A failure of democracy would be a situation where there is one obviously correct answer and we can't come to it. Brexit doesn't look like that to me (as a disinterested, but admittedly uninformed outsider). The most prominent argument is economic growth against sovereignty, the value of which is measured partially in cultural terms, not just economic terms. The U.K. is clearly not careening toward disaster, as you point out. A 2% reduction in GDP is bad, but it may well be a price Leavers are willing to regain sovereignty. Moreover, Leavers argue that the hit will not be that bad because part of the reason for Brexit is to get out from under the bad EU bureaucracy. So this just looks like a hard problem, where the arguments are closely matched and there is lots of empirical uncertainty about key factors. I agree that May's government doesn't seem to be doing a very good job – my impression is that the deal may be a compromise which is worse than either Remain or a clean Brexit. But the fact that both parties are unhappy does not strike me as a sign of democratic failure. A compromise, even a poor one, in the face of strongly held opposing views, may be the right outcome. If one side gets a clean win, that won't be the end – it might entrench bitterness and division that will undermine generalized trust and political efficacy for generations. The current US situation suggests that compromise for the sake of compromise may be a democratic value worth embracing for its own sake.
You say: "I guess I have a different view of the merits and defects of democracy. My view is somewhat like the famous Churchill quote, "democracy is the worst form of Government. Except for all those other forms."
Not that I disagree, but democracy can give you really bad outcomes.
1) State of Illinois: Michael Madigan is the Speaker of the state assembly in Illinios, he's been there for over 30 years, and is probably single-handedly responsible for Illinois' catastrophic disaster. But, he got elected again, and again, and agin. The Economist has a full page feature about him in the latest edition.
2) The country of Uruguay: my native country. Uruguay was a democracy for over 80 years, a model for South America politically, but economically it was simply ruined by those democratically elected. Politicians pursued ruinous autarkic policies with very high tariffs and huge government intervention. For 40 years Uruguay did not grow, and in the early 70s, the country looked like a country from the 1920s. It took a military government to get Uruguay out of the rut, and an especially brilliant finance minister who stuck to his guns (Alejandro Vegh Villegas).
3) Argentina - don't get me started on Peronism. Peronism is (still) hugely popular in Argentina, and Peronism was and is simply the ruin of of that great country.
Chavez and ruinous Venezuelan socialism, heavily supported by voters and so many US elites (safe, so very safe, in their overpaid ivory towers) -- the ruin of Venezuela is due to the problems of democracy. Excess pensions are likely to cause state finance crises in the USA in the next 30 years.
The EU federation builders made a significant mistake by allowing such a high degree of labour mobility within the EU.
Roughly 1.5 million Poles moved to the UK within a half decade period.
Self-styled liberals, progressives as well as freemarket libertarians tend to underestimate the importance of community norms and social conventions in terms of regulating social behaviour on a daily basis.
Everybody is generous with the commons until the commons start to bite back (e.g., the Trump movement).
For the most part, decisions to allow large scale immigration of others into rich democratic countries have enjoyed widespread support. If there is an enemy here, it is us and our democratically chosen, quaint notions of 'generosity'.
Removing trade barriers to the poorest developing countries would be an alternative. Reducing rich country subsidies of agricultural exports might be another.
In the EU, Poland would have thrived with just freer trade and investment. The common market in labour might have actually slowed down Polish economic development.
A common labour market was, still is, not necessary in order to inoculate Europe against inter-state violent conflict.
except that the UK was the only EU country to wave a 7-year moratorium on free labour mobility from the new accession countries in 2004. This was seen at the time as a coup by the Blair government (and both Labour and Conservatives agreed!) over the rest of Europe, given strong growth, strong productivity etc. Faced with a similar choice, Germany chose the capital export route to Poland rather than the labour import one, they won that gamble handsomely. Moreover, Germany, under Schröder, used the impending opening to the East as a spur to reform the German labour markets, making them more competititive and reaping huge dividends in terms of both relative and absolute competitiveness. He also signed his own political death by doing so.
Bottom line, there is a wide spread hypocrisy and envy in the UK driving Brexit views (let's gloss over the sovereignty argument coming from a country that still has an unelected upper house), it's not the ideology, it's self interest and the always thin line between a right and a wrong decision. The truth in my opinion is that some quarters believe that 2% (or 5% or vevn 7%) of GDP is an acceptable price to pay as an option premium for regaining status and influence over Germany and stirring the EU pot.
Well. I suppose my exposure to White's path determination and Stiglitz has informed my opinion on the matter.
Paths can change and that's certainly apparent with GB here. Stiglitz has written extensively about how while having a unified currency is a good thing (efficiencies), cobbling together a unified political agenda across different nations is tougher. Look no further to the migrant mess and xenophobia as being primary drivers for Britian leaving the EU. I'm not sure how they can have their cake and eat it, too. Sure, they still want access to the huge market known as Europe, but trading away some sovereignty to Brussels got to be too much.
Maybe a 2% hit in the short run isn't a bad thing. I think it'll adjust just fine in the long run. Democracy may be incremental most of the time, but something like Brexit can really put democracy to the test and reveal its inefficiencies and shadow elitism. But, hey, is anything ever really truly efficient when humans are involved?
The idealism of capitalism or central planning all look good intellectually to various people. Implementation is the problem -- look at history's track record of all forms of governance.
Reality eventually makes itself known.
The problem is that the UK leadership does not want Brexit and is doing everything in its power to make it a bad deal.
"On the continent, when France stood for democracy and Germany for autocracy, France's defense decisions failed dramatically in 1914 and 1939."
Excellent post and thank you for a number of details of which I was not aware.
I know it is a joke but Cobb-Douglas really did not save the Titanic, and Cato cannot save the UK. It is about the flow of resources and particularly the flow of BTUs/Kilowatts. Or it might be helpful to us biophysical economics cultists to explain in an appendix, where the resources are going to come from. Problems for the UK became more acute as the North Sea oil began to dwindle.
Democracy needs cheap energy. Or failing that, much smaller scale.


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Renée (Photo: Sarah Hunter by permission of Playmarket)
The Mervyn Thompson Affair: 'I was both angry and hurt at the way I'd been dumped in it by the women who were responsible for the attack'
Renée | Guest writer
All week this week we revisit the Mervyn Thompson Affair – the strange, powerful 1984 incident when six women abducted an Auckland university lecturer, chained him to a tree in Western Springs, threatened to castrate him, and labelled him a rapist.
Today: a memoir by playwright Renée, whose play Setting The Table inspired the attack – or was at least copied, in a bizarre case of life imitating art.
When we first arrived in Dunedin we wanted to rent a flat. "Looked at flat in Maitland Street. Some of the paintwork sure is dirty," I recorded in my diary. Later we were to discover that it wasn't just the paintwork.
I had time before my year as Robert Burns Fellow started and before the beginning of teaching of a course at the Summer School so the next day we took a bus trip to see the Māori Rock Art in the Waitaki Valley. Now looked after, previously the drawings had been hosed or dampened before people came to see them so that they'd stand out more. The consequences were that some of them were wrecked forever and some damaged very badly. All had suffered the effects of time. For a while now, we were told, any tampering with the drawings had been banned.
It was one of those moments when you stand still and stare in awe at the sight before you and try to imagine the artists and puzzle over what they were telling us from that time.
Renée. Photo: Sarah Hunter by permission of Playmarket
In a more mundane sort of way I feel a bit like that when I'm looking at the entries in my diaries. There are mysterious names and events, cryptic records, some of which only I know what they refer to. I have read diaries and letters published after the writer of them was dead and shuddered at the thought that someone might pick through my diaries looking for the same sort of unguarded entries. Often therefore, when I felt things deeply or had been hurt by malicious media, theatre or other gossip, I made no written record of it at all. There might be a cryptic note or, in the case of the Mervyn Thompson assault in February, 1984, no note at all. I did, however, write a short article for Broadsheet about it later because I was so angry at the way I was treated both by the media and some of the people in theatre – but mainly because I was both angry and hurt at the way I'd been dumped in it by the women who were responsible for the attack..
In February 1984 Mervyn Thompson, playwright, university lecturer, co-founder of Court Theatre in Christchurch, and one-time artistic director of Downstage in Wellington, was attacked by a group of women who tied him to a tree and hung a sign around his neck which accused him of being a rapist. This was a direct copy of a scene from my play Setting The Table.
So because the attackers kept very quiet (as did everyone else who knew who they were) all the media, police and theatre people had to to go on was me and my play. I had written the play so I must have been involved in the attack. I had done it because I was a vicious lesbian feminist, I had done it because I was jealous of Mervyn's career and place in theatre, I had done it because I hated all men.
Mervyn himself came to believe I had been involved and took to haunting our place in Richmond Rd, leaving notes in the letterbox and occasionally poems. He wrote an article where he compared me to Salomé with Mervyn's head on a platter.
In fact, the morning after the attack I got a ring from Mervyn who asked me to go round to his flat because something hideous had happened. Both Bernadette [my partner] and I went. He looked terrible. He told me about the attack and asked me if I'd had anything to do with it or any knowledge of it and I said I hadn't and he seemed to accept that. I think we even had a cup of tea.
Mervyn Thompson. Photo: Playmarket
There were some likenesses between Mervyn's life and mine. We knew what it was like to have to live with the fact that a parent had committed suicide, we knew poverty and hardship as kids, like me he was a playwright and wrote some very good plays. We both belonged to a group called Working Title Theatre, we both loved theatre.
I went to work at Broadsheet and the office was buzzing with the news and I said straight up, "I don't hold with this sort of vigilante justice – I think its wrong, and you all should know this." I was steaming and they could see that. I knew instantly that my play would be seen, at the very least, as the template for the attack and that it was only a step to blaming me for it. I had written this play therefore I had master-minded the assault. Setting The Table (Mervyn directed the week-long workshop on it two or three years before and liked it) is really an argument between four feminists, two of whom reckon they should use the same weapon as men use – violence – and two who say that is not the answer. The resolution is that the two who say that violence is not the answer are right.
But of course a few words in an office had nothing to do with anything. Those who were gleeful about the attack went on being so and how the the rest of the world came (or were determined) to see it wasn't a concern. To the rest of the world, I was that terrible creature, a lesbian feminist, what else needed to be said? I wrote plays about such women. I must be guilty. In any case – there was no-one else to blame. The women who did it kept very quiet, had absolutely no compunction about dropping me in the shit and walking away.
"Sisterhood rules – ok?" is how I finished the Broadsheet article and how I still feel. Sisterhood rules? You're joking, right? I was angry with myself too because I had been naive enough to think that Sisterhood Rules meant something. Now I saw it meant nothing. Maybe I needed to lose that illusion? I don't know. What I do know is that I was very, very angry and very hurt. And remained so for years. I'm still angry. I suppose it's the feeling of being unjustly accused and being unable to do anything about it. If I'd actually done it maybe the anger wouldn't have lasted so long?
The notes in the letterbox from Mervyn, the vicious theatre gossip which someone always "thought I should know", the police detective calling at the house, the two men who knocked on the door in the middle of the night and when I sneaked a look out the window could see were standing close up to the door ready to barge in when I was silly enough to open it. When I opened the window a crack and shouted, "Get the hell out of here, I've called the police," they scarpered instantly. The phone ringing constantly, media, callers who wanted to know what colour panties I was wearing, work calls, even friendly calls because who knew if they were friendly or not? I started to jump every time the phone rang and it all started to get me down. Bernadette was worried so she consulted with some friends in Tauranga and between them they decided I needed a break. Bernadette would stay behind and answer the phone and deal with anything else.
Off I went to Tauranga and there, in the house of two friends – having, like my horoscope sign, The Crab, scuttled back inside my shell and suffered it out in silence – I was able to slowly open up my shell again, find some peace and eventually some sleep. In my diary I have recorded my visit to Tauranga but only as an ordinary entry and there is nothing about the reason for the visit or the rest of the sorry saga. Even then I knew I couldn't be the only one the police approached or were suspicious of and I found out later, I wasn't. At the time though, it felt like it.
This was the year that Wednesday To Come was chosen by Playmarket as one of the plays to be given a workshop in May and dear George Webby directed the workshop.
Now it was five years later and I was still thinking about the rock drawings as I sat in a large room at Otago University, full of people, while Helen White made the introductory speech to open the Summer School. When she said my name, one male writer there, an alcoholic I was told later – already, at 10am on this particular morning, boozed to the eyeballs – shouted something in which the words, "bloody Renée" featured in every sentence. Everyone pretended to ignore him. My note in the 1999 diary says, "Helen handled it very well."
By this time we'd taken the flat in Maitland St and spent most of our spare time cleaning the place. I didn't have much time to worry about a drunk's stupidity and besides there was this new place to explore, new and old friends to link up with. I started to get to know Dunedin.
From a memoir in progress, with the working title These Two Hands.
Read the rest of our coverage of the Mervyn Thompson case:
– An extract from his bitter, furious memoir
– An essay by Thompson's colleague and friend, revisiting the moment
– A modern take on the incident, and its wider implications, by former MP Holly Walker.
The Mervyn Thompson Affair: It stunk of the same kind of witch hunt they'd been subject to their whole lives
Talia Marshall
The Mervyn Thompson Affair: What a 32 year old controversy might tell us about the Chiefs scandal
Holly Walker
The Mervyn Thompson Affair: Revisiting the strange case of a playwright chained by vigilantes to a tree in Western Springs

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I had a really bad day last Saturday. I had no sleep the night before because I slept with Levi at my sister-in-laws house and he moves like crazy. The kind of sleep where every five minutes he would move and breathe heavy. His legs were in my back at one point. I am a seriously light sleeper so I got no sleep at all. I am not so sure that Levi slept that well either because he would occasionally sit up and just look at me. The room I was in was freezing as well and my feet never got warm.
During the day I was so tired and Levi wasn't listening to me at all. All I could think was "please just obey me for once you ungrateful child." In the evening, we were home but we still had about 4 hours to go until bedtime for Levi and I was at the end of my rope with him. He kept throwing fits and was still not obeying me. I had to discipline him several times, and then I snapped. I yelled at him and scared him. I was so in the wrong. I had lost it completely and taken it out on a 2 year old. He was just being 2. I know that he is going to be disobedient, and I am just supposed to direct him and bring him up in the ways of Christ. My flesh just completely took over.
That night as I tucked him in the bed, all I could do was ask him for forgiveness. I told him that when mommy raised her voice at him she was wrong to do that. He said he forgave me as well as he could and hugged me and gave me a big kiss.
"A thousand times I've failed, yet your mercy remains"
I couldn't sing it. My son had shown me God. God was talking to me through my 2 year old. All I could hear Him saying was that He loved me. After all the mistakes I make, He forgives me when I come to Him and talk about it and ask. My son had shown me the unconditional love that God has for me. All the times that I mess up and my flesh takes over, He is there. His mercy remains. I am so thankful.
I constantly struggle with my temper and suppressing it. I am far from a perfect mother, but I am doing the best I can and learning from my mistakes. I do know that I love my son so much and never want to hurt him. What a lesson this has been.
I'm right there with you Maggie... parenting is hard and I know I will have to ask for forgiveness from Evan alot as he grows up.
I'm started crying as I read your post. I SOOOO understand how you feel and face the same challenges as a mom. What a blessing our children are to us. They show us the pure heart of Christ and remind us what mercy is, even when we don't deserve it.
So thankful for your blog...I have this same struggle and it is amazing how kids can show us so much of God!!!!


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Q: Displaying Splash screen only once on user preference I want to design an activity in which I have button with a title "Do not show the screen again in future", on pressing which the splash screen is skipped no matter no how many times user opens the application.
I tried using android shared Preferences (seeing answer for other questions) but I am not getting the desired output. I have given below the code I have used. Please let me know in what way the code must be corrected. If there any other means, I am happy to learn that.
Thanks in Advance.
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A: try to change you code like below:
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Also check How do I make a splash screen load once?
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A: no need to create a thread, just before starting your splash screen in your splash screen activity check shared pref value as-
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The Dickson Professorship of English and American History was established in 1913 by Walter Scott Dickson, a parishoner and of Professor Edwin C. Bolles. It was reported that Dickson saw an illustrated version of a poem called Behind the Times, which made him think of Dr. Bolles and inspired him to establish the professorship.
Since its establishment the professorship has been held by Edwin C. Bolles from 1913 to 1920, Halford Lancaster Hoskins from 1925 to 1944, Ruhl Jacob Bartlett from 1946-1956, Albert Henry Imlah from 1958 to 1969, Robert J. Taylor from 1970-1975, and Russell Miller from 1975 to 1981. Martin Sherwin is the current holder of the chair, and was appointed in 1982.


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Saints vs. Buccaneers final score, results: Tom Brady leads Tampa Bay to wild comeback win over New Orleans
Sam Jarden
For 55 minutes of game play, the Buccaneers looked out of sorts and devoid of ideas. Then, Tom Brady remembered he is Tom Brady.
A wild fourth-quarter rally lifted Tampa Bay to a 17-16 victory over the Saints on "Monday Night Football." The Bucs trailed 16-3 with just over three minutes remaining before touchdowns on each of their final two possessions gave them a last-second win.
BUCS 17, SAINTS 16
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Brady struggled until those final minutes, but he eventually led the 70th game-winning drive of his legendary career. His touchdown pass to Rachaad White with three seconds left on the clock completed it.
The Saints had plenty of chances to put the game to bed, but close calls and questionable decisions caused a win to slip through their fingers. Coach Dennis Allen's decision to throw on third-and-1 with five minutes remaining brought scrutiny by fans and the media.
The win was crucial for Tampa Bay (6-6) in the NFC South race. The Bucs now lead the Falcons (5-8) by 1.5 games in the division. The loss was a huge blow to the Saints' playoff hopes, with New Orleans slipping to 4-9.
The Sporting News tracked live scoring updates and highlights from Saints vs. Buccaneers. Here are all the key moments you might have missed from the "Monday Night Football" matchup in Tampa.
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Saints vs. Buccaneers score
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Buccaneers 3 0 0 14 17
Saints vs. Buccaneers live updates, highlights from 'Monday Night Football'
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11:21 p.m. — In his postgame interview, Brady mentions that it's his daughter's birthday today. That comeback win was a nice little present.
11:13 p.m. — The Saints' desperation lateral play doesn't work, and this game is over. An incredible comeback win for Brady and the Buccaneers.
14 points in the final 3 minutes. @Buccaneers win.
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— NFL (@NFL) December 6, 2022
Final: Buccaneers 17, Saints 16
11:09 p.m. TOUCHDOWN — BRADY HAS DONE IT AGAIN. He tosses it short right to White, who is able to fight his way into the end zone! Succop knocks through the extra point to take the lead! Looks like it'll be another game-winning drive for the GOAT!
TOM BRADY. RACHAAD WHITE. TIE GAME.
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11:07 p.m. — The Bucs briefly thought they had tied it up, but a devastating holding penalty on Donovan Smith wipes out a touchdown pass to Godwin. That makes the task a lot harder for Brady. He now has 4 plays and 16 seconds to score a touchdown.
11:05 p.m. — WHAT A CATCH. Julio Jones makes a spectacular grab along the left sideline to set Tampa up with a 1st and goal. There are now 19 seconds left and the Bucs have it on the 5-yard line.
Vintage Julio ‼
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11:04 p.m. — Fournette rips off a 10 yard run, then Brady finds Otton for a short gain. Otton stays in bounds, so the clock keeps ticking under a minute.
11:02 p.m. TWO-MINUTE WARNING — Brady starts the drive with completions to Jones and Godwin to move the ball to midfield. That'll take us to the two-minute warning.
10:57 p.m. — Dalton gets buried on 2nd down for a huge sack! That is a massive play by the Tampa defense. Hill nearly made a wild catch on 3rd and 17 for a first down, but the ball was knocked loose at the last second. With 2 and a half minutes left in this game, Tom Brady gets the ball back.
Carl Nassib comes up with a clutch sack 💪
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Saints 16, Buccaneers 10
10:54 p.m. TOUCHDOWN — Finally, the Bucs find the end zone! Brady tosses it to Otton, who makes the grab for the second touchdown of his NFL career! Succop tacks on the extra point to make it a 6 point game.
Brady to Otton! One-possession game in Tampa 👀 #GoBucs
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10:52 p.m. — Well, that'll help. Brady aired it out to the end zone for Evans, who had a step on Paulson Adebo. Adebo was forced to take a pass interference penalty to avoid a sure touchdown, and the ball will now be placed at the New Orleans 1-yard line.
10:49 p.m. — The Bucs' offense is now finally doing some damage, taking advantage of some soft coverage. But with the clock winding under 4 minutes now this will be a very difficult task.
10:45 p.m. — The Saints get it back, and Ingram re-enters the game with a 7 yard catch and run. However, he still doesn't look quite right and he had to take a knee on the sideline after the play. He also ducked out of bounds a yard shy of the marker, which comes back to bite New Orleans after a pass on 3rd and inches falls incomplete. That wasn't the game-sealing drive the Saints were hoping for, and they'll now punt it back to Brady and Co.
10:39 p.m. — Brady gets sacked on 1st down by Shy Tuttle, and an incompletion on 2nd down brings up 3rd and 17. Brady tosses a shovel pass forward to White, but he can only manage about 7 yards. Inexplicably, with only 7 minutes left on the clock, the Bucs are going to punt this away. That is really a strange decision. There's no sense of urgency whatsoever from Tampa at the moment.
How about this @Saints defense tonight? 🔥
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10:36 p.m. — It's now or never for Brady and this Tampa offense. They desperately need to get something going to stay alive in this game.
Saints 16, Buccaneers 3
10:35 p.m. FIELD GOAL — Dalton's pass on 3rd down gets tipped and falls incomplete. Lutz trots out once again and connects on a 29 yard field goal to push the lead up to 13.
10:31 p.m. — The Saints keep marching all the way into the red zone. Ingram catches a short pass and picks up a few yards to set up 3rd and 2, but he was injured at the end of the play. It looks relatively serious.
10:28 p.m. — Wow, big penalty on the Bucs. Dalton's deep ball for Olave fell incomplete on 3rd and 5, but a flag comes in for defensive pass interference on Carlton Davis. That's a big call and a big help to the Saints.
10:25 p.m. — They face a quick 3rd and 3, but Dalton slings one down the right sideline to Olave, who makes the grab and runs out of bounds for a gain of 26! Big play to keep the momentum firmly with New Orleans.
10:23 p.m. — And the decision is a punt. The Saints will get it back on their own 20 after a touchback.
End of third quarter: Saints 13, Buccaneers 3
10:19 p.m. — Facing 3rd and 10, Brady throws it way short of the sticks to Otton. It's now 4th and 7 as the third quarter comes to a close. Big decision looming for Todd Bowles and Byron Leftwich.
10:17 p.m. — Brady converts on 3rd and 4 with a 10 yard pass to rookie tight end Cade Otton. The Bucs have moved the ball across midfield.
10:13 p.m. FIELD GOAL — Lutz hits the chip shot to extend the lead to 10 points. Still, that was an important stand by Tampa's defense.
10:11 p.m. — On a crucial 3rd and 2 from inside the 5-yard line, the Saints get called for an untimely 12 men in the huddle penalty. That's a very sloppy blunder. Hill makes a grab on the ensuing play, but he's a few yards short of the marker and the end zone. This will be another field goal attempt.
10:10 p.m. — Lavonte David just had to leave the field injured for Tampa after making a tackle on Kamara. It didn't look too serious, but he's on the sideline for now. It would be a big loss for the Bucs' defense.
10:06 p.m. — The Saints begin moving methodically down the field, and Olave makes a grab to pick up 22 yards and move the ball to the cusp of the red zone.
9:59 p.m. FUMBLE — A holding penalty backs up the Buccaneers, and on 3rd and a mile they check down to White. He has the ball knocked out of his hands from behind by Cam Jordan, and Carl Granderson pounces on it to recover for New Orleans! It would probably have been a punt anyways, but this certainly gives the Saints better field position.
Cam Jordan gets his offense the ball back! #Saints
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9:57 p.m. — Evans makes a nice grab, his second of the night, for a gain of 22. Don't be surprised if Brady and offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich try to get him involved in this second half.
Brady and Evans doing their thing out there #GoBucs
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9:52 p.m. — Like the first half, the Saints start the second with a three-and-out. Mark Ingram got dragged down for a loss of a yard on 3rd and 7 to force a quick punt.
9:50 p.m. START OF SECOND HALF — The Saints receive the kickoff and will try to extend their lead.
9:40 p.m. — Biggest takeaway of the first half? Brady looked bad. Not a little off his game, he looked legitimately bad at times. Dalton is outplaying him so far tonight.
End of first half: Saints 10, Buccaneers 3
9:37 p.m. — The Buccaneers will just kneel this out and head into the locker room to lick their wounds. They get booed off the field after a really poor first half showing.
9:33 p.m. FIELD GOAL — Lutz knocks it through from 38 yards out to make it a 7-point game.
9:32 p.m. — Passes to Olave and Shaheed move the Saints to the Tampa 25-yard line, but a pass of the hands of Jarvis Landry on 3rd and 2 brings up 4th down. Will Lutz will come on to attempt a field goal.
9:29 p.m. INTERCEPTION — Brady is picked off by Demario Davis! Brady apparently just didn't see Davis lurking underneath the route, and he paid the price. That's a tough momentum swing for Tampa right before halftime.
Intercepted by @demario__davis ‼
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9:25 p.m. — Mike Evans finally gets his first catch of the night, and it's a big one! He makes a grab down the right sideline for a gain of 14 and a first down.
9:21 p.m. TWO-MINUTE WARNING — The Bucs finally get a good play on offense after White catches and runs for 12 yards to move the chains on 3rd down. They could use a few more plays like that. After White gets it again for a short run, we've hit the two-minute warning.
9:15 p.m. — But they can't take advantage. Dalton put a pass on the money for Chris Olave on 3rd and 9, but the rookie flat out dropped it. New Orleans can only manage another three-and-out.
9:13 p.m. — Shaheed came dangerously close to taking that return all the way to the house. He was forced out of bounds by Camarda at the Tampa Bay 40 to give the Saints' offense fantastic field position.
Already has 59 receiving yards tonight and this punt return 👀
Rashid Shaheed, remember the name ✍
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9:10 p.m. — New Orleans' rookie corner Alontae Taylor makes two consecutive nice plays. First, he drags down Fournette in the backfield, then he breaks up a pass intended for Godwin. That brings up 4th and 13 for Tampa and it'll be another punt.
Saints 7, Buccaneers 3
9:03 p.m. TOUCHDOWN — Taysom Hill lines up as a receiver, and finds himself WIDE open for his second touchdown catch of the season! Great job by Dalton to make that throw with a defender coming right at him!
Taysom Hill can do it all, example 927 🔥 @T_Hill4
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9:01 p.m. — This Saints offense is starting to find some rhythm. Dalton tosses right to a wide open Trautman for a gain of 20 and another first down. They have it at about the Buccaneers' 30-yard line.
9:00 p.m. — On 3rd and 5, Dalton zips a pass over the middle to Shaheed, who catches and runs for a nice gain of 19 yards. He's looked very explosive so far in this game.
8:54 p.m. — On yet another 3rd down situation, Brady just slightly overthrows an open Julio Jones streaking towards the end zone. That could easily have been a touchdown, and to be honest we usually see Brady make that throw. He was visibly frustrated after it fell incomplete. Jake Camarda comes on for his second punt of the evening.
8:51 p.m. — A Brady pass goes incomplete on 3rd down, but a defensive holding call on Paulson Adebo bails out the Bucs and gives them a free first down.
8:48 p.m. — After the big play, a holding penalty backs up the Saints. A few plays later, it's 3rd and 8, and Dalton's pass goes off the hands of Adam Trautman. A promising drive ends with another punt for New Orleans.
End of first quarter: Buccaneers 3, Saints 0
8:44 p.m. — Big play! On 2nd and 10, Dalton goes deep down the left sideline to Rashid Shaheed, who hauls it in for a gain of 40 yards!
Andy Dalton letting it fly to @RashidShaheed 🎯
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8:39 p.m. — Fournette picks up a quick first down, but the drive stalls out after that. Rachaad White can't hang on to Brady's pass on 3rd and 4 and the Bucs will have to punt it right back.
8:33 p.m. — Andy Dalton and the Saints' offense takes the field for the first time tonight. Alvin Kamara runs for a couple of short gains to set up 3rd and 5, then Dalton is swarmed and sacked for a big loss by Lavonte David! That's a three-and-out to open the night for New Orleans.
Ideal start for Lavonte David 😤
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Buccaneers 3, Saints 0
8:28 p.m. FIELD GOAL — Ryan Succop makes the chip shot to give Tampa an early lead.
8:26 p.m. — Fournette gets nothing on 1st down, then a short completion to Godwin sets up 3nd and goal. Fournette catches a short pass to the right, but he's tripped up short of the goal line. The Saints come up with a big goal line stand! The Bucs have to settle for a field goal attempt.
8:24 p.m. — Fournette takes a handoff up the middle for a gain of 7 to set up 1st and goal.
8:21 p.m. — Brady has to throw a designed screen pass into the dirt on 2nd down to bring up 3rd and 4. He drops back and goes short over the middle to Leonard Fournette, who powers forward for another first down. This is a very solid opening drive for the Bucs and they've now moved into the red zone.
8:19 p.m. — Facing 3rd and 2, Brady goes right back to Godwin on an almost identical route to bring up another fresh set of downs.
8:17 p.m. — On 2nd down, Brady's first pass of the night is complete to a wide open Chris Godwin near the right sideline for a first down.
8:16 p.m. — New Orleans kicks it away, and Brady takes the field for the first offensive possession of the night.
8:10 p.m. — Kickoff on "Monday Night Football" is just a few minutes away. Let's see who comes out on top in this NFC South showdown.
8:01 p.m. — Tom Brady and Aaron Judge exchange pleasantries as TB12 heads back to the locker room. Judge has on a Mike Evans jersey and looks like he'll be rooting for the Bucs tonight.
A couple of MVPs 🤝@TheJudge44 | @TomBrady
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7:31 p.m. — The Saints are wearing a set of custom primetime uniforms tonight complete with special black helmets. Pretty clean.
These @Saints uniforms 🔥
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7:21 p.m. — Here are some of the custom cleats the Bucs are rocking as a part of "My Cause, My Cleats."
Representing the causes close to our ♥ tonight #MyCauseMyCleats pic.twitter.com/DpO2mW3K90
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) December 6, 2022
What time is the NFL game tonight?
Date: Monday, Dec. 5
Saints vs. Buccaneers will kick off at 8:15 p.m. ET from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. The weather forecast calls for clear skies with temperatures in the high 60s Fahrenheit.
What channel is Saints vs. Buccaneers on today?
TV channels: ESPN, ESPN2 (U.S.) | TSN1/3, RDS (Canada)
Live stream: ESPN.com | ESPN App | fuboTV (U.S.) | DAZN (Canada)
The game will be broadcast nationally in the United States on ESPN. Joe Buck (play-by-play), Troy Aikman (color analyst) and Lisa Salters (sidleine reporter) will be on the call from the Sunshine State.
Week 13 marks the return of "Monday Football with Peyton and Eli," the alternate broadcast on ESPN2 hosted by Peyton and Eli Manning.
Fans in Canada can watch the game on TSN1 or RDS. They can view the "Manningcast" on TSN3.
A live stream will be available to those watching from the U.S. on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. Viewers in Canada can tune in with DAZN, which features every NFL game.
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Vitamin E does not modify the insulin-induced memory impairment in mice during a novel object recognition task
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Keywords: vitamin E, insulin, memory impairment, diabetes, brain histology, novel object recognition task (NORT)
There has been conflicting reports on the effects of insulin on the brain generally and on learning and memory in particular. Insulin was reported to cause negative effect on the brain through increasing oxidative stress. This study examined the sub-acute effect of insulin treatment on short-term working memory and the possible modulatory role of vitamin E.Twenty four mice were grouped into four (n=6) treated for seven days thus: Control group- water; Insulin group- insulin (10 I.U./kg/day); Insulin+vitamin E group- insulin (10 I.U./kg/day) + vitamin E (100 mg/kg); Vitamin E group- vitamin E (100 mg/kg). Histological examination of brain tissue was conducted following assessment of memory using novel object recognition task at the end of the treatments. Data wereanalysed using SPSS, where in p values < 0.05 were taken as significant. Time spent on the novel object by the animals in all the treatment groups was significantly reduced (p<0.05) when compared with the control. Novel object recognition was significantly higher (p<0.05) in the untreated controls when compared with all the treatment groups. Discrimination ratio was > 0.05 in all the groups. Histological findings were normal in the treatment and control groups.In conclusion, the findings of this study show that vitamin E does not modulate insulin-induced impairment in long-term visuo-spatial and short-term working memory. Sub-acute combined or separate treatments with insulin and vitamin E do not affect brain histology.
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The Butchers: Winner of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize
Ruth Gilligan (Autor)
***WINNER of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize***
'I binged it like a Netflix show ... It's stunning ' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition
A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat hook suspended from the ceiling - and, from its sharp point, the lifeless body of a man hanging by his feet.
The story of who he is and how he got there casts back into Irish folklore, of widows cursing the land and of the men who slaughter its cattle by hand. But modern Ireland is distrustful of ancient traditions, and as the BSE crisis in England presents get-rich opportunities in Ireland, few care about The Butchers, the eight men who roam the country, slaughtering the cows of those who still have faith in the old ways. Few care, that is, except for Fionn, the husband of a dying woman who still believes; their son Davey, who has fallen in love with the youngest of the Butchers; Gra, the lonely wife of one of the eight; and her 12-year-old daughter, Una, a girl who will grow up to carry a knife like her father, and who will be the one finally to avenge the man in the photograph.
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Rupert Murdoch put pressure on Tony Blair, ex-prime minister says
Richard Allen Greene, CNN
Updated 1:32 PM EDT, Mon May 28, 2012
Tony Blair explains Murdoch relationship
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under "political pressure" from media baron Rupert Murdoch during his time in office, he testified Monday at an independent inquiry set up in response to phone hacking and alleged police bribery at Murdoch newspapers in Britain.
Asked if he was "too cozy" with Murdoch, as current Prime Minister David Cameron says many in the British political establishment have been, Blair denied it.
Ex-Cameron aide Coulson testifies at UK hacking inquiry
"Coziness is not quite the way I would put it. You were in a position where you were dealing with very powerful people," he said, elaborating on the power of the British press, a theme he referred to frequently. "If they were against you, they were all-out against you."
Separately, London police announced the arrest of a 42-year-old woman in connection with their probe into phone hacking.
The woman was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of money laundering, police said without naming the woman.
The arrest came as Blair was testifying at the Leveson Inquiry into British press ethics.
He said the relationship between the press and politicians is complicated.
"The relationship is one in which you feel this pretty intense power," he said.
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But he said his government had not acted on behalf of Murdoch's business interests.
"Actually we decided more stuff against the Murdoch interest than in favor of it," Blair said. "Pressure from him was more political than commercial."
"He didn't lobby me on media stuff," Blair said, adding: "That's not to say that we didn't know what his position was. But the bulk of our conversations were about politics."
He confirmed that he is the godfather of one of Murdoch's children, but said that is because his relationship with the media magnate changed once he was no longer prime minister.
"I would never have become godfather to one of his children on the basis of my relationship with him while I was in office," he said, but their relations became "easier" after he stepped down in 2007.
He briefly addressed his trip to meet Murdoch on Hayman Island in 1995, while he was campaigning to become prime minister, and agreed with his former aide Alastair Campbell that he was "angered" to have to do it.
Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid famously switched allegiance from the Conservative party to Blair's Labour party before the 1997 election that swept Blair into power. But Murdoch insisted strongly that there had been no quid pro quo with Blair for the support of his papers in 1997.
"I, in 10 years in his power there, never asked Tony Blair for any favors and never received any," Murdoch said in April, pounding his hand on the table for emphasis.
On Monday, Blair said he believed Murdoch himself made the decisions about who his British newspapers supported, not underlings.
He said that as party leader, he had paid a great deal of attention to how the Labour party got its message out, portraying it as a necessary part of contemporary politics.
And he said he had decided not to take on the power of the press.
"I took a strategic decision to manage these people, not confront them. You would have been in a huge battle with no guarantee of winning," he said.
Blair's testimony was briefly interrupted by a protester shouting: "This man is a war criminal!"
The man identified himself to CNN as David Lawley-Wakelin, who made a documentary film called "The Alternative Iraq Inquiry."
He accused Blair of taking money from the bank JP Morgan for the invasion of Iraq, a charge Blair made a point of denying once the protester was removed. It took three security officers to pull him out of the courtroom.
The protester appeared directly behind Brian Leveson, prompting the shaken-looking judge to say there would be an immediate inquiry into how the man got into a secure area. The protester appeared to be wearing some kind of pass.
The Leveson Inquiry was established after British public anger at Murdoch's News of the World about the hacking of voice messages of a missing teenage girl who turned out to have been murdered.
The case of Milly Dowler came on top of apologies from the tabloid for the hacking of the phones of celebrities and politicians, and proved to be the last straw for the paper, which was shut down in July.
Cameron set up the Leveson Inquiry to explore press ethics in Britain more widely, alongside police investigations into phone hacking, e-mail hacking and police bribery by people working for Murdoch's British newspapers.
More than 50 people have been arrested. Prosecutors this month announced charges against six people, including Rebekah Brooks, a former News of the World and Sun editor who later became chief executive of News International, the British newspaper publishing arm of Murdoch's News Corp.
She, her husband and four others are charged with interfering with the police investigation.
Blair's former director of communications said this month that the relationship between the press and the political elite in Britain was too cozy.
"I've been arguing for some years (that the relationship) got itself into a very, very bad place, and I hope it can lead to change," Alastair Campbell told CNNI's Christiane Amanpour.
"It's not just about Rupert Murdoch," he said. "We have a lot of newspapers in a geographically fairly small country. … And I think any political leader has to take account of the role they play in the political debate."
Campbell, a former newspaper editor who became Blair's spokesman when the Labour party was in opposition in the 1990s, said he hoped "some form of proper regulation" would arise from the hacking and bribery scandal.
CNN Senior International Correspondent Dan Rivers contributed to this report.


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El Salvador: Remittances Grow 9% up to February
During the first two months of the year, the country received $874 million in family remittances, 8.8% more than in the same period of 2019.
The growth of family remittances shows a higher rate compared to the last two years.
El Salvador: Remittances Begin 2020 with 6% Increase
During January, the country received $425 million in family remittances, 6% more than in the same month in 2019.
Economic growth and employment in the United States are two determining variables in the income of family remittances, since their performance influences the economy of those who send remittances to Salvadoran households. In this sense, economic growth in the fourth quarter of the United States for 2019 was 2.1%, according to an official report.
El Salvador: Remittances Increase 5% in 2019
Last year the country received $5.65 billion in family remittances, which is 5% more than the amount reported in 2018.
In 2019, the central zone of the country received 36.6% of total remittances, equivalent to $2,069.7 million, followed by the eastern zone with 32.1%, or $1,811 million.
In November, the country received $458 million in family remittances, more than the $424 million that came in the same month in 2018.
El Salvador: Remittances Grow 5% up to October 2019
In the first ten months of the year, the country received $4.642 million in remittances, 5% more than in the same period of 2018.
During October the country received $482.6 million in family remittances, more than the $458 million received in the same month in 2018.
El Salvador: $4.159 Million in Remittances up to September
In the first nine months of this year, the country received $4.159 million in remittances, surpassing in 4% what was reported in the same period of 2018.
During September the country recorded $459 million in remittances, more than the $429.3 million received in the same month in 2018.
El Salvador: Remittances Total $3.7 Billion
In the first eight months of this year, the country received $3.7 billion in remittances, 4% more than in the same period in 2018.
Family remittances received by El Salvador from January to August 2019 reached $3.7 billion with a 4.1% growth, equivalent to an additional $146.5 million over the same period last year, according to the Central Reserve Bank.
Remittances in El Salvador: Figures up to July 2019
In the first seven months of this year, the country received $3.229 million in remittances, surpassing in 4% what was reported in the same period of 2018.
The country's central zone captured 36.2% of total remittances, equivalent to $1,168.4 million, followed by the eastern zone with 32.5%, or $1,049.7 million, while the western zone totaled $539.3 million this represents 16.7% and the central zone received $391.1 million equivalent to 12.1% of the total, reported the Central Reserve Bank.
Concern about the Future of the Relationship with USA
Guatemala's business sector responded with concern to President Trump's warning about imposing export tariffs and levies on remittances and transfers.
The announcement made by the president of the United States comes after the Guatemalan Constitutional Court issued a ruling in which it limits its foreign policy functions to the Executive, by granting a provisional injunction that prevents the negotiation or signing of any agreement.
Remittances Up 4% in the 1st Semester
From January to June of this year, El Salvador received $2.744 million in remittances, 4% more than in the same period of 2018.
According to data from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR), the central zone captured the largest amount of family remittances with $989.8 million, equivalent to 36.1% of the total, followed by the eastern zone with $896 million, which constitutes 32.7% of total remittances, the institution reported.
El Salvador: Remittances Increased 6% up to March 2019
During the first quarter of the year, family remittances sent to the country totaled $1.298 million, 6% more than what was reported in the same period of 2018.
Family remittances from El Salvador totaled $1,297.7 million in the first quarter of 2019, presenting a 5.9% growth, $72.5 million higher than the income received under this concept in the same period of the previous year, informed the Central Reserve Bank (BCR).
El Salvador: Remittances Up 5% up to February 2019
During the first two months of the year, family remittances sent to the country totaled $806 million, 5% more than what was reported for the same period in 2018.
Only in February, $404.9 million were raised, equivalent to 1.8 million remittance operations, including mobile phone top-ups, informed the Central Reserve Bank (BCR).
From the BCR statement:
Remittances: Guatemala Accounts for 32% of Shipments to the Region
During 2018, family remittances to Central American countries and the Dominican Republic totaled $28.670 million, of which $9.288 million went to Guatemala.
In 2018, family remittances to Central America and the Dominican Republic (CARD) grew 11%, showing a slight slowdown with respect to what was observed in 2017 (12.0%). This slight slowdown was observed in all countries except Honduras, explained the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC).
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Chapter I.--The Course pursued by the Apostles after the Ascension of Christ.
1. First, then, in the place of Judas, the betrayer, Matthias, who, as has been shown was also one of the Seventy, was chosen to the apostolate. And there were appointed to the diaconate, for the service of the congregation, by prayer and the laying on of the hands of the apostles, approved men, seven in number, of whom Stephen was one. He first, after the Lord, was stoned to death at the time of his ordination by the slayers of the Lord, as if he had been promoted for this very purpose. And thus he was the first to receive the crown, corresponding to his name, which belongs to the martyrs of Christ, who are worthy of the meed of victory.
2. Then James, whom the ancients surnamed the Just on account of the excellence of his virtue, is recorded to have been the first to be made bishop of the church of Jerusalem. This James was called the brother of the Lord because he was known as a son of Joseph, and Joseph was supposed to be the father of Christ, because the Virgin, being betrothed to him, |was found with child by the Holy Ghost before they came together,| as the account of the holy Gospels shows.
3. But Clement in the sixth book of his Hypotyposes writes thus: |For they say that Peter and James and John after the ascension of our Saviour, as if also preferred by our Lord, strove not after honor, but chose James the Just bishop of Jerusalem.|
4. But the same writer, in the seventh book of the same work, relates also the following things concerning him: |The Lord after his resurrection imparted knowledge to James the Just and to John and Peter, and they imparted it to the rest of the apostles, and the rest of the apostles to the seventy, of whom Barnabas was one. But there were two Jameses: one called the Just, who was thrown from the pinnacle of the temple and was beaten to death with a club by a fuller, and another who was beheaded.| Paul also makes mention of the same James the Just, where he writes, |Other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.|
5. At that time also the promise of our Saviour to the king of the Osrhoenians was fulfilled. For Thomas, under a divine impulse, sent Thaddeus to Edessa as a preacher and evangelist of the religion of Christ, as we have shown a little above from the document found there.
7. When he came to that place he healed Abgarus by the word of Christ; and after bringing all the people there into the right attitude of mind by means of his works, and leading them to adore the power of Christ, he made them disciples of the Saviour's teaching. And from that time down to the present the whole city of the Edessenes has been devoted to the name of Christ, offering no common proof of the beneficence of our Saviour toward them also.
8. These things have been drawn from ancient accounts; but let us now turn again to the divine Scripture. When the first and greatest persecution was instigated by the Jews against the church of Jerusalem in connection with the martyrdom of Stephen, and when all the disciples, except the Twelve, were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria, some, as the divine Scripture says, went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but could not yet venture to impart the word of faith to the nations, and therefore preached it to the Jews alone.
9. During this time Paul was still persecuting the church, and entering the houses of believers was dragging men and women away and committing them to prison.
10. Philip also, one of those who with Stephen had been entrusted with the diaconate, being among those who were scattered abroad, went down to Samaria, and being filled with the divine power, he first preached the word to the inhabitants of that country. And divine grace worked so mightily with him that even Simon Magus with many others was attracted by his words.
11. Simon was at that time so celebrated, and had acquired, by his jugglery, such influence over those who were deceived by him, that he was thought to be the great power of God. But at this time, being amazed at the wonderful deeds wrought by Philip through the divine power, he feigned and counterfeited faith in Christ, even going so far as to receive baptism.
12. And what is surprising, the same thing is done even to this day by those who follow his most impure heresy. For they, after the manner of their forefather, slipping into the Church, like a pestilential and leprous disease greatly afflict those into whom they are able to infuse the deadly and terrible poison concealed in themselves. The most of these have been expelled as soon as they have been caught in their wickedness, as Simon himself, when detected by Peter, received the merited punishment.
13. But as the preaching of the Saviour's Gospel was daily advancing, a certain providence led from the land of the Ethiopians an officer of the queen of that country, for Ethiopia even to the present day is ruled, according to ancestral custom, by a woman. He, first among the Gentiles, received of the mysteries of the divine word from Philip in consequence of a revelation, and having become the first-fruits of believers throughout the world, he is said to have been the first on returning to his country to proclaim the knowledge of the God of the universe and the life-giving sojourn of our Saviour among men; so that through him in truth the prophecy obtained its fulfillment, which declares that |Ethiopia stretcheth out her hand unto God.|
14. In addition to these, Paul, that |chosen vessel,| |not of men neither through men, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ himself and of God the Father who raised him from the dead,| was appointed an apostle, being made worthy of the call by a vision and by a voice which was uttered in a revelation from heaven.


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Q: insert rows from Pandas dataframe into mongodb collection as individual documents using Python I have been attempting to insert the rows of a pandas dataframe into a mongodb collection as individual documents. I am pulling the data from MongoDB using pymongo, performing some transformations, running a scoring algorithm, and adding the score as an additional column to the dataframe.  The last step will be to insert the rows into a special collection on the mongoDB database as individual documents but I am completely stuck. My example dataframe df looks like this.
    memberID                                       dxCodes  dxCount  score
0  856589080          [4280, 4293, 4241, 4240, 4242, 4243]        6    1.8
1  906903383                                       [V7612]        1    2.6
2  837210554                           [4550, 4553, V1582]        3    3.1
3  935634391       [78791, 28860, V1582, 496, 25000, 4019]        6    1.1
4  929185103  [30500, 42731, 4280, 496, 59972, 4019, 3051]        7    2.8

MemberID is a string, dx codes would be an array (in MongoDB terminology), dxCount is an int, and score is a float. I have been toying around with a piece of code I found posted in response to a vaguely similar question.
import json
import datetime
df = pandas.DataFrame.from_dict({'A': {1: datetime.datetime.now()}})
records = json.loads(df.T.to_json()).values()
db.temp.insert_many(records)

This is what I was able to get in my collection:
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("565a8f206d8bc51a08745de0"),
    "A" : NumberLong(1448753856695)
}

It's not much, but its as close as I have gotten.  I have spent a lot of time googling and taking shots in the dark but haven't cracked it yet.  Any guidance is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for your assistance!

A: You need to convert your DataFrame to list of dictionary using the .to_dict() method.
>>> from pprint import pprint # to pretty print the cursor result.
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import pymongo
>>> client = pymongo.MongoClient()
>>> db = client.test
>>> collection = db.collection
>>> memberID = ['856589080', '906903383', '837210554', '935634391', '929185103']
>>> dxCodes = [[4280, 4293, 4241, 4240, 4242, 4243], [7612], [4550, 4553, 1582],[78791, 28860, 1582, 496, 25000, 4019], [30500, 42731, 4280, 496, 59972, 4019, 3051]]
>>> dxCount = [6, 1, 3, 6, 7]
>>> score = [1.8, 2.6, 3.1, 1.1, 2.8]
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'memberID': memberID, 'dxCodes': dxCodes, 'score': score})
>>> df
                                        dxCodes   memberID  score
0          [4280, 4293, 4241, 4240, 4242, 4243]  856589080    1.8
1                                        [7612]  906903383    2.6
2                            [4550, 4553, 1582]  837210554    3.1
3        [78791, 28860, 1582, 496, 25000, 4019]  935634391    1.1
4  [30500, 42731, 4280, 496, 59972, 4019, 3051]  929185103    2.8
>>> collection.insert_many(df.to_dict('records')) # you need to pass the 'records' as argument in order to get a list of dict.
<pymongo.results.InsertManyResult object at 0x7fcd7035d990>
>>> pprint(list(collection.find()))
[{'_id': ObjectId('565b189f0acf45181c69d464'),
  'dxCodes': [4280, 4293, 4241, 4240, 4242, 4243],
  'memberID': '856589080',
  'score': 1.8},
 {'_id': ObjectId('565b189f0acf45181c69d465'),
  'dxCodes': [7612],
  'memberID': '906903383',
  'score': 2.6},
 {'_id': ObjectId('565b189f0acf45181c69d466'),
  'dxCodes': [4550, 4553, 1582],
  'memberID': '837210554',
  'score': 3.1},
 {'_id': ObjectId('565b189f0acf45181c69d467'),
  'dxCodes': [78791, 28860, 1582, 496, 25000, 4019],
  'memberID': '935634391',
  'score': 1.1},
 {'_id': ObjectId('565b189f0acf45181c69d468'),
  'dxCodes': [30500, 42731, 4280, 496, 59972, 4019, 3051],
  'memberID': '929185103',
  'score': 2.8}]
>>>


This past Sunday (February 9), the Tokyo Wonder Festival was held in Japan in the Makuhari Messe, an event during which new and upcoming action figures related to video games, manga and anime are displayed. Several new Metal Gear figures were announced.
First of all: a Solid Snake Nendoroid figure by Good Smile Company.
Also announced are four statues by Union Creative International Ltd: Raiden Game Mode Version and Raiden Yoji Shinkawa version, and Snake Game Mode Version and Snake Yoji Shinkawa Version.
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About Dublinia
Health and Beauty in the age of the Vikings
When we hear the word Viking, it often brings to mind huge burly vicious men who brought havoc to the foreign lands they plundered, some did, but mostly Vikings were actually just pretty ordinary people who lived their lives just like us, although without our modern-day comforts. Given the relevancy to our current climate, we all know the hygiene and health is so important so, with that, we have decided to take a look at what kind of health the Viking people of Dublin were in, their hygiene, diet, but also what beauty measures they followed.
A Viking workout
Overall the average male life expectancy in Europe was into the early 30's. Viking warriors were young men likely to die in battle, however, they were also very very fit. Fighting on foot, or onboard a Viking ship or any kind of moving vessel required agility, almost like that of a boxer, and they often carried a heavy weapon like a sword at the same time. While the greatest risk to a woman's health at the time was childbirth.
There was little or no obesity partly because of regular physical activity, being a warrior, chopping wood, fishing, all in turn involved a great workout each day. The absence of any refined sugar in people's diet meant that dental caries was comparatively rare, and let's face it, who would want to visit a Viking dentist!!. You didn't get away with much as a child either, in Dublinia, we display the skeletal remains of a Viking warrior found on South Great Georges Street in Dublin, who we affectionately call Gunnar. Gunnar died in the prime of his life but he had serious back problems possibly caused by heavy labour in childhood!
Keeping apart, or social distancing as we call it today, from others was impossible, especially in a typical Viking house. Everyone slept in the same room together with no electricity or light, just a small hole in the roof to let the smoke from the fire go out. Animals lived in the house too, in a byre at one end of the house, no doubt making for a lovely wafting aroma! This is probably why the Vikings liked to spend a lot of time outdoors, inside was just too dark, smelly, and dirty!!
Scratch, scratch, scratch!
It was also was impossible to heat large quantities of hot water, so there was not much washing of bedding, clothes or your body! People were obviously prone to fleas and lice because of these living conditions. Waste disposal was a constant problem. Animals and humans were sources of waste material so it had to be carefully managed to avoid disease, therefore other solutions for waste had to be found in crowded towns like Dublin. Cesspits, built in the back garden of a property may have contained some sort of a commode that it 'contents' could be emptied into after. Moss, and other soft vegetable matter, were even used as toilet paper too.
Food and Alcohol
The Viking diet was healthy and fresh and tended to reflect the rural economy. It was not a time to worry about the fat content of food like some people do today, they needed all the energy that they could get in the form of fat, especially in winter. Meat, fish, vegetables, cereals and milk products were all an important part of their diet. Sweet food was consumed in the form of berries, fruit and honey and archaeological evidence has found that there was a large consumption of apples, bilberries, blackberries and sloes in Dublin. 90% of meat came from cattle brought in from farms in the surrounding countryside, however, fish was also eaten with Dublin being so close to the river. They also grew barley, oats and rye. The most common alcoholic drink was ale, made from barley however it lacked the hops that flavour beer so it probably didn't really taste that good. If that was too much effort, Mead was also simply made from fermenting a mixture of honey and water. Skol!
What did they really look like?
On television Viking style includes hair adorned with braids and beads, eyes covered in warrior's kohl, and faces marked by battle scars. We imagine them as a fearful race, how much of it is really true, however. We know that most took a bath every Saturday, brushed their hair and dressed very smartly, so they must have been very popular with the ladies in the lands that they arrived in. The comb was an important item for grooming hair and beards. Many Vikings had their own combs, nail cleaners and even tweezers. One archaeologist has even suggested that due to the number of combs found in Dublin excavations, that they might have been used as a form of currency, either that or Dublin Vikings were just very proud of their hair! Viking women's hair was also well kept. It was typically long and could be attractively styled. We can see this on small silver and bronze figures found. Men and women used also supposedly used make-up too. An Arab traveller to Denmark at the time noted that the Vikings wore make-up to make themselves look younger and more beautiful, in particular eye kohl. So who knows, maybe the Vikings of Dublin did the same.
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Q: Implement a function which import data from the same webpage root I would like to implement a function to import several dataset from the same website source, where for each dataset it changes just one word on the website address.
Here the website: https://statistichecoronavirus.it/regioni-coronavirus-italia/.../
where ... represents the part to change in order to get each dataset.
I would like to have the following variable vectors from each webpage:
total infected
total active cases
total deaths
total healed
daily increment infected
daily incremental active cases
daily increment deaths
daily increment healed

I tried to write the following, but it doesn't work:
covid19[region_] :=
 Module[{data, process, date, infected, cases, deaths, healed},
  data = Import[
    "https://statistichecoronavirus.it/regioni-coronavirus-italia/"<>region <> "/", "Data"];
  process[s_String] := Module[{d = StringSplit[s, " "][[1]]},
    If[StringContainsQ[d, "/"],
     DateObject[{d <> "/2020", {"Day", "/", "Month", "/", "Year"}}],
     ToExpression[StringReplace[d, "." -> ""]]]];
  process[s_Integer] := s (*to process the last string*);
  date = Map[process, data[[2, All, ;; -2]], {2}][[All, 1]];
  infected= Map[process, data[[2, All, ;; -2]], {2}][[All, 2]];
  cases = Map[process, data[[2, All, ;; -2]], {2}][[All, 3]];
  deaths = Map[process, data[[2, All, ;; -2]], {2}][[All, 4]];
  healed = Map[process, data[[2, All, ;; -2]], {2}][[All, 5]];
  <|region -> <|"Infected" -> infected, "Cases" -> cases, "Deaths" ->deaths, "Healed" -> healed|>|>]
status = covid19 /@ {"Lombardia", "Sicilia"} // Association;

That's what I've done without functional programming bases:
ClearAll;
data = Import["https://statistichecoronavirus.it/coronavirus-italia/",
    "Data"];
Table[Drop[%[[2, i]], -1], {i, 1, Length[%[[2]]] - 1}];
temp = Table[StringReplace[%[[i]], "." -> ""], {i, 1, Length[%]}];
StringExtract[##, 1] & /@ temp;
Join[{data[[1, 2 ;; All]]},
  ToExpression[%[[All, 2 ;; All]]], {ToExpression[
    Drop[data[[2, -1]], -1][[2 ;; All]]]}];
tot = Transpose[
   Insert[% // Transpose,
    Flatten[{"Data", StringExtract[##, 1] & /@ temp[[All, 1]],
      "20/02"}], 1]];
contagi = tot[[2 ;; All, 2]];
casi = tot[[2 ;; All, 3]];
morti = tot[[2 ;; All, 4]];
guariti = tot[[2 ;; All, 5]];
Join[{data[[1, 2 ;; All]]},
  ToExpression[
   ArrayReshape[
    StringCases[StringJoin[temp],
     Shortest["(+" ~~ x__ ~~ ")"] -> x], {Length[temp],
     4}]], {ToExpression[Drop[data[[2, -1]], -1][[2 ;; All]]]}];
par = Transpose[
   Insert[% // Transpose,
    Flatten[{"Data", StringExtract[##, 1] & /@ temp[[All, 1]],
      "20/02"}], 1]];
\[CapitalDelta]contagi = tot[[2 ;; All, 2]];
\[CapitalDelta]casi = tot[[2 ;; All, 3]];
\[CapitalDelta]morti = tot[[2 ;; All, 4]];
\[CapitalDelta]guariti = tot[[2 ;; All, 5]];
date = Table[
  DateObject[{tot[[i, 1]] <> "/2020", {"Day", "Month", "Year"}}], {i,
   2, Length[tot]}]
G1 = TemporalData[contagi, {date}];
G2 = TemporalData[casi, {date}];
G3 = TemporalData[morti, {date}];
G4 = TemporalData[guariti, {date}];
Show[ListLinePlot[G1], ListLinePlot[G2], ListLinePlot[G3],
 ListLinePlot[G4]]
Interpolation[G1, InterpolationOrder -> 4]

My final goal is to get several interpolation and bestfit function for each region.
I would like to avoid repeating it for each "region".

A: Update Plot data for several regions
provinces = {"lombardia", "sicilia"};
dataByProvince = covid19Italy /@ provinces;

dataByProvince //
  Map[(KeyTake[#, {"date", "total infected"}] &), #, {2}] & //
  Values //
  Flatten[#, 1] & //
  DateListPlot[#,
   ScalingFunctions -> "Log",
   PlotLegends -> Capitalize@provinces,
   PlotMarkers -> Automatic,
   PlotTheme -> "Detailed",
   PlotLabel -> Style["COVID-19 Italy - Total Infected by Province", 14, Black]] &

That code looks quite complicated. Here is an alternative (and I think, simpler) implementation.
covid19Italy[region_] :=
 Module[{header, convertDelta, insertZero, data, processedData},

  header = {"date", "total infected", "total infected change",
    "total deaths", "total deaths change", "total healed",
    "total healed change"};

  insertZero[n_] := ToString[n] <> " (+0)";

  convertDelta[s_] :=
   StringReplace[s, {"(" -> "", ")" -> ""}] // StringSplit //
    ToExpression;

  data = Import["https://statistichecoronavirus.it/regioni-coronavirus-italia/" <>
      region <> "/", "Data"][[2, 2]];

  processedData =
   data //
       MapAt[StringReplace[" In aggiornamento" -> ""] /*
         (DateObject[{# <> "/2020", {"Day", "/", "Month", "/", "Year"}}] &), #, {All, 1}] & //
      MapAt[insertZero, #, {-1, 2 ;;}] & //
     MapAt[convertDelta, #, {All, 2 ;;}] & //
    Map[Flatten];
  <|region -> (AssociationThread[header -> #] &) /@ processedData|>]

lombardia = covid19Italy["lombardia"];

lombardia // Map[KeyTake[#, {"date", "total infected"}] &] // DateListPlot


It's National Preparedness Month, which means it's time to make sure you're ready for whatever life throws your way. Emergency preparedness isn't about doomsday prepping, though, it's about being ready for the realistic events that can disrupt life at any time. Here are some lesser-known things you should do as you establish you and your family's emergency plan.
You don't have to keep your eyes glued to the news to stay up to date. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) makes it easy for officials to send important messages through multiple pathways using their Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), including text messages.
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) are free 90-character texts that local authorities can send to mobile devices within range of any cell towers in an affected area. You don't have to sign up to receive WEAs, but you should check to make sure your phone—and backup phone if you have one—are able to receive them. Some prepaid and "burner" phones are able to receive them as well, so be sure to check before you buy one to throw in your emergency kit.
To double up on your warning coverage, check with your jurisdiction to see if they have their own opt-in public alert system. Most of these systems send warnings by text and/or email, and let you choose the types of alerts and the device you receive them on. Every jurisdiction is different, though, so do an internet search like this: "[town, city, or county name] + emergency alerts" to see how you can sign up. You should also check with your local emergency management or public safety office. And make sure everyone in the family is able to get warnings and alerts, not just you.
Okay, let's all meet at the street sign on the corner.
An indoor meeting spot: In the event of natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, and other storms, set a dedicated place in your home everyone can go to. A small, windowless room like a closet or bathroom, a safe room, or a basement are good examples.
A neighborhood meeting spot: In case you and your family have to leave your home, or you all get separated in the commotion, pick a spot in the neighborhood everyone knows to meet at. A big tree, mailbox, the end of a driveway, or a neighbor's house will do.
A regional meeting spot: Say you and your partner are at work when disaster strikes and your kids are at school. In that case, you should have a non-residential meeting spot somewhere in the area where everyone can meet up. It can be a library, place of worship, community center, or even a relative's house.
An out of town meeting spot: Some disasters call for an evacuation, so it's a good idea to have a safe meeting place out of the region. The homes of relatives or family friends are perfect, but you could also choose an easy-to-get-to hotel or other landmark that everyone is familiar with.
Make sure all of these places are accessible by everyone in your family, including people with pets and those with disabilities. If you live in the city and don't have a car, make sure you take time to establish train routes, and backup routes, to your meeting spots. FEMA has a Commuter Emergency Plan form you can fill out and give to everyone who needs it.
When disaster strikes, communication is everything. Emergency personnel will be stretched thin trying to mitigate damage and help those who are truly in need, so they won't have time to help you find or reach out to people. However, with a family communication plan in place, you can make things easier and safer for those you care about.
You can make your own, or print this blank one and fill it out. Make copies and keep them in your emergency kit, car, purse, wallet, and backpack. There's even a foldable, wallet-sized one you can fill out and carry with you at all times. Keep one posted or stashed in an easy-to-access place in your home too. It's also not a bad idea to put some of this information in a phone or other device, but don't rely on it.
Once everyone has the information they need, set up a phone tree so people know who to call when something happens. Everyone's might be different, so find a free template (like the one above) or draw up your own and get everyone in your family to fill it out together. Ideally, everyone should have two people they always contact in an emergency. Then those two people each have two people to contact, and so on.
It's not a bad idea to make a couple and keep one in each of your bags, and there should definitely be one in your car. AAA has a free template you can use to make one to stick in your glove box. Additionally, you should fill out the health and medical information on your smartphone if possible. For example, the iPhone's Health app lets you list allergies, reactions, blood type, and emergency contacts that first responders can view by swiping the lock screen and tapping "Emergency." At the very least, list one contact in every family member's phone as "In Case of Emergency" or "ICE," so someone can instantly identify who your emergency contact is.
You're probably familiar with the concept of the go-bag or "bug-out bag," and you may even have one already. But one bag for an entire family is not ideal. Every member of your family, including kids, seniors, and especially the disabled, should have their own that's tailored to their individual needs. That way if people get separated they still have everything they need to survive.
For a basic go-bag or emergency kit, FEMA recommends you include bottled water, non-perishable food, a battery-powered or hand crank radio and NOAA Weather Radio, a flashlight, extra batteries, first aid kit, whistle, dust mask, moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties (for personal sanitation), a wrench or pair of pliers, can opener, local maps, and cell phone charger. A prepaid cell phone is also a great addition. After that, take each person's individual needs into consideration.
If someone needs medication, try to have at least three-days to a week's worth stowed away, as well as a copy of their prescriptions. You may need to let your doctor know you're doing this, just so they'll write you a prescription (or a refill) for the extras, or provide sample packs you can stash away. Make sure you pack formula and diapers for babies. Pack food and extra water for pets (or pack their own go-bag) since shelters will be overwhelmed and may not be able to take them in. If someone wears contacts or glasses, have an extra pair of glasses and contacts plus solution in their bag. An old pair or prescription is fine—it's better to kind-of see than not see at all.
Write down credit and debit card numbers and security codes on a piece of paper to keep in your bag, and make sure every bag has a little cash in it. Card systems might go down, so have bills in small denominations ($1, $5, and $10) and some change. And, if you can help it, try to keep your go-bag from looking like a go-bag. If your bag looks like it contains survival equipment, it can make you a target to those who weren't prepared and have grown desperate.
Lastly, let each family member add something personal to each of their bags that makes them feel comfortable. It could be a favorite candy, some tea, a toy or game, or even a book. Personal toiletries like lotion, deodorant, extra wet wipes, extra socks, and extra underwear are a good idea too. A little comfort goes a long way in tough times, so make sure everyone has something that helps them relieve stress and feel a little normal.
Many disasters have the potential to wipe away all of your belongings, including all of your vital documents and records if you're not careful. They should be stored away safely, like in a waterproof, fireproof safe, but they also need to be packaged together in a way that lets you grab them all in an instant. Include vital identification records like birth certificates and passports, medical information, and financial and legal documents you can't easily replace. If you're not sure what documents you should have stowed and ready to grab, we've got you covered.
You can also store electronic copies of all your important documents encrypted on hard drives you keep in your safe and go-bag. You should also consider keeping a regularly backed up flash drive loaded with other important files (photos, work documents, etc.) Of course, you should also have everything stored with a secure, encrypted cloud-based service as well just in case your physical backups fail you.
Emergencies can happen at any time, including when you're relaxing or sleeping at home. But chances are, your jammies aren't the best thing to leave the house in, especially if there's nasty weather. It's a good idea to lay out some clothes and accessories on top of your go-bag, or just inside it if there's room. Same for everyone in your family.
Your emergency outfit should include a good pair of shoes or boots that provide good traction in all weather types, pants (not shorts), a long-sleeved t-shirt, a jacket, a hat, and a pair of gloves. Make sure everything is made out of cotton or wool so they breathe well and will burn off without melting in case of fire. It's also a good idea to keep a cotton handkerchief or bandana (or a few) to cover your face, and goggles to protect your eyes in case of smoke or dust. Now you can hop right out of bed and switch to survival mode almost instantly.
For more useful emergency preparedness tips and information, be sure to check out ready.gov (it's available in 13 different languages). They cover disaster preparedness for everything from hurricanes to cyber attacks. You can also download the FEMA app on iOS, Android, and Blackberry so you're always up-to-date and prepared as long as you have your phone.
Illustration by Sam Woolley. Photos by Aaron Parecki, he who would be lost, Rex Roof, and Frédérique Voisin-Demery.
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