You could call it a religious war of words, with the West Coast serving as one of its most intense battlegrounds.
The bid to win hearts and minds pits Buddhist meditation against Christian prayer, with meditation, especially so-called "mindfulness," seeming to be gaining ground.
It's been the focus of more than 60 recent scholarly studies. It's being embraced by hundreds of psychotherapists, who increasingly offer Buddhist mindfulness to clients dealing with depression and anxiety. It's been on the cover of Time magazine.
Even though polls show there are 10 times more Christians in the Pacific Northwest than Buddhists, the forms of meditation associated with those on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean are rising to the fore in North America.
Buddhist meditators, who tend to think of themselves as "spiritual but not religious," claim what they do is not "religious." That's part of the appeal of mindfulness. Such meditators complain that Christian (as well as Jewish and Muslim) prayer over-emphasizes pleading with, confessing to or praising a God.
It turns out, however, that the gap between Buddhist meditation and Christian prayer might not be so huge. Indeed, some forms seem almost identical.
Still, the many well-educated, well-off Westerners who have been drawn to Buddhism, including famous Vancouver spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, have scored some important points when they criticize Christian prayer for being too busy, too noisy and too focused on soliciting otherworldly aid.
Indeed, Rev. Ellen Clark-King, the archdeacon of Christ Church (Anglican) Cathedral in downtown Vancouver, is among many who acknowledge Western Buddhists may have been doing Christians an indirect favour.
She does, however, go out of her way to cite the dangers inherent in claiming one form of spiritual practice is superior. There are many paths to the holy, she points out.
In her new book, The Path to Our Door: Approaches to Christian Spirituality (Continuum), she suggests the popularity of Buddhist meditation has prodded many Christians to re-discover some of the tradition's less well-known meditative and contemplative methods.
"When considering silence as prayer many people's first thought is of the Eastern, especially the Buddhist, tradition rather than the Christian," writes Clark-King.
Why has it taken so long for many Christians to seize on to their tradition's contemplative practices? Clark-King speculates it is hard for anyone, whether Christian or Buddhist, to face the "emptiness" of solitude, which many equate with loneliness. It takes away our distractions and leaves us with only ourselves and, as she says, God.
It can be revealing to discover the similarities of Buddhist mindfulness and Christian prayer. The noted Buddhist magazine, The Shambhala Sun, is just one of thousands of sources on mindfulness.
In a how-to article, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche tells those who want to learn mindfulness to first get into a comfortable position and then note when thoughts arise.
By labelling one's "wild" thoughts and feelings, Sakyong Mipham says, mindfulness practitioners begin to recognize the mind's discursiveness. "We notice that we have been lost in thought, we mentally label it . without judgment." The ultimate goal, Sakyong Mipham says, is to keep noticing one's breath, to reach tranquillity.
Even though Clark-King is not arguing that Buddhist mindfulness and Christian prayer are exactly the same, it is fascinating to note how similar her language is to that of Sakyong Mipham when she describes at least two forms of Christian contemplation.
The first form is set out in The Cloud of Unknowing, a classic book writ-ten anonymously in the 14th century, probably by an English monk.
The prayer style outlined in her book has been developed by 20th-century Cistercian monk Thomas Keating into a popular movement called "centring prayer," which is closely akin to mindfulness.
There are now hundreds of thou-sands of Christians practising centring prayer and related contemplative techniques across North America, Europe and beyond. The Canadian Christian Meditation Community is a leader in the field. Still, Christian meditation is not yet mainstream in Protestantism or Catholicism.
Clark-King calls contemplation a "passive" form of Christian prayer. She could say the same of mindfulness as well. Contemplation arises out of a stream of Christian practice that is known as "apophatic," in which no names or images are used for God. God is not asked to do anything in particular.
The Path to Your Door outlines several other "passive" forms of prayer, which focus on self-emptying.
Like many Buddhists, Meister Eckhart, a noted 13th-century Dominican monk, taught "detachment" from desires and things. That's in part why Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, adapted his name from Meister Eckhart.
Fortunately, there are more than a few Western Buddhists who have also figured out that the gap between their practices and those of some Christians is not as big as many assume.
Victor Chan, who has brought the Dalai Lama to Vancouver on several occasions, also reminds people that "mindfulness" comes in many every-day forms. It is not mysterious or esoteric.
"You do not have to sit in the lotus position and chant 'Om' all the time to practise mindfulness," Chan says. People in effect practise mindfulness, another word for "paying attention," whenever they find ways to still their minds and concentrate.
That not only happens through "passive" forms of Christian contemplation, Chan says. People are also being "mindful," he says, when they are learning how to play tennis, practising the piano, drawing, working on martial arts or memorizing poetry.
In the same vein, Clark-King emphasizes that contemplative prayer, or "observance," is just one way by which Christians and other spiritual people can connect with the holy.
In addition to her book's chapter on "passive" practices, titled "Silence," The Path to Your Door contains many chapters outlining the spiritual benefits to be mined from "kataphatic," or "active," disciplines.
Kataphatic spirituality emphasizes words, actions and deeds. It includes artistic creativity, communing with nature, reflecting on sacred poetry, dance and serving the poor, ill or struggling.
I believe the same could be said for claims that Buddhist mindfulness is the finest of all spiritual practices. Or, conversely, that certain forms of Western prayer always trump the ways of the East.
Even though we should never ignore the real distinctions between various religions and spiritual practices, it's humbling to recognize they often have more in common than we realize.


Three scrollbar objects redScroll, greenScroll, blueScroll and three labels redLabel, greenLabel, blueLabel are created.
Panel p1 is created and layout is set to GridLayout with 3 rows and 2 columns to accommodate three scrollbars and three labels. Horizontal and vertical gaps are given each with 5 pixels.
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The scrollbar moves in between the values 0 to 255.
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The third scroll bar blueScroll is created in a different way. The default constructor is used to create the object and the values are set later using Scrollbar methods.
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The getValue() method of Scrollbar returns the scroll box position on the scroll bar; other way, the scrollbar value. This value rv is displayed as a label redLabel with setText() method.
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Joe Arpaio Foe Rebecca Jimenez Leads in Guadalupe Mayoral Race (w/Update: Jimenez the Winner)
Stephen Lemons May 21, 2013 8:30PM
The contest has been intense, like only small town politics can be, with each side accusing the other of shenanigans. Signs blanketed the town's main stretch of Avenida del Yaqui when I visited last week.
Jimenez's purple and yellow placards seemed to dominate. The mayor's large signs featured herself and Councilwoman Gloria Cota, as the two were running as a team.
The vote in the council race is still tight, though Cota and Faustino Valenzuela, Jr. were the top vote-getters in a four person race, where voters could pick two candidates.
If Jimenez becomes mayor-elect, her win would be a major upset. Solarez was backed by members of the local political establishment, including Congressman Ed Pastor and state Representative Catherine Miranda.
Solarez has been seen as willing to work with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose department is paid by Guadalupe to provide law enforcement services.
That's unlike Jimenez, who butted heads with Arpaio in 2008, when the MCSO did an anti-immigration sweep of the town, setting up its command center at the town's center.
Stephen is a former staff writer and columnist at Phoenix New Times.
Contact: Stephen Lemons
Joe Arpaio's Lawyer Tim Casey Claims Court Lacks Power to Appoint Monitor with Power over Sheriff
By Stephen Lemons
DREAMers Besiege ICE, Six Arrested for Acts of Civil Disobedience
Bill Montgomery's Ex-Ally Chris Simcox May Score Plea Deal in Child Molestation Case

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The Evans Gambit is a chess opening with the moves (in algebraic notation) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4.
The gambit is named after Captain William Davies Evans, the first player to employ it. The first game with the opening is considered to be Evans - McDonnell, London 1827, although in that game a slightly different move order was tried (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O d6 and only now 5. b4). The gambit became very popular shortly after that, being employed a number of times in the series of games between McDonnell and Louis de la Bourdonnais in 1834. Players such as Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy and Mikhail Chigorin subsequently took it up. It was out of favour for much of the 20th century, although John Nunn and Jan Timman played some games with it in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and in the 1990s Garry Kasparov used it in a few of his games (notably a famous 25-move win against Viswanathan Anand in Riga, 1995), which prompted a brief revival of interest in it.
The Evans Gambit is basically an aggressive variant of the Giuoco Piano, which normally continues with the positional moves 4. c3 or 4. d3. The idea behind the move 4. b4 is to give up a pawn in order to secure a strong centre and bear down on Black�s weak-point, f7. Ideas based on Ba3, preventing black from castling, are also often in the air. The most obvious and most usual way for black to meet the gambit is to accept it with 4... Bxb4, after which white plays 5. c3 and black usually follows up with 5... Ba5 (5... Be7 and, less often 5... Bc5 and 5... Bd6 are also played). White usually follows up with 6. d4.
Alternatively the gambit can be declined with 4... Bb6, when 5. a4 a6 is the normal continuation. But due to the loss of tempo involved, most commentators consider declining the Evans Gambit to be less strong than accepting it, then giving up the pawn at a later stage.
The famous Evergreen game started off with the Evans� gambit.
Harding, Tim and Bernard Cafferty (1997). Play the Evans Gambit. Cadogan. ISBN 1-85744-119-2.
This article is based on the article Evans Gambit from the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia and stands under the GNU-Licence for free documentation. In the Wikipedia a list of the authors is available.


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Our Aims and Objectives
Pride Brand Makeover 2018
Apr 3 "Nothing's going to change if we don't understand each other" - HSBC's Gender Neutral Titles
Gail Colville
Banking group HSBC has taken a step towards transgender inclusivity as they announced they will now offer gender neutral titles for account holders. The decision was announced on Friday, coinciding with International Transgender Day of Visibility.
HSBC's previous transgender option was limited to only "Mx", however this title limits the identities of many transgender customers. Customers will now have an additional 9 options to choose from, allowing them to better identify with their prefix title.
Mx - tertiary option to Mrs or Mr
Ind - "individual"
Mre - "mystery"
Msr - combination of 'Miss 'and 'Sir'
Misc- "miscellaneous"
Pr - "person"
Sai - gender neurtal term used in Asia
Ser - gender neurtal term used in Latin America
M - gender neurtal abbreviation used in France
Myr - gender neurtal term used in other parts of the world
Stuart Barette, Trans Lead of HSBC UK Pride Network, shares his nerve-wracking experience of having to go into branch and change his gender and name for his accounts. The decision to include more prefix options came partly from employee feedback, says Barette
In order for transgender customers not to be met with uncertainty at HSBC, Barette explains that the bank has arranged training for branch and call centre staff. "I think training is really important - if people understand the challenges people face, then we can change; otherwise nothing's going to change if we don't understand each other".
HSBC UK's Head of Retail Stuart Haire explains that "we will continue working with our LGBT+ colleagues and customers to ensure we're getting it right".
"Understanding [the part people play in other people's lives] helps to make that journey a little bit easier."
— Stuart Barette, HSBC UK Pride Network Trans Lead
Here at PrideAM, we applaud this inclusive step. Both the transitioning period and coming out can be very difficult to do - especially if you do not know what reactions you might be met with. We are very pleased to see HSBC support its transgender customers by taking the pressure out of conforming to 'traditional' titles and allowing their customers to identify in a way that best suits them. Furthermore, we applaud the work going on behind-the-scenes: taking the time to correctly and appropriately train staff and to promote better understanding.
Since the story released on Friday, Lloyds Baking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Barclay's reportedly now have plans to follow suit. Although HSBC's news has received overwhelming positivity, activist Peter Tatchell has doubts. Tatchell, who generally supports HSBC's decision, has suggested that the move risks attracting ridicule, and questions whether 10 options is "necessary".
However, we support for HSBC for meeting the needs of its transgender clientele, and believe that these new options will better suit customers, and encourage other businesses to do the same. Well done HSBC!
May 15 Mental Health Awareness Week
Mar 14 Is Your Brand Backing Bigotry?


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EHRs
Disruptors
Physicians posting misinformation account for tiny minority of Doximity's users, CEO says
Staff - Wednesday, August 11th, 2021
After reports last week of COVID-19 misinformation and anti-vaccine content posted from physician members flooding its platform, Doximity's CEO told CNBC Aug. 10 that the misinformation comes from less than 0.1 percent of its users.
"Unfortunately, we have seen an uptick in comments that we've had to remove because we found them to contain violations of our community guidelines, which explicitly prohibit the posting of medical misinformation," Jeff Tangney told CNBC. "While commenters making inaccurate claims represent a minority of our members, we do recognize the need to improve our ability to identify and quickly remove misinformation from our network."
Mr. Tangney told CNBC that the inaccurate claims represented less than 0.1 percent of its members.
CNBC reported Aug. 6 that the health IT telehealth and networking platform, often referred to as the "LinkedIn for doctors," has been riddled with anti-vaccine comments posted by its physician members. The platform is home to 1.8 million members, including 80 percent of U.S. physicians.
Doximity held its initial public offering in June. Since going public, the company said it doubled its revenue in the first quarter of 2021 and projects sales of $269.5 million to $299.5 million, an annual increase of at least 43 percent from $206.9 million, according to the report.
After its earnings results posted Aug. 10, Doximity said it is boosting revenue by providing more targeted marketing services to hospitals and drugmakers, which can reach specialized audiences on Doximity's news feed. The company also said it has a new telehealth offering for physicians to communicate and hold virtual visits with patients.
Editor's note: Becker's updated this article at 11:30 a.m. CST Aug. 11 to correct the percentage quoted from Mr. Tangney.


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Cochin China, Vietnam
Saigon, Vietnam
Abbeville, France
Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Aberdovey, Merioneth, Wales
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Acle, Norfolk
Acton, Suffolk
Aden, Yemen
Ahmadabad, Gujurat, India
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Lat: 16.0000 Long: 106.0000
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1000145
BT Asia
NT Cochin China, Vietnam
NT Saigon, Vietnam
UF Viet Nam
5 Archival description results for Vietnam
2 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
Papers re Captain Howes' voyage in command of a Chinese junk called the 'Little Catherine', its foundering on the coast of Cochin China, and his imprisonment by the Chinese.
Y/D 24/7-17
Part of Gt. Yarmouth Borough: deposited records
Inc. newspaper report, detailed account (incomplete) by Capt. Howes, and correspondence (inc. copies of official despatches) of William Howes to secure his release.
AUD 1/1/1423
nd [1980s]
Part of BBC Radio Norfolk
Relates to Couture Show at Grady's Country House Hotel, Swaffham [to raise funds for Pestalozzi Children's Village Trust, which educates children from various places including Vietnam].
Copy of an account by Captain Victor Tolubieff Howes (1822-1907) of Gorleston, of his shipwreck in Cochin China, his imprisonment and rescue, and other papers
Victor Tolubieff Howes; 1822-1907; sailor; Gorleston, Norfolk
J.E.H. Neville
NEV 11/118, 593X2
Part of Neville Family of Sloley
Whilst James on active service in Saigon, Singapore, Batavia, Colombo, Suez, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, Bombay, Mombasa, Aden and elsewhere.
Recorded interview of Clayton Bejot and Johnnie Falls by Elaine Clearfield
MC 371/886/1
Part of United States Army Air Force (USAAF) 2nd Air Division Memorial Library Archive
Recording made at Kennedy Airport, New York, before Bejot's and Falls' flights to a 2nd Air Division reunion in England. [00:00-05:00] Interview with Clayton Bejot [hereafter CB]. CB comments on his place of origin, Ainsworth, Nebraska, post-war work as a farmer and his family. Comments on his wartime service as a pilot: carrying cameras on aeroplanes to record bomb damage; different aeroplane positions in formation having different roles; role of his aeroplane monitoring air-sea rescue frequencies. Mentions assignment to 457th Bomb Group and six month stay in England, 1944. Remarks on memorable experiences: long missions to Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, Germany; navigator killed with another crew on mission to Kiel, Germany, and other aeroplanes making emergency landings in Sweden or Switzerland. [05:00-10:00] Emergency landings continued. Remarks on original crew and discussion about his pre-war work as a farmer and family background. Discussion about CB's reasons for attending reunion and comments on his previous trips to England. [10:00-15:00] Comments continued. CB's tribute to skill of ground crews and comments on negative attitude of some Canadian and British servicemen towards Americans. CB describes impact of service in the Air Force on his life and remarks on looking forward to reunion and visiting museum in Duxford. [15:00-20:00] Remarks continued. [Interlude]. Interview with Johnnie Falls [hereafter JF]. Comments on his place of origin, San Antonio, Texas, service in 486th Bomb Group (Sudbury) and current state of the former airbase site at Sudbury. Describes his duties as a bombardier, including navigation. Remarks on completing his thirty-five combat missions in eight months. Discussion about his most memorable experience: aeroplane shot down on his third mission, bailing out into German territory between Cologne and Aachen, during siege of Aachen, and found by American First Army troops. Describes his pre-war education and post-war work as engineer, before further service in Air Force as a bombardier. [20:00-25:00] Remarks on his military career, including research and development role in a space programme. Discussion about the forthcoming reunion and his wife's first visit to England. Remarks on the impact of military service on his life and role in Korean and Vietnam wars. Describes his duties as a battle staff director in Vietnam. [25:00-30:00] Discussion about his wife and family. Recorded on side A only.


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Phedre Road
From Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki
Mentioned in Hogfather, Dratley and Sons were situated here. They built a horrible wardrobe that scared Chickenwire as a child. A replica of this wardrobe consumed Chickenwire. It is also the location of the Disguise and Joke Shop (Jingo), where Mr Spuddy Face toys and other forms of disguise are available. The road runs along the right bank of the Ankh and The Cut in central Ankh to Salis Street. In The Truth Otto Chriek is told that he can get colored glass from the dwarf run stained glass works on Phedre Road. In the computer game Discworld Noir, it is referred to as Phebre Road, but the context identifies it as the same street.
Name Origin
Phèdre is a dramatic tragedy, written by Jean Racine in 1677. It is based on the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus. It could be as simple as Phedre and Ankh-Morpork's hippos. "Feeder Road" is also the name of a real world road in Bristol, UK.
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Heathcare worker at Newark airport to be quarantined on Ebola fears
https://str.sg/3nhX
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A healthcare worker who had been treating patients in West Africa was detained at Newark Liberty International Airport and will be quarantined, in line with a new policy aimed at reducing risk from the Ebola virus, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on Friday.
"Her next stop was going to be here in New York," Mr Christie said during a news conference announcing the mandatory quarantine policy.
"A quarantine order will be issued." Christie's remarks about the quarantined healthcare worker were first reported by CNBC.


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Stop Having Not Read Oath of the Outcast: A Review
August 5, 2019 August 5, 2019 / theboethianacolyte
Rhys MacDuffy, even after seven years of banishment and memories of a cruel, unfair trial, can't shake the ties between him and his brother Sean, his former Clan's Seer. So when Sean is captured by the pretender Lord Adam, against his better judgment Rhys sets out to free his brother. He insists he's the Mountain Baron, a hardened magnate overseeing his fellow outcasts – but he accepts the mission to save his "former" brother, doesn't he?
If Katherine Kurtz and J. Ardian Lee teamed up to write a Terry Brooks-style fantasy novel, the result would be something like C.M. Banschbach's debut installment of The Dragon Keep Chronicles, Oath of the Outcast. The book's evocative cover art, with the cloaked silhouette of a man staring across the unforgiving rocks of a sloping mountainside at a mist-draped fortress, and its terse plot description delivers every promise it makes – a case where you should definitely judge a book by its cover. Like Terry Brooks, Banschbach has a Tolkienesque craft at detailed worldbuilding without clogging the on-the-ground prose with any more detail than is necessary to get you swept up into the motivations of the characters and the world in which they live. But the world is not the Anglo-Saxon-style Germanic culture of Middle Earth or Shannara's Four Lands; instead it draws its inspiration from the Scottish tradition of fantasy – not historical as with Ardian Lee, but instead creating for the reader a rich medieval Scottish culture that intertwines itself with intimate ramifications in the lives of the characters. This, in fact, is why I invoke Katherine Kurtz – as the mistress of politically themed high fantasy, Kurtz came to mind as I began to get glimpses of the political engines that drive the lives of characters in Banschbach's world.
Of course, I make no pretension to identifying sources for Banschbach's inspirations – she is every sentence and every paragraph her own writer. The rugged, almost Hemingwayesque prose runs lean, giving only the exposition necessary to help the reader appreciate the gravity of the drama, without seeming vague or elusive. The prose is, like the cover art, relentlessly concrete and tersely in keeping with the emotional clamps choking at the protagonist's voice (along with the literal scar that makes his voice raspy and deep). Impressively, too, the narrative provokes difficult philosophical, political, existential and even religious questions without an iota of baggy or pontifical prose.
It was in fact my abiding love for Scottish themed fantasy – from Joanna Baillie's Ghost of Fadon to J. Ardian Lee's historical fantasy to Highlander – that motivated my desire to read the book. And that William Wallace sense of stubborn, futile, heroically frustrating resistance to the powers around him marks the personality of Rhys MacDuffy deeply. And that desire was fully satisfied by the book to the point where I actually felt a sickening sense of anxiety where I realized I would have to wait a year before I could know how things would play out.
It's that suck-you-in-and-won't-let-go force of the plot, relentless action entwined around urgently real characters and a beautifully crafted world, that reminds me of Terry Brooks, but that's where the comparison stops. Well, there are druids in Alsaya, the world of Oath of the Outcast, but these are not Terry's benevolent (if sometimes slightly Machiavellian) undogmatic priests of learning and harmony. No, these are druids with the smell of the old sacrificial blood about them – like the religion of Ungit in Til We Have Faces if it was practiced by N.I.C.E. from That Hideous Strength. These druids are more like Brona and his Skullbearers, but in their cruel, cutthroat, and downright creepy fanaticism, Banschbach's druids remain unsettlingly human in their evil (whatever Deronis, their twisted 'god,' may be) every step of the way.
As a scholar of consolation literature (insert requisite reference to Boethius here), I can't help but mention the delicious literary device at work in Outcast: a son banished by his Clan goes to rescue his brother imprisoned by a maliciously ambitious politician. In The Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy uses Boethius's actual imprisonment at the hands of a tyrannical king as a philosophical metaphor for the imprisonment of the soul's inappropriate attachment to worldly goods. She uses, likewise, the metaphor of banishment to explain the idea of the true home: that there is an upright and fitting state of mind that will provide the truly wise man with the consolation of home regardless of where he is. Insofar as one has been "banished" from that true home of the mind, one can always return to it, and so break the soul free from its imprisonment to those worldly goods. Rhys "The Mountain Baron" MacDuffy is likewise faced with the question of whether he has a true home, and his internalized status as outcast leaves his decision to rescue his brother shot through with an existential angst that is as legitimate as it is painful. Meanwhile, the poetic contrast of Sean as a Seer who is unlimited by Time in his ability to See with his imprisonment provides a bitter irony in the face of the wicked druids' desire to twist Sean's powers to their use. And the Seer's abilities lend a Boethian flavor of potential fatalism to the narrative: if it's possible for a Seer to look ahead in time, then how much can the characters involved really change the outcome of anything?
Oath of the Outcast comes highly recommended, and I guarantee that when you get to the final page, you'll be hungry for next year's sequel, Blood of the Seer. So, as I wrote in my title, I suggest that you stop having not read Oath of the Outcast forthwith.
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Interview: Palisades
MEB staffer Rebecca Kravetz recently had the opportunity to interview Louis Miceli, lead vocalist of the metalcore group Palisades. They discussed the recent release of their album Outcasts, what ...
On May 28, 2013 / By Rebecca Kravetz
Tilian: Material Me
It's been nearly three years since we've – officially – heard Tilian Pearson's voice on a track he can call his own. Since his departure from Tides of ...
On April 5, 2013 / By Steve Alcala
10 You Should Know: Vocalists
After a very pleasant year of mostly newer artists, where the heavyweights decided to take a step back and allow some fresh faces to grace us with their ...
On December 28, 2012 / By Jarrod Church
Hands Like Houses: Ground Dweller
I first heard of Canberra, Australia's Hands Like Houses through a random chain of links on iTunes that led me from some album I already liked to another ...
On March 29, 2012 / By Jacob Testa
Tyler Carter, Hance Alligood comment on new Woe, Is Me song, "Vengeance"
When Woe, Is Me announced Hance Alligood as their new vocalist, the band released snippets of their then-upcoming track "Vengeance." Former singer Tyler Carter responded shortly after, noting ...
On September 27, 2011 / By Jack Appleby
Thoughts on new Woe Is Me song: "Vengeance"
More than a few wondered if Tyler Carter's departure from Woe, Is Me spelled doom for the band. The singer was the prince of R&B-core (the heir of ...
Interview: Tyler Carter
Since the man left his post as Woe, Is Me's clean singer, Tyler Carter has been busy working on his smooth solo career. We asked the man about ...
Hance Alligood (Oh, Manhattan) replaces Tyler Carter (Woe, Is Me) in… A Path Less Traveled.
UPDATE: Nailed it. Woe, Is Me have officially announced Hance Alligood (ex-Oh, Manhattan as their new vocalist. We've been keeping you posted on ex-Oh, Manhattan vocalist Hance Alligood ...
Replacing Tyler Carter: The Search For The New Woe, Is Me Vocalist
It was only a matter of time. After two years with Woe, Is Me, clean vocalist Tyler Carter left the band to pursue a poppier lifestyle more akin ...
On September 8, 2011 / By Jack Appleby


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function testLevelDB
%TESTLEVELDB Test the functionality of LevelDB wrapper.
  addpath(fileparts(fileparts(mfilename('fullpath'))));
  tests = {...
    'testOperations', ...
    'testBatchAPI', ...
    'testIteratorAPI', ...
    'testDumpAPI' ...
  };
  database = leveldb.DB('_testdb');
  for i = 1:numel(tests)
    runTest(tests{i}, database);
  end
  clear database;
  if exist('_testdb', 'dir')
    rmdir('_testdb', 's');
  end
end

function runTest(test, database)
  fprintf('=== %s ===\n', test);
  try
    feval(str2func(test), database);
    fprintf('SUCCESS\n');
  catch exception
    fprintf('FAIL: %s\n', exception.identifier);
    disp(exception.getReport());
  end
end

function testOperations(database)
  value = database.get('some-key');
  assert(isempty(value));
  database.put('another-key', 'foo');
  value = database.get('another-key');
  assert(strcmp(value, 'foo'));
end

function testBatchAPI(database)
  batch = leveldb.WriteBatch();
  batch.put('a', 'b');
  batch.put('yet-another-key', 'bar');
  batch.remove('a');
  database.write(batch);
end

function testIteratorAPI(database)
  database.each(@(key, value) disp([key, ':', value]));
  foo_counter = @(key, value, accum) accum + strcmp(value, 'foo');
  foo_count = database.reduce(foo_counter, 0);
  it = database.iterator();
  it.first();
  while it.next()
    fprintf('%s: %s\n', it.key, it.value);
  end
  it.last();
  while it.previous()
    fprintf('%s: %s\n', it.key, it.value);
  end
  clear it;
  fprintf('Number of ''foo'': %d\n', foo_count);
end

function testDumpAPI(database)
  disp(database.keys());
  disp(database.values());
end

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For our next event, we will return to the shores of Hamadryad Park.
This park is always a hot-spot for litter and floating debris, especially under the flyover.
Don't forget it's Christmas, so some festive wear would be appreciated. Perhaps a Christmassy hat?
For anyone that fancies a well-earned pint afterwards, no doubt we'll be setting up camp in Grange Catholics (everyone welcome), as they are one of the few places that welcomes muddy people.
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Low-power Circuits for the Bidirectional Wireless Monitoring System of the Orthopedic Implants
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Dec, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 23853291
A Phase II Trial of Vinorelbine Plus Gemcitabine in Previously Untreated Inoperable (stage IIIb/IV) Non-small-cell Lung Cancer Patients Aged 80 or Older
Lung Cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands). May, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12711125
A Multicenter Phase II Trial of Vinorelbine Plus Gemcitabine in Previously Untreated Inoperable (Stage IIIB/IV) Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Chest. Jun, 2000 | Pubmed ID: 10858387
Gemcitabine Versus the Combination of Cisplatin and Etoposide in Patients with Inoperable Non-small-cell Lung Cancer in a Phase II Randomized Study
Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. May, 1997 | Pubmed ID: 9164223
Bile Duct Injury and Bile Leakage in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
The British Journal of Surgery. Dec, 1993 | Pubmed ID: 8298933
Photoselective Vaporesection of the Prostate via an End-firing Lithium Triborate Crystal Laser
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Engineering Platform and Experimental Protocol for Design and Evaluation of a Neurally-controlled Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis
Fan Zhang1, Ming Liu1, Stephen Harper2,3, Michael Lee3, He Huang1
1Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 3Atlantic Prosthetics & Orthotics, LLC


Have you ever heard about bitcoin faucet? Probably no. There is no connection with your bathroom or water. Bitcoin faucet is a free service which gives its visitors little sums of money. We're talking about bitcoins, of course, so you're going to get small piece of a cryptocurrency coin using this website. Usually, users get sums equal to 1,000, 2,000 or 3,000 satoshi which are about 0.00001-0.00003 BTC, not very much. If you are looking for some free coins, just use this website, register, solve a CAPTCHA and take a tiny piece of a coin.
Now seriously, Bitcoin faucet is quite an old website which was made when Bitcoin wasn't so popular and wide-spread. It was unfamiliar to the audience, it was something completely new for people, and consequently there had to be a way to make it well-known. The simplest way to spread something is to give it for free. Bitcoin faucet was very clever when cryptocurrency wasn't too expensive, and at the time a hundred bitcoins were equal to 0.53 cents.
Bitcoin faucet was quite a good idea then, but now tiny gifts of 1,000 or even 3,000 satoshi are not very interesting for users. Prices have risen since that time, making it impossible to give free bitcoins today. They are too valued, and this is why they give such a small piece of a coin each hour.
Feed Zebra and Have Fun!
So, this faucet was a very interesting example of product's promotion. Now it's just a funny game.
You feed a zebra with your email address or online-wallet then solve an easy CAPTCHA and get few coins for your wallet. You will probably never manage to buy anything with them but it's still fun. Just feed a zebra and get some coins!


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$P(A)\cup P(B) = P(A\cup B)$.
Prove that for all sets $A$ and $B$, if $A=B$ then $P(A)\cup P(B) = P(A\cup B)$.
Solution: Suppose $A=B \implies P(A) = P(B) \implies P(A) \cup P(B) = P(A)$ and $P(A \cup B) = P(A \cup A) = P(A)$.
Thus, $P(A) \cup P(B) = P(A) = P(B) = P(A \cup B)$
By containment (or inclusion), let $X \in P(A \cup B) \implies X \subseteq (A \cup B).$
$\implies X \subseteq (A \cup A) = (B \cup B) \implies X \subseteq A=B$.
$\implies X \in P(A) = P(B) \implies X \in P(A) \cup P(B)$.
$\implies P(A \cup B) \subseteq P(A) \cup P(B)$.
As $P(A \cup B) \supseteq P(A) \cup P(B)$. Thus, $P(A) \cup P(B) = P(A \cup B)$.

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We know things have been a bit sketchy in terms of lengths/recording quality etc, but we think we've finally arrived at a nice little format for you to digest every Thursday at 7pm. All future shows will be around 60-80 minute mark, and will be full of music/chat/fun.
We know things have been a bit sketchy in terms of lengths/recording quality etc, but we think we've finally arrived at a nice little format for you to digest every Thursday at 7pm. All future shows will be around 60-90 minute mark, and will be full of music/chat/fun. Our schedule will run on a two week basis, with Tim Boddy (Photo Editor) posting hosting proceedings one week, and Hector Barley (New Music Editor) the other week. Both will have help from James Canham (mix of styles), Dan Cook (What's Cooking?), Will Slater (folk show), Wil Cook (mix of styles), Patrick Mills (mix of styles), Steve Boniface (Labelled Independent), 'Track Of The Week' robot and a few more.
This week we have some music from Hot Chip, Psychologist, Active Child, Air France, Neon Indian, Princeton, LightGuides, Oni Ayhun, Jensen Sportag, Beirut and a load more. We also have a film section from Danny Wadeson, the 'Track Of The Week' robot, Labelled Independent and a session from Big Deal.
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I am running ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. How do I upgrade to ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386?
i am running ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. How do I go about upgrading to ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386, which I downloaded onto a memory stick?
The best option would be to do a fresh installation of Ubuntu.
This can be done by booting into the memory stick and running the installer with settings set to replace the previous installation.
Ubuntu's installer should handle all the partitioning and such for you.
There is no way to upgrade directly from 10.10 to 12.04.


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50 Mystery and Detective Masterpieces you have to Read Before you Die vol: 2
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Pocket-sized sensor for controlled, quantitative and instantaneous color acquisition of plant leaves
Camila Silva Borges, David Weindorf, Bin Li
Earth And Atmospheric Sciences
Geography & Environmental Studies
The color of plant leaves can be assessed qualitatively by color charts or after processing of digital images. This pilot study employed a novel pocket-sized sensor to obtain the color of plant leaves. In order to assess its performance, a color-dependent parameter (SPAD index) was used as the dependent variable, since there is a strong correlation between SPAD index and greenness of plant leaves. A total of 1,872 fresh and intact leaves from 13 crops were analyzed using a SPAD-502 meter and scanned using the Nix™ Pro color sensor. The color was assessed via RGB and CIELab systems. The full dataset was divided into calibration (70% of data) and validation (30% of data). For each crop and color pattern, multiple linear regression (MLR) analysis and multivariate modeling [least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), and elastic net (ENET) regression] were employed and compared. The obtained MLR equations and multivariate models were then tested using the validation dataset based on r, R2, root mean squared error (RMSE), and mean absolute error (MAE). In both RGB and CIELab color systems, the Nix™ Pro color sensor was able to differentiate crops, and the SPAD indices were successfully predicted, mainly for mango, quinoa, peach, pear, and rice crops. Validation results indicated that ENET performed best in most crops (e.g., coffee, corn, mango, pear, rice, and soy) and very close to MLR in bean, grape, peach, and quinoa. The correlation between SPAD and greenness is crop-dependent. Overall, the Nix™ Pro color sensor was a fast, sensible and an easy way to obtain leaf color directly in the field, constituting a reliable alternative to digital camera imagery and associated image processing.
Journal of Plant Physiology
Dive into the research topics of 'Pocket-sized sensor for controlled, quantitative and instantaneous color acquisition of plant leaves'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Crops Agricultural and Biological Sciences 100%
Leaves Agricultural and Biological Sciences 100%
Pear Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33%
Mango Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33%
Correlation Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33%
Peach Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33%
Calibration Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16%
Regression Analysis Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16%
Borges, C. S., Weindorf, D., & Li, B. (2022). Pocket-sized sensor for controlled, quantitative and instantaneous color acquisition of plant leaves. Journal of Plant Physiology, 272, 153686.
Borges, Camila Silva ; Weindorf, David ; Li, Bin. / Pocket-sized sensor for controlled, quantitative and instantaneous color acquisition of plant leaves. In: Journal of Plant Physiology. 2022 ; Vol. 272. pp. 153686.
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The most common type of cerebellar neoplasm is the pilocytic astrocytoma; anaplastic astrocytoma and GBM in the cerebellum are rare, which have appeared only in case reports. Of these, those presenting as CPA mass are even more uncommon. ,, Primarily the tumours presenting as CPA are extra-axial; and rarely, a tumour arising from the brain parenchyma may become exophytic and manifest in the CPA. Acoustic tumours comprise 80-90% of CPA lesions and the largest portion of the remaining are meningiomas, epidermoids, lipomas, metastasis and other uncommon tumours. ,,, Regardless of the site of origin, tumours in the CPA present with sign and symptoms resulting from compression of fifth, seventh and eighth cranial nerves and lateral aspect of pons and cerebellar peduncle. Intra-axial lesions of posterior fossa generally differ from extra-axial lesions by having more profound deficits (e.g, hydrocephalus, long tract signs, rapid onset and progression of multiple cranial nerves). Imaging by MRI is usually of great help in differentiating extra-axial and intra-axial lesions. As the surgical and adjunctive management differs in both types, preoperative diagnosis is of great importance.
A 15-year-old girl presented with a 2-month history of giddiness, headache and vomiting for the last one month. She had rapid deterioration thereafter and was admitted to the hospital in emergency. On examination, she was conscious but complained of severe headache and fundi showed papilloedema bilaterally. Cranial nerve examination revealed bilateral sixth paresis with left seventh minimal paresis and reduced hearing on the left side. In addition, she had bilateral cerebellar signs, left more than right. Although her vitals were stable, she was dehydrated and her clinical examination fitted the working diagnosis of CPA meningioma except for the short duration of complaints. She had come with a CT scan done outside, which showed a rounded, apparently dural-based, lesion that was hyper-dense on the non-contrast CT and enhanced homogeneously on contrast [Figure - 1]. Considering her sick condition, she was not investigated further and after correcting the dehydration with intravenous fluids, she was taken up for surgery next morning. Left retromastoid craniectomy was done; brain became lax after draining CSF. After gentle retraction of cerebellum, a pink, fleshy, moderately vascular tumour was seen, which was apparently encapsulated on the lateral aspect but had indistinct margins on the cerebellar side. To our surprise, seventh and eighth nerve complex was seen separate from the tumour. At this time, a frozen section was sent, which was reported as medulloblastoma (?). A gross total resection was done using microsurgical technique preventing with minimal handling of cranial nerves. Microscopic examination of the tumour showed oval and polygonal cells with moderate amount of cytoplasm, admixed with tumour giant cells. There were areas of necrosis and moderate endothelial proliferation, suggestive of glioblastoma multiforme [Figure - 2]. Immunohistochemistry for GFAP was positive but negative for synaptophysin.
Postoperative course was uneventful and her hearing and facial paresis improved immediately and sixth nerve paresis improved over the next few days. Cerebellar signs worsened on the left side, as expected, but improved gradually over a period of 2 w. She was referred to the Department of Radiotherapy for further management. She was doing well at follow-up of 3 months.
This case demonstrates that an exophytic cerebellar tumour can closely resemble both clinical and radiological character of the extra-axial mass in the CPA. It is of great importance to differentiate the two before surgery. For extra-axial lesions like acoustic, complete excision is curative, but for intra-axial tumours like medulloblastomas and GBM, surgical approach varies from gross total to subtotal resection followed by postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Aggressive surgery particularly in exophytic brain stem masses may be devastating.
Primary cerebellar or brainstem tumours may occupy CPA through either of the two paths: lateral extension from the fourth ventricle through foramen of Luschka or direct exophytic growth from the site of origin. It is for the prudent clinician to realize the subtle clinical features of CPA lesions that suggest an intra-axial mass. A short duration of symptoms and rapid progression to brainstem dysfunction and hydrocephalus (like in the present case) are suggestive of a parenchymal lesion rather than extra-axial mass. Also an intra-axial lesion should be suspected when hydrocephalus accompanies a moderate-size CPA tumour. There remains a substantial overlap in the clinical presentation of intra-axial and extra-axial lesions in the CPA and radiological investigations may prove to be of great help. Irregularity of the interface between the mass and adjacent brain is the most important feature on MRI to distinguish the two; however, one should remember that with longstanding extra-axial lesion, the interface might be blurred because of encephalomalacia., Bright signal intensity within the adjacent brain and dilation of lateral recess of fourth ventricle may indicate intra-axial lesion. Kulkarni et al reported four cases of cerebellar GBM and in their patients, the CT and MRI showed relatively little oedema and invariable discrete border with normal brain. Precontrast CT density was also variable and not specific. They showed that malignant tumours are of large size at the time of presentation (>40 mm in their series) and have short duration of symptoms. Radiological picture alone may not be a perfect guide to the diagnosis. However in our case, we did not have the advantage of MRI as the child was sick and routine MRI would have delayed surgical treatment and we thought that the clinical picture corresponds to the radiological diagnosis and probably, MRI was thought not necessary. This case gives a lesson not to ignore the subtle clinical features of malignancy and also not to underestimate our clinical skills when confronted with strong radiological evidence.
4. Kuriowa T, Numaguchi Y, Rothman MI, Zoarski GH, Morikawa M, Zagardo MT, et al. Posterior fossa glioblastoma multiforme: MR Findings. AJNR AM J Neuroradiol 1995;16:583-9.
6. Moffat DA, Saunders JE, Mcelveen JT, Mcferran, Hardy DG. Unusual cerebellopontine angle tumors. J Laryngol Otol 1993;107:1087-98.
8. Bartels LJ, Arrington JR. Rare tumors of the cerebellopontine angle. In : Jackler RK, Brackmann DE, ediutors. Neurotology. Mosby-Year Book: Chicago; 1994. p. 835-61.
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4 senators defend selves regarding links with Kenneth Dong | Inquirer News
4 senators defend selves regarding links with Kenneth Dong
INQUIRER.net / 04:06 PM August 09, 2017
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief, Gen. Isidro Lapena, answers Sen. Dick Gordon's question during the resumption of the Senate hearing on the P6.4 billion shabu shipment seized by the Bureau of Customs. INQUIRER / Grig C. Montegrande
Four senators on Wednesday confirmed reports linking them to Filipino-Chinese businessman Kenneth Dong, the middleman in the delivery of 604-kilogram shabu from China into the country.
This development came after the Senate blue ribbon committee holds an inquiry on the drug shipment that passed through the system of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) last May. Dong, for the first time, attended the hearing.
Dong was allegedly the middleman who dealt with broker Mark Taguba in the shipment from China that contained P6.4 billion worth of shabu.
Reports earlier claimed that Senators Miguel Zubiri, Risa Hontiveros, Senator Francis Pangilinan, and Senate President Pro-tempore Ralph Recto, stood as principal sponsors in Dong's wedding in 2013.
He also contributed in the campaign of Senator Joel Villanueva for the senatorial elections last May.
In separate statements, Zubiri, Hontiveros, Pangilinan and Villanueva confirmed reports that they had connections with Dong.
Zubiri admitted that he was a principal sponsor at Dong's wedding but said he has not seen him since last December. He said he considers Dong a "friend."
"I got to know Mr. Kenneth Dong when a friend introduced him to me several years ago. I was told that he is a legitimate businessman and an importer of Asuki industrial weighing scales. I consider him a friend but I do not know what his dealings and businesses are except for his ownership of Asuki," Zubiri said in a statement.
"He made me 'ninong' at his wedding and I was only one of many senators, politicians and celebrities who were asked to be principal sponsor. I have not seen him since last Christmas, close to eight months ago. As a public servant, I meet a lot of people and do not prejudge them," he continued.
But the senator stressed he does not condone any illegal act, especially if this involves drugs, adding that he was one of the principal authors of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.
"I always believe that no one is above the law. Should there be any evidence of Mr. Dong's involvement in the said illegal drug trade, he should be brought to the bar of justice," Zubiri said.
"If anyone breaks the law then, without fear or favor, friend or not, the law must be implemented and, if found guilty, should be arrested," he said.
Legitimate businessman
Hontiveros, meanwhile, said she met Dong in 2012, who was introduced to her as a legitimate businessman selling industrial weighing scales.
She said Dong also helped in her senatorial campaign, as well as in her relief operations for the victims of Supertyphoon Yolanda.
"Noong 2013, ako, kasama ng mga kapwa ko senador gaya nina Senators Migz Zubiri, Kiko Pangilinan at Ralph Recto, ay naimbitahan mag-ninong at ninang sa kanyang kasal. Kaya't pare-pareho kaming nagulat ng mabanggit ang kanyang pangalan sa Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing (In 2013, me and my fellow senators like Senators Migz Zubiri, Kiko Pangilinan and Ralph Recto, were invited to stand as godfather and godmother for his wedding. That is why we were shocked when his name was implicated in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing)," she said in a statement.
The senator said she will "not tolerate any accusations of irregularity that will smear my personal integrity and record of service to the people."
"Inaasahan ko na pawang katotohanan lamang at walang halong kasinungalingan ang sasabihin ni Kenneth Dong sa Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing para sagutin ang mga seryosong akusasyon laban sa kanya (I am expecting that pure truth and no lies will be divulged by Kenneth Dong in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing so he can answer the accusations hurled against him)," she said.
Pangilinan, although he denied that Dong donated to his campaign, confirmed that he was one of the sponsors during the latter's wedding.
"No he wasn't a campaign donor. I met Mr. Kenneth Dong when I was chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food during my second term as senator. I was the keynote speaker during the International Agri Tourism Summit upon his invitation. In November 2013, I became one of the sponsors during his wedding," Pangilinan said in a statement.
If Dong has nothing to hide, Pangilinan urged him to face the investigation and tell the truth.
"I read in the papers that Kenneth insists on his innocence. If so, then he has nothing to hide and should answer the accusations by just telling the truth. We will not condone wrongdoing. We believe those wrongly accused should be absolved and those guilty be held to account regardless of who they are," Pangilinan said.
No interaction with Dong
Villanueva, for his part, said Dong indeed contributed to his campaign but did not know the businessman personally.
"I met Mr. Kenneth Dong when I was invited to grace the opening of the 1st International Agriculture and Tourism Expo on June 30, 2011 at the World Trade Center. We talked about the agricultural programs of TESDA being the agency's director general at the time," Villanueva said in a statement.
"Since then, I never had a substantial meeting or interaction with Mr. Dong," he said.
During the campaign, Villanueva said Dong was one of the businessmen who contributed when he was doing fund raising activities.
But Villanueva reiterated that he never had a personal interaction with Dong since it's his campaign team who was the one receiving all the contributions for his campaign.
"My conscience is clear. I barely know Mr. Dong. I don't have his number, we never talk on the phone," he said.
The senator said he supports the congressional hearings that would get to the bottom of the issue, particularly the extent of Dong's participation in the drug shipment.
"However, we want to know the truth. We want to find out if Mr. Dong is really involved in this and up to what extent. At the end of the day, this is not just about drugs, this is about destroying the morals of our society especially our young people. I cannot just sit here and not take part on getting to the bottom of this issue. It's good that Mr. Dong attended the hearing today so he can answer all the accusations hurled against him," he said. JPV
Car hits soldiers outside Paris, 6 injured—police
TAGS: Bureau of Customs, businessman Kenneth Dong, China, Senate of the Philippines, shabu shipment


The Buzz Blog shares the benefits of using shared computing solutions in the classroom.
Nigel Tufnel, from the band Spinal Tap, isn't the only person with a device that can go to 11. Although many schools know a one-to-one netbook program would be ideal, many of these same schools are cutting back their technology spending in light of the economic downturn; therefore, a one-to-one program may not be a feasible option for your school or district at this time. But wouldn't it be great if you could wave a magic wand, sprinkle some fairy dust, and drop waaaay less money on technology this year by converting a single classroom PC into...drum roll please...dramatic pause...one that can serve up to 11 students?-- "Did he say eleven students?" Yes, he did. Nigel Tufnel's amp went to 11, and now-- so can your PC.
In a white paper on NComputing's X-Series 11-user environment, a typical classroom scenario confirmed that even a basic host PC can power up to 11 users simultaneously executing productivity, office and multimedia applications with memory resources to spare.
Reality check: All users can't be running video production suites and process-labor intensive applications like Photoshop simultaneously, but the fact is, average individuals aren't doing that kind of work anyway. Average people utilize only a small fraction of the processing and memory performance provided in today's PCs, leaving available capacity that can be used for shared computing and virtual desktops. In addition, the NComputing solution provides on going management and power savings that is many times better than the traditional PC model. The bottom line is, if you have some spare monitors just laying around, and want to stretch your tech dollars in the short run while you ramp up for a future 1-to-1 roll out in the long run, for what you'd pay for two or three netbooks, you can serve up to 11 students.
Note: Microsoft does not provide any support for vSpace or for the Windows XP operating system in this configuration; you should seek support from NComputing for issues relating to vSpace and its use with the Windows XP Client operating system.
"It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. Where can you go from there? Where? What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Eleven. Exactly. One louder." -Nigel Tufnel (This Is Spinal Tap).


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Am seeing the following in console when running app build with iOS 11 GM SDK. Would appear SDK making call on background thread that shouldn't be. Are you aware and if so ETA on a fix?
This is not an iOS 11 issue per se. We have extensively tested the v100.1 runtime with some of the iOS 11 betas and the recent GM and found no issues that affect functionality or usability of apps built with the runtime. This message is developer warning being generated by Xcode 9 because it has a new main-thread-checker that is enabled by default to look for potential problems in accessing Apple's UIKit APIs. It has flagged a couple of instances where we need to tweak how we use these APIs and be fully compliant with Apple's guidance. We are working on it and hope to release an update soon that should be free of any warnings, but in the meantime don't let it prevent you from supporting iOS 11 for your apps. Based on our testing, we are confident that the existing runtime works just as well on iOS 11.
Thanks for the above info. Are you planning to release ArcGIS 10.2.5 version also? My app is still using older SDK. Kindly share your thoughts on older ArcGIS sdk release. Thank you!
Thanks for prompt feedback - agree doesn't appear to effect stability (and have had a couple of similar occurrences in our own code whereby perfectly reliable code now warns about this).


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House Democrats Attempt to Force Funding of Abortion Overseas
House Democrats want to reinstate taxpayer funding for abortion overseas in their Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019 during a government shutdown.
Grassley Sworn In As Senate President Pro Tempore
abortion funding,
American Principles Project,
Concerned Women for America,
House Democrats,
Majorie Dannenfelser,
Mexico City Policy,
Nancy Pelosi,
Penny Nance,
SBA List,
Terry Schilling
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Democrats believe the way to end the government shutdown is to force taxpayers to fund abortion. Currently, there are Obamacare exchange insurance providers who provide coverage for elective abortion, but the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019 repeals President Trump's Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, which stops U.S. taxpayer funding of the abortion industry overseas.
Pro-life groups condemned the attempt to reinstate funding of overseas abortion at taxpayer expense.
"On day one of the new Congress, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are already trying to foist a radical pro-abortion agenda on the nation," SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a released statement. "A strong majority of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. Acting on the clearly expressed will of the American people, President Trump and his administration have taken a bold stand for life by stopping billions of dollars in foreign aid from being used to push abortion overseas. The House's spending bill would repeal this successful pro-life policy, making taxpayers complicit in the exportation of abortion and destruction of countless unborn children around the world. This is unconscionable and we oppose the bill in the strongest terms."
"The price of a deal to end the government shutdown should not be tearing down the wall that protects American taxpayers from subsidizing the international abortion industry. In expanding the Mexico City Policy early in his administration, President Trump sent a strong message that he will defend the unborn and support the vast majority of Americans who do not want their tax dollars paying for abortion at home or abroad," Penny Nance, CEO/President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, stated.
"The Democrat's Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019 unmasks the real agenda of liberals in Congress – to promote the radical policies of pro-abortion activists, including Speaker Pelosi, whose unabashed agenda is to prop up the abortion industry even as young Americans today embrace what science dictates: Abortion kills children," she added.
"Democrats are once again showing their true colors and priorities with this legislation–Americans will not only have to subsidize the abortion industry here at home, but also support its spread worldwide. We've just barely entered 2019, and already the Democrats' extreme prejudice against the unborn is on full display. All Americans who stand for protecting life should strongly oppose this bill," Terry Schilling, executive director of American Principles Project, told Caffeinated Thoughts.
President Trump reinstated what has been known as the Mexico City Policy when he took office in 2017, but he also expanded the policy.
The Trump Administration modernized the policy. President Trump directed the Secretary of State to implement a plan to extend the Mexico City Policy across all global health assistance funding. That language was not present in previous executive orders.
He also directed the Secretary of State to ensure U.S. taxpayer dollars do not support organizations that support or participate in the management of a coercive abortion program like the United Nationals Population Fund. They have a long history of supporting the Chinese population control program, which has included forced abortions.
Should Senate Republicans capitulate all of that will be undone. Republicans will have an opportunity to draw a line in the sand on abortion funding as the government shutdown over a border wall continues.
A Marist/Knights of Columbus poll conducted in December of 2016 showed that 83 percent of Americans oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to support abortion overseas. Also, 61 percent of Americans oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to support abortion in the United States. A poll they conducted in January of 2018 showed that 60 percent of Americans oppose the use of taxpayer funding for abortion.
This move by House Democrats is definitely outside the mainstream.
Larry Redding says:
While I oppose abortion, considering it to be murder, I leave it to individual choice.
However, to force the American taxpayer to subsidize abortion, here or abroad, is wrong.
And unconstitutional!
No one, no government, no entity whatsoever, has the right to use other persons money to fund abortion. That means taxpayer monies.
A simple question on tax returns, such as the question about contribution to the presidential election fund, would allow those wishing to support abortion to do so without forcing everyone to.
Jeanne Hipp says:
Ex-Pres. Obama forced (either Kenya or Nigeria – I forget which) to include abortion in their Constitution or forfeit any financial support from us! This is not new!
Sondland: There Was Quid Pro Quo
Ambassador Gordon Sondland: "Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret. Everyone was informed via email on July 19, days before the Presidential call."
Democratic Platform Most Anti-Life Platform In History
NIFLA President Thomas Glessner said that the 2020 Democratic National Convention approved the most "anti-life" platform in history.
American Medicine and The 2019 State of the Union Address
Dr. Jane Orient: After his inspiring call to greatness, the Democrat opposition and its allies in the media have virtually declared war on the President and all who support him or his principles.
Dr. Jane Orient
Robert Mueller Exits DOJ With First Statement About the Russia Investigation
Robert Mueller: "There were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. That allegation deserves the attention of every American."


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Jacques Tchamkerten est né le  à Genève (Suisse) est un musicologue, organiste et ondiste suisse.

Biographie
Jacques Tchamkerten étudie l'orgue avec Pierre Segond au Conservatoire de Genève, puis les Ondes Martenot auprès de Jeanne Loriod au conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (France) où il obtient une médaille d'or à l'unanimité en 1986. Il est actuellement le seul ondiste de Suisse.

Jacques Tchamkerten s'est produit avec orchestre ou avec formation de musique de chambre dans une dizaine de pays européens. Il a notamment fait partie, de 1990 à 1996, du Sextuor Jeanne-Loriod, un ensemble de six ondes Martenot. Il a enregistré de multiples disques, principalement des œuvres de Messiaen, Honegger, Ibert, Varese, etc.

En outre, Jacques Tchamkerten est responsable de la Bibliothèque du Conservatoire de musique de Genève, et poursuit parallèlement ses activités dans la musicologie. Il a notamment écrit plusieurs livres sur les compositeurs Arthur Honegger, Ernest Bloch, Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, etc., et de nombreux articles et ouvrages sur la musique en Suisse Romande et en France de la fin du   et du début du  siècle. Il a reçu en 2011 le prix de la Fondation Pierre et Louisa Meylan pour l'ensemble de ses travaux.

Œuvres
 Emile Jaques-Dalcroze compositeur, éd. La Baconnière, ,
 Emile Jaques-Dalcroze : Catalogue thématique des chansons, rondes et mélodies par Jacques Tchamkerten, éd. Papillon (Genève), 2000,
 Ernest Bloch ou Un prophète en son temps, éd. Papillon (Genève), ,
 Arthur Honegger ou l'inquiétude de l'espérance, éd. Papillon (Genève), ,

Notes et références

Liens externes
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Naissance à Genève
Naissance en décembre 1960
Organiste classique suisse
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Vienna's public open air Film Festival offers classical and modern cultural highlights in front of City Hall in Vienna until September 3rd. It's not just about sitting in front of a huge screen and watching concerts and operas. There's also a decent food court featuring 22 restaurants and food outlets open daily from 11am 'til midnight. But not a sign of fast food in sight, as all dishes will be freshly prepared. The emphasis is on foods of organic origin from the region.
Close to the underground stations Rathaus (U2) and Volkstheater (U3/U2) it's easy to reach within 25 minutes from any wombat's CITY HOSTEL in Vienna. If you don't make it to Vienna by September maybe you'd like to visit Viennale, Vienna's most famous Film Festival.
Come to Vienna this June and join over 3 million visitors in seeing 2,000 performers at the Danube Island Festival! The dates of the festival are 23 to 25 June 2017.
International headliners such as Mando Diao and Moop Mama mix with German stars like Fettes Brot and Austrian artists, p.e. Julian le Play and Der Nino aus Wien. Saturday will feature a Falco Tribute on the main stages. There will also be activities and events like speed climbing, volleyball, sailboat races, and a Freestyle Mountain Bike Show.
There will be over 250 vendor stands where you can get delicious food and beer. You can also bring your own beer (if it's in cans, not bottles), as well as your own food.
Read more on the Vienna tourism site (English) and the Danube Island Festival's website (German). In the Vienna underground stations, you can also usually find a free newspaper that has a map of the event. You might want to pick up one of those maps, because the festival is several kilometers long.
If you´re visiting Vienna these days you´ll have to face moody autumn weather. May be the best way to escape fog and rain is to take advantage of the Viennale, Austria´s most important Film Festival. Last year The Guardian commented on the Viennale: "If the prime purpose of a film festival is to open up exciting new vistas and present work one is unlikely to see elsewhere, then Vienna in autumn is the place to be." So you obviously chose the right place to be.
The international Film Festival takes place since 1960 and offers a broad spectrum of artistic movies from around the globe. Many movies are shown in original language (subtitled in german). Commonly it is known for the variety of movies, serving the needs of main stream and more critical minded cineasts.


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Io prima di te è un romanzo dell'autrice inglese Jojo Moyes pubblicato nel 2012. Esso tratta della nascente relazione romantica tra Louisa Clarke, una ragazza inglese dalla vita modesta, e Will Traynor, ricco e scostante genio della finanza rimasto quadriplegico a seguito di un incidente stradale, cui Louisa fa da assistente. Alla trama principale si affiancano altri temi, quali la ricerca della propria individualità, il senso del tempo, il vivere la malattia e l'eutanasia.

Nel 2016 il romanzo è stato trasposto nell'omonimo film diretto da Thea Sharrock.

Trama
Louisa Clarke ha ventisei anni e una vita priva di ambizioni. Vive in un paesino della campagna inglese, è fidanzata da sette anni con Patrick, preparatore atletico, e passa da un lavoro all'altro per sostenere la famiglia, perennemente in ristrettezze economiche (il padre di Louisa ha appena perduto il lavoro e sua sorella è una ragazza madre che ha ripreso gli studi). Unica nota di colore nella sua vita sono gli abiti eccentrici e colorati che indossa.

Quando la sala da tè dove lavora sta per chiudere, Lou è costretta a cercarsi un nuovo lavoro. Dopo molti tentativi viene assunta dalla ricca famiglia Traynor per fare da assistente al loro figlio William, un giovane rimasto tetraplegico dopo essere stato vittima di un incidente stradale.
In principio William, che a seguito dell'incidente è diventato un uomo iroso e scostante, non vuole avere a che fare con Lou e le rende le cose difficili, ma i due riescono infine a instaurare un rapporto di amicizia.

Nel corso del suo lavoro, Lou si rende conto di come l'incidente di Will e il suo stato attuale abbiano distrutto la sua vita; difatti la famiglia di William si sta sgretolando e lui stesso, che prima era un giovane brillante e realizzato, ha interrotto qualsiasi sua attività e contatto con i suoi conoscenti e il mondo intero, al punto da decidere di recarsi in una clinica in Svizzera per praticare il suicidio assistito. Camilla, la madre di Will, spera tuttavìa che la presenza di Lou nella vita del figlio possa convincerlo che la sua vita ha ancora un valore.

Louisa decide dunque di dimostrare a Will che ci sono ancora molte gioie della vita di cui si può godere, e a tale scopo organizza insieme alla sorella Treena un piano di uscite, eventi e gite a cui far partecipare Will.
Nel corso di queste uscite Will e Lou hanno modo di condividere le loro esperienze e si avvicinano sempre di più: Will ricorda dei momenti felici del suo passato e sprona Lou a non restare troppo vincolata al suo luogo e alla sua famiglia d'origine e a fare qualcosa di grandioso della sua vita, e in cambio Louisa gli confida di aver ridotto le sue ambizioni di vita dopo essere stata vittima di uno stupro.
In seguito i due partecipano insieme al matrimonio di Alicia, l'ex fidanzata che William ha lasciato dopo l'incidente, ove Will dice a Lou che lei è la sola ragione per cui Will si sveglia ogni mattina.
Lou, che si è innamorata di Will, lascia il suo fidanzato storico e organizza un viaggio a Parigi per portare Will nel luogo che lui ha definito essere il posto che preferisce al mondo, ma una polmonite costringe Will a rinunciare al viaggio. Lou organizza allora un viaggio con Will alle isole Mauritius, ove i due si confrontano con i loro sentimenti e con la decisione di Will del suicidio assistito. Will ammette di amare Lou, ma dichiara di non volerla vincolare a lui o passare il resto della sua vita su una sedia a rotelle, motivo per cui proseguirà con il suo piano di suicidio. Nello scoprire che la posizione di Will non è cambiata, Lou si licenzia e interrompe ogni contatto con lui.

Alla vigilia della partenza di Will per la Svizzera, i due si ricongiungono e riconoscono che i sei mesi passati insieme sono stati il periodo più felice delle loro vite.
Will muore poco dopo. Louisa, cui Will ha lasciato un'eredità considerevole, si stacca dalla famiglia e cerca di fare qualcosa di speciale della sua vita. Nella scena finale del romanzo la si vede a Parigi, nel posto preferito di Will, mentre legge una lettera in cui lui le augura di vivere felicemente.

Adattamento cinematografico
Nel 2016 è uscito Io prima di te (film), trasposizione cinematografica del romanzo diretta da Thea Sharrock. Nel ruolo di Louisa troviamo Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin in quello di Will.

Sequel
Nel 2016 Jojo Moyes ha pubblicato Io dopo di te (Me after you), romanzo sequel incentrato sulla vita di Lou dopo la morte di Will Traynor. Nel 2018 è stato pubblicato un altro sequel, Sono sempre io (Still me). In Italia entrambi i libri sono stati editi da Mondadori.


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Now launched commercially by 36 mobile operators in 33 countries, the Mobile Internet of Things (Mobile IoT) is expanding rapidly with over 60 Commercial networks available globally, a combination of LTE-M and NB-IoT. Operating in licensed spectrum, low power wide area networks can provide low cost, yet secure, connectivity to battery-powered devices in both rural and urban locations. Following successful pilots involving a wide variety of use cases, Mobile IoT connectivity has now been deployed across North America, Latin America, China, South-East Asia, South Africa and in many European countries.
In the U.S., Verizon and AT&T have both upgraded their entire nationwide LTE networks to support commercial LTE-M services, while T-Mobile has deployed NB-IoT nationwide. In Canada, Bell has deployed LTE-M in the Atlantic region with further rollout plans in place. Whilst in Latin America, AT&T has upgraded their LTE network to enable LTE-M in Mexico and TIM Brazil now supports NB-IoT. In Africa, the first Mobile IoT network has been enabled with Vodacom launching NB-IoT in South Africa.
Between them, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone provide NB-IoT connectivity across much of Europe, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Slovakia, Greece, Croatia, Poland and the Netherlands. Turkcell has rolled out both NB-IoT and LTE-M across its LTE footprint in Turkey. Telecom Italia has commercially launched NB-IoT, as have Velcom in Belarus and Telia in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. DNA and Elisa have also switched on NB-IoT networks Finland. Orange Belgium offers both LTE-M and NB-IoT, while KPN and Vodafone have switched on LTE-M in the Netherlands. Telefonica has launched their first NB-IoT network in Spain as has TDC in Denmark.
In the Asia-Pacific region, Vodafone has deployed NB-IoT in Australia, where Telstra has launched nationwide LTE-M and NB-IoT networks. China Telecom has configured 310,000 base stations now to support NB-IoT, China Mobile has launched NB-IoT networks in several cities (including Hong Kong) and China Unicom has rolled-out NB-IoT in over 300 cities. 3 Hong Kong is also offering NB-IoT. South Korean operators KT Corporation and LG Uplus have both launched nationwide Mobile IoT services, while KDDI has rolled out LTE-M in Japan, where Softbank launched nationwide LTE-M and NB-IoT networks. Mobitel operates a commercial NB-IoT networks in Sri Lanka, whilst Dialog Axiata have deployed both LTE-M and NB-IoT. Singapore is also now offering LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity with M1 Singapore deploying NB-IoT and SingTel deploying both technologies. There are also now three technologies in Thailand with AJS supporting both LTE-M and NB-IoT, and True deploying NB-IoT.
Following standardisation by 3GPP in June 2016, the versatile and flexible Mobile IoT technologies are now being used to enable everything from smart metering and smart parking to asset tracking and consumer wearable devices. In agriculture and forestry, Mobile IoT connectivity can enable farmers to monitor the location and condition of their livestock, while tracking the health of crops and plantations. NB-IoT and LTE-M can also be used to cost-effectively connect sensors monitoring the performance of an array of industrial machinery.
Upgrading an existing cellular network to support the Mobile IoT technologies can deliver as much as a sevenfold increase in coverage area, while penetrating deep inside buildings and below ground. That makes them particularly well suited to connect water, gas and electricity meters, as well as applications in manufacturing and logistics. Mobile operators have also found that these new technologies can support very dense networks and can scale easily.
As demand grows, the Mobile IoT ecosystem is expanding fast with dozens of operators and equipment vendors supporting the new technologies. A multitude of Mobile IoT modules, chipsets and software have now been certified as compliant with Release 13 of the 3GPP standards.
Operators can typically adapt their networks to support LTE-M and NB-IoT, which generate less signalling traffic than existing technologies, via a simple software upgrade. In many cases, tariff plans and modules are priced well below those associated with traditional cellular machine-to-machine propositions.
In 2018, many more mobile network operators are likely to roll out commercial Mobile IoT services. By March 2019, the GSMA expects the Mobile IoT will be available in more than 40 countries.