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Q: Integration of interaction tensor I need to calculate the following integral several thousand times per time step:

where  and:
 , and
So far I have implemented in Julia as:
using StaticArrays

function interactiontensor(C, a1, a2, a3, ϕ, θ)

n1,n2   = 100,50
T       = fill(0.0,3,3,3,3)
Av      = zeros(4,4)
invAv   = similar(Av)
xi      = Vector{Float64}(undef, 3)

@inbounds  for p ∈ 1:n1

    sinθp = sind(θ[p])
    cosθp = cosd(θ[p])
    for q ∈ 1:n2

        sinϕq  = sind(ϕ[q])
        cosϕq  = cosd(ϕ[q])

        # -- Director cosines
        xi[1]  = sinθp*cosϕq/a1
        xi[2]  = sinθp*sinϕq/a2
        xi[3]  = cosθp/a3

        Christoffel!(Av,C,xi)
        fillAv!(Av, xi)

        invAv = inv(SMatrix{4,4}(Av))

        tensorT!(T,invAv,xi,sinθp)

        surface += sinθp
    end
end

return T ./= surface
end

@inline function Christoffel!(Av,C,xi)
@inbounds for t ∈ 1:3, r ∈ 1:3
    aux = zero(eltype(C))
    for u ∈ 1:3, s ∈ 1:3
        aux += C[r, s, t, u] * xi[s] * xi[u]
    end
    Av[r, t] = aux
end
end

@inline function tensorT!(T,invAv,xi,sinθp)
@inbounds for k ∈ 1:3, i ∈ 1:3
    aux = invAv[i, k]
    for l ∈ 1:3, j ∈ 1:3
        T[i, j, k, l] += aux * xi[j] * xi[l] * sinθp
    end
end
end

@inline function fillAv!(Av, xi)
@inbounds for i ∈ 1:3
    xi0      = xi[i]
    Av[i, 4] = xi0
    Av[4, i] = xi0
end
end

with
n1,n2 = 100,100
step    = π/n1
dθ,dϕ   = π/n1, 2π/n2
θ       = rad2deg.(range(dθ, stop = pi,  length = n1))
ϕ       = rad2deg.(range(dϕ, stop = 2pi, length = n2))
C = @SArray rand(3,3,3,3)
@btime interactiontensor($C, $10.0, $5.0, $1.0, $ϕ, $θ);
# 544.795 μs  (4 allocations: 1.08 KiB)

Given the number of times I ideally need to compute this integral, is there any optimization to my implementation, or an alternative approach, to considerably reduce the computational cost?

A: Here are some suggestions:

*

*sinθp, cosθp = sincosd(θ[p]), i.e. computing sine and cosine in one step.

*Initializing xi = @SVector zeros(3) as a static vector and then use Setfield.jl to assign the values in each iteration, i.e. @set x[1] = sinθp*cosϕq/a1.

*Load the package LoopVectorization.jl and use the @avx macro (very roughly speaking similar to @simd) to speed up the loops in Christoffel!, tensorT! and fillAv!.

On my machine I find that these changes reduce the computation time by more than a factor of 5 (relative to the original function in the OP). The biggest chunk is due to @avx, the second point above amounts to about ~30%.
julia> @btime interactiontensor_original($C, $10.0, $5.0, $1.0, $ϕ, $θ);
  661.655 μs (5 allocations: 1.28 KiB)

julia> @btime interactiontensor_optimized($C, $10.0, $5.0, $1.0, $ϕ, $θ);
  125.352 μs (4 allocations: 1.17 KiB)

Here the full modified code (note that I commented out the lines involving surface which isn't specified in the OP):
using StaticArrays, Setfield, LoopVectorization

function interactiontensor_optimized(C, a1, a2, a3, ϕ, θ)

    n1,n2   = 100,50
    T       = fill(0.0,3,3,3,3)
    Av      = zeros(4,4)
    invAv   = similar(Av)
    xi      = @SVector zeros(3)

    @inbounds for p ∈ 1:n1

        sinθp, cosθp = sincosd(θ[p])
        for q ∈ 1:n2

            sinϕq, cosϕq  = sincosd(ϕ[q])

            # -- Director cosines
            @set xi[1]  = sinθp*cosϕq/a1
            @set xi[2]  = sinθp*sinϕq/a2
            @set xi[3]  = cosθp/a3

            Christoffel!(Av,C,xi)
            fillAv!(Av, xi)

            invAv = inv(SMatrix{4,4}(Av))

            tensorT!(T,invAv,xi,sinθp)

            # surface += sinθp
        end
    end

    return T #./= surface
end

@inline function Christoffel!(Av,C,xi)
    @avx for t ∈ 1:3, r ∈ 1:3
        aux = zero(eltype(C))
        for u ∈ 1:3, s ∈ 1:3
            aux += C[r, s, t, u] * xi[s] * xi[u]
        end
        Av[r, t] = aux
    end
end

@inline function tensorT!(T,invAv,xi,sinθp)
    @avx for k ∈ 1:3, i ∈ 1:3
        aux = invAv[i, k]
        for l ∈ 1:3, j ∈ 1:3
            T[i, j, k, l] += aux * xi[j] * xi[l] * sinθp
        end
    end
end

@inline function fillAv!(Av, xi)
    @avx for i ∈ 1:3
        xi0      = xi[i]
        Av[i, 4] = xi0
        Av[4, i] = xi0
    end
end

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Yield Forecasts and Stochastic Volatility in Affine Models with Macro Factors
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Ferhat Akbas, Emre Kocatulum and Sorin M. Sorescu
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Joseph R. Mason, James W. Kolari and Ali Anari
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James W. Kolari
Texas A&M University - Department of Finance
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Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008
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Jian Yang, Xiaojing Su and James W. Kolari
University of Colorado at Denver - Business School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Texas A&M University - Department of Finance
Foreign Exchange Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 27, Issue 7, November 2008, Pages 1074-1097.
Posted: 13 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2014
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Q: Java Matrix Array txt file So I have a text file that has 3 matrices on it as follows:
2
2 3
5 9

3
3 -2 4
-1 5 2
-3 6 4

4
2 4 5 6
0 3 6 9
0 0 9 8
0 0 0 5

I need to read this file and put it into an array. As you can see from the above, the number of n x n is given (2,3,4). I was wondering if there was a way to read this and then allocate an array without reading the below twice? Once I read the txt file i will need to do some computations with the array and also print it out.
public class tester{

  public static void main(String[] args) {
     // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     try {
         Scanner input = new Scanner(new File(lab2-input.txt"));

         int size = input.nextInt();
         int rowSize = size;
         int columnSize = size;
         int[][] a = new int[size][size];
         System.out.println("Size: " + size);

         while (input.hasNextLine()) {
             for (int i = 0; i < rowSize; i++) {
                 for (int j = 0; j < columnSize; j++) {

                    try{
                     a[i][j] = input.nextInt();

                     }
                    catch (java.util.NoSuchElementException e) {
                        // e.printStackTrace();
                     }
                 }
             }         //print the input matrix
             System.out.println("The input sorted matrix is : ");
             for (int i = 0; i < rowSize; i++) {
                 for (int j = 0; j < columnSize; j++) {

                    System.out.printf("%5d ", a[i][j]);
                 }
                 System.out.println();

             }if(input.hasNextInt()) continue;
         }
     } catch (Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
     }
 }}

the output i am currently getting is:
 Size: 3
 The input sorted matrix is :
 3    -2     4
-1     5     2
-3     6     4
 The input sorted matrix is :
 4     2     4
 5     6     0
 3     6     9
 The input sorted matrix is :
 0     0     9
 8     0     0
 0     5     9

A: Does this do what you want?
public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    try {

        // Read input file
        Scanner input = new Scanner(new File("lab2-input.txt"));

        while (input.hasNextInt()) {

            // This should be here to get size of array before getting each array
            int size = input.nextInt();
            int[][] a = new int[size][size];

            for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
                for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {

                    try{
                        a[i][j] = input.nextInt();

                    }
                    catch (java.util.NoSuchElementException e) {
                        // e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            }

            //print the input matrix
            System.out.println("The input sorted matrix is : ");
            for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
                for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {
                    System.out.printf("%5d ", a[i][j]);
                }
                System.out.println();

            }

        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}


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Q: cannot find symbol @Type(type = "list-array")error when upgrade to spring boot 3 Below is my build.gradle file
buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '3.0.2'
        springCloudVersion = '2022.0.0-M3'
    }
...
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:3.0.0'
    implementation 'org.postgresql:postgresql:42.3.8'
    implementation 'com.vladmihalcea:hibernate-types-55:2.20.0'

below is my entity class,
import com.vladmihalcea.hibernate.type.array.ListArrayType;
import jakarta.persistence.Column;
import jakarta.persistence.Entity;
import jakarta.persistence.Id;
import jakarta.persistence.Table;
import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.Data;
import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
import lombok.extern.jackson.Jacksonized;
import org.hibernate.annotations.Type;
import java.util.List;

@Data
@Builder
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@Jacksonized
@Table(name = "students_stored_row")
@Entity(name = "studentDAO")
public class StudentDAO {

    @Id
    private String id;
    @Type(type = "list-array")
    @Column(name = "course", columnDefinition = "text[]")
    private List<String> courses;
    private List<String> coursePath;
    @Type(type = "jsonb")
    private List<Address> address;

}

I have recently upgraded the spring boot version to springBootVersion = '3.0.2' and hibernate to 'com.vladmihalcea:hibernate-types-55:2.20.0'. Gradle version in my local : gradle-7.4.1. Upon running the ./gradlew clean build I observed the below error,
error: cannot find symbol
    @Type(type = "jsonb")
          ^
  symbol:   method type()
  location: @interface Type

 error: cannot find symbol
    @Type(type = "list-array")
          ^
  symbol:   method type()
  location: @interface Type

A: Now you need to use value parameter with class implementing the UserType interface as per documentation:
https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.0/javadocs/org/hibernate/annotations/Type.html

A: try this :
@TypeDef(
    name = "list-array",
    typeClass = ListArrayType.class
)
public class StudentDAO {

    @Id
    private String id;
    @Type(type = "list-array")
    @Column(name = "course", columnDefinition = "text[]")
    private List<String> courses;
    private List<String> coursePath;
    @Type(type = "jsonb")
    private List<Address> address;

}


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Volume > Issue > A Peek into Papal Priorities
A Peek into Papal Priorities
ON WHEN THE POPE SPEAKS AND WHEN HE IS SILENT
By Pieter Vree | December 2019
Pieter Vree is Editor of the NOR.
October was a momentous month on the Francis front.
First, Francis's old friend Eugenio Scalfari was stirring things up again. The last time we heard from this nonagenarian Marxist journalist, he claimed that Francis had told him that Hell does not exist (see "Scalfari Strikes Again," New Oxford Note, June 2018). In October, Scalfari made another outrageous assertion. The Pope, he said, had directly denied one of the fundamental tenets of Christianity.
In la Repubblica, the Italian newspaper he edits, Scalfari wrote that "anyone who has had the good fortune to meet with him and speak with him in utmost confidence — as I have done several times — knows that Pope Francis conceives of Christ as Jesus of Nazareth: a man, not an incarnate god. Once incarnate, Jesus ceases to be a god and become a man, until his death on the cross" (Oct. 9). Good heavens!
Scalfari alleges that Francis considers scriptural accounts of Christ's prayers to the Father — specifically, His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane — to be "definite proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once he became a man, even if he was a man of exceptional virtue, was not a God." Though Scalfari might not know it, given that he is a professed atheist, advancing this line of thought would make Francis guilty of the ancient heresy of Arianism.
The Vatican Press Office scrambled to issue a same-day statement: "The words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes in quotation marks to the Holy Father during talks with him cannot be considered a faithful account of what was actually said but represent a personal and free interpretation of what he heard, as appears completely evident from what is written today regarding the divinity of Jesus Christ" (Oct. 9).
Not exactly an ironclad denial — or an affirmation of Francis's belief in the divinity of Christ.
New Oxford Notebook by Pieter Vree
Wacky Theologians
Is Francis Doing What Jesus Did?
Heretics and schismatics today do not leave the Church to form their own separate bodies. They stay inside the Church and demand their ideas be included.
The Infantile Illusion of Omnipotence & the Modern Ideology of Science
Renewed scholarly interest in gnosticism has been, for the most part, remarkably sympathetic, as if it represented an important corrective and alternative to Christianity.
Is Francis Flogging Conservative Catholics?
Left-leaning journalists trumpet Pope Francis's "new direction," using thinly-veiled triumphalist language to show that the pontifical tables have finally turned.


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Tampa Yankees Announce HOPE Week 2017
Here is a link to the original story on the team's website.
TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa Yankees will participate in HOPE Week (Helping Others Persevere & Excel) from Tuesday, August 8th through Saturday, August 12th, 2017.
HOPE Week is a community program, created by the New York Yankees in 2009, designed to bring to light five remarkable stories intended to inspire individuals into action in their own communities. The initiative is based on the fundamental belief that acts of goodwill provide hope and encouragement to more than the recipient of the gesture. Visit www.hopeweek.com for more information.
Throughout HOPE Week, the Tampa Yankees will reach out to individuals, families and organizations worthy of recognition and support, surprising honorees with a day celebrating their accomplishments.
Tuesday, August 8th – The Tampa Yankees will attend the Lighthouse Center for Creative Learning (a school for children with autism) and hang out with kids, including playing catch and reading, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Students and families from the center are invited to attend the 7:00 p.m. game vs. the Clearwater Threshers and take the field with the T-Yanks as part of the Baseball Buddies Program.
The Lighthouse Center for Creative Learning has been "helping students find their way for more than 15 years!" For more information, visit www.come2lighthouse.com.
Wednesday, August 9th – The Tampa Yankees will visit A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay and hang out with the kids, playing games from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
"A Kid's Place provides residential services to children from birth to age 18, who have been removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect or abandonment and to provide a variety of services which meet the social, educational, medical, and psychological needs of the child." – www.akidsplacetb.org.
Thursday, August 10th – The Tampa Yankees plan to visit Trinity Café and assist in serving lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Trinity Café opened in 2001. Its mission is "to restore a sense of dignity to the homeless & hungry while serving a nutritious meal. We faithfully treat all of God's children with dignity, compassion, love, and respect." – www.trinitycafe.org.
Friday, August 11th – The Make-A-Wish Foundation will attend the 7:00 p.m. game between the Tampa Yankees and St. Lucie Mets and accept donations. The foundation will also participate in the Baseball Buddies Program, giving kids the opportunity to go on the field and meet players. A representative from the Make-A-Wish Foundation will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. More information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation can be found at www.wish.org.
Saturday, August 12th – HOPE Week will conclude with the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation's "Cut for a Cure" campaign as well as "Blue's Back to School Party."
Tampa Yankees players, staff and fans will be able to help pediatric cancer research by having their heads shaved, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Pediatric cancer survivors will be on hand to shave the heads of participants and will then get to participate in the Baseball Buddies program prior to the 6:30 p.m. game vs. the St. Lucie Mets. Click here for more information and to donate to "Cut for a Cure."
Fans are also invited to join Blue for a back-to-school party. The first 1,000 kids 14-and-younger will receive a T-Yanks drawstring bag, courtesy of OneMain Financial. The night will end with a post-game fireworks show.
To purchase single game tickets, fans can visit the George M. Steinbrenner Field Box Office or go online to www.tybaseball.com. Tickets start at $5 for upper reserved seating, $8 for lower reserved seating, and parking is always free.
The Tampa Yankees are the Single-A Advanced Affiliate of the New York Yankees. For more information, call (813) 673-3055 or visit www.tybaseball.com.
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Q: GUI action listeners for each tab in a tabbed pane I am fairly new to java so bear with me please, basically, below I have a tabbed pane for each of the four rooms in the rooms Arraylist, and I am creating buttons in each tab depending how many lights each room has, How can I associate the buttons in each tab with a specified the rooms?. So like when I click the light button in the Room 1 tab, the event listener knows that the button belongs to the room1?
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class MasterGUI extends JFrame implements ActionListener{

public MasterGUI(){

}

public void DisplayFrame(){
    ArrayList<Rooms> rooms;
    rooms = Building.getRoomList();

    JFrame master = new JFrame("Solar Master Control Panel");
    master.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    Container content = master.getContentPane();
    content.setBackground(Color.lightGray);

    JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
    JPanel tmpPanel;

    for(int x = 0; x < rooms.size(); x++){
        tmpPanel = new JPanel();
        String roomName = rooms.get(x).getName();
        int id = rooms.get(x).getId();
        tabbedPane.addTab(roomName + " Room " + id, tmpPanel);
    }

    for(int x = 0; x < rooms.size(); x++){
        for(int i = 0; i < rooms.get(x).roomLights.size(); i++){
            int num = i + 1;
            ((JPanel) tabbedPane.getComponentAt(x)).add(new JButton("Light" + num));
        }
    }

    master.add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    master.setSize(800, 600);
    content.add(tabbedPane);
    master.setVisible(true);
}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){

}

A: First of, you need to add the ActionListener to the button so it will be called when the button is clicked.
...
JButton button = new JButton("Light" + num);
button.addActionListener(this);
((JPanel) tabbedPane.getComponentAt(x)).add(button);
...

As far as differentiating between which button was clicked, there are two main ways to address this. The first is to use getSource() on the ActionEvent to get a reference to the object that triggered the event. You can use this to decide how you want to proceed further. The other option is to have MasterGUI not implement ActionListener. Instead, make a unique ActionListener for each button that immediately know what action needs to occur when it was called. The first option makes it easier to register listeners, but requires more work in the handler to determine the source. I prefer the second method.

A: ActionEvent in actionPerformed() will tell you the source of the button pressed. So you can do one of two things, you can name the button (which is not the same as the button text) something indicative of the room, or you can provide a command string that the button invokes, which is also available from the ActionEvent.
Check out the JButton JavaDoc, it has links to dealing with Actions and specifically button Actions supported.
It will focus your question a little better as well, since you'll have a better idea of how you're looking to achieve your goal.


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Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO)
ECPO joins together several important digital collections of the early Chinese press and puts them into a single overarching framework. So far, the ECPO project has focused on a body of rich but heretofore undervalued materials—women's and entertainment magazines. Currently, we are adding to these a selection of literary and art magazines, in cooperation with a new partner, the University of Washington.
The first building block are several databases on early women's periodicals and entertainment publishing: "Chinese Women's Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period" (WoMag), "Chinese Entertainment Newspapers" (Xiaobao 小報), and various databases hosted through the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
WoMag (http://womag.uni-hd.de) is a richly-tagged database of the contents of four influential women's magazines published between 1904 and 1937, including scanned copies and additional high-level scans of images and fukan/insert materials. This database is the model for what we have called the intensive approach within our database structure. The building of WoMag accompanied a collaborative project funded by the Canadian SSHRC and the German Humboldt-Foundation (TransCoop-Program), entitled A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937. It was initiated by Joan Judge and Barbara Mittler in collaboration with Michel Hockx, Julia Andrews and Grace Fong.
The second database, Xiaobao (http://xiaobao.uni-hd.de) was created by Catherine Yeh and has been supported since 2007 by the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Heidelberg University. Xiaobao provides basic publication data and an overview of the contents of some 22 entertainment newspapers (xiaobao) from the late Qing and Republican periods. It approaches these materials as an important primary source for research on cultural and social history. This database is the model for what we have called the extensive approach in our database structure.
The Academia Sinica, and in particular its Institute of Modern History, have in recent years digitized large parts of their collections. In particular, Yu Chienming and Lien Lingling have been involved in the digitization of some two hundred women's journals and a small selection of xiaobao. The Institute of Modern History has also built a database for one of the most long-lived women's magazines, the Funü zazhi 《婦女雜誌》目錄資料庫 (http://mhdb.mh.sinica.edu.tw/fnzz/). All of these also follow the model for what we call the extensive approach.
ECPO is distinguished from other existing databases of Chinese periodicals in that it not only provides image scans, but also preserves materials often excluded in reprint, microfilm or digital (even fulltext) editions, such as advertising inserts and illustrations. In addition, it aims at incorporating metadata in both English and Chinese, including keywords and biographical information on editors, authors and individuals represented in illustrations and advertisements in the journals.
ECPO now sets out to join the materials from the above databases into a single overarching framework. This second step is ongoing and has been supported by a grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (2012-2015). Eventually, ECPO will make these materials accessible through a single search interface. By framing the journals with this body of metadata, ECPO enables researchers to establish interconnections between, for example, given individuals, topics or illustrations, and to chart their relationships within particular issues of periodicals, over the entire run of a particular periodical, and across different periodicals. Using ECPO, the researcher will be able to nuance, challenge, and potentially refute existing narratives of history and cultural change.
The project is intended as a prototype. The database template allows for the integration of additional material. It is our hope that other scholars working on and with early Chinese periodicals will employ the database and continue to enrich and expand it by adding their materials and the particular periodicals central to their own research. We would hope that eventually, the database's benefits are not restricted to the field of Chinese studies. The project's commitment to open access and to fully bilingual metadata ensure that ECPO's resources will be available to scholars in other fields. We are convinced that, ultimately, the field of Chinese studies itself will benefit from this opening of disciplinary boundaries and consequent de-marginalization. By framing a restricted range of journals within a sophisticated body of metadata, the database permits scholars to test different approaches to studying early 20th century media, opening new horizons in studies of literary and social history as well as in media studies more generally.
We are looking for contributors to the database: if you have a related research project or available materials that you would like to include within the framework of ECPO, please contact us!
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Know There's No Compromising With the Trump Administration
Esther Wang
Filed to:national emergency
Image: Associated Press
After engineering the longest government shutdown in history over his fixation on a border wall, it appeared that Donald Trump would back down from the idea and sign a bipartisan agreement that doesn't fund a concrete barrier but includes $1.375 billion for border fencing as well as an increase in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. But on Thursday, Trump signaled that he is committed as ever to the wall: in addition to signing the bill and averting another government shutdown, he now plans to declare a national emergency in order to make his racist campaign promise a reality, a move that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on the floor of the Senate minutes before the vote on the funding bill was to begin. (It passed, and will now go to the House.)
This latest move is likely to enrage Democrats, who had earlier been celebrating a spending bill widely depicted as a "defeat" for Donald Trump. If one views politics through the lens of sports or as a business transaction, then it's easy to see it as a loss for Trump—who at one point had demanded $25 billion for a concrete wall and then $5.7 billion in December—and a win for his opponents. "The Border Deal Is What a Defeat for Donald Trump Looks Like," read a headline in the New Yorker, which framed his backing down from demands for billions for his border wall as a loss similar to that of a bad Wall Street deal that "would give Trump about twenty-four cents on the dollar." "In pursuit of a wall, President Trump ran into one," wrote the New York Times, adding that "it was arguably the most punishing defeat Mr. Trump has experienced as president."
But what exactly did he lose? The spending agreement, bipartisan though it may be, signals a dangerous acceptance of the status quo, according to immigrant rights activists. While the bill includes $500 million for "medical support, food and clothing for migrants in detention and alternatives to detention," they point to the increase in funding for ICE and CBP—up to $23 billion, compared to $21 billion last year—as a sign that this compromise continues to fund the machinery of detention and deportation at a moment of crisis at the border and across the country. The spending bill, which maintains funding for ICE that allows it to detain immigrants at record-high numbers, "represents the 'enforcement-only' status quo that Washington has been stuck in for too long," United We Dream's deputy director Greisa Martinez Rosas wrote in a statement sent to Jezebel. After news broke about Trump's intentions to declare a national emergency, United We Dream tweeted out, "So Trump is getting more detention camps, and more detention beds, and more deportation agents, and more broken families AND THE WALL?"
"At this point it should not be lost on anyone that there is no negotiating with the Trump administration on immigration," Tania Unzueta of Mijente wrote to Jezebel in an email. "Giving in on negotiations with Trump on a border crisis his administration has created is doing his work for him."
And yet that is exactly what most Democrats have done by supporting the compromise. While progressive Democrats in the House, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar, have come out against the bill, largely over its funding of ICE and CBP, and several leading Democratic Senators voted against the legislation on Thursday, it appears most Democrats, even those like Representative Pramila Jayapal—who has criticized not only Trump, but his predecessor, on their immigration policies—are content to accept the compromise this bill represents in order to avoid yet another shutdown. "We're not trying to kill this bill," Jayapal, who has said she will probably vote no, told the Washington Post. On Wednesday, before the president's announcement about the state of emergency, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged people to "support the bill for what is in it."
The bill, then, will likely pass, but Trump's move to declare a national emergency highlights a problem that most leaders within the Democratic Party have yet to fully grapple with: their continued refusal to break away from the bipartisan consensus around immigration that has led to where we are today. This includes their inability to come up with any forward-thinking immigration policy beyond a need for increased border security (sans a wall) and a (generally onerous) path to citizenship, as well as their continued belief in bipartisanship in the face of a president who has shown he has no qualms in doing whatever it takes to get what he wants, consequences be damned. (And what he wants is always extremely racist.)
In an interview with the New York Times Magazine last October, United We Dream's executive director Cristina Jiménez Moreta expressed disappointment and outrage at Democratic leaders whom she felt had not done enough to challenge the Trump administration. "The days are gone for any Democrat to think that saying 'I stand with immigrants' is enough. We expect to see them boldly put forward an alternative to the administration's mass-deportation agenda," Jiménez said to the New York Times Magazine last October.
As this so-called compromise legislation shows, we're a long way from that bold alternative. Now we lurch on towards the next crisis.
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He took a deep swig of peach brandy, surveyed the dusty farmland and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"It's not because I have a problem with matters of the flesh, you must understand," he continued. "In that respect I am just as much a man as any boer this side of the Dwarsberge. It's just that I'm more of a straight in-and-out type of man when it comes to things like that.
"Francina and I have a special code for when we want to engage in bonding of a carnal nature. I will reach across the bed and place my hand on her bosom. 'Ouvrou, are you lus?' I'll ask. Sometimes when I do this she will let out a moan of such intense ecstasy, even taking the name of God and making use of vulgar terminology. From this I will conclude that my work is already done. I will attribute my lack of memory of the events that led to her state of euphoria to the poor quality of the peach brandy at that time of the year. Then I will retire to my side of the bed.
"On other nights she will say, 'If we really must, Schalk, but remember I have to get up early tomorrow to make koeksusters for the church bazaar. Three minutes later Francina will fetch us each a glass of water, and a minute after that we will both be snoring. Or at least I will.
Oom Schalk coughed and cleared his throat loudly, then spat into the bushes next to the porch. He took a sip of coffee from the tin mug on his right and chased it down with another swig of peach brandy from the mug on the left.
"In the years before Gideon and Elsabe's children grew up, they used to ask me to look after the house when they went out on their anniversary night. Every year, I remember, it would take me slightly longer to find where Gideon kept his brandy. In the latter years it was sometimes so obscure, you would swear he was trying to hide it from somebody. Once I found it in a cabinet filled with wedding photographs. In all the photographs Elsabe would smile so sweetly at the camera, just like a model on the cover of Rooi Rose magazine. Gideon would look nowhere else than at Elsabe.
Oom Schalk coughed and spat again.
"He tells me that even Gideon's face was grey when he walked out of there.
"The funny thing, you know, is that Gideon and Elsabe Erasmus did not go straight home after that movie show.
Oom Schalk paused for a while, then continued.
"I am not suggesting that Gideon and Elsabe Erasmus were the only two customers in the shop that night. And neither am I suggesting that Mr Surprise Molefe didn't maybe already have a whole lot of money saved up. But I did hear that the bag of toys that the Erasmuses carried out of there was big enough that both of them needed to carry it. And also I heard from Dominee Nel, whose wife works in the jewellery shop on the other side of Boom Street, that Mr Molefe was in the jewellery shop the next day and that he bought a very expensive gold watch. Dominee Nel's wife said that he had winked and asked her not to mention this to anybody, because the watch was for a 'secret lover'.
"Well, it was around ten 'o clock on the very evening of the Erasmus' wedding anniversary, when the new snotkop constable from the district came tearing up this dirt road. He is a very eager young man, that constable, and he had his blue light flashing and his siren on. This notwithstanding the fact that there is not a single other car on this road, even during the day. And the state of the road is such that one can't drive at more than twenty kilometres an hour anyway. As a result I heard him coming right from where one turns off the government road. So I went outside to ask him what was happening. He said that Elsabe Erasmus had telephoned and that they had need of a policeman to unlock a set of handcuffs. The young constable assumed that they must have apprehended an intruder on the farm, and that was why he had put on his light and siren.
"I convinced him that if they needed keys to unlock the handcuffs, then the suspect must already have been in custody. Hence, there was no need to rush, and he should stop for a little while and try some of the peach brandy I had distilled the previous week.
"He agreed with me and so we sat together in the voorkamer and discussed the merits of my latest distillation. That constable, as young as he may be, is a man who likes to consider things very carefully before passing judgement. It is also a peculiar tendency of peach brandy distilled in this particular part of the district, that one can never be quite certain about its quality until one has tasted a great many cups of it. Hence, it was well after midnight before we started to wonder why it had been Elsabe who had telephoned, instead of Gideon Erasmus.
"We reasoned that it must have been because Gideon was guarding the suspect. As such, he was probably getting tired and it would be inconsiderate of the constable to leave him any longer. So we drank a final loopdop and he set off again in the direction of Gideon Erasmus' farm, with his blue light flashing and his siren blaring into the night.
"It was some time before I heard the sound of the police van descending the dirt road past my farm again. I didn't even have to go out and wave to the constable to stop; he stopped immediately as he reached my gate. He walked straight into my voorkamer and poured himself half a cup of my peach brandy.
"When I asked him what had happened he started blushing like a girl. He said that he had seen a side of Gideon Erasmus that he did not want to see ever again. From the way he said it I could tell that he was not speaking figuratively.
"He said that, to avoid the risk of being called out for another such incident, he had confiscated a pair of pink fluffy handcuffs. He had them hanging from the belt of his police uniform. I did not have the heart to point out to him that his real police handcuffs were now missing.
"In the weeks that followed I did not see very much of my neighbour Gideon Erasmus. On the few occasions that I did catch sight of him he seemed to look more haggard every time. It was as if he didn't see me, the way he stared absently into the middle distance.
"Then, one month to the day since the anniversary, I again heard the sound of a siren screaming its way up this farm road. The flashing lights that splashed their colour across the midnight veld were not blue on this occasion, but red. Out of respect I made no attempt to attract the attention of the ambulance driver.
"In my experience, when an ambulance makes its way somewhere in a huge rush, but then does not leave that place soon afterwards and rush off somewhere else, towards a hospital or such-like, it is always a bad sign. The longer the ambulance lingers at the site of its initial destination, the worse the chances are that one will be hearing any encouraging kind of news.
"And when the next sirens that one hears do not belong to the ambulance, but to a fleet of police cars making their way in the same direction that the ambulance followed, you can bet your veldskoene that there will be only bad news to follow.
"Such was the case in the early hours of the morning that followed that night. The sky in the direction of Rustenburg was turning pale already when van after van came bouncing up this road. Every single one of them announcing to the dawn the urgency of their business.
"As I was later to learn, the large number of vans that arrived had nothing to do with any kind of challenge that required lots of manpower. It was rather because every single one of our district officers wanted to see for himself the bizarre position that Gideon Erasmus had found himself in at the time of his passing. Evidently, the ambulance driver had not been as discreet as our young constable had been a month before.
"The morning sun was shining into my voorkamer when the whole procession made its way back down again. Even a mortuary van was in tow and I could see the driver shaking his head as he went.
"It was another whole day later in the mid-afternoon when once again I heard the sound of a siren approaching. It was the young constable. He tore past my gate without as much as a wave.
"On his way back down he drove very slowly, out of consideration for the comfort of Elsabe Erasmus, who was riding in the cage at the back. He stopped very briefly, to inform me of the findings from the autopsy.
"Although he still earns his bread and butter in the corporate IT world, Duncan Aird yearned to write fiction from a young age. He now does so sporadically, squeezing this passion in between his other loves, namely his family, running, cycling, surfing and painting. He first spotted an advertisement for the SAWC short-story competition in 2007/8. He entered and achieved sufficient recognition to spur him on to put more of the stories he'd been nursing in his head to paper. Some were keepers, some were not! After that, Duncan entered the SAWC competition religiously every year. With some varied levels of success at first, he started to edge closer to the top 5 in the latter years, and was delighted to finally take top honours in 2015".


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Missoni Fall 2011 Runway Review
Given that Angela Missoni was inspired by fairytale creatures for the Fall 2011 Missoni collection, it should perhaps come as no surprise that the collection felt very spring-like with a light color palette of pastel blues, purples, pinks, yellows, and oranges. It has also been clear that, in Emilio Pucci style, Missoni has for a few seasons now been trying to appeal to a younger demographic. Unfortunately, Angela Missoni isn't doing it as well as Peter Dundas over at Pucci.
The brand seems to be increasingly relying on a laid-back, layered, almost messy styling, rather than focusing on bringing a new perspective to Missoni's signature rainbow of colors and knits to widen its appeal. This is truly a shame because there were some gorgeous individual pieces in the Fall 2011 collection that were mired by off-the-mark styling.
The bohemian silhouette that's become a signature for Missoni was out in full force this season and there was a welcome snug and cozy feel to many of the looks, notably the near floor-sweeping coats, light and loosely fitted dresses, wide pants, and of course Missoni's chunky knits, which always hold high appeal and this season included memorable braided and degradé versions.
As for accessories, they tied into the colorful, layered lineup with biker boots, belts, and clutches all done in colored python and, in some cases, patchworked for an extra punch.
Photos: Vincenzo Grillo, IMAXtree.
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News|Crime
A rare murder-free day recorded in El Salvador
One of the world's deadliest countries recorded its first day without a single killing since January 2015.
A message threatening gang rivals is scribbled on the wall near a crime scene in San Luis Talpa [Jose Cabezas/Reuters]
El Salvador, one of the world's deadliest countries, has recorded a rare day without a single homicide.
National Civil Police commissioner Howard Cotto said at a news conference on Thursday that no murders were reported the previous day in the gang-plagued Central American nation.
The last time the country went a full day without any killings was January 22, 2015, according to records kept by the Associated Press.
It also happened once in 2013 and on two days the year before that.
The nation of about six million people averaged 14.4 murders a day last year.
READ MORE: A murder an hour – El Salvador's gang violence soars
Killings peaked at 104 per 100,000 residents in 2015, the highest rate for any nation not in open war that year. At least 6,657 people died amid a rise in mass killings and violence between alleged gang members and police.
In August 2015, police had said there were at least 125 murders in just three days in the country, a staggering toll even by El Salvador's standards.
The Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and M-18 gangs, involved in drug trafficking, organised crime and extortion rackets in the country, have an estimated 70,000 members in El Salvador, 10,000 of whom are behind bars.
The gangs emerged in the 1980s in Latino neighbourhoods in Los Angeles.
They arrived in Central America when the US deported thousands of immigrants who had fled there to escape civil wars that had gripped the region in the late 20th century.
Homicides fell by about 20 percent in 2016, but it was still one of the most violent countries with 81.2 murders per 100,000 residents.
Endemic levels of sexual abuse and gender-based violence have made El Salvador one of the most dangerous countries in the world for girls and women as well.
Between January and August 2015, the National Civilian Police registered an average of nearly five cases per day of sexual violence against women, including rape and sexual assault. And victims are often the most vulnerable – more than half of these assaults were carried out against girls, adolescents, and the disabled.
Latin America Investigates – El Salvador: Assassins for Sale
Source : News Agencies
LGBT in El Salvador: Beatings, intolerance, death
In a country with soaring murder rates, the LGBT community is often a target.
Gang wars in El Salvador, bloodiest year
Gang violence continues to claim more lives in El Salvador, after the collapse of the truce.


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To bring his healing presence to them and making a difference in their lives.
Belonging to a Marian congregation, I am honored that I was given a chance to study in the Formation House in the Philippines, taking other courses including Theology, English, Computer and some working experiences in different areas such as Urban Poor, City Mission Food Bank, Education Christian Living, and Mango Tree Centre (a center for the disabled) where I am now as a Volunteer. Through all these experiences I have learned many things about my faith and my life as a consecrated woman. It has prepared me well equipped for future mission.
Ministry activity takes many forms and as a consecrated Sister, ministry is one of the important elements of my life. At Mango Tree Centre, I serve 4 days a week as a Computer teacher for slow learners, a care giver to those little children who hasn't had somebody to assist them, assisting in Musical class and teaching the foreigner volunteers in Tongan language, but at the same time I share the L.C.M spirit with them by being present and listen to one another stories and pray with them. In the Parish I teach Catechism in Primary and do home visiting to the elderly, the sick and dying too. Amidst all the difficulties and challenging of these experiences, I do enjoy working and learning from my co-workers, foreigner volunteers and also the disabilities. With the richness of our differences, together we journey to the depth of being knowing and faithful to my "YES" that God will lighten the way and brings light after darkness which is Hope, Peace, and the perfect joy. I shared one dream with them by being present with merciful and compassionate heart uniting with Mary's Maternal Love at the foot of the cross watching and praying with them. This experiences makes me realize, that sometimes it is not about what I have learned but it is about what I do with those learning's, which means is an ongoing process of learning to do with life itself. I enjoy all the ways that I work to offer my gifts for the greater good of Gods people and find that all of it enriches my relationship with God.
Today I gratefully give praise and thanksgiving to God for his faithful love in my life and for his call. I give thanks for the faithfulness and kindness of those who have walked along with me, my community, my family, close friends, Sisters of the Southern Cross Province, those whom I met in my ministry and those who have helped and challenged me to grow. May the blessings of God be with us all so that we all may too live in faithfulness and love to God.