Last year, in Oct. of 2016, I visited Howard University in Washington, D.C. to present a paper on August Wilson. As part of my campus exploration, I discovered the Howard University Bookstore, which had previously been located on campus, is now situated off campus and operated by Barnes & Noble.
This past summer, then, I paid a visit to my undergraduate alma mater, Clarion University, and learned, much to my chagrin, that Clarion was in the same boat: the bookstore is no longer on campus and is now operated by a third party: Follett Higher Education Group, located several blocks off campus.
You read that right: There are no longer bookstores on the campuses of Howard University and Clarion University.
Just a few years ago, in 2014, I bought a Clarion University logo hat at the campus store, which was located at the center of Clarion's beautiful campus. I was hoping to buy another. How quickly things change.
Depending on your frame of reference, this trend may or may not surprise you. However, according to SBDCnet.org, bookstores moving off campus is part of a significant trend that is occurring all over the United States. Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books-a-Million are moving in to take over and, typically, re-locate campus bookstores to off-campus locations.
I am going to save my deeper industry analysis for another article, but if you haven't guessed it by now, my fear is that the KU Campus Store [aka the KU Bookstore] is going to follow the same path as Howard, Clarion and dozens (hundreds, in time?) of other campus stores—and that will not be a good thing for our university.
Before I discuss the benefits of having a bookstore on campus, I want to be clear: the closing of the KU Campus Store is not imminent, as far as I know. I do plan to talk to KUSSI Executive Director Lisa Kowalski in the near future, to get the scoop. But I intentionally did not want to include the "official" perspective in this article because I want this to serve as a sounding of the alarm on my own terms—my own opinion—based on what I see at other schools.
Having a store on campus is a tremendous asset for a variety of reasons, but the major benefit, as far as I can tell, is that the employees—both professional and student—are interested in serving students, not exploiting them.
That means they care, they instruct, they assist, they provide support. They are part of the mission of KU, which means serving students.
They do this by making course materials available to students at the lowest possible cost while also making sure that all materials, from art supplies to various access codes, are included. The current initiative is to begin purchasing supplies while demand is low and pass the lower costs along to students.
And of course, there is the money—money that stays on campus. As you may or may not know, the bookstore is part of the nonprofit KUSSI, which donates hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship money annually to the university and supports KU Athletics.
In other words, money spent by students on campus literally goes toward hiring student employees, keeping student activity fees as low as possible and funding athletics events. It stays on campus and works its magic again, rather than going immediately off campus.
I could list more reasons, but I'll save that for a future article. The point now is that I believe all of us need to work together to make sure that the KU Campus Store is a sustainable endeavor, long into the future. It is part of our campus identity and to lose it would be a great blow to everyday campus life.
In other words, if it moves off-campus, we will never get it back. Once it's gone, it's likely gone forever. The current space will be reclaimed for some other purpose and that will be the end of it. Students will have to go downtown to a third-party vendor for their supplies. Let's not let that happen.
Please know that I am not trying to promote more book sales in an attempt to save the KU Campus Store. Neither is KUSSI. Our students are already loaded with debt; nobody wants them to have more. This is all about cooperation with the goal of serving students as effectively as possible in terms of understand what the needs are and providing those needs as cost-effectively as possible.
In closing, there are many people on campus who believe that, through coordinated effort, we can keep the store on campus well into the future. If we can't accomplish this, I fear we will continue along the path we seem to be on and watch as the store eventually dwindles and is picked up by a third party vendor who moves it downtown where it will be largely disassociated from day-to-day campus life.
I am hoping to produce two more articles on this subject. One on trends in the bookstore industry as a whole and another focusing on the challenges facing our own particular bookstore.
I invite further conversation and or questions on this matter. Thanks for your time. Reach me at downing@kutztown.edu.
I notice a couple of items that I think are important to point out. You mention that Borders and Books-A-Million are part of the move towards off campus bookstores…Borders does not even exist any more. Books-A-Million doesn't sell or buy text books at all. Just thought that is worth mentioning.
Thank you. I got that information from sbdcorg.net. It appears to be out of date.
Another point of clarification, the Howard University Bookstore is located on University property, where it has been located since the late 90's. It's affiliation with Barnes & Noble is much more recent (2014 or 2015?) and did not coincide with the Bookstore's move from the center of campus.


A federal appeals court threw out a gag order against an attorney, finding that the trial court judge could not issue the order merely because he did not want to read about the case before he heard it in his courtroom.
A judge cannot impose a gag order on an attorney to bar public discussion in the news media because he believes it might influence his own decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia (3rd Cir.) ruled August 27. Gag orders might be appropriate to keep a jury pool from being influenced, the court said, but judges, unlike juries, are expert at setting aside personal biases and prejudices, at closing eyes and ears to irrelevancies and at focusing only on the relevant in court proceedings.
Judge Nicholas Politan had slapped the gag order on attorney Donald Manno, after Manno spoke to the Inquirer criticizing the FBI's attaching a "keystroke logging device" on a computer on which gambling records allegedly were stored. Manno called the FBI's surveillance, which allowed the agency to decipher passwords and encryption codes, a "Big Brother" invasion of his former client's privacy, capturing not only the specific records sought but every other message on the computer as well.
That hearing was held to assure that the younger Scarfo had new counsel. Manno had been disqualified because he had previously represented one of the witnesses slated to testify against Scarfo.
At another hearing a month later, Politan said he had not modified his oral gag order "one iota," although he did not seal any records.
"When you come up in my land, we do things orderly, we do things nicely, and civilly, and we don't try cases in the press," he said.
In March, Politan entered a written order prohibiting any attorney who had been involved in the case from discussing with the press any matter concerning electronic or computer surveillance technology that might prejudice the determination of the trial until the matter was adjudicated. The appeals panel reversed both that order and the oral order issued from the bench.
In the underlying case against Scarfo, the government in August had invoked the Classified Information Procedures Act to protect against disclosure of the technology it used in its surveillance of Scarfo's computer.


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Banks are keeping the European CLO market alive by buying their own product
(Bloomberg) – European banks are grabbing much of their own secured loan obligations, keeping the CLO market afloat in the absence of the U.S. and Japanese banks that traditionally make up the bulk of the base. buyers.
French bank Societe Generale SA held its first CLOs since the global financial crisis in November and then, following the example of Deutsche Bank AG earlier in the year, it also played a key role in securing the deals by buying part of the AAA – or the safest bonds. By doing so, these banks hope to keep the wheels turning until more takers materialize.
European CLO markets came to an abrupt halt earlier this year after global sentiment deteriorated following the US Federal Reserve's first 75 basis point hike. Concerns about downgrades and defaults are growing as the loans that serve as collateral for CLO bonds are issued by heavily indebted companies that are particularly exposed to higher costs and interest rate hikes. There have also been other shocks, such as the sell-off by UK pension funds during the recent gilt crisis.
The big global banks have always been the largest clients of CLOs, but those that did the deals were not major investors in their own vehicles. However, with US banks' appetite for CLOs either satisfied by record 2021 issuance, dampened by regulatory pressure or tempted by better relative value elsewhere, the traditional buyer base for these products has shrunk. This led the Europeans to intervene.
"The ramp-up of European banks, particularly in stripping substantial amounts of triple-A, has been very significant this year during the difficult macro and geopolitical turmoil," said James Smallwood, senior partner at Allen & Overy LLP. "The arrangers will step in to complete the triple-A if necessary. On a case-by-case basis, this may change from a minority to a substantial majority.
As produced by banks largely for other banks, under normal circumstances the treasury department of an arranger institution may also choose to take a small position in a CLO. The demand for triple-A would also have been robust enough that this type of top-up, if any, is more likely to relate to lower-rated bonds. This year, the organizing banks have effectively become anchor investors in many of their own transactions as demand has weakened.
Finding investors willing to buy AAA-rated securities issued by CLOs has become more difficult this year, according to Octagon Credit Investors' Lauren Law.
For the organizing banks, the fact that AAA yields are near record highs makes buying these portions of CLOs acceptable. Yields of 4% to 5% make them "compelling," according to Vasundhara Goel, head of European ABS and CLO strategy at Morgan Stanley.
"There's a connection between price and why an arranger would do that," she said.
SocGen, which is already active in CLOs in the United States, entered the European market through a partnership with Barclays PLC after CVC Credit Partners lost key support on a deal. The ability of the French bank to fulfill this dual role of arranger and investor has enabled it to access a market that is generally difficult to penetrate. BNP Paribas SA is another European institution that has played this dual role of arranger bank and key investor in a number of transactions this year.
"The vast majority of issuers in the ABS and CLO market know they can struggle with triple A, so they appreciate when the bank can support that," said Laurent Mitaty, head of asset-backed products. of SocGen for Europe and APAC.
Representatives of Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas declined to comment.
Read more: CVC Credit CLO Loses Key Investor Norinchukin Bank Mid-Deal
However, in the same way that some US banks filled their coffers with CLO bonds last year, the new generation of investor-arrangers could also find themselves at the limit of their capacities. It's in the nature of the market that different groups of investors appear at different times, according to Allen & Overy's Smallwood. The danger would be that the disruption persists and a new batch of funders does not emerge. Some see the pace of emissions slowing next year.
"It's been a big trend this year, but there have to be limits," Morgan Stanley's Goel said. "Every investor has their limits on how much they can buy, regardless of the direction of the purchase. At some point, they might run into capacity constraints.
Elsewhere in credit markets:
The European primary market should be calmer this week, with the seasonal slowdown taking hold even in still favorable credit conditions.
French telecommunications company Iliad was the only borrower to enter the European market at 11 a.m. London on Monday, with a note of 500 million euros to refinance existing debt and for general corporate purposes.
Forty percent of respondents to the most recent Bloomberg News survey do not expect sales to exceed 15 billion euros this week, compared to just 10% with such a low target last week; none expect sales to exceed 25 billion euros
Prices of a junior bond sold by UBS Group AG jumped after the lender decided to take its first opportunity to repay the debt amid fears some of Europe's riskiest bank bonds could remain outstanding
Credit Suisse Group AG junior bonds with redemption dates next year listed higher after UBS move
Yield premiums on investment-grade Asian dollar bonds tightened further on Monday, extending a recent rally, as sentiment in risky assets strengthened after Chinese authorities eased Covid testing requirements in the cities.
Note spreads have narrowed by at least 1bp, traders say, putting them on track to lower for a seventh consecutive session and the longest such streak since June
Dollar bonds of Chinese property companies rose at least 3 cents earlier on Monday, credit traders said, as the outlook for the economy reopened
No issuer in the region offered new dollar debt
Projections for the week are for $10 billion to $15 billion in investment grade corporate bond issuance, with the first full week of the month expected to be the busiest time in December.
Full month estimates are around $20 billion
Supply is expected to slow in the last three weeks of the year, with the December 13 Consumer Price Index report and the Federal Reserve meeting the following day dampening activity.
The monthly volume is expected to be the lowest December amount in three years
–With help from Harry Suhartono and Josyana Joshua.
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by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2011
Though NYC divested itself of most of its colonial-era "royal" names after defeating the British in the Revolutionary War, there are a few that doggedly hang on, sich as Prince Street in Soho, Kings Highway in Brooklyn, and Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan, which was named for British fort commemorating Sir William Tryon (1729-1788) , the last British governor of the colonies before the scurvy rebels kicked them out. The city took title to the property, which was in part owned by the former Cornelius Billings estate, in 1917, and the large (67 acres) park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (son of the Central and Prospect Park developer) in 1935. There's a good deal of highlights for even the most avowed non-naturalist such as your webmaster to enjoy here.
Fort Tryon Park is one of the two great parks of upper Manhattan island, the other being Inwood Hill Park (which still has caves where Native Americans resided, Manhattan's last forest, and the spot where, according to many accounts, Peter Minuet "purchased" the island from the Lenape (since the Lenape did not follow the concept of personal property to be bought and sold, they were unaware they were even selling the land).
I reached Fort Tryon Park via Broadway and about Ellwood Street, and if you have ever climbed the steps and hills from Broadway up to the park promontory, you will agree with me that if you could do those steps every day, you'd quickly be back in fighting form. Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity every day, and I both work and live on first floors.
In season, there's plenty to fancy plant, tree and bird lovers, but I am more of a masonry fan, and in Fort Tryon I found much to pique interest, including some Billings-era remnants.
Central isn't the only park in town with some nifty rustic shelters and masonry arches. Upon ascending the steps I huffed an puffed my way into the Gazebo, which overlooks Sir William (as in Tryon)'s Dog Run. There are a series of arches in the western end of the park carring pedestrian paths under Margaret Corbin Drive, named for a woman who 'manned' a cannon after her husband was shot during a battle in the war for independence — one of the USA's first female combatants.
On a somewhat hazy day the New Jersey Palisades, created by Hudson River erosion over thousands of years, are visible. To the north, The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art specializing in medieval art and assembled by John D. Rockefeller Junior in 1938, looms over Fort Tryon Park.
What is likely one of the highest arched masonry bridges in NYC — only High Bridge itself might be taller — takes one loop of Margaret Corbin Drive over the other. This gives you an idea of high the hills are here.
One of the most interesting aspects of Fort Tryon Park is that this plaque commemorating American troops and Margaret Corbin was erected by Cornelius Billings in 1909 when this was still part of his estate. The plaque is immense and must weigh the considerable part of a ton.
There is a full-service restaurant, the New Leaf Cafe, within Fort Tryon Park. The ivied arches lead to Linden Terrace, the park's highest point, giving views of eastern Manhattan and the Bronx beyond that.
This secluded architectural gem, sorely in need of renovation, was discovered by [New York Restoration Project] Founder Bette Midler as she and her friends undertook their clean-up and restoration of Fort Tryon Park in 1995. In 2001, NYRP was able to assume management of the establishment — formerly operated as a New York City Parks concession — and within a few short years, transformed the New Leaf into an acclaimed fine-dining destination. NYRP
These plaques, appearing at the south end of the park's Stan Michaels Promenade, feature exquisite lettering.
Fort Tryon Park has preserved several elements from the Billings estate, including this gatehouse serving the main mansion, which burned down in 1925 before the park opened. It had only stood for 18 years. Stone gates and a brick carriage roadway can still be seen trailing north of the Henry Hudson Parkway, which was reconfigured for speeding autos after Billings' day. The brick driveway is now a pedestrian path, along with several former roads through the park.
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BRITISH wrestling is finally returning to the nation's TV screens, with a one-off World of Sport special.
ITV has commissioned the two-hour extravaganza, which will take the same format as the show which aired on BBC's Grandstand for 20 years.
World of Sport featured a whole range of sports but it was the wrestling, and the dramatic fights between legends like Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, which kept Britain hooked between 1965 and 1985.
After WoS Wrestling was pulled from TV schedules, it was replaced by the short-lived Wrestling with Kent Walton.
That show was cut in 1988 but grappling is thriving in the country's independent sport scene at the moment - led by companies including PROGRESS, Insane Championship Wrestling and Preston City Wrestling - making the show more relevant than ever.
Tom Mclennan, Creative Director of ITV Studios Entertainment, said: "World of Sport Wrestling was a major event for millions of families every Saturday afternoon for over 20 years.
"I'm excited about bringing back this iconic brand and celebrating the best British wrestlers in the country."
Some of the UK's finest pro wrestlers have already signed up to take to the ring.
They include 'The East End Butcher' Sha Samuels, Dave Mastiff, and 'Viper' Kimberley Benson.
Viewers will get to catch up with the professionals backstage between fights, and at the end of the show one of them will have home the sought-after WoS Wrestling Belt.
The commentary will be done by American legend and former WWE commentator Jim Ross, who is also known as Good Ol' JR.
The two-hour special will provide a healthy dose of nostalgia to kick off your New Year's Eve festivities – it is being shown on ITV on Saturday December 31 at 5.00pm.
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Posted in interview, rawk By Bill Kopp On October 9, 2019
A Session with the Session Man: Rick Wakeman (Part Two)
Of all the sessions you've played on, is there one that really stands out as a particularly disastrous or unpleasant?
No. I've never had any unpleasant sessions, because you're there to make the music and play the music. Every one had sort of attributes. Going back to very enjoyable ones. I absolutely loved working with Ozzy [Osbourne] on his Ozzmosis album; that was tremendous. We did that over in New York. Ozzy invited me over to do the album and that was fantastic. Ozzy is much cleverer than a lot of people give him credit for, and his production ideas on Ozzmosis album were tremendous. With Ozzmosis, he produced what quite literally was a prog metal album. I mean, there's tracks on there like "Perry Mason" that could easily be on a prog metal album. He's a bright boy, Ozzy. He's one of my dearest friends, and that was a pleasure to work on.
Lou Reed was interesting to work on in England; he had an interesting way of working. But everybody had their own little quirks. To be honest, a lot of sessions were a quick in and out. You arrive at 10:00, they throw the music in front of you, you play it, you leave at 1:00 and go over to the next lot from 2:00 until 5:00.
Nowadays – and it seems to happen a lot in prog because of file sharing – an artist sort of phones their part in. And you've done at least some of those.
Yeah, I've had stuff sent to me and I work on it in my studio with my engineer. Then we send it back. It works, but you can't beat all being in the same room. That's when things change; that's when ideas float around. It works, because that's when someone can say, "Hey, you're doing that. I might change what I'm doing to this." And then, that might spread around [to inspire the other musicians].
Sometimes young bands say to me, "What do you think is the best way of recording?" All be in the same room. All be in the same room to rehearse the music before you go into the studio, so you're well on your way to being sort of 75% prepared, and then all be in the studio so you'll all know what each other's doing. But you're quite right. It's very rare these days that that happens.
Keith Emerson once told me his story of his only recorded vocal session. Have you ever done vocals on a recording?
Yeah, I have. In fact, my only vocal was a hit single; it was top 30 in the UK. It was called "I'm So Straight I'm a Weirdo." It was on an album; Rock and Roll Prophet, it was called. There was a video made; you'll see it in YouTube.
I was living in Switzerland at the time – 1979, 1980 – and the singer wasn't around. The engineer Dave Richards said, "Well, look just put a demo vocal down." So, I put the vocals down and then we got a Swiss guy to come in and sing it eventually. But then Dave said to me one day, he said, "I don't know how to tell you this, but I prefer what you do as your vocals to what the Swiss guy has done." So, I went, "Okay. I don't mind." So, we left them on, and to my amazement, "I'm So Straight I'm a Weirdo" was a big radio hit in the UK and got to number 27 or something in the chart. It was only ever released in the UK, but it was great fun.
But I don't like singing. I'll be brutally honest: I don't even sing in the shower! I have sung in the shower and got straight out; I dislike it that much. It's really funny; even when there's a whole group of people singing, I sort of mutter. I'm sort of strange. In the same way that I like to hear instruments played properly by good musicians, I like to hear vocals sung by people who really do have an individual vocal talent.
You were doing session work at age 20. And that's been 50 years now…
Well, actually, my first sessions were in 1966. I did my first session when I was 17; that's when I started. And so, I was doing them while I was at the college. My grant to go to college was so poor. I needed the money, but I needed the money to support both buying my books and getting me through college … and also my rather large appetite for beer at the local pub.
Back in those days, to the extent that you thought about it, what did you think you'd be doing at age 70?
That's a really good question. Because I can remember sitting with Chris [Squire] and Alan [White] in the late '70s: "Crikey, we're coming up on our 30s! What are we gonna be doing when we're 40?" And then, when we got in the 40s, "What are we gonna do when we're 50?" Because there was no one to look at.
This is what happened. There was no sort of lot of aging rock stars going, "Oh, that's what happens." I mean, we've made it easier for a lot of the young bands, because they know that you can survive when you're 60 and 70.
Am I amazed I'm still doing it at 70? I'm amazed I'm still alive. Ad I'm very grateful that I'm still alive because I love what I do, I love the music, I love playing, I love people. And so, I'm making as much effort as I can to stay alive for as long as possible.
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2 Kings 18:37 Then Hilkiah's son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rab-shakeh.
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian, went back to Hezekiah. They tore their clothes in despair, and they went in to see the king and told him what the Assyrian chief of staff had said.
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the royal spokesman.
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief, and went and reported to the king what the Assyrian official had said.
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
But Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who managed the household, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah the recorder came back to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him what Rab-shakeh had said.
Then Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace and was the son of Hilkiah, Shebna the scribe, and Joah, who was the royal historian and the son of Asaph, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief. They told him the message from the field commander.
Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the writer of chronicles, came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
And Heliakim the son of Chelcias, the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and Joas the son of Saphat the recorder came in to Ezekias, having rent their garments; and they reported to him the words of Rapsakes.
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah, with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah, with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of the chief of the butlers.
…36But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, "Do not answer him." 37Then Hilkiah's son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rab-shakeh.
When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.
Verse 37. - Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent. They had rent their clothes, not so much in grief or in alarm, as in horror at Rabshakeh's blasphemies. They were blasphemies, no doubt, arising from "invincible ignorance," and not intended as insults to the one Almighty Being who rules the earth, of whose existence Rabshakeh had probably no conception; but they struck on Jewish ears as insults to Jehovah, and therefore as dreadful and horrible (comp. Genesis 37:29; 1 Samuel 4:12; 2 Samuel 1:2; Ezra 9:3, etc.). And told him the words of Rabshakeh; reported to him, i.e. as nearly as they could, all that Rabshakeh had said. The three envoys would supplement, and perhaps correct, one another; and Hezekiah would have conveyed to him a full and, on the whole, exact account of the message sent to him through Rabshakeh by the Assyrian king, and of Rabshakeh's method of enforcing it. The crisis of Hezekiah's life was reached. As he acted under it would be fixed his own fate, his character in the judgment of all future time, and the fate of his own country.


Take a minute and relax. Visualize what the big day is going to be like. The twinge in your belly, signaling a time of great change is nigh. You've opened yourself up, completely, to the arrival of a special person. The veil is lifted, briefly, to reveal the great mystery of life.
Birth is a sacred, mystical experience. But it's hard to feel like a Goddess when bright lights are shining upon an antiseptic room, and you are distracted by a stream of staff to plug your beautiful body into machines that go beep, poke you with needles, and prod your sacred opening, as a clock looks down upon you with judgmental precision. It just doesn't feel right.
It is important to understand how hospital routine impacts your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual state. A hospital can be compared to an assembly line. Medical procedures and tradition encourage efficiency in order to provide roughly the same quality of care to as many people as possible. This directly conflicts with the birth process, as unique to each woman as a snowflake.
This is not just some emotional mumbo jumbo- the level of satisfaction with your birth experience will impact how well you bond with your baby. The strength of your bond will impact how well your child will attach to you, which has long-lasting effects on how your child will approach relationships and independence. Sure, you have plenty of time for you and baby to get to know each other. Bonding doesn't stop when you check out of the hospital. It sure does help when memories of the birth aren't clouded by a stressful birthing environment. Mom's security and comfort will determine how much she will enjoy the experience- the more she enjoys it, the less pain and medical intervention she will need. It is wise to educate yourself on what to expect and ensure you have plenty of support.
Researches on medical dehumanization and on sexual objectification have independently revealed similar characteristics of power imbalance, victimization, and control. Medical dehumanization and sexual objectification are a double whammy also known as intersectionality- when a person comprises two or more categories of disempowered groups. In this case, (non-minority, heterosexual, cis-gendered) woman and patient. There can be an assumption floating about the antiseptic halls of medicine that women in childbirth are defective and weak objects in need of improvement via masculine intervention. Seriously, would humanity be here if women weren't fully capable of doing birthing babies? Pregnancy is not an illness in need of a cure! Your body is not a lemon!!
Read the table below and see the similarities for yourself.
Given the studies documenting the damaging impact sexual objectification has on women, it is disturbing to see hospital staff treating women in childbirth in a nearly identical manner simply as a matter of course. The behavior is excused on the grounds it will provide better diagnoses and keep staff calm in case of an emergency. However, this belief is questionable, particularly as it relates to childbirth, since this is a natural physiological process. The woman in question is not sick, after all. We don't keep a doctor on hand every time we climb into the car, just in case we have an accident. So it seems absurd to include professional healers to our bedside during birth.
The overall impact of objectification: your unique birth experience will be treated as though it is a mechanical process, identical to the women who birthed before, and any variation to the Ideal Birth as laid down in the holy medical textbooks is a problem needing to be fixed. This impacts the chances you will be treated with dignity and respect. It will interrupt the flow of your birth, slowing you down and causing unnecessary pain.
Once a birth has deviated too far from your hospital's rigid norm, it is easy (and profitable) to scare women into accepting "help" they don't always truly need and tends to disrupt the birth process by telling the mother they are not in control and need experts to tell them what to do, rather than tune into their own intuition and rely on their inherent resources to complete their journey. Staff will try to make all the decisions, meaning your sense of self-respect and empowerment in this transformative experience will be reduced to feelings of dependency and self-doubt. Not the best way to start motherhood!
Want to try a different approach that celebrates your power as a woman and mother? Have your baby at home! Usually, any problem requiring hospital attention will be detected with plenty of time to go to the hospital. You can start out at home and go from there. You will be the boss in a comfortable and safe space. This is how women gave birth for centuries. Only in the last 100 years have women moved into delivery rooms, and it took quite a lot of convincing from the medical establishment for them to do so. If you decide you must have your baby in a hospital, take time to enjoy the experience and make it your own. Wear a nightgown from home. Dim the lights. Dance! You need to feel secure and relaxed to accomplish the great work ahead of you.
The best thing you can do, at home or in the hospital, is to hire a doula. She is a non-medical addition to your support team. Your doula will provide physical and emotional support. She provides spaciousness for you as you create space for your child. It is her job to empower you, help you relax and enjoy the flow of birth, and act as a buffer between you, your fears, and the hospital staff so your wishes are respected.
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. Ina May Gaskin. 2003. Bantam.
"The Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth". Bretherton I. Developmental Psychology 1992 vol. 28 no. 5 759.
Johanna Schnell is a doula based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She believes healthy parenting will save the world.
Six is the New Four!


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Book of War Expansion: Knight Exemplar
My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
The Book of War Heroes section has details and pricing on a sample selection of individual knights, barbarians, dragons, and giants; each, of course, tenth level or above.
Now, by "knights" I'm indicating high-level pure fighting-men, and these were actually statted out with an eye towards the AD&D Deities & Demigods Arthurian Legends section (including "Knights Renown" at 10th-level, and "Knight Commanders" at 15th-level, like Arthur himself). With "barbarians" I meant fairly high-level multiclassed fighter/thieves, in the same vein that Gygax statted out Conan at various ages in Dragon Magazine #36, April 1980 (including the "Barbarian Lord", Ftr12/Thf8, as Conan age 25; and the "Barbarian King", Ftr16/Thf12, as Conan at age 30).
In each case, I transformed the characters into my OED minor house modifications to OD&D, and tried to make some reasonable interpolations for magic gear and the like. Because of this, even with very conservative assumptions for magic arms and armor (like just +1 plate and shield for Fighters level 10), most of these characters get converted to Book of War at AH7, i.e., nominally unhittable by any normal men rolling the usual d6 to attack (as is correct in OD&D for any AC lower than -1; and even if you use an "extended natural 20" rule from AD&D or the like, then the chance to hit is still statistically negligible).
But fortunately, this is balanced by the fact that if a lone hero confronts a mass of men, they'll be surrounded, with every edition of D&D giving bonuses for rear attacks in such a situation. Hence the key rule: "acting solo, heroes can be meleed by only 1 normal figure at +1 to hit (due to rear attacks from being surrounded)" [BOW p. 13], which allows normal troops to hit even AH7 solo heroes if they roll a 6. Here's a spreadsheet where I did the analysis in both OD&D and AD&D to see that +1 in BOW was the appropriate bonus in this case (.xls format):
HeroMeleeDef.xls
Now, as careful as we might try to be with those statistics, things can still get a bit wonky when you face off hero-against-hero in our reduced BOW mechanic -- especially since heroes can have so many special abilities and varying attacks and armor (the "heroes ignore armor" simplification does break down a bit when confronting other heroes with really out-of-this-world AC values). Therefore I include the suggestion for "Special Combat" on p. 14: when heroes contact other heroes, it might be best to switch back to regular D&D-scale combat and play out that particular engagement at full precision (an idea common to both Swords & Spells and Battlesystem, for example).
I actually don't do that in my own standalone games (particularly with non-expert gamers, it's simplest to just resolve everything with the one BOW mechanic, instead of additionally instructing them in more detailed and time-consuming D&D play). I think that you would especially want to do that in the case when you've got important backstoried PCs and NPCs taking part in the battle. In any event, if you want to run "Special Combat" you'll need detailed statistics in order to run the man-to-man battle. To that end, here's a document specifying stat blocks for each of the human Heroes appearing in Book of War, along with research notes on where they come from (.pdf document; stat blocks within are Open Game Content):
OED_BookOfWar_HeroSpecs.pdf
So finally, looking closely at those preceding documents, you'll see another hero type that was included for a while, and then finally cut from the official release. This would be the "Knight Exemplar", representing the world's finest fighting man of 20th level or so -- either Sir Lancelot or Sir Galahad, and none other, per the AD&D Deities & Demigods book.
This is a problematic figure for the game, because his armor winds up converting to AH8, that is, truly unhittable by any normal man (notwithstanding the rear-attacks bonus mentioned above). So the "Knight Exemplar" is a hero who really can smash through a mundane army of practically any size, with standard troops utterly helpless to do anything about it. This presents a real price-balancing dilemma: regardless of cost, this guy wins versus any normal men; and the game is then really dependent on whether the enemy can bring elite-types or opposing heroes (or a dragon or wizard?) into play against him. It seemed pretty likely that this august personality could possibly break the whole game if players had unfettered access to him, which is why he was removed from the final publication.
But here he is presented below, for your consideration, if someone like this comes into play in your battles. The cost is possibly tentative, but it's the best that I could extrapolate. Note that, like other knights, he is given the best possible attack score due to his "Great Cleave" -- ability to hit as many normal men as he can reach (i.e., D&D attack rate as 3+/round, and so score a hit on 1+, as shown in the hero's "Atk" column). Use with caution! (Text between the rules is indicated as Open Game Content, per the OGL.)
Knight Exemplar
Magic sword, lance, horse
piles October 12, 2016 at 8:25 AM
Do you remember where the Dam = 4 is coming from?
From OED_BookOfWar_HeroSpecs.pdf I see that the Knight Exemplar has an Atk of 2 and a Dmg of 1d8+8.
How do you get from these to 4 (BoW) dam?
Delta October 12, 2016 at 7:09 PM
Excellent question! We assume that hit dice and damage are by default d6-based (which covers bows, hand axes, spears, short swords, etc.) So 1d8+8, average 4.5+8 = 12.5 points, results in BOW hits of 12.5/3.5 = 3.57, which rounds (just barely) up to 4.
Thanks. That was indeed what I assumed (also based on the facts that the other two hero-type knights have a 2 BoW dam). That means that you leave out the 2 Atk!? Or is that factored in 3+ attacks per round as per OD&D rules?
If so, what does the 2 Atk mean in the pdf file?
Right, we assume they get 2 attacks per round in normal D&D (man-to-man) scale play. In mass warfare I'm assuming even more than that: like 3 or 4 or 5 attacks per round against normal men (via 1E style 1-HD rule, or 3E style Great Cleave, whatever). Since BOW turns are 3 rounds each, this is around 3×5 = 15 blows. But in BOW each d6 die roll represents 15 individual blows, so the knight exemplar just gets the one d6 roll per turn (albeit at effectively an automatic hit, i.e., presumed 10 normal men put down).
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India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh alone has more than 45 lakh new voters.
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"The festival of democracy, elections are here," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet immediately after chief election commissioner Sunil Arora announced the Lok Sabha Election Schedule from Vigyan Bhawan in capital New Delhi.
"I urge my fellow Indians to enrich the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with their active participation. I hope this election witnesses a historic turnout," said Prime Minister Modi urging the fellow countrymen to vote in large numbers.
Given the importance of young and first time voters in his historic win last time, Prime Minister urged them to vote in large numbers.
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Prime Minister's appeal to people of the country is important as India has historically low voter turn out in the Lok Sabha elections. Nearly 40% electorates eligible to cast their votes don't exercise their democratic right. The last general election in 2014 was an exception with a record turn out of voters when more than two third of total voters excercised their democratic right. In 2009, the voter turn out was less than 60% and in 2004 it was little over 58%.


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Can the Title IX complaint go public?
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Members of the Yale community seeking specifics of the Title IX complaint filed against the University may face a long — or possibly interminable — wait.
Last week, a group of 16 student and alumni complainants announced that the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will investigate whether Yale has allowed a hostile sexual environment to persist on campus. But as of Monday, Yale's Office of the Vice President and General Counsel has yet to receive many details about the complaint from the OCR, and according to legal experts interviewed, several legal obstacles could prevent Yale administrators from acquiring all available information.
When asked what Yale knew about the complaint Monday, University Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson said the OCR had shared little with the University.
"Actually, the department gave us very little information — only that they intend to begin an investigation of a complaint filed by a group of current and former students on Title IX compliance," she said, adding that receiving information regarding the complainants' motives was not necessarily relevant to her office.
Robinson said the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel will request to obtain a copy of the complaint under the Freedom of Information Act — a federal law which allows access to government documents. If the request is approved, she added, the government will provide Yale with a copy of the complaint that does not contain names and personal identifiers.
It is unclear whether Yale's attempts to procure the complaint will even be successful, said Kristen Galles, a Virginia-based Title IX lawyer who has been litigating Title IX cases since 1993.
Based on precedent, Galles said, FOIA requests for Title IX complaints are usually denied to protect the privacy of any victims of sexual misconduct who may act as cosignatories. Even if Yale receives a copy of the report, she added, the University cannot disclose it to the public without the complainants' permission.
"Retaliation is very rampant in any school you go to," Galles said of the privacy protections. "It must have been pretty bad [at Yale] if it got to the OCR."
Complainant Alexandra Brodsky '12 said the contents of the Title IX complaint — which alleges that Yale violated the federal law requiring educational institutions to provide equal access to men and women — are not relevant to administrators. Divulging details of testimonials of sexual misconduct listed in the complaint would constitute a violation of confidentiality, Brodsky added.
All told, she said, the purpose of the complaint was to provide evidence to the OCR that an investigation was needed.
"The complaint will not be the basis of the changes that will happen," she said. "It's us pointing at a fire and saying, 'Bring your fire truck.'"
Yale College Dean Mary Miller said Monday that she cannot respond to issues raised by the cosignatories until she reviews the "full text" of the Title IX complaint. Even then, Miller said, the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel may be the only administrative department fit to comment. University President Richard Levin could not be reached for comment Monday night, and declined to comment on the complaint Sunday since he had not been on campus over the weekend.
Both Miller and Michael Gregory, an expert on education law at Harvard Law School, said that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) — which prohibits a school from divulging information from a student's record without the consent of the student — could prevent the public from seeing the complaint in full.
In contrast to the wait the University may face in procuring a copy of the Title IX complaint, the 16 complainants waited only two weeks between filing with the federal government on March 15 and learning of the OCR's decision to investigate March 31.
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali said there is "no right answer" when asking how the OCR evaluates complaints, adding that the Yale complainants' two-week waiting period was not abnormally short.
Later this week, Robinson said, administrators expect to receive formal notification of the investigation from the OCR.
Schools that are found in violation of Title IX risk losing their federal funding if they decline to comply with the law. Yale received $510.4 million in federal funding for research and training in 2009-'10, according to the University's financial report for that fiscal year.


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     * @return
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     * Returns the release schemes that are active by this repository. E.g. for maven repositories
     * this may either be a release repository, a snapshot repository or a combined repository.
     * @return
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    /**
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     * @return Instance of a request info object that corresponds to this repository
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Wow! How often do you see something like this?
Earlier this year in May, we reported about the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Hobbs, New Mexico that was allegedly miraculously crying tears that smelled like roses (see video of a local news report below). The local parish priest told reporters that he had contacted his bishop right away, who in turn said they would pursue an investigation.
"As a prelude to this report, I wish to say a word about revelation from God. The Catholic Church recognizes an important difference between public revelation and private revelation. Public revelation includes Scripture and Tradition. As Catholics, these two are the bedrock of our faith, and it is the Magisterium (bishops in union with the pope) that is the authentic interpreter of revelation. Private revelations include apparitions and messages of Mary, the saints, or of Jesus himself that have occurred after the death of the last apostle. With the death of the last Apostle public revelation ceased. While Catholics are obliged to hold to the teachings of the public revelation, we are not morally obligated to believe private revelations. No new information regarding our salvation is to be gained from private revelations. The messages of private revelations only reaffirm and highlight what Christ has already revealed in Scripture and Tradition. Thus, Mary and the saints always lead us back to Jesus and to the Church. This is why Mary instructed St. Juan Diego, "go to the bishop," and "build a temple." While miracles have occurred in the history of the Church, they always lead us back to the fundamentals of our faith: the Church, the sacraments, prayer, and confession.
"On Sunday the Solemnity of Pentecost, the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to be crying. Parishioners observed liquid emitting from the eyes of bronze statue. The liquid was reported to have emitted three times: on Sunday, the Solemnity of Pentecost; on Monday (the next day), the Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church; and on Saturday, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
"Fr. Jose Segura, the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, called me immediately to report what he and parishioners were observing. He sent me video of the occurrences. I subsequently asked our chancellor, Fr. Enrique Lopez, and vice chancellor, Deacon Jim Winder, to initiate an investigation. They traveled to Hobbs, physically examined the statue, collected samples of the liquid emitted from the statue, and began to gather verbal and written testimony from eye-witnesses. The company that fabricated the statue was interviewed.
"I wish to thank Fr. Segura, the parish staff, and the parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe for their prayerful disposition and hospitality to visitors in the face of such an unexpected occurrence. I will plan a visit to the parish before I leave for San Jose, so as to pray and celebrate the Eucharist with the parish community.


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UNITED STATES v. KINNEY April 28, 2000 Docket Nos. 99-1345, -1501
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE v. PRIMETIME 24 JOINT VENTURE April 28, 2000 Docket Nos. 99-9244, 99-9388
GERACI v. SENKOWSKI April 28, 2000 Docket No. 98-2937
ROMBACH v. NESTLE USA INC April 28, 2000 Docket No. 99-7675
UNITED STATES v. NAIMAN April 27, 2000 Docket No. 99-1336.
ROUNDS v. RUSH TRUCKING CORPORATION April 27, 2000 Docket No. 99-7861
TARSHIS v. RIESE ORGANIZATION April 26, 2000 Docket No. 98-9599.
UNITED STATES v. TENZER April 26, 2000 Docket No. 99-1123
PULVERS v. FIRST UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY April 19, 2000 Docket No. 99-7887
LEONARD v. PEPSICO INC April 17, 2000 Docket No. 99-9032
UNITED STATES v. STEVENS April 17, 2000 Docket Nos. 97-1260, 97-1586, 98-1348, 98-1496.
UNITED STATES v. FUNDS HELD IN THE NAME OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF WETTERER April 14, 2000 Docket No. 98-6273.
AMIEL v. UNITED STATES April 13, 2000 Docket No. 98-2135.
CELLE USA v. FILIPINO REPORTER ENTERPRISES INC April 12, 2000 No. 1601, Docket No. 98-9250
UNITED STATES v. LaFONTAINE April 12, 2000 Docket No. 00-1157
UNITED STATES v. HARRIS April 12, 2000 Docket Nos. 98-1586(L), 98-1587
HENRY NANCY HORTON BARTELS TRUST FOR BENEFIT OF UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN v. UNITED STATES April 11, 2000 Docket No. 98-6141
KOEHLER v. THE BANK OF BERMUDA NEW YORK LIMITED April 10, 2000 Docket No. 98-9624
UNITED STATES v. ROGERS April 10, 2000 No. 44, Docket 98-1218.
IN RE: DAWNWOOD PROPERTIES/78 April 7, 2000 Docket No. 99-5041
CURRY v. APFEL April 7, 2000 Docket No. 98-6267
IN RE: MANVILLE FOREST PRODUCTS CORPORATION April 7, 2000 No. 682, Docket No. 99-5047
OFFICE PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION AFL CIO AFL CIO 129 v. SEA LAND SERVICE INC April 6, 2000 Docket No. 98-7782.
LUCIDORE v. NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF PAROLE April 6, 2000 Docket No. 99-2492
SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CONSUMER HEALTHCARE v. WATSON PHARMACEUTICALS INC April 4, 2000 Docket No. 99-9501.
FRIEDL v. CITY OF NEW YORK April 4, 2000 Docket No. 99-7158
ABED v. ARMSTRONG April 3, 2000 Docket No. 99-2086
BECHHOEFER v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION April 3, 2000 Docket No. 96-6229


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Q: MATLAB: How to access 'Duration' datatype Consider the following example
xDATA = data_timestamp;
[~,~,Days,Hour,Min,~] = datevec(xDATA(2:end) - xDATA(1:end - 1));
BadSamplingTime = find((Days)> 0 | (Hour)> 0 |(Min)> 5 );

In which xData contains a vector of time stamps and I am trying to find the samples with sampling time greater than 5 mins in between , the algorithm works fine but it creates 3 extra vectors for the data as big as my timestamp vector(the size to time stamp vector is pretty huge) whereas if I do this
DurationTime = xDATA(2:end) - xDATA(1:end - 1);

Instead of the second line it will just create one vector of same length of 'duration' data type which will be much easier to handle because but the problem I cant seem to access each index of the duration data type
for example
DurationTime(5,1)

ans =

   26:00:01

I need to access this 26 hours part , does anyone have any idea how to do that ? or a better suggestion

A: You can create a duration-object and then use it to compare it with the duration vector DurationTime. The result of a>b is a logical vector that can be directly used to index the elements of DurationTime and thus giving you all the values where the duration is greater than 5 minutes.
Sidenote: You can calculate the difference/duration directly with diff.
Code:
% create example data
xDATA = (([0:4,4+26*60,4+26*60+1:4+26*60+5])/24/60+datetime('now')).';

% calculate the durations
DurationTime = xDATA(2:end) - xDATA(1:end-1);      % as in the question
%DurationTime = diff(xDATA);                       % alternative

% get index and values of all durations greater than 5 minutes
ind = find(DurationTime>duration(0,5,0))
DurationTime(ind)

% get values of all durations greater than 5 minutes (direct solution, if no index needed)
DurationTime(DurationTime>duration(0,5,0));

Result:
ind =

     5

ans =

   26:00:00

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A.V. "Snag" Grossetta
Enshrined 1996
A.V. "Snag" Grossetta was born in Tucson, Arizona. He is a highly decorated World War II P-47 pilot who flew combat missions in both the Pacific and European theaters. After fighting the Japanese and the weather in the Aleutians, he became commander of the 406th fighter-Bomber Group. The 406th provided close ground support for General George S. Patton's Third Army as it moved through France and Germany, and for the 101st Airborne at Bastogne. He was the only commander in the 9th air Force to lead an air group the entire time it was in combat.
In 1959 he retired as an Air Force colonel, returning to Tucson where he became active in community affairs. He was one of five local civic leaders who organized the Pima Air & Space Museum. Later he helped acquire the museum's B-24 bomber from the Indian Air Force and then bring it to Tucson.
From 1961 to 1979 he served with distinction on the Tucson Airport Authority, including a year as its president. He also served on the boards of the Tucson Medical Center, Tucson Electric Power Company and Mountain States telephone. Colonel Grossetta's unique abilities and selfless efforts have contributed immeasurably to the economic and cultural progress of all Arizona.


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With two bananas sitting quietly neglected in the fruit bowl and just about to expire, there was nothing for it but to make a banana cake. It just so happens that One Ingredient this month is bananas and I was keen to join in the fun. One of the cakes I remember being particularly pleased with last year was my caramelised banana, coconut and chocolate peanut butter cake. The combination of banana, peanut butter and chocolate worked particularly well and I wanted to try the it again, but in a different guise this time. I was also keen to try out a new cake mould sent to me for review (watch out for a forthcoming review and giveaway). It is shaped to look like a bar of chocolate and I obviously couldn't resist. This also seemed like a good opportunity to try out the Atkins & Potts dippers which I thought would look good poured down the sides of the cake like lava. I based my recipe on one for Chocolate and Banana Cupcakes from Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery. I changed the quantities and added peanut butter to the mix.
Melted 50g dark chocolate (85% Green & Black's) in a bowl over hot water.
Mashed the two bananas in another bowl.
Creamed 50g unsalted butter with 125g soft brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in 2 tbsp of crunchy peanut butter.
Stirred in the melted chocolate.
Beat in the mashed bananas and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.
Beat in one duck egg.
Folded in 125g sifted flour (half wholemeal spelt, half white) and 1 spare tsp baking powder.
Spooned into the cake mould filling it to just over 3/4 full. I also had enough left over to fill a mini loaf mould.
Baked at 185C for 25 minutes until well risen.
Left to cool in the moulds, then turned out.
Drizzled the chocolate bar cake with Atkins & Potts buttery toffee dipper and the mini cake with the dark chocolate dipper.
Although very sweet, the cake was nonetheless delicious. It had a fudgy texture with crunchy bits from the peanut butter. Much to my relief, the cake turned out of the mould without getting stuck, although the definition of the embossed writing ("yum") was not as clearly defined as I'd hoped. The buttery toffee dipper was just as delicious as it sounds and I had a hard job not to eat it straight from the jar. The dark chocolate dipper was also good and would be perfect for drizzling over ice-cream. They had both set rather solid, having spent some time in my very cold kitchen. However, when I warmed them up on the heater, they were more or less the right consistency for drizzling.
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Banana, peanut butter, fudgey… You've used a lot of my favourite words here!
What a great cake shape. A bar of chocolate cake would be a winner for my son who loves chocolate. That fudge topping looks and sounds good. I have some leftover caramel from my banoffees that needs using up and was thinking I need a good recipe to use it up !
That's a great cake and just the perfect shape for it.
That cake looks seriously squidgily good! I love the combination of chocolate, banana and peanut butter so need this in my life!
I am salivating at this! I guess I'll just sit here munching my egg & onion sandwich with jealousy!
have just made loads of banana muffins with expiring bananas and froze some, wish I'd seen this first! Have never thought of adding in chocolate and peanut butter but this looks so yummy I'm definitely trying it next time.
Love bananas, love chocolate, love peanut butter – can't see why I wouldn't love this.


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Q: Smarty - making/converting a contact form I'm trying to implement a contact form into a website I'm making. Nobody recommends to just include the php file into a template.
I don't understand how to make or convert an existing contact form to one working with Smarty.
Any guidelines ?

A: Well, the purpose of smarty is to seperate your code logic from your design template.
So in your contact form, instead of using echo, you should write the output to smarty variables. I.e:
$smarty->assign('email', $email);

At the end of your contact forms PHP you should then load the smarty template
$smarty->display('index.tpl');

I would advice you to read the smarty best practices page as well. It gives detailed information on how smarty templates should be used (and also why not to include plain PHP).


A large entry of stock sold to a steady trade.
BULLOCKS: Samual Pollock £1,360/710kg, £1,360/720kg, £1,080/620kg, £1,060/640kg, Alan McMurray £1,275/670kg, £1,190/670kg, £1,105/590kg, £1,070/600kg, Aidan McLaughlin £1,140/560kg, £1,045/550kg, W Kennedy £1,040/450kg, John Thompson £915/530kg, £910/510kg, £890/540kg, £870/520kg, £855/540kg, Dermot McLaughlin £900/480kg, P Quinn £880/360kg, £870/420kg, £840/410kg, Greme Cowan £845/420kg, £825/450KG, John Thompson £835/490kg, Dermott McLaughlin £825/410kg, W Allen £805/360kg, W Allen £800/330kg, £795/400kg and S Porter £800/340kg, £780/480kg.
HEIFERS: W Kennedy £1,100/450kg, £1,090/490kg, £1,050/450kg, £1,050/480kg, £1,035/470kg, £980/500kg, W Allen £860/470kg, £850/390kg, £830/430kg, £780/370kg, Dermott McLaughlin £845/400kg, £775/390kg, Columba Feeney £810/390kg, Thomas Patton £790/440kg, £770/320kg, P Mullin £780/440kg, £770/380kg, £750/350kg, W Kennedy £770/410kg, R Harper £765/350kg, Columba £760/380kg, Thomas Patton £745/420kg, Oliver Kerr £730/350kg, Dermot McLaughlin £740/390kg, £700/350kg and P Quinn £735/280kg, £720/330kg.
FAT COWS: Hilary Deery £1,121.80/710kg, James Mitchell £1,117.20/760kg, £1,097.10/690kg, £999.60/680kg, Terence McCracken £1092/650kg, £961/620kg, Thomas Patton £94540/580kg, £738.40/520kg and Alexander MacDonald £934.40/640kg.
Fat lambs remain in high demand selling to £123/22kg, fat ewes £110 and ewes and lambs £182.
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Movies & Tv Shows of "1972"
The Doberman Gang
After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.
Asylum (1972)
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in…
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Lorax (1972)
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax…
Genre: Animation, Family, TV Movie
The Cowboys (1972)
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his…
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he's the wrong man.
Avanti! (1972)
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make…
Genre: War & Politics
Prime Cut (1972)
A group of Chicago mob ruthless enforcers is sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to…
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities,…
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows…
Boxcar Bertha
'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and the two team up…
An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina,…
Beware! The Blob
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies,…
Across 110th Street
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City…
The film focuses on the representatives of the Thirteen original colonies who participated in the Second Continental Congress. 1776 depicts the three months of deliberation (and, oftentimes, acrimonious debate) that…
Genre: History, Music


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Best New Bars of 2013
raise a glass to a great year for the Louisville bar scene
Kings return to The Bard's Town for Christmas
A unique holiday tradition returns The Bard's Town Theater with The Kings of Christmas, opening tonight.
Learn about parenting "green" at the Louisville Green Family Fair
Mama's Hip, along with Mama to Mama, is hosting this family-friendly event to inform parents about going green in their own parenting style. On the same day, mamas will participate in The Big Latch On. Check it out on Saturday, August 3, 2013.
Little ones will love StageOne's Charlotte's Web
May 11 and 18 at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm: take your little one to see live theater at StageOne. Charlotte's Web will delight ages four and up.
Gilbert and Sullivan on Trial by Jury
Marriage and engagement are put on trial in Trial By Jury, a Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Louisville production that opens tonight.
Bringing the Joy to Derby Dinner
A lady, her ex-husband, alimony, and a plot to kill. Oh, the hilarity!
Little Colonel heads down Gulf View Drive
Settling down isn't always easy, as our subjects find out in Little Colonel Playhouse's Gulf View Drive.
Shelby County presents A Christmas Pageant
Shelby County Community Theatre has The Best Christmas Pageant Ever starting Friday.
Go True West, young ones, to Actors Theatre
Brothers from opposite ends of the spectrum reunite in Sam Shepard's True West, which opens at Actors Theatre tomorrow.
The hills are alive beginning next weekend: "The Sound of Music" at SHSA [Family & Parenting]
Sacred Heart School for the Arts presents a family favorite Oct. 25-Nov.3: "The Sound of Music." "I Have Confidence" that you will count this musical as one of "My Favorite Things," whether you are "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" or not. I couldn't fit "Do-Re-Mi" in there, but you get the picture.
Shakin' the Mess at U of L [Theater]
U of L's African-American Theatre Program will present Shakin the Mess Outta Misery beginning Wednesday.
In Love With Tyrone opens at the Palace [Theater]
Robin Givens and Leon star in In Love With Tyrone, which opens at the Palace Theatre tonight.


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Human trafficking suit spreads to Hindu temples in five states
As per the initial lawsuit, leaders of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha coerced the workers into working for more than 12 hours per day and paid below standards set by federal and state minimum wage laws
File image of the entrance to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is seen in Robbinsville Township, New Jersey, 11 May, 2021. AP/Seth Wenig
A lawsuit in which workers accuse a Hindu organisation of human trafficking by luring them from India to build a temple in New Jersey for as little as $1.20 a day has widened to four other states.
In the initial lawsuit filed in May, workers at a Hindu temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, claimed leaders of the Hindu organisation known as Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, or BAPS, coerced them into signing employment agreements and forced them to work more than 12 hours per day with few days off, under the watch of security guards. They traveled to New Jersey under R-1 visas, which are meant for "those who minister, or work in religious vocations or occupations," according to the lawsuit.
The amended lawsuit filed last month added several more workers to the lawsuit. The workers, who the lawsuit says were from marginalised communities in India, claim they were exploited at temples in Chino Hills, California, outside Los Angeles; Bartlett, Illinois, outside Chicago; Stafford, Texas, outside Houston; and Lilburn, Georgia, outside Atlanta.
"US Government officials have authorised the use of R-1 visas for stone artisans for 20 years, and federal, state, and local government agencies have regularly visited and inspected all of the construction projects on which those artisans volunteered," Paul Fishman, an attorney representing BAPS, said in an email Wednesday.
The workers in other states allege that, while they weren't forced to work as many hours as their counterparts in New Jersey, they were paid well below standards set by federal and state minimum wage laws. Multiple workers named as plaintiffs worked at more than one of the temples, the lawsuit alleges, some for as long as eight or nine years in total.
Similar to the allegations in the initial suit against the Hindu temple in Robbinsville, outside the New Jersey capital of Trenton, workers at the temples in the other four states claim they weren't allowed to have their passports and slept in large halls on the temple grounds that were monitored by security guards.
"At the Robbinsville temple and elsewhere, the defendants intentionally caused the workers to reasonably believe that if they tried to leave their work and the temple compounds, they would suffer physical restraint and serious harm," the lawsuit claims.
The temples named in the lawsuit are all affiliated with BAPS, a corporation registered in Delaware and with offices in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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Q: "Increment" file name in Qt I have some code in Qt which creates a CSV file, if the file does not  exist I create one like this...
QString base = Settings::get().logDirectory(); //get directory from settings
QString path = QString("%1/results.csv").arg(base);

If results.csv already exists, how can I generate a new file called for example results1.csv, results2.csv and keep "incrementing" it?
Thanks

A: You can do the following:
QString base = Settings::get().logDirectory(); //get directory from settings
QString path = QString( "%1/results.csv" ).arg( base );
int idx = 1;
while ( QFile::exists( path ) ) {
    path = QString( "%1/results%2.csv" ).arg( base ).arg( idx++ );
}

// Create a file with 'path'
[..]


www.lutheranmissions.org is the website where we have a lot of information you, our brothers, can use off the internet like essays and teachings. Also, if you look at it you will notice that we have material in French from the ELCC and Tamil and Telegu material from the BELC and CLCI. We can also put on any other materials that are translated into the languages you speak. When we put your materials on the website, they can be downloaded and printed by interested parties. As this is developed we can also look to the time to assist you to create your own website through the webmaster of the CLC, Glenn Oster. Just recently we got an inquiry from an Indian Kerala man who works in Dubai. Pray that he is truly interested in the truth of God's Word and pray for more contacts.
In the next issue of BASIC we will begin a study of the three Creeds: Apostles, Nicene and Athanasian. There will be exercizes to do also. We study to show ourselves approved, workmen who do not need to be ashamed.
We will also soon be starting an explanation of the "Church Year" to help remember what that teaching tool is all about.
It was thirty-eight years ago that V.S. Benjamin started this church. Over the years there have been more than 12,000 baptisms indicating the abundant work for His abundant grace. Our beginning with this sister church was much later. The CLC Board of Missions received a letter from John Rohrbach, a member of Zion, Ipswich, S.Dak. dated December 10, 1981. In it he wrote, "This past summer I went to Sri Lanka and India…While there (in India) I became sick and was hospitalized for ten days. During my stay at the hospital a schoolmaster and his wife came to me with three pastors. They were looking for a Lutheran body to belong to." When John communicated this to his brethren in the CLC, there was joy aplenty, which then led to action.
Jointly, we carry on orphan work through Project Kinship and its committee under the Mission Board. Land has been purchased and a Christian school is envisaged. Over the years in this work as in general to assist the CLCI we have: bought a house enlarging it and adding small parcels of land to the original, built two seminary classrooms and a worship chapel, most recently built a hostel to house orphan boys and seminary students, purchased seven acres of rice paddy for food production.
The CLCI is aggressive in its outreach, going to various tribal areas where the people are very backward and require much patience to work with. In the new Indian state of Chattisgarh there is a nucleus of 700 souls being served by the CLCI, and these congregations are basically self-supporting. Throughout Andhra Pradesh state the CLCI considers where it can carry on more evangelism efforts.
Twenty-five years ago Pastor Mohan Bas began this church body. Many changes have occurred, though the Word is the same and our loving God is the same. In Jan. 2002 we saw that a fellowship rupture with Pastor Bas was unavoidable. Despite the separation from him, we still had the vast majority of his pastors and members who chose to remain with us. And since then the opportunities have abounded. Here we have found a wide door for effective work (1 Cor. 16:9).
The goal of the BELC is to go where the Gospel is not preached or where there is not much of a witness. Above all, Hindu converts are sought. You may wonder where the workers can be found to do this task. The men of the BELC want to start a training school and have at least fifteen young men who are eager to study to be pastors. In this 300th anniversary year of the arrival of Ziegenbalg and Pluetschau, what a joy to see men of India willing to work with their own people, and this is at times at a hazard for there are adversaries. Together we are busy at: Bible distribution (1425 in 2004), catechism printing and distribution, translation work in Tamil and Telegu, pastoral training, self-help assistance to pastors and simply put 'expansion'.
In 2002, the year of the fellowship rupture, we anticipated more pastors and members joining because of so many pastors who were going through classes. From 2236 souls served by 36 pastors, it rose to 4034 souls served by 97 pastors. At the close of 2004 there were 5865 souls served by 135 pastors. At the close of 2006 there will be 193 pastors serving 8591 souls at least. To God alone belongs the glory, that He adds daily to His church.
He is so great. In humility we must admit that we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before. They blazed the trail. We still learn from them and they are examples for us.
While John does not have his name in the letter, there is no mistaking who wrote it, the apostle of love. The wording is unmistakable. The three letters of John were written around 90. Though John is an old man by then, but the power of the Spirit the Word still speaks vibrantly to our heart. Love is the theme of the epistle as love should be the theme of life itself. The love of God for us is clearly stated, "…the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin." 1:7 But this love of God is not just for us but for all, "and He is the expiation for our sins, and not only for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world." 2:2 In contrast to this John warns of, "…all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life…" 2:16 The epistle states that God is love (4:8) and that this perfect love of God casts out fear. 4:18 What a wonderful life we have under Him!


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Inkymole: Angry Robots are the best.
But I'm talking in this instance about Angry Robot the publishers. Marc Gascoigne and his team publish sci-fi, fantasy and 'everything in between'. And I can tell you, it's a juicy change from norm, and coupled with the teen fiction, gets my creative fluids flowing.
I've done four books for them, the latest being announced in a cover reveal by them a couple of weeks ago. The second instalment of a trilogy by Emma Newman, Any Other Name deals in gargoyles, secret organisations, magic, deception and arranged marriage. The cover was thus ripe for a little ink-heavy scribbling...obvs. I love them because quite frankly I can settle into my comfort zone of black, detail, swirls, splots and hidden things...and the moon. I love a good moon.
Below is the cover to Any Other Name and its predecessor, Between Two Thorns, and the other two books for Angry Robot, by Cassandra Rose Clarke. Check out my furious Manticore - it's female, you know.