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Maud, OK city officials have shoot-out with water tower…
by Lucas
Snow and ice always seem to wreak havoc on Oklahoma. The tiniest bit of frozen precipitation can shut the whole state down. The roads become slick and dangerous, pipes freeze up, and there are often massive power outages that leave thousands of residents in the dark and cold.
During the freezing weather last weekend, the city of Maud faced a unique problem. From News9:
MAUD, Oklahoma –
The small City of Maud faced a serious problem over the weekend.
Ice build up on a leaking water tower raised concerns that the tower could topple.
So, the City came up with a 12-gauge solution. They opened fire on the ice Friday night with a shotgun.
"We took a few shots and tried to knock the ice off. Didn't work very well," Maud City Clerk Don Zeller said.
City leaders said they had to give it a shot, but the ice was just too thick to shatter.
Engineers said the tower was in danger of collapse.
"(We) sent them pictures and they called us and we talked with them for a little while and they said, 'yup, we need to get some of that ice off of there because it is a problem,'" Zeller said.
So, they blocked off the area and opened fire. Police said there was no danger to the public.
"Absolutely not," Maud police Chief Patricia Bateman said. "I was contacted, told that they would block off the perimeter. They talked with the structure engineers and they said that they had everything set up."
You know what they say… Never bring a gun to an ice fight. Ok, I'm not that smart of a person, but this doesn't seem like the best way to handle a situation like that. Does everyone in Oklahoma think with their guns first?
"Well, Don, that old water tower froze up. I reckon it's gonna if we don't do something about it. Got any ideas?"
"Have the sheriff bring his shotty. There ain't a problem we can't solve with guns."
Seriously, the tower is already leaking and almost 90 years old. Firing at it seems like a pretty hazardous solution. Couldn't they get a guy with a hair dryer and a really long extension cord to climb up and try to melt the ice off? Or drop a big ol' bucket of hot water from a helicopter? If those ideas fail, they could have rappers Knuckles and Zero collaborate on a mixtape. The fire from that would melt everything in Pottawatomie county.
Jokes aside, I hope Maud can get their water tower situation figured out. It's really old and in bad shape, and if something happened to it, that would be real trouble for the residents.
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"City leaders said they had to give it a shot…"
Unintentional play on words?
I'm not knowledgeable about the penetrating power of shotgun pellets or the strength of 90-year-old steel, but it seems to me that the firearm approach carried a serious risk of causing a lot more leaking from the water tower. Who were those "structure engineers" that gave the OK?
M	Mike Morgans an A$$ says:
shotguns dont work like normal guns ,they dont use bullets and are really only dangerous close up, shooting a shotgun was actually a good idea but the ice was to far away
Wasabi says:
I imagine Yosemite Sam giving the thumbs up on this plan.
G	Goober says:
Shotguns have devastating power at close range, but it very quickly dissipates. If it couldn't break up the ice, it wasn't going to penetrate steel. It (the ice) must be too high off the ground.
Years ago, I was reading a really cool book about old OKC. I'm pretty sure it was one of the ones filled with old postcards. Anyway, there was a cool picture of a fire downtown from VERY early. When the fire broke out, they couldn't fight it because the water somehow failed, but they managed to get sheets of ice like this in the process. You wouldn't think it, but winter is a particularly dangerous time for fires. No water, big fire!
f	foobzy says:
I was reading this expecting the story to end with the fire fighters shooting the fire out with shotguns.
C	Crimson Jihad says:
Anybody remember the Noble police department that went out to kill a snake but killed a boy instead? Don't use guns irresponsibly.
A	Amy says:
You know, other states just use industrial electric warming blankets around the towers during the winter months with cherry picker cranes too keep the tank, rigging and HPDP warm.
But I guess that's common sense and Oklahoma isn't exactly known for that.
K	K to the B says:
"Well, Don, that old water tower froze up. I reckon it's gonna ( _______?) if we don't do something about it. Got any ideas?"
R	Reba's Jaw Roll says:
They might get a second chance after this weekend, so here's the plan:
Come Sunday morning at the crack of Dawn…oops, dawn…we'll cherry pick someone up there to spray paint "[name of your least favorite politician]" on the ice, and then we'll charge the people a dollar and a half just to shoot 'em…no Gatling guns, though.
Or perhaps they could spray the social media feed of progressives after the election. There was enough salt in that thing to store radioactive material.
J	JohnnyElPaso says:
Did they gauge the interest of the people who lived in the area before blocking it off? The police wouldn't want people gunning their engines to drive out of there in a panic.
P	Pete's Draggin says:
Maybe they should have sent in baby-handed-pushy-grabber to negotiate a deal.

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Is March going out like a lion or a lamb where you are? Here in Wisconsin we started out abnormally mild with temperatures in the upper 70s for the first half. But since the vernal equinox we have been back to the blustery days that usually mark this month. I can't say that I wish for the cold dreariness that we normally have, but I have to wonder what is up with all this crazy weather! I think that March will slink out less like the king of the animals and more like an alley cat yowling in the wind.
The painting inspiration for this month reminds me of how the weather should be. The skies should be overcast and gray with threatening tufts of clouds signaling cold biting wind. That is what I think of when I look at this picture.
I have to admit that I had never seen this painting of Van Gogh's before. I love the whimsical windmills and the linear fenceposts, the bare branches no doubt shivering in the brisk wind and the gaily colored flags flapping at attention. As always, you gave us quite a varied interpretation of the monthly challenge...and we love that!
Cece Cormier of The Beading Yogini (above) created a sweet little double sided pendant with images from a vintage French primer teaching "when the sky is gray" on one side and a delightful windmill on the other. The pretty flash of blue in those labradorite really make me think of the blue that might be peeking behind those clouds. C'est la vie!
Jenna of Honey Bijou hung out with her Van Gogh finger puppet and crafted a very detailed pendant from multiple transfers onto polymer clay. Truly an amazing process!
Kim Idalski of Kimi's Jewelry from the Heart wanted to evoke the party like atmosphere that seems to be with those bright colors in the painting and made these special little ruffle beads that remind me of party balloons. This is one festive and fun piece of jewelry!
I really like the bohemian flair of the earrings from Donna Cruz (above) of Crazy Notions.These polymer clay earrings are made by Donna using filigree and other readily available pieces to create something truly unique and beautiful that call to mind the windmills dotting the landscape.
Neena Shilvock of Caprilicious Jewellery made a very organic looking necklace for her submission entitled "Midnight Tango." The petals or leaf shapes actually make me think of butterfly wings ready to fly. This is so very unique!
Katherine of Catherines Dreams picked up on the dots of color in this street scene from the vendors and the windmills and added those bright cheery colors as a foil to the more softer and muted background and sky colors.
Stefanie of Stefaniessammelsurium (above) brightened up the gray skies with a multi-layered wrap bracelet that warms my heart to see it. I love the way she weaves the textures and the colors together, especially the frayed bits of sari silk. You can't help but be happy when you wear something like this!
You simply must go and check out the polymer clay cane that Lupe Meter of Gem's PC Corner created in response to one of the palettes that Editor Brandi Hussey created for this month's challenge painting. I love that she was able to translate the palette into such an adorable piece of jewelry. The pinwheel is my favorite!
I am just blown away by the creativity that I see when I go to the Flickr site and read your blog posts. I am totally crushing on the amazing glass bead that Island Girl created with elements of the painting in it. That is talent, I tell you! The tree branches against the gray sky, the enameled pinwheel and even an enameled French flag - such great attention to detail in this necklace! Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Miss Molly Alexander of Beautifully Broken Me (above) went the opposite direction of Miss Stefanie by focusing on the cool blues with the earthy hues. Isn't it cool how two totally different color schemes can come from one inspiration? I love the way that Molly wrapped the beads, so much more interesting. These special little details really raise this design up to art.
I really like the way that The Bead Junkie, a.k.a. Tracy, thinks things through. She picked up on the couple walking arm in arm down the boulevard and created a love story for them represented in her pretty necklace. I would want to wear this pretty bauble all summer long it looks so light and fresh!
The bangle that Miss Sally Russick of The Studio Sublime created is a symphony of color and harmony. I love the playful use of color with the colorful wire wrapped beads and especially the different sizes and textures of the art beads that make up the focal. This is such a fun design!
Lucky Miss Rebecca of Songbead (above) has the good fortune to live in Europe just a hop, skip and a jump from France, and coincidentally she has just returned from a holiday exploring the beauty of the French countryside. Rebecca makes really pretty bracelets, and she pulled out a classic blue and red of the flag (and many other flags around the world as she points out!) for this piece that reminds me that sunnier days are just around the corner!
Vera of Designed by Vera tells us that she almost let this month slide by until she happened upon this perfect pin at a yard sale of a pair of riders on a bicycle built for two. So glad that you got inspired!
Kiwibeads picked up on the flags waving in the wind and took her strong palette from there. The bracelet looks fun and fresh and would be right at home strolling down the avenue on a spring day in France! Viva la France!
Miss Cilla of Tell Your Girlfriends really internalized every aspect of this painting, from the small size of the beads to represent the children, to the sari silk billowing in the breeze to represent the flags and the fine stripes on the etched jump rings calling to mind the slats on the fence to the swirl clasp nodding to the twirling windmills. Very lovely interpretation!
When I say that ABSer's creativity knows no bounds, I truly mean that! I am really amazed at what Jill Palumbo of Palumbo Jewlery created in response to this month's challenge painting. I know that it isn't jewelry, but she was inspired by one of Brandi's palettes to turn a tired rolling cart with glass shelves into a completely new work of art! She was inspired by the colors and the shapes, creating what she calls beads (those pod shapes are crafted from polymer clay!) to add dimension to the cart. You really should go and check it out!
Miss Malin of Beading by Malin De Koning treats us to a very patriotic design with her earrings of red, white and blue, like the French flag flapping in the breeze. These are playful and fun!
I love it when you can take a part of the painting and use that to create a focal. That is exactly what Pam of Klassy Joolz did. She created a resin pendant using just one of the brightly colored windmills as her muse. I love the blend of the soft and the hard in this piece with the sari silk and the hard metal and glass beads.
I actually got my own creative mojo going this month and created a pair of earrings inspired by the windmills in this painting. The best part about this design is that the windmills actually move! I wrote about this on our sister blog, Earrings Everyday, and we would love to have you join us over there for a dose daily inspiration.
I love the stories we create to go with our pieces. Miss Mary Ellen of bee tree by m.e. did just that. She envisioned that those two strolling through the streets of Montmarte are an older couple secure in their love and reliving their romance. Mary Ellen had this perfect cotton ribbon printed with French love letters that worked perfectly with her breezy creation.
Last but surely not least, Miss Sharyl of Sharyl's Jewelry snuck her post in at the last possible second! Her pretty necklace has all the colors of the painting but with a more modern twist. I love all the details that keep my eye moving on this necklace and wanting to see more!
I loved this painting! I had so much fun making my necklace... wish inspiration came so easily all the time!
So many wonderful creations, well done to all who participated!
Wow! What amazing creations there were this month! Really beautiful work.
Beautiful journey through all these gorgeous pieces - thanks Erin! Montmartre is definitely not countryside anymore now - it's where the infamous Moulin Rouge is, the Sacre Coeur stands at the highest point, but it's full on city now, complete with cobbled street, winding alleys, streetside cafes and bars...it's wonderful.
Absolutely wonderful challenge entries - love the variety, it is truly amazing that we all come up with different visions in our minds.
Love to browse through all these wonderful creations! Thank you for including my piece in the blog hop.


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White Castle's Impossible Slider Is Going Vegan With New Dairy-Free Cheese
By Megan Schaltegger
Courtesy of White Castle
White Castle's plant-based burger, the Impossible Slider, is the best in the business. So good, we recently honored it with a Fastie Award in the Best Plant-Based Burger category. And while this meat-free slider is a good choice for vegetarians or anyone who's seeking an alternative to beef, it wasn't entirely vegan -- until now.
The chain announced this week that it plans to start topping the Impossible Slider with a new, dairy-free cheese replacement. Beginning March 1, the non-dairy cheddar will be available to order on any slider at participating New York and New Jersey locations. Hurrah for our vegan and lactose-challenged friends!
"Our Impossible Slider was an instant Craver favorite, but it's about to get a new dimension with the introduction of dairy-free cheddar," Vice President Jamie Richardson said in a statement. "We are excited to bring this new non-dairy, vegan item to Cravers in the New York and New Jersey areas with the hope of taking it to other markets in the future."
This isn't the first time White Castle has made its commitment to the plant-based movement known. Back in 2015, the burger slinger introduced a vegan patty in collaboration with Dr. Praeger's, officially dubbed the "Veggie Slider," in retail stores. Just last summer, the chain gave its wildly popular Impossible Slider a BBQ-style update for the season. And in case you're wondering, White Castle also updated its bun recipe to make it vegan friendly.
"We're committed to innovation, and we're always looking for ways to do things better and make things better for our loyal customers," Richardson added. "It's exciting to be the fast-food restaurant that's leading the trend in providing plant-based options for consumers."
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Megan Schaltegger is a staff writer at Thrillist. Follow her @MegSchaltegger.


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# Week 11 - OpenLayers Javascript Framework # {#week11}

*Background*

As we learned in our introduction to OpenLayers in last week's class, it provides a flexible platform for integrating geospatial data from a variety of sources in a single interactive mapping environment. These capabilities include data integration from OGC Web Map Services and a wide variety of data formats for display in the mapper. This week's class provides an overview of the options for the OpenLayers `Map` and `Layer` objects, and specific information about configuring OGC WMS, KML, and Vector Geometry Layers and a brief overview of styling of vector data layers.

*Expected Outcomes*

At the end of this class, students should be able to:

* Create a new map object
* Add a WMS layer to that map
* Add a KML layer to that map
* Add a variety of Vector Geometry objects to the map
* Define styles for the created KML and Vector Feature objects.

*Key Concepts *

At the end of this class students will understand that

* There are a wide variety of options that may be provided when creating `Map` Nd `Layer` objects within OpenLayers
* WMS layers may be added to a map from diverse online servers
* KML files may be added to map, but their potential size can pose a challenge to effective integration into online mapping applications
* A wide variety of geometric objects may be defined and added to a map
* There exist a variety of styling options for vector data that are added to a map

## Class Prep ## {#week11-prep}

Gratier, T., Spencer, P., & Hazzard, E. (2015). *Openlayers 3 beginner's guide : Get started with openlayers 3 and enhance your web pages by creating and displaying dynamic maps*. Birmingham, England: Packt Publishing. [eBook](https://unm-on-worldcat-org.libproxy.unm.edu/oclc/903963849?databaseList=1271,143,1487,1533,1540,1672,1708,173,1925,2006,2007,203,2201,2237,2259,2260,2261,2262,2263,2264,2267,2268,2281,2328,3036,3201,638) Chapters 4-6.

OpenLayers 3 Examples:

* [*Single Image WMS Example*](http://openlayers.org/en/v3.2.1/examples/wms-image.html?q=wms)
* [*Tiled WMS Exmaple*](http://openlayers.org/en/v3.2.1/examples/wms-tiled.html?q=wms)
* [*Vector Icon Example*](http://openlayers.org/en/v3.2.1/examples/icon.js)

## Reference Materials ## {#week11-reference}

[OpenLayers API Reference](http://openlayers.org/en/v3.14.2/apidoc/)

[OpenLayers Sample Maps](http://openlayers.org/en/v3.2.1/examples/)

## Weekly Milestone - A Customized OpenLayers Mapping Client {#week11-milestone}

Please create a new OpenLayers mapping page that is based upon the initial map (and thematic focus) that you created for last week's milestone, and add the following to your map:

1. Five Vector Features (based upon Point, LineString, or LinearRing Geometries), each assigned its own style.

2. One KML Layer, also styled. Make sure to give some thought to the size of the KML file that you use as large KML files can cause slow page loads and can in some cases crash your browser.

3. One WMS Layer.

## Deep Dive - ## {#week11-deepDive}

This deep dive is the first of two (plus milestones) that are related to a common theme of taking an online mapping problem from start to finish - from the definition of a problem, through the implementation of services and a basic client interface for the display of data for the specific problem.

Before beginning to work on any mapping problem (online or otherwise), some basic questions need to asked and answered. Please consider and answer (in 2-4 sentences as appropriate for the question) the following questions relating to the problem that you will be working on for the forthcoming assignments:

* What is the high-level description of the problem/question you want to help answer through the presentation of a collection of geographic data over the internet? Please answer in a short paragraph.

* Who is the target audience for the information you want to provide?

* What geographic region does your problem area represent? Please describe it in words (e.g. New Mexico, Alberta Canada, etc.) and define it in terms of a geographic (WGS84) (latitude and longitude) bounding box.

* What types of data do you want to include in your project? Include a description (data content: e.g. elevation data, hydrographic survey, etc.) and types (i.e. raster, vector).

* What projection will you use for the presentation of your project data? Again, describe it, provide your reasoning for selection, and provide the corresponding EPSG code.

* Where do you anticipate acquiring data for the project from?

* What barriers to acquiring and processing the needed data do you anticipate?

While you are going to continue to acquire additional data for the project over the next couple of assignments, begin acquiring data for your selected project now. Specifically, find 5 datasets that are consistent with your description of the problem you are going to work on, and use your desktop GIS and any associated metadata to describe them in brief by answering the following questions:

* What is the name of the dataset?

* What type of data (raster/vector) are in the dataset?

* What is its format?

* What is its coordinate reference system?

* What are the spatial extents of the dataset?

For a dataset to be useful, you should be able to answer all five of these questions about it. Furthermore, you should seek out datasets that are in common formats that you know you can work with in a variety of applications (i.e. QGIS, ArcGIS, gdalinfo, ogrinfo, etc.). If you can't access and use a dataset in one of these applications, you will probably have problems trying to use it in your project.

Also, below are links to the documentation for GeoServer - the platform that we will work with in a couple of weeks for publishing data - relating to the supported raster and vector formats in the default GeoServer installation.

Vector Data: [http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/vector/index.html](http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/vector/index.html)

Raster Data [http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/raster/index.html](http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/raster/index.html)

## Peer Review ##

_Peer Review:_ This week's assignment will include a peer review component. Specifically, 1/3 of your 20-point peer review score will be based upon _your_ peer-review of _two_ other web pages generated by the students in the class. The required peer-review will consist of two steps:

1. Create a new Discussion Thread in Learn entitled: "Page for Peer-Review <Your Name>" at the same time you link your milestone to your homepage. Include in the post the GitHub address of your Week 10 milestone that you created for this assignment.

2. Provide a _substantive_, _constructive_, and _civil_ comment (through the "reply" option for a posted thread) to _two_ of the posted discussion threads posted for peer-review. Please complete the peer-review as soon as possible so that your colleagues can benefit most from your input. Complete the peer-review no later than the required end-of-term portfolio review deadline. Think about the following ideas for your review: _what did I learn from this page_, _what was done well_, _what could be improved_

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Q: log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly I am trying to learn selenium.
I get following error message:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger
  (org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAddCookies). log4j:WARN Please
  initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See
  http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

So, I have downloaded the file log4j.properties and I have googled on it and tried to implement the file in different ways in Eclipse but nothing worked out. I see that someone is saying:
Put a file named log4j.properties in the root of your classpath:
log4j.rootLogger = ALL, Console
log4j.appender.Console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.Console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.Console.layout.conversionPattern=%m%n

Nothing else is needed. Log4j will discover it and configure itself.
But what do they mean by "in the root of your classpath"?
I work in Eclipse. So how do I find the root of the classpath in Eclipse?

A: It looks like you need to add the location of your log4j.properties or log4j.xml file to the Classpath in Eclipse.
Make sure your project is open in Eclipse, then click on the "Run" menu at the top of Eclipse and click on the following:
Run -> Run Configurations -> Classpath (tab) -> User Entries -> Advanced (button on the right) -> Add Folders ->then navigate to the folder that contains your log4j.properties file
Apply -> Run
The error message should no longer appear.

A: Did you simply try to put it in your source folder? It should be copied automatically to your deployment folder on build.
If you already tried, it may be your deployment rules that skip *.properties files...
Hope that will help you

A: Delete the log4j.rar from your external Libraries
steps: Right click on src-->BuildPath-->Configure Buildpath-->Libraries-->Select Log4j.rar and Remove it.
For report generation, you need to add log4j for simply executing the script no need to add log4j.
Hope this will solve your problem

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Pete Estridge graduated from The George Washington University in 2009 with a B.S. in Economics. Upon graduation from college, he received a commission in the United States Marine Corps through the NROTC program. He served for six years as a logistics officer and an officer selection officer. Pete is currently an MBA candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.


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'A Right to Know'
Michael Crick introduced a program on BBC Radio4 on the amount of information, held on us, and , our rights in getting to see it. Here is an MP3. I think this is a splendid 'overview' of issues involved and commend it to you
http://tash.dns2go.com/FTP/MP3/BBC Radio4 – A Right to Know – Michael Crick 29dec02.mp3
Here are some of my own efforts, in trying the gett access, via using these laws.
'Location Data' on the use of a mobile phone
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_07_14_tash_lodge_archive.html#79031925
MI5 – Some of my own adventures
True Spies BBC2, after-show internet discussion .RAM
The Anarchist Travelling Circus
http://www.g8circus.org.uk
The Anarchist Travelling Circus is UK-wide series of actions, projects and events, and a mobilisation against the latest knees up of the powermongers of world misery – the G8 Summit taking place in Evian (Lake Geneva, on the French-Swiss border), June 1st-3rd 2003.
The summit-hopping protests of the last few years, labelled by Tony Blair post-Gothenberg, as an ?Anarchist Travelling Circus?, have done much to build and revitalise the growing anti-capitalist movement, to strengthen existing international solidarity, to create new links, and to facilitate the mobilisation of people and ideas. The inevitable publicity that surrounds such occasions has served to inform people about the existence of an organised resistance to capitalism.
While this process is important and should continue, it is clear that mobilising around specific one-off or annual events such as Mayday, G8, EU meetings etc. will never be enough.
The Anarchist Travelling Circus is an attempt to reconcile the mass mobilisations that accompany events such as the G8, with local projects and actions; to create links between the anti-capitalist movement and the daily stuggles in our communities and workplaces; to involve those who cannot or do not want to travel round the globe getting tear-gassed; and to continue to make the point that our multiple struggles against war and militarism, the destruction of the earth, debt and lack of housing, the treatment of asylum seekers, the mind-numbing, soul-destroying monotony of wage labour and many other issues too numerous to name, cannot be won until the fight against capitalism is won and that this must be fought – not a couple of times a year in set-pieces against riot police, but daily, constantly, everywhere.
This attitude has most recently been reflected in the idea of Social Centres and Social Centres networks which have been springing up around the country, inspired in part by the Social Centres movements of other European countries; and by the attempt this year to use Mayday for a ?Festival of Alternatives? that aimed to promote both theoretical and practical sustainable forms of resistance and involve a variety of groups and issues.
The idea of the Anarchist Travelling Circus, while still in it?s infancy, is a 5-6 week tour of the country, perhaps beginning on Mayday, and culminating in Evian on June 1st at the G8, with a possible ?No Border? Camp en route. As the Circus progresses around the UK, people would join and leave the procession at will, staying on the road til Evian, or never leaving their home town. At each city, town or village it arrives in people would organise actions around struggles they are involved in, open social centres, or organise cultural events. This would hopefully serve to highlight existing struggles and act as an inspiration for new longterm projects, as well as leaving a lasting legacy beyond the spectacle of confrontational action.
It is important that the emphasis is placed on the actions and events that happen in each place, and that the impetus for these comes from local people and the struggles they are involved in, rather than a touring procession of activists just parachuting in. It is also important to involve as many people as possible and to have an open and inclusive working process.
The theme of ?travelling? – in the form of convoys, critical masses and mass train bunks – would be primarily used to physically and visually link issues and ideas that are already fundamentally linked in that they all pose an opposition to capitalism.
The idea is for anybody who is interested, from whatever part of the UK, to set up local groups to organise events and network the idea in their area. We would like as many individuals and horizontally-organised groups as possible to take part in this. The hope is that this would help to build links between anti-capitalists, refugee groups, those involved in workplace & community struggles, environmental groups, claimant?s unions etc., and also help to build a sustainable country-wide network, as well as involving people in ongoing projects in their area.
A discussion will take place at the ?Reclaim the Future? event on Saturday 21st September in London, and there will be a national meeting at the Anarchist Bookfair at The Camden Centre, London WC1, on 19th October, 2002.
This is going to take a lot of time, money and energy, so fundraising and networking should ideally start as soon as possible.
In the meantime an internet discussion list has been set up. To subscribe to this, send a blank email to:
anarchisttravellingcircus-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
If you are setting up a group in your area and would like someone to come and speak about the idea, please email anarchisttravellingcircus@yahoo.co.uk and let us know.
Tash's 'Free' Desktops, available for download
Have prepared a number of 'desktop designs' and have made them available for download. Saved as 1024×768 .BMP files at 2.3Mb. Here are some samples. Please click line below for the full selection
http://tash.dns2go.com/FTP/Desktop1024x768
Hope you like.
Economic League
Economic League, an organisation which collects data for private and government subscribers. Much of the information they collect results in the blacklisting of totally innocent workers, who have been unable to obtain or maintain jobs because of the inaccuracy of the League's data. It is now a matter of public record that the League was set up by former intelligence agents and that since its inception it maintained official links with MI5 and Special Branch.
In the UK companies concerned about employing trade union activists, former tribunal litigants or political militants can contact an organisation called CAPRiM. This organisation was formerly called The Economic League. It reportedly went into liquidation two years ago, but has now risen pheonix-like from the ashes and has a registered address in Redditch, Worcestershire. What CAPRiM does is probably unlawful under the Data Protection Act, although its predecessor always claimed that its records were kept on card indexes. The Employment Relations Act 1999 outlawed 'blacklisting', but we await the necessary secondary legislation to make the Act bite. Meanwhile CAPRiM operates as a legitimate business, is active in the Institute of Directors and sits on the management board of a leading Business School.
Not just my paranoid rantings you know! Please check out "The Journal of Information, Law and Technology" They have covered the New Code of Practice – S51 (3) (b) of The Data Protection Act 1998 at:
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/news00-2.html
For the giggle, thought i would include and extract from Hansard, to show that the state of affairs, continued.
Written Answers to Questions: Wednesday 8 February 1989
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Economic League is registered under the Data Protection Act 1984.
Mr. Renton : The Economic League has a single entry in the data protection register, a copy of which is in the Library, covering its processing of personal data for the administration of the organisation.
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to enact legislation to ensure that people blacklisted by the Economic League can obtain access to the files that have caused their blacklisting to check that information.
Mr. Renton : No.
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-02-08/Writtens-1.html
The Economic League was set up in 1919 to fight Bolshevism and intervened in industrial relations
However, it wound up in 1994 after complaints of it holding inaccurate information on individuals; under data law it would have had to open its files. It had 40 current Labour MPs on its files, including the chancellor, Gordon Brown, and prominent trade unionists, as well as journalists and thousands of shopfloor workers.
Now again, open for business as: CAPRiM
Left blacklist man joins euro fight – Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/EMU/Story/0,2763,366293,00.html
A Nottingham 'Landscape'
Took these from the top of St Marys church tower, in the middle of the city of Nottingham.


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Zuo Mo slowly woke up. His face was pasted to the ground, dirt in his mouth. He felt slightly secure once he realized he was in his little yard.
When he inspected his body, his heart finally relaxed. The situation was better than he had expected. Even though his injuries were serious, especially in his channels, but it was much better than he had imagined. What he was most afraid of was damaging his basic vitality. That was a fatal wound that even jindan xiuzhe could not save him from.
He struggled up from the dirt floor. He was used to the soreness of his entire body. Thinking about it now, he always ended up causing his own sorry state. If it happened multiple times, then one would get used to it. Even something like enduring pain was like that.
However, when he saw the grey-beaked goose splattered like mud lying nearby, he was very shocked. He hurriedly stumbled over. It definitely was this female bird's labor that he could come back. If he didn't have it, he would have been very badly off! Coming to the grey-beaked goose, he carefully inspected her before his heart settled down. This female bird was just exhausted. Zuo Mo was very moved.
Running to the stone room, and taking out the stone milk that he treasured so much, he dropped three drops to the grey-beaked goose.
"Silly Bird, Silly Bird, ge is pretty good to you!" Zuo Mo said to himself.
For xiuzhe, using stone milk by itself didn't have much of a beneficial effect, but for ling beasts, this was a natural treasure. Other than Zuo Mo, no one would feed three drops of stone milk to a second-grade grey-beaked goose. From the perspective of jingshi, three drops of stone milk was much more valuable than a second-grade grey-beaked goose. However, this person and bird had great camaraderie. Even though this female bird had once taunted him, but ge is generous, and won't hold a grudge with you silly bird, Zuo Mo thought.
The effect of the stone milk was, as expected, extremely clear.
Looking at the grey-beaked goose, like a person, her wings tucked behind her back, puffing up her chest, walking the steps, Zuo Mo was dumbstruck. But it didn't manage to maintain it for very long before it became fretful, jumping about in the yard, jumping up and down. Zuo Mo gaped with wide eyes. But after a while, even jumping would not satisfy it. That pair of wings started to endlessly make strange movements. It looked like a convulsing strange bird dancing.
Zuo Mo could only give this cruel review.
After thinking slightly, he understood what had happened. He had given too much stone milk to the grey-beaked goose. The potential of the grey-beaked goose was very average, and was not able to tolerate such a large amount of stone milk. Too much of the medicinal power was unable to be absorbed and caused it to act so crazily.
Suddenly, Zuo Mo paled. This silly bird was running towards the ling fields!
The grey-beaked goose used its wings to hit its head, its face giving an expression of realization. Then it shook its head drunkenly, flapping its wings and staggered as it shot into the air.
Zuo Mo patted his chest in fear. These days, even birds were this strong!
Having managed to stabilize the silly bird, Zuo Mo dragged his half-crippled body into the stone room. Once he crawled in, he entered meditation.
He spent much longer in meditation than before, a full twenty hours before he woke up. Even though he hadn't been wounded too severely, but the wounds in the channels inside his body were not insignificant. The damaging power of the impure ling energy was extremely serious. At that time, he really had been crazy. For jingshi, to not even care for his life? However, thinking back to it, he felt that it wasn't right. Why had he been so reckless? He couldn't pin down a reason.
That last attack, there were many places for him to savor.
He and Chang Heng were not on the same level of power. It could be seen from the fact the other had forced him to the precipice with one move. Thinking about it now, Zuo Mo still felt fear. It wasn't that he hadn't thought about Chang Heng's level of power, but he hadn't thought he would have struggle so much to stand up under just one of Chang Heng's moves. It really was a miracle that he was only wounded this little.
He wasn't dejected. From level of cultivation, there was too much of a difference. Chang Heng was at the peak of zhuji, someone heading for ningmai. Zuo Mo was only the fourth level of zhuji.
However, he was now at the fifth level. Just now, after a meditation of twenty hours, he had accidentally entered the fifth level. This wasn't all of the gains from the battle. That was why Zuo Mo wasn't leaving after he woke up, but sitting, savoring the entire battle.
This meditation was another ten hours.
When he truly finished, he felt that he was extremely hungry. Running to the stores, he found some ling grains. Not caring about his cooking skill, he personally made a ling grain meal. The terrible cooking skills caused the taste of the meal to be rather bad. Zuo Mo did swallow up every bit of it. The ling energy contained in the ling grains was extremely useful.
After filling his hunger, he started to inspect his spoils of war.
When he put all the trophies out, he instantly became excited.
[Moonwater Black Turtle Armor], [Seal Soldier], one third-grade belt, and a pair of third-grade vambraces.
He was familiar with the attributes of Moonwater Black Turtle armor. The seal soldier could be used only one more time. That was something to use to save his life at a crucial time. Zuo Mo naturally wouldn't be so dumb as to try it out. After memorizing the spell, he carefully put away the seal soldier.
The important ones were the belt and the vambraces. Zuo Mo had to admit that he had slipped up on the belt. The gold glittering belt only had one formation: Martial Bearing. Zuo Mo thought this was a formation that had no use at all. Its purpose was to make the presence of the wearer more outstanding, and look stronger and magnificent.
In other word, this was a decorative formation. Zuo Mo wanted to spit blood. He felt that it could be understandable that women would wear talismans of this type, but a guy, wearing a belt carved with [Martial Bearing] formation in broad daylight, they were too much of a showoff. The belt was made up of soft Gold Sky silk. The quality was outstanding. Such good material carved with a formation that had no real use, what a waste!
Zuo Mo was extremely frustrated. Why did he pick such a useless item?
However, what could be celebrated was that the vambraces did not disappoint him. There were two formations on it: [Thirty Thousand Catty] and [Nimble Fingers]. [Thirty Thousand Catty] was able to greatly increase his power. In the eyes of other xiuzhe, especially sword xiu, this might be a useless formation, but Zuo Mo liked it very much.
Wasn't it just perfect to match with [Vajra Profound Sutra]?
Thinking about having a pair of dark gold hands with the power of a thousand catties, unable to be destroyed, easily breaking down other people's flying sword, Zuo Mo's heart jumped in excitement. Of course, this was just a fantasy. No one would let their flying sword get caught by another person's hand. However, as a trap, this was still one that people could not defend against.
[Nimble Fingers] was a formation that was widely used. Its attribute was to increase the nimbleness of fingers. However, this was not that useful for Zuo Mo. In low-level xiuzhe, his finger motions was already very strong. The increase it would give him was almost nothing. [Nimble Fingers] was more effective the less familiar a xiuzhe was with finger motions. Those that were familiar, there wasn't much of an effect.
Okay, people shouldn't be too greedy. Zuo Mo muttered inside. He needed to go to Dong Fu right now, and sell a talisman to gather up the jingshi needed to clear his debts. The belt probably couldn't sell for much jingshi. If it really wasn't enough, he had to sell this pair of vambraces as well. He was slightly reluctant. Vambraces that had [Nimble Fingers] on it were easy to buy. What he was reluctant to sell was the [Thirty Thousand Catty] formation.
But he was poor, Zuo Mo had no way around it.
The grey-beaked goose had flown away, so Zuo Mo could only flip out his flying paper crane.
Sitting on the paper crane, Zuo Mo swayed and staggered his way to Dong Fu. The outer sect disciples of Wu Kong Sword Sect, when they saw Zuo Mo riding a paper crane, first paused, and then their faces were full of admiration as they bowed to Zuo Mo.
Zuo Mo finally couldn't bear it any longer and fled.
An extremely well attired middle aged person was repeatedly examining a soft gold belt, expression excited and heated.
Zuo Mo dazedly came out of the store, the hundred treasures pouch at his waist full and bulging. He felt like he was in a dream.
A soft gold belt carved with a martial bearing formation was actually the most expensive of all these talismans.
He couldn't understand, couldn't understand!
Translator Ramblings: Zuo Mo doesn't understand what vanity is. The [Thirty Thousand Catty] is really nicer as [Thousand Jun], one jun being thirty catties. It usually describes the great magnitude of the power which is unable to be blocked.
To look good is a must!
What's going to happen when the sect elders find out about his fight ?
Not that much, you'll see. I mean, it's done and over with :P.
Zuo Mo doesn't understand anything until it's put right in his face. Like the use of all the things that Puyao teaches him.
lol to Zuo mo only power and money is important. Vanity? Hmph!
Run Zou Mo, run! Pay your bills fast before the devil notice your money and take it all away!
did he sell everything or just the vanity belt?
Thanks for the chapter WYHCWE, warlord212, WanderingGummiOfDoom, and cactuar0!
Truly charm stat is important for most people. Its no surprise that that belt would be worth so much. How many hours a day do men and women spend on their appearance? Exactly.


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June 13, 2021 Admin - Israeli Good Wine
Welcome to the Upper Galilee region of Israel. It's filled with rolling hills, landscape that is littered with oak trees, and verdant soil where grapes—like this Cabernet Sauvignon—grow.
It's in this region that we also found out some interesting facts about said Cabernet Sauvignon… (though we have yet to find the proof so we're holding it loosely!).
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"Cabernet Franc came from Upper Galilee to France—not the other way around!" Rami exclaimed.
Rami claimed he'd found (and subsequently lost) a French Encyclopedia from the late 1800s that proved this theory.
The Encyclopedia of Vines alleged that thousands of years ago Cabernet Franc traveled from the Upper Galilee of Israel to Bordeaux. It was there in Bordeaux that we all know it was famously cloned with Sauvignon Blanc to create the wine of all wines—Cabernet Sauvignon.
Could it be true?! Could the origins of the beloved Cabernet Sauvignon have stemmed from the region of Israel, with a wine culture revived only in the last hundred years?!
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The following semantic rules are either implicitely given by the domain model (see above) on which the language is base, or enforced by corresponding semantic checkers. Note that the model and the semantic rules express how we understand the DDD patterns and how they can be combined.
#1: The relationship patterns Open Host Service (OHS), Published Language, Anticorruption Layer (ACL) and Conformist are not applicable for Partnership and Shared Kernel relationships. A violation of this rule would lead to contradictions regarding the definitions of the patterns and how we understand them. In a Shared Kernel relationship, two bounded contexts share a subset of its domain model and thus, technically, share code. The interaction between the two bounded contexts happens via this shared code. The usage of the four mentioned patterns contradicts with this approach. The same applies to the very tightly coupled Partnership pattern. Even if the contexts do not share code, the two contexts can only succeed or fail together.
#2: The patterns Open Host Service (OHS) and Published Language can only be implemented by the upstream in an upstream/downstream relationship. Trivially given by the definition of these patterns. Applying them to the downstream does not make sense, since the downstream context is calling the upstream context.
#3: The relationship patterns ACL and Conformist can only be implemented by the downstream context in an upstream/downstream relationship. Trivially given by the definition of these patterns. Applying them to the upstream does not make sense, since the upstream context is one who is called by the downstream. The upstream itself does not depend on the downstream and therefore does not have to conform or protect itself from changes of the downstream.
#4: The Conformist pattern is not applicable within a customer/supplier relationship. In a customer/supplier relationship, the customer has an influence on the supplier and can at least negotiate regarding priorities of the requirements and the implementation. A conformist in contrast has no possibilities to influence the upstream and has to conform to what he gets.
#5: The Open Host Service (OHS) pattern is not applicable within a customer/supplier relationship. Whereas the customer/supplier pattern implies that the two involved teams work closely together, meaning that the downstream team delivers the input in the upstreams planning sessions, the OHS pattern is meant to be applied if an upstream is used by many downstreams and the upstream team decides to implement one API in an «one for all» approach. This is somehow contradictory since it is unlikely that such an upstream implementing an OHS is able to have a close customer/supplier relationship with all its downstreams and fulfill all their expectations at the same time.
#6: The Anticorruption Layer (ACL) pattern should not be needed within a customer/supplier relationship. Note: This checker only produces a compiler warning, not an error. Similarly as in rule #2 the application of the ACL pattern is contradictory with the close customer/supplier relationship, where it should not be the case that the supplier implements changes from which the downstream has to protect itself. However, we only produce a warning questioning this situation since one might argue that a translation layer can be needed anyway and the difference between a translation layer and an anticorruption layer is not clearly defined or depends on how defensive it is implemented.
#7: A bounded context which is not contained by the context map can not be part of a relationship either. This checker provides consistency within the generated model.
#8: A context map of the type ORGANIZATIONAL (team map), can only contain bounded contexts of the type TEAM. This checker provides consistency within team maps. On such a map a bounded context represents a team and not a classical bounded context such as a system, feature or application.
#9: A bounded context of the type TEAM can not be contained by a context map of the type SYSTEM_LANDSCAPE. This checker provides consistency within context maps. Can be seen as the inverse case of rule #5.
#10: Only teams can realize bounded contexts. This checker ensures that the realize keyword can only be used for bounded contexts of the type TEAM. The keyword is added to the language definition in order to reference the bounded contexts a team is realizing. It would not make sense for a classical bounded context (system, feature or application).


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Q: onesignal api php not detecting "send_after" parameter I am sending this value to send_after parameter with php: "2022-12-28 11:47:00 GMT+300"
but the notification does not come at the time I choose, it comes instantly.
$date = date_create("2022-12-28 11:47");
echo $date2 = date_format($date,"Y-m-d H:i:s")." GMT+300";
// output: 2022-12-28 11:47:00 GMT+300

https://documentation.onesignal.com/reference/create-notification
I send it in the correct format according to the document, but still notifications come instantly, not when I choose


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Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton...See more
Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita. See less
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How will Enceladus' ice-burrowing probe communicate?
I've heard a lot of people talk about sending a probe to Enceladus (one of Saturn's natural satellites). It would drill (or melt ice) to burrow through the thick layer of ice and get to the water below in an attempt to find life. If the thickness of Enceladus' ice shell could be hundreds of meters thick, how will the probe communicate its findings back to us? Will it be able to effectively communicate through the ice?
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$\begingroup$ Leave an antenna on the surface, and a cable back up to it? $\endgroup$ – geoffc Jul 10 '15 at 16:46
$\begingroup$ You'll have to specify which mission (or proposal) are you referring to, but I believe that the idea is to leave the communications subsystem on the surface and the probe remains connected with umbilical to it. You'd also require the orbiter part in Enceladus' or Saturn's orbit to relay data back to Earth. $\endgroup$ – TildalWave Jul 10 '15 at 16:46
$\begingroup$ I didn't realize there were multiple mission proposals. If you need to, you can put this on hold as being too vague and I'll do a bit of research and modify the question. However, on the idea of dropping a cable, it seems like that could have a lot of disadvantages. $\endgroup$ – duzzy Jul 10 '15 at 16:51
$\begingroup$ @duzzy That's OK I think you'll get an answer. I just remembered where I saw the talk on the topic. Here's the video of The von Kármán Lecture Series: Exploring Europa, Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System. It might also have been discussed during some recent OPAG meetings (there's links to reports). Edit: Here is one: Enceladus Final Report (PDF, from 2007, discusses lander with drill and so on). $\endgroup$ – TildalWave Jul 10 '15 at 16:57
$\begingroup$ How do submarines communicate on/in Earth today? Maybe some kind of sonic/seismic network on the icy surface could relate to some sublunar ice sub's noisy activities. It's beyond 2050 for sure (and then young people will wonder: "Why did people use the internet in the 2020s? How could you even survive using it??") $\endgroup$ – LocalFluff Jul 10 '15 at 18:50
I don't know about multiple mission proposals, but I was able to find a fairly well spelled-out plan so I'll answer based on that. The proposal is based on the IceMole melting probe but I don't know if there's a name for the proposal itself.
The best source of data I've found is this PDF from 2014.
It indicates that at least for this proposed mission they wouldn't be building a full-on submarine that would drop into the sub-ice ocean, but instead they'd burrow down to the side of a geyser to sample the water from it:
Analysis of the plume material strongly suggests that it originates from a body of liquid salt-water or even a global ocean below the icy crust. The unique chemistry found in the plumes has fueled speculation that Enceladus may harbor life. A lander mission equipped with a subsurface ice-melting probe may help to resolve this question. Landing on the rough terrain close to the tiger-stripe cracks from which the plumes emanate, however, is considered highly risky (see Fig. 2), so a probe that lands at a safe distance from a crack and melts its way to the inner wall to analyze the plume material in situ would be desirable.
(In-line references removed for quotability, see paper for more details)
That simplifies things in terms of communication: only burrowing a short distance and not leaving the tunnel make a tether entirely reasonable. In this proposal the tether would carry both communications from the probe and power to the probe, which also simplifies the design by only requiring one power source instead of a power source for the base station and a separate power source for the probe.
This may be in reference to the use of the probe in the antarctic, but it indicates that they've made plans for reasonably long distances (though not to the scale required to go completely through 30-40 km of ice shelf over the expected liquid water):
For greater depths of several hundred meters, the cable can be packed into separate containers (each containing several tens of meters of cable) that are added to the IceMole.
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$\begingroup$ In the South polar region ice thickness is more like 5 km nasa.gov/feature/jpl/… $\endgroup$ – Schlusstein Jun 9 '17 at 18:12
Although I and many other authors of the 2007 Enceladus study would love to see such a mission happen, that seems very unlikely in the near future. The first issue is that Enceladus orbits only four Saturn radii out, so is in a very deep gravitational well. Second, assuming the probe orbits with its pariapsis at Enceladus and its apoapsis at Titan, the relative speed when passing by Enceladus would be about 4 km/sec.
The distance to the Saturn system compared to Jupiter's and the deep gravity well means a lot more fuel and gravity assists, which translates into more $$. The distance and number of gravity assists also makes arrival at Saturn something like ten years after launch, which is longer that the nominal life of many of the components. The principle advantage, compared to Europa, is Enceladus squirts samples of its (presumed) ocean out into space. The large relative speed of the orbiter relative to Enceladus' surface limits the mass that can be slowed down enough to survive landing (using an ATK STAR series solid rocket motor).
I was interested to read about the IceMole referenced in 1227joe's answer. However, it seems to me it would be very challenging to include one on an Enceladus mission. The power requirement for the proposed EnEx-IceMole is on the order of 10 KW. Solar flux at Saturn is only 1.1% of that at Earth and RTGs (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators), like those used on Cassini and New Horizons, only put out a little over 200 watts each.
The primary ways proposed to search for biomarkers (or life itself) was to sample the effluent from the tiger strips from orbit or buried in the snow just under the surface with a drill on a lander. Since there would be no deep drilling, the only communication would be in data bursts from the lander when the probe passed by that would eventually be relayed to Earth.
Lastly, there was another proposed mission, TANDEM, that, initially, was planned to study both Titan and Enceladus (hence the name). However, it morphed into primarily a Titan mission with maybe some flybys of Enceladus. The coolest thing about the mission was its proposed nuclear powered Montgolfiere that would float over Titan's surface! The proposal was dropped in 2009 when a (much less expensive) Jupiter/Europa mission was chosen as the primary effort.
Link to Enceladus Study Final Report (thanks TildalWave):
www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/Enceladus_Public_Report.pdf
ESA/NASA proposed TANDEM mission:
http://sci.esa.int/tandem-tssm/44033-tssm-nasa-esa-joint-summary-report/
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$\begingroup$ @uhoh, I stated that as that is the value I remember. However, I now remember that the units were Km/sec, not Km/hr (I fixed my answer). The orbital calculations were made by someone else. However, I had to work out how we could slow down a lander with a STAR solid rocket motor from that speed. I haven't read the report since 2007, but will look at it to see if the speed I remember is listed. $\endgroup$ – Vince 49 Jan 13 '18 at 7:44
$\begingroup$ @Uhoh, I looked over the report. I used to have a memory, I just don't remember where I left it. You are correct. For the orbit I described, the relative speed is about 4 km/sec. The 7 km/sec was for a single flyby (see page 2-34). $\endgroup$ – Vince 49 Jan 13 '18 at 8:01
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I recently started switching my network gear to Ubiquiti and as part of that I needed to run their Unifi software. I started by running it on my raspberry pi, and recently migrated to their cloud key solution.
I started out by setting up the Unifi software on the PI using their apt repositories and everything worked. Then one update broke the web interface. On a resource constrained Raspberry Pi it ran out of memory during startup. My network gear still worked but I could no longer manage it. I followed a few forum posts suggesting moving to java 8 would help. It did not for me. Others suggested that moving to Oracle's java 8 was the solution. It came at rather hefty dependency price. So I opted for buying a cloud key and try to use that instead.
Forum posts suggested the migration would be easy, but they all assumed the old software was running fine. I did not have that luxury. I had set up my original Unifi to do backups, so I took one of those backups. I then shut down the Unifi service running on the Pi. I had to forcefully kill the java process but die it did. I then booted the cloud key. I had assigned it a fixed IP on my DHCP server so it came up at a known location. From there it was a matter of clicking the 'manage' link and upload the backup file. It took a few moments and then we were back in business. The UI was working, the other network gear showed up and it all seems to work really well. It is not often it is this easy. I had set aside a few hours for this work, and it took all up less than half an hour. I am very pleased with Ubiquiti and I am sure to continue to replace my network gear with their stuff as the need arises.


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The recently issued 2018 proposed rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act's Quality Payment Program includes a threshold increase that would lessen Merit-based Incentive Payment reporting requirements for small and rural practices, according to Justin Barnes, board advisor at iHealth Innovations.
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With the Face of a Tyrant Before Their Eyes
LA SCALA this past week has been like the Kremlin during the putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev. For days on end, no-one knew who was in charge or what was going on. The only certainty was that the world would never be the same again.
Riccardo Muti
A coup of operatic proportions frees La Scala from the tyrant's grip
NORMAN LEBRECHT [The Scotsman, 28 Mar 05]
Riccardo Muti is gone from La Scala, that much is clear. Omnipotent for 19 years, the music director walked out when the opera company rose up against his ousting of an internally popular sovrintendente (general manager), Carlo Fontana, and his replacement by the more pliant Mauro Meli. Muti, affronted, declared that he could no longer make music in "the atmosphere created by the insinuations, the insults and the incomprehension".
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The renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti is so depressed by the crisis at Milan's La Scala theatre that he may give up music altogether, his wife was quoted as saying yesterday. Cristina Mazzavillani told an interviewer: "I really don't know if he still has the will to work."


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Fogel family murderer, Hakim Awad, smiles in court
Last week, we heard for the first time recordings of air-traffic communications during the 9/11 atrocities. The soundtracks include the voice of ringleader Mohammed Atta shortly before he crashed a jet into the World Trade Centre. "We have some planes", Atta says. "Just stay quiet and we'll be OK. We are returning to the airport."
His voice sounds metallic, not human. Indeed, the tape reveals to us more about 9/11 than thousands of books and articles written on the attacks. It's the same voice recorded in a video discovered in 2006 in Afghanistan: Atta is smiling, joking and laughing to the camera.
Last week, an Israeli court sentenced Hakim Awad to five life sentences for the murder of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar. Ruth Fogel was in the bathroom when Awad killed her husband Udi and their three-month-old daughter Hadas, slitting their throats as they lay in bed. Awad slaughtered Ruth as she came out of the bathroom. Then he moved into a bedroom where Ruth and Udi's sons Yoav (11) and Elad (4) were sleeping. He then slit their throats.
In court, Awad always smiled at the camera, just like Atta did. Awad said he has "no regrets" and flashed the "V" sign for victory while he was leaving the courthouse. "I am a person like you, I have no mental condition, I never had a serious illness," Awad said to the judges. His smile was sincere.
The Fogels' massacre in Itamar, where two Palestinians murdered babies as deliberately and unabashedly as very few other than the Nazis and Khmer Rouge ever had, has not been deciphered by our writers and intellectuals. It's because we have been told that "they hate us" is the language of xenophobes, the illiberal, the intolerant; that genocidal anti-Semitism was buried in the ashes of Auschwitz; that we have to be polite, sanitized and self-critical.
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A seductive combination of post-colonial white guilt mixed with liberal condescension has dulled our moral senses and made us blind to Awad's smile; a smirk that conveys unleashed hatred, contempt, physical aggression, the desire to expel, to destroy, and to eliminate the Jews.
Just like the 9/11 tape, Awad's smile tells us about the obscene level of current-day anti-Jewish hatred – comparable to the worst days of the Nazis in the early 1930s – more than all the shelves of books written on the Middle East.
Awad resembles other "smiling assassins." For example, the mastermind of the Bali terrorist attacks, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, who has been called "the laughing bomber." In 2005, a video footage was released of the Beslan school siege, showing the terrorist leader laughing as hundreds of pupils, their families and teachers were herded at gunpoint into the school gym rigged with explosives.
Fogel family funeral
It's also the smile of Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief in southeastern France from 1942 to 1944, who laughed all the time when the Jewish victims described the torture at court in 1997. In 2007, a photo album containing 116 rare photographs of senior Nazi officials at the Auschwitz concentration camp was made public by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Josef Mengele, the camp doctor notorious for his medical experiments, is smiling while the gas chambers are operating in Birkenau.
Germany perpetrated the Holocaust not because it had the means to do so, but because its leaders engendered the will to do so. This totalitarian, robotic willingness also lies in Hakim Awad's smile.
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Brilliant analysis, spot on. These murderers are driven by hatred and are so consumed with hatred and the propaganda of thier evil leaders that they brutally murder without remorse or mercy. They have neither shame nor guilt and should duly be executed by Israel and not allowed to live in Israeli jails at cost to the Israelis. The UN, EU, etc should take note and stop interfering in Israel. Israel should have carte blanche to defend her citizens with strident force against those who hate. That is the only way to bring peace,not giving up territory and living with indefensible borders.
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Outstanding analysis and commentary. Strange how the Guardian manages to overlook this important trial. If it doesn't fit their world view (GWV), it never happened, as far as they are concerned.
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It tells us even more about sociopathy, evidenced in this case by obscene Jew-hatred.
Remember the numerous articles about Ezra Nawi, who was on trial for assaulting a police officer, and world wide protests to "save" him from the cruelty of Israeli justice?
But for this mass murderer, not a peep out of them.
Makabit says:
Excellent piece, but I would argue with the use of 'robotic' in the last paragraph. Human behavior seems robotic when circumstances push people to do things they know are disturbing and wrong.
This man doesn't know that. He knows he's a hero to people at home, he has no reason to second-guess anything he's done. There is no conflict between his crime and his sense of social obligation. He's not a sociopath. He's functioning perfectly normally–according to the environment he was raised in.
And that is much, much scarier than if he were an affectless robot.
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I think you are absolutely wrong. To do what he did this creep is a sociopath – sociopaths are around four percent of any human population, and there is no reason not to believe that he is one of them. Yes, they think of us as Untermenschen, not really human, but even for them it takes a particular psychology to murder a baby and other small children.
It is not like being a soldier, fighting other men in groups, nor is it like being a suicide bomber where a person can be brainwashed into doing something so evil. Most Moslems, even as vile and hateful as they can be towards us, could not have done this, anymore than you or I could have.
They may try to believe that we are not human, but it behoves us to remember that they are. God told Miriam to stop singing as the Egyptian soldiers drowned because they were His children just as the Israelites were, so are the Arabs and the Nazis as well. In a way, it makes their crimes so much worse because they have the choice not to commit them.
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To justify in any way the deliberate murder of innocents, and especially the deliberate murder of children, and especially the deliberate murder of children in deliberately foul ways, requires that the crimes imputed to their parents must be a great abomination. The terror bombs of the Irgun followed the Holocaust. The terror bombs of the Palestinians followed their desire to repeat it.
The moral gap is vast.
I agree with this completely. The Arabs, like the Nazis, have chosen, with great deliberation, evil. That is what free will is about. They are destroying themselves and their children. They can cause us the most devastating pain, intense anger, appalling horror, and they do, and they do it on purpose. But they cannot destroy us as people, or as a people.
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In case you have not noticed, change has come upon the WWE. For years everyone has said, that the company was the land of the giants, indy guys would never make it, and legends who felt they were done wrong would never return. But there have been so many things that has transpired in the WWE, that makes you look twice. Is this the same company we grew up watching? Here are 7 things that you never thought you would see in the WWE, 7 years ago.
Bruno Sammartino in the Hall of Fame
Bruno Sammartino is a legend. He is the longest reigning WWE Champion in history. Just like Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, it is a record that many feel will never be broken. After Bruno left the WWE, he and Vince McMahon had a disagreement, and Bruno was not a fan of what the WWE had become. He wanted nothing to do with the company. But in 2013, that all changed. After a conversation with Triple H, Bruno was convinced of the direction that the WWE was heading in and he welcomed the honor of being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Ultimate Warrior in the Hall of Fame
Like Bruno, the Ultimate Warrior was also a legend. He was the first man to defeat Hulk Hogan clean at WrestleMania. Warrior had many disagreements with the WWE throughout his time there, but after 1996, he never wrestled for the company again. In 2005, WWE released a DVD titled, The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. On this DVD, everything that everyone had to say was negative. They discussed some of his antics that went on backstage even going as far as saying that he was not a good worker. Who in the world would be able to convince Warrior to come back after this? One person, Linda McMahon, the two had a special bond that only the two of them understand. Warrior was inducted in the 2014 Hall of Fame. Thankfully this relationship was repaired. Warrior tragically died three days after his induction.
Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels hug in a WWE ring.
The year, 1997; the event, Survivor Series; the location, Montreal Canada. On this night, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels faced each other for the very last time. Bret was champion, but was leaving for WCW, Shawn was the guy Vince wanted to win the title. Bret did not want to drop the title (chances are if you are reading, you know the story). After losing the title, Bret spit in the face of Vince McMahon, and backstage he and Shawn argued backstage and Shawn swore he had nothing to do with it. The two had their issues that began after Bret put Shawn over at WrestleMania XII and Shawn did not return the favor at WrestleMania XIII. Everyone believes he faked a knee injury. In January 2010, everything changed and the two had embraced in a hug in the middle of the ring.
3 Guys under 220 pounds as Face of the Company
WWE has always been the land of the giants. When Bret Hart became champion in 1992, he became the pioneer for the smaller guys. After the Bret and Shawn, the face of the company was always someone over 250 pounds or more. But in 2011, CM Punk dropped a pipe bomb that changed his career, and helped advance the company. Punk held the title for 434 days, and proved that "smaller guys" could make it. Daniel Bryan lead the revolutionary YES Movement. And after Brock Lesnar held the title for 6 1/2 months, the new face of the company is Seth Rollins. Before, promoters would tell guys, WWE does not want smaller guys, but can they really say that now?
Women's Wrestling Solidified
If you are a fan of women's wrestling, the WWE women's division has been frustrating for awhile. You look at the independent circuit and see companies such as Shimmer, WSU, and Shine, and you are treated with some of the best wrestling. When you watch TNA, their Knockouts division found a way to show a good mix of the women's good looks and wrestling skills. During the mid 2000s, it was all about the Diva and Diva search. The wrestling was secondary. In 2011, Awesome Kong made her WWE debut as Kharma, and everyone knew that the division would be solidified. But she got pregnant shortly after signing. After losing her baby tragically, it was reported that she was not psychologically ready for the WWE lifestyle. Since the evolvement of NXT, women's wrestling has been looked at in an entirely different light. Fans are seeing some of their favorites such as Paige, Charlotte and Sasha Banks, who are wrestlers first, good looking women second. Because of this, the women on the main roster are taking things to the next level. We saw Trish Stratus and Lita main event raw. It will be a manner of time before we see two more divas do the same.
Sting in WWE
He was the face of WCW. When Vince McMahon purchased WCW in 2001, Sting was the one guy who everyone wanted to see. Sting feared how he would by the company. The last thing he wanted was to be overlooked and buried. Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair have gone on record saying that they always told Sting he needed to work with McMahon. Sting returned to wrestling in 2006, but it was in TNA. He won championships there, but wrestling fans were not satisfied. They wanted him in a WWE ring. In 2014, he did not renew his contract with TNA, and fans began to plead that if it is not too late, could we get one night of Sting in a WWE ring. At the Survivor Series, the lights went out just as Seth Rollins and Triple H were about steal a victory. The music came on and out came the vigilante. Sting appeared and confronted Triple H. After taking out the C.O.O, Sting helped Ziggler get the victory that would eliminate The Authority. This led to Triple H and Sting at WrestleMania 31. Yes, Sting at WrestleMania.
Samoa Joe in WWE… as Samoa Joe
Yes he is Samoa Joe! Seth Rollins, Cesaro, and Daniel Bryan are examples of guys who dominated the Independent circuit and wrestled all over the world, but when they came to WWE, there name was changed. There is no Tyler Black, Claudio Castagnoli, or Brian Danielson headlining WWE PPVs. But on NXT Takeover Unstoppable, after the main event between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn (formerly Kevin Steen and El Generico) Samoa Joe showed up, and he had a t-shirt that said "Samoa Joe!" It even had a NXT logo on it. That right there solidified the fact that he would be the guy who wrestling fans love! What is going on in WWE, one of our favorites gets to keep his name!
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Robert Logan, Professor of the Organisation of Medical Care at the School from 1967 until 1982, has died peacefully on Friday 2 September, at the age of 99.
Professor Logan (known to all his friends and colleagues as Bob) was a pioneer in research and teaching in the field of Health Services Research in the 1960s, winning widespread recognition for studies on hospital admission rates and lengths of stay, originally conducted in Liverpool. He participated in one of the earliest international studies of health care covering North and South America, and Western and Eastern Europe, followed by a second major international study; both proved highly influential.
Born in Bangor, Northern Ireland, in 1917, Bob gained his medical degrees at Queens University, Belfast. During World War Two, he undertook his residency in Salford Royal Hospital and from 1942 served as a Troopship Medical Officer as Surgeon Lieutenant Commander, and organised health control of merchant seamen at their Liverpool base.
After the war, he won a Nuffield Fellowship in Industrial Medicine, and was Visiting Fellow at the MRC's Social Medicine Research Unit in London. In 1950, he moved to the University of Manchester as Lecturer in Industrial Medicine. He was appointed Reader in Social Medicine in 1954 and Director of the Medical Care Research Unit in 1962. Here over a 5-year period he conducted pioneering research on variations in hospital admission rates and lengths of stay. The NHS Hospital Plan had identified the need for district hospitals serving populations of around 250,000, and had proposed a target of 3.3 acute beds per 1000. The critical question was how many beds should such a hospital have?
In the Liverpool region the figure at the time was unusually high at 5.6 beds per 1000, and Logan was invited by the Regional Board, the Ministry of Health and Nuffield to investigate. The study involved the analysis of trends and variations in administrative statistics on beds, staffing levels, admission rates and lengths of stay for hospitals within the region, with other NHS regions, and with comparable areas in Sweden and the USA. These were supplemented with a range of methodologically innovative studies: community surveys of symptom severity and demand for elective surgery; interviews with consultants about clinical policies; surveys of long-stay patients, the relationship between length of stay and social class; surgical volume, efficiency and costs, and studies of the accuracy of hospital statistics and the labelling of hospital beds.
Bob was also dedicated to innovative teaching and curriculum development. One of his first achievements at the School was, with Professor Jerry Morris, to develop the new MSc in Social Medicine, in partnership with LSE. The course appointed joint staff, including Jenny Roberts, and Bob drew on his extensive research networks to devise a coordinated programme examining district-level services in eight European countries. This provided the core of the European Collaborative Health Services Studies, which for many years was the principal research activity of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).
Despite officially retiring in 1982, Bob has continued to be in great demand for advice on public health training and organization all over the world. Among many other honours, he was awarded a Centenary Honorary Fellowship of the School in 1999. He was a devoted teacher and long after his retirement, was a mentor and confidant to a loyal and extensive international network of alumni. Bob will be much missed, and our condolences and best wishes are with his family.
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Three years ago, a scientific study claimed that storms named Debby are predisposed to kill more people than storms named Don. The study alleged that people don't take female-named storms as seriously. Numerous analyses have since found that this conclusion has little merit.
When the study came out, I reported on it, and it generated tremendous interest. Because of the Internet and the tendency for interesting articles to continue circulating years later, the 2014 story is still being read by thousands of readers — even though its key results have largely been debunked. It's past time to set the record straight on this.
The premise of the study was that female-named storms are deadlier because of "implicit sexism" — that is, we make decisions about storms based on the gender of their names without even knowing it. The study produced data showing that the most damaging hurricanes with female names killed substantially more people than storms with male names.
In addition to the formal rebuttals published by the journal, Gary Smith, a professor of economics at Pomona College, wrote a critique on his blog, in which he described "several compelling reasons" to be skeptical about the study results. He concluded: "The study's assertion that female-named storms are deadlier than male-named storms is not robust, evidently because it relied on the questionable statistical analysis of a narrowly defined set of data, including data from years when all hurricanes had female names." The blog critique was subsequently expanded in an article published in the journal Weather and Climate Extremes in June 2016.


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Q: How can I pass parameters to gcc in Rust with Cargo? I'm trying to build rust-sfml with cargo, but my gcc fails to find required libraries.
I want to solve this by passing -L options to gcc, but I can't find any convenient way for doing it.
Is there any possible simple solutions except using a build script?
$ cargo run
   Compiling sfml v0.9.3 (https://github.com/jeremyletang/rust-sfml#358f076a)
error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: "gcc" "-Wl,--enable-long-section-names" "-fno-use-linker-plugin" "-Wl,--nxcompat" "-static-libgcc" "-m64" "-L" "C:\Program Files\Rust stable 1.1\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-o" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\target\debug\deps\sfml-4cd3c268d09fd120.dll" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\target\debug\deps\sfml-4cd3c268d09fd120.o" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\target\debug\deps\sfml-4cd3c268d09fd120.metadata.o" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\target\debug\deps\libbitflags-ab4a647a363172d8.rlib" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\target\debug\deps\liblibc-2eda841eb12a3090.rlib" "-L" "C:\Program Files\Rust stable 1.1\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-lstd-7d23ff90" "-L" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\target\debug\deps" "-L" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\target\debug\deps" "-L" "C:\Program Files\Rust stable 1.1\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-L" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\.rust\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-L" "D:\Programming\Rust\test_proj\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-Wl,--whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,--no-whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lcsfml-system" "-lcsfml-window" "-lcsfml-audio" "-lcsfml-graphics" "-lcsfml-network" "-lws2_32" "-luserenv" "-shared" "-lcompiler-rt"
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ld: cannot find -lcsfml-audio
ld: cannot find -lcsfml-graphics
ld: cannot find -lcsfml-network

A: You have probably have to install the SFML C libraries before trying to compile the Rust bindings. rust-sfml is only the Rust binding, it does not install SFML itself.

A: Set an environment variable LIBRARY_PATH which contains the directory you're trying to reference.


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I know it's been a while, but I'm finally going to wrap up this little series, I think. This last article I want to write is about reality. It's a crazy thing to me that this even needs to be discussed, but I've found that in the real world, people simply can't agree on what is "real" and "true." This is a big part of the postmodern era in which we live.
One phrase or idea I have heard countless times in college from my freshman year roommate, classmates and teachers is that everyone has their own reality. What's real for me might not be real for you, and what's true for me might not be true for you. If you think I'm kidding, I'm not. People teach this, they live for this belief. Relative truth and relative reality is a very serious part of what we face in the real world. It may seem crazy to us that someone would really go along with such an absurd idea. After all, how can there be two realities, or two truths? We know to reject this idea because we believe in the sovereignty of God alone, and we know His truth and His reality to be the only ones to follow.
People teach that while abortion might be wrong for me, it's not wrong for everyone, that gay marriage might be wrong for me, but it isn't wrong for everyone. They even say that the belief of creation might be true for me, but evolution is true for other people.
I found one very logical way to combat this with my freshman year roommate. We lived on the ground floor, and shortly before moving out we were having another of our classic "Christianity versus Wicca" debates. She told me that she admired how strongly I held to my beliefs, and that she could tell that they were truth and reality for me. I told her that it's not just truth for me, but for everyone, whether they agree with me or not. She kind of shrugged that off, probably not wanting to get into it. I looked out the window of our first floor dorm room and asked her what she saw outside. She responded that she saw a tree. So, I asked her how she thought that tree got there. She told me that she believed that over millions and millions of years, that tree (not that literal tree of course) evolved from a single cell into the species of tree, and eventually through that process the tree she saw outside came to be. I then told her that I believed that about 6,000 years ago, God spoke, and a tree appeared, and by each tree bearing its own fruit, and God's continued, spoken word, that tree got to be where it was that day. She smiled as if the thought was nice, until I asked her to confirm that we were talking about the same tree. Her face dropped and she said yes. I asked her to confirm that we were living in the same universe, the same dimension, if you will. She, again, said yes. I told her then that tree only got to be there one way. It can't have two beginnings. I told her that one of us is wrong.
I know I'm not wrong. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm not wrong about how that tree came into existence. To be fair, my roommate thinks she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt too. This is the level of deceit Satan plays on the world around us. He tricks them into believing ridiculous things like everyone having their own reality. This is a scary thought!
This is, obviously, about much more than a tree. It's about the world we live in as a whole, and the morality and ethics that surround us. Morality is not something that changes from person to person, but something that is constant, based on God's Word alone. Each person does not decide for themselves what is real or what is true, but there is only one Truth and one Reality, based on the one God.
Amidst this craziness in the world, like in all things, we put our trust in God. No matter the scoffing, the mockery or the ridicule, we stick to our guns and remember that we know how the world came to be. We know what right and wrong is, no matter the hypocrisy of the world. We will not be tossed about with every wave of doctrine (Eph. 4:14). We know our Creator; we have very clear words from him on how our world came to be, how we are to live, and what is true and real for us in this world. There is no deciding for ourselves or making it up as we go. There is only following His law for us, and trusting in His Word.