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I have just returned from a three-week meditation course in beautiful, green, rain-sodden Wales. One evening, while we were drinking tea after our practice session, someone said: "just think, one of our number could be a stream-enterer. How wonderful! It could be any of us." We looked around. 'I think it's P' someone said. The genial P, who had been doing more than his share of table-clearing and washing-up, demurred. I asked what 'stream entry' was and was told that once you have one clear glimpse of nibbana (infelicitously translated as 'extinction' but don't be put off by that) you enter the stream which goes all the way to enlightenment/realisation and will be there within seven lifetimes. Also some of the worst 'defilements' fall away, and no longer hinder you on your journey.
When I got home, I typed 'stream entry' into Google and was swept into a torrent of helpful explanation from persons styling themselves 'Buddhist Geeks'. These guys strip away the Pali tags and the references to scripture and talk about meditation and the rest in ordinary language. They apply to the subtle complexities of Buddhist philosophy the same Geek-ish intelligence and ingenuity which ordinary Geeks apply to cyber-stuff. It was very….enlightening. One chap shows how the vipassana (insight-based) 'nanas' equate with the samatha (calm-based) 'jhanas'. Helpful tips are offered for gaining stream-entry in this lifetime, practical no-nonsense technical tips, which certainly made sense to me. One writer opined that there was no reason why an ordinary person who was prepared to spend quite a few hours on his/her meditation cushion should not get there. There was even the question asked: could video-games lead to enlightenment? Suddenly I had a glimpse, not of nibbana, but of a world where one in ten people you see in the supermarket would be a stream-enterer, or even a realised being. Is this possible? What difference would it make to the world? Would it make it a better place? Or… since Buddhists see the world as a place of suffering, maybe the effect would be to weaken the hold of the world and its materialist bias on us and push the whole human race towards the desirable extinction of nibbana?
However… George Gurdjieff, the Armenian sage who is a hero of mine, claimed that there is only a certain quantity of the higher influences we need to help us awaken in the world at any one time, the implication being that most of us will have to stay asleep. This is not the spirit of Buddhism which appears as a clear, science-friendly doctrine, democratic, basically sane and optimistic, offering signposts to a path open to everybody. Which is right?
But hey! This is the kind of journalistic-polarised-argumentative thinking which Buddhist retreats help me leave behind. The truth is: I don't know and maybe it doesn't matter. What's clear is that Buddhism, its techniques and its philosophy are penetrating to the heart of nominally Christian Britain and offering a path of development and insight to all who care to apply their bottom to a cushion, and make a stab at stilling the chattering mind. Christians and atheists are learning to meditate too. We are all learning more about mind, not just from those know-all, TV neuroscientists, but directly, for ourselves! For me, this is the important thing.
So thanks to those generous Buddhist teachers at Samatha and thanks to the Buddhist Geeks too. May you all be well and happy and free from suffering!


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Q: An error in PHP Timeclock 1.04 relating to "Post Validation" I am not much of a programmer so bear with me here.  I have been trying to get PHP Timeclock 1.04 running on my server and have got most of it up and running but for some reason I cannot delete some of my timeclock entries.  It only effects some users, not all.  Basically I delete the time entry and it says "Time deleted successfully" but under that there is a message that says "Something is fishy here."
I have this in the offending code:
// begin post validation //

if (!empty($post_username)) {
$query = "select * from ".$db_prefix."employees where empfullname = '".$post_username."'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$tmp_username = "".$row['empfullname']."";
}
if (!isset($tmp_username)) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
}

if (!empty($display_name)) {
$query = "select * from ".$db_prefix."employees where empfullname = '".$post_username."' and displayname = '".$display_name."'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$tmp_display_name = "".$row['displayname']."";
}
if (!isset($tmp_display_name)) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
}

if (!empty($email_addy)) {
$query = "select * from ".$db_prefix."employees where empfullname = '".$post_username."' and email = '".$email_addy."'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$tmp_email_addy = "".$row['email']."";
}
if (!isset($tmp_email_addy)) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
}

if (!empty($office_name)) {
$query = "select * from ".$db_prefix."employees where empfullname = '".$post_username."' and office = '".$office_name."'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$tmp_office_name = "".$row['office']."";
}
if (!isset($tmp_office_name)) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
}

if (!empty($group_name)) {
$query = "select * from ".$db_prefix."employees where empfullname = '".$post_username."' and groups = '".$group_name."'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$tmp_group_name = "".$row['groups']."";
}
if (!isset($tmp_group_name)) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
}

if (($admin_perms != '0') && ($admin_perms != '1')) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
if (($reports_perms != '0') && ($reports_perms != '1')) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
if (($time_admin_perms != '0') && ($time_admin_perms != '1')) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}
if ((isset($delete_data)) && ($delete_data != '1')) {echo "Something is fishy here.\n"; exit;}

// end post validation //

Thanks for any help!

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News brief – December 2005
Tsunami aid, one year on; China leads tech exports; Angel Gurría next SG; Quality lessons; Inflation eases; Plus ça change…
Tsunami aid, one year on
The unprecedented humanitarian response to the Indian Ocean tsunami, which struck on 26 December 2004, leaving some 300,000 people dead or missing and wiping out whole communities, resulted in pledges of some $13.6 billion to the affected countries from governments and international organisations, as well as charities, companies and the general public. Some $5.3 billion was from OECD governments.
Two-thirds of the aid which the 22 member governments of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the European Commission pledged to countries hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami has been spent or earmarked for specific projects, according to recent statistics. Donor governments and the European Commission have committed $1.7 billion to emergency aid and $1.9 billion to longer term reconstruction projects, to be spent by 2009.
More than 90% of the emergency aid–nearly $1.6 billion–was spent in the nine months immediately following the disaster. For reconstruction, $473 million has been spent, leaving $1.4 billion committed and in the pipeline for spending over the coming years. The rest of the money pledged will be committed once other specific projects and programmes have been identified. Together, Indonesia and Sri Lanka have received more than 60% of the funds committed so far.
2005 has been a year of extreme humanitarian challenges. The tsunami was by far the greatest in terms of lives lost and destruction, and exacted a particularly heavy toll on women and children. While impressive, the tsunami response revealed the need for major improvements in the systems for humanitarian aid, a point underlined by slower responses to other disasters during the year, such as the Kashmir earthquake, hurricanes in North and Central America, a food crisis in Niger, and on-going emergencies in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Getting aid to affected areas quickly; co-ordinating emergency responses to fit with long-term development policies; and being transparent and accountable with aid funds, all are areas that need improvement, OECD experts say.
For more, visit www.oecd.org/dac
China leads tech exports
China has overtaken the US to become the world's leading exporter of information and communications technology (ICT) goods, such as mobile phones, laptop computers and digital cameras, according to data for 2004. China exported $180 billion worth of such goods in 2004, compared with US exports in the same category valued at $149 billion. In 2003, the US led with exports of ICT goods worth $137 billion, followed by China with $123 billion. China's share of total world trade in ICT goods, including both imports and exports, rose to $329 billion in 2004, up from $234 billion in 2003 and $35 billion in 1996. By comparison, the US share of total world trade stood at $375 billion in 2004, $301 billion in 2003 and $230 billion in 1996.
The data show a decline in ICT imports to Asia from the EU and the US. Moreover, China increasingly sources its electronic components, such as computer chips, from other Asian countries, including Japan (18% of China's ICT imports), Chinese Taipei (16%), Korea (13%) and Malaysia (8%).
For more information, contact Sacha.Wunsch-Vincent@oecd.org. A copy of the report is available at www.oecd.org/sti.
Angel Gurría next SG
The OECD's 30 member countries have announced the appointment of Angel Gurría, former foreign minister and finance minister of Mexico, as secretary-general of the OECD from 1 June 2006. Mr Gurría will succeed Donald J. Johnston, who is retiring after two terms at the top of the organisation. The announcement was made on 30 November. For more detail, please click here.
Quality lessons
UNESCO-OECD guidelines
The fast growth in cross-border higher education in the last two decades has prompted UNESCO and the OECD to issue guidelines in a bid to safeguard quality and standards. The new Guidelines on Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education will encourage governments, higher education establishments, student bodies and other competent organisations to adopt three main principles: Mutual trust and respect among countries and recognition of the importance of international collaboration in higher education; recognition of the importance of national authority and the diversity of higher education systems; and recognition of the importance of higher education as a means for expressing a country's linguistic and cultural diversity and also for nurturing its economic development and social cohesion.
The aim is to help students gain easy access to reliable information on higher education everywhere, which in turn will depend on making qualifications more transparent and internationally compatible. Higher education institutions and providers should ensure that the programmes they deliver across borders and in their home country are of comparable quality, and the guidelines also urge governments to establish comprehensive systems of quality assurance and accreditation for cross-border higher education, cultural and linguistic sensitivities notwithstanding. The guidelines also invite student bodies to become more active in the development, monitoring and maintenance of quality provision. It is the first time that the two Paris-based bodies have collaborated in developing guidelines in this way. The guidelines may not be binding, but their endorsement by these two international organisations gives them clout, if not teeth.
See www.oecd.org/edu
Inflation eases
Easing energy prices helped annual inflation in the OECD area to slide back to 3% in October 2005 from 3.3% in September. Prices of energy rose by 18% year-on-year, compared with 21.1% in September. Excluding food and energy, consumer price inflation remained stable at 1.8% year-on-year in October. On a monthly basis, inflation in the OECD area was 0.2% in October.
In the euro area, the consumer price index increased by 2.4% over the twelve months ending in October 2005. Excluding food and energy, the year-on-year variation in CPI was unchanged at 1.4% in October 2005. In the US, the CPI increased by 4.3% over the same period. In Japan, consumer prices fell by 0.7% in October on a year earlier, compared with a decrease of 0.3% in September.
Detailed figures for "all items less food and energy" can be found at: here.
Plus ça change…
"It is important to remind ourselves that the ultimate goal of our policies is to promote not just economic growth but, above all, social well-being."
Angel Gurría, writing as minister of finance and public credit of Mexico and chair of the 1999 OECD Ministerial Council, in OECD Observer No 217/218, Summer 1999.
©OECD Observer No 252/253, November 2005
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How many atmosphere layers?
See more about the atmosphere.
The atmosphere layers surrounding the earth might remind you of the layers of an onion. Remember this?...
…"Ogres are like Onions – Layers!"
~Shrek
Does this green guy and Earth's blanket, the atmosphere, resemble the vegetable in this sense? You bet. So do the layered interiors of our Earth, Moon and Sun.
Each of the atmosphere layers lies above all parts of the world in the same order.
Each on takes on the shape of an oblate spheroid, like the planet itself. Each will be deeper over some regions than others. But they are all concentric.
So what if you were to go far enough straight up from any point on the surface?
You would ascend through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere in that order. No matter where you start.
Why do we care about the upper atmosphere layers?
Certainly if you're a pilot. Or a meteorologist. You would take serious interest in what's happening in the sky above. This undertaking forms the central part of aviation weather services.
See how I am doing it.
The atmosphere is a three-dimensional field. One that requires complicated computer models and atmospheric diagrams to understand.
Why does upper air flow modelling and research go on continuously? That's because elevated airflow affects what happens down here.
Now we're sailing…
Does something interest you the way the atmosphere does for me? Ever thought you could make a profit from it?
Atmosphere pictures
Once again, we have the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere above us. See the distances above the earth in kilometers on the left side of this diagram.
The air flows in a nearly frictionless path in the higher atmosphere layers. We make simpler and more accurate predictions at higher elevations because of these near ideal conditions called geostrophic flow. The standard atmospheric pressure levels are given in millibars in this chart below. A millibar is about one thousandth of the air pressure at the planet's surface.
Air Pressure Science:
1000 millibars (mb) = 100 kiloPascals (kPa) = 14.50 pounds per square inch (psi) and 29.53 inches of mercury. This works out to about 99% of the average air pressure at sea level.
Pressure drops off with elevation. The inverse altitude - atmospheric pressure relation can be seen in the requisite levels which have these approximate heights above sea level (ASL):
1000 mb ~ 360 feet (110 m)
850 mb ~ 5000 feet (1500 m)
700 mb ~ 10,000 feet (3000 m)
250 mb ~ 34,000 feet (10,200 m)
One thing, though. The precise heights of these atmosphere layers vary with location, current weather systems and seasons.
From these heights, we easily derive one of our most important quantities - LAYER THICKNESS. We get this by simply subtracting to find the difference in heights, in feet or meters, between two pressure levels.
Why is thickness important?
Is is proportional to the average temperature for that layer. Actually meteorologists use virtual temperature which is corrected for humidity.
You can refer to a conversion table where temperature and thickness are compared. Then weather forecasters draw a map with lines of equal thickness and use them in a manner similar to how they would interpret isotherms, lines of equal temperature.
Storms like to form in areas where these lines crowd together, called baroclinic zones. What happens is changes in temperature, stability, wind shear and precipitation become more predictable.
The lowest part of the atmosphere, the troposphere, reaches up to about 36,000 feet or 11,000 metres in tropical regions. The pressure here drops off to a little over 20% of the surface pressure.
Meteorologists care most about this layer. The physical boundary at the top of the troposphere, called the tropopause, separates the troposphere and stratosphere atmosphere layers. Like a skin, it defines the vertical transition between two regions with very different temperature and flow characteristics.
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CREATE TABLE a00_organization
(
  organization_id serial NOT NULL,
  "name" character varying(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'new organization'::character varying,
  description character varying(256) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'new organization'::character varying,
  logo oid NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
  logo_type character varying(8) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'jpeg'::character varying,
  currency_idref integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
  timezone smallint NOT NULL DEFAULT (-8), -- TimeZoneOffset from Greenwich, in hours; west is negative
  "timestamp" timestamp without time zone DEFAULT timezone('UTC'::text, now()), -- Time is UTC, alias GMT, alias Greenwich Mean Time
  CONSTRAINT "organization_Key" PRIMARY KEY (organization_id)
)
WITH (
  OIDS=FALSE
);
ALTER TABLE a00_organization OWNER TO ts_admin;
GRANT ALL ON TABLE a00_organization TO ts_admin;
GRANT SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE ON TABLE a00_organization TO ts_editor;
GRANT SELECT ON TABLE a00_organization TO ts_reader;
COMMENT ON COLUMN a00_organization."timestamp" IS 'Time is UTC, alias GMT, alias Greenwich Mean Time';
COMMENT ON COLUMN a00_organization.timezone IS 'TimeZoneOffset from Greenwich, in hours; west is negative';
GRANT UPDATE ON TABLE a00_organization_organization_ID_seq TO ts_editor;

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Shocked woman from Beyonce meme confesses that she was actually staring at Jay-Z
The woman who became an overnight meme star for reacting to Beyonce but now the woman has been identified and has confessed to have been looking at Jay-Z and not Beyonce. The grandmother, who has been named as Susan Monaghan described Jay-Z as 'really ... (Feb 1, 2018, Metro)
'WTF: Worse than Fagin; TTYL: Tiny Tim, you'll live!' Brilliant meme sees people posting FAKE 'guides' to trendy ...
'WTF: Worse than Fagin; TTYL: Tiny Tim, you'll live!' Brilliant meme sees people posting FAKE 'guides' to trendy ... (Feb 1, 2018, Daily Mail)
Star of 'good-looking surgery baby' meme turns 5 and thrives
Joey Powling, known as "ridiculously good looking surgery baby" from a viral 2012 meme, has no recollection of his brush with fame. But for Joey's mom, Sarah Powling, the memory of learning her unborn baby would be born with a congenital heart defect ... (Feb 1, 2018, Today.com)
The Beyonce Meme Lady Shared Her Story & Made The Pic Even Better
The Saturday night before the 2018 Grammys, a woman was walking through the Sheraton New York Times Square hotel and bumped into one of the most famous celebrity couples ever — Beyoncé and JAY-Z. Now, she is recognized as the woman who photobombed ... (Feb 1, 2018, Bustle)
New 'Attack on Titan' Meme Is Scary Addictive
Over on Reddit, a fan by the username /S0ulMadness went the extra yard to make a scary yet infectious meme. The netizen mashed up Attack on Titan with the viral site Nod To The Rhythm. And - well - this is the result. As you can see, the fan pulled a ... (Feb 2, 2018, Comicbook.com)
Arsenal meme lord David Ornstein has finally spoken out about his internet fame
If you've been anywhere near Arsenal Twitter for any time in the past few years, you will know about David Ornstein. Just the mere mention of his name will probably make you shout "ORNSTEEEEEIN!" in your head as you read this. For years, the actually ... (Feb 2, 2018, Dream Team FC)
The 'precious when you smile' meme just rocketed Bazzi's song onto the charts
"You so … f*ckin' … precious … when you … smile," goes the opening line of Bazzi's "Mine," a minor R&B hit from 2017. The song didn't immediately set the charts on fire, but that first line has become one of the biggest, funniest memes on Snapchat ... (Feb 2, 2018, The Daily Dot)
Understanding Ugandan Knuckles in a post-Pepe the Frog world
Know Your Meme editor-in-chief Brad Kim sees meme culture, to an extent, as having two distinct periods: pre- and post-Pepe the Frog. That may not seem like enough time to encapsulate an entire history of internet shenanigans, but Kim suggests that ... (Feb 2, 2018, Polygon)
This Savage Prince George Meme Proves Not Everyone Is a Meghan Markle Fan
In the weeks leading up to their wedding, Prince Harry's fiancée Meghan Markle has won hearts across the U.K. (not to mention in America), but there's still one member of the royal family who isn't so sure about welcoming her into the fold: Prince ... (Feb 2, 2018, TownandCountrymag.com)
Facebook meme from OK House member distorts Obama's economic record
The day President Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., posted an image on Facebook that showed why he was "proud to have a president that's putting America first and investing here at home." Mullin's ... (Feb 2, 2018, PolitiFact)
Donald Trump Jr. Just Became a Dank Meme, Literally
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The surprising poignancy of that 'FBI agent' meme you keep seeing
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'Bitconnect Carlos' Meme Is Everything Wrong With Cryptocurrency Hype
"Wasssa wasssa wasssa wasssa WASSSA BITCONNEEEEEEEEEEEECT," Matos, who was introduced as a "BitConnect member," yelled at the top of his lungs. It's not entirely clear what his connection to BitConnect was — he appeared to be introduced as just an ... (Feb 2, 2018, Inverse)
The 13 funniest memes for the week of Feb. 2nd
With everyone hating on some ignorant teacher for sh*t-talking the troops or an Airman for making a horrible rant video, can't we all just band back together and hate on the real enemy? Tom Brady. So we'll mock him. Because he can take it. 13. There's ... (Feb 3, 2018, We Are The Mighty (blog))
VIDEO: Stephen Colbert Takes a Crack at 'Yo Memo' Meme With Hilarious New Video About the Nunes Memo
Trump's newly released four-page Nunes Memo has caused a new meme to be created...Yo Memo jokes. These jokes are a spin on the classic "Yo Mama" jokes, but instead take a crack at the disappointingly short and meaningless Nunes Memo. Stephen Colbert ... (Feb 3, 2018, Broadway World)
Trumpet Boy is the most obnoxious meme of the year—and it's great
In a sense, we're all Trumpet Boy. Trumpet Boy is a viral image of a young boy playing his horn at a girl who's covering her ears and attempting to walk away. He's an obnoxious character, but people can definitely relate. Often found on Twitter ... (Feb 4, 2018, The Daily Dot)
Justin Timberlake selfie kid is the Super Bowl's biggest meme
Super Bowl halftime shows sometimes produce amazing memes and videos - remember Left Shark? Justin Timberlake's hits-filled show included one: A young fan in the middle of the crowd the singer performed in looking at his phone: When you don't know who ... (Feb 5, 2018, USA TODAY)
This Kid Looking At His Phone Is The Super Bowl's Best Meme
The Super Bowl is one of the greatest visual spectacles on Earth, but at least one young kid at the game appeared to have found something more interesting on his phone, in the process creating the greatest meme of the day. Justin Timberlake's halftime ... (Feb 5, 2018, HuffPost)
These Memes About Sad Tom Brady Are Way Too Real & Fans Can't Deal
Guys, Tom Brady looks pretty dang sad right now. During Super Bowl LII, the Patriots quarterback was sacked and fumbled in the fourth quarter of the game. Of course, this unfortunate moment led to memes about "sad Tom Brady," and they're kind of ... (Feb 5, 2018, Elite Daily)
Super Bowl 2018 Memes That Will Make You Laugh No Matter Who You're Rooting For
Regardless of whether the team you are rooting for wins or loses, or whether you favorite team is playing at all, we can all find a bit of joy in a meme-able sports moment. Before we delve into some funny tweets and memes to gear you up for Super Bowl ... (Feb 5, 2018, Bustle)
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Oceanographers love two things. 1. Expensive equipment and 2. Matlab.
I get the first one. I mean, who wouldn't want to play with titantium 4km pressure rated CTDs or autonomous underwater vehicles?
I'm not 100% on why they fancy Matlab. I suppose it's been the de facto standard within the field for a long time, and legacy is a big deal. It does make for some great graphs but if you're a poor grad student at an institution that doesn't have a subscription, you gotta cough up some cash.
Enter R. Specifically the package 'OCE', which has some nice features for plotting and working up oceanographic data. It's written by Dan Kelley and Clark Richards. I've been wanting to try it out and when Shoals Marine Lab needed to break in their brand new Seabird CTD, I jumped at the chance to get on the boat, get some data, and try the package out.
University of New Hampshire's Gulf Challenger picked up the Field Introductory Oceanography Lab class and Erik Zettler was kind enough to let me tag along.
After a bit of steaming, we were about 10 km east of Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine. The first order of business was to drop some casts and get some data!
The package has some built in datasets. So let's take a quick gander at those first.
At top left and right we have some water column profiles and then a look at some temperature by salinity plots with contours of density. Nifty. The bottom right is a map. Looks like this built-in cast comes from 2003, going back in time!
Seabird has some GUI based software (Seasoft V2) to help massage the data. We processed a bit of data with that and created '.cnv' files and then brought it into R.
CTD data processing by Shoaler Katy Bland as Erik Zettler looks on.
The function 'read.ctd.sbe' will import Seabird formatted cnv files. There are other read functions, for example, for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment and WHOI's Ice-tethered profiler.
Unfortunately our CTD data doesn't have gps data, so we have to bring it in manually.
Taking a look at a temperature profile closely, we can see that there is data from the downcast and the upcast.
Usually, we would remove the upcast, as this column of water has been disturbed from the initial downcast. So let's do that here.
And we can check our result.
Now we can try stitching together multiple casts, into what is called a 'section'. Then we'll make a basic contour plot.
So, 'as.section' creates a new 'section', using the list of objectives given.
axis only works if you have the lat/longs given.
Alternatively, we could use colors instead of contour lines.
Cool! We can also plot other data types, if your instrument is equipped.
Fluorescence comes from the fluorometer, which measures the quantity of primary producers in the water column. It's pretty neat that you can see mid-water peaks of phytoplankton at the thermocline (where the there is a rapid temperature change). This probably reflects the zone of mixing between deeper nutrient rich waters and shallower brighter waters (but nutrient poor). But don't take my word for it, I only moonlight as a biological oceanographer!
For now, we'll leave it there, but the 'oce' package has a bunch of functionality (e.g. acoustic doppler profiler, echosounder, landsat) and apparently a book coming out soon. Thanks again to Dan Kelley and Clark Richards for writing this useful package! Side note: if you're interested in collecting CTD data on a budget, check out the OpenCTD project!
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Róża est un film dramatique polonais réalisé par Wojciech Smarzowski, sorti en 2011.

Synopsis
Au cours de l'été 1945, Tadeusz, officier de l'Armia Krajowa et vétéran de l'Insurrection de Varsovie, dont la femme a été violée et assassinée par les Allemands, se déplace en Masurie, région de l'ancienne Prusse orientale allemande. Il rend visite à Róża, veuve de son ami Johann mort sous les drapeaux de la Wehrmacht. Cette femme qui a vécu les pires atrocités durant la guerre l'invite à rester à sa ferme espérant que sa présence va lui offrir une certaine protection. Tadeusz accepte. Leur relation va cependant attirer l'attention des nouveaux nationalistes polonais ainsi que des services du NKVD soviétique.

Fiche technique
 Titre : Róża
 Réalisation : Wojciech Smarzowski
 Scénario :
 Photographie :
 Musique : Mikołaj Trzaska
 Directeur artistique : Marek Zawierucha
 Costumes : Ewa Helman-Szczerbic,
 Montage : Paweł Laskowski
 Sociétés de production : , ,
 Société de distribution :
 Pays d'origine : Pologne
 Format projection : 2.35 : 1 - Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
 Format copies salles cinéma :
 Genre : Drame
 Langues : polonais, allemand, russe
 Durée : 90 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
 Pologne :  (Festival du film polonais de Gdynia)
 Canada :  (Festival international du film de Toronto 2011)
 France :  (War On Screen - Festival International des cinémas de guerre)

Distribution

 Agata Kulesza : Róża Kwiatkowska
 Marcin Dorociński : Tadeusz
  : pasteur
 Szymon Bobrowski : Kazik
 Jacek Braciak : Władek
  : Anna, femme de Tadeusz
 Kinga Preis : Amelia
  : coiffeur
  : Woźniak
  : Jadwiga Kwiatkowska, fille de Róża
 Marian Dziędziel : Mateusz
 Anna Grzeszczak-Hutek : Gretchen, femme de Mateusz
 Irena Karel : femme fusillée
 Andrzej Konopka :  Leliwa
  : Hawryluk
  : Madecki
  : Wasyl
 Ilja Zmiejew : capitaine de l'NKVD
 Sergiej Kriuczkow : colonel
 Mateusz Trembaczowski : Georg
  : greffier
 Aleksander Chochłow : médecin
 Andrzej Beja-Zaborski : cheminot
 Kamil Toliński : facteur
 Dorota Piasecka : buffetière
 Mateusz Łasowski : soldat soviétique
 Davaa Tserenchimed : Kałmuk
  : Johann Kwiatkowski, mari de Róża
 Kacper Zieliński : prêtre catholique
 Marcin Juchniewicz : ami de Wasyl
  : masurienne
  : masurienne
 Julia Olczak : fille de Władek
 Kamil Natan Olczak : Julian, fils de Władek
 Marek Cydorowicz : mouchard

Nominations et sélections

 Orły du meilleur film, du meilleur scénario, de la meilleure réalisation, de la meilleure actrice en 2011
 Prix des critiques de cinéma au Festival du film polonais de Gdynia 2011
 Grand Prix et Prix du public au Festival international du film de Varsovie 2011

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film polonais sorti en 2011
Film dramatique polonais
Film se déroulant dans les années 1940
Film réalisé par Wojciech Smarzowski

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Dean Alford
Earlier this afternoon the Atlanta Journal Constitution sent out a news alert concerning the resignation of Dean Alford, a member of the Georgia University System's Board of Regents. Alford was recently reappointed to the Board by Governor Brian Kemp.
The newspaper details that the Georgia Attorney General and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation issued arrest warrants for Alford for creating a fraudulent invoice submitted to the state, and for forging the signature of a university employee.
What did Alford do?
The paper's coverage includes, "Alford is accused of creating a fraudulent invoice acknowledgement form, dated Sept. 24, to submit to a company called Versant, state officials said. The document is alleged to have falsely asserted that the University of Georgia would pay Versant $487,982.88 to satisfy a debt owed to Alford's own company, Allied Energy Services, LLC, located in Rockdale County."
That's not the biggest amount of money, according to the AJC. The article continues with, "He's also suspected of transmitting fraudulent documents to Versant to make the company believe he had legitimate purchase agreements and accounts receivable with various entities, state officials said. Alford was attempting to sell such accounts receivable to Versant in exchange for $1,798,327.06, investigators said. "
Alford purchased Allied Energy Services for pennies on the dollar when a judge ordered Cobb Energy holdings, a private shareholding company spun off from the nonprofit Cobb EMC, to be dissolved. Alford's "haul" at Cobb EMC, the electric membership co-op in the north Atlanta suburbs, was close to $18Million according to 2015 news coverage.
But there's more. Much more.
Allied Energy Services was awarded a no-bid contract to develop Plant Washington, a $6Billion proposed coal plant that soaked up millions of dollars from EMCs in Georgia under the umbrella of Power for Georgians. The electric co-op in Washington County, Washington EMC, sunk $1Million of member-owner dollars into the boondoggle plant, slated to be built just miles from my home, and the homes of a small group of local citizens who became the Fall-Line Alliance for a Clean Environment (FACE). Alford never secured financing, power purchase agreements, or customers. FACE has never wavered in its grassroots committment to protecting our natural resources and the health of our families and friends.
The adventures of FACE, and those of others in Washington County, have been detailed on this blog since Plant Washington was proposed in January 2008. The saga involves seeing fellow citizens for who they truly are, or are not. FACE leaders earned the rights to our story through hard work and selfless determination.
I'll close here by adding that FACE and our partners have waited years to throw the biggest celebration to ever happen in Washington County. We've got a party to plan and invitations to send to those who stood with us.
Author ruralga1150Posted on October 3, 2019 Categories air, co-op reform, coal, EMC, environment, environmental justice, ethics, family, Georgia, health care, Plant Washington, racism, religion, renewable energy, rural, social justice, Washington County, waterTags AJC, Allied Energy Services, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Brian Kemp, coal, coal plants, Cobb EMC, Dean Alford, FACE, Fall-Line Alliance for a Clean Environment, forgery, fraud, GBI, Plant Washington, Power for Georgians, social justice, University Board of Regents, University Regents, Versant, Washington County, Washington EMC
How We Have Failed Since September 11, Redux
First posted here on September 10, 2014
How We Have Failed since September 11
Tonight President Obama will address the nation about ISIS and any actions that we may take in response to the horrific murders of Americans and innocent civilians at the hands of terrorists.
Tomorrow there will be an observance in my community, and many others, to honor the thousands of lives lost to hate and terrorism, and to support the families and friends who knew someone they loved would never return home again.
Since September 11, 2001 we as a country have talked a lot about being kinder to one another and being a better country. Yet 13 years later this is what consumes us as a country:
fighting about allowing two consenting adults of the same-sex to legally marry each
failing to take care of the thousands of veterans who have defended our country, many of whom returned with horrible wounds from the Middle East since September 2001
allowing private corporations to decided which forms of legal birth control they will cover for employees through company based health insurance because some corporations should have the same privileges as churches
granting corporations the same rights as citizens so businesses can pour money into elections and our representatives' pockets
making it harder for citizens to exercise their right to vote
subsidizing corporations with huge tax breaks while their employees working full-time never earn enough to break the poverty barrier
denying the hard facts of science because profits should come before cleaning up the mess we've made of the entire planet
deporting children
complaining about failing schools while slashing teacher pay and testing our children to death
sitting by silently while racism and sexism are displayed proudly
being sure we can take our assault rifles into the grocery store
we pay for and support violence on playing fields, in the movies we watch, video games we buy, music we listen to, and television shows we watch, but we react with horror when students are sprayed with bullets in their classrooms, women are drug from elevators by their hair, students are bullied, children and women are raped as well as being forced into prostitution
too many among us are convinced that their brand of faith should be followed above all others, and if necessary the rights of other citizens should be denied because they choose to worship differently, or not at all
We absolutely should remember and honor the victims of September 11th's violence. I'm just not convinced we are a country that is a better reflection of the democratic values and freedoms which terrorists intended to destroy 13 years ago.
Author ruralga1150Posted on September 11, 2019 Categories Air, coal, environment, environmental justice, ethics, family, health care, politics, racism, religion, social justice, Uncategorized, water, womenTags assault guns, birth control, children, citizens, climate change, disenfranchisement, domestic violnce, education, elections, football, global warming, immigrants, justice, marriage equality, money, Obama, private companies, rape, refugees, rifles, schools, science deniers, September 11, sexism, sexual assault, Voting Rights, women
McConnell finds his voice
After weeks of political laryngitis on the government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) found the will to say that fellow Republican Rep Steve King (R-Iowa) should "find another line of work."
During a recent interview lasting almost an hour, King said he doesn't understand how white nationalist, pro Western civilization, and white supremacist language are offensive. Trump says he "hasn't been following" the fallout over King's most recent statements. Perhaps Trump's lack of interest, or outrage, reflect his own comfort with King's views?
(Congressional photo)
In the mean time, King has been stripped of committee appointments by his own party. Without committee assignments to craft and vote on bills as they are developed, King's ability to robustly represent Iowa's only Republican district in Congress has shrunk to hoping he can find anyone in his party to lobby for his district as bills move towards the House floor. James Clyburn, (D-South Carolina) will introduce a call to censure King in the House.
King has announced 39 district town hall meetings this year. I'm not sure those meetings, due to certain protests and counter-protests, will even happen. The country, and the world, will be watching.
Author codecPosted on January 15, 2019 Categories ethics, politics, racism, regressive, religion, social justiceTags censure, Iowa, James Clyburn, Mitch McConnell, President Trump, racism, Steve King, Trump, US House, US Senate, Western civilization, white nationalism
Can Governor Kemp deliver for rural Georgia?
Today marks a new era in Georgia, one that follows a contentious race for the governor's mansion. Will Brian Kemp and the GA Legislature deliver on promises to rural voters?
Rural hospitals are fragile, while access to care is difficult in regards to insurance coverage, number of providers, and transportation. Will legislators swallow hard and request a waiver so much needed federal dollars can make their way to rural citizens and providers?
Will rural residents, and by rural I mean the ones who live on dirt roads or outside any semblance of a crossroads or town, begin to see a solution to high speed, affordable internet access? This infrastructure impacts businesses, schools, and the attractiveness of living in rural communities.
How will Kemp and the legislature handle districting when the census is completed? This issue didn't get a lot of coverage during the campaigns, but it will impact rural Georgians in big ways as populations continue to shift to more urban areas. What about safe and secure voting?
The clock starts today. When the 40 day session ends, what will wait until 2020, or arrive on Gov Kemp's desk to be signed?
Author codecPosted on January 14, 2019 January 14, 2019 Categories environment, environmental justice, ethics, family, Georgia, Georgia General Assembly, health care, politics, religion, renewable energy, rural, social justice
Expressing sympathy isn't rocket science
After the death of my infant grandson in December 2016, my husband's tragic death on April 30th of this year, followed seven weeks later by my mother's death, my family has been the recipient of both kind and what are really thoughtless comments from people who are trying to express their sympathies. My friends shared some of the best, and worst, things said to them during times of grief, and several have asked me to compile them. This doesn't begin to include everything that we, or others grieving, have heard. I've tried to categorize them.
Comments based on faith
God needed another angel
S/he is in a better place
God has a plan
You should have prayed more (said by a minister to the widow)
These comments dismiss the tremendous grief being experienced with a simple solution of faith. It also assumes that all people involved share the same set of beliefs. Don't ever assume identical beliefs, even if the grieving person sits next to you in your place of worship. As for the angel comment, if your children/spouse/friends are all safely at home at the end of the day, who are you to say any deity needed their loved person as another angel?
To grieving parents
You are young enough to have more children
At least you didn't have her/him so long that you were strongly attached (said to parents of recently adopted children)
At least you have other children
To grieving spouses
You are reasonably attractive and can get married again (said by a mother-in-law to the widow)
You'll meet someone else
You have plenty of time to marry again
Death related to an illness
Did s/he smoke? When did they quit?
S/he should have gone to a different doctor
Why didn't s/he go to the doctor sooner?
They should have exercised, eaten better, etc.
Death due to a tragic accident
People shouldn't ride bikes there
Did s/he suffer?
May be if they had been with you instead of……
This list could go on forever because there seems to be no limit on thoughtless things people let come out of their mouths.
There are things to say (and do) that are helpful.
I am so very sorry. Expressing sympathy doesn't require rocket science or an advanced degree. This simple statement is fine.
I don't know what you are feeling but I want to support you
Would it help if I sleep on the sofa in case you need someone to talk to during the night?
I will miss spending time with ______. I'd like to share some stories with you when you are ready (and then follow up, accepting responses of "Not now but later" and then checking again).
Can I walk the dog? Cut the grass? Pick up things at the drug store? Go to the cleaners? Get your car serviced? Are there foods your family would like to have right now? Write thank you notes? Make calls? Return books to the library?
Say the person's name. Don't be afraid to mention a lost loved one when you speak to someone grieving. Share or listen to a thought or story about his or her lost loved one. Take the time to really engage.
After the immediacy of the services have passed, check-in with the grieving. Ask about birthday and special family anniversaries so you can offer support or an invitation. Send a postcard or note with a simple message saying you are thinking about them. Take them a meal. Only offer to do things if you can follow up-really. And those offers don't have to be huge-coffee, lunch, a movie. Did the grieving person go to plays, concerts, art shows, etc. with the person who has died? Find those events and invite them because you know they did those things together.
As we mark the year's last holidays, there will be many hard firsts for my family, and hard moments (or days and weeks) for those whose grief is not immediate but still real. A college friend called and left me a message saying that she was thinking about me as we approach these firsts, and she wanted to let me know.
Her message was beautiful in its simplicity and sincerity. And it was just what I needed.
Author ruralga1150Posted on December 13, 2018 December 13, 2018 Categories family, religionTags condolences, death, family, grief, holidays
What I'm reading about last night
What I'm reading about last night (link to the address is below from the New York Times):
WAPo: "In describing his bleak vision of a ruined United States exploited by foreigners, Mr. Trump wrote a series of checks he almost certainly cannot cash."
The ugliest moment in the 60-minute address came when Mr. Trump announced the formation of an office on "Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement," and then introduced families of people allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants. It was an appeal to raw prejudice and fear that will do nothing to promote the national unity he claims to be seeking. (emphasis added)
WAPO: Fact checking demonstrates that Trump continues to take credit for things he didn't do, including the sourcing for DAPL pipeline materials
WaPo: Why any glow from last night won't last very long
WaPo: The word you didn't hear last night
NYT: Video of the address to Congress and NYT Washington correspondents comments and analysis during the speech and the Democratic response
NYT: Did Bannon and Miller talk Trump away from a pivot on immigration during lunch yesterday?
NYT: Five takeaways from last night's speech
Jay Bookman at the Atlanta Journal Constitution on pouring money into the military,
"In short, this is not a carefully thought-out strategy from the Trump administration, based on consultation with the experts and our allies. Instead, the man who took five draft deferments to avoid fighting in Vietnam, the man who says that he knows better than the generals how to defeat ISIS and who claims he understands the military because he attended a military-themed boarding school, is offering a military strategy fueled largely by his own deep personal insecurities."
Author codecPosted on March 1, 2017 Categories ethics, family, politics, racism, religion, social justiceTags AJC, anti-Semitic, Atlanta Journal Constitution, attacks on synagogues, Black History Month, Congress, Democrats, Donald Trump, fact checking, healthcare, immigration, Jay Bookman, Joint Address to Congress, Kansas, Mike Pence, New York Times, Paul Ryan, radical Islamic terrorism, Republicans, smoke and mirrors, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, terrorism, Trump, undocumented immigrants, vandalism, Washington Post
Breaking bread in a mosque
photo from the internet
Heeding the observation a wise friend shared with me the day after last year's election, I am making a concerted effort to desegregate what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the most segregated hour" in our country. In November I visited the church just a block down the street from my house, a congregation established by former slaves not too many years after the end of the Civil War.
Last Friday, along with my husband and a friend, I attended the monthly community dinner at the Islamic Center of Macon. All three of us were warmly greeted and welcomed for the evening. My friend and I joined the women on their side of the partitioned room, where younger children played and roamed freely from our side to the one where the men gathered. . There were prayers, a practice round for a children's quiz competition, and wonderful food.
Environmental advocacy connected all of us during dinner conversations. Our concerns ranged from food resources, clean water, and ways that the women we shared a meal with could be active in stewardship. In turn, we were invited to participate and support an interfaith women's organization in Macon, and of course, to return again to join them.
The mosque where we gathered was vandalized in December 2015. When funds are secured they will relocated to a larger facility better suited for their needs. For now, on the edge of a neighborhood in the early stages of gentrification, just blocks from larger affluent Christian churches, faithful and peace-loving Muslims gather every week to worship, and when visitors appear, they open their arms to hug them as most welcome guests.
Author codecPosted on January 27, 2017 Categories religion, The Friday Photo, Uncategorized, womenTags children, church, cultural gaps, environment, faith, Islam, mosque, Muslim, segregation, women, worship
Sitting Shiva, Jehovah's Witnesses wearing safety pins
Sitting Shiva
Since the wee hours of last Wednesday morning I have wondered how long I would leave the Clinton/Kaine sign up in my yard. Over the weekend, my cousin in California, parked in their driveway within sight of their Clinton/Kaine sign, had a car window smashed. Someone with a Trump/Pence sticker on their car leaned on their horn and sped past me last Thursday afternoon outside Atlanta. Violence and rudeness (never mind safety on an interstate road with cars driving at 65+ mph) don't win any points for Trump/Pence supporters.
With the announcement that Steve Bannon, a candidate for the Mr Anti-Semitic Lifetime Achievement Award, to serve as Trump's chief strategist, I decided to Sit Shiva with my yard sign, as many Jewish people do following a death (although, to be clear, last week's election outcome was not a death sentence for diversity and greater equality, but instead a wake-up call). The sign will be put away tomorrow, a full seven days after the election, even though Clinton/Kaine did receive more votes.
Jehovah Witnesses wearing safety pins
This morning I heard someone knock on our front door, and since we are "come to the back door" folks, I knew a stranger must be knocking. I stepped outside to keep the dogs from making a racket, and was greeted by two black women, one maybe in her mid-late 50s and another in her 60s. They were holding Bibles and Jehovah Witness's pamphlets, dressed in skirts and shoes intended for walking most of the day.
Before I could say anything I realized this was a chance to practice some patience and tolerance, which is in short supply in our country. We all said hello, and then I asked them as politely as possible, to not come back, and that I have asked others who came before them to strike us from their list. They said they were new here, our house wasn't marked to be skipped, they repeated the house number, said they would take care of it.
The older of the two women had a safety pin on her scarf, and I said, "I see your safety pin, and I forgot to put mine on. We're Quakers here, and you are always welcome if you need to find a bathroom or want a glass of water, but we're fine."
The younger woman said, "We all want peace." They made note again of the house number, we all smiled, and I came back inside feeling a little better about where we can be if we are willing to try. It isn't about wearing a safety pin; it is about being ready to do my part.
Author codecPosted on November 15, 2016 November 15, 2016 Categories ethics, Georgia, religion, rural, social justice, womenTags Bibles, campaign signs, Cinton/Kaine, Jehovah Witness, Quakers, road rage, safety pins, sitting Shiva, Steve Bannon, violence1 Comment on Sitting Shiva, Jehovah's Witnesses wearing safety pins
Van Jones put his finger on it last night
Last Thursday I drove to Hendersonville, North Carolina for an annual event called Life Is A Verb Camp. On the way home Sunday afternoon I opted for less interstate and more two lane roads.
In addition to the fall-colored leaves I saw lots of Trump/Pence signs, which really didn't surprise me as a fellow Southern rural citizen. What had been floating around in the back of mind for a long time began to move more to the front of my thoughts; how are the polls capturing the rural voter? Are they getting to us at all? Am I underestimating the urban turnout?
Last week Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight polling and punditry kept setting aside the poll numbers at a certain point in his figuring, which dogged me about who people say they will vote for and what they will do in the privacy of the voting booth.
Last night Van Jones put his finger on what I was thinking: white-lash. It has been a large and unspoken element in the room on top of the anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Semitic, anti-woman, my version of Christianity is the only one, anti-choice, denying access to affordable health care, putting profits before our natural resources, loosening gun control laws, and the list goes on and on.
I live among the voters who showed up in force at the polls and elected Donald Trump and Mike Pence; white rural Americans.
It should not be a surprise to readers of Rural and Progressive that I write from a perspective that there are two Americas, an urban and a rural America. Many rural Americans harbor some level of racism. I've heard it and seen it. For some people that has been the unspoken driver behind opposition to all-things Obama. And it brought people out in force to elect a TV personality whose favorite line is, "You're fired."
Yesterday white rural America told Donald Trump and Mike Pence, "You're hired."
I may live in rural America, but the not so subtle racism and divisive values espoused by Trump and Pence are not my values. And they aren't the values of every rural American.
I'm no less proud of being a Hillary supporter today than I was yesterday, because I believe in a country where diversity is valued and celebrated. That's the country I will continue to help build.
Author codecPosted on November 9, 2016 Categories ethics, family, Georgia, politics, Progressive, racism, regressive, religion, renewable energy, rural, social justice, womenTags 538, America, Bill Clinton, CNN, community, Democrat, discrimination, Donald Trump, election, fear, FiveThirtyEight, Hillary Clinton, LGBTQ, Mike Pence, Muslim, Nate Silver, polling, POTUS, President, racism, Republican, rural, unity, urban, Van Jones, voters, white-lash, whitelash
Photo collage credit, Sarah Todd, Newton County, Georgia, August 25, 2016
Author codecPosted on August 26, 2016 August 26, 2016 Categories ethics, Georgia, racism, religion, social justice, The Friday PhotoTags angry Christians, Chrisitans, Covington, desegregation, Elizabeth Eckford, fear, Hazel Bryan, Islam, lynching, mosque, Newton County, rural Georgia, Sarah Todd, segregation, The Friday Photo
Galloway and Wingfield weigh in on the outcry over proposed mosque in Newton County
Jim Galloway and Kyle Wingfield are spot on in their Atlanta Journal Constitution columns today.
Wingfield begins with, "Plans for a mosque in Newton County — and some loudly negative reactions to those plans — pose some uncomfortable truths to people on both sides of Georgia's religious-liberty debate."
Jim Galloway, the leader of Political Insider at the AJC, writes,'White Christian Protestants, the religious demographic group that has dominated American history and culture for nearly four centuries, are losing their grip on the machinery of this nation. Even in the South, we WASPs are being supplanted by multiracial Catholicism, old religions brought newly into our midst, and the rise of the unaffiliated and unchurched."
Newton County's county seat, Covington, is a popular location for movie and television filming. The uproar over the mosque, plans for which haven't been submitted, or a construction permit granted, as Wingfield points out, looks like another episode of angry white Christians in any given news cycle. The cameras on location in Covington aren't there to film stories of fantasy and fiction. Instead, the cameras have been turned around to expose a fear that brings out the worst in people.
Author codecPosted on August 25, 2016 Categories ethics, Georgia, religion, social justiceTags AJC, angry Christians, Christians, Covington, David Gushee, fear, Islam, Jim Galloway, Kyle Wingfield, mosque, Newton County, Political Insider, Robert P Jones


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Memorial to be unveiled in May
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) – Fire officials in Brockton are seeking out relatives of the 13 firefighters who died in a 1941 blaze at the Strand Theater.
Monday marks the 67th anniversary of the tragedy, the largest documented loss of life by firefighters in a single blaze in state history.
A bronze and granite memorial to the fallen men is scheduled to be unveiled May 10 at City Hall. Deputy Fire Chief George Phillips says the committee overseeing the memorial is attempting to contact as many relatives of the victims as possible so they can attend the unveiling.
The firefighters were killed when a portion of the theater's roof came crashing down.
An annual remembrance ceremony will be held Monday at City Hall. Among those expected to attend is Ed Burrell, the last surviving firefighter who helped battle the blaze.
Information from: The Enterprise, http://www.enterprisenews.com


An Election Day tradition continued yesterday, as approximately 300 female voters made a pilgrimage to the grave of suffragette Susan B. Anthony to pay tribute to the role she and others played in winning the right to vote for America's women.
Anthony's headstone in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., was plastered with "I Voted" stickers in a year where voting took on a deeper meaning for many women.
"I'm voting for the first woman president. As a woman, I can vote because of the sacrifices she made," said Gillian Paris of Brighton, N.Y.
Some of those visiting Anthony's grave were dressed in white, a color symbolic of the suffrage movement. Others wept at the significance of Anthony's fight in an election that almost gave America its first woman president. Many brought their daughters.
Anthony devoted a lifetime to fighting for women's rights. Though she died 14 years before women were finally given the vote, her impact as an agitator, activist, and leader in the fight for equality retains a mighty resonance today. Initially focused on improving property rights for married women, she organized petitions and presented them to the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee in 1855. The response of the all-male committee to Anthony's campaign was that women, in fact, received more preferential treatment than men, citing as examples that they were given the best seats in carriages and the choice of which side of the bed to sleep on. Later, recognizing the value of civil disobedience in achieving social reform, she and several fellow suffragettes, were arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election.


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Metro, News
R.I. Attorney General investigates violence against protestors at Wyatt Detention Facility
Corrections officer drives pickup truck through Never Again Action protestors last week, five hospitalized for pepper spray exposure, vehicle injuries
By Sophie Culpepper
Metro Editor
Courtesy of Michelle Dardashti
Around 500 people gathered outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility on August 14 to protest the facility's contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to call for the center's closure.
On Wednesday, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha spoke at a press conference to provide further details about the state's investigation into violence by correctional employees that disrupted a peaceful protest by the advocacy group Never Again Action outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility August 14.
Toward the end of the protest in Central Falls, R.I., a black pickup truck allegedly driven by a detention center officer struck a line of protestors before other officers pepper-sprayed some of those protesting, according to a video and eyewitness accounts.
Neronha, who was joined by Central Falls Police and State Police representatives, said the investigation's "principal focus is on the operation of the vehicle in question and the deployment of pepper spray." The Wyatt had issued a statement last Friday that said the facility is conducting its own internal investigation under Detention Facility Warden Daniel Martin.
Two people were hospitalized as a result of vehicle injuries, and three others received hospital treatment for pepper spray exposure. All five individuals were released the following day. Several University students attended the protest August 14 and none were hospitalized.
The investigation has interviewed 31 witnesses to date and plans to interview at least 20 more. From these interviews, Neronha said they found "some conflicting reports as to the extent of the injuries," adding that "to the extent that we consider charges, the injuries are highly significant."
Neronha anticipates the investigation will conclude in several weeks, he said at the press conference.
Neronha's statement follows the resignation of Captain Thomas Woodworth last Friday. Woodworth, who was placed on administrative leave the day before his resignation, allegedly drove the pickup truck into the group of assembled protestors, according to witnesses. While the Wyatt did not directly confirm the identity of Woodworth as the driver, his name can be heard in video recordings of the protests, according to the Providence Journal.
The Herald could not reach Woodworth, and he has not given any statements at this time.
A peaceful gathering turns violent
The incident under investigation marks the first case of violence at any of the dozens of Never Again Action protests organized across the country this summer.
The protest last week was the second to be organized by Never Again Action outside the Wyatt this summer. On July 2, Never Again Action organized a protest of over 200 people outside the Wyatt and 18 protestors were arrested for civil disobedience, the Providence Journal reported. Three of the protestors arrested were Brown University students, wrote Tal Frieden '19.5, a Never Again Action and R.I. protest organizer, in an email to The Herald.
Never Again Action describes itself as "a mass mobilization of Jews who are organizing to shut down ICE and hold the political establishment accountable for enabling both the deportation machine that has separated immigrant families across the U.S. for decades and the current crisis at the border."
On August 14, immigration activists organized by a local chapter of Never Again Action gathered outside the Wyatt to protest the facility's contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to call for the center's closure. They also protested broader issues such as the detention and deportation of asylum-seeking refugees and undocumented immigrants across the country.
The Wyatt, a publicly owned and privately operated prison run by the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation, renewed its contract with ICE earlier this year. ICE had previously terminated its contract with the Wyatt in 2008, after an immigrant detainee died while in the center's custody. The Wyatt began housing 133 detainees in March, The Herald previously reported. As of July 8, the facility holds 139 detainees.
"Unfortunately, recent testimonies by folks released reveal that the conditions are worse than we could have imagined. Rhode Island is hosting a concentration camp in our state," Frieden wrote.
Frieden added that state officials should also "ban private prisons" and "advocate for dignity and permanent protection for all undocumented people in Rhode Island and the U.S."
About 500 people were present at the protest August 14, according to the Providence Journal, including community advocacy groups such as Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance (AMOR), Progreso Latino and Fuerza Laboral, according to video footage of speakers at the protest.
Protestors walked from Jenks Park in Central Falls to the Wyatt, where Christian Andrade, Aaron Regunberg '12, a former state representative and candidate for lieutenant governor, and Emily Titon delivered a list of demands for greater transparency about detainment conditions and better treatment for ICE detainees within the center. When the demands went unmet, protestors remained outside the facility for hours.
"We have not received any comment on the initial demands we have presented, and which AMOR and others have been advancing for months," Frieden wrote.
During the protest, attendees received encouragement from detainees inside the facility, said Ben Bienstock '20, adding that they "were slamming on the windows, were waving, flickering their lights on and off; people put signs up in their windows that said 'Shut Down the Wyatt.'"
Protestors first blocked the prison's larger two entrances and later moved to block the employee entrance around 9 p.m, according to the Boston Globe.
Shortly before 10 p.m., a black pickup truck driven by a Wyatt employee in uniform rammed through protestors blocking the entrance to the prison parking lot. Some protestors jumped out of the way while others stood in front of the car to block its path. In a video posted to Facebook by Never Again Action, protestors shouted "shame" and "the whole world is watching" as they gathered around the car window.
About a dozen correctional officers whose identities are unknown then exited the Wyatt and used pepper spray on protestors while they helped the driver exit his vehicle.
At least a dozen University-affiliated individuals attended the protest, "some of whom were affected by pepper spray and the attack," Frieden wrote.
Bienstock did not see any city or state police officers intervene until after the use of pepper spray by Wyatt correctional officers. "There was no attempt to detain or arrest the officer who drove (the black pickup truck)" into the protestors, Bienstock said.
The police also refused to take testimony from the attacked protestors and said they would only record witness statements at the station, Bienstock said, while Frieden wrote that "droves of protestors clamored to give testimony."
At Wednesday's press conference, State Police Colonel James Manni said most officers present outside the Wyatt the night of the protest were city police officers, who were joined by just "three state police cruisers with five troopers" patrolling the area in an "abundance of caution."
Rhode Island State Police Assistant Detective Commander Captain John Alfred told The Herald Monday that they continue to perform a "very active and open investigation." He did not answer further questions about the protest.
ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls wrote that "ICE personnel were not involved in the protest response that occurred Wednesday night" in an email to The Herald.
The Central Falls Police Department and the Wyatt Detention Facility did not respond to request for comment by press time.
Following the resignation of Captain Woodworth last Friday, Never Again Action Spokesperson Amy Anthony released a statement on the same day calling for the city to take action against Woodworth and other officers. Anthony said in the statement that Woodworth "should face criminal charges for his actions which endangered the lives of protesters on Wednesday night. The other officers who indiscriminately pepper-sprayed a distraught and traumatized crowd must face accountability for the violence they enacted."
Never Again Action expects the ongoing investigation "to continue and to address the violence and dehumanization that is an integral part of the ICE detention process," according to Anthony's statement.
Since the event, several Rhode Island representatives have sharply criticized the violence.
"I share the outrage Rhode Islanders are feeling about the incident depicted in the video at the Wyatt Detention Center," said Governor Gina Raimondo in a statement. "Our state and our nation were built on the idea that everyone has a right to express their opinion publicly and peacefully."
U.S. Congressman David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., said in a press release August 15 that he was "deeply disturbed" by reports of the vehicle hitting protestors as a violation to the democratic right to peaceful protest.
Mayor Jorge Elorza went a step further on Tuesday, joining the call "for shutting down Wyatt and banning the operation of private for-profit prisons in Rhode Island." Elorza condemned the violence at the Wyatt as undermining the facility's stated mission "to protect the public from people who pose a threat to society" and also emphasized the place of undocumented immigrants in his own personal history.
"My parents were undocumented immigrants for their first ten to 12 years here in the United States," he said, recalling that as a child he could never register for Little League Baseball and other activities because his "family was always afraid of giving out our info."
Clarification: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this article stated that a detention center officer allegedly drove a black pickup truck directly through a line of protestors. The sentence has been updated to more clearly reflect uncertainty surrounding the identity of the truck driver, not the action. The Herald regrets the error.
Topics: attorney general, Immigration, Never Again Action, protest


CINCINNATI, OH - The Mount St. Joseph University Lions hosted the Pioneers of Transylvania University in this Wednesday night matchup. The Lions are fourth in the conference and Transylvania are sitting in the first spot so this was a big game for The Mount. The Lions were defeated by Transylvania 49-69.
In the first quarter the Lions were able to get on the board first but the Pioneers know how to fight back. The Mount was not able to regain the lead as the time ran out in the first. They finished quarter number one trailing Transylvania 12-18 knowing they had ground to make up before halftime. As the second quarter began The Mount found themselves back 12 points with a long road ahead of them. The Mount was not able to gain footing in the second quarter and found themselves smothered by the Pioneers leading to The Lions having a halftime deficit of 14 points and the score of 25-39.
The third quarter followed in suit with the previous quarters and The Lions could not hit their stride and found themselves falling farther and farther behind. When the third quarter wrapped up the Pioneers lead had grown to 61-36. The Lions need to have an incredible final quarter if they wanted to take down the first place team in the conference. The fourth quarter came and went just as the three before it. Although the Lions were able to hold the Pioneers to 8 point in the last quarter and outscore them by 5 it was not enough. The game finished with The Mount falling short with a final score of 49-69.
Two Lions were able to score in the double digits. Maddie Haberthy (Cincinnati, OH/ Mercy) recorded 15 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists. Senior Lainee Studer (Pleasant Plain, OH/ Little Miami) achieved 11 points, 3 rebounds, 6 steals and an assist.
The Lions next game will be Saturday, February 9th at 1:00 PM in the Harrington Center as the first game in a double header. Continue to check MSJSports.com for more updates on the Lions 18-19 season!


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From concrete to ethereal: lessons from the road
BY CLAIRE MARTINI
The Uplift team has returned home from the first round of community conversations. We owe a big "thank you" to those who contributed to the discussion, and we're inspired to see the broad range of youth-led climate work happening already across the Colorado Plateau!
In Prescott, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Durango, Moab, and Salt Lake City, the climate priorities communities identified were fairly consistent even as the organizing approaches and individuals varied. Young people spoke with care about water use and protection, curbing fossil fuel extraction, protecting wild and sacred spaces, and supporting sustainable communities. Many expressed concern about a non-receptive political climate at a local, regional, and national level. Read more about Uplift's community conversations, from a reporter's perspective.
What to do about it? Solutions may lie in ideas ranging from concrete to ethereal: education, networking, creativity, art, protest, community, uncertainty, democracy, affordable housing, restoration, language, traditional knowledge, and more.
Myriad young people are already fighting the good fight. For the people we spoke with, work to address the climate conundrum ranged from protesting at BLM lease auctions to building affordable and sustainable housing. They're already using innovative ways to reach people, from putting art and creativity at the center, to enhancing inter-generational collaboration.
Here's where Uplift comes in: as a connector between various groups and individuals working across the expanse of the Colorado Plateau.
Meetings were best attended when we had personal connections or made contact with existing networks, and we learned about the areas where we have more work to do building relationships and community. As a group, we aim to highlight and support the amazing work already taking place on the ground, and weave it into a larger story for our region. If you have meaningful opportunities for young people to speak up and engage, whether organizing events, campaigns, rallies, or something else, please let us know and we'll send it out to our networks! To stay connected on social media, you can find us on Facebook and Instagram.
Looking forward, we'd love for you to join us at the conference August 18-20 in the San Juan National Forest outside Durango, Colorado.
As you probably already suspect, this isn't your typical "conference." It's a celebration of what's at stake. Uplifters can plan on camping amidst the ponderosa pines for three days of panel discussions, storytelling, and regional break-out groups to help strengthen the work you're doing, or give you the tools and connections to dive in. We hope you'll share your presence and ideas at Uplift this August. Please get in touch, because we can't wait to work together and build community across this wild home of ours.
(If you need support to attend, please let us know, as limited scholarships for registration or travel are available.)
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Release Blitz, ARC Review + Giveaway!- HardBall by C.D. Reiss
Title: HardBall
Author: C.D. Reiss
Genre: Contemporary Sports
Publication Date: March 29th 2016
Plot: Perfect ass.
Perfect arms.
Perfect swagger.
They call Dash Wallace the Diamond King.
He's the hottest commodity in baseball and in the bedroom.
When he runs the bases, every woman's eyes are glued to his stunning body and a smile that puts the night lights to shame.
I'm no queen. I'm a regular girl with a regular job. I just watch him on TV and from the bleachers, season after season.
Girls like me grab a guy like that one in a million times.
My number just came up, and he is as spectacular in bed as he is on the field.
But there's not a woman in the world who can distract Dash Wallace from the game. Not for a moment. Not even me.
Until the night I do. And everything changes.
MEET DASH WALLACE: http://dashwallace.com/
☆ I received an ARC via Give Me Books in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ☆
I had been seeing this book all over my friends' book feeds and so out of curiosity, I'd decided to take the plunge upon this novel as well.
Erm, over all, I liked it. I've always been attracted to my sports romance reads that are more than just about the sports itself and cocky jocks with huge egos and a weak female heroine that gets on my nerves....And somehow HardBall managed to pull that off with a charming male heroine and your all around girl next door female lead who both possessed a form of charisma and fragility towards one another that readers will be able to gravitate to and not let go of.
I mean, what every day girl next door would love to capture the heart of a hotshot and ooberly sexy baseball player? I think we all are Vivian's deep inside and can relate to her in many ways. She is very down to earth and easy to like.
As for Dash Wallace, *swoons*, he did initially come off as a d*&k but that thought quickly slips as after we learn the REAL Dash and the vulnerability underneath that facade. He is man with a heart of gold if you let him and will love wholeheartedly for those he truly cares about.
I loved the give and take, push and pull, between Dash and Vivian and found their interactions a mix of realistic and fairytale like but also very witty and entertaining.
Definitely a triumph for my first attempt at a CD Reiss read!!
☆✮ Praise for HardBall ✮☆
"Dash Wallace is a dirty talking, sexy professional baseball player who falls hard for the girl next door, but be-ware... your heart will take a beating as you watch him struggle with sticking to all he's ever known at the risk of losing the best thing that ever happened to him. Hardball is one of those books that will suck you in and won't let you go until you devour every last, juicy bite."
— Sawyer Bennett, NY Times Bestselling Author
"Fiery hot and enticingly realistic, CD Reiss's captivating writing, complex characters and explosive love scenes make Hard Ball an irresistible modern day romance."
— Katy Evans, NY Times Bestselling Author
"Delightful, sexy, emotional, exciting, exhilarating. I loved every single second of it! A sports romance with a DASH of kink....it doesn't get any better than that!"
— Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads
"Unexpectedly emotional, beautifully written, and decadently naughty, CD Reiss once again owned me heart and soul. Hardball was an enthralling romance from start to finish!! And I never wanted it to end."
— Angie and Jessica's Dreamy Reads
☆✮ About the Authors ✮☆
CD Reiss is a USA Today bestseller. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn't pick up she's at the well hauling buckets.
Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master's degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels.
She's frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn't ever gotten her out of chop-ping that cord of wood.
If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
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Cover Reveal- The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle
Title: The Ending I Want
Cover Designed by: Najla Qamber Designs
Publication Date: May 10th 2016
Plot: Taylor Shaw had the perfect life—until she was sixteen. That was when everything changed. From that moment on, life went from bad to worse…to the worst.
After recovering from a brain tumor, months later, she suffers the tragic loss of her whole family.
Since that fateful day, she's been coasting through life.
Now, the brain tumor has returned, and Taylor decides she's had enough. She's going to take her fate into her own hands.
No more hospitals. No more surgeries. No more anything.
She's going to join her family.
It's her decision.
What she longs for.
The ending she wants.
She just has a list of things to do before she goes.
First, go to England.
Second, kiss a stranger…
Only, Taylor didn't expect Liam Hunter, the stranger—with his handsome face, his six-foot-three of gorgeousness, and his oh-so-hot English accent—to change things.
To change her.
To change the ending she wanted.
What is a girl, who is standing on the edge of nothing, to do when offered the chance of everything?
New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international bestselling author Samantha Towle began her first novel in 2008 while on maternity leave. She completed the manuscript five months later and hasn't stopped writing since.
She has written contemporary romances, THE MIGHTY STORM, WETHERING THE STORM, TAMING THE STORM, REVVED, REVIVED and TROUBLE.
She has also written paranormal romances, THE BRINGER and the ALEXANDRA JONES SERIES, all penned to tunes of The Killers, Kings of Leon, Adele, The Doors, Oasis, Fleetwood Mac, and more of her favourite musicians.
A native of Hull and a graduate of Salford University, she lives with her husband, Craig, in East Yorkshire with their son and daughter.
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Release Blitz & ARC Review- Rushing the Goal (Assassins #8) by Toni Aleo
Title: Rushing the Goal (Assassins #8)
Author: Toni Aleo
Publication Date: March 28th 2016 by Toni Aleo Books
Plot: Introduced in Toni Aleo's Bellevue Bullies Series, it's the Sinclair brothers' big sister's turn to find love in the next installment of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling series, the Assassins.
Lucy Sinclair was no stranger to pain.
She grew up with three younger brothers, met a bad boy, got pregnant by him, married him, and then suffered through a nasty divorce from him. Pain. That was pain. To top it off, she even had to go through the heartbreaking divorce of her parents. Through it all, she survived. All she cared about was making sure her daughter was happy and taken care of. Despite an ex-husband hell-bent on ruining her life, she fought to overcome. She's gotten to the point that she's okay with being just okay. She never cared about herself because she never had the time. It was Angie and only Angie she focused on, but that all changed when Benji Paxton offered to help her daughter on the ice.
Benji knew the moment he saw Lucy, he'd never be the same. Especially when she came with the bundle of crazy that was her daughter. His heart wasn't ready for them. After years spent sobering up and finding who he was without the alcohol, he never forgot he was being punished for not appreciating the love he had when he was younger. Because of his past, he had gotten used to being alone, a recluse, but even he had to admit it was getting old. He was lonely. Hockey wasn't enough anymore. He wanted a family; he wanted his true love.
And Lucy and Angie were just that.
They were just two lost souls.
Floating through life with no purpose.
But finding each other gave them direction, a chance at a future.
And had them both Rushing the Goal to be together.
☆ I received an ARC via Toni's representative in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ☆
Benji was one of those genuine, all around good guys that you want as your boyfriend. He's kind, handsome, athletic, and possesses a heart of pure gold.
His openness and acceptance of Lucy and her daughter, Angie, was truly heartfelt and amazing. It's not an every day reaction any normal guy would have to automatically want to pursue
a single mother who happens to be the sister of one of his teammates. Not to mention, who is stubborn as a mule and has built a wall as high as Fort Knox built around her.
He is definitely one of those one of a kind, rare guys.
Lucy, on the other hand, is a finicky but understandable character. She has been spurned in the past by a man she thought was going to be her forever which ended in turbulence and in shabbles.
Now, apprehensive about men and engaging in any type of relationship with one, Lucy soon finds herself on the fence about Assassin's player, Benji Paxton, who infuriates her as he does make her heart stir.
But, despite what her heart wants, she has her daughter to think of first, along with an ex husband who is hellbent on making her life a miserable one.
And now with Benji in the picture, he shakes everything Lucy could have ever expected upon in her life.
He represents hope. Something Lucy has yet to come across in a while.
But, when Benji's own tragic past reveals itself, will it be too much for the both of them to handle?
I really enjoyed this story. Lucy, whom we already had met in the Bellevue Bullies Series, as Jace and Jude's sister, was kind of a mystery to me aside from the fact that we knew that she was a mother and kind of a prude.
Delving into her though, I learned much more about her that gave her much more of a layered appeal and what was on the inside of the angry, conflicted facade she carried.
As for Benji. The man was like a walking, bleeding heart that draws you in and want to know more. He's a man barely holding it together and looking for love and his place in the world.
Enter the answers to his prayers, when he meets Lucy and Angie, whom seem to bring him back to life and want to be an even better version of his self and give him a true purpose admist all the darkness.
Loved this!!
☆✮ The Assassins Series✮☆
Toni Aleo is the author of the Nasvhille Assassins series: Taking Shots, Trying to Score, Empty Net, Falling for the Backup, and Blue Lines.
When not rooting for her beloved Nashville Predators, she's probably going to her husband's and son's hockey games and her daughter's dance competitions, taking pictures, scrapbooking, or reading the latest romance novel.
She lives in the Nashville area with her husband, two children, and a bulldog. Read more about Toni here.
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COVER DESIGN || REGINA WAMBA
EDITING || LISA A. HOLLETT
MARKETING || KELLIE GUNDERMAN
This book is for any single mom who wants to give up.
Just keep being a great mom. And take care of yourself.
Your prince is coming.
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Release Blitz Review + Giveaway!- New Blue (Blue Series, #5) by Jules Barnard
Title: New Blue (Blue Series, #5)
Author: Jules Barnard
Plot: Summer in Lake Tahoe just got hot...
As Hayden Tate fights to hold her own inside the old boys club of Blue Casino, privileged Adam Cade must decide between the job that means certain freedom from his father's heavy thumb, or standing up for the girl who's slowly working her way into his jaded heart.
The survivor of a high school sabotage that made her flee her hometown at sixteen, Hayden is no stranger to bullying. Now she has returned to Lake Tahoe to take on her dream job with a degree and a backbone. But her newfound strength is pushed to the limit as she fights to hold her own against the old boys club of Blue Casino.
Adam is the prince of Lake Tahoe, born into one of the wealthiest families in the area. He's used to doing what he wants when he wants. So when his powerful father threatens to cut him off without a dime unless he uses his Ivy League degree for a job his father got him at Blue Casino, Adam capitulates. Hayden, the head of HR, hates Adam on the spot, finding every way possible to put him in his place—and suddenly the lackey job his father found him gets interesting. Adam's life of leisure lacks substance, and even though he's not willing to give it up, he wouldn't mind the distraction Hayden presents.
But when the casino's sinister inner workings begin to reveal themselves and Adam is caught between the powerful executives he works for and the lovely Hayden, his loyalties are divided. Blue Casino offers Adam a lucrative career where he wouldn't need his father's money for the lifestyle he's accustomed to, but at what cost? Hayden's silly side shines through when Adam least expects it, charming his jaded heart, and forcing him to face a morality he never knew he had. For the first time in Adam's life he finds himself yearning for something real, but will he risk losing everything to have it?
New Blue is the 5th and final book in the Blue Series. Each book in the Blue Series is a stand-alone story and does not need to be read in order.
Book Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-aX1rU3LPw
☆ I received an ARC via Indiesage PR in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ☆
As majority of all know, you should always read book series in the order that they are written and released. But I didn't. In fact, I hadn't realized this was the fifth and last installment in this series until after I had already signed up for the release blitz and started reading. But, I don't regret it for one second. The synopsis was too darn intriguing to pass up.
Hayden Tate has returned to her hometown of Lake Tahoe after a devastating past, she vows that she will return a changed woman-- stronger, smarter, and more courageous than what she was.
Now securing a dream job at Blue Casino, she vows to no longer be that limber girl she once was and to stand up to wealth, privilege, and corruption. Everything that embodies Adam Cade to a tee.
But Adam isn't on the inside what Hayden as pegged him to be. He longs for more but he doesn't know what. He wants to prove himself but he doesn't even know if that entails the Blue Casino. Until now after meeting her.
I have to admit, it was a bit bizarre walking into this blind. Like, completely. But in another sense, it was what made this read a bit more of an exciting challenge. Walking into the unknown and now curious to know how it all began. Brings on a surreal feeling.
Over all though, New Blue was an enjoyable read that tests love, friendships, family, and loyalties, and where they all fit in the ever wheeling power of prestige.
I'm now curious to know more about author Jules Barnard and how to read more from her in the future!
☆✮ The Blue Series ✮☆
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Before turning to storytelling, Jules earned a master's degree in public health and spent many an hour running statistical analysis–until she realized her favorite part of the job was writing reports. She decided to cut out the math and add in some hot guys, and so began her career as a novelist.
Jules is a Northern California native living on the coast with her husband and two children. She has no impulse control around cupcakes and credits herself with the ability to read while running on the treadmill or burning dinner.
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Q: How do you get results where all properties under the same client are inactive but the client isn't inactive? I have two tables, one with Client Address information called ClientData, and one with information on their properties called PropertyData. In both tables, there is a Status field to indicate whether or not the client is inactive and both tables have a field called ClientID to indicate which client the property belongs to. I'm trying to figure out a query that will find clients where ALL of the properties under the same ClientID have PropertyData.Status ='INACTIVE' but ClientData.Status isn't marked INACTIVE.
Sorry if my question is unclear. This is my first time using Stack Overflow.
Haven't figured out any queries on this yet.

A: SELECT DISTINCT ClientData.ClientID
FROM ClientData
JOIN PropertyData ON ClientData.ClientID = PropertyData.ClientID
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
    SELECT 1 FROM PropertyData
    WHERE PropertyData.ClientID = ClientData.ClientID
    AND PropertyData.Status != 'INACTIVE')
AND ClientData.Status != 'INACTIVE'