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CPE Product Version: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_xp:-:sp3:~~embedded~~x86~
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Multiple Fetch Vulnerability."
Published: September 11, 2013; 10:03:48 AM -04:00 V2: 7.2 HIGH
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, and Windows Server 2008 SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted screensaver in a theme file, aka "Windows Theme File Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
The NT Virtual DOS Machine (NTVDM) subsystem in the kernel in Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 on 32-bit platforms does not properly validate kernel-memory addresses, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted application, aka "Windows Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-3196 and CVE-2013-3197.
Published: August 14, 2013; 07:10:36 AM -04:00 V2: 7.2 HIGH
usp10.dll in the Unicode Scripts Processor in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted OpenType font, aka "Uniscribe Font Parsing Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed asynchronous RPC request, aka "Remote Procedure Call Vulnerability."
Published: August 14, 2013; 07:10:36 AM -04:00 V2: 10.0 HIGH
The NICM.SYS kernel driver 3.1.11.0 in Novell Client 4.91 SP5 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003; Novell Client 2 SP2 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008; and Novell Client 2 SP3 on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted 0x143B6B IOCTL call.
Published: July 31, 2013; 09:20:28 AM -04:00 V2: 7.2 HIGH
Integer overflow in the NWFS.SYS kernel driver 4.91.5.8 in Novell Client 4.91 SP5 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and the NCPL.SYS kernel driver in Novell Client 2 SP2 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and Novell Client 2 SP3 on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted 0x1439EB IOCTL call.
DirectShow in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF file, aka "DirectShow Arbitrary Memory Overwrite Vulnerability."
Published: July 09, 2013; 11:46:10 PM -04:00 V2: 9.3 HIGH
Buffer overflow in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages improper handling of objects in memory, aka "Win32k Buffer Overwrite Vulnerability."
Buffer overflow in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application that leverages improper handling of objects in memory, aka "Win32k Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."
Published: July 09, 2013; 11:46:10 PM -04:00 V2: 4.9 MEDIUM
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SP2, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4, and 4.5; Silverlight 5 before 5.1.20513.0; win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers, and GDI+, DirectWrite, and Journal, in Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT; GDI+ in Office 2003 SP3, 2007 SP3, and 2010 SP1; GDI+ in Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1; and GDI+ in Lync 2010, 2010 Attendee, 2013, and Basic 2013 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType Font (TTF) file, aka "TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability."
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Vulnerability."
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Dereference Vulnerability."
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Memory Allocation Vulnerability."
The kernel in Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 on 32-bit platforms does not properly handle unspecified page-fault system calls, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, aka "Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Published: June 11, 2013; 11:30:15 PM -04:00 V2: 4.4 MEDIUM
The EPATHOBJ::bFlatten function in win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not check whether linked-list traversal is continually accessing the same list member, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite traversal) via vectors that trigger a crafted PATHRECORD chain.
Published: May 24, 2013; 04:55:01 PM -04:00 V2: 4.9 MEDIUM
The EPATHOBJ::pprFlattenRec function in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 does not properly initialize a pointer for the next object in a certain list, which allows local users to obtain write access to the PATHRECORD chain, and consequently gain privileges, by triggering excessive consumption of paged memory and then making many FlattenPath function calls, aka "Win32k Read AV Vulnerability."


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Sloppy Joes or a Nacho bar are always good ideas! For a very inexpensive idea, you could made brown rice, black beans and have a nice spread with lots of add ins to go in with these (corn, salsa, sour cream, olives, tomatoes, onions…) We call these "bean and rice bowls".


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Facebook Ranks At The Bottom For Customer Service
My experience with FaceBook seems to mean "business" as usual for FaceBook. A recent report on ABC 7 News shows FaceBook to be one of worst companies for customer service ranking them at the bottom along with MySpace. Consumer websites like Customer Service Scoreboard rank them as terrible.
Personal vs. Professional
Facebook tries to distinguish between personal and business use, but for many small business owners the distinction between our personal and professional lives are very blurry. We lean on personal friends and friends-of-friends for networking opportunities.
Once Facebook determined my activities to be too business-oriented, my account was personally disabled. I had 5000 friends and professional contacts, some of which are no longer accessible. I also was also no longer able to administer the "Fan Page" for my business once my personal page was disabled. I can't help but notice that Facebook inextricably ties our "Fan Page" promotional pages to a personal account, seemingly validating the argument that a person's personal and professional lives are often indistinguishable. Word of advice make sure you have administrators on your fan page or you'll find yourself SOL…
POOR REFERRAL INTERFACE
The process of converting personal friends to fans is sometimes difficult as there is no specific tool for referring people to the fan page. Once a person's personal profile has filled its maximum (5000) allotted friends, there is no mechanism to refer people requesting to be a friend to your fan page. I had maxed out my ability to add friends, yet there remained nearly 1800 people requesting to be my friend.
Therefore, in an effort to refer these people (who had solicited a friendship from me) to my fan page, I began writing them brief personal messages, explaining that my friendship "quota" was full and they should follow the company's fan page. It appears now that this activated some arbitrary algorithm in Facebook's code which irreversibly disabled my account. I still have not received a response from anyone at Facebook about how someone is supposed to "properly" notify friend-requesters about an alternate page.
Man vs. Machine
Perhaps the most aggravating reality in attempting to resolve this issue is that Facebook has made any human customer service interaction impossible. Phone number? Official Email address? Live Chat? Not available. Not available. And ironically not available.
In fact, there is no opportunity to receive a real human response to account issues. Facebook's official position appears to be that it is a "platform" and is a service that can be used according to its ever evolving and often arbitrary rules. I suppose they have determined that their computers can distinguish between proper human friendship and that blurry line between friendly and business interaction.
The reality though is probably more closely related to the significant cost of employing a legitimate customer service labor force to confront and resolve real human issues taking place on its platform. Is it unreasonable to expect a company valued at nearly US$15 billion (and growing) not to accept some responsibility to its nearly 500 million worldwide customers/users? Is the internet's position as a nearly free distribution a valid excuse for neglecting customers and users? Or is silicon valley's antisocial nerd ethos winning a decades long battle against real human interaction?
Until the holy grail of nerd computing matures (artificial intelligence) to the point that computers can truly consider circumstance and human reason, I suggest we hold multi-billion dollar internet companies such as Facebook responsible for serving their customers/users.
Written By: Ann Lauren
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8 thoughts on "Facebook Ranks At The Bottom For Customer Service"
Karyn Payne says:
Well then, why did you post this?
Megan Renee says:
Facebook deserves a D in my book !
I read an article about that too. I fully agree as well. IDK what their prob. is but it needs to be directed asap.
THE WORST!!!!! This is my 2nd FB account because I got sick of FB ignoring my emails when I was locked out of my account!!!! After all that I asked them to simply deactivate since I made a new one..and guess what…. still no word from good ol FB…
Jan Klier says:
In their defense, with 500,000,000 customers and only 1,400 employees it's an unsolvable problem. They don't have enough people to provide the customer service most people expect without opening call centers with tens of thousands of folks, which only would lead to them having to sell more advertising or charge for service.
That said, they have to realize that it's most annoying if you end up on the wrong end of the stick. If they don't find an innovative solution to fix it, it may prevent businesses from being willing to setup serious pages for social engagement, and that would limit their future profits. I don't think they're at risk of loosing regular users over it. Even the privacy setting issues, which gets a lot more press only did a minor dent into their sign-up rates, and sign-ups exceeded deactivations.
It's bad all around, but don't expect it to get better soon.
bellapetite says:
This story was posted in an effort to alert small business owners about what can happen to them by using FB and how to prevent it. Plus, we need to bring attention to Facebook's inadequacies, so they fix the problem. To this day we've never spoken to a live person.
Bella Petite pays to advertise on Facebook and if there's a problem we should be able to communicate with an actual company representative. The thought of spending tens of thousands of dollars to advertise electronically and then have a gliche occur and not be able to address it with a LIVE representative is ridiculous and extremely damaging to a company!
The point being their is no excuse for Facebook to have customer service that is so rotten, when they have hundreds of millions of dollars in profit to utilize. Obviously they can afford to spend money in an effort to provide proper customer service.
Mark Zuckerburg and his shareholders are simply being greedy and they should be held accountable for their service or lack thereof. Companies such as Paypal and Ebay have awesome customer service and they are huge, and a great example for Facebook to follow…
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T D says:
I share the author's frustration at the lack of customer service. Myself, I would describe Facebook's customer service not as terrible, but completely non-existent. Providing boxes to post comments in on help pages and never receiving a reply from a person is not customer service. The irony is that this giant of all social networks is itself inherently anti-social in the way it treats its users. I don't agree with Jan Klier that it's an 'unsolvable problem'. I'm sure I remember a few years ago being able to ask a question by email and getting a reply, so there must have been a change of policy. A company innovative enough to create the platform in the first place is capable of providing customer service. Other platforms do. It could recruit a global army of freelance agents from its own user base to provide customer service. You don't need expensive call centres or full-time staff. They can work at home. Users want to feel there's someone out there that cares about their problem and will help them solve it, even if it can't be done instantly – a service that will help you connect and share your problem with someone. Where have you heard a phrase like that before?
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I have known from day one at NIST International School how lucky I am to be working in such a vibrant community full of passionate learners. I am constantly inspired by colleagues and students here. It only recently came to my attention though, just how fortunate I am to have such specialized support in all areas of my learning. Most educators love to explore personal interests and share their learning journeys with the world but not every educator gets to do so in such a highly supported environment like mine. For my personal growth this year from basic classroom blogging to website publishing and connecting with the world, I am very grateful to Tosca Killoran, my Digital Learning Coach. She inspired me to get this site going and use both Weebly and Twitter to think, grow and reach out. Through setting up the backbone of my site, providing some specific education and pouring on lots of encouragement, I now have the tools I need to reach my lofty goals.
Check out more on Tosca's inspirational work in education here.
Every single time I step foot into another school, I learn at least ten times what I hoped to learn. This same phenomenon occured during my visit to Ogden International School of Chicago.
As a curious person on holiday in Chicago for the week (otherwise known as a nerd), I thought it would be the perfect time to explore a question that I have been asking for years. What are American schools really like? Having never worked in one myself and being fortunate enough to be teaching and learning in a fantastic school in Asia, I really had no idea any more. While I know that schools vary greatly depending on a wide range of factors, I was most interested in comparing apples to apples. I wanted to see what a PYP school in a metropolitan area in the US was like and how it compares to my beloved NIST.
While researching schools before my trip, I found that all of the PYP schools in the Chicago metropolitan area are public schools- another area of understanding I have come to lack in my years abroad. Having no idea how public PYP schools operate, I was thrilled to receive a response and invitation to visit Ogden.
On the day of my visit I was instantly impressed by the large park and intricate architecture just across the street from campus. A high degree of professionalism and kindness glowed from the guards, secretaries and faculty. After exciting afternoon touring the school, meeting with teachers and discussing PYP curriculum with the passionate PYP Coordinator, Taneal Sanders, I have to say that I was impressed that all of this PYP enthusiasm exists right here in the Midwest. I have always been proud of Minnesota's schools but I had no idea that the PYP was being implemented so well here in downtown Chicago. The more I learned, the more impressed I was. I have very little knowledge of the Common Core Curriculum but find it reassuring that even under its expectations, these students are still just as curious about the world around them as my own students in Bangkok. They are living the Learner Profile, just like I have seen in other parts of the world. After years of thinking it would be difficult to find the kind of internationally-minded, global citizens I am used to anywhere outside of my bubble of experience, I was truly proud to such learning in my own country.
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Aiming to be the pick of the crop
Pick BoP's Phillippa Wright.
A new horticulture recruitment and training cooperative has started in Te Puke, aiming to smooth the supply of workers to orchards.
It is expected to benefit employers and workers.
Pick BOP is a collaboration between 10 kiwifruit growers in the region, some of which also have contracting businesses.
Manager Phillippa Wright says the cooperative aims to have high standards on employment compliance issues. It also hopes to attract staff by better continuity of employment: workers can be shifted around between the orchards according to workflows.
Wright told Rural News she sees more potential for training for orchard workers. She previously mainly worked in post-harvest but says growers attached to those companies would often ring up looking for training spots for their workers.
Wright says Pick BOP is an opportunity for growers to take a collaborative approach to training.
"If someone asks me for training I can ring around and send out an email asking who else wants to do it instead of them relying on the post-harvest or just doing their own individual training," she says.
In the future she hopes Pick BOP will have its own supervisor for on-job training.
Wright says they looked at a couple of models for this kind of venture: one was a company operating in the South Island and another was a similar cooperative -- Pick Hawkes Bay -- which also has grower members.
"We want to get RSE workers from the Pacific islands. This is another way of doing that without each individual grower having to manage their own people.
"I took some advice. Apparently, the Pick Hawkes Bay model works well particularly for RSE workers, so we decided to go down that track."
One aspect they hope will attract workers is the ability to move them among the 10 members.
"For instance, you might have 20 workers picking an orchard. However, when they finish they may not have any more work for two-three days because the fruit is not mature enough or the weather has been bad," she explains.
"I will be able to move workers from one orchard to another within those 10 members. They will have more continuous work so hopefully that will be an attraction."
Crucial to get it right
Wright says breaches to workers' rights and confusion about compliance have the potential to affect horticulture's reputation and bottom line.
She says the idea behind Pick BOP is to give members access to training and support in areas like recruitment, labour laws and Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) management.
The co-operative will keep members up to date with the latest regulations and specialist knowledge so members can be confident they are on the right side of the law and are maintaining high standards.
"We've all heard stories of exploited workers and that's a bad look for the industry and New Zealand exports," says Wright.
"Pick BOP is a recruitment office with a commitment to best practice, offering high-quality services specific to the horticulture industry.
"International customers are also increasingly looking at a grower's social responsibility. Making sure staff are well trained and safe are just as important for the bottom line as the product quality, so it's win-win."
Pick BOP serves a different role to industry advocacy groups.
"What I saw missing was a collaborative solution," says Wright. "We want to make things transparent for members, by not accepting any non-compliant behaviour."
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Q: Why is Self being called to access the Class's own property? I'm slightly confused with a certain concept. The best way to ask my question is to illustrate  it with an example. Now in the below code I declare a property called loan and I synthesize this property. Now this might seem like a nooby question but I'm assigning the value "250.00" to loan. I've seen tutorials around the web that might do "self.loan = 250.00;" VS my "loan = 250.00;" Both ways seem to accomplish the same thing. But why do people use "self.propertyName" to access a property, when using the property name itself is enough?
//ClassA.h
@interface ClassA: UIViewController
@property double loan;
@end

//ClassA.m
@implementation ClassA
@synthesize loan;

-(void)doSomething{
  loan = 250.00;
}

A: @synthesize also generates an underlying instance variable for your property, which is unfortunately named the same as the property by default.
This means that when you use loan = 250.0, you're really accessing the underlying instance variable directly, rather than via. the property accessor. You can see this if you change your @synthesize line to:
@synthesize loan = _loan;

Now your code no longer compiles and you must use either self.loan to access it via. the generated property accessors, or _loan to access the underlying instance variable.

A: They aren't exactly the same.
self.loan = 250.00;

is really shorthand for
[self setLoan:250.00];

which is a method call; whereas loan = 250.00 just writes that value directly to the appropriate part of memory.
This difference matters when, for example, another piece of code is using Key-Value Observing to monitor changes to the loan property. By calling setLoan:, all the proper notifications will be fired. By setting loan directly, they will not.
Also, if you aren't using Automatic Reference Counting, the set method will ensure that the new value is retained and old value release properly. (If you are using ARC, this is automatically taken care of either way.)

A: Its because self.loan references the property while loan just references the underlying variable. It is key for reference types that have the retain, copy or other modifiers.

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Climate Change Exacerbates Biodiversity Loss
Study in PNAS: Revised, post-2020 Biodiversity Targets Will Have to Consider Global Warming
Amboseli National Park, Kenya: Due to climate change, glaciers on the Kilimanjaro are retreating. Plants and animals in the valleys below, however, are dependent on water from the glacier. (Photo: Almut Arneth, KIT)
A considerable number of existing and proposed post-2020 biodiversity targets by international organizations are at risk of being severely compromised due to climate change, even if other barriers such as habitat exploitation are removed argue the authors of a study led by Almut Arneth from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). According to their analysis published in PNAS, global warming accelerates the loss of biodiversity. Vice versa, measures to protect biodiversity may also mitigate the impacts of climate change. The authors suggest that flexible approaches to conservation would allow dynamic responses to the effects of climate change on habitats and species. (DOI: 2009584117)
About a million plant and animal species are endangered worldwide. At least 13 of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations, however, depend on biodiversity, including species diversity, the genetic diversity within species and the diversity of ecosystems. Biodiversity regulates fundamental processes, such as soil formation and water-, trace-gas-, and nutrient cycles and thus contributes notably l to regulating the climate. The continued loss of biodiversity makes humankind face ecological, social, and economic problems. "Apart from the over-exploitation of natural resources on land and in water, or environmental pollution, climate change also causes loss of biological diversity. This impact will increase in future," says Almut Arneth, Professor at the Atmospheric Environmental Research Division of the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), KIT's Campus Alpine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She led an international study that is now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) under the title "Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change."
Targets for Worldwide Biodiversity Conservation Missed
In their study, scientists from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, South Africa, Mexico, and Japan analyzed the so-called Aichi targets for the worldwide protection of biodiversity that were adopted by the 10th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Nagoya, prefecture of Aichi, in 2010 for compliance by 2020. Most of these targets will be missed. In addition, the researchers analyzed the set of revised biodiversity protection targets currently negotiated by the parties for the time after 2020, which are to be reached by 2030 or 2050. They found that many existing or proposed targets are at risk due to global warming, even if the mean global temperature increase would remain at the lower limit of projections. "It certainly is a big challenge, but also an important opportunity to better handle on the political level the interactions between climate change and biodiversity loss, and to better coordinate the biodiversity targets with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals," Arneth explains. The biodiversity targets proposed should therefore consider climate change much more explicitly, she thinks.
Species Are Leaving Nature Reserves
Arneth gives an example: A biodiversity target for nature reserves must consider the fact that composition and growth of vegetation will change with climate change and that certain species of plants and animals will either migrate or be threatened, if climatic conditions are changing. For instance, climate change causes mountain glaciers to shrink. In semi-arid regions, however, lower lying valley ecosystems depend on melting water from glaciers in summer. If this melt-water flow will decrease due to retreating glaciers, precipitation alone may not be sufficient to supply the plants in the catchment with water. This will then also affect the animals that are dependent on the plants.
The study underscores the demand to quickly and significantly reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission and to halt climate change. Vice versa, it also shows that measures to protect biodiversity would contribute to climate protection. "Better coordination of political agreements and scientific findings may accelerate urgent decarbonization of economy and ensure slowdown of climate change by biodiversity protection measures," Arneth summarizes.
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Learn about circuits with this solderless circuit that you can put together with conductive copper tape. Add LED lights to make it light up and then decorate it as a birthday card, good luck card or another card.
This is a pack of 10.
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It's so easy to get caught up in all the hall-decking and merry-making and too much shopping and non-stop eating that we can lose sight of what Christmas is all about. Like spending time with family and friends, and celebrating the baby in the manger who spun the world on a whole new course.
So before Christmas slips away and the new year dawns, we invite you to slow down and join us with your family and friends for Christmas at Parkview.
We have 24 Christmas services at our three campuses starting Friday, December 21 in Orland Park!


Students explore the properties of symmetry by using one rubber band as the mirror line, making a figure with another on one side of the mirror, then trying to create its reflection.
What happens if we create angles in the figure?
What happens if the figure touches the mirror line?
What happens if we change the orientation of the mirror line?
What happens if the figure crosses the mirror line?
This cameo has a From The Classroom section which shows the fabulous reflections one class made using their Poly Plug.
Note: The word figure is used in this cameo to describe line drawings that don't enclose an area.
Students know when they are correct in this task because it looks right. There is a 'balance' around the mirror line. Encourage them to record their solutions, either directly into their journal or onto the dot paper first. It is easiest to sketch a border around 7x7 dots on the paper first to mark out an image of the geoboard.
Students tend to extend themselves by creating more difficult figures for each other. If not, encourage them to do so and point out that the examples on the card represent the What happens if...? questions above that a mathematician might ask. The last of those questions is not represented on the card so students will have to explore the idea without a drawing to guide them. Again, encourage recording of any creations.
Sarah finished her figure with one more side length and one diagonal. Draw three possible solutions for her.
Note: There are actually many, many solutions for Sarah.
She might complete the figure at its top or bottom.
The mirror line could be either of the two diagonals or the horizontal or vertical central axis.
Consider building a class display of Sarah's Figures.
Challenge them to recreate and record this one, then create at least one more rotationally symmetric picture. Challenge students to explain the key features of rotationally symmetric figures.
Use a 5 x 5 geoboard - restrict the one in the task by using a rubber band to mark out its perimeter.
Think of the example above as four paths starting from the centre.
Paths begin at the centre nail and move from nail to nail until they reach a perimeter nail.
When a path reaches a perimeter nail it stops.
None of the four paths of a figure cross each other.
The challenge is to find all 24.
Reflection Dancing: Two children face each other as if they were mirror images and devise a dance in which they move as object and reflection.
Making Reflections: This activity requires two boxes of Attribute Blocks and a one metre ruler. The ruler is the 'mirror'. Children take turns to place blocks. The partner has to place the exact same block in the mirror image position on their side of the ruler. Blocks may be stood up or built on top of each other. Photograph some of the results.
Making Butterflies: by splodging paint and folding the paper. Cut the butterfly shape and decorate. Make a display garden and attach the butterflies. Alternatively make your own butterfly house as at the zoo.
Shortest Routes: Choose 4 nails on the geoboard and mark their tops with chalk or sticky tack. Use string (or rubber bands) to find the shortest path that will join them all up. Can you find any rules? What happens if you choose more than 4 nails?
If you have a class set of geoboards you can easily turn this task into a whole class investigation. If not, but you do have Poly Plug, you can put these to work exploring symmetry. Many patterns students make with the yellow/blue board are symmetric. Any of these is a starting point for discussion. When the properties of symmetric shapes have been identified, use two boards side by side (or corner to corner if you want a diagonal line of symmetry). Person A turns some plugs on one board. Person B turns the mirrored plugs on the other.
Visit Reflections on Poly Plug & Tasks. Also see the photos below from Year 6, Camberwell Primary School, where some students explored Poly Plug patterns created using a reflections and rotations.
At this stage, Reflections does not have a matching lesson on Maths300. However, a related lesson is Lesson 123 Mirror Bounce. For more ideas and discussion about Mirror Bounce, open a new browser tab (or page) and visit Maths300.
Year 6 Students worked in teams (usually four) creating multiple copies of a Poly Plug arrangement and then transformed the unit piece in various ways to make a tiling pattern. This was one Mathematics Week activity. Check Task 96, Networks, for more work on transformations created during this week, this time using Pattern Tiles as the tool.


Shapes are instrumental in the design of any dashboard. Besides their use in static headers and outlines, they can also be used to display dynamic content on the dashboard. This page covers the various options that MS Excel provides for using shapes in your dashboard.
Let's begin with the basics. Shapes can be added by going to Insert > shapes on the MS Excel window. This allows you to choose from a variety of shapes.
Here you would find a large number of preset designs that can dramatically improve the look and feel of your shapes.
Apart from these presets you can control a large number of effects by going to 'shape effects' in the 'shape style' menu. This menu allows you to apply different kinds of shadow, reflections, glow, edges, and rotations to your shape.
Till now we have only talked about how we can format shapes, but the real beauty of shapes lies in the fact that they allow you to display dynamic content. How? Rather than writing something in the shape, you can assign it a cell reference—see the image below; it's really easy.
Through this method you can only show texts up to 255 characters long—my guess is that you would ideally never need a header that's 255 characters long.
To see how shapes can be used to enhance the visual appeal of dashboards, you can download any of our Crab Project and see what wonders shapes can do. Also, you can download this workbook for an example explaining the dynamic shapes concept.
Feel free to reach out to us at query@crabsheet.com in case you face any difficulties in this section and we would be happy to address your queries.


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Share this Story: University of Regina Rams' head-coaching search picking up steam
University of Regina Rams' head-coaching search picking up steam
Ian Hamilton • Regina Leader-Post
Jan 28, 2016 • June 2, 2020 • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
The University of Regina is ramping up its search for a replacement for Rams head coach Mike Gibson, who resigned Jan. 17 to join the staff of the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos. Photo by Bryan Schlosser /Regina Leader-Post files
As Mike Gibson finishes packing up his office, the committee tasked with finding his successor as head coach of the University of Regina Rams is beginning the process in earnest.
The six-member committee is to meet Friday to go over applications. Curtis Atkinson, the school's interim athletic director, said Thursday he's hoping to see between 15 and 20 applications for the job from which Gibson resigned on Jan. 17.
University of Regina Rams' head-coaching search picking up steam Back to video
"I fielded a few calls and e-mails last week and others on the committee had people reach out informally and ask about the job and the process," Atkinson said. "I know some of those have applied.
"We'll wait to see the final list and then hopefully come out of the meeting with some form of short list."
Atkinson would like a short list comprising a maximum of five names. Because Atkinson is attending Canada West meetings next week, interviews likely won't begin until Feb. 8 at the earliest.
If the committee comes to a consensus, a new head coach could be in place by the end of February.
"I don't think any of us want to rush it just for the sake of rushing it," Atkinson said. "If we feel we have the right candidate, the end of February at the latest would be my preference."
Former Rams quarterback Marc Mueller (assistant coach with the CFL's Calgary Stampeders) and Scott MacAulay (head coach of the PFC's Regina Thunder) were rumoured to be candidates. But Mueller has withdrawn his name from consideration and MacAulay has to consider the full-time job he has outside of football.
Other names bandied about include Matthew Blokker (head coach of the PFC's Calgary Colts) and former Rams offensive lineman Steve Bryce.
The successful candidate will replace Gibson, who resigned to become the offensive line coach and run game co-ordinator for the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos.
On Thursday, with boxes of personal belongings scattered around his office, Gibson reflected on his one season with the Rams.
"I look back at a lot of positives," he said. "Obviously I'm very disappointed in the (0-8) record, but I'm very proud of the fact that, in the last two weeks, the kids are still going to study hall and still in the weight program."
During his farewell media conference, Gibson said he decided to return to the CFL for family reasons. The opportunity was too good to pass up, even though he had said when he was hired that he hoped to end his coaching career with the Rams.
On Friday, he'll hand in his office keys with some regrets.
"This group of individuals will not have a bigger supporter on the outside than me," he said, "and I told them all that."
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This is a traditional origami crane, possibly the most traditional of the many versions out there. However, I've used embossed paper that gives my version a 3D texture, rather than just solid coloured, patterned or even rather flat texture. Here, the texture happens to be wood as you can see in the close-ups from the Instagram photos below (scroll through the collage). The crane is white right now but I'll find a way to make it brown and more like wood soon. It's a slightly fresh take on the traditional crane, but one that many people can do. Having a little pressing utensil rather than using your nails will help with flattening those embossed bumps when creasing, if you were intent on trying many of these.
Additionally, I've put my crane in a pose not many do, which is wings spread and head and tail stretching like in flight or in a dive. I call it the "thunderbird" mode due to its "fierce" qualities of what could be an attacking pose in a dive to get at its prey, and all the points on the tips and wings that you see in the more predatory raptors rather than peaceful cranes. This, too, is a little different from how I've generally seen cranes, but also replicable by anyone wanting to try.
I'll be blogging about more of my origami adventures this year as I do them, but below is another example from my past. It's another crane, tie dyed before folding. Totally asymmetric and non-repeating pattern unlike patterns you often get on paper that are symmetric and repeating. Most of my examples will NOT involve cranes, but for the first examples, because of the beauty of the geometry and math involved in the crane, it's my go to piece to try out lots of things.
Or cellophane origami where you can see inside of the origami and what happened to all that paper you no longer see on the outside.
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Sunday Reads: Time to take Earl on a picnic…again.
Posted: May 20, 2018 | Author: Minkoff Minx | Filed under: #EndChildMarriage, Black Lives Matter, Capital Punishment aka Death Penalty, children, Discrimination against women, Domestic terrorism, education, Great Britain, Gun Control, Human Rights, Main Stream Media, mass shooting, misogyny, morning reads, Nepal, open thread, racism, Rape Culture, right wing hate grouups, The Media SUCKS, U.S. Politics, Violence against women, War on Women, white nationalists | Tags: Jordan Peterson, New York Times, Sambad Center, Santa Fe Texas Shooting, Toxic Masculinity |16 Comments
You all remember this song and video from the Dixie Chicks? I have the video posted down below, with the lyrics.
I bring old Earl up again because the latest school shooting is another example of this Earl problem that we see every fucking day:
America has a radicalized young male problem. America has a neo-Nazi problem. America has a toxic masculinity problem.
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) May 18, 2018
It is that Toxic Masculinity problem I want to address.
Have y'all taken note of this key point…that doesn't seem to be getting a lot of press:
Somewhat buried in the NYT piece about the Texas school shooting – incredibly relevant and sadly unsurprising https://t.co/0Drb2kN7VA pic.twitter.com/B08kjmRuVA
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) May 19, 2018
One of the first kids shot today at Santa Fe was the killer's ex-girlfriend. We see this over and over, and it's almost never centered in the discussion of these tragedies. https://t.co/0NJ795CRCq
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 19, 2018
Um, the Santa Fe suspect shot his ex-girlfriend in the first classroom. Why isn't this a bigger deal? https://t.co/15DiNqT5gS
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) May 19, 2018
The Santa Fe High School shooter killed his ex-girlfriend during Friday's rampage. Considering reports that he intentionally left people who he liked unharmed, that fact should be a much more prominent part of the story than it is in this @nytimes article. https://t.co/EMzeoAsnj3
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) May 19, 2018
Somewhere early this morning, I whispered, "There's gonna be a girl. There's always a girl."
There's always a girl. And she never gets out alive. https://t.co/ys8Eai1WNj
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) May 19, 2018
There is always a girl, innit?
Fucking hell.
Mother of victim says alleged Texas school shooter asked her daughter on date – CNN
Sadie Baze says she keeps expecting her daughter to walk into the house, but Shana Fisher was killed Friday, one of 10 people gunned down at her high school.
"She's never going to walk through the front door again," Baze said.
Baze told CNN that the alleged shooter, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, had been making advances toward Shana, who just turned 16, for the past four months, asking her to date him.
A week ago, during class, Shana stood up and told Pagourtzis she wouldn't go out with him, the mother said.
Baze said Pagourtzis previously dated Fisher's best friend and she had told told her daughter "you don't date your friend's exes."
See, you don't date your friend's exes and you wind up getting killed by them…it is devastating. Why is there always some type of domineering asshole male shit behind these violent murders.
The family of 17-year-old Pagourtzis, accused of killing 10 people and wounding 13 others at the Texas high school Friday, issued a statement expressing condolences to the victims.
The family members said they are "as shocked and confused as anyone by these events that occurred."
Pagourtzis is a "smart, quiet, sweet boy," they said.
The statement, issued through a law firm, says the family is cooperating with investigators and will make no other public comments until the fact-finding stage is completed.
"While we remain mostly in the dark about the specifics of yesterday's tragedy, what we have learned from media reports seems incompatible with the boy we love," they said.
Pagourtzis is being held without bail and is accused of capital murder of multiple people and aggravated assault on a public servant. He has not entered a plea.
Robert Barfield, the attorney for Pagourtzis, said his client is "not doing well" and is "confused."
The suspect won't face the death penalty if he is convicted. Under Texas law, offenders who are under age 18 and charged with a capital offense face a maximum punishment of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years, according to Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Your know what would be my kind of punishment? Pagourtzis getting his balls sliced off with a razor and have them handed to him in a Dixie Cup…let the fucker bleed for a long while.
He is not doing well? Tough shit. Confused? No…he knew what he was doing.
Yesterday, officials identified those killed as teachers Glenda Perkins and Cynthia Tisdale, and students Jared Black, Shana Fisher, Christian Riley Garcia, Aaron Kyle McLeod, Angelique Ramirez, Sabika Sheikh, Christopher Jake Stone and Kimberly Vaughan. Here is some information on the people who were killed:
Victims of Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas identified today – CBS News
Sabika Sheikh
PAKISTAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER HOUSTON/FACEBOOK
The Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., confirmed that exchange student Sabika Sheikh was killed in the shooting. Sabika was an exchange student with YES, which is funded by the U.S. State Department. It provides scholarships for secondary school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend one academic year in the U.S.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent his "deepest condolences" to her friends and family in a statement Saturday.
"Sabika's death and that of the other victims is heartbreaking and will be mourned deeply both here in the United States, and in Pakistan," Pompeo said.
Shana Fisher's aunt posted on Twitter that Shana was in the art room at the time of the shooting. She announced her death on Twitter.
Please go to the article to read about the rest of the victims, and remember…the killer said he did not shoot anyone he "liked"…Texas school shooting: 10 killed in Santa Fe High School massacre – The Washington Post
The affidavit states that the 17-year-old told police that "he did not shoot students he did like so he could have his story told."
Yup, he knew exactly what he was doing. And if an ex-girlfriend was on the victim list, or some girl who did not treat him with the kind of attention he felt was "owed" to him…it would only be appropriate to add Pagourtzis name to the list of mass murderers who killed because they felt their women victims were entitled to them.
American women are 16x more likely to be shot and killed than women in peer nations. Over 50 women are fatally shot each month by current or former intimate partners. Most mass shootings are caused by domestic violence.
Boys and men with easy access to guns are killing women. https://t.co/kequEkF50V
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 20, 2018
Texas school shooter killed girl who turned him down and embarrassed him in class, her mother says https://t.co/Ov7ADvuxdN pic.twitter.com/xPhYSONhIs
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) May 20, 2018
Guy *ask girl out*
Girl *says no*
Guy *ask a million more times*
Girl *no*
Guy *stalks, is creepy to girl*
Girl: *stands up for herself*
Guy *kills girl and anyone else he thought mean*
Media "Girl bullied boy, caused violent behavior"
— Mo's Ocean Dirt Expert (@PolitikMasFina) May 20, 2018
Media should stop referring to her as his ex-girlfriend. She spurned his advances and was murdered for that. https://t.co/WbJeb7nitZ
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) May 20, 2018
Shana Fisher "had 4 months of problems from this boy," her mother, Sadie Rodriguez, wrote in a private message to the Los Angeles Times on Facebook. "He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no." https://t.co/clHL0gO6zP
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) May 20, 2018
#SantaFeHighSchool gunman killed a classmate, Shana Fisher, who had turned down his advances.
According to her mother, Shana finally stood up to him after FOUR MONTHS of persistent advances and "a week later he opens fire on everyone he didn't like."
🚨https://t.co/tCKLze8Uk4
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) May 20, 2018
"She repeatedly told him no."
Do NOT talk seriously about "involuntary celibacy."
It is a re-branded justification for violence against women.
Nothing more.
Mother of girl killed in Texas school shooting says her daughter had recently rejected the romantic advances of the 17-year-old charged in the killings. https://t.co/AIYvQU4lO6
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) May 20, 2018
Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them. https://t.co/vJfT2Ch8GW
— 🙅🏿♀✨🖤 (@reetamac) May 20, 2018
What if, hear me out, but what if we stop blaming girls and women for mass shootings, and start blaming the boys and men who shoot people?
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 20, 2018
Gun control is extremely important but there're other reasons why these attacks keep happening. Male entitlement and toxic ideas about masculinity are key factors in most mass violence. As a society we've so far refused to seriously address either part of this ongoing calamity. pic.twitter.com/t0r3uIjRD5
— Jonathan McIntosh (@radicalbytes) May 20, 2018
Don't act like there's not an ideological connection between the men talking about "redistributing sex" because its owed to them and the young men shooting up their schools because a girl they are fixated on has rejected them.
— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) May 20, 2018
So it appears, this ex-girfriend and the girl who was being harassed by Pagourtzis may be the same person?
Texas school shooter taunted victims during rampage: witnesses
By reading this NY Post article, it doesn't seem to me that this "kid" had any confusion during the murdering part of his shooting spree…
"My friend Trent was in the classroom and said after [Pagourtzis] would shoot a student he would sing, 'Another one bites the dust!'" Sante Fe High School sophomore Kole Dixon, 16, told The Post of a classmate, whose last name he asked not be printed.
"He also kept playing a kamikaze song over and over as loud as he could," on his cellphone, Dixon said of the shooter.
Pagourtzis had the same kamikaze military anthem on his now-deleted YouTube page, Dixon said.
Pagourtzis had earlier bragged of wearing a "Rising Sun" insignia on his black trench coat, explaining it signified "Kamikaze Tactics," according to a photo and text posted on his also-deleted Facebook page.
New details of the 17-year-old's sick sense of humor went well beyond the previously reported "Born to Kill" T-shirt he wore, and his taunt of "Surprise!" as he blasted through the walls of an art class supply closet.
"They hear the gunman in the classroom next door yelling Woo Hoo! and firing more shots," mom Deedra Van Ness said in a Facebook post Friday night, recounting details from her by her daughter Isabelle, who survived unscathed but was covered in blood.
"Surprise, motherf–ker!" the shooter hollered as he fired into the closet wall, instantly killing two of the half-dozen students who had barricaded themselves inside with Isabelle, Van Ness said her daughter told her.
"Are you dead?" he later asked from the other side of the closet.
"Do you think it's for you?" he also joked, as cell phones left behind in the classroom rang unanswered.
I mean, what else should we expect right?
Toxic masculinity kills https://t.co/FJliUZKFhO pic.twitter.com/66tKuAIVmg
The main stream media gives these assholes a pass, continuously, just take a look at this article from the NYTs:
There just isn't a self-consumed, ideologically violent, entitled white male y'all won't gently profile is there?https://t.co/JSUGJUbEzj
— 5'7'' Black Male (@absurdistwords) May 19, 2018
I've never read a newspaper profile like this Jordan Peterson thing. It's an open assassination attempt with no effort to disguise its intent.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 18, 2018
No, John, it's a newspaper profile. An assassination attempt would be, I don't know, a man mass-murdering people because Jordan Peterson told him he was right to be angry that hot women weren't fucking him. https://t.co/BsBphC1cns
— your friend Helen (@hels) May 18, 2018
This is as "tough" as the thing gets:
Recently, a young man named Alek Minassian drove through Toronto trying to kill people with his van. Ten were killed, and he has been charged with first-degree murder for their deaths, and with attempted murder for 16 people who were injured. Mr. Minassian declared himself to be part of a misogynist group whose members call themselves incels. The term is short for "involuntary celibates," though the group has evolved into a male supremacist movement made up of people — some celibate, some not — who believe that women should be treated as sexual objects with few rights. Some believe in forced "sexual redistribution," in which a governing body would intervene in women's lives to force them into sexual relationships.
Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, Mr. Peterson says, and society needs to work to make sure those men are married.
"He was angry at God because women were rejecting him," Mr. Peterson says of the Toronto killer. "The cure for that is enforced monogamy. That's actually why monogamy emerges."
Mr. Peterson does not pause when he says this. Enforced monogamy is, to him, simply a rational solution. Otherwise women will all only go for the most high-status men, he explains, and that couldn't make either gender happy in the end.
"Half the men fail," he says, meaning that they don't procreate. "And no one cares about the men who fail."
I laugh, because it is absurd.
"You're laughing about them," he says, giving me a disappointed look. "That's because you're female."
But aside from interventions that would redistribute sex, Mr. Peterson is staunchly against what he calls "equality of outcomes," or efforts to equalize society. He usually calls them pathological or evil.
He agrees that this is inconsistent. But preventing hordes of single men from violence, he believes, is necessary for the stability of society. Enforced monogamy helps neutralize that.
In situations where there is too much mate choice, "a small percentage of the guys have hyper-access to women, and so they don't form relationships with women," he said. "And the women hate that."
Emphasis is mine, of course, but read the whole article and tell me if it isn't soft on this fucker.
(Take a look at the "Times Picks" comments…they are somewhat forgiving, and not from the feminist POV at all.)
INTERVIEWER: and what do you think is the problem with Marxism?
JORDAN PETERSON: the…the Little Mermaid uses seashells to cover her breasts. And of course, we land dwellers may find that to be a sexual display. But the reality of living under the sea does not allow for shirts.
— SovCit, Esq. (@CORPORATE_NAME) May 18, 2018
(But that is the New York Times….)
Another day. Another op-ed from the New York Times blaming liberals for a bunch of fuckers voting for a goddamn white supremacist.
I'm so sick of people blaming everyone but the people who voted for trump for trump being president.
Fuck alladat. I'm not even going to link it.
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) May 13, 2018
Fuck you New York Times:
We don't name the @FBI informant and say why but we have some great details. https://t.co/y1zWjHsge4
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 19, 2018
You might as well have named him. You have enough details to confirm speculation and have likely put his life in danger.
Which is yet another ethical issue for the @nytimes to consider whenever it eventually decides to take a moral and ethical inventory.
If ever. https://t.co/We9OCuqEIL
Back to the Peterson thing real quick…
Fucking Toxic Predatory Men… and their "enforced monogamy."
I saw this tweet from Mona Eltahawy after I wrote my post above. I am glad I am not the only one who saw the connection.
On Friday, Jordan Peterson talked in a NYT profile about "enforced monogamy" to ensure that all men – not just some – are entitled to women. Same day in Texas: a teen killed 10 and wounded 10, including his ex-girlfriend, in a school shooting https://t.co/GNTEnDPX0K
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) May 19, 2018
He doesn't know the difference between HPV & HIV
He doesn't know the difference between the debt & deficit
He doesn't know the difference between climate & weather
He doesn't know the difference between Frederick Douglass & ?? some other black guy who's alive
He's a fucking moron
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) May 18, 2018
Those with toxic masculinity …are they stupid dicks or what?
Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock may have been a sovereign citizen. pic.twitter.com/pXro6Vpirk
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 19, 2018
According to sovereign citizen pseudo-legal mythology, if the US flag displayed in a state or federal courtroom has fringe on it, then that court has no jurisdiction over you, so you can't be tried for any crime. pic.twitter.com/svIGRGvm3B
Sovereign Citizen logic:
The Martial Law flag is a US flag with gold fringe on it. Therefore, any flag with gold fringe must be a Martial Law flag.
That's like saying a dog is a mammal with 4 legs. Since that horse over there is a mammal with 4 legs, it is by definition a dog.
So take a look at that thread…it sounds familiar. I am sure that Dak or Boston Boomer may have brought it up back when the shooting/killing/slaughter occurred. If that is the case it is nothing new…but for those of us who have memories that last as long as a dog's farts, or say a horse's fart… it is a reminder. That these domineering men are also crazy assholes.
Let us feed them some black-eyed peas….yeah.
Mary Anne and Wanda were the best of friends
All through their high school days
Both members of the 4H club, both active in the FFA
Mary Anne went out lookin' for a bright new world
Wanda looked all around this town and all she found was Earl
Well, it wasn't two weeks after she got married that
Wanda started gettin' abused
She'd put on dark glasses or long sleeved blouses
Or make-up to cover a bruise
Well she finally got the nerve to file for divorce
And she let the law take it from there
But Earl walked right through that restraining order
And put her in intensive care
Right away Mary Anne flew in from Atlanta
On a red eye midnight flight
She held Wanda's hand as they worked out a plan
And it didn't take 'em long to decide
That Earl had to die, goodbye Earl
Those black-eyed peas, they tasted alright to me, Earl
You're feelin' weak? Why don't you lay down and sleep, Earl
Ain't it dark wrapped up in that tarp, Earl
The cops came by to bring Earl in
They searched the house high and low
Then they tipped their hats and said, thank you ladies
If you hear from him let us know
Well, the weeks went by and spring turned to summer
And summer faded into fall
And it turns out he was a missing person who nobody missed at all
So the girls bought some land and a roadside stand
Out on highway 109
They sell Tennessee ham and strawberry jam
And they don't lose any sleep at night, 'cause
Earl had to die, goodbye Earl
We need a break, let's go out to the lake, Earl
We'll pack a lunch, and stuff you in the trunk, Earl
Is that alright? Good! Let's go for a ride, Earl, hey!
Ooh hey hey hey, ummm hey hey hey, hey hey hey
Songwriters: Dennis Linde
Goodbye Earl lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
So let us get on with the picnic shall we?
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— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) May 19, 2018
Here is the wedding sermon from yesterday, if you have not heard or seen it….
Bishop Michael Curry's rousing royal wedding sermon – the full text https://t.co/AAmBsfeNLC
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 19, 2018
This is the most subversive #royalwedding I can think of. Outspoken biracial royal wife, black preacher talks of social justice, black choir sings gospel version of "Stand by Me". It's small, but it's stunning. Diana would surely be thrilled.
— Dr Julia Baird (@bairdjulia) May 19, 2018
Subversive? Uh…I don't know. It all seemed like a big fuck you from Harry to the Royals, if you asked me. I still feel the sermon was important, which is why I posted it here. There was a lot of talk about how culturally inclusive the Royal Wedding was, which I think this next tweet touches on perfectly.
People are talking about the racial symbolism of the #RoyalWedding and I can't help but think that here in America, black people are killed and harassed for praying in church, wearing hoodies, riding bikes, holding toys, walking, running, sitting in cars, meeting at Starbucks…
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) May 19, 2018
And remember:
Another white shooter arrested alive after killing multiple ppl today? A black guy w/cellphone standing in his grandparents' yard shot&killed after being shot at 20 times by cops looking for someone suspected of breaking into cars. Never forget #StephonClark #BlackLivesMatter
— Kenny BooYah! (@KwikWarren) May 18, 2018
How do these (white) mass shooters keep getting taken alive and Blks with cell phones end up dead?
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) May 18, 2018
Florida mom gets a 20 yr sentence for firing a warning shot at a burglar after he'd broke into her home while it was just her & her children there. The same Florida system allowed George Zimmerman to walk free after he chased down and murdered Trayvon Martin. #IncarceratedMomsDay pic.twitter.com/NIz65wMPRD
— Derenic Byrd (@DerenicByrd) May 12, 2018
But back to the Royal Wedding, a few funny tweets:
A black reverend preaching to British royalty about the resilience of faith during slavery is 10000000% not what I thought I was waking up for, the royal wedding is good
— Elamin Abdelmahmoud (@elamin88) May 19, 2018
Kudos to the #RoyalWedding for being blacker than the Oscars.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) May 19, 2018
just saying ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/1zoOGFKeU3
— BBC Three (@bbcthree) May 19, 2018
Just a few more things before we go…
Caste, much like race, is a systemic tool of oppression. Women get marginalized in multiple ways because of this structure. See how Sohini helps women fight against it: https://t.co/82ukghLAwc
— UN Women (@UN_Women) May 19, 2018
Only when women & girls are safe & free from violence; can earn their own money; can have an equal voice in their family and community; & can decide if, & when, they get married or have children, will we be able to say that they have equality & justice. https://t.co/Vz2bcwZwRQ
— Global Fund forWomen (@GlobalFundWomen) May 20, 2018
"When you're trying to end a human rights abuse, it's illogical to carve out an exception for the people most likely to be affected" – Our #FraidyReiss tells @nytimes why bills to #endchildmarriage must set the marriage age at 18, not 16 or 17. Link to story in bio.
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But not every girl knows this – that's why empowering and educating girls is so crucial to ending child marriage! Tag a friend who agrees that #GirlsRightsAreHumanRights. #EndChildMarriage . . #empoweringgirls #empoweringwomen #metoo #metoomovement #womensmarch #genderequality #childrensrights #girlsrights #bethechange #makeadifference #girlcrew #girls #educateagirl #femaleempowerment #becauseiamagirl #plancanada #itsagirl #childmarriage #feminist #feminism #womenandgirls #unwomen
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Empower Girls : Empower the World #vikalpsansthan #equality #endvaw #endchildmarriage #youth4equality #genderjustice #TogetherWeCanEndvaw
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I love that phrase…Empower Girls…Empower Women…Empower Daughters.
My friend Rachana Sunar over in Nepal has been working on building a Kindergarten for disadvantaged children and a center for mothers. With some funds from a Norway free church women's group. They have a new building with five rooms…she sent me these pictures that I want to share with you:
This is what she says to me in her email:
Dearest JJ
Our vision is to empower young mothers who have married as a child brides. Our aim is to teach them life skills and vocational education, parenting skills and give them income opportunity.
So we have got 15 mothers for this year.
We meet them every Saturday to discuss in women righs.
They are so excited to learn.
Hope one day we can have you here taking some classes.
Rachana says the children have been selected with prior home visits, so they are "needy children."
It is wonderful to see this program building from the ground up. I am working to send some donations her way…one day I would love to take a trip out there and visit. We communicate about once a week and it is extraordinary to have a connection with a woman who is strong and such a positive influence within her community.
That is all for me today, this is an open thread.
BTW, I know we have some non-toxic males who read this blog…and I gotta say…no black-eyed peas for you!
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Minkoff Minx says:
Morning, I know that I am beating a dead horse…or dog:
The Santa Fe shooter was stood up to and rejected by a girl he was harassing and now she and 9 others are dead, in case you're still unclear about why women are hesitant to come forward about sexual harassment and assault.
He went straight to that art class. Where she was and started to kill.
pic.twitter.com/KcdNbueMob
— DWP (@DancesWithPumas) May 20, 2018
So half of the right is arguing for door control, and the other half is telling teenage girls to have sex with any boy who wants it to prevent mass shootings. Welcome to the modern American conservative movement.
— Jerry (@js_edit) May 20, 2018
So what are y'all reading about today?
Jslat says:
I agree, great post!! And I believe what we need is matriarchy. History says the world was once mainly matriarchal. Then men took control, and we ended up with wars, murder, school shootings, holocausts, etc. Lets go back to matriarchy. Sounds like a good idea to me.
And may I say again how proud I am to live in Delaware!
That's wonderful that Delaware has passed this to protect girls!
Plus she was in no way his "ex-girlfriend."
Asshole media.
It's a slur on her memory, considering what she thought of him.
I know. They just overlooked everything. The first reports said he walked into an art class and the first person he shot as a girl in the knee. You don't have to be Louis Lane to figure out an art class is a pretty odd target and a girl first? Then, that bit of information gets lost for a few days until it's turned into what's wrong with this quiet football playing guy?
…who is such a "sweet" boy. Give me a fcking break. Where did he learn this shit? Where did he get his guns? Then the toxic male-privilege mentality that he learned in his family (implicitly or otherwise) gets a pass in the MSM and is encouraged by the likes of Peterson.
I've never understood trying to figure out the motive of these shooters. Plenty of other people get disappointed in love or embarrassed in school, but don't use that as a motive for slaughter.
Worst bit of victim-blaming not from @realDonaldTrump – c'mon @guardian how about "Santa Fe Killer was Psychotic Stalker and No One Intervened"https://t.co/oecilYiE12
— Ira Socol (@irasocol) May 20, 2018
FDNY EMS Lt. spews racist, anti-Semitic tweets, but cried when confronted
https://nypost.com/2013/03/24/fdny-ems-lt-spews-racist-anti-semitic-tweets-but-cried-when-confronted/
EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos, 34, uses an image of Hitler for his profile photo and "Bad Lieutenant" as his online name as he spews a barrage of racist, sexist, anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments.
The FDNY boss proudly posed with Mayor Bloomberg during a 2009 ceremony but hatefully calls Hizzoner "King Jew" and "King Heeb" on Twitter.
Dluhos, who works at EMS Station 57 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, dropped to the ground sobbing Friday when The Post confronted him outside his Staten Island home.
"There has got to be a lot worse out there than me," he insisted.
"My life is ruined. Oh, my God," Dluhos wailed. "I'm so sorry."
Yet the 12-year EMS veteran, who was promoted to lieutenant in 2006, seemed to delight in these hateful Twitter diatribes:
* "I'm going to give up racial insults for Lent," he tweeted Feb. 12. "Jesus that didn't [last] too long. F–ken chinks can't drive."
* While giving what he called a "hood tour" of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area he serves, he posted photos of a housing project, fried-chicken joints and a strip club. "Real nasty place," he tweeted Feb 23. "I've been there."
* "Hahaha! I work with the coloreds," he wrote in a Feb. 8 exchange. "For 12 years so that s–t just run off on me."
* "Too bad he didn't have rabies or AIDS and too bad he didn't bite King Heeb's face off," he tweeted on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, recalling when the groundhog Staten Island Chuck nipped Bloomberg at an event at the Staten Island Zoo.
* "That's how King Jew sees it. Ban all guns & shootings will go down in NYC. But it's the criminals w/the guns," he ranted Jan. 30.
* A gold Nazi-era pin with a German U-boat and a swastika is "my most prized artifact," he boasted on Jan. 30.
* "He was a good boy who never done NUFFIN wrong. Unf–kenreal. He was a perp & died like a perp. Oh well," he tweeted March 14, mocking the grieving mother of Kimani Gray, the 16-year-old boy who was killed by cops in Brooklyn on March 9.
* He repeatedly Photoshopped an image of an unnamed black teen — putting a Hitler mustache on one photo and a surgical mask on another with the caption, "I's be a doxter."
* "My son thinks he's one of 'those people,' " Dluhos wrote in a caption for a Jan. 29 snapshot of his toddler son wearing pants that sagged below his underwear.
* "But at least I know my taxes go to the 'undocumented' citizens and lazy asses who do drugs all day," Dluhos wrote March 15.
* "Got an extra shift at my second job. Think this will buy me a new gun," he said, referring to his side gig for Richmond County Ambulance. Photos show a sniper rifle and other firearms stashed in his home.
* "I'm really a dirty pervert. I see a girl with tight pants on and my eyes immediately focus on her crotch to look for camel toe," he tweeted March 15. He also posted a photo gallery of naked, obese women.
* He captioned a photo of an overweight woman talking with two men on St. Patrick's Day: "I'm gonna get me 2 d–ks tonight. Good thing I take advantage of the drunk."
The bad lieutenant is another black eye for the FDNY, a white-male bastion already under a federal court mandate to become more diverse.
It comes less than a week after The Post exposed the vile racist and anti-Semitic tweets posted by Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano's own EMT son. Joseph Cassano, 23, who quit the next day.
…dropped to the ground sobbing Friday when The Post confronted him outside his Staten Island home. "There has got to be a lot worse out there than me," he insisted.
"My life is ruined."
I know … just another NAZI snowflake from hell
Could we ever pass something like this here?
France takes a step forward in fighting catcallers
Men who whistle and catcall women on the streets of France may soon face stiff punishment.
On Wednesday, lawmakers in the National Assembly — France's lower house of Parliament — passed measures to curb sexual violence. Among them: People caught harassing women on the street could be fined up to $885. Also, underage rape victims would have more time to file complaints.
President Emmanuel Macron said the proposals, which await approval by the Senate, would make it so "women are not afraid to be outside."
The bill defines street harassment broadly, as anything that "infringes the freedom of movement of women in public spaces and undermines self-esteem and the right to security." Officials cited examples such as whistling at a woman, badgering her for her phone number or following her on the street. Fines will range from $110 to $885 and must be paid on the spot. Repeat offenders could face penalties of up to $3,500.
About 83 percent of French women say they have faced harassment on the street.
The other 17% never go out without their lord and master.
There was another place that recently did that. Manchester in the UK? (Can't find the link right now. Piffle.) And they actually enforced it. 😯 The police actually acted when women called in with reports. And, surprise, surprise, the level of harassment went down.
Although there were a few heartrending stories about guys who just didn't know what the world was coming to and how were *they* supposed to walk down the street "freely," and, really, just so sad….
Do Deneuve and Bardot know? They will be appalled.


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One of the major parts of being ranked is going before a "promotion board" which consists of an assistant commandant, a company mentor, and an upperclassmen cadet. The promotion board is used to help the commandant staff decide who deserves a job.
Many cadets believe that the way rankings are made needs revision. Cadet Miao Yuan, 19, a sophomore construction management major from Anchorage, Alaska, believes that peer reviews should be given more weight. "I wish we had more peer reviews so that the commandant staff will have multiple reviews to go off of instead of just one," she said.
But some cadets disagree with Trigillio, because it may affect their job selection if they have people who don't like them. "If it's more peer-based, if people have a vendetta out for you and the commandant staff looks to them for recommendations, they can trap you in a box where you won't be able to get the jobs you want over a disagreement," said Davis.
"A pro is that if you are well-known you know you can get the job, but a con is if you are a hard worker but not socially well-known, you might have problems getting the job," Cruz said.
Like Thompson, Yuan applied for three jobs dealing with rooks but instead received the job of color sergeant, which is a job she didn't even apply for.
Although some cadets are frustrated at the system, a lot of them received their first choices. "I got the first sergeant for the drill company and I wanted the first sergeant job because I wanted to shadow the drill company commander," said Davis.
Shawnae Evans,19, a sophomore neuroscience major from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., put command sergeant major – the third most important job in a battalion – as her top choice and she got it. She also has huge plans for provisional battalion next year. For example, she wants to ensure that provisional battalion becomes more inclusive.


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Q: Generic Repository and Leaky Abstraction I am implementing a repository pattern.  My main reasons for this:

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*To abstract client code away from persistence specifics (Entity Framework)

*To support testability

Generic Repository or not?
The issue I have run into is whether I should have a generic repository or not.  An IQueryable<T> Query() method would provide the calling code with means to construct specific queries.  The issue here is that this is leaky abstraction - Entity Framework specifics are now leaking into my client code.

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*How would this effect unit testing?  Would I still be able to Mock the ICustomerRepository with this implementation?

*How would this effect swopping out my persistence layer? Like Azure Storage Tables or NHibernate.
Otherwise I would have to implement very specific query method on ICustomerRepository, such as GetIsActiveByFirstName() and GetIsActiveByDistrict().  I dislike this a lot as my repository classes are going to become jam-packed with different query methods.  This system has hundreds of models and so there could be hundreds or even thousands of these methods to write and maintain.

A: You can have a relatively clean IRepository<T> by sticking to the pattern.
Data Access LAyer

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*reference to EF and Core project

*Has Respository<T> : IRepository<T>

*Option has IEFJunk declaration (Only if using multiple repositories)

*Reference to Core

*Respository is injected with Context (typically during instantiation)

Core

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*Interfaces that can be "Injected"

*IRepository declaration. With no EF data type use.

*NO reference to EF

So now code in Core you can refer to an IRepository<t>.
The implementing class can have EF specifics. But this can not be accessed from core!
so you can have IQueryable.
  public interface IRepositoryBase<TPoco>{
     IQueryable<TPoco> GetListQ(Expression<Func<TPoco, bool>> predicate);
  //...

BUt if you decided you wanted to add
 //...
 // logically exposing  IQueryable<T> Include<T>(this IQueryable<T> source, string path) from EF
 IQueryable<TPoco> IncludeNAVProp(string navToInclude);
 }

Then the Repository implementation
return  Context.Set<TPoco>().Include(navToInclude);

requires the underlying provider to be EF.  So now mocking is against an actual EF provider.
And unless you are careful, EF specific code. leaks out.
Indeed the interface IRepository that has the CONCEPT "include" can already be considered LEAKY.
Keeping EF specifics out of your Interfaces, is the key to avoiding the leaks.
And you can have 1 IRepository<t> and 1 Respository<t> and support 100s of tables


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George Zimmerman Punched In Face For Allegedly Bragging About Killing Trayvon Martin
It's funny how karma works, isn't it?
Kellee Terrell
Source: Pool / Getty
One of Black America's most hated, George Zimmerman claims he was punched in the face while he was talking to people at a restaurant in Sanford, Florida, last weekend.
According to WFTV-News, Zimmerman, who shot, killed and was acquitted of murdering teen Trayvon Martin in 2013, called 911 after being punched in the face for allegedly bragging about the fatal shooting.
During the 911 call, Zimmerman claimed he was merely explaining to a man with tattoos that he shot Martin in self-defense when a large man named "Eddie" approached and asked, "You're bragging about that?" Zimmerman said, "No," and went back to his table after the man made a profane remark and demanded he leave the restaurant, CNN noted.
"Eddie" then proceeded to strike Zimmerman in the face.
The 911 call went as follows:
Zimmerman: "He recognized me. He told me he was going to kill me he told me he'd (expletive) shoot me and he punched me in the face This man just punched me in the face."
Dispatcher: "Is he still there?"
Zimmerman: "Yup. He said he's going to kill me. You need to send like three or four cops."
However, witnesses tell a different story, CNN wrote.
According to a police report, Joseph Whitmer said Zimmerman came up to his table and said, "I love your tattoos. My name is George Zimmerman, you know, that guy who killed Trayvon Martin?" Beverly Whitmer, his wife, said Zimmerman admired her husband's "racist tattoos," and took out his driver's license to brag about who he was. Another witness says he didn't see a punch, but a scuffle that ended in a cell phone being knocked out of their hands.
Well regardless of what really went down, Twitter erupted when they heard the good news:
The man, who full name has not been released, could face charges for the assault. But in reality, he really deserves a medal and a lifetime supply of Patty Pies.
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Victoria Conservatory of Music > Faculty > Classical Music > Alex Chen
M.Mus, University of Western Ontario (Collaborative Piano); ARCT, Royal Conservatory of Music (Piano Performance); BSc, University of Guelph
Alex Chen is a collaborative pianist and vocal coach whose personal approach and intellectual curiosity bring fresh perspectives on a diverse body of musical works. In the words of mentor John Hess, he is "an immensely musical and sensitive player" with "a deeply inquisitive mind".
Alex has an MMus from the University of Western Ontario in Collaborative Piano, an ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Piano Performance, and a BSc from the University of Guelph. He is currently on faculty at the Victoria Conservatory of Music in addition to working as a freelance pianist for students at the University of Victoria.
His experiences include work in art song recital, playing as an opera répétiteur, collaborating with choirs, and exploring the instrumental duo & chamber music canons. Distinguishing himself as a performer and researcher, Alex held a Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). His scholarship supported his work in art song recital programming. As the first phase of his research, he created and performed song cycles formulated from disparate works by Rachmaninov and Brahms. For his second phase, he delivered a stirring recital titled "Demons & Dichterliebe" that juxtaposed supernatural bewitchment and obsessive love.
Among his many projects, Alex has been involved as a pianist and coach with the Accademia Europea dell'Opera (an experience funded by a Create and Explore Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts), the Victoria Conservatory's Collegium program, and the Western University Opera Workshop. These collaborations have culminated in performances of Le nozze di Figaro, Serse, and Die Zauberflöte. Moreover, Alex has worked with singers and ensembles on numerous other arias, opera scenes, and choral performances.
In his spare time, Alex enjoys singing the odd song, performing in the chorus for Pacific Opera Victoria, and going on hikes in search of birds.
Collaborative Piano


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