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BBI report: Media must provide fair, robust analysis
• Will the BBI process and report provide any meaningful lessons for Kenyans?
by VICTOR BWIRE
HANDSHAKE DIVIDENDS: President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga on the footsteps of Harambee House on March 9, 2018.
Image: JACK OWUOR
There is fear that with President Uhuru Kenyatta receiving the Building Bridges Initiative report this week, media and political pundits will tend to focus on sideshows and non-issues instead of informative and factual discussion that will inform, educate and sensitize the public to make decisions.
While the mood is of the usual winner take it attitude already led by the political group, media would help a lot by delving deeper into the report, and picking out the substantive issues that will help Kenya live peacefully and enjoy the benefits of democracy instead of dwelling on the weaknesses.
Unlike in the past, where numerous such reports have been ignored or used for short -term gains, will the BBI process and report provide any meaningful lessons for Kenyans, away from the extreme political positions that will be taken by the political class and their followers?
Editorial discretion and journalistic professional judgments of the discussions and contents of the report devoid of personal and high octane polarized positions are the least we expect from the media, aware that they are those intent on using the debate of the same to introduce irresponsible narratives in the name of freedom of expression.
A robust and fair discussion of the process, content, flaws and positives will be encouraging and exciting away from the already seemingly created situation of either "accept or reject" Media should avoid presenting the BBI report as a "do or die" event that will immediately solve the problems facing the country, but a process among others that have been tried and is expected, if treated differently, to show another side of Kenyan and her many attempts to deal wit tempting national issues.
If what we recently saw is Parliament pitting Hons Didmus Barasa, Gladys Wanga and Esther Passaris is anything to go by, in addition to the extreme positions, insults and vulgar language that has dominated the political discourse is anything to go by, media must be very cautious and firm, is ensuring responsible coverage and use of their platforms for debate on BBI. There are lose canons that must be held accountable and made to provide facts for the baseless claims they are wont to make.
Media must step up their research and fact-checking mechanisms to ensure lies are peddled and unsubstantiated claims made. There is tension in the country, including in the three arms of government, executive, judiciary and Parliament over this report largely on political and ethnic lines, and media must not be drawn into the circus. Remain fearless, professional and facts remain sacred in the debate.
That the country needs a political system that is more accommodative and sensitive to our ethnic differences and historical injustices that have plagued us over the years which have to fixed a is a reality and we could find a relevant way of dealing, this is welcome. That we need way of strengthening parliamentary oversight over the executive and the counties, especially on resource utilization and revenue collection is an issue we must deal with.
The draft Constitution of Kenya March 15 2004 (commonly known as the Bomas Draft), Agenda Four Items and other reports become critical reference materials for the media houses.
Seasoned journalists and veterans even brought in on short term, to help in institutional memory of the road of the country's national healing process is critical. A thorough discussion on the pros and cons of the suggestions from the report is expected. Kenyans must be allowed to be educated through and by the media on the advantages of the Presidential and parliamentary systems of Government.
What is the best governance system in a country like Kenya full ofweak political leaders, confused political parties with such diverse ethnic groups and grave historical injustices? The fear that any of the big tribes will conspire to exclude others from leadership and access to other national resources is real and must confronted.
BBI report to be made public on Wednesday
BBI taskforce concluded its findings last month.
How BBI became Uhuru's poisoned chalice
Ever since its formation, the BBI has become the target of political pun.
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Foreign Affairs, RMIT
The curiously inevitable evolution of Kathy Griffin
Journalism Law and Ethics assignment, week 10
On May 30, 2017, US comedian Kathy Griffin attended a photo shoot that would change her life.
She later described it as an incidental piece of work, something she thought would "sit on a gay blog for 48 hours and then vanish into the ether".
Photographer Tyler Shields and Griffin decided to use one picture in the shoot to take a satirical swipe at the Trump administration.
Inspired by remarks President Trump had made about Fox anchor Megyn Kelly ("blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever") they draped a $2 Halloween mask over a styrofoam bust and covered it in ketchup.
Griffin showed the resulting photo of her holding Donald Trump's "severed head" to her attorneys, who assured her it sat within the protection of the First Amendment, a constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and freedom of the press adopted by the US in 1791.
She went to bed, knowing it was to be posted on Hollywood gossip blog TMZ and thinking nothing of it.
Within forty-eight hours, Griffin was bombarded with death threats, alienated by her Hollywood friends and gleefully reviled by TMZ, Fox News, Breitbart and prominent figures in the orbit of the Trump White House.
She came under FBI protection from domestic terrorist organisations including the Proud Boys and entities linked to the emergent QAnon.
Griffin also became the first private citizen in the history of the United States to have a sitting President use the power of the Executive to destroy her capacity to work.
President Trump began a firestorm with a series of tweets, while First Lady Melania Traump and his eldest son Donald Trump jr. weighed in after, the latter telling Fox News his family would "decimate her".
The President also instructed the US Department of Justice, the Secret Service and the Assistant US Attorney's office to open ongoing investigations into Griffin for conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States, a charge carrying a life sentence.
Ms Griffin was placed on the US no-fly list for two months and after she was exonerated, the comedian began an international tour and found herself on the Interpol list.
She was stopped at every airport, her passport and mobile phone confiscated, and detained for hours at a time, separated from her family and entourage.
To this day, Griffin says she has no idea what notes are attached to her passport.
During this international tour, titled Kathy Griffin: Laugh Your Head Off, the comedian gave eye-opening and emotional accounts of being interrogated under oath by the Secret Service.
Griffin also spoke of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to avoid a televised "perp walk".
The Department of Justice called her lawyer Alan Isaacman daily for months insisting his client be arrested, dressed in a prison jumpsuit and handcuffs, and walked into a local prison for questioning.
All investigations were closed, and Griffin was exonerated, but the comedian actively admits the scandal will stalk her career to its end, calling it her "Hanoi Jane" moment.
But her career, far from over, has evolved instead.
Kathy Griffin's comedy is now equal parts First Amendment advocacy and "fake news" era cultural commentary, with both right and left of the US political aisle at the mercy of her notorious wit.
"That picture, overnight, made me a totally different type of artist," Griffin told an audience at media and technology conference SXSW in 2019.
Griffin self-produced a documentary, Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story, of her experience of the Trump White House's attempt to subvert the First Amendment and shut her down.
"Its important people know their rights," says Griffin in the documentary. "If it can happen to me, it can happen to you."
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Il decabrista (The Decembrist) e' l'episodio numero 8 della Stagione 2 della serie televisiva The Blacklist.
Girato in USA, prima visione americana è Lunedì 10 Novembre 2014 sul NBC. Prima visione italiana Venerdì 6 Marzo 2015 su Fox Crime.
La prima messa in onda vista da 9.750.000 telespettatori.
Sinossi originale: In just a few minutes, we flash through everything that transpired between Liz and Tom in the last four months, since the day she shot him... and saved his life. When Red disappears, Liz calls in favors to get him on the ship under The Samoan's watch where she arranges for emergency medical care. What follows is a series of interrogations on Berlin. Along the way, Tom gives intel on Monarch Douglas Bank, but not much else - certainly nothing on Red. In the end, the couple fall to bickering about the adoption and their marriage - did Tom ever love Liz? When Liz scoffs, Tom begs her to let him go, though he believes she has no intention of doing so. All he can ask now is that she look him in the eyes when she kills him. We pick up Red and Berlin in the industrial garage where we left them, with Berlin still in shock at the revelation his daughter is alive. Zoe has told Red that Berlin's real name is Milos Kirchoff, but what Red wants to know is who set them against each other. Berlin recalls the Kursk bombing in 1991, which eliminated the Russian resistance faction he was part of, and Reddington was deemed responsible for exposing Zoe as a dissident. After that, Berlin's loyalty was questioned and he was exiled to the gulag. Red asks Zoe who helped her go underground. Zoe never met the man; all she knows is he's called The Decembrist. Red hands Berlin a phone, with a warning that he may call to ask for his help soon. The Samoan is just warning Liz that Tom can't leave the ship alive, when the Harbormaster shows up. Liz confronts him with her gun and badge, claiming there's an escaped fugitive. She's locked the boat down. Satisfied, the Harbormaster moves off just as Liz's phone rings, summoning her to a meeting with Red, who's presiding over a Brimley interrogation. Liz is furious to learn he's working with Berlin, especially when Red claims Berlin is merely The Decembrist's pawn. Liz swallows her bile and takes the intel to the FBI. Aram discovers a sample of the Kursk bomber's DNA in the FBI's database, identifying Kiryl Morozov, now one of the most powerful men in Russia. Meanwhile, the Harbormaster has returned to Liz's ship and somehow opened the door to Tom's cell. Reven Wright checks in with the Post Office team for an update on Kiryl Morozov, the man ultimately responsible for killing Meera and crippling Cooper. In no uncertain terms, Wright tells the team to stand down; they're not going to Russia. Liz can't believe Cooper's willing to accept Wright's order, but he knows The Decembrist's identity will get to Red somehow. Liz is just phoning Red with The Decembrist's real name when The Samoan calls. She rushes to the ship to discover the Harbormaster bloodied and bound, his phone ringing. When Liz and The Samoan start arguing about what to do next, Tom snaps into action, using his ankle chain to strangle The Harbormaster, then advising Liz to call Mr. Kaplan. Red flies Berlin to Moscow on a mission to find Kiryl Morozov. Urging Berlin to bypass his emotions, Red lays out his plan to intercept Morozov during a diamond transaction - it's gonna happen fast. Berlin assures Red his people will be ready, and in fact, they slaughter all Morozov's men in a heartbeat. When Berlin corners Morozov, he names Alan Fitch as The Decembrist, just before Berlin puts a bullet in his cheek. As soon as his flight lands, Red summons Fitch to report Morozov's death, while Wright reads the Post Office team the riot act for compromising Fitch - he's the Assistant Director of National Intelligence! Liz tells Wright that Red called, concerned for Fitch's life, but Wright claims the matter is out of their jurisdiction. Red confronts Fitch for pitting Berlin against him. Apparently Fitch was Zoe's savior, hiring The Stewmaker to fake her death, in violation of his original agreement with Red. Fitch argues that Red stole precious intel when he disappeared, and the dog he sent after Red chewed through his leash. When Red warns Berlin is coming for Fitch, Fitch claims Red has no friends left; they both have an interest in eliminating Berlin. Fitch is pulled from the meeting by a SWAT team, who usher him and his assistant into an SUV... where moments later, Fitch's assistant is shot dead - who has no friends now? The Post Office team is scrambling to locate Fitch when Red walks in, demanding to speak to Liz. He's disappointed she didn't tell him Tom was alive - and that she still loves him. Liz insists she's been using Tom as a source. Now that Berlin has gone to ground, Red wants Liz to find out all Tom knows about Berlin's safe houses, so they can find Alan Fitch. Tom is only interested in waxing his gain, the Harbormaster's corpse. He'll give Liz Berlin, but only if she'll let him go. Cut to: Tom makes a pay phone call, as Liz and Ressler watch from a car. When Berlin calls back, Tom makes a case - he knows everything the FBI knows. Tom gives Liz an address, so she removes his tracking bracelet, but not before Ressler promises, "I'm coming for you." A TAC team sweats the address, where they find Fitch rigged up with a sophisticated pipe bomb around his neck. All the teams the FBI have to bear transport Fitch to the Post Office cell where Red was first interred. Cooper expects Wright to be angry, but she's pleased and still demanding the name of the task force's anonymous source. Furious, Ressler outs Red, who's arranged for Berlin and Zoe to meet. After Berlin says goodbye to his daughter, Red hands her re-identification papers, and she's back in the wind. Red turns his attention to Berlin, demanding to know how to diffuse the bomb around Fitch's neck. Berlin has no idea, so Red makes his way to his former Post Office cell - but only after taking out most of the electricity. The old friends have a last few moments, laden with names and numbers, before Fitch meets his maker. Red shares memories and a bottle of vodka with Berlin before coldly pumping four bullets into his heart. Finding Liz cleaning up Tom's cell, Red remarks upon his disgust at the filth of it all. Liz admits she didn't tell him about Tom because she thought she was finally in control - what's wrong with her? Red assures Liz there's nothing wrong with her; love means never being in control. Red puts Liz into a car, then meets Tom at a diner to slide a bulky envelope of cash across the table. Tom is never, ever to see Liz again. Arching his eyebrow, Tom hits the road, but not before making sure Red knows that, even after four months on the ship, he never told Liz about their relationship.
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Alice-Miranda
Clementine Rose
Kensy & Max
A-M Project
The Alice-Miranda Project.
Join Jacqueline Harvey for a fun, new digital reading program to explore the characters and adventures in her latest book Alice-Miranda in the Outback in a three–part video series.
What do you do when your instincts and obligations pull you in opposite directions? When there are multiple leads, which one do you follow?
It's action stations at Penberthy House as everyone prepares for the arrival of a new baby!
Alice-Miranda Friends Forever; Activity Book, Official Movie Script, Journal and 3-In-1 book
What would your name be if you lived in the world of Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose?
Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones attends boarding school at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies. A truly positive heroine, she is funny, kind, optimistic and able to solve just about any problem.
Clementine Rose is a lovely little girl who lives in Penberthy Floss in a large ramshackle house with her mother, Lady Clarissa, Digby Pertwhistle the butler and her teacup pig, Lavender.
Jacqueline Harvey is the author of the bestselling Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose series. She was a teacher for many years at girls' boarding schools and is now a full-time writer.
Join in all the fun for the 2020 Australia Reads Campaign!
From 1 -12 November, all Australians are being encouraged to boost their reading habits! I am very proud to be one of the author ambassadors for this year's event and have even written a special Kensy and Max book just for the Read More
Copyright © 2021 Random House Australia.


GER~NADE!! Something's got to change!
Yes, I cleaned it up after I saw it was full, but managed to meet the notification.
I reproduced picture #2 in my notebook (the items and keys) when I was younger. Great minds and little children (who have seen that beautiful SNES manual) think alike.


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Q: vuejs sample app npm run dev not working throwing Error: Cannot find module 'node:url' I am new to vuejs I am following the below steps to create my vue js app in the local system.
Step:

npm init vue@latest

✔ Project name: … VueDemo
✔ Add TypeScript? … No / Yes
✔ Add JSX Support? … No / Yes
✔ Add Vue Router for Single Page Application development? … No / Yes
✔ Add Pinia for state management? … No / Yes
✔ Add Vitest for Unit testing? … No / Yes
✔ Add Cypress for both Unit and End-to-End testing? … No / Yes
✔ Add ESLint for code quality? … No / Yes
✔ Add Prettier for code formatting? … No / Yes
Scaffolding project in ./VueDemo
Done.
cd VueDemo
npm install
npm run dev
It's throwing the following error in the console:

failed to load config from
/Users/ashok/MyStudy/Vue/VueDemo/vite.config.js error when starting
dev server: Error: Cannot find module 'node:url' Require stack:

*

*/Users/ashok/MyStudy/Vue/VueDemo/vite.config.js

*/Users/ashok/MyStudy/Vue/VueDemo/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-0fc8e132.js
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:889:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:745:27)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:961:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:92:18)
at Object. (/Users/ashok/MyStudy/Vue/VueDemo/vite.config.js:31:23)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1072:14)
at Object._require.extensions. [as .js] (file:///Users/ashok/MyStudy/Vue/VueDemo/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-0fc8e132.js:63096:24)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:937:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:12)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:961:19)

Package.json file:
{
  "name": "vuedemo",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "vite",
    "build": "vite build",
    "preview": "vite preview --port 4173"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "vue": "^3.2.37"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@vitejs/plugin-vue": "^3.0.1",
    "vite": "^3.0.4"
  }
}

vite.config.js:
import { fileURLToPath, URL } from 'node:URL

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import Vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [vue()],
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      '@': fileURLToPath(new URL('./src', import.meta.url))
    }
  }
})

A: Just upgrade your node to the latest, remove node_modules, and run npm install again.

A: Try using:
node version 18.12.1 or above and npm version 9.2.0 or above
after that try:
npm install

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Facebook's Covid-19 Trends and Impact Survey
August 10, 2021 by Gabriel Stefanini Vicente , Stefani Darinka Guevara Soto
Facebook COVID-19
With as many as 8 vaccines approved for use around the world the most urgent need now to control the spread of the novel coronavirus is increasing vaccination rates. Inoculation, however, is proving to be a challenge as a portion of communities around the world hold some concern or hesitancy toward the vaccine. To target low inoculation rates and quicken to a post-pandemic world, researchers need to know where and how to combat these barriers to vaccine acceptance. The Covid-19 Trends and Impact Survey, conducted by the University of Maryland in partnership with Facebook, can help researchers do so by gauging sentiments using survey data.
Policymakers and health organizations must improve widespread vaccination coverage to contain COVID-19 as it continues to spread within their countries. However, as vaccines become more readily available, we find that portions of national populations are choosing to opt-out. To increase vaccine uptake, policymakers and organizations should understand what the barriers to vaccine acceptance are, where hesitancy is strongest and how to target these barriers in critical areas. Sampling large populations to gauge sentiment, however, can be challenging and costly.
Facebook's Data for Good Program together with the University of Maryland launched a global survey in April of 2020 to support COVID-19 research and to help inform public health decisions. This survey is now available in more than 50 languages and distributed to a new sample of Facebook users daily via invitation through their newsfeed, with privacy measures incorporated at the start.
This survey contains questions on the economic and mental impacts of the pandemic as well as behavioral tendencies, testing and symptoms. The survey is weighted by Facebook to adjust for non-response and coverage bias. Since December 2020 with the rollout of vaccines, the survey has also included questions on vaccine sentiment, such as whether an individual would be willing to take the vaccine if available, reasons for hesitancy and who they trust for COVID-19 information.
The below visuals show a snapshot of global vaccine sentiment in May using data corresponding to these questions. With these charts we can see differences between World Bank regions and income classifications as well as among different groups, such as age, gender, and urbanicity.
Some findings:
Most countries that had among the highest levels of hesitancy (50% or higher) in May were those in the Europe and Central Asia region. Haiti was the only Latin American and Caribbean nation in this list of countries. Moreover, the majority of those with 50% or higher hesitancy rates constituted countries in the Upper Middle Income, Europe and Central Asia group.
The Reasons of Hesitancy Between Male & Female chart shows that for those countries with the highest hesitancy rates, as well as most other countries, concern over side effects is the predominant reason for vaccine hesitancy among those who claimed to be male or female. Cost and religion were generally the most insignificant barriers.
Aggregated data based on daily, weekly and monthly survey responses, as well as demographic groups are available publicly via API and contingency tables. Microdata is available only to academic and non-profit researchers, and World Bank staff can request access to the data through the Development Data Partnership.
The wealth of data available through this survey has helped researchers understand the spread of the pandemic and can help guide the current pressing issue of vaccination uptake around the world.
https://dataforgood.fb.com/tools/symptomsurvey/
https://docs.datapartnership.org/notebooks/facebook/examples/facebook-covid19-trends-and-impact-survey.html
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The IMF's New Climate Change Indicators Dashboard: Experimental Data for Economic and Financial Analysis
Mapping entrepreneurs' response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures on Internet Speed
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Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 in Indonesia
A Light Primer to Spark / Databricks
The Development Data Partnership is a collaboration between international organizations and technology companies, facilitating the efficient and responsible use of third-party data in international development.
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Once upon a time in a far away land lived a fat girl with tanned skin. Her name was Emma. This girl loved eating and was fat so people around her started calling her Fatemma and you would have already recognized its meaning. The girl got used to her new name. This girl had a skinny friend Azray,who also loved eating but she didnt became fat at all. It was when she became 13 that her friends started avoiding her and told her that she was not pretty but an ugly fatso. Fatemma was heartbroken but she still ignored her fake friends. "Everyone wants to look pretty and skinny and no one likes fat people like me."said the poor girl to her mother and her mother also tired of her daughter being called fat and being said as the mother of a fat and ugly girl told her daughter to lose some weight. The daughter stopped eating and started exercising. The fat girl hardly ate anything and worked most of the time after 5 days she started to lose her sight and her complexion beame pale. When she asked her mother to stop the diet her mother scold her mercilessly. Fatemma whose heart was in pain went out of the house after walking a few mile a she fainted. No one was around to pick her up and it was at night when it started raining. A car came and stopped in front of the lying body of the girl. The driver of this car was a handsome blonde guy who at first glance thought that the girl has died then he got out of the car with an umberella to see if the girl was alive. He tried to wake up the girl and Fatemma opened up her eyes.
He asked the ugly girl if she was alright and the girl replied that she was ok the girl was sad and the boy asked her that why she was lying on the ground and also asked her if she was trying to suicide. The girl said that she never thought of killing herself. The girl thanked the boy and started walking. Then the boy walked towards the girl and said to her that it was late night so he could drop her but the girl denied and on further denying the boy told her that she was ugly and he was not attraxted to her a bit so he would do nothing to the girl. When he said that the girl had her eyes filled with tears of sadness. The boy saw the girl in pain and told her to sit in the car. The girl sadly smiled and looked at the boy and said"i dont even know what i was thinking ,for a moment i forgot that i was ugly." The stayes quiet and asked her where she lived but the girl was not answering then he stopped the car to look why she wasnt answering she saw her trembling with cold. The boy immediately drove the car towards his house and called out servants to ask them to carry the fat girl. The girl was taken to the guest room of the house. The blonde boy called a his sister who was a doctor and told her to check the freezing girl.
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From: Blake Arrington <klarinetteman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Suggestions for Music for clarinet, piano, violin, and
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> From: mgustav@-----.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:27:09 -0500
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Suggestions for Music for clarinet, piano, violin, and =
> There is also Tempest Fantasies by Paul Moravec that won the Pulitzer =20
> Prize a couple of years ago.
> On Dec 12, 2007, at 10:53 PM, Gary Van Cott wrote:
>> It is here with strange pricing (more expensive to rent then buy?).
>> http://www.iankrouse.com/index2.html
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Muslim group asks State Rep. Mike Holmes to drop out of Sons of Confederate Veterans
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022, 9:31 p.m. | Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 11:54 a.m.
Rep. Mike Holmes believes the Civil War was about taxes, not slavery.
By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com
A Muslim civil rights group today called on State Rep. Mike Holmes to drop his membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
"It is unacceptable for a lawmaker, whose duty it is to represent all constituents in his district, to be a member of an organization that honors traitors and white supremacists," said Ibrahim Hooper, director of national communications for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
Holmes, informed of Hooper's statement, declined CAIR's request.
"I have no plans of leaving the Sons of Confederate Veterans," said Holmes, reached by AL.com this morning.
In a story by AL.com columnist Kyle Whitmire published today, "Alabama Capitol is a Crime Scene," Holmes defended his membership in the group, saying his ancestors fought in the Confederate army because they felt their "way of life was being threatened." He said none of his ancestors owned slaves.
CAIR has repeatedly called for the removal of Confederate flags, statues and symbols from public spaces nationwide. Last year, CAIR condemned a threat by the Alabama state Attorney General's Office to fine the city of Montgomery for dropping a Confederate street name and supported renaming a school in Huntsville, Ala., currently named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Hooper said the American Muslim community and CAIR stand in solidarity with all those challenging anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.


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Q: Doubt about ordinary and partial derivative I was reading this Wikipedia page Beltrami identity. There is this passage that I don't understand. According to the page, in the section "derivation":
$$
L[x, u(x), u'(x)]
$$
In the second passage, the page writes this:
$$
\frac{dL}{dx} = \frac{\partial{L}}{\partial{u}}u' + \frac{\partial{L}}{\partial{u'}}u'' + \frac{\partial{L}}{\partial{x}}
$$
I totally understand the chain rule applied here, and my question is: is there a difference between $\frac{d}{dx}$ operator and $\frac{\partial{}}{\partial{x}}$ operator? Shouldn't they mean the same thing?
Thanks in advance,
Dave

A: Recall the basics of functions: roughly speaking a function is a triple of information $f:A \to B$, where $A$ is the domain, $B$ is the target space, and $f$ is the "rule".
In your case, you're given a function $L: \Bbb{R}^3 \to \Bbb{R}$ and a function $u: \Bbb{R} \to \Bbb{R}$ (i.e the lagrangian is a real valued function of three real variables, and you're given a real valued curve $u$). Now, using these two, you're constructing a new function, $\Lambda: \Bbb{R} \to \Bbb{R}$ defined by
\begin{align}
\Lambda(x) &= L(x,u(x), u'(x))
\end{align}
What this means is that for a given real number $x$, $\Lambda(x)$ is that real number obtained by plugging the $3$-tuple of real numbers $(x,u(x),u'(x))$ into the function $L$. From here, you can clearly see that $L$ and $\Lambda$ are distinct functions. The domain of $L$ is $\Bbb{R}^3$, whereas the domain of $\Lambda$ is $\Bbb{R}$. However, it is very common to abuse notation in this context, and people often out of laziness simply denote $\Lambda$ as $L$.
What the chain rule actually says, with proper notation, and being explicit with where everything is being evaluated is that: for all $x \in \Bbb{R}$,
\begin{align}
\Lambda'(x) &= (\partial_1L)_{(x, u(x), u'(x))} + (\partial_2L)_{(x, u(x), u'(x))} \cdot u'(x) + (\partial_3L)_{(x, u(x), u'(x))} \cdot u''(x) \tag{$*$}
\end{align}
Here $\partial_iL$ means the partial derivative of the function $L$ with respect to the $i^{th}$ variable. This same equation written slightly more sloppily says:
\begin{align}
\dfrac{d \Lambda}{dx} &= \dfrac{\partial L}{\partial x} + \dfrac{\partial L}{\partial u} u' + \dfrac{\partial L}{\partial u'} u''
\end{align}
And lastly, if you want to be even more sloppy, you'll find the following equation:
\begin{align}
\dfrac{d L}{dx} &= \dfrac{\partial L}{\partial x} + \dfrac{\partial L}{\partial u} u' + \dfrac{\partial L}{\partial u'} u''
\end{align}
Again, strictly speaking, this is a nonsensical equation, because $L$ is a function of $3$ variables, so it doesn't make sense to take the ordinary derivative $\frac{d}{dx}$ of $L$; it only makes sense to take partial derivatives $\partial_iL$. But... this equation (and others like it which you'll encounter frequently in physics texts) is really just a very lazy way of writing $(*)$.

By the way, this abuse of notation is not only prevalent in multivariable calculus; it is also there in single variable calculus. For example, you may have learnt the single variable chain rule as:

If $f= f(y)$ and $y = y(x)$ are differentiable functions, then $f(y(x))$ is differentiable and
  \begin{align}
\dfrac{df}{dx} = \dfrac{df}{dy} \cdot \dfrac{dy}{dx}
\end{align}

well, again, the $f$ on the LHS and the $f$ on the RHS mean completely different things! You may not have paid much attention in this case, because it is a simple enough formula to remember, and it is very intuitive with the "$dy$'s cancelling". But strictly speaking it is a complete overload of notation. (you should try to understand properly what the proper meaning of the $f$'s on the two sides is)

A: It is a short way to write something like this.
Consider a function of three variables, say $L[r,s,t]$, then plug in three functions $r = x, s = u(x), t=u'(x)$ to get
$$
M(x) := L[x,u(x),u'(x)]
$$
Then
$$
\frac{dM}{dx} = \frac{\partial L}{\partial r}\;\frac{\partial r}{\partial x}
+\frac{\partial L}{\partial s}\;\frac{\partial s}{\partial x}
+\frac{\partial L}{\partial t}\;\frac{\partial t}{\partial x}
$$
You question is whether there is any difference between $d M/d x$
and $\partial L /\partial r$.  Yes, they are different.  Even if we think $M = L$ and $r = x$.  Try a simple examaple to see.


What a pleasure it was to work with Black Envelope Films!
This little girl had so much fun running around in her pink tutu! There were loads of Green Screen work and we had to do a lot of clean plates too. It's only once the FX work is completed that one can appreciate the full picture yet few people will truly understand the hours and hours of hard work that goes into productions.
From sourcing such a creative team, building the set, getting the perfect talents with make-up and wardrobe, the set design, lights and props to the director, dop, focus puller, grips, assistant director and those who's not even on set. Each one with a very important task! It's always astounding to see what a bunch of creative people can come up with when you put them together in a dusty old warehouse!


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Q: React component isn't updated when using Routes? It's the first time I'm using react-router and I'm having a hard time doing it.
Here's my code:
App.tsx
import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Link, Route } from "react-router-dom";
import DraggableGame from './PointAndClickGame';
import PointAndClickGame from './PointAndClickGame';
import './css/App.css';

function App() {
  return (

      <Router>
        <Route exact path='/'>
         <Link to="/pointAndClick">joc pointAndClick</Link>

         <Link to="/draggable">joc draggable</Link>
        </Route>
        <Route exact path="/pointAndClick">
          <PointAndClickGame/>
        </Route>
        <Route exact path="/draggable">
          <DraggableGame/>
        </Route>
      </Router>

  );
}

export default App;

DraggableGame.tsx
import React, { useRef, useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import { Row, Col } from 'react-bootstrap';
import Box from './Box';
import ButtonCustom from './Button';

function DraggableGame() {
    const correctResponse: string = "A";
    const [selectedResponse, setResponse] = useState<string|null>(null);

    const onSubmitAnswer = () => {
        class Coordinate {
            x: number;
            y: number;

            constructor(x: number, y: number) {
                this.x = x;
                this.y = y;
            }
        }

        let width: number = box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().width;
        let height: number = box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().height;

        let boxCoordinates: Array<Coordinate> = [];
        for(let i=0;i<4;i++)
        {
            let data = eval(`box${i+1}`);
            boxCoordinates.push(new Coordinate(data.current.getBoundingClientRect().x, data.current.getBoundingClientRect().y));
        }

        if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[0].x - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().x) < (width / 1.75))
        {
            if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[0].y - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().y) < (height / 1.75))
            {
                setResponse("A");
            }
        }
        else if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[1].x - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().x) < (width/1.75))
        {
            if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[1].y - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().y) < (height/1.75))
            {
                setResponse("B");
            }
        }
        else if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[2].x - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().x) < (width /1.75))
        {
            if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[2].y - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().y) < (height /1.75))
            {
                setResponse("C");
            }
        }
        else if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[3].x - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().x) < (width/1.75))
        {
            if(Math.abs(boxCoordinates[3].y - box0.current.getBoundingClientRect().y) < (height/1.75))
            {
                setResponse("D");
            }
        }
    };

    const box0 = useRef<any>();
    const box1 = useRef<any>();
    const box2 = useRef<any>();
    const box3 = useRef<any>();
    const box4 = useRef<any>();

    return (

            <Box {...{ letter: correctResponse, draggable: 1 }} ref={box0} />
            <Row>
            <Col md>
            <Box {...{ letter: 'A', draggable: 0 }} ref={box1} />
            </Col>
            <Col md>
            <Box {...{ letter: 'B', draggable: 0 }} ref={box2} />
            </Col>
            <Col md>
            <Box {...{ letter: 'C', draggable: 0 }} ref={box3} />
            </Col>
            <Col md>
            <Box {...{ letter: 'D', draggable: 0 }} ref={box4} />
            </Col>
            </Row>

            { selectedResponse === correctResponse ? <ButtonCustom {...{onSubmitAnswer: onSubmitAnswer, resolvedQuestion: 1}}/> : <ButtonCustom {...{onSubmitAnswer: onSubmitAnswer, resolvedQuestion: 0}}/> }

    );
}

export default DraggableGame;

PointAndClickGame.tsx
import React, { useState, SyntheticEvent } from 'react';
import { Row, Col } from 'react-bootstrap'
import Box from './Box';
import ButtonCustom from './Button';

function PointAndClickGame() {
    const correctResponse: string = "C";
    const [selectedResponse, setResponse] = useState<string|null>(null);

    const onSelectAnswer = (event: SyntheticEvent<HTMLDivElement, Event>) => {
        setResponse(event.currentTarget.textContent);
    };

    return (

            <Box letter={correctResponse} onSelectFunction={onSelectAnswer} />
            <Row>
            <Col md>
            <Box letter="A" onSelectFunction={onSelectAnswer} />
            </Col>
            <Col md>
            <Box letter="B" onSelectFunction={onSelectAnswer} />
            </Col>
            <Col md>
            <Box letter="C" onSelectFunction={onSelectAnswer} />
            </Col>
            <Col md>
            <Box letter="D" onSelectFunction={onSelectAnswer} />
            </Col>
            </Row>

            { selectedResponse === correctResponse ? <ButtonCustom {...{resolvedQuestion: 1}}/> : <ButtonCustom {...{resolvedQuestion: 0}}/> }

    );
}

export default PointAndClickGame;

The problem is that no matter what link I press from the App component, React always renders pointAndClick, and I don't understand why.
Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

A: Simply, this is the wrong part
import DraggableGame from './PointAndClickGame';
import PointAndClickGame from './PointAndClickGame';

You are importing the same component. Because of exporting the component as a default you are importing it with any name and no error will be thrown to warn you


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Hundreds attend August talks on devotion by Swami Tejomayananda
From August 5- 9, 2014 Chinmaya Mission UK hosted a series of five evening talks by Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda entitled 'Devotional Intelligence', based on Chapter 12 of the Bhagavad Geeta.
From August 5- 9, 2014 Chinmaya Mission UK hosted a series of five evening talks by Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda.
The Gyana Yagna (spiritual discourses), which took place at Logan Hall in Central London, attracted many newcomers intrigued by Guruji's explanation on the logic of devotion. Around 500-600 people attended daily.
Swamini Umananda from Chinmaya Mission France and Swamini Amritananda from Chinmaya Mission New Zealand also graced the event.
Pujya Guruji guided the audience verse by verse, using practical and humorous examples to highlight simple ways in which one can cultivate devotion to evolve and live joyously.
Expounding on Sri Krishna's eloquent logic, Pujya Guruji explained how knowledge and action devoid of devotion are incomplete.
In his brilliant and clear style, he described what Bhakti is, methods of devotion, the relationship between the Lord and a devotee and how devotion is an essential aspect of the spiritual path.
People of all ages and backgrounds attended the weeklong talks, including many long-standing and some new devotees from European countries including France, Holland, Switzerland and Germany. On the final evening, the Spronk family (devotees who are classical musicians from Holland) and members of Chinmaya Swaranjali UK performed together in Pujya Guruji's presence before the final talk.
During the five evening talks there were stalls outlining the various wings of Chinmaya Mission UK: CHYK (18-35 years), Shishu/Bal Vihar and JCHYK (5-17 years), Senior Citizens, Sanskrit and Swaranjali. A wide range of Chinmaya Mission publications, DVDs and audio CDs sold well throughout the week.
Following the five evening discourses, Pujya Guruji visited 'Chinmaya Vidya Nagari' a newly acquired Chinmaya Mission UK property in Oxford, that will host retreats, camps and workshops for devotees in the west. It is Chinmaya Mission UK's flagship offering for Pujya Gurudev's birth centenary year.
Immediately after his London visit, Pujya Guruji flew to Gibraltar where he was hosted by Mrs. Deepa Aidasani and family.
Guruji conducted an evening talk on the topic "Why do good people suffer?" that was organised by Deepa along with the managing committee of the only Hindu temple in Gibraltar. The event was well attended by the Indian business community and also tourists of different nationalities who strayed into the temple attracted by the topic.
The talk explained who good people really are and what is suffering; concluding that good people never suffer as they are those who have a vision of oneness and hence will never hurt anyone, spreading only love and happiness.
Did you miss the talks? They are now available for purchase online at: https://www.chinmayauk.org/mp3store/
Central London talks by Global Head Swami Tejomayananda from 5-9 August
Chinmaya Vidya Nagari – a new property for CMUK!
Published by chinmaya-admin at 17th August 2014
During the five evening talks, there were stalls outlining the various wings of Chinmaya Mission UK: CHYK (18-35 years), Shishu/Bala Vihar and JCHYK (5-17 years), Senior Citizens, Sanskrit and Swaranjali. A wide range of Chinmaya Mission publications, DVDs and audio CDs sold well throughout the week.
Guruji conducted an evening talk on the topic "Why do good people suffer?" that was organised by Deepa along with the managing committee of the only Hindu temple in Gibraltar. The event was well attended by the Indian business community and also tourists of different nationalities who strayed into the temple attracted by the topic.


Pot Limit Omaha Poker is a version of poker that's very similar to the very popular Texas Hold'em version of poker. In Omaha poker you get four hold cards and you have to use two of your hole cards with three of the community cards to make your hand. This often makes for better hands than you're used to with Texas Hold'em. Watch the video to get a quick introduction to Omaha poker at Unibet.


FIRST-YEAR midfielder/forward Samantha Wargo contols the ball in a recent game at Fitzpatrick Field. Wargo is tied for the team lead in goals with 3.
First-year student Samantha Wargo is tied for the most goals on the women's soccer team with three and has helped lead the team to a 5-3-1 record this season. One of those three goals came in the 89th minute of the team's game against Muhlenberg College Sept. 30, giving the Royals a 1-0 victory.
Sam, as she prefers to be called, is currently undeclared, but is taking courses in business. In high school, her team won a league championship all four years, along with a New York State championship in 2014. She also played basketball, helping her team win league titles in 2013 and 2014.
Q: You are tied for the team lead in goals right now with Sarah Andrews and you are in your first year. What has that been like?
A: It's been great. I worked for it, it's exciting, it's been a great accomplishment and I hope to [score more goals].
Q: What has been the hardest part of your college transition so far?
A: Probably balancing schoolwork, soccer and going to practice [along with] being tired and not wanting to study.
Q: What has been your favorite part of being here?
A: Meeting new people, being friends with new people and having fun. Also, having that family experience with the team and being really close with the team.
Q: What is your favorite spot on campus to hang out?
other girls from the soccer team].
Q: Why do you love soccer?
A: It's just something I've done my whole life and it's a part of me. I knew if I came here, I had to play. I considered not playing, but I just couldn't because it's part of me. I just like to achieve and accomplish my goals, so it feels good when that happens.
Q: What is the most important thing you have learned from playing soccer that you could apply to any situation?
A: Even if you want to give up, never get to that point where you feel like you can't do anything else because you always can. There is always a next step.
Q: What has your experience been like being away from home for the first time?
A: It's been challenging. It's definitely different; it's hard to adjust. It [hasn't been] that hard for me to adjust. I love it here. It's a lot of fun.


Ilhan Omar made history on Tuesday night.
For those who are feeling disheartened after learning that Hillary Clinton will not be the first female President of the United States, there was some uplifting news to emerge from Tuesday night's election.
Ilhan Omar, a 34-year-old former refugee and practicing Muslim, became America's first Somalian-American female legislator and beat out her Republican opponent to gain a seat at Minnesota's state house of representatives.
According the The Star Tribune, Omar arrived in the US as a child after escaping the civil war in her home country of Somalia at the age of eight. She spent four years at a Kenyan refugee camp, before she immigrated to Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside area with her family aged 12.
Ilhan Omar with her family during her victory party in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Omar is now a mother to three children and is currently the director of policy at Women Organizing Women Network, a group which helps empower East African women to get into civic leadership roles. Her leadership experience is said to have helped her defeat Republican candidate Phyllis Kahn, the House's longest serving member.
In her victory statement, Omar said her win is "the beginning of something new."
"This district has a legacy of making history," she added. "I am excited for our progressive values and to be able to be on the ground at the Capitol representing the diverse people of my district and being a champion with them and for them."
Ilhan Omar pictured on election day.
The Guardian reports that her triumph came less than a week after Donald Trump referred to Somali immigrants in Minnesota as "a disaster."
"Here in Minnesota, you've seen firsthand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval," Trump said days before the election. "Some of them [are] joining Isis and spreading their extremist views all over our country and all over the world."
Now that the man who openly called for a ban on Muslims coming to America is now President-elect, Omar's fight to support immigrant communities is even more inspiring. As she said in her speech, it's a sign she is breaking barriers.
"We will continue to build a more prosperous and equitable district – state and nation – where each and every one of us has opportunities to thrive and move forward together," she said.
In Ilhan Omar, there's a glimmer of hope.


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The Rochelle Railroad Park is a city park located in Rochelle, Illinois where railfans can safely view and photograph trains.

Location

The park is in the eastern quadrant of the diamond crossing between the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) and BNSF Railway (BNSF) mainlines between Chicago and points west.

The two mainlines cross on the southwest side of Rochelle. The UP (formerly Chicago and North Western Railway) Geneva Subdivision travels through the crossing from the southwest to northeast, from Chicago towards Clinton, Iowa, and Omaha.  The UP's Global III yard is about 1 mile northeast of the diamond.  The BNSF (formerly Burlington Northern Railroad and before that, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad) Aurora Subdivision travels the northwest to southeast corners, from Aurora Illinois to Savannah, Illinois and to the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul. This double mainline, four-track, diamond, known as NX Crossing, is at milepost 83.7 on the BNSF, and at 75.3 on the UP.

History
Before the city of Rochelle built the park, railfans often parked just short of an interchange siding connecting the two railroads in the northern quadrant of the crossing. The interchange track connected the northern track of the eastern portion of the UP's mainline with the northern track of the western portion of the BNSF's mainline. While this parking location allowed railfans to see a great distance towards the west along UP's mainline, many vehicles were parked too close to the interchange track to be safe if a train used it. Additionally, there was no protection to keep trespassers off the tracks. The northern interchange track has since been removed although a longer interchange siding still exists on the South quadrant of the crossing.

Features

The city chose the eastern quadrant of the crossing in which to build the park. Many factors went into the selection of the eastern quadrant, but by using it, the city was able to erect an elevated viewing platform with a gazebo-style roof, picnic tables, an area to build a re-creation of a hobo jungle, a display of strap rail track, a small preserved Whitcomb switching locomotive (manufactured by the Whitcomb Locomotive Works of Rochelle), and a paved parking lot. The amenities are further enhanced with public restrooms, vending machines, and a small model railroad shop.

Some of the more technical offerings at the park for railfans to enjoy include the following:
 A live railroad scanner set to monitor both UP and BNSF operational radio frequencies (speakers in the picnic/viewing platform) or on low power FM 106.9.
 Wi-Fi
 Two ATCS monitors showing a live view of the UP Geneva Sub (one in museum, one by back door visible to outside)
 A live internet-viewable webcam with audio atop the viewing platform's roof operated by Trains Magazine, EarthCam and Virtual Railfan.

Indicators that a train is approaching the park include the following:
 Eastbound - Both railroads have defect detectors just west of the crossing that signal train statuses over the radio
 Westbound - Grade crossing signals to the east of the park at N 9th Street will activate to protect the grade crossings although trains will no longer (since 2016) signal due to Rochelle having a quiet zone.

References

External links

 Official website Rochelle Railroad Park
 Trains.com - BNSF and Union Pacific in Rochelle IL
 Rochelle Railroad Park Roadside America article on the Rochelle Railroad Park

Rochelle, Illinois
Parks in Illinois
Railroad museums in Illinois
Tourist attractions in Ogle County, Illinois

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using AutoMapper;
using Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Network.Models;
using Microsoft.Azure.Commands.ResourceManager.Common.Tags;
using Microsoft.Azure.Management.Internal.Resources.Utilities.Models;
using Microsoft.Azure.Management.Network;
using Microsoft.Azure.Management.Network.Models;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net;
using MNM = Microsoft.Azure.Management.Network.Models;

namespace Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Network
{
    public abstract class ConnectionMonitorBaseCmdlet : NetworkBaseCmdlet
    {
        public IConnectionMonitorsOperations ConnectionMonitors
        {
            get
            {
                return NetworkClient.NetworkManagementClient.ConnectionMonitors;
            }
        }

        public bool IsConnectionMonitorPresent(string resourceGroupName, string name, string connectionMonitorName)
        {
            try
            {
                GetConnectionMonitor(resourceGroupName, name, connectionMonitorName);
            }
            catch (MNM.ErrorResponseException exception) when (exception.Response != null && exception.Response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.NotFound)
            {
                return false;
            }

            return true;
        }

        public PSConnectionMonitorResult GetConnectionMonitor(string resourceGroupName, string name, string connectionMonitorName)
        {
            ConnectionMonitorResult connectionMonitor = this.ConnectionMonitors.Get(resourceGroupName, name, connectionMonitorName);
            PSConnectionMonitorResult psConnectionMonitor = NetworkResourceManagerProfile.Mapper.Map<PSConnectionMonitorResult>(connectionMonitor);

            return psConnectionMonitor;
        }

        public ConnectionMonitorDetails GetConnectionMonitorDetails(string resourceId)
        {
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            ResourceIdentifier connectionMonitorInfo = new ResourceIdentifier(resourceId);

            cmDetails.ConnectionMonitorName = connectionMonitorInfo.ResourceName;
            cmDetails.ResourceGroupName = connectionMonitorInfo.ResourceGroupName;

            string parent = connectionMonitorInfo.ParentResource;
            string[] tokens = parent.Split(new[] { '/' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

            cmDetails.NetworkWatcherName = tokens[1];

            return cmDetails;
        }

        public MNM.NetworkWatcher GetNetworkWatcherByLocation(string location)
        {
            var nwList = this.NetworkClient.NetworkManagementClient.NetworkWatchers.ListAll();
            foreach (var nw in nwList)
            {
                if (nw.Location == location)
                {
                    return nw;
                }
            }

            return null;
        }
    }
}


We gathered for the Festival of Radical Discipleship in winter 2015.
11 members of the Carnival Crew gathered in Oak View, Ca for the Kinsler Institute: A Festival of Radical Discipleship, convened and hosted by Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries. We performed the "Water Show," amped up worship time, painted a mini-mural, performed music on one evening, and contributed to the opening and closing ceremonies. It was an amazing opportunity to connect with folks around the country doing faith-led activism and art, to learn about movement history, and celebrate those who have committed their lives to radical discipleship.
Sharing a community dance at the end of the Water Show.
A tremendous number of profound reflections and sweet encounters just through our participation in this historic event.


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Home » A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Hardcover)
A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Hardcover)
By James Lee Burke
(ABB)
#10: Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux #10) (Mass Market): $8.99
#11: Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux #11) (Mass Market): $7.99
Dave Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, get themselves in a horrifying mess and one wonders if this will be their last struggle in a long series of novels by Burke. This one has all the bells and whistles, murder, runaway musicians, an otherworldly assassin and the always seductive language of southern Louisiana mixed with very violent scenes. I've always thought that Burke's work belongs on the fiction shelves instead of mystery as his writing encompasses a lot more than just a crime (or two). His words take the reader to so many places, hell being one of them, and then he smooths you out with lovely descriptions of the Bayou Teche or paragraphs of what love might be if we only paid attention. This is a gritty tale and a thoughtful one.
After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.
The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny's uncle.
As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the "Bobbsey Twins from Homicide" have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life—alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed.
A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke's fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readers—mixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.
James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He's authored thirty-nine novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
An imaginative blend of crime and other genres, Burke's existential drama is both exquisitely executed and profoundly moving. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Burke has concocted his usual gumbo of thrills and chills, stirred it with gusto and seasoned it with plenty of local superstition and rumor. What makes these books so enduring (this is the 23rd Robicheaux novel) and the storytelling so seductive is that Burke has the voice to do justice to the region's ancient curses and its modern crimes." —Marilyn Stasio, for The New York Times Book Review
"[A]ll-enveloping mix of horror and crime" —Booklist (starred review)
"You can always count on Burke, the prolific best-selling author and two-time winner of the Edgar Award, to deliver a white-hot page-turner."—AARP Magazine
"Burke has the poetic gifts to match the otherworldly musings his Louisiana lawman occasionally finds himself dwelling on." —CrimeReads
"Like all Burke's novels, this one is lush and lyrical and poignant and pretty damn brutal. It's a journey into Robicheaux's heart of darkness and America's." —Minnesota Star Tribune
Series: Dave Robicheaux
Fiction / Mystery & Detective
Kobo eBook (August 10th, 2020): $14.99
CD-Audio (August 11th, 2020): $39.99
Library Binding, Large Print (September 9th, 2020): $47.49
Paperback (June 22nd, 2021): $17.00
Paperback, Large Print (August 4th, 2021): $18.00


Well, I'm shocked. Here at Ulfwood Ltd., a small independent software vendor, we try to provide high quality software at low cost. We're always looking to improve RenameMaestro for our customers, and FileTagSleuth is entirely free.
The problem with Download.com is, its our software, not theirs, and they are making money on our work; our blood (sic), sweat and tears. And we never signed an agreement to that end. We have no record of an email informing us of this. Nor do we have any record of a mention of this when we last uploaded an update; this was the point at which the 'helpful service' as CNET likes to term it, was applied. Its helpful in that it increases Download.com's bottom line. This is a website filled with advertising, premium subscriptions and more. We just charge a modest amount for our software.
It gets worse. AVG now advises that RenameMaestro is adware / spyware (it most certainly is not). By the way, neither is FileTagSleuth, although it does have an offer in it – you must accept it to have it installed, so this is an opt-in software choice for those that care (and you should), not an opt-out. We don't want to force anything on anyone; we simply want to get a little bit of benefit if you choose to install something else as well as FileTagSleuth. If you don't want to, just enjoy it entirely for free. There are no adverts, and no spying software in it.
It gets even worse. At this point, the installer tells you that our software is 'unsupported 16 bit software'. Drivel. It works on Windows 7 and XP of any variety. Download.com is now telling potential customers that our software is impossible to install. Anti-virus companies, because of Download.com's changes, are telling potential customers our software is dubious at best.
If they'd got us to sign up explicitly it would have been a different matter.
But we are a tiny company that cannot spend time being the gamekeeper to the hundreds of software download sites who might do this, and the poacher in this case is a billion dollar company.
It seems as though the search engines really have made the download sites redundant. With this behaviour, I can only say good riddance to bad rubbish.
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The cost of dealing with asbestos has reached almost $5.5 million at Dunedin Hospital as an internal report reveals it took at least 10 days to change a light fitting.The financial figure provided by the Southern District Health Board includes almost $2million for a retrofitted air-conditioning system in the radiology department.
It is needed because the ceiling area cannot be accessed to service the air conditioning.
The figure reflects the cost of dealing with the problem since an October 2015 asbestos scare.
Released under the Official Information Act, building and property reports from earlier this year show pressure on staff, safety concerns, urgent requests for funding and support, and warnings of clinical disruption. Staff were monitoring dozens of affected areas, and in some cases struggled to cover their other duties. The reports reveal the air testing result in the now off-limits records room at the hospital was 75% positive. A light failed in part of an operating theatre. It would normally be fixed in an hour or less.
The work was mainly done out of hours.
"However, in the future there may be repairs which simply cannot be completed due to access issues, or areas which need to close because the faulty equipment is essential to the operation of that area.
The reports talk about safety concerns for staff working in full protective gear in hot, asbestos-affected plant rooms. The building and property team requested funding to decontaminate the plant rooms, which was approved.
A temporary tunnel had been constructed in one plant room to enable safe access to the helipad for staff to transfer patients. The facilities team leader was "basically working full-time on asbestos management", leaving little time for other work.
Yesterday, chief executive Chris Fleming said senior staff were considering recommendations in an independent review of its handling of asbestos. It was likely to lead to improvements. He was not ready to release the report, but would in due course. Mr Fleming said it was not feasible to move or copy the records, and access was managed on a case-by-case basis.