without bending over, tying, buckling, velcroing. When walking, however, there is a danger of unintentionally slipping out, stumbling or falling.
The solution would be a locking bar that is rotatably attached to both sides of the sole, is pushed upwards by springs and is resting against the back of the foot.
In order to be able to put on and take off the shoes comfortably, there is a locking mechanism at the rear end of each shoe which is strong enough not to be overcome by the spring alone.
To raise the bar you have to lift the lock with the other foot slightly with the tip of your foot (see illustrations). A small protruding bead at the back gives the lock a stabilising profile and makes it easier to operate.
The locking bar should be made of a form stable material and coated with a soft, skin friendly material.


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This all-majors career fair brings over 150 organizations on campus looking to hire Seminoles for full-time jobs and internships.
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Meet with employers from all disciplines at this annual fair, held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Students and alumni from Florida's ten state universities are invited to attend.
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We welcome visitors arriving at Tŷ Hyll on foot, by bike and by bus. You can plan your journey on Traveline Cymru.
The Marin Trail, one of the best known mountain biking trails in north Wales, is nearby. View Marin Trail pdf.
There is a footpath along the north bank of the Llugwy River from Betws y Coed to Tŷ Hyll.
You can explore the area nearby on foot by following our local Tŷ Hyll walks.
Tŷ Hyll is on the route of the S2 Snowdon Sherpa bus between Llanberis/Capel Curig and Betws y Coed, with a bus stop directly outside the house.
The nearest train station is at Betws y Coed, 5 miles away.


if you have a car loan, one only and you are not happy enough with the terms that you have or you are thinking of getting probably a lower interest rate or a better payment. What you can apply for it's to do a refinancing on that car.
You can talk to your current creditor and see if there's any way how you can re-work this terms with them or you can apply to another credit institution just to see if you can get a loan and pay off the balance, but on the first one and the current one that you're going to have is going to have is going to have better terms.
If you have several car loans, you probably will need to work it out with each of the creditors that you have. Or you can apply for one big loan. Say for example a personal loan through your bank, your credit union, any financial institution that you work with and for the amount it will pay enough the balances on this car loans and you will have consolidated them because now you're going to stick only with one payment with one creditor and that's the way that you are going to be working out the consolidation for your car loans.
Usually you should consider refinancing or a consolidation if you know that you are going to be getting better terms out of this refinancing or consolidation program.
The better terms it's having a lower rate, having a better payment. But sometimes it's not we don't recommend this because a car is an asset that is going to be losing value through the time. So basically you're going to be paying more than the asset that you are going to be having by the end of this loan. So if you're thinking about refinancing, I will suggest it's because of the terms. You have a lower rate. You have a better payment, but avoid extending the time so long because actually the car can cost you more by the end.


Topics include pesticide safety and regulations, energy efficiency audits, pollinator habitat, forest pest identification and more. Come for one presentation or for entire seminar. Lunch included. All are welcome to attend. RSVP by February 6, 2019 to (231) 757-3707.


As you know, in Horchateria Sirvent de Barcelona, since the year 1943 we work with the best quality products to our nougat (or horchata in summer) is the best in town. And for the best artisan product, we choose the best raw material to make it so.
Horchateria Sirvent de Barcelona can find dozens of craft products to choose from nougat bars at Christmas time to the rich horchata during the hottest times in Barcelona, at a time, through some delicious and plentiful ice cream different tastes and types.
What say? It is true that all previous stores in Barcelona offer a wide range of quality products, especially artisan candies, but you lying if we told you that in our two shops in Barcelona, in the Carrer del Parlament de Catalunya, 56 and the Carrer Balmes, 130 not have the best craftsmen nougat Barcelona.
For much of the year, you can find one of the best artisans horchatas of the city, and is that quality is achieved with high quality products and experienced and mastered in both the Sirvent.
When approaching the cold and Christmas time in Nougat Sirvent started and develop these magnificent nougat bars that you see in our online store, or in our social networks. We sell a wide range of candies, ranging from classic hard nougat soft nougat, to other specialties such as almond nougat Alicante with skin, or through the turronico of nougat. All candies are artisans , and that's what gives the special touch of Sirvent.


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Why I will provide a Christian moral witness at the Paris climate conference (COMMENTARY)
(RNS) "The foundational biblical teaching to 'love your neighbor as yourself' drives me to Paris," writes this Jefferson City, Mo., Baptist activist.
People walk walks past the COP21 logo in the Climate Generations area during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, on December 1, 2015. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Stephane Mahe *Editors: This photo may only be republished with RNS-KAYLOR-COLUMN, originally transmitted on Dec. 2, 2015.
Brian Kaylor
People walk past the COP21 logo in the Climate Generations area during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, on Dec. 1, 2015. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
*Editors: This photo may only be republished with RNS-KAYLOR-COLUMN, originally transmitted on Dec. 2, 2015.
(RNS) As world leaders and diplomats gather in Paris for two weeks of climate talks, many Christians will join them. I will be among them. I view my eight-day journey as a spiritual pilgrimage.
Climate change — and its threat to hundreds of millions of people — stands as a great moral crisis of our time. Famine, displacement of people and even war will rise along with the mercury in our thermometers.
So I will join other Christians from several nations as we offer a collective moral witness:
Things must change.
Nations must act.
We must care for this world we call home.
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As Pope Francis wrote in "Laudato Si'," his encyclical on the environment: "We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world and that being good and decent are worth it."
The foundational biblical teaching to "love your neighbor as yourself" drives me to Paris. To selfishly waste carbon while my poorer neighbors in low-lying islands or in drought-scorched lands suffer must count as a sin.
As the generational engagement team leader for Churchnet (a Baptist network mostly in Missouri), a journalist for a couple Baptist publications and a former Baptist pastor, I believe — as the New Testament writer James argued — "faith without works is dead."
I taught advocacy studies for several years at a university, so I value an active faith that takes public policy matters seriously. My desire to live out an active moral witness compels me to participate in the public square. I will also be reporting on the conference for EthicsDaily.com, where I'm a contributing editor. I hope my stories, photos and videos will help other Christians experience the strong faith witness surrounding the climate talks.
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I look forward to joining Catholic, Orthodox and other Protestant believers to celebrate shared convictions and concerns. Faith-centered events will take place each day of the negotiations, from special worship services (including one at Notre Dame Cathedral) to official presentations. The events and the presence of concerned Christians should send the message that caring for the environment and addressing climate change are spiritual concerns.
The Bible makes it abundantly clear that the Earth is the Lord's and everything in it and that we are supposed to take care of the planet. Caring for creation is an act of worship. We learn this throughout Scriptures, from the poetry of the Psalms to the preaching of Paul. We cannot sit by and let creation be destroyed and still call ourselves faithful.
I suspect some who reject the clear scientific record on climate change will accuse me of hypocrisy. But we must make sure the voices of consumerist polluters are not the only ones heard.
I have calculated the amount of carbon I will use and made a donation to one of my favorite charities to help offset my trip's impact. Plant With Purpose, a Christian development organization that works in several countries, will use my donation to plant new trees. These new trees help restore our climate and give new life to farmers and communities.
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Brian Kaylor is an award-winning writer and the author of "Sacramental Politics: Religious Worship as Political Action." He is on Twitter: @BrianKaylor. Photo courtesy of Brian Kaylor
When the conference concludes next week, I pray we will see a serious, comprehensive plan to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change.
Until then, I will be in Paris with other Christians, living out the words Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel uttered after joining the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1965 Selma march: "My feet were praying."
(Brian Kaylor is an award-winning writer and the author of "Sacramental Politics: Religious Worship as Political Action." He is on Twitter: @BrianKaylor.)
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At the Bayer Center, we build a stronger community by helping to build stronger, more knowledgeable nonprofits. We do this through collaboration, patience and relationships…combined with decades upon decades of diverse success experience.
Our approach to education is to stay on top of what's happening in the sector, plan for what's going to happen, listen to you, and offer the ever-adapting menu of classes you see described on our website.
Our approach to consulting and coaching is, when time permits and circumstances warrant, to enter into a process that builds mutual trust and respect and long-lasting results. And when time doesn't permit, to help you deal with crisis in the instant and on the ground.
Our approach to thought leadership is to leverage our role as a Robert Morris University center, and to listen to you – through conversations, surveys, research, and community gatherings – to bring together the best thinking on how our sector can most effectively enhance our community.
Open Minds Studios (OMS) offers tutoring for most subjects K – 12, as well as many college classes. We also offer SAT and ACT prep classes and can assist preparing for most standardized tests. During the summer, we offer academics as well as enrichment classes. We are located in Pike Place (same plaza as Peace, Love and Little Donuts).