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Mashup at Green Kill on Saturday, May 11, 8 PM, features singer and songwriter Mary Hood, poet Lissa Kiernan and Becoming Human. 10 dollars at the door or tickets may be reserved on eventbrite.com. Seating limited to 45. BYOB or softdrinks and snacks at Ozurbar.
About Mashup
Mashup is a cross genre, cross discipline performance event. Expect the unexpected. It's for an audience which likes to be surprised and exposed to a variety of artist expressions.
About Mary Hood
Mary Hood is a rising voice from a digital generation singing about old-school themes like loneliness, love, loss, and longing with a twisting acoustic guitar and a reedy, soulful voice. Her music stands alone, but her main influences—Fiona Apple and Shakey Graves—can be heard in her raw and resonant style, while others have compared her lyrics and storminess to acoustic legends Elliot Smith and Nick Drake.
Mary performed at Pleasantville Music Festival in summer of 2017, her name in the lineup with well-known artists Suzanne Vega, Blues Traveler, and Living Colour. She has also performed at other festivals and venues in the Hudson Valley area and New York City, including Newburgh Illuminated Festival, The Bitter End, and the Towne Crier.
Mary's hypnotic sound captivates an audience while her unique fingerpicking weaves through each lyric, creating a musical storyline all its own.
www.maryhoodmusic.com
About Lissa Kiernan
Lissa Kiernan is the founding director of the Poetry Barn and the author of Glass Needles & Goose Quills (winner, 2019 Independent Book Awards) and Two Faint Lines in the Violet, (finalist, 2014 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year and Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by an Independent Press). Her individual poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She holds an MFA from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine and an MA from The New School. She lives by the spillway of the Ashokan Reservoir.
www.lissakiernan.com
About Becoming Human
Vocalist/guitarist/percussionist Marji Zintz fronts Becoming Human, a newly formed trio (and sometimes quartet), which performs music composed by guitarist Jim Kunkel and bassist Mickey Kopchak. They explore and inhabit many genres across the musical spectrum, from folk to jazz, modal to avant-garde, spiritual to classical to Brazilian. They honor the space and each other's unique and evolving "voice," creating and holding a fertile ground for conversation, interplay, improvisation, and emotion. "If Flora Purim and Pat Matheny had a baby, this is what it would sound like." (Fran P.)
www.becominghuman.us
About Green kill
Green Kill is a multiuser performance space dedicated to the arts. It serves a growing diverse art community. Green Kill is an LLC in transition to become of 501c3. The objective is to build an institution for the arts which grows and creates opportunities inclusive through the peer to peer involvement of talented visual and performing artists.
Green Kill is a handicapped accessible and located at 229 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston, New York, 12401, 229greenkill@greenkill.org, Green Kill is open Tuesday to Saturday from 3 pm to 9 pm, closed on national holidays. The phone number is 1(347)689-2323. Performance events schedule please visit thttps://greenkill.org/2017/04/24/green-kill-activities/. Exhibition viewing hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 3-5 PM or you may make a special appointment by contacting 229greenkill@greenkill.org or phoning 347-689-2323.
Mashup, May 11
Mashup at Green Kill on Saturday, May 11, 8 PM, features singer and songwriter Mary Hood, poet Lissa Kiernan and Becoming Human. 10 dollars at the door or on eventbrite.com. Seating limited to 45. BYOB or softdrinks and snacks at Ozurbar.


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British Passport Fees to Rise from February 2023 – What you need to know
Home / Insights / British Passport Fees to Rise from February 2023 – What you need to know
Coming into effect on 2nd February 2023, the new change will lead to an increase of price to both adult and children's passports.
The new fee will be applicable regardless of whether it is an application for a first passport or an application to renew an expired passport.
How much would I have to pay from February 2023?
The fee to apply online for a standard adult passport will increase to £82.50 from the current cost of £75.50. While the children's passport fee will rise from £49 to £53.50. However, as with current position, it will be cheaper to make an online application compared to postal application which will cost £93.
Reason for increasing the fee
As per the announcement published on 11th January 2023, the Government does not make any profit from the cost of passport applications.
As it stands, the current processing time for passport application takes, on average, 10 weeks. The increase in passport fee will help the UK government put systems in place which will help speed up the process and essentially improve the service.
Applicants have the option to purchase a fast track or a premium service at a higher fee if they wish their application to be processed at a faster service. The priority service fee will also be impacted by this increase.
If you wish to save a little bit of money, apply for a passport before the end of January 2023.
For any help and assistance required in relation to the above of any other kind of immigration enquiry, please feel free to contact one of expert immigration advisors.
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PrideStaff Lake Charles Honored as a Highest Rated Employment Agency in Louisiana by Top Rated Local®
PrideStaff, a national, franchised staffing organization, is pleased to announce that their Lake Charles office was recently ranked the best employment agency in Lake Charles by Top Rated Local®.
Being named a best Top Rated Local business is an acknowledgment of the superior level of customer service that listed organizations provide, as it directly reflects their customers' opinions. Using a proprietary algorithm, Top Rated Local aggregates and analyzes online ratings and reviews from verified review sites online. The total number of verified review sites, average star rating a business has on those sites, and number of ratings/reviews they have posted on those sites all play a role in the Rating Score calculation. Based on dozens of ratings and reviews, the Lake Charles office received a 94.25 Rating Score™ (out of a possible 100), earning them the number one ranking in the Lake Charles market.
Thomas Clemons, Co-Owner/Strategic-Partner of PrideStaff Lake Charles, is thrilled that his office earned the top spot in the employment agency category. "We appreciate the recognition from Top Rated Local and the great ratings and reviews our customers provided because they are a testament to the exceptional service experiences our amazing staff creates," stated Clemons. "Although we've come a long way to receive such an esteemed award, we have no intention of resting on our laurels; we realize we must continue earning our clients' trust and business every day."
"PrideStaff has built our organization around the customer experience, and the Lake Charles office does an amazing job of living out our mission to 'Consistently provide client experiences focused on what they value most'," said PrideStaff COO Tammi Heaton. "Being recognized as the number one employment agency in Lake Charles is especially meaningful because scores are based on customer reviews and ratings. We are thrilled for Thomas, Tanya and their team, and we look forward to supporting their success as they continue making a positive impact on employers, job seekers and their entire community."
About PrideStaff
PrideStaff was founded in the 1970s as 100% company-owned units and began staffing franchising in 1995. They operate over 80 offices in North America to serve over 5,000 clients and are headquartered in Fresno, CA. With over 40 years in the staffing business, PrideStaff offers the resources and expertise of a national firm with the spirit, dedication and personal service of smaller, entrepreneurial firms. PrideStaff is the only nationwide, commercial staffing firm in the U.S. and Canada with over $100 million in annual revenue to earn ClearlyRated's prestigious Best of Staffing Diamond Award six years in a row highlighting exceptional client and talent service quality.
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Q: Automatic convention-based routing within a module in Zend Framework 2--possible? I'm trying to understand all the configuration necessary to get my routing working in Zend Framework 2, and I can't help but wonder if I am making this more complicated than necessary.
I am working on a simple app that will follow a very simple convention:
/:module/:controller/:action
I've already created and wired up my module, "svc" (short for "service)".  I then created a second controller, the "ClientsController", and I can't get the routing to pass through my requests to, e.g., /svc/clients/list to ClientsController::listAction().
As I'm wading through hundreds of lines of configuration, in deeply nested arrays, I'm thinking--isn't there some way to just have a default mapping of my URLs to /:module/:controller/:action ?
Thanks for any assistance.  I'm going off of the Zend Framework 2 Quick Start, which walked me through creating a new module and then adding a controller to that module.  But when I tried to add second controller to that module, I am tripping over the routing.
Update: I didn't catch this the first time through, but apparently this is supposed to be a feature of the Zend Framework Skeleton app.  From the quick start guide:

ZendSkeletonApplication ships with a "default route" that will likely
  get you to this action. That route basically expects
  "/{module}/{controller}/{action}", which allows you to specify this:
  "/zend-user/hello/world"

That's exactly what I want!  But I can't get it to work.
It lists an incomplete module.config.php, with a comment at the bottom about putting "other configuration" here.  I tried to figure out what that "other configuration" is, and wound up with this:
return array(
    'svc' => array(
        'type'    => 'Literal',
        'options' => array(
            'route'    => '/svc',
            'defaults' => array(
                'controller'    => 'svc\Controller\Index',
                'action'        => 'index',
            ),
        ),
        'may_terminate' => true,
        'child_routes' => array(
            'default' => array(
                'type'    => 'Segment',
                'options' => array(
                    'route'    => '/[:controller[/:action]]',
                    'constraints' => array(
                        'controller' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                        'action'     => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                    ),
                    'defaults' => array(
                    ),
                ),
            ),
        ),
    ),
    'controllers' => array(
        'invokables' => array(
            'svc\Controller\Clients' => 'svc\Controller\ClientsController',
        ),
    ),

    'view_manager' => array(
        'template_path_stack' => array(
            'album' => __DIR__ . '/../view',
        ),
    ),
);

JFYI, here is what my controller looks like.
namespace svc\Controller;

use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;

class ClientsController extends AbstractActionController {

    public function indexAction() {
        return new ViewModel();
    }

    public function anotherAction(){

        return new ViewModel();
    }
}

My routes are not working.  I get "route not found" when I try to pull up any of my routes.

A:
It lists an incomplete module.config.php, with a comment at the bottom about putting "other configuration" here. I tried to figure out what that "other configuration" is, and wound up with this:

If your module.config.php really looks like that then it won't work, routes is an array of routes defined in the router key, your config contains no such spec, try replacing it with this
return array(
    // routes
    'router' => array(
        'routes' => array(
            'svc' => array(
                'type'    => 'Literal',
                'options' => array(
                    'route'    => '/svc',
                    'defaults' => array(
                        'controller'    => 'svc\Controller\Index',
                        'action'        => 'index',
                    ),
                ),
                'may_terminate' => true,
                'child_routes' => array(
                    'default' => array(
                        'type'    => 'Segment',
                        'options' => array(
                            'route'    => '/[:controller[/:action]]',
                            'constraints' => array(
                                'controller' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                                'action'     => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                            ),
                            'defaults' => array(
                                 // add the default namespace for :controllers in this route
                                 '__NAMESPACE__' => 'svc\Controller',
                            ),
                        ),
                    ),
                ),
            ),
        ),
    ),
    'controllers' => array(
        'invokables' => array(
            'svc\Controller\Clients' => 'svc\Controller\ClientsController',
        ),
    ),

    'view_manager' => array(
        'template_path_stack' => array(
            'album' => __DIR__ . '/../view',
        ),
    ),
);

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Q: Emmet missing semicolon inside css media query in Sublime Text 4 Emmet autocomplete doesn't add semicolon after css rules inside media query.

div {
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@media (max-width: 991.98px) {
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    display: none
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A: This is a bug in the plug-in which is under investigation. Keep track of it here: https://github.com/emmetio/sublime-text-plugin/issues/173
UPDATE: This has now been fixed.


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Study: Ohio could save on Medicaid expansion
Andrew J. Tobias, Columbus Bureau
COLUMBUS —
Expanding Medicaid to provide government health care to an additional 275,000 poor Ohioans in the long run still could be cheaper than doing nothing at all, according to a new study presented to lawmakers Tuesday.
In testimony to the Senate Medicaid Finance Committee, researchers from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio and Ohio State University offered up different scenarios, including what would happen if the federal government backs out on its pledge to cover at least 90 percent of the costs of an expansion of Medicaid, the state and federally funded health care coverage plan for poor and disabled Ohioans.
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio is a nonpartisan health organization.
Even if the federal government were to back out in 2017 after Ohio expands Medicaid eligibility, the state would save $1.5 billion in 2025 compared to if no changes were made at all — as long Ohio can hold down the program's annual cost increases at 4 percent, the researchers said.
Subcommittee chairman Ohio Sen. Dave Burke, R-Marysville, said the study gives Republican senators some credible facts to chew on while they consider whether to expand Medicaid.
"Certainly our number one goal is to bend the cost curve (reduce the growing expenses of Medicaid), and by HPIO's standards, that appears to be a feasible discussion," Burke said. "But again, how we get there from a policy standpoint is where the cantankerous issues come up."
Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich since January has pushed for a Medicaid expansion, a key component of the federal health care law, but conservative Republicans in the the state legislature have resisted. They have cited concerns over accepting federal money to expand an expensive social program and doubts that Washington will follow through on its end of the deal.
Tea party groups have warned they will recruit conservative primary opponents to run against Republican lawmakers that support Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, a pro-expansion coalition that includes hospitals, business and labor groups are preparing to take the issue to the 2014 ballot if lawmakers don't act.
As the debate has continued, Republicans have shifted their rhetoric toward reforming the program to reduce its costs, including trying to make changes to encourage people on Medicaid get better jobs so they can afford to buy private insurance and improve the program's effectiveness.
Without any changes, Medicaid will eventually cost Ohio $17.3 billion in 2025, assuming the program's cost continues to grow at 7.2 percent a year, according to the Health Policy Institute of Ohio/Ohio State University study released Tuesday.
But if lawmakers expand Medicaid while capping the program's cost growth at 4 percent a year, Medicaid will cost the state $14.1 billion in 2025, assuming the federal government makes good on its guarantee to cover 100 percent of the costs of expansion through 2016 and then gradually decrease payments to 90 percent by 2020.
If Washington backs out in 2017, reverting to paying for 60 percent of Medicaid like it does now, Ohio would still pay $15.8 billion in 2025, or $1.5 billion less than if no changes were made at all, according to the study.
Sen. Capri Cafaro, D-Hubbard, said the study should help satisfy lawmakers' fears that Washington will leave the state holding the bag on Medicaid expansion. Cafaro introduced a bill last week that would expand Medicaid and aim to cap annual cost increases for the program at 3.5 percent.
"I think the big concerns here have been what will happen if the federal government walks away, and will we be able to cover more lives with less money? I want folks to understand that the numbers do add up, and it's possible to serve more people in an effective manner and improve outcomes while reducing costs," she said.


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Dorian Keletela (* 6. Februar 1999) ist ein kongolesischer Leichtathlet, der sich auf den Sprint spezialisiert hat und für das Refugee Olympic Team an den Start geht.

Sportliche Laufbahn
Dorian Keletela startete 2013 für die Republik Kongo bei den Jugendafrikameisterschaften in Warri und schied dort mit 11,34 s in der ersten Runde im 100-Meter-Lauf aus. 2015 nahm er an den Afrikaspielen in Brazzaville teil und schied dort mit 10,68 s aus und verpasste mit der kongolesischen 4-mal-100-Meter-Staffel mit 40,82 s den Finaleinzug. Er flüchtete anschließend nach Portugal und startete 2021 im 60-Meter-Lauf für das Flüchtlingsteam bei den Halleneuropameisterschaften in Toruń und schied dort mit 6,91 s in der ersten Runde aus. Im Sommer nahm er an den Olympischen Sommerspielen in Tokio teil und kam dort mit 10,41 s nicht über die erste Runde hinaus. Im Jahr darauf erreichte er bei den Weltmeisterschaften in Eugene die Hauptrunde über 100 Meter und schied dort mit 10,52 s aus.

Persönliche Bestzeiten
 100 Meter: 10,27 s, 22. August 2021 in Schifflange
 60 Meter (Halle): 6,79 s, 8. Februar 2020 in Pombal

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100-Meter-Läufer (Republik Kongo)
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Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2020
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Geboren 1999
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Finding a low fat dressing, that you love, can be a bit of a challenge. I found that to be more than true after I tried several recipes for Greek Yogurt Chipotle Sauce and none of them were really working for me. They were all pretty flavorless, which is the last thing that I want on a salad, or to top a Chipotle Burrito Bowl.
This salad is so delicious! I made it for dinner tonight and all of us had seconds, which is not normal for my kids (my husband even had 4ths…he'll be SO happy I added that…;). It is honestly so tasty that every single time I take it to a party there are never any leftovers.
I came up with this recipe after seeing recipe after recipe of Egg Salad that called for relish. I HATE RELISH so it is NEVER in the house and I'm not about to buy it just for the one thing that I make that calls for it. So, thankfully I was able to mesh a few recipes together and the final product is pretty good.


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Utah State University - » Smithfield renews city's contract with Comcast
Smithfield renews city's contract with Comcast
November 12th, 2009 Posted in Opinion
By Katie Krusi
SMITHFIELD–City Council voted Wednesday to renew the city's franchise agreement with Comcast for an additional 10 years. The previous contract was for 15 years, but this time around the council felt a shorter contract would be in the city's best interest.
"With technology changing as much as it does, many cities have elected to go to a 10-year contract in case there are big changes in the near future," city manager James Gass said.
The contract allows Comcast to operate cables with in the city's right of way and is non-exclusive.
Connie Crowshaw came before the council to ask "for a thumbs-up to move forward" with her plans of an antique and one-of-a-kind shop called Red Hen Mercantile, located on Center Street across from Pioneer Park.
"To some people this building is an eyesore, but to me it's a gem. I want to save this building," Crowshaw said of the old seed and grain building she is restoring for her store.
Crowshaw asked the council to assist her in this effort by allowing her to lease some of the land that is currently city property by the front steps and on the South side of the building. In order to open her doors for business, Crowshaw must also install a curb, gutter and sidewalk, to which she also looked to the council for help. In return for their financial help with this project, Crowshaw said she would allow those attending ball games at Forester Acres to use her parking lot.
Councilman Dennis Watkins challenged Crowshaw's request, saying, "If we say yes and fund you it opens precedence for everyone else to ask for the same thing. Whatever we do will be binding on the council 20 years from now."
Mayor Chad Downs said, "We're supportive of your project, but we'll have to consider how much we can offer." The council agreed they would be willing to consider Crowshaw's requests with more information on costs.
The council also approved development of the final plat for Ridgeview subdivision, located at 620 North and 570 East, and honored former mayor Lonnie Loveday for his work with the recreation program.
Tags: city council, Comcast contract, Smithfield


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Goodman Announces 2020-21 Playwrights Unit
This year's cohort will be Eliza Bent, Marisa Carr, Terry Guest, and Exal Iraheta.
CHICAGO: Goodman Theatre has announced the four Chicago-based playwrights who will compose the theatre's 2020-21 Playwrights Unit. The Playwrights Unit, in partnership with Chicago Dramatists, commissions and assists in the development of new work from its members. This year's cohort will be Eliza Bent, Marisa Carr, Terry Guest, and Exal Iraheta. Assuming it is safe to do so, each new play will receive a staged reading in July 2021.
Previous Playwrights Unit members include Greg Allen, Alice Austen, Lucas Baisch, Scott T. Barsotti, Seth Bockley, Monty Cole, Sam Collier, Kristiana Rae Colón, Phillip Dawkins, Sandra Delgado, Lisa Dillman, Ricardo Gamboa, Anne Garcia-Romero, Issac Gomez, Andrew Hinderaker, Ike Holter, Kristin Idaszak, Laura Jacqmin, Dawn Renee Jones, Georgette Kelly, Nambi E. Kelley, Jenni Lamb, Evan Linder, Nancy García Loza, Alex Lubischer, Mickle Maher, Rohina Malik, Mia McCullough, Bonnie Metzgar, Carlos Murillo, Dianne Nora, Nigel O'Hern, Marisela Treviño Orta, christopher oscar peña, Steve Pickering, Elaine Romero, Stacey Rose, Laura Schellhardt, Emma Stanton, Calamity West, and Martín Zimmerman.
Eliza Bent. (Photo by Peter Bellamy)
Eliza Bent is a playwright and performer whose work includes Toilet Fire (Time Out New York Critics' Pick); Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen; Indeed, friend!; The Hotel Colors (The L Magazine best of 2013); On a Clear Day I Can See to Elba; The Beyonce, (Payne Award for Excellence); She of the Voice; Real Talk / Kip Talk; Blue Wizard / Black Wizard (published by Sam French) and Bonnie's Last Flight. As an actor, Bent has performed in pint-sized New York theatres, and toured regionally and internationally with the Obie award-winning performance ensemble Half Straddle. Bent was a senior editor at American Theatre magazine from 2006-2015 and her writing has appeared in Time Out New York, The Village Voice, HEEB, The Brooklyn Rail, Stages, Emergency INDEX, and ELLE. Bent graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in philosophy from Boston College and has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.
Marisa Carr. (Photo by Sarah White/Fotos for Barcelona)
Marisa Carr is a Milwaukee native who recently transplanted to Chicago after a decade in the Twin Cities. Her work has been presented by theatres including the Guthrie, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Pillsbury House + Theater, the Playwrights' Center, Intermedia Arts, University of Iowa MFA Program and Pangea World Theatre. Selected recent awards and honors include Scratchpad at the Playwrights' Realm (2019-20), P73 finalist (2019-20), American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award finalist (2020), Bay Area Playwrights' Festival finalist (2019), McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting finalist (2019), Jerome Artist Fellowship finalist (2019) and Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship semi-finalist (2019). Marisa is the co-founder and former artistic director of the Turtle Theater Collective, a Twin Cities-based company committed to producing high-quality, contemporary work that explores Native experiences. She is Turtle Mountain Ojibwe from the Turtle clan.
Terry Guest. (Photo by Elias Rios)
Terry Guest is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and teaching artist. As an actor he has worked with theatre companies across the country including Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and The Story Theatre (Chicago); Alliance Theatre, Actors Express, Aurora Theatre (Atlanta); and Arts Garage (West Palm Beach). His play At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen is the recipient of the 2018 Out Front Theatre Spectrum Series Grant and had its world premiere at The Story Theatre. Other plays include Michael Jackson and the Devil's Book (Jackalope Theatre Commission); Ghost Town (Chicago Children's Theatre); DEAD GIRLS (Random Acts Chicago) and Marie Antionette and the Magical Negroes (workshopped with The Story Theatre).
Exal Iraheta. (Photo by Christopher L. Smith)
Exal Iraheta is a Salvi-American playwright and screenwriter from Houston, based in Chicago. His full-length play They Could Give No Name was part of Victory Gardens' 2019 Ignition Festival of New Plays, an honorable mention for the 2019 Relentless Award, a 2020 National Playwrights Conference finalist and a 2020 Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting finalist. His short play Open Venas was produced in the 2019 Theater Masters' Take Ten New York Short Play Festival and The Untold Collectiv's 2019 Latinx Scratch festival in London, England. His full-length play Rules of a Closed Door was a semi-finalist for the 2019 Activate: Midwest New Play Fest. Recently, Exal was featured in the May/June 2020 issue of American Theatre magazine as part of its "People to Watch" list. Exal earned an MFA from Northwestern University's Writing for the Screen and Stage program and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Film & Video Production.
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Maybe he can blame this one on his teleprompter, but Obama just said that we are a better country than when 14,000 people lose their health insurance each day.
Apparently, we are also not "better" than a country whose President and his Marxist comrades in congress ensure that millions lost their coverage in one fell swoop!
Incidentally, if Obama hadn't ensured through his leftist policies that America would run a very high unemployment rate every miserable year he has been in office- people wouldn't be losing health insurance at all.


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Sound Me is a trip-hop band from Wroclaw (Poland) . Extremely deep music, which combines female vocals with sample based beats enriched by gritty scratches. Their vibe of classic trip hop has also been recently extended with the sounds of live trumpet. Deadly combination at its best.
Band keeps creating, touring and finding joy in playing gigs from 2012 . In November 2014, Sound Me's performance won the third edition of Metagalaxy festival in St. Petersburg . They had the pleasure to perform on the same stage as Norwegian band Flunk. Two of their tracks – Heart's Tale and Inside – appeared on a Metagalaxy Festival compilation , which was published in December 2014 by the net label Cuntroll . Cuntroll was also responsible for the organisation of the aforementioned festival.
In April 2015, band released a limited edition vinyl single for their song Heart's Tale to celebrate Record Store Day . Currently, Sound Me continues to forge their unique style into fresh material.
Sound Me is formed and represented by:
Aani – lyrics, vocals
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Night has fallen at Liwonde National Park, but the trespassers are clearly visible. Three hundred feet in the air, a thermal camera attached to a BatHawk drone tracks their boat, a black sliver gliding up the luminous gray Shire River.
"They're breaking the law by coming into the park," said Antoinette Dudley, one of the drone's operators, pointing to her computer screen.
More than two miles from the boat, she and her partner, Stephan De Necker, are seated in a Land Cruiser that serves as their command center. A monitor attached to the driver's seat displays the drone's vitals, and another behind the passenger's seat streams live video from the camera, operated with an old PlayStation console.
"Let's give them a scare," said Mr. De Necker. With the tap of a few keys, he switches on the drone's navigation lights and sends it beelining toward the boat.
Glen Davis had just finished lunch with an official from World Wildlife Fund-Canada on May 18, 2007 and was heading back to his vehicle when he was shot twice by a man hired to kill.
Many know Davis as the multi-millionaire who was slain in a Toronto parking garage almost 10 years ago, a victim of a murderous plot hatched by his own godson.
But friends and family are hoping a new award named after the businessman-turned-philanthropist will bring more attention to his life in environmental activism, instead of his gruesome murder.
"People heard about Glen for the first time through those horrible events," said Monte Hummel, the former head of WWF-Canada and a longtime, close friend of Davis.
Davis was a passionate conservationist who loved spending time outdoors and donated millions to environmental causes before his murder.
At the stroke of a pen, the largest saltwater lake of South America, Mar Chiquita, and the nearby Estancia Pinas are now set to become National Parks.
Clouds of up to half a million phalaropes cover the sky, almost blocking the sun. The horizon then turns pink with over 100,000 Chilean flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis living and nesting there. The gold of the grasslands, protecting the enigmatic maned wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus, is so bright it makes your eyes squint. The water covers everything as far as the eye can see, but the sounds and colours of the birds stand in a festival for the senses capable of moving any human being: Mar Chiquita is a true "sea of nature".
This is the daily life at Mar Chiquita and the Dulce River, the largest salt lake in South America, a Wetland of International Importance according to the Ramsar convention and one of the five Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in danger of Argentina.
Berkeley-based Seacology is a finalist in an international conservation grant competition, with a project to protect endangered marine resources in southern Chile in collaboration with an indigenous community.
The grant is offered by the European Outdoor Conservation Association, which is asking the public to vote indicating preference among its current lineup of project finalists. The other projects involve ecological and cultural preservation in Bangladesh; elephant monitoring and poaching prevention in Kenya; mangrove restoration in Indonesia; and peatland restoration in Scotland. The deadline to vote is noon Greenwich Mean Time, or 5 a.m. Pacific Daylight Saving Time, March 23.
Seacology describes itself as an international nonprofit that works to conserve island ecosystems.
Two orangutans were taken to a rehabilitation center in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, on Monday after residents handed them over to the province's Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA).
The local residents obtained the two endangered species that they had kept as pets from illegal wildlife traders. They handed them over to the conservation agency voluntarily.
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has today (14 March) released a report outlining the progress it has made in its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), which has seen the business evolve from a villain in the eyes of green groups to a leading voice for the pulp and paper industry on deforestation.
FCP is now into its fourth year of a plan to transform how APP interacts with the surrounding environment. The report outlines that mapping and surveillance of Indonesian forests and peatlands was mostly completed in 2016, with new sourcing and management practices set to be introduced in the coming months.
The exchange of fire between the anti-poaching unit of the Namibian Police Force and poachers in the Bwabwata National Park has become a regular occurrence, with four suspects killed in separate encounters of late.
Elephants in the park are primarily illegally hunted for their ivory. On March 5 an elephant was found dead with bullet wounds. However, poachers did not have enough time to remove the tusks due to the quick response by the anti-poaching unit that quickly swung into action after hearing gunshots in the area.
Last month an elephant was found dead in the same area but without its tusks.
According to Deputy Commissioner William Peter, who is a silver commander but acting as a gold commander of the current Elephant Tusk Operation in Bwabwata National Park, and Kavango East and Zambezi regions, police have since September last year had five encounters with poachers where gunfire was exchanged.
Tanzania has started to re-map and demarcate its national parks, game and forest reserves in an effort to curb conflicts between humans and wildlife that have been stoked by drought.
A scorching drought in many parts of East Africa has forced nomad pastoralists searching for water and fresh pastures for their cattle into protected wildlife areas, officials said.
Tanzania's minister for tourism and natural resources, Jumanne Maghembe, said the exercise to redraw boundaries of protected sites would be led by the country's National Parks Authority (TANAPA) to safeguard wildlife sanctuaries from illegal cattle grazing, logging and poaching.
"We would like to see borders of our national parks and protected areas clearly marked so that no one can trespass," the minister told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The new documentary "Trophy" opens in a sprawling corner of South Africa run by John Hume, who is praised by some as protecting the continent's rhinos from extinction and vilified by others for trying to turn the animals into cash spinners.
"Trophy," shown this week at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, examines how efforts to commercialize wild animals and encourage big-game hunting in Africa can generate funds for conservation, while also arousing criticism.
"We want the viewer to go through a roller coaster of being challenged and being confused," filmmaker Shaul Schwarz said in an interview, adding there were no easy answers for protecting Africa's big game.
"Trophy" looks at people like Hume, the world's largest private rhino breeder, who has spent large sums to protect the animals from poachers seeking to kill them for their horns.
Over the last several years, China has been working toward setting up a massive system of some two dozen national parks, using "America's Best Idea" as a model. And as Xinhua news agency reports, last week authorities announced what will become one of the country's first national parks: a reserve in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.
The park will cover over 5,600 square miles, 60 percent larger than Yellowstone National Park, Xinhua reports, and aims to protect the Amur leopard and the Siberian tiger (also known as the Amur tiger)—both of which are among the world's rarest big cats. The park, which lies along the border between China, Russia and North Korea, will link together several existing parks and reserves, and, backers hope, will foster international cooperation on preserving the big cats. A comprehensive plan and pilot park are expected to roll out by 2020.
The Kruger National Park (KNP) is currently hosting scientists and researchers from around the world for the 15th Annual Savanna Science Network Meeting at the Skukuza's Nombolo Mdluli Conference Centre.
The five-day meeting, which started on Sunday, is hosting about 200 delegates representing 79 different scientific and conservation organisations from 14 countries worldwide.
According to the SANParks Acting Head of Communications, William Mabasa, this makes it one of the most crucial events in the organizational calendar.
The rate of biodiversity loss has not halted in the least despite global commitments, and the exhaustion of animal species are gradually reducing the stability of ecosystem communities' and amenities; however, despite the gradual loss, governments across the world have been attempting to make substantial progress in reversing defaunation — specifically through the intentional movement of animals to restore populations.
A few weeks ago, I published a review on a scientific piece of literature that was published in Science, called Defaunation in the Anthropocene. In this feature, I'll be reviewing another publication in Science called, Reversing Defaunation: Restoring Species in a Changing World by Phillip Seddon (2014) et al. For those that aren't familiar, defaunation is a term used to denote the loss of both species and populations of wildlife such as top predators and herbivores due to human activity, resulting in a loss of agents that control components of the ecosystem's vegetation.
Tompkins Conservation signed an agreement with Chile's government on Wednesday to donate 1 million acres for new national parks in the largest private donation of its kind for the South American nation.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed the deal with Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, the widow of American conservationist Doug Tompkins, who built a legacy protecting threatened ecosystems in Argentina and Chile.
"This is a key step to treasuring this giant source of biodiversity and safe keep it in the public interest," Ms Bachelet said at a ceremony in southern Chile.
The agreement will provide land to create three new national parks, expand three existing national parks and unite some national forests into two national parks. Ms Bachelet is expected to sign the decrees to create the parks before she ends her presidential term in March 2018.
For Stanford University ecologist Gretchen Daily, nature isn't only to be preserved for its own sake, but also for the value of the ecological services it provides, such as water filtration, carbon sequestration, and soil retention. Daily helped pioneer the concept of "ecosystem services," and these days she applies those principles as she works with countries to develop land management strategies and determine which natural areas to prioritize for protection.
Most recently, Daily has worked with the Chinese government and Chinese scientists to evaluate and reimagine that country's system of national parks and nature reserves. Their joint research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and funded in part by China's Ministry of Finance, has shown that China's current network of protected areas has failed to protect biodiversity and to provide vital ecosystem services.
A woman and her father-in-law, who ran to her rescue, were killed by a tiger in a forest close to the Corbett national park on Thursday morning, officials said.
The bodies were recovered from deep inside the forest in the afternoon after a forest team tranquilised the big cat.
A resident of Ramnagar, 30-year-old Bagwati had gone to forest near Choi to pick firewood. A tiger pounced on her and dragged her inside the jungle, sources said.
Hearing her scream, Bagwati's father-in-law Lakhpat, whose shanty is close to the forest, rushed to save her but was also attacked by the tiger, sources said.
By noon, locals and a team of forest officials reached the river bank where the two bodies were lying but couldn't recover them as the animal was pacing close by, sources said.
The animal even charged at the crowd.
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Thursday received medicine and equipment worth half a million shillings that will go towards lion conservation in the country.
The medicine which comes in handy for the cash strapped institution is set to be distributed in the all parks and conversations in the country while the rest will be retained at the forensic lab.
Head of veterinary services Francis Gakuya says the supply will help boost the population of lions which other than human wildlife conflict, has also been affected by diseases.
"Part of the medication will be used within the Nairobi clinic then the rest will be distributed to the mobile veterinary units in the country," said Gakuya.
Rebels, government troops and even civilians are butchering antelope and other wild animals for their survival in South Sudan as the country's man-made famine gets exacerbated by years of civil war and economic collapse.
Famine was declared in South Sudan last month, which has so far left at least 100,000 people starving and an additional million on the brink of famine in several parts of the country, where farming has been hampered.
Seacology has won a grant of almost $1 million for a conservation project in Sri Lanka.
The Berkeley-based organization is a winner in this year's Water Window Challenge sponsored by the international Global Resilience Partnership. A goal of the competition is to bolster the resilience of flood-prone communities in Central and East Africa and South and Southeast Asia against climate change and natural disasters.
Seacology's Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project aims to protect the Indian Ocean island nation's remaining mangrove forests, replant thousands of acres of deforested coastline, and offer microloans and business training to tens of thousands of disadvantaged women who otherwise would cut down mangroves to sell as charcoal, according to a news release. The project is in collaboration with the local non-governmental organization Sudeesa, also known as Small Fishers Federation of Sri Lanka.
Poachers have killed yet another one-horned rhino in Orang National Park in Assam, officials said on Saturday.
Authorities said they recovered a carcass of a male rhino near Pichola anti-poaching camp in the park on Friday. The horn of the rhino was missing, indicating it to be a case of poaching.
"It was a full grown male rhino and there were bullet injury marks," the park officials said.
What the British mainstream media is reporting about the current land invasions in northern Kenya is not an accurate portrait of the situation. Some British commentators have been disloyal to a region that has offered them a comfortable lifestyle and luxurious holidays, by reporting sensational headlines suggesting the end of the white man in Africa. What is really happening is change.
The drought in the north of Kenya has politically instigated tribesmen and livestock heading south; the drought is giving an excuse to the political opposition to make promises of land that will bequeathed in exchange for votes cast in the August election. On a new and dramatic scale, opportunistic young herdsmen and their cattle, urged on by their tribal leaders, have started to look for sustenance on other people's land. These young herdsmen are from warrior tribes and are, unfortunately, armed with weapons sourced from collapsing previous regimes in Sudan and Somalia, which makes fresh pastures easy to acquire. They are unwilling to negotiate, they kill those that stand in their way and they are threatening the status quo of land ownership for all of those living in the invaded areas, not just the large landowners but also the indigenous peoples who have curated the land in a sustainable manner.
Seated in a white teepee perched on a cliff that overlooks a snow-covered coniferous forest, Delger Gorshik talks about how his life as a Dukha, one of the world's smallest ethnic minorities, has changed over the years.
"When I was a child, the only thing we could use for a light was a candle. Today, we have electric lamps and solar panels. This teepee used to be covered with animal skin; today, we use cloth canvas," the 55-year-old says.
Within the northern Mongolian snow forest, or taiga, the Dukha – whose population is estimated to be fewer than 300 – live as nomadic reindeer herders.
I have been discussing issues and problems related to conservation in India for the past couple of months. Now, let us take a break from India and look beyond our international borders into the situations and conservation priorities in different countries across South Asia. Broadly speaking, the Indian subcontinent or South Asia comprises Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
The road to Parque Pumalín is festooned with dozens of whitewater waterfalls that slip down the steep cliffs into a thick forest overrun by ferns and plants with leaves as big as beach umbrellas. An active volcano threatens to wipe out the sparse human settlements that are scattered like frontier outposts, often holding populations of fewer than 100 residents. The scenery, however, suddenly changes at El Amarillo, a town of perfect picket fences, exquisitely designed bridges and hand-lettered wooden signs offering help on camping and trekking.
It is here that a 25-year experiment in environmental conservation is finally coming to fruition. Parque Pumalín is a million-acre collection of untrammelled vistas and valleys that was patched together by a pair of American conservationists whose mission, known as "wildlands philanthropy", was to keep the lands free from industrial development.
No matter how serious a crime, it is generally accepted that everyone has the right to a fair trial. Executing suspects without even arresting them is considered a hallmark of the worst regimes on earth.


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Now that's what I call fast
Xiaomi demos 100W charging tech that charges your phone in just 17 minutes
Xiaomi managed to charge a 4000mAh battery from 0 - 100% in just 17 minutes with its 100W charger.
Harish Jonnalagadda
If there's one feature that allowed Xiaomi to rise to prominence over the last three years, it's battery tech. The Chinese brand was one of the first to offer 4000mAh batteries on most of its devices, and while it wasn't the best at fast charging, that's changing in 2019. Xiaomi introduced a 20W wireless charger with the Mi 9 earlier this year, and now the company is showing off an insane 100W wired charger.
In a video shared on Weibo, Xiaomi chairman Lin Bin showed off the 100W charger in action, which was able to top up a 4000mAh battery from flat to 100% in just 17 minutes. That's significantly faster than anything OPPO and Huawei can muster, with both Super VOOC and Huawei SuperCharge taking up over an hour to fully charge a 4000mAh battery.
In fact, the video shows as much, with Xiaomi's tech charging the battery up to 100% in 17 minutes, while OPPO's Super VOOC goes up to 65% on a 3700mAh battery.
As spotted by The Next Web, Xiaomi's charging technology will soon go into mass production, with the Redmi line getting first dibs. There's no timeline for when we'll see a Redmi phone with 100W charging, but Xiaomi doesn't usually wait around to bring its latest tech to the masses.


Any experienced scuba diver will have Belize on their shortlist of the best diving destinations in the world. It's home to the largest coral reef in the Western Hemisphere, there are hundreds of islands ("cayes," as they are called locally) that dot the 240-mile coastline and give visitors an abundance of diving opportunities. While there are picturesque white-sand beaches, luxury shopping and vibrant culture on land, there is just as much happening underwater.
For most traveling from the US, the best point of entry is to fly directly to Belize City and then head to one of Belize's largest and most inhabited islands, Ambergris Caye. Ferries run frequently to the island, but one of the most spectacular ways to travel is by small plane. If you're comfortable in a smaller plane (14 seats to be exact) and don't mind the extra expense, this is by far the best and fastest way to travel around Belize.
Ambergris is the largest and most popular of Belize's islands and it's only town, San Pedro, offers plenty of accommodation and cultural delights, and the town's close proximity to the barrier reef makes it perfect for scuba divers. Most of the dive sites off of the caye are shallow, colorful and teeming with marine life. Diving sites "Paradise Canyons" and "Shark Ray Alley" are popular spots and a quick boat ride from town and most resorts. If you aren't yet SCUBA certified—a prerequisite for exploring the depths of the sea—many diving operations in San Pedro provide three-to-four-day courses.
Lodging options on Ambergris Caye are varied, so there's something for every kind of traveller and budget. Matachica Resort and Spa is a small, superbly run resort that makes you feel like you're on your own private island—highlights include a dock overlooking the reef and an infinity pool surrounded by trees and wildlife. Diving can be arranged with the concierge and there are free shuttles by boat to San Pedro if you wish to explore the eclectic island town.
After a few days on Ambergris, those looking to focus more on diving and less on luxury should venture to St George's Caye—a 25-minute boat ride from Belize City. The St George's Caye Resort is laid-back and familial. It offers all-inclusive packages for lodging and food—meals are served at communal tables at the same time each day—with thatched bungalows that face the ocean or are located on a circular dock along an inlet. The resort shares the island with several mostly idle vacation homes; giving the island a slight ghost-town feeling. The resort is perfect for its proximity to the mainland and its access to Belize's premier sites for diving: Turneff Atoll, Lighthouse Atoll, Glover's Atoll and the infamous Blue Hole.
Those looking to follow in the footsteps of Jacques Cousteau should not miss the day trip to one of his favorite diving sites: the Blue Hole. This famous diving destination is a two-hour boat ride from St George's Caye, but the trip is well worth it. Totally other-worldly, this circular sinkhole extends down 400 feet in the middle of a shallow reef. Divers are able to explore deep into the Blue Hole's abyss—weaving in and out of massive stalactites as they slowly dive up and down along its walls. What it lacks in color and diverse marine life, it surely makes up for in its grandeur and mystery. After the Blue Hole, explore other parts of the Lighthouse Reef, where you'll be surrounded by stunning colorful marine life, sea turtles and even dolphins.
Located at the end of a thin peninsula in the southern region of Belize is the fishing turned tourist village of Placencia. The area has gone through big developmental changes over the years—both boom and bust—and is a reminder that Belize is an ever-evolving country. Along the only road meandering through the village are a smattering of restaurants and shops, with houses and shacks scattered in between. One of the best local spots is Omar's, an open-air Creole joint with tasty coconut curries that comes highly recommended by many locals. A lot of the best places to stay are outside the main village, to the north, like the Turtle Inn. Certainly not cheap, this Balinese-inspired resort is one of Francis Ford Coppola's resorts, and while it's luxurious, it's also unassuming. The entire resort is a thatched wooden paradise which creates an indoor/outdoor vibe throughout. Diving services are also operated out of Turtle Inn as well as other operators in and around Placencia.
When it comes to diving, Placencia is famous for its access to the Gladden Spit reef, which offers diving and snorkeling with majestic Whale Sharks during the spring months. Most of the diving is an hour offshore, with trips to small cayes that offer a base of operations for the day. The diving from these islands is particularly stunning due to the abundant sea life. One particularly special place is Ranguana Caye, which may lack certain amenities, but is entirely charming. With just three cabins and one communal dining area, it's the perfect destination to unplug from the rest of the world. With boats arriving almost daily, you can join diving or snorkeling trips and use the island as your own private diving center, or simply read a book on the white sand beach under that gently sloping palm tree you've seen in all the postcards.


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Support the Jan Lokpal Bill || Anna Hazare - The Real Indian Hero
Support the Jan Lokpal Bill - Change your picture to Anna Hazare's
Who is Anna Hazare?
A soldier,
lone survivor in his unit in 1965 Indo-Pak war,
Anna dedicated his life to the well-being of society.
A bachelor, an ascetic, he has no possessions,
no bank balance and lives in a temple.
He is a living Mahatma Gandhi!
In Maharashtra, Anna has single handedly transformed barren and dry regions into green and food surplus areas.
He has fasted unto death on several earlier occasions.
- He forced the Maharashtra government to dismiss the corrupt - 6 ministers and 400 officers.
- Due to his fast, the govt enacted the Maharashtra RTI Act.
- In 2006, when government of India tried to amend the Central RTI Act, he again went on an indefinite fast and forced the Indian government not to amend RTI Act
Time for Youth to Remove dirty politicians and Corruption!!!...>>>...
Fight Against Corruption:
http://cool-cute-clever-crazy.blogspot.com/2011/01/wwwcvcnicin.html#axzz1IvtFttkt
http://cool-cute-clever-crazy.blogspot.com/2010/12/anti-corruption-act-gujarat.html#axzz1IvtFttkt
Right to Information Act:
Right to Information Act 2005 mandates timely response to citizen requests for government information. It is an initiative taken by Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions to provide a– RTI Portal Gateway to the citizens for quick search of information on the details of first Appellate Authorities,PIOs etc. amongst others, besides access to RTI related information / disclosures published on the web by various Public Authorities under the government of India as well as the State Governments.
http://rti.gov.in/
1. Who is Anna Hazare?
An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War.
2. What's so special about him?
He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra .
3. So what? This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills.
In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village.
4. Ok,...?
This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.
5. Really, what is he fighting for?
He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.
6. How that can be possible?
He is advocating for a Bil, The Lok Pal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), beurocrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.
(What is this Bill?)
8. It's an entirely new thing right..?
In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit thier theft (corruption).
7. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill ! How can that be possible in such a short span of time?
The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed.
Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the LOK PAL BILL. 50% goverment participation and 50% public participation. Because you cant trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them.
8. Fine, What will happen when this bill is passed?
A LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, that has been going for last 25 years without any result.
9. Is he alone? Whoelse is there in the fight with Anna Hazare?
Baba Ramdev, Ex. IPS Kiran Bedi, Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and many more.
Prominent personalities like Aamir Khan is supporting his cause.
10. Ok, got it. What can I do?
At least we can spread the message. How?
Putting status message, links, video, changing profile pics.
At least we can support Anna Hazare and the cause for uprooting corruption from India.
At least we can hope that his Hunger Strike does not go in vain.
At least we can pray for his good health.
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Q: undefined local variable in chefspec on method included from gem I'm including a custom gem in a chef cookbook. No matter what I've tried I'm get similar errors to undefined local variable or method `host'
I've tried many different variations to this.
allow(HostOpsCookbook).to receive(:host).with(:sonic.version).and_return('10.0')

Gem layout

cust_gem
  \lib
     \ibus
       \host
         sonic.rb
       host.rb

host.rb
module Ibus
  class Host
   attr_reader :sonic

    def initialize
      extend_type
    end

    def enxtend_type
      @sonic = Ibus::Host::Sonic.new
    end

  end
end

host\sonic.rb
module Ibus
  class Host
    class Sonic

      def version
         .....
      end
  end
 end
end

Chef cookbook

cookbook
  \libraries
     host_helper.rb
  \recipes
     default.rb

chef\cookbook\libraries\host_helper.rb
module HostOpsCookbook
  def host
    require_ibus_gem #Loads the gem
    @@host ||= Ibus::Host.new
  end
end

Chef::Recipe.send(:include, HostOpsCookbook) if defined?(Chef::Recipe)
Chef::Resource.send(:include, HostOpsCookbook) if defined?(Chef::Resource)
Chef::Provider.send(:include, HostOpsCookbook) if defined?(Chef::Provider)

chef\cookbook\recipes\default.rb
sonic_version = host.sonic.version

This as code works the call to the gem method works.
However I can't figure out how to stub the below in the spec tests.
host.sonic.version

A: The below code it was ended up working. The version method was nested under the Host/Module, Sonic/Class which is extend when the host object is initialized. This is all shown above.
allow_any_instance_of(HostOpsCookbook).to receive_message_chain(:host, :sonic, :version).and_return('10.0')

A: You need to install the required rubygem into the environment ChefSpec is running in.
This will make sure that the rubygem is resolved by ChefSpec.

A: allow(HostOpsCookbook).to

Is for stubbing class methods. You actually have a instance method, so you must use:
allow_any_instance_of(<Class>).to

Your host method is defined in module, you cannot create an instance from modules. So you must stub the instance of the Chef::Recipe object, as you call host method from recipe.
allow_any_instance_of(Chef::Recipe).to

Another problem would be stubbing sonic.version. As you try to chain stubbing, you must use rspec doubles in this case.
So the final result should be:
sonic_double = double("Sonic Double", version: "10.0")
allow_any_instance_of(Chef::Recipe).to receive(:host).and_return(sonic_double)


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The Los Angeles District Attorney and the local prosecutorial agencies such as Long Beach, Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena all have very strict enforcement policies regarding the enforcement of California criminal laws relating to the possession of illegal weapons. The law makes the offense either a felony or a misdemeanor. Often, a local criminal defense attorney can step in an convince the prosecutor to file the case as a misdemeanor which spares the defendant the possibility of being regarded as a convicted felon.


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Nike, Adidas, and more than 170 other shoe companies warned of the trade war's 'catastrophic' impact on Americans in a scathing letter to Trump
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A woman holds a Nike shoe in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2015.
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More than 170 footwear giants have signed a letter to US President Donald Trump, warning him that his proposed tariffs on Chinese goods would be "catastrophic" for American customers and the economy.
Brands including Nike, Adidas, Foot Locker, Steve Madden, Puma, and Under Armour, signed the letter, which called for an end to the trade war.
Trump outlined $300 billion worth of Chinese goods that could face tariffs of up to 25%, and the footwear companies asked to be exempt so American families could avoid "unfathomable" cost increases on their shoes.
The group said that Trump's proposals would cost American customers an extra $7 billion a year.
More than 170 of the US' biggest footwear retailers have warned that the trade war with China will have a "catastrophic" impact on American customers and the economy in a scathing letter to President Donald Trump.
The letter from the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, the trade organization for American's footwear industry, warned that the Trump administration's proposed tariffs on footwear would cost American customers an additional $7 billion a year, and could threaten the future of some American footwear companies.
The letter was signed by 173 footwear giants including Nike, Adidas, Converse, Under Armour, Foot Locker, Ugg, Clarks, Crocs, Dr Martens, Keds, Puma, Reebok, Sketchers, and Steve Madden.
Read more: The Trump administration is preparing tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods. Here are all the products that will get hit.
It called for Trump to remove footwear from the list of products he is proposing tariffs on, and was also addressed to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow.
An Adidas store.
Getty/Carsten Koall
The Trump administration announced in May that it is preparing to place tariffs of up to 25% on additional $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, including footwear, in an escalation of the trade war with Beijing.
The footwear industry's letter said that a 25% tariff on footwear "would be catastrophic for our consumers, our companies, and the American economy as a whole."
Trump has blamed China for a loss of manufacturing jobs in the US, and advertised tariffs as a way to support American businesses.
Read more: Beijing calls for a 'people's war' against the US as Trump threatens tariffs on another $300 billion of Chinese goods in all-out trade battle
The letter said that US footwear companies have been "moving away from China for some time now" but said that decreasing reliance on the country is a long process as "footwear is a very capital-intensive industry, with years of planning required to make sourcing decisions, and companies cannot simply move factories to adjust to these changes."
US President Donald Trump and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in October 2018.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
It said that tariffs would harm Americans and the companies themselves: "Any action taken to increase duties on Chinese footwear will have an immediate and long-lasting effect on American individuals and families. It will also threaten the very economic viability of many companies in our industry."
The letter also said that footwear tariffs "fall disproportionately on working class individuals and families."
Read more: Trump's own economics adviser just shot down his misleading claim that US consumers won't pay for the tariffs in the China trade war
"Adding a 25% tax increase on top of these tariffs would mean some working American families could pay a nearly 100% duty on their shoes. This is unfathomable."
A Foot Locker store.
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Trump has asserted that China will pay the price for these tariffs, though Larry Kudlow, Trump's top economic advisor, said earlier in May that "both sides will pay."
The footwear industry called for an end to the trade war to help American customers: "Your proposal to add tariffs on all imports from China is asking the American consumer to foot the bill. It is time to bring this trade war to an end."
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To celebrate Mental Health Day, the Diocesan Social Justice Council hosted a Mental Health Forum at Broadmeadow on 10 October.
The day began with prayer and a talk by CatholicCare Registered Psychologist, Tanya Russell. Tanya spoke about self care and how to deal with everyday stresses in life. It is so important it is to look after our own mental health. This can be done through social support, talking to others about not being ok or asking others how they are. It is important to invest time in being well, through exercise, sleep, healthy eating, mindfulness and living by our values. Approximately 45% of people will experience a mental illness in their lifetime.
We then listened a personal sharing of what it is like to care for someone with mental illness. Gail shared that as carers, family members can learn about the disorder, get support, connect with resources, be aware of emotional reactions, create healthy habits, seek professional help and take care of themselves.
All participants were then invited to take part in a mindfulness session. This was led by CatholicCare Counsellor, Gail MacDonell. In everyday life while doing routine activities, we can practise mindfulness by consciously 'switching off autopilot' and taking note of what we are doing and what we see.
The morning concluded with a wonderful performance by 'Under Construction', a choir that promotes positive mental wellbeing. The choir meets and performs monthly, and the members are a great community and support to each other. It was founded by Karen Harmon, and the choir not only sounds amazing, its members are like a family for each other.


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Bing Escudero
From Theosophy Wiki
1 Early years and education
2 Theosophical work
3 Involvement with the Martinist Order
4 Later years
5 In memorium
Early years and education
Bing Escudero was born in 1926 (1930 per Quest Books Web page) in Jolo, Sulu, the Philippines. He was a graduate in Philosophy and Psychology at the Far Eastern University in Manilla.
Rosie and Bing Escudero
Theosophical work
He became a member of the Theosophical Society in 1949 and served as National President of the Theosophical Society in the Philippines.
After settling in the United States of America, Bing held office as President of the Northwest Federation of the Theosophical Society in America. From June 1977 to 1988, he worked at the national center in Wheaton, Illinois, living on campus with his wife Rosie. As a national lecturer, he traveled all over the United States speaking to theosophical groups. Some of his lectures are available as recordings: "Cosmic Order and Karma" and "Cycle of Life and Rebirth," both available as recordings from Quest Books.[1]
Involvement with the Martinist Order
In 1991, Mr. Escudero came in contact with the Martinist Order of the Netherlands in 1991. He became one if its Initiators three years later, and influenced the growth of Martinism in the central United States.[2]
During his last years, he founded and presided over the Unisophia Research Institute at the Narada Theosophical Society in 2000. It was dedicated to the publication and preservation of his writings. He died on April 29, 2005.
The Theosophical Society in Seattle posted this on their Website:
It is with Deep Regret that we announce to the Theosophical world the death of our Theosophical Scholar and Mentor, Bing Escudero passed into the Light on April 29, 2005 at around 4:30 pm at the home of his son Riel in Kent, Washington, USA.
He leaves a great chasm. He also leaves us a legacy, The Unisophia Research Study Institute which we hope to help grow and prosper celebrating Bing's dedicated life as its Legacy. We hope to disseminate among all T. S. his works, (writings, etc. that he has accomplished in this incarnation.)
Bing Escudero had been an active member of the Theosophical Society since 1949. He was a graduate in Philosophy and Psychology, Far Eastern University, Manila, was formerly the National President of the Theosophical Society in the Philippines. He had a varied background in philosophy, industrial engineering and management consulting, university teaching and administration. Bing was born in Jolo, Sulu, Philippines.
He had conducted courses of study on The Secret Doctrine, The Ancient Mysteries and other theosophical themes in many of the major cities of the United States. He previously held office as President of the Northwest Federation of the Theosophical Society in America and in June, 1977 began to work full time for the American Section and became its leading lecturer.
He made Speaking Tours throughout the American Section, visiting over a hundred places, and had been enthusiastically accepted by the membership. He had the heart of a little child and his tenderness was only equaled by his strength His energy, his vision, his simplicity in explaining deep occult teachings, his absolute loyalty to the Theosophical Society.
During his later years he worked with The Narada Theosophical Society, bringing his teachings, writings, and lectures to many students of Theosophy. Our love and thoughts are with Rosie and Bing's family at this time of his leaving. Remember- he is in the Light. Recall him only as Being in the Light! Bing was our Scholar and our mentor and helped our Lodge back into active Being. We will honor him by bringing his vehicle - Unisophia Research Study Institute to life and being!
Submitted by the Narada Theosophical Society for posting on Theosophical Society in Seattle Web page.[3]
Main Tenets of Theosophy
Our Septenary Universe
Our Seven-fold Nature and Consciousness
Karmic Laws and Rebirth Cycles
Approaches to the Life Spiritual
Cosmic Order and Karma Part 1 and Part 2
↑ Quest Books Web page, [1],accessed March 30, 2012.
↑ Martinist Order of the Netherlands Web page [2], accessed March 30, 2012.
↑ "Bing Escudero," Theosophical Society in Seattle Web page [3] accessed March 30, 2012.
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That's how long uni break is. For me, this is an unprecedented amount of time to have off. Technically, the break between finishing year 12 and starting uni was bigger, but I spent a month or so of that overseas, which sort of broke it up a bit. From this side of Christmas, they look impossibly big. Like one of those desert highways that just keeps on going, and although you know that there's something at the end of it, it's so far off that it stops being a physical location and becomes an abstract concept. Like, "Oh yes, somewhere at the end of this strip of slightly differently coloured gravel is Monday the 27th of February 2012, but you can't see it because of all the horizon in the way."
That was a bit of a laboured metaphor.
The point is that while it seems to be really far away- actually, because that date seems so far away - it would really be absurdly easy to just do nothing for three months. (Which, I suspect, is not an altogether unpopular option.) And doing nothing is like chocolate cake, in that a little is delicious, but three months of nothing else will leave you diabetic and empty on the inside, and when you look back on it, you feel a little bit sick.
Again, maybe not the best metaphor.
So instead of just sitting, and playing video games, and watching entire seasons of TV shows in one night, I reckon I should probably try to do something productive. Think New Year's resolutions, only a month early. Except they're a load of carp*. They're always vague and totally unrealistic. I need some non-vague non-un-realistic things to do, so that I can look back on this three months and say, "Yeah, I achieved something in the break." I hesitate to use the word goals, because it comes with a lot of self- help-y baggage, but really that's the general idea.
Finish learning to drive, pass driving test, get log book, and put at least 5 hours in it. I might even go so far as to book my test so I've got something to aim for.
Run until Humans vs. Zombies. I died on the first day both times this year. Next year I will win, by running away. This will require practise.
Learn first aid. A senior first aid certificate is both a plus for my resume and something I feel like I should know anyway.
Learn to juggle. Because a) I am tired of not being able to juggle and b) I can tell people I spent all holidays learning to juggle. Yay conversation, etc. This isn't all I want to do, but if I can do these, I'll be satisfied that I haven't wasted these holidays.
also HEY BLOG NO POST WHOOPS EXAMS AND STUFF SORRY.
*That's a typo, but I decided to leave it in.