The entire court stood as the door behind the throne opened and the king himself came through, standing atop the high platform overlooking the circular room. He was a man of great girth, wearing a large fur robe of purples and golds, with white beard, hair, and bushy white eyebrows. His eyes were bright blue, like those of his daughter. This was the first time Lucas had ever seen him.
Lucas took a breath, steading himself. How had made it here? He was standing in the center of the great open court, where rows of seats lead up the sides of the hall, holding senators and clergyman, and the king himself stood beside his great throne at the top of the hall, so that the area took the shape of an arena. And Lucas himself stood a raised platform in the center of the room with steps leading to the top, where he might be seen by the king and all the court at once. He knew that was he was doing was dangerous, but still he tried to remain calm. It was what had to be done.
"His Imminence King Roseline." the guard to the King's left announced in a booming voice, and the king sat upon the tall, gold and purple throne.
"And why, Prince Ballanheim, have you come before my court today?" The king asked curiously.
"I have come to tell you of a plot to destroy my kingdom, and yours." Lucas announced. There were murmurs from around the great hall, but the king remained silent, and placed his hands together thoughtfully, interlocking his fingers.
There were gasps among the court, more murmurs, and even a few loud objections. "This boy is mad!" One man shouted, and "Get him from the stand, we've more important matters to deal with!" from another. The King raised his hand and slowly silence fell once more over the court.
From both sides of the hall, the guards standing near the torches on the walls took them from their places in the stone and brought them forward, so that all light but the torches behind the king now glimmered at the bottom of the dais. Lucas closed his eyes. He had done this a thousand times with the candles in his room, it was his favorite trick, it always soothed him. He thought of those times alone in his room, and he felt a twitch in his hand and a tightening sensation inside his head.
He reached out from within himself to the flames in the torches, he felt their heat with his mind, and magnified it. There were gasps from the crowd but Lucas didn't need to open his eyes to know why. The flames in the torches had exploded into brightly burning fires much larger than they had been. He felt with invisible fingers each flame and pulled on them all at once. There were screams from the crowd as the flames all left their places atop the torches and floated to the top of the dais, and gathered into one large fireball, hovering over Lucas' palm. He reach out with his mind and felt the flame in the torches behind the throne, and they too exploded into larger fires, and he pulled them forward, past the king and they joined the fireball hovering in the air over Lucas' hand. He opened his eyes.
The only light in the room was from the great ball of light and fire he held swirling in his hands, red and blue and orange. It's heat was immense. Lucas held out his hand and the ball of fire rose a few feet into the air. He stared at it.
Shouts of outrage filled the hall, while other members of the court remained staring at the fireballs that circled Lucas in silent wonderment.
"If indeed the Consul sought to use the power you possess, why has he not enlisted you to do his bidding, or why has he not sought some way to steal the power from you, could such a thing be possible?" the King asked.
"But it was not Hephastia's doing!" the King shouted angrily.
The King remained silent, his head bowed in silent contemplation.
"Yes! Have the boy removed from the court this instant, and send him home to be tried for treason against his own country!" another courtsman shouted.
"Magnus was a traitor who was exiled from the Kingdom, a barbarous liar who sought to take the seat of power from my great-grandfather and make himself king of Hephaestia." the King spoke.
Lucas held up his hand and the flames circling him burst into bright fireballs. "Wait! There is one another bargaining chip I've brought, your Excellency, and though it will surely make me an enemy to use it, you've given me no choice." Lucas brought the flames behind him to make a wall across the steps of the dais, so that no one could come forth to seize him.
"And what, impetuous boy, is this 'bargaining chip'?" The King roared.
The King's eyes widened and the court began to roar once again. "He is the Princesses kidnapper!" some screamed.
"Then you will not speak with the Consul, you will not listen to my plea, and you will do nothing to stop the impending war?" Lucas asked solemnly.
With a flick of his mental fingers, Lucas extinguished the flames, and complete darkness fell upon the hall. The court began to cry out, and the King with them, shouting for his guardsmen to find the Prince and take him into custody. Lucas felt with his mind in the dark for the floors and walls and even without the sight of his eyes could see where he was and where the others were. Soldiers were running up the steps of the dais, their spears held out stupidly before them.
He jumped from the dais and with a gust of wind helped himself to land somewhat smoothly on the stone floor beneath. Atop the balcony torches were already being lit near the king and thrown down to the soldiers below.
"The doors will not open until we have captured the boy!" One of the soldiers near the walls of the hall announced, pushing back the throngs of people trying to rush out. Lucas sighed and casually walked past the soldiers and the people who could not see him in the dark, and slipped behind the soldiers guarding the doors leading into the hall, and through the doors themselves. He walked casually out into the hallway and turned to go down the steps, to where his companions waited outside the castle. No one would know what had happened inside in time to capture him, and he was safe for the moment as he headed toward one of the castle's exits. People passed him and nodded pleasantly, unaware of the commotion in the great hall just yet, and eventually when he slipped outside and joined the others, hoisting himself up onto his horse, he sighed solemnly.
"He didn't listen, did he?" Dexter asked.
"No, he didn't." Lucas replied as they began to ride toward the forests.
"You did all that you could, Lucas." Jared encouraged.
"We will protect you then," Jared said from his seat on his horse.


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Alexander Katz, Christopher Williams, and Jimin Khim contributed
The log-normal distribution is the probability distribution of a random variable whose logarithm follows a normal distribution. It models phenomena whose relative growth rate is independent of size, which is true of most natural phenomena including the size of tissue and blood pressure, income distribution, and even the length of chess games.
Formal Definition
Finding the Log-normal Distribution
Properties of the Log-normal Distribution
Let ZZZ be a standard normal variable, which means the probability distribution of ZZZ is normal centered at 0 and with variance 1. Then a log-normal distribution is defined as the probability distribution of a random variable
X=eμ+σZ,X = e^{\mu+\sigma Z},X=eμ+σZ,
where μ\muμ and σ\sigmaσ are the mean and standard deviation of the logarithm of XXX, respectively.
The term "log-normal" comes from the result of taking the logarithm of both sides:
logX=μ+σZ.\log X = \mu +\sigma Z.logX=μ+σZ.
As ZZZ is normal, μ+σZ\mu+\sigma Zμ+σZ is also normal (the transformations just scale the distribution, and do not affect normality), meaning that the logarithm of XXX is normally distributed (hence the term log-normal).
The log-normal distribution satisfies
fX(x)=1σx2πe−(lnx−μ)22σ2,f_X(x) = \frac{1}{\sigma x\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\dfrac{(\ln x-\mu)^2}{2\sigma^2}},fX(x)=σx2π1e−2σ2(lnx−μ)2,
which is a consequence of the change of variable theorem and a small amount of calculus. Unfortunately, this form is very difficult to work with by hand, so it is generally more useful to consider the key properties of the distribution (e.g. the mean and tendencies). For this reason, it is worth examining the result when μ=0,σ=1\mu=0, \sigma=1μ=0,σ=1 (i.e. standard conditions):
Note that the distribution is skewed to the right, and the mode is roughly .35 (in fact, it is 1e\frac{1}{e}e1, as the next section shows). This, along with the general shape of the curve, is generally sufficient information to draw a reasonably accurate approximation of the graph.
There are several important values that give information about a particular probability distribution. The most important are as follows:
The mean, or expected value, of a distribution gives useful information about what average one would expect from a large number of repeated trials.
The median of a distribution is another measure of central tendency, useful when the distribution contains outliers (i.e. particularly large/small values) that make the mean misleading.
The mode of a distribution is the value that has the highest probability of occurring.
The variance of a distribution measures how "spread out" the data is. Related is the standard deviation, the square root of the variance, useful due to being in the same units as the data.
These values are often easier to calculate for a continuous probability distribution (such as the log-normal one), but as their calculation involves a fair amount of calculus, the explanation will be brief.
The mean of the log-normal distribution is m=eμ+σ22,m = e^{\mu+\frac{\sigma^2}{2}},m=eμ+2σ2, which also means that μ\muμ can be calculated from mmm: μ=lnm−12σ2.\mu = \ln m - \frac{1}{2}\sigma^2.μ=lnm−21σ2. These both derive from the mean of the normal distribution.
The median of the log-normal distribution is Med[X]=eμ,\text{Med}[X] = e^{\mu},Med[X]=eμ, which is derived by setting the cumulative distribution equal to 0.5 and solving the resulting equation.
The mode of the log-normal distribution is Mode[X]=eμ−σ2,\text{Mode}[X] = e^{\mu-\sigma^2},Mode[X]=eμ−σ2, which is derived by setting the derivative of the p.d.f. in the previous section to 0, as the mode represents the global maximum of the distribution.
Finally, the variance of the log-normal distribution is Var[X]=(eσ2−1)e2μ+σ2,\text{Var}[X] = (e^{\sigma^2}-1)e^{2\mu+\sigma^2},Var[X]=(eσ2−1)e2μ+σ2, which can also be written as (eσ2−1)m2\big(e^{\sigma^2}-1\big)m^2(eσ2−1)m2, where mmm is the mean of the distribution above.
For most natural growth processes, the growth rate is independent of size, so the log-normal distribution is followed. As a result, the log-normal distribution has heavy applications to biology and finance, two areas where growth is an important area of study. In particular, epidemics and stock prices tend to follow a log-normal distribution. Other applications include technological ones, such as the file size of publicly available files and time to repair a maintainable system, engineering considerations such as the sizes of cities, and physical ones such as friction coefficients.
The distribution also occurs in seemingly unlikely areas, most notably in the number of moves a chess game takes to end. Based on games played on FICS (Free Internet Chess Server), the number of half-moves is shown in the below image[1]:
which is approximated very well by a log-normal curve.
[1] Stackexchange. What is the average length of a game of chess?. Retrieved March 2nd, 2016 from http://chess.stackexchange.com/a/4899
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With Zimbabwe opening its doors to tourism, we list down the three best places to visit there - the Matobo National Park, Victoria Fall, and the stone city of Great Zimbabwe.
Located in southwestern Zimbabwe, the Matobo National Park is where science meets technology and traditional knowledge, to not only protect rhinos but also enable visitors to get close to them on foot.
With nearly 700 species of birds, 200 species of mammals, and over 6,000 species of flora, one can see elephants, zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, hippo, buffalo, crocodile, and a number of types of deer and cheetah. There are many fascinating things to learn too, like how to tell a lion's paw print from that of a hyena, how the wild basil is an excellent mosquito repellent, how elephant dung infusions can speed up labour, and more.
Zimbabwe has both natural and man-made to offer. A good example of the latter is the ruins of the extraordinary stone city created by the Bantu civilisation in the 11th-15th centuries. Just like the name Zimbabwe suggests a combination of Zi (big), mba (house), and bwe (stone), they say the site covers 200 acres. One of it's architectural achievements is the valley enclosure that has 11-metre-high walls of 15,000 tons of stone, built without mortar; and although it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is not so well-known outside the country.
Known as Mosi oa Tunya, loosely translated to "the smoke that thunders", Victoria Falls has 500 million litres of the Zambezi River cascading over the rocks in the wet season. The spray can rise to over 1600 ft and is often so voluminous that you can barely see through it. You're bound to soak despite raincoats! You can bungee jump off the bridge, zipwire across, swing out over it, edge along the walkway, or go on a 13-minute helicopter ride.
All in all, in almost all the places, one will find welcoming smiles and friendliness of the Zimbabweans, while the country remains truly breath-taking!


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I have an issue with printing arabic strings with in numeric chars by right to left like below.
I can print this string as right to left with zpl FPR command.
When i use fpr command every char in this string is reversing. But this time, numbers reverse too.
For example when i print it, i see 41 instead 14.
How can i print numeric chars like we see, not reversed?
To print bidirectional texts it looks like you need to use ^CI command together with ^PA command.
Also, I unsure you need to use ^FPR command.
We are using Hexadecimal code. ^ FH problem may be caused by this?
Thank you for sharing your ZPL. I was unable to find any mentions on how hexadecimal code (^FH) printing may conflict with bidirectional text (^PA) feature. But there is a chance that bidirectional text layout have no any control on characters printed by using ^FH command. Could you please attempt to print Arabic string with numeric values without ^FH command used. Just put respective UTF-8 values into ^FD command.
Also you may need to check if mentioned commands are supported for your printer. You can find this information in release notes document for your firmware version. In case they are not supported you can try to update your firmware to more recent version.


The Aon Maadi Cup regatta is the National Championships for school rowing in New Zealand. Run by the NZSSRA and Rowing New Zealand, it is New Zealand's largest rowing regatta, alternating annually between Lake Karapiro in Cambridge and Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel.
The 2019 New Zealand Secondary School Championships (Aon Maadi Cup) will be held at Lake Karapiro from 24th-30th March 2019 (Sunday 31st March until 12pm is the spare day).
Karapiro Rowing Inc are the hosts of the regatta at Lake Karapiro and are a group of tireless volunteers, we thank them hugely for their efforts in putting on the regatta!
Over 2000 competitors from 120 schools are expected and around 10,000 people watch the finals from the bank.
This section provides all the information you need to know about the event including the history, how to enter, and important details about the regatta.
Can't attend the event? Don't worry, there will be a live webcast on the Thursday/Friday/Saturday so don't miss any of the action! Check out the live stream here.
SKYSport will be broadcasting a 2019 Aon Maadi Cup Highlights package during the week following the regatta.


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Ebenezer (Eben) Hayes (1798 - 1881) was a farmer, Methodist preacher and a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, during the Reconstruction era.

Ebenezer Hayes was born in Marion, South Carolina, in 1798, the eldest of three sons to William Hayes, whose family came from Virginia and were of English descent. Hayes married Nancy Ann Dew (1806 - 1870) and his brother, Henry, married Nancy's sister, Marina. Ebenezer and Nancy had nine children, born between 1826 and 1854.

Hayes represented Marion County, South Carolina in the South Carolina House of Representatives, during the Reconstruction era. He was elected twice, serving from 1868 to 1870 and 1872 to 1874. He was a member of the Radical Republicans, a party faction with a goal of immediate, complete and permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.

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1881 deaths
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Join us at our events that the YMCA of Greater Williamson County holds each month. Just like the people who make up our community, the YMCA is ever-changing.
Throughout the year the Y hosts events that help strengthen our community, whether its a Family Night giving family members a place to bond or one of our annual races that promotes a healthy lifestyle, all of our events help us give back to the community. Every year we work hard to make an impact in our community. Take a moment to discover what is happening at your local YMCA! Check back at our events calendar to stay up to date with the latest Community Events!
School's out and it's time to relax, decompress and have fun with friends. Summer is the time for kids to get up, get out and grow. But for some kids, exposure to activities that stimulate the body and mind ends with the school year. In fact, research shows that kids are prone to gain more weight and fall behind in studies. On April 27, 2019, the Y will celebrate Healthy Kids Day, our national initiative to improve the health and well-being of kids. Details for the 2019 Healthy Kids Day will be provided soon! This event is free and open to the public!
To honor the National Day of Prayer, each year the YMCA of Greater Williamson County holds a Prayer Breakfast. This is an event where we are able to come together as a community and offer support and guidance.
Twin Lakes Family YMCA hosts a Halloween at the Y located at the Branch in Cedar Park, Tx. The event is FREE and includes vendor Trick or Treating & games, bounce houses, climbing rockwall, cupcake decorating, selfie booth, and so much more family fun!
The YMCA of Greater Williamson County's Christmas Market in Burnet is a great way to get a jump on your holiday shopping at annual Hill Country Christmas Market. Over 50 vendors participate each year to show off and sell their handmade goods and novelty items.


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Q: Can I copy a Boost::Log sink and change it? I'm currently creating a log sink that dumps log lines from the output of my Trainer class to cout:
    using namespace boost;
    using namespace log;
    using namespace expressions;
    using namespace sinks;

    auto sink = make_shared<synchronous_sink<text_ostream_backend>>();

    sink->set_formatter(Utility::GetLoggingFormat());

    sink->locked_backend()->add_stream(
        shared_ptr<std::ostream>(&std::cout, null_deleter()));
    sink->set_filter((
        has_attr(Utility::ClassTag) &&
        Utility::ClassTag == "App::Trainer"));
    boost::log::core::get()->add_sink(sink);

However, I have already added a sink (by calling add_file_log elsewhere) that dumps all log lines to a file. It uses the same GetLoggingFormat() formatter. In fact, the only reason I have that function is so that I don't have to repeat the formatter code.
Instead, I'd prefer to just "copy" the file sink (created elsewhere with add_file_log), change its output to std::cout and add the filter to it.
Can I do this?

A: No, that cannot be done. Sinks cannot be copied, and in fact the sinks created by add_file_log are using not text_ostream_backend but text_file_backend; you cannot configure text_file_backend to output to std::cout.
Your best approach is to either use a function, like you already do, or cache the formatter in a formatter object and set it to both your sinks.

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Tower of Power Towers Over The Fox
By Jill Gerstenberger on June 13, 2018 Concerts
Tower of Power
Fox Theater, Oakland
Photos by Jill Gerstenberger.
The Fox Theater buzzed with excitement as they hosted two sold-out shows by Tower of Power, who celebrated their 50th anniversary in their hometown of Oakland and kicked off a North American tour. With queues lined down the block well before show time, local TV crews were on-site doing coverage for the evening news while longtime fans reunited with each other with handshakes and smiles in front of the venue.
The day before, the R&B/Funk/soul/jazz band were celebrated at Oakland's City Hall in a ceremony that declared May 31st as Tower of Power Day. Founded in 1968 by saxophonist/vocalist Emilio Castillo and baritone saxophonist Stephen "Doc" Kupka, the band was originally called The Motowns but changed their name to Tower of Power in 1970. They've had eight songs in the Billboard Hot 100 including "You're Still a Young Man," "So Very Hard to Go," and "What is Hip?" Their highest chart topping album was Tower of Power, released in 1973, which featured Lenny Williams on vocals and peaked at #15 on Billboard's Pop Albums.
Tower of Power is most known for their horn section which has appeared on numerous artist's recordings including Otis Redding, Aerosmith, Elton John, Huey Lewis, Rod Stewart, Rick James, Aaron Neville, and many more. Fans from all over the world traveled far and wide to celebrate this special anniversary show and it was an incredible event.
The band hit the stage with a full si-piece horn section, two organ players, a backing rhythm section, the Tower of Power strings, backing vocalists, and new lead vocalist Marcus Scott. Scott is loaded with charisma with a soulful Memphis sound to his voice, and is a wonderful addition to the band. The band opened their electrifying set with "Stroke '75," sounding super tight and funky and the energy just kept climbing throughout the show. They got the crowd doing some hip popping Soul Train style dancing during "Stop," which had some groovy bass and the sizzling David Garibaldi on drums. Various former members sat in with the band throughout the show including Chester Thompson on the Hammond B-3, Lenny Pickett on Saxophone, Bruce Conti on guitar, and Francis 'Rocco' Prestia on bass guitar.
Tower of Power did an amazing version of "What is Hip/Soul Power," featuring dueling tenor saxophone solos from Tom E Politzer and Lenny Pickett that were mind-blowingly good. They are both just unbelievably talented and they had the crowd roaring and on their feet before the band took a brief intermission between sets.
The second set was even funkier as the band started really getting into a groove. They were in a celebratory mood as they found out their new album Soul Side of Town, released that day, had debuted at the number one slot on the charts. Some highlights of the second set were "Don't Change Horses (In the Middle of the Stream)," which had the crowd singing along, and a super groovy version of "Diggin' on James Brown," which had Marcus Scott showing off his dancing skills while doing the James Brown shuffle. They did an incredible version of "Knock Yourself Out" which included solos by all the members and then had a challenge from Scott to the horns to show off their dancing skills which they did in hilarious fashion. For the encore, they finished with the hit "You're Still a Young Man," a crowd favorite.
The band played two incredible sets of music that totaled around three hours and it just kept getting better as the night progressed. They were recording the show for a documentary and live CDs and we couldn't imagine a better performance to watch again. We're really looking forward to hearing those recordings. If you get the chance to catch Tower of Power on their 50th Anniversary tour do not hesitate. It's some of the best funk and soul we've ever heard with some of the best musicians around.
Setlist: Stroke '75 | Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now | You Ought to Be Havin' Fun | Soul With a Capital "S" | Stop | You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous | On the Serious Side | Just When We Start Makin' It | Soul Vaccination | What Is Hip?/Soul Power || I Got the Chop | Do You Like That? | Drop It in the Slot | Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong) | Maybe It'll Rub Off | Don't Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream) | Squib Cakes | On the Soul Side of Town | Diggin' on James Brown | So Very Hard to Go | Knock Yourself Out | Encore: | You're Still a Young Man | Souled Out
Find out more about Tower of Power here. :
Jill Gerstenberger
Jill has been involved with the San Francisco Bay Area music scene since the mid 80's when Metallica and Exodus were playing Ruthie's Inn and the hair and metal bands had taken over Broadway at The Stone and the Mab. She remembers seeing Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction at the I-Beam and being at Bill Graham's annual Grateful Dead shows at the Civic. She has done a variety of jobs from usher, event coordinator, stagehand, sound engineer, PR and even spent a year interning for the Giants and 49ers television crew. She currently does finance during the day but her lifelong passion is photography and photographing live music in particular. When she's not working or out taking photos at shows she spends time with her dogs who she adores.
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Nintendo Wii U eShop - Level 22
Published by Moving Player, Developed by Moving Player
Genres: Action / Adventure (1 players)
US release date: Jan 28th, 2016 | EU release date: Jan 28th, 2016
Prices: $6.99 (US) | £6.29 (UK) | €6.99 (EUR)
Are You Late For Work? Start Panicking!
Gary is an office worker who oversleeps after a night out on the town. Here's where it gets tricky, because this isn't the first time Gary's been late for work, and he could be fired if he's spotted arriving at his desk after everyone else yet again. So he'll have to prove he's smart and sneaky enough to make his way up all the 22 floors between him and his office without being seen. Hide in closets, crawl through air vents, slink along the walls... nobody must spot you! From the basement to the boss's office via the research and development labs, explore the zany little universe of LEVEL 22, Gary's Misadventures.
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King County Council
Metropolitan King County
Dembowski, Upthegrove award MLK Medal of Distinguished Service to local Filipino leaders
Frank Irigon and Fred Mendoza recognized for decades of community involvement and human rights leadership
Councilmember Upthegrove, Fred Mendoza, Frank Irigon
and Council Vice Chair Dembowski
Two active members of the region's Filipino community—Francisco "Frank" Irigon and Fred Mendoza—were recognized for their work within King County and around the region. At the May 22 meeting of the Metropolitan King County Council, both Irigon and Mendoza were presented the Council's highest honor, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal of Distinguished Service.
Irigon, whose leadership in the Asian Pacific Islander community spans close to six decades, was recognized by Council Vice Chair Rod Dembowski.
"There are few more deserving of this honor than Frank, known to many as Uncle Frank," said Dembowski. "He is a tireless advocate, a humble agitator, who is quick to raise his voice to call out injustice. While Frank is well known in the Asian Pacific Islander American community for his work, many King County residents have been positively impacted by his constant diligence in protecting our civil rights. I am honored to recognize him with the MLK Medal of Distinguished Service."
From being the first Asian American to serve on the UW student government (ASUW) in the 1970s, to being a leader in the effort to preserve the Chinatown/ International District, to serving on the board or as director of several non-profits, Irigon has been a constant advocate for social justice.
Councilmember Dave Upthegrove selected Mendoza, for his life's work supporting South King County, the area that he was born, raised and continues to live in.
"Fred has been a committed public servant to the South King County community," said Upthegrove. "Along with the countless number of people who he has impacted throughout his career, I'm thankful for his service and proud to present him this well-deserved honor."
Mendoza grew up in Algona, farming with his dad in the Auburn Valley. A graduate of Auburn High School, Mendoza would get his law degree and work in the office of the King County Prosecutor. But his focus was always on the South County communities he was raised in. Mendoza served 39 years on the Board for Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind. He was a founder of the Kent King County Bar Association Neighborhood Legal Clinic and volunteered his time there for 35 years. He served on the Board for the Highline Medical Center, and was a founding Board member for the Highline Schools Foundation.
Irigon and Mendoza are two of nine citizens living across King County whose contributions to their community echo the incredible selfless leadership of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The MLK Medal of Distinguished Service recognizes those who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to make a difference in communities across King County.
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in Asia. 但是,和加拿大的国家电视塔(CN Tower)比起来,东方明珠电视塔就矮点了。 The CN Tower is in Toronto. Let's view the city from the tower.
Most buildings in Toronto are not very high. But the CN tower stands out among the buildings. It is 553 metres high, the world's highest tower. Are you afraid of heights?
The Horseshoe Falls drops from 52 metres high. It is 675 metres long. 这相当于六个足球场那么长啊!这么大的瀑布,你最好在不同的角度去观赏它。You can see the falls from above or from below. You can also take a boat ride to the bottom of the falls. The sound of the water falling is so loud there. You cannot hear yourself talk! Isn't it exciting?


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Tension-type headache is also known as or subsumes Conversion headache, Psychogenic headache, Somatoform disorder headache, and Muscle contraction headache. -ed.
In this clinical article, Dr. Christopher Boes outlines the clinical manifestations, etiology, differential diagnosis, diagnostic evaluation, and management of tension-type headache. Recently published guidelines from the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) on the treatment of tension-type headache are reviewed.
Tension-type headache is bland and characterized as head pain devoid of migrainous characteristics.
The fundamental difference between tension-type headache and migraine is that tension-type headache lacks features of sensory sensitivity of any description and lacks the usual triggering associations of migraine.
Because of the nonspecific clinical features of tension-type headache, virtually all structural and metabolic diseases may cause a phenotypic tension-type headache.
First-line acute therapies are simple analgesics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
Preventive medications should be used for chronic tension-type headache when attacks occur more than 2 days a week; first-line preventive therapy is amitriptyline.
Electromyography biofeedback has a documented effect; cognitive-behavioral therapy and relaxation training are most likely effective.


Johnny Manziel is doing what he needs to do to play professional football again, announcing Saturday morning that he will play in the Canadian Football League.
It's not the NFL, but it's a start. He'll be playing for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who open training camp Sunday and play their first preseason game June 1. The team's first regular season game is June 16, and Manziel has agreed to a two-year deal with them.
"It's going to be a learning curve," Manziel told Barstool Sports, with whom he also has signed a new deal. "I think it'll be fun. It's definitely not the NFL, but there have been guys who've gone up there and have come back.
The 22nd overall pick by the Cleveland Browns in the 2014 NFL draft, Manziel partied his way out of the league after two tumultuous seasons and has been trying to work his way back in, of late playing in the fledgling Spring League. NFL scouts attended his workouts there and elsewhere, but he remained a free agent.
Now, if he shows he can make it in Canada, maybe he'll get another shot at the NFL. Winner of the 2012 Heisman as a freshman, Manziel is, after all, only 25. Talent wasn't his problem; focus and off-the-field issues were, and he says has addressed those.


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Ruapehu District Wastewater Treatment Schemes
Taumarunui Wastewater Scheme
The Taumarunui Wastewater Network provides for the collection and treatment of wastewater generated from approximately 2139 properties within the Taumarunui community.
The below schematic shows flow through the network:
Wastewater from Taumarunui township is transported through approximately 49km of pipelines to the Taumarunui Wastewater Treatment Plant. The network consists of ten pumping stations (Bullians Avenue, Camp Ground, Golf Road, Huia Street, Matai Street Nos 1 and 2, Sunshine Road, Tubby Woods, Tuku Street and Victory Bridge).
A map of the collection network is provided in the link at the bottom of this page.
The Taumarunui Wastewater Treatment Plant provides treatment of wastewater through the following steps:
1. Primary Treatment
1.1 Step Screen: Raw wastewater arriving at the Wastewater Treatment Plant is passed through a screen with holes in it. Fluid wastewater and smaller solids pass through the holes and on to the next step in the treatment process. Larger solids, including wetwipes, rags, and other rubbish items, that end up in our wastewater system, are retained by the screen as they are too big to fit through the holes (a bit like a large scale sieve). These items must be disposed of to landfill.
1.2 Primary Oxidation Lagoon: Wastewater is piped into a Primary Oxidation Lagoon where heavier solids separate from the wastewater through settling as sludge to the bottom of the lagoon. This sludge is colonised by anaerobic bugs (bacteria that don't need oxygen to survive) which help to break it down by using it as a food source. Bugs also live suspended in the wastewater and use up organic matter "food" throughout the lagoon.
1.3 Aerators: Four mechanical Aerators circulate air or oxygen through the water and help to make water flow around the lagoon. The chopping action of the Aerators also helps to physically break up blue algae on the surface of the wastewater, preventing algal bloom.
2. Secondary Treatment
2.1 Secondary Oxidation Lagoon: Wastewater remaining at the top of the Primary Lagoon contains less solids and is piped to the Secondary Oxidation Lagoon where further settling and removal of organic solids takes place. Bugs are also present in this lagoon, but in lower numbers, and need oxygen to survive.
3. Tertiary Treatment
3.1 Basic Wetland: Treated wastewater is trickled into a planted area called a 'Wetland'. Plants in the wetland act as a very basic filter, removing colour caused by algae present in the wastewater and also smaller solids which are suspended in the wastewater. Algae and solids get caught in the plants as the wastewater passes through the wetland and remain behind while cleaner wastewater continues its way to the Ultra Violet Irradiation system.
Wetlands are also thought to help remove pollutants present in wastewater, such as heavy metals (eg, mercury, lead and iron) and also nutrients such as Nitrogen and Phosphorus. Scientists are still learning about this and understanding how it works.
3.2 Ultra Violet (UV) irradiation: Wastewater is further treated by exposure to Ultra Violet light. This kills any bacteria and viruses remaining in the wastewater by destroying their genetic core (DNA). It is also effective against many protozoa.
The figure below shows a UV lamp cartridge taken out of the UV system for servicing.
The UV cartridge is slotted into the below UV system. Water flows through the system and is exposed to UV irradiation.
Discharge of Treated Wastewater to the Environment
The treated wastewater from the Taumarunui Wastewater Treatment Plant is discharged into the Whanganui River.
Taumarunui Wastewater Collection Network
Taumarunui Wastewater Reticulation Network (PDF, 332.8KB)
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Q: unable to access property of one class in another I have following two classes
 public class Properties1
 {
    [Key]
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public int Name{ get; set; }
    public virtual Properties2 Pro { get; set; }
 }

public class Properties2
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    [Key]
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public int FName{ get; set; }
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I am trying to get data from dataset and convert it into list of Properties1 and also trying to access FName property of class Properties2 inside class Properties1 as shown below
List<Properties1> Properties1List = new List<Properties1>();

Properties1List = ds.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().Select(dataRow => new Properties1
                        {
                            ID = dataRow.Field<int>("id"),
                            Name= dataRow.Field<string>("Name"),
                            Pro.FName= dataRow.Field<string>("FName")
                        }).ToList();

The problem is that i am not able to access Pro.FName property inside above code
Pro.FName= dataRow.Field<string>("FName") is showing error

A: You cannot assign the value this way.
You need to create an instance of Properties2 using object initializer:
Properties1List = ds.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().Select(dataRow => new Properties1
    {
        ID = dataRow.Field<int>("id"),
        Name = dataRow.Field<string>("Name"),
        Pro = new Properties2 {
            FName = dataRow.Field<string>("FName")
        }
    }).ToList();

Note that ID of Properties2 will be default (0) since you don't specify it.


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Virtual reality simulates classroom environment for aspiring teachers
by Charles Anzalone, University at Buffalo
This camera is used to create virtual reality scenarios for the student teacher training program. Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
Two University at Buffalo education researchers have teamed up to create an interactive classroom environment in which state-of-the-art virtual reality simulates difficult student behavior, a training method its designers compare to a "flight simulator for teachers."
The new program, already earning endorsements from teachers and administrators in an inner-city Buffalo school, ties into State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher's call for innovative teaching experiences and "immersive" clinical experiences and teacher preparation.
Zimpher recently told The Buffalo News that SUNY teaching programs should be offering on-campus laboratories where students can simulate being in a classroom. The UB virtual reality classroom project directly aligns with this initiative.
A collaboration of the Neurocognition Science Laboratory and the Teacher Education Institute in the UB Graduate School of Education, the virtual reality classroom is meant to supplement existing clinical opportunities, according to Richard Lamb, GSE associate professor and director of the Neurocognition Science Laboratory.
"This is meant as a training simulator for pre-service and in-service teachers to garner experience in dealing with situations such as difficult student behaviors, teaching methods, classroom management in general and other activities as needed," Lamb says. "So when the teaching student steps into the classroom, they have some idea of what to do."
The training simulator Lamb compared to a teacher flight simulator uses an emerging computer technology known as virtual reality. Becoming more popular and accessible commercially, virtual reality immerses the subject in what Lamb calls "three-dimensional environments in such a way where that environment is continuous around them." An important characteristic of the best virtual reality environments is a convincing and powerful representation of the imaginary setting.
"It's not meant to fully replace clinical opportunities for teaching students," says Lamb, who is co-principal investigator of the project with Elisabeth Etopio, director of UB's Teacher Education Institute and interim assistant dean for teacher education. "The virtual reality-based simulated classroom is a tool that provides students repeated practice in an environment—without consequence to actual students—where they can target skills needed for successful teaching in the classroom."
The virtual reality teaching environment created by Lamb and Etopio differs from other teaching simulation platforms in that actual footage of student behaviors occurring within real classrooms will be used, enhancing the authenticity, fluidity and "immersiveness" of the experience. The program is partially funded by a $20,000 grant from the SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant program, a SUNY-wide grant competition that funds campus innovations and initiatives in instructional technology and supports academic excellence and student success.
The team partnered with Crosswater Digital Media to film seventh- and eighth-grade students at Enterprise Charter School using 360-degree cameras to create scenarios for pre-service teachers in handling classroom management. Armin St. George, vice chairman of Crosswater Digital Media, calls this teaching strategy the "next best way to teach." St. George has used similar techniques for medical students when teaching anatomy. A virtual reality cadaver gives the medical students the experience of working on the human body without a real body.
Like medical students, future teachers can use virtual reality exercises "to actually put themselves in an environment to experience what they are going to see in a school before they actually get to a school," St. George says.
Although still only a few months old, the simulated classroom environment created by Lamb and Etopio has earned high praise from teachers and administrators in Buffalo's Enterprise Charter School, which has used it to train in-service teachers in classroom management and to assist teachers with dealing with behavior management in the classroom.
Rebekah Lamb, a seventh- and eighth-grade social studies teacher at Enterprise, says having this virtual reality tool to supplement her pre-service training while she was in school would have been a valuable way to give education students a more authentic experience of what they will encounter in a real-life classroom.
"When you do student teaching, you have the student teacher and the classroom teacher," she says. "Normally, the classroom teacher will take control of the classroom and won't give it fully to the student teacher.
"So this helps it so the student teacher has the full role of classroom management without the classroom teacher interfering," she says. "Students who want to be teachers get a look inside the classroom without actually having to step inside the classroom."
Lamb's supervising administrators at Enterprise Charter couldn't agree more.
"Young teachers need to step back and understand that children's behaviors are a socioemotional response, not to be taken personally," says Julie Schwab, superintendent of Enterprise Charter. "The behavior could be related to an event that happened the prior night, or on the school bus.
eventh- and eighth-grade students at Enterprise Charter School played the roles of disruptive students in the video that is being used in the virtual reality training program. Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
"Virtual reality is a tool that can expose new teachers to some of these behaviors and give them practice responding in real time and honing the explicit language needed to gain understanding of what caused this child to be where they are at this time."
Michael Radosta, director of learning technology at Enterprise Charter School, notes that in a real classroom, teachers have to get their students to value what they are saying.
"This is a skill often lacking in new teachers," Radosta says. "So direct practice using responsive language within virtual reality environments has enormous potential."
The fact that the seventh- and eighth-grade students at Enterprise Charter School had so much fun playing the part of unruly students while filming the pre-service video was a bonus, according to the school's teachers and administrators. The four students who simulated disruptive students for filming the virtual reality program were chosen by Rebekah Lamb the same morning Crosswater Digital recorded their role-playing behavior on camera. And for these students, the bad behavior went against their nature, Lamb says.
"These are students who generally do what they are supposed to," she says.
The potential and promise of this method of simulating classroom situations for prospective teachers are profound, the educators say.
"Early virtual exposure with targeted practice of management skills could help young teachers pause, avoid potentially harmful responses with real children, and provide confidence in responding to students in sensitive and beneficial ways," Schwab says.
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New River Oaks development brings a novel approach to luxury living
A view of the new Novel River Oaks from Willowick Road. Photo courtesy of Novel River Oaks
Being part of a neighborhood is important to Michael Blackwell. He's the managing director of Dallas-based Crescent Communities, which is about to start work on its latest project: Novel River Oaks by Crescent Communities. The eight-story, mixed-use development will go up on the 3.4-acre property at the corner of Westheimer and Willowick roads. And he's as interested in the neighborhood's history as he is in creating a new, luxury lifestyle space within it.
"The amount of books I've bought — I think I have more books about River Oaks now than anyone," he quips as he discusses plans for developing the property in a way that pays homage to the area's graceful living roots. Many of those books might find their way into Novel's Map Room.
Novel River Oaks is set to open next year, and when it does, it will follow in the footsteps of Houston mixed-use developments that have blended luxury living with retail and restaurant appeal. Unlike several of those, however, Blackwell wanted Novel's footprint to be smaller, and he wanted it blend into its surroundings — the site of the former Georgian apartment community.
A Novel approach
Located across the street from the Houston Public Library — Looscan branch and River Oaks Baptist School, Novel will feature a mix of fine apartment homes and lifestyle retail. Blackwell envisions a signature restaurant along with a space that he calls "coffee forward," and a slot for a more service-oriented business — perhaps a boutique fitness business.
Whatever those dining and retails options turn out to be, however, the driving force for Blackwell as Crescent develops Novel is that those entities support both residents of the new complex as well as those who've already lived there.
The idea is a restrained scale, gracious living, bespoke service, and lush landscape befitting one of the nation's iconic garden district neighborhoods. The new community plan focuses on walkability and neighborhood-serving retail experiences that reflect the preferences and conveniences of a more urban lifestyle.
Anchored by generous greenspace and designed to blend with the mature, tree-canopied landscape, Novel River Oaks' approximately 330 residential units will include a row of two-story brownstone style townhomes under the Wickersham trees, along with 14,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space along Westheimer.
Many elements from the Georgian, including one of the few trees that had to be removed, will be repurposed and reused in the development and the architecture is inspired by several River Oaks landmarks and architects with ties to the neighborhood. According to Blackwell, "the all-masonry and punched-window façade reflect the lighter palettes of John Staub's early buildings from the 1920s and '30s, with elements of more modern, but still classic high-rise buildings by the likes of Robert A.M. Stern."
Crescent worked with Kyle Drake and his namesake firm, Drake Realty Group, LLC, facilitated the transaction as the sole broker among several parties with interests in the property.
Like its luxury home counterparts, it will have exquisite amenities for its residents. But Blackwell says they're tried to approach the concept as though the entire complex were one great big, gracious Southern home.
"The top of the eighth floor are really the core of our amenities are focused," he says. "We try to think about them in the context of a grand home. So, as you arrive, as a resident, on the top floor, you step off the elevator and you're looking west, across River Oaks Baptist School, across Highland Village out toward the sunset and the Galleria. But you're doing so in a way that you're looking across the pool like you would an in-ground pool of a grand estate. Opposite the pool is what we call the pool house – you were invited to a grand party and you sort of move through the yard and these different spaces the same way you would moving through a grand home."
Residents will also have three other spots that carry through on the idea of being part of a grand estate. The conservatory provides what Blackwell calls "an elegant garden experience." The Cognac Terrace looks out across the property toward the adjacent River Oaks Park, a small neighborhood greenspace.
Mapping luxe living
And then there's the Map Room. "I'm super pumped about that," says Blackwell. "It's on the ground floor, on the corner of the property. The idea for is kind of a study. There will be lots of books, most of them focusing on gardening, architecture and a history of the area." Blackwell envisions residents stopping in after a morning workout to grab a cup of coffee and read the paper. "I think of it as a morning den," he laughed.
What he's hoping for in the property is that those who live in the surrounding neighborhood see the retail and restaurant spaces as places to gather as part of their day, allowing them to see what life there might be like and have a feeling of hospitality, not exclusion.
At the same time, Novel is primed to be exclusive living and Blackwell believes the complex will be attractive to those who want the combination of living in an historic, tree-lined neighborhood and the convenience of being in the middle of one of Houston's busiest areas.
"We're exploring that duality of what Novel means," says Blackwell. "In a literary context, there's the idea that there is a story and we're going to endeavor to understand that story and then create a new chapter. But more exciting to me is that you, as a resident or experiencing the retail and restaurants, you create your own story in the space."


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WAYNE MADSEN: Uncle Sam's Support For Terrorism Laid Bare
Putin and the RFAF have decimated Obama's CIA/ISIS, the tattered remnants now being evacuated to Libya to provide an excuse for another U.S./UK invasion
WAYNE MADSEN REPORT
By Wayne Madsen
The McClatchy news service scoop that Labib al-Nahhas, the Syrian foreign affairs director of al-Qaeda's ally Ahrar ash-Sham, visited Washington, DC in December 2015 should have created a huge political stir in a presidential election year.
However, the fact that the Obama administration has been consorting with terrorist allies of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and other countries has received little to no coverage in the American media.
More astoundingly, Ahrar ash-Sham, which, along with the al-Nusra Front massacred 19 Alawite Muslims in the Syrian village of Zara in May, is not designated a terrorist group by the US State Department.
The simple fact is that from CIA director John Brennan to national security adviser Susan Rice and US Central Command chief General Joseph Votel to Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Senator John McCain, the Obama administration and the Republicans who control Congress have consorted with Islamist terrorists.
These groups have included those who have executed Americans and who help finance and plan terrorist attacks against civilians around the world.
The visit of al-Nahhas to Washington follows a long tradition of the US government consorting with Sunni Mujahideen (called the "mum" by their CIA overseers), jihadists, and Salafists starting with the support for Muslim insurgents in Afghanistan and continuing with the provision of military training and weapons to Sunni Arab guerrillas in Iraq.
Votel, who paid a May visit to northern Syria, is not the first US official who entered Syria for a "get acquainted with" session with US-armed jihadist rebels, which was disguised as a "fact-finding mission."
Votel with Obama
In May 2013, Senator McCain entered northern Syria and met with a man who strongly resembles Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The more McCain's staff and his neo-conservative apologists tried to claim the man was not al-Baghdadi but an unidentified commander of the Northern Storm Brigade, a group linked to the practically non-existent Free Syrian Army, the more McCain's and the neocons' lies became apparent. Reports from Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, and Hezbollah's media outlets in Beirut all confirmed that the CIA, along with the Israel Defense Force, were actively providing weapons, training, and logistics support to ISIL and allies units in Syria and western Iraq.
Ever since President Jimmy Carter's fervently anti-Russian and extreme nationalist Polish national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski began training and arming the most radical jihadist Sunni Pashtun and Arab fighters he could find to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan, the CIA and Pentagon have maintained a problematic relationship with Islamist radicalism. The CIA's own widely-used term, "blowback," is the only word that can adequately describe what Brzezinski's decision has cost the United States and the civilized world.
The CIA's recruitment of jihadist fighters from across the Middle East was so rampant in 1980s that Michael Springmann, the US Vice Consul in Jeddah, reported that he was ordered by resident CIA officers at the consulate to grant US visas to individuals who Springmann said were jihadist recruits of Osama bin Laden. During the CIA's military operations in Afghanistan, Bin Laden was a trusted and much-valued US ally. For blowing the whistle on the visas for al-Qaeda, Springmann was fired by the State Department.
A December 1986 formerly Secret CIA report concluded that "well-educated" and "urban" Muslim fundamentalists were the best ranks from which to recruit a "charismatic leader" capable of galvanizing "an untapped pool of potential fundamentalists" from "the lower classes." Whether in Afghanistan in the 1980s or Syria today, the CIA and its Pentagon cohorts have followed the 1986 CIA template with regard to Bin Laden and Al-Baghdadi. These are but a few disgraceful examples of Brzezinski's, Henry Kissinger's, and current CIA director John Brennan's "realpolitik" in the conduct of American foreign policy for almost four decades.
The CIA report also stated that in 1986, with most Syrians "benefitting" from the rule of the Assad family, "radical fundamentalism" was "unlikely to gain a strong foothold in Syria." The US support for the "Arab Spring" in Syria changed all that and the destabilization of Syria by mostly foreign agitators saw a consequential erosion of popular support for the Syrian government, especially among Sunni tribes close to the porous border with Iraq.
By 1986, some Islamist radicals that were recruited to participate in the "jihad" against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan had committed their fair share of what the Pentagon calls "collateral damage," This included the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and early signs of trouble in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and Pakistan with recently-returned jihadists from Afghanistan clashing with police in street demonstrations held in Cairo, Amman, Tunis, and various Pakistani cities.
Financial problems caused by Western bankers at the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and the investment firms of Wall Street and the City of London brought on the initial stages of social upheaval in the Arab world. Thirty percent of Jordan's trained engineers and one-third of its medical doctors were unemployed. Rent-controlled apartments became scarce in Cairo, with only the wealthy able to afford to rent, let alone buy, a home. A breakdown in public services resulted in raw sewage flowing in the streets of Alexandria. Public transportation woes included overcrowded buses and inoperable trains. The danger of collapsing residential buildings in Algiers put 6000 people in mortal jeopardy. There is little wonder, therefore, that 90 percent of the jihadists in the 1980s were in their twenties and thirties. Fighting in a far-away battlefield was preferable to living in a slum.
These ready-made recruits were valuable fodder for the CIA in the war in Afghanistan. For the CIA, it also made sense to curry favor with and keep lines of communications open with fundamentalist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, which the CIA sold to the American people and an international audience as "moderate" fundamentalists. Today, the CIA and Pentagon have done the same with regard to the jihadists in Syria. Some fundamentalists, like the terrorist Ahrar ash-Sham "foreign minister" al-Nahhas, are called "moderates."
One thing should be clear: there are no "moderate" Sunni jihadists, whether in Syria, Iraq, Libya, or Yemen today or Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 1980s. While there are moderate fundamentalist Shias, Ibadis, Ismailis, Zaidis, Ahmadis, Alevis, Sufis, Akhbaris, and Alawites in Islam, moderate Sunni fundamentalists, thanks to Saudi Wahhabist influence around the world, are as rare as hen's teeth. Wahhabism and its Salafist tenets have resulted in only two choices in the Sunni world: jihadism or secularism. Baathist or pan-Arab socialism, which the US has all-but-destroyed in the Arab world, placed secularism over Islam.
Hand in hand supporting terrorism: The Saudis and Obama
There has been no other similar movement to fill the vacuum, especially in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. In any case, the CIA was never interested in "moderate" Sunni fundamentalists. The fools who ran and continue to run America's intelligence community wanted only those Sunni recruits who were willing to die in battle or commit suicide for their jihad, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, or Libya. Unfortunately, for the civilized world, these jihadists went on to die for their jihad in places like Paris, Brussels, London, San Bernardino, Boston, Istanbul, Moscow, Ottawa, and Madrid.
Jihadist terrorists should pay for their crimes against humanity. But so should those whose policies enabled the rise of jihadist terrorists and trials for aiding and abetting terrorism for Messrs Brzezinski, Brennan, McCain, and Mmes Rice (Susan and Condoleezza), Madeleine Albright, Samantha Power, and Hillary Clinton should be seriously considered.
Investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, Madsen has over twenty years experience in security issues.
As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. Madsen has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club, Madsen is based and reports from Washington, D.C.
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"Probably the safe thing to say is no comment," Pastides said, "or too short, too much.
Senior swimmer Cody Bekemeyer wore an America-themed blazer to honor family in the military.
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Bekemeyer, a distance freestyle All-American, stole the show at last year's Gamecock Gala by rocking a Christmas-themed jacket and tie. That was a nod to his holiday-loving family.
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Pastides made sure to note he won't be completely gone from Gamecock games.


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One Quaker's Peaceable Victory Over the U.S.
By Jerilynn Prior | 1988-12-01 12:00:00
I'VE LIVED IN CANADA since 1976, and have been a citizen since 1984. I am taking the Canadian government to court asking for freedom of conscience under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so that I will not have to pay for war. My U.S. tax resistance seemed remote.
My registered letter was from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. (Ironically, it was dated July 4, a holiday in the U.S. and date of that country's freedom.) It was a notice of lien to begin in 10 days if I did not pay the almost $10,000 Canadian they say I owe from 1981 taxes and penalties.
How I approached that letter tells in a practical way, at least one Quaker's approach to peacemaking. My first response had to be a deep personal re-evaluation. I found that friends and other Quakers were supportive but could and would not decide for me. I committed myself to do what my deep religious beliefs dictated -- to contribute nothing to violence, to destruction or to war. For me, that meant I must not pay any taxes to a government that allocates more than 50 per cent of its resources for military purposes, that will not negotiate an end to nuclear testing and weapons production.
TO PREVENT SEIZURE of my Canadian property, I needed to know if the U.S. could cross the border and seize a Canadian's property in Canada. An aide in John Turner's office (he's my M.P.) talked to a Revenue Canada contact. The contact said the IRS could seize in Canada. When I appealed to John Turner (to find out the facts and to intervene because the issue of conscience and taxes for war is before the Canadian Courts) I heard nothing for two weeks and then was told I must obey the law.
I also relearned that a Quaker's stand for peace is open and honest. I paid the amount of tax the IRS said I owed from 1981: I gave it to the American Friends Service Committee asking them to use it for projects aiding U.S. citizens. I talked the issues and consequences over with my children. We agreed it give away all available assets. I spoke to my bank manager. I then wrote bank drafts and money orders until there was less than $200 in all my accounts.
Another aspect of a Quaker witness for peace is that it expects to win. I did not intend to be a victim. My children and I decided our best defence against actual seizure would be the negative publicity it would generate and the repercussions of that publicity on the Free Trade Issue. If the IRS came, they would have to take our car or our home!
NOW -- THREE months later -- nothing has been seized. An aide of the NDP taxation critic, Simon de Jong, says that the IRS cannot seize property in Canada without the cooperation of Revenue Canada. Since Revenue Canada was satisfied that I had paid my 1981 Canadian taxes satisfactorily, I was safe. It is likely that the IRS was just threatening. But what would have happened if, in 1981, I had contributed to the Peace Trust Fund those taxes designated for the military, as I have done from 1983 to the present?
My children and I had approached the threat by a recommitment to act in conscience by openly facing the consequences, and by maximizing the strength of our witness for peace and against paying taxes for war.
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SA passes major finance reform bill, introduces Media Council Contract
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Tuesday, Feb. 8, the College of William & Mary's 329th Student Assembly passed two bills, including a major finance reform bill and introduced an important contract and six new pieces of legislation.
Media Council Contract
Before discussing new legislation, SA President Meghana Boojala '22 and Sen. Allie Wallach J.D. '23 introduced the recently finalized Media Council Contract. The contract, which is re-negotiated in three year cycles, specifies the relationship between SA and publications on campus, including the Flat Hat, and explains their funding. This cycle, the contract provides the Media Council with $135,000 for the 2022 to 2023 fiscal year from SA.
The funding is a significant decrease from previous cycles, which has reached over $180,000 in previous years.
"The way we came up with this $135,000 number was, they were spending, actually spending, $120,000 a year in annual funding, plus they were spending between $15-20,000 in reserves every year on their event programming, so we thought that $135,000 was perfect in that its covering all their expenses plus replenishing their reserves, and their reserves are staying at…$55,000," said Wallach.
Sen. Sean Nguyen '25 introduced The Impeachment Trial Reform Act, which creates specific trial procedures in the event that an impeachment vote of a senator succeeds. The bill also specifies that the vote of impeachment "should be predicated on whether a Senator believes the charge outlined in the article has standing and if wrongdoing occurred. Judgments of guilt, intention, and punishment should be withheld until the trial itself."
This bill comes after Sen. Shaunna Scott '23's impeachment last semester, which was automatically introduced on attendance grounds and failed after multiple senators said her absences were justified.
If this bill were to pass, future impeachments brought automatically on attendance grounds would be successful and move on to a trial, regardless of personal opinions of the merit of those absences.
Nguyen also introduced The Rent A Hammock Act with Sen. Hashir Aqueel '25, which promotes and provides funding to advertise a new opportunity for students looking to take in the weather.
"A lot of the freshmen in our class were really vouching for hammocks to be more publicly available on campus and we were working a lot, closely, with Campus Recreation," said Nguyen. "They decided to purchase fifteen double hammocks for around $400…essentially you can rent these hammocks on the site, and it's a really great initiative."
Sen. Gloriana Cubero Fernandez '24 introduced The "Love Is" Campaign Funding Act. The Act provides $161.37 to fund the Wellness Center's "Love Is" campaign, sponsored by SA, which will run from Feb. 14 to 18 and centers on supporting healthy relationships, both romantic and platonic.
Sen. Taylor Fox '24 and Sen. Vicky Morales '22 introduced The Haven Act, which allocates $4,000 from the SA reserves to support the Haven Emergency Fund.
"Liz [Cascone], the person in charge of overseeing the Haven, has started a fund for students that are having some financial insecurities when it comes to receiving services after having a stalking/harassment issue, sexual assault, things like that, so this bill will give some funds to that already existing fund. You can apply, it's up to $250 per application, and it just provides a little bit of help in a hard time for students," said Fox.
Fox also introduced the LDOC Treat Act, which sets aside $1,007 from the SA reserves to serve food and drinks on the last day of classes of the Spring 2022 semester.
Finally, Sen. Maheen Saeed '23 and Scott introduced the Bouncing Into Wellness Act, which allocates $1,600 from the student activities fee to pay for bouncy houses, a sumo suit, a boxing ring, and other activities, as well as $500 from the Class of 2023 budget to pay for refreshments and a DJ.
"This bill is about an event that the Class of 2023 is doing in collaboration with the cabinet side of Senate in which we're promoting wellness through a very fun event in the middle of the semester during a really stressful time for students," said Saeed. "The main point of this bill is that the student activities fee is for the students, and we want to do activities that serve the students."
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SA passed The Student Assembly Financial Procedures and Oversight Act, a finance reform bill which changes funding cycles of registered student organizations from yearly to quarterly, among other significant changes.
"I was on the working group that wrote this new code section, and I just want to echo things that we said last week, this was a very…arduous process to get to this point, we had a lot of input from a lot of different people," said Wallach.
Chair of the Senate Owen Williams '23 reiterated the time and energy put into this bill.
"Every sentence in this document had, probably, thirty minutes to an hour of discussion about it," he said.
Additionally, SA passed The Plan Committees Funding Act Part 2, which provides $6,000 to support committees under "The Plan," including The Reparations Committee, The Academic Diversity Project, The Student's Rights Initiative, The Committee for the Contextualization of Campus Landmarks & Iconography, and The Student Community Policing Advisory Board.
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Wallach relayed that Sen. Zach Outzen JD '22 told her that the Feeding Students in Isolation Act, which provides food for students isolated due to getting COVID-19, was receiving "a lot of calls," and that she is "glad that it's being utilized, but also…a lot of people are in isolation with COVID…"
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Make Space, Not Meetings: It can be hard to innovate when you walk through the office doors and hit the ground running with meetings until you leave. Many of my colleagues are double or even triple booked all day long. If you want to build a culture of innovation, shorten or stop the meetings. Give your people the breathing room to innovate. I purposefully don't take meetings in the morning because that's when I do my best thinking. People need space to innovate.
Empower Them: Part of the reason your team doesn't innovate is that they simply don't know how. Perhaps they've been told they aren't innovative or they've shoved their innovative side in a drawer for so long they forgot how to use it. If you want to encourage innovation with your teams, help them understand how they innovate. In doing so you'll empower them to tap into their natural talents and strengths. It's been my experience that people that know how they innovate do more of it. If you want to discover how your team innovates, check out the Innovation Quotient Edge assessment. It will help your team discover their unique Innovator Archetypes and how to leverage that for success.
Challenge Everyone, Not Titles: It's very easy to think that certain people are the innovative ones. Whether that's because of their titles, location on the org chart, or their wild purple hair. You look to those people to innovate. In the meantime, the rest of us are just passed up. The mistake in this is that you avoid, or eliminate, most of the people you work within the innovation process. You actually disempower most of your team. If you want to truly encourage innovation, challenge everyone to innovate regardless of title. You'd be amazed where a good idea can come from. And usually, it's not where you think.
Be Consistent: Your team has heard it before. To them, your mandate to innovate is just a flavor of the month. They know it will either fizzle or fail. If you want to create a culture of innovation that is sustainable, be consistent. Don't just talk about innovation at team meetings. Talk about it daily by asking them what new and interesting things they are working on. Show them you are investing in them and in innovation by giving them access to tools like Innovation OnDemand so that they can have the innovation tools they need at their fingertips. Make innovation part of their job responsibilities and daily tasks, not something you do at a 3pm brainstorm with scented markers or when they have "extra" time. Who has extra time these days?
Encouraging innovation with your teams doesn't have to be hard, but it does have to be a daily priority. If you do any or all of the above, innovation will flow.
Tamara Kleinberg of GoToLaunchStreet is a TED speaker and entrepreneur. From building and running multimillion dollar businesses, advising Fortune 500 like Disney, Procter and Gamble and RICOH on fostering innovative ideas and people. Tamara's life is about breaking through the status quo for game-changing results, and that's what her keynotes, online programs and assessments can do for you.