It's a common fact we all know that the Nokia 6.1 plus is AI enabled camera meaning that camera can see what you click or record.
It's a common fact we all know that the Nokia 6.1 plus is AI enabled camera meaning that camera can see what you click or record. And moreover the 636 SoC is a capable processor meaning that AI can perform well. As well AR is decently running well. With Android Pie these hardware capabilities get better.
It's a disappointment that Nokia enables Pro mode only for Zeiss optic phones. Pro mode actually works well on Nokia 6.1 plus. I've tested Google Camera, Camera FV 5 and all these gave good results. The G cam RAW, HDR+, HDR+ enhanced and night mode was amazing and a ported version of Nokia camera gave me hands on to Pro mode and that was insanely amazing. Why don't you provide them in the stock app so that we don't have to install another set of apps to take better photos?
Next OZO audio. The 6.1 plus AI power can be used to get better rich audio experience in video recording. Could you please add these in future updates?


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Two New York Apple Icons Join Forces
By Finger Lakes Visitors Connection on Sep. 07, 2018
Glenmont, N.Y. (September 4, 2018) – This spring, the principals of Red Jacket Orchards (Geneva, N.Y.) and New York Apple Sales, Inc. (Glenmont, N.Y.) agreed to join their fresh apple marketing programs to provide better service and more opportunities for their customers.
Red Jacket Orchards (RJO) is a powerhouse in the All Natural, Cold Pressed Juice and Cider category, and has built up the Red Jacket® brand in the beverage and fresh apple category over multiple family generations. New York Apple Sales (NYAS), likewise, is a multigenerational family business that has built a reputation for delivering high-quality apples to large retailers nationally as well as internationally.
"Bringing our two sales forces together to better serve the apple and juice markets only makes sense. Presently, we are serving customers at the same time with either fresh apples or fresh juice, and with today's increasing pressure on trucking logistics combining our orders will greatly benefit both of our customers," commented Mark Nicholson, Fresh Business President and Co-owner of RJO. "Our plan is for the RJO sales force to continue managing the juice sales, while NYAS will focus on the fresh apple category. Both teams will continue to concentrate on what they do best. Additionally, NYAS's much larger distribution network will be a huge benefit for both our companies, and more importantly for our customers," Nicholson added. Mike Messler, Production and Logistics manager for New York Apple Sales said, "because of new federal regulations trucking can be a huge problem today. The cost of trucking is increasing while the availability of trucks is decreasing. Any consolidation of orders will benefit us all. Also, the RJO juice plant is within 35 miles of the NYAS packing operation where the RJO apples
will be packed."
"RJO has built its brand for fresh apples for decades, and over the years has developed a sizeable following in New York City and other regional markets. We are pleased to now be able to continue the brand penetration with the RJO label in their existing markets as well as expanding into new markets," commented John Cushing, VP of Sales for NYAS. "We are excited about having the RJO fresh apple brand in our wheelhouse. Already I can see the synergies that will take place with customers we are both serving. They do juice, we do apples. It is a great fit! In the future we expect that we can expand both categories."
"Both of our companies have deep roots in the New York Apple industry. My Step-dad, Marty Michelson, founder of New York Apple Sales, and Joe Nicholson of RJO were both industry leaders in the N.Y. apple Industry. Both Joe and Marty were individual entrepreneurs, but they both shared a common goal to grow New York State's apple industry. With our two companies working together today, we are continuing that goal," said Kaari Stannard, owner of New York Apple Sales.
The Nicholson brothers couldn't agree more. "The transition of a family business from one generation to the next is fraught with challenge, however, we just completed the most recent step in that process when Mark and I purchased our father's portion of the company. Similar to how he spearheaded the company's growth from a roadside retailer into a commercial apple grower, packer, and shipper after our grandfather retired in the early 1980's, we have set our strategic goals high as well. Mark and I are intent on building a world class beverage company that is also well grounded in the production of its main raw ingredient in the apple orchard," commented Brian Nicholson, CEO and Co-owner of RJO. "After examining the opportunities afforded by packing, selling, and distributing through NYAS, and specifically their Pomona Packing partners in Wolcott, N.Y., we decided to cease our fresh apple packing operations in Geneva and move our apples there," added Brian. RJO will continue to pack summer fruits at their Geneva location.
Kelli Foster manages the branding efforts for RJO, and Jim Allen is her counterpart at NYAS. "Kelli has been a 'Brand' builder for RJO and we are looking forward to working with her on all levels," remarked Allen, VP of Marketing at NYAS. "There's a wonderful strategic advantage when you can combine an operational power house like NYAS, and a trusted brand of the community like Red Jacket. I'm excited to see what we can accomplish together," Added Foster, Director of Brand Management.
About New York Apple Sales, Inc.
NYAS teams up with multiple growers and packing facilities located in all the major growing regions in New York State. Our goal is to deliver the best selection, competitive pricing, and superior fruit all year long.
About Red Jacket Orchards
Located in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of New York State along the rolling hills of Seneca Lake, RJO has mastered the art of harvesting and pressing premium fruits and juices! Three generations of the Nicholson family have grown apples and summer fruits, including berries, currants, cherries, peaches, plums and the largest apricot orchard on the East Coast. Founded in 1958, what began as a local apple farm has grown to a 600-acre family orchard. In addition to producing fresh fare, we offer a range of cold-pressed, all-natural juices and pantry items.
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Finger Lakes Visitors Connection is the tourism promotion and management agency for Ontario County. Our mission is to create visitorship and economic vitality for Ontario County by marketing its tourism assets and positioning the area as a premier leisure and meetings destination.

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Is there a way to consolidate financial reports of multiple companies using ERPNext without creating an umbrella company?
This feature is not available out of the box. You should export financial statement for each company from ERPNext and merge it externally.
I think we should sponsor this feature!
Enable reporting to consolidate companies financial statements.
Configurable "mapping" of accounts, so that companies with different nomenclature (chart of accounts) can be "seamlessly" merged in reports.
You are absolutely right, it depends on the legal ownership structure, meaning which percentage means "merge" and which percentage means "separate accounting" Will look into your proposed excel, but I still insist a plugin should be made where ERPNext can help configure this with relative ease, using best practices.
That would be great. Being able to include budgets on there might also be useful.
So, I perused some more posts and found that indeed, there is a project underway to setup consolidation, and it does take into consideration the usage of % stake in each company. I believe we should move this discussion over to that thread and contribute there.
is there any update on this issue,it will be great addition for corporate companies which is owned by one ownerr or government, they can have a corporate balance sheet, profit and loss, Cash flow and so on.
please add consolidated accounting, and being able to transact between companies. Would be excellent!


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9 People Who Died Of A Broken Heart
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A father who lost three daughters in a Christmas fire dies
Matthew Badger—the heartbroken dad whose three girls perished in a horrific Christmas Day 2011 fire in Connecticut—died in February 2017 at age 51. His passing was announced by the Lily Sarah Grace Fund, the foundation launched by the Badger to honor his three lost girls.
The former film director, who was president of the New York-based nonprofit which boosts arts programs at needy public elementary schools, had previously said in interviews that his father and older brother died of heart attacks. Badger himself was at times a chain smoker, especially in the years after losing his daughters.
"I don't think the loss is ever going away," Badger said. "It ended my life." (Source)
The father who committed suicide hours after his son died on the same interstate
In 2011, a heartbroken father, Sunil Sambhi, died in a head-on collision while driving the wrong-way on the same highway that took the life of his teenage son who was tragically killed in a car crash just hours earlier.
Sunil's son, Dev, 16, and his wife Natalia, 55, were involved in a single-car crash on Interstate 8, which killed Dev and injured Natalia. Just hours after Dev's death, motorists made 911 calls to report that a driver, later identified as Sunil, was driving the wrong way on the same interstate.
Sunil was said to be "extremely upset" and blamed his wife for their son's death. (Source | Photo)
An NFL star's parents die on the same day
In 2015, former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback Doug Flutie's parents died within an hour of each other.
Richard "Dick" Flutie died of a heart attack while in the hospital. Shortly after, his wife Joan Flutie died, also from a heart attack. The two had been married for 56 years. Flutie took to Facebook to eulogize his parents, saying, "They say you can die of a broken heart and I believe it." (Source)
A Hollywood legend passed away a day after her actress daugther
In December 2016, Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds died at age 84, one day after actress Carrie Fisher's death.
The Singin' in the Rain star was planning Carrie's funeral when she suffered a stroke. Son Todd said of his mother's passing, "She didn't want to leave Carrie and did not want her to be alone. She just left to be with Carrie.… Carrie was a force of nature in her own right, you know. It took another force of nature to bridle and work with that, and she was great with her." (Source | Photo)
A father and son die a little more than an hour apart
In 2011, 83-year-old Charles McCauley Sr. was watching a Pittsburgh Steelers game in his Irwin, Pennsylvania home when he suffered a heart attack. His son, 54-year-old Charles Jr. was at the game when learned of his father's death. As he rushed to be by his father's side, he too, suffered a heart attack and died a little more than an hour later. (Source)
The husband who died hours after giving his wife's eulogy
After Doctor Who actress Mary Tamm lost her long battle with cancer, her husband, Marcus Ringrose, gave a "stunning" 20-minute eulogy at her funeral that left those watching in awe. The day after her funeral, relatives who were staying with Ringrose, 59, found him dead on the living room floor of the couple's home in Battersea, South West London.He died of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, a cardiac condition which can be triggered by emotional stress. (Source)
The young mother who died just after delivering her stillborn daughter
Lindsay Clift, 29, suffered a fatal heart attack after learning her baby had died in the womb. Her grieving husband, Darren, is convinced she died of a broken heart after learning the fate of their first child.
Lindsay collapsed in a hospital delivery suite on September 26, 2012, after delivering her stillborn daughter. While it is believed she died of an amniotic fluid embolism (which triggered her fatal heart attack) Darren feels a broken heart played a part in his wife's death: "It sort of strengthens my feeling, even if it's medically nonsense, that she made the decision to go." (Source)
A couple married 55 years die within 21 hours of each other
George Pitman's died almost a day after his wife of 55 years, Pat, passed away in August 2015.
He spent a week at her bedside after she had been admitted to the hospital with a shadow on her lung. George, 77, was gravely ill himself but refused to leave her. As it became apparent she was slipping away he held her hand and whispered, "Close your eyes, I'm coming with you." He suffered a heart aneurysm just 21 hours later. (Source)
A mother dies while sleeping in her recently deceased daughter's bed
19-year-old Abigail Bohnert passed away unexpectedly in August 2016. Her heart mysteriously stopped while she was out to dinner and she could not be revived.
Just a few days later, her mom, Janine Bohnert died in her sleep in her daughter's bed. She was 42. Her husband, Chad Bohnert, said, "The stress was unbelievable," and Janine, who lived to take care of her children, died "of a broken heart." (Source)
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HE first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.
We had a case like that about eight years ago. A suicidal farmer put his Landrover into the wrong lane and hit the pedal. Doing abot 80. He owned a shotgun, he had a barn and rope. He had chemicals. But he chose to kill random neighbours who were just going to work. He will not be fondly remmembered.


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Locals protest proposed truck terminal in Paradip
Edited By Bikram Keshari Jena Published By Soumyajit Ghose Last updated Dec 25, 2018 - 11:21 PM
Paradip: Locals under the banner of '29-Mauja Anchalika Suraksha Samiti' have launched a protest today opposing the proposed construction of an ultra-modern truck terminal near Bhutamundai in Paradip. According to sources, the samiti members opposed the terminal citing threat of pollution and instead demanded construction of a super specialty hospital at the site. The agitating locals turned away the technicians who came to the site today to conduct survey and take measurements.
The samiti members said that the proposed terminal would increase anti-social activities in the area and suggested that the terminal should be constructed on the unused land near the Mahanadi River bed.
"We want the people to be healthy for which we are demanding the construction of a Super Specialty hospital. The truck terminal will increase pollution in the area," said 29-Mauja Anchalika Suraksha Samiti member, Premananda Pani.
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On the other hand, the Truck Owners' Association has been urging the district administration to construct the truck terminal as soon as possible.
"We have been demanding a truck terminal for a long time now. However, the administration is taking no action in this regard," said Chaila Chandra Jena, President of Jagannath Truck Owners' Association, Paradip.
The district administration officials were not available for comments on the matter.


This popular game fish extends its coastal territory from the St. Lawrence River in N. Canada to the Atlantic Ocean, down across Florida and into the northern Gulf of Mexico. This fish is anadromous (travels upstream into freshwater to spawn), capable of swimming to and fro between saltwater, brackish water, and freshwater. The fish has been introduced in many inner states within the U.S. and also without other countries.
Adults have 6-9 horizontal gray/black bars extending from the end of the operculum (gill plate) to the posterior end of the fish; usually 2 or 3 stripes extend near caudal fin (tailfin).
2 dorsal fins, thoracic pelvic fins, slightly indented caudal fin.
Native to coastal waters but anadromous, swimming upriver into freshwater systems. Also introduced into many non-native habitats for fishing purposes.
Often found schooling with same species.


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Psychology Doctoral Student Earns National Foundation Scholarship Award
MELBOURNE, FLA.—Katrina Piccone, a Florida Institute of Technology industrial/organization (I/O) psychology doctoral student, has received a 2013 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship award of $3,000. She was one of only two who received the honor.
The award recognizes achievement in a graduate career. It is intended to assist with costs for doctoral students in the field of industrial and organizational psychology in carrying out their dissertation work. The award is also based on the potential of the recipient's dissertation to make significant theoretical and applied contributions to the field.
Piccone's dissertation explores the effects of the task-relevant affect on decisions to allocate resources (e.g., effort and time) to competing goals over time. Specifically, this research focuses on the activation dimension ofaffect, which has yet to be studied in a competing goal context.
She explains: "Ultimately, I'm proposing that individuals may be more likely to be drawn to goals that are related to activated affective states, such as anxiety or excitement, than goals that are related to diffuse or deactivated affective states, such as calmness or gloominess. So, if you're feeling anxious about your pursuit of goal "A" and feeling calm about your pursuit of competing goal "B", you may be more likely to pursue goal "A" because anxiety is higher in activation than calmness," explained Piccone.
Patrick Converse, Ph.D., associate professor, College of Psychology and Liberal Arts, is Piccone's advisor. Piccone earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from University at Albany, State University of New York, in 2006. She graduated from Arlington High School in LaGrangeville, N.Y. in 2003.
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Microsoft's next-gen console, the Xbox Series X, is set to be released on November 10, with NBA 2K21 being one of the platform's launch titles, and...
NBA 2K21 Next-Gen MyPlayer Changes Revealed, 2K Pledges Unskippable Ads Won't Reoccur
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The next-gen versions of NBA 2K21 are set to launch alongside Microsoft and Sony's respective consoles in November, so naturally, the developers are...
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Here's the interesting thing: Because he gestated in a gravity-free environment, his organs and skeletal system developed in an odd way. He's suited to Mars and to space travel, but there is a real question about whether he could ever survive Earth. So once again — as in "Passengers," as in "The Martian," as in David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Elton John's "Rocket Man" — we have space as the ultimate emblem of loneliness and isolation. And once again, it's effective.
Asa Butterfield ("Hugo") plays 16-year-old Gardner, who has grown up indoors, talking mostly to robots and to an astronaut (Carla Gugino) who serves as a mother figure. Tall and thin with bright blue eyes, he looks frail, earnest and otherworldly. Gardner knows nothing about Earth, so when his health finally allows him to cross the vast space between nowhere and the western United States, we have the fun of seeing him react to things we take for granted as though they were new.
This is all very nice, and there are other things that are nice. He wants to meet a girl he has spoken to online, so there's a young love element going on. Like him, she's a teenager. Unlike him, she's played by 26-year-old Britt Robertson ("Tomorrowland"), who looks like his baby-sitter. But from his perspective, that's not necessarily a problem.
Gary Oldman has a supporting role as the man who started the Mars program and is ripped up with guilt at how things turned out for poor Gardner. Throughout the film, Oldman seems so happy to be finally playing a decent human being that he takes every acting moment and beats it with a club. If the role were sensate, it would be screaming at the way Oldman flogs it here. About a third of the time, it works; a third of the time it doesn't; and a third of the time Oldman elevates the whole movie.
In general, "The Space Between Us" is a lot like that, a mix of OK, truly awful and lovely.


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Earliest Church Martyrs Part 1
The Stoning of Stephen
There are some martyrs of the early church that were not part of the twelve disciples, but still deserve mention.
*NOTE Again, I am trying to be discreet, but some of the content is violent.
Anyone who has read the New Testament knows that Stephen was the first martyr. He was preaching in Jerusalem when the angry Jews stoned him to death. The Scriptures tell us that Stephen's face shined like the sun and he saw a vision of the Son of Man. (Acts 6-7) Many people were affected by his last words, because like Christ, he asked God to forgive his executors. Saul of Tarsus was present at Stephen's death, he was 'consenting unto his death' and even held the coats of those who actually threw the stones. This is a fact that Saul (now Paul) would struggle with his entire life. He mentions his regret several times in his letters to the early church. (Acts 22:20 and others)
Paul is arrested
Paul (formerly Saul of Tarsus)
After the stoning of Stephen, Paul acquired a force from the priests in Jerusalem with the permission to seek out Christians and beat and/or imprison them. Saul was very zealous at his persecution, until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. After Jesus appeared to Paul, he was left blinded and went into the town of Damascus, and there waited, for Jesus had told him that someone there would tell him what to do. Ananias came and opened Saul's eyes, baptized him, and Saul then spent many days with the believers there. To evidence the change in Saul, his name was changed to Paul, and he spread the gospel with even more zeal that he had in persecuting the early church. A large part of the New Testament is written by Paul. But Paul did not have an easy life. He faced many scourging and persecutions. He was beaten, stoned, and shipwrecked three times, (2 Cor. 11:24-26) but his death did not come until many years later when he finally appeared before Caesar and testified to him in Rome. Paul was then beheaded because as a citizen of Rome, a more cruel death would not have been proper.
Jude was the brother of James and was also referred to as Thaddeus. He wrote one book that is included in the New Testament, and although a short book, it is packed with great teaching. Jude was crucified at Edessa around A.D. 72.
Have you read about the early church martyrs? What do you think about changing your name upon conversion?
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What Ever Happened to the Apostles Part 4
Have you ever wondered what happened to the Apostles after the book of Acts? For the next few weeks, we'll be looking at each of the apostles and what became of them.
*Note, I'm saying this as nicely as possible, but many of these great men died the death of a martyr, and is therefore violent content.
Thomas the Doubter
The Bible tells us that Thomas was also called Didymus which means "twin". This tidbit has always interested me. Thomas was a skeptic by nature and had to see Jesus with his own eyes, and put his finger in the scars before he would believe that Jesus had resurrected. He preached the gospel in Parthia and India. Thomas' preaching made the pagan priests so angry, that in a fit of rage, they thrust him through with a spear.
Bartholomew is an apostle that we don't hear much about in the Bible, but he carried the gospel into several countries. He managed to translate the gospel of Matthew into the language of India and propagated it throughout the country. As punishment for this crime, he was cruelly beaten, and finally crucified by the impatient idolaters.
Judas the Traitor
Judas is the disciple that betrayed the Son of God with a kiss (thus the term Judas Kiss). His fate is told of in the gospels. After returning the blood money that he received from the priests for the capture of Jesus, (Matt 27:3-8) not being able to live with the guilt he felt, he hung himself from a tree. It is believed that the tree was also near Golgotha.
St. Matthias by Peter Paul Rubens
There is less known about Matthias than most of the other disciples. He was elected by the Apostles after the death of Jesus to replace Judas amongst the twelve. (Acts 1:15-26) The disciples cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias. He was stoned in Jerusalem, and then beheaded.
This concludes our study on the 12 disciples, however there are many other apostles that are mentioned in the scriptures that I think deserve to be mentioned. We'll explore these men and women in the following weeks as we discover the "Fates of the Earliest Church Martyrs".
Which Disciple is your favorite? Leave me a comment and let me know!
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James the Less
James the less is supposed by some to have been Jesus' earthly brother. Some have said that he was Joseph's son by a former wife. James was elected overseer of the churches of Jerusalem. The book of James is also attributed to this apostle. After a long life and ministry, at the age of ninety four, James was beaten and stoned until the angry Jews finally dashed his head in with a club to make sure he was dead.
Peter's Death by Caravaggio
Simon Peter
Simon (also called Peter) was a fisherman from Capernaum Galilee, brother to Andrew. Catholic tradition says that Peter was crucified by Nero in Rome, but pleaded with his executioner to crucify him upside down because he was not worthy to die the same death as his Lord. It is, however, uncertain whether Peter visited Rome at all. Other evidence suggests that he ended his days in some other country in Asia. What we do know is that Jesus' prophesied about his death in John 21:18-19.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
The brother of Simon Peter was also a fisherman from Galilee. During his ministry, he preached to many Asiatic nations. It was upon his arrival in Edessa that he was taken and crucified on a cross, however, the two ends of the cross were fixed transversely in the ground, thus we have the tradition of Andrew's Cross.
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John the Beloved
John "the Beloved Disciple" was the brother of James (the Great) and a distant cousin of Mary, Jesus' earthly mother. John had a great ministry throughout Asia. He founded the churches of Smyrna, Pergamos, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, and Thyatira. John was sent to Rome where it is said that he was cast into a large pot of boiling oil, but they couldn't burn the love of Christ out of John's heart and he was miraculously protected and escaped from the cauldron without harm. Seeing that John was divinely protected, Domitian banished him to the Isle of Patmos, where he was given the vision and penned the Revelation of Jesus Christ. When Domitian died, Nerva succeeded him and recalled John from the Isle. John returned to Ephesus where he lived out the rest of his days. John was the only apostle who escaped a violent death. This is very interesting given what Jesus prophesied about him in John 21:20-14
Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
James the Elder by Rembrandt
James the son of Zebedee, the elder brother of John the Beloved was also a relative of Mary, because his mother Salome was Mary's cousin. It was not until ten years after the death of the first martyr, Stephen, that the second martyrdom took place, the martyrdom of James.
When Herod Agrippa was appointed governor of Judea, he wished to integrate himself with the Jews and in order to gain their favor he began a sharp persecution of the Christians striking specifically at the Christian Leaders. A man accused James and testified against him. James was then sentenced to death. However, as his accuser witnessed James' extraordinary courage and dauntless faith, he fell down at James' feet and begged for forgiveness, professed Jesus Christ as Lord and resolved that James would not wear the crown of martyrdom alone. Thus, about 44 AD, the accused and accuser were beheaded together for professing the name of Jesus Christ.
Philip by Peter Paul Rubens
Philip was the first to be called by the name Disciple. His ministry was in Upper Asia where he diligently spread the gospel. It was in Hilopolis, in Phrygia where he was scourged, thrown into prison and finally crucified around AD 54.
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We resume our journey along the Ganges. Those who have not read the previous parts of the Voices along the Ganges series, please read my earlier posts Voices along the Ganges : Saints & Beggars, Voices along the Ganges : Chants & Folklores and Voices along the Ganges : Weddings & Funerals.
The river Ganges which originates in the Gangotri glacier in the snow clad Himalayas, descends down the mountains, reaches the plains at Haridwar, flows through ancient pilgrimage sites such as Prayag (Allahabad), Benares and Patna, and drains into the Bay of Bengal. Sagar Island, at the mouth of the river Hooghly in Bengal, where the Ganga breaks up into hundreds of streams, and drains into the sea, is honored as a pilgrimage site, signifying the spot where the ashes of the ancestors of Bhagiratha were purified by the waters of the Ganga.
An important festival of Bengal is Kali Puja, a festival in which people worship Goddess Kali, the goddess of destruction, the saviour of mankind from evil demons. During this Puja, clay images of demons are sold to be placed alongside images of Kali herself. At the end of festivals, thousands of devotees converge on the Ghats of Kolkata to immerse clay images of Durga, Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati into the river. Every year, in mid-January, a religious festival, Gangasagar Mela is celebrated at Sagardwip, the last island before the ocean, where the Ganga meets the sea.
A dip in the ocean, where the Ganges drains into the sea is considered to be of great religious significance particularly on the Makar Sankranti day (mid-January) when the sun makes a transition to Capricorn from Saggitarius and this town becomes home to vast fairs, drawing visitors and recluses (sanyasis) from all over India.
As I write this post, news has already poured in : River Ganges has been declared the National River of India. Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh later announced : 'the emotional link between Ganga and Indians needs to be recognised'.
In my earlier posts Voices along the Ganges : Saints & Beggars and Voices along the Ganges : Chants & Folklores, I let you experience some great exotic sounds right from the source of the Ganges, Gomukh to Benares (Varanasi) and then Patna in Bihar.
Bihar has immensely contributed to the hindustani classical music and has produced musicians like Bharat Ratna Bismillah Khan and dhrupad singers like the Malliks (Darbhanga Gharana) (see previous post on the Malliks) and the Mishras (Bettiah Gharana). Bihar has a very old tradition of beautiful folk songs, sung during important family occasions, such as marriage, birth ceremonies, festivals, etc. They are sung mainly in group settings with the help of many musical instruments like Dholak, Bansuri and occasionally Tabla and Harmonium are used. Bihar also has a tradition of lively Holi songs known as 'Phagua', filled with fun rhythms.
During the 19th century, when the condition of Bihar worsened under the British misrule, many Biharis had to migrate as indentured laborers to West Indian islands, Fiji, and Mauritius. During this time many sad plays and songs called biraha became very popular, in the Bhojpur area. Dramas on that theme continue to be popular in the theaters of Patna.
Continuing our journey southwards along the bank of the Ganges we come across Mithila, a land shaded by old mango groves and watered by melt water rivers of Nepal and the Himalayas.
The men of Mithila have been famous as priests and scholars. The women largely illiterate, find cultural expression through exquisite paintings created for ritual occasions. They cover their courtyard walls in abstract images in brilliant colour.
In the 1960s some local officials realised that if the women would only put some of their paintings on paper there might be a worldwide market for their creations. They proved to be correct and it is a mild irony in Mithila that the fame of the women has surpassed that of the men, because Mithila Art, otherwise known as Madhubani Paintings also, is now recognised throughout the world.
Before commencing any further, a small 'statutory' warning. Please do not blame me if you find the links to the mp3 files in my posts to be dead, sooner or later. I do not know of a site that has hosted it's music files for more than a few years. The web is abundant with dead mp3 links. Already many of the songs that I had put in my previous posts have been removed by their host servers, and visitors on my blog have been sending me frantic complaints.
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Continuing our journey along the holy river of Ganges, we arrive at Benares (Varanasi), the holiest city of the Hindus. The significance of Benares lies not only in the fact that it is considered so holy, but in the fact that it embodies the Hindu philosophy of death. Death for the Hindus is just one step forward in the endless cycle of birth and rebirth. And believers come to Benares to die or to cremate their departed relatives, believing that Lord Shiva himself whispers words of salvation into the ears of the dead here.
These words of salvation, Hindus believe, free their souls from the cycle of birth and rebirth, granting them moksha. Nowhere else do death and life coexist so closely as they do in Benares. Boatmen row, beggars beg, bathers bathe, and pilgrims pray.
The largest tributary to the Ganges is the Ghaghara, which meets it before Patna, in Bihar, bearing much of the Himalayan glacier melt from Northern Nepal. The Gandak, which comes from near Kathmandu, is another big Himalayan tributary. Other important rivers that merge with the Ganges are the Son, the Gomti which flows past Lucknow, and the Chambal made notorious by the ravines in its valley which are noted for lawlessness and banditry (including the infamous Phoolan Devi).
Twenty centuries ago, the essential role of music of India was deemed to be purely ritualistic. Much part of Indian music is folk music. Indian classical music is said to have evolved out of the fusion of these. It is presumed that folk music existed long before the Aryans in India. Indian classical music has become unique in the world.
Hindustani music is an enveloping influence in Indian life. It pervades the big and small events of Indian life, from the birth of the child to it's death, religious rites and seasonal festivals. Originally, not all developments of music were transformed to writing. To keep their traditional integrity, they were imparted orally from master to pupil : the Guru Shishya tradition in gurukul.
Winding 2,510 km across northern India, from the Himalaya Mountains to the Indian Ocean, the Ganges river is NOT just a flowing body of H2O (water), but a whole culture and way of life to India. Innumerable stories, plays, songs, movies, history is woven along the wild journey of this mighty river. From the small but wild Himalayan birth to the mighty, fast paced or silent journey into the fertile Indo Gangetic Plain, and cities of Allahabad, Benaras, Patna and Kolkata, the Ganga is a major contributor to the political history and spiritual culture of this subcontinent.
'Voices along the Ganges' is an effort to take the listener on an odyssey down the river Ganges, from Gangotri to Kolkata. The rich music, a fusion of various instruments, permeates the senses infiltrating them with a soulful confluence. The compositions have been beautifully woven around a meditative pattern ranging from soft to rhythmic and highly energetic.
We will travel further south and savour more of the Ganges 'flavour' in my future posts.


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Intentional self-harm: older persons
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Intentional self-harm among older persons in Australia
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deaths aged 65+ 2001 – 2016
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Intentional self-harm is the 13th leading cause of death in Australia. In 2017, 3,128 people died from an act of intentional self-harm in Australia. While the highest frequency of intentional self-harm fatalities occurs among middle aged persons, rates among older persons remain high. Recent data indicates suicide rates for those aged 65 and over have remained consistent throughout 2013 – 2016, with increases for both males and females in the 75-79 year age bracket.
There were 5,686 intentional self-harm deaths of persons aged 65 years and over reported to a coroner from 2001 – 2016, comprising 14.3% of all reported intentional self-harm deaths. There was a consistent increase in the number of deaths per calendar year from 2007 (n=322) to 2013 (n=421).
The data was obtained from the NCIS in January 2019. The data set contained every fatality of a person aged 65 years or over reported to an Australian coroner between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2016 that was coded as resulting from an act of intentional self-harm, and where the coronial investigation had concluded. Population data was sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. See explanatory notes for information on data sources and limitations. For further data, request a data report.
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Blood Sweat and Tears tour makes final stop at Newton Theatre
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Drummer Bobby Colomby and keyboardist-vocalist Al Kooper formed the jazz-rock-blues horn band Blood, Sweat and Tears in New York City in 1967. Fifty-two years – and roughly 200 musicians – later, BS&T is still going strong, still based on Colomby's vision that the instrumentation of jazz and the vocals of rock could be combined into a new musical genre.
Colomby retired from performing in 1974, but the group that comes to The Newton Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 8, will still have his fingerprints all over it, since he still selects the musicians who carry on his vision, as well as the legacies of Kooper, David Clayton-Thomas, Steve Katz, Randy Brecker, Jaco Pastorius and many others.
"I didn't fire 200 people. What keeps Blood, Sweat and Tears alive is we hire the greatest musicians that are out there," said Larry Dorr, who has managed BS&T, with Colomby, for more than 40 years. "Great musicians get bored easily, so they come and go. We want excitement. We want the musicians to love the music. We've been fortunate to have some of the greatest musicians in the world coming through this band."
Colomby writes on the band's website: "Blood Sweat and Tears was born from a selfish notion that we could combine the sophistication and musical skill level of jazz music with the energy and universal appeal of rock vocal music. Instead of incessant whiny guitar interludes, we would have improvised, spontaneous jazz solos. Horn arrangements were not an afterthought, they were fully integrated into the songs themselves, some written by band members and others that would come from many different resources. These are the ideas that formulated the concept of BS&T."
The original lineup – Colomby, Kooper, Brecker, Katz, Jerry Weiss, Fred Lipsius, Dick Halligan and Jim Fielder – practiced in a loft in Greenwich Village to crowds clapping in the street below. Since then, the band has never stopped touring, albeit with a different cast for virtually every tour.
The current lineup consists of Keith Paluso on vocals, Brad Mason and Jonathan Powell on trumpets, Ken Gioffre on saxophone, Mike Boscarino on trombone, Dylan Elise on drums, Ric Fierabracci on bass and vocals, and Glen McLelland on keyboards. Guitarist Julian Coryell, son of the late jazz-fusion guitarist Larry Coryell, has played recently with BS&T, but won't be at the Newton show.
Paluso, the new frontman, "had a big part" on Season 15 of TV's "The Voice," according to Dorr. "Keith is an amazing singer," Dorr said. "Does he sound like David Clayton-Thomas? No. David was the best singer there ever was and a great band member too. So there is no competition. But Keith brings his own sound to the music."
The first Blood, Sweat and Tears album, the bluesy "Child is Father to the Man" on Columbia in 1968, showcased Kooper as a songwriter and lead vocalist, but Kooper and the band parted ways shortly thereafter, paving the way for a more commercial course with Clayton-Thomas taking over frontman duties. The result was the band's eponymous second album, which yielded three Top 5 singles ("You've Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die"), earned three Grammy Awards (10 nominations), including Album of the Year (beating out The Beatles' "Abbey Road"), and eventually reached quadruple platinum status in sales.
While the revolving door of musicians is part of the band's identity, the quality and concept of the music is the consistent factor in BS&T's success and longevity.
"In the '70s we had some of the greatest music in the world, and people still want to hear it. And they want to relive those memories also," Dorr said.
Dorr stressed that the ever-changing personnel does not make the current Blood, Sweat and Tears a tribute band of its former self.
"A tribute band wants to sound exactly like the original band, and we're not like that. We carry on the legacy in our own way," Dorr said. "We still play all the hits, but we also do more probably than they did 20 years ago."
Dorr cited "Snow Queen" and "Maiden Voyage," both from the aptly titled 1972 album "New Blood," as two of those deeper cuts. The band also still does Kooper's "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and Katz's "Sometimes in Winter."
Dorr also said the band is contemplating a new album, which would solidify its own identity as Blood, Sweat and Tears. And the band plays only 40-60 shows a year, worldwide, so it's a rare treat to see them.
Blood, Sweat and Tears have always combined original material with their takes on tunes by some of the great songwriters, like Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Carole King, Billie Holiday and Thelonious Monk.
The band achieved success in the late '60s and early '70s alongside horn bands Chicago and The Electric Flag.
"We just played with Chicago two weeks ago," Dorr said. "I love Chicago, but we're totally different bands. They're a big ballad horn band. We're jazz-rock fusion. It's two totally different types of music."
Blood, Sweat and Tears' second album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. And it's often forgotten, because they're not in the movie, that BS&T played the Woodstock festival in 1969.
With its third album, which featured the hits "Hi-De-Ho" and "Lucretia MacEvil," a slow commercial decline began. Clayton-Thomas left in 1972 and was replaced by Jerry Fisher. Clayton-Thomas returned in 1974, and the great jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius was added in 1976. The album "New City" and a live album restored some degree of the band's success. But it never duplicated the success of 1969.
There was a surge of new popularity from 2013 to 2018, when Blood Sweat and Tears was fronted by Bo Bice, who was the runner-up to Carrie Underwood in the fourth season of "American Idol."
"I think after Bobby left, the band kind of lost its way for a little while," Dorr said. "They tried to be a rock band, then a blues band. They didn't have the musical integrity from earlier. In the '80s we started putting it back together. We're a jazz-fusion rock band."
The Newton Theatre show wraps up this year's Blood, Sweat and Tears tour. The band comes to Newton on a high, after several sold-out performances on the West Coast and in Hawaii. "We may throw in a couple of surprises" to celebrate, Dorr said


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Hyperloop Accelerates into Reality
Testing a motor may not seem like big news, unless it's the first step to a real life hyperloop.
John Hitch | May 13, 2016
The biggest gamble in Nevada isn't happening in Las Vegas; it's 30 miles north at Hyperloop One's test track.
This week, by staging the first ever hyperloop electric motor test, the company laid down some great visual evidence to investors--and anyone looking forward to commuting around metropolises in a vacuum tube at 700 mph – that the project is more than a bluff.
In 2013, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, released a white paper detailing in 58 pages how to build super speedy, energy efficient transport for passengers and cargo that magnetically levitates in an elevated pneumatic tube system. He open-sourced the document because he's too busy trying simultaneously to save and get the hell off the planet, with electric cars and rocket ships respectively.
By sending a 1,500-lb test sled down a half-mile track in less than 5 seconds, the former Hyperloop Technologies (a merciful name change to differentiate itself from competitor Hyperloop Transportation Technologies) took the first of what will be many steps to develop a working hyperloop.
"There are many engineering milestones to bring Hyperloop to reality," says co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan. "This is one of the bigger, more tangible ones."
The sled reached a speed of 115 mph in two seconds; Musk envisioned a system that would propel commuters from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 30 minutes. The speed difference is comparable to an Aaron Hicks throw and a fighter jet going Mach 1.
Hyperloop One is confident they can get there, possibly by 2020, asserts co-founder Shervin Pishevar.
He told CNBC in March:
"The engineering is already done. We know that it works. What we're driving for is our Kitty Hawk moment, when people actually see it."
Musk, who is building a test track in Texas for hyperloop car prototypes, also appeared to like what he saw:While it's clearly hyperbole to compare technology used at amusement parks to the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright, you can't fault Pishevar for being confident. And that confidence seems to have worked on the people who really count – the investors. The team initially raised $20 million, and has coaxed $80 million from investors in the second round. France, hoping to use the technology for public transportation, is one of the investors.
Meanwhile, competitor HTT is planning an urban loop around a proposed sustainable city in central California. While Hyperloop One has peppered tech blogs with soundbites about Kitty Hawk and "moon shots," this is hardly an Americans-vs.-Soviets space race.
Will the hyperloop transcend the limitations of modern transportation? We'll find out.
Illustration: Hyperloop One
Maybe this is the Sputnik moment, though. It took 12 years for humans to get to the moon from that point, and that was using the computing power of a Gameboy. With some of the world's most ambitious engineers and tech giants on the job, 2020 might not seem that crazy for a working version somewhere. And maybe by 2030, you really can go from L.A. to San Fran in 30 minutes.
"When you think of Hyperloop, you think maybe this is going to happen years from now," says Rob Lloyd, Hyperloop One's new CEO (and former CISCO president. "It's going to happen much quicker than anyone imagines. When it does, the world will never be the same."
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US Rep. Mike Rogers won't seek re-election
Michigan Radio | By The Associated Press
Published March 28, 2014 at 7:05 AM EDT
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his plans on Friday morning during an interview on Detroit radio station WJR-AM.
DETROIT – Seven-term Republican Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan says he won't seek re-election.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his plans on Friday morning during an interview on Detroit radio station WJR-AM. He says he'll serve out the end of his term and plans to start a national radio program.
Last year, Rogers had said he would not run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan this year, saying the best way for him to make a difference in Washington is staying in the House.
The 50-year-old former FBI agent has a prominent role on American national security issues, being invited regularly to talk about them on TV.
Rogers has been in the House since 2001. He previously was a state senator from 1995 to 2000.
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  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 166, in __init__
  SingletonConfigurable.__init__(self, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/config/configurable.py", line 84, in __init__
  self.config = config
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/utils/traitlets.py", line 307, in __set__
  obj._notify_trait(self.name, old_value, new_value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/utils/traitlets.py", line 458, in _notify_trait
  c(name, old_value, new_value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 176, in _config_changed
  self.log.debug('Config changed:')
AttributeError: 'ZMQTerminalIPythonApp' object has no attribute 'log'

***Repl Closed***

The issue seems to be with this ZMGTerminalIPythonApp object in the application.py module. Ipython works just fine when I load it from the command line.
UPDATE: So I also tried to run the ipy_repl.py file directly from the command line. I was expecting it to fail, but it actually worked just fine. I did not get the error above. So it is not clear why when invoking SublimeREPL from ST3 I get the above error but when I invoke the SublimeREPL ipython shell from the command line, it all works fine.
Has anyone else been able to resolve this issue?

A: Okay I figured out the problem. It all had to do with my $PATH variable. I use the Anaconda package from Continuum.io for scientific python--great package btw. So Anaconda will update the $PATH variable so that its version of the python binaries comes first in the $PATH and hence is the one that pip acts against. I knew that Ipython did this with Anaconda, but not the python too. So when I was updating pyzmq with pip, that was updating the Anaconda distribution instead of the normal locally installed python install in /usr/bin/ ...
Interestingly, SublimeREPL was trying to invoke the REPL against the python install in /usr/bin/... instead of just following the normal $PATH variable reference to the Anaconda distribution. I am still not sure how that happened?
So anyway, when I used the easy_install package installer to upgrade pyzmq instead of pip, then this updated the python install in /usr/bin/... instead of the Anaconda version. That resolved the problem.
So now SublimeREPL is working.


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Lazarus Racanelli, O.P. (died 1484) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Urbino (1478–1484).

Biography
Lazarus Racanelli was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers.
On 14 Aug 1478, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus IV as Bishop of Urbino.
He served as Bishop of Urbino until his death in 1484.

References

External links and additional sources
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15th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Sixtus IV
1484 deaths
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I was quite taken by this Heng Balance lamp I saw on kickstarter so I decided to make myself one. I wrote an instructable about the process and sharing the files. It's pretty straight forward and now it sits happily on my wife's desk.


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Steve Spagnuolo shares high praises for three new faces on Chiefs
We're starting to get a sense about how the Chiefs might use the three new D-linemen upon whom the Chiefs will depend in 2020.
By John Dixon@Arrowheadphones Sep 7, 2020, 3:32pm CDT
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It looks like the Kansas City Chiefs will begin their season with 10 defensive linemen against the Houston Texans on Thursday night. Three of them are completely new to the team.
Defensive end Taco Charlton — a former first-round pick who had the misfortune to be stuck behind established starters with both the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins — joined the Chiefs in May, right after the team expended a fifth-round pick to acquire former Michigan defensive end Michael Danna and signed Missouri Science & Technology defensive tackle Tershawn Wharton as an undrafted free agent.
Charlton came to the team with 12 NFL starts over his three previous seasons, so there were at least some expectations about what a player with 67 tackles (42 solo, 11 for loss) nine sacks, 16 quarterback hits and three forced fumbles over that span could do.
"Listen, he's has been around the league a little bit," defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said of Charlton on Monday. "He's long — every time I walk behind him, I think he's growing. Maybe I'm shrinking. Who knows? But listen: he's got a skill set. We're going to try to get him in the right spots."
But we knew little about Danna — who had an unspectacular senior season for the Wolverines after three solid seasons at Central Michigan — or Wharton, who suddenly burst onto everyone's radar a week ago, when ESPN's James Palmer reported he was a near-lock to make the team's final roster.
In fact, it wasn't until general manager Brett Veach's press conference on Sunday that some reporters knew Danna's name was pronounced "DAY-nuh" — not "DAN-nuh" There had been no reason to know; his name simply hadn't come up amid all the offseason questions about Tanoh Kpassagnon, Breeland Speaks and Chris Jones. And until Spagnuolo spoke on Monday, no one knew Wharton's nickname: Turk.
But among themselves, the coaches had been talking about both of them for a while.
"We've been really pleasantly surprised with a couple of guys that have come in here [that] we really didn't know a lot about," said Spagnuolo. "Talking about Turk Wharton — he's been a nice surprise — [defensive line coach] Brendan Daly's done a great job with him.
"Mike Danna [was] another pleasant surprise. Those two guys — talking about Turk and Mike — listen, for guys that have not been in the NFL very long, they sure operate like true pros. The learned it somewhere along the way. We noticed it in those Zoom meetings. I remember (defensive line) coach (Brendan) Daly talking about both of those guys specifically — how much he was looking forward to working with them, because in these meetings like [we're] doing right now, he was thoroughly impressed. Those two guys have just continually impressed the coaches."
As Spagnuolo hinted with regard to Charlton, Wharton might be used both inside and outside; he played as defensive end for the Miners in Rolla, but the Chiefs have listed him as a defensive tackle. And we might see much the same from Danna.
"Danna looks like a guy who kind of has a little bit of both," said Spagnuolo. "He was at Michigan a guy who played inside — by 'both,' I mean first- and second-down run-stopper, and I think he can get on the edge and give us a little bit in the pass. I don't know if we'll get to get him inside or what his role will be completely; probably try to sprinkle some things in there for him initially."
It's not surprising that Spagnuolo was so noncommittal about where (and how) he would use these three newcomers — that's something for him to know and for Texans offensive coordinator Tim Kelly to only guess about — but he was pretty clear that all three will see playing time behind starters Kpassagnon, Jones, Derrick Nnadi and Frank Clark.
"Listen: when you go in the first game — I don't know how many D-linemen we'll carry to the active list — all of those guys are going to have to play; whoever's up," he declared. "Guys [who] haven't played 60 minutes — I mean, I hope we don't play 83 plays like we did the first time we played them — but however many number of plays we play, the D-line's going to have to rotate. So whoever's up will get some playing time in there."


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Thread: Martin McGuinness, RIP or rot in hell?
Tom, the suppression of universal suffrage in Great Britain has more in common with that in Bogside and West Belfast than perhaps you realise.
Do a web search of "Peterloo".
When some women were granted voting rights in this country, working class men who were previously disenfranchised were given the vote at the same time.
As recently as 1989 the British Government introduced what they termed the community charge. Some communities took this as an instruction, and charge they did! The community charge was a form of local government funding that basically meant a truck driver feeding a family of five in a mid-terrace two up two down house, paid the same as a stockbroker living in his detached five bedroomed house. Now, libertarian me isn't a big fan of punitive taxation, but even I can see there is some imparity there!
How local authorities determined who should pay was by looking at the electoral register. If you were on it, you paid. So the charge was quickly nicknamed the Poll Tax.
People with two or more properties could also choose which property they could register as their permanent home, thus selecting an area where the charge was lower if they wished!
What happened was, there were a few organised protests, some turned violent, with police usually getting the blame. The protests culminated in what became known as the Battle of Trafalgar Square. However, the community charge was eventually abandoned because people in their millions just refused to pay. In some authorities as much as 80% of this tax remains uncollected.
It didn't just end there though. When local authorities sent out court summonses, people turned up in their thousands to have their day in court! Communities formed bailiff patrols and just surrounded houses when they turned up.
Move forward 30 years, and whilst Mary Lou and Arlene are squabbling over language, basically an exercise in pedantry, literally, instead of getting on with the job they've been elected to do, the UK political class are attempting to over-turn the biggest democratic mandate ever in this country. And in some inner city areas, electoral fraud and enmasse coercion of voters, the effective disenfranchisement of women is going unchecked, because so long as the ragheads are voting for the right candidate, it doesn't really matter does it?
So yes, Paddy has had it tough, and there is no excuse. But as Harold MacMillan might put it, Paddy has never had it so good, as he has it today. Unfortunately, just when things had turned a corner in Northern Ireland, politicians with questionable motives seem determined to put the kibosh on the whole thing.


And now all of our hard work is paying dividends. The governor's Draconian agenda has, in large part, been turned back. We want to thank the Assembly and the Senate for standing up for our schools and school communities.
Read it for yourself and let me know whether you agree. It might look long, but you need to know everything.
Effective date – the new APPR will apply in the 2015-16 school year.
-will dramatically increase the weight of state standardized testing, increase use of tests developed or approved by SED or outside vendors in the evaluation system, and increase use of state growth models in evaluations.
-Teachers will not receive a score but instead will be rated using a matrix approach, with two subcomponents – student performance and teacher observations.
-if you receive an ineffective rating in the student performance side of the matrix, you cannot achieve an effective rating overall; the most you can attain is a developing rating.
-if the district and union choose an optional second assessment detailed below, and you receive an ineffective rating on student performance, you cannot receive anything but an ineffective rating overall, a disincentive to choose the optional second assessment.
(2) an optional second state-provided growth score on a state-created or administered test or a growth score based on a state-designed supplemental assessment, calculated using a state-provided or approved growth model. The use of the optional student performance subcomponent is subject to collective bargaining, but is limited to the choices in (2) above.
(2) an optional second state-provided growth score on a state-created or administered test or a growth score based on a state-designed supplemental assessment, calculated using a state-provided or approved growth model. As with the tested teachers, whether to use the optional second measure is subject to collective bargaining.
This language essentially eliminates any truly locally developed tests or assessments, or other locally developed tools, from the evaluation system.
-Scoring bands and scoring ranges will be set by the commissioner, through regulation.
The legislation expressly prohibits measures of student achievement that are not test-based, such as evidence of student development and performance derived from lesson plans, other artifacts of teacher practice, and student portfolios, use of an instrument for parent or student feedback, use of professional goal-setting as evidence of teacher or principal effectiveness, or any district or regionally-developed assessment that has not been approved by the department.
- or a trained evaluator with no affiliation with any school district.
-significantly reduces the role of collective bargaining. Student performance measures (formerly the local 20 percent) and observations were previously developed locally, through collective bargaining, to ensure the appropriate measure of student achievement and teacher performance at the district or building level. This is almost entirely eliminated, with SED having new powers to develop evaluation assessments and expanded use of growth scores, set student performance targets and goals, and drastically changes locally developed assessments to a new growth model.
-prohibits use of non-test based measures from being used in the student performance subcomponent, and non-observation measures being used in the teacher evaluation subcomponent.
- and in the event that the second measure is used, which measure to use.
However, the universe of measures that can be used is limited to state tests or previously selected local measures that the Commissioner modifies. The implementation of the greatly limited teacher observation measures can be bargained.
Where practicable, a student cannot be taught by two ineffective teachers in a row. If a school district deems it impracticable to comply, the district must seek a waiver from the department from this requirement. This waiver process will be determined by regulation.
-requires school districts to receive approval for a new APPR plan that complies with the new statute by November 15, 2015, in order to receive their scheduled 2015-16 school aid increase or any increase in state aid thereafter. There was a previously enacted statute to ensure that the most recent approved APPR plans would remain in effect until a new plan is approved by SED. However, this new legislation eliminates these protections and districts will not receive their 2015-16 increase in school aid over their 2014-15 aid levels unless the district has a new APPR plan approved by SED by November 15, 2015.
-provides that all collective bargaining agreements entered into after April 1, 2015, must comply with the new APPR law, unless the agreement relates to the 2014-15 school year. The law states that it does not abrogate any conflicting provisions in collective bargaining agreements in effect on April 1, 2015, but that upon expiration and entry into a successor agreement, new agreements must comply with the new law.
However, as noted above, for a school district to receive its school aid increase, an APPR plan compliant with the new APPR law must be agreed to by November 15, 2015. Thus, the school aid linkage virtually eliminates any collective bargaining protection.
While many of the new APPR procedures are outlined in statute, the Commissioner and Regents, through regulation adoption, will set scoring bands within subcomponents, and targets for SLOs.
Regulations and guidelines must be adopted no later than June 30, 2015 by the Regents to implement this new APPR system, "after consulting with experts and practitioners in the fields of education, economics and psychometrics and taking into consideration the parameters set forth in the letter from the Chancellor of the Board of Regents and acting commissioner dated December 31, 2014, to the New York State Director of State Operations." This letter detailed a support for an APPR system with 40 percent of a teacher's score tied to the state exams.
The commissioner must also establish a process for public comment for the new regulations, and is mandated to consult, in writing, with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, currently Arne Duncan.
-mandates four-year probationary periods for new teachers hired after July 1, 2015, with the requirement that a teacher attain an effective evaluation rating for at least three of the four years. Further, if a teacher achieves ineffective in their fourth year, they cannot achieve tenure.
A board can agree to extend probation by one year for teachers who have not achieved three effectives or who are ineffective in their last probation year.
For teachers who have achieved tenure in another district and have not been dismissed from the other district, they will remain in probationary status for three years, so long as the teacher did not receive an ineffective in their last year at the prior school.
-a school board will now have the "unfettered" right to terminate a probationary teacher for any constitutionally permissible reason, including performance based reasons, during probation without regard to the teachers APPR rating.
-mandates that two consecutive ineffective ratings on APPR will be prima facie evidence of incompetence, rebutted only by clear and convincing evidence.
-a new 3020-b process is outlined, "Streamlined removal procedures for teachers rated ineffective," which will apply to teachers and principals who receive two or more consecutive annual ineffective ratings.
-mandates that school boards bring 3020-a charges for three consecutive ineffective ratings, with fraud or mistake the only defense available. There is no discretion for a board to not bring charges for three consecutive ineffective ratings.
-A teacher convicted of a violent felony against a child pursuant to penal law section 70.02, when the intended victim was a child, will have their certification revoked.
-3020-a proceedings, brought after July 1, 2015, will be before a single hearing officer. There is no carve-out for Part 83 proceedings.
-For 3020-a proceedings where charges of misconduct constituting physical or sexual abuse of a student are brought, the hearing shall be conducted before and by a single hearing officer in an expedited hearing, which must commence within seven days after the pre-hearing conference and must be completed within sixty days after the pre-hearing conference.
-For 3020-a proceedings, a child witness, under fourteen years of age, may be permitted to testify through the use of live, two-way closed-circuit television, as explained in section 65.00 of the criminal procedure law. The hearing officer must provide the employee with an opportunity to be heard, and determine by clear and convincing evidence that such child witness would suffer serious mental or emotional harm which would substantially impair such child's ability to communicate if required to testify at the hearing without the use of live, two-way closed-circuit television. The hearing officer must also find that the use of such live, two-way closed-circuit television will diminish the likelihood or extent of such harm.
-For all 3020-a cases, hearing officers must further give "serious consideration to the penalty recommended by the employing board," and if the hearing officer rejects the recommended penalty, the rejection must be outlined in a written determination based on the record.
-adds a new section, section 211-f, to the education law regarding the takeover and restructuring of failing schools by external receivers. It allows the Commissioner, under given circumstances, to place a school into receivership where a receiver will manage and operate the school, subject to annual review by the Commissioner, until such time as the school has improved sufficiently.
-other "priority" schools would have two years to turn around, until an outside receiver is appointed to control the school.
-New priority schools in 2016-17 are automatically eligible for receivership.
After being identified as a "failing school" or "persistently failing school" for a certain period of time, a district may be subject to a performance review by SED which may result in the Commissioner placing the school into receivership.
A "failing school" generally is one in the "lowest achieving 5 percent" of schools under the state's "accountability system" for at least three consecutive years or identified as a "priority school" for such period.
A "persistently failing school" generally is one in the "lowest achieving public schools in the state" for 10 consecutive school years. There are two ways of being found to be a "persistently failing school," each with its own look back. Such "persistently failing schools" either have been "priority schools" during that period starting in 2012-13 school year or a "school requiring academic progress year 5, 6 or 7 or a "school in restructuring" for each applicable year from the 2006-07 school year to the 2011-12 school year. Special act schools are excluded.
For schools identified as "persistently failing," the local district shall continue to operate the school for an additional year provided that there is an approved intervention model or comprehensive education plan in place. The superintendent in this case shall have all the powers of a receiver. At the end of the year SED will conduct a performance review to determine whether the designation of persistently failing should be removed, the school should remain under control of the superintendent, or the school should be placed into receivership. But if the district makes "demonstrable improvement" it shall remain under district operation for another year, subject to annual review, with the same three possible outcomes, one of which being placed in receivership.
For schools identified as "failing schools," the local district shall continue to operate the school for an additional two years provided there is an approved intervention model or comprehensive education place in place. The superintendent in this case shall have all the powers of a receiver. At the end of the two-year period SED will conduct a performance review to determine whether the designation of persistently failing should be removed, the school should remain under control of the superintendent, or the school should be placed into receivership. But if the district makes "demonstrable improvement" it shall remain under district operation for another year, subject to annual review, with the same three possible outcomes, one of which being placed in receivership.
The district must notify parents that a school may be placed into receivership and hold a public meeting or hearing for the purpose of discussing the performance of the school and the construct of receivership.
A "community engagement team" will be established by the district upon designation as failing or persistently failing. This must include community stakeholders such as principal, parents, teachers, staff, and students. The team will develop recommendations and solicit public engagement. The team will present its recommendations "periodically" to the school's leadership and the receiver.
Upon determination by the Commissioner that the school will be placed in receivership, the school district shall appoint an independent receiver, subject to approval of the Commissioner.
The receiver will manage and operate all aspects of the school and develop and implement a school intervention plan, considering recommendations of a community engagement team.
The receiver may be a non-profit, another school district, or an individual.
The receiver will have the power to supersede any decision, policy or regulation of the district that conflicts with the school intervention plan.
The receiver will have authority to review proposed school district budgets and modify them to conform to the school intervention plan.
The receiver will contract with the Commissioner and be paid by SED, unless there is an open administrative staffing line at the district and the receiver will be taking on the responsibilities of that position, in which case the receiver will be paid by the district.
In creating the plan, the receiver shall consider the recommendations of the "community enragement team," include provisions intended to maximize the rapid academic achievement of students at the school, ensure the plan addresses school leadership and capacity, school leader practices and decisions, curriculum development and support, teacher practices and decisions, student social and emotional developmental health, and family and community engagement. The receiver shall base the plan on the findings of any recent diagnostic review or assessment and student outcome data including, student achievement growth data based on state measures, other measures of student achievements, student promotion and graduation rates, achievement and growth data for subgroups, and long-term and short-term suspension rates.
The receiver must include the following in the plan: measures to address social service, health and mental health needs of students in the school and their families in order to help students arrive and remain at school ready to learn, provided that this may include mental health and substance abuse screening; measures to improve or expand access to child welfare services and, as appropriate, services in the school community to promote a safe and secure learning environment; measures to provide greater access to career and technical education and workforce development services provided to students in the school and their families, in order to provide students and families with meaningful employment skills and opportunities; measures to address achievement gaps for English language learners, students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged students; measures to address school climate and positive behavior support, including mentoring and other youth development programs; and a budget for the school intervention plan.
The plan must include measurable annual goals with respect to student attendance, student discipline including short-term and long-term suspension, student safety, student promotion and graduation and drop-out rates, student achievement and growth on state measures, progress in areas of academic underperformance, progress among subgroups, reduction of achievement gaps, development of college and career readiness, parent and family engagement, building a culture of academic success among students, building a culture of student support and success among faculty and staff, using developmentally appropriate child assessments from Pre-K to 3, and measures of student learning.
The receiver "shall" convert schools to "community schools" to provide expanded health, mental health and other services to the students.
(xi) and/or (xi) order the conversion of a school in receivership that has been designated as failing or persistently failing pursuant to this section into a charter school.
-Upon designation of a school as failing or persistently failing, tenure and seniority rights are modified. Two ineffectives at any time in the teacher's career defeats seniority rights of that teacher. The teacher with the lowest APPR rating is laid off first. Seniority is only used to break ties.
The receiver "may" abolish all teacher positions and require them to re-apply. The receiver shall define new positions for the school aligned with the school intervention plan.
For hiring teachers, the receiver shall convene a staffing committee including the receiver, two appointees of the receiver and two appointees selected by the school staff or their collective bargaining unit. The staffing committee will determine whether former school staff reapplying for positions are qualified for the new positions. The receiver shall have full discretion regarding hiring decisions but must fill at least 50 percent of the new positions with the most senior former staff whom the committee deems qualified.
Remaining vacancies filled by receiver in consultation with staffing committee. Anyone not rehired placed on a PEL*. Teachers rehired maintain prior status.
In order to maximize the rapid achievement of students, the receiver "may request" that the collective bargaining unit representing teachers negotiate a receivership agreement modifying the applicable collective bargaining agreements. Bargaining is to conclude in 30 days with ratification within 10 days.
Any unresolved issues will be resolved by the Commissioner within 5 days. For failing but not persistently failing schools, there is an option for a AAA conciliator prior to the Commissioner.
Within 6 months of the receiver's appointment, a final school intervention plan must be submitted to the Commissioner for approval.
The plan shall be for a period of not more than three years. During that time any additional components or goals must be approved by the commissioner.
The receiver shall make quarterly progress reports.
The Commissioner will evaluate each school with a receiver annually.
If the school is not meeting its goals, the Commissioner may modify the plan.
Upon the expiration of a plan, the commissioner shall evaluate the school and determine either to renew the plan, appoint a new receiver, or take the school off the failing school list.
Beginning with the 2016-17 school year, all holders of a professional teaching certificate, or Level III Teaching Assistant certificate will now be required to complete 100 hours of continuing education and leader education every five years. These certificate holders will also be required to register with SED every five years to prove they have met these requirements. A teacher may not practice unless these requirements are fulfilled. In addition, all certificate holders will be required to register with SED every five years even though the new continuing education provisions only apply to holders of professional teaching certificates or Level III Teaching Assistant certificates.
The current regulatory requirements for holders of the professional certificate must complete 175 hours of professional development and holders of the Level III Teaching Assistant certificate must complete 75 hours every five years in order to maintain certification. These requirements are replaced by this new 100 hour requirement.