The way we fall into traps and trap ourselves in a bad habit and before you know it our life is changed and changed for the worse. But as you conquer the overwhelm of the changes, your emotions will calm down. Take and display photos of you in your new life. Instead, maintain a healthy diet and exercise on a regular basis. Can you find peace in acknowledging both sides simultaneously? Even seeing the ex again can bring back memories or desires that only keep you hung up on the past. I still love him in some ways, but not the same. Always remember, self knows the answers.
She will never know - which, is best. We want to strike the right balance in everything. Goodbye to thinking that marriages can last forever and faith in love. Not still be seeing the women! My oldest refused to go with him. Love of the close intimate, forever kind dies. Not toward yourself, and not even toward your ex. Prefer a womans view any day - losers!!! Not even wanting to remain friends.
The strain and upset of a major breakup can leave you psychologically and physically vulnerable. Guest My husband of 20 years told me a month ago that he was miserable and wanted to move out. Most people going through divorce experience some degree of situational depression as part of the normal grieving process over all the losses the end of the marriage brings. If those prospects are worthwhile they will wait or check back with you later. He calls every day — to speak to both me and my daughter. You should complement each other like peanut butter and jelly. I wish I could stop thinking about him.
Rather, give them credit for being adult and therefore having the actual or potential resources to deal with it eventually. Look for consistencies in what we are writing about, what we are feeling. All the work you put into trying to fix things will pay off, not for the marriage, but for you. Experiencing lingering thoughts and dwelling on your former spouse is natural, but can hinder your healing progress. Could you act in a more constructive way? I have never been sexually or physically abused. We were in marriage therapy for1.
Only the future will tell what this will lead too. Here are some guides to help out: 11. All of life is built upon relationships, so if you can identify a few characteristics that you would like to grow within yourself, there is ample opportunity all around you. Partners often want to respect their family's opinions, so you should as well. Is it in your gut? This will bring on a wave of new and often horrible emotions but you will need to feel them rather than denying them or it becomes worse later.
Under no circumstances will your data be transferred to third parties without your permission. You don't need to make a decision to get rid of it entirely, just set them aside in a box and stash it away for a bit. Consider joining a support group where you can talk to others in similar situations. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. My new reality with her no longer in my life has been pretty empty. Two kids, one grown, one still in junior high.
If you can look in the mirror and know you did your best every day. It can be a family member, recently divorced friend, or your best friend. Now I think about it to myself how much work did he actually do. I began seeing a woman lately. And do yourself a favor! Think about the things that make you happy, and try to keep your mind occupied doing activities that make you feel good about yourself, otherwise you'll just think about your ex. Are you in control of your feelings, or are they in control of you? All is fair in war and in love, as they say… I was his love and soul mate until he found one he connected with better.
However, if you really have a connection with the man, then you should make sure he's really over the divorce by talking to him about it, being a source of comfort and support, and doing new things with him. We took a short break, discussed our needs of each other. I worked hard; I tried to be open and honest; I tried to be kind and caring. Along with the volatile emotions, your thoughts will run all over the place. That was getting oxygen to the organs and making myself presentable to the outside world again after 12 years. Realize that what you feel is an experience. I have wronged people that I loved and I pray i can regain their trust back with Gods help.
It can be as small as a manicure, a glass of wine with a friend. Be prepared for the man to feel very vulnerable and open to being hurt, and understand that he needs you to be kind, loving, and sensitive. ?. One of the biggest challenges of divorce is overcoming the hit to your self-esteem. Too many people get Lazy and Blame other for not making them happy.


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Lessons from the cyberattack on India's largest nuclear power plant
By Alexander Campbell, Vickram Singh | November 14, 2019
Power plant and code. Image courtey of Pixabay
Indian officials acknowledged on October 30th that a cyberattack occurred at the country's Kudankulam nuclear power plant. An Indian private cybersecurity researcher had tweeted about the breach three days earlier, prompting Indian authorities to initially deny that it had occurred before admitting that the intrusion had been discovered in early September and that efforts were underway to respond to it.
According to last Monday's Washington Post, Kudankulam is India's biggest nuclear power plant, "equipped with two Russian-designed and supplied VVER pressurized water reactors with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts each. Both reactor units feed India's southern power grid. The plant is adding four more reactor units of the same capacity, making the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant one of the largest collaborations between India and Russia."
While reactor operations at Kudankulam were reportedly unaffected, this incident should serve as yet another wake-up call that the nuclear power industry needs to take cybersecurity more seriously. There are worrying indications that it currently does not: A 2015 report by the British think tank Chatham House found pervasive shortcomings in the nuclear power industry's approach to cybersecurity, from regulation to training to user behavior. In general, nuclear power plant operators have failed to broaden their cultures of safety and security to include an awareness of cyberthreats. (And by cultures of safety and security, those in the field—such as the Fissile Materials Working Group—refer to a broad, all-embracing approach towards nuclear security, that takes into account the human factor and encompasses programs on personnel reliability and training, illicit trafficking interception, customs and border security, export control, and IT security, to name just a few items. The Hague Communiqué of 2014 listed nuclear security culture as the first of its three pillars of nuclear security, the other two being physical protection and materials accounting.)
This laxness might be understandable if last week's incident were the first of its kind. Instead, there have been over 20 known cyber incidents at nuclear facilities since 1990. This number includes relatively minor items such as accidents from software bugs and inadequately tested updates along with deliberate intrusions, but it demonstrates that the nuclear sector is not somehow immune to cyber-related threats. Furthermore, as the digitalization of nuclear reactor instrumentation and control systems increases, so does the potential for malicious and accidental cyber incidents alike to cause harm.
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This record should also disprove the old myth, unfortunately repeated in Kudankulam officials' remarks, that so-called air-gapping effectively secures operational networks at plants. Air-gapping refers to separating the plant's internet-connected business networks from the operational networks that control plant processes; doing so is intended to prevent malware from more easily infected business networks from affecting industrial control systems. The intrusion at Kudankulam so far seems limited to the plant's business networks, but air gaps have failed at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio in 2003 and even classified US military systems in 2008. The same report from Chatham House found ample sector-wide evidence of employee behavior that would circumvent air gaps, like charging personal phones via reactor control room USB slots and installing remote access tools for contractors.
The consequences of a cyber-based intrusion at a nuclear power plant could range from loss of confidential employee or business information to potentially causing a reactor shutdown or physical damage. The industry must realize that cyberattacks can be the main event, rather than simply a means to enable more traditionally imagined threats like physical intrusions. And regardless of the consequences of a given incident, public statements like those from Indian authorities last week that refuse to even admit the possibility of cyberattack will undermine public trust—an existential resource for many nuclear power programs.
Despite speculation about potential North Korean responsibility or escalation with Pakistan, revealing the culprits and motives associated with the Kudankulam attack matters less for the nuclear power industry than fixing the systemic lapses that enabled it in the first place. The good news is that solutions abound: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued guidance for US operators on improving workforce development and performance assessment for cybersecurity at nuclear power plants. And the National Nuclear Security Administration includes cybersecurity in their security assessments at US and international facilities, along with technical exchanges and training programs. It also developed a course on cybersecurity for nuclear power plant operators in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency—which has published its own technical guides on computer security, and recently held its first cybersecurity course for nuclear power plant operators.
Countries need not depend solely on international organizations or other governments for this expertise. Public-private partnerships like the World Institute for Nuclear Security and World Association of Nuclear Operators also share information about best practices and can serve as a knowledge conduit for states where nuclear power implicates national security concerns.
The challenge now is integrating this knowledge into the workforce and maintaining it over time. But the institutionalization of cybersecurity does not present an insurmountable barrier.
One item to note, however, is that the problem's scale and complexity is only likely to grow as more states join the nuclear power club. And even with years of experience, no country is immune from succumbing to cyberattack: Last week's incident occurred in a country whose nuclear power program dates back to the 1950s, and previous cyberattacks have struck nuclear facilities in countries with similarly long-established nuclear power programs, including Japan, France, and the United States. That they have still fallen victim to breaches bodes ill for prospective newcomers like Jordan, whose national Computer Emergency Response Team is only two years old. One can expect that nuclear newcomers with less indigenous cybersecurity expertise will need more help from international partners, and will face a steeper uphill climb towards maintaining that workforce.
If there is a silver lining to the recent cyberattack, it is that India now has an opportunity to become a leader in nuclear cybersecurity. India has established the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership as a forum for bilateral and multilateral cooperation in nuclear security that could be widened to include cybersecurity.
The problem of cybersecurity is not new to the nuclear power industry, and it does not require solutions radically different from those already in place in fields such as finance and commercial aviation. The nuclear industry's history of safety and security culture, and the body of research on sector-specific cybersecurity recommendations, together can offer a path toward a nuclear power industry that better defends itself against cyber threats. The avenues for fostering cooperation and sharing best practices have been established, as has the need for workforce development.
But last week's example of a well-established nuclear power program responding to a breach with denial, obfuscation, and shopworn talk of so-called "air-gaps" demonstrates how dangerously little progress the industry has made to date.
Editor's Note: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, for the US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The views and opinions of author expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States government or Lawrence Livermore National Security, document number LLC. LLNL-JRNL-796278
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Alexander Campbell is a research assistant at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he studies offensive cyber strategies and internet gove...
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Vickram Singh is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research focuses on international nuclear energy developm...
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Today it came to me in a flash why I avoid public transit most of the time. Especially in Los Angeles, whose transit system, though probably doing the best it can, covers a vast area so that some trips can take two hours or more. Actually, it was a pretty long flash, stretching over almost five uncomfortable hours, a bit more than one hour of which we were able to devote to actual walking. Today, the Los Angeles Metro did not cover itself with glory.
Oh, well. We got to Compton, and started looking for the 127 bus, the one we'd ridden on our previous walk. Uh-uh. Doesn't run on Saturdays. Your best bet, take the 125 Rosecrans, which will take you north again and over to Atlantic, which is just short of the river but half a mile north of where we stopped last time! I hate going back over old ground. But I had noticed that the gates to the bike path on Rosecrans had been locked before, so we headed off down Atlantic, hoping to get onto the river walk when that street crossed it.
This trip showed us why most Angelinos avoid the Blue Line whenever possible, and avoid the Metro entirely unless they can't help it. The trip itself was smooth enough, but there was a mother with a two-year-old who was cranky and had a shriek that could cut through sheet metal. A man came through giving out baggies with M&Ms, Canel's chewing gum, a marshmallow, and a Tinkerbell ballpoint pen … which had little notes in them: "Hello. Please Excuse Me, I Am Deaf. I Am Selling This Candy For $1.00 These Items Are To Support My Family. Thank You And God Bless You." Then he came back, harvesting guilt. I hadn't seen that for a while. (He did pretty good; more than half the passengers paid, including us.) Somewhere about three stations from the end of the line a young black man got on and began ranting about "East Coast niggers," to no one in particular. I didn't like the look of his backpack, but all he did was talk.
Very glad to see the back of him.
So off we went, at an unusually slow pace. In time we crawled through the MacArthur Park station. Over there on the other side some men were down on the tracks and others standing on the platform looking down. Accident? An oil spill, a loose connection? Or a passenger fried by the third rail, or dismembered by a train? No way to tell, and I haven't seen anything about it on the news.
Never had the Red Line train moved so slowly. Every once in a while we'd get up to full speed, then slow down, then jerk to a stop for a moment. The operator announced an "electronic problem." Oh, great. These trains are run by computers, the last thing you want is an electronic problem. We eventually reached Vermont/Sunset, and crawled through. It was eerie. Very dark down there, you could barely see the station. Across the platform was another train, lighted up, full of passengers, looking like lost souls. I suppose we looked the same way to them … and by then I was beginning to feel like a lost soul in mass transit Hell.
Shortly after leaving the haunted station we rounded the curve and stopped. Up there above us was Barnsdall Park, where, I happen to know, is where the whole kaboodle sprang a leak during construction back in 1995 and created an apparently bottomless pit forever after known as the Hollywood Sinkhole. It swallowed cars and parts of buildings, and took a long time to close up. It's one of the main reasons there hasn't been any more subway construction in Los Angeles, as various politicians and neighborhood groups point to it and say Not In My Back Yard.
No, nothing so dramatic. Nothing about the day was really dramatic, just the slow chipping away of your patience, the gradual whittling down of your nerves. Imagine having to endure this every day. I have new respect for the poor and working class people I see emerging from these trains and buses every day.
Sorry to put you through all that. A bad day on the bus would come pretty far down my list of interesting topics I'd like to read about. However, since our motto is "We're doing it so you don't have to!" I figured you owed us just a few minutes of your time for me to vent, if you intend to continue to read these journals. Not that I'd blame you if you quit after this one.
So what about the walk? I'm sorry to report that, other than finally arriving in Long Beach, there was nothing very exciting to report. We began in East Rancho Dominguez, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County. How all those land-hungry villages around it managed to overlook ERD during the incorporation frenzies of the '50s and '60s I'll never know. It's not what you'd call a fine town, but it's respectable enough. If you want your car repaired, cheap, it looks like the place to go. There were dozens of garages. The big tourist attraction is one of those giant Southern California landmarks the bulldozers seem to have missed: Dale's Donuts. It's still in operation. There was a very downscale horse stable, and a dog groomer in a small van. The transit stations had some interesting ceramic artwork, and some poignant bits, too, including letters from Compton schoolchildren, most of them pleading for an end to the violence.
The Red Line to the Blue Line. The Blue Line to the 130 bus. Get off on Artesia, walk under the 91 freeway, then the 710. And there it is, stretching out before us, straight as the don't-ask-don't-tell US military: The river and the bike path.
We began this odyssey for two reasons: We wanted to see the river, and we needed the exercise. Okay, we've seen the river, and though we still need the workout, such as it is (and it's a pretty severe one for my old knees), we could do it closer to home. So we're continuing for one reason, really, and that is that we like to finish what we begin. (Well, we've also promised ourselves a pretty nice reward at the end of the line, but I'll keep that a secret until we get there.) But it's no secret that I'm running out of things to say about the walks, and Lee is running out of new things to take pictures of. Today, for instance, about the only fun things we saw were two jackrabbits and a hummingbird, all of them far too quick to be photographed.
The trains make it easier. Not just because they get us to these far-flung regions of the LA Basin more quickly (about an hour at this point, as compared to at least 90 minutes in a car, more likely two hours each way), but because we can cover twice as much of the frankly uninteresting ground if we don't have to save my energy for the hike back to the car. Today we walked from the Artesia Station to the Del Amo Station, and the next time it will be Del Amo to Wardlow. These are the longest stretches between two stations on the whole Blue Line. After that the stations get much closer as we near the downtown areas of Long Beach. I figure three more days of walking before we sight the Queen Mary and can dip our toes into Queensway Bay.
I said we'd be in Long Beach for the rest of our walk. I was wrong. Today we clipped a little corner of the town of Carson, which I hadn't even known was there. It's one of those towns that, unless you live there, you probably didn't even know it was there, either. Well, it's only been there—as an independent town, that is—since 1968. If you travel through it on the 405, you'll probably remember it as an area of oil wells and refineries, though I understand that there are some nice neighborhoods farther to the north. The Goodyear Blimp has a base there. And that's about it for Carson.
The main thing we saw today, as on many previous days, was the I-710, the Long Beach Freeway. That's because it parallels the river most of the way north to downtown. It's quite a sight, though one you quickly grow tired of. Literally every other vehicle is an 18-wheeler, 90% of those of the container variety. Since the ports of Long Beach and LA are, taken together, one of the busiest container ports in the world, this is easy to understand. You read the names of the shipping lines: Hanjin. K-Line. Maersk. Hanjin, Hanjin, China Line, Maersk, Hanjin. Okay, that's enough of that. Most of the freight from the ports is headed north, and the Long Beach Freeway is the logical route. But if you look at a map of the LA freeway system you will notice that, just north of Interstate 10, the 710 peters out impotently and spills its load on the unpromising ground of Alhambra, home of the unrepentant murderer Phil Spector. If you draw a line due north from that endpoint, you will eventually encounter a stub of freeway dangling like a Viagraless organ from the bottom of the I-210, and it's labeled 710 as well, though the green color of the sign reveals it to be a state route, not an interstate. Logic might lead you to believe that somebody, at some time, intended these routes to be connected, and logic would be right. But the communities it would have split—El Sereno, South Pasadena, and Pasadena—fought the freeway and won. This is entirely understandable, given the history of other neighborhoods. We have learned a bit about freeways and their social impacts here in SoCal. There is currently a proposal to put that last 4½-mile bit underground, but don't expect to see it soon.
Meanwhile, the 710 is getting a pounding it was never built for. All those trucks, not enough room for them, and a roadbed that is inadequate to the task. Patches and potholes all the way. Again, there are plans for expansion, including 4 lanes just for trucks. That would be nice. I can tell you that driving the 710 is a white-knuckle experience, like a mouse in an elephant stampede.
I had what may be a stupid question, watching the thundering herd go by us. All those trucks are taking containers from the ports to the railyards, which are in Vernon and East Los Angeles, Pomona, and San Bernardino. There are already rails along all these routes, but they seem to be largely unused, or at least underused. I suspect they need major refurbishment. But why not do that? And while you're at it, why not add rail lines parallel to the old ones? They don't take up any more room than freeway lanes. And furthermore, why not sink them into the ground, as has been done along Alameda Street? Then you can cover them, maybe even with a linear park. One engineer and maybe four electric engines could haul the same tonnage as a thousand trucks, and let me tell you, the area all around the 710 absolutely reeks of diesel fumes … what's that, Lee? You say a couple big gorillas from the Teamsters Union are at the door and want to see me?
Please ignore the previous paragraph.
We went through our first Long Beach residential neighborhood today, and it's pretty much like a lot of the Valley. Small one-story, detached homes on small lots, well tended in most cases. Next time we'll be getting into richer territory, as south of here is Bixby Knolls, quite pricey, right next to a country club. Can hardly wait. That's what we need, another golf course.
We crossed the last tributary of the LA River before it enters the sea, Compton Creek, which is a stagnant-looking ditch that would actually look something like a real creek if you ignored the concrete banks. But from the satellite photos I see it dead-ends about two miles north, or rather, emerges from the ground, where it is no doubt fed by the runoff storm drains.
Then it was back on the Blue Line at the Del Amo station, and home.
We had been to two pow-wows previously, the first held by the Grande Ronde tribe in Oregon, outside their swanky tribal center in the countryside, a few miles down the road from their swanky casino—which paid for the swanky tribal center—and the second hosted by the Chumash of the Santa Ynez Valley, held in a grove of towering live oaks some twenty miles down the road from their swanky new casino. We found them to be enjoyable affairs, so when we heard of one to be held at the Gene Autry Center in Griffith Park we decided to attend. An urban pow-wow … though even the rural ones are not exactly primitive camp-outs, in spite of the actual teepees. Pickup trucks are parked outside the tents, and portable generators power the television sets inside. I don't doubt that these days there is wireless internet access as well.
So we set off in the cool of a July evening along with our friends Jonathan Mersel and Marion Peters and their son, Jason, after first gorging ourselves with food at the Thai Patio, a few blocks from our apartment, including a dish called a Seafood Volcano, which I highly recommend. I also recommend attending pow-wows in the evening as opposed to the afternoon, our original plan, especially on days when the mercury is hitting the mid-nineties.
I don't know how long it has taken the modern pow-wow to evolve, but they are rather laid-back affairs. Anyone and everyone is welcome to attend and participate, you don't have to have a drop of Indian blood. There are booths selling crafts and such, there is food (mainly Navajo fry bread, which is very good, or Indian tacos, which is basically a tostada on a piece of fry bread), and there is much socializing among the people who are regulars on the pow-wow circuit, but the main attraction for everyone is the singing, drumming, and dancing. Singer-drummers are established groups, and people in the dance contests are people who work very hard on dance and costume, but in between these events there are what is called "intertribal" dance, where everyone is invited to join the slowly-moving circle and boogie to whatever beat moves you, no costume necessary. The drumming at first sounds pretty monotonous, but the more you listen the more subtleties you hear, and it's clear these people rehearse a lot. The songs are two- and three-note chants, in what Indian tongue I do not know, but they are complex, and contain flights of soprano yodeling that must hurt the throat.
But when the serious dancers take the floor … or rather, the grass, oh, my dear! I don't know one tribal costume from another, but I think a lot of these people pick and choose their habiliment from various sources, mainly tribes of the plains, divided into Northern and Southern divisions. There is something called the jingle dress, which Wiki tells me came to some women in a dream around 1900. Very nice.
Well, there is simply no describing these costumes. I will let Lee's pictures do the talking for me. And if a pow-wow happens in your neighborhood, do attend.


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Academy's Best Buddies Club Receives Award
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Tampa's Pepin Academy was established in 1999. The school educates students with learning disabilities from third to twelfth grade.
Recently, Academy's Best Buddies club received Florida's Most Outstanding Chapter of the Year, and the club was entered into the Worldwide Most Outstanding Chapter of the Year. The winner will be announced at the Best Buddies Leadership Conference. The conference will take place during the summer in Indiana.
The club's president is Myah Rhines ('19), who has created many new opportunities for students to bond with their buddies.
Rhines said, "When I found out about receiving this award, I was in shock. I knew how hard our club worked this year, and the tremendous improvement from last year, but I never realized that it was being recognized. It is extremely gratifying to know that we are making a difference and getting even further along with the journey of inclusion."
Throughout this year, the Best Buddies club at Academy participated in several events. Best Buddies, an international organization, aims to promote the formation of close friendships among those with "intellectual and developmental disabilities." At the beginning of the year, members of the club were paired with students from the Pepin Academy.
Rhines said, "I would say the most rewarding part of being so involved with Best Buddies is seeing how the other girls in my club are impacted. I know the feeling of complete gratefulness after interacting with the special needs kids and hearing that from the members in my club is extremely rewarding."
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Pepin students form close bonds with their Academy buddies. Buddies spend time together not only during club sponsored events, but also through plans they make on their own.
Students and their buddies attended various events together during the year, such as the Best Buddies dance and the Christmas gift exchange. Members of Best Buddies also participated in events such as the Friendship Walk and a field day at Academy.
Gabby Boyd ('19) said, "The dance was a luau theme, and it was a lot of fun. I met a lot of new friends there even though my buddy did not attend. I was able to form a lot of new bonds with other people's buddies. The club is so rewarding because you get to form such amazing friendships with a lot of awesome people from Pepin Academy and my fellow classmates."
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Tampa's Friendship Walk occurred on April 21, 2018. The walk aims to promote the organization's goal to obtain inclusion for all.
Rhines has been working to add new events to the club's itinerary for next year.
Rhines said, "I have many events planned for next year that I am extremely excited for. For our first event of the new school year, I plan on having a match party in the beginning of the year, where AHN students will get to meet their match at Pepin, while participating in games and activities at Al Lopez Park. This is just one of many to look forward to."
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Crane Collapse Kills Four Ironworkers on Toledo Bridge Project
Toledo, Ohio - The collapse of a crane used in building a bridge on I-280 killed four Ironworkers February 16. Flags, tools, flowers, hard hats, and prayers are among the objects in a makeshift memorial to the victims at the site of the accident. The collapsed crane was identical to the undamaged crane at top.
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Image Description: Toledo, Ohio - The collapse of a crane used in building a bridge on I-280 killed four Ironworkers February 16. Flags, tools, flowers, hard hats, and prayers are among the objects in a makeshift memorial to the victims at the site of the accident. The collapsed crane was identical to the undamaged crane at top. Copyright © Jim West


I think this is one of the big stressors in my life. As I get ready to go home to my parents for Christmas, I realized I never felt good enough. It's a reason I don't actually want to go. I sit here packing and even my clothes aren't good enough, I wear very modern clothes and my mother does not approve. I can barely breathe. My parents always pretended everything was fine, while always criticizing others Maybe this was part of my rebellion as a teenager. I hated it. The perfect family, I just wanted to be happy and joyous.
Well that isn't our household it's strained and boring. No one is themselves. I basically go through a list of stuff we can't talk about with my family before we arrive. It's such a strain. No wonder I feel stressed and anxious. It's not pretty or fun, it looks perfect though.
So here's to getting through family get togethers. I am putting my foot down though next year is at our house and we have decided that we are saying it's here and if anyone comes that's great if they choose not to that's ok. After travelling for Christmas for over 28 years I want a Christmas in my own house. I want to play games and have Christmas Carols being sung and go look at lights, I want to decorate cookies and basically have fun. It will not look perfect but it will be joyous and fun.
Breathing deeply I must go pack.
Reading this was like reading something I could have written. We have the same awkward, stilted families but on opposite sides of the planet! Seriously, I don't understand why they are like this.
Well done for handing the situation with such grace. I love your approach for next year. Hope it went ok given the circumstances?
I hope you got through this as well! Maybe our families are related LOL,I did get through it was a rough few days and I bit my tongue a lot, counted in Spanish (lol) and in general did a lot of deep breathing (my family may think I have some kind of lung disease) ! The one good thing was we had a White Christmas and it was amazing to walk in the snow and get out of the house on Christmas Day.


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Résumé
En consultant les petites annonces du Daily Leader, Jane Cleveland, au chômage, tombe sur une annonce par laquelle on indique rechercher une jeune femme de 25 à 30 ans, blonde, les yeux bleus, le nez droit, longue et mince, 1m70 environ, avec des talents d'imitation et une bonne maîtrise du français. Répondant à tous les critères, Jane se rend au lieu et à l'heure indiqués dans l'annonce.

Elle est reçue par un homme qui procède à un premier tri des nombreuses candidates. Elle est sélectionnée pour la suite du « casting ». En fin de compte, elle est choisie par celui qui a passé l'annonce. Elle apprend alors qu'il s'agissait de trouver une « doublure » de la Grande duchesse Pauline, qui a fui un pays d'Europe de l'Est, sans doute la Russie (« Ostrova » dans le roman) dont les dirigeants ont été massacrés par les communistes. Craignant un attentant des services communistes, on a pensé à remplacer pendant une quinzaine de jours la grande duchesse : ce sera Jane qui prendra sa place.

La première activité au cours de laquelle elle sera la doublure de la grande duchesse sera une vente de charité durant laquelle des bijoux de prix seront exposés à la vue du public...

Personnages
 Jane Cleveland
 Colonel Kranine
 Feodor Alexandrovitch
 Princesse Poporensky
 Comte Streptitch
 Grande duchesse Pauline
 Inspecteur Farrell

Publications
Avant la publication dans un recueil, la nouvelle avait fait l'objet de publications dans des revues :
 en , au Royaume-Uni, dans le  de la revue .

La nouvelle a ensuite fait partie de nombreux recueils :
 en 1934, au Royaume-Uni, dans  (avec 11 autres nouvelles) ;
 en 1948, aux États-Unis, dans  (avec 10 autres nouvelles) ;
 en 1963, en France, dans Douze nouvelles, recueil réédité en 1968 sous le titre « Le Mystère de Listerdale » (adaptation du recueil de 1934) ;
 en 1982, au Royaume-Uni, dans  (avec 9 autres nouvelles) ;
 en 1983, en France, sous le titre « Un emploi princier », dans Dix brèves rencontres (adaptation du recueil de 1982).

Adaptation
 1982 : , épisode de la série télévisée .

Références

Lien externe

Nouvelle policière d'Agatha Christie
Nouvelle britannique parue en 1924
1924 en littérature policière
Nouvelle adaptée à la télévision

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Droughts in the soil increase much less than droughts at the earth surface
May 8th, 2019 | Download as PDF
Droughts under 1.5 and 2 °C global warming
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global temperature rise below 2 °C and preferably below 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Drought risk is projected to increase, probably more under 2 °C compared with 1.5 °C global warming. Global drought trends towards 2100 have been estimated based on multi-model simulations of climate change.
Two types of droughts
A distinction was made between two types of droughts. Meteorological droughts describe precipitation deficiencies resulting from the combined effect of changes in precipitation and evapotranspiration. Droughts in the soil, often called 'agricultural droughts', refer to the impact of meteorological droughts on the soil water that is available for plants.
In this study a dry period is called a 'drought event' when dry conditions last for at least three continuous months. Whether conditions are considered 'dry' was derived from the quantification of four drought indicators. These indicators describe precipitation deficiency, net precipitation deficiency (including evapotranspiration), soil moisture at the surface, and soil moisture at the root zone, respectively.
Increase frequency and duration
Globally, the frequency and duration may increase much faster for meteorological droughts than for surface soil moisture droughts and root zone soil moisture droughts.
Meteorological droughts are projected to occur about 36% more frequent under 1.5 °C global warming, and 62% more frequent under 2 °C warming. For surface soil moisture droughts the estimated frequency increases are 5% (1.5 °C warming) and 14% (2 °C warming), respectively.
On average, meteorological droughts are projected to last about 15% and 20% longer under 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming, respectively. For surface soil moisture droughts the estimated duration increases are 5% (1.5 °C warming) and 2% (2 °C warming), respectively. The spread around these average numbers are large, however. Projected drought increase in the root zone is generally less than at the soil surface.
Drought impacts on the soil
Surface soil moisture drought risk will probably increase in America, South America, Europe, southern Africa, southern China and Australia. For Europe, the projected frequency increase of surface soil moisture droughts is 32% and 51% for 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming, respectively. The increase of root zone soil moisture drought risk will be much less, however. Root zone soil moisture drought frequency in Europe is projected to increase by 5% and 15% for 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming, respectively. The areas affected by droughts will increase less than 10%; this increase will be largest in Africa, Oceania and South America.
For food production and terrestrial biodiversity soil moisture in the root zone is particularly relevant. This study shows that changes in meteorological and soil moisture droughts do not have to be the same. In fact, root soil moisture droughts will probably not increase as much as meteorological droughts. Still, limiting globally averaged temperature rise below 1.5 °C will substantially reduce drought risk in duration and frequency relative to the 2 °C level.
Source: Xu et al., 2019. International Journal of Climatology 39: 2375 - 2385.
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Abraham Foxman, who earlier said in a statement that his org had come to share the view that the 1915 incidents "were indeeded tantamount to genocide," continues to maintain its position.
Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who earlier said in a statement that his organization had come to share the view that the 1915 incidents "were indeeded tantamount to genocide," continues to maintain its position.
In his latest article issued in a Jewish magazine "The Jewish Advocate", Foxman once again opposed to bringing the issue to Congressional floor.
Foxman said, "we continue to firmly believe that a Congressional resolution on such matters is a counterproductive diversion and will not foster reconciliation between Turks and Armenians. (However) We will not hesitate to apply the term 'genocide' in the future."
Following the negative impacts of the issue in Turkey, Foxman had sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week and said, "I feel deeply sorry over discussions that erupted after ADL changed its stance on the 1915 incidents. We had no intention to put the Turkish people or its leaders in a difficult position. I am writing this letter to you to express our sorrow over what we have caused for the leadership and people of Turkey in the past few days."
In his latest article in The Jewish Advocate, Foxman said, "we have been in close contact with The Turkish Jewish community for decades. We have heard repeatedly from its leaders how concerned they are about the impact of American Jewish involvements in efforts to label as genocide Turkish actions against Armenians during World War I. For us, as a Jewish defense organization, such concern can not go unheeded. Still, we had a dilemma. As an organization committed to educating people on the dangers not only of anti-Semitism but of hatred of all kinds, we could not ignore the terrible tragedy that befell at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. And we have not. In meetings with high-level Turkish officials, we have pressed them to come to grips with the past and speak to what happened. We have done that again and again and we will continue to do so."
"We have come to share the assessment that incidents in 1915-18 were indeed tantamount to genocide," Foxman added.
Foxman said, "as long as ADL is an organization committed first to the safety and security of the Jewish people, we can not in good conscience ignore the well-being of 20,000 Jews in Turkey. We will, however, continue to push the Turkish government in the right direction."
On the other hand, ADL recruited again Andrew Tarsy, who was dismissed after causing the ADL to change stance as regards to 1915 incidents. Tarsy was responsible for the region including northeastern provinces.


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Q: Removing columns according to a list in a file I have a problem with removing columns from a file.
input.tsv:
Otu1    otu2    otu3    otu4    otu5
1   2   5   9   3
8   9   8   4   2

I would like to remove a column if its header is listed in file remove.txt, e.g.:
otu2
otu3

So the result would be:
Otu1    otu4    otu5
1   9   3
8   4   2

How can I do this?

A: Example using Perl
removeCols.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $file1="input.tsv";
my $file2="remove.txt";

open RFILE, $file2;
@cols=<RFILE>;

open INPUT, $file1;

#read header line, save indicies
my @header = split( /\t/, <INPUT> );

for my $i (0..$#header){
    if (grep(/$header[$i]/, @cols)){
        push @idx,$i;
        $header[$i] = undef;
    }
}
print join("\t",grep(defined,@header));

# loop remaining file
while(<INPUT>){
    my @line = split(/\t/, $_);
    $line[$_] = undef for (@idx);
    print join("\t",grep(defined,@line));
}

command-line run as such:

prompt> perl removeCols.pl

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Q: Selenium, getting the value of an element off a webpage I am trying to use selenium to get a value off of a webpage.
1,672 W

Specifically, I would like the 1,627.
I have tried ```
span_element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("dashValues ng-binding") and
ontent.find_elements_by_xpath("//html//body//div//div[3]//div//ui-view//div//ng-include//div//div[1]//div[1]//div//div//div[2]//span")```

with no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: No css selector does not work in that way :-
cause dashValues and ng-binding are two different classes in HTML, in case we wanna combine them, we could do it with . as below :-
Instead of this
span_element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("dashValues ng-binding")

use this :
span_element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("span.dashValues.ng-binding")


Delhi government's Health department has suspended two doctors and two others in connection with alleged irregularities in disbursing salaries of security and sanitation workers at Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital.
Dr Rishi Anand, Dr Rupender Kumar, Virender Kumar, statistical assistant and Rajesh kumar, Administrative Officer have been placed under suspension, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said.
The action was taken after Jain during a visit to the hospital received complaints from several sanitation workers and security guards about they not receiving their entire salary amount over several months.
It was also alleged by some of the workers that even after having full attendance, their records were tampered to show them absent on some days.
In a separate incident, services of two junior resident doctors of Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital was terminated in connection with a woman patient being transfused wrong group of blood.
"This woman had come in a serious condition with a low Hemoglobin concentration of 2.5. She was transfused wrong blood group which could have been fatal. We launched an inquiry and terminated service of two junior resident doctors.
"The woman at present is stable," he said.
The Health Minister further informed that government has decided to install 10 CT Scan machines and five MRI machines in its 10 hospitals on Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP) model.
He said that these machines will soon be installed at ten big government hospitals and government will soon float tenders in this regard.


One thing you must be at can be very discouraging is the number of businesses you find in the market now, but you should not be discouraged because you can still penetrate the market, if you choose the appropriate strategy for your ideas. There are different areas you can be strategic in and you can easily succeed. For example, when it comes to choosing the place where you want to start off your business, you need to be very wise. Today, Latin America is one of the greatest startup locations, you can choose. Startup Cities in Latin America and the best today in the world and are many reasons why you should start your business here. Given here are some of the benefits of investing in startup cities in Latin America.
The best thing about Latin America is the fact that there are many cities and you have a choice to make. Apart from that, the best thing is that you will get the government support. This is very motivating because when you are setting up a business, there are many laws that you have to deal with which most of the times are against you, but when it comes to the startup cities in Latin America, you find that there are programs by the government are set to help you will succeed. What this means is that with these programs there are privileges that you can easily benefit from. As an entrepreneur in any city in Latin America and that is very important because you dont have to be overstressed about everything which is usual when starting up a business.
Another thing you find is the fact that because programs are supporting you even there are many other investors that are willing to venture into funding the project. Startup capital is always a big issue and comes to intrapreneurs but when it comes to Latin America especially in the startup cities, youll find investors willing to give you money, and that is something to propel you ahead.
When it comes to the employment issues, you dont have to worry a lot because, in startup cities in Latin America, there is plenty of talent you can engage for your startup stage. Different companies helping you it comes to screening the best talent, and that is something you need to think about because you dont have to sweat a lot for you to get the best back-office services and so on. The moment you achieve to get the best talent in the market, you can be sure that you can succeed because they will give you a push forward helping you stay above the competition.


The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders sponsors the Summer 2019 College for Teens program at Union County College. Each session provides students the chance to explore careers in Criminal Justice,Healthcare, and Transportation, Logistics and Distribution while experiencing life on a college campus.
Please view the attached brochure for complete program details. There is NO cost for attendance. Registration requirements include: the attached application form, a letter of recommendation from a school counselor or teacher, and the student's most recent report card.
We are excited to announce that the application for the Hispanic Student College Institute 2019 at Montclair State University is now OPEN!
Montclair State University, the largest four-year Hispanic Serving Institution in New Jersey, is offering a Hispanic Student College Institute on August 6-8, 2019, for rising high school juniors and seniors.
The Institute will be a transformational experience for 200 students who identify as Hispanic. They will be challenged to think big about their future and the impact they will have on their community after college. Best of all, there will be no cost for students to participate and attend.
Institute participants will be eligible for scholarships to attend Montclair State University in the future and will receive certificates of completion to include in their college applications and their resumes.
Academically committed students who identify as Hispanic are encouraged to apply by visiting montclair.edu/admissions/hsci and completing the online application.
The Governor's Hispanic Fellows Program is an 8-week summer program geared toward leadership and professional development which has offered quality internship experiences to Hispanic college students since 1988. Our students work in a government, corporate or non-profit setting and participate in leadership training seminars conducted by a team comprised of the Center's staff, government officials, business professionals and current and or former elected officials who are each experts in their respective fields. In addition, you will gain the knowledge and understanding of government and corporate culture, networking and public policy engagement.
Please open the attached file below for additional information and to apply.


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As Australia burns, Catholic Church on the front lines of mourning and relief
As casualties and damages in Australia mount as the country continues to burn, Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has said Catholic Church is among the front-runners in relief efforts.
By Elise Harris
Australian pro-life leaders organize to block bill legalizing abortion
Thousands of pro-life supporters demonstrated in the streets of Sydney, expressing their opposition to a bill in the New South Wales state parliament that would permit abortion until birth for any reason.
By Catherine Sheehan
Australian state hesitates to require priests to break seal of confession
The Australian state of Victoria has said a recommendation by the royal commission that it pass a law requiring priests to break the confessional seal to report cases of child sex abuse requires further consideration.
By Catholic News Agency
Australia state makes it easier for abuse victims to sue churches
Survivors of clerical abuse in the Australian state of New South Wales will be able to sue churches directly under proposed legal changes announced on Sunday.
By Crux Staff
Australian premier calls for national discussion on confessional seal
What legal protections priests should have in the confessional needs to be decided on the national level in Australia, according to the premier of the eastern state of New South Wales.


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Ukraine (555) > Labour codes, general labour and employment acts (27)
Name: Act No. 204 of 5 July 1995 to amend and supplement the Labour Code.
Subject(s): Labour codes, general labour and employment acts; Freedom of association, collective bargaining and industrial relations
Published on: Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Ukrainy, 1995-07-11, No. 28, pp. 647-650
ISN: UKR-1995-L-42914
Bibliography: Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Ukrainy, 1995-07-11, No. 28, pp. 647-650
Abstract/Citation: Amends, inter alia, provisions relating to regulation of labour relations, labour legislation, guarantees of citizens' right to work, workers' obligations and young workers.
1996-09-10 (UKR-1996-L-45722)Act No. 357/96-VR of 10 September 1996 to amend several legal acts related to the implementation of the Act on wages.(Text No. 229)
Amended text(s):
1971-12-10 (UKR-1971-L-46087)Labour Code of 1972, as amended.