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Why are all people different? Where do they get their talents? Why do some people age so well, and others, unfortunately, not so well? Why does life have a biological limit and how can we prevent illnesses? The exhibition "THE HUMAN GENOME. What makes us unique" runs from 24 February at the MUSE - Trento Science Museum, and looks at questions profoundly affecting us all that are today the subject of important and promising biological research.
Genomics is a science in continuous evolution that also raises certain ethical questions and doubts. "The Human Genome" therefore promises to be a real journey through the new challenges offered by genomics, focussing on the opportunities and risks involved in applying the new breakthroughs in particularly sensitive areas, such as health. The exhibition takes the form of an interactive and immersive tour with numerous multimedia features and exhibits that bring home the meaning of these questions at a very personal level, using visually striking videos, multi-projections and art works. It raises three essential question about the genetic heritage of human beings: How much does DNA count? What are the other defining factors (such as environment and lifestyle)? How and to what extent can we act to alter our genetic heritage? A change of scale – from macro to micro – which does not ignore the human and social component will invite the public to explore a fascinating world, one contained within all of us and that makes us what we are: unique.
THE EXHIBITION LAYOUT
The exhibition tour involves four main subject areas: complete sequencing of the human genome; the current state of knowledge of its elements and features; the genetic mutations determining differences between individuals and other changes that influence our phenotype; ground-breaking research techniques in the area of human health.
These subject areas look at the state of knowledge on the genome, predisposition to talents and illnesses, and the possibility of treatment using targeted and personalised forms of therapy.
The set-up - designed by the architect Lorenzo Greppi - is the result of a major scientific curatorship effort by MUSE, in association with a national-level scientific consultancy committee made up of researchers and experts. The exhibition uses immersive techniques to offer scientific information, with visually striking videos and multi-projections. Artistic 'contamination' is evident in more than one area of the exhibition. In particular, the specially commissioned installation by Claud Hesse, a visual artist specialising in themes involving DNA and the genome, encourages reflection on the relationship between the biological component, lifestyles and wellbeing, underlining how certain lived experiences might have an impact on the expression of genes, even in ways that can be passed on by inheritance.
Be sure not to miss…
• The subject of genetic mutations, which help to generate the genetic diversity of other species as well as ours, explained using a very original interactive exhibit. The meaning of a given story can be changed by inputting modified words and sentences to mimic the types of changes occurring in DNA.
• Six individuals, each with their own story to tell. Each of these stories has to do with how these persons have reacted to their own awareness that they are carrying particular genetic characteristics and traits, in order to underline the impact of medical genetics at a personal and social level.
• Have you ever paid for an online genetic test? You can do so as part of the exhibition. One of the areas deals with the huge boom in "direct-to-consumer" genetic testing and offers virtual tests on your own DNA, letting you reflect and express your own opinion on genetic testing.
• DNA-EPIGEN is a visually impressive macro-interactive sculpture by the visual artist Claud Hesse. The work invites visitors to reflect on the relationship between the biological component, lifestyles and wellbeing, underlining how various lived experiences may affect the expression of genes even in ways that can be inherited.
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An Allergen Free 3rd Birthday!
Who says a birthday party free of dairy, eggs and nuts has to be boring and yucky!? This post will be picture heavy, but ALL of the food from the party was dairy, egg and nut free!
Let's start off with the Menu for Caleb's 3rd Birthday Teddy Bear Picnic!
As you can see, we had a lot of great food. Here are some quick recipes for the dips and treats that we had this weekend. (I told you last week that this week's post would make up for the lack of a recipe!) I hope you enjoy this as much as we all did!
Candy Coated Marshmallows. This was a huge hit!
Put one marshmallow on each skewer. Use a knife to spread icing on half of the marshmallow. Shake sprinkles on to the marshmallow. Store in refrigerator until ready to serve.
Mix. yeah, sorry. No measurements! 🙂 Just do this one by taste and you can't go wrong. This was such a yummy fruit dip. The husband even liked it! It always gets extra points when he goes back for more!
It is so hard to believe that three years ago today Caleb entered this world and changed my life for the better. I love you, my sweet boy. Happy Birthday to the best "Little Buddy" a mommy could ever ask for. You make me so proud each and every day!
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Looks like so much fun & also delicious! I love vegenaise too — I swear it tastes better in pasta salad than regular mayo. I use the Tofutti fake sour cream too, and I don't even notice a difference. Cherrybrook is another fave of mine. Glad you all had such a great time!
While looking for SunButter recipes, I found your beautiful blog! As a SunButter blogger, I'm proud we were part of your son's birthday party (with homemade peach jam, mmmmm!) and appreciate your creativity to keep your son safe. As a fellow baking mom, I love your blog creations. Thanks for another delicious post. And Happy Birthday to Caleb! Three is a great year, buddy!
I just came across your website (my daughter has to avoid dairy, egg, nuts and sesame seeds). Can I ask what you used to decorate your teddy bear cupcakes? They are sooo cute!
I have emailed my baker. (I didn't personally make them!) I do know we used the Cherrybrook Kitchen box mix. Let me get back to you on the icing!


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The Ocean Cleanup Project: What It Is and What You Can Do
March 23, 2018 Posted in News
You may have seen that the internet has been buzzing about The Ocean Cleanup Project. However, even if you're familiar with the term, it can take a lot of research to truly understand what the Ocean Cleanup Project really is. We've done that work for you and gathered all the information you need to get up to date on The Ocean Cleanup Project, discuss the garbage issues plaguing our oceans, and decide how you can help with this issue. If you're interested in learning about the Ocean Cleanup Project, its origins, what it does, how you can be a part of it, and in gaining a better understanding of the seriousness of the issue of trash in our oceans, read on!
What Is The Ocean Cleanup Project?
In 2013, the Ocean Cleanup Foundation was established by an 18-year-old dutch inventor named Boyan Slat. According to the foundation's site, it was begun with the goals of creating ways to clear the Pacific Ocean of Pollution and educating people on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The idea, Slat hypothesized, was to use the ocean's currents to our advantage, allowing our passive drifting systems to clean up over half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in about 5 years' time. Slat proposed that it would be nearly impossible to go after the garbage in the ocean with nets and vessels, and more than that, it would be costly and time-consuming.
With this in mind, he devised an Ocean Cleanup Passive System that would be comprised of a floater with a solid screen underneath that would concentrate debris and lead them to a collection system. Then, that system would be slowed to the point that it moved less quickly than the plastic, which would result in the plastic being trapped.
The technology behind the Ocean Cleanup Project is fairly simple, but compelling. With their solid screens underneath floating pipes, debris can be caught both on and under the surface. These systems will be drifting freely about the Pacific Ocean and will help to concentrate plastic towards a central point for collection by vessels, where it can be easily removed.
Again, according to the Ocean Cleanup Project's site, the foundation believes that by deploying a fleet of systems, they can clean up an estimated 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just five years, and that the concentrated plastic can be retrieved for recycling purposes. Then, the money that's made from recycling the plastic can be used to help fund the project's expansion to the other four ocean systems.
The foundation has been working on testing and trials for this project for a great deal of time, launching expeditions over the ocean gyres in the last few years. The first cleanup system deployment is schedule to take place in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in May of 2018.
How Big is the Threat, Really?
To get a better understanding of the Ocean Cleanup Project, it's important to get a firmer grasp on how big the problem of pollution in the ocean truly is. First, it's vital to know what the term "garbage patch" refers to.
Seemingly self-explanatory, a garbage patch is a conglomeration of trash, plastic, and pollution that forms into a giant patch and litters our oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the very spot the Ocean Cleanup Project intends to reduce and hopefully eliminate, is also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex.
It's composed of trash and litter that spans an area from the West Coast of North America all the way to Japan. It's so large, in fact, that it even has east and west sections.
This issue is an increasingly hazardous one, as most of the trash in the garbage patch is not biodegradable, causing a massive buildup that's dangerous for not only ocean climate, creatures, and marine life, but for the human race as well. Much of this trash is visible, but a lot of it is made up of microplastics, non-biodegradable bits of plastic that can't be seen without a microscope. In short, they're tiny, but they're terribly dangerous.
But trash isn't just clogging up the Pacific Ocean, it's plaguing our oceans and waterways everywhere. For example, Lagos, Nigeria produces about 600,000 metric tons of plastic trash annually, and approximately 100,000 tons of that ends up in the ocean. The result is landfills brimming with plastic garbage and coastlines strewn with trash.
About 5.25 trillion pieces of trash and litter are clogging up our oceans. To put that in perspective, that's about 14 billion pounds of garbage dumped into our oceans annually, or about 1.5 million pounds of trash dumped in the ocean every hour. Even more disturbing is the about 269 tons of that trash are floating on our oceans' surfaces. This trash ends up on islands like a remote island that has millions of pieces of garbage wash ashore every year.
Those facts alone should be troubling, but when you take into account the harmful effects that trash can have on the oceans' climate, marinelife, and creatures, it's more than just troubling. With the entry of trash into our oceans comes the entry of toxins and pollution that poison marine life. Additionally, plastic debris in the ocean is said to kill fish, seabirds, and other marine mammals, impacting at least 267 species worldwide.
More than that, it affects the lives of humans as well. With toxic chemicals entering our oceans via pollution, it's unsafe for people to consume marine life that's been impacted by the pollution. In fact, doing so can result in dangerous health problems.
So, what's the next step you can take to help the Ocean Cleanup Project, or just to help clean up our waterways, bodies of water, and expanses of fresh and saltwater? While it may seem unlikely, small efforts by individuals can make go a long way toward decreasing the garbage in our oceans.
When speaking specifically about the Ocean Cleanup Project, there are a few specific ways to help this foundation inch their way toward success.
First, you can simply help fund the cleanup. The foundation needs help bridging the gap between their first-system and the full-scale development of the plans they have to clean up the Pacific Garbage Patch. The foundation states that any amount helps to further their mission, so donating is certainly a great way to get involved.
Second, you can volunteer your time, skills, and efforts to the cause. According to their site, there are plenty of career, as well as volunteer, opportunities to work with the foundation.
Speaking generally, though, you can help reduce the amount of garbage in the ocean and contribute to solving the trash problem by making small dedicated efforts.
Support bans
Reduce your use of single-use plastics
Avoid microbeads in cosmetic products
Back organizations that work to fight pollution and encourage ocean cleanup
As you can see, the massive amount of garbage conglomerating in the oceans is harmful — not just for the creatures and environments under the water, but also for marine mammals, birds, fish, turtles, and even human beings.
Though there's an estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of trash in our world's oceans, it's nearly impossible to determine how much debris is making up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, because the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is too large for scientists to trawl. Even worse, it's harder to tell because not all of the trash in the area is floating on the surface, and much of it made up of tiny, microplastics you can't see with the naked eye.
Much of this trash comes from everyday pollution or land-based activities that take place in Asia and North America, but a percentage of it also comes from boaters, cargo ships, and offshore oil rigs.
The Ocean Cleanup Project, and other organizations like it, are doing their part to help rid the world and its oceans of the rubbish that plagues it, but you can help, too. By increasing your recycling habits, reducing your single-use plastic activities, and dedicating yourself to encouraging friends and family to do the same, you too can reduce the impact of garbage that's clogging up our oceans.
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Less and less I am fearing the blank page. I wake up in the morning thinking of the practice ahead. Drawing. Ideas. Hungry to hold my pencils I sit down and contemplate what practice is going to be the best for me in that particular moment.
Let's talk about accuracy and frustrations of a self-taught/online-taught artist. When you haven't got anyone to correct you, when you haven't got the luxury of a mentor, noone with trained eyesight observing you and giving you useful feedback. You get the point.
This forces me to be hard on myself and be analytical about how I work as well as how I think about my work.
For some time I had this beautiful reference from Croquis Cafe and wanted to do something special. And what's more special than sanguine pastels... The air of renaissance and the old masters :).
For some time I had in mind to draw from this beautiful reference , and I finally got to it and also managed to record some of the process.
Some very needed refresh practice of a head construction.
Finally, I got myself together and humbly recorded something... that resembles of a video timelapse. I planned to do a voiceover too but it did't sound that great, editing my own voiceover was a little bit of torture (can't stand the sound of my own voice).


Mancy and Pansy Potts were already there, and, to a casual observer, it looked as if there was nothing more to do except to admit the guests.
Patty had set the table the day before, and, to the awestruck admiration of Pansy Potts, had arranged the beautiful new glass and china with most satisfactory effects. Pansy had watched the proceedings with intelligent scrutiny and, when it was finished, had told Patty that the next time she would be able to do it herself.
But, as Patty had said, there was yet much to be done on Thursday morning, even though there were eight hands to make the work light.
Boxes of flowers had arrived from the florist's, and these had to be arranged in the various rooms; also, a few potted plants in full bloom had come for the conservatory, and these so delighted the soul of Pansy Potts that Patty feared the girl would spend the whole day nursing them.
Patty's ambitions in the culinary line ran to the fanciful and elaborate confections which were pictured in the cook-books and in the household periodicals; especially did she incline toward marvellous desserts which called for spun sugar, and syllabubs, and rare sweetmeats, and patent freezing processes.
For her New Year's dinner party she had decided to try the most complicated recipe of all, and, moreover, intended to surprise everybody with it.
Warning her father to keep out of the kitchen on pain of excommunication, she rolled up her sleeves and tied on a white apron; and with her open book on the table before her, began her proceedings.
Pansy Potts was set to whipping cream with a new-fangled syllabub-churn, and Mancy was requested to blanch some almonds and pound them to a paste in a very new and very large mortar.
Though the good-natured Mancy was more than willing to help her young mistress through what threatened to be somewhat troubled waters, yet she had the more substantial portions of the dinner to prepare, and there was none too much time.
But, having attempted the thing, she was bound to carry it through, though it was with some misgivings that she finally poured a queer and sticky-looking substance into the patent freezer.


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Well will you look at her. Shy Anne has agreed to play the Ottawa Blues Fest. Perhaps this explains why none of us have heard of the festival before. Seems that the very Tony Tory broad(not in mind)sheet has placed SA on the front.
Our aging disco diva, with that youth defying appearance, graces the front page of the Ottawa Sit. Not only is she featured on the front, but is interviewed in the "too posh to push piece," seems yesterday's mega star Shy Anne started this refusal to push movement with the arrival of her own little gift from heaven some time ago.
That said, look at the absolutely awful purse Shy Anne is brandishing in the photo, has she gone country. Is this where disco duck meets Buck Owens? Loretta Lynn meets Janis Joplin?
Rumour has it that Shy Anne's new beau is in lust with George Strait and the disco diva has been trying to get a back stage pass to introduce her manboy to the straight one himself. Trouble is George won't return her calls since he saw that Ottawa Sit photo, seems the purse was a gift from George to a former wife. It was stolen during Shy Anne's last visit to the Hee Haw set in 1987. Shy Anne is maintaining it came from the opportunity shop located in rural Ontario.


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Q: How to create a variable and apply it to a column? This is kind of a two part question. I have a dataset that I am attempting to add select column together, but I also want to alter the data so it is a bit easier to add. Here is an example of my data set. The data set is called ChrData
ChrData
  Chr location sample1 sample2 sample3 sample4 sample5
1 1 34234 ./. 0/1 1/1 0/1 0/0
2 1 5677876 0/1 1/1 1/2 0/0 1/1
3 1 75424 ./. ./. 1/1 0/1 0/0
4 1 98654 1/1 0/1 1/1 0/0 0/0
5 1 4534 1/1 0/1 ./. 0/0 2/2

So what I would like to do is set
./. = 0
0/0 = 0
0/1 = 1
1/2 = 1
1/1 = 2
2/2 = 2

And then add columns:
ChrData$sample1 + ChrData$sample2 + ChrData$sample4

and also:
ChrData$sample3 + ChrData$sample5

and then create a two new columns with this data. I am just not sure how to get R to recognize the new variables and then apply them to each cell?

A: Top of mind this basic function and then apply will do job assuming all are character in sample columns
 replacement<-function(x){
 x=replace(x,which(x=='./.'),0)
  x=replace(x,which(x=='0/0'),0)
  x=replace(x,which(x=='0/1'), 1)
  x=replace(x,which(x=='1/2'),1)
  x=replace(x,which(x=='1/1'),2)
  x=replace(x,which(x=='2/2'),2)
}

ChrData=apply(ChrData,2,replacement)
ChrData[,3:7]=apply(ChrData,2,as.numeric)

ChrData$Sum1=ChrData$sample1 + ChrData$sample2 + ChrData$sample4
ChrData$Sum2=ChrData$sample3 + ChrData$sample5

A: Using dplyr:
# reproducible data
ChrData <- read.table(text = "
Chr location sample1 sample2 sample3 sample4 sample5
1 1 34234 ./. 0/1 1/1 0/1 0/0
2 1 5677876 0/1 1/1 1/2 0/0 1/1
3 1 75424 ./. ./. 1/1 0/1 0/0
4 1 98654 1/1 0/1 1/1 0/0 0/0
5 1 4534 1/1 0/1 ./. 0/0 2/2", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

library(dplyr)

# make lookup map
MAP <- setNames(c(0,0,1,1,2,2), c("./.","0/0","0/1","1/2","1/1","2/2"))

# convert using MAP, then rowsums per sample groups
ChrData <- ChrData %>%
  mutate_at(.vars = vars(starts_with("sample")), .funs = funs(MAP[ . ])) %>%
  mutate(s124 = rowSums(.[ c("sample1","sample2","sample4") ]),
         s35 = rowSums(.[ c("sample3","sample5") ]))

ChrData
#   Chr location sample1 sample2 sample3 sample4 sample5 s124 s35
# 1   1    34234       0       1       2       1       0    2   2
# 2   1  5677876       1       2       1       0       2    3   3
# 3   1    75424       0       0       2       1       0    1   2
# 4   1    98654       2       1       2       0       0    3   2
# 5   1     4534       2       1       0       0       2    3   2

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Q: How do you copy file across account with SwiftService I look into SwiftClient document on Cross Account Object Copy
curl -i -X PUT http://<host>:<port>
/v1/AUTH_test1/container/destination_obj
 -H 'X-Auth-Token: <token>'
 -H 'X-Copy-From: /container/source_obj'
 -H 'X-Copy-From-Account: AUTH_test2'
 -H 'Content-Length: 0'

and this work fine. But since I have already use SwiftService class from python-swiftclient library but the closest thing I could find is this commit on cross account upload. Plus it only show how to do it using Connection class and not SwiftService.
I tried overriding os_storage_url when calling copy method and inside SwiftCopyObject both without success.
Any idea what I have to do here?

UPDATED:
I have tried to hack around the library by overriding HTTP headers when copy and upload.
Copy
Overriding this method by putting header object into options of SwiftCopyObject
'header': ['Destination-Account:AUTH_name']

This send exactly the same HTTP request to Swift Proxy API as seen in example 2(The one with COPY method)
This give me 404 which is the same result of me sending curl to the API manually. Potentially, this could be the correct way if we can get it to work.
Upload
Following in similar fashion, I added header to SwiftUploadObject to specify where to copy from while using Tenant ID of the destination account.
SwiftUploadObject(source='/container/source_file.txt', object_name='file.txt', options={
'header': [
  'X-Copy-From:/container/source_file.txt',
  'X-Copy-From-Account:AUTH_source'
]})

Doing this get me file not found error: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/container/source_file.txt'. This is probably because it try to look into the destination account instead of the source.
Success?
I tried changing source parameter to None. I got Object upload verification failed: md5 mismatch error. However, I can see the file is now in the destination container perfectly. The md5 check does not remove the file from destination container when it fail.
While I could use this hack to make this work, I just don't think it is wise to do it on production.


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Packed with step-by-step tutorials and interviews with professional font designers, FontFace is a comprehensive and practical guide that explores every aspect of the font creation process, covering everything from sketching initial letterforms to mastering the font creation software packages Fontlab and Fontographer. Significantly, this book is also the first of its kind to address the important issue of how designers can best market and sell their fonts, and includes advice on copywriting and working with foundries, as well as how designers can set up their own foundries. Throughout the book, screen grabs and illustrated diagrams accompany clear and accessible text, clarifying each part of every process and arming readers with all the essential information they need. Interviews with professional font designers and foundry owners provide an insight into their working processes, while accompanying portfolios demonstrate a wide range of inspirational font styles.


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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker shouted down over GOP attempt to weaken his successor
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, left, with the help of the Mary and Don Miller family from Plainfield, Wis., flipped the switch to light the state Christmas Tree in the Capitol Rotunda, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Walker's desk Tuesday. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker arrives for the lighting of the state Christmas Tree in the Capitol Rotunda, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Walker's desk Tuesday. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, holds a press conference in the Assembly parlor, Tuesday Dec. 4, 2018 at the Capitol in Madison. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Gov. Scott Walker's desk. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Protesters Peppi Elder, left, and Christine Taylor holds up signs during the state Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in state Capitol Rotunda Tuesday Dec. 4, 2018, in Madison, Wis. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Gov. Scott Walker's desk. (Steve Apps
Bob Kinosian, from Wauwatosa, Wis., holds up a sign during the state Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in state Capitol Rotunda Tuesday Dec. 4, 2018, in Madison, Wis. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Gov. Scott Walker's desk. (Steve Apps
Wisconsin Minority Leader Gordon Hintz holds a press conference in the Assembly chambers, Tuesday Dec. 4, 2018 at the Capitol in Madison. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Gov. Scott Walker's desk. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during the lighting of the state Christmas Tree in the Capitol Rotunda, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Walker's desk Tuesday. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Published December 05. 2018 12:15AM
By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Demonstrators booed outgoing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday during a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, at times drowning out a high school choir with their own songs in protest of a Republican effort to gut the powers of his Democratic successor.
The governor, wearing a Santa tie, appeared unfazed as he flipped the switch while one protester shouted "Hey Walker! Go home!" He left without taking questions from reporters about the bills being considered in the rare lame-duck legislative session. Walker, who has signaled support for the measures, later tweeted that he "can handle the shouts," but he urged protesters to "leave the kids alone."
Stung by their election loss last month, Republicans treated the lame-duck session as a final opportunity to use their political clout to weaken the next governor before time runs out. Democrats, who won every statewide constitutional office after nearly a decade-long GOP hold on power, derided the session as a cynical attempt to preserve the party's waning strength.
"If he wanted to put a stop to this, he could," Russ Hahn, a 53-year-old attorney, said of Walker. He was holding a sign that said "GOP Grinch Steals Democracy."
The fact that Walker was making no attempt to halt the effort "clearly indicates he wants to be able to control things outside the governor's office for the next four or eight years," Hahn said.
Republicans were still working to reach final agreement on what exactly they would pass. Leaders from both the Senate and Assembly negotiated into the night, giving opponents hope that the bills may be scaled back. Debate in the Assembly finally began around 10:30 p.m., more than nine hours after it was scheduled to start.
"Even you have questions," Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz said as debate began. "The Senate has questions. Why are we here today? What are we doing? Nothing we're doing here is about helping the people of Wisconsin. It's about helping politicians. It's about power and self-interest."
At one point Tuesday, the public was ordered removed from Senate galleries after repeated warnings to be quiet. Spectators shouted "Shame!" and hurled complaints at senators, temporarily halting debate. Less than an hour later, Republicans said they would let people back in.
The GOP proposals would weaken the governor's ability to put in place rules that enact laws and shield the state jobs agency from his control. Republicans also want to limit early voting to no more than two weeks before an election.
Walker burst onto the national political scene in 2011 with an aggressive anti-union agenda. Many of the same protesters who confronted him then returned to the Capitol on Tuesday — albeit in far fewer numbers. Protests in 2011 reached 100,000, but only a few dozen were on hand this time.
"The first thing Scott Walker did when he walked through the door of the Capitol was to create chaos," Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach said during Senate debate. "The last thing he is doing is creating chaos."
Democrats vowed to do all they could to stop the proposals, which would weaken both Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers and Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul.
Some hinted at filibusters or legal challenges and called the lame-duck session "illegitimate." Former Democratic attorney general and Gov. Jim Doyle said the moves were unconstitutional.
Never in Wisconsin history "has an extraordinary session been used to deny the will of the people and take away powers from the newly elected governor and newly elected attorney general," Democratic Rep. Chris Taylor said.
Despite the victories by Evers, Kaul and other Democrats, the party gained no ground in the Legislature and blamed partisan gerrymandering by Republicans for stacking the electoral map against them.
A GOP-controlled committee approved the measures late Monday after a nine-hour public hearing where only one person testified in support of one provision. The panel rejected a proposal to move the 2020 presidential primary date from April to March amid nearly unanimous opposition from the state's local election clerks.
"The people aren't asking for this," Taylor said during the hearing. "You did not run on this. You didn't tell people you would do everything in your power to take away the power of a newly elected governor and attorney general. You rig the system when you win, and you rig the system when you lose."
Republican Rep. John Nygren, co-chairman of the committee, downplayed the proposals and said the goal was to establish balance in power between the Legislature and governor. Nygren said it was a positive step that would "bring us together to solve the problems of the state."
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told reporters that his constituents want him to protect everything the GOP has accomplished over the last eight years under Walker. The legislation, he said, ensures that Evers will have to negotiate with lawmakers and cannot unilaterally erase Republican ideas.
"We do not believe any one individual should have the opportunity to come in and with a stroke of the pen ... eliminate laws passed by our Legislature," Vos said, citing rules enacting voter photo ID, a key GOP initiative during Walker's two terms.
The last lame-duck session in Wisconsin was in 2010, when Democrats tried unsuccessfully to enact labor agreements.
The proposals to bolster Republican legislative power come after North Carolina lawmakers took similar steps two years ago. Michigan Republicans are also discussing taking action before a Democratic governor takes over there.
The Wisconsin GOP package would also weaken the attorney general's office by allowing Republican legislative leaders to intervene in cases and hire their own attorneys. A legislative committee, rather than the attorney general, would have to sign off on withdrawing from federal lawsuits.
That would stop Evers and Kaul from fulfilling their campaign promises to withdraw Wisconsin from a multi-state lawsuit seeking repeal of the Affordable Care Act. They made opposition to that lawsuit a central part of both of their campaigns.
Follow Scott Bauer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbauerAP
A day after President Donald Trump said four minority congresswomen should "go back" to their home countries, Republicans criticized the quartet and cast them as the face of a socialist, left-wing Democratic Party while chastising the president in language that stopped short of fierce condemnation.
'Many people agree with me': Trump digs in amid criticism of his racist tweets about four Democratic congresswomen of color.
The Trump administration is moving to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants who pass through Mexico
Trump assails Democratic congresswomen of color, saying they should leave the country


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Смрт Југославије (енг. The Death of Yugoslavia) је документарни серијал снимљен у продукцији Би-Би-Сија 1995. године, као и име књиге коју су написали Алан Литл и Лора Силбер по којој је серијал снимљен. Серијал покрива раздобља распада Југославије и ратове који су уследили на овом подручју. Нека штива су први пут виђена у овом серијалу заједно са изјавама водећих политичара који су били умешани у сукобе, између осталих, Слободана Милошевића, Фрања Туђмана, Алије Изетбеговића и Радована Караџића.

Серијал је награђен наградом БАФТА 1996. за најбољи документарни филм. Због тога што је серијал обиловао многобројним изјавама са главним вођама умешаним у сукоб, често их је користио и као доказ Међународни суд за ратне злочине почињене на подручју бивше Југославије.

Све хартије и преписи многобројних вредних изјава направљених са учесницима распада Југославије, сачувани су у Центру за војне архиве на Краљевском факултету Универзитета у Лондону.

Током суђења Слободану Милошевићу на Међународном суду за ратне злочине, судија Бономи назвао је део опаске "тенденциознима".

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When I first learned that my husband and I were moving to Zürich, I quickly ran to the bookstore and bought a handful of travel guides on Switzerland. I began spending hours on the internet, reading articles, checking out expat blogs, as well as searching for Swiss cookbooks. For our first visit here, I figured we would just roam the streets and get a feel for the city, without paying close attention to my lists of sweet addresses… yet.
Nevertheless, I couldn't help but notice that Schober, the one pastry shop I had underlined and bolded and put big stars all around it, was [gasp] closed. For good? For renovations? Once settled in in Zürich, I passed by every now and then to see if progress was being made. I peeked through the windows and saw the beautiful moldings, ceiling and chandelier, and just waited for this old-fashioned confectionery to be open again. Finally, in March of this year, after 4 months of renovations, it was back in business. Worth the wait? Absolutely.
Only it was no longer Café Conditorei Schober, what I had read about to be Zürich's most famous café with a rich history. The original 14th century building was turned into a confectionery and coffee shop by Theodor Schober, Sr. in the late 19th century. His son, Theodor Schober, Jr., took over until the age of 92, when the café was then bought and renovated by Teuscher, a name many of us rightfully equate with chocolate. But now it is Péclard, with Michel Péclard at the helm, alongside his charming manager Martin Egger. They present a fine mix of tradition and innovation, with an attention to detail in the esthetics and gastronomy.
What was the first thing that caught my eye? The macarons, bien sûr. Real Parisian macarons. The boutique is unavoidably similar in feel to another luxurious patisserie we know and love, Paris' Ladurée. Boxes come in light pinks, purples and even Ladurée's signature mint green color. I will admit being quite surprised by this. But you're quickly reminded of your surroundings when you admire the artwork on the boxes, one motif being Zürich's Grossmünster church (the box I have sitting on my desk here). Macarons come in the classic variety of flavors: chocolate, coffee, caramel, lemon, raspberry, blackcurrant, pistachio and vanilla, as well as coconut, rose and chocolate passionfruit.
But Péclard is not just about macarons. They are continuing the legacy of a traditional pastry shop and tea salon with a large menu of both sweet and savory treats (salads, sandwiches, soups, Flammekueche and quiche, etc.). You also have a large choice of atmospheres to enjoy it in, with several floors and diverse settings. Péclard and Egger spent a lot of time traveling throughout France, especially in Paris, gathering inspiration and ideas, not to mention all of the furniture and tableware for the different rooms. While preserving the original layout and lavish design, they put together what they call their "boutique coffeehouse." There's a small courtyard in front of the entrance for when the weather permits. A classic tea salon is right off of the pastry shop and there is a more romantic French-style area upstairs with red, plush armchairs, turning into a piano bar in the evenings. Next up is a spacious bar facing beautiful wallpaper that was hand-crafted in the prestigious factories of Alsace. Lastly, there's a more classic and formal room on the top floor.
If you ask me, the very best import from France was Patrick Mesiano, master French chef Joël Robuchon's celebrity patissier. His array of cakes is simply impressive. Elegant presentations and top quality to match. Chocolate lovers, look no further than the Intense (below right), whose name does not lie. Dark chocolate cream with dark chocolate ganache – it's dense, rich… and intense. No surprise at my pick: the Fleur de Sel (bottom left) – dark chocolate mousse with a creamy caramel filling and my favorite French salt. And of course, no tasting would be complete without a sample of those colorful macarons.
Don't leave without looking at the array of products at the entrance. There is a wall of jams from Le Comptoir des Confitures, in France's Saint Jean du Gard, original combinations of fruit in sleek glass jars. There are chocolates from Zürich's well-known, century-old Honold (of which I am a fan) and plenty more temptations. There is also a large focus on tea, an impressive selection on offer coming from the gourmet institution across the street, Schwarzenbach. Last but not least, be sure to check out the cash register, an absolute beauty.
I have always wanted to go that place, but just didn't find the time when we were there. It was on my list of too visit places the next time we go back. I hope the hot chocolate is still just as amazing as I have heard it was.
I love learning about these types of places, the history and architecture (not to mention, the goodies!) are great!
jkiel, oh absolutely – while the sweet treats are in fact fantastic, I love it too when there's such a rich history behind a place. The goooorgeous setting doesn't hurt either ! You should check out Schober's website (link above), there's a whole timeline about the confectionery's history. If you don't understand German, you can use Google translate.
This place is so elegant. I would love to go for coffee and sweets!!!! Wow!!!! Definitely worth the calories that I would consume. I hope that will be on open when I do come to Zurich. You can taste the the cakes right from the computer. It can be like scratch and snif!!!!!
Lani, when you come to Zürich in October, you'll be able to go everywhere – Péclard, Vollenweider, Sprüngli AND Ladurée. You ready ?! No scratch and sniff then. It will be — buy and eat ! haha!
Julia, oh no, I am so sorry to hear you are sick. But I'm glad I could distract you a bit from all that with these photos. Try having a macaron or two – may not work as well as chicken soup, but it's worth a try. No?
katy, mmmm, I love Flammekueche. Authentic tarte flambées are fantastic. I had my fill for sure when we were in Alsace, and there's a few places that make great ones here in Zürich too. Goethe Stuff is a funny name for sure! A top restaurant here is called Goethe Stübli, not Stuff !
Wow! What a beautiful place to have a cup of coffer with Macarons..
Wow, what a lovely looking little place. Couldn't you just spend the whole day there? The macarons look so tempting. These little shops are what I really miss about Europe.
Those cakes look divine!! love the decor too.
Whoa baby! That place looks spectacular… and huge. I'll be in Zurich soon, and you can bet they'll be on my A list. Please say a prayer for me that they'll have the "Intense" available. That's got my name written all over it! Thanks for the fabulous recommendation… and as always, fabulous photography.
WOW… I really need to think about visiting Zurich. This place is incredible. Is it Zuber wallpaper from Alsace on the walls of the Coffeehouse? It's my maiden name and I have done extensive research hoping to find my great-grandparents had a connection to the French Zubers (I hoped to find that I am French and that would explain my over-the-top love affair with that country), but found instead that we were right across the border in Germany.
When I saw those boxes, I thought for sure, they were Laduree's! But wow! What a gorgeous place Peclard is! It looks like you got courtside privileges, too! Wonderful photos and telling of Peclard's luxurious patisserie. Bravo!
Eileen, a visit to Zurich is a must for you ? if not just to see the Zuber wallpaper at Péclard. Yes it is indeed Zuber (design: Eldorado) from Rixheim in Alsace. I spoke with Martin, the manager who said the following: "It is particularly nice at the Schober as you can admire it in its integrity, even with the beautiful blue sky as the ceiling is very high, no windows or cut outs etc." Must be such fun tracing your family history – whichever side of the French/German border it falls!!
Jen, haha, courtside privileges indeed! Up close and personal with those cakes! Thanks for the great comment.
Scribetrotter, no jam in that mille-feuille, I assure you. (So come on over!) With a French pastry chef at the helm, you can be sure of that. Meanwhile, I don't think I have ever seen a mille-feuille with jam in between the layers. I am awfully curious now though…!
I love your site! I stumbled into it searching for Peclard. My aunt from Zurich brought me a box of macarons. It's so heavenly. She usually brings the luxemburgli from Sprungli but now I'm a Peclard convert! I haven't been to Zurich in 5 years. Will definitely add this exciting shop to my list! Thank you!!
Had a cappuccino and cherry tart there this afternoon. An absolutely beautiful place – definitely recommend it to your readers. Your photographs capture its magic and atmosphere perfectly!


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We launch our second instalment of the News24 100 Young Mandelas of the Future in a week that the focus has been on our twisted past.
Rush on Pilgrim's Rest souvenirs – report
Business in the Mpumalanga heritage town of Pilgrim's Rest has been brisk as visitors flock to see the village in the midst of concern over its future.
Many local shops have sold out of souvenirs bearing the village's name, even though business owners were granted a reprieve yesterday, financial daily Business Day reported.
The High Court in Pretoria issued an order barring provincial authorities from evicting business owners.
Last month, the Mpumalanga public works department handed them eviction notices in an effort to transform the town.
Business owners raised questions over the department's ability to run the town and the tender process.
Pilgrim's Pantry owner Sharon Paterson offered about R294 000 for her business over five years, but the lease was awarded to a party offering only R5 800 over the same period.
Of the recent boom in sales at the village, which became a national monument in 1986, Paterson said: "It's a pity they only support us when they think it will be taken away. South Africans need to support their heritage."
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Q: Return an array of all checkboxes checked upon click I've got a table with a checkbox in each row, like this:

    ...

            <input type='checkbox' name='users' id='someUserId'>
             some variable pid
            ...

            <input type='checkbox' name='users' id='someOtherId'>
             some other variable pid
            ...

        ...

Now i want to put the text of the columns next to the checkboxes, the pids, into an array, then pass the array to a function. The function should take each record in the array and process them.
My best try so far:
function myFunction(arr[]){...}

function getIds(obj){
var $table = $("#users");
alert($table.attr("id"));
var $cboxes = $table.find("input:checkbox").toArray();
alert($cboxes);

var checkedArray = [];
var pid;
for(i = 0;i < $cboxes.length; i++){
    if($cboxes[i].checked){
        pid = $cboxes.parent().siblings().eq(0).text();
        checkedArray.push(pid);
        alert(pid);
    }
}
alert(checkedArray);
return checkedArray;
}

$("#button").click(function(){
    var ids = getIds();

    for(i = 0; i < ids.length; i++){
        myFunction(ids[i]);
        alert("Function executed for "+ids[i]+".");
    }
});

A: You can slim this down heavily with the :checked pseudo-selector, and $.map.

function process (id) {
  alert(id);
}
function find () {
  return $('#users').find('input:checkbox:checked').map(function () {
    return $(this).parent().next().text();
  }).toArray();
}

function handle () {
  find().forEach(process);
}

$('#btn').on('click', handle); // Pseudo-event

      <input type='checkbox' name='users' id='someUserId'>
       some variable pid
      ...

      <input type='checkbox' name='users' id='someOtherId'>
       some other variable pid
      ...

<button id="btn">Check!</button>

If you don't want to loop twice, you should compress the logic into a single function chain. This cuts down on loops, but still builds the array for later use.

var myNamespace = {};

function process (id) {
  alert('Single ID: '+ id);
  return id;
}
function find () {
  return $('#users').find('input:checkbox:checked').map(function () {
    return process($(this).parent().next().text());
  }).toArray();
}

function handle () {
  myNamespace.ids = find();
  alert('All IDs: ' + myNamespace.ids)
}

$('#btn').on('click', handle); // Pseudo-event

      <input type='checkbox' name='users' id='someUserId'>
       some variable pid
      ...

      <input type='checkbox' name='users' id='someOtherId'>
       some other variable pid
      ...

<button id="btn">Check!</button>

A: Try this:
fiddle
 function getIds() {
     var chk = $("#users").find("input:checkbox");
     var pId = [];

     chk.each(function(){
         pId.push($(this).parent().next().html());
     });

     return pId;
 }

 $(function(){
     getIds().forEach(function(i){
         console.log(i);
     });
 });

Find all checkboxes inside the users table, create array, push all pId's into the array then return it from the function. Then just loop through them all.


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From Arthur Conan Doyle to Benedict Cumberbatch, What's the Essence of Sherlock Holmes?
By Jason Rhode | January 6, 2017 | 11:20am
Courtesy of Robert Viglasky/Hartswood Films for MASTERPIECE TV Features Sherlock
January 1 saw the return of the world's most popular drama, Sherlock, to screens everywhere. The happy return is appropriate, for 2017 is the 130th anniversary of the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet." Why are we still watching and reading about this world? More to the point, why do I care about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson—two gentlemen who are as real to me as Congress, but less involved in crime? Why do I love them enough to write a feature about them? Not just the show, but the characters themselves?
And here the trouble begins. I re-read that opening sentence, and it sounds as if it could be in any generic feature about Doyle's fictional detective.
The problem with writing about Holmes is the same with writing about the sea, or the moon, or the appeal of a lover: You have so much to say, and there are so many ways of saying it, that it's hard to concentrate on one thread of argument. Every sentence, every turn of phrase, brings up some part of the Sherlockian canon. The writer is forced to fight a constant battle against his or her own predilection to give into the quoting fever and go on a drunk citation binge.
Holmes has been scribbled about so often, by so many different people, in so many different ways, that the problem isn't finding something to say—it's finding a new jewel in a diamond mine ten acres deep. How does one avoid the constant threat of hackneyed puns about hackney cabs, or reusing the word "Elementary" in the title and the body of the article? "Crime is common, logic is rare," Holmes once said, but Holmes is omnipresent. One of the most popular podcasts about Sherlock and his infinite variety is plainly called "I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere." That phrase, in turn, is lifted from "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter," and is spoken by Brother Mycroft to Dr. Watson: "I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler."
There have been countless adaptations of the Great Detective. When I use the word "countless," I'm not just using the word glibly (unlike all of the other times). I mean, literally, nobody has counted them. The published, cataloged pastiches range in the thousands. The unpublished and forgotten may be many times that.
Even within Sherlock Holmes fandom, there are levels of maniacal obsession; I am pleased to be among the first rank of the congenitally rabid. Like any immortal story, the outline is bare enough that a politician could sing it to his mistress while fumbling for a key. A simple seed: damaged goods from the Afghan War seeks acceptable lodging with eccentric student. Here are two people. This one writes, this one thinks. Both fight.
But also, like all great legends, from a bare outline there comes a great harvest: Watson and Holmes, co-drawn into one another's orbit, giant moons in a tidal pull of mutual gravity.
Much of what makes the original Holmes stories work lies in Doyle's prose, which is consistently underrated: The man's writing has a strong, singular elemental effect behind it, a union of sure-footed heroism joined to a kind of wonderful intellectual engagement, and this result is doubled when it plays out in the half-urban, half-Gothic, all-wonderful demimonde of the original stories.
Doyle's art was of a diligent man writing a character he was not reverent of, and he placed him where he liked, whereas even our best writers today take Holmes and his world seriously. The Great Detective is a consulting ratiocinator—not an office of the law, no matter how much the Metropolitan Police may treat him as an appendix, or vice versa. Behind the intellectual fireworks are deep-engraved statements of life, the street, and logic which are so pitch-perfect I hesitate to use the word "pulp." Holmes is not the cozy mysteries of Marple, or the locked room or ghostly house of the early 20th century. Doyle's shadowy London inspired the hardboiled arias of Chandler, Spillane, and Hammett. Doyle was no slouch when it came to portraying the odds and ends of what he called the "cesspool of the Empire." Sir Arthur's depictions of fin-de-siècle London are more striking and more outré than many other recorders of that time, who wrote with more frankness but less wisdom.
And of course, clue after clue, well-balanced by the secret heart of the Holmes world, the same interest that returns us time and again to 221B Baker Street: the relationship, the brotherhood between Holmes and Watson, and the compelling, memorable world circling around them: Mrs. Hudson, Lestrade, the Irregulars, and the specter of Imperial London itself, rising misty and marvelous from every street corner.
But why? There have been so many adaptations. To put it another way: How far out does Sherlockiana go? Will anyone in a deerstalker do?
In other words, I want to know what is essential to Holmes. To reverse-engineer a complicated machine, you take away parts until you find the bare minimum. To understand how a car works, the engineer would remove all extraneous goods until she came to the engine and wheels. You take away the parts until the device stops working, and then you learn what the essence is.
To put it another way: There have been lots of my beloved Holmes. What makes him him across the mediums and years? What ties Jeremy Brett (The Adventures of Sherlock Homes), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), and Meredith Henderson (The Adventures of Shirley Holmes), and Barrie Ingham (The Great Mouse Detective)?
What matters is not the incidentals but the essentials. As a Sherlockian, it doesn't matter if the Detective is white, black, male, female, British, American, polite, rude, straight, gay. The Detective is best thought of as an equation. Constants and variables.
Holmes is a person of no determinate age, not old but not too young. Hawk nose and forehead preferred, not required. Comes from money, but not too much: a fortune large enough to explain his habits, but small enough to where his name alone wouldn't matter in the land. Artistic, dramatic, bored easily. Otherworldly about him. Not alien, but different. Addictive, maybe. Usually single but never alone. Stronger than he looks. Bohemian in his habits. There's always a best friend. A brother. A professor he opposes and defeats.
But these are still surface matters, and may be dispatched with. What cannot be removed from the character?
Here is what is absolutely essential: Intelligence and eccentricity turned all the way up. Some geniuses aren't eccentric (Solomon the Wise) and eccentrics aren't necessarily smart (Kramer). Holmes is both, but with a difference. Intelligent eccentrics are often oblivious (Emmett Brown) or unworldly (Sheldon Cooper). He doesn't have to be Bohemian, but he must be very different. Holmes is unusual because he is not just able to survive, but also to hunt criminals in their element; his worldliness is also turned up all the way.
Sheldon doesn't get people and Brown can't be bothered, but Holmes has to be; he is an expert in moving within the world. He is physically capable in a way other fictional smart guys aren't. What separates him from Batman, then, besides the obvious? Holmes is open, or honest, call it pro-social if you want. He is almost compulsively discursive about himself and his methods.
Intelligent, eccentric, worldly and open, all turned to 11. These are the sine qua non of Holmes.
But there's one thing missing, an element that does not belong to Holmes himself, and yet must be part of any Holmesian universe: The best friend with military connections that he has a superhuman bond with. Without Watson, it's not Holmes. The two Doyle stories written from Holmes' perspective? Dull as a murderless street.
No Watson, no Holmes. The tale of Holmes, the studies in scarlet and final bows, are the story of this remarkable friendship between two equals. The difference between a shallow and a deep reading of the Sherlockian canon is the understanding that the world of Holmes is a two-man show.
So: Smart, weird, canny, open, Watson. With these five, you have Holmes. Without, you have the problem of an empty House. I can believe Hugh Laurie as American Sherlock for one season, or two. But it stretches credulity that even a maximally insufferable ersatz Holmes would be so dishonest and so oblivious to his own weakness. Holmes can be self-destructive, but not continually perverse. He can lie to Watson briefly, but is constitutionally unable to do so at any length.
Crime is common and logic rare. In middle of that scale stands the Detective—for my money, the only True Detective; endlessly complex, yet, at the bottom of his very human heart, surprisingly elementary after all.
Jason Rhode lives and keep bees upon the South Downs. If you ever find him giving less pains to a feature than it deserves, kindly whisper "Norbury" in his ear, and he shall be infinitely obliged to you. You can also follow him on Twitter.
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The Mattapoisett Lions Club will not be having the annual Easter Egg Hunt this year. The conditions at the lighthouse are not good for safety reasons. We will host a "Spring Saturday" when the conditions improve and we will have activities and giveaways.


HB 1411 is an omnibus bill relating to the termination of pregnancies, including redefining "third trimester"; revising the care of fetal remains; prohibiting state funding of abortion; and enforcing clinic inspections.
The law would require all fetal remains to be disposed of in a sanitary manner pursuant to s. 381.0098. Failure to dispose of fetal remains in accordance with this provision would be a misdemeanor of the first degree.
The law would prohibit the advertising, purchase, sale, or transfer of human embryos or fetal remains obtained from an abortion.
The funds are expended as reimbursement for Medicaid services provided on a fee-for-service basis.
Beginning no later than January 1, 2017, information consistent with the United States Standard Report of Induced Termination of Pregnancy adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
When performing license inspections of a clinic, this law would require the health department to inspect at least 50 percent of patient records generated since a clinic's last inspection.
Annual inspections would be required of all licensed abortion clinics. A prompt investigation of credible allegations of abortions being performed at unlicensed clinics would also be required.
Clinics that perform abortions would be required to have a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital within "reasonable proximity" to the clinic which includes the transfer of the patient's medical records.
Physicians who perform abortions at the clinic would be required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within "reasonable proximity" to the clinic.
This law would require an abortion referral or counseling agency to register with the Agency for Health Care Administration. To register or renew a registration an applicant would need to pay an initial or renewal registration fee. Clinics, facilities, or health care providers that refer less than five patients for abortion per month would be exempt.
Signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott on March 25, 2016. The law will go into effect July 1, 2016.
Companion bill to SB 1722.


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Peter Szarmach
Peter is a photographer and an officer of the San Antonio Art League and Museum
Peter Szarmach is a photographer and graphic artist. He is also an active member with the San Antonio Art League and Museum, where he acts as a docent and chairs the organization's 92nd annual juried exhibition.
Peter says he got his start in photography when he won a raffle prize of a Kodak Instamatic camera at a plumbing show (his dad and uncle owned the local hardware store) and took it on a class trip to Mexico.
Later, he studied photography at the University of Illinois at Chicago while working for his degree in graphic design. As a graphic designer, Peter says he often incorporated photography into his designs, keeping his own darkroom to enable him to better manipulate images for integration into those designs.
Today, Peter says, he has a passion for capturing the 'vastness and the details of nature'.
'Most of my travels take me to locations where hiking is one of the main features,' he says. 'Composing landscapes and natural abstracts excite me.'
Peter's images have been exhibited in juried shows across the United States, and he has self-published two books, 'Sacred Places' and 'Natural Abstracts.'
See more of Peter's work at composingbeauty.com
Art Exhibition Opening: A Huge Success!
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SAALM Annual Juried Exhibition
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Calling all Texas artists: Show us your best work
The San Antonio Art League and Museum is inviting Texas artists to submit work for the 2022 Juried Exhibition.


This article shows how the RFID technology will be used to track every person, animal and product on the earth to fulfil the prophecy in Revelation 13:17 which says "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." We will also share information about some key supporters for this technology and how they are bringing this technology to every product.
We see from the Auto-ID Lab's web site that RFID will identify everything on the earth using implanted microchips. These microchips are about the size of the head of an ant with a thin antenna attached. RFID will eventually replace the barcode that is used all around the world to identify products in stores. There are two types of RFID tags or microchips. These are called passive RFID and active RFID. With passive RFID, the tags must be scanned manually which requires that the RFID items must be in proximity to a reader unit. With active RFID the tags incorporate a battery that constantly broadcasts the chip's ID number.
The original Auto-ID Center had almost 100 global companies sponsors and partners to finance and provide support to the development of RFID. We will look at some key supporters for RFID to show how they are bringing this technology to every product on the earth.
"Inventory management technology that uses wireless signals to track products from the factory to store shelves is set to win a major new ally next week: Wal-Mart. The retail giant is expected to throw its weight behind RFID (radio frequency identification) technology at the Retail Systems 2003 industry conference in Chicago on Tuesday. Sources familiar with the company's plans said executives will make a presentation encouraging its top 100 suppliers to start using wireless inventory tracking equipment--chips affixed to products, and scanners in warehouses--by 2005......RFID tags have the potential to streamline and improve inventory management by allowing manufacturers to more efficiently enter and track the flow of goods. For example, RFID could let a company add a boxful of goods to its inventory systems all at once, without having to unpack the carton and scan each piece separately. An RFID scanner can pick up signals from all the chips in the sealed box, something bar code systems can't do. The cost savings could be substantial for Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer with sales of $217.8 billion in 2002. AMR's Abell estimates that Wal-Mart's costs associated with supply chain--including storing, transporting and keeping track of goods--are about 10 percent of overall sales. RFID, Abell said, could save 6 percent to 7 percent of those costs annually. Using the 2002 figures as a model, that would amount to about $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion saved."
"Wal-Mart Stores and its largest 100 merchandise suppliers plan to meet this week to plot the implementation of a new high-tech inventory-tracking system, a project expected to send ripples across the retail industry. The meeting, scheduled for Tuesday near Wal-Mart's Bentonville, Ark., headquarters, follows the megaretailer's announcement in June about its foray into a technology known as RFID (radio frequency identification). At the time, Wal-Mart asked its top 100 suppliers to join the effort and, starting Jan. 1, 2005, attach RFID tracking 'tags' to the millions of cases and containers they ship to the company. Among the companies congregating in Bentonville for a full briefing from Wal-Mart are industry giants Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble, Tyson Foods and Unilever, a Wal-Mart representative said. Some big names in information technology will also be in town, with IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Philips Semiconductor and SAP participating in an RFID 'tech expo' Wednesday......Procter & Gamble, which has been deeply involved in the testing and development of retail RFID systems for the last several years, is optimistic that RFID will be more than just another cost of doing business with the world's largest retailer. 'We see that this technology has huge benefits, even at the case and pallet level, in helping us to track our product and helping us understand how long does it take to get through the supply chain,' a P&G representative said."
"Wal-Mart plans to spend $3 billion over the next several years on a new inventory tracking technology that uses radio frequency signals to keep tabs on merchandise, sources familiar with the project said. The system is based on a technology known as radio frequency identification (RFID), a new breed of computer network designed to track the location of everyday objects such as razors and shoes by embedding them with special microchips. Wal-Mart has enlisted its top 100 merchandise suppliers to participate in the high-profile project, one of the first and largest of its kind in the retail industry....Wal-Mart's multibillion budget is an unofficial estimate that the company has discussed privately with other companies involved in the project, said the sources, who wished to remain anonymous. Nevertheless, the large sum bodes well for a number of information technology companies that specialize in the fledgling RFID niche. Among them are companies that make RFID chips and readers, including Philips Semiconductors and start-ups Alien Technology and Matrics. According to one source, Wal-Mart will spend about two-thirds of its RFID budget on readers and the installation of them in more than 100 distribution centers and thousands of stores.....Wal-Mart expects a big payoff from the technology, mainly from having fewer logistical errors and reduced labor costs related to inventory processing. One analyst pegged the savings at nearly $8.4 billion annually, once Wal-Mart completes the project."
"Wal-Mart customers who picked up lipstick off the shelf at a Broken-Arrow, Okla., store were part of a little-mentioned experiment earlier this year that tracked consumer habits using Radio Frequency Identification technology, or RFID. Proctor & Gamble teamed with the retail giant in the test over a four month-period which allowed researchers to view the Wal-Mart shelves from company headquarters some 750 miles away in Cincinnati, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Also, the Max Factor Lipfinity lipstick had RFID tags hidden inside that allowed the inventory to be tracked leaving the shelves. The Chicago paper said it was informed of the study by a disgruntled P&G employee. Wal-Mart first denied the test, but then admitted it had allowed customers to be watched......But the Times report said other large retailers, such as Target and Home Depot, were testing the RFID technology to monitor inventory in their storerooms and distribution centers. Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense have been the biggest boosters of the technology."
Wal-Mart is not only taking the lead in implementing the RFID technology but is also causing its competitors to use the RFID technology.
"July 30, 2003 - Pittsburgh-based supermarket chain Giant Eagle is preparing an RFID pilot as part of an overhaul of its warehouse management system. The new system, which could include RFID if the test goes well, will support the company's 214 stores across four states. With estimated sales of more than $4 billion last year, Giant Eagle is one the largest food retailers in the United States. It is looking at RFID as a way to help streamline its distribution processes, reduce inventory levels and gain real-time visibility across its supply chain....Giant Eagle has five distribution centers (DCs). The first site is scheduled to go live with Manhattan Associates warehouse management application in the second quarter of 2004. These centers, which range in size from 75,000 sq. ft. to more than one million sq. ft., serve as way stations for health, beauty and cosmetics products, meat, frozen foods, and dry or perishable goods (two facilities)....RFID promises to help Giant Eagle gain access to real-time supply chain information that will help it to better manage not just its DCs, but also its suppliers and the supply network as a whole."
"The supermarket chain Tesco has admitted testing controversial technology that tracks customers buying certain products through its stores. Anyone picking up Gillette Mach3 razor blades at its Cambridge store will have his or her picture taken. The Guardian, alerted by Katherine Albrecht, director of US-based Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy and Invasion and Numbering, to the use of the smart electronic tags, has found that tags in the razor blades trigger a CCTV camera when a packet is removed from the shelf. A second camera takes a picture at the checkout and security staff then compare the two images, raising the possibility that they could be used to prevent theft.....The trial uses radio frequency identification (RFID) in which tiny chips can communicate with detectors up to 20 ft away. The chip can then return information - anything from a unique serial number to more complex product details. Or, as in Tesco's case, it could trigger a camera.....The technology is mostly used to track batches of products through the supply chain. But manufacturers want to go a step further and tag each individual product: everything from yoghurt pots to clothes. One potential problem with RFID tags is that they can still work long after the product has been bought. If the tags become as ubiquitous as the manufacturers would like, people could be bristling with the chips in clothes and possessions. Anyone from police to potential thieves could work out exactly what they carry. Manufacturers, however, insist that the chips can be disabled at the point of sale.....Transport for London is also using RFID-style chips in its new Oyster smart cards to allow users to travel around the tube network. The intention is that registered users will have information such as their names and addresses stored on the cards, which would eventually replace season tickets. A spokesperson for TfL said that the entry and exit points of each journey made by Oyster users were recorded and that, technically, it would be possible to track people through the tube network. Nicole Carroll, marketing director for TranSys, the consortium responsible for implementing the system, told the Guardian that all the journeys made by a user would remain stored in a central computer for the lifetime of the card."
We are seeing this RFID technology being implemented on a global scale for every product.
The USPS and the U.S. (DOD) are testing RFID and are planning to implement it on a large scale with suppliers.
"Sept. 15, 2003 - RFID Journal has learned that the U.S. Department of Defense plans to ask its top 100 suppliers to put RFID tags on pallets, cases and big-ticket items. The military intends to spell out its plans in detail sometime next summer, but it is believed that tagging could begin in 2005......The military is already one of the leaders in using RFID technology. Currently all pallets sent to the Gulf and Afghanistan are tagged. Containers are tracked around the world using active (battery-powered) tags from Savi Technology. The DOD would apparently like to have suppliers tag not just pallets and cases, but also put active tags on containers and eventually GPS devices on all shipments to provide perfect visibility......The DOD suppliers are among the largest companies in the world. The top 100 would include Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. If the military does endorse EPC technology for tracking goods in the military supply chain, it could help spread EPC technology throughout the manufacturing sector because military's top 100 suppliers also have divisions that make commercial airplanes, electronic components, trucks, ships and other products." With many of these 100 suppliers also in the commercial business this will help reduce the cost of implementing this technology by using the military cost to develop RFID for both military and commercial use. In another article titled "Navy Puts RFID Into Service", subtitled "Doctors and Nurses at Iraq Military Hospital use the Technology to Track and Treat Patients"(Note 10) says "While retailers and distributors mull the use of radio-frequency identification chips to track products in their stores and supply chains, the U.S. Navy is already using them to track something far more precious: human lives. The Navy's Tactical Medical Coordination System, dubbed TacMedCS, helps simplify hospital administration, reduce errors, and provide better medical care. Each patient admitted into the Navy's Fleet Hospital Three in Iraq is tagged with an RFID-enabled wristband. The patients, who can range from U.S. military personnel to prisoners of war to refugees, are given unique ID numbers for the duration of their treatment. Doctors and nurses use a handheld RFID reader to scan the bracelet to confirm identity and enter information on diagnoses, treatments, and status into a central data system......As a result of the implementation in Fleet Hospital Three, the Navy has been able to keep important information with patients, track their location automatically, and keep closer track of their treatment, all of which has allowed it to improve the quality of medical care.......Similar RFID systems also are being used in U.S. civilian hospitals to track patients who require constant monitoring, such as newborn babies, says Frost & Sullivan analyst Deepak Shetty. There's been hesitation to deploy them widely because of fears over the reliability of the hardware and potential radio interference with other devices, he says. But the success of systems such as TacMedCS is likely to change that, and RFID should soon become commonplace in medical applications."
We see from this article that they are tracking and storing information in a database for not only the military but also in the civilian hospitals.
"A government report that urges the U.S. Postal Service to create 'smart stamps' to track the identity of people who send mail is eliciting concern from privacy advocates. The report, released last month by the President's Commission on the U.S. Postal Service, issued numerous recommendations aimed at reforming the debt-laden agency. One recommendation is that the USPS 'aggressively pursue' the development of a so-called intelligent mail system. Though details remain sketchy, an intelligent mail system would involve using barcodes or special stamps, identifying, at a minimum, the sender, the destination and the class of mail. USPS already offers mail-tracking services to corporate customers. The report proposes a broad expansion of the concept to all mail for national security purposes. It also suggests USPS work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop the system......'We have a long history in this country of anonymous political speech,' said Ari Schwartz, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Any change that removes anonymity from the public mail system is 'making a major change to political discourse in this country,' he said. Such a system could also facilitate expanded government surveillance powers, said Chris Hoofnagle, deputy counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. For instance, the FBI is already allowed to photocopy the outside of unopened letters and packages sent and received by suspected criminals in order to monitor their communications, Hoofnagle said. An intelligent mail system could make conducting such "mail cover" activity easier, enabling the FBI to build databases tracking communication among people on a broader scale, he noted. Hoofnagle and Schwartz also questioned the cost and effectiveness of a system that hinges on proving the identity of millions of individual mail senders. Even an overhaul of the entire postal system may not thwart stamp-swipers and identity thieves, they said. "In order to close those holes, you have to move toward a police state," Hoofnagle said.....A USPS representative said the agency is still reviewing the report and declined to comment on its recommendations. However, the USPS already has been investigating intelligent mail technology for at least two years. It made development of the system part of a "transformation plan" it issued last year.....Major high-tech companies, including Canon, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Pitney Bowes, Symbol Technologies and Stamps.com, are pushing the Postal Service to adopt intelligent mail systems. Each participates in a special committee on intelligent mail run by the Mailing Industry Task Force, a cross-industry group formed in 2001 with the support of Postmaster General John Potter."
In closing, we are seeing Auto-ID Labs positioned all over the world and we are also seeing the implementation of this technology which will soon be in place to fulfill the scriptures. In Revelation 13:17 it says "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Ubiquitous Is Here Part II.Read this article in the next issue of The Prophetic Messenger.