Explore Sweden's charming second city, Gothenburg, before striking out on a road trip along the wild and woolly West Coast where you can feast on Bohuslän's (the region in question) Big Five - the shellfish dream team of lobster, langoustine, prawns, mussels and oysters.
Head to the airport for your mid-afternoon flight to Gothenburg.
The flight is usually two hours and when you arrive we have arranged for you to take a cab for the 20 minute drive in to the city centre.
Gothenburg is having something of a moment (in a good way) and the influx of young creative types to Sweden's second city has seen the arrival of several new hotels to supplement the already excellent boutique hotel scene. We work with a selection of the very best and can suggest which would work best for you.
You'll most likely have arrived in time for supper, and our detailed Dossier of the best places to eat, drink and shop in Gothenburg will come in to its own now. The restaurant scene is buzzing, so you may be spoilt for choice.
Central Gothenburg is pretty compact so it's fairly walkable, but it's also pretty flat, so we'd recommend borrowing bikes from your hotel to explore the city more easily.
This isn't somewhere with a bewildering number of must-see sights, more a place that's enjoying a real resurgence and self-confidence that just makes it a very civilised place to visit.
Again, our Definitive Dossier details the places and shops to visit, and the things to do, but chief among them will be making like a local and enjoying a fika - a coffee break with added cake (or something else sweet), and an excellent excuse for the locals to catch up on gossip. Gothenburg is known as the coffee drinking capital of Europe so there are literally hundreds of fika cafes to choose from, but we can point you in the right direction. We also know the best restaurants in town in which to enjoy a delicious lunch and supper. This city (and this trip, for that matter) is perfect for lovers of seafood, and shellfish in particular, and we'll let you know where best to enjoy the freshest and most flavoursome.
Come evening you can see why Gothenburg's nightlife scene is up there with its foodie one. There are a couple of rooftop bars and speakeasy style bars that might well be among the hippest you've ever visited. On the subject of hip, there is a high hipster quotient in the city as well, thanks to a mini migration of talented young types from the capital Stockholm, which has given rise to the city's rebirth.
After breakfast (and, perhaps, a coffee) we have arranged for you to pick up your hire car from a convenient downtown location. From there you'll hit the road headed north, to explore the islands and inlets of Sweden's beautiful West Coast.
The first part of the journey is inland but soon the E6 leans towards the coastline and you begin to see the low lying rocky formations and colourful clapboard houses that make this region - known as Bohuslän - so quintessentially Swedish. After between an hour and an hour and a half, depending on which hotel you stay at, you have reached your destination - a rural retreat far removed from the bright lights of Gothenburg.
Enjoy a delicious lunch of local seafood, and then this afternoon we have arranged a half day kayaking safari along the beautiful coastline. If you've never been kayaking we can arrange a lesson, but it's a super easy sport to pick up so in all likelihood you'll be paddling off in no time. Paddle through protected channels, moor up to explore uninhabited islands and generally get away from it all in a beautiful place. For a more cultural afternoon, visit the Nordic Watercolour Museum, set in a lovely glass-fronted space on the waterfront in Skarhamn.
This evening you can enjoy dinner at the hotel or we can make a reservation at one of the accredited and award-winning local restaurants listed in our Dossier.
This morning it's time to sing for your supper or, more accurately, lug for your lunch.
After breakfast make your way to the pretty harbour town of Lyckorna where you will join local fishermen on board their boat for a trip out to their mussel farms in the sheltered waters of the sea fjord.
Once at the farm the crane on board the boat hauls the mollusc-covered chains up above the water and you help to harvest the thousands of juicy blue mussels. Once your ocean bounty is aboard, the skipper turns the nose around and heads for home. Depending on timing/weather, the fishermen will either cook the mussels there and then on board, or at a local beach, or back at their seafood specialising restaurant in Lyckorna. Eating perfectly cooked, perfectly fresh mussels gathered by your own hand has to be one of the most satisfying lunches imaginable.
After your bivalve overdose, you're going to be on the road again, albeit a short hop of less than an hour to Fjallbacka. This pretty little fishing community will be your base for the next two nights, and this afternoon you should take time to wander around the village where glamorous Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman used to bring her family for summer holidays. For those with a penchant for Nordic Noir literature, Fjallbacka is also the setting for Camilla Lackberg's murder mystery novels. Thanks to the long hours of daylight in summer, you can enjoy walking, swimming or kayaking late in to the evening before a(nother) seafood splurge at a recommended restaurant in the harbour.
Today you should sample some island life on a day trip to the Koster Islands, the beautiful islands up near the Norwegian border.
Drive 45 minutes north to the port town of Stromstad to catch the ferry, which takes under an hour.
The car-free archipelago is a lovely place to walk, and there are a number of well-marked trails on the main islands of North and South Koster. We recommend staying on the ferry to South Koster because there is a better choice of walking trails, ranging from a couple of miles to four miles and all taking in the coastline (there are some good spots for a quick dip) as well as fishing harbours and ancient forests. We will recommend the best trail for you. In the afternoon you can take the ferry back to the mainland and return back to Fjallbacka. Depending on the exact time of year you are here, you can then enjoy a final seafood fling of crayfish, mussels, oysters, prawns or - from the first Monday after the 20th September every year - outstandingly fresh lobsters.
There are some decent late evening flights back from Gothenburg to the UK so you can make the most of today.
There's the chance to do some more kayaking, cycling, walking or seafood safari activities this morning, before enjoying a last lazy lunch in Fjallbacka.
After lunch, it's the final leg of the road trip back south towards Gothenburg, but not before you visit the UNESCO World Heritage site of Tanum, half an hour's drive away. The centrepiece of this region is Vitlycke, home to extraordinary late Bronze Age (so some 4,000 year old) rock carvings. The main panel features nearly 500 figures and symbols, but you can also walk along well-marked trails to other rock faces. Once you've explored the extraordinary site, and visited the museum, then it's a gentle two hour drive back south to Gothenburg Airport, where you can drop the rental car and check in for your two hour flight, which is likely to land back in to the UK in the late evening.


Comrades, I have good news and bad news to report. Tragically, Comrade Castro of Cuba recently laid off half a million state workers, mistakenly believing that the Wondrous Cuban State could no longer afford to keep them on the Payroll of the People. These noble comrades certainly would starve without the aid of the State, as would we all. But all is not lost! Comrade Obama, who understands the relationship between the Powerful Provider State and the Helpless Citizen Peasant better than Comrade Castro does, gloriously hired all 500,000 workers in an attempt to increase the size the the U.S.(S.R.) payroll to acceptable levels.


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Q: How to read out a #define macro in C? I am unexperienced in C and have a question.
I wanted to ask how to read the hexadecimal numbers out and get into an array
#define configMAC_ADDR                \
{                                      \
    0x02, 0x12, 0x13, 0x10, 0x15, 0x11  \
}

A: The macro is the same as writing { 0x02, 0x12, 0x13, 0x10, 0x15, 0x11 }. So where you would have normally written that initializer list in your source code, write configMAC_ADDR instead. It's just text replacement in this case.

The \ symbol can appear anywhere in C code and means source code line break. You can use it to break up a long line of code into several and have the compiler treat them as a single line still, so it is commonly used for macros. Without it you'd have to write the macro as:
#define configMAC_ADDR { 0x02, 0x12, 0x13, 0x10, 0x15, 0x11 }

Which is 100% equivalent but in some cases less readable.

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Well, it has been awhile since I last sat down to post. Let's just say I had to take "a little bloggy break". I think it was Father's day that had me all in knots. There were so many things I thought of posting and then I just couldn't.
You know it has been hard moving on…but we are doing it. We are doing it with his spirit always by our side.
Over the past 15 years I have been privileged enough to live with a boy I call my son, Stephen. Stephen is a giver. He is worker. He is a doer. He is smart. He is gentle. He is kind.
Stephen is always fixing things.
He is always helping, always pleasing.
It has always been the same, since the time Stephen was a just a little guy he would jump right in there and work… side by side anyone who would allow him too.
With his green sippy cup tossed to the side, even at two years old, Stephen has always been eager to learn, to study, to help.
With his greatest teacher by his side……He learned.
Now it seems he has the patients that has been past on to him from his teacher. While his little sister takes any opportunity to sit by his side Stephen patiently allows her to help…and he teaches, he waits, he helps, and then like he was taught… he does.
If "it" is broken Stephen will fix it. If you need help Stephen sees it. Somehow, he just knows. Standing over 6 feet 4 and still growing, this son of my mine, with the heart of a lion is truly a wonder.
Oh! My Gosh! It is June 11th already and I haven't even finished telling you all about April.
I am always amazed how quickly the time just goes by.
With each passing month I wonder…Should I write about the things that happened months ago? Should I change the name of this blog to "Just Trying to Keep Up" or should I just keep looking forward and only post about what happened today?
Sometimes I just can't help but to look back. Even though, where we are going is good….Where we have been has been great.
I want to share all those things with you and I really want to remember what happened in April. It was a nice month and then of course it went into May and then June with more celebrations and birthdays to come and time just goes by.
April brought another trip to the Biltmore.
This time there were no kids. Just Me, Mom, Karen and Karen's Dearest Friend Pam…..Who is turning out to be on of those family friends we all consider to be family. She has been with Karen through thick and thin and now we just don't remember the time she wasn't there.
The Flowers were just beautiful in the gardens that day. As we talked about what this was or that, we meet Steve the gardener. He gave us clippings and told us how to transplant them.
Oh! Geee! Did I say that out loud?
That day, as time went by, we strolled through the grounds of the Biltmore, we laughed, we talked, we ate and we just had a very nice day.
Aunt Ann came down with two of her daughters and granddaughter Mary Kate. There was more talking, songs were shared and the sisters laughed until they cried.
And time…. just went by.
We celebrated Auntie and Jim's wedding again. The timing just seemed right.
Matthew took a childhood friend to her Prom and you know…..I don't have one picture to mark the occasion.
Some how my camera disappeared.
That same weekend, my boys finished another successful year of debate…….and again no pictures.
Mary Elizabeth's "bestest dearest friend" ((as she says)) came to play…or was that in May?
Time goes by so quickly it is hard to remember.
Alexander won big! He was the tennis champion in his league.
And to think…….Time moves so quickly this bit of news almost slipped right by.
After picking him up from Anatomy Class we went to his favorite restaurant with Nana, James and all the family.
And the time just went by.
There were bike races that night in down town Spartanburg and the streets were filled with excitement.
That night, as we listened to Jazz bands play in the streets we felt time slip gently by and it all just seems right.


This Workshop is part of regional training organised through the European Union (EU) funded project to strengthen the capacity of Employer Organizations within the Caribbean Employers' Confederation (CEC) to play a greater role in regional policy making.
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Q: create a python sequence of 1-D array_like in C++ I'm trying to embed Python in my C++ code.
Now what I'm trying to do is use the function scipy.stats.anderson_ksamp that takes as input a "sequence of 1-D array_like".
the thing is that in Python one would call the function in this simple way:
from scipy import stats

# two example np-arrays
samp1 = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0])
samp2 = np.array([0,5,6,7,3,9,2,7,1,7])
ander_out1, ander_out2, ander_out3 = stats.anderson_ksamp([samp1, samp2])
print("Anderson statistic: %s, critical values: %s, significance level: %s"% (ander_out1, ander_out2, ander_out3))

In C++ instead I call this function in this way:
#include <Python.h>
#include <numpy/arrayobject.h>

std::vector<int> sample1 = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0};
std::vector<int> sample2 = {0,5,6,7,3,9,2,7,1,7};

Py_Initialize();

import_array();

npy_intp dim1[] = {(npy_intp)sample1.size()};
PyObject* np_array1 = PyArray_SimpleNewFromData(1, dim1, NPY_INT, &sample1[0]);
npy_intp dim2[] = {(npy_intp)sample2.size()};
PyObject* np_array2 = PyArray_SimpleNewFromData(1, dim2, NPY_INT, &sample2[0]);

pModule2 = PyImport_ImportModule("scipy.stats");
if (pModule2 != NULL) {

    pValue3 = PyObject_CallMethod(pModule2, "anderson_ksamp", "O", /*HERE GOES THE 1-D SEQUENCE*/);
    if (pValue3 != NULL) {
        Py_ssize_t pValue3Size = PyTuple_Size(pValue3); // size of the tuple
        printf("Anderson tuple: (");
        for (Py_ssize_t j = 0; j < pValue3Size; j++) {
            pElem3 = PyTuple_GetItem(pValue3, j); // getting item j of tuple
            printf("%f", PyFloat_AsDouble(pElem3)); // printing item j
            if (j!=pValue3Size-1) {
                printf(", ");
            }
        }
        printf(")\n");
    } else {
        printf("Call to anderson_ksamp failed.\n");
        PyErr_Print();
    }
}

What I miss is how to "merge" the two vectors sample1 and sample2 in order to make a Python object that resembles the Python statement [samp1, samp2].
I tried to create a 2-D vector in C++
std::vector<std::vector<int>> sample3 = {{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0}, {0,5,6,7,3,9,2,7,1,7}};

and then use
npy_intp dim3[] = {10, 2};
PyObject* both_np_arrays = PyArray_SimpleNewFromData(2, dim3, NPY_INT, &sample3);

in order to create the object I need. But the object I get is something like this:
array([[ 8003984,        1],
       [ 8004032,        1],
       [ 8004032,        1],
       [50571184,        1],
       [50411920,        1],
       [       0,        0],
       [       0,        0],
       [       0,        0],
       [       0,        0],
       [       0,        0]], dtype=int32)

That is definitely not what I want.
I've also tried to do it this way:
int sample3[10][2] = {{1,0}, {2,5}, {3,6}, {4,7}, {5,3}, {6,9}, {7,2}, {8,7}, {9,1}, {0,7}};
npy_intp dim3[] = {10, 2};
PyObject* both_np_arrays = PyArray_SimpleNewFromData(2, dim3, NPY_INT, &sample3);

but the result is this:
array([[1, 0],
       [2, 5],
       [3, 6],
       [4, 7],
       [5, 3],
       [6, 9],
       [7, 2],
       [8, 7],
       [9, 1],
       [0, 7]], dtype=int32)

so, again, not what I need.
I think that to use the function properly I'd need to obtain something like this:
array([[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0],
       [0, 5, 6, 7, 3, 9, 2, 7, 1, 7]], dtype=int32)

How can I do it?


Join us for this free, public event. Participants will wind their way through the history of Western storytelling and Minneapolis Central Library's holdings in search of the literary missing girl. Registration requested.
Why talk about missing girls? Once you know to look for her, you'll find her everywhere. The girl whose absence (through disappearance, death) serves as the catalyst for the protagonist's journey into the underbelly of reality. The girl whose outline serves as boundary for the stories of everyone she's left behind. She's Eurydice, whose death draws Orpheus to the underground. She's the murder victim in the opening of the Law & Order: SVU episode whose death becomes a journey for police officers, family members, politicians -- everyone but her. She's Fox Mulder's little sister and she's Gone Girl. The missing girl's story is virtually never told. She's just the instigating event. She's the rabbit hole, the trailhead, the moment of truth for somebody else.
What does it mean for a literary or narrative tradition to be built on the disposability of women? What does this tell us about women's worth, their perspectives, their bodies? And how often, when a woman walks onto a page or onto the screen, do we wonder how soon she'll be gone?
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Greenwood's mayor is seeking help from state Sen. Jake Files to secure funding for street improvements.
"I've been hitting him up the last three or four months about some money to help us out with the streets," Mayor Del Gabbard said. "I don't know what the outcome will be, but I'll know Wednesday."
Gabbard and Files, R-Fort Smith, will meet with the Greenwood City Council for a study session at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall.
"We're just going to go over some different things that I could assist with as far as state funding goes," Files said.
Gabbard said he wants to create a long-range street improvement plan to keep Greenwood from falling further behind.
"We've got quite a bit of money set aside that we're going to use for street upkeep," he said. "But what I'm trying to do is get a 13-year schedule. I think we've got 55 miles of streets here in Greenwood. I had (Street Department Director Joe Manes) go out and drive every street in Greenwood and rate them on a scale of one to 10."
The mayor said he hopes Files can find elusive grant money for cities Greenwood's size.
"As it stands right now, any money that might be out there, the city doesn't qualify for," Gabbard said. "We're too small for the good grants and too big for the mediocre grants."
Greenwood has a population of about 9,000, and is 9.82 square miles according to the U.S. Census Bureau.


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I was at the gym the other day on a treadmill watching reruns of Kourtney and Khloe take on the Hamptons. In one of the episodes, Kim Kardashian was walking her family through her house while under construction. At one point, they stop to look at the digitally created images of the finished rooms posted on the wall. What's interesting is that, within the images, are depictions of Kanye and Kim in each room. Scott, finds it amusing and asks about pics. Kim replies, "Kanye likes it when we're in the pictures."
To some, this may be a sign of Kanye's apparent narcissism, but, there's another way to look at it. Years ago, when Kanye's affections for Kim weren't yet manifested into a relationship, he would photoshop images of himself next to the annual family Christmas Card. Now, mind you, the artist renderings of himself were absolutely dreadful. But, the importance of his action was how it transformed the his intentions from wanting, to actually seeing the possibility of actually experiencing it. The child-like scribble version of himself was actually part of the family. There is a clear difference from wanting something and believing that you will actually have it.
By inserting pictures of himself in the family photo, or in the construction plans, he's increasing his level of believe that this will happen. Once your belief increases, your actions, shift accordingly. Someone who believes in a certain future will behave in a manner that increases the likelihood of that future manifesting.
Think of all the goals you have for yourself. Do you see them as an unreachable fairy tale or do you actually believe that you will experience them in the near future? If you are having a hard time achieving some of your goals, take time to work on your level of belief and see what transpires.
In a previous post, I talked about how much of our days, our lives consists of the outcomes from making the same decisions over and over again. Kanye seems to operate moment by moment. Yes, some of his decisions are downright questionable, but, there's something to be said about being aware of how much power you have to decide your life's course. If you don't like some aspects of your life. Get certain about what you want, then make a decision to make that happen.
Creating what you desire goes beyond drawing pictures of yourself and having an unshakable belief. Once you are clear in what you want, you've gotta be willing to work hard for it. One thing Kanye West, and any other successful artist has in common is their incredible work ethic. In this video, RZA talks about Kanye's regimen which included detailed planning of what was done and what they'll do next. Then he'd put in a full 12 hours of work using "focused energy." How much time and energy your are focusing into realizing your intentions? Maybe you don't have to dedicate 12 hours a day. Even as little as 1 focused hour a day can start you on your journey to an amazing 2015.
I am definitely on board with the Law of Attraction in regards to the future, but to go as far as photoshopping himself into her family Christmas pictures is absolutely weird. It worked for him I guess, but God forbid that woman ever leaves him. I'm sure we'll find him in full meltdown mode.
I loved this post. I practice LOA and totally get what Kanye was doing by photoshopping himself into the xmas card pic. Half the battle is knowing what you want.
Great post! What Kanye was doing, consciously or unconsciously, was the same principle as using a vision board. Its even more powerful when you put yourself in the picture of what you want, because it helps you see yourself there. Neville Goddard taught about this alot in his teachings about visualization, emphasizing visualizing a scene that would happen when you receive what you want, looking through your own eyes as if you were presently there and it was really happening!
Just checking in to see that you received your 2014 Manifestation Breakthrough Kit?
I particularly like the mp3 audio file that comes with it, which puts the Law of Attraction on autopilot to manifest prosperity, abundance and happiness.
The life of your dreams is yours!


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THE INDIANA AFTERMATH AND A CHRISTIAN CALL TO ACTION
April 11, 2015 Stephen Krason	Comments off
The controversy about the Indiana religious liberty statute is a textbook example of the increasing timidity of leading Republican politicians in the face of the homosexualist movement. It is an exposè of how they just can't get past the politics of the moment—which they often poorly analyze—to see the civilizational questions that confront us in these times.
Governor Mike Pence of Indiana quickly stepped back after supporting and signing the law as soon as the crescendo of criticism from the homosexualists and their media allies began and concerns about hurting the Indianapolis tourist trade were raised. After consulting with homosexualist organizations, he pushed through the state legislature a "clarification" of the law that supposedly would insure that it wouldn't be used to "discriminate" against homosexuals. By doing that, the law was essentially gutted and the homosexualist organizations scored a major victory by securing specific protection for sexual "orientation" and "identity" for the first time in Indiana law. In effect, a law that was supposed to be passed to protect persons from legal attacks for refusing to do things like provide services for same-sex "weddings" and the like because of religious and moral objections now potentially opens the door wide for such attacks.
A quick examination of the 3-page original statute—one wishes that Congress would limit itself to bills of such length—shows that it essentially did nothing more than to affirm that a person's religious liberty could not be infringed upon by the state, except when there is a compelling public interest. This essentially has been the standard of American law, even though it was done by statute for most of our history until it was elevated to the level of a constitutionally-mandated test for the validity of governmental action vis-á-vis religion by the Supreme Court in the 1960s. It is also the position of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that applies to federal action. Congress passed RFRA in response to the Court's abandoning of the constitutional test in 1990 (effectively making it a matter for statutory law again). Congress intended that RFRA would apply to state as well as federal action, but the Supreme Court disallowed that on federalism grounds. If the states wanted to employ a compelling public interest standard, they would have to enact it into law. So, we see the current push, especially in the wake of the publicized cases where religious liberty and homosexualism are colliding around the country, for state religious liberty statutes.
There are no absolute rights. Even though religious liberty was a fundamental rights in the understanding of our Founding and enshrined into the First Amendment, one may not do anything and everything in the name of it. For example, the right to religious liberty does not mean that one may engage in human sacrifice as part of some religion. There is clearly a compelling reason for the state to stop murder, mayhem, or genuine social disruption in the name of religion. Even in the relativistic world of the homosexualist movement and the rest of the left, however, it's hard to make the claim that the "need" to facilitate sodomy is on the same plain as these things. Since what they are demanding, at bottom line, is universal approbation—even acclaim—for gross sexual immorality and perversion a compelling public interest standard is an obstacle that must be eliminated, as with the Indiana statute.
Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown law professor and Obama appointee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claims that in almost all cases sexual liberties trump religious liberty. Her view increasingly seems to be the position of the left. As far as she is concerned, the First Amendment was washed away by the sexual revolution. It almost goes without saying that there is no basis for such a position in the American constitutional tradition. Of course, that does not trouble homosexualist advocates like Feldblum who believe, like leftist constitutional scholars and judges generally, that the Constitution is a "living document." So, it can be changed, just like morality, in accordance with and to accommodate one's desires. In truth, it's preposterous to claim that facilitating sodomy is a compelling public interest that overpowers the right to religious liberty. At bottom line, requiring Christians and other unwilling religious believers to take part in same-sex "marriages" means that they are being forced to give social approval to the state's action of officially recognizing immoral sexual activity.
When legal protection against discrimination and the like is accorded to homosexuals what's being done, for all practical purposes, is protecting a behavior. There is no proof that homosexuality is an innate, inborn state or "orientation." In fact, the evidence is increasingly suggesting that same-sex attraction for many is a transitory phenomenon at a certain point in their lives—in some cases prompted by sexual experimentation. The homosexualist movement seeks to suppress such evidence with a vengeance, because it undercuts its ideology and agenda. The protection of behavior is a convolution of the notion of civil rights and anti-discrimination laws, which aim to stop unjust treatment of groups of people either on the grounds of unchangeable characteristics such as race or ethnicity, or because of religious belief pursuant to the historic principle of religious liberty—the very thing that the homosexualist juggernaut is jeopardizing.
Fundamentally, what stands behind the notion of civil rights laws is the securing of human dignity for groups of people who have been denied it. It is hard to make that case to protect a behavior that—in light of the abundant physical, psychological, moral, and spiritual consequences—so undercuts human dignity. To legally mandate that Christians and other believers serve such people in a way that furthers and legitimizes such behavior is the same as telling them that they must help someone to engage in lying or cheating behavior. If there is a civil right to have people accept and even assist in one kind of immoral behavior, why not any other? Isn't it just because this particular behavior has gained the support of the opinion-makers and culture-shapers, whose viewpoint reflects a predominant ideology that flies in the face of reality?
One European Catholic scholar spoke about the deepening totalitarian mindset of the LGBT—homosexualist—movement. One prominent American entertainer, not unsympathetic to their cause, made an objective assessment and termed the movement with its relentless pressure tactics a "gay mafia." Homosexualist activists and organizations are deft at portraying the people they claim to represent as victims while they are really the victimizers, and many politicians and bureaucrats their enablers (some for reasons of ideology and others, like in Indiana, because they lack courage and place a narrow notion of public prosperity above truth). Their victims are people like the elderly florist in Washington State who nasty state officials want to render penniless, the baker in Colorado who was ordered to undergo "sensitivity training" (a less severe version of what used to happen to dissidents in the Soviet insane asylums), the Mozilla co-founder ousted for contributing money to the Proposition 8 campaign, and the pizzeria owner in Indiana who had to temporarily close his business in the face of savage online attacks and threats.
What should Christians and other believers do in the face of this heightening repression? They must go on the offensive—charitably but vigorously—and fight the battle on several levels. When leaders fade into the woodwork—even when the stakes are basic constitutional liberties and civilized norms—the people have no choice but to step up. First, they must persistently speak up about the realities of homosexual behavior, the coming consequences for our culture, and especially the totalitarian mindset and repressiveness of the homosexualist movement. Next, they must constantly let cowering public officials know how they oppose their buckling to pressure and will remember it at the next election. Third, continued and intensified legal resistance is necessary. The organizations providing legal defense are crucial, but others must be formed to take an offensive posture. The lame discrimination complaints by homosexualist organizations against believers in human rights commissions and the pressuring of corporations to dump executives and employees who dissent at all from the homosexualist agenda should should be met consistently with lawsuits for abuse of process and defamation. That would put financial pressure on the well-heeled homosexualist organizations. Fourth, they should organize well-targeted boycotts of companies that buckle under to the homosexualists and well-publicized showings of support for those who won't. The Chick-Fil-A episode of a few years ago showed what's possible in this regard. Weak-kneed, utilitarian-minded corporate leaders might then get the message that religiously-oriented citizens are more of a force to be reckoned with than a small cadre of well-placed homosexual activists. Fifth, it's time for frequent, perfectly legal public rallies against the totalitarian schemes of the homosexualist movement and the state bureaucrats who run interference for them. There's a need to take to the streets to clamor against tyranny and for religious liberty. The religious liberty rallies of June 2012 occasioned by the HHS mandate need to be a regular occurrence in state capitals and big cities around the country. The rallies against same-sex "marriage" in France are a model of what can be done. Finally, they must couple all these efforts with much prayer.
The rank-and-file now must show courage and boldness that contrasts with current leaders, always keeping Burke's famous dictum in mind: "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Stephen M. Krason's "Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic" column appears monthly (sometimes bi-monthly). He is Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies and Associate Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also Co-Founder and President of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Among his books is The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic (Transaction Publishers, 2012), and most recently two edited volumes: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System (Scarecrow Press, 2013) and The Crisis of Religious Liberty (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com and may be freely reproduced so long as the place of original publication is noted.
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15. Spot-Mini is smaller and quieter than its big brother Spot. This robotic dog can actually become your pet, and you won't have to worry about carpet getting peed on.
16. The Talon is capable of dragging 700 pounds of dead weight, identify IEDs, and can even take part in combat.
17. Kuratas has been inspired by anime. Engineer Kogoro Kurata created this user operated mech suit back in 2012. It features multiple weapons and can do more than just photo ops.
18. RHex is an all-terrain machine developed by Boston Dynamics. It has a waterproof body and can go almost anywhere.
19. Asimo is Honda's humanoid that has been wowing people since 200.
20. LS3 can carry 400 pounds and has remained in service with the Marines. However, it was retired on account of being too heavy and too loud.
21. BionicWheelBot can mimic the spider found in Morocco that is capable of rolling itself into a ball and moving away.
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The NFL season is still relatively young, but the Los Angeles Rams are looking practically unbeatable early on as they have passed early tests.
The Rams made many notable changes over the offseason, adding several key pieces to the roster like Brandin Cooks, Aquib Talib, and Marcus Peters, and they brought back veterans in Todd Gurley and Aaron Donald. The obvious goal of making so many changes was to compete in the NFC, but they could be competing for more than that if they keep up their winning ways.
According to the latest NFL betting odds, the Rams are 8-5 favorites to win the Super Bowl.
That would mean a trip to Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta for former TCU Horned Frogs Joseph Noteboom and Travin Howard, who are currently on the Rams roster.
So far this season, the Rams have rolled past the Oakland Raiders and Arizona Cardinals, won the battle of LA against the Chargers, took care of business against the Minnesota Vikings, and they bested likely their biggest competition in the NFC West, the Seattle Seahawks.
Most recently, they utilized a strong rushing game by Gurley to get past the Denver Broncos, but some tests still lie ahead on their schedule.
A matchup with another red-hot NFC team, the New Orleans Saints, comes in week nine, immediately followed by a rematch with Seattle and a week 11 headliner on Monday Night Football against an AFC force in the Patrick Mahomes-led Kansas City Chiefs.
The Rams' early season success also seems to be energizing the city of Los Angeles according to SoCal Sports Chronicle.
While no one has placed expectations on the Rams to go undefeated, especially with the early division lead they have, USA Today has already listed a number of reasons they won't go without a blemish on their record.
But Los Angeles fans have plenty of reason to be excited. With a quarterback in Jared Goff, who in year three is already third in total quarterback rating just under Mahomes and Drew Brees, the variety of weapons he has on offense, and a much-improved defense from last year's squad, it's hard to not see them best their efforts last season.


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Clyde Edwin Smith Born May 25, 1924 to John and Edna Smith in Santa Ana Ca. Survived by his sister Arlene Crawford and Judy Royer and brothers Gary Smith and Terry Smith who proceed him in death. He married Bonnie Fuller May 16, 1946, who preceded him in death, November 17, 2010. They had five children: Daniel L. Smith, deceased, spouse, Connie, Marsha L. Lyvers, spouse, Joseph, Steven A. Smith, spouse, Nedra, Phillip A. Smith, spouse, Margaret, Lynette R. Winans, spouse, Rick, 13 Grandchildren, 25 Great Grandchildren, 5 Great-Great Grandchildren. From early childhood he was influenced by a grandfather, father, and uncles to follow in their footsteps as a farmer. Having formed a passion for farming and a work ethic superior to most and only matched by a few, he became a premier farmer and master of many related trades. He was sought after by many for wisdom and insight into the world of food production, a reflection of his passion. From his late teens and early twenties, he grew a variety of crops. His greatest focus was that of raising potatoes, a staple for many years. In addition, he grew grain, onions, alfalfa, corn, sugar beets, and other forage crops. This great passion of his was honored by him meeting his beloved Bonnie in a potato field while harvesting, "hand-picking", for his grandfather, John W. Smith. The II World War having ended, he married his beloved Bonnie, and started raising his family in Nuevo, Ca. Farming, family, and his church, Nuevo Community Missionary Church, were the centers of his life. If you were looking for Clyde Smith, he could most often be found in one of those three places. Although a man with a limited education (8th grade), he was a very intelligent individual with a quick mind, ready to tackle most any problem with the attitude of "never let a problem be bigger than you". Many admired his tenacious appetite for engaging in the near impossible, if not the fully impossible, task with that dictum for success as his motivation. That not only applied to his personal problems, but he would extend himself to others desiring to aid them in solving their problems as well. He was known as a generous individual by many sharing his good fortune of the late 50's and early 60's with others. In later years he fell on hard times, a shared dilemma by the farmers in the area, yet he continued to face the demise of agriculture with focus and determination. Even in his late eighties he stood the storm often with odds greatly against him. He was only deterred by the long standing illness of his wife, Bonnie, pushing him to leave the major operation of the farm in the hands of a trusted friend, Don Bean. From that time on he focused his attention on the care and welfare of his wife until she passed on November 17, 2010. In 2018 he fell and suffered an irreversible injury which made it impossible for him to remain under his own care. He was placed at Pacifica Senior Living of Hemet, an assisted living facility where he remained until his passing on October 22, 2021. While there he was beloved by all, staff and resident alike, treating them with equal love and respect. He would often make nick-names up for the staff to reflect what they meant to him. He had terms of endearment for just about everyone. For the final five months of his life he was under the care of hospice, being given care by folks he didn't know. Even while realizing his time was short he always had a smile and was compliant with just about everything. Everything except taking pills, which he hated until the very end. He would frown and let it be known he "wasn't going to take that crap". However, he had such a great relationship with everyone, he would relent or be tricked into taking those hated pills anyway. Truly a comedy to experience. 97 Years is no short lifetime. Clyde Smith was born in the middle of the "roaring 20's"; lived through the "great depression"; couldn't serve during II World War because of an injury that kept him from doing so, but grew food for the troops that did go; saw the Korean and the Viet Nam wars come and go, always growing food for the military; raised a family of merit with his life-long companion, Bonnie; including himself there were five generations of his legacy alive at once; and finally, he finished with a smile on his lips and a desire in his heart to see Jesus and his beloved Bonnie. Clyde E. Smith May 25, 1924 to October 22, 2021 For more please visit - ClydeESmith.life
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Charity concert
On May 22, 2017, a charity concert of the "Jarmuła band" group from Krakow took place in the Municipal Culture Center in Brzesko. All funds raised during the concert will be allocated to the reconstruction of the monument on the mass grave in the Jewish cemetery at Czarnowiejska street.
When listening to Jewish melodies during this concert, I suddenly realized that 80 years ago this music could be easily heard in the city. There was no need to buy tickets for a special concert – it was enough to walk the streets of the town. It is true that Jews in diaspora have always kept their separate identity, and yet the cultures intertwined. So many Jewish words, sayings, recipes, melodies have become part of Polish landscape, although we are often not even aware of it…
The entire concert has become a journey into this vanished world… We cannot bring it back to life, but we can keep the memory alive. We can do at least that much for all those people who were murdered only because of being Jewish.
During the concert, which was also attended by an almost 90-year-old former Brzesko resident, Holocaust survivor Dov Landau, we managed to raise over 2,000 zlotys. We have also received substantial donations from private donors, first of all descendants of Brzesko Jews. I hope, that we will be able to unveil a new monument during the next March of Remembrance that will take place in September.
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Nasdaq Futures Down 185 Pts; Powell to Tackle Inflation Scare
Stock Markets Feb 23, 2021 07:05AM ET
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Investing.com - U.S. stocks are seen opening lower Tuesday, with the high-growth tech sector set to be hit hard as rising bond yields force a rethink of the models underlying some stretched valuations.
At 7:05 AM ET (1205 GMT), the Dow Futures contract was flat, while S&P 500 Futures traded 15 points, or 0.4%, lower and Nasdaq 100 Futures dropped 185 points, or 1.4%.
Wall Street closed mixed Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending marginally higher, while the S&P 500 ended down 0.8%, for the fifth session in a row, while the Nasdaq Composite slumped 2.5%.
This rotation out of growth stocks, typified by the Nasdaq's tech sector, and into the companies that have been very hard hit and could benefit from the reopening, is likely to continue Tuesday. Tech stocks whose valuations rests on rock-bottom discount rates extrapolated into the distant future are particularly at risk from any sign that borrowing costs could rise sooner than expected.
Higher yields and inflationary pressures are likely to be prime topics of discussion as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell starts his two days of Congressional hearings later Tuesday, particularly with President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package likely to be approved by Congress in the next few days. The spending package implies Treasury issuance well beyond what the Fed has said it will buy.
"Powell's team of cooing doves will have a harder and harder time facing down speculation of an early tapering by the Fed towards the summer," said analysts at Nordea, in a research note. "Inflation is about to surge, and perhaps even core inflation will get a move on due to 'unexpected' spill-over effects."
Away from Capitol Hill, the retailers Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Macy's (NYSE:M) reported quarterly results before the bell Tuesday, but the focus will be on what the company executives say about the outlook for this year. Home Depot stock fell 1.5% after it said 2021 may not be as strong as last year.
Looking at the economic data slate, the reading for February consumer confidence is due at 10 AM ET (1500 GMT), with a move higher to 90 expected, up from 89.3 the prior month.
Oil prices surged Tuesday with U.S. production slow to return from the deep freeze which affected large swathes of the country last week, including Texas, the largest crude producing state.
Estimates point to up to two weeks to restart more than two million barrels per day of crude output thanks to frozen pipes and power supply interruptions.
Inventories data from the American Petroleum Institute will be studied carefully when they are released later in the session given last week's outages.
U.S. crude futures traded 0.8% higher at $62.16 a barrel, while the international benchmark Brent contract rose 0.7% to $64.79.
Elsewhere, gold futures rose 0.1% to $1,810.35/oz, while EUR/USD traded 0.1% higher at 1.2158.
Turtle Feb 23, 2021 10:26AM ET
Liquidity is abundant and the market will turn upward again. The rise in bond prices is temporary, and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will not be just watching the rate rise. Now it's giving me another chance. Don't be afraid of fear. Enjoy the variable!
Stanislav Makarov Feb 23, 2021 8:28AM ET
Lol, its DOW in the bubble now, rather than NASDAQ. Hilton, LUV, TRIP etc are higher than pre-COVID 2019 levels, which is a joke.
Mitchel Pioneer Feb 23, 2021 8:24AM ET
The pre-market fraud commences, and the DOW is back in the green, as the curtain prepares to rise on the greatest financial fraud in history.
Jack Hoodie Feb 23, 2021 8:05AM ET
stimulus has been going on for months now, meanwhile people are lost not knowing if they'll eat the next day
Matt Kay Feb 23, 2021 8:04AM ET
Where your hopes at, boomers? Go get some hopes, your stonks are going down
Sergeant Carnage Feb 23, 2021 8:02AM ET
The Joe Biden administration with a Democrat-controlled House & Senate guarantees $100 Oil by this summer. I just wonder how far Democrats will take their war on Hydrocarbons.
Peteymcletey Feb 23, 2021 7:53AM ET
No more stimulus. stop this current plan
perplexed76 . Feb 23, 2021 7:43AM ET
"as rising bond yields force a rethink of the models underlying some stretched valuations" what does it mean anyway? why all this quasi-complicated stuff influence people's life?


Last year the Hemmes' family invited me to capture the life story of its patriarch, John Hemmes, the head of Merivale Group and one of Australia's most remarkable businessmen.
The decision to go ahead with this came after an emotional coffee meeting with his son Justin, his daughter Bettina and a number of key members of staff. Our time was limited; the clock was ticking. For many years Hemmes had been fighting multiple myeloma, an incurable form of cancer. We organised a series of dates and times during which I would interview "Mr John", as many of his staff affectionately call him. Those meetings would take place at the Rose Bay home he shares with his wife, Merivale. Thus began a series of encounters organised by Merivale's Kerrie Boylett – with Hemmes in his bed and me taping our conversation while sitting beside him. Merivale was rarely far away.
For an interviewer this is very difficult territory. At the outset I had questioned whether there were any off-limit topics, or issues that might cause him distress.
'No,' came the answer, alongside an assertion that Hemmes was the most positive person you could ever hope to meet. After our first meeting I realised the truth in this. Despite his physical weakness Hemmes demonstrated immense strength of character. The man's force of will radiated from him.
Hemmes answered my questions with a refreshing directness. His memory for certain types of detail was striking, as was his clarity of instinct and speed of thought – on occasion the words tumbling from him furiously fast as he raced to recount his story. And what a story it was to tell.
The tale of John Hemmes' is one of extreme triumph over adversity. Born in Indonesia of Dutch parentage, during World War II he was interned as a child in, at times, brutal conditions. He emerged from this as a young man fuelled by a passion to succeed.
As we sat and spoke Hemmes made it abundantly clear that when it came to his children there was no one of whom he could have been more proud.
He loved his family, he loved his business, and he also loved his adopted city of Sydney. He came across as a resilient and determined man capable of gentleness.
Before meeting Hemmes he was nothing more to me than a well-known name. Despite his not inconsiderable achievements, from recent media coverage I knew more about his son than I did him.
And yet although I only met him a limited number of times over a relatively short period I grew surprisingly fond of him. John Hemmes was an easy man to like. He appeared kind, loving, intense and loyal.
At each of our rendezvous the 83-year-old appeared visibly weaker. The day after our final meeting I learned that he had been taken back to hospital, and I never met him again. I am sorry about that. It would have been wonderful to carry on our discussions about his life.
Australia not only lost a significant figure the day John Hemmes died, it lost a fascinating man.


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Q: sunspot surely this can be done with some ruby magic? I need to access my rails model instance from inside the searchable block as indicated below.
class Product

        include MongoMapper::Document
        include Sunspot::Rails::Searchable

        key :field_names, Array

        searchable do |ss|

            self.field_names.each do |field|
              ss.double field[:name] do
                field[:value]
              end
            end
        end

end

does anyone know how to do this via Sunspot ?
I have a field_names array on each product instance that is different per product so i need to access it.
Thanks a lot
Rick

A: you mean this?
def Foo

  attr_accessible  :id, :title

  def fields
    ['something']
  end

  searchable do

    integer :id
    string  :title

    string :fields, :multiple => true do
      self.fields
    end

  end

end

A: well inside there, you're inside a different evaluation context (Solr::DSL or something like that).  That's to provide the ability to have those keywords like "integer, string".  Looks like you're trying to evaluate dynamic attributes/filters ..   .. so see my modified response (below)
you mean this?
def Foo

  attr_accessible  :id, :title

  @fields_to_dynamically_add = ['title']

  searchable do |s|

    s.integer :id
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We are proud of our myriad of innovation research awards, patents, university partnerships, industry speaking engagements, presentations and publications. What follows are some of our latest announcements, presentations and publications. The former includes selection in the Federal Government's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs in support of NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
CubeSat lasercom optical terminals for near-Earth to deep space communications (http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2508047)
Spaceflight 100W, 1940nm polarization maintaining Tm doped fiber laser for pumping Q-switched 2um Ho:YLF (http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2507905)
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May 2019 – – NASA Selects Fibertek for Two New Phase II SBIR:
NASA announced on May 14th their selection of 142 proposals for negotiation. NASA has selected Fibertek for efforts in planetary lidar development and technologies for distributed spacecraft missions.
Feb 2019 – Fibertek team completes and delivers water vapor laser to NASA to support HALO instrument
Oct 2018 – Fibertek Wins Prime Contract Award for $37.4B RS3 Proram (Read more)
September 15. ICESat-2 Satellite Successfully Launched (Read more)
July 2018 – Fibertek's Quality Management System was assessed and registered ISO 9001:2015 certified.
May 2018 – NASA Selects Fibertek for FIVE New Phase I SBIRS:
NASA announced on May 25th their selection of Phase I SBIR proposals for negotiation. NASA has selected Fibertek for 5 Phase I efforts in 3 separate focus areas.
Robert H. Goddard Honor Awards Ceremony
On May 3, 2018 our own Lisa McCormick accepted the RHG Exceptional Achievement for Science Team Award presented by NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Lisa was recognized for her outstanding leadership and the NASA Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) Science Analysis Teams extended commitment to accurate science characterization of the nations most critical new weather sensor, Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-1/ ATMS. Her tireless efforts were critical at keeping the mission on track towards launch. Congratulation Lisa for her outstanding performance and leadership.
March 2018 – NASA Selects Fibertek for Two New Phase II SBIRS:
NASA announced on March 7th their selection of 128 proposals for negotiation. NASA has selected Fibertek for efforts in laser communications and lidar remote sensing.
Nov 2017 – Fibertek is pleased to announce that we have recently partnered with a local nonprofit organization called Cornerstones. Cornerstones promotes individual self-sufficiency by providing support and advocacy for those in need of food, shelter, affordable housing, quality childcare, and related human services. At Fibertek, we believe that our corporate responsibility includes giving back to our community. To this end, Fibertek Director of Human Resources Iva Heflin, presented a check for $7,500.00 to Cornerstones' Embry Rucker Community Shelter in honor of Senior Vice President Ralph Burnham's' 30th Anniversary. We look forward to further supporting Cornerstones in their endeavors to make lasting impacts on the lives of others in need by offering "Hope for Tomorrow Today."
Aug 2017 – Fibertek, Inc. was honored to host Congressman Gerry Connolly on August 2, 2017 for his second visit to the company in the past five years. The Democratic member of the House of Representatives is from Virginia's 11th congressional district. While at Fibertek, Inc. the congressman had the opportunity to meet with the company leadership and then hold a Town Hall with the company's employees. During the session, the congressman commended Fibertek, Inc. for its contribution and its overall performance in providing services and highly specialized products to the federal government. The assembly included discussion about the current administration's budget policy for R&D and its effects on small business federal contractors. Fibertek, Inc. employees had the opportunity to engage the congressman in conversation about a broad range of topics including healthcare, education, technology, and research.
April 2017 – Fibertek's research scientists visited Capitol Hill advocating to members of Congress on the importance of optics and photonics and R&D funding in general. Three of Fibertek's research scientists spent two days in our nation's capital meeting with local Virginia representatives and senators discussing the importance of science and technology funding, focusing on the optics and photonics industry. The first day consisted to training and planning hosted by the National Photonics Initiative. During the second day, the Fibertek team visited the staffs of representatives Comstock, Connolly and also Senators Kaine and Warner.
July 2017 – Please join us, as one of the Primary Convener's, at the upcoming Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting a session (session #25446) entitled "Enabling breakthrough science with high-bandwidth satellite communications." The goal of the session is to explore the various methods by which the next-generation of Earth and planetary science can be improved through substantially higher inter-satellite links or downlink data rates. The session solicits abstracts from both industry and academia on all aspects related to the topic, including the new science that could be achieved and the instrumentation and infrastructure required to make it possible. We hope that you will consider submitting an abstract to this session, and help contribute to this exciting and promising new research area.
As a reminder, this year's Fall AGU meeting will take place in New Orleans from December 11-15, 2017.
Fibertek, Inc. reflects on the impactful contributions made by four of our 2017 summer interns. Click here for highlights of each intern and the experience they had and the contributions they made with us over the summer.
April 2017: Fibertek, Inc. is proud to announce the award of three (3) 2017 NASA Phase I SBIR and one (1) 2016 NASA Phase II SBIR Proposals.
April 2016 – Fibertek participates in the Annual NASA Technology Day on the Hill.
Feb 2016 – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Leadership visits the Fibertek, Inc. Herndon, Va Facility.
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After what British immigration officials did to my girlfriend, I'm done – I've applied for an Irish passport
An arbitrary decision by a mean-minded individual cost me close to £1,000 – and marked out my girlfriend as 'refused entry to the UK' in her passport forever. Ever since the Brexit vote, this sort of meanness and anti-immigration atmosphere has taken hold. I'm sick of it
Pat Butcher
Tuesday 12 September 2017 07:43
The Irish have been called many things but I never recall 'petty and mean-spirited' being prominent among the accusations – as they so clearly are about much in British public life nowadays
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I filed my application for an Irish passport today. It was not entirely unconnected with the fact that my Malaysian girlfriend, who holds a French carte de séjour, was refused entry to the UK a month ago, when she wanted to visit for four days.
She had visited me without incident three weeks previously; but on this latter occasion, she was stopped, told to remove her things from the cross-channel train, was detained for four hours, locked up for two, body-searched and fingerprinted, and then cross-examined – after her mobile phone had been taken away – in what she described as a most insulting fashion.
I can corroborate the latter, since as her "sponsor" I was telephoned and questioned in a similar fashion. I bridled at such invasive personal questions, and told the officer so. Yet despite my assurances, which backed up all the information (length of stay, return ticket, and so on) given to him by my girlfriend, it was abundantly clear that the immigration officer in question was seeking any pretext to refuse her entry. Which he eventually did.
Despite her having only a weekend bag, a return ticket for four days later, and hundreds of euros in her purse, the jobsworth in Calais, presumably prefiguring Theresa May's latest advert for the undesirability of anyone let alone spending tourists coming in, decided she was "not a credible visitor".
After this tawdry exhibition of petty power, she was handed over to the local police, who deposited her on a deserted street in Calais – hardly the safest place in the world – at 11.45pm on a Saturday evening. Even worse, the jobsworth, perhaps auditioning for a role in a follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, had asked her why she hadn't told her husband she was visiting me.
The most - and least - powerful passports in the world
In fact she has been estranged from her French husband for three years, although they remain friends and share the same property while waiting for a divorce. But she had admitted she was still officially married. Even so, are these people immigration officers or morality police?
Refusing to be thwarted from meeting up, I booked my girlfriend into a hotel and myself onto a Calais shuttle the following morning. After a sleepless night, seething over a display of such petty-mindedness, I drove to Folkestone at 7am, joining my girlfriend by lunchtime, and we ended up spending two days together. But the theatre and cinema tickets in London had been wasted, and an arbitrary decision by a mean-minded individual cost me close to £1,000. Even worse, my girlfriend's passport has a huge cross in it, demonstrating that she has been refused entry to the UK.
After I returned to London, she sent me a comprehensive account of her treatment, which consisted mostly of repeated and invasive personal questions: about herself, about her estranged husband and about me.
"I kept on asking him many times why he asked these kind of personal questions which were not related to my UK trip," she wrote. "I asked him also if it is illegal or not to visit a friend in London even if I am married in France. Then he said that I do not have good relationship with my husband. 'If you have a good relationship with your husband, you should tell him everything.' I was angry and I said to him: 'You are not here to teach me what to do with my husband. You just need to check if I'm really visiting a friend in London and whether I can spend money in London.'"
Brexit: the deciders
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European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier
French President Emmanuel Macron
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
The European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond
After the first and second appointed Brexit secretaries resigned (David Davis and Dominic Raab respectively), Stephen Barclay is currently heading up the position
Despite an intervention from my MP, I received a reply two days ago to my complaint to the Home Office, backing up the exclusion decision, and describing my girlfriend as a "housewife". As it happens, she teaches privately and speaks four languages with two additional dialects (of Chinese). Obviously an undesirable person to enter the UK!
As for the Irish passport, though mostly retired from a job in journalism that required me to travel extensively, I still find myself in airports far too often. Being shunted into a lengthy "aliens" passport queue, as a result of the moronic Brexit decision, is not to my taste.
Since my mother was born "on the island of Ireland", as the Republic documentation requires, I am automatically an Irish citizen. As such, I qualify for an Irish passport.
The Irish have been called many things over the years of their struggle firstly for independence, and then economic viability and freedom from being what was once memorably called a "priest-ridden country". I never recall "petty and mean-spirited" being prominent among the accusations – as they so clearly are about much in British public life nowadays.
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After what UK immigration officials did to my girlfriend, I'm done


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Migraine means a recycled post. Sorry!
April 10, 2016 by Thomas Wictor
Terrible migraine all day. I can't think, so I'm going to post something from September 22, 2013. I wrote it before the 2014 Gaza war, which was when the death threats became a daily thing. Wouldn't it be funny if it weren't a migraine but actually a cerebral hemorrhage? I'll know in the morning.
I did it. Through sheer willpower, I've broken the last of my really bad habits. This was one of the most corrosive. It's been several days now, and I'm still clean. The detox worked.
After changing so much about myself, I still couldn't stop going on a particular Website and fighting with strangers. I have several lists of facts on my computer desktop, which I no longer need to access because I've memorized them. What I'd do is impeach people who repeated popular memes.
"If what you're saying is true, then why—?" And I'd reel off a fact that would demolish the meme and leave the repeater looking like an idiot.
I have an account on that Website. People leave comments on your page or send you private messages. Here's one of the messages I got:
jew pig
—————where do you live in socal you dirty kike……i actually am living out in compton right now with my cousins and we got lots of toys for your jew ass…….ak/47s, mac 10s and 11s, and a street sweeper…….give me your address and I'll come thru you little jew bitch……actually you're probably too scared to let me know where you live…so how bout this..i'll tell you EXACTLY where i stay……you can find me on comptons eastside…right across from (redacted) off (redacted) and (redacted)……i'm on the (redacted) block housing projects and my unit is (redacted)…..we be out front all day and night so if you got the balls 2 roll thru….come see me jew…put your money where your mouth is and i guarentee i'll put you in an oven…ha hahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're asking yourself, "Why in the world would you engage people like that?"
Migraine not helped
Hate. I hate them. So I took great pleasure in mocking them, taunting them, and making them grind their teeth in impotent rage. When they were reduced to sending me death threats or blocking me, I counted that as a victory.
Utterly pointless and unhealthy. I hated them so much that my confrontations induced rotational vertigo attacks from the Meniere's disease. There was no question that I had to stop, but it was impossible. I'd fight about the same things every day, over and over. It was more than a habit; it was an addiction.
And then one evening, I just said, "Enough." I stopped cold turkey. As of right now, I have no urge to go back. It'd reached a crescendo of negativity. I could easily admit to myself that I did it only to be destructive, to assault those who I consider despicable and repulsive and who assault others. The challenge was to be even more toxic than they were. So I had to stop.
Online fights served no purpose whatsoever. I didn't get involved in them for any reason other than to mock and insult people who I hate. Mocking and insulting them didn't change anything. All it did was give me a migraine and make me dizzy and nauseated. I've been aware for a long, long time that I had to stop, and now I finally have. It's a great relief.
I hate people like that because they're brainless, they refuse to change, and they're robots. But what's more brainless than fighting with people who you know you can never reach and for whom you feel nothing but disgust? My own need to have these fights was itself a refusal to change. I knew that. I knew that. But I did it anyway. I may as well have been a robot myself, going through preprogrammed actions.
King migraine
In the last year of his life, my father made a lot of out-of-the-blue admissions. It was his way of acknowledging his terminal illness, even though he also denied it to the end. I didn't know he was terminally ill, but I suspected that something was very wrong with him, since he changed in appearance so radically. He became hairless and feminine, and he developed red apple cheeks. Tim and I thought it was an endocrinological collapse due to his completely out-of-control diabetes. In retrospect it was his Stage IV metastasized bone cancer.
Dad always made his admissions in the car. He was a monologist anyway, but in a car, his monologues turned into stream-of-consciousness performance art. When we were children, he insisted on perfect silence in the car, so it's clear to me that his own parents did the same to him. All his life he slammed doors hard enough to break them. I therefore assume he was told to not slam doors.
His mother slammed me on the back with her open palm a few times. It was amazingly painful, as though she'd burned me with an iron. Dad's automotive performance art had to be rebellion against his long-dead, child-slamming mother.
One day in the car, about eight months before he died, Dad told me something that I won't repeat. It surprised the hell out of me because it goes against everything I thought I knew about him, so repeating it would shock and horrify other members of my family and Dad's family. He finished this admission by saying, "I knew I shoulda kept my mouth shut, but I didn't."
Not keeping his mouth shut cost him quite a lot. But this wasn't really an admission of bad judgment. If I'd said anything in response to Dad's monologue, he would've gotten defensive and then truculent. He was a master of mind-boggling truculence. Someday I'll tell the story of how his truculence almost made me hit him in the face with a shovel.
My brother Tim loves to imitate how I came over to his house to demand that he help me so that I wouldn't murder our father. I was the color of a plum.
None of this is relevant.
Migraine receding
My point is that I'm my father's son. He knew that he should've kept his mouth shut, but he didn't. I've known for a long time that I needed to stop having online fights with insane strangers about things neither of us can change.
Refraining from online fights is a small step, but since I'm my father's son, it's the equivalent of fifty thousand miles for a normal human. I can go to bed tonight slightly improved from where I was when I got up this morning.
Progress.
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Up to 500,000 cattle are feared dead after floods left parts of eastern Australian under water, swallowing up livestock and farm buildings as the levels rose.
Dramatic overhead scenes taken from helicopters flying over Queensland show large numbers of cattle lying dead in groups having succumbed to the heavy rains.
The Australian Cattle Company (AACo) is the largest pastoral outfit in the country and runs over half a million cattle over 24 stations and feedlots in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Owners say they have lost almost 30,000 head on one of its Gulf of Carpentaria stations alone.
A statement from AACo said its 2,500sq km Wondoola station, 130km south of Normanton, had experienced its highest flood levels ever, forcing the evacuation of staff.
Three of the company's other stations at Canobie, Dalgonally, and Carrum run 50,000 head of cows and calves and are also reporting heavy losses.
Farmers have been taking to social media to raise awareness of the devastation.
Ironically, many farmers in Australia have been struggling to keep cattle alive after years of drought only for them to lose them now to floods.
Queensland expects the death toll to run close to half a million head, which signals a potential loss of AUS$300m (£164m). The situation has become so bad that if cattle have not drowned or frozen, farmers face having to shoot them as they are struggling to get access to feed them.


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The waters of Torbay, like so many other locations, no longer teem with fish, but Hope's Nose in Torquay, Devon, continues to come up with the goods – it's one of the best shore marks between Teignmouth and Brixham. Around 25 different species have been taken here at one time or another.
You get down to the quarry floor by a steep but easily negotiated path leading down from the road. The final way down is via a plateau where there are several choices of descent for the last 21m (70ft).
On the north side of the point there is a small beach of sand and shingle. About 4.5m (15ft) out from the undercut rock wall the ground is light rock and stone, surrounded by shingle. Beyond this the bottom is cleaner shingle and sand.
On the south flank the fishing is influenced by a sewer which pours out into the sea, creating a clear stripe visible for rather more carefully.
Hope's Nose is a considerable size and there are a number of areas of particular interest for anglers looking for bass, ray, bull huss and conger.
The south flank is very rocky and when the wind is gentle, coming from the northwest or south, fishing from the front edges of the exposed rock is perfectly safe. But wind from the east and south-east above force three can be dangerous – particularly some distance out to sea. The ground here and farther round the south side is rough — consisting of gullies and ledges which can account for a lot of lost tackle. Underwater the rocks give way to semi-rough ground and then shingle farther out.
As a summer venue for mackerel and garfish Hope's Nose has no equal. So prolific are these species during the hot months that the collection of ledges on the spit's north flank is known as Mackerel Point. The swelling tide sweeps round from Lyme Bay bringing mackerel galore to this zone while on the other side of the point you find only the odd mackerel.
These two summer sport favourites offer great fun for the hordes of holiday fishermen – especially on float tackle. But the dedicated angler, who is interested in bigger fish, needs to consider the approach during big, springtides.
When conditions are right anglers work the front edges of the rocks, casting baits on to a fairly smooth bottom of sand and shingle for plaice, dabs and ray. From the small beach on the north side out to Mackerel Point, the ground is much cleaner and consists of shingle and sand.
Most of the plaice and dabs, and also the occasional small turbot, are taken in this area. For flatties you need to fish the last two hours of the drop to low water. When the water is down the fish tend to be more concentrated and the baits are possibly a bit easier for them to locate. When there is a fair chop on the sea you find that the chances of plaice are improved too. A 75m (80yd) cast is usually sufficient.
It is after dark that Hope's Nose gives the best fishing results. That's the time to whack out peeler crab baits into the flooding tide. As the water gradually engulfs the long stretches of jflat rock, the bass move in. You need a strong trace — say 25 lb (11.3kg) — to combat the bass's fighting antics over a dangerous terrain.
To fish successfully at night or when the ground features are covered, you can't beat having a thorough knowledge of the character of the place, or at least getting some idea of the profile of the bottom at low tide, in daylight. It helps you to drop your bait into the shallow gullies which are most likely to be visited by bass in the early stages of the flood tide. Bass are found all around the headland in the months of September and October, but there is every chance of a very large loner throughout the winter.
Ground knowledge is the name of the game here. Not only does it make it easier to target likely fish-holding areas, it is also important for personal safety. When working the forward areas keep a close watch on the incoming water and establish a safe line of retreat.
Between June and November, sizeable conger are on the move at night. Large baits of squid or mackerel or a combination of both get the best response. On the far right of the Nose there are deep channels which hold many feet of water from quarter tide up. These can be reached by a moderate cast from high and relatively safe rocks. Take extra care, however, when moving over them in the dark.
The rough ground on this side is ideal territory for conger weighing in the region of 40 lb (18kg). But even if you connect with a fish of such a size, getting it ashore is a rather rum prospect. The danger is in getting down to the waterline to gaff. Try to work out the best tactics before you get a fish on the hook. Long-handled gaffs are the order of the day but even then it's no easy matter to control 1.8m (6ft) of writhing eel in the light of a pressure lamp. It is essential to fish in company at night – the deep clefts can be very dangerous.
In the conger areas expect encounters with bull huss too. A single hook leger with a size 9/0 hook on a 90cm (3ft) wire or mono trace can be effective. Although the rocks are waiting to eat up all your gear, your best bet is to try to cast on to the fairly flat rock platforms between the gullies. Then 'swim' an eel over the hazards.
From the rocks facing Thatcher Rock – an offshore island—you've a chance of locating spotted and small eyed ray on the shingle beyond the ledge. Like conger and bull huss, rays are best sought during the night with live sandeel bait.
Large grey mullet swim in the sewer outfall near the tip of the nose, feeding on the rich effluent. This is where you should float-fish your bread baits -just on the edge of it.
Specimen wrasse are a possibility when the tide swells. The fish tend to lie under overhangs of rock which never dry out. They can be voracious takers of hard, soft and peeler crab on a single hook leger rig. The odd small one succumbs to sliding float tactics. The biggest wrasse are taken from the rocks facing east (front of the spit). Divers frequently report ballans as big as 15 lb (6.8kg) in the deep kelp-strewn gullies in this area. Divers are a good source of information for anglers who want to know more about what's going on underwater. The size of the tide is quite important — the bigger the better for most species, especially pollack and bass. The best state of tide depends on the species you are after. Wrasse fishing is best for the last hour of the ebb, and the first hour of the flood, especially if you're looking for them in deep holes. You can pick up the odd fish the rest of the time.
Pollack, bass, mackerel and garfish are best fished for on the flood, as are plaice and sole.
Conger feed best on the night flood on overcast and especially on moonless nights. Mullet can cruise through at any time.


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Helen Caldwell (1904-1987) was a scholar and Brazilianist from California. Her work focuses on the 19th century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis.  She completed the first English translation of Dom Casmurro, published in 1953. Her most famous work is Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels (University of California, Los Angeles, 1970). She also translated 8 of the 12 stories in The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories (with William L. Grossman for the eponymous novella and three other stories) in 1973.

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Alia Nassif, a member of the State of Law coalition, said in remarks that "Article 73 of the Constitution obliged Saleh to choose a deputy, which has not been achieved so far, although the political agreements that formed the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi granted the position of first deputy in favor of Nuri al-Maliki."
Nassif sent a veiled threat to President Saleh that Maliki's postponement of his claim to the post did not mean his abdication, but a step on his part to avoid a new political crisis.
She accused Saleh of violating the constitution by continuing his work without choosing a deputy, despite nearly 11 months since he was elected president.
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