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Q: Using Adal.js in Angular 7 I am developing a web application using Angular 7 and this app communicates to a Web API back-end services written in dot.net core.
These two applications have been deployed to Azure and all its configurations has been set up: resource group, enable CORS, Azure AD, etc...
The problem I am facing is at the moment to consume the endpoints, lets say to do a normal get. I am getting a 401 http error which make sense. So, I starting implementing Adal.js in my Angular App to let the user authenticate to the Azure Active Directory, get the token and inject the token on the Request Header (following this post: Using ADAL.js with Angular4+). However, I am getting this error:
adal.services.ts
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { adal } from 'adal-angular';
import { Observable, Subscriber } from 'rxjs';
import { retry } from 'rxjs/operators';

import { AdalConfigService } from './adal-config.service';

declare var AuthenticationContext: adal.AuthenticationContextStatic;
let createAuthContextFn: adal.AuthenticationContextStatic = AuthenticationContext;

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root',
})
export class AdalService {
  private context: adal.AuthenticationContext;
  constructor(private configService: AdalConfigService) {
    this.context = new createAuthContextFn(configService.adalSettings);
  }

Error:

I already have the following Adal.js packages installed:
  npm install adal-angular
npm install @type/adal-angular
Has anyone face a similar issue? Any help is very welcome

A: Since @types/adal has been replaced  with @types/adal-angular, it appears the way how AuthenticationContext is exported has changed since then and now it could be imported using ES6 syntax like this:
import * as AuthenticationContext from 'adal-angular';

Example
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { AdalConfigService } from './adal-config.service';
import * as AuthenticationContext from 'adal-angular';

@Injectable()
export class AdalService {
    private context: AuthenticationContext;
    constructor(private configService: AdalConfigService) {
        this.context = new AuthenticationContext(configService.adalSettings);
    }
    login() {
        this.context.login();
    }
}


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Q: How is Gaussian assumption used in proving Gaussian comparison inequality I'm studying the HDS book by Martin Wainwright. In section 5.4.1, there is a Theorem 5.25, which is a general Gaussian comparison inequality, reproduced as follows.
Let $(X_1,X_2,\dots,X_N)$ and $(Y_1,Y_2,\dots,Y_N)$ be a pair of centered Gaussian random
vectors, and suppose that there exist disjoint subsets $A$ and $B$ of $[N]\times[N]$ such
that
$$E(X_iX_j)\leq E(Y_iY_j),\quad\forall(i,j)\in A,$$
$$E(X_iX_j)\geq E(Y_iY_j),\quad\forall(i,j)\in B,$$
$$E(X_iX_j)=E(Y_iY_j),\quad\forall(i,j)\not\in A\cup B.$$
Let $F:\mathbb{R}^N\to\mathbb{R}$ be a twice-differentiable function, and suppose that
$$\dfrac{\partial^2F}{\partial u_i\partial u_j}(u)\geq0,\quad\forall(i,j)\in A,$$
$$\dfrac{\partial^2F}{\partial u_i\partial u_j}(u)\leq0,\quad\forall(i,j)\in B.$$
Then we are guaranteed that
$$E(F(X))\leq E(F(Y)).$$
In the proof, the author lets $Z(t)=\sqrt{1-t}X+\sqrt{t}Y$ for each $t\in[0,1]$, and calculates
$$E(Z_i(t)Z_j'(t))=\dfrac{1}{2}(E(Y_iY_j)-E(X_iX_j)),$$
where $Z_j'(t)$ is the derivative of $Z_j(t)$. Here comes the part I couldn't understand: the author claims that we can write $Z_i(t)=\alpha_{ij}Z_j'(t)+W_{ij}$, where $\alpha_{ij}\geq0$ for $(i,j)\in A$, and similarly for other cases. Also, $W_j=(W_{1j},\dots,W_{Nj})$ is independent of $Z_j'(t)$ due to Gaussianity.
My question is: how is Gaussianity used to write down the $W_{ij}$'s, and why are they independent of $Z_j'(t)$. The book doesn't provide more information. This proof in the book was adapted from Theorem 3.11 in Probability in Banach Spaces (Ledoux, Telegrand, 1991), but the proof is even more succinct and harder to understand. Any comments are appreciated!

A: I might have figured it out. Since $Z_i(t)$ and $Z_j'(t)$ are zero-mean, $E(Z_i(t)Z_j'(t))=\text{Cov}(Z_i(t),Z_j'(t))$. For $(i,j)\in A$, this quantity is non-negative. Thinking of covariance as an inner product, we see that $Z_i(t)$ can be written as a non-negative multiple of $Z_j'(t)$ plus an orthogonal component $W_{ij}$. In addition, for Gaussian vectors, zero correlation means independence, so $Z_j'(t)$ and $W_{ij}$ are independent.

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Tony Award Nominee & San Diego Native Charl Brown: A Broadway Sensation as Musical Icon Smokey Robinson
/ Celebrity News, Chocolate Chats, Entertainment / By The Chocolate Voice
Broadway Black/Photographer – "Ken Arcara"
In an exclusive interview with BroadwayBlack.com, Tony Award Nominee and San Diego Native, Charl Brown talked about the moment he set his sights on Theatre and, how his latest role as music icon Smokey Robinson in the new Motown: The Musical.
The following is an excerpt from the interview:
When you ask someone when they first fell in love with theatre and their face doesn't light up, you know that they probably don't really love it. However, when they do, you can feel the joy and the love engulf their being and spill over onto you. This was true for Brown. He smiled with excitement just thinking about his introduction to theatre. Being a natural athlete, coming from a family of athletes, he never really thought about theatre all that much. His Dad was a high school football coach, and his 2 other brothers followed as players. Being a baseball player himself, his life could have taken a different turn. Until that fateful day he broke his arm playing an All-Star game and later that year ended up auditioning and being cast in the musical Annie at his new school, San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. From that 8th grade moment Brown set his sights to the stage and began to pursue other opportunities. As a senior in high school he scored his first professional gig in a regional production of Little Shop of Horrors. Continuing to work at other theatre's, including San Diego Junior. Theatre and Starlight Theatre in Balboa Park, Brown made it known that this was what he wanted to do and set his sights on college to study his craft.
The Chocolate Voice is proud to call the amazingly talented San Diego native, Charl Brown one of our own.
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Read the full interview on BroadwayBlack.Com.
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Q: django aggregating values from related table I am using Django to serve REST APIs to my front end app.
I have a SaleInvoice table and SaleLineItems table.
I created a SerializerMethodField (sub_total) to calculate a value based on values in fields of SaleLineItems table.
When I make a post/patch request to SaleLineItems, I am able to get the sub_total in response.data.
Now, I need a grand_total in SaleInvoice table/serializer which can aggregate all
sub_total values from SaleLineItems records which have the same Sale Invoice id.
If I do
SaleLineItems.objects.filter(sale_invoice=saleInvoiceId).aggregate(Sum('sub_total'))

I get an error telling me that I cannot use 'sub_total' but can use other regular fields of the SaleLineItems table.
Kindly help.
models.py
...

class SaleInvoice(models.Model):
    customer = models.ForeignKey(Customer, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    serial_number = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
    amount_before_freight = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)
    freight = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)
    amount_after_freight = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.id)

class SaleLineItems(models.Model):
    sale_invoice = models.ForeignKey(SaleInvoice, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    product_name = models.ForeignKey(Product, on_delete=models.PROTECT)
    product_qty = models.FloatField()
    product_rate = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)
    product_disc = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)

...

serializers.py
...

class SaleLineItemsSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    def get_sub_total(self, instance):
        return (
            Decimal(instance.product_qty)
            * Decimal(instance.product_rate)
            * Decimal(1-(instance.product_disc/100))
            ).quantize(Decimal("1.00"))

    sub_total = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

    class Meta:
        model = SaleLineItems
        fields = "__all__"

UPDATE AFTER COMMENTS:
class SaleInvoiceSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    def get_grand_total(self, saleInvoiceId):
        return SaleLineItems.objects.filter(sale_invoice=saleInvoiceId).aggregate(Sum('subTotal'))
    grand_total = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

    class Meta:
        model = SaleInvoice
        fields = "__all__"

Update2:
Removed grand_total from serializers.py
Added the below property in models.py for SaleInvoice model
Also added related_name='items' for SaleLineItems model
@property
def grandTotal(self):
    sum = 0
    for some in self.items.all():
        sum += some.sub_total
    return sum

This gets me the desired result but I have no clue if this is the right approach. So posted it here.

A: Update your SaleLineItems model to be:
class SaleLineItems(models.Model):
    sale_invoice = models.ForeignKey(SaleInvoice, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    product_name = models.ForeignKey(Product, on_delete=models.PROTECT)
    product_qty = models.FloatField()
    product_rate = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)
    product_disc = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)

    @property
    def sub_total(self):
        return (
            Decimal(self.product_qty)
            * Decimal(self.product_rate)
            * Decimal(1-(self.product_disc/100))
            ).quantize(Decimal("1.00"))

The way you defined it will not allow Django know about your aggregated property, as it lives in serializer and Django models know nothing about Django Rest Framework serializers.
The query is used at Django level (Django ORM), not Django Rest Framework level.
Then your serializer can be like:
class SaleLineItemsSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = SaleLineItems
        fields = ('id','sale_invoice','product_name','product_qty',
                  'product_rate', 'product_disc', 'sub_total',)

Notice the new field sub_total listed in the serializer.
In your views.py create a viewset:
class  SaleLineItemsList(generics.ListAPIView):
    queryset = SaleLineItems.objects.all()
    serializer_class = SaleLineItemsSerializer

In your urls.py add for Django 2.0 and later add:
    path('salelineitems/', SaleLineItemsList.as_view()),

For Django 1.7- 1.11 add:
    url(r'^salelineitems/',SaleLineItemsList.as_view()),


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Bristol Health Sciences and Medicine
Health Sciences and Medicine pathway
Kings is delighted to include in its University of Bristol pathway programme entry to Medicine, as well as Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine. Applications must be made through UCAS, and candidates who are successful at interview will receive a conditional offer for MBChB Medicine.
Founded in 1876, the University of Bristol offers a rare combination of academic excellence and future-based thinking.
Excellent rankings
The University of Bristol is ranked #15 overall in the UK in the Times Good University Guide 2023
Top 100 globally ranked University in the QS World University Rankings 2023
Top 100 globally for Medicine and Dentistry (Times Higher Education 2022)
Ranked #12 in the UK for Medicine (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023)
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Application through UCAS
Colleges:
Completed 11 – 12 years of schooling
Minimum IELTS 6.5
Completing the Medical Summer Programme first is highly recommended
1 academic year (3 terms)
Average 21 hours per week, plus homework and private study
Raise academic qualifications to UK university entrance level
Raise English to university level
Develop learning and self-study skills for degree level
Full preparation for participation in the MMIs
Develop relevant working experience required for entry into medical school
One-year Foundation pathway
You will follow the specialist Kings Advanced Level Foundation. This is based on A-level and taught by A-level teachers.
You will study Biology or Chemistry, plus a minimum of one further Science (Biology, Chemistry, Maths, Physics) along with the compulsory subjects of Data Handling/Statistics and Communication/Study Skills. Any other subject is acceptable as the third option, with the exception of Further Maths.
Two-year A-level pathway
You will study Biology and Chemistry at A-level, as well as either Maths or Physics.
Bristol Medical School entry criteria
You will have the opportunity to apply for the University of Bristol medical course (MBChB) if you satisfy the following conditions in your course at Kings:
Foundation: 75% overall, with Chemistry at 75% and one of Biology, Physics or Mathematics at 75%. (These criteria apply for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine)
A-level: AAA including Chemistry and either Biology, Physics or Mathematics.
Students must also have the equivalent of GCSE Maths 7 or A, as well as 4 or C in GCSE English.
IELTS: 7.5 (Minimum 7.0 in all categories)
UCAT: you will need to register and book to take the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT)
UCAS Application
Once you have taken UCAT, you must apply to Bristol through UCAS.
The UCAS deadline for applying to medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses is 15 October.
Your Kings UCAS adviser will support your application.
Applicants must be available for interview from December to April immediately after submission of their application.


John Jungk is a seasoned business veteran. His business is spices … developing, mixing and packaging custom-tailored blends for a long list of food-industry clients.
Entering the blending and packaging plant of Old World Spices & Seasonings Inc. in Concordia, Mo., every visitor inhales the sensational aromas of a spectrum of savory seasonings.
Old World Spices moved its manufacturing plant from Kansas City to Concordia in 2009. The company staff moved a separate manufacturing line every weekend during the three-month transition that began in August. As a result, no manufacturing time was lost and customer service was never interrupted.
John founded his company in 1988. But the story starts long before then.
Walter Jungk, John's father, devoted his career to the seasoning business. Walter was vice president of sales for a national custom blending and flavor house, Basic Food Materials. In the mid-'60s Walter introduced his son to the trade, assigning him the sales territory covering Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado.
John, a quick study and natural-born salesman, learned the business and established strong relationships with his customers. A few years later John started his own seasoning supply company focusing on a then-budding branch of the food-service industry — pizza.
His company succeeded so well John (and his eventual partner Walter) sold it in 1976 to Far-Mar-Co, which later became part of Farmland Industries. John remained in the industry serving five years as director of manufacturing for Far-Mar-Co, then joining Tony's Pizza to develop a seasoning plant in Kansas.
Businessman John Jungk has devoted more than 40 years of his career to the spice and seasonings industry. He founded the company known as Old World Spices & Seasonings in 1996 in Kansas City.
By the late-'80s John got the entrepreneurial itch again, founding Industrial Ingredients Supply, a food and spice brokerage and wholesale distributorship in Kansas City. Within two years John renewed the family tradition in the seasoning-business by hiring his daughter Amy as his first employee. Two other daughters — Beth Benteman and Laurie Corbin — eventually joined the company along with son-in-law Russ Meinhardt.
As the company grew and added employees from outside the family, John refocused the company from brokerage and distribution to product development and blending. Also the firm's seasoning market broadened from its original baking and dairy base to include meat, deli and specialty-gourmet customers. To reflect the expansion John changed the company name to Old World Spices & Seasonings in 1996.
It was also during this time of company growth that John realized he needed to broaden his business savvy. He first turned to the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation, taking several of its FastTrac classes for entrepreneurs. Through this connection, and because of his continuing pursuit of business development, John learned about the services of the Missouri Small Business & Technology Development Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
John reviews an order being filled by one of the 40-member staff at the company's plant in Concordia. Hairnets and beardnets are standard apparel for anyone entering the manufacturing and packaging area.
For several years John relied on SBTDC business specialists for counseling advice. Eventually, as part of his company's extensive research and development efforts, John and his R&D staff sought guidance from the SBTDC to apply for a federal Small Business Innovation Research grant from the USDA. To assist its application the company received a $5,000 Missouri Technology Incentive Program — MoTIP — award. The stipend financed the complex SBIR application process.
Though this initial application proved unsuccessful, John and his research staff learned a lot about the grant application process. The experience offered valuable feedback that could boost the chances for success of possible future applications.
Consequently John and his staff are also considering how best to utilize the government contracting assistance services of the Missouri Procurement Technology Assistance Centers, a program also available through the business development office at UMKC. MO PTAC helps established businesses pursue business contracts from federal, state and local government agencies.
The company president takes two UMKC SBTDC business specialists — Will Taber (left) and Larry Lee (middle) — on a plant tour.
That staff is growing. With about 40 full-time and part-time employees, Old World Spices moved its production plant last summer from its long-time location in south-central Kansas City to rural Concordia, about 50 miles east in Lafayette County. John expected some staff attrition due to the lengthened commute. However, staff loyalty and job satisfaction proved strong. Since the move only one employee has left the company.
Old World Spices now meets the demands of a growing base of 1,500 clients in all branches of the food-service industry. It currently maintains more than 5,000 dry mix and seasoning blend formulas in its library of recipes.
The company also has entered the fund-raising market. It's collection of Laurie's Kitchen gourmet dry mix products serves as the base of a new product line aimed at that target. The line is named for John's oldest daughter, who played an important role in both development and sales of Old World's gourmet products, before dying unexpectedly at the age of 37 in 2001. The line offers elegantly packaged dry mix products for soups, dips, cheese balls, salad dressings, meat rubs, marinades and desserts.


The West Sussex Local Authority control admissions into the school according to their Admissions Policy. The school has a designated catchment area for the Year 7 intake from two localities - Chanctonbury Schools (Partridge Green, Henfield, Ashurst, Steyning and Upper Beeding) and STARS Schools (Amberley, Ashington, Storrington, Thakeham, Washington and West Chiltington).
We welcome children from outside the catchment area to fill any remaining Year 7 places. This can be done through the normal school selection procedures for Year 7. We recommend you contact West Sussex Admissions for further information regarding transfers.
Our published admission number (PAN) in Year 7 is 210 on our Church Street site and 166 for our Rock Road site in Storrington. From Year 9, our intake includes an additional 15 boarders for which separate admission arrangements apply.
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2107 N. 26th Street | 250-8711
Walter Jennings Jr./
Comstock Public Schools » Athletics » Awards History » Hall of Fame » Inductions » 2011 Class » Walter Jennings Jr.
I've known Walt for over 70 years. We played a lot of sandlot football and baseball in any vacant field or pasture we could find when we were kids. Later, Walt, my brother Joe, Chuck Fullmer, Jack Walker, and others rode our bikes down to Upjohn field to play American Legion Ball for legendary coach Mac Mc Kee. In high school, Walt made the varsity baseball team as a freshman. He went on to star in football, basketball, and baseball. After high school, Walt and I played and traveled with the Ramona Bears, a team made up of players from State High and Kalamazoo Central High School. You could tell at an early age that Walt would be a real good athlete. I think given the opportunity, Walt could have played baseball at the college level or even professionally. It has been great knowing Walt all of these years and I congratulate him on his induction into the Comstock High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Jack Nuyen – CHS Class of 1946
Having known Walt Jennings all through grade school and high school, I would describe him as a conscientious, responsible, and dependable person. He was also an outstanding athlete and a team player is reason enough to recognize him in the Hall of Fame.
Arnold La Mere - CHS Class of 1948
When I heard that Mr. Jennings got inducted into the Comstock High School Athletic Hall of Fame, I thought what a special honor that couldn't have happened to a nicer person. I was fortunate to grow up down the road from Mr. and Mrs. Jennings. I became real good friends with their son Craig, and always enjoyed the greatest peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the world that Mrs. Jennings made. Mr. Jennings was like a second dad to me, as I was always over at their house. Mr. Jennings was also my baseball coach from 8 to 14 years old. He taught us how to enjoy the game and play as a team…baseball was always fun. I didn't realize it at the time, but Mr. Jennings taught me good sportsmanship, respect for people, and generally how to be a good person….and I can't thank him enough for that.Rich Livingston
9 Varsity Letters in Football, Basketball and Baseball
1946 – Voted Most Improved Player in Baseball
1947 – Captain of Football, Basketball and Baseball Teams
1947 – Most points scored in KVA Football Conference
1948 – KVA Baseball Champs
Semi Pro Baseball
Played for Clarage Fan and the Ramona Bears
2107 N. 26th Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49048 |Phone 250-8712 | Fax 269-250-8713


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Rakhine State, Pauk Taw. A nurse shares her experience with other participants at a training on maternal and child health care. Photo Credit: ICRC.
Executive Short Course
Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Crises
This executive short course is an intensive training, given by academic staff and humanitarian practitioners, which focuses on Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) in humanitarian crises, using specific methods and tools.
The overall objective of the course is to allow mid-level or senior managers to develop an understanding of sexual and reproductive health issues in emergencies and to provide them with skills to coordinate the implementation of a minimum set of sexual and reproductive health interventions at the onset of an emergency and as an integral part of health assistance programmes.
This course is delivered in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Course Director
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Advocate for sexual and reproductive health in emergencies
Describe how an emergency situation, caused by for example conflict or disaster, affects reproductive health needs
Apply core concepts and techniques provided in the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for SRH in Crises
Apply coordination skills for the implementation of the MISP
Draw implications for addressing SRH for communities in crisis in their own country context.
Around 50 hours of work for the whole course, including:
• Approximately 20 hours of face-to-face teaching (lectures, group work, etc.)
• Approximately 30 hours of self-study time
Structure of the course
Overview and coordination of SRH in crisis
Communication and advocacy
Coordinating maternal and newborn health
HIV prevention and programming
Coordinating abortion care
Logistics, monitoring and evaluation
Professionals in the health sector in humanitarian or development contexts looking to develop their competencies in sexual and reproductive health.
Professionals from other sectors such as logistics and management who wish to increase their understanding of how to coordinate sexual and reproductive health programmes.
Graduate students with relevant volunteer or intern experience, looking to undertake a postgraduate course with a view to entering the humanitarian sector.
Prof Karl Blanchet Designation: Director & Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
a university qualification (bachelor's degree or equivalent);
at least three years of relevant professional experience;
excellent command of English;
motivation working in the humanitarian sector.
CV (Résumé)
Copy of your highest diploma
Work certificate or official document of your current job position
Scanned copy of passport.
More information about the admission process is available on our application page.
Dates 23 May - 3 June 2022
Duration Two weeks
CREDITS 2 ECTS
Fee CHF 1'500
Application Deadline 1 May 2022
If applying for a scholarship Deadline: Scholarships are not available for this course.
Certificate Certificate of advanced studies in Humanitarian Action: Quality Management of Humanitarian Projects
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But emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Imagine the Last Supper scene. The disciples were gathered, ready to celebrate the Passover with their friend Jesus.
When Jesus arrives he does something unexpected. He washes the disciples' feet. Think about that. Most likely these men had traveled miles barefoot through streets and terrain that hadn't been touched by a street sweeper. And Jesus wanted to wash their feet.
This feet-washing gig was usually reserved for a lowly servant. Not this time. Jesus, the Messiah, the son of God, got down on his knees and humbled himself before his followers. Why? That was his purpose. To serve.
The very next day Jesus would die on a cross for the world. The ultimate sacrifice. A beautiful act of service.
From the beginning there was a call on Jesus' life—a call to serve. That's the call on my life too. I'm not here to serve myself or pursue my selfish ambitions. I'm here to serve, to give, to love.
Our purpose is clear: Love God. Love people.
Will you let the story of Easter and Jesus' example of service propel you to love and serve people with all you have?
Today's Challenge: Love someone who would least expect it today. Do something kind for them. Maybe take flowers to someone who you usually disagree with or bring the co-worker who got the promotion before you a cup of coffee today.
Dear Lord, we pray today that we would show Your love to someone today. Bring that person to our mind so that we can share the love of Easter with them. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.


SAN DIEGO — Despite a fumble by senior receiver Miles Boykin on the opening play of the evening, No. 3 Notre Dame handled the adversity in style with an efficient offensive display on a warm evening at SDCCU Stadium.
The debut of the Navy triple option in the subsequent play set the tone for both teams — run the ball. Both the Irish (8-0) and the Midshipmen (2-6, 1-3 AAC) turned to their feet in crunch time, with seven of the nine touchdowns in the matchup coming from the running backs.
Navy tried to capitalize on the opening mishap, but senior Zach Abey was stuffed on fourth down at Notre Dame's 27-yard line to give the ball back to the Irish. Once the Notre Dame offense returned to the field, three-consecutive runs by senior running back Dexter Williams for a total of 46 yards and an 11-yard catch by junior receiver Chase Claypool brought the Irish inside the red zone. The veterans then decided to hand things over to Jafar Armstrong, making his first appearance for the Irish since Vanderbilt after being sidelined with a leg infection. The sophomore had three rushes on the drive, the third of which put the Irish on the board, in addition to his eight-yard catch. Ian Book would continue to look to Armstrong throughout the matchup for deep gains.
Irish senior wide receiver Miles Boykin catches a touchdown pass during Notre Dame's 44-22 win over Navy at SDCCU Stadium in San Diego.
In his first attempt stepping in for injured senior kicker Justin Yoon, sophomore Jonathan Doerer missed his first attempt at the extra point but returned immediately after to place the ball deep in Navy territory.
The Irish struck again to close out the first quarter, this time turning Book, who was incredibly efficient against the Midshipmen defense. A 18-yard pass to Claypool followed by a 12-yard keeper by Book brought the Irish to the midfield stripe. Book then delivered a five-yard pass to freshman receiver Kevin Austin, who scampered 33 yards before being brought down at the Navy 12-yard line. Williams' 12-yard run put the Irish up by 12 and Doerer's successful kick extended the lead to 13 going into the second quarter.
The second quarter continued along the same pattern, as the Irish essentially imposed their will on the Navy offense. The Midshipmen struggled to make significant gains, only rushing for more than six yards before halftime on two occasions.
Junior safety Alohi Gilman, a transfer from Navy, recorded seven total tackles on the evening. Gilman commented on the differences between his freshman year, when the Midshipmen beat the Irish and he made a career-high 12 tackles, and now.
Offensively, Notre Dame continued to march down the field behind the performances of the receiving unit of Claypool, seniors Chris Finke and [tight ends] Alizé Mack and sophomore Cole Kmet, before Book handed the ball back off to senior running back Dexter Williams for two more touchdowns.
Williams credited the offensive line with opening up the gaps to allow him to score.
These two drives to put the Irish up 27-0 heading into the half. Three times in the second quarter, Book converted on fourth down, either by hitting a slot receiver or creating with his feet to get the extra downs to keep the play alive.
But the 27-point lead wouldn't remain for long, as Navy came storming out of the tunnel to open the half with a 58-yard run by junior quarterback Malcolm Perry. Abey eventually put the Midshipmen on the board following a one-yard rush to the end zone.
A 30-yard field goal by Doerer gave the Irish a 23-point cushion, proving useful when Navy responded with another touchdown, this time flashing some of the arm of senior quarterback Garret Lewis, who completed a 34-yard pass, the longest of the night for Lewis. Ultimately, Navy returned to Abey, who once again punched the ball in for one yard past the Irish defensive line to cut the Irish lead to 16.
With time winding down on the third quarter, the Irish added another score with a four-yard catch from Boykin, marking the first touchdown of the evening for Book. Although he completed 27 of 33 passes for 330 yards, Book's interception to open the fourth quarter — his fourth in nearly as many games — gave Navy a chance in a game that still had plenty of time remaining. The Midshipmen made the Irish pay, scoring two plays later and converting the two-point conversion to cut the lead to 37-22.
But Notre Dame responded with a eight-play, 75-yard drive that kept the Irish comfortably ahead. On third down, Book threw a 27-yard pass to Armstrong to keep the drive alive. Three plays later, a 22-yard toss to Boykin in the end zone gave the Irish the extra insurance they needed. A Navy fumble and then an interception by junior safety Jalen Elliott on back-to-back drives guaranteed the 44-22 Notre Dame win to seal the win and the playoff hopes alive.
The significance of the 92nd meeting between the two programs was not lost on the players, as Book described the experience as an honor.


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Detroit stars' new tour hits Savannah Smiles
MOST FOLKS IN SAVANNAH have no idea who Electric Six is. It's probably because we've never had a serious, commercial alternative radio station — and that's about the only way you'd ever stumble across their brand of snarky, absurdist cock rock.
Of course, they're all the rage on the internet, and over the past few years, a fair number of their over-the-top garage-meets-electroclash tracks have made their way into the sets of some of the more open-minded DJs around town (such as the sorely-missed Captain who initially launched The Jinx's popular Thursday night Fever! Dance Party).
With standout, virtually unforgettable almost-novelty singles such as "Gay Bar" (with it's relentless chorus of "Girl, I wanna take you to a gay bar"), "Danger! High Voltage," which sounded like some bizarre cross between vintage Chic and middle-period AC/DC (thanks in no small part to a crazed guest vocal that was widely rumored to have been sung by hometown hero Jack White, of White Stripes fame), and "I Buy The Drugs," E6 have become the bad boys of dance-punk.
Their brand-new CD, I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master, may be seen by many as somewhat of a return to form, as their last disc, Switzerland, was met with some resistance by longtime fans.
I Shall Exterminate is filled with overdriven blasts of guitar-rock, abetted by thunderous drums and copious amounts of keyboard and synth textures. As on previous releases, frontman/vocalist Dick Valentine's lyrics are obtuse, tongue planted so firmly in cheek as to do himself harm.
On this leg of their world tour, the group will be joined by two buzzworthy support acts: California blues and folk influenced indie-rockers The Willowz (known best for their contributions to the soundtrack of Michel Gondry's film Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind) and Toronto's The Golden Dogs, whose blend of angular, Shins-ian guitar pop and offbeat, TMBG-esque quirk-rock is earning them tons of satellite and college radio airplay.
Dick Valentine played a round of "Ten Questions" with Connect just before a gig in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Your music's been described as "cleverly dumb." An insult or an extreme compliment?
Dick Valentine: That's a compliment. It's pretty much what we are trying to convey. The problem is the majority of people out there accept everything on face-value. Therefore, people see a guy with long hair and a goatee —like the guy in Nickelback— with a guitar, and they accept that he is a "rocker," when he is anything but.
E6 appeals to a wide variety of different types of listeners. Does that make it easier to craft successful records, or more difficult?
Dick Valentine: It's never difficult making an Electric Six record. We don't worry at all about integrity.
What five albums or artists are usually in rotation in the van while you're out on tour?
Dick Valentine: The new Kanye West, the new Devandra Banhart. Only those two.
Your new CD hit the Top 50 on the Billboard Heatseeker Chart the week of its release. Has it been hard to resist the temptation to gloat and/or come up with lots of crass "heatseeker" jokes in the wake of this development?
Dick Valentine: What could possibly be funny about the term "heatseeker"?
You guys go through bandmembers like some girls go through boyfriends. Can some folks simply not keep up the rock star pace?
Dick Valentine: In some cases it was just as simple as people not being able to keep up the "rock star pace." In other cases it was as simple as the band turning into something "he never signed on for." In one particular case, both explanations apply. Also, there are people who have elected to do other things and the separation was amicable.
What's been the most unexpected thing that's taken place at the shows so far?
Dick Valentine: In Madrid, the entire right side of the stage blew a fuse and I was left to entertain the audience doing impersonations of barnyard animals for ten minutes. In Spanish.
"Sexy Trash," off the new record, sounds to me like Capt. Beefheart sitting in with the Wallmen. What's the story behind this song?
Dick Valentine: The music was basically just done by both our guitar players messing about. I had the lyrics laying around for just such an opportunity to present itself. I concluded that this was the opportunity.
Neither The Golden Dogs or The Willowz sound much like E6. How did this triple bill come about, and does your crowd dig them?
Dick Valentine: We are actually yet to play a show with either of them. The first leg of the tour has been with two different bands. We don't know anything about them, but we trust our booking agent.
The venue you're playing in Savannah is normally used as a dueling pianos bar. Ever played a place like that before?
Dick Valentine: Can't say we have. But I'm never one to shy away from a duel.
If you had $10 left to your name, what would you spend it on?
Dick Valentine: Quesadillas.
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George Amede Jervis (* 15. August 1903 in Lucera, Italien; † 5. Juni 1986 in Stony Point, New York, USA) war ein aus Italien stammender US-amerikanischer Mediziner. Er entdeckte 1947 die gestörte Umwandlung von Phenylalanin zu Tyrosin als Ursache für die von Ivar Asbjørn Følling erstmals beschriebene angeborene Stoffwechselstörung Phenylketonurie (PKU).

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Jervis schloss 1927 sein Medizinstudium in Turin ab, promovierte in Neurologie und 1932 in Mailand in Psychologie.
Ab 1934 arbeitete er in den USA. Dort war er als Psychiater tätig an der Columbia University und am Psychiatrischen Institut des Staates New York, wo er 1947 den Enzymmangel entdeckte, der ursächlich ist für die Phenylketonurie – eine genetische Störung, die zu schwerer geistiger Behinderung führt, wenn sie nicht schon im frühen Säuglingsalter behandelt wird. Er fand damit den Zusammenhang zwischen Biochemie und Genetik bei Hirnfunktionsstörungen.

Jervis war von 1962 bis 1971 Forschungsdirektor der Joseph P. Kennedy-Stiftung in Washington und von 1967 bis zu seinem Ruhestand 1973 Direktor des Instituts für Grundlagenforschung des New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (Amt für geistige Behinderung und Entwicklungsstörungen).

Die George A. Jervis Clinic am Institut for Basic Research (IBR) in New York ist nach ihm benannt.

Er war verheiratet mit Ruth Shoemaker (1922–2017), mit der er einen Sohn und zwei Töchter hatte.

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Tony is the Black Sabbath band guitarist, and by the time he had the accident, he considered quitting, as at the hospital he was told he would never play again. But a friend showed him a Django Reinhardt record and encouraged him not to give up.
After attempting to learn to play right-handed, Tony strung his guitars with extra-light strings (using banjo strings, which were a lighter gauge than even the lightest guitar-strings of the time) and wore plastic covers over the two damaged fingers. He down-tuned his strings to ease playing and bending.
The musician made the plastic covers himself, by melting plastic liquid-soap bottles into a ball and then using a soldering iron to make holes into this ball, putting his fingers in while the plastic was still soft enough to be shaped. He then trimmed and sanded away the excess plastic to leave himself with two thimbles, which he then covered with leather, to provide better grip on the strings.
"Melted it down, got a hot soldering iron and shaped it like a finger", he recalled. Then he cut sections from a leather jacket to cover his new homemade prosthetic.
"He said: 'Well, this guy plays with two fingers.' And that really inspired me to do it," explained the guitarist, who'd eventually begin experimenting with prosthetic tips — making the initial version out of metal. "I tried different materials, and then at the end of the day, I came up with a leather that would grip the string. It was very primitive, but it worked", the inventor explained.
Tony was ranked number 25 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
"It became a burden. Some people say it helped me invent the kind of music I play, but I don't know whether it did. It's just something I've had to learn to live with. It affects your playing style; you can't feel the strings, and there are certain chords I can't play. Right at the beginning I was told by doctors: "You won't be playing guitar." But I believed I could do it, and I did", Tony stated.
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Tony Iommi, born in UK, in 1948, is a guitarist who lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand, while working at a factory, when he was 17. Because he wanted to keep playing guitar. He came up with a solution by creating plastic and leather finger tip covers inspired by Django Reinhardt, a musician who also lost two fingers but found a way to keep playing the guitar.
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Workers Power's Two-stage 'Trotskyism'
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The following is the text of a leaflet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency (Britain), 5 November 2001
The front page headline of the October issue of Workers Power boldly proclaims: "Defend Afghanistan, Defeat Imperialism, Stop US/UK's War". The LRCI correctly asserts that "From the Afghan side this war is about the defence of the country's sovereignty against the imperialists' grip". Its official pronouncements are unambiguously Afghan defencist:
"In the event of imperialist attack, the LRCI stands clearly for the military victory of all Afghan forces that resist the US/UK offensive. This would include Taliban forces if they resist the imperialist offensive."
—"Defend Afghanistan From Attack; Defeat Imperialism", Workers Power Global Week, 4 October
This represents a clear step to the left from the LRCI's scandalous refusal to defend Bosnian Serbs against NATO air strikes in August-September 1995 and its subsequent solidarity with NATO's KLA/UCK auxiliaries during the imperialist attack on Serbia in 1999. Whatever one thinks of Milosevic's regime, it could hardly be considered more reactionary than the misogynist theocracy run by the Taliban.
Yet it seems that the LRCI's defencist position is for propaganda purposes alone—in practice Workers Power has eagerly endorsed the overtly pacifist, class-collaborationist politics of the SWP/CND's "Stop the War Coalition". Thus the LRCI leadership apparently imagines that it can have things both ways—appealing to subjective revolutionaries with a left-wing literary posture without forgoing the "privilege" of participating in the reformist-dominated "mass movement". It rather recalls Kautsky's attitude to the principle of proletarian internationalism—a wonderful thing in the abstract, but not particularly useful in time of war. The unwillingness of the LRCI leadership to actually fight for positions they claim to hold suggests that they have decided that their original defencist position on Afghanistan was a mistake. The other possible explanation is that it was all a cynical charade from the beginning.
The LRCI's adaptationist character shone through in uncritical coverage of the 50,000 person demonstration against the war in London on 13 October (Workers Power Global Week, 11 October [sic]):
"This was a great start to the national protest, building on the 2000 that rallied outside Downing St when the bombing started on 7 October. We must build it until Blair is forced to recognise that his unquestioning support for the US led war against Afghanistan does not have the backing of working class people in this country."
Unlike reformists, revolutionaries have no interest in "building" bourgeois pacifist movements, nor are we particularly concerned with getting Blair's attention. Trotskyists have a duty to expose the bogus "revolutionaries" of the SWP when they organise events where purveyors of pacifist drivel monopolise the platform while anti-imperialist politics (which the SWP ostensibly uphold) are systematically excluded. Half the crowd on 13 October was subjectively anti-imperialist and a substantial section was Afghan defencist. Revolutionaries must seek to organise, develop and give expression to these sentiments and fight to break the blockade on Marxist politics.
The only slogans and ideas that have any substantially progressive content are revolutionary socialist ones, as Lenin pointed out in condemning social-pacifism during World War One:
"A propaganda of peace at the present time, if not accompanied by a call to revolutionary mass actions, is only capable of spreading illusions, of demoralising the proletariat by imbuing it with confidence in the humanitarianism of the bourgeoisie, and of making it a plaything in the hands of the secret diplomacy of the belligerent countries. In particular, the idea of the possibility of a so-called democratic peace without a series of revolutions is deeply erroneous."
—V. I. Lenin, "Conference of the Foreign Sections of the RSDLP", Social-Democrat No. 40, 29 March 1915
'Ending the war swiftly'
At the national Stop the War Coalition meeting in London on Sunday 28 October IBT comrades intervened with a flyer proposing that the coalition adopt the following slogans as its basis of unity: "Defend Afghanistan", "Defeat imperialism" and "Stop US/UK's war". Our motion never made it to the floor, and Workers Power representatives did not attempt to put forward any motions of their own. Instead they endorsed the SWP's "broad and inclusive" (i.e., reformist, social-patriotic) approach. The first sentence of the coalition's "Aims and Objectives" states:
"1. The aim of the coalition should be very simple: to stop the war currently declared by the United States and its allies against 'terrorism'."
The problem with this is that the imperialists themselves are anxious to end the war as quickly as possible. The New York Times of 31 October reported a division within the imperialist bourgeoisie over how to achieve this:
"In the United States, some seem increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of the military campaign, and conservative politicians have begun to talk about escalating it by using ground forces on a larger scale. In Britain and other European countries, however, public opinion seems headed in the other direction. The European public appears more concerned about civilian casualties than ending the war swiftly."
—emphasis added
A section of the US rulers want to "end the war swiftly" by escalating the killing of Afghans. We would like to see a swift end to the war as well—through a rapid defeat of the imperialists. But we favour the war continuing as long as it takes to defeat the imperialist aggressors. There is no necessary connection between Afghan defencism and demands for "stopping the war".
The SWP/WP motion continues:
"We condemn the attacks on New York and we feel the greatest compassion for those who lost their life on 11th September."
We certainly condemn the attack on the World Trade Center and the massacre of the passengers and crew aboard the aeroplanes, but we shed no tears for the military planners in the Pentagon. The SWP's motion fails to make this elementary class distinction, presumably to avoid offending the sensibilities of the pacifists, liberals and clerics they hope to attract.
The pacifist content of the coalition Workers Power is so anxious to join is explicitly spelled out a bit further along in the motion:
"But any war will simply add to the numbers of innocent dead, cause untold suffering, political and economic instability on a global scale, increase racism and result in attacks on civil liberties."
Marxists reject the notion that "any war" will have the same outcome. Revolutionaries distinguish between just and unjust wars. We oppose unjust, predatory, imperialist wars, like NATO's 1999 attack on Yugoslavia or the current US/UK assault on Afghanistan. As Lenin observed, war is a tool of political class struggle. A US/UK victory in this war could help Western oil companies secure control of the vast oil and gas fields of Central Asia. Conversely, a defeat for the imperialist predators would represent a victory for the exploited and oppressed all around the world—including working people in Britain and the US.
'Jam tomorrow'
The LRCI pretends to agree with this. So does the SWP, at least in the abstract. But they both insist that now is not the time to put forward such harsh views. Now is the time to build a "broad" and "inclusive" movement on a bourgeois pacifist programme. The resolution declares:
"We call on all peace activists and organisations, trade unionists, campaigners and labour movement organisations to join with us in building a mass movement that can stop the drive to war."
The coalition eagerly courts elements like Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn and ARROW who call for UN intervention in Afghanistan. Yet the supposedly anti-imperialist LRCI dares raise no "sectarian" objections. As a reward for good behaviour Workers Power representative Mark H. was granted a seat on the coalition's steering committee. He will keep this prestigious post just as long as he does not seriously attempt to push any of the left-wing ideas Workers Power purports to champion. The SWP welcomes Workers Power as a toothless left cover for their own reformist activity.
During the 28 October meeting Mark justified Workers Power's capitulation with the lame assertion that it would not be right to try to "impose" an anti-imperialist, Afghan-defencist position on the mass anti-war movement. He did not explain why, if such views are not worth fighting for within the movement, Workers Power should want to put them on the cover of its newspaper. Instead he asserted that now is "not the time" for overtly anti-imperialist politics and that the immediate task is to build the broadest possible anti-war movement (on the basis of a reformist programme). This sort of "two-stage" argument has been used for years by Stalinists to rationalise the contradiction between their nominally socialist "maximum" programme and their reformist (i.e., bourgeois) practical activity.
The "broad and inclusive" approach approved by the Sunday meeting was reiterated in the Guardian the following day by Gary Younge:
"An anti-imperialist critique certainly informs opposition to this war; but it should not be demanded as a prerequisite for those who wish to see an end to it….
"All alternatives to the current military action must be aired within it and articulated through it. From those who would like to see firmer evidence against Bin Laden before acting, to some who believe only global poverty is the source of the discontent, it must showcase the range of options that have been put forward. Some back a United Nations military intervention under international law; others want to take up the Taliban's offer of handing Bin Laden over to a third country; many want to put him before an international war crimes court; a few believe only a root-and-branch reform of US foreign policy will work. The anti-war movement should adopt none of these proposals but embrace all of them. It is not its job to be prescriptive about what course of action to take once the bombing has stopped. But to stop the bombing by exposing its futility and inhumanity and the sophistry of those who claim there is no alternative to it."
Stating the truth
The Stop the War Coalition is tailored to the requirements of those interested in "demoralising the proletariat by imbuing it with confidence in the humanitarianism of the bourgeoisie". The job of Leninists is to expose the reformists, combat pacifist illusions and demonstrate why any policy other than Afghan defencism plays into the hands of the imperialists. In voting for the Stop the War Coalition programme and taking a position on its leadership the LRCI assumes responsibility for the "progressive" social-imperialist rhetoric that will inevitably characterise its events.
The disparity between formal posture and practical activity is a hallmark of centrism. LRCI comrades who are serious about the position of military victory to Afghanistan against the UK/US attack must reject such adaptations to reformism and fight instead for an explicitly anti-imperialist intervention into the anti-war movement. To do otherwise is to promote illusions in "peaceful" pro-imperialists. For our part, we stand ready to work with any groups or individuals prepared to:
"state what is the truth, not adapt our position to the present consciousness of the majority. We need to use clear, patient language but not give in to the wave of chauvinism or imitate the pacifism that almost inevitably accompanies the onset of war in an imperialist country."
—"Revolutionaries and the War", Workers Power, No. 257, October
Defend Afghanistan against US/British attack!
No pacifist illusions!
TB #8: Table of Contents
TB #8: Introduction
TB #8: U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror
TB #8: Imperialism's Bloody Trail
TB #8: Some News that Didn't Fit
TB #8: Workers Power's Two-stage 'Trotskyism'
TB #8: Extract from "Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp," 1917, No. 10, 3rd quarter 1991
TB #8: Where Is the ICL Going?
TB #8: ICL: 'Save Our Boys' Socialists
TB #8: ICL on Afghanistan: Healyites of the Second Mobilization?
TB #8: ICL on Afghanistan: 'Realist' Wiseacres
TB #8: Islam, Empire and Revolution
TB #8: Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan!
TB #8: Afghanistan
TB #8: Afghanistan: Russia defeated as…. US Abandons the Victims
TB #8: United Secretariat Declaration on Afghanistan
TB #8: The Fourth International and Afghanistan
TB #8: BT Says Don't Hail Red Army in Afghanistan
TB #8: Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 449
TB #8: Bolshevik Tendency letter to the Trotskyist League, 4 February 1988
TB #8: BT Protests Too Much
TB #8: Gorbachev's Afghan Sellout
TB #8: On the Slogan 'Hail Red Army'
TB #8: PDC: For Internationalist Military Support to Afghan Government!
TB #8: Letter to Paris
TB #8: Letter to PDC
TB #8: Letter to William
TB #8: Letter to Frederico
TB #8: Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer
TB #8: Bolshevik Tendency letter to Trotskyist League of Canada
TB #8: Worldwide Effort for Jalalabad Tops $40,000
TB #8: Report From Heroic Jalalabad: Front Line Afghanistan
TB #8: BT Cringes on Afghanistan Defense
TB #8: On 'Hailing' Brezhnev's Afghan Policy
TB #8: Pamyat Rides in Moscow
TB #8: Trotskyist Revolutionary Internationalism vs. Robertson's Bogus Brigade
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I think a lot of us has been there. On a plane, in a car, or just in our RVs during a trip. We want to play some games on our phones to make the time go by faster but we don't have any service. Why didn't you download some great games when you had service? Well, I am here to prepare you for that moment and share my five favorite games that I play when I find myself in one of those situations. Before you get too riled up about me playing games when out in nature, I am a techie and I need my tech fix, just like I need my nature fix, maybe you get it!
My favorite kind of iPhone games is the kind that let you start and finish playing really fast. I do play games with high scores and there are some on my list like that, but it's not the kind I play the most. When you only have 10 minutes to kill, you need a quick game.
The most important thing about this list is being able to play the game with no service on your iPhone or iPad. If you're any kind of traveler, you'll be in situations with no service for hours or days but all it takes is planning and you shouldn't be bored for a second. Remember that battery life is important to stay entertained and I wrote an article earlier about which iPhone has the best battery life, take a look if you want to be the most prepared!
Which iPhone Has The Best Battery Life?
This is on the top of my list because it's the one I have played the most. All you do is play golf in the desert and you control your strokes with your finger. All you control is the direction and the power of the stroke. The only score it keeps for you is how many strokes you have in total and it will tell you what hole you're on, so you can calculate your average strokes per hole by doing some math (hole/amount of strokes) on your own. I definitely recommend this game because of its simplicity and it's easy to pick up and down at any time. My average FYI right now is 2.14.
Yep, Tetris made the list in 2018. The classic designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov has been brought back to life and I like the EA version on the iPhone. A marathon mode lets you start on a harder difficulty so if you don't have a lot of time you can go through a round pretty quickly. The game works great without paying and I have noticed that playing without any service or in airplane mode stops the most annoying popup ads so I haven't felt the need to pay the $4.99 to get rid of them. It keeps your high score for you so you can easily compare with friends and family. It even shows your current "rival" during a game. I will raise a warning finger to not play too much Tetris before going to bed, your head will keep playing Tetris when you close your eyes. It has happened more than once to me!
If you're looking for something that can be a bit more challenging, Monument Valley might be it. A beautiful and mesmerizing game filled with puzzles. While most of the levels aren't too hard to pass, you come to appreciate the graphics and the illusions created for you. There's also a second version of this game that's available for a dollar more than the first version.
Why did the Chicken cross the road? To get a higher score in Crossy Road. A game that I have been playing on my iPhone, iPad and also Apple TV. Crossy Road has pretty graphics and one of those games that you just keep coming back to. The goal is to cross as many obstacles and roads as possible and each one counts toward your score.
This is the game I have had the longest on my phone and I've spent countless hours on so I had to add it to the list. You're a bird flying through hills and islands eating coins. You can even play multiplayer on the iPad-version. What I really like about this game is the simplicity. It's a one-button game which in this case means that you just hold your finger on the screen for as long as you want to bring the bird down. This is done so you can hit the hills just right so you gain more speed when you jump. You lose by letting the night catch up to you and you can follow how close you're on the screen. A simple but beautiful game with relaxing music.
Maybe you already have all of them, or none of them, either way, I hope you'll never find yourself in the situation again where you regret not being ready for the no service-moment. If you have any other game that you're really into, let us know in the comments!


Welcome back race fans! A little pressed for time today and wanted to get this out as early as possible for everyone. Won't BS this week and we'll get right into Made, Fade, & Trade with @SDBoyle and my picks.
@SDBoyle1: Erik Jones $8,000: Going a little down the board this week. I believe the majority of players will flock to Daniel Suarez given his starting position (40th) and place differential potential. I probably won't full fade Suarez, but Jones makes for a very nice pivot here. The #20 was tops in the second practice and had the #1 overall ten lap average in Happy Hour. I look for him to stay in the top 5 pretty much all afternoon and challenge for the win.
@TheRealJoshG: Kyle Larson $10,600: I'm expecting ownership to be spread out amongst the 5 guys priced over $10,000. Larson shouldn't be overlooked because of his track history and value goes up even more by starting 17th. This isn't a fade of the other guys at the top; I plan on having some Harvick, Busch, and Truex LUs. But Larson looks to have the most value because of his qualifying run so I'll have more Larson than any of the other 3 and a large part of my core.
@SDBoyle1: Denny Hamlin $10,200 and Martin Truex Jr $11,700: Going with a double barrel fade this week. Hamlin will continue to make the fade list when he sits on the pole because I do not see him dominating the race. He made lead some laps, maybe even get a big enough lead to win the first stage but that's it. I would peg him for a top 5 car (assuming the pit road problems don't come up like they did again last week) but priced as the 5th highest driver I don't believe he will return his value, in which makes him a fade for me this week. I'll throw Truex in this as well this week because you have to fade someone at the top, and the 78 just doesn't look like a dominate car from practice. I would much rather have Kyle Larson given his starting position, track record, etc. as Josh highlighted in his article earlier this week.
@TheRealJoshG: Austin Dillon $7,400: Up and down results by Dillon at Michigan. He has 3 T10s in his 12 career starts. He finished 14th here in June and I'd expect a similar mid pack finish this weekend. With his starting position of 5th, I don't see him returning much value with the expected negative place differential. I'll be fading Austin Sunday.
@SDBoyle1: Austin Dillon $7,400 to Paul Menard $7,200: This may be a popular trade, but Austin Dillon is an easy fade for me this week with his 5th place starting position. He was not that fast in either of that last 2 practices, but obviously found something in qualifying. In the spring race at Michigan, Paul Menard started 15th and finished 5th. This week he starts 14th, may we see a similar result? I sure think that is a strong possibility and will have him as a core driver for sure.
@TheRealJoshG: Ryan Newman $7,000 to Paul Menard $7,200: Newman has been decent at Michigan and finished 4th in this race last year. Former teammate Paul Menard had similar success while at RCR until bad visits all around in 2017 at Michigan (34th & 22nd). Very similar results here comes down to place differential. Menard will roll off 6th and I see him falling back a bit, finishing 10th-15th. Menard will start 14th and has the ability/equipment to contend for a T10. In June, Menard qualified 15th and finished 5th. A T5 would be an exceptional finish but a T10-12 is a solid run and return for his price.
There you go race fans! Hope everyone has a good weekend with plenty of green screens. If anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out to me or @SDBoyle1. GL!


Make this for $8 in Dollar Tree supplies!! DIY video.
This list of ten craft supplies you should be buying at Dollar Tree is great! Hopefully it will save you a lot of money on your next project.
This DIY Dollar Tree mirrored centerpiece project can be made with items bought from the Dollar Tree. I love this mirrored box because it can be changed from season to season, or even decorated for the holidays! It's super easy to make and looks great on a dining room table.


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Q: Legendre-Symbol, an easy example. First I start with the important equivalence (Euler) due to the quadratic residue:
$$(a|p) \equiv a^{\frac{1}{2}(p-1)} \pmod{p}$$
Having $(-2|p) = 1 \Leftrightarrow p\equiv 1 \text{ or },3 \pmod{8}$ I would like to know if I'm right with $$(-1|p) = 1 \Leftrightarrow p\equiv 1 \text{ or },5 \pmod{8}?$$
Am I right to consider that $$(I)\ \ (2|p) = (-1|p)\cdot(-2|p) = 1 \Leftrightarrow (-1|p)=(-2|p)=1 \text{ or } (-1|p)=(-2|p)=-1?(*)$$
If I am, so why is $$ (2|p) = 1 \Leftrightarrow p \equiv \pm 1 \pmod{p}?$$
The case $p \equiv +1 \pmod{p}$ should be clear, the other should come from the equivalence above $(I,[\ldots] = -1)$. But I'm not sure about how exactly. I would be thankful for any kind of help!

A: Your question seems to be the following. Given that $(-2|p)=1$ iff $p\equiv 1$ or $p\equiv 3 \pmod{8}$, show that $(2|p)=1$ iff $p\equiv \pm 1\pmod{8}$.
Use the fact that $(2|p)=(-2|p)(-1,p)$. An odd prime is congruent to $1$, $3$, $5$, or $7$ modulo $8$.
If $p\equiv 1\pmod{8}$, then $(-2|p)=1$ and $(-1|p)=1$, giving $(2|p)=1$.
If $p\equiv 3\pmod{8}$, then $(-2|p)=1$ and $(-1|p)=-1$, giving $(2|p)=-1$.
If $p\equiv 5\pmod{8}$, then $(-2|p)=-1$ and $(-1|p)=1$, giving $(2|p)=-1$.
If $p\equiv 7\pmod{8}$, then $(-2|p)=-1$ and $(-1|p)=-1$, giving $(2|p)=1$.
It is common to write $p\equiv 7\pmod{8}$ in the equivalent form $p\equiv -1\pmod{8}$.


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2022 "CMT MUSIC AWARDS" ANNOUNCE NEW DATE AND VENUE FOR INAUGURAL BROADCAST ON CBS
CBS and CMT together announce a new air date and venue for the 2022 CMT MUSIC AWARDS, country music's only entirely fan-voted awards show, which will now broadcast LIVE on Monday, April 11 (8:00-11:00 PM LIVE ET/delayed PT) from Nashville's historic Municipal Auditorium, and various locations in and around Nashville. This will be the inaugural broadcast of the CMT MUSIC AWARDS on the CBS Television Network, as ViacomCBS' signature country music tentpole celebrates the hottest stars with high-powered, cross-genre performances from in and around Music City. The show will also be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*.
"The biggest and best moments in music are coming to CBS this April," said Jack Sussman, Executive Vice President, Specials, Music, Live Events & Alternative Programming, CBS. "The CMT brand is preeminent in the world of country music, and we are thrilled that their team was able to coordinate a new date to bring this marquee event for television to CBS, and maximize the power of the ViacomCBS universe behind it."
"It's official: Our three-hour Nashville extravaganza will be LIVE on CBS on April 11 for the first time as part of the Network's biggest month of music ever," shared Margaret Comeaux, John Hamlin and Leslie Fram, Executive Producers, CMT MUSIC AWARDS. "Expect the most unforgettable CMT MUSIC AWARDS yet, jam-packed with the most star-power, world premiere performances and one-of-a-kind collaborations from in and around Music City."
The 2022 CMT MUSIC AWARDS are executive produced by Margaret Comeaux (CMT), John Hamlin (Switched On Entertainment) and Leslie Fram (CMT). Jackie Barba and Heather D. Graffagnino are executives in charge of production; Shanna Strassberg and Taryn Hurd are talent producers.
Nominations, voting and additional details on the 2022 CMT MUSIC AWARDS will be announced in the coming weeks. For more information, follow @CMT on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.
About the CMT Music Awards
Celebrated for its high-powered, world-premiere and cross-genre performances, the CMT MUSIC AWARDS have aired live since 2005, delivering Nashville's biggest party to music fans across the globe. The 2021 show, hosted by superstars Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown, featured the most first-time collaborations and blended-genre pairings in show history. Standout performances included H.E.R. + Chris Stapleton, Gladys Knight, Mickey Guyton + BRELAND, and NEEDTOBREATHE + Carrie Underwood, who remains the most-awarded artist in CMT Awards history with 23 wins. More information on this year's show is available here.
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Wilhelm Batz (Bamberga, 21 de maio de 1916 — Ebern, 11 de setembro de 1988) foi um piloto de caça alemão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial que teve homologadas 237 vitórias contra aviões inimigos. Foi condecorado com a Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro.

Sumário da carreira

Condecorações
 Distintivo de Ferido em Prata
 Troféu de Honra da Luftwaffe (13 de dezembro de 1943)
 Distintivo de Voo do Fronte da Luftwaffe em Ouro com Flâmula "400"
 Distintivo de Piloto/Observador
 Cruz Germânica em Ouro (28 de janeiro de 1944)
 Cruz de Ferro (1939)
 2ª classe (24 de abril de 1943)
 1ª classe (3 de julho de 1943)
 Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro (26 de março de 1944)
 526ª Folhas de Carvalho (20 de julho de 1944)
 145ª Espadas (21 de abril de 1945)

Promoções
 Wehrmacht
 1 de novembro de 1940 – Leutnant (segundo tenente)
 1 de abril de 1943 – Oberleutnant (primeiro tenente)
 1 de abril de 1944 – Hauptmann (capitão)
 abril de 1945 – Major (major)

 Bundeswehr
 1964 – Oberstleutnant (tenente-coronel)

Bibliografia
 Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9.
 Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
 Scherzer, Veit (2007). Ritterkreuzträger 1939 - 1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.

Recebedores da Cruz Germânica em Ouro
Recebedores da Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro
Pessoas da Segunda Guerra Mundial (Alemanha)
Pilotos da Luftwaffe


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I really liked the set-up, getting the lay of the land. I thought Sam was the weakest part -- I found his big moment to be less than inspiring.
I liked the little moments between Mary and alt -Bobby ( they're so cute!) and Cad trying to mentor Jack.
I was actually bored watching tonight. The whole bar fight just felt tired, everyone looked tired. And boy did they depower Cass. He should of been able to take a few demons out being a Seraph and all. Just hate how they have weaken him.
The whole crew working with Sam is going to be hard to deal with cause as I loved our Bobby, this one just boring as he has no connection to Dean and Sam and just feels out of place. Rest of the team is just blah and since its been just Sam and Dean for so long, to see them with a group just makes it feel watered down.
But like you said this was more set up than anything but boy I hope they don't keep Dean away for too long cause I feel the show only works when Dean an Sam are together hunting. If this is going to be Sam hunting with this crew then I just wait till show hits Netflix and watch it all at once.
That was weird how they spoiled not-Lucifer's return with an ad that cross-promoted Supernatural with the upcoming Halloween movie, especially since they left him off the credits.
LOVED how they got Bon Scott era AC/DC song in!
Clearly, angels are a major arc for the season, given the title card. I wonder if some will be recreated or new angels created to help keep Heaven working.
Theory of mine... is it possible to give a human an angel's grace to make them an angel? Or maybe a soul in Heaven, give it a grace or turn one into an angel? I have a mental image of our universe Bobby getting his wings. He would be a Surly Seraphim.
Sam fits into the leader role well. It's about time that side of him has been allowed to flourish. And I think the beard suits him.
And loved how Sam said there will be no king of Hell. The demons clearly fear him, and at this in the series, they definitely should.
So Jack's grace will recharge eventually, per what Castiel says. I think being powerless will actually make him far more effective in the long run.
And Lucifer died, but the archangel blade spared Nick. Interesting. I wonder if that is normal or if it is because it was from the alternate universe... at least, I am inclined to believe that since it was Michael's. Don't remember if it was ever stated. If so, what about Gabriel's suit?
And if Jack's grace will recharge, does that mean Lucifer might come back, since he stole so much of Jack's?
And Michael. I was reminded of the Shadows from BABYLON 5 when he kept asking everyone, "What do you want?" Could he have a similar philosophy, creating a better world through chaos and conflict? The fact he asks even killers, and at least what looks like one vampire, that question makes me wonder if that is his goal.
Good setup for the season.
This was an interesting opener...but I have to agree the whole bar fight thing seemed a little contrived.
I mean, I find it hard to believe even a roomful of demons could take on Cas that easily--what happened to his being a seraphim? What happened to his powers?
I will say it was kind of refreshing not to see a new king of hell just drop right into place, since I think re-hashing the Crowley storyline (as much as I love the character and the actor who played him) would be a mistake. All the same...aren't we due for a return to Hell? Feels like it's been years since we saw what's actually going on down there.
That aside, YAY for seeing "angel vision." Normally it's a letdown when we see these things that we've been imagining all this time, but I think they did this one right. It's very interesting to see how "supernatural perception" (as the wiki puts it) actually works. After the tease of how demonic X-ray vision works (remember Drexel when he was examining Lucifer's vessel?), it's neat to see the angelic version too.
My only gripe with this episode is that we got as little of Apocalypse Michael as we did. Jensen's portrayal was delightfully creepy, and I'd have loved to see more. I also hope his line about helping with the angel situation wasn't just a throwaway line--it'd be interesting to see exactly how he could help when even Lucifer couldn't.
Speculation: based on the trailer (is anyone annoyed that we're getting promos for other shows when CW is supposed to be previewing next week's episode?) available on YouTube for 14x02, Michael's master plan could involve him mixing his grace with vampire blood to spawn a new race of either super-vamps or...maybe angels? Going to be interesting to see where that goes.
Oh HELL yes, I'm annoyed. They said stayed tuned for a preview and then had an add for ANOTHER show. Argh.
That said... vampire angels? Vampgels or Angpires?
Can't wait for next week's episode. I really want to see more of Michael's plan.
Well, I did see The Big Empty, or whatever it's called, in "The Road So Far," which may be foreshadowing.
Good question. It would have to be a different kind of Angel, I think. Demons are made from dead people, but, if I remember rightly, all the Angels we've ever seen are from an entirely different creation event, prior to the one involving humans.
Unless all the other angels start having children with humans and make more Nephilims. That would be one way to repopulate the angels to keep Heaven powered.
Angels can only be made by God...or so they've said. I imagine that Chuck will have to reappear at some point. I also wonder if Gabriel is coming back, since they also showed him in the recap.
That was much better than I was expecting. I'm glad that the writers are finally filling out the Men of Letters with a team of hunters. Most of the focus is on the characters we already know or love (or at least their alternate versions), but I really liked Maggie. I hope she sticks around and grows as a hunter. Nick was also a pleasant surprise -- I miss Lucifer, but I was mostly upset by his death because I thought we were losing Mark Pellegrino. Of course I wouldn't be surprised to see Lucifer somehow come back eventually.
Theory about Lucifer based on the hints we've gotten so far (remember Pellegrino dropped that hint about "nephilim grace" at that convention?).
I think Lucifer really and truly is dead...which means he's in The Empty. Nick is exactly who and what he says--a vacated archangel vessel. But when the time comes to face down Michael, they're going to need another archangel to wield the blade, which means Jack (who will be fully re-powered by then) will reach out to The Empty and somehow get Lucifer back, at which point he'll need a vessel...which Nick can no doubt provide.
Raphael was blown apart by monster soul powered Castiel, and Gabriel appears to have been killed by alternate Michael.
Our Michael is still in the Cage, and in no shape to do anything, according to Lucifer back in season 11. Whether he was truthful or not is unknown, but I imagine he is definitely mentally off his rocker for sure.
I'm sure they'd have no shortage of volunteers, but talk about something that has the potential to blow up in their faces.
That was the worst season premiere they've ever done. It was flat out boring. Last season was good but I don't have high hopes for this one based on how it's started. Getting rid of Dean was a dumb move. He's the best character. I'm so over Cas. Just kill him off already. He's useless.
I think Dean will be back in a few episodes. The Demon Dean arc lasted 4 episodes I think. with a shortened season and episode 300 coming up I don't see Dean being Michael for too long.
Shortening the Demon Dean arc was such a waste. I was so looking forward to a season of Dean and Crowley on a road trip while Sam and Cas finally spend some time together. But noooo, the writers had to wimp out and push the reset button to restore the status quo. I hope that the writers realized their mistake and will keep Michael in Dean for a good chunk of the season.
I think we all agree they wasted the golden opportunity that was Demon Dean, but everything I've read suggests they've learned their lesson. They said Michael is sticking around a lot longer, but since they've also said that Dean will be back soon, my hunch is we're going to start seeing Dean's inner struggle with Michael, but the archangel is going to keep Dean's vessel for a while, probably at least up to the mid-season finale in the winter.
You ever read TV Line commenters when something big shakes up a show? They sure lose their mind when shows are anything but status quo. Must be CBS viewers who figured out how to change the channel.
So I see Micheal is actually Mr Morden now. Better keep a eye out for Shadows. Don't worry though I am sure their is some good slash fiction being worked on right now where Dean and Sam meet again where Shadows never fall. I felt the episode was solid. I'm really interested in getting to know the guy who was Satan's host better. If done right I can see him becoming a major character. They did show a clip of that lifeform in the big empthy so I can see it teaming up with Satan to once again return. Maybe Misha Collins though will get to play Satan because of it. Also like Sam's beard. Way better looking than a certain Vulcan friend of ours. I do think we are going to have a Angel heavy season because the credit sequence had angel wings on it. I forget though where Rowena and Alt-Charlie is suppose to be.
New episode tonight--hopefully more of Michael in Deanface.


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