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Americas|Lessons of Iraq Help U.S. Fight a Drug War in Honduras
Lessons of Iraq Help U.S. Fight a Drug War in Honduras
By THOM SHANKER MAY 5, 2012
Honduran soldiers at Forward Operating Base Mocoron, one of three outposts from which cocaine trafficking is being combated. Credit Tomas Munita for The New York Times
FORWARD OPERATING BASE MOCORON, Honduras — The United States military has brought lessons from the past decade of conflict to the drug war being fought in the wilderness of Miskito Indian country, constructing this remote base camp with little public notice but with the support of the Honduran government.
It is one of three new forward bases here — one in the rain forest, one on the savanna and one along the coast — each in a crucial location to interdict smugglers moving cocaine toward the United States from South America.
Honduras is the latest focal point in America's drug war. As Mexico puts the squeeze on narcotics barons using its territory as a transit hub, more than 90 percent of the cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela bound for the United States passes through Central America. More than a third of those narcotics make their way through Honduras, a country with vast ungoverned areas — and one of the highest per capita homicide rates in the world.
This new offensive, emerging just as the United States military winds down its conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and is moving to confront emerging threats, also showcases the nation's new way of war: small-footprint missions with limited numbers of troops, partnerships with foreign military and police forces that take the lead in security operations, and narrowly defined goals, whether aimed at insurgents, terrorists or criminal groups that threaten American interests.
The effort draws on hard lessons learned from a decade of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq, where troops were moved from giant bases to outposts scattered across remote, hostile areas so they could face off against insurgents.
But the mission here has been adapted to strict rules of engagement prohibiting American combat in Central America, a delicate issue given Washington's messy history in Honduras, which was the base for the secret operation once run by Oliver North to funnel money and arms to rebels fighting in neighboring Nicaragua. Some skeptics still worry that the American military might accidentally empower thuggish elements of local security forces.
In past drug operations, helicopters ferrying Honduran and American antinarcotics squads took off from the capital, Tegucigalpa, whenever an intelligence task force identified radar tracks of a smuggler's aircraft. The three-hour flights required to reach cartel rendezvous points did not leave much idle time to spot airplanes as they unloaded tons of cocaine to dugout canoes, which then paddled downriver beneath the jungle canopy to meet fast boats and submersibles at the coast for the trip north.
In creating the new outposts — patterned on the forward bases in Iraq and Afghanistan that gave troops a small, secure home on insurgent turf — spartan but comfortable barracks were built. Giant tanks hold 4,500 gallons of helicopter fuel. Solar panels augment generators. Each site supports two-week rotations for 55 people, all no more than 30 to 45 minutes' flying time from most smuggling handoff points.
A suspect in a suburb of Tegucigalpa. Credit Tomas Munita for The New York Times
Before his assignment to Central America, Col. Ross A. Brown spent 2005 and 2006 in Iraq as commander of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment's Third Squadron, responsible for southern Baghdad. It was a time so violent that President George W. Bush ordered an increase in troop levels to retake the initiative.
Colonel Brown is now commander of Joint Task Force-Bravo, where he and just 600 troops are responsible for the military's efforts across all of Central America. He is under orders to maintain a discreet footprint, supporting local authorities and the Drug Enforcement Administration, which leads the American counternarcotics mission.
American troops here cannot fire except in self-defense, and they are barred from responding with force even if Honduran or Drug Enforcement Administration agents are in danger. Within these prohibitions, the military marshals personnel, helicopters, surveillance airplanes and logistical support that Honduras and even the State Department and D.E.A. cannot.
"By countering transnational organized crime, we promote stability, which is necessary for external investment, economic growth and minimizing violence," Colonel Brown said. "We also are disrupting and deterring the potential nexus between transnational organized criminals and terrorists who would do harm to our country."
To reach Forward Operating Base Mocoron, an Army Black Hawk helicopter flew through fog-shrouded canyons, over triple-canopy rain forest and across savannas that bore dozens of 200-yard scratches — pirate runways for drug smugglers.
Conducting operations during a recent day at the outpost were members of the Honduran Tactical Response Team, the nation's top-tier counternarcotics unit. They were working alongside the Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team, or FAST, created by the Drug Enforcement Administration to disrupt the poppy trade in Afghanistan. With the campaign in Afghanistan winding down — and with lowered expectations of what Washington can do to halt heroin trafficking there — FAST members were in Honduras to plan interdiction missions in Central America.
And Honduran Special Operations forces, with trainers from American Special Forces — the Army's Green Berets — were ferried from the outpost by Honduran helicopters to plant explosives that would cut craters into smugglers' runways. Honduran infantrymen provided security for the outpost, which remains under Honduran command.
Those missions were conducted amid reminders of the dirty wars of the 1980s. One such reminder was a delegation of Congressional staff members visiting recently to assess local forces' respect of human rights. Legislation prohibits United States military assistance to foreign forces that violate human rights, so before Joint Task Force-Bravo can cooperate with Central American militaries, they must be certified by American embassies in the countries where those operations are to take place.
Another reminder sits across the runway at Soto Cano Air Base, the large Honduran base outside the capital that hosts a local military academy and Colonel Brown's headquarters. Behind a high fence is a compound once used by Mr. North, a Marine lieutenant colonel at the center of the Iran-contra operation, a clandestine effort to sell weapons to Iran and divert profits to support rebels in Nicaragua, despite legislation prohibiting assistance to the group because of human rights abuses. Today, tropical undergrowth is erasing traces of the secret base.
An American task force member refueling a Black Hawk helicopter in Puerto Castilla. Credit Tomas Munita for The New York Times
But that history still casts a shadow, skeptics of the American effort say.
"We know from the Reagan years that the infrastructure of the country of Honduras — both its governance machinery as well as its security forces — simply is not strong enough, is not corruption-proof enough, is not anti-venal enough to be a bastion of democracy," said Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a policy research group in Washington.
The American ambassador to Honduras, Lisa J. Kubiske, is responsible for bringing order to the complex and sometimes competing mix of interagency programs, and she oversees compliance with human rights legislation. She described the Honduran armed forces as "eager and capable partners in this joint effort."
One of those partners, Cmdr. Pablo Rodríguez of the Honduran Navy, is the senior officer at the second of the forward bases, at Puerto Castilla on the coast. He pointed to his "bonus fleet" of several dozen vessels seized from smugglers, the fastest of which were retrofitted with Kevlar armor over outboard engines and mounts for machine guns for chasing drug runners. The improvements were financed by the State Department.
"We have limitations on how quickly we can move, even when we get strong indications of a shipment of drugs," Commander Rodríguez said. "We can't do anything without air support. So that's why it's very important to have the United States coming in here."
Permanent American deployments overseas are shrinking to match a smaller Pentagon budget — and missions will increasingly reflect partnership efforts traditionally assigned to Special Operations forces. A significant effort is the presence of 200 of those troops assigned as trainers across Central America.
The third forward base, at El Aguacate in central Honduras, has sprung from an abandoned airstrip used by the C.I.A. during the Reagan era.
Narcotics cartels, transnational organized crime and gang violence are designated as threats by the United States and Central American governments, with a broader consensus than when that base was built — in an era when the region was viewed through a narrow prism of communism and anticommunism.
"The drug demand in the United States certainly exacerbates challenges placed upon our neighboring countries fighting against these organizations — and why it is so important that we partner with them in their countering efforts," said Vice Adm. Joseph D. Kernan, the No. 2 officer at Southern Command, which is responsible for military activities in Central and South America.
Before this assignment, Admiral Kernan spent years in Navy SEAL combat units, and he sees the effort to combat drug cartels as necessary to preventing terrorists from co-opting criminal groups for attacks in this hemisphere.
There are "insidious" parallels between regional criminal organizations and terror networks, Admiral Kernan said. "They operate without regard to borders," he said, in order to smuggle drugs, people, weapons and money.
A version of this article appears in print on May 6, 2012, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: A U.S. Drug War Inside Honduras, Waged Iraq-Style. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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(Most) Stores Are Closed on Thanksgiving. Thank the Great Resignation.
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People wait in line for a Black Friday sale at a Best Buy store in Overland Park, Kan., on Nov. 23, 2017. (photo: Charlie Riedel/AP)
One of the worst ideas U.S. retailers ever had was to open stores on Thanksgiving Day. In the 2010s, retailers started unlocking their doors earlier and earlier — at midnight, at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, then in the afternoon on Turkey Day, ripping workers and customers away from family in an effort to make a bit more money. Almost overnight, a holiday in which Americans ostensibly gave thanks for what they had morphed into one where people trample each other for more stuff at discount.
In 2022, it's a different story. Most major U.S. retailers will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Target says this is a permanent change and that it won't open again on the holiday. Walmart, too. "It's a thing of the past, we'll be closed on Thanksgiving," Walmart U.S. chief executive John Furner said recently.
Why the about-face? Partly, this reflects how the pandemic changed the way people shop. For much of 2020, millions of people didn't want to go into brick-and-mortar stores, even for a deal. Americans of all ages became expert online shoppers. On top of that, supply-chain drama and delays prompted shoppers to hunt for gifts earlier. The notion of having a make-or-break Black Friday weekend for sales suddenly seemed extremely risky, especially if stores might not have much merchandise in stock. Now, deals typically start earlier and last longer.
"The entire Black Friday weekend has become less impactful," said Mark Mathews, the National Retail Federation's vice president of research development and industry analysis. "There's also been a change in mind-set from consumers to, 'I'm going to get those deals, even if I don't go out on Black Friday.' "
The other driving force is the "Great Resignation," perhaps better described as the Great Reassessment of Work. Retailers can't find enough employees to open on Thanksgiving, and they don't want to risk a mass resignation by forcing people to work that day.
Job-quitting hit an all-time high last holiday season. A record 5 percent of the retail workforce walked out last December alone. It was easy to get a higher-paying job elsewhere. But it wasn't just about the pay. Workers who quit often say it was because they were tired of being mistreated. The pandemic made people decide it wasn't worth sacrificing time with family or the cost to their physical and mental health to be yelled at by customers, demeaned by bosses and ordered into work on what was supposed to be their day off. Retailers responded by increasing pay — and by closing stores earlier and giving days such as Thanksgiving off. (Many hospital and emergency personnel will still be working, but that's different from optional activities such as retail.)
Amparo Rojas worked at Walmart for more than 20 years as a manager in the baby department. She enjoyed the job, except around Black Friday. For years, her family had to eat Thanksgiving "dinner" at lunchtime so she could report to work that Thursday afternoon. And the notorious sales brought out the worst in shoppers.
"People were throwing things in my face if we didn't have the right color. Or they would yell, 'You don't know what you're doing,' if they couldn't find anything," said Rojas, who is now retired. "We had to just smile. We couldn't answer back to the customers."
The few stores still opening on Thanksgiving this year include some pharmacies and supermarkets, discount shops such as Dollar Tree and Dollar General, and outdoor sports stores Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops. None responded to a request for comment about why they plan to open on that special Thursday.
As the economy slows, attention is focusing on when a recession could hit and how high unemployment might go as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to tame inflation. Workers will inevitably lose some of the leverage they have enjoyed the past two years. Already, the quit rate in retail has fallen significantly (to 3.7 percent a month), and retail job openings have dropped back to closer to pre-pandemic levels.
But a lasting impact of the Great Resignation is that workers aren't willing to do exactly what they did before. White-collar employees are fighting returns to the office, while many hourly workers seek flexible schedules so they can take time off for health reasons and for family and hobbies.
Workers still exude tremendous power in many industries, as can be seen in high-profile strikes threatening to shut down America's freight rail just before the holidays and unionization efforts at Starbucks and elsewhere. Workers remain emboldened — for now. They often begin their job searches looking for more pay, but then focus on perks, including holidays and flexible hours.
The new normal is not yet fully set. But some changes — such as most retailers closing on Thanksgiving Day — are something we should all be thankful for.

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Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran said, on Saturday that Congress president Rahul Gandhi has agreed to contest from Wayanad parliamentary constituency in Kerala. Wayanad is considered as one of the few remaining strongholds of the Congress in Kerala.
According to reports, the Congress leadership has been under pressure to field Gandhi from a constituency in southern India, apart from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, as the candidature of Smriti Irani poses a serious threat to Rahul.
"Talks were on about this for almost a month. Initially, he (Rahul Gandhi) was not willing. After much persuasion, he agreed" Mullappally Ramachandran said.
Congress leader ML Shahnawaz was elected from Wayanad in the last two elections with a huge margin. He died six months ago.
T Siddique, a former Youth Congress leader, who had been named as the Congress candidate in Wayanad, has already told media that he has withdrawn from the race. "It was an honour for me and the state," he said.
There were speculations that the Congress President might contest from a southern seat. "If Rahul contests from anywhere in the south, it will indicate the fall of Congress. The reason is, he is scared of losing Amethi," Karnataka BJP spokesperson G. Madhusudhan had said last week.
Coincidently, a few days ago, while speaking in a news hour debate, a senior Congress leader had commented that even a 'broom' fielded under Congress name can win from Wayanad. The situation has put the CPM and other Left parties in a dilemma whether they should field a Left candidate against their own Prime Ministerial candidate as the CPM fights Congress in the state unlike its counterparts at the national level. At the national level, the CPM and Left parties are projecting Rahul Gandhi as their Prime Ministerial candidate.
Amethi is no more a stronghold for Gandhi dynasty?
As Smriti Irani has emerged as a powerful politician in Amethi in the last five years, the popularity of Rahul Gandhi is fading fast in the constituency that has elected members of the Gandhi family since 1980. In a one-day tour to the constituency in January, Smriti Irani had said that Amethi is no more a stronghold of Rahul as he has lost all elections in the last five years in Amethi. The Congress and Gandhi family have come under attack over lack of development in Amethi. Despite being a VIP constituency for decades, Amethi is still awaiting its redemption.


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The founder and co-owner of the amoCRM company, as well as the author of the book "Sales to People", Mikhail Tokovinin began doing business at school – he resold used computer equipment. Mikhail had several businesses and many mistakes before he managed to create a stable and successful company, the controlling stake of which was eventually bought out by the 1C giant. But the businessman treats all his mistakes philosophically.
Mikhail Tokovinin will speak on April 7, 2023 in Minsk at the HI-TECH FORUM: EVOLUTION and tell you how to keep business and sales when the market is falling. The editors of Pro Business have collected several bright quotes from the speaker.
GENERAL PARTNER OF THE FORUM
1 "I didn't expect people to carry 'shovels' in their pockets"
2 "Business is a bad idea"
3 "We are losing efficiency due to remote work"
4 "I love people who are insecure"
5 "An important skill is to be able to report to someone"
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"I didn't expect people to carry 'shovels' in their pockets"
"Every month, at least, I catch myself thinking: "Well, you are a fool! How could you do that…" It's about the same as playing chess – and suddenly you don't notice the game, the scenario, and then get upset that you didn't see it before. And this happens all the time. Do you have any opinions, prejudices, why this will take off, but this one will not. And then everything turns out differently, and you think: "Eh …"
For example, I once believed very much that tablets would win. And when we did the redesign in 2014, everything was done "under the finger". But it turned out that smartphones defeated tablets and most of the work remained just on the web. It was my mistake that cost a lot of time and company resources. I didn't expect people to carry spades in their pockets."
"Business is a bad idea"
"They go into business not consciously, but because they cannot help but go. I am a supporter of the fact that smart people do not go into business. The brave go there. In general, business is a bad idea. And most people make the right decision not to go there. The probability of success is extremely low: most businesses end in failure. But there are people with some kind of mutation, a feature that cannot help but do this.
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And there's nothing cool about it. Most often it looks like horror and misunderstanding. My whole first business looked like this. So you meet classmates, and they all already have a job, salary, car, going to bars … And only you have a business. Most businesses end up like this. At the same time, all businessmen are insanely optimistic. Unhealthy optimistic. Well, there is a man some kind of shop. Let's say he makes shawarma. He argues: "I'm 36. It's okay, everything is still ahead. Yes, I have a shawarma tent, but soon we will be McDonald's. And you have a hard time believing it. But when we look at Ovchinnikov (Fyodor Ovchinnikov is the founder of the Dodo Pizza company, which has its own franchise, according to which more than 700 pizzerias are open, – approx. "About business"), who once made the first pizza in the basement in Syktyvkar, the sensations are completely different.
In general, people who do business are strange. Their unhealthy optimism makes these people very stubborn. And then we see just a "survivor error". 90 out of 100 of these stubborn people will die in this shawarma tent, and 10 will make McDonald's. We just see only those who succeeded, whose unhealthy obstinacy led to the result. And most of it got a complete ruin. And these are some special character traits that bring people into business."
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"We are losing efficiency due to remote work"
"We have 200 people. Some employees are already working remotely. I have been forced to work remotely in recent years. We have learned. But it does not bring pleasure and joy. Now we are losing efficiency. Until the authorities forbade leaving the house, our position was this: whoever wants to go to the office, let him go. Many walked.
It must be understood that, for example, in the United States, the number of remote employees has grown in recent years solely due to staff shortages. You physically cannot hire a sysadmin in the Valley, so you have to look for him somewhere in Atlanta. But other things being equal, any leader, of course, will put a person in the office.
There are individual companies that can afford to be endlessly inefficient: turquoise, remote, whatever. They are either very rich, or monopolists, or they have a lot of investments. For example, Uber can do anything.
I myself have tried all the tools – it does not work. Our generation learned to communicate with other people in person: in the sandbox, in the classroom, in the office. Nothing can be done about it."
"I love people who are insecure"
"Business grows not thanks to your efforts, but in spite of your jambs. You should always choose a niche that is growing, where you can afford to screw up and it will still grow. Niche selection is the cornerstone.
If you happened to be in a working system, then do not touch anything for at least six months. My big mistake was that I started positive reforms. Before you reform, you need to figure out how it works. Any system works on complex connections, established relationships. Until you understand everything, you can not touch anything. Coming into a new company, a good CEO for the first six months should not do anything at all, but only sit and watch why it works and how it happened.
You can't motivate people, you have to hire motivated people. My task was to get the cashiers to say: "Thank you, come to us again." I spent a year on this, but failed. The solution to this problem is not to force employees to say "Thank you, come visit us again", but to hire those who say "Thank you, visit us again" themselves. We are not a secondary educational school, "to pull up all the children in mathematics." Business is much more like a sports team, where your task is to initially find those who fit, select them and develop them. Many businessmen do not understand this, they argue, they say, we need to pull everyone, create a motivation system, KPI.
I have said many times that I love people who are insecure. They reach the highest heights. I don't like arrogant people. Such a person believes that he has achieved everything and he does not need to learn anything. Self-confident impudent people at the interview ask for more salary, they sell themselves more beautifully and talk about themselves. And products are created by insecure, notorious guys. In business, they are more successful. They say, "I'm not good enough. I need to learn more." And I'm trying to get into my "football team" those who do beautiful things, and not talk beautifully.
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"An important skill is to be able to report to someone"
"If you know how to dampen your pride and obstinacy a little, then you dramatically increase your chances of success. At some point, someone will say that they understand your idea that a round TV is awesome, and he also thinks that TVs will become round, but he will add: you know, what if we make it not round, but oval? You don't have to completely abandon your idea, but you need to hear feedback. Sometimes hearing means dramatically increasing the chances of success.
The decision not to own 100%, but to do business with partners helped me personally to extinguish my pride. I have shareholders who believed me that the TV should be round, but they can still come to the office and say: "Listen, it looks like an oval will shoot." When the company is not all yours, sometimes you need to report to someone, and this is an important skill – to be able to report to someone. Yes, it hurts pride, it's unpleasant. But it actually makes you stronger. Sometimes sit down and say to the shareholders: "I think we've screwed up.
But this does not mean that you need to be obedient: if you listen to everyone, you will lose. Henry Ford rightly said, "If I asked what my customers wanted, they would ask for a fast horse." In no case. You will never create anything big and visionary if you are not crazy and go ahead. Airbnb founder Brian Chesky once said: the idea that someone would rent out a room with an air mattress in their apartment to strangers seemed crazy, everyone was spinning at the temple. But in his case, the TV was not quite round, but a little oval. It struck a balance between visionary perseverance and positive feedback."
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The application will now begin to install. Largely, this consists of the installer extracting the various installation components to the specified installation path.
Finally, you may exit the installer in order to run the application.


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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlotEventTrigger : MonoBehaviour {

	public Transform waypoint;

	private bool started = false;
	private bool bowstarted = false;
	private Follower follower;
	private NavMeshAgent agent;
	private float bowstart;
	public float bowtime = 5f;
	public int numbows = 3;
	private int bownum = 0;
	private bool in_position = false;

	void OnTriggerEnter(Collider col) {
		if (!started) {
			if (col.transform.root.tag == "oldman") {
				print("PLOT EVENT TRIGGER");
				follower = col.transform.root.GetComponent<Follower>();
				follower.stay_put = true;
				agent = col.transform.root.GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();
				agent.SetDestination(waypoint.position);
				started = true;
			}
		}
	}

	void Update() {
		if (started) {
			//get in position
			if (!in_position) {
				print("navigating");

				agent.ResetPath();
				agent.SetDestination(waypoint.position);
				if ((agent.transform.position - waypoint.position).magnitude < 1) {
					//reached target, begin bowing
					agent.Stop();
					in_position = true;
				}
			}
			else {
				//start bowing
				if (bownum < numbows) {
					if (bowstarted) {
						if (Time.time - bowstart > bowtime) {
							//end bowing
							follower.anim.SetBool("bowing", false);
							bownum++;
							bowstarted = false;

							if(bownum == numbows) {
								agent.Resume();
								follower.stay_put = false;
								//set global state
								follower.transform.Find("dialogue").GetComponent<Animator>().SetInteger("globalstate", 2);
								DialogueControl.globalstate = 2;
							}

						}
					}
					else {
						bowstart = Time.time;
						follower.anim.SetBool("bowing", true);
						bowstarted = true;
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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High Court Declines Case on Weekend Worship Services at School
By Mark Walsh — December 05, 2011 3 min read
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a small church that has battled the New York City school system for 17 years over the right to use a school facility for weekend worship services.
A federal appeals court in June upheld the school system's rule that bars the use of public schools for such religious events, holding that the rule does not violate the First Amendment rights of a Christian church known as the Bronx Household of Faith.
The justices on Monday declined to hear the church's appeal in Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York (Case No. 11-386).
The controversy between the congregation and the school district has been raging since 1994. In the first lawsuit, both a federal district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld the school system's refusal to rent a school to the church, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case in 1998.
Later, the church was prompted to try again after the Supreme Court's 2001 ruling in Good News Club v. Milford Central School. In Good News, the high court held that it was unconstitutional for a school district to bar a private Christian group from after-school use of its facilities when it opened them to a wide range of other community uses.
In 2002, Bronx Household of Faith was granted an injunction allowing it to use Public School 15 for its Sunday worship services, and it has been doing so since then while its second legal challenge has proceeded on the merits. The school system now defends its efforts to deny access based on a 2007 rule that prohibits using school buildings for worship services.
A federal district court granted a permanent injunction allowing the church to conduct its services. But in a 2-1 ruling on June 2, a 2nd Circuit panel ruled for the school system. The majority said the school system had valid, non-viewpoint discriminatory reasons for barring worship services even when it allowed certain other religious activities in its facilities.
"The board could ... reasonably worry that the regular, long-term conversion of schools into state-subsidized churches on Sundays would violate the Establishment Clause by reason of public perception of endorsement," said the 2nd Circuit majority. "A worship service is an act of organized religion that consecrates the place in which it is performed, making it a church. ... Bronx Household and the other churches that have been allowed access under the injunction tend to dominate the schools on the day they use them."
Writing in dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge John M. Walker Jr. said the school system's rule against allowing religious worship services "is impermissible viewpoint discrimination against protected speech and is unsupported by a compelling state interest."
Walker said the majority's ruling could not be squared with Supreme Court decisions on religious viewpoint discrimination, and he said the case presented "important doctrinal considerations worthy of the Supreme Court's attention."
The Bronx Household of Faith's appeal to the Supreme Court was backed by religious freedom groups such as the Alliance Defense Fund and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The church's Sunday services are attended by 85-100 people each week, court papers say.
The church noted in its appeal that a number of groups that are permitted to use New York City school buildings engage in "expressive" uses that are similar to religion, including rituals, recitations, moral teachings, songs, and meals. The groups include the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, adult education programs, and a Hebrew Institute's youth basketball program, court papers say.
Because of the 2nd Circuit court's ruling, the appeal said, "the church now faces expulsion from the forum it has used for nine years on equal terms with other community groups."
The Supreme Court's refusal to take up the appeal, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor not participating in the action, was not a ruling on the merits. But it means the injunction allowing the church to use the school facility will soon be withdrawn and the church will be looking for a new location for its worship services.
A version of this news article first appeared in The School Law Blog.


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Public safety receiving static in Adirondacks
By Gwendolyn Craig, Adirondack Explorer
Hamilton County Chairman Bill Farber says he is heartened that a number of environmental groups have heard his plea and agree an emergency communications solution is needed.
A fire tower exists on Cathead mountain, in addition to radio equipment for DEC and State Police. State Police fly to the site when a technician needs to make repairs to radio equipment.
At the southern end of Hamilton County, a radio dead zone has plagued emergency workers for years. Law enforcement cannot check license plates. Ambulance corps members cannot call a hospital.
After years of looking for ways to bolster communications in the area, a tower on Cathead Mountain in Benson appears to be the answer. The problem? It is surrounded by land where state law prohibits motorized vehicle use, a real challenge for building a tower, let alone maintaining or repairing one.
To build a road to the top, Hamilton County must cross about half of a mile of forest preserve, and to do that, two successive state Legislatures and about 19 million New Yorkers must vote to amend the state Constitution. If that wasn't daunting enough, one of the leading environmental groups in the Adirondacks is not convinced a constitutional amendment is needed, though state agencies say it is.
Without a specific plan on paper comparing costs, planning a road and how the site would get power, the Adirondack Council is hesitant to back a constitutional amendment, spokesman John Sheehan said.
"We are almost every year asked to amend the Constitution, the forever wild clause, for one reason or another. Personally, I've seen 30 years of this," Sheehan said. "It is important for us to have a set of principles in place for when we think it's appropriate to amend the Constitution, and how we go about doing that."
Others agree the county should have more specifics, though most are in support of an amendment. There is no bill on the Legislature's docket, but county Chairman Bill Farber hopes lawmakers will vote this year to get the two- to three-year amendment process rolling.
Mike Tracy has worked in the emergency medical field for 22 years and is the assistant fire chief for the village of Speculator. Parts of Arietta, Wells, Benson and Hope are disturbingly silent.
"You can't hear anything down there," Tracy said, about his emergency radio. "We can't communicate with the fire departments. We can't communicate with dispatch. … The further south you get, the worse it gets for us."
When talking about doing anything in the Adirondacks, there are a number of environmental groups to consult. So far, Farber is heartened that all have heard his plea and agree an emergency communications solution is needed. Now he is trying to figure out how to get it done.
The county is part of the Adirondack Regional Interoperable Communications Consortium, part of a statewide network to connect the emergency services of neighboring counties. Part of it involves radio towers set up all over the state, bouncing signals off of one other. They have to be in sight of an operable tower to communicate.
Most of Hamilton County's towns are in bowls and it's hard to bounce signals into them, Sheriff Karl Abrams said. Another challenge is that the state owns most of the mountaintops where towers can't be built. So, privately owned, high-elevation land is valuable.
Abrams said Cathead is the county's last link. Between its location and height, it can bounce a signal off of their tower on East Mountain. The sheriff's office in Lake Pleasant has a signal that bounces to Oak Mountain, then to East Mountain, then up to Blue Mountain. As part of the consortium, the signal can continue traveling to Gore Mountain, visible from Cathead.
If Hamilton County is able to get communications on top, Purdy said it would also help out Fulton and Saratoga counties' emergency services, which also struggle with poor communication at their northern ends.
The top of Cathead, including about 800 acres in the area, is privately owned by the Hatchbrook Sportsman's Club. Nathan Clark, club president, said Farber approached him about four years ago to talk about an emergency tower. The top is already home to a fire tower and limited radio equipment for the DEC and State Police.
The club has owned the property since 1989. Back then, they had access to two rights-of-way to their hunting camp and an abandoned forest ranger cabin. But entry points were owned by someone else, and a foreclosure process put the land in the state's hands, thereby closing the roads.
For a while, Clark said, the club could get special state permits for motorized access to their camp site, but then the state did away with those in 2000. Members sued the state to regain motorized access but lost.
The fire tower had been open to the public, but a DEC fire tower report shows in 2000, "the trail was officially closed since the landowners withdrew their permission for the public to use the trail."
In 2010, the club pursued their own attempt at a constitutional amendment in order to get motorized access to their campsite, but many environmental groups opposed and it did not make it past committees.
Clark and the rest of the Cathead Mountain owners lease the fire tower to the State Police for radio transmission. To perform any maintenance or repairs, State Police fly a helicopter up and let off a technician on an old helicopter pad.
"It's not accessible by ground, and it does not have commercial power to it, so it's obviously not an ideal situation for us, but it's powered by a combination of solar panels, wind turbine and a generator," said Beau Duffy, spokesman for the State Police. "Maintenance and repairs would be a lot simpler if there was road access."
Road access would be simpler for the hunting club, too, but Clark said it's more than that. Many of the club members are volunteer first responders, and they're eager to help the county.
Clark said the club is willing to give up about 480 acres to the state for 80 acres that would be for the access road, which the club would be able to use, but it would also be used by the emergency services organizations. The public would also regain access to the fire tower
The 400 acres the club would hand over to the state brushes the Silver Lake Wilderness tract and is near the Northville-Lake Placid trail, making it a desirable proposed swap for those with visions of opening the tower back up to the public and protecting more prime Adirondack land. Farber and many others also want the public to hike the mountain. There could be plans to connect the hike to the Northville-Lake Placid Trail, too.
The Adirondack Council issued a news release in May, saying the county could pursue other means to put an emergency tower on Cathead other than an amendment. The release irked a number of groups.
Sheehan said some of those alternatives could be the county using a State Police helicopter or hiring a helicopter to do any maintenance. He also suggested a road with a gate only the county had access to.
In conversations with Farber, the council has suggested opening back up an old jeep road that forest rangers used to use. The council's "administrative fix" suggestions raised legal questions for Farber and other environmental groups.
"The Adirondack Council is wrong," said David Gibson, of Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve. "Who wants to see helicopters flying up that ridge? It's practically in the Silver Lake Wilderness. Let's eliminate helicopter use entirely, which is antithetical to wilderness environment. It's also dangerous to have choppers fly up there all the time."
The Court of Appeals has yet to decide on what tree cutting should look like in the Adirondacks, and Farber isn't willing to take a chance on a quick fix that could have the county end up in court.
An Adirondack Park Agency spokesman said it reached the conclusion with the DEC that a constitutional amendment is needed to access the private land on Cathead and that the agency is committed to resolving the access issues in a legally defensible way.
Former DEC Commissioner Joe Martens said the parties should come together and work out the details. He favors a constitutional amendment, but Martens said he understands why Sheehan wants to have everything on paper.
"Ultimately, if it goes before the voters of New York, they all know exactly what they're giving up," Martens said.
Farber said spending more money on an engineer and specific plan is a concern for the county, and some county board members feel enough has already been spent with nothing specific to show for it. Farber also believes there's not much at stake for those opposed to a constitutional amendment if it were to pass one Legislature since it still has to pass again the next year.
"But there's a big risk there for Hamilton County by not doing it," he said.
Without those detailed plans or a bill, it's hard to say how legislators will come back to Albany and vote on an amendment.
"We hope the Adirondack Council will stay at the table with Hamilton County officials and continue to discuss this public safety issue as we believe, based on our understanding from the APA and DEC, that there's not an administrative fix for it and it needs to be done by a constitutional amendment," said State Sen. Jim Tedisco, R-Glenville, who represents Hamilton County.


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By The Garden Island | Sunday, January 12, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
WAIMEA — Waimea Plantation Cottages, a 43-acre oceanfront property with 61-authentic plantation cottages that is operated by Coast Hotels, announces the appointment of Janice Ishihara as its new senior manager of sales and marketing.
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The black-winged ground dove (Metriopelia melanoptera) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Taxonomy and systematics

The black-winged ground dove has two subspecies, the nominate M. m. melanoptera and M. m. saturatior.

Description

The black-winged ground dove is  long. Males weigh  and females . The nominate adult male is grayish brown or earth brown above with a faint pink tinge. The throat is whitish and the underparts fawn pink with gray flanks. The closed wing shows a white edge and some pale gray. The eye color is highly variable as is the bare skin that surrounds it. The adult female's upperparts are a duller brown than the male's and the underparts less pink. Juveniles do not have the adults' pink tinge, and many feathers have buff edges. M. m. saturatior differs from the nominate by being darker and grayer above and less pink below.

Distribution and habitat

The nominate subspecies of black-winged ground dove is a year round resident from central Peru and adjacent Bolivia south through most of Chile and western Argentina. It breeds but does not winter on Tierra del Fuego. M. m. saturatior is found in the Andes of southwestern Colombia south to Ecuador's Azuay Province.

The black-winged ground dove inhabits páramo in Colombia and Ecuador and puna in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. It is typically found in grassy areas near treeline but roosts in Polylepis woodland and Puya stands. In much of its range it occurs between  but from  in Chile. It moves to the lower elevations in winter.

Behavior

Feeding

The black-winged ground dove feeds on the ground in small flocks. Its primary food appears to be grass seeds but details are lacking.

Breeding

The black-winged ground dove's breeding season varies with latitude. In Colombia and Ecuador, eggs have been found between August and October. In the south the season continues past October to February. Its nest is a fragile platform of sticks, usually in bushes, bromeliads, or cacti but sometimes on the ground. The clutch size is two.

Vocalization

The black-winged ground dove's song is a "series of relatively high-pitched, double notes 'rrree-up...rrree-up...rrreee-up...'." It also gives a short "piu" call.

Status

The IUCN has assessed the black-winged ground dove as being of Least Concern. It "[a]ppears to be generally common and locally numerous" and its bleak habitat is not heavily affected by humans except by cutting of Polylepis for firewood.

References

black-winged ground dove
Birds of the Ecuadorian Andes
Birds of the Puna grassland
Birds of Chile
Birds of the Southern Andes
Birds of Tierra del Fuego
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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Q: Creating subsections in pkgdown function reference page (R) How is it possible to create not only first-level but also second-level headers in function reference page of R package documentation created with pkgdown?
Can I do this by modifying the _pkgdown.yml file?
More details:
An example of an R package (as a ZIP file) is here.
It contains 3 "hello" and 1 "other" function. I want two
 level (first-level) section "Hello" and "Other" and also "Hello" functions should be split into 2 subsections (level
) an in the last print-screen.
The project contains _pkgdown.yml file with these settings that control the appearance of the reference page, and maybe it's possible to tweak this code to get the desired results?:
destination: docs

reference:
# All 3 Hello function should be in a super section A, e.g., level

  - title: "Hello A functions" # This should be subsection A-1, e.g., level

    contents:
    - hello-a1
    - hello-a2
  - title: "Hello B functions"  # This should be subsection A-2, e.g., level

    contents:
    - hello-b1
# This should be in super section B, e.g., level

  - title: "Other functions"
    contents:
    - other

The output of the reference page looks like this one:

The type of output I expect should be similar to:

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After reaching the semi-finals for this year's "Worst Company in America" poll by Consumerist, EA's Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore published a blog post saying that the company "can do better" and "will do better." However, that statement alone didn't stop voters from picking EA as the Worst Company in America for the second year in a row.
Last year's win from the game publisher was a surprise, but this year's win was the exact opposite. It seems not only are gamers fed up with the ridiculous DRM restrictions that are put on EA games, but the SimCity fiasco certainly didn't help the company win back customers. In fact, it only made things worse.
Electronic Arts beat out Bank of America in the final vote, taking nearly 78% of the votes during that final round. Electronic Arts also beat out companies like Ticketmaster, AT&T, Facebook, and Anheuser-Busch to become the most hated company in the US. We know that it's a prize that EA doesn't want, so hopefully they actually turn it around before next year's poll goes live.
Consumerist notes that EA should stop treating its customers "like human piggy banks," and that they shouldn't "put out so many incomplete and/or broken games" with the intent of getting customers to "pay extra for what they should have received in the first place." This marks the first time ever that a company has won a second "Golden Poo" award.


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[![Build status](https://img.shields.io/travis/pawelad/zenboard.svg)][travis]
[![GitHub release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/pawelad/zenboard.svg)][github]
[![Test coverage](https://img.shields.io/coveralls/pawelad/zenboard.svg)][coveralls]
[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/pawelad/zenboard.svg)][license]

Zenboard is a straightforward Django application that gives you the ability to
create read only [ZenHub][zenhub] boards.

Based on proof of concept by [@kuuji][kuuji] - [kuuji/dashub][kuuji dashub]

Usable at the moment, but very much a work in progress. Expect breaking changes
with each release before 1.0

## High level overview
Zenboard aims to provide an easy way to create a filtered and read only views
of a Zenhub boards. It's currently used to give customers an overview of their
issues that doesn't require double lifting (if you already use ZenHub to track
that), allows specifying which issues and comments should be visible based on
couple of factors, and can be used without a GitHub account inside the
organization.

Caching is builtin and a priority because of the sheer number of requests to
both ZenHub and GitHub APIs needed to generate the board view and necessary
data. GitHub and ZenHub webhooks are used to refresh the cache, so the data
should theoretically always be up to date.

There is a REST API with docs for all important endpoints, courtesy of Django
REST Framework.

See [TODO.md][todo list] for current roadmap.

## Running Zenboard
Take a look [here][running zenboard] if you want to run Zenboard yourself,
either locally or in production, and [open an issue][zenboard new issue] if
you have any questions or problems.

Make sure that provided GitHub API token has access rights to the repository
you want to use and can create webhooks, which will be created automatically
on board creation.

ZenHub unfortunately doesn't allow automatic webhook creation so you need to
add it manually and point it to - `https://<zenboard_url>/webhooks/zenhub/`.

Django [Sites][django sites] framework is used to get the full URLs so make
sure that you configured your domain before creating any boards.

## Contributions
Feel free to use, ask, fork, star, report bugs, fix them, suggest enhancements,
add functionality and point out any mistakes. Thanks!

## Tests
Package was tested with the help of `pytest` and `tox` on Python 3.6 with
Django 1.11 and Django REST Framework 3.7 (see `tox.ini`).

Code coverage is available at [Coveralls][coveralls].

To run tests yourself you need to set environment variable with Django secret
key before running `tox` inside the repository:

```shell
$ pip install tox
$ export SECRET_KEY='...'
$ tox
```

## Authors
Developed and maintained by [Paweł Adamczak][pawelad].

Released under [Apache License 2.0][license].

[coveralls]: https://coveralls.io/github/pawelad/zenboard
[django sites]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/sites/
[github]: https://github.com/pawelad/zenboard
[kuuji]: https://github.com/kuuji
[kuuji dashub]: https://github.com/kuuji/dashub
[license]: https://github.com/pawelad/zenboard/blob/master/LICENSE
[pawelad]: https://github.com/pawelad
[running zenboard]: https://github.com/pawelad/zenboard/wiki/Running-Zenboard
[todo list]: https://github.com/pawelad/zenboard/blob/master/TODO.md
[travis]: https://travis-ci.org/pawelad/zenboard
[zenboard new issue]: https://github.com/pawelad/zenboard/issues/new
[zenhub]: https://www.zenhub.com/


The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) are people on a journey toward discovering and enhancing their spiritual life. They don't hold to a set dogma, but hold to basic, underlying, universal truths. There is that of God in everyone and, through stillness and waiting, we can discern the "still, small voice of God." We adhere to the testimonies of Peace, Equality, Simplicity, and Integrity.
From the beginning of the Religious Society of Friends, the respect for "that of God in everyone" has led Friends to oppose war and capital punishment. Women and men have been considered equal in worship, ministry, and conducting the business affairs of the Meeting. Eighteenth and nineteenth century Friends, such as John Woolman, were early abolitionists. Many Quaker women, including Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott, were in the forefront of the women's movement for the right to vote, family planning, and prison reform. Friends were early and strong advocates for a public education system in America.
For more on Quaker beliefs, you may want to read the Beliefs and Practices Page.


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College Around Oklahoma Oklahoma Christian
Oklahoma Christian claims berth in Division II National Championship
May 7, 2022 May 9, 2022 Ken MacLeod
PUEBLO, Colo. (May 7, 2022) – Since it began competing in NCAA Division II, Oklahoma Christian had endured more than its fair share of postseason heartbreak in men's golf. On Saturday, the Eagles finally had something to celebrate – a long-awaited return trip to the national tournament.
Freshman Exequiel Rodriguez drained a 15-foot bogey putt on the final hole to close a 3-under-par 68 and clinch fourth place – by one shot – for OC in the Division II South Central-West Super Regional at Pueblo Country Club. That earned the Eagles the final bid out of the Super Regional into the NCAA Division II Championship, set for May 16-20 at TPC Michigan in Detroit.
It will be OC's second trip to the Division II national event and its first since 2016, the first season in which the Eagles were eligible. Subsequent seasons have ended at the regional stage in 2018, 2019 and 2021, and there was no tournament held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
OC started the 54-hole Super Regional slowly, finishing the first round in 11th place among 20 teams. The Eagles zipped up into a tie for fifth place in Friday's second round, but found themselves one of four teams battling Saturday for what realistically was one spot at nationals, behind Colorado State-Pueblo, Colorado Mesa and Midwestern State (Texas).
Throughout the final round, the Eagles hovered around the cut line. After a fast start, they moved within three shots of third place, but just past the midway point of the round, they fell into fifth place, two shots behind Stanislaus State (Calif.), which entered the day tied with OC.
When Stanislaus State – the first-round leader – finished, it was with a final-round score of 282 (2-under). OC, in the next group of teams behind the Warriors, was at 3-under for the day at that point, meaning the Eagles needed to play the final three holes at even par. They did, just barely.
Senior Andres Brictson of Merida, Mexico, had a bogey on the par-4 No. 16 but a birdie on the par-4 No. 18. Junior Alejandro Armijo of Rio Rancho, N.M., had a birdie on the par-3 No. 17 but bogeyed No. 18. Sophomore Mateo Pulcini of Rio Cuarto, Argentina, played all three holes at even par.
Rodriguez, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, anchored the Eagles' lineup. He parred No. 16, then put OC in strong position with a birdie at No. 17. But he found trouble on No. 18 and faced a long bogey putt. A miss would have forced OC into a playoff with Stanislaus State, but Rodriguez made it, prompting cheers from the OC contingent surrounding the hole.
OC's team score of 281 – the best of any team on Saturday – put the Eagles at 848 for the tournament and allowed the Eagles to somewhat close the gap on the other top-four finishers. Colorado State-Pueblo won at 845, with Midwestern State and Colorado Mesa tying for second at 846.
With his 68 on the 6,522-yard course, Rodriguez tied for fourth individually in the 108-man field at 207 (6-under). Pulcini, who had a 70 on Saturday, tied for 15th at 211. Armijo, who won the Regional Preview tournament on the course in October, tied for 42nd at 215 after a final-round 71.
Also tied for 42nd was freshman Oskari Nikku of Tuusula, Finland, who shot a 72 on Saturday. Brictson tied for 59th at 218, also finishing with a 72.
California State-San Marcos' Matthew Pennington finished at 204 and took medalist honors after winning a four-hole playoff with Midwestern State's Garrett Leak. Pennington and Liam Allder of California State-Monterey Bay (who finished third at 206) earned the two individual spots into the national tournament out of the Super Regional.
← Roller, Cowan prevail at Oklahoma Junior Masters at Southern Hills
Cowgirls, TU's Thomas begin regional play at Karsten Creek →


I'm a photographer in Aspen, Colorado. If you landed here looking for a photographer in Aspen CO then I'm here for you!
I don't know whether to think I get bored easily or if I'm in a creative mode more often than I realized- and is one of those negative and the other positive?
This video is an example of why I'm asking myself these questions. On a recent photo trip, while mountain biking on some amazing trails, I had the idea to make video vignettes of my wife. I had the final video in my head before the first take.
The notion that came into my mind was a silly video for her website showing what she does for fun. I say "silly" because I wanted a simple video instead of a serious art video of her having fun.


Xiaocao home Thermostatic rain shower is the popular shower for the American Standard brand. If you want to see an other thermostatic shower or rain shower, our site provides more products for the customers.
Number Of Handles: Three Handles.
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Frédéric Weis (* 10. Juni 1977 in Thionville) ist ein ehemaliger französischer Basketballspieler.

Karriere
Weis wurde an der Nachwuchsfördereinrichtung INSEP ausgebildet und begann seine Laufbahn als Profispieler bei CSP Limoges. Dort spielte er ab 1995. Er entwickelte sich bei Limoges zum Leistungsträger und steigerte seine Einsatzzeit in der französischen Liga auf seinen Höchstwert von knapp 32 Minuten pro Begegnung in der Saison 1998/99. Dabei erzielte er in diesem Spieljahr durchschnittlich 13,4 Punkten sowie 7,3 Rebounds je Begegnung, beides waren seine Bestleistungen in der Liga. In der Saison 1999/2000 gewann er mit Limoges unter Trainer Duško Ivanović die französische Meisterschaft, den Pokalbewerb sowie den europäischen Vereinsbewerb Korać-Cup.

Er wurde beim NBA-Draft 1999 von den New York Knicks an 15. Stelle in der ersten Runde ausgewählt, allerdings sollte es nie zu einem Engagement in der NBA kommen. Die Entscheidung für den Franzosen stieß bei Anhängern der New York Knicks auf Unverständnis, da Lokalmatador Ron Artest, der in Queens aufgewachsen war und für die St. John's University gespielt hatte, zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch zu haben war. Artest wurde dann von den Chicago Bulls einen Platz später aufgerufen. Am 29. August wurden seine Rechte von den New York Knicks für Power Forward Patrick Ewing Jr. an die Houston Rockets abgegeben.

Weis spielte ab 2000 kurz für PAOK Thessaloniki in der griechischen Liga, dann bei Unicaja Málaga. Mit Málaga gewann er 2001 zum zweiten Mal in seiner Laufbahn den Korać-Cup. Von 2004 bis 2009 stand bei Iurbentia Bilbao ebenfalls in der spanischen Liga unter Vertrag. Am 28. Januar 2009 wurde er von Iurbentia Bilbao entlassen, da er aufgrund seiner gesundheitlichen Verfassung drei Spiele in Folge verpasst hatte, daraufhin unterschrieb er am 13. Februar bei ViveMenorca. Am Ende seiner Laufbahn, spielte er abermals in Limoges. Im März 2011 gab er sein Karriereende bekannt.

Anschließend war Weis zeitweise bei Übertragungen des Fernsehsenders SFR sowie beim Hörfunksender RMC Sport als Basketballexperte tätig. Er besaß eine Zeit lang vier Bäckereien und übernahm den Betrieb eines Tabakladens. 2021 war er während der Olympischen Spiele 2020 Mitarbeiter von Eurosport, im Januar 2022 wurde Weis Basketballexperte beim Sender BeIN Sports.

"Le dunk de la mort"
Weis ist für eine Spielszene während des olympischen Basketballturniers am 25. September 2000 in Sydney bekannt: Der US-Amerikaner Vince Carter eroberte den Ball kurz vor der Mittellinie und zog unverzüglich zum gegnerischen Korb, vor dem sich Weis aufgebaut hatte. Anstatt jedoch abzubremsen, sprang Carter (1,98 m) über Weis (2,18 m) hinweg und stopfte den Ball per Dunking in den Korb. Die USA gewannen dieses Spiel 106:94 und die französische Presse nannte diese Aktions Carters "le dunk de la mort" (deutsch "Der Todes-Dunk)."

Weblinks

 EurocupBasketball.com Profil

 Eurobasket2007.org Profil
 ACB Profil

Einzelnachweise

Französischer Meister (Basketball)
Olympiateilnehmer (Frankreich)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2000
Basketballnationalspieler (Frankreich)
Franzose
Geboren 1977
Mann
Basketballspieler (CB Málaga)
Basketballspieler (CB Bilbao Berri)
Basketballspieler (Menorca Bàsquet)
Basketballspieler (Limoges CSP)
Basketballspieler (PAOK Thessaloniki)


DIPOLOG CITY, JAN. 18 (PIA)-- In line with President Benigno Aquino III's Universal Health Approach, the Zamboanga del Norte Provincial Health Office recently conducted a two-day Community Health Team Orientation at Mibang Hotel, this city.
The seminar, which was held on January 12-13 was attended by representatives from the Department of Health and PHO, headed by provincial health officer Dr. Eduardo Gulayon.
PHO Nurse III Rommel Jamolod said all barangays are directed to maintain a community health team to monitor the health condition of the local residents as well as provide proper nutrients to the children and pregnant mothers, including their regular visit to the health centers for pregnancy monitoring.
The Community Health Team will be composed of the Barangay Health Workers, midwives, and barangay officials who will conduct a survey to determine the health condition of family members.


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The Simple Hair Tie Trick That Will Help You Be A Better Parent.
Parenting Isn't Easy
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As much as every mother would like to have nothing but days of sunshine and picnics, it's just not realistic. As a human, days can become consumed with busy errands, arguments, pressure, and frustration. Unfortunately, this frustration can sometimes be directed at the children in the home. It's important for us, as parents, to keep in mind that a little human isn't capable of handling their own emotions well enough to handle an adults emotions along with them, which is why it's so important to practice patience in every interaction you have with your child. This isn't always easy to do, especially when there are calls to make, dinner to plan, kids to pick up, and a work schedule to write.
There are some great techniques out there that parents can use to help them not to be an "angry parent." One of those techniques is the infamous "hair tie trick" started by Kelly Holmes.
The Hair Tie Trick
Kelly Holmes from "The (Reformed) Idealist Mom" was the one who came up with the hair tie trick, but one of her readers, Shauna Harvey, was the one who made it go viral by posting about it on Facebook. "Today, I tried something new," wrote Harvey. Kelly had some helpful advice for her readers that could help them to become less angry mothers. According to her advice, Kelly put five hair ties on her wrist. Her daily goal is to end every day with those five hair ties still on her wrist. Every time she said something out of anger, or was less than patient with her little ones, she would move a hair tie to the opposite wrist. To earn the tie back, she would have to say something loving to her children and complete five loving interactions.
Positive Interactions
idealistmom
"Research shows that to have a healthy relationship, for every one negative interaction you need 5 positive interactions to balance that out," explained Kelly Holmes. "It's called the Magic 5:1 Ratio," she continued. The idea behind the Magic 5:1 Ratio is that every negative interaction you have with your little one (which is inevitable because parenting is difficult) should be followed by five positive interactions. These types of interactions include: telling them how awesome they are, dancing in the living room, painting together, and many other things!
An Immediate Difference
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After the first day of trying out the hair trick, Shauna Harvey was hopeful. "I have finished the day with all 5 bands on the original wrist. I'm very proud of myself for exercising patience with him. I know it's only day 1 but I'm hopeful this will help our communication skills and our relationship," she said. In Kelly's original post, she explained why she had started changing the way that she was interacting with her daughter. "Unfortunately for me, I'd developed a bad habit of talking sharply to my preschooler. My brain was on autopilot headed in the wrong direction towards being an angry mother," she recalled. As soon as she started doing the hair tie trick, Kelly quickly noticed a positive influence on how she spoke to her little one. "Months later, the hair tie hack is still working wonders. I talk to my preschooler with love and kindness in my voice instead of annoyance and frustration," wrote Kelly.
Fight Frustration
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Parents.com spoke to Kelly about why her hair tie trick had gone viral. She responded with: "As parents, we crave a healthy, connected relationship with our little ones. But in the chaos of modern parenting life, we can get frustrated easily and that puts a strain on our relationship with our kids. The hair ties are a simple, visible reminder to catch ourselves before we get off track. And because we're human, it's possible to 'earn' the hair ties back to repair the relationship after we slip up." Kelly has also provided printables on her website that will teach parents how to come up with positive interactions that they can use against negative interactions.


As you build your new home, there are many areas and products to consider. Because cabinetry is a cosmetic feature (rather than structural), it's one of the last things to be installed.
Plans drawn by Architect or Draftsperson (cabinetry should be allowed for but won't need to be designed in detail).
Builder engaged and contracts signed. The kitchen and any other cabinetry needs to be excluded from the contract with the builder for us to be involved in their design and manufacturing.
If you've worked through all the above steps, read about Our Appointment Process here.


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Q: How to catch unhandled exception in WinCE? In desktop Windows, I can use the SetUnhandledExceptionFilter function in windows.h, but it doesn't work in WinCE. How can I catch unhandled exceptions in WinCE?
Note: I am using C++ and not .NET.

A: The only way I have found so far is to wrap the execution of every single thread in an application with:
__try
{
    // Call the thread start function here
}
__except(MyExceptionFilter(GetExceptionInformation())
{
    // Handle the exception here
}

This sounds like a lot of work, but is made relatively easy if you write a function that wraps the thread for you like this:
typedef struct {
    void* startFct;
    void* args;
} ThreadHookArgs;

// "params" contains an heap-allocated instance of ThreadHookArgs
// with the wrapped thread start function and its arguments.
DWORD WINAPI wrapThread(LPVOID params) {

    ThreadHookArgs threadParams;
    memcpy(&args, params, sizeof(ThreadHookArgs));

    // Delete the parameters, now we have a copy of them
    delete params;

    __try {
        // Execute the thread start function
        return ((LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) threadParams.startFct) (threadParams.args);
    }
    __except(MyExceptionFilter(GetExceptionInformation())
    {
        // Handle the exception here
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

}

Then write your own thread creation function that call the hook instead of the thread start function:
// Drop-in replacement for CreateThread(), executes the given
// start function in a SEH exception handler
HANDLE MyCreateThread( LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes,
                       DWORD dwStackSize,
                       LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE lpStartAddress,
                       LPVOID lpParameter,
                       DWORD dwCreationFlags,
                       LPDWORD lpThreadId)
{
    HANDLE hThread;
    DWORD dwThreadId;

    LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE startFct = lpStartAddress;
    LPVOID startParam = lpParameter;

    // Allocate the hook function arguments on the heap.
    // The function will delete them when it runs.
    ThreadHookArgs* hookArgs = new ThreadHookArgs;
    hookArgs->fct = lpStartAddress;
    hookArgs->args = lpParameter;

    // Set the start function of the created thread to
    // our exception handler hook function
    startFct = (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) &wrapThread;
    startParam = hookArgs;

    // Start the hook function, which will in turn execute
    // the desired thread start function
    hThread = CreateThread( lpThreadAttributes,
                            dwStackSize,
                            startFct,
                            startParam,
                            dwCreationFlags,
                            &dwThreadId );

    return hThread;
}

Note that if you're using Windows CE 6 and newer, those versions have vectored exception handling, which might make it much easier:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee488606%28v=winembedded.60%29.aspx